𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Saturday, March 11, 2023
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⦿ IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 10, 2023 | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/03/11/irc-log-100323/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/03/11/collapse-of-misbehaving-banks/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/11/curl-is-25/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/11/openwashing-persisting/#comments
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Graphics_Stack
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Programming/Development
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
# Confidentiality
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
# Overpopulation
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
# Internet/Gemini
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Kubernetes_Blog:_k8s.gcr.io_Redirect_to
registry.k8s.io_–_What_You_Need_to_Know⠀⇛
On Monday, March 20th, the k8s.gcr.io registry will
be_redirected_to_the_community_owned_registry,
registry.k8s.io .
# ⚓ Container Journal ☛ Adopting_FinOps_in_a_Large-Scale_Cloud
Deployment⠀⇛
One of the biggest issues related to large-scale
cloud deployments is overspending. It’s no surprise
that as organizations scale their cloud-native
Kubernetes environments, the associated costs rise
along with that growth. However, there is a
disconnect between the rising expenses and how well
businesses can accurately and effectively monitor
and
# ⚓ Container Journal ☛ Ermetic_Adds_Kubernetes_Support_to
CNAPP⠀⇛
Ermetic has added Kubernetes support to its cloud-
native application protection platform (CNAPP) that
enables IT and cybersecurity teams to discover and
fix misconfigurations, compliance violations and
risky or excessive privileges. Amy Amriel, chief
marketing officer for Ermetic, says rather than
requiring organizations to manage Kubernetes
security in isolation from every
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ Collabora ☛ Implementing_Vulkan_extensions_for_NVK⠀⇛
Since joining the graphics team at Collabora as a
Software Engineering Intern last November, I have
implemented several Vulkan API extensions for NVK,
an open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in
Mesa.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ 7_Best_Ubuntu_Screen_Recorders_for_Everyday
Use⠀⇛
We are now in 2023. Everyone is constantly seeking
to acquire new skills and technical capabilities as
the use of technology is deeply integrated in our
day-to-day lives. From providing online tutorials
to holding presentation for professional business
meets, everything needs screen recording tool to
make your stand.
There are plenty of screen recording tools
available in the market for Linux and other
distributions. Deciding on the right screen
recording tool for you is important and a tedious
task. But don’t worry because we will make this
task simple for you.
In this article, we will introduce you to some of
the best screen recording tools that you can use on
Ubuntu.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Use_Rsync_Command_on_Linux⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the
Rsync command on Linux.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Easy_Effects_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Easy Effects on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
# ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ How_to_Use_a_Bash_Script_to_Run_Your_Python
Scripts⠀⇛
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Configuring_the_Squid_Proxy_Server:_A
Comprehensive_Tutorial⠀⇛
Squid is a popular open-source proxy server that
can be used to enhance the security and performance
of your Debian server. Once you have installed
Squid, you need to configure it to suit your
specific needs.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Difference_Between_Shutting_Down,_Restarting,
and_Halting_Linux⠀⇛
Linux provides various commands to perform
different types of system shutdowns. However, the
terms used to refer to these shutdown types can be
confusing, especially for new Linux users.
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Check_if_a_Port_is_Blocked_by_the
Firewall_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Having trouble getting access to a particular
network resource? It could be due to the firewall
blocking the port. As you know, all the
applications require access to certain ports, and
when the firewall blocks those ports, the
applications will not function properly and will
not be able to communicate with the network.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Install_and_Use_iostat_on_Linux⠀⇛
Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn about
iostat on Linux. This tool allows you to monitor
CPU usage and provides information about input and
output processes on the system. The command iostat
Reports Central Processing Unit (CPU) statistics
and input/output statistics for devices,
partitions, and network file systems (NFS).
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ The_guide_to_troubleshooting_common_Linux_Mint
issues⠀⇛
Based on the popular Linux kernel, Mint is an all-
inclusive operating system. It offers a user-
friendly interface and is known for its stability
and security. However, Linux Mint may encounter
issues affecting its performance and day-to-day
functionality like any other OS.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ The_comprehensive_guide_to_fixing_Boot_problems
in_Linux_Mint⠀⇛
Many issues, including hardware incompatibilities,
corrupted system files, or incorrect
configurations, can cause boot problems in Linux
Mint. These problems can lead to slow boot times,
boot failures, or even a complete inability to boot
the system.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_install_and_use_Nginx_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Nginx (pronounced as ‘engine-x’) is a popular web
server software known for its high performance and
reliability. It is open-source software used by
many popular websites, including Netflix, GitHub,
and WordPress. Nginx can serve as a web server,
load balancer, reverse proxy, and HTTP cache, among
other things.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_GCC_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
GCC on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t
know, GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) is a popular
and widely used open-source compiler that supports
many programming languages, including…
# ⚓ Net2 ☛ How_to_share_clipboard_between_Ubuntu_VirtualBox_and
host⠀⇛
If you’re using Ubuntu on a VirtualBox, you might
find yourself needing to move some text between
your host computer and the virtual machine.
Luckily, copying and pasting between them is pretty
easy to achieve.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ New_version_of_Box86_and_Box64_unlocks
Steam_Big_Picture_Mode_and_Heroic_Games_Launcher_on_ARM⠀⇛
There’s a new version of Box86 and Box64 out – the
amazing piece of software from PtitSeb that can
make your ARM Linux PC or SoC run x86 and x86_64
code with great performance.
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Resident_Evil_4_Chainsaw_Demo_Works_Well_on
Linux_with_Proton⠀⇛
The Resident Evil 4 chainsaw demo just landed ahead
of the game that’s releasing later this March 2023.
# ⚓ Arca Noae ☛ New_product:_OS/2_Video_Poker_2.0™⠀⇛
From Reed Software, Arca Noae is proud to announce
the availability of OS/2 Video Poker 2.0! OS/
2 Video Poker 2.0 plays the fast action game of
video poker found in casinos world wide. Enjoy a
real video poker game experience right on your home
or work computer.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_CPE_Weekly_update_–
Week_10_2023⠀⇛
This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community
Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any
questions or feedback, please respond to this
report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on
libera.chat.
We provide you both infographics and text version
of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly
look at what we did, just look at the infographic.
If you are interested in more in depth details look
below the infographic.
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Friday’s_Fedora
Facts:_2023-10⠀⇛
Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what
happened this week and what’s coming up. Your
contributions are welcome (see the end of the
post)!
The F38 Beta is go for release on the early target
date (2023-03-14).
I have weekly office hours most Wednesdays in the
morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time). Drop by if
you have any questions or comments about the
schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See
the upcoming_meetings for more information.
# Announcements
# Calls_for_Participation
# Help_wanted
# Meetings_&_Events
# Releases
§ Announcements
# Inactive_packagers will be removed after the
F38 release.
# Fedora Discussion now supports saved
searches.
# API keys in Red Hat Bugzilla are now set_to
expire_after_one_year.
# The Fedora Council is considering a policy_to
create_a_Code_of_Conduct_Committee.
# Check your meetings for upcoming_summer_time
changes.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this
week_–_Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ Stolen_or_lost_Android_phone?_Here’s_how_to
find_it_and_get_it_back⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Billions_of_Android_phone_owners_can_unlock_two
free_Google_‘vacation_upgrades’_today_–_it’s_a_dream_come
true_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Best_package_tracking_apps_on_Android_in
2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ Apple_5G_baseband_signal_is_far_behind_Android
brands⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ listmonk:_Is_an_Open-source_Self-hosted_Mailchimp
Alternative⠀⇛
listmonk is a fast, feature-rich, standalone, self-hosted
newsletter and mailing list manager that comes packed
into a single binary. It uses a PostgreSQL (⩾ v9.4)
database as its data store. The backend is written in Go,
while Vue with Buefy is used for the frontend’s UI.
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ Comment_Sidecar:_A_self-Hosted_Commenting_Service_and
Alternative_to_Disqus⠀⇛
Comment-sidecar is a lightweight, tracking-free, self-
hosted commenting service that aims to work in restricted
self-hosted webspaces where only PHP and MySQL are
available. It is easy to embed into statically generated
sites created with Hugo or Jekyll, and it serves as an
alternative to Disqus.
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ Lemmy_is_a_Self-hosted_Bookmark_Aggregator_and_Reddit
Alternative.⠀⇛
Lemmy is a free and open source social link aggregation
and discussion platform, with content organized into
communities for easy subscription to topics of interest.
It uses voting to prioritize the most interesting items.
Lemmy is licensed under the strong copyleft AGPL License…
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ How_Open_source_can_Help_Healthcare_Services_in_Low-
Resource_Environment⠀⇛
Open source software is rapidly gaining ground as a cost-
effective alternative to proprietary software. In
developing countries with limited resources, open source
software can be the key to improving healthcare services.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Andy_Wingo:_pre-initialization_of_garbage-collected
webassembly_heaps⠀⇛
Hey comrades, I just had an idea that I won’t be
able to work on in the
next couple months and wanted to release it into
the wild. They say if
you love your ideas, you should let them go and see
if they come back to
you, right? In that spirit I abandon this idea to
the woods.
Basically the idea is Wizer-like_pre-initialization
of_WebAssembly
modules, but for modules
that store their data on the GC-managed heap
instead of just in linear
memory.
Say you have a WebAssembly module with GC_types.
§ Standards/Consortia⠀➾
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Marco_Rubio_Reminds_You_to_Adjust_Your_Clock_on_Sunday_With
Renewed_Push_for_Permanent_Daylight_Saving_Time⠀⇛
Alongside Daylight Saving Time (DST) comes the yearly
discussion in Congress of whether to eliminate it altogether.
We lose that extra hour of sleep as the clocks spring forward
on Sunday.
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 19_States_That_Have_Passed_Permanent_Daylight_Saving_Time_and
Why_They_Haven’t_Implemented_It⠀⇛
Come Sunday, March 12, at 2:00 a.m. EST, Daylight Saving Time
will begin. We’ll lose an hour because the 20th-century federal
government decided we should. Then on November 5th we’ll gain
an hour, and be plunged into darkness. For over half a century,
we’ve accepted that this cycle is normal.
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* § Science⠀➾
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ What_to_Know_About_the_Much-Hyped_New_Superconductor
Discovery⠀⇛
For over a century, scientists have sought a holy_grail
of_materials:_a_room-temperature_superconductor, a
material that can carry electrical charges without
resistance, which would revolutionize the energy
landscape as we know it.
* § Education⠀➾
o ⚓ Neil Selwyn ☛ The_modern_classroom_chair:_exploring_the_‘coercive
design’_of_contemporary_schooling⠀⇛
This new paper explores the politics of educational
design … exploring how the coercive logics of neoliberal
schooling are baked into the design of everyday physical
objects such as classroom chairs This paper analyses
three examples of ‘innovative’ new chair designs now
being sold to schools with promises of disciplining
students’ bodies to achieve classroom order…
* § Hardware⠀➾
o ⚓ J Pieper ☛ moteus-n1_beta_release⠀⇛
Implied by my previous writeup on pin selection for
external connectors, we’ve got a new variant of the
moteus controller to announce today in beta form, the
moteus-n1! This variant is intended to be more feature-
full, higher performance (and higher cost).
o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ V600_Alder_Lake_Mini_PC_features_Thunderbolt_4
port,_dual_2.5GbE,_up_to_Core_i9-12900H_CPU⠀⇛
V600 mini PC is equipped with an Alder Lake processor
from Core i5-1240P up to a Core i9-12900H, up to 64GB
RAM, and high-speed interfaces such as Thunderbolt 4 and
dual 2.5GbE networking. The mini PC also comes with two
M.2 NVMe sockets, one PCIe Gen 4, one Gen 3, and support
for SATA drives up to 7mm thick, offers three 4K-capable
video outputs with HDMI and DisplayPort video interfaces,
and several other USB 3.2/2.0 ports.
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ A_more_equitable_covid_vaccine_rollout_could_have_saved
a_life_every_24_seconds_in_2021⠀⇛
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared covid-19 a
pandemic three years ago, on Mar. 11, 2020. The
declaration has not lapsed, and though most cases are
mild, more_than_20_million_people are currently ill with
covid.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ AP_Top_Health_News_at_7:25_p.m._EST⠀⇛
Oregon closer to magic mushroom therapy, but has setback
House votes to declassify info about origins of COVID-19
Pandemic 3 years later: Has the COVID-19 virus won?
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ The_contaminated_Río_Santiago:_opportunity
lost_for_Guadalajara?⠀⇛
John Pint tours the parts of this highly polluted river
that are safe — and shows what Guadalajara has to gain
from cleaning up the Santiago.
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Consumer_advocacy_group_urges_judges_to
uphold_smoking_ban⠀⇛
Some businesses have been granted suspension orders
against the stringent new law since it went into effect
in January.
o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Stanford_to_end_Color_COVID-19_testing_program,
still_provide_rapid_tests⠀⇛
Stanford is ending its Color COVID-19 testing program,
which provided free PCR tests to members of the
community. Rapid tests will still be available on campus.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Have_Developed_a_Blood_Test_For
Anxiety⠀⇛
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Have_Figured_Out_How_Honeybees_Learn
Their_Waggle_Dance_Moves⠀⇛
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Plastic_pollution_in_oceans_has_reached
‘unprecedented’_levels_in_15_years⠀⇛
Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans has reached
“unprecedented levels” over the past 15 years, a new
study has found, calling for a legally binding
international treaty to stop the harmful waste.
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ For_Every_Person_on_Earth,_There_Are_21,000_Pieces_of
Plastic_in_the_Ocean⠀⇛
An analysis of global plastic data over the past four
decades, published in the journal PLOS ONE, found that
there’s now an estimated 170 trillion plastic
particles—more than 2.2 million tons—floating in the
world’s oceans. That number saw a sharp increase in the
past 15 years, dovetailing, the researchers found, with…
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ How_Fungi_Could_Cause_the_Next_Pandemic⠀⇛
Fungi are some of the strangest living things on Earth.
Some are single-celled organisms like bacteria, other are
multicellular beings akin to plants and animals. Some can
even shapeshift between these forms of life.
o ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ The_Forced_Medication_of_All_Citizens⠀⇛
Karen Hunt “…most men and women will grow up to love
their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World It all started back in the
1950s with “these drugs will make you feel better, just
try them.” And people did.
* § Security⠀➾
o ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and
wireless-regdb), Fedora (caddy, python-cryptography, and
redis), Oracle (gnutls), SUSE (hdf5, opera, python-
Django, redis, tomcat, and xen), and Ubuntu (apache2 and
snakeyaml).
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Blackbaud_Fined_$3M_For_‘Misleading_Disclosures’
About_2020_Ransomware_Attack⠀⇛
Blackbaud has been slapped with a $3 million civil
penalty by the SEC for “making misleading disclosures”
about a 2020 ransomware attack that impacted more than
13,000 customers.
o ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ North_Korean_hackers_used_polished_LinkedIn
profiles_to_target_security_researchers⠀⇛
As part of the shift in tactics, the hackers have
deployed a range of new tools and social engineering
tactics to lure their victims.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Unpatched_Akuvox_Smart_Intercom_Vulnerabilities
Can_Be_Exploited_for_Spying⠀⇛
Researchers discover a dozen serious vulnerabilities in
Akuvox smart intercom, but the vendor has not released
any patches.
o ⚓ SANS ☛ Multi-Technology_Script_Leading_to_Browser_Hijacking,_
(Fri,_Mar_10th) [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛
In the FOR610 class, we learn how to perform malware
analysis. The training focuses on Windows PE files but in
the real world, malware samples use multiple technologies
to perform malicious actions. I spotted a VBScript file…
o ⚓ SDx Central ☛ How_OpenSSF_Aims_to_Make_Log4j-Like_Incidents_Rare
[Ed: ‘Linux’_Foundation_still_bringing_up_“Log4j”_(2021) in 2023 in
order to scare people and help a phony narrative of Microsofters]⠀⇛
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Alleged_NetWire_RAT_Operator_Arrested_in_Croatia
as_FBI_Seizes_Website⠀⇛
Authorities seized a domain distributing the NetWire RAT
and arrested a Croatian individual who administered the
website.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Millions_of_AT&T_Customers_Notified_of_Data
Breach_at_Third-Party_Vendor⠀⇛
AT&T is notifying millions of wireless customers that
their CPNI was compromised in a data breach at a third-
party vendor.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Serious_Vulnerability_Patched_in_Veeam_Data
Backup_Solution⠀⇛
A serious vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication may
allow attackers to obtain encrypted credentials from the
configuration database.
o ⚓ CNN ☛ Capitol_Hill_data_breach_more_‘extensive’_than_previously
known⠀⇛
A sweeping cybersecurity breach of congressional members’
private information was more extensive than previously
known and affects not only House lawmakers and their
staff but also Senate employees.
The Senate sergeant-at-arms alerted Senate staff about
the breach Thursday in an email obtained by CNN.
The compromised data is “extensive,” and includes
sensitive data such as Social Security numbers, home
addresses and information on Senate employees’ health
insurance plans, the sergeant-at-arms said in the email,
which urged Senate staff to freeze their family credit to
guard against fraud.
o ⚓ SEC ☛ SEC_Charges_Software_Company_Blackbaud_Inc._for_Misleading
Disclosures_About_Ransomware_Attack_That_Impacted_Charitable
Donors⠀⇛
o ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ 3,400_death_registry_records_accessed_in_Hawaii
Department_of_Health_data_security_breach⠀⇛
o ⚓ Capitol Broadcasting Company Inc ☛ UNC_data_leak_exposes_more
than_1,000_Social_Security_numbers⠀⇛
“Human error” played a role in the recent data leak at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has
exposed more than 1,000 Social Security numbers.
UNC said 1,025 people had their personal information
mailed incorrectly. The university mistakenly sent out
IRS Form 1099s with names, addresses, social security
numbers, or tax identification number to the wrong
people.
“While 3,403 forms were printed correctly, only 2,214
envelopes were mailed. Upon further investigation, the
University determined that due to human error and a
processing issue, some of the 2,214 mailings included
more than one IRS form,” said Query.AI Chief Information
Security Officer Neal Bridges.
o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ dwaves.de ☛ EU_undermining_privacy_–_“your_chats_belong_to
us”_(except_the_SMS_chats_of_Mrs_von_der_Leyen_with_Pfizer_
(of_course))⠀⇛
“Von der Leyen under pressure: The head of the EU
Commission refuses to release text messages about
the expensive vaccine deal with Pfizer. She is
accused of lack of transparency.
# ⚓ dwaves.de ☛ Your_Computer_Clock_is_Wrong_–_no_it_is_not_–
Elon’s_Twitter_let_Onion_Tor_service_certificate_expire_–_how
to_fix_it_(client_side)⠀⇛
have to give a HUGHE praise to the Tor Project!
just checked and they DO AN EXCELLENT job at
keeping the user private the developers who
constantly work to make the system better the
thousands of volunteering admins…
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ TikTok_Whistleblower_Tells_Congress_Data
Protections_Don’t_Stop_Chinese_Access⠀⇛
A former TikTok employee turned whistleblower has
reportedly met with multiple U.S. senators
expressing concerns TikTok’s plan to secure U.S.
user data won’t go far enough to stop possible
Chinese espionage.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ What_TikTok_Withholds_Is_As_Concerning
As_What_It_Posts,_Says_NSA_Director⠀⇛
US Army General Paul Nakasone, commander of the US
Cyber Command and director of the National Security
Agency, warns that what TikTok doesn’t show you is
just as concerning as what it does.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ TikTok_Hires_Biden-Connected
Consulting_Firm_as_Federal_Ban_Looms⠀⇛
TikTok hires Biden-connected consulting firm SKDK
as federal ban looms. TikTok has hired top Biden-
connected consulting firm SKDK while it continues
facing scrutiny in Washington, Politico reports.
The public affairs and political consulting firm is
providing communications support to the company as
it faces continued fire from the government.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Should_Facial_Recognition_Technology_be_Banned?_|
Future_Tech⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Meta_Wants_to_Grab_Wandering_Twitter_Users_With_a
New_Decentralized_App⠀⇛
While Twitter deals with daily chaos and mounting
debt, its biggest competitors are thinking they can
do tweet storms even better than the ol’ blue bird.
On Friday, Meta confirmed that it was working on a
new stand-alone app for sharing Twitter-like
messages.
# ⚓ [Repeat] Silicon Angle ☛ Meta_explores_decentralized_social
network_to_rival_Twitter⠀⇛
With the sudden popularity of Mastodon, the
decentralized text-based social network, it
wouldn’t be long before other social media giants
would jump on board, and now Meta Platforms Inc. is
already exploring its own version.
⚓ CIA_and_Mossad-linked_Surveillance_System_Quietly_Being_Installed_Throughout
the_US⠀⇛
Under the guise of stopping mass shootings, a surveillance system
backed by top Mossad, CIA and FBI officials is being installed in
schools, houses of worship, and other civilian locations throughout
the country, much of it thanks to the recent donation of an
“anonymous philanthropist.”
§ Confidentiality⠀➾
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Cerebral_Informing_3.1_Million_Individuals_of
Inadvertent_Data_Exposure⠀⇛
Cerebral is informing 3.1 million individuals that their PHI
was inadvertently exposed via third-party tracking
technologies.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Acronis_Clarifies_Hack_Impact_Following_Data_Leak⠀⇛
Acronis said a single customer’s account was compromised after
a hacker leaked gigabytes of information on a cybercrime forum.
* ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ PDPC_penalizes_Eatigo_over_data_protection_failures
leading_to_2020_breach⠀⇛
On October 31, 2020, Eatigo reported a data breach of customer
data and that the data had been put up for sale on a popular
forum.
§ Defence/Aggression⠀➾
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ White_House_Budget_Plan_Seeks_to_Boost_Cybersecurity
Spending⠀⇛
President Biden’s new $6.9 trillion budget proposal for 2024
shows that the administration wants to increase cybersecurity
spending.
* ⚓ Defence Web ☛ ISS:_UK_seems_ready_to_return_its_‘last_African_colony’⠀⇛
Could the protracted dispute over the Chagos Islands in the
Indian Ocean finally be drawing to a close? Britain steadfastly
insisted for decades that it was the rightful owner of what it
called the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Wagner_announces_opening_of_recruitment_centres_in_42
Russian_cities⠀⇛
The head of Russian mercenary group Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin
announced the opening of recruitment centres in dozens of
cities on Friday. Prigozhin is currently entangled in a power
struggle with the defence ministry, having several times
claimed battlefield victories ahead of the Russian military,
lambasted Russia’s top brass and accused the military of not
sharing ammunition with his forces.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_defense_spending_hits_2.25%_of_GDP⠀⇛
The passing of Latvia’s 2023 budget on Thursday, March 9,
ensures that Latvia will spend an amount equivalent to 2.25% of
GDP on defense in 2023, with that figure set to rise to 2.4% in
2024 and 2.5% in 2025 as part of a longer budgetary framework
included with the legislation.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Military_helicopter_turned_courier_to_deliver_heart_for
transplant⠀⇛
This week, at the request of cardiac surgeons of the Paul
Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital (PSKUS), the Air Force
of Latvia’s National Armed Forces (NBS) stepped in and turned
speedy courier to transport a donor heart by helicopter from a
remote Latvian hospital to the operating theater, where a
patient was waiting for a new heart, according to a press
release from the NBS.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ 10-year-old_student_arrested_for_having_gun_at
Maine_school⠀⇛
Police say they arrested a 10-year-old student in Maine on
Friday after the student arrived on school grounds with a
firearm. The Waldo County Sheriff’s Office says no one was
injured. The office said it responded to Monroe Elementary
School in Monroe just before 9 a.m. after fielding a report
that the student had a firearm. The sheriff’s office says
police worked with school staff to detain the student and seize
the firearm. The student was then arrested and taken to the
Waldo County Sheriff’s Office. The office says there is no
ongoing threat to the public.
