𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Thursday, March 02, 2023
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⦿ IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 01, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Hard Times for Microsoft (Not Just the Waves of Layoffs) | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/03/02/irc-log-010323/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/02/windows-client-side/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/03/02/arti-1-1-2/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/02/kde-gear-22-12-3/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/02/new-libreoffice-release/#comments
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✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Wednesday,_March_01,_2023⠀✐
Posted in IRC_Logs at 2:00 am by Needs Sunlight
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✐ Hard_Times_for_Microsoft_(Not_Just_the_Waves_of_Layoffs)⠀✐
Posted in Microsoft, Windows at 1:18 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Windows is down to almost 70% on desktops/laptops while GNU/Linux is rising
above 3% globally
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Down it goes (the above shows [1, 2])
Summary: With no data showing for March (just yet), it’s worth noting that this
past month was awful for Microsoft; maybe it was pushing Vista 11 “upgrades” to
incompatible PCs not by accident but out of desperation; months ago a firm
reported that only 2.6% of the desktop/laptop market was Vista 11 (it’s not
helping that far fewer people are buying new PCs)
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🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈
§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Games
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o GNU_Projects
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Software_Patents
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ New_Steam_Games_with_Native_Linux_Clients,
with_Lumencraft_and_Basements_and_Basilisks_–_2023-03-01
Edition⠀⇛
Between 2023-02-22 and 2023-03-01 there were 22 New
Steam games released with Native Linux clients.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ What_is_Podman_Desktop?_A_developer’s
introduction⠀⇛
I’m a developer. Well, I like to think that I am; I
spent twenty-odd years as a software engineer
before joining Red Hat ten years ago, and since
then, I’ve been evangelizing the company’s tools
and products from a developer perspective. I’ve
seen the agile revolution and the rise of
containers, and I was there when Kubernetes crawled
out of the sea and into our hearts.
§ Developing locally in the container era
But for the last four or so years, I’ve found
developing containers locally a bit of a challenge.
I’m used to being able to just log onto an
OpenShift cluster and do my builds, normally
through Source-2-Image or just by pointing the
system at a Git repo with a Containerfile. But this
isn’t an option for a lot of developers.
I also used Docker a lot in the early days, but had
a problem when I switched to developing on my Mac
instead. To get around that problem, I actually
hosted a Fedora virtual machine (VM), amusingly
named ‘builder’, on which I did all my Docker
builds. I would prepare all my source, create a Git
repo, fire up the VM, ssh into it, clone the repo,
build, test. Any problem I had, I would have to
drop back to my Mac desktop, fix the code, git add,
git commit, rinse and repeat.
§ Podman benefits for developers
Then along came Podman. Podman is, put simply,
Docker with some security enhancements—it solves
the old problem of having to run your containers as
root, which was always a worry for me when using
Docker. The Podman_project actually defines Podman
as “a daemonless container engine for developing,
managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux
System. Containers can either be run as root or in
rootless mode.”
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_a_manual_intervention_pipeline_restricts
deployment⠀⇛
It is important to consider multiple factors when
deploying production code. Later on, we will
deploy, such as securing permission, pulling
requests, testing the robustness of the
application, and making sure it is tested
thoroughly. Deployments will occur in the
production cluster after a manual intervention step
is added for management approval.
The advantages of manual intervention are avoiding
accidental deployments and achieving governance
over the production environment and security. Our
goal in this article is to create a manual
intervention pipeline. In the middle of the
pipeline are the CI and CD.
We are creating a series of articles about complete
CI/CD pipelines on the Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform using Jenkins and Red Hat Ansible
Automation Platform. This 3-part series will cover
the following topics:
# Part 1: Continuous_Integration_with_Jenkins
on_OpenShift
# Part 2: Continuous_Deployment_using_Ansible
Automation_Platform_on_OpenShift
# Part 3: Restricting a production deployment
on OpenShift with Jenkins and Ansible
§ An overview of the architecture and workflow
This article is the third installment of the
series. Assuming you have already read the previous
articles on continuous integration and continuous
deployment, proceed with the demonstration.
The architecture diagram in Figure 1 illustrates
the multiple clusters we will use in this
demonstration. Adding manual intervention in CI/CD
flow restricts the deployment on production. The
purple line represents the production workflow. The
workflow triggers when the release manager logs in
to the Jenkins dashboard and clicks on approval.
Then the Ansible Automation Platform triggers and
fetches the playbooks from Git to do the deployment
on the production cluster using the token and
certificate of that cluster.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_employ_continuous_deployment_with_Ansible
on_OpenShift⠀⇛
In our previous article, we learned how to create a
continuous integration pipeline on Red Hat
OpenShift using Jenkins. In this article, we will
learn how to perform continuous deployment on
OpenShift using the Red Hat Ansible Automation
Platform.
Follow the series:
# Part 1: Continuous_integration_with_Jenkins
on_OpenShift
# Part 2: Continuous deployment using Ansible
Automation Platform on OpenShift
# Part 3: How_a_manual_intervention_pipeline
restricts_deployment
This article assumes that you have basic knowledge
of Jenkins, OpenShift, and Ansible Automation
Platform. You will need administrator privileges
for your Openshift cluster to execute this blog.
§ The CD pipeline architecture
The architecture diagram in Figure 1 illustrates
all actions that occur after developers push and
when Jenkins detects the changes to help with
polling or webhooks. When Jenkins triggers the
Ansible Automation Platform, continuous integration
will occur. The Ansible Automation Platform fetches
the playbook and configuration files over Git,
which are required for the deployment of game
applications. With the help of a template, Ansible
Automation Platform deploys the application to the
OpenShift cluster.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_use_continuous_integration_with_Jenkins_on
OpenShift⠀⇛
In this article series, we will set up a CI
pipeline to compile and package a JavaScript game
application into a Docker image using Jenkins on
Red Hat OpenShift. Once we build the image, it will
be pushed to the external Red Hat Quay container
registry, Quay.io. When the developer pushes the
changes into the Git repository, all these actions
trigger.
This is a series of complete CI/CD pipelines on
OpenShift using the Jenkins and Red Hat Ansible
Automation Platform. We will cover the following
topics:
# Part 1: Continuous integration with Jenkins
on OpenShift
# Part 2: Continuous_deployment_using_Ansible
Automation_Platform_on_OpenShift
# Part 3: How_a_manual_intervention_pipeline
restricts_deployment
This article is based on the assumption that you
have basic knowledge of Jenkins, OpenShift, and
Ansible Automation Platform. You will also need
administrator privileges for your Openshift
cluster.
§ The CI pipeline architecture
The developer commits and pushes the changes after
initiating the action, as shown in the architecture
diagram (Figure 1). Jenkins will detect the changes
with the help of polling or webhooks. We build the
image in the OpenShift cluster and push it to the
Quay.io container registry using buildconfig.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ How_to_name_your_smart_home_devices_in_the
age_of_Matter [Ed: There is nothing "Smart" about it]⠀⇛
Now that the official Matter rollout has come and
gone, more and more new devices will start to
support the multiplatform standard. So too will
some older smart home products, with software
upgrades.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Aaron_Christophel_Brings_DOOM_To_Payment
Terminal⠀⇛
Payment terminals might feel intimidating — they’re
generally manufactured with security in mind, with
all manner of anti-tamper protections in place to
prevent you from poking around in the hardware too
much. But [Aaron Christophel] thinks that level of
security isn’t aren’t always in practice however,
and on his journey towards repurposing devices of
all kinds, has stumbled upon just the terminal that
will give up its secrets easily. The device in
question is Sumup Solo terminal, a small handheld
with a battery, LTE connection and a payment card
slot – helping you accept card payments even if
you’re on the go.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Recreating_a_century-old_Argentinian_rainmaking
machine⠀⇛
You’ve heard about the many different snake oil
concoctions shilled by con men over the centuries,
but did you know that inventors created a variety
of machines for similar purposes? The most well-
known example is probably the belt vibrator, which
purported to induce weight loss.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Tor ☛ Arti_1.1.2_is_released:_HsDir_groundwork_and_cell_handling
improvements⠀⇛
Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation
Tor client in Rust. At the start of this month, we
released Arti 1.1.1. Now we’re announcing the next
release in its series, Arti 1.1.2.
Since our last release, our primary focus has been
preparation for onion service support in Arti. Since the
last release, we’ve implemented the parsing logic for the
various layers of onion service descriptors, and the
various computations needed to maintain a directory ring
to decide where to find those descriptors.
o ⚓ Tor ☛ The_Results_Are_In:_Furthering_Our_Mission_In_The_Global
South⠀⇛
In 2017, the Tor Project developed and launched its
Global South Strategy (GSS) which was conceived as a
means to establish closer ties and build better
relationships with at-risk communities in the Global
South and to understand how we can remove common barriers
to the adoption of our services. The goal is to empower
people to be more secure on the internet by prioritizing
a user-centric approach for the development of Tor
technologies and products.
Following the success of the first five years of the
program, we engaged Firetail, a strategy consultancy
working to achieve social progress, to conduct a thorough
assessment of our approach. We wanted to track and
measure progress towards the above goals. Today, we are
pleased to share this evaluation report, its findings and
recommendations with our community.
o ⚓ Giving_Voice_to_the_Future:_Support_OpenVoiceOS_in_establishing_a
non-profit_association.⠀⇛
OpenVoiceOS (OVOS) is a collective of programmers and
hardware enthusiasts who produce an open-source voice
assistant. We formed in 2019-2020 as an offshoot of the
Mycroft community, bringing a handful of third-party
projects under one roof. Our projects have been an
extension of MycroftAI projects and core technologies
itself, which slowly became independent of its parent.
Over the years, We’ve been operating in a manner of an
soft fork and a non entity for over two years without
giving the arrangements much thought.
o ⚓ CubicleNate ☛ Nheko_|_Matrix_Client_written_in_Qt_on_openSUSE⠀⇛
Matrix is a secure, decentralised, real-time,
communication protocol that allows you to send messages
and pictures free from the encumberments of a centralized
authority. You can look at Matrix as an alternative to
using Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, etc. Confusingly,
Matrix is a protocol not a client.
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ FOSDEM_2023:_An_Open-Source_Conference,
Literally⠀⇛
Every year, on the first weekend of February, a
certain Brussels university campus livens up.
There, you will find enthusiasts of open-source
software and hardware alike, arriving from
different corners of the world to meet up, talk,
and listen. The reason they all meet there is the
conference called FOSDEM, a long-standing open-
source software conference which has been happening
in Belgium since 2000. I’d like to tell you about
FOSDEM because, when it comes to conferences,
FOSDEM is one of a kind.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ EDB_boasts_‘five_nines’_uptime_in_new
Postgres_database_version⠀⇛
EnterpriseDB Corp., which sells a commercial
version of the popular open-source Postgres
database management system, today announced version
5.0 of EDB Postgres Distributed with new high-
availability features, easier installation and the
ability to integrate with the Open Telemetry suite
of observability tools.
⚓ Dhole Moments ☛ Database_Cryptography_Fur_the_Rest_of_Us⠀⇛
An introduction to database cryptography.
§ GNU Projects⠀➾
* ⚓ GNU ☛ guile-cv_@_Savannah:_Guile-CV_version_0.4.0⠀⇛
This is a maintenance release, which introduces new interfaces.
§ Changes since the previous version
For a list of changes since the previous version, visit the
NEWS file. For a complete description, consult the git_summary
and git_log
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ ‘Be_your_own_rockstar’:_Entrepreneurs_and_influencers
explore_social_tech⠀⇛
Entrepreneurs and innovators gathered at Stanford on Feb. 23
for APARC’s conference on social tech futures. Keynote speaker
YOSHIKI, leader of rock bands The Last Rockstars and X Japan,
encouraged members of the Stanford community to pursue their
dreams and make a positive impact.
* ⚓ CNN ☛ At_least_32_dead,_85_injured_as_trains_collide_in_Greece⠀⇛
At least 16 people have been killed and 85 injured after two
trains collided near the city of Larissa in Greece late Tuesday
night, Reuters reported, citing authorities.
* ⚓ Updated_earthquake_toll_in_Türkiye_is_45,089⠀⇛
Over 11 thousand aftershocks followed the February 6
earthquakes according to the announcement made by AFAD.
* ⚓ The Nation ☛ Death,_Destruction,_and_Lars_Von_Trier⠀⇛
In the first episode of Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom Exodus,
there’s a gag that hews closely to The Office (the Danish
show’s distant relative in cringe-inducing workplace comedy) at
its worst. Stig Helmer Jr. (Mikael Persbrandt), the imperious
new surgeon at Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet, condemns the
neurosurgical ward’s all-white staff, calling its lack of
diversity “beneath contempt.” But wait—the Black doctors are
simply running behind. The other lead surgeon, Pontopidan (Lars
Mikkelsen), sends for two Black custodians, who are given lab
coats and no explanation for their sudden promotion. They look
confused. Helmer Jr. grumbles. On to the next item on the
agenda.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_War_on_Positivity⠀⇛
The populist left seems to think cancel culture, rather than
environmental catastrophe is our biggest threat to freedom.
While I certainly do not support the editing of Roald Dahl’s
books it is worth looking into what his defenders get wrong
when they try to paint our modern world.
First of all there is a narrative out there that body shaming
is out. It isn’t. It’s in and it has never been more in. Look
at the suicide rates of young girls. Anyone who defends people
of all body types is canceled. One author who writes about fat
or ugly people gets his words changed a little and the Prime
Minister comes to his defense.
* ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Soft_armour,_mythical_figures_and_ripped_jeans_–
Hungarian_brands_showcased_at_Milan_Fashion_Week⠀⇛
* ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Morse_Code_Clock_For_Training_Hams⠀⇛
It might seem antiquated, but Morse code still has a number of
advantages compared to other modes of communication, especially
over radio waves. It’s low bandwidth compared to voice or even
text, and can be discerned against background noise even at
extremely low signal strengths. Not every regulatory agency
requires amateur operators to learn Morse any more, but for
those that do it can be a challenge, so [Cristiano Monteiro]
built this clock to help get some practice.
* § Science⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Die_Is_Cast!⠀⇛
We all know the basics of how metal casting works, a
metal is heated up to melting point and the resulting
liquid metal is poured into a mold. When the metal sets,
it assumes the shape of the mold. It’s a straightforward
way to reliably replicate a metal item many times over,
and the basics are the same whether the metal is a low-
temperature alloy in a silicone mould or a crucible of
molten steel poured into a sand mould.
* § Education⠀➾
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Ron_DeSantis’s_War_on_Florida_Students⠀⇛
Empty bookshelves in classrooms. Teachers afraid to
display rainbow flags. School board members subjected to
ideological purity tests. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s
ongoing assaults on the K-12 education system provide a
look not just at what is becoming a statewide dystopia
for those of us who live here but also at how he would
lead the nation.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ New_College_of_Florida_Students_and_Faculty
Protest_DeSantis’_Right-Wing_Assault_on_Education⠀⇛
Roughly 300 students and faculty at the New College of
Florida, along with their supporters, gathered before a
board of trustees meeting on Tuesday to demonstrate
against Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ takeover of the
small public liberal arts college and his broader attack
on public education.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Gov._DeSantis:_You’re_a_History_Grad._Tell_Me
When_Systemic_Racism_Ended?⠀⇛
When Ron DeSantis was asked by a Fox News host two years
ago if the United States is “systemically racist,” the
Florida governor quickly responded: “It’s a bunch of
horse manure.” He went on to boast that he had banned
such ideas in Florida’s schools.
Boisterously banning books, educational curricula and
college programs that address racism or LGBTQ dignity –
or both (with added bigotry toward writers like James
Baldwin and Audre Lorde) – DeSantis is building his
national “anti-woke” profile as he seems to be readying a
presidential campaign against his former hero Donald
Trump.
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ New_DeSantis-Endorsed_Florida_Bill_An_Outright_Attack
On_The_1st_Amendment_And_Free_Speech⠀⇛
Florida governor Ron DeSantis likes to proclaim himself a
defender of free speech, but time and time again he’s
looked to stifle, suppress, and silence speech. He’s done
it with his social media bill that limits the 1st
Amendment rights of social media sites, with his Stop
WOKE Act which literally bars speech, and with his
various retaliation bills against Disney for daring to
criticize him. And a few weeks ago he made it clear that
he wanted to undermine a core bedrock 1st Amendment
Supreme Court case, arguing that the finding in NY Times
v. Sullivan should be done away with. We’ve already
explained why that ruling is so important, because
without it, powerful politicians like DeSantis would be
able to constantly tie up critics in court with SLAPP
suits.
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ DeSantis_Pivots_Right_on_Abortion,_Laying_Groundwork
for_Presidential_Primary⠀⇛
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Burning_Books_and_Education_on_the_Path_to
Fascist_Dictatorship⠀⇛
Widening the lens on the escalating assault on education
and those who teach it offers chilling thoughts on the
future of U.S. democracy.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Black_History_Isn’t_One_Month⠀⇛
o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Acceptance_rate_drops_to_3.62%,_majority_enrolled
are_non-white_students⠀⇛
The Class of 2026 had the lowest acceptance rate in the
University’s history, dropping from 3.95% in the previous
year. The newly admitted class consists of more female,
FLI, and non-white students compared to previous years.
* § Hardware⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_More_Expressive_Synth_Via_Flexure⠀⇛
Synthesizers can make some great music, but sometimes
they feel a bit robotic in comparison to their analog
counterparts. [Sound Werkshop] built a “minimum viable”
expressive synth to overcome this challenge. (YouTube)
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Brand_New_Colecovision_Console_–_On_A_Breadboard⠀⇛
The Colecovision console from the early 1980s is probably
not the most memorable platform of its era, but it
retains a retrocomputing following to this day. The
original hardware can be a bit pricey in 2023, so
[nanochess] has built one of his own on a breadboard.
It’s fully functional from original Colecovision
cartridges, and we see it in the video below the break
running Frogger.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Arc_Overhangs_In_PrusaSlicer_Are_A_Simple_Script
Away⠀⇛
Interested in the new hotness of printing previously-
impossible overhangs? You can now integrate Arc Overhangs
into PrusaSlicer and give it a shot for yourself. Arc
overhangs is a method of laying filament into a pattern
of blossoming concentric rings instead of stringing
filament bridges over empty space (or over supports).
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ AliExpress_anime_and_electronics_comments⠀⇛
AliExpress can useful for buying certain components I
can’t get from anywhere else, but the comments are the
real gems. You’ll see people complaining that heatsinks
get too hot, that a function generator couldn’t “detect”
anything, and that a MiniPRO IC tester didn’t come with
any EPROMs.
I suspect if the site sold electric cars, people would
complain that all the petrol spilled out when they tried
to pour it into the charging port, or that a DIMM stuck
to the side of their phone didn’t offer any additional
capacity. I suppose you self-select for such people when
you compete so aggressively on price over anything else.
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ It’s_Time_to_Realize_the_Farm_Bill’s
Transformative_Potential⠀⇛
When the Farm Bill appears for debate in Congress every
five years, most of the public pays little attention.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Brilliant_PR_Move’:_Advocates_Skeptical_as_Eli
Lilly_Vows_70%_Insulin_Price_Cut⠀⇛
Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical giant that has become
virtually synonymous with the sky-high cost of insulin in
the United States, pledged Wednesday to cut the list
prices for its most widely used insulin products by 70%,
a move that advocates and experts met with deep
skepticism even as they welcomed its potentially
significant benefits for some people with diabetes.
o ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ An_attack_on_the_entire_Hungarian_medical
profession_–_reactions_to_bill_on_medical_chamber⠀⇛
o ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Fidesz-KDNP_majority_adopts_bill_on_medical
chambers_–_one_day_after_it_was_submitted⠀⇛
o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Stanford_professor_Jef_Caers_discusses_addiction,
mental_health,_sexuality_and_stopping_fossil-fuel-funded_research⠀⇛
Professor Jef Caers shared intimate stories from his life
in and out of academia at a Feb. 24 event organized by
the Coalition for a True School of Sustainability and
Scientists Speak Up.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ China_Moves_to_Erase_the_Vestiges_of_‘Zero
Covid’_to_Deter_Dissent⠀⇛
The ruling Communist Party is waging an ambitious
propaganda campaign to rewrite the public’s memory of its
handling of the pandemic, which included some of the
harshest restrictions in the world.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ China_Dismisses_Latest_Claim_That_Lab_Leak
Likely_Caused_Covid⠀⇛
The response came after the Energy Department concluded
with “low confidence” that the coronavirus emerged from a
lab in Wuhan, China.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_works_on_establishing_joint_Cancer_Center⠀⇛
Latvia is currently developing a national Cancer Center
for a joint framework for the treatment of oncology
patients. Preparations show how deep-rooted the issues in
oncological care are, Latvian Radio reported on March 1.
* § Proprietary⠀➾
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Chat_GPT_Gets_Real⠀⇛
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Rovio_Delists_Last_Paid_‘Angry_Birds’_Game_Because_The
Free_Version_Is_More_Profitable⠀⇛
You have to love a story that comes full circle after all
these many years. For a long, long time, we at Techdirt
have been advocating for business models that make use of
free content. The idea, which can certainly be
counterintuitive, is that if you make parts of your
product free to the customer, particularly the parts that
are reproducable at zero marginal cost, then you can
build in value-adds one way or another that you can
charge for. Whatever you lose in not charging for some
content, you can make it up via an increase in reach and/
or market share, assuming you do it well. At this point,
the examples of such business models are ubiquitous, but
it wasn’t all that long ago that you would hear
executives from various industries flatout state publicly
that “nobody can make money from ‘free’.”
o ⚓ Container Journal ☛ Principle_of_Shared_Responsibility_in_Cloud-
Native_Applications⠀⇛
Using the cloud means you can focus on your application
and use a third party for most of your infrastructure.
The cloud provides virtual interfaces that abstract away
the details of operating infrastructure. That’s great for
convenience, but what about security? Who is responsible
for keeping your cloud-native application safe
o ⚓ Container Journal ☛ VMware_Extends_Kubernetes_Reach_to_Bare_Metal
Platforms⠀⇛
At the Mobile World Congress conference, VMware today
extended its Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)
framework to make it possible to run disaggregated and
virtualized radio access network (RAN) functions directly
on a bare metal server using the VMware Tanzu
distribution of Kubernetes. The extension, available as a
technical preview
* § Security⠀➾
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ LastPass_says_malware_used_to_hack_DevOps
engineer_in_2022_password_vault_breach⠀⇛
Password manager LastPass US LP reeled from multiple data
breaches in 2022 when hackers accessed sensitive
information from databases, and today the company
revealed how attackers used that information to target a
senior DevOps engineer with malware to “launch a
coordinated second attack” that breached password vaults.
⚓ APNIC ☛ APOPS_1_at_APRICOT_2023_/_APNIC_55⠀⇛
Attacks on DNS infrastructure, Space Division Multiplexing, and last
mile connectivity at APRICOT 2023.
⚓ NVISO Labs ☛ Cortex_XSOAR_Tips_&Tricks–Leveraging_dynamic_sections–
number_widgets⠀⇛
Introduction Cortex XSOAR is a security oriented automation platform,
and one of the areas where it stands out is customization. A
recurring problem in a SOC is data visualization, analysts can be
swarmed with information, and finding out what piece of data is
currently both relevant and significant can become hard. O
* § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Twitter_Outages_Are_on_the_Rise_Amid_Elon_Musk’s
Job_Cuts⠀⇛
Elon Musk’s repeated job cuts are stoking new fears that
there aren’t enough people to triage Twitter’s problems.
* § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
o ⚓ Site36 ☛ Western_Balkans_test_field:_Frontex_already_operates_in
four_non-EU_states⠀⇛
Frontex was once established to support EU Member States
with an external border in their surveillance. The tasks
of this European Border and Coast Guard have always
included improving controls on land and at EU airports
and seaports. However, with the increasing
externalisation of European migration defence from 2015
onwards, this scope of responsibility soon proved to be
too narrow. In 2016, the governments therefore decided
with the EU Parliament to allow „operations on the
territory of third countries“ in the Frontex Regulation
for the first time – subject to the consent of the
government there.
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ German_Court_Places_Limits_On_Mass_Surveillance
Enabled_By_Peter_Thiel’s_Palantir_Software⠀⇛
Big data has always been big business but, in recent
years, it’s also become big government business. The
stuff advertisers like is also stuff the government
likes. Millions of tax dollars have been fed to private
companies offering government agencies a wealth of
information they’ve never had access to before. Everyone
carries a computer in their pockets these days, and the
always-on nature of the internet creates a wealth of data
that can be obtained, stored, and analyzed for less than
pennies on the byte.
