𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Monday, March 13, 2023
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⦿ IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 12, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Sirius UK CEO Resigns (or Gets Sacked) and Completely Deletes His Whole Past With Sirius ’Open Source’ | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/03/13/irc-log-120323/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/13/sirius-deleted-entirely/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/03/13/firefox-111/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/13/scrcpy-2-0/#comments
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/03/13/irc-log-120323/#comments
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✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Sunday,_March_12,_2023⠀✐
Posted in IRC_Logs at 2:13 am by Needs Sunlight
Also available via the Gemini protocol at:
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-120323.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-120323.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-120323.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-120323.gmi
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§ Bulletin for Yesterday⠀➾
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/03/13/sirius-deleted-entirely/#comments
Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/03/13/sirius-deleted-entirely/
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✐ Sirius_UK_CEO_Resigns_(or_Gets_Sacked)_and_Completely_Deletes_His_Whole_Past
With_Sirius_‘Open_Source’⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Finance at 2:49 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Not a single mention of Sirius, which used to be all over his LinkedIn page
only weeks ago
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Summary: The above person was with Sirius since 2017 and CEO for about 2 years;
he’s now hiding any connection to the company (it used to be all over his
LinkedIn profile, from top to bottom); any attempts to send him E-mails bounce
back from GMail, so he is eager to leave no paths open
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣌⠢⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠔⣡⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣬⣀⣀⣀⣭⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠉⠙⠿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣧⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⣀⣠⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣁⣉⣉⣉⣉⣭⣉⣉⣭⣉⣹⣉⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠍⢛⠛⣝⢟⣟⠋⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠟⠛⠛⢛⣿⠛⠛⠓⡒⡒⣒⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⡟⡟⠿⠻⡿⠿⠶⡿⣿⢿⡟⡛⡛⣿⠿⠿⣿⠿⣿⢿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣷⣷⣶⣾⣾⣿⣶⣷⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣷⣾⣷⣿⣾⣶⣷⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠮⡫⠩⡏⠉⡅⠉⡋⣝⢭⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠛⠛⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣀⣀⣠⣤⣿⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣵⣧⣤⣤⣼⣽⣴⣤⣥⣤⣮⣾⣷⣧⣗⣤⣥⣴⣼⣬⣤⣦⣴⣥⣦⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣦⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣴⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣦⣴⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣄⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⢿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣠⣀⣄⣀⣀⣀⡀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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§ Contents⠀➾
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# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-12_Linux_Weekly_Roundup_#226⠀⇛
o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Linux_Around_The_World:_USA_–_Minnesota⠀⇛
We cover user groups that are running in the US state of
Minnesota. This article forms part of our Linux_Around
The_World series.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ 501:_Fat_Stacks_for_Flatpaks⠀⇛
Robert McQueen shares the inside scoop on Flathub’s
ambitious plans to create a universal app store for
all distros—and we ask the hard questions.
# ⚓ GNU World Order (Audio Show) ☛ GNU_World_Order_503⠀⇛
**plasma-workspace** ( **gmenudbusmenuproxy** ,
**kcminit** ,
**kcminit_startup** , **kcolorschemeeditor** ,
**kde-systemd-start-condition**
, **kfontinst** , **kfontview** , **klipper** , and
**krunner** ) from the
Slackware **kde** package set.
shasum -
a256=e7a7aa1c09f84bab0cea90af701db2add339b8e0a66115d26ba5ea7dd9174552
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Kernel_prepatch_6.3-rc2_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
The 6.3-rc2 kernel prepatch is out.
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ New_Linux_kernel_patches_introduce_workaround_for
system_stuttering_on_AMD_systems⠀⇛
Linux kernel
maintainers have backported a workaround to Linux
6.1.19 and Linux 6.2.6 from Linux 6.3-rc2 to fix
system stuttering on some AMD machines. According
to Phoronix, the updates were backported to older
Linux 6 releases on Monday morning following the
release of workaround on Linux 6.3-rc2 on Sunday.
The stuttering issue was noted by users with AMD
Ryzen systems that were using outdated fTPM
firmware. It only became an issue for Linux users
after AMD’s fTPM hardware random number generator
started being used by default. If you run a distro
such as Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, you probably won’t be
suffering from the issue because it uses the older
Linux 5.19 kernel out-of-the-box.
* § Graphics Stack⠀➾
o ⚓ Dave Airlie ☛ Dave_Airlie:_vulkan_video_vp9_decode_–_radv
update⠀⇛
While going over the AV1 a few people commented on the
lack of VP9 and a few people said it would be an easier
place to start etc.
Daniel Almeida at Collabora took a first pass at writing
the spec up, and I decided to go ahead and take it to a
working demo level.
* § Applications⠀➾
o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Machine_Learning_in_Linux:_scikit-learn_–_machine
learning_library_for_Python⠀⇛
Scikit-learn is a machine learning library built on top
of SciPy that supports supervised and unsupervised
learning. It also provides various tools for model
fitting, data preprocessing, model selection, model
evaluation, and many other utilities. It’s accessible to
everyone, and reusable in various contexts.
This is free and open source software.
o ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Albert:_The_Smart_and_Efficient_Linux_Launcher_for
Your_Desktop⠀⇛
App launchers can be helpful for users who frequently use
multiple applications or execute commands on their Linux
system. They can save time and increase productivity by
reducing the need for users to navigate through menus or
type out long commands.
Typically, app launchers provide a simple, searchable
graphical user interface (GUI) where users can type the
name of an application, and the launcher will present
them with a list of matching apps. Once the user selects
the desired application from the list, the launcher will
launch the app.
When it comes to Linux, one of the most well-known names
is Ulauncher. Along with it, however, one other piece of
software that we have been using daily for years also
deserves to be mentioned. Please, meet Albert.
o ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Need_a_Simple_Reminder_App?_Try_Reminders_for
Linux⠀⇛
Need help staying on top of your to-do items? The
Reminders app for Linux might be able to help.
* § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_extract_embedded_images_from_a_PDF⠀⇛
Hello, friends. In this simple post, you will learn how
to extract embedded images from a PDF. Occasionally, it
is necessary to extract the images that are inside a PDF
file. This may seem difficult, but it is easier than you
think.
o ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Install_and_Run_Node.js_on_All_Linux
Distributions_(Ubuntu,_Fedora,_Arch)⠀⇛
Here you will find four different ways to install Node.js
and the npm package manager. Which one will you choose?
Node.js is not a programming language but a JavaScript
runtime for backend development, and that was made in the
Chrome v8 JavaScript engine.
o ⚓ Citizix ☛ How_to_set_up_Wireguard_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
WireGuard is a communication protocol and free and open-
source software that implements encrypted virtual private
networks, and was designed with the goals of ease of use,
high speed performance, and low attack surface. It is a
lightweight Virtual Private Network (VPN) that supports
IPv4 and IPv6 connections.
o ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Passbolt_Password_Manager_on_Ubuntu
22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Passbolt Password Manager on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
o ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_PlayOnLinux_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
PlayOnLinux on Rocky Linux 9.
o ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_install_Brave_Browser_on_Debian_12_|_11
Linux⠀⇛
Looking for a Mozilla firefox alternative then try
installing the free Brave Brwoser on Debian 12 Bookworm
or Debian 11 Bullsye using the command terminal. Steps
are given in this tutorial.
o ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-12_How_to_install_ONLYOFFICE_on_Linux
Lite_6.2⠀⇛
o ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-12_How_to_install_WPS_Office_on_a
Chromebook_–_February_update⠀⇛
o ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ Enable_Fast_Open_in_Nginx_on_Linux_Server⠀⇛
This article will provide a step-by-step guide on
enabling Fast Open in Nginx on a Linux server. Fast Open
is a TCP feature that allows a client and a server to
exchange data during the initial handshake, reducing the
latency and improving the overall performance of the
connection.
o ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Kodi_on_Linux_Mint_21_or_20⠀⇛
Kodi is a free, open-source media player software that
allows users to organize and play their media files on
various devices, including movies, TV shows, music,
photos, and more. Originally called XBMC (Xbox Media
Center), Kodi was created in 2002 as a media center
software for the original Xbox game console.
o ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Golang_(Go)_on_Debian_12,_11_or
10⠀⇛
Go, also known as Golang, is a programming language
developed by Google in 2007. It is an open-source
language designed to build efficient, reliable, scalable
software. Go is known for its simplicity, speed, and
robustness.
o ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Glances_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or_20.04⠀⇛
Glances is a powerful system monitoring tool that
provides real-time information about system resources,
including CPU, memory, disk, network usage, and more.
o ⚓ 2023-03-07_Peter_Czanik:_Syslog-ng_101,_part_10:_Parsing⠀⇛
o ⚓ How_to_Create_a_Random_Quote_/_Fact_WordPress_Plugin⠀⇛
To create a WordPress plugin which shows a random value
from an array, such as quote or fact, follow these steps.
Open your editor and create a file called fun_facts.php
(the name does not really matter). Then paste the
following code: The above code creates a plugin for
displaying Java fun facts.
* § Games⠀➾
o ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Best_Steam_Deck_Games_Released_in_the_Past_Week,
with_Castlevania_Advance_Collection_and_Plan_B_Terraform_–_2023-03-
12_Edition⠀⇛
Between 2023-03-05 and 2023-03-12 there were 111 new
games validated for the Steam Deck.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Kali_Linux_Celebrates_10th_Anniversary_with
First_2023_Release⠀⇛
Kali Linux 2023.1 introduces a new Kali Linux
flavor called Kali Purple, with a focus on
defensive security and a reference architecture for
the ultimate SOC In-A-Box designed for learning,
practicing SOC analysis and threat hunting,
security control design/testing, Kali spy vs. spy
competitions, as well as the protection of small
and medium-size environments.
Kali Purple comes with more than 100 defensive
tools like the Arkime full packet capture and
analysis, CyberChef cyber swiss army knife, Elastic
Security information and event management, GVM
vulnerability scanner, TheHive incident response
platform, Malcolm network traffic analysis tool
suite, as well as Zeek and Suricata intrusion
detection systems.
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ FreeBSD ☛ FreeBSD_13.2-RC2_Now_Available⠀⇛
The second RC build of the 13.2-RELEASE release
cycle is now available.
Installation images are available for:
o 13.2-RC2 amd64 GENERIC
o 13.2-RC2 i386 GENERIC
o 13.2-RC2 powerpc GENERIC
o 13.2-RC2 powerpc64 GENERIC64
o 13.2-RC2 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE
o 13.2-RC2 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE
o 13.2-RC2 armv6 RPI-B
o 13.2-RC2 armv7 GENERICSD
o 13.2-RC2 aarch64 GENERIC
o 13.2-RC2 aarch64 RPI
o 13.2-RC2 aarch64 PINE64
o 13.2-RC2 aarch64 PINE64-LTS
o 13.2-RC2 aarch64 PINEBOOK
o 13.2-RC2 aarch64 ROCK64
o 13.2-RC2 aarch64 ROCKPRO64
o 13.2-RC2 riscv64 GENERIC
o 13.2-RC2 riscv64 GENERICSD
Note regarding arm SD card images: For convenience
for those without
console access to the system, a freebsd user with a
password of
freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access.
Additionally,
the root user password is set to root. It is
strongly recommended
to change the password for both users after gaining
access to the
system.
Installer images and memory stick images are
available here:
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/
13.2/
The image checksums follow at the end of this e-
mail.
If you notice problems you can report them through
the Bugzilla PR
system or on the -stable mailing list.
If you would like to use Git to do a source based
update of an existing
system, use the "releng/13.2" branch.
A summary of changes since 13.2-RC1 includes:
o Netgraph ATM routines are now marked as
deprecated.
o Panic fixes in KASAN(9) and iwlwifi(4).
o The growfs_fstab startup script sets dumpdev to
"AUTO" in /etc/rc.conf
when creating a swap partition.
A list of changes since 13.1 is available in the
releng/13.2
release notes:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.2R/relnotes/
Please note, the release notes page is not yet
complete, and will be
updated on an ongoing basis as the 13.2-RELEASE
cycle progresses.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Jonathan_Dieter:_Duct_tape_in_the_datacenter⠀⇛
When I was growing up, on Thursday nights we would
watch the_Red_Green_Show, a comedy show set in very
rural Canada. One of the regular segments on the
show was the_Handyman_Corner, where Red Green would
build something impressive out of the spare parts
and garbage he had sitting around the shop, along
with copious amounts of “the Handyman’s secret
weapon,” duct tape, to hold everything together. To
this day, whenever I see duct tape I think about
the Red Green Show.
Lately I’ve had cause to think about duct tape when
looking into IT infrastructure issues, some that
I’ve had to handle at work, and some that we’ve all
gotten to see from the outside. I don’t think I’ve
ever actually used physical duct tape on the job,
but there’s more than one kind of duct tape.
The thing about duct tape is that it is an
incredibly useful tool for holding things together
that perhaps were never intended to be connected
(the Apollo_13_duct_tape_and_cardboard_scene comes
to mind here). The problem is when duct tape is
used as a core part of the design (as per most of
Red Green’s builds).
When working with infrastructure, we may not
normally be using physical duct tape, but there are
plenty of things we do that correspond with duct
tape. At my day job, our infrastructure is built
using a GitOps model where server deployments are
managed using Ansible playbooks and, more recently,
Terraform configuration, all stored in git
repositories. We also have development environments
where we can test infrastructure and code changes
before pushing to production.
The primary advantages of using the GitOps model
are documentation and repeatability. Documentation
in git comes pretty easily because when changes are
made, it’s easy to see what was changed, and
(assuming we’ve been disciplined when writing
commit messages) why it was changed. Repeatability
is there because, If we deploy one server with a
specific configuration and need to re-deploy it at
a later point, the second deployment will be
identical to the first. We don’t need to worry
about missing steps because it’s all automatically
done when deploying the playbooks.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ The Anarcat ☛ Antoine_Beaupré:_Framework_12th_gen_laptop
review⠀⇛
The Framework is a 13.5″ laptop body with swappable
parts, which
makes it somewhat future-proof and certainly easily
repairable,
scoring an “exceedingly rare” 10/10_score_from
ifixit.com.
There are two generations of the laptop’s main
board (both compatible
with the same body): the Intel 11th and 12th gen
chipsets.
I have received my Framework, 12th generation
“DIY”, device in late
September 2022 and will update this page as I go
along in the process
of ordering, burning-in, setting up and using the
device over the
years.
[...]
Conclusions:
# USB-C cards take no extra power on suspend,
possibly less
than empty slots, more testing required
# USB-A cards take a lot more power on suspend
(300-500mW) than on regular idle (~10mW,
almost negligible)
# 1TB SSD and MicroSD cards seem to take a
reasonable
amount of power (260-290mW), compared to
their runtime
equivalents (1-6W!)
# DisplayPort takes a surprising lot of power
(620mW), almost
double its average runtime usage (390mW)
# HDMI cards take, surprisingly, less power
(250mW) in
standby than the DP card (620mW)
# and oddly, a second card adds less power
usage (70mW?!) than the
first, maybe a circuit is used by both?
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Pi-Powered_Microcontroller_is_a_Lego
Astronaut_with_an_RGB_Suit⠀⇛
FigPi runs on an RP2040 chip and has multiple
Stemma connectors.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Aspinity_AB2_AML100_Arduino_Shield_supports
ultra-low-power_analog_machine_learning⠀⇛
Aspinity AB2 AML100 is an Arduino Shield based on
the company’s AML100 analog machine learning
processor that reduces power consumption by 95
percent compared to equivalent digital ML
processors, and the shield works with Renesas
Quick-Connect IoT platform or other development
platforms with Arduino Uno Rev3 headers. The AML100
analog machine learning processor is said to
consume just 15µA for sensor interfacing, signal
processing, and decision-making and operates
completely within the analog domain offloading most
of the work from the microcontroller side that can
stay its lowest power state until an event/anomaly
is detected.
# ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ 2023-03-09_How_to_Build_an_ML-
powered_Doorbell_Notifier⠀⇛
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Billions_of_Android_owners_must_switch_on_free
‘FM’_setting_today_–_it’s_a_life-saver_with_long_list_of
perks_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pocket Now ☛ Google’s_latest_Android_update_brings_lots_of
new_features_to_older_Pixel_devices⠀⇛
# ⚓ BGR ☛ Google’s_Pixel_7a_will_be_the_Android_phone_to_beat
in_2023_|_BGR⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ How_to_fix_stubborn_GPS_issues_in_Android_Auto
with_Google_Maps⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_turn_off_Safe_Mode_on_your_Android
device⠀⇛
# ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ How_to_change_time_zone_on_your_Android
phone⠀⇛
# ⚓ Future Publishing Limited ☛ This_Android_phone_sounds
brilliant_–_but_you_may_not_be_able_to_get_one_|_T3⠀⇛
# ⚓ Your_Google_Pixel_Phone’s_March_Update_Arrived⠀⇛
# ⚓ Samsung’s_March_Android_Update_is_Hitting_All_These_Major
Devices⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_TV_profiles_show_up_for_some_users⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ Best_Ways_To_Install_Fonts_On_an_Android
Smartphone⠀⇛
# ⚓ 10_Ways_to_Fix_Nearby_Share_Not_Working_on_Android_[2023]_–
TechPP⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ OnePlus_11_will_get_4_major_Android
updates,_5_years_of_security_support⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Pixel_7_gets_over_40_fixes_with_Android_13
QPR2_update⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ OPPO_Find_X6_Pro_With_16GB_RAM,_Android_13
Spotted_On_Geekbench⠀⇛
# ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ iQOO_Z7i_android_smartphone_unveiled_–
Geeky_Gadgets⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_Download_Android_Apps_Not_Available_in_Your_Country
–_Guiding_Tech⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Central ☛ How_to_sideload_Android_apps_on
Chromebooks_|_Android_Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ India Today ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_S23+_review:_Best_Android
phone_to_buy_in_2023_–_India_Today⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Libre Arts ☛ LibreArts_Weekly_recap_—_12_March_2023⠀⇛
Week highlights: new features in GIMP and HDRview, new
releases of Armory 3D,
Blender BIM, VCV Rack, and plugdata.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ Kushal_Das:_Everything_Curl_from_Daniel⠀⇛
Everything_Curl is a book about everything related
to Curl. I read the book before online. But, now I
am proud to have a physical copy signed by the
author 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Firefox_111_Web_Browser_Is_Now_Available
for_Download,_This_Is_What’s_New⠀⇛
Firefox 111 doesn’t look like a big release
and it only introduces the ability for
Firefox Relay users to opt-in to create Relay
email masks directly from the Firefox
credential manager. Mozilla notes the fact
that Firefox Relay users must be signed in
with their Firefox Account for this new
feature to work.
This release also adds two new locales,
namely Friulian (fur) and Sardinian (sc),
adds support for the rel attribute on form
elements to specify the relationship between
the form target and the current document in a
much simpler and cross-browser way, and
enables origin private file system (OPFS)
access to allow Web Apps to store and
retrieve data from and to the file system in
a sandbox.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Databricks_faces_critical_strategic
decisions._Here’s_why.⠀⇛
When Apache Spark became a top-level project in
2014, and shortly thereafter burst onto the big
data scene, it along with the public cloud
disrupted the big data market. Databricks Inc.
⚓ Medevel ☛ 14_Open-source_Web-based_SQL_Database_Managers⠀⇛
SQL stands for Structured Query Language, and it is a standardized
language used to manage relational databases. It is used to create,
modify, and query databases, and is commonly used in web development
and data analysis. SQL allows users to manage large amounts of data,
and to interact with that
§ GNU Projects⠀➾
* ⚓ GNU ☛ a2ps_@_Savannah:_a2ps_4.15.1_released_[stable]⠀⇛
§ Programming/Development⠀➾
* § Perl / Raku⠀➾
o ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-03-10_This_week_in_PSC_(100)⠀⇛
o ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-03-08_Call_for_Papers._TPRC_2023⠀⇛
* § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
o ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Enable_Syntax_Highlighting_in_Zsh⠀⇛
Improve your Zsh experience by enabling syntax
highlighting. Here’s how to do that.
o ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_write_efficient_Bash_scripts_with_control
structures⠀⇛
Bash is a command-line shell and programming language
widely used on Unix-based operating systems. It is an
essential tool for system administrators and developers
who need to automate tasks or perform complex operations.
* § Java⠀➾
o ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Configure_Open_JDK_and_Oracle_JDK_on_Rocky
Linux⠀⇛
Java is an object-oriented programming language developed
by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s and later owned by
Oracle Corporation. It is commonly used for creating
various applications, including web and mobile
applications, desktop applications, games, and scientific
applications.
* § Rust⠀➾
o ⚓ Niko_Matsakis:_To_async_trait_or_just_to_trait⠀⇛
One interesting question about async fn in traits is
whether or not we should label the trait itself as async.
Until recently, I didn’t see any need for that. But as we
discussed the question of how to enable “maybe async”
code, we realized that there would be some advantages to
distinguishing “async traits” (which could contain async
functions) from sync traits (which could not). However,
as I’ve thought about the idea more, I’m more and more of
the mind that we should not take this step — at least not
now. I wanted to write a blog post diving into the
considerations as I see them now.
§ What is being proposed?
The specific proposal I am discussing is to require that
traits which include async functions are declared as
async traits…
§ Standards/Consortia⠀➾
* ⚓ Tiger_Oakes:_Tricks_for_easier_right-to-left_CSS_styling⠀⇛
Using CSS custom properties for elements without logical
properties.
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ St_Patrick’s_Day_2023:_Life_of_Brian⠀⇛
Now he’s been at the helm of The Globe Irish Pub near Nørreport
for over quarter of a century, it’s probably fair craic we can
finally use the Monty Python reference
* ⚓ 2023-03-13_Who_Was_Inside_The_‘Cocaine_Bear’_Suit_at_The_Oscars?
Twitter_Has_Lots_of_Celebrity_Guesses [Ed: As if Twitter (Saudi Arabia
and Musk commandeering people) decides about The Oscars]⠀⇛
* § Education⠀➾
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Readers_write:_Education_reform,_war_in_Somalia,_and
texting⠀⇛
Letters to the editor published in the March 13 magazine.
Readers reflect on war and famine in Somalia, and the
pitfalls of modern communication.
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ Behavior_Technician_Who_Allegedly_Defrauded_Florida_Medicaid_of
More_Than_$119,000_Arrested⠀⇛
Attorney General Ashley Moody’s Medicaid Fraud Control
Unit today announced the arrest of a registered behavior
technician. According to an investigation by the MFCU and
the Hialeah Police Department, Greter Brito Acosta
defrauded the Florida Medicaid program out of more than
$119,000 for falsifying documentation and receiving money
for services not rendered.
Attorney General Ashley Moody said, “This defendant
falsified service records and billed for services not
provided to steal more than $100,000 from taxpayers. My
Medicaid Fraud Control Unit put an end to this scheme,
and now the defendant will have to answer for her
crimes.”
The investigation shows that Acosta claimed to provide
care for two minors who received Medicaid. Instead of
providing the registered behavior technician services
though, Acosta would visit the homes of the recipients,
log in via a cellphone application to verify the visit,
turn off the GPS function of the cellphone and leave.
Hours later, Acosta returned to the residence, turned the
GPS function of the cellphone back on and logged out of
the application, making it appear as though the defendant
stayed at the residency for hours.
o ⚓ YLE ☛ Meat,_milk_and_egg_production_dropped_in_Finland_last_year
as_inflation_forced_farm_closures⠀⇛
Some of price pressures on farmers were related to the
Ukraine war, but others began well before last year’s
Russian attack, says the Natural Resources Institute
Finland (Luke).
o ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Minnesota_Legislature_considers
allowing_terminally_ill_adults_to_choose_medically_assisted_dying⠀⇛
The House version of the bill has 19 authors, including
Rep. Andy Smith, DFL-Rochester. Sen. Liz Boldon, DFL-
Rochester, is one of five Senate authors.
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Masks_can_now_come_off_in_Japan_as_government
eases_Covid-19_guidelines⠀⇛
A rapid behavioral change is unlikely, given a long
history of mask usage in Japan.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Exploring_the_Potential_Medical_Applications
of_Brain-Computer_Interface_Technology⠀⇛
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology is a rapidly
growing field that has the potential to revolutionize the
way we interact with technology and the world around us.
From controlling prosthetic limbs to restoring movement
and communication to patients with severe disabilities,
BCI technology holds great promise for improving human
health and quality of life.
* § Security⠀➾
o ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Housing_Authority_of_the_City_of_Los_Angeles
discloses_a_“complex_cyber-attack.”_We_call_it_a_ransomware_attack.
[Ed: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
As many of us were waking up to a brand new year,
DataBreaches reported that LockBit 3.0 had claimed an
attack on the Housing Authority of the City of Los
Angeles (HACLA). Screencaps of directories and some files
were provided by LockBit as proof of claims. Numerous
news outlets picked up the news of the attack, and HACLA
quickly confirmed that they were investigating what they
called a “cyber event” that was causing disruptions.
o ⚓ Shopee,_Carousell_most_popular_platforms_used_by_phishing
scammers_–_Focus_Taiwan⠀⇛
Shopee and Carousell, two online marketplaces based in
Singapore, have been the two C2C platforms on which
customers were most likely to fall victim to phishing
scams in Taiwan over the past five weeks, the Criminal
Investigation Bureau (CIB) said Sunday.
After analyzing information reported by the public on the
165 anti-fraud hotline, it was found that hackers have
recently carried out phishing attacks on C2C (“consumer
to consumer” or “customer to customer”) online auction
platforms such as Shopee and Carousell.
o ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ A_joke_gone_too_far:_“thekilob”_falsely_accused
of_being_responsible_for_DC_Links_breach⠀⇛
On March 6, a forum post appeared on BreachForums that
listed data for sale from the Health Benefit Exchange
Authority, DC.gov
The seller, a respected forum user known as IntelBroker,
claimed that the data had been hacked within the past
hour and contained information on 170,000 users.
o ⚓ SANS ☛ AsynRAT_Trojan_–_Bill_Payment_(Pago_de_la_factura),_(Sun,
Mar_12th)⠀⇛
This week the mail server quarantined this file
FautraPago392023.gz. I did find it a bit strange after I
extracted (gunzip) the file, there was no .exe extension
associated with this file. The source and destination
addresses are both blank without an actual email address.
o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-10_TikTok_whistleblower_claims_US_data
privacy_efforts_are_seriously_flawed⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-10_Elon_Musk_reportedly_wants_to_be_his
employees’_landlord⠀⇛
o § Confidentiality⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Company_accuses_former_exec_of_data_theft_|
Gurgaon_News_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛
A company engaged in providing holistic care to
children with special needs has accused one of its
former executives of stealing confidential data and
using the same to start a similar business with a
rival firm.
In its complaint, the company officials alleged
that they hired Pankaj Kumar as deputy general
manager (DGM) in April 2019. By the virtue of his
job profile, the accused was privy to confidential
data and strategies of the company.
* § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
o ⚓ YLE ☛ US_B-52_bomber_flies_over_Gulf_of_Finland,_turns_near
Russian_island⠀⇛
The bomber’s flight over the Gulf of Finland was a “clear
message” to Russia, said the head of the Finnish
Institute of International Affairs.
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan_soldier_suspected_of_deserting_post
found_in_China⠀⇛
A Taiwan minister said the defence ministry has relevant
mechanisms for identifying deserters.
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ US,_South_Korea_kick_off_largest_military
drills_in_5_years⠀⇛
The exercises, called Freedom Shield, are scheduled to
run for at least 10 days from March 13.
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea_launches_missiles_from_submarine
as_US-South_Korean_drills_begin⠀⇛
The move came hours before US and South Korea were to
stage major joint military exercises.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Rights_experts_‘deeply_disturbed’_by_Russian
Wagner_Group_recruitment_of_prisoners⠀⇛
UN-appointed independent human rights experts on Friday
said they were “deeply disturbed” by reports of the
systematic recruitment of prisoners across Russia by the
private military contractor known as the Wagner Group,
which is playing a major role in the fighting in Ukraine.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Georgia_in_a_New_World:_Between_Russia_and_the
West⠀⇛
When Russia’s special military operation commenced in
Ukraine a year ago, not too many countries have surprised
Moscow to the upside by their attitudes to the global
changes. However, this was the case with Georgia.
o ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-03-11_Young_Baluchi_men_at_risk_of_execution⠀⇛
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Ukraine_readies_counteroffensive_as_Russia_advances_in
Bakhmut⠀⇛
The Ukrainian military was preparing Sunday for a
counterattack in Bakhmut after more than seven months of
fighting in the region, a top commander has said.
Ukraine’s foreign minister has urged Germany to speed up
supplies of ammunition and to start training Ukrainian
pilots on Western fighter jets. Read our live blog to see
how all the day’s events unfolded. All times are Paris
time (GMT+1).
o ⚓ France24 ☛ North_Korea_launches_missiles_from_submarine,_state
media_reports⠀⇛
Nuclear-armed North Korea test-fired two strategic cruise
missiles from a submarine on Sunday, state news agency
KCNA said on Monday just as US-South Korea military
drills were due to begin.
o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Micronesia_president_accuses_China_of
bribery,_‘political_warfare’⠀⇛
Micronesia’s president has accused China of bribery,
harassment and “political warfare”, in an explosive
letter to his country’s legislature obtained by AFP on
Friday. “Simply put, we are witnessing political warfare
in our country,” outgoing leader David Panuelo warned
lawmakers, detailing allegations of Chinese espionage,
coercion of government officials and “direct threats”
against his personal […]
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Kharkiv_Human_Rights_Protection_Group:_Russia’s_‘sham
trials’_should_be_considered_‘null_and_void’_for_international_law
violations⠀⇛
The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group announced
Saturday that Russia has again used its “proxy ‘Donbas
republics’” to violate international law by staging the
trials and sentences of three Ukrainian prisoners of war.
o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-11_Anonymous_tipoff_failed_to_stop
shooting_in_Hamburg⠀⇛
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia’s_Global_Arms_Exports_Suffer_As_War_Takes_Toll;
Ukraine’s_Imports_Surge,_Says_New_Report⠀⇛
Russia’s share of global arms exports declined sharply in
the most recent five-year period, as Western sanctions
against Moscow and the Kremlin’s own need to conserve
weaponry for its ongoing war effort in Ukraine limited
sales abroad, new data from an influential research group
showed.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian_Investigators_Confirm_Identity_Of_POW_Slain_By
Russians_After_Declaring_‘Glory_To_Ukraine’⠀⇛
Investigators for Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) have
confirmed the identity of a Ukrainian soldier who was
captured by Russian forces and shot dead after declaring,
“Glory to Ukraine” — action seen in a video that has
circulated on social media.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Lukashenka_Travels_To_Iran_For_Meeting_With_Raisi_—
Belarus_State_Media⠀⇛
Alyaksandr Lukashenka, the authoritarian ruler of
Belarus, is traveling to Tehran for meetings with Iranian
leaders, state news agency BelTA reported on March 12.
* § Environment⠀➾
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Calls_to_extend_climate_reporting_to_private
companies⠀⇛
A public policy think tank wants large private companies
to report on climate risk alongside their public
counterparts to stop climate-exposed businesses going
private to dodge oversight.
o § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia’s_War_In_Ukraine_Helps_Oil_Giant_Saudi
Aramco_Post_Historic_$161_Billion_Profit_In_2022⠀⇛
Oil giant Saudi Aramco has reported that profits
surged to $161 billion last year off higher crude
prices, a record result for an energy firm crucial
to the country’s economy.
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ $668m_a_day:_Oil_giant_posts_biggest_profit_by
a_company_in_history⠀⇛
Saudi Aramco reported earning $244 billion last
year, claiming the highest-ever recorded annual
profit by a publicly listed company and drawing
immediate criticism from activists.
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ India’s_oil_deals_with_Russia_dent
decades-old_dollar_dominance⠀⇛
US-led international sanctions on Russia have begun
to erode the dollar’s decades-old dominance of
international oil trade as most deals with India –
Russia’s top outlet for seaborne crude – have been
settled in other currencies, informs Reuters.
# ⚓ Attorney_General_James_Continues_Crackdown_on_Unregistered
Cryptocurrency_Platforms⠀⇛
New York Attorney General Letitia James today
continued her efforts to crack down on unregistered
cryptocurrency platforms by filing a lawsuit
against KuCoin for failing to register as a
securities and commodities broker-dealer and
falsely representing itself as an exchange. The
Office of the Attorney General (OAG) was able to
buy and sell cryptocurrencies on KuCoin in New York
even though the company is not registered in the
state. Through this enforcement action, Attorney
General James seeks to stop KuCoin from operating
in New York and to block access to its website
until it complies with the law. Today’s action is
the latest in Attorney General James’ efforts to
rein in cryptocurrency platforms.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Industry_touts_renewable_gas_to_rival
electrification [Ed: Greenwashing with buzzwords like
"renewable"]⠀⇛
>Turning off gas and rewiring Australia is a
mistake because renewable gases are in the
pipeline, industry advocates say. After pushing
liquid petroleum gas (LPG) as a lower-carbon
alternative to natural gas and less-polluting than
diesel, the industry is ramping up the case for
renewable LPG.
o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-07_WWF_worried_about_optics_of
Last_Generation_protests⠀⇛
o § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Greens_push_for_abortions_in_all_NSW
public_hospitals⠀⇛
The NSW Greens will push to make abortions
available in all public hospitals under a
reproductive health reform package.