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Who_Did_Blow_Up_the_Nord_Stream_Pipeline?⠀⇛
In September 2022, the Nord Stream gas pipelines exploded in
one of the most spectacular political and environmental acts of
terrorism in history.
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ 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.
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Victory_Is_Defeat:_Palestinian_Children’s_Art_Exposes
Israel’s_Cultural_Genocide⠀⇛
The following text tells the whole story of what pro-
Palestinian communities around the world are fighting for, and
what pro-Israelis are fighting against: “We are delighted to
report that Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has removed a
display of artwork designed by children from Gaza.” T
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Scientists_Call_for_a_Global_Treaty_to_Address_Space_Junk⠀⇛
What goes up must come down, and that includes all of the
satellites, rocket stages, and junk that humans have launched
into space.
* ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Violent_Extremist_Organizations_Threaten_West
Africa’s_Development⠀⇛
Violent extremist organizations, such as militant Islamist
groups, have been a major threat to West Africa’s development.
In Burkina Faso, these organizations have spread instability
through violent events and have become increasingly active in
the Sahel region (Brottem, 2022).
* ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ The_Frog_of_War⠀⇛
Sylvia Shawcross There are seven types of frogs in the Ukraine.
So whenever you look at the map of the Ukraine to see how the
war ”They” (we can’t call them the elite anymore because it
upsets people so we’ll just call them Them with a capital T or
They with a capital T….
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Iran,_Saudi_Arabia_agree_to_re-establish_relations_after
years_of_tensions⠀⇛
Iran and Saudi Arabia on Friday agreed to reestablish
diplomatic relations and reopen embassies after years of
tensions between the two countries, including a devastating
attack on the heart of the kingdom’s oil production attributed
to Tehran.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Eight_dead_in_shooting_at_Jehovah’s_Witness_hall_in_German
city_of_Hamburg⠀⇛
A shooting at a Jehovah’s Witnesses centre in the German city
of Hamburg has left eight people dead, including the suspected
gunman, police said Friday, as the motive for the attack
remained unclear.
§ Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
* ⚓ American Oversight ☛ Public_Records_Victory:_CDC_Agrees_to_Settlement
in_American_Oversight_Lawsuit_Challenging_Agency’s_FOIA_Practices⠀⇛
* ⚓ American Oversight ☛ News_Roundup:_Exposing_Lies⠀⇛
§ Environment⠀➾
* ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ We_Got_Climate_Change_Wrong_–_All_of_Us⠀⇛
It has been said that “Where there is smoke, there’s fire”.
This is also true when it comes to climate change. The
increased frequency and severity of floods, droughts, and
storms, are just the smoke, while the Carbon Ratio is the real
fire.
* ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ 2_dead,_nearly_10,000_under_evacuation_orders_as
California_floods_intensify⠀⇛
CNN– At least two people have died as the result of the ongoing
storm inundating California, and nearly 10,000 residents are
under evacuation orders, officials said.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Atmospheric_river_floods_California_towns,
brings_rain,_snow⠀⇛
More than 9,000 California residents were under evacuation
orders Friday in California after a new atmospheric river
brought heavy rain, thunderstorms and strong winds, swelling
rivers and creeks and flooding several major highways. In Santa
Cruz County, a creek bloated by rain destroyed a portion of
Main Street and isolated several neighborhoods in Soquel, a
town of 10,000 people.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Quake_swarms_at_neighboring_Alaska_volcanoes
raise_concerns⠀⇛
Not one but two volcanoes on the same island in Alaska’s
Aleutian chain were showing signs of unrest on Friday, rocked
by seismic activity. Elevated earthquake activity at both
Tanaga and Takawangha volcanoes on uninhabited Tanaga Island
hundreds of miles from Anchorage could indicate a possible
eruption.
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ India’s_demand_for_fuel_hit_a_quarter-century_high_in
February⠀⇛
The demand for fuel in India rose to its highest level in
at least 24 years in February, partly due to Russian oil
imported at a hefty discount.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ India’s_newly-found_lithium_reserves_carry_an
environmental_cost⠀⇛
The discovery of vast lithium deposits in the Indian
territory of Jammu and Kashmir, hailed as a win for the
country’s clean energy transition, comes at a price for
communities in the Himalayan region, say villagers and
environmental scientists.
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Judge_Says_SBF’s_Proposed_Bail_Conditions_Are_Too
Cushy⠀⇛
A federal judge doesn’t think proposed changes to Sam
Bankman-Fried’s bail conditions will be enough to address
the disgraced FTX founder’s messy online behavior while
awaiting trial, according to a Friday Reuters report.
o ⚓ NYPost ☛ Biden_to_sign_off_on_$8_billion_oil_drilling_project_in
Alaska:_reports⠀⇛
President Biden is planning to approve an $8 billion oil
drilling project on federal land on Alaska’s North Slope
next week, according to multiple reports.
* § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ The_First-Ever_Complete_Map_of_an_Insect_Brain_Is
Truly_Mesmerizing⠀⇛
“Everything has been working up to this.”
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ World’s_Largest_Organism_Is_Slowly_Being_Eaten,
Scientist_Says⠀⇛
Nothing lasts forever.
* § Overpopulation⠀➾
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Fertility_rate_in_Latvia_close_to_EU_average [Ed:
"Fertility" is the wrong term when people intentionally do not
reproduce]⠀⇛
In 2021, 4.09 million babies were born in the EU. This
was a slight increase compared with 2020, when 4.07
million babies were born. Overall, there has been a
downward trend in the number of children born in the EU,
which began in 2008 (4.68 million children), according to
Eurostat figures published March 9.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Silicon_Valley_Bank_is_the_second-largest_US_bank_failure_in
history⠀⇛
The closure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) today marked the
second-largest US bank failure in history.
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Financial_regulators_close_Silicon_Valley_Bank⠀⇛
The California Department of Financial Protection and
Innovation today closed Silicon Valley Bank, a storied
financial institution that counted many venture-backed startups
as clients. The move follows a series of developments that cast
doubt on the company’s financial stability.
⚓ France24 ☛ US_regulators_seize_Silicon_Valley_Bank_in_largest_bank_failure
since_financial_crisis⠀⇛
California banking regulators on Friday closed SVB Financial Group,
the largest bank failure since the financial crisis, moving quickly
to protect depositors as a crisis at the startup-focused lender
rippled through global markets and hit banking stocks.
⚓ France24 ☛ Macron_insists_pension_reform_is_necessary_as_protests,_strikes
press_on⠀⇛
French President Emmanuel Macron insisted on the need for raising the
retirement age from 62 to 64 in order to make the French pension
system financially sustainable in the coming years, in a letter to
workers’ unions released Friday.
⚓ Quartz ☛ Silicon_Valley_Bank_is_the_first_FDIC-insured_bank_to_fail_in_2023⠀⇛
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was shut_down_on_March_10 by California’s
state banking regulator and put under the control Federal Deposit
Insurance Corp., which promised_to_give_insured_depositors_access to
their money by the morning of March 13 and will attempt to return
funds to uninsured depositors as the agency sells…
⚓ Quartz ☛ After_the_US_added_300,000_jobs_in_February,_the_Fed_will_likely
raise_rates_faster⠀⇛
The US economy added 311,000 non-farm jobs between January and
February, beating economists’ expectations for an addition of 225,000
jobs in the month, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
⚓ Quartz ☛ GM_seeks_to_cut_jobs_by_offering_thousands_of_workers_the_chance_to
get_paid_to_quit⠀⇛
General Motors is doing layoffs a little differently: It’s letting
people choose to leave.
⚓ Security Week ☛ Silicon_Valley_Bank_Seized_by_FDIC_as_Depositors_Pull_Cash⠀⇛
The FDIC seized the assets of Silicon Valley Bank on Friday, which
could impact cybersecurity firms that use the bank’s services.
⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Meta_Will_Stop_Offering_Reels_Bonuses_to_Creators_on
Facebook_and_Instagram⠀⇛
Meta is discontinuing its program to pay bonuses to creators for
making Reels on Facebook and Instagram. Instagram and Facebook parent
Meta is pausing its program to incentivize creators to make Reels and
reach specific benchmarks. Initially introduced in 2021, the program
paid bonuses to content creators to generate more short video
content.
⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Meta_Isn’t_Paying_Influencers_for_Reels_Any_More⠀⇛
Facebook and Instagram influencers are losing access to a big
moneymaking program that was previously paying out thousands of
dollars per vid. It was an effort to get more Instagram users
interested in watching the social network’s short-form video format
Reels.
⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Silicon_Valley_Bank_collapses_after_failing_to_raise
capital⠀⇛
Silicon Valley Bank collapsed Friday morning after a stunning 48
hours in which its capital crisis set off fears of a meltdown across
the banking industry. Its failure marks the largest shutdown of a US
bank since 2008, when Washington Mutual fell during the financial
crisis.
⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ UNICEF_warns_of_deepening_inequalities_in_Europe_and
Central_Asia⠀⇛
The COVID-19 pandemic, climate disasters and ongoing conflict have
deepened inequalities among children in Europe and Central Asia, the
UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a report published on Thursday,
calling for more robust support for boys and girls at risk of poverty
and social exclusion.
⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ More_than_1.2_million_march_in_France._Protesters_aim_to
‘bring_France_to_standstill’⠀⇛
More than 1.2 million protesters marched in France on Tuesday as rail
workers and refinery staff began rolling strikes and trade unions
stepped up their campaign to try to stop Emmanuel Macron’s plan to
raise the pension age to 64.
⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ DocuSign’s_stock_falls_as_executive_changes_cast_shadow_on
strong_earnings_and_revenue_beat⠀⇛
Shares of DocuSign Inc. fell more than 7% in extended trading today
as an executive leadership shakeup overshadowed an impressive fourth-
quarter earnings and revenue beat.
⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ New_York_sues_KuCoin,_claims_it’s_falsely_representing_itself
as_a_cryptocurrency_exchange⠀⇛
New York Attorney General Letitia James today filed a lawsuit against
cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin, claiming that the company failed to
register as a security and commodities broker-dealer and is falsely
representing itself as an exchange.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Saudi_Arabia_and_Iran_agreed_to_restore_trade_and_diplomatic
ties_in_a_deal_brokered_by_China⠀⇛
Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to normalize diplomatic and trade
relations on Friday (March 10) after years of tension that
threatened to destabilize the Gulf region.
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Iceland’s_President_Offers_Socks_to_the_Disabled_Ex-Twitter
Employee_Mocked_by_Elon_Musk⠀⇛
Haraldur Thorleifsson has had a long week. On Monday, the
Icelander tweeted at Elon Musk asking if he still had a job at
Twitter, since he had been locked out of his work laptop and
hadn’t been able to get in touch with Twitter human resources.
* ⚓ NYPost ☛ Elon_Musk_calls_for_release_of_QAnon_Shaman_from_prison over
Capitol_riot_actions⠀⇛
“Free Jacob Chansley,” Elon Musk wrote in an explosive tweet on
Friday.
* ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ President_Niinistö_of_Finland_visits_Stanford,_calls_for
trans-atlantic_security_cooperation⠀⇛
As part of a five-day trip to the United States, Finnish
President Sauli Niinistö and his delegation visited Stanford
and discussed matters of national security and strategic
cooperation with Stanford scholars from the Freeman Spogli
Institute and Hoover Institution.
* ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ The_Dark_Side_of_Social_Media⠀⇛
Social media has taken over each and every individual this way
or the other. One cannot deny the fact that the pros of the
social media overshadow the dark cons of social media.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Macron_hails_‘new_start’_in_France-UK_relations_at_Sunak
meeting⠀⇛
French President Emmanuel Macron hailed a “new start” in
Franco-British ties at a bilateral summit in Paris with British
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, aiming at restoring close ties
after years of tensions between the two countries.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ The_challenge_of_enshrining_abortion_rights_in_the_French
constitution⠀⇛
During a speech given on International Woman’s Day, French
President Emmanuel Macron announced the decision to put forward
a bill enshrining abortion rights in the country’s
constitution. Despite being lauded by women’s rights groups,
changing the constitution may be more difficult than it
appears.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Turkish_opposition_unites_against_‘weaker_than_ever’_Erdogan
ahead_of_elections⠀⇛
Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, the leader of Turkey’s Republican People’s
Party (CHP), has emerged as the main challenger to President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan in elections scheduled for May 14.
Kilicdaroglu hopes to deprive Erdogan of a third term as he
grapples with the country’s economic crisis and the fallout
from last February’s devastating earthquakes.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ China’s_parliament_appoints_Li_Qiang_as_premier_as_Xi
cements_influence⠀⇛
Li Qiang, one of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s most trusted
allies, was confirmed as premier on Saturday, as Xi cements his
influence on the country’s top leadership.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ House_Republicans_Just_Passed_a_Tech_Censorship_Bill_That’s
Pure_Nonsense⠀⇛
House Republicans this week rammed through an ill-constructed,
self-aggrandizing “anti-censorship” bill supposedly aimed at
preventing federal agents from pressuring tech companies to
stifle conservatives. The bill, inspired in part by Republican
outrage over Twitter’s handling of the Hunter Biden laptop
story…
* ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ The_Reason_Why_Europe’s_“Right_To_Be_Forgotten”
Hasn’t_Made_it_To_The_United_States⠀⇛
In the digital age, an individual’s data can be searchable and
accessible at the speed of one click. The more someone
interacts with the Internet, the bigger their digital footprint
becomes. This footprint is collected, analysed and passed
around by countless third parties without the owner’s explicit
consent.
* ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ ‘This_chills_speech’:_Faculty_Senate_raises_concerns
about_Protected_Identity_Harm_Reporting⠀⇛
At their Thursday meeting, members of the Faculty Senate
criticized the harm reporting process as being restrictive of
free speech and academic freedom on campus.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Russia_casts_Georgia_protests_as_coup_attempt,_accuses_West
of_fomenting_unrest⠀⇛
Moscow on Friday accused foreign countries of fomenting days of
mass protests in Georgia, likening them to an attempted coup
designed to sow tension on Russia’s borders.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Women_on_a_mission:_MENA_female_entrepreneurs_are
making_waves_in_the_region⠀⇛
Women entrepreneurs have emerged as a force to be reckoned with
in many Arab economies, breaking stereotypes and paving the way
for future generations.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ BBC_presenter_Lineker_pulled_from_air_over_’1930s_Germany’
post_on_UK_migrant_policy⠀⇛
Former England soccer captain Gary Lineker has been taken off
air by the BBC after his comments on Britain’s migration policy
sparked a furious row between the government and the
corporation’s highest paid presenter.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ Troy Hunt ☛ To_Infinity_and_Beyond,_with_Cloudflare_Cache_Reserve⠀⇛
What if I told you… that you could run a website from behind
Cloudflare and only have 385 daily requests miss their cache
and go through to the origin service?
…biggy, unless… that was out of a total of more than 166M
requests in the same period…
* ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ Open_Network_for_Digital_Commerce_(ONDC):
An_Explainer⠀⇛
‘Open Network for Digital Commerce’ (ONDC) is a government
backed, network-centric, technology infrastructure. In this
explainer we expand on what ONDC is, how it works, what the
stated promises and potential challenges are, especially
regarding ONDC’s capability to address market issues.
§ Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ HP_Printers_Are_Doing_the_DRM_Thing_Again⠀⇛
HP is receiving backlash after users reported that their non-
brand_ink_cartridges stopped working following recent firmware
updates.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ 4_day_work_week⠀⇛
I’m very supportive of reducing work hours and days. I’ve
recently got to unofficially try it out myself, because I
asked for Fridays off for a couple weeks so I have some
longer weekends to work on a university assignment. That
would permit me more time to work on it, or at least have
one day for rest and fun, one day for chores and errands,
and one day to put in a lot of work.
I’m surprised by the fact that I don’t enjoy it as much
as I thought I would. It made me feel a little lost, and
a little like those bad Sundays where you feel bad and
depressed about your life, and like you should be doing
something great but aren’t. And everything you think of
doing sucks, isn’t available, or something you don’t
wanna do right now. Or like in school days where the
summer break started to feel boring and you caught
yourself looking a bit forward to school again. I wonder
if this is me being an indoctrinated worker being so used
to 5 days, or if it’s my work circumstances or private
circumstances?
o ⚓ Star_Gazing_2023-03-10_Evening_(Fairbanks,_AK,_USA)⠀⇛
Last night about 9:00pm AKST I observed that atmospheric
pressure had jumped up and the skies had cleared up. The
NWS forecast had predicted 50% cloud cover so this was
unexpected. I’m getting pretty good now at gathering up
my telescope supplies and getting my telescope assembled,
so I was out at the boat launch and had everything set up
in about 30 or 40 minutes.
The temperature at the boat launch was 5 °F, which was a
big improvement over the -20 °F evenings I’ve been
working with. The boat launch was getting a bit crowded
since it was a warm Friday night and there was a campfire
party going on, but I found a darker area to park in. The
skies seemed very bright, which I think was due to light
from the gibbous moon a little under the horizon. But I
was able to find a darker patch of sky to the south east.
o ⚓ Waiting_for_weather⠀⇛
I’m making instant coffee and slowly waking up. It’s
Saturday and I’m up just after 7.
There was supposed to be a storm sweeping in starting
late last night, but that hasn’t happened yet. The
environmental services are still calling for a big dump
of snow, but I woke up this morning, looked out, and
nothing. The same melted and refrozen drifts, the same
semi-bare streets.
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ High_Tech_Devil’s_Dictionary⠀⇛
Proof of Work Cryptocurrency
(n). A technique for transmuting electricity into money
while burning the planet and generating bullshit as a
byproduct. See also: Ponzi Scheme Protocol (PSP), Money
Laundering Protocol (MLP).
o ⚓ Will_MNT_eat_Pine64′s_lunch?⠀⇛
I was originally interested to see what the capabilities
of this device were, especially as a target for
postmarketOS, which I found particularly compelling from
a technical standpoint. Since that time, my PinePhone has
come to serve a unique role in my computing life; the
battery is far too limited to allow the device to be a
useful daily-driver cell phone, but having a very small
linux system with the full capabilities of graphical
Emacs, desktop Firefox, and a physical keyboard with
support for commonly used meta keys has proven invaluable
in a number of situations.
o ⚓ Invidious:_Make_Youtube_cool_again⠀⇛
I have a complicated relationship with Youtube like, I
imagine, a lot of people.
While I really dislike everything that Google is doing
with the platform and
their idiotic algorithm, there are tons of exceptionnaly
good content on the
platform.
You can find everything regarding computer science, 3d
printing, physics talks,
video games, history and so much more. It’s full of
dedicated people
talking about their passion. I used to only use the
“Subscriptions” page of
Youtube. The default home page has always been
irrelevant, and the Popular tab
is just plain cancer.
o ⚓ Thinking_about_threading.⠀⇛
Several years ago I wanted to have a way to share short
thoughts, and found items (links, images, and the like)
on my website. Most of the website is made up of markdown
files that render into HTML and while this isn’t
difficult to update on a real computer it is cumbersome
on what passes for the state of the art in mobile
operating systems these days so I wanted something that I
could post to using a web browser. I ended up building
the resulting microblog system out of several Microsoft
Azure services, namely Functions, Storage Tables, and
Storage Blobs. Later, when I built this Gemini capsule I
wanted to bring that content across so I wrote a Python
program that fetches the data from the API and renders it
out to gemtext and an Atom feed.
o § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Collect_traffic_data_for_your_Capsule⠀⇛
As everyone else around here, I love a good
tracking of visitors.
Kidding… screw that.
However, I feel it’s pretty good to know if your
capsule gets any traffic at all
and which part of it people find it more
interesting. Some may not care, some may.
This is why I’ve modified shavit to support sending
traffic data into InfluxDB.
# ⚓ verified_sites⠀⇛
Mastodon has a feature which enables you to verify
that a website in your profile belongs to you [1],
and I’ve now added the same capability for website
and blog links in Epicyon [2].
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World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o BSD
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Education
o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
# Open_Access/Content
o Programming/Development
# Java
# Rust
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
# Confidentiality
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 Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ What_Are_Package_Dependencies_on_Linux?
Explained⠀⇛
The term “dependencies” is often used when
downloading packages on Linux. But what does it
mean?
You may have heard about package dependencies in
Linux and wondered what they are. Dependencies
might seem confusing, but there are tools in Linux
to make sure every program you install has all the
components it needs.
Let’s understand Linux dependencies and their
impact on package management on Linux.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Mixxx_Free_DJ_Software_2.3.4_Released!
Ubuntu_PPA⠀⇛
Free DJ mixing software Mixxx announced the 2.3.4
release a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in
Ubuntu 22.10, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu
18.04 via PPA. The new release added controller
mapping for the Traktor Kontrol S2 Mk1, and initial
mapping for Numark Party Mix. I
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 7_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Photo_Metadata
Editors_(Updated_2023)⠀⇛
A metadata editor is computer software which allows
users to view and edit metadata tags interactively
and save them in the graphics file. So, metadata is
information that is part of the image file and
contains information about the image itself and the
creation of the image. It can set textual
information such as title, description, exposure
time, ISO value, focal length, and copyright. Some
modern digital cameras and camera phones are GPS
enabled and they can save the location co-ordinates
(latitude and longitude) with the photographs.
Metadata editors can also set geolocation
information by browsing a map or setting
coordinates directly, which is particularly useful
for cameras without GPS. There are many reasons why
users might wish to modify metadata of photographs.
# ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ How_To_Read_Online_News_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ How_to_install_SSL_Let’s_Encrypt_using_Lego?⠀⇛
SSL / TLS (Secure Socket Layer / Transport Layer
Security) are cryptographic protocols designed to
provide communications security over a computer
network: web, email, instant messengers.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Spotify_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or
Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛
Spotify is a popular music streaming service that
has taken the world by storm since its launch in
2006. With over 320 million active users across 178
countries, it has become one of the most widely
used music platforms globally.
# ⚓ IT Tavern ☛ Getting_started_with_iperf3_–_Network
Troubleshooting⠀⇛
iperf3 is a tool to measure the throughput between
hosts in a network and can test TCP, UDP, and SCPT,
whereby TCP is the default. iperf3 must be
installed and active on two hosts in which one host
acts as a server and the other one as a client. By
default, you measure the upload from the client to
the server, but you can test the download from the
client with the -R flag.
# ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ Is_your_jail_not_getting_an_IPv6_address
soon_enough?_Blame_DAD.⠀⇛
Looking in the jail, it had IPv6 addresses. What
gives?
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Cleaning_up_metadata,_and_building_with
Dublin_Core⠀⇛
But what schema to keep? After mulling whether to
just use HTML metadata and call it a day, I decided
to stick with the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
As an archivist and aspirational librarian, their
metadata cause has always spoken the most to me,
and I still think they offer the most flexible and
broadly useful schemas for all sorts of data, not
least a personal blog. It also fits in well with
existing HTML metadata tags, so there isn’t much
more markup to write.
# ⚓ Austin Gil ☛ File_Uploads_for_the_Web_(1):_Uploading_Files
with_HTML⠀⇛
To actually send the file to a server, we need to
make an HTTP request, which means we need a <form>.
We’ll put the file input inside along with a
<button> to submit the form. The input will also
need a <label> to make it accessible for assistive
technology, an id attribute to associate it with
the label, and a name attribute in order to include
its data along with the HTTP request.
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ ZFS_on_Linux_and_when_you_get_stale
NFSv3_mounts⠀⇛
There are at least three ways to move a ZFS
fileserver from Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 22.04. I’ll
skip upgrading it in place because we don’t have
any experience with that; we upgrade machines by
reinstalling them from scratch. That leaves two
approaches for a ZFS server, which I will call a
forklift upgrade and a migration. In a forklift
upgrade, you build new system disks, then swap them
in by exporting the ZFS pools, changing system
disks, booting your new 22.04 system, and importing
the pools back.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Valve_Designer:_No_Beefed_Up_Steam_Deck_2
for_‘a_Few_Years’⠀⇛
Valve Designer says a more powerful steam deck
sequel isn’t in the cards for the next few years.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ No_true_next-gen_Steam_Deck_for_‘a_few
years’_Valve_say⠀⇛
As expected really, Valve said they don’t really
expect to see a true next-gen Steam Deck for a few
years yet. Speaking to Rock Paper Shotgun, it’s
clear Valve are very happy with the first year of
the Steam Deck.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_Humble_Heroines_Bundle_is_an_awesome
deal_for_Steam_Deck_and_Linux_Desktop⠀⇛
The Humble Heroines Bundle is an absolutely
fantastic deal, with some great compatibility
across Steam Deck and Linux Desktop with Proton.
Here’s what to expect from it. As I usually do,
I’ll go over each title individually and list the
rating for Steam Deck, along with ProtonDB rating
for Desktop users to save you some clicking around.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Aethermancer_is_a_new_creature_collector
rogue-lite_from_the_dev_of_Monster_Sanctuary⠀⇛
Seems moi rai games are sticking to what they know,
with them moving on from Monster Sanctuary (which
is still being updated) to their new announcement
with Aethermancer.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Proton_Hotfix_updated_for_Resident_Evil_4
remake,_Steam_Deck_needs_SteamOS_3.4.6_Preview⠀⇛
Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais mentioned that
they’ve updated Proton Hotfix, which should allow
the new Resident Evil 4 Chainsaw Demo of the remake
to run on Linux and Steam Deck.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ How_platform_integration_in_Qt/KDE_apps_works⠀⇛
There has been some recent discussions about
how KDE applications (or Qt apps in general)
should look and feel like outside of the
Plasma desktop, particularly in a GNOME
environment.
During this discussion I noticed two major
disconnects between the involved parties. One
of them is technical in nature, where
(understandably) not everyone involved has
deep knowledge about how Qt and KDE apps
work. The other one is cultural in nature,
where there’s opposing views about who gets
to decide how an application should look and
feel like on a given platform.
I can’t do much about the cultural issue, but
I can help the conversation by giving some
much needed overview of how any of this works
on a technical level. Everyone being on the
same page technically could help foster a
more productive conversation about this
complex topic.
First of all it’s important to note that Qt
to its core is an abstraction across various
plaforms (most important here are Linux,
Windows, and macOS, but also to some degree
Android and iOS). Whenever possible Qt tries
to use the platform’s native facilities to do
anything, whether that’s rendering, file
dialogs, widget styles etc. This becomes
somewhat messy when you consider that “Linux”
isn’t exaclty a single, well-defined
“platform”. Qt does usually have non-native
fallbacks for things like file dialogs and
widget styles, but they aren’t necessarily
something you want a user to have to see.
It’s also important to mention that Qt has
two somewhat competing ways of defining UIs,
the traditional QtWidgets, and the more
recent QtQuick/QML.
There are several somewhat independent pieces
involved in how a Qt application looks and
feels. Jan Grulich already talked about some
of them in the context_of_GNOME_and
QGnomePlatform, but there are also things
specific to KDE applications that aren’t
mentioned.
# ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ This_week_in_KDE:_Qt_apps_survive_the
Wayland_compositor_crashing⠀⇛
Thanks to the heroic work of David Edmundson,
Qt apps (including all KDE software) in
Plasma 6 will now survive when the Wayland
compositor crashes! This is huge! And work is
ongoing to add this functionality to other
common app toolkits, such as GTK.
Beyond that, Plasma 6 porting work continues,
with more and more people using it daily. Not
me yet, because I’m a scaredy-cat about this
kind of instability and am waiting for it to
converge a bit more But hopefully soon!
Meanwhile, check out what else happened…
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ TeX_and_DragonFly⠀⇛
TeX Live 2023 is available on DragonFly.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ PipeWire_0.3.67_(2023-03-09)⠀⇛
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI
compatible with previous 0.3.x releases.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Innovating_in_an_economic_downturn:
4_tips⠀⇛
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 3_ways_IT_leaders_can_break_free
from_outdated_software⠀⇛
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ IT_leadership:_3_ways_to_boost_your
Generational_IQ_(GQ)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ IT_leadership:_How_to_lead_with
strategic_clarity⠀⇛
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Debian_Project_—_What_is_the_difference_between_a_Project
and_a_proper_Association?⠀⇛
A project starts with a plan and finishes with a
product or outcome. Projects are transient in
nature. Therefore, being part of a project team
also implies a somewhat transient status.
When you consider the quantity and quality of the
work and intellectual property that volunteers
contribute to Debian and Fedora, this inferior and
transient status is somewhat insulting.
This inconvenient vocabulary is no accident. Every
time there is an election for the Debian Project
Leader, somebody raises the idea of creating a
proper Debian foundation or a Debian association.
In other words, creating a body with its own legal
status where all the volunteers have a status as
equal members. In the 2022 election, Christian
Kastner raised the topic here.
In reality, all of the money and other assets
associated with Debian development have been
siphoned off into other legal entities. They are
described as “trusted organizations” and there is a
list of them on the Debian wiki site. Each of these
organizations puts out an obscure financial report
from time to time.
In 2023, we will be celebrating 30 years of the
Debian Project. To put it in the terminology of the
Afghan war, Debian and Fedora are forever-projects,
like forever-wars, that seem to be losing their
way. The Debian Social Contract gives us promises
of transparency but in 30 years, we have never seen
anybody publish a consolidated set of Debian
financial accounts.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Meet_Ubuntu_Flatpak_Remix,_Ubuntu_with_Flatpak
Support_Preinstalled⠀⇛
That was fast! After Canonical’s announcement that
future Ubuntu releases won’t include Flatpak
support by default, someone already made an
unofficial Ubuntu flavor that ships with support
for Flatpak apps preinstalled and working out of
the box, called Ubuntu Flatpak Remix.
Several key apps are preinstalled in the Flatpak
format rather than as a Snap app, including the
Mozilla Firefox web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird
email client, and LibreOffice office suite. Support
for the Flathub portal is installed as well, so
you’ll be able to install more apps with just a few
clicks.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Mini_review_of_the_Raspberry_Pi_Global
Shutter_Camera⠀⇛
Raspberry Pi Trading has just launched the 1.6MP
Raspberry Pi Global Shutter Camera which can
capture rapid motion without introducing artifacts
usually experienced with rolling shutter cameras
such as the earlier Raspberry Pi Camera modules,
including the latest Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ PotatoP_Laptop_Aims_for_Two_Years_of
Battery_Life⠀⇛
PotatoP demonstrably runs better than a potato, but
uses a 96 MHz CPU and mono reflective display to
facilitate its 2-year battery life.
# ⚓ Brad Taunt ☛ Replacing_My_Eero_Mesh_Network_with_Two
Mangos⠀⇛
Luckily for me, the Mini Mangos were perfect for my
basic requirements:
Max. 300Mbps Wi-Fi Speed (more than enough for my
use-case)
Running open-source software via openwrt
Hardware VPN toggle
Tiny physical footprint
Extremely portable
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Learn_how_to_drive_flip-disc_displays_with_your
Arduino⠀⇛
Part of the reason that flip-disc displays are hard
to find today is that they’re electromechanical
devices that require dedicated manufacturing. Each
“pixel” is a bistable device that will remain in
its set position until the user actively resets the
position. To flip the disc, the user must supply a
pulse of electricity through an electromagnet coil
in the correct polarity. One direction sets the
disc to one side, and the reverse polarity sets the
disc to the other side. Because the discs are
bistable, the user only needs to flip the necessary
discs to achieve the states they require — not the
entire display. Flip-discs are relatively slow, so
that is important for reducing overall refresh
time.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Arduino_UNO_compatible_Adafruit_Metro_M7
features_500_MHz_NXP_i.MX_RT1011_Cortex-M7_SoC⠀⇛
Adafruit Metro M7 is a development board based on a
500 MHz NXP i.MX RT1011 Arm Cortex-M7 crossover MCU
that follows Arduino UNO form factor and integrates
the ESP32-based “AirLift” WiFi module for wireless
connectivity. The board also comes with 4MB QSPI
storage, a few LEDs and buttons, a Qwiic connector
for additional expansion beyond Arduino Shields,
and an SWD connector for debugging.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_going_wild_for_three_new_Android
phones_which_take_amazing_photos_every_time_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ How_to_Download_Apps_on_Android_Without
Google_Play_Store?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ Google_is_Changing_the_Way_Pixel_Users_Exit
the_Android_Beta_Program⠀⇛
# ⚓ BMW_updates_iDrive_for_all_models_ahead_of_shifting_to
Android_platform_|_HT_Auto⠀⇛
# ⚓ 7NEWS ☛ Google_releases_security_updates_for_Android_owners
with_millions_warned_over_‘critical’_flaws_putting_phones_at
risk_|_7NEWS⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Popular_shopping_app_used_by_100million_Android
owners_caught_spying_on_what_you_type_–_check_your_phone
right_now_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Millions_of_Android_users_are_just_noticing_free
‘loophole’_upgrade_–_it_instantly_stops_infuriating_problem_|
The_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_14_makes_me_excited_for_the_future
of_gesture_navigation⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android_13_Beta_Testers_Need_to_Consider_Opting-Out
Immediately⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_Beta_Program_requires_opt_out_to_get
13_QPR2_stable⠀⇛
# ⚓ XDA ☛ Android_13_QPR3_Beta_1_set_to_arrive_next_week⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android_Auto_9.1_Beta_Build_is_Now_Available⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Open_source_reimagines_the_traditional
keyboard⠀⇛
The present model only defines the exterior dimensions
and shape resulting from the novel design approach. The
next steps are defining the internal assembly (comprising
of how the keys are attached to the butterfly spring
support) and designing the internal electronics, etc.
Those tasks are slated for future follow-up work.
Ultimately, anyone with access to 3D printing and an
electronics lab should be able to create and test a
working prototype. Alternatively, if you are just an
enthusiast wanting to get a feel for what the one-handed
keyboard would look like, then you can 3D print it as is,
permitting you to experiment with how easily you can type
sentences. Nowadays, this service is reasonably
accessible via online manufacturing stores. For those
that want to be even more involved, the fact that the
one-handed keyboard design is open source provides the
opportunity for it to be commercially developed as a
product of a company producing computer-related
equipment.
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ Recap/Summary_of_the_Digital_Market_Act_workshop
in_Brussels [Ed: Why does Carl Schwan post an article in the
site of a Microsoft front group (OSI)?]⠀⇛
This Monday, I was in Brussels to attend a
stakeholder workshop…
# ⚓ Collabora ☛ Connecting_at_Embedded_World_2023⠀⇛
Nestled in the historic city of Nuremberg, the
annual Embedded World conference will be taking
place from March 14 to 16.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ curl_25_years_online_celebration⠀⇛
If it works out, I will do a presentation walking
over the bigger changes done over the years while
sipping on the 25 year old single malt I have
arranged for the occasion. With the ability for
everyone to ask questions or otherwise contribute.
# ⚓ Adafruit ☛ CURL_turns_25_years_old:_a_celebration_#CURL
@bagder⠀⇛
The author states: “At 17:00 UTC March 20, 2023. We
run a Zoom birthday party open for everyone to
join.”
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ The_Depths_of_Wikipedia_creator_on_finding
the_goofy_corners_of_the_web⠀⇛
Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit
the internet isn’t perfect, but we are also
quick to point out that the internet is
pretty darn magical. The internet opens up
doors and opportunities, allows for people to
connect with others, and lets everyone find
where they belong — their corners of the
internet. We all have an internet story worth
sharing. In My Corner Of The Internet, we
talk with people about the online spaces they
can’t get enough of, what we should save in
Pocket to read later, and what sites and
forums shaped them.
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Real_talk:_Did_your_5-year-old_just_tease
you_about_having_too_many_open_tabs?⠀⇛
No one ever wanted to say “tech-savvy
toddler” but here we are. It’s not like you
just walked into the kitchen one morning and
your kid was sucking on a binky and editing
Wikipedia, right? Wait, really? It was pretty
close to that? Well, for years there’s been
an ongoing conversation on internet usage in
families’ lives, and in 2020, the pandemic
made us come face-to-face with that elephant
in the room, the internet. There was no way
around it. We went online for everything from
virtual classrooms for kids, playing video
games with friends, conducting video meetings
with co-workers, and of course, streaming
movies and TV shows. The internet’s role in
our lives became a more permanent fixture in
our family. It’s about time we gave it a
rethink.
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Ad_blocker_roundup:_6_ad_blockers_to
improve_your_internet_experience⠀⇛
Ad blockers are a specific type of browser
extension (i.e. software that adds new
features or functionality to Firefox). Using
ad blockers, you can eliminate distraction
and frustration associated with online ads
popping up across your internet travels. Here
are six of our favorite ad blockers that make
the web a whole lot easier to enjoy.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ The_Tough_Climb_To_Profitability_For
MongoDB⠀⇛
There is something weird about storage companies
that were started around the same time as the Great
Recession.
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ pg_anonymize,_a_new_extension_for_simple_and
transparent_data_anonymization⠀⇛
I’m pleased to announce the beta version of
pg_anonymize.
pg_anonymize is a PostgreSQL extension that
provides simple, robust and
transparent infrastructure for data anonymization.
Its goal is to ensure that
anyone connected with an anonymized role will only
ever see the anonymized
version of the data without any restriction on the
client used (could be psql,
pg_dump, your own application or even other tools
like pg_sample…) or the
number of schemas and relations.
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ pgAdmin_4_v6.21_Released⠀⇛
The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce
pgAdmin 4 version 6.21. This release of pgAdmin 4
includes 19 bug fixes and new features. For more
details please see the release_notes.
pgAdmin is the leading Open Source graphical
management tool for PostgreSQL. For more
information, please see the_website.
§ Note
This is the last release of pgAdmin that will
support Python 3.6 and Psycopg2. Future releases
will require Python 3.7 or later. This means that
this is also the last release that will be
supported on CentOS and RHEL 7.x
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Spatial_Data_Wrangling_with_R_workshop⠀⇛
Learn how to wrangle spatial data in R ! Join our
workshop on Spatial Data Wrangling with R: A
Comprehensive Guide which is a part of our
workshops for Ukraine series.
# ⚓ MWL ☛ When_Will_I_Open_“Run_Your_Own_Mail_Server”
sponsorships?⠀⇛
Email is a huge topic. Postfix, exim or Exchange?
Dovecot, Cyrus, or Courier? Sendmail or syphilis?
What exactly is this book about, anyway? I’m using
a couple programs for my reference implementation,
but this is not exactly a book about system
administration. It is about citizenship and
society. A novice sysadmin will not be able to use
this book without reading a bunch of other books
first. This is mostly about how the system hangs
together, and about the less well-known services
that help email happen. SPF and DKIM, DMARC, MTA-
STS, and TLS-RPT. How not to warm up your IP
address. Defeating Google. IPv4 or IPv6?
o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾
# § Open Access/Content⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Museums_and_herbarium_books_available
online⠀⇛
The new location at the Research Museums
Center on Varsity Drive — which holds the
collections of the Anthropological
Archaeology, Herbarium, Paleontology, and
Zoology Museums — didn’t offer preservation-
grade space for rare and fragile books, some
of which date back to the 18th century. Those
books were placed in a remote facility better
equipped to preserve them, and are available
on request for viewing in the Research
Museums Center.
To enable more immediate access to these
materials, Scott Martin, biological sciences
librarian, teamed up with digital conversion
specialists Lara Unger and Larry Wentzel to
obtain a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant
from the Council on Library and Information
Resources.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Commercial_LTS_Qt_5.15.13_Released⠀⇛
We have released Qt 5.15.13 LTS for commercial
license holders today. As a patch release, Qt
5.15.13 does not add any new functionality but
provides bug fixes and other improvements.
# ⚓ Tim Heaney ☛ From_Perl_to_Rust⠀⇛
My currents¹ day job is mostly Perl. It occurred to
me that an introduction to Rust aimed at people who
already know Perl could be useful.
Rust is exciting to Perl programmers for a number
of reasons.
# ⚓ Daniel Lemire ☛ Trimming_spaces_from_strings_faster_with
SVE_on_an_Amazon_Graviton_3_processor⠀⇛
Programmers sometimes need to trim, or remove,
characters, such as spaces from strings. It might
be a surprising expensive task. In C, the following
function is efficient: [...]
# ⚓ Thorsten Alteholz ☛ Thorsten_Alteholz:_My_Debian_Activities
in_February_2023⠀⇛
§ FTP master
This month I accepted 284 and rejected 49 packages.
The overall number of packages that got accepted
was 286.
I love this calm and peaceful time now within the
Debian project, when everybody only cares for RC
bugs and NEW does not grow.
§ Debian LTS
This was my hundred-fourth month that I did some
work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by
Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.
This month my all in all workload has been 8h.
# § Java⠀➾
# ⚓ How_to_Implement_a_Retry_Logic_in_Java⠀⇛
Retry logic can be implemented in Java using
various libraries and frameworks, but the
general idea is to have a block of code that
can potentially fail, and then wrap that code
in a loop that will retry the code execution
a certain number of times until either the
code succeeds or the maximum number…
# § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ KDAB ☛ CXX-Qt_0.5_Released⠀⇛
We just released CXX-Qt version 0.5! CXX-Qt
is a set of Rust crates for creating
bidirectional Rust ⇄ C++ bindings with Qt. It
can be used to integrate Rust into C++
applications using CMake or build Rust
applications with Cargo.
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Protocol-Based_Social_Media_Is_Having_A_Moment
As_Meta,_Medium,_Flipboard,_And_Mozilla_All_Get_On_Board⠀⇛
Over the last couple of weeks there have been a
number of interesting developments regarding
protocol-based, decentralized social media, and
each time I plot out an article about it, something
else pops up to add to the story, including
Thursday evening as I finally started writing this
and news broke that Meta (parent company of
Facebook and Instagram) is at least in the early
stages of creating an ActivityPub-compatible social
media protocol and app, that it considers to be
something of a Twitter competitor.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Boonton_Police_Captain_Allegedly_Steals_Computer_Towers,_Internal
Affairs_Records⠀⇛
Stephen Jones, 42, of Toms River, has been charged with
computer theft, tampering with public records, and other
offenses in connection with the April 2022 incident. The
charges result from an Office of Public Integrity and
Accountability’s (OPIA) Corruption Bureau investigation.
The investigation revealed Jones removed at least five
computer towers from the Boonton Police Department, three
of which contained police information, including files on
internal affairs (IA) matters. He allegedly stole his
personnel and IA files, stashing the computer towers in
his Toms River home and the files at his in-laws’ home in
Edison.
o ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Danes_unconcerned_about_crime⠀⇛
But perception and reality are two different things
o ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Deadlines_as_Technology⠀⇛
Then I heard Paul Ford, a professional writer for Wired
and other publications, say something on The Aboard
Podcast, Episode 3 that resonated. Referring to a moment
when lots of folks online were looking for the perfect
writing environment, he said the software tool, workflow,
environment, whatever, it didn’t matter. You could do it
with pen and paper if you want.
o ⚓ Rachel ☛ Load_‘em_up_and_throw_‘em_under_the_bus⠀⇛
The original team had been founded some years before, but
none of those original members were still there. They had
moved on to other things inside the company. There was
one person who had joined the team while the original
people were still there, and at this point, he was the
only one left who had “overlapped” with the original
devs.
What I found was that this one person who had history
going back to when the “OGs” were still around was
basically carrying the load of the entire team. Everyone
else was very new, and so it was up to him.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Columbia ☛ Brief_Notes_on_Computer_Word_and_Byte
Sizes⠀⇛
There are three starting points important to
remember. First, punch card data processing is far
older than computers: it dates back to Hollerith in
the late 19th century. When computerization started
taking place, it had to accommodate these older
“databases”. Second, early computers had tiny
amounts of storage by today’s standards, both RAM
and bulk storage (which may have been either disk
(for some values of “disk”!) or tape). Third, until
the mid-1960s, computers were either “commercial”
or “scientific”, and had architectures suited for
those purposes.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Young_Americans_pass_on_‘piece_of_paper,’_find
path_without_college⠀⇛
Whether avoiding high tuition or finding jobs out
of high school, Americans are increasingly pursuing
alternatives to college. Experts had predicted that
students would return to college after a pandemic-
era lull, but schools still see low enrollment.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Big_backers_of_public_schools_in_Texas?_Rural
Republicans.⠀⇛
Rural Texans are deeply conservative – and deeply
committed to their public schools. How will that
play out in an era when school choice has become a
GOP litmus test?
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Ron_DeSantis_Is_Destroying_Florida’s_New
College_Just_Because_He_Can⠀⇛
Now, this little kooky place, beloved by students
and alumni alike, is being destroyed by another
kind of leader, Ron DeSantis. The Florida governor
has packed the New College board of trustees with
“culture warriors,” hell-bent on destroying what
makes the place so special. It’s ironic that this
tiny school where so many nerdy kids come to find
refuge from bullies is itself now being assaulted
by Florida’s bully in chief.
Raised in Orlando and the beach town of Dunedin,
and with degrees from Yale and Harvard Law,
DeSantis embodies a certain kind of ham-fisted
privilege assumed by a burgeoning cadre of people
who literally have everything—money, status,
titles, access—but somehow remain unsatisfied.
