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⦿ Gemini in 2023: Still Growing, Not as Fast as in Prior Years Though | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 24, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Microsoft Has Just Proven (Again) That GitHub is Unacceptable and People Should Flock Away From It | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/02/25/gemini-in-2023-still-growing-not-as-fast-as-in-prior-years-though/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/25/irc-log-240223/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/25/video-scale-mojang-and-sjvn/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/02/25/background-app-gnome/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/25/new-gstreamer-and-istio/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/02/25/tuxedo-os-2/#comments
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✐ Gemini_in_2023:_Still_Growing,_Not_as_Fast_as_in_Prior_Years_Though⠀✐
Posted in Site_News at 7:51 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum a29fe3af0ddfe6063e8af2b36e5a8e9b
Gemini Still Growing, Here is Why
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/lagrange-and-kirstall-2023.webm
Summary: Techrights has just crossed the 45,000-page milestone (we now have
over 45,000 pages in gemini.techrights.org) and Gemini is still doing well in
general, even if the explosive growth is slowing down somewhat
THE growth of Gemini space (or Geminispace — basically the namespace that
responds to/on Gemini Protocol) has changed pace but has not stalled. Yes, it’s
still growing, but not as quickly as before. In terms of its activity, it seems
a little less active than last year, but it’s still enormously useful.
The video above shows how Geminispace can be explored and new posts/pages be
found (updated_every_hour or archived_for_days). We hope more people can and
will join us in Geminispace (gemini.techrights.org). Yesterday we passed
another milestone: 45,000 pages (see gemini.techrights.org/stats). By the end
of this month we’ll have served about a quarter million pages (this month
alone, in Gemini only). █
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/02/25/irc-log-240223/#comments
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✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Friday,_February_24,_2023⠀✐
Posted in IRC_Logs at 2:45 am by Needs Sunlight
Also available via the Gemini protocol at:
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-240223.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-240223.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-240223.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-240223.gmi
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✐ Microsoft_Has_Just_Proven_(Again)_That_GitHub_is_Unacceptable_and_People
Should_Flock_Away_From_It⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, Microsoft at 7:42 pm by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 2f993008286bf7f378ceee0128ffc33d
GitHub is an Attack Vector
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/github-is-a-trap-again.webm
Summary: Microsoft is once again misusing or abusing its control of GitHub; it
censors lots of Free software projects that help replace Microsoft’s
proprietary Minecraft
THE video above discuses our most_recent (but not so recent) article about
Microsoft’s interference. It starts with a discussion of this new_incident
(youtube-dl deja vu but a lot worse!) and then a discussion about another_awful
piece_from_Steven_J.Vaughan-Nichols(SJVN), who plays along with this phony
narrative wherein only projects that Microsoft controls exist in this world and
nothing else counts.
Microsoft is viciously attacking the Free software community and at the same
time it is bribing a lot of the media, so rarely do we find (in the press)
articles that call them out on it.
As noted in the video, we’ve been busy improving our Daily Links and I also did
some work on my office/desk, so not many articles could be published lately.
That will change soon. We have plenty to show and to say. We want to share our
findings, not just in the form of IRC logs and informal videos. █
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✐ Links_25/02/2023:_ScummVM’s_Google_Money_and_GNOME_44’s_Background_App⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 9:53 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_207:_Modular_Furniture,_Plastic
Prosthetics,_And_Your_Data_On_YouTube⠀⇛
Join Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing
Editor Tom Nardi as they explore the best and most
interesting stories from the last week. The top
story if of course the possibility that at least
some of the unidentified flying objects the US Air
Force valiantly shot down were in fact the work of
amateur radio enthusiasts, but a quantitative
comparison of NASA’s SLS mega-rocket to that of
popular breakfast cereals is certainly worth a
mention as well.
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ X-Plane_12_now_uses_the_open_source_Zink
driver_to_help_Plugins⠀⇛
Well, this is certainly fun to see. X-Plane 12 now
makes use of the open source Zink driver, for doing
OpenGL over Vulkan.
As Zink developer Mike Blumenkrantz mentioned in
their blog post “Zink has been commercialized” and
they sound very happy about that. Zink is now a
driver that “runs real games in production for
real, existing people”. A pretty impressive
milestone for the project.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ IT Pro Today ☛ AppImage_vs._Snap:_How_to_Choose_the_Right
Linux_Software_Packaging_Tool⠀⇛
There are cases when AppImage is the right choice
and other cases when snap is a better choice. This
guide will help you decide when to use each Linux
software packaging tool.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Anaconda_Python_Distribution
on_Debian_11⠀⇛
Python is an open-source and object-oriented
interpreted programming language. Anaconda is a
Python, R, Data Science, and machine learning
platform and used as a package manager. It comes
with 1,500+ open source packages.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_enable_MongoDB_for_remote_access⠀⇛
Looking to use your MongoDB server from another
machine? If so, you must configure it for remote
access.
# ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Install_Go_(Golang)_on_Ubuntu_Linux
Step-by-Step⠀⇛
# ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ Dan_makes_another_zpool⠀⇛
I spent my lunch, and most of my mortgage payment,
on 4 x 4TB Blue 4TB SSD 3D NAND (WDS400T2B0A).
# ⚓ [Old] H2S Media ☛ How_to_access_Gmail_in_Vivaldi_email
client_in_its_browser⠀⇛
Vivaldi is one of the popular browsers that comes
with lots of features and one of them is an inbuilt
email client. Just like Opera, the mail client is
integrated into the same browser and full of
options at the level of any desktop application.
The best thing is it is free, thus the users don’t
need a separate application to access their mails
such as Thunderbird. Although, the features in
Vivaldi will not be extensive as Thunderbird, yet
enough.
# ⚓ [Old] It’s FOSS ☛ How_to_Create_Custom_Linux_Mint_or_Ubuntu
ISO⠀⇛
Now imagine this. You download Linux (Mint), make a
live USB and install it on all the systems. And
then you have to do the same configuration and
install the same set of applications on all of
them.
What if I tell you there was a way to save your
time from doing these repetitive tasks? How about
creating a modified ISO and put this customized
Linux Mint on the live USB? This way it installs
the same customized Linux distro on all the
systems.
There is a handy GUI tool called Cubic that allows
you to pre-configure your installs in the easiest
way possible.
Let me walk you through its features and how you
can use it to customize Linux Mint 21 ISO.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_HTTP_Git_Server_with_Nginx_and
SSL_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Git is an open-source version control system that
keeps track of your software changes at the source
level. This tutorial will explain setting up an
HTTP Git repository server with Nginx on Ubuntu
22.04.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ Using_Wget_with_FTP_to_Download/Move_Web
Sites_Recursively⠀⇛
Sometimes you need to move a web site from one
server to another. Instead of downloading the web
site from the old server to your PC via FTP and
uploading it from your PC to the new server, it
would save a lot of time to simply copy the web
site from one server to the other. This tutorial
explains how to use Wget to download/move a web
site from one server to the other via FTP.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Jitsi_Video_Conference
Platform_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
Jitsi is a free, open-source solution for building
a secure video conference platform. This article
will go through the installation and configuration
of the Jitsi Video Conference on the latest Debian
11 Bullseye.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Gradle_Build_Automation_Tool
on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Gradle is an open-source build automation tool
based on Groovy and Kotlin. It is mostly used for
building Java projects, but it supports multiple
languages, including Java, C/C++, and JavaScript.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Customizing_the_Linux_Mint_desktop
environment⠀⇛
Linux Mint is a popular open-source operating
system with a user-friendly interface and a stable
and reliable platform. One of the most significant
advantages of Linux Mint is its customizability,
allowing you to personalize the system to your
preferences. Customization makes the design more
aesthetically pleasing and enhances its
functionality, making it more efficient and
helpful.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Plex_Media_Server_on_Debian
11⠀⇛
Plex Media Server is a digital media player that
can host multiple online content channels from non-
local sources. This tutorial shows you how to
install Plex Media server on Debian 11.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Pydio_Cells_File_Sharing
Server_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Pydio Cells also known as a Pydio is an open-source
file-sharing and synchronization application
written in the Golang language. This guide will
explain how to install the Pydio file-sharing
application on Ubuntu 22.04.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_an_FTP_Server_with_ProFTPD_and
TLS/SSL_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
ProFTPD is a free, open-source, and feature-rich
FTP server written for Unix and Unix-a-like
operating systems. This tutorial will show you how
to install the ProFTPD FTP server on Ubuntu 22.04.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_WonderCMS_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
WonderCMS is an open-source and extremely small
flat file CMS that provides a simple and easier way
to create and manage websites. This tutorial will
show you how to install WonderCMS with Nginx and
Let’s Encrypt SSL on Ubuntu 22.04.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Memcached_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Memcached is a free, open-source, and general-
purpose distributed memory-caching system used to
cache database data. It is a high-performance
memory caching system used to speed up dynamic web
applications by reducing the database load.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_GitHub_Desktop_on_Ubuntu
22.04_or_20.04 [Ed: No, GitHub is proprietary vendor lock-in
of Microsoft; use Git instead]⠀⇛
GitHub Desktop is a popular software with a user-
friendly interface for managing and interacting
with Git repositories. Git is a widely used version
control system essential for software development,
allowing multiple people to collaborate on the same
codebase and keep track of changes over time.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_WordPress_with_Nginx,
MariaDB,_PHP_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or_20.04⠀⇛
WordPress is a popular content management system
(CMS) that allows users to create and manage
websites easily. While there are two versions of
WordPress, the self-hosted version is the most
popular. In this version, users must download and
install WordPress on their hosting provider instead
of using the hosted version on WordPress.com.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_LibreWolf_Browser_on_Manjaro
Linux⠀⇛
LibreWolf is an open-source web browser that has
gained popularity among privacy enthusiasts due to
its emphasis on user privacy and security. It is a
fork of Mozilla’s Firefox, with additional features
and modifications prioritizing user privacy and
control over their online experience.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ ScummVM ☛ ScummVM_has_been_accepted_to_the_Google_Summer_of
Code_2023⠀⇛
This year our project was accepted to the Google
Summer_of_Code program for the eighth year in a row
(and 16th time in total).
The intention of the program is to bring new
contributors to open source projects, and the
eligibility rules for participants are the same as
last year, with both students and non-students
welcome to participate. Check the Google_Summer_of
Code website for details of eligibility.
Participants can apply for either short tasks
(about 175 hours) or long tasks (about 350 hours).
The coding period typically runs from the start of
June to the end of August, but there is some
flexibility and the participants can opt to use a
longer coding period if they are not available to
work full time on the project during the summer.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Flycast_emulator_for_Dreamcast,_Naomi,
Naomi_2_gets_a_big_upgrade⠀⇛
Oh wow, I loved my old SEGA Dreamcast before it
sadly ended up at a tech graveyard. For fans of
emulation, the Flycast emulator has a new release
out. I must gives this a try, maybe good for Steam
Deck in bed…
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Get_some_awesome_puzzle_games_in_this
latest_game_bundle⠀⇛
Busy weekend? No? How about some fresh games!
Humble Bundle has put up a pretty darn good
collection in the latest bundle. The Unparalleled
Puzzlers Bundle is live for 14 days and you don’t
want to miss it.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Proposal_Announced_for_Better_Flathub
Experience_with_GNOME_&_KDE_Foundation⠀⇛
In a GitHub post announcement, the Plaintext
group proposed to the GNOME foundation and
KDE, e.V. that they will introduce “systemic
improvements in the open source software
ecosystem – rather than just funding a
specified list of OSS projects” and apply it
to improve the current Flathub ecosystem for
Flatpaks.
Here are all the details.
# ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ This_week_in_KDE:_even_better_multi-
monitor⠀⇛
Something funny happens when you take
something that was super broken and you make
it work a lot better: people start to use it
more! And then they submit bug reports for
all their unusual use cases that you failed
to anticipate or that hadn’t been getting
exercised in a long time. So in the short
term it looks like things are worse, but in
fact they’re better because the bug reports
are becoming about more and more exotic use
cases over time.
I saw this happen starting 2 years ago with
the Plasma Wayland session (which has since
become very robust), and now it’s happening
again with multi-monitor setups. We finally
nailed the basics, so people are trying it
out again, abandoning their xrandr hackaround
scripts, and submitting bug reports about the
issues with their wild and wacky screen
arrangements. And this is great! So we spent
a ton of time this week working on fixing all
those edge case bugs to make our new multi-
monitor system even more robust. With a
strong foundation, fixing the bugs isn’t that
hard!
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ GNOME_44’s_Background_Apps:_A_Step_Forward
or_a_Step_Too_Far⠀⇛
GNOME and KDE are the most popular desktop
environments in Linux, so the open-source
community eagerly anticipates each new
release. With just over three weeks until
GNOME 44, scheduled to be released on March
22, the race to hype its new features has
continued. One of them, however, caught our
attention: the new Background Apps
functionality. So first, let’s briefly
explain what it is all about.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ booting_without_mrsas_driver_–_lots_of
errors⠀⇛
Today I noticed that all the drives in the R730
host had 150MB/s speeds mentioned in the boot
messages. They are all SSDs on an SAS bus. They
should be at 600.000MB/s.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Red_Hat_Introduces_New_Partner
Subscriptions_to_Enable_Ecosystem_Innovation_and_Customer
Success⠀⇛
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the launch of Red
Hat Partner Subscriptions, a no-cost subscription
model that allows partners deeper access to the Red
Hat open hybrid cloud portfolio. Red Hat Partner
Subscriptions offer a simplified path for partners
to acquire Red Hat product subscriptions that can
be used to develop software solutions and proof-of-
concepts, test product offerings, deepen technical
skills and more.
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ 7_Expert_Strategies_for_Managing_RBAC_on
OpenShift⠀⇛
Keeping a tight grip on security when using Red
Hat’s container orchestration platform means
managing access and permissions at a granular
level. To ensure that users only have the access
they need when they need it, read on.
# ⚓ Video ☛ In_the_Clouds_(E34)_|_Let’s_Talk_OpenShift_4.12
Update_–_Invidious⠀⇛
Across industries and business sectors, senior
leadership has to execute at an ever-increasing
pace, and today’s technology decisions must balance
short-term risk with long-term gains. Join host Stu
Miniman as he leads insightful and candid
discussions with a broad spectrum of experts,
executives, and decision-makers on diverse and hot
technology topics. In this episode of In the
Clouds, Stu Miniman gets chatting with Ju Lim, a
Senior Product Manager for OpenShift, about the new
OpenShift 4.12 product release.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Improving_business_outcomes_with_smart
service_provider_operations⠀⇛
During early phases of 5G deployments, service
providers have been tempted to go with vertically
integrated stacks to achieve reduced time-to-value.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 5_changes_to_help_grow_your_IT_career⠀⇛
Start making incremental changes now, and soon
you’ll build habits that can help your career grow.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Network_automation_with_Ansible
validated_content⠀⇛
Ansible Network Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
validated content collection focuses on platform-
agnostic network automation and enhances BGP
management.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Digital_transformation:_4_ways_to
boost_efficiency⠀⇛
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 4_steps_to_supercharge_IT_leaders⠀⇛
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Security_automation:_4_factors_to
consider⠀⇛
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ IT_leadership:_3_emotionally
intelligent_ways_to_handle_layoff_anxiety⠀⇛
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Should_You_Erase_the_ESP32_Flash_Memory_in_Arduino_IDE?⠀⇛
Recently, I got into a mess with the Arduino IDE
going wonkers with a variable on my NodeMCU32-S. I
wanted to make a Wi-Fi access point with it, but it
just wouldn’t change the variable for the SSID
name. Turns out, it still had data from an old
project of mine when I used it for the same purpose
a few months back. In a way, this was a discovery
for me.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Powered_PiBoy_Mini_Brings_the
Arcade_to_Your_Pocket⠀⇛
Now taking pre-orders, ExperimentalPi’s latest
handheld shrinks the Game Boy form factor but loses
none of the fun.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Best_Stemma_QT,_Grove_Add-Ons_for
Raspberry_Pi_and_Arduino⠀⇛
Stemma QT and Grove are solderless connections to
connect a plethora of different sensors, displays
and components to your Raspberry Pi, Arduino or
ESP32. We show you the best that we have personally
used in projects.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ TinyTVs_Offer_a_Bitesize_Raspberry_Pi_Dose
of_Television⠀⇛
Two tiny televisions, powered by the Raspberry Pi
RP2040 play up to 40 hours of video and can stream
your desktop.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Controlling_a_robot_arm_over_the_[Internet]⠀⇛
Engineer Zero started with a cheap OWI-535 “Robotic
Arm Edge” kit, which isn’t much more than a toy. It
comes with a cheap little controller that lets the
user manually operate the arm, but that’s it. To
upgrade it into a “real” robot arm, Engineer Zero
connected its five motors to an Arduino Uno board
through L9110 motor drivers. That let them control
the robot arm from their computer and provided the
potential for other kinds of control.
# ⚓ Engineer Zero ☛ Controlling_a_Robot_Arm_over_the_Internet⠀⇛
Anyhow, the reason I dwell on the color coding of
the jumpers is because I originally tested the
system with just one motor controller connected to
one motor, and it was a confusing jumble because I
just randomly attached jumpers to Get ‘Er Done.
Then I looked at the mess and wondered, “How am I
going to do this for five motor controllers without
becoming totally confused?” But then I used color
coding, and I had only a couple wiring issues, one
of them being the classic bungle of forgetting to
tie the grounds together.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Digital_barometer_channels_vintage_aesthetics⠀⇛
The components for this project include an Arduino
Nano, a BME280 temperature, humidity, and pressure
sensor, and a 16×4 character LCD display. Normally,
a display like this can only show alphanumeric
characters, but Pavleski was clever and used custom
character blocks to create the bar graph. The
components reside inside of a PVC enclosure with
self-adhesive wallpaper to give it a classic look.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Engineering_students_design_Raspberry_Pi
Pico_CubeSat_platform⠀⇛
While banging on about NASA and the astronauts
(yes, plural, there were four) we saw at Space
Center Houston a couple of weeks ago, I was
reminded of this space-themed project closer to Pi
Towers. Engineering students at Harlow College in
Essex, UK have designed a CubeSat platform to take
their homemade hardware to space.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Active_Pro_can_debug_up_to_4x_MCUs
simultaneously⠀⇛
The company Active Firmware Tools has just
introduced the Active-Pro Firmware Debugger which
can simultaneously capture the output from up to
four microcontrollers, analog channels, digital
logic channels, hardware decoded bus traffic,
current measurements and decoded packet
information.
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ AI_robot_wrestling_with_open_source⠀⇛
The competition is organized by Cyberbotics Ltd., a
Swiss-based company developing the open source
Webots robot simulator. It aims at promoting the
use of open source software tools, including cloud-
based simulations, to achieve incremental progress
in robotics research. By relying on open source
software, running in virtual machines in the cloud,
research results in robotics become easily
reproducible by anyone. This allows researchers to
build their own research on top of the results
achieved by their colleagues, paving the way to
incremental research in the spirit of open science.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ This_‘lapdock’_kit_turns_an_open-source_smartphone
into_a_laptop⠀⇛
Purism has unveiled its vision for convergence with
the Librem 5 smartphone and an intriguing docking
station.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Gmail_for_Android_is_getting_an_update_for
foldables_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛
# ⚓ Express ☛ Ignore_the_Galaxy_S23!_Cheap_Android_alternatives
launch_this_weekend_|_Express.co.uk⠀⇛
# ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ Android_14:_All_Samsung_Galaxy_phones
confirmed_to_get_Android_14⠀⇛
# ⚓ Picking_the_best_smartwatch_for_android_users⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Gmail_getting_2-pane_view_on_Android
foldables⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_just_realizing_Android_phones_have_a
secret_‘second_screen’_–_it’s_an_instant_upgrade_when_you
find_it_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Forbes ☛ Android_Circuit:_Galaxy_S23_Reviewed,_Huge_Pixel
Fold_Leaks,_Angry_Birds_Goes_Missing⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Rick Carlino ☛ Creating_Paper_Templates_and_Stencils_in
OpenSCAD⠀⇛
OpenSCAD is usually used for 3D modeling. But it also
supports a “2D subsystem” for two dimensional drawings
(stuff like circle and square). This article teaches you
how to make stencils and templates that will match your
target measurements exactly. For example, you could make
a stencil for a painted sign or guideline for a wood
project that uses a jigsaw.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ pgtt_v2.10_released⠀⇛
pgtt is a PostgreSQL extension to create, manage
and use Oracle-style
Global Temporary Tables.
The main interest of this extension is to reproduce
Oracle behavior
with GTT when you can not or don’t want to rewrite
the application
code when migrating to PostgreSQL. In all other
case best is to
rewrite the code to use standard PostgreSQL
temporary tables.
This is a maintenance release to fix a too much
lock issue in multi parallel
process environment.
o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾
# ⚓ Joinup ☛ FSF_new_procedures_&_GNU_GPL_stewardship⠀⇛
Free Software Foundation (FSF) has updated their
by-laws so that approval by 66% of its Directors is
required to approve any new versions of the GNU
General Public License (GPL). They’ve also
announced a call or nominations to select new
Directors.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Haskell ☛ Haskell_Playground_is_live_at_play.haskell.org⠀⇛
it is with great pleasure that the Haskell.org
Committee is announcing the availability of the
Haskell Playground at https://play.haskell.org!
The playground is a work of love by @tomsmeding,
now with support from Haskell.org. He deserves all
your encouragement!
# ⚓ Sean Conner ☛ A_breakdown_of_the_triple-star_pointer⠀⇛
I few days ago I read “Lessons learnt while trying
to modernize some C code” (via Lobsters) and one of
the problems of C stated stood out to me: “Avoid
constructs like char ***. I thought it was a joke,
but people do pass around char *** and it’s
insane—almost impossible to comprehend why do you
need a pointer to a pointer to a pointer.” Yes, it
happens, but come on! That doesn’t happen often
enough to complain about!
# ⚓ Eclipse Foundation ☛ [paho-dev]_Project_code_repository
move⠀⇛
In keeping with our planned timeline we have begun
selecting 15-20 projects per quarter that will have
their code repositories moved in the following
quarter, and as you may have guessed your project
has been selected as part of next quarters moves.
# ⚓ Undeadly ☛ Game_of_Trees_0.84_released⠀⇛
Stefan Sperling had some particular changes of note
on the FediVerse announcement excerpted (sans
special emoji unique to bsd.network) here: [...]
# ⚓ ABC ☛ ChatGPT_Thinks_Americans_Are_Excited_About_AI._Most
Are_Not.⠀⇛
Apart from committing the cardinal sin of failing
to produce polling numbers until the sixth
paragraph, ChatGPT’s take on how Americans see it
and other chatbots was suspiciously positive. “A
2021 survey by the Pew Research Center found that
71% of Americans believe it is generally a good
thing for society if robots and computers become
more capable and sophisticated, while only 27%
believe this would be a bad thing,” ChatGPT wrote.
“This suggests that people are increasingly open to
the idea of AI and see it as a potential source of
innovation and progress.”
# § Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Qt ☛ VxWorks_for_Qt_5.15.12_Released [Ed: Not only
has Qt gone proprietary again; it seems to prioritise
support for proprietary platforms; no wonder Lars
left]⠀⇛
The Qt Company is expanding the number of
supported releases for VxWorks with the
latest Qt 5.15.12 Long Term Support (LTS)
version for commercial license holders. The
release is a source code release made on top
of the Qt 5.15.12 LTS Commercial release.
Further Qt releases with VxWorks support are
also being planned.
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Shaping_the_Future_of_Digital_Experience_–_UI
Framework_Foundations⠀⇛
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Dark_Mode_on_Windows_11_with_Qt_6.5 [Ed: After
going proprietary Qt is also devoting time to Microsoft
spyware]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Qt ☛ MIDAX_Leverages_Qt’s_Digital_Advertising
Platform_for_Sigma_POS [Ed: Qt also promotes
"telemetry" and ads in the GUI; not a positive
direction]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Automated_translation_of_Qt_documentation⠀⇛
Qt is known for its good documentation, and
in the recent years the number of users that
rely on the documentation has grown
considerably. Some of these users also prefer
using the documentation in a specific
language, so they use the auto-translation
tools for the purpose. Most of these tools
translate everything on a page to the chosen
language, unless they are told not to. For
example, the following screenshot shows the
Google translate output of the QString API
reference in French language: [...]
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Academy_Fight_Song:_The_Politics_Behind_Andrea
Riseborough’s_Surprise_Oscar_Nod⠀⇛
When this year’s Oscar nominations dropped on January 24,
two perennially problematic issues for the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts & Sciences met in a head-on collision
in the Best Actress category: Hollywood’s historic lack
of representation, and the vast economic imbalance
between indie movie producers and billion-dollar media
behemoths competing for the same awards. Andrea
Riseborough received a surprise nomination for her
little-seen but excellent work in To Leslie, while two
actors widely considered favorites in the category, Viola
Davis (The Woman King) and Danielle Deadwyler (Till), did
not. The latter two were nominated for this Sunday’s SAG
awards, but not Riseborough.
o ⚓ YLE ☛ Nordic_neighbours_poking_fun_at_Finnish_stereotypes_become
social_media_hits⠀⇛
The Nordic nations have a very similar sense of humour,
according to one researcher.
o ⚓ Variety ☛ Digital_Advertising_Continues_to_Steal_TV’s_Thunder⠀⇛
If there was any doubt about whether we were in an
advertising recession, Q4 media earnings solidified those
suspicions. Execs from the biggest media giants all cited
a challenging macroeconomic environment affecting their
ad businesses, and the numbers proved it.
o ⚓ WhichUK ☛ What_to_do_if_your_laptop_gets_stolen⠀⇛
Take time to run through these nine security steps soon
after getting a new laptop: [...]
o ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ People_only_want_their_technology_to_do_three
things⠀⇛
Many years ago, I worked as a product manager for pre-
smart phones. Remember that old Nokia phone you had?
Yeah, them!
This was a common complaint we heard back then: “Ugh! Why
do phones have all these useless, overcomplicated, random
functions? People only want their phones to do three
thing – calls, texts, and…”
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ That_Mystery_Orb_on_a_Japanese_Beach?_It_Was
Just_a_Buoy._(Sorry.)⠀⇛
But after X-raying it, the police confirmed that it was
not explosive. It was just a large, spherical piece of
scrap metal — a reminder that the oceans, like the skies,
are full of mystery and trash.
o ⚓ 37signals LLC ☛ Get_out_of_momentum’s_way⠀⇛
This relative lack of full-time managers means the
temptation to mess with what ain’t broken just largely
isn’t there. So many other pursuits call out for our
attention – designing, programming, writing, and judoing
the product calls.
Idle managerial hands run’s the devil’s workshop. Make
sure they all have a hobby to soak up the excess energy,
should it present itself.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ The Scientist ☛ Finally,_Scientists_Uncover_the_Genetic
Basis_of_Fingerprints⠀⇛
Much like with a zebra’s stripes or a leopard’s
spots, Turing patterns explain how the distinctive
patterns of human fingerprints form, a study finds.
# ⚓ RIPE ☛ Detecting_Waves_with_ShakeAlert⠀⇛
When operating large, globally distributed
networks, hardware failures, provider outages, and
other changes in behaviour are regular occurrences.
Therefore, systems that can raise alarms at the
first signs of trouble can alert human operators or
automated systems and enable faster corrective
action. To this end, we developed ShakeAlert, an
alerting system built on publicly available
external data to alert to sudden Internet changes.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ We_Spoke_to_The_Florida_Teacher_Who_Was
Fired_For_a_Viral_Video_Of_Empty_School_Library_Shelves⠀⇛
After a new statewide policy removed books from
school libraries, Governor Ron DeSantis called the
video Brian Covey posted a “fake narrative.”
# ⚓ Teen Vogue ☛ Supreme_Court_Cases_on_Student_Debt,
Affirmative_Action:_What_to_Know⠀⇛
In another looming decision, the Supreme Court is
set to rule on broad-scale student debt relief —
President Biden’s signature executive policy that
could zero out the student loan accounts of 20
million Americans, the beneficiaries of which are
disproportionately Black.
# ⚓ Computer World ☛ Skills-based_hiring_continues_to_rise_as
degree_requirements_fade⠀⇛
“So far, they’ve removed degree requirements from
certain job postings and have worked with other
organizations to help workers progress from lower-
to higher-wage jobs,” McKinsey said in a November
report.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ AMD_Execs_Cash_Big_Bonus_Checks_While
Intel’s_Take_Pay_Cuts⠀⇛
AMD execs will enjoy substantial bonuses, but its
business structure is far less affected by
semiconductor manufacturing cycles than Intel’s.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Internet_Connected_Pinball_Machine_Shows_Off
Scores⠀⇛
Before video games, there were pinball machines.
