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⦿ Back to Focusing on Unified Patent Court (UPC) Crimes and Illegal Patent Agenda, Including the EPO’s | Techrights
⦿ European Patent Office Staff Votes in Favour of Freedom of Association (97% of Voters in Support) | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 01, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Daily Links at Techrights Turn 15, Time to Give Them an Upgrade | Techrights
⦿ Linux News or Marketing Platform? | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/02/02/back-to-focusing-on-upc-crimes/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/02/epo-freedom-of-association/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/02/irc-log-010223/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/02/organising-tech-news/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/02/phoronix-ads-everywhere/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/02/02/glibc-2-37/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/02/kde-gear-22-12-2/#comments
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✐ Back_to_Focusing_on_Unified_Patent_Court_(UPC)_Crimes_and_Illegal_Patent
Agenda,_Including_the_EPO’s⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Europe, Law, Patents at 8:27 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: The EPO’s (European Patent Office, Europe’s second-largest
institution) violations of constitutions, laws and so on merit more coverage,
seeing that what’s left of the “media” not only fails to cover scandalous
things but is actively cheering for criminals (in exchange for money)
THE END of 2021 was very, very busy. As a result, around that time I quit
adding patent-, trademark-, and EPO-related stories to Daily Links. I was
unable to keep up anymore. It was overwhelming. The worst thing was, over 90%
of the “news” wasn’t actually factual; it was agenda-pushing cruft from
litigation profiteers and patent maximalists. I started doing long videos to
demonstrate what had happened to “the news”.
“We saw several ‘fake news’ examples earlier this week regarding the UPC,
courtesy of the usual suspects (the UPC lobbyists and their sites, looking to
undermine patent justice for personal gain).”As will be noted in our next post,
we’ve found a way to more efficiently assess news and thus, starting this week,
we’re once again including some links of interest about the Unified Patent
Court (UPC) and the EPO, which António_Campinos continues to destroy,
continuing the legacy of his friend Benoît_Battistelli. There will also be many
links about software patents, especially their invalidation at the Patent Trial
and Appeal Board (PTAB), owing to inter partes reviews (IPRs) in the United
States. Though European_software_patents continue to be granted, many patent
courts across Europe would turn them down. That’s why criminal elements that
hijacked the EPO are eager to introduce and illegal and unconstitutional
kangaroo court to replace them all in one fell swoop. These people keep
threatening me personally [1, 2]. We saw several ‘fake news’ examples earlier
this week regarding the UPC, courtesy of the usual suspects (the UPC lobbyists
and their sites, looking to undermine patent justice for personal gain).
While European politicians keep lecturing Zimbabwe they fail to see that under
their very own watch Europe’s largest institutions become barely less corrupt
than Zimbabwe’s. What do they do about it upon reports of concern? NOTHING.
This is complicity. It’s called passive corruption. █
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✐ European_Patent_Office_Staff_Votes_in_Favour_of_Freedom_of_Association_(97%
of_Voters_in_Support)⠀✐
Posted in Europe, Patents at 7:58 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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EPO Staff Wants Human Contact
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/freedom-of-association-at-epo.webm
Summary: The Central Staff Committee (CSC) at the EPO makes a strong case for
António_Campinos to stop breaking and law and actually start obeying court
orders (he’s no better than Benoît_Battistelli and he uses worse language
already)
THE CSC Chairman from Munich, along with the ones from The Hague, Vienna, and
Berlin (the smaller EPO ‘branches’), asked the President to actually act like
one. At the moment the EPO is governed by an under-qualified cabal of friends,
whose role there is protected by corporate interest groups, which are happy to
see the EPO operating in direct violation of its charter (like a regulatory
agency that intentionally fails to regulate the industry).
For us in Techrights the main issue of interest is European_software_patents
(and other patent monopolies, as covered in passing in the video above), but
for EPO staff there are severe human rights violations to deal with. That’s how
a bunch of corrupt “managers” (it’s all nepotism) keep examiners down and
blackmail them into granting European Patents in violation of the EPC, i.e. in
violation of the rules that govern the Office. The EPO’s Web sites has just
published propaganda again, distracting from systematic violations of the EPC.
There’s an open letter circulating at the moment, stating:
[CSC] Resolution on freedom of association supported by EPO staff
Dear Colleagues,
All EPO staff was invited to gather in General Assemblies in all four
places of employment. The attached resolutions were adopted and found
office-wide support of 998 EPO staff members.
We would like to thank you very much for your strong support.
With the resolution EPO staff urges the President
- to quash Article 35(7) ServRegs so as not to prevent re-election of
staff committee members,
- to restore freedom of communication in the Office by executing
Judgment_4551_on_mass-emails,
- to restore secretarial support to staff committees
and
- to take into account the requests from staff and to proceed to the
relevant amendments to EPO service regulations.
The resolutions have been submitted to the President by open letter.
Michael Kemény
Chairman LSC Munich City, Haar and Brussels
Jorge Raposo
Chairman LSC The Hague
Martin Schaller
Chairman LSC Vienna
Thomas Czogalla
Chairman LSC Berlin
The corresponding publication is mostly the same statement from 4 EPO sites.
European Patent Office | 80298 MUNICH | GERMANY
Mr António Campinos
President of the EPO
By email
§ OPEN LETTER⠀➾
Local Staff Committees
Comités locaux du personnel
Lokale Personalausschüsse
centralSTCOM@epo.org
Reference: sc23001bp
Date: 27.01.2023
§ Resolution supported by General Assemblies at all Places of
Employment⠀➾
Dear Mr President,
All EPO staff was invited to gather in General Assemblies in all four
places of employment. The attached resolutions were adopted and found
the support of 998 members of EPO staff in respective assemblies as
follows:
On 19.01.2023 in Munich City, Haar and Brussels supported by 97% (420
votes in favour).
On 24.01.2023 in The Hague supported by 97% (485 votes in favour).
On 17.01.2023 in Berlin supported by 98% (58 votes in favour).
On 23.01.2023 in Vienna supported by 97% (35 votes in favour).
Thereby EPO staff urges you
− to quash Article 35(7) ServRegs so as not to prevent re-election of
staff
committee members,
− to restore freedom of communication in the Office by executing
Judgment
4551 on mass-emails,
− to restore secretarial support to staff committees.
We urge you to take into account the requests from staff and to
proceed to the relevant amendments to EPO service regulations.
Sincerely yours,
[...]
]Annex: The four resolutions
These resolutions are almost identical. Here’s the one from Munich:
§ RESOLUTION⠀➾
Staff of the EPO in Munich, gathered in a General Assembly,
Noting that:
• Since 2012, the EPO has been consistently testing the limits of
employment law.
• The Tribunal already sanctioned the EPO for its illegal strike
regulations (Judgments 4430 to 4435), for its “Social Democracy”
interference into staff representation elections (Judgment 4482), for
prohibiting nominations in the Appeals Committee among all staff
(Judgment 4550) and for its unlawful ban on mass-emails (Judgment
4551).
Further noting that:
• The EPO arbitrarily limits the term of office of staff committee
members to three consecutive (re-)elections (Article 35(7) ServRegs)
thus unduly limiting the right of staff to freely choose their
representatives.
• The EPO has not honoured its obligations to restore freedom of
communication and hence not executed Judgment 4551 on mass-emails
since July 2022.
• The President has disbanded any secretarial support to staff
committees.
Express their deep disappointment that the President of the Office
has not settled any of his predecessor’s breaches of the fundamental
right to freedom of association on his own motion and merely waited
for the Tribunal’s judgments.
Urge the President:
− to quash Article 35(7) ServRegs so as not to prevent re-election of
staff committee members,
− to restore freedom of communication in the Office by executing
Judgment 4551 on mass-emails,
− to restore secretarial support to staff committees.
Request the Administrative Council and the President to put an end to
breaches of the right to freedom of association and of the right to
freedom of communication at the EPO.
Munich, 19.01.2023
Well, the Administrative Council and the President are closely connected.
There’s no real governance or oversight there (don’t be misled by buzzwords
like “Ombuds”; they scuttled the real one!). The Administrative Council
receives bribes from the President to ‘re-elect’ this President, who in turn
serves_special_interests_of_patent_maximalists_instead_of_following_the_charter
of_the_Office. What would the founders of the EPO say if they knew it would
sponsor_Lukashenko and outsource to Belarus (and also to_American_spy_firms
like_Microsoft)? █
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✐ Daily_Links_at_Techrights_Turn_15,_Time_to_Give_Them_an_Upgrade⠀✐
Posted in Site_News at 8:49 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Making the News Easier to Digest
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Summary: This year we have several 15-year anniversaries; one of them is Daily
Links (it turned 15 earlier this week) and we’ve been working to improve these
batches of links, making them a lot more extensive and somewhat better
structured/clustered
In a matter of months if not weeks our IRC network (or channel at the time)
turns 15. It started in early 2008 (this is the oldest_log_on_record). This was
the year we also started posting Daily Links (the oldest_entry_in_"News
Roundup"_is_dated_January_31_2008). We’ve done that almost every day since
then.
“A lot has changed in 15 years and it helps to be able to go back in time to
MeeGo, OpenMoko, and all sorts of other things that people completely forgot
about by now.”The IRC network (or Freenode channels at the time) has been
running 24/7 since them, fully logged as well. The public logs have historic
value as they help show how we grew and how the community evolved over the
years. We did shape many things, including the fate of Novell.
The IRC logs are definitely complete. In case of connection issues (like
yesterday when we finally moved to fibre-optics at home) I tried to import data
from peers, either machines or people. It was more challenging albeit still
doable when I was away on holiday.
But arguably the most important contribution of the site is the record of news,
with special focus or emphasis on GNU/Linux and Free software. A lot has
changed in 15 years and it helps to be able to go back in time to MeeGo,
OpenMoko, and all sorts of other things that people completely forgot about by
now. We’ve posted literally millions of links in Daily Links and, to a lesser
extent, in IRC.
“The tools will be Free software (AGPLv3, as usual) and available in Git some
time soon.”Over the past few days we’ve been working on new tools (still in
early development, still not in Git) that will help us manage links or news of
interest. This is a strategic area to us as it also helps with research for
potential articles, videos and so on.
The tools will be Free software (AGPLv3, as usual) and available in Git some
time soon. For now, however, we’re gradually departing from Graphical User
Interface (GUI) front endd like RSS readers. There are better ways to read,
accumulate and organise the news. Tailor-made programs overcome artificial
limitations of GUIs. It’s about time. Better late than never. There’s some more
background to all this in the video above. █
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Posted in Marketing at 9:19 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
This is what Phoronix looks like today (in Debian 11 with Mozilla Firefox):
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Phoronix:_Ads_everywhere⦈_
A lot of GNU/Linux users block ads and may not see this, but bear in mind this
is what many people will see if you share Phoronix URLs:
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Microsoft_Phoronix⦈_
Summary: Ads_everywhere: Phoronix puts them at the top, bottom, navigation bar,
left, and right just to read some Microsoft junk (puff pieces about something
that nobody other than Microsoft even uses); in addition there are pop-ups
asking for consent to send visitors’ data to hundreds of data brokers
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Graphics_Stack
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Arch_Family
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o FSF
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 Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ John Goerzen ☛ John_Goerzen:_Using_Yggdrasil_As_an
Automatic_Mesh_Fabric_to_Connect_All_Your_Docker_Containers,
VMs,_and_Servers⠀⇛
Sometimes you might want to run Docker containers
on more than one host. Maybe you want to run some
at one hosting facility, some at another, and so
forth.
Maybe you’d like run VMs at various places, and let
them talk to Docker containers and bare metal
servers wherever they are.
And maybe you’d like to be able to easily migrate
any of these from one provider to another.
There are all sorts of very complicated ways to set
all this stuff up. But there’s also a simple one:
Yggdrasil.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ The BSD Now Podcast ☛ 492:_Feeling_for_NetBSD⠀⇛
Writing your own operating system, Continuous
Integration and Quality Assurance Update, feeling
for the NetBSD community, Testing wanted: execute-
only on amd64, GCC uses Modula-2 and Rust, do they
work on OpenBSD, Unix is dead; long live Unix, and
more
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ Free Desktop ☛ mesa_23.0.0-rc4⠀⇛
Hi list,
I'd like to announce the availability of mesa 23.0-
rc4. since the last
RC we've seen the addition of several blocking
issues, and as such we're
having another RC. Hopefully be next week we can
have all of these
issues resolved.
Cheers,
Dylan
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 26_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Music_Players⠀⇛
There’s a huge raft of free and open source music
software available on the Linux platform which is
both mature and sophisticated. Linux has many music
tools which offer enhanced functionality and
integration with internet music services. With most
desktop environments having several audio players,
together with cross-platform applications,
integrated media players, there is a plethora of
music players to choose from.
Like many types of software, the selection of a
favorite music player is, to some extent, dependent
on personal preferences. Nevertheless, we are
confident that the applications featured in this
article represent the most appealing music players.
All music libraries are different, and the right
open source music player can make a world of
difference – especially if you’ve a large
collection.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Valhalla’s_Things:_How_To_Verify_Debian’s_ARM_Installer
Images⠀⇛
Thanks toVagrant_on_the_debian-arm_mailing_listI’ve
found that thereisa chain of verifiability for the
images usually used to install Debian on ARM
devices.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Install_Mate_Desktop_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
The Mate desktop is a popular and lightweight
graphical user interface (GUI) for Linux systems.
It provides a traditional and easy-to-use interface
that can run on both high-end and low-end
computers.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Recover_Linux_Grub_Boot_Loader_Password
on_RHEL_9⠀⇛
Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to
Recover Linux Grub Boot Loader Password on RHEL 9.
We know that security is important, but accidents
often happen, and it is possible to forget the root
password of this item.
# ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_to_Install_Unity_Desktop_on_Arch
Linux⠀⇛
As you may know, the classic desktop environment
Unity Desktop was dropped by Canonical in favour of
the GNOME desktop in 2017.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_install_and_use_the_Taskwarrior
command-line_todo_list⠀⇛
If you want a very efficient way to keep track of
your task lists from the command line, Taskwarrior
is the tool to use.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ My_work_in_KDE_for_January_2023⠀⇛
This is a non-comprehensive list of all of
the major work I’ve done for KDE this month
of January. I think I got a lot done this
month! I also was accepted as a KDE Developer
near the start of the month, so I’m pretty
happy about that.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ This_GNOME_Extension_Makes_the
‘Activities’_Label_More_Useful⠀⇛
It’s not useless, of course: you click the
“Activities” label to enter the “activities”
overview — or the ‘workspace switcher’ as I
tend to call it.
But most of us (empirically speaking; I did a
survey and you did take part) tend to enter
the workspace switcher/activities overview by
tapping the super key.
Anyhow, there’s a new GNOME extension out
called Replace Activities Label that —deploy
your faux shocked faces now— replaces the
‘Activities’ label with something a little
more useful.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Elementary_OS_7_is_now_available_and_it’s_the_same
old_desktop_goodness⠀⇛
The newly released seventh iteration of the popular
Elementary OS is as impressive as you’d expect.
o § Arch Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Say_Goodbye_Xubuntu,_Welcome_Archcraft_Linux⠀⇛
This is purely from my experience using Linux
Distros. I’m using Xubuntu from version 18.04,
until 22.04. 2 upgrades(18.04 to 20.04, 20.04 to
22.04). I feel disappointed with the full upgrade,
which always has errors and trouble. The worst is
some error icon display problem from 20.04 to
22.04. 2 upgrades(18.04 to 20.04, 20.04 to 22.04).