Instead, they have to take the little that you
have. Not because they need it or even want it, but
just to show you that they can. The only logic
relevant to them is the logic of force.
# ⚓ Neil Selwyn ☛ The_modern_classroom_chair:_Exploring_the
‘coercive_design’_of_contemporary_schooling⠀⇛
This new paper explores the politics of educational
design … exploring how the coercive logics of
neoliberal schooling are baked into the design of
everyday physical objects such as classroom chairs
This paper analyses three examples of ‘innovative’
new chair designs now being sold to schools with
promises of disciplining students’ bodies to
achieve classroom order, ‘learning gains’,
efficient cognition, and even a corporate
atmosphere in the classroom
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Microchip_unveils_Single_Pair_Ethernet_(SPE)
10BASE-T1S_and_100BASE-T1_Ethernet_devices⠀⇛
Microchip has introduced a range of industrial-
grade Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) devices for IIoT
and industrial Operational Technology (OT) networks
for low-speed Ethernet edge devices and a
simplified cabling infrastructure for latency-
sensitive applications. Microchip LAN8650/LAN8651
10BASE-T1S single pair Ethernet Controllers The
LAN8650 and LAN8651 10BASE-T1S MAC-PHY Ethernet
controllers come with an SPI for integration into
basic microcontrollers rather than higher-end MCUs
with a MAC.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ SONOFF_iHost_Smart_Home_Hub_enables_local
control_of_SONOFF,_Tasmota,_Matter_home_automation_devices⠀⇛
SONOFF iHost is a Smart Home Hub that enables local
control of SONOFF smart switches, lightbulbs,
Zigbee sensors, and so on without having to require
a connection to the cloud (e.g. eWelink). Future
software upgrades will also add more devices such
as the ones flashed with Tasmota firmware and any
device compatible with the Matter IoT protocol.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Science News ☛ Dry_farming_could_help_agriculture_in_the
western_U.S._amid_climate_change⠀⇛
Finding a more sustainable way to grow food in a
thirsty state like California, for example, where
agriculture accounts for roughly 80 percent of
water usage and where a third of U.S. vegetables
are grown, is a top priority. Dry farming won’t
solve all of agriculture’s woes, but it offers a
way forward, particularly for smaller-scale
producers, while drawing less on a scarce natural
resource. And even though the practice isn’t
without limitations — dry-farmed produce tends to
be physically smaller, and harvests are less
bountiful overall — its benefits extend beyond
water savings: Dry farming can also yield longer-
lasting and better-tasting produce.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ New_study_finds_women_suffer_from_chronic
stress_more_often_than_men_in_Nordic_countries⠀⇛
A recent study by If, a Nordic insurance company,
has found that women are more stressed than men
across all Nordic countries, with 43% of women in
Finland experiencing chronic stress compared to 34%
of men. The study surveyed Nordic countries and
found several factors that contributed to stress,
such as balancing personal and professional life.
It also found regional differences within Finland,
with women in the capital experiencing more stress
than those in the North or East.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Norfolk_Southern_train_derails_in_Alabama,_third_in
several_weeks⠀⇛
Another Norfolk Southern train derailed in Alabama
on Thursday morning, the company confirmed in a
statement to Axios.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Sex_won’t_solve_your_loneliness⠀⇛
Even as we inch further away from the apex of the
COVID-19 pandemic, the effects of isolation are
ever present. While its toll on our physical health
has been at the forefront of our minds, this
pandemic’s most profound and lasting effects are on
our mental health.
# ⚓ Multiresistant_bacteria_from_recalled_antibiotic_found_in
two_Danish_patients⠀⇛
Denmark’s infectious disease control agency State
Serum Institute (SSI) has detected the
multiresistant bacteria CPO in a further two people
who were treated with antibiotic medicine Dicillin.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ People_Were_Unwittingly_Implanted_With
Fake_Devices_in_Medical_Scam,_FBI_Alleges⠀⇛
Stimwave allegedly told doctors that the plastic
implantable rods would help ease patients’ chronic
pain.
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Product_recall:_Argos_recalls_Habitat_sofas_and
footstools_due_to_fire_safety_risk⠀⇛
Argos has identified a number of products that fail
to meet fire safety standards
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Air_pollution_makes_more_than_1.3
million_Thais_sick_so_far_this_year⠀⇛
There were 196,311 cases of patients falling sick
due to air pollution this week.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland’s_worker_burnout_trend_growing,_study_finds⠀⇛
The study also found that people are increasingly
working when they’re ill while career development
opportunities are perceived to be lower than
before.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ UK_ends_antitrust_investigation_of_Google’s
‘Jedi_Blue’_agreement_with_Meta⠀⇛
The Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA,
announced the decision today. The CMA also stated
that it will continue to review some of the
antitrust concerns raised during the probe, but in
a different manner than before. The review will be
combined with a separate, ongoing antitrust probe
into Google that began last year.
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ New_laptops_are_riddled_with_‘bloatware’⠀⇛
Free trials of Microsoft Office and McAfee
antivirus software are by far the most common
additions to new computers, according to Which?
research. But just under a third of consumers
actually use the software that comes pre-installed.
We run through the usual suspects and explain how
you can get rid of unwanted software on your
computer.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Capitol_Hill_data_breach_more_‘extensive’
than_previously_known⠀⇛
Unlike the private sale offer in the first listing,
this second listing allows anyone with 8 forum
credits or tokens to download the data. Free
samples were provided of the data.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Capitol_Hill_data_breach_more_‘extensive’_than
previously_known⠀⇛
The compromised data is “extensive,” and includes
sensitive data such as Social Security numbers,
home addresses and information on Senate employees’
health insurance plans, the sergeant-at-arms said
in the email, which urged Senate staff to freeze
their family credit to guard against fraud.
Law enforcement gave the sergeant-at-arms a list of
Senate employees whose data was stolen, the email
said, and the sergeant-at-arms was contacting those
employees so they could protect themselves from
fraud.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ EPA_Requires_States_to_Address_the
Cybersecurity_of_Public_Water_Systems⠀⇛
[...] EPA’s memorandum requiring states to address
the cybersecurity of PWSs follows quickly after the
White House’s release of its new National
Cybersecurity Strategy, which calls for the need to
use minimum cybersecurity requirements, as opposed
to voluntary measures, in critical sectors to
enhance national security and public safety. [...]
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Reddit_is_shutting_down_its_Clubhouse-style
feature_Talk⠀⇛
Talk, the audio conversation feature inspired by
the pandemic darling Clubhouse, is being folded
before it even reaches its two-year anniversary.
“Today we’re sharing that we have made the
difficult decision to sunset the Reddit Talk
product in the coming weeks,” the company
announced.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ City_of_Waynesboro_targeted_in_cyber_attack⠀⇛
Some personal information in floating around in
cyberspace after a ransomware attack against the
city of Waynesboro.
The city’s manager, Mike Hamp, said in a statement
they were notified of a potential cyberattack in
January. It affected Waynesboro’s information
technology infrastructure.
Hamp declined to meet or speak with NBC29, but in
the statement he says the city took immediate
action to remove the attack and put in place
preventative security measures to “lessen the
system’s vulnerability to cyberattacks.” He goes on
to say that the city and the police department are
trying to identify what happened.
# ⚓ Data Breach Today ☛ Co-Working_for_the_Ransomware_Age:_How
Hive_Thrived⠀⇛
Business gurus who preach strategic adaptability
may have no greater adepts than ransomware hackers,
who have demonstrated levels of innovation that –
were they not criminal extortionists – would be
worthy of a business case study.
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Another_Malware_with_Persistence⠀⇛
Here’s a piece of Chinese malware that infects
SonicWall security appliances and survives firmware
updates.
On Thursday, security firm Mandiant
published a report that said threat
actors with a suspected nexus to China
were engaged in a campaign to maintain
long-term persistence by running malware
on unpatched SonicWall SMA appliances.
The campaign was notable for the ability
of the malware to remain on the devices
even after its firmware received new
firmware.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 2_landlords_arrested_by_Hong
Kong’s_privacy_watchdog_for_allegedly_doxxing_tenants
over_rental_disputes⠀⇛
Two landlords aged 40 and 42 have been
arrested by Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog for
allegedly posting personal information about
unsatisfactory tenants on social media, along
with derogatory comments. According to a
statement by the Office of the Privacy
Commissioner for Personal Data…
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Gizmodo_Found_28,000_Apps_Sending_TikTok
User_Data⠀⇛
Under the dull roar of our great TikTok moral
panic I’ve been trying to make the semi-
nuanced point that while TikTok does present
some legitimate privacy issues, a ban won’t
fix the actual problem. Largely because U.S.
policymakers and businesses don’t want to fix
the actual problem. They don’t even want to
acknowledge what the actual problem is.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ 60%_of_Germany’s_5G_network_is
Huawei,_says_Chinese_embassy⠀⇛
Huawei accounts for nearly 60 percent of
Germany’s 5G network equipment, according to
a spokesperson from the Chinese embassy.
The official was responding to reports that
Germany intends to ban Chinese technology,
including Huawei and ZTE components, in the
construction of the nation’s 5G
infrastructure.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Here’s_how_Microsoft_hopes_to
inject_ChatGPT_into_all_your_apps_and_bots_via_Azure⠀⇛
Redmond this week was “thrilled to announce”
ChatGPT will be selectively available as a
preview within the Azure OpenAI Service. That
service is largely aimed at corporations that
want to put large-language models to work in
their applications and workflows, such as
using Dall-E2 for generating images, GPT-3.5
for text, and Codex for something that
resembles code.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ UNC_data_leak_exposes_more_than_1,000
Social_Security_numbers⠀⇛
The university said human error played a role
in tax forms that were sent to the wrong
people.
# ⚓ Capitol Broadcasting Company Inc ☛ UNC_data_leak
exposes_more_than_1,000_Social_Security_numbers⠀⇛
UNC said 1,025 people had their personal
information mailed incorrectly. The
university mistakenly sent out IRS Form 1099s
with names, addresses, social security
numbers, or tax identification number to the
wrong people.
“While 3,403 forms were printed correctly,
only 2,214 envelopes were mailed. Upon
further investigation, the University
determined that due to human error and a
processing issue, some of the 2,214 mailings
included more than one IRS form,” said
Query.AI Chief Information Security Officer
Neal Bridges.
# ⚓ MoneyControl ☛ Exclusive:_Meta_mulls_a_Twitter
competitor_codenamed_‘P92’_that_will_be_interoperable
with_Mastodon⠀⇛
The app will be Instagram-branded and will
allow users to register/login to the app
through their Instagram credentials, they
said. Moneycontrol has seen a copy of an
internal product brief that elaborates on the
functioning and various product features of
the app.
To be sure, it’s not clear whether this app,
codenamed P92, is still at an idea-stage or
the development has begun on the app. A
source close to the development said that it
is still a work-in-progress.
# ⚓ BW Businessworld Media Pvt Ltd ☛ Meta_Mulling_To
Rival_Twitter_With_New_App⠀⇛
“We’re exploring a standalone decentralized
social network for sharing text updates. We
believe there’s an opportunity for a separate
space where creators and public figures can
share timely updates about their interests,”
a Meta spokesperson told Reuters in an
emailed statement.
Meta’s app will be based on a similar
framework that powers Mastodon, a Twitter-
like service that was launched in 2016.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Meta_explores_decentralized_social
network_to_rival_Twitter⠀⇛
According to a report published by
Moneycontrol today, the developing project is
codenamed P92 and will allow users to log
into it using their Instagram credentials.
Meta confirmed it was developing the project
but did not reveal any details about a
release timeline.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Meta_confirms_decentralized_Twitter
rival_in_the_works⠀⇛
Reportedly dubbed “P92″ internally, the app
may well interoperate with Mastodon by
supporting the ActivityPub protocol, and
could be Instagram-branded and accessed via
that social media juggernaut – if it ever
clears the “wouldn’t it be cool if” stage.
Existence of the project was revealed
exclusively by Indian business news website
Moneycontrol, which said it spoke with
insiders and also saw a copy of an internal
P92 product brief.
# ⚓ Ciprian Dorin Craciun ☛ Privatizing_our_digital
identities⠀⇛
What happens if one doesn’t have such an ID-
card? One basically doesn’t exist, or at
least practically can’t get anything done.
Lose it, and one needs to get another ID-
card, which is identical to the previous one,
obviously after jumping through some hoops in
a sacred bureaucratic ritual. If one, for
some reason, doesn’t manage to get an
identical ID-card to the previous one, but
instead gets even a slightly different one,
for all practical purposes it’s just like one
is now a completely different person that was
born just yesterday. (Remember, this is a
strange far away parallel universe.)
Now, unlike in our universe, imagine that
these ID-cards are not issued by the
government (or a branch of it) but instead by
any private enterprise that happens to be
registered as providing such a service.
Unfortunately, the ID-cards issued by any of
these business aren’t even equivalent; choose
another business and one is now a completely
different person…
# § Confidentiality⠀➾
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ DC_health_exchange_breach_affects
former_national_security_officials,_Congress⠀⇛
Leaked data from the capital’s health
insurance broker exposes sensitive data
belonging to the city’s powerbrokers.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ AT&T_Notifying_some_wireless
customers_of_vendor_incident⠀⇛
AT&T has been notifying some wireless
customers of an incident involving an unnamed
vendor.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Asante_Notifies_More_than_8,800
Patients_Whose_Records_Appeared_to_Be_Inappropriately
Accessed_by_a_Physician⠀⇛
On February 28, it issued a notice about an
insider-wrongdoing incident. As they describe
it on their site, they became aware of a
concern that a doctor with admitting
privileges, Dr. Paul Hoffman, may have
accessed a number of patients’ records
without a valid clinical need.
“Dr. Hoffman is not an employee of Asante but
had access to Asante’s electronic health
record system in order to treat his patients
when they are seen at Asante facilities,”
their notice explains.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Cerebral_Inc._notifying_3,179,835
patients_of_tracking_technologies_breach⠀⇛
Cerebral Inc. has notified HHS of a breach
affecting 3,179,835 individuals. They are the
latest entity to report a breach due to
exposing personal or protected health
information data through tracking analytics.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Timothy_Snyder_on_the_Ukraine_War:_“In_Russia,
Will_Is_Placed_over_Reason”⠀⇛
Historian Timothy Snyder is one of the best and
most argumentative experts on Ukrainian history. In
an interview, he explains why he considers fears of
a nuclear strike by Vladimir Putin to be irrational
– and how the war in Ukraine might end.
# ⚓ The Local SE ☛ Sweden_sends_new_terror_law_to_parliament⠀⇛
Sweden’s government has sent a new law to
parliament criminalising taking part in a terror
organisation, a key step in convincing Turkey the
country is taking action to crack down on the
Kurdish PKK terror group.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Chinese_security_vessel_orders
Philippine_plane_carrying_media_to_‘leave’⠀⇛
The Filipino pilot responded that they were flying
within Philippine territory.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland’s_latest_Nato_talks_with_Turkey,_Sweden_fail
to_find_resolution⠀⇛
The head of the Swedish delegation in Brussels told
reporters that progress is unlikely before Turkish
elections, scheduled for 14 May.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ 6-Year-Old_Who_Shot_Teacher_Will_Not_Be
Charged,_Prosecutor_Says⠀⇛
The boy shot and injured his first-grade teacher at
an elementary school in Newport News, Va., in
January.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_Needs_Shells,_and_Arms_Makers_Want
Money._Enter_the_E.U.⠀⇛
Ukraine is firing artillery shells faster than
manufacturers can make them. Brussels is working on
a plan to increase production by guaranteeing big
advance purchases.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Latvia_Is_Sending_Cars_Seized_From_Drunken
Drivers_to_Ukraine⠀⇛
The first batch of cars will start making their way
on Friday, the head of a charity helping deliver
them said, and will go to the military and
hospitals.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ NATO_talks,_elections_and_exciting_summer
plans:_Finland_in_the_world_press⠀⇛
No NATO yet, Turkey tells Sweden and Finland
The trilateral meeting between Finland, Sweden and
Turkey about the NATO membership of the former two
countries was covered in an article by Politico on
March 10. The article provides details of the
meeting – first time since November 2022,
emphasising on Turkey’s continued blockade of
Helsinki and Stockholm for NATO.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Saudi_Arabia,_Iran_Restore
Relations_in_Surprise_Agreement_Brokered_by_China⠀⇛
Several Western analysts expressed surprise at news
of the restoration of diplomatic relations as
detailed in a statement from China, Iran and Saudi
Arabia, following previously undisclosed talks in
Beijing. It will take effect by reopening their
respective embassies within two months, along with
new talks about potential economic and security
exchanges.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Boat_Packed_With_500_Migrants
Needs_Rescue_off_Sicily_–_Charity⠀⇛
The boat left from Libya and is “south of Sicily”
in Italy’s search and rescue (SAR) maritime zone,
Alarm Phone added. The EU border force Frontex,
which operates spotter flights off the Italian
coast, declined immediate comment.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_New_Anarchy:_America_faces_a_type_of
extremist_violence_it_does_not_know_how_to_stop.⠀⇛
In recent years, Americans have contemplated a
worst-case scenario, in which the country’s extreme
and widening divisions lead to a second Civil War.
But what the country is experiencing now—and will
likely continue to experience for a generation or
more—is something different. The form of extremism
we face is a new phase of domestic terror, one
characterized by radicalized individuals with
shape-shifting ideologies willing to kill their
political enemies. Unchecked, it promises an era of
slow-motion anarchy.
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ Anonymous_Sources_Are_Newsworthy—When_They_Talk_to
NYT,_Not_Seymour_Hersh⠀⇛
The New York Times (3/7/23) on Tuesday ended its
month-long boycott of veteran investigative
reporter Seymour Hersh’s February 8 story claiming
the US destroyed the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ March_To_Iraq_War,_20_Years_Later:_March
10,_2003⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ ‘We_have_never_been_so_close_to_a_local
war_escalating_into_a_world_war’_–_Orbán⠀⇛
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finland’s_Niinistö_remains_optimistic
about_Nato_membership⠀⇛
PRESIDENT Sauli Niinistö on Thursday indicated that
he remains optimistic about the timeline for
Finnish and Swedish admission to Nato, reiterating
that he believes the membership applications will
be ratified by the defence alliance’s summit in
Vilnius, Lithuania, in July.
“We’ll both be in Nato by Vilnius. The US has
supported and continues to support our
memberships,” he told reporters in Washington DC.
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Man_jailed_after_firing_200_bullets_in_NSW⠀⇛
A man who killed a person after using two rifles to
fire more than 200 bullets at his neighour’s homes
and cars in NSW has been jailed.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Will_morale_prove_the_decisive_factor_in
the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine?⠀⇛
Putin is preparing for a long war in Ukraine and
still believes he can outlast the West, but
mounting signs of demoralization among mobilized
Russian soldiers may pose a serious threat to the
success of his invasion, writes Peter Dickinson.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Calls_to_appease_Putin_in_Ukraine_ignore
the_lessons_of_history⠀⇛
While the desire for peace in Ukraine is perfectly
understandable, mounting calls to appease Putin by
handing him a partial victory ignore the lessons of
history and would almost certainly lead to more
war.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Coastal_countries_try_to_learn_lessons_from
extremism’s_spread_in_the_Sahel⠀⇛
As Gulf of Guinea countries confront growing
extremism on the northern borders, experts are
urging them to find ways to engage with local
populations and avoid the pitfalls, such as
recruiting ethnic militias, that have crippled
anti-extremist efforts in Sahel countries.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Several_killed_in_shooting_at_Jehovah’s_Witness
hall_in_German_city_of_Hamburg⠀⇛
Shots were fired inside a building used by
Jehovah’s Witnesses in the northern German city of
Hamburg on Thursday evening, and an unspecified
number of people were killed or wounded, police
said.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Israeli_police_say_three_wounded_in_Tel_Aviv
shooting⠀⇛
A Palestinian gunman opened fire on a crowded
street in central Tel Aviv late Thursday, wounding
three people before he was shot and killed, Israeli
officials said. The shooting came hours after an
Israeli military raid killed three Palestinian
militants in the occupied West Bank.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Latvia_becomes_safe_haven_for_Russians_opposed
to_war_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
Since the start of the full-scale invasion of
Ukraine, the Latvian capital Riga has become a hub
of journalists, Russian intellectuals and Ukrainian
refugees opposed to Russian President
Vladimir Putin. Local Latvians, who are proud of
their independence gained in 1991, do not want to
turn back the clock. Hundreds of Soviet-era
monuments have been torn down throughout the
country. FRANCE 24′s Laura Cambaud and Marie
Pennetrat report.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Russian_ship,_private_plane_denied_entry_to
Lithuania⠀⇛
Last week, Lithuania did not allow a drifting
Russian-owned ship into the seaport of Klaipėda, as
well as denied entry to a private plane chartered
by a dual Russian-Israeli citizen, authorities said
on Thursday.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_mulls_allowing_dual_citizenships⠀⇛
A group of Lithuanian MPs have proposed allowing
the country’s nationals to hold a passport of
another country, as long as it isn’t Russia or
other blacklisted states.
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Superpower_Posturing:_Fears_Grow_of_New_Cold_War
Between_U.S._and_China⠀⇛
China and the United States are lurching from one
crisis to the next. It’s not just deep economic
interdependence that is at stake, but also global
peace. Is there still a way out of this downward
spiral?
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korean_leader_Kim_calls_for
intensified_drills_for_‘real_war’⠀⇛
>
This comes as the US and South Korea were set to
kick off large-scale military exercises next week.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Rudd:_US_and_China_risk_war_‘by_accident’⠀⇛
Comments come ahead of a submarine deal to be
announced by US, UK and Australian leaders next
week.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Imposes_Sanctions_On_144_Citizens_Of
Estonia,_Latvia,_And_Lithuania⠀⇛
Russia has imposed sanctions on 144 citizens of
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — three EU and NATO
member states that have been among the strongest
backers of Ukraine since Russia launched its
ongoing unprovoked invasion in February 2022.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Belarus_Approves_Death_Penalty_For_Officials
Convicted_Of_High_Treason⠀⇛
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka signed a
law on March 9 allowing for the use of the death
penalty against officials and army servicemen
convicted of high treason.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Lithuanian_Secret_Services_Say_Russia_Ready_For_Two
More_Years_Of_War⠀⇛
According to Lithuanian intelligence services,
Russia is capable of continuing its war in Ukraine
for two more years.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Lavrov_Slams_West’s_Reaction_to_Nord_Stream
Explosions⠀⇛
Western media have pointed to a pro-Ukrainian group
as the perpetrator of the sabotage.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ The_Right_accuses_their_critics_of_the
conspiracy_they_themselves_engage_in⠀⇛
Of all the absurd libels of the right, the weirdest
one is that leftists are secretly funded by woke
billionaires spending dark money to foment the
overthrow of the USA. The idea of “leftist
billionaire” is laughable on its face: how did this
imaginary billionaire make their billions while
paying a living wage and providing decent working
conditions?
