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⦿ The EPO’s Attack on ALL EPO Staff Explained Using a Parable/Analogy | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 02, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Thoughts on Microsoft Stabber Joseph Cantrell’s Drug Diary | Techrights
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✐ The_EPO’s_Attack_on_ALL_EPO_Staff_Explained_Using_a_Parable/Analogy⠀✐
Posted in Europe, Patents at 6:48 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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EPO Togetherness
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/closer-together-epo.webm
Summary: The criminals who run the EPO (and also try to replace patent courts
in the EU with unlawful and unconstitutional kangaroo courts) are attacking
their very own staff as if the goal is to cause mass resignations or assign
patent applications to depressed, besieged workers, unable to actually carry
out the tasks in compliance with the European Patent Convention
THE “Bringing Teams Together” [sic] programme/initiative has been mentioned
here a lot — several times last year and earlier this year. We spent a lot of
time exploring_what_it_meant_to_staff. It had become crystal clear that it was
a coordinated action against examiners, likely connected to notorious union-
busting strategies. Whose idea was this collective punishment? Some union-
busting ‘consultancy’? One of the persons responsible for this travesty has
since_then_left_the_Office and we can expect António_Campinos to persist with
this no matter the consequences and irrespective of the brain drain (that’s
likely the goal; Benoît_Battistelli already drove out many of the veteran
examiners — those whom he did not illegally dismiss until their appeal reversed
the decision of dismissal/demotion in 2018).
“China would have a field day if it knew what this supposedly ‘lucrative’
employer does to the workforce.”Shown below (and discussed above; I didn’t
realise it would be satirical) is an essay that helps explain what EPO
management is doing to all the staff; if the goal is to compel people to grant
European_software_patents (leaks_suggest_so) and to not unionise, they’re being
unrealistic. This will doom the entire patent office once both stakeholders and
the general public catch up. Where are the politicians or so-called
‘representatives’ of voters? In Germany and its neighbouring countries they’re
in the pockets of the abusers. The German government actively protects and
hides the corruption at the EPO. Scandal of epic scale.
Here’s the full publication dated one week ago:
Zentraler Personalausschuss
Central Staff Committee
Le Comité Central du Personnel
Munich, 24/02/2023 (early as of 01/04/2023)
sc23025cp
§ “Bringing our Family Together”⠀➾
⚓ Best practices everywhere⠀⇛
Dear Colleagues,
“Bringing Teams Together” seems to have inspired some colleagues to
make similar improvements in their home environment. For sure, the
administration, and perhaps you, will be pleasantly surprised to read
that our colleagues have transferred best practices from their
workplace to their home.
The text we publish below was sent to us by a colleague – we would
like to thank the anonymous author(s) for sharing it with us.
The Central Staff Committee
—————————————————–
Bringing our Family Together
Dear colleagues,
I would like to inform you myself, before rumours start spreading
around:
I have just asked my husband to move out of our family house where
he’s been living with me and our small children.
First, he was shocked and wanted to know why. Then I explained to him
that:
1.) This will decrease our family’s environmental footprint by 1/8
(12.5%). In order to make use of our family house in a sustainable
way, we need to avoid leaving large areas of our house empty by
reorganising our daily lives. By discarding one place to sleep and
moving closer together, the top floor will be cleared and from now on
remain empty. Thereby, power consumption will be reduced. In light of
our family’s commitment to environmental sustainability and the
efforts to reduce our energy consumption, it is neither viable nor
socially responsible to leave large areas of our family house left
empty. All of us can make a difference for the environment. We should
work together towards a more sustainable future.
2.) This is part of our new family concept, which I call “Bringing
our Family Together”. I told him that moving him out has the added
benefit of keeping our family house vibrant and strengthening our
sense of belonging by bringing our whole family together. It also
gives us the flexibility to adapt to our changing needs.
I furthermore told him that preparations for this reorganisation are
in full swing. Accommodation plans for the remaining family have been
reviewed and as of 25 March, our children will begin to relocate
within the house. The plans for his move out are to follow in due
course.
When I showed him our “bringing family together” relocation plan with
all our family member’s names filled in except for his name (which
was evidently missing), he looked at me with this blank look, a
mixture of unbelief and despair.
I assume that’s normal. Change is never easy. Being a loving and
caring wife, personally, I actually do have some sympathy for him, of
course. But as a family, we need to be professional. We need to adapt
to our family’s changing needs. And we need to keep in mind our
common goal, namely improving our effectiveness in order to
strengthen our commitment to our family life. We all have to focus on
what is best for our family and for our environment, not only as
self-centered individuals but in a holistic, collaborative way.
Even though I had just informed him about the upcoming changes in a
very kind and supportive manner, he nevertheless seemed negatively
surprised and unsettled. He asked me whether the past 15 years spent
together meant nothing to me and expressed concern that this change
would exclude him from our family life.
Of course I found some warm-hearted words and kindly reassured him
that he should not worry about any of this. I told him that:
1.) I really appreciate his past contribution. Here, I made a strong
effort in listing all his achievements and contributions in house
cleaning and years of childcare, so that he knows that his
contribution is very much valued.
2.) He will continue this contribution in the future. I made it
abundantly clear that his move out will neither affect his household
responsibilities, nor the required level of cleaning performance. I
informed him that from now on, he will come to our house in the
morning and leave as soon as he has managed to finish all his
household tasks for the day. I furthermore informed him that in
addition to his previous tasks, he will get an increase of 15%
additional tasks. Expected future improvements of our household
devices warrant it. When he looked puzzled, I told him that he can do
it. And that he will do it.
3.) Regarding his concerns that he will not have a place to be, I
reassured him that while he is neither cleaning nor washing (which
shouldn’t happen anyway, as there’s always plenty of work to be
done), he can spend a few minutes break in one of our rooms, if not
occupied by someone else. It will be his responsibility to check for
time slots when the children are away from home, in order to find out
when empty rooms are available. Evidently, child’s approval to make
use of the room is to be obtained every time in advance, as a matter
of courtesy.
4.) He was informed that he will be provided with a locker in the
cellar where he can keep his house-cleaning tools (such as his vacuum
cleaner and swiffer). He might even temporarily store some of his
personal belongings there while doing the housework.
His reaction did not meet the expectations. After all the convincing
and empathic explanations which I had provided to him, he still
insisted on his presumption that he might not be a full-fledged
member of our family any more. He even dared to ask me whether I
might reconsider my decision (can you imagine?).
I told him that I would like nothing better. It’s just that I don’t
have a choice. As much as I would love to reconsider, that is beyond
my scope of decision. In order to achieve our common goals, his move
out of our family house is inevitable. It is conditioned by our
holistic goals of environmental sustainability and bringing our
family closer together. It’s not my personal choice. There is nothing
I can do about it. Things are the way they are.
When he looked at me in disbelief, I reminded him of how grateful he
should be for having such a great family and me as a loving and
caring wife.
I also reminded him how good we have it that none of our children
needs to move out. It is an inevitable fact that we have to reduce
the number of space occupied in our family house. There is nothing we
can do about that, it is a fact. But we can make the best out of it.
So through his move out, all our children will be able to stay in our
house. After all, they are all pretty young, 5 years in average. So I
reminded him to be thankful that together, we have found such a
people-friendly and sustainable solution, which best accommodates the
wishes of all family members. Now it is time to adapt. Together, we
will create a vibrant and energizing collaborative family
environment.
After I had said that, he became silent. He just looked at me with an
incredulous expression on his face. Then he turned around without a
word and left the room.
So I did not even have opportunity to tell him that any potential
lack of personal contact with our children will be more than
compensated by mandatory family meetings, which will greatly improve
the team spirit and the personal relationships within our family.
Sometimes he is just so resistant to change. As I said before,
somehow I even understand him. Change is never easy. But being
responsible for our family, I cannot be sentimental. I need to ensure
that he delivers according to expectations. So I will be very clear
that this must not negatively impact his performance. And he will
maintain and increase his cleaning performance, of that I am sure. He
knows exactly what will happen if he does not. We both know. So there
is no need to explicitly remind him.
Instead, I can focus on my future communication. After all, I should
be perceived as the caring and loving wife who I actually am.
Fortunately, I have learned effective communication methods. First, I
will give him time to speak and to raise his concerns, such that he
will gain the impression of being heard. This, I have read between
the lines of my communication training, will make him feel even more
valued and respected and therefore will drive him to clean our family
house even more.
Of course, any arguments put forward by him might not lead to actual
changes or reconsiderations, as I am only a small being in the face
of the universe, therefore always being bound by the circumstances
that prevail. So my husband and I are both aware that nothing he
might say will ever be taken into account, nor make any difference.
Then how can I ensure to be perceived by my children as the caring
and loving wife who I actually am?
I think I will just start repeating:
“How can I support you? What can I do for you?”
This is what I will say to my husband at every occasion, after he has
been moved out of our family house in order to bring our family
together. I am sure he will understand.
One might expect this in China, but this is happening not too far from the ICC
and in Bavaria. China would have a field day if it knew what this supposedly
‘lucrative’ employer does to the workforce. █
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Posted in Microsoft at 12:25 am by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan
Thoughts on Microsoft Stabber Joseph Cantrell’s Drug_Diary.
This will largely be from my Mastodon wall, so if it reads strangely, I
apologize.
Microsoft employee Joseph Cantrell is a Nazi, a drug addict, and a misogynist.
He left a diary on his Web site admitting to all of this and more.
After skimming it over, I came to these conclusions:
Microsoft Stabber actually was nice enough to go crazy and detail a lot of
embarrassing things including all about his drug and masturbation cycle with
detailed time indexes for the last 3 years.
It also details his paranoid hallucinations directly leading up to the
stabbing.
It goes on for well over 100 pages.
At lot of it is skippable, because it details his eating habits. Spoiler, his
favorite McDonalds is the double bacon cheeseburger with bbq sauce.
Wonder if he’ll get one in prison.
The Microsoft Stabber said in his rambling diary, while he was working for
Microsoft, that their products, including Windows, are a disaster, and that
Windows in particular has been broken, on a surface level, for years, without
any action taken to fix it.
He said that his request to join “Windows UX” team was turned down by the same
manager that pulled him into the office and yelled at him for making racist
remarks about Indian people and having a drug diary on his public Web site.
There’s something amusing about a psychopathic Nazi working at Microsoft, that
tried to murder a man, while on drugs, wanting to fix the GUI in Windows
because it’s awful.
Shows you that part of his brain works.
Who knows why they actually turned him down. Could be the racism. I think they
were probably too afraid to lay him off and were content with leaving him at
Azure.
Could you imagine being the guy that fired this person? It’d be you in the
hospital.
In Office 95, Microsoft apparently hid an entire flight simulator as an Easter
Egg.
If they had only let Joseph Cantrell take a crack at Windows 11 (while on
crack), he could have integrated Prophet Launcher re-written as C#. Sharp as a
knife, you see.
DEI at Microsoft. Diversity, Equity, INCISION!
You want to know where DEI gets you?
It gets you the Microsoft Stabber.
He said in his diary that he applied to Microsoft’s “Neurodivergent_Hiring
Program” (read this and it will tell you about what managers are being told to
do regarding crazy people in the office)and he got a $165k job with benefits
specifically for being crazy.
They hired him, he scared the fuck out of everyone that worked with him, then
he started responding badly by demanding transfers to another dept that got
denied, calling in, using PCP for an entire month, and then stabbing a coworker
13 times.
The witnesses to the Microsoft Stabber told police that the man he was trying
to murder was “screaming like a dog that got hit by a car or something”.
Some folks asked why the guy wasn’t able to get him off of him.
Well, just off the top of my head, he was being stabbed 13 times, by surprise,
by the result of the Neurodivergent Microsoft Hiring Program, who was on PCP.
(He had been on PCP the entire month according to his diary.)
“He was probably on PCP. Broke every bone in his arm, wouldn’t feel it for
hours.” -Detective (The Terminator)
The Stabber worked from late May through October 2022 without Microsoft finding
out about his diary and Web site, and then Microsoft pulled him into the office
and gave him a coaching for making inappropriate comments at a meeting about
how Indians shouldn’t work at Microsoft.
October 19th, 2022 was when they found out about all of his insane paranoid
ramblings and talking about how he was always on drugs on his personal Web
site.
The Microsoft Stabber’s November 22, 2022: 7:15 p.m. entry is about his
manager’s manager at Microsoft yelling at him for talking too much about what
they had him doing at Azure.
He says he was hallucinating colors and shapes appearing over the manager’s
face while he was being yelled at.
The Microsoft Stabber’s December 4, 2022 8:14 PM entry says that Microsoft was
still “watching” him over the “resolution”.
He is starting to become concerned about legal troubles if the authorities
start investigating him for the drugs and drug-induced mental illness and says
he has to be careful because Microsoft is watching him.
Yet the blogging continues and gets worse.
December 21, 2022: 7:53 a.m
The Microsoft Stabber blogs about his STD test for that day.
He also believes that women and the government are in a conspiracy to give him
STDs and then experiment on his corpse. He believes that he has had “an unknown
STD” for some time and the doctor simply won’t tell him what it is and that
perhaps it’s “jock itch”. He says he’s been trying to cure it with
amphetamines. (Uhhhh.)
“STD” appears 98 times in his diary.
On December 27, 2022: 10:54 p.m., he calls the men who sold him weed his
“Private Dindu Nuffins”.
At 6:06 p.m. on January 1, 2023, he says Microsoft Hololens could take off.
Clearly on drugs.
January 6, 2023: 6:10 p.m.
The Microsoft Stabber loses his erection after 5 minutes of whacking it while
thinking about owing the IRS for two years of back taxes.
So far this is the most normal thing I’ve seen in this blog. Throughout his
blog he keeps going back to his failure and inability to sexually perform or
even satisfy women. He admits that he pays prostitutes and that he can’t
finish, and then they tell him the usual “it happens to a lot of guys” type
stuff. I’m sure they could care less if he’s impotent as long as he’s paying
them.
(Superior Nazi Genes = Erectile Dysfunction?)
January 25, 2023
The Microsoft Stabber blogs that four highly paid programmers at Microsoft
couldn’t figure out a bug in some Azure software and resorted to asking for
advice on Stack Overflow.
“January 25, 2023 4:02 p.m. – The people at work even have database queries
they can run to see how many people they fucked over with that fake ass error.
“
Other observations:
The Microsoft Stabber was boasting about buying his drugs (using money from
Verizon and Microsoft) over the Dark Web. The links are in Onionv2, so none of
them work anymore.
He complained that a lot of the drugs he was purchasing were stale. The
ketamine in particular. (A horse tranquilizer.)
He admitted that he was high on various substances throughout the entire
Microsoft interviewing process, including at least 60 minutes, face-to-face,
with their Hiring Manager.
He had been chased out of Verizon, where he had previously worked for a couple
months.
While he was working at Verizon, he bragged that his apartment was infested
with flies and that he had killed “45” of them with a $1 bill. He said he
borrowed some money so he wouldn’t have to spend “my Special Dollar” on the
MARTA (Atlanta Public Transit). █
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EPO Patent Quality Under Scrutiny
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/epo-quality-abandoned-still.webm
Summary: Evidence suggests that EPO managers have knowingly and intentionally
ruined patent quality; they conspired against the charter of the EPO and then
covered that up; stakeholders are complaining while EPO managers try to install
“controlled judges” that would tolerate the EPO’s abusive behaviour — in effect
implementing a coup for the litigation ‘industry’ with its largest clients
(monopolistic multinationals)
IN the just-published_"EPO_Togetherness"_post we showed that the EPO’s assault
on its own staff is intensifying greatly. There’s no ambiguity about it; EPO
management acts in a self-harming fashion assuming that the managers’ goal is
the same as the goals of the Office (in reality, or in practice, there tends to
be a conflict of interest; for fixed but not permanent terms the management can
intentionally bury the institution for short-term gains). Were the managers
appointed to serve science or to serve a bunch of lawyers, manning national
patent offices and going back and forth (revolving door) between the private
and public sector?
The EPO‘s presidents since 2010 (Benoît_Battistelli and António_Campinos) have
destroyed patents’ quality in pursuit of illegal “goals”. European_software
patents (monopolies on mathematics) and patents on nature/life are
manifestations of this.
“Were the managers appointed to serve science or to serve a bunch of lawyers,
manning national patent offices and going back and forth (revolving door)
between the private and public sector?”Seeing that national patent courts
rarely tolerate fake European Patents, the EPO has pushed for an illegal system
and basically incited (in its official site, EPO.org) to commit crimes. It has
been colluding with lying lawyers, who for profit’s sake decided that they
would openly and fragrantly attack constitutions, conventions, and laws. We
hope that the EPO’s biggest union will talk about this problem a lot more
often, but it’s not for us to decide…
Either way, shown and discussed in the video above is EPO.org, a propaganda
site of Team UPC (sponsored by Team UPC), and some internal material from the
EPO, including the latest publication from the Central Staff Committee (CSC).
Everyone needs to see this, along with the evidence presented, as the CSC and
the staff union (SUEPO) got vindicated repeatedly, including earlier this year.
“Several European companies have recently expressed serious concern about the
declining quality of granted patents by the EPO in a letter sent to Vice-
President DG 1,” the CSC claims, citing the phony “Quality_Reports” (warning:
epo.org link; it’s like the fake “Ombuds”) and some other documents (like these
letters from almost exactly 6 years ago [1, 2], attributed to VP Cosado and VP
Willy_(Guillaume)_Minnoye). This lie started under Battistelli — a tradition
that continues under the person who perpetuates and covers up the same abuses.
When the management claims “Attack on quality delivered by EPO staff” the
managers try to portray the people who actually protect the staff aw people who
try to discredit the staff. “Staff Representation criticizes EPO quality during
Administrative Council,” says the title as if this is a religious matter and an
act of blasphemy was committed.
The text below alludes to this_presentation_from_2022 [PDF] and it contains a
lot of other references that are publicly accessible.
Zentraler Personalausschuss
Central Staff Committee
Le Comité Central du Personnel
Munich,24/02/2023
sc23024cp
§ Patent Quality⠀➾
§ Can it be put back on the EPO’s agenda?⠀➾
Several European companies have recently expressed serious concern
about the declining quality of granted patents by the EPO.
The future of the European patent system depends on how the EPO, as a
public service, is able to set worldwide standards to foster
innovation in the interest of European society. Consequently,
management should take the criticism very seriously. The staff would
be perfectly capable of carrying out prior art searches of the
highest quality and, accordingly, conducting patent examination
procedures that result either in patents that stand up in court or in
refusals when adequate. Mismanagement resulting in decreasing quality
should be put under the spotlight: recruitment policy, time budgets
and incentive systems for staff, HR policies, IT strategy, etc.
The Staff Committee is ready to contribute actively and
constructively to these points so as to respond to external criticism
and put quality back on the EPO’s agenda.
Increasingly loud criticism
The members of Industry Patent Quality Charter (IPQC) recently sent a
letter to Vice-President DG 1 signed by the Chief IP counsel of
Siemens. IPQC members are important European players1 in the patent
world and several of them have been among the largest patent
applicants to the EPO in recent years.
This letter follows the critical reception of the “EPO Patent Quality
Charter” (part of Mr Campinos’ so-called “Strategic Plan 2023″) that
came into force on 1 October 2022. It is indeed an open secret that
Mr Campinos’ “EPO Patent Quality Charter” was a disappointment. The
Chief IP counsel of Siemens told JUVE Patent in October 2022 that “
[a]ll the measures are too focused on the improvement of internal
processes and their effectiveness, including speed and timeliness.
This does not necessarily enhance the actual quality of the granted
patents.”2
_____________
1 ATOS, Bayer, Deutsche Telekom, Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA, Ericsson,
Eraeus, HP, Iveco Group N.V., MTU, Nokia, Physik Instrumente (PI)
GmbH & Co. KG, Procter&Gamble, Qualcomm, Roche, Siemens AG, Siemens
Healthineers, Syngenta, Vodafone, Volvo, …
2 “Dissatisfied industry users push back against EPO quality
measures” by JUVE Patent (12.10.2022) https://www.juve-patent.com/
news-and-stories/legal-commentary/dissatisfied-industry-users-push-
back-
against-epo-quality-measures/
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The recent IPQC letter follows up on an earlier meeting with EPO
management and identifies many relevant topics with regard to the
quality of search and examination at the EPO, which should obviously
be discussed and fixed:
− Complete searches
− Complete examination
− User feedback
− Training (of examiners)
− A transparent incentive system for examiners
Each topic is subdivided into detailed points. The Kluwer Patent blog
and Juve Patent have reported on the letter.
Well-known issues
Staff_Representation has been critical of management’s approach to
quality for many years and has denounced the deleterious effects on
substantive quality of the “New Career System” (NCS) introduced in
2015 which incentivises examiners to focus on their work as first
examiner and in this role to issue as many search reports and grant
as many patents as possible, with substantive quality being secondary
to productivity and timeliness3456. Management openly reproached7 the
staff representation regarding its interventions on the EPO’s quality
policies in front of delegations and user representatives in the
Administrative Council.
EPO_staff have repeatedly expressed their concern about the
decreasing importance of quality in several staff surveys conducted
by Technologia: for a great majority of respondents, the importance
of quality in relation to quantitative targets has steadily decreased
at the EPO since 20138.
The official_figures from the Directorate Quality Audit (DQA), which
assesses the substantive quality of the work in DG1, also show a
negative trend: the compliance rate of grants has dropped from 85% in
20159 to 75% in 202210, an all-time low. The substantive quality of
searches is steadily decreasing.
The Office is in denial
In the face of the converging signals of deteriorating quality, how
can management continue to pretend that everything is fine. For
example, VP 1′s response to recent criticisms of prioritising
efficiency over quality has been to declare them “unfounded”11. In
his New Year’s
_____________
3 “Measure for Measure: Quantity, Quality & Timeliness for Europe”,
CSC paper of 14.09.2016 (sc16170cp)
4 “Measure for Measure: Quantity, Quality & Timeliness for Europe”,
CSC paper of 14.09.2016 (sc16170cp)
5 “Good enough? A discussion paper about Patent Quality at the EPO”,
LSC MU and BE paper of 19.04.2018 (su18003mp)
6 “All the President’s Peas”, CSC paper of 18.01.2018 (sc18008cp)
7 “Attack on quality delivered by EPO staff”, Clarification to
publication (see also here) of VP1 and VP2 dated 17.03.2017, CSC
paper of 20.03.2017 (sc17040cp)
8 Technologia Survey Results 2022 (page 31) of staff survey frequency
tables: https://www.suepo.org/archive/A1-OEB_EN-2010-2013-2016-2020-
2022.pdf
9 EPO Quality Report of 2016 or here
10 DQA Report of 2022 or here
11 “Efficiency-over-quality criticisms are unfounded, says EPO VP for
Patent Granting Process”, IAM Magazine (12.12.2022) https://www.iam-
media.com/article/efficiency-over-quality-criticisms-are-unfounded-
says-epo-vp-patent-
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greetings to staff, Mr Campinos referred to what he sees as general
positive feedback from 6000 EPO users and said that “[q]uality is the
appraisal of the many – and not the discontent of the few”. In other
words, the President considers that complaints from the public or
users about the quality of EPO patents − which undoubtedly include
IPQC members − can be downplayed if not ignored.
The fact is that management’s interest in genuine patent quality
began to fade a decade ago, when the pursuit of endless productivity
and production growth replaced a sense for public service and common
sense.
Which future for (substantive) quality?
Under the topics of “Complete Searches” and “Complete Examination”,
the IPQC members stress the need to give_examiners_sufficient_time_
(budget) to carry out their tasks. Examiners (and formalities
officers) have the right qualifications and dedication to carry out
their duties in accordance with the EPC and the Implementing
Regulations, if sufficient time is given for a proper functioning of
the divisions, including quality control within the divisions12.
The recruitment policies need to be reconsidered, especially the
decision not to recruit formalities officers and to replace only 80%
of leaving examiners, despite a steady rise in the workload and a
predictable wave of retirements of highly experienced staff in the
coming years13.
The long-term attractiveness of the Office as an employer and the
impact of the recent recruitment policies14 needs be assessed.
The CSC has always advocated for a transparent incentive system for
examiners (and other staff, particularly a career system with a
performance-based reward system that provides the right incentives to
get the job done right and a commitment that staff careers are a
long-term investment, not a liability.
Senior management will not spontaneously call into question the
mantra of ever-increasing productivity, especially in DG1, where
“management by Excel sheet” now prevails. Hopefully the IPQC
initiative will trigger an adequate reaction that goes beyond denial,
window dressing and continuing to hope that progress in IT tools will
solve the problems. In addition to an IT strategy that needs to be
revised, internal appreciation of the EPO’s own personnel and
appropriate HR policies are key aspects of a reorientation toward
more quality.
It is not yet clear whether the IPQC initiative from outside the EPO
will achieve what could not be achieved internally: to put patent
quality back at the top of the agenda. The Staff Committee will
report on the progress made (or lack thereof) in the coming weeks.
The Central Staff Committee
_____________
granting-process
12 In accordance with Article 15 EPC and Article 143(2) for the
administration of the European patent with unitary effect
13 “Depletion of the Workforce – Failure to recruit under the current
administration”: CSC publication of 17/02/2023 (sc23020cp)
14 Five-year contracts, lowering of the standards for recruitment,
the hiring of young professionals
The figures from the Directorate_Quality_Audit_(DQA) [PDF] cannot be easily
hidden like before. The Office tends to scuttle and bury any figures that don’t
flatter “quality”. This one was originally published in proprietary Microsoft
formats because the_EPO_is_technically_controlled_by_Microsoft. Sure, it’s
illegal, but the EPO is run by liars and criminals, who choose liars and
criminals as IT vendors. Campinos would help Bill Gates liberate his close
friend Jeffrey Epstein from prison if he had the chance. These_people_are_all
effectively_above_the_law.
So where’s the media in all this? Or politicians? Silence, as usual?
“MEPs are probably part of the problem and not just through passivity,” an
associate of ours explains. “Media avoids anything even remotely related to
technology policy, in any shape or form. That’s in part thanks to the Bill and
Lolita slush fund which is used liberally to prevent such coverage lest people
bring up the topic of software Freedom. Or of no-Microsoft software.” █
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Posted in Microsoft at 7:42 pm by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan
THE Microsoft_Stabber Joseph Cantrell’s diary contains even more disturbing
“thoughts” on pedophilia.
He also admits to Nazi views throughout and confesses that he supports Donald
Trump and the Republican Party with these views.
This is the second post about the diary. See_Part_I.
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Joseph-Cantrell⦈_
Honestly, his thought process is so messed up from the drugs, that he starts
out like there’s a non-defense defense for it and then he keeps going.
By his second entry, it’s pretty clear he’s extremely homophobic, and by his
third post, he’s claiming that Steve Jobs was a pedophile who died of AIDS and
that cancer was just a cover story.
In part of the diary I won’t post here, he claimed further that Steve Jobs
acquired it from contacts at Disney and “Star Wars” who hooked him up with a 14
year old girl. (I don’t know.)
Then he accuses Tim Cook of being a pedophile and says “There are lots of
pedophiles at Apple.”.
When I searched for “pedo” in the diary I got 31 matches.
Honestly, everything in here is so weird that you may find yourself going weird
too if you even try to read it. this is sort of why you shouldn’t get too deep
into it. The writings of a madman left behind as some sort of manifesto. Like
he was going to kill others and himself at some point and wanted to leave this
behind.
The impotent Nazi did barricade himself in his apartment, according to the
police, but they managed to talk him out and arrest him. It’s relatively easier
to live with a lot of depressive and suicidal thoughts than to take action on
them.
He left his coworker (that didn’t die) for dead and then had no plan for what
to do next. Like all of the hookers he admits he paid, he couldn’t finish.
July 26, 2020: In response to some random anti-pedo shit on my
Facebook feed:
Why is everyone so obsessed with exposing pedophiles? I get it, you
like to protect the children and shit. Some people strike me as the
type of people who should work for the FCC. I don’t support
pedophilia, but the truth is, most of these people are born with an
attraction to children much like how most people are born with an
attraction to the opposite sex. Also, about 10% of people are
attracted to the opposite sex, and other animals are gay too. I’m
straight and attracted to intelligent dark-skinned women (especially
girls who speak foreign languages like Spanish), but I accept that
there are people who are different than me and move on. I mean, you
shouldn’t let children be harmed, but what’s the point in going out
of your way just to ruin someone’s day? Honestly, I’m sure there’s
some kind of genetic or drug therapy that could remediate pedophiles
to be more in line with the values of general society in the future.
Honestly, there are tons of natural remedies for ailments (like DMT
for ADHD {don’t tell anyone!}), so there may be some plant or fish
already out there to fix pedophiles. Maybe a swordfish? Well shit, if
there’s some cure, then they’ll start forcing the gays in China to
convert too haha. Lol
August 16, 2020: Meh, I’ve always been a fan of a rehabilitation first policy
for things beyond people’s control. Most pedophiles have a disorder in their
brain, much like gay folk. Some are merely wicked folk and deserve to be
punished with prison.
August 27, 2020: Hillary Clinton conspires with pedophiles. Lock her
up! I won’t say a thing, but she should be locked up.[...] Steve Jobs
got tested positive for HIV on Setember 1, 2004. He was negative for
chlamydia and gonorrhea. Steve Jobs got HIV by being a pedophile with
Disney in late 2003. Sombitch. I bet there’s more pedophiles at
Apple. I bet Tim Apple Cook is a pedophile… Damn son. [...] I saw
Steve Jobs in 2004, and he basically admitted to being a pedo on
meth. He said, “Most people don’t want to watch movies on their PC,
and they can stream it to their television.” The camera cuts there on
the upper part of his trousers as he shakes hands with this fat guy
with a big nose. What the fuck yo. Steve Jobs might have been a gay
pedo. That’s gay. Fuck Tim Apple and fuck Steve Apple.
Like I said, I don’t want to paste everything he put in his diary here.
I trimmed as much of his garbage as I could to give you a sampling of this part
of his ideology.
Again, this was all posted on his public Web site, both before and after he was
hired at Microsoft, and I found it in under ten minutes.
Along the way, I searched for the word “applied” and there were over 100 hits.
Each hit resulted in multiple listings where he applied that day. He applied at
several hundred tech companies before Microsoft hired him (for $165k plus
benefits).
Along the way he rambles at length about government conspiracies to knock him
off the Internet and make him homeless.
He blames the hiring managers quite frequently for his own mistakes, and he
says they have a conspiracy going between them to make sure he remains
unemployed.
Interspersed, he talks about all of the amphetamines and other illegal drugs
he’s taking.
He’s quite obviously not sleepingif he can put in this many job applications in
this short of a time period. But the drugs and lack of sleep appear to be
causing him to get sloppy and make the mistakes he blames on the “conspiracy”
of hiring managers and the government.
As I mentioned in my last post, he eventually learns that if he says he has a
disability, called “Neurodivergence”, he can take advantage of one of
Microsoft’s “Social Justice Programs” called “Neurodivergent Hiring Program”
and land a job at Microsoft, after at least 200-300 other companies across the
United States turned him down.
