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⦿ Dotcom Boom and Bust, Round 2 | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 02, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 03, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Society Would Benefit From a Smartphoneshame Movement | Techrights
⦿ Getting Back to Productive Computer Systems Would Benefit Public Health and Not Just Boost Productivity | Techrights
⦿ 2023 is the Year Taxpayers’ Money Goes to War and Energy Subsidies, Not Tech | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/02/04/dotcom-call-for-arms/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/04/irc-log-020223/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/04/irc-log-030223/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/04/smartphoneshame/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/04/smartphoneshame-for-public-health/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/04/tech-subsidies-and-bailout/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/02/04/ken-thompson-in-socal-linux-expo/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/04/this-week-in-kde/#comments
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✐ Dotcom_Boom_and_Bust,_Round_2⠀✐
Posted in Apple, Finance, Google, Microsoft at 6:21 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇“Absolute_power_does_not_corrupt_absolutely,_absolute_power
attracts_the_corruptible.”―_Frank_Herbert⦈_
Summary: The age of technology giants/monopolies devouring everything or
military-funded (i.e. taxpayers-subsidised) surveillance/censorship tentacles,
in effect privatised eyes of the state, may be ending; the United States can
barely sustain that anymore and raising the debt ceiling won’t solve that
(buying time isn’t the solution)
THE past week was spent recovering from a severe hardware failure, but as soon
as Monday we were able to post Daily Links as before (or even more often than
before).
The end of January was still dominated by bad news (lots about war), spiced up
with layoffs. Before this weekend the corporate media tried to disguise or
distract from all this by talking about a job report (which counts the wrong
things, as usual).
“The end of January was still dominated by bad news (lots about war), spiced up
with layoffs.”The clown computing and ‘free’ hosting bubble has begun to truly
burst. Many companies admit that they operate at a loss and see no turnaround
or a turning point. The longer they operate, the more money they lose. The
layoffs are actually a lot bigger than companies announce to (and via) the
press. In the US they dodge the WARN Act by implementing many layoffs —
additional ones — at a smaller scale (ripples and waves). They barely say which
divisions are affected because it lets them get away with laying off far more
people than they told shareholders (or the media) about. It’s hard to keep
track, unless you’re an HR whistleblower of theirs. They don’t even count temps
and contractors, who are nonchalantly let go (there are a few press reports
about this in relation to YouTube/Google). Almost nobody in the media talks
about Apple layoffs; they impact the ‘stores’ (sales have fallen).
“Don’t expect media to be inquisitive enough to talk about the full extent of
the impact…”It seems safe to predict that 2023 will be another gloomy year for
the monopolistic “tech” sector, which is focused/centered around price-fixing,
surveillance, and imperialistic censorship (done for political gain, funded or
subsidised by “defence” contracts). The years 2000 and 2008 are memorable, but
based on early predictions cited in the media we might be heading towards
another such crisis (on par with those). Don’t expect media to be inquisitive
enough to talk about the full extent of the impact; instead it’ll praise Biden
for something about “jobs” (mostly_low-wage_jobs). █
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Posted in Hardware at 6:11 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Licence: GFDL 1.2. Air Sweden Airbus A320 Pesonen. Created: 18 November 2010.
Summary: In a society plagued by blackmail, surveillance and frivolous lawsuits
it is important to reconsider the notion of “smart” phone ownership; these
devices give potentially authoritarian companies and governments far too much
power over people (in_the_EU_they_want_to_introduce_new_legislation_that_would,
in_effect,_ban_Free_software_if_it_enables_true_privacy)
The other day in Daily Links we included a link to this_article_from_The_New
York_Times (paywall). Despite the use of seemingly offensive analogies (e.g.
“teen-luddite” in the URL), the article does raise legitimate concerns. “Logan
Lane gave up her smartphone,” the summary states. “That changed her life.”
“The harms of “modern” “smart” phones are so many that it’s hard to enumerate
them in full…”“Health matters,” noted an associate.
we’ve meanwhile also included about half a dozen press report, including one
from_The_New_York_Times, about “apps” that sell medical data about people “to
Facebook and Google” (and thus a lot more down the chain of “data brokers”/
advertisers).
Back in September I_recorded_a_long_video_about_why_so-called_"smart"_phones
aren't_any_good. Only 2 days ago we got two new landlines (cordless, digital,
intercom and speaker mode included) and they satisfy what constitutes an actual
phone rather than a spying device.
“A lot of the time face-to-face service (telephone, counter, bar) is also
vastly better than anything an “app” was designed to do.”The harms of “modern”
“smart” phones are so many that it’s hard to enumerate them in full and society
may need a ‘flightshame’-like movement, which might start with young people, if
only we can compel them to reject pseudo-novelty like “apps”, whose
functionality is easily exceeded by proper applications that run on laptops
with mice and keyboards. A lot of the time face-to-face service (telephone,
counter, bar) is also vastly better than anything an “app” was designed to do.
As readers of this site may recall, the introduction of so-called “smart”
phones at Sirius_‘Open_Source’ led to escalations. It wasn’t the last straw
(there had been far worse scandals and disputes), but it did contribute to the
witch-hunt. At the moment we’re discussing even worse scandals with other
victims of Sirius; there might even be a class action. █
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Not_Just_Boost_Productivity⠀✐
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Changing a Culture of App Mindset
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http://techrights.org/videos/smartphoneshame.webm
Summary: “Smartphoneshame” (shaming an unhealthy culture of obsession with
“apps”) would potentially bring about a better, more sociable society with
fewer mental health crises and higher productivity levels
THE habit of being ‘glued’ to one’s so-called ‘smartphone’ all day long
(sometimes all night long, too) is a very unhealthy habit. There has been
extensive research in recent years, typically reaching those very same
conclusions, focusing on physical health, mental health, or both.
“Hopefully some of the younger people, who haven’t yet grown up with these
gadgets, will find an enriching experience outside the “app-sphere” and pursue
a fulfilling life without this always-on, always-connected, always-in-your-
pocket tracking device.”The video above focuses on what was said_this_morning
about_"Smartphoneshame".
To maybe ‘coin’ a phrase or a word, “Smartphoneshame” (or “Smartphone shame”)
is the habit of discouraging people acquiring or overusing a so-called ‘smart’
phone, usually to the detriment of real social life — an aspect of life that
gives safety nets and may provide moral support, not just “likes” as a form of
digitally “measurable” encouragement.
Hopefully some of the younger people, who haven’t yet grown up with these
gadgets, will find an enriching experience outside the “app-sphere” and pursue
a fulfilling life without this always-on, always-connected, always-in-your-
pocket tracking device. It has very little practical value.
In the video I show my PDA, which still works well and is in relatively good
condition. I’ve used PDAs since 2001 and even though I found them addictive (at
times) they were never connected and they weren’t in control of the user. It
was the other way around. With advanced calendaring functionality they helped
simplify and otherwise-hectic life of multi-tasking and juggling between
employment and education. █
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Capital Running Out for Spy Monopolies
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http://techrights.org/videos/graft-era.webm
Summary: Now that a lot of powerful and omnipresent ‘tech’ (spying and
policing) companies are rotting away we have golden opportunities to bring
about positive change and maybe even recruit technical people for good causes
THE ‘tech bubble’ is imploding_again. Infinite growth was all along a delusion
— a very dangerous one at that.
People have grown tired of monopolies; politicians are increasingly responsive
to this unrest and some take action through regulatory agencies (the latest
rumour is that Amazon will be picked on very soon).
“Ideally, if people participate in the pursuit for a solution, data will be
controlled by individual people and computers will be governed by Free (as in
freedom) software on devices with open schematics.”Money from the government
helped float these surveillance and censorship giants, but amid conflicts and
an actual, fast-escalating war, can this graft budget be justified?
Many companies, including Microsoft, are laying off a lot of technical workers.
They’re viewed as fiscal yokes with no prospects of becoming valuable — only
useless — in the coming years.
So what does this mean to the rest of us, who suffer a sort of fatigue? Will
companies which control many of the world’s devices — and increasingly the
world’s data too — actually implode? And if so, what will replace them?
Ideally, if people participate in the pursuit for a solution, data will be
controlled by individuals — i.e. actual people — and computers will be governed
by Free (as in freedom) software on devices with open schematics. █
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# ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ Why_QtFM_Could_Become_My_Favorite_Linux_File
Manager⠀⇛
The Qt file manager called QtFM has great features,
such as storing custom commands so you don’t need
to open a Linux terminal window to run them. The
only drawback is getting it installed. Let’s look
at what makes this file browser special and how you
can (maybe) try it out.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 10_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Zsh
Configuration_Frameworks⠀⇛
Zsh has many strengths such as interactive tab
completion, regex integration, automated file
searching, advanced shorthand for defining command
scope, and a very rich theme engine.
We highly recommend installing a framework with Zsh
as it makes dealing with configuration, plugins and
themes a lot more straightforward. Frameworks are
essentially collections of plugins and themes,
which you can enable very easily, without needing
to manually configure and make everything work
together.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ Linux_md5sum_Command_Tutorial_for_Beginners_
(5_Examples)⠀⇛
While we have already discussed the cksum command
line utility, there’s another tool that you can use
in scenarios where, say, you need to verify the
integrity of files during transfers. The tool we’re
talking about here is md5sum. In this tutorial, we
will discuss the basics of this command using some
easy to understand examples.
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_Install_Sourcetree_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or
20.04_Linux⠀⇛
Wine is the solution that we can use to install the
SourceTree software on Linux systems including
Ubuntu. Here is the tutorial to learn the steps we
need to follow to get this free Git Client
software.
# ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ How_To_Install_OnlyOffice_Desktop_Editors_7.3
on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
This tutorial will help you to add version 7.3 of
OnlyOffice Desktop Editor to your Ubuntu computer.
You can do it easily using Ubuntu Software or
alternatively Terminal. Happy writing!
# ⚓ Upgrading_system_Off-line_with_ISO_and_Yum⠀⇛
Upgrading a system can be a daunting task,
especially if it is an off-line system. An off-line
system is one that is not connected to the internet
and cannot access online resources. The good news
is that you can still upgrade your system even when
it is not connected to the internet.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Converting_MKV_to_MP4_on_Ubuntu:_A_Step-by-Step
Guide⠀⇛
Learn how to convert MKV to MP4 on Ubuntu using
Handbrake in this step-by-step guide. Convert high-
quality MKV videos to widely supported MP4 format
for use on various devices.
# ⚓ Configuring_Yum⠀⇛
Introduction Yum (Yellowdog Updater, Modified) is a
package manager for Red Hat based Linux
distributions, including Fedora and CentOS. It
helps in managing and updating the software
packages on the system, including their
dependencies and conflicts. In this article, we
will learn how to configure Yum to manage packages
on your Linux system.
# ⚓ Net2 ☛ How_to_Install_Microsoft_Office_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Are you tired of having to use different software
just because you prefer using Ubuntu instead of
Windows? Look no further, ’cause you can now have
the best of both worlds!
# ⚓ Yum_Commands_and_Options⠀⇛
Introduction Yum is a package manager used in Red
Hat-based systems like Fedora, CentOS, and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. With Yum, users can easily
install, update, and remove packages from the
terminal. In this article, we’ll explore the basic
Yum commands and their options, with examples to
help you get started.
# ⚓ Setting_up_a_YUM_Repository⠀⇛
Introduction YUM (Yellowdog Updater, Modified) is a
popular open-source package management system used
to install, update, and remove packages in Linux
distributions such as Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (RHEL), and CentOS. YUM makes it easier to
manage packages by resolving dependencies,
downloading packages from a central repository, and
installing them.
