𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Sunday, January 29, 2023
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⦿ Not Tolerating Proprietary ’Bossware’ in the Workplace (or at Home in Case of Work-From-Home) | Techrights
⦿ Debian 11 on My Main Rig: So Far Mostly OK, But Missing Some Software From Debian 10 | Techrights
⦿ Stigmatising GNU/Linux for Not Withstanding Hardware Failures | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 28, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Microsofters Inside Sirius ’Open Source’ | Techrights
⦿ The ISO Delusion: A Stack of Proprietary Junk (Slack) Failing Miserably | Techrights
⦿ The Hey Hype Machine | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/01/29/bossware-in-the-workplace/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/01/29/finding-software-from-debian-10/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/01/29/hardware-failures-and-linux/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/01/29/irc-log-280123/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/01/29/microsofters-inside-freesw-firms/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/01/29/slack-failing-miserably/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/01/29/the-hey-hype-machine/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/01/29/gnome-43-3/#comments
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✐ Not_Tolerating_Proprietary_‘Bossware’in_the_Workplace(or_at_Home_in_Case_of
Work-From-Home)⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 8:56 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 9a90a5de7aacd9fc4b8847cf61321f6a
When Sirius Abandoned Jabber for Bossware
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/slack-at-sirius-openwash.webm
Summary: The company known as Sirius_‘Open_Source’ generally rejected… Open
Source. Today’s focus was the_migration_to_Slack.
THE above video discusses the migration/transition/downgrade from Jabber to a
truly terrible, centralised, proprietary and vulnerable platform known as
Slack. Aside from technical problems and various glaring limitations, Slack was
a risk not just to Sirius_‘Open_Source’ but also to its clients.
No matter the hard evidence and how much I pointed this out (maybe a dozen
times, at personal risk), that always fell on deaf ears. The company was
already governed by incompetent people.
“From what we can gather, Red Hat staff was subjected to similar treatment
after IBM had bought the company.”It was abundantly clear that many colleagues
did not like this. Some opposed this. Some faced disciplinary action for
antagonising. That would include me. So in a company called “Open Source” we’re
meant to assume that adopting proprietary software — and not because some
client requires it — is considered acceptable. Whereas insisting on the
company’s values is considered an offense.
From what we can gather, Red Hat staff was subjected to similar treatment after
IBM had bought the company. It’s hard to believe that later this year it will
be 5 years since that announcement. █
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✐ Debian_11_on_My_Main_Rig:_So_Far_Mostly_OK,_But_Missing_Some_Software_From
Debian_10⠀✐
Posted in Debian, GNU/Linux at 1:01 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 76599171df667cb220bae1c371058d11
My Life With Debian 11 on Main Laptop
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/debian-11-so-far.webm
Summary: Distributions of GNU/Linux keep urging us to move to the latest, but
is the latest always the greatest? On Friday my Debian 10 drive died, so I
started moving to Debian 11 on a new drive and here’s what that did to my life.
THIS household isn’t unfamiliar with Debian 11. My wife’s Raspberry Pi (400)
has had it since 11 months ago and my own Pi has had it for over a year. But
our main working machines were running Debian 10 for 3 years already. It worked
really well. My sister recently moved from Debian 10 to 11 and complained about
it; her colleagues had suffered the same and she was pressured to ‘upgrade’
regardless. Some people in IRC say that moving from 10 to 11 caused them
problems, partly overcome by moving to 12 (testing).
“My move to Debian 11 wasn’t entirely voluntary.”The video above explains that
some of my main problems with Debian 11 is software that’s no longer supported,
causing me to make rather big changes, as happened this morning. Time will tell
if any other issues may be coming up. The Debian repository is still very
extensive, but any change can be disruptive. The Pis with Debian 11 aren’t used
as traditional laptops, so that never bothered us (my wife uses 3 computers
that are switched on all the time; I use 5). My move to Debian 11 wasn’t
entirely voluntary. My hard drive died and it make no sense to stay on Debian
10 given its limited support plan (remaining time). The same is true for my Pi;
after the hardware was damaged it made sense to move to the latest stable
version of Debian, i.e. 11.
Over the past year I heard and read many stories about Debian upgrades,
especially from 10 to 11. On our Pis it didn’t seem so disruptive and so far on
my desktop/laptop I’m pleased with this latest version. In all cases — two Pis
and a laptop — those were ‘clean installs’; I’ll probably report again on my
experiences in weeks or months. Two days is way to little to properly assess a
distro. █
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✐ Stigmatising_GNU/Linux_for_Not_Withstanding_Hardware_Failures⠀✐
Posted in Deception, FUD, GNU/Linux, Hardware, Microsoft at 11:25 am by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 06304c0f6049081e578bb696a000a942
Making Linux Sound Culpable for Hardware Issue
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/linux-server-fud-2023.webm
Summary: Nowadays “the news” is polluted with a lot of GNU/Linux-hostile
nonsense; like with patents, the signal-to-noise ratio is appalling and here we
deal with a poor ‘report’ about “Linux servers” failing to work
THE OTHER day in IRC we discussed this article_that_mentions_“Linux”_many_times
when in fact mentioning a hardware incident. “Are Microsofters trying to
generate bad press for Linux?” we asked. “This is a hardware problem, not at
all related to GNU/Linux. Maybe some Microsofters are trying to undermine the
teaching of GNU/Linux there?”
The video above discusses what’s in the article and why it’s a tad suspicious.
It is reminiscent of some FUD campaigns we saw before. “Third-year Rohan Gupta
reported that, in addition to the CS website, he was also unable to access his
classes’ Linux servers,” it says. Well, hardware dies sometimes. My laptop died
some days ago (Friday), but within 2-3 hours I replaced the physical drive and
began installing the latest Debian. This can take time.
The media still loves to stigmatise GNU/Linux as not secure, not reliable etc.
But for much of the time they would be better off focusing on Microsoft’s
reliability and insecurity issues, including last week’s massive Clown
Computing outage at Microsoft. The media barely covered it. █
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✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Saturday,_January_28,_2023⠀✐
Posted in IRC_Logs at 2:01 am by Needs Sunlight
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✐ Microsofters_Inside_Sirius_‘Open_Source’⠀✐
Posted in Free/Libre_Software, Microsoft at 10:34 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 9088e5ce7cc9eba79bde5977c20d399f
Sirius and Microsofters Inside
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/sirius-microsofters.webm
Summary: Sirius_‘Open_Source’ has been employing incompetent managers for years
— a sentiment shared among colleagues by the way; today we examine some glaring
examples with redacted communications to prove it
LAST night we published this_latest/next_part about Sirius, though only about a
day later than originally expected due to my most important hard drive simply
dying. We’ll still try to stick to the original schedule with a closing day
after exactly 2 months (since the start of the series). After that we have more
to cover, but maybe not on a daily basis.
“The video moreover gives a recent example of “managers” failing to do very
simple and very critical tasks.”The video above goes back to the days when a
backstabbing manager had been appointed; he asked if not demanded all of us to
get Microsoft Skype accounts and get the darn thing installed only for useless
presentation based on invalid data.
The video moreover gives a recent example of “managers” failing to do very
simple and very critical tasks. This puts clients’ businesses at great risk.