* § Finance⠀➾
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_will_have_to_redouble_efforts_to_hit
its_2023_GDP_target,_says_new_Premier_Li_Qiang⠀⇛
China will continue to prioritise stability and focus on
improving residents’ well-being in more practical
aspects.
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Tamping_down_crisis,_feds_guarantee_Silicon
Valley_Bank_depositor_funds,_which_customers_can_access_Monday⠀⇛
The U.S. government today interceded in the ongoing
crisis caused by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on
Friday by guaranteeing depositor funds and making them
available to customers starting Monday.
⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Rich_Chinese_clients_worry_about_their_money_in_Swiss
banks⠀⇛
Swiss banks lose the image of reliable financial institutions.
Executives at Switzerland’s biggest banks say rich Chinese clients
have become much more worried about parking money in the country
because of its tough approach to applying sanctions since Russian
special military operation in Ukraine, notes “The Financial Times”.
⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-03-10_Businesses_“on_their_knees”_due_to
energy_prices,_inflation_and_wage_crisis⠀⇛
⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-03-11_There’s_a_Good_Chance_You’ll_Regret_Quitting_Your
Job⠀⇛
⚓ The Wrap ☛ 2023-03-11_Roku_Had_$487_Million_in_Silicon_Valley_Bank⠀⇛
⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ U.S._government_moves_to_stop_potential_banking
crisis⠀⇛
The announcement came amid fears that the factors that caused a
California-based bank to fail could spread, and only hours before
trading began in Asia.
⚓ The Age AU ☛ Second_bank_fails_as_US_government_moves_to_protect_Silicon
Valley_Bank_clients⠀⇛
The announcement came amid fears that the factors that caused the
Santa Clara, California-based bank to fail could spread.
⚓ The Age AU ☛ ASX_down_0.6_per_cent_as_banks,_tech_stocks_sink⠀⇛
Shares in the nation’s most valuable companies have fallen as
investors try to work out the effects of the second-largest bank
collapse in US history.
⚓ France24 ☛ US_government_takes_steps_to_prevent_potential_banking_crisis⠀⇛
The US government took extraordinary steps Sunday to stop a potential
banking crisis after the historic failure of Silicon Valley Bank,
assuring all depositors at the failed institution that they could
access all their money quickly, even as another major bank was shut
down.
⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Customers_to_access_deposits_as_US_stems_SVB_fallout⠀⇛
Silicon Valley Bank customers will have access to their deposits, US
officials say, as the federal government announces actions to shore
up deposits and stem any broader financial fallout from the sudden
collapse of the tech startup-focused lender.
⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Silicon_Valley_Bank_collapse_left_ASX_firms_scrambling⠀⇛
The failure of Silicon Valley Bank led to a difficult weekend for a
number of Australian tech companies, with several scrambling for
operational funds until it became clear that US regulators were
stepping in with a bailout.
⚓ JURIST ☛ France_senate_approves_contentious_pension_reform_bill_raising
retirement_age⠀⇛
The French Senate Saturday voted in favour of President Emmanuel
Macron’s pension reform. The reform bill, which will raise the legal
age of retirement to 64, was passed by the French Parliament’s upper
house with 195 votes for the reform and 112 against.
⚓ Financial Times ☛ 2023-03-11_The_Financial_Times,Two_Weeks_Ago:‘Silicon
Valley_Bank_Profit_Squeeze_in_Tech_Downturn_Attracts_Short_Sellers’⠀⇛
⚓ USDOJ ☛ 26-Year-Old_Fraudster_Sentenced_to_14_Years_in_Prison_Following
Boasts_About_Criminal_Conduct⠀⇛
A young man who turned to fraud to fund the lavish lifestyle he
craved was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison, announced
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.
J. Nicholas Bryant, 26, of Slaton, Texas, pleaded guilty to wire
fraud in November 2022. He was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge
James Wesley Hendrix, who handed down a sentence five years longer
than the guideline range based on the defendant’s cavalier attitude
and the egregious nature of the scheme.
Mr. Bryant engaged in various wire fraud schemes to defraud at least
56 unsuspecting individuals and small businesses during an 18-month
crime spree that spanned multiple states.
⚓ France24 ☛ French_Senate_advances_Macron’s_pension_reform_plan_as_strikes
continue⠀⇛
France’s Senate voted late Saturday to approve a deeply unpopular
reform to the country’s pension system, hours after demonstrators
took to the streets to oppose the cornerstone policy of President
Emmanuel Macron’s second term in office.
⚓ France24 ☛ Garbage_piles_up_in_France’s_‘City_of_Lights’_as_pension_strikes
continue⠀⇛
Thousands of tonnes of garbage has piled up on streets across the
French capital after a week of strike action by dustbin collectors
against government pension reforms, city hall said Sunday.
⚓ France24 ☛ Yellen_rules_out_SVB_bailout_but_US_said_to_weigh_safeguarding
deposits⠀⇛
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday the government wants to
avoid financial “contagion” from Silicon Valley Bank’s implosion, but
while the US rules out a bailout it reportedly is considering
safeguarding all of the fallen institution’s deposits.
⚓ France24 ☛ French_protesters_take_to_the_streets_to_rally_against_Macron’s
pension_plan⠀⇛
Demonstrators in France took to the streets Saturday for a seventh
day of protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform
plans, with police expecting up to a million people at rallies
nationwide.
⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-07_1_in_4_children_at_risk_of_poverty_in_Europe,
report_says⠀⇛
⚓ Axios ☛ Signature_Bank_shut_by_regulators,_noting_systemic_risk⠀⇛
New York-based Signature Bank, a key bank to the cryptocurrency
industry, was shut down by regulators on Sunday, according to a joint
statement from U.S. regulators. The statement also detailed actions
aimed at stemming broader fallout from the failure of Silicon Valley
Bank.
State of play: All depositors at Signature, the third bank to shutter
in a matter of days, will be made whole under the same systemic risk
exception that allowed that_outcome_for_Silicon_Valley_Bank
customers.
⚓ Axios ☛ U.S._regulators_will_protect_all_Silicon_Valley_Bank_depositors_to
stem_fallout⠀⇛
Federal banking regulators took aggressive new actions aimed at
preventing depositors in failed Silicon_Valley_Bank from losing
money— and at trying to prevent its downfall from unleashing a
nationwide run across the banking system.
Why it matters:The extraordinary actions, using tools last deployed
in the early days of the pandemic and in the 2008 global financial
crisis, are an attempt to avert a broad banking crisis triggered by a
run on the bank.
⚓ Axios ☛ J.P._Morgan,_PNC_among_suitors_for_SVB_holding_company⠀⇛
J.P. Morgan and PNC are among the potential suitors in talks about
acquiring SVB_Financial_Group in a deal that would exclude the
commercial bank currently under U.S. government control, according to
sources familiar with the matter.
⚓ JURIST ☛ Australia-based_Hillsong_Church_to_conduct_independent_financial
review_following_Parliament_criticism⠀⇛
Australia-based Hillsong Church Sunday announced that it will conduct
an independent investigation into its financial structure following
allegations of fraud and financial misappropriation. Global Senior
Pastor Phil Dooley said that the church is making “significant
operational changes” following criticism from Tasmanian MP Andrew
Wilkie.
⚓ JURIST ☛ Thousands_protest_coalition_government_in_Czech_Republic_against
inflation_rates_and_assistance_to_Ukraine⠀⇛
Thousands of civilians Saturday took part in anti-government protests
in Prague, Czech Republic. A new political party, PRO, organised the
rallies, as people protested against high inflation rates and the
government’s assistance to Ukraine.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ RFA ☛ COMMENTARY:_What’s_next_as_the_dust_settles_after_Vietnam’s
leadership_turmoil?⠀⇛
Vo Van Thuong’s career has been within the Communist Party of
Vietnam’s inner echelons, as a top ideologue.
* ⚓ 2023-03-07_Phony_Stark_Stiffed_Amazon_on_Twitter’s_AWS_Bill,_So_Amazon
Threatened_to_Pull_Its_Ads⠀⇛
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Why_is_the_EU_soft_on_Lukashenko?⠀⇛
Belarus is clearly a co-belligerent country in Vladimir Putin’s
war against Ukraine. But why is the EU so soft on Aleksander
Lukashenko, often labelled Europe’s “last dictator”? Georgi
Gotev argues for EurActiv, partners of LRT English.
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Decolonising_Russian_culture?_Lithuanian_writer_in_Brussels_looks
for_way_forward⠀⇛
Isolated, marginalised, and turned into a propaganda tool. This
is how Lithuanian writer Kristina Sabaliauskaitė described
Russian culture at the European Parliament’s discussion.
However, such comments were not welcomed by everyone.
* ⚓ The Local SE ☛ What_a_new_report_tells_us_about_far-right_extremism_in
Sweden⠀⇛
Sweden’s ‘racial ideology’ movement carried out more activities
last year than in 2021, and viewed the Sweden Democrats as a
party representing its interests to a greater degree, according
to a new report from the Expo Foundation.
* ⚓ The Local SE ☛ LISTEN:_How_the_Sweden_Democrats_are_flirting_with_the
extreme_right⠀⇛
In this week’s episode: lay judges resign in ‘snippa’ case,
tips for tax season, how to save money as food prices hit new
highs, interview with Taiwan’s representative, how the Sweden
Democrats have grown more radical.
* ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Lessons_from_Blue_Parks_in_the_Mediterranean_for_Red
Lines_in_the_South_China_Sea⠀⇛
Climate change is creating a marine conservation emergency, and
the first signs of this happening can be seen in intricately
linked oceans. Take for example the South China Sea, which is a
third larger than the Mediterranean.
* ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ G-20_schedule_in_Jammu_Kashmir_and_India’s_bluff
game⠀⇛
After India’s diplomatic failure to bring out a joint
declaration at the G20 meeting in Delhi, Kashmir is all set to
host a G20 meeting in May 2023, at the summer capital Srinagar.
* ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ WATCH:_Building_Community_–_#SolutionsWatch⠀⇛
The powers-that-shouldn’t-be are trying to keep us apart.
Divided. Alone in the urban jungle. And so, building community
is a way to fight back by constructing something new…But no one
said building a community is easy. Join James Corbett for this
episode of #SolutionsWatch, as he looks at The Conscious Agora
and other examples of …
* ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-03-11_Green_Party_vote_to_extend_family
reunification_rights_for_all_migrants⠀⇛
* ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-03-11_Greens_back_plans_to_end_HIV_transmissions
by_2030:_A_prize_within_our_grasp⠀⇛
* ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-03-11_Greens_call_for_end_to_all_shareholder
payouts_until_water_companies_sort_their_sewage_out⠀⇛
* ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-03-11_Greens_call_for_trade_deal_suspension_to
protect_whales_and_dolphins⠀⇛
* ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-03-11_Greens_repeat_call_to_re-join_EU_as_soon_as
political_situation_favourable⠀⇛
* ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-03-11_Issue_of_desperate_refugees_should_not_be
used_as_a_political_football,_say_Greens⠀⇛
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Why_is_Rupert_Murdoch_associated_with_Stanford?_An
open_letter_to_leadership⠀⇛
In an open letter to the the Director of the Hoover
Institute, the President, the Provost and the Board of
Trustees, 90 Stanford faculty members call for a public
accounting of Rupert Murdoch’s appointment to the
Hoover’s Board of Overseers. They write, “we wonder what
kind of signal his presence sends to our students, who we
are training to seek the truth, and to our colleagues on
the faculty, who are constantly held to the highest
standards of honesty, truth and responsible scholarship.”
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-03-12_Gary_Lineker:_BBC’s_‘MOTD’
pundits,_commentators_refuse_to_work_in_support_of_suspended_presenter⠀⇛
* ⚓ France24 ☛ BBC_crisis_escalates_as_presenters,_players_support_football
host_Lineker⠀⇛
The BBC was forced to scrap much of its weekend sports
programming as the network scrambled to stem an escalating
crisis over its suspension of soccer host Gary Lineker for
comments criticizing the British government’s new asylum
policy.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Spiraling_Dispute_With_Star_Host_Puts_BBC’s_Reputation
on_the_Line⠀⇛
The British public broadcaster’s suspension of one of its
highest-profile sports anchors has grown into a wider
controversy that poses risks to its reputation for neutrality
and independence.
* ⚓ The Age AU ☛ He_sold_‘cute’_cartoon_duck_calendars._Now_he’s_fighting
for_his_freedom⠀⇛
A young lawyer was found guilty last week of breaching
Thailand’s notoriously harsh lèse-majesté law. In an exclusive
interview, he denies the content is offensive.
* ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ President,_law_school_dean_apologize_to_Judge_Kyle
Duncan_for_‘disruption’_to_his_speech⠀⇛
In a letter co-signed by President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and SLS
Dean Jenny Martinez, the University apologized to Duncan for
the “disruption” to his Thursday speech at the Law School,
calling the incident “inconsistent with [the University’s]
policies on free speech.”
* ⚓ France24 ☛ FRANCE_24_reaffirms_the_commitment_of_all_its_channels_to
fight_against_all_forms_of_discrimination⠀⇛
After the publication of an article on the CAMERA website
(Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America),
and taken up by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, implicating a
journalist and three Arabic-language correspondents of France
24 regarding certain comments they allegedly posted on their
personal pages on social networks, the channel’s management has
immediately opened an audit on these alleged posts, as it
communicated internally on March 10.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 2_arrested_after_allegedly_removing_evidence
from_home_of_Hong_Kong_activist_accused_under_security_law⠀⇛
Two people have been arrested after allegedly removing evidence
from the home of Elizabeth Tang, a Hong Kong labour rights’
activist who was arrested on Thursday under the Beijing-imposed
national security law.
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-10_Belarusian_court_upholds_journalist_Ivan_Muravyou’s
2.5-year_prison_term⠀⇛
* ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-09_Chinese_journalist_held_for_reporting_on_Wuhan_COVID
outbreak_wishes_he’d_done_more⠀⇛
* ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-08_How_You_Helped_Journalists_in_2022⠀⇛
* ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-10_Senegalese_journalist_Pape_Ndiaye_jailed_on_false_news
charges⠀⇛
* ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-09_Two_South_African_journalists_assaulted_in_separate
incidents⠀⇛
* ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-10_Ugandan_journalist_Andrew_Arinaitwe_detained_on
criminal_trespass_charges⠀⇛
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-13_Egypt:_Dissidents_Abroad_Denied_Identity_Documents⠀⇛
* ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-13_Myanmar:_Concrete_UN_Security_Council_Action_Needed⠀⇛
* ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Lifting_Barriers_to_Women_Employment_Will_Benefit
Everyone_in_Azerbaijan⠀⇛
Authors: Sarah Michael and Peter Michalko* Until recently,
women in Azerbaijan were not permitted to work in as many as
674 jobs, across many sectors of the economy – from transport
to energy to agriculture.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Publicly_Traded_International_Patent
Firms [Ed: "Patent Firms" are basically parasites; they create
nothing and attack those who do. They also pass money for Dennis
Crouch to promote them like he does here.]⠀⇛
In October 2022, Canada’s largest intellectual property
firm became a publicly traded entity. Smart & Biggar, a
firm that includes 100+ Canadian patent attorneys and
agents (most of whom are also registered with the USPTO)
was purchased by the Australian company IPH Limited. The
holding company trades on the Australian stock exchange
with a market valuation of $1.8 billion Australian
dollars ($1.2 billion USD).
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ “We_couldn’t_pause_TV_and_we_couldn’t_just_fast_forward_through
the_commercials!_Gather_around_kids,_and_I_shall_tell_more_horror
tales_of_the_past_…”⠀⇛
Over a week ago, I had to order some checks from my bank
due to a new recurring expense. My last check I wrote
from my checkbook was for some time in 2015. Then one
check from 2014, and one from 2013.
Needless to say, I haven’t had a need for a checkbook in
years.