# ⚓ C.J._Adams-Collier:_IPv6_with_CenturyLink_Fiber⠀⇛
In case you want to know how to configure IPv6
using CenturyLink’s 6rd tunneling service.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ tail_Command_in_Linux_with_Examples⠀⇛
The tail command in Linux is a powerful tool used
for displaying the end of a file. By default, it
displays the last 10 lines of a file, but this can
be modified by specifying a different number of
lines to display.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ What_is_a_Orphan_Process_in_Unix/Linux⠀⇛
An Orphan Process is a process that has lost its
parent process, which normally takes care of
cleaning up the process’s resources. In Unix/Linux,
when a parent process terminates, its child
processes become Orphan processes and are adopted
by the init process, which becomes the new parent.
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Install_Minikube_on_Ubuntu_Linux_for_Easy
Kubernetes_Development⠀⇛
Not only is deploying pods and services to a
cluster a
o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Proton_7.0-6_out_now_fixing_EA_App,_Ubisoft
Connect_and_games_on_Steam_Deck_/_Linux⠀⇛
More weekend goodies from Valve have arrived!
Proton 7.0-6 is officially out now, fixing up many
bugs like with the EA App and Ubisoft Connect.
Pulling over a bunch of changes from Proton
Experimental, this is a smaller release mainly
aimed at fixing up issues across a bunch of games
that appeared over the last few months.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Use_Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_on_Oracle_Cloud_Infrastructure⠀⇛
VirtualBox 7 enables organizations, for the first
time, to centrally manage their development and
production VMs running on-premises and on OCI
instances using any OS that supports VirtualBox,
such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS.
# ⚓ SJVN ☛ Rocky_Linux_offers_code_security_patches_and_info_in
real-time._|_Open_Source_Watch⠀⇛
Last year, with the Rocky Enterprise Software
Foundation (RESF)’s release of Rocky Linux 9,
CentOS and Rocky Linux co-founder Gregory Kurtzer
also released a completely cloud-native Linux
distribution build stack called Peridot. Then,
Kurtzer said, “anyone can create, build, enhance,
and manage Rocky Linux, or other distros for that
matter. Now, CIQ engineers have also released the
Rocky Linux 9 errata subsystem as an open-source
project, which is fully integrated with Peridot.
What that means is you can now build and enhance
your own take on Rocky Linux, the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone with full access to
the latest bug fixes, security patches, and feature
enhancements. RESF will continue to maintain the
project, providing users with more granular control
over their systems.
# ⚓ SJVN ☛ You_can_now_get_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_on_the
Oracle_Cloud_|_Open_Source_Watch⠀⇛
Over the years, Red Hat and Oracle have gotten
along like cats and dogs. The main reason for this
was that in 2006, Oracle released its own version
of Linux, Unbreakable Linux, which was little more
than a copy and paste of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(RHEL) with Red Hat’s name and Red Hat’s trademarks
globally replaced with Oracle’s name and trademark.
That went over like a lead brick in Red Hat
circles. Now, RHEL is available on Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure (OCI).
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ peppe8o ☛ Managing_the_Raspberry_PI_Undervoltage_Detected
Warning⠀⇛
Similarly to all electronic computers, the
Raspberry PI computer boards need a stable power
supply in order to work correctly.
# ⚓ Adafruit ☛ See_N_Say_Brain_Transplant⠀⇛
This project replaces the brains of a classic
talking toy with a modern, CircuitPython-powered
KB2040 microcontroller, with a collection of
typical urban sounds and custom illustrations.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Scratch_Your_Itch_To_Program_A_Microcontroller⠀⇛
One of the fun things about “old school” computers
is that it was fairly easy to get kids into
programming them. The old Basic interpreters were
pretty forgiving, and you could do some clever
things easily with very little theory or setup.
These days, you are more likely to sneak kids into
programming via Scratch — a system for setting up
programs via blocks in a GUI. Again, you can get
simple results simply. With Scratch or Basic,
complex things have a way of turning out complex,
but that’s to be expected. If you want to try a
Scratch-inspired take on microcontroller
programming, check out MicroBlocks. It will work
with several common boards, including the micro:bit
and the Raspberry Pi Pico. You can use it in a
browser or download versions for Linux, Windows,
Mac, or even Chromebooks.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ SJVN ☛ The_Open_Source_Initiative_improves_its_licensing_rules_|
Open_Source_Watch⠀⇛
Back on February 3rd, 1998, shortly after the Netscape
web browser source code –Firefox’s ancestor–was released,
a group of developers came together to label and define a
pragmatic, business approach to sharing software code. Of
course, there was already “free software,” but that term,
then and now, came loaded with a particular business/
political take that not everyone cares for. So, it was
that at the meeting Christine Peterson came up with the
term “open source.” The group that would shepherd this
idea going forward is the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
o ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ Open_Source_Initiative_joins_the_Digital_Public_Goods
Alliance⠀⇛
OSI to contribute to Digital Public Goods Alliance’s
mission to address world’s most pressing economic
challenges by furthering adoption of Open Source
software.
o ⚓ Jonathan Dowland ☛ Jonathan_Dowland:_FreedomBox⠀⇛
Moxie Marlinspike, former CEO of Signal, wrote a
veryinteresting
blog_post_about_“web3″, the crypto-scam1. It’s worth a
read if you are interested in that stuff.
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ SoCal Linux Expo ☛ SCALE_20x:_Keynote:_Ken_Thompson⠀⇛
Pasadena, CA. March 9-12, 2023
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Chromium⠀➾
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Chromium_bumped,_more_pkgs_compiled_in
OE⠀⇛
The upcoming Kirkstone-series had chromium
106.0.5249.119, have
compiled a later version in OE, and some more
packages:
chromium-x11-109.0.5414.74
fbgrab-1.5
gmime-3.2.7
gtkperf-0.40
leptonica-1.82.0
libforms-1.2.3
libyui-4.1.1
pointercal-0.0
stalonetray-0.8.3
tesseract-4.1.3
tesseract-lang-4.1.0
tslib-1.22
xbindkeys-1.8.7
xf86-input-tslib-2_1.1.1
There was interest expressed in tesseract OCR
package on the
forum, so compiled that. No GUI though. One
of the best-looking
GUIs for tesseract seems to be gimagereader,
but it has lots of
dependencies. I could compile it if there is
sufficient
interest.
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Alex_Vincent:_Introducing_Motherhen:_Gecko-based
applications_from_scratch⠀⇛
Mozilla‘s more than justFirefox.
There’sThunderbirdfor e-mail,BlueGriffonfor
creating web pages, and ye oldeSeaMonkey
Application_Suite. Once upon a time, there
was the ability to create custom front-ends
on top of Firefox using the-appoption. (It’s
still there but not really supported.)
Mozilla’s source code provides a rich
ecosystem to build atop of.
# ⚓ David_Teller:_About_Safety,_Security_and_yes,_C++_and
Rust⠀⇛
Recent publications byConsumer_Reportsand
theNSAhave launched countless conversations
in development circles aboutsafetyand its
benefits.
In these conversations, I’ve seen many
misunderstandings about what safety means in
programming and how programming languages can
implement, help or hinder safety. Let’s
clarify a few things.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Debugging_with_Git_Bisect⠀⇛
Git is a powerful version control system that helps
developers manage and track changes in their
codebase.
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Probot:_building_a_Mastodon_bot⠀⇛
I have long admired albums2hear, a Twitter bot that
posts albums. You can read a bit more about it
here. There was no mastodon equivalent and so I
decided to build one. You can follow the bot –
currently called Albums Albums Albums (or AlbumsX3)
– here.
# ⚓ Computing UK ☛ ‘Sheer_greed’:_Industry_reacts_to_Oracle’s
new_Java_pricing⠀⇛
‘Vendors have worked out a model where they can get
more money out of you’
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Tim_Bielawa:_Querying_block_device_sizes_in_Python_on
Linux_and_Mac_OS_X⠀⇛
I drafted this blog post in 2016 (at least),
but held off publishing it until I could have
it fact checked. Well, 6 years have passed… I
am 99% sure the information in this blog post
is correct. But if you find an error with my
explanation of the userspace-kernel-device
dataflow then please send me an email so I
can understand it better and update this
post.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ ‘Full_Time’:_Propulsive_film_turns_working_and
parenting_into_a_thriller⠀⇛
Perseverance is something working parents demonstrate
daily. “Full Time,” filmed like a thriller, offers a lens
on that life – and on the strength people draw on to get
through tough times.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Live_in_Lithuania,_work_in_the_UK?_Teleworking_survives_and
thrives_post-pandemic⠀⇛
Skilled specialists from Lithuania are often recruited by
companies operating in Western Europe that offer remote
work. The arrangement is most common in IT companies,
although telework is spreading to other fields too.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Forced_Migration_Thanks_to_Industrialized_Nations⠀⇛
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Candy_Blaster_Lets_You_Shoot_PEZ_At_Your
Friends⠀⇛
Nerf Blasters are great fun to play with, but you
really shouldn’t eat the foam darts. Conversely,
Pez dispensers are fussy and kind of boring, but
the candy is a tasty treat. [Soloprototype] has
presented us the best of both worlds, in the form
of a 3D-printed Pez blaster, with a firm note that
this toy is for grown-ups only.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Building_A_Fake_Printer_To_Grab_Screenshots_Off
The_Parallel_Port⠀⇛
[Tom Verbeure] recently found himself lamenting the
need to take screen grabs from an Advantest R3273
spectrum analyzer with a phone camera, as the older
gear requires you to either grab tables of data
over an expensive GPIB interface card, or print
them to paper. Then he realized, why not make a
simple printer port add-on that looks like a
printer, but sends the data over USB as a serial
stream?
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Experimenting_With_20_Meters_Of_Outlet
Adapters⠀⇛
You may have seen some of the EEVblog dumpster dive
videos, where [Dave Jones] occasionally finds
perfectly good equipment that’s been tossed out.
But this time, rather than a large screen monitor,
desktop computer, or a photocopier, he features a
stash of 283 electrical outlet double adapters that
he found last year. He decided to perform a test in
the parking lot, connecting all 283 adapters in
series.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Levitating_Banana_Is_An_Excellent_Conversation
Starter⠀⇛
“I really like your floating banana.” If that’s
something you’ve always wanted your guests to say
when visiting your living room, this levitating
banana project from [ElectroBing] is for you.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Mechanical_Keyboard_Is_Also_A_Mouse⠀⇛
The mechanical keyboard community is a vibrant, if
not fanatical, group of enthusiasts determined to
find as many possible ways of assembling, building,
and using as many high-quality keyboards as
possible. With so many dedicated participants, most
things that can be done with a keyboard already
have been done. So when something as unique as this
split keyboard that also doubles as a mouse pops
up, we take notice.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Anti-Abortion_Laws_Were_Written_to_Confuse_the
Public_—_and_They’re_Working⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Mississippi_Lawmakers_Trying_to_Take_Over
Jackson_Water_Funds,_Federal_Manager_Warns⠀⇛
JACKSON, Miss. — The freeze of early 2021 wasn’t
the origin of Jackson, Mississippi’s water system
collapse. But the winter storm introduced the
country to Jackson’s aging and improperly
maintained pipes and water plants, which failed and
left residents without clean water for over a
month.