I feel disappointed with the full upgrade, which
always has errors and trouble. The worst is some
error icon display problem from 20.04 to 22.04. I’m
a fan of the LTS version of Ubuntu. But the upgrade
is useless. Because the error that appears has not
been able to get a solution, even though I have
tried browsing the relevant forums to find a
solution to the problem.
# ⚓ ArchLinux ☛ Call_for_participation:_Git_packaging_POC⠀⇛
Hi everyone!
Levente and I have been busy preparing a test
environment for the new git
package workflow, which is going to replace the svn
repository.
To test the new git package setup install
`devtools-git-poc` from the
[community] repository and use the new `pkgctl`
utility. Please check each time if there is a new
upgrade before playing around.
The goal of the testing is to figure out UX issues,
bugs and larger issues that
would need to be dealt with before a git migration
can happen. It's therefor
very important that people sit down and play around
…
§ Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
* ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 4_ways_to_transform_customer_service_in
enterprise_IT⠀⇛
* ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 4_articles_CIOs_should_read_about_open_source_in
2023⠀⇛
§ Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
* ⚓ Linux Mint ☛ Monthly_News_–_January_2023⠀⇛
Thank you for your donations and for your support. As we
mentioned last month, following the release of Linux Mint 21.1,
the donations for December were at an all-time high. Many
thanks to all the people who support our project.
§ Devices/Embedded⠀➾
* ⚓ CNX Software ☛ FOSSBot_open_design_3D_printed_educational_robot_is_made
with_Raspberry_Pi_and_off-the-shelf_parts⠀⇛
FOSSBot is an “open design” 3D printed educational robot
comprised of a Raspberry Pi SBC and various off-the-shelf
modules, as well as open-source software that can be used for
education purposes.
The FOSSBot DIY robot has been developed by the Harokopio
University of Athens and the Greek Free and Open Source
Software (GFOSS) community, and builds upon the “GSOC 2019 – A
DIY robot kit for educators” with the main goal being to have a
platform to “familiarize teachers with modern education models
based on the S.T.E.A.M approach. (Science, Technology,
Engineering, Arts, Mathematics)”.
* ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Qualcomm-based_Open-Q_2290CS_and_4290CS_SIPs_target
industrial_IoT_and_machine_vision_applications⠀⇛
Latronics has just unveiled two new System-in-Packages (SiP)
with the entry-level Open-Q 2290CS SIP based on Qualcomm
QCS2290 quad-core Cortex-A53 processor designed for industrial
IoT applications and safety vehicle equipment control, and the
pin-compatible, mid-range Open-Q 4290CS SIP based on Qualcomm
QCS4290 octa-core Kryo 260 CPU for applications requiring
artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities.
§ Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
* ⚓ Purism ☛ Try_AweSIM_with_Your_Own_Pre-Configured_Librem_USA_phone⠀⇛
Get 30 days of AweSIM free with a new Librem 5 USA phone. Use
the coupon code TRYAWESIM after you opt-in to the AweSIM plan.
A special pairing that gives you ultimate peace of mind as soon
as you unbox! Ensure that your personal data is secure, and not
sold to third parties.
* ⚓ Arduino ☛ Arduino_Day_turns_10,_but_you_are_a_10!⠀⇛
Tune in on March 25th and celebrate 10 years of Arduino Day
with us! This year marks the 10th anniversary of Arduino Day –
and what a great milestone to celebrate together.
* ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ The_Rock_5_B_is_not_a_Raspberry_Pi_killer—yet⠀⇛
Radxa’s Rock 5 model B is an ARM single board computer that’s3x
fasterthan a Raspberry Pi. And that’s just the 8-core CPU—with
PCI Express Gen 3 x4 (the Pi has Gen 2 x1), storage is7x
faster! I got over 3 GB/sec with a KIOXIA XG6 NVMe SSD.
§ Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
* ⚓ Nokia Power User ☛ Nokia_X30_–_Nokia_G60_get_new_Camera_feature_&
Android_12_build_with_January_Security_update_–_Nokiapoweruser⠀⇛
* ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_13_QPR2_Beta_3_preps_some_smart_changes_for
how_you_choose_wallpapers⠀⇛
* ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Android_13_QPR2_Beta_3_is_now_available_for_Pixel_devices
–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
* ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Sign_a_PDF_Document_on_Android_–_Make_Tech
Easier⠀⇛
* ⚓ CNET ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_S23_Specs_vs._Google_Pixel_7:_Android_Phones
Compared_–_CNET⠀⇛
* ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ No_Permission_to_Enable_Voice_Typing_on_Android?_Here’s
How_to_Fix_It⠀⇛
* ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ What_it’s_like_to_use_Matter_on_Google_Home_for_Android⠀⇛
* ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Qualcomm-based_Open-Q_2290CS_and_4290CS_SIPs_target
industrial_IoT_and_machine_vision_applications_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
§ Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
* § FSF⠀➾
o ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Blogs:_January_GNU_Spotlight_with_Amin_Bandali:
Nineteen_new_GNU_releases!⠀⇛
o ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:_Friday,
February_24,_starting_at_12:00_EST_(17:00_UTC)⠀⇛
Join the FSF and friends on Friday, February 24, from 12:
00
to 15:00 EST (17:00 to 20:00 UTC)
to help improve the Free Software Directory.
o ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:_Friday,
February_17,_starting_at_12:00_EST_(17:00_UTC)⠀⇛
Join the FSF and friends on Friday, February 17, from 12:
00
to 15:00 EST (17:00 to 20:00 UTC)
to help improve the Free Software Directory.
o ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:_Friday,
February_10,_starting_at_12:00_EST_(17:00_UTC)⠀⇛
Join the FSF and friends on Friday, February 10, from 12:
00
to 15:00 EST (17:00 to 20:00 UTC)
to help improve the Free Software Directory.
* § Programming/Development⠀➾
o ⚓ Glibc_2.37⠀⇛
o ⚓ Go_1.20_Release_Notes_–_The_Go_Programming_Language⠀⇛
The latest Go release, version 1.20, arrives six months
after Go 1.19. Most of its changes are in the
implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries.
As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of
compatibility. We expect almost all Go programs to
continue to compile and run as before.
o ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ curl’s_use_of_many_CI_services [Ed: Daniel
outsourced curl to proprietary compiler controlled by the NSA and
Microsoft. Nothing to brag about here.]⠀⇛
In the beginning and for many years, the curl project
used no CI services at all. It instead used a distributed
build and test systems where volunteers ran machines that
pulled the latest code repeatedly, built curl, ran the
tests and reported back the results to a central server.
o ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_RInside_0.2.18_on_CRAN:
Maintenance⠀⇛
A new release 0.2.18 ofRInsidearrived onCRANand
inDebiantoday. This is the first release in ten months
since the 0.2.17 release.
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* § Science⠀➾
o ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ Removing_RF_interference_from_a_cell_phone_from
audio_recording⠀⇛
Thinking I could just use the nice feature of the
Wireless Go II’s built-in recording, I grabbed the track
off the body pack itself—but found that it, too, had the
RFI sound, meaning the iPhone’s interference made it into
the mic circuit itself, not just the wireless mic signal
to my camera!
I tried Final Cut Pro’s built-in voice isolation, and
that helped mute the noise between speech, but during
speech it was omnipresent.
* § Education⠀➾
o ⚓ Medical_School_withdraws_from_U.S._News_annual_rankings⠀⇛
The Medical School has announced it will no longer
participate in the annual U.S. News & World Report
rankings of medical schools. The magazine’s criteria to
rank medical schools has long been a concern at U-M.
o ⚓ Reason ☛ Robert_Pondiscio:_Why_Our_Kids_Can’t_Read⠀⇛
A former teacher says there are bigger problems in K-12
education than CRT and wokeness—and that school choice
may not fix them.
o ⚓ NCAC ☛ New_library_collection_policy_at_McKinney_(Texas)
Independent_School_District_cause_for_concern⠀⇛
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) has
written to McKinney Independent School District in
McKinney, Texas, concerning a recent change to district
policy. The District has amended Board Policy EFB Local
to exclude books from school libraries that contain
material that appeals to “the prurient interest of a
minor in sex, nudity, or excretion”
* § Hardware⠀➾
o ⚓ Engadget ☛ Sony_has_now_shipped_over_32.1_million_PS5s_following
blockbuster_holiday_sales⠀⇛
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ A_two-day_wait_for_a_bed_in_Malaysian
government_hospitals⠀⇛
With the emergency department at some Malaysian
government hospitals bursting at their seams, some
doctors have said that the wait for beds can stretch to
two days or more.
o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_firms_rejecting_Covid-positive
customers_could_breach_anti-discrimination_law,_watchdog_says⠀⇛
Restaurants and clinics that refuse to serve people
testing positive for Covid-19 could breach Hong Kong’s
anti-discrimination law, the Equal Opportunities
Commission (EOC) has said. Speaking on an RTHK radio show
on Thursday morning, EOC chairperson Ricky Chu said the
Disability Discrimination Ordinance protects people with
infectious
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Thick_haze_blankets_Bangkok_as_air_pollution
hits_unhealthy_levels⠀⇛
Unsafe levels of dust are expected to last until Friday.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_number_one_in_Europe_for_household_booze
spending⠀⇛
While it’s sometimes nice to be number one in Europe,
this may not be one of those times. Fresh statistics
published February 1 by Eurostat are likely to lead to a
hangover.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ The_Pandemic_Never_Ended,_WHO_Warns⠀⇛
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Fungal_Pathogens_May_Be_Adapting_Dangerously_to
Global_Warming⠀⇛
* § Security⠀➾
o ⚓ PowerDNS ☛ PowerDNS_Recursor_4.8.2_Released⠀⇛
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor
4.8.2. This release is a maintenance release, fixing some
issues, in particular: Please refer to the change log for
the 4.8.2 release for additional details.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Ransomware_Leads_to_Nantucket_Public_Schools
Shutdown [Ed: Microsoft shutting down schools?]⠀⇛
Nantucket’s public schools shut its doors to students and
teachers after a data encryption and extortion attack on
its computer systems.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ 30k_Internet-Exposed_QNAP_NAS_Devices_Affected_by
Recent_Vulnerability⠀⇛
Censys finds 30,000 internet-exposed QNAP appliances that
are likely affected by a recently disclosed critical code
injection vulnerability.
o ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_Automatically_decrypt_your
disk_using_TPM2⠀⇛
This article demonstrates how to configure clevis and
systemd-cryptenroll using a Trusted Platform Module 2
chip to automatically decrypt your LUKS-encrypted
partitions at boot.
o ⚓ APNIC ☛ Slammer:_20_years_after⠀⇛
Guest Post: Where were you when SQL Slammer nearly broke
the Internet? Could it happen again?
o ⚓ APNIC ☛ [Podcast]_Is_my_Internet_Down?⠀⇛
Measuring Internet outages with Google Trends.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Malicious_NPM,_PyPI_Packages_Stealing_User
Information⠀⇛
Security researchers are warning of a new wave of
malicious NPM and PyPI packages designed to steal user
information and download additional payloads.
o ⚓ Anders Borch ☛ Sandboxed_NPM⠀⇛
I recently started a new project, and all the anxiety
around someone running peacenotwar or other similar
malicious code which would simply wipe my computer is
coming up again.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ 98%_of_Firms_Have_a_Supply_Chain_Relationship
That_Has_Been_Breached:_Analysis⠀⇛
A new report found that 98% of organizations have a
relationship with a third party that has been breached,
while more than 50% have an indirect relationship with
more than 200 fourth parties that have been breached.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Dutch,_European_Hospitals_‘Hit_by_Pro-Russian
Hackers’⠀⇛
Dutch cyber authorities said several hospital websites in
the Netherlands and Europe were likely targeted by a pro-
Kremlin hacking group because of their countries’ support
for Ukraine.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ VMware_Confirms_Exploit_Code_Released_for
Critical_vRealize_Logging_Vulnerabilities⠀⇛
VMware confirms the publication of exploit code and urged
VMware vRealize Log Insight users to implement
mitigations immediately.
o ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Microsoft_tells_users_to_patch_–_even_if_it_breaks
their_systems⠀⇛
From time to time, people from Microsoft come up with
stupid takes to divert attention from the fact that the
products put out by their company are full of security
holes. The tech world is chock-full of spin and Microsoft
is not reluctant to indulge in it.
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Infamous_North_Korean_hacking_group_Lazarus
targets_research_organizations⠀⇛
A new campaign from the infamous North Korean hacking
group Lazarus has been found to be actively targeting
public and private sector research organizations, the
medical research and energy sector and their supply
chain.
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Splunk_and_Rivian_cut_jobs_amid_biggest_layoffs
since_the_end_of_the_dot-com_bubble⠀⇛
Data analytics firm Splunk Inc. and electric car maker
Rivian Automotive Inc. announced layoffs today amid what
is shaping up to be the biggest job cuts in the tech
industry since the end of the dot-com bubble in the early
2000s.
o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Snap’s_pandemic_stock_gains_have_been_completely
erased⠀⇛
Snap Inc. posted another rough quarter of financial
results on January 31, showing that its advertising
challenges are far from over. The Snapchat parent
company, whose stock hit an all-time high of $83
per share in September 2021, has seen its share
price plummet in recent months.
* § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
o ⚓ YLE ☛ MP_Harkimo_to_HS:_Russian_cooperation_was_“mistake”⠀⇛
Hjallis Harkimo sold the Helsinki arena to Russian-
Finnish businessmen Gennadi Timchenko and Roman Rotenberg
in 2013 for 35 millions euros.
o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Marin:_Appointment_of_premier’s_security_policy
advisor_likely_to_be_postponed⠀⇛
The office of the prime minister has been preparing to
set up the advisory position, but the notion has come
under heavy criticism from the office of the president,
the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Defence Command of
the Finnish Defence Forces.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Myanmar_dispatch:_two_years_after_the_military_coup,
Myanmar_people_stage_a_‘silent_strike’⠀⇛
Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on
challenges to the rule of law in their country under the
military junta that deposed the civilian government of
Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021.peared first onJURIST_–
News.
o ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Report_from_1945_holds_lessons_for_defence
strategic_review_team⠀⇛
What defence forces should Australia maintain at a time
of strategic uncertainty and rapid technological change?
o ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Ukrainian_SMEs_hold_the_key_to_the_country’s
economic_revival⠀⇛
There is still no end in sight to the Russian invasion of
Ukraine but the international community must not delay
efforts to revive Ukraine’s economy by supporting the
country’s vibrant SME sector.
o ⚓ YLE ☛ Turkish_Foreign_Minister:_We_will_stick_to_our_Nato
demands,_even_if_security_situation_deteriorates⠀⇛
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also said
Wednesday that a separate application by Finland would be
evaluated more positively than would Sweden’s.
o ⚓ CNN ☛ CNN_goes_into_the_trenches_with_Ukrainian_troops_fighting
Russian_soldiers⠀⇛
CNN’s Fred Pleitgen gets a firsthand look at how
Ukrainian troops are fighting against Russian soldiers in
the eastern part of Ukraine.
o ⚓ CNN ☛ Fighting_Wagner_is_like_a_‘zombie_movie’_says_Ukrainian
soldier⠀⇛
null
o ⚓ ADF ☛ Burkina_Faso_Inches_Closer_to_Wagner_Mercenaries⠀⇛
ADF STAFF As it seeks to expand its presence in the Sahel
region, Russia appears to be following the same playbook
in Burkina Faso that it used to embed itself into Mali’s
security apparatus.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Group_of_Ukrainian_criminals_tried_to_enter_Latvia:
Border_Guard⠀⇛
On January 30, a group of 14 Ukrainian nationals at the
border inspection post of Grebneva was refused entry to
Latvia. Border guards found during checks that these men
have committed crimes in Ukraine and may not have
received their punishment, Latvian Television reported on
January 31.
o ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_Legacy_of_George_W._Bush_and_His_Torturers⠀⇛
In the days and months following the attacks of 9/11, the
government laid the blame for orchestrating the attacks
on Osama bin Ladin.
o ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_US_Is_Making_Billions_Being_Warlords_in_Yemen⠀⇛
One of Biden’s promises during his presidential campaign
was to immediately move to end all support for the Saudi-
led coalition’s war in Yemen.
o ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Has_the_War_in_Ukraine_Reached_Its_Climax?⠀⇛
On January 25, the US announced that it would send 31 M1
Abrams tanks to Ukraine. The M1 Abrams is the US’ primary
battle tank and is among the most advanced and powerful
tanks in the world.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ America’s_Exceptionalism_in_Mass-Shooting_and
Its_Culture_of_Rugged_Individualism⠀⇛
Amid an unrelenting surge of gun massacres, many have
wondered why the United States- the world’s leading
country in mass shootings over the last century, is more
prone to mass shootings than any other country.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Russia_restored_Syrian_air_base_for_joint
use⠀⇛
Russia and Syria have restored the ‘Al-Jarrah’ military
air base in Syria’s north to be jointly used, Russia’s
Defence Ministry said. “Russian and Syrian military
personnel restored the destroyed al-Jarrah airfield,” the
ministry said on the Telegram messaging.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ NATO_tanks_for_Ukraine_provoke_contradictions
in_the_alliance⠀⇛
After a drawn-out back and forth between Ukraine, the
U.S. and European NATO countries, the first deliveries of
Western-made tanks for the Ukrainian military have been
announced, informs MSN.
* § Environment⠀➾
o ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Denmark_soaks_through_wettest_January_in_over
150_years⠀⇛
Historical dating back to 1874 data shows that winters in
Denmark are becoming, not only wetter, but warmer as well
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Deadly_ice_storm_coats_roads,_airport_runways_from_Dallas
to_Memphis_as_power_outages_mount⠀⇛
Ice storm warnings are in effect for 12 million people
across large portions of Texas, including the Dallas-Ft.
Worth metro area, western Tennessee, northern Mississippi
and much of Arkansas.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Women_and_Climate_Change_in_South_Asia⠀⇛
Over the past decade, climate change has emerged as a
major non-traditional security threat that demands an
urgent response. South Asia has been identified as
particularly susceptible to the impacts of climate change
according to the sixth assessment report by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
o § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Exxon’s_record_$56_billion_profit_has_renewed_the
White_House’s_outrage_at_oil_companies⠀⇛
ExxonMobil raked in $55.7 billion in annual
profits, shattering a 2008 record of $45 billion
and setting a new goalpost for American and
European fossil fuel companies.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_consumed_10%_more_coal_last_year_compared_to
2021⠀⇛
Use of the fossil fuel increased during 2022 due to
the energy crisis, but consumption has long been in
decline.
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexico_shuts_down_solar_geoengineering
projects⠀⇛
Mexico will shut down solar geoengineering projects
in the country following an unauthorized experiment
carried out in Baja California Sur.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_ministry_says_businesses_are_responsible
for_increased_Russian_LPG_imports⠀⇛
Following a recent report by Reuters that the
Baltic countries have doubled their purchases of
liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from Russia in the
past year, Lithuania’s Ministry of Energy assures
that the country’s energy infrastructure is not
used for such imports.
o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Rare_bee_sighted_in_Denmark_following_an
absence_of_50_years⠀⇛
For the first time in more than 50 years, two
specimens of the vulsed mask bee – which gets its
name because of a bulge (tumor) around the chest
# ⚓ The Local SE ☛ How_jellyfish_in_Gothenburg’s_archipelago
reveal_impact_of_climate_change⠀⇛
A global increase in jellyfish sparked by climate
change is impacting communities in the Gothenburg
archipelago, with local restaurants and fishing
reporting the effects.
* § Finance⠀➾
o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Half_a_Million_British_Workers_Strike_Over_Pay⠀⇛
Over the last year, Britain has seen record-high
inflation, while wages have failed to keep up. Since last
summer, Britain has been in the grip of a wave of
strikes.
o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ French_Unions_Call_for_New_Strikes_Over_Pension
Reforms⠀⇛
The controversial reform would progressively raise the
legal retirement age by three months yearly, from 62 to
64 by 2030.
o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Brexit_Deals_Blow_to_UK_Economy,_Says_Expert⠀⇛
Iain Begg described Brexit’s effect on the British
economy as “incremental, small, bit by bit, drip by
drip,” but mainly negative.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Hundreds_of_thousands_of_UK_workers_will_strike_in
response_to_new_labor_law⠀⇛
Workers from across the UK’s public sector will walk out
en masse on Feb. 1.
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Meta_announces_huge_share_buyback_and_efficiency
plans_and_its_stock_soars [Ed: Meta embezzlement. FAKING its worth
to enrich dumb investors.]⠀⇛
Shares of Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms
Inc. soared in extended trading today as the company
revealed the impact of recent cost-cutting measures it
has implemented. It also guided for higher revenue in the
coming quarter than what analysts had forecast, while
promising more share buybacks and further improvements in
operational efficiency.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Assessing_Political_Spin_in_the_Debt_Ceiling
Fight⠀⇛
Republicans have wrongly suggested that President Biden
and his party are solely responsible for the situation,
while Democrats have overstated former President Donald
J. Trump’s role.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden_and_McCarthy_Discuss_Debt_Limit_as
Financial_Crisis_Looms⠀⇛
The meeting, which did not appear to yield a
breakthrough, highlighted the differences between the
White House and the Republicans who now control the
House.
o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finland’s_house_prices_fell_2.5%,_sales
decreased_38%_in_December⠀⇛
The data indicates that the prices of old dwellings in
housing companies declined by 2.5 per cent year-on-year
and 0.2 per cent month-on-month in December 2022,
translating to a year-on-year decline of three per cent
for the period between October and December.
* § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
o ⚓ Axios ☛ The_fractious_GOP_is_consolidating_around_a_“protect_the
children”_platform_for_2024⠀⇛
o ⚓ Consulate-General_of_Germany_in_Istanbul_closed_today_‘for
security_reasons’⠀⇛
The decision followed those made by the Consulate-
Generals of Great Britain and the Netherlands in
İstanbul, both of which are temporarily closed, and
warnings that “risk of terror attacks” could follow the
Qur’an burning demonstrations in Sweden and Denmark.
o ⚓ Let’s_BeReal:_Two_takes_on_social_media_realism⠀⇛
The French social media app, BeReal, took the world by
storm shortly after its 2020 launch. The app’s tagline,
“Your friends for real,” was inspired by Founder Alexis
Barreyat’s mission to solve the problem of influencers’
lives not being as glamorous or accessible as portrayed
online.
o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Important_reminder_for_voters:_Almost_one
million_Finns_receive_a_notification_of_their_right_to_vote_in
general_elections_electronically⠀⇛
Already nearly one million voters will receive a
notification of their right to vote in general elections
electronically this year. The notification comes
electronically to all those entitled to vote who use
Suomi.fi Messages. However, not all recipients of an
electronic notification remember or notice that they
receive the notification electronically.
* § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
o ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ Councils_against_data_discrimination⠀⇛
Data discrimination occurs when individuals or groups are
treated unfairly because of characteristics or traits
identified through the collection and analysis of their
data. This can take many forms, such as denying
individuals access to certain services or opportunities
because of their race, gender, age, or other personal
characteristics.
o ⚓ ACLU ☛ Making_Black_History,_Building_Black_Futures⠀⇛
As we honor leaders in Black history this month, the
battles they lead for civil rights may seem like relics
of a past era. But there is more progress to be made to
achieve systemic equality for Black people, particularly
in the realm of voting rights, economic justice, housing,
and education; as well as ending police brutality and
eradicating racism and discrimination in the criminal
legal system. Those battles continue under the leadership
of Black activists, lawmakers, athletes, actors, and
others — many working side by side with the ACLU — who
are pursuing true equality to this day. This year, we’re
recognizing both.
o ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ 100_Plates_event_celebrates_MLK_Week_with_lunch
and_group_discussion⠀⇛
The MLK commemorative committee celebrated Martin Luther
King Jr.’s mission to achieve a “beloved community” with
a lunch and discussion. “He believed there were three
barriers to achieving a beloved community,” said Shana
Lee, assistant dean of students and director of parents
and families engagement.
* § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
o ⚓ Reason ☛ Review:_‘How_Sex_Changed_the_Internet_and_the_Internet
Changed_Sex’⠀⇛
Samantha Cole’s book is marred by vague animosity toward
tech companies.
o ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ “This_Law_Will_Be_One_of_Scapegoating_All_Those
Who_Do_Not_Fit_Into_What_Our_Bureaucrats_Think_Canada_Should_Be”:
Bill_C-11_is_Back_with_Stunning_Rebuke_From_Senator_David_Adams
Richards⠀⇛
Senator David Adams Richards, an acclaimed Canadian
author who has won Governor-General Awards for both
fiction and non-fiction as well as a Giller Prize,
provided the most memorable Senate speech for the ill-
fated Bill C-10,stating_on_the_Senate_floorin June 2021
that “I don’t think this bill needs amendments; I think,
however, it needs a stake through the heart.”
* § Monopolies⠀➾
o § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Pfizer_is_expecting_its_covid_windfall_to_end_in
2023 [Ed: Stealing public money using patents on products
that do not even work as advertised and not properly tested
either]⠀⇛
Then covid happened, and for the pharmaceutical
companies that came up with vaccines against it, in
particular Pfizer and Moderna, it was a bonanza.
Billions of people globally needed one—no, two;
actually, three; or four!—shots.
# ⚓ Tell_us_your_views_on_the_latest_EPC_and_PCT-EPO_Guidelines
[Ed: EPO keeps violation the EPC with impunity while
pretending to harvest "input" about it (that's about optics,
not substance)]⠀⇛
Users have until 4 April 2023 to provide their
input on the Guidelines published today.
# ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Cancelling_a_Patent_Claim⠀⇛
The pending case ofJump Rope Systems v. Coulter
Venturesis fascinating to me as someone who teaches
both property and civil procedure. The basic
questions: (1) As an inter partes review (IPR)
proceeding draws to a close – toward cancellation –
at what point are the claims no longer enforceable?
(2) What is the effect of cancellation, in
particular, is it like canceling a magazine
subscription where the former subscriber isn’t off
the hook for past-due bills; or, is it like an
annulment – anAbInitioExtinguishment? The case
also (3) raises a straight-up due process challenge
to the IPR system.
o § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ White_House_Pushes_Legislation
Targeting_‘The_Huge_Service_Fees_That_Companies_Like
Ticketmaster_Slap_Onto_Tickets’⠀⇛
In November, the day after Live Nation reported its
“highest quarterly attendance ever,” the White
House pledged to crack down on “processing fees on
concert tickets.”
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Biden_Administration_Lists_Largest
Content_Piracy_Hubs_—_RIAA_Responds⠀⇛
Biden Administration releases the annual list of
the largest content piracy hubs affecting the US —
RIAA responds. The Office of the United States
Trade Representative (USTR) has released its annual
Notorious Markets Report, highlighting the
importance of enforcing copyright in the
continuously worrying trends in online piracy.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ 48656C6C6F2C20776F726C64210A⠀⇛
The clever trick here is to place a string somewhere that
can be executed by a CPU but just before that string
place a call to somewhere else, and in that call the
return address (the next instruction after the call, or
here also a string) is popped and used as the address to
print via write.
o ⚓ RE:_StackSmith:_I_got_a_new_tablet⠀⇛
I currently own a Pine64 RockPro64 and a Quartz64. I
recently bought the 7 inch LCD display with the Playbox
enclosure and Wifi/Bluetooth module. This would enable me
to turn either the RockPro64 or Quartz64 into a tablet.
The current OS options available for RockPro64 are a
stock Android 9 rom, postmarketOS with various UI
options, or I could run Manjaro ARM and install Plasma
Mobile. For the Quartz64, the only OS options currently
available are a development version of an Android 11 ROM
or Manjaro ARM.
It would be really nice if LineageOS supported these
devices but that does not appear to be in their future
plans. I ran LineageOS on my previous tablet, which was a
Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 (Wifi version), but it died abou a
year ago.
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§ 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
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Devices/Embedded
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Tor
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o Programming/Development
* Leftovers
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# Privacy/Surveillance
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# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
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o Censorship/Free_Speech
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o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Patents
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* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
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o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Electra_Reborn⠀⇛
Last night, January 30, 2023, Turner Classical Movies
Channel showed Electra, the tragic play of Euripides from
the 1962 black and white film production by the Greek
filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis. The first time I saw this
unforgettable film-play was at the National Gallery in
Washington, DC, on December 11, 1999.
o ⚓ Shadowproof ☛ Should_The_Left_Embrace_Preparedness_Culture?⠀⇛
A few days after a massive power outage in North Carolina
in early December, Margaret Killjoy shared a thread on
preparedness in response to the outages. Alongside the
usual emergency supplies like extra water, batteries,
medicine, heat sources, and food, Killjoy noted something
not usually included in preparedness toolkits: “organize
against the far right so that they are less capable of
shooting up power stations.”
Killjoy, an author and musician who lives in the
mountains of West Virginia, hosts the anarchist prepping
podcast Live Like The World Is Dying. Since its creation
just before the pandemic began, it has grown into a
valuable and widely-accessed resource for people
wondering how to deal with any number of emergencies in
their communities.
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 8_Things_You_Should_Never_Do_After_Installing
Linux⠀⇛
At some point in your Linux journey, you may have
found yourself scouring the internet for things to
do after installing Linux. While it’s essential to
know what you should do after booting Linux for the
first time, knowing what not to do is more
important to avoid wrecking your newly set up
system.
Let’s look at some common things you should steer
clear of when using your new Linux installation.
These tips are helpful for all Linux users,
irrespective of their expertise.
# ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Quick_10_Question_Linux_Desktop_Quiz⠀⇛
Since February is Linux Desktop Environment Month
here at FOSS Force, we figured what better way to
get the ball rolling than with a fun quiz to test
your knowledge of Linux DEs. It’s down-and-dirty —
kind of like a pop quiz — and because we believe in
privacy, nothing is going on your permanent record.
Have fun, and good luck!
# ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ A_Beginners’_Guide_to_Linux_Desktops⠀⇛
No wonder people find that the process of moving to
Linux is a little daunting. Around every corner
there’s a new choice for you to make, starting with
the decision to give Linux a try.
For a Mac user who want’s to move to Windows, there
aren’t any choices because there’s only one Windows
(you might have to choose between Windows 10 or 11,
but Microsoft pretty much makes that decision for
you, based on the capabilities of your hardware).
For a Windows user who wants to switch to Mac, not
only is there only one MacOS, but it also will only
run on Mac hardware (well, if you’re a real whiz-
kid and have a lot of coding chops, you can
probably get MacOS to run on anything, but this
article is for mere mortals).
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Future_of_Linux_Jobs_in_the_Age_of_Automation⠀⇛
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Linux_Action_News_278⠀⇛
A lot happened in the free desktop world this week,
we cover the impressive releases, changes, and
surprises.
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ Collabora ☛ Exploring_Rust_for_Vulkan_drivers,_part_1⠀⇛
Over the course of the last decade, Rust has
emerged as a new programming language for writing
safe low-level code. This blog post is the first in
a series exploring the area of using Rust to write
Mesa Vulkan drivers.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 9_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Pixel_Art
Editors⠀⇛
Pixel art is sometimes associated with sprites.
They are the images in 2D games that represent the
various objects in a game like your player
character, monsters, items, etc.
Nowadays, pixel art is still popular in games and
as an artform in and of itself, despite realistic
3D graphics. The barrier to entry for pixel art is
less steep than painted or 3D graphics, making it a
welcome option for indie game developers.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ Understanding_The_/etc/mtab_File_in_Linux
System⠀⇛
In this article, we will explore the /etc/mtab file
on a Linux system and understand the various
parameters and directives included therein. What is
/etc/mtab File in Linux The /etc/mtab file is a
file
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ Mastering_the_Netstat_Command_on_Linux⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will discuss your mastering
the netstat command on Linux. Netstat is one of the
most versatile and powerful tools in a Linux
administrator’s arsenal.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Minikube_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Minikube on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
# ⚓ A_.git_directory_template⠀⇛
Git is a powerful tool for managing and tracking
code changes, but it can be difficult to set up and
organize, especially for large and complex
projects. One way to make this process easier is to
use a .git directory template.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Set_up_base_configurations_for_Ansible
automation_controller_using_GitLab_CI⠀⇛
Set up base configurations for Ansible automation
controller using GitLab CI
# ⚓ Docker_Containers_Introduction⠀⇛
Docker is a powerful platform that enables
developers to easily create, deploy, and run
applications in containers. Containers are
lightweight, portable, and self-sufficient units
that allow developers to package their applications
and all of their dependencies together, making it
easy to run them on any system.
# ⚓ Docker:_Listing_and_searching_for_an_image⠀⇛
Docker is a powerful tool that allows developers to
easily create, deploy, and run applications in a
containerized environment. One of the most
important parts of working with Docker is managing
images. In this article, we will take a look at how
to list and search for images in Docker.
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ How_to_Install_VMware_Workstation_Player_on
Fedora⠀⇛
Get the most out of your Fedora’s virtualization
capabilities by installing VMware Workstation
Player. Learn how here!
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Install_Mate_Desktop_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
The Mate desktop is a popular and lightweight
graphical user interface (GUI) for Linux systems.
It provides a traditional and easy-to-use interface
that can run on both high-end and low-end
computers. If you’re looking to install the Mate
desktop on Debian 11, this guide will walk you
through the process step by step.
# ⚓ Docker:_Pulling_an_image⠀⇛
Introduction Docker is a platform that allows
developers to easily create, deploy, and run
applications in containers. A container is a
lightweight, standalone, executable package that
includes everything needed to run a piece of
software, including the code, runtime, system
tools, libraries, and settings.
# ⚓ Listing_docker_image⠀⇛
Docker images are the backbone of containerization.
They are essentially snapshots of a specific
environment, including the operating system,
application, and dependencies. They can be used to
deploy containers on any machine that has Docker
installed, making them a convenient and efficient
way to manage and distribute applications.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ New_Steam_Games_with_Native_Linux_Clients_–
2023-02-01_Edition⠀⇛
Between 2023-01-25 and 2023-02-01 there were 30 New
Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For
reference, during the same time, there were 269
games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux
versions represent about 11.2 % of total…
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Sports_management_/_visual_novel_mash-up
Roller_Drama_is_out_now⠀⇛
I don’t play many visual novels (mostly a whole
zero) but I do love when games sprinkle it in with
other things like the sports management game Roller
Drama. The game is certainly inspired and looks a
lot like Roller Derby but it’s not a simulator of
it, and the actual gameplay is quite different
according to the developer.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Zoom_Platform,_a_store_aimed_at_‘Generation
X’_adds_more_Linux_support⠀⇛
One I’ve been meaning to point out for a while now
is Zoom Platform. A games store that tries
to appeal to “Generation X” with both new and
classic games, DRM-free and they’re continuing to
build up their Linux support.
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Learn_Basic_by_coding_a_game⠀⇛
Writing the same application in multiple languages
is a great way to learn new ways to program. Most
programming languages have certain things in
common, such as:
These concepts are the basis of most programming
languages. Once you understand them, you can start
figuring the rest out.
Programming languages usually share some
similarities. Once you know one programming
language, you can learn the basics of another by
recognizing its differences.
Practicing with a standard program is a good way of
learning a new language. It allows you to focus on
the language, not the program’s logic. I’m doing
that in this article series using a “guess the
number” program, in which the computer picks a
number between one and 100 and asks you to guess
it. The program loops until you guess the number
correctly.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Heroic_Games_Launcher_2.6.0_out_now_adding
auto_updates,_new_theme⠀⇛
Heroic Games Launcher continues advancing letting
you manage your games from GOG, Epic Games and more
on Linux, Steam Deck, macOS and Windows. Easily my
favourite launcher next to Steam. In case you
missed it, be sure to check out my recent interview
with the creator.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Dwarf_Fortress_made_over_$7_million_in
January⠀⇛
Something that’s completely deserved of course. The
Dwarf Fortress developers shared that the game made
over $7,230,000 in January.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ New_Humble_Bundle_celebrates_Black_Creators
and_Characters⠀⇛
To go along with Black History Month, the folks at
Humble Bundle have put up a bundle of games to
celebrate Black Creators and Characters.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KDE_Gear_22.12.2_Released_with
Improvements_to_Dolphin,_Elisa,_and_Spectacle⠀⇛
The KDE Project released today KDE Gear
22.12.2 as the second maintenance update to
the latest KDE Gear 22.12 open-source
software suite for the KDE Plasma desktop
environment and other projects bringing
various minor improvements to some of your
favorite KDE apps.
KDE Gear 22.12.2 is here almost a month after
the first point release, KDE Gear 22.12.1, to
further improve the Dolphin file manager by
forcing type-ahead to no longer
inappropriately enter Selection Mode when one
of the typed characters is a space.
# ⚓ KDE ☛ KDE_Gear_22.12.2⠀⇛
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of
programmer libraries and feature plugins are
released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases
with updated translations, including…
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ New_Slax_Releases_Make_Persistent_Changes_Up_to_10
Times_Faster_with_DynFileFS⠀⇛
Slax 15.0.1 and Slax 11.6.0 are now available based on
Slackware-current and Debian GNU/Linux 11.6 “Bullseye”
respectively. The biggest change in these releases is the
use of the newest DynFileFS FUSE file system for
dynamically-enlarged files to store persistent changes on
the bootable media.
DynFileFS is written by Tomas Matejicek himself, but the
new release received a performance boost, and thanks to
the use of a new file format, promises up to 10 times
faster persistent changes, especially when storing a lot
of data on the persistent disk.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora_now_has_frame_pointers⠀⇛
Fedora now has frame pointers. I don’t want to
dwell on the how of this, it was a somewhat
controversial decision and you can read all about
it here. But I do want to say a bit about the why,
and how it makes performance analysis so much
easier.
Recently we’ve been looking at a performance
problem in qemu. To try to understand this I’ve
been looking at FlameGraphs all day, like this one…
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ 3_improvements_to_the_OpenShift_4.12_developer
experience⠀⇛
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 provides
several enhancements based on customer requests and
usability improvements to theRed_Hat
OpenShiftconsole.
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Fedora_Code_of
Conduct_Report_2022⠀⇛
We publish a summary report ofCode_of_Conduct
activity_each_year. This provides transparency to
the community. It also shows that we takeour_Code
of_Conductseriously. In 2022, warnings and
moderations increased over the previous year, with
a slight reduction in total reports.
[...]
While the number of warnings and moderations in
2022 increased over 2021, we did not issue any
suspensions or bans.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ ECS_LIVA_Q3H_mini_PC_targets_video
conferencing_with_HDMI_output_and_input_ports⠀⇛
ECS LIVA Q3H is a pocket-sized mini PC with a
Jasper Lake mini PC and the company says it is
especially suited to video conferencing
applications thanks to HDMI output and input ports
enabling users to connect it with a guest PC and
easily add it to a meeting.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Mini_PC_features_4x_2.5GbE_ports_and
supports_AES-NI⠀⇛
The VP2420 Vault Pro from Protectli is a fanless
Mini-PC based on the Celeron J6412 Intel processor.
The device includes an 8GB eMMC module, 1x M.2 2280
slot, dual displays, Wi-Fi and LTE support.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Cheap_Kitchen_Scale_Learns_To_Speak_JSON_With
ESP32⠀⇛
Smart kitchen appliances are expensive, and more
often than not, your usage data goes to whichever
company operates the inevitable cloud service.
Meanwhile the cheap ones contain substantially the
same components without the smarts, so surely a
hardware hacker can add a microcontroller to a
cheap appliance for a bit of smart home technology
without the privacy issues? It’s something [Liore]
has done with an Amazon Basics kitchen scale,
removing the electronics and wiring up an ESP32 to
the load cell instead.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ S23_Ultra_vs._Pixel_7_Pro:_Battle_of_the_best
Androids_[Video]⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_only_just_realizing_there’s_an_Android
setting_that_makes_notifications_less_annoying_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ PC Mag ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_S23_Ultra_vs._Google_Pixel_7_Pro:
Which_Android_Flagship_Should_You_Buy?_|_PCMag⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ This_is_how_Android_13′s_custom_lock
screen_shortcuts_will_work⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ What’s_new_in_Android_13_QPR2_Beta_3⠀⇛
# ⚓ India ☛ OnePlus_Forced_To_Pause_Android_13_Update_For_These
Users:_Here’s_Why⠀⇛
# ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ It’s_Time_to_Stop_Using_Three-Button
Navigation_on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google_and_Samsung_team_up_for_Android-
based_Extended_Reality_headsets⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Tor⠀➾
# ⚓ Tor ☛ Arti_1.1.1_is_released:_Groundwork_for_onion
services⠀⇛
Arti is our ongoing project to create an
next-generation Tor client in Rust. In late
November, we released Arti 1.1.0. Now we’re
announcing the next release in its series,
Arti 1.1.1.
Since our last release, our primary focus has
been preparation for onion service support in
Arti. To that end, we’ve broken the work down
into a bunch of tickets, designed our major
internal APIs, and started to work on the
lower-level features. There’s nothing you can
use here yet, but the work is coming!
# ⚓ Tor ☛ 2022_Fundraising_Results:_thank_you!⠀⇛
Every year, the Tor Project asks our
community for financial support during
October, November, and December. We do this
because we’re a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and your
help keeps Tor free for everyone to use. In
the new year, we aim to publish clear and
transparent results of our fundraising—that’s
what this post is all about.
First, everyone in our community deserves a
big THANK YOU for supporting the Tor Project
during the campaign. Together, you raised
$367,674 to power privacy online!
Additionally please help us thank the Friends
of Tor who provided the generous match during
the campaign—Aspiration, Jon Callas, Craig
Newmark, Wendy Seltzer, and several anonymous
supporters.
o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ LibreOffice_7.5_Open-Source_Office_Suite
Officially_Released,_This_Is_What’s_New⠀⇛
The Document Foundation released today the
LibreOffice 7.5 open-source, free, and cross-
platform office suite for all supported platforms,
including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows, to offer
users new features and numerous improvements.
After almost six months of development, the
LibreOffice 7.5 office suite is here to introduce
major improvements to dark mode support, new
application and MIME-type icons that are more
colorful and vibrant than ever, an improved version
of the Single Toolbar UI with context-aware
controls, as well as support for the Start Centre
to filter documents by type.
# ⚓ The_Document_Foundation_announces_LibreOffice_7.5
Community⠀⇛
LibreOffice 7.5 Community, the new major release of
the volunteer-supported free office suite for
desktop productivity, is immediately available from
https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows
(Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple
Silicon and Intel processors), and Linux.
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ LibreOffice_7.5_has_Arrived_and_is_Loaded
with_New_Features_and_Improvements⠀⇛
LibreOffice is the favorite office suite for many
Linux users. With the newest release, version 7.5,
there are plenty of new features and even some
visual refreshing that has gone into the software.
One of the most obvious changes comes by way of a
new icon set that is more colorful and vibrant. As
well, if you use LibreOffice on a touch-based
device, zoom and rotate finally function via multi-
touch gestures. And although you won’t find major
changes to the UI, the subtle changes help to make
LibreOffice more modern and professional feeling.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ LibreOffice_7.5_Unveils_Stunning_New_App_Icons
and_Cool_Features⠀⇛
LibreOffice 7.5 community edition is here with many
feature upgrades and new app icons. The previous
major release version 7.4 bought in better
‘interoperability’ with Microsoft’s proprietary
file formats and further solidified LibreOffice as
one of the best open-source alternatives to
Microsoft Office on Linux.
And now, a new release is here with a lot in store.
Let’s take a look at what this has to offer.
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ LibreOffice_7.5_Released_with_New_Icons,_PDF
Export_Options_+_More⠀⇛
This update arrives on schedule, six months after
the LibreOffice 7.4 release, which was notable
release for doubling-down on the suite’s
compatibility with Microsoft Office files. In
LibreOffice 7.5 devs further that work, deliver a
sizeable set of fixes, and furnish the app with
powerful new features.
LibreOffice 7.5 is the result of 144 contributors
chipping in to do their bit.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Desktop_and_Mobile_Application_Development_Trends_in
2023⠀⇛
With January done and dusted, we wanted to take a
look at the year ahead and discuss some of the
hottest trends of 2023 for desktop and mobile app
development, as whether you’re a seasoned developer
or just about to set up your new app, it’s always
good to stay up-to-date with trends to ensure your
apps are interesting, user-friendly, and keep up
with the competition.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_we_added_support_for_the_C++23_assume_feature
in_GCC⠀⇛
For the past few years, I have been working on
Project Ranger, a new infrastructure in GCC that
determines value ranges of variables inC_and
C++programs. This article discusses how Ranger
supports the newassumefeature of the C++23
standard, which helps programmers optimize
programs.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ A_Translator_in_Tokyo,_or:_A_Language_Love_Story⠀⇛
The history of literary translation, as the critic
Lawrence Venuti once memorably put it, is one of
invisibility. In the struggle between foreignizing and
domesticating a text—between reminding the reader of the
original’s fundamental difference versus creating the
illusion that it was written in the reader’s own
language—domestication has reigned, especially in the
English-speaking world. The best translations in the eyes
of critics and publishers are innocuous and transparent,
never betraying their status as derivative of some
foreign original. And translators have long been
themselves invisible, mentioned in passing by reviewers
for their “elegant” or “faithful” or sometimes “wooden”
or “archaic” rendering, and expected to sign over
ownership of their work to the author and publisher of
the original. Think of the Arabic, French, Spanish,
Russian, Italian, Norwegian, or Japanese books you’ve
read. Do you know who translated your editions of The
Second Sex, My Struggle, or The Tale of Genji?