Microsoft hires a lot of people who have no idea what they’re doing. They’re
utterly incompetent.
Joseph Cantrell was rejected by hundreds of top companies before he started
working in Microsoft Azure, which has had hundreds of data breaches.
Microsoft hides the incompetence somewhat by having proprietary software you
can’t see, and a lot of it runs on computers you don’t control. And when you
put your software in these systems, bad things happen. The_Pentagon_got
breached_the_other_day_due_to_Azure.
Microsoft ALWAYS blames their customers in the end. This time they didn’t go
straight to that, but they claim there’s an “investigation” and then it all
went silent.
Meanwhile, Cantrell and four other people who collectively cost Microsoft over
a million dollars a year were asking how to fix a bug on Stack Exchange and
laughing about a bogus error message that they had planted in the Azure code
(see my first post about the Diary, linked at the beginning of this post).
Stack Exchange was one of the companies he says he had applied at.
October 17, 2021: 7:41 p.m. – I don’t trust these Indian run
corporations like Google and Microsoft anymore. Look at what their
products have become. They’re full of glitches and new annoyances
that never, ever get fixed. Does Bill Gates even use Windows anymore?
Does that Google guy still even use Google?
“I don’t trust these Indian run corporations like Microsoft.”
Gets a job at Microsoft.
Good job, Microsoft.
There’s some mentions of his mother in here. She died in 2016.
October 25, 2016: My mother is in a hospice. There are many more
cancerous masses than originally believed, and the number is at least
eleven. I’m assuming she has less than six months to live as that’s
the only way the government will pay for it (and of course there’s no
other way to afford it). She’s still in constant pain and can’t get
up by herself. She’s taking morphine. She’s in a comfy hospice with
lots of recreational activities and a view of a lake. Well. The hours
remain. A Petrichor by Sulphur is soon to come. It just might be
true.
October 27, 2016: My mother has 1-2 months to live according to the
doctor. He said she will be gone by Christmas, and lucky to make it
to Thanksgiving. Well. Fuck. I worked out. That was great. Showered,
brushed my teeth, smoked a vape bowl (.3 grams), and took a 200 mcg
tab of acid. I didn’t set a timer this time for the first time in a
while, so I don’t know when it will hit me. But I think I can start
to feel it; an interesting tingling in my body (although maybe this
is from the weed and preworkout). Well, acid will speed up my heart a
little, but it’s been over five hours since I took the preworkout. I
benched 270 for six sets and bent over rowed 227 for 4 sets (I did
warmup sets of 245 and 225, respectively). Well, a good day so far.
Kinda. My mother wants to go home when she has to die, but the house
is fucked up and needs to be fixed. Friends and family are fixing it.
That’s great. Fuck this situation, I’m going to play Overwatch.
October 28, 2016: Waking up for philosophy sucked. I couldn’t fall
back asleep, and then it turns out my mother is probably going to die
today. I was asked the question of resuscitation and asked for it,
but later recanted after speaking with Crystal, Vickie, and the
nurse. Damn. I went to Columbus to see her. That was it. She
couldn’t speak when I got there. My last moments with my mother and
she barely had the strength to open her eyes to see me. She opened
her eyes for two seconds, jerked her hands up in excited
acknowledgement, and laid back to rest with her eyes closed. My last
words were never able to be returned, unfortunately. Whatever.
October 29, 2016: My mother died at 16:26. I left back for Atlanta,
smoked some weed and passed out.
“Whatever.”? “I smoked some weed and passed out.”?
Really great job, Microsoft. A Nazi that doesn’t even love his own mother.
I think it goes without saying that any normal person would be so disturbed by
what’s going on with their mother being in the hospice with cancer that even if
they had a rocky relationship, they’d be taking time to grieve. He keeps going
to class, playing games, and using illegal drugs, and plays the entire thing
off. Very shortly after his mom’s death, he goes right back to writing in the
diary as-if nothing happened.
January 18, 2018: I recently got my first dog myself, a fluffy German
Shepherd named Breezy. Some people, including my cousin Hayden, were
scared of dogs. An aggressive breed can be conditioned. Nonaggressive
breeds can be conditioned to synergize for collective benefit. This
is why marginal capitalism with a safety net is better than pure
communism.
Interesting thoughts on the welfare state.
I wonder which “breed” it is that is “aggressive” and can be “conditioned” that
he had in mind.
June 24, 2022: 6:19 p.m. 10:07 p.m.: I don’t think I’ve ever written
this down, but given my history with groups of black people, I am a
white supremacist. I think white people should maintain the upper
echelons of power [...] I think it’s dangerous to give a minority
group power [...] I think the majority, whites, should retain control
of the government, especially the military and prisons, lest the
minority groups begin weaponizing those industrieslike the careless
needle that was used by that fat black jailhouse nurse in my
tuberculosis test.
November 26, 2022: 11:20 a.m. – It’s weird how n*****s celebrate
Juneteenth, and then for the next 100 years after Juneteenth, niggers
were shuffled from the back of the bus to be lynched from the trees.
[...] My mom was a racist and would be about sixty today. That means
about 20% of white people are still racist.
January 25, 2023: 12:38 p.m. – Monday when I walked the mile into the
office as usual, I threw away a bear with a red sweater reading
“Veritas” on it. I also threw away a cheetah with a blue vest saying
“FAST” on it. They were there waiting to taunt me, sitting on the
windowsill behind my desk at Microsoft. I kept them on my desk until
now. On Friday, I left the red bear up on the light so I could
remember ask people about it, but then I decided I didn’t want to
interact with those fucking n*****sand just threw it away. I asked if
I could work from home, and after arriving, my manager asked me to
stay working from home until I get the doctor stuff sorted out on
Valentine’s Day.
Which party is he with?
Given limits on immigration, this is a stretch, but the Chinese and
more importantly the allegedly “democratic” Indians have four times
as many people as the United States such that they could replace our
entire population and overrule our democracy if we let them.
Unchecked immigration from Mexico and south of Mexico (“south
Mexico”) can also further this goal of destabilizing the United
States. These companies claim the talent pool in the United States is
small enough to justify hiring expatriates, but I’m proof these
companies are simply not even trying. The United States should
further restrict its immigration policy like Japan’s difficult
naturalization process, and as such I support Donald Trump and the
Republicans.
“MicroSSoft” is the company where White_Replacement_Theory is openly welcomed,
I guess.
“What are you going to do about it, whitey? Are you just going to stand there?”
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Posted in Site_News at 4:49 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: We have some promising plans for Techrights and some raves to share
today; we’ve invested a lot in the site’s improvement lately
WE are fast approaching our 36,000th blog post (some time later this month),
our Gemini capsule currenly shows up at the top of the list in Lupa’s
statistics, and Geminispace is generally growing. “There are 3162 capsules,” it
says. “We successfully connected recently to 2329 of them.”
Lately we’ve been having some trans-Atlantic connectivity issues (cause
unknown, might be related to cyber-attacks or DDOS) and 2 days ago we completed
one month with fibre-optics at home (where Gemini is hosted). Also 2 days ago
my wife officially became a British citizen and we took these photos with the
Lord Mayor of Manchester (~47 hours ago):
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Rianne_Schestowitz⦈_
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Roy_and_Rianne_Schestowitz⦈_
The man on the left is her refree.
“Things move in positive direction in the sense that examiners are revolting
against law-breaking managers.”At Techrights, EPO is still a priority, as
European_software_patents may be at great risk, along with the UPC (it would be
challenged very fast at a high level; kangaroo courts don’t tend to stick
around once the media gets involved and there’s public/political uproar).
There’s coalition-building behind the scenes and we expect to have many guest
post quite soon. Regarding Sirius_‘Open_Source’ and several of its pension
providers, we’re still studying the pension situation (it impacts a lot of
people!). We’ve spent weeks on this and we’ve been improving the code
associated with our curation of news, which means that Daily Links are a lot
more extensive since my hard-drive (SSD rather) died at the end of January.
Later today we have a lot of stuff to show about EPO affairs. Things move in
positive direction in the sense that examiners are revolting against law-
breaking managers.
We’re not counting on the Web to thrive and grow. It’s shrinking and it will
likely perish in a decade or two. One site that we link to regularly is
shutting_down — part of a trend likely accelerated by economic pressures in
recent years. Today’s Web is lots of JS/’webapps’ with spying and
disinformation/spam. It’s not what it was 10 or 20 years ago. █
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* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Linux_Around_The_World:_Lithuania⠀⇛
We cover user groups that are running in Lithuania. This
article forms part of our Linux Around The World series.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ Linux_Out_Loud_52:_Unpopular_Opinions⠀⇛
This week, Linux Out Loud chats about up-and-coming
hardware using Linux. Welcome to episode 51 of
Linux Out Loud. We fired up our mics, connected
those headphones as we searched the community for
themes to expound upon. We kept the banter
friendly, the conversation somewhat on topic, and
had fun doing it.
# ⚓ Bad_Voltage_3×56:_Hyperbole_is_the_Magic_Word⠀⇛
Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge
present Bad Voltage, in which we spend a show
inventing topics which need a whole other show to
talk about, we reminisce about Google Plus, and:
[00:01:36] Twitter Blue, Meta Verified: the social
networks go premium.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.2.2⠀⇛
I'm announcing the release of the 6.2.2 kernel.
All users of the 6.2 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 6.2.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/
git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.2.y
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web
browser:
https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/
linux-s...
thanks,
greg k-h
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.1.15⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.97⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.171⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.234⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.19.275⠀⇛
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Ubuntu_Media_Center:_How_to_turn_your_Ubuntu
system_into_a_media_center⠀⇛
In this guide, we will walk you through the step-
by-step process of turning your Ubuntu system into
a media center. We’ll cover everything from
installing the necessary software to configuring
your system for optimal performance. By the end of
this guide, you’ll have a fully-functional media
center that can stream all of your favorite content
directly to your TV. So let’s get started!
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Ubuntu_Remote_Access:_How_to_access_your_Ubuntu
system_remotely⠀⇛
Have you ever wished you could access your Ubuntu
desktop or server from another location, such as
your home or office? With remote access tools, you
can easily and securely connect to your Ubuntu
system from anywhere in the world. In this article,
we will guide you through the process of setting up
and using remote access on Ubuntu. We’ll cover
various tools such as VNC, TeamViewer, SSH, and
RDP, and show you how to use them to control your
Ubuntu system remotely.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Server_Maintenance_Checklist⠀⇛
Server maintenance is an essential part of ensuring
that your IT infrastructure runs smoothly and
efficiently. By creating and following a regular
maintenance checklist, you can ensure that your
servers are operating optimally, reducing the risk
of downtime and data loss.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Running_Laravel_Queue_Worker_as_a_Systemd
Service⠀⇛
Laravel is a popular PHP web application framework
that simplifies the process of building modern,
scalable web applications. One of the key features
of Laravel is its ability to handle background jobs
through its queueing system.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_Forgejo_on_Debian_11_–_A_nice
Gitea_Fork⠀⇛
Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to
install Forgejo on Debian 11. Forgejo is a fork of
Gitea. It arose from the fact that Gitea was
acquired by a company and this didn’t sit well with
the community who preferred to make a fork.
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_Download_and_Install_Slack_App_for_Linux
OS⠀⇛
Are you a Linux user that’s been wanting to try out
Slack? Or are you already a developer who loves
Slack and wants to use the app on your Linux
machine? Either way, Slack is a satisfactory
collaboration software choice for many
professionals.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_Vuls_Vulnerability
Scanner_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
In this tutorial, you will install Vuls – an open-
source and agent-less vulnerability scanner – on an
Ubuntu 22.04 server. You will also set up Vuls by
creating the configuration file and building Vuls
databases via the command-line tools provided by
Vuls.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_FFmpeg_6_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or
20.04⠀⇛
FFmpeg 6 is a highly anticipated release of the
widely-used open-source multimedia framework. This
major update brings many new features and
improvements, making it a versatile command-line
tool for processing and converting audio and video
files.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Flatpak_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or
20.04⠀⇛
In recent years, the Linux community has seen an
increase in the popularity of containerized
software packaging formats, specifically Flatpak
and Snap. These formats offer a range of benefits
to developers, system administrators, and end-users
alike, including increased flexibility, security,
and ease of deployment.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_balenaEtcher_on_Manjaro
Linux⠀⇛
BalenaEtcher is a popular open-source tool for
writing images to SD cards, USB drives, and other
storage devices. It provides a user-friendly
interface and a simple, three-step process for
creating bootable media. Unlike many other image
writing tools,
# ⚓ LinuxTuto ☛ How_to_Install_PyroCMS_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
PyroCMS is a popular open-source content management
system (CMS) that is built on top of the Laravel
PHP framework.
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ The_Complete_Guide_to_Managing_Snap
Packages_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛
The Snap packages has been around since Ubuntu
16.04. Just like the long-known deb format has its
own commands to perform operations on .deb
packages, there are commands dedicated to managing
Snap packages as well. In this article we will
learn how to perform basic management operations on
Snap packages.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_deploy_your_first_container_with_the
Cockpit_GUI⠀⇛
Learn how to use the Cockpit GUI for your first
container with this brief tutorial from expert Jack
Wallen.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ FFmpeg_6.0_Released!_How_to_Install_in
Ubuntu_22.04_|_20.04⠀⇛
The popular FFmpeg multimedia library announced the
new major 6.0 release yesterday. Here are the new
features and how to install guide for Ubuntu 22.04,
Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 18.04.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Python_3.7_on_Ubuntu_22.04
or_20.04⠀⇛
Python 3.7 is an earlier release of the Python
programming language that more recent versions have
surpassed. Nevertheless, it is still a reliable and
well-respected release often used in various
applications.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Avidemux_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or
20.04⠀⇛
Avidemux is a free, open-source video editing
software popular among video editors, filmmakers,
and hobbyists. It is a simple yet powerful tool
that offers a range of video editing capabilities,
including cutting, filtering, and encoding. With
its user-friendly interface and extensive features,
Avidemux has gained a significant following in the
video editing community.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Rust_on_Manjaro_Linux⠀⇛
Rust is a modern systems programming language
designed to offer safe concurrency, high
performance, and low-level control over computer
hardware. It was created by Mozilla in 2010 and has
since become increasingly popular, with a growing
community of developers and an expanding ecosystem
of libraries and tools.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ ‘Sticky_Notes’_is_a_New_Notes_App_for
GNOME_Desktops⠀⇛
If you need help staying on top of your to-
dos, make a note to check out Sticky Notes, a
new productivity app that hit Flathub this
week.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Systemd Free ☛ 2023_hardcore_list_of_linux_distributions_without
elogind_and_other_systemd_parts [Updated 2 Mar 2023]⠀⇛
Welcome antiX and Noir linux to the strict list, with
edition 22 antiX is fully functional and lighter than
ever without a trace of elogind!
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ NuTyX_23.02.1_is_Now_Available_with_the
Recent_Stable_Kernel_6.2.1⠀⇛
This version of NuTyX includes the latest software
updates, bug fixes, and security patches. It’s a
great way to keep your system up-to-date and
running smoothly.
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ TrueNAS_SCALE_Network_Attached_Storage
Meets_High_Demand⠀⇛
TrueNAS SCALE might not be a distribution on the
radar of most cloud native developers, but it
should be.
o § Arch Family⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Top_5_Best_Arch_Linux_Distros_For_Everyone⠀⇛
If you are a Linux enthusiast looking for a
powerful and flexible operating system, then Arch
Linux is worth considering. Arch Linux is known for
its flexibility, customization options, and
minimalistic design.
However, setting up Arch Linux can be daunting,
especially for beginners. That is why several Arch
Linux-based distros are available that aim to make
the installation and setup process easier and more
user-friendly.
In this list of best Arch Linux distros, we explore
the best ones available and see how they fit common
users with the above pointers.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Delivering_highly_resilient_IT
operations_with_event-driven_automation⠀⇛
Digital business is here to stay, whether this
means improving internal workflows or directly
delivering capabilities that enhance the customer
experience through applications hosted across the
hybrid cloud. Once these solutions are built and
deployed, smooth operation becomes the goal.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Deploying_a_multi-container_application
using_Podman_and_Quadlet⠀⇛
Learn about the unit files Quadlet supports and how
to use them to deploy containers using Podman and
systemd.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_to_cache_Ansible_facts_with_Redis⠀⇛
Persisting Ansible fact data improves execution
time, particularly when running different playbooks
in sequence or targeting many hosts.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Security_automation:_3_priorities
for_CIOs⠀⇛
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 5_ways_to_prioritize_your_DEI
strategy_when_downsizing⠀⇛
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ How_to_ask_for_a_raise_in_an
economic_downturn⠀⇛
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Debian_12_Will_Include_the_KDE_Plasma_5.27
Desktop_Environment⠀⇛
One of the distinctive features of Debian is its
conservative approach to including software in its
repositories. Unlike other distributions, Debian
does not rush to include the latest software
versions, instead preferring to thoroughly test and
evaluate each new release before adding it to its
repos. This approach has several benefits,
including enhanced stability, reliability, and
security.
On the other hand, however, this has its drawbacks.
For example, if you use the distro as a desktop
system, the versions of the applications and the
desktop environments are not the most up-to-date.
For example, the current stable version of Debian
11 relies on GNOME 3.38 and KDE Plasma 5.20. Given
that these versions are far from the most up-to-
date, it is expected that as a new stable release
of the distribution approaches, one of the main
topics to be how up-to-date the included software
will be.
# ⚓ Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ Sparky_news_2023/02⠀⇛
The 2nd monthly Sparky project and donate report of
the 2023…
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ YouTuber_Upgrades_Lowest_Spec_Raspberry_Pi
4_to_8GB_of_RAM⠀⇛
YouTuber MadEDoctor decided to beat the shortage of
Raspberry Pi 4 8GB by converting a 1GB model into
the top of the line Pi
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Cosmic_Unicorn_Harnesses_the_Power_of
Raspberry_Pi_Pico_W⠀⇛
The latest Unicorn from Pimoroni sees the Raspberry
Pi Pico W controlling 1,024 RGB LEDs in a densely
packed board.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Floppy_thumb_drive_integrates_Adafruit
PyPortal_display_based_on_Microchip_SAMD51_MCU⠀⇛
Anne Barela’s Floppy Thumb Drive project houses the
Adafruit PyPortal internet display in a 3D-printed
enclosure that looks like a 3.5-inch floppy disk,
just a bit thicker. The computer-in-a-floppy-disk
project runs CircuitPython code to list the first
12 files stored in the flash and can display photos
or animations, play audio, or execute scripts.
# ⚓ Sticking_with_Cobalt_Blue⠀⇛
A call upon the industry to engage more — not less!
— in ASM cobalt mining.
# ⚓ How_to_Change_Arduino_IDE_Background_Theme,_Colors,_and
Font_Scheme⠀⇛
If you use Arduino IDE frequently, the default
interface can feel monotonous and boring. You can
add more variety by customizing your Arduino IDE
with different background themes, colors, and font
schemes. As the following steps illustrate, it’s
actually very easy to personalize your Arduino IDE
experience.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_Auto_split-screen_tests_a_much-
needed_layout_tweak⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Billions_of_Android_phones_have_secret_VIP_mode
that_you_can_turn_on_for_free_â_simple_‘tap_code’_for_an
amazing_upgrade_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ The_$10_pocket_calculator_powered_by
Android_9_â¢_The_Register⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ Audio_Issues_on_Android?_Disable
Absolute_Bluetooth_Volume_to_Fix_It_–_Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_7_Best_Clipboard_Management_Apps_for
Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ XDA ☛ 5_iOS_features_Apple_borrowed_from_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Central ☛ How_to_switch_to_the_single-line_layout
on_the_Android_13_lock_screen_clock_|_Android_Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Moto_G_Stylus_2023_nears_launch_with
Android_13_onboard⠀⇛
# ⚓ Tom’s Guide ☛ Android_14_could_kill_passwords_forever_—
here’s_how_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_6_Best_Android_Apps_for_Adding_Text_to
Photos⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Best_Open_Source_Software_List⠀⇛
Open source software is software that is released under a
license that allows companies the right to use, study,
change, and distribute the software for any purpose. Open
source software can also be developed in a public manner.
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ My_First_Time_At_The_Southern_California
Linux_Expo_(SCALE_19x)⠀⇛
SCALE or the Southern California Linux Expo is an
annual conference that takes place in the Los
Angeles area. SCALE 19x (July 2022) was the first
event since the period that shall not be named.
# ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ SUSECON_2023_Just_the_way_you_like
it…_In_Person_or_Online_–_you_choose!⠀⇛
SUSECON is entering it’s second decade of providing
awesome technical content, and while the online
editions of SUSECON have been amazing, we are
excited to get back to our roots — bringing people
together to learn, to share, and to come away
knowing much more than when we arrived.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Godot_4.0_Release_Might_Persuade_Developers_to
Switch_Away_From_Unreal,_Unity,_and_Other_Game_Engines⠀⇛
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_as_a_Career_–_Becoming_A_Stellar_Qt_Developer⠀⇛
In this series, we’ll be bringing you a variety of
career stories from people working with Qt.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Python_Program_to_Add_Two_Numbers⠀⇛
Brief: Write a Python program to add two
numbers. It provides a step-by-step guide on
how to write a program that prompts the user
to enter two numbers, adds them together, and
displays the result. Python is a popular
programming language known for its simplicity
and ease of use.
# § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Best_Practices_and_Tips_for_Writing_Shell
Scripts_as_Pro⠀⇛
Shell scripting is a powerful tool for DevOps
automation. It allows you to automate
repetitive tasks, manage and configure your
infrastructure, and streamline your
deployment processes. However, writing
effective shell scripts requires following
best practices and using certain techniques
to make your code efficient, modular, and
maintainable.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ 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.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ India_calls_on_G20_member_states_to_adopt_international
anti-corruption_strategy⠀⇛
Indian Minister of State Jitendra Singh Wednesday urged
G20 member states to adopt strict anti-corruption stances
in advance of the group’s 2023 New Delhi summit.
o ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ I_believed_in_love_until_YouTube_breakups⠀⇛
The first time I experienced heartbreak, I was 13 years
old. But let me be clear — it wasn’t because my crush
overlooked the rumor I started about us on our middle
school’s Instagram confession page.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Gwendoline_Riley’s_Biting_Realism⠀⇛
When Bridget Grant, the narrator of Gwendoline Riley’s
new novel My Phantoms, was a child, her favored state was
a dissociated one. She speaks with her mother as if from
a script, presenting a series of prompts—about her
mother’s childhood, her school uniform, her divorce—to
which the other can quickly provide “the right answer, an
approved answer.” Whenever Bridget and her sister
Michelle are forced to spend time with their father, they
learn “to sort of fade out of the moment” when he goes
off on one of his comic routines, as if averting their
eyes from a wild animal’s challenge.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Angela_Davis’s_Family_History_Is_Remarkable—and
Unexceptional_for_Black_Americans⠀⇛
The most recent episode of the PBS genealogy docuseries
Finding Your Roots focused, in part, on the previously
untraced family tree branches of activist and scholar
Angela Davis. If you are on social media and have even a
passing interest in this sort of thing, you’ve probably
already watched the clip of host Henry Louis Gates Jr.
announcing to Davis that she is “descended from one of
the 101 people who sailed on the Mayflower.” The camera
catches Davis reeling from the revelations, and the clip
went viral, launching a million Twitter hot takes. But
the snippet provides just one piece of the story of
Davis’s ancestry unearthed by the show. Only in watching
the rest of the episode is it made clear that her
connection to that 10th great-grandfather was made during
the Jim Crow era, through a previously unknown white
paternal grandfather who had been her Black grandmother’s
long-time neighbor. The episode also reveals that Davis’s
mother, who grew up in foster care and never knew either
of her biological parents, was fathered by a white
Alabama lawyer, state representative, and senator named
John Austin Darden. Through Darden, the show uncovered
another of Davis’s ancestors who served in the
Revolutionary War and later enslaved at least six Black
folks in Georgia.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ A_Poll_as_Right-Wing_Racist_Troll:_The_Real
Lessons_From_‘Dilbert’_This_Week⠀⇛
Cartoonist Scott Adams, creator of the once-funny comic
strip “Dilbert,” has finally gotten what he always
wanted. For a long time now, Adams has acted like that
kid in third grade who craves negative attention. Now
he’s got it. Adams reportedly said…
o ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ No_Hungarian-born_athletes_among_those
representing_Hungary_at_World_Junior_Figure_Skating_Championships⠀⇛
o ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungary_spent_most_on_culture,_sports_and
religion_in_EU_relative_to_GDP⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Healing_Hands⠀⇛
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Norm_Abram_Is_Back,_And_Thanks_To_AI,_Now_In_HD⠀⇛
We’ve said many times that while woodworking is a bit
outside our wheelhouse, we have immense respect for those
with the skill and patience to turn dead trees into
practical objects. Among such artisans, few are better
known than the legendary Norm Abram — host of The New
Yankee Workshop from 1989 to 2009 on PBS.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Is_Your_Teacher_Spying_on_You?_–
Censored_Notebook⠀⇛
In this bonus “Dispatches from Project Censored,”
Allison Butler and Nolan Higdon, two of the most
acclaimed media literacy educators working today,
offer no-nonsense tips for teens to protect
themselves against surveillance. As technology
floods into the classroom, teens often fall prey to
invisible violations of their rights to privacy and
free expression. These rights should not be left at
the school’s doorstep, but today’s technology make
snooping and spying in the classroom easier than
ever. Butler and Higdon’s “Is Your Teacher Spying
on You?” gives teens a primer for taking back their
rights and protecting them into the future.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ To_Address_Teacher_Shortage_Pay_Teachers
More⠀⇛
Though states are seeking to reduce the teacher
shortage, the problem only seems to be getting
worse. Recently, the National Education Association
reported that 55 percent of teachers are planning
to leave the profession earlier than they planned.
This means that, if current trends persist, the gap
between the number of working teachers and the
number of open positions will widen significantly
by 2030. This is where Bernie Sanders, the new
Senate Chair of Health, Education, and Labor, comes
in.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Intel_Processor_N100_mini_PC_with_8GB_LPDDR5
memory_sells_for_$156_and_up⠀⇛
Topton is selling a mini PC based on the Intel
Processor N100 Alder Lake-N quad-core processor
with 8GB LPDDR5 RAM for $156.44 and up depending on
the selected SSD capacity. But despite its low
price, the specifications are not too bad with dual
4K video output thanks to HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort
interfaces, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, WiFi 5 and
Bluetooth 4.2 connectivity, four USB ports
including one USB 3.0 port, and an audio jack.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Look_Inside_Bicycle_Gearboxes⠀⇛
While bicycle gearboxes date back to at least the
1920s, they’re relatively unseen in bike racing.
One exception is Honda’s race-winning mid-drive
gearboxes, and [Alee Denham] gives us a look at
what makes these unique drives tick.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ SCSI:_The_Disk_Bus_For_Everything⠀⇛
Early home PCs usually had a floppy disk and a
simple hard drive controller. Later, IDE hard
drives became the defacto standard. Of course,
these days, you are more likely to find some
version of SATA and — lately — NVME connectors. But
a standard predating all of this was very common in
high-end systems: SCSI. [RetroBytes] recently did a
video on the bus which he calls the “USB of the
80s.”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_CHIPS_Plan_to_Revive_American
Manufacturing⠀⇛
On Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo
unveiled a key new plank in the work-in-progress
known as American industrial policy. After a
decades-long trade regime that permitted private
oligopolies to decide where and how to produce
semiconductors, the Commerce Department launched a
$39 billion incentives program to give grants,
loans, and other financial support to businesses
and nonprofits to build chip fabrication facilities
in America.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Russian_Nuclear_Company_Tests_‘Beaver’_PCs
With_Homegrown_Baikal_CPUs⠀⇛
A major Russian company is testdriving Arm-based
PCs.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Norfolk_Southern_Used_Sick_Leave_as_Bargaining
Chip_to_Erode_Safety,_Union_Says⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Newark_Latest_US_Community_to_Declare
Support_for_Medicare_for_All⠀⇛
Spurred by a statewide organizing effort by Our
Revolution, the city council of Newark, New Jersey
on Wednesday passed a resolution officially
declaring support for legislation to expand
Medicare to all U.S. residents, guaranteeing
healthcare as a right.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Safety_legislation_introduced_in_US_Congress
following_toxic_Ohio_rail_accident⠀⇛
US lawmakers in the Senate and House of
Representatives Tuesday introduced legislation to
expand railway safety precautions following the
derailment of a train carrying toxic materials in
East Palestine, Ohio.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ UNICEF_Offers_Help_As_Mysterious_Wave_Of_Illness
Sweeps_Through_Iranian_Schools⠀⇛
UNICEF says it is prepared to provide support and
assistance to Iran to help solve a growing crisis
over a mysterious wave of illness that has put
scores of schoolchildren in hospital and sparked
speculation of a plot to force the closure of
girls’ schools amid a wave of unrest following the
death of a young woman while in police custody for
allegedly wearing a head scarf improperly.
# ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ These_companies_want_to_tackle_food
waste_with_microbes⠀⇛
Some people might look in a grocery store’s
dumpster and see garbage. But others are starting
to see dollar signs. New facilities are popping up
in the US to help tackle food waste using a process
called anaerobic digestion, which uses microbes to
break down organic materials. Divert, a company
working to address food waste,…
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ US_Claim_of_COVID_Origin_Further_Erodes_Its
Credibility_–_China⠀⇛
China reacted to the FBI’s claim of a leak in a lab
in Wuhan by calling on “the U.S. to respect science
and facts.”
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Doctors_In_Madrid_Strike_Over_Wage_&_Working
Conditions⠀⇛
Protesters marched for over two hours from Madrid
Health Service Human Resources Directorate to
Puerta del Sol square, where the regional
government headquarters is.
# ⚓ The Scientist ☛ The_Heart_Can_Directly_Influence_Our
Emotions⠀⇛
Researchers find that an increased heart rate can
induce anxiety in mice, given the right context.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Cooking_the_leading_cause_of_residential
fires_in_Finland,_according_to_Finnish_National_Rescue
Association⠀⇛
Cooking continues to be the leading cause of
residential fires, with almost a third of all
building fires in Finland starting from cooking.
According to the Finnish National Rescue
Association, approximately 900 fires per year are
caused by cooking. To raise awareness and prevent
such fires, the association has released a guide to
safe stove use, detailing the hazards of the
kitchen and how to avoid them.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Sharp_rise_in_psychiatric_diagnoses_among
young_people_after_the_first_wave_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic⠀⇛
A recent study by the University of Turku’s Child
Psychiatry Research Center and the National
Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland has
found that the number of new psychiatric diagnoses
among young people increased by almost a fifth
after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The
diagnoses increased especially among girls,
teenagers, and in the Helsinki metropolitan area,
where restrictions and COVID-19 infection rates
were higher than in other parts of the country.