The crisis surged back in the summer of 2022,
leaving residents without clean water for two
months and drawing comparisons to Flint, Michigan’s
lead-poisoning scandal, another banner example of
America’s ruinous infrastructure systems. Here, as
in Flint, the federal government stepped in: In
November, the Department of Justice appointed a
federal manager to take control of the beleaguered
utility, and less than a month later, Congress
approved $600 million exclusively for the city’s
water system.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Tackle_‘Abuse_of_Water’_by_Big_Ag_and_Big
Oil,_Advocates_Say_Amid_Colorado_River_Fight⠀⇛
Since the seven Colorado River Basin states failed
again this week to reach a consensus on a plan to
conserve the region’s dwindling water resources,
environmental justice campaigners have implored
officials to prioritize combating the “overuse and
abuse” of water by agribusiness and fossil fuel
corporations.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Spread_of_Bird_Flu_to_Mammals_Could_Put
Humans_in_Danger,_Scientists_Warn⠀⇛
As a deadly strain of avian influenza continues to
decimate bird populations around the world and
spread among other animals, some scientists are
warning that mammal-to-mammal transmission has
emerged as a real possibility with potentially
catastrophic consequences for humans.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Australia_Becomes_First_Country_to_Legalize
Therapeutic_Use_of_MDMA_and_Psilocybin⠀⇛
After decades of criminalization, Australia’s
government said Friday that it will legalize the
prescription of MDMA and psilocybin for the
treatment of two medical conditions, a historic
move hailed by researchers who have studied the
therapeutic possibilities of the drugs.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ It’s_Possible_Neanderthals_Evolved_So_They
Wouldn’t_Smell_Their_Own_Stink,_Study_Finds⠀⇛
A real gift.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Splash_of_Milk_in_Coffee_May_Have_Health
Benefits_We_Didn’t_Know_About⠀⇛
Not that we needed an excuse to drink it.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ The_USDA_Can’t_Stop_Organic_Food_Fraud⠀⇛
It’s time to return oversight to industry groups
and the states.
o § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ A_Vital_Reason_to_Protect_the_Postal
Service_From_Privatization⠀⇛
Postal jobs have long been a road to the middle
class for Black Americans. The Postal Service began
employing Black workers shortly after the Civil War
and became a major source of good, middle-class
jobs for this share of the workforce in the early
20th century.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Feds_Say_Cyberattack_Caused
Suicide_Helpline’s_Outage⠀⇛
A cyberattack caused a nearly daylong outage of the
nation’s new 988 mental health helpline late last
year, federal officials tell The Associated Press
# ⚓ Simo:_OpenSSL_3.0_Providers_and_PKCS#11⠀⇛
What triggered it is that I started a
newprojectbecause I wanted to explore two things I
have been putting off for a while, and I had some
time on my hands on a long weekend.
What’s interesting about this project is that, on
paper, it is straightforward, we just wire up one
API to another, and given both deal with simple
cryptography primitives it should be pretty simple…
or is it?
Well of course it isn’t, first of all we are
talking about cryptography, which is notoriously
finicky in terms of API for various legitimate, and
less so, reasons. But the actual calls that need to
be made to implement the cryptography are the least
problematic, for the most part. What really makes
things hard are the lack of documentation about
OpenSSL providers, and the impedance mismatch
between the way OpenSSL goes about handling some of
the operation and the way PKCS#11 envisions
applications should handle the cryptography engine.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Microsoft:_Iran_Unit_Behind_Charlie_Hebdo
Hack-and-Leak_Op [Ed: Microsoft is the cause of many security
incidents, but the gullible, sometimes Microsoft-sponsored,
media will try to pretend Microsoft is a security expert,
leveraging political sentiments to shift the blame and
deflect responsibility]⠀⇛
After French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s
launched a cartoon contest to mock Iran, an Iranian
cyber retaliated in January.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ AI_threats_and_open-source_vulnerabilities
top_host_of_security_issues_facing_cloud-native_community
[Ed: SiliconANGLE is spreading Microsoft talking points and
outright spam. SiliconANGLE also bags bribes from them, hence
it relays this kind of nonsense.]⠀⇛
It turns out that security concerns in the cloud-
native world look a lot like what’s keeping
practitioners up at night in the rest of the
technology ecosystem.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ The_FBI_tried_in_vain:_The_Russian_case
against_REvil_turned_out_to_be_insignificant [Ed: Microsoft
Windows TCO]⠀⇛
As it became known to “Kommersant”, the
investigative department of the Ministry of
Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation
completed the investigation of the criminal case of
the so-called international group of hackers REvil,
information about which was provided to Russia by
the FBI. According to its results, the
investigation was able to accuse eight alleged
intruders of only two remote thefts of funds, and
even then committed in the United States by who
knows where and for what amount: there are no
victims, as well as damage, in the criminal case.
Lawyers for the defendants say that two weeks would
be enough for them to study the materials, but the
procedure seems to be delayed.
# § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ PayPal_‘money_request’_email_scam:_how_to
spot_a_dodgy_message⠀⇛
Watch our video to see how the latest
phishing scam works
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Renters_targeted_by_scammers_on_SpareRoom
and_Facebook⠀⇛
Fraudsters attempt to cash in on chaos in the
rental market
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Colorado_Supreme_Court_To_Hear_Challenge
Of_Reverse_Keyword_Warrant_Served_To_Google⠀⇛
Geofence warrants get all the hype. But
Google also stores other data of interest to
law enforcement: Google searches.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ACLU_Sues_CIA,_DOJ,_and_NSA_for
Records_About_Warrantless_Spying_on_Americans⠀⇛
The ACLU on Friday filed a federal lawsuit
against top U.S. intelligence agencies that
have failed to respond to public records
requests for information about a “sweeping
law that authorizes the warrantless
surveillance of international
communications,” including those of
Americans.
# ⚓ FOSS Post ☛ Bypassing_Government_Censorship_Around
NordVPN_on_Linux [Ed: VPN spam is a real problem, as it
even invades otherwise good sites]⠀⇛
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ US_Downs_Chinese_Balloon_Off_Carolina
Coast⠀⇛
U.S. fighter jets successfully shot down the high
altitude spy balloon launched by and belonging to
China.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Five_questions_(and_expert_answers)
about_the_curious_case_of_the_Chinese_spy_balloon⠀⇛
US fighter jets have shot down a suspected Chinese
spy balloon, but the tensions linger in the world’s
most important bilateral relationship. Our experts
float their takes.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Russia_putting_‘more_and_more_forces’_into
Donbas_battle,_says_Zelensky⠀⇛
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky said the situation on
the front lines in the east of the country was
getting tougher, with Russia throwing more and more
troops into battle, hours after the two sides
agreed to exchange dozens of prisoners of war.
Earlier on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said
a serious accident at a high-voltage substation had
caused widespread power outages in and around the
southern port city of Odesa, leaving half a million
people without power. Follow our live blog to see
how the day’s events unfolded. All times are Paris
time (GMT+1).
# ⚓ France24 ☛ US_shoots_down_suspected_Chinese_spy_balloon
over_Atlantic_Ocean⠀⇛
The United States on Saturday downed a suspected
Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast on
orders from President Joe Biden after it hovered
over sensitive military sites across North America,
becoming the latest flashpoint in tensions between
Washington and Beijing.
# ⚓ ACLU ☛ The_Death_Penalty_Doesn’t_Reflect_Our_National
Values._Why_is_the_Biden_Administration_Still_Pursuing_It?⠀⇛
Last week, in a federal courtroom in New York City,
a jury found Sayfullo Saipov guilty of
intentionally driving a truck down a crowded lower
Manhattan bike path, killing eight people and
injuring several more.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Remorseful_in_court,_Jan._6_rioters_return_to
defiant_support⠀⇛
Jan. 6 defendants who faced with jail time often
professed remorse. Now, more are now backpedaling
or even celebrating their actions in the Capitol
riot.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Chinese_balloon_shot_down_over_Atlantic_Ocean_by
U.S.⠀⇛
…the Department of Defenseannounced.
The big picture:The balloon, which the Pentagon
accused China of using to collect information on
U.S. military sites, has heightened tensions
between the two nations.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Everything_we_know_about_the_China_balloon⠀⇛
Secretary of StateAntony_Blinkenon Fridaypostponed
his_planned_tripto Beijing, saying the surveillance
balloon in U.S. airspace “is a clear violation of
U.S. sovereignty and international law.”
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Biden_wanted_balloon_shot_down_‘as_soon_as
possible’⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Video_appears_to_show_Chinese_spy_balloon_being_shot
down⠀⇛
The US military shot down the suspected Chinese
surveillance balloon over the Atlantic Ocean off
the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, a US
official said.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Another_suspected_Chinese_balloon_spotted_over_Costa
Rica⠀⇛
CNN’s Rafael Romo reports on a sighting of another
suspected Chinese balloon in San José, Costa Rica.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ US_moves_to_recover_suspected_Chinese_spy
balloon_after_shooting_it_down⠀⇛
The United States downed the Chinese balloon off
the Carolina coast after it became the latest
flashpoint in tensions between Washington and
Beijing.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ CIA_director:_China_readying_for_Taiwan_invasion_by
2027⠀⇛
Xi wants China’s military ready to invade within
four years, CIA Director William Burns said.
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Museums_Round-Up:_Commencing_countdown,
engines_on,_for_opening_of_new_Cold_War_museum⠀⇛
Bunker constructed in the 1960s, which lies 60
metres below ground level, is equipped with a
special ashtray for Her Majesty
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ No_Immunity_For_Cops_Who_Shot_Man_Multiple
Times,_Then_Searched_His_House_For_Evidence_Of_‘Assaulting_An
Officer’⠀⇛
There are plenty of valid reasons to seek a search
warrant. Investigating a crime you can’t punish
anyone for (because you’ve killed them) isn’t one
of them.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Dad_Builds_Frickin’_Tank_For_His_Son⠀⇛
We gotta love hacker Dads and Moms for being so
awesome. Sooner or later, their kids get to play
with some amazing toy that every other kid on the
block is jealous of. [Meanwhile in the Garage aka
MWiG] is one of those super hacker Dads who built a
frickin’ Tank for his son (video, embedded below.).
But it’s so much fun driving that beast around that
we suspect Dad is going to be piloting it a lot
more than the kid. The tank features metal tracks,
differential steering, a rotating turret,
periscopes and a functional paintball gun with
camera targeting.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Court_of_Appeals_Rules_That_Domestic_Abusers_Can
Own_Guns⠀⇛
# ⚓ Denmark_opposes_Russia_athletes_competing_at_Olympics_under
neutral_flag⠀⇛
The Danish government said on Friday it opposed
Russian athletes competing under a neutral flag at
the 2024 Paris Olympics, which the International
Olympic Committee is considering despite Moscow’s
invasion of Ukraine.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ US_Gov_Report_Shows_Why_Russia’s
Hypersonic_Superweapon_Claims_Are_Fishy⠀⇛
The Congressional Budget Office has a new report
highlighting some of the drawbacks of the much
hyped hypersonic weapon.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ PM:_Post-election_minority_government_possible_to
speed_Nato_membership⠀⇛
Following the 2 April elections, Finland could see
weeks or even months of political paralysis as
parties seek to form the next coalition government.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Lula_Accuses_Bolsonaro_of_Planning_Jan._8
‘Coup’_as_Lawmaker_Alleges_Involvement_in_Plot⠀⇛
New police raids across Brazil on Friday followed
comments by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da
Silva about the alleged involvement of his right-
wing predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, in planning an
attack on government buildings in Brasília last
month.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Top_Bush_Lawyer_Admits_Guantánamo_Military
Commissions_‘Doomed_From_the_Start’⠀⇛
Ted Olson—the former U.S. solicitor-general in the
George W. Bush administration who argued against
basic legal rights for Guantánamo Bay prisoners and
defended their indefinite detention and
torture—made a stunning admission Thursday: The
Gitmo military commissions don’t work and should be
shut down, and the government should strike plea
deals with 9/11 defendants held at the prison.
