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⦿ How Much Longer Can the EPO Deny That It Has a Patent Quality and Patent Legitimacy Crisis? | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 12, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Microsoft Shuts Down GitHub (All Offices) | Techrights
⦿ Tens of Millions of GNU/Linux Users in Two Countries | Techrights
⦿ Management of the European Patent Office Has Laid Off All the Staff That Fed the Employees (Despite Drowning in Money Generated by Granting Fake European Patents) | Techrights
⦿ Management of the European Patent Office is Lying About Office Space | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/02/13/epo-patent-quality-concerns-again/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/13/irc-log-120223/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/13/shutting-down-github/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/13/statcounter-stuff-in-china-might-be-interesting/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/13/suepo-munich-chairman-report-2021-2022/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/13/the-central-staff-committee-on-hot-desking-ploy/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/02/13/kicad-7-released/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/13/postgresql-jdbc-42-5-3/#comments
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✐ How_Much_Longer_Can_the_EPO_Deny_That_It_Has_a_Patent_Quality_and_Patent
Legitimacy_Crisis?⠀✐
Posted in Europe, Patents at 4:38 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 550c4201b173a1a6a233b1d0b1d1b5e4
EPO Quality is Low, Say Patent Maximalists
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/epo-quality-exposed-further.webm
Summary: The EPO has a legal and technical crisis, but it is talking about
natural disasters like earthquakes in order to change the subject and act like
a political party, not a patent office (it also does greenwashing this month)
QUALITY of EPO-granted patents is a longstanding theme here. Staff has warned
about this for years and Kluwer now reports_on_the_issue (focus on the
comments), probably more than 5 years late. SUEPO, the staff union, has been
cautioning about this for nearly a decade already!
“The corrupt management does everything it can to hide the grim reality — to
the point of even exploiting the devastating earthquakes.”The video above talks
about the issue and then shows the latest propaganda from the EPO’s official
site. The corrupt management does everything it can to hide the grim reality —
to the point of even exploiting the devastating earthquakes. If Benoît
Battistelli habitually exploited crises including earthquakes for self-serving
propaganda in the EPO’s Web site, why can’t António_Campinos too? █
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇“An_Earthquake_Would_be_Needed_for_the_Administrative
Council…Not_to_Support_My_Major_Proposals.”-Benoît_Battistelli⦈_
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇“An_Earthquake_Would_be_Needed_for_the_Administrative
Council…Not_to_Support_My_Major_Proposals.”-Benoît_Battistelli⦈_
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⠀⢠⡀⡄⣀⢄⠠⣤⡄⢠⣤⢄⡠⡀⠀⡠⣄⢀⠀⣀⣤⡀⡤⣀⣀⢄⣀⡤⣀⢤⣤⠀⣄⢀⡄⡀⡠⠀⣄⢠⡄⢨⡛⠻⡟⣛⢆⢠⣤⡀⠀⡤⣀⣠⢄⢀⡤⡀⣤⣄⢀⣤⡀⡠⣄⢀⡄⢠⠀⢀⡤⡀⠀⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠸⠙⠇⠧⠴⠃⠇⠀⠀⠇⠸⠤⠞⠀⠭⠷⠸⠤⠻⠒⠃⣗⣋⡧⠤⠻⠗⠏⠸⠄⣀⡟⠞⠇⠹⠁⠀⠟⠎⠧⠗⠧⠤⠇⠧⠼⠻⠓⠇⠀⠗⠋⠿⠺⠸⠤⠞⠗⠊⠹⠤⠇⠭⠷⠜⠺⠸⠤⠬⠭⠆⠄⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⡿⣛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣤⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣿⠀⢠⠈⣿⠀⣤⡇⠈⡇⢸⠃⢠⠈⣿⠀⣧⡄⢠⣼⣿⠀⢀⠈⣿⠀⠀⣧⡄⠀⣤⡄⠀⣤⠀⢸⠁⢄⣈⣧⠀⢠⡇⠀⣤⡇⢸⣿⠀⣿⡇⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣉⣹⠀⢠⠀⢿⠀⣤⡇⢀⠀⢸⠀⢸⠀⣿⠀⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⠀⢀⠀⡇⠀⠄⢸⡇⠀⣿⡇⠀⣿⠀⢸⠦⡄⠙⣿⠀⢸⡇⠀⣬⡇⢸⣿⠀⣿⡇⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⢿⣀⣈⣠⣾⣀⣉⣇⣸⣆⣸⣦⣈⣠⣿⣀⣿⣇⣸⣿⣿⣀⣀⣠⣇⣠⣆⣸⣇⣀⣿⣇⣀⣿⣀⣸⣄⣁⣠⣿⣀⣸⣇⣀⣉⣇⣈⣹⣀⣈⣇⣸⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣤⣶⣾⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣀⣀⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠋⠁⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠋⠉⠙⠋⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡈⠻⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⢀⣠⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⡈⠹⣿⡆⠀⠀⢀⣍⣉⠀⢀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⡢⠀⢸⡏⠀⡟⡄⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣴⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣭⣥⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⠀⠀⠸⡁⠻⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⠀⠀⠓⠢⠓⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⡿⠿⠟⠛⠁⠑⠌⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⡆⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣾⣦⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡾⣇⠀⠀⠀⡾⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣶⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠋⠁⠀⣾⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠙⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣶⣷⣄⣀⡀⠀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠙⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣤⣄⢠⣤⡄⠀⣤⢠⣤⣤⡜⣥⣭⢫⣭⣝⢣⣤⢠⣤⣬⢻⢿⣭⡝⣯⣭⡃⣤⣤⡀⢠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⢠⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡷⣿⢸⡷⠄⠀⣿⣾⣿⣿⠄⣿⠶⢸⡇⣿⢸⡧⢸⣿⣿⢸⢿⣿⢖⣿⢸⡇⣿⢾⡃⠀⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⢸⡧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠷⠿⠸⠷⠆⠀⠏⠿⠿⠿⠆⠿⠶⠸⠷⢟⠸⠷⠾⠿⠿⣸⡼⠿⣆⡿⠾⠃⠿⠸⠇⠀⠿⠇⠿⠿⠿⠸⠷⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⢩⣭⠉⣭⣭⡏⣭⡍⣥⡄⣤⢠⡄⣤⢠⡄⣤⢤⣠⣤⣤⢠⣤⣄⢠⣤⡄⣤⣤⣤⣭⣭⢩⣭⣤⣤⠀⢠⡬⣝⢫⣭⣝⢩⡅⣤⢠⡄⣤⢠⡤⣄⢠⡄⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⢠⡄⣤⢤⡄⣤⣤⠄⢠⣤⡤⣠⢭⡝⣿⣿
⡏⣿⢻⡆⣿⢸⡇⣿⣿⢿⡇⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸⡇⡻⣮⡅⢸⡇⢸⡷⣏⣸⣿⡇⢸⡇⢸⣿⢻⣿⡇⣿⠶⠀⢸⡇⣛⢸⡇⣿⢸⡇⣿⢸⣷⣿⢸⡇⣛⢸⡇⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⣿⢸⡇⢸⡇⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⢸⡇⣿⣿
⣧⣿⣹⣇⣿⣾⣃⣿⡻⠸⠇⠿⠸⠏⠿⠸⠇⠻⠾⠃⠸⠇⠸⠇⠿⠿⠹⠷⠸⠇⠸⢿⡸⠿⣇⠿⠶⠀⠘⠷⢟⣜⡷⣟⣜⠷⠟⠸⠟⠿⠘⠷⠟⠸⠇⠿⠶⠖⠖⠖⠀⠿⠹⠇⠻⠾⠃⠸⠇⠀⠀⠿⠀⠻⢾⣣⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣟⣭⣭⢫⡍⣭⢡⣤⣤⢠⣤⡄⣠⢤⡄⣤⣤⡄⣤⣤⡄⢠⣤⢠⣤⢠⣄⡤⠀⣬⡍⣭⡍⣤⣤⠀⣤⢈⡭⣽⢫⣭⣭⠀⢠⣤⣄⣤⣤⡄⣠⣤⡄⣤⣤⡄⣤⢤⡀⣤⣤⡀⣤⣤⢠⡄⢀⡤⣤⠀⢠⢠⢸⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡟⠿⣯⢸⡇⣿⢸⡷⠿⢸⡷⠇⣿⢸⡇⣿⢾⡇⢸⡇⠀⢸⣿⣾⣿⠘⣿⠃⠀⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⡀⣿⢸⡇⣿⢸⡷⣿⠀⢸⡷⠿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠇⣿⢸⡇⠻⣮⣁⣿⣿⢸⡇⢘⠷⣯⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣟⡷⢿⣘⡷⡟⠸⠇⠀⠸⠇⠀⠻⠾⠃⠿⠸⠇⠸⠇⠀⠸⠏⠏⠿⠀⠿⠀⠀⠿⣹⠹⣷⠿⠹⠷⠿⠘⠷⢟⣸⣇⡿⠀⠸⠇⠀⠿⠿⠇⠹⠿⠋⠿⠇⠀⠻⠾⠃⠻⠾⠻⠏⠿⠾⠷⠞⠷⠟⠰⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⠀⢀⣀⣀⢀⣀⢀⣀⠀⣀⣀⡀⠐⣛⢂⣀⣘⣛⢻⡟⣀⣀⣀⠀⢀⣀⡛⢟⣛⣃⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⣀⡀⢀⣀⣀⠀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣀⣀⠀⣀⠀⢀⣀⠀⢀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢀⡀⠀⠀⣿⡏⣿⡇⢸⣿⠉⢸⣿⣼⣿⢸⣿⢹⣿⠀⣿⠈⢹⣿⢩⣼⡇⣿⡏⣿⠆⣸⡿⣿⢨⢹⣿⠉⠉⣿⡏⠁⣿⡇⣿⣏⠛⠃⠉⣿⠉⢸⣿⠉⠀⣿⠀⢸⣿⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠋⠙⠛⠁⣿⡏⣿⡆⢸⣿⠛⢸⡟⣿⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⠀⣿⠀⢸⣿⢸⣿⡇⣿⡟⣷⡄⣿⣇⣿⡸⢸⣿⠀⠀⣿⡇⠀⣿⡇⣈⡛⣿⡄⠀⣿⠀⢸⣿⠛⠀⣿⠀⢸⣿⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⠷⠿⠇⠸⠿⠶⠸⠇⠸⠿⠈⠿⠾⠟⠀⠿⠀⠸⠿⣸⣿⣇⠿⠷⠿⠃⠿⠏⠿⠇⠸⠿⠀⠀⠿⠇⠀⠿⠇⠻⠷⠿⠃⠀⠿⠀⠸⠿⠶⠀⠿⠷⠸⠿⠶⠸⠿⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠖⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢤
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠉⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠑⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠒⡠⠀⠀⢤⠌
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠃⠀⠀⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡤⠴⢖⠲⢶⣦⣤⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠂⣶⣶⠀⠀⣰⠟⣢⣦⢀⠀⠛⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠁⢀⡄⠛⢱⣿⢎⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⣠⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠒⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠋⠁⠀⠉⠁⣸⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠄⠀⣶⣿⠟⢷⠄⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡊⣠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣘⣿⣏⢋⣠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠼⠧⢰⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠐⠛⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⡤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣄⣀⣤⡜⠛⢻⠟⢿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠘⠟⢦⣼⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣠⣄⡀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣄⣀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⡀⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⢉⡉⠁⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢠⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣷⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⡀
⠁⠉⠓⠀⠀⠐⠚⠎⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠨⠉⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣳⣿⢙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡼⠫⣿⡿⢿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⡿
⠉⠀⠀⠀⠰⠶⠆⠀⠰⠶⢶⣶⠦⠄⠀⢄⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣺⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣷⡀⠀⠀⠩⣿⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠱⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣤⣤⣴⠂⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣷⢖⠤⣸⣶⣴⣦⣄⣀⣸⠗⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⢀⠙⠛⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⢘⠉⠉⠀⠀⢰⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⠃⠀⠈⠉⠀⠀⠉⠋⠰⠆⠀⠠⢿⡋⠹⣷⣭⣧⣶⣤⣄⠀⠦⠀
⣿⣾⣿⡆⢀⡀⣼⠀⣀⣁⠀⠀⠀⢘⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣟⣛⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⣼⣿⡏⡀⣀⣴⣶⣦⣾⡆⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠘⠿⠷⠿⠟⠛⡿⠿⢿⡿⣿⣶
⠿⠿⡿⠛⠻⡿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣶⣄⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣳⣿⣛⣛⢿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣌⣻⡿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣠⣌⢉
⡆⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠀⢼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⢉⣭⣽⣿⡟⣻⡿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠛⠉⠁⠀⣸⣿
⣁⠉⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣼⡏⠀⢀⡂⣻⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡄⠀⠐⠔⠀⠀⣠⣄⠀⠀
⣿⣿⠖⠀⠠⡀⠀⢰⣿⢿⣿⣿⢶⠿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠇⠀⢸⢀⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣭⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠷⣾⣿⣿⡿⣽⣋⡿⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠔⣤⣤⠀⣤⣄⡈⢹⡷⠤⠦
⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⣠⣮⠈⢰⣿⣿⣿⡗⠀⠀⡌⠀⣵⣾⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠉⠁⠀⠒⢋⠁⢠⢽⣿⠟⢀⣀⠂⢀⣠⣶⣤⣸⣷⣼⣿⣶⣿⣿⠟⠉⣿⣠⣤
⣀⣤⣶⣶⣶⣶⡦⠀⣀⠀⣙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⡇⠇⠀⡇⢰⣿⠿⣿⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠉⣹⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⣀⠠⣤⣶⣿⡿⠢⠤⠾⠁⠈⡟⠑⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠿⢹⡿
⠿⢿⣟⠻⢿⠇⢀⣀⣬⣰⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⢻⡇⡄⢰⠇⢌⣤⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⡟⠟⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠘⠉⠁⠀⢐⣲⡏⠁⢰⣸⣿⣿⣷⠆⣀⣤⡄⠘⠋⠀⠓⠈⠉⠉⠉⣟⠛⠟⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣶⣦⣬⣿⣁⣻⣟⠛⠉⠛⠄⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠘⠡⡀⠈⢀⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢼⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⠿⠟⠃⠀⠀⢀⣀⣠⣿⣿⣷⠄⣾⣿⣯⣭⣥⣴⣾⣿⠃⠠⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡄⠀⠀
⣿⣿⡟⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⡶⣦⡄⣿⣿⠀⣶⡇⡄⢸⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠛⡿⡶⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⢉⣈⣿⣏⡉⡉⠻⡿⢿⣁⣠⣦⣼⣿⣛⣶⣤⣤⣤⣴⡀⠀⣷⠂⠈⠁⠀⠀
⣿⡋⠁⠀⣀⣀⣹⣿⣿⠟⢿⣿⡿⠿⣿⠀⢰⣿⠇⠀⠲⠶⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣯⣌⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡀⠈⢦⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣿⠿⣦⣀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⠛⠻⠉⡻⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠
⣿⣿⣷⣶⠟⠙⠉⢙⣯⣡⡤⠙⠳⠄⢻⠀⣿⣿⠀⢀⣼⣿⣿⣿⡙⠻⠿⠛⠉⢿⣿⡻⠛⣿⠟⠛⣿⣽⢿⠆⠀⢀⣴⣗⠰⠾⣛⣿⠋⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠙⠟⠀⠨⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠚⠛⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠾
⠈⠉⢾⣿⣶⣶⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⢠⣿⣿⠀⣰⣿⣿⣹⢿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠛⠋⠻⢷⠀⠀⠄⠀⢿⣷⣌⢁⣴⣾⣦⢀⣀⠀⢀⣈⢹⡟⢻⠛⡉⠙⠛⠛⠻⣽⣶⣦⣤⣤⡶⣵⣴⣆⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢈
⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣅⣿⣿⡷⠆⡀⠀⠀⠀⠸⢸⣿⡏⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣆⢹⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣆⠙⢿⣿⣿⣀⣰⠿⠲⠆⠀⠳⠀⠸⠿⠞⢃⣠⣶⠛⠋⣵⡏⠈⠈⠛⡍⢻⡿⢷⣶⣶⡆⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⢤⣤
⣿⣾⣾⣟⣛⣿⢿⣥⡀⠀⠉⠲⠶⠛⣤⢸⣿⠃⠈⣿⣿⣛⣿⣿⣿⡏⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⠙⢀⣧⡈⠃⠉⣬⠘⠿⠦⣷⣶⠾⠷⡄⠀⣾⡿⠇⣾⣿⣿⠇⠀⠚⠛⠋⠀⠀⠀⠸⠿⠿⠇⠀⠈⠀⠀⠒⠿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣴⣶⢰⣦⡖⢠⣶⢂⣶⡆⣶⣲⡟⣶⢚⣶⣶⢲⣶⡆⣶⣴⢦⣶⡆⣶⣴⢲⡖⠂⣶⣲⣆⡶⣴⣲⣧⡖⣶⣴⠆⣶⣶⡆⢰⣶⡆⣶⠒⢀⣶⣴⢰⡖⣰⡖⣰⢶⡆⣶⢒⣶⣶⠀⢀⣴⠀⢀⠀⢀
⢿⠿⢷⣾⣿⣿⡿⣰⣿⣏⡿⣿⠃⣼⣏⣼⢿⣷⣟⣿⣸⡟⣸⣿⡏⣿⣼⢿⣯⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣇⣿⡉⠀⣿⢿⣿⢳⣟⡿⣼⣻⣧⣿⣸⣏⡿⠀⣿⣽⢷⣟⡁⣸⢿⣏⣿⣉⣿⣉⣿⣾⣻⣏⣹⣷⣿⣶⣿⣿⣶⣮⣶⣾
⡖⠀⠀⣰⣶⡍⣃⣲⣖⣀⢂⣀⡘⣶⣖⣐⣂⢀⣰⣦⡙⢛⣁⡀⣀⣈⢉⣀⣁⡀⣀⣀⢀⡀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣿⣷⢿⣾⢾⣷⣆⣐⣒⢶⣂⣀⡀⢀⣀⡀⣀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⢀⡀⣀⣤⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿
⠑⢀⣾⣿⣭⣧⣿⢭⡟⣿⣼⣿⣇⡉⣿⢉⣿⣾⣹⣯⠑⣼⣿⢰⣏⡿⣾⣿⣿⢻⣏⣿⣾⢹⡇⢿⣟⢸⡟⣹⣿⣟⣿⣿⢨⡿⢹⡏⣿⣿⣽⣯⠉⣿⢹⢷⣟⣿⣾⣿⣏⣿⣾⣹⣿⡟⣿⣸⡇⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣷
⠀⠘⠏⠹⠿⠼⢇⡸⠿⠣⠿⠿⠁⡸⢏⡼⠷⢯⠿⡖⠼⠏⠿⠾⠿⠳⠿⠿⠟⠿⠹⠿⠏⠿⠸⠿⠋⠾⠃⠿⣾⣿⣿⢿⣾⣇⣿⣹⣿⣧⡿⣾⣿⡿⣟⣸⣿⣃⣿⣟⣼⣿⣏⡿⢾⣻⠧⠿⢶⣷⡶⡽⣟⣛⣿⢋⡙⠉
⠀⢰⣆⡖⣴⣶⠴⣶⢖⠰⣶⢶⡶⣶⠈⣴⣶⢼⣶⡷⣶⢶⢴⣶⣆⡶⣶⢰⣶⡦⣶⡶⠀⣶⣦⣶⢲⣰⠆⣰⣾⣿⣏⣶⡞⣹⣯⡿⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⣿⡯⣿⣾⢹⣶⡯⣿⣿⣹⣷⡏⣶⣾⢹⣷⢏⣷⢨⣶⡦⢡⢶⠆⠠
⠂⡿⣿⢻⣯⡿⢸⡏⠒⢸⡏⣼⣿⣏⢠⣝⡷⣾⣿⢷⡟⠋⣿⠛⣹⣷⡟⣿⣿⢃⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⡏⣸⠇⢀⡿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣇⣿⣾⣻⣧⣿⣿⠙⣿⠛⢹⣿⡟⣿⣽⢷⡟⢋⣿⣼⢧⣿⣷⣿⣿⣸⣇⣬⣻⣆⣱⠲⠀⠠
⢮⣅⣭⣌⣉⠀⠯⠥⠒⠉⢁⡾⣭⣾⣿⣭⣧⣭⡉⢮⡁⠈⠉⢿⣬⠉⠈⠁⣽⣿⠁⠀⠉⠈⠈⠁⠉⠀⠈⠁⠁⢩⣿⣿⣿⣷⣯⣽⣾⣯⡟⢎⣩⡶⢯⣯⣥⣭⣧⠮⠁⢠⠩⣡⣾⣿⡿⢡⠉⠭⠥⣭⠙⠍⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⡷⠋⣳⠓⣴⠁⢄⣽⣿⣯⣿⣿⢿⢨⠙⠳⠤⡥⠉⠀⠀⠁⠀⢀⠴⠾⢝⣀⣀⣀⠠⢐⣒⣀⣀⠀⢀⣀⣈⢿⣿⣯⣽⣭⣭⣭⣬⣤⣬⢩⣵⣶⣍⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⢰⣶⠉⢺⣿⢀⢻⣿⠰⠅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⣠⣿⣶⢦⣿⣭⣇⣽⢶⣶⢶⣦⢰⣶⡾⠇⣿⣇⣿⡇⣼⣿⣿⣷⢸⣿⢘⢻⣿⠛⠀⢸⣿⡟⣿⡆⣾⣿⣿⣨⣽⣿⣯⣯⢹⣿⢩⣿⣿⢸⣿⣬⡉⠀⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣬⢸⣿⠈⢸⣿⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣼
⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣫⣭⣝⣽⢸⣿⣼⣟⢸⣿⣷⡆⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⢻⣿⢸⣿⢸⢸⣿⠀⠀⢸⣿⡟⣿⡆⣿⣇⣿⡏⢻⣿⡏⠿⢸⣿⠐⢻⣿⢠⣬⢻⣿⠀⢻⣿⠀⣿⣿⣀⢸⣿⣤⢸⣿⣤⢸⣿⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠣
⢝⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⢾⣶⢸⣿⣸⣿⠆⣿⣧⡄⣿⡟⣿⣇⢻⣿⣼⡿⢸⣿⣾⢸⣿⡀⠀⠀⣿⣷⡿⠇⠿⠏⠿⠿⢀⠿⠇⠏⡸⠿⢀⠘⠛⢈⣛⠛⣛⠀⢘⣛⣤⠙⡛⠋⠈⡍⣉⠬⠉⠭⠈⠉⠀⠀⣄⣤⣞⠂⠁
⣾⣷⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⢹⣿⣮⣭⡉⣭⣶⣭⣭⣅⢩⣵⣍⢯⣄⢈⣵⣂⣶⣶⣾⣷⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠟⢀⢴⣤⠃⠚⣷⣒⣂⡴⡟⠋⣛⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣀⣠⣆⢹⡗⢄⠀⠀⠀⢨⣇⡤⠀⠉⣄⣨⡟
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GitHub Closing Shop
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http://techrights.org/videos/github-closures.webm
Summary: GitHub isn’t free-as-in-freedom (it’s proprietary) and it was never
‘for free’; many people are failing to see — at their own peril — that GitHub
has no business model and thus it will never be ‘for free’ (Microsoft is
realising the losses are becoming too much of a yoke already)
THE company GitHub was never profitable. It just gave Git hosting ‘for free’
with a Web interface to manage and navigate repositories. GitHub itself is
proprietary and for many years it managed to attract many users, offering ‘for
free’ all sorts of things, including computational resources. But how did
GitHub plan to make money, even just to cover salaries?
