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EPO Women Affairs
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http://techrights.org/videos/epo-women-pr-stunt.webm
Summary: The narcissistic management of the EPO pats itself on the back over
“feminism”, “diversity” etc. while women who actually work — real work — at the
Office (examiners, not the family/cabal lodged at the top floor) dispute this
misleading PR-esque narrative
Some years ago there was some_waffle [PDF] from Elodie_Bergot, who was promoted
not as a woman but as a family member (spouse) of the EPO‘s “mafia” (Benoît
Battistelli‘s faithful servant from INPI). Bergot seems to be attacking more
women than she attacks men (M. & E.). How’s that for an achievement? Cat fights
are not breeding diversity — more so in an office that already fails to attract
women and barely offers them promotions (compared to men), according to the
EPO’s own numbers.
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇International women’s day⦈ António_Campinos also “supports”
women. He brought women without relevant experience in patents just because
they had previously worked with him at EUIPO — the subject of a new scandal as
noted in the video above. It is connected to Christian_Archambeau, a confidant
of Campinos, who originally came from the EPO.
Nothing allures women scientists more — and even attracts them to the EPO —
than a Mr. Campinos dropping “F bombs” in front of women. Apply today, the
“fucking president” (his description of himself) loves women applicants.
Staff Committee The Hague
Comité du personnel de La Haye
Personalausschuss Den Haag
8 March 2023
§ HAPPY WOMEN’S DAY 2023!⠀➾
An invitation to work together towards gender equity at the EPO
Dear colleagues,
International women’s day is celebrated on March 8th: “a day to
Celebrate women’s achievements, raise awareness about discrimination
and take action to drive gender parity”.
#EmbraceEquity is this year’s campaign theme of the International
Women’s Day. Equity aims to ensure the access, equality of
opportunity and advancement for everyone, through the identification
and removal of obstacles which, in the present context, prevent women
from fully participating in all aspects of life.
In 2018 (reflecting the data up to 2017), the administration prepared
a document “Gender Awareness Report – 2018” containing several
indicators which revealed weak points in D&I policies at the Office.
Since then, the administration has put some measures in place. The
staff representation believes that it is the right moment to evaluate
the impact of each of the measures taken, and to receive an overview
of the present situation as well as an evaluation of the previous
policies. Therefore, we requested an update of the “Gender Awareness
report” complemented with an in-depth study on “Equality in career”,
with a specific focus on the impact of the NCS on female colleagues.
To shed more light on areas where the Office is doing well regarding
gender equality, and where further improvements can be made, in 2018
staff representation requested that available data concerning the
equality of careers by gender and by site of employment be made
available. One deliverable of the D&I team is to “establish
historical and current data sets on key D&I criteria to track
progress and inform policy”, and we kindly request that the
information be shared. In 2022 the central staff committee analysed
some of the annually published statistics on the reward system, and
described that although some steps in the right direction had been
taken, the new career system still has the effect of widening the
gender pay gap.
Furthermore, the negative effects of the education allowance and
childcare reform on women should not be underestimated, and there are
question marks as to the effects on women of the Bringing Team
Together project.
According to the EPO intranet Diversity & Inclusion intranet page:
“D&I is naturally embedded in our Office’s Mission, Vision and
Values. In 2022 we will move to identifying and implementing concrete
actions on D&I – that make a real difference to
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our staff and that integrate D&I in our daily activities – as a core
ingredient of the design and execution of the Office’s strategy. This
approach will allow us to identify areas we need to improve, target
solutions, assess outcomes and report openly on our progress.”
We welcome the administration to share the concrete actions and
progress report, and once again express our willingness to work
together towards embracing gender equity at the EPO leaving no one
behind.
“We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back”
Malala Yousafzai
Kind regards,
Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH)
The EPO is trying to dominate presence for this topic, hitting all sorts of
keywords to distract from the actual stories of actual EPO employees who do the
work and feel oppressed. We don’t suppose any blog or media site will tell the
story of women inside the EPO; instead there will be sponsored puff pieces for
the phony narratives pushed out by the EPO’s PR department, managed by a friend
of Campinos (nepotism). █
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✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Thursday,_March_09,_2023⠀✐
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✐ Sirius_‘Open_Source’_Pensiongate:_A_Long_Story_Merits_Many_Videos⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Fraud, Free/Libre_Software at 10:47 am by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
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The Series on Sirius Crimes
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/sirius-corruption.webm
Summary: Today we start a string of videos and short texts about the company my
wife and I left in December (we resigned just over 3 months ago); as it turns
out, the company had been committing crimes for years before we left
THE “Pensiongate” mini-series is becoming a lot more extensive and far longer
than we first estimated. We find out more and more things as one scandal helps
unfold another. As such, this morning we started a dedicated Wiki page, Crimes
of_Sirius_Open_Source — a complementary subset of Sirius_‘Open_Source’, which
started back in December.
For those who have missed some of the context, here are just several of the
posts that covered this matter:
Have_Squandered/Plundered_the_Pensions_of_Many_People
to_the_Clients_and_Don’t_Respond_to_Messages
Matter_and_Sirius_is_in_Serious_Trouble
The video above explains the motivation and emphasises that we’ll try to cover
this a lot in the form of videos, delivering perhaps a dozen more parts,
including bits of evidence. Video will be a convenient means by which to
deliver the material in a privacy-respecting matter.
“The video above explains the motivation and emphasises that we’ll try to cover
this a lot in the form of videos, delivering perhaps a dozen more parts,
including bits of evidence.”It’s sort of sad that we’ve come to this, but if
you deal with people who defrauded not only you but also your colleagues, then
it becomes imperative to speak out and do something about it. Some people have
asked me to pursue a legal opinion on this. As a side note, several people say
they love the term “Mr. Kink”, which does not infringe anyone’s privacy yet
says a lot.
“So where is all that money now? Put aside and used for the 4-person
DisneyWorld trips?”The journey required to write the series is mostly free —
free as in beer/gratis. The material is in the public domain, e.g. the
Companies House. It’s free. Except all the times we phoned pension providers —
quite an expensive endeavour when you do it for 2-3 months. The upside is that
along the way we learned a lot about how the system works and how it is abused.
It’s cheaper to learn that on one’s own. For instance, when my wife and I
demand the money from both our accounts the providers are pretending it’s not
possible (it is; with the high tax applied) and if they say no, or
intentionally mislead clients, one can threaten to sue (we shared a record to
show how they obstruct people who exercise their legal rights). But upon
further inspection it turned out to be a lot worse because the money had
already been stolen. So where is all that money now? Put aside and used for the
4-person DisneyWorld trips? █
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✐ Despite_the_Paid-for_(Very_Fake)_Hype_for_Microsoft_Chatbots,_Bing_Falls_to
Lowest_Share_in_Years⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Google, Microsoft at 12:04 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
There are also Bing layoffs, but many publishers are being paid to turn a blind
eye, focus on vapourware instead
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Noam_Chomsky:_The_False_Promise_of_ChatGPT⦈_
The most prominent strain of A.I. encodes a flawed conception of language and
knowledge, famed_linguist_Noam_Chomsky_writes_this_week
As per this_month’s_figures (as CSV/ODF), Google rose to new highs and Bing
fell to 2.7% — its lowest levels since 2021:
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Almost_94%for_Google(Bing_in_a_freefall,_along_with_its
proxies,_e.g.DDG)⦈
Summary: The bribed media (paid by Microsoft to relay/produce puff pieces) has
predicted doom for Google’s search, but what we’re seeing is exactly the
opposite; people need Web pages, not chatbots
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⣿⣿⣿⠀⠘⢸⠟⠻⠟⡛⡟⠛⠛⠛⣿⠀⣾⣼⠀⠛⡟⠛⠟⠛⠛⠛⡟⠛⡇⠟⠛⢛⠛⠛⣿⣶⠀⣷⠀⠛⠻⠛⢻⣿⠀⠓⠛⠻⠀⡟⡛⡟⠛⢿⡇⠀⠀⠘⠛⠟⠛⡛⠛⠛⠻⠒⠟⠛⡟⡛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡯⢭⡿⣛⢿⣛⢻⢛⡟⣛⡟⣛⣿⣿⠭⢽⢛⡻⡟⡛⡏⡟⣛⡿⢛⢻⣿⠙⣿⠋⣟⡛⡟⢛⢸⢟⢟⡻⣛⣻⣏⠭⣽⢘⡻⣟⡻⡟⣛⢛⢻⣿⣹⢋⢿⡹⣛⢻⢛⡃⡟⣛⢘⣿⢻⢻⣽⢛⢻⢟⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣟⣓⣧⣒⣊⣒⣸⣸⣏⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣻⣸⣇⢃⡒⣇⣇⣿⣧⣒⣺⣿⣸⣤⣇⣗⣂⣇⣿⣰⣝⣔⣒⣟⣻⣟⣓⣼⣸⣇⣕⣂⣇⣿⣒⣺⣿⣏⣾⣤⣧⣛⣹⣸⣇⣇⣛⣸⣤⣎⣾⣧⣛⣸⣔⣒⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⠿⢿⣟⡛⡟⡛⢟⡻⢛⢻⣿⣿⡟⢿⡟⡷⢶⠿⣿⣟⣻⢛⢻⣛⢟⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⢿⣉⣸⣾⣸⣟⣑⣏⣃⣜⣣⣒⣸⣯⣽⣇⣎⣄⣏⣹⣸⣿⣋⣺⣘⣻⣋⣛⣒⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣞⣄⣔⣆⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠿⠿⠿⠛⠻⢿⠟⠛⠿⠛⠉⠉⠛⠻⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠛⠿⠛⠛⠋⣉⡉⠉⠛⠛⠛⠛⢿⠟⠉⢉⠉⠉⠉⣉⠙⠛⠋⠉⠙⠋⠉⠛⠛⠛⠋⠙⠋⠉⣁⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⣀⣀⣀⣴⣦⣤⣤⣶⣦⣤⣴⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣶⣶⣦⣤⣤⡄⠁⣀⣀⣀⣀⣈⣁⣤⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣷⣦⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣶⣿⣿⣾⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣬⣦⣼⣯⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⢿⣻⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠛⠉⠉⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣻⣷⣿⣿⣿⣟⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⢿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣯⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣦⣼⡇⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⠀⠀⢠⣶⣦⠀⠀⠀⢰⣶⠀⢀⢀⣂⣴⣾⣿⣿⢿⠋⡁⠆⡆⠀⢀⢀⠀⡐⠀⠂⢀⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠈⠛⠋⠀⠀⣠⣼⢿⣤⣴⣿⣿⡿⣟⣯⣦⣤⣦⣤⣧⣤⣤⣼⣼⣤⣴⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣽⣾⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Slackware_Family
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Chromium
# Mozilla
o Programming/Development
# Rust
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Linux_Foundation
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
# Confidentiality
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Unix Men ☛ What_You_Need_to_Become_a_Linux_Programmer⠀⇛
Are you looking to become a Linux programmer? The open-
source operating system is a popular choice among
developers and is widely used in the tech industry.
Programming is a challenging and rewarding field, and
Linux programming is no exception. To become a Linux
programmer, you’ll need to have a strong understanding of
coding fundamentals and be able to work with the Linux
operating system.
We’ll go over 14 skills that are essential for any Linux
programmer, paying close attention to the programming
languages, tools, and other important elements required
to make the most out of your experience. With the right
knowledge, resources, and dedication, you can become a
successful Linux programmer in no time.
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Avi_Alkalay:_Wonders_of_NextCloud⠀⇛
CIOs must pay attention to NextCloud.
It is an open source solution that kinda let you
run your own Google Drive, own Google Apps, own
Dropbox, own iCloud on your own servers and
storage.
Has an App Store with hundreds of extensions,
vibrant community, supports multiple users with
file sharing and pretty advanced collaboration,
conference calls, corporate mobile device
management, security and encryption, and much more.
They also provide free and mature desktop and
mobile apps that let users sync part or whole
filesets with their devices for offline use
(similar to Dropbox but limitless and with far more
features). I’m running it on my family server and
my folks (and me) are pretty impressed.
# ⚓ Riccardo_Padovani:_No_heroes_needed⠀⇛
Being a hero is nice, isn’t it? You work hard,
single-handedly save the day, and your teammates
are eternally grateful to you. However, such
behavior is, in fact, highly problematic.
In Google, we have an internal document, quite
often quoted, that says to let things fail if the
workload to keep them alive is too high. From
Google, many good practices have been exported and
adopted in the IT world, and I believe this could
be very useful to many teams.
# ⚓ Charles_Plessy:_If_you_work_at_Dreamhost,_can_you_help
us?⠀⇛
Update: thanks to the very kind involvment of the
widow of our wemaster, we
could provide enough private information to
Dreamhost, who finally accepted to
reset the password and the MFA. We have recovered
evrything! Many thanks to
everybody who helped us!
Due to tragic circumstances, one association that I
am part of,
Sciencescope got locked out of its account
at Dreamhost. Locked out, we can not pay the annual
bill. Dreamhost
contacted us about the payment, but will not let us
recover the access to
our account in order to pay. So they will soon
close the account. Our
website, mailing lists and archives, will be
erased. We provided plenty of
evidence that we are not scammers and that we are
the legitimate owners of
the account, but reviewing it is above the pay
grade of the custommer
support (I don’t blame them) and I could not
convince them to let somebody
higher have a look at our case.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ Sudo_show_60:_Private_Cloud_Strikes_Back⠀⇛
The hosts get together to discuss the apparent
growth trend of Private Cloud, to us it sounds like
a combination of cost savings, Edge computing and
getting workloads closer to the user. Let us know
what you think in the TuxDigital forum, or join us
on Discord.
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ Linux_Out_Loud_53:_Unpopular_Opinions_Part
2⠀⇛
This week, Linux Out Loud chats about unpopular
tech opinions, part 2. Welcome to episode 53 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.
# ⚓ Kernel_Podcast:_S2E3_–_2023/03/09⠀⇛
Season 2 – Episode 3 – 2023/03/09
§ Summary
The latest stable kernel is Linux 6.2.2, released
by Greg Kroah-Hartman on March 3rd 2023. The latest
mainline (development) kernel is 6.3-rc1, released
by Linus on March 5th 2023.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.2.3⠀⇛
I'm announcing the release of the 6.2.3 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_6.1.16⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.99⠀⇛
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Machine_Learning_in_Linux:_Upscayl_–_image
upscaler⠀⇛
This series looks at highly promising machine
learning and deep learning software for Linux.
Upscayl is GUI software that uses sophisticated AI
models to enhance your images by guessing what the
details could be. It’s free and open source
software.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ a2ps_4.15_released⠀⇛
Version 4.15 of the “anything to PostScript” filter
a2ps has been released — the first release since
2007. “”This release contains few user-visible
changes. It does however contain a lot of changes
“under the hood”: code clean-up, etc. Therefore,
it’s likely that there are new bugs.””
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Samba_4.18.0_released⠀⇛
Version 4.18 of the Samba interoperability suite is
out. Changes include some significant performance
improvements, better error messages, and more;
click below for the details.
# ⚓ WordPress ☛ WordPress_6.2_Release_Candidate_1⠀⇛
WordPress 6.2 Release Candidate 1 is now available
for download and testing.
This version of the WordPress software is under
development. Please do not install, run, or test
this version of WordPress on production or mission-
critical websites. Instead, it is recommended that
you test RC 1 on a test server and site.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Wallabag_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Wallabag on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who
didn’t know, Wallabag is a self-hosted application
that allows users to save web content for later
reading.
# ⚓ Daniel_Berrange:_make-tiny-image.py:_creating_tiny_initrds
for_testing_QEMU_or_Linux_kernel/userspace_behaviour⠀⇛
As a virtualization developer a significant amount
of time is spent in understanding and debugging the
behaviour and interaction of QEMU and the guest
kernel/userspace code. As such my development
machines have a variety of guest OS installations
that get booted for various tasks. Some tasks,
however, require a repeated cycle of QEMU code
changes, or QEMU config changes, followed by guest
testing. Waiting for an OS to boot can quickly
become a significant time sink affecting
productivity and lead to frustration. What is
needed is a very low overhead way to accomplish
simple testing tasks without an OS getting in the
way.
Enter ‘make-tiny-image.py‘ tool for creating
minimal initrd images.
If invoked with no arguments, this tool will create
an initrd containing nothing more than busybox. The
“init” program will be a script that creates a few
device nodes, mounts proc/sysfs and then runs the
busybox ‘sh’ binary to provide an interactive
shell. This is intended to be used as follows
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ How_to_install_Linux_on_an_old_laptop⠀⇛
Linux has been my primary operating system since
1997. When I first started using the open-source
OS, it was not easy. There was a lot of command
line work to do and keeping my 33.6k modem online
was a nightmare. With some serious persistence, I
made it work and eventually made a career out of
covering Linux and open-source software.
Back in those days, installing Linux on a laptop
was something only the most skilled users could
pull off. The problem was (at the time) Linux
didn’t have a great deal of support for things like
Wi-Fi cards, sound, and video. Because of that, it
was pretty hit-and-miss. You might try to install
your favorite Linux distribution, only to find out
it didn’t support your video card. Try a different
distribution that did support your video card, but
not your sound card. If you were really good with
the command line, you could install firmware for
the hardware to get it running.
Eventually, Linux caught up to the competition
until it found support for most hardware (save for
maybe cutting edge graphics and some newer
peripherals). Even then, the Linux community has
been doing a great job of keeping pace with the
likes of Windows and MacOS.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Install_Slack_on_Linux⠀⇛
You might have seen your team members using Slack
on their Windows systems. But what if you are a
Linux user and don’t want to switch to Windows just
to stay connected with your team? Luckily, Slack is
also available for Linux.
Whether you’re using Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, or any
other Linux distribution, the installation process
for Slack is straightforward and just requires a
few simple commands. Let’s see how you can install
Slack on Linux.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ fd_Is_a_Blazingly_Fast_Way_to_Find_Files_on
Linux⠀⇛
Finding files in the terminal is a pain. It’s slow,
and the find command requires very specific
arguments to ensure you locate the file you’re
looking for.
fd is designed to be a simple, quick, intuitive,
and easy-to-use replacement for the find command.
Here’s how to install and use fd on Linux.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Get_the_Best_Linux_Features_With
Windows_Apps⠀⇛
Even though Linux is a term that applies to many
different flavors of operating system, there are a
handful of features that Linux users will know
well, but Windows users have to go without.
Thankfully, much like Linux, Windows leaves power
in the hands of the user. Let’s have a look at a
handful of different features you can pull over
from Linux into your own Windows system
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ speedread_Lets_You_Rapidly_Assimilate_Text
Documents_on_Linux⠀⇛
Reading is a great way to pass the time, and a
means to both expand your knowledge of the world
around you and indulge in idle flights of fancy
through fiction. But there are only 24 hours in a
day, and there’s a limit to how many words you can
force your eyeballs to take in during a lunch break
at work.
speedread is a terminal-based Linux app that can
jack those numbers up, and help you to read faster
and more efficiently than ever before.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_get_the_latest_version_of_GCC_on_Debian
11⠀⇛
Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to
get the latest version of GCC in Debian 11. GCC is
the compiler of the GNU project for C language, and
one of the most important bases that we have on
Linux.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ KDE:_Porting_away_from_gbm_surface⠀⇛
Until recently, the drm backend of KWin used
gbm_surfaces for getting buffers to display
on the screen. This is a relatively simple
API that allows to extend what one can do
with a EGL surfaces – you get to directly
choose buffer format and modifiers and you
get a gbm buffer after rendering a frame,
which you can then use with the drm API to
actually get the image on the screen.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Elementary_OS_7’s_Latest_Update_Enhances
Functionality⠀⇛
In recent years, elementary OS has consistently ranked as
one of the best desktop-oriented Linux distributions. It
has a sleek, modern, intuitive user interface called
Pantheon that is easy to use and visually appealing. At
the same time, the distro offers a high degree of
customization, allowing users to tailor the UI to their
specific needs and preferences.
The recently released elementary OS 7 is a confirmation
of all this. At the same time, developers are
continuously working on improvements of various
aesthetics to give users the most simplified and pleasant
user experience.
Entirely in line with this, the latest advancements that
came with the recent updates to the operating system
prove it. So let’s see what it is all about.
o ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ 10_Best_Lightweight_Linux_Distros_for_Old_Computers⠀⇛
As computers age, their performance inevitably degrades,
and the operating system becomes less responsive. This
can be frustrating for users who want to continue using
their old hardware but are limited by the resources
available.