So the new checkbook arrived (two of them, actually). I
recall in the past, they would arrive in the mail in a
box sized large enough to hold the checks. But today,
they arrived in an unusual format—a flat package about 6½
× 10 × ½ inches (16.5 × 25.5 × 10 mm). Upon opening it,
it looked like a book, and stuck to the inside cover were
two checkbooks. I pulled them off, and beneath one of
them was instructions on *how to write a check* (with a
link to an instructional video [1])!
o ⚓ Title:_Launching_on_Patreon⠀⇛
Let me share some breaking news, if you enjoy this blog
and my open
source work, now you can sponsor me through the service
Patreon.
o ⚓ Launching_on_Patreon⠀⇛
Why would you do that in the first place? Well, this
would allow me to take time off my job, and spend it
either writing on the blog, or by contributing to open
source projects, mainly OpenBSD or a bit of nixpkgs.
I’ve been publishing on the blog for almost 7 years now,
for the most recent years, I’ve been writing a lot here,
and I still enjoy doing so! However, I have a less free
time now, and I’d prefer to continue writing here instead
of working at my job full time. I’ve been ocasionaly
receiving donation for my blog work, but one-shot gifts
(I appreciate! 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:-)⦈ ) won’t help me
much against regular monthly incomes that I can expect,
and help me to organize myself with my job.
o ⚓ Dream_Morality⠀⇛
I had a very bizarre dream a few months back. I was in a
room with Donald Trump and his daughter. They were asking
me to promise something: either to take some action or
not to take some action. I don’t remember the details,
and I don’t really care to remember them. Suffice it to
say, I promised whatever it was. At that point, a voice
in my head told me to remember that “A promise made to a
servant of darkness is null and void.”
o ⚓ Doin’_Laundry⠀⇛
Our washing machine broke several months ago. I tore it
apart to check some of the most common mechanical issues
the model had, but I suspect it’s some sensor or other
electronic component. It’s twelve years old, sadly about
as long as one could ask a modern appliance to last, so I
don’t think it’s worth spending the roughly $500 USD it
would cost to repair.
I went to a few local appliance stores to see what they
had, and the answer was nothing. I was told, upfront,
that eighty percent of what was shown on the floor was
simply unavailable due to supply chain issues. Very low
end and very high end machines were available in small
quantities.
o ⚓ but_what_about_my_feelings?⠀⇛
People are emotional and very irrational creatures that
would take any chance they could get to ensure they have
taken care of their emotions, but does that mean we
should embrace it?
o ⚓ notes_on_Hoshi_No_Umi_No_Amuri⠀⇛
Hoshi No Umi No Amuri (hereafter shortened to HosiAmu)
English title “Amuri in Star Ocean”, is a 2008 3 episode
OVA from studio Hibari. Hibari have brought us some
strange things in the past, like the batshit “Fight
Ippatsu! Juuden-chan!!”, so it’s not that surprising to
find out they were involved here. It’s directed by
Yoshitomo Yonetani, who we’ll be coming back to a little
later.
The synopsis reads: “The 3D modeled anime is set in Year
019 of the Insonity Progressive Revolution – a future era
in which mankind has evolved into a new species called
Adapters. Three very young Adapter girls from Japan,
China and France set out on a space adventure that will
affect the rest of their species.”
* § Politics⠀➾
o ⚓ Reactionaries⠀⇛
I agree. Similarly, there are sometimes things being said
and done in the name of intersectional feminism and in
the social justice community that are counter-productive,
contradictory, or otherwise not completely thought-
through. (Sometimes by me.)
I still think that intersectional feminism has a bigger
kernel of truth than its enemies: anti-PC, gamergaters,
anti-SJW, anti-woke… an old movement with many names
that’s founded on misrepresentations and second-hand
accounts.
I’ve said before that the right wing don’t even see the
problems (“whaddayamean racist? You had Obama, didn’t
you?”), while we on the left has great analyses of how
messed up everything is but we don’t always know the best
way to make it better.
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ My_New_Tech_Stack⠀⇛
My new computer is a Dell Latitude 5320. I decided on the
Latitude because my previous computer, which was a Dell
Latitude from 2011, had such a long life, worked well
with Linux, and was a “hardy” laptop. My new computer has
16gb RAM with an intel i5. It’s lightning quick compared
to my previous machine and I’m loving it so far.
I installed Debian Stable with KDE Plasma. I chose Debian
Stable because I’m familiar with it, and with this being
my primary machine, it didn’t want to have to “re-learn”
too much right off the bat. However, I did switch from
xfce to KDE Plasma. This is my first time using Plasma
and I have to say it’s slick as hell. Super customizable,
looks great, and is super accessible. KRunner is soooo
good and so far I’ve had no issues with Konsole.
o § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ ＡＳＣＩＩ⠀⇛
The observant may notice symbols not part of ASCII
(ß, Ω, etc). A young human once asked me what the
“S” was. They were not very advanced in their study
of German at the time.
If you call them on this usage, some will switch to
defending “extended ASCII” by which they invariably
mean the IBM PC character set. (Brogue uses
Unicode.) One problem here is the many incompatible
uses of the 8th bit, especially over in Eastern
Europe, and regardless all of those extensions are
not ASCII, just as rogue movement keys (hjklyubn)
are not vi movement keys (hjkl). This gets into the
complicated realm of identity; their logic may run
along the lines of “(some flavor of) extended ASCII
inherits from ASCII therefore (some flavor of)
extended ASCII is-a-type-of ASCII just as white
horse is-a-type-of horse”. By this logic, neovim
can be called ed, because neovim extends vim
extends vi extends ex extends ed. A strict view of
ASCII limits the term to include only the
following.
# ⚓ Notes_on_optimizing_an_O(n)+C_algorithm_where_the_C_matters
quite_a_bit⠀⇛
I was doing a bit of retro computing over the
weekend, writing 6809 code and running it on a
Color Computer emulator [1] (because the Color
Computer was my first computer and the 6809 is a
criminially underrated 8-bit CPU (Central
Processing Unit) in my opinion). Part of the coding
was enabling all 64K of RAM (Random Access Memory)
in the machine. Normally, the Color Computer only
sees the lower 32K of RAM, with the upper 32K being
ROM (Read-Only Memory) (the BASIC (Beginners All-
Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) interpreter). To
enable all 64K of RAM, all that’s needed is to
stuff any value into memory location $FFDF, which
can be done with “POKE &HFFDF,0”. The problem with
that is once the ROM goes away, so does BASIC, and
the CPU starts executing Lord knows what since the
RAM isn’t initialized. So the actual procedure is
to copy the ROM contents into RAM, which is simple
enough:
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o WINE_or_Emulation
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Reviews
o BSD
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Chromium
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o Programming/Development
# Python
# Java
# Rust
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
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# Fear,_Uncertainty,_Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation
# Privacy/Surveillance
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o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ 9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup:_March_12th,_2023⠀⇛
This week wasn’t so bad but it could have been better. We
got new releases of LibreELEC, Audacious, SparkyLinux,
EndeavourOS, LibreOffice, siduction GNU/Linux, and KDE
Frameworks with lots of interesting goodies for your to
experience and enjoy on your personal computers.
On top of that, the Flatpak vs Snap controversy continues
with a new Ubuntu Flatpak Remix and Flathub announces
their plans for 2023. Check out the hottest news of this
week and access all the distro and package downloads in
9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for March 12th, 2023,
below.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ YouTube ☛ 2023-03-11_Snaps,_Flatpaks_and_AppImages_Do_Very
Different_Things!_(Each_Has_Its_Purpose)⠀⇛
# ⚓ YouTube ☛ 2023-03-12_Meta_in_the_Fediverse,_Duck_Duck_Go’s
AI,_Flathub_roadmap:_Linux_&_Open_Source_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ YouTube ☛ 2023-03-11_GNOME_Shell_&_Mutter_Finally_Drop
GTK3!!⠀⇛
# ⚓ YouTube ☛ 2023-03-13_Running_linux_commands_from_the_watch
:
🤩⠀⇛
# ⚓ YouTube ☛ 2023-03-12_11_Documents_Showing_Microsoft_Tried
To_Destroy_Linux⠀⇛
# ⚓ YouTube ☛ 2023-03-12_How_to_install_ONLYOFFICE_on_Linux
Lite_6.2⠀⇛
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux mailing lists ☛ Linux_6.3-rc2⠀⇛
It's another Sunday afternoon. which must mean
another rc release.
This one looks fairly normal, although if you look
at the diffs, they
are dominated by the removal of a staging driver
(r8188eu) that has
been superceded by a proper driver. That removal
itself is 90% of the
diffs.
But if you filter that out, it all looks normal.
Still more than two
thirds in drivers, but hey, that's pretty normal.
It's mostly gpu and
networking as usual, but there's various other
driver fixes in there
too.
Outside of that regular driver noise (and the
unusual driver removal
noise) it's a little bit of everything: core
networking, arch fixes,
documentation, filesystems (btrfs, xfs, and ext4,
but also some core
vfs fixes). And io_uring and some tooling.
The full shortlog is appended, for the adventurous
souls that want to
get that kind of details. The release feels fairly
normal so far, but
it's early days. Please keep testing and reporting
any issues,
Linus
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.2.6⠀⇛
I'm announcing the release of the 6.2.6 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_6.1.19⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.102⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.174⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.236⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.19.277⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.14.309⠀⇛
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Scrcpy_2.0_Released_with_Audio_Forwarding_from
Android_to_PC⠀⇛
Scrcpy, a free and open-source tool that allows
users to control their Android devices from their
computer.
It has released its latest version, Scrcpy 2.0.
With this newest update, users can now mirror their
Android screens on not only their computer but also
forward audio from their device to their computer.
Learn more on this release coverage.
# ⚓ 2023-03-12_scrcpy_2.0_Adds_Audio_Forwarding,_H265_And_AV1
Codec_Support⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Scrcpy_2.0_is_out!_How_to_Install_&_Use
this_Android_Remote_Control_App⠀⇛
The free open-source Android screen mirroring and
remote control application, Scrcpy, released
version 2.0 today! The new release feature audio
forwarding support! Meaning it’s not only mirroring
your Android screen, but also sending the sound
from Android to your PC speaker. The new feature
supports Android 11 and higher.
# ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Scrcpy_2.0_adds_audio_support_to_the_Android
screen_mirroring_utility_for_PCs_–_Liliputing⠀⇛
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Open-Source_Android_Mirroring_App_Scrcpy_2.0
Adds_Audio_Support⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Scrcpy_2.0_Android_screen_mirroring_and
control_utility_for_PCs_released_with_audio_forwarding
support_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ What_are_Maven_Profiles_and_How_to_Use_Them⠀⇛
Maven profiles are a way to define a set of
configuration options for a Maven build. Profiles
are used to specify different build configurations
for different environments or situations. For
example, you may have a development profile that
uses a local database for testing and a production
profile that uses a remote database.
# ⚓ Czech_translation_of_LibreOffice_Base_Guide_–_and_more
news⠀⇛
Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech
LibreOffice community writes: The Czech team
translated the LibreOffice Base Guide 7.3 – and
it’s now available on the documentation page. Our
team consists of three translators: Petr Kuběj,
Radomír Strnad and Zdeněk Crhonek, along with
localized screenshot maker Roman Toman, and Miloš
Šrámek, who prepared machine translations.
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ How_to_Use_the_gzip_Command_in_Linux⠀⇛
If you want to share multiple files, compressing
them all into one is the best solution you can opt
for.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Install_Puppet_Master_and_Agent_in_RHEL-
Based_Systems⠀⇛
Developed by Puppet Lans, Puppet is an open-source
configuration management tool used for automating
and centralizing the configuration of
infrastructure such as servers just like Ansible
and Chef. It helps the simple execution of
repetitive tasks which would otherwise be
cumbersome and time-consuming.
Puppet adopts a client-server architecture and
comprises the following salient aspects.
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Some_bits_on_Linux_NFS(v3)_server
filesystem_IDs_(and_on_filehandles)⠀⇛
Based on a comment from Arnaud Gomes on yesterday’s
entry, the answer to where you can observe the fsid
of existing NFS exports turns out to be /proc/net/
nfsd/exports. Filesystems only show up here once
someone actually mounts them, but when they do
you’ll get lines like this (on Ubuntu 22.04): [...]
# ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Install_Kubernetes_Cluster_Using
Kubespray⠀⇛
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Monitor_Kubernetes_cloud_costs_with_open
source_tools⠀⇛
Kubernetes is a powerful platform for managing
dynamic containerized applications in the cloud,
but it may be difficult to understand where costs
are incurred. Managing the cost efficiency of
Kubernetes resources can be a challenge. That’s
where OpenCost comes in. OpenCost is a cloud cost
monitoring tool that integrates seamlessly with
Kubernetes, allowing you to track your cloud spend
in real-time so you can optimize your resources
accordingly.
OpenCost is an open source CNCF Sandbox project and
specification for the real-time monitoring of cloud
costs associated with Kubernetes deployments. The
specification models current and historical
Kubernetes cloud spend and resource allocation by
service, deployment, namespace, labels, and much
more. This data is essential for understanding and
optimizing Kubernetes for both cost and performance
from the applications down through the
infrastructure.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-03-12_How_to_Install_Inkscape_to_Design
Vector_Graphics_on_Linux⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-03-12_How_to_Start_Podman_Containers_on_Boot⠀⇛
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ A_Guide_to_Find_the_Right_Debian_ISO_for
Download⠀⇛
Installing Debian can be a difficult experience for
beginner Debian users. The official download page
contains several links, and it’s a little confusing
as to which one to download.
Keeping that in mind, I have prepared this guide to
help you to pick up the right Debian ISO file
directly from this page.
# ⚓ [Old] Marco Cetica ☛ How_To_Set_Up_a_Wireguard_VPN_Server
with_Unbound_on_OpenBSD⠀⇛
Some months ago, I published an article on how to
set up a Wireguard server with adblocking
capabilities on GNU/Linux systems, focusing Debian
and PiHole specifically. Recently I wanted to
reproduce the same setup on an OpenBSD server(since
the Wireguard protocol is available on *BSD systems
as well) and, while PiHole is not currently
available for *BSD systems, I managed to accomplish
the same result using the DNS resolver unbound(8)
and unbound-adblock to fetch updated blocklists
every day. In this guide, I will show you how to
achieve the same result.
o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Efficient_X86_64_Emulation_With_Box86⠀⇛
Running applications on a different architecture
than the one for which they were compiled is a
common occurrence, not in the least with Apple’s
architectural migration every decade or so. It’s
also commonly used with for example ARM, OpenRISC,
and RISC-V systems to run applications that are
only available for x86 or x86_64. While QEMU and
kin are often used here, they’re pretty resource
heavy, which is where an option like Box86 and its
64-bit sibling Box64 are attractive options. Unlike
QEMU, both offer dynamic recompilation and
redirection of dynamic library calls to native
libraries, including those for SDL and OpenGL.
# ⚓ ScummVM ☛ People_say_Syberia_doesn’t_exist._But_people_are
so_wrong.⠀⇛
The first two installments of Syberia are now ready
for testing in ScummVM!
The acclaimed series from Benoît Sokal follows Kate
Walker, a lawyer from New York as she initially
tries to complete the sale of the Voralberg toy
factory. But quickly Kate is drawn into a search
for the owner which takes her on a journey of
discovery. Join her as she uncovers the owner’s
fascination with mammoths, the secrets of Syberia,
and a love for adventure.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Gaming_Console_on_a_Stick_to_Feature_Dual
Raspberry_Pi_Chips⠀⇛
The Pimoroni DV Stick will plug into an HDMI port,
sport dual RP2040 chips. It’s due in a few weeks.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 5_Reasons_SteamOS_Is_a_Good_Way_to
Learn_Linux⠀⇛
The Steam Deck’s Desktop Mode has served as
many people’s first introduction to Linux.
People are getting to encounter desktop Linux
without needing to pick a distro, download an
ISO, or wipe their hard drives.
But is SteamOS a good introduction to Linux,
or is it too different? Here are some of your
experiences with SteamOS that can completely
carry over to other Linux desktops.
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ digiKam_7.10_Photo_Management_App_Adds
Support_for_New_Cameras,_Bug_Fixes⠀⇛
Coming more than three months after digiKam
7.9, the digiKam 7.10 release is here to add
support for new cameras, including Canon EOS
R3, Canon EOS R7, Canon EOS R10, Fujifilm X-
H2S, Fujifilm X-T30 II, OM System OM-1, Leica
M11, and Sony A7-IV.
This release also adds support for new
formats, including the Phase One/Leaf IIQ-
S v2 format, Canon CR3 film rolls/raw burst
format, as well as Canon CRM movie format.