Blender, taking note of GitHub just riding shareholders’ money, avoided the
GitHub trap and explained why. Microsoft, desperate to take control over Free
software somehow, decided to take this thing which operated at a loss. It was
never going to work because efforts to make it profitable would result in an
exodus greater than what happened in the wake of ICE scandals.
In the GitHub series (Part_28_in_particular) we’ve taken note of serious
trouble. The latest is office closures. This is permanent. What comes next? Our
guess is that Microsoft will try to increase fees; it already does this with
Teams and no doubt Azure will continue to raise the prices, which still isn’t
going to be enough (hence layoffs in Azure for 3 years already).
People who still use GitHub because they think it’s cheap or “for free” need to
learn a lesson from Gitlab.com. Hosting is never free. There’s this_new_post_in
Gemini that says: “In honor of World Give Up GitHub day, here’s a quick guide
to how to serve up your own git repos.”
It’s not as hard as it may seem. People need not even be programmers to do
this. Relying on Microsoft or outsourcing to Microsoft is a foolish move. █
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GNU/Linux Growing in Asia
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Summary: In the world’s most populous countries GNU/Linux_is_making_big
strides; it’s fair to say that this is a growth area that thwarts the near-
monopoly of Windows on desktops/laptops
THE GNU/Linux operating system is turning 40 later this year, assuming we
started counting or started the clock in 1983. Back then a 30-year-old Richard
Stallman (yes, he’s turning 70 on March 16th) started the vision of a freedom-
respectingoperating system. He had already made his emacs and various other
programs.
The media is gaslighting GNU and the FSF, but in a lot of ways they got their
way. Free software continues to grow.
“The world is changing. Microsoft isn’t keeping up.”The video above speaks
about my early years with GNU/Linux (as a young scientist) and explains that it
has found growing exposure in two countries that have about 3 billion people in
them. When it comes to GNU/Linux adoption, China was always behind India, but
it is catching_up while Microsoft lays off many workers and Windows loses
market share. As per this_page, this month Android is up to 45% of all market
share, whereas Windows is down to 27% this month. The funny thing is that
Microsoft Edge market share — just_like_Bing's_market_share — fell_by_about_5%
this month, in spite of all_the_media_SPAM_from_Microsoft, sprinkling “HEY HI”
(AI) pixie dust over everything, including Edge and Azure (now they say the
same about Teams and Office). This helps distract from Edge staff being laid
off and Bing staff being laid off. Azure too has many layoffs (for several
years already). “HEY HI” (AI) is the new clown computing, i.e. misleading_hype.
The world is changing. Microsoft isn’t keeping up. Buying GitHub was buying
debt and perpetual losses (in an effort to control the competition and attack
copyleft-based licences). Now, amid a_class_action_lawsuit, all_the_offices_are
being_disbanded. █
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Posted in Europe, Patents at 11:06 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
It’s all about greed and exploitation by managers who give themselves massive
bonuses
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Summary: An internal publication explains many of the violations that have
occurred at the EPO in the past couple of years, including and especially the
attacks on staff
THE UNION of the EPO‘s staff, SUEPO, was targeted by Benoît_Battistelli and
António_Campinos told the vindicated victim of this unlawful witch-hunt — right
to his face — that he would rather see him leave (or something to that effect).
“They are in effect an element of vendor (corporate) capture of Europe’s
largest patent agency, which is also trying to override pertinent nations’
patent court systems.”The EPO is run by truly corrupt officials. They cannot
tolerate criticism and they don’t follow the law. They are in effect an element
of vendor (corporate) capture of Europe’s largest patent agency, which is also
trying to override pertinent nations’ patent court systems.
The following report was circulated last week and it was authored by one victim
of the unlawful witch-hunt. SUEPO members have seen this already and the public
should too. This is where the EPO stands
INTERNATIONALE GEWERKSCHAFT IM EUROPÄISCHEN PATENTAMT
STAFF UNION OF THE EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE
UNION SYNDICALE DE L’OFFICE EUROPEEN DES BREVETS
Ortssektion München
Local section Munich
Section locale de Munich
10 February 2023
su23005mp – 0.2.1
§ SUEPO Munich Chairman’s report⠀➾
§ 2021 – 2022⠀➾
The SUEPO Munich elections for the period 2021-2022 took place in
March 2021. The election results were announced on 17 March 2021, and
the committee constituted on 29 March 2021. Presently the committee
is composed of four members. The number of SUEPO Munich branch
members remained stable between 1.700 – 1.800. The membership income
is however decreasing slowly since more staff are going on pension
than are hired by the EPO.
Work_with_EPO_management.
The most prominent fact to be mentioned here is the consistent
reluctance of Mr Campinos to talk to the unions over the last two
years. Mr Campinos successfully avoided all invitations coming from
SUEPO and when the unions called for industrial actions, Mr Campinos
sent a delegation of members of the administration without any
mandate to propose anything. However, the work with management at all
other lower levels is relaxing.
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Operational
Year 2021
Caterers kicked out
Throughout 2021, the Covid-19 epidemy raged on. EPO staff adapted to
the ‘Emergency Guidelines’ allowing them to work 100% from home or
from abroad. These had major implications for the EPO, for the staff
and for the contractors.
The caterers of our canteens were decimated during the pandemic
years, to the extent that all our canteens in Munich were closed
down. From April to September 2021, the staff committee Munich
supported by SUEPO Munich, organized a GOFundMe campaign and
collected over Euro 100.000 support for the 40 canteen staff laid
off.
‘Team Leonardi’ was the caterer in Munich who served EPO staff the
longest with great food. Some employees had been with us for 20-30
years. Now most of them are either unemployed or retired. All of them
however were very thankful for the donations.
Education allowance
In May 2021, the Office tabled in the General Consultative Committee
(GCC) the Education and Childcare allowance reform. Officially, the
reform was aimed at introducing equal treatment between expatriates
and nationals. However, it significantly reduced benefits to EPO
sites relying on International Schools while reducing the overall
budget by -10% compared to the previous years at a time the EPO made
a profit of over 348,9 million euros.
The administration remained oblivious to all the letters sent to them
with all the rational arguments presented therein, which were
repeated in the GCC. Instead of simplifying the work of the HR
Department, we explained that it would rather increase their
workload. Two years later in 2023, we are proven right. Any request
sent to the HR needs months to be answered due to the high amount of
work regarding the education allowance requests. The lack of proper
definition of indirect costs is now the preferred tool of HR to
reduce reimbursements and pretend they are covered by a “lump-sum”.
It is worth nothing that this reform was again drafted and
implemented by Ms. Elodie Bergot. Yet another successful
project….against the staff.
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An army of litigators
The savings made by the EPO on the back of staff and the education of
their children amount to what the EPO invested in an army of
litigators. In the same month the education allowance reform was
introduced, May 2021, the EPO presented a financial request to the
Budget and Finance Committee (BFC) for a tremendous increase in their
litigation budget for external law firms working on the EPO’s behalf
in front of the Tribunal. The budget increased from a few hundred
thousand Euros in the past years to 5.8 million Euro. It just shows
the kind of social dialogue Mr Campinos has in mind.
New Normal
In May 2021 the EPO embarked on yet another ‘successful’ pilot
project described in an orientation paper, the ‘New Normal’. The
paper was essentially empty and void of any specifics. It was not
even tabled in the GCC. Mr. Campinos considered its purpose was only
to give the “opportunity to give further input” to “stakeholders”
which will be assessed for inclusion in the final draft of the
document.
In our opinion, proper good faith consultation would have allowed a
reasonable amount of time for statutory bodies to discuss_the_issue,
to have its main questions_answered and to provide reasoned advice.
The proposed exercise merely consisting in sending “further input” to
an email alias address, lacked essential features of a genuine
consultation.
Even external_stakeholders have realized that such a call for input
is more of a communication exercise than a consultation. The same is
still happening on the topic of quality for which the EPO showed
reluctance to come to the round table.
Young Professionals
In June 2021 the EPO provided another blow to its staff and future
staff. Management tabled Circular 405 which goes again in the exact
opposite direction than what is needed. Instead of providing young
staff with a safe and secure environment the Circular puts all new
staff on a 13 years’ probation. According to the EPO, young staff
prefers precarity.
The new colleagues, named ‘Young Professionals’, are recruited
directly from the university. In order to propose the lowest salaries
ever, the EPO had to cobble together a new way of putting them off-
scale below the lowest grade and step at the EPO. They are recruited
for one year. They can obtain a two year extension. After these three
successful years, the ‘Young Professional’ can apply for a five year
contract. Again, passing these 5 years the not so ‘Young
Professional‘ anymore can be extended for five more years. Overall,
it constitutes 13 years on probation. After passing these 13 years of
probation the middle aged ‘Young Professional’ could become a
permanent staff provided that the EPO sees a need for her or him.
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We are appalled by this new reform and treatment of our new
colleagues. Once again, we tried to make positive suggestions but to
no avail. In a competitive environment where the industry offers
permanent contracts after one year and even 6 months, the EPO is
actually deteriorating even further its employment package. We expect
this reform to have a profound negative effect on the office
capability in finding job applicants to perform its tasks in the
future.
Year 2022
Technologia Survey
Beginning of 2022, SUEPO organized the Fifth Edition of the
‘Technologia Staff survey’. The Technologia Survey is organized by
SUEPO every three years without interruption since the last 15 years.
When the EPO runs its own staff survey, it formulates non-question so
as to get non-answers. And when answers tend to be negative for
management, the results are swept under the carpet.
Call for actions
Simultaneously, SUEPO called for actions. The action was necessary in
view of many unresolved issues such as:
• violation both individual and collective of the rights of staff to
freedom of association since 2013;
• inefficient and biased EPO internal justice system
• unsolved major reforms such as the salary adjustment procedure and
its disastrous loss of staff’s purchasing power ignoring the massive
efforts made by EPO staff during the pandemic time.
• the introduction of an alleged “coverage gap” predicted for 2038
which was covered already in the first two years since mentioning it.
An overwhelming number of staff (90%) voted for the action plan.
The ‘Work to rule’ action appeared to be successful. This action
continued throughout 2022 until end of September. The action had a
great impact on the production of grants. This effect was also echoed
by the delegates in the Administrative Council where they indicated
that in some national office they had to lay staff off because of
lack of income. However, none of them came to the conclusion that
maybe the lack of dialogue with the staff could be a problem and that
maybe a different approach from the management would improve things.
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Strike
SUEPO called for 1 full day of strike on the 22 March 2022.
According to the unsigned Intranet_Communiqué from management, 1.514
employees participated in the strike. It was the highest result of an
industrial action since 2016 and an even better participation than in
the strike of 15 December 2020. It was a clear signal to Mr Campinos
that there is room for improvement in terms of social dialogue.
In addition, strike registration was made difficult by the management
and therefore still remains an unreliable tool. When putting the
figures into perspective, even based on these unreliable and
incomplete data, we count that at least 40% of non-managerial
available staff went on strike.
SUEPO invited Mr Campinos to urgent meetings and proposed multiple
dates (1 April, 5 April or 6 April) with the aim to explore ways out
of the social unrest with the aim of delivering positive outcomes to
our legitimate claims.
Needless to say that Mr. Campinos did not turn up but sent his
management instead to the negotiation table. They came empty handed
however, with no proposals or mandate to solve any of the raised
problems.
Our successful actions were also followed closely by the media.
Political_and_legal
SUEPO Central is the structure regrouping all SUEPO committees from
all four places of employment (or sites). Together we are able to
tackle all the issues which have become of a more general nature
concerning all staff. Munich being the biggest site participates
financially and legally to this structure to a very large extent.
Actions launched by SUEPO Central are normally backed by all SUEPO
committees.
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Year 2021
Following a series of well attended General Meetings in all sites,
the SUEPO committees were entrusted by their members to prepare
litigation procedures against the New Salary Adjustment Procedure
(SAP). Via SUEPO Central, templates to challenge the procedure were
provided for the deadline of 16 March 2021 which was the deadline for
filing the management review (RfR). Over 1.200 staff members filed
this review.
Campinos protecting Battistelli’s legacy
In February 2021, Mr. Campinos rejected the Appeals against the New
Career System and Invalidity Lump sum. As in the past and in the same
line with his predecessor Mr. Campinos followed the majority opinion
in favor of the EPO for the New Career system but at the same time
refused to follow the unanimous opinion for the Invalidity lump sum
when this was in favor of the staff.
The days when Mr Campinos preferred to reduce litigation through
settlement discussions seem now to be over. By selectively following
ApC opinions to confirm two major negative reforms against EPO staff,
Mr Campinos reveals one facet of his mandate: to protect and pursue
the political legacy of his predecessor.
In May 2021, SUEPO provided appeal templates to challenge these
decisions in front of the ILO.
Cash injections for upper management
In April 2021, SUEPO provided another request for review template
this time against the unfair cash injections in the Salary Savings
Plan (SSP) of lower grades. Managers in higher grade fill their
pockets with 16x more injection in their private salary savings plans
than the staff in the lower grades. It was questioned why the higher
managerial staff should receive 16x more financial injection (bonus)
in their private salary savings plans when their salaries can only be
up to 3x more than staff in the lower salary scales.
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Strike judgments
Since 2013, EPO staff were subject to illegal strike regulations put
in place by Mr. Battistelli and zealously implemented by Ms. Elodie
Bergot. Such a regime infringing the fundamental right to strike
continued to prevail under the first mandate of Mr. Campinos.
On 15 December 2020, 1.448 employees representing 22,6% of all staff
participated in a strike against the new salary adjustment procedure.
On the January 2021 salary slip, the EPO deducted 1/20th of a
monthly’s salary for a whole day of strike (instead of 1/30th) or 1/
40th for half a day of strike (instead of 1/60th). The excessive
strike deductions put in place since 2013 were already the subject of
complaints pending in front of the Tribunal.
SUEPO provided yet again a Management review template to challenge
this excessive deductions.
In its 132nd session on 7 July 2021, the Tribunal delivered a total
of 43 judgments, of which 25 concern the EPO. The encouraging news
from this session was that very important cases were finally ruled in
favour of the complainants (i.e. the staff):
• Judgments 4433 and 4435 on strike deductions;
• Judgments 4430, 4432 and 4434 on Circular 347.
A more detailed overview of all judgments of the 132nd session can be
found here. The Tribunal ruled that the EPO infringed upon staff’s
fundamental rights and imposed excessive strike deductions of
punitive character. EPO management, Mr. Battistelli and Ms. Elodie
Bergot, were sanctioned for abusing their power. Furthermore, the
Tribunal considered that the EPO interfered in the legitimate call
for strike on 2 and 3 July 2013.
At the time, Ms. Elodie Bergot had sent letters to those declaring
themselves on strike informing them that their absence was treated as
unauthorised absence and that future unauthorised absences would lead
to disciplinary action. The Tribunal considered it was an attempt to
stifle, by threat, the exercise of the lawful right to strike and
that Ms. Elodie Bergot acted without authority when sending the
letter.
After 8 years of breach of a fundamental rights at the EPO (including
3 years under the mandate of Mr. Campinos), it was now up to Mr.
Campinos to take the consequences and to repair the damage done to
the Organisation. Mr. Campinos reimbursed the excessive strike
deductions with interests. The bigger damage however was to the
reputation of the office now proven to be a repetitive_offender_of
fundamental_rights. Ms. Elodie Bergot suffered no consequence and was
even promoted to Chief Policy Officer was left in charge of the
sensible Welfare and
=====================================================================
Remuneration department (where she did the most damage) and her
contract was then extended for a further 5 years until 2028.
No moral damages have been awarded to those who neither filed a
complaint in front of the Tribunal nor an application to intervene
although their rights have also been infringed. In a meeting with the
Central Staff Committee (CSC) on 15 September 2021, Mr Campinos even
strongly excluded any form of apology from the Organisation to the
staff.
A biased Appeals Committee?
The Tribunal declared the strike regulations (Circular 347) illegal
and set these aside. Back in 2015, the Dutch Court of Appeal had also
found that these violated fundamental rights.
However, the EPO Appeals Committee (ApC) had issued a majority
opinion in favour of the strike regulations. This wrong opinion was
even supported by the Appeal’s committee Chair at that time, Sir Paul
Mahoney despite his former experience as a Judge at the European
Court of Human Rights. This blunder came as clear evidence of bias
and dysfunction of the EPO internal justice system.
In view of the fundamental importance of legal certainty and social
peace, and in order to restore staff’s confidence in the opinions of
the internal Appeal’s committee (ApC) as soon as possible, as well as
to be settle disputes internally instead of at the ILOAT, the CSC
urged the delegations in the Administrative Council (AC) to take
steps to ensure that:
• staff representation is allowed to appoint members to the selection
board for the Chair and Vice-Chairs of the ApC,
• the General Consultative Committee (GCC) is consulted prior to
appointment of the Chair and Vice-Chairs,
• no Chair or vice-Chair may be appointed who does not find consensus
in the GCC.
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Litigation: past and new reforms
In July 2021, SUEPO prepared and published the internal appeals
templates for challenging the new Salary adjustment procedure.
In September 2021, SUEPO provided requests for review (RfR) templates
to contest the Education and Childcare allowance that
disproportionately affected some colleagues more than others.
In November 2021, SUEPO organised a survey on teleworking in order to
reassess the telework preferences one year after the introduction of
the new normal way of working.
In December 2021, SUEPO prepared templates to challenge the new
career system (CA/D10/14) in front of the Tribunal.
Year 2022
“Social Democracy” and EPO institutional harassment
In February 2022, the Tribunal ruled in its 133rd Session on 51 cases
among which
12 EPO cases.
For the second_time after the judgments on the unlawful strike
regulations, the Tribunal ruled in Judgment 4482 that an EPO reform,
“Social Democracy“, breached_the_fundamental_right_to_freedom_of
association.
Judgments 4488, 4489, and 4490 sanctioned the EPO’s institutional
harassment of a former Principal Director by Mr. Battistelli and Ms.
Elodie Bergot and awarded above 250.000 € of damages in total.
Judgment 4491 ordered the reinstatement of a single mother with
babies (at the material time) unlawfully charged with fraud by the
Investigative Unit which made an unfair and distorted analysis of the
facts.
Between all these successful legal actions SUEPO continued also in
2022 to provide staff with standard management reviews or complaint
templates against the different negative reforms such as the salary
adjustment procedure.
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Ban on mass-emails declared unlawful
On 6 July 2022, the Tribunal ruled yet again against the EPO in
another blockbuster Judgement 4551 that the EPO Communiqué of 31 May
2013 restraining the use of email to no more than 50 recipients
without prior authorisation breached the fundamental right to freedom
of association. The Tribunal considered that the true reason was to
exercise_prior_censorship on the content of communications.
It also confirmed that the mass emails of the staff representation
and unions at the material time did not exceed the limits to freedom
of opinion and speech, and hence did not justify a mechanism of a
prior authorisation.
After 9 years of breach of freedom of communication (including 4
years during the mandate of Mr. Campinos), the Tribunal has declared
the ban of mass emails was unlawful. Six months later, at the time of
writing this report (February 2023) Mr. Campinos has still_not_lifted
the technical restrictions imposed on staff and their representation.
It is yet another judgment confirming his lack of willingness to
restore fundamental rights at the EPO on his own initiative.