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Legislation_Aiming_To_Give_Law_Enforcement_Access_To
More_ALPR_Data_Dies_In_Virginia⠀⇛
Legislating from the bench is always problematic. People
who like what courts have decided will claim this was the
right thing to do. People who don’t like the decision
will claim this is an overstep.
o ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Denmark_Justice_Minister_Approves_Secret_Charges
Against_Former_Defense_Minister_Who_Discussed_NSA_Spying_With_The
Press⠀⇛
o ⚓ EFF ☛ Win_for_Government_Transparency_and_Immigrant_Privacy
Rights_at_Second_Circuit⠀⇛
As government agencies increasingly use digital tools to
track citizens and immigrants, we need to use the Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) to make that surveillance
transparent. But while the government opens its databases
to public scrutiny, it must also protect individual
privacy.
Late last month, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held
that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) must
be transparent and respect privacy by producing
deidentified data on how it arrests, classifies, detains,
and deports immigrants. The court agreed with plaintiff
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that ICE must also
replace Alien Identification Numbers (A-Numbers), exempt
from FOIA because they would identify individual
immigrants, with unique but random identifiers.
o ⚓ EDRI ☛ Poland:_the_government_declares_no_further_extension_of
data_retention_obligation⠀⇛
Data retention obligation will not be further extended in
Polish law on electronic communication. However, the
current, unlawful scope of telecommunication data
retention remains unchanged.
o ⚓ EDRI ☛ European_Commission_must_have_greater_ambition_in
combating_sexual_violence⠀⇛
Last year, the European Commission made a far-reaching
proposal to protect children against sexual violence. But
a study by Delft University shows that there is a lot
wrong with the substantiation of the proposal.
o ⚓ EDRI ☛ EDRi-gram,_1_March_2023⠀⇛
In this edition of the EDRi-gram, we celebrate the
success of EDRi’s member in the Czech Republic against
the use of Google analytics in state services.
We are also exploring the consequences of internet
restrictions for people imposed by the Turkish government
to silence criticism. You will also find the Stop
Scanning Me movement’s recently launched petition
enabling people to fight against the European Union’s
attempt to scan every move we make online.
o ⚓ EDRI ☛ The_secret_services’_reign_of_confusion,_rogue_mayors,
racist_tech_and_algorithm_oversight_(or_not)⠀⇛
Have a quick read through January’s most interesting
developments at the intersection of human rights and
technology from the Netherlands.
§ Defence/Aggression⠀➾
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Conservative_US_Jewish_Groups_Issue_Rare_Rebuke_of
Israeli_Settler_Violence⠀⇛
The leading Conservative and Orthodox Jewish organizations in
the United States on Monday issued rare condemnations of
Sunday’s deadly rampage by Israeli settlers against
Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank, joining U.S.
and Israeli human rights groups in decrying the violence.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ End_the_War_with_an_Armistice⠀⇛
President Joe Biden needs to start saying no to Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky. But it’s not easy and it’s
complicated.
The adversaries in the Russo-Ukrainian war, and I include the
United States and its allies in their proxy superpower
conflict, seem determined to carry on the conflict to its
bitter end, whatever that will be. At least that’s what they
say publicly. It’s Ukraine, not Russia, that’s being physically
destroyed.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Cost_of_the_Nation’s_Endless_Wars⠀⇛
Oh, the hypocrisy.
To hear President Biden talk about the Russia’s aggression
against Ukraine, you might imagine that Putin is the only
dictator bent on expanding his military empire through the use
of occupation, aggression and oppression.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_US_Navy_is_More_Than_Just_Broken,_Careerism_is
Tearing_It_Apart⠀⇛
Last year, Major General John Ferrari, US Army (Ret.), a
visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute penned an
article titled “The Navy is broken. Congress must launch a
commission to find the path forward” in which he described the
Navy as being beset by very serious problems caused by several
factors:
Furthermore, “As a result of all these factors, the Navy has
broken people, broken ships, and broken readiness — and now
faces an inflation crisis, once again echoing the Army of the
late 1970s.”
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Welcome_to_the_Predator_State⠀⇛
To residents of Memphis’s resource-poor, predominantly nonwhite
neighborhoods, the Scorpions were easy to spot. The
plainclothes patrols were known for driving their unmarked
Dodge Chargers through the streets, often all too recklessly,
sowing fear as they went, spitting venom from their windows,
jumping out with guns drawn at the slightest sign of an
infraction.
On the night of January 7th, Tyre Nichols was two minutes from
home when members of that squad pulled him over. Probable
cause: reckless driving (if you believe the official story).
Five Scorpions, all of them trained use-of-force specialists,
proceeded to take turns hitting him with everything they had,
including boots, fists, and telescopic batons.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Lessons_Not_Learned_From_the_Pentagon_Papers⠀⇛
In June 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, a US government
military analyst with the Rand Corporation and senior research
associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr.
Daniel Ellsberg[1], released to the New York Times and
Washington Post what became known as the “Pentagon Papers”, 47
volumes of confidential records comprising some 7000 pages of
secret government reports that documented the US involvement in
“dirty tricks” and illegal actions under the Presidencies of
Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. The
documentsdemonstrated that successive US Presidents had lied to
the American people, that false flags had been organized, “fake
news” disseminated, phoney narratives issued by successive
Secretaries of Defense. As a New York Times editor wrote, “the
Johnson administration had systematically lied, not only to the
public but also to Congress about a subject of transcendental
national interest”[2].
The rational implications of the Pentagon Papers were
succinctly articulated to the then President Richard Nixon by
his chief of staff H.R. Haldeman. Bottom line was that through
such disclosures the American people would feel that “ You
can’t trust the government; you can’t believe what they say;
and you can’t rely on their judgment; …the implicit
infallibility of presidents, which has been an accepted thing
in America, is badly hurt by this, because it shows that … the
president can be wrong.”[3]
* ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ March_To_Iraq_War,_20_Years_Later:_March_1,_2003⠀⇛
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Fifty_Years_of_Resistance⠀⇛
If only for a short time, the forces of good and evil and all
of the shades in between came together. The protester and
Yippie cofounder Abbie Hoffman was right about symbolically
jumping on the Earth in the 1960s and the Earth jumping back in
answer and that it would never happen again. The epoch of the
great changes is now so far behind that even a distant look
over a person’s shoulder can’t exactly bring it back again the
way it really was. We were there as a segment of the generation
of baby boomers when all of the forces coalesced and for the
briefest of moments we made a difference. Many in the
generation of baby boomers knew the distinction between a just
war and a just cause in war and the wars in Southeast Asia were
neither.
July 2023 will mark 50 years since my arrest by the FBI for my
resistance to the Vietnam War. A search of the Internet yields
the result of the first attempt to have the record of my arrest
expunged. Yet no record exists of the successful expungement of
the FBI arrest record. If a search is completed today, the
unsuccessful attempt with its pejorative description of my
military status in 1973 remains. It’s like an endless, though
pretty much ineffective, reminder of all of the horror and
negativity of those days, except for the resistance. The issue
of two attempts at appealing for an expungement of my record
was stymied by incorrect advice about what federal court
jurisdiction in which to file the case, which is not the fault
of the government. As a former chaplain at Brown University
observed: “I can’t believe this is still going on.” Once the
government has a hold on a person, it generally won’t let go.
* ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ NATO_enlargement:_President_Novák_urges_Parliament_to
make_a_wise_decision⠀⇛
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Drones_and_closed_airspace_A_close_succession_of_UAV_strikes
against_oil_and_gas_facilities_deep_inside_Russia_could_mark_a_new_phase
of_the_war_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Multiple drone strikes have occurred across Russia since Monday
evening, in what some sources say is one of the more extensive
air attacks on the country in the past year. While there is no
conclusive evidence of coordination among these incidents, the
pattern of military drones crashing near Russia’s oil and
natural-gas facilities has already led many to speculate about
Ukraine’s involvement. Neither Russia’s Defense Ministry nor
the Ukrainian authorities have yet issued any statements about
the extensive pattern of attacks, however. Here’s what we know,
so far.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Podolyak:_Drones_crashing_around_Russia_signal_internal_‘panic
and_decay.’_Peskov:_‘We_don’t_believe_him.’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Following a series of isolated drone strikes around Russia on
February 27–28, Mykhailo Podolyak, publicity advisor to the
Zelensky administration, tweeted that Ukraine has nothing to do
with these incidents, since it’s only defending its own
territory in the war with Russia.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ C-4_explosive_reportedly_found_on_drone_that_crashed_outside
of_Moscow_on_Tuesday_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian FSB reportedly found the explosive plastic compound
C-4 affixed to the drone that crashed in the village of
Kolomna, about 75 kilometers (about 47 miles) from Moscow, on
Tuesday.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_Defense_Ministry_reports_its_air_defense_prevented
‘massive_drone_strike’_in_Crimea_—_Meduza⠀⇛
In its Wednesday briefing, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced
that an “attempted massive drone strike” had been prevented by
Russia’s air defense forces in the annexed Crimea.
* ⚓ ADF ☛ M23_Aiming_Brutality_Along_Ethnic_Lines⠀⇛
ADF STAFF Violence in the eastern region of the Democratic
Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to rage, as rebels are
trying to exploit ethnic divisions. Recent reporting by
international advocacy organization Human Rights Watch (HRW)
revealed attacks by the group known as the M23 Movement were
intended to exacerbate ethnic tensions…
* ⚓ ADF ☛ Wagner_Mercenaries_Remain_a_Barrier_to_Peace_in_Libya⠀⇛
ADF STAFF Nearly five years after they first arrived in Libya,
Wagner Group mercenaries show no signs that they’re willing to
leave the country, despite a joint demand by representatives of
Libya’s rival governments for them to do so.
* ⚓ ADF ☛ ISS_Report:_Iran_Funnels_Weapons_that_Arm_Horn_of_Africa
Extremist_Groups⠀⇛
ADF STAFF For years, Iranian weapons have wound up in Somalia,
where they are sold to violent extremist groups such as al-
Shabaab and the Islamic State. Through financial incentives,
Iran established a proxy network in Somalia and has used the
country to funnel weapons to the Houthi militia in Yemen since
around 2016.
* ⚓ Silent_anti-war_movements_offer_hope_and_solidarity_for_protesters⠀⇛
Flowers, plush toys, silence, mourning people and green ribbons
are not usually associated with a protest. However, anti-Russo-
Ukrainian War protesters have embraced this silent rebellion in
the face of strict censorship from the Russian government.
Protesters no longer take to the streets and gather with
marches, signages or oral advocacy.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_signs_New_START_nuclear_treaty_suspension_into_law_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Vladimir Putin has signed a decree that officially suspends
Russia’s cooperation with the New START Treaty, the sole
nuclear arms control agreement between Russia and the U.S.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_vanished_combatants:_Thousands_of_Russian_servicemen
are_MIA_in_Ukraine._Most_of_them_are_likely_dead,_but_their_families_can
neither_bury_them_nor_file_for_state_compensation._—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s wartime casualties in Ukraine include a large class of
personnel who are missing. Most of these troops have likely
been killed, but their families can neither get ahold of their
bodies nor file for the compensation promised by the state.
Often, they try to find their loved ones through dedicated
social media groups, and by querying hospitals, morgues, and
the Defense Ministry. Novaya Gazeta Europe has analyzed 9,905
posts on the popular social network VKontakte (VK), discovering
references to 1,365 Russian troops whose relatives are
fruitlessly trying to locate them. Although this is only a
fraction of all the missing army personnel, this limited data
points to systemic problems in Russia’s military record-
keeping.
* ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Could_Lula_Help_End_the_War_in_Ukraine?_Brazil’s
President_Vows_to_Pursue_Diplomacy,_Won’t_Arm_Kyiv⠀⇛
We speak with Celso Amorim, the foreign adviser to Brazilian
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, about how Brazil could
play a key role in peace talks to end the war in Ukraine. Lula
recently met with President Biden, who has unsuccessfully
pushed Brazil to send weapons to Ukraine. Lula says he told
Biden, “I don’t want to join the war, I want to end the war.”
“If you only talk how to defeat Russia, how to enfeeble or
weaken Russia, that will not come to a positive conclusion,”
says Amorim, who also previously served as Brazil’s foreign
minister, as well as its defense minister. “You have to talk to
everyone, including your adversaries.”
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Recruiters_on_social_media_seek_attendees_for_‘concert-rally’
to_mark_ninth_anniversary_of_Crimea_annexation,_promising_speech_from
Putin_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Recruiters have begun searching on social media for potential
attendees for an upcoming “concert-rally” at Moscow’s Luzhniki
stadium to mark the ninth anniversary of Russia’s annexation of
Crimea, according to the Telegram channel Sirena.
* ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ ‘A_civilization_war’:_Ukrainian_leaders_discuss_a_year
of_Russian_invasion⠀⇛
A year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, four Ukrainian
political and civic leaders discuss Ukraine’s future.
§ Environment⠀➾
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Sales_of_SUVs—Responsible_for_More_Carbon_Pollution
Than_All_But_5_Countries—Still_Rising⠀⇛
Although the total number of automobiles sold globally fell
slightly last year, worldwide sales of sport utility vehicles
rose significantly, with 330 million SUVs now on—and off—the
world’s roads emitting more planet-heating greenhouse gases
than all but five nations, an analysis published Monday
revealed.
* ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Earth_on_the_verge_of_crossing_critical_climate
thresholds,_Stanford_study_finds⠀⇛
Artificial intelligence provides new evidence for global
warming thresholds, with temperatures projected to cross 1.5
degrees Celsius in 10-15 years. Further warming beyond 2
degrees is possible even with significant emissions reductions,
according to the Stanford study.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Extinction_Rebellion_Protesters_Target_Law_Firm_for
‘Defending_Climate_Criminals’⠀⇛
Dozens of protesters on Tuesday gathered at Eversheds
Sutherland offices in four U.K. cities—Birmingham, Cardiff,
London, and Nottingham—to call out the corporate law firm’s
work for major polluters fueling the climate emergency.
* ⚓ DeSmog ☛ French_NGOs_Sue_BNP_Paribas,_Europe’s_Largest_Financier_of
Fossil_Fuel_Expansion⠀⇛
French environmental organizations Notre Affaire à Tous,
Friends of the Earth France, and Oxfam France last week filed
what they say is the world’s first climate lawsuit against a
commercial bank, suing BNP Paribas over its continued funding
of fossil fuels. The lawsuit is part of a burgeoning movement
to pressure financial institutions to end their funding of the
fossil fuel sector due to the climate emergency. And if these
funders refuse to stop their polluting investments, the
movement aims to hold them accountable through strategies such
as direct action and litigation.
The new lawsuit against BNP Paribas, filed February 23 in the
Paris Judicial Court, claims that the French bank is in breach
of France’s “duty of vigilance” law. That groundbreaking 2017
law requires large companies to assess risks and impacts of
their business activities on human rights and the environment
and develop plans to identify and mitigate those risks. The law
has been invoked in other lawsuits against corporate polluters
including French oil major TotalEnergies and most recently
against French food company Danone over its contribution to
plastic waste.
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ How_Nuclear_Power_Plants_Became_Tools_of_War⠀⇛
In 1946, Albert Einstein shot off a telegram to several
hundred American leaders and politicians warning that the
“unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save
our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward
unparalleled catastrophe.” Einstein’s forecast remains
prescient. Nuclear calamity still knocks.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Nuclear_Power_Plants_as_Dangerous_Tool_of_War⠀⇛
In 1946, Albert Einstein shot off a telegram to several
hundred American leaders and politicians warning that the
“unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save
our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward
unparalleled catastrophe.” Einstein’s forecast remains
prescient. Nuclear calamity still knocks.
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ The_Nuclear_“War”_in_Ukraine_May_Not_Be_the_One_We
Expect⠀⇛
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ FTX_Co-Founder_Nishad_Singh_Pleads_Guilty_in
Fraud_Inquiry⠀⇛
Nishad Singh, an FTX founder, pleaded guilty to criminal
charges and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors
investigating Sam Bankman-Fried.
* § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
o ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Elephants_in_US_zoos?_Without_breeding,_future
is_uncertain⠀⇛
Over the past year, the Fresno Chaffee Zoo has been
pulled into a growing global debate over the future of
elephants in zoos. In recent years, some zoos have phased
out elephant exhibits due to the complexity of the
animals and their needs. Still, others, like Fresno’s
zoo, say they are committed to keeping elephants and are
turning to breeding, arguing that a sustainable
population of zoo elephants will help spur a commitment
to wildlife conservation among future generations of
visitors.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ South_Africa_and_Nigeria_graylisted_for_money_laundering⠀⇛
The gray listing of Africa’s leading economies—South Africa and
Nigeria—by global anti-money laundering and terrorism financing
watchdog, Financial Action Task Force (FATF), is expected to
present far-reaching setbacks to the two countries’ economic
growth.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Is_Inflation_Out_of_Control_Again?⠀⇛
The January data on consumer expenditures released yesterday
had a lot of people freaking out. The story is that the Fed is
going have to get out the big guns to really shoot inflation
down.
For those of us hoping that inflation would come down, without
a big jump in unemployment, the report was definitely bad news.
It showed strong growth in consumption, and more troubling, a
0.6 monthly increase in both the overall Personal Consumption
Expenditure Deflator (PEC) and the core.
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Rivian_shares_fall_on_mixed_earnings_and_ongoing
losses⠀⇛
Shares in Rivian Automotive Inc. dropped in late trading after
the electric vehicle maker reported mixed results and ongoing
losses in its latest earnings report.
⚓ New York Times ☛ Rivian_Lost_$6.8_Billion_Last_Year_as_Production_Fell
Short⠀⇛
The maker of electric trucks said it expected to double production in
2023 as the supply of parts became more reliable.
⚓ Quartz ☛ Biden_is_banking_on_chip_makers_to_further_his_affordable_childcare
plans [Ed: Painting de facto corporate bailouts as "good for kids" (whom in
practice you saddle with more debt)]⠀⇛
US president Joe Biden’s war chest of subsidies for chip
manufacturers comes with strings attached.
⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia’s_corruption_watchdog_wants_harsher_penalties⠀⇛
Penalties imposed in some corruption cases could be harsher, Jēkabs
Straume, chief of the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau
(KNAB) said in the Saeima Defense, Internal Affairs and Corruption
Prevention Commission on February 28, LETA reported.
⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ HP_beats_earnings_targets_despite_big_drop_in_PC_sales [Ed:
That just means it set the targets very low -- a typical tactic to make losses
seem like a "win"]⠀⇛
Shares of the personal computer and printer giant HP Inc. rose
slightly in extended trading today after it reported earnings that
came in just ahead of analysts’ estimates, despite a big drop in
revenue.
⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Thoughtworks_tops_fourth-quarter_estimates,_but_stock_tumbles
17%+⠀⇛
Nasdaq-listed technology consultancy Thoughtworks Holding Inc. topped
revenue and earnings per share estimates in the fourth quarter, but
its shares nevertheless lost over 17% of their value during today’s
trading session. The selloff may be connected to the company’s
pessimistic first-quarter outlook.
⚓ WhichUK ☛ Klarna_to_start_charging_late_fees⠀⇛
Currently, you aren’t penalised for missing a payment with Klarna as
you are with other BNPL schemes such as Clearpay or Laybuy. But for
orders placed on or after 16 March, you could face fees of up to £10
if you don’t make your payments in time.
⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Too_long,_too_complex,_too_weird:_the_twisted_history_of
Tubular_Bells⠀⇛
Released 50 years ago this spring, Tubular Bells was a surprise smash
that turned its teenage composer into a reluctant, and very wealthy,
rock star. The album – which comprises just two vocal-free tracks
that clock in at around 25 minutes each – sold 17 million copies,
launched Richard Branson’s Virgin Records label, soundtracked the
scariest horror film of all time and even had its ‘bent tube’ cover
reproduced on Royal Mail postage stamps. It also marked an early
fusion of classical music and rock, leading to one of the most
logistically-challenging – but ultimately iconic – music performances
in BBC television history.
⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Shareholder_Showdown:_The_Most_Important_Climate_Votes_You’ve
Never_Heard_Of⠀⇛
Today, a coalition of over 240 organizations across North America
announced a new campaign on big banks and insurance companies:
Shareholder Showdown. This spring, we’re calling for shareholders to
step up and push major corporations to start taking the climate
crisis seriously.
⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_unofficial_‘tsarina’_Investigative_journalists_say_they’ve
discovered_Putin’s_‘slush_fund’_and_how_he_showers_his_rumored_lover_in_luxury
—_Meduza⠀⇛
In a two-part investigative report released in Russian and English on
Tuesday, February 28, 2023, journalists at Proekt revealed new
details about an alleged “slush fund” used to finance Vladimir
Putin’s lavish private life and the lives of his closest companions,
including retired gymnast Alina Kabaeva, the rumored mother of at
least three children with Russia’s president. The investigation
focuses first on a Cyprus-based company called Ermira Consultants
(including how it profits off vodka merchandized with Putin’s name)
and then on palace constructed outside Valdai. Throughout both
stories, readers learn about the enormous entourage of relatives,
friends, and acquaintances who serve as nominal owners of Putin’s
alleged vast wealth. Meduza summarizes Proekt’s main findings.
⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Hundreds_Rally_Outside_Supreme_Court_Amid_‘Baseless’_Attack
on_Student_Debt_Relief⠀⇛
Borrowers, advocates, and lawmakers converged on the steps of the
U.S. Supreme Court on Monday night and Tuesday morning to defend
President Joe Biden’s stalled student debt relief plan as justices
prepared to consider a pair of right-wing challenges to the popular
proposal.
⚓ The Revelator ☛ Countdown_to_the_Next_East_Palestine?⠀⇛
⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Something_Not_Always_Better_Than_Nothing’:_Experts_Warn
Against_Biden’s_Child_Care_Scheme⠀⇛
A new Biden administration policy that will reserve federal
manufacturing funds for companies that help their employees access
childcare will only perpetuate a system in which far too many U.S.
families struggle to find care, one expert on the crisis said Monday.
⚓ Quartz ☛ Amazon_UK_workers_are_striking_for_the_second_time⠀⇛
Workers staged the second-ever strike at Amazon UK today (Feb. 28) in
a fight for higher pay. As many as 380 workers joined the picket line
at a Coventry warehouse where the e-commerce giant employs about
1,500 people
⚓ Common Dreams ☛ How_Unchecked_Corporate_Greed_Makes_Train_Disasters
Inevitable⠀⇛
Stuff happens, right?
⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Florida_Derailment_Strengthens_Case_for_Urgently_Needed
Railway_Safety_Proposal⠀⇛
This is a developing story… Please check back for possible updates…
⚓ TruthOut ☛ “I_Am_Fired_Up”:_Sanders,_Warren_Join_Rally_for_Student_Debt
Cancellation⠀⇛
⚓ TruthOut ☛ Nebraska_Democrat_Vows_to_Filibuster_All_Bills_Until_Anti-Trans
Bill_Is_Defeated⠀⇛
⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Justices_‘Cast_Doubt’_on_Biden’s_Student_Debt_Forgiveness
Plan⠀⇛
President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive more than $400 billion in
student loan debt to over 40 million borrowers drew criticism from
conservative members of the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday as the
justices heard oral arguments in a pair of cases that will decide the
fate of one of the president’s signature policies and impact the
financial futures of millions of Americans.
⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Student_Debt_Relief_in_Jeopardy_as_Conservative_Supreme_Court
Justices_Question_Biden’s_Plan⠀⇛
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two challenges to
the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan, which could give
tens of millions of federal borrowers up to $20,000 of relief. During
arguments, several conservative justices expressed skepticism over
the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan, while liberal
Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the Republican states who brought one
of the lawsuits. We’re joined by Eleni Schirmer, who organizes with
the Debt Collective and is a writer and postdoctoral fellow at
Concordia University’s Social Justice Centre in Montreal. Her new
piece in The New Yorker is headlined “How the Government Cancelled
Betty Ann’s Debts.”
⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘A_Decent_Society_Would_Not_Let_This_Happen’:_30_Million
Across_US_Face_Food_Aid_Cuts⠀⇛
As of Wednesday, around 30 million people across the United States
will have their family’s food assistance slashed, despite high prices
and expert warnings about a “hunger cliff.”
⚓ TruthOut ☛ 30_Million_Across_the_US_Have_Their_Family’s_Food_Assistance
Slashed⠀⇛
⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Shareholder_Capitalism_and_the_Cruelty_of_Mass_Layoffs⠀⇛
Ever since Margaret Thatcher famously claimed, “There is No
Alternative,” mass layoffs have ripped through Western democracies.
In good times and bad, employees are discarded en masse. In the
United States during the early 1980s, the axe first fell harshly on
industrial workers as manufacturing collapsed.
⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Calls_to_Scrap_the_Cap_Grow_as_Millionaires_Stop_Paying_Into
Social_Security_for_the_Year⠀⇛
On Tuesday, not even two full months into 2023, millionaires will
stop paying into Social Security for the rest of the year thanks to a
cap on taxable income that progressive campaigners and lawmakers want
to raise—or eliminate completely.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ The_Cheats’_Election⠀⇛
It is over ten years since I allowed a guest post on this blog.
This is because I never listen to anybody except myself. That
way I avoid hearing anything disagreeable.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ VK_bans_fully_remote_employees_from_living_and_working_abroad,
insists_all_staff_must_be_in_Russia⠀⇛
In January, independent Russian media reported that VK had
decided to fire the employees who had left Russia after
Vladimir Putin had announced the mobilization. A company
insider said the decision was motivated by information security
concerns.
* ⚓ CBC ☛ Jagmeet_Singh_will_deactivate_TikTok_account_in_response_to
security,_privacy_concerns⠀⇛
Singh has nearly 879,000 followers on TikTok. Singh said his
party plans to deactivate the account by the end of the day
Tuesday.
He said he’s not worried the move will cost him political
support in spite of his large following on the popular video-
sharing platform.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Calling_Out_‘Hypocrisy_and_Censorship,’_Campaign_Aims
to_Prevent_US_TikTok_Ban⠀⇛
Data privacy and free speech advocates on Tuesday sounded the
alarm about “hypocrisy and censorship” as U.S. House
Republicans pushed for a bill to effectively ban TikTok, a
video-sharing platform created by the Chinese company
ByteDance, across the country.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Republicans_want_to_help_Biden_ban_TikTok⠀⇛
Momentum against TikTok is brewing in Congress, where House
Republicans are marking up legislation to empower President
Biden_to_ban_the_app.
Why it matters:The U.S. government’s security review of TikTok
has dragged on for years, and lawmakers are growing impatient
to appear strong against potential Chinese threats.
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Our_Growing_TikTok_Moral_Panic_Still_Isn’t_Addressing_The
Actual_Problem⠀⇛
The Biden administration has given all federal agencies 30 days
to ensure staffers do not have TikTok on any federal devices.
All agency vendors are to adhere to the same rules within 90
days. It’s the latest evolution in a growing planetary moral
panic that’s gotten well out ahead of its skis, resulting in
often-performative solutions that don’t fix the actual problem.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Canada_bans_TikTok_on_government_mobile_devices_as_security
precaution⠀⇛
Fortier reiterated the Government of Canada’s commitment to
maintaining the security of government information through this
ban. While the Canadian government does not have evidence that
government information was compromised through the use of
TikTok, it says there are clear security risks that arise from
TikTok’s data collection methods.
* ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ More_layoffs_at_Twitter,_and_loyalist_Esther_Crawford
isn’t_spared⠀⇛
The layoffs came this weekend after Twitter employees realized
they had been cut off from using Slack. While it later came out
that Twitter hadn’t paid its Slack bill on time, that’s not why
the platform went down. The Platformer reported that someone at
Twitter manually shut off access. Many employees worried that
this was the first sign of layoffs to come, and while
correlation does not equal causation, an entire company being
cut off from their main mode of communication as layoffs
started dropping like bombs caused confusion and panic all
around.
* ⚓ The Nation ☛ When_There’s_a_Communist_Running_City_Hall⠀⇛
To get an idea of how Elke Kahr understands her job, you only
have to wait at her office. When I visited the communist mayor
of the Austrian city of Graz one morning in early February, her
two secretaries were busy taking calls from locals. “Would you
want an appointment with the mayor?,” one of them asked an
apparently upset caller. “What about tomorrow, 6:30 pm?” A few
minutes later, the other secretary picked up the phone. “You
sent us an e-mail,” she started. “I wanted to ask if you are
free later this week.” Graz is no metropolis, but with nearly
300,000 inhabitants, it’s Austria’s second-largest city. As
result of her approach to politics, Kahr’s workdays are almost
always longer than 12 hours. Nearly every day, she meets with
constituents from all backgrounds.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Rejecting_Lightfoot,_Chicago_Picks_Progressive_to_Face
School_Privatizer_in_Mayoral_Runoff⠀⇛
Chicago voters rejected Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s bid
for a second term on Tuesday, elevating progressive Cook County
Commissioner Brandon Johnson to face conservative candidate
Paul Vallas—an ardent school privatization advocate—in an April
4 runoff.
* ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Chicago_Mayor_Lightfoot_Loses_Election;_Candidates
Backed_by_Police_&_Teacher_Unions_Head_to_Runoff⠀⇛
Chicago-based Democracy Now! co-host Juan González gives an
update on the Chicago mayoral race after incumbent Mayor Lori
Lightfoot failed to advance to a runoff election. The two top
candidates are now Paul Vallas, the former head of Chicago
Public Schools, who has been endorsed by the local police
union, and Brandon Johnson, an organizer with the Chicago
Teachers Union. González says the race pits progressives in the
city against centrist and conservative forces and could be a
bellwether of where the Democratic Party goes.
* ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ ‘You_may_ask_a_question,_just_don’t_expect_an
answer!’⠀⇛
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Bola_Tinubu_is_the_new_president_of_Nigeria⠀⇛
After four days of vote tallying, Nigeria has a new president
in Bola Tinubu—the All Progressive Congress party candidate who
campaigned on the slogan “it’s my turn.”/p>
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Fines_Wikipedia_Over_Military_‘Misinformation’⠀⇛
The Wikimedia Foundation was fined 2 million rubles ($27,000)
by a Russian court on February 28 after the authorities accused
it of failing to delete “misinformation” about the Russian
military from Wikipedia, the courts service said. [...]
* ⚓ Reuters ☛ Russian_court_fines_Wikipedia_over_military
‘misinformation’⠀⇛
Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine last year, Russia
introduced sweeping new laws restricting what people can report
about the conflict, fining or blocking websites that spread
information at odds with the Kremlin’s official narrative.
* ⚓ National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial
Influence Online ☛ Safety_Tech_Challenge_Fund⠀⇛
The REPHRAIN research centre are pleased to announce to release
of “Towards a Framework for Evaluation CSAM Prevention and
Detection Tools in the Context of End-to-end encryption
Environments: a Case Study”.
Through the Safety Tech Challenge Fund, the UK Government
awarded funding to five projects to prototype innovative,
automated technologies to help keep children safe in E2EE
environments, such as online messaging platforms, while
ensuring user privacy is respected.
* ⚓ EDRI ☛ Children_deserve_a_secure_and_safe_[Internet]⠀⇛
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) need to hear from
you. They are now discussing a law that will endanger
everyone’s privacy and safety. The proposed law promises to
protect children from sexual abuse by breaking encrypted,
secure communications.
But experts show that breaking encryption will turn the
internet into a space that is dangerous for everyone’s privacy,
security and free expression. This includes the very children
that this legislation aims to protect.
The United Nations and UNICEF state, online privacy is vital
for young people’s development and self-expression, and
children should not be subjected to generalised surveillance.
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Twitter_updates_violent_speech_policy_with_‘zero
tolerance’_for_the_worst_cases⠀⇛
It should be pretty obvious that users should not “incite,
promote or encourage” other users to commit violence or promote
“genocide” or “war crimes,” but the “coded language” Twitter
says that is a masked threat is also verboten on the platform.
Twitter says users will also face the music if they “glorify,
praise or celebrate” acts of violence that have caused someone
obvious harm.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Fantastic_News_for_the_Country!’_Biden_Nominates_Julie
Su_for_Labor_Secretary⠀⇛
Progressives on Tuesday applauded as U.S. President Joe Biden
nominated Julie Su to succeed outgoing Labor Secretary Marty
Walsh—a choice the nation’s largest federation of unions said
will “continue the Department of Labor’s historic legacy of
pro-union leadership.”
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Biden_to_nominate_Julie_Su_to_head_Labor_Department⠀⇛
President Biden announced Tuesday that he plans to nominate
Julie_Su, a longtime advocate for workers’ rights, to lead the
Labor Department.
* ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Arizona_Child_Welfare_Director_Dismissed_Amid_GOP_Attacks
Speaks_Out⠀⇛
Arizona’s newly elected Democratic governor, Katie Hobbs, has
given up on another of her Cabinet nominees in the face of
misleading attacks from Republicans in the state Legislature.
Matthew Stewart was forced out last Wednesday after serving
just a month and a half as Hobbs’ director of the Department of
Child Safety, the state child protective services agency.
When Hobbs selected Stewart in December, she called him one of
“the best minds Arizona has to offer” and a leader on racial
justice issues who would “transform” a child welfare system
that ProPublica and NBC News had found investigated the
families of 1 in 3 Black children in metro Phoenix during a
recent five-year period.
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Republicans_Are_Working_on_Making_70_the_New_Social_Security
Retirement_Age⠀⇛
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ Türkiye_sentences_a_journalist_under_‘disinformation_law’_for
first_time⠀⇛
Sinan Aygül had tweeted about allegations of child abuse
against security, but deleted the tweets a few hours
later, apologizing for sharing unconfirmed information.
o ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ The_latest_from_Arte_Weekly:_Inflation,
refugees_and_propaganda_–_what_the_war_in_Ukraine_brought_to
European_countries⠀⇛
o ⚓ El País ☛ Murdoch_testified_Fox_News_hosts_endorsed_idea_that
Biden_stole_election⠀⇛
The recently unsealed documents include excerpts from a
deposition in which Murdoch was asked about whether he
was aware that some of the network’s commentators –Lou
Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro and Sean Hannity
–at times endorsed the false election claims. Murdoch
replied, “Yes. They endorsed.”
The Murdoch deposition is the latest filing in the
defamation case to reveal concerns at the top-rated
network over how it was handling Trump’s claims as its
ratings plummeted after the network called Arizona for
Joe Biden, angering Trump and his supporters.
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Rupert_Murdoch_Admits_Fox_Hosts_“Were_Endorsing”_False
Election_Fraud_Claims⠀⇛
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Murdoch_admits_some_Fox_News_hosts_‘endorsed’_false
election_fraud_claims⠀⇛
Fox Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch acknowledged that some
Fox News commentators endorsed the false allegations by
former President Donald Trump and his allies that the
2020 presidential election was stolen and that he didn’t
step in to stop them from promoting the claims, according
to excerpts of a deposition unsealed Monday.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Rupert_Murdoch_Admits_That_Fox_Pushed_Trump’s
Election_Lies_for_Profit⠀⇛
“It’s not red or blue—it is green.”
o ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ Trump_Melts_Down_Over_Murdoch_Admitting_Fox_Lied
About_Election_Fraud⠀⇛
In his testimony, Murdoch admits that hosts on the
network aired false claims about the election and alleged
voter fraud, and that company executives could have
intervened to prevent their broadcast.
o ⚓ El País ☛ The_Nord_Stream_sabotage:_conspiracy_theories,
suspicions_and_silence⠀⇛
Another reason for the investigations’ secrecy is the
intelligence-collecting methods and data being used.
Western countries do not want to reveal clues about the
technology they use to monitor the Baltic Sea or the
sensors and other military equipment they have deployed
in a sensitive European security area. This is why a
joint inquiry was immediately ruled out, and independent
investigations are underway. With war raging in Europe,
some information cannot be shared – not even with allies.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Romania_Warns_Of_‘Fake_News’_About_It_Massing_Troops_On
Moldovan_Border⠀⇛
Russia has falsely claimed that Ukraine is planning to
invade Transdniester, raising suspicions that Moscow is
looking for a pretext to annex the separatist region, as
it did with Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014.
o ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ ‘It’s_all_a_lie’:_Russians_are_trapped_in
Putin’s_parallel_universe._But_some_want_out⠀⇛
Draconian new censorship laws targeted any media still
operating outside the controls of the Kremlin and most
independent journalists left the country. A digital Iron
Curtain was reinforced, shutting Russians off from
Western news and social media sites.
And as authorities rounded up thousands in a crackdown on
anti-war protests, a culture of fear descended on Russian
cities and towns that prevents many people from sharing
their true thoughts on the war in public.
o ⚓ NPR ☛ How_Russia_is_losing_—_and_winning_—_the_information_war_in
Ukraine⠀⇛
Russia’s war in Ukraine isn’t just being fought on the
ground and in the air with tanks, artillery and fighter
jets. It’s also playing out online, where the Kremlin and
its allies are using propaganda, fake social media
accounts, forged documents and manipulated videos and
images to push false narratives, in an effort to deflect
blame from Moscow and undermine support for Ukraine.
[...]
Like the claim that Ukraine was developing biological
weapons with the assistance of the U.S. government, which
was picked up and amplified in the U.S. by far-right
online influencers, followers of the QAnon conspiracy
theory, and even Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ A_Comic_That_Captures_the_Antic_Energy_of_a_Post-
Truth_World⠀⇛
The Department of Truth is set in a world where, if
enough people believe it, a conspiracy theory will
manifest and become reality. For example, in one
storyline, the characters have to hunt down Bigfoot, who
wanders the world as a hazy cryptid because
cryptozoologists have spread the word about his
existence. The comic book series centers on Cole, an FBI
agent recruited into the Department of Truth, a US agency
tasked with trying to rein in this alternative reality.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Sensitivity_Rewrites:_The_Cultural_Purging_of_Roald
Dahl⠀⇛
Censorship is never innocent, made worse for its strained good
intentions. For those responsible for setting and policing
such policies, the inner judge comes out, stomping on assumed
meanings, interpreting and removing things to ensure the masses
are not corrupted. Children’s stories and tales have not been
exempted from this train of revision, expurgation and
adjustment.
In modifying the language of children’s texts, a number of
agents come into play: concerned parents, worried authorities,
and the considerations that reflect the temper and mores of the
time. Publishers, keen to ensure a wider readership, feel
pressure to alter the original text to stay modern and trendy.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Journalist_Yulia_Starostina,_who_worked_to_help_displaced
Ukrainians,_fined_for_‘discrediting’_Russian_army_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A Moscow court has fined journalist Yulia Starostina 50,000
rubles ($667) on charges of “discrediting” the Russian army,
according to the independent outlet Mediazona.
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Taamneh_Case_Gave_Us_A_Glimpse_Of_The_Horror_Websites_Would
Face_In_A_Post-Section_230_World⠀⇛
Last week I wrote some initial thoughts on the Supreme Court
hearing in Gonzalez v. Google. Of course, as lots of people
mentioned, it was tied at the hip with another case, Taamneh v.
Twitter, as both were granted cert together. The two cases have
been connected for a while, as the decisions in the 9th Circuit
on both of them weren’t just released on the same day, but in
the same ruling. The fact patterns between the two cases are at
least somewhat similar (and similar to a bunch of other
ridiculous cases). Someone, somewhere in the world, was killed
in a terrorist attack. The plaintiff (who represents the estate
of the deceased) sues a social media company. Not because
there’s any evidence whatsoever connecting that company to the
attack, but because the plaintiffs claim that the social media
sites “aided and abetted” terrorists by… letting them use the
platform (not for planning the attack, just in general).
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_moves_to_criminalize_‘Russophobia’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Valery Fadeyev, chairman of Russia’s Human Rights Council, is
calling for a new law that would criminalize “Russophobia.”
* ⚓ Renowned_geologist_Ahmet_Ercan_detained_over_earthquake_comments⠀⇛
The professor was detained for “provoking the public into
hatred and hostility” over a social media post. He was released
after spending the night at the police headquarters.
* ⚓ Fenerbahçe_fans_banned_from_away_game_after_‘earthquake’_protests⠀⇛
Fans of the club protested the government during the last game
in their home turf. The club said the decision was
“unacceptable.”
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Prigozhin_asks_legislators_not_to_outlaw_‘constructive
criticism’_of_top_military_officials_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Wagner Group founder Evgeny Prigozhin appealed to the State
Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, asking him to exclude
“constructive criticism” of Russia’s top military officials
from the draft law that criminalizes “discrediting” the
participants of Russia’s so-called “special military operation”
in Ukraine.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_government_blocks_Shutterstock_for_hosting
‘destructive_materials,_including_suicide_and_pro-drug_content’_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s federal censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, announced
Wednesday that it has blocked the website of the stock image
provider Shutterstock in Russia, according to state media.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_authorities_open_investigation_into_university’s
Ukrainian_culture_exhibit,_but_student_council_pushes_back_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian Education and Science Ministry has organized an
official investigation into Peoples’ Friendship University of
Russia (RUDN) after the institution hosted an international
fair with exhibits by students from various countries,
including Ukraine, on Monday.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_police_arrest_father_charged_with_‘discrediting’_army
after_daughter_drew_anti-war_picture_at_school_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Alexey Moskalev, a single father who became the target of a
felony case after his daughter got in trouble at school for
drawing an anti-war picture in art class, has been arrested,
the independent outlet Spektr reported on Wednesday, citing a
person who knows the family.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ New_video_shows_one_of_the_‘violations’_for_which_jailed
politician_Alexey_Navalny_was_sent_to_a_‘punishment_cell’:_short_sleeves
—_Meduza⠀⇛
The human rights group Gulagu.net has published a video shot in
August 2022 at the prison holding Russian opposition figure
Alexey Navalny that reportedly shows one of the “violations”
for which the jailed politician was subsequently moved to a
“punishment cell.”
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Sanders,_Democrats,_and_a_Lone_Republican_Revive_PRO
Act_to_Strengthen_Workers’_Rights⠀⇛
Following a year in which strike activity surged and public
approval of unions reached its highest point in nearly six
decades, Sen. Bernie Sanders joined Democratic lawmakers and a
lone Republican on Tuesday in reintroducing legislation that
would strengthen workers’ organizing rights and crack down on
corporate union-busting.
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Bernie_Sanders_Reintroduces_PRO_Act_as_Labor_Activity_Is_on
the_Rise⠀⇛
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Immigrants_Win_“Unprecedented”_Settlement_Over_Violent_ICE
Workplace_Raid⠀⇛
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Majority_of_countries_guarantee_paid_paternity_leave_—_but_not
the_U.S.⠀⇛
Data: World Policy Analysis Center; Chart: Alice Feng/Axios
Sixty-three percent of countries around the world provide guaranteed paid
parental_leave for fathers, according to a report out Tuesday morning from the
World Policy Analysis Center.
⚓ EDRI ☛ 2023:_Important_consultations_for_your_Digital_Rights!⠀⇛
Public consultations are an opportunity to influence future
legislation at an early stage, in the European Union and beyond. They
are your opportunity to help shaping a brighter future for digital
rights, such as your right to a private life, data protection, or
your freedom of opinion and expression.
⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Longest_Alabama_Strike_Ends_as_Warrior_Met_Coal_Miners
Return._Record_Coal_Prices_Help_Break_Strike⠀⇛
In Alabama, hundreds of striking miners are set to return to work
Thursday after nearly two years spent on picket lines in the so-
called right-to-work state. This was the longest strike in Alabama
history. Its end comes after the Warrior Met Coal company
successfully used replacement workers to keep its mines running,
reporting large profits to shareholders due to the skyrocketing price
of coal. At the same time, the company told miners they would only
retain their jobs if they agreed to a 20% pay cut and to relinquish
various benefits relating to weekend pay and healthcare. We go to
Birmingham, Alabama, for an update from independent labor journalist
Kim Kelly, who has covered the Warrior Met strike since it began and
says many of the workers felt abandoned.
⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Death_Toll_from_Migrant_Shipwreck_Reaches_67_While_Italy
Cracks_Down_on_MSF_&_Other_Rescue_Groups⠀⇛
At least 67 people, including children, died in a shipwreck Sunday
off the coast of southern Italy, and rescue workers fear the death
toll could climb above 100 as they recover more bodies from the sea.
It is believed to be the deadliest migrant shipwreck of its kind in
almost a decade. Almost 26,000 people have died or gone missing in
the Mediterranean since 2014, but many governments have responded by
criminalizing rescue efforts by humanitarian groups. Just days before
this latest shipwreck off the coast of Italy, the Italian government
of far-right leader Giorgia Meloni approved a new law making it
harder for humanitarian aid rescue vessels to carry out their
missions. For more, we speak with Caroline Willemen, a search and
rescue leader with Médecins Sans Frontières, which has had one of its
ships detained by Italian authorities as part of the new measures,
blocking it from going to sea to save lives for at least 20 days.
⚓ Site36 ☛ EU_states_against_civilian_rescue:_Ships_should_meet_higher
standards⠀⇛
The German Federal Minister of Transport wants to tighten the Ship
Safety Ordinance and thus put obstacles in the way of sea rescuers.
Behind this is a master plan by an EU group in which three German
ministries participate
⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Gee_It’s_Nice_Your_State_is_Blue,_the_War_on_Abortion’s_Still
Coming_for_You⠀⇛
Let’s have a look at the latest development in the Christian fascist
Amerikaner campaign to re-impose the full pre-Roe v.Wade female
bondage of forced motherhood, paying special attention to the
sickening “Weimar” role of the Democratic Party and its allied
“choice” organizations/NGOs.
Recall how the dismal Dems and their friends in Indivisible, NARAL,
and Planned Parenthood, and countless mainstream liberals and
supposedly left “repro” groups across the country, justified their
abject failures to:
⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Anti-Abortion_Activists_Are_Fighting_to_Change_Election_Law⠀⇛
For decades, lawyers at the Thomas More Society have backed
provocateurs and long shot causes in hopes of winning severe
restrictions on abortion in the U.S.
As others in the anti-abortion movement distanced themselves from
clinic protestors accused of trespassing, vandalism and sometimes
violence, the Thomas More Society defended them in civil and criminal
court. The legal nonprofit once sided with a Wisconsin pharmacist who
refused to fill a birth control prescription on religious grounds.
⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Alone_and_Exploited”:_NYT_Exposé_Shows_Migrant_Kids_in_U.S.
Forced_into_Brutal_Jobs_for_Major_Brands⠀⇛
We speak with the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Hannah Dreier, who
revealed in a major New York Times investigation the widespread
exploitation of migrant children in some of the most dangerous jobs
in the country. In response, the Biden administration on Monday
announced it would carry out a broad crackdown on the use of migrant
child labor in the United States, vowing stricter enforcement of
labor standards and better support for migrant children. “These kids
are just on their own in these situations, with very little resources
and very few ways out,” says Dreier. We are also joined by Gregory
Chen, senior director of government relations for the American
Immigration Lawyers Association, who says migrant children need
better protection from unscrupulous employers and others who would
seek to exploit them. “Children don’t have any knowledge or
understanding of what their legal rights are,” says Chen.
⚓ TruthOut ☛ DeSantis_Targets_Immigrants_in_Lead-Up_to_Likely_Presidential
Run⠀⇛
⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Be_Afraid_of_Rick_Scott’s_Reactionary_Plan,_But_Thank_Him_for
Saying_It_Out_Loud⠀⇛
Florida Senator Rick Scott is perhaps the leading policy voice in
today’s Republican Party. His proposed “Rescue America Plan” outlines
detailed policies that would supposedly address our shared national
challenges and crises. They do not.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ EDRI ☛ Internet_restrictions_in_Turkey_violate_fundamental_rights⠀⇛
After the major earthquake that took place in Turkey on 6
February, covering 10 provinces and a population of
approximately 15 million, bandwidth restriction for social
media platforms such as Twitter and Tiktok was implemented.
Whenever the current government was criticised for not meeting
its obligations, throttling was used as an option to filter and
prevent the flow of information.
* ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Newsletter_spam…_out_of_nowhere!⠀⇛
Until this morning, I’d been subscribed to an email newsletter
for an event organiser. It was more of an announcement feed
than anything else, which probably could have been better
serviced by RSS.
Is there a gmane-like service, but that converts bulk email
received in a special inbox to an RSS feed? Now there’s an
idea! But I digress.
§ Opening the floodgates
Having emailed me one a month, or even once a quarter on
occasion, this event organiser decided that escalating this to
one to three emails a day was a good idea. This represents a
thirty-fold increase at minimum, which is quite the feat given
their emails printed on paper could barely_achieve_a_tenth_of
that. They’ve now cumulatively sent me more email in the last
week than the last three years, combined.
§ Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ After_Backlash_From_Its_Dumb_Password_Sharing_Crackdown,
Netflix_Lowers_Prices_In_100_Countries_(Just_Not_In_The_U.S.)⠀⇛
So we’ve noted more than a few times that Netflix’s password
sharing crackdown is a dumb cash grab. The company had already
raised prices, it had already monetized the thing it was
worried about (it already charges you extra if you want more
simultaneous streams), and its hard 180 from encouraging
password sharing to demonizing it turned off users just as
streaming competition heated up.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Zombie_Patents!_Can_Expired_Innovation_Patents_Still_Be_Examined
and_Certified?⠀⇛
The Australian Patent Office recently issued two
decisions on the examination and certification of
innovation patents owned by UK company Diogenes Limited:
Diogenes Limited [2023] APO 5 concerning innovation
patent no. 2020104437 (‘Diogenes 1’); and Diogenes
Limited [2023] APO 8 concerning innovation patent no.