Eating disorders, depression, and anxiety diagnoses
increased the most during the study period.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ AI_Chatbots_are_Even_Scarier_Than_You
Think⠀⇛
A New York Times reporter has a creepy experience
Among the most read stories in the NYTimes in the
last few weeks was the one by tech reporter Kevin
Roose about his unsettling experience with Bing,
the updated search engine by Microsoft. Initially
delighted by its capabilities and speed, he changed
his mind after discovering that Bing’s Open AI
Chatbot was creepy. After a brief, getting
acquainted period involving online searches and
basic questions about AI capabilities, Roose began
to get personal. Posing his questions as
hypotheticals, he put the bot on the couch, probing
its inner life. He asked about his analysand’s
desires, fears and animosities. After some
resistance, Sydney (the bot’s emerging alter ego)
opened up, and out poured a surprising series of
confessions and professions.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ SANS ☛ Python_Infostealer_Targeting_Gamers,_(Wed,_Mar
1st)⠀⇛
They generate a lot of business around games.
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Dumb_Password_Rules⠀⇛
Troy Hunt is collecting examples of dumb_password
rules.
There are some pretty bad disasters out there.
My worst experiences are with sites that have
artificial complexity requirements that cause my
personal password-generation systems to fail. Some
of the systems on the list are even worse: when
they fail they don’t tell you why, so you just have
to guess until you get it right.
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Fooling_a_Voice_Authentication_System_with
an_AI-Generated_Voice⠀⇛
A reporter used an AI synthesis of his own voice to
fool_the_voice_authentication_system for Lloyd’s
Bank.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Minneapolis_Public_Schools_systems
restored,_no_ransom_paid⠀⇛
[Note: MPS’s phrase “encryption event” appeared to
be a ridiculous — and dare we say, sleazy– attempt
not to call it a “ransomware attack.” The district
still has not described it as ransomware attack.]
# ⚓ Businessman_convicted_of_Experian_data_breach_skips
sentencing,_court_issues_warrant_for_his_arrest⠀⇛
A man who was convicted of fraudulently obtaining
the personal data of millions of South Africans is
a wanted man after he skipped his sentencing.
Karabo Phungula failed to appear in the Specialised
Commercial Crimes Court, sitting in the Palm Ridge
Magistrate’s Court, for his sentencing on
Wednesday.
It was the second time that he missed a scheduled
court appearance in the case, in which he was
accused of fraudulently obtaining a trove of
personal and business data from data services firm,
Experian, in 2020.
Phungula, the founder of Hi-Pixel Communications,
was convicted in October last year. On 14 February,
he failed to appear in court for sentencing, citing
ill health.
# ⚓ Nearly_800_people_affected_by_possible_data_breach_during
College_of_the_Desert_malware_attack_last_summer⠀⇛
College of the Desert has begun alerting the
approximately 800 people who may be affected by a
possible data breach during a malware attack last
summer.
The malware attack occurred in early July. The
attack took down the school’s phone and online
services for nearly the entire month.
# ⚓ HHS_OCR_creates_new_HIPAA_enforcement_arm_and_enhances
focus_on_cybersecurity_and_privacy_oversight⠀⇛
This week the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, the agency responsible for HIPAA
enforcement, announced the formation of three new
divisions within the Office for Civil Rights
(“OCR”). The new divisions – Enforcement, Policy,
and Strategic Planning – are intended to enhance
focus and efficiency in conducting HIPAA compliance
reviews, developing policies related to HIPAA and
health privacy, promulgating regulations, providing
technical assistance, and educating the public
about health privacy and cybersecurity
requirements.
# ⚓ WHSmith_targeted_by_hackers_in_cyber_attack_as_company_data
at_risk⠀⇛
High street retailer WHSmith has reported it has
been the target of a cyber attack with hackers
accessing company data.
The company said information regarding current and
former employees had also been accessed by hackers
during the security breach.
Bosses of the established retailer said the
situation does not impact its trading activities
and stressed that the brand’s website, customer
accounts and customer databases were all safe, as
they were operated on a separate system.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Lubbock_Heart_and_Surgical_Hospital_sued
for_breach_where_no_one_knows_for_sure_whether_data_was
accessed_or_acquired⠀⇛
If the victim of a cyberattack cannot determine
whether data was accessed or acquired, should that
increase the damages sought by plaintiffs in a
class action suit? Or should it get the suit tossed
out because the plaintiffs can’t prove any theft of
their data?
Kelly Mehorter reports about a class action lawsuit
filed against Lubbock Heart and Surgical Hospital
over a 2022 breach. The hospital notified 23,379
patients about a July incident in September 2022,
but then updated their report in December 2022. The
updated report frankly admitted, “Our investigation
could not determine whether the unauthorized party
did, in fact,
access or copy any files but was unable to rule it
out.”
# ⚓ Little_Rock_School_District_seeks_cyberattack_guidance⠀⇛
The Little Rock School District is continuing to
seek an attorney general’s opinion on the legality
of holding private school board meetings when
reacting to a cyber- or ransomware attack on a
district’s electronic information systems.
Little Rock Superintendent Jermall Wright sent a
lengthy letter in January to the attorney general’s
office asking how to appropriately balance a school
board’s obligations for disclosure under state law
with the risk of harm to students and employees
that public discussion of a cyberattack could pose.
Eric Walker, staff attorney for the 21,000-student
Little Rock district that experienced a cyberattack
late last year, said this week that the matter is
pending.
# ⚓ RTHK ☛ Doctor_suspended_over_medical_records_breach⠀⇛
A doctor has been suspended from clinical duties
and reported to the police on suspicion of
accessing medical records without their subject’s
consent.
A spokesman for North District Hospital said in a
statement published on Tuesday night that they
discovered the breach after a member of staff
reported that she suspected her medical records had
been accessed improperly.
It said an investigation had found that a doctor
had accessed the medical records of 29 individuals
– including patients and healthcare staff – through
the hospital’s Clinical Management System without
their consent.
# ⚓ Houston Chronicle ☛ Texas_waited_two_months_to_start
informing_3,000_people_that_crooks_copied_their_driver’s
licenses._DPS_explains_why.⠀⇛
After discovering in December that an organized
crime group had obtained thousands of replacement
Texas driver licenses, state public safety
officials waited more than two months to publicly
reveal the breach and start notifying those swept
up in the operation.
The criminal effort, disclosed to lawmakers Monday
by Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve
McCraw, targeted at least 3,000 Texans with Asian
surnames, whose replacement licenses were then sent
to Chinese nationals in the country illegally.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Sentara_Health_notifying_741_patients_after
mistake_by_Coronis_Health_employee⠀⇛
In a refreshingly straightforward breach
disclosure, Sentara Health in Virginia reports that
on December 19, an anonymous individual called
their Compliance Hotline to alert them that while
searching for something online, the called had
stumbled across an exposed file with patients’
Medicare billing information. Sentara quickly
verified the caller’s report and determined that
the file had been uploaded to Adobe Acrobat’s site
by an employee of a Sentara business associate,
Coronis Health. The employee uploaded the billing
remittance file on October 17.
# § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Airline_websites_swamped_as
Hong_Kong_gives_away_half_a_million_tickets⠀⇛
People hoping to take advantage of a Hong
Kong scheme to give away half a million free
airline tickets faced hours-long online
queues on Wednesday, as the Asian financial
hub bids to woo tourists back.
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Beware_of_social_media_accounts_asking_for
donations_for_Turkey-Syria_earthquake_victims⠀⇛
Check out our video on how to avoid potential
scams when donating
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ FTC_bans_teletherapy_company
BetterHelp_from_sharing_consumer_health_data_with
advertisers⠀⇛
To settle the complaint, BetterHelp has
agreed to pay $7.8 million to partially
refund consumers whose data has been
compromised.
# ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Why_the_stress_around_Chinese
apps_in_the_US_is_overblown⠀⇛
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Airbnb_Is_Banning_People_Who_Are
‘Closely_Associated’_With_Already-Banned_Users⠀⇛
As a safety precaution, the tech company
sometimes bans users because the company has
discovered that they “are likely to travel”
with another person who has already been
banned.
# § Confidentiality⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Hackers_Claim_To_Have_Breached_T-Mobile
More_Than_100_Times_Last_Year⠀⇛
Back in January, we noted that T-Mobile had
recently revealed it had been hacked eight
times over the last five years. But a new
report by security expert Brian Krebs
suggests it could be far worse than that.
According to Krebs, hackers are making a
compelling case that they’ve managed to
compromise the wireless giant’s network and
internal systems 100 times in just 2022
alone:
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ Significantly_more_attacks_on_refugees_in_Germany:
Three_victims_every_day⠀⇛
In 2022 as a whole, at least 188 people were
injured in attacks against refugees, 21 of them
children. Police have identified suspects for many
of the crimes
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Scott_Ritter:_Reimagining_Arms_Control_Under
Ukraine⠀⇛
Having used arms control to gain unilateral
advantage over Russia, the cost to the U.S. and
NATO in getting Moscow back to the negotiating
table will be high.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Hungary_Further_Delays_Vote_On_Sweden,_Finland
Joining_NATO⠀⇛
Hungary has further delayed a vote on ratifying
Sweden and Finland’s NATO accession bids, according
to an updated schedule published on March 2 on the
National Assembly’s website.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Sweden_Expects_Hungarian_MPs_To_Visit_Next_Week
Over_NATO_Bid⠀⇛
A delegation of Hungarian lawmakers plans to visit
Sweden on March 7 to discuss the Nordic country’s
bid to join NATO, a Swedish parliament spokesperson
said on March 2.
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Data_on_Russia’s_Dead:_The_Deaths_Vladimir_Putin
Is_Keeping_Quiet⠀⇛
Russian volunteers are searching through
graveyards, archives and the internet to determine
how many of the country’s soldiers have actually
died in Ukraine. A database they helped build
provides some astonishing insights.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Venezuela_Denounces_Losses_Caused_by_US
Sanctions⠀⇛
“My country has been the target of 927 unilateral
coercive measures and other criminal and illegal,
direct and indirect, provisions,” the Boliviarian
Foreign Affairs Minister recalled.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Russia_‘Prepared_for_the_Worst’_With
Nuke_Tests_After_Suspending_Weapons_Treaty⠀⇛
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said
Russia wouldn’t test new nuclear weapons unless
America did it first.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finnish_Parliament_passes_Nato_bill_by
vote_of_184_for,_7_against⠀⇛
THE FINNISH PARLIAMENT on Wednesday reiterated its
overwhelming support for joining Nato.
Members of the Parliament voted 184 for and 7
against a government bill regarding the membership,
with one lawmaker casting a blank vote and seven
being absent from the vote. President Sauli
Niinistö has announced his intention to approve the
national legislation without delay after the vote
in the Parliament.
# ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Highlights_from_the_New_U.S.
Cybersecurity_Strategy⠀⇛
The Biden administration today issued its vision
for beefing up the nation’s collective
cybersecurity posture, including calls for
legislation establishing liability for software
products and services that are sold with little
regard for security. The White House’s new national
cybersecurity strategy also envisions a more active
role by cloud providers and the U.S. military in
disrupting cybercriminal infrastructure, and it
names China as the single biggest cyber threat to
U.S. interests.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Land_for_Peace:_Borders_Aren’t_Sacred,
Human_Lives_Are⠀⇛
Nowadays, few things are as hazardous to one’s
reputational health as suggesting that Ukraine
should make territorial concessions to Russia. The
vehemence with which mainstream commentators reject
such suggestions is awesome to behold.
Yet if we truly care about the Ukrainian people, we
should at least be able to have a civil
conversation about territorial concessions. In the
quest to end this calamitous war – which has cost
so many lives and could cost many, many more – no
stone should be left unturned.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Living_in_limbo_The_Lachin_Corridor_blockade_has
upended_daily_life_in_Nagorno-Karabakh_—_and_there’s_no_end
in_sight_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘End_this_war_of_aggression’_in_Ukraine,_Blinken
tells_Russia’s_Lavrov_at_G20⠀⇛
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged his
Russian counterpart to end the Ukraine war on the
sidelines of G20 talks on Thursday, in their first
face-to-face contact since the invasion.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ No_end_to_violence_in_South_Sudan⠀⇛
Violence against South Sudanese civilians increased
sharply at the end of last year according to the
United Nations (UN) mission in the world’s youngest
country. The latest quarterly brief compiled by
UNMISS shows the number of civilians “harmed” was
up 87% – without giving actual numbers- for last
October/December compared to the same period…
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Senegalese_peacekeepers’_deaths_condemned⠀⇛
The death in Mali of three Senegalese peacekeepers
and wounds suffered by another five is condemned by
the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) which
called for swift response from the West African
country’s transitional government. The
peacekeepers, part of MINUSMA, were attacked by
unnamed assailants near Songobia, south-west of
Bandiagara, late in February.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Strikes,_riots_and_protests_expected_to_rise
globally⠀⇛
Businesses are increasingly witnessing the impact
of protest movements and civil unrest on their
operations, a trend that is forecast to grow
according to insurance company Allianz Global.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Is_Wagner_Africa’s_newest_coloniser?⠀⇛
In methods strongly reminiscent of the West’s first
colonial era of the 17th and 18th centuries –
inescapably linked to the era of genocidal slavery
– Russia’s Wagner Group is blazing an increasingly
murderous trail in Africa for loot, strategic
resources and geopolitical influence, according to
a new report.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ US_selling_Taiwan_US$619m_worth_of
F-16_munitions⠀⇛
The US has approved the sale to Taiwan of US$619
million in munitions for F-16 fighter jets, the
Pentagon announced Wednesday, in a move likely to
anger Beijing. The package includes 100 AGM-88B
High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM), 200 AIM-
120C-8 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles
(AMRAAM), and launchers and dummy missiles for
training…
# ⚓ HRW ☛ UN_Describes_Worsening_Afghanistan_Rights_Crisis⠀⇛
The latest report by the United Nations Special
Rapporteur on Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, is
comprehensive and devastating.
The special rapporteur catalogues widespread,
serious abuses, noting that the Taliban authorities
have “normalized” the systematic violation of the
rights of women and girls. He also suggests that
their “discriminatory denial of women and girls’
fundamental human rights may amount to gender
persecution, a crime against humanity.” The
arbitrary detention of women protesters is
highlighted, as well as edicts that have shut women
and girls out of secondary and higher education,
most jobs, and even the use of public parks.
The special rapporteur describes a country under
the Taliban in which there is “very little
tolerance for difference, and none for dissent.”
Journalists are increasingly subject to
surveillance, intimidation, violence, and
detention.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ramzan_Kadyrov_says_Russia_should_target_the_local
relatives_of_the_‘saboteurs’_responsible_for_Thursday’s
incursion_from_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Chechnya Governor Ramzan Kadyrov is calling on
federal authorities to respond with “maximum
severity” to the armed group that led a brief
incursion from Ukraine into Russia’s Bryansk region
on Thursday.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Unwinnable_War”?_Calls_Grow_for_Negotiated
End_to_Ukraine_War⠀⇛
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was at the top of the
agenda of a critical meeting of G20 foreign
ministers this week in New Delhi. The issue has
caused deep divisions within the G20, which
includes 19 major economies and the European Union.
U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken and his
Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, spoke briefly
on the sidelines of the summit on Thursday, though
there was no diplomatic breakthrough between the
two countries. The G20 meeting comes a week after
China released a 12-point peace plan and as calls
grow for a negotiated end to the fighting. To talk
more about possible peace talks, we are joined by
two guests: Vladislav Zubok, a Russian professor of
international history at the London School of
Economics, and Wolfgang Sporrer, a conflict manager
and adjunct professor at the Hertie School in
Berlin, who was head of human rights for the OSCE’s
Special Monitoring Mission in Kyiv from 2014 to
2020.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Governor_reports_Ukrainian_drone_attack_and_state
media_reports_hostage_situation_in_Russia’s_Bryansk_region_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz reported
Thursday that a Ukrainian military drone carried
out a strike on the village of Sushany in the
region’s Klimovsky District, causing a residential
building to catch fire.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Nightmare_of_Great_Power_Rivalry_Over
Taiwan⠀⇛
While the world has been distracted, even amused,
by the diplomatic tussle around China’s recent
high-altitude balloon flights across North America,
there are signs that Beijing and Washington are
preparing for something so much more serious: armed
conflict over Taiwan. Reviewing recent developments
in the Asia-Pacific region raises a tried-and-true
historical lesson that bears repeating at this
dangerous moment in history: when nations prepare
for war, they are far more likely to go to war.
In The Guns of August, her magisterial account of
another conflict nobody wanted, Barbara Tuchman
attributed the start of World War I in 1914 to
French and German plans already in place. “Appalled
upon the brink,” she wrote, “the chiefs of state
who would be ultimately responsible for their
country’s fate attempted to back away, but the pull
of military schedules dragged them forward.” In a
similar fashion, Beijing and Washington have been
making military, diplomatic, and semi-secretive
moves that could drag us into a calamitous conflict
that, once again, nobody wants.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ At_the_Brink_of_War_in_the_Pacific⠀⇛
For nearly a year now, President Joe Biden has been
trying to resolve the underlying ambiguity in
previous U.S. policy toward that island by stating
repeatedly that he would indeed defend it from any
mainland attack.
# ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ Seymour_Hersh:_US_bombed_Nord_Stream_to
prolong_the_Ukraine_proxy_war⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Sy_Hersh:_US_Bombed_Nord_Stream_to_Prolong
Ukraine_Proxy_War⠀⇛
Seymour Hersh joins Aaron Maté to discuss his
report on how the Biden administration bombed the
Nord Stream gas pipelines, which blew up not only a
vital Russian-German infrastructure project but a
key off-ramp to peace in Ukraine.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Two_drones_reportedly_crash_on_Russian_military
base_in_annexed_Crimea_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Two drones crashed on the territory of a Russian
military base in Crimea on Wednesday night, the
Telegram channels Baza and Astria reported
Thursday.
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ March_To_Iraq_War,_20_Years_Later:_March_2,
2003⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Tortuguita’s_Playlist⠀⇛
Tortuguita was killed by Georgia state police in a
forest encampment in the outskirts of Atlanta on
the morning of January 18th, 2023, in one of the
highly militarized police raids that had become a
regular feature of life for the forest-dwellers by
then. Tortuguita was 26 years old, and by all
accounts was one of the folks anchoring the
movement based in the woods that the mayor of
Atlanta is still intent on turning into a huge
police training camp, which folks have nicknamed
“Cop City.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Left_to_Die:_Deterrence,_Death,_and_Rescue
in_the_Borderlands⠀⇛
On February 16, a Guatemalan family contacted
groups in southern Arizona about one of their
family members who was lost in the Sonoran Desert
after he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. They had
his exact coordinates, they had a photo of him, and
they had a photo of his ID. Martín (not his real
name) had been walking for about six days with a
small group of people but couldn’t continue because
of chest pain. Around 9 p.m., volunteers from the
Tucson-based Frontera Aid Collective—a search and
rescue and humanitarian aid group founded about two
years ago—got involved. One of its members, Taylor
Leigh, contacted BORSTAR, the U.S. Border Patrol’s
rescue, search, and trauma unit. Leigh hoped this
unit could rescue the stranded man.
According to Leigh, BORSTAR agent Hector Acuña told
her she needed to contact the Guatemalan consulate
because they couldn’t start a search until the
consulate sent them the information. But the
consulate was closed for the night. Another member
of the Frontera Aid Collective, Scott Eichling,
called BORSTAR again. Eichling said he wanted to
make a report, and the dispatcher asked if this was
about Martín. When Eichling said yes, according to
the phone log, the dispatcher laughed and
transferred him to Acuña, who told him they were
“working on it.” When Eichling asked if they would
start a search that night, Acuña said they would
send someone in the morning. These were the first
of more than 40 phone calls made by different
people over two days. That night alone,
humanitarian aid organizations called BORSTAR, the
Three Points Police Department, the Pima County
Sheriff’s Department, and the Tohono O’odham Police
Department.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Nuclear_Armageddon_Games_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
The Nuclear “War” in Ukraine May Not Be the One We
Expect
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.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Who_will_keep_our_submarine_reactors
safe?⠀⇛
Whether it’s a good idea or not, the decision has
been made. We will be acquiring nuclear submarines.
An important question follows; who will be
responsible for keeping the reactors safe? Rex
Patrick examines the issue after new information
was released by Government under FOI.
Thus far, the topic of nuclear safety has barely
featured in public discussion about the AUKUS
nuclear-powered submarine program.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Living_on_a_Deadline_in_the_Nuclear_Age.
Some_Personal_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungarian_vote_on_Swedish-Finnish_NATO
accession_delayed_further:_Parliament_to_vote_on_March_20th⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Orbán:_Putin_is_not_bothered_by_Hungary’s
NATO_membership⠀⇛
# ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Truth_and_Ukraine⠀⇛
Speaking to the No2Nato meeting on Saturday, I had
the challenge of telling a packed and highly
motivated audience some things that they very much
instinctively disagreed with, from a very different
viewpoint to much of what they had heard from some
excellent speakers all day.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ House_Overwhelmingly_Approves_Resolution_to
Maintain_Syria_Sanctions_After_Earthquake⠀⇛
Only Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Marjorie Taylor
Greene (R-GA) voted against the resolution.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_The_Return_of_Non-
Alignment⠀⇛
The Ukraine conflict as catalyst: I wonder how many
people who pay attention understood a year ago that
Russia’s intervention and the West’s extravagant
support for the Kyiv regime would prompt
fundamental shifts in the global order such that
the world is now a very different place […]
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Germany’s_self-centred_Ukraine_war
debate⠀⇛
Two months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last
year, Jürgen Habermas, perhaps Germany’s leading
public intellectual, published a commentary that
triggered one of the country’s most ferocious
political debates in decades.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Top_foreign_policy_lawmakers_bolster
support_for_Global_Tech_Security_Commission⠀⇛
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Iran’s_nuclear_program_is_advancing._So
too_should_negotiations.⠀⇛
Regardless of whether the 84 percent enriched
particles were accidental, this incident
underscores the increased challenge in discerning
Tehran’s nuclear intentions and the growing
proliferation risk of Iran’s rapidly expanding
nuclear program.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ TUNE_IN:_Belmarsh_Tribunal_In_Sydney,
Australia⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ A_Life_That_Matters:_Daniel_Ellsberg_Has
Terminal_Cancer⠀⇛
With the radical transparency that has marked a
long and principled life, Daniel Ellsberg –
patriot, truth-teller, whistle-blower, anti-war and
anti-nuclear activist – has announced he has
inoperable pancreatic cancer; doctors say he has
three to six months to live. As Ellsberg stressed
his “joy and gratitude” for “a wonderful life,”
many others offered moving tributes to “an American
hero” and “a light for mankind.” “You made the
world a better place,” said one. “What a life you
lived.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘You’ll_Be_Hearing_From_Me_as_Long_as_I’m
Here,’_Daniel_Ellsberg_Vows_After_Terminal_Cancer_Diagnosis⠀⇛
Daniel Ellsberg, whose leaking of the Pentagon
Papers and decades of anti-war activity have
inspired generations of whistleblowers and
activists, said Wednesday that he has terminal
cancer, but that there’s “tons more” movement work
for him to do before he’s gone.
# ⚓ American Oversight ☛ The_Show_Me_Nothing_State:_Missouri
Senate_Bill_Would_Curtail_Public_Access_to_Many_Government
Records_and_Meetings⠀⇛
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Humanity’s_Secret_War_Against_the
Environment,_Ourselves,_and_Our_Children⠀⇛
There is a conflict between ecocentric people
struggling for freedom, and anthropocentric people
threatening that freedom. This conflict, which
happens beneath the surface of most media,
constitutes a “secret war” for what the future of
Earth will be.
This secret war involves groups of people across
the world using ecocidal pro-growth and inequitable
family policies, as well as anthropocentric
environmentalism, to quietly undo the progress that
the world seemed to be making on multiple fronts:
child equity, climate crisis mitigation, animal
protection, as well as ensuring functional
democracies. These groups involve many nonprofits
that are knowingly undoing with one hand the
success they claim to be making with the other.
This last category of undoing—regarding our
democracies—makes these family policies a secret
war on freedom as well.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Can_Artificial_Intelligence_Help_Cool_the
Planet? [Ed: No, exactly the opposite. It's a massive waste
of energy and it results in misinformation, not just
waste.]⠀⇛
Between the political and technological hurdles to
achieving a global energy transition, the climate
crisis can often feel deeply overwhelming. But
articulating a solution to what is arguably the
greatest potential catastrophe humanity has ever
faced is no problem for ChatGPT—or at least, so the
chatbot makes it seem.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Stop_Wasting_Public_Money’:_Climate_Groups
Slam_Carbon_Capture_Scam⠀⇛
Climate organizations this week are calling out new
legislation that would pour even more money into
the “false solution” of carbon capture technology,
which they warn is just a distraction by the fossil
fuel industry that does nothing to address the
climate crisis.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Washington_needs_to_ditch_its
America-first_approach_to_critical_minerals⠀⇛
Over the past few years, Covid-19, climate
change and Chinese economic coercion have
catalysed rapid global economic, foreign
relations and national security policy
changes.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Massive_power_cut_plunges_Argentina_into
darkness_for_hours_during_heatwave⠀⇛
A major power outage crippled several of
Argentina’s provinces on Wednesday, including
parts of Buenos Aires, plunging millions of
people into darkness for at least two hours
as summer temperatures soared, officials
said.
# ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Researchers_launched_a_solar
geoengineering_test_flight_in_the_UK_last_fall⠀⇛
Last September, researchers in the UK
launched a high-altitude weather balloon that
released a few hundred grams of sulfur
dioxide into the stratosphere, a potential
scientific first in the solar geoengineering
field, MIT Technology Review has learned.
Solar geoengineering is the theory that
humans can ease global warming by
deliberately reflecting more sunlight into
space.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Solar_Geoengineering_‘Only_Option’
to_Cool_Planet_Within_Years,_UN_Says⠀⇛
The UN is calling for a large effort to study
solar geoengineering, but warns it’s too
dangerous to implement immediately.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Nevada_federal_court_upholds_county_exotic
animal_permits⠀⇛
The United States District Court for the
District of Nevada Tuesday held that a
county’s conditional permit regulations for
housing exotic animals did not violate the US
Constitution. Karl and Kayla Mitchell sued
Nye County, Nevada, claiming that the
conditions on their exotic animal permits
were unconstitutional conditions and
constituted a taking of property.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Women_Won’t_Renegotiate_Our_Place_in_the
Economy⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Cori_Bush_Establishes_Congressional_Caucus_to
End_Homelessness_in_the_US⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Student_Loan_Forgiveness_Program_Appears_Headed
for_Defeat_in_the_Supreme_Court⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ 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.
# ⚓ ‘It’s_really_hard_to_live_here_in_Denmark_without
working’⠀⇛
The restaurant manager refused a work permit
because his salary was deemed too high to be
believable has told The Local of the struggles he
is facing as he battles to overturn the decision on
appeal, while his lawyer has complained of his
client’s ‘crazy’ treatment.
# ⚓ Danish_store_workers_get_pay_rise_in_new_bargaining
agreement⠀⇛
Some 150,000 people who work in retail in Denmark
will see their pay increase after trade unions and
employers’ organisations came to a new agreement on
working terms.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Stevedore_strike_to_end_after_deal_between
transport_workers,_port_operators⠀⇛
AN AGREEMENT on the terms and conditions of
employment for stevedores was reached on Wednesday.
The breakthrough in the collective bargaining
negotiations signals the end of a strike that had
effectively suspended the loading and unloading of
cargo ships at ports across Finland since 15
February, confirmed Ismo Kokko, the chairperson of
the Finnish Transport Workers’ Union (AKT).
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Student_Debtors_Need_the_Supreme_Court_to_Not
Be_Wildly_Unprincipled_for_a_Change⠀⇛
When Donald Trump wanted to spend $2.5 billion in
Pentagon money that Congress never appropriated to
build his border wall, the Supreme Court of the
United States, without explanation, acquiesced.
Environmental groups had contended that under
constitutional and federal law, the president
couldn’t “irretrievably commit taxpayer funds” to a
project that would wreak havoc across habitats and
public lands along the Southwest border—let alone
do so without Congress’s blessing. Hiding behind
the shadow docket, the five conservative justices
who sanctioned this scheme didn’t bother to put in
writing why this disruption was justified. One year
later, the same justices agreed to let Trump’s
border construction continue undisturbed.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Stuart_Robert_–_loyal_Robodebt
slayer⠀⇛
In his appearance at the Robodebt Royal Commission
yesterday, Stuart Robert wants us to believe that
not only was he the one that finally put a stop to
the illegalities of income averaging, but that he
knew it was wrong all along. However, the pesky
Westminster system stopped him from speaking out.
A ventriloquist could not speak out of both sides
of his mouth like former LNP Government Minister
Stuart Robert. In his combative performance at the
Robodebt hearings, Robert appeared to blame it all
on the public service who kept advice from him for
months. At one stage, he earned a rebuke from
Commissioner Cathy Holmes when wanting to “put
something” to the unflappable Senior Counsel
Assisting, Justin Greggery, making it clear to Mr.
Robert who was asking the questions.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 400+_Groups_Urge_Biden_to_Fight_for_Indo-
Pacific_Trade_Deal_That_Benefits_Workers_and_Planet⠀⇛
A coalition of 403 progressive advocacy groups on
Thursday outlined conditions they say must be met
for a pending Indo-Pacific trade pact to achieve
important labor and environmental objectives and
urged the White House to promote them during
upcoming negotiations.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ NY_AG_Proposes_New_Rules_to_Stop_Corporate
Price_Gouging⠀⇛
Citing the “soaring cost of essentials” that have
“pushed hardworking New Yorkers to the brink,”
Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James
on Thursday proposed rules to strengthen
enforcement of the state’s anti-price gouging law.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Trump_Campaign_Asked_Proud_Boys_to_Attend_Post-
Election_Rallies_in_Plain_Clothes⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ DOJ_Says_Trump_Not_Immune_From_Civil_Suits
Alleging_Jan_6._Incitement⠀⇛
The U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday that
there are limits to a president’s immunity from
lawsuits filed over their performing of official
duties—namely, that immunity does not extend to
allegations that former President Donald Trump
incited violence leading up to the January 6, 2021
attack on the U.S. Capitol.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Mike_Pence_Won’t_Commit_to_Backing_Trump_If_He
Wins_GOP_Nomination⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Kevin_McCarthy–Tucker_Carlson_Alliance_Is
Starting_to_Fray⠀⇛
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy picked a bad time to
go all in with Tucker Carlson and Fox News,
providing them “exclusive” and supposedly
“unfettered” access to 44,000 hours of US Capitol
video from the January 6 riot. For the last two
weeks, we’ve been learning that Carlson, along with
other marquee hosts like Sean Hannity and Laura
Ingraham, plus Fox News’s controlling owner Rupert
Murdoch, all knew Trump and his minions were lying
about 2020 election fraud, but kept featuring said
minions, as well as the entire bogus fraud story,
out of fear of losing audience and risking the
firm’s toxically swollen stock price.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ DeSantis’s_Educational_Policies_Come_Right
Out_of_the_Fascist_Playbook⠀⇛
Fascism in its different forms has always thrived
on attacking teachers, schools, critical ideas,
democratic values, and allegedly unpatriotic groups
while stifling dissent in the alleged name of
freedom. Ron DeSantis is a religious, political,
and ideological demagogue whose view of power is as
ruthless as it is opportunistic. He views academic
freedom and freedom of speech as liabilities to be
stamped out, not unlike what happened in Nazi
Germany. He has weaponized the government to punish
industries such as Disney who challenged his “don’t
say gay” bill. The dangerous nature of this
precedent should be clear, particularly regarding
how it resonates with tactics used in repressive
regimes in the past.[1] He has signed into law Bill
233 which requires Florida’s public colleges and
universities to conduct annual surveys of students’
and faculty members’ beliefs in order “to determine
the institutions’ levels of ‘intellectual freedom
and viewpoint diversity’.” One can only assume that
those with views at odds with DeSantis’s view of
history, politics, and authority will be labeled as
“unpatriotic” and will be pressured to conform to
his indoctrinating pedagogy and policies or lose
their jobs. This is not unlike what happened in the
witch hunts conducted during the McCarthy era by
the House Committee on Un-American Activities in
the 1950s in which a number of faculty were fired
for having alleged subversive views.[2] In
addition, DeSantis’s banning ideas, and entire
fields of study–such as gender and race studies–
aims to turn learning at the college and university
levels into a form of stupidity, one whose ultimate
goal is to undercut the ability of young people to
think critically, learn from history, and make
power accountable.