In August, in September and then in November 2022, SUEPO and the
staff representation demanded that the judgment be finally executed.
The response was a lame excuse. The EPO now pretends that staff
representation is an entity not in the interest of the service and
which makes ‘marketing’ for itself or others on EPO lines. On top of
that, management wants to force the use of an external provider
acting as a black box for sending emails. Access to EPO mailing-lists
for addressing all staff remained forbidden as well as the limitation
to 50 recipients.
Final_words
Presently, the EPO managed to yet again anger staff by starting a new
‘successful’(!) project named ‘Bringing teams together’. This project
is so badly managed that even hard line managers are distancing
themselves from it. Allowing only a selected few to have an
individual office and moving the rest of staff out of their rooms in
‘workplaces-for-the-day’ (hot desking) is demotivating and it is
disconnecting staff from the EPO. The aim of the higher management is
apparently to overcome the ‘ghost’ feeling in the buildings and to
“bring the teams” together. Following the first plans we saw the
teams will neither be together nor is the EPO any better. The EPO has
now, next to the ‘ghost’ feeling also the ‘hospital-sterile’ feeling
too as no personal items are allowed in the office anymore.
During the last two years, the EPO staff underwent several badly
designed and wrongly implemented reforms. It would take a lot of time
to comb through them to find a single positive aspect for the staff.
Over the same period, Mr. Campinos neither met
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with SUEPO Central nor with SUEPO Munich. The last meeting was on 18
November 2020. To be noted that during that meeting Mr. Campinos
forecasted that: “In any case, if SUEPO wants back access to mass-
emails, it would be only in the framework of a Memorandum of
Understanding. SUEPO will lose in Geneva anyway.” Now that Mr.
Campinos lost the case in Geneva, he launched into an exercise of bad
faith in order not implement it.
In 2023 the office embarks on a follow up financial study to the
biased financial study made by Mercer in 2019. Mr. Campinos already
announced in the Administrative Council that the office is again
looking at a deficit of two billion Euro. This number was mentioned
even before starting the financial study. It shows already where the
ride will end. The main reason mentioned for this was the salary
adjustment.
Internally however, we see an imbalance in the workforce. Namely, in
the number of staff working on the line and those who don’t. It has
become very obvious that new Director posts are generated regularly
in the DG’s outside the line. Also the ratio of staff to a director
in DG1 in comparison to those in the other DG’s is highly imbalanced.
This increase in the ‘Wasserkopf’ is unsustainable to use a
managerial term. Less ‘Chefs’ and more ‘Indians’ would be appreciated
in order to alleviate the pressure put on the examiners to produce
the 10% more products to cover the apparent deficit.
The mathematically challenged salary adjustment was a shock to
everyone. The lack of a salary adjustment for many years was a shock
to staff. This was followed by a large adjustment which was a shock
to the management and the AC. Hence, the salary adjustment method
designed by Ms. Bergot is demonstratively a complete_failure. A new
method needs to be presented to the AC at the end of the six years
period, in 2026. The preparations need to already start next year.
This time around, maybe Mr. Campinos considers a tried and proven
salary method like the one from the European Commission, instead of
re-inventing the wheel. That method was agreed on by the ministers of
all member states, hence also by those member states in our
Administrative Council. It provided moderate adjustments over the
years without any shock effects and is not legally challenged by the
over 30.000 staff to whom it applies. Also it is ready to be
implemented, therefore the cost in developing a sound salary
adjustment method is minimal.
In view of the financial study to be performed, we can only warn of
any new negative reforms in the near future and other cuts in staff’s
welfare and employment package (eg: pension reform). If the
management want to reach the envisioned drastically increased targets
then unrest, especially in the examiners area is probably not the
best way to achieve it. Presently, after the pandemic years and the
new normal project staff need a period of consolidation with no new
detrimental reforms. EPO staff do not need even more disruption. What
they do need is to be moved back into their comfort zone. The EPO
experimented enough on the back of the staff over the last 10-15
years with the mantra of ‘moving the staff out of their comfort
zone’. The result is high sickness levels, lower production, lower
quality, demotivation and disconnection.
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And finally for the next SUPO mandate, the pensioners and their
rights should come more into focus. The EPO has more and more
pensioners but treats them stepmotherly. Pensioners are treated
almost like every other external public member even if they worked
for the EPO and contributed to the success of this office for 20, 30
or even 40 years. The support they receive from the office when they
have difficulties with their pension or health care needs to be
improved, a lot.
It is time for management to revise their policies.
Ion Brumme
Chairman SUEPO Munich (2021-2022)
There’s so much more wrong with the EPO than just the granting of European
software_patents illegally (see these_leaks). We’re not dealing with law here;
we deal with a law-breaking agency that’s being protected by the Dutch and
German governments. Their secret pact involves passive corruption, so they try
to hush up everyone and everything. One day it’ll all come out. █
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EPO Does Not Lack Desks and Seats
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/big-lie-about-office-space.webm
Summary: European Patent Office (EPO) officials, predominantly friends of
Benoît_Battistelli and António_Campinos (chosen owing to nepotism, not
qualifications) are innovating ways to suppress speech (communication with
colleagues), oppress the staff, crush unions, and generally make people
miserable
THIS site has already published about 4 videos and half a dozen posts about
this topic, but there are some new developments and they help expose the
insincerity of EPO management.
Some of the existing issues are discussed in the video above. The Central Staff
Committee, or CSC for short, tells colleagues: “In its Communiqué of 2 February
2023, the administration announced new accommodation plans for Munich and The
Hague together. In a letter sent to the Central Staff Committee (CSC), Ms Simon
(VP 4) reaffirmed that “staff members who work at least three days per week at
the office or have special needs determined on a case-by-case basis will be
allocated a fixed workplace”. We strongly advise staff to make sure their line
manager follows this guiding principle.”
The accompanying publication is reproduced below as HTML, plain text, and
GemText. The general public needs to be aware of this.
Zentraler Personalausschuss
Central Staff Committee
Le Comité Central du Personnel
Munich,10/02/2023
sc23015cp
§ Bringing Teams Together:⠀➾
§ “Three days per week” for a fixed workplace⠀➾
In its Communiqué of 2 February 2023, the administration announced
new accommodation plans for Munich and The Hague together. In a
letter sent to the Central Staff Committee (CSC), Ms Simon (VP4)
reaffirmed that “staff members who work at least three days per week
at the office or have special needs determined on a case-by-case
basis will be allocated a fixed workplace”. We strongly advise staff
to make sure their line manager follows this guiding principle. This
paper gives more details.
Dear Colleagues,
A major cause of concern
In January 2023, EPO staff gathered in General Assemblies in all
places of employment (including 850 attendees in Munich and 631 in
The Hague). The “Bringing Teams Together” project triggered many
questions from the floor and confirmed to be a hot topic for staff.
The staff representation met on 18 January 2023 with the
administration in a working group on this topic. We voiced major
concerns of staff about the organisation chaos and unrest caused by
the project among teams and made concrete proposals (see our report
here).
Quotas vs staff wishes
Line managers were asked to proceed on the basis of quotas (70% of
workplaces per directorate, among which 50% can be allocated fixed)
thereby triggering divisive discussions among staff. The
implementation is chaotic and arbitrary with a broad range of
diverging implementations on top of “managerial arbitrariness”. A
purely quota-based distribution of workplaces and allocated fixed
workplaces cannot match the wishes of staff.
Three days per week as a guiding principle
In a letter of 3 February 2023 (see annex), Ms Simon (VP 4)
reaffirmed that
“as a guiding principle it makes complete sense that staff
members who work at least three days per week at the office
or have special needs determined on a case-by-case basis
will be allocated a fixed workplace, while staff choosing
to come less often will use workplaces for the day.”
Ms Simon had already stated this principle in the December
Administrative Council meeting.
However, the new accommodation plans for Munich and The_Hague still
feature an amount of workplaces which we know is incompatible with
this principle. Indeed, in several directorates, the amount of
workplaces is not sufficient to have an allocated fixed workplace for
everyone who fulfil the above guiding principle.
What can you do?
If you come to work at least three days per week at the Office or
have special needs, we strongly invite you to write to your line
managers and to put your local staff committee in Cc.
[skipped template]
Conclusion
The “Bringing Teams Together” project contains many flaws. In our
view:
−allocated fixed workplaces must have a key and storage space and
personalisation should be allowed;
− the project lacks a proper impact study and is likely to increase
disengagement of staff.
The administration still refuses to properly address these points.
For the time being, make sure your line management implements the
project in line with the guiding principle stated by Ms Simon (VP4)
and keep us informed.
The Central Staff Committee
Annex: Letter of Ms Simon (VP4) to the CSC dated 3 February 2023
=====================================================================
European Patent Office | 80298 MUNICH | GERMANY
Mr Alain Dumont
Chairman of the Central Staff Committee
Sent by email only to:
centralSTCOM@epo.org
European Patent Office
80298 Munich
Germany
DG4 Corporate Services
Nellie Simon
Vice-President
Tel +49 (0)89 2399 – 4000
nsimon@epo.org
Date: 03.02.2023
Your communications on “Bringing our Teams Together”
Dear Mr Chair,
Reference is made to your open letter dated 18 November 2022 and the
CSC various publications, in which you raise concerns regarding
“Bringing our Teams Together”. We would like to take the opportunity
of this letter to clarify the points you address.
With regard to the Office’s intranet communication of 17 November
2022, please note that the aim was to inform and update staff about
the next steps towards bringing our teams together, notably following
the feedback obtained from staff in DG 1. The next steps will be
implemented on the basis of the guiding principles already
communicated to staff and their representatives, i.e. to bring teams
together and life back into our buildings and to provide allocated
workplaces to staff mostly coming to the office or having specific
and individual needs.
Keeping in mind these guiding principles, the next steps also need to
be implemented in light of the following two main considerations:
First, and in addition to the feedback gathered from staff and
managers, it is recalled that since the full entry into force of the
New Ways of Working (NWoW) on 1 September 2022, building occupancy
rates show that our buildings have remained empty to a large extent.
This observation is particularly relevant as autumn is the time of
the year when staff members’ presence in the buildings would
traditionally be at its peak.
You state that the low occupancy rates are due to the fact that the
buildings and facilities offered are insufficiently attractive to
staff. However, ambitious renovations of the Office’s buildings,
including new sports facilities, have recently been completed to
provide staff with a modern workplace. As regards the canteens, the
aim is to provide the best service possible, in view of the reduced
number of staff present at the sites. We will continue to monitor
closely how the needs of our staff evolve as we settle into the NWoW
and suggestions and ideas as to how to improve this service are
always welcome.
Second, the Office’s commitment to environmental sustainability and
the energy crisis which we are currently facing compels us to use our
premises in a sustainable way. When the facts show that our buildings
are being used only partially, it is not socially responsible to
leave large areas empty.
In this context, and as further explained in our dedicated meetings
of 21 November 2022 and 18 January 2023, this means that as a guiding
principle it makes complete sense that staff members who work at
least three days per week at the office or have special needs
determined on a case-by-case basis will be allocated a fixed
workplace, while staff choosing to come less often will use
workplaces for the day. Additionally, the consolidation of staff in
certain areas might also lead to emptying other parts of some sites,
notably the Shell building and some of the buildings in the
PschorrHöfe.
Please be assured that the implementation steps will be closely
monitored and modified as necessary. It is worth emphasising that the
preparation of the accommodation plans by the relevant units, which
is currently ongoing, is taking place in close co-operation with the
departments affected.
Finally, many of the points you address have already been discussed
in statutory bodies or at technical meetings. For instance, at the
last meeting with the staff representatives of the different sites
which took place on 18 January 2023 concrete progress on operational
preparation was shared and the staff representatives were able to ask
any questions or raise any concerns they had. Such ad hoc technical
meetings will continue to be held to allow continuous exchanges on
this specific subject. Additionally, this specific subject will be
put on the agenda of the relevant Local Staff Committee meetings.
We hope that this clarifies the aforementioned points and look
forward to continuing discussions with you.
Yours sincerely,
Nellie Simon
Vice-President DG 4
Corporate Services
Yes, “Corporate Services”. The EPO… Corporate Services. Do not overlook the
irony of all this. █
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o BSD
o Arch_Family
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Programming/Development
# WebAssembly
* Leftovers
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Linux_Foundation
o Security
# Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ 9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup:_February_12th,_2023⠀⇛
This week has been pretty interesting with some great
software releases, starting with the highly-anticipated
Transmission 4.0 and continuing with NetworkManager 1.42
and KDE Frameworks 5.103.
On the distro side of things, SparkyLinux 6.6, Endless OS
5.0, and EndeavourOS Cassini Neo are all out for you to
play with on your personal computer. On top of that, I
take a quick look at the upcoming official Fedora Linux
38 Budgie and Sway spins.
Linux gamers got a new Steam Client stable release and
the chance to buy the next-gen AMD-powered gaming laptop
from System76. Below, you can read the hottest news of
the week and access all distro and software downloads
available in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for
February 12th, 2023.
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ IT Jungle ☛ AIX:_The_Last_Standing_Commercial_Unix⠀⇛
Nearly six decades ago, a bunch of researchers at
AT&T Bell Labs, MIT, and General Electric started
work on a new multi-user operating system for
General Electric mainframes called Multiplexed
Information and Computing Service, or MULTICS.
After four years of work, the project was
mothballed, but was reborning when Ken Thompson, a
researcher at Bell Labs, created a single-user
operating system based on the ideas behind MULTICS
to run on a PDP-7 that Ma Bell had laying around.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ CubicleNate ☛ Linux_Saloon_|_Application_Appetizer
Potluck⠀⇛
This week the panel of presenters brought an app
they use to share. Instead of choosing a specific
application to try out or explore the panel decided
that we would all bring something interesting that
we use to share with others and explain why it was
interesting.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Linus_Torvalds_releases_probably
unnecessary_release_candidate_eight_for_Linux_6.2⠀⇛
Work on version 6.2 of the Linux kernel will
stretch into an eighth release candidate, despite
emperor penguin Linus Torvalds now saying it isn’t
really necessary.
In late January, Torvalds rated release candidate
five as “fairly sizable” due to “pent up testing
and fixes from people being off.”
He therefore flagged his intention to extend this
kernel development cycle beyond his preferred seven
release candidates.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ Review:_Playing_(music)_with_the_PinePhone⠀⇛
Having spent an evening hunting for software,
experimenting, reading documentation,
troubleshooting, reading log files, and trying
various client applications I came to a few
conclusions, most of which won’t surprise anyone.
One of the more obvious is that “Top 10″ lists of
applications are usually useless. They typically
don’t provide a list of features or drawbacks, they
never provide dependency information, most of them
don’t mention a license, whether the software is
still maintained, or (in some cases) even include a
link to the software’s website. Most of them feel
like copy and pasted blurbs from a Wikipedia list.
Docker can be a useful piece of technology if a
person is using the latest version, has lots of
free space on their root partition, isn’t using a
long-term support distribution, and has up to date
documentation with which to work. When any one of
these stops being true, Docker suddenly becomes a
lot less useful. Unfortunately, as far as I can
tell, there isn’t any clearly presented information
to tell the user which version of Docker a
container requires or how much space it will use
once installed.
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ Lapce:_Lightning-fast_And_Powerful_Code
Editor⠀⇛
Looking for a new editor to replace your old one?
Look no further than Lapce – a lightning-fast and
powerful code editor.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Design_is_a_New_2D_CAD_App_for_Linux_in
Development⠀⇛
Most of the popular CAD (Computer Aided Design)
software options are either proprietary or do not
offer native support for Linux.
It does not mean that we do not have any FOSS
alternatives to them. We already have valuable
alternatives like FreeCAD and other CAD programs
for Linux.
And, if we have more native CAD software options on
Linux, it should make things better for designers
and makers.
Design is an upcoming 2D CAD software tailored for
GNOME that sounds interesting.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to
Apple_Contacts⠀⇛
Apple Contacts is a computerized address book
included with the Apple operating systems iOS,
iPadOS and macOS. It includes cloud synchronization
capabilities.
Contacts is proprietary software and not available
for Linux. We recommend the best free and open
source alternatives.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] Scott O’Hara ☛ The_details_and_summary_elements,
again⠀⇛
HTML classifies both elements as “interactive
elements”. The <details> element serves as the
containing element for the widget, though it is not
expected to be directly interacted with by users.
Nor is <details> generally expected to be exposed
to assistive technologies. The open attribute of
the <details> element is used to modify the
expanded or collapsed state of the widget. When
present it represents the widget being in the
expanded state, and when absent the collapsed
state. While the attribute is used on the <details>
element, the state is programmatically communicated
by its required <summary> element.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_tar_a_Folder_in_Linux?⠀⇛
Linux offers a built-in “tar” command tool to
compress and extract the “tar” files and folders
having formats “.gz”, “.bz2”, “.xz”, “.tbz” and
many more.
# ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Hide_Nginx_Version_in_Linux_(Simple
Guide)⠀⇛
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_use_TCPdump_with_examples⠀⇛
Hello, friends. Getting network statistics is a
basic task that allows you to monitor what is going
on with your network. So, today, you will learn how
to use the tcpdump command on Linux. We will also
use examples to facilitate the tutorial.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ The_Beginner’s_Guide_to_Using_Iptables_for_Port
Forwarding⠀⇛
Port forwarding is a network address translation
(NAT) mechanism that enables proxy firewalls to
forward communication queries from one IP address
and port to another. Port forwarding is typically
configured on Linux systems using iptables, a
program for defining IP packet filter rules.
# ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_to_Empty_Buffer_and_Cache_Memory_in
Linux⠀⇛
Linux provides an efficient memory management
mechanism that ensures optimal utilization of
memory by various programs and processes. H
# ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Hide_Nginx_Version_in_Linux_(Simple
Guide)⠀⇛
Attackers are constantly on the prowl, conducting
reconnaissance on web servers to retrieve crucial
details such as the Nginx version. With this
information at hand, they can then leverage known
vulnerabilities associated with the version of the
Nginx web server and initiate an attack.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Dead_Cells:_Return_to_Castlevania_releasing
March_6th_with_new_trailer⠀⇛
Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania is shaping up to
be the most exciting content expansion to Dead
Cells yet and we don’t have long to wait now as
it’s releasing March 6th. Are you as excited as I
am? I might have to give the Netflix Anime a second
run-through…
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Neon-smashing_one-button_arcade_game_Ding
Dong_XL_gets_improved_for_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
Released back in 2018, the one-button arcade game
Ding Dong XL from Adamvision Studios that has an
Overwhelmingly Positive Steam user rating gets
upgraded ready for Steam Deck.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ GNOME_44_Release:_Overview_of_Its
Features_and_Enhancements⠀⇛
The GNOME desktop environment is a popular
open-source desktop option for Linux users.
It provides a user-friendly interface with
various features to help you customize your
workspace and get more done.
With this release, GNOME offers a few key
improvements to its performance and adds some
new features to enhance your experience.
Explore the improved GNOME 44 desktop
environment and discover new features,
customizations, and performance upgrades.
# ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ A_Beginners’_Guide_for_Learning_Your
Way_Around_the_GNOME_Desktop_Environment⠀⇛
Linux. Ah, Linux. The operating system I’ve
called “home” since 1997. Over the years,
I’ve tried just about every distribution
possible and every conceivable desktop
environment. My life with Linux desktops
began with Fvwm95 and then traversed a course
of AfterStep, Enlightenment, Blackbox, KDE,
Unity, Pantheon, and everything in between.
Eventually, I landed on Gnome and never
looked back. I’ve tried to return to other
desktops but always found them either too
little or too much. Gnome fits right there in
the middle, like the ideal desktop for
Goldilocks.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ DiscoBSD_–_2.11BSD-based_UNIX-like_Operating_System_for
STM32_and_PIC32_Microcontrollers⠀⇛
DiscoBSD is a 2.11BSD-based UNIX-like operating
system for microcontrollers, with a focus on high
portability to memory constrained devices without a
memory management unit. This microcontroller-
focused operating system is the continuation of
RetroBSD, a 2.11BSD-based OS targeting only the
MIPS-based PIC32MX7. DiscoBSD is multi-platform, as
it also supports Arm Cortex-M4 STM32F4 devices.
Source code to the system is freely available under
a BSD-like license.
o § Arch Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ The_least_happy_computer_users:_Those
running_Arch_Linux_&_Firefox⠀⇛
Used by the happiest computer users: macOS,
Slackware Linux, & Brave.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Fedora’s_New_Anaconda_Web_UI_Installer_is
Looking_Good⠀⇛
The new Web UI installer for Fedora has been in the
works for over a year, though it is still not at
par with the existing Anaconda installer. It is
getting better day by day. It aims to replace the
existing installer, which uses an old GTK3-based
interface known for being inefficient and insecure
in quite a few use cases.
We recently got a better look at its development,
thanks to the progress updates shared by Martin
Kolman (working for Red Hat, part of the team
working on the Anaconda installer) at FOSDEM 23.