Not that they don’t exist today, but a modern
pinball machine will likely have microprocessors
and other fancy things that traditional pinball
machine designers could never dream of. [Eli] had
one of these mechanical machines from 1974 as a kid
and, later, encountered a more modern machine with
a rudimentary microprocessor and other integrated
circuits onboard. One thing this enabled is the
ability to remember high scores. But you have to
physically look at the machine, and you can only
see the top four scores. [Eli] decided to adapt the
machine to upload high score data to the Internet,
and it is a fun project.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Pushing_Crates_In_8-bit_Color⠀⇛
Moore’s law isn’t strictly holding anymore, but it
is still true that most computing systems are at
least trending towards lower cost over time, if not
also slightly smaller size. This means wider access
to less expensive hardware, even if that hardware
is still an 8-bit microcontroller. While some move
on to more powerful platforms as a result of this
trend, there are others still fighting to push
these platforms to the edge. [lcamtuf] has been
working to this end, stretching a small AVR
microcontroller to not only play a classic video
game, but to display it on a color display.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Low_Power_Challenge:_E-Paper_Shelf_Label_Becomes
Ultra-Frugal_Clock⠀⇛
Over the past two decades, e-paper has evolved from
an exotic and expensive display technology to
something cheap enough to be used for supermarket
price tags. While such electronic shelf labels are
now easy to find, actually re-using them is often
tricky due to a lack of documentation. Luckily,
[Aaron Christophel] has managed to reverse engineer
many types of shelf labels, and he’s demonstrated
the results by turning one into an ultra-low-power
clock called Triink. It’s based on a 128×296 pixel
e-ink display paired with an nRF52832 BlueTooth
Low-Energy SoC and uses just 65 micro-amperes on
average: low enough to keep it running for more
than a year on a single battery charge.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Intel’s_CEO_Fires_Back_at_3nm_Delay
Rumors⠀⇛
Pat Gelsinger: Both internal and external 3 nm
projects are on track.
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ What_to_do_if_your_laptop_gets_stolen⠀⇛
Make security a priority to help avoid a data-
breach disaster if your laptop is
stolen
Take time to run through these nine security steps
soon after getting a new laptop: [...]
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Deep_Dive_Into_The_HP_ScantJet_4C⠀⇛
[Shelby] at Tech Tangents recently wrapped a
project / obsession to obtain an old HP ScanJet 4C,
get it running on a PC and put it through its
paces. After after nearly five years, three
scanners, and untold SCSI cards and drivers later,
he finally succeeded. The first big problem was
getting a working scanner. These don’t stand up
well to shipping, and one arrived with broken
mirrors. And when he finally got one that worked,
sorting out SCSI controller and driver issues was
surprisingly complicated, though ultimately
successful.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Producing_A_Pair_Of_Parallel_Pliers⠀⇛
A regular pair of pliers is fine most of the time,
but for delicate work with squarish objects you
can’t go wrong with a pair of parallel pliers.
[Neil Paskin] decided to make his own pair from
scratch. (YouTube)
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Toroid_Transformers_Explained⠀⇛
HF radios often use toroidal transformers and
winding them is a rite of passage for many RF
hackers. [David Casler, KE0OG] received a question
about how they work and answered it in a recent
video that you can see below.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ US_Agency_Releases_Report_on_Ohio_Train
Derailment⠀⇛
The derailed equipment included 11 tank cars
carrying hazardous materials that subsequently
ignited, fueling fires that damaged an additional
12 non-derailed railcars.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Calls_Grow_for_Rail_Safety_Laws_as_Officials
Deem_Ohio_Derailment_Preventable⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Why_nipping_unnecessary_tasks_in_the_bud_can
help_both_you_and_your_boss⠀⇛
Suffering in silence, especially for prolonged
periods, is rarely good for your mental health or
career.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ From_Formula_to_Medications_and_Child_Care,
Parents_Feel_Strain_of_Shortages⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Belgorod_governor_hospitalized,_reportedly_with
food_poisoning_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Russia’s
Belgorod region, reported on Telegram Friday that
he had been hospitalized. “Nothing critical. I’m
under medical supervision. They’ll release me today
or tomorrow,” he wrote.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ To_Prevent_More_‘Catastrophic_Derailments,’
Rail_Workers_Outline_Plan_for_Immediate_Reforms⠀⇛
Three weeks after the lives of East Palestine, Ohio
residents were upended by a fiery wreck involving a
Norfolk Southern-owned train overloaded with
hazardous materials, rail union leaders on Friday
implored federal regulators and lawmakers to “focus
on the primary reasons for the derailment and take
immediate action to prevent future disasters.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ As_Biden_Takes_On_Airline_Junk_Fees,_It’s
Worth_Asking_Why_Buttigieg_Didn’t⠀⇛
The Biden White House ushered in February with a
new salvo of regulation targeting junk fees — those
really annoying surcharges that don’t accomplish
anything other than making the corporations more
money. One particularly cruel example being
targeted is a practice of airlines charging parents
extra to be seated with their children. President
Biden doubled down on the issue in his State of the
Union address as well, saying that “airlines can’t
treat your child like a piece of baggage.” Some
airlines would charge customers to sit next to
their children who were still in diapers.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘I_Am_Disturbed’:_Locals_Alarmed_Over_Plan
to_Inject_Toxic_Ohio_Wastewater_Underground_in_Texas⠀⇛
Residents and officials in Harris County, Texas
have expressed alarm since learning that
contaminated water used to extinguish a fiery train
crash in East Palestine, Ohio has been transported
more than 1,300 miles to a Houston suburb for
disposal.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Strong_Plurality_of_Voters_Blame_Norfolk
Southern_for_Toxic_Train_Crash⠀⇛
Almost half of U.S. voters surveyed by progressive
think tank Data for Progress blame rail company
Norfolk Southern for the February 3 train
derailment in East Palestine, Ohio which forced
1,500 residents to evacuate, contaminated soil and
water, and has been blamed for causing a number of
symptoms even as officials claim air and water
monitoring hasn’t shown dangerous levels of
pollution.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Bomb_Train:_Calls_Grow_for_New_Laws_on_Rail
Safety_After_Toxic_Disaster_in_East_Palestine,_Ohio⠀⇛
Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, continue to
demand answers about how a Norfolk Southern train
carrying toxic chemicals derailed February 3,
releasing hazardous materials into the air, water
and soil. The National Transportation Safety Board
has released a preliminary report on the accident,
blaming a wheel bearing failure for the crash and
saying the derailment was “100% preventable.”
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has
faced widespread criticism over his response to the
disaster, visited the village on Thursday for the
first time since the derailment, a day after former
President Trump also visited East Palestine. For
more, we speak with Emily Wright, development
director of River Valley Organizing, who lives a
few miles from the derailment site; Gregory Hynes,
the national legislative director at SMART, the
International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail
and Transportation Workers; and reporter Topher
Sanders, whose latest ProPublica story details how
Norfolk Southern officials are allowed to order
train crews to ignore safety alerts.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ What_Trump’s_Visit_to_East_Palestine_Told_Us
About_2024⠀⇛
I planned to write about Donald Trump’s visit to
East Palestine, Ohio, on Wednesday, though I knew I
couldn’t actually watch his speech. I just assumed
it would dominate the news. It didn’t, and thus I
didn’t write about it. And now I am—but not
directly. I have come to think Trump’s Ohio flop
might matter.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Several_cases_of_food_poisoning_caused_by
oysters_confirmed_in_Helsinki⠀⇛
The Environment Services of the City of Helsinki is
investigating a number of suspected cases of food
poisoning that are believed to be related to dining
at several different restaurants and a pop-up event
since the beginning of February. Currently, there
are about 20 known cases of illness.
The individuals who have fallen ill all consumed
oysters, and environmental services have taken food
samples from the restaurants as well as patient
samples from the city’s epidemiological action.
Norovirus has been found in the samples.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Kela_has_sent_a_late_payment_reminder
about_the_student_healthcare_fee_to_some_56,000_students⠀⇛
Kela sends late payment reminders to higher
education students studying for a degree who
registered as attending by 31 January 2023 but did
not pay the student healthcare fee by the due date.
The due date for the student healthcare fee was 31
January 2023 for students studying for a degree who
registered as attending for the spring term by 31
January 2023.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Experts:_Finland’s_emissions_falling
rapidly,_action_needed_to_strengthen_carbon_sink⠀⇛
FINLAND is developing rapidly into a competitive
economy powered by low-emitting hydrogen-based
solutions, views the Finnish Climate Change Panel.
The green transition, it envisions, will create
substantial business opportunities for low-emission
solutions and product and service innovations, with
many of the solutions linked to hydrogen-based
innovations, the circular economy and measures to
reduce the consumption footprint.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Toxic_Watters⠀⇛
# ⚓ Nattokinase:_The_latest_COVID-19_spike_protein_“detox”
quackery⠀⇛
One of the oldest antivax tropes is that vaccines
some how “poison” you with “toxins,” thereby
causing a whole host of health problems that
antivaxxers blame on vaccines but whose causation
is not supported by science. Indeed, when I first
made a splash (sort of) debunking antivax
misinformation in 2005, I was addressing Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.‘s conspiracy theory that the mercury in
the thimerosal preservative used in a number of
routine childhood vaccines up until around 2001 or
so was the cause of an “epidemic” of autism. Around
that same time, chelation therapy was a major topic
of this blog, because “autism biomed” quacks used
it to chelate the mercury from vaccines that they
blamed for autism; it was a long-failed hypothesis,
but that didn’t stop the quacks. Indeed,
“detoxification” of “toxins” (from vaccines) was
and remains a key pillar of “autism biomed”
quackery, regardless of whether the vaccines
contained thimerosal or not. (To these quacks,
they’re all equally nasty.) So it was with some
interest that I saw bubbling up from antivax social
media about a new way of “detoxing” the spike
protein from COVID-19 vaccines to which antivaxxers
attribute all the horrible things they blame on
these vaccines. The method? Using nattokinase to
digest the spike protein that supposedly hangs
around after vaccination against COVID-19 to do all
sorts of nefarious things.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Study_Ties_Long-Term_Air_Pollution_Exposure
to_Higher_Heart_Attack,_Disease_Risk⠀⇛
Adding to the body of research that highlights the
deadly effects of air pollution, a study published
Friday in JAMA Network Open connects long-term
exposure to fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, to
heightened risk of having a heart attack or dying
from heart disease.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Unpacking_‘disturbing_media’_culture⠀⇛
To this day, there exist communities surrounding
“traumatic” media, the iceberg trend persisting and
repackaged in new ways. I came across a TikTok on
my For You page just this month, the caption
reading, “POV: you watched a disturbing movie and
now you can’t stop.” The comments on this were
particularly fascinating, too — many claim that the
films recommended in the video are boring despite
their long lists of trigger warnings. Most
illuminating to me was one particular comment: “I
want movies to disturb me so much nothing anyone
says to me hurts me, ever.” Among these comments
and videos, I can’t help but notice the almost
addictive nature people attribute to these films.
Once they consume one, they are compelled to seek
out more, getting more and more gruesome as they
descend underneath the iceberg. To comment
something akin to “Megan is Missing was boring” is
a flex to unseasoned viewers, to say that you have
experienced media darker than they can ever
imagine.
# ⚓ Eric Bailey ☛ Modern_Health,_frameworks,_performance,_and
harm⠀⇛
I don’t want the underlying concept behind Modern
Health to fail. I want more people to get the help
they need in a reliable and safe way. However, I
wish we as an industry would stop promoting and
rewarding the wrong things.
We’ve lost the plot. Performance, accessibility,
and usability are more than inconvenient truths you
can pretend don’t exist. They have a direct impact
on the quality of someone’s life.
# ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Scientists_unlock_key_to_drought-
resistant_wheat_plants_with_longer_roots⠀⇛
“Roots play a very important role in plants,” he
said. “The root absorbs the water and the nutrients
to support plants’ growth. This finding is a useful
tool to engineer root systems to improve yield
under drought conditions in wheat.”
Much has been done to improve wheat production but
losses from water stress can erase other
improvements. Plants that can adapt to low water
conditions but have increased yield will be key to
growing enough food for a growing population in the
face of global warming.
# ⚓ CBC ☛ What_are_dioxins_and_did_the_Ohio_train_crash_release
them_into_the_air?⠀⇛
Last week, the U.S. senators from Ohio, sent a
letter to the state’s environmental protection
agency expressing concern that dioxins may have
been released when some of the chemicals in the
damaged railcars were deliberately burned for
safety reasons. They joined some of the town’s
residents and environmentalists from around the
U.S. calling for state and federal environmental
agencies to test the soil around the site where the
tanker cars tipped over.
Here’s a look at dioxins, their potential harms and
whether they may have been created by burning the
vinyl chloride that was on the Norfolk Southern
train.
# ⚓ The Economist ☛ The_Ohio_train_derailment_is_turning_into_a
political_circus⠀⇛
Later that day a rather better-known presidential
candidate would appear in the town, also with plans
to distribute food and water, and limited plans to
speak to locals. By 1pm at least 100 people were
gathered on Market Street awaiting the arrival of
Donald Trump. Two stands had been set up to sell T-
shirts, hoodies and flags. Dozens of journalists,
YouTubers and TikTok influencers wandered up and
down conducting interviews and performing pieces to
camera. When Mr Trump finally arrived, just visible
through the darkened tint of his SUV, the crowd
cheered and broke into a chant of “Let’s Go
Brandon”, a meme that means, roughly, “Fuck Joe
Biden”.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ The Conversation ☛ Driverless_cars:_what_we’ve_learned_from
experiments_in_San_Francisco_and_Phoenix⠀⇛
US states encouraged experimentation by dropping
regulatory barriers, with cities, citizens and
transport policymakers having little say. After a
period of testing with safety drivers, some cars
are now fully driverless.
While the companies learn to drive safely in
complex environments, San Francisco and Phoenix are
learning whether the technology is creating more
problems than it promises to solve.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ SANS ☛ URL_files_and_WebDAV_used_for_IcedID_(Bokbot)
infection,_(Fri,_Feb_24th)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Putting_Undetectable_Backdoors_in_Machine
Learning_Models⠀⇛
This is really interesting research from a few
months ago:
Abstract: Given the computational cost
and technical expertise required to train
machine learning models, users may
delegate the task of learning to a
service provider. Delegation of learning
has clear benefits, and at the same time
raises serious concerns of trust. This
work studies possible abuses of power by
untrusted learners.We show how a
malicious learner can plant an
undetectable backdoor into a classifier.
[...]
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Here’s_How_We_Broke_Into_a_Bank_Account
Using_an_AI-Voice⠀⇛
In this week’s CYBER, Joseph Cox talks us through
how he created a clone of his voice and used it to
bypass his bank’s security checks.
# ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Who’s_Behind_the_Botnet-Based_Service
BHProxies?⠀⇛
A security firm has discovered that a six-year-old
crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be
powering a residential proxy service called
BHProxies, which offers paying customers the
ability to route their web traffic anonymously
through compromised computers. Here’s a closer look
at Mylobot, and a deep dive into who may be
responsible for operating the BHProxies service.
# § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ URLs_4X_More_Likely_than_Phishing
Attachments_to_Reach_Users:_Cofense_Featured⠀⇛
Cofense issued its report while commenting
that the first steps in traditional phishing
emails have remained the same for decades,
with the email containing either a malicious
URL or an attachment.
According to Cofense its data from the past
year shows that the dominance of URLs over
attachments continued in 2022 for several
reasons, including abusable trusted domains,
free services on the web that provide
phishing infrastructure, and the evasive
effects of redirects.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_disconnects_phones
without_‘real_name’-registered_SIMs_as_deadline
arrives⠀⇛
Hongkongers who failed to link their SIM
cards with their real names awoke to find
their mobile phones disconnected on Friday,
as the government’s registration deadline
arrived. Around 12 million pre-paid and
service plan SIM cards had been registered
with users’ full name, date of birth, and
identity card, as of Tuesday, RTHK reported.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ India_dispatch:_Supreme_Court_limits_DNA
paternity_testing_in_divorce_proceedings,_prioritizing
children’s_privacy_rights⠀⇛
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.
# ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ Online_Safety_Bill:_Spy_clause
could_force_Signal_to_pull_services_from_UK⠀⇛
Messaging app Signal has announced that it
will withdraw its services from the UK if it
is forced to undermine encryption through
proposals in the Online Safety Bill.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Meta_rolls_out_new_language_model_amid
Big_Tech’s_AI_push⠀⇛
Large language models have shown promise in
generating text and conversations,
summarizing written material, and in
performing complicated tasks like solving
math theorems or predicting protein
structures, Zuckerberg said.
# ⚓ Russ Cox ☛ Opting_In_to_Transparent_Telemetry⠀⇛
Earlier this month I posted “Transparent
Telemetry for Open-Source Projects”, making
the case that open-source software projects
need to find an open-source-friendly way to
collect basic usage and performance
information about their software, to help
maintainers understand how their software is
used and prioritize their work. I invited
feedback on a GitHub discussion and over
email.
In general, the feedback was mostly
constructive, and mostly positive. In the
GitHub discussion, there were some
unconstructive trolls with no connection to
Go who showed up for a while, but they were
the exception rather than the rule: most
people seemed to be engaging in good faith. I
also saw some good discussion on Twitter and
Mastodon, and I received some good feedback
via email.
People who read the posts seemed to agree
that there’s a real problem here for open-
source maintainers and that transparent
telemetry or something like it is an
appropriately minimal amount of collection.
By far the most common suggestion was to make
the system opt-in (default off) instead of
opt-out (default on). I have revised the
design to do that.
The rest of this post discusses the reasons
for the change to opt-in as well as the
effects on the rest of the design.
# ⚓ uni Duke ☛ Scholars:_TikTok_Ban_Not_a_Panacea_But
Could_Prompt_Important_Data_Privacy_Conversations⠀⇛
Bills in Congress that would ban TikTok, the
Chinese social media platform, are raising
concerns over the precedent they would set.
But they have also prompted hopes for
substantive, broader deliberations over data
security and privacy.
The bills, which enjoy some rare bipartisan
support among lawmakers, might prove
difficult to enforce and wouldn’t get at
privacy concerns related to American social
media platforms, two Duke scholars said
Thursday.
Duke’s Robyn Caplan and Phil Napoli, both of
whom teach in the Sanford School of Public
Policy, discussed these issues with reporters
Thursday in a virtual media briefing.
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ German_Federal_Police:_Hits_from_facial
recognition_more_than_doubled⠀⇛
Since 2008, German police authorities have
been using a facial recognition system to
identify unknown persons. The facial database
queried in this way has grown dramatically in
the past year.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Study:_It’s_Comically_Easy_To_Identify
‘Anonymized’_Users_In_The_‘Metaverse’_With_A_Tiny_Bit
Of_Motion_Data⠀⇛
We’ve noted for a very long while how most of
the explanations that corporations use to
insist that your privacy is protected are
effectively worthless.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Pressure_Mounts_to_Ban_Use_of_911_Call
Analysis,_Review_Convictions⠀⇛
Revelations that a new type of junk science
known as 911 call analysis has infiltrated
the justice system have triggered calls by
prosecutors, judges and defense attorneys
nationwide to ban the use of the technique,
review past convictions in which it was used
and exact sanctions against prosecutors who
snuck it into court despite knowing it was
inadmissible.
The actions follow a two-part ProPublica
investigation published last year that many
judges and other court officers said took
them by surprise. “I never anticipated that
prosecutors — officers of the court — would
engage in systematic organized frauds,” a
judge in Ohio wrote in an email to
ProPublica. She said she had alerted fellow
judges to be on the lookout for 911 call
analysis, which ProPublica found to be
pervasive throughout the justice system: “I’m
sure that some will care and share my outrage
that innocent people are going to prison.”
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Foreign Policy ☛ How_the_Ukraine_War_Has_Changed_Russia’s
Cyberstrategy [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
Ransomware attacks, in which hackers gain control
of an organization’s computer systems and demand
large sums of money to return access, were among
the biggest concerns when Russia invaded Ukraine a
year ago. While there were some isolated ransomware
attacks on Ukraine and Poland late last year that
Microsoft attributed to Russian military-affiliated
hackers, attacks on the scale that hit Colonial
Pipeline and meat processor JBS in 2021—resulting
in millions of dollars of ransom payments—have
largely been absent from the conflict. Ransomware
payments declined by double-digit percentages
across the board in 2022, according to
cybersecurity firms and analysis groups.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Ukraine_invasion_blew_up_Russian
cybercrime_alliances⠀⇛
As the illegal invasion hits the one-year mark, new
research suggests the conflict also disrupted
Russia and the former Soviet Union’s criminal
ecosystem, which has “far-reaching consequences
affecting nearly every aspect of cybercrime,”
according to Alexander Leslie, associate threat
intelligence analyst for Recorded Future’s Insikt
Group.
# ⚓ The Record ☛ Ukraine’s_largest_charity_wants_to_raise_$1.3
million_for_‘cyber_offensive’⠀⇛
The campaign aims to raise $1.3 million to purchase
technology and equipment that will help Ukraine’s
cyber forces conduct digital operations that could
impede Russia’s advances on the real battlefield.
The commander of the cyber forces unit, which is
part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, asked the
organization for help to build infrastructure and
boost cyber warfare capabilities, the organization
told The Record.
# ⚓ Frontpage Magazine ☛ India:_Muslims_All_Over_the_Country
Attack_Hindus_During_Mahashivratri⠀⇛
The Hindus in India celebrated Mahashivratri, a
religious festival dedicated to the Hindu deity
Shiva, on Saturday, February 18. It has become
commonplace in the country in the past few years
for Muslims to attack, disrupt, and commit violence
against Hindus and Hindu venues holding Hindu
celebrations. Hence it was not a shock for anyone
when news of disturbances started being reported
from various states of India days ahead of the
festival.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Russia’s_yearlong_cyber_focus_on_Ukraine⠀⇛
Why it matters: The war in Ukraine is the first
physical war that’s involved a top-tier cyber
adversary, setting a template for what cyber’s role
in future wars could look like.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ ISS:_Africa_shouldn’t_ignore_Russia’s
destabilising_influence⠀⇛
It can be argued that Russia stepped up its
military engagement with Africa – including the
injection of Wagner – even before Russia invaded
Ukraine on 24 February last year. But let’s not
forget that, as any Ukrainian will remind you,
Russia’s war against Ukraine didn’t start on 24
February 2022 but on 20 February 2014, when it
invaded and annexed Crimea.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Russia_ends_nowhere,’_they_say_Sociologist
Grigory_Yudin_discusses_a_year_of_war_and_what_comes_next_—
Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Sanna_Marin’s_SDP_in_favour_of_expanding_conscription
to_women⠀⇛
The majority of Finland’s parties are opposed to
making changes to the current conscription model,
according to the results of Yle’s security policy
survey.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ “War_is_not_the_solution,_war_is_the
problem,”_UN_chief_Guterres_on_one-year_mark_of_Russia-
Ukraine_conflict⠀⇛
As February 24 marks one-year of the Russia-Ukraine
war, UN chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday (local
time) urged Russia to end the war in Ukraine
saying, “War is not the solution, war is the
problem.”
In a remark to the General Assembly Emergency
Special Session on Ukraine, he said, “War is not
the solution. War is the problem. People in Ukraine
are suffering enormously.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungary_requested_the_removal_of_nine
Russian_businessmen_from_EU_sanctions_list_–_Szijjártó_to_Ria
Novosti⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Ninety_Seconds_to_Midnight_and_War’s
Escalation_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
We live in “a time of unprecedented danger.” The
Doomsday Clock was moved to ninety seconds before
midnight by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on
January 24, 2023. This is the closest to apocalypse
the clock has been set since its founding in 1947,
largely because of “the mounting dangers of the war
in Ukraine.” Specifically, “Russia’s thinly veiled
threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world
that escalation of the conflict—by accident,
intention, or miscalculation—is a terrible risk.”
The seriousness of the threat of war’s escalation,
says the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board,
requires the US, NATO, and Ukraine to find “a path
to serious peace negotiations” with Russia.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ After_One_Year_of_Devastation,_Peace_Talks
Are_Badly_Needed_to_End_the_War_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
One hundred and twenty-five years ago, the USA’s
imperialist/militarist interventions outside the
borders of the continental United States began in
earnest with the Spanish American War, in 1898.
During this war, the U.S. replaced Spain as the
colonizing power over Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the
Philippines.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Ray_McGovern:_The_Last_Chance_to_Avoid_World
War_III?⠀⇛
The CIA expert and Russia specialist who served
seven presidents under risks of nuclear war is
alarmed that the war in Ukraine has brought us to
the most dangerous moment yet.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Ralph_Nader:_The_20th_Anniversary_of_the
Sociocide_of_Iraq_by_Bush/Cheney⠀⇛
Will President Biden, Congress and other Americans
recognize the massive war crimes committed against
the Iraqi people with appropriate declarations and
actions on March 19, 2023?
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Achieving_Peace_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
Today marks the beginning of the second year of the
war in Ukraine. As a career physician, lifelong
peace activist, and nuclear abolitionist, I have
been pondering this day and just how to respond.
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Friday_Coffee_#5⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ March_To_Iraq_War,_20_Years_Later:_February
24,_2003⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ ‘We_are_among_the_victims,_and_Brussels
should_respect_that’_–_Orbán_on_the_war_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Congratulations,_you’re_in_your_right_mind’_How
the_Kremlin’s_war_propaganda_moved_over_the_course_of_a_year
from_‘tremble,_Ukraine!’_to_praising_Russia’s_‘difficult,
dignified_present’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
This article condenses propaganda statements made
by the Kremlin’s media machine in a campaign to
justify and popularize the Ukraine invasion among
Russians. Below, you’ll find some of the slogans,
cliches, malicious jokes, and sentimental truisms
spread by the state media, by Russia’s self-styled
“war correspondents,” pro-Kremlin talking heads,
bloggers, and other public personalities. To be
more exact, there are two different compilations
here: one from the early days of the war (when the
expectations of an easy victory galvanized the
Kremlin) and another from after Moscow’s initials
hopes were dashed. The rhetoric is still
manipulative, but the manipulations have changed.
Here is Putin’s war propaganda, then and now.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ The_Kadyrov_conundrum_How_Chechnya’s_ruler
maintains_power_while_feuding_with_Russia’s_security
apparatus_and_flirting_with_a_revolutionary_legacy_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘There’s_a_risk_of_a_third_world_war’:_Zelensky_on
Russia’s_arms_negotiations_with_China_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Speaking at a Kyiv press conference, Volodymyr
Zelensky said he hopes that China will not supply
Russia with weapons.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ U.S._introduces_new_sanctions_on_Russia_on
anniversary_of_the_invasion_of_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛
On the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion
of Ukraine, the United States has introduced new
restrictions on Russia.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Rise_Up,_Great_Country’:_Uzbekistan_native_opens
fire_on_St._Petersburg_policeman,_to_Soviet_soundtrack_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Tigran Khachikyan, an Uzbekistan native living in
St. Petersburg, has critically wounded a National
Guard policeman on Nevsky Prospect.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘You_can_stick_to_making_meatballs’:_Sverdlovsk
governor_tells_Prigozhin_to_stop_meddling_in_regional
politics_—_Meduza⠀⇛
After Wagner Group founder Evgeny Prigozhin
attacked several of Russia’s regions for what he
described as “openly shitting” on Russia’s “special
military operation” in Ukraine, Sverdlovsk Governor
Evgeny Kuyvashev publicly told Prigozhin to “stick
to making meatballs” and stop meddling in regional
politics.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_authorities_arrest_anti-war_protesters
throughout_the_country_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Throughout Russia, police have begun arresting
citizens for protesting and placing flowers at
memorials to mark the one-year anniversary of the
full-scale war against Ukraine.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Mediazona_and_BBC_News_Russian_confirm_that_more
than_15,000_Russian_servicemen_died_in_the_full-scale_war’s
first_year_—_Meduza⠀⇛
At least 15,136 Russian military servicemen died in
the first year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of
Ukraine, according to a new report from Mediazona.