Every level of education is under siege in Florida.
Regarding public education, DeSantis intensifies
and expands a policy of erasure and manufactured
ignorance that is endemic to the GOP which provides
the driving momentum for a nationwide banning of
books and restrictions on teaching about race and
gender in public schools. As Julianne Malveaux
notes, “More than 1600 books have been banned in
138 school districts in 33 states so far, as the
momentum for ignorance is increasing. Among the
banned books – Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and
Beloved; and Margaret Atwood’s, The Handmaid’s
Tale.”[3] In addition, as Sarah Schwartz points out
in Education Week: “Since January 2021, lawmakers
in 44 states have introduced bills or other
policies that would restrict how teachers can
discuss racism and sexism, according to an
Education Week analysis. Eighteen states have
imposed these bans.”[4]
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Expulsion’_Only_Answer,_Progressives_Say
as_Santos_Ethics_Probe_Launched⠀⇛
As the U.S. House Committee on Ethics announced an
investigation into embattled Congressman George
Santos, progressives on Thursday renewed calls for
the New York Republican to be expelled from office
over his elaborate lies and controversies.
# ⚓ The Local SE ☛ What_a_new_report_tells_us_about_far-right
extremism_in_Sweden⠀⇛
Sweden’s ‘racial ideology’ movement carried out
more activities last year than in 2021, and viewed
the Sweden Democrats as a party representing its
interests to a greater degree, according to a new
report from the Expo Foundation.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Brandon_Johnson_Could_Be_Chicago’s_Most
Transformative_Mayor_In_Decades⠀⇛
When Chicago elected Harold Washington as its mayor
in 1983, it was a transformational moment for not
just the nation’s third-largest city but all
America. Washington was the city’s first Black
mayor. He was also a street-savvy political
maverick who had broken with the city’s powerful
Democratic machinery to beat incumbent Mayor Jane
Byrne in a primary and then prevail in one of the
most contentious general elections in the history
of American urban politics. And he was a
progressive who was willing to take on reactionary
forces by building a multiethnic, multiracial
rainbow coalition that challenged the conventional
wisdom of American politics in an era of deep
divisions and a narrow understanding of what was
possible.
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ Nicaragua’s_‘Political_Prisoners’_Would_Be_Criminals
by_US_Standards⠀⇛
“Nicaragua Frees Hundreds of Political Prisoners to
the United States,” the New York Times (2/9/23)
reported. In an unexpected move on February 9, the
Nicaraguan government deported to the United States
222 people who were in prison, and moved to strip
them of their citizenship. The prisoners had been
convicted of various crimes, including terrorism,
conspiracy to overthrow the democratically elected
government, requesting the United States to
intervene in Nicaragua, economic damage and
threatening the country’s stability, most relating
to the violent coup attempt in 2018 and its
aftermath.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Dora_Maria_Téllez_Is_Free_at_Last—and_Able_to
Speak_Freely!⠀⇛
Nicaraguan political leader and historian Dora
Maria Téllez is free! After 20 months of
imprisonment in Managua’s brutal El Chipote prison,
Tellez—a legendary figure in the Sandinista
revolution jailed since before the country’s
November 2021 elections—was one of 222 political
prisoners who were released by the Daniel Ortega
and Rosario Murillo government on February 9 and
immediately sent to Washington, D.C., on a charter
flight after the United States agreed to provide
asylum to the exiles.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ People_Fighting_Back_Against_Rising
Autocracy_Offers_Hope,_Says_Report⠀⇛
An annual report released Thursday by researchers
in Sweden sounds the alarm about countries that are
“undergoing autocratization” but also highlights
how people around the world “have reclaimed
democracy and stopped negative trends.”
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Matt_Taibbi:_Twitter_Files—GEC,_New_Knowledge,
and_State-Sponsored_Blacklists⠀⇛
Americans have been paying taxes to disenfranchise
themselves, as government agencies and
subcontractors undertake a massive digital
blacklisting project.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ How_‘apolitical’_Western_Youtubers_help
push_Syrian_propaganda⠀⇛
Their videos get huge amounts of clicks and
profits on YouTube. And their vlogs show a
Syria that has turned the page on years of
civil war. But these so-called “apolitical”
travel influencers are shown around the
country by regime-sponsored guides that shape
the narrative. One guide who appears in a
number of travel vlogs even has family ties
with the Syrian deputy minister of tourism.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ 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.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ ACLU:_banning_TikTok_would_‘violate_the_First
Amendment’⠀⇛
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Monday
urged Congress to vote against a piece of
legislation that would ban TikTok in the US.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Google_removes_13_URLs_at_Lithuanian_watchdog’s
request⠀⇛
Google has removed 13 URLs with IP addresses,
directing to unlawfully published copyright-
protected content, from its search system at the
request of the Radio and Television Commission of
Lithuania (LRTK).
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Punish,_ignore,_educate_–_how_should_Lithuania_deal
with_its_pro-Russian_population?⠀⇛
Every day this week, the police visited Cathedral
Square in Vilnius, where a destroyed Russian tank
has turned into a scene of political battles. Pro-
Russian people turn up there carrying flowers and
candles, while Ukraine supporters throw them away,
and fights break out.
# ⚓ Reuters ☛ India_leads_world_in_cutting_internet_access_for
5th_year_in_a_row,_watchdog_says⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNN ☛ India,_world’s_largest_democracy,_leads_global_list
of_internet_shutdowns⠀⇛
# ⚓ Al Jazeera ☛ Record_number_of_countries_enforced_internet
blackouts_in_2022⠀⇛
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Evan_Rachel_Wood_Denies_Pressuring
Other_Marilyn_Manson_Accuser_Into_Making_False_Abuse_Claims⠀⇛
In January, a federal court dismissed a sexual
assault lawsuit filed against Marilyn Manson (real
name Brian Warner) by one Ashley Morgan Smithline,
who last month admitted that she’d “spread publicly
false accusations of abuse” after being
“manipulated” by Evan Rachel Wood.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_Women_Workers’_Association
to_stage_march_following_police_‘verbal’_approval⠀⇛
A women’s rights group in Hong Kong is set to stage
a march ahead of next Wednesday’s International
Women’s Day, after the organiser said it had
secured “verbal” approval from the police. The Hong
Kong Women Workers’ Association said on Thursday
that police had approved their application to
organise a demonstration on Sunday to promote […]
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Daily_Mail_and_Mail_on_Sunday_to_be_brought
‘much_closer_together’,_with_redundancies_proposed⠀⇛
Mail Newspapers editor-in-chief Ted Verity said
future growth would come from digital.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ RTS_Awards:_Jeremy_Paxman_warns_of_f**k_all
budget_reporting,_drug-assisted_Dan_Walker_ribs_Piers
Morgan⠀⇛
Jeremy Paxman claimed there was “f**k all” coverage
of Parliamentary debates.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ How_Cosmopolitan_UK_moved_beyond_print_with
17m_monthly_website_readers⠀⇛
Claire Hodgson says her biggest priority is to keep
Cosmo relevant.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ The_US_and_UK_Google_ad-tech_litigation
which_could_win_billions_for_publishers⠀⇛
We digest two lawsuits targeting Google’s allegedly
monopolistic ad practices and what they mean for
publishers.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Top_50_news_websites_in_the_world_in
January_2023:_CBS_and_New_York_Times_see_biggest_growth⠀⇛
Press Gazette’s monthly ranking of the top 50 news
websites in the world, using Similarweb data.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ China_targets_banker,_dissident_and_church_leader
ahead_of_annual_parliament⠀⇛
Authorities tighten ‘stability maintenance’
protocols as Xi Jinping moves on the financial
elite.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Uyghur_woman_serving_21_years_in_jail_for_sending
children_to_religious_school⠀⇛
Ayshemhan Abdulla is one of scores of Uyghurs
punished by Chinese authorities for the ‘crime.’
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ MS_GOP_Seeks_to_Block_Voters_From_Using_Ballot
Initiative_for_Abortion_Rights⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ An_Anti-Abortion_Law_Firm_Joined_Disgraced_Ex-
Kansas_AG_to_Dispute_2020_Election⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ US_Trampling_of_Abortion_Rights_Violates
International_Law,_Groups_Tell_UN_Experts⠀⇛
The June 2022 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court’s
reactionary majority to overturn the constitutional
right to abortion, which has enabled Republican
lawmakers to prohibit or restrict abortion in more
than half of the states, unleashed a life-
threatening crisis and should be condemned as a
violation of the country’s obligations under
international law.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Groups_Tell_UN_Experts_That_Overturning_of_“Roe”
Violates_International_Law⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Judge_Finds_Starbucks_Violated_Labor_Laws
Hundreds_of_Times_in_Buffalo_Alone⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Palestinian_Survivor_Calls_Israeli_Settler
Attack_in_Huwara_“Ethnic_Cleansing”⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ US_Jews_Say_Israeli_Finance_Minister_Should
Be_Barred_From_Country_Over_‘Repugnant’_Comments⠀⇛
Jewish-led peace groups on Wednesday called on the
Biden administration to bar Israeli Finance
Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the U.S.
ahead of a planned visit over his recent comments
about the Palestinian town of Hawara, which was the
target of a deadly rampage earlier this week by
Israeli settlers.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ On_False_Hopes_and_Broken_Promises:_Behind
the_Scenes_of_the_UN_Statement_on_Palestine⠀⇛
Rarely does the Palestinian ambassador to the
United Nations make an official remark expressing
happiness over any UN proceeding concerning the
Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Indeed, the Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour is
“very happy that there was a very strong united
message from the Security Council against the
illegal, unilateral measure” undertaken by the
Israeli government.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Surviving_a_Pogrom:_Palestinian_in_Huwara
Decries_Israeli_Settler_Attack_as_“Ethnic_Cleansing”⠀⇛
On Sunday, Israeli settlers ransacked and torched
Palestinian homes in Huwara, near the occupied West
Bank city of Nablus, killing at least one
Palestinian resident and injuring dozens of others.
The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has accused
Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of backing a pogrom
in Huwara. Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel
Smotrich said Wednesday that Huwara needs to be
“wiped out” and that the state of Israel should do
it. In response, 22 Israeli international law
experts sent a letter to Israel’s attorney general
demanding an immediate investigation against
Smotrich for potential war crimes. U.S. State
Department spokesperson Ned Price also condemned
Smotrich’s comments, though he framed the conflict
as bilateral by referencing the need to condemn
Palestinian “incitement to violence.” Meanwhile,
Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesperson for Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas, called on the U.S., as the
Israeli government’s most powerful international
ally, to take action to stop its violence. For more
on this latest escalation of the Israeli
occupation, we’re joined by Saddam Omar, a Huwara
resident who witnessed the settler attacks, and
Gideon Levy, an award-winning Israeli journalist
and columnist for Haaretz.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Roaming_Charges:_The_Road_to_Huwara⠀⇛
They came at dusk, wearing masks. They carried
automatic rifles, pistols, knives and clubs. They
swung chains. They hauled cans of petrol. They
descended out of the Samarian hills bent on
revenge, 400 riotous Israeli settlers. They came
with the intent of making the villagers of Huwara
pay for the deaths of two Israeli settlers, killed
that morning on the road to the settlement of Har
Bracha, a settlement built on lands seized from
Palestinians in 1983. They came shouting slurs and
“Death to the Arabs.” They came to make Huwara
burn.
The IDF knew they were coming. Shin Bet knew they
were coming. Benjamin Netanyahu knew they were
coming. None of them moved to stop the raid that
was destined to happen, the mayhem and destruction
members of Netanyahu’s own coalition government had
called for. Hours before the raid, settler Davidi
Ben-Zion demanded “erasing Huwara today” and for
showing “no mercy” to its villagers.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Disgusting’:_Biden_Embraces_GOP_Effort_to
Kill_DC_Criminal_Justice_Reforms⠀⇛
Progressives expressed anger Thursday after U.S.
President Joe Biden said that he would sign a
Republican-authored resolution repealing criminal
justice reforms recently approved by the elected
leaders of the District of Columbia.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Colorado_May_Reform_Family_Courts’_Handling
of_Abuse_Allegations⠀⇛
Colorado lawmakers are considering two bills that
would reform the way family courts in the state
handle cases involving allegations of domestic
abuse, saying ProPublica’s reporting on the issue
has catalyzed efforts to change the state’s custody
evaluation system.
Rep. Mike Weissman, an Aurora Democrat and the
chair of the state House Judiciary Committee,
praised ProPublica’s investigation, which found
that four custody evaluators on the state-approved
roster last year had been charged with harassment
or domestic violence. In one case, the charges were
dismissed. One case — that of psychologist Mark
Kilmer — led to a conviction. In the two others, it
is unclear how the charges were resolved.
# ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ New_study_suggests_child_abuse_reports_may
be_linked_to_race⠀⇛
Stanford researchers suggested that Black children
may be overreported as suspected child abuse
victims, while white children may be underreported.
# ⚓ ACLU ☛ Criminalizing_Abortion_Care_is_Wrong,_and_We’re
Fighting_Back⠀⇛
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v.
Wade and revoke the federal constitutional right to
abortion continues to have life-altering and life-
threatening consequences. With more than a dozen
states banning abortion, a climate of fear and
confusion has loomed over health care providers,
abortion funds, helpers, and anyone seeking to end
their pregnancy in recent months.
Beyond exerting direct control over our bodies and
our health, abortion bans and other criminal laws
give prosecutors license to investigate, arrest,
and prosecute people who provide necessary health
care. In some instances, bans and laws can be used
or misused to target patients and other people who
help them get the care they need. In state
legislative sessions across the nation, legislators
continue to push for more_ways to restrict abortion
and criminalize those who provide abortion care.
The ACLU has a long history of seeking
transformational change in our criminal legal
system and protecting people’s reproductive
freedom. In this moment of crisis, we have brought
together our expertise in both areas to launch the
Abortion Criminal Defense Initiative (ACDI), which
I am proud to lead.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Internet Society ☛ Misguided_Policies_the_World_over_Are
Slowly_Killing_the_Open_Internet⠀⇛
We must defend the Internet whenever there are
threats, whether they come from a country, a
corporation, or a misguided policy.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Nextcloud_Taking_On_Microsoft_and_Google_in
Germany_and_the_EU⠀⇛
The PR folks at Germany-based Nextcloud, the open
source platform that allows individuals and
organizations to host their own cloud, were working
overtime on Wednesday issuing two major
announcements. The first was that they’ve released
a ready-for-prime-time SharePoint replacement,
complete with migration services for their
enterprise customers. The second was was that
Nextcloud Office is now available to users of
Deutsche Telekom’s MagentaCLOUD.
While the suits at Microsoft and Google would scoff
at the suggestion, neither of these announcements
is good news for either company.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Amazon_Wanted_to_‘Unlock’_the_Liquor
Market_by_Secretly_Lobbying_to_Change_Laws,_Leaked_Document
Shows⠀⇛
A leaked 2020 policy document shows that Amazon had
detailed plans for “proactively changing alcohol
laws” to get better sales.
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Pharma_‘Myth’_Debunked_as_Study_Shows
US_Public_Poured_$32_Billion_Into_mRNA_Vaccines⠀⇛
Vaccine equity campaigners said Thursday that
a new peer-reviewed study published in a
major medical journal should put to rest the
pharmaceutical industry’s “false narrative”
that its own investments were responsible for
the rapid development of mRNA vaccines to
fight the coronavirus pandemic.
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ Eisenführ_partners_bid_goodbye_with_win_for
Access_Advance_against_TCL⠀⇛
For the time being, TCL may not sell devices
in Germany that use a video coding method
protected by a GE Video Compression patent,
which is a member of the Access Advance
patent pool.
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ Milan,_Paris_and_Munich_in_serious_debate_over
UPC_competencies_allocation [Ed: This is a propaganda
outlet for Team UPC, funded by Team UPC, so it neglects
to say this is illegal and instead cheers the crime]⠀⇛
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ “The_UPC_must_harness_user_enthusiasm_to
ensure_a_successful_launch_on_1_June” [Ed: Shallow
propaganda from a Team UPC propaganda outlet, egging on
something illegal]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Greece_train_crash [Ed: EPO is run by politicians.
Corrupt politicians who exploit tragedies to distact
from their crimes.]⠀⇛
EPO staff and management express their
sympathy for the victims
# § Software Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Velos_Media_video_codec_patent
challenged⠀⇛
On February 28, 2023, Unified Patents filed
an ex parte reexamination proceeding against
U.S._Patent_9,497,469, owned and asserted by
Velos_Media, an NPE.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Ford_Seeks_Patent_That_Turns_Car
Into_Dystopian_Nightmare_If_You_Miss_a_Payment⠀⇛
The patent imagines self-driving cars that
will repossess themselves.
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_How_Did_These_Three_Section
2(d)_Oppositions_Turn_Out?⠀⇛
A TTAB judge once told me that you can
predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) case
95% of the time by just looking at the goods/
services and the marks. Maybe he or she was
referring to ex parte cases only, but let’s
see how you do with the three oppositions
summarized below. Answer(s) in the first
comment.
# ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ The_Trademark_Reporter’s_2023_“Annual
Review”_of_U.S._Trademark_Cases⠀⇛
In his introduction, Ted Davis notes the
decline in litigation under the Lanham Act,
related state statutes, and the common law of
unfair competition. In any event, a number of
interesting cases have arisen involving the
intersection of trademark law and the freedom
of speech protection of the First Amendment,
with the “Bad Spaniels” dogfight drawing the
most attention as it heads to the Supreme
Court. The Court will also be reviewing, in
the Hetronic case, the nagging issue of the
extraterritorial reach of the Lanham Act. The
TRUMP TOO SMALL case may also make its way
before the Court, the question being whether
Section 2(c)’s requirement of consent is
unconstitutional when applied to criticism of
government public officials or public
figures. Meanwhile, the failure-to-function
refusal seems to be gaining in popularity at
the TTAB, although not so much with trademark
practitioners. And two Board decisions
indicate that the once formidable claim of
fraud on the USPTO is recovering from the
near knock-out punch landed in 2009 by the
CAFC’s Bose decision.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_EFNORUZ_Wordo:_MARSH⠀⇛
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ In_defense_of_ReStructuredText⠀⇛
OK, everyone knows RST sucks compared to Markdown
or even org-mode (and that’s a low bar since org-
mode’s format sucks. Org-mode is a wonderful app
that I love, but the app is good in spite of its
format, not because of it), but they can’t help it
since RST preceded Markdown by three years and org-
mode by two. RST came out before these good formats
and it was all they had to work with at the time.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ finger_ring⠀⇛
# ⚓ About_Bluesky_and_Decentralisation⠀⇛
Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder, is trying to
launch Bluesky, a “decentralised Twitter” and
people are wondering how it compares to
Mastodon.
I remember when Jack started to speak about
“project bluesky” on Twitter, years ago.
ActivityPub was a lot more niche and he
ignored any message related to it. It
definitely looked like a NIH syndrome as he
could, at least, have started to discuss
ActivityPub pros and cons. I was myself
heavily invested in decentralised protocols
(from blockchain to ActivityPub). It was my
job to keep an eye on everything
decentralised and really tried to understand
what BlueSky was about.
[...]
If we don’t want to consider the hypothesis
that “bluesky decentralisation” is simply
cynical marketing fluff, I think we can
safely assume that Jack Dorsey has hit his
mental glass ceiling. He doesn’t get
decentralisation. He doesn’t have the mental
model to get it. He will probably never get
it (he became a billionaire by “not getting
it” so there’s no reason for him to change).
The whole project is simply a billionaire
throwing money at a few developers telling
him what he expects to hear in order to get
pay. A very-rich-man’s hobby.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Programming/Development
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ PineTab2_Linux_Tablet_Comes_in_April_Starting_at
$159⠀⇛
Linux tablets are a relatively new addition to the tablet
market, offering a unique alternative to the dominant
Android and iOS platforms. In addition, with their open-
source nature, Linux tablets provide users with greater
customization and control over their devices and access
to a vast array of open-source software applications.
While they may not have the same mainstream popularity as
their competitors, Linux tablets have gained a loyal
following among tech enthusiasts and developers. One of
the companies positioning itself in this niche is PINE64,
which creates open-source hardware and software products.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Video ☛ 5_Reasons_to_try_TAILS_OS_–_The_ULTIMATE_Privacy-
Focused_Linux_Distro!_(NEW)_–_Invidious⠀⇛
Today, It’s absolutely normal for websites to TRACK
your every move on the internet. Your LOCATION, The
WEBSITES You Visit, What you do on the internet is
being WATCHED and STUDIED by Prying Eyes. BUT YOU
CAN TAKE BACK CONTROL. Introducing The Amnesic
Incognito Live System or TAILS.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Rolling_Release_Linux_Distro_Probably_Isn’t_For_You
–_Invidious⠀⇛
As much as I love my rolling release distro being
Arch Linux I know that this kind of system is
absolutely not for everyone and shouldn’t be, so
let’s go over some things to consider before
picking yourself up a rolling release.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Xmobar_Fonts_Are_Broken!_Should_I_Change_Panels?_
(Polybar?)_–_Invidious⠀⇛
A recent update to xmobar has broken everyone’s
existing configs including the DTOS xmobar config.
Version 0.46 of xmobar was recently pushed to Arch
Linux, and this version now uses Pango styled fonts
rather than Xft.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_Crash_Course_–_The_zypper_Command_–
Invidious⠀⇛
The Linux Crash Course goes over the most important
Linux commands, skills, and topics to help you
become the best Linux Administrator you can be.
Each video covers a dedicated topic, and can be
watched in any order.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_Commands_in_60_Seconds_–_The_zypper_Command_–
Invidious⠀⇛
Linux Commands in 60 Seconds – A series of YouTube
Shorts that covers very basic usage of many popular
commands, one video at a time.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Clear_Linux_37980_overview_|_optimized_for
performance_and_security._–_Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, I am going to show an overview of
Clear Linux 37980 and some of the applications pre-
installed.
# ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Lunduke’s_BSD_Thoughts_(as_BSD_Week_ends)⠀⇛
Listen now (24 min) | The Lunduke Journal of
Technology Podcast – Mar 1, 2023
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ QOwnNotes_23.3.0⠀⇛
QOwnNotes is a open source (GPL) plain-text file
notepad with markdown support and todo list manager
for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, that
(optionally) works together with the notes
application of ownCloud (or Nextcloud). So you are
able to write down your thoughts with QOwnNotes and
edit or search for them later from your mobile
device (like with CloudNotes) or the ownCloud web-
service. The notes are stored as plain text files
and you can sync them with your ownCloud sync
client. Of course other software, like Dropbox,
Syncthing, Seafile or BitTorrent Sync can be used
too.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_BalenaEtcher_on_Manjaro_22⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
BalenaEtcher on Manjaro 22. For those of you who
didn’t know, BalenaEtcher is a popular open-source
tool used for creating bootable USB drives or SD
cards.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Portainer_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Portainer on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who
didn’t know, Portainer is a powerful and user-
friendly tool for managing Docker environments.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ The_Complete_Guide_to_Listing_Disks_in_Linux:
Everything_You_Need_to_Know⠀⇛
Are you looking for an easy way to list disks on
your Linux system? Maybe you need to check if a new
disk is properly installed or you want to see how
your disks are partitioned.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_LEMP_on_CentOS_Stream_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
LEMP on CentOS Stream 9. For those of you who
didn’t know, LEMP is a software stack that consists
of Linux, Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP.
# ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ Install_Portainer_Extension_on_Docker_Desktop⠀⇛
How to install Portainer in Docker Desktop? In this
tutorial, you will learn how to install Portainer
Extension on Docker Desktop.
# ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ Nested_Loops_in_Bash_Scripts⠀⇛
# ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ Handling_User_Input_in_Bash_Scripts⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Perform_a_POST_Request_Using_Curl⠀⇛
To perform a POST request in the “curl” command,
use “curl -X POST URL” command along with different
options such as “-d”, “-H”, and “–form”.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Uninstall_Chrome_in_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Tutorial on how to uninstall Chrome from Ubuntu
22.04, how to remove the Chrome repo from the
system, and how to uninstall the Chromium browser
from the system.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Godot_4.0_sets_sail:_All_aboard_for_new
horizons⠀⇛
It’s official. Today marks the beginning of a new
era for Godot. After 3+ years of breaking and
rebuilding from the ground up, we’re thrilled to
say: Welcome to the start of Godot 4!
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ 8000_Playable_Games_on_the_Steam_Deck,
Including_3000_Verified_Ones⠀⇛
It took a bit over two months for Valve and their
partners to crossed a new milestone with (almost)
8000 playable games (including about 3000 verified
ones) on the Steam Deck!
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Trying_Out_the_Giissmo_Dock_for_the_Steam
Deck_to_Game_on_a_Big_Screen⠀⇛
While a lot of folks talk about JSAUX and other
alternative docks for the Steam Deck, I have one
unusual candidate to add to the list, the dock by
GIISSMO — yet another company based in Shenzhen,
China.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_RHEL_image_builder_has_improved_security_and
function⠀⇛
Starting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 and 9.1,
image builder offers an easy way to embed
containers. RHEL image builder works at build time
and allows for containerized applications or
services to be baked in, making the resulting
images near production-ready. Furthermore, the
image builder team worked with the OpenSCAP team to
deliver security-hardened images. The OpenSCAP
project provides security guidelines and baselines
for securing images. This integration uses existing
OpenSCAP tooling to run security remediation during
the image build process.
§ How to embed the container
Containers can now be embedded into images at build
time. The source of the container can be specified
in the blueprint with the following:
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Linux_Mint_21.2_and_Cinnamon_5.8_desktop
take_shape⠀⇛
Linux Mint project lead Clement Lefebvre has shared
some more details about the forthcoming version
21.2, including new versions of both Cinnamon and
Xfce.
The latest post on the Mint project’s monthly blog
reveals some more details about the next release,
including a new version 5.8 of the Cinnamon desktop
and enhancements to some of the built-in tools.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Makers,_get_ready_to_step_up_your_game_with_the
GIGA_R1_WiFi⠀⇛
The Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi is designed for ambitious
makers who want to step up their game.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google’s_Phone_app_brings_a_new_visual
aesthetic_to_the_call_screen⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_just_realizing_Android_phones_have
‘super_sleep’_mode_millions_have_missed_–_it’s_a_daily
essential_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Why_hasn’t_OnePlus_delivered_Android_13
to_all_OnePlus_10_Pro_users_yet?_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛
# ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ OnePlus:_All_OnePlus_phones_confirmed_to_get
the_Android_14_update⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Central ☛ Android_Central’s_Best_of_MWC_2023_|
Android_Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_10_Best_Ad-Free_Weather_Apps_and_Widgets
for_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Google_has_hidden_four_‘golden_ticket’_loopholes
in_billions_of_Android_phones_–_your_life_will_never_be_the
same_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_just_realizing_secret_Android_setting
can_give_your_TV_an_‘instant_upgrade’_–_quit_watching_the
‘ancient’_way_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Change_Android_Auto’s_widget_layout,_here’s
how⠀⇛
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Here’s_how_you_can_use_Nearby_Share_on_your
Android_phone_|_Tech_–_Times_of_India_Videos⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ The_curl_nuget_story⠀⇛
Recently there has been an interesting debate in the Open
Source world where people have objected to being called
“Suppliers” as in Supply Chain Security when you are but
an Open Source developer offering your code to the world
for free and at no cost but also without any warranties.
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ LibreOffice_Conference_2023_in_Bucharest,_Romania⠀⇛
LibreOffice Conference 2023 will be organized by a
group of volunteers from the 1&1 software company,
which is integrating LibreOffice into the Online
Office product for GMX and WEB.DE portals, at the
Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers of the
University Politehnica of Bucharest from Wednesday,
September 20 (community meetings), to Saturday,
September 23.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Vivaldi_browser_now_a_SFS⠀⇛
We were discussing installing a Vivaldi DEB
package, see my blog post:
https://bkhome.org/news/202302/how-to-install-
vivaldi-browser-or-any-deb.html
I have now created a Vivaldi SFS. Just click on the
“sfs” desktop icon to download and install it.
You have the choice of installing to the main
desktop or in a container, or both.
In the former case, Vivaldi will run as user
“vivaldi”, with home path /home/vivaldi
In the latter case, Vivaldi will run as “crippled
root” user in the container.
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ How_to_talk_to_kids_about_finding_community
online⠀⇛
Charnaie Gordon is the content creator behind
Here Wee Read, a blog that advocates for
diversity and inclusivity in children’s
literature. She’s also the author of several
children’s books, including “Lift Every Voice
and Change: A Celebration of Black Leaders
and the Words that Inspire Generations,” You
can follow her on Instagram.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ ShinyProxy_3.0.0⠀⇛
ShinyProxy 3.0.0
Today we release version 3.0.0 of ShinyProxy,
providing improvements on all aspects of using and
deploying ShinyProxy. ShinyProxy is a novel, open
source platform to deploy Shiny apps for the
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Happy_23rd_Birthday_R!⠀⇛
R is turning 23 this year on February 28/29th! R
1.0.0 was first released on February 29, 2000,
implementing a dialect of the language S…
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ CNN ☛ What_is_‘doxxing’?_A_look_inside_the_dark_side_of_the
digital_world⠀⇛
With personal data flooding the internet, doxxing — the
release of personal information without a person’s
consent — has become more common. CNN explains what it
is, how it happens and hears directly from women who were
targeted.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Greek_train_disaster_prompts_rail_strike;
relatives_give_DNA⠀⇛
Family members have lined up to give DNA samples in hopes
of identifying victims of a train crash that killed
nearly 60 people in Greece. Workers, meanwhile, went on
strike Thursday, saying the rail system is outdated,
underfunded and dangerous.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Asteroid_Ryugu_Is_Packed_With_Life-Building
Molecules,_Latest_Tests_Reveal⠀⇛
Biology starter pack.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Europe’s_First_Hunter-Gatherer_People_May
Not_Have_Vanished_Like_We_Thought⠀⇛
Traces of a lost people still exist 30,000 years
later.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Breathtakingly_Beautiful_Photo_Gives_an
Astronaut’s_View_of_an_Aurora⠀⇛
The colour of night from above.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_World-First_Discovery_Hints_at_The_Sounds
Non-Avian_Dinosaurs_Made⠀⇛
Coo-coo!