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Not_A_Pot,_Not_An_Encoder:_Exploring_Synchros_For
Rotational_Sensing⠀⇛
We’re all familiar with getting feedback from a rotating
shaft, for which we usually employ a potentiometer or
encoder. But there’s another device that, while less
well-known, has some advantages that just might make it
worth figuring out how to include it in hobbyist
projects: the synchro.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Let’s_Make_SCPI_More_Helpful⠀⇛
The SCPI (Standards Command for Programmable Instruments)
protocol is exceptionally popular in lab and workspace
tools, letting you configure and fetch data from
oscilloscopes and lab scales alike in a standardized way.
However, when interfacing with a SCPI device, you need to
use a programming guide document if you want to know the
commands for any of the inevitably extended features;
essentially, SCPI isn’t as human-friendly as you might
want. [MisterHW] argues that SCPI could use more
discoverability by proposing a HELP? command.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Want_Better_0402_Reflow?_Consider_These_Footprints!⠀⇛
Assembling with a stencil is just that much more
convenient – it’s a huge timesaver, and your components
no longer need to be individually touched with a
soldering iron for as many times as they have pads. Plus,
it usually goes silky smooth, the process is a joy to
witness, and the PCB looks fantastic afterwards! However,
sometimes components won’t magically snap into place, and
each mis-aligned resistor on a freshly assembled board
means extra time spent reflowing the component manually,
as well as potential for silent failures later on. In an
effort to get the overall failure rate down, you will
find yourself tweaking seemingly insignificant
parameters, and [Worthington Assembly] proposes that you
reconsider your 0402 and 0201 footprints.
o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “All_That_Breathes”:_Oscar-Nominated_Doc_About
Brothers_Saving_Birds_Amid_Delhi’s_Ecological_Collapse⠀⇛
We speak with filmmaker Shaunak Sen about his Oscar-
nominated documentary, “All That Breathes,” which follows
two self-taught brothers who rescue black kite birds
suffering from air pollution in New Delhi. The brothers,
Nadeem and Saud, have saved about 25,000 black kites from
the dirty air in India’s capital over the last 15 years.
“When you live in the city of Delhi, you’re almost always
preoccupied with the air,” says Sen, who explains why he
centered the film on the brothers and purposely stayed
away from obvious environmental and political messages.
“The idea is to open the conversation and not close it,”
he says. “All That Breathes” became the only film ever to
win the best documentary prize at both the Sundance and
Cannes film festivals last year.
o ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Rapunzel’s_rapport_says_it_all:_we’re_all
panto-lovers_at_heart⠀⇛
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Endurance_test:_How_Sri_Lanka’s_batik_artists_keep
the_craft_alive⠀⇛
Keeping a traditional craft alive in modern times often
requires creativity and perseverance. Sri Lanka’s loyal
batik artisans have both.
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ 14_km_of_electrical_cable_stolen_from_CDMX
Metro_in_2022⠀⇛
Metro Director Guillermo Calderón is blaming organized
crime for the theft of 14.5 km of the cable from the
subway’s tracks over last year.
o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Films_My_Father_Loves:_In_spite_of_everything,
‘Life_is_Beautiful’⠀⇛
Through a father-son film about fascist Italy, columnist
Allan Lopez remarks on his own relationship with his
father and life.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Scientists_Want_to_Create_New_‘Quantum
Light’_With_Mind-Bending_Powers⠀⇛
Quantum light would let us peer into atoms like
never before, paving a way to solve longstanding
mysteries in materials physics.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Ron_DeSantis’_Attack_on_African_American
Studies_Is_Part_of_His_Larger_Goal:_To_Destroy_Public
Education⠀⇛
As a Black girl growing up in Philadelphia, I was
fortunate that my late father, a history teacher,
taught my sisters and me (and his students) about
the important role our enslaved ancestors and other
Black people have played in the struggle and
progress that has made America what it is today.
All of the educators I know understand that an
accurate, well-rounded and inclusive education –
one where every student sees themselves and others
– fosters joy in learning and a deep understanding
of the beauty and complexity of our full American
story.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ As_Universities_Submit_to_Neoliberalism_and
Fascism,_Workers_Must_Fight_Back⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ DeSantis_Wants_to_Defund_Florida_Colleges_That
Have_Programs_on_Diversity⠀⇛
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ ChipWhisperer_Adapter_Helps_Reverse-Engineer_A
Controversial_Game_Cartridge⠀⇛
The ChipWhisperer has been a breakthrough in
hobbyist use of power analysis and glitching
attacks on embedded hardware. If you own one, you
surely have seen the IDC and SMA sockets on it –
usable for connecting custom breakouts housing a
chip you’re currently probing. Today,
[MAVProxyUser] brings us a ChipWhisperer adapter
for STM32F446ZEJx, which comes in a UFBGA144
package – and the adapter has quite a backstory to
it.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ AMD_reveal_prices_and_availability_for
Ryzen_7000X3D_CPU_series⠀⇛
AMD has now revealed how much you can expect to be
poorer by when picking up one of the new 7000X3D
CPUs, along with release dates. The details were
announced on Twitter and are:
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungarians_do_not_want_to_eat_insects,
says_Minister_of_Agriculture⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ WHO_Pandemic_Treaty_Draft_Provides_‘Glimmer
of_Hope,’_Say_Health_Justice_Advocates⠀⇛
As a draft of the World Health Organization’s
pandemic treaty circulated Wednesday, human rights
champions praised the text as a welcome departure
from the corporate-friendly intellectual property
regime that has constrained the global supply of
lifesaving medical tools and worsened preventable
suffering throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘End_the_Scam’:_Democrats_Unveil_Bill_to
Change_Name_of_Medicare_Advantage⠀⇛
In an effort to crack down on the misleading
practices of Medicare Advantage providers,
Democratic Reps. Mark Pocan, Ro Khanna, and Jan
Schakowsky reintroduced legislation Tuesday that
would ban private insurers from using the
“Medicare” label in the names of their health
plans.
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Germany’s_Dirty_Push_for_More_Coal
Mining_and_the_Recent_Murder_of_Forest_Defender_Manuel
“Tortuguita”_Teran_–_The_Project_Censored_Show⠀⇛
“You Don’t Miss Your Water Till Your Well Runs Dry”
– by Rising Appalachia
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ US_Spends_Most_on_Health_Care_of_Rich_Countries
But_Has_Worst_Life_Expectancy⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Biden’s_Ending_of_the_Covid_Emergency_Is_a
Public_Health_Disaster⠀⇛
Many of the pieces I have written about the Covid
pandemic over the past three years have been about
what Presidents Trump and Biden didn’t do: the
missed opportunities that cost thousands of lives,
led to millions of unnecessary infections, and left
many with lingering complications in the form of
long Covid.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Occupational_therapist_adds_custom_touch_to
patients’_hand_splints⠀⇛
Augusta Simmons, a board-certified hand therapist,
has been fitting patients with splints for over 25
years, the past six at the Northville Health
Center.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Planting_More_Trees_in_Cities_Would_Save
Thousands_of_Lives,_Scientists_Say⠀⇛
A matter of life and death.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ My_husband_suffered_a_traumatic_brain_injury_after
he_tried_to_do_a_backflip_at_our_wedding⠀⇛
A bride has revealed how her husband suffered a
traumatic brain injury on the night of their
wedding reception.
# ⚓ The Scientist ☛ Why_Some_HPV_Infections_Carry_More_Cervical
Cancer_Risk⠀⇛
Where and how human papillomavirus integrates
itself into the human genome steers the infection’s
clinical outcomes, finds a large, multifaceted
study.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Inside_UnitedHealth’s_Effort_to_Deny_Coverage
for_a_Patient’s_Care⠀⇛
In May 2021, a nurse at UnitedHealthcare called a
colleague to share some welcome news about a
problem the two had been grappling with for weeks.
United provided the health insurance plan for
students at Penn State University. It was a large
and potentially lucrative account: lots of young,
healthy students paying premiums in, not too many
huge medical reimbursements going out.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Lawmakers_Pledge_to_Fight_for_Action_on
Stillbirths⠀⇛
More than 20,000 pregnancies in the U.S. annually
end in stillbirth — the death of an expected child
at 20 weeks or more — an alarming figure that
exceeds infant mortality and is 15 times the number
of babies who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome,
or SIDS, in 2020. As many as 1 in 4 stillbirths may
be preventable, experts say; the figure is even
higher as a baby’s due date draws closer.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Leaders_Across_Africa_Pledge_to_End_AIDS_in
Children_by_2030⠀⇛
Declaring the fight against HIV and AIDS infections
in children “winnable,” public health officials
from across Africa on Wednesday convened in Dar es
Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania to discuss the
steps needed from policymakers and the healthcare
sector to eradicate pediatric cases by 2030.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Flaw_in_Cisco_Industrial_Appliances_Allows
Malicious_Code_to_Persist_Across_Reboots⠀⇛
Cisco this week announced patches for a high-
severity command injection vulnerability allowing
malicious code to persist across reboots.
# ⚓ USCERT ☛ Cisco_Releases_Security_Advisories_for_Multiple
Products⠀⇛
Cisco released security updates for vulnerabilities
affecting multiple products. A remote attacker
could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control
of an affected system.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ UK_Car_Retailer_Arnold_Clark_Hit_by
Ransomware⠀⇛
Arnold Clark, one of Europe’s largest car
companies, was targeted in a cyberattack, with the
Play ransomware group claiming to have stolen
gigabytes of information
# ⚓ Port Swigger ☛ Truffle_Security_relaunches_XSS_Hunter_tool
with_new_features⠀⇛
Popular hacking aid resurrected following end-of-
life announcement
# ⚓ USCERT ☛ Drupal_Releases_Security_Update_to_Address_a
Vulnerability_in_Apigee_Edge⠀⇛
Drupal released a security update to address a
vulnerability affecting the Apigee Edge module for
Drupal 9.x. An attacker could exploit this
vulnerability to bypass access authorization or
disclose sensitive information.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ AccessNow ☛ European_Parliament_takes_important_step
to_protect_privacy_and_freedom_of_expression_in
political_ads_legislation⠀⇛
Access Now welcomes the European Parliament’s
position on the Regulation on political ads,
but calls for stronger protective language.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ CYBER:_Iran’s_AI-Powered
Surveillance_State⠀⇛
In Iran, the state is using AI and facial
recognition technology to enforce draconian
laws.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ ShotSpotter_Employees_Not_Only_Have_The
Power_To_Alter_Gunshot_Reports,_But_Do_It_Nearly_10%_Of
The_Time⠀⇛
What’s being presented by ShotSpotter as good
news for people who feel they’ve been wrongly
accused, doesn’t actually appear to be all
that comforting.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Civil_Society_Organizations_Call_on_the House
Of_Lords_to_Protect Private_Messaging_in_the_Online
Safety_Bill⠀⇛
As we’ve said before, undermining protections
for end-to-end encryption would make UK
businesses and individuals less safe online,
including the very groups that the Online
Safety Bill intends to protect. Criminals,
rogue employees, domestic abusers, and
authoritarian governments are just some of
the bad actors that will eagerly exploit
backdoors like those proposed by the Online
Safety Bill. Proposals like this threaten a
basic human right: our right to have a
private conversation.
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ James_Comer’s_Dick_Pics_Hearing_Just
Became_an_Alleged_Stolen_Laptop_Hearing⠀⇛
By sending letters to virtually all channels
via which the “Hunter Biden” “laptop” was
disseminated, his lawyer Abbe Lowell has
changed the significance of the hearing that
James Comer has scheduled about it next week.
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ DOJ_Charges_James_Gordon_Meek_with
Transporting_Child_Sexual_Assault_Material⠀⇛
An arrest affidavit describes that James
Gordon Meek’s home was searched in April 2022
in conjunction with a CSAM investigation.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moldova_Foreign_Ministry_expresses_alarm_at
Lavrov’s_threatening_insinuations_about_Moldova_as_new_‘anti-
Russia’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
In an interview to Russia Today CEO Dmitry Kiselev,
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that
the West “has got its sights” on Moldova as a
country that might “follow Ukraine’s path” by
turning into an “anti-Russia.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ An_Evidence-Based_Look_at_Mass_Shooters_in
the_US⠀⇛
The US has become a shooting gallery (New York
Times, January 24, 2023). Here is a list of mass
shootings in the US since the 1920s. Mass shootings
involve 3 or 4 deaths and often additional
injuries among survivors. The list is quite
telling, and the list makes the shootout at the OK
Corral look like child’s play and there is
absolutely no intent of any kind of humor involved
here! The US frontier or West is one place where
machismo and guns (“Gun Sellers’ Message to
Americans: Man Up,” New York Times, June 22, 2022)
were turned into national ideals. It is no longer
adequate to list the endless mass gun shootings in
the US and pass them off to an unbridled Second
Amendment frenzy, fascists in the streets, or bald-
face machismo. No other so-called “developed”
nation comes close to the mass shooting deaths in
the streets, buildings, and other places in the US.
We are nonpareil in that respect.
Besides the mass shooting at the University of
Texas, the so-called tower shooting in 1966 in
which 15 people were killed, mass shootings got
limited attention, besides the initial shock, until
the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado.
In that scene of mass murder, bullying was one
reason given for that school massacre. Charles
Whitman, the University of Texas tower gunman, had
a host of issues leading to that massacre,
including domestic violence, a contributing factor
in many mass shootings. Whitman was shot and killed
by two police officers. Many mass shooters place
themselves in situations where the police will kill
them after their heinous acts of mass murder, or
like Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School,
take their own lives. Suicide is a recurring theme
in mass shootings. Like Adam Lanza, decades later
in Newtown, Connecticut, Whitman would kill his
mother, and also his wife, before his shooting
spree at the university. Reportedly, he wanted to
spare his mother and wife the fallout from the
school shooting. Whitman’s history of domestic
violence may have factored into the murder of his
mother and wife before the massacre at the
University of Texas. Schools and other places where
the public gathers such as churches and synagogues,
shopping malls, a music venue, and a movie theater
seem to be the places of choice for lethal gunmen/
shooters. The onslaught of mass murder by those
with many motives has moved with the swiftness of
the Niagara River over Niagara Falls.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Palestinians_Are_Not_Liars:_Confronting_the
Violence_of_Media_Delegitimization⠀⇛
On January 19, during one of its raids in the
Occupied West Bank, the Israeli military arrested a
Palestinian journalist, Abdul Muhsen Shalaldeh,
near the town of Al-Khalil (Hebron). This is just
the latest of a staggering number of violations
against Palestinian journalists, and against
freedom of expression.