# ⚓ The Local SE ☛ INTERVIEW:_‘Everybody_in_Sweden_who_buys
cocaine_should_know_the_money_is_used_to_buy_bullets’⠀⇛
The award-winning Swedish crime reporter and author
Diamant Salihu features in this Saturday’s Sweden
in Focus podcast, where he talks about Sweden’s
shockingly high number of gang shootings, what’s
behind them, and what to do about it.
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Unauthorized_Disclosure:_Medea_Benjamin_&
Ann_Wright⠀⇛
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ Facebook_Protects_Nazis_to_Protect_Ukraine_Proxy
War⠀⇛
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced on
January 19 that the company no longer considers
Ukraine’s Azov Regiment to be a “dangerous
organization.” The far-right paramilitary group
grew out of the street gangs that helped topple
Ukraine’s president in the US-backed 2014 coup.
Originally funded by the same Ukrainian oligarch
that backed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s rise to
power, Azov was on the front lines of civil war in
Eastern Ukraine, and was later fully integrated
into the Ukrainian national guard.
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Open_source_video_captioning_on_Linux⠀⇛
In a perfect world, all videos would have
transcripts, and live videos would have captioning.
It’s not just a requirement for people without
hearing to be able to participate in pop culture
and video chats, it’s a luxury for people with
hearing who just prefer to read what’s been said.
Not all software has captioning built-in though,
and some that does relies on third-party cloud
services to function. Live Captions is an
application for the Linux desktop that provides
instant, local, and open source captioning for
video.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ On_the_Media’s_Word_Choices_When_It_Comes
to_Police_Murder⠀⇛
It’s hard to find words after yet another brutal
police killing of a Black person, this time of 29-
year-old Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee,
captured in horrifying detail on video footage
released last week. But the words we use—and in
that “we,” the journalists who frame these stories
figure critically—if we actually want to not just
be sad about, but end state-sanctioned racist
murders, those words must not downplay or soften
the hard reality with euphemism and vaguery.
# ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ In_Douma_cover-up,_OPCW’s_new_smoking_gun
backfires⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ ‘The_Crazy_American’:_How_Col._Andy
Milburn’s_drunken_antics_torpedoed_top_US_mercenary_group⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Crisis_Killing_Black_Women⠀⇛
For as long as the CDC and other health
organizations have collected data on suicide,
they’ve reported that suicide rates among Black
people are the lowest among any racial category,
and Black women and girls, more specifically, are
least likely to end their lives of all demographic
groups. It’s a statistical finding so
counterintuitive that researchers dubbed it the
racial/gender “suicide paradox”—that despite
enduring more simultaneous marginalizing
oppressions than any other group, Black women,
instead of taking their lives at rates that
surpass, or even equal, more privileged identities,
just keep on keepin’ on. This idea—that suicide is
correlated with whiteness, negatively correlated
with Blackness, and irrelevant to Black
femaleness—crept out of the sociology and mental
health realms to establish itself within the
broader American cultural psyche. Black women’s
purported immunity to suicide has been regarded as
such an open-and-shut case that studies on Black
female suicidality are extremely scant. Corrections
to that dangerous oversight have been slow to take
hold, even in recent years, as Black teenage girls
and young women have begun killing themselves at
unprecedented rates.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘They’ll_just_wipe_me_out’:_A_former_prisoner_fled
his_Wagner_unit,_but_now_fears_revenge_from_mercenaries_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Since last summer, Kremlin-backed tycoon Evgeny
Prigozhin has traveled around Russia’s penal
colonies, recruiting inmates into the Wagner Group
ranks, in exchange for pardons and cash payments.
Witnesses claim, however, that the mercenary group
has its own means of punishing fighters for
desertion and other offenses, and that
extrajudicial killings are a common practice.
Mediazona spoke to a former prisoner who first
signed up to go to war, and later escaped from his
Wagner Group formation. Here’s his story, in brief.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Good_News!_We_Can_Bend_the_Corporations_to
Our_Will⠀⇛
“We learned last week that certain fossil fuel
producers were fully aware in the 1970s that their
core product was baking our planet. And just like
the tobacco industry, they rode rough-shod over
their own science.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Here_are_some_of_the_record_temperatures
set_across_the_Northeast.⠀⇛
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Days_after_an_ice_storm,_thousands_in_the
capital_of_Texas_are_still_without_power.⠀⇛
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Arctic_cold_spawns_windchills_of_-100°F_in_New
Hampshire⠀⇛
Extreme cold broke longstanding records Friday into
Saturday as the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic U.S.
continues dealing with temperatures in the single
or negative digits, along with gusty winds.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ Oil_Lobby_Prompts_Right-Wing_Media_to_Save
Whales—From_Wind_Power⠀⇛
Republicans and right-wing commentators
suddenly want to save the whales—and much of
the news media is buying it.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ The_Department_of_Energy_Is_Coming
For_Your_Gas_Stove…To_Replace_It_With_A_More_Efficient
One⠀⇛
Those damn bureaucrats in Washington are at
it again.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Major_Accident_Causes
Power_Outages_in_Ukraine’s_Odesa_PM⠀⇛
A serious accident at a high-voltage
substation in Ukraine’s Odesa region has
caused emergency power outages…
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘It’s_Just_Our_Way_of_Life’:_Manchin
Brushes_Off_Question_About_Coal_Conflict_of_Interest⠀⇛
Sen. Joe Manchin on Thursday responded
dismissively to a reporter’s question about
the glaring conflict of interest posed by his
family’s ownership of a business that is
profiting from coal waste—a toxic energy
source that the West Virginia Democrat is
actively promoting in the Senate.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_and_Estonia_collaborate_to_test
potential_of_green_hydrogen_in_transport_sector⠀⇛
Over the next three years, the Latvian
Hydrogen Association, waste management
company ZAAO, the Vidzeme Planning Region and
partners from Estonia and the Netherlands
will work together to plan, develop and test
the potential of green hydrogen in the
transport sector in smaller regions, using
the cooperation between Estonia’s Tartu and
Latvia’s Vidzeme region as an example.
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Hidden_Food_Web_Exists_in_The
Desert,_And_It_Thrives_on_Death⠀⇛
In the desert, life depends on death.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ PwC_and_the_Robodebt_Royal_Commission.
What’s_the_scam?⠀⇛
PwC was commissioned to do a report on Robodebt in
2017 but but can’t recall if it was finalised, or
not, or why. What’s the scam?
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Unemployment_Hits_New_Half-Century_Low_as_Job
and_Hour_Growth_Soar_in_January⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Friday’s_Surprisingly_Positive_Jobs_Report
Does_Not_Mean_Fed_Should_Keep_Raising_Rates⠀⇛
Surprising most analysts and forecasters, employers
added a whopping 517,000 jobs in January, according
to Friday morning’s monthly labor report from the
Bureau of Labor Statistics. This was almost twice
the growth from December’s 260,000 jobs. The
unemployment rate fell to 3.4 percent, the lowest
since 1969.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Strikes_Work’:_REI_Agrees_to_March_3_Union
Election_After_Ohio_Walkout⠀⇛
After REI employees in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio
walked off the job Friday morning, the recreational
equipment retailer agreed to schedule a union
election vote next month and stopped pushing to
exclude certain workers.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Screen Rant ☛ Why_Nintendo,_Sony,_&_Xbox_Skipping_E3_2023
Is_Actually_Good⠀⇛
While it might be sad to see E3 2023 carry on
without big announcements from Nintendo, Sony, or
Xbox – as is being reported by IGN – this latest
development might be for the better. Viewers might
not see trailers for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 or
Starfield at E3, but these and many more first-
party titles could show up at a designated
PlayStation State of Play or Xbox Showcase later in
the year. Microsoft is already planning such an
event for June, right around the time that E3 2023
is set to take place. Likewise, Nintendo always has
a new Nintendo Direct livestream just around the
corner, and a Direct specifically for Zelda: Tears
of the Kingdom is expected prior to the Breath of
the Wild sequel’s May release.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Elon_Musk_Is_Running_Scared_From_Mastodon;_Cuts
Off_The_Best_Tool_For_Finding_Your_Twitter_Followers_There⠀⇛
People keep claiming that Mastodon isn’t scaring
Elon Musk, but it’s pretty clear that he’s worried
about the exodus of people from Twitter. With his
bizarrely short-sighted decision to end free access
to the Twitter API, driving developers over to
Mastodon, some people realized that the various
tools that people use to find their Twitter
followers on Mastodon are likely to be cut off.
It’s unclear if this was part of the motivation for
ending free access to the API, but it did create a
surge in people checking out those tools. But then,
last night, just hours after the API announcement,
Elon’s Twitter cut off API access to Movetodon,
which was the nicest, easiest to use tool for
finding and following your Twitter followers on
Mastodon.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ “Florida_Is_a_Laboratory_of_Fascism”:_Scholars
Discuss_Fight_Over_Black_History⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ DeSantis_Impeded_Federal_Officials’_Ability_to
Enforce_Voting_Law,_Watchdog_Says⠀⇛
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Ethics_complaint_filed_against_Sen._Kyrsten_Sinema
over_staff_tasks⠀⇛
Thirteen advocacy groups filed a complaint with the
Senate Ethics Committee this week, requesting an
investigation into Sen.Kyrsten_Sinema(I-Ariz.) and
allegations about tasks she requires of her staff.