All of these are possible thanks to the
update to the libraw 0.21.1 library.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GNOME_44_Release_Candidate_Is_Out_Now
Ahead_of_March_22nd_Final_Release⠀⇛
GNOME 44 Release Candidate is here to
reimplement elementary OS support and revert
the “add preference to set new tab page”
change in the Epiphany (GNOME Web) web
browser, allow the creation of virtual
machines without selecting an Osinfo
operating system entry in GNOME Boxes, and
improve the state of switchers throughout the
GNOME Control Center app.
It also improves Flatpak support for the
GNOME Disks app, updates the About You page
in the GNOME Initial Setup app to make it
clear that you can choose a different avatar,
add nightly builds for AArch64 (ARM64) for
the GNOME Maps app, and cleans up the
Shortcuts menu and decreases memory usage in
Songs View in the GNOME Music app.
# ⚓ Marcus_Lundblad:_Maps_and_GNOME_44⠀⇛
So it’s that time that occurs twice a year
when we’re approaching a new GNOME release,
this time 44.
[...]
Unfortunately an issue has come to our
attention with the way the „go to“ animations
works, resulting some times when covering
large distances (for example when selecting a
search result far away) that results in
throttling from the tile server (HTTP 429,
„too many requests”). This results in empty
tiles showing up at the destination (and one
needs to sometimes wait a while before Maps
gets the view refreshed with new tiles (after
restarting to force re-trying).
As this results in a really bad user
experience as a work-around we have disabled
the animations for now (the animations when
zooming is still in place, and of course
panning the map view still works as usual).
I also cherry-picked this for the 43 branch,
and will probably also cut a 43.4 with this
change (versions prior to 43.0 is not
affected, as the animations in libchamplain
uses another algorithm, first zooming out
„high“ (a low zoom level) before moving,
resulting in less intermediate tiles compared
to the “fly to“-like animations now used in
libshumate.
We will try to come up with a better
solution in libshumate soon. Either reverting
to an approach like that in libchamplain, or
try to implement our own rate limiting of
some sort during animations to avoid firing
off too many requests.
Meanwhile at the libshumate side James
Westman has been busy working on the vector
tile support implementing label support among
other things.
He is also working on a vector tile style
using the GNOME color palette in light and
dark variants.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS_4.5.5_does_not_work_with_Ventoy_either⠀⇛
Earlier today I tested EasyOS 5.0 with Ventoy:
https://bkhome.org/news/202303/ventoy-does-not-work-with-
easyos.html
Forum member jaje mentioned “EasyOS 4″ working, and I do
recall some
other people reporting success awhile back. So I decided
to test the
last of the Dunfell-series, version 4.5.5. No, also
fails:
o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Ventoy_does_not_work_with_EasyOS⠀⇛
Forum member jaje reported unable to get EasyOS 5.0 to
work with Ventoy USB-stick multiple-boot manager:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=8131
As jaje reported, Easy used to work.
See my post in that thread; I did attempt it, and there
were lots of
errors. I took a snapshot but wasn’t able to capture the
earlier error
messages:
o ⚓ HaikuOS ☛ Haiku_Activity_&_Contract_Report,_February_2023⠀⇛
As is the usual way of things, the monthly Activity
Report is hereby combined with my Contract Report.
This report covers hrev56748 through hrev56803.
o § Reviews⠀➾
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Our_hands-on_review_of_AlmaLinux_9_Minimal
Edition⠀⇛
AlmaLinux is a reliable and stable Linux
distribution that is suitable for enterprise use.
The distribution is built from the source code of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is known for its
stability and reliability. AlmaLinux provides
regular security updates and includes various
security tools to ensure a secure operating system.
While AlmaLinux is server-focused and does not come
with a pre-installed desktop environment, users can
easily install a desktop environment of their
choice. The distribution also provides access to a
vast repository of software packages through the
yum package manager, which is widely used in
enterprise Linux distributions.
Overall, AlmaLinux is a viable option for
enterprises looking for a reliable and stable Linux
distribution. It is also a good option for users
who are familiar with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
want to switch to a community-driven project. The
active community support, compatibility with RHEL,
and focus on security make AlmaLinux a solid choice
for enterprise use.
# ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ Review:_blendOS_2023.01.26⠀⇛
When I’m reviewing a distribution there are two
questions floating in the back of my mind. First,
do I find this project useful or interesting?
Second, does the project accomplish what it sets
out to do, does it meet its own goals? I want to
discuss these two queries and my responses to them
after running blendOS.
Is blendOS doing something interesting? It’s
starting to. This is a young project and it seems
to be trying to match features with Vanilla OS,
which got a lot of hype in the second half of 2022.
This project feels like an attempt to basically:
“Be Vanilla OS, but with an Arch base.” And, if
that is the case, it’s a worthwhile goal. The idea
of being able to pull in software from multiple
sources, multiple distributions, and run them all
together on one, relatively minimal host operating
system has a lot of merit.
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ Adriaan de Groot ☛ FreeBSD_12.3_EoL⠀⇛
FreeBSD 12 is the “previous” series of releases.
FreeBSD 13 is the “stable” series as of today
(march 2023) and FreeBSD 14 is “current”, e.g.
upcoming somewhen. The major versions of FreeBSD
tend to bring larger changes – such as a newer base
compiler, or a sudden improvement in system header-
file compatibility. The previous series releases
use clang 13, for instance, while stable uses clang
14. FreeBSD 12 is poorly supported by the KDE-
FreeBSD team, and that’s on purpose.
Chasing compiler versions, and more importantly,
C++ standard library versions, is frustrating work.
Maintaining backwards compatibility has real costs
– especially when most of KDE development is done
with some recent gcc on Linux.
# ⚓ Undeadly ☛ Bug_fixing_in_wscons⠀⇛
Crystal Kolipe has written up more of her work on
the console. This time, it regards bugs in the
handling of UTF-8: ExoticSilicon.com – fixing
cringeworthy bugs in the OpenBSD console code.
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Researching_a_new_FreeBSD_or_NetBSD_laptop⠀⇛
The problem is, Panasonic and Apple have spoiled me
with their 2× HiDPI displays. I love how images
look, the higher fidelity of fonts in documents,
and the ability to crank text down to smaller sizes
when tailing logs. People saying these are silly
luxuries were writing into PC Magazine saying 8-bit
colour was sufficient in the 1990s, and that you
don’t need double-density floppy disks because in
my day we used punch card libraries, dagnabit!
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ GNOME_44.rc_released! [Ed: With stuff such as Flathub (not
to mention Wayland, systemd etc.) GNOME is increasingly a
purveyor of IBM lock-in]⠀⇛
Sorry for the slight delay, we discovered a problem
in the GNOME OS startup but that should be fixed
now with the patch for mutter here: [1] (thanks
Carlos for helping with the investigation and the
fix). You can see all the tests passing now in our
openQA instance at openQA: gnomeos-master-iso-
x86_64-gnomeos@qemu_x86_64 test results 25
We remind you we are string frozen, no string
changes may be made without confirmation from the
l10n team.
Hard code freeze is also in place, no source code
changes can be made without approval from the
release-team. If you need to request any of the
above, see ReleasePlanning/RequestingFreezeBreaks –
GNOME Wiki! 17
Also remember you can use the 44beta branch of the
flatpak runtimes, which is now available on Flathub
beta.
# ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_The_Fedora_Project
FOSDEM_23_Experience⠀⇛
A measure of growth is most apparent when scaled
across a span of different times and situations.
That applies to folks getting to see you after a
long time, to vegetation left alone to spread and
of course, to communities having their first meetup
after a prolonged spell of online-bound
interactions. FOSDEM 23 happened to be one of the
first times after around three years that community
members from across the world met in person with
each other in Brussels, Belgium. With new and old
faces alike, their time was well spent representing
the community, exhibiting to the wider free and
open-source communities the good stuff that they
have been keeping themselves busy with and most
importantly, bonding with their Fedora friends.
This year FOSDEM took place on 4th February ’23 and
5th February ’23 at Université Libre de Bruxelles,
Campus du Solbosch, Avenue F. D. Roosevelt 50, 1050
Bruxelles, Belgium. This free event was
participated by over 8000 software engineering
enthusiasts from across the world, had around 36
lightning talks and around 771 talks spanning 55
designated devrooms. Contributors from our
community did not restrict their participation in
the event as just attendees but they also
enthusiastically volunteered to be stand keepers in
the Fedora Project booth, speakers for a variety of
talks and lectures, organizers for a set of
devrooms and even as ground staff for making FOSDEM
23 a grand success.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ PALPi:_handheld_Raspberry_Pi_games_console⠀⇛
PALPi doesn’t have a built-in speaker to output
audio, but Raspberry Pi Zero W’s Bluetooth
capability means you can connect a Bluetooth
speaker and blast all the retro games’ original
audio while you’re playing.
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Keep_the_solar_system_in_your_pocket_with
a_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛
In my previous article, I talked about Stellarium
in a web browser. This stellar software allows for
a 3D view of your local sky, with amazing
telescopic and scripting features. In this article,
I’ll show you how to put those stars in your pocket
using a Raspberry Pi 4, along with scripting some
animations for fun. If you remember my Halloween-
themed article, I covered using a Raspberry Pi to
make a festive Halloween jack-o-lantern. I’ve
repurposed this same Raspberry Pi to create a
traveling galaxy box. That’s what I’ll be calling
it today. So let’s get packed for a galactic trip.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 4_Cheap_Raspberry_Pi_Alternatives_You_Can_Buy
for_Under_$50⠀⇛
The Raspberry Pi is a staple in the toolbox of
electronics tinkerers everywhere. But supply issues
have meant that they’re in short supply, and you’re
likely to pay a premium when you do find one.
Raspberry Pi isn’t the only cheap single-board
computer out there, however: if you open yourself
to alternatives, you’ll find a cornucopia of fruit
and veg themed hardware for under $50.
Bear in mind that the issues affecting the
Raspberry Pi supply chain also caused problems for
other manufacturers and retailers. In some cases,
these alternatives are being sold at above their
original price point.
# ⚓ Ken Shirriff ☛ 2023-03-11_Reverse-engineering_the_register
codes_for_the_8086_processor’s_microcode⠀⇛
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ The_Strange_Dual_Screen_Android_Phone_That_Died
Too_Soon⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Android_vs_iOS:_A_Comparison_of_Volume_Control
Features⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ FiiO_BTR7_Portable_Wireless_Bluetooth
Amplifier_Android_Version_Unveiled_in_China⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Weekend_poll:_Are_you_interested_in
‘budget_flagship’_Android_phones?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_14_will_bring_us_‘back’_to_the
future,_the_Android_Police_podcast_predicts⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ AnTuTu:_Here_are_the_fastest_Android
smartphones_in_the_market⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gadgets Now ☛ google:_Google_Android_13_QPR3_Beta_1_update:
When_is_it_coming,_what’s_new_and_more⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ These_Android_14_Security_and_Privacy
Features_May_Just_Make_Your_Device_More_Secure⠀⇛
# ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ How_to_find_downloads_on_your_Android_Phone
–_Geeky_Gadgets⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ghacks ☛ How_to_display_and_control_your_Android_device_on
your_desktop_computer⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Guardian UK ☛ Nokia_G22_review:_a_budget_Android_phone
you_can_repair_yourself_|_Nokia_|_The_Guardian⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Central ☛ OPPO_Find_N2_Flip_review:_My_new_favorite
flip_phone_|_Android_Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ $85+_NanoPi_R6C_2.5GbE_router_and_SBC_gets
M.2_NVMe_SSD_socket_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Rockchip_showcases_RK3528_TV_box_SoC_and
RK3562_tablet_SoC_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ 7_questions_for_the_OSI_board_candidates [Ed:
The opening sentence here is misleading. Today’s OSI is shilling
Microsoft GitHub (proprietary) and assists massive GPL violations
by Microsoft. It_undermines_its_own_mission.]⠀⇛
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit
organization that promotes open source that maintains and
evaluates compliance with the Open Source Definition.
Every year the OSI holds elections for its board of
directors. It has become somewhat of a tradition for me
to write questions for OSI board candidates.
In past years, I’ve asked questions about the focus of
the organization and how the board should work with
staff. The board has since acted decisively by hiring its
first executive director, Stefano Maffuli. It has also
expanded staffing in other ways, like hiring a policy
director. To me, this is a huge success, and so I didn’t
pose those questions again this year.
o ⚓ Abin Simon ☛ Releasing_scopeline.el⠀⇛
What is does is something pretty simple, but IMO pretty
useful. It shows you what every closing delimiter is
actually closing. When you have a large file and you are
the end of a function, you might have a lot of closing
brackets, one for the function, one for a loop, one for
that conditional you started and one for that switch
statement. Also, which function is this closing bracket
for again? Answers for all of these question is provided
by scopeline.el. It uses tree-sitter under the hood to
parse the code and figure out what we are looking at and
makes use of overlays to display it. It works with elisp-
tree-sitter as well as builtin treesit package.
o ⚓ Bozhidar Batsov ☛ clojure-mode_meets_tree-sitter⠀⇛
Emacs 29 aims to change this with the introduction of a
built-in support Tree-sitter. Tree-sitter is a parser
generator tool and an incremental parsing library. It can
build a concrete syntax tree for a source file and
efficiently update the syntax tree as the source file is
edited. Sounds great, right?
o ⚓ Jussi Pakkanen ☛ First_A4PDF_release,_version_0.1.0
“embarrasment”⠀⇛
The time has come to make the first technical preview
release of A4PDF, nicknamed embarrasment. The name stems
from this statement.
If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your
product, you’ve launched too late.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Chromium⠀➾
# ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ Chromium_(-ungoogled)_111_packaged
for_Slackware_15.0_and_-current⠀⇛
You’ll have noticed – as indicated earlier,
the Chromium packages for Slackware 14.2 are
no longer being updated. Today I made
available the Slackware packages available
for Chromium 111.0.5563.64, and they are
accompanied by the un-googled version. This
latest release squashes a massive 40
vulnerabilities, none labeled critical, but
it’s wise to keep your systems […]
o § GNU Projects⠀➾
# ⚓ GNU_Octave_8.1.0_Released⠀⇛
GNU Octave version 8.1.0 has been released and is
now available for download. An official Windows
binary installer is available. For macOS see the
installation instructions in the wiki.
This major release improves the graphics backend,
compatibility with Matlab and contains many new and
improved functions. A list of important user-
visible changes is available by selecting the
Release Notes item in the News menu of the GUI or
by typing news at the Octave command prompt.
Thanks to the many people who contributed to this
release!
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Franz Dill ☛ Optical_Algorithm_Simplifies_Analog_AI
Training⠀⇛
Researchers have developed a range of analog and
other unconventional machine learning systems in
the expectation that they will prove vastly more
energy efficient than today’s computers. But
training these AIs to do their tasks has been a big
stumbling block. Researchers at NTT Device
Technology Labs and the University of Tokyo now say
they’ve come up with a training algorithm
(announced by NTT last month) that goes a long way
toward letting these systems meet their promise.
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Data_transformation_and_standardization_in_r⠀⇛
Often economic and other Machine Learning data are
of different units or sizes making either
estimation, interpretation or visualization
difficult. The solution to these issues can be
handled if the data can be transformed to unitless
or data of similar magnitude. When the need to
transform thus arises, then one finds it difficult
to get handy function to achieve that.
# ⚓ Connor Tumbleson ☛ Letting_Dependabot_merge⠀⇛
About a year ago I hit 100% code coverage on an
open source project known as Leaf. I blogged about
this when I hit that coverage marker and after a
year its worked out quite well. Adding new large
features is a pain from all the requirements, but
little changes here and there I’ve now got full
confidence in whether they regress or break the
site.
# ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ SPQA:_The_AI-based_Architecture_That’ll
Replace_Most_Existing_Software⠀⇛
AI is going to do a lot of interesting things in
the coming months and years, thanks to the
detonations following GPTs. But one of the most
important changes will be the replacement of our
existing software.
# ⚓ Want_an_unfair_advantage_in_your_tech_career?_Consume
content_meant_for_other_roles⠀⇛
In my opinion, one of the greatest tools to gain
competitive advantage in a tech career is hidden in
plain sight: it’s the wealth of information out
there made for people in roles you work with.
# ⚓ Jussi Pakkanen ☛ Jussi_Pakkanen:_My_book_is_finally
available_for_purchase⠀⇛
A major difference between software and book
projects is that the latter have a point when they
can be considered complete and finished. For my
debut novel, that time has come.
[...]
The text block has been created with a “mini-LaTeX”
DTP_program that I wrote basically from scratch.