# ⚓ NeuroFedora ☛ The_NeuroFedora_Blog:_Next_Open_NeuroFedora
meeting:_13_February_1300_UTC⠀⇛
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Ish Sookun ☛ Ubuntu_Ports_mirror_for_Mauritius
officialised⠀⇛
Then, this week, I was able to set up and
synchronise the whole Ubuntu Ports repository,
after David, the Director of cloud.mu, provisionned
additional storage on the Ubuntu mirror server for
an upgrade. I submitted the Ubuntu Ports mirror for
review and that was completed the same day.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Top_CIO_Challenges_in_2023⠀⇛
Three simple tips for CIOs to build an efficient IT
strategy for 2023 to counter recession, inflation
and layoffs and increase their team’s innovation.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Compute_Blade_–_A_Rack-mountable_PoE-powered
Raspberry_Pi_CM4_carrier_board_with_an_NVMe_SSD_
(Crowdfunding)⠀⇛
The Compute Blade runs Raspberry Pi OS, provided
you are using a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, and
the documentation is shared on Google Doc which is
a bit unusual as I’m more used to GitHub wiki,
standard wikis (e.g. mediawiki), Readthedocs
website, or other solution that can more easily be
found by browsing the web.
Three models of the Compute Blade are available:
Basic, TPM, and Dev with different options.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ The_QEC-M-01_is_an_Open-Source_embedded
device_supporting_EtherCAT⠀⇛
The QEC-M-01 by ICOP is an EtherCAT system solution
powered by the Vortex86EX2 dual-core processor for
legacy OSes and RTOS. This embedded device features
3x RJ45 ports, DDR3 support, multiple storage
options and it can be programmed using 86Duino.
The datasheet for the Vortex86EX2 specifies that it
features a Master core for Operating Systems and a
Slave core for real time I/O.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Version_7.0.0_Released_|_KiCad_EDA⠀⇛
The KiCad project is proud to announce the release
of version 7.0.0. KiCad 7 is a significant upgrade
from KiCad 6, and comes with a number of exciting
new features as well as improvements to existing
features. The KiCad project hopes you enjoy version
7! Head to the KiCad download page to get your copy
of the new version (note that some packages may
still be in the process of being released at the
time this announcement is published). Many thanks
to all of the hard working folks who contributed to
KiCad during the version 7 development cycle. In
accordance with the KiCad stable release policy,
KiCad 6.x will no longer be maintained, and we will
release bug fix versions of KiCad 7.x over the next
year as we develop KiCad 8.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ This_CRT-Style_Pi_Portable_Gets_All_The_Details
Right⠀⇛
A quick glance at the “Pi Terminal” built by [Salim
Benbouziyane], and you might think he pulled an old
CRT monitor out of a video editing bay and gutted
it. Which, of course, is the point. But what you’re
actually looking at is a completely new
construction, featuring a fully 3D printed
enclosure, a clever PCB control panel, and some
very slick internal engineering.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ VVenC_&_VVdeC_H.266_open_source_video
encoder_and_decoder_work_on_x86_and_Arm⠀⇛
VVenC and VVdeC are open-source software H.266/VCC
video encoder and decoder respectively that are
optimized to use SIMD instructions on x86 (SSE42/
SIMDe and AVX2) and Arm, and the decoder runs on
Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ Pixel_6A_vs_Galaxy_A53:_Which_is_the_best
Android_mid-range_phone_in_2023?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ Android_Smartphone_Sales_Decline:_Production
Cutbacks_on_the_Horizon⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_Auto_might_bring_back_the_light
theme⠀⇛
# ⚓ Google_Play_Store_‘Something_went_wrong’_error_troubles
users⠀⇛
# ⚓ Express ☛ New_Android_phone_gets_superfast_upgrade
Samsung’s_Galaxy_can’t_match_|_Express.co.uk⠀⇛
# ⚓ TheHinduBusinessLine ☛ Google_appeal_in_Android_case:_Epic
anti-trust_battle_begins_in_NCLAT_from_Wednesday_–_The_Hindu
BusinessLine⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_Sony_Xperia_5_II_gets_some_Android_13
love_thanks_to_LineageOS_20⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ 5_Apple_AirDrop_Alternatives_For_Android
Users⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Weekend_poll:_Are_you_going_to_try_the
Android_14_previews_this_year?⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Didier Stevens ☛ Update:_pdf-parser.py_Version_0.7.8⠀⇛
A small feature update for pdf-parser.py Statistics
include unreferenced objects now: [...]
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Tedium ☛ AI,_Minus_the_Hype⠀⇛
AI is a fascinating topic that seems to dominate
the cultural conversation lately. Whether it’s AI
being used to write anything imaginable or one of
the many AI image generators making waves
everywhere, there’s no denying the fact that AI is
here to stay—and people are utilizing it in some
very strange ways. AI inspires conversations on
everything from copyright issues to regulation and
potential job losses. But there’s also a distinct
novelty to AI, and if you’ve been reading Tedium
for a while, you probably already know where we’re
going with this. In today’s Tedium, we’re looking
at generative AI though our grainy, red-and-gray
tinted glasses.
# ⚓ Futurism ☛ David_Guetta_Faked_Eminem’s_Vocals_Using_AI_for
New_Song⠀⇛
“Eminem bro, there’s something that I made as a
joke and it works so good — I could not believe
it!” says Guetta. “Basically you can write lyrics
in the style of any artist you like, so I typed:
‘write a verse in the style of Eminem about future
rave,’ and I went to another AI website that can
recreate the voice. I put the text in that and I
played the record and people went nuts.”
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Some_different_graph_types_in_R⠀⇛
Of course there are many more chart types that are
beyond the scope of this blog post. One reference
is Top 50 ggplot2 Visualizations – The Master List
(With Full R Code). A very cool chart type is the
radar chart which you can see at How to Create
Radar Charts in R (With Examples).
# ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ Custom_Models_Are_AI’s_Killer_App⠀⇛
The whole game will be how fast they can be
trained, on the most data, at the lowest cost.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ GhostSCAD:_Marrying_OpenSCAD_And_Golang⠀⇛
It’s been at least a couple of months since we’ve
seen a different 3D modeling language project, so
here’s [Lukasz Janyst] with GhostSCAD: a take on
creating OpenSCAD models, using the Go language as
the front end, bringing all the delights this
modern modular language has to offer (and a few of
its own idiosyncrasies.) As [Lukasz] says in the
blog, from a programmer’s viewpoint, openSCAD has a
number of failings that make it not necessarily
hard, just kinda annoying to work with, due to the
way the geometry tree works. The OpenSCAD way of
working ends up with the programmer requiring
knowledge of the internal workings of sub-modules,
in order to work at the top level (assembly) which
is not an ideal situation from a code reuse
perspective.
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ A_10-step_guide_for_a_successful
hackathon⠀⇛
Hackathons are easy. How much thought do you need
to put into them anyway? Just set a date, and
people will show up. Well, that is not quite true!
While you may get lucky with that approach, the
reality is that hackathons are a keystone
experience in the tech industry, and attendees have
specific expectations. Not only that, but your
organization also has certain needs and should set
goals for a hackathon. So, how do you ensure that a
hackathon works for your organization and
attendees?
A successful hackathon depends on several decisions
that tend to be recursive. Decisions about what you
want to achieve will impact what resources you
allot and how you want to communicate. Those
decisions affect whether you go virtual or in
person, and that decision will once again impact
the resources you need and how you communicate.
Alignment when planning hackathons is not just
about getting people to agree. You will have a
whole suite of decisions that must internally
align. For example, a technically difficult
hackathon might not be able to attract a large
audience (ask me how I know!) and will require a
specialized recruitment strategy that requires
different resources.
I’ve done many hackathons over the years, including
just a few months back, when my organization hosted
a hackathon that led to new features that we will
incorporate into the next version of our open
source product, Traefik Proxy 3.0. So, trust me
when I say planning a hackathon that will enrich
attendees and create valuable outcomes for your
project is about more than hope, pizza, and chaos.
This downloadable guide serves as a model for you
to outline best practices so that you can hold a
successful hackathon with a sizable target audience
that delivers results…
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Learn_Expect_by_writing_and_automating_a
simple_game⠀⇛
While trying to automate my workflow, I hit upon a
configuration utility that defied meaningful
automation. It was a Java process that didn’t
support a silent installer, or support stdin, and
had an inconsistent set of prompts. Ansible’s
expect module was inadequate for this task. But I
found that the expect command was just the tool for
the job.
My journey to learn Expect meant learning a bit of
Tcl. Now that I have the background to create
simple programs, I can better learn to program in
Expect. I thought it would be fun to write an
article that demonstrates the cool functionality of
this venerable utility.
This article goes beyond the typical simple game
format. I plan to use parts of Expect to create the
game itself. Then I demonstrate the real power of
Expect with a separate script to automate playing
the game.
This programming exercise shows several classic
programming examples of variables, input, output,
conditional evaluation, and loops.
# § WebAssembly⠀➾
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Java’s_History_Could_Point_the_Way
for_WebAssembly⠀⇛
It’s hard to believe that it’s been over 20
years since the great dotcom crash happened
in 2001, which continues to serve as a
harbinger of potential doom whenever cyclic
tech is on a downward path. I remember quite
distinctly hanging out with either unemployed
or underemployed folks in the IT field
shortly after the great crash in 2001. We
were doing just that: hanging out with time
on our hands.
During that time, one day in a park in New
York City, Brookdale Park in Montclair, NJ,
one of my friends was sitting on a park bench
pounding away on his laptop, and he said
there was this really cool thing for website
creation called Java. It’s been around for a
long time, actually, but described how
amazing it was that you could program in Java
code and deploy, where you want on websites,
he said. And of course, have played a key
role in transforming the user experience on
websites compared to the days of the 1990s
when HTML code provided the main elements of
website design. Sure, why not, I’ll check it
out, I said. And the rest is history as Java
secured its place in history, not only for
web development, but across IT
infrastructure.
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Performance_Measured:_How_Good_Is
Your_WebAssembly?⠀⇛
WebAssembly adoption is exploding. Almost
every week at least one startup, SaaS vendor
or established software platform provider is
either beginning to offer Wasm tools or has
already introduced Wasm options in its
portfolio, it seems. But how can all of the
different offerings compare performance-wise?
The good news is that given Wasm’s runtime
simplicity, the actual performance at least
for runtime can be compared directly among
the different WebAssembly offerings. This
direct comparison is certainly much easier to
do when benchmarking distributed applications
that run on or with Kubernetes, containers
and microservices.
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ WebAssembly_vs._JavaScript:_Security,
Speed,_Flexibility⠀⇛
Towards the beginning of what is popularly
known as the World Wide Web, there was
JavaScript. JavaScript has been around since
1995 when Brendan Eich created the language
to support Netscape, the now sadly defunct
yet aesthetically pleasing web browser that
was revolutionary for its time. Since then,
the ECMAScript standard has served to
underpin web development, representing the
vast majority of applications that run in the
web browser.
More recently, WebAssembly (Wasm) — which
actually has been around for a while — has
emerged. After the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) named it as a web standard in 2019, it
has thus become the fourth web standard with
HTML, CSS and JavaScript. But while web
browser applications have represented Wasm’s
central and historical use case, again, the
point is that it is designed to run anywhere
on a properly configured CPU — this is where
Wasm and JavaScript both bifurcate and become
more integrated for some use cases.
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ WebAssembly:_When_You_Hate_Rust_but
Love_Python⠀⇛
One of the main attributes of WebAssembly is
how it can accommodate a number of different
languages that are deployed — in theory at
least — wherever there is a CPU device that
can run instruction sets. The languages Wasm
can run include, in addition to JavaScript,
Rust, Go, .NET, C++, Java, PHP — and Python
(a lot more about Python below).
As an early web browser application, Wasm has
been, and continues to be, heavily entwined
with JavaScript. More recently, Rust has
entered the fray, and its integration with
JavaScript and even when running alone
without JavaScript for WebAssembly
applications is showing a lot of promise.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ ArtNet_Not_Going_Through?_Your_Switch_Might_Be
Protecting_You⠀⇛
Cool technology often comes at a cost, and it’s not
always that this cost is justified. For instance,
[Rainfay] tells us about how the the ArtNet protocol’s
odd design choices are causing incompatibility with
certain Ethernet switches. ArtNet is a protocol for
lighting control over DMX-512 – simply put, it allows you
to blink a whole ton of LEDs, even literally. Unlike DMX-
512 which can use different physical mediums, ArtNet uses
Ethernet, taking form of the usual kind of network
packets – and it does seem to do a great job about that,
if it weren’t for this one thing.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘It’s_too_much’:_Waiting_for_the_dead_in_Turkey’s
quake-stricken_Nurdagi⠀⇛
Search and rescue teams are still at work amid an
apocalyptic landscape in Nurdagi, a southeastern Turkish
town near the epicentre of the January 6 earthquakes. But
at this point they are looking for the remains of the
dead, not survivors.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Live:_UN_says_quake_rescue_phase_‘coming_to_a_close’
as_deaths_surpass_35,000⠀⇛
The Turkey and Syria earthquake’s rescue phase is “coming
to a close”, with urgency now switching to providing
shelter, food, schooling and psychosocial care, United
Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths said during a visit to
Aleppo in northern Syria on Monday. The combined death
toll has surpassed 35,000.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘Miracle’_baby_pulled_alive_from_rubble_in_Turkey’s
Antakya_days_after_quake⠀⇛
Amid the anguish in quake-stricken Turkey, FRANCE 24
brings you the remarkable story of a baby girl called
Aliye Dagli, pulled alive from the rubble of her home in
Antakya almost six days after the devastating February 6
earthquakes – when experts say the chances of finding
survivors is lower than 10 percent. Our reporters Julie
Dungelhoeff and Nadia Massih have her story.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Turkey_investigates_building_contractors_as_earthquake
deaths_top_33,000⠀⇛
Turkish authorities have launched an investigation into
contractors allegedly linked to deadly building collapses
that occurred after amassive_earthquake_and
aftershocksstruck last Monday.
o ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Death_toll_climbs_to_33,000_people_in_Turkey-
Syria_earthquake⠀⇛
More than 33,000 people have died across Turkey and Syria
since a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck on
Monday, as hopes of rescuing more survivors dwindle amid
freezing conditions. The latest figures show that 33,181
have died across both countries.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Pakistan’s_Helping_Hand_for_Earthquake_Hit
Turkey⠀⇛
It is truly heartbreaking and disturbing to see the
images of utter destruction coming from Turkey and Syria.
The powerful 7.8 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes that
occurred on February 6th, 2023, together with the
subsequent aftershocks, have unleashed unsettling
pictures over the landscape in the two countries.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Pakistan’s_Efforts_to_Uplift_South_Asia⠀⇛
Pakistan has made significant efforts to uplift the
regional connectivity and contribute to its development.
These efforts are of great significance in fostering
regional unity and cooperation, promoting economic
growth, and improving the standard of living for the
people of South Asia. Pakistan’s active participation in
regional organizations such as the South Asian
Association for […]
o ⚓ NPR ☛ This_race_is_a_nonstop_sail_around_the_world._Cassette
tapes_are_allowed,_but_no_GPS⠀⇛
“I really like the aspect of sailing by celestial
navigation, sailing old school,” she says, adding that
she’s always wanted to know “what it would have been like
back then when you didn’t have all the modern technology
at your fingertips.”
Satellite phones are allowed, but only for communication
with race officials and the occasional media interview.
Each boat has collision-avoidance alarms and a GPS
tracker, but entrants can’t view their position data.
There’s a separate GPS for navigation, but it’s sealed
and only for emergencies. Its use can lead to
disqualification. Entrants are permitted to use radios to
communicate with each other and with passing ships.
They’re allowed to briefly anchor, but not get off the
boat nor have anyone aboard. And no one is allowed to
give them supplies or assistance.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Why_Are_You_Seeing_So_Many_Bad_Digital_Ads
Now?⠀⇛
But lately, on several platforms, the opposite seems to
be happening for a variety of reasons, including a
slowdown in the overall digital ad market. As numerous
deep-pocketed marketers have pulled back, and the softer
market has led several digital platforms to lower their
ad pricing, opportunities have opened up for less
exacting advertisers.
o ⚓ Franz Dill ☛ Malvertizing_Search⠀⇛
Over the past month, Google has been outgunned by
malvertisers with new tricks.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Son_Down⠀⇛
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Earthquake_Leaves_Millions_Homeless_and_Without
Water_and_Electricity_in_Turkish,_Syrian_Harsh_Winter,_Many_Facing
Death⠀⇛
By Juan Cole / Informed Consent Ann Arbor (Informed
Comment) – The Jordanian newspaper al-Ghad reports that
on top of the now nearly 30,000 known deaths in Turkey
and Syria, millions people are estimated to have been
made homeless. Not only are they without shelter, they
now lack water and electricity, and often even food and
the World Health Organization […]
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ There_Was_No_Mention_of_853_Migrant_Deaths_in_2022_in
Biden’s_State_of_the_Union⠀⇛
o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Man_with_40_mobile_phones_strapped_to_his
body_arrested_at_Hong_Kong_border⠀⇛
Hong Kong Customs arrested a man over suspected smuggling
after 40 mobile phones were found strapped to his body at
Shenzhen Bay Control point last Thursday. The 39-year-old
was heading into the mainland. The 40 phones had an
estimated value of HK$35,000.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Syrian_people_“failed”_as_UN_warns_that_level_of
humanitarian_aid_is_currently_insufficient_in_aftermath_of
earthquakes⠀⇛
The Emergency Relief Coordinator of the UN Martin
Griffiths Sunday declared that there has been a failure
in the delivery of international aid to the people of
northwest Syria. Griffith urgently calls for
international support in the wake of a series of
earthquakes that hit Türkiye, Syria, and the surrounding
region.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] teleSUR ☛ World’s_Largest_Floating_Book_Fair_Visits
Egypt⠀⇛
With a crew of nearly 350 volunteers of more than
60 nationalities, Logos Hope ship is currently
docked at Port Said, in northeastern Egypt, holding
the world’s largest floating book fair as part of
its humanitarian mission to spread knowledge and
foster cultural exchange.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Credentialism_and_the_Fate_of_Academia⠀⇛
Public education in the United States has always
had very specific objectives: (1) It aims to
produce qualified workers for a multilayered labor
market. Two hundred years ago, at the college
level, this meant doctors, lawyers and Protestant
pastors. For the last one hundred years or so,
higher education has served a broader middle class,
white collar market. The shortage of “voc-tech”
options is a function of modern cultural bias—such
career paths have long been seen as lower class and
traditionally came through an apprenticeship. These
were careers that got one’s hands dirty. Even today
such work does not lead to high starting salaries.
Educational institutions did not create these
dichotomies. They just conformed to them. (2)
Public education aims to produce aware and loyal
citizens. This used to be done at the lower
educational levels in civics courses, but many of
these have fallen victim to financial exigencies.
U.S. history and courses on “government” offered at
middle and high school stages were supposed to pick
up where civics left off. However, this was never a
systematic effort. When it comes to higher
education, enrollment in courses in U.S. history
and relevant political science offerings suffer due
to the “consumer” approach to education. Students
often see such courses as requiring “too much work”
and, of course, what does one do with a “history
major”? Business courses are all the rage—again for
economic and class based reasons. Please note that
the production of aware and loyal citizens is not
the same as graduating critical thinkers. In fact
there might be a contradiction between the two.
Today, public education at all levels is confronted
with a curriculum crisis. Irate parents want to
censor local and national history, the range of
acceptable literature, and even set limits on what
they believe is a tolerable approach to biology. At
the college level, a “market” orientation has led
state education administrators to favor the above-
mentioned “consumer choice” approach. Under this
system you get the following weirdness: philosophy
should compete with English literature and/or
history, etc. for “consumer” student
enrollment—after all, all these subjects supply
“the same humanities credits”. Education has
finally turned its back on the ideal of a liberal
arts education.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ RCA’s_Clear_Plastic_TV_Wowed_Crowds_In_1939⠀⇛
In the United States in 1939, television sets still
had a long way to go before they pretty much sold
themselves. Efforts to do just that are what led to
RCA’s Lucite Phantom Telereceiver, which aimed to
show people a new way to receive broadcast media.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Challenging_A_Broken_DualShock_4_Controller_To_A
Duel⠀⇛
A broken PlayStation controller would normally be a
bummer, and if the issue is losing calibration
that’s stored in a non-documented format, you might
as well bin it. For [Al] of [Al’s blog], however,
it’s a challenge, turning into a four-part story –
so far. The first installment was published January
1st this year, and seeing the pure enthusiasm [Al]
has reverse-engineering the DualShock 4 controller,
you might guess that this is a New Year’s gift from
someone who knows [Al] very well. The list of
problems with the joystick is numerous, to begin
with – it’s easier to list all the things that work
properly, and it isn’t many of them. Perhaps, the
firmware problem is is the most interesting one to
start with.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Futurism ☛ Google_Issues_Warning_About_AI-Generated_Content
About_Health_and_Finance⠀⇛
Specifically, Google is warning outlets that
there’ll be extra scrutiny from its search team on
AI-generated content regarding “health, civic, or
financial information.” So, basically, areas where
you really want to get things right.
“These issues exist in both human-generated and AI-
generated content,” reads the new Google FAQ,
speaking specifically to “AI content that
potentially propagates misinformation or
contradicts consensus on important topics.”
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ World’s_Wealthiest_May_Actually_Be_Less
Intelligent_Than_Those_Who_Don’t_Earn_As_Much⠀⇛
A team of researchers from Linköping University in
Sweden, the European University Institute in Italy,
and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands
say that better cognitive ability plays more of a
role further down the pay scale.