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Here’s_How_Our_Diet_Would_Change_In_The
Wake_of_a_Massive_Asteroid_Strike⠀⇛
At least other people are off the menu.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ For_The_First_Time_Ever,_Physicists_See
Molecules_Form_Through_Quantum_Tunneling⠀⇛
Down the quantum rabbit hole.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Emory ☛ Graduate_students_fight_for_unionization_amid
upcoming_stipend_increase⠀⇛
Elijah Ullman’s (25G) mom has stage four cancer.
She lives in Colorado, leaving over a thousand
miles between her and her son, who is a Ph.D.
candidate at Laney Graduate School. Living on a
graduate worker’s check, Ullman explained that he
can barely scrape enough money together to visit
his mom.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ China’s_Factories_Report_Surge_in_Activity
After_Lockdowns_End⠀⇛
Manufacturing activity rose in February to its
highest level in more than a decade, bolstering
China’s recovery after restrictions paralyzed much
of the country.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ U.S._seeks_fresh_ways_to_crack_down_on_Chinese_tech
industry⠀⇛
With strict limits already in place on China’s
access to U.S. technology, the federal government
is exploring how to further tighten the vise amid
growing political and economic tensions.
Between the lines: Cracking down on China has
support from both parties, though there isn’t
always agreement on exactly which steps to take.
===================================================
Here are three areas where the latest crackdown is
taking place:
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Huge_New_Study_Shows_Why_Exercise_Should_Be
The_First_Choice_in_Treating_Depression⠀⇛
1.5 more effective than talk therapy.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Energy_Department_report_fuels_speculations
about_COVID-19_origins⠀⇛
The Energy Department’s report on the COVID-19 lab
leak caused online speculations to soar. Scientists
urge caution when speculating about the origins of
the virus, as the findings are yet to be confirmed.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ The_missing_evidence_in_the_COVID_origins_debate⠀⇛
The inability to pin down COVID’s_origins has
opened the door to politically charged speculation
and fierce debate, but without concrete evidence,
people are forming narratives based on incomplete
information with major geopolitical_consequences.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Colorectal_cancer_rises_among_those_55_and
younger⠀⇛
Data: Siegel, et al., 2023, “Colorectal cancer
statistics”; Chart: Axios Visuals
Alarming new findings offer more_evidence_of_a_puzzling_rise in colorectal
cancer in patients under 50 and the challenges of reaching them with timely
screening.
⚓ Axios ☛ East_Palestine’s_record_of_devastating_derailments⠀⇛
Long before the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment exposed_East
Palestine_to_hazardous_chemicals, residents suffered from a series of
devastating rail car derailments that destroyed businesses, ruined
local infrastructure and often left the city stuck paying for the
damage.
⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Italy_closes_investigation_alleging_COVID_lockdown
failures⠀⇛
Italian prosecutors have closed a COVID-19 investigation that accuses
officials of wrongdoing for failing to extend a lockdown zone in the
early days of the pandemic to the northern city of Bergamo and
adjacent industrial valleys. Prosecutor Antonio Chiappani told Radio
24 on Thursday that “our aim was to reconstruct what happened and
give a response to the population of Bergamo and surroundings.” The
case now goes to a magistrate in Bergamo to decide whether to indict
more than a dozen suspects identified by prosecutors.
⚓ Axios ☛ How_the_derailment_in_East_Palestine_changes_the_calculus_on_railroad
regulation⠀⇛
A bipartisan group of senators unveiled legislation to address safety
issues highlighted by the derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight
train in East Palestine, Ohio.
⚓ Axios ☛ Labor_unions_say_East_Palestine_cleanup_site_workers_are_falling
ill⠀⇛
Railroad union leaders are claiming that rail workers are falling ill
at the site of the East Palestine, Ohio, toxic_freight_train
derailment, according to a letter sent to government officials on
Wednesday.
⚓ Axios ☛ TikTok_puts_60-minute_limit_in_place_for_teens⠀⇛
TikTok will try to help younger people limit their time on the app to
one hour of daily activity, the company announced today.
⚓ Axios ☛ Under_pressure,_Eli_Lilly_cuts_insulin_prices_70%⠀⇛
Eli Lilly is slashing prices on its most-prescribed_insulins and
capping out-of-pocket costs for patients amid pressure from consumers
and the Biden administration.
⚓ Quartz ☛ Eli_Lilly’s_insulin_copay_cap_doesn’t_replace_the_need_for
government_regulation⠀⇛
A few months after congress failed to pass an insulin copay cap of
$35 for all insured patients, and a few weeks after President Joe
Biden once again raised the issue in his State of the Union address,
the US’s largest insulin maker Eli Lilly announced Wednesday a series
of price cuts for insulin and the copay.
⚓ Science Alert ☛ Pharmaceutical_Giant_Slashes_Insulin_Cost_by_70%,_Calling
Others_to_Do_The_Same⠀⇛
“Huge news.”
§ Security⠀➾
* ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Tuesday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (curl, python-
werkzeug, and spip), Fedora (curl), Mageia (apache-commons-
fileupload, apr, c-ares, clamav, git, gnutls, ipython, jupyter-
core, php, postgresql, python-cryptography, python-jupyterlab,
python-twisted, sofia-sip, and sox), Red Hat (git, httpd,
kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, lua, openssl, pcs, php,
python-setuptools, python3.9, systemd, tar, vim, and zlib),
SUSE (libxslt, php8, postgresql15, python3, tpm2-0-tss, and
ucode-intel), and Ubuntu (curl, mplayer, openjdk-17, openjdk-
19, openjdk-lts, openjdk-8, python3.9, and ruby-rack).
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Cisco_Patches_Critical_Vulnerability_in_IP_Phones⠀⇛
Cisco has released patches for a critical remote code execution
vulnerability in certain IP phones.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden’s_Cybersecurity_Strategy_Assigns_Responsibility
to_Tech_Firms [Ed: Another form of bailout, in effect passing taxpayers'
money to rich people in the name of national security; sometimes those
firms are in fact the culprits and cause of the security problems. e.g.
Microsoft]⠀⇛
The policy document urges more mandates on the firms that
control most of the nation’s digital infrastructure, and an
expanded government role to disrupt hackers and state-sponsored
entities.
* ⚓ Container Journal ☛ Advanced_Container_Security:_Auto-Benchmarking,
Pentesting,_XDR_and_More⠀⇛
Container security refers to the set of practices, tools and
technologies used to secure containerized applications and the
underlying infrastructure they run on.
* ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ Home_Assistant_Let’s_Encrypt_Add-on_–_how_to_get_the
newly_obtained_cert_used?⠀⇛
I have the Let’s Encrypt Add-on configured for my Home
Assistant logon. I got it to renew. I see the cert is stored at
/data/letsencrypt/live/hass.example.org/fullchain.pem. But I
don’t see directory in my terminal session for Home Assistant.
It’s as if I should just give up and use an Nginx proxy
instead.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ BlackLotus_Bootkit_Can_Target_Fully_Patched_Windows_11
Systems [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO again]⠀⇛
ESET says the BlackLotus UEFI bootkit can bypass secure boot on
fully updated Windows 11 systems.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Critical_Vulnerabilities_Allowed_Booking.com_Account
Takeover⠀⇛
Booking.com recently patched several vulnerabilities that could
have been exploited to take control of a user’s account.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Canadian_Bookstore_Chain_Indigo_Says_Employee_Data
Stolen_in_Ransomware_Attack⠀⇛
Canadian bookstore chain Indigo this week confirmed that
employee data was stolen in a ransomware attack last month.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Information_of_European_Hotel_Chain’s_Customers_Found
on_Unprotected_Server⠀⇛
The personal information of many customers of European hotel
chain Falkensteiner was discovered by a researcher on an
unprotected server.
* § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
o ⚓ EDRI ☛ Czech_online_state_services_without_Google_Analytics:
thanks_to_IuRe⠀⇛
The Czech organisation Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) sent an
open letter to the Ministry of Health in June 2021. It
was mainly about the vaccination system, but its impact
is much bigger: many state websites are getting rid of
Google Analytics and thus taking more account of user
privacy.
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ ‘Halt_This_Plan’:_Senators_Tell_Meta_Not_to_Open
Horizon_Worlds_to_Teens⠀⇛
After reports revealed that Meta_was_planning_on_opening
Horizon_Worlds_to_teens, two democratic senators are now
encouraging the company to reconsider.
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Doctor_Apple_Wants_to_Scan_Your_Entire_Body_Now⠀⇛
Apple is already big on biometric data for letting users
unlock their phones, but a new patent shows the Cupertino
company is looking ahead to the day when it can scan a
user’s face, neck, chest, arms, legs—AKA your full
silhouette—to let you access a device, or else allow your
phone to tell you if you should be…
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ We_Found_28,000_Apps_Sending_TikTok_Data._Banning_the
App_Won’t_Help.⠀⇛
Joe Biden gave federal agencies 30_days_to_remove_TikTok
from government devices earlier this week. Until now,
most politicians intent on punishing TikTok have focused
solely on banning the app itself…
§ Defence/Aggression⠀➾
* ⚓ CNN ☛ Russia_are_making_gains_in_Bakhmut._CNN_shows_the_scene_near
there_now⠀⇛
CNN’s Alex Marquardt reports from the town of Chasiv Yar near
Bakhmut, Ukraine, where artillery fire is nearly constant as
Russia tries to push farther into the country.
* ⚓ CNN ☛ Anime-inspired_teenage_gangs_that_originated_in_Moscow_plaguing
streets_of_Ukraine’s_cities,_Kyiv_says⠀⇛
Ukrainian authorities are accusing Russia of trying to export
an unlikely phenomenon: teenage gangs inspired by a Japanese
anime game who are taking to the streets for mass brawls.
* ⚓ CNN ☛ Putin_ally_Lukashenko_and_Chinese_leader_Xi_Jinping_vow_to_deepen
defense_ties⠀⇛
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Large_army_goods_shipment_to_travel_from_Rīga_to_Lviv,
Ukraine⠀⇛
Marking the year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the
“Free Ukraine in Europe” (Brīva Ukraina Eiropā) initiative has
collected a bulk shipment worth €100,000. A shipment to Lviv
will start its way from Rumbula Industrial Park to Lviv this
week, Latvian Radio reported on March 2.
* ⚓ CNN ☛ MI5_missed_opportunities_to_prevent_Manchester_Arena_bombing,
inquiry_finds⠀⇛
MI5, the United Kingdom’s domestic spy agency, missed an
opportunity to prevent the Manchester Arena bombing, an inquiry
into the terror attack has found according to a report in
British news agency PA Media.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ MI5_lost_chance_to_stop_Grande_concert_attack,
inquiry_says⠀⇛
An inquiry has found that Britain’s domestic intelligence
agency didn’t act swiftly enough on key information and missed
a significant opportunity to prevent the suicide bombing that
killed 22 people at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in northwest
England.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ White_House_Releases_National_Cybersecurity_Strategy⠀⇛
US National Cybersecurity Strategy pushes regulation,
aggressive ‘hack-back’ operations.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ New_CISA_Tool_‘Decider’_Maps_Attacker_Behavior_to
ATT&CK_Framework⠀⇛
CISA has released a free and open source tool that makes it
easier to map an attacker’s TTPs to the Mitre ATT&CK framework.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Finland_on_Cusp_of_Joining_NATO,_but_Maybe_Not_With
Sweden⠀⇛
The Nordic partners wanted to join together, but with Turkey
holding up Sweden’s application, Helsinki will reluctantly
enter alone to ensure its security.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Israeli_Police_Use_Stun_Grenades_on_Protesters_in_Tel
Aviv⠀⇛
The confrontations escalated tensions between the political
leadership and protesters opposed to the far-right government’s
plan to curb the powers of the judiciary.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ US,_Russia_hold_highest-level_talks_since
Ukraine_invasion⠀⇛
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke briefly in New Delhi at a meeting
of top diplomats from the Group of 20 nations. It’s the
highest-level in-person talks between the two countries since
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Understanding_the_Logic_of_Canada_Giving_$2.26_Billion_in
Arms_to_Ukraine⠀⇛
Over the past year Ottawa has given Ukraine over $2 billion in
weapons. The size of the arms donation is unprecedented in
Canadian history. According to a February 17 Le Devoir
calculation, Canada has delivered $2.26 billion in weapons to
Ukraine.
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_Military-Industrial_Complex_and_American Fascism⠀⇛
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike) had it right. The
military-industrial complex (MIC) is fundamentally
antidemocratic The national security state has become the
fourth branch of government and arguably the most powerful one.
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Polling_the_Internet:_What_Will_the_Government_Blame_Havana
Syndrome_on_Next?⠀⇛
Havana syndrome, the bizarre malaise that has impacted over a
thousand U.S. foreign service members all over the world, is
still a total mystery. Indeed, even as the government has
attempted to explain away some of the weirdness, it’s pretty
obvious we still have no fucking idea what this thing is.
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ ‘Havana_Syndrome’_Wasn’t_Caused_by_a_Big_Energy_Weapon,
According_to_U.S._Intelligence⠀⇛
Yet again, another report based on U.S. intelligence sources
has re-re-realleged that the mysterious “Havana syndrome”
wasn’t brought on by some foreign adversary wielding strange
energy weapons.
§ Environment⠀➾
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_crypto_winter_is_coming_for_Silvergate_Capital⠀⇛
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Europe_has_spent_more_than_$800_billion_shielding
citizens_from_the_energy_crisis⠀⇛
Back in 2021, consumers in the UK and Europe were already
feeling the pain of rising energy costs, which were being
pushed up by a cocktail of factors including soaring
natural_gas_prices. Then, in February 2022, Russia,
itself a major energy supplier, invaded Ukraine,
destabilizing the region and sending energy…
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ A_third_FTX_executive_has_pleaded_guilty_to_fraud⠀⇛
Samuel Bankman-Fried’s inner circle is crumbling under
regulatory pressure as Nishad Singh becomes the latest
FTX executive to admit to his role in the massive fraud.
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Why_Is_Greta_Thunberg_Protesting_a_Wind_Farm?⠀⇛
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was arrested
Wednesday with dozens of other activists during a protest
in front of several Norwegian government ministry
buildings, demanding that the government shut down a wind
farm.
* § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Indian_Temple_Uses_Robot_Elephant_to_Curb_Animal
Cruelty⠀⇛
A robotic elephant was donated to an Indian temple to
replace having a wild creature living in captivity.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ CNN ☛ The_devil’s_in_the_details_in_Europe’s_troubling_inflation_data⠀⇛
Inflation in Europe fell again in February, though not as
sharply as expected, and national data showed accelerating
price rises in many of the region’s top economies.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_Does_Workplace_TikTok_Look_Like_During_Layoffs?
It_Gets_Weird.⠀⇛
Tech and finance workers posted countless videos about the
luxuries of their jobs — until the mood shifted.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Inflation_in_the_euro_zone_isn’t_falling_fast_enough⠀⇛
The inflation rate in the euro zone eased for the fourth
straight month, with data from the European Central Bank
reporting an 8.5% increase in the consumer price index from a
year earlier, lower than January’s 8.6% rate thanks to falling
energy prices.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Nigeria_awaits_a_Supreme_Court_determining_whether_old_naira
banknotes_should_remain_legal_tender_for_longer⠀⇛
A cash shortage resulting from a rushed redesign of Nigeria’s
main banknotes led several states to sue the government and the
Central Bank of Nigeria to demand old banknotes remain legal
tender for longer. The country’s Supreme Court is set to rule
on the case on Friday (Mar. 3).
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ 6_percent_of_Latvian_households_experienced_arrears_on_utility
bills_last_year⠀⇛
European Union statistics on income and living
conditions compiled by the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia
(CSB) show that in 2022, 6 % of households due to financial
difficulties were in arrears on utility bills at least once
during the previous twelve months (6.1 % in 2021) while 6.3 %
were in arrears on rent or mortgage repayments (6.4 % in 2021).
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Average_wage_before_tax_in_Latvia_in_2022_was_EUR_1,373⠀⇛
Data published on March 1 by the Central Statistical Bureau of
Latvia (CSB) show that in 2022 the average gross wages and
salaries for full-time work amounted to EUR 1 373.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ In_new_Congress,_a_bipartisan_push_to_take_on_China⠀⇛
Is America asleep to a growing threat, or overhyping it?
Lawmakers debate how to preserve democratic values at home and
abroad as China’s global influence expands.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Can_South_Korea_and_Japan_overcome_their_past_and_focus_on
the_future?⠀⇛
What does it take to heal old wounds? Leaders in Japan and
South Korea are finding out as they work to improve their
countries’ troubled relations.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ ‘Essential_ingredient’_for_halting_corruption_in_Peru?
Common_good.⠀⇛
Corruption is top of mind in Peru, where political crisis and
protests have gripped the nation since December.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Canadians_Fume_as_Migrants_Surge_at_Their_Border⠀⇛
A surge in illegal crossings from the United States has led to
calls to shut down a rural road on the Canadian border.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ban_Corporal_Punishment_in_Private_Schools,_New_York
Lawmakers_Say⠀⇛
The proposals from state legislators come in response to a New
York Times investigation that reported the use of slaps and
kicks to keep order in some Hasidic Jewish schools.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_Foreign_Ministry_bans_TikTok_on_work_phones⠀⇛
The Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also announced a
ban on TikTok on work devices after the European Commission,
the US, and Canadian authorities took the first step, Latvian
Television reported on March 2.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ DeSantis_to_visit_Iowa_next_week_before_expected
2024_bid⠀⇛
Florida Gov. DeSantis is planning his first visit to Iowa next
week, making a stop in the leadoff Republican voting state
before an expected 2024 presidential announcement later this
year. DeSantis has scheduled events on March 10 in Davenport
and Des Moines to promote his new book, “The Courage to be
Free.”
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Nigeria_opposition_renews_calls_to_overturn
election_result⠀⇛
Nigeria’s opposition has renewed calls for the election result
to be overturned a day after the country announced its new
president-elect. Third-place Labour Party candidate Peter Obi
said at a news conference in the capital on Thursday that “we
won the election and we will prove it to Nigerians.”
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Court_lifts_Fenerbahçe_fans’_away_game_ban_over_earthquake_protests⠀⇛
The authorities had imposed the ban on the football giants
after their fans called on the government to resign during a
game.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ India_shut_off_the_internet_more_often_than_any_country—for
the_fifth_year_in_a_row⠀⇛
Access to the internet is a fundamental right in India, but the
country also shut down the web more than others for the fifth
straight year in 2022.
* ⚓ Twenty-nine_people_arrested_over_‘earthquake’_posts_on_social_media⠀⇛
The police took legal action against 609 social media users and
detained 150 of them, said the police.
* ⚓ Access_ban_on_Türkiye’s_popular_social_network_lifted_after_nine_days⠀⇛
The ban on Ekşi Sözlük came amid an intense public debate over
last month’s massive earthquakes.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Why_the_US_Supreme_Court_is_struggling_with_a_case_about
YouTube’s_algorithms⠀⇛
Clarence Thomas has a question. Thomas, an associate justice of
the US Supreme Court, was once notorious for his silence during
the court’s oral arguments, but in recent years has become
quite talkative.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Tech_Is_Allowing_Businesses_to_Overcharge_You_in
Tips⠀⇛
Payment apps and touch screens have made it easy for merchants
to ask us for preset gratuity amounts. We don’t need to succumb
to the pressure.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Starbucks’_union-busting_tactics_are_facing_the_heat⠀⇛
Starbucks can’t get away with union-busting.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Baltic_states_bottom_of_the_chart_for_naturalization_rates⠀⇛
Despite a long-established naturalization process that has seen
some 148,000 people acquire Latvian citizenship since 1995, in
2021 Latvia’s naturalization rate was the second-lowest in the
European Union, according to data published by Eurostat March
1.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ APNIC ☛ APNIC_2022_Annual_Report_now_available⠀⇛
The 2022 Annual Report and 2023 Activity Plan are now
available.
* ⚓ APNIC ☛ Not_that_simple:_Email_delivery_in_the_21st_century⠀⇛
* ⚓ APNIC ☛ [Podcast]_Measuring_user_experience_on_the_web_at_APNIC⠀⇛
How APNIC is measuring user experience, satisfaction, and
engagement with the ‘Orbit’ platform.
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 14_Internet-Adjacent_Slang_Words_Newly_Added_to
Dictionary.com⠀⇛
Every so often, dictionaries spruce up their database of
lexicography in order to get with the times. Dictionary.com is
no different, and announced this week the new additions to the
website’s catalog of words.
* ⚓ APNIC ☛ Panel_discusses_satellite_broadband_in_the_Asia_Pacific_region
at_APRICOT_2023⠀⇛
What does the LEO rush mean for existing connectivity
providers, and what are the technical and policy issues?
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Breach Media ☛ Trudeau’s_fight_with_Google_won’t_save_Canadian
journalism⠀⇛
By siphoning tech profits for the corporate media, the
Liberals are the ones making a ‘terrible mistake’
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ Reply_–_Christina_–_Five_Questions_(5Q)_for_March_2023⠀⇛
I wish to improve my Gopher phlog. I could justify the
text, or add RSS functionality, or add external links of
interest. What are your recommended resources for getting
me beyond the basics?
o ⚓ wow,_I’m_finally_here!⠀⇛
I applied for a key 3-4 months ago and had actually given
up on receiving one. I’m ok with not having instant
gratification, and a lack of automated signup indicated
sensible humans in charge, which is always a good thing.
I’ll have to read the documentation. I can write html and
css but I don’t have my laptop currently and doing
everything on my phone is not ideal. Deffo not for coding
a layout.
* § Technical⠀➾
o § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Legacy_Web⠀⇛
on various pages of this capsule and may have
wondered about the adjective. The argument is
simple: the web is old, with an origin of 1990, or
so. Gemini is much newer, let us say 2020. Since
gemini is newer, gemini must be better. Therefore
the web is worse, and so we mark it as “the Legacy
Web” because it is old, and therefore bad.
Internet Relay Chat? Old, 1990s. Therefore bad. Now
you have a go! It is _____ (year) and ________
(technology) is old and therefore bad.
Why is something newer better? Here we must touch
on the Myth of Progress, which states that things
get better over time. Therefore, newer things must
be better than older things, therefore we tag older
things as worse, because, well, all sorts of
progress has been made since whenever. That this
logic is about as airtight as a bicycle basket is
really besides the point.
o § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ New_Programming_Language_Idea:_Stay⠀⇛
There are of course many alternatives to it, but
not one that’s completely opposite to it in
philosophy. I feel that we may need one. I mean,
not really need. But want? Maybe?
# ⚓ Stay_language_suggestion⠀⇛
The only one I ever used was XSLT, which was
conceptually fine, but expressed in XML tags and
XPath, which was… not great. The input is some XML
on which it does pattern matching, finding
templates to apply. It can spit out whatever you
want. In my case it was HTML so the whole thing was
a forest of angle brackets. This was a long time
ago now, and never since have I had a problem that
I wanted to solve with XSLT.
I had a colleague who was keen on Prolog. I’ve
never used it, but it seems that you define rules
rather than how to apply them, and Prolog figures
out what it’s going to do.
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World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
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 Events
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
# Open_Access/Content
o Programming/Development
# Python
# Rust
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies/Abuse
# Patents
# Software_Patents
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Good E Reader ☛ PineTab_2_Linux_tablet_now_comes_with_faster
processor_and_better_features⠀⇛
Pine64 has followed up its original attempt at a Linux
tablet with the new PineTab 2. The company is claiming
the successor to the PineTab comes with better specs and
features. For instance, there is the faster Rockchip
RK3566 quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 processor that renders
service from under the hood. There is 4 GB of LPDDR4
memory and 64 GB of storage for the entry-level model and
8 GB of memory and 128 GB of storage for the top-end
version. Both models feature LPDDR4 memory and eMMC
storage for enhanced performance characteristics.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ How_I_automate_graphics_creation_with
Inkscape⠀⇛
I recorded a 15-minute long tutorial demonstrating
how to automate the production of graphics from a
CSV file or spreadsheet (basically a mailmerge type
deal for graphics) in Inkscape. It uses the Next
Generator Inkscape extension from Maren Hachmann.
You can watch it on the Fedora Design Team Linux
Rocks PeerTube channel (PeerTube is open source!)
or the embedded YouTube video below:
In this article, I provide some context for how
this tutorial is useful. I also include a very
high-level summary of the content in the video in
case you’d rather skim text and not watch a video.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Machine_Learning_in_Linux:_Old_Photo
Restoration⠀⇛
With the availability of huge amounts of data for
research and powerful machines to run your code on
with distributed cloud computing and parallelism
across GPU cores, Deep Learning has helped to
create self-driving cars, intelligent voice
assistants, pioneer medical advancements, machine
translation, and much more. Deep Learning has
become an indispensable tool for countless
industries.
Old Photo Restoration is a project that uses deep
learning to restore old photos via deep latent
space translation. This research project lets you
restore old photos that suffer from severe
degradation through a deep learning approach. It
uses a novel triplet domain translation network by
leveraging real photos along with massive synthetic
image pairs.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Build_a_3D_Map_with_Buildings_in_Blender_with
Buildify⠀⇛
Blender is a free and open-source 3D modeling
software for creating 3D models, visual effects, 3D
animations and interactive 3D apps. It is available
for Windows, Linux, macOS, and BSD systems.
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Hardware_Info_Heaven_–_CPU-X_is_CPU-Z_for
Linux⠀⇛
Want to learn more about your system hardware?
Maybe you’re looking to find out your motherboard
make and model, your CPU stepping, or which
“nanometre” technology your chipset is built from.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Net2 ☛ How_to_fix_“Cannot_Connect_to_the_Docker_Daemon”
Error⠀⇛
Docker is a popular way to build and run software
containers.
# ⚓ Linux ☛ Mounting_into_mount_namespaces⠀⇛
# ⚓ Unix Men ☛ How_To_Install_Ubuntu_21.04_With_A_Virtual
Machine⠀⇛
Ubuntu 21.04, nicknamed “Hirsute Hippo” was
released in April 2021. The Ubuntu family of
operating systems is renowned for its stability and
ease of use, and Hirsute Hippo is no exception.
But it’s always better to test it on your existing
operating system before installing it as a primary
or secondary operating system.
# ⚓ Unix Men ☛ How_To_Unrar_a_File:_Unix_and_Linux⠀⇛
Applications, images, documents, and other files of
all sorts are most commonly shared across the
internet in the RAR format. It is a compressed
archive format, and you need to unpack or “unrar”
the archives to access the files within them.
Linux and FreeBSD operating systems do not have the
“unrar” command preinstalled. Most UNIX-like
systems also do not come with the command
preinstalled.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Install_Yii_PHP_Framework_on_RHEL,_CentOS,
Rocky_and_AlmaLinux⠀⇛
Yii is an open-source, high-performance, flexible,
efficient, and secure PHP framework for rapidly
building modern Web applications. It is a generic
and full-stack web programming framework for
writing code in an object-oriented fashion and
provides many proven and ready-to-use features. It
comes with a number of reasonable defaults and
built-in tools that help you write solid and secure
code.
Here are some of Yii’s key features…
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ 6_Wc_Command_to_Count_Number_of_Lines,_Words,_and
Characters_in_File⠀⇛
wc (short for word count) is a command line tool in
Unix/Linux operating systems, which is used to find
out the number of newline count, word count, byte
and character count in the files specified by the
File arguments to the standard output and hold a
total count for all named files.
When you define the File parameter, the wc command
prints the file names as well as the requested
counts. If you do not define a file name for the
File parameter, it prints only the total count to
the standard output.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Explore_dungeons_to_help_clear_a_plague_in
Netherguild_on_March_27th⠀⇛
After some impressive and fun early Alpha builds,
the turn-based tactical roguelite dungeon-crawler
Netherguild will hit Early Access on March 27th.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Valve_doesn’t_need_much_to_make_a_Steam
Deck_2_a_huge_success⠀⇛
With the Steam Deck recently having a first
anniversary, no doubt many are thinking on what’s
next — I certainly am. Valve don’t exactly need
much to make a Steam Deck 2 a success either.
# ⚓ [Marketing spam?] GamingOnLinux ☛ SCAN_UK_now_selling_a_WD
1TB_SSD_compatible_with_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
In need of a Steam Deck SSD upgrade? SCAN UK have a
pretty great looking deal on a Western Digital 1TB
SSD.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_and_Desktop_Steam_Beta_updated,
adds_DualSense_Edge_support_on_Linux⠀⇛
Another fresh Beta is available for both the Steam
Deck and Steam Desktop with plenty of bugs being
fixed as usual.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Total_War:_WARHAMMER_III_for_Linux_updated
to_v2.4_with_Immortal_Empires⠀⇛
Feral Interactive have now upgraded their Linux
(and macOS) ports of Total War: WARHAMMER III to
the latest 2.4 release — which is a big one. It was
first released for the Windows version earlier in
February, so it’s nice to see the wait for those
sticking to the Native Linux build wasn’t
particularly long this time.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Hibernaculum_is_a_gross_looking_retro-
inspired_sci-fi_dungeon_crawler⠀⇛
Currently in development by Victor Pflug and
Wormwood Studios, Hibernaculum looks like an
absolute disgusting treat.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_Legend_of_Heroes:_Kuro_no_Kiseki_gets_a
second_Steam_release,_optimised_for_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
This is a bit of an odd one. The Legend of Heroes:
Kuro no Kiseki has been released on Steam, for the
second time and now it has Steam Deck optimizations
too.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSUSE ☛ Mesa,_Flatpak,_Plasma_Update_in_Tumbleweed⠀⇛
This week openSUSE Tumbleweed users learned of the
performance optimizations gained with changes for
x86-64-v3 and received a few snapshots.
Some of the packages to arrive this week included
software for KDE users, gamers and people beginning
their Linux journey.
Snapshot, 20230301 delivered a new major version of
a 3D graphics library. Mesa 23.0.0 was announced by
Dylan Baker, who highlighted all the community’s
improvements, fixes and changes for the release. A
major Link Time Optimization leak was fixed in the
release and several Radeon (RADV) drivers and Zink
Vulkan fixes became available with the release.
AppStream 0.16.1 updated is documentation and fixed
some behavior with the binding helper macros.