Journalists from Mediazona and BBC News Russia
worked with a team of volunteers to calculate the
number from open sources.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ One_Year_Ago,_Russia_Invaded_Ukraine⠀⇛
On February 24, one year will have passed since the
Russians invaded Ukraine. With the conflict
settling into a grinding war of attrition, both
sides have marked the anniversary with an
escalation of both rhetoric and armaments. Any
chance for peace—for even a cease-fire, much less a
settlement—will require a dramatic intercession by
countries not enmeshed in the conflict.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Prigozhin_hits_a_nerve:_Journalists_at_Kremlin-run
news_outlets_have_reportedly_been_banned_from_quoting_Wagner
Group’s_founder_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Evgeny Prigozhin, the ex-convict who founded
Russia’s now-infamous Wagner Group back in 2014,
spent much of the last week publicly blasting
Russia’s Defense Ministry for failing to provide
ammunition to his mercenary company. Then, on
Thursday, he reported that his outbursts had
worked. Despite Prigozhin’s claims that the issue
had life-or-death consequences for Russian
fighters, Russia’s state-controlled news outlets
devoted almost no coverage to the dispute.
According to a new report, that was no accident:
citing sources from the Kremlin-controlled media
and the Russian Defense Ministry, the independent
outlet Verstka reported Thursday that state
journalists have been ordered not to quote
Prigozhin unless absolutely necessary — and that
the Putin administration has a smear campaign
against the Wagner boss ready to launch if needed.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Watch_live:_Zelensky_says_Ukraine_needs_‘peace
plan’⠀⇛
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told a press
conference addressing the nation on Friday that
Ukraine needs a “peace plan” to recover from the
ravages of the war, on the first anniversary of the
Russian invasion.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Iran_calls_allegation_it_has_enriched_uranium_to
84%_a_‘conspiracy’⠀⇛
Iranian state television on Friday offered an
extended defense against an accusation attributed
to international inspectors that it enriched
uranium to 84% purity, with an official calling it
part of a “conspiracy” against Tehran amid tensions
over its nuclear program.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_urges_Russia,_Ukraine_to
resume_talks,_warns_against_using_weapons⠀⇛
China called Friday for Russia and Ukraine to hold
peace talks as soon as possible while insisting
that nuclear weapons must not be used in their
conflict. China made the comments in a 12-point
paper on the “political settlement” of the crisis,
timed to coincide with the one-year anniversary of
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
# ⚓ HRW ☛ Japan_to_‘Appropriately_Handle’_Project_Benefiting
Myanmar’s_Military⠀⇛
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ UN_coordinator:_$2.25B_required_to_combat_mass
displacement_in_Congo⠀⇛
UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Democratic
Republic of the Congo (DRC) Bruno Lemarquis
Wednesday indicated in a report that the UN will
need to raise $2.25 billion to combat widespread
the mass displacement of people in the DRC.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Texas_man_sentenced_for_theatening_to_assassinate
US_lawmaker_Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez⠀⇛
A man from Texas was sentenced on Wednesday for
charges related to an assassination threat he made
against US lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as
well as to his participation in the January 6,
2021, insurrection at the US Capitol.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Russian_tank_destroyed_in_Ukraine_goes_on_display_in
Vilnius⠀⇛
A Russian T-72B tank, destroyed by the Ukrainian
army, goes on display in front of the Cathedral
Square in Vilnius.
# ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ No2NATO:_Former_UK_MP_Chris_Williamson_on
New_Efforts_To_Free_Britain_From_NATO⠀⇛
Lowkey speaks to former MP and Shadow Minister
Chris Williamson about the new campaign to pull
Britain out of the NATO military alliance.
# ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ From_Latin_America_to_Nord_Stream:_Rania
Khalek_Challenges_US_Foreign_Policy_and_Mainstream_Media
Narratives⠀⇛
Discover the truth about US foreign policy and the
impact of propaganda on mainstream media with
journalist Rania Khalek, as she challenges
simplified narratives and advocates for critical
reporting in this thought-provoking interview.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ ‘Never_saw_such_hell’:_Russian
soldiers_in_Ukraine_call_home⠀⇛
One Russian soldier told his wife he’s drunk
because it makes it easier to kill civilians.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Republicans_Unveil_Bill_to_Make_AR-15-Style
Rifle_the_“National_Gun”⠀⇛
# ⚓ RFA ☛ US_to_deploy_more_troops_to_Taiwan_to_train_local
army⠀⇛
Taiwan also plans to send hundreds to soldiers to
the United States for military exchange.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Chinese_ship_threatens_and_confiscates_catch_of
Vietnamese_boat_off_Paracel_Islands⠀⇛
Vietnamese captain was forced to destroy his own
fishing net with a knife
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Amid_Ongoing_Crackdown_On_Dissent,_Unknown
Belarusian_Activists_Raise_Ukrainian_Flag_In_Minsk⠀⇛
Amid a brutal crackdown on dissent by the
authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s regime,
unknown activists in Belarus raised a large
Ukrainian flag on a high-rise building in Minsk on
February 24, the first anniversary of Russia’s
ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Frees_Two_Guantanamo_Detainees,_Hands_Them
Back_To_Pakistan⠀⇛
Two Pakistani brothers who had spent the past two
decades at the U.S. detention facility at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been released and
returned to Pakistan, the Pentagon said.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ One_Year_Into_Ukraine_War,_China_Says_Sending
Weapons_Will_Not_Bring_Peace⠀⇛
Chinese Deputy UN Ambassador Dai Bing told the
General Assembly on February 23 that one year into
the Ukraine war “brutal facts offer an ample proof
that sending weapons will not bring peace.”
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ The_Special_Tribunal_Debate:_“An_Arrest_Warrant
Against_Putin_Would_Be_Immense”⠀⇛
In the debate in Berlin over Ukraine, many are
concerned that by supplying weapons, Germany has
become party to the war. In an interview,
international law expert Claus Kress dispels false
arguments and discusses how Russian President
Vladimir Putin could be brought to justice.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finland_to_deliver_three_mine-clearing
Leopard_2s_to_Ukraine⠀⇛
FINLAND has decided on its 13th package of defence
materiel to Ukraine.
The Ministry of Defence on Thursday revealed that
the over 160-million-euro package will include
heavy weaponry, ammunition and three mine-clearing
Leopard 2 tanks, as well as related training and
maintenance. Finland has thereby pledged around 750
million euros worth of defence materiel assistance
to Ukraine.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_includes_three_Leopard_tanks_in_latest_arms
package_to_Ukraine⠀⇛
The most recent defence materiel shipment will mark
Finland’s 13th since the war began in February last
year.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Can_a_Million_Chinese_People_Die_and_Nobody
Know?⠀⇛
Independent experts, skeptical of Beijing’s
official data on COVID deaths, have been forced to
calculate their own estimates—which indicate much
higher and more disturbing numbers than the
government claims. These estimates range from about
1 million to 1.5 million deaths, suggesting that,
in absolute terms, China may have suffered more
fatalities from COVID in two months than the U.S.
did in three years.
# ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ New_archive_gives_snapshot_off_Kent’s
past⠀⇛
After years of work, more than a thousand pictures
of Kent State’s history have been digitized.
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Unauthorized_Disclosure:_Kari_Lydersen⠀⇛
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Cambodia_ruling_party_is_buying_young
environmentalists_with_senior_government_posts⠀⇛
Political activists are also being offered posts
ahead of the July general election.
# ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Cultural_burns_can_help_protect_koalas⠀⇛
Research into koala numbers before and after
cultural burns on the world’s second largest sand
island has fueled a push to merge Aboriginal
knowledge with cutting-edge science to mitigate the
dangers of bushfires across Australia.
University of the Sunshine Coast researchers and
Quandamooka land custodians have hailed the success
of the two-year collaboration on Minjerribah/North
Stradbroke Island.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Welcome_to_the_New_Abnormal⠀⇛
The first breath of spring can make us feel that
all is right with the world. But when it comes as
eerily warm temperatures in the 80s in February
amid weather whiplash doled out by our overheated
planet—not so much. It feels wrong because it is
wrong. Welcome to the new abnormal.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ When_hydrogen_will_help
climate_change—and_when_it_won’t.⠀⇛
Have you ever heard of the hydrogen rainbow?
While hydrogen gas is colorless, the industry
sometimes uses colors as shorthand to
describe which of the many possible processes
was used to make a particular batch. There’s
gray, green, and blue hydrogen, along with
more vibrant tones like pink—a whole rainbow
(kind of).
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Europe’s_Gas_Lobby_Exploits_Energy_Security
Fears_in_Year_Since_Ukraine_War⠀⇛
This story is part of a DeSmog series on the
influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe
and was developed with the support of
Journalismfund.eu
Europe’s gas industry has ramped up its
messaging since Russia invaded Ukraine,
exploiting fears over energy security to
justify projects that risk locking the
continent into long-term dependence on fossil
fuels, DeSmog can reveal.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Oil_and_Gas_Industry_Spent_$124.4_Million
Lobbying_Amid_Record_Profits_in_2022⠀⇛
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Technical_glitch_briefly_cuts_power_for_50k
Helsinki_residents⠀⇛
The power cuts only lasted a short time, but
affected a number of neighbourhoods and
prompted a Prisma market to shut down.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_sees_fewer_electricity_bill_claims,_tax
deductions_than_expected⠀⇛
The mild weather led to electricity prices
stopping their near-vertical trajectory after
the reimbursement plans were put in place.
# ⚓ The Economist ☛ Cobalt,_a_crucial_battery_material,
is_suddenly_superabundant⠀⇛
The story is partly one of reduced demand.
Most cobalt goes into the battery packs which
power smartphones, tablets and laptops.
Appetite for these, already strong in the
2010s, exploded during the covid-19 pandemic.
It has since waned as people spend less time
staring at their screens: as demand for
consumer electronics fell, so did that for
cobalt. Even a boom in electric vehicles has
not been sufficient to counteract this, since
manufacturers have done their best to reduce
use of the formerly super-expensive metal.
At the same time supply is rising, and fast.
Susan Zou of Rystad Energy, a consultancy,
forecasts that Congolese production will jump
by 38% this year, to 180,000 tonnes. Most
striking is a surge in Indonesian exports,
which are projected to hit 18,000 tonnes this
year, up from virtually none a few years ago.
The world could find itself swimming in
cobalt.
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Denmark_has_significantly_curtailed
its_energy_consumption⠀⇛
For households in particular, electricity
savings were considerable – a reduction of
over 20 percent on the norm.
The results follow on the heels of three
months in 2022 where household electricity
reduction dipped by around 15 percent.
# ⚓ NPR ☛ Hybrid_cars_are_still_incredibly_popular,_but
are_they_good_for_the_environment?⠀⇛
But even as hybrids go mainstream, they are
losing traction among their original
enthusiasts: Environmentalists.
Many say it’s time for hybrids to fade into
history; that they are at best a detour, and
at worst an obstruction, in the fight against
climate change.
“Right now we are facing a climate crisis,
and we absolutely need to reduce our
dependency on fossil fuel cars,” says
Katherine Garcia, who directs the Sierra
Club’s Clean Transportation for All campaign.
Here’s what to know about the environmental
debate over hybrids.
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ [Cryptocurrency]_mining_operation
discovered_in_US_school’s_crawl_space⠀⇛
Nadeam Nahas, 39, was arraigned on Thursday
on charges of fraudulent use of electricity
and vandalising a school, but he did not show
up and a judge issued a default warrant after
rejecting a defence motion to reschedule, a
spokesperson for the Norfolk district
attorney’s office said.
# ⚓ Vox ☛ A_new_indictment_shows_how_Sam_Bankman-Fried’s
political_influence_worked⠀⇛
That’s what Bankman-Fried didn’t want, say
prosecutors. He wanted to play all sides of
the political system and spread his
influence, but he “did not want to be known
as a left-leaning partisan, or to have his
name publicly attached to Republican
candidates,” they allege. He also wanted to
steer more money to candidates to whom he had
already given the maximum allowable
donations, according to the indictment.
So, he got two FTX executives to play those
roles — one to be the “left-leaning
partisan,” and one to be the Republican
donor. The executives aren’t named in the
indictment, but the details and public
campaign disclosure information strongly
suggest that they are Nishad Singh and Ryan
Salame, respectively. Each gave tens of
millions in campaign donations in the 2022
cycle, but the money really came from
Bankman-Fried’s companies, the cryptocurrency
exchange FTX and hedge fund Alameda Research,
prosecutors say.
# ⚓ CBC ☛ FTX_founder_Sam_Bankman-Fried_gets_a_dozen
charges_in_unsealed_indictment⠀⇛
Sam Bankman-Fried was hit with new criminal
charges on Thursday, in an expanded
indictment accusing the founder of the now-
bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange of
conspiring to make more than 300 illegal
political donations.
Bankman-Fried now faces 12 criminal charges,
including four for fraud and eight for
conspiracy, up from eight charges in an
earlier indictment, to which he has pleaded
not guilty.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ U-M_seeking_25_megawatts_of_on-campus
solar_power⠀⇛
The University of Michigan is planning to
build on-campus solar installations with a
capacity of 25 megawatts across the Dearborn,
Flint and Ann Arbor campuses, including
Michigan Medicine and Athletics.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ California_Puts_the_Fossil_Fuel_Industry
in_the_Penalty_Box⠀⇛
None of the specifics have yet been laid
down. The acceptable profit margins are still
to be determined, as are the penalties, and
it’s likely this bill will provoke a furious
reaction from both the GOP and the energy
industry as it makes its way through the
legislature. To date, more than 80
environmental advocacy groups have come out
in favor of the legislation. Meanwhile, the
GOP has doubled down on opposing windfall
penalties, arguing instead for gasoline tax
holidays and for allowing cheaper but more
polluting blends of gas to be sold year-round
in the Golden State. Given the power of the
fossil fuel industry, it’s by no means a
given that the legislation will ever see the
light of day. If it does, however, it will be
a huge populist feather in presidential
hopeful Newsom’s cap, and could serve as a
template to rein in some of the world’s most
powerful companies’ worst profiteering
instincts.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Cori_Bush’s_Public_Transportation_Win⠀⇛
St. Louis, Mo.—According to a Harvard study,
transportation is the single most important
factor in an individual’s ability to escape
poverty. In July 2022, a one-in-1,000-year
flooding event hit St. Louis, dumping 25
percent of the normal yearly rainfall on the
city in 12 hours.1
# ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘There’s_not_a_drop_left’:_Petrol_shortage
has_ground_Burundi_to_a_halt⠀⇛
People across French-speaking Burundi have
been regularly queueing for hours at petrol
stations (gas stations) across the country –
hoping, but with no guarantee — that there
will be some petrol when they finally reach
the pump. The country has been experiencing a
petrol shortage since February 11 and it’s
the fourth such crisis since November 2022.
For many, this situation demonstrates the
severity of the economic consequences of a
political crisis that has gripped this small
African nation since 2015, a nation that is
often listed as one of the world’s poorest.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Bankman-Fried_accused_of_hiding
US_political_donations⠀⇛
Sam Bankman-Fried has been hit with new
criminal charges in an expanded indictment
accusing the founder of the now-bankrupt FTX
cryptocurrency exchange of conspiring to make
more than 300 illegal US political donations.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Massive_power_outage_in_Ann_Arbor
leaves_thousands_in_the_dark⠀⇛
The recent ice storm that swept through
southeast Michigan has left more than 500,000
homes without power as of early Friday
morning. In Ann Arbor, more than 25,000
households powered by DTE faced power outages
following a major ice storm that hit the area
Wednesday night.
# ⚓ Renewable Energy World ☛ Marine_commission:_Whale
deaths_not_linked_to_wind_prep_work⠀⇛
An independent scientific agency that advises
the federal government on policies that could
impact marine mammals said there is no
evidence linking site preparation work for
offshore wind farms with a number of whale
deaths along the U.S. East Coast.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Sam_Bankman-Fried_Funded_‘Woke
Shit_for_Transactional_Purposes,’_Prosecutors_Allege⠀⇛
The former FTX CEO built up a benevolent
self-image, but criminal allegations paint a
very different picture.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ No_more_night_skies:_Ann_Arbor’s_light
pollution_ordinance⠀⇛
While looking up at the night sky on the
University of Michigan’s campus, the
reflection of the city’s lights can be seen
on the clouds as a result of light pollution.
[...]
Ann Arbor is classified as a Bortle 7, or an
area in which the entire sky has a vague,
grayish white color and strong light sources
are evident, on the Bortle scale, which
measures the brightness of the night sky in a
particular location. Due to this high level
of light pollution, the Ann Arbor light
pollution ordinance places a curfew on when
businesses and private properties can have
outdoor lights on and requires partial or
full shielding of lights to prevent light
trespass. The ordinance has a 90-day
exception for the holiday season and requires
businesses to turn off all decorative or
landscape lighting between midnight and 6
a.m. unless they are open during those hours.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Stripe_in_advanced_talks_to_raise_$4_billion
from_investors⠀⇛
Digital payments processor Stripe Inc is close to
raising $4 billion in fresh capital at a valuation
of about $55 billion, people familiar with the
matter said.
[...]
Stripe, which is aiming to turn profitable before
it lists shares on stock exchanges, is raising
capital because it needs to cover a big tax bill
associated with restricted stock units (RSUs) of
employees that are set to expire soon, the sources
said.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Sanders_Pushes_Biden_to_Embrace_Social
Security_Expansion⠀⇛
In a previously unreported discussion, U.S. Sen.
Bernie Sanders urged President Joe Biden to ensure
Social Security is fully funded through the end of
the century by increasing taxes on wealthier
Americans, according to a report published
Thursday.
# ⚓ Robert Reich ☛ The_Biggest_Economic_Lies_We’re_Told⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Beware_the_Time_Thieves⠀⇛
French workers have shut the country down with
general strikes three times in the last month to
defend their time. They’re protesting a proposal to
raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. It’s enough
to make you cry. Here, the Social Security
retirement age was ratcheted up to […]
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_Unemployment_Benefits_Are_Taxed_in_2023⠀⇛
While unemployment benefits can be a huge help when
you’ve lost your job, at tax time, they can leave
you with more questions than answers. Here’s what
you should know about your unemployment benefits
when it comes to filing your taxes.
Generally, yes. The federal government will tax
your unemployment benefits, and most states will as
well. Unemployment benefits count toward your
income and are taxed by the federal government at
rates according to the IRS’ tax brackets.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ TitleMax_Fined_$15_Million_by_Consumer
Financial_Protection_Bureau⠀⇛
A federal consumer watchdog group has fined one
Georgia-based company $15 million for predatory
lending practices. TitleMax, which is headquartered
in Savannah, offers short-term loans — at
exorbitant interest rates — in exchange for a lien
on the title of the borrower’s car.
In its order, the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau said TitleMax had intentionally evaded laws
meant to protect military families from predatory
lenders and, separately, charged illegal insurance
fees to more than 17,000 customers.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Ukrainian_Refugees_Struggle_to_Access_Housing
and_Resources_in_the_US⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ ‘Cages_to_house_them’:_Youth_justice_crackdown
to_hit_children_already_in_state’s_care⠀⇛
Many of the young offenders being targeted in
Labor’s latest crackdown, which will set aside
human rights considerations, are under child
protection orders.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Inflation_outpaced_Lithuanian_workers’_income_growth
–_SoDra⠀⇛
While incomes in Lithuania grew significantly last
year, they could not keep pace with inflation,
according to data presented by the country’s
national social security fund administrator, SoDra.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ India_Appeals_to_Leading_Economies_to_Bring
Back Stability⠀⇛
“It is up to the custodians of the leading
economies and monetary systems of the world to
bring back stability, confidence and growth to the
global economy,” PM Modi stated.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Europe’s_Energy_Crisis_Likely_To_Stay,_Warn
Analysts⠀⇛
A World Economic Forum study published this week
noted that household energy prices around the world
have nearly doubled since the start of the
conflict, pushing inflation to record highs in many
countries in Europe and beyond.
# ⚓ Danish_government_agrees_inflation_package_for_vulnerable
families⠀⇛
The government has agreed with three opposition
parties on a package providing financial help to
40,500 young families in Denmark.
# ⚓ ‘Weak_numbers’:_Scandinavian_airline_SAS_files_loss_in
latest_result⠀⇛
Economic headwinds are continuing for Scandinavian
airline SAS, which has posted a loss of 2.7 billion
Swedish kronor for the first quarter of this year.
# ⚓ Does_Denmark_really_have_the_highest_tax_in_the_world?⠀⇛
Denmark is known for having having high income tax
but is it really the highest tax in the world?
# ⚓ The Local SE ☛ High_Swedish_prices_put_Norwegians_off
cross-border_shopping trips⠀⇛
Norwegians are spending less money cross-border
shopping in neighbouring Sweden, the latest figures
from Norway’s national data agency show.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Lawyers_Unsure_Whether_Workers_Who
Agreed_Not_To_Can_Now_Disparage_Former_Bosses⠀⇛
What does this week’s NLRB decision mean for the
people who already signed such non-disparagement
clauses but deeply want to disparage their terrible
former bosses? The answer is unclear, almost
chaotically so.
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Poorest_hit_hardest_by_inflation_as_budget
groceries_soar_in_price⠀⇛
The Which? supermarket food and drink inflation
tracker shows the cheapest ranges are rising
fastest in price
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Biden_and_Yellen_Should_Be_Ashamed’:_US
Picks_Ex-Wall_Street_Executive_to_Lead_World_Bank⠀⇛
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday nominated a
private equity executive and former Mastercard CEO
to lead the World Bank, drawing furious backlash
from climate and anti-corruption campaigners who
said the pick would ensure the key global financial
institution remains a tool of corporate interests
and funder of climate chaos.
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ The_Washington_Post_Is_Coming_for_Your_Retirement
Benefits⠀⇛
When Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250
million in 2013, he didn’t transform it into a
paper that elevated the perspectives of the wealthy
elite—it had already been that for decades. What he
did do was put it on steroids: Over the next three
years, the Post doubled its web traffic and
surpassed the New York Times in its volume of
online postings. One result: The paper’s
traditional hostility to federal retirement
programs has become only more amplified.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Day_Off_with_Pay_and_Much_More⠀⇛
A Healthcare Worker’s Fight for Martin Luther King
Jr. Day
Sabrina Chaumette is an Oakland, CA resident and a
licensed clinical social worker and a member of the
National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) at
Kaiser Permanente’s Oakland Medical Center. The
past half dozen years has been the scene of a war
between the California HMO behemoth and its
clinical health care workers. There have been
strikes and threats of strikes, contract fights and
contract rejections; last summer’s open-ended
strike lasted ten weeks; NUHW won an array of major
concessions, above all on staffing and scheduling,
including MLK Jr. Day off with pay.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Lesson_We_Need_to_Teach_Our_Nation’s
Rich⠀⇛
Our educational house most definitely is burning,
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders told a town hall on
America’s teacher pay crisis at the U.S. Capitol
earlier this week.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘World’s_first_TikTok_war’: Ukraine’s_social
media_campaign_‘a_question_of_survival’⠀⇛
The invasion of Ukraine is not the first war to be
documented on social media, but it is uniquely
positioned to be the most viral. One year after the
Russian invasion began, keeping the conflict in
global consciousness is crucial for Ukraine to
ensure financial support. The war for our attention
is being fought with memes, viral tweets, and video
clips.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Top_EU_bodies_ban_TikTok_on_staff_phones_citing
security_concerns⠀⇛
The European Union’s two biggest policy-making
institutions have banned TikTok from staff phones
for cybersecurity reasons, marking growing concerns
about the Chinese short video-sharing app and its
users’ data.
[...]
TikTok, which is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance,
is under scrutiny from governments and regulators
because of concerns that China’s government could
use its app to harvest users’ data or advance its
interests.
EU industry chief Thierry Breton, who announced a
ban by the European Commission, declined to say
whether the Commission had been subject to any
incidents involving TikTok.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ [Satire]_Fox_News_Announces_Acquisition_of
Kevin_McCarthy⠀⇛
Rupert Murdoch said that he was “delighted” by the
purchase of McCarthy and noted that Fox had snapped
him up at an attractively low price.
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ Early_Polling_Tells_You_Little_About_Next_Year’s_GOP
Primary⠀⇛
The Hill (2/17/23) announced last week, “DeSantis
Approval Drops in GOP Primary: Poll.” The article,
by Max Greenwood, went on to say:
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ New_York’s_Democratic_Party_Needs_New
Leadership,_Not_More_Money⠀⇛
New York State is now, almost counterintuitively, a
crucial battleground for control of Congress. There
are 18 congressional districts where Joe Biden won
the popular vote that are currently represented by
Republicans. A third of those are in New York. This
even though the state’s 26 districts make up less
than 6 percent of seats in Congress. If the
Democrats want to win back Congress, the path lies
more through New York than any other state. The
fact that New York, despite its reputation as a
liberal stronghold, has a disproportionate number
of swing seats is due to the disarray and
infighting of the New York State Democratic Party.1
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Vivek_Ramaswamy_Enters_the_Fray⠀⇛
Watch out, 2024 GOP primary contenders: There’s a
new presidential hopeful in the mix, and he’s
pandering to all the trademark grievances of the
conservative movement with a bold entrepreneurial
elan. Meet Vivek Ramaswamy, cofounder of Strive
Asset Management, Fox News scourge of the pompous
elite virtuecrats, and author of not one, but two
jeremiads against elite social engineering: Nation
of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit,
and the Path Back to Excellence and Woke, Inc.:
Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam.1
# ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Wikipedia_is_not_woke,_insists_founder
Jimmy_Wales⠀⇛
In Wales’ first pass at this project, Nupedia, all
articles were peer-reviewed by a panel of experts
before publication. But he later hit on the idea of
collaborative articles written by amateur members
of the public, and Wikipedia was born.
That was 22 years ago now and the world has since
become used to the risks posed by online
misinformation on everything from global politics
to [COVID]
# ⚓ India Times ☛ TikTok_accuses_EU_of_keeping_it_in_the_dark
over_staff_phone_ban⠀⇛
The EU executive and the EU Council, which brings
together representatives of the member states to
set policy priorities, said on Thursday that staff
will also be required to remove TikTok from
personal mobile devices that have access to
corporate services.
# ⚓ Gannett ☛ Sam_Bankman-Fried,_former_FTX_CEO,_used_straw
donors_to_influence_2022_election,_court_filing_says⠀⇛
In all, Bankman-Fried and the two associates “made
over 300 political contributions, totaling tens of
millions of dollars, that were unlawful because
they were made in the name of a straw donor or paid
for with corporate funds.”
The grand jury indictment, which supersedes a
previous indictment from December, charges him with
conspiracy to make unlawful political contributions
and defrauding the Federal Election Commission.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Carrier_equipment_maker_Ericsson_lets_go
8,500_employees⠀⇛
Ericsson detailed the move in an internal memo.
“The way headcount reductions will be managed will
differ depending on local country practice,”
Ericsson Chief Executive Officer Borje Ekholm
(pictured) wrote in the memo, which was obtained by
Reuters. “In several countries the headcount
reductions have already been communicated this
week.”
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Ericsson_to_lay_off_8,500_employees,_says
memo⠀⇛
On Monday, the company, which employs more than
105,000 worldwide, announced plans to cut about
1,400 jobs in Sweden.
While Ericsson did not disclose which geography
would be most affected, analysts had predicted that
North America would likely be most affected and
growing markets such as India the least.
# ⚓ JNS ☛ CAIR’s_shoot_first,_ask_questions_never_defamation
defense⠀⇛
The teacher, Tamar Herman, has been kept out of the
classroom for 16 months based on that “hyperbole.”
She has filed lawsuits in state and federal court
saying she is being punished by “a malicious and
antisemitic campaign.”
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ European_Commission_bans_TikTok_on_all_staff
devices⠀⇛
The Commission implemented the measure over data
protection concerns regarding the TikTok app. These
concerns are shared globally and have been mounting
in recent times. In September 2021, the Irish Data
Protection Commission launched an investigation
into whether Tiktok was complying with the EU’s
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The
investigation pertained to TikTok’s transfer of
data to China and the processing of childrens’
personal data. In November 2022, TikTok disclosed
that some of its China-based personnel could access
European TikTok user data. Furthermore, a Forbes
magazine report from December 2022 revealed that
TikTok employees had been monitoring journalists’
physical location using their IP addresses.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ European_Commission_Bans_TikTok_On_All
Corporate_Devices_and_Networks_‘To_Increase_Its
Cybersecurity’⠀⇛
As with the initially mentioned state-level bans in
the U.S., the European Commission’s TikTok
prohibition doesn’t extend to employees’ own cell
phones (and different devices) that are attached to
non-corporate networks.
# ⚓ Red Ventures ☛ These_Colleges_Just_Banned_TikTok⠀⇛
The bans address some politicians’ concerns that
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is sending
information to the Chinese government.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Welcome_to_the_New_Age_of_McCarthyism⠀⇛
Can there be any question that we’re in a mad—and
loud—new age of McCarthyism? Thank you, Kevin! And
don’t forget the wildly over-the-top members of the
so-called Freedom Caucus and their Republican
associates, including that charmer, lyin’ George
Santos, Jewish-space-laser-and-white-balloon-
carrying Marjorie Taylor Greene, and—once again
running for president—the man who never lost,
Donald Trump-em-all.