“We find that the relationship between ability and
wage is strong overall, yet above €60,000
(US$64,407) per year ability plateaus at a modest
level of +1 standard deviation,” write the
researchers in their published paper.
# ⚓ COVID-19_is_now_a_leading_killer_of_children⠀⇛
As someone who has been following the antivaccine
movement for over twenty years (and blogging about
it for over 18 years), before the pandemic I never
thought I would see my “provaccine” colleagues
claim that children don’t need to be vaccinated
against an infectious disease that kills at least
as many children as measles did in the days before
there was a vaccine. Indeed, that is basically the
entire message behind the “Urgency of Normal”
movement promoting a message during the Delta wave
claiming that masks and COVID-19 mitigations in
schools were not necessary because so few children
die of the diseases, a state public health
authority actively discouraging parents from
vaccinating their children against COVID-19, and
academics even recycling hoary old antivax tropes
in a bioethics journal to argue against the need to
vaccinate children against COVID-19. I suppose I
shouldn’t have been surprised, as I’ve been
reminding my colleagues who are shocked at how many
doctors are antivaccine that such antivax docs
have always been among us, but the intensity and
degree of the pushback among colleagues against
vaccinating children against COVID-19 and their
utter obliviousness that the arguments they were
making were nothing more than old antivax arguments
indistinguishable from the arguments antivaxxers
used to make about measles vaccines surprised even
me. What particularly surprised and disappointed me
is the degree to which seemingly eminent academic
physicians, while showing concern about reports of
myocarditis after vaccination, seemingly shrug
their shoulders about the disease, thinking it
seemingly “natural and healthy” for children to die
of a vaccine-preventable disease. They even argue,
as antivaxxers did prepandemic for measles and
chickenpox “parties,” that we should let children
catch Omicron rather than impose anything
resembling pandemic restrictions like masking or
vaccine mandates in a school ever again.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Damar_Hamlin_and_the_Super_Bowl’s_Big_Hit⠀⇛
The echoes still linger from that national sigh of
relief last month when Buffalo Bills safety Damar
Hamlin, slammed into cardiac arrest during a game
on January 2nd, was declared out of danger. It was
a justified sigh. A vibrant young life had been
spared.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ How_Trump’s_Legacy_Could_Make_a_Bird_Flu
Pandemic_More_Deadly_Than_Covid⠀⇛
Trump’s no longer president, but he and his racism
could still be responsible for millions more
American deaths from a new pandemic disease. How
and why? I’ll explain in just a moment, but first
let’s look at the disease itself.
One reason egg prices are so high right now is
because a new strain of bird flu — H1N5 — has
popped up among egg-laying chickens. The disease
has a shocking mortality rate, leading to the death
(both from disease and from euthanizing flocks to
stop its spread) of almost 60 million domesticated
birds in the US alone, so far.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Madrid_health_workers_protest_amid_staffing_issues
and_decreased_funding⠀⇛
Health workers Sunday protested in Madrid, Spain
over staffing issues and what protesters claim to
be the favoritism of private health services.
According to the protesters, the public health
system has broken down due to the conservative
regional authorities favoring private health
services and disbanding public health
services—leaving many hospitals poorly staffed.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_states_file_amicus_brief_in_abortion_medication
lawsuit⠀⇛
A coalition of 22 states Friday filed an amicus
brief opposing a proposed preliminary injunction
that would withdraw or suspend the US Food and Drug
Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion
medications Mifepristone and Mifeprex.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Hong_Kong_reports_outbreak_of_African
swine_fever⠀⇛
The outbreak has been contained to just one farm
near Hong Kong’s border with the mainland.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_Covid-19_deaths_in_hospitals_drop
72%_in_a_week_as_wave_eases⠀⇛
Official figures show a continued, rapid decline in
deaths.
o § Linux Foundation⠀➾
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Linux_Foundation_Study_Assesses_‘Outsized’
U.S._Influence_on_Open_Source [Ed: Linux Foundation is like
90% US, so its agenda is accordingly biased and corporate,
not internationalist]⠀⇛
While the open source has always been about sharing
the code for one and all, this ideal has been
increasingly at odds with a range of factors,
including software fragmentation, politicization,
weaponization, and a creeping techno-nationalism,
which all can negatively impact open source’s vital
collaborative framework.
Addressing these issues is a new report from the
Linux Foundation, “Enabling Global Collaboration:
How Open Source Leaders are Confronting the
Challenges of Fragmentation,” authored by Anthony
D. Williams, founder and president of the research
firm the DEEP Centre.
The report was sponsored by Futurewei, Huawei’s
U.S.-based research and development arm, and is a
product of the Linux Foundation Research, founded
in 2021.
o § Security⠀➾
# § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
# ⚓ Mandiant ☛ I_Solemnly_Swear_My_Driver_Is_Up_to_No
Good:_Hunting_for_Attestation_Signed_Malware [iophk:
Windows TCO]⠀⇛
Mandiant has continually observed threat
actors use compromised, stolen, and illicitly
purchased code-signing certificates to sign
malware, lending legitimacy and subverting
security controls such as application allow-
listing policies. Attestation signed drivers
take the trust granted to them by the CA and
transfers it to a file whose Authenticode
signature originates from Microsoft itself.
We assess with high confidence that threat
actors have subverted this process using
illicitly obtained EV code signing
certificates to submit driver packages via
the attestation signing process, and in
effect have their malware signed by Microsoft
directly.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Deciphering_Queen_Of_Scots,_Mary_Stuart’s
Lost_Letters⠀⇛
Communications by important people over the
past thousands of years have been regularly
encrypted, making the breaking of this
encryption both an essential and also a
fascinating historical field. One recent
example of an important historical discovery
by codebreakers are letters dating back to
1578 through 1584 by Mary Stuart, the Queen
of Scots in the 16th century. While deemed
lost for centuries, researchers came across
them in a stash of encrypted letters that
were kept at the Bibliothèque nationale de
France’s (BnF). After decrypting these 57
letters, they realized what they had come
across.
# ⚓ Indian Express ☛ How_Union_budget_2023_may_foster
greater_violations_of_privacy⠀⇛
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Ukraine_Says_Italy’s_Berlusconi
‘Spreading_Russian_Propaganda’⠀⇛
Ukraine accused former Italian Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi on Monday of spreading Russian
propaganda…
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ FOCUS:_Five_surprising_facts_about_anti-
Russia_sanctions⠀⇛
After the invasion of Ukraine, the West imposed
sanctions on its longtime trading partner, Russia.
But they appear to be hitting the Russian economy
much less than expected, writes German magazine
FOCUS. According to the International Monetary Fund
(IMF), in the foreseeable future Russia will grow
even faster than Germany.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ AU_Ethiopia/Tigray_peace_committee_meets_for
first_time⠀⇛
Just over a month after hostilities ceased in
Ethiopia’s Tigray province, an African Union (AU)
joint committee overseeing agreement for lasting
peace in the east African country met for the
first time.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Ramaphosa’s_VIP_jet_grounded_following_Cape
Town_mishap⠀⇛
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Boeing Business Jet
(BBJ) will be out of action for some time following
a hangar incident in Cape Town that damaged its
tail.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Body_of_SA_airman_killed_in_DR_Congo_arrives
home⠀⇛
The mortal remains of South African Air Force
(SAAF) Sergeant Vusimusi Mabena, killed by a sniper
in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), were
repatriated on Sunday 12 February to Air Force Base
(AFB) Waterkloof in Centurion.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Live:_Ukraine_says_situation_‘difficult’_amid
fierce_fighting_near_Bakhmut⠀⇛
Ukraine said Monday the situation was “difficult”
in a village just north of Bakhmut, a day after the
Russian paramilitary group Wagner claimed control
of another settlement near the eastern Ukrainian
city that has been the stage for the longest battle
of the invasion.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ China_accuses_US_of_sending_balloons_into_its
airspace_‘more_than_10_times’⠀⇛
China accused the United States on Monday of flying
balloons over its territory, hitting back against
Washington’s claims that Beijing has been sending
alleged surveillance aircraft.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ US_military_shoots_down_fourth_flying_object
after_Great_Lakes_airspace_closure⠀⇛
A US fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object”
over Lake Huron on Sunday on orders from President
Joe Biden. It was the fourth such downing in eight
days and the latest military strike in an
extraordinary chain of events over US airspace that
Pentagon officials believe has no peacetime
precedent.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Philippine_coast_guard_accuses
Chinese_ship_of_using_‘laser_light’_near_disputed_islands⠀⇛
The Philippine Coast Guard on Monday accused a
Chinese coastguard vessel of shining a “military-
grade laser light” at one of its boats in the
disputed South China Sea, temporarily blinding crew
members.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Philippines_accuses_China_of_aiming
‘military-grade’_laser_at_coast_guard_vessel_in_South_China
Sea⠀⇛
The Philippine Coast Guard said the Feb 6 incident
caused temporary blindness to crew members.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ NATO’s_Stoltenberg:_‘We_Plan_to
Increase_Targets_for_Ammunition_Stockpiles’⠀⇛
NATO plans to increase its targets for ammunition
stockpiles, which are being depleted by the war in
Ukraine…
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Russia_Likely_to_Spy_More_on
Norway’s_Energy_Industry,_Say_Norway_Security_Police⠀⇛
Russia will seek to gather more intelligence about
Norway’s oil and gas infrastructure…
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Ukraine_says_over_1,200_health_facilities
damaged_since_start_of_war⠀⇛
According to Ukrainian Health Minister VIktor
Liashko, 1,218 Ukrainian health facilities have
been damaged, including 540 damaged hospitals, 173
of which were totally destroyed. The leader of the
Russian paramilitary group Wagner said Sunday that
his troops had taken an eastern Ukrainian village a
few kilometres from the key city of Bakhmut which
Moscow has been trying to capture for months.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Japan_police_file_new_charges_against
ex-prime_minister_Abe’s_murder_suspect⠀⇛
The new charges of making a gun and damaging a
building are expected to end investigations.
# ⚓ RAIR Foundation ☛ Threat_Alert:_ISIS_Calls_for_Muslims_to
Attack_Christians_Around_the_World,_Especially_in_Europe⠀⇛
See the following threat assessment report by The
Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information
Center at the Israeli Intelligence Heritage and
Commemoration Center: [...]
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Australia_to_Grant_Permanent_Visas_to_Thousands
of_Refugees⠀⇛
The policy has been condemned by rights groups.
Opposition lawmakers say the new visa changes will
encourage more asylum-seekers to try to reach
Australia by sea and would “enliven opportunities
for people smugglers.”
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘I_realized_this_isn’t_my_war’:_New_footage
appears_to_show_the_sledgehammer_murder_of_another_former
Wagner_Group_mercenary_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A new video posted by the Wagner mercenary group’s
semi-official Telegram channel appears to show the
murder by sledgehammer of Dmitry Yakushchenko, an
ex-convict who joined Wagner Group from prison
before apparently surrendering to Ukraine on the
battlefield. The gruesome clip comes just three
months after a similar video surfaced that showed
the murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin, another former Wagner
fighter. Here’s what we know about the Yakushchenko
video so far.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Syria_Held_Hostage_by_the_U.S.A._and_Its
Allies⠀⇛
Perhaps the most agonizing experience for a family,
for any bystander, even for humanitarian
professionals, is a double tragedy—a death or
calamity where they are refused access, where
they are forced to helplessly witness suffering,
unable to offer succor. This is surely what faces
millions of able-bodied Syrians today. It affects
Syrians within the stricken nation along with their
faraway relatives and friends.
Anyone seeing suffering is involuntarily driven
forward– to assist. Yet Syrians globally, those
most affected by the agonizing images and stories
emerging from the earthquake sites, feel
both immobilized and shy behind their tears and
frustrations. It’s not any threat of personal
danger in a war zone that inhibits them
from joining the rescue. It’s the international
embargo against Syria.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Police_Accountability_is_a_“Non-Starter”
Without_Discarding_the_Qualified_Immunity_Doctrine⠀⇛
Some reps in Congress assert that dismantling
qualified immunity (“QI”)—a police officer’s so-
called good faith defense to a civil rights
lawsuit—is a “non-starter” in negotiations to pass
the George Floyd Civil Rights Act. In reality,
meaningful police accountability is a non-starter
without discarding QI.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ US_Media_‘Spy_Balloon’_Obsession_a_Gift_to
China_Hawks⠀⇛
For over a week, U.S. corporate media have been
captivated by a so-called “Chinese spy balloon,”
raising the specter of espionage.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Pentagon_Wants_To_Return_Special_Ops
Propagandists_To_Ukraine⠀⇛
An article by The Washington Post titled “Pentagon
looks to restart top-secret programs in Ukraine”
contains some interesting information about what US
special ops forces were doing in Ukraine in the
lead-up to the Russian invasion last year, and what
they are slated to be doing there in the future.
[…]
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Remembering_Vladimir_Putin’s_speech_of_10
February_2007_at_the_Munich_Security_Conference⠀⇛
Sixteen years ago, on 10 February 2007, Russian
President Putin delivered a landmark speech at the
Munich Security Conference, a clear statement of
post- Cold War Russian foreign policy, focusing on
the need for multilateralism and international
solidarity. The mainstream media did not give much
visibility to Putin’s security analysis in 2007,
and still fails to do so. Yet, it is worth our
while to revisit that speech.
In 2007 I did recognize the implications of Putin’s
speech and even distributed the text to my students
at the Geneva School of Diplomacy. Sometimes I
distribute the Putin speech together with President
John F. Kennedy’s brilliant commencement address at
American University[1] on 10 June 1963, an appeal
to rationality that is as relevant today as it was
then. If everyone would read it and implement what
is in there, we would not be in the dangerous and
tragic situation we are in today.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Balloon,_the_Rabbit_and_the_Dragon:_the
Chinese_New_Year_in_San_Francisco⠀⇛
To write her most recent novel, Demon Copperhead
(2022; 549 pages; $32.50; Harper Collins) her tenth
in the past 35 years, Barbara Kingsolver turned for
inspiration to Charles Dickens whom she calls her
“genius friend.” In the acknowledgements, she
writes, “I’m grateful to Charles Dickens for
writing David Copperfield, his impassioned critique
of institutional poverty and its damaging effects
on children in his society.” She adds, “Those
problems are still with us.” Isn’t that obvious?
Why hit us over the head with it?
In the body of the novel, Kingsolver’s protagonist
and narrator— a poor white kid, a drug addict, an
orphan and a born again artist— explains that while
Dickens was a “seriously old guy, dead and a
foreigner, but Jesus Christ did he get the picture
on kids and orphans getting screwed over and nobody
giving a rat’s ass. You’d think he was from around
here.” For Copperhead, whose hair is the color of
copper wire, “around here” means Appalachia, where
Kingsolver lives on a farm with her husband. The
time is now, though there are very few references
to contemporary events. The Iraq war is one of
them.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Anti-war_Voices_Decry_Army,_NFL_for
‘Hijacking_the_Pat_Tillman_Story’_During_Super_Bowl_LVII⠀⇛
Advocates of peace, truth, and basic human decency
on Sunday excoriated the National Football League’s
“whitewashing” of former Arizona Cardinal and Army
Ranger Pat Tillman’s death in Afghanistan by so-
called “friendly fire” and the military’s
subsequent cover-up—critical details omitted from a
glowingly patriotic Super Bowl salute.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Chris_Hedges:_There_Are_No_Permanent_Allies,
Only_Permanent_Power⠀⇛
If we do not build left-right coalitions on issues
such as militarism, health care, a living wage and
union organizing, we will be impotent in the face
of corporate power and the war machine.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Prigozhin_claims_Wagner_Group_has_captured_Krasna
Hora_to_the_north_of_Bakhmut_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Wagner Group founder and Kremlin-backed tycoon
Evgeny Prigozhin says that Wagner fighters have
occupied the village of Krasna Hora, located 7
kilometers (about 4 miles) north of Bakhmut.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ From_the_bookshelf:_‘Abyss:_the_Cuban
missile_crisis_1962’⠀⇛
Over the course of the past week we saw a faction
within the American polity exhibit collective panic
about a Chinese balloon that floated across the US.
Whatever the nature of the balloon, the fears …
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Policy,_Guns_and_Money:_Ukraine_war_and
Indonesia’s_ASEAN_chairmanship⠀⇛
As the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine approaches, ASPI’s Executive Director
Justin Bassi speaks to historian and writer Olesya
Khromeychuk.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ China–Philippine_relations_sail_on_calmer
seas—for_now⠀⇛
On 4 January, Chinese President Xi Jinping clasped
hands with his Philippine counterpart under very
different circumstances from the last time he
welcomed a Philippine leader to Beijing.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Burkina_Faso_inches_closer_to_Wagner
mercenaries⠀⇛
As it seeks to expand its presence in the Sahel
region, Russia appears to be following the same
playbook in Burkina Faso that it used to embed
itself into Mali’s security apparatus. Despite
recent denials, Burkina Faso has courted Russian
support, possibly including Wagner Group
mercenaries.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Outgoing_MONUSCO_force_commander_believes_DRC
is_better_today_than_in_1999⠀⇛
Summing up his tenure as MONUSCO force commander,
Lieutenant General Marcos da Costa maintains much
was done under his watch, with more work needed to
guarantee peace in Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC).
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ C-in-C’s_attendance_at_Armed_Forces_Day
parade_confirmed⠀⇛
Torrential rain and localised flooding in KwaZulu-
Natal is putting the ingenuity of the national
defence force’s logistic specialists to the test as
they battle the elements and the clock preparing
for Armed Forces Day (AFD) and associated events.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan_says_it_reserves_right_to_shoot
down_Chinese_balloons⠀⇛
Any move by Taiwan to down such a balloon would
likely prompt an angry response from China.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Tax_agents_facing_tougher_penalties_for
breaching_secret_talks⠀⇛
Treasurer Jim Chalmers will toughen laws around tax
agents who are involved in confidential talks about
overhauling the tax system.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ AI_integration_in_Google,_Microsoft_search
results_won’t_be_good_for_the_environment⠀⇛
For both companies, maintaining computer systems to
help with search engines is already a resource-
intense operation. AI chatbot integration will make
the operation even heavier and will lead to more
energy consumption.
According to a report by Wired, the power that is
needed to train a single AI can produce a huge
amount of carbon emissions. Meanwhile, internet
usage produces nearly 4% of total global greenhouse
gas emissions.
The report also mentions that experts have warned
that the computing prowess required to combine AI
with a load of search engine queries will be
increased for companies like Google and Microsoft
by up to 5 times. With more computers, greenhouse
gas emissions will also increase.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Kyiv_moral_satisfaction:_the
choice_of_the_Westinghouse_to_reject_“Soviet_nuclear
technology”⠀⇛
The ongoing war in Ukraine is not exactly a
conducive environment to building new nuclear
power plants. But… just past week, the
Ukrainian energy minister, Herman
Halushchenko, announced that his country had
ordered two new Westinghouse AP1000 reactors
for the Khmelnytskyi site in the western part
of Ukraine, ‘Counterpunch’ writes with
surprise.
# ⚓ H2 View ☛ European_Commission_proposes_regulation_for
renewable_hydrogen_definition⠀⇛
The European Commission has today (February
13) proposed rules for the definition of
renewable hydrogen in the EU with two
Delegated Acts under the Renewable Energy
Directive (RED).
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Filipinos_‘prized_targets’_to
work_for_Chinese_crypto_scam_networks,_says_Philippine
official⠀⇛
They are valued for their English proficiency
and computer skills, he said.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ 8_Filipinos_rescued_from_Myanmar
syndicate_running_cryptocurrency_scams⠀⇛
Syndicates have been trafficking workers from
across South-easts Asia and ensnaring them in
slave labour camps.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Activists_halt_logging_again_at_Lapland_site⠀⇛
The activists are demanding that
Metsähallitus stop logging in the area until
conservation proposals have been processed by
the Ministry of the Environment.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Eva_report:_Finland_needs_to_make_€13bn_in_cuts⠀⇛
The economic think tank offers four economic policy
options aimed at helping Finland’s political
leaders balance the state’s books.
# ⚓ Thomas_Vander_Stichele:_How_to_Support_Through_Layoffs⠀⇛
The number one question I’ve gotten in the past
week has been “how can I support people affected by
the layoff?”
First, some general advice:
# For everyone, remember to “comfort in, dump
out” – vent your frustrations to people less
affected, support those who are more affected
than you.
# To support Xooglers, don’t ask “how can I
help?” as that places more burden on
them. Offer specific ways you can help them –
“Can I write you a Linkedin recommendation?
Can I connect you with this person I know at
this company who’s hiring?”. People are
affected disproportionally, and if you want
to prioritize your help, consider starting
with the people on a visa who are now on a
tight deadline to find a new sponsor or face
leaving the country.
# To support your colleagues still here,
remember we’re not all having the same
experience. In particular, people outside of
the US will be in limbo for weeks or months
to come. People can be anywhere on a spectrum
of “long time Googler, first mass layoff” to
“I’ve had to go through worse”. Don’t assume,
lead with curiosity, and listen.