Driving the news:In a letter first reported byThe
Hill, Sinema is accused of requiring her Senate
staff to “conduct a wide variety of activities
unrelated to their job responsibilities,” including
personal errands, household tasks at her private
residence and advancing their own money for her
personal purchases.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Former_Arkansas_Lawmaker
Sentenced_to_46_Months_in_Prison⠀⇛
A former Arkansas lawmaker who admitted to
accepting thousands of dollars in bribes and filing
a false income tax return has been sentenced to
nearly four years in federal prison
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ A_New_Crossroads_for_Peru’s_Fragile
Democracy⠀⇛
On 25 January, roughly six weeks after being sworn
in following her predecessor’s removal, Peruvian
president Dina Boluarte finally recognized that
elections were the only way out of political
crisis. Elections were rescheduled for April 2024,
much earlier than the end of the presidential term
she’s been tasked with completing, but not soon
enough for thousands who’ve taken to the streets
demanding her immediate resignation.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Minsk’s_new_pick_for_foreign_minister_shows
Lukashenko_is_looking_for_plan_B⠀⇛
The Belarusian government’s pick for the new
foreign minister indicates that Minsk is not
shutting the door to engagement with the West,
however fraught it is at the moment.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ THHWAAP!!⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ You_Cannot_Stop_Us_From_Proclaiming_“I,_Too,
Am_America”⠀⇛
Tyre Nichols has gone home, as we say in the Black
church tradition. But he was sent there violently
and prematurely by police officers who broke his
neck. Others that helped sign his death certificate
with their silence or approval, including Emergency
Medical Technicians who stood over his badly beaten
body with what we would later learn was a broken
neck, helped to send him there. Another funeral of
a beloved family member sent home too soon and by
the mean and the murderous. Tyre Nichols’s death
hits home for so many of us, but it is personal for
many of us who are Black in America. It was also a
different kind of assault on the senses to open
Black History Month. There is nothing historic
about an unarmed Black person being killed by
police for driving while Black. Even walking or
jogging while Black is dangerous.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_GOP’s_Phony_Class_War⠀⇛
On Tuesday November 3, 2020—back when votes for the
presidential election were still being
counted—Republican Senator Josh Hawley tweeted out,
“We are a working class party now. That’s the
future.” Hawley’s tweet was based on early exit
polls showing that Donald Trump was outperforming
expectations and had won Florida. His claim has a
basis in reality: Trump’s success in 2016 and his
near-victory in 2020 (Joe Biden’s narrow triumph
resting on fewer than 44,000 votes in three states)
was due to the former reality-show star’s strong
appeal to white non-college-educated voters. To be
sure, the white working class was trending toward
the GOP before Trump arrived on the scene. But in
2016 he solidified and intensified this trend
through a shrewd message of economic populism:
Trump eschewed traditional Republican calls for
cuts to Medicare and Social Security, hinted that
he’d replace Obamacare with his own better version
of health care, criticized globalism in the form of
trade agreements that led to the loss of
manufacturing jobs, and called for immigration
restrictions as a way to bolster wages.1
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Today’s_GOP_Is_the_Totalitarian_Force_It
Claims_to_Oppose⠀⇛
Gas stoves. M&Ms. Xboxes. There is no consumer
product or domestic practice too banal to serve as
fodder in the culture wars now raging on the
American right. Indeed, the vigilantes sworn to
stamp out wokeness across the nation’s dens and
kitchens seem to serve as an Orwellian domestic
makeover crew, commandeering the sort of hearth-
themed authoritarianism normally reserved for
reality TV franchises and self-help bestsellers.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Progressives:_House_Anti-Socialism_Resolution_Is
Step_Toward_Slashing_Safety_Net⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘We_Will_Keep_Fighting,’_Says_Head_of
Nevada_Democrats_as_DNC_Panel_Blocks_Dark_Money_Ban⠀⇛
Nevada Democratic Party Chair Judith Whitmer said
Friday that progressives won’t stop working to stem
the flow of untraceable cash into national primary
contests after the DNC Resolutions Committee
blocked a vote on her proposed dark money ban for
the second time.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Beware_the_Trump-Aligned_Foreign_Policy
Hawk,_Nikki_Haley⠀⇛
Nikki Haley will reportedly announce the start of
her campaign for the Republican presidential
nomination on February 15, becoming the first GOP
2024 candidate after Donald Trump. Since it’s
likely that Haley will emphasize foreign policy
issues in pitching her candidacy, it’s worth
examining her public record more closely to see
what kind of foreign policy she thinks the U.S.
should pursue.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Sanders,_Warren_Condemn_GOP’s_“Disgusting”_Move
to_Silence_Ilhan_Omar⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Ilhan_Omar_Will_Not_Be_Silenced⠀⇛
After Ilhan Omar was elected to Congress in 2018,
she explained why one of her first priorities as a
member of the US House of Representatives was to
serve on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. While
the Minnesota Democrat was intent on representing
her constituents in Minneapolis, and on addressing
all the pressing domestic policy concerns that tend
to dominate coverage of Congress, she told me, “You
can’t really speak to domestic policy without first
having a conversation about our foreign policy.”
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘What_I_don’t_want_is_Western_triumphalism’_Slavoj
Žižek_on_Putin’s_expansionism,_Western_complicity,_the_denial
of_death,_and_preventing_a_global_ultra-conservative_turn_—
Meduza⠀⇛
The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek spoke with
Meduza about the Russia-Ukraine war, framing it as
part of a global ideological conflict, in which
Vladimir Putin himself is befriending other
authoritarian regimes to create a new, ultra-
conservative axis of global power. A self-described
pessimist, Žižek cautions the West against settling
into a complacent sense of moral superiority. The
Neo-Fascist ideological turn that now serves
Putin’s imperialist ambitions is not, he says, a
specifically Russian problem. Instead, it’s a case
study in how things go wrong when political
competition devolves into struggle among oligarchs.
This is a condensed version of the philosopher’s
interview first published by Meduza in Russian.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Recording_Shows_WI_Trump_Campaign_Official_Knew
He_Didn’t_Lose_by_Fraud⠀⇛
# ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ REVIEW:_The_Psychology_of_Totalitarianism⠀⇛
Kevin Ryan Belgian psychologist Mattias Desmet
published his book The Psychology of
Totalitarianism in June 2022. The book brings
attention to the need to understand our own
psychology in this time of global crisis. It
outlines the process of mass formation by which the
masses find themselves to be hypnotized members of
a totalitarian state.
# ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Unconditional_Surrender⠀⇛
Todd Hayen I know I am beating a dead horse here,
but I am still fuming about The Atlantic article
from October 2022. How dare they?! I am also a bit
perturbed by all the folks prematurely declaring
victory over this totalitarian abomination.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Canada_Imposes_Fresh
Russia_Sanctions,_Moscow_Vows_Retaliation⠀⇛
Canada on Friday imposed sanctions on 38
individuals and 16 entities it said were
“complicit in peddling Russian
disinformation…”
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Courts_Must_Not_Allow_Litigants_to_Plead_Around_The
First_Amendment’s_Speech_Protections⠀⇛
California law protects people against lawsuits
known as SLAPPs, or Strategic Lawsuit Against
Public Participation. The state’s anti-SLAPP law
allows for motions such as Winslow’s, which should
allow for meritless defamation lawsuits to be
dismissed quickly.
“The district court’s decision encourages meritless
lawsuits against online speakers by allowing
plaintiffs to strip disputed statements of their
context and evade California’s robust anti-SLAPP
statute,” EFF’s brief argues. “Yet the First
Amendment requires courts to examine the fuller
context of any alleged actionable statement to
protect hyperbole and avoid chilling speakers.”
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ Pakistan_blocks_Wikipedia_over_‘sacrilegious’
content⠀⇛
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has
blocked Wikipedia after slowing access to the
website for 48 hours over content it considers
“sacrilegious.”
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Courts_Must_Not_Allow_Litigants_to_Plead_Around_The
First_Amendment’s_Speech_Protections⠀⇛
That did not happen in a case on appeal to the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Amin v.
Winslow, and EFF filed a friend-of-the-court brief
last month describing the potential danger to
speech when courts let these cases linger.
A whistleblower alleges that the plaintiff, Dr.
Mahendra Amin, performed unnecessary medical
procedures on women at an Immigrations and Customs
Enforcement detention facility. When news reports
described the whistleblower’s allegations, author
Don Winslow shared news stories about the
allegations and criticized Amin over a series of
tweets.
Amin’s lawsuit focuses on a single Winslow tweet
that he alleges is defamatory. But the First
Amendment requires courts to analyze the broader
context surrounding any statement. The federal
district court hearing the case disregarded this
long-standing principle when it denied Winslow’s
motion to dismiss the case, according to EFF’s
brief.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Police_complete_investigation_into_prominent_blogger
in_Vietnam⠀⇛
Authorities recommend Nguyen Lan Thang be charged
with spreading anti-state information.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong’s_largest_national
security_trial_to_begin_Monday_as_47_democrats_face_up_to
life_behind_bars⠀⇛
by Su Xinqi and Jerome Taylor The trial of 47 of
Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy figures
begins on Monday, in the largest prosecution under
a national security law that has crushed dissent in
the city. The proceedings are expected to last more
than four months, and the defendants face sentences
of up to life […]
# ⚓ Axios ☛ BDG_Media_suspending_operations_at_Gawker⠀⇛
BDG Media is suspending Gawker and will lay off 8%
of full-time staff, according to an internal memo
from CEO Bryan Goldberg that was obtained by Axios.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Business_leaders_criticise_Finns_Party’s_anti-
immigration_rhetoric⠀⇛
As Finland seeks to attract more workers from
abroad, prominent business people have highlighted
the “irresponsible damage” caused by the Finns
Party’s statements on work-based immigration.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ India_police_identify_over_4000_child_bride
marriages_in_Assam_state,_leading_to_arrests_of_over_1800
men⠀⇛
Chief Minister Himata Biswa Sarma Friday
reported more than 4000 cases of men marrying
underage girls in the Indian state of Assam with
over 1800 arrests.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Nearly_1,000_Migrant_Children_Separated
From_Families_Under_Trump_Still_Not_Reunited⠀⇛
As some families seek restitution for the suffering
caused by former President Donald Trump’s family
separation policy, the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security on Thursday acknowledged that nearly five
years after the policy was first enforced, 998
children have yet to be reunited with their
relatives.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Deadly_Violence_Against_Protesters_Is_the
New_Normal⠀⇛
On the morning of January 18, agents from nine
agencies, including the FBI and its local
counterpart, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation,
descended on a section of Atlanta’s South River
Forest occupied by activists. For the past two
years, hundreds had lived in the section of the
Weelaunee forest, in tents and treehouses, in order
to block its planned conversion into a police
training facility—a “cop city” complete with a mock
village, firing ranges, and a Black Hawk landing
pad. That morning, the agents were under orders to
“eliminate the future Atlanta Public Safety
Training Center of criminal activity.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Markey_Demands_Answers_From_AGU_About
Scientists_Punished_Over_Climate_Protest⠀⇛
U.S. Sen. Ed Markey on Friday joined thousands of
scientists from across the globe in demanding that
the American Geophysical Union answer for its
decision in December to expel two climate
researchers from its Fall Meeting after they staged
a brief, peaceful protest urging their colleagues
to engage in climate activism.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ The_Continuing_Relevance_of_Frederick_Douglass⠀⇛
Douglass is best-known for his role in the
abolitionist movement that helped end slavery. But
much of his thought is also relevant to
contemporary issues.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Utah_Lawmakers_Rushing_Through_Bills_To_Destroy
The_Internet…_‘For_The_Children’⠀⇛
The evidence-free moral panic over social media
keeps getting stupider, and when things get
particularly stupid about the internet, you can
pretty much rely on Utah politicians being there to
proudly embrace the terrible ideas. The latest are
a pair of bills that seem to be on the fast track,
even in Utah’s short legislative session. The bills
are HB311 from Rep. Jordan Teuscher and SB152 from
Senator Michael McKell (author of a number of
previous bad bills about the internet).
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Google_Tells_Court_That_GOP_Should_Look_At_Its
Own_Email_Practices_Rather_Than_Blaming_Gmail⠀⇛
As we noted recently in reporting on the FEC
dismissing the Republican’s laughably ridiculous
complaint that Google was dumping their fundraising
emails into the spam folder as an “in-kind
contribution” to Democrats, there was still the
GOP’s even more ridiculous lawsuit. Last week,
Google filed its response, and it’s… worth reading
to see how thoroughly and completely it dismantles
the GOP’s silly complaint. Most of the news
coverage of the complaint has been about how Google
mentions in passing that it’s ending the “pilot
program” it set up to allow politicians to avoid
the spam folder. However, I think this is a misread
of what’s in the filing. It just notes that “The
Pilot Program is scheduled to run through January
31, 2023,” which is the nature of a “pilot
program.” It’s unclear if Google will look to
continue it or bring it back during the next
election season.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Belarus_Follows_Russia’s_Lead_&_Creates
Unfriendly_Countries_List_For_Legalized_Piracy⠀⇛
Roughly a year ago, we discussed Russia’s response
to some of the sanctions the West was placing upon
it, including its plan to simply legalize copyright
infringement, so as to keep the country running
despite the crippling sanctions. That blanket
legalization plan morphed somewhat months later,
when Russia instead pivoted to a plan to create a
“unfriendly countries” list for which all kinds of
copyright infringement would be legalized. Not
surprisingly, that list of unfriendlies mostly
amounted to any country that had sanctioned or
criticized Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
While these laws have yet to be implemented, none
of the announcements by Russia created even the
mildest surprise to the West.