2021103809 (‘Diogenes 2’).
o ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Some_light_for_the_sunrise:_5_questions_for
5_French_UPC_Judges [Ed: Team UPC continues to promote an illegal
and unconstitutional system with loaded headlines, meaningless puff
pieces, and lobbying designed to mislead]⠀⇛
Although the sunrise period starts today, the UPC remains
in the shadows for the moment.
* § Software Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Stupid_Patent_Of_The_Month:_Clocking_In_To_Work—On_An
App⠀⇛
What if we told you the Stupid Patent of the Month has a
sponsor, but we don’t know who it is? That would seem
shady, wouldn’t it?
o ⚓ EFF ☛ Stupid_Patent_of_the_Month:_Clocking_In_To_Work—On_an_App⠀⇛
This month’s stupid patent, U.S. Patent No. 9,986,435,
was brought to you—to all of us, really—from the murky
depths of the litigation finance industry. Originally
assigned to a shell company linked to giant patent troll
Intellectual Ventures, this patent was sold off and is
now in the hands of Mellaconic IP LLC, a recently-created
Texas shell company. Mellaconic has sued more than 40
companies over claims that a vast array of HR software
infringes their patent.
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ CC’s_#BetterSharing_Collection_|_March:_Better
Sharing,_Brighter_Future⠀⇛
Each month throughout 2023, we will be spotlighting a
different CC-licensed illustration from the collection on
our social media headers and the CC blog. For March,
we’re excited to showcase “Better Sharing, Brighter
Future” by Mexican illustrator and cartoonist, David
Espinosa. The piece, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, was
inspired by a quote from Catherine Stihler, Creative
Commons CEO:
o ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Charles_Riondet_—_Open_Culture_VOICES,_Season
2_Episode_4⠀⇛
Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that
highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as
well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening
up cultural heritage. Charles is the Digital and Open
Data Project Manager at Mucem where he works to increase
the usability and engagement of the museums collection.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ BitTorrent_Seedbox_Provider_Handed_Criminal
Conviction_Over_Users’_Piracy⠀⇛
A man who rented out servers configured for BitTorrent
file-sharing use has been handed a three-month suspended
sentence in Denmark. Known as ‘seedboxes’, these pre-
configured servers are not illegal per se, but when
customers used the devices to break copyright law on
known pirate sites, rightsholders held the server
provider liable.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ US_Court_Denies_Bungie’s_$2.2m_Claim_Against_UK
‘Ring-1′_Cheat_Seller⠀⇛
Bungie and Ubisoft’s request for default judgment in a
prominent cheating lawsuit has been denied by a
California federal court. The companies sought $2.2
million in copyright-related damages from a UK defendant
they described as a key player in the “Ring-1″ group. The
court concluded that the man was little more than a
customer support staffer.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ U.S._Govt:_Omi_in_a_Hellcat_Should_Serve_15.5
Years_For_Pirate_IPTV_Scheme⠀⇛
Three U.S. government attorneys say that Bill Omar
Carrasquillo, aka Omi in a Hellcat, should serve 15 years
and 8 months in prison for crimes related to his pirate
IPTV service, Gears TV. The YouTuber agreed to plead
guilty to felony copyright infringement, device fraud,
wire fraud, money laundering, and tax evasion, among
other crimes. Restitution: $30.2 million.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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(Software)_Patents⠀✐
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o GNU_Projects
o Programming/Development
# Python
* Leftovers
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Wildlife/Nature
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Patents
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ New_MakuluLinux_Teaser…⠀⇛
A new little Teaser showing off some new Features
being worked on at MakuluLinux for our Upcoming
“Max” release.
# ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Linux_Action_News_282⠀⇛
FFmpeg gets new superpowers, Plasma’s switch to Qt6
gets official; what you need to know. Plus we round
up the top features coming to Linux 6.3.
# ⚓ The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD_Now:_496:_Hacking_the_CLI⠀⇛
Automation and Hacking Your FreeBSD CLI, Run your
own instant messaging service on FreeBSD, Watch
Netflix on FreeBSD, HardenedBSD January 2023 Status
Report, How To Set Up SSH Keys With YubiKey as two-
factor authentication, OpenSSH fixes double-free
memory bug that’s pokable over the network, A late
announcement, but better late than never, Next
NYC*BUG and more
# ⚓ fossified⠀⇛
Magnus, Daniel, Henrik, and I have met here and
there when doing various things around open source.
It can range from hanging out over beers at fosdem,
to doing compliance work together at customers.
Regardless of context, we always have fun and lots
to talk about. So what’s better than starting a
podcast — that way, we need to meet up just to
talk. From this, fossifiedwas born.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_List_all_Open_File_Descriptors⠀⇛
One of the easiest ways to list all open file
descriptors is to use the lsof command If you are
here to list out all the open file descriptors,
then you may be aware of what a file descriptor is
and what the use of it is, but if you are unaware
of file descriptors…
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_Podman_on_CentOS_9_Stream_/
Fedora?⠀⇛
Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to
install Podman on CentOS 9 Stream / Fedora. What is
Podman? Podman is a container engine compatible
with the OCI Containers specification. Podman is
part of Red Hat Linux, but it can also be installed
on other distributions.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_CryptPad_Collaborative_Office
Suite_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Cryptpad is an open-source collaborative office
suite that serves as an alternative to Office 365.
It allows you to access office applications via the
web browser. In this tutorial, you will learn how
to install the Cryptpad suite on a Ubuntu 22.04
server.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Visual_Studio_Code_on_Manjaro_Linux
[Ed: This is proprietary Microsoft spyware and sites called
"linux" something ought not recommend or even mention it; it
gives Microsoft power and data]⠀⇛
Microsoft Visual Studio Code, commonly known as VS
Code, is a free, open-source, cross-platform code
editor developed by Microsoft. It was first
released in 2015 and has since gained immense
popularity among developers across the globe.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_yay_AUR_Helper_on_Manjaro
Linux⠀⇛
Yet Another Yogurt, or YAY, is a popular AUR helper
written in Go programming language. AUR (Arch User
Repository) is a community-driven repository of
user-created packages for Arch Linux and its
derivatives.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_WPS_Office_on_Manjaro
Linux⠀⇛
WPS Office is a popular office suite software that
provides users various tools for creating, editing,
and sharing documents, spreadsheets, and
presentations. The software was developed by
Kingsoft Office Software Corporation Limited, a
Chinese company, and is available for Windows,
macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS platforms.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_LibreOffice_Manjaro_Linux⠀⇛
LibreOffice is a free and open-source office suite
first released in 2010. It includes programs for
word processing, spreadsheets, presentations,
databases, and more. LibreOffice is available for
various platforms, including Linux, Windows, and
macOS, making it a popular choice for users who
want a free and reliable alternative to proprietary
office suites.
# ⚓ Linux Cloud VPS ☛ How_to_Install_Node.js_on_AlmaLinux⠀⇛
In this guide, we will show you, how to install
Node.js on Almalinux. It is an open-source
JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript
engine. Nodejs also provides an event-driven
architecture and non-blocking I/O that is optimized
& scalable.
# ⚓ List_all_files_in_a_folder_in_a_git_repository_by_last
commit_date⠀⇛
$ git ls-tree --name-only HEAD foldername/ | while
read filename; do echo "$(git log -1 --format="%ci
" -- $filename) $filename"; done | sort -r
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ How_to_Upgrade_to_KDE_Plasma_5.27_on_Kubuntu
22.10⠀⇛
Upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.27 on Kubuntu 22.10 using
the Kubuntu Backports PPA. Learn how to add the PPA
to upgrade Plasma in minutes.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Xfce’s_Apps_Update_for_February_2023:_Ristretto
Gets_Printing_Support,_Major_Notifications_Changes,_and
More⠀⇛
February 2023 was another busy month for Xfce devs
as they released many new versions of popular Xfce
apps and core components to bring you new features
and improve reliability and stability by fixing
more bugs, crashes, memory leaks, and other
annoyances preventing you from fully enjoying your
Xfce desktop.
Major changes were brought to the xfce4-notifyd
notification daemon that implements the
Freedesktop.org desktop notifications specification
on Xfce, which received no less than four releases
up to version 0.8.2. These include a new setting to
never expire notifications, the ability to
reposition notifications when the work area
changes, and an improved Xfce panel icon when there
are unread notifications.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Pop!_OS_is_Working_on_a_New_Text_Editor,_Taking
Cues_from_Vim_and_VS_Code⠀⇛
System76 has been busy adding things to their
upcoming COSMIC DE on Pop!_OS; they recently shared
what they were up to for the month of February.
A new Bluetooth applet was included with the rest
of the work-in-progress applets for the ‘cosmic-
panel’, with discussions about how config files and
widget layering should work on COSMIC DE.
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ KDE ☛ KDE_Gear_22.12.3⠀⇛
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of
programmer libraries and feature plugins are
released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases
with updated translations, including…
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KDE_Gear_22.12.3_Is_Out_to_Improve
Kdenlive,_Ark,_Kate,_and_Other_Apps⠀⇛
KDE Gear 22.12.3 is here to improve various
of the included KDE apps for a better, more
stable, and reliable experience. For example,
it improves the Ark archive manager to
properly check if there is sufficient free
space available before extracting archives.
The Kdenlive video editor received some fixes
as well, such as a fix for a crash and offset
when moving a group that includes a subtitle,
a subtitle scrolling issue, the ability to
scroll the timeline when moving a subtitle, a
subtitle overlap issue on import, as well as
a subtitle snapping issue.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSUSE ☛ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_gains_optional_x86-64-v3
optimization⠀⇛
Tumbleweed users who performed a distribution
upgrade or zypper dup the last weeks on the rolling
release with “recommended packages” enabled (the
default) and matching hardware received a new
package named patterns-glibc-hwcaps-x86_64_v3
automatically installed. This is a new Tumbleweed
feature which will also automatically install the
“recommended” package named with the -x86-64-v3
name suffix that provides the optimized version of
the library.
“The performance optimizations people will gain
from this change is the result of much effort and
discussion,” said Douglas DeMaio, a member of the
openSUSE release team. “The x86-64 architecture
thread on the mailing list really drove the
discussion and the results will immediately provide
performance improvements for those with x86-64-v3
hardware. It would be great if people write about
these improvements so the results can be shared
among users of our rolling release.”
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Which_distribution_to_choose_from_the_RHEL_family?⠀⇛
In today’s post we are going to recommend which
distro use, from the RHEL family, for office
environments and which one for a business
environment.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Pillars_of_resilient_digital
transformation:_New_HBR_Analytic_Services_report⠀⇛
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_From_FCAIC_to_FCA:
Evolving_to_Community_Architect⠀⇛
In January 2023, the Fedora Council approved a
title change for the Fedora community role. The
Fedora Community Action & Impact Coordinator
(FCAIC) is now renamed to Fedora Community
Architect (FCA).
§ Does a title change make sense?
Last December, I was working together with Matthew
Miller and Ben Cotton on our role pages in_the
Council_docs, as part of a planned review of our
role documentation. While reviewing the FCAIC role
documentation, I took a new look at the role title
and whether I felt it was still right. While it
does describe the role and responsibilities well,
it still doesn’t feel quite right to me, in a
similar way that Community Lead didn’t feel right
in 2016. I spent some time thinking about the FCAIC
role, how it has changed over the years, and what I
feel it describes. Since I am still early in the
role, it felt like a good time to consider a title
change.
I settled on Fedora Community Architect as the new
title for the FCAIC role. In addition to being
shorter, I feel like it better describes the role.
Community work does not have an industry-accepted
job ladder, as is more common with software
engineering. Red Hat eventually settled on the
title of community architect to encapsulate and
describe community work in its pioneering open
source communities. I also like Community Architect
as a title. There is more literature and examples
for others to understand the work.
# ⚓ Kevin_Fenzi:_Tracking_down_a_bug⠀⇛
I thought I’d share a fun hour or so of my
afternoon and how I approached tracking down a bug
in the Fedora Xfce spin.
The bug is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
show_bug.cgi?id=2170682 “Updates cause Xfce to lose
all menu icons”. A curious bug, on updating to the
latest version icons in menus no longer were
enabled (although the user didn’t disable them and
they are enabled by default).
Since the report happily had the update where it
started, I went and looked first upstream (which
turned out to be a mistake, but you never know). I
looked through the recent commits for xfce4-
settings to see if anything stood out as possibly
being related to this. Nothing really did. All the
changes seemed minor and unrelated.
# ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_4_cool_new_projects_to
try_in_Copr_for_March_2023⠀⇛
This article introduces four new projects available
in Copr, with installation instructions.
# ⚓ Jakub_Kadlčík:_For_my_Fedora_packaging_sponsorees⠀⇛
You have just been sponsored to the Fedora packager
group and your
review ticket was formally granted the fedora-
review+ flag?
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Sequent_Microsystems_launches_LCD_Adapter
HAT_for_Raspberry_Pi_SBC⠀⇛
Sequent Microsystems launched last month an LCD
Display Adapter HAT compatible with the Raspberry
Pi Single Board Computer. This Raspberry Pi HAT is
also equipped with up to 6x Push buttons, a rotary
encoder and an onboard STM32 MCU.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ LILYGO_T-TWR_is_an_ESP32-S3_board_with_an
SA868_Walkie-Talkie_module⠀⇛
LILYGO T-TWR is an ESP32-S3 development board
fitted with an SA868 Walkie-Talkie module and a UHF
or VHF antenna, a speaker, a microphone, a small
0.96-inch OLED, and a 18650 battery holder, plus
some I/Os for expansion. Equipped with an ESP32-S3-
WROOM-1-16NR8 module, the T-TWR offers WiFi 4 and
Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity, a dual-core processor
with 16MB flash and 8MB PSRAM, and enables users to
design their own Walkie-Talkie, while its expansion
capabilities allow the control of devices. L
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ Why_Open_Source_should_be_exempt_from_Standard-
Essential_Patents⠀⇛
With the European Commission soon to offer the Parliament
a bill relating to Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs), it
is worth taking time to understand exactly why vendors
requiring negotiations to use the patents they have
embedded in “open” standards is antithetical to Open
Source practice. The value and prosperity generated from
Open Source arises from Open Source software licenses
seamlessly and frictionlessly permitting anyone to use,
modify, and redistribute the software for any purpose
including monetization. When SEPs are licensed in such a
way that bilateral negotiation with the licensors is a
necessary element of software use, Open Source projects
must necessarily avoid implementation of the associated
standards to the extent that it is possible for them to
do so. A requirement for bilateral, after-the-fact patent
licensing is by definition not Open Source due to this
introduction of licensing friction.
This is not a matter of ideology but of pragmatics. Open
Source developer communities operate on the assumption
that the intellectual property owners – including both
copyright and patent owners – have granted in advance all
necessary rights to enjoy the software in any field of
use and in any way. SEPs licensed on bilaterally-
negotiated terms break this model and thus are naturally
avoided. Further, the tendency for such bilateral
negotiations to have some form of non-disclosure
agreement (NDA) as a prerequisite also prevents many
communities wanting to engage with them as unlike
companies they do not have the mechanisms or resources to
“firewall” NDA terms and thus routinely refuse NDAs.
o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ FOSS_Weekly_#23.09:_Fedora_38_and_GNOME_44_Features,
NixOS_Guide_and_More⠀⇛
April will see the release of next versions of Ubuntu and
Fedora. March will have next version of KDE and GNOME.
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Brendan Gregg ☛ Brendan_Gregg:_USENIX_SREcon_APAC_2022:
Computing_Performance:_What’s_on_the_Horizon⠀⇛
At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote
on the future of computer performance, rounding up
the latest developments and making predictions of
where I see things heading. This talk originated
from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd
Edition], and this was the first time I’ve given
this talk in person!
[...]]
I began my tech career as a junior Unix sysadmin in
Newcastle, NSW, Australia, in 1999, with no
connection to the exciting world of tech in Silicon
Valley, New York, or even nearby Sydney. As I was
determined to become great at my new occupation
regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin
book, article, and magazine I could find on the
shelf. This included SysAdmin magazine, which
contained articles from various experts including
Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was
to submit your own articles to the magazine for
publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki
Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX
conferences in the US and learn directly from the
experts! I made both of these my goals, even though
I’d never been published before and I’d never been
to the US. Or even on a plane.
I didn’t end up getting published in SysAdmin
directly, but my performance work did make it as a
feature article (thanks Matty). As for attending
USENIX conferences: I finally started attending and
speaking at them in 2010 when a community manager
encouraged me to (thanks Deirdre Straughan), and
since then I’ve met many friends and connections,
including Amy who is now USENIX President, and
Rikki with whom I co-chaired the USENIX LISA18
conference. USENIX has been a great help to my
career and my employers, and I hope it is just as
helpful for you. It’s an important vendor-neutral
space to share the latest in technology.
# ⚓ Carl Schwan ☛ Digital_Market_Act_workshop_in_Brussels⠀⇛
This Monday, I was in Brussels to attend a
stakeholder workshop for the Digital Market Act
(DMA) organized by the European Commission. For
those who don’t know that is the DMA, it’s a new
law that the European Parliament voted on recently
and one of its goals of it is to force some
interoperability between messaging services by
allowing small players to able to communicate with
users from the so-called Gatekeepers (e.g.,
WhatsApp).
I attended this meeting as a representative of KDE
and NeoChat. NeoChat is a client for the Matrix
protocol (a decentralized and end-to-end encrypted
chat protocol).
I started developing it with Tobias Fella a few
years ago during the covid lockdown.
I learned about this workshop thanks to NLNet, who
funded previous work on NeoChat (end-to-end
encryption). They put Tobias Fella and me in
contact with Jean-Luc Dorel, the program officer
for NGI0 for the European Commission. I would never
have imagined sitting in a conference room in
Brussels, thanks to my contribution to open-source
projects,
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Meet_Canonical_at_Embedded_World_2023⠀⇛
Embedded World is almost here! With 930+
exhibitors, 200 nonstop hours of knowledge sharing,
and an exciting programme structured along 9 tracks
with 60+ sessions and 18 classes, Embedded World is
the must-attend global event for the embedded
community.
[...]
The embedded_ecosystem is a key focus area for
Canonical. We are fully committed to supporting
device manufacturers and IoT pioneers across their
deployment journeys by providing a best-in-class
experience for embedded Linux in production.
At Embedded World, you’ll connect with
manufacturers engaging in large-scale, mass-
deployments of Linux boards. Those forward-thinkers
and innovators push the envelope of digital
infrastructure by adopting Ubuntu_Core, the most
popular Linux-based operating system (OS)
purposefully designed for the embedded world. By
relying on an enterprise-grade Linux distribution
supported over 10+ years, they empower their
enterprise customers to focus on what drives their
business, shortening time-to-market.
Meet our experts at Booth 4-600 in Hall 4 to learn
about Ubuntu_Core, the secure, application-centric
IoT OS for embedded devices. Embedded devices on
Ubuntu Core remain fully operational during both
application and system updates, as the delta,_OTA,
transactional_updates are either 100% successful or
not installed, leaving no trace of failure other
than log details. Device manufacturers are relieved
of the time and effort required to implement
reliable updates.
o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ LibreOffice_7.5.1_Community_available_for_download⠀⇛
LibreOffice 7.5.1 Community, the first minor
release of the LibreOffice 7.5 line, the volunteer-
supported free office suite for desktop
productivity, is available from our download page
for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS
(Apple Silicon and Intel processors), and Linux
[1].
o § GNU Projects⠀➾
# ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Blogs:_February_GNU_Spotlight_with_Amin_Bandali:
Eighteen_new_GNU_releases!⠀⇛
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Creator_10_Beta2_released⠀⇛
We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator
10 Beta2!
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ Getting_Started_with_Python_Programming_and
Scripting_in_Linux_–_Part_1⠀⇛
It has been said (and often required by
recruitment agencies) that system
administrators need to be proficient in a
scripting language.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ Learn_Python_Control_Flow_and_Loops_to
Write_and_Tune_Shell_Scripts_–_Part_2⠀⇛
In the previous article of this Python
series, we shared a brief introduction to
Python, its command-line shell, and the IDLE.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Türkiye:_Half_Million_Homeless_in_Kahramanmaras_After
Quakes⠀⇛
According to Tayyip Erdogan, 461 000 people are currently
sheltered in the entire province of Kahramanmaras.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ U.S._Govt_Outlines_Requirements_for_CHIPS
Act_Subsidies [Ed: Bailout sold to the taxpayers as "good for
kids"]⠀⇛
To get CHIPS Act subsidies, semiconductor companies
will have to agree to numerous terms.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ FBI_director_says_Covid_pandemic_likely_caused
by_China_lab_leak⠀⇛
FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday the
agency has assessed that a leak from a laboratory
in Wuhan, China, likely caused the COVID-19
pandemic.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Covid-19:_Medic_urges_Hong_Kong
students_to_remove_face_masks_to_improve_learning,_immunity⠀⇛
As Hong Kong lifts its almost three-year-old Covid-
19 mask mandate on Wednesday, a medical expert has
urged students to take their masks off for the
benefit of their education and immune system.
# ⚓ The Scientist ☛ Opinion:_New_Diabetes_Drug_Signals_Shift_to
Preventing_Autoimmunity⠀⇛
A therapy for type 1 diabetes is the first to treat
patients before symptoms appear, paving the way
toward preventing this and other autoimmune
diseases.
# ⚓ The Scientist ☛ Ecologists_Use_Museum_Specimens_to_Dig_into
the_Parasitic_Past⠀⇛
New techniques to quantify what lived in and on
preserved animals throw light on how parasite
abundance has changed over time.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Many_in_Hong_Kong_continue_to_wear
masks_despite_end_of_mandate⠀⇛
“I don’t feel safe not wearing one,” said a
professional in the city.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ No_human-to-human_transmission_found_in
Cambodian_bird_flu_cases⠀⇛
An investigation shows that both father and
daughter, who died last week, contracted the virus
from birds in the village.
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ NSW_nurses_told_to_stop_posting_explicit
content_on_OnlyFans⠀⇛
Nurses and midwives have been warned against
posting content on the adults-only website by the
industry’s professional complaints body.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ THL:_No_need_for_Covid_booster_jabs_this_spring⠀⇛
With the exception of individuals in risk groups,
the health agency does not recommend vaccine
boosters for most people.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ OpenAI_Is_Now_Everything_It_Promised_Not
to_Be:_Corporate,_Closed-Source,_and_For-Profit [Ed: Killed
by Microsoft, by means of infiltration]⠀⇛
OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-
dollar deals and corporate partnerships. Will it
seek to own its shiny AI future?
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Secure_Your_Computer_from_Getting
Hacked⠀⇛
Here are some pointers to keep your electronic
device safe while connected to the internet. Since
we live in a digital age, the internet has become
an important part of our daily lives. It makes
things easier and more efficient.
# ⚓ Piles_of_confidential_ANZ_bank_documents_found_‘floating
down_the_street’_after_they_were_carelessly_dumped_in_a_skip
bin_on_a_busy_street⠀⇛
Piles of confidential documents containing the
personal details of ANZ customers have been found
thrown in a skip bin on a busy street by someone
walking by.
Scott Collins, 26, was walking near Armadale
Central Shopping Centre, in Perth’s south-east,
when he noticed the papers overflowing from the
bins which were being used in renovations.
He said they included bank statements, letters and
internal communications that showed customer
account numbers, personal details, emails, phone
numbers and transaction histories.
‘I was just coming from work… I managed to find
these documents floating down the street,’ he told
9News.
# ⚓ Information Security Media Group, Corporation ☛ Supreme
Court_Hears_Healthcare_Identity_Theft_Case⠀⇛
Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court seem ready to
restrict federal prosecutors’ use of a federal law
criminalizing identity theft after hearing a case
challenging its application in a Medicaid fraud
case.
# ⚓ SANS ☛ BB17_distribution_Qakbot_(Qbot)_activity,_(Tue,_Feb
28th)⠀⇛
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ HRW ☛ Indian_Government_Moves_to_Remedy_Its_Violation
of_Children’s_Privacy⠀⇛
This week, the Indian government announced a
third-party security audit of Diksha, the
educational app it owns and uses to provide
online education to students in grades 1 to
12. The government also committed to better
protect the data privacy of children and
teachers using its app.
The news comes after Human Rights Watch
reported in January that the app had, for
over a year, exposed the personal data of
millions of students and teachers. The
unprotected records included children’s
names, schools, the state, district, and
block where they live, test scores, and
partially redacted phone numbers and email
addresses. Human Rights Watch also documented
how the app had the capability to collect
children’s precise location data, and that it
transmitted their data to a third-party
company using a tracker designed for
advertising.