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ The_Story_Behind_Germany’s_Embarrassing
Intelligence_Leak⠀⇛
From the shores of a lake near Munich to a brothel
in the German capital city and a brasserie in
Moscow: It is one of the biggest intelligence
scandals in Germany’s postwar history. How was
Russia able to pilfer information about Ukraine
from Berlin’s most accomplished spy organization?
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Unauthorized_Disclosure:_Brian_Becker⠀⇛
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Gannett ☛ Trains_keep_derailing_all_over_the_country,
including_Thursday_in_Alabama._What’s_going_on?⠀⇛
According to federal records, trains derailed 1,164
times last year, and 1,095 times in 2021. That’s a
significant improvement from past decades. In 1979,
for instance, railroads reported 7,482 derailments,
and reported 6,442 in 1980.
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Fear_of_Nature,_Love_of_the_Ocean,_and
Other_Links_From_the_Brink⠀⇛
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Human_Rights_Watch_condemns_Lebanon_for
failure_to_defend_‘right_to_electricity’⠀⇛
Human Rights Watch Thursday released a report
arguing that Lebanese authorities have
“failed to uphold the right to electricity by
mismanaging the sector for decades”.
# ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Solar_for_Health_project_has_saved_lives,
showing_that_ZESA_has_blood_on_its_hands_for_its
failures⠀⇛
The thing I hate about Zimbabwe is how it
messes with your mind to think basic services
are luxuries you should not even think about.
Medicine at a hospital? Come back to earth o
dreamer.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Young_polar_bear_electrocuted_at
Copenhagen_Zoo⠀⇛
CPH Zoo promised to conduct a thorough
investigation into the matter in order to
avoid similar occurrences in the future
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Construction_job_openings_plunge_nearly_50%⠀⇛
Source: Department of Labor via FactSet; Chart:
Axios Visuals
A big drop in construction job openings in January shows the tightrope Fed
officials face as they try to calibrate plans for more rate hikes.
⚓ France24 ☛ Worried_about_the_future,_France’s_young_people_are_fighting
pension_reform⠀⇛
Young people in France — including some who haven’t even entered the
job market yet — protested Thursday against the government’s push to
raise the retirement age. FRANCE 24 spoke to an expert on French
employment matters to better understand this phenomenon.
⚓ France24 ☛ French_pension_reform_strikes_continue_to_disrupt_fuel_supplies,
power_output⠀⇛
Workers striking in protest against proposed changes to France’s
pension system continued to block fuel deliveries and reduce
electricity production at several sites on Thursday.
⚓ France24 ☛ Biden_pitches_2024_budget_hiking_taxes_on_billionaires,
corporations⠀⇛
President Joe Biden presented Thursday what amounts to his 2024
reelection pitch on the US economy, with a proposed budget targeting
the rich with new taxes, while promising to assist the country’s
“working families.”
⚓ teleSUR ☛ The_French_Senate_Increases_the_Retirement_Age_to_64_Years⠀⇛
President Macron will face massive protests organized by all the
French unions, which have reached unprecedented levels of collective
coordination and action.
⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden’s_$6.8_Trillion_Budget_Proposes_New_Social_Programs
and_Higher_Taxes⠀⇛
The president requested trillions in new spending that has no chance
of passing a Republican House, even as he sought to reduce deficits
by raising taxes on businesses and the rich.
⚓ Axios ☛ Biden_proposes_$6.8_trillion_budget_to_make_rich_pay_“fair_share”⠀⇛
President_Biden is using the release of his $6.8 trillion budget for
fiscal year 2024 to challenge House Republicans to produce their own
tax and spending blueprint without cutting Medicare or Social
Security.
⚓ Robert Reich ☛ Think_Grocery_Prices_Are_High_Now?_Just_Wait.⠀⇛
⚓ FAIR ☛ Kim_Knackstedt_on_Disability_Policy,Algernon_Austin_on_Unemployment&
Race⠀⇛
⚓ Constitutional_Court_lifts_blocking_of_Treasury_aid_to_HDP⠀⇛
The supreme court decided to lift the blocking of treasury aid to the
party by a majority of votes.
⚓ The Local SE ☛ Sweden’s_economy_bounces_in_January_despite_rate_rises⠀⇛
Sweden’s economy grew by an unexpectedly high two percent in January,
freeing up the Riksbank to take bolder actions to combat inflation.
⚓ The Age AU ☛ Rail_workers_awarded_pay_rise_above_wages_cap_in_blow_to
Perrottet_government⠀⇛
NSW rail workers will receive a pay rise well above the state’s wages
cap after the industrial umpire found the current limit would lead to
a “significant decline” in real wages.
⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Split_Verdict_for_Ex-Fox_Execs_in_Soccer_Rights
Bribe_Case⠀⇛
A former Fox executive has been convicted of paying tens of millions
of dollars in bribes to nab broadcasting rights to the World Cup and
other top soccer matches
⚓ Axios ☛ Former_Fox_exec_found_guilty_in_bribery_scheme_for_soccer_game
rights⠀⇛
A New York federal jury found a former 21st Century Fox executive
guilty on Thursday in an alleged scheme_to_bribe_FIFA_officials for
lucrative soccer game broadcasting rights.
⚓ YLE ☛ Verkkokauppa_lays_off_75_employees⠀⇛
The retailer issued a profit warning in January, noting that its
operations had been severely affected by record-low consumer
confidence.
⚓ YLE ☛ New_pay_agreement_raises_salaries_of_420,000_municipal_workers_across
Finland⠀⇛
Nurses’ salaries will rise by 6.7 percent this year and 6.5 percent
next year.
⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Crypto_Firm_Circle_Has_$3.3_Billion_in_Reserves_at_Collapsed
Silicon_Valley_Bank⠀⇛
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ How_genealogy_can_help_restore_historical_ties
through_meaningful_diaspora_engagement⠀⇛
If the United States truly wants to embrace the African
diaspora, it must create policies that promote the digitization
of records and the creation of databases that are affordable
and accessible to the public.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Xi_Jinping_handed_historic_third_term_as_China’s_president⠀⇛
Xi Jinping was handed a third term as Chinese president on
Friday, capping a rise that has seen him become the country’s
most powerful leader in generations.
* ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ MP_calls_for_legally_binding_Editors’_Code_with
domestic_abuse_clause_following_Emma_Pattison_reporting⠀⇛
Dawn Butler wants journalists to be “legally bound” to report
domestic abuse responsibly.
* ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ GB_News_reports_losses_ten_times_greater_than_revenue
for_first_year_on_air⠀⇛
The broadcaster made advertising revenues of £2.97m and digital
revenues of £564,000.
* ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ 5_News_editor_steps_down:_Cait_Fitzsimons_on_five_years
running_the_news_at_5⠀⇛
Cait Fitzsimons sat down with Press Gazette ahead of the news
breaking that she is leaving 5 News.
* ⚓ NDTV ☛ Facebook-Parent_Meta_Plans_To_Cut_More_Jobs_In_Coming_Months:
Report⠀⇛
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms is planning additional layoffs
to be announced in multiple rounds over the next few months,
which could match the 13% job cut tally from last year, the
Wall Street Journal reported on Friday citing people familiar
with the matter.
* ⚓ India Times ☛ Digital_India_Bill_draft_post_consultation_to_be_ready_by
July⠀⇛
The draft Digital India Bill, which will replace the
Information Technology Act, 2000, is likely to be ready by
early July, sources told ET.
There will be at least two more consultations on the principles
of the Bill by March 20, and the draft consultation will last
90 days, they added.
The first consultation meeting on the Bill was held in
Bengaluru on Thursday. It was attended by as many as 300
stakeholders, of whom more than 200 attended virtually.
* ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Are_Failing_Banks_About_to_Destroy_the_Economy?⠀⇛
With two banks now totally collapsed, many are now worried
about contagion—that is, whether the collapse of these niche
banks could spiral out into the wider economy. Shares of other
banks in the U.S. (largely on the West Coast) fell
precipitously on the news. European banks are also feeling the
squeeze as share prices drop, and even larger banks like Bank
of America and JPMorgan saw dips in their stock price.
The right way to see this situation, however, might be that the
contagion has already spread; Silvergate and SVB failing won’t
wreck the economy, rather, they are failing because the economy
is already wrecked.
* ⚓ El País ☛ Silicon_Valley_Bank_is_seized_by_US_after_historic_failure⠀⇛
Silicon Valley Bank’s failure arrived with incredible speed,
with some industry analysts on Friday suggesting it was a good
company and still likely a wise investment. Silicon Valley Bank
executives were trying to raise capital early Friday and find
additional investors. However, trading in the bank’s shares was
halted before the opening bell due to extreme volatility.
* ⚓ CBC ☛ Silicon_Valley_Bank_collapse_marks_2nd_biggest_bank_failure_in
U.S._history⠀⇛
Regulators rushed Friday to seize the assets of one of Silicon
Valley’s top banks, marking the largest failure of a U.S.
financial institution since the height of the financial crisis
almost 15 years ago.
Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th-largest bank in the U.S., failed
after depositors hurried to withdraw money this week amid
anxiety over the bank’s health. It was the second biggest bank
failure in U.S. history after the collapse of Washington Mutual
in 2008.
* ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Cutting_Through_the_Noise_of_the_Bill_C-11_Debate:
Regulating_User_Content_Remains_a_Reality⠀⇛
The debate on Senate amendments to Bill C-11 continued in the
House of Commons yesterday, with hours devoted to MPs from all
parties claiming misinformation by their counterparts. There
were no shortage of head-shaking moments: MPs that still don’t
know that CraveTV is not a foreign streaming service,
references to Beachcombers as illustrations of Cancon,
comparisons to China that go beyond the reality of the bill,
calls for mandated cultural contributions from TikTok even as
the government bans the app, and far too much self-
congratulation from MPs claiming to have done great work on the
bill when the Senate review demonstrated its inadequacy. But
buried amongst those comments were several notable moments that
illustrated the reality and risks of Bill C-11.
* ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_Consequence_of_Mandated_Payments_for_Links:
Facebook_Confirms_It_Will_Drop_News_Sharing_in_Canada_Under_Bill_C-18⠀⇛
Google has been in the spotlight for the past few weeks with
reports that it has been testing removal news links from search
results. The move sparked outrage from MPs, who grilled
executives earlier today at Canadian Heritage committee. But
now it appears Google has company: the Globe and Mail reports
that Facebook has confirmed that it will remove news sharing
from its platforms if Bill C-18 passes in its current form. The
decision, which would affect Meta platforms Facebook and
Instagram, should not come as a surprise since it warned that
it was considering the possibility last fall. In fact, the case
for Facebook blocking news sharing is even stronger than Google
given that news constitutes only three percent of news feeds on
the platform and the experience in Australia was that its
removal had little impact on user engagement.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ DHS_Just_Turned_20._It’s_Time_To_Abolish_It.⠀⇛
A 2019 inspector general report called out DHS for failing to
rein in rampant bad behavior, ranging from padding expense
accounts to drinking on the job and illegal reprisals against
sexual-harassment whistleblowers. The report concluded no one
was really in charge of organizing and inspecting reports of
employee misbehavior. As President Biden likes to boast, DHS
has almost 260,000 employees, yet its employee relations office
told the inspector general it had “limited staffing to perform
these functions and staff do not believe they are responsible
for managing the allegation process.”
Perhaps worst of all, DHS is a determined foe of civil
liberties. As the ACLU documents in a new study of the
department, DHS routinely undermines our ability to move freely
about the very country it’s supposed to be protecting. For
instance, since immigration enforcement became part of a
national security agenda, ICE agents encourage local police “to
stop, arrest, and bring low-level charges against people who
‘look’ like immigrants, with the actual aim of helping ICE
deport them.” Looking like an immigrant isn’t against the law
and it shouldn’t be a pretext for a police stop.
* ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ President_Niinistö_of_Finland_visits_Stanford,_calls_for
trans-atlantic_security_cooperation⠀⇛
Stamos, who is a member of NATO Cybersecurity Advisory Board in
addition to his capacities here at Stanford, described his
concerns with cybersecurity in NATO. “NATO has no idea what
it’s doing around cybersecurity … NATO is a non-entity from a
cybersecurity perspective,” he said.
Stamos said that he believes that Ukraine is doing
exceptionally well on the cybersecurity front in their war
against Russia because Ukraine has built “immunity” through
more than a decade of peacetime cybersecurity attacks, and its
technological infrastructure is less advanced, so it is
inherently less exposed. He contrasted this with the U.S., who
he said he believes would suffer in a war against Russia or
China, particularly due to a lack of public-private
partnerships.
“The private sector sees themselves as a component of the war
fighting and defensive capabilities of Ukraine. That is not
true in the West,” he said. “[Our companies] didn’t really
understand that they are political players, that they are part
of the defense of the general West and their specific
countries.”
* ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ The_AI_hype_bubble_is_the_new_crypto_hype_bubble⠀⇛
The most remarkable thing about this incredibly stupid story is
that LBCC wasn’t the peak of the blockchain bubble – rather, it
was the start of blockchain’s final pump-and-dump. By the
standards of 2022′s blockchain grifters, LBCC was small
potatoes, a mere $138m sugar-water grift.
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ VOA News ☛ USAGM_CEO_Describes_Efforts_to_Counter_Russian_and
Chinese_Propaganda⠀⇛
The United States Agency for Global Media’s Chief
Executive Officer Amanda Bennett said Thursday the agency
she leads is facing a critical time globally in which
access to credible news is threatened by authoritarian
regimes.
During a hearing before the House Appropriations
Committee, Bennett told lawmakers that USAGM news
networks routinely outperform better-funded Russian and
Chinese media operations in many key markets around the
world because of their independent journalism.
o ⚓ The North Lines IN ☛ NYT_report_on_Kashmir_motivated,_to_spread
anti-India_propaganda:_Anurag_Thakur⠀⇛
Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on
Friday accused The New York Times of “spreading lies”
about India, describing an opinion piece published in it
on the freedom of press in Kashmir as “mischievous and
fictitious”.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ NCAC ☛ NCAC_Welcomes_Applications_for_Student_Advocates_for_Speech⠀⇛
New York – The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) is
now accepting applications for Student Advocates for Speech
(SAS), a project for high school students, for the 2023 – 2024
school year.
* ⚓ Constitutional_Court_lifts_blocking_of_Treasury_aid_to_HDP⠀⇛
The supreme court decided to lift the blocking of treasury aid
to the party by a majority of votes.
* ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ The_Reason_Why_Europe’s_“Right_To_Be_Forgotten”
Hasn’t_Made_it_To_The_United_States⠀⇛
While the right to be forgotten was not a GDPR’s invention — it
had been present in several jurisdictions in Europe — it gained
significantly more traction after the 2014 Google vs. Spain
case. The case related to a lawyer whose bankruptcy records had
been published on a website that was accessible via Google. The
Court ruled in favour of the plaintiff, radically changing the
way Europe dealt with digital privacy.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 3_Hong_Kong_Tiananmen_vigil_group_activists
jailed_for_4.5_months_for_refusing_national_security_data_demand⠀⇛
All three were former standing committee members of the Hong
Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of
China, the group behind the city’s annual candlelight vigils to
remember the victims of the Tiananmen crackdown.
* ⚓ Associated Press ☛ Maine_motorists_appeal_to_keep_naughty_vanity
license_plates⠀⇛
The state concluded the license plate “LUVTOFU” could’ve been
seen as a reference to sex instead of admiration for bean curd.
The motorist insisted there was no mistaking his intent because
the back of his car had several tofu-related stickers.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Stand_News_sedition_trial:_Ex-editor_of
questioned_over_op-ed_likening_Hong_Kong_to_Orwell’s_‘Nineteen_Eighty-
Four’⠀⇛
A former editor of defunct Hong Kong independent news outlet
Stand News on trial for sedition has been questioned over an
op-ed that compared Hong Kong to the fictional totalitarian
regime in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Meanwhile, the
judge presiding over the trial asked whether Nineteen Eighty-
Four was a book, and what it was about.
Chung Pui-kuen appeared before Judge Kwok Wai-kin at District
Court on Friday, as the sedition trial, which began last
October and was supposed to last 20 days, continued. Chung,
former chief editor Patrick Lam and Stand News’ parent company
stand accused of publishing 17 allegedly “seditious” article
between July 2020 and December 2021.
* ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ ‘This_chills_speech’:_Faculty_Senate_raises_concerns
about_Protected_Identity_Harm_Reporting⠀⇛
Drell noted that, from May 2021 to Jan. 2023, eight reports
involving a classroom setting were filed. However, Drell said
that the classroom reporting feature would be suspended for
now, as it could “potentially bump up against academic
freedom.”
“We can model a respectful culture, but we cannot mandate it,”
Drell said.
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ WhatsApp_tells_the_UK_it_would_rather_be_blocked_than
adhere_to_the_Online_Safety_Bill⠀⇛
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.
Will Cathcart, Meta’s WhatsApp boss, said today that he will
not weaken the app’s encryption, so if he can’t find a way past
this after talking with the U.K.’s legislators, the country’s
most loved chat app will be gone. WhatsApp is by far the most
popular chat app in the U.K., used by seven out of 10 adults.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Boycott_Bans_Are_an_Assault_on_Free_Speech⠀⇛
There are certainly activities that are purely economic and
have no expressive utility. The First Amendment doesn’t protect
fraud, for example (although when it comes to fossil-fuel
companies, some conservatives wish it did). But boycotts are
both an economic and an expressive activity, making the
distinction difficult to parse. A brief submitted by the Knight
First Amendment Institute dryly observes that “purchasing
decisions function like campaign contributions, which similarly
involve elements of both expression and association.”
If states can require contractors to disavow BDS, then they
could have imposed similar restrictions related to some of the
most consequential protest movements in American history, such
as the Montgomery bus boycott or the anti–South African
apartheid movement. The Knight Institute brief notes that
upholding the Arkansas law would make it so that states “could
even forbid such boycott activity outright.”
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ RFA ☛ China_weakens_itself_by_suppressing_civil_society_and_silencing
independent_voices⠀⇛
Unconstrained by civil society and democratic institutions, Xi
Jinping has set China on a dangerous course.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Democrats_Deride_the_Twitter_Files_Reporters_as_‘So-Called
Journalists’⠀⇛
Too many Democrats, national security experts, and mainstream
journalists have found themselves in the position of implicitly
arguing that various tweets could be spreading
disinformation—and thus undermining American democracy—even if
the speech contained therein is truthful. Indeed, the entire
countering-disinformation industry is operating off of a
largely false assumption that Russian influence on social media
corrupted the 2016 election and led to Trump’s victory.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Why_The_Georgian_Government_Climbed_Down_On_The_‘Foreign
Agents’_Law⠀⇛
The vote, which was adopted in its first reading, was another
sign of a rushed process that looked designed to avoid debate
and accountability by a party that has governed in
uncompromising fashion since the 2012 elections, its first
after its founding by Russia-linked billionaire Bidzina
Ivanishvili.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Georgia_drops_a_draft_‘foreign_agents’_law_that_set
off_mass_protests_over_parallels_to_Russia.⠀⇛
The proposed law, “on transparency and foreign influence,”
would have required civil society groups and news media outlets
to register as “agents of foreign influence” if they received
more than 20 percent of their funding from “a foreign power.”
Failure to do so would have resulted in fines of up to $9,600.
Protesters raised concerns that the proposed law mimicked
similar legislation in Russia, where it became a potent tool
that helped the Kremlin purge civil society of many pro-Western
groups.
* ⚓ ANF News ☛ Journalist_Fırat_Bulut_taken_into_custody_upon_his_return
from_the_earthquake_zone⠀⇛
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_national_security_police_arrest_woman
over_alleged_incitement_to_secession⠀⇛
A 23-year-old Hong Kong woman was arrested under the Beijing-
imposed national security law on Wednesday, the police have
said. According to a statement by the police released on
Thursday night, the woman was arrested in Sau Mau Ping for
allegedly inciting secession. The 23-year-old is currently in
police custody under investigation.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_prosecutors_upgrade_sedition_charge
against_Portuguese_man_to_secession⠀⇛
A Portuguese man who allegedly managed social media accounts
for the Hong Kong Independence Party saw his sedition charge
upgraded to conspiracy to incite secession. The more serious
offence under the national security law is punishable by up to
10 years in prison rather than two years for sedition.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Police_arrest_veteran_Hong_Kong_labor_activist_for_‘collusion’⠀⇛
Officers stop Elizabeth Tang outside the prison where her
unionist husband is serving time for ‘illegal’ protests
* ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Men_had_longer_working_week_than_women_in_2022⠀⇛
Women worked four hours less on average per week than men in
2022, according to Danmarks Statistik. The yearly
Arbejdskraftundersøgelsen survey showed that men had an average
working week of 38.3 hours, while for women it was 34.2.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Why_China_Is_Tightening_Its_Oversight_of_Banking_and
Tech⠀⇛
A series of regulatory changes approved this week reflect the
increasingly centralized control of Xi Jinping, newly confirmed
for a third term as China’s president.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Tibetans_in_Ladakh_celebrate_New_Year⠀⇛
The event celebrates what Tibetan Buddhists believe was the
Buddha’s revealing of miraculous powers on the first 15 days of
that month. Many Tibetan Buddhists believe that prayers,
meditations and good deeds done during their period give
significantly higher benefits.
* ⚓ The Nation ☛ “Work_Until_You_Die”_Is_Not_a_Retirement_Plan⠀⇛
The problem with all of this is that there is no “problem.”
Rather, the system is working exactly as it was designed to
work. And because of gargantuan gaps in our social insurance
landscape, “work until you die” has become the retirement plan
for so many disabled people.
* ⚓ BBC ☛ Berlin_to_allow_women_to_go_topless_in_public_swimming_pools⠀⇛
Authorities agreed they had been victims of discrimination and
said that all visitors to Berlin’s pools were now entitled to
go topless.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Police_in_Tibet_clamp_down_on_eve_of_1959_uprising_anniversary⠀⇛
Authorities are taking similar initiatives in other parts of
Tibet, including Nagchu, Chamdo, Lhoka and Shigatse.
Friday’s anniversary commemorates a 1959 revolt in which tens
of thousands of Tibetans took to the streets of Lhasa in
protest against China’s invasion and occupation of their
homeland a decade earlier.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Why_Unions_Matter_So_Much⠀⇛
Jamelle Bouie, a Times Opinion columnist, captured this
asymmetry when he wrote: “Republicans and other conservatives
know who their enemies are — they know that organized labor is
a key obstacle to dismantling the social safety net. The
question is whether Democrats understand that their fortunes
are also bound up in the fate of workers.”
But events in Michigan this week raise the question of whether
Democrats are starting to change their approach and devote more
attention to strengthening organized labor.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Cops_Harass_Parents_Who_Let_6-Year-Old_Daughter_Take_a_Walk
Outside,_Arrest_Dad⠀⇛
When they arrived, the girl introduced the officer to her
mother and father, according to Kaplan. But the officer refused
to release her unless her parents presented their
identification. When they declined to do so—arguing they hadn’t
done anything wrong—he called for backup.