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ Precedential_No._6:_TTAB_Requires
Explanation_of_Cancellation_Respondent’s_Deletion_of
Goods⠀⇛
After the commencement of this proceeding for
cancellation of a registration for the
markDISOfor various electronic devices, on
the grounds of fraud and abandonment, the
registration was subject to a USPTO audit
regarding respondent’s Section 8 Declaration
of Use, which resulted in deletion of many of
the identified goods, leaving only “earphones
and headphones; portable media players,
namely MP3 players.” Observing that a
registrant may not, by deleting goods from a
registration, moot a proceeding to avoid a
judgment as to the deleted goods, the Board
allowed respondent twenty days to explain the
reason for its deletions.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Yout.com_Reignites_RIAA_Stream-
Ripping_Dispute_at_Court_of_Appeal⠀⇛
Popular stream-ripping site Yout.com has
filed its appeal brief at the United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The
service aims to reverse a district court
ruling that dismissed Yout’s claims against
the RIAA. Yout seeks a declaration that it
doesn’t violate the DMCA and accuses the
music industry group of defamation and
business disparagement.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Training:_Open_Licenses_for
Artists,_Musicians_and_Creators⠀⇛
Join us for this introduction to CC licenses
and tools to get your basic questions
answered and practice sharing content to the
commons: 10 February 2023, 2–7pm UTC (see the
schedule in your local timezone).
# ⚓ One_Song,_Many_Writers⠀⇛
How modern songwriting evolved into a game of
aggressive credit—even for the people who
didn’t technically do the composing.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Rubber_Soul_–_moving_out/procrastinating⠀⇛
I’m not sure if I could fully tell you why, but
I’ve had this compulson in my mind that I need to
purchase The Beatles – Rubber Soul on vinyl – but
specifically around the time that I’m moving in
with my partner (next weekend). I guess I’ve been
listening to this album a fair bit recently, and
maybe it’s just that it reminds me of this moment –
and I want to have something material as a kind-of
calendar item to mark the moment.
# ⚓ After_the_session⠀⇛
I seem to have settled in a nice “one page a day”
routine with Knives. I’m not sure how many more
pages there will be. Something about players
gaining a talents. Something about them making
plans. Something about finding campaign goals.
# ⚓ Tilting_at_the_Belltower⠀⇛
Robotic lies are spread across the room.
My modem howls in silent disbelief.
Machines are parrots. Maybe so are we,
as chafing bones are slouching to be born
in fire, as I draw my final breath
and sleep. Perchance to dream. Perchance to scream.
So gently whispered is this lifelong scream
while ghostly passing through my inner room.
A chalkboard’s nail. A raspy smoker’s breath.
A regent clad in finest disbelief.
A crawling insect hatches to get born,
and in the skylit evening, so were we.
# ⚓ Notes_about_an_overheard_conversation_while_driving_home⠀⇛
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ A_Tale_Of_Two_Times⠀⇛
The claim is that “time” disagrees with the
documentation for time(1) on OpenBSD, and the
evidence for this may look pretty solid
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Silence,_please!⠀⇛
One of those protection rackets, properly
known as a performance rights organisation,
recently sent out a news letter. There was a
short paragraph that caught my attention.
Since their business model is to rake in
money for their members from all sorts of
venues that play their music, they are in
fact interested in increasing the number of
such venues, including restaurants and shops.
Studies, they claimed, have shown that
customers enjoy the _right kind_ of music
being played in the stores. So, what a win-
win situation: entice the venues to play more
music, make their customers buy more, and
collect larger royalties for the composers.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ systemd_and_my_bot⠀⇛
I wrote a bot that connects to Discord last
year. It’s a nice bot. It keeps facts for
channel, it keeps timestamped notes per
channel, it also connects to IRC (all of
which we don’t use) and it rolls dice (which
is what we use).
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Instructionals/Technical
o WINE_or_Emulation
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS)
o Education
o Programming/Development
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_PHPUnit_10_on_Fedora_Linux⠀⇛
PHPUnit is a widely used and well-established
testing framework for PHP developers. It was
created in 2002 by Sebastian Bergmann and has since
become an integral part of the PHP development
community.
# ⚓ [Repeat] Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Linux_Kernel_6.1_on
Ubuntu_22.04_or_20.04⠀⇛
This guide will walk you through installing Linux
Kernel 6.1 on your Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04 desktop or
server using the TuxInvader Launchpad PPA. The PPA
contains the latest generic kernels, and the guide
will show you how to use the command line terminal
to import the PPA and install the latest Linux
Kernel.
# ⚓ IPv4_addresses_and_subnet_masks⠀⇛
Introduction Have you ever wondered how your
computer connects to the internet and what makes it
possible for you to access websites and services?
Well, this is all made possible with the use of IP
addresses.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_To_Display_Warning_Message_to_Unauthorized
SSH_Access⠀⇛
Secure Shell (SSH) is a protocol used to remotely
log into a Linux system and execute commands on it.
It provides a secure encrypted connection between
two untrusted hosts over an insecure network.
System administrators often use SSH to remotely
manage servers.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Set_a_Custom_SSH_Login_Banner_and_MOTD⠀⇛
Secure Shell (SSH) is a protocol used to remotely
log into a Linux system and execute commands on it.
SSH provides a secure encrypted connection between
two untrusted hosts over an insecure network.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Understanding_Reverse_DNS:_What_it_is_and_Why_it
Matters?⠀⇛
Reverse DNS, also known as rDNS, is a system that
maps an IP address to a hostname. Unlike
traditional DNS (Domain Name System), which maps a
hostname to an IP address, rDNS performs the
reverse process, providing an extra layer of
information about the owner and location of a
particular IP address.
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ Nala:_A_Beautiful_and_Structured_Frontend
for_the_APT_Command⠀⇛
Do you still ignore the required dependencies when
you install or remove an application on Linux? If
so, you might be doing yourself a disservice.
First, you look at the packages and applications
that will be installed or removed from your system.
B
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Okular_on_Fedora_Linux⠀⇛
Okular is a popular open-source document viewer and
annotator for Linux, Unix, and Windows platforms.
It was first released in 2005 and became a widely-
used software for viewing and annotating PDF,
Postscript, and other document formats.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_Git_on_CentOS_9_Stream_/_Fedora
37⠀⇛
Hello, friends. In this short post, you will learn
how to install Git on CentOS 9 Stream / Fedora 37.
Introduction Git is an open source, cross-platform
distributed version control system (DVCS) that was
initially developed by Linus Torvalds in 2005.
# ⚓ OSNote ☛ How_to_Install_Ubuntu_22.04_from_USB⠀⇛
This tutorial will show you step-by-step how to
install Ubuntu on a desktop, notebook, or server
from USB from a Windows system. So let’s start
installing Ubuntu from USB. Prerequistes Install
Ubuntu from USB Follow these steps to prepare the
USB stick and to install Ubuntu.
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Hiding_MediaWiki_meta_generator_version⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_Install_Rust_on_Ubuntu_22.4⠀⇛
Rust is an open-source programming language that is
designed to be safe, concurrent, and fast. It is a
statically-typed language with a rich type system
and ownership model that focuses on memory safety
and performance. Rust has been a popular choice for
developers working on embedded systems and scalable
web applications.
# ⚓ Paul Heinlein ☛ Viewing_Remote_SSL_Certificate_Info⠀⇛
One of our duties at work is monitoring and
renewing SSL certificates for customer services.
Now that certificate issuers regularly expire
certificates after only one year, renewals are a
regular occurance. Plus, we like to verify what
protocols and alternative hostnames are supported
by a specific service. This script helps.
o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ Proton_7.0-6_is_Here_Get_Your_Hands_on_the
New_Release_Today!⠀⇛
Proton 7.0-6 is a new version that adds a lot of
improvements and new Windows-compatible game
support to Linux, making the gaming experience even
better than it was before.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ This_week_in_KDE:_Plasma_6_starts_to
take_shape⠀⇛
While we hammer away at polishing up Plasma
5.27, features and user interface changes are
starting to land for Plasma 6! We took a big
bite out of the 15-minute bugs, too. Goodies
for everyone!
System Settings’ Default Applications page
now lets you choose your preferred
application for a much wider variety of file
types!
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Net2 ☛ Best_20_features_of_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Ubuntu 22.04 is a feature-packed operating system
that has everything you need and more. From a sleek
design to advanced tools, this latest version of
Ubuntu jammy jellyfish has it all. Ubuntu 22
Download Link Get your hands on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS!
Head to the official Ubuntu website and you’ll be
able to download it.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ How_to_Prevent_Breaking_Your_Arduino_by_Mistake⠀⇛
Removable microcontroller chip? 5V logic support?
Your Arduino may be sturdy and repairable, but it
also has its limits. Here are five ways to keep
yourself from committing robot murder!
# ⚓ Purism ☛ FOSDEM_2023_coming_up_in_Brussels⠀⇛
FOSDEM is a conference for the the free and open
source software community. It is about take place
this weekend on the 4th and 5th of February in
Brussels, in person! We look forward to a fully-
packed schedule.
# ⚓ Purism ☛ Design_2022_in_Retrospect⠀⇛
As you probably know, software work at Purism
follows upstream-first principles. This means we
contribute to projects directly to make them better
for everyone rather than just applying custom
changes for ourselves downstream.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Best_Raspberry_Pi_Projects:_February
2023⠀⇛
Check out our list of best Raspberry Pi projects of
the month for February 2023 and find something
you’ll love.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Coral_Dev_Board_Micro_combines_NXP_i.MX
RT1176_MCU_with_Edge_TPU_in_Pi_Zero_form_factor⠀⇛
Coral Dev Board Micro is the latest iteration [...]
about the size of a Raspberry Pi Zero SBC. The new
board follows the original NXP i.MX 8M-based Coral
Dev board that was introduced in 2019, and Coral
Dev Board mini based on MediaTek MT8167S processor
launched in 2020, and keeps with the trend of
providing more compact solutions with lower-end
host processors for edge AI.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Google_Chrome_may_soon_add_this_browser
history-related_feature_for_Android_users_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Samsung_rejects_seamless_Android_updates
on_the_Galaxy_S23_because_of_course_it_would⠀⇛
# ⚓ Lifewire ☛ 4_Ways_to_Update_the_Emojis_on_an_Android
Phone⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Central ☛ Google_Pixel_2_devices_can_now_run
Android_13_with_LineageOS_20_|_Android_Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ Forbes ☛ Android_Circuit:_Galaxy_Unpacked_Headlines,_Oppo’s
Foldable_Future,_Xiaomi_13_Pro_Leaks⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Open_source_video_captioning_on_Linux⠀⇛
In a perfect world, all videos would have transcripts,
and live videos would have captioning. It’s not just a
requirement for people without hearing to be able to
participate in pop culture and video chats, it’s a luxury
for people with hearing who just prefer to read what’s
been said. Not all software has captioning built-in
though, and some that does relies on third-party cloud
services to function. Live Captions is an application for
the Linux desktop that provides instant, local, and open
source captioning for video.
o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾
# ⚓ WordPress ☛ The_Month_in_WordPress_–_January_2023⠀⇛
Welcome to the first 2023 edition of The Month in
WordPress! January kicked off with an overview of
WordPress’ big goals for 2023 and new projects
beginning to take shape. Moreover, work on the next
major release, WordPress 6.2, continues with Beta 1
scheduled for next week. Read on for the latest
news.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Children_Lost_One-Third_of_a_Year_of_Learning
During_the_Pandemic,_Analysis_Finds⠀⇛
“The COVID-19 learning deficit is likely to affect
children’s life chances through their education and
labour market prospects,” the analysis’ authors
argue.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Undefined_behavior,_and_the_Sledgehammer_Principle_|_The
Pasture⠀⇛
Previously, an article made the rounds concerning
Undefined behavior that made the usual Rust crowd
go nuts and the usual C and C++ people get grumpy
that someone Did Not Understand the Finer Points
and Nuance of Their Brilliant Language. So, as
usual, it’s time for me to do what I do best
# ⚓ Filippo Valsorda ☛ I’m_Now_a_Full-Time_Professional_Open
Source_Maintainer⠀⇛
It works! I am now a full-time independent open-
source maintainer. I’m announcing my first cohort
of six clients, and sharing some details of how the
model works.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Japan’s_conveyor_belt_sushi_chains_act
quickly_against_alarming_stunts⠀⇛
Sushiro said on Friday that it will only serve orders
placed by customers as an interim measure.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ How_a_Dead_Girl_in_Paris_Wound_Up_With_The_Most-
Kissed_Lips_in_All_of_History⠀⇛
An incredible story.
o ⚓ Thomas_Vander_Stichele:_How_Not_to_Say_the_Wrong_Thing⠀⇛
“if you’re going to open your mouth, ask yourself if what
you are about to say is likely to provide comfort and
support. If it isn’t, don’t say it. Don’t, for example,
give advice.”