Flatpak 1.14.3 introduced splitting an upgrade into
two steps for the wrapper. It also introduces the
filename in an error message if an app has an
invalid syntax in its overrides or metadata. The
Linux Apps Summit, which covers Flatpak, AppImage,
Snap, will take place in Brno, Czech Republic, next
month and is a great event to hear from developers
working on cross-distro solutions in the
application space. The second update of the week
for sudo arrived in the snapshot. The 1.9.13p2
fixed an –enable-static-sudoers option arriving in
the 20230225 snapshot. An update of apparmor 3.1.3
added support for more audit.log formats, fixed a
parser bug and fixed boo#1065388, which had
progressed to be resolved over a five-year period.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Dell_lassos_Red_Hat_for_its_telco_infrastructure_block
program⠀⇛
# ⚓ Forbes ☛ Soft_Cellular,_Red_Hat_Dials_Into_5G_With_Nvidia⠀⇛
# ⚓ Red_Hat_and_Samsung_seek_to_help_operators_cope_with_vRAN
ramp-up⠀⇛
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Red_Hat_Satellite_6.12_and_remote
execution:_Now_featuring_pull_mode⠀⇛
We released Red Hat Satellite 6.12 last month. The
release includes several new features designed to
help you manage your Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(RHEL) environment more effectively, including
remote execution pull mode. In this blog entry,
I’ll write about the differences between remote
execution pull mode and push mode and provide a
step-by-step guide on configuring it.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ OMRON_Chooses_Red_Hat_OpenShift_for
Industrial_Operational_Technology_(OT)_Edge_Solutions⠀⇛
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that OMRON, a
Japan-based global electrical equipment
manufacturer, has chosen Red Hat OpenShift, the
industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform,
as the conceptual model for its virtualized control
platform proof-of-concept (PoC) that will help
deliver greater management of industrial systems
and processes. By moving to a software,
containerized approach, OMRON aims to save time and
reduce complexity, giving manufacturing plants more
agility and flexibility to innovate. This
implementation is one of the first of its kind and
will allow real-time data generated at
manufacturing edge sites to be more seamlessly
transmitted throughout the organization and will
also allow industrial control equipment programs to
be operated remotely from applications running in
containers configured with Red Hat OpenShift. OMRON
has started the PoC rollout of its virtualized
control platform primarily for current customers
with future plans to help customers convert
containerized solutions into composable services
for industrial Personal Computers PCs (“IPCs”).
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Ben_Hutchings:_Debian_LTS_work,_January/February_2023⠀⇛
In January I was assigned 24 hours by Freexian’s
Debian LTS
initiative and worked 8 hours. In February I was
assigned another 8
hours and worked 8 hours.
I updated the linux (4.19) package to the latest
stable update, but
didn’t upload it. I merged the latest bullseye
point release into
the linux-5.10 package and uploaded that.
# ⚓ Diffoscope ☛ Reproducible_Builds_(diffoscope):_diffoscope
238_released⠀⇛
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce
the release of diffoscope
version 238. This version includes the following
changes:
* autopkgtest: fix tool name in the skippable list.
You find out more by visiting_the_project_homepage.
⚓ Debian_XMPP_Team:_XMPP_What’s_new_in_Debian_12_bookworm⠀⇛
On Tue 13 July 2021 there was a
blog_post
of new XMPP related software releases which have been uploaded to
Debian 11 (bullseye).
Today, we will inform you about updates for the upcoming Debian
release bookworm.
A lot of new releases have been provided by the upstream projects.
There were lot of changes
to the XMPP clients like Dino, Gajim, Profanity, Poezio and others.
Also the XMPP servers have been
enhanced.
Unfortunately, we can not provide a list of all the changes which
have been done,
but will try to highlight some of the changes and new features.
BTW, feel free to join the Debian User Support on Jabber at
xmpp:debian@conference.debian.org?join.
You can find a list of 58 packages of the Debian XMPP team on the
XMPP_QA_Page.
* Dino, modern XMPP client has been upgraded from
0.2.0 to 0.4.0. The new version supports encrypted calls and
group calls and
reactions give you a way to respond to a message with an emoji.
You can find more information about Dino_0.3.0 and
Dino_0.4.0 in
the release notes of the upstream project. Dino is using GTK4 /
libadwaita which provides widgets for mobile-friendly UIs.
Changes has been done on the main view of Dino.
* Gajim, a GTK+-based Jabber client has been upgraded from 1.3.1
to 1.7.1. Since 1.4 Gajim has got a new UI, which supports
spaces. 1.5.2 supports a content viewer for PEP nodes. 1.6.0 is
using libsoup3 and python 3.10. Audio preview looks a lot nicer
with a wave graph visualization and profile images (avatar) are
not limited to only JPG anymore. The plugins
gajim-appindicatorintegration, gajim-plugininstaller,
gajim-syntaxhighlight und gajim-urlimagepreview are obsolete,
these features has been moved to gajim.
There were a lot of releases in Gajim. You can find the full
story at https://gajim.org/post/
* Profanity, the console based XMPP client has been upgraded
from 0.10.0 to 0.13.1. Profanity supports XEP-0377 Spam
Reporting, and XEP-0157 server contact information discovery.
It now marks a window with an attention flag, updated HTTP
Upload
XEP-0363, and messages can be composed with an external editor.
It also features easy quoting,
in-band account registration (XEP-0077), Print OMEMO
verification
QR code, and many more.
* Kaidan, a simple and user-friendly Jabber/XMPP client based on
Qt has been
updated from 0.7.0 to 0.8.0. The new release supports
XEP-0085: Chat State Notifications and XEP-0313: Message
Archive Management.
* Poezio, a console-based XMPP client as been updated from 0.13.1
to 0.14. Poezio is now under GPLv3+. The new release supports
request for voice and the /join command support using an XMPP
URI. More information at
https://lab.louiz.org/poezio/poezio/-/raw/v0.14/CHANGELOG.
[Swift][swift-im], back in Debian is the Swift XMPP client – a
cross-platform Client written in C++. In 2015 the client was
removed from testing and is back with version 5.0.
§ Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
* ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Latest_Ubuntu_Linux_Kernel_Security_Updates_Patch_17
Vulnerabilities⠀⇛
Coming three weeks after the previous Ubuntu kernel security
updates, the new ones are here for Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu)
and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) systems running Linux
kernel 5.19, as well as Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) and
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) systems running Linux kernel
5.15 LTS.
Of the 17 security vulnerabilities patched by these new kernel
updates, 14 of them affect all the Ubuntu systems mentioned
above. The most critical one is CVE-2022-4379, a use-after-free
vulnerability discovered in the NFSD implementation that could
allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (system
crash) or execute arbitrary code.
* ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Top_5_MLOps_challenges [Ed: Canonical is helping Microsoft
with mindless hype campaigns, shilling proprietary software that spies,
censors, and presents itself under false pretences]⠀⇛
§ Devices/Embedded⠀➾
* ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Banana_BPI-P2_Pro_headless_SBC_features_RK3308_CPU,_PoE
Ethernet,_WiFi_5,_audio_jack⠀⇛
Banana Pi BPI-P2 Pro is Rockchip RK3308 quad-core Cortex-A35
SBC for headless applications with a PoE-capable Ethernet port,
WiFi 5, a USB port, an audio jack, and two GPIO headers for
expansion.
You may think the Banana Pi guys have gone crazy by calling
such entry-level level SBC “Pro”, but that’s because the
company previously released the BPI-P2 Zero and BPI-P2 Maker
single board computers based on Allwinner H2+ quad-core Cortex-
A7 processor, so the BPI-P2 Pro is indeed an improvement albeit
with some caveats.
§ Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
* ⚓ peppe8o ☛ Raspberry_PI_Pico_Pinout_(including_Pico_W_version)⠀⇛
The Raspberry PI Pico brings to RPI fans a lot of new ports,
compared to the computer boards. One of the most appreciated
features is
* ⚓ Martijn Braam ☛ Sensors_and_PCB_design⠀⇛
Hardware design is a whole other can of worms. I have played
with things like the Arduino and later the STM32 chips, ESP8266
and RP2040. These things are quite neat from a programmers
perspective. You write your code in c++ and the included
toolchain figures out all the hard parts and flashes the board.
Hardware design is also quite simple since it’s mostly putting
together different hardware modules and breakout boards. Only a
basic understanding of the hardware busses is required to get
stuff up and running.
* ⚓ Arduino ☛ The_Periodic_Table_Clock_oozes_nerdy_charm⠀⇛
This clock displays the time by illuminating different elements
on a translucent periodic table. The color blue corresponds to
hours, green corresponds to minutes, and red corresponds to
seconds. So if you see Calcium lit in blue, Indium lit in
green, and Lanthanum lit in red, then the military time is 20:
49:57 (8:49:57 in the evening). If two must share the same
element, like when the time is 3:10:10, then it will mix the
two colors (yellow in this case). If three share the same
element, like 2:02:02, then it should be obvious because only a
single element will be lit.
* ⚓ Adafruit ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Zero_DIN_rail_mount_#3DThursday_#3DPrinting⠀⇛
Raspberry Pi Zero DIN rail mount
* ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Parallel_and_distributed_computing_with_Raspberry_Pi
clusters⠀⇛
Since the Raspberry Pi’s launch, creators have based countless
computer science education projects on the humble pocket-sized
system on a chip. These have included many projects exploring
low-cost Raspberry Pi clusters to introduce parallel and
distributed computing (PDC) concepts.
The UK Open University (OU) provides distance education to
students of diverse ages, experiences, and backgrounds, which
raises some issues not faced in more traditional universities.
The OU experiment using Raspberry Pi clusters to introduce PDC
concepts to distance learning students began in 2019 and has
been featured in an academic_paper but deserves to be known
more widely.
The project uses Raspberry Pi clusters based on the OctaPi
instructions, released under a Creative Commons Licence by
GCHQ. Eight Raspberry Pis are connected in a private network
using a router and a switch. One of the Raspberry Pis acts as
the lead, while the others are servers providing results back
to the lead device. Programs written in Python run on the lead
Pi, and the dispy package distributes activities across cores
in the cluster.
* ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ A_trivia_vending_machine_made_with_a_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛
As an educator working at a public library, I keep my eyes
peeled for interesting uses of the Raspberry Pi. From where I
sit, the Trivia Vending Machine project out of Dallas, Texas,
is one of the most creative and interesting uses of these
amazing devices. Using a Raspberry Pi to replace the coin box
on a food vending machine is a stroke of genius by Greg Needel
and his team. The potential uses of this idea are far-reaching.
Check out this short YouTube video to see the Trivia Vending
Machine in action.
The original Trivia Vending Machine focused on science
questions, but you could build a Trivia Vending Machine with
any questions—history, civics, literature, and so on. The most
engaging uses will be if you encourage students to write their
own questions—and answer each others’ questions. And consider
this: Instead of disbursing food, the vending machine could
disburse coupons to local businesses. One way I earn a living
is by teaching guitar lessons, and I’d gladly donate a guitar
lesson as a coupon for a Trivia Vending Machine. However, a
student must rack up a suitable amount of points to earn one of
my guitar lessons.
Stretch your imagination a little further. Would it be possible
to have logic puzzles for students to solve to get food (or
coupons) from the vending machine? Yes, that would not be
difficult to create. Maybe Sudoku puzzles, Wordle, KenKen,
Sokoban, or any other puzzle. Students could play these puzzles
with a touch screen. How about chess? Sure, students could
solve chess puzzles to get food (or coupons).
Did you notice in the video that the original Trivia Vending
Machine is large and heavy? Designing a smaller one—perhaps
one-third the size that fits on a rolling cart—could make for
easier transport between schools, libraries, museums, and maker
faires.
* ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Mega-Tiny_Arduino⠀⇛
Integrated circuits, chipsets, memory modules, and all kinds of
other transistor-based technology continues to get smaller,
cheaper, and more energy efficient as time moves on. Not only
are the components themselves smaller, but their supporting
infrastructure is as well. Computers like the Raspberry Pi are
about the size of a credit card and have computing power on the
order of full-sized PCs from a few decades ago. The Arduino is
no exception to this trend, either, and this new dev board
called the Epi 32U4 might be the smallest ATmega platform we’ve
seen so far.
§ Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
* ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ This_app_allows_you_to_design_your_own_Android
keyboard⠀⇛
* ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ How_to_scan_QR_Codes_with_Android_phones_without_an
app?⠀⇛
* ⚓ These_Oppo_Smartphones_Will_Be_Getting_Android_13_Update_Soon_—_Check
Details⠀⇛
* ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ Android_14_expected_release_date,_new_features,_and
more⠀⇛
* ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ All_Xiaomi_phones_expected_to_get_the_Android_14_update⠀⇛
* ⚓ Wired ☛ The_Sketchy_Plan_to_Build_a_Russian_Android_Phone_|_WIRED⠀⇛
* ⚓ Macworld ☛ 5_Android_announcements_from_MWC_that_Apple_fans_need_to
know_|_Macworld⠀⇛
* ⚓ Android Police ☛ Does_your_new_car_support_wireless_Android_Auto?⠀⇛
* ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_S23_Ultra:_The_Android_flagship_just
got_even_better_–_NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛
* ⚓ Neowin ☛ Google_Keep_now_offers_a_widget_for_notes_on_Android_devices_–
Neowin⠀⇛
* ⚓ Android_13_Based_ColorOS_13_Coming_to_These_Smartphones_in_March⠀⇛
* ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_Drive_for_Android_rolling_out_PDF_drawing_and
highlighting⠀⇛
* ⚓ The Verge ☛ Dashlane_can_store_and_make_passkeys_in_Android_14
developer_preview_–_The_Verge⠀⇛
* ⚓ Lifewire ☛ How_to_Turn_On_the_Flashlight_on_Your_Android_Phone⠀⇛
* ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ How_to_create_themed_icons_for_any_app_on_Android⠀⇛
§ Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
* ⚓ Browserling Inc ☛ Online_Text_Tools:_World’s_simplest_text_utilities⠀⇛
Online Text Tools offers a collection of useful text processing
utilities. All text tools are simple, easy to use, and they
share the same user interface. Once you learn how to use one of
the tools, you’ll instantly know how to use all of them. The
utilities work right from your browser and don’t require
downloads and installs. Created by team Browserling.
* ⚓ uni Chicago ☛ Use_GNU_Emacs:_The_Plain_Text_Computing_Environment⠀⇛
GNU Emacs is a free, portable, extensible, internationalized,
self-documenting text editor. That it is free means
specifically that the source code is freely copyable and
redistributable, so Emacs can never be discontinued and
disappear. That it is portable means that it runs on many
computers under many different operating systems, so that you
can probably count on being able to use the same program no
matter what computer you’re using. That it is extensible means
that you can not only customize all aspects of its usage (from
keystrokes through fonts, colors, mousage and menus), but that
you, and the community, can modify and program Emacs, even
while Emacs is running, to do entirely new things that its
designers never thought of. That it is internationalized means
that it has full Unicode1 support, including bidirectional text
and many input methods for non-Latin scripts. That it is self-
documenting means that every keystroke, menu item, and function
can thoroughly explain itself and its usage, and that Emacs
contains 395,759 lines of hypertext reference manuals and
tutorial documentation about itself and its subsystems.
Because of all this, GNU Emacs is an extremely successful
program (having been in continuous development for 38 years2),
and does more for you than any other editor. It’s particularly
good for programmers. No matter what programming language you
use, Emacs probably provides a mode that makes it especially
easy to edit code in that language, providing syntax
highlighting, context sensitive indentation, and layout. It
also allows you to compile your programs inside Emacs, with
links from error messages to source code; debug your programs
inside Emacs, with links to the source; interact directly with
the language interpreter (REPL); jump across multiple files to
the definition of a symbol in your source code; and interact
with your version control system3.
Emacs also provides many built-in applications such as: [...]
* ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Posting_Untappd_Checkins_to_Mastodon_(and_other
services)⠀⇛
I’m a big fan of Untappd. It’s a social drinking app which lets
you check in to a beer and rate it. Look, we all need hobbies,
mine is drinking cider. You can see a list of everything I’ve
drunk over the 13 last years. Nearly 900 different pints!
After checking in, the app automatically posts to Twitter. But
who wants to prop up Alan’s failing empire? Not me! So here’s
some quick code to liberate your data and post it elsewhere.
There are two ways – APIs and Screen Scraping.
* § Events⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hacker_Hotel_2023:_Back_Again!⠀⇛
After three years, it’s odd to think back to those few
weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic morphed from something
on the news into an immediate and ever-present threat
which kept us isolating for so long. For me, some of the
last moments of normality were a trip to the Netherlands
for Hacker Hotel, a hacker event in the comfort of a
resort hotel. Now three years later and after two
cancelled events, Hacker Hotel is back, and I made the
same journey to Garderen to hang out for a weekend with a
bunch of hacker friends over some good Dutch beer and a
lot of bitterbollen.
o ⚓ FSF ☛ Right_to_repair_advocate_Elizabeth_Chamberlain_to_keynote
FSF’s_LibrePlanet⠀⇛
Elizabeth Chamberlain is director of sustainability at
iFixit and a passionate advocate of the right to repair.
iFixit sells repair parts and publishes gratis repair
guides for electronic devices such as smartphones,
tractors, and toasters on their Web site. With these,
iFixit is helping thousands of people repair their
devices every day instead of throwing them away.
Chamberlain will keynote LibrePlanet 2023, the fifteenth
edition of the FSF’s annual conference on ethical
technology and user freedom. Regarding her talk, titled
“The future of the right to repair and free software,”
she says, “Free software and the right to repair are
founded on so many of the same principles: We should have
the right to learn how our things work. If we want to
train up a new generation of technological innovators,
we’ve got to make sure they can get into the guts and
brains of their devices. That’s why we need both free
software and the right to repair to chart our course to a
freer future.”
* § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
o § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Spidermonkey_Development_Blog:_JavaScript_Import_maps,_Part
2:_In-Depth_Exploration⠀⇛
We recently shipped import maps in Firefox 108. you
might be wondering what
this new feature is and what problems it solves. In
the previous_post
we introduced what import maps are and how they
work, in this article we are
going to explore the feature in depth.
§ Explanation in-depth
Let’s explain the terms first. The string literal
"app.mjs" in the above
examples is called a Module_Specifier in
ECMAScript,
and the map which maps "app.mjs" to a URL is called
a Module_Specifier_Map.
An import map is an object with two optional items:
# imports, which is a module specifier map.
# scopes, which is a map of URLs to module
specifier maps.
* § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾
o § Open Access/Content⠀➾
# ⚓ Polarhive ☛ This_week,_I’ve_been_contributing_to
OpenStreetMap_—_a_collaborative_free_software_project_that
aims_to_create_a_free,_editable_map_of_the_world⠀⇛
Assuming 99% of people don’t bother hiding their
SSID after setting up their router. Other Google
users can pin (your) nearby WiFi Acess Points &
associate it with the GPS co-ordinates of that
area. So that the next time a device queries
Google’s servers for a location fix — it’d find
that there’s a certain Wi-Fi AP nearby & doesn’t
have to wait for a GPS signal.
This can be extensively used inside of malls,
shopping complexes & stadiums where each shop has
their own radio hotspot that can be used for indoor
mapping. This technology already exists, across
certain 4G mobile carriers it’s called MIMO & the
upcoming hype around 5G. Indoor mapping, is going
to get even more better.
* § Programming/Development⠀➾
o ⚓ Jared White ☛ The_Great_Gaslighting_of_the_JavaScript_Era⠀⇛
I’m angry because for the past decade of web development,
I and so many others like me feel like we’ve been
repeatedly gaslit, and that so many of the “merchants of
complexity” refuse to acknowledge the harm that’s been
done.
The age of frontend JavaScript frameworks eating the web
world—SPAs (Single-Page Applications) and all that—didn’t
happen simply because some well-meaning developers found
great DX and went along with it whole-heartedly (yay for
the developers! amirite?).
It happened because we were fed a line.
o ⚓ Buttondown ☛ Hype_Cycles_Aren’t_“Gaslighting”_You⠀⇛
Like, for example, Jared White! All through the piece he
talks about how React is temporary while Rails is
timeless. Does he not realize that Rails went through the
same hype cycle? Everybody was saying that Rails was the
future of webdev and you better get on board or be left
behind. To pretend otherwise is either total cluenessless
or deceit.
o ⚓ Earthly ☛ Understanding_Django_Signals⠀⇛
This article will teach you all you need to know about
Django signals and how to use them in your project.
You’ll learn the following concepts of Django signals and
their applications: [...]
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ A_Quick_Guide_For_Flutter_TextField_Widget⠀⇛
TextField widget is an essential widget for every Flutter
developer. It is a simple basic widget, yet a powerful
tool that allows many customization options, and useful
functions.
o § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Paolo Melchiorre ☛ PyCon_US_2023_PyCon_US_2023_logo⠀⇛
PyCon US is the largest and longest-running annual
gathering for the community using and developing
the open-source Python programming language.
o § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ Rust Weekly Updates ☛ This_Week_In_Rust:_This_Week_in_Rust
484⠀⇛
Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in
Rust!
Rust is a programming language empowering everyone
to build reliable and efficient software.
This is a weekly summary of its progress and
community.
Want something mentioned? Tag us at @ThisWeekInRust
on Twitter or @ThisWeekinRust on mastodon.social,
or send_us_a_pull_request.
Want to get involved? We_love_contributions.
This Week in Rust is openly developed on_GitHub.
If you find any errors in this week’s issue, please
submit_a_PR.
* § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
o ⚓ [Old] Polarhive ☛ Completely_Switching_to_RSS_Feeds⠀⇛
Really Simple Syndication – portable, extensible, light
on network resources. Also, I’ve blocked the regular
HTML+JS sites in my browser – more on that later.
Currently my newsboat feed is populated with indie sites,
blogs, wiki pages, updates to documentation & new
software releases, podcasts, YouTube channels, WordPress
sites, Telegram Channels, Odysee / LBRY channels,
SoundCloud , Bandcamp, Pixelfed, Mastodon & other
Fediverse feeds. Unlike most people I don’t use email for
newsletters or follow people on social media just for the
sake of it, or have notifications in my browser.
o ⚓ Linux ☛ Fix_your_mutt⠀⇛
At some point in the recent past, mutt changed the way it
generates Message-ID header values. Instead of the
perfectly good old way of doing it, the developers
switched to using base64-encoded random bytes. The base64
dictionary contains the / character, which causes
unnecessary difficulties when linking to these messages
on lore.kernel.org, since the / character needs to be
escaped as %2F for everything to work properly.
Mutt developers seem completely uninterested in changing
this, so please save everyone a lot of trouble and do the
following if you’re using mutt for your kernel
development needs (should work for all mutt versions):
[...]
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Debased_Currency:_UK_Arts_Honours⠀⇛
The New Year’s Honours List once again did State Art proud. The
Pantomime Dame was made a real Dame for being unable to say no
to any opportunity involving rancid self-promotion. The
departing head of Tate Modern got a CBE for doing her job
whilst studiously policing the State Art line for backsliders.
The Director of the Baltic, a venue hosting numerous major
exhibitions [subs to fill in], got an MBE, also it seems simply
for turning up. Michael Landy, who once destroyed all his
possessions to great acclaim, got a CBE because, well, it was
probably his turn. As a serving RA you get one, it’s that easy.
Ingrid Pollard accepted an MBE, the honours equivalent of a
wooden spoon … Curious, isn’t it, that these supposedly anti-
establishment types will accept anything even, amazingly, stuff
with ‘British Empire’ tagged on the end.
John Akomfrah is knighted for being … everywhere, the human
passe partout of State Art. This follows an OBE in 2008 and a
CBE in 2017 – imagine that, he’s got a full set for making
films no one watches. And clearly he worships a British Empire
all these clones are supposed to loathe. His ‘arty’ multi-
screen films are nothing remarkable. Their level of competence
is the very least an audience conditioned by television and
Hollywood might reasonably expect of a filmmaker. The best you
can say about his work is that it’s fit only to be shown in an
art gallery where normal criteria of film judgment have
necessarily to be suspended. The bar in films is set very low
indeed by the visual art establishment – not even the world’s
most lissom limbo dancer could wriggle under the State Art film
bar.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Despair_and_Joy_in_Berlin⠀⇛
Despair and joy can be so close together!
In conflicts, I know, neither side can be trusted. Both sides
twist and distort, magnify and minimize in support of their
cause. But the daily, almost hourly pictures from Ukraine – of
hardship, suffering, of death, destruction and flight, all too
genuine, cause me the despair I have always felt on hearing –
and worse seeing, if only on a screen – any pain inflicted on
my fellow human beings, no matter what insignia they wear or
flag they honor.
* ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Never_Walk_Uphill_Again_With_This_Motorized_Sled⠀⇛
If you grew up in a snowy climate, chances are you’ve ridden a
sled or toboggan when you were young. The downhill part of
sledding is great fun, but dragging the thing back up gets
boring quickly. [Luis Marx] had been dreaming of sledding
uphill since he was a child, and decided to make his dream come
true by building himself a motorized sled (video, in German,
embedded below).
* § Science⠀➾
o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Find_pushes_back_birth_of_Europe’s_steel
hardware_to_about_3,000_years_ago⠀⇛
The team, led by University of Freiburg archaeologist
Ralph Araque Gonzalez, base their claims on geochemical
and metallographic analyses – and some good old fashioned
experimental archaeology. They demonstrated that a series
of engravings on stone pillars found in the region from
the late Bronze Age could only have been made with tools
made from proper steel, and it was most likely developed
locally.
According to the team’s paper on the research, the final
bronze age (FBA) in the Iberian peninsula lasted from
around 1200–800 BCE, and the early iron age (EIA) lasted
roughly 200 years after that. Despite that commonly
accepted timeline, the team said a series of engraved
steles identified as from the FBA/EIA and examined as
part of the study were mostly made of extremely hard rock
– similar to quartzite.
o ⚓ Mark Dominus ☛ Uniform_descriptions_of_subspaces_of_the_n-cube⠀⇛
This must be well-known, but I don’t remember seeing it
before. Consider a !!3!!-cube. It has !!8!! vertices,
which we can name !!000, 001, 010, \ldots, 111!! in the
obvious and natural way: [...]
* § Education⠀➾
o ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ The_Tension_Between_Logical_Reasoning_&_Illogical
Creativity⠀⇛
Programming a computer demands a kind of logical thinking
at each step of the process. If you aren’t being logical,
the computer won’t understand you. So, as you write code,
you’re constantly reorienting yourself to a logical way
of thinking, a step-by-step rationality towards a
computed outcome.
o ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Questions_asked_at_an_End_Point_Assessment
Professional_Discussion⠀⇛
The last part of my MSc Apprenticeship was my EPA
Professional Discussion. It’s designed to be a 90 minute
chat to make sure you’ve actually learned something on
the course. The official guidance is available. But I
thought you might find it helpful to see the questions
that I was asked.
o ⚓ Mandiant ☛ Mandiant_Perspectives_from_the_Munich_Cyber_Security
Conference_2023⠀⇛
Cyber capabilities are an increasingly important tool of
statecraft with today’s operations increasingly
reflecting the strategic and geopolitical ambitions of
government sponsors. This makes it essential to connect
network defenders and policymakers.
The Munich Cyber Security Conference (MCSC), therefore,
provides a welcome exchange to discuss nascent challenges
facing the cyber security community. Both Mandiant
Intelligence VP Sandra Joyce, and Google Cloud CISO Phil
Venables spoke at this year’s event.
This blog post outlines key takeaways from MCSC 2023 and
how Mandiant, now a part of Google Cloud, is playing a
leading role in addressing burgeoning cyber policy
issues.
o ⚓ RIPE ☛ Connect_to_Port_53:_Join_the_DNS_Hackathon_2023⠀⇛
We are looking for participants who are passionate about
the DNS from the lowest protocol level up to the highest
application usage, and who are interested in everything
around developing, measuring and securing DNS-related
tools and applications.
o ⚓ Gannett ☛ Up_North’s_Finlandia_University_to_close_after_this
school_year⠀⇛
The school was established in 1896 by Finnish immigrants
as Suomi College. It is one of 26 colleges and
universities affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America. Suomi College changed its named in
2000 to Finlandia University.
* § Hardware⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ ATtiny85_Automates_Your_Smartphone⠀⇛
It might not seem too impressive these days, but when
microcontrollers with hardware USB support were more
expensive and rare, the VUSB library was often used to
create USB devices with an ATtiny85. It became so popular
that the ATtiny85 even got packaged into USB dongle
formfactors, like the DigiSpark boards. Well, you might
not know this, but your Android smartphones can also work
with USB mice and touchscreens in lieu of the built-in
touchscreen display. [ErfanSn] combined these two ideas,
creating a library to automate smartphone touchscreen
events and keyboard input with an ATtiny85 — open for all
of us to use, and with examples to spare.
o ⚓ IEEE ☛ 50_Years_Later,_We’re_Still_Living_in_the_Xerox_Alto’s
World⠀⇛
I’m talking about the Xerox Alto, which debuted in the
early spring of 1973 at the photocopying giant’s newly
established R&D laboratory, the Palo Alto Research Center
(PARC). The reason it is so uncannily familiar today is
simple: We are now living in a world of computing that
the Alto created.
o ⚓ Andre Franca ☛ It’s_Been_Easy_not_to_Miss_You,_Dear_Old_Macbook⠀⇛
After some time migrating my data, and setting up things
here and there, now I finally have a working machine.
Getting used to a new operational system has been easier
than expected. Anything beyond that, only time will tell,
but for now I’m happy.
It’s worth mentioning that this machine is not Linux
certified, but everything works wonders out-the-box. The
only issue is with suspend mode (as always).
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexicans_score_higher_on_happiness_index
compared_to_last_year⠀⇛
The National Self-Reported Well-Being Survey showed the
“mood balance” of Mexicans in January 2023 to be 6.5
points on a scale of 1 to 10 — the same as it was in
January 2020.
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Mushrooms:_the_latest_health_trend_is
centuries_old⠀⇛
Bethany Platanella looks at the health and healing
properties being attributed lately to fungi, used by
ancient peoples from Mexico to Egypt.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Adolescent_angst_gains_attention_with_focus_on
school_stress⠀⇛
While teen years are never easy, research is examining
whether they are harder than ever for the current
generation of teenagers. By ALI JONES Media headlines
lamenting spiralling levels of anxiety, depression, self-
harm and suicide among Europe’s teenagers make regular
and uncomfortable reading. In recent years, news on this
front seems to have gotten only worse.
o ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Catte’s_Corner:_“lab_leaks”_&_brick_walls⠀⇛
Catte Black The “covid was a lab leak” story was always a
back door official narrative that reinforced the reality
of the “pandemic” while appearing to be a suppressed
“alternative”. You know, one of those “suppressed
alternatives” that end up in the WSJ. It’s now going to
be used to finally bury any hope that …
o ⚓ PHR ☛ PHR_Welcomes_New_Executive_Director_and_Chief_Operating
Officer_Who_Will_Galvanize_Health_Professionals_to_Advance_Human
Rights⠀⇛
At a time when human rights are under assault around the
globe, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) today welcomes
two visionary leaders who will mobilize the medical
community to defend rights and advance justice.
International human rights lawyer Saman (“Sam”) Zia-
Zarifi, JD, LLM brings three decades of trailblazing
legal, programmatic, and advocacy excellence to PHR. […]
o ⚓ PHR ☛ 190+_Organizations_Urge_UN_Special_Rapporteurs_to_Act_on
Dobbs_v._Jackson_Supreme_Court_Decision⠀⇛
More than 190 organizations and individuals, including
health practitioners and human rights experts, today sent
a letter to United Nations experts in response to the
United States Supreme Court decision that repealed the
constitutional right to abortion.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ ‘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.