When Kaplan arrived at his friends’ home, he started filming
the encounter. By now, the girl had started crying. Then her
father did “what any dad would—he went to hug his crying kid,”
says Kaplan. “And at that point he was arrested. With
handcuffs.”
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Stand_News_trial:_Ex-editor_denies_commentary
about_fate_of_top_Chinese_dissident_was_seditious⠀⇛
A former Hong Kong editor on trial for sedition said on
Thursday that a commentary which he had published about the
fate of a top Chinese dissident was not intended to stir up
hatred against authorities but to point out their mistakes.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Georgia’s_ruling_coalition_drops_‘foreign_agent’_bill_after
protests⠀⇛
Georgia’s governing coalition Thursday agreed to withdraw a
controversial ‘foreign agent’ bill after large civilian and
international protests. They made the announcement on their
Facebook page. The ruling People’s Power Party said they were
in agreement with their partners in “unconditionally”
withdrawing support for the bill.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Georgia_Plans_to_Withdraw_Foreign_Agents_Bill_After
Protests⠀⇛
It was not clear whether the government intended to scrap the
legislation, which critics said mimicked a law that stifles
dissent in Russia, or was merely delaying it to assuage
protesters.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Georgians_Protest_Against_‘Foreign_Influence’_Bill⠀⇛
The new norm sets fines and jail sentences for directors of
media outlets and NGOs that receive funds from other countries.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Rattled_by_Ukraine_war,_Georgia_wrestles_with_tighter
societal_controls⠀⇛
As its huge neighbor wages war in Ukraine, Georgia is finding
its own society polarizing between those who distrust Russia
and those who want to avoid entanglement in the West’s anti-
Kremlin efforts.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Former_bulldozer-blocking_MP_wants_to_protect
activists⠀⇛
Sue Higginson says she would not be where she is today if she
hadn’t chained herself to a bulldozer nearly three decades ago.
The NSW Greens MP and former environmental lawyer says
participating in protests when she was young helped guide her
trajectory and worries today’s activists risk severe
punishments such as jail time.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Police_in_Tibet_clamp_down_on_eve_of_1959_uprising_anniversary⠀⇛
Photos from Lhasa police website show officers checking IDs and
record books.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ China,_Myanmar,_North_Korea_listed_as_‘worst_of_worst’_in_freedom
report⠀⇛
Chinese Communist Party plays ‘leading role’ in promoting
autocracy, think tank says.
* ⚓ Danish_far-right_party_in_crisis_as_new_leader_fired_over_funds
dispute⠀⇛
The far-right Nye Borgerlige (New Right) party has deposed its
leader Lars Boje Mathiesen and excluded him from the party over
a dispute related to use of party funding.
* ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Judge_addresses_jury_over_breastfeeding_decision⠀⇛
A Victorian judge who asked a breastfeeding mother to leave a
public gallery in his courtroom has told a jury his actions
were “self-explanatory”.
§ Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
* ⚓ David Buchanan ☛ The_Quest_for_Netflix_on_Asahi_Linux⠀⇛
The root cause of this error is that the Widevine DRM module is
not installed (which is also why Netflix doesn’t work).
Thus begins the “do not violate the DMCA challenge 2023″. The
goal of this challenge is to figure out how to watch Netflix on
Asahi Linux without bypassing or otherwise breaking DRM.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ JUVE ☛ Reddie_&_Grose_bolsters_Munich_office_with_Maiwald_partner
[Ed: JUVE once again posting pure SPAM for sponsors and Team UPC;
it's not journalism but a lobbying and propaganda front of private
firms]⠀⇛
o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Multiple_dependent_claims,_blaze
marks,_and_ipsis_verbis_support⠀⇛
This is a follow-up to Dennis’s post discussing a recent
Federal Circuit decision, University of Minnesota v.
Gilead, wherein the university was essentially precluded
from claiming priority to a provisional patent
application because the provisional failed to provide
adequate written description support for a later claimed
invention.
o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Issue_its_“Mandate_and_Opinion” [Ed:
Patent zealot Dennis Crouch is still trying to slow PTAB down to
protect fake patents; his conflict of interest is never noted.]⠀⇛
The Federal Circuit regularly affirms PTAB judgments
without issuing any explanatory opinion to justify the
result. Although not found in the Rules of Appellate
procedure, the court has created its own local rule
allowing itself to “enter a judgment of affirmance
without opinion.” In a 2017 paper, I argued that these
no-opinion affirmances violated both the spirit and
letter of 35 U.S.C. 144, which requires the court to
issue a “mandate and opinion” in cases appealed from the
USPTO.
* § Trademarks⠀➾
o ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ Guest_Post_by_Michael_Hall:_“Ignoring_Federal_Circuit
Precedent,_the_Board_Toes_the_Line_on_the_Burden_of_Proof_for
Genericness_Refusals”⠀⇛
Michael Hall of Womble Bond Dickinson has kindly provided
the following thought-provoking comments on the current
status of the TTAB’s genericness jurisprudence, and
particularly on the Board’s recent Uman Diagnostics
decision applying a “preponderance of the evidence”
standard for proof of genericness while ignoring
venerable CAFC precedent requiring “clear and convincing”
evidence.
o ⚓ India Times ☛ TikTok_wins_US_trademark_trial_over_Stitch_video
feature⠀⇛
Bytedance’s TikTok Inc persuaded a federal jury in Los
Angeles on Thursday that its Stitch feature does not
violate trademark rights belonging to British video-
editing company Stitch Editing Ltd.
The jury rejected Stitch Editing’s argument that TikTok
confuses consumers by using the Stitch name to brand the
popular social-media platform’s technology for
“stitching” videos together.
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ New Statesman ☛ A_Winnie-the-Pooh_horror_film?_Welcome_to_the
public_domain⠀⇛
Milne enthusiasts may find their spin-offs similarly
pooh-poohed if they aren’t careful. Tigger didn’t come
bouncing on to the scene until 1928 in The House at Pooh
Corner, so he won’t be following his playmates into the
public domain until next year. And the new-found freedom
to transplant Milne’s characters into any scenario
applies only to the versions illustrated by EH Shepard.
The designs originated by Disney, which have earned that
company more than $80bn since it produced Winnie the Pooh
and the Honey Tree in 1966, are off limits. Reimagine the
characters as savage, rampaging maniacs by all means – as
the new low-budget British horror film Winnie the Pooh:
Blood and Honey has done – but keep your paws off Pooh’s
trademark tomato-red T-shirt and naked lower half.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ Martin_Isenburg’s_legacy⠀⇛
To give a bit more context here, Martin Isenburg was the
developer of the most successful Open Source library to
interact with LIDAR data, a type of geospatial data
coming from laser sensors, typically acquired from
airplanes to generate 3D models of large land areas.
o ⚓ Happy_Birfday,_Zaibatsu-kun!_Or,_Wages_of_the_Smolnet⠀⇛
So, our good captain of the satellite in which we dwell
has written a lovely homage to the Mare Tranquillitatis
People’s Circumlunar Zaibatsu. As well as outlining the
history of the Zaibatsu and the smol constellation of
circumlunarspace server communities, this post by
Solderpunk serves as an excellent manifesto for
minimalist pubnix (smolnix!).
o ⚓ T──_on_Technology⠀⇛
Someone on a ##forth channel wondered why Tolkien was so
down on technology; an easy answer is that factory
production had gotten a little out of hand, given the
something like a billion shells burnt in the
“Materialschlachte” or Great War. But Tolkien is not the
author that concerns this post.
Arnold Toynbee likewise was deeply affected by the Great
War and concluded that the West was suffering from a
spiritual crisis.
The quotes and indeed much of this material is cribbed
from “Arnold Toynbee and the Crisis of the West” by
Marvin Perry (1982). This copy was discarded by the
Karachi-American School Library. Nobody had checked it
out.
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# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Openwashing
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Chromium
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Programming/Development
# Python
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
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# Fear,_Uncertainty,_Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation
# Privacy/Surveillance
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# Energy/Transportation
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# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
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# Internet/Gemini
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ The_ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_Gen_10_as_a_Linux_laptop
•_The_Register⠀⇛
The Reg FOSS desk took Lenovo’s new Intel Alder Lake-
powered executive laptop for a spin. It’s a lovely
machine… but with some significant limitations.
Lenovo ThinkPads have long enjoyed a strong following
among Linux types, and the Thinkpad X1 is among the most
coveted. The X1 Carbon is the thinnest and lightest, and
the Gen 10 latest model is Ubuntu certified. Lenovo
offered The Reg one to take a look.
The model we received is a powerhouse: 12th Gen Intel
Core i7-1260P, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB NVMe SSD. As you’d
expect for a current machine, it came with Windows 11. We
ran Windows Update immediately, and found a whopping 53
outstanding, including multiple drivers. As usual for
Windows, once those were installed and the machine
rebooted, there were some more updates. After going
through the cycle a few times, it claimed there were none
outstanding. Then it was off to the Windows Store to
install the couple of dozen outstanding updates hidden in
there, which Windows Update doesn’t tell you about. After
that, it was a quick visit to Ninite to install some
standard apps. The whole process took barely a working
day. This is the kind of fit and finish that running a
state-of-the-art professionally written operating system
gets you, of course.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_209:_HDMI_Tempest,_Norm
Upscaled,_Seeing_Electrons,_And_When_The_Radios_Go_Silent⠀⇛
It was one of those weeks, where Elliot and Dan
found a bounty of interesting hacks to choose from
for the podcast, making it hard to pick. But pick
we did, and we found so many deep and important
questions. What good is a leaky HDMI cable? Good
for falling down a TEMPEST-like rabbit hole, that’s
what. Why would you use a ton of clay to make a
car? Because it’s cool, that’s why. What does an
electron look like? A little like a wiggling wire,
but mostly it looks like a standing wave… of waves.
# ⚓ YouTube ☛ 2023-03-10_How_to_create_a_Ventoy_Bootable_Flash
Drive_for_Linux_Distribution_Installation_and_Testing⠀⇛
# ⚓ YouTube ☛ 2023-03-10_Linux_Packaging_Formats_explained:
Flatpak_vs_Snaps_vs_DEB_&_RPM_vs_AppImage_vs_AUR⠀⇛
# ⚓ YouTube ☛ 2023-03-10_Steam_Deck_Gets_a_Next-Gen_Upgrade._
(Steam_Deck_News_#75)⠀⇛
# ⚓ YouTube ☛ 2023-03-10_How_to_install_Nitrux_2.7.0⠀⇛
# ⚓ YouTube ☛ 2023-03-10_Endless_OS_5.0.0_Quick_Overview
#shorts⠀⇛
# ⚓ YouTube ☛ 2023-03-10_New_Linux_Distro:_The_“Flatpak_Remix”
of_Ubuntu!⠀⇛
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.2.4⠀⇛
I'm announcing the release of the 6.2.4 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_6.1.17⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.2.5⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.1.18⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.100⠀⇛
# ⚓ Oracle_Linux:_build_kernel_modules_for_Unbreakable
Enterprise_Kernel_(UEK)⠀⇛
This guide has the target to show the proper
requirements and steps to build third party kernel
modules for UEK; in this guide I will use a dummy
kernel module to just show the requirements and
build steps.
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ An_Intro_to_the_Linux_Memory_Access
Workload_Simulator_(masim)⠀⇛
The memory subsystem is one of the most critical
areas of the Linux kernel, and consequently, it
must be performant, stable and reliable. Over the
years, many tools and mechanisms have been
developed to help improve the memory subsystem.
These include HugePages, NUMA nodes/NUMA emulation,
memory compaction, OOM killer, etc.
Another useful tool developed for the memory
subsystem is masim, a userspace tool used to
simulate intensive memory access workloads to test
the behavior and performance of the memory system.
It was introduced in 2018 by SeongJae Park.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Red-black_trees_for_BPF_programs⠀⇛
Most of the kernel’s code is written in C and
intended to be run directly on the underlying
hardware. That situation is changing in a few ways,
though; one of those is the ability to write kernel
code for the BPF virtual machine. The 6.3 kernel
release will include a new API making the red-black
tree data structure available to BPF programs.
Beyond being an interesting feature in its own
right, this new API shows how BPF is bringing a
different approach to kernel programming — and to
the C language in general.
The kernel has long made extensive use of red-black
trees (rbtrees), which are a form of binary tree;
this data structure offers fast lookups and the
ability to perform insertions and deletions in
bounded time. Red-black trees are found in I/
O schedulers, graphics drivers, filesystems, the
BPF verifier, CPU-scheduler run queues, network
protocols, and beyond. One place they have not been
found, though, is in programs written to run in the
BPF virtual machine. As the complexity of BPF
programs grows, though, so does the demand for
advanced data structures. The BPF version of the
red-black tree, added by Dave Marchevsky, is meant
to address this need.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ The_first_half_of_the_6.3_merge_window⠀⇛
As of this writing, 5,776 non-merge changesets have
been pulled into the mainline kernel for the 6.3
release; that is a bit less than half of the work
that was waiting in linux-next before the merge
window opened. This merge window is thus well
underway, but far from complete. Quite a bit of
significant work has been pulled so far; read on to
see what entered the kernel in the first half of
the 6.3 merge window.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 7_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Emacs-Like_Text
Editors⠀⇛
Over the years, one of the most emotive areas in
the world of Linux is the choice of text editor.
Some people are strong advocates of Vim, others
prefer Emacs. And there’s tons of other text
editors available with strong backing. Having
robust opinions is the way the land lies in Linux.
Emacs has a long and revered history. The original
program was written in 1976 as a set of macros for
an existing text editor called TECO. Emacs
originally was an acronym for Editor MACroS,
unifying the many TECO command sets and key
bindings. TECO is both a character-oriented text
editor and an interpreted programming language for
text manipulation.
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ MusicPod_is_a_New_Music,_Podcast,_and_Radio
Player_for_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Though MusicPod is not an “official” Ubuntu app it
exists under the umbrella of the Ubuntu Flutter
Community, who also maintain that cool Fluter-based
software app we previewed last summer (which Ubuntu
may use in a future release).
As you may have guessed, MusicPod is built with
Flutter, Ubuntu’s preferred app framework.
Flutter’s “Yaru” design elements mean the app
effects a look similar to the GTK theme of the same
name but without being an actual GTK app.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Configure_and_Use_Aliases_in_Zsh⠀⇛
You can think of an alias as a shortcut for a
command you execute!
# ⚓ The Anarcat ☛ Antoine_Beaupré:_how_to_audit_for_open
services_with_iproute2⠀⇛
The computer world has a tendency of reinventing
the while once in a
while. I am not a fan of that process, but
sometimes I just have to
bite the bullet and adapt to change. This post
explains how I adapted
to one particular change: the netstat to sockstat
transition.
I used to do this to show which processes where
listening on which
port on a server:
netstat -anpe
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Converting_imz_floppy_disk_images⠀⇛
imz files were a popular way to distribute floppy
disk images in the 1990s and 2000s, owing to their
smaller size. Like cbz comic files and the handsome
pair of chinos I’m wearing now, they’re zipped.
To convert to a raw disk image, use a tool like
unzip(1) in the shell, or append a zip extension
and use a graphical decompression tool. You can
then rename the file to a regular img, and mount as
normal.
Related to my DOS_organising_project, I’ve been
cataloguing and archiving all my disk and CD images
in_a_spreadsheet. Part of this has been unzipping
all these IMZ files to make them easier to use.
They’re on a compressed OpenZFS pool anyway, so may
as well.
# ⚓ Network World ☛ Saving_commands_to_a_file_using_Ctrl-x-e⠀⇛
The Ctrl-x-e key sequence provides a quick and easy
way to save commands you’ve recently used on the
command line into files.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KDE_Frameworks_5.104_Further_Improves
Plasma_Wayland_and_Touchscreen_Support⠀⇛
KDE Frameworks 5.104 is here to further
improve the Plasma Wayland session by making
sure the SDDM login screen works well with a
touchscreen, such as a mobile phone or
tablet, especially when using the Virtual
Keyboard to allow users to scroll the
keyboard layout list with a swipe. This
improvement will also be implemented in the
upcoming KDE Plasma 5.27.3 point release next
week.
The Plasma Wayland session also received
various fixes to make KDE app windows
correctly remember their size on a multi-
monitor setup and to address a semi-recent
regression that could cause the Baloo file
indexer service to crash frequently.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 6_Reasons_Why_Linux_Mint_Is_the_Perfect_Distro_for
Windows_Users⠀⇛
Linux Mint’s desktop is similar to that of Windows, but
it’s not the only reason why Mint is ideal for new users
transitioning from Windows to Linux.
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the
week_2023/10⠀⇛
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week we have only published 6 snapshots. One
was held back as we identified an issue in one
package (libfdisk1) which requires manual
intervention (on transactional updates) or an error
to be ignored. The problem is in the %postun script
of the package, so it’s already ‘on disk’, and thus
not fixable. But having seen it, we at least wanted
to make sure this will only happen once, and not a
2nd time later on when the script is fixed
(transactional-update will learn how to deal with
this specific package in the following days; so you
can safely let it revert the update for now and let
the process play out).
The 6 snapshots published were 0302, 0303, 0304,
0306, 0307, and 0308 and they contained these
changes:
[...]
# Rust 1.68
# Linux kernel 6.2.2
# Systemd 253.1
# Podman 4.4.2 (snapshot 0309)
# GCC 13 as the distro default compiler
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ SJVN ☛ Flathub,_the_Linux_desktop_app_store,_is_growing
up⠀⇛
Rob McQueen, the GNOME Foundation Board President,
looked into the future of Flathub, the Flatpak-
based Linux desktop app, and he likes what he sees.
McQueen reports Flathub has seen strong growth and
ongoing progress.
Flathub now offers over 2,000 apps from over 1,500
GitHub collaborators. It’s now averaging 700,000
app downloads per day, with 898 million HTTP
requests totaling 88.3 TeraBytes served by its
Content Delivery Network (CDN) every day. This
growth is due, in part, to Flathub’s ability to
help developers publish their work in a way that
makes it easy for people to discover, download,
install, and use. And, lest we forget, eventually
pay for them.
Flathub’s success comes despite the challenges that
have historically held back the mainstream growth
and acceptance of desktop Linux. These problems
include packaging difficulties for app developers
that have made it hard for people to find, install,
and use their applications. Flathub solves this by
providing a common store and package platform to
help users quickly discover and install
applications.
# ⚓ insideHPC ☛ Rocky_Enterprise_Software_Foundation_Elects
Project_Boards_for_Rocky_Linux,_Peridot⠀⇛
The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF)
today announced the inaugural projects and project
boards that will initiate the work of the
foundation. The officially hosted projects—Rocky
Linux and Peridot—were named and respective project
boards were elected on January 16 at the first
annual meeting of the newly elected RESF board.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Dell_and_Red_Hat_team_up_to_evolve_open
telecom_networks⠀⇛
Ensuring reliability in the telecom field continues
to be top of mind, especially in the wake of a
global pandemic.
§ Debian Family⠀➾
* ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Vanilla_OS_2.0_Embraces_Debian_Sid,_Moving_Away_from
Ubuntu⠀⇛
Vanilla OS is a relatively new distro released around New
Year’s Eve that aims to provide a stock GNOME experience with a
few unique features.
It had been using Ubuntu as a base since the beginning, when we
first took a look at it during its early development stages.
But now.
That is all set to change with a move to Debian Sid for its
upcoming Vanilla OS 2.0 Orchid release.
* ⚓ LWN ☛ Debian_ponders_filesystem-image_forward_compatibility⠀⇛
Developers who build distributions often (but not always) put
considerable effort into backward compatibility, ensuring, for
example, that a program built for one release will continue to
run on later releases. Forward compatibility, where it is
possible to move a program (or other artifact) from a more
recent release to an older one, can be less of a concern, but
it still tends to be seen as something that is better to not
break if possible. So it is not surprising that an issue
affecting the forward-compatibility of ext4 filesystems built
for the upcoming Debian 12 (“bookworm”) release has generated a
fair amount of discussion, even if the number of affected users
is likely to be small.
§ Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
* ⚓ Hackster ☛ Canonical_Launches_a_RISC-V_Ubuntu_Build_for_the_Microchip
PolarFire_SoC_Icicle_Kit⠀⇛
Canonical has reiterated its commitment to bringing Ubuntu to
devices built around the free and open-source RISC-
V instruction set with a new release: Ubuntu for the Microchip
PolarFire SoC FPGA Icicle Kit single-board computer.
“The realm of what’s possible for developers on RISC-V has just
expanded by pairing Ubuntu, the most popular Linux OS, with the
PolarFire SoC FPGA Icicle Kit from Microchip,” says Canonical’s
Cindy Goldberg, vice-president of silicon alliance, of the
partnership. “I predict that the RISC-V + FPGA + Ubuntu bundle
will be at the top of developer’s shopping list this year.”
§ Devices/Embedded⠀➾
* ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Global_Shutter_Camera_introduced_at
$50.00⠀⇛
The latest Raspberry Pi Global Shutter Camera is a 1.6MP camera
based on the Sony IMX296 sensor and it’s compatible with all
RPi boards with CSI connector. This new camera module is
suitable for machine vision applications and fast motion
photography since it can capture rapid motion without rolling
shutter artifacts.
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Wind_River_and_Dell_collaborate_to_foster_new_Open_RAN
solutions_for_telcos⠀⇛
§ Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
* § Openwashing⠀➾
o ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ OpenForum_Europe_Mourns_Passing_of_Co-Founder
Basil_Cousins_at_91 [Ed: OpenForum Europe = voices of monopolies
[1, 2]]⠀⇛
OpenUK announced on Wednesday in a post on its website
that Basil Cousins, co-founder and director of OpenForum
Europe, has died. Cousins was 91 years-old, and his death
came about a year after the death of his wife, Trisha.
According to the post that was penned by Astor Nummelin
Carlberg, OFE’s executive director, the death came after
a long illness and will all members of his family
present.
o ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ It’s_Board_Election_Time_at_Open_Source
Initiative_Again [Ed: Open_Source_Initiative_allowing_corporate
Microsoft_shills_to_run_for_the_board_while_bagging_bribes_from
Microsoft]⠀⇛
If you’re a dues paying member of Open Source Initiative,
you’ve probably already received an email from the
organization telling you it’s time to vote in this year’s
board of directors’ election. If the notice got lost in
your inbox, or snagged by your spam filter, I’ll tell you
for them: it’s time to vote for board members.
OSI is the non-profit organization that’s tasked with
deciding what is or isn’t a valid open source license
according to the “Open Source Definition,” a document
that was adapted by Bruce Perens and others from Debian’s
Free Software Guidelines in the late 1990s. Although
anyone can market any license as open source (for some
reason, the term “open source” was never copyrighted),
unless a license is officially recognized as open source
by OSI, it won’t be recognized as valid by open source
advocates, nearly every enterprise user of open source,
or just about anybody else.
* § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
o § Chromium⠀➾
# ⚓ Google ☛ Beta_Channel_Update_for_Desktop⠀⇛
The Chrome team is excited to announce the
promotion of Chrome 112 to the Beta channel for
Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 112.0.5615.20
contains our usual under-the-hood performance and
stability tweaks, but there are also some cool new
features to explore – please head to the Chromium
blog to learn more!
* § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
o ⚓ SJVN ☛ Immudb:_Keep_your_Hands_off_my_Database!⠀⇛
Immudb is an open-source, immutable database. That means
it uses a variety of security techniques such as
cryptographic proof and verification and zero trust to
make its data and transactions tamperproof. That’s great,
if you’re using immudb. But, say you’re not. Well,
immudb’s parent company Codenotary has an answer for you.
Database connectors that enable data stored in other data
stores to be made tamper-proof.
Until now, there has been no easy way to guarantee the
integrity of data kept in other databases for forensic,
judicial, or auditing purposes. This could be a game-
changer for companies and organizations that must ensure
that the data in their databases is reliable.
The immudb connectors do this by providing cryptographic
verification. This validates the integrity of the data at
every transaction, ensuring it is tamper-proof. The
connectors make it possible to extend data to and store
it inside immudb, while still providing high performance
and full query capabilities.
* § Programming/Development⠀➾
o ⚓ LWN ☛ Some_useful_tools_for_binary_formats⠀⇛
Linux users often work with text files; tools like grep,
awk, and sed are standard utilities in their toolbox.
However, these tools fall short when trying to extract or
edit data from files in a binary format, analyze corrupt
media files, or for parsing a binary data format. FOSDEM
2023 in Brussels had a whole binary tools devroom
dedicated to open-source programs that deal with binary
data.
Line-based text files can be handled with the standard
tools, but even better tools exist for data formats that
store structured data in text, like JSON, YAML, and XML.
For JSON, the command-line processor jq has become
popular. It was also the inspiration for at least two
tools called yq that handle YAML, JSON, XML, and other
text-based formats: one by Mike Farah and another by
Andrey Kislyuk.
o § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Python_packaging_and_its_tools⠀⇛
The Python-packaging discussions continued in
January and February; they show no sign of abating
in March either. This time around, we look (again)
at tools for packaging, including a brand new Rust-
based entrant. There is also a proposal to have
interested parties create Python Enhancement
Proposals (PEPs) for packaging solutions that would
be judged by a panel of PEP delegates in order to
try to choose something that the whole community
can rally around—without precluding the existence
of other options. As always, it is all a difficult
balancing act.
* § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_USB_Protocol,_Explained⠀⇛
If you can explain what a USB PID, a J state, a K state,
and an SOF are, you can probably stop reading now. But if
you don’t know or you want a refresher, you can spend 15
minutes watching [Sine Lab’s] straightforward explanation
of the USB protocol details. You can find the video
below.
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Main_lesson_from_uni:_know_thy_spec!⠀⇛
I was trading stories about university with someone
recently, and it reminded me of a few occasions where
reading and clarifying the spec would have solved
everything! You owe it to yourself and your group to make
sure everything is clear from the start, lest you go down
unproductive and pointless rabbitholes that chew time and
sleep.
For a security subject, we had to demonstrate we
understood public and symmetric key cryptography. Public
key cryptography uses a pair of mathematically-related
keys to encrypt and decrypt, which permits only those
with the corresponding key to access the plaintext.
Symmetric cryptography use one key, and is usually
significantly faster.
The spec for this assignment asked us to implement a
public key cipher that encrypts a symmetric key to
encrypt bulk data, a common use case. I read that to mean
implement known ciphers.
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Recalling_Wayne_Shorter⠀⇛
This first musical nickname tagged him to the city of his
birth: the Newark Flash.
To a club called Lloyd’s Manor in Wayne Shorter’s hometown came
Sonny Stitt in 1951. Stitt hailed from across the Hudson
River—the bebop crucible of Harlem and its downtown mecca of
42nd street. The visitor from New York had already gotten word
of the precocious tenor player from Newark and invited him to
sit in for a night.
* ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Retrotechtacular:_The_Revolutionary_Visual_Effects_Of_King
Kong⠀⇛
Today, it’s easy to take realistic visual effects in film and
TV for granted. Computer-generated imagery (CGI) has all but
done away with the traditional camera tricks and miniatures
used in decades past, and has become so commonplace in modern
productions that there’s a good chance you’ve watched scenes
without even realizing they were created partially, or
sometimes even entirely, using digital tools.
* § Science⠀➾
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Low_Orbit_Satellite_Systems_Like_Starlink_Continue_To
Harm_Scientific_Research⠀⇛
Scientists say that low earth orbit (LEO) satellite
constellations like Starlink continue to pose a dire
threat to astronomy and scientific research, and that too
little is being done to address the issue.
* § Education⠀➾
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Public_Universities_Run_on_Underpaid_Labor._Now_Grad
Workers_Are_Fighting_Back.⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ ‘Just_up_and_quitting’:_Victorian_schools_short_1000
teachers⠀⇛
Teaching vacancies have ballooned since the beginning of
term one, with some schools running “skeleton” programs,
as experts warn principals have a long road ahead before
workforce shortages ease.
* § Hardware⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ That_Cheap_USB_Charger_Could_Be_Costly⠀⇛
[Big Clive] picked up a keychain battery to charge his
phone and found out that it was no bargain. Due to a
wiring mistake, the unit was wired backward, delivering -
5 V instead of 5 V. The good news is that it gave him an
excuse to tear the thing open and see what was inside.
You can see the video of the teardown below.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Low-Power_Wi-Fi_Includes_E-Paper_Display⠀⇛
Designing devices that can operate in remote environments
on battery power is often challenging, especially if the
devices need to last a long time between charges or
battery swaps. Thankfully there are some things available
that make these tasks a little easier, such as e-ink or
e-paper displays which only use power when making changes
to the display. That doesn’t solve all of the challenges
of low-power devices, but [Albertas] shows us a few other
tricks with this development board.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ More_Drill_Press_Mods:_Adding_A_VFD_Means_No_More_Belt
Changes⠀⇛
A decent drill press is an essential machine tool for
almost any kind of shop, and marks a significant step up
in precision compared to a hand drill. The ability to
drill square, true holes is one thing, but the added
power over what’s possible with a portable tool is the
real game changer. If only you didn’t have to switch
around those damn belts to change speeds, though.
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Man_behind_Shanghai’s_brutal_COVID-zero_laws_becomes
China’s_second_in_charge⠀⇛
Li Qiang has become China’s next premier nominally in
charge of the world’s second-largest economy now facing
some of its worst prospects in years.
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ How_to_reduce_the_risks_of_eating_fish_in
Indonesia⠀⇛
Ms Susi Pudjiastuti, Minister of Maritime Affairs and
Fisheries of Indonesia (2014-2019), once made a popular
joke about Indonesians who didn’t eat fish: “I will go
after you who don’t eat fish, you will be sunk like those
vessels.” The vessels she referred to were foreign
fishing trawlers. The word “sink” became a popular meme
on social media and underscored how important fish is to
Indonesians.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ I’m_Sorry,_Corporate_Profit_Outweighs_The_Right
to_Choose⠀⇛
Corporate money has always corrupted the political
process in order to create laws and trade agreements that
protect corporate profits at the expense of not just
American citizens, but citizens of the world.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Three_Years_Into_Covid_Pandemic,_World_Leaders
Say_‘Never_Again’_to_Vaccine_Apartheid⠀⇛
Around 200 current and former world leaders, Nobel
laureates, health and faith leaders, and activists this
week marked the third anniversary of the World Health
Organization’s Covid-19 pandemic declaration by taking
aim at the “vaccine apartheid” that according to one
advocacy group was responsible for one death every 24
seconds during the outbreak’s first year alone.
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Another_Norfolk_Southern_Train_Derailed_as_Its_CEO
Testified_Before_the_Senate⠀⇛
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ CO_Dems_Introduce_Bills_That_Would_Protect_Abortion
and_Gender-Affirming_Care⠀⇛
o ⚓ Alan_Lash_recycles_an_old_prepandemic_antivax_trope⠀⇛
I like to say that in the age of the pandemic everything
old is new again, so much so that I realize that it
probably irritates some of my readers. It’s true, though.
Perhaps one of the best examples of this is the
Brownstone Institute. Its various sycophants, toadies,
and lackeys serve as useful idiots to promote
Brownstone’s Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) “natural
herd immunity and antivax propaganda for Jeffrey
Tucker—who, as you’ll recall, was instrumental in
bringing together the authors of the GBD for the
libertarian “free market” think tank American Institute
for Economic Research (AIER) and later left to found the
Brownstone Institute, the “spiritual child of the GBD”_
but end up sounding not like anything new. Rather, they
sound just like the antivaxxers that I first started
writing about nearly two decades ago. Take Alan Lash, for
example.
* § Proprietary⠀➾
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ UK_ends_antitrust_investigation_of_Google’s_‘Jedi
Blue’_agreement_with_Meta⠀⇛
The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has ended its
investigation into Jedi Blue, a controversial advertising
agreement that Google and Meta Platforms Inc. signed in
2018. The Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA,
announced the decision today.
* § Linux Foundation⠀➾
o ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ Where_is_the_‘economic_value’_of_open_source?
[Ed: Linux Foundation removes freedom from the equation, focuses on
openwashing instead]⠀⇛
The Linux Foundation has analysed the state of open
source software value to specifically look at the
‘economic value’ of open source.
Its work may suggest that companies perceive the greatest
benefits of open source software as cost savings, faster
development, open standards and interoperability.
Almost two-thirds of the companies surveyed reported that
the perceived benefits of open source clearly exceed the
perceived costs.
* § Security⠀➾
o § Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation⠀➾
# ⚓ CSO ☛ New_variant_of_the_IceFire_ransomware_targets_Linux
enterprise_systems [Ed: But how does that get there in the
first place? Not Linux.]⠀⇛
A novel Linux version of the IceFire ransomware
that exploits a vulnerability in IBM’s Aspera
Faspex file-sharing software has been identified by
SentinelLabs, a research division of cybersecurity
company Sentinel One.
The exploit is for CVE-2022-47986, a recently
patched Aspera Faspex vulnerability.
Known up to now to target only Windows systems, the
IceFire malware detected by SentinelLabs uses an
iFire extension, consistent with a February report
from MalwareHunterTeam — a group of independent
cybersecurity researchers analyzing and tracking
threats — that IceFire is shifting focus to Linux
enterprise systems.
# ⚓ TechTarget ☛ IceFire_ransomware_targets_Linux,_exploits_IBM
vulnerability [Ed: The issue is IBM, not "Linux"]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ welcomes_member_‘commitments’ [Ed:
OpenSSF is not for real security but for monopolies like
Microsoft to call back doors "open"]⠀⇛
o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ UK’s_Online_Safety_Bill_Will_Actually_Just_Harm
Everyone,_Encrypted_Service_Provider_Warns⠀⇛
Over the past couple of years, we’ve covered the
UK’s “Online Safety Bill” extensively. And for good
reason, seeing as it has the potential to
effectively outlaw end-to-end encryption, and
create an unworkable mess for any service (and it’s
pretty much all of them) engaging in content
moderation.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Foreign_policy_expert_proposes_emergency_services
platform_with_video,_photo_sharing⠀⇛
“It could be useful to have an easy way of
delivering audiovisual materials so authorities can
get a better overall understanding of the matter,”
researcher Charly Salonius-Pasternak says.
* § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Progressives_Slam_Biden’s_Request_for_$30_Billion
Increase_to_Military_Budget⠀⇛
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Insanity_Continues_as_Pentagon_Spending_Moves
Ever_Closer_to_$1_Trillion⠀⇛
The Pentagon released its budget request for Fiscal Year
2024 Thursday. The figure for the Pentagon alone is a
hefty $842 billion. That’s $69 billion more than the $773
billion the department requested for Fiscal Year 2023.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky_on_Nord_Stream_explosions:_‘Ukraine_definitely
didn’t_do_it’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky denied recent
suggestions that Ukraine may have had a hand in the Nord
Stream pipeline explosions last year.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Progressives_Say_Military_Budget_Should_Be_Cut_as
Biden_Floats_$30_Billion_Increase⠀⇛
Progressive lawmakers on Thursday voiced dismay that
President Joe Biden is requesting a nearly $30 billion
increase in U.S. military spending just months after the
Pentagon failed its fifth consecutive audit, admitting it
could not properly account for more than half of its
trillions of dollars in assets.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Ministry_of_Justice_declares_World_Wildlife
Fund,_economist_Sergey_Guriev_‘foreign_agents’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian justice ministry updated its registry of
“foreign agents” on the evening of March 10.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Captured_Ukrainian_human_rights_activist_Maksym
Butkevych_sentenced_to_13_years_in_prison_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The “Supreme Court” of the Russian-annexed Donetsk and
Luhansk “People’s Republics” has sentenced three
Ukrainian nationals, who were accused of committing war
crimes, the Russian Investigative Committee Reports.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ The_state_of_the_war’s_various_fronts_Updates_to
Meduza’s_interactive_combat_map:_Ukraine’s_Armed_Forces_have
decided_to_continue_the_defense_of_Bakhmut_but_risk_losing_the
neighboring_city_of_Chasiv_Yar_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine,
Meduza has adopted a consistent antiwar position, holding
Russia responsible for its military aggression and
atrocities. As part of this commitment, we regularly
update an interactive map that documents combat
operations in Ukraine and the damage inflicted by
Russia’s invasion forces. Our map is based exclusively on
previously published open-source photos and videos, most
of them posted by eyewitnesses on social media. We
collect reports already available publicly and determine
their geolocation markers, adding only the photos and
videos that clear this process.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Former_heads_of_Ukrainian_state_aircraft_company
arrested_in_connection_with_destruction_of_world’s_largest_plane_—
Meduza⠀⇛
The Ukrainian authorities reported Friday that several
top officials from the state-owned aircraft manufacturing
company Antonov are suspected of obstructing the lawful
activities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and thereby
facilitating the destruction of the world’s largest
plane, the An-225 Mriya, by the Russian military in
February 2022.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Twenty_Years_Ago_We_Were_Vladimir_Putin⠀⇛
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.”
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian-backed_Crimea_head_says_fortifications_still
under_construction_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Sergey Aksyonov, the Moscow-appointed head of Crimea,
said Friday that Russia’s plans to build defense
fortifications in the annexed region are still in effect,
adding that local authorities are taking an
“unconventional” and “asymmetrical” approach to the
construction process due to all of their “experience with
armed hostilities.”
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Putin’s_War,_Running_Out_of_Gas⠀⇛
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ The_US_and_China_Edge_Closer_to_War_as_Tensions_Rise
Over_Taiwan⠀⇛
o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Historian_Alfred_McCoy:_As_Tensions_Rise_over
Taiwan,_U.S._&_China_“Edging_Ever_Closer”_to_War⠀⇛
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines is
calling China the “most consequential threat” to U.S.
national security. Meanwhile, the Chinese parliament has
unanimously voted to give Xi Jinping a third five-year
term as president. On Monday, Xi directly accused the
United States of suppressing China’s development,
stating, “Western countries — led by the U.S. — have
implemented all-round containment, encirclement and
suppression against us.” Both countries are beefing up
their military presence along China’s naval borders, and
President Biden has made repeated remarks that the U.S.
would defend Taiwan militarily if it was attacked by
China — statements backed by $619 million in high-tech
arms sales to Taiwan. To make sense of fraying U.S.-China
relations and rising tensions over Taiwan, we are joined
by Alfred McCoy, history professor at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, who examines the developments in his
latest piece, headlined “At the Brink of War in the
Pacific?”
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ UN_Disarmament_Official_Lays_Out_Path_to_Reverse
‘Dangerous’_Nuclear_Trends⠀⇛
“Though we are living in a moment of increased
confrontation and militarization, one fundamental truth
remains unchanged: The only way to eliminate nuclear risk
is to eliminate nuclear weapons.”
o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Rep._Barbara_Lee_on_Cutting_the_Military_Budget,
Abortion_Rights_&_Why_She’s_Running_for_Senate⠀⇛
As President Biden proposes his new budget, which expands
military spending, as well as social services, we speak
with Democratic Congressmember Barbara Lee, co-chair of
the Defense Spending Reduction Caucus. She recently
reintroduced the People Over Pentagon Act to cut $100
billion from the Pentagon budget and reallocate funds to
overlooked priorities like healthcare and education. Lee
is one of three House Democrats who have announced their
candidacy for outgoing California Senator Dianne
Feinstein’s seat. Lee is the highest-ranking Black woman
appointed to House leadership and would be just the third
Black woman to serve in the Senate’s 233-year history.
She shares her platform on foreign policy, reproductive
rights and racial justice on Democracy Now! “We’re going
to fight to make sure that the resources of our country
go directly to the American people, because it’s a budget
for the American people,” says Lee.
o ⚓ Reason ☛ A_Police_Officer_Shot_and_Killed_a_17-Year-Old_Boy_as_He
Fled._Now,_His_Mother_Is_Suing.⠀⇛
“I hurt every day,” said the victim’s mother. “I cry all
day, every day.”
o ⚓ YLE ☛ Finnish_PM_Sanna_Marin,_Minister_Maria_Ohisalo_visit_Kyiv⠀⇛
Finland’s Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment
went to Ukraine on Friday.
* § Environment⠀➾
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Echoing_Climate_TikTok,_Al_Gore_Says_Biden_OK_of
Willow_Would_Be_‘Recklessly_Irresponsible’⠀⇛
From climate campaigners on TikTok to former Vice
President Al Gore, people who care about the planet
across the United States are pressuring the Biden
administration to block ConocoPhillips’ multibillion-
dollar Willow oil project in Alaska.
o § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Making_Dry_Ice_At_Home_Is_Just_As_Hard_As_It
Sounds⠀⇛
Along the road to developing his own cryocooler to
produce liquid nitrogen, there are a number of
interesting rabbit holes [Hyperspace Pirate] has
found himself taking a look at. For example, using
dry ice for a pre-cooling stage and subsequently
wondering what it’d take to make this dry ice
oneself.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Twelve_Years_and_We_Must_Never_Forget_the
Ongoing_Horror_of_the_Fukushima_Nuclear_Disaster⠀⇛
Tomorrow—March 11, 2023—twelve years will have
passed since the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima-
Daiichi reactor complex, a meltdown due to a
massive, but not surprising, tsunami. Not
surprising due to Japan’s location in what is known
to geologists as “the ring of fire,” a powerful
designation of the area around the Pacific Ocean
where seismic activity is endemic. The Pacific
shoreline of Japan is a very poor spot to build
numerous nuclear reactors for that very reason.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Twisted’:_BP_and_Shell_CEOs_See_Pay_Double
as_Workers_Struggle_to_Heat_Homes⠀⇛
Progressives are renewing their call to adequately
tax Big Oil’s windfall profits and executive
bonuses after a pair of London-based fossil fuel
giants reported that the pay packages of their CEOs
doubled last year while working-class households
suffered under the weight of soaring prices.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Buttigieg_Urged_to_Block_Federal_Funding
for_‘Carbon_Bomb’_Railway_Along_Colorado_River⠀⇛
With the toxic train derailment in eastern Ohio
still in the national spotlight, Democratic members
of Colorado’s congressional delegation are
imploring U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete
Buttigieg to do everything he can to head off
another potential railway disaster—one that could
impact a river that supplies drinking water to 40
million Americans.
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Corporate_Profits_Hit_$2_Trillion_Dollar
All-Time_High_–_Validated_Independent_News⠀⇛
Record profits in the fossil fuel have been
particularly obscene. As Jessica Corbett reported
for Common Dreams in July 2022, the eight largest
oil companies’ profits spiked 235 percent between
the second quarter of 2021 and the second quarter
of 2022, according to analysis by Acountable.US.
Chevron, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Hess Corp, Phillips
66, Shell, and TechnipFMC Cole’s collectively
profited $52 billion in the second quarter of 2022.
Notably, Chevron profited $11.62 billion, Exxon
profited $17.85 billion, and Shell profited $11.47
billion. In the United States, the oil industry
spent over $200 million on lobbying in the first
and second quarter of 2022.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Iran_Discovered_To_Have_10%_of_World’s_Lithium
Deposits,_in_Good_News_for_China’s_EV_Industry⠀⇛
The Indian Express reports from Iran’s PressTV that
the country has discovered a deposit of 8.5 million
tons of lithium in the Qahavand Plain of western
Hamedan province.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Manchin_Announces_He’ll_Block_Biden’s
Nominee_for_Land_and_Minerals_Regulator⠀⇛
Suggesting that the appointment of federal
regulators who acknowledge the threat of the
climate crisis is a signal of inappropriate
“partisan politics,” U.S. Senate Energy and Natural
Resources Committee Chair Joe Manchin on Friday
announced that he will not advance President Joe
Biden’s nominee to oversee land and minerals
management at the Interior Department.
o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ BBC_Wildlife_Docuseries_Won’t_Air_Last_Episode
Over_Fears_of_Right-Wing_Backlash⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Russia_Lists_World_Wildlife
Fund,_Others_as_Foreign_Agents⠀⇛
Russia has added the World Wildlife Fund to its
register of foreign agents, a listing that brings
additional government scrutiny
o § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Nearly_130,000_People_‘Looking_Death_in_the
Eyes’_in_Horn_of_Africa,_WHO_Official_Warns⠀⇛
Extreme hunger fueled by the climate emergency,
violence, and disease has nearly 130,000 people in
the Horn of Africa—which has entered its sixth
straight failed rainy season—facing starvation,
while 48 million others suffer from crisis levels
of food insecurity, a United Nations expert warned
Friday.
* § Finance⠀➾
o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Ministry_of_Employment_looking_at_possibilities
to_shorten_working_time⠀⇛
THE MINISTRY of Economic Affairs and Employment revealed
last month it has begun looking into a number of options
for trialling shorter working hours during the next
electoral term at the request of Minister of Employment
Tuula Haatainen (SDP).
Public debate about the shorter working hours has been
re-kindled this spring by trials carried out in, for
example, Iceland, Spain and the UK.
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Biden’s_2024_Budget_Calls_for_Revival_of_Expanded
Child_Tax_Credit⠀⇛
o ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Where_Is_My_Tax_Refund?⠀⇛
You’ve figured out your deductions or credits, calculated
how much you owed in taxes and successfully filed your
return. If you’re sitting around wondering where your
money is, you’re not alone. Lucky for you, the IRS offers
several ways to track your tax return.