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ Ellen_Schrecker_on_the_New_McCarthyism⠀⇛
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Murdoch_and_Nine_fear-mongers_turn_Jim
Chalmers_superannuation_review_into_a_super_“raid”⠀⇛
It was the scare campaign of the week. Treasurer
Jim Chalmers suggested a few superannuation tweaks
might be in order and the backlash in corporate
media was savage. What’s the scam?
The scam is the media has turned a “review” into a
“raid”. Super was intended to provide retirement
incomes for all but it has become a super tax
shelter which allows wealthy families to pass on
their publicly subsidised superannuation balances
to future generations.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Progressives_Urge_Senate_Dems_to_Ditch
Tradition_That’s_Allowing_GOP_to_Veto_Biden_Judges⠀⇛
With Democrats hoping to confirm dozens more
federal judges following President Joe Biden’s
milestone of appointing 100 new members of the
judiciary, progressives on Friday said the party
has no choice but to eliminate a tradition they say
has been exploited by Republicans to block the
president’s nominees.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Biden_Should_Reverse_Trump’s_Designation_of
Cuba_as_a_“State_Sponsor_of_Terrorism”⠀⇛
Last month, Havana was the seat of the first high-
level talks between Cuba and the United States
since 2018, fueling speculation that the Biden
administration may be contemplating removing Cuba
from the State Department’s list of State Sponsors
of Terrorism (SST), an easy first step that
wouldn’t require congressional approval.
# ⚓ Insight Hungary ☛ Viktor_Orban:_“Europe_is_drifting_into
the_war_in_these_very_minutes”⠀⇛
On Saturday, Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban
gave his annual speech on the state of the nation
in which he highlighted the importance of
maintaining economic relations with Russia. “We
will maintain economic relations with Russia, and
we suggest the same to our allies because, without
relations, there will not be a ceasefire nor peace
talks,” Orban said. The Hungarian PM expressed that
he does not consider Russia a threat to Hungary”s
society.
He spoke at great length on the war in Ukraine. “A
year ago the West decided not to isolate the
conflict, but to elevate it to a pan-European
level. It could have declared it a local, a
regional war, or a military conflict between two
Slavic states. This is their war, not ours, ”the
nationalist leader said. Orban who is currently
serving his fourth consecutive term, stated that
Europe is “already indirectly at war with Russia.”
One year ago, Russia unleashed a brutal aggression
against #Ukraine. Thinking it can invade its
peaceful neighbour. But it failed.The EU stands in
support of #Ukraine. Our commitment to the European
future of Ukraine remains unwavering. Our joint
message: pic.twitter.com/jM0dpjw6qe
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Hungarian_PM_Orban_calls_on_party_to_back_Finnish,
Swedish_Nato_bids⠀⇛
The Hungarian Parliament is due to debate the
membership bids by the two Nordic nations next
week.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ EU_Commissioner:_Hungarian_government’s
statements_not_enough,_conditions_must_be_fulfilled_for_money
to_flow⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ What’s_Behind_the_Calls_for_“Democracy”_in
Israel?⠀⇛
It is almost inconceivable for Palestinians to
describe Israel as a “democracy.” That is also the
case for many Israeli human rights activists.
Seventy-five years of ethnic cleansing, military
rule, Jewish-only settlements on Palestinian-owned
land, an established system of discrimination that
amounts to apartheid have all rendered, in their
eyes, the terms “Israel” and “democracy”
incompatible. The latest Israeli raid in Nablus, in
which 11 Palestinians were killed by Israeli
soldiers is just another flagrant example.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Bush-Era_US_Ambassador_Accuses_Israel_of
‘Creeping_Annexation’_of_West_Bank⠀⇛
A former U.S. ambassador to Israel on Friday
sharply criticized the far-right government of
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for
seeking to annex Palestinian land in the illegally
occupied West Bank.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Outrage_Soars_in_Occupied_West_Bank_After
Israel_Kills_11,_Injures_500_Palestinians_in_Nablus_Raid⠀⇛
Palestinians held a general strike in the West Bank
Thursday after Israeli forces killed 11
Palestinians and injured nearly 500 in a military
raid in the city of Nablus. So far this year,
Israel has killed at least 65 Palestinians,
including 13 children, drawing concern and
criticism from supranational actors including the
U.N. and Amnesty International. We speak to Amira
Hass, a correspondent for the Israeli newspaper
Haaretz in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,
and Issa Amro, a prominent Palestinian human rights
defender from Hebron in the West Bank. Amro was
recently beaten by an Israeli soldier while being
interviewed by the American author Lawrence Wright.
“There is a huge anger among the Palestinians from
what is happening these days from the Israeli
racist and fascist government, who are inciting to
kill more and more Palestinians,” says Amro of the
protests.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘America_Is_Not_a_Racist_Country’:_How
Nikki_Haley_Became_Israel’s_Candidate_for_the_White_House⠀⇛
Though it has been argued that the so-called
American dream is long dead, Nikki Haley is proof
that the dream is still alive. Unfortunately, the
“dream” is hers alone.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ North_Korea_fires_four_cruise_missiles_into_the
Sea_of_Japan⠀⇛
North Korea has test-fired four strategic cruise
missiles into the sea, state media said Friday,
adding that the drill demonstrated the conflict
readiness of Pyongyang’s “nuclear combat force.”
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Hollywood_producer_Harvey_Weinstein_sentenced_to
16_years_for_rape⠀⇛
Harvey Weinstein, the onetime Hollywood titan who
came to epitomize a culture of pervasive sexual
misconduct by powerful men that ignited the #MeToo
movement, was sentenced on Thursday to 16 years in
prison for the 2013 rape of an actress in Los
Angeles.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Jailed_youngsters_‘corrupted’_with
‘anti-gov’t_sentiment’_during_prison_visits,_Hong_Kong
security_chief_claims⠀⇛
Some young inmates have been instilled with hatred
of the Hong Kong government during prison visits,
the city’s security minister has alleged, as he
warned of “soft resistance tactics” used to
endanger national security.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ GOP_Lawmaker_Uses_Racist_Trope,_Calls_Chinese
American_Colleague_Disloyal⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ House_Dems_Rip_Lance_Gooden_for_‘Blatantly
Racist’_Attack_on_Rep._Judy_Chu⠀⇛
Democratic U.S. lawmakers and Asian-American and
Pacific Islander advocates joined Rep. Judy Chu in
condemning Congressman Lance Gooden on Friday after
the MAGA Republican—who took part in an effort to
overturn the last presidential election—cast
aspersions upon the California Democrat’s loyalty
to the United States.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Why_Can’t_Politwoops_Track_Politicians’
Deleted_Tweets_Anymore?⠀⇛
Politicians haven’t stopped deleting some of their
most cringeworthy tweets, but Politwoops, our
project that has tracked and archived more than
half a million deleted tweets from candidates and
elected officials since 2012, is no longer able to
track them.
Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the platform has
disabled the function we used to track deletions —
and the new method that Twitter says should
identify them appears to be broken. We have been
unable to find anyone who can help us, and with
Twitter surprising developers by announcing a move
to a paid model for gathering tweet data, it’s no
longer clear that Twitter is a stable platform on
which to maintain this work. It seems fitting to
give Politwoops a sendoff, a farewell to not
exactly a friend but an odd part of our national
political discourse for a decade.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Meta_announces_removal_of_three_state-linked
fake_account_networks⠀⇛
Facebook parent company Meta Thursday
announced that it took down three state-
linked “domestic influence operations” in the
past quarter. Each operation used fake
account networks to influence domestic
politics and target opposition parties.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Ukrainian_cartoonist_Vladimir_Kazanevsky:
‘Putin_is_the_world’s_greatest_propagandist’⠀⇛
All year long, cartoonists around the world
have been putting their pens to paper,
interpreting and documenting the events in
Ukraine. To mark the one-year anniversary of
Russia’s full-scale invasion, international
network Cartooning for Peace has released a
special edition book featuring 120 drawings
from cartoonists around the world. Among them
are six illustrations from award-winning
Ukrainian cartoonist Vladimir Kazanevsky. He
joined us for Perspective to talk about how
Russia’s invasion has drastically changed his
work, and what it means to him to see
cartoonists from around the world expressing
their support for Ukraine.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Video_shows_Russian_politician’s_‘bold’_act_of
defiance_against_Putin⠀⇛
# ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ This_is_your_brain_on_fraud
apologetics⠀⇛
As it turned out, the scammers double-billed
us for our order. I called Amex, who advised
us to call back in a couple days when the
charge posted to cancel it – in other words,
they were treating it as a regular customer
dispute, and not a systemic, widespread fraud
(there’s no way this scammer is just doing
this for one restaurant).
In the grand scheme of things, this is a
minor hassle, but boy, it’s haunting to watch
the quarter-century old prophecy of Brin and
Page coming true. Search Google for
carpenters, plumbers, gas-stations,
locksmiths, concert tickets, entry visas,
jobs at the US Post Office or (not making
this up) tech support for Google products,
and the top result will be a paid ad for a
scam. Sometimes it’s several of the top ads.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Ernie,_what_is_censorship?_China’s
chatbots_face_additional_challenges.⠀⇛
Baidu, which makes the country’s most popular
search engine, is the closest to winning the race.
But despite years of investment and weeks of hype,
the company has not yet released Ernie Bot.
AI experts suggest that the Chinese government’s
tight control over the country’s [Internet] is
partly to blame.
# ⚓ Frontpage Magazine ☛ Sweden_Bans_Burning_the_Qur’an,_but
Burning_the_Scriptures_of_Other_Religions_is_OK⠀⇛
The Swedish-language news outlet SVT reported
Thursday that in the last few days, “two
applications for Qur’an burnings have been denied.”
Police spokesperson Ola Österling was unequivocal:
“As a rule in Stockholm, we will not allow burning
the Qur’an during public gatherings.” Some say that
the police ban on Qur’an burnings violates the
protection of the freedom of expression in the
Swedish constitution, and Österling says that the
police welcome this challenge: “We want to have it
tested that our reasoning is legal. We are aware
that it is a restriction on freedom of expression.
And in order to be able to make decisions about
restrictions on freedom of expression, which is a
constitutionally protected freedom and right, it is
required that it is stated in law.” So the police
rule could be struck down, but in light of Sweden’s
desire to enter NATO, this is unlikely.
# ⚓ uni Case Western Reserve ☛ Editorial:_Free_speech_is_under
attack_on_campuses_and_it’s_not_by_the_“woke_left”⠀⇛
The functioning of newspapers like The Observer is
only possible with the protection of speech; it
would be impossible for media outlets to be
critical of our institutions, discuss pressing
social issues and hold people in power accountable
otherwise. Additionally, freedom of speech is
essential in educational institutions, including at
Case Western Reserve University, where the
exploration of new ideas and fields requires a
willingness to approach difficult subjects with an
open mind. Academic freedom is the bedrock of our
universities, enabling our professors to
investigate and teach about the most controversial
topics. Yet, while freedom of speech is supposedly
protected by the First Amendment, it is under more
attack today than it has been in decades,
especially at academic institutions—and not for the
reasons you might think.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ More_States_Get_Dumb,_Introduce_Laws_Requiring
ID_Verification_To_Access_Porn⠀⇛
There’s no reason anyone should look to Louisiana
for legislative leadership. The state still has an
oft-abused criminal defamation law on the books in
2023 — the sort of law that would have looked out
of place a century ago.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Chinese_Government_To_Censor_AI_Chatbots_Out_Of
Fear_Of_Their_Speech⠀⇛
At this point it should be common knowledge that if
it has to do with any kind of speech, there is
nothing that China won’t try to control and/or
censor. It’s something of an amazing self-
contradiction: in order to be large and powerful,
the Beijing government believes it has to behave as
though it is weak and cowardly. Wherever there
might be real or potential speech or action against
the government, there is the Chinese Communist
Party trying to proactively make sure such speech
can never reach a wider audience. Beijing, it would
seem, has long desired for its people to be simple,
programmable robots.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Social_Media_Users_Could_Be_Sued_for_Defamation
Under_Florida’s_Anti-Press_Bill⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ Why_Google_is_blocking_some_Canadians_from_seeing
online_news⠀⇛
The company said Wednesday that it is temporarily
limiting access to news content for under four per
cent of its Canadian users as it assesses possible
responses to the bill. The change applies to its
ubiquitous search engine as well as the Discover
feature on Android devices, which carries news and
sports stories.
# ⚓ Firstpost ☛ Amid_massive_spike,_Pakistan_bans_TV_coverage
of_terror_attacks⠀⇛
The latest order by Pakistan’s electronic media
regulatory body comes in continuation to the
earlier ones asking TV channels to adhere to the
provisions of the PEMRA Electronic Media Code of
Conduct 2015, Geo News reported.
“It has been observed with grave concern that
despite repeated directives satellite TV channels
are unable to comply with provisions of Electronic
Media Code of Conduct-2015 in letter and spirit,”
read a notification by the authority on Monday.
# ⚓ Vox ☛ Section_230,_the_internet_law_that’s_under_threat,
explained⠀⇛
You may have never heard of it, but Section 230 of
the Communications Decency Act is the legal
backbone of the internet. The law was created
almost 30 years ago to protect internet platforms
from liability for many of the things third parties
say or do on them.
Decades later, it’s never been more controversial.
People from both political parties and all three
branches of government have threatened to reform or
even repeal it. The debate centers around whether
we should reconsider a law from the internet’s
infancy that was meant to help struggling websites
and internet-based companies grow. After all, these
internet-based businesses are now some of the
biggest and most powerful in the world, and users’
ability to speak freely on them bears much bigger
consequences.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Supreme_Court_Actually_Understands_the
Internet⠀⇛
The Court briefly discussed whether algorithms may
lose Section 230 immunity if they’re intentionally
discriminatory—the example they entertained was a
dating-app algorithm written to prohibit
interracial matches. They seemed to be thinking
through the role of intentionality: Would it matter
if YouTube had written an algorithm that favored
ISIS or other extremists over more benign material,
or would any algorithm still be protected by 230?
But these questions weren’t resolved; justices
hinted that they would like to see Congress be the
ones to finesse Section 230 if it needs finessing,
and were sometimes self-deprecating about their own
ability to understand the issues. “We really don’t
know much about these things,” Justice Elena Kagan
joked on Tuesday. “You know, these are not, like,
the nine greatest experts on the [Internet].”
# ⚓ RTL ☛ The_absurdity_of_editing_Roald_Dahl’s_books⠀⇛
Every time I think the world’s insanity has reached
its lowest point, I turn around and something even
more wacky stares me in the face.
This week: the whole business of editing Roald
Dahl’s work, what I personally consider to be the
best children’s books in the world. It’s a shame.
# ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ The_decline_of_Western_Christianity
makes_us_vulnerable_to_dictators_and_dogmatists⠀⇛
While Putin abuses Christian rhetoric in Ukraine,
we have replaced our traditional foundation with a
new, censorious religion
# ⚓ France24 ☛ UK_fury_as_Roald_Dahl_books_rewritten,_but
French_publishers_say_‘non’_to_edits⠀⇛
French publisher Gallimard said it had no intention
of making changes to translated versions of
children’s books by the late British novelist Roald
Dahl, unlike the author’s UK publisher.
# ⚓ Investigative_report_on_reputation_management_highlights
continued_abuse_of_copyright_and_other_laws_to_manipulate
online_media⠀⇛
Earlier this week, on February 17 2023, an
investigative news report about Eliminalia, a
Spanish reputation management firm made headlines.
The leaked documents in the report revealed that
Eliminalia “worked for scammers, spyware companies,
torturers, convicted criminals and others in the
global underworld to hide public-interest
information” under the guise of being a service
that claimed “to remove unwanted and erroneous
information” for clients.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ China_rolls_out_searchable_public_databases_of
officially_approved_religious_leaders⠀⇛
The move will tighten the ruling Chinese Communist
Party’s control over who gets to practice religion,
and how.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Woman_Expresses_‘Regret’_In_Video
Supporters_Say_Was_Made_Under_Duress⠀⇛
The female engineer whose video protesting the
mandatory hijab at the Tehran Engineers Forum went
viral on social media last week has expressed her
“regret” in a video many of her supporters allege
was made under duress.
# ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ AI_image_generator_Midjourney
blocks_porn_by_banning_words_about_the_human_reproductive
system⠀⇛
The popular AI image generator Midjourney bans a
wide range of words about the human reproductive
system from being used as prompts,
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Sedition_trial_against_Hong_Kong
outlet_Stand_News_to_continue_until_end_of_March⠀⇛
The sedition trial against defunct Hong Kong news
outlet Stand News, which began last October and was
supposed to last 20 days, will continue until the
end of March, the court has heard. Stand News’
former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen, former
acting chief editor Patrick Lam and the outlet’s
parent company have been charged with conspiring…
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Corrections_chief_rejects
‘brainwashing’_claims_as_average_daily_remands_in_Hong_Kong
prisons_reaches_decade-high⠀⇛
Hong Kong prisons saw a decade-high average daily
number of people on remand last year, as the head
of the city’s corrections department rejected
claims that a rehabilitation programme designed to
deradicalise convicted protesters involved elements
of “brainwashing.” A
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Ukraine_one_year_on:_Reuters
photojournalists_capture_moments_of_‘tragedy’_and_‘beauty’⠀⇛
Rickey Rogers, global editor of Reuters Pictures,
shares stories from photojournalists’ year in
Ukraine.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Vice_Media_Group_CEO_Nancy_Dubuc_steps_down
after_five_years⠀⇛
Nancy Dubuc took over from Vice co-founder Shane
Smith in 2018.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Steve_Allen_leaves_LBC_after_44_years⠀⇛
Steve Allen was LBC’s longest-serving presenter.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Top_50_news_sites_in_the_US_in_January:_CBS
News_fastest-growing_site,_Sun_enters_top_20⠀⇛
Press Gazette’s monthly ranking of the top 50 news
websites in the US, using Similarweb data.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Dermot_Murnaghan_to_leave_Sky_News_after_16
years⠀⇛
Dermot Murnaghan has presented for Sky News, BBC
News, ITV News and Channel 4 News.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Ministers_propose
National Security Bill changes_to_ease_press_freedom_fears⠀⇛
Some critics of the National Security Bill still
want a public interest defence for journalists.
# ⚓ BBC ☛ Turkish_journalists_detained_over_earthquake
reports⠀⇛
Freelance journalist Mir Ali Koçer was 200 miles
from the epicentre when Turkey was struck by a
deadly earthquake on 6 February. Grabbing his
camera and microphone, he drove down to the
affected region to interview survivors.
He shared stories of survivors and rescuers on
Twitter and is now under investigation on suspicion
of spreading “fake news” and could face up to three
years in jail.
He is one of at least four journalists being
investigated for reporting or commenting on the
earthquake.
# ⚓ Jerusalem Post ☛ Kidnapped_German-Iranian_journalist
Jamshid_Sharmahd_to_be_executed⠀⇛
Iranian-German journalist Jamshid Sharmahd, 67, has
been convicted of “corruption of earth” and
sentenced to death by an Iranian court, BBC Persian
reported on Tuesday. Iran maintains that the
conviction is related to terrorist activity on
behalf of Sharmahd, according to the Iranian Mizan
news agency.
Mizan is an Iranian news agency that has a large
focus on legal and judiciary matters in the
country. As with other issues, on the issue of
Sharmahd, Mizan adopts the position of the Iranian
regime and reports that the Iranian-German
journalist is connected with terrorist activity
that has resulted in the deaths of innocent
Iranians.
# ⚓ NPR ☛ One_year_later,_a_photographer_reflects_on_his_time
in_Mariupol_as_Russia_invaded⠀⇛
I’d flown to Ukraine as a freelance journalist. I
rented an apartment in one of the city’s Soviet-
style high-rises and wandered the town every day,
talking with those employed in the tech sector at
the co-working space, going out for drinks and
dinner at local restaurants and pubs, ice-skating
and even getting a haircut at a barber shop that
had been around for decades.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ HRW ☛ Tunisia:_Wave_of_Arrests_Targets_Critics_and
Opposition_Figures⠀⇛
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Community_Control_Over_Policing_and_the
Crises_in_Peru_–_The_Project_Censored_Show⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_United_State_of_America_Is_Guantánamo’s
Greatest_Captive⠀⇛
It was 21 years ago this month that I was flown in
the belly of a U.S. cargo plane, hooded,
blindfolded, gagged, and chained in an orange
jumpsuit, for over 40 hours. I didn’t know where I
was being taken, or why.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Cops_Talk_Council_Member_Into_Changing_Her_Mind
On_ShotSpotter_With_Data_That_Doesn’t_Actually_Show_It’s
Worth_Paying_For⠀⇛
ShotSpotter claims its gunshot detection tech is
something cities battling gun violence just can’t
(almost literally) live without. Data generated by
cities paying millions for the tech often says
otherwise.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ There_Isn’t_a_State_in_Which_a_Majority_Think
Abortion_Should_Be_Totally_Illegal⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ TN_Lobbyists_Oppose_New_Lifesaving_Exceptions
in_Abortion_Ban⠀⇛
In Tennessee, Republican lawmakers are considering
whether patients should be forced to continue
dangerous pregnancies, even while miscarrying,
under the state’s abortion ban — and how close to
risking death such patients need to be before a
doctor can legally intervene.
At a legislative hearing last week, a lobbyist who
played a dominant role in crafting the state’s
abortion legislation made his preference clear: A
pregnant patient should be in the process of an
urgent emergency, such as bleeding out, before they
can receive abortion care.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ South_Carolina_Bill_Would_Subject_Those
Obtaining_Abortions_to_Death_Penalty⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Power_to_the_People⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ Indonesia:_Free_Anti-Mining_Activist_in_Sulawesi⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ Shamima_Begum_Ruling_a_Dark_Stain_on_the_UK_Justice
System [Ed: HRW, which took bribes from Saudi terrorists,
says UK revoking citizenship of ISIS person is "a Dark Stain
on the UK Justice System"]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Lee_Camp:_Here’s_How_To_Get_Rid_of_Police
and_Not_Have_Everything_Fall_Apart._I’m_Not_Kidding⠀⇛
In this episode of The Most Censored News, Lee Camp
takes on the police state with facts, figures and,
most importantly, proven solutions actually solve
the problem.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Malaysia_deports_114_Muslim_Myanmar_nationals,
including_children,_their_lawyer_says⠀⇛
Those sent back will be persecuted because Burmese
military ostracizes Muslims, says lawyer Lim Wei
Jet.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Parents_of_Lao_trafficking_victims_in_Myanmar_plan
trip_to_Vientiane_to_urge_rescue⠀⇛
They have been complaining for months, but their
children remain trapped.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Immigration_Advocates_Urge_DHS_to_Drop
ICE’s_LexisNexis_Contract⠀⇛
ICE has queried LexisNexis’ data more than a
million times, and leadership encouraged officials
to use the tool for finding non-citizens.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ EFF_Files_Amicus_Brief_to_Protect_the_Speech_Rights
of_Immigrants_and_Immigrant_Rights_Advocates⠀⇛
This principle, in First Amendment jurisprudence,
applies when a regulation of speech sweeps too
broadly and prohibits a substantial amount of
protected as well as non-protected speech.
According to the Ninth Circuit, the Encouragement
Provision is unconstitutionally overbroad because
it prohibits, for example, “encouraging an
undocumented immigrant to take shelter during a
natural disaster, advising an undocumented
immigrant about available social services” or
“providing certain legal advice to undocumented
immigrants.”We argue that the Ninth Circuit was
correct, emphasizing the online speech rights of
hundreds of immigration advocacy and services
organizations which the Encouragement Provision
threatens. For example, Informed Immigrant, which
also filed a brief supporting Hansen, “maintains a
Know Your Rights section in its online resource
library with a wide range of information for
undocumented immigrants and their families,
including information about their rights inside and
outside their homes, what to do if someone you know
is arrested, how to prepare your family in the
event of an immigration raid, and guidance for
finding a lawyer.” If the Encouragement Provision
is upheld, this type of speech, and any similar
speech that emboldens undocumented immigrants
online, will be silenced.We further emphasize in
the brief that protected online speech directed to
undocumented immigrants is especially vulnerable to
the Encouragement Provision’s vagaries because
online speakers rely on numerous intermediaries
that don’t want to risk violating the statute. All
online speakers rely on intermediaries like domain
name registers, web hosts, and social media
platforms. To avoid the risk of the Encouragement
Provision’s criminal penalty and the burden of
having to defend even meritless charges,
intermediaries will likely censor users’ speech if
it so much as approaches illegality.
In our brief, we argue that when platforms face the
threat of criminal penalties, “this inevitably
results in the heckler’s veto, whereby any user can
effectively censor another user by notifying the
intermediary that the other user’s speech is
unlawful, regardless of the merits of that notice.”
This means that, if the Encouragement Provision is
upheld, the speech of countless immigrants and
immigrant rights advocates on the internet will be
chilled.United States v. Hansen is set for oral
arguments on March 23, 2023. Several years ago, in
United States v. Sineneng-Smith, the U.S. Supreme
Court declined to rule on this very same First
Amendment issue, finding that the defendant in that
case had not properly raised it. We hope that this
time, the U.S. Supreme Court takes the opportunity
to recognize the free speech rights of many
individuals on an issue so highly contested in
political debate.For the brief: https://
www.eff.org/document/us-v-hansen-eff-brief
# ⚓ Euractive ☛ German_Constitutional_Court_strikes_down
predictive_algorithms_for_policing⠀⇛
The German Federal Constitutional Court declared
the use of Palantir surveillance software by police
in Hesse and Hamburg unconstitutional in a landmark
ruling on Thursday (16 February).
The ruling concludes a case brought by the German
Society for Civil Rights (GFF) last year, hearings
for which began in December. The plaintiffs argued
that the software could be used for predictive
policing, raising the risk of mistakes and
discrimination by law enforcement.
The German state of Hesse has been using the
software since 2017, though it is not yet in place
in Hamburg. The technology is provided by Palantir,
a US data analytics firm which received early
backing from intelligence agencies, including the
CIA, FBI and NSA.
# ⚓ ACM ☛ German_Constitutional_Court_Strikes_Down_Predictive
Algorithms_for_Policing⠀⇛
The German Federal Constitutional Court declared
the use of Palantir surveillance software by police
in Hesse and Hamburg unconstitutional in a landmark
ruling.
The ruling concludes a case brought by the German
Society for Civil Rights (GFF) last year, hearings
for which began in December. The plaintiffs argued
that the software could be used for predictive
policing, raising the risk of mistakes and
discrimination by law enforcement.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Family_of_man_shot_by_deputy_after
getting_in_wrong_SUV_sues⠀⇛
One of the attorneys for the family of Richard Ward
said in the lawsuit filed this week in U.S.
District Court that Ward, 32, was picking up his
younger brother from middle school with his mother
and her boyfriend when he stepped out of the car to
take a “brief walk.”
Attorneys said that after his walk, he mistook a
similar-looking SUV for his mother’s vehicle,
opened the door and got inside. Ward apologized to
the driver and then returned to his mother’s
vehicle, according to the lawsuit.
# ⚓ NPR ☛ The_Taliban_ended_college_for_women._Here’s_how
Afghan_women_are_defying_the_ban⠀⇛
Since seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban
have curtailed women’s rights. Women cannot travel
without a male guardian and have few work options.
Most girls have been forbidden to attend high
school since the takeover. Fewer than 12 percent of
Afghan women feel treated with respect and dignity,
according to a recent Gallup survey. Those women
who express dissent against Taliban authorities are
met with violent suppression of their protests, as
well as imprisonment, intimidation and even
torture, forcing many to flee the country.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ ‘You_are_on_Anishinaabe_land’:_UMMA_exhibit
commemorates_Native_American_fight_for_restitution⠀⇛
The Burt Lake Band is not currently recognized as a
tribe by the federal government. On Oct. 15, 1900,
the Cheboygan County sheriff and local residents
forcibly removed the Band from their legally
purchased land in the area before burning the land.
Currently, the Band is in litigation to regain
their status as a federally-recognized tribe.