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ About_a_‘US_default’_and_“the_fate_of
dollar”⠀⇛
Prepare for a US debt default and a recession that
will drag down corporate earnings, according to
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan. In an interview
with CNN, the head of the second-largest US bank
said he hoped the government wouldn’t slip into
default on its debt.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Will_the_States_Finally_Tax_the_Rich?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Nearly_1_Million_March_Against_‘Unjust_and
Brutal’_Plan_to_Raise_French_Pension_Age⠀⇛
Nearly a million people took to the streets of
cities across France on Saturday during the fourth
round of nationwide protests against President
Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the country’s
pension eligibility age from 62 to 64.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ We_Already_Know_Who’s_Winning_Super_Bowl_LVII
—_the_Billionaire_Class⠀⇛
The players are preparing to face off, but
billionaire NFL owners are all on the same team.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Big_Tech_Aims_to_Punish_Workers_and_Drive_Down
Wages_With_Wave_of_Layoffs⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Hyundai’s_Suppliers_Employ_Child_Labor,
Democrats_Call_on_Biden_to_Crack_Down⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Corrupt_and_Fraudulent:_Laying_Bare_the
Adani_Group⠀⇛
There is nothing Gautam Adani will not do for
money. In this sense, he is admirably dedicated to
greed, so much so he has become its foremost
caricature worthy of permanent enthronement. Mark
this man’s name in the scriptures of eternity:
There was nothing he did not do for the filthy
lucre.
For the unfamiliar reader, the $218 billion Adani
imperium, one specialising in transport,
infrastructure, and mining, is vast, with far
reaching feelers, prongs and tentacles that have
made their mark in a number of countries. Along
the way, Adani’s companies have made quite a name
for themselves. Employment laws have been breached
and treated with disdain. Broader human rights
abuses have featured. Governments and regulators
have been lied to. No environment is ecologically
safe from the company’s activities, despite their
assertions to the contrary.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ How_the_Wealthy_Are_Saving_Billions_in_Taxes_by
Skirting_a_Century-Old_Law⠀⇛
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Meta_reportedly_planning_more_layoffs_as
part_of_efficiency_drive⠀⇛
Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly planning more
layoffs in March as part of an efficiency drive
after having laid off around 11,000 employees in
November. The Financial Times, referencing
employees familiar with the situation, Saturday
reported that Meta has delayed finalizing multiple
teams’ budgets ahead of the planned cuts.
⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Prioritise_post-Covid_recovery_over_enacting_Hong
Kong’s_own_security_law,_pro-Beijing_heavyweight_says⠀⇛
A pro-Beijing heavyweight has said it would not be suitable to begin
legislative work to enact Hong Kong’s own security law this year,
citing the city’s need for post-pandemic recovery and the run-up to
Taiwan presidential elections.
⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Thai_police_warn_lovers_about_‘sextortion’_scams_ahead_of
Valentine’s_Day⠀⇛
>
Thai police said romance scams reported last month mainly targeted
women in their 40s.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ As_Taliban_sits_on_a_powder_keg,_Biden_has_other
priorities⠀⇛
“Together, we did what America always does at our best. We
led.”, said US President Joe Biden as he summed up American
foreign policy in his 2023 State of the Union Address. However,
what remained conspicuously absent from one the most important
events in Washington’s political calendar was any reference to
the Taliban.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Israel_‘Legalizes’_9_Apartheid_Settler_Colonies_in
Occupied_Palestine⠀⇛
Israel’s far-right Security Cabinet on Sunday approved the
immediate “legalization” of nine Jewish-only settler outposts
in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem over what critics
called the empty objection of benefactor the United States and
in violation of international law—under which all Israeli
settler colonies are illegal.
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ New_Israeli_Regime_Moves_Toward_“Cleansing”_All_Palestinians
From_Palestine⠀⇛
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ GOP-run_Southern_Legislatures_Are_Using_Rule_Changes_to
Undermine_Democracy⠀⇛
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ A_Khabarovsk_rally_in_support_of_former_governor_Sergey
Furgal,_sentenced_to_22_years_in_prison,_attracted_70_people_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A protest took place in Khabarovsk in support of the former
governor, Sergey Furgal, who was recently sentenced to 22 years
in prison for allegedly ordering business-related contract
killings in 2004 and 2005.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ A_military_officer_asked_the_courts_to_strip_him_of_his_rank,
but_the_courts_rejected_the_case_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A regional court in Vladimir dismissed a case brought by
military officer Farhad Dzhabbarov, who was asking to be
removed from the military register and stripped of his rank
because he disagrees with the actions of the Russian
authorities.
* ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ This_Week_in_the_New_Normal_#56⠀⇛
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the
New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy,
authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1.Mink farms for the chop? For some reason the MSM have turned
their collective fire on Mink farming this week. Apparently
mink farms are dangerous …
* ⚓ Reason ☛ “The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Jews_at_Law_Schools”⠀⇛
An interesting essay by New York Law School professor Rebecca
Roiphe. A taste:Many, if not most, students have bought into
academic lessons peddled in the 1980s and ’90s as an outgrowth
of what’s often called critical legal theory. Among them: Law
is not a neutral institution designed to ensure the peaceful
resolution of disputes in…
* ⚓ Defence Web ☛ SONA_–_Commander-in-Chief_misses_a_trick⠀⇛
President Cyril Ramaphosa presented his State of the Nation
Address (SONA) on 9 February, when he concentrated on four
elements that Concern South African most: 1) load shedding, 2)
unemployment, 3) poverty and the rising cost of living, and 4)
crime and corruption.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Cyprus_ex-foreign_minister_Christodoulides_elected_youngest
president⠀⇛
Cyprus voters on Sunday elected the former foreign minister
Nikos Christodoulides as the next president of the small EU
member state, with his rival conceding defeat and
congratulating him.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_47:_Ex-lawmaker_Au_Nok-hin_testifies
against_fellow_democrats_during_national_security_trial⠀⇛
Former legislator Au Nok-hin, one of the 47 pro-democracy
figures charged in a landmark national security case, has begun
his testimony as the first prosecution witness at the trial of
his 16 co-defendants.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_outlet_Stand_News_published_op-eds_on
the_basis_of_‘public_interest’_not_advocacy,_court_hears⠀⇛
Shuttered independent Hong Kong media outlet Stand News
published op-eds about the pro-democracy camp’s 2020 unofficial
primary election based on “public interest” and the importance
of the issue, a court has heard, as the sedition trial against
the platform’s former top editors continued. The prosecution’s
questioning of the former chief editor of Stand News Chung […]
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Albania_anti-government_protestors_call_for_resignation_of
prime_minister⠀⇛
Opposition supporters in Albania Saturday took part in anti
government protests in opposition of Prime Minister Edi
Rama. During the demonstrations, protestors were seen
congregating by the main government building and throwing smoke
bombs as they called for Rama to resign as prime minister.
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ India Times ☛ Google_to_expand_misinformation_“prebunking”_in
Europe⠀⇛
After seeing promising results in Eastern Europe, Google
will initiate a new campaign in Germany that aims to make
people more resilient to the corrosive effects of online
misinformation.
The tech giant plans to release a series of short videos
highlighting the techniques common to many misleading
claims. The videos will appear as advertisements on
platforms like Facebook, YouTube or TikTok in Germany. A
similar campaign in India is also in the works.
It’s an approach called pre-bunking, which involves
teaching people how to spot false claims before they
encounter them. The strategy is gaining support among
researchers and tech companies.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ RAIR Foundation ☛ Thousands_of_Radicalized_Muslims_Demonstrated_in
Germany_Against_the_Qur’an_Burning_in_Sweden⠀⇛
The Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution
warned against joining the demonstration. The radical Islamic
network Muslim Interaktiv (MI), which has the same ideology as
the terrorist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT), was behind the
protest. “Anyone who takes part in this demonstration stands
side by side with enemies of the constitution who want to
enforce a form of society incompatible with our free democratic
basic order,” it said in advance.
* ⚓ Times Higher Education ☛ Iran_forces_regime_critics_out_of_academia⠀⇛
Reports of scholars being retired early or dismissed indicate
that the Iranian government has ordered a cleansing of academia
in the wake of protests that have gripped the country since
September. Demonstrations were triggered by the death in police
custody of Mahsa Amini, who was accused of wearing her hijab
“improperly”.
“We can expect more expulsions of students and faculty and a
more conservative academic curriculum in the coming months,”
said Mehrzad Boroujerdi, author of Iranian Intellectuals and
the West and vice-provost of Missouri University of Science and
Technology.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ France_slams_Marvel’s_‘Black_Panther’_over_depiction_of_its
army_in_Africa⠀⇛
Paris’ defence minister on Sunday condemned the latest
instalment of Marvel’s Black Panther franchise, which depicts
French troops caught trying to steal resources belonging to the
fictional African kingdom of Wakanda.
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Protesters,_rights_groups_condemn_closure_of
Cambodian_news_outlet⠀⇛
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“It’s only Voice of Democracy that speaks about the truth,” a
protester said.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ HRW ☛ Philippines:_Next_Steps_for_ICC_Probe_of_Duterte-Era_Killings⠀⇛
* ⚓ HRW ☛ Libya/US:_Rights_Concerns_in_Lockerbie_Suspect’s_Extradition⠀⇛
* ⚓ RAIR Foundation ☛ Islamic_Italy:_Police_Bust_Migrant_Father_who_Beat,
Starved,_and_Imprisoned_Daughter_for_Refusing_‘Arranged’_Marriage_
(Video)⠀⇛
A Bangladesh migrant has been arrested in Italy for kidnapping,
imprisoning, beating, and starving his 20-year-old daughter.
The 52-year-old father was “punishing” his daughter for having
a relationship with a young man he disapproved of. The father
wanted the daughter to have an Islamic arranged marriage with a
boy he had chosen in Bangladesh.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Founder_of_Russian_anti-domestic_violence_group_to_be_deported
from_Georgia_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Anna Rivina, the founder of the Russian anti-domestic violence
advocacy group Nasiliu.net (“No to Violence”), has been denied
entry to Georgia, where she’s been living since leaving Russia,
the independent news outlet Holod reported on Sunday night.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ What_You_Should_Know_About_the_Abortion_Case_that_Could
Ban_Mifepristone⠀⇛
Access to abortion has been decimated in the United States
since June when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and
took away our right to control our own bodies. Laws banning
abortion are now in effect in more than a dozen states, denying
more than 20 million people of reproductive age access to
essential health care. And as hideous as this is, we know that
is only the latest step in their plan to ban abortion and other
essential health care nationwide.
* ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ To_Change_the_World,_Our_Unions_Must_Change⠀⇛
By David Story / Labor Notes Unionism has seen a resurgence in
popularity the past few years. The problem is, it’s very
difficult to get our members organizing in their communities
when they hate the way our leadership (I use that word loosely)
is operating. Our unions shouldn’t be, and I’d argue weren’t
meant to […]
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Israelis_march_against_judicial_reforms_as_president_warns
of_‘legal_collapse’⠀⇛
Thousands of Israelis protested outside parliament Monday
against the government’s controversial judicial reform plan,
which aims to give lawmakers substantially more control over
the supreme court.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ Informa PLC ☛ Ericsson_networks_boss_shares_open_RAN_hopes_and_fears⠀⇛
“It’s a big, complex question,” said Fredrik Jejdling when
asked about his organization’s current stance on open radio
access network (RAN) technology. Jejdling manages Ericsson’s
networks business, which generates about 70% of company
revenues. A noisy infant today, open RAN is often depicted as
one of the biggest future threats to this business. Even
Ericsson believes it will account for about a fifth of RAN
market sales by the end of this decade.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* ⚓ Geeks For Geeks ☛ Difference_between_Perfect_Competition_and
Monopolistic_Competition⠀⇛
The number and types of firms operating in an industry and the
nature and degree of competition in the market for the goods
and services…
* § Trademarks⠀➾
o ⚓ YLE ☛ Rebrand_your_balls,_court_orders_company⠀⇛
A lower court had previously forced the Finnish food
company Pouttu to change the names of its plant-based
balls and burgers. The burgers were given a reprieve by
the Supreme Administrative Court.
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Streaming_Companies_To_Lose_Access_To_Disney
Library⠀⇛
Russian online streaming services will lose access to
Disney’s library of films when their current contact with
the U.S. entertainment firms expires in March, Vedomosti
reported. [...]
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Anti-Piracy_Outfits_Target_TorrentFreak_in
PikaShow_Crackdown⠀⇛
Copyright holders are doing all they can to dissuade
people from using the popular pirate streaming app
PikaShow. In addition to criminal referrals, this also
includes efforts to remove PikaShow references from
Google’s search results. This isn’t without collateral
damage, as TorrentFreak’s news reports are mistakenly
flagged too.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Aussie_Piracy_“Disturbingly_High”_Despite_97%
Using_Legal_Sources⠀⇛
The Australian government has released the 2022 edition
of its Consumer Survey on Online Copyright Infringement.
At 159 pages it’s a big read, but in the spirit of
showman P.T. Barnum, it has something for everyone.
Almost 90% of the most dedicated Aussie consumers obtain
content strictly legally, but it can also be argued that
40% of the population are pirates.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ Some_Hardware_Repairs⠀⇛
In which I discuss recent repairs and upgrades I’ve done
for several of my devices.
Written on a MacBook Pro while listening to the Bugsnax
Original Soundtrack by Seth Parker.
⁂
For the past several years I’ve been using a 45 W MacBook
Air charger for my Macbook Pro, because the real 85 W
MacBook Pro charger I had got burnt out from a power
surge or something at a previous school; new ones cost
$80 so I never got it. But using the much lower power
charger meant that my comptuer would often still die even
when plugged in, and it ruined the battery life because
it was acting like an online UPS where the battery was
being constantly charged and drained.
o ⚓ Update_your_mirrors!⠀⇛
Mirrors are what powers all distros: they’re a
(de)centralized solution for downloading pre-compiled
binaries and scripts for your operating system.
o ⚓ February⠀⇛
Another month, another… something. Still wrestling with
the issue at work, still killing my mental health, to the
point of driving me to want to quit. I feel like I’m
close to a solution now. But being essentially the one
person in my field, I also have to shoulder all of the
projects related to that. I’m in over my head. I’ve told
my boss that I need another person working with me, and
the guy at the help desk that handles some of it is nice,
but that’s not a real solution.
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ A_grade-A_ditz_tries_video_games⠀⇛
So I had played like three seconds of Popeye on a home
computer (guessing the C64) at a distant relative’s house
and had two Game & Watches (Life Boat and a non-Nintendo
space shooter, both of which I loved), but the first real
video game I really played was Duck Tales.
Loved it, amazing game, kind of sad to start with one of
the best games of all time since it was all downhill from
there, but point of the story is that I play a couple of
levels, get to Transylvania, start talking to Webby, and…
I have no idea how to move forward. I was stuck on the
same screen for an hour.
Because I didn’t know to press A to continue the
dialogue.
I must’ve accidentally hit A without realizing it because
I was stuck again the next time, a li’l bit shorter since
that time I did figure it out.
o § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ How_to_host_git_repos⠀⇛
In honor of World Give Up GitHub day, here’s a
quick guide to how to serve up your own git repos.
In an empty directory readable from WWW (that has
the URL you want your repo to have, for cloning)
that you also can write to over SSH, run
git init --bare
mv hooks/post-update.sample hooks/post-update
Make sure the directory has the permissions you
want for web (world readable, not writable).
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Programming/Development
# Perl_/_Raku
# Python
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Software_Patents
# Trademarks
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 8_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Dictionary
Tools⠀⇛
The Linux operating system offers an impressive
range of versatile dictionary tools, which can look
up words and phrases for different languages in
multiple dictionary file formats, as well as using
online sites such as Wikipedia and Wikitionary.
To provide an insight into the open source software
that is available, we have compiled a list of 8 of
our favorite dictionary tools. Hopefully, there
will be something of interest here for anyone who
needs a feature-rich dictionary. We give our
highest recommendation to GoldenDict and OpenDict.
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ 5_of_the_Best_notify-send_Alternatives
for_Linux⠀⇛
Notification servers, such as notify-send, are a
vital part of every desktop Linux distribution.
They allow you to receive every status notification
from every program currently running in your
machine.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Changing_Directories_in_Linux_Terminal⠀⇛
Learn how to change directories in the Linux
command line using absolute and relative paths in
this part of the Terminal Basics series.
# ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_Podman_Checkpoint⠀⇛
Podman is a tool which runs, manages and deploys
containers under theOCIstandard. Running containers
with rootless access and creating pods (a Pod is a
group of containers ) are additional features of
Podman. This article describes and explains how to
use checkpointing in Podman to save the state of a
running container for later use.
# ⚓ Pacman_package_Manager_–_Troubleshoot⠀⇛
Pacman is a popular package manager used by Arch
Linux and its derivatives. It is known for its
simplicity, speed, and efficiency. However, like
all software, Pacman is not without its share of
problems.
# ⚓ Pacman_package_Manager_–_Repositories_and_Mirrors
Configuration⠀⇛
Pacman is a popular package manager for Arch Linux
and its derivatives. It is responsible for
downloading and installing packages on the system.
# ⚓ Pacman_package_Manager_–_General_Configuration_Options⠀⇛
Pacman, the package manager for Arch Linux, is an
essential tool for managing software packages in
the operating system. The package manager allows
users to install, update, and remove software
packages with ease.
# ⚓ Net2 ☛ How_to_fix_Wifi_issues_on_Ubuntu_22.04_–_A_complete
guide⠀⇛
Struggling with Wi-Fi issues on your Ubuntu 22.04
machine? You’ve come to the right spot. These
problems can be a real pain, especially if you need
a reliable connection for work or play.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_use_TCPdump_with_examples⠀⇛
Hello, friends. Getting network statistics is a
basic task that allows you to monitor what is going
on with your network. So, today, you will learn how
to use the tcpdump command on Linux. We will also
use examples to facilitate the tutorial.
# ⚓ LinuxTuto ☛ How_To_Secure_Nginx_with_Let’s_Encrypt_on
Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open-
certificate authority (CA) that provides Digital
SSL/TLS certificates to enable secure encrypted
connections for websites.
# ⚓ Pacman_package_Manager_–_Cleaning_the_package_cache⠀⇛
In today’s world, computer systems are a part of
everyday life. They are used for work,
entertainment, communication, and many other
purposes. As a result, the use of software has
become increasingly widespread and diverse.
# ⚓ Pacman_package_Manager_–_Querying_package_database⠀⇛
Pacman is a package manager for Arch Linux and its
derivatives. It is a command line tool that allows
users to easily install, remove, and update
packages on their system.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Skrooge_2.29.0_released⠀⇛
The Skrooge Team announces the release 2.29.0
version of its popular Personal Finances
Manager based on KDE Frameworks.
ChangelogCorrection bug 459775: User must be
able to unlink the current account connected
with a credit card accountCorrection bug
459378: Merging imported operation with an
existing one fails when both have the same
propertyCorrection bug 456895: Skrooge seems
to work better under Wayland, so remove
broken Wayland overrideCorrection bug 455427:
Allow to add operations to a scheduled
operationCorrection bug 409705: Add category
adds as subcategory of selected, which
doesn’t match the Name lineCorrection bug
463245: Exchange rates converter no longer
worksCorrection bug 465335: Skrooge v2.28.0
AppImage Icons Don’t showCorrection: When a
document is open, settings stored in the
document (underligned) must be
reloadCorrection: Remove deprecated api for
loading pluginsFeature: Change of XML export
and addition of XML import (this will
facilitate some other XML import like ISO
20022)Feature: Import ISO 20022Feature: Align
the category of all single operations with
the category of their payee (quality check +
view + auto correction)
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ Automation_tools:_Paramiko,_Netmiko,_NAPALM,
Ansible,_Nornir_or_…?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Planning_our_migration_to_Ansible
Automation_Platform_2⠀⇛
Learn how Red Hat IT designed its strategy to
migrate from Ansible Tower to Ansible Automation
Platform 2.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ IT_careers:_6_security
certifications_that_will_get_you_hired_in_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ CIO_role:_Finding_balance_and
building_resiliency_in_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jonathan Dowland ☛ Jonathan_Dowland:_A_visit_to_Prusa
Labs⠀⇛
In September I was in Czechia for a Red Hat event.
I ended up travelling via
Prague, and had an unexpected extra day due to an
airline strike causing my
flight home to be cancelled. I took the opportunity
to visit Prusa’s
offices/factory/Lab, and it was amazing!
The Prusa team were all busy getting ready for the
Prague Maker Faire that
was happening the day afterwards.1
On arriving at the street which houses Prusa’s Lab
and Office buildings, the
first thing that hit me was the smell. I find the
melted-plastic smell of FDM
printing (with PLA, at least) quite pleasant, and
this was a super-condensed
version of that, pumping out of their ground-floor
windows. I started at the
reception area on the ground floor. Outside
reception
there’s a lovely sculpture representing the history
of the development of the
MK3S+.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Expandable_Folder_View_Returns_to_Nautilus_in
Ubuntu_23.04⠀⇛
If you read our sister site omg! linux you’ll
already know of one particular change that makes
Nautilus 44 an especially exciting update: the
return of Expandable Folders in List View option.