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Bodhi_Linux_7.0.0_Alpha_is_Out_for_Testing⠀⇛
Bodhi Linux is a lightweight and elegant
distribution based on the Ubuntu LTS release. Known
for its minimalist approach, it features the
Enlightenment-based Moksha desktop environment.
The Bodhi Linux 7.0.0 release is the latest version
of the operating system, aimed at providing a
better user experience. It is currently under
development for a few months. This release is
intended to be more stable than previous versions,
with improved performance and security features.
Learn more about this release.
o § Slackware Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ LibreOffice_7.5.1_packages_for_Slackware
15.0_and_-current⠀⇛
Iskipped LibreOffice 7.5.0 because I was too busy
at the time, but last week there was a release of
LibreOffice 7.5.1. I got stuck in my attempts to
change my chromium SlackBuild script to run more
efficiently on Slackware 15.0, so it seemed like a
good time to work on something else than a Google
product.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_February_2023
Council_hackfest_summary⠀⇛
Last month, the Fedora Council gathered in
Frankfurt, Germany for our first in-person meeting
since January 2020. It felt great to see folks
again, but it wasn’t all fun and games (actually,
we didn’t even play games until after we’d wrapped
up on the last night). With three years of work to
catch up on and a five year strategy to develop,
there was a lot to do. If you want the Zodbot form,
we logged_the_minutes. For more detail, read on.
✐ Code of Conduct⠀✐
Fedora’s Code_of_Conduct is an important part of
our community’s expectations about how we treat
each other. Fedora is a welcoming community, and
the Code of Conduct ensures it stays that way. I
know the community believes in it because we get
20-ish reports every year. Most of these are
resolved_amicably, but dealing with these reports
takes time and emotional energy.
To improve the process and share the load, the
Council discussed the creation of a Code of Conduct
Committee. That proposal is working through the
policy change process right now. You can read the
details of the proposal in the Discussion_thread
and provide your input by Tuesday 21 March.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Google_looks_to_Androidâs_future,_with
a_wary_eye_on_the_past_|_Latest_News_India_–_Hindustan
Times⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Billions_of_Android_owners_issued_‘critical’
Google_warning_â_there’s_no_time_to_lose_so_check_your
phone_now_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ People_are_just_realizing_Android_has_hidden_‘super_click’
with_16_texting_perks_â_don’t_live_in_the_past_anymore_|
The_Irish_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ What’s_next_for_Google_TV?_The_history_of
Android_TV⠀⇛
# ⚓ Benefits_of_Using_a_3rd_Party_Android_Launcher⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9_Ways_to_Fix_Call_History_Not_Showing_on_Android_–
TechPP⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_Force_High_Refresh_Rate_on_All_Android_Apps_Without
Root_–_Guiding_Tech⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_Install_F1_TV_on_Android_TV_[Download_APK]_–
TechPP⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Central ☛ After_7_years_of_support,_this_Android
phone_just_received_its_final_update_|_Android_Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ OnePlus_Takes_Lead_in_the_Android_with
Extended_Update_Support⠀⇛
# ⚓ Unix Men ☛ The_Dawn_of_Artificial_Intelligence:_The_Many
Benefits_of_AI_for_Small_Businesses⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Best_board_games_on_Android_in_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ Xiaomi_Duokan_Pro_II:_E-reader_launches
outside_China_with_Android_11_pre-installed_–
NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Android_13_is_now_rolling_out_to_the
OnePlus_Nord_CE⠀⇛
# ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ When_is_my_phone_getting_Android_14?
Here’s_everything_we_know_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_Android_14_Will_Make_Devices_More
Accessible_for_Everyone⠀⇛
# ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ Android_14:_Release_Date_and_Everything_Else
We_Know⠀⇛
# ⚓ Tom’s Guide ☛ Xenomorph_Android_malware_can_steal_passwords
from_400_banking_apps_—_protect_yourself_now_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Calibrate_your_Monitor_with_these_Open_Source
Tools⠀⇛
The objective when calibrating a monitor is to ensure the
monitor has color references known by everyone (humans
and software). This will mean the colors are represented
accurately on your monitor.
Generally speaking, using a color measurement instrument
to calibrate your display will result in a better
calibration compared to a visual calibration. The
following open source tools are invaluable for anyone
looking for accurate color reproduction.
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ SCALE_Linux_and_free_software_convention_returns_to
Pasadena_for_first_time_since_COVID_lockdown⠀⇛
The Southern California Linux Expo and the city of
Pasadena are getting back together.
Known by its acronym SCALE, the convention for
lovers of the Linux computer operating system and
other free, open-source software last took place at
the Pasadena Convention Center in early March 2020
— right before the COVID-19 lockdown.
SCALE organizers spent the weeks prior to their
2020 dates watching COVID case numbers, consulting
with experts and weighing whether or not to cancel.
But the show did go on. Like in years before,
thousands of free software users, developers,
advocates and professionals came to Pasadena for
the keynote speeches, technical talks, booth-filled
convention floor — and to meet old friends and make
new ones.
The 2020 convention ended, and within days,
gatherings of any kind were off the table as the
new virus grew and threatened a world without any
vaccines or treatments.
Along with day-to-day work, school and family
gatherings, tech conferences turned to Zoom, and
SCALE went dark for 2021.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Chromium⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Google_Discontinuing_Chrome_Tool_for
Removing_Unwanted_Software⠀⇛
Google has announced the discontinuation of
the Chrome Cleanup Tool, an application for
identifying and removing unwanted software.
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Thunderbird ☛ Mozilla_Thunderbird:_Thunderbird_for
Android_/_K-9_Mail:_February_Progress_Report⠀⇛
While K-9 Mail is developed in the open,
following its development on GitHub can be
somewhat tedious for a casual observer. So
we’re trying something new and summarizing
the most notable things that happened in the
past month as we head down the road to
Thunderbird for Android.
If you missed the exciting news last summer,
K-9 Mail is now part of the Thunderbird
family, and we’re working steadily on
transforming it into Thunderbird for Android.
If you want to learn more, check out the
Android_roadmap, this_blog_post, and this
FAQ.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ WebR_IS_HERE!⠀⇛
WebR 0.1.0 was released! I had been git-stalking
George (the absolute genius who we all must thank
for this) for a while and noticed the GH org and
repos being updated earlier this week, So, I was
already pretty excited.
# ⚓ Steinar H Gunderson ☛ Steinar_H._Gunderson:_Solving_a_1998
problem_with_2023_methods⠀⇛
A long time ago, in 1998, our family entered a
contest with a puzzle;
given a bunch of company names (they were the ones
participating in a
loyalty program known as Domino, which has since
gone defunct),
try to spell out as many Norwegian names as
possible. (The name list
was fixed, but you actually had to buy a book to
find it.)
The prize was fairly attractive, so I went to work
with a computer program
instead of trying to figure it out by hand. I
remember running it literally
for weeks on my 400 MHz machine at the time; at
some point, we even went
on vacation for more than a month, and I came back
disappointed to see
that the search hadn’t really gone that much
further. Over time, I optimized
it to use randomization in addition to
backtracking, some bit fiddling tricks
and so on. We thought we had a good shot.
# § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ Rust Blog ☛ The_Rust_Programming_Language_Blog:
Announcing_Rust_1.68.0⠀⇛
The Rust team is happy to announce a new
version of Rust, 1.68.0. Rust is a
programming language empowering everyone to
build reliable and efficient
software.
If you have a previous version of Rust
installed via rustup, you can get 1.68.0
with:
rustup update stable
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Rust_1.68.0_released⠀⇛
Version 1.68.0 of the Rust language has been
released.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Letter_to_the_Community_|_How_the_ASSU_went_wrong:
A_call_to_sign_Kids_with_Dreams’_petition_for_funding⠀⇛
According to the Kids with Dream co-presidents, “the ASSU
has effectively disincentivized frugality” by choosing
not to accept annual grant applications under $6,600.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Mysterious_‘Vulcan’_Planet_Might_Only_Exist
in_Our_Dreams_After_All⠀⇛
A figment of our imagination?
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Ancient_‘Zombie’_Virus_Revived_Almost
50,000_Years_Later_Is_Still_Infectious⠀⇛
It’s awake.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Healthy_Mice_Created_From_2_Fathers_in
Radical_Gene-Editing_Breakthrough⠀⇛
We have so many questions.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Say_The_Moon_Needs_Its_Own_Lunar
Time_Zone._Here’s_Why.⠀⇛
It’s about time!
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Weird_Lifeform_From_500_Million_Years_Ago
Wasn’t_an_Animal_at_All⠀⇛
Huh?
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Physicists_Claim_Creation_of_a
Superconductor_at_Near-Ambient_Conditions⠀⇛
Huge if true.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Your_Heartbeat_Shapes_Your_Perception_of
Time,_Study_Finds⠀⇛
It starts with your heart.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Almost_Nowhere_on_Earth_Is_Safe_From_Air
Pollution_Now,_Scientists_Warn⠀⇛
Take a deep breath.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Another_Norfolk_Southern_Train_Derailed_Just
Hours_Before_Congressional_Hearing⠀⇛
A Norfolk Southern train traveling in Calhoun
County, Alabama derailed early Thursday morning.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Bernie_Sanders_Introduces_Bill_That_Would_Cap_All
Insulin_Prices_at_$20⠀⇛
On Thursday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and a
gaggle of Democrats introduced a new bill that
would cap insulin drug prices to just $20 per vial
no matter which company is making it.
# ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Russia_&_the_lab_leak_theory⠀⇛
The lab leak theory has officially gone
mainstream thanks to the Wall Street Journal and
its 130-year track record of being wrong about
everything.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Oracle’s_stock_heads_south_on_revenue
shortfall⠀⇛
Database giant Oracle Corp. missed expectations on
revenue by a whisker as it reported its fiscal 2023
third-quarter earnings results today, sending its
stock down in extended trading.
§ Linux Foundation⠀➾
* ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ Linux_Foundation_Energy_Announces_Conference_Schedule_for
LF_Energy_Summit⠀⇛
LF Energy, the open source foundation focused on harnessing the
power of collaborative software and hardware technologies to
decarbonize our global economies, is pleased to announce the
lineup of sessions for LF Energy Summit, taking place June 1-2,
2023 in Paris, France. LF Energy Summit is returning to an in-
person format after three years as a virtual-only event. The
summit will gather members of the LF Energy community including
foundation members, developers, vendors, utility end users and
other energy industry stakeholders to learn about LF Energy and
its projects as well as to collaborate and share best practices
for developing and implementing open source technologies and
standards in the power sector.
§ Security⠀➾
* ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Wednesday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (apr), Fedora (c-
ares), Oracle (curl, kernel, pesign, samba, and zlib), Red Hat
(curl, gnutls, kernel, kernel-rt, and pesign), Scientific Linux
(kernel, pesign, samba, and zlib), SUSE (libX11, python-rsa,
python3, python36, qemu, rubygem-rack, xorg-x11-server, and
xwayland), and Ubuntu (libtpms, linux-ibm, linux-raspi, linux-
raspi, python3.7, python3.8, and sofia-sip).
* ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Thursday⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (kernel, pesign,
samba, and zlib), Oracle (kernel), Slackware (httpd), SUSE
(emacs, libxslt, nodejs12, nodejs14, nodejs16, openssl,
poppler, python-py, python-wheel, xen, and xorg-x11-server),
and Ubuntu (linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gkeop, opusfile, and samba).
* ⚓ Building_a_Pentest_Lab_for_Beginners:_Tips_and_Tricks_for_Success⠀⇛
A penetration testing (pentest) lab is a safe and controlled
environment where you can practice and improve your hacking
skills without breaking the law. Building your own pentest lab
is an excellent way to gain practical experience and learn new
techniques.
* ⚓ Andrea_Corbellini:_Authenticated_encryption:_why_you_need_it_and_how_it
works⠀⇛
In this article I want to explore a common problem of modern
cryptographic
ciphers: malleability. I will explain that problem with some
hands-on examples,
and then look in detail at how that problem is solved through
the use of
authenticated encryption. I will describe in particular two
algorithms that
provide authenticated encryption: ChaCha20-Poly1305 and AES-
GCM, and briefly
mention some of their variants.
§ The problem
If we want to encrypt some data, a very common approach is to
use a symmetric
cipher. When we use a symmetric cipher, we hold a secret key,
which is
generally a sequence of bits chosen at random of some fixed
length (nowadays
ranging from 128 to 256 bits). The symmetric cipher takes two
inputs: the
secret key, and the message that we want to encrypt, and
produces a single
output: a ciphertext. Decryption is the inverse process: it
takes the secret
key and the ciphertext as the input and yields back the
original message as an
output. With symmetric ciphers, we use the same secret key both
to encrypt and
decrypt messages, and this is why they are called symmetric
(this is in
contrast with public key cryptography, or asymmetric
cryptography, where
encryption and decryption are performed using two different
keys: a public key
and a private key).
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Custom_Chinese_Malware_Found_on_SonicWall_Appliance⠀⇛
Malware deployed by Chinese hackers on a SonicWall SMA
appliance includes credential theft, shell access, and
persistence functionality.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Vulnerability_Exposes_Cisco_Enterprise_Routers_to
Disruptive_Attacks⠀⇛
Cisco has released patches for a high-severity DoS
vulnerability in IOS XR software for several enterprise-grade
routers.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Dozens_of_Exploited_Vulnerabilities_Missing_From_CISA
‘Must_Patch’_List⠀⇛
An analysis found that over 40 exploited vulnerabilities,
mostly leveraged by botnets, are missing from CISA’s ‘must
patch’ catalog.
* ⚓ Dark Reading ☛ IceFire_Ransomware_Portends_a_Broader_Shift_From_Windows
to_Linux [Ed: The voices of Redmond, singing from the same lyrics?]⠀⇛
In recent weeks, hackers have been deploying the “IceFire”
ransomware against Linux enterprise networks, a noted shift for
what was once a Windows-only malware.
A report from SentinelOne published today suggests that this
may represent a budding trend. Ransomware actors have been
targeting Linux systems more than ever in cyberattacks in
recent weeks and months, notable not least because “in
comparison to Windows, Linux is more difficult to deploy
ransomware against, particularly at scale,” Alex Delamotte,
security researcher at SentinelOne, tells Dark Reading.
* ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ IceFire_ransomware_now_encrypts_both_Linux_and
Windows_systems⠀⇛
Threat actors linked to the IceFire ransomware operation now
actively target Linux systems worldwide with a new dedicated
encryptor.
SentinelLabs security researchers found that the gang has
breached the networks of several media and entertainment
organizations around the world in recent weeks, starting mid-
February, according to a report shared in advance with
BleepingComputer.
Once inside their networks, the attackers deploy their new
malware variant to encrypt the victims’ Linux systems.
When executed, IceFire ransomware encrypts files, appends the
‘.ifire’ extension to the filename, and then covers its tracks
by deleting itself and removing the binary.
* ⚓ Hacker News ☛ IceFire_Ransomware_Exploits_IBM_Aspera_Faspex_to_Attack
Linux-Powered_Enterprise_Networks⠀⇛
A previously known Windows-based ransomware strain known as
IceFire has expanded its focus to target Linux enterprise
networks belonging to several media and entertainment sector
organizations across the world.
The intrusions entail the exploitation of a recently disclosed
deserialization vulnerability in IBM Aspera Faspex file-sharing
software (CVE-2022-47986, CVSS score: 9.8), according to
cybersecurity company SentinelOne.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Jenkins_Server_Vulnerabilities_Chained_for_Remote_Code
Execution⠀⇛
Two vulnerabilities recently addressed in Jenkins server can be
chained to achieve arbitrary code execution.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Fortinet_Patches_Critical_Unauthenticated_RCE
Vulnerability_in_FortiOS⠀⇛
Fortinet has patched a critical buffer underflow vulnerability
in FortiOS and FortiProxy that could lead to remote code
execution without authentication.
* § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Lawmaker_says_FBI_wrongly_sought
surveillance_info_about_him⠀⇛
A Republican lawmaker has accused the FBI of wrongly
searching for his name in foreign surveillance data,
underscoring the challenges ahead for U.S. officials
trying to persuade Congress to renew their authorities to
collect huge swaths of communications. Rep. Darin LaHood
of Illinois made the comments at a hearing Thursday but
did not say why the FBI may have searched his name in
information collected under Section 702 of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act.
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ WhatsApp_tells_the_UK_it_would_rather_be_blocked
than_adhere_to_the_Online_Safety_Bill [Ed: WhatsApp is mass
surveillance; this seems like a PR stunt from Zuckerface]⠀⇛
Meta Platforms Inc.’s chat app WhatsApp says it will not
compromise end-to-end encryption, and since that’s
required in the U.K. under the new Online Safety Bill, it
might mean the end of its existence in the country.
§ Confidentiality⠀➾
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ This_Shadowy_Catholic_Group_Says_It_Buys_Grindr_Data_to_Trace
Gay_Priests⠀⇛
In a witch hunt to out gay priests, a conservative Catholic
nonprofit in Denver has poured $4 million into buying data it
claims is primarily sourced from Grindr and other gay dating
apps, according to the Washington Post.
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Congress’s_Social_Security_Numbers_Leaked_in_Health_Data
Breach⠀⇛
In a classic “whoopsie” situation, a health data breach
affecting members of the US House of Representatives and their
staff exposed social security numbers, names of family members,
emails, phone numbers, and home addresses, which are now for
sale on the dark web.
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Members_of_Congress_have_personal_information_stolen_in
DC_Health_Link_data_breach⠀⇛
Personally identifiable information belonging to members of
Congress and others has been published online following a data
breach at DC Health Link, the District of Columbia’s health
insurance exchange. The breach first came to light on Wednesday
when DC Health Link informed members of the House and Senate
that hackers had gained access…
§ Defence/Aggression⠀➾
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ ‘CMX23′_to_test_NATO’s_crisis_decision-making⠀⇛
From March 9 to 15, the NATO crisis management exercise “CMX23″
(Crisis Management Exercise) will take place in NATO member
states, including Latvia, the purpose of which is to check the
consultation and decision-making procedures of alliance member
states at the strategic political-military level.
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Why_Is_the_US_So_Unhappy_That_China_Offered_a_Peace
Proposal?⠀⇛
On February 24, China published its “Position on the Political
Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis.” The US reacted very
negatively very quickly. They reacted more negatively even than
Ukraine. What is it about the Chinese proposal that so unnerves
the US? It is not even a fully developed settlement proposal
ripe for negotiation.
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Women_Don’t_Let_Women_Drive_War:_Feminists_Say_Fire_Nuland⠀⇛
When President Biden nominated Victoria Nuland as
Undersecretary of State, CODEPINK feminists objected to her
nomination out of concern she would bring pain and heartache to
mothers and daughters as she fomented war in their midst.
Instead of promoting diplomacy, Nuland lights matches wherever
she meddles, agitating for war in Afghanistan, and now Ukraine.
I
§ Environment⠀➾
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Sam_Bankman-Fried’s_Lawyers_Say_They_May_Need_to_Delay
Trial⠀⇛
Lawyers representing FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried
announced on Wednesday that his October trial might need
to be delayed. The lawyers said they were still waiting
for important documents to be handed over and claimed the
hold-up could hinder their ability to review the evidence
and create a proper defense.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_made_progress_on_gender_pay_gap_in_2021⠀⇛
On the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8,
women’s issues are very much in focus, but with regard to the
differences in pay between men and women, there is at least one
sign of progress even if pay remains far from equal.
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Shares_of_tech_startup-heavy_Silicon_Valley_Bank_plunge
60%+_on_stock_sale_plan⠀⇛
Shares of SVB Financial Group Inc., the parent company of
Silicon Valley Bank, plunged more than 60% today after the
financial institution announced plans to sell $2.2 billion in
stock. The stock sale is part of an effort by the company to
address recent losses in its securities portfolio.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ The_Primary_Liberal_vs._Conservative_Disconnect⠀⇛
For a long time the main disconnect between Liberals and
Conservatives was considered to be how much they embrace change
and tolerate inequity. Those still seem like decent
measurements, but new research by Nick Kerry suggests that the
clearer distinction is the belief that the world is
fundamentally hierarchical.
* ⚓ uni Emory ☛ Conservatism_and_progressivism_are_both_necessary_to
improve_society⠀⇛
“A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or
reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of
political life.” — John Stuart Mill Chinese philosophers
invented the concept of yin and yang more than 2,000 years ago.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Trump_invited_to_testify_before_NY_grand_jury,
lawyer_says⠀⇛
Former President Donald Trump has been invited to testify next
week before a New York grand jury that has been investigating
hush money payments made on his behalf during his 2016
presidential campaign. That’s according to one of his lawyers.