“Clients are noticing this, but some chose Sirius because of very old past
reputation (and revisionist history).”Sirius hasn’t been managed by competent
people for years already. Clients are noticing this, but some chose Sirius
because of very old past reputation (and revisionist history). █
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✐ The_ISO_Delusion:A_Stack_of_Proprietary_Junk(Slack)_Failing_Miserably⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 5:47 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
And the management that chose this junk resorts to blaming the victims
“Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like
giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.”
–Richard Stallman
Summary: When the company where I worked for nearly 12 years spoke of
pragmatism it was merely making excuses to adopt proprietary software at the
expense of already-working and functional Free software
LAST night we covered the use of Microsoft Skype in Sirius_‘Open_Source’. It
only happened once, but that was enough to damage the brand and injure some
workers’ morale. Why would a company called “Open Source” something be eager to
abandon Free/Open Source software, opting for proprietary stuff of the most
vicious rival? What message does that send to longstanding clients or existing
staff? What about potential/prospective/future clients and staff?
“Why would a company called “Open Source” something be eager to abandon Free/
Open Source software, opting for proprietary stuff of the most vicious
rival?”Slack on GNU/Linux is a mess. Slack on Free/libre browsers is almost an
impossibility. So why on Earth would Sirius move away from Jabber and force/
impose the use of Slack? I’ve uploaded 2 images from several years back;
they’re screenshots of what happened when I tried accessing Slack from a GNU/
Linux PC using a decent Web browser that isn’t controlled by spying firms:
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Slack_on_GNU/Linux_PC⦈_
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Broken_Slack⦈_
That does not seem like it’s going to work, does it? This is from 2019. It has
only gotten worse since.
So we’ve just belatedly used two screenshots of what Slack looks like on GNU/
Linux with a proper (Free/libre) browser; “bossware” that insists on browsers
which spy on their users. Using some User Agent (UA) sniffing they try to
undermine or prevent access with perfectly capable browsers (if the UA is
faked, there’s a way to get in).
Back then I wrote to an incompetent manager who threatened me repeatedly for
not using Slack: “I tried to access my account from two computers, from two
browsers, including Chrome. It’s not working. See screenshots. It only works
from Rianne’s laptop.”
At one point they agrees to let me use Rianne’s laptop, but then they “changed
their minds” (in other words, they had lied to me right to my face in the
illegal contract-signing). I got this:
xxxx wrote on 21/07/2019 02:23:
> Hi Roy,
>
> You need to fix this problem and use Slack.
>
> You are a well qualified tech who can fix this issue and comply
with
> management’s request.
>
> As I have explicitly explained to you that you need to have your
log in
> for Slack and not use Rianne’s. Yet today you’re logged in via
Rianne’s
> and not using yours even though you sent me details of your own log
in.
>
> To refresh your memory, this is from my previous email.
I need to install a new OS or a new browser for this.
Remember that the company never even paid us for any of our hardware purchases
(for our work machines). That seems unreasonable.
“Slack itself has been having issues and it was sold to Salesforce.”In
hindsight, it seems clear this manager scared away almost all the technical
people. The damage was irreversible.
Slack itself has been having issues and it was sold to Salesforce. The New York
Times reported Salesforce_layoffs_earlier_this_month. The Wall Street Journal
published_this_article noting that Slack just made bloated proprietary junk
nobody truly wants to depend on:
When Salesforce Inc. bought the messaging application Slack for $27.7
billion almost two years ago, it said the marriage would “transform
the way everyone works in the all-digital, work-from-anywhere world.”
Corporate technology buyers so far aren’t impressed, analysts said.
The acquisition sought to capture the fast-growing market for
communications and collaboration software during the Covid-19
pandemic, as employers sent workers home and shifted to remote
systems.
Today, companies in the market for customer-relationship management
software — Salesforce’s signature product — don’t appear to be swayed
one way or another by the addition of messaging and collaboration
features, said Liz Herbert, a vice president and principal analyst at
information-technology research firm Forrester Research Inc.
“We don’t really see, when it comes to Slack, any pent up demand from
Salesforce’s base for a tool like that,” Ms. Herbert said. “It really
hasn’t become something compelling,” she said.
Salesforce bought itself a dud and in December of last year the_CEO_said_that
he_would_leave_this_month.
From what we can gather, the decision to adopt Slack came from the CEO, who
posted Trump_support_tweets while encouraging staff to use pictures of
superheroes in Slack. How childish and unprofessional. What a betrayal of Free
software. Is this really the same person who became a patron of the Free
Software Foundation? Maybe his personal life took him on a crazy ride — a
subject we might revisit some other day in another month.
To be clear, Slack doesn’t do anything that Free software cannot do. It’s
bloated and it is not secure. It also has security breaches.
Just two days before the above E-mail message (from a manager) I received this:
——– Forwarded Message ——–
Subject: 💥 Slack Security Incident
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:58:59 +0000
From: Keybase <notify@keybase.io>
To: r@schestowitz.com
*schestowitz*,
We’ve been getting questions about this, so an announcement for
everyone.
Today, Slack announced that a break-in from 2015 was possibly more
severe than previously announced. A lot of people have been getting
emails today. It seems 1% of Slack users still had compromised
accounts
(after 4 years); but more seriously, Slack has not disclosed what
percent of Slack teams had their messages stolen. Also, if a small
fraction of users have had compromised accounts, that may still mean
a
majority of teams were compromised.
We’re sending this note because people are now asking if this could
happen with Keybase teams. Simple answer: no. While Keybase now has
all
the important features of Slack, it has the only protection against
server break-ins: *end-to-end encryption*.
Keybase’s CEO, Max, just wrote how this Slack incident personally
affected him *in a new blog post* keybase.io/blog/slack-incident>.
tl;dr. Hackers who break into Keybase’s servers could not read your
company’s, family’s, friend’s, or community’s messages. Hope this
simple
update answers everyone’s questions.
*https://keybase.io/app*
And Keybase is free!
❤️ the Keybase team
Slack took over Keybase and Slack itself was a vulnerable piece of garbage with
habitual data breaches. The Keybase reputation was tarnished and not many
people seem to be using it anymore, certainly not me.
I eventually responded to the manager as follows:
> Hi Roy,
>
> You need to fix this problem and use Slack.
>
> You are a well qualified tech who can fix this issue and comply
with
> management’s request.
>
> As I have explicitly explained to you that you need to have your
log in
> for Slack and not use Rianne’s. Yet today you’re logged in via
Rianne’s
> and not using yours even though you sent me details of your own log
in.
>
> To refresh your memory, this is from my previous email.
I’m going to try to install another browser, as Chome and other
browsers
don’t work for me. They don’t show anything when I log in (I sent you
screenshots). Maybe I’ll be logged in with my username in a few hours
when it’s installed (if that works).
In the meantime, I have to raise other concerns.
The inevitable has happened to Slack. They announced it days and and
they can be held criminally accountable
To say that Slack got merely “compromised” would be an understatement
Yes, it did in fact get compromised, but it’s a lot worse. It’s far
worse than a compromise per se. I’m going to explain, starting with
the
basics.
Slack accumulates all data and never deletes any of it. GDPR should
be
applicable here and I suspect that EU authorities have not assessed
that
aspect just yet. What Slack is to users isn’t what it is to Slack,
the
company. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) issued strongly-
worded
warnings about Slack and even Microsoft utright banned Slack for
security reasons. They very much foresaw the latest disaster. It’s
difficult to assess or measure because it’s almost impossible to
track
the sources of rogue actors’ data.