Accessible from the file manager’s Preferences
panel, this opt-in behaviour makes it faster to
flit through folders to find a specific file when
using list view (this feature doesn’t work in icon
view). When enabled you’re able to expand and
collapse folders tree view style to maintain a top-
level overview of directory structure while
navigating.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Using_sensor_fusion_and_tinyML_to_detect_fires⠀⇛
The damage and destruction caused by structure
fires to both people and the property itself is
immense, which is why accurate and reliable fire
detection systems are a must-have.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Warning_to_never_hand_your_Android_phone_to
someone_without_doing_‘swipe-tap’_trick_first_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ OnePlus’s_four-year_Android_update
commitment_isn’t_just_for_flagships⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_reiterates_that_Assistant_light_mode_is
not_coming_back⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ This_Underrated_Android_13_Feature_Makes_Copy
And_Pasting_Even_More_Useful⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Central ☛ Android_14_with_Bard_would_be_the_perfect
way_to_challenge_ChatGPT_|_Android_Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ India Times ☛ OnePlus_11R_to_receive_Android_updates,_five
years_of_security_updates_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google_Docs:_How_to_add_headers_and
footers_to_your_documents⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_Chrome_moving_to_Android’s_sharing_menu
[Gallery]⠀⇛
# ⚓ XDA ☛ Android_14_adds_new_features_to_make_third-party_app
stores_work_even_better⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Choose_The_Best_Android_Phone_For_Your
Budget_(2023)⠀⇛
# ⚓ XDA ☛ Official_Vita3K_for_Android_releases_as_the_first
mobile_PlayStation_Vita_emulator⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Millions_of_Android_online_shoppers_warned_spies
can_see_your_name,_credit_card,_address_and_phone_number_|
The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Future Publishing Limited ☛ Love_Coke?_Then_you’ll_love
this_limited_edition_Android_phone_|_T3⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hot Hardware ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_S23_Ultra_Review:_A_Dominant
Android_Phone_|_HotHardware⠀⇛
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Google_Drive_gets_PDF_annotation_on_Android,
here’s_how_to_use_it_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ How_to_find_hidden_apps_on_your_Android
smartphone⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Best_golf_games_on_Android_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ TheHinduBusinessLine ☛ Android_case:_The_story_so_far_in
CCI’s_epic_anti-trust_battle_against_Google_–_The_Hindu
BusinessLine⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_Auto_‘exploring’_revival_of_weather
support⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android_14_update_tracker:_Here’s_everything_we_know_so_far
[Cont._updated]_–_PiunikaWeb⠀⇛
# ⚓ WCCF Tech ☛ Xiaomi_13_Lite_5G_Becomes_the_First_Android
Phone_with_a_Dynamic_Island⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ What’s_next_for_OSI’s_website [Ed: OSI became a front
group for Microsoft proprietary software; it has little real
purpose left]⠀⇛
OSI’s website moved to a managed platform, laying the
foundations for future improvements.
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ Kyoto_confirmed_as_APNIC_56_location⠀⇛
APNIC is pleased to announce that Kyoto, Japan,
will be the location of APNIC 56 in September 2023.
# ⚓ KDE Official ☛ Akademy_2023_Call_for_Proposals_is_Now
Open!⠀⇛
Akademy2023 will be a hybrid event held
inThessaloniki, Greece, and online from Saturday
the 15th to Friday the 21st of July.The_Call_for
Participationis open!Send_usyour talk ideas and
abstracts.
§ Why talk at #Akademy2023?
Akademy attracts artists, designers, developers,
translators, users, writers, companies, public
institutions and many other KDE friends and
contributors. We celebrate the achievements and
help determine the direction for the next year. We
all meet together to discuss and plan the future of
the Community and the technology we build. You will
meet people that are receptive to your ideas and
can help you with their skills and experience.
These sessions offer the opportunity for gaining
support, and making your plans for your project
become a reality.
§ How to get started
Do not worry about details or a slides right now.
Just think of an idea and submit some basic details
about your talk. You can edit your abstract after
the initial submission. All topics relevant to the
KDE Community are welcome. Here are a few ideas to
get you started on your proposal:
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ The_Mozilla_Blog:_The_immersive_school_bus:
Hubs-built_journeys_into_the_body_for_medical
education⠀⇛
Kristen Ramirez and Greg Dorsainville of the
NYU Grossman School of Medicine write about
how instructors useMozilla_Hubs, a VR
platform that’s accessible and private by
design, to teach students about the human
body.
Kristen Ramirezis a research Instructor at
NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She is a
human evolutionary biologist by training and
anatomist by trade, publishing on the
evolution of human joints and advances in
anatomy medical education. Over the last two
years she has introduced the use of immersive
XR and VR teaching tools to the anatomy
curriculum.
Greg Dorsainvilleexplores how new media and
immersive computing can unlock the potential
of both educators and learners at the NYU
Grossman School of Medicine’s Institute for
Innovations in Medical Education. His focus
is on how XR can expand the opportunity for
experiential active learning experiences.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL_JDBC_42.5.3_Released⠀⇛
The PostgreSQL JDBC Project is pleased to announce
the release of version 42.5.3 which includes the
changes for 42.5.2 as well as fixing the
regressions.
This release fixes 2 regressions which were
introduced in 42.5.2
We recommend not using 42.5.2
Notable changes for 42.5.2:
# Define binary transfer for custom types
dynamically/automatically.
# Added gssResponseTimeout to make sure we
don’t wait forever on a GSS RESPONSE
# Make sure socket is closed if an exception is
thrown in createSocket
# Fix hanging ssl connections
# Fix binary conversion of (very) long numeric
values (longer than 4 * 2^15 digits)
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ pgAdmin_4_v6.20_Released⠀⇛
The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce
pgAdmin 4 version 6.20. This release of pgAdmin 4
includes 18 bug fixes and new features. For more
details please see therelease_notes.
pgAdmin is the leading Open Source graphical
management tool for PostgreSQL. For more
information, please seethe_website.
§ Note⠀➾
Whilst pgAdmin 4 does not formally support
downgrading, it typically does work if you
uninstall and then reinstall the application.
This release of pgAdmin includes a major change to
the configuration database structure which is NOT
backward compatible, and therefore a
straightforward downgrade will not work.
If you are using the default SQLite database for
your configuration (as will be the case for the
vast majority of users), the old version of the
configuration database will be backed up to
“pgadmin4.db.prev.bak” in your storage directory.
If you wish to downgrade to pgAdmin v6.19 or
earlier, after running v6.20, you must restore this
file to “pgadmin4.db” in the same directory, BEFORE
starting the older version of pgAdmin again.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Privacy_Scare!_Google’s_Go_Programming_Language
Wants_to_Enable_Telemetry_by_Default⠀⇛
Google and privacy concerns, a match made in
heaven?
Well, I do not intend to make any false claims
here. But Google does not have the best reputation
regarding privacy protections.
It may not be bad for everyone, but they’re not
good at it either.
In 2019, Google’s Go (open-source programming
language) latest release introduced a change where
GOPROXY defaults to a mirror operated by Google and
is subject to Google’s privacy policy.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ 20_Free_Open_Source_JavaScript_Animation
Frameworks_and_Libraries⠀⇛
JS Animation libraries help developers create
catchy animations for their websites, web apps, or
even games. In this post we offer you the best
multipurpose and specific JavaScript animation
libraries and frameworks.
# ⚓ SICP ☛ On_association⠀⇛
My research touches on the professionalisation (or
otherwise) of software engineering, and
particularly the association (or not) of software
engineers with a professional body, or with each
other (or not) through a professional body. So
what’s that about?
# § Perl / Raku⠀➾
# ⚓ Rakulang ☛ 2023.07_Core_Class⠀⇛
Vadim Belman has published the video of their
second Rakudo Core Development class, giving
an introduction on many aspects of Rakudo and
NQP internals. Clocking in at more than 2.5
hours, it should help anybody wanting to
contribute to the Rakudo core significantly!
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_Apply()_Function_to_Every_Row⠀⇛
Tutorial on how to utilize the apply()
function to every row in Pandas to implement
any function to every row in DataFrame in
Pandas using practical examples.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_Argmax()⠀⇛
Guide on how to locate the index location of
the maximum value in a DataFrame or Series
using the Index.argmax(), Series.argmax, and
DataFrame[‘column’].argmax.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_Add_Column_with_Default_Values⠀⇛
Practical tutorial on adding a column with
the default value in Pandas using three
methods – assign(), [], and insert() – to add
a column with a constant value.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_Add_Days_to_Date⠀⇛
Practical guide on how to add the days to the
dates in Pandas by utilizing three methods –
pandas.DateOffset(), pandas.timeDelta(), and
pandas.to_timeDelta().
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ CNN ☛ ‘Oh_Aunty,_how_I_love_you’:_Hear_man’s_response_when
elderly_aunt_is_found_after_152_hours_under_rubble⠀⇛
85-year-old Ismihan was trapped under a building for days
after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Turkey. Video
captured the moment her nephew helped to rescue her.
o ⚓ CNN ☛ ‘I_couldn’t_save_my_daughter’:_Behind_the_defining_image_of
the_Turkey_earthquake⠀⇛
It’s been a week since a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake
rocked Turkey and Syria, claiming the lives of more than
36,000 people. Many tens of thousands more have been
injured. Millions may be left homeless.
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Survivors_still_being_found_five_days_after_Turkey
quake⠀⇛
The death toll has now topped 25,000, but rescuers saved
at least nine people, including a family of five, from
the rubble on Saturday.
o ⚓ Proteo_dies_during_rescue_efforts:_Gracias_Proteo⠀⇛
Dogs in the rescue teams from Türkiye and from twelve
other countries played an important role in the rescue
efforts following the February 6 earthquakes and saved
many people’s lives.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Live:_UN_says_rescue_phase_‘coming_to_a_close’_as
quake_deaths_surpass_35,000⠀⇛
The rescue phase following the earthquakes in Turkey and
Syria on February 6 is “coming to a close”, with urgency
now switching to providing shelter, food, schooling and
psychosocial care, United Nations aid chief Martin
Griffiths said during a visit to Aleppo in northern Syria
on Monday. The combined death toll has surpassed 35,000.
(GMT+1).
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Faster_and_cheaper:_Turkey’s_construction_sector
blamed_for_scale_of_earthquake_devastation⠀⇛
Developers in Turkey’s construction sector are in the hot
seat and dozens have been arrested following the
earthquakes that collapsed of thousands of multi-storey
buildings and individual houses on February 6, killing
tens of thousands. FRANCE 24′s Shona Bhattacharyya,
Ludovic de Foucaud and Hussein Asad report from Osmaniye,
Turkey.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘It’s_too_much’:_Waiting_for_the_dead_in_Turkey’s
quake-stricken_Nurdagi⠀⇛
Search and rescue teams are still at work amid an
apocalyptic landscape in Nurdagi, a southeastern Turkish
town near the epicentre of the January 6 earthquakes. But
at this point they are looking for the remains of the
dead, not survivors.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Syrian_people_‘failed’_as_UN_warns_that_level_of
humanitarian_aid_is_currently_insufficient_in_aftermath_of
earthquakes⠀⇛
The Emergency Relief Coordinator of the UN Martin
Griffiths Sunday declared that there has been a failure
in the delivery of international aid to the people of
northwest Syria. Griffith urgently calls for
international support in the wake of a series of
earthquakes that hit Türkiye, Syria, and the surrounding
region.
o ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ ‘It’s_hard_not_to_feel_as_if_you’re_diving_into
people’s_grief’:_5_News_chief_correspondent_reports_from_Turkey
earthquake_aftermath⠀⇛
Tessa Chapman gives an insight into reporting from Turkey
in the wake of the disaster.
o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Over_130_Turkish_constructors_detained,_while
the_last_of_the_survivors_pulled_out_from_rubbles⠀⇛
Rescuers pulled outmore survivors, including a pregnant
woman and two children, six days after a pair of
earthquakes collapsed thousands of buildings in
southeastern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6.
However, the death toll from the quakes continued to
rise, with officials reporting 33,179 fatalities on
Sunday. As the slow rescue efforts frustrated people,
blame for the disaster fell on faulty construction
methods, which resulted in many buildings being unable to
withstand the quakes.
o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ What_is_the_Richter_scale_and_which_areas_are
most_vulnerable_to_quakes?⠀⇛
While the death tolland destruction of the recent
earthquake in Turkey and Syria dominate the news, many
wonder how strong the quake was and what the scale used
to measure earthquakes means.
The Richter scale is a tool used to measure the magnitude
of earthquakes. Developed in the 1930s by
seismologistCharles Richter, the scale ranges from 0 to
10.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Lecturer_brings_personal_touch_to_cherry
farm⠀⇛
Attia Qureshi, a lecturer at the Gerald R. Ford
School of Public Policy, helps operate a cherry and
apple orchard at Wunsch Farms in northern Michigan.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ How_should_we_talk_about_artificial
intelligence?⠀⇛
It’s easier for the general public to grasp what is
going on when complicated computerized processes
are explained in terms of human cognition.
# ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Restoring_an_ancient_lake_from_the
rubble_of_an_unfinished_airport_in_Mexico_City⠀⇛
When the Mexica people left their ancestral land of
Aztlán in search of a new home, they were following
orders from the sun god Huitzilopochtli. In 1325,
the god’s prophecy brought them to a salty swamp at
the lowest dip of the Valley of Mexico.
# ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ This_biohacking_company_is_using_a
crypto_city_to_test_controversial_gene_therapies⠀⇛
The advertisement—posted on Mirror, a Web3
publishing platform, in March last year—outlined an
eye-catching if perhaps confusing proposal: “Access
NFTs for a follistatin plasmid phase I clinical
trial in Prospera ZEDE, Honduras.” The ad had been
posted by a biotech startup called Minicircle,
which was recruiting participants for a clinical
trial of gene therapy. B
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ M5Stamp_S3_WiFi_and_BLE_IoT_module_offers_up
to_23_GPIOs_through_2.54mm_and_1.27mm_pitch_holes⠀⇛
M5Stamp S3, aka M5Stamp ESP32S2 or Stamp S3, is a
tiny ESP32-S3 WiFi & Bluetooth LE (BLE) IoT module
with a USB Type-C port, over 20 I/Os available
through 2.54mm and 1.27mm pitch headers and
castellated holes, and a heat-resistant cover. Many
of the “new” ESP32-S3 hardware platforms launches
these days are often updates from an ESP32 design,
and the M5Stack’s M5Stamp S3 is no exception
building on the original M5Stamp Pico, and its
ESP32-C3 variants, namely M5Stamp C3 and C3U.
M5Stamp S3 specifications: WiSoC – Espressif
Systems ESP32-S3FN8 dual-core 32-bit Xtensa LX7
microcontroller with AI vector instructions up to
240MHz, RISC-V ULP co-processor, 512KB SRAM, 2.4GHz
WiFi 4 (802.11b/g/n), Bluetooth 5.0 BLE + Mesh, 8MB
flash as found in the M5Stack ATOMS3 (Lite).
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Banning_TikTok_in_the_US_‘should_be_looked_at,’_says
Schumer⠀⇛
A proposal to ban TikTok in the United States
“should be looked at,” according to US Senator
Chuck Schumer.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Gov._Whitmer_explains_why_she_still_uses_TikTok
despite_risks⠀⇛
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) tells CNN’s Jake
Tapper why she still uses TikTok despite some
states banning usage on government devices.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Cadmium_contamination_found_in_seafood_exported_from
Lithuania_to_Ukraine⠀⇛
Cadmium levels in excess of EU regulations have
been found in seafood exported to Ukraine by the
Lithuanian company Vičiūnai Group, according to the
State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT).
# ⚓ The Scientist ☛ Giant_Viruses_Grew_Out_of_Small_Ones:
Study⠀⇛
A study employing CRISPR/Cas9 to explore the
evolutionary beginnings of some giant viruses finds
evidence their large genomes arose from gene
duplications.
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Boost_for_Qld_research_in_fight_against
disease_that_breaks_hearts⠀⇛
It’s hoped work by Queensland researchers can help
prevent a devastating infection that causes
heartbreaking complications, even when it isn’t
fatal.
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Kate_increased_her_life_expectancy_by_five
years_by_doing_one_thing⠀⇛
People in the far west used to live longer than
those in Sydney. Now, amid a dire shortage of
doctors and specialists, they’re dying much
earlier.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Paxlovid_Remains_Potent_Against
Omicron_COVID_Cases⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Texas_Lawsuit_Threatens_Access
to_Abortion_Pill_Nationally⠀⇛
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Ascribing_blame_in_complicated_systems⠀⇛
Petter’s latest Mentour Pilot episode on thecrash
of_Sriwijaya_flight_182was an eye-opening and
tragic example of confirmation bias, emphasis
added:
He has, for whatever reason, not been
looking down at his instruments for the
last twenty seconds or so [which would
have shown asymmetric thrust in a faulty
system]. The aircraft is inside cloud at
this point, meaning that he likely has no
outside horizon to guide him.
His mental model would have been that the
aircraft was in a right bank, turning
towards the heading that he had selected.
He now suddenly hears a BANK ANGLE
warning. And when he looks down, the
first thing he likely sees is the control
wheel displaced to the far right,
confirming his mental model.
So what would you do, if you hear a bank
angle warning, and see the control wheel
to the right? Yes, the initial reaction
the captain did was to disconnect the
autopilot, and move the control wheel to
the left.
[...]
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ ‘Pig_butchering’_scams_on_the_rise,
luring_victims_with_promises_of_relationships_and_riches⠀⇛
These types of scams that seek to dupe unsuspecting
targets can leave victims financially and
emotionally devastated.
# ⚓ The Philadelphia Inquirer ☛ Kimmel_Center,_Philadelphia
Orchestra_websites_hit_by_cyber_attack⠀⇛
A cyber attack Friday crippled ticket sales and
ticketing functions at the city’s largest arts
presenter. Websites for the Kimmel Center and
Philadelphia Orchestra were down, and patrons were
left with scant information about the exact nature
of the disruption.
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Pepsi_Bottling_Ventures_suffers_data
breach_after_malware_attack⠀⇛
Pepsi Bottling Ventures LLC suffered a data breach
caused by a network intrusion that resulted in the
installation of information-stealing malware and
the extraction of data from its IT systems.
Pepsi Bottling Ventures is the largest bottler of
Pepsi-Cola beverages in the United States,
responsible for manufacturing, selling, and
distributing popular consumer brands. It operates
18 bottling facilities across North and South
Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ B&G_Foods_attacked_by_Daixin_Team;_files
leaked⠀⇛
A spokesperson for Daixin informs DataBreaches that
B&G was locked on February 4. On inquiry, Daixin’s
spokesperson wasn’t sure whether they had encrypted
all backups and stated that the firm could have
recovered. When asked how they had contacted B&G
and whether B&G ever responded, Daixin told
DataBreaches that they had left notes on the local
network and sent several communications, but B&G
did not appear in the chat to respond or try to
negotiate.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finnish_minister’s_WhatsApp_hacking,_Marin_meme
sending_remain_a_mystery⠀⇛
“I know I didn’t send [the meme] myself because I
was busy at the time,” minister Lintilä told a
regional paper over the weekend.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Indian Express ☛ How_Union_budget_2023_may_foster
greater_violations_of_privacy⠀⇛
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ CNN ☛ A_trio_of_new_intrusions_leaves_America’s_leaders
grasping_for_explanations⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Germany_Says_Finland,_Sweden
NATO_Bids_Must_Be_Ratified_Without_Delay⠀⇛
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland,_Sweden_to_receive_Kleist_Award_for_decision
to_join_Nato⠀⇛
Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister
Sanna Marin are scheduled to accept the award on
Saturday.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Live:_Stoltenberg_calls_for_‘ramped_up’
ammunition_production_as_Ukraine_drains_NATO_stockpiles⠀⇛
NATO must “ramp up production” of ammunition to
meet Ukraine’s rate of usage which is currently
draining stockpiles, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg
said Monday. Fighting continues near the city of
Bakhmut, with Ukraine describing conditions there
as “difficult”.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ NATO_Chief_Says_Military_Buildup_Shows_Russian
Offensive_Has_Already_Begun⠀⇛
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said
that a major new Russian offensive in Ukraine has
already begun.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ United_States_Tells_Citizens_To_Leave_Russia
Immediately⠀⇛
The United States has told its citizens to leave
Russia immediately due to the war in Ukraine and
the risk of arbitrary arrest or harassment by
Russian law enforcement agencies.
# ⚓ ‘Tak_Danmark’:_Ukraine_makes_video_to_thank_Denmark_for
howitzers⠀⇛
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence has made a rousing
video thanking Denmark for sending it artillery
weapons, backed by the song written to mark
Denmark’s liberation from Nazi Germany.
# ⚓ Danish_Cold_War_bunker_museum_‘sold_out_until_summer’⠀⇛
A Cold War-era bunker in the northern Danish forest
is experiencing high demand after opening to the
public as a museum.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ UFO_Mania:_US_Shoots_Down_Objects_Over
Lake_Huron_and_Alaska,_Uruguay_Investigating_‘Flashing
Lights,’_China_Prepares_to_Shoot_Down_UFO⠀⇛
The U.S. military “has decommissioned another
‘object’ over Lake Huron.” Lawmakers say “the
American people deserve far more answers than we
have.”
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Niinistö_on_Nato_membership:_“If_not
before_Vilnius,_why_after_it?”⠀⇛
PRESIDENT Sauli Niinistöbelieves Finland and Sweden
will attend the Nato summit in Vilnius, Lithuania,
in July as fully fledged members.