If people do notice, then it’s most likely because of
partisan bickering over programs that deal with nutrition
spending – what some refer to as “Food Stamps.” In fact,
the last time the legislation was debated in 2018,
Republicans caused controversy when they unsuccessfully
tried to attach draconian work requirements to food
assistance policy eligibility.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Before_Norfolk_Southern_Poisoned_Ohio,_It
Poisoned_the_Statehouse⠀⇛
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Conversation_With_Keith_Lamar,_From_Death_Row
in_Ohio⠀⇛
Stop the Pre-meditated state of Ohio murder of Keith
Lamar on November 16, 2023
We must exonerate him and stop the death sentence
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Politics_In_the_Catastrophe,_the_Elder’s
Calling⠀⇛
The mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, expressed the
situation well, when he responded at a public meeting to
a man who offered an opinion about the railway’s
irresponsibility after the Feb 3 train derailment and
toxic spill there, “Are you from town, sir?” That is, he
spoke to the vulnerability of human beings in a
particular place, visited by a particular disaster, the
immediacy of the tragedy that is theirs personally. I
felt this acutely last fall when Uticans being directly
affected by the invasion of a Stewart’s Shops gas station
and convenience store into their neighborhood were forced
to listen to the Stewart’s rep and their lawyer, and then
to planning board members as they stated their reasons
for voting for Stewart’s. With their uniform consensus on
the benignity of the Stewart’s plan, ignoring the valid
questions for which they had no answers, several of us
could not help shouting out at various points, do you
live here? (And, not said: and if you don’t, don’t talk
to us, you condescending corporate puppet bastards just
doing your job!)
Uticans ought to be particularly alarmed hearing the news
from East Palestine. Citizens who opposed the building of
the massive 600 million-dollar “downtown hospital” here
(due to open next fall, and meant to replace 3 existing
hospitals all located further uptown) pointed out the
folly of building a regional hospital in proximity to the
railroad lines that frequently carry tar-sands oil
tankers. If a toxic spill and/or explosion like the one
in Ohio occurred here, how long would it take to evacuate
hundreds of patients, some on life support? Not to
mention, what about people needing emergency care? Where
do they go?
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Japan_to_Delay_Ocean_Dumping_of_Contaminated
Waste_Water_from_Fukushima⠀⇛
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno
announced in January that his government would delay its
plan to pump over 1.37 million tons of watery radioactive
waste into the Pacific Ocean from the devastated six-
reactor complex at Fukushima-Daiichi. With the country
facing harsh international pressure to cancel the
dumping, Matsuno acknowledged “the need to gain public
support,” for the plan, the Associated Press reported
January 12. The wicked water is now being collected in
large tanks that were hastily built near the wrecked
reactors.
Fierce criticism of the deliberate pollution scheme has
come from China, South Korea, other Pacific Rim
countries, scientists, environmental groups, UN human
rights experts, and the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), an
alliance of 17 Pacific island nations. Japan’s Prime
Minister Fumio Kishida also indicated that the government
wants a postponement of the dumping operation — designed
by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) — until it is
“verifiably safe to do so,” Thomas Heaton reported
February 16 for Civil Beat.
o ⚓ The_New_Republic_on_a_two_decade_war_against_medical_quackery⠀⇛
As regular readers might have figured out, although the
family situation has stabilized somewhat it has
stabilized into a situation where I have less time for
this blog than the beforetime. That is evident in the
decreased posting frequency. That is why I like to grab a
chance like this when it presents itself, namely an
article in The New Republic by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling,
author of If It Sounds Like a Quack …: A Journey to the
Fringes of American Medicine (forthcoming in April),
entitled A Doctor’s War Against the Right-Wing Medical-
Freedom Movement.
o ⚓ NBC ☛ Permanent_daylight_saving_time_bill_gets_renewed_push_in
Congress⠀⇛
“There are enormous health and economic benefits to
making daylight saving time permanent,” Buchanan said in
a statement. “Florida lawmakers have already voted to
make daylight saving time permanent in my home state and
Congress should pass the Sunshine Protection Act to move
Florida and the rest of the country to year-round
daylight saving time.”
o ⚓ CNN ☛ EU_bans_TikTok_from_official_devices_across_all_three
government_institutions⠀⇛
Experts raising alarm over ‘crisis’ of TikTok’s impact on
mental health
o ⚓ Vox ☛ TikTok_isn’t_really_limiting_kids’_time_on_its_app⠀⇛
Amid growing concerns (and lawsuits) about social media’s
impact on the mental health of children, TikTok announced
on Wednesday that it’s setting a 60-minute time limit on
screen time for users under 18 and adding some new
parental controls. Those “limits,” however, are really
more like suggestions. There are ways young users can
continue to use the app even after the screen time limits
have passed.
o ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Completely_ban_Tiktok_in_Estonia
without_amending_law_is_difficult⠀⇛
The RIA is unaware of the number of government agencies
that have disabled Tiktok on their devices. Simply put,
public bodies are not required to notify the agency.
The Information System Authority barred its employees
from using Tiktok on their work phones about two years
ago and five ministries told ERR that they do not use
Tiktok on their work devices, as recommended by the RIA.
None of them, however, has officially prohibited it. In
many institutions, only a small number of employees have
a work phone.
o ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Industry_Knew_About_Gas_Stoves’_Air_Pollution_Problems
in_Early_1970s⠀⇛
More than 50 years ago, in 1972, AGA authored a draft
report highlighting indoor air pollution concerns similar
to those being raised by health experts and regulators
today. In particular, this draft report examined what to
do about problems related to the emission of carbon
monoxide and nitrogen oxides (collectively referred to as
NOx) from domestic gas appliances. This draft, recently
discovered in the U.S. National Archives, would
eventually become an official report published by the
National Industrial Pollution Control Council (NIPCC), a
long-forgotten government advisory council composed of
the nation’s most powerful industrialists.
* § Proprietary⠀➾
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Decentralized_Twitter_alternative_Bluesky
launches_on_App_Store_in_beta⠀⇛
Decentralized social network Bluesky, a project started
by former Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Jack Dorsey,
launched today in beta test mode.
⚓ Techdirt ☛ As_Twitter_Goes_Down_Yet_Again,_Report_Highlights_How_Fragile_Its
Infrastructure_Has_Become⠀⇛
On Wednesday there was yet another major global outage at Twitter,
something that feels like it’s becoming a recurring issue and
bringing us back to the days when Twitter regularly crashed and had
to put up a “Fail Whale” graphic.
⚓ The Register UK ☛ At_Citrix,_‘perpetual_licenses’means‘we’d_rather_move_you
to_a_subscription’⠀⇛
Citrix has announced a licensing scheme that’s bad news for holders
of so-called perpetual licenses because the vendor will stop
maintaining products sold to “larger customers” under that scheme.
The vendor stopped selling new perpetual licenses in 2019, so
license-holders are sitting on old code that has almost certainly
been updated over the years with new features or security fixes – and
will need more.
Citrix has not previously set the expectation that such customers
could be denied maintenance. Indeed the very word “perpetual” more or
less implies the opposite.
⚓ India Times ☛ India_ranks_2nd_in_total_number_of_breaches_exposed_in_2022
[iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
Further, the report said that about 33 percent of the attackers were
a result of ransomware, while 17 percent of cyberattacks were due to
unsecured databases in India.
⚓ University of Toronto ☛ A_gotcha_with_Systemd’s_DynamicUser,_supplementary
groups,and_NFS(v3)⠀⇛
So the end moral is supplemental groups don’t work over NFSv3 with
systemd dynamic users. More generally, supplemental groups with
anonymous UIDs don’t work over NFS; systemd dynamic users are merely
one way to get anonymous UIDs. For our uses this isn’t a fatal
problem, but I’ll want to remember it for the future.
⚓ CBC ☛ Indigo_won’t_pay_ransom_for_stolen_employee_data [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
In a statement to CBC News, the company said while it has been
informed that “some or all of the data” could become available, it
does not believe it’s appropriate to pay the ransom because it cannot
guarantee the money would not “end up in the hands of terrorists.”
⚓ The Register UK ☛ It’s_official:_BlackLotus_malware_can_bypass_Secure_Boot_on
Windows_machines⠀⇛
BlackLotus, a UEFI bootkit that’s sold on hacking forums for about
$5,000, can now bypass Secure Boot, making it the first known malware
to run on Windows systems even with the firmware security feature
enabled.
Secure Boot is supposed to prevent devices from running unauthorized
software on Microsoft machines. But by targeting UEFI the BlackLotus
malware loads before anything else in the booting process, including
the operating system and any security tools that could stop it.
⚓ Futurism ☛ Microsoft_Has_No_Idea_How_Stupid_to_Make_Its_AI⠀⇛
It’s only been a few days since Microsoft announced that it was
majorly restricting its unhinged Bing artificial intelligence chatbot
— but apparently, the tech giant is already having major second
thoughts about its decision.
In a statement issued yesterday, Microsoft seemed to reverse course
on its previous announcement that it was seriously restricting the
AI’s abilities by putting caps on the number and length of responses,
noting that many users seemed to want the “long and intricate chat
sessions” with the bot codenamed “Sydney” back.
⚓ NPR ☛ Microsoft’s_new_AI_chatbot_has_been_saying_some_‘crazy_and_unhinged
things’⠀⇛
As a tech reporter, O’Brien knows the Bing chatbot does not have the
ability to think or feel. Still, he was floored by the extreme
hostility.
“You could sort of intellectualize the basics of how it works, but it
doesn’t mean you don’t become deeply unsettled by some of the crazy
and unhinged things it was saying,” O’Brien said in an interview.
§ Security⠀➾
* ⚓ Port Swigger ☛ Bug_Bounty_Radar_//_The_latest_bug_bounty_programs_for
March_2023⠀⇛
New web targets for the discerning hacker
* ⚓ Port Swigger ☛ We’re_going_teetotal:_It’s_goodbye_to_The_Daily_Swig⠀⇛
PortSwigger today announces that The Daily Swig is closing down
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ OAuth_vulnerabilities_on_Booking.com_could_have
resulted_in_account_takeovers⠀⇛
Security researchers at Salt Security Inc. today released new
threat research that highlights critical security flaws found
on the website of popular hotel booking service Booking
Holdings Inc.
* § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
o ⚓ Vox ☛ Stop_using_your_phone_number_to_log_in⠀⇛
Countless apps and services rely on your phone number to
identify you, and that number is not necessarily
permanent. Phone numbers are also vulnerable to hackers.
They were never meant to be permanent identifiers, so
incidents like what happened to Ugo are widespread,
ongoing problems that the industry has known about for
years. There are at least two research papers about phone
number recycling that lay out the potential risks, from
targeted attacks by hackers or people who easily buy up
recently discarded phone numbers to being cut off from
your accounts entirely and a stranger getting access to
your life.
Yet the burden is often on users to protect themselves
from a security issue that was created for them by some
of their favorite apps. Even things that those services
might recommend as an added security measure — like text,
SMS, or multi-factor authentication — can actually
introduce more vulnerabilities.
o ⚓ India Times ☛ [Attackers]_use_phishing,_malware_to_target_job
seekers_amid_layoffs⠀⇛
The current economic climate globally is grim due to the
ongoing recession, and taking advantage of this
environment, cybercriminals are using phishing and
malware campaigns to target job seekers in a bid to steal
sensitive information, a new report said on Thursday.
* § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
o ⚓ EFF ☛ Report:_ICE_and_the_Secret_Service_Conducted_Illegal
Surveillance_of_Cell_Phones⠀⇛
Even under exigent circumstances, where law enforcement
use of technologies that track cell-phone use are deemed
immediately necessary, law enforcement must still get a
pen register order. The pen register order is required by
statute and policy even though exigency otherwise excuses
police from having to obtain a conventional warrant. The
Inspector General noted that the agencies didn’t follow
the rules in these cases either.
Cell-site simulators, also known as “Stingrays” or IMSI
catchers, are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-
phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius
into connecting to the device rather than a tower.
Cell-site simulators operate by conducting a general
search of all cell phones within the device’s radius, in
violation of basic constitutional protections. Law
enforcement use cell-site simulators to pinpoint the
location of phones with greater accuracy than phone
companies. Cell-site simulators can also log IMSI numbers
(unique identifying numbers) of all of the mobile devices
within a given area.
o ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Optus,_Mastercard_extend_strategic_partnership⠀⇛
The two companies say ID enables customers to create a
secure and reusable identity within the My Optus app on
their personal device – and customers can then share
verified information quickly and easily with consent,
without needing to share physical identity documents with
Optus.
§ Defence/Aggression⠀➾
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Europe_should_exclude_Russia_from_its_security_system,_Lithuanian
PM_says⠀⇛
When asked a similar question, President Gitanas Nausėda said
that Russia’s possibilities to finance its war were limited,
while the West had more resources.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Leave_Russia?_A_Year_Later_Many_Companies_Can’t,_or
Won’t.⠀⇛
Not all Western companies packed up and left Russia after its
invasion of Ukraine. Some say Moscow has tied their hands,
while others choose to stay put.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_FBI_Desperately_Wants_to_Let_Trump_Off_the_Hook⠀⇛
A simple but obvious fact has been lost over the past few
years, amid Trump’s direct attacks on the FBI, and liberal
defenses of the FBI against those attacks: FBI agents are cops.
Law-enforcement officers, including the FBI, have long been
disproportionately conservative, but in the past few decades,
like the rest of the nation, they have also become far more
polarized by party, a reality reflected in the rhetoric and
positioning of advocacy groups such as the Fraternal Order of
Police. There are liberal and moderate cops, but they are not
close to comprising a majority. Simply put, the FBI is full of
people who would prefer not to investigate Donald Trump. He
remains under federal investigation only because of his own
inability to stop criming.
* ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ India’s_Neutrality_Over_Russia-Ukraine_War⠀⇛
India is in an excellent position to play a vital role in
winding up the Russia-Ukraine war as it hosts the G20 Foreign
Ministers meeting attended by the West and Russia.
* ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Rebuilding_Ukraine:_Lviv_to_support_Mariupol_on_its
path_to_revival⠀⇛
The mayors of Lviv and Mariupol yesterday signed a Declaration
of Solidarity, a joint initiative which is intended to
coordinate efforts to rebuild Ukrainian Mariupol, working with
state and international institutions.
* ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ The_China_–_Solomon_Islands_security_agreement_and
the_competition_in_the_South_China_Sea⠀⇛
China attaches great importance to strongly enhancing its
influence in the South Pacific region, by consolidating and
developing its relations with the island countries there, led
by the “Solomon Islands” and its capital “Honiara”.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Reconciliation_Does_Not_Mean_Forgetting_in_Nicaragua⠀⇛
Hybrid warfare tactics, including information warfare and the
co-opting of human rights groups, make it hard to tell the good
guys from the bad in the US-backed coup attempt in Nicaragua in
2018. But it is important to note the telltale signs of class
oppression and terrorist tactics to understand the truth about
the 222 people recently released to the US who were convicted
of treason in Nicaragua for savage acts of violence against
their people. They had benefited from an amnesty in 2019, but
violated its terms by participating in a new coup plot in 2020
and 2021. In releasing the 222 over to the US, the Nicaraguan
authorities effectively pardoned them a second time in order to
bring further reconciliation to society. But for the sake of
historical memory and non-repetition, it is important to
remember their crimes.
I recently saw the film “Argentina, 1985,” a strong contender
for this year’s Academy Award for Best International Feature
Film. It tells the tale of a brave team of prosecutors seeking
justice on behalf of their compatriots for the crimes committed
by the Videla military dictatorship that imposed a reign of
terror on Argentina from 1976 to 1983. Viewers watch as a
population that was intimidated into keeping quiet about the
atrocities it witnessed, was coaxed out of the shadows to give
testimony in open court against the perpetrators. Young people
were emboldened to call out their enemies for what they were:
fascists. “Facho” they said to the faces of those who were
complicit in the horrors of that period. The publicity for the
film talks about how fascism continues to be a threat today. I
could not agree more.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Deafening_Silence_of_Intellectuals_in_the_Face_of
Growing_Global_Conflicts⠀⇛
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Horror_of_All-Out_War_in_the_Pacific⠀⇛
While the world has been distracted, even amused, by the
diplomatic tussle around China’s recent high-altitude balloon
flights across North America, there are signs that Beijing and
Washington are preparing for something so much more serious:
armed conflict over Taiwan. Reviewing recent developments in
the Asia-Pacific region raises a tried-and-true historical
lesson that bears repeating at this dangerous moment in
history: when nations prepare for war, they are far more likely
to go to war.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_National_Guard_vehicle_hits_a_mine_in_Bryansk,_reports
Duma_deputy_Alexander_Khinshteyn_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Four members of Russia’s National Guard reportedly received
minor shrapnel wounds when their vehicle hit a landmine while
they were “cleansing” the area around the village of Sushany,
in the Bryansk region. State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshteyn
published a photo of one of the mines they discovered on
Telegram.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ FSB:_‘Saboteurs_forced_back_to_Ukrainian_territory’_and
subject_to_a_‘massive_artillery_strike’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The FSB reports that a group of “Ukrainian saboteurs” who made
an “incursion” into the Bryansk region have been “forced back
to Ukrainian territory.”
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_says_alleged_incursion_into_Russia’s_Bryansk_region_is
‘terrorist_attack’_by_‘armed_Ukrainian_nationalists’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Vladimir Putin has denounced a supposed incursion by a
Ukrainian “sabotage and reconnaissance group” into Russia’s
Bryansk region as a terrorist attack. The president delivered
these remarks while speaking remotely at a Teacher of the Year
ceremony.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Podolyak:_reports_of_‘Ukrainian_saboteurs’_in_Bryansk_region_a
‘classic_provocation’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Zelensky administration in
Kyiv, called reports of a “Ukrainian saboteur group”
infiltrating the Bryansk region a “classic provocation.”
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_cancels_trip_to_Stavropol_Krai_in_response_to_reports
that_‘Ukrainian_saboteurs’_have_entered_Bryansk_region_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said Thursday that
Vladimir Putin has canceled a planned trip to Stavropol Krai in
light of the events in Russia’s Bryansk region, where the
Russian authorities have said “Ukrainian saboteurs” have
entered the country.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Ukrainian_saboteurs’_Russia_says_a_‘sabotage_and
reconnaissance_group’_crossed_into_the_Bryansk_region_from_Ukraine.
Here’s_what_we_know._—_Meduza⠀⇛
Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of Russia’s Bryansk region,
said Thursday that a “sabotage and reconnaissance group” from
Ukraine had entered the region “from Ukraine.”
§ Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
* ⚓ Spiegel ☛ The_Deaths_Putin_Is_Seeking_to_Keep_Quiet⠀⇛
Journalists with the portal Mediazona, founded by two members
of the Kremlin-critical punk band Pussy Riot, have also began
collecting reports about Russian casualties in the early days
of the war. A few weeks later, they decided to join forces with
BBC journalist Ivshina and her colleagues. Since then, they
have been operating the database together.
§ Environment⠀➾
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Vanuatu_gets_support_for_International_Court_of_Justice_opinion
on_climate_change⠀⇛
The country’s permanent mission to the United Nations said
Thursday that the resolution, which the U.N. General Assembly
could vote on this year, was sponsored by 106 nations in total.
The International Court of Justice, headquartered in The Hague,
is the judicial arm of the United Nations.
* ⚓ RTL ☛ Vanuatu_quest_for_ICJ_climate_ruling_backed_by_100_nations⠀⇛
With rising sea levels threatening its future, Vanuatu has
spearheaded a drive for the court to define what legal
responsibility countries have for the changing climate and its
impacts.
* ⚓ Neil Selwyn ☛ Algorithmically_Embodied_Emissions⠀⇛
In an immediate sense, algorithms are constantly pushing us
toward environmentally-harmful options. In the longer-term they
are perpetuating what Haider and Rödl term “search engine-
facilitated ignorance (and knowledge) logics related to the
climate crisis”. In both ways, we need to encourage a different
culture of online information that is more environmentally
conscious, if not environmentally-protective.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘No_Form_of_This_Project_Is_OK’:_Climate_Groups_Reject
White_House_Willow_Project_Compromise⠀⇛
Climate advocates on Wednesday intensified their warnings to
the Biden administration against approving oil giant
ConocoPhillips’ Willow project in Alaska, rejecting attempts by
White House officials to reach a “compromise” on a drilling
project that would generate an estimated 9.2 million metric
tons of carbon dioxide a year.
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ How_Russian_war_machine_sparked_a_clean_energy_drive
in_the_West⠀⇛
The trend had been building even before the Ukraine war,
as businesses, investors, and political leaders began
positioning themselves to reap the benefits of an
economic future based less on fossil fuels, such as oil,
gas, and coal, than on clean energy sources like wind,
the sun, and hydrogen.
But the pace was nowhere near fast enough to reach the
climate target that environmental experts say is needed
to avoid the worst effects of global warming – limiting
the Earth’s temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7
Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
o ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Fossil_Fuel_Linked_Donors_Gift_Half_a_Million_to
Conservative_Party⠀⇛
The government recently opened up a new round of North
Sea oil and gas licences for oil and gas exploration, at
a time when the UN has warned that only drastic,
immediate cuts to carbon emissions can avert a climate
catastrophe.
Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion,
said donations from polluting industries represented a
“dangerous conflict of interest”.
* § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ The_Importance_of_Paruroctonus_Scorpions_for
Desert_Conservation⠀⇛
The deserts of the southwestern United States are well
known for their high levels of biodiversity and endemism.
An abundance of mountain ranges breaks this landscape
into a series of isolated lowland valleys, many of which
contain sand dune or wetland systems harboring unique
species.
o ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Were_You_Affected_by_the_Massive_Wildfire_in
Northern_New_Mexico?_We_Want_to_Hear_From_You.⠀⇛
Eric Maestas didn’t have much time to spare on an
afternoon in April when he stepped out of the old
Memorial Middle School gymnasium with an armful of food,
water and an extra pair of slippers.
The supplies were for his parents, waiting for him at a
nearby campground. They’d been evacuated from their
Cleveland home, threatened by what was becoming the
biggest wildfire in New Mexico history. His parents were
elderly, his father on oxygen. They feared their home had
been consumed by flames.
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ A_‘Giant’_Prehistoric_Insect_Was_Accidentally
Rediscovered_at_a_Walmart⠀⇛
Skvarla, who is the director of Penn State University’s
Insect Identification Lab, accidentally discovered the
giant lacewing—a species that dates back to the Jurassic
and hadn’t been seen in eastern North America in over 50
years—in a Fayetteville, Arkansas, Walmart in 2012. Its
identity was only discovered recently, however, as
described in a new study in the Proceedings of the
Entomological Society of Washington.
o ⚓ [Old] BioOne Complete ☛ Rediscovery_of_Polystoechotes_punctata_
(Fabricius,_1793)_(Neuroptera:_Ithonidae)_in_Eastern_North
America⠀⇛
Polystoechotes punctata (Fabricius, 1793) (Neuroptera:
Ithonidae) was formerly widespread across North America,
but was extirpated from eastern North America by the
1950s. We report a specimen collected from Fayetteville,
Arkansas, which represents a new state record and the
first specimen recorded in eastern North America in over
fifty years. We also reexamine a previously published
dataset and discuss the history of P. punctata in eastern
North America. The importance of community science
efforts are discussed and compared with museum holdings.
We propose that P. punctata may have always been uncommon
in eastern North America, or at least when insect
collecting began in earnest in the late 1800s, and
support our case by examining collection effort in other
insects. This discovery suggests there may be relictual
populations of this large, charismatic insect yet to be
discovered.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ NYPost ☛ Russia_could_run_out_of_cash_by_next_year,_Putin_pal_Oleg
Deripaska_says⠀⇛
Deripaska, who made his fortune in the aluminum trade, said
Russia’s treasury is low on cash, which is “why they’ve already
begun to shake us down.”
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Decades_of_Subsidies_Have_Made_the_Essentials_of_Middle-Class
Life_Increasingly_Difficult_To_Afford⠀⇛
The basics of middle-class life are too expensive. But more
subsidies won’t help.
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Shares_of_Pure_Storage_fall_on_narrow_revenue_miss_and
lower_guidance⠀⇛
Flash storage pioneer Pure Storage Inc. missed Wall Street’s
revenue target for the first time in years today and followed
up with a soft forecast for the coming fiscal year. The market
reacted negatively, with Pure’s stock falling more than 10% in
extended trading.
⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Coinbase,_Paxos_break_ties_with_embattled_crypto-friendly
Silvergate_Bank⠀⇛
Major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc. said today it
would no longer use Silvergate Bank to facilitate dollar payments for
its institutional partners after it was revealed that the bank may be
in financial trouble. Stablecoin issuer Paxos Trust Co. LLC also
announced that it would break ties with Silvergate.
⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Despite_solid_growth,_Splunk_warns_of_tougher_year_ahead_and
its_stock_falls⠀⇛
Big-data company Splunk Inc.’s shares fell almost 3% in extended
trading today after it gave a first-quarter and full-year outlook
that came in far below Wall Street’s targets.
⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Snowflake_stock_falls_as_it_hits_the_brakes_on_growth⠀⇛
Cloud data warehouse provider Snowflake Inc. beat expectations on
revenue and earnings in its fiscal fourth quarter today, but a weak
forecast sent the stock down more than 7% in initial after-hours
trading. Quarterly revenue rose 59% from a year ago, to $589 million,
ahead of the average analyst estimate of $576 million.
⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Why_News_of_Population_Decline_and_Economic_Slowdown_Isn’t
Necessarily_a_Bad_Thing⠀⇛
On January 17, 2023, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
announced that the country’s population fell in 2022 by 850,000
people from 2021, which was the first population decline witnessed by
the country in six decades. This has mostly resulted from low birth
rates stemming from the imposition of China’s one-child policy from
1980 to 2015, as well as from voluntary family decisions, rather than
deaths from COVID-19.
On the same day, the NBS reported that China’s GDP grew by only 3
percent in 2022, which is less than half the previous year’s 8.1
percent expansion pace.
⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Western_Oligarchy⠀⇛
Simon Elmer One of the obstacles to understanding the managed and
apparently deliberate destruction of the small and medium-sized
businesses that in the UK have decreased in number by half a million
since 2020 and the removal of our national sovereignty on the
justification of saving us from…
⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Workers,_Machines,and‘Bonus_Depreciation’⠀⇛
Bernie Sanders and Bill Gates don’t agree on many things, but they
both want to see a “robot tax,” a special levy on companies that
replace workers with machines.
Sanders and Gates may be well-intentioned with this call for a robot
tax. But that doesn’t make their call on this the right one.
⚓ Counter Punch ☛ When_Companies_Hire_Low-Wage_Contractors,_They_Put_My_Life_at
Risk⠀⇛
I’m a proud Air Force veteran. But in the service, I had little to no
say over the decisions made for myself or my team. I knew that when I
left the military, my next job would be a union job.
Now I’ve worked as a union broadband technician for seven years. I
get a voice at work and everything I need to provide the best service
on every assignment. And I’m paid a quality wage for the education,
training, and skill that I bring to do each job correctly and safely.
⚓ Gizmodo ☛ [Cryptocurrency]_Miners_Owe_the_Federal_Government_Money,_Watchdog
Report_Says⠀⇛
An advisory from the Interior’s Office of Inspector General found
that fossil fuel companies operating on public land aren’t paying
royalties for [cryptocurrency] gains.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Crappy_insecure_software_in_Biden’s_crosshairs⠀⇛
The long-awaited National Cybersecurity Strategy calls for
adopting minimum security standards for critical infrastructure
owners and operators, and holding software companies liable for
security flaws in their products. It also says the US plans to
use “all instruments of national power to disrupt and dismantle
threat actors” that threaten US and public safety.
The plan [PDF] is built around five “pillars,” the first of
which is focused on defending US critical infrastructure, which
is mostly commercially owned. This includes enforcing minimum
cybersecurity requirements in critical sectors and improving
public-private collaboration around threats and defenses.
* ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Chat_control/Child_Sexual_Abuse_Regulation_expert
hearing:_warnings_from_all_sides⠀⇛
“What we really need instead of totalitarian chat control and
ID obligations for age verification is a long overdue
obligation for law enforcement agencies to have known abuse
material on the internet removed, as well as Europe-wide
standards for effective prevention measures, victim support and
counselling, and swifer criminal investigations.”
* ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Biden’s_national_cybersecurity_strategy_advocates
tech_regulation,_software_liability_reform⠀⇛
Released Thursday, the White House’s long-awaited strategy for
improving the security of computer systems represents a shift
in how Washington approaches cybersecurity, veering from the
government’s long-standing emphasis on information sharing and
collaboration toward a more strictly regulated approach.
The strategy calls for critical infrastructure owners and
operators to meet minimum security standards, to expose
software companies to liability for flaws in their products and
for the U.S. to use all elements of its national power to
prevent cyberattacks before they happen, an indication that the
Biden administration intends to continue U.S. Cyber Command’s
so-called “defend forward” strategy of seeking out malicious
hackers on foreign networks.
* ⚓ Gannett ☛ Could_Steve_Jobs_have_worked_for_your_company?_At_many,_the
answer_is_no._That’s_a_problem.⠀⇛
Before the 1970s, companies commonly required employees to take
aptitude tests to be eligible for promotions. But Griggs vs.
Duke changed that practice.
* ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ AMLO:_“More_democracy”_in_Mexico_than_in_the_US⠀⇛
Democracy is better here than in the U.S., the president said
Tuesday after the U.S. commented on Sunday’s protests against
election reform.
* ⚓ ‘The_View’:_Sunny_Hostin_and_Whoopi_Goldberg_Reject_Bill_Maher’s
Definition_of_“Woke”⠀⇛
“This idea of ‘woke,’ I’m gonna say this again, most of y’all
were asleep,” Goldberg said.
* ⚓ NYPost ☛ Kremlin_‘financed’_over_20_torture_chambers_during_‘genocidal
plan’_in_Kherson:_investigators⠀⇛
The horrific report was based on interviews with more than
1,000 survivors — and fears more than 400 “vanished” after
being tortured in Kherson.
* ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Letter_to_a_Mainstream_Straddler⠀⇛
Margaret Anna Alice I get it. You don’t want to be called a
“conspiracy theorist.” You don’t want to be tarred an “anti-
vaxxer.” A “science-denier.” A “far right-wing extremist.”
You’ve got your reputation to protect. Your credibility.
Your grant funding. So you water down the truth.
You tiptoe around it. You don’t go there.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Socialist_Survival_Tactic:_Cuba’s_Worker
Parliaments⠀⇛
Defending itself from the extremely hostile bully to the north
is old hat and a constant activity for Cuba. This was
especially so, after the collapse of the USSR and European
socialism roughly 35 years ago nearly crushed Cuba, which
immediately lost its chief trading partners, while the U.S.
blockade strangled it. Forced to turn inward, Cuba strove to
improve its productivity and workforce, without damaging the
twin foundations of the revolution, education and health care.