# ⚓ Barrons ☛ Spain_Police_Arrest_Father_Of_2_Women_Killed_In
Pakistan⠀⇛
Police on Wednesday arrested the father of two
Pakistani sisters living in Spain who were lured
back to their homeland last year and killed by
family members in a suspected honour killing.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ John_Kiriakou:_Covid_&_the_Way_of_Death_in_US
Prisons⠀⇛
The Times found that it was not just the fact that
Covid swept through already overcrowded prisons. It
was also that prisoners are routinely subjected to
substandard medical care. That’s the norm. That,
coupled with crowded facilities and an aging inmate
population combined to make the worst public health
crisis in American prisons since the 1918-1919
Spanish flu pandemic.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Refugees_‘Will_Pay_the_Real_Price,’_Says
Charity_After_Italy_Detains_Rescue_Ship⠀⇛
The international charity Medicins Sans Frontiers
said late Thursday it is “assessing what legal
actions” the group can take to contest a new anti-
refugee law passed in Italy, under which the group
was informed its rescue ship is being detained and
prevented from rescuing migrants for 20 days.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Biden’s_Border_Crackdown_Explained_–_A_Refugee
Law_Expert_Looks_at_the_Legality_and_Impact_of_New
Asylum Rule⠀⇛
This rule will deny thousands of migrants fleeing
persecution their right to seek asylum at the
United States’ southern border.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Forest_Defenders_Vow_Resistance_After_Court
Green-Lights_Phase_I_of_“Cop_City”⠀⇛
A judge denied a restraining order against initial
construction of the $90 million militarized police
training complex.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Amy_Coney_Barrett_Searches_Bible_for_God’s
Opinion_of_the_Internet⠀⇛
“It doesn’t matter what we think about the
Internet,” the Supreme Court Justice said. “What
does God think about it?”
# ⚓ Internet Society ☛ NDSS_Symposium_2023:_30_Years_of_Cutting
Edge_Network_Security_Research⠀⇛
The 30th edition of the Network and Distributed
Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium kicks off 27
February in San Diego, USA.
# ⚓ Internet Society ☛ In_One_Corner,_Large_Telecom_Operators.
In_the_Other,_Everybody_Else.⠀⇛
We encourage everyone interested in defending an
open Internet to contribute to the European
Commission’s public consultation on the potential
developments of the connectivity sector and its
infrastructure.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Rather_Than_Making_The_Internet_Safe_For_Kids,
Make_Your_Kids_Safe_For_The_Real_World⠀⇛
We’ve been talking a lot lately about the massive
moral panic going on right now, claiming that the
internet is somehow inherently dangerous for kids.
As we’ve noted, the evidence simply does not
support this. Over and over and over again we see
the actual data and actual research shows no
evidence of any inherent harm to children from the
internet and social media. Indeed, much of the
evidence suggests that most kids get real value out
of the internet from the ability to communicate
with friends and family to access information and
people they wouldn’t otherwise have access to.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Sometimes_Open_Systems_Beat_Those_Who_Try_To
Lock_Them_Up:_Spotify’s_Podcast_Colonization_Flops⠀⇛
We wrote a few times about the problems of
Spotify’s attempt to colonize the podcast market.
While it was, perhaps, an understandable move
driven by the economics of our totally broken
copyright systems which made it impossible to be
truly profitable with just music, Spotify’s
decision to go after the podcast market, shelling
out massive dollars for podcast-focused companies
like Gimlet Media and the Ringer, was all about
taking a system based on open protocols — mainly
mp3s and RSS — and trying to lock it up behind a
proprietary moat.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Mojang_Targets_Repositories_of_Browser-
Based_Minecraft_Copy_‘Eaglercraft’ [Ed: Microsoft uses GitHub
to censor for its own business interests, attacking Free
software.]⠀⇛
Mojang is cracking down on the browser-based
Minecraft copy Eaglercraft. The company removed 92
repositories from GitHub, claiming that they
infringed the company’s copyrights and trademarks.
A repository of DIY decompiling tools and
instructions remains online, however.
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ Hoyng_ROKH_Monegier_launches_patent_attorney
practice_in_Düsseldorf [Ed: Juve is posting marketing
spam disguised as news. In this cases, it is for Team
UPC, which sponsors this publisher.]⠀⇛
From April, life sciences patent attorney
Tung-Gia Du (49) is set to join Hoyng ROKH
Monegier from Bird & Bird. He joined the firm
in August 2012, and became counsel in 2018.
Du began his career two years earlier at
Maiwald in Munich, where he also completed
his training as a patent attorney.
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Flotsam_and_Jetsam,_Issue_No._16:
COHIBA_Appeal_(Again);_TM_Guide_for_2(c)_Refusals;
LeBron_Deposition⠀⇛
Here’s a new edition of “Flotsam and Jetsam,”
wherein I provide, on an irregular basis,
timely tidbits to the TTABar. The last
edition was a mere nine years ago.
COHIBA Appeal: General Cigar has filed a
complaint [.pdf here] in the U.S. District
Court for the Eastern District of Virginia,
seeking Section 1071 review of the TTAB’s
recent decision [TTABloggedhere] ordering
cancellation of two registrations for the
mark COHIBA for cigars, based on violation of
Article 8 of the Pan American Convention. We
can surely expect a few more chapters to be
written in this 25-year-old brouhaha.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Google_News_blocks_1m_users_in
warning_shot_for_Canada_legislators⠀⇛
The Canadian government has accused Google of
“borrowing from Facebook’s playbook”.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ David_Bowie_Archive_Acquired_by
V&A_Museum_in_London⠀⇛
The V&A Museum in London has acquired a
massive 8,000-piece archive of material from
the David Bowie Estate containing handwritten
notebooks, letters, costumes, instruments,
awards, photos, set designs, and more.
The V&A Museum in London has confirmed its
acquisition of a treasure trove of archive
material from the estate of David Bowie. The
archive contains items such as instruments,
costumes, handwritten notebooks, letters, and
much more, many of which were featured during
the “David Bowie Is” traveling museum exhibit
viewed by more than 2 million people from
2013 to 2018.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ CC’s_open_culture_platform_2022
five_working_groups_share_their_highlights⠀⇛
Led by Bettina Fabos and Mariana Ziku, the
Digital Community Heritage Working Group
focused on international community-related
heritage initiatives in the context of open
access and inclusive digital transformation.
The collaborative research carried out in the
course of a year aimed to map and analyze the
openness spectrum and typology of digital
community heritage initiatives, which
included collecting international cases,
performing data analysis and visualization,
providing insights into patterns and trends,
and identifying good practices and common
challenges in the field. The output of this
research includes the publication of a data-
driven multilingual study discussing digital
community heritage and open-access, and a
published machine readable dataset of 27
international digital community heritage
initiatives with information structured into
several categories. Read a summary of the
study on CC’s Medium in English, French,
Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, and Swahili. You can
find out more about the WG on their PubPub
website. Access the dataset and data
visualizations folder.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Japan’s_Systematic_Assault_on_Manga_&
Anime_Piracy_Broadens_&_Intensifies⠀⇛
When authorities in Japan shut down the
world’s most popular manga piracy site, that
should’ve been a deterrent. Instead,
Mangamura’s demise led to an explosion of
sites and even more piracy. Publishers face
significant challenges but with the
entertainment industries and government now
on board, Japan’s systematic fight against
piracy applies to all content, everywhere.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Buggy_Prose⠀⇛
So I was looking at the BitTorrent protocol
specification (AKA BEP-0003) tonight, and I found
this bit of muddy writing that confused me no end.
“Interest state must be kept up to date at all
times – whenever a downloader doesn’t have
something they currently would ask a peer for in
unchoked, they must express lack of interest,
despite being choked. Implementing this properly is
tricky, but makes it possible for downloaders to
know which peers will start downloading immediately
if unchoked.”
There are two bugs in that paragraph. The second
bug — the simplest — is in the last sentence: the
first “downloaders” should probably be “uploaders”,
because why would downloaders care about who is
gonna download?
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_AIJMURN_Wordo:_REACT⠀⇛
o § Technical⠀➾
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ A_branchless_segment_of_code_to_generate_a_printable
hexadecimal_value⠀⇛
I was an avid fan of assembly language back
in my youth and I did a lot of it.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
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o Kernel_Space
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o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
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* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o BSD
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o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
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* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
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# Open_Access/Content
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* Leftovers
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o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
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# Patents
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o Personal
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* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Container Journal ☛ How_Many_Kubernetes_Clusters_Exist
Today?⠀⇛
As we considered our 2023 development plans, we
wanted to formalize our gut instincts on the state
of Kubernetes deployments into numbers backed by
research.
# ⚓ Container Journal ☛ Cybersecurity_in_Cloud-Native
Environments⠀⇛
The rapid adoption of the cloud has broadened the
horizons for businesses embarking on a digital
transformation journey, and organizations are
swiftly taking the leap to cloud-native
applications that are built using microservices and
run on platforms like Kubernetes. These
applications are designed to run on cloud-based
infrastructure, making them
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ mintCast Podcast ☛ mintCast_406_–_It’s_Elementary,_Dear
Listener⠀⇛
First up in the news: Looks like the end for
Mycroft, Proton offers Drive for everybody,
MidnightBSD takes on helloSystem, Fedora 38 now
with full Flathub access, new Transmission, Android
14 Preview, Framework has new SSDs, new versions of
KaOS and Parrot, Ardour and Clonezilla have new
releases, and systemd is the future;
In security and privacy, several PyPI packages
steal crypto;
Then in our Wanderings, Joe’s back hurts, Moss is
underworked, and Bill is not.
In our Innards section, we have invited Danielle
Foré to come and talk about her Elementary OS
project, and other changes;
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ Bootlin ☛ Linux_6.2_released,_Bootlin_contributions
inside⠀⇛
Linux 6.2 was released a few days ago, and as usual
we point our readers to the LWN coverage of the
merge window (part 1 and part 2), or the
traditional KernelNewbies page or alternatively the
embedded focused CNX Software coverage.
# ⚓ Bootlin ☛ Boot_time:_choose_your_kernel_loading_address
carefully⠀⇛
When the compressed and uncompressed kernel images
overlap At least on ARM32, there seems to be many
working addresses where the compressed kernel can
be loaded in RAM.
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ Mike_Blumenkrantz:_Buffered⠀⇛
§ Convenience
A lot has been made of VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer,
also known as “sane descriptor handling”. It’s an
extension that revolutionizes how descriptors can
be managed not only in brevity of code but in
performance.
That’s why ZINK_DESCRIPTORS=db is now_the_default
wherever it’s supported.
§ Gains
But what does this gain zink (and other users),
other than being completely undebuggable if
anything were to break*?
* It won’t, trust me.
One nicety of descriptor buffers is performance. By
swapping out descriptor templates for buffers, it
removes a layer of indirection from the descriptor
update path, which reduces CPU overhead by a small
amount. By avoiding the need to bind different
descriptor sets, GPU synchronization can also be
reduced.
In zink terms, you’ll likely notice a small FPS
increase in cases that were extremely CPU-bound
(e.g., Tomb Raider).
# ⚓ Collabora ☛ PanCSF:_A_new_DRM_driver_for_Mali_CSF-based
GPUs⠀⇛
A look into the new job-scheduling model with Mali
GPUs, their support in the new PanCSF DRM driver,
and what it means as the rest of the ecosystem also
moves to firmware-assisted scheduling.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ FOSS Post ☛ Best_Method_to_Limit_Social_Media_Time_on_Your
Browser⠀⇛
Social media addiction is a huge problem in many
parts of the world.
# ⚓ GStreamer:_GStreamer_1.20.6_old-stable_bug_fix_release⠀⇛
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another
bug fix release in the
now old-stable 1.20 release series of your
favourite cross-platform
multimedia framework!
This release only contains bug fixes. It should be
safe to update from 1.20.x.
Highlighted bugfixes:
# audio: channel-mix: allow up to 64 channels
instead of up to 63 channels
# AOM AV1 encoder timestamp handling
improvements
# AV1 video codec caps handling improvements in
aom plugin, isomp4 and matroska muxers/
demuxers
# avvidenc: fix bitrate control and timestamps
off FFmpeg-based video encoders
# h264parse: fix missing timestamps on outputs
when splitting a frame
# rtspsrc: more workarounds for servers with
broken control uri handling
# playbin3: fix issue with UDP streams, making
sure there’s enough buffering
# qmlglsrc: Fix deadlock when stopping and some
other fixes
# qtmux: fix default timescale unit for N/1001
framerates
# v4l2h264dec: Fix Raspberry Pi4 will not play
video in application
# vtdec: Fix non-deterministic frame output
after seeks
# wasapi2src: Fix loopback capture on Windows
10 Anniversary Update
# macOS, iOS: Fix Xcode 14 ABI breakage with
older Xcode
# cerbero: Fix some regressions for CentOS in
the 1.20 branch
# cerbero: Fix setuptools site.py breakage in
Python 3.11
# Fix gst-libav build against FFmpeg from git
# gobject-introspection annotation fixes for
bindings
# Miscellaneous bug fixes, memory leak fixes,
and other stability and reliability
improvements
# Performance improvements
# ⚓ Announcing_Istio_1.17.1⠀⇛
This release contains bug fixes to improve
robustness. This release note describes what’s
different between Istio 1.17.0 and Istio 1.17.1.
This release includes security fixes included in Go
1.20.1 (released 2023-02-14) for the crypto/tls,
mime/multipart, net/http, and path/filepath
packages.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_GIMP_on_Fedora_37⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
GIMP on Fedora 37. For those of you who didn’t
know, GIMP is a powerful, flexible, and
customizable image editing software that is
available for Linux, Windows, and macOS.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_Google_Chrome_on_Ubuntu_22.10_/_Ubuntu
22.04⠀⇛
Installing Google Chrome on Ubuntu 22.10 / Ubuntu
22.04 Linux is a straightforward process.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ [Trick]_How_to_schedule_a_reboot_on_Linux?⠀⇛
Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to
program a reboot on Linux. This post will also help
newbies to learn some Crontab and use it for more
complex tasks. Scheduling a reboot can be a fairly
simple task to do, but occasionally, it can take us
surprised.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_setup_DRBD_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
In this article I will help you how to set DRBD on
Ubuntu Server 22.04. DRBD is a Distributed and
Replicated* storage system wich can be used for
high availability computer clusters or can be used
to create larger storage pools defined by software.
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Move_LVM_Volume_Group_To_Another_Machine
In_Linux⠀⇛
This step by step guide explains how to use LVM
export and import commands to move a Volume Group
from one machine to another in Linux.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Neofetch_on_Linux_Mint_21⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Neofetch on Linux Mint 21.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Cortex_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Cortex on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who
didn’t know,
# ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ Mastering_Bash_Script_Loops⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Use_AUR_with_Arch_Linux⠀⇛
Guide on how to install some AUR packages like
Google Chrome by cloning the Google Chrome package
at the local Arch Linux machine via the Git clone
instruction.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Reset_the_Linux_Mint_Password⠀⇛
Practical guide on how to reset or modify the Linux
Mint password by resetting the root password or
modifying the user passwords using the “GNU GRUB”
boot menu.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Linux_Umount_Command⠀⇛
Comprehensive tutorial on utilizing the umount
command to unmount a mounting filesystem using the
different aspects of exercising the umount command
in Linux.
# ⚓ peppe8o ☛ OwnCloud_with_Raspberry_PI:_self_host_your
private_cloud⠀⇛
With our devices becoming more and more connected
to the world and with the increasing number of
files to keep stored and accessible from outside
# ⚓ Steve Kemp ☛ Steve_Kemp:_A_quick_hack_for_Emacs⠀⇛
As I’ve mentioned in the past I keep a work-log, or
work-diary, recording my activities every day.
I have a bunch of standard things that I record,
but one thing that often ends up happening is that
I make references to external bug trackers, be they
Jira, Bugzilla, or something else.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Install_And_Configure_Redis_on_Ubuntu_&
Debian⠀⇛
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure
store that is often used as a cache or database. It
provides high performance, scalability, and support
for a wide range of data structures. Installing and
configuring Redis on Debian is a relatively
straightforward process.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ JavaScript_Arrays:_A_Beginner’s_Guide⠀⇛
JavaScript arrays are a fundamental data structure
used in web development. They allow developers to
store and manipulate lists of data in a single
variable. In this article, we will explore what
arrays are, how to create them, and how to
manipulate them in JavaScript.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Set_Up_an_SSH_Tunnel_on_Linux⠀⇛
Setting up an SSH tunnel on Linux can be a useful
way to protect your online privacy and security. An
SSH tunnel encrypts your internet traffic and
routes it through a secure tunnel to a remote
server, making it virtually impossible for anyone
to intercept or read your data
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Keep_the_SSH_Tunnels_Alive_with_Autossh⠀⇛
Autossh is a utility that allows you to
automatically restart SSH tunnels if they are
disconnected or interrupted. This can be
particularly useful if you need to maintain a
persistent connection to a remote server over an
SSH tunnel. In this article, we will explain how to
install and use Autossh on Linux.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Python_on_Fedora_37⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Python on Fedora 37. For those of you who didn’t
know,
# ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ How_To_Restart_Ubuntu_Server⠀⇛
3 Easy Method To Restart Ubuntu Server There are
various ways to restart your Ubuntu server. In this
post, we will discuss mainly 3 easy ways to restart
the Ubuntu server.
# ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ How_To_Check_Your_Ubuntu_Version⠀⇛
How To Check Your Ubuntu Version It is always good
to check the version of Ubuntu while working to
avoid any conflicts with the other apps or
repositories.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ The_New_Big_Picture_Mode_Does_not_Seem_to
Work_Well_with_Nvidia_GPUs_on_Linux_clients⠀⇛
As you may be aware, Valve has released a new Steam
client version not too long ago with many changes,
including the release of the new Big Picture Mode
that is inspired by the Steam Deck’s interface.
# ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Multiplayer_in_Godot_4.0:_Scene
Replication⠀⇛
Create multiplayer games in an instance (pun
intended) with the new MultiplayerSpawner and
MultiplayerSynchronizer nodes. Check out the key
concepts, and get started with a quick tutorial on
how to make a simple game using Godot multiplayer
features!
# ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Release_candidate:_Godot_4.0_RC_4⠀⇛
As the stable release is imminent, release
candidates become more frequent to validate the
last minutes fixes we had to make.
# ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ 40+_Best_Browser_Games_In_2023⠀⇛
List Of Best Internet-Based Browser Games In 2023
There are plenty of amazing games that you can play
on Internet browsers.
# ⚓ CubicleNate ☛ Project_Killswitch_Travel_Case_Review_|
SteamDeck⠀⇛
Seems like I’ve been doing a lot of SteamDeck
writing lately. It’s well overdue. I have a backlog
of things that I need to clear out that are all
partially done.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ Maybe_I_need_another_zpool⠀⇛
I might need to create another zpool. Or perhaps
move a drives/zpool from one host to another. In
this post: FreeBSD 13.1 Background I am combining
two hosts (slocum and r720-01) into one new host
(r730-01). I have been moving jails from those
hosts.
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the
week_2023/08⠀⇛
The most relevant changes delivered include:
# dav1d 1.1.0
# git 2.39.2
# mozjs 102.8.0 (used to power gnome-shell)
# PHP 8.1.16
# poppler 23.02.0
# samba 4.17.5
# Ruby 3.2 is now the default
# Python 3.11 modules are being shipped (the
default python3 interpreter is still version
3.10)
# openssl 3.0.8
# binutils 2.40
# mutter 3.43+2: fix regression of 3.43
regarding window focus being ‘weird’
# ⚓ Post-mortem:_Downtime_on_February_23,_2023⠀⇛
Some maintenance operations plus a missing
configuration rollback caused a 20 minutes
certificate error on our reference server. In the
lines below you will find a detailed explanation of
what happened. Impact Our reference server was
providing an wrong/ outdated certificate for around
20 minutes.
# ⚓ Safely_clone_a_job_on_a_production_instance⠀⇛
When developing new openQA tests you will have to
run a lot of verification and debug test runs. This
is why I typically encourage people to do all
openQA testing on their own instances, to prevent
spamming of the production instances.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Flathub’s_Getting_a_New_Logo_–_and_it’s_a
Flawless_Fit⠀⇛
“Wow!” — my reaction when I first saw the brand new
logo for Flathub.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ 6_tutorials_for_modern_app_development⠀⇛
Technologies like application and API
connectivity accelerate the development and
delivery of business solutions so you can spend
more time innovating and driving competitive
differentiation. As a modern application developer,
you can use these features to develop skills that
will set you apart from your competitors and
increase the efficiency of your work.
Red_Hat_Application_Foundations offers a
comprehensive set of components to help developers
develop and modernize application software. It is
designed to help build, deploy, and operate
applications with security in mind and at scale
across the hybrid cloud.
You can use the technology with applications that
run on-premises or in the cloud. When combined with
Red_Hat_OpenShift, Red Hat Application Foundations
creates a platform that streamlines execution
across the entire application life cycle.
This article presents quick tutorials, guides, and
solution patterns that can help you gain a deeper
understanding of the following technologies:
# Application and API connectivity
# Data transformation
# Service composition and orchestration
# Real-time messaging and data streaming
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Friday’s_Fedora
Facts:_2023-08⠀⇛
Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what
happened this week and what’s coming up. Your
contributions are welcome (see the end of the
post)!
The F38 Beta freeze is in place. The current F38
Beta target is the early target date (2023-03-14).
I have weekly office hours most Wednesdays in the
morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time). Drop by if
you have any questions or comments about the
schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See
the upcoming_meetings for more information.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ TrueNAS_SCALE_22.12.1_Improves_Stability_and
Reliability⠀⇛
TrueNAS SCALE 22.12.1 open storage, codenamed
Bluefin, comes with 250 bug fixes for everyone
looking for the best NAS solutions.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Kubuntu_22.04.2_LTS_Update_Available⠀⇛
The second point release update to Kubuntu 22.04
LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) is out now. This contains all
the bug-fixes added to 22.04 since its first point
release in August 2022. Users of 22.04 can run the
normal update procedure to get these bug-fixes.
# ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_22.04.2_LTS_Released⠀⇛
Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Released The second point
release of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is now available for
download with a few updates and improvements.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Arduino_Nano_33_BLE_Sense_Rev2_switches_to
BMI270_&_BMM150_IMUs,_HS3003_temperature_&_humidity_sensor⠀⇛
Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense Rev2 is a new revision of
the Nano 33 BLE Sense machine learning board with
basically the same functionality but some sensors
have changed along with some other modifications
“to improve the experience of the users”.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ KC12_Alder_Lake-P_mini_PC_supports_up_to
64GB_RAM,_four_displays,_and_dual_2.5GbE⠀⇛
KC12 is a mini PC powered by either an Intel Core
i5-1240P or Core i7-1260P Alder Lake-P hybrid
processor with up to 64GB DDR4, SATA and NVMe
storage options, HDMI and DisplayPort for up to
four 4K displays, as well as two 2.5GbE networking
interfaces.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Dignited ☛ From_Nokia_to_Samsung:_Here_are_The_Unique
Operating_Systems_of_Feature_Phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ Here’s_why_Android_TV_is_the_best_TV_operating
system_in_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ Lifewire ☛ 13_Ways_to_Make_an_Android_Faster⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google_wants_feedback_on_how_well_Android
14′s_predictive_back_gestures_are_working⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Google_may_give_Gboard_on_Android_an_AI
text-to-image_generator_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_just_noticing_Android_phones_have
‘hidden_game’_next_to_your_apps_–_it’s_totally_free_and_so
addictive_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_just_realizing_Android_has_6_easy
‘power_loopholes’_to_charge_your_battery_even_faster_|_The_US
Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_might_add_Imagen_text-to-image
generator_to_Gboard⠀⇛
# ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_S23_review:_the_Android
phone_for_everyone_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛
# ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ Qualcomm_Has_Stable_Diffusion_Running_on_an
Android_Phone⠀⇛
# ⚓ WCCF Tech ☛ Android_Phones_Could_Soon_Generate_AI_Images_on
the_Fly⠀⇛
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ MediaTek_announces_a_new_chipset,_which
brings_satellite_connectivity_to_Android_phones_–
PhoneArena⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾
# § Open Access/Content⠀➾
# ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Privileged_Conversations_|_Mar.
2023⠀⇛
Public Knowledge has the pleasure of inviting
you to a multifaceted program focused on
training and developing the next generation
of tech policy experts and public interest
advocates that reflects the diversity of
voices and experiences in our society.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ APITable_Is_An_Open-source_Low-code_Solution_and
Airtable_Alternative⠀⇛
APITable is a free open-source and self-hosted API-
oriented low-code platform for building
collaborative apps and better than all other
Airtable open-source alternatives.
# ⚓ Spidermonkey_Development_Blog:_JavaScript_Import_maps,_Part
1:_Introduction⠀⇛
We recently shipped import maps in Firefox 108 and
this article is the first in
a series that describes what they are and the
problems they can solve. In this
first article, we will go through the background
and basics of import maps and
follow up with a second article explaining more
details of import maps.
§ Background: JavaScript Modules
If you don’t know JavaScript modules, you can read
the MDN docs for JavaScript_Modules
first, and there are also some related articles on
Mozilla Hacks like ES6_In_Depth:_Modules
and ES_modules:_A_cartoon_deep-dive.
If you are already familiar with them, then you are
probably familiar with static_import
and dynamic_import.
As a quick refresher: [...]
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ A_Chinese_coal_mine_collapsed_under_a_600-foot
landslide⠀⇛
At least five workers are dead in northern China after a
sprawling coal mine collapsed under a landslide on
Thursday (Feb. 23). The accident happened in the Inner
Mongolia province, the country’s top coal-producing
region. Reports_from_Chinese_state_media indicate more
than 40 workers remain missing.
o ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Yakety_Yat_Chat⠀⇛
Sylvia Shawcross Now I know I promised last time that I
might tell you the tragic tale of the Luna moth during
its larval development but it is such a dreadfully sad
story and given the woebegotten way the world is, I just
couldn’t bring myself to subject readers to such a thing
right now.
o ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ In_The_Flesh:_The_Oxford_Anti-LTN_March⠀⇛
JJ Starky Some protests are torrid affairs. Others can
prove enlightening. The march last Saturday in the heart
of Oxford was the latter. Attendees rocked up nearly 2
hours before the scheduled meet, poised with their
homemade placards, ready to dissent.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ For_The_First_Time,_Astronomers_See_Black
Holes_in_Dwarf_Galaxies_About_to_Collide⠀⇛
Where the Universe came from.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ ‘Ghostly’_Glow_of_Entangled_Light_Now
Reveals_Hidden_Objects_Better_Than_Ever⠀⇛
Not your typical kind of photography.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Bows_Were_Being_Used_in_Europe_40,000_Years
Earlier_Than_We_Thought⠀⇛
The edge we needed.
# ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ 16%_of_seniors_are_CS_majors._How_did_we_get
here?⠀⇛
Stanford’s renowned computer science department has
evolved significantly since its creation in 1965,
and continues to develop in response to concerns
about diversity, ethics and a changing
technological landscape.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ This_Custom_100-Pound_Laptop_Has_a_43-Inch
Screen⠀⇛
At least year’s CES, Lenovo revealed a behemoth_of
a_laptop sporting an enormous 17.3-inch screen with
an ultra-wide 21:10 aspect ratio. Believe it or
not, even larger laptops predate it, including a
21-inch_monster that Acer put out back in 2017.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ United_States–China_semiconductor
standoff:_A_supply_chain_under_stress⠀⇛
What are the implications of US semiconductor
policy for global semiconductor supply chains and
the competition for primacy in an industry critical
to the economy and global security?
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Leonardo_CEO_Alessandro_Profumo_on
Italy’s_role_in_unifying_Europe_and_‘selective_decoupling’
from_China⠀⇛
Profumo joins the Atlantic Council to share his
perspective on the implications of Russia’s war in
Ukraine for Europe, Italy, and the continent’s
defense sector, how Leonardo has responded to the
ongoing invasion, and its most recent expansion
within the space sector.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Experts_predicted_a_wheat_shortage_after_Russia
invaded_Ukraine._Why_didn’t_it_happen?⠀⇛
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February of last
year, experts at various outlets warned shipments
of wheat could be cut off, which could spur
shortages of the grain. The shortages would then
lead to higher prices for pantry staples, from
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_FDA_wants_plant-based_milks_to_explicitly
state_how_they_differ_from_dairy⠀⇛
Makers of plant-based milk in the US might soon
have to rethink their packaging to make it clear
how their products differ from dairy milk.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Soy_Milk_Is_Milk,_FDA_Says⠀⇛
The milk wars may soon come to an end. In draft
guidelines released this week, the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration has said that soy and other
plant-based milk substitutes can continue to be
labeled milk.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Is_Your_Cookware_Putting_You_at_Risk_of
Alzheimer’s?_An_Expert_Explains.⠀⇛
Bon appétit!