Once you have filed your tax return, there are three
options for tracking your refund:
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden_Tax_Boost_Targeting_the_Rich_Called_‘Fair,
Popular,_and_Long_Overdue’⠀⇛
While far-right Republicans continue threatening to blow
up the global economy unless Congress makes cuts to
popular social programs, progressive taxation experts are
celebrating U.S. President Joe Biden’s latest push to
invest in “widespread prosperity” by raising taxes on
wealthy individuals and corporations.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ House_Freedom_Caucus_Economic_Hostage-Takers
Issue_Latest_Ransom_Demands⠀⇛
A cadre of far-right Republicans announced Friday that
they may only vote to raise the debt ceiling if Congress
agrees to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in social
spending, limit federal agencies’ future budgets, and
abandon progressive elements of President Joe Biden’s
economic agenda.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Silicon_Valley_Bank_Collapses_in_Largest_Failure
Since_2008_Crisis⠀⇛
Santa Clara-based Silicon Valley Bank, a major lender to
technology startups, collapsed on Friday after its
emergency attempts to raise money and find a potential
buyer failed, forcing regulators to step in and take over
the institution.
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Democrats_Unveil_Bills_to_Restrain_Union_Busting,_Give
Union_Members_Tax_Benefit⠀⇛
* § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ On_Banana_Republicans:_Dems_Have_No_Fecks_Left_to
Give,_and_We_Are_Here_For_It⠀⇛
If you’ve missed it – lucky you – we’ve seen the clown
show of GOP House “Weaponization” et al subcommittees, a
sorry apotheosis of GOP fanaticism, paranoia and
bullshit, lumber on as a parade of eloquent Dems do
steadfast battle against the “nonsense.” Most visible is
the indefatigable Jamie Raskin, who’s been on fire. Now
he’s fervidly offered up to the party of lies and
alternative facts the hallowed notion of “truth,” on
which “democratic governance rests.” An appreciation
thread is due.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Far-Right_Israeli_Minister_Who_Said_Palestinian
Town_Should_Be_‘Wiped_Out’_Gets_US_Visa⠀⇛
Ignoring pleas from human rights defenders, the Biden
administration will issue a visa to far-right Israeli
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich—who earlier this month
said an entire Palestinian town of over 5,000 people
should be “wiped out” by Israel—the minister’s office
announced Thursday.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ House_GOP_Refuses_to_Denounce_White_Supremacy_and
‘Great_Replacement’_Theory⠀⇛
Led by ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin, Democrats on the
U.S. House Oversight and Accountability Committee this
week warned that Republicans doubled down on “a dangerous
lie” when they refused to back a statement denouncing
white supremacy.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Progressive_Takeover_of_Nevada’s_Democratic
Party_Is_Falling_Apart⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Pillows_of_Democracy⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Republicans_Aren’t_Really_Trying_to_Win_Popular-Vote
Majorities⠀⇛
Former Maryland governor Larry Hogan says he still
believes Republicans could win the presidency with an
overwhelming majority if they would simply nominate a
candidate like, well, Larry Hogan.
o § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Dominion,_Tucker_Carlson,_and_the_Big_Lie_a
Fool_Will_Believe⠀⇛
The Dominion lawsuit against Fox News has gotten a
great deal of attention, and rightly so, for it
raises fundamental questions about democracy in the
U.S. and the ways that it is profoundly corrupted
and seriously endangered by an alliance of right-
wing media and the Republican Party. And yet
beneath the lying exposed in the case are the more
dangerous lies at the heart of MAGA ideology. And
whether or not the notorious liars at Fox News
Corp. believed anything they were saying about
Dominion, there is no doubt that the deeper lies
remain articles of faith for Fox and the Republican
party.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ How_PR_and_the_fog_of_corporate
disinformation_has_governments_paying_to_burn_the_planet⠀⇛
Public relations is at the core of coal and gas
industry influence which has governments actually
incentivising the burning of the planet. Grant
Ennis, who has just released the book Dark PR,
explores how corporate disinformation campaigns
allow this to happen.
Fossil fuel corporations receive more than $10
billion in subsidies from Australian taxpayers
every year. In contrast, the Government announced
$2 billion in climate finance for 2020-2025 at the
COP26 conference in Edinburgh; professing to take
action to stop global warming, while incentivising
the burning of our planet.
* § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
o ⚓ Reason ☛ David_Lat_on_the_Stanford_Law_School_Disruption_of
Speech_by_Fifth_Circuit_Judge_Kyle_Duncan⠀⇛
David Lat’s Original Jurisdiction newsletter has, as
usual, excellent and detailed coverage. I started quoting
but then realized that I couldn’t excerpt it and still do
the matter justice; and quoting the whole thing would be
unfair to Lat as an author.
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ YouTube_Updates_Its_Profanity_Policy_After_Backlash⠀⇛
A couple of months back, we discussed YouTube pulling a
Twitch and changing up its content policies for its
streaming community in a way that was not well-announced
nor understood by that community. The new policy made a
number of changes, all of which had an impact on how
monetization of content was to be handled. The first
notable change was that any streams or recorded content
that either “consistently” featured violent content
within a video or featured violence very early on in the
video, such as the first 8 seconds, would be demonitized.
Unhelpfully for a huge swath of the streaming community,
this policy applied not only to IRL violence, but to
violent images from video games as well. The policy also
had the exact same standards for “profanity.” I put that
word in scare-quotes because, also unhelpfully, YouTube’s
list of naughty words was treated with blanket equality,
meaning that a “shit” was treated the same as a “fuck.”
As a regular purveyor of such colorful language, this was
self-evidently silly and the streaming community was
pissed, especially as the policy was made retroactive on
previous recorded videos.
o ⚓ EFF ☛ Age_Verification_Mandates_Would_Undermine_Anonymity
Online⠀⇛
Age verification laws don’t just impact young people.
It’s necessary to confirm the age of all website
visitors, in order to keep out one select age group.
Once information is shared to verify age, there’s no way
for a website visitor to be certain that the data they’re
handing over is not going to be retained and used by the
website, or further shared or even sold. While some age
verification mandates have limits on retention and
disclosure of this data, significant risk remains. Users
are forced to trust that the website they visit, or its
third-party verification service, both of which could be
fly-by-night companies with no published privacy
standards, are following these rules.
Further, there is risk that website employees will misuse
the data, or that thieves will steal it. The more
information a website collects, the more chances there
are for it to get into the hands of a marketing company,
a bad actor, or someone who has filed a subpoena for it.
This would inevitably lead to further data breaches,
because these laws won’t just affect companies that are
big enough to have robust data protection. If a website
misuses or mishandles the data, the visitor might never
find out. And if they do, they might lack an adequate
enforcement mechanism. For example, one recent age
verification law requires a user to prove “damages
resulting from” the unlawful retention of data, in order
to hold the website accountable in court—a difficult bar
to reach.
o ⚓ EFF ☛ Appeals_Court_Upholds_Restriction_on_Twitter’s_First
Amendment_Right_to_Publish_National_Security_Transparency_Report⠀⇛
In 2014, Twitter submitted its draft transparency report
to the FBI to review. The FBI redacted the report,
prohibiting Twitter from sharing the total number of
foreign intelligence surveillance orders the government
had served within a six-month period in aggregate bands
such as 1-99. In response, Twitter filed suit in order to
assert its First Amendment right to share that
information. To be clear, Twitter did not plan to share
any detail about the requests such as the targets or
other identifying information.
In April 2020, a federal district court dismissed
Twitter’s First Amendment claim. Among the several
concerning aspects of the opinion, the judge devoted only
a single paragraph to analyzing Twitter’s First Amendment
right to inform the public about law enforcement orders
for its users’ information. Twitter appealed to the Ninth
Circuit, and EFF and the ACLU filed an amicus brief in
support of the appeal.
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Florida_GOP_Introduces_3_New_Bills_to_Expand
DeSantis’s_“Don’t_Say_Gay”_Policies⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Men_don_lingerie_in_live_stream_shopping
channels_after_China_bans_female_models⠀⇛
Dressed in lingerie, the men confidently hawked the
apparel in several live stream videos.
* § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Betrayers_of_Assange⠀⇛
I have known Julian Assange since I first interviewed him
in London in 2010. I immediately liked his dry, dark
sense of humour, often dispensed with an infectious
giggle. He is a proud outsider: sharp and thoughtful. We
have become friends, and I have sat in many courtrooms
listening to the tribunes of the state try to silence him
and his moral revolution in journalism.
My own high point was when a judge in the Royal Courts of
Justice leaned across his bench and growled at me: ‘You
are just a peripatetic Australian like Assange.’ My name
was on a list of volunteers to stand bail for Julian, and
this judge spotted me as the one who had reported his
role in the notorious case of the expelled Chagos
Islanders. Unintentionally, he delivered me a compliment.
o ⚓ FAIR ☛ A_Taste_of_What’s_in_Store_if_Right-Wing_Zealots_Get_Green
Light_to_Sue_Media⠀⇛
Michael Knowles, host of the Daily Wire’s right-wing
Michael Knowles Show, has accused several news outlets of
libel for their coverage of his speech at CPAC (Twitter,
3/4/23). The affair illustrates the kind of ideological
pretzel-twisting right-wing media go through to make
themselves look like victims of free speech suppression,
but it’s no laughing matter: This is the kind of
censorship and bullying of journalists the right is
hoping will be standard practice if the Supreme Court
implements its anti-press agenda.
o ⚓ Reason ☛ Democrats_Deride_the_Twitter_Files_Reporters_as_‘So-
Called_Journalists’⠀⇛
Members of Congress showed their true colors at a
Thursday hearing.
* § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Arkansas:_No_Need_To_Age_Verify_Kids_Working_In_Meat
Processing_Plants,_But_We_Must_Age_Verify_Kids_Online⠀⇛
As we’ve been covering, there are a slew of laws across
the country (and around the globe!) looking to required
websites to “age verify” their visitors. And, it seems to
be something that has support from all around the
political spectrum, as “protect the children” moral
panics know no political boundaries.
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Oversight_Report_Confirms_What_Multiple_Sheriffs_Have
Denied:_The_LA_Sheriff’s_Department_Has_A_Gang_Problem⠀⇛
Los Angeles may have a gang problem. But so does its
sheriff’s department. What’s already toxic about law
enforcement culture has been embraced, cultivated, and
amplified by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and its
leaders, a steady string of shitty sheriffs willing to
give deputies the longest of leashes.
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Michigan_Legislature_Passes_Bill_Repealing_Parts_of
1931_Anti-Abortion_Law⠀⇛
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Moms_Urge_IL_Leaders_to_Pardon_Survivors_of_Police
Torture,_Wrongful_Convictions⠀⇛
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Some_Officials_Who_Refused_to_Certify_Election_Results
Weren’t_Held_Accountable⠀⇛
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ South_Carolina_Teen_Sues_School_After_Being
Shoved_by_Teacher_Over_Pledge_of_Allegiance_Refusal⠀⇛
Marissa Barnwell, a 15-year-old high school student in
Lexington, South Carolina, was joined by her parents and
the family’s lawyer on Thursday as they spoke publicly
about a federal lawsuit they filed against her school
district, the state Department of Education, and a
teacher who they say assaulted Barnwell late last year
for not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
o ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Officials_Say_They’ll_Start_to_Address_Problems_on
Dairy_Farms⠀⇛
State and local officials in Wisconsin said they were
horrified to learn of the conditions leading up to the
2019 death of an 8-year-old Nicaraguan boy on a dairy
farm, as well as the flawed law enforcement investigation
that followed. Now they say they want to address some of
the issues highlighted by a ProPublica investigation,
published last month, into Jefferson Rodríguez’s death.
“What happened should never have happened,” said state
Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez, a Milwaukee Democrat whose
mother’s family worked as migrant farm laborers in
Wisconsin in the 1960s.
o ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ New_Mexico_Prisons_Lost_Track_of_Juveniles_Serving
Life_Sentences⠀⇛
The New Mexico Corrections Department has lost track of
nearly two dozen prisoners in its custody who are serving
life sentences for crimes they committed as children, an
error that could keep these “juvenile lifers” from
getting a chance at freedom under a bill likely to be
passed by the state Legislature within days.
As the legislation was being drafted, ProPublica asked
the department for a list of all state prisoners who were
sentenced to life as juveniles. Using court records, the
news organization then identified at least 21 such
individuals not on the state’s list. Many of them had
been locked up for decades.
o ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ What_ProPublica_Is_Doing_About_Diversity_in_2023
[Ed: Pro Publica takes BRIBES from Jeffrey Epstein's enabler, Bill
Gates, who was all giddy about smuggling little girls for sex. Some
diversity...]⠀⇛
ProPublica is committed to increasing the diversity of
our workplace as well as the journalism community more
broadly, and each year we publish a report on those
efforts. This is the report for 2023; here are all our
past reports.
We believe that it is imperative to staff our newsroom
and business operations with people from a broad range of
backgrounds, ages and perspectives. We are committed to
recruiting and retaining people from communities that
have long been underrepresented, in journalism broadly
and in investigative journalism especially. That includes
African Americans, Latinos, other people of color, women,
LGBTQ people and people with disabilities.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Georgian_parliament_votes_to_reject_‘foreign_agents’
bill_in_second_reading_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Georgia’s parliament voted in the second reading to
reject the bill on “foreign agents” that sparked mass
protests in the country’s capital earlier this week, the
TV station Rustavi-2 reported on Friday.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Horrifying_and_Shameful_Return_of_Child_Labor⠀⇛
The disorienting fact about the 21st century is that,
even as the calendar moves forward, actual social and
political reality is in a state of regression. Evils that
were once thought long-vanquished are returning with a
vengeance. Instead of Francis Fukuyama’s promised “end of
history” leading to an expanding global system of liberal
democracy, we’re living through a revival of
authoritarianism and Great Power imperial conflict.
Thanks to anti-vaxxers, the United States and other
countries are experiencing a return of measles, mumps,
whooping cough and chicken pox. The health achievements
of the past century are threatened by a malfunctioning
global health system that is becoming more vulnerable to
pandemics. The rollback of social democracy that began
with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher has led to
levels of income inequality surpassing the era of robber
barons like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie more
than a century ago.
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Japan_mourns_2011_disaster_as_nuclear_support
grows⠀⇛
PM Kishida has called for Japan to consider building
next-generation reactors with new safety mechanisms.
o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Latest_Attack_on_the_Abortion_Pill_Is_Forty
Years_in_the_Making⠀⇛
If a Texas lawsuit prevails, mifepristone will no longer
be available anywhere in the nation, even in states where
abortion is legal.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Exploiting_Prison_Workers_for_Cheap_Sheets⠀⇛
It took Johnny Perez over four years of making hundreds
of bedsheets every day at a factory to reach the top pay
tier: about 32 cents an hour, nearly double his starting
wage. He was one of the highest-paid workers at Coxsackie
Correctional Facility—a textile manufacturer run by the
New York State prison system.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Prisoners_Donating_Organs_to_Get_Time_Off_Raises
Thorny_Ethical Questions⠀⇛
In January 2023 two Democratic representatives, Judith
Garcia and Carlos Gonzalez, proposed a bill that would
offer prisoners in Massachusetts a new way to win
reduction in their sentences: by donating their bone
marrow or vital organs.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Tennessee’s_New_Anti-Drag_Law_Could_Subject
Performers_to_Up_to_6_Years_in_Jail⠀⇛
Under the state law, performing publicly in drag is a
misdemeanor, and “repeat offenders” could be charged with
a felony.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Deported_to_a_Country_You_Can’t_Remember⠀⇛
Over a video call, Phoeun You showed me the nighttime
view from his balcony: The soft glow of street lamps lit
up a line of low-rise buildings and a snarl of electric
cables. He was calling from Sen Sok, a fast-modernizing
district in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It was a beautiful
sight; but I was distracted by the bittersweet tone of
his voice. It had only been three months since the US
Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported Phoeun You,
49, to Cambodia. He was granted parole from California’s
San Quentin State Prison in August 2021. He’s free, but
he can’t return to the only home he remembers.
o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Barbaric_Restrictions”:_5_Women_Sue_Texas_After
Being_Denied_Abortions_Despite_Deadly_Health_Risks⠀⇛
Five women in Texas who were denied abortions are suing
the state for denying them necessary medical care even
though their pregnancies were nonviable and posed serious
risks to their health. “I cannot adequately put into
words the trauma and despair that comes with waiting to
either lose your own life, your child’s life, or both.
For days, I was locked in this bizarre and avoidable
hell,” said Amanda Zurawski, the lead plaintiff, during a
press conference Tuesday in Austin to announce the case,
which also includes two doctors. While the Texas abortion
ban is meant to have exceptions, many doctors are
reluctant to perform the procedure because of the high
legal risk, including the loss of medical licenses, hefty
fines and decades in prison. “Right now abortion bans are
exposing pregnant people to risks of death, illness and
injury, including the loss of fertility,” said Nancy
Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive
Rights, which is bringing the lawsuit, at a press
conference Tuesday in Austin. “Contrary to the stated
purpose of furthering life, abortion bans are making it
less likely that every family who wants to bring a child
into the world will be able to do so and survive the
experience.”
* § Monopolies⠀➾
o § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ UK_Govt:_Piracy_‘Snitch’_Campaign_Not_Ideal
During_a_Cost_of_Living_Crisis⠀⇛
From the kids who tell tales in class to the
weasel-like characters depicted in TV crime shows,
‘snitches’ have a perpetual image problem. A recent
UK government survey cautiously sought opinions on
whether ‘grassing’ on pirates may have potential as
part of a public campaign. When that might happen
is unknown, but not this year; people have suffered
enough.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ ESPN_&_beIN_Accused_of_Stealing_Fan’s_Viral
‘Ancelotti_Chewing_Gum’_Video⠀⇛
A new complaint, filed at the U.S. Copyright Claims
Board, accuses sports network ESPN of using a viral
video without permission. The clip, in which Real
Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti shared a piece of
chewing gum with a fan, should have been licensed
instead. A second complaint accuses sports
broadcaster beIN of the same, with both demanding a
relatively modest damages amount.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ <🔤SpellBinding:_AINQUTR_Wordo:_RIDES/a>⠀⇛
o ⚓ Ten⠀⇛
There needs to be a word for the urge to text or
whattsapp or messengerize or Signal’d or whatever ten
people (acquaintances, business contacts, weather service
bot…) in order to make your the burning pain of seeing
the name of your fresh ex romantic interest showing up on
the screen of your smartphone, among the ten last people
with whom you’ve exchanged.
o ⚓ I_Was_Simply_In_Search_of_a_Piss-Pot⠀⇛
I woke up as usual at five in the early morning. Though I
could not see it, I sensed the black of night expanding
away from the house and into the infinity of desert sky.
I had had a dream featuring Lucía. She’s someone I think
of from time to time, though not as frequently as one
might expect given the part she played in my *decade of
unrest* (la decada de desasosiego / saqen lip tetyk liz
li omikon hupum xutz myx liz). I had to pause there to
make that translation into Lakife, which I am not sure is
the *proper* translation, but as all my creative efforts
are evolutionary ones, fuck um. But – Lucía.
I woke up from a dream featuring Lucía. We were at an
inchoate concert, a concert never to be, at least in my
dream, as I never got to its incipient point on the
timeline. Peter Hammill was playing, and many of the
audience members were *made up* to look like him. As
Peter’s stage features are not necessarily as standoutish
as, say, those of the members of KISS (for example), it
was obvious to me that many of the audients (to borrow a
word from Robert Fripp) had had cosmetic surgery. Good
for them. The human form is malleable. I’m all for any
and all modifications.
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ Butlerian_Jihad⠀⇛
Now I don’t wanna base my anti-LLM sentiment on “the
current generation doesn’t work very well” so I’m being
very careful and deliberate in saying how those issues
are specific to that one version.
(More generally, code is law and I don’t wanna be ruled
by an ouroborus of law-generated law.)
o ⚓ Checking_out_gaming_on_OpenBSD⠀⇛
The last few weeks I have been on a bit of a gaming
binge, work has been
quite full-on so at the end of the day I have been
relaxing with a few
games. OpenBSD has a fantastic resource for finding games
that work
called playonbsd [0]. The best thing about this is they
provide the
database used for the list over on GitHub [1], this has
led to some very
nice CLI tools being made for it. By far the best tool
created I have
come across is by Hakadan called pobsd-rs [2], it’s how I
have found so
many great games.
o ⚓ Simple_Menu_TUIs_using_fzf⠀⇛
It works as an executable binary as well as embedded
within tmux; with key bindings in the shell in Bash,
Fish, and Zsh; as a Neo/Vim plugin. It’s also easy to
install and is available in the package repositories for
a large number of Linux distros as well as Homebrew.
I have to admit I haven’t used it nearly as much as many
other people do. But recently while reading the community
bulletin board called “iris” that is private for members
of the Ctrl-C Club tilde server community I read this
intriguing little comment from someone who built a tool
for searching and navigating through old message threads.
They said that they had been looking for a way of
building TUIs (text user interfaces) for shell scripts,
and at first had considered using dialog, a very old
program that makes use of the Curses library. But this
person then found fzf very convenient because it let them
build TUIs quickly, just by piping the options into fzf
and saving the reply as a variable. They said they used
it as a replacement for menus, yes/no boxes, lists,
checklists (when using –multi option).
o ⚓ Adding_cassini_gemring_server_to_bubblewrapped_services_(bws)⠀⇛
After adding a minimal finger daemon[a] to bubblewrapped
servies (bws)[b] I set out to add cassini — a specialized
gemini server implementing a gemini ring. It is written
in Go by Sol Fisher Romanoff[c].
o § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Re:_Why_it’s_bad_that_the_web_is_so_feature-rich⠀⇛
This is an interesting take. I think of this as
choice, not complexity. I guess that having more
choices makes the act of choosing more complex. It
also leads to the often criticized fragmentation in
Free Software. That said, I’m not sure that I see a
strong comparison between what I see as software
complexity and the idea of software choices.
When I think about software complexity and the
issues that it causes I’m thinking about an
individual piece of software that is exponentially
more complex than it needs to be in order to do
it’s job. As an example, and this is not something
that most people tend to look too closely at, the
`sudo` program is made up of 108,255 lines of C
code (excluding headers) spread across 358 files.
To me, this is simply unacceptable in a utility
that is installed suid root by default. I would
submit that unless you have very complex, one in a
million sysadmin needs, you will never use more
than about 5% of it’s feature set. The other 95% of
the code is just sitting there with no eyes on it
and no users providing feedback, just waiting for
someone to find the next exploit. We could easily
have a suitable replacement that would cover just
about everyone’s needs in no more than a few
hundred lines of code, which would be
correspondingly easier to maintain and auditable.
And that’s just one small command line utility.
# ⚓ I’m_Back!⠀⇛
It’s been a hot minute y’all, but I am finally re-
emerging from my gemini slumber.
It’s been a crazy couple months to start the year,
and all in a good way. The most recent changes
include buying a new computer for the first time in
a very long time, and migrating my self-hosting
server from my home to a vps. I /just/ got my
gemini server back up and running so I figured
there was no better time to post again.
This year also saw me reading a helluva lot more. I
even created a bookwyrm[1] account to track
everything I’m reading. Bookwyrm is a goodreads
alternative that is also part of the fediverse.
I’ve really enjoyed tracking my reading and seeing
what other people read and what their thoughts are
on various books.
o § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ go_install_a_fork⠀⇛
Golang has become pretty rough on installing forks.
I ran into the same frustrations as these peeps…
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