Such an invitation often indicates a decision on indictments is
near. The Manhattan district attorney’s office declined to
comment. Any indictment would mark the first time any former
U.S. president has been charged with a crime. Trump attorney
Joseph Tacopina says a case would have no legal basis.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Mississippi_man_gets_42_months_in_prison_for
cross_burning⠀⇛
A Mississippi man who burned a cross in his front yard to
intimidate his Black neighbors has been sentenced to 42 months
in prison. U.S. Southern District of Mississippi Judge Sul
Ozerden handed down the sentence Thursday after 24-year-old
Axel Cox pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime in December.
Cox was charged with violating the Fair Housing Act over a
December 2020 incident in which he put together a wooden cross
in his front yard and propped it up so his Black neighbors
could see it. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke called
it an “abhorrent act” intended to inspire fear and drive a
Black family from their home.
* ⚓ NYPost ☛ China’s_Xi_Jinping_secures_precedent-breaking_third_term_as
president⠀⇛
Nearly 3,000 members of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the
National People’s Congress (NPC), voted unanimously in the
Great Hall of the People for Xi, 69, to be president in an
election where there was no other candidate.
* ⚓ NYPost ☛ Trump_likely_to_face_criminal_charges_in_New_York_in_Stormy
Daniels_case:_report⠀⇛
Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has notified attorneys
for Trump, 76, that the former commander-in-chief will be given
the opportunity to defend himself next week in front of the
grand jury hearing evidence in the case before the indictment
comes down.
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ EDRI ☛ Monetizing_misogyny:_How_does_the_media_spread_gender-
based_disinformation_&_hate_online_in_Italy_&_Hungary?⠀⇛
Join the webinar and don’t miss the opportunity to learn
more about the specific gender-based disinformation issue
and ask your questions.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ uni Emory ☛ Bigotry,_disguised_as_protection:_Senator_Hawley’s_MATURE
Act⠀⇛
Senator Hawley and the Republican Party claim they want to
protect children from the dangers of social media. In reality,
they want to strip Transgender people, especially youth, of
their right to privacy and comfort. Senator Josh Hawley (R-
Minn.) introduced two new bills on Feb. 14 that focus on social
media use in minors.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Baltic_states_have_‘serious_questions’_about_democracy_in
Georgia⠀⇛
The Foreign Ministers of Latvia, Estonia an Lithuania on March
8 issued a brief statement on events in Georgia, where mass
demonstrations have taken place against what demonstrators say
are repressive new laws, and police and demonstrators have
clashed.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Most_Libel_Claims_by_The_Satanic_Temple_Against_Newsweek
Dismissed,_But_Not_Claim_Over_Sexual_Abuse_Allegations⠀⇛
From Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil’s opinion yesterday in The Satanic
Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC, where the Temple sued
Newsweek over allegedly libelous statements in an article: 1)
Financial Fraud Plaintiff argues that the article was
defamatory in implying that Plaintiff engaged in a pattern of
embezzlement…
* ⚓ AccessNow ☛ #KeepItOn_in_Mauritania:_authorities_must_restore_internet
connectivity⠀⇛
Following reports of a nationwide block on mobile internet
access in Mauritania, Access Now urges authorities to
immediately reconnect the country.
* ⚓ AccessNow ☛ In_Africa_and_the_Middle_East,_internet_shutdowns_shroud
human_rights_abuses⠀⇛
Access Now’s new joint report examines how authorities in
Africa and the Middle East weaponize internet shutdowns to
obscure human rights abuses.
* ⚓ Evading_accountability_through_internet_shutdowns:_Trends_in_Africa_and
the_Middle_East⠀⇛
Access Now and Global Partners Digital’s new report examines
how authorities in Africa and MENA are weaponizing shutdowns to
obscure human rights abuses.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ EDRI ☛ 2023_Spring_Fling⠀⇛
CDT is pleased to announce our inaugural 2023 Spring Fling, a
celebration during IAPP’s Global Privacy Summit. You won’t want
to miss it!
* ⚓ Proposals_sought_for_next_round_of_OVPR_Anti-Racism_Grants⠀⇛
The Office of the Vice President for Research seeks applicants
for Anti-Racism Grants that fund research and scholarship
related to societal and racial inequalities, and that inform
actions to achieve equity and justice.
* ⚓ ACLU ☛ Judy_Heumann’s_Legacy_Lives_On⠀⇛
“I wanna see a feisty group of disabled people around the
world…if you don’t respect yourself and if you don’t demand
what you believe in for yourself, you’re not gonna get it.” –
Judy Heumann
Judy Heumann, a civil rights titan who spent her life
advocating and fighting for integration, accessibility, and
dignity for people with disabilities, died on March 4. Her
spirit and advocacy will live on in the generation of disabled
activists she inspired and empowered to take up the mantle.
When Judy was born, the fight for civil rights didn’t include
people with disabilities. Disabled people faced rampant
discrimination and segregation in American life. Disabled
people experienced high rates of unemployment and were taught
in separate schools. Changing these institutions wasn’t just a
calling for Judy, it was a necessity. At a young age, Judy
learned that the world did not see her the way she saw herself,
and she spent the rest of her life committed to changing that.
* ⚓ ACLU ☛ The_Women_Who_Made_ACLU_History⠀⇛
From its early feminist founders, to the trailblazing clients
and lawyers that have fought sex-based discrimination in the
hundred years since, the ACLU’s history has been entwined with
women’s rights since its founding in 1920 — the same year women
won the right to vote.
* ⚓ The Strategist ☛ The_future_of_UN_peacekeeping_and_women,_peace_and
security⠀⇛
To make peacekeeping safer in an increasingly dangerous world,
countries contributing troops to United Nations peacekeeping
efforts need to embrace emerging technology more readily, and
they must involve many more women on operations. Today ASPI’s …
* ⚓ EDRI ☛ Foss-north_2023⠀⇛
Foss-north is a free / open source conference covering both
software and hardware from the technical perspective. Hosted in
Gothenburg between Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm, with an
international airport, we provide a meeting place for the
Nordic foss communities and will bring together great speakers
with a great audience.
* ⚓ EDRI ☛ EU_DisinfoLab_2023_Annual_Conference⠀⇛
During those two days, the event will bring together renowned
experts from diverse backgrounds, digging into the pressing
issues in the disinformation space. By attending this physical
forum, you’ll join leading experts and stakeholders from across
the disinformation world for a mix of sessions formats and
exciting networking opportunities. Don’t miss it!
* ⚓ EDRI ☛ #PrivacyCamp23:_Event_summary⠀⇛
In January 2023, EDRi gathered policymakers, activists, human
rights defenders, climate and social justice advocates and
academics in Brussels to discuss the criticality of our digital
worlds. We welcomed 200+ participants in person and enjoyed an
online audience of 600+ people engaging with the event
livestream videos. If you missed the event or want a reminder
of what happened in a session, find the session summaries and
video recordings below.
* ⚓ EDRI ☛ The_Green/Digital/Society_Conference⠀⇛
If you are an environmental or digital rights activist,
researcher, policymaker, community member or just a concerned
human being from the SEE region or Europe, join the discussion
on the current challenges and potential advocacy plans for the
future on matters at the intersection of green politics, human
rights and technology
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ New_Public_Knowledge_Paper_Shines_a_Light_on_the
Broken_Music_Streaming_Industry⠀⇛
New paper shines a light on the dysfunction of the music
streaming ecosystem while proposing solutions to ensure a more
equitable future.
* ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ The_Streaming_Market_Is_Fundamentally_Broken._It’s
Time_To_Fix_It.⠀⇛
New paper shines a light on the dysfunction of the music
streaming ecosystem while proposing solutions to ensure a more
equitable future.
§ Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Why_Spotify_is_adding_video_content_to_an_audio-streaming
platform⠀⇛
Spotify is taking on the likes of TikTok and YouTube Shorts,
introducing a video feature to aid users’ music discovery
process, locking them into its own ecosystem.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ Not_feeling_feelings_for_a_long_time⠀⇛
As I look back, I used to be someone who always held an
optimistic outlook on life. I was a “believer,” or at
least someone who always “wanted to believe.” This also
made me a gullible person at times, especially in my
younger days. Once I found a cause to believe in, I
became quite a dedicated believer, at least for a while,
until I began seeing hypocrisies and internal
inconsistencies, and started smelling bullshit.
Outwardly, this made me appear to be a “model believer”
to some. When I was a teenager, the adults in my church
were impressed by how I talked like someone on fire,
comparing me to their own kids who were begrudgingly
attending church only because the parents made them to.
[...]
That summer, I felt aimless. I lost my community and the
social capital I built. But somehow I survived, going
through the motions. I didn’t feel “sad” or
“disappointed.” I did not feel anything.
o ⚓ Steven_Swanson,_Astronaut⠀⇛
My existence happens to coincide with a number of very
interesting human achievements, not the least
among them space travel. I recall watching the challenger
explode on TV at school; they had let us
all out of class to watch in a central area where they
could setup a set. To be honest, that was the
last I really paid attention to space travel, outside of
science fiction.
And while I’m being honest, I’m sort of ashamed of my
inattention. We reach for the stars and
actually touch them, and then we go about our business.
Or worse, we make an international
competition out of reaching for the stars, and then
punish one another with our tech. For me
personally, the age of home computing was more
interesting than space. I guess a few things are, to
this day, more interesting to me.
o ⚓ More_time?⠀⇛
I didn’t end up having more time to write today… I mean,
today in local time. On the Zaibatsu,
it’s already tomorrow.
o ⚓ Hardware_Store_Hijinks⠀⇛
So I’ve been working at the local small-scale hardware
store for the past few months.
This was my first standard job; I’ve done a number of
things for work over the past few years since I’ve
stopped living with my parents. One of those jobs was
working for my parents as a general laborer, but I also
was a doordash driver and a courier boy for a tech
liquidation company. Roomie has been working at the
hardware store for about 6 months, and had put in a good
word for me before my interview, so I wasn’t too
surprised I got the job last November.
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ on_EasyOS⠀⇛
EasyOS is the latest distribution from the guy behind
Puppy Linux. It has a bunch of cool ideas regarding
security, mostly stemming from it being built around
containers. I think it’s supposed to make it easy to
create isolated containers on the fly, for e.g. building
random software or whatnot. It has some nice X11
sandboxing features too. Besides that, it has first class
support for live USBs, which is always nice.
o ⚓ MNT_Pocket_Reform_Campaign_Coming_Soon⠀⇛
I held off endlessly against the original MNT Reform
because it was, quite frankly, a first-generation
product. I’m leery of ever buying those. But the concept
had lots of promise and potential, so I was more than
willing to play the waiting game and see if I can get
ahold of either a later generation of the original
Reform, or.. the Pocket Reform.
I’ll spare you the descriptions and ogling over it. Go
take a look at it yourself.
o ⚓ Five_years_a_sundog_–_Happy_birthday,_circumlunar_space!⠀⇛
Five years ago today, on the 10th of March in 2018, I
made a post
to my phlog[1], then hosted at SDF, announcing that I was
moving it
to a shiny new server – circumlunar.space.
How much has changed since then! The Mare Tranquillitatis
People’s
Circumlunar Zaibatsu[2] began life as a single low-spec
server spun
up for the sole purpose of offering Gopherspace to the
community.
Today, still standing proud at the same IP address five
years later,
it is one part of many in an ongoing experiment into
resilient and
decentralised Do-It-Yourself digital community.
o ⚓ Stray_Bridge_Musings⠀⇛
Holy heck. IRC, XMPP and email only have to worry about
one message at a time on the wire. Matrix needs to sign &
send the entire universe.
Anyway, I was thinking about that ejabberd announcment
today, since I’ve been on a bridges kick, prompted by my
newfound enthusiasm for XMPP, after finding out that
Bitlbee can send multiple-line messages.
On Matrix’ old bridges blog post they list a bunch of
categories of bridges, and mention in passing s2s
bridges:
o ⚓ art_ownership⠀⇛
I’ve recently been thinking more about ownership of
creations online. I remember a time online where people
were encouraging others to spread their creations and
repost them and use them freely because they did not care
about having their name attached, it felt just nice
having created something that others like and would use.
You felt proud seeing it used on others’ pages, a part of
you traveling through the web. The whole culture of
spreading graphics around, like the dolls and a variety
of blingees.
I think with the state of capitalism at this point and
the normalization of extreme copyright laws as well as
virality and what comes with it, there’s been a change in
that. I think hobbyists see how hard professionals have
to guard and protect their work because for them, it
means clients, it means money, it means survival. I
totally understand the struggle professional creators go
through to be recognized for their hard work, however I
have found myself confused at hobbyists copying the same
behaviors. I wonder if it happens because people do not
see that many artists online have to behave this
aggressively because it is their livelihood, not because
all creations have to be treated like that.
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World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o Education
o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
# Open_Access/Content
o Programming/Development
# Perl_/_Raku
# Python
# Java
* Leftovers
o Science
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 Monopolies
# Patents
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux in the Ham Shack ☛ LHS_Episode_#499:_The_Weekender
CII⠀⇛
It’s time once again for The Weekender. This is our
departure into the world of hedonism, random topic
excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ SANS ☛ 2023-03-09_Today_I_Learned_.._a_new_thing_about
GREP,_(Thu,_Mar_9th)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Create_a_square_thumbnail_or_favicon_using_ImageMagick⠀⇛
$ convert file.png -background transparent -gravity
Center -extent 1:1# -scale 32 file-32px.png
Resize `file.png` to a 32×32 px image. Use a value
other than 32 to create other icon sizes (e.g.
16×16 or 32×32). Combine two favicon sizes using:
`convert icon-16px.png icon-32px.png favicon.ico`
For a social media preview image, use `2:1#` for
the extent and `1200` for the scale.
⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_To_Install_Joomla_on_AlmaLinux⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we are going to explain how to install Joomla on
AlmaLinux OS.
Joomla is a free and open-source content management system (CMS)
written in PHP and used for creating websites. Joomla offers a
variety of features such as caching, blogs, support for different
languages and etc. The data is stored in the MySQL database. In this
tutorial, we will install Joomla with the LAMP stack.
Installing Joomla on AlmaLinux is a straightforward process and may
take up to 15 minutes. Let’s get started!
⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Integrate_Sudoers_with_OpenLDAP_Server⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will set up and integrate sudoers to the
OpenLDAP server. With this, you will have a centralized user and sudo
privileges management on your OpenLDAP server allowing the
installation on the client side faster. Any SSSD service on the
client machine configured with a sudo authentication source allows
OpenLDAP users to execute sudo.
⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Install_XCP-ng_Hypervisor⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will discuss what is XCP-ng, and the key
features of XCP-ng and finally how to install XCP-ng Hypervisor using
ISO image file.
§ Games⠀➾
* ⚓ Akseli ☛ My_game_was_illegally_uploaded_on_Steam⠀⇛
Quick post for this time.
Seems my game, Penance has been uploaded on Steam by someone
who I don’t know, completely without my permission. They’re
selling my free game and of course I’m not gonna get any money
from their sales.
* ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Prepare_to_see_a_lot_more_of_Epic_Online_Services,_with
Epic’s_new_self-publishing⠀⇛
While the Epic Games Store doesn’t support Linux or Steam Deck
officially, this industry news is something we should all know
about with Epic now opening up self-publishing along with some
new rules for their store.
* ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Transport_Fever_2_has_a_big_free_upgrade,_plus_Steam
Deck_support⠀⇛
Transport Fever 2 is going strong since the release in 2019.
They just launched a console version, and upgraded the PC
release with some massive improvements too.
* ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ FOSS_strategy_game_OpenHV_gets_a_release_two_years_in
the_making⠀⇛
Do any of you remember OpenHV? Back in 2020, it was announced
as an OpenRA-based free and open source RTS, based on designs
from Daniel Cook that never made it into a game planned to be
called Hard Vacuum but now it’s here and it has a massive
upgrade.
* ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Free_and_open_source_party_game_Starship_Olympics_hits
Alpha⠀⇛
Need a fresh party game with simple controls and plenty of
mini-games to play? Starship Olympics is free, open source and
worth a go. They recently released the first Alpha build, which
comes with a whole bunch of improvements and overhauls compared
to their earlier releases I covered here some time ago. It was
originally called SuperStarfighter.
* ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Atari’s_1981_classic_revamp_Caverns_of_Mars:_Recharged
is_out_now⠀⇛
Atari teamed up with SneakyBox to revamp another classic, with
Caverns of Mars: Recharged officially out now with Native Linux
support.
§ Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
* § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
o ⚓ Send_you_talks_for_Akademy_2023_*now*!⠀⇛
Call for proposal ends Thursday the 30th of March
There’s still a few weeks, but time is really running
out.
I’m sure there’s lots of interesting things you have to
talk about Qt, KDE, C++, Community Management or other
million things so head over to https://akademy.kde.org/
2023/cfp/ or over to https://conf.kde.org/event/5/
abstracts/ if you want to skip the nicely worded page
that encourages you to submit a talk 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:
)⦈
o ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ Did_you_know_you_can_Meta+Ctrl+Scroll_to_zoom_on
Wayland?⠀⇛
o ⚓ Volker Krause ☛ January/February_in_KDE_PIM⠀⇛
Here’s the usual bi-monthly update from KDE’s personal
information management applications team.
Since the_last_report
25 people contributed about 1300 code changes, focusing
on bugfixes and infrastructure improvements for the 22.12
maintenance releases as well as preparing for the
transition to Qt 6.
§ Upcoming KDE PIM Sprint⠀➾
We’ll finally have an in-person_sprint again, after the
last one planned for April 2020 fell victim to the
pandemic. The sprint will be held in Toulouse, on April
1st/2nd.
§ Qt 6 transition⠀➾
With the first release on top of Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks
6 expected for later this year,
a lot of work again went into preparing for that. Many
parts are meanwhile working
and usable in a Qt 6 build already. The install layout
has also been adjusted to allow
PIM components from both a Qt 5 and a Qt 6 to co-exist,
which is especially relevant for the
more widely used libraries.
§ Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
* § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
o ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ MAAS_3.3_is_now_available⠀⇛
In this blog, you will learn about some of the new
features now available in the latest MAAS release.
* § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
o ⚓ Arduino ☛ 2023-03-08_Get_more_out_of_your_smartphone_with
Arduino⠀⇛
o ⚓ Arduino ☛ HEXA_LEDs_make_Bluetooth-controlled_accent_lighting
affordable⠀⇛
LED accent lighting is very trendy right now, as it can
add quite a lot of visual interest to a room without
introducing clutter. But commercial products are often
either very expensive or subpar in quality and
capability. Fortunately for makers, this kind of project
is perfect for a DIY weekend build.
o ⚓ Arduino ☛ Ping_pong_robot_lets_you_dial-in_the_serves⠀⇛
Ping pong is one of the most popular sports in the world,
but that doesn’t mean that it is easy to find people to
practice with. Lone players are typically forced to
practice by using return boards (or one half of the table
flipped up), but that is overly predictable.
o ⚓ Arduino ☛ Portenta_X8_in_Arduino_IoT_Cloud⠀⇛
You may have heard about Portenta X8 for its flexibility
of usage of Linux combined with real-time applications
through the Arduino environment. But now, a new set of
features have been added to Portenta X8 thanks to its
brand-new Arduino Python container. Update your board
with the latest image (here is a tutorial showing how to
do so) and start exploiting a wide range of unique
functionalities: [...]
o ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ C720_Linux_Update⠀⇛
The three Acer C720 Chromebooks I wrote about in:
2014′s A Note of Thanks,
2017′s Travels with a Chromebook,
and 2021′s Chromebook Linux Update
are all still running Linux just fine despite the one I’m
typing on being more than 8 years old. Below the fold I
have some good news and some no-so-good news.
o ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ BeagleBoard.org_launches_new_embedded_products⠀⇛
BeagleBoard recently presented the BeaglePlay Single
Board Computer based on the TI AM6254 Multi-core
processor and the BeagleConnect Freedom equipped with
the TI CC1352P7 microcontroller supporting 2.4GHz/Sub
1GHz wireless protocols.
o ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ Testing_Raspberry_Pi’s_new_Global_Shutter
Camera⠀⇛
Outwardly it is almost identical to the 12 Megapixel High
Quality Camera, and like that camera it accepts C and CS
mount lenses, or most anything else with the appropriate
adapter.
o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Global_Shutter_Camera_Review:_High-
Speed_Captures⠀⇛
If you need to capture high speed subjects, then the
Global Shutter Camera is for you. Mainstream users are
best sticking with the High Quality Camera.
o ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ New_Raspberry_Pi_Global_Shutter_Camera_for_machine
vision_and_more⠀⇛
Despite the challenges associated with rolling shutter
artefacts, our existing cameras are widely used in
hobbyist and industrial machine vision applications. And
we’ve seen some real ingenuity: to compensate for
artefacts when imaging products on a high-speed conveyor
belt, one of our industrial customers ended up training
their models using pre-sheared input data.
* § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
o ⚓ India Times ☛ OnePlus_Nord_CE_starts_receiving_Android_13_update
–_Times_of_India⠀⇛
o ⚓ Giz China ☛ Huawei_P60_Pro_photo_sample_will_make_Android
flagships_tremble⠀⇛
o ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ After_6_long_months,_an_Android_phone_finally
cloned_the_iPhone_14_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛
o ⚓ Lifewire ☛ 8_Best_Password_Apps_for_Android_Tablets⠀⇛
o ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_7_Best_Android_Apps_to_Help_You_Pass_Your
Driving_Test⠀⇛
o ⚓ Lifewire ☛ How_to_Transfer_Text_Messages_From_Android_to
Android⠀⇛
o ⚓ Android Central ☛ How_to_edit_copied_text_in_Android_13_|_Android
Central⠀⇛
o ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Android_14_could_feature_passkey_sign_in_feature,
enhanced_privacy_–_SamMobile⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_just_realizing_Android_has_hidden_setting
that_could_save_you_from_‘bank_death’_–_don’t_ignore_it_|_The_US
Sun⠀⇛
§ Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
* ⚓ OpenSSH ☛ Call_for_testing:_OpenSSH_9.3⠀⇛
OpenSSH 9.3p1 is almost ready for release, so we would
appreciate testing on as many platforms and systems as
possible. This is a bugfix release.
* ⚓ Lionel Dricot ☛ Losing_Signal⠀⇛
As a chat tool, Signal is better than many other. But it’s
centralised. And, sooner or later, a centralised service faces
you with a choice: either you comply with a rule you don’t
agree, either you lose everything.
With every centralised service, the question is not if it will
ever happen. The question is “when”.
Either you conform to the norm, either you are too different to
have your existence acknowledges.
* § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
o ⚓ 2023-03-08_Happy_International_Women’s_Day⠀⇛
o ⚓ 2023-03-08_Be_a_host_for_the_LibreOffice_Conference_2024!⠀⇛
* § Education⠀➾
o ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Unix_Creator_Ken_Thompson_to_Keynote_SCALE
Conference⠀⇛
The 20th Annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE
20x) will feature keynotes from notables such as Ken
Thompson, the creator of Unix, said Ilan Rabinovich, one
of the co-founders and conference chair for the SCALE, in
this edition of The New Stack Makers.
* § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾
o § Open Access/Content⠀➾
# ⚓ New_open_access_options_for_U-M_authors⠀⇛
An agreement between the publisher Wiley and the
Big Ten Academic Alliance is offering new
subsidized open access publishing options for U-
M authors.
* § Programming/Development⠀➾
o ⚓ Drew DeVault ☛ When_to_comment_that_code⠀⇛
The philosophy and implementation of code comments varies
widely in the industry, and some view comment density as
a proxy for code quality.2 I’ll state my views here, but
will note that yours may differ and I find that
acceptable; I am not here to suggest that your strategy
is wrong and I will happily adopt it when I write a patch
for your codebase.
o ⚓ Earthly ☛ Using_a_Cache_to_Improve_Bazel_Build_Times⠀⇛
In this article, you’ll learn how to set up a local and a
remote cache to improve Bazel build performance. You’ll
also understand the pros and cons of caching information.
o ⚓ Fernando Borretti ☛ Design_of_the_Austral_Compiler⠀⇛
Austral is a new systems programming language. It
features linear types for safe, compile-time memory and
resource management; capability-based security to prevent
supply chain attacks; and strong modularity. It is
designed with fits-in-head simplicity as the goal.
o § Perl / Raku⠀➾
# ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-03-08_Call_for_Papers._TPRC_2023⠀⇛
o § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Python_3.12.0_alpha_6_released⠀⇛
Python 3.12 is still in development. This release,
3.12.0a6 is the sixth of seven planned alpha
releases.
Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to
test the current state of new features and bug
fixes and to test the release process.
During the alpha phase, features may be added up
until the start of the beta phase (2023-05-08) and,
if necessary, may be modified or deleted up until
the release candidate phase (2023-07-31). Please
keep in mind that this is a preview release and its
use is not recommended for production environments.
o § Java⠀➾
# ⚓ How_to_Protect_the_Class_State_from_Unintended_Changes_in
Java⠀⇛
In Java, objects can be classified as either
mutable or immutable based on whether their state
can be changed or not. A mutable object is one
whose state can be modified after its creation. For
example, an array can have its elements added,
removed or modified after it has been created.
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* ⚓ Gabriel Sieben ☛ Hosting_this_blog_at_home_–_with_Proxmox_and
Cloudflare⠀⇛
Now… I know that self-hosting at home has always been possible,
but there are a few pieces that came together to make it worth
a shot: [...]
* ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ Why_it’s_bad_that_the_web_is_so_feature-rich⠀⇛
The feature-rich web has a lot of advantages; the best web-apps
are easy to learn, which is great since the learnability
threshold is a huge problem with the wonderful world of Unix
and worse-is-better that a lot of us are so enamored with. I
remember when gratis webmail was first made widely available
and how it made email accessible to a lot of people who didn’t
have access to it before: not only to library users, students
and other people without ISPs, but also to people who couldn’t
figure out how to use their ISP email (or to use it when they
were away from home).
But there are also a couple of problems with the feature-rich
web: [...]
* § Science⠀➾
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ A_discovery_bigger_than_archaeology⠀⇛
The Middle East is full of groundbreaking archaeological
discoveries. What intrigued our correspondent wasn’t what
this team uncovered, but who uncovered it.
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Oklahoma_voters_halt_$4.9m_push_to_legalize
recreational_marijuana⠀⇛
Oklahoma voters have rejected a move to allow the
recreational use of marijuana for those over 21. Oklahoma
already has a robust medical marijuana program. The
proposal was opposed by various religious leaders, law
enforcement, and prosecutors.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Rich_governments_are_not_interested_in_funding
preparations_for_the_next_pandemic [Ed: The current pandemic is not
over and it has not been solved/tackled]⠀⇛
As soon as the pandemic took hold in the spring of 2020,
one thing became abundantly clear: The world was woefully
unprepared to withstand it.
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Australia’s_flu_cases_up_100-fold_in_first_2
months_of_2023⠀⇛
The spike has been attributed to an increase in
international travel, and one-third of the cases were
children.
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Rice_into_low-carbon_plastic:_Bringing_hope
to_a_struggling_Fukushima_town⠀⇛
Last November, Biomass Resin opened a factory in Namie to
turn locally-grown rice into pellets.
o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Maria_went_to_WorkCover_for_a_mental_health_claim.
She_says_the_process_made_her_sicker⠀⇛
A former high school teacher awarded a six-figure payout
after years on workers’ compensation for a mental health
injury says she felt constantly punished by the system
and would have been happier to see the problem resolved
so she could return to work.
o ⚓ CNN ☛ Were_masks_useless?_The_deceptive_interpretation_of_what
science_tells_us⠀⇛
Three years after the Covid-19 pandemic changed the lives
of all Americans, we are witnessing a retrospective
questioning of whether masks—and mask mandates—decrease
the risk of Covid-19 spread.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Your_Thursday_Briefing:_Covid_Origins_Hearing
Opens_in_the_U.S.⠀⇛
Also, protests in Georgia and armed villagers in Kashmir.
o ⚓ 2023-03-07_Valhalla’s_Things:_Forgotten_Yeast_Bread⠀⇛
* § Proprietary⠀➾
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Noam_Chomsky:_The_False_Promise_of_ChatGPT⠀⇛
The most prominent strain of A.I. encodes a flawed
conception of language and knowledge.
* § Security⠀➾
o ⚓ PowerDNS ☛ Second_Release_Candidate_of_PowerDNS_DNSdist_1.8.0⠀⇛
We are very happy to release the second candidate of what
will become dnsdist 1.8.0! This release contains fixes
for a few issues that were found in the first release
candidate, the most important one being that dnsdist was
responding from the wrong source IP address in some
setups, which was reported by multiple users.
o § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ Routing_Security_SIG_at_APRICOT_2023_/_APNIC_55⠀⇛
A lively discussion of operational issues and best
practices that help to secure global Internet
routing.
o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ German_travel_ban:_Using_passenger_data_against
international_Antifa?⠀⇛
Since the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001, travel bans
have been imposed on left-wing activists – but this
was first introduced against football fans. Now the
German Federal Police prevented the chairman of the
VVN-BdA from leaving the country at the airport.
# ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ Billions_of_credentials,_personal
records_stolen_through_data_breaches:_report⠀⇛
According to the new State of Cyber Threat
Intelligence report from risk intelligence firm
Flashpoint a growing body of evidence demonstrates
just how extensively cyber threats are overlapping,
intersecting, and relating—“from the resilient
nature of the illicit communities where
cybercriminals operate to the to the tactics,
techniques, and procedures (TTPs) cyber threat
actors use to execute their attacks”.
Flashpoint examines why these threats—from the
online spaces in which cybercriminals operate to
the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) they
use to execute their attacks—are cyclical and what
that means from an intelligence and security
perspective.
* § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Australia_to_buy_US_nuclear_submarines_to_fill
capability_gap⠀⇛
Anthony Albanese is set to announce Australia will
acquire a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines based
primarily on a new British design.
o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Ukraine_claims_pushback_against_Russian_‘capture_of
east_Bakhmut’⠀⇛
Earlier NATO’S secretary general said the rest of the
Ukrainian city could eventually fall to the invading
army.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Pentagon_Blocks_Sharing_Evidence_of_Possible
Russian_War_Crimes_With_Hague_Court⠀⇛
President Biden has not acted to resolve a dispute that
pits the Defense Department against other agencies.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Yuriy_Lutsenko,_Who_Played_a_Key_Role_in_Trump’s
First_Impeachment,_Loses_His_Military_Command⠀⇛
Yuriy Lutsenko’s assignment as the commander of a platoon
of drone operators near the embattled city of Bakhmut was
short-lived.
o ⚓ ADF ☛ Ugandan_Military_to_Enhance_Professionalism_With_Doctorate
Program⠀⇛
ADF STAFF Ugandan military officers will soon have the
opportunity to pursue a doctorate in Defense…
o ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ March_To_Iraq_War,_20_Years_Later:_March_9,
2003⠀⇛
o ⚓ YLE ☛ Hungarian_parliamentary_delegation_meets_with_Finnish_MPs
to_discuss_Nato_bid⠀⇛
Hungarian politicians visit Helsinki as Hungary prepares
to finalise its decision on Finland’s application to join
Nato.
o ⚓ CNN ☛ Why_this_city_could_be_Wagner_Group’s_last_stand_in
Ukraine⠀⇛
Retired Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton breaks down how
some weapons could make a difference in the battle over
the key Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
o ⚓ YLE ☛ Police_suspect_13-year-old_of_stabbing_classmate_at
Helsinki_school⠀⇛
Students at the school have been offered crisis support
following the incident during a home economics class on
Wednesday morning.
o ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_joins_Nato_in_crisis_decision-making_drill⠀⇛
The exercises will involve practising responses to “a
civil-military scenario, set in a hybrid environment,”
the defence alliance says. But no troops are involved.
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ On_Ukraine’s_front:_Grit,_gratitude_–_and_hope_for
West’s_weapons⠀⇛
What does it take to win a war? In a tour of Ukraine’s
long eastern front, fighters say they still have
determination and hope. What they need is more and better
weapons.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Review_After_Breonna_Taylor’s_Death_Finds_Police
Discrimination_in_Louisville⠀⇛
The review, undertaken after a specialized unit killed
Breonna Taylor in a botched raid in 2020, paints a
damning portrait of a department in crisis.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Intelligence_Agencies_Warn_of_China’s
Efforts_to_Expand_Its_Power⠀⇛
China sees a partnership with Russia as a way to
challenge, and potentially weaken, the United States, a
new threat assessment said.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Germany_Cautious_Over_Reports_That_Pro-Ukrainian
Group_Sabotaged_Nord_Stream_Pipeline⠀⇛
Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Germany was waiting
for further investigations, after reports in The New York
Times and other news outlets.
* § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
o ⚓ CNN ☛ Video:_Never-before-seen_images_of_Putin’s_lavish_home_and
reputed_girlfriend⠀⇛
Roman Badanin, an independent Russian journalist who left
Russia after facing the threat of a prison sentence,
discusses his investigation into Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s secret, lavish lifestyle and details
about his reputed girlfriend.
o ⚓ Variety ☛ Escaping_Scandal_Is_Easy_for_Rupert_Murdoch._Will
Lachlan_Be_as_Lucky?⠀⇛
To dismiss the lawsuit as “noise” even as the clear
consensus emerges among legal experts that his company is
in danger of losing in court is an interesting choice of
words. The question is, could this CEO truly believe the
threat Fox faces is immaterial, or is he just projecting
an air of confidence as false as just about every word
that comes out of Tucker Carlson’s mouth?
I’d be inclined to believe the latter, but when it comes
to the Murdochs, the former question has to be seriously
considered. Because Lachlan Murdoch knows all too well
the incredible ability his father has demonstrated over
his own career for evading the consequences of scandals
that seem on the verge of cratering his empire.
* § Environment⠀➾
o ⚓ NBC ☛ Dioxins_have_forced_entire_towns_to_relocate._Testing_could
reveal_if_they_threaten_East_Palestine.⠀⇛
Contamination by dioxins — toxic chemicals known to cause
cancer, disrupt the immune system and cause reproductive
harms — have been at the center of notorious
environmental cleanups from Times Beach, Missouri to Love
Canal, New York to “Mount Dioxin” in Pensacola, Florida.
Dioxins don’t break down easily. Once in the food chain,
the compounds tend to accumulate in people and animals.
In key ways, the smoke-belching fire in East Palestine
offered the right recipe to create these compounds,
experts say.
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Massive_Australian_wildfires_increased
Antarctic_ozone_hole,_study_shows⠀⇛
Smoke from monster wildfires caused a chemical reaction
that widened the ozone hole by 10 per cent, researchers
say.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._and_Europe_Angle_for_New_Deal_to_Resolve
Climate_Spat⠀⇛
American and European officials are trying to reach
agreement on the outlines of a limited trade deal that
could help resolve a major rift over America’s new
climate legislation.
o § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Dark_summer_nights:_India_faces_high
risk_of_power_cuts_after_years_of_coal,_hydro_power_neglect⠀⇛
It could limit India’s ability to address surging
electricity demand when solar energy is not
available.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Crypto-friendly_lender_Silvergate_collapses⠀⇛
Crypto-focused lender Silvergate said it is winding
down operations and will liquidate the bank after
being financially pummeled by turmoil in digital
assets.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Clean_Energy_Is_Suddenly_Less_Polarizing
Than_You_Think⠀⇛
G.O.P. elites are simply lagging behind their
states.
o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Lawlessness,_violence,_courage:_A_battle_for
the_Amazon⠀⇛
Laborers looking to carve out small farms in the
Amazon at the Brazilian government’s behest have
run afoul of big ranching, mining, and timber
companies that exploit both land and workers.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ It’s_19_below_zero_and_the_bird_feeder_is
empty._What’s_a_birder_to_do?⠀⇛
People who maintain bird feeders are trading seeds
for delight. Sometimes that exchange is
inconvenient, and sometimes it’s unexpectedly life-
giving.
* § Finance⠀➾
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ China_is_struggling_with_too_little_inflation⠀⇛
While most of the world is experiencing price increases
it hasn’t seen since the 1980s, China is having the
opposite problem.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_tech_sector’s_go-to_banks_are_getting_squeezed_on
all_sides⠀⇛
One of the most popular banks for cryptocurrency
companies, Silvergate Bank, announced March 8 that it’s
winding_down, largely a consequence of a faltering crypto
market and the failure of its most high-profile client,
FTX.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Joe_Biden_wants_to_raise_taxes_on_himself [Ed: Very
misleading headline]⠀⇛
US president Joe Biden plans to increase taxes on
Americans earning more than $400,000 per year. The plan
is part of a new budget the White House intends to unveil
on Thursday.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Biden’s_proposed_tax_hikes_could_take_aim_at_oil
companies’_record_profits⠀⇛
US president Joe Biden is expected to propose his third
budget on Thursday (March 9), teeing up a fight with
Republicans over a raft of tax hikes intended to reduce
the deficit by $2 trillion over the next decade.
o ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-03-09_MP’s_vote_to_ban_high_rental_housing
deposits_as_good_landlord_law_heads_to_Senate⠀⇛
o ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-03-09_Netherlands_confirms_it_will_restrict_more
ASML_exports_to_China⠀⇛
o ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland’s_foreign_worker_share_doubles_in_a_decade⠀⇛
The Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) wants work-
based immigration to double by the end of the next
parliamentary term.
o ⚓ CNN ☛ Yeezy_fallout_could_push_Adidas_into_its_first_annual_loss
in_31_years⠀⇛
Adidas has warned that it could suffer its first annual
operating loss in more than three decades this year,
mostly because it may have to write off the entire range
of Yeezy-branded clothing and sneakers.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Adidas_Is_Wondering_What_to_Do_With_$1.3_Billion
in_Yeezy_Sneakers⠀⇛
After severing business ties with the rapper Ye, Adidas
said it would cut its dividend and declared 2023 a
“transition year.”
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ A_sure_basis_for_workplace_equality⠀⇛
New laws requiring wage disclosure are meant to promote
equality between male and female employees. Yet a faster
route might lie in fostering qualities from both genders.
o ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Want_to_Impress_Wall_Street?_Just_Add_Some
AI⠀⇛
“What exactly is ‘artificial intelligence’ anyway? It’s
an ambiguous term with many possible definitions,”
Atleson writes. “But one thing is for sure: It’s a
marketing term. Right now it’s a hot one. And at the FTC,
one thing we know about hot marketing terms is that some
advertisers won’t be able to stop themselves from
overusing and abusing them.”
In other words: The feds are keeping a close eye on those
AI claims.
o ⚓ KOL405_|_The_Psychology_of_Property_|_The_Stephan_Kinsella_Series
|_Episode_4_(WiM235)_with_Robert_Breedlove,_of_the_“What_is_Money”
Show⠀⇛
Stephan Kinsella is an American intellectual property
lawyer, author, and deontological anarcho-capitalist. He
joins me for an in-depth conversation about the book “A
Theory of Socialism and Capitalism: Economics, Politics,
and Ethics” by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
* § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
o ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Judge_Unseals_Details_on_Cooperating_Witness_in
Douglass_Mackey_Case⠀⇛
The government just revealed that one of Douglass
Mackey’s co-conspirators pled guilty and has been a
cooperating witness in other investigations since.
o ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ The_759_Digital_Devices_Tucker_Carlson_Didn’t
Review⠀⇛
Tucker Carlson has claimed he has access to lots of
evidence that others have not reviewed.
o ⚓ CNN ☛ White_House_lashes_out_at_Tucker_Carlson_in_extraordinary
rebuke⠀⇛
• Opinion: Tucker Carlson’s spin on Jan. 6 is a lie — I
should know. I was there
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ White_House_Rebukes_Tucker_Carlson_Over
Portrayal_of_Jan._6_Attack⠀⇛
The Biden administration rarely criticizes conservative
media stars by name, but a deputy press secretary
declared that Mr. Carlson “is not credible.”
o ⚓ CNN ☛ Tucker_Carlson’s_spin_on_January_6_is_a_lie_—_I_should
know._I_was_there⠀⇛
Fox News conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson began airing
footage this week of the January 6th insurrection, which
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gifted to him exclusively.
And just as I anticipated, the footage was manipulated
and selectively edited to fit an extreme MAGA narrative
espoused by Carlson, former President Donald Trump and
the leaders of the new Republican House majority.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Israel’s_Judicial_Overhaul_Plan_Ignites_Debate
Among_American_Jews⠀⇛
Jewish American leaders are denouncing a proposal by the
country’s right-wing government to weaken the power of
the country’s judiciary, in ways that some call unusually
forceful.
o ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-07_This_Is_Exactly_What_Israeli
Apartheid_Looks_Like⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Hill ☛ ‘Weaponization’_subcommittee_members_spar_over
‘Twitter_Files’⠀⇛
Democrats accused the House majority of choosing
witnesses to advance a false narrative after former
Twitter executives testified at a House Oversight
Committee hearing last month that they did not have
knowledge of Democrats making direct demands to remove
content.
o ⚓ CyberRisk Alliance LLC ☛ Four_ways_to_give_the_national
cybersecurity_strategy_some_teeth⠀⇛
The Biden administration unveiled its National
Cybersecurity Strategy last week: a groundbreaking policy
proposal that marks an abrupt departure from a three-
decade status quo in which the U.S. government let
industry set its own rules for software and hardware
under the right-sounding rubric of a “public-private
partnership” for cyber.