A few days earlier, the head of the Palestinian
Journalist Syndicate (PJS), Naser Abu Baker, shared
some tragic numbers during a press conference in
Ramallah. “Fifty-five reporters have been killed,
either by Israeli fire or bombardment since 2000,”
he said. Hundreds more were wounded, arrested or
detained. Although shocking, much of this reality
is censored in mainstream media.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_The_Pathology_of_Ukrainian
Nationalism⠀⇛
What kind of people are these? I asked as I
considered, in my previous commentary, the
bottomless corruption and cynical theft that have
lately bubbled to the surface in Ukraine. What kind
of polity is this? What kind of country is Ukraine?
To advance this line of inquiry […]
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Transneft_spokesman_reports_Ukrainian_‘shelling
attempt’_on_Bryansk_oil_pipeline_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Igor Demin, the spokesman for Transneft, a state-
owned Russian oil pipeline operator, has told TASS
about a Ukrainian “shelling attempt” on a pumping
station in the Bryansk region.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Ukraine’s_Tank_Problem⠀⇛
It seems to be a case of little provision for so
much supposed effect. The debates, the squabbles,
the to-and-fro about supplying Ukraine with tanks
from Western arsenals has served to confirm one
thing: this is an ever-broadening war between the
West against Russia with Ukraine an experimental
proxy convinced it will win through. Efforts to
limit the deepening conflict continue to be seen as
the quailing sentiments of appeasers, the wobbly
types who find democracy a less than lovable thing.
So far, promises have been made to ship the US M1A2
Abrams, Germany’s Leopard 2 and the UK’s
Challenger. Others have alluded to doing the same
thing – including France regarding its Leclerc
tanks – but tardiness fills the ranks, and
logistics will make the provision of such weapons a
long affair. Re-export licenses will have to be
issued, notably regarding the Leopard 2; training
Ukrainian tank crews will also need to be
undertaken.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Can_the_Military-Industrial_Complex_Be
Tamed?⠀⇛
My name is Bill Astore and I’m a card-carrying
member of the military-industrial complex (MIC).
Sure, I hung up my military uniform for the last
time in 2005. Since 2007, I’ve been writing
articles for TomDispatch focused largely on
critiquing that same MIC and America’s permanent
war economy. I’ve written against this country’s
wasteful and unwise wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,
its costly and disastrous weapons systems, and its
undemocratic embrace of warriors and
militarism. Nevertheless, I remain a lieutenant
colonel, if a retired one. I still have my military
ID card, if only to get on bases, and I still tend
to say “we” when I talk about my fellow soldiers,
Marines, sailors, and airmen (and our “guardians,”
too, now that we have a Space Force).
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ New_Pentagon_Rules_Keep_Many_Military_Court
Records_Secret⠀⇛
In 2016, Congress passed a law that was supposed to
make the military justice system more transparent,
instructing the U.S. military’s six branches to
give the public broader access to court records.
Seven years later, the Department of Defense has
finally issued guidelines for how the services
should comply with the law, but they fall far short
of the transparency lawmakers intended.
Caroline Krass, general counsel for the Defense
Department, told officials from the Army, Navy, Air
Force, Marines, Coast Guard and Space Force in a
memorandum last month that they could mostly
continue doing what they have been for years: keep
many court records secret from the public.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ War_Racketeers_Won’t_Reform_Themselves⠀⇛
My name is Bill Astore and I’m a card-carrying
member of the military-industrial complex (MIC).
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Barrett_Strong_Wrote_America’s_Most_Urgent
Anti-War_Song⠀⇛
When Bruce Springsteen updated his set list at the
end of his extended 1985 tour, he added what he
would later refer to as “one of the greatest anti-
war songs ever written.” At a moment when millions
of Americans were afraid that the Reagan
administration’s deadly interventions in Central
America could eventually see US troops sent to the
region, Springsteen would pause toward the close of
his marathon concerts and declare, as he did at the
Los Angeles Coliseum on September 30 of that year:1
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Russian_missile_strike_sends_terrified_civilians
scrambling_to_find_shelter⠀⇛
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ NATO_press_South_Korea_to_provide_arms
to_Ukraine⠀⇛
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg urged South
Korea to provide military support to Ukraine,
saying the country is in urgent need of ammunition,
stresses “The Wall Street Journal”. Mr. Stoltenberg
met with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_initiates_Baltic_appeal_to_bar_Russian
athletes_from_Paris_Olympics⠀⇛
Lithuania’s minister for sports is initiating an
appeal, to be joined by the other Baltic countries,
asking the International Olympic Committee to not
allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to take part
in the 2024 Olympic Games.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ I_Will_Fight_the_Forgetting_of_Homs,
Syria⠀⇛
Homs was the capital of the Syrian revolution. Now
it is a footnote, but not to me.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Philippines_grants_US_access_to_more_military_sites
amid_tensions_over_Taiwan⠀⇛
The 2 sides announced the move at a meeting between
their defense chiefs.
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Accusations_of_Colonialist_Thinking:_Ukrainians
Angered_By_Messages_from_Russian_Opposition_Leader_Navalny⠀⇛
Alexei Navalny has been opposing the war and the
Kremlin from prison. But many Ukrainians distrust
him. They accuse the Russian opposition leader and
other dissident figures of exploiting their
suffering for their own gain.
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ ATM_bombers_in_Germany:_Successes_against_„Audi
gang“⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_Finance_Ministry_says_Kyiv_will_need_$3
billion_per_month_in_foreign_assistance_throughout_2023_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Ukrainian Deputy Finance Minister Olga Zykova said
Thursday that the country will need approximately
$3 billion of international financing per month
throughout 2023, the ministry’s press service
reported.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Modern_weaponry_should_protect_ordinary_Russians’
What_speechwriters_are_planning_for_Vladimir_Putin’s_overdue
Federal_Assembly_address_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian president is required by law to address
parliament at least once a year, but Vladimir Putin
has shirked that rule twice: first in 2017 and
again in 2022. What was supposed to be the 2017
address was eventually delivered in March 2018, but
the president’s 2022 speech still hasn’t happened.
Last month, journalist Farida Rustamova reported
that the president’s speechwriters were still
working on the address, and shortly after, two
Russian state news outlets reported that it will
likely take place in late February. Now, Meduza
special correspondent Andrey Pertsev has learned
from sources close to the Putin administration what
the president is likely to say when he finally
addresses lawmakers.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Atlanta’s_“Cop_City”_Moves_Ahead_After
Police_Kill_1_Protester_&_Charge_19_with_Domestic_Terrorism⠀⇛
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens announced Tuesday that
a proposed $90 million police training facility
known as “Cop City” is moving forward, despite
growing opposition and the police killing of a
forest defender. Just weeks ago, law enforcement
officers — including a SWAT team — were violently
evicting protesters who had occupied a wooded area
outside the center, when they shot and killed a
longtime activist and charged 19 with domestic
terrorism. The activists have been camping out in
Weelaunee Forest for months to prevent its
destruction. Mayor Dickens vowed to address their
concerns, but protesters have vowed that Cop City
will not be built. We speak with investigative
reporter Alleen Brown, who says the “flimsy”
domestic terrorism charges appear to be part of a
strategy to undermine the protest movement rather
than respond to an actual threat to public safety.
“These charges may not be meant to stick. Perhaps
instead it’s meant to send a message,” she says.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ What_the_Charges_Against_the_Cops_Who_Killed
Tyre_Nichols_Really_Mean⠀⇛
The five officers who beat Tyre Nichols to death
have been charged by the state of Tennessee with
murder in the second degree. Perhaps because of the
race of the officers, we have been spared the usual
mewling from the copaganda brigades arguing that
the officers did nothing wrong and shouldn’t be
charged with any crime. But there has been some
debate about whether the cops have been charged
with the right crime. That discussion has been
complicated by the fact that the legal definitions
of various criminal homicides—manslaughter, murder,
and the various degrees of each—don’t always match
up with our colloquial understanding of these
terms. “Murder in the first degree” sounds more
murder-y than “murder in the second degree,” while
“voluntary manslaughter” sounds like a fancy lawyer
trick to help murderers escape accountability.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “No_More”:_At_Tyre_Nichols_Funeral,_VP
Harris,_Rev._Sharpton_Join_Family,_Demand_Police
Accountability⠀⇛
We air excerpts from the funeral of Tyre Nichols,
whose death on January 10 after a brutal police
beating sparked protests across the country. “On
the night of January 7, my brother was robbed of
his life, his passions and his talents — but not
his light,” said Nichols’s sister Keyana Dixon. We
also feature remarks from Reverend Al Sharpton and
Vice President Kamala Harris. “This violent act was
not in pursuit of public safety,” said Harris. “It
was not in the interest of keeping the public safe,
because, one must ask: Was not it in the interest
of keeping the public safe that Tyre Nichols would
be with us today?”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Tyre_Nichols⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Cops!⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ As_Mourners_Gather_for_Tyre_Nichols’s_Funeral,
Calls_Grow_for_Abolition⠀⇛
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Howard_Prof._Justin_Hansford_&_Abolitionist
Andrea_Ritchie_on_Tyre_Nichols_&_Calls_for_No_More_Police⠀⇛
Mourners gathered in Memphis, Tennessee, Wednesday
for the funeral of Tyre Nichols, who died on
January 10, three days after being severely beaten
by five police officers following a traffic stop
near his home. The funeral will be held at
Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church. Expected
attendees include Vice President Kamala Harris and
relatives of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, two
other Black Americans who were killed by police
violence. We discuss national responses to police
violence and calls to abolish the police with two
guests. Justin Hansford is a professor at Howard
University School of Law and the founder and
executive director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil
Rights Center. Hansford is also the first American
nominated and elected to the United Nations
Permanent Forum for People of African Descent.
Andrea Ritchie is a lawyer and organizer who has
worked on policing and criminalization issues for
over 30 years. Ritchie is the author of several
books, including, most recently, “No More Police: A
Case for Abolition,” co-authored with Mariame Kaba.
# ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ Suspicions_of_state_security_set-up_in
Germany’s_far-right_‘coup’⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ At_least_three_killed_by_Russian_missile_strike_on
Kramatorsk_apartment_building_—_Meduza⠀⇛
At least three people died and at least 18 were
injured as a result of a Russian missile attack on
the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on Wednesday
evening, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency
Service. Eight people were reportedly hospitalized.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ FL_GOP_Bills_Would_End_Requirement_for_Unanimous
Juries_on_Death_Penalty⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Talented_and_reliable’:_Ramzan_Kadyrov’s_26-year-
old_nephew_appointed_Chechnya_vice_premier_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Khamzat Kadyrov, Chechnya Governor Ramzan Kadyrov’s
26-year-old nephew, has been appointed deputy prime
minister for private property and real estate in
Chechnya.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kyiv_calls_on_Georgia_to_‘stop_tormenting’
imprisoned_ex-president_Mikheil_Saakashvili_and_return_him_to
Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry has called on the
Republic of Georgia to return the imprisoned
politician Mikheil Saakashvili to Ukraine.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Biden_Administration_Expected_to_Approve_a
“Climate_Disaster_in_Waiting”⠀⇛
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Radioactive_capsule_site_in_WA_cleared
of_contamination⠀⇛
Authorities say no contamination has been
detected at the site where a tiny radioactive
capsule was discovered in outback WA.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Croatia_to_pay_$235_million_in
damages_to_Hungarian_oil_giant_MOL⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Shell_Is_Richer_Because_We’re
Poorer’:_UK_Oil_Giant_Sees_Record_$40_Billion_Profit⠀⇛
The London-based oil giant Shell reported
Thursday that its profits more than doubled
in 2022 to a record $40 billion as households
across Europe struggled to heat their homes,
a crisis that campaigners blamed on the
fossil fuel industry’s price gouging.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ UK_Minister_Steve_Baker_Receives_£10k_from
Chair_of_Tufton_St._Climate_Denial_Group⠀⇛
A minister in Rishi Sunak’s government who
has been a fierce opponent of climate action
received £10,000 from the chair of the UK’s
main climate science denial group last month.
Wycombe MP Steve Baker stepped down as a
trustee of the Global Warming Policy
Foundation (GWPF) in September, when then
Prime Minister Liz Truss made him Minister of
State for Northern Ireland – a post he still
holds under Rishi Sunak, Truss’s replacement.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ China’s_New_100_MPH_Train_Runs_On_Hydrogen
And_Supercaps⠀⇛
Electric cars are very much en vogue right
now, as the world tries to clean up on
emissions and transition to a more
sustainable future. However, these vehicles
require huge batteries as it is. For heavier-
duty applications like trucks and trains,
batteries simply won’t cut the mustard.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ U.S._Permian_Basin_oil_production_—_and
profits_—_have_surged⠀⇛
Production in the oil-and-gas-rich Permian
Basin of West Texas and New Mexico hit
records recently, juicing oil company profits
and easing energy supply worries.
# ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Busting_three_myths_about
materials_and_renewable_energy⠀⇛
This article is from The Spark, MIT
Technology Review’s weekly climate
newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every
Wednesday, sign up here. No piece of media
shaped me more than the mid-2000s TV show
MythBusters. In the show, a band of special-
effects pros tested out myths from TV shows
or popular knowledge, like: Can a…
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ The_overjustification_effect⠀⇛
Richard Bartle recently talked on a “Crypto
Circle” panel in the UK, which to my
disappointment wasn’t about
cryptography.Nobody_heeded_his_warnings,
which sounds about right for those drunk on
blockchain KoolAid, or turpentine, or
whatever they drink.
His comment about play-to-earn games
introduced a new phenomena to me:
[T]he psychological phenomenon
known as the overjustification
effect means that if people are
doing something for an intrinsic
reward and you start giving them
extrinsic rewards for it, they lose
their intrinsic motivation. Imagine
if you were reading a book and were
paid for every page you read: after
a while, you’d be reading pages
because you wanted paying, not
because of the content.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Copy_And_Paste_Lithium_Battery
Protection⠀⇛
Lithium batteries have, nearly single-
handedly, ushered in the era of the electric
car, as well as battery energy storage of
grid power and plenty of other technological
advances not possible with older battery
chemistries. There’s just one major downside:
these lithium cells can be extremely finicky.
If you’re adding one to your own project
you’ll have to be extremely careful to treat
them exactly how they are designed to be
treated using something like this boilerplate
battery protection circuit created by [DIY
GUY Chris].
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Wildfire_Destruction_in_The_Western
US_Has_Doubled_in_Just_10_Years⠀⇛
Our fingerprints are all over this.
# ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Possible_solutions_for_resolving
conflicts_between_wildlife_and_farmers_living_in
conservation_areas⠀⇛
Historically, the question of how conflicts
between wildlife and farmers can be resolved
has never had appropriate answers concerning
conflicts of cohabitation between wildlife
and farmers living in conservation areas.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Massive_Climate_Disaster’:_Groups
Demand_Biden_Reverse_Course_on_Willow_Project⠀⇛
The Biden administration’s Bureau of Land
Management on Wednesday published an
environmental assessment that recommends
partial approval of a major drilling project
on Alaska’s North Slope, prompting a flurry
of calls for the Interior Department to
reject the plan outright and prevent any
additional fossil fuel extraction in the
region.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Advocates_Cheer_Reintroduction_of
Bill_to_‘Restore_Critical_Protections’_to_Alaskan
Arctic⠀⇛
Indigenous, climate, and conservation
advocates on Wednesday welcomed the
reintroduction of congressional legislation
to restore protections and prevent fossil
fuel development in Alaska’s Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Consequences_of_Brexit_Are_Surfacing_as_UK_Faces
Severe_Labor_Shortages⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Battle_Over_Budget_a_Great_Moment_to
Envision_a_Better,_More_Equally_Prosperous_Nation⠀⇛
The State of the Union address and the forthcoming
President’s budget are opportunities for the
President to lay out a vision of the country we
want to be and the policy changes that will help us
get there. We are in a period of divided government
and deep differences along party lines. Large-scale
legislative change this year is unlikely in most
areas. But to plot a course for the future, we must
continue to grapple with the bigger questions about
the nation we want to become.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ National_Conservatives_Can’t_Find_a_Good_Excuse
for_Viktor_Orbán’s_Inflation_Disaster⠀⇛
Hungary’s inflation hits 24.5 percent—the highest
in the European Union—and Orbán’s price controls
aren’t helping.
# ⚓ The Local SE ☛ Income_inequality_in_Sweden_higher_than_at
any_time_in_nearly_50_years⠀⇛
Income inequality in Sweden rose sharply in 2021,
hitting the highest level since records began
nearly 50 years ago, according to a report from the
country’s statistics agency.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Analysis_Warns_‘Deep’_Spending_Cuts_Pushed
by_GOP_Would_Severely_Harm_Key_Programs⠀⇛
After a private meeting with President Joe Biden on
Wednesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reiterated
his support for steep federal spending cuts as part
of any deal to raise the debt ceiling, upholding
his commitment to the far-right Republicans who
threatened to deny him the top leadership post.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ What_to_Expect_in_the_January_Jobs_Report⠀⇛
Most of the data going into the new year suggest
that the economy and the labor market are still
looking very healthy. The big question in the
January report will be whether the labor market has
settled into a place where job and wage growth are
both slow enough to be consistent with the Fed’s 2
percent inflation target. Arguably, we were already
there with the December report, but given how
erratic the month-to-month changes can be, and the
large revisions to prior months’ data, another
month of data will be very useful in establishing
the case.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 750_Temple_University_Graduate_Workers_Walk_Off
the_Job⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Enough_Is_Enough’:_UK_Workers_Launch
Largest_Coordinated_Strike_in_More_Than_a_Decade⠀⇛
With organizers saying it’s entirely within the
power of the United Kingdom’s Conservative
government to ensure public sector employees are
paid fairly, roughly half a million workers walked
out on Wednesday in the country’s largest
coordinated strike in more than a decade.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Warren_Calls_For_‘Landing_the_Plane_Not
Crashing_It’_After_Fed_Hikes_Rate_Despite_Cooling_Inflation⠀⇛
Progressive economists and advocates on Wednesday
blasted the U.S. Federal Reserve for hiking the
federal funds rate an eighth consecutive time
despite fears of a recession and impacts on working
people.
# ⚓ IBM Old Timer ☛ Are_Business_Schools_to_Blame_for_Wage
Stagnation?⠀⇛
Several weeks ago I listened to a very interesting
podcast, Are MBAs to Blame for Wage Stagnation,
with Freakonomics Radio host, Stephen Dubner and
MIT economist Daron Acemoglu.
# ⚓ Breach Media ☛ PM_Trudeau,_there’s_nothing_‘innovative’
about_privatized_health_care⠀⇛
Private clinics have already failed to improve
medical care across Canada, but don’t expect our
politicians or pundits to admit it
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Chelsea_just_spent_$600_million_on_transfers._Is_that
even_allowed?⠀⇛
By all accounts Arsenal was very much in the
running to sign Ukrainian superstar Mykhailo Mudryk
during the January transfer window. As the current
Premier League leader, the 22-year-old forward had
the potential to be a pivotal addition in the title
race.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Encouraging_Economic_Signs⠀⇛
New data suggests a promising possibility for the
economy — that the U.S. avoids big job losses.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ OP:_Finland_to_tip_into_a_mild_recession
in_2023⠀⇛
THE FINNISH ECONOMY will slide into a recession
this year despite the alleviation of concerns about
the energy crisis, predicts OP Financial Group.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Australia_chooses_to_honor_Aboriginal_peoples
instead_of_the_British_monarchy_in_its_new_$5_bill⠀⇛
Australia’s new $5 banknote won’t feature Britain’s
new king.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ CFPB_Praised_for_Proposed_Crackdown_on
‘Exploitative’_Credit_Card_Late_Fees⠀⇛
The Biden administration on Wednesday was widely
praised for unveiling proposed regulatory changes
that could save American families up to $9 billion
a year by cracking down on unfair credit card late
fees from U.S. banks.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Black_Taxpayers_Are_at_Least_3_Times_More_Likely
to_Face_Audits⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Brazen_store_theft_on_the_rise_in_Western
Australia⠀⇛
Fed-up store owners say they are taking matters
into their own hands after a string of recent
robberies.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Activists_Slam_‘Compromise’_Proposal_for
Georgia’s_Cop_City⠀⇛
As Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and DeKalb County
CEO Michael Thurmond announced Tuesday that
construction of the $90 million, 85-acre police and
fire training center known as “Cop City” will
proceed under what Dickens called a “compromise,”
critics of the project had a resounding message:
“Defend the Atlanta Forest. Stop Cop City.”
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ Independent_Media_Need_You_to_Get_the_Word_Out_on
Social_Media⠀⇛
“Liking” a post on social media might not seem like
a high-impact action. But nonprofit media groups
actually depend a great deal on their readers’
online engagement.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Progressives_Condemn_GOP_Effort_to_Oust
Omar_From_House_Panel_as_McCarthy_Plans_‘Shameful’_Vote⠀⇛
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and her
progressive allies are denouncing the Republican
effort to oust her from a key House panel as early
as Thursday.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Watch:_Twitter_Files_&_the_Death_of
Russiagate⠀⇛
Matt Taibbi joins CN Live! to discuss the
implications of his Twitter Files revelations,
including his latest on Hamilton 68 and its fatal
blow to the Russiagate narrative. With Chris Hedges
and John Kiriakou. Watch the replay.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ ‘Freedom’⠀⇛
Can Oppressed People Ever Truly Be Free In
America?
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ CELAC_Summit_Offers_Proposals,_Amid
Divisions_and_Dissent⠀⇛
The 7th Summit Meeting of the Community of Latin
and America States (CELAC) took place in Buenos
Aires, Argentina on January 23. In their
Declaration, representatives of 33 member nations,
including 14 presidents, paid homage to
integration, unity, and “political economic,
social, and cultural diversity among member
states.” They agreed “by consensus” to an all-
embracing set of proposals and statements, 100 in
all, and to 11 “special statements” on the
situations of particular countries.
As is usual, host-country president Alberto
Fernández made arrangements and set the agenda. The
one-day meeting included closed- door discussions
and brief presentations by representatives of the
various country.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Let’s_not_cling_to_dogma’:_Federation_Council
speaker_suggests_freeze_on_state_budget_regulation_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko
encouraged the senators to consider a freeze on
enforcing Russia’s state budget and purchasing
regulations until the end of the “special military
operation” in Ukraine.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Petersburg_police_confiscate_anti-war_posters_the
day_after_exhibit_opens_—_Meduza⠀⇛
On January 31 in St. Petersburg, an exhibit of
Yelena Osipova’s work opened in the offices of a
branch of the Yabloko political party. The exhibit
displayed the 77-year-old artist and activists’s
anti-war posters.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Science_research_and_development_suffer_as_10K
Russian_companies_face_international_sanctions_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The number of Russian companies that came under
international sanctions has doubled in 2022,
reports Kommersant, citing data from Kontur.Prizma,
a Russian analytics company.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ News_avoidance?_We’re_not_seeing_it,_say
Sky_News_bosses_after_bumper_2022⠀⇛
Sky News averaged 9.9 million cross-platform users
per day in 2022, up 13% year-on-year.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ How_Google_has_downgraded_importance_of
news_websites_in_search_results⠀⇛
Data from SEO experts Sistrix reveals big losses
for news domains in organic search in 2022.
# ⚓ Matthew Garrett ☛ Matthew_Garrett:_Blocking_free_API_access
to_Twitter_doesn’t_stop_abuse⠀⇛
Twitter will block free API access. This prevents
anyone who has written interesting bot accounts,
integrations, or tooling from accessing Twitter
without paying for it. A whole number of
fascinating accounts will cease functioning, people
will no longer be able to use tools that interact
with Twitter, and anyone using a free service to do
things like find Twitter mutuals who have moved to
Mastodon or to cross-post between Twitter and other
services will be blocked.There’s a cynical
interpretation to this, which is that despite
firing 75% of the workforce Twitter is still not
profitable and Elon is desperate to not have
Twitter go bust and also not to have to tank even
more of his Tesla stock to achieve that. But let’s
go with the less cynical interpretation, which is
that API access to Twitter is something that
enables bot accounts that make things worse for
everyone. Except, well, why would a hostile bot
account do that?
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Senator_Calls_on_Apple_and_Google_to_Ban
TikTok_in_App_Stores⠀⇛
Michael F. Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, cited
national security, adding to bipartisan pressure on
the Chinese-owned video app.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Spain_and_Morocco_renew_ties_with
migration,_business_deals⠀⇛
The governments of Spain and Morocco have signed
deals on managing migration and boosting Spanish
investment in Morocco. They were among 20
agreements reached at wide-ranging meetings aimed
at turning the page on diplomatic tensions linked
to the disputed Western Sahara. Spanish Prime
Minister Pedro Sánchez applauded what he described
as a trust-building step Thursday.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Trump’s_New_Platform_Goes_Attack_Mode_on
Schools⠀⇛
Welcome to the 2024 GOP primaries. In a video
recently released by Donald Trump outlining his
education policy plan for his presidential
campaign, he appears bathed in darkness and flanked
on either side by sagging American flags. “Our
public schools have been taken over by the radical
left maniacs,” he brays. “Here is my plan to save
American education, restore power to American
parents.” He pledges that when he returns to the
presidency he’ll cut funding for any educational
institution “pushing critical race theory, gender
ideology, or other inappropriate gender, racial, or
political content onto our children.” He goes on to
promise Justice and Education department
prosecutions of “any school district that has
engaged in race-based discrimination,” especially
against Asian Americans, in a frontal attack on the
already endangered practice of affirmative action.
He declares his intentions “to find and remove the
radical zealots and Marxists who have infiltrated
the federal Department of Education.” His vows
include assurances to “keep men out of women’s
sports,” “certify teachers who embrace patriotic
values,” dismantle “the costly divisive and
unnecessary diversity equity and inclusion
bureaucracy,” and establish “a parental bill of
rights.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Disorder_In_the_House:_Frauds,_Dimwits_and
Grenades_‘R_Us⠀⇛
House GOPers just turned their first Oversight
hearing into bad performance art by raving about
Biden’s (really Trump’s) COVID crimes to kick off
their reign of grievance, paranoia and crackpot
misinformation: Antifa = fascists, insurgents =
ethicists, COVID masks = Taliban, Hunter Biden.
They’ll get a good boost from veteran, defense
contractor, teargas peddler and new Florida Rep.
Cory Mills – “Soldier. Conservative. Outsider.”
Fascist – who gave them a dummy grenade to urge,
“Let’s come together and get to work.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Biden_Wielding_DNC_to_Guard_Against
Progressive_Challenge⠀⇛
When the Democratic National Committee convenes its
winter meeting on Thursday in Philadelphia, a key
agenda item will be rubber-stamping Joe Biden’s
manipulation of next year’s presidential primaries.
There’ll be speeches galore, including one by Biden
as a prelude to his expected announcement that
he’ll seek a second term. The gathering will exude
confidence, at least in public. But if Biden were
truly confident that Democratic voters want him to
be the 2024 nominee, he wouldn’t have intervened in
the DNC’s scheduling of early primaries.
New polling underscores why Biden is so eager to
bump New Hampshire from the first-in-the-nation
spot that it has held for more than 100 years. In
the state, “two-thirds of likely Democratic primary
voters don’t want President Joe Biden to seek re-
election,” the UNH Survey Center found. “Biden is
statistically tied with several 2020 rivals,
including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg,
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Vermont
Senator Bernie Sanders, all of whom are more
personally popular than Biden among likely
Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Kevin_McCarthy_Appoints_3_Election_Deniers_to
the_House_Ethics_Committee⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_US_House_Is_Not_Controlled_by_a_Bunch
of_GOP_Crazies⠀⇛
An old political saying notes that the only thing
necessary for the triumph of evil is for good
people to do nothing. However, given the
proliferation of today’s goofball culture wars and
fanatical right-wing phobias, that truism should be
updated to say: Evil swarms when power-hungry
leaders unleash the crazies.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Our_Democracy_Is_More_Fragile_Than_We_Would
Like_to_Think⠀⇛
Americans tuning into the television news on
January 8 eyed a disturbingly recognizable scene.
In an “eerily familiar” moment of “déjà vu,” just
two years and two days after the January 6 Capitol
insurrection in Washington, D.C., a mob of
thousands stormed government buildings in the
capital city of another country—Brazil. In
Brasilia, what New York Times columnist Ross
Douthat ominously labeled “the first major
international imitation of our Capitol riot” seemed
to be taking place.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Debate_Democratic_Party_Should_Have_Had
About_the_Iraq_War_20_Years_Ago⠀⇛
Twenty years ago this month, the U.S. was rushing
headlong into war with Iraq—a war that has proven
to be one of the most fatal and consequential
travesties in modern American history. What follows
is the story of how one congressman and I tried and
failed to get the Democratic Party on record
opposing that war.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Szijjártó:_What_the_US_ambassador_thinks
is_completely_irrelevant⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungarian_state_responsible_for_Syrian
refugee’s_death_–_ECHR_rules⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Be_careful_what_you_wish_for_Ukraine’s_State
Security_Service_raids_multiple_officials’_homes_and
discovers_evidence_of_corruption,_including_hand-written
dreams_of_mink_coats_and_more_—_Meduza⠀⇛
On January 31, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned
about upcoming “staffing changes” in the Ukrainian
government. The following day, Ukraine’s State
Security Service and other law-enforcement agencies
conducted a series of searches targeting prominent
officials and businesspeople suspected of
corruption. Among their discoveries were
“manifesting” wish lists — and loads of embezzled
money.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Federal_Court_Says_Election_Disinformation
Isn’t_Protected_Speech⠀⇛
This is some bad looking precedent here.
Everyone is right to be concerned about
election disinformation, especially if that
disinformation is intended to keep certain
people from voting, but historically, it has
been public officials facing criminal charges
for voter suppression, rather than toxic
Twitter trolls.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Sochi_woman_charged_with_’Nazi_or_extremist
symbolism’_for_posting_‘Glory_to_Ukraine’_in_Korean_on
WhatsApp_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A 38-year-old woman in Sochi has been charged with
displaying “Nazi symbolism or symbols of extremist
organizations,” a misdemeanor under Russian law,
for posting a Korean-language status update on
WhatsApp, according to multiple Russian Telegram
channels. The status reportedly translated to
“Glory to Ukraine.”