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Air_Pollution_Is_Making_Human_Bones_More
Brittle,_Study_Suggests⠀⇛
We’re making ourselves sicker.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Fortinet_Shares_Clarifications_on
Exploitation_of_FortiNAC_Vulnerability⠀⇛
Fortinet provides clarifications following
‘sensationalized reports’ related to exploitation
attempts targeting the FortiNAC vulnerability CVE-
2022-39952
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Ransomware_Attack_Forces_Produce_Giant_Dole
to_Shut_Down_Plants⠀⇛
Dole was forced to shut down systems in North
America due to a ransomware attack, which has
reportedly led to salad shortages in some grocery
stores.
# ⚓ Port Swigger ☛ NIST_plots_biggest_ever_reform_of
Cybersecurity_Framework⠀⇛
CSF 2.0 blueprint offered up for public review
# ⚓ Reason ☛ “Hacker’s_Mind”_Meets_Lawyer’s_Mind⠀⇛
Interviewing Bruce Schneier in episode 444 of the
Cyberlaw Podcast
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Russian_national_accused_of_developing,
selling_malware_appears_in_U.S._court⠀⇛
Dariy Pankov faces up to 47 years in prison on
charges linked to credential sales and offering
access to the NLBrute malware.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Salad_shortages_reported_following
ransomware_attack_on_agricultural_giant_Dole⠀⇛
A ransomware attack on multinational agricultural
giant Dole plc has caused salad shortages after the
company was forced to shut down production
facilities in the U.S. Dole disclosed the
ransomware attack in a brief statement on
Wednesday, saying it moved quickly to contain the
threat and engaged outside cybersecurity experts…
⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Largely_undetected_malware_family_targets_pirated_[sic]_macOS
applications⠀⇛
Security researchers at Apple Inc. enterprise management firm Jamf
Holding Corp. today detailed a largely undetected family of malware
that infects pirated macOS applications to mine cryptocurrency
secretly. The malware uses XMRig, an open-source command line
cryptomining tool commonly used for legitimate purposes, for
nefarious intent.
⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ A_year_after_Russia’s_invasion,_the_scope_of_cyberwar_in
Ukraine_comes_into_focus⠀⇛
The Ukraine war has inspired a defensive cyber effort that government
officials and technology executives describe as unprecedented.
⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ White_House_cybersecurity_strategy_to_force_large
companies_to_make_systems_secure_by_design [Ed: So that is effectively a ban on
Microsoft products, right?]⠀⇛
The highly anticipated strategy document aims to deliver security
improvements to the broader digital ecosystem.
⚓ Security Week ☛ Stealthy_Mac_Malware_Delivered_via_Pirated_Apps⠀⇛
Cybercriminals are delivering stealthy cryptojacking malware to Macs
using pirated apps and they could use the same method for other
malware.
⚓ Security Week ☛ Russian_Accused_of_Developing_NLBrute_Malware_Extradited_to
US⠀⇛
A Russian malware developer behind the NLBrute brute-forcing tool has
been extradited to the United States from Georgia.
⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ The_Energy_Department’s_Puesh_Kumar_on_grid_hacking,
Ukraine_and_Pipedream_malware⠀⇛
Puesh Kumar, director of the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy
Security, and Emergency Response, discusses how the DOE fends off
hackers.
⚓ North_Korean_hackers_move_$3.2M_from_Gate.io_2018_hack⠀⇛
The majority of $234 million stolen in the attack was already
laundered. The recent movements involved funds that were dormant for
4.5 years.
⚓ Data Breaches ☛ KS:_Hutchinson_Clinic_issues_alert_concerning_December_data
breach⠀⇛
Their notice indicates that neither patients nor HHS has been
notified as yet.
⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Chinese_security_researchers_claim_to_have_identified
‘Against_The_West’_hackers⠀⇛
There’s little doubt that the individuals involved in ATW are pro-
West. And some of what is reported about them is consistent with what
a spokesperson had told DataBreaches in an April 2022 interview.
AgainstTheWest (“ATW”) had a history on Twitter and Telegram that was
replete with drama as members left or split or fought, and as
accounts were canceled by platforms.
When the Breached forum opened in early 2022, ATW, who had been on
Raid Forums prior to its seizure, joined.
⚓ Financial Times ☛ ‘Nevada_Group’_hackers_target_thousands_of_computer
networks⠀⇛
A mysterious and unidentified group of hackers has sought to paralyse
the computer networks of almost 5,000 victims across the US and
Europe, in one of the most widespread ransomware attacks on record.
The hacking unit, initially nicknamed the Nevada Group by security
researchers, began a series of attacks that started around three
weeks ago by exploiting an easily fixed vulnerability in a piece of
code that is ubiquitous in cloud servers. The Financial Times
contacted several victims identified from the publicly available
information. Most declined to comment, saying they had been asked by
law enforcement to do so. They include universities in the US and
Hungary, shipping and construction groups in Italy and manufacturers
in Germany.
⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Russian_Malware_Developer_Arrested_And_Extradited_To_The
United_States⠀⇛
Pankov, a citizen and resident of Russia, was taken into custody by
Georgian authorities in the Republic of Georgia, on October 4, 2022,
and extradited to the United States pursuant to a request from the
United States. Pankov appeared before United States Magistrate
Christopher P. Tuite on February 21, 2023, in Tampa, Florida and was
ordered detained pending trial.
⚓ Dutch News ☛ Three_arrested_in_massive_hacking,_data_theft_and_blackmail
probe;_One_was_a_whitehat_researcher
⠀⇛
Amsterdam’s cyber crime police team has arrested three young men as
part of a major investigation into hacking, data theft, blackmail and
money laundering involving the private details of tens of millions of
people.
⚓ IT News AU ☛ The_Good_Guys_warns_of_customer_data_leak_–Security–_iTnews⠀⇛
The Good Guys is the latest company to reveal that some of its
customer leaked in a historical data breach at My Rewards.
According to The Good Guys’ notification, the breach occurred at My
Rewards, known at the time of the breach as Pegasus Group, a provider
of loyalty program software and services.
The Good Guys said only limited data leaked in the breach: names,
addresses, phone numbers and email addresses, and in some cases, an
encrypted password and date of birth if the customer had provided it.
⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ TELUS_investigating_leak_of_stolen_source_code,_employee
data⠀⇛
⚓ Taiwan News ☛ Chinese_national_accused_of_2022_mass_data_leak⠀⇛
An investigation into the leak of 23 million items of personal data,
including that of the relatives of Vice President Lai Ching-te (賴清德)
and Secretary-General of the National Security Council Wellington Koo
(顧立雄), has concluded the hacker responsible was a Chinese national.
In October 2022, an individual using the alias “OKE” listed over 23
million personal data records for sale online that were reportedly
Taiwan Household Registration Office records, though the office
denied it was the source. The data included people’s ID codes,
birthplaces, educational backgrounds, phone numbers, addresses, and
names.
* § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Mandatory_eID_deadline_pushed_back_eight_years⠀⇛
Persons with a valid passport will not have to get a
mandatory electronic identification (eID) card yet, the
Saeima confirmed in the final reading on February 23.
o ⚓ Reason ☛ FTC_Investigating,_but_Not_Thwarting,_Amazon_Acquisition
of_One_Medical⠀⇛
Since the Federal Trade Commission didn’t sue in time,
the deal went through. But will FTC Chair Lina Khan keep
trying to attack Amazon for its bigness?
o ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Podcast_411:_IoT_is_ready_to_tackle_data
privacy⠀⇛
The Connectivity Standards Alliance is back in the news
this week with the launch of a new working group focused
on data privacy, which we’re super pumped about.
§ Defence/Aggression⠀➾
* ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Will_South_Korea_become_the_next_nuclear-weapon
state?⠀⇛
It has long been a concern that North Korea’s nuclear posturing
would goad or frighten its neighbours into developing their own
nuclear capability.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Thousands_gathered_Friday_in_Rīga_to_support_Ukraine⠀⇛
To express support for Ukraine and condemn Russian war against
it, on Friday February 24, a rally took place at the Freedom
Monument in Rīga, organized by the Civic Alliance of Latvia.
Several thousand people had gathered, Latvian Radio reported.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Baltic_and_Polish_parliamentary_speakers:_Ukraine’s_victory_is
the_way_to_peace⠀⇛
Speaker of the Saeima (Parliament of Latvia) Edvard
Smiltēns and the Speakers of the Parliaments of Estonia,
Lithuania and Poland issued a Joint Declaration February 24 in
which they reaffirmed their full solidarity with the people of
Ukraine, condemned in the strongest possible terms Russia’s
ongoing aggression against Ukraine and underlined that the
victory of Ukraine is the only way to restore peace in Europe.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvians_donated_over_€100,000_daily_to_Ukraine_all_year⠀⇛
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Latvia’s citizens and
businesses have donated 104 thousand euros to Ukraine on
average each day, contributing a total of €38 million, the
charity platform Ziedot.lv said on February 24.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ President_Levits:_“Evil_must_be_resisted. Evil_must_be
punished.”⠀⇛
Latvian State President Egils Levits on February 24 released a
video message marking one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. A
translation is reproduced below.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Discussion:_“Standing_by_Ukraine_Against_Russia’s
Aggression”⠀⇛
On February 24, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation
with the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation (LATO) is holding a
discussion titled “Standing by Ukraine Against Russia’s
Aggression”.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ A_Year_of_Conflict:_Cybersecurity_Industry_Assesses
Impact_of_Russia-Ukraine_War⠀⇛
On the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,
cybersecurity companies summarize the cyber operations they
have seen and their impact.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ 11_Countries_Take_Part_in_Military_Cyberwarfare
Exercise⠀⇛
750 cyber specialists have participated in Defence Cyber Marvel
2 (DCM2), the biggest military cyberwarfare exercise in Western
Europe.
* ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Jeffrey_Sachs:_Who_really_blew_up_the_Nord_Stream_2
pipeline?⠀⇛
On the 26th of September last year, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline
was sabotaged. Despite months of investigations from multiple
countries involving deep-sea diving expeditions and sonar
detection, no culprit has been found.
* ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ A_year_after_Russia’s_invasion_of_Ukraine,_a_global
fossil_fuels_bonanza_could_spark_conflicts_elsewhere⠀⇛
On the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Greenpeace
campaigners in the U.S. and offices around the world are
warning of the rapid expansion of fossil fuel projects and
multiple conflicts that could follow as a result. The past year
has seen nations worldwide united in condemning Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine and attempted illegal annexations.
* ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Gap_in_the_New_START:_New_START_does_not_address
hypersonic_missiles⠀⇛
Since the dawn of the atomic age, Russia (ex-Soviet Union) and
the United States have been locked in an intense geopolitical
and military competition, resulting in various new
technological and military developments over the last seven
decades. The United States was the first to acquire atomic
weapons, followed by the Soviet Union.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Destroyed_Russian_tank_now_enhances_view_from_Russian_embassy
in_Rīga⠀⇛
Any Russian diplomats (or spies) who have got tired of the view
of a death’s head Putin from their embassy windows will no
doubt be delighted that they now have a new sight to while away
the hours between justifications of genocide and the spreading
of gonzo propaganda.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_has_no_more_Soviet-era_military_equipment,_says
commander⠀⇛
Latvia has completely eliminated the military technology of
Soviet times, gradually replacing it with more modern
equipment, the National Armed Forces (NBS) Commander Leonīds
Kalniņš said in an interview with Latvian Television February
24.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Re:Baltica_investigates_Latvia’s_‘Deniers,_Agitators_and
Glorifiers’_of_Russia’s_war⠀⇛
The Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism, Re:Baltica, has
a new story available in English that outlines who in Latvia
are the few public supporters of Russian war crimes, and what
action law enforcement has taken with respect to their views.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_parliament:_Russia_is_“greatest_threat_to_peace_and
international_law_in_the_world”⠀⇛
In an extraordinary session before its scheduled sitting on
February 23, the Saeima considered and approved a draft
decision prepared by the Foreign Affairs Commission of the
Saeima to mark the anniversary of Russia’s war of aggression
against Ukraine.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Russians_mark_Ukraine_war_anniversary_with
flowers,_arrests⠀⇛
Russians in Moscow and other cities brought flowers to
Ukrainian poets and held one-person pickets with antiwar
slogans to mark the first anniversary of Moscow’s invasion of
Ukraine. Russian media and rights groups reported at least a
dozen detentions on Friday. OVD-Info, a legal aid group that
tracks political arrests, said at least eight people were
detained in Yekaterinburg after they brought flowers to the
city’s monument to victims of political repression. The
Kremlin’s sweeping crackdown on dissent has spiked to
unprecedented levels since the start of the war. Russians all
across the country actively protested during the first week of
the invasion, but large rallies quickly fizzled after thousands
of demonstrators were detained.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Japan_to_propose_new_Russia_sanctions_at_online
G-7_summit⠀⇛
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he plans to present
to other Group of Seven countries a set of “new ideas” for
sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine when he hosts
an online G-7 summit later in the day to mark the one-year
anniversary of the start of the invasion. Kishida, as this
year’s G-7 president, told a news conference Friday that he
also planned to call on other countries to stop providing
military support for Russia. Kishida will host a teleconference
with other G-7 leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelenskyy later Friday.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Tears,_defiance_and_new_tanks_in_Ukraine_for_war
anniversary⠀⇛
Ukraine’s leader has pledged to push for victory in 2023 as he
and other Ukrainians marked the somber first anniversary of the
Russian invasion. On a day of commemorations, reflection and
tears, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy captured the national mood
of resilience Friday in the face of Europe’s biggest and
deadliest war since World War II. Zelenskyy said Ukrainians
proved themselves to be invincible during “a year of pain,
sorrow, faith and unity.” Ukrainians wept at memorials for
their tens of thousands of dead. At a funeral in northeastern
Ukraine, a friend bid farewell to a soldier buried as people
around the country looked back and also at the clouded future.
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ War_and_Indifference⠀⇛
Which is more destructive to personal liberty, a government
that engages in secret acts of war or a public and news media
that are indifferent to it?
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Endless_Wars_Are_the_Enemy_of_Freedom⠀⇛
“Autocrats only understand one word: no, no, no. No you will
not take my country, no you will not take my freedom, no you
will not take my future… A dictator bent on rebuilding an
empire will never be able to ease the people’s love of liberty.
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ When_Biden_Says_‘As_Long_As_It_Takes,’_What_Does_Ukraine
Hear?⠀⇛
In his State of the Union Address on February 7, President Joe
Biden once again told Ukraine that “America…will stand with you
as long as it takes.” In case the world didn’t hear, Biden
moved to a more dramatic stage and repeated the words.
§ Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
* ⚓ American Oversight ☛ Judge_Rejects_Efforts_by_Texas_Gov._Abbott_and
Attorney_General_Paxton_to_Dismiss_Records_Suit⠀⇛
* ⚓ American Oversight ☛ News_Roundup:_Rewriting_History⠀⇛
§ Environment⠀➾
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Lula_is_back._Are_Brazil’s_climate_credentials?⠀⇛
Lula’s return to office in Brazil heralded a renewed commitment
to environmental stewardship. But steps mu
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ How_much_money_did_India_save_in_a_year_by_buying
Russian_fuel?⠀⇛
The West’s sanctions on Russia’s oil trade have benefited
India hugely. In less than a year, the government has
saved an estimated $4 billion by ramping up Russian oil
imports.
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ SEC_Takes_on_Binance.US’s_Voyager_Acquisition_in_New
Front_to_Crypto_Regulation⠀⇛
The world’s largest crypto exchange Binance is facing
intense scrutiny as of late, and the pressure doesn’t
seem to be letting up.
* § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Creepy_Study_Shows_How_Fungi_Lure_Tree-Killing
Beetles_to_Their_Next_Prey⠀⇛
A toxic relationship.
o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Owl’s_Rest⠀⇛
Encountering the Wild Where We Are This evening I was
relieved to see her take flight. It was after dusk, and
she had been very still in her sound sleep all day. Her
eyelids were shut tight over her huge yellow eyes as the
wind tousled her long, brown shawl of striped feathers. T
o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Choosing_a_Partnership_Future:_Evolving_a
Sustainable,_Life-Affirming_Way_of_Being_on_Earth⠀⇛
“Anything else you’re interested in is not going to
happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water.
Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident
of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the
history of our planet”. – Carl Sagan, Astrophysicist
o ⚓ IDA ☛ Monthly_Star:_YOU⠀⇛
Each month the International Dark-Sky Association
features an IDA Advocate from the worldwide network of
volunteers who are working to protect the night in a
feature called ‘Monthly Star.’
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ How_Russia’s_economy_unexpectedly_survived_a_year_of_war_and
sanctions⠀⇛
It didn’t take long after Russia invaded Ukraine in February
2022 for_Western_sanctions to come crashing down on
Moscow—volley after punitive volley of economic constraints,
all designed to hobble Russia and its citizens from transacting
on the world market.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ The_big_questions_(and_answers)_about_Ajay_Banga’s
nomination_to_lead_the_World_Bank⠀⇛
What to know about the former Mastercard chief executive
officer’s surprise nomination to lead the World Bank.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Biden_has_nominated_Mastercard’s_ex-CEO_Ajay_Banga_for_World
Bank_president⠀⇛
The White House yesterday (Feb. 23) announced that the US is
nominating Ajay Banga to succeed David Malpass as World Bank
president.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_value_of_US_homes_recorded_its_biggest_six-month_drop
since_2008⠀⇛
US homes have recorded the largest fall in value since the
global financial crisis.
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Google_Tells_Some_Employees_to_Share_Desks_After_Pushing
Return-to-Office_Plan⠀⇛
Google, a company once known for its lavish and borderline
absurd_in-office_perks like endless free meals and snacks,
massages, yoga classes, and designated recreation areas, has
fallen on hard times. Now, the most standard of office
equipment will apparently be in short supply for some of the
tech giant’s workers.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Toyota_and_Honda_announce_broad_raises_for_Japanese_workers⠀⇛
Honda and Toyota announced that they had fully met the salary
and bonus demands set out by the_national_automobile_workers’
union_on_Wednesday, as the country’s largest automakers attempt
to adjust wages in line with last year’s record inflation.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_unemployment_rate_at_6.9%_in_2022⠀⇛
According to data published on February 24 by Central
Statistical Bureau of Latvia (CSB), 65.2 thousand
persons aged 15–74 (incl.) were unemployed in 2022.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ EU:_Freeing_ex-senator_can_help_Manila_keep
trade_incentives⠀⇛
A group of European parliamentarians says the Philippines’
chances of retaining special trading incentives, including zero
tariffs for a wide array of products, will be boosted if it
decides to release a long-detained opposition leader and rejoin
the International Criminal Court. When asked in a news
conference in Manila on Friday if the release of former Sen.
Leila de Lima and a decision to rejoin the ICC could help the
Philippines retain the incentives under the so-called
Generalized Scheme of Preferences, or GSP Plus, they said that
would be a strong indication of the Philippines’ willingness to
uphold human rights that is required for the trading incentives
to continue.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Illinois_investigating_drugmaker_Akorn’s_abrupt
closure⠀⇛
State labor officials are investigating an Illinois-based
pharmaceutical company’s decision to abruptly close all of its
operations, including its out-of-state locations in New Jersey,
New York and Switzerland, and to lay off hundreds of workers
with almost no warning. The Chicago Tribune reports that
Gurnee-based Akorn Operating Co. told its 400 workers on
Wednesday that it planned to file for bankruptcy and that they
would be laid off within 24 hours. CEO Douglas Boothe told
employees that the company made the move after failing to find
a buyer. An Illinois Department of Labor spokesperson said
Thursday that the agency is investigating the situation because
Akorn didn’t file the required 60-day notice of mass layoffs or
plant closures until Wednesday.
* ⚓ NYPost ☛ Cost-cutting_Alphabet_is_even_laying_off_the_robots_that
cleaned_cafeteria⠀⇛
Everyday Robots was the brainchild of X, Alphabet’s “moonshot”
research and development factory.
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Dapper_Labs_cuts_20%_more_staff_in_a_second_round_of
layoffs⠀⇛
Dapper Labs Inc. announced Thursday that the company is laying
off 20% more of its employees as part of a restructuring plan
less than four months after the company behind the NBA Top Shot
nonfungible token marketplace said it was cutting 22% of
staffers.
⚓ The Register UK ☛ Ericsson_pulls_plug_on_8,500_workers⠀⇛
Ericsson is planning to cut 8,500 workers, or about eight percent of
its 105,000-strong workforce.
The layoffs are said to be coming worldwide mostly in the first half
of this year, and some possibly into the next.
“The way headcount reductions will be managed will differ depending
on local country practice,” CEO Borje Ekholm wrote in a memo to staff
Friday, which was first reported by Reuters.
“In several countries the headcount reductions have already been
communicated this week.”
These layoffs include the 1,400 jobs the Stockholm-based biz on
Monday said it would ditch in Sweden. We’re told this is all part of
a roughly $900 million cost-slashing drive for the year, which was
announced at an investor day in December.
⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ [Mexican]_Inflation_recedes_in_first_half_of_February⠀⇛
Annual headline inflation of 7.76% is down 0.12% compared to the last
half of January, but still well above the central bank’s target of
3%.
⚓ NYPost ☛ Fed’s_key_gauge_of_US_inflation_surges_at_fastest_rate_since_June⠀⇛
The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge rose last month at
its fastest pace since June, an alarming sign that price pressures
remain entrenched in the US economy and could lead the Fed to keep
raising interest rates well into this year.
⚓ NYPost ☛ Dow_drops_400_points_as_hot_inflation_data_fuels_rate-hike_worries⠀⇛
Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of US
economic activity, jumped 1.8% last month, the Commerce Department
said.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ TikTok_Complains_It’s_‘Under_a_Cloud’_Following_Its_Most
Recent_Ban⠀⇛
TikTok is pushing back against the European Union for not
informing the company that they were banning the app on all
government devices. The EU also took steps to ban the Chinese-
owned app on staff’s personal devices with corporate access,
amid concerns that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance_is
accessing_user_data.
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ European_Commission_bans_staff_from_using_TikTok_on
corporate_and_personal_devices⠀⇛
The European Commission has banned staff from using TikTok on
their corporate and personal devices amid growing concerns
about patent company ByteDance Ltd.’s links to the Chinese
government.
⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Facebook_Whistleblower_Aims_at_a_New_Target:_Meta’s_Would-Be
Investors⠀⇛
On Thursday, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen spoke to a
national organization that convenes investors, telling them that Meta
was an unwise place to put their money —specifically the version of
Meta under the direction of Mark_Zuckerberg.
§ Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
* ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Russia’s_information_war_against_Ukraine_went
stealth_after_Meta_crackdown⠀⇛
Russia’s covert operations are prioritizing quantity over
quality but researchers say the approach isn’t working.
* ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Marilyn_Manson_Accuser_Admits_to_‘Spreading
Publicly_False_Accusations_of_Abuse’⠀⇛
A woman who sued Marilyn Manson for sexual assault says in a
new legal filing that the allegations were untrue and that she
was “manipulated” by Manson’s ex-girlfriend,
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Meta_Is_Making_It_Harder_to_Wind_Up_in_Facebook_Jail⠀⇛
Facebook jail is about to get less crowded. Under a new set of
policies revealed this Thursday, parent company Meta says it’s
now harder for users to wind up with their Facebook accounts
suspended for lesser violations of its rules.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Misdemeanant_/_Senate_Candidate_Don_Blankenship_Loses_Appeal
Over_News_Outlets’_Calling_Him_“Felon”⠀⇛
From Blankenship v. NBCUniversal, LLC (4th Cir.), decided
Wednesday by Chief Judge Roger Gregory, Judge Paul Niemeyer,
and District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles (E.D. Va.):
Following an unsuccessful campaign for one of West Virginia’s
U.S. Senate seats,
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Letter_from_the_editors:_Arts_journalism_needs
independence⠀⇛
The Vol. 262 and 263 Managing Editors of the Arts & Life
section speak on the importance of objective art journalism.
* ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ ‘Freedom_of_the_press’:_The_history_of_The_Daily’s
independence⠀⇛
In 1973, The Stanford Daily became independent from the
University — but it wasn’t always that way. Here’s the story of
how The Daily gained independence.
* ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ From_the_editor:_Celebrating_50_years_of_The_Daily’s
independence⠀⇛
Vol. 262 and 263 Editor in Chief of The Stanford Daily Sam
Catania ’24 introduces a special anniversary issue of The
Daily.
* ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ What_does_Daily_independence_mean_in_practice?⠀⇛
Legal Director and Board Chair Andrew Bridges ’76 discusses the
meaning of independence in practice along with recalling his
experience as a Daily staffer.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ How_an_internal_coaching_program_supports_employee_wellbeing
and_performance⠀⇛
How do leaders role model prioritizing emotional and mental
well-being for our teams? It’s a question I ask myself often in
my role with talent and culture at KPMG US.
* ⚓ AccessNow ☛ Technology_for_Democracy_at_the_second_U.S._Summit:_an
update_on_our_progress⠀⇛
We are gearing up for the second U.S. Summit for Democracy from
March 29-30, and are excited to share our progress to date.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Iran’s_‘women,_life,_freedom’_revolution_has_a
manifesto._Here_are_the_next_steps.⠀⇛
Signed by twenty organizations and released on February 13, the
manifesto gathered the support of many civil society
organizations in Iran.
* ⚓ The Daily Beast ☛ Inside_the_Employee_Revolt_Rocking_Amazon_Over_Return
to_Work⠀⇛
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ We_Could_Soon_Open_a_Pandora’s_Box_of_Impossible_Speech
Laws⠀⇛
This week, the Supreme Court is hearing two cases that could
upend_the_way we’ve come to understand freedom of speech on the
internet. Both Gonzalez_v._Google and Twitter_v._Taamneh ask
the court to reconsider how the law interprets Section 230, a
regulation that protects companies from legal liability…
§ Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Netflix_Slashes_Subscription_Prices_in_Over_30_Countries⠀⇛
Netflix just can’t seem to decide on the best way to keep users
using the platform. The streaming service is reportedly cutting
monthly_subscription_costs in over three dozen countries across
the world, with some discounts being as much as half of the
current monthly subscription.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ DOJ_Investigation_Threatens_The_Reign_Of_Google_Maps⠀⇛
Google’s dominance in the mapping space is facing a probe by
the U.S. Department of Justice. Officials are reportedly
looking into whether the tech giant is breaking_antitrust_laws
on its Google_Maps app.
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Google_Doesn’t_Want_to_Pay_Websites_for_Content,_so_It’s
Blocking_News_in_Canada [Ed: Gulag should not need to pay THEM to send
THEM traffic. This is Microsoft lobbying!]⠀⇛
Google is following the_Facebook_playbook and threatening to
cut off access to news in Canada unless lawmakers agree to gut
legislation aimed at making tech companies pay publishers for
their content.
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Litigation_Investment_Entities_(LIEs)_Tracker
is_latest_feature_added_to_Unified’s_Portal⠀⇛
As part of ongoing deterrence activities, Unified’s
Portal is introducing the most comprehensive tracker of
Litigation Investment Entities (LIEs).
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Canadian_Copyright,_Fair_Dealing_and_Education,
Part_Four:_The_Disappearance_of_Course_Packs⠀⇛
Canadian copyright lobby groups effort to persuade the
government to restrict fair dealing has often focused on
a particular use case: the course pack. For many years,
course packs were used by university and college
professors to pull together a customized collection of
reading materials for their courses.
o ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_Bill_C-18_Reality:_Everyone_Loses_When_the
Government_Mandates_Payments_for_Links⠀⇛
The report that Google is conducting a national test that
removes links to Canadian news sites for a small
percentage of users sparked a predictable reaction as
politicians who were warned that Bill C-18 could lead to
this, now want to know how it could happen. None_of_this
week’s_developments_should_come_as_a_surprise. Bill C-18
presents Google and Facebook with a choice: pay hundreds
of millions of dollars primarily to Canadian broadcasters
for links to news articles or stop linking.
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ An_AI-Illustrated_Comic_Has_Lost_a_Key_Copyright_Case⠀⇛
When Kris Kashtanova attempted to copyright their comic
book Zarya of the Dawn, the United States Copyright
Office originally granted them the rights.
o ⚓ Reason ☛ Copyright_Office:_No_Copyright_Protection_for_Certain
AI-Generated_Works⠀⇛
Law from the dawn of the dawn of the AI age.