Slack did not have a mere ‘incident’. They knew about it for quite
some
time (at higher levels, too). It’s the complete doomsday scenario, an
equivalent of having one’s own Jabber server completely and totally
hijacked, and all communications in it (names, passwords) stolen. But
in
the case of Slack millions of businesses are affected. In one fell
swoop. Just like that. Even the public sector. Military, hospitals,
you
name it…
Slack got cracked, but they won’t admit that. They will lie about the
extent of the damage, just like Yahoo and Equifax did (each time
waiting
months before revealing it was orders of magnitude worse). They game
the
news cycle that way. People must assume that all data is compromised.
Businesses and their clients’ data is on Slack. Even HR stuff, which
gets passed around in internal communications. Super-sensitive things
like passwords, passports and so on.
Who was Slack data copied by? Mirrored or ‘stolen’, to put it another
way? Possibly by rogue military actors that can leverage it for
espionage and blackmail, as many do. Covertly. You rarely hear about
blackmail because that’s just the nature of the blackmail. It happens
silently. Some would say Slack got “hacked” (they typically mean
cracked). But it’s actually a lot worse than getting cracked! I’ll
explain further…
About a month ago Slack got to its IPO milestone. But it committed an
actual crime by not informing the customers of the breach. They would
change passwords etc. had they known. But Slack did not obey the law.
It
did not inform customers. It announced all this after the IPO, in
order
to make shareholders liable, and it did so late on a Friday (to
minimise
press coverage about this likely crime). The shareholders too should
sue
for concealment of critical information.
Slack knew what had happened and why it waited all this time. This
scandal can unfold for quite some time to come.
It would be wise to move to locally-hosted FOSS. However, that would
not
in any way undo the damage of having uploaded piles of corporate data
to
Slack and their compromised servers. In the coming days many
companies
will come to realise that for years they tactlessly and irresponsibly
gave piles of personal/corporate data to Slack and now a bunch of
crackers around the world have this data.
You can expect Slack to stonewall for a while, saying that it’s the
weekend anyway. When it comes to Slack, expect what happened with
Yahoo; First they say it’s a small incident; Months pass; Then they
toss
out a note to say it was actually big; A year later (when it’s “old
news”): 3 BILLION accounts affected.
Now, like Yahoo, they will downplay scope of impact. A lot of
companies
can suffer for years to come (e.g. data breaches, identity theft).
I have great concern for the company where I’m working for almost a
decade, including our compliance with the law and our clients’
compliance with the law. This is why I bring this up.
I’m going to install something new and see if I can somehow logged
in. I
already tried, unsuccessfully, from two of my laptops.
In summary, Slack is a pile of garbage. With Slack, Sirius too became a pile of
garbage. They deserve each other.
A few weeks ago John_Goerzen_wrote: “I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The
basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use the Internet.”
Slack does not work when the company has downtime. It happened several times,
which meant people could not speak to colleagues for hours. Why was our Jabber
server shut down? Surveillance through Slack?
Remember that Sirius kept promoting_fake_security as if the company is a bunch
of people who never used computers before. When clients ask about ISO
certification (not an isolated incident) they don’t seem to understand what
truly happens inside Sirus. There’s spying, outsourcing, security breaches and
so on. Someone needs to talk about this. █
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Posted in Deception, Marketing, Microsoft at 9:22 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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AI Hype in the Media
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/hey-hi-hype-in-perspective.webm
Summary: “Hey Hype” or “Hey Hi” (AI) has been dominating the press lately and a
lot of that seems to boil down to paid-for marketing; we need to understand
what’s truly going on and not be distracted by the substance-less hype
THE thing I’ve dubbed “Hey Hi” (about 2-3 years ago when the media was losing
its mind over it) Andy has called “Hey Hype” and this morning we published his
article_about_this_phenomenon.
Almost nothing that’s presented in the media about it can be considered new.
Even the chatbots are old; the only novel thing about them is the size of the
set they were trained on, probably owing to Microsoft’s over-provisioned and
underutilised ‘Azure’ (even Microsoft now openly admits to its shareholders
there’s a “slowdown” in Clown Computing).
“Expect many more Microsoft layoffs later this year.”My thoughts in the above
video are personal and Andy’s article stands on its own. We extended it a bit
this morning with a paragraph he wished to add.
Due to personal ordeals (covered in passing in the video above) we’ve not
produced many articles and videos lately, but that will change soon. We’re
building back better (BBB) and when the Sirius_‘Open_Source’ series is over we
hope to produce about 10 articles/videos per day.
We’ve been reading many rumours about Microsoft_layoffs (what’s to come, who’s
affected etc.) and it sounds far worse than the Microsoft-connected media
nonchalantly puts it. Expect many more Microsoft layoffs later this year [1,
2]. All that “Hey Hype” is the media lends to the delusion about Microsoft
having a bright future based on perceived leadership in something. █
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# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ MPV_Media_Player_0.35.1_is_now_available,
with_bug_fixes_from_0.35⠀⇛
MPV Media Player 0.35.1 is now available, with
several bug fixes from 0.35 to make the user
experience even smoother and more enjoyable.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ How_To_Switch_Ubuntu_Desktop_Language_to
Korean⠀⇛
This tutorial will help you switch Ubuntu operating
system language into Korean (한국어, hangugeo). This
will change English words into Korean in the menu,
calendar, tray, application names, windows, and
everything else. Good luck!
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ FPS_Game_Engine_Built_In_Ancient_Macintosh
HyperCard_Software⠀⇛
Wolfenstein 3D and Doom are great examples of early
FPS games. Back in that era, as Amiga was slowly
losing its gaming supremacy to the PC, Apple wasn’t
even on the playing field. However, [Chris Tully]
has used the 90s HyperCard platform to create an
FPS of his own, and it’s charming in what it
achieves.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Valve_fixed_up_Dead_Space_on_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
For those of you waiting for news on Dead Space
becoming more playable on Steam Deck — Valve have
already delivered.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Humble’s_Survival_Instinct_Bundle_looks
like_a_good_deal⠀⇛
Want some more survival games? Humble’s Survival
Instinct Bundle has a few good picks in it and far
cheaper than buying individually.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_and_Steam_Beta_fix_on-screen
keyboard,_Gyro_improvements,_Linux_input_fix⠀⇛
More goodies coming to the Steam Deck and Steam
Desktop Beta, as Valve sure do like to work quickly
to solve bugs and add features.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Watch_Dogs:_Legion_from_Ubisoft_arrives_on
Steam,_playable_on_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
Here’s yet another Steam release from Ubisoft, as
they continue dumping their older titles on Steam.
Watch Dogs: Legion is here and playable on Steam
Deck.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_new_Dead_Space_is_sadly_a_great_big
mess_on_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
Dead Space got a remake that was released today and
I was incredibly excited by it but sadly it’s just
a mess.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_now_in_stock_across_Japan,_Hong
Kong,_South_Korea_and_Taiwan⠀⇛
Komodo PR sent word that there’s no longer a
reservation queue to purchase a Steam Deck across
Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_overlooked_gorgeous_pixel-art_Lila’s
Sky_Ark_is_now_on_GOG⠀⇛
Here’s a fresh chance for me to tell you to take a
look at the overlooked gem that is Lila’s Sky Ark,
as it’s now on GOG.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Trackmania_heads_to_Steam_and_the_devs_say
it’s_playable_on_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
Trackmania, the 2020 remake, is heading to Steam
and the developers have started answering questions
like — will it run on Steam Deck?