Niinistö on Saturday highlighted the importance of
the summit for the accession process of the two
countries by estimating that if the memberships
have not been ratified by next summer, it would
cast the entire accession process further into
question.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Extraterrestrials_Admit_Responsibility_for
Unidentified_Objects_but_Claim_They_Were_Only_Monitoring
Weather⠀⇛
The revelation appeared in an official statement
released to the American media by an organization
calling itself the Intergalactic Command Force.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Chinese_ship_aimed_laser_at_Philippine_vessel,
temporarily_blinding_crew,_Philippines_says⠀⇛
The Philippine Coast Guard has accused a China
Coast Guard ship of pointing a “military grade”
laser at some of its crew, temporarily blinding
them, aboard a vessel in contested waters of the
South China last week.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Dramatic_video_appears_to_show_heavy_losses_among
Russian_armored_formations⠀⇛
The eastern front has seen some of the heaviest
fightings in Ukraine. Ukrainian and Russian sources
say that the Russian mechanized brigade trying to
push through the town of Vuhledar saw significant
losses recently. CNN’s David McKenzie has more.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ China_accuses_US_of_‘illegally’_flying_balloons
across_its_airspace⠀⇛
China has accused the United States of “illegally”
flying high-altitude balloons into its airspace
more than 10 times since January 2022, as bilateral
tensions flare in the fallout from a Chinese
balloon that was shot down by American fighter jets
after traveling across continental US.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ National_security_mystery_is_threatening_a_political
storm_after_US_fighter_jets_scrambled_three_days_in_a_row_to
shoot_down_unidentified_aerial_objects⠀⇛
A deepening national security mystery is
threatening a political storm after US fighter jets
scrambled three days in a row to shoot down a trio
of unidentified aerial objects high over the North
American continent.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ China’s_Top_Airship_Scientist_Promoted
Program_to_Watch_the_World_from_Above⠀⇛
Corporate records and media reports reveal an
airship scientist at the center of China’s high-
altitude balloon program. Companies he has founded
were among those targeted by Washington.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ After_Shooting_Down_Flying_Objects,_U.S.
and_Canada_Have_More_Theories_Than_Answers⠀⇛
The U.S. and Canada are investigating three
unidentified flying objects shot down over North
America in the past three days. Militaries have
adjusted radars to try to spot more incursions.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘Our_Losses_Were_Gigantic’:_Life_in_a
Sacrificial_Russian_Assault_Wave⠀⇛
Poorly trained Russian soldiers captured by Ukraine
describe being used as cannon fodder by commanders
throwing waves of bodies into an assault.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ China_claims_U.S._frequently_sent_high-altitude
balloons_into_its_airspace⠀⇛
China’s Foreign Ministry claimed Monday that the
U.S. has sent high-altitude balloons into its
airspace more than 10 times since the start of
2022.
Why it matters:It’s the first time China has made
such an allegation since the U.S.shot_downa
suspectedsurveillanceballoonsent by the Chinese
government off the coast of South Carolina.
===================================================
# Three more aerial objects have been shot down
since then, over Alaska,
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ China_alleges_US_flew_high-altitude_balloons_into
country_over_10_times⠀⇛
China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin
Monday stated China has spotted at least ten
unauthorized US high-altitude balloons over Chinese
airspace in the past year.
# ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ 10_Ways_The_US_Is_Out_Of_Line_With_The
Entire_World⠀⇛
The US, one of the wealthiest and most powerful
nations, stands alone as the only country to reject
human rights such as the right to food and the
rights of the disabled and children. Learn more
about this alarming reality with Lee Camp.
# ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ A_Month’s_Notice:_Why_Burkina_Faso
Ordered_French_Troops_out_of_the_Country⠀⇛
Burkina Faso has officially cut ties with France
and, like many African nations, has aligned with
Russia as global power dynamics shift away from the
Western sphere.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Military_burns_more_than_55,000_houses_in_2_years,
Data_for_Myanmar_says⠀⇛
Sagaing region was hardest hit with almost 80% of
the national total.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Beijing_denies_3_‘objects’_downed_by_US_came_from
China⠀⇛
It is also preparing to bring down an object flying
near one of its naval bases.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Philippine_Coast_Guard_says_Chinese_vessel_blinded
crew_with_laser⠀⇛
It also claims the China Coast Guard sailed
dangerously close to one of its ships.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ German_Foreign_Minister_Backs_Finland,_Sweden_NATO
Bids⠀⇛
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock pledged
further support for Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO
membership bids on February 13 as she started on a
two-day trip to visit the Nordic neighbors.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian-Led_CSTO_Plans_Three_Military_Exercises_In
Belarus_In_2023⠀⇛
The member states of the Russian-led Collective
Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will hold three
military maneuvers in Belarus in 2023, the group’s
secretary-general told reporters on February 13
after talks in Minsk.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Argentina_Says_‘Mafia’_Groups_Spurring_Russian
Birth_Tourism⠀⇛
Argentinian officials have blamed organized
“mafias” for promoting birth tourism to the South
American country by Russian mothers-to-be amid a
boom in numbers traveling there since the invasion
of Ukraine looking to get their children
citizenship.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ US_Sanctions_on_Syria_Proof_of_Indifference_to
Human_Rights⠀⇛
The temporary relaxation of the U.S. blockade
demonstrates that Washington knows the sanctions
imposed on the Syrian people were unjust.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_sees_April_temperatures_in_mid-February⠀⇛
Temperatures on Monday were between 8 to 10 degrees
Celsius higher than normal for this time of year.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ CPH_Airport_among_top_airports_for
curbing_carbon_emissions⠀⇛
Nordic travel hub is now among just 33 global
airports with the highest Airport Carbon
Accreditation rating
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Denmark_and_California_extend_green
co-operation⠀⇛
Now running until 2024, the collaboration
encompasses Power-to-X technology and
optimising offshore wind energy
# ⚓ H2 View ☛ First_Hydrogen_reveals_hydrogen-powered
FCEVs⠀⇛
First Hydrogen has unveiled new images
outlining the vision for its next generation
fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV).
# ⚓ Renewable Energy World ☛ 1_GWh_battery_energy_storage
project_advances_in_Ontario⠀⇛
The project is one of Canada’s largest
battery energy storage projects and would use
equipment from Tesla.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Court_jails_man_for_using_halal_slaughter
method⠀⇛
The prosecutor told the court that the
defendant had used the method on up to 2,500
sheep between 2003 and 2020, in breach of
Finnish animal welfare law.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Foreigners’_Finnish_skills_considered_a_bigger
obstacle_than_they_really_are,_city_official_says⠀⇛
Joensuu’s employment services chief says she thinks
that employers still have unnecessary prejudices
against hiring immigrants.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Alibaba_sells_remaining_stake_in_top_Indian_online
payment_provider_Paytm⠀⇛
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has sold its
remaining stake in Paytm, India’s top digital
payment app, as it gradually divests from its
Indian investments amid friction between Beijing
and New Delhi.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Blue-chip_companies_brace_for_new_assaults_by
activist_investors⠀⇛
Data: Lazard; Chart: Axios Visuals. Data is global
for companies with a market cap of $500m or above.
May include campaigns without a publicly confirmed
thesis.
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Former_Brazilian_President_Roussef_to
head_BRICS_New_Development_Bank⠀⇛
The head of the New Development Bank (NDB), founded
by the BRICS countries, will be the former
President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff (photo).
Relevant information was provided by the
publication ‘O Estado de S. Paulo’.
# ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Stanford_raises_undergraduate_tuition_by
7%⠀⇛
Stanford’s Board of Trustees has announced a 7%
undergraduate tuition increase, as well as full
financial assistance for families earning less than
$100,000 annually with “typical assets,” for the
2023-24 academic year.
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ Blink_security_cameras_and_video_doorbells_are
up_to_43_percent_off⠀⇛
You might not have to pay much to bolster your
smart home’s security.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ 2.5_Million_French_Protest_Against_Pension
Reform⠀⇛
Though certain regions of France have entered
winter school holidays, the number of demonstrators
rose in many cities.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Strikes_in_grocery_shops,_logistics
centres_called_off_after_agreement_in_commerce_sector⠀⇛
>
THE BOARDSof Service Union United (PAM) and the
Finnish Commerce Federation on Sunday approved a
new two-year collective bargaining agreement for
employees in the commerce sector, signalling the
end of all strikes, overtime bans and other
industrial actions in the sector.
PAM on Sunday said the agreement guarantees full-
time employees a monthly pay rise of 165 euros over
the two years and a non-recurring bonus of 400
euros payable in March.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Massive_corruption_within_the_walls_of
the_European_Parliament⠀⇛
Transparency experts have urged MEPs to push for
tougher internal reforms in the wake of the
Qatargate scandal, noting that Qatar is not the
only state to practice ‘chequebook diplomacy’(!).
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Meta’s_Chief_Business_Officer
Marne_Levine_to_Depart⠀⇛
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Revealed:_Insider_discloses_UK_newsroom
salaries_to_staff⠀⇛
The lowest editorial salaries at Insider UK start
at £35,000.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ A_Monitor_newsroom_debate:_Is_democracy_a
‘value’?⠀⇛
We are having something of a debate within the
Monitor newsroom: Is democracy a value?The literal
answer to this question is easy.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Promising_to_unify,_ex-minister
Christodoulides_wins_Cyprus_presidency⠀⇛
Mr. Christodoulides, a former foreign minister,
campaigned as a unifying force, eschewing
ideological and party divisions. His message
resonated with a wide swath of voters.
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Sino_–_Iran_relations_in_the_light_of
the_25-year_cooperation_document⠀⇛
Authors: Mahdi Torabi and Alireza Soltani Foreign
policy is the intersection of internal and external
variables of countries. China has the capacity to
become an influential power due to a number of
factors.
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Challenges_and_prospects_for_Burma_act⠀⇛
From the first imposed sanctions against Myanmar in
1997, the United States takes a historical stride
by passing the Burma act 2021 as a law before 2022
ended. President Biden signed the act into a law on
23rd December which has been passed by both, the
house and senate.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Matthew_Kroenig_to_lead_Atlantic
Council’s_Scowcroft_Center_for_Strategy_and_Security⠀⇛
Former Defense Department and intelligence official
will lead an important mission of developing
strategies to address the most important security
challenges.
# ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Patience,_Please⠀⇛
This morning, lawyers are acting on my request to
prepare a counsel’s opinion on the legality of
publishing those of Stewart MacDonald’s emails
which are in the public interest to be revealed.
This may take a day or two. Emails of dubious
provenance are published all the time. Emails about
Partygate brought down Boris Johnson. […]
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_wants_EU_to_address_Facebook’s_treatment_of
pro-Ukraine_posts⠀⇛
After meeting with Facebook representatives,
Lithuania’s government chancellor says that she
plans to raise the platform’s content moderation
issue with the European Commission.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Nordics,_Baltics_fail_to_agree_on_joint_boycott_of
OSCE_session⠀⇛
Nordic, Baltic, and Polish parliamentarians have
failed to reach an agreement to jointly boycott the
winter session of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna if Russians
are allowed to participate. Lithuania, however,
sticks to its decision not to attend the gathering.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Belarusian_oligarch_uses_Lithuanian_firm_to_dodge
sanctions_in_Germany_–_media⠀⇛
Alexander Shakutin, a businessman close to Belarus’
authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, keeps
running a profitable business in Germany even
though he manages it through a Lithuanian company
subject to sanctions, according to the Belarusian
Investigative Center (BIC) and Lithuania’s Siena
investigative journalism centre.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ “Professor_Sues_University_of_Texas_for_First
Amendment_Violations”⠀⇛
This is just a complaint at this stage (Lowery v.
Mills (W.D. Tex.)), so these are only the
plaintiff’s allegations, but he’s being represented
by the people at the Institute for Free Speech,
whose work I’ve generally found quite reliable. (I
e-mailed UT on Thursday to ask if they had a
statement, and have so…
# ⚓ In_Turkey,_the_state_resorts_to_censorship_majeure⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Russian_System_to_Scan_Internet
for_Undesired_Content_and_Dissent⠀⇛
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Afghan_Journalists_Partially_Win_Case_Against_U.K.
Government_Over_Relocation⠀⇛
Eight Afghan journalists who worked for the BBC and
other British media organizations partially won a
legal challenge on February 13 against the British
government’s refusal to relocate them from
Afghanistan.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ UN_to_Denmark:_Stop_being_racist_to
Greenlanders!⠀⇛
UN representative concerned over structural
discrimination obstacles – news that doesn’t
surprise Greenlandic MP
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Premier_League_club_Brentford_‘disgusted’_by_‘barrage
of_abusive_racist_messages’_received_by_star_player⠀⇛
English Premier League side Brentford is “disgusted
and saddened” by “abusive racist messages” received
by star player Ivan Toney following Saturday’s
match against London rival Arsenal, according to a
statement released by the club.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ A_White_Employee_Is_Suing_the_City_of_Seattle_for
Alleged_Racial_Discrimination⠀⇛
“If I disagreed or offered another opinion, I was
told I had cognitive dissonance,” Josh Diemert
says.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Australia_government_to_grant_20,000_refugees
permanent_visas;_ends_temporary_visa_programs⠀⇛
Australia Minister for Immigration Andrew Giles
announced Monday that the Australian government
will give more than 20,000 refugees living in the
country a pathway to permanent visas. The move
would grant a more secure future to refugees with
temporary visas who have been ‘in limbo’ for over a
decade.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ India_dispatch:_Supreme_Court_refuses_to_interfere
in_appointment_of_High_Court_judge_alleged_to_have_engaged_in
hate_speech_against_religious_minorities⠀⇛
Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on
law-related developments in and affecting India.
This dispatch is from Samar Veer, a third-year law
student at National Law University, Delhi.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Thousands_march_in_Israel_as
Netanyahu_allies_push_overhaul⠀⇛
Tens of thousands of Israelis — hoisting flags,
blowing on horns and chanting “democracy” and “no
to dictatorship”— protested outside the parliament
building Monday.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Amazon_Workers_at_UK_Warehouse
Set_Further_Strike_Dates⠀⇛
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Portuguese_Clergy_Might_Have_Sexually_Abused_Over
4,000_Minors⠀⇛
The Independent Committee for the Study of Child
Abuse in the Catholic Church presented a 500-page
report detailing these cases.
# ⚓ How_many_American_citizens_are_ordered_to_leave_European
countries?⠀⇛
Hundreds of Americans citizens have been forced to
leave EU and Schengen area countries in recent
years for numerous reasons, mostly related to
residency rules. Here’s a look at the numbers.
# ⚓ The Local SE ☛ Swedish_border_police_prepare_to_deport
bedbound_British_grandmother⠀⇛
Kathleen Poole, who arrived in Sweden 18 years ago,
suffers from Alzheimer’s and receives around-the-
clock treatment in a care home. She has now been
ordered to leave Sweden as she lost her right to
residence following Brexit.
# ⚓ The Local SE ☛ ‘One_of_the_cruellest_countries’:_Briton
deported_after_21_years_in_Sweden⠀⇛
British citizen Gregory was deported from Sweden to
the UK last year because he was not eligible for
post-Brexit residency. He tells The Local about the
“cruel” process behind his departure and how his
mental health suffered dramatically.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Alleged_SIM_Swapper_Ransomed_Instagram
Influencer_for_Dates,_Striptease_Video⠀⇛
Amir Hossein Golshan allegedly broke into
influencers’ Instagram accounts not just for
financial gain, but to sextort the victims too.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ ‘You_Feel_So_Violated’:_Streamer
QTCinderella_Is_Speaking_Out_Against_Deepfake_Porn
Harassment⠀⇛
After Atrioc was caught buying non-consensual,
pornographic deepfakes of fellow Twitch streamers,
the abuse against women targeted has been endless.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ The_Supreme_Court_may_overhaul_how
you_live_online⠀⇛
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology
Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power,
politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your
inbox every Friday, sign up here. Recommendation
algorithms sort most of what we see online and
determine how posts, news articles, and accounts
you follow are prioritized on digital platforms.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ My_Song_Was_Added_To_a_Botted_Playlist
on_Spotify:_Here’s_What_Happened⠀⇛
If you’re an indie artist like me, you probably
check your Spotify for Artists dashboard an
unhealthy amount each day. (It’s a problem, I’m
working on it). One feature they have shows you how
many people are listening to your music on Spotify
in real time.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ KOL404_|_Webinar:_How_Humanity’s_Progress_Has_Been_Held
Back:_The_Case_Against_IP_(Intellectual_Property)_(Freedom
Hub_Working_Group)⠀⇛
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ A_new_European_patent_landscape_
(3):_languages_and_costs_of_the_Unitary_Patent [Ed:
More vapourware from Team UPC. UPC does not exist, it
has not been ratified and it would be illegal and
unconstitutional to start such a thing. This is
lobbying disguised as information.]⠀⇛
In June 2023 the European patent landscape
will see one of the most dramatic changes in
decades with the introduction of the Unitary
Patent (UP) and the opening of Unified Patent
Court (UPC).
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ Opel_and_supplier_CATL_succeed_in_e-battery
dispute_with_MU_Ionic [Ed: Another frivolous patent
lawsuit while the EPO grants loads of fake patents]⠀⇛
CATL and German car manufacturer Opel do not
infringe MU Ionic’s EP 19 39 971 in Germany.
At the end of January, Düsseldorf Regional
Court rejected a claim of patent infringement
brought by the patent holder (case ID: 4c O
53/21), which is a joint venture of
Mitsubishi Chemicals and Ube Industries….
# ⚓ First_training_for_all_UPC_appointed_judges [Ed: The
UPC does not exist and it is not legal, not even
constitutional. This is the crime syndicate which
controls the EPO faking "progress" for lobbying
purposes. The EPO also did training of UPC judges
around 2015. Where did that end up?]⠀⇛
Five days of intense sessions in Budapest.
# § Software Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Ideahub_final_decision_affirmed_by
Federal_Circuit⠀⇛
On February 10, 2023, the United States Court
of Appeals for the Federal Circuit summarily
affirmed the PTAB’s ruling that all
challenged claims ofU.S._Patent_9,641,849are
unpatentable. Owned byIdeahub_Inc., the IPR
was filed as part of Unified’s ongoing
efforts in itsSEP_Video_Codec_Zone. The ’849
patent relates to a video compression
technique known as intra prediction andAccess
Advanceclaims that certain claims of the ’849
patent were essential to the HEVC standard.
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Is_“SOUL_FOOD_MARKET”
Merely_Descriptive_of_Grocery_Store_Services?⠀⇛
In this year’s ninth appeal from of a mere
descriptiveness refusal (with no reversals
yet), the Board reviewed a Section 2(e)(1)
refusal ofSOUL FOOD MARKETfor “online retail
grocery store services; retail grocery
stores.” Applicant New Africa Ventures argued
that “SOUL FOOD has no direct meaning in
relation to its actual identified services,
as the services make no reference to ‘soul
food’.” It also contended that soul food is
an “ethnic cuisine” – where “‘[c]uisine’ is
defined as a style of cooking” – and “cuisine
involves cooking and restaurant services.” ‘
[T]here is no indication that there will be
any cooking under Applicant’s recitation of
[grocery store] services,” and so the
proposed mark does not disclose any
information with particularity. How do you
think this came out?In_re_New_Africa
Ventures,_Inc., Serial No. 90330813 (February
8, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge
Robert H. Coggins).
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_AEGLUPO_Wordo:_MEDIA⠀⇛
# ⚓ A_wet_Monday⠀⇛
I spent a lot of time yesterday in DOSbox playing a
bunch of games I used to when I was a kid.
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ 25_Minute_Outage⠀⇛
A 25-minute outage occurred for my gemini capsule
from 05:55:18 UTC to 06:18:46 UTC. I was building a
new docker image and after pulling it down to my
server and redeploying the image, the molly-brown
server refused to start and the container kept
rebooting. Complaints about read only filesystem
abounded. This is expected because I do run the
container with a read only file system. It was
worked flawlessly until now. When telegram alerts
started coming in I knew that the capsule really
was in in trouble.
Investigating the issue I checked for recent
commits to the molly-brown repo and found two
commits that modify the default access-log and
error-log locations. Instead of writing the logs to
stdout and stderr as was done in the past it now
expected a file location. Removing the configured
“-” option allowed the container to start. See the
footnotes below for the two commits that gave clues
at the same time broke my build.
# ⚓ Package_Management_–_Dependencies⠀⇛
While packages can be self-contained, usually they
have dependencies with other packages or even
frameworks to avoid duplicating code. Without
dependencies, packages would be forced to contain
common logic that other packages share, and that
code may become stale or not updated as frequently
introducing potential bugs.
# ⚓ More_Epsom_Salt_Crystal_Images_(2023-02-13)⠀⇛
These were taken using my ANNLOV coin microscope.
The crystal had grown to 1.13 inches length, and
0.302 inches wide between the two most widely
separated faces. There is something wrong with the
JPEG output from the microscope (invalid marker
error) so I re-encoded all these images with GIMP.
At some angles there were interesting lighting
interactions between the microscope LEDs and my
yellow-ish table lamp.
# ⚓ Fighting_back_against_EuTube_👊⠀⇛
The situation about EuTube is out of control in my
house!
Kids love watching it, but in this story they are
the victims, because the amount of crap tossed by
EuTube is totally overwhelming… 😵
Endless amount of unfiltered, unverified, untruth
videos are unleashed on the wild with the sole
scope to create revenue for one of the most
antipathetic IT corp: Boogle!
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