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ US_Copyright_Office_Refuses_to_Issue
Protections_for_AI-Generated_Illustrations⠀⇛
AI-created images lose US copyright protections in a
legal test for the new technology.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ Solutionism⠀⇛
Let’s see what xn--gckvb8fzb complains about…wants things
to be available via HTTP, thinks gemini makes getting
content harder, does admit that the modern web sucks, but
never says what the suck is. Hmm. Well. One could demand
that books be written in English, in addition to the
other languages the author might use, so that the English
speaker need not go to the trouble of learning something
else. Entitled, much? Realistically, new works will
continue to be written in not-English, just as new
materials will continue to be made available over not-
web.
o ⚓ Amateur_Radio_Update:_Morse_Code⠀⇛
I haven’t posted for a while about amateur radio
adventures, not because I abandoned it, but because I
have been very busy trying to learn Morse code. I feel
that CW operation is the big next step I need to take. It
has proved much more challenging than I expected to learn
morse code, so I’ve already spent many lunch breaks work
on it, and I am estimating it will be another few weeks
at least before I can operate. It is not really
challenging to learn the characters, so much, as it is to
learn the sounds well enough that I can copy without
pausing frequently or missing a bunch of characters. I
switch back and forth between using some Koch training
software, and then practicing straight key work in my
radio’s practice mode, and then trying to transcribe
signals I am hearing on 20m. I’m aiming for 10 wpm, which
is slow enough to be practical for a beginner, but fast
enough not to be boring. So far I can hear around 12
letters pretty well (no numbers yet) but each time I
learn a new letter, it interrupts my flow, and the
accuracy drops about 30 or 40 percent. Fortunately, there
are plenty of CW signals coming in on 20m to listen to,
though about two-thirds of them are too fast for me to
try to copy.
o ⚓ In_which_I_discuss_depression⠀⇛
I saw someone described as “battling depression”. That’s
a poor analogy. There’s no battle. It’s more “sitting
down while depression pours shit over you”.
It helps me to visualise it as a separate entity that’s
deliberately harming me. It’s uncomfortable to
acknowledge it as part of me. But I wonder if it’s
healthy to divide myself into bits. Occasionally I can be
detached enough that there’s a third part of me, watching
the depression making everything impossibly difficult.
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ 289_bytes_of_css_only_explained⠀⇛
o ⚓ Raspberri_Pi_but_for_real⠀⇛
I bought a 1TB card for the Raspberry Pi. I have an old
one, a model 1B. A week ago I used an old 16 GiB card
with a version of Debian Buster on it, upgraded it to
Bullseye, and deleted all the stuff I felt was
unnecessary. It took me a very long time. All I really
wanted was to have it run `mpd` (a music server).
o ⚓ Generating_Favicons_from_Unicode_Glyphs⠀⇛
TIL I can easily create favicons on the command line.
But, alas, the internet giveth and the internet taketh
way. I can’t find the page, where I first found out about
`convert`, probably some Stack Exchange site. So, I’m
sorry, no attribution.
For the following examples I’ll be using the “Black Star”
Unicode glyph (`U+2605`): ★
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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✐ Links_25/02/2023:_TUXEDO_OS_2_and_Ambient_0.1⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 9:41 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈
§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o BSD
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o GNU_Projects
o Programming/Development
# Python
# Go
# Rust
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Security
# 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 Civil_Rights/Policing
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_KaOS_2023.02_–_Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, I am going to show how to install
KaOS 2023.02.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Athena_OS_2023.02.20_overview_|_a_Arch_Linux-based
distro_focused_on_Cybersecurity_–_Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, I am going to show an overview of
Athena OS 2023.02.20 and some of the applications
pre-installed.
# ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Viber_on_Linux_Lite_6.2_–
Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, we are looking at how to install
Viber on Linux Lite 6.2.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Openbox_Was_My_First_Window_Manager_(It’s_Still
Great!)_–_Invidious⠀⇛
The very first standalone window manager that I
ever used was Openbox. That was about 15 years ago,
but I have used Openbox off-and-on several times of
those years. But not recently. So today, I’m
revisiting my old Openbox configs that I haven’t
tried out in probably 4 or 5 years.
# ⚓ Video ☛ This_Wayland_Change_Will_Improve_Linux_Forever_–
Invidious⠀⇛
One of the most devastating things to happen to
your Linux desktop is it crashing it making you
lose all of your unsaved work but there is a change
in progress to Wayland to fix that.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.2.1⠀⇛
I’m announcing the release of the 6.2.1 kernel.
All users of the 6.2 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 6.2.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/
stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.2.y
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web
browser:
https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/
linux-s…
thanks,
greg k-h
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.1.14⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.96⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.170⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.233⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.19.274⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.14.307⠀⇛
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ FOSS Post ☛ Enable_Zram_on_Linux_For_Better_System
Performance⠀⇛
zRAM is a Linux kernel module that allows the
creation of Swap devices on memory.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Pale_Moon_Browser_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Pale Moon Browser on Debian 11.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Microsoft_Fonts_on_Ubuntu_22.04
LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Microsoft Fonts on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ Install_GitHub_Desktop_App_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or
20.04_Linux [Ed: GitHub is proprietary and Microsoft's attack
on Git, as well as millions of other projects. Don't use it,
shun it.]⠀⇛
GitHub Desktop is a free and open-source graphical
user interface (GUI) to run on Windows or macOS for
Git version control.
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ Get_BlueMail_Client_installed_on_Ubuntu_22.04
LTS_Linux⠀⇛
Have you ever wished you could check your email
directly from the Desktop interface of your Linux
but without opening the browser?
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ Linux_Basics_–_Set_a_Static_IP_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Set a static IP on Ubuntu. All Ubuntu versions,
from Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 20.04 down to Ubuntu
12.04, are covered in this tutorial. The guide
explains setting a static IP on an Ubuntu system
from the command line. It covers the network
configuration for all recent Ubuntu versions and
includes instructions to configure a static IP
address, set the hostname, and configure name
resolving.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ Installing_and_using_Git_and_GitHub_on_Ubuntu
Linux:_A_beginner’s_guide⠀⇛
This tutorial is a quick setup guide for installing
and using GitHub and how to perform its various
functions of creating a repository locally,
connecting this repo to the remote host that
contains your project (where everyone can see),
committing the changes and finally pushing all the
content in the local system to GitHub.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Ansible_AWX_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
Ansible AWX is a free and open-source web
application sponsored by Red Hat that allows you to
manage Ansible playbooks and inventories. This
tutorial will show you how to install Ansible AWX
on Debian 11.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Check_Disk_Space_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Tracking disk usage information is a day-to-day
task of any system administrator. Linux has some
built-in utilities that help you find the disk
space of your system. In this post, we will show
you how to check disk space on Linux using multiple
ways.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Jira_Agile_Project_Management
Tool_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
JIRA is a commercial software application developed
by Atlassian for issue tracking and project
management. This tutorial will show you how to
install the JIRA project management tool on Ubuntu
22.04 server.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Apache_Maven_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Maven is a free, open-source, popular build tool
developed by the Apache Group. It is used to build,
publish, and deploy several projects simultaneously
for better performance.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Nagios_Monitoring_Tool_on
Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Nagios is a powerful free, open-source monitoring
tool used for monitoring Linux and Windows servers
and networks and infrastructure. With Nagios, you
can monitor CPU usage, disk usage, and several
services including HTTP, SSH, FTP, SMTP, and more.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Passbolt_Password_Manager_on
Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Passbolt is a free and open-source password manager
based on PHP, MySQL, and OpenPGP. It is a self-
hosted application server, you can install it on
your server. Passbolt is primarily designed for
teams, but you can still use it as a personal
password manager.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_To_Install_Angular_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Angular.js is a free and open-source JavaScript
framework used for building dynamic applications.
This tutorial will show you how to install
Angular.js with Nginx as a reverse proxy on Ubuntu
22.04.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_ExifTool_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
ExifTool on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who
didn’t know, ExifTool is a powerful command-line
utility for reading, writing, and manipulating
metadata…
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Foreman_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Foreman on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Getting_started_with_Nano⠀⇛
Nano is a popular open-source command-line text
editor that has been in development since 1999. It
is designed to be simple and user-friendly, making
it an ideal choice for users who are new to the
world of Linux or command-line interfaces.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Customizing_nano_with_nanorc_file⠀⇛
Nano is a lightweight and user-friendly text editor
that is widely used by programmers, system
administrators, and other Linux users. One of the
great features of Nano is its ability to be
customized with the ~/.nanorc and /etc/nanorc
files.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Copy_and_Paste_in_Nano⠀⇛
Nano is a powerful text editor that is widely used
on Unix-like operating systems, including Linux.
Whether you are a developer, system administrator,
or just a regular user, you may need to copy and
paste text in Nano. In this article, we will show
you how to copy and paste in Nano.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Kill_Running_Process_by_ID_in_MySQL⠀⇛
MySQL is a popular open-source relational database
management system used by millions of developers
worldwide. While it is essential to monitor running
processes in MySQL, it is also important to
terminate any processes that are no longer needed.
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Deploy_a_Persistent_Kubernetes_Application
with_Portainer⠀⇛
I’ve been quite vocal over the past year as to how
much I depend on Portainer as my container
management…
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Monitor_the_bandwidth_in_the_terminal_with
bmon⠀⇛
There are many tools to monitor systems, but
occasionally, they can be overwhelming because of
the number of options they have and if you are
looking for a specific one, then you should find a
good and simple one. For example, today, you will
learn how to use bmon to Monitor the bandwidth.
# ⚓ How_to_move_a_Volume_Group_from_one_system_to_another⠀⇛
There are situations where we would be required to
move a whole volume group from one system to
another system for some requirement.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Mike_Blumenkrantz:_Monumental⠀⇛
§ [AIRPLANE NOISES]
It finally happened.
Zink has been commercialized.
What does this mean, you ask? Well, look no further
than this juicy X-Plane_announcement.
That’s right, after months and decades of waiting,
the testing and debugging is over, and Zink is now
a gaming driver that runs real games in production
for real, existing people. Who play games. At full
speed.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ GNOME ☛ Alexander_Mikhaylenko:_Introducing_Elastic⠀⇛
Elastic is a new spring animation editor app.
Ever since 1.0, libadwaita has had spring_animations. These animations aren’t
controlled with a duration and an easing function, but instead with physical
properties: damping ratio (or optionally damping), mass, stiffness and initial
velocity, as well as epsilon. While this allows for a lot of control over the
animation, it can be pretty hard to understand if you’re not familiar with
physics involved, and to be truly useful it needs an editor.
So, Elastic is that editor. It provides a way to tweak each parameter, explains
what they do, allows to preview the animation in various ways, and generates
the code to create that animation.
⚓ This Week in GNOME ☛ Felix_Häcker:_#84_Polished_Circle⠀⇛
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from
February 17 to February 24.
§ Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
* ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Some_little_tweaks_before_releasing_easyOS_5.0⠀⇛
Committed some fixes:
https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/
b9ab70b84e342c1a8ea5e3ec28bdec4e859dd442
After discussion with Caramel about exporting keyboard layout
to work with the Xephyr server in a container:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=82436#p82436
I committed a fix, well, hopefully a fix. See file ‘ec-chroot’.
Feodor was experimenting changing the locale via QuickSetup. He
changed from German to French, restarted X, all good. Then he
changed to
English and found some files were still in French. That has
also been
fixed, see file ‘quicksetup’.
* ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Global_IP_TV_Panel_updated⠀⇛
ETP has updated TV Panel to version 2023MK1, see forum post:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=689
I have updated the PET in the EasyOS noarch repository. Added
some translations to the ‘tvpanel.desktop’ file:
* ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ TUXEDO_OS_2_Ships_with_Kernel_6.1_and_the_Latest_Plasma
5.27⠀⇛
Founded in Germany in 2004, Tuxedo Computers is a company that
specializes in selling laptops and desktop computers
preinstalled with Linux operating systems.
Users can choose between Ubuntu and some of its flavors for the
operating system or the in-house developed TUXEDO OS, with the
latter being the company’s recommended choice.
Following the announcement of the first release of its in-house
operating system TUXEDO OS in early October 2022, the company
has now come out with its sequel, TUXEDO OS 2. So let’s see
what has changed.
* ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ TUXEDO_OS_2_Launches_with_KDE_Plasma_5.27_LTS_and_Linux
Kernel_6.1_LTS⠀⇛
It’s been almost five months since the launch of TUXEDO OS to
the general public and now TUXEDO OS 2 is here built on top of
the latest KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS desktop environment series and
it’s powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.1 LTS kernel
series./p>
The KDE Plasma desktop environment included in this release was
backported from the KDE neon distribution and it’s accompanied
by the latest KDE Frameworks 5.103 and KDE Gear 22.12.2
software suites, all built against Qt 5.15.8 LTS.
* § BSD⠀➾
o ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ Moving_ZFS_filesystems/datasets_from_one_ZFS_zpool
to_another⠀⇛
Now that I’ve filled up data01, I bought some more SSDs
and created another zpool. Today, on this snow-is-
anticipated Saturday winter morning, I’m going to move
some ZFS filesystems/datasets around. Side note: I like
the term dataset better than filesystem.
o ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Lunduke_tries_FreeBSD…_and_it_doesn’t_totally
suck!⠀⇛
Listen now (23 min) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology
Podcast – Feb 24, 2023
* § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
o ⚓ Fabio_Alessandro_Locati:_Podman_ports_and_firewalld⠀⇛
A few weeks ago, I was doing a security check on one of
my machines to ensure that everything was secure when I
noticed that there were some ports open that I was
surprised to find out. The way I discovered those ports
was by checking some ports with netcat (nc -zv IP_ADDRESS
PORT). I was expecting those ports to be closed, and I
got surprised when netcat claimed to be able to connect
to them.
o ⚓ Talospace ☛ The_Talospace_Project:_Firefox_110_on_POWER⠀⇛
Firefox 110 is out, with graphics performance
improvements like GPU-accelerated 2D canvas and faster
WebGL, and the usual under the hood updates.
* § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
o ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this_week_–
Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛
o ⚓ Android Police ☛ LumaFusion_now_available_to_all_aspiring_Android
and_ChromeOS_video_editors⠀⇛
o ⚓ Business Standard ☛ Google_may_integrate_AI_text-to-image
generator_to_Gboard_for_Android_|_Business_Standard_News⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Guardian UK ☛ Nokia_launches_DIY_repairable_budget_Android
phone_|_Nokia_|_The_Guardian⠀⇛
o ⚓ Nokia_G22_is_the_Android_phone_built_for_you_to_fix_|_Trusted
Reviews⠀⇛
o ⚓ Express ☛ Nokia’s_new_budget_Android_phone_offers_upgrade_its
rivals_can’t_match_|_Express.co.uk⠀⇛
o ⚓ India Times ☛ miui_14_launch_date:_Xiaomi_to_launch_MIUI_14_with
Android_13_in_India_on_this_date._Read_here_–_The_Economic_Times⠀⇛
§ Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
* ⚓ Self_hosting_in_2023⠀⇛
The blog that you are currently reading has a perfect PageSpeed
score 100 / 100. At least at the moment of writing it 😄. It’s
not a brag, quite the opposite. Turns out it’s not that hard to
achieve it. Just host a static page with simple styles, and
you’re done. Building a static page itself is quite simple. You
plop an index.html and send it through a wire. You can get more
sophisticated and generate it using a framework, like I’m doing
with Astro. But that’s not the point of this post.
The point is the hosting part of hosting a static page. And
this page is hosted on my Raspberry Pi 4b at my house. Still
doing great in terms of speed, costing close to nothing, and
having endless possibilities for extending for free. In this
blog post I’ll share with you how easy it was to set up. And
how great of a dev experience I think it provides.
* ⚓ Medium ☛ Mark_Mayo:_Why_I’m_all-in_on_the_fediverse⠀⇛
TL;DR: I’ve gone from skeptic to fan of Mastodon and the
fediverse. To that end, I’ve been part of a small team that’s
releasing a new iOS app today:Mammoth,_a_beautiful_Mastodon_app
for_the_rest_of_us. It’s free, it’s high quality, we’re doing
some novel things to make the whole experience more friendly
and fun for new users, and it’s also a deeply customizable app
we think anyone will love. I hope you like it.
We’ve already had a lot of amazing supporters who believe in
the potential of the Fediverse and have been helping us start
on our journey. A special mention goes to Mozilla who not only
contributed financially but also with expertise and guidance.
🙏🙏
The story so far.
It was back in October, on a rainy weekend, and my daughter and
I ended up watching Kris_Nova’s_Twitch_stream as she and her
band of merry ops peeps were hacking on the backend
infrastructure for a Mastodon site called hachyderm.io. Curious
name, we thought! More importantly, we were inspired by
watching cool people working on something they loved, building
something that mattered to them. A node on new kind of
decentralized, community-at-the-core, network-of-social-
networks. We created accounts and started exploring.
* ⚓ How_The_Post_is_replacing_Mapbox_with_open_source_solutions_–_Kevin
Schaul⠀⇛
* § GNU Projects⠀➾
o ⚓ GNU_Health:_Fundación_La_Vicuña_joins_GNU_Health⠀⇛
On Thursday, Feb 23rd, 2023, GNU Solidario and the
Spanish NGO Fundación La Vicuña ORL have signed a
cooperation agreement to promote and implement the Health
and Hospital Management component from GNUHealth in those
areas and institutions where Fundación La Vicuña has
activities, mainly Spain and countries in Africa.
Fundación La Vicuña is a non-profit organization founded
15 years ago by a group of physicians, mostly ear, nose
and throat specialists in Cadiz, Spain.
GNU Solidario and Fundacion La Vicuña share the goal of
improving the lives of the underprivileged, through
Social Medicine and universal access to healthcare. GNU
Health will be a very valuable tool to assess the
socioeconomic determinants of health and to minimize the
impact in the vulnerable population, both in Spain and in
the African continent. GNU Health will improve the
management of health institutions and the daily medical
practice where Fundación La Vicuña has missions. Patient
evaluations, medical records, prescriptions, laboratory,
surgeries and inpatient/hospitalization will be some of
the areas that will benefit from GNU Health HMIS.
Casimiro García, president and founder of Fundación La
Vicuña and Luis Falcón, founder and president of GNU
Solidario, formalized the cooperation agreement this
Thursday. In the coming weeks, GNU Solidario will train
the team from Fnd. La Vicuña in the use of GNUHealth, and
a development environment will be rolled out.
* § Programming/Development⠀➾
o ⚓ The_age_of_cargo_cult_Agile_must_end.⠀⇛
I found the article to be filled with misconceptions but
given enough people have somehow found it insightful, I
thought it might be worth writing a response.
At first, I thought “The age of Agile must end” was an
example of the cargo cult reinvention cycle but looking
more closely, it seems like it’s both a cargo cult
understanding of Agile AND arguing for something that is
not aligned with Agile. I don’t necessarily think this
was an intentional straw man argument though.
o ⚓ Stop_Obsessing_Over_Development_Velocity,_Focus_on_This_Instead_–
Itamar_Gilad⠀⇛
An awful lot of effort is going these days into boosting
product teams’ productivity: getting them to burn those
story points faster, deliver the planned scope in every
sprint and cycle, and generally ship more stuff, faster.
The term “development velocity” is often thrown around by
executives, but what they’re actually aiming for is
upping launch throughput—apparently a matter of vital
importance for the success of the company.
I’m here to argue that development velocity (whatever
that means) and launch throughput are entirely the wrong
optimizations. Obsessing over these things will distract
you from what’s really important and is likely to do more
harm than good.
o ⚓ Scaling_Extreme_Programming:_Dependencies_–_by_Kent_Beck⠀⇛
(This will be the first in a series of posts about XP.
I’m publishing them here because the overlap with Tidy
First? readers seems substantial & the subscriber list is
long. Please lmk if you’d rather I had channel/topic.)
[...]
Reversibility unclogs complexity for Whole Teams of 15 or
so. It’s hard work, but okay. However, I never developed
a story about scaling XP to organizations of hundreds or
thousands of people. (Much more about this in followup
posts.)
Reversibility can go a long way even in large
organizations. However, reversibility isn’t the whole
story. Inter-connection, which is addressable in a world
of direct human relationships among 15 people, becomes a
more disruptive factor & difficult to address among a
thousand.
o ⚓ Brian Hicks ☛ advice_you_might_as_well_take⠀⇛
I’ve read some nice articles recently which I can sum up
as “advice you might as well take.” This is stuff that’s
good to consider at the beginning of a project, or when
you’re about to add a feature to some existing software.
These articles run counter to YAGNI (You Ain’t Gonna Need
It), the software design principle that says you should
only ever add things you’ll be using right away. Many
even call this out in their titles! One even addresses
this by coining an alternative term, PAGNI (Probably Are
Gonna Need It), so let’s start with that one:
o ⚓ DevLife_#5:_Microservice_Hell_–_by_Daniel_Dersch⠀⇛
Every single one of these micros likely has to interact
with the user and tenant management service. Every
request will need to be authenticated and authorized. The
caller context has to be verified as it flows through
every service. Each service will have to figure out how
to ship their data to the Search micro. The various
business logic services likely have dependencies on each
other to avoid duplicated effort.
In general, these pains are worth it. More micros means a
smaller blast radius if a single micro is breached, more
fault tolerance in case one of the micros becomes
unavailable (unless it’s auth or user management), better
resource utilization for heavily used services (like
auth) and rarely used micros.
o ⚓ Insignificant⠀⇛
Ever struggle with publishing that blog post or open
source idea you have sitting around? But it feels too
small? Too insignificant?
It was almost 7 years ago, when the internet broke
because a developer deleted their entire open source
catalog from npm. The developer was upset because npm, a
repository of open source projects, had sided with a
lawyer in a trademark dispute. But some foundational
projects, like Babel depended on that developer’s work.
So when those dependencies vanished, foundational
projects couldn’t be built anymore, and new versions of
your web site or app all came crashing down.
Many of us kept focusing on the question: should I depend
on so many open source modules for the thing I’m
building?
But what I think is more interesting is what this story
teaches us about creativity.
o ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Faux_Progress⠀⇛
For non-technical folks, the worst part is you don’t even
know the spinner is fake! You likely interpret it as a
legitimate representation of live feedback.
I remember when I first started as a designer, I naively
created a progress bar for some UI thinking, “We’ll
indicate progress as this thing happens!”
I was quickly informed that an accurate representation of
progress was incredibly complex and not in the cards for
our feature (’twas then I was introduced to the idea of
polling).
Since then, posts like Eric’s constantly remind me of the
faux authenticity of so many of our digital experiences.
I have no doubt progress bars and loading indicators are
vastly misinterpreted by non-technical folks as feedback
mechanisms which communicate the live, accurate progress
of known-quantity computing tasks.
o ⚓ Testing_packages_with_Lit_in_Gentoo⠀⇛
The file lit.site.cfg has to be inspected for any
incorrect calls to
executables.
For example see src_prepare function form dev-lang/
boogie.
o ⚓ React_Is_Holding_Me_Hostage⠀⇛
It feels like this article would have been sacrilege only
a few years ago. Under protection of this new found
trendiness in React displeasure, I’d like to finally say
my piece.
o ⚓ InfoWorld ☛ Project_Valhalla:_A_look_inside_Java’s_epic_refactor
|_InfoWorld⠀⇛
Valhalla is nothing short of a Java language overhaul,
promising to correct longstanding performance issues.
Here’s a first look at what’s coming, starting with the
new value classes and primitive classes.
o ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_ttdo_0.0.9_on_CRAN:_Small
Update⠀⇛
A new minor release of our ttdo package arrived
on CRAN a few days ago. The ttdo package extends
the excellent (and very minimal / zero depends) unit
testing package tinytest by Mark_van_der_Loo with the
very
clever and well-done diffobj package by
Brodie_Gaslam to give us test
results with visual diffs (as shown in the screenshot
below) which
seemingly is so compelling an idea that it eventually got
copied by
another package which shall remain unnamed…
o ⚓ Null_safety:_Kotlin_vs._Java_|_by_Nicolas_Fränkel_|_Feb,_2023_|
ITNEXT⠀⇛
The basic idea behind null is that one can define an
uninitialized variable. If one calls a member of such a
variable, the runtime locates the memory address of the
variable… and fails to dereference it because there’s
nothing behind it.
o ⚓ Brian Hicks ☛ what_is_the_randomart_image_for?⠀⇛
When you generate an SSH key (like I did when looking at
signing commits with SSH keys), you get a “randomart
image” from ssh-keygen.
o § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Patrick_Cloke:_Python_str_Collection Gotchas⠀⇛
We have been slowly adding Python type hints [1] to
Synapse and have made
great progress (see some_of_our_motivation).
Through this process we have
learned a lot about Python and type hints. One bit
that was unexpected is that
many of the abstract_base_classes representing
groups of str instances
also match an individual str instance.
o § Go⠀➾
# ⚓ James_Just_James:_Deadline_context_test_cancellation_in
golang⠀⇛
I decided to write a fancy test harness in golang
today. The test wraps a big internal engine for
mgmt and at the top-level it takes a context for
cancellation. If you don’t know about the context
package, then you should go understand that and
then come back here… Don’t feel bad, I had no idea
what it was about at first either!
The Problem:
I assumed there would be some way to follow a
notification from the test runner down into my test
to tell it when it was time to cleanup and exit
early… I expected that making my own ^C signal
handler wouldn’t be correct, and I (incorrectly)
assumed that the interface I’d be looking for would
offer a golang context that I could pass into my
code.
o § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ Introducing_Ambient_0.1⠀⇛
Ambient is a runtime for building high-performance
multiplayer games and 3D applications, powered by
WebAssembly, Rust and WebGPU.
# ⚓ I_love_building_a_startup_in_Rust._I_wouldn’t_pick_it
again.⠀⇛
For almost two years now, the vast majority of our
backend code was written in Rust (aside from a
little bit of Python). I love Rust, it’s by far my
favorite language. I find myself missing match in
pretty much every other language I go to.
However, if I was doing it over, I wouldn’t choose
Rust.
# ⚓ arXiv ☛ C-rusted:_The_Advantages_of_Rust,_in_C,_without_the
Disadvantages⠀⇛
C-rusted is an innovative technology whereby C
programs can be (partly) annotated so as to
express: ownership, exclusivity and shareability of
language, system and user-defined resources;
dynamic properties of objects and the way they
evolve during program execution; nominal typing and
subtyping. The (partially) annotated C programs can
be translated with unmodified versions of any
compilation toolchain capable of processing ISO C
code. The annotated C program parts can be
validated by static analysis: if the static
analyzer flags no error, then the annotations are
provably coherent among themselves and with respect
to annotated C code, in which case said annotated
parts are provably exempt from a large class of
logic, security, and run-time errors.
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Marriage_is_on_the_decline_in_the_U.S.⠀⇛
Americans are increasingly forgoing or delaying marriage — a
dramatic shift from societal norms a generation ago.
By the numbers:Over the last 50 years, the marriage rate in the
U.S. has dropped by nearly_60%.
* ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Elections_tribunal_rules_that_next_INE_director
must_be_a_woman⠀⇛
The Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary’s ruling means
that the National Electoral Institute (INE) will have its first
woman leader.
* ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ R._Kelly_Receives_Another_20-Year_Prison_Term_for
Criminal_Sexual_Charges⠀⇛
R. Kelly receives another 20-year prison term for criminal
sexual charges — but will not serve them consecutively.
Following his 30-year sentence in New York for sex trafficking
and racketeering charges, R. Kelly was sentenced in Chicago on
Thursday to 20 years for child pornography and enticement of
minors for sex.
* ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Thomas_H._Lee,_Billionaire_Who_First_Took_Warner
Music_Group_Public,_Found_Dead⠀⇛
Thomas H. Lee, billionaire and private equity investor who
first took Warner Music Group public, was found dead Thursday
morning. Billionaire financier and private equity investor
Thomas H. Lee was found dead in his Manhattan office on
Thursday morning, police say.
* ⚓ Scarlett_Gately_Moore:_Snowstorms,_Kittens_and_Shattered_dreams⠀⇛
Long ago I applied for my dream job at a company I have wanted
to wok for since its beginning and I wasn’t ready technically.
Fast forward to now, I am ready! A big thank you goes out to
Blue Systems for that. So I go out and find the perfect role
and start the application process. The process was months long,
but was going very well, the interviews and I passed the
technical with flying colors. I got to the end where the hiring
lead told me he was submitting my offer… I was so excited, so
much so, I told my husband and parents “I got the job!” I know,
I jinxed myself there. Soon I receive the “There was a
problem”.. One obscure assessment called GIA came back not so
good. I remember that day, we were in the middle of a long
series of winter storms and I when I took the test, my kitten
decided right then it was me time. I couldn’t very well throw
her out into the snowstorm, so I continued on the best I could.
It is my fault, it clearly states to be distraction free. So I
speak again to the hiring lead and we both feel with my
experience and technical knowledge and abilities we can still
move forward. I still had hope. After some time passes, I asked
for an update and got the dreaded rejection. I am told it
wasn’t just the GIA, but that I am not a good overall fit for
the company. In one fell swoop my dreams are dashed and final,
for this and all roles within that company. I wasn’t given a
reason either. I am devastated, heart broken, and shocked. I
get along with everyone, I exceed the technical requirements,
and I work well in the community. Dream door closed.