The New Delhi-based digital rights group
Internet Freedom Foundation has called on the
National Commission for Protection of Child
Rights to initiate an inquiry into the
government’s violations of children’s
privacy.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Vilnius_police_investigate_vandalism_on_Ukraine’s
trophy_tank⠀⇛
A destroyed Russian tank on display in central
Vilnius was spray-painted on Tuesday night. The
tank, exhibited since last week, has become a site
of symbolic fight between supporters of Ukraine and
Russia.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Myanmar_military_destroys_more_than_100_homes_in
Mandalay_on_encroachment_claims⠀⇛
Residents of two blocks find themselves homeless
overnight amid a junta eviction campaign.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ UN_Nuclear_Watchdog_Confirms_Inspectors_Found
Particles_Of_Near_Weapons-Grade_Uranium_In_Iran⠀⇛
Inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog
found uranium particles enriched up to nearly 84
percent in Iran’s underground Fordow uranium
enrichment site, International Atomic Energy Agency
Director-General Rafael Grossi confirmed on
February 28.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ India_pushes_Russia,_China_to_join_G-20
consensus_on_war_wording⠀⇛
India is trying to push for one similar to that
reached by G-20 leaders last year.
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ The Scientist ☛ Researchers_Watch_Fish_Rot,_for
Science⠀⇛
Recording the pH within decaying organs for
the first time, researchers come closer to
understanding why some soft tissues are more
likely to be preserved as fossils than
others.
# ⚓ The Scientist ☛ Infographic:_How_Tadpoles_Use_Glucose
to_Fuel_Tail_Regrowth⠀⇛
Unlike other fast-growing cells, regenerating
tadpole cells fuel growth using the pentose
phosphate pathway rather than glycolysis, a
study indicates.
# ⚓ The Scientist ☛ How_Do_Scientists_Decide_a_Species
Has_Gone_Extinct?⠀⇛
Getting it wrong can harm the very creatures
that scientists are trying to protect.
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Novo_Nordisk’s_use_of_monkeys_in
testing_has_skyrocketed⠀⇛
Animal rights group has criticised biotech
giant for going against its own declared
target of curbing its use of monkeys
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Japan’s_birth_rate_plunges_to_a
record_low_in_7th_year_of_decline [Ed: That seems like
a smart move from Japan. Why the negative tone? Because
this paper is owned and controlled by PAP and its
ilk?]⠀⇛
The lack of births will reduce Japan’s
workforce and taxpayers in the world’s third-
largest economy.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_Supreme_Court_hears_oral_arguments_on_Biden
student_loan_forgiveness⠀⇛
The US Supreme Court Tuesday heard oral arguments
in Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v.
Brown, two cases that will determine the future of
the Biden administration’s student loan debt
forgiveness program.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ It’s_O.K._to_Be_Confused_About_This_Economy⠀⇛
Even the experts don’t really know where inflation
and jobs are headed.
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Camping_union_warns_new_law_could_give
Denmark_a_trailer_park_culture_similar_to_the_US⠀⇛
March 1 brought a reprieve for winter campers
served an eviction notice in Køge, but will the
proposed new rules be enough to save them next
winter?
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Mayors_and_governors_will_drive_the
future_of_North_American_economic_integration⠀⇛
Local leaders are forging ahead on initiatives that
enhance North American economic collaboration. By
excluding them from key international summits,
national leaders are missing out on a big
opportunity.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Calls_mount_for_Russia_to_face_tribunal
for_aggression_against_Ukraine⠀⇛
As Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters
its second year, calls are mounting for the
establishment of a special tribunal to try the
Russian leadership for the crime of aggression
against Ukraine, writes Irina Paliashvili.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ To_counter_the_Wagner_Group’s_presence
in_Africa,_the_US_will_need_to_prioritize_stabilizing_Libya⠀⇛
Quelling the Wagner Group’s influence in Libya will
be challenging, as the US must address Libyan
realities and unite Europe and regional powers to
support its foreign policy endeavor.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Dozens_killed,_scores_injured_after_two_trains
collide_in_Greece⠀⇛
At least 32 people were killed and another 85
injured after two trains collided near the Greek
city of Larissa, authorities said, as emergency
services raced Wednesday to find survivors among
the charred wreckage.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Dozens_of_Iranian_schoolgirls_treated_in_latest
mystery_poisoning⠀⇛
Dozens of Iranian schoolgirls needed hospital
treatment on Tuesday after another mysterious
poisoning, a news agency reported, the latest in a
spate of suspected attacks in the Islamic republic.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ UN_secretary_general_visits_Iraq_for_the_first
time_in_six_years⠀⇛
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in
Iraq for his first visit in six years Tuesday in a
show of “solidarity” after a drawn-out political
crisis in the country.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_47:_Prosecutors_to_seek
witness_anonymity_order_as_trial_adjourned_over_defendant’s
injury⠀⇛
Hong Kong prosecutors are set to apply for a
witness anonymity order in the city’s largest
national security trial relating to 47 pro-
democracy figures. Meanwhile, the hearing was
adjourned after a defendant on bail was absent in
court due to a sports injury.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Protest_song_Glory_to_Hong_Kong
played_again_at_sporting_event_instead_of_Chinese,_as_gov’t
demands_probe⠀⇛
Pro-democracy protest song Glory to Hong Kong has
been played at a sporting event in Bosnia and
Herzegovina instead of the city’s official national
anthem, China’s March of the Volunteers.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Pakistani_Court_Issues_Arrest_Warrant_For_Former
Prime_Minister_Imran_Khan⠀⇛
A court in Pakistan has issued an arrest warrant
for former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a case
involving state gifts and concealing his assets
from the sale of the gif
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ A_Scammer_Is_Pretending_to_Be_Andrew
Tate_on_TikTok_and_Racking_Up_Millions_of_Views⠀⇛
By posing as Tate, Dr. Reality hopes to make a
buck.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ ‘This_Is_a_Problem’:_A_New_Hyper-
Realistic_TikTok_Beauty_Filter_Is_Freaking_People_Out⠀⇛
The “Bold Glamour” filter, which seamlessly changes
people’s facial features and simulates makeup, has
been used over 6 million times.
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Did_Steven_D’Antuono_Make_It_Easier_for
Trump_to_Steal_47_Classified_Documents?⠀⇛
By treating Trump differently than any other person
suspected of stealing classified documents, Steven
D’Antuono may have given Trump the opportunity to
steal another 47 documents.
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Douglass_Mackey_Allegedly_Aimed_to_Depress
Black_Turnout_in_Pennsylvania⠀⇛
According to messages EDNY wants to introduce at
the Douglass Mackey trial, his goal was to depress
turnout of Black voters in Pennsylvania — a goal
that perfectly enhanced Paul Manafort’s plan to
win.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ [Satire]_Rupert_Murdoch_Calls_Telling
Truth_Under_Oath_Worst_Experience_of_His_Life⠀⇛
“I don’t know how they manage it,” the media
mogul said, of inveterate truthtellers. “I’ve
told the truth once, and I don’t intend to do
it again.”
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ City_of_Frankfurt_Cancels_Upcoming
Roger_Waters_Concert_Over_Antisemitism⠀⇛
The German city of Frankfurt has cancelled an
upcoming Roger Waters concert over his antisemitic
remarks.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Lisa_Wilkinson_responds_to_Lehrmann
defamation_action⠀⇛
Bruce Lehrmann has accused two major news
organisations of being “recklessly indifferent to
the truth” for reporting rape allegations made by
his former colleague Brittany Higgins, legal
documents reveal.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ India_leads_world_in_cutting_Internet
access_for_5th_year_in_a_row:_Watchdog⠀⇛
Out of 187 internet shutdowns globally recorded by
Access Now, 84 took place in India.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chinese_activists_approached_by
online_accounts_impersonating_Reuters_reporters⠀⇛
Chinese activists – including dissident artist
Badiucao – have been approached by social media
users falsely claiming to be journalists from
Reuters, the news agency reported on Tuesday. The
two journalists who had their identities faked were
Shanghai bureau chief Brenda Goh, and correspondent
Jessie Pang, who is based in Hong Kong.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ People_posing_as_Reuters_reporters_try_to_infiltrate
China’s_‘white_paper_movement’⠀⇛
Using fake accounts on Telegram, Instagram, they
tried to get information about overseas Hong
Kongers.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_appeals_court_holds_employers_can_discriminate
against_employees_who_obtain_abortions⠀⇛
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Monday ruled that employers who oppose abortion
have a right to refuse to employ people on the
basis of their reproductive health decisions under
the freedom of association contained in the First
Amendment of the US Constitution.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Immigrant_workers_reach_class_action_settlement
over_Tennessee_meat_packing_plant_raid⠀⇛
A US federal judge Monday approved a settlement for
over $1 million in a class action lawsuit that
involved a 2018 immigration raid on a Tennessee
meat packing plant that lead to the detainment of
approximately 100 Latinx workers.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Sri_Lankan_workers_defy_strike_ban_to
protest_against_rescue_plan⠀⇛
>Around 40 trade unions, such as government
hospital staff and bank employees, have called for
work stoppages.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ NBN_Co,_NSW_to_deliver_better_broadband_to_11,000
regional_premises⠀⇛
NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia’s
national broadband network, and the NSW Government
have announced that they will jointly fund the
provision of enhanced broadband services to 11,000
homes and businesses in 46 locations.
In a statement, NBN Co said this would involve
either building or co-locating 56 new fixed
wireless towers that could use 5G millimetre wave
technology.
The announcement comes ahead of the NSW state
elections which are scheduled to be held on 25
March. The cost of the initiative was not provided.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ StubHub_Says_Live_Nation/Ticketmaster
FAIR_Ticketing_Act_is_‘Anything_But_Fair’⠀⇛
StubHub says the FAIR Ticketing Act is
“particularly concerning” in a marketplace where
Live Nation and Ticketmaster “regularly manipulate
the release of ticket supply and availability to
take advantage of high demand through dynamic
ticket pricing.
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Are_Drill_Bits_Now
Abstract_Ideas_Too?⠀⇛
Not too long after the Supreme Court decided
Mayo v. Prometheus, I wrote an article
suggesting, based on some of the history that
followed Funk Brothers, that patents on
ordinary industrial processes and
compositions could become ineligible in
Mayo’s wake. As the Federal Circuit has
interpreted Mayo and Alice, some of that has
come to pass. In the controversial case of
American Axle v. Neapco, the Federal Circuit
held claims to a process of manufacturing
automobile driveshafts ineligible under §
101, because the claims were directed to
‘laws of nature’ and nothing more. And in Yu
v. Apple, the Federal Circuit held claims
directed to a digital camera ineligible as
“abstract ideas.”
# ⚓ Guidelines_for_Examination_2023_enter_into_force [Ed:
The EPO's management keeps introducing illegal
guidelines that allow illegal patents. Where's the
oversight? Nowhere.]⠀⇛
The latest EPC and PCT-EPO Guidelines enter
into force on 1 March 2023, with the public
user consultation continuing until 4 April.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o BSD
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
# Open_Data
o Programming/Development
# Python
# Rust
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Privatisation/Privateering
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Software_Patents
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Planet_Computers_Launches_ARM-based_Linux
Desktop_PCs⠀⇛
Planet Computers has brought to market a new line of mini
Linux desktop computers. The XR Series is powered by ARM
multicore processors and run Ubuntu Linux 20.04
According to Janko Mrsic-Flogel, CEO of Planet Computers,
“By productizing Linux into a mini desktop PC, the XR is
another step toward creating a more open and inclusive
computing ecosystem.”
The XR series will be launching with two different units:
XR1 (four-core CPU, 4GB of RAM, and 32 GB of internal
storage) and XR2 (eight-core CPU, a Mali-G610 GPU, from
4GB to 32 GB of RAM, and from 32 GB to 256 GB of internal
storage).
o ⚓ Liliputing ☛ PineTab2_Linux_tablet_will_sell_for_$159_and_up⠀⇛
The PineTab2 is a Linux-friendly tablet with a 10.1 inch
display, a detachable keyboard, and a Rockchip RK3566
quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 processor.
First unveiled in December, the new tablet has a faster
processor, more memory, sturdier build quality and other
improvements over the original PineTab. But one thing the
new tablet has in common with its predecessor? It’s
cheap. The PineTab2 will sell for $159 and up when it
goes on sale soon.
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Netcraft ☛ February_2023_Web_Server_Survey [Ed: The Web is
shrinking. Many sites go offline.]⠀⇛
In the February 2023 survey we received responses
from 1,127,630,293 sites across 270,727,775 unique
domains, and 12,142,793 web-facing computers. This
reflects a loss of 4,638,508 sites, 240,148 domains
and 13,907 computers.
OpenResty had the largest percentage growth in
sites this month: it is now used by 95,176,082
sites, an increase of 2,884,258 (+3.13%) since last
month. This brings its share of sites to 8.44%, up
from 8.15% (+0.29pp). OpenResty’s market share by
domain count remained stable, with a slight 0.01pp
increase this month – its small loss of 14,039
domains was counteracted by the greater loss of
domains across all vendors this month.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ Fossified_pilot_episode⠀⇛
We decided we wanted to try putting together a
podcast and talk about all things FOSS: from
lightweight news down to more deep dives and
interviews and discussions with peeps who know
more. With our takes and personal views applied of
course.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 10_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Food_and_Drink
Software⠀⇛
The necessary requirements for life are physical
conditions which can sustain life, nutrients and
energy source, and water. This article relates to
the last two requirements. Linux software can play
a key part in helping to improve our health and
quality of life. If you want to stay fit, part of
the solution is to ensure that you are eating the
right types of food in the right quantity.
Nutrition analysis is important to ensure that you
have a healthy balanced diet containing a variety
of foods including fruit, vegetables and lots of
starchy foods.
This article is not just limited to software that
ensures you maintain a healthy diet. We also
feature the best free Linux software for helping
people to cook delicious food. Although this
software will not help you turn into Gordon Ramsay,
Hélène Darroze, or Bobby Flay, it will open new
doors in the world of cooking. Rest assured, we
have not forgotten beer lovers, as we also identify
the finest beer software available.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Net2 ☛ How_to_Uninstall_NodeJS_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
NodeJS is pretty popular when it comes to building
server-side applications with JavaScript. But, if
you don’t need it anymore on your Ubuntu 22.04
system, you might want to uninstall it.
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Use_your_Raspberry_Pi_as_a_streaming
server⠀⇛
There are various reasons to stream live video
transmissions from webcams. The Raspberry Pi
platform is perfect for such applications. It
requires little power for continuous applications
such as live-streaming servers. Communication with
a Raspicam camera module, USB cam, or other network
video signals is possible. The system is an RTMP,
HLS, and SRT server. This article shows how to set
up the Raspberry Pi as a streaming server to use
HLS streaming. You need a video source to use it as
a streaming server.
Even without a Raspberry Pi, you can do the steps
described here. In addition, there are further
installation instructions for Windows, Linux, and
macOS available.
§ Setup
The application is datarhei Restreamer, a graphical
user interface for the datarhei Core. The datarhei
Core runs the well-known media framework FFmpeg
under the hood. The easiest way to start with
datarhei Restreamer is to install the official
Docker container. The download and installation of
the program via Docker Hub are automatic with the
pull command. Restreamer starts immediately after
the installation. If you don’t have a Raspberry Pi,
use one of the other Docker containers on the
datarhei Restreamer_GitHub page (e.g., AMD64 or GPU
Cuda support).
datarhei Restreamer and datarhei Core are both open
source software under the Apache_License_2.0.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Change_PHP_Session_Timeout⠀⇛
As a web developer, understanding PHP session
timeout is essential to building secure and
reliable web applications. A PHP session is a way
to store user information across multiple pages,
and session timeout refers to the duration for
which a session remains active before expiring.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Calculate_difference_between_two_dates_in_Bash⠀⇛
In Bash, you can easily calculate the difference
between two dates. This can be useful in various
scenarios, such as calculating the number of days
between two events or determining the age of a
person. In this article, we’ll discuss different
methods to calculate the difference between two
dates in Bash.
# ⚓ Wesley Moore ☛ Creating_a_Podcast_From_a_Mastodon_Account
With_XSLT⠀⇛
With my recent experience with Deno Deploy fresh in
my mind I considered using it. However I opted for
a decidedly late 90s solution: XSLT. According to
Wikipedia “XSLT is a language originally designed
for transforming XML documents into other XML
documents”. The ‘originally’ refers to fact that
you can now generate any text with it, not just
XML. Since it was created in the era of “XML ALL
THE THINGS”, XSL templates are themselves XML
documents. It also makes extensive use of XPath
expressions to select nodes and extract their
content.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Setup_your_own_VPN_server⠀⇛
Why do we need a VPN server? A VPN (Virtual Private
Network) server is a network server that allows
users to create a secure and encrypted connection
to another network over the internet. Here are some
reasons why we need a VPN server: [...]
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Use_the_Chage_Command_in_Linux⠀⇛
It is not a typo. I’m actually talking about the
chage command here!
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ Fun_in_games⠀⇛
Our rules and our affordances and our objectives
lead us to do things whether or not those things
are what we want to do or not. So having rules to
do fun things or reward can be a good thing in a
game.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ LEGO_Bricktales_to_get_a_free_Easter
content_update⠀⇛
The absolutely charming building-puzzle adventure
game LEGO Bricktales is getting a free content
update ready for Easter. Quite a lovely game
overall, and great for a younger audience too — why
should adults get all the fun?
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Apex_Legends_banning_some_Linux_players,
keep_an_eye_out_Steam_Deck_players⠀⇛
It appears that Apex Legends from Respawn and EA
has started banning some players on Linux, and
while the Steam Deck uses Linux too it seems nearly
all the bans were desktop Linux players.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_hits_over_8,000_games_Playable
or_Verified,_plus_February’s_most-played⠀⇛
Valve’s popular Linux-powered gaming handheld, the
Steam Deck, has officially crossed over the 8,000
mark for games noted to be Playable or Verified.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Get_a_whole_lot_of_games_in_Humble’s
Türkiye_and_Syria_Charity_Bundle⠀⇛
Humble Bundle has put up a new bundle of games to
support relief efforts for Türkiye and Syria, after
they were recently devastated by earthquakes. 100%
of the proceeds will go to charity, with Humble
taking no cut (and as a Humble Partner I take no
cut either just to be clear).
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Godot_Engine_4.0_out_now_plus_console
porting_is_coming⠀⇛
Today is the big day! Godot Engine 4.0 is
officially out now, and there’s also work happening
for developers to port their games to consoles now
too.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Plasma_5.27.2_for_Kubuntu_22.10_available_via_PPA⠀⇛
We have had many requests to make Plasma
5.27.2 available in our backports PPA for
Kubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu).
As usual with our PPAs, there is the caveat
that the PPA may receive additional updates
and new releases of KDE Plasma, Gear (Apps),
and Frameworks, plus other apps and required
libraries. Users should always review
proposed updates to decide whether they wish
to receive them.
# ⚓ KDE_Yocto_Updates⠀⇛
Since I am planning to go on vacations very
soonish (actually, just idling the time until
I head for the airport…), I think it is good
time to wrap-up the recent changes in the KDE
Yocto area.
As you might have noticed, 4 weeks ago there
finally was an in-person FOSDEM again. It was
great event, many interesting people were
there and I had really good chats. One of the
main topics for me was discussing the next
steps for our Yocto efforts, in particular as
Volker and Hannah were also around.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ New_logo_for_EasyOS⠀⇛
That little dog at the beach idea was interesting, but
too cluttered; couldn’t get it to scale down very well to
a 48×48 pixel image. Then yesterday I remembered a logo
that was created for Wary Puppy, one of our ancient
puppies. That pup was cross-compiled from source using
T2. Wary is long gone — had to strain my brain to recall
— yes, it was released in 2010, with updates until early
2013. I was still leading the Puppy project back then.
There was also Racy Puppy, and sometime in 2013 I retired
from the leadership roll. Distrowatch Puppy release
announcements have jogged my memory.
I think it was ‘afgs’ who designed that logo for Wary. I
searched the old forum, couldn’t find it, but I do have a
couple of png images…
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ Vermaden ☛ FreeBSD_Home_Audio_Studio⠀⇛
This time it will be about setting up Home Audio
Studio on a FreeBSD 13.1 system.
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSUSE ☛ Open_Source_Policy_Update_Spotlights_AI
Considerations⠀⇛
A recent update of SUSE’s Open Source Policy is
giving developers, communities and projects food
for thought as Artificial Intelligence chatbots and
protocols are gaining popularity and are being
integrated into the fabric of global society.
The policy is specific to all SUSE employees; the
ambition, however, is that open-source communities
and developers give the policy careful
consideration and that the policy will inspire
other companies to adopt or introduce an open-
source policy.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ 3-Years_After_Red_Hat,_Is_Jim_Whitehurst
Still_the_‘Open-Source_Way’_Guy?⠀⇛
At an online media event staged by Germany-based
software vendor Software AG earlier this month,
former Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst was very much the
booster for open-source, as well as the open
management style inspired by open-source principles
that he instituted during his time as Red Hat’s
CEO.
That doesn’t mean that all open source advocates
are going to be in total agreement with, or even
like, his views on the subject. He is, after all, a
businessman, an investor, and an advisor, so his
views are much more aligned with those of profit-
driven enterprises, where the open source
development model is a means to an end, than folks
who are steeped in the free software philosophy,
and who tend to view open-source and free software
as the whole enchilada rather than a piece of the
puzzle.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Junichi_Uekawa:_Got_crosvm_building_in_Debian.⠀⇛
Got crosvm building in Debian. Now to rebase and
try to upload. Or maybe upload the version I have
first and then rebase.
# ⚓ Paul_Wise:_FLOSS_Activities_Feb_2023⠀⇛
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This month I didn’t have any particular focus. I
just worked on issues in my info bubble.
# ⚓ Diffoscope ☛ Reproducible_Builds_(diffoscope):_diffoscope
237_released⠀⇛
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce
the release of diffoscope
version 237. This version includes the following
changes:
* autopkgtest: only install appt and dexdump on
architectures where they are
available. (Closes: #1031297)
* compartors/pdf:
+ Drop backward compatibility assignment.
+ Fix flake warnings, potentially reinstating
PyPDF 1.x support (untested).
You find out more by visiting_the_project_homepage.
§ Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
* ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Linux_Mint_set_to_improve_Flatpak_support_and
Warpinator_security_updates⠀⇛
In the latest Monthly News post, Linux Mint’s Clement Lefebvre
detailed some upcoming changes and improvements to the popular
Linux distribution.
* ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Create_stop_motion_animation_with_Dragonframe_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
“It’s a story you may think you know, but you don’t.”
* ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Ubuntu_is_a_Canonical_product⠀⇛
A while back I wrote that from an outside perspective, Ubuntu
is Canonical’s thing, in that Canonical runs the show despite
having outside contributors. But in the wake of wrestling with
Canonical’s advertisements in a stock 22.04 LTS machine and
losing, I want to amend that observation with an important
additional one. Ubuntu is not merely Canonical’s, Ubuntu is a
Canonical product. Which is to say, Ubuntu exists to make money
for Canonical. Further, the current evidence suggests that
Canonical feels it’s not making enough money for them; hence
the steadily increasing advertisements in Ubuntu, along with
other moves.
§ Devices/Embedded⠀➾
* ⚓ CNX Software ☛ GHLBD_Android_calculator_mini_review_–_An_Allwinner_A50-
based_Android_9.0_calculator⠀⇛
Ifound this GHLBD calculator on a platform selling second-hand
electronic products. Three labels of this product appeal to me:
“Calculator”, “Android 9.0” and “Allwinner A50“. If you only
look at the appearance, this calculator is not much different
from that of ordinary calculators, but the Android operating
system is running on it and the screen tells me that it is
definitely not an ordinary calculator.
When I bought it, I only spent 69 RMB ($10 US). I didn’t really
have a use case for it, but curiosity drove me to buy one. I
decided to introduce it and disassemble it to check out the
hardware design.
§ Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
* ⚓ Ken Shirriff ☛ How_the_8086_processor_determines_the_length_of_an
instruction⠀⇛
The Intel 8086 processor (1978) has a complicated instruction
set with instructions ranging from one to six bytes long. This
raises the question of how the processor knows the length of an
instruction.1 The answer is that the 8086 uses an interesting
combination of lookup ROMs and microcode to determine how many
bytes to use for an instruction. In brief, the ROMs perform
enough decoding to figure out if it needs one byte or two.
After that, the microcode simply consumes instruction bytes as
it needs them. Thus, nothing in the chip explicitly “knows” the
length of an instruction. This blog post describes this process
in more detail.