This caused “fun” things to happen. For example I
got an email from the printing house some four days
before the unveiling event that the book contains
words that were not hyphenated according to
recommended style guides. I was aware of said style
guides, had added handling for those and even had
unit tests to ensure that they work. And yet in
production they did not work. This lead to a very
stressful debugging session where you know that the
only person in the world that can fix it is you,
and that there is a very strict and personal
deadline.
The actual PDF generation was done with Cairo and
Pango. Surprisingly there were zero issues with
them, the printer accepted them just fine and the
printout looks great. The cover was made with
Scribus and it did have several issues none of
which had anything to do with Scribus itself, just
that doing a full color managed print job is to
this day a bit tricky. did have to postprocess
Cairo’s output with Ghostscript because Cairo only
produces PDFs in the RGB colorspace whereas
printers require grayscale PDFs.
# ⚓ How_to_hire_engineering_talent_without_the_BS⠀⇛
As a candidate in my early career, I experienced
all sorts of technical interviews, ranging from
being asked to write an algorithm on a piece of
paper with an ink pen (not kidding) to doing leet
coding in an IDE. Looking back, the best
experiences were when the interviewer wanted me to
succeed, was empathetic, and presented me with a
problem that reflected how I would solve problems
in the real world without gotchas.
Since then, I’ve been on both sides of the table
hundreds of times and reflected a lot about the
problem that plagues technical hiring: how to
assess whether a candidate is both technically
proficient and has the right mindsets and behaviors
to succeed in your organization.
Most organizations have a technical interview
process that attempts to evaluate both qualities to
varying degrees of success. They may also use
platforms like HackerRank or Karat to assess
technical strength. But all too often, these
approaches can lead to suboptimal outcomes,
filtering out great talent or, worse, providing a
poor candidate experience that hurts the company’s
reputation.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Flipper_Zero_Mayhem_Hat_Adds_Camera,_More
Radios⠀⇛
For a device advertised as the “Multi-tool Device
for Hackers”, the Flipper Zero already offers a
considerable list of onboard capabilities. But some
hard decisions had to be made to get the retail
price down, so features like WiFi and Bluetooth had
to be left off. Luckily, there’s an expansion
interface along the top of the device which makes
it possible to plug in additional hardware.
# ⚓ Relative_line_number_in_Neovim_(Lua)⠀⇛
To enable relative line number, add the following
line to your init.lua. Save this file by doing a :
w or Shift + z repeat z. The next time you open
Neovim, you should see the relative line number
enabled.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Getting_a_Python_2_virtual
environment_(in_2023′s_twilight_of_Python_2)⠀⇛
Suppose, not entirely hypothetically, that
you need to create a new Python 2 virtual
environment today; perhaps you need to
install some package to see how its old
Python 2 version behaves. With Python 3,
creating a virtual environment is really
easy; it’s just ‘python3 -m venv /tmp/
pytest’. With Python 2 today, you have two
complications. First, Python 2 doesn’t have a
venv module (instead it uses a ‘virtualenv’
command), and second, your installed Python 2
environment may not have all of the necessary
infrastructure already set up since people
are deprecating Python 2 and cutting down any
OS provided version of it to the bare
minimum.
# § Java⠀➾
# ⚓ Java_Performance_on_Linux_vs_Windows⠀⇛
Java is a cross-platform language, which
means that Java applications can run on a
variety of operating systems, including Linux
and Windows. The performance of Java
applications can depend on a variety of
factors, including the specific
implementation, the hardware and software
environment, and the workload of the
application.
# ⚓ Php_Vs_Java_In_Regards_to_Performance⠀⇛
The performance of PHP and Java can depend on
a variety of factors, including the specific
implementation, the hardware and software
environment, and the workload of the
application. In general, Java is considered
to be a faster and more efficient language
than PHP.
# ⚓ How_to_Develop_Securely_In_Java⠀⇛
There are several good security practices to
follow when developing Java applications.
Here are some of the most important ones: By
following these best practices, you can help
ensure the security of your Java applications
and protect against common security threats.
# ⚓ How_to_Rewrite_JSP_Pages_In_Java⠀⇛
SP (JavaServer Pages) pages are essentially
HTML files with embedded Java code. To
rewrite JSP pages in Java, you will need to
extract the Java code from the JSP pages and
refactor it into Java code files that can be
compiled and run independently.
# ⚓ New_Features_in_Java_17_and_Comparison_to_Java_11⠀⇛
Orcacle releases new Java versions quite
often and the current one is 19. However,
plenty of production code is still running on
older Java versions as even Java 8 is still
supported.
# ⚓ Quick_Win_Hints_for_Refactoring_Java_code⠀⇛
There are several quick wins that can be
achieved through refactoring Java code:
Overall, refactoring can help improve the
quality of Java code, make it easier to
maintain, and reduce the risk of introducing
bugs.
# ⚓ Useful_Mockito_withSettings()_Methods_For_Testing⠀⇛
In one of our previous articles How to Mock
Variables for Interfaces and Casts in Java we
described how to use the method withSettings
().extraInterfaces() in order to add more
interfaces / implementations to mocked
objects.
# § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ Safety_and_Soundness_in_Rust⠀⇛
Rust is designed around safety and soundness.
Roughly speaking, safe code is code that
doesn’t use the unsafe keyword,What we mean
by “safe” depends on context, which is partly
what this post is about.
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Daylight_saving_starts_Sunday_with_“spring_forward”
as_Congress_considers_permenant_change⠀⇛
The bi-annual_changing_of_the_clocks takes place
this Sunday, but some federal lawmakers hope it’s
the last time we “spring forward” as they push to
make daylight_saving_time_permanent.
# ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ XMPP!⠀⇛
XMPP peeps: Email is a lost cause, a dead horse,
it’s unpossible Also XMPP peeps: Everyone needs to
get on OMEMO, all old jabber clients are obsolete
and need to be thrown away
Not sure why one of them can be improved and the
other can’t…
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ 2023-03-10_A_weapon_to_surpass_Metal_Gear⠀⇛
o ⚓ Why_You_Should_Send_a_Weekly_Summary_Email⠀⇛
Since I joined RevenueCat a year and a half ago, I have
without fail sent a weekly email summary to my manager
and my team, and I am asking all product managers in my
team to do the same. It’s not something I invented, and
it’s deceptively simple. However, this weekly ritual has
many benefits that I want to talk about in the following.
At its core, the weekly email has two headings with 3–5
short bullet points each: achievements this week and
priorities next week. Under the former, you list the 3–5
most important things you got done this week, under the
latter, the 3–5 most important things you want to get
done the following week.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Ghost_of_Hugo_Grotius:_The_UN_High_Seas
Treaty⠀⇛
Ever so rarely, the human species can reach accord and
agreement on some topic seemingly contentious and
divergent. Such occasions tend to be rarer than hen’s
teeth, but the UN High Seas Treaty was one of them. It
took over two decades of agonising, stuttering
negotiations to draft an agreement and went someway to
suggest that the “common heritage of mankind”, a concept
pioneered in the 1960s, has retained some force.
Debates about the sea have rarely lost their sting. The
Dutch legal scholar Hugo Grotius, in his 1609 work Mare
Liberum (The Free Sea), laboured over such concepts as
freedom of navigation and trade (commeandi commercandique
libertas), terms that have come to mean as much
assertions of power as affirmations of international
legal relations.
o ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Zero_Interfaces⠀⇛
The best gadget I got in lockdown was a set of motion
activated lights. They have no user interface. I walk by
them in the dark and they turn on. Midnight piss? No
fumbling for a light switch, no shouting to a digital
assistant, no logging in to an app.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Jay Little ☛ Code_Monkey_Mid-Life_Crisis⠀⇛
Nevertheless, I have spent a lot of time over the
last few years debating my future in this
profession. There are a lot of reasons for this but
it probably started with my disdain for everything
shifting to the cloud. This is more than just a
trend, its a complete re-imagining of how tech
works and operates. As a slight aside, its also an
ice pick shoved squarely into the eye of the vision
of decentralization and resiliency that inspired
the creation of ARPANET (aka the Internet), but I
digress.
This has created a situation in which I’ve gone
from being a well-rounded tech professional that
could juggle coding and systems tasks to one that
is deficient in what is now a very important area.
Sure I’ve done some basic Azure integration using
Azure AD authentication and posting messages to
Teams and I host this website on a VM I have at
Linode, but beyond that, my cloud experience is
exceptionally lacking at the moment.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Building_The_Sanni_Cartridge_Reader_To_Back_Up
And_Restore_Games_And_Saves⠀⇛
Game cartridges are generally seen as a read-only
medium with the contents as immutable as text
chiseled into a granite slab, and with accompanying
save files on the cartridge surviving for
generations. The unfortunate truth is that as with
any media storage, cartridges can and do fail, and
save files are often just ethereal bits in battery-
backed SRAM. This makes being able to copy not only
the game data but also the save files off these
cartridges essential. Projects like the Open Source
Cartridge Reader by [sanni] make this something
that everyone can do.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Immersive_Virtual_Reality_From_The_Humble
Webcam⠀⇛
[Russ Maschmeyer] and Spatial Commerce Projects
developed WonkaVision to demonstrate how 3D eye
tracking from a single webcam can support rendering
a graphical virtual reality (VR) display with
realistic depth and space. Spatial Commerce
Projects is a Shopify lab working to provide
concepts, prototypes, and tools to explore the
crossroads of spatial computing and commerce.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Large_E-Paper_Slow_Movie_Player_Offers_Great
Docs⠀⇛
Over the last couple of years we’ve seen several
iterations of the “slow movie player” concept,
where a film is broken up into individual frames
which are displayed on an e-paper display for a few
minutes at a time. This turns your favorite movie
into a constantly changing piece of long-term art.
Unfortunately, due to the relatively high cost of
e-paper panels, most of the examples we’ve seen
have only been a few inches across.
# ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ How_to_use_the_SSD1351_OLED_display⠀⇛
In my previous post, I mentioned that I managed to
get the SSD1351 working with a Raspberry Pi Pico. I
figured I would write a few blog posts going into
detail about how this is done.
In this first post, I’ll talk about how to talk to
the SSD1351 OLED display. You’ll find that many
OLED and LCD displays are very similar in this
regard so it can be an excellent introduction to
talking about displays in general.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Student_anxiety,_depression_—_and_care
efforts_—_higher_than_ever⠀⇛
While rates of anxiety, depression and suicidal
thoughts are at all-time highs, more college
students than ever report receiving therapy or
counseling, according to a new report.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ 3_Texas_women_sued_for_allegedly_helping_friend
access_abortion_pills⠀⇛
Three women are facing a lawsuit for wrongful death
after a man accused them of helping his ex-wife
obtain medication_for_an_abortion.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ 2023-03-09_From_The_Daily:_UMich_needs_to
capitalize_on_mental_health_resource_improvements⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ It’s_Still_Incredibly_Common_for
Americans_to_Be_Uninsured⠀⇛
People who write about health insurance in the
United States frequently cite statistics about what
percent of the population has insurance. These
statistics typically use point-in-time (PIT)
measurements that report what percent of the
population is insured at any given moment. These
PIT measures are useful but can also mislead people
into thinking that health uninsurance is a much
less common experience than it really is.
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ Mr_Janusz_Wojciechowski_in_Warsaw,
Poland;_meets_with_representatives_of_the_Polish_pig_farming
and_breeding_sector_(Polsus_and_Polpig).⠀⇛
European Commission Event Warsaw, 10 Mar 2023 Mr
Janusz Wojciechowski in Warsaw, Poland; meets with
representatives of the Polish pig farming and
breeding sector (Polsus and Polpig).
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Fear_And_Disgust_Could_Be_Making_Your
Stomach_Acid_More_Potent⠀⇛
Gut-wrenching.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Wildfire_Smoke_Stands_to_Deplete_The_Ozone
Layer,_Scientists_Warn⠀⇛
This isn’t over yet.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ The_FDA_Just_Approved_The_First_Fast-Acting
Nasal_Spray_For_Migraines⠀⇛
Relief for millions.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Over_170_trillion_plastic_particles_are_now
floating_in_the_ocean⠀⇛
A newly_released_study published in the science
journal PLOS ONE reveals the average number of
plastic particles in the world’s oceans may have
reached over 170 trillion as of 2019.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Episode_366_–_Software
liability_is coming⠀⇛
Josh and Kurt talk about the number of dependencies
that is now normal. Keeping track of thousands of
dependencies used to be impressive, now it’s
normal. In what instances should we know everything
about our open source? The days of being able to
ignore your software liability is looking like it’s
coming to an end.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Apple_removes_VTB_Bank_app_posing_as_restaurant
coupon_tracker_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Apple has removed an app from its App Store that
appeared to be a restaurant guide but was actually
an online banking app for customers of Russia’s
majority state-owned VTB Bank, according to the
Russian business magazine Inc.Russia.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Parts_Bin_Cyberdeck_Built_For_Satellite
Hacking⠀⇛
While there’s little in the way of hard rules
dictating what constitutes a cyberdeck, one popular
opinion is that it should be a piecemeal affair — a
custom rig built up of whatever high-tech detritus
the intrepid hacker can get their hands on, whether
it be through trades or the time-honored tradition
of dumpster diving. It should also be functional,
and ideally, capable of some feats which would be
difficult to accomplish with a garden variety
laptop.
# § Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation⠀➾
# ⚓ 2023-03-11_Does_IceFire_Ransomware_Portend_a_Broader
Shift_From_Windows_to_Linux? [Ed: Slashdot is helping
Microsoft sites promote the idea that issues in IBM's
proprietary software are somehow "Linux"]⠀⇛
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Facebook-parent_Meta_planning_to
launch_Twitter_rival⠀⇛
Elon Musk’s Twitter could soon face new
competition from Facebook-owned Meta.
Meta Platforms Inc is considering launching a
new Twitter-like social network. “We’re
exploring a standalone, decentralized social
network for sharing text updates,” a Meta
spokesperson said in a statement to Variety.
# ⚓ Data Swamp ☛ Linux_$HOME_encryption_with_ecryptfs⠀⇛
In this article, I’d like to share with you
about the Linux specific feature ecryptfs,
which allows users to have encrypted
directories.
While disk encryption done with cryptsetup/
LUKS is very performant and secure, there are
some edge cases in which you may want to use
ecryptfs, whether the disk is LUKS encrypted
or not.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ US_Navy_Wants_to_Turn_Australia_Into_a_Full-
Service_Submarine_Hub⠀⇛
The US Navy wants a full-service submarine hub in
Australia that can oversee all underwater activity
in the Asia Pacific, including production and
repairs, Defense News reported Thursday. The report
cited comments from Navy Secretary Carlos del Toro,
whose vision will be possible under AUKUS, the
military pact signed between the US, […]
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ We_Must_Abolish_Nuclear_Weapons_Before_They
Abolish_Us⠀⇛
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finnish_leaders_unanimously_refute_PM’s
suggestion_of_sending_Hornets_to_Ukraine⠀⇛
During her visit to Kyiv on March 10th, Finnish
Prime MinisterSanna Marin suggested that Finland
could consider providing Ukraine with its ageing
Hornet fighter jets. The statement has caused
controversy in Finland, with some government
officials denying any discussion of such an action.
Speaking to reporters in Ukraine, Marin said,
“there will certainly be a discussion about fighter
jets.”
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finnish_president_and_ministers_met_on
Sunday_to_talk_Nato⠀⇛
PRESIDENT Sauli Niinistö and the Ministerial
Committee on Foreign and Security Policy met
yesterday to discuss the Finnish accession to Nato.
Piritta Asunmaa, a director at the Ministry for
Foreign Affairs, told YLE that the meeting was held
exceptionally on a Sunday because the calendars of
ministers are packed with campaign-related events
this week.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Tehran_Reaches_Deal_To_Buy_SU-35_Fighter_Jets_From
Russia,_Says_Iranian_State_Media⠀⇛
Iranian state media reported on March 11 that
Tehran has reached a deal to buy advanced SU-35
fighter planes from Russia, citing Iran’s UN
mission in New York.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finnish_MPs_criticize_Prime_Minister’s
announcement_on_Hornet_fighter_jets_in_Ukraine [Ed: But she
never said that. Media misconduct.]⠀⇛
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In her second visit to Kyiv, which her critics see
as a photo opportunity before Finnish elections,
prime minister Sanna Marin has raised some eyebrows
and received criticism for offering Finnish fighter
jets to Ukraine.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finnish_leaders_taken_aback_by_Marin’s_Hornet_fighter
jet_comment⠀⇛
Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP) said in Kyiv that
Finland should discuss whether its old Hornet
fighters could be sent to Ukraine.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ 2023-03-11_Gunman_Kills_6_in_Shooting_at
Jehovah’s_Witness_Hall_in_Germany⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ ‘Rigorous’_Maidan_massacre_exposé
suppressed_by_top_academic_journal⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Belgorod_governor_reports_four_missiles_shot_down
and_one_resident_injured_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Russia’s
Belgorod region, reported that air defense systems
shot down four missiles in the city of Belgorod and
its outskirts on Monday morning.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ These_Men_Fought_White_Supremacists_and_Got
Sentenced_to_Over_200_Years⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 100_Organizations_Ask_for_Yemen
Resolution⠀⇛
We have seen much recently about the Ukraine war
anniversary. But March also marks the eighth
anniversary of the war on Yemen and the 20th on
Iraq. Members of Congress should introduce a Yemen
War Powers Resolution before this war enters a
ninth year.