I will not let this get me down. I am moving on. I will find my
place where I ‘fit in’.
* ⚓ CNN ☛ This_Chinese_kissing_device_lets_you_smooch_over_the_internet⠀⇛
Want to send your faraway lover a kiss? A Chinese contraption
with warm, moving silicon “lips” appears to have just the
answer.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong’s_Cheung_Chau_bun_snatching_contest_to
resume_in_May_after_3-year_Covid-19_hiatus⠀⇛
Hong Kong’s iconic bun scrambling competition will be held for
the first time in three years, with applications opening next
Monday. “Physically fit people aged 18 or above” are welcome to
apply by March 20, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department
announced on Friday.
* § Science⠀➾
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ This_Strange_Ancient_‘Fossil’_May_Not_Have_Been
Left_by_Any_Living_Thing⠀⇛
What was it?
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Miniature_robots_that_mimic_living_organisms
are_being_developed_to_explore_and_support_real-life_ecosystems⠀⇛
BY GARETH WILLMER The robotic bee replicants home in on
the unsuspecting queen of a hive. But unlike the
rebellious replicants in the 1982 sci-fi thriller Blade
Runner, these ones are here to work.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Google_Reaches_a_Major_‘Milestone’_in_Making
Quantum_Computing_Usable⠀⇛
There’s still a long way to go.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Where_We_Get_Wind_From_May_Blow_You_Away⠀⇛
An august source.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Solar_Orbiter_Filmed_Mercury_Crossing_The_Face
of_The_Sun,_And_It’s_Glorious⠀⇛
A rare view.
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexican_scientists_helping_to_rid_Galapagos
of_invasive_plants⠀⇛
A research team from the University of Guadalajara is
racing to save the famed islands’ Giant Daisy Tree from
extinction from — blackberries.
* § Hardware⠀➾
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ GamersNexus_on_support_training_and_scripts⠀⇛
Speaking of hardware_repair_and_support, Steve recently
uploaded a review of another_disappointing_prebuilt_game
machine, which had eye-opening flaws for the price.
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ The_economic_and_social_effect_of_sealed_devices⠀⇛
BBC technology editor Zoe Kleinman posted_a_story about a
British phone repair business, and their struggle to find
qualified technicians. Noting a lack of industry training
and standards, the spokesfolks proposed an apprenticeship
programme, and raising awareness of the problem to get
more people involved.
o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ $99_Motorola_Defy_Satellite_Link_enables_2-way
satellite_communications_on_smartphones_through_3GPP_NTN
technology⠀⇛
Motorola Defy Satellite Link is a Bluetooth device that
can affordably bring 2-way satellite communication to any
smartphone thanks to the latest 3GPP NTN (Non-Terrestrial
Network) technology implemented in the MediaTek MT6825
connecting to the Bullitt Satellite Connect platform.
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Want_That_Coffee_With_Olive_Oil?_Starbucks
Thinks_Italians_Will.⠀⇛
The company has amassed an audience in Italy, and now it
is betting on two very Italian ingredients.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Axios-Ipsos_poll:_Americans_say_their_well-being_isn’t
made_a_priority⠀⇛
The majority of Americans surveyed in the new Axios-Ipsos
American_Health_Index say businesses and the government
don’t make citizens’ health and well-being a priority.
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Chicago_mayoral_race_spotlights_cities’_post-
pandemic_struggles⠀⇛
The campaign is a window into how Chicago has – and has
not – rebounded from the COVID-19 crisis, with problems
like crime now top of mind.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ After_Ohio_train_wreck,_Biden_orders_door-
to-door_checks⠀⇛
President Joe Biden has directed federal agencies to go
door-to-door in East Palestine, Ohio, to check on
families affected by the toxic train derailment that has
morphed into a political controversy. House Republicans,
meanwhile, have opened an investigation into the
derailment, blaming Transportation Secretary Pete
Buttigieg for what they contend was a delayed response to
the fiery wreck. House Oversight chairman James Comer
became the latest lawmaker Friday to jump into what has
become a political proxy war as both parties lay blame on
the other after the Feb. 3 derailment and chemical leak
that led to evacuation of the small Ohio community.
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ East_Palestine_Train_Derailment_Killed_at_Least_43,000
Animals⠀⇛
People in East Palestine, Ohio are still struggling with
uncertainty and fear for their health and community in
the aftermath of the disastrous derailment of a train
carrying hazardous chemicals on February 6.
o ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Brockovich_warns_Ohio_town_of_dangers_after
train_crash⠀⇛
Worried residents packed a high school auditorium Friday
as activist Erin Brockovich and attorneys warned of long-
term health and environmental dangers from chemicals
released after a fiery train derailment in East
Palestine, Ohio.
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Air_quality_alert_in_effect_for_Mexico_City
metro_area⠀⇛
Phase 1 of the environmental contingency plan, including
traffic restrictions, was activated on Thursday and
renewed on Friday.
o ⚓ Social_Media_is_a_Major_Cause_of_the_Mental_Illness_Epidemic_in
Teen_Girls._Here’s_The_Evidence.⠀⇛
NYU Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt makes a definitive
case that social media is a major cause of mental illness
in teen girls. Journalists should stop saying that the
evidence is just correlational.
* § Security⠀➾
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Here_Are_Some_of_the_Most_Hacked_States_in_America⠀⇛
Every year, the FBI publishes a report on the state of
cybercrime in the U.S., based on statistics collected
from the previous year. The organization that does the
collecting, the bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center,
or IC3, compiles information on a state-by-state basis,
detailing where hacking incidents…
o ⚓ Thomas Rinsma ☛ Vulnerability_write-up_–_“Dangerous
assumptions”⠀⇛
Last year, during a tangent for a project, Kevin and I
found a series of vulnerabilities in (combinations of)
several Node.js packages that led to critical issues for
our client, and most likely other users as well.
It was a lot of fun learning about all the ways that
logic in Javascript code like this can break, mostly by
abusing its dynamic typing and oddities like __proto__.
o ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ True_Health_New_Mexico_settles_lawsuit_over_2021
ransomware_incident⠀⇛
True Health New Mexico has agreed to a class action
settlement to resolve claims that the health insurance
provider failed to protect patient data from an October
2021 data breach.
o ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Stanford_University_discloses_data_breach
affecting_PhD_applicants⠀⇛
Stanford University disclosed a data breach after files
containing Economics Ph.D. program admission information
were downloaded from its website between December 2022
and January 2023.
Last week, the university sent data breach notification
letters to 897 individuals who submitted personal and
health information as part of the graduate application to
its Department of Economics, informing them that their
info was accessed without authorization.
“On January 24, 2023, Stanford was notified that a folder
containing the 2022-23 application files for admission to
Stanford’s Department of Economics’ Ph.D. program was
available through the department’s website because of a
misconfiguration of the folder’s settings,” the
university told affected individuals.
“We promptly investigated this matter, which revealed
that the unrestricted access to
o ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Alleged_‘SIM_Swapper’_Charged_with_Hacking_into
Instagram_Influencers’_Accounts_to_Get_Money_and_Sexually_Explicit
Video_Chats⠀⇛
A Downtown Los Angeles man was charged today in a six-
count federal grand jury indictment for allegedly
defrauding female social media influencers, including by
engaging in “SIM swapping” to hijack their Instagram
accounts and obtain money from them and engage in
sexually explicit video chats with him.
Amir Hossein Golshan, 24, is charged with two counts of
wire fraud, one count of unauthorized access to a
protected computer to obtain information, one count of
accessing a computer to defraud and obtain value, one
count of aggravated identity theft, and one count of
threatening to damage a protected computer.
o ⚓ Jump_crypto_&_Oasis_successfully_reclaim_over_$225_Million_Stolen
in_Wormhole_Hack⠀⇛
Jump Crypto, a provider of Web3 infrastructure and the
decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Oasis.app has
carried out a “counter exploit” on the Wormhole protocol
hacker, recovering $225 million worth of digital assets
and moving them to a secure wallet.
A flaw in the protocol’s token bridge allowed the
Wormhole assault, which took place in February 2022, to
siphon off roughly $321 million worth of Wrapped ETH
(wETH).
Since then, the hacker has moved the stolen funds around
using several Ethereum-based decentralized applications
(dApps). Additionally, via Oasis, they just built up a
Wrapped Staked ETH (wstETH) vault on January 23 and a
Rocket Pool ETH (rETH) vault on February 11.
o ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ News_Corp_says_state_hackers_were_on_its
network_for_two_years⠀⇛
Mass media and publishing giant News Corporation (News
Corp) says that attackers behind a breach disclosed in
2022 first gained access to its systems two years before,
in February 2020.
This was revealed in data breach notification letters
sent to employees affected by the data breach, who had
some of their personal and health information accessed,
while the threat actors had access to an email and
document storage system used by several News Corp
businesses.
o ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Minneapolis_Public_Schools_tap_dances_around
telling_parents_and_employees_what_really_happened⠀⇛
Of course, a ransomware attack or malware attack is not a
laughing matter but neither is an attempt to spin a data
security incident. It is time for districts to cut the
b.s. and just tell parents and employees the unvarnished
truth.
o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Evening Standard UK ☛ The_FBI_now_recommends_using_an_ad
blocker_when_searching_the_web_|_Evening_Standard⠀⇛
The law enforcement agency warns that scam ads
designed to steal your banking details are
appearing atop search results
* § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
o ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Denmark_undecided_on_sending_fighter-jets_to
Ukraine⠀⇛
The defence minister, Troels Lund Poulsen, says he is
“open to” Denmark sending modern fighter-jets to Ukraine,
but only as long as other countries do the same, reports
DR. On the anniversary of the invasion, Ukraine’s need
for support is
o ⚓ CNN ☛ Chinese_fighter_jet_confronts_US_Navy_plane_carrying_CNN
crew_over_South_China_Sea⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Ukraine’s_ambassador:_‘We’re_fighting_this_war
for_all_of_you’⠀⇛
A Russian victory in Ukraine would have a grievous impact
far beyond its borders, threatening wider global
instability, disrupting food and energy security,
weakening international institutions and even reducing
the world’s ability to deal with …
o ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Experts_react:_How_a_year_of_war_in_Europe
remade_NATO,_and_what_comes_next⠀⇛
The war has undeniably re-invigorated NATO. But just how
much has changed? Our experts weigh in on the state of
the Alliance and where allies should go from here.
o ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russia’s_influence_in_Africa,_a_security
perspective⠀⇛
In partnership with the Policy Center for the New South
(PCNS), the Africa Center is proud to present the joint
report “Russia’s influence in Africa, a security
perspective”, by Sarah Daly and Abdelhak Bassou, on the
first anniversary of the war in Ukraine.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ France’s_Macron_to_visit_China,_calls_on_Beijing_to
pressure_Putin_on_Ukraine⠀⇛
French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday said he
would visit China in early April and called on Beijing to
“help us pressure Russia” to end the war in Ukraine.
o ⚓ CNN ☛ Watch:_Chinese_fighter_jet’s_warning_to_US_Navy_plane⠀⇛
CNN’s Ivan Watson takes a ride on a US Navy jet over the
South China Sea and witnesses tensions at play between
the US and China during a close encounter with a Chinese
fighter jet.
o ⚓ CNN ☛ Zelensky_adviser_hits_out_at_Beijing_for_‘unrealistic’
paper,_which_calls_for_a_resumption_of_peace_talks_and_an_end_to
unilateral_sanctions_on_Russia⠀⇛
o ⚓ NATO_talks_with_Türkiye_to_resume_in_March,_says_Sweden’s_PM⠀⇛
The talks had stalled after Quran-burning incidents in
Sweden. Türkiye’s FM recently said the negotiations would
resume as “Sweden gave some positive messages.”
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Rinkēvičs:_This_is_a_war_of_Russia_led_by_Putin⠀⇛
The war in Ukraine is Russian, not only Putin’s. Latvian
Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs (New Unity) said in an
interview with Latvian Television, aired February 24,
remembering how it began and proceeded.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Baltic_and_Polish_parliamentary_speakers:_Ukraine’s
victory_is_the_way_to_peace⠀⇛
Speaker of the Saeima (Parliament of Latvia) Edvard
Smiltēns and the Speakers of the Parliaments of Estonia,
Lithuania and Poland issued a Joint Declaration February
24 in which they reaffirmed their full solidarity with
the people of Ukraine, condemned in the strongest
possible terms Russia’s ongoing aggression against
Ukraine and underlined that the victory of Ukraine is the
only way to restore peace in Europe.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ VIDEO:_Tribute_to_Ukraine_concert_from_Rīga_Circus⠀⇛
Continuing the events marking one year of brave
resistance to Russian barbarism, we are pleased to bring
you the concert Veltījums Ukrainai (Tribute to Ukraine)
live from the recently renovated Rīga Circus venue.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ City,_family_reach_$2M_settlement_in_fatal
police_shooting⠀⇛
A South Florida city has reached a $2 million settlement
with the family of a Black motorist who was fatally shot
by a police officer after his vehicle broke down on an
interstate off-ramp more than seven years ago. The city
of Palm Beach Gardens released a statement saying it had
reached a settlement Thursday through mediation with the
family of Corey Jones.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Beijing_official_in_Hong_Kong_warns_US
envoy_after_speech⠀⇛
A Chinese diplomat accused the U.S. consul general in
Hong Kong of interfering in its affairs after he said the
city’s freedoms were eroding and warned the American not
to cross political “red lines.” Consul General Gregory
May gave a video address last month in which he expressed
concern over diminished freedoms in Hong Kong and said
its reputation as a business center depended on the rule
of law. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office in Hong
Kong on Friday said its commissioner Liu Guangyuan met
with May recently to express objections to his
“inappropriate” words and deeds. Hong Kong is among a
raft of issues that have sent ties between Beijing and
Washington to their lowest level in years.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Japan,_other_G-7_leaders_step_up_Russia
sanctions⠀⇛
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other Group of
Seven leaders have adopted a set of additional sanctions
against Russia over its war on Ukraine at an online G-
7 summit to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of
the invasion. The G-7 countries on Friday also affirmed
their coordinated action to “further counter Russia’s
capacity to wage its illegal aggression” and pledged to
prevent Russia from obtaining military equipment and
technology. They also called on other countries to stop
providing military support to Russia. Kishida also hosted
a teleconference with other G-7 leaders and Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ FT:_State_of_the_US_defense_industry⠀⇛
Detailed supply chain mapping of two weapons that changed
the war reveals a complex web of companies under
significant strain as the industry returns to a wartime
footing. The “Financial Times” published an investigation
on the state of affairs in the US military-industrial
complex.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Ukrainian_issues_need_to_address_seriously,
urgently,_and_with_full_responsibility⠀⇛
Ukraine’s situation is deteriorating continuously and
already entered a dangerous stage, which is not only
alarming for the region but a serious threat to global
peace, security, and stability as well. The US is ganging
up against Russia and involving its allies in a direct
confrontation with Russia.
o ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ The_World_is_Ending,_Buckle_Up⠀⇛
Todd Hayen If what is now happening and about to happen
is not stopped, the world as we know it, will cease to
exist. This is NOT hyperbole, it is rational truth.
Exactly what this will look like, nobody knows, but we
can certainly guess, and it is only the details we are
uncertain of.
* § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
o ⚓ Profiling_case_against_anti-terror_police_chiefs_for_illegally
keeping_private_information⠀⇛
Twelve former police officers and chiefs are being
charged with keeping the records of 4,395 communications
of 3,248 people illegally in 355 different investigations
and keeping 2 thousand separate notes on private lives of
these people.
* § Environment⠀➾
o ⚓ Google_Greenwashes_a_Dirty_Partnership_with_Saudi_Aramco⠀⇛
o § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Teacher_Charged_After_Crypto_Mining_Operation
Discovered_in_School_Crawl_Space⠀⇛
A Massachusetts teacher is facing charges after
authorities say he carried out an elaborate
cryptocurrency mining operation out of the school
where he worked. Nadeam Nahas, 39, was teaching at
Cohasset High School when a town facilities
inspector visited the school and found an unusual
electrical setup in one room.
# ⚓ IEEE ☛ AMD_CEO:_The_Next_Challenge_Is_Energy_Efficiency
[Ed: This means abandoning AMD and its designs then]⠀⇛
o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 8_Reasons_Why_Octopuses_Are_the_Smartest,
Pettiest_Animals⠀⇛
Consider the octopus. With eight arms, elliptical
pupils, color- and texture-changing skin, and a
scary beak, it is a creature that seems conjured
from the most Boschian of realities.
* § Finance⠀➾
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Painless_disinflation_is_looking_less_likely⠀⇛
For a while there, it was looking like a dream scenario
for the U.S. economy just might be coming true: inflation
falling while the job market remained robust, and the
pain caused by Federal Reserve tightening confined_to_a
few_industries.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ BASF_to_Cut_2,600_Jobs_After_a_Year_of_High
Energy_Costs⠀⇛
The German chemical giant blamed a drop in profits on
stubbornly high natural gas prices and shifting global
demand.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ War_in_Ukraine_Deepens_Divide_Among_Major
Economies_at_G20_Gathering⠀⇛
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen urged her counterparts
at a summit in India to condemn Russia’s actions, and she
defended the cost of supplying aid to Kyiv.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ N._Carolina_magnate_accused_of_scheme_to
skim_company_funds⠀⇛
A North Carolina business magnate has been indicted on
federal charges based on allegations he conspired to skim
large amounts of money from his insurance companies, then
lied about it to hide the scheme with two co-
conspirators. A federal grand jury in Charlotte issued a
13-count indictment this week against Greg E. Lindberg of
Durham. Lindberg was a previously a large donor to
political causes before a 2019 indictment on charges he
attempted to bribe North Carolina’s insurance
commissioner to secure preferential regulatory treatment
for his insurance business. His convictions were later
overturned, and a retrial is set for this fall. Lindberg
and a spokesperson criticized the latest charges against
him.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ High_energy_prices_and_Brexit_are_causing_a_fresh
produce_shortage_in_the_UK⠀⇛
Tomatoes and lettuce are out of stock at a number of
British supermarkets this week, along with a number of
other fresh fruit and vegetables, leading some to pin
blame on Brexit.
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexico’s_final_GDP_growth_figure_for_2022_at
3.1%⠀⇛
Export revenues appear to have driven much of Mexico’s
better-than-expected GDP showing last year, but
predictions for 2023 are much lower.
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Carrier_equipment_maker_Ericsson_lets_go_8,500
employees⠀⇛
Ericsson, one of the world’s largest makers of
telecommunications equipment, today announced plans to
lay off 8,500 employees in a bid to reduce costs.
Ericsson detailed the move in an internal memo.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Trump’s_“Receptionist_of_the_US”_Deletes_Her_Trip_to
Russia⠀⇛
The woman reported to be the Trump aide who had classified
documents in her possession deleted a LinkedIn reference to
travel to Russia.
* ⚓ CNN ☛ Seven_months_since_Boris_Johnson_left_office,_Britain_is_still
reeling_from_him⠀⇛
Seven months since he announced his resignation as prime
minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson’s shadow still
looms large over the ruling Conservative party.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Northern_Ireland_Brexit_Deal_Is_Gamble_for_UK_Prime
Minister_Rishi_Sunak⠀⇛
Ever since Britain voted to leave the European Union, the
question of Northern Ireland’s border has bedeviled prime
ministers. Rishi Sunak’s effort to broker a deal is already
under threat.
* ⚓ NYPost ☛ China_is_hurting_our_kids_with_TikTok_but_protecting_its_own
youth_with_Douyin⠀⇛
TikTok is burrowing into the devices — and the brains — of
teens and tweens around the world. But, as the app’s Beijing-
based parent company Bytedance is aggressively exporting the
social media equivalent of heroin, it’s serving up a far less-
damaging product in China that’s designed to protect their own
youth.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Voting_starts_late_across_parts_of_Nigeria_in_key
presidential_election⠀⇛
Polling stations opened late across parts of Nigeria on
Saturday as Africa’s most populous country held presidential
and parliamentary elections amid a nationwide bank note
shortage that left many without transport to their voting
centres.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘Where_is_the_money?’_Inflation_and_cash_crisis_hit_hard_as
Nigeria_goes_to_the_polls⠀⇛
On a normal day, Balogun Market in Nigeria’s Lagos is packed
with shoppers looking for a bargain on anything from clothes,
to freshly cooked street food or cut-price electronics.
* ⚓ CNN ☛ ‘Russian_warship,_go_f**k_yourself’:_Latvian_MP_slams_Russian
delegation_at_meeting⠀⇛
Latvian delegate Rihards Kols was met with applause when he
called Russia’s inclusion a “disgrace” at the Organization for
Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) meeting.
* ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ “Wink:”_Where_Jeff_Gerth’s_“No_There,_There”_in_the
Russian_Investigation_Went⠀⇛
On July 28, 2017, Robert Mueller’s investigators served two
warrants on the company (probably Rackspace) that hosted Paul
Manafort’s DMP emails to obtain Manafort, Rick Gates, and
Konstantin Kilimnik’s company emails.
* ⚓ Türkiye_willing_to_hold_elections_in_May_despite_earthquakes,_says
Erdoğan_spokesperson⠀⇛
While admitting that the displacement of nearly two million
people would bring logistical challenges, Kalın said “there is
a tendency to hold the elections on May 14″ as planned.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ NCAC ☛ NCAC,_CAA_contact_Macalester_College_to_assist_in_response_to
TARAVAT_controversy⠀⇛
Image caption: Taravat Talepasand, Demons, Dictators,
Blasphemy, and Man, 2016. The National Coalition Against
Censorship (NCAC) and the College Art Association (CAA) have
contacted Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to
express concerns about how its campus gallery handled the
controversy surrounding an exhibition entitled TARAVAT.
* ⚓ NCAC ☛ Broward_County_Public_Schools_Improperly_Removes_Sex_Ed_Book
During_Review_Process⠀⇛
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) has shared a
letter with the School Board of Broward County Public Schools
in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, concerning a potential violation
of district policy and the improper temporary removal of Erika
Moen’s and Matthew Nolan’s book Let’s Talk About It: The Teen’s
Guide to Sex, Relationships….
* ⚓ Court_blocks_access_to_lawyer’s_tweet_about_man’s_killing_in_detention
following_earthquakes⠀⇛
One of the two brothers who were detained on suspicion of theft
following the February 6 earthquakes was killed after allegedly
being tortured.
* ⚓ Türkiye_detains_138_people_over_social_media_posts_about_earthquakes⠀⇛
The charges against the social media users have not been
disclosed.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Higher_Education_“Reform”_in_Florida⠀⇛
Some of the proposals pose real threats to free inquiry
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Migrants:_Tunisian_FM_rejects_African_Union_‘hate_speech’
allegations⠀⇛
Tunisian President Kais Saied ordered officials on Tuesday to
take urgent measures to tackle illegal immigration. A statement
from his office, decrying “a criminal plot [...] to change
Tunisia’s demographic make-up” without citing any evidence, has
sparked an outcry online.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Doctor_Denounces_C.I.A._Practice_of_‘Rectal_Feeding’
of_Prisoners⠀⇛
In a hearing at Guantánamo Bay, an expert gave a graphic public
depiction of torture after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
§ Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ The_Pros_and_Cons_of_Repairing_Your_Own_Gadgets⠀⇛
When something goes wrong with one of your gadgets, you’re
faced with a choice: Fix it yourself, or call in some
professional help. With your options for these routes
constantly changing (both Apple and Samsung have launched self-
repair kits in recent years), we wanted to give you an up-to-
date look at what you’ve got…
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Uh-Oh:_Feds_Say_Google_‘Systematically_Destroyed’_Evidence
for_Years_by_Auto-Deleting_Employee_Chats⠀⇛
Google’s reliance on commonly used messaging systems that
automatically delete conversations after a day has landed the
company in hot water with the Department of Justice.
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Report:_Justice_Department_plans_lawsuit_to_block
Adobe’s_$20B_Figma_acquisition⠀⇛
The U.S. Department of Justice plans to challenge Adobe Inc.’s
proposed acquisition of Figma Inc. on antitrust grounds,
according to a new report. Bloomberg on Thursday cited sources
as saying that the Justice Department could sue to block the
$20 billion deal as early as March…
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Federal_Circuit:_System_is_Not_a
Method_(and_therefore_patent_must_be_delisted_from_Orange_Book).⠀⇛
Jazz Pharms, Inc. v. Avadel CNS Pharms, LLC (Fed. Cir.
2023)
In the pharmaceutical industry, there is a lot of
interplay between the patents and FDA regulation. A
party with an approved drug product will often list
related patents in the Orange Book. Jazz’s approved drug
is sodium gamma-hydroxybutyrate (“GHB”). GHB is an
infamous date-rape drug and the FDA conditioned its
approval on Jazz developing “Risk Evaluation and
Mitigation Strategies” (REMS). Jazz created a set of
strategies, and also obtained a patent covering the
strategy. US8731963. The patent basically overs a
computer system that keeps track of prescriptions and
inventory using a “single-pharmacy system” as well as a
focus on whether the drug was purchased by a cash-payer.
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Why_Justin_Trudeau_is_Wrong_About_Bill_C-18_and
Google’s_Response_to_Mandated_Payments_for_Links⠀⇛
“It really surprises me that Google has decided that they
would rather prevent Canadians from accessing news than
actually paying journalists for the work they do. I think
that’s a terrible mistake and I know that Canadians
expect journalists to be well paid for the work they do.”
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ These_AI-Generated_Images_of_Climate_Change_Make_Me
Uncomfortable⠀⇛
It’s getting harder to avoid AI-generated images and
text—and harder to spot them in the first place—and
that’s true even on Shutterstock, one of the world’s
leading providers of stock photography.
o ⚓ Buzz Feed ☛ AI_Image_Generators_Keep_Messing_Up_Hands._Here’s
Why.⠀⇛
It all comes down to the images AI is learning from.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ Media_Rec:_1899⠀⇛
I want to start this by stating that I did know this
series had been cancelled before I sat down to watch it.
What can I say except that I’m a guy who likes being
annoyed. I had always intended to give it a go and
honestly the ridiculousness of Netflix cancelling it
after only a month put me in such a blind rage, I felt I
needed to watch it just to spite them.
Truly though, it was so worth the pain and I do not
regret my decision one bit. It’s such an intelligent and
rewarding piece of television, and it is clear how much
love and hard work went into it. I loved the setting and
the characters. I also loved its multinational cast and
that it allowed them all to speak in their native
languages. It’s so rare to see something like that, and
it makes me wish that there was more television like
this.
o ⚓ Hello_everyone⠀⇛
Greetings everyone, just received confirmation from m15o
– been reading the Pub’s posts for a long time and hope
to contribute meaningfully to discussions and topics.
o ⚓ hello_world⠀⇛
Hi i am newbie nice to meet u guys
o ⚓ Winter_Languor⠀⇛
It is snowing mightily this year, and I’ve been under it
without pause. Literally; I’m snowed in on a mountain
until spring. Last winter I ate so many snowcones.
Strawberry, raspberry, mint, pear juices on top. I
imagined myself the yeti from Monsters, Inc. This year I
shudder to look at snow. Such are the ridiculous
vacillations of the human heart.
o ⚓ CD_Binders,_Old_Music,_and_Silence⠀⇛
I have a couple of CD binders that I keep moving to any
new car that I own. They’re actually pretty nice with a
faux leather soft exterior and the ability to maybe 30 or
so CDs. The binders themselves are only 1×2 CDs, making
them perfect for the car. I’ve had these CD binders for
many, many years…if I had to guess, maybe 18-20 years.
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ punycode⠀⇛
So it turns out that w3m does not support punycode
(there’s some Debian bugreports and TODO notes about
libidn and rumors of code I could not find) which results
in links such as
o ⚓ Buggy_Jbose⠀⇛
as there is no tense information, so the statement could
be any of past, present, future. (Translation can be
difficult.) Regardless, the statement is nonesense. To
this a hypothetical lojbanic listener might respond
“ki’a”, which is something like “huh?” or “wtf” in
English. Likewise, if a protocol specification were
butchered, one might respond with “ki’a”, or possibly “na
go’i” if one spots a logical contradiction. In that case
you have the same problem as in English: how should the
protocol be rewritten to not include something that is
confusing or causes Spock’s eyebrow to climb. (There is
an entire chapter on negation in “The Complete Lojban
Language”.) And if you rewrite the protocol, do any of
the implementations need fixing?
A better idea might be to include a copious amount of
example code, and to have a very robust test suite that
new implementations can be run against. This may still
leave fiddly bits that are difficult to test, especially
for complicated protocols. Regardless, all this code
could be a lot of work to write, debug, document, secure,
and maintain.
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