* ⚓ Pine64 ☛ February_update:_things_are_taking_shape⠀⇛
Let me start by apologizing to everyone for skipping yet
another monthly community update. This has largely been my
fault as I was rather busy in January and following FOSDEM at
the start of February I found myself occupied with things
related to the EU store. I hope for things to go back to normal
now; you can expect future community updates at the end of each
month as per usual. Again, I apologise, mea culpa.
I hope that this month’s update and the news it brings will
more than make up for the wait: the Nestflash section ins
absolutely packed this month, we’re revealing PineTab2’s
pricing and SKU variants (both of which I’m sure you’ll be
pleased with), announcing that Star64 will be available in the
next 6 weeks (or so) and report on all the work that has gone
into PinePhone (Pros) development in the recent two months …
and much more
* ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Making_Ghidra_Play_Nice_With_RP2040⠀⇛
Developing firmware for RP2040 is undeniably fun, what’s with
all these PIOs. However, sometimes you will want to switch it
around and reverse-engineer some RP2040 firmware instead. If
you’ve ever tried using Ghidra for that, your experience might
have been seriously lackluster due to the decompiled output not
making sense when it comes to addresses – thankfully, [Wejn]
has now released patches for Ghidra’s companion, SVD-Loader,
that turn it all around, and there’s a blog post to go with
these.
§ Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
* ⚓ CBC ☛ Travelling_soon?_Get_ready_to_pay_higher_cellphone_roaming
rates⠀⇛
Two of Canada’s biggest telecom providers are raising the fees
they charge customers when they use their devices outside of
Canada.
o ⚓ Android Police ☛ Best_games_like_Super_Smash_Bros._on_Android_in
2023⠀⇛
o ⚓ Gadgets Now ☛ Vivo_V27_Pro_vs_OnePlus_11R:_How_the_two_premium
Android_smartphones_compare⠀⇛
o ⚓ TheHinduBusinessLine ☛ Google_to_bring_eSIM_transfer_feature_to
Android�_–_The_Hindu_BusinessLine⠀⇛
o ⚓ Giz China ☛ Harmony_OS_is_set_to_defeat_Android_and_iOS_–
Gizchina.com⠀⇛
o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ GHLBD_Android_calculator_mini_review_–_An
Allwinner_A50-based_Android_9.0_calculator_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
o ⚓ Nokia Power User ☛ Nokia_G20_–_Nokia_G21_confirmed_to_be_Android
13_compatible_now_–_Nokiapoweruser⠀⇛
o ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_14_will_bring_passkey_support_for_Dashlane
and_other_apps⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Sun ☛ Google_has_hidden_‘life-saver’_button_in_Android_–_it
can_save_you_from_deadly_mistake_but_there’s_a_big_catch_|_The_US
Sun⠀⇛
o ⚓ New_features_arrive_for_Android_and_Wear_OS⠀⇛
o ⚓ Android Central ☛ RedMagic_8_Pro_review:_A_gaming_phone_unlike
any_other_|_Android_Central⠀⇛
o ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ New_iPhone_15_Pro_looks_more_boring_than_a
PowerPoint:_Android_winning_the_phone_design_war?_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Firefly_AIO-3588SG_–_A_compact,_low-profile_8K_SBC
with_WiFi_6_and_Gigabit_Ethernet_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
o ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ Android_TV_vs._Google_TV:_A_Comparison_Guide_–
Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛
§ Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
* § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
o § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Jan-Erik_Rediger:_Five-year_Moziversary⠀⇛
I can’t believe it’s already my fifth Moziversary.
It’s been 5 years now since I joined_Mozilla_as_a
Telemetry_engineer,
I blogged every year since then: 2019, 2020, 2021,
2022.
As I’m writing this I’m actually off on vacation
(and will be for another week or so) and also it’s
super early here.
Nonetheless it’s time to look back and forward.
So what have I been up to in the past year?
My team changed again. We onboarded Perry and Bruno
and when Mike left we got Alessio as the manager of
us all.
In September we finally met again at the Mozilla
All Hands in Hawaii.
Not everyone was there, but it was great to meet
those that were.
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Mozilla_Performance_Blog:_Improving_the_Test
Selection_Experience_with_Mach_Try_Perf⠀⇛
If you’ve ever tried to figure out what performance
tests you should run to target some component, and
got lost in the nomenclature of our CI task names,
then you’re not alone!
The current naming for performance tests that
you’ll find when you run ./mach try fuzzy can look
like this: test-android-hw-a51-11-0-aarch64-
shippable-qr/opt-browsertime-tp6m-essential-
geckoview-microsoft-support. The main reason why
these task names are so convoluted is because we
run so many different variant combinations of the
same test across multiple platforms, and browsers.
For those of us who are familiar with it, it’s not
too complex. But for people who don’t see these
daily, it can be overwhelming to try to figure out
what tests they should be running, or even where to
start in terms of asking questions. This leads to
hesitancy in terms of taking the initiative to do
performance testing themselves. In other words, our
existing system is not fun, or intuitive to use
which prevents people from taking performance into
consideration in their day-to-day work.
§ Development
In May of 2022, the Performance team had a work
week in Toronto, and we brainstormed how we could
fix this issue. The original idea was to
essentially to build a web-page, and/or improve the
try chooser usage (you_can_find_the_bug_for_all_of
this_./mach_try_perf_work_here). However, given
that developers were already used to the mach try
fuzzy interface, it made little sense for us to
build something new for developers to have to
learn. So we decided to re-use the fzf interface
from ./mach try fuzzy. I worked with Andrew
Halberstadt [:ahal] to build an “alpha” set of
changes first which had revealed two issues: (i)
running hg through the Python subprocess module
results in some interesting behaviours, and (ii)
our perf selector changes had too much of an impact
on the existing ./mach try fuzzy code. From there,
I refactored the code for our fzf usage to make it
easier to use in our perf selector, and so that we
don’t impact existing tooling with our changes.
The hg issue we had was quite interesting. One
feature of ./mach try perf is that it performs two
pushes by default, one for your changes, and
another for the base/parent of your patch without
changes. We do this because comparisons with
mozilla-central can sometimes result in people
comparing apples to oranges due to minor
differences in branch-specific setups. This double-
push lets us produce a direct Perfherder (or
PerfCompare) link in the console after running ./
mach try perf to easily, and quickly know if a
patch had any impact on the tests.
* § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ LibreOffice_7.5.1_Brings_New_Light/Dark_Mode_Switch,
Fixes_More_Than_90_Bugs⠀⇛

LibreOffice 7.5 arrived in early February 2023 as a major
release to the popular open-source office suite bringing
lots of new features and enhancements. But there’s always
room for improvement, so LibreOffice 7.5.1 is here to
introduce a new manual light/dark mode switch.
This new switch is implemented under Tools > Options >
View as a drop-down box that lets you easily and quickly
switch LibreOffice’s interface to use either the Light or
Dark theme. LibreOffice 7.5 introduces a new Dark Mode
that’s automatically enabled to match your system
settings.
* § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾
o § Open Data⠀➾
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ EC_refers_Latvia_to_EU_Court_for_non-compliance
with_open_data_rules⠀⇛
On February 15, the European Commission (EC) turned
against Latvia in the Court of Justice of the
European Union (EU) for failing to incorporate the
EU Open Data Directive into national law, according
to an EC statement.
* § Programming/Development⠀➾
o ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ How_AI_is_Eating_the_Software_World⠀⇛
I don’t use the word understand lightly, it’s the most
important word in this essay. But what does it actually
mean for software to understand something? Here’s how I
think about the progression from data to understanding,
and this is the definition I’m using to back my claim
that large GPT models actually understand.
o ⚓ 37signals LLC ☛ The_simplest_thing_that_could_possibly_work⠀⇛
I’m a programming child of the agile software movement.
Just as I was starting out, Kent Beck published Extreme
Programming Explained in 2000. It was a revelation. I had
just enough exposure to Big Upfront Design and waterfall
methodologies to appreciate what a monumental shift this
was. Beck’s methodology x-rayed the ills of the
traditional approach, and made the terminal diagnosis
crystal clear.
o ⚓ Sean Heelan ☛ Finding_10x+_Performance_Improvements_in_C++_with
CodeQL_–_Part_2/2_on_Combining_Dynamic_and_Static_Analysis_for
Performance_Optimisation⠀⇛
In this post we’re going to go deeper, with a static
analysis that actually looks at the application’s code.
When I started thinking about combinations of analyses
for performance optimisation, I didn’t find much in the
way of off-the-shelf static analyses that I could just
use. So, I decided to build my own. We’re going to try
and answer the question: can we use static analysis to
find C/C++ code patterns that lead to sub-optimal machine
code being emitted by the compiler?
I’ll first describe a particular code pattern that can
lead to the compiler emitting unnecessary memory reads,
and failing to auto-vectorise loops. When these patterns
exist they can lead to functions being 10-20x or more
slower than they otherwise could be. I’ll show how we can
build CodeQL queries to find the patterns, and how we can
modify the code to allow the compiler to auto-vectorise.
I’ll then discuss results of applying the queries to a
few code bases, lay out some issues that arise, and
detail some potential future work and open questions.
o ⚓ Chris ☛ Mind_the_Gap_When_Learning⠀⇛
There are many models for knowledge acquisition: your
lamdas, oodas, etc. I like the Shewhart cycle22 Also
known under many other names, e.g. the Deming cycle,
pdsa, or pdca, depending on who you ask., so that’s the
one I’ll talk about here. But it doesn’t matter which one
you prefer; most of these models are basically the same
thing33 Except for ooda which is weird in a way I don’t
understand and nobody has been able to adequaty explain
to me. But then again, I have only myself to blame for
not yet reading Boyd. Maybe it would be obvious if I
did!: a way to operationalise the scientific method.
o ⚓ Lucas_Fryzek:_Journey_Through_Freedreno⠀⇛
Android running Freedreno
As part of my training at Igalia I’ve been attempting to
write a new backend for Freedreno that targets the
proprietary “KGSL” kernel mode driver. For those unaware
there are two “main” kernel mode drivers on Qualcomm SOCs
for the GPU, there is the “MSM”, and “KGSL”. “MSM” is DRM
compliant, and Freedreno already able to run on this
driver. “KGSL” is the proprietary KMD that Qualcomm’s
proprietary userspace driver targets. Now why would you
want to run freedreno against KGSL, when MSM exists? Well
there are a few ones, first MSM only really works on an
up-streamed kernel, so if you have to run a down-streamed
kernel you can continue using the version of KGSL that
the manufacturer shipped with your device. Second this
allows you to run both the proprietary adreno driver and
the open source freedreno driver on the same device just
by swapping libraries, which can be very nice for quickly
testing something against both drivers.
§ When “DRM” isn’t just “DRM”
When working on a new backend, one of the critical things
to do is to make use of as much “common code” as
possible. This has a number of benefits, least of all
reducing the amount of code you have to write. It also
allows reduces the number of bugs that will likely exist
as you are relying on well tested code, and it ensures
that the backend is mostly likely going to continue to
work with new driver updates.
When I started the work for a new backend I looked inside
mesa’s src/freedreno/drm folder. This has the current
backend code for Freedreno, and its already modularized
to support multiple backends. It currently has support
for the above mentioned MSM kernel mode driver as well as
virtio (a backend that allows Freedreno to be used from
within in a virtualized environment). From the name of
this path, you would think that the code in this module
would only work with kernel mode drivers that implement
DRM, but actually there is only a handful of places in
this module where DRM support is assumed. This made it a
good starting point to introduce the KGSL backend and
piggy back off the common code.
For example the drm module has a lot of code to deal with
the management of synchronization primitives, buffer
objects, and command submit lists. All managed at a
abstraction above “DRM” and to re-implement this code
would be a bad idea.
§ How to get Android to behave
o § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Everything Smart Home ☛ Everything_New_in_Home_Assistant
2023.3!⠀⇛
Finally, for this release, Python 3.11 is now
supported!
Again this won’t mean much to most of you as this
only affects Home Assistant core users and hasn’t
yet been added to Home Assistant OS or Container
yet, but after speaking to the devs, this support
for core will firstly allow them to start getting
some feedback before making changes to OS and
container as Python 3.11 is quite a big change so
they want to make sure it’s fully stable first.
o § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ Maira_Canal:_Rust_for_VGEM⠀⇛
In the last blog post, I pointed out that I didn’t
know exactly what it would be
my next steps for the near future. Gladly, I had
the amazing opportunity to
start a new Igalia_Coding
Experience with a new project.
This time Melissa_Wen pitched me with the idea
to play around with Rust for Linux in order to
rewrite the VGEM driver in Rust.
The Rust for Linux project is growing fast with new
bindings and abstractions
being introduced in the downstream RfL kernel.
Also, some basic functionalities
were introduced in Linux 6.1. Therefore, it seems
like a great timing to start
exploring Rust in the DRM subsystem!
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Body_Slam:_FCK_PTN!⠀⇛
Again highlighting its tenacity, its resilience and its way
with words, Ukraine marked last week’s grim anniversary of
Russia’s invasion with a new postage stamp featuring an image
from street artist Banksy’s recent visit there: A small boy
deftly flipping to the ground a man in a judo match, with in
one lower corner the words, in Cyrillic, “FCK PTN.” The
“allegorical” image, says the post office, describes, “A year
of resistance – painful, ragged, fierce, persistent,” but above
all “Ukrainian.”
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_inaugurates_(and_blesses)_Moscow’s_brand-new_Big_Circle
subway_line_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin inaugurated the brand-new Big
Circle Line of the Moscow subway on Wednesday, participating in
the opening ceremony remotely.
* ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Tale_Of_Two_Broken_Flukes⠀⇛
Some repairs happen as if by pure luck, and [Sebastian] shows
us one such repair on Hackaday.io. He found two Fluke 175
meters being sold on eBay, with one having a mere beeper issue,
and another having a “strange error”. Now, theoretically,
swapping beepers around would give you one working meter and a
kit of spare parts – but this is Fluke we’re talking about, and
[Sebastian] wasn’t satisfied leaving it there.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Frog_in_Hot_Water⠀⇛
Do you, as I do, find yourself looking around to the
realization that things are getting a little weird around here?
Do you feel that things have gotten out of hand and out of
control? Do you feel like maybe we are sitting in a bit of hot
water? I sure do and to the point where I often, more and more
it seems, just want to throw up my hands and surrender.
To surrender would certainly be one response to these times and
an understandable response at that but let’s do keep it in mind
that surrender, though it may appeal to a certain part of our
personality, comes with its own set of consequences. One
possibility might be that all those things that make us
uncomfortable will just right themselves like a spinning top
that eventually resolves its wiggle and finds balance or
another possibility is that the water, getting hotter and
hotter, begins to boil and the frog, poor frog, is boiled to
death.
* § Science⠀➾
o ⚓ [Old] uni Oxford ☛ Mathematics_of_the_Faraday_Cage∗⠀⇛
The amplitude of the gradient of a potential inside a
wire cage is investigated, with particular attention to
the 2D configuration of a ring of n disks of radius r
held at equal potential. The Faraday shielding effect
depends upon the wires having finite radius and is weaker
than one might expect, scaling as | log r|/n in an
appropriate regime of small r and large n. Both numerical
results and a mathematical theorem are provided. By the
method of multiple scales, a continuum approximation is
then derived in the form of a homogenized boundary
condition for the Laplace equation along a curve. The
homogenized equation reveals that in a Faraday cage,
charge moves so as to somewhat cancel an external field,
but not enough for the cancellation to be fully
effective. Physically, the effect is one of electrostatic
induction in a surface of limited capacitance. An
alternative discrete model of the effect is also derived
based on a principle of energy minimization. Extensions
to electromagnetic waves and 3D geometries are mentioned.
* § Education⠀➾
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Academic_grants_for_Ukrainians_set_to_continue_in
Latvia⠀⇛
Students and researchers who have come to Latvia from
Ukraine following the war launched by Russia will
continue to receive support – a grant for studies or for
the pursuit of scientific or academic work, with a total
of up to €688,000 this year, according to the Ministry of
Education and Science (IZM) rules approved by the
government on Tuesday, February 28.
o ⚓ Derek Sivers ☛ 50_conversations_in_Bangalore_and_Chennai⠀⇛
So I scheduled fifty one-hour conversations with fifty
interesting people over seven days. Back-to-back meetings
from 9am to 10pm every day. It was one of the most
intense and fascinating (and heart-warming and
educational) things I’ve ever done in my life. I recorded
almost every conversation into a little voice recorder,
then had it transcribed. When I got home to New Zealand I
spent 30 hours reading through the transcriptions to help
me remember what we talked about, then made a tiny
summary, below.
o ⚓ Substack Inc ☛ Dishonor_Code:_What_Happens_When_Cheating_Becomes
the_Norm?⠀⇛
For decades, campus standards have been plummeting. The
hallowed, ivy-draped buildings, the stately quads, the
timeless Latin mottos—all that tradition and honor have
been slipping away. That’s an old story. Then Covid
struck and all bets were off. With college kids doing
college from their bedrooms and smartphones, and with the
explosion of new technology, cheating became not just
easy but practically unavoidable. “Cheating is rampant,”
a Princeton senior told me. “Since Covid there’s been an
increasing trend toward grade inflation, cheating, and
ultimately, academic mediocrity.”
Now that students are back on campus, colleges are having
a hard time putting the genie back in the bottle. Remote
testing combined with an array of tech tools—exam helpers
like Chegg, Course Hero, Quizlet, and Coursera; messaging
apps like GroupMe and WhatsApp; Dropbox folders
containing course material from years past; and most
recently, ChatGPT, the AI that can write essays—have
permanently transformed the student experience.
o ⚓ Times Higher Education ☛ Essay_mills_‘under_threat_from_rise_of
ChatGPT’⠀⇛
There are early signs that firms which specialise in
selling assignments are already having to shift their
business models in the face of more students using the
likes of ChatGPT to generate answers of a similar or
better quality to what they may have been tempted to buy
previously.
* § Hardware⠀➾
o ⚓ Daniel Lemire ☛ ARM_vs_Intel_on_Amazon’s_cloud:_A_URL_Parsing
Benchmark⠀⇛
We wrote a fast URL parser in C++. It does not do
anything beyond portable C++: no assembly language, no
explicit SIMD instructions, etc.
Can the ARM processors parse URLs faster?
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Self-Destructing_USB_Drive_Releases_The_Magic_Smoke⠀⇛
There were some that doubted the day would ever come, but
we’re happy to report that the ambitious self-destructing
USB drive that security researcher [Walker] has been
working on for the last 6+ months has finally stopped
working. Which in this case, is a good thing.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Thoroughly_Modern_Serial_Terminal⠀⇛
The humble desktop serial terminal may have long
disappeared from the world of corporate IT, but there are
still plenty of moments when professionals and
enthusiasts alike need to hook up to a serial port. Many
of us use a serial port on our laptops or other mobile
devices, but [Neil Crawforth] has gone one better than
that with the VT2040. It’s an old-style serial terminal
in a super-handy portable format, and as one might guess
from the name, it has an RP2040 microcontroller at its
heart.
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ NYPost ☛ China_cryptically_warns_Elon_Musk_about_sharing_posts_on
COVID_lab_leak_theory⠀⇛
“He did it via a pass-through organization (EcoHealth),”
Musk responded, referring to the nonprofit group that was
awarded nearly $8 million in federal research grants to
study bat coronaviruses in China.
o ⚓ NYPost ☛ Air_pollutants_found_at_Ohio_train_derailment_site_could
pose_long-term_risks,_researchers_say⠀⇛
An independent analysis of Environmental Protection
Agency data from the Ohio train derailment site found
that nine of the toxic chemicals detected could pose
long-term health risks if they continue at current
levels.
o ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ No,_“Covid”_STILL_doesn’t_come_from_a_lab⠀⇛
Kit Knightly The big Covid news the last couple of days
has been that the US Department of Energy, via the Wall
Street Journal, has claimed that a laboratory leak is the
“most likely” origin of “Covid”.
o ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ The_UK_is_“rationing”_vegetables…&_it’s_all_about
normalization⠀⇛
Kit Knightly The past few days have seen certain fruits
and vegetables “rationed” by major UK supermarkets. Aldi,
Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsbury’s have all put limits on
customer purchases of peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers.
Just yesterday, Lidl added their own name to that list.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden_Admin_Sues_Petrochemical_Giants_Over_Deadly
Chemical_Pollution_in_Cancer_Alley⠀⇛
The Biden administration on Tuesday sued two corporations
behind a petrochemical plant in Louisiana, arguing that
the facility poses “unacceptably high cancer risks” to
the low-income and predominantly Black residents of
nearby communities and demanding significant cuts in
toxic pollution.
o ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Kathy_Hochul_Says_She’s_for_Safer_Railroads_—
Right_After_Vetoing_a_Rail-Safety_Law⠀⇛
Less than three months ago, Hochul struck a different
tone with her veto pen. The proposed two-person crew bill
— which the governor rejected on December 9, 2022 — would
have required most freight trains to be operated by at
least a conductor and an engineer, a safety measure that
both rail unions and bipartisan lawmakers supported.
Railroad companies and business groups opposed it.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ TikTok_expanding_time_limits_on_app⠀⇛
Details: TikTok, one of the top downloaded apps in the
world, will prompt teens under 18 years of age to enter a
passcode in order to continue watching beyond 60 minutes
— “requiring them to make an active decision to extend
that time,” TikTok head of trust and safety Cormac Keenan
said in a post.
o ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ TikTok_sets_new_default_time_limits
for_minors⠀⇛
The update also mirrors gaming rules imposed on minors in
China, where TikTok’s parent company ByteDance was
formerly based. ByteDance now says it has no headquarters
because it is a global business and that instead it has
leaders in Singapore, New York and elsewhere managing its
business. In 2021, Chinese authorities issued new rules
that let minors play online games for only an hour a day
and only on Fridays, weekends and public holidays — an
effort to curb internet addiction.
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ TikTok_Implements_Screen_Timers_by_Default
for_Teen_Accounts⠀⇛
Now every account belonging to someone under the age of
18 now has a 60-minute daily screen time limit. Teens can
turn off this feature, but if they spend more than 100-
minutes daily they will be prompted to re-enable it.
TikTok says during its testing period, it saw increased
screen time management tools usage by 234%.
o ⚓ The Scientist ☛ The_Heart_Can_Directly_Influence_Our_Emotions⠀⇛
During feelings of anxiety, the brain kicks the heart
into overdrive. But as it races, does the heart, in turn,
talk to the brain? For centuries, scientists have debated
whether the heart holds sway over the mind, and now,
research published today (March 1) in Nature suggests
that physical states can influence emotional ones. The
study found that an elevated heart rate can cause anxious
behaviors in mice—but only in risky circumstances. This
suggests that interventions that target the heart might
be effective treatments for panic disorders, the authors
suggest.
o ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ No_One_Really_Knows_How_Much_COVID_Is_Silently
Spreading_…_Again⠀⇛
Three years later, the coronavirus is still silently
spreading—but the fear of its covertness again seems
gone. Enthusiasm for masking and testing has plummeted;
isolation recommendations have been pared down, and may
soon entirely disappear. “We’re just not communicating
about asymptomatic transmission anymore,” says Saskia
Popescu, an infectious-disease epidemiologist and
infection-prevention expert at George Mason University.
“People think, What’s the point? I feel fine.”
o ⚓ [Repeat] CBS ☛ Industry_ethicist:_Social_media_companies
amplifying_Americans’_anger_for_profit⠀⇛
TikTok has done that by serving up an addictive mix of
short videos. Some are silly, others overtly political.
It’s owned by a Chinese company called ByteDance and
Harris says the version that’s served to Chinese
consumers, called Douyin, is very different from the one
available in the West.
“In their version of TikTok, if you’re under 14 years
old, they show you science experiments you can do at
home, museum exhibits, patriotism videos and educational
videos,” Harris said. “And they also limit it to only 40
minutes per day. Now they don’t ship that version of
TikTok to the rest of the world. So it’s almost like they
recognize that technology’s influencing kids’
development, and they make their domestic version a
spinach version of TikTok, while they ship the opium
version to the rest of the world.”