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Rhythm_adventure_Hi-Fi_RUSH_from_Tango
Gameworks_gets_a_surprise_release⠀⇛
Tango Gameworks, developer of The Evil Within and
Ghostwire: Tokyo, along with publisher Bethesda
just stealth released their latest game called Hi-
Fi RUSH.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ 4A_Games_release_a_full_Metro_Exodus_SDK
for_modders⠀⇛
4A Games have done something quite awesome. They’ve
released a SDK for people to make full game
modifications of Metro Exodus.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Developer_of_point_and_click_adventure
Splittown_looking_at_Linux_support⠀⇛
Love your adventure games? Here’s one to keep an
eye on. The developer of Splittown has mentioned
they’re looking into Native Linux support.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Might_and_Magic_6,_7_and_8_get_an_open
source_reimplementation_with_OpenEnroth⠀⇛
Want to play Might and Magic 6, 7 and 8 on modern
systems with an updated game engine? Well,
OpenEnroth looks mighty promising.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ NVIDIA_Vulkan_Beta_Driver_525.47.06_out
now⠀⇛
NVIDIA has released another fresh update to their
Vulkan Beta Driver, with version 525.47.06 rolling
out now.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GNOME_43.3_Brings_Minor_Fixes_to_GNOME
Maps_and_GNOME_Software⠀⇛
GNOME 43.3 was released only a month after
GNOME 43.2 so you can imagine that it doesn’t
include big changes. In fact it’s a small
update, but I wanted you to know that it’s
officially out and it’s coming soon to your
distro’s repositories in the coming days.
GNOME 43.3 brings bug fixes to the GNOME Maps
app, for the blurry shape layers issue on
zoom, as well as for the accuracy of the user
location marker positioning. Various other
bugs were also fixed, but no details were
provided, so if you’re using GNOME Maps
regularly, keep an eye on this update.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Do_Linux_Mint_users_really_need_Antivirus
protection⠀⇛
Since its inception in the market, Linux Mint has
proven to be one of the most secure operating
systems. It is among the only operating systems to
function without any substantial risk. Even though
you don’t need to set up an antivirus on Linux
Mint, it does not mean that you cannot do anything
to keep your Linux Mint system safe. To secure your
system, ensure you regularly update your installed
software, especially the ones you often use. It is
also recommended that you set up software from the
secured official software store of Linux Mint. An
important thing to note in Linux Mint is that a
virus or rootkit cannot install itself in your
Linux Mint OS unless you let it. By allowing it, we
mean for anything to install itself on Linux Mint,
it will need your root password, and for that
reason, you cannot install it, meaning you are
always safe unless you decide not to.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ HarmonyOS_Vs_Android_Vs_iOS_Main_Differences-
Gizchina.com⠀⇛
# ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Xiaomi_11T_and_Poco_F4_are_receiving_Android
13-based_MIUI_14_–_comments⠀⇛
# ⚓ PC Mag ☛ Android_Chrome_Users_Can_Now_Lock_Their_Incognito
Tabs_|_PCMag⠀⇛
# ⚓ Indian Express ☛ BharOS:_5_free_open-source_mobile_OSes_to
try_on_your_Android_smartphone_|_Technology_News,The_Indian
Express⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this
week_–_Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛
# ⚓ Top_8_Ways_to_Fix_Waze_Not_Working_on_Android_Auto_–
Guiding_Tech⠀⇛
# ⚓ Bennett, Coleman & Company Ltd ☛ Google_Introduces_AI
Music_System_“MusicLM”_–_Lock_Incognito_Sessions_on_Android
Now_Available⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_only_just_realizing_there’s_an_Android
setting_that_fixes_annoying_‘sound_problem’_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Toroidal_Propellers_Make_Drones_Less_Annoying⠀⇛
Despite being integral to aviation for more than a
century, propellers have changed remarkably little since
the Wright Brothers. A team at MIT’s Lincoln Lab has
developed a new propeller shape that significantly
reduces the noise associated with drones. [PDF via
NewAtlas]
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ My_Nhan,_Half_Moon,_Pokey,_Midnight_Mass,_Navasky⠀⇛
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ LED_Air_Vent_Gauges_Are_A_Tasteful_Mod_For_The_Mazda
Miata⠀⇛
Anyone in the JDM scene can tell you, round air vents are
prime real estate for round analog gauges. If you want a
gauge but don’t want to block your vent, you could
consider building these LED vent gauges from [ktanner]
instead.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Times_They_Are_A-Chaining⠀⇛
If [Bob Dylan] had seen [Pgeschwi]’s bike chain clock, it
might have influenced the famous song. The clock uses a
stepper motor and a bike chain to create a clock that has
a decidedly steampunk vibe. Despite the low-tech look,
the build uses 3D printing and, of course, a bike chain.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ An_Atomic_Pendulum_Clock_Accurate_Enough_For
CERN⠀⇛
That big grandfather clock in the library might be
an impressive piece of mechanical ingenuity, and an
even better example of fine cabinetry, but we’d
expect that the accuracy of a pendulum timepiece
would be limited to a sizable fraction of a minute
per day. Unless, of course, you work at CERN and
built “the most accurate pendulum clock on the
planet.”
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Judge_Orders_Washington_State_Private_Special
Education_School_to_Turn_Over_Records⠀⇛
A King County judge ruled last week that a private
special education school that has been the subject
of a recent Seattle Times and ProPublica
investigation has to comply with public information
laws and release records to the Times.
The ruling has the potential to shed light on an
obscure part of Washington’s special education
system, in which school districts send students
with disabilities to private programs at taxpayer
expense. Few other legal rulings have defined how
the state’s public records laws apply to private
organizations that assume the functions of
government agencies.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Speak_To_The_Machine⠀⇛
If you own a 3D printer, CNC router, or basically
anything else that makes coordinated movements with
a bunch of stepper motors, chances are good that it
speaks G-code. Do you?
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Cut_Your_Own_Gears_With_This_DIY_Machine⠀⇛
You can buy gears off the shelf, of course, and get
accurately machined parts exactly to your chosen
specification. However, there’s something rugged
and individualist about producing your own rotating
components. [Maciej Nowak] demonstrates just how to
produce your own gears with a homemade cutting
tool.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_203:_Flashlight_Fuel_Fails,
Weird_DMA_Machines,_And_A_3D_Printed_Prosthetic_Hand_Flex⠀⇛
This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and
Managing Editor Tom Nardi meet up virtually to talk
about all the hacks that are fit to print. This
week’s episode starts off with a discussion about
the recently unveiled 2023 Hackaday.io Low-Power
Challenge, and how hackers more often than not
thrive when forced to work within these sort of
narrow parameters. Discussion then continues to
adding a virtual core to the RP2040, crowd-sourced
device reliability information, and mechanical
Soviet space computers. We’ll wrap things up by
wondering what could have been had Mattel’s ill-
fated ThingMaker 3D printer actually hit the
market, and then engage in some wild speculation
about the issues plaguing NASA’s latest Moon
mission.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Reverse-Engineering_The_Conditional_Jump
Circuitry_In_The_8086_Processor⠀⇛
As simple as a processor’s instruction set may
seem, especially in a 1978-era one like the Intel
8086, there is quite a bit going on to go from
something like a conditional jump instruction to a
set of operations that the processor can perform.