The strategy recognizes that the “industry secure
thyself” approach failed. The plan pointed out that
markets impose inadequate costs on—and often reward—those
entities that introduce vulnerable products or services
into the digital ecosystem. Those poor software security
practices “greatly increase systemic risk across the
digital ecosystem and leave American citizens bearing the
ultimate cost,” the Biden administration argued in its
report. That’s why the strategy looks to shift liability
from consumers and businesses to “those entities that
fail to take reasonable precautions to secure their
software.”
o ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ Congress_Should_Amend_Section_230,_Senate
Subcommittee_Hears⠀⇛
Section 230 protects platforms from being treated as a
publisher or speaker of information originating from a
third party, thus shielding it from liability for the
posts of the latter. Mary Anne Franks, professor of law
at the University of Miami School of Law, argued that
there is a difference between protecting free speech and
protecting information and the harmful dissemination of
that information.
o ⚓ [Repeat] Silicon Angle ☛ TikTok_introduces_Project_Clover_to
allay_Europe’s_spying_concerns⠀⇛
That’s why the company today unveiled “Project Clover,” a
strategy it says will create a “secure enclave for
European TikTok user data,” at a cost of about $1.3
billion. The company will now store its data on servers
in Ireland and Norway.
[...]
A third-party European cybersecurity company will oversee
any exchange of data. It will monitor and audit data
flows and be responsible for reporting any incidents that
might happen. The identity of the third party has not yet
been announced.
o § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Influencer_on_TikTok:_Before_it_was_terrifying,_it
was_exhilarating⠀⇛
Last summer, I became a somewhat infamous figure on
TikTok when a video I posted pitching myself to be
on “Saturday Night Live” went viral — but not in
the way I’d hoped. At first I was mocked en masse
and parodied, but the conversation quickly veered
into vitriol and outright venom, resulting in a
lengthy bullying campaign that included calls for
me to kill myself.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ The_FCC_could_choose_to_act_against_Rupert_Murdoch
for_Fox_News’_election_lies,_but_few_expect_it_to⠀⇛
The Federal Communications Commission’s oversight
of Fox’s broadcast licenses means it could bring
its power to bear on Murdoch for his admission that
he could have stopped Fox News from spreading
misleading claims about Dominion Voting Systems,
which by extension helped spread the lie that the
2020 election was stolen.
# ⚓ Salon ☛ Trump_is_already_winning_the_“war”_with_Fox_News⠀⇛
For the majority of Americans who believe in
democracy and loathe both Fox News and Donald
Trump, it’s been an endless delight to follow the
ongoing release of internal Fox News
communications, stemming from their legal battle
with Dominion Voting Systems. Dominion filed
another court document in their $1.6 billion
lawsuit against Fox on Tuesday, and somehow, it’s
even funnier than the last couple. While Fox
anchors acted like Trump was their messiah on-air,
behind the scenes they hated him for putting them
in a situation where they had to choose between
backing the Big Lie or losing their viewers.
# ⚓ NPR ☛ From_TV_to_Telegram_to_TikTok,_Moldova_is_being
flooded_with_Russian_propaganda⠀⇛
“Moldova [has been] facing these Russian
information ops and other kind of hybrid
interference [since] far before that was cool,” he
said.
Today, these pro-Russian narratives are pushed
heavily by news outlets, politicians, online
influencers and social media ads. Or, as Paşa put
it: “From very serious evening talk shows on
political subjects to TikTok.”
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Report:_White_Supremacist_Propaganda_Activity
Soared_to_Record_High_in_2022⠀⇛
White supremacist propaganda incidents reached a
record high of 6,751 last year, the ADL said in its
annual assessment of propaganda activity. That
figure is up 38% from the previous high of 4,876
cases in 2021.
The propaganda activity included the mass
distribution of racist, antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ+
flyers, stickers, banners and posters; creation of
graffiti; and laser projections on buildings and
stadiums, the ADL said.
* § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
o ⚓ CNN ☛ China_censors_women_modeling_lingerie_on_livestream
shopping_—_so_men_are_doing_it⠀⇛
Donning a sassy piece of silk lingerie, a male model
grooves to the beat and forms a heart shape with his
fingers during a livestreaming session on Douyin, one of
China’s most popular video-sharing platforms.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Protesters_in_Georgia_Clash_With_Police_Over
‘Foreign_Agents’_Law⠀⇛
Critics of proposed legislation targeting “foreign
agents” say the law brings the country closer to Russia.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Russian_Editor_Evades_Putin’s_Censorship⠀⇛
Galina Timchenko, founder of the dissident news site
Meduza, has adapted as the information noose has
tightened since the invasion of Ukraine.
o ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ Section_230_Shuts_Down_Conversation_on
First_Amendment,_Panel_Hears⠀⇛
We need to talk about what level of the first amendment
is necessary in a new world of technology, said Bergman.
This discussion happens primarily in an open litigation
process, he said, which is not now available for those
that are caused harm by these products.
o ⚓ VOA News ☛ Iran_Urged_to_Release_Reporter_Who_Covered_School
Poisonings⠀⇛
It said he managed to phone his sister to tell her he had
been arrested but it was not clear where he was being
held.
Pourtabatabaei had criticized the lack of any reaction
from the authorities in Qom to the first reported cases
of poisoning, it added.
The mysterious poisonings have intensified tensions in
Iran almost six months into the protest movement sparked
by the death of Mahsa Amini who had been arrested for
allegedly violating the mandatory dress code for women.
o ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Hey_Minister_Rodriguez:_Canadian_Digital_Creators
Are_Not_Loopholes⠀⇛
But more importantly, Canadian digital creators are not
loopholes and characterizing efforts to address their
concerns as such is a stain on the Heritage Minister.
They may not belong to well established lobby groups,
make political donations, or hold lavish conferences that
provide politicians with big platforms, but their careers
and livelihoods are not for this government or this
minister to put at risk. For months, they have made their
case before MPs and Senators. Many of these creators,
participating in a political process for the first time,
engaged in the hope that the Minister of Canadian
Heritage and the government would demonstrate some
concern for their concerns. The Senate took the time to
hear them and agreed that this was not about siding with
tech companies, but about siding with Canadian creators.
For Rodriguez, government MPs, and representatives from
the NDP and Bloc to ignore them and reject the Senate fix
that would have little negative consequence for anyone
else is shameful. And for other creator groups such as
the DOC, CMPA, and SOCAN to throw their fellow creators
under the bus is unconscionable.
* § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
o ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-07_US_court_convicts_2_men_of_2012_kidnapping_of
journalist_Michael_Scott_Moore_in_Somalia⠀⇛
o ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-07_Council_of_Europe_journalist_safety_platform
publishes_annual_report_on_press_freedom [Ed: The EU is ignoring
not only EPO crimes, but also bloggers who receive threats from
these criminals at the EPO; how about enabling people to expose
corruption in Europe as well? EU protects organised crime in Europe
provided that this crime is linked to high-level politicians. It is
about connections, not about law.]⠀⇛
* § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Military_Repatriates_Saudi_Engineer_Who
From_Guantánamo_Bay⠀⇛
Ghassan al-Sharbi had been held by U.S. forces for more
than two decades without trial. Prosecutors abandoned
early efforts to charge him.
o ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-03-09_Activists_from_Basel_take_over_Freedom_for
Abdullah_Öcalan_Vigil_in_Strasbourg⠀⇛
o ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-03-09_Afghan_women_protest_against_the_Taliban
regime_in_Cologne⠀⇛
o ⚓ ABC ☛ Conviction_vacated_for_man_wrongfully_imprisoned_due_to
photo_lineup_mistake:_‘I’ve_waited_a_long_time’⠀⇛
A reinvestigation concluded detectives knew they were
different people but were intent on arresting the
defendant and used the faulty identification procedure as
pretext, prosecutors said.
o ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Iran-linked_hackers_used_fake_Atlantic
Council-affiliated_persona_to_target_human_rights_researchers⠀⇛
On the face of it, the Twitter profile of a person
calling herself Sara Shokouhi looks like any other
earnest Middle East-focused researcher. Her tweets are a
litany of retweets of various voices protesting the
Iranian government. Her bio claims she’s completed a PhD
from Northwestern State University of Louisiana. At the
top of her profile, the person calling herself Sara
Shokouhi peers into the camera with her hands folded over
a stack of books.
In reality, Shokouhi is a persona manufactured by
Iranian-linked hackers to target a number of different
Iran-focused researchers, according to a report released
Thursday by Secureworks. The woman in her photos is in
fact a Russia-based psychologist and tarot card reader.
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Sexual_Deepfakes_of_Emma_Watson_Run_Rampant_in_Facebook
and_Instagram_Ads⠀⇛
As the role of artificial intelligence appears to
continue growing in our daily lives, it’s taking people’s
likeness along with it. This week, hundreds of deepfaked
videos featuring faces that looked exactly like Emma
Watson and Scarlett Johansson ran across Facebook and
Instagram as part of an apparent advertising campaign for
an AI deepfake app called FaceMega.
o ⚓ BBC ☛ Razia_Muradi:_The_Afghan_woman_who_won_university_gold_in
India⠀⇛
Ms Muradi, 27, who is from Afghanistan, has been studying
in India for two years. She recently made headlines when
she received a gold medal for topping a master’s course
in public administration at her university in the western
state of Gujarat.
* § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Gigi_Sohn,_Biden’s_F.C.C._Nominee,_Withdraws⠀⇛
Gigi Sohn, who was first nominated by President Biden in
October 2021, said she had faced “unrelenting, dishonest
and cruel attacks” on her character and career.
* § Monopolies⠀➾
o § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Laundry_Lists_of_Components_are
Insufficient_Written_Description_for_a_Particular
Combination⠀⇛
The pending Supreme Court case of Amgen v. Sanofi
focuses on a broadly claimed genus and asks whether
the disclosure is sufficiently detailed. The
Federal Circuit’s recent UMN v. Gilead is the flip-
side.
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ EPO_–_Bringing_Fun_to_the_Teams [Ed:
Use of humour to shed light on corruption of EPO management.
See the comments in this post.]⠀⇛
The magic solution to these EPO home-made shortages
of office space might appear to be more
teleworking, but plausible calculations by the
Local Staff Committee of Munich have shown that the
result of these closures will be that at least two
thirds of the Munich desks will have to be
converted into an “office for the day”.
Whether this is the ideal mode of working for
examiners is, at least in my view, highly doubtful,
but I will not repeat here what I wrote earlier
about the EPO’s New Normal. The matter is even
further complicated by the fact that the EPO
urgently needs more examiners to cope with the
increased (and still increasing) number of
applications. The current drop in final decisions
in examination proceedings (grants or refusals) is
indeed worrying, as reported here.
Before this gloomy backdrop it is reassuring to
read that humor at the EPO has not been completely
lost. The enclosed letter of an anonymous EPO
family member is pure gold. Have fun!
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Functionality_linked_to_opt-out
procedure_Unified_Patent_Court_temporarily_deactivated [Ed:
Unified Patent Court is illegal, it will be squashed, and
those who still promote this may be participating in a high-
level crime. UPC is a case of "illegal, but got lobbyists".
They know the whole UPC will be legally challenged and
already prepare political links and bogus arguments to
retroactively justify a corrupt system, promoted by lies and
intentional violations of treaties, conventions,
constitutions.]⠀⇛
o § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Survey:_70%_of_female_composers_in_Finland_think
music_industry_is_unequal⠀⇛
The survey aimed to discover why only around 20
percent of music composers in Finland are female or
non-binary, while half of the country’s music
students are women.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o BSD
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Programming/Development
* Leftovers
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Kubernetes_Blog:_Forensic_container
analysis⠀⇛
Authors: Adrian Reber (Red Hat)
In my previous article, Forensic_container
checkpointing_in
Kubernetes, I introduced checkpointing in
Kubernetes
and how it has to be setup and how it can be used.
The name of the
feature is Forensic container checkpointing, but I
did not go into
any details how to do the actual analysis of the
checkpoint created by
Kubernetes. In this article I want to provide
details how the
checkpoint can be analyzed.
Checkpointing is still an alpha feature in
Kubernetes and this article
wants to provide a preview how the feature might
work in the future.
§ Preparation
Details about how to configure Kubernetes and the
underlying CRI implementation
to enable checkpointing support can be found in my
Forensic_container
checkpointing_in_Kubernetes article.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Krita ☛ New_Video:_How_to_Draw_Dynamic_Figures_in_Krita⠀⇛
This week, we have released the latest of Ramon’s
Krita videos!
# ⚓ YouTube ☛ 2023-03-09_Learn_The_Linux_Terminal_In_30
Minutes⠀⇛
# ⚓ YouTube ☛ 2023-03-09_Nitrux_2.7.0_overview_|_#YourNextOS_—
Boldly_Different⠀⇛
# ⚓ YouTube ☛ 2023-03-09_Refusing_To_Use_Windows_For_“Religious
Reasons” [Ed: Feeding_pro-Microsoft_trolls_or_straw_men]⠀⇛
# ⚓ YouTube ☛ 2023-03-09_How_to_install_Lightworks_on_Linux
Lite_6.2⠀⇛
# ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ The_Linux_Software_Store_War_Rages_On⠀⇛
Listen now (25 min) | The Lunduke Journal of
Technology Podcast – Mar 8, 2023
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ How_to_write_a_Bash_script_to_run_commands⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ LHB_Monthly_#23.03:_Free_Kubernetes
Courses,_chage_and_pgrep_Linux_Commands⠀⇛
Kubernetes is perhaps the hottest term in the
DevOps industry today. I have got a hidden gem for
you in this newsletter.
💭 Let’s have a look at the interesting things
included here:
# Free Kubernetes course
# Selected LHB Linux articles
# Memes that can only be understood by Linux
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ 2023-03-09_How_to_replace_Windows_with_Linux_Mint
on_your_PC⠀⇛
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Slimbook_Titan,_Kubuntu,_installation,
hybrid_graphics⠀⇛
I’m a little bit torn about what I ought to
feel and think. The first installation
attempt is worrying. The fact the BIOS won’t
respect my backlight settings, or the fact
the lighting pattern changes seemingly
randomly, and/or after any login, is also
quite annoying. But then, apart from that,
second install three days in, the system is
stable, fast, and works rather well.
If I ignore the first attempt, then things
have gone pretty smoothly. The dual-graphics
setup works great, I have a solid array of
programs installed and running (more on that
soon), the performance is very good, and the
battery holds its charge quite reasonably.
Well, I guess that’s all for now. Stay tuned
for the next episode of Dedoimedo’s Titan
adventures. To wit, applications and games.
Bye bye now.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ MWL ☛ Order_Books_for_BSDCan_Delivery⠀⇛
BSDCan 2023 is happening in meatspace. Folks like
getting books from me personally, so normally I
bring a few copies of each old title and about ten
copies of each book released since the previous
con. I’ve released eighteen books since the last
meatspace BSDCan, plus innumerable chapbooks and
collections and anthologies…
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ What_is_an_edge-native_application?⠀⇛
Cloud-native. Those two simple words redefined how
we build, deploy, and even consume software.
Twenty-five years ago, when I had hair I could pull
on when having trouble with my code, the idea that
I would use an office suite contained in my web
browser would have sounded like science fiction.
And yet, here we are. Gone are the days of
installing an office suite from a pile of floppy
disks. Naturally, the three or four years gap
between releases is also a thing of the past.
Nowadays, new features may appear anytime and
anywhere, with no installation required. It’s an
understatement to say that the velocity of the
software industry increased by an order of
magnitude.
This evolution is a tremendous achievement from my
perspective. Of course, if you are a bit younger
than me or even one of those “cloud-native”
developers who never experienced anything else, you
surely see things differently. At this point,
cloud-native is de facto how things are done—even
for me. It is not exciting or new, just assumed.
However, there are still applications living
outside the cloud. Those applications are
increasingly impacting our personal and
professional lives. You see, software is eating the
world. And this means cloud-native applications are
increasingly supplemented with edge-native ones.
In this article, I will define edge applications
and describe their characteristics. But before I
get to that, it’s important to understand how the
cloud and edge environments differ.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ siduction_2022.1.1_“Masters_of_War”_Arrives
with_Linux_Kernel_6.2_and_KDE_Plasma_5.27⠀⇛
Synced with the Debian Sid (Unstable) repositories
as of March 8th, 2023, siduction 2022.1.1 is here
to bump the kernel packages to the latest Linux 6.2
release shipping with Linux kernel 6.2.2 by
default.
It also bumps the KDE Plasma version in the
standalone Plasma edition to the latest KDE Plasma
5.27.2 release, which is accompanied by the latest
KDE Frameworks 5.103 and KDE Gear 22.12.3 software
suites. The KDE Plasma flavor remains the flagship
edition of siduction.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ STMicro_introduces_cost-optimized_STM32MP13
Cortex-A7_microprocessor⠀⇛
STMicroelectronics’ STM32MP13 1 GHz single-core Arm
Cortex-A7 microprocessor series is the latest
addition to the Linux-capable STM32MP1 family, with
a cost-optimized design that does without the
Cortex-M4 real-time core found in the original
STM32MP15 series, while still offering Ethernet,
CAN FD, camera and display depending on the
specific SKU: STM32MP131, STTM32MP133, or
STM32MP135.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Videos_Teach_Bare_Metal_RP2040⠀⇛
When we write about retrocomputers, we realize that
back in the day, people knew all the details of
their computer. You had to, really, if you wanted
to get anything done. These days, we more often
pick peripherals and just assume our C or other
high level code will fit and run on the CPU.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ New_Raspberry_Pi_Camera_With_Global_Shutter⠀⇛
Raspberry Pi has just introduced a new camera
module in the high-quality camera format. For the
same $50 price you would shell out for the HQ
camera, you get roughly eight times fewer pixels.
But this is a global shutter camera, and if you
need a global shutter, there’s just no substitute.
That’s a big deal for the Raspberry Pi ecosystem.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Xenomorph_Android_Banking_Trojan_Returns_with
a_New_and_More_Powerful_Variant⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android:_Enabling_choice,_competition,_and_diversity_in_the
mobile_industry_–_Manila_Bulletin⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Millions_of_Android_fans_must_not_ignore_three
free_upgrades_–_not_using_them_is_a_waste_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Mirror UK ☛ All_Samsung_Galaxy_owners_urged_to_download
‘critical’_Android_update_today_–_Mirror_Online⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ghacks ☛ The_Death_of_Speed_Boosting_Apps?_Android_14_makes
this_fundamental_change⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Google_Pixel_7a,_Android_14_to_launch_at
Google_I/O_2023_event?⠀⇛
# ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ OnePlus_Nord_CE_is_now_receiving_the_update_to
OxygenOS_13_based_on_Android_13_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛
# ⚓ Motorola_backtracks_One_5G_Ace_Android_12_update_plans⠀⇛
# ⚓ Lifewire ☛ 8_Best_Password_Apps_for_Android_Tablets⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Review_of_SONOFF_ZBCurtain_Zigbee_Smart
Curtain_Motor_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ Revolutionizing_Customer_and_Patient_Satisfaction_With
Open_Source⠀⇛
As the world continues to rely heavily on technology,
customer and patient satisfaction is becoming
progressively important. The rise of open-source software
has brought about new ways to improve satisfaction
levels, leading to tremendous overall success.
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ Open_Source_Cloud_Solutions_for_Healthcare⠀⇛
In recent years, the healthcare industry has been
increasingly adopting cloud computing solutions to
enhance the quality of healthcare services. One of the
most cost-effective and efficient ways to implement cloud
solutions in healthcare is through open-source software.
o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ FOSS_Weekly_#23.10:_Nix_Package_Manager,_DOSBox,
GNOME_Workspaces_and_More_Linux_Stuff⠀⇛
The latest and colorful edition of FOSS Weekly discusses
package management in Nix OS among other things.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ How_the_GDB_debugger_and_other_tools_use
call_frame_information_to_determine_the_active_function
calls⠀⇛
In my previous article, I showed how debuginfo is
used to map between the current instruction pointer
(IP) and the function or line containing it. That
information is valuable in showing what code the
processor is currently executing. However, having
more context for the calls that lead up to the
current function and line being executed is also
extremely helpful.