In the past few weeks, activists in 17 cities
across the United States protested at congressional
offices and beyond, calling on lawmakers to bring
the harmful U.S. role in the Yemen war to an end.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Colonialism_Created_Food_Insecurity_in_Haiti,
Now_Climate_Change_Compounds_It⠀⇛
The U.S. must end its unfair trade practices and
stop flooding Haiti’s markets with food that can be
grown locally.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ China-Led_Iran-Saudi_Arabia_Diplomatic_Deal
Shows_Alternative_to_US_Hegemony⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Pushing_for_Regime_Change_in_Russia_Implies
an_Embrace_of_Endless_War_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
Is it Russian imperialism or great-power politics
that explains Putin’s invasion of Ukraine? And how
likely is it that we could see regime change in
Moscow? Moreover, do ideological labels matter in
today’s political climate? C. J. Polychroniou
tackles these questions in an interview with the
French-Greek journalist Alexandra Boutri. He
contends that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a
major war crime but that the ongoing war is rooted
in NATO’s eastward expansion and associated with
the game of great-power politics. As for those who
compare Putin to Hitler and call for regime change
in Russia, Polychroniou argues that such claims and
demands are both absurd and dangerous.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ NATO_talks,_elections_and_exciting_summer
plans:_Finland_in_the_world_press⠀⇛
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.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Pope_Francis_Says_He’s_Willing_To_Visit_Ukraine_And
Russia,_But_‘Both’_Or_‘Neither’⠀⇛
Pope Francis says he is willing to travel to
Ukraine, which is under attack from Russia, but
only on the condition that he can also travel to
Moscow
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.K._Urges_Olympic_Sponsors_To_Back_Ban_On_Russian
Athletes⠀⇛
Britain has called on Olympic sponsors, including
Coca-Cola and Samsung, to support a ban on Russian
and Belarusian athletes competing at next year’s
summer games in Paris.
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Hundreds_of_enemy_troops_killed_in_battle_for
Bakhmut,_say_Ukraine_and_Russia⠀⇛
Ukraine insisted that it was holding on in Bakhmut
and was giving a “decent rebuff” to Russian forces.
# ⚓ NPR ☛ A_year_after_plea_talks_began,_the_9/11_case_is_still
in_limbo,_frustrating_families⠀⇛
The goal was for the defendants, including alleged
ringleader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to plead guilty
and spend up to life in prison. They would avoid a
death penalty trial, but the problem-plagued case
would finally end. The 9/11 judge backed the
effort, canceling all public hearings for the past
12 months so lawyers could focus on negotiating.
Yet the talks are in limbo. And that has family
members of 9/11 victims — who have been waiting
more than two decades for the case to go to trial —
in a familiar state of frustration.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Islamic_State_Claims_Responsibility_For_Afghanistan
Blast⠀⇛
[...] The blast at a cultural center during an
event for journalists in northern Afghanistan
killed at least one person and wounded eight,
according to authorities and journalists. [...]
# ⚓ Associated Press ☛ Moldova_police_say_they_foiled_Russia-
backed_unrest_plot⠀⇛
The head of Moldova’s police, Viorel Cernauteanu,
said in a news conference that an undercover agent
had infiltrated groups of “diversionists,” some
Russian citizens, who allegedly were promised
$10,000 to organize “mass disorder” during the
protest in the capital, Chisinau. Seven people were
detained, he said.
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ March_To_Iraq_War,_20_Years_Later:_March
12,_2003⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ An_American_B-52_bomber_capable_of_carrying
nuclear_weapons_conducted_planned_maneuvers_over_the_Baltic
Sea_—_Meduza⠀⇛
An American B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber
with the call sign NOBLE61 conducted a maneuver
over the Baltic Sea, 200 kilometers (around 125
miles) from St. Petersburg, reports Russian state
broadcaster RBC, citing data from FlightRadar24.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Relatives_of_mobilized_soldiers_ask_Putin_to
recall_them_from_assault_units_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Relatives of men mobilized from outside of Moscow
sent a video appeal to President Vladimir Putin and
Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, asking that their
sons and husbands be returned from assault units.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ Gannett ☛ Fox_News_lied_to_you._Here_are_some_ways_to_move
forward.⠀⇛
It’s clear from court filings in the Dominion
Voting Systems $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit
against Fox news that the network cares only about
making money, and knows its money comes from
telling viewers exactly what they want to hear.
Supporting former President Donald Trump and
parroting his lies about the 2020 election being
rigged was good for the bottom line, so the network
and hosts like Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and
Tucker Carlson responded in kind.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Rupert_Murdoch_Lies_at_the_Heart_of
Democracy’s_Destruction_Worldwide⠀⇛
What country in its right mind would allow a
foreign entity to come into their country, set up a
major propaganda operation, and then use it to so
polarize that nation that its very government
suffers a violent assault and its democracy finds
itself at a crossroads?
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Academy_of_Science,_ANU_compromised_by
government_secrecy_over_damning_emissions_report⠀⇛
Science and secrecy are two words that rarely go
well together. Yet remarkably, our peak scientific
institution, the Australian Academy of Science is
deliberately engaging in secrecy, aided and abetted
by the Australian National University. Transparency
Warrior Rex Patrick tells the story.
Back in January, knowing the Safeguard Mechanism
legislation that underpins Labor’s key climate
change policy (which we now know, flawed) would be
debated in the upcoming parliamentary sitting, I
FOI’ed a paper written by Australian National
University Associate Professor, Cris Brack, on ‘the
“science” of measuring carbon credits for human-
induced regeneration’.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ The_Foilies_2023⠀⇛
It seems like these days, everyone is finding
classified documents in places they shouldn’t be:
their homes, their offices, their storage lockers,
their garages, their guitar cases, between the
cracks of their couches, under some withered celery
in the vegetable drawer … OK, we’re
exaggerating—but it is getting ridiculous.
While the pundits continue to speculate whether
President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence
and President Joe Biden put national security at
risk by hoarding these secrets, that ultimately
might not be the biggest problem.
What we know for sure is that these episodes
illustrate overlapping problems for government
transparency. It reveals an epidemic of over-
aggressive classification of documents that could
easily be made public. It means that an untold
number of documents that belong to the public went
missing—even though we may not get to see them for
at least 25 years, when the law requires a
mandatory declassification review. And then there’s
the big, troubling transparency question: If these
officials pocketed national secrets, what other
troves of non-secret but nonetheless important
documents did they hold on to, potentially
frustrating the public’s ability to ever see them?
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Chris_Hedges:_Ukraine’s_Death_by_Proxy⠀⇛
Ukraine is a pawn for militarists intent on
degrading Russia and ultimately China in a self-
defeating quest to ensure U.S. global hegemony. The
end of this war, like most proxy wars, will be
ugly.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ ‘Snowden,’_‘Assange’_&_‘Manning’_Arrive_in
Sydney_[VIDEO]⠀⇛
The three bronze statues that have been touring the
world have arrived in Assange’s home country, where
John Shipton, John Pilger, David McBride and other
speakers demanded the prime minister tell Joe Biden
to release the WikiLeaks publisher.
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital First Media ☛ Mackinac_Island_ferry
converting_to_electric_power_with_automaker_aid⠀⇛
The Mackinac Island Ferry Co., formerly known
as Star Line, will replace two 1988 diesel
engines on its Chippewa ferry vessel with
electric propulsion motors. Ferry Company
owns the former Arnold Line Ferry fleet and
Mackinac Marine Services shipyard.
The company plans to upgrade all of its seven
steel vessels with electricity after the
Chippewa is converted. EGLE plans to
electrify all 28 Mackinac Island ferries and
help develop a full-time, year-round
shipbuilding industry in the straits region.
# ⚓ Renewable Energy World ☛ Data:_The_energy
transition’s_next_big_thing⠀⇛
Fundamentally, Bhatraju said he believes that
distribution utilities should focus on
distributing power, not generating it, and
take on a “coordinator” role to manage DERs.
That transition won’t take place now, or
ever, without incentives for distribution
utilities.
The economics support that business model,
too. Transmission and distribution costs are
going up, while generation costs continue to
dive thanks to new technology. Plus, the
monopolistic piece of the business involves
poles and wires, not power plants.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Shocking’:_Saudi_Aramco_Posts
Largest-Ever_Annual_Profit_for_a_Fossil_Fuel_Company⠀⇛
Saudi Aramco, an oil giant almost entirely
owned by the government of Saudi Arabia,
announced Sunday that it brought in a
staggering $161.1 billion in profits last
year as it joined other fossil fuel companies
in capitalizing on energy market turmoil
sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ The North Lines IN ☛ ‘The_Elephant_Whisperers’
Triumphs_At_Oscars_2023,_Director_Dedicates_Award_To
‘Motherland_India’⠀⇛
Tamil documentary “The Elephant Whisperers”
emerged as the winner at the 95th Academy
Awards making it a maiden victory for India
in the Documentary Short Subject category.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Why_is_the_Forest_Service_is
Destroying_Critical_Mule_Deer_Habitat?⠀⇛
These are the facts. Almost half of the
Ashland Ranger District of the Custer-
Gallatin National Forest in southeastern
Montana has burned in recent wildfires. This
has severely impacted mule deer habitat,
resulting in a declining mule deer population
which will continue to fall if the Forest
Service goes forward with its proposed South
Otter logging and burning project on 292,000
acres (456 sq. miles) of public lands.
The 1990 Ashland Deer Guidelines were
developed jointly between the Forest Service
and the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife
and Parks to limit logging impacts on what
they note is “the most stable and important
population of mule deer in southeastern
Montana.” Yet, by ignoring its own scientists
and arbitrarily changing existing standards,
the South Otter project will destroy even
more of what’s left of this vitally important
mule deer habitat.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Local_food_pantries_brace_for_increased
demand_as_SNAP_benefits_come_to_an_end⠀⇛
Local food pantries may soon see a surge in demand
for their services after pandemic-era SNAP benefits
come to an end. A temporary boost to SNAP benefits,
also known as food stamps, was put in place to help
low-income individuals and families during the
COVID-19 pandemic.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ In_Defense_of_Taxing_Stock_Buybacks⠀⇛
The Biden administration is getting a lot of grief
over its proposal to tax share buybacks at a 4.0
percent rate. They are being denounced as economic
illiterates, and worse. I’m going to side with the
economic illiterates, and say Biden is very much on
the mark with this proposal.
To be clear, I have written before that I don’t
agree with most of the complaints directed against
buybacks. It makes little difference as a practical
matter whether companies pay out money to
shareholders as buybacks or dividends.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ French_pension_reform_protests_flare
up_again⠀⇛
Protests against pension reforms in France have
flared up again, with large rallies being held in
major cities such as Paris, Nice and Toulouse. The
authorities reportedly expected up to one million
protesters across the country.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Poll:_Voters_support_cutting_business_subsidies;
otherwise_split_on_balancing_public_finances⠀⇛
Among the current governing parties, the views of
the supporters of the Centre and Swedish People’s
Party were often closer to those of the NCP than of
their cabinet partners.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ World’s_most_expensive_housing_market_faces_a
critical_question⠀⇛
Behind the gleaming skyscrapers and multimillion-
dollar homes that have made this city the world’s
most expensive property market lies a far less
attractive parallel reality: one of the world’s
seemingly most intractable housing crises.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ How_does_a_bank_collapse_in_48_hours?_A_timeline_of
the_SVB_fall⠀⇛
# ⚓ Axios ☛ SVB:_A_startup_bank’s_rise_and_fall⠀⇛
Given how deeply and widely its roots run across
the industry, Silicon Valley Bank — dramatically
seized_on_Friday by the federal government amid a
crippling bank run and a swooning stock — couldn’t
have a more apt name.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ This_weekend_is_everything_for_Silicon_Valley_Bank
and_its_customers⠀⇛
The U.S. government on Friday assumed_control of
Silicon_Valley_Bank and its billions of dollars in
customer_deposits, temporarily shutting all
branches and freezing withdrawals.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ U.S._government_takes_control_of_Silicon_Valley
Bank⠀⇛
U.S. banking regulators on Friday assumed control
of Silicon_Valley_Bank, the country’s 16th largest
bank and a top financial institution for technology
and life sciences companies.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ SVB_doled_out_bonuses_ahead_of_FDIC_seizure⠀⇛
Silicon Valley Bank on Friday paid out annual
bonuses to eligible U.S. employees, just hours
before the bank_was_seized by the U.S. government,
Axios has learned from multiple sources.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ 3_Lessons_From_Silicon_Valley_Bank’s
Failure⠀⇛
Here’s one takeaway: The bank’s extremely online
clientele may have contributed to its downfall.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Silicon_Valley_Bank’s_Collapse_Causes
Strain_for_Young_Companies⠀⇛
Young companies raced to get their money out of the
bank, which was central to the start-up industry.
Some said they could not make payroll.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Silicon_Valley_Bank_Collapse_Sets_Off
Blame_Game_Between_Crypto_and_Tech⠀⇛
The implosion of the Silicon Valley bank led to
finger-pointing, as executives and investors jumped
on the crisis for their own messaging.
# ⚓ 2023-03-11_Marc_Rubinstein:_‘The_Demise_of_Silicon_Valley
Bank’⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Ellen_Brown:_The_Looming_Quadrillion_Dollar
Derivatives_Tsunami⠀⇛
On Friday, March 10, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)
collapsed and was taken over by federal regulators.
SVB was the 16th largest bank in the country and
its bankruptcy was the second largest in U.S.
history, following Washington Mutual in 2008.
Despite its size, SVB was not a “systemically […]
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ With_SVB_and_Signature,_the_US_is_making_a
“systemic_risk_exception”_for_systemically_unimportant
banks⠀⇛
With a resoluteness befitting a response to the
threat of an all-out banking crisis, US banking
regulators issued a joint statement on the evening
of March 12, declaring that all depositors in the
failed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) will have full
access to their funds starting March 13.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ SVB_staff_‘offered_45_days_of_work_at
1.5_times_salary’⠀⇛
Employees of Silicon Valley Bank have been offered
45 days of employment at 1.5 times their salary by
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, the regulator
that has taken control of the collapsed lender,
according to an email sent to staff.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Survey_finds_strong_support_for_universal
income_and_social_security_reform_among_Finnish_workers⠀⇛
A recent survey conducted by Kantar Public Oy on
behalf of Suomen Yrittäjät (Finnish Entrepreneurs)
has found strong support for universal income
security and social security reform in the Finnish
workforce. The survey, called the Työelämägallup,
was conducted among 1,511 respondents, including
employees, entrepreneurs, furloughed workers, and
the unemployed.
The results of the survey indicate that 42% of
those surveyed view a universal income security
model favorably.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Private_jets,_Cartier_watch:_Hillsong
under_probe_in_Australia_after_claims_of_misuse_of_church
funds⠀⇛
An Australian MP accused the church’s founder Brian
Houston of spending lavishly using church funds.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Graft_charges_give_me_sleepless_nights,
says_Malaysia’s_ex-PM_Muhyiddin⠀⇛
The Bersatu leadership has rallied around
Muhyiddin, urging him to remain in command of the
party.
# ⚓ BW Businessworld Media Pvt Ltd ☛ US_Bails_Out_SVB
Depositors,_Says_Will_Get_All_Their_Money_Back_From_Today⠀⇛
In a joint statement released by Secretary of the
Treasury Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Board Chair
Jerome H Powell, and FDIC Chairman Martin J
Gruenberg announced they would “fully protect” all
depositors who had funds in Silicon Valley Bank,
just days after regulators took control of the
institution.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ [Cryptoxxurreny]_firm_Circle_says_$3.3
billion_USDC_reserves_to_be_fully_available_on_Monday⠀⇛
Cryptocurrency firm Circle said all its depositors
with the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank and
Signature Bank will be made whole and the $3.3-
billion USDC reserve deposit held at Silicon Valley
Bank will be fully available when banks open on
Monday.