For the CISC 8086 CPU this is detailed in a recent
article by [Ken Shirriff], which covers exactly how
the instructions with their parameters are broken
down into micro-instructions using microcode, which
allows the appropriate registers and flags to be
updated.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Single-Resistor_Radio_Transmitter,_Thanks_To
The_Power_Of_Noise⠀⇛
One of the great things about the Hackaday
community is how quickly you find out what you
don’t know. That’s not a bad thing, of course;
after all, everyone is here to get smarter, right?
So let’s work together to get our heads around this
paper (PDF) by [Zerina Kapetanovic], [Miguel
Morales], and [Joshua R. Smith] from the University
of Washington, which purports to construct a low-
throughput RF transmitter from little more than a
resistor.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D-Printed_Servo_Motor_Has_360_Degrees_Of
Rotation⠀⇛
Hobby servos are nifty and useful for a wide range
of projects. There’s nothing stopping you from
building your own servos though, and you can even
give them nifty features like 360-degree rotation
In fact, that’s exactly what [Aaed Musa] did!
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Illuminate_Your_Benched_Things_With_This_Death
Stranding_Lamp⠀⇛
[Pinkman] creates a smart RGB table lamp based off
of the “Odradek device” robot arm from the video
game “Death Stranding”.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] Scientific American ☛ Scientific_Heretic_Rupert
Sheldrake_on_Morphic_Fields,_Psychic_Dogs_and_Other
Mysteries⠀⇛
Sheldrake—I think even his most adamant critics
will agree–is a fascinating scientific figure. I
was thus delighted when he agreed to the following
email interview.
Horgan: I admit that I’m still not sure what
morphic resonance is. Can you give me a brief
definition?
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ AI_Lawyer_Has_A_Sad:_Bans_People_From_Testing
Its_Lawyering_After_Being_Mocked⠀⇛
Well, a lot has happened since I first started
looking into the “World’s First Robot Lawyer,” from
DoNotPay. First, Joshua Browder, DoNotPay’s CEO,
reached out to me via direct message (DM) and told
me he would get me access to my documents by 2 PM
the next day – Tuesday, January 24th – saying that
the delay was caused by my account being locked for
“inauthentic activity,” a term he did not explain
or define. Then, Josh claimed he was going to pull
out of the industry entirely, canceling his
courtroom stunt and saying he would disable all the
legal tools on DoNotPay.com. He said he was doing
it because it was a distraction, but the fact that
he cited exactly the same two documents that I was
waiting to receive seemed like a hell of a
coincidence.
o § Security⠀➾
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Surveillance_Tech_Firm_Sued_By_Meta_For
Using_Thousands_Of_Bogus_Accounts_To_Scrape_Data⠀⇛
About a half-decade ago, major social media
companies finally did something to prevent
their platforms from being used to engage in
mass surveillance. Prompted by revelations in
public records, Twitter and Facebook began
cutting off API access to certain data
scrapers that sold their services to
government agencies. Twitter blocked both
Dataminr and Geofeedia from accessing its
“firehose” API. Facebook did the same thing
to Geofeedia, denying it access to both its
core service and Instagram.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Defense_Ministry_says_a_Ukrainian_strike
on_a_hospital_in_annexed_Luhansk_has_killed_14_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that
Ukrainian troops used a HIMARS rocket launcher to
shell a regional hospital in the village of
Novoaidar, in a Russian-annexed area of Ukraine’s
Luhansk region.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Inspiring_Outrage_of_Norman
Finkelstein⠀⇛
As I was reading Norman Finkelstein’s new book,
I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!: Heretical
Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and
Academic Freedom, I thought early on of Obama’s
joke at the expense of Rahm Emanuel: “he’s one of a
kind, and thank god he’s one of a kind.”
Finkelstein, too, is very much one of a kind. But
the analogy with Emanuel fails, because in fact one
Rahm Emanuel is far too many whereas one
Finkelstein is not nearly enough. We need hundreds
of him. That is to say, we need hundreds of left
intellectuals with the courage and intelligence to
think for themselves and never sell out, to refuse
to compromise—even to risk alienating fellow
leftists by publicly repudiating woke culture and
the more vacuous forms of identity politics in
favor of an unstinting adherence to class politics.
Nor would it hurt to have more writers who are as
eloquent and hilarious as him.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Bryansk_schools_ordered_to_prepare_to_accommodate
Russian_military_personnel_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian investigative outlet iStories reports that
the regional administration in Bryansk, Russia, has
ordered at least six elementary schools to prepare
to host Russian troops.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_authorities_are_investigating_a_Moscow
resident,_allegedly_the_owner_of_a_popular_Telegram_channel,
for_posting_calls_to_terrorism_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Moscow Investigative Committee is reviewing
Telegram channel Nexta Live for posting calls to
terrorist activities, report both state
broadcasting corporation RBC and online news outlet
Baza.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ History_of_the_Vietnam_War_Holds_Lessons_for
Ukraine_Today⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_The_Shadows_Descend_in
Ukraine⠀⇛
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Two of
my favorite New York Times words are “shadowy” and
“murky.” They are brilliantly suited to the
Manichean version of our world the Times inflicts
daily upon its unsuspecting readers. When The Times
terms someone or some society or some chain of
events shadowy or murky it […]
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Sinema’s_Democratic_Challenger_Ruben_Gallego
Opposes_Cutting_Pentagon_Spending⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Creative_Vandalism_The_KITT_Way⠀⇛
It’s probable that most of us have at some time
dreamed up a witty and subversive way to deface our
city, but that few of us will have followed through
on the idea. [Matt Gray] then is something of a
modern-day urban hero for doing just that. Who
couldn’t walk past Knightrider Court, EC4, in the
City of London, without thinking of the 1980s TV
series featuring David Hasselhoff and a talking
car? [Matt] couldn’t, and so of course he simply
had to upgrade the street sign with the signature
LED scanner.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Ukraine’s_Zelensky_Sends_Love_Letter_to_US
Corporations,_Promising_‘Big_Business’_for_Wall_Street⠀⇛
In a video address to a US corporate lobby group,
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky thanked
companies like BlackRock, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs,
and Starlink, insisting “everyone can become a big
business by” investing in Ukraine, where “we are
defending freedom and property”.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Fired_Memphis_Cops_Charged_With_Second-Degree
Murder_for_Killing_Tyre_Nichols⠀⇛
“The video must be that bad,” said law professor
Sherrilyn Ifill. “But fired does not prevent
rehiring elsewhere, and charged does not mean
convicted. But more important than all, none of
this brings back Tyre Nichols.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Released_Footage_Shows_Five_Memphis_Cops
Brutally_Beating_Tyre_Nichols⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ ‘Sheer_Brutality’:_Released_Footage_Shows
Fired_Memphis_Cops_Beating_Tyre_Nichols⠀⇛
“Charging or jailing the killers is not enough,”
said the national director of the Working Families
Party. “Justice is changing the conditions so no
one dies during a traffic stop.”