For example, suppose a function in a library has an
illegal memory access due to a null pointer being
passed as a parameter into the function. Just
looking at the current function and line shows that
the fault was triggered by attempted access through
a null pointer. However, what you really want to
know is the full context of the active function
calls leading up to that null pointer access, so
you can determine how that null pointer was
initially passed into the library function. This
context information is provided by a backtrace, and
allows you to determine which functions could be
responsible for the bogus parameter.
One thing’s certain: Determining the currently
active function calls is a non-trivial operation.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ What’s_the_scam_with_Nine’s_“Panel_of
Experts”?_Red_alert,_it’s_ASPI⠀⇛
The backlash over Nine Entertainment’s “Reds Under the
Beds” campaign continues as they defend their stories by
pointing to “panel of experts”. Who are these experts?
Most of them are connected to the pro-war think tank ASPI
(Australian Strategic Policy Institute) which is funded
by the government and global arms manufacturers – in
other words, the SMH and Age “Red Alert” campaign is
supported by confirmation bias of the most dangerous
kind, the kind which takes countries to war.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Evolution_of_Baseball⠀⇛
It was a Saturday afternoon. I was flipping through
channels between sporting events. I landed on Roy
Firestone’s “Up Close” interview program. He hosted
hundreds of great sports personalities and heroes.
Today was a bit different. Damn, one of the most exciting
baseball players in the Los Angeles Dodger folklore was
talking to Roy; Maury Wills. My childhood memories were
raging. I couldn’t divert my stare. I am pretty sure my
nose was almost touching the tv screen.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Looking_at_the_Skeletons_Inside_the_NFL’s_Closet⠀⇛
Renowned sports journalist Dave Zirin talks about his
latest documentary, which explores the unjust, unfair and
deeply racist history of the NFL coupled with its
commitment to nationalism, militarism and corporatism.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Stuck_in_the_Labyrinth⠀⇛
Crises in Mexico have a way of taking on their own unique
expression. Indeed, many in Mexico have come to believe
that, rather than marking a sharp turning point, crisis
is the permanent state of affairs.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Capitalist_Higher_Education_Didn’t_Break
the_American_Dream,_Capitalism_Did⠀⇛
Will Bunch, After the Fall of the Ivory Tower: How
College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our
Politics – and How to Fix It (William Morrow, 2022)
The Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch
wants you to know that the extreme cost and class
exclusiveness of higher education is driving the
polarization of US-American society and politics
between liberal blue (Democrat) and revanchist red
(Republican).
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Bernie_Sanders_Introduces_Bill_to_Raise_Minimum
Teacher_Pay_to_$60,000⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Educators_Are_Nation_Builders’:_Sanders
Bill_Would_Ensure_Minimum_$60K_Salary_for_All_Teachers⠀⇛
Demanding an end to “the international
embarrassment” of low teacher pay in the United
States, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday
introduced legislation to guarantee a minimum
salary for public school educators of $60,000 per
year, moving to fulfill a pledge he made during his
2020 presidential campaign.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ AI_Won’t_Destroy_Education—But_It_May
Expose_So_Much_of_What_We’re_Already_Doing_Wrong⠀⇛
The future tapped me quietly on the shoulder the
other day and suggested that I take a moment to
learn about the writing bots.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Physics-Controlled_Component_Auto-Placer⠀⇛
[Jarrett] recently stumbled upon a class of drawing
algorithms called force-directed graphs, which
artificially apply forces to the elements. The
final graph is then generated by applying the laws
of physics and letting the system reach
equilibrium. This can often result in a pleasing
presentation of things like mind maps and other
diagrams without having to hand-place everything.
He realized that this approach almost mimics the
way he places components when doing a PCB layout.
Out of curiosity or intense boredom, we’re not sure
which, he decided to implement this in a tool that
interacts with KiCad ( see animated GIF below the
break ).
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Guided_Tour_Of_The_NES⠀⇛
No matter your age or background, there’s an
excellent chance you’ll recognize the Nintendo
Entertainment System (NES) at first glance. The
iconic 8-bit system not only revitalized the gaming
industry, but helped to establish the “blueprint”
of console gaming for decades to come. It’s a
machine so legendary and transformative that even
today, it enjoys a considerable following. Some
appreciate the more austere approach to gaming from
a bygone era, while others are fascinated with the
functional aspects of console.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Measuring_A_Millisecond_Mechanically⠀⇛
If you are manufacturing something, you have to
test it. It wouldn’t do, for example, for your car
to say it was going 60 MPH when it was really going
90 MPH. But if you were making a classic Leica
camera back in the early 20th century, how do you
measure a shutter that operates at 1/1000 of a
second — a millisecond — without modern
electronics? The answer is a special stroboscope
that would look at home in any cyberpunk novel.
[SmarterEveryDay] visited a camera restoration
operation in Finland, and you can see the machine
in action in the video below.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Power_Tool_Battery_Fume_Extractor⠀⇛
A solder fume extractor is something we could
probably all use. While there isn’t much to them,
[Steven Bennett] put a lot of thought into making
one that was better for him, and we admired his
design process, as well as the extractor fan
itself. You can see the finished result in the
video below.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Environmental_Watchdog_Says_Buttigieg_‘Can
and_Must’_Restore_Obama-Era_Railway_Safety_Rules⠀⇛
As industry employees push for improvements to
bipartisan railway safety legislation and reject
efforts by rail companies to introduce new safety
rules on their own, one public health advocacy
group on Thursday called on the Biden
administration to do everything in its power to
make trains safer for workers and American
communities.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Norfolk_Southern_CEO_Refuses_to_Commit_to
Giving_Workers_7_Paid_Sick_Days,_Halting_Stock_Buybacks⠀⇛
Thursday’s U.S. Senate hearing about the ongoing
environmental and public health disaster in East
Palestine, Ohio “did not go well” for Norfolk
Southern president and CEO Alan Shaw, the
progressive media outlet More Perfect Union
declared.
# ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Key_takeaways_from_the_Senate_hearing_on
the_East_Palestine,_Ohio_train_derailment⠀⇛
A powerful Senate panel held a hearing Thursday on
the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment as
lawmakers on both sides of the aisle call for
answers and action in the wake of the disaster.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ In_the_Era_of_Legal_Marijuana,_Less_Teen_Use⠀⇛
Opponents thought legalization would lead to more
teens using marijuana. Ten years since the first
states legalized, the reverse has happened.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ California_Will_End_$54M_Walgreens_Deal_After
Company_Curbed_Abortion_Pill_Sales⠀⇛
# ⚓ Shadowproof ☛ Healthcare_As_Punishment:_Seeking_Medical
Care_In_Washington_Prisons⠀⇛
This article was funded by the Marvel Cooke
Fellowship. Read more about this reporting project
and make a contribution to fund our fellowship
budget.
About one year after the COVID-19 pandemic hit
Washington State prisons, sick prisoners at
Stafford Creek Correctional Center found themselves
huddled into the gym to isolate from the rest of
the population.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_Obamacare_Enabled_a_Christian_Health_Care
Cash_Grab⠀⇛
Joe Guarino rescued an entire industry with help
from what some called “divine” intervention.
A little-known lobbyist from Virginia, Guarino was
hired in 2007 by the Alliance of Health Care
Sharing Ministries, the trade association for
nonprofit alternatives to medical insurance founded
on Christian principles. Health care sharing
ministries take fees from members, which are then
used to pay other members’ health bills.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ In_the_Era_of_Legal_Marijuana,_the_Kids_are
Alright⠀⇛
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Health_regulator_fights_to_revoke
cannabis_permits_it_issued⠀⇛
Cofepris says it was forced by the Supreme Court to
grant the permits without knowing if the company’s
products are safe.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ A_massive_study_of_the_pandemic_found_something
surprising_in_global_mental_health:_resilience⠀⇛
Back in 2020, people were suffering.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Who’s_Behind_the_NetWire_Remote_Access
Trojan?⠀⇛
A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly
operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT)
marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a
stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon
passwords. The arrest coincided with a seizure of
the NetWire sales website by the U.S. Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI). While the defendant
in this case hasn’t yet been named publicly, the
NetWire website has been leaking information about
the likely true identity and location of its owner
for the past 11 years.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Hearing_Brings_Attention_To_US
Agency’s_Effort_To_Compel_Twitter_To_Identify
Journalists_Working_On_‘Twitter_Files’⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Matt_Taibbi:_My_Statement_to_Congress⠀⇛
In testimony to the House Judiciary Committee
about the Twitter Files, a few words about
why state-funded “anti-disinformation” and
free speech can’t coexist.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ DHS_Oversight_Report_Says_ICE,_Secret
Service_Illegally_Deployed_Stingray_Devices⠀⇛
For years, Stingray devices (the most famous
brand name for cell site simulators) flew
under the radar. Law enforcement had them and
used them, but often hid their use under
court orders and subpoenas designed to obtain
phone records, rather than the precise
location of phone owners.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ So_Much_For_The_4th:_Ring_Allows_Cops_To
Acquire_Recordings_Of_Non-Suspect’s_Home_And_Business⠀⇛
Amazon’s doorbell surveillance acquisition,
Ring, has spent most of its time, money, and
energy courting cops. If law enforcement
agencies are willing to forgo a little
dignity and autonomy, the company will given
them cameras free of charge, allowing cops to
expand their surveillance capabilities by
outfitting homes with recording devices.
# ⚓ Tor ☛ Reflecting_on_How_We_Plant_and_Grow_Onions⠀⇛
In February of 2022 we launched a small team
within the Tor Project called the Onion
Support group. It was initiated with the
simple goal to increase onion service
adoption among civil society groups, human
rights organizations, and news media outlets.
What drove us to create the group was
realizing that onion services were not being
used to their fullest extent and their
features were not well understood among those
promoting human rights. More importantly,
there’s not enough support and guidance for
groups around the world who want to set up
their own onion site.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Progressives_Praise_Biden_Budget_for
Investments_in_‘Widespread_Prosperity_and_Economic_Growth’⠀⇛
While blasting the White House’s proposed $886
billion in military spending as “madness,”
progressives on Thursday also praised portions of
U.S. President Joe Biden’s fiscal year 2024 budget
for sizable social investments that could lead to
“broader opportunity, greater economic and health
security, lower levels of hardship, and a nation
where everyone can thrive.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Ukraine’s_Future:_Like_Korea’s_or
Yugoslavia’s?⠀⇛
On February 24, the first anniversary of the
invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir
Putin failed to commemorate the occasion with a
speech.
There wasn’t much for Putin to celebrate. The
invasion had failed to dislodge the government of
Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv or incorporate all of
Ukrainian territory into greater Russia.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ UN_Disarmament_Official_Lays_Out_Path_to
Reverse_‘Dangerous’_Nuclear_Trends⠀⇛
The head of the United Nations disarmament division
warned Thursday of the need for urgent global
action to eliminate atomic weapons, especially
during the current heightened tensions between the
United States and Russia—the world’s leading
nuclear powers—over the latter’s thermonuclear
threats during its invasion of Ukraine.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Madness’:_Biden_Requests_Record_$886
Billion_Military_Budget⠀⇛
President Joe Biden unveiled a budget blueprint
Thursday that requests $886.4 billion in military
spending for fiscal year 2024, pushing for a nearly
$30 billion increase over current outlays as
progressives demand cuts to the bloated and
notoriously fraud-ridden Pentagon.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Fearing_Future_Probes_of_US_Atrocities,
Pentagon_Blocks_ICC_From_Russian_War_Crimes_Evidence⠀⇛
The Pentagon is helping to shield Russia from
International Criminal Court accountability for its
atrocities in Ukraine, fearing such a reckoning
could set a precedent allowing the tribunal to
prosecute U.S. war crimes, a report published
Wednesday revealed.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_American_War_from_Hell,_20_Years_Later⠀⇛
Juan Cole on how Washington lost Its moral compass
in Iraq.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ How_Washington_Lost_Its_Moral_Compass_in
Iraq⠀⇛
Who remembers anymore that, in 2003, we were
Vladimir Putin? Today, our cable and social-media
news feeds are blanketed with denunciations of the
president of the Russian Federation for his lawless
and brutal invasion of Ukraine. When Secretary of
State Antony Blinken met briefly with Russian
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New Delhi on
March 2nd, he told him in no uncertain terms, “End
this war of aggression.”
Putin himself, however, has a longer memory. In the
speech that launched his “special operation,” he
pointedly denounced the U.S. for “the invasion of
Iraq without any legal grounds.” Then he added, “We
witnessed lies made at the highest state level and
voiced from the high U.N. rostrum. As a result, we
see a tremendous loss in human life, damage,
destruction, and a colossal upsurge of terrorism.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ “One_Day_Our_Luck_Will_Run_Out”:_Ukraine_Nuclear
Plant_Loses_Power_Again⠀⇛
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Turkey_as_an_ally_and_a_mediator_in_the
Russia-Ukraine_War._What_does_it_want_from_it?⠀⇛
During the course of the conflict in Russia-
Ukraine, Ankara has managed to preserve its
strategic autonomy and has avoided siding with the
West in placing sanctions on Russia while yet
managing to maintain its connections with both
Moscow and Kyiv without jeopardizing its own
geostrategic calculations.
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ One_year_on,_here’s_how_the_Ukraine
conflict_is_changing_the_world_order⠀⇛
In his recent landmark address to Russia’s
parliament, President Vladimir Putin cited the war
in Ukraine and US/NATO involvement in the conflict
as the main reason for his decision to “suspend”
Moscow’s participation in the 2010 New START Treaty
on strategic nuclear weapons.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Transnistrian_State_Security_Ministry_says_it
thwarted_assassination_attempt_order_by_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The State Security Ministry of Transnistria, the
Moscow-backed breakaway region in Moldova, said
Thursday that it prevented a “terrorist attack”
against “multiple officials” that was ordered by
the Ukrainian Security Service.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Ethiopia:_The_Agony_of_Tribal_Nationalism⠀⇛
In whatever form it manifests, whether it’s
distaste for foreigners, refugees and asylum
seekers, a nationalistic economic policy or flag-
waving patriotism, tribal nationalism is a cancer
upon the world. Violent, ugly, and often deadly, it
creates and strengthens divisions, often resulting
in war, one after another after another throughout
history.
Ethiopia is a land rich with ethnic diversity: Some
70 tribal groups live within this ancient nation,
all with their own cultures, traditions, and
dialects. Tolerance, understanding, and cooperation
are essential within such a bountiful landscape.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ John_Bolton,_the_Washington_Post_and_the
Death_of_Arms_Control⠀⇛
Arms control and disarmament are on life support,
and John Bolton and the Washington Post have
predictably come along to try to prevent any
resuscitation. The Post masthead daily proclaims
that “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” but the paper
fails to recognize that there are seminal issues
that affect the interests of democratic regimes.
Arms control is one of these issues.
Bolton has been fighting arms control and
disarmament for the past several decades, and
the Post has willingly provided a sounding board
for his specious arguments. In tracing the
dangerous demise of disarmament, Bolton emerges as
a dangerous and permanent presence. He was the key
adviser to the Bush and Trump administrations when
they abrogated the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty,
the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, and
the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the Iranian
nuclear accord).
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_military_confirms_identity_of_man_shot
on_video_as_Oleksandr_Matsiyevsky_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have
confirmed that the soldier, who was shot in a video
that appeared on social networks on March 6, was a
fighter from the 163rd battalion of the 119th
separate brigade of the Territorial Defense Forces
of the Chernihiv region, Oleksandr Matsiyevsky.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Invisible’_migrants_Ukrainian_refugees_in_Poland
brace_themselves_for_a_long_war_—_Meduza⠀⇛
After Russia began its full-scale invasion of
Ukraine in February 2022, the Polish government and
public welcomed Ukrainian refugees with open arms.
But as the war grinds into its second year, and
with spring offensives reportedly on the horizon,
the reality that many Ukrainians won’t be returning
home any time soon is setting in. Meduza special
correspondent Kristina Safonova traveled to Warsaw,
Kraków, and Przemyśl to get a glimpse of what life
is like for the 1.56 million refugees from Ukraine
who have sought refuge in Poland.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_‘foreign_agents’_ask_authorities_in
Georgia_not_to_adopt_its_own_‘foreign_agent’_law_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Dozens of Russian journalists, activists,
musicians, and public figures — all of whom are
have been designated “foreign agents” by the
Russian government — have signed an appeal to the
parliament of Georgia, asking lawmakers there not
to adopt an analogous law.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Why_Sabotage_is_a_Growing_Form_of_Warfare
in_Ukraine⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ War_Over_Taiwan:_Australia’s_Gang_of_Five⠀⇛
Diligently, obediently and with a degree of
dangerous imbecility, a number of Australian media
outlets are manufacturing a consensus for war with
a country that has never been a natural, historical
enemy, nor sought to be. But as Australia remains
the satellite of a Sino-suspicious US imperium, its
officials and their dutiful advocates in the press
seem obligated to pave the way for conflict.
The latest example of this came in articles run in
the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of
Melbourne. The premise is already clear from the
columnists, Peter Hartcher and Matthew Knott.
Australia faces a “Red Alert”, and, to that end,
needs a warring fan club. Not since the domino
theory bewitched strategists and confused military
planners have Australians witnessed this: a series
of articles featuring a gang of five with one
purpose: to render the Australian public so witless
as to reject any peaceful accommodation.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Heavy_traffic_buildup_reported_at_Georgia’s
Verkhnii_Lars_border_crossing_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A line of vehicles multiple kilometers long formed
on the Georgian side of the Verkhnii Lars border
crossing between Russia and Georgia early on the
morning of March 9, according to media and
eyewitness reports on Telegram, as well as Yandex
Maps.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Sent_there_to_be_meat’:_Why_Russian_draftees_are
suddenly_publishing_so_many_video_pleas_to_Putin_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Since the start of 2023, Russian draftees have
released numerous public video statements in which
they complain about being assigned to units based
in the “Donetsk People’s Republic” and sent into
battle with inadequate training, insufficient
supplies, and poor service conditions. According to
military analysts, there’s a reason these public
appeals have suddenly become so frequent: it used
to be Donbas local draftees who were sent on these
missions, but now there are few left, so it’s
Russians’ turn to go. The independent news outlet
iStories looked into the situation. Meduza is
publishing a lightly abridged translation of their
report.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Volunteer_group_fighting_in_Ukraine_registers_as_a
commercial_enterprise_in_Russia_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s Federal Tax Service has registered a group
called the P. A. Sudoplatov Volunteer Battalion as
a legal entity. BBC News Russian writes that this
is the first instance of a company fighting in
Ukraine officially registering as a commercial
structure in Russia.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Ben_Jealous’s_New_Mission:_Saving_the_Planet⠀⇛
Ben Jealous has spent much of his career fighting
for voting rights and prison reform. Now, as he
takes the helm of the Sierra Club, he’s thinking
about other ways to fight injustice. That means
pushing back against freeways that cut through
neighborhoods, demanding accountability when a
train derailment spills toxic chemicals into a
community, and continuing the organization’s work
to shutter coal plants. This article originally
appeared in Nexus Media News.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Cleanup_of_Oceans_‘Futile’_If_Plastic
Production_Continues_at_Current_Rate:_Scientist⠀⇛
On the heels of a historic agreement to protect the
biodiversity of the high seas, researchers from
around the world published a study this week
underscoring the need for rapid, sweeping action to
address “unprecedented” plastic pollution of oceans
and sharply reduce global production.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Top_U.S._Law_Schools_Accused_of_Creating_a
Student_‘Pipeline’_into_Firms_Serving_Fossil_Fuel
Industry⠀⇛
Elite law schools in the United States are
disproportionately funneling their students
into jobs serving fossil fuel clients,
according to a new report published Thursday.
The Law Students for Climate Accountability
(LSCA) report finds that the top 20 schools
have produced fossil fuel lawyers at more
than three times the rate of the average law
school, based on the US News & World Report’s
law school rankings. Nearly half (49 percent)
of the corporate lawyers working for the
fossil fuel industry, according to the
report’s data set, came from one of the top
20-ranked schools.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Solar_Mitigation_Battleground⠀⇛
A battle over how to protect the planet from
overheating is heating up.