The version served to the West has kids hooked for hours
at a time. The impact, Harris says, is predictable.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Big_Ag_Exploiting_Carbon_Markets_to_Intensify
Grip_on_Food_System:_Report⠀⇛
Climate and agricultural policies aimed at bolstering
carbon markets will fail to curb planet-heating emissions
while enabling powerful agribusiness corporations to
greenwash their polluting operations and augment their
control over the food system.
o ⚓ Teen Vogue ☛ TikTok_Bans_at_Public_Universities:_Student
Reactions_and_Concerns⠀⇛
“Everyone’s frustrated. It’s a bit polarized,” said Eric
Aaberg, a 23-year-old content creator and social media
strategist, who attends the University of Texas at
Dallas. “The majority of people I know are really against
this recent ban.” Asked if he was concerned about
TikTok’s cybersecurity risks, Aaberg made the argument
that there are plenty of apps that track data and have
had data breaches, including US-based companies like
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.
o ⚓ IWF ☛ Why_Ban_TikTok?_Same_Reasons_We_Ban_Fentanyl⠀⇛
Like fentanyl, the version of TikTok China shops to
Americans is addictive and destructive; it is marketed
primarily to younger people. TikTok U.S. users between
the ages of 10 and 19 account for 37 percent of all
users, and 64 percent of users are under 30 years old.
American youth are increasingly using TikTok not just for
entertainment, but also as a search engine, giving the
platform even more information and influence. This does
not even begin to address TikTok as a “superhighway” for
actual drugs or a “danger zone” for the sexual
exploitation of children.
* § Proprietary⠀➾
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Overwhelmed_By_All_The_Generative_AI_Headlines? This
Guide_Is_For_You⠀⇛
Between Sydney “tried to break up my marriage” and “blew
my mind because of her personality,” we have had a lot of
journalists anthropomorphizing AI chatbots lately.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Ransomware_Attacks:_Don’t_Let_Your_Guard_Down
[iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
History has shown that cyber adversaries are often
adjusting their tactics and techniques to account for
evolutions of their victims’ defense strategies before
starting a new wave of attacks. For instance, threat
actors have shifted from just infecting systems with
ransomware to multi-faceted extortion where they steal
data and threaten to release it to the public or even
sell it. In those cases, traditional ransomware defense
tools are less effective.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Dish_Network_Says_Outage_Caused_by_Ransomware
Attack [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
However, Dish confirmed in a filing with the US
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday that
it was indeed targeted in a cyberattack, specifically a
ransomware attack.
The incident was first announced on February 23 and an
investigation revealed on February 27 that certain types
of data were exfiltrated from the company’s IT systems.
o ⚓ Sean Conner ☛ I’m_seriously_wondering_who_is_trolling_who_at_this
point⠀⇛
Does the Sean Conner who lives in Tennesee not know his
own Gmail address? I always wonder about that. But
regardless, I decided to reply with a bit of surrealism.
o ⚓ Computer World ☛ Bing’s_AI_chatbot_came_to_work_for_me._I_had_to
fire_it.⠀⇛
I began by asking the chatbot for advice about how I
could use Lean Six Sigma techniques, used for
streamlining manufacturing processes, to improve my
factory. I told the chatbot: “I own a small factory where
I manufacture office furniture. I’d like to use lean six
sigma techniques to improve efficiency and cut costs but
don’t know where to begin. Can you give me advice on how
to do it?”
* § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Chicago_Picks_Progressive_to_Take_On_School_Privatizer
in_Mayoral_Runoff⠀⇛
* § Security⠀➾
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Constitution_Protection_Bureau:_2022_brought_‘most
intense_cyber-attacks_so_far’⠀⇛
On February 28, the Constitution Protection Bureau (SAB)
published the unclassified part of its annual report for
the year 2022. SAB is one of three national security
authorities in Latvia. The others are the State Security
Service (VDD) and the Defence Intelligence and Security
Service (MIDD).
o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Drone_surveillance_management_system_takes_step
forward_in_Latvia⠀⇛
The State Civil Aviation Agency
(CAA)’s open competition for the establishment of a
system for the management and monitoring of
unmanned aircraft or drones announced the winner on
February 28. The information technology company “ZZ
Dats” was recognized as the winner, the CAA said.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Even_After_Its_Own_Data_Protection_Agency_Said
There’s_No_Safe_Way_To_Do_Age_Verification,_France_Wants_To
Do_Age_Verification_For_The_Internet⠀⇛
It’s become the in thing to do everywhere, these
days: try to institute age verification for the
internet. There’s been an ongoing, unsubstantiated,
moral panic that the internet is somehow
“dangerous” for children, even as most of the
evidence suggests… it’s actually mostly good for
kids and the evidence has supported that for years.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ YouTube_accused_of_collecting_children’s_data
in_the_UK:_Report⠀⇛
As per the report, an official complaint has been
lodged with the ICO by campaigner Duncan McCann. He
accused the popular video streaming platform of
gathering data about children’s activities on the
site. McCann claimed that Youtube is collecting
data about the videos that are watched by children,
where they are watching and what device they are
watching it on.
# ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ Congress_Prepares_to_Reintroduce
Privacy_Law,_GOP_Introduces_Hatch_Act_Expansion,_$20_Million
ECF_Round⠀⇛
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee on
Tuesday passed two bills that would place new
restrictions on government interactions with
private companies, with GOP lawmakers claiming the
measures would limit alleged government censorship
of right-wing viewpoints on social media.
[...]
“Compelling social media to carry the propaganda of
big liars cannot be the meaning of free speech in
the 21st century,” Raskin said.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Airbnb_Is_Banning_People_Who_Are
‘Closely_Associated’_With_Already-Banned_Users⠀⇛
More quietly, for a decade now, the company has had
background checks completed on its users. Since
2016, they have been completed by a third-party
service that claims on its website to complete
background checks in less than 0.3 seconds. The
speed is a necessity——the site has 6.6 million
active listings—but it also leads to bans over
matters as trivial as a decade-old misdemeanor
related to an unleashed dog.
# ⚓ Greece ☛ New_evidence_emerges_in_spyware_probe⠀⇛
The Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) has
identified at least 300 text messages containing
spyware-infected links and sent to around 100
individuals, the head of the agency, Konstantinos
Menoudakos, told PEGA, the European Parliament
committee investigating the use of Predator and
other surveillance spyware, on Tuesday.
Menoudakos said the HDPA is still trying to
identify the senders and recipients of the infected
SMS messages as part of its ongoing investigation
into the illegal surveillance of journalists,
politicians, businesspeople and others.
# ⚓ MWL ☛ Selling_Direct_and_Customer_Support⠀⇛
Although I do see that the customer has four MXs,
and they’re all the same priority. It might be one
of them is misconfigured. I’ll send another
message, see what happens. Or, maybe the customer
will see this blog or my fedi post and see that
they have email trouble.
If I demanded phone numbers for ebook purchase I
could text them, but that would require I collect
phone numbers and I want to not have that
information.
* § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Policy_Recommendation:_Countering_Russian
Escalation_of_the_Ukraine_War⠀⇛
So far, the Ukraine war has remained a limited war, from
the standpoint of the U.S. and NATO as no troops have
been committed, and both the Russian army and the
fighting have been contained in Ukraine.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ China’s_position_statement_on_Ukraine_is
nowhere_near_a_“peace_plan”⠀⇛
Here, I try to make sense of the recently put-out Chinese
position statement on the Ukraine crisis and why it can
hardly be seen as a “peace plan” per se.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Imran_Khan’s_softening_vis-à-vis_U.S.⠀⇛
Days before US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s visit
to India and Central Asia, Donald Lu, Assistant Secretary
of State for South and Central Asia, stated that US was
concerned about Pakistan debts vis a vis China.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ The_Myths_Playing_and_Colliding_in_the_War_in
Ukraine⠀⇛
Myths do play in war. And legends in the history of war.
o ⚓ NYPost ☛ Columbia_University_grad_shot_dead_in_the_West_Bank_amid
increased_violence⠀⇛
The 27-year-old was in Israel for a friend’s wedding when
he was gunned down while driving, according to the Jewish
Federation of Greater Hartford.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ START_or_Stop:_Do_Nuclear_Weapons_Treaties
Matter?⠀⇛
One nuclear bomb can destroy a city and kill most of its
people. (Photo: US Air Force/Wikimedia Commons)
After writing an initial quick reaction piece about
Russian president Vladimir Putin’s decision to suspend
his country’s participation in the New START Treaty,
there has been time for some logic to set in. In other
words, I have thought more about this and something
doesn’t add up.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ When_Seymour_Hersh_Strained_to_Keep_Up_With
CounterPunch⠀⇛
Late last week (June 29, 2008) the New Yorker released a
6,000 word story by Seymour Hersh under the vague title,
“Preparing the Battlefield”. The lead paragraph ran as
follows:
Beyond the assertion in the second paragraph that secret
ops against Iran by US military and CIA are being
“significantly expanded”, that was about it so far as hot
news was concerned. There’s actually incredibly little
detail in the 6,000 words about the actual Finding. Most
of the rest of Hersh’s essay led the reader in discursive
fashion through comical interludes of zero political
consequence, fairly stale news, (such as the scale of
differences between the White House and Admiral Fallon)
and lengthy cites from Col. Sam Gardiner about the
internal political situation in Iran. As traditional in
Hersh’s pieces, there was a quote from Robert Baer, a
former C.I.A. officer.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Nemesis_of_the_Bomb_in_the_Hanford_Nuclear
Wasteland⠀⇛
The Bomb
The PBS documentary on the history of atomic and nuclear
weapons, The bomb, is unforgettable. It brings to light
the megalomania for absolute power. We learn that from
the “accidental” splitting of the nucleus of the Uranium
atom in the late 1930s by German chemists, and the armies
of physicists pursuing atomic fission for the development
of a powerful bomb, we ended with the real McCoy. This
was the atomic bomb “Trinity” the Americans dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, incinerating the Japanese by the
tens of thousands and smashing the cities into dust – in
1945.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_missile_strike_destroys_entire_section_of
Zaporizhzhia_apartment_building_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia launched a missile strike on the Ukrainian city of
Zaporizhzhia early Thursday morning, the city’s acting
mayor, Anatoly Kurtev, reported.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Neo-Colonialism_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
On February 25, 2023, in response to the Chinese
government’s proposal for peace negotiations in the
Ukraine conflict, Joe Biden stated that the idea of China
negotiating the outcome of the war was “just not
rational.” He continued, telling ABC News, “Putin’s
applauding it, so how could it be any good?” Ignoring
the childishness of Biden’s statement, it seems only
reasonable to ask not only whether Biden understands how
negotiations work, but whether he even read the Chinese
proposal before talking to the media. Rejecting peace
talks is not only dangerous, it’s stupid. Furthermore,
to quote Joe BIden, it’s just not rational.
It’s important to remember that in the early 1990s
Washington was fine (even overjoyed) with a capitalist
Russia. Washington remained at the unchallenged top of
the capitalist world order and could exploit Russia’s
resources and markets. Indeed, US investors went hog
wild in the wake of the Soviet Union’s demise,
championing their favorite apparatchik Yeltsin as he and
a fair number of other Russians sold off the public’s
property and services to the highest bidder.
o ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Pak:_U.S._warns_of_TTP’s_‘liberate’_Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa_plan,_establish_‘Sharia’⠀⇛
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Avalon_Militarism⠀⇛
The global pandemic was not completely catastrophic in
its effects. It led to the cancellation, and
postponement, of wasteful projects and events. It spared
public money. But as the pandemic slides into the shadow
of policymaking, bad habits have returned. The
profligates are here to stay.
One such habit is the Avalon air show, a celebration of
aeronautical militarism in the southern hemisphere best
done without. In 2021, the organisers announced with
regret that the event would be cancelled due to COVID-19
restrictions and uncertainty. Last October, however,
organisers promised a return to form in 2023. Those with
tickets “can look forward to a whole new program with
jaw-dropping aerial displays, a refreshed food and
beverage offering, and live entertainment.”
* § Environment⠀➾
o ⚓ BBC ☛ Fire_knocks_out_half_of_Argentina’s_power_grid⠀⇛
The blackout comes in the middle of a heatwave and
drought in Argentina.
With the South American nation still in its summer
months, temperatures are consistently above 35C in some
parts of the country.
The sweltering conditions coupled with the power outage
have brought daily life to a halt in some regions, with
classes suspended and businesses closed. Many are also
having to go without air conditioning or refrigeration.
o § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘A_Truly_Unfortunate_Outcome’_as_9th
Circuit_Denies_Injunction_Against_Nevada_Lithium_Mine⠀⇛
Indigenous and environmental activists on Wednesday
decried the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’
denial of an emergency injunction sought by
conservation groups to block a proposed northern
Nevada lithium mine that opponents argue was
approved illegally and will harm the land and
wildlife in the delicate desert ecosystem.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Karnataka:_Reflective_tape,_rear_marking
plate_with_QR_code_a_must⠀⇛
When scanned, the QR code will show details of the
agency providing the plates and tapes.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Utah_Wants_to_Build_the_World’s_Longest
Gondola_to_Solve_Traffic⠀⇛
There are four main resorts in the Wasatch Range
within a short driving distance of Salt Lake City:
Brighton and Solitude in Big Cottonwood Canyon; and
Alta and Snowbird in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Each
canyon is accessible via a mostly two-lane road
about eight to ten miles long. And in recent years,
getting to and from the mountains increasingly
involves getting stuck in traffic.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Ocasio-Cortez_Blasts_GOP_Energy_Bill_as_“Fossil
Fuel_Industry_Wishlist”⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ What_Happened_To_Sweden’s_Slot_Car_EV_Road?⠀⇛
Many EVs can charge 80% of their battery in a
matter of minutes, but for some applications range
anxiety and charge time are still a concern. One
possible solution is an embedded electrical rail in
the road like the [eRoadArlanda] that Sweden
unveiled in 2016.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ First-of-Its-Kind_Report_Details_Hundreds
of_Millions_Pumped_Into_Academia_by_Big_Oil⠀⇛
An analysis of more than two dozen U.S.
universities’ donor bases reveals the lengths
fossil fuel companies have gone to in recent years
to manipulate research into the climate emergency,
pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into some
of the country’s schools as scientists struggle to
convince policymakers that extractive industries
must be reined in.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Climate_Coalition_Targets_Big_Banks_and
Insurance_Giants_With_New_Campaign⠀⇛
A coalition of more than 240 advocacy groups on
Wednesday launched a “Shareholder Showdown”
campaign in support of shareholder resolutions
urging climate action and respect for Indigenous
rights at major U.S. and Canadian banks and
insurance companies.
o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Moose_could_play_a_big_role_in_global
warming⠀⇛
“Moose are an ecosystem engineer in the forest
ecosystem, and strongly impact everything from the
species composition and nutrient availability in
the forest,” said Gunnar Austrheim, an ecologist at
the NTNU University Museum who was one of the
study’s co-authors. “A grown animal can eat 50
kilograms of biomass each day during summer.”
That consumption represents roughly 10 percent of
what the Norwegian forest industry itself harvests,
he said.
* § Finance⠀➾
o ⚓ Forbes ☛ Sysdig_Wireshark_Foundation,_We’re_Gonna_Need_A_Safer
Cloud⠀⇛
Wireshark is a traffic protocol analyzer with more than
2,000 contributors and over 60 million downloads in the
last five years. Sysdig, as Wireshark’s current corporate
sponsor, encouraged the creation of the new Wireshark
Foundation. The nonprofit will now be home to SharkFest,
Wireshark’s developer and user conference, as well as the
Wireshark source code and assets.
This summer, Wireshark will celebrate its 25th
anniversary as an open source project. Over the years,
Wireshark has been sponsored by several companies. Most
recently, in January 2022, Sysdig assumed responsibility
for the project. The move into the Wireshark Foundation
donates Wireshark to the community and (hopefully)
ensures that Wireshark has a long-term home that goes
beyond a specific company or sponsor.
o ⚓ Sysdig Inc ☛ Sysdig_announces_new_Wireshark_Foundation_to_foster
open_source_innovation_and_development⠀⇛
Sysdig Inc., the unified cloud and container security
leader, today announced a new foundation that will serve
as the long-term custodian of the Wireshark open source
project. Wireshark is the world’s foremost traffic
protocol analyzer, with more than 2,000 contributors and
over 60 million downloads in the last five years. Sysdig,
as Wireshark’s current corporate sponsor, encouraged the
creation of the foundation. The nonprofit will be home to
SharkFest, Wireshark’s developer and user conference, and
the Wireshark source code and assets.
o ⚓ India Times ☛ Stripe_continues_to_cut_valuation,_now_valued_at
$55_billion_down_from_$63_billion:_report⠀⇛
This is at least the third time since June that the
payments startup has cut its internal valuation. Stripe
had cut the internal value of its shares by about 11%,
implying a valuation of $63 billion, in January.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Tech_Is_Allowing_Businesses_to_Overcharge_You_in
Tips⠀⇛
Tipping practices may become part of a broad government
crackdown on so-called junk fees, extra costs that
businesses tack on to products and services while adding
little to no value. The Federal Trade Commission, which
announced an investigation into the practices last year,
said people could experience “junk fee shock” when
companies used deceptive tech designs to inflate costs at
the end of a purchase.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Union_Takes_on_the_Housing_Crisis⠀⇛
You can’t have a living wage without sufficient
affordable housing, and you can’t afford decent housing
without a living wage.
These claims are being championed by the workers of one
local, UNITE HERE Local 11, which represents more than
32,000 workers in hotels, restaurants, food service
facilities, and concessions throughout Southern
California and Arizona.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Savings,_Taxes_and_Share_Buybacks⠀⇛
Many people who should know better have been saying silly
things about households running down their savings and
being forced to cut back consumption. The problem with
these sorts of comments is that savings in our national
income accounts have little to do with how most of us
think about savings in our lives. Less of the former does
not necessarily mean that people will have less money to
buy things.
Before going into the specifics, let me just make a point
to orient people. Saving in the national income accounts
is almost entirely a story of the top half of the income
distribution, and largely the top 10 percent.
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Conservative_Supreme_Court_Justices_Question_Biden’s
Student_Debt_Plan⠀⇛
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Why_Far-Right_Republicans_Cannot_Be_Trusted_on
the_Pentagon_Budget⠀⇛
Since Republicans took control of the House of
Representatives earlier this year, the so-called “Freedom
Caucus” — the badly misnamed right-fringe of the
congressional GOP — has been flexing its influence.
* § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Proposed_TikTok_Ban_Goes_Too_Far._The_Current
TikTok_Ban_Doesn’t_Go_Far_Enough.⠀⇛
On February 27, Reuters reports, the White House gave
federal agencies a 30-day deadline to ensure that all
government-owned devices are TikTok-free.
The supposed, but seemingly evidenceless, reason: Because
a Chinese company owns TikTok — a smart phone app for
creating and sharing short videos — the Chinese
government may be using it to spy on Americans.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Latin_America_will_be_the_Global_Gateway’s
proving_ground_in_2023⠀⇛
To build lasting partnerships against climate change in a
fragmenting international order, Europe should
demonstrate the ambition of the Global Gateway in Latin
America, where China’s Belt and Road Initiative has the
advantage. The EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell is saying
all the right things about Latin America.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ First_Biden_Veto_Expected_After_Senate_Votes_to
Sacrifice_Pension_Rule_to_Corporate_Greed⠀⇛
U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to issue his first
veto after two Democrats—Sens. Joe Manchin of West
Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana—partnered with the GOP
on Wednesday to pass legislation that would block his
administration’s rule allowing retirement plan managers
to consider climate and other factors in investment
decisions.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_National_Divorce?_Separating_the_Red_and_Blue⠀⇛
When Marjorie Taylor Greene recently tweeted, “We need a
national divorce,” she set off a furor. “We need to
separate by red states and blue states and shrink the
federal government. Everyone I talk to says this,” the
Georgia congressional representative said.
Subsequent tweets clarified she was not calling for a new
civil war or creation of two separate nations, but a
radical devolution of federal power that would leave
states in control of domestic policy and retain a common
national defense. While her statements might seem
extreme, they represent a substantial element of the
political right that even has reflections on the left.
The sense we no longer have much in common as a country,
but as Greene puts it, suffer from “irreconcilable
differences,” spans the spectrum.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Jimmy_Carter_is_a_Liberal_Saint_Now,_Was_a_War
Criminal_Then…⠀⇛
For a deeper discussion of this issue, check out Green
and Red Podcast’s episode on Jimmy Carter as Liberal
Saint/Neo-Liberal War Criminal.
o ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ Nearly_80_Service_Providers_Engaged
Equipment_in_Secure_Networks_Blacklist:_FCC_Report⠀⇛
In a publicly released report on Wednesday, the OEA
identified 79 companies, listed below, in its 2022 Supply
Chain Annual Report that have engaged equipment on the
list. The order emanates from the Secure and Trusted
Communications Networks Act of 2019.
The providers must report equipment that has been
obtained on or after August 14, 2018, with subsequent
additions to the blacklist requiring reporting if the
equipment was obtained 60 days or more after the date
they were added to the list.
o ⚓ India Times ☛ Alphabet’s_Waymo_cuts_137_jobs_in_second_round_of
layoffs_this_year⠀⇛
Including the latest job cuts, the division has let go of
8% of its workforce, or 209 employees, this year.
o ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Edith_Cowan_University_WA_Cyber_Security_Innovation_Hub
officially_opened⠀⇛
Western Australia’s Edith Cowan University (ECU) has
officially launched the WA Cyber Security Innovation Hub,
to be known as CyberWest, as the state’s newly
revamped,cyber security centre.
o ⚓ India Times ☛ Amazon’s_cloud_unit_to_invest_$6_billion_in
Malaysia_by_2037⠀⇛
This marks the company’s latest move in its plan to build
AWS Infrastructure Regions across southeast Asia.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Here_are_the_countries_that_have_bans_on
TikTok⠀⇛
TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company Bytedance,
has long maintained that it does not share data with the
Chinese government and that its data is not held in
China. It also disputes accusations that it collects more
user data than other social media companies, and insists
that it is run independently by its own management.
Despite TikTok’s claims, many countries around the world
remain cautious about the platform and its ties to China.
Here are the countries and regions that have implemented
partial or total bans on TikTok.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Why_TikTok_Is_Being_Banned_on_Gov’t_Phones_in_US
and_Beyond⠀⇛
So how serious is the threat? And should TikTok users who
don’t work for the government be worried about the app,
too?
The answers depend somewhat on whom you ask, and how
concerned you are in general about technology companies
gathering and sharing personal data.
o ⚓ India Times ☛ European_Parliament_latest_EU_body_to_ban_TikTok
from_staff_phones⠀⇛
The European Commission and the EU Council last week
banned TikTok from staff phones due to growing concerns
about the company, which is owned by Chinese firm
ByteDance, and whether China’s government could harvest
users’ data or advance its interests.
o ⚓ CBC ☛ What_does_TikTok_know_about_you?_What_should_you_know_about
it?⠀⇛
It’s voluminous terms of service lay out what you’re
agreeing to; access to personal data like contacts,
calendars, information about which device you’re using,
which operating system and your location.
Like other platforms, including Facebook and YouTube,
TikTok also monitors the content you engage with and for
how long.
But TikTok also monitors how you use your device and how
it functions, including “keystroke patterns or rhythms,
battery state, audio settings and connected audio
devices,” according to those terms.
It’s also able to identify “the objects and scenery that
appear [in your videos], the existence and location
within an image of face and body features … and the text
of the words spoken.”
Ninety-nine per cent of people are not going to read the
dozens of pages of terms of service,” said Heidi Tworek,
the Canada Research Chair and Director, of the Centre for
the Study of Democratic Institutions at the University of
British Columbia.
o ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ TikTok_Facing_Increasing_Prospect_of
National_Ban_in_New_Bill_Passed_by_House_Committee⠀⇛
The legislation directs the Treasury Secretary to issue a
directive prohibiting Americans from engaging
transactions with entities that could transfer sensitive
personal data to entities directed or influenced by the
Chinese government. It also empowers the President to
impose sanctions on certain transactions relating to
connected software applications controlled by entities
that could facilitated China’s intelligence, censorship
or surveillance activities, including efforts to steer
U.S. policy and regulatory decisions. Under the bill, the
president can waive certain sanctions and make a decision
on whether TikTok or any of its affiliated companies meet
the criteria for sanctions.
o ⚓ India Today ☛ WhatsApp_banned_over_29_lakh_Indian_accounts_in
January_2023,_here_is_why⠀⇛
WhatsApp has banned these user accounts under Rule 4(1)
(d) of the Information Technology (Intermediary
Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.
The latest report from the instant messaging platform
reveals that WhatsApp banned over 2,918,000 accounts of
Indian users between January 1 – January 31, 2023.