Susan Silk’sRing_Theoryis a helpful model to navigate
what not to say during times of grief and traumatic
events.
o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Man_Rescued_by_Coast_Guard_Wanted_in
‘Goonies’_Fish_Incident⠀⇛
A man who was saved by a Coast Guard rescue swimmer at
the mouth of the Columbia River on Friday was wanted by
police for a bizarre fish dumping incident at the home
featured in the classic film, “The Goonies.”
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ The Scientist ☛ Human_Brain_Organoids_Transplanted_Into
Rats_Respond_to_Visual_Stimuli⠀⇛
The organoids could one day be used to treat brain
injuries in humans.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ We_Can_Now_Hear_The_‘Sound’_of_One_of_The
Most_Beautiful_Stars⠀⇛
A new perspective on a beloved friend.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Māori_Voyaged_to_Antarctica_at_Least_1,000
Years_Before_Europeans,_Study_Finds⠀⇛
An ancient connection.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ The_First_Stars_May_Have_Been_Heavier_Than
100,000_Suns⠀⇛
Supermassive monsters!
# ⚓ The Scientist ☛ Q&A:_What_if_Immune_Cells_Don’t_Actually
Detect_Viruses_and_Bacteria?⠀⇛
The Scientist spoke with Jonathan Kagan about his
idea that immune cells respond to “errors” made by
unsuccessful pathogens, not the pathogens
themselves.
# ⚓ Estimating_Square_Roots_in_Your_Head⠀⇛
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Mark Hansen ☛ Short-Circuited_External_Disk_Recovery⠀⇛
How I tried (and failed) to recover an external
hard drive that failed after a lightning storm.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ California_won’t_require_COVID
vaccine_to_attend_schools⠀⇛
California won’t make children get the coronavirus
vaccine to attend schools. The California
Department of Public Health said Friday it is not
exploring emergency rules to add the COVID-19
vaccine to the list of required school
vaccinations. That’s a reversal from Democratic
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2021 announcement that the
state would add the COVID-19 vaccine to its list of
mandated vaccinations for kids to attend school.
Last year, state officials delayed that requirement
until at least the summer of 2023. Now public
health officials say they are no longer moving
ahead with the effort as the state prepares to end
its coronavirus emergency on Feb. 28.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ No_One_Likes_Commutes,_But_They_May
Actually_Be_Good_For_Mental_Health,_Study_Finds⠀⇛
A chance to reset.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Canada_to_delay_extended_assisted_dying_laws_until
2024⠀⇛
The Canadian government has introduced a law
delaying the extension of medically-assisted dying
laws for people with mental illness. In a news
release Thursday, the Department of Justice
announced Bill C-39, which proposes that the
broadened medical assistance in dying laws (MAID)
be delayed until March 2024.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Latest_Scientific_Breakthrough_on_Aging⠀⇛
Courtesy of the humble mouse.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Schools_close_in_Bangkok_as_Thailand’s
air_pollution_worsens⠀⇛
Fourty-three provinces, including Bangkok and its
suburbs, remained blanketed in smog.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China’s_Covid-19_testing_booths_get
second_life_as_libraries_and_food_stalls⠀⇛
The build-out cost around 200 billion yuan (S$39
billion) to set up – about equal to the GDP of
Estonia.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ U.S._House_Plans_Vote_to_End
Foreign_Air_Traveler_COVID_Vaccine_Mandate⠀⇛
The U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote
next week on a bill that would end a requirement…
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Cancer_is_striking_more_people_in_their_30s_and_40s.
Here’s_what_you_need_to_know⠀⇛
It’s World Cancer Day, and the outlook for winning
the war against this deadly disease is both good
and bad.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Port Swigger ☛ Serious_security_hole_plugged_in_infosec
tool_binwalk⠀⇛
Path traversals could ‘void reverse engineering
efforts and tamper with evidence collected’
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Practitioners_assess_latest_risks_and
enterprise_vulnerabilities_at_inaugural
CloudNativeSecurityCon [Ed: Lack of disclosure; this
publication bags money to relay PR for this front group of
Microsoft and friends]⠀⇛
The tone was set for the opening day of
CloudNativeSecurityCon in Seattle this week when
Priyanka Sharma, executive director and general
manager of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation,
told attendees that “practitioners are leading the
way, having conversations that you need to have.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ eBPF_enhances_cloud-native_security_through
a_kernel_approach⠀⇛
The evolution taking place in the enterprise
technology space has made security emerge as a
standalone discussion topic. The current state of
security architecture is creating a whack-a-mole
approach, but extended Berkeley Packet Filter, or
eBPF, programs seek to be a game-changer in cloud-
native security by incorporating observability,
networking and security tools into the kernel,
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Apple_takes_down_anonymous_social_media_app
Damus_from_China_App_Store⠀⇛
The app was banned over ‘illegal content’ and
for failing a government security assessment,
developers are told
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_appeals_court_affirms_order_for_more
surveillance_in_California_prisons_to_protect_disabled
prisoners’_rights⠀⇛
Judge Michelle Friedland of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Thursday affirmed a district court decision
as part of a nearly 30-year-long case
regarding the rights of disabled prisoners.
# ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ Meta_Was_Scraping_Sites_for_Years_While
Fighting_the_Practice_–_Bloomberg⠀⇛
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Alphabet_Touts_YouTube
Subscription_‘Momentum’_as_Broader_Revenues_Sag⠀⇛
Alphabet has posted disappointing Q4 2022
results that missed analysts’ expectations as
YouTube ad revenue declines again. Alphabet
posted quarterly revenues of $76.05 billion,
up just 1%, with net income of $13.62 billion
(down 34% in Q4 2021).
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Big_China_Spy_Balloon_Moving_East_Over_US,
Pentagon_Says⠀⇛
The Pentagon said a Chinese spy balloon was over
the central United States, and that the U.S.
rejected China’s claims that it was not being used
for surveillance.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_says_‘spy’_balloon_incident
‘hyped_up’⠀⇛
But it also adopted a mollifying tone, calling for
communication at all levels to be maintained.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Egypt_just_seized_part_of_Libya’s
maritime_zone._What’s_the_story_behind_the_Egyptian_decree_no
one_is_talking_about?⠀⇛
On December 13, 2022, Egypt’s President Abdel
Fattah El-Sisi issued a presidential decree
demarcating the country’s maritime borders with
Libya.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_London’s_Poor_Areas,_Budget_Cuts_and
Youth_Violence_Collide⠀⇛
Poor neighborhoods that have been hit hardest by
austerity have also seen violence among young
people surge or remain stubbornly high. Residents
say that’s no coincidence.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Man_Convicted_of_Treason_Over_Threat_to
Kill_Queen_With_Crossbow⠀⇛
The conviction, the first on such a charge in
Britain in more than 40 years, came after officers
stopped a man at a gate leading to the monarch’s
private quarters on Christmas Day in 2021.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ For_Pakistan,_dealing_with_its_Taliban
problem_is_a_walk_on_eggshells⠀⇛
Islamabad faces a lose-lose scenario against the
Pakistani Taliban. But it is not too late for
Pakistan to stop peeling the banana from the wrong
end.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Kherson_city_was_liberated_12_weeks_ago._See_why_it’s
become_a_ghost_town⠀⇛
The Ukrainian city of Kherson that was liberated 12
weeks ago is now almost a ghost town as Russians
continue to bombard it. The emergency services live
in fear of being targeted. CNN’s Sam Kiley met some
civilians seeking help.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Cloud_reader_or_spy_balloon?_China_downplays
‘civilian_airship’_in_US.⠀⇛
China officials claim that a balloon seen in
American airspace over Montana, a state with a
nuclear missile silo, was launched for weather
studies and got blown off course. U.S. officials
are still investigating if the balloon had
espionage purposes.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Why_diversity_hasn’t_changed_policing⠀⇛
The Memphis police killing shows that hiring Black
officers is not a cure-all for violence against
Black communities. Culture needs to change.
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Ukraine’s_battle_to_block_Russia_from_2024
Paris_Olympics_warms_up,_finds_allies⠀⇛
By citing human rights arguments the IOC has seemed
ready to punish the protesting parties rather than
the aggressors in the war.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Myanmar_junta_declares_martial_law_in_37_townships
across_the_country⠀⇛
Move allows the military to issue harsh sentences
and will lead to intensifying conflict, analysts
say.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ INTERVIEW:_‘China’s_strategy_is_to_seduce_with_money,
reinforce_with_intimidation’⠀⇛
Former US Under-Secretary of State Keith Krach
discusses the Uyghur genocide and what the US
should do.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Protesters_Burn_Government_Propaganda
Banners⠀⇛
Protesters in several Iranian cities, including the
capital, Tehran, have set fire to government
banners commemorating the anniversary of the 1979
Islamic Revolution in a continued show of defiance
amid unrest over the death of a young woman while
in police custody.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ New_U.S._Aid_Package_For_Ukraine_Includes_Rockets
With_Longer_Striking_Range⠀⇛
A new package of U.S. military aid for Ukraine
announced on February 3 includes rockets with a
range twice the distance of the rockets Ukraine now
has.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Targets_Executives_Of_Iranian_Drone_Maker_In
Latest_Sanctions_Designation⠀⇛
The United States has imposed new sanctions on a
previously designated Iranian drone maker, Paravar
Pars, this time targeting the board of directors.
# ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Elon_Musk’s_Cozy_Ties_With_The_Military
Industrial_Complex,_With_Alan_MacLeod⠀⇛
On this episode of The Watchdog, Alan Macleod
exposes Elon Musk’s ties to intelligence agencies
and special interest groups, highlighting SpaceX’s
ties to the CIA and the use of Starlink in
advancing US foreign policy.
# ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ We’re_Trying_To_Crush_The_Happiest
Country_On_Earth_–_Lee_Camp_on_Nicaragua⠀⇛
Nicaragua ranks first among countries whose
citizens feel at peace. Despite this, US media
demonizes its Sandinista government, has sponsored
violent coup attempts and has hit the country with
crippling sanctions.
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Drone_attacks_on_Iran_may_lead_to_severe
consequences⠀⇛
Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian,
said at a news conference in Tehran on Sunday that
“a cowardly drone attack on a military site in
central Iran will not impede Iran’s progress on its
peaceful nuclear program.”
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Another_Chinese_spy_balloon_spotted_over_Latin
America,_Pentagon_says⠀⇛
Another Chinese spy balloon is currently making its
way across Latin America, Pentagon officials said
Friday night.
# ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ The_Patrushev_Oversight⠀⇛
Iain Davis In a recent interview with Russian
media, Nikolay Patrushev, an intelligence officer
who is the former director of the Russian Federal
Security Service (FSB) and the current secretary of
the Russian Federation Security Council, spoke
about the nature of power in the West.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Guantanamo_Bay_detainee_released_after_16_years
imprisonment⠀⇛
The US Department of Defense (DoD) Thursday
confirmed the release from Guantanamo Bay of Majid
Khan, a former money courier for al-Qaeda. The
release follows a transfer agreement between the US
and Belize.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ 998_migrant_children_separated_under_Trump
administration_yet_to_be_reunited_with_their_families⠀⇛
On the two year anniversary of President Biden
establishing the Interagency Task Force on the
Reunification of Families, the US Department of
Homeland Security Thursday released a factsheet
about the efforts that have been made to identify
and reunite children with their families, who were
separated under the Trump administration.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Coldest_air_in_the_Northern_Hemisphere_is_pouring
into_New_England⠀⇛
A potentcold_snapdescending on New England Friday
morning that’s expected to last into early Sunday
threatens to bring wind chills approaching record
low levels.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Extreme_cold_snaps:_Why_temperatures_still_plummet_to
dangerous_levels_even_as_the_planet_warms⠀⇛
Even as the world smashes through one all-time heat
record after another and speeds towards critical
warming thresholds, brutal waves of deadly cold can
still arrive in bomb cyclones that bring icy
weather and deep snow — and add fuel for those who
deny the climate crisis is real or significant.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_to_Stay_Safe_in_Extreme_Cold_Weather⠀⇛
Experts offer tips to protect against common health
hazards as temperatures plummet.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Environmental_protesters_rally
against_illegal_concrete_plant_in_Hong_Kong_amid_heavy_police
presence⠀⇛
Hong Kong saw one of its first protests on Saturday
since Covid-19 restrictions were eased, as a group
of environmental activists protesting against the
illegal operation of a concrete plant in Yau Tong.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Shell_is_more_serious_about_share_buybacks
than_renewables⠀⇛
Shell’s profits hit a record high of $42.3
billion in 2022—double what it made in 2021,
and perhaps the highest profits posted by any
British company in history. H
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Puerto_Peñasco_solar_power_plant
will_begin_operations_in_April⠀⇛
The first 129 megawatts of the project will
be operational by April 29, CFE’s Strategic
Planning Director Juan Antonio Fernández
announced.
# ⚓ Renewable Energy World ☛ Minnesota_to_require_100%
carbon-free_electricity_by_2040⠀⇛
Minnesota utilities would be obligated
to transition to 100% carbon-free electricity
by 2040 under a bill passed by the
Legislature.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ What’s_the_Correct_Color_of_Bees?_In
Austria,_It’s_a_Toxic_Topic.⠀⇛
In the Austrian state of Carinthia, where the
law favors light-colored local bees, those
honey producers judged “too dark” risk
eradication.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ US_may_lift_protections_for_Yellowstone,
Glacier_grizzlies⠀⇛
The Biden administration took a first step
Friday toward ending federal protections for
grizzly bears in the northern Rocky
Mountains, which would open the door to
future hunting in Montana, Wyoming, and
Idaho.
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ The_Irony_of_Indonesian_Media
Disaster_Communication⠀⇛
Indonesia occupies the fourth position as the
most populous country in the world, with a
projected population that will continue to
increase every year, according to data from
the Central Statistics Agency (BPS).
Indonesia’s population in 2021 will reach
272.68 million people, and in 2022 it will
reach 275.77 million.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ The_suffocating_economy_of_Iran⠀⇛
Iran’s economy is on a roller coaster. The past
year saw a dramatic rise in inflation rates and a
historic fall in the value of the rial. The
protests which followed the death of a 22-yar old
Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini have magnified the creaks
in the country’s economy.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ The_Asian_country_where_workers_haven’t_had_a_raise
in_30_years⠀⇛
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Wall_Street_sinks_after_strong_jobs
growth⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Local SE ☛ Strange_but_true:_North_Korea_owes_Sweden
millions_for_Volvos_from_the_1970s⠀⇛
Sweden is no stranger to odd stories, but the tale
of how North Korea owes the Scandinavian nation
millions in unpaid bills for items including a
thousand Volvos from the 1970s is definitely one of
the weirdest of all.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Inequality_in_decline?_Tech_jobs_fade,
waitstaff_jobs_boom.⠀⇛
Tech-firm layoffs, coupled with hiring in lower-
wage industries like restaurants, signal a shift
back toward pre-pandemic job patterns. But for the
first time in 40 years, the wage gap is declining.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Alphabet’s_Profit_Falls_34%_Amid_Ads
Slowdown⠀⇛
Google’s parent company reported its fourth
consecutive drop in quarterly profit, weeks after
culling 6 percent of its work force to cut costs.
# ⚓ Los Angeles Times ☛ Merchant:_Big_Tech_is_using_layoffs_to
crush_worker_power_–_Los_Angeles_Times⠀⇛
Wildly profitable tech companies are citing an as-
yet notional recession to make deep workforce cuts.
They may have another agenda.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Elon_Musk_killed_the_good_bots⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Rishi_Sunak_has_had_a_torrid_first_100_days_as
Britain’s_leader._But_the_Conservatives_might_not_be_doomed⠀⇛
Earlier this week, Rishi Sunak celebrated his first
100 days as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ The_GOP’s_Pitchfork_Populism_Is_Older_Than_Trump⠀⇛
But it doesn’t have to be the future of the GOP or
the country.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Peru_Congress_rejects_advanced_general_election
timeline_amid_anti-government_protests⠀⇛
A plenary session of the Peruvian Congress Thursday
rejected a proposal to move the date of the general
election forward to July 2023 from the current
April 2024 date.
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexico_loses_ground_on_2022_Democracy
Index⠀⇛
For a second consecutive year, the U.K.-based
Economist Intelligence Unit classified Mexico as a
“hybrid regime” on its Democracy Index.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Advisory_Firm_Sues_Elon_Musk’s_Twitter,
Saying_It_Hasn’t_Been_Paid⠀⇛
Innisfree M&A says Twitter, which Elon Musk bought
last year, has not paid it $1.9 million for
services it rendered for the deal.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ At_Twitter,_Elon_Musk_is_tilting_at_his_own
windmills⠀⇛
Elon Musk locked his Twitter account this week,
having convinced himself that something was awry
within the website’s all-powerful algorithm.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_national_opera_house_staff_revolt_against
new_director_appointment⠀⇛
The staff of the Lithuanian National Opera and
Ballet Theatre (LNOBT) criticise the decision to
appoint Laima Vilimienė as director, saying they
fear she will be disastrous for the theatre.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ ‘More_than_half’_of_Danes_want_embassy_Quran_burnings
banned⠀⇛
More than half of Danes responding to a survey said
they were in favour of banning far-right activist
Rasmus Paludan’s Quran-burning demonstrations in
front of the Turkish Embassy in Copenhagen, due to
national security concerns.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Tijuana,_where_the_news_kills:_Mexican
journalists_under_threat⠀⇛
In early 2022, in the Mexican city of Tijuana, two
journalists were murdered less than a week apart.
The killings of Margarito Martínez and Lourdes
Maldonado represent the multiple dangers facing
media professionals in Mexico, one of the most
dangerous countries in the world for journalists.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Activision_Blizzard_settles_SEC_charges_for_$35
million⠀⇛
Activision Blizzard will pay $35 million to settle
US government allegations that the video game giant
violated a whistleblower protection rule and lacked
processes to collect workplace misconduct
complaints, according to the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
# ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Justice_for_Stolen_Lives_Protest_connects
with_Kent’s_historical_activism⠀⇛
Students for a Democratic Society connect with Kent
State’s historical activism with a march protesting
police brutality.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Can_Hong_Kong’s_‘patriots-only’
legislature_hold_itself_to_account?⠀⇛
Our constitutional structure requires that the
chief executive be accountable to the Legislative
Council (LegCo). This presumes that LegCo has
sufficient autonomy to hold the chief executive and
the Hong Kong government to account.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ A_Galveston_SWAT_Team_Wrecked_an_Innocent_Family’s
Home._Then_They_Kept_It_From_the_City.⠀⇛
Police went silent on city officials following the
botched raid that caused $5,000 in damages.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Cop_Orders_Reporter_To_Leave_a_Park_for_Daring_To
Interview_a_Child⠀⇛
Normal human interaction should not automatically
be considered creepy or criminal.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Homeland_Security_Wants_To_Protect_Us_From_Foreign
Bands⠀⇛
A new proposal to more than triple visa entry fees
for performers will harm American audiences and
culture.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Activision_Blizzard_was_fined_$35_million_for
neglecting_employee_complaints⠀⇛
Activision Blizzard agreed to pay a settlement
worth $35 million after the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) accused the popular video game
developer of failing to properly address complaints
of workplace misconduct.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ My_critique_of_“the_Spotify_Model”:_Part_1_|_by_Jason_Yip_|
Jan,_2023_|_Medium⠀⇛
NOTE: Although I was at Spotify for around 8 years,
I’m not familiar with how every area worked and I
have my own biases, preferences, etc.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Upcoming_Supreme_Court_Oral
Arguments_in_IP_&_Tech_Cases⠀⇛
The Supreme Court will be handling some significant
cases over the next few months that may have a
major impact for folks working in IP & Tech fields.
The following is brief list sorted by the date of
oral arguments.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ YouTube_Contract_Workers_Are_Going_on
Strike⠀⇛
Over 40 YouTube Music contract workers are
protesting a return-to-office policy they say is
unfair to remote workers.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Report:_FTC_could_file_antitrust_lawsuit
against_Amazon⠀⇛
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission may soon launch
an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc.,
according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal
today cited sources as saying that the lawsuit
could be filed within months.
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $3,000_awarded_for_IP_Investment_entity,_Alto
Dynamics,_authentication_patents_prior_art⠀⇛
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing
contest winner, Ekta Aswal, who was awarded $3,000 for
her prior art submissions on two patents, U.S._Patent
7,657,531 and U.S._Patent_8,051,098, owned by Alto
Dynamics, LLC, an IP_Investment_Group subsidiary. The
patents generally relate to state-less authentication and
have been asserted against Redfin_Corp., Wayfair,Stockx,
and others.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ The_Indian_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_World⠀⇛
I’m drinking remotely for the Midnight tonight, instead
writing in from an Indian restaurant in Fairbanks,
Alaska. Its two degrees south of the Arctic Circle.
There’s a mural on the walls that depicts the restaurant
as a lone cabin in the Arctic tundra, in the shadow of
Denali under the northern lights. Big letters in the
corner say “Farthest North Indian Restaurant”. I haven’t
fact checked it, but I think it’s reasonably accurate if
you’re willing to assume it’s limited to the United
States. Maybe even North America.
o ⚓ Non-player_characters⠀⇛
Claudia says, “Adalric and Brunhilde are climbing the
winding trail that leads up to the tower of Ulrike the
Beautiful. It’s a hot day in spring and the crickets are
loud. A crow seems to be watching you, always retreating
uphill as you approach.”
o ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ACEUPSI_Wordo:_SIRES⠀⇛
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ Find_OpenBSD_install_date⠀⇛
As suggested on twtxt, one may look at filesystem
creation time to get a good approximation of system
install date.
Here how I did it. There may be better methods, so let me
know 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈
I use /usr/src slice as reference, probably unused, or
reboot in single mode with “> boot -s” to use another
slice.
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