Academics are coming out of the woodwork,
forming coalitions, issuing declarations. A
subdued debate over the merits versus
demerits of solar geoengineering (SRM) has
been ongoing for years. Now battle lines are
forming.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ India’s_anti-money_laundering_laws_will_now
apply_to_crypto_transactions⠀⇛
The Indian government will apply anti-money
laundering provisions to transactions related
to cryptocurrencies or virtual tokens, in an
effort to tighten its supervision of digital
assets.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Dozen_Years_after_Fukushima,
Nuclear_Power_is_Still_a_Death_Wish⠀⇛
A dozen years after four atomic reactors
exploded at Fukushima, the plant STILL daily
irradiates 150 tons of water which must be
treated and stored forever.
Thousands of tons more of such lethal liquid
are still held in rotting tanks. The Japanese
government wants to dump them in the Pacific,
but local resistance is fierce. The build-up
will continue for countless years to come,
with gargantuan quantities of deadly liquid
ever-readier to destroy our oceans….and
perhaps, eventually, human life, whose
irrational addiction to atomic power has yet
to abate.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘One_Day_Our_Luck_Will_Run_Out,’
Warns_IAEA_Chief_Over_Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Plant⠀⇛
The largest nuclear energy plant in Europe,
located in southern Ukraine, lost all off-
site power for the sixth time in a year as
Russian forces carried out a massive missile
attack on Thursday, once again raising fears
of a nuclear catastrophe with continent-wide
implications.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ How_Simple_Can_A_Wind_Generator_Get?⠀⇛
As the world has moved towards sustainable
energy sources over the last few years, it’s
increasingly common to be close to a wind
turbine. The huge turbines visible on the
horizon from where this is being written are
the upper end of the scale though, and along
comes [Robert Murray Smith] with the
opposite, probably the simplest and smallest
wind turbine we’ve seen.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ India_fears_a_torrid_summer_of_long_power
cuts⠀⇛
India has just witnessed its hottest February
in the last 122 years—and the country’s
weather department thinks it’s only going to
get worse. But between drastic weather
conditions and fear of brutal heat waves lies
another worry: hourslong power cuts.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ There’s_No_Such_Thing_as_the_Humane
Slaughter⠀⇛
Most meat-eaters want to believe that the
animals they eat don’t suffer, but time and
again, federal records have shown that they
do. It’s not unreasonable to assume
otherwise; after all, most U.S. meat
production is subject to the Humane Methods
of Slaughter Act, which requires that animals
be stunned (rapidly rendered insensible to
pain) before they’re hoisted upside down and
killed. But this law doesn’t apply
to all animals—chickens, turkeys, ducks, and
fish are excluded—and federal inspection
records reveal horrifying violations in
which cows, pigs, and other animals have
endured physical pain and psychological
terror at slaughterhouses, where prolonged
deaths occur disturbingly frequently.
Reports from around the country read like
horror stories. For example, on three
different days between June and August 2022,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)
Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
staff at South 40 Farms in North Dakota
saw pigs cry out after being shot in the head
during botched attempts to render them
unconscious, and on another day in April
2022, a steer attempted to sit up after an
employee from the same establishment shot him
twice in the head. At Lightfoot Farm Market &
Processing in Tennessee, a steer cried out
and remained conscious after three rifle
shots to the head until a fourth shot finally
ended his suffering in June 2022. A similar
scene was witnessed at the same facility in
2021, when a cow remained conscious, bleeding
from the nose after the slaughterhouse owner
shot her in the head the first time.
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Some_Hungarian_regions_heading
towards_depopulation,_demographic_data_reveals⠀⇛
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Applause_as_Michigan_House_Dems_Vote_to
Repeal_Anti-Union_‘Right-to-Work’_Laws⠀⇛
Progressives celebrated Thursday after Michigan’s
Democratic-led House approved legislation that
would rescind anti-union “right-to-work” laws
imposed by Republican lawmakers in 2012 and restore
prevailing wage requirements eliminated by the GOP
in 2018.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Very_Brief_History_of_Capitalism,_Empire,
and_the_Yellow_Peril⠀⇛
Unlike the propagandists that publish most of the
textbooks that we brainwash our children with in
the US, reality-based historians have oft observed
that the history of civilization is a history of
the ongoing conflict between the haves and the
have-nots, the rich and the poor, the ruling class
and those they would like to rule. One of the main
factors that continually makes this conflict a very
dynamic one that is forever unfolding in new ways
is the obvious inequity of the whole thing, with a
small class of rulers, owners, and landlords always
trying to control a very large majority of
subjects, workers and tenants. In order to
maintain such a state of constant inequality,
particularly in severely unequal societies/empires
like the United States, strategies of divide and
rule are always in play, whether we’re talking
about maintaining domestic tranquility, or running
the global American empire.
From the time of British colonization of the
Americas, the colonial rulers and later the
sovereign US rulers of this land have sought to
keep the bulk of the population — the tenant
farmers, the small landowners, the urban workers
and renters, the immigrant and the native-born, the
enslaved and the free — at each other’s throats,
and thus distracted with fratricidal conflict,
rather than united in opposition to their common
oppressors. The ways society is divided and the
ways the rulers seek to exploit those divisions
locally and globally evolves over time, just as
other things evolve, such as technology, and
different forms of organization, such as
corporations, unions, parliaments, and developments
such as the massive US military industrial complex.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Widespread_Cruelty_of_Death_Care
Disparities⠀⇛
So many crises—from war to mass species die-offs to
climate meltdown—afflict our world that we often
don’t take time to draw insights from what
generally passes for the small stuff, the things
that happen all too close to home, including aging.
Most of us don’t relish the prospect of getting
old, much less watching our parents approach their
deaths, something that’s even worse if you’re dying
poor.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Why_Railway_Workers_Are_Calling_for_a
Nationalized_Rail_System⠀⇛
If the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train
carrying hazardous materials in East Palestine,
Ohio, tells us anything, it is that the corporate
CEOs, billionaire speculators and profit-hungry
investors who control America’s transportation
systems are not up to the job of running railroads.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Who_Will_Bring_the_Railroads_to_Heel?_Not
This_White_House⠀⇛
Some months back, Biden and congress smacked down a
railroad workers’ strike. A key issue was working
conditions: no sick days, crews that were too small
for safety, etc. The Biden team, in cahoots with
congressional Dems like Steny Hoyer and practically
the entire GOP didn’t care. They, like the big rail
corporations, wanted the trains to run on time.
Nothing else mattered. Where was transportation
secretary Pete Buttigieg during this hullaballoo?
Nowhere to be found.
Incidentally, during holiday season, Southwest
Airlines seriously inconvenienced tens of thousands
of customers by cancelling thousands of flights.
Where was Buttigieg? AWOL. Then on February 3 a
train jumped the tracks passing through East
Palestine, Ohio, and 38 cars derailed in flames.
What did Buttigieg say? Bupkis, until over a week
later. Did he hurry to East Palestine, a hamlet
poisoned by vinyl chloride and the other toxins
released first by the accident and second by the
train company, Norfolk Southern’s decision to burn
these compounds, the better for business by
clearing the tracks and getting freight moving
again? He did not. At first he complained that his
hands were tied. Buttigieg waited till February 23
to visit the stricken town. Biden didn’t bother to
go at all.
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Inflation_declines_in_February⠀⇛
Inflation rates declined in February compared to
the previous month, indicating record interest
rates are moderating prices.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_leisure_and_hospitality_industry_is_driving_US
job_growth⠀⇛
The labor market remains strong but job_openings
are_declining, according to the newly released
January job openings and labor turnover report by
the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ JP_Morgan_is_suing_a_former_executive_over_his
ties_to_Jeffrey_Epstein [Ed: Microsoft not suing Bill Gates
for much worse?]⠀⇛
JP Morgan is suing former private banking head Jes
Staley over his ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey
Epstein.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Inequality_Costs_Social_Security
Trillions⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ NPR_and_the_Bad_Economy⠀⇛
Like much of the rest of the media, NPR is
determined to convince the public that the economy
is terrible under President Biden, regardless of
what the data show. In real world land there are
lots of good things about this economy.
We have the lowest unemployment rate in a half
century. Real wages for workers at the bottom end
of the income distribution are rising rapidly (that
means wages are rising faster than prices). Workers
have unprecedented freedom to quit jobs they don’t
like. Tens of millions of homeowners are saving
thousands of dollars a year in interest expenses as
a result of refinancing their mortgages. And, tens
of millions of workers are saving thousands a year
in commuting costs, as well as hundreds of hours in
commuting time, as a result of the explosion in
work from home since the pandemic.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Maggie_Thatcher_Sucked,_But_the_Music_She
Inspired_Didn’t⠀⇛
Maggie Thatcher’s rule in Britain was, like the
same years in Ronnie Reagan’s United States, a
vicious attempt to move their nations as far right
as they could. The process they began continues
today with a ruthlessness that is only matched by
its idiotic insistence that it is beneficial for
the very demographic that has probably lost the
most–the white working class. On the other hand,
the attacks on working people and their unions, the
theft of their nation’s wealth by the wealthiest
people in the world, the blatant racism and the
intensified love affair with nuclear weapons and
power created some of the best political popular
music since the Sixties, at least in Britain.
It is that music which inspires and informs Hugh
Hodges recent book, titled The Fascist Groove
Thing: A History of Thatcher’s Britain in 21
Mixtapes. Likewise, it is the history of Margaret
Thatcher and her brand of selfishness packaged as
politics that inspired and informed the music on
those mixtapes. From Heaven 17’s recording of “(We
Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thing” to Linton
Kwesi Johnson’s radical reggae putting the police
in their place and from the brash, even abrasive
sounds of Penny Rimbaud and his band Crass to the
Tom Robinson Band’s straight out rock against
racism and homophobia, author Hodge’s story of the
opening decade of neoliberal capitalism in Britain
makes one thing clear: not everyone was buying the
repackaged version of robber baron capitalism
Maggie and her heartless henchmen were selling.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Great_Museum_in_Zagreb,_Croatia⠀⇛
Normal art museums present visual artifacts that
have aesthetic value. The Museum of Broken
Relationships is not a normal art museum. It
collects objects, 1343 as of 2014 (in the most
recent catalogue) associated with falling out of
love. A normal museum usually is organized
historically, with wall labels indicating the title
and provenance of the individual works. In this
museum, which has an international collection, the
relatively small objects, displayed in no obvious
order, are each accompanied by a statement from the
donor. Some of these commentaries are as short as
two words, while a couple are a few pages long. As
the donation form which is filled out by each donor
indicates, the objects are presented anonymously.
Like a normal museum, the museum of broken
relationships has a shop and a cafe.
There are memorials to broken relationships of
straight and gay couples, and people from varied
nationalities, races and ages. And the artifacts
exhibited here are very varied. In general, no
detailed explanation is given why these relations
failed. A relationship between an American diplomat
and a British banker that only lasted one day is
memorialized by a gingerbread cookie. Love between
a Parisian and an Indonesia lasting 2 1/2 years was
defined by a hockey puck. A London love affair is
identified by 252 paper cranes. A two year long
relationship ended by a sex change is related to
Bob Dylan’s novel Tarantula. A sculpted frog was
given by a mother to her three year old, 36 years
ago when she left that child. Sometimes the objects
presented to the museum were obviously meaningful
for the broken relationship. A magnifying glass was
given to someone who felt small when she was around
the person she loved. And many of the objects are
extremely sad. A pregnancy stick memorializes a
child who died at 20 weeks. The parents write:
“Life is hard, but joy and love make it worth the
pain.” But a few exhibits have funny captions. A
toaster is left by a lover, who asks her former
partner: “How are you going to toast anything now?”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Trump_Likely_to_Face_Criminal_Charges_Over
Stormy_Daniels_Hush_Money_Payment:_Report⠀⇛
Former U.S. President Donald Trump may soon face
criminal charges in connection with the payment of
hush money to the adult entertainer Stormy Daniels,
The New York Times reported Thursday, citing four
unnamed “people with knowledge of the matter.”
# ⚓ Insight Hungary ☛ Hungarian_President_meets_Florida
Governor_Ron_DeSantis⠀⇛
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis met Hungarian
President Katalin Novák on Tuesday after his State
of the State Address in Tallahassee. Novak, a close
ally to nationalist Prime Minister Viktor
Orban also spoke with the Governor’s wife, Casey
DeSantis.
According to the Hungarian news agency’s (MTI)
report, the “warm and trusting conversation” was
based on the fact that the Hungarian President and
the Florida governor share similar views on
protecting families, parents’ right to education,
and border security. Novak congratulated the
Governor on his successes in politics and the
development of Florida. DeSantis praised Hungary’s
achievements and the President’s work, highlighting
her “efforts to protect families”.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden_Budget_Would_Help_Lift_Up_Those_With
the_Least_by_Asking_a_Little_More_From_Those_With_the_Most⠀⇛
President Biden’s 2024 budget invests in people and
communities and creates a 21st century tax system
that supports these investments to build toward an
economy that works for everyone. It lays out an
agenda that would move us closer to a nation where
everyone — regardless of their background,
identities, or where they live — has the resources
they need to thrive and share in the nation’s
prosperity.
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ WaPo’s_All-White_Edit_Board_Decides_DC_Can’t_Be
Trusted_With_Democracy_After_All⠀⇛
President Joe Biden surprised fellow Democrats when
he reversed course and announced he would support a
Republican resolution to nullify an overhaul of
crime laws passed by the Washington, DC, Council.
While Congress has the authority to override DC
legislation, it hasn’t done so in more than 30
years, making this move a dangerous new precedent
at a time when Republicans are eager to use state
power to swat down any progressive advances.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Indigenous_Rebellion_Continues_as_Post-Coup
Peruvian_Government_Flounders⠀⇛
Revived democratic struggle in Peru is well along
into a second act. There was the parliamentary coup
December 7 that removed democratically elected
President Pedro Castillo and the “First Taking of
Lima” in mid-January, embittered and excluded
Peruvians occupied Lima and faced violent
repression. Then on March 1 protests renewed as the
indigenous inhabitants of Peru’s extreme southern
regions prepared once more to demonstrate in Lima
and would shortly be protesting in their own
regions. The resistance’s make-up was fully on
display.
Protesters throughout Peru were rejecting a
replacement president and an elite-dominated
congress and calling for early elections and a new
constitution. They belonged for the most part
belonged to Aymara communities in districts south
of Lima extending from Lake Titicaca both west and
northeast, into the Andes region.
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ Right-Wing_Media’s_‘Grooming’_Rhetoric_Has_Nothing
to_Do_With_Concern_for_Children⠀⇛
In front of a graphic of fluffy pink handcuffs and
“Kink for Kids” spelled out in blocks and crayon
font, a red-faced Tucker Carlson (Fox News, 9/19/
22) ranted about the story of a transgender
Canadian high school teacher whose photos went
viral on social media for wearing comically large
prosthetic breasts to work.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ WH_Blasts_Fox_News_Report_on_Jan._6,_Describing
Tucker_Carlson_as_“Not_Credible”⠀⇛
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Women_in_Peacebuilding_and_Peacekeeping
Efforts_in_South_Asia⠀⇛
While interstate wars have declined significantly
in recent decades, a considerable number of nations
have been dealing with intrastate conflicts of
various intensity and duration, demonstrating the
relevance of both peacekeeping and peacebuilding
processes.
# ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Former_Ohio_speaker,_GOP_chair_found
guilty_of_racketeering⠀⇛
Ohio Capital Journal Cincinatti — After more than
nine hours of deliberation, a jury on Thursday
found former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder
and state Republican Chairman Matt Borges guilty of
felony racketeering charges in connection with a
billion-dollar utility bailout that was passed in
2019.
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ An_Alternative_Future:_Buen_vivir’s
Economic_and_Political_Implication_in_South_America⠀⇛
An alternative approach of development stemming
from the cosmo-visions of the Quechua peoples of
the Andes’s sumak kawsay, the Aymara of Bolivia’s
suma qamana, the Shuar people of Ecuador’s shiir
waras, Guarani of Bolivia’s nandereko, and the
Mapuche of Chile and Argentina—better known for its
Spanish name Buen vivir, is a community-centric,
ecologically-balanced…
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Wassenaar_Arrangement_and_its
Significance_for_India’s_Chairmanship⠀⇛
During 30 November – 1 December 2022, the twenty-
sixth Plenary meeting of the Wassenaar Arrangement
(WA) was held in Vienna, for the first time since
2019 because of the pandemic constraints.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Mississippi_State_GOP_Puts_Forth_Bills_to_Take
Over_Majority-Black_Capital⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Anti-Corruption_Foundation_Chairman_Leonid_Volkov
‘pauses’_his_leadership_role_amid_scandal_over_letter
requesting_sanctions_relief_for_Alfa_Group_shareholders_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Leonid Volkov, the chairman of Alexey Navalny’s
Anti-Corruption Foundation, announced Thursday that
he’s “taking a break from his public socio-
political activity” as head of the organization.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Some_Election_Officials_Refused_to_Certify
Results._Few_Were_Held_Accountable.⠀⇛
A week and a half after last November’s vote,
members of the Board of Elections in Surry County,
North Carolina, gathered in a windowless room to
certify the results. It was supposed to be a
routine task, marking the end of a controversial
season during which election deniers harassed and
retaliated against the county’s elections director.
Not long into the meeting, however, a staffer
distributed a letter from two board members stating
that they were refusing to certify.
According to the letter, the two members had
decided — “with regard for the sacred blood shed of
both my Redeemer and His servants” and “past
Patriots who made the ultimate sacrifice”— that
they “must not call these election results credible
and bow to the perversion of truth.”
# ⚓ Shadowproof ☛ US_Still_Trying_To_Bury_‘Collateral_Murder’
Video_That_WikiLeaks_Released⠀⇛
There is no shortage of activists, journalists,
academics, and people of conscience who have some
story to share about the impact of the “Collateral
Murder” video.The U.S. military footage of an
Apache helicopter crew shooting indiscriminately at
a dozen Iraqi civilians — including Reuters
journalists Namir Noor Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh, and
two young children — is widely recognized for
exposing the true nature of the United States war
in Iraq and for making WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
household names.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Private,_Conservative_Teneo_Seeks_Political,
Cultural_Influence⠀⇛
A few months ago, Leonard Leo laid out his next
audacious project.
Ever since the longtime Federalist Society leader
helped create a conservative supermajority on the
Supreme Court, and then received more than a
billion dollars from a wealthy Chicago business
owner to disburse to conservative causes, Leo’s
next moves had been the subject of speculation.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Where_Should_Palestinians_Search_for
Justice?⠀⇛
A London hospital removes Palestinian children’s
art because it upset some patients. Meanwhile,
seemingly unassociated, far away in the West Bank
and Gaza, Palestinian men, women and children are
being ‘removed’ from their homes through a daily
sustained process of genocidal cleansing.
So abundant are the grievances of Palestinians, so
relentless the attacks on their bodies, their
voices, their land– on the very idea of Palestine–
that any record or explanation of those erasures
becomes buried behind the latest onslaught.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Violence_and_Resistance_in_Israel_and
Palestine_Ramps_Up⠀⇛
Just this week, elite fighter pilots of the Israeli
Air Force’s 69th squadron refused to attend
training.
This is one of many acts of resistance against the
new Israeli government, which is the most right-
wing and nationalist in Israeli history. This new
government is run by Benjamin Netanyahu, who won
the election for Prime Minister in November.
Netanyahu’s coalition is known for, among other
things, anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Israel’s_Liberal_Supporters_Are_Taking
Their_Denial_to_a_New_Level⠀⇛
This week, when the New York Times featured an
opinion piece by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, it
harmonized with a crescendo of other recent pleas
from prominent American supporters of Israel.
Bloomberg warned that Israel’s new governing
coalition is trying to give parliament the power to
“overrule the nation’s Supreme Court and run
roughshod over individual rights, including on
matters such as speech and press freedoms, equal
rights for minorities and voting rights.” Such a
change would, Bloomberg added, undermine Israel’s
“strong commitment to freedom.”
Strong commitment to freedom? That would sure be
news to the more than 5 million Palestinian people
living under Israeli occupation in Gaza and the
West Bank.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Israel’s_Liberal_Supporters_Are_Taking
Their_Denial_to_a_New_Level⠀⇛
This week, when the New York Times featured an
opinion piece by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, it
harmonized with a crescendo of other recent pleas
from prominent American supporters of Israel.