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Memphis_BLM_Activist:_Tyre_Nichols’_Killing
Is_Part_of_Police_Brutality_Crisis_Facing_Black_Residents⠀⇛
Amid nationwide protests, prosecutors have charged
five former Memphis police officers with murder in
the death of Tyre Nichols, who died January 10 of
kidney failure and cardiac arrest after a vicious
beating three days earlier during a traffic stop.
Memphis and other cities across the U.S. are
expecting mass protests against police violence
over the weekend, with body-camera footage of the
deadly traffic stop set to be released Friday
evening. We go to Memphis for an update from
community organizer Amber Sherman, a member of the
Memphis chapter of Black Lives Matter, who says
police brutality is nothing new for many residents.
“It’s literally just being caught on camera,”
Sherman says. “We have experienced this same kind
of violence over and over and over again in our
communities.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Black_Cops,_White_Justice?⠀⇛
Let’s acknowledge that the summary firing and
subsequent indictment of five Memphis police
officers for the brutal murder-by-beating of Tyree
Nichols, a young Black man, is a good measure of
justice – as pointed out by lawyer Ben Crump, an
example that will give less cover to the police
chiefs and prosecutors who almost invariably give a
free pass to murderous cops.
Let’s also not pretend that the five charged police
officers aren’t Black themselves. How convenient is
it to make an example out of them, while the
murderers of Michael Brown, Philando Castile, Tamir
Rice, Stephon Clark and thousands of others have
not been held accountable?
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Tyre_Nichols’_Parents_Remember_Son_as
“Beautiful_Soul”_&_Describe_Video_of_Beating_by_Memphis
Police⠀⇛
A day after prosecutors charged five former Memphis
police officers with murder over the fatal beating
of Tyre Nichols, we speak with his parents,
RowVaughn and Rodney Wells, about their drive to
seek justice for their son. “He had a beautiful
soul, and he touched everyone,” RowVaughn Wells
says of her son. Nichols was a 29-year-old Black
father, amateur photographer and longtime
skateboarder who died January 10 from kidney
failure and cardiac arrest, three days after he was
brutally beaten by the five officers during a
traffic stop. The officers were fired earlier this
month and indicted on Thursday with second-degree
murder, kidnapping and other charges for their role
in Nichols’s death. We also speak with civil rights
attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the family.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_government_proposes_allowing_items
confiscated_by_authorities_to_be_donated_to_Defense_Ministry
—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian government has submitted a bill to the
State Duma that would allow items seized by
authorities to be donated as “humanitarian aid” to
the Defense and Emergency Situations ministries
rather than being destroyed.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Ukraine_Expects_to_Get_All_the_Western_Weapons
It_Wants⠀⇛
After getting tanks, Ukraine wants fighter jets and
longer-range missiles.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ It_Is_90_Seconds_to_Midnight⠀⇛
This year, the Science and Security Board of the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the hands
of the Doomsday Clock forward, largely (though not
exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the
war in Ukraine. The Clock now stands at 90 seconds
to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it
has ever been.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ North_Korea_promises_to_‘always_be_in_the_same
trench’_with_Russia_—_Meduza⠀⇛
North Korea “will always be in the same trench with
the service personnel and people of Russia” in the
struggle against “the imperial forces” of the U.S.
and the West, says Kim Yo-jong, sister of the North
Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Protests_Erupt_Across_US_After_Memphis
Releases_Video_of_Ex-Cops_Beating_Tyre_Nichols⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Just_the_Next_Step’_Toward_Justice_for
Tyre_Nichols:_Memphis_Police_Shutter_SCORPION_Unit⠀⇛
The family of Tyre Nichols and others appalled by
his death—for which five fired Memphis cops now
face murder charges—welcomed the police
department’s decision on Saturday to disband a unit
created in 2021 to patrol high-crime areas.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_Foreign_Ministry_demands_a_‘frank
conversation’_with_Hungary_after_Viktor_Orban_calls_Ukraine_a
‘no_man’s_land’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on
Hungary’s Ambassador to Ukraine, István Íjgyártó,
to have a “frank conversation,” following recent
remarks by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ War_With_China_Could_Come_as_Soon_as_2025,
Predicts_‘Untethered’_US_General⠀⇛
Air Force Gen. Mike Minihan struck a Dr.
Strangelove pose in urging the troops under his
command to be ready to fight China in two years.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Every_Official_Everywhere_With_Classified
Documents_All_At_Once:_A_Conversation_With_John_Kiriakou⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Nearly_Half_of_All_Sheriffs_in_Louisiana_Are
Violating_Public_Records_Laws⠀⇛
Nearly half of Louisiana sheriffs are in violation
of a state law regulating the preservation and
destruction of public records, according to
documents provided by state officials.
The disclosure follows an article this month by
Verite, also published by ProPublica, on
accusations that the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s
Office illegally destroyed documents in a lawsuit
involving an autistic boy who died in custody. It
also comes on the heels of increased scrutiny on
the outsize power wielded by Louisiana sheriffs.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ No_False_Solutions!_Citizens_Rise_Up_to
Resist_Dangerous_Carbon_Pipelines_in_the_Midwest⠀⇛
Iowa is the battle ground where the fate of world’s
largest proposed carbon capture and storage
pipeline is being decided. Summit Carbon Solutions
intends to build a 2,000-mile pipeline to carry CO2
captured from ethanol plants across five states, to
eventually inject and store it underground in North
Dakota to supposedly reduce carbon emissions. But
who truly stands to gain if the pipeline is built?
A November 2022 report from the Oakland Institute,
The Great Carbon Boondoggle, unmasked the billion-
dollar financial interests and high-level political
ties driving the project—despite opposition from a
large and diverse coalition of Indigenous groups,
farmers, and environmentalists.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Chevron_More_Than_Doubled_Its_Profits_Last
Year_as_Gas_Prices_Squeezed_Wallets⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Lone_Democrat_Jared_Golden_Joins_House_GOP
in_Passing_Massive_Big_Oil_Handout⠀⇛
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Elephant_Poop,_Tasmanian_Snails_and
Other_Links_From_the_Brink⠀⇛
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ How_Concentrated_Wealth_and_Corporate_Power
Nurtures_the_Greed_of_Thieves⠀⇛
What makes for a thieving culture? An overabundance
of pickpockets? Tsunamis of burglary and
shoplifting?
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Why_It’s_Okay_for_Progressives_to_Enjoy_Sam
Bankman-Fried’s_Downfall⠀⇛
Political fortunes are always waxing and waning,
but few roller-coaster rides have been as dizzying
as the rapid ascent and precipitous fall of Sam
Bankman-Fried, who went in a matter of weeks from
being a billionaire savior clasped to the bosom of
the Democratic Party establishment to a bankrupt
pariah facing criminal charges. On August 4, 2022,
Politico swooned over SBF (as he is commonly known)
as the Democratic Party’s newest “megadonor.” Only
30 years old, he had already amassed vast personal
wealth—estimated in the neighborhood of $26
billion—as a cofounder of the Bahamas-based
cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Starting in 2020, with
donations totaling more than $5 million to Joe
Biden’s election run, SBF was quickly anointed a
donor-class princeling. His stature rose even
higher in the 2022 election cycle, when he gave
more than $40 million to Democratic campaigns and
offshoots. This lavish endowment made SBF second
only to George Soros as a party benefactor.