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Financial_Times_Sets_Up_Mastodon_Server,
Realizes_Laws_Exist_(Which_It_Was_Already_Subject_To),_Pulls
Down_Mastodon_Server⠀⇛
Here’s a weird one. With the rapid pickup of
Mastodon and other ActivityPub-powered federated
social media, there has been some movement among
those in the media to make better use of the
platform themselves. For example, most recently,
the German news giant Heise announced it was
setting up its own Mastodon server, where it will
serve up its own content, and also offer accounts
to any of the company’s employees, should they
choose to use them. Medium, the publication tool,
has similarly set up its own Mastodon server as
well. At some point, Techdirt is going to do that
as well, though we’ve been waiting while a bunch of
new developments and platforms are being built
before committing to a specific plan.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ CFL_Decides_To_Shut_Down_Cool_YouTube_Channel
Promoting_Its_Product_For_Free⠀⇛
For sports fans in general, one of the great
benefits of social media sites, particularly
Twitter, has been the way highlights are shared
across those platforms, both by individuals and,
more commonly, by the leagues and teams themselves.
Both Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National
Basketball Association (NBA) have been particularly
good at this, filling up timelines with amazing
highlights nearly as they happen. It’s been great
for promoting both products, with MLB’s Advanced
Media division really driving more people to the
sport with this sort of content.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ What’s_Driving_‘Irregular’_Cuban_Emigration
to_the_United_States?⠀⇛
In 2022, an unprecedented number of Cubans arrived
in the United States through irregular, or
‘illegal’ channels. Historically the United States
has encouraged and weaponised Cuban emigration.
Cuban migrants fuel US propaganda about the failure
of socialism and about political persecution and
the lack of freedom and human rights on the island.
However, it is an issue which can spiral out of
control, forcing US administrations into dialogue
with the Cuban government in the past. The current
surge is creating political problems for President
Biden as his opponents exploit the issue for
electoral gain. As a result, in January 2023 the
administration introduced legislation that it hopes
will halt the wave of ‘illegal’ Cuban entrants and
that threatens to undermine the blanket privileges
granted to Cubans in the United States. However,
until the United States alleviates the punishing
blockade that is suffocating the Cuban people,
economic hardship will continue to drive Cuban
emigration. The United States’ policy towards Cuban
migrants is characterised by paradox and
contradictions.
In 2022, over 313,000 Cubans arrived in the United
States, most of them without visas and entering
from Mexico. This is more than double the previous
peak of Cuban migration during the Mariel Boatlift
of 1980. They were admitted after claiming asylum.
However, these are economic migrants. Once settled,
like many of the Cubans who preceded them, most
will return to the island when possible to visit
their families without the slightest fear of
retribution from Cuban authorities.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ UN_Human_Rights_Expert_to_Conduct_First-
Ever_Visit_to_Guantánamo_Bay_Prison⠀⇛
For the first time ever, a United Nations human
rights and counterterrorism expert will visit the
U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a
U.N. office announced Wednesday.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Will_New_Leadership_Make_the_UAW_Labor’s
Vanguard_Once_Again?⠀⇛
The last time the United Automobile Workers had a
truly contested election for union president, the
radical sociologist C. Wright Mills was there to
celebrate a new force in American life. Progressive
ideas and the union-made intellectuals who advanced
them, he observed, were coming “in live contact
with power.” That was in 1947, when Walter Reuther
and his caucus won control of every top office in a
million-member union that Reuther, a former
socialist, proclaimed “the vanguard in America.”
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ Catalan_spycop_with_sexual_relations,_case_reminds
on_Mark_Kennedy⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ For_Mixed-Status_Students,_Immigration_Reform
Is_the_Only_Hope⠀⇛
Since Daymieri Ariciel Narvaez was a child, she
wanted was to help her parents live without fear.
As the daughter of undocumented immigrants, she
dreamed of enrolling in the military so that they
could obtain a green card and no longer be at risk
of deportation. “I was always afraid that I
wouldn’t find my parents when I got home.”1
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Standoff_at_NYC_Hotel:_Asylum_Seekers
Protest_Relocation_&_Demand_Their_Right_to_Shelter_in_City⠀⇛
Since last spring, nearly 42,000 asylum seekers
have arrived in New York City, many sent to the
state on buses against their will. The city says it
has opened 77 emergency shelters and four
Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers,
but asylum seekers say the city has dragged its
feet on providing job permits and permanent and
humane housing. Many are now peacefully protesting
outside a hotel not far from Times Square, where
they were living for weeks until city officials
suddenly evicted them over the weekend to move them
to a remote warehouse facility in Brooklyn that
contains 1,000 cots and lacks heating. Mutual aid
organizers have rallied with the asylum seekers and
vowed to fight the evictions. For more, we’re
joined by Josh Goldfein, a staff attorney for the
Legal Aid Society’s Homeless Rights Project, and
Desiree Joy Frías, a community organizer with South
Bronx Mutual Aid.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Leigh_Goodmark_on_“Imperfect_Victims”_and_the
Need_for_Abolition_Feminism⠀⇛
Leigh Goodmark is a lawyer and advocate for
incarcerated survivors of gender-based violence.
She began her legal career by representing domestic
violence victims and arguing for swift and harsh
intervention. But she says her clients—and the
system itself—showed her how ineffective these
criminal interventions are. Now, she argues the
opposite—that the criminal legal system fails to
decrease or deter gender-based violence and
punishes the victims of that violence. She is the
director of the Gender Violence Clinic at the
University of Maryland’s Carey Law School and is
frequently called upon by the media to
contextualize criminal cases in which survivors of
violence are prosecuted for acts of survival, such
as Tracy McCarter, whose charges were eventually
dropped.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_suspends_applications_for_biometric
passports_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s official government services portal,
Gosuslugi, announced Thursday that the government
has temporarily stopped accepting applications for
biometric foreign passports.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Deference_to_Religion_Has_No_Place_in_Higher
Education⠀⇛
I had never heard of Hamline, a small private
liberal arts university in St. Paul, Minn., until
it burst into the headlines after a fracas over a
picture of the Prophet Muhammad. In brief, Erika
López Prater, an adjunct professor of art history,
showed a celebrated 14th-century Persian miniature
in her online class, having prepared her students
ahead of time. Prater warned them in the syllabus
that pictures of holy personages, including
Muhammad, would be shown. (No one complained, she
says.) She introduced the class by talking about
the history of such images, which some but not all
Muslims regard as blasphemous, and inviting anyone
who didn’t want to see it to turn off their video.
No one did, but after class, Aram Wedatalla, a
business major and head of the Muslim Student
Association, complained to the administration.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Cord_Cutting_Is_Hitting_Comcast_Harder_Than
Ever⠀⇛
For a while there, everybody’s least favorite cable
company, Comcast, was weathering the cord cutting
revolution fairly well. The company’s losses on the
cable TV side could simply be recouped over on its
broadband side, where a monopoly protected it from
having to actually, you know, try.
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ Four_policy_proposals_up_for_community_discussion
at_APNIC_55⠀⇛
Have your say on the policy proposals up for
discussion at the APNIC 55 OPM.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Dynamic_IP_Deals_entity_AuthWallet
financial_transactions_patent_held_invalid⠀⇛
On January 31, 2023, the Patent Trial and
Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written
decision in Unified Patents, LLC v.
Authwallet, LLC holding all challenged claims
of U.S. Patent 9,292,852 unpatentable. Owned
by AuthWallet, LLC, an NPE and subsidiary of
Dynamic IP Deals, the ’852 generally relates
to transaction processing services. It has
been asserted against CitiGroup, Square,
American Express, Starbucks, and Nordstrom.
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ EPO_consultation_on_EPC_and_PCT-
EPO_Guidelines [Ed: As expected, this blog relays EPO
propaganda for criminals who hijacked the EPO and try
to maintain the illusion that they follow the rules]⠀⇛
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ DoNotPay_Promotes_Itself_As_Helping_You
Get_Out_Of_Subscriptions,_But_Keeps_Charging_Customers
After_Telling_Them_Their_Own_Accounts_Are_Closed⠀⇛
We’ve been writing a bunch lately about
DoNotPay, the massively hyped up “AI lawyer”
run by Stanford dropout* Joshua Browder.
Again, the company has received a ton of
publicity regarding its “robot lawyer,” often
from some of the publicity stunts that
Browder pulls. Again, I think the underlying
concept of using technology to help people
solve problems is a good one. And that can
include helping them to get better access to
useful information that was, historically,
kept behind expensive legal gates.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ CC’s_#BetterSharing_Collection_|
February:_Sharing_Brightens_The_Future⠀⇛
Each month throughout 2023, we will be
spotlighting a different CC-licensed
illustration from the collection on our
social media headers and the CC blog. For
February, we’re excited to showcase “Sharing
Brightens The Future” by Bulgarian
illustrator and graphic designer, Teo
Georgiev. The piece, licensed under CC BY-SA
4.0, was inspired by a quote from Biyanto
Rebin, an open knowledge advocate and
Indonesian Wikipedian:
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Volunteer_to_Help_Shape_CC’s
Global_Summit_in_Mexico_City⠀⇛
You’ve heard the exciting news that the 2023
CC Global Summit will be in Mexico City? Now
you have the opportunity to volunteer to join
the committees that will help shape the
program and evaluate applications for
participant scholarships.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Top_Russian_Official_Thanks_Pirates
For_Enabling_Access_to_‘Enemy’_Content⠀⇛
Former Russian President Dimitry Medvedev
used Telegram yesterday to thank pirates who
developed programs to enable access to
“expensive intellectual products” owned by
Russia’s enemies. In future, everything from
movies to industrial software will be
pirated, Medvedev said.. All that remains is
the adoption of the rules.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ U.S._Identifies_Top_Pirate_Sites_and
Other_‘Notorious_Markets’⠀⇛
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
has published its annual list of the largest
piracy websites and other “notorious
markets.” This year’s overview includes usual
suspects The Pirate Bay, FMovies, and
Rapidgator, but several IPTV services and
even hosting companies are mentioned as well.
The USTR hopes that by highlighting the
threats, platform operators or foreign
authorities will take action.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ That’s_A_Wrap_On_The_Public_Domain_Game
Jam!_Check_Out_All_The_Great_Entries⠀⇛
At the beginning of the year, we kicked off
the latest edition of our annual public
domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1927! Last
night, the jam came to a close, with a few
submissions sneaking in right before the
deadline and bringing us to a total of 20
entries this year. We’ve only just begun
digging into the many games that were
submitted, but we can already tell it’s a
great lineup. There are entries from plenty
of new designers as well as returning winners
who created incredible games in past years,
and games drawing on all kinds of newly
public domain works ranging from big names
like the film Metropolis to truly obscure
deep cuts, like a 1927 article on homing
pigeons from an ornithology magazine. You can
(and should!) check out all the submissions
over on Itch.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ kessoku_band⠀⇛
Yeah I watched another anime and now I’m here tk
rate the album of the anime band.
I would be talking about bocchi the anime except I
feel like I still haven’t know the anime well
enough to talk about it in the way I wanted to.
# ⚓ Get_Busy_Writing_Your_Thesis_or_Get_Busy_Dying⠀⇛
I’ve been chugging away at my thesis, sort of, in
the sense that I feel like I’ve been treading water
the entire time and have done absolutely nothing.
In spite of this, my advisor thinks we’re making
great progress! We’re almost done, he says. I
struggle to believe this, but he’s driving this
bus, so I guess he’s right?
My brain has difficulty with viewing tasks in terms
of smaller chunks, I think, and as a result it
seems to think about things in binary. I have not
completely finished this task, so it is not done.
Progress is an illusion. Oddly enough, this sort of
thing doesn’t lead to increased procrastination on
my part (I do procrastinate sometimes, but not for
this reason). I actually wonder if my workflow
contributes to my inability to recognize when I’ve
accomplished something.
# ⚓ Wise_debit_card_and_corporate_green_washing⠀⇛
I am not totally against this product. Physical
cards are still needed by many consumers and
perhaps some of these changes help but seriously
Wise just make this your one physical card
offering, and give up on your non-”green” (but
actually green in colour) card.
As a side note, I do sort of like the no PAN
printed on the card idea. Not for the green aspect
but from an improved security perspective. Why are
we still printing credit card numbers on all our
cards? If you need the numbers you can get them
from your bank’s website or app, store them in your
browser and/or your password manager, or even write
them down on a note you keep in a safe place at
home. Or if you use Google or Apple Pay, your
mobile device has the number as well.
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_UCINOSB_Wordo:_STOUP⠀⇛
# ⚓ Running_the_first_session⠀⇛
This is yet another page for Knives. I really want
to structure the game into a handful of pages for
players, ideally less than ten, plus a lot of how
to run a game for referees. I guess I was motivated
by my writing in German about how to run Dungeons
(2022-12-26 Das Megadungeon Pamphlet). That’s why I
posted a bunch of “advice” pages.
# ⚓ fantasynamegenerators⠀⇛
I am a huge fan of fantasynamegenerators.com. I use
it for so many different things. It’s obviously
helpful with worldbuilding and fantasy/sci-fi
writing, but I also use it for fake business names
to practice logo design with, or for coming up with
interesting sci-fi items to 3d model.
Anyways, that’s not the point of the post. The
point is that I was just looking through their list
of generators and was so pleased to see that they
have a “clown names” generator and a “clown names
(evil)” generator. I just think that’s great.
o § Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ When_the_EU_wanted_to_own_all_computers⠀⇛
Just found out that the EU commission proposal I
wrote about last May is still underway.
Their desire to monitor 100% of all communication
is understandable, it’s for a good cause, but the
only way to do that technically is if the are the
admin user on every single computer (because
otherwise people can still chat over Omemo, PGP,
Matrix, or SSH+talk).
So no more passwords, SSL certs, bank login, no
more free operating systems, no more Jitsi or SSH
or HTTPS. This law literally breaks all computing
and the entire Internet. Which, if that’s what they
really intend to do, they should just say so
explicitly. The EU anti–all-computers-ever law. I
can kind of see the appeal but I doubt business &
politicians would, if they really understood that
that was the ramifications.
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ hey_look_i’m_famous⠀⇛
Hey look, somebody much smarter than I am wrote a
detailed blog post about a random toot I wrote in
thirty seconds with no though…
# ⚓ When_they_didn’t_just_leave_it_in_the_ground_out_of_the
goodness_of_their_own_hearts⠀⇛
Today I encountered a new argument: that since
people living in that paradigm are seeing the
everyday result of direct self-rule they learn to
take responsibility for the outcomes of one’s
decisions, and because of this inherent tendency,
we don’t need a plan beyond liberation.
[...]
It’s not enough, though. I’m worried that there
might still be malicious actors, and that the
potential for resource gain is a strong motivator
for exploiting externalities (such as drilling &
burning fossils), that these two issues are
stronger than the inherent tendency towards
responsibility can handle.
It’s been my own lived experience with ancom and
alternative structures time and time again that
someone outside wrecks it or finds a way to exploit
it. Facebook and Apple cannibalizing free software
into path dependency services is a well-known
example.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ activity_pub⠀⇛
I’m wanting to run my own activity pub
server.
but I really don’t want to run mastodon, or
pleroma, or whatever.
so I’m writing my own bullshit.
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