Bloomberg warned that Israel’s new governing
coalition is trying to give parliament the power to
“overrule the nation’s Supreme Court and run
roughshod over individual rights, including on
matters such as speech and press freedoms, equal
rights for minorities and voting rights.” Such a
change would, Bloomberg added, undermine Israel’s
“strong commitment to freedom.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Better_and_Worse_Angels_of_Jimmy
Carter’s_Nature⠀⇛
Every time an ex-president dies a demon gets his
wings. It’s a time-honored tradition in these
hallowed halls of Babylon. Lucifer himself could
drop dead and provided that motherfucker spent no
less than a hot minute in the Oval Office, every
self-proclaimed journalist from the Wall Street
Journal to Penthouse Forum would be lined around
the block to polish his horns with their filthy
flicking tongues. In fact, fuck Satan, just look to
Ronald Reagan if you don’t believe me. That B-grade
cowboy slung crack to grade school kids for rapists
in Nicaragua and limp-wristed Bay area liberals are
still tripping over the AIDS quilt to throw
themselves sobbing on his casket.
Naturally, being the terminally jaded cunt that I
am, I have made it my own private jihad in life to
pop a squat over the graves of the powerful and
unleash a hot steamy piss on their sacred soil. I
have plenty of reverence for the dead, but nobody
lights a candle for Hitler during Suicide Awareness
Month. What the hell makes our monsters so fucking
special? A cult of personality is a cult of
personality and if I’m not game to deface a few
monuments then I might as well turn in my slingshot
with my shoplifted copy of Never Mind the Bollocks
and call it quits on being an anarcho-anything.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Jimmy_Carter_Was_Right,_But_There_is
Malaise_When_Power_Speaks_the_Truth⠀⇛
Speaking truth to power has been used by dissidents
throughout history. But what about when power
speaks the truth? As tributes pour in for Jimmy
Carter and his many accomplishments, he should be
remembered and venerated for giving a speech that
was truthful but had negative consequences for his
political career.
On July 15, 1979, President Carter spoke truth to
the American people from the Oval Office. He began
his 33-minute speech in a most unusual fashion, a
form of self-critique. Instead of making a
traditional presidential declaration, he spoke in a
reflective tone: “Ten days ago I had planned to
speak to you again about a very important subject –
energy.” He then went on to describe why he changed
the subject, why he wanted to share with the
American people what he felt and what he thought
they felt beyond immediate concerns: “It’s clear
that the true problems of our Nation are much
deeper – deeper than gasoline lines or energy
shortages, deeper even than inflation or
recession.”
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Great_TikTok_Moral_Panic_Continues_As
Senators_Thune,_Warner_Attempt_A_More_Elaborate_Ban⠀⇛
We’ve noted for a while now how most of the outrage
surrounding TikTok isn’t exactly based in factual
reality.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ To_See_Fellows_Crying⠀⇛
The Department of Justice is investigating the
Memphis Police Department, two months after police
beat up Tyre Nichols. The fatal incident unfolded
in front of anyone with a screen, anyone with
Twitter. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
souvenir pictures of lynchings became postcards.
Mailings of the physical images, an early form of
social media, served as extensions of the lynching
spectacle.
“He cried out for me,” said Tyre’s mother.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ EC_may_assess_whether_Hungary_has
fulfilled_commitments_by_April_or_May_–_Navracsics_on_Erasmus
funds⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Marianne_Williamson:_“Anything_Is_Possible”⠀⇛
Marianne Williamson announced her presidential run
on March 4 in Washington, making her the first
prominent Democratic challenger to President
Biden’s expected reelection bid. The best-selling
author, spiritual counselor, and unsuccessful 2020
presidential contender faces a daunting task at a
point when prominent Democrats—including many of
the president’s 2020 rivals—say they want him to
run and win in 2024. As she was preparing for
campaign swings in South Carolina and New
Hampshire, I spoke with Williamson about why she’s
making this run.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ GOP_Warheads⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ The_suspension_of_EU_funding_for
universities_is_anti-Hungarian,_racially_motivated_revenge_–
Gulyás⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Driven_by_‘Mass_Fear-Mongering’_on_Crime,
31_Senate_Dems_Join_GOP_to_Block_DC_Reforms⠀⇛
Progressives on Thursday lambasted dozens of U.S.
Senate Democrats for dealing “a huge blow to
commonsense criminal justice reform efforts” by
siding with the Republican Party on a resolution to
block a criminal code passed by the Council of the
District of Columbia—a move that one civil rights
lawyer said was transparently made in response to
GOP “fear-mongering” about crime, and not in the
interest of keeping residents safe.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ “Unscrupulous_politicians_are_doing
everything_to_turn_Hungarians_and_Ukrainians_against_each
other,_but_people_are_wiser_than_that.”⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Kicking_the_Encampment_Around_Again⠀⇛
On Jan. 31 of this year, the city did what it had
been doing for years to no effect; it had again
raided the encampment called “First They Came for
the Homeless.” It had been situated on Adeline St.
at 64th for years. But not because of city largess.
It was only because of external circumstances, like
a federal suit (the Boise decision), and the
pandemic. The fact that it represented the main
principled and ethical response to homelessness
would not have mattered. That encampment had been
raided and torn apart more times than this city
knew how to count. For some reason, even a liberal
city like Berkeley could not bring itself to live
with the effects of its own corporate structure,
not with the autonomy of those dealing with that
structure.
They (the encampment) had set themselves up at city
hall first, way back in 2016; it was at the old
one, the one right under the noses of the police,
whose HQ was 100 feet away. They had signs set up,
saying why they were there, and what they hoped to
accomplish by this protest. After about a week or
so, the cops got tired of looking at them, and
kicked them out of there. That was not what they
wanted, but it what they expected — a level of
dehumanization that matched the fact that the
entire society seemed unable to live with its
growing number of “unhoused” people.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Roaming_Charges:_The_Man_Who_Came_Out_of
the_Darkness⠀⇛
In 1996, Majid Khan moved with his family from
Pakistan to Catonsville, Maryland, a suburb of
Baltimore. Two years later, the Khan family was
granted political asylum and given permanent
residence in the US. Majid graduated from nearby
Owings Mills High School, worked at his dad’s gas
station, dated girls, smoked pot, played video
games and got a job at the telecom company that
managed the Pentagon’s phone system.
Then in 2001 his mom died, the Towers came down and
his life spiraled out of control. He moved to
Pakistan, became a courier for Al Qaeda, got
captured by Pakistani security, was turned over to
the CIA and renditioned to a black site for what
the Agency coyly called “enhanced interrogation.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Wounded_Knee_50_Years_Later:_the_Fight_for
Self-Determination_Continues⠀⇛
The 1973 Siege at Wounded Knee is the longest
“civil unrest” in the history of the US Marshal
Service. For 71 days, the American Indian Movement
(AIM) and members of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux)
nation were under siege in a violent standoff with
the FBI and US Marshals equipped with high powered
rifles and armored personnel carriers. Two people
were killed, over two dozen wounded. At stake,
sovereignty and self-determination guaranteed
through treaty rights.
Fifty years have passed but for American Indians
the struggle for recognition of the nation-to-
nation treaties continues to be seen as survival.
At the end of February, young Indian leaders joined
older activists to gather at Wounded Knee to
commemorate the violent events that began on
February 27, 1973, and renew their call for self-
determination and recognition of their treaties.
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Modernisation,_Chinese_Style⠀⇛
Chinese-style modernisation has given a shot in the
arm of the maxim “The Socialist Road is the
broadest of all” (社会主义道路最宽广) which has enjoyed an
unprecedented authority in Chinese decision-making
circles for decades.
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ The_Michael_Flynn_Complaint_For_Damages
Against_The_US⠀⇛
Michael Flynn has filed a complaint against the
government demanding damages for all his
grievances. No, it is not going anywhere.
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Jenna_Ellis_Lied_and_Lied_and_Lied_and_Lied
and_Lied_and_Lied_and_Lied_and_Lied_and_Lied_and_Lied⠀⇛
To save her CO bar license, Jenna Ellis stipulated
to lying ten times during the period when she was
also using those false claims to convince electors
and Mike Pence to violate the law. The stipulation
may be a useful admission for Jack Smith.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Fox_News_Doesn’t_Believe_Its_Own
Bullshit⠀⇛
For anyone curious to learn what it would be
like to serve as a juror in the upcoming
defamation suit brought by Dominion Voting
Systems against Fox News, you can create a
simple life hack in the comfort of your home.
First, tee up Tucker Carlson’s recklessly
mendacious segment devoted to clumsily
decontextualized footage from the January 6
insurrection at the US Capitol. Then, consult
the recent barrage of headlines concerning
the latest tranche of evidence from
Dominion’s legal team that the judge in the
case has unsealed.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Fox_News_May_Finally_Pay_the_Price_for
Its_Lies⠀⇛
Fox News is in trouble. The network has been
sued for $1.6 billion by Dominion Voting
Systems for false claims it aired about the
2020 presidential election. Fox hosts, and
many of the guests they showcased, claimed
that Dominion’s technology “stole” votes from
defeated President Donald Trump, and, among
their more wild allegations, claimed that
Dominion’s machines were engineered in
Venezuela with the help of Hugo Chávez (who
died in 2013) to rig elections.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Another_Casualty_If_Section_230_Gets_Repealed:
Food_Safety_Data⠀⇛
I’m a latecomer to the whole “podcasts” phenomenon.
I didn’t start listening to them until 2020, when
the pandemic suddenly gave me the free time and the
incentive to get out of my small apartment and go
on long walks. That’s my excuse for only recently
discovering “Maintenance Phase,” a terrific podcast
that “debunks and decodes” the wellness and weight-
loss industries.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Turkmenistan’s_walled_garden_How_Central_Asia’s
most_autocratic_country_plans_to_build_its_own_‘autonomous
Internet’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Utah’s_Governor_Should_Veto_“Social_Media
Regulations”_Bill_S.B._152⠀⇛
S.B. 152 would require a social media company to
stop a resident minor from creating an account
unless they have the express consent of a parent or
guardian. The law targets any site with over ten
million account holders that allows a user to post
their own content, and so would impact many sites
that aren’t generally considered social media—for
example, a site like AllTrails, which helps you
find and share hiking spots, for example.
We requested that the governor veto the bill for
four main reasons:
First, young people have a First Amendment right to
information that S.B. 152 will infringe upon. If
S.B. 152 is implemented as written, the majority of
young Utahns will find themselves effectively
locked out of much of the web.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Florida_Passes_Law_Helping_Election_Police
Bypass_Judicial_Scrutiny⠀⇛
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Incarcerated_Individuals_&_Advocacy_Groups_Challenge
California_County’s_Policy_of_Digitizing_and_Destroying_Jail
Mail⠀⇛
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of five people
incarcerated in San Mateo County jails, several of
their family members, and A.B.O. Comix, a
collective of artists who correspond with people in
jail. The complaint argues that the new mail policy
violates the expressive, associational, and privacy
rights of those in the county’s jails, and their
family, friends, and supporters who send them
letters. This lawsuit is the first major challenge
to the digitization of personal mail in U.S.
jails.
“Banning physical mail is completely antithetical
to the criminal justice system’s goal of reducing
recidivism,” said Hannah Zhao, a staff attorney at
the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “Numerous
studies have shown that letter-writing between
incarcerated folks and loved ones outside lowers
stress, reduces depression, and tightens
relationships. For those in jail, communicating
this way is an integral part of establishing strong
interpersonal ties and feelings of community, which
are universally considered to decrease the
likelihood of reoffending.”
Under the current policy, the county prohibits
people in jail from receiving any physical mail
other than attorney communications. Members of the
public must route letters to a private for-profit
company, Smart Communications, which scans and
stores digital copies of mail for at least seven
years—even if its recipient has long been released
from jail. The original letters, cards, drawings,
and religious and educational materials are
destroyed, while the scanned copies are retained in
a database that allows the county—and anyone to
whom the county has provided login credentials—to
monitor, read, and search through mail for any
reason, or for no reason at all.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Flipper_Zero_Devices_Being_Seized_by_Brazil’s_Telecom
Agency⠀⇛
The device itself doesn’t introduce any
fundamentally new technologies. All of the
hardware—the infrared transceiver, RFID reader/
emulator, SDR and Bluetooth LE capabilities—are
available in other, perhaps more specialized
products. What is novel about the Flipper Zero is
its form factor and interface, which make it
portable and easy to use in the field.
The Flipper Zero has been called a hacking multi-
tool. And like a physical multi-tool, there are no
doubt uses of it which would facilitate committing
a crime. But also like a physical multi-tool, this
is no justification for banning access to the
device wholesale. Laws are already in place which
criminalize acts of malicious hacking. Banning
trade tools will only make security systems more
vulnerable by limiting the access of those working
to secure these systems. The malicious hacking that
concerns Anatel and that Flipper Zero would allow
is dependent on systems’ vulnerabilities—those are
the actual problems that deserve a fix. But we can
only patch security flaws once we know they exist,
and that’s what security research is for.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_GOP’s_Abhorrent_Attack_on_Child_Labor
Laws⠀⇛
Brad Greve has been a Scout leader for more than 20
years. The Davenport, Iowa retiree leads 50-mile
canoe trips on Minnesota’s Boundary Waters that
test teens’ mettle while teaching them essential
skills.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Unconscionable_Push_to_Bring_Back_Child
Labor⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ This_International_Women’s_Day,_Iranian
Feminists_Are_at_the_Front_Lines⠀⇛
There is much that the global feminist movement can
learn from the current women’s struggle in Iran and
their vision.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Political_scientist_Demuri_Voronin_sentenced_to_13
years_in_prison_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A Moscow court has sentenced political scientist
Demuri Voronin to 13 years and 3 months in prison,
Interfax reports. The court found Voronin guilty of
treason.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Corrupt”:_DOJ_Report_Slams_Louisville
Police_for_Abuse,_Discrimination_After_Breonna_Taylor
Killing⠀⇛
The Department of Justice has released a scathing
report accusing the Louisville, Kentucky, police
department of unlawfully discriminating against the
city’s Black population, as well as against people
with behavioral health disabilities. The report
concludes an investigation that began after the
police killing of Breonna Taylor, who was shot dead
in her own home during a no-knock police raid on
March 13, 2020. The DOJ also announced the
establishment of a consent decree with Louisville
police and an independent monitor who will oversee
police reforms. “What we have are systems that
absolutely need to be disrupted,” says Sadiqa
Reynolds, longtime attorney and community activist
in Louisville.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Plantation_Politics”:_How_White
Mississippi_Lawmakers_Want_to_Seize_Power_in_Majority-Black
Jackson⠀⇛
Mississippi’s Republican majority in the state
Legislature has put forth a slew of bills in recent
months to put the majority-Black capital of Jackson
under a white-led superstructure. Under the
proposed bills, the Capitol Police would be
expanded and given greater authority over much of
Jackson without being accountable to local leaders
or residents, and a separate court system would be
set up in the city, composed of judges appointed
directly by white state officials. This comes after
Jackson suffered a number of water crises in recent
years stemming from systematic disinvestment by the
state, and after the federal government approved
$600 million late last year to address the city’s
infrastructure problems. “These bills are an attack
on Black leadership, a way to seize power of a
majority-Black city which cannot be seized
democratically through an election,” says Jackson
Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba. We also speak with
community activist Makani Themba, who described the
state’s plans in a recent piece for The Nation as
“Apartheid American-Style.”
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Opposition_Grows_to_Atlanta_“Cop_City”_as
More_Forest_Defenders_Charged_with_Domestic_Terrorism⠀⇛
Prosecutors in Atlanta have charged 23 forest
defenders with “domestic terrorism” after their
arrests late Sunday at a festival near the site of
Cop City, a massive police training facility being
built in the Weelaunee Forest. The arrests followed
clashes between police and protesters on Sunday
afternoon and came less than two months after
Atlanta police shot and killed Manuel “Tortuguita”
Terán, a 26-year-old environmental defender. For an
update on the growing movement to fight Cop City in
Atlanta, we’re joined by Micah Herskind, a local
community organizer, and Kamau Franklin, founder of
Community Movement Builders.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungarian_Justice_Minister_lodges_defense
with_EU_Court_of_Justice_on_infringement_procedure⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ What_Lund_University_Did_to_Umut
Özkirimli⠀⇛
Lund University, founded in 1666 and “consistently
ranked among the top 100 universities in the
world”, boasts, “We are united in our efforts to
understand, explain and improve our world and the
human condition”. In the case of Turkish-Swedish
political scientist Umut Özkırımlı, author of
several books on nationalism and of the about-to-
appear Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke
(Polity, 2023), it failed on all counts and
exhibited a woeful debasement of the “human[e]
condition” of its administrators and some of its
academic staff. What follows are just some aspects
of what Lund University did to Umut. All documents,
several hundred pages, are available. I give some
of the details because they show the mechanisms of
disempowerment at work when the system victimises
or makes an example of an individual. This account
isn’t only a lament for Umut but also my personal
protest against the whole vile system.
But, first, I should explain what this has to do
with me. To begin with, Umut is part of my elective
family and I’ve seen, up close and throughout the
process, the suffering the university has knowingly
caused him. Also, I believe, as Audre Lorde said,
“Focused with precision [anger] can become a
powerful source of energy serving progress and
change”. And, yes, I’m angry, not only because of
what Lund University did to Umut but because of
what it represents in general. OK, so it’s just one
guy and one more neoliberal university and,
probably, nothing I say will change anything. But
if we don’t speak out about what we know, we’re
somehow abettors in offenses that are ever more
routine.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Microsoft,_Sony_Fight_Over_The_Activision
Purchase_Is_Getting_Ugly⠀⇛
This took a bit longer than I expected, but the
dirty tactics are starting to come out between
Microsoft and Sony over the former’s desire to
purchase Activision Blizzard. While we’ve been
talking about the $69 billion mega-deal for some
time, the conversation more recently has focused on
three regulatory bodies that have expressed varying
levels of concern about the deal: the FTC in the
States, the CMA in the UK, and EU regulators. The
last of those has begun signaling that the proposed
and/or signed deals Microsoft has struck with other
platforms to keep Activision games on those systems
is likely to win them over. The FTC and CMA have
yet to come off of their previously stated
positions publicly.
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Sanders,_Bush_Unveil_Bill_to_Prohibit
Pharma_Companies_From_Charging_More_Than_$20_for
Insulin⠀⇛
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Cori Bush on
Thursday introduced legislation that would
prohibit pharmaceutical companies from
charging more than $20 for a vial of insulin,
a move that comes a week after Eli Lilly
pledged to cap out-of-pocket payments for its
insulin products at $35 per month.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ ACE_&_New_Anti-Piracy_Coalition
Target_South_Korean_Video_Piracy_Globally⠀⇛
With South Korean movies and TV shows like
‘Squid Game’ enormously popular in the West ,
tackling pirate sites is seen as a priority
in South Korea. Filmmakers, broadcasters and
distributors have formed a new anti-piracy
coalition and in collaboration with the
Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, a
$3.7 billion criminal complaint will get the
ball rolling today.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ EU_Upload_Filters_Mark_the_End_For
File-Sharing_Site_Hellspy⠀⇛
In January, the Czech Republic updated
national copyright law to reflect the
provisions of the EU Copyright Directive. The
updated legislation requires online services
to prevent pirated content from being re-
uploaded. File-sharing service Hellspy
attempted to comply with the new rules but
when that turned out to be unworkable,
decided to shut down instead.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Copyright_Has_Been_One_Of_Life’s
Certainties:_But_Will_It_Always_Be?⠀⇛
Copyright seems to be a fixture of our legal,
economic and social systems. For 300 years,
it has formed the backbone of the structures
used to incentivize and remunerate creators.
During that time, copyright has been extended
repeatedly in length and breadth. The
original term of the 1710 Statute of Anne –
14 years’ monopoly protection with a
provision for renewal for a further 14 years
– has blossomed into life plus 70 years for
much of the world. Copyright now applies to
areas far beyond the original scope of
printed works. These constant and
unidirectional moves by legislators around
the world might seem to confirm that
copyright is an effective approach where more
is better, and that it is working as a means
of rewarding artists fairly. The facts
suggest otherwise.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_AEHITSK_Wordo:_SICKS⠀⇛
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Ham_Radio,_Silent_Key_Archive,_and_Starting_my_journey⠀⇛
So, I’ve recently been getting into ham radio. And
by recently, I mean over the last 3 years I’ve
tried a number of times to really get into learning
the hobby, ultimately for something else to get in
the way and lead to me falling off the path again.
And this time, I’m bound and determined to jump in
headfirst, considering that in a lot of ways I’m
quite burned out of tech as a hobby beyond cozy
stuff like the Ctrl-C pubnix or Gemini.
And today I came across just about the saddest
thing I’ve heard in a while: the National Silent
Key Archive.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Presenting_gmir,_a_reader_for_gmi_files⠀⇛
Although there are currently many Gemini
servers and clients, there is still no
standalone reader for gmi files. This is why
I wrote gmir.
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