Politico breathlessly cited SBF’s promise that in
the event of a Biden-Trump rematch in 2024, he
would kick in upwards of $1 billion to ensure a
Democratic victory.1
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ HBO_Max_Jacks_Up_Prices_After_Cheapskate
Executives_Trash_Popular_Shows,_Refuse_To_Pay_Artist
Residuals⠀⇛
We’ve already noted how HBO and Discovery
executives keep demonstrating the immense,
pointless harm of media megamergers. You’ll recall
AT&T’s $200 billion acquisition of Time Warner and
DirecTV wound up being a hot mess, forcing AT&T to
take a huge loss and run for the exits after laying
off more than 50,000 employees.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Billionaire’s_Lawsuit_Against_O’Rourke_May
Stifle_Criticism_of_Money_in_Politics⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Unauthorized_Disclosure:_Kicking_Off_A_10th
Season⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Matt_Taibbi:_Move_Over,_Jason_Blair:_Meet
Hamilton_68,_the_New_King_of_Media_Fraud⠀⇛
The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most
common news sources of the Trump era was a scam,
making ordinary American political conversations
look like Russian spywork.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Omar,_Schiff_and_Swalwell_Blast_McCarthy_for
Stripping_Them_From_Committees⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ It_Was_the_Workers_Who_Brought_Us_Democracy,
and_It_Will_Be_the_Workers_Who_Establish_a_Deeper_Democracy
Yet⠀⇛
Democracy has a dream-like character. It sweeps
into the world, carried forward by an immense
desire by humans to overcome the barriers of
indignity and social suffering. When confronted by
hunger or the death of their children, earlier
communities might have reflexively blamed nature or
divinity, […]
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ How_the_Arizona_Attorney_General_Created_a
Secretive,_Illegal_Surveillance_Program_to_Sweep_Up_Millions
of_Our_Financial_Records⠀⇛
New records obtained by the ACLU shed light on the
scope of a mass surveillance program keeping tabs
on Americans’ financial data.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Arizona_Republicans_Exempt_Themselves_From_Open
Records_Rules⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Uzbekistan_to_open_embassy_in_Budapest,
Orbán_receives_president_of_Turkic_Investment_Fund⠀⇛
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Ron_DeSantis’s_Attack_on_Black_Studies_Is
Textbook_Proto-Fascism⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Omsk_governor_calls_proposed_public_art_project
‘LGBT_propaganda’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Mayor of Omsk Sergey Shelest has criticized a
project that would install statues of pigeons
painted in various colors along the Irtysh River
embankment.
# ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Why_Content_Moderation_on_Mastodon_Isn’t
the_Train_Wreck_Some_on_Twitter_Say_It_Is⠀⇛
Last week, when working on an article for FOSS
Force I wanted to embed a toot, which is what
Mastodon calls tweets. That’s easy to do in
Twitter, but I wasn’t sure that Mastodon had that
capability. I looked around briefly, didn’t find
the answer, so I dashed off a quick toot for help.
“Help! How do I link to a particular toot?”
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Chris_Hedges_Report:_Will_Julian_Assange
Ever_Be_Free?⠀⇛
Chris Hedges speaks with film producer and brother
of Julian Assange, Gabriel Shipton, on his new film
about his family’s journey to get Julian free.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Far_Right_Supreme_Court_Ready_to_Gut_Unions_
(Again)_as_Workers_Die_on_the_Job⠀⇛
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch One of the first
dead giveaways for fascism is animosity toward
trade unions. That’s not to say all anti-union
businesspeople are fascist, but simply that that
hatred is a first step on the primrose path to a
polity of utterly oppressed wage slaves and
strictly limited civil rights, a step […]
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ “Restore_Roe”_Is_Not_the_Answer_to_the
Abortion_Access_Crisis⠀⇛
As abortion rights supporters commemorated the 50th
anniversary of Roe v. Wade this month, we were
inundated with calls to action from elected leaders
saying that we need to “restore Roe,” “codify Roe,”
and pass the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA).
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Biden_Administration_Declares_War_On_The
Internet,_Clears_Path_For_Offensive_Hacking_Efforts_By
Federal_Agencies⠀⇛
It’s impossible to be the “aggressor” of the free
world. Those words just don’t make sense together.
“Defender of the free world,” maybe. If you’re
going on the offensive, it seems unlikely you’re
there to protect anyone’s freedoms.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ New_Dumb_Attack_Against_Gigi_Sohn_Tries_To_Shame
Her_For_Being_On_The_EFF’s_Board⠀⇛
We’ve explained how telecom and media giants have
pulled out all the stops trying to block Gigi Sohn
from being seated at the FCC. That has involved a
sleazy smear campaign, seeded in the press by non-
profits linked to companies like News Corporation,
AT&T, and Comcast, falsely accusing Sohn of being a
radical extremist who hates Hispanics, rural
Americans, cops, puppies, and freedom.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Brazil’s_Telecom_Operators_Made_Strides_and_Had
Shortcomings_in_Internet_Lab’s_New_Report_on_User_Privacy
Practices⠀⇛
In this seventh annual assessment of Brazil’s
providers, InternetLab evaluated six companies, and
looked at both their broadband and mobile services.
Operators assessed include Oi fixed and mobile
broadband; Vivo (Telefónica) fixed and mobile
broadband, TIM fixed and mobile broadband,Claro/NET
(América Móvil), Brisanet fixed and mobile
broadband, and Algar (broadband only). The
operators were evaluated in six categories,
including providing information about their data
protection policies, disclosing guidelines for law
enforcement seeking user data, defending user
privacy in courts, supporting pro-privacy policies,
publishing transparency reports, and notifying
users when the government requests their data.
This year, Oi broke into the top and tied with TIM
in receiving the highest scores—each company
garnered full credit in four out of six
categories. Every company in the report received
full credit for challenging privacy-abusive
legislation and government requests for user data
except Algar, which received half credit. While
Brisanet improved its overall standing, earning
full credit in this category, it received the least
amount of credit among its peers, echoing last
year’s report.
With Brazilian providers steadily improving
transparency and customer data protection over the
years, methodological changes were made in this
edition to raise the bar for achieving credit in a
few categories. Specifically, assessing companies’
compliance with data protection legislation has
been expanded to include more requirements for
transparency about data sharing with third parties.
New criteria for measuring transparency around
customers’ rights, data handovers to authorities,
and cybersecurity protocols were also added.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Latest_Antitrust_Case_Against_Google_Is,_By
Far,_The_Most_Serious⠀⇛
There have been a whole bunch of antitrust lawsuits
filed against Google over the last few years. The
DOJ filed one in October of 2020 that was
pathetically weak. That one seemed like it was
Attorney General Bill Barr appeasing then President
Trump with what Trump hoped would be an election-
boosting attack on “evil woke big tech.” Then, in
December of that year, a bunch of states, lead by
Texas’ Ken Paxton filed another antitrust lawsuit,
which we noted got some fairly basic things
completely wrong, but had some potential to be
legit depending on what was behind a bunch of
redactions. That case has plodded along, and the
amended complaint filed last year was much stronger
than the original complaint and looked pretty
damning to us. Then there was another antitrust
lawsuit from a bunch of other states.