Circle’s announcement comes after the US
administration on Sunday stepped in with a series
of emergency measures to shore up confidence after
the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and New York-
based Signature Bank threatened to trigger a
systemic crisis.
# ⚓ Monday Note ☛ No_Atheists_In_Foxholes._Or_Libertarians_In
Bank_Runs⠀⇛
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) made and lost chancy bets
on long-term bonds. This concerned depositors who
in turn worried other depositors, starting a chain
reaction, a massive exit of funds. SVB didn’t have
enough liquidities, became insolvent and is now in
the hands of the FDIC (Federal Deposits Insurance
Corporation).
# ⚓ Pete Warden ☛ Notes_from_a_bank_run⠀⇛
To start with, Useful is not at risk of shutting
down. The worst case scenario, as far as I can
tell, is that we only have access to the insured
amount of $250k in our SVB account on Monday. This
will be plenty for payroll on Wednesday, and from
what I’ve seen there are enough liquid assets that
sales of the government bonds that triggered the
whole process should be enough to return a good
portion of the remaining balance within a week or
so. If I need to, I’ll dip into my personal savings
to keep the lights on. I know this isn’t true for
many other startups though, so if they don’t get
full access to their funds there will be job losses
and closures.
# ⚓ The North Lines IN ☛ Collapse_Of_Silicon_Valley_Bank_To
Impact_Indian_Startup_Ecosystem,_Feel_Experts⠀⇛
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the largest
vendor in the startup ecosystem, is likely to
adversely impact the Indian startup scenario as
well as it has injected a lot of uncertainty in the
sector overnight, industry experts say. “Hopefully
the matter will get resolved, but I think it is a
big hit for Indian startups,” Ashu Garg, a
prominent Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist
and early-stage investor for over two decades, said
in an interview. California-based Silicon Valley
Bank (SVB), the 16th largest bank in the United
States, was closed on Friday by the California
Department of Financial Protection and Innovation
which later appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC) as its receiver. [...]
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Biden_on_brink_of_banking_crisis⠀⇛
How it works: Banks don’t keep deposits in a vault
— they lend them out to businesses and individuals.
So if depositors ask for all their money back at
once, as they did at SVB, the bank is likely to
fail.
Corporate America just got a stark reminder that
none of their deposits are insured above $250,000
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC).
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Why_the_Banking_System_is_Breaking_Up⠀⇛
The collapses of Silvergate and Silicon Valley Bank
are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic
glacier. The financial analogy to the global
warming causing this collapse is the rising
temperature of interest rates, which spiked last
Thursday and Friday to close at 4.60 percent for
the U.S. Treasury’s two-year bonds. Bank depositors
meanwhile were still being paid only 0.2 percent on
their deposits. That has led to a steady withdrawal
of funds from banks – and a corresponding decline
in commercial bank balances with the Federal
Reserve.
Most media reports reflect a prayer that the bank
runs will be localized, as if there is no context
or environmental cause. There is general
embarrassment to explain how the breakup of banks
that is now gaining momentum is the result of the
way that the Obama Administration bailed out the
banks in 2008. Fifteen years of Quantitative Easing
has re-inflated prices for packaged bank mortgages
– and with them, housing prices, stock and bond
prices.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Really_Great_February_Jobs_Report⠀⇛
The failure of Silicon Valley Bank on Friday
overtook the really big event of the day, the
February jobs report. The 311,000 jobs were far
more than I had expected. I thought the huge
January number was a fluke of seasonal adjustments
and unusually good winter weather. For that reason,
I expected the February number to be very weak, not
because I thought the labor market had crashed, but
just as a correction to the high number in January.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ New_York_shuts_down_[cryptocurrency]-heavy
Signature_Bank_to_protect_depositors⠀⇛
The New York Department of Financial Services took
control of Signature Bank pursuant to Section 606
of New York Banking Law in order to protect
depositors. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was
appointed as the receiver of the bank.
Signature Bank had total assets of $110.36 billion
and total deposits of $88.59 billion as of Dec. 31.
It’s unclear what the figure is today.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Matt_Taibbi_Declares_John_Podesta’s_Risotto
Recipe_Was_“True” [Ed: Matt Taibbi targeted by fanatics of
HRC, using straw man arguments]⠀⇛
Matt Taibbi does not know the difference between
“true” and “authentic,” and it shows in his
propaganda.
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Jan._6_seditious_conspiracy_comes_into
focus_at_Proud_Boys_trial_as_classified_‘spill’_roils
proceedings⠀⇛
Details on how sending the defense attorneys the
wrong “Jencks” file has roiled the Proud Boys
trial.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Homelessness_politics_and_voter_frustration_drives
local_elections_nationwide⠀⇛
Homelessness is emerging as a potent political
issue in local elections this year, particularly
when coupled with related concerns about crime.
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Conclusion_To_Series_On_The_Dawn_Of
Everything⠀⇛
A few thoughts from a fascinating book.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_World_Cup_Run-Up,_Qatar_Pressed_U.N.
Agency_Not_to_Investigate_Abuses⠀⇛
Lobbying at the International Labor Organization
dovetailed with an influence campaign that set off
a corruption scandal at the European Parliament.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ “Let’s_drop_this_now”:_calls_rise_for
Albo_to_ask_Joe_Biden_for_release_of_Assange_in_tonight’s
AUKUS_talks⠀⇛
There will be no better opportunity than now for
Anthony Albanese to ask US President Joe Biden for
the release of Julian Assange. Michael West reports
on the Belmarsh Tribunal and calls for the release
of Australia’s number one political prisoner.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets with US
President Joe Biden today, US time. He is in San
Diego with AUKUS partners Biden and British Prime
Minister Rishi Sunak to strike a deal to spend
billions of dollars of Australia’s public money
with the US and UK on nuclear submarines.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Psycho_Political_Dimensions_of_Being_a
Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land⠀⇛
The 21 st C. New Normal – Psycho Political
Dimensions of Being a Stranger in a Strange Land
Measuring a Weaponized Infrastructure
(Telecommunications)
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Trump-Era_Deregulation_Deemed_a_Key_Culprit
in_Failure_of_Silicon_Valley_Bank⠀⇛
In 2018, ignoring the vocal warnings of experts and
advocacy groups, the then-Republican-controlled
Congress passed legislation that weakened post-
financial crisis regulations for banks with between
$50 billion and $250 billion in assets, sparking
fears of systemically risky failures and more
taxpayer bailouts.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Indict_Trump?_Sure,_But_Don’t_Forget_That’s
Exactly_What_He_Wants⠀⇛
Former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson tells USA
Today that former president Donald Trump should
abandon his 2024 campaign to re-take the White
House if he’s indicted: “It doesn’t mean that he’s
guilty of it or he should be charged, but it’s just
such a distraction that would be unnecessary for
somebody who’s seeking the highest office in the
land.”
Is Hutchinson right? Maybe. Does Hutchinson — who’s
been talked up for years as a possible presidential
candidate — have ambitions that Trump’s departure
from the field would serve, or is he just doing the
“elder statesman” thing out of concern for his
party’s prospects? Either could be true.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ What_Kevin_Alexander_Gray_Taught_Me⠀⇛
In July 2015, when two Black Lives Matter activists
challenged liberal candidates running for the 2016
Democratic presidential nomination, the late Kevin
Alexander Gray told me in an interview, “all
candidates ought to have an agenda that deals with
the issues that the Black community are grappling
with right now, to include police violence, to
include economics, to include all the issues that
the Black Lives Matter activists raised.”
Gray didn’t let anyone off the hook, including
Vermont’s independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who
had launched his first presidential campaign, and
was considered the most left-leaning candidate.
“They ought to hire Black people to advise them in
their campaigns,” he said, “instead of just
organizing a group of white men, which Bernie
Sanders is guilty of doing too, and letting those
people try to filter what it is that the candidates
get.”
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Disinformation_Is_Not_the_Real
Problem_With_Democracy⠀⇛
Americans increasingly lack the information
they need to participate in the political
process.
# ⚓ New Statesman ☛ How_Russian_propaganda_works,_with
Jade_McGlynn⠀⇛
One year into Russia’s war against Ukraine,
Katie Stallard speaks to Jade McGlynn, an
expert on Russian propaganda and memory
politics, about how the Kremlin has framed
the conflict at home. McGlynn is an academic
researcher at King’s College London and the
author of two forthcoming books, Russia’s War
and Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past
in Putin’s Russia.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Gary_Lineker_pauses_presenting_‘Match_of_the_Day’
after_immigration_tweets⠀⇛
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ BBC_in_Turmoil_as_Revolt_Over_Gary
Lineker’s_‘Match_of_the_Day’_Suspension_Spreads⠀⇛
One of England’s best-known sports personalities,
he was taken off the air after criticizing a
British government immigration proposal on social
media. His ouster set off a staff boycott.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iran_Confirms_Death_Sentence_Against_Swedish-
Iranian_Dissident_Lured_To_Turkey⠀⇛
Iran’s hard-line judiciary says its Supreme Court
has upheld a death sentence against a Swedish-
Iranian dissident who went missing from a Turkish
airport two years ago before turning up in Iranian
custody accused of terrorism.
The defendant, Habib Chaab, a founder and former
leader of a separatist group called the Arab
Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz
(ASMLA), lived in Sweden for 14 years until he was
apparently lured to Turkey by Iranian intelligence
agents.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Blasphemy_Forever:_Schoolboys_scuffed_a
Quran._Why_did_the_police_care?⠀⇛
But the moralists never left, and English
authorities have stumbled when trying to figure out
how to mediate between them and those they accuse.
Last month, in the West Yorkshire town of
Wakefield, a 14-year-old bought a bargain-basement
English translation of the Quran on Amazon. (Known
as the “Pink Qur’an,” it costs about $13.) He gave
it to his buddies at school, and by the end of the
day it was smudged and slightly torn. The school
suspended the kids, and police investigated the
incident as a possible hate crime—which, given that
it was his own book, and that police don’t
generally conduct investigations of creased covers
and smudged pages, would be hard to distinguish
from a charge of blasphemy.
They did not, in the end, prosecute. And when the
owner was threatened with death, police took the
menacing seriously. But the incident illustrates
how society’s defenses, like a watchman dozing off
on a late shift, tend to slip. (Last year’s
attempted murder of Salman Rushdie roused many
advocates of free speech from a similar slumber.)
Only one good thing has come from this incident: It
has forced authorities, and civil society, to wipe
the crust from their eyes and recall how best to
respond to incidents, or non-incidents, like this
one.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Frankfurt_Attacks_Human_Rights_of
Palestinians_by_Canceling_Roger_Waters’_Concert⠀⇛
After a highly acclaimed run in North America,
Roger Waters will take his “This Is Not a Drill”
tour across Europe. The long journey includes shows
in Germany, with the final concert in the country
originally planned to take place in Frankfurt on
May 28. On February 24, however, Frankfurt’s city
council and the Hessian state government announced
the cancellation of the Frankfurt concert, for
“persistent anti-Israel behavior,” and called
Waters an antisemite.
[...]
The conflation of criticism of Israel and
antisemitism is dangerous and perpetuates the
common antisemitic perspective that all Jews
monolithically support Israel. Because antisemitism
is a real issue, its weaponization and distortion
to stifle legitimate criticism of Israel is
reckless, and undermines the fight against
antisemitism.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Frankfurt_Undermines_Human_Rights_by
Canceling_a_Concert_by_Roger_Waters⠀⇛
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Journalist_Fırat_Bulut_detained_for_‘spreading_false
information’_over_earthquake_coverage⠀⇛
The journalist said he had been reporting from the
quake-hit regions for a month. Spending the night
in custody, Bulut was later released.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Uyghur_actor_portraying_‘black-hearted_drug_dealer’
in_video_plays_to_racist_tropes⠀⇛
“This video fails completely” if China really wants
to integrate Uyghurs into society, researcher says
# ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-03-12_Child_labor_protections_are_the_latest
Republican_target⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Women_can_now_swim_topless_in_Berlin’s_swimming
pools._The_move_reflects_Germany’s_tradition_of_nudity⠀⇛
Berlin’s authorities took action after a female
swimmer said she was prevented from attending one
of the city’s pools without covering her chest in
December 2022. The woman lodged a complaint with
the city’s ombudsman’s office at the Senate
Department for Justice, Diversity and Anti-
Discrimination.
Authorities agreed that the woman had been a victim
of discrimination and this week said that all
visitors to Berlin’s pools, including women and
those who identify as non-binary, are permitted to
go topless.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ What_Union-Buster_Howard_Schultz_Owes
Starbucks_Workers⠀⇛
At long last, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is being
held to account for his company’s union-busting
tactics.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ US_Corporations_Are_Bringing_Back_Child_Labor,
With_Help_From_GOP_Lawmakers⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Rights_of_Asylum-Seekers_are_Under_Attack
by_Biden_Administration⠀⇛
Don’t let cruelty win. Rush support to protect
migrant rights.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Global_Vigils_for_the_Closure_of
Guantánamo_on_International_Women’s_Day⠀⇛
Campaigners at the global vigils for the closure of
Guantánamo on March 8, 2023. Clockwise from top
left: London, Washington, D.C., New York and Mexico
City.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_authorities_seek_to_restrict_the_parental
rights_of_Alexey_Moskalev,_whose_daughter_drew_an_anti-war
picture_in_school_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A regional court in the Tula region is seeking to
restrict the parental rights of Alexey Moskalev,
whose daughter, Masha, drew an anti-war picture
during school art class. Telegram channels
supporting the Moskalevs report that a hearing
related to the case has been scheduled for March
15.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Chicago_Grocery_Teamsters_Face_Retaliation_for
Exercising_Their_Rights⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Haass’s_Ten_Civic_Obligations_Need
Facilities_to_Address_Abuses_of_Power⠀⇛
A friend just gave me a book by Richard N. Haass
with the intriguing title, The Bill of Obligations:
The Ten Habits of Good Citizens. Mr. Haass is a
self-described member of the establishment – in his
words “people and institutions that have often been
vilified and blamed for the failures of democracy.”
Having worked in the Pentagon, State Department and
White House under four presidents, Democrat and
Republican alike, followed by his present
leadership of the Council on Foreign Relations, may
explain why there is nothing in the index of his
book under “law” or “corporation” or “unions” or
“consumer cooperatives.”
Credit him, however, with the recognition of “the
mounting evidence that this rights-based democracy
is failing.” He discusses “ten obligations, that if
adopted by a preponderance of citizens, would go a
long way toward fixing American democracy.” He
calls these “habits of citizenship” (Danielle
Allen’s phrase) that “should happen but that the
law cannot require.” … “Putting these obligations
into practice is up to us.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Texas_Women_Sued_for_Wrongful_Death_for
Allegedly_Helping_Friend_Obtain_Abortion⠀⇛
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Expanding_Battle_Over_the_Abortion_Pill⠀⇛
Republican state attorneys general are threatening
action against pharmacies that dispense it, as a
federal lawsuit challenges the F.D.A.’s authority
to approve it.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Jan Schaumann ☛ 2023-03-10_Who_reads_your_email?⠀⇛
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Spirit_warned_investors_that_merging_with
Jetblue_would_be_illegal⠀⇛
That’s great news if you’re an airline shareholder.
It’s terrible news if you’re hunting for your lost
bags, or if you’re a flight attendant or pilot
being squeezed, or if you’re being hit for billions
in covid bailouts – or if you’re one of one million
Americans who were stranded during Christmas week
by the failure of Southwest Airlines’ IT systems,
which use duct-tape and wishful thinking to hold
together the IT systems of all the airlines SWA
bought: [...]
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Intellectual_[sic]_Property_[sic]_Killed
the_Movie_Star⠀⇛
The lead actors in today’s blockbuster films are
celebrities, not movie stars. That’s not their
fault: the industry has reduced actors to stewards
of profitable intellectual property, robbing them
of the opportunity to connect with audiences and
shine.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Following_Loud_and_Lousy_Exit,_FTC_Better
Off_Without_Christine_Wilson⠀⇛
Commissioner Christine Wilson’s “noisy exit” from
the Federal Trade Commission officially has an end
date. On March 2, she submitted her official
resignation to President Biden announcing she will
step down on the last day of the month, and she
couldn’t help but take some final shots at her
apparent nemesis, Chair Lina Khan. Evidently,
Wilson still has a bad case of