That it did so, that this small, besieged nation turned a
dangerous even deadly situation around, happened thanks to the
efforts of committed revolutionaries like Pedro Ross, who
helped found the workers’ parliaments – specifically to save
the revolution at this lethal juncture. It worked. Now Ross has
written a book about it.
His recently published How the Workers’ Parliaments Saved the
Cuban Revolution details the at first frantic, but soon
thereafter steady, methodical and committed continuation of
efforts to prevent the Cuban economy from capsizing. Cuba had
managed to do this before. When Fidel Castro came to power in
1959, 70 percent of Havana’s trade was with the U.S. That
vanished overnight. With the post-revolution blockade, Cuba
needed new trading partners; the country found them in the USSR
and the Eastern Bloc. But when socialism in those nations
collapsed, Cuba’s “gross domestic product fell by nearly 35
percent,” Ross writes. “Cuba lost more than 70 percent of its
foreign markets. The oil supply fell from 13 million tons to
5.8 million. In 1990, 3 billion rubles in products were no
longer received.” To make matters worse, the U.S. intensified
the blockade. Because, of course.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Ukraine,_Palestine,_and_Internationalism⠀⇛
The end of February marked the one-year anniversary of Russia’s
imperialist war in Ukraine. Here Tempest’s Ashley
Smith interviews Ukrainian socialist Vladyslav Starodubstev,
who spoke on a panel organized by the Ukraine Solidarity
Network (US) and hosted by Haymarket Books on February 25,
2023. Starodubstev discusses socialist strategy in Ukraine, a
principled approach to internationalism, and how the
international Left can build solidarity among the exploited and
oppressed from Ukraine to Palestine.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Abstainers:_What_Biden_Left_Out_of_His_Warsaw
Speech⠀⇛
“And the world has already voted multiple times, including in
the United Nations General Assembly [UNGA], to condemn Russia’s
aggression and support a just peace,” President Biden proudly
declared in a speech in Warsaw just before the one-year
anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Each time in
the U.N.,” he went on, “that vote has been overwhelming.” He
boasted: “In October 143 nations in the United Nations
condemned Russia’s illegal annexation. Only four – four in the
entire U.N. – voted with Russia. Four,” he repeated for
emphasis. (The four were Belarus, North Korea, Nicaragua, and
Syria.)
It doesn’t take a statistician to be impressed by what Biden
said. One hundred forty-three countries voted to condemn
Russia’s aggression. Only four, plus Russia, voted against
condemnation. According to Biden, the U.N. vote was 143-4 for
the United States against Russia, 143 votes for freedom and
democracy. In Biden’s world, “the vote was overwhelming.” The
United States won; Russia lost.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ We_Must_Stand_Up_to_Hate_Masquerading_as_Vandalism⠀⇛
When self-proclaimed white nationalists spray painted over a
mural of Arthur Ashe in Richmond, Va., in the fall of 2021, it
wasn’t just another act of vandalism. It was an American-born
form of terrorism that needs to be put down before it spreads
to your community.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Warren_Report_Exposes_Insurance_Industry_Ploy_to_‘Scam
Millions_of_Seniors’⠀⇛
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a report Wednesday
highlighting the splashy incentives—from luxury vacations to
cash bonuses—that private insurance companies offer agents and
brokers for enrolling seniors in potentially higher-cost
Medigap plans.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ We_Need_‘Democracy_For_All’_to_Vanquish_Dark_Money
Flood_Unleashed_by_Citizens_United⠀⇛
In the United States government has been privatized by the
Citizens United ruling of the SCOTUS. Government is now really
up for sale and auctioned off to the highest campaign
contributors. The Supreme Court ‘Citizen’s United’ decision
opened the floodgates for big money in our politics, allowing
giant corporations and a handful of the wealthiest families to
spend obscene amounts of money in our elections. Citizens
United is just one of a line of terrible Supreme Court
decisions holding that money equals speech and corporations are
people under the First Amendment — thereby allowing huge
corporations and the super wealthy/oligarchs to buy undue
access to members of Congress, and to effectively dictate
legislative outcomes. This is significant in policy decisions
reinforced by influence of corporate lobbies, now further
enhanced by the Court’s decision which favors the very small 1%
sector of the population that dominates the economy. Our
society is run by a class-conscious 1% business community
dedicated to reducing the political and economic power of the
99%.
* ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Bill_on_Medical_Chamber_could_threaten_EU_funds_for
Hungary⠀⇛
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Fear_your_partisans’:_A_volunteer_unit_led_by_a_Russian_neo-
Nazi_raided_a_small_town_and_crossed_back_into_Ukraine._Meduza_explains
the_bizarre_incursion_and_what_it_could_mean_for_the_war._—_Meduza⠀⇛
On the morning of March 2, Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz
announced that a “sabotage and reconnaissance group from
Ukraine” had crossed into the small border town of Liubechane,
allegedly shooting at a vehicle, killing a local resident, and
wounding a 10-year-old child. The governor also reported
another attack “by Ukraine’s Armed Forces” in the town of
Sushany after a drone strike allegedly started a fire in a
residential building. Unconfirmed reports soon spread on
Telegram that between 40 and 50 “saboteurs” entered the Bryansk
region on Thursday. Meduza examines what happened in Thursday’s
incursions, what we know about the group responsible (the
Russian Volunteer Corps), and how this bizarre incident fits
into the war’s larger story.
* ⚓ Insight Hungary ☛ Orban_lists_Joe_Biden_and_George_Soros_among_his
opponents⠀⇛
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave a speech at the
meeting of the Fidesz-KDNP in Balatonfüred where he listed his
opponents, pro-government daily Magyar Nemzet writes.
Orbán named “pro-war” international interest groups: US
President Joe Biden and the US administration, and Brussels
bureaucrats as his opponents. He also mentioned
Jewish billionaire and philanthropist George Soros and the
Hungarian left led by former Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány.
Orban stated that years ago Soros wrote: “that the Central
European countries should be used as a proxy for a war against
Russia because Central Europeans are more tolerant of the human
sacrifice that war entails than the West”.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_lawmakers_adopt_draft_legislation_to_extend_speech
restrictions_to_reporting_and_criticism_about_‘volunteer’_mercenaries_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Russian lawmakers have adopted the second reading of amendments
to misdemeanor and felony statutes that would expand
protections for soldiers and federal officials against
“disinformation” and “discrediting claims” to all “volunteers”
aiding Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. If passed in a third and
final reading (this vote is scheduled for March 14) and then
adopted by the Federation Council and signed by President
Putin, the legislation would make it illegal to spread any
unofficial information about “volunteer battalions” or Russian
mercenaries now fighting in Ukraine. Even expressing general
disapproval of these groups or their actions could constitute a
crime.
* ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ The_Chinese_Market_Is_Crazy_About_ChatGPT._But_the
Government,_Not_So_Much.⠀⇛
“In some ways this type of app, trained on vast volumes of what
Beijing would view as uncensored data, represents one of the
most serious challenges to Beijing’s censorship apparatus since
the banning of Google search in China more than a decade ago,”
Paul Triolo, the technology policy lead at consulting firm
Albright Stonebridge, told VICE World News.
Google withdrew from China in 2010, saying it was no longer
willing to continue censoring results on its search engine.
* ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Dozens_of_protesters,_three_media_workers_detained_in
‘earthquake’_protest_in_İstanbul⠀⇛
Another journalist following the demonstration told bianet that
the police forced them to turn off their camera and seized
their wallet. After they resisted, the officers threatened to
detain them, they said.
* ⚓ CPJ ☛ Russian_legislature_adopts_bill_extending_censorship_on_war
reporting⠀⇛
On Thursday, the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s
legislature, passed amendments that would expand those laws to
include all organizations and individuals who assist in the
war, including fighters for private military companies, such as
the Wagner Group.
The bill’s final reading is expected on March 14, after which
it will go to the upper house of parliament and then to
President Vladimir Putin to be signed into law, according to
those reports and the State Duma’s website.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ India_cut_internet_access_84_times_in_2022:_watchdog_report⠀⇛
The report identified India as a high-risk country for digital
censorship, with Indian authorities blocking over 55,000
websites, URLs, applications, social media posts and accounts
since 2015. Indian authorities cut internet access 49 times in
Jammu and Kashmir in response to political instability and
violence. Of those, 16 consecutive orders for “curfew-style
shutdowns” were imposed in January and February 2022.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Samara_Duma_deputy_charged_with_‘discrediting’_the_army_after
watching_Putin_speech_with_noodles_on_his_ears⠀⇛
On February 22, Abdalkin posted a video clip to social media —
in it, he listened to Vladimir Putin’s address to the Russian
Federal Assembly with noodles draped over his ears. “I’m fully
in support, I fully agree, excellent presentation. I haven’t
heard anything like it in the past 23 years. I’m pleasantly
surprised,” the deputy wrote to accompany the video.
* ⚓ CPJ ☛ Turkish_authorities_jail_2_journalists_over_earthquake_coverage,
detain_a_third_overnight⠀⇛
On the evening of Monday, February 27, police in the eastern
province of Osmaniye arrested Ali İmat and İbrahim İmat, two
brothers who work as journalists in the area, according to news
reports and legal documents shared online by parliamentary
deputy Tuncay Özkan.
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ Variety ☛ CNET_Hit_by_Layoffs_but_Says_Cuts_Are_Unrelated_to_Use_of
‘Emerging_Technologies’_Like_AI⠀⇛
According to CNET, with the reorg and layoffs, the site will
narrow its coverage categories to five areas: consumer
technology, home and wellness, energy, broadband and personal
finance. Those are “categories where the CNET Group has a high
degree of authority, relevance, differentiation and where we
can make a large difference in the lives of our audience,” the
spokesperson said. “We believe success in these focus areas
will set the groundwork for future expansion and create the
right conditions for a high-growth, sustainable business.”
In 2020, Red Ventures acquired CNET Media Group in a $500
million deal with Paramount Global. In addition to the flagship
CNET site, the group housed other brands including TV Guide,
Metacritic, GameSpot and Giant Bomb — which Red Ventures sold
last year to Fandom for about $50 million. In January, Fandom
made layoffs affecting less than 10% of its workforce across
those properties.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Foreign_journalists_in_China_face_official_obstruction,
expulsions_and_visa_delays⠀⇛
Foreign journalists working in China continue to face
government interference when trying to do their jobs, amid
“battered morale” linked to repeated journalist expulsions and
visa woes, according to a new report.
An annual survey of journalists’ working conditions from the
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China found it had been “yet
another tough and draining year” for members in 2022, with
scant hope of any improvement despite the lifting of COVID-19
restrictions in December.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Women_of_Iran’s_Evin_prison,_locked_up_amid_protests,_remain
defiant⠀⇛
But campaigners have rejected the amnesty as a PR stunt and key
figures remain detained. They include Bayani and Mohammadi and
also environmental campaigner Sepideh Kashani, arrested in the
same case as Bayani, the labour activist Sepideh Gholian,
journalist Golrokh Iraee, arrested in the protest crackdown,
and German-Iranian Nahid Taghavi.
Also held in Evin are Fariba Kamalabadi and Mahvash Sabet, two
members of the Bahai faith not recognised by the Islamic
republic who were detained in July and are now serving a 10-
year prison sentence apiece for the second time in their lives.
* ⚓ Bridge Michigan ☛ MSU_police_can’t_explain_13-minute_alert_gap,_remain
mum_on_shooting_details⠀⇛
More than two weeks after a mass shooting at Michigan State
University, campus police are struggling to explain why it took
them 13 minutes after a gunman first opened fire to send an
emergency alert to students.
* ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Aeroméxico_and_pilots’_union_dispute_cause_of
flight_cancellations⠀⇛
At least 53 Aeroméxico flights were canceled on Sunday and
Monday while 315 were delayed causing headaches for travelers.
* ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Abortion_as_Legal_Right_in_United_States⠀⇛
American constitution emphasized over the individual rights as
the utmost priority. Roe versus Wade case played a huge role to
constitutionalize and administer the fundamental right of
individual to abortion in American legislation.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Remembering_Kuwasi_Balagoon_and_the_Forgotten_Legacy_of
Black_Anarchism⠀⇛
I know this has kind of become a virtue signaling cliche in
this day and age, but Black History Month really does end way
too goddamn soon. I thoroughly recognize that the entire month
is largely a contrived ritual devoted to historical revisionism
much like what the vanilla conquistadors of mainstream wokeness
have reduced Pride Month too. But the obnoxious history geek in
me just can’t seem to help but jump at any opportunity to set
the record straight when it comes to America’s criminally
whitewashed outlaw history.
I’ve been accused by people on both ends of this nation’s
hopelessly antiquated left-right paradigm of taking Black
history way too personally, with some people on the left even
going so far as to accuse me of appropriation. It’s bullshit
but I can see it. After all, what the fuck does some
transgender Irish Catholic hillbilly know about the Black
experience? Maybe not much but my lifelong fascination with the
revolutionary end of Black history taught me everything that I
desperately needed to know about being an outnumbered freak and
living to tell about it. The rise and fall and rise of Black
Power inspired my own vision of Queer Panarchy and no chapter
of that history has taught me more than the lost one on the
modern school of Black Anarchism that came out of that
movement’s collapse.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Doing_Washington’s_Bidding:_Australia’s_Treatment_of
Daniel_Duggan⠀⇛
The increasingly shabby treatment of former US marine Daniel
Edmund Duggan by Australian authorities in the service of their
US masters has again shown that the Australian passport is not
quite worth the material it’s printed on.
In January this year, Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court heard
that Australian Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus accepted a
request from the US before Christmas to extradite Duggan.
Duggan holds Australian citizenship, but Canberra has often
regarded this as irrelevant when it comes to the US-Australian
alliance.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Many_Millions_Gone⠀⇛
It’s a relatively familiar recitation to those who study an
honest history of the United States. It begins with the first
encampment of British colonists in what became Plymouth, MA and
Jamestown, VA.; the failure of the latter colony and the
success of the former thanks to the Pequot peoples in the
region in a tale remade as the Thanksgiving legend. The
expansion westward and the bloody heroism of men like Davy
Crockett, the blessings of men like John Winthrop and the false
military prowess of killers like Custer. Then there’s the
politicians with their fancy words writing and talking about
freedom, justice and governance; all while they profit from the
trade in human beings and the theft and sale of lands that were
never theirs to take or sell.
Yes, it’s a familiar litany to those who acknowledge the
genocidal history of this nation under its murdering god. Even
those who try to eliminate this history from that taught in
schools and shared by the real and figurative descendants of
those who conquered know the nature of it. That is why they
fight so hard to keep it from their children and those who
immigrate here now. After all, knowledge of such truth could
mean the end of their assumed domination of the nation and its
riches. So, instead, the brutal truth is either eliminated or
diluted, as if there can be some justification for the legacy
of death and destruction celebrated every Fourth of July in
these United States.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ “Erase_the_Memory”_to_“Erase_a_People”?_They’re_Doing
it_in_the_USA_Too⠀⇛
“Beyond Anything Orwell Could Have Imagined”
Because of his American education and the kindergarten he ran
in Xingjiang that taught the Uyghur language, the linguist
Tahir Hamut was incarcerated by the Chinese government for
fifteen months in 2013 and 2014.
* ⚓ EFF ☛ EFF_and_Student_Press_Law_Center_Urge_Supreme_Court_to_Require
Government_to_Show_Subjective_Intent_in_Threat_Cases⠀⇛
In our highly digitized society, online speech like posts,
messages, and emails, can be taken out of context, repackaged
in ways that distort or completely lose their meaning, and
spread far beyond the intended recipients.With this in mind, we
are urging the Supreme Court to rule that any time the
government seeks to prosecute someone for threatening violence
against another person, it must show that the speaker
subjectively intended to threaten before their speech can be
considered a “true threat” not protected by the First
Amendment.In a brief filed with the Student Press Law Center,
we argued that people should not face prison time because they
misjudged how many people would see their speech or how an
unintended recipient would react to the speechThe First
Amendment requires that true threats are only those in which a
speaker subjectively intends to threaten someone, so as to
prevent protected speech such as humor, art, misunderstandings,
satire, and misrepresentations, we told the court.True threats
are one of the very few categories of speech that has no
constitutional protection. For this reason, it is important
that true threats be narrowly defined. But to date, the Supreme
Court has not decided the required state of mind a speaker must
have. Some state and lower courts require that the speaker have
a subjective intent to threaten the person when they speak. But
other courts, and some state laws, believe the First Amendment
only requires that an objectively reasonable person would
perceive the statement to be a threat of violence.The Supreme
Court is considering a case called Counterman v. Colorado to
resolve this question. The Court previously considered the
question in 2014 in Elonis v United States, in which EFF also
filed a friend of the court brief, but ultimately decided that
case on other grounds.In our Counterman brief, we argue that
the First Amendment requires the subjective standard,
particularly given the decontextualization that readily occurs
in online communication, and social media in particular.What’s
more, speech that a reasonable person may interpret as a
violent threat includes much protected and valuable speech.
There is no historical First Amendment exception for violent
language in general. To be clear, EFF and the Student Press Law
Center do not challenge the need to have a true threats
exception to the First Amendment. We acknowledge the
seriousness of true threats and the speech-inhibiting effects
they can have.But the requirement of a subjective intent to
threaten remains necessary to distinguish these true threats
from the misunderstandings and artistic expression discussed
above, striking the proper balance between protected and
unprotected speech.Online communication, while providing
countless benefits and opportunities for connection and
collaboration in our digitized society, also poses challenges
for understanding each other. As speech spreads on online
platforms, its original context is easily obscured and often
lost completely.And it’s difficult to control just who our
audience is. Even if an account is limited to those who are in
our network of friends, trusted confidants, or contacts, it can
be difficult to limit the spread of virtual messages through
screenshotting, reposting, and engagement with that content.As
our brief states:
“A speaker’s subjective intent standard is also a practical
necessity when dealing with social media and other online
communications because a purely objective standard, negligence
or otherwise, does not account for the ways in which
communication on the Internet can strip speech of vital
context, necessary to understand the words’ full meaning, or
how quickly speech can be recontextualized from the time it is
first posted online until it ultimately reaches a person who
interprets the speech as threatening. Indeed, the original
speaker may have never intended for the that recipient to see
the speech that caused them fear.”The Supreme Court is
scheduled to hear arguments in the case on April 19, with a
decision expected in June.
* ⚓ EFF ☛ Coded_Resistance,_the_Comic!⠀⇛
From the days of chattel slavery until the modern Black Lives
Matter movement, Black communities have developed innovative
ways to communicate to fight back against oppression.
EFF’s Director of Engineering, Alexis Hancock, documented this
important history of codes, ciphers, underground
telecommunications and even dance in a blog post that became
one of our favorite articles of 2021. In collaboration with The
Nib and illustrator Chelsea Saunders, we now have adapted
“Coded Resistance” into comic form to further explore the
stories of slave revolts, the coded songs of Harriet Tubman,
civil rights era strategies for circumventing “Ma Bell,” and
the use of modern day technology to document police abuse. The
comic is available below, as well as on the EFF Instagram feed,
and also via The Nib.
Our hope is that by combining images and text, we can help
bring the history of resistance to surveillance to life. And
like all EFF content, it’s shareable and remixable under a
Creative Commons – Attribution license. If you enjoy the comic
and would like to see more illustrated takes on our blog posts,
let us know!
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Disgraced_Ex-Sheriff_Joe_Arpaio_Still_Costing_Taxpayers
Hundreds_Of_Millions_Of_Dollars⠀⇛
The cost of having a bad cop on the force never ends once the
officer is no longer employed. The bleeding continues for
years, either as tangible costs related to ongoing civil rights
lawsuits or, less tangibly, the aftershocks of their negative
effect on their coworkers.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ How_Web3_and_a_mesh_organizational_design_can_turn
challenges_into_opportunities⠀⇛
We’re in a new era (or at least the early days of a new
chapter)—not just a new period in our technological history but
also a new paradigm for how people work and contribute to
solving problems. One significant challenge I’ve found in
working with leaders is that most organizations are not
designed to adapt—let alone thrive—in this new era.
With the rapid emergence of Web3 technologies and the rise of
open source software as the basis for these advances, I see
multiple challenges every organization can turn into epic
opportunities immediately. I detail these in my_recently
published_book,_Mesh. In this article, I’ll offer a quick
overview of three of the most distinct opportunities: Reliance
on distributed structures rather than decentralized ones,
trapped and untapped value, and the emergence of Web3.
§ What is Web3?
Many people have preconceived notions of what Web3, or features
like blockchain, is or isn’t. Web3 refers to the next
generation of the internet, which is decentralized and enables
more direct, secure, and private interactions between users
without intermediaries. Instead of relying on centralized
systems like companies or governments, Web3 uses technology
such as blockchain to create a network of peers who can
transact and exchange value directly with each other.
Blockchain provides a secure and transparent ledger for
recording transactions and tracking data, enabling trust and
collaboration. This results in a more open, transparent, and
fair environment where users have greater control over their
data. Simply put, Web3 is a more empowering and equitable
internet. The features and technology of Web3 bring new
opportunities for organizations to improve insights, strengthen
connections and build trust as we transform many aspects of how
we work and do business.
* ⚓ Mozilla ☛ The_Mozilla_Blog:_How_to_talk_to_kids_about_finding_community
online⠀⇛
Seeing someone who looked like me with such a huge platform was
powerful. It’s part of why I wanted to share my own love of
reading through my blog, Here_Wee_Read. The internet helped me
find not only a platform, but a community of readers who are as
passionate about diverse literature as I am. Now that I have
two young children, I’m showing them that while the internet
isn’t perfect, it’s a great place to find inspiration, make
connections and grow their worlds.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Internet_Access,_Privacy_‘Essential_for_Freedom’:
Proton_Chief⠀⇛
Internet privacy company Proton can spot attacks on democracy
in a country before they hit the headlines, simply by watching
demand for its services explode, its chief told AFP.
When Russia blocked access to independent news sites following
its invasion of Ukraine a year ago, the small company which
provides virtual private networks (VPNs) saw “a 9,000 percent
increase in sign-ups over just a period of a few days”, company
chief executive Andy Yen said in an interview last week.
§ Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
* ⚓ Polarhive ☛ FOSS_Music_Setup⠀⇛
DRM’d content is a big no-no. I don’t consume any kind of DRM
these days. Most likely, like you — I have a ~/Music folder on
my laptop. I like to keep my music collection offline –
available any day I want.
I keep music cached on my disk as long as I need it. Songs get
archived periodically every few months, if I have a change of
taste. yt-dl is a good tool if you want to automate / batch
download music for offline use, instead of live streaming from
YouTube.
§ Monopolies/Abuse⠀➾
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ FTC_Fires_Warning_Shot_At_‘AI’_Companies_Like_DoNotPay:_Do
Not_Oversell_Your_AI⠀⇛
Over the last few months we’ve had a few articles highlighting
the pretty serious questions raised regarding how much of
DoNotPay’s (“the world’s first robot lawyer”) marketing is pure
bullshit and nonsense. It’s not surprising that there might be
a bit of puffery from a startup, but DoNotPay’s claims are so
outlandish, and its CEO, Joshua Browder seems so allergic to
just telling the truth, that it’s increasingly looking like
DoNotPay is not just puffing up its claims, but more or less
making them up wholesale, in a manner that is fraudulent to
consumers who are paying it a monthly subscription fee of up to
$18.
* ⚓ India Times ☛ EU_antitrust_chief_says_scrutiny_of_competition_in
metaverse_already_needed⠀⇛
The metaverse, shared virtual worlds accessible via the
Internet, is the next digital market to attract regulatory
scrutiny, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on
Thursday.
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ NBC ☛ Ozempic_shortages?_Some_pharmacists_are_choosing_not_to
stock_the_drug_at_all⠀⇛
“It is too expensive for us to stock,” he said.
Hux is among a group of independent pharmacists who have
stopped carrying Ozempic and other drugs in the same
class, in part, they say, because of the underpayments by
pharmacy benefits managers, who act as middlemen between
pharmacists and insurers. These drugs, called GLP-
1 agonists, are relatively new and still under patent,
meaning there are no generic alternatives.
* § Software Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ The Drive ☛ Future_Fords_Could_Repossess_Themselves_and_Drive
Away_if_You_Miss_Payments⠀⇛
The patent document was submitted to the United States
Patent Office in August 2021 but it was formally
published Feb. 23. It’s titled “Systems and Methods to
Repossess a Vehicle.” It describes several ways to make
the life of somebody who has missed several car payments
harder.
It explicitly says the system, which could be installed
on any future vehicle in the automaker’s lineup with a
data connection would be capable of “[disabling] a
functionality of one or more components of the vehicle.”
Everything from the engine to the air conditioning. For
vehicles with autonomous or semi-autonomous driving
capability, the system could “move the vehicle from a
first spot to a second spot that is more convenient for a
tow truck to tow the vehicle… move the vehicle from the
premises of the owner to a location such as, for example,
the premises of the repossession agency,” or, if the
lending institution considers the “financial viability of
executing a repossession procedure” to be unjustifiable,
the vehicle could drive itself to the junkyard.
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Ford_Seeks_Patent_That_Turns_Car_Into
Dystopian_Nightmare_If_You_Miss_a_Payment⠀⇛
The basic concept at the patent’s core is a description
of how the [Internet] works: An interconnected system
between the car, a centralized network, and various other
institutions such as a repossession agency, “police
authority,” medical facility, and lending institution.
Along with the car’s on-board computers, this would
enable dozens of scenarios for the car to punish an owner
for missing payments.
* § Trademarks⠀➾
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Calendar_App_Maker_Confirmed_Behind_‘The_Day_Before’
Trademark_Dispute⠀⇛
This will be a quick one, but we now have a name and
confirmation of a detail from a previous post. A couple
of weeks back, we discussed how an unreleased game from
developer Fntastic, The Day Before, was both having its
release date pushed back and dealing with takedowns of a
bunch of footage from streaming sites due to a trademark
dispute. Fntastic, which I should mention hasn’t always
been seen as a trustworthy source of information in the
past, nevertheless indicated that a company with a
calendar app and a trademark by the same name as the game
was the source of the trademark dispute.
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ “March_of_the_Intellect”_Cartoons_
(1828–29)⠀⇛
In their imagination and satire, these prints reflected
debates about education reform and the dissemination of
knowledge in 1820s Britain.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Huge_Piracy_Site_Killed_By_Egypt_Gets_Sewn_Back
To_Life_Like_Osiris⠀⇛
Last month the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment
worked with Egyptian authorities to shut down MyCima. It
was one the largest piracy platforms in the Middle East
with an estimated 50 million visits per month. According
to Egyptian mythology, Osiris was sewn back together
after being cut into 14 pieces. Using many more pieces
than that, MyCima is already back in business.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Reddit_Asks_Court_to_Protect_Users’_Anonymity_in
Third-Party_Piracy_Lawsuit⠀⇛
Reddit has asked a California federal court to reject a
request to unmask several anonymous Redditors. Filmmakers
believe that the users’ posts are useful evidence in an
ongoing piracy lawsuit against an ISP. However, Reddit
characterizes the posts as irrelevant and argues that the
First Amendment right to anonymous speech is at stake.
o ⚓ Walled Culture ☛ Research_shows_that,_when_given_the_choice,_most
authors_don’t_want_excessively-long_copyright_terms⠀⇛
That’s a good demonstration of how the dead hand of
copyright stifles fresh creativity from today’s writers,
artists, musicians and film-makers. They might have drawn
on all these works as a stimulus for their own
creativity, but held back because they have been
brainwashed by the copyright industry into thinking that
everything is in copyright for inordinate lengths of
time. As a result, huge numbers of books that are freely
available according to the law remain locked up with a
kind of phantom copyright that exists only in people’s
minds, infected as they are with copyright maximalist
propaganda.
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Publishers_Lobbied_To_‘Axe_The_Reading_Tax’_On_Ebooks,
Then_Paid_It_To_Themselves⠀⇛
It concerns the taxing of books in the UK. Most goods
there are subject to a Value Added Tax (VAT), which is a
simple percentage of the sale price – generally 20%.
However, certain classes of goods are exempt: this
applies to things like food, children’s clothing, and
also books. Or rather, to physical books: one quirk of
the early ebook market was that ebooks were taxed at 20%,
even though physical books were not. This led to a 2018
campaign with the catchy slogan “Axe the reading tax”. It
was led by the Publishers Association, which wrote in a
press release at the time: [...]
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ Ordering_Bruckner⠀⇛
I first listened to Bruckner’s symphonies as a teenager.
I liked them a lot. I’d go listen to them at the symphony
when they programmed them. But they didn’t really stick
with me in a long term way.
Fast forward 25 years to the pandemic and I’m holed up in
my dark basement office, binge-listening various things.
Julian Bream. Itzhak Perlman. And Bruckner. Four or five
years ago I picked up a CD of his 9th symphony from the
library’s sale rack. And was like, yeah, this is good. So
I picked up a box set (Gunter Wand), and started
listening to them, a lot.
o ⚓ 2023-03-02_–_Reply_–_Christina_–_Five_Questions_(5Q)_for_March
2023⠀⇛
Online is perhaps the absolutely worst place to make a
friend. This fact bears out most sadly in web2.0 social
media. Fame culture shreds authenticity; parasocial
posturing undercuts trust. Social media is only really
about the tawdry and superficial, and no where more
pathetically so than in those of us who play online
advocate or philosopher. But the cruelties of anomie and
atomism can be breached still, with a good kick from
Serendip above. A bit of Courage within helps, too.
Something should be at stake.
Oh, ye gods, save foolish humanity from our folly!
o ⚓ Hockey_on_a_Late_Wednesday⠀⇛
Just sitting here thinking of you while I watch the Avs.
I missed you earlier today too brother when I saw a
hilarious hick on Insta named cornbreadcowboi. Hilarious!
o ⚓ poem,_possibly_not_mine⠀⇛
Found this on my old phone and genuinely can’t remember
if I wrote it or copied it from somewhere.
o ⚓ Porch_Sitting⠀⇛
When I was in university, a friend of mine rented a very
old house in the far north of town. The front of the
house had a large porch with a swing and a few chairs. We
loved to relax there: his roommate would light up a Black
& Mild cigar, another friend would puff on a tobacco
pipe, and we’d listen to the summer rain. I often miss
the simple, idyllic serenity of those days.
I’ve wanted a porch of my own ever since, but none of the
houses I’ve lived in have had one. My area is full of
newer houses, and the vast majority of them do not have
porches. It’s a trend that seems to be dying out.
o ⚓ I_have_survived_moving!⠀⇛
I **would not** recommend having tons of stuff.
I **would not** recommend having so much going on besides
needing to move (cuz it’s not much of a choice, so much
as a “If I value the rest of my life working out good,
I’ve gotta do this” sorta thing).
I **would not** recommend having easy access to IT
surplus, cuz I’ve got way too much of this junk to keep.
It’ll be Christmas for somebody at the local thrift shop,
or possibly **shiver** Facebook Marketplace.
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ Paper_Birch_Bark⠀⇛
This evening, I turned my coin microscope to the
exploration of paper birch bark. I experimented with some
different room lighting effects and angles. These photos
are not post-processed, except that I had to re-encode
them with GIMP.
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