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Time_for_a_Showdown_With_Big_Pharma:
Chairman_Sanders_vs._Sky-High_Drug_Prices⠀⇛
It is showdown time. Senator Bernie Sanders,
new chair of the Senate Health, Education,
Labor and Pensions Committee versus Big
Pharma.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ MPA_&_ACE_Need_OSINT_Investigators_to
Track_Down_IPTV_Pirates⠀⇛
The MPA’s Global Content Protection team and
the connected Alliance for Creativity and
Entertainment are on a mission to disrupt
video content piracy and those behind it. Job
listings reveal openings at the MPA for OSINT
investigators, with one position stating a
strong preference for a candidate with IPTV
experience.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ACSILOG_Wordo:_FREON⠀⇛
# ⚓ Side_Effects⠀⇛
I’ve been diagnosed with psoriasis about two years
ago. Around the age of 25, I noticed an
uncontrollable itch in the lower back, the buttocks
and the gluteal fold, especially after exercise or
prolonged periods of sitting. It went away after
some time, and I assumed it’s just some random skin
irritation. Around my 26th birthday, I noticed I
have some bald spots in my beard, around the chin.
My wife’s aunt, a well-regarded naturopathy
practitioner with clients all over the country,
said it looks like alopecia areata and must be
related to stress. She gave me some custom-made
homeopathic potion, which didn’t work, and I
decided to finally go to a skin doctor, to solve
both problems.
# ⚓ Most_things_are_not_worth_it⠀⇛
Most things are not worth your attention you give
to them!
# ⚓ Strange_High_Pressure_Weather_2023-01-29_(Fairbanks,_AK,
US)⠀⇛
From what I’ve read and observed, usually when a
high-pressure bubble develops in the winter, then
you get clear skies and colder temperatures. But
the opposite is the case: we have overcast skies
and warm weather, and snow. Also, humidity is quite
high: late yesterday evening, about 4pm AKST, we
had frost suddenly form on all our parked vehicles.
And that appears to be the NOAA forecast continuing
for the next few days: warm temps, cloudy skies,
and steady snow.
# ⚓ Show_notes⠀⇛
This week was a busy week. On monday, the plan was
to have a look around St Joseph’s Church, but it
was closed, so we wandered down Wangfujing and
ended up outside the Theatre Museum of Beijing
People’s Art Theatre. We weren’t sure exactly what
it was, but it looked interesting, so we headed
inside.
It turns out that it’s not just a theatre museum,
it is also a theatre. We’d headed into the box
office, where the staff offered us a choice of
plays to buy tickets for. After we’d established we
were looking for a museum, they made some phone
calls and we found our way to the museum.
# ⚓ back_to_the_internet⠀⇛
I stumble around with all these static site
generators so often, but actually what i want is to
be able to write. I don’t want to faff with a
command line. Things don’t work. Installing jekyll
breaks. This post is the post i write most often
because i’m too caught up in the means to the end
than in the end in itself. I think of something
that i want to share with my own place on the
internet and yet i cannot because my place is a
shambles.
# ⚓ Trumpet,_Illness_and_a_Leap_of_Faith⠀⇛
I’m adopting a new belief system, or joining what
appears to be the winning side of a paradigm shift.
I’m learning the Maggio System. For me, it’s a
completely new way to play the trumpet, after 23
years.
As a kid, my trumpet teacher taught me to smile to
play higher, but keep the corners of the mouth
tight. The lip is a string, he said, and you need a
thin string that vibrates freely, to play high.
Like many trumpet players, I also learned that I
need to press harder to increase the vibration and
produce louder and fuller notes, especially when I
play high.
# ⚓ Hakuho’s_Retirement_Ceremoney⠀⇛
When a rikishi retires, they will keep to the rules
of being a sumo
wrestler until they have a retirement ceremony
known as a
danpatsushiki. This ceremony is often many months
after the rikishi
has announced their retirement. Well yesterday was
Hakuho's, held over
a year after his retirement in September 2021.
o § Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Investment_Times,_Hargreaves_Lansdown⠀⇛
Average house price: £296,000
Average discount on the asking price: 4%
Average first time buyer ager 2021: 32
Average time it takes to sell: 18 weeks
Proportion of sellers who’ve cut the asking price:
25%
Average gain in price since the onset of the
pandemic: £69,000
Average first time buyer deposit 2021: £53,935
# ⚓ RE:_Are_you_ok?⠀⇛
I’m not okay, no. And the world around me isn’t,
either. I mean the entire reason I CAN go out and
touch grass is because the snow that’s supposed to
be covering it, isn’t. In January in the Midwestern
US.
My finances are shit. I’m about a week away from
bankruptcy at any given moment.
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Maintaining_Simplicity_While_Acknowledging_FOMO⠀⇛
As people can see from the “Gemini Helpers” section
on my home page, I spent quite some time figuring
out the best way to layout and structure my capsule
and especially the gemlog.
# ⚓ Pavlov’s_dog_receives_e-mails⠀⇛
I’m a natural zero-inboxer. So from the first e-
mail box, I am acting what I read afterward as
inbox zero rules. All unwanted messages are flagged
as spam. All quick matters are dealt with on the
spot. The rest things are marked to deal with them
at the proper time (invoices, birthday reminders,
etc.).
# § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Buzz_Aldrin’s_Race_into_Space⠀⇛
Given the theme of Gemini, I just remembered
an old DOS game I played in the early 1990s.
It’s called “Buzz Aldrin’s Race into Space”
and let players re-play the race into space
from a US or Soviet point of view. It was
released to the public domain years ago, so
it’s free to play.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Validate_email_address_using_Regex_in_C++⠀⇛
Qucik one. Something I want to write down
before I forget. Validating email addresses
have been a constant pain for software
developers. The RFC spec for a valid email is
complex. No, it’s not simply
`^\S+@\S+\.\S+$`. For example. The spec
prohibits email addresses on TLD. Thus
`bob@example` is not valid. There’s a very
helpful post on the internet that shares how
to validate on using regex.
# ⚓ Tools:_redo_(part_6)_The_yacc/bison_problem:_one_call
produces_two_artifacts⠀⇛
One of the things any build system must do
for me, is the build of hoc, the “Higher
Order Calculator” as presented in “Kernighan,
Pike — The Unix Programming Environment”
published in 1984. There is this one detail:
a call to bison produces two targets from one
prerequisite file. bison should not be called
twice during the build — even though in the
case of hoc this is an affair of seconds.
# ⚓ Tools:_redo_(part_7)_The_N_artefact_problem,_a
minimal_example⠀⇛
I wanted to have something to simulate a call
to a code generator, which will produce a
number of artefacts, which in turn are needed
to build a (generated) hello world
executable. And I wanted to build this thing
using redo. How hard can it be?
This was not overly complicated. The
generator comes in at 71 lines of code. This
comes in a bit smaller than the 73 lines of
code I needed in all .do snippets together.
# ⚓ Configure_syncthing_to_sync_a_single_file⠀⇛
Quick blog entry to remember about something
that wasn’t as trivial as I thought. I needed
to use syncthing to keep a single file in
sync (KeePassXC database) without
synchronizing the whole directory.
You have to use mask exclusion feature to
make it possible. Put it simple, you need the
share to forbid every file, except the one
you want to sync.
This configuration happens in the `.stignore`
file in the synchronized directory, but can
also be managed from the Web interface.
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World Wide Web
but a lot lighter.
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