The accounts were banned after receiving grievances from
users in India. WhatsApp actioned against these accounts
following its prevention and detection methods for
violating the laws of India or WhatsApp’s Terms of
Service. The report further quotes that out of 2,918,000
banned accounts, WhatsApp has banned around 1,038,000
proactively before receiving any reports from users.
o ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Bill_C-18,_Google_and_Mandated_Payments_for
Links:_My_Appearance_on_CBC’s_Power_and_Politics⠀⇛
As the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage summoned
Google to appear next week before committee (and
implausibly provide all internal documentation related to
Bill C-18 by tomorrow), media coverage of the bill and
Google’s response has intensified. I was pleased to
appear on CBC’s Power and Politics to discuss the the
bill, Google’s response, and the implications of mandated
payments for links that the government expects could fund
35% of news expenditures in all news outlets in Canada.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Coup_in_Israel⠀⇛
Israel has always been touted as America’s most reliable
friend in the Middle East, a bastion of democracy in a
region dominated by autocracies. Now that picture is
fraying as the far-right coalition of Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu takes power.
Beholden to the bloc called Religious Zionism, Netanyahu
is pursuing a far-right agenda on two fronts: further
chipping away at the Palestinians’ fundamental rights of
citizenship and property, and pushing for so-called
judicial reform. Let’s look more closely at the latter
issue, the most dangerous threat today to Israel as a
democracy.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Showdown_in_Nevada_as_Democratic_Establishment
Targets_Party_Chair⠀⇛
To understand the current fierce attacks on the
progressive leadership of the Nevada Democratic Party,
it’s helpful to recall the panicked reaction from
political elites three years ago when results came in
from the state’s contest for the presidential nomination.
Under the headline “Moderates Hustle to Blunt Sanders’
Momentum After Nevada Win,” the Associated
Press reported that “Bernie Sanders’ commanding Nevada
caucus victory made him a top target for his Democratic
rivals and a growing source of anxiety for establishment
Democrats.”
Such anxiety spiked for Nevada’s establishment Democrats
a year later, in early March 2021, when a progressive
slate, headed by activist Judith Whitmer, won every
officer seat in the state party, stunning its entrenched
leaders. As sheexplained at the time, “what they just
didn’t expect is that we got better and better at
organizing and out-organizing them at every turn.”
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Leftist_Governance_Work⠀⇛
A famous quotation — often dubiously attributed to
Winston Churchill — claims that “history is written by
the victors.” More accurately, history is written by the
powerful. This underscores the need for dissident voices
to counter any lies present in mainstream historiography.
One such lie is that the economic successes of leftist
governments in Brazil, Venezuela, and elsewhere are
mostly attributable to commodities. In reality, they have
far more to do with progressive social programs. But
liberals and reactionaries argue the reverse. Common are
allegations that Venezuela is merely a “petro state.” And
mainstream sources often insist that Lula’s successes in
Brazil were the inevitable byproduct of a commodities
boom.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Growing_Backlash_to_Montana’s_GOP-Controlled
Legislature⠀⇛
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Critics_Decry_“Fascist”_GOP_Bill_That_Would_Dismantle
Florida_Democratic_Party⠀⇛
* § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Techdirt_Podcast_Episode_345:_The_Supreme_Court_Takes
On_230⠀⇛
After all these years, the Supreme Court is finally
weighing in on Section 230 in the Gonzalez and Taamneh
cases, and the outcome could have a very significant
impact. Our organization, the Copia Institute, filed an
amicus brief in the case, as did many other parties. This
week, we’re joined by Jess Miers from the Chamber of
Progress and lawyer Cathy Gellis (who wrote our amicus
brief), both of whom attended the Gonzalez hearing in
person, to discuss the status of both cases and what they
could mean for the future of the internet.
o ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Now_that_Roald_Dahl_and_Ian_Fleming_have_been
censored,_I’m_next_for_the_chop⠀⇛
Self-censorship because everyone’s so terrified of
getting in trouble on the internet. A couple of years
ago, Sebastian Faulks declared that he was no longer
going to describe the appearance of female characters in
his novels because he didn’t believe he had the right.
It’s so silly and pandering, much of this. I fear the
online mob, like many writers now, but if we try to write
without upsetting a single person we might as well hand
over the reins to the AI robots immediately.
The trouble is, while remaining anxious about the mob and
accusations of racism or sexism or any other -ism, we
writers are increasingly expected to reflect diversity in
our books.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Anti-War_Teen_Jailed_For_Interview_With_RFE/RL
Mistreated,_Threatened,_Lawyer_Says⠀⇛
An 18-year-old Moscow anti-war activist arrested last
week for giving an interview to RFE/RL’s Russian Service,
has been threatened and mistreated, his lawyer says.
[...]
o ⚓ uni Emory ☛ How_we_can_re-obtain_the_lost_humor?⠀⇛
Unfortunately, it is becoming more difficult for younger
generations to obtain that sense of humor and accept who
they really are. We have developed a cultural consensus
that those who have high self-esteem should be rewarded
by the system instead of those who recognize, laugh at
and grow out of their shortcomings in public (in other
words, humorists). According to Timothy Keller, an
American theologian, pride is the implicit driving force
behind that culture. Contemporary education, for example,
is one of those systems that can confirm it. Colleges
admit those who acquire more leadership roles at a
school, more academic rewards and better grades. In such
a competitive environment, students delight in becoming
prominent figures in their schools.To obtain that pride
and pleasure, they can only present their flawless images
of themselves on their college applications or during any
public display instead of true bruised images. They must
hide away from the scenarios that require publicly
reflecting on things they need to improve upon or their
genuine selves, the very process of becoming a humorist.
Therefore, pride takes away students’ opportunities to
obtain a sense of humor since they are too invested in
being supposedly perfect instead of facing their true
selves.
o ⚓ Digital First Media ☛ Schiraldi:_Free_speech_means_freedom_to
disagree⠀⇛
An unfathomable number of “free-thinking” liberal
universities keep free speech on campus under lock and
key. Most recently, the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology’s “free speech” policies were exposed. Turns
out that MIT’s faculty are self-censoring. Not as in,
refraining from blurting out every thought — self-
censoring as in actually restricting controversial
speech.
This should be disturbing to the average American because
MIT is a cutting-edge research institution where it’s
presumed that broad exploration and unfettered discussion
of scientific possibilities help make our country and the
world better off.
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Billions_Are_Available_to_Tackle_Environmental_Racism.
Where_Is_the_Money_Going?⠀⇛
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Trump_Supporters_Reportedly_Banned_from_DeSantis_Book
Signing⠀⇛
* § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
o ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ The_Difficulty_of_Destiny:_‘Ithaka’_And_A
Father’s_Struggle_For_His_Son’s_Freedom⠀⇛
o ⚓ BBC ☛ How_fake_copyright_complaints_are_muzzling_journalists⠀⇛
At least five such articles have been subject to fake
copyright claims, including one by the respected South
African newspaper Mail & Guardian, according to the
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
The claims – which falsely assert ownership of the
stories – have been made by mystery individuals under the
US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law meant
to protect copyright holders.
o ⚓ CPJ ☛ CPJ,_press_freedom_groups_express_support_for_Guardian
journalist_Carole_Cadwalladr_following_libel_verdict⠀⇛
The Committee to Protect Journalists and 12 other
international press freedom organizations reiterated
their support on Wednesday for journalist Carole
Cadwalladr after the U.K. Court of Appeal ruled in a
libel lawsuit against her on February 28. Cadwalladr
reports for the Guardian newspaper and its Sunday sister
paper, the Observer.
Millionaire businessman and political donor Arron Banks
sued Cadwalladr for saying that he was lying about his
relationship with the Russian state in a TED Talk and a
comment posted on Twitter. Yesterday’s judgement upheld
an earlier court decision dismissing the claim in respect
of the tweet, but ruled that Cadwalladr should pay
damages over claims made in the TED Talk.
o ⚓ NL Times ☛ Half_of_journalists_have_been_threatened_with_legal
action⠀⇛
Half of journalists have at least once in their careers
faced the threat of legal action as a result of a
proposed publication, according to a survey of over 800
journalists carried out by Persveilig. Three-quarters of
those surveyed have been working in journalism for more
than ten years. A quarter of those journalists say they
are wary about what they publish to avoid the risk of
legal threat.
Six percent of those surveyed have modified a publication
at least once because of the risk of legal action. Four
percent have in some cases refrained from publishing.
Journalists receive threats of legal action most often
from a lawyer representing a private individual or a
company. In smaller numbers, legal threats come from the
government or a government lawyer.
o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Foreign_journalists_in_China_restricted,
harassed_and_constantly_tracked_in_2022,_says_press_group⠀⇛
Nearly half of foreign journalists in the country were
ordered to leave a place or denied access on health and
safety grounds last year despite presenting “no health
risk by China’s own standards”, the Foreign
Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) said in its annual
report.
A similar proportion said problems with smartphone
“health codes” rendered them unable to travel at some
point last year.
Almost 40 percent said at least one of their sources had
been harassed, detained, questioned or suffered other
negative consequences from speaking to foreign media,
while 45 percent reported similar official pressure on
Chinese colleagues.
o ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Türkiye_sentences_a_journalist_under_‘disinformation
law’_for_first_time⠀⇛
Özgür Öğret, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
representative in türkiye, and Ülkü Şahin, a lawyer with
the Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS), also followed the
hearing.
In protest of the “disinformation law,” Aygül refused to
make a defense at the hearing.
o ⚓ FAIR ☛ DeSantis’_War_on_Florida’s_Press_Is_Designed_to_Hit
Nationwide⠀⇛
The trick of executives projecting their policy mishaps
on the press is as old as politics itself. But DeSantis
is far more dangerous than your average governor, not
just because he is seeking the presidency, but because he
is actively trying to legally neuter the free press in
the same way he is trying to destroy academic freedom and
freedom of speech in his own state. And he could win,
because he has much of the conservative movement behind
him.
The Florida state legislature is considering a bill that
seeks “sweeping changes to Florida’s libel and defamation
law,” the Orlando Sentinel (2/21/23) reported. It would
presume “information from anonymous sources to be false
and removes protections that allow journalists to shield
the identity of sources if they are sued.” And the bill
“limits the definition of who would qualify as a public
figure,” which means that more people would be able to
sue news outlets without having to show that the outlets
displayed a reckless disregard for the truth.
* § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Rīga_Holocaust_memorial_vandalized_again⠀⇛
Vandals have struck for the second time in a week at a
memorial to victims of the Holocaust in Rīga, reported
LTV February 27.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Historic_Labor_Ruling_Slams_‘Egregious_and
Widespread_Misconduct’_by_Starbucks⠀⇛
Building on a series of blows to Starbucks on Wednesday,
a federal administrative law judge found the coffee giant
“committed hundreds of unfair labor practices” at stores
in and near Buffalo, New York, the origin of a national
unionization wave.
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Sanders_Moves_to_Subpoena_Starbucks_CEO_Over_Rampant
Union_Busting⠀⇛
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Iowa_Republicans_Propose_Amendment_That_Would_Ban
Same-Sex_Marriages⠀⇛
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Rail_Labor_Leader_Calls_Norfolk_Southern’s
Business_Model_‘Dangerous_to_America’⠀⇛
A rail labor leader on Wednesday sent a scathing letter
to Ohio’s Republican governor warning that Norfolk
Southern’s business model poses a threat to communities
across the U.S.—one that must be met with swift
regulatory action.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ NYC_to_Pay_Millions_to_Police_Brutality
Protesters_Violently_Arrested_by_NYPD⠀⇛
Hundreds of people who were trapped, beaten, and
wrongfully arrested by New York City police officers
during a nonviolent 2020 racial justice protest in the
Bronx will each receive $21,500 if a judge approves the
terms of a settlement filed in federal court late
Tuesday.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_New_Era_of_Backlash_in_Sports_and_Politics⠀⇛
Douglas Hartmann, a professor at the University of
Minnesota who studies protest movements among athletes,
believes that the Black Lives Matter movement that
followed the 2020 police murder of George Floyd launched
a new era in sports and politics, and I’m inclined to
agree. The years of 2012 to 2020 saw players trying to
organize a protest-oriented, progressive political
intervention inside the sports world. Examples of this
abound, from the Miami Heat posing in their hoodies after
the murder of Trayvon Martin to the kneeling of Colin
Kaepernick, to the retirement of Maya Moore, to the WNBA
players helping to swing the US Senate. I could go on and
on, and not just with star athletes but also with legions
of young people who took a knee, raised a fist, and
became emboldened because their agency as athletes
mattered in the fight against police violence.
o ⚓ BW Businessworld Media Pvt Ltd ☛ Total_Contribution_Of_Unpaid
Women_To_India’s_GDP_Almost_7.5%:_SBI⠀⇛
The State Bank of India (SBI) in a report indicated that
the total contribution of unpaid women to the economy is
around Rs. 22.7 lakh crore which is almost 7.5 per cent
of India’s gross domestic product (GDP).
The report from the SBI’s Economic Research Department
stated that the total contribution of unpaid women to the
economy is around Rs 14.7 lakh crore in rural India and
Rs 8.0 lakh crore in urban areas.
o ⚓ Reason ☛ Ohio_Woman_Says_Cops_Broke_Her_Wrist_for_Recording
During_Traffic_Stop⠀⇛
According to the suit, Mills was left with a broken wrist
and other injuries to her arm and breasts. The complaint
alleges that the officers’ excessive force violated
Mills’ Fourth and 14th Amendment rights. The complaint
also says that the Walton Hills Police Department’s
practices are the “moving force behind the injuries
suffered by Amanda,” and the department is guilty of
“failing to adequately train, adequately supervise, as
well as failing to investigate and discipline, its police
officers when it comes to the excessive use of force.”
While Mills’ claims and the video she recorded are
chilling, she faces an uphill battle in receiving
restitution due to the specter of qualified immunity, the
legal doctrine that protects government officials from
civil liability even when their actions are
unconstitutional.
In Mills’ case, police seemed to have been enraged in
particular by her attempt to film them—an activity which
has consistently been ruled to be protected by the First
Amendment.
o ⚓ BBC ☛ Iran:_Dozens_of_schoolgirls_taken_to_hospital_after_new_gas
poisonings⠀⇛
Research by BBC Persian established that at least 830
students, mostly schoolgirls, had been poisoned as of
Sunday, while a member of parliament put the figure at
1,200 in Qom and the western city of Borujerd alone as of
Tuesday.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Poison_attacks_hit_at_least_26_girls’_schools_in_Iran
on_Wednesday⠀⇛
Iranian officials have said they are investigating the
mysterious poisonings of schoolgirls around the country
over the past three months. One official has blamed the
attacks on unspecified groups opposed to education for
girls, but many Iranians believe that the state is itself
behind these “chemical attacks”, to intimidate women and
girls and keep them at home and out of school. Photos and
videos shared online show the impacts of these widespread
attacks, resulting in as many as 800 poisonings.
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ A_4-Day_Work_Week_Bill_Is_Being_Reintroduced_in_the
House_as_Idea_Gains_Speed⠀⇛
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Oxygen_for_the_Fire’:_White-Collar_Starbucks
Workers_Blast_Union-Busting⠀⇛
Dozens of white-collar Starbucks employees have endorsed
a petition calling out the Seattle-based coffee chain for
requiring them to return to the office and interfering
with a national unionization push by baristas,
Bloombergrevealed Wednesday.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Hundreds_of_Schoolgirls_Fall_Sick_in_Iran,_and
Officials_Suspect_Poisoning⠀⇛
Hundreds of schoolgirls in Iran have been hospitalized in
over 10 cities after falling sick with respiratory,
cardiac and neurological symptoms, and senior officials
said they might have been deliberately poisoned.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Dozens_of_Iranian_schoolgirls_treated_in_latest
mystery_poisoning⠀⇛
Tehran says hundreds of people have been killed and
thousands arrested in connection with the protests, which
the authorities generally describe as “riots”.
o ⚓ RFA ☛ Czech_minister_meets_Tibetan_counterpart⠀⇛
Lipavský is the first minister of a European nation to
openly meet with the CTA’s foreign ministry officials.
The meeting took place on the sidelines of the ongoing
G20 foreign minister gathering in India.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_appeals_court_holds_employers_can_discriminate
against_employees_who_obtain_abortions⠀⇛
The case now goes back to the district court on remand to
reconsider the freedom of expressive association claim.
o ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ An_even-handed_and_restrained_criticism_of
police⠀⇛
“But not all cops are killers”, some say. “Moderate
policemen have a responsibility to watch their own police
community and stop this radicalization process.” They say
“I don’t criticize all police, just ‘policists’, those
who dress in those old-fashioned uniforms, those who
carry weapons, those who want to turn all of Europe to a
‘Europolis’ police state.”
* § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
o ⚓ MacRumors ☛ iPhone_15_USB-C_Cables_Without_MFi_Badge_May_Have
Data_Transfer_and_Charging_Speed_Limits⠀⇛
Since being introduced in 2012, first-party and MFi-
certified Lightning ports and connectors have contained a
small integrated circuit that confirms the authenticity
of the parts involved in the connection. Non-MFi-
certified third-party charging cables, for example, do
not feature this chip, often leading to “This accessory
is not supported” warnings on connected Apple devices.
* § Monopolies⠀➾
o ⚓ India Times ☛ EU_antitrust_regulators_narrow_charges_against
Apple⠀⇛
However, the victory for the US tech giant will be short-
lived as a new EU tech law known as the Digital Markets
Act (DMA), which will apply from May, bans both of the
Apple practices investigated by the Commission, with
fines of up to 10% of a company’s global turnover for
infringements.
The Commission said Apple’s so-called anti-steering
obligations, which prevent developers from informing
users about other purchasing options, violate EU rules
against unfair trading conditions.
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Microsoft_Inks_10_Year_Deal_To_Bring_Xbox_Games_To
Nintendo_Consoles [Ed: Sometimes it seems like Techdirt isn't just
running Microsoft ads but it also habitually lobbying for GAFAM
interests, including for Microsoft, while bagging "deregulation"
Koch money]⠀⇛
What amazing timing! Merely a few weeks back we were
discussing the major regulatory hurdles the United
States, the EU, and the UK were putting in front of
Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard
for $68 billion. Agencies from all three governing
bodies, while differing on some specifics, generally had
the same concerns: lessening the competitive marketplace
through industry consolidation, that the deal will
incentivize Microsoft to start making AAA game franchises
exclusives to Microsoft systems, and the idea that the
only bulwark thus far offered against those concerns has
been Microsoft’s promises.
o § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ The_Big_Mac_of_avoidance:_how
intellectual_property_payments_eat_our_tax_revenue [Ed:
Patents as tax evasion ploy, created by the looters to serve
the looting class]⠀⇛
The most expensive thing in a McDonald’s Big Mac is
not the patty or the labour cost, but the
intellectual property that McDonald’s uses to
minimise its tax in Australia. Callum Foote reports
on one of the methods the multinationals use to
shift profit to tax havens and the government’s
response.
The shifting of profits through fees paid on
intangible assets such as intellectual property
royalties and service fees takes billion of dollars
out of the Australian taxation system yearly, and
some of the biggest household names are in on the
scam: Amazon, Oracle, E-Bay, Accenture, Microsoft.
o § Software Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Ford_Tries_to_Patent_a_Dystopian_Future_Where
Self-Driving_Cars_Repo_Themselves⠀⇛
Ford has filed a patent for theoretical tech that
would, among other things, allow its vehicles to
repossess themselves if a driver falls behind on
car payments. In Ford’s version of the future,
delinquent customers’ cars could drive themselves
back to a dealership (or to an impound lot or even
a scrap yard) if the owner fails to pay up in time.
Unfortunately, this is not joke.
The U.S. Patent Office published the company’s
application last Thursday, February—about 1.5 years
after Ford first filed it. The patent, titled
“Systems and Methods to Repossess a Vehicle,”
hasn’t been officially granted (yet), but is
nonetheless an unsettling peek into an alternate
universe where private companies have even more of
a say over our day-to-day lives.
# ⚓ Interesting Engineering ☛ Ford’s_latest_patent_enables
vehicles_to_repossess_themselves_and_drive_away⠀⇛
According to previously released patent filings,
the new system, which can disable one or more
vehicle functions, could be installed in any Ford
vehicle. It claims that everything on the car,
including the air conditioning and engine, can be
turned off. It continued by stating that with the
new system in place, autonomous or semi-autonomous
vehicles might be transferred from their initial
location to a secondary location, making it easier
for them to be towed.
o § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Canadian_Copyright,_Fair_Dealing_and
Education,_Part_Six:_A_Fair_Reading_of_Fair_Dealing⠀⇛
As this series has shown, institutions have a range
of options for clearing copyright, far beyond the
traditional models of textbooks, course packs and
photocopying. Given the diversity of institutions
and programs across Canada, there will never be a
“one size fits all” approach for every post-
secondary student and the materials they need. Not
everyone is studying Canadian literature. In fact,
few do. It is stating the obvious that the
materials for a university nursing student
fundamentally differs from what students in a
college automotive program needs during their
studies. The nursing student may rely on digital e-
books, while the automotive student will need
access to the latest technical manuals on working
with electric vehicles. This means that where their
respective institutions go to find the best
materials to support their learning will likely be
different as well.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Pirate_IPTV:_Police_&_Sky_Nationwide
Crackdown,_Four_Arrested⠀⇛
The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit, Police
Scotland, and Sky TV, say they have carried out
nationwide raids against suspected pirate IPTV
suppliers in the UK. Four people have been arrested
and police say that 200 ‘cease and desist’ notices
have been issued to individuals suspected of
running illegal streaming services.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Documents_Expose_Yet_Another_Reputation
Management_Company_Abusing_Copyright_Law_To_Bury_Negative
Content⠀⇛
For years, companies have been offering
questionable services to downrank and bury
information their customers don’t want surfacing
during Google searches. And for years, these
tactics have routinely involved abuse of copyright
law, forged/faked court orders, and the filing of
bogus lawsuits in hopes of securing default
judgments from inattentive judges.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ACDEMVU_Wordo:_NINES⠀⇛
o ⚓ #_Rewilding_Music⠀⇛
Apologies for the long-windedness, Pub-goers. This does
feel a bit like a two-beers-too-many undergraduate rant,
but it’s been on my mind. Many things have been, lately.
I have been thinking about the role of music in the lives
of both non-civilized peoples and in our own pre-
industrial past.
My mind’s idea of the shape of music is mostly that of
industrially-produced ‘professional’ music. Singers are
supposed to sound like -this-, rhythms are -that-,
acceptable melodies and structures span -this- particular
area, carefully mapped out by musical theorists,
tastemakers, record labels, and most recently streaming
service algorithms. Certain genres are allowed to stretch
those boundaries, but it doesn’t change the fact that
_making_ music is largely the province of an army of
specialists, and simply not a thing the majority of
modern humanity does…Ours is but to purchase and consume.
o ⚓ Hello_for_the_first_time⠀⇛
Hello I’m bashful-script and I probably won’t be posting
much here. I’m a lifelong internet lurker and that is
unlikely to change. The idea of commenting a lot and
interacting with people online sounds really cool in my
head but it’s hard to pull off in practice… at least for
me. But who knows maybe I’ll try something new.
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ Customizing_My_Pinetime⠀⇛
Another quick post about the Pinetime, this time about
how I’ve modified the firmware to customize one of the
default watch faces.
Since I’ve been wearing my Pinetime I’ve settled on the
standard digital watch face. It’s one of the cleaner and
more straightforward options, plus I really like its
font. There’s just a couple minor things about it that I
wish were different.
So far the only way to add or modify a watch face is
through flashing new firmware. It’s a little more of a
hassle than it ideally should be, but if all you’re
wanting to do is make tweaks to an existing face and
you’re not put off by a little code then it’s not that
scary.
I set out by forking the InfiniTime repository. The only
file I had to modify was /src/displayapp/screens/
WatchFaceDigital.cpp. The code, at least for this watch
face, is fairly easy to understand so I didn’t have to go
looking for documentation to make the quick changes I was
wanting. Altogether I touched maybe 3-4 lines.
o ⚓ Pentester_for_Socials⠀⇛
Cynicism. It runs rampant in me. Mostly due to long
stretches of isolation at my apartment, speaking only to
my 70+ year old neighbor once per morning, if that, for
weeks on-end. Also, because I’ve experienced so much
emotional/isolation-sourced trauma, that I cease to
*need* significant communication with others, let alone
respect the life of those communicating with me. Can’t
find “bonding”? Then devalue those who will, make it a
“non-issue”.
o ⚓ Enabling_a_simple-but-good_minibuffer_completion_experience_in
Enabling_a_simple-but-good_minibuffer_completion_experience_in
Emacs⠀⇛
I mentioned on [emacs.ch] that to use Emacs effectively,
you don’t actually have to memorize all of the cryptic
multi-chord keybindings for every mode you use. If you
know the basics, you can pretty much always do anything
you need in just a few keystrokes using M-x and a decent
minibuffer completion system. I recommended the
lightweight completion stack of `vertico `, `marginalia
`, `orderless `, and `prescient `, a set of packages that
work well together and with Emacs’ built-in completion
systems. Someone requested that I post my config, and it
took me a while to get to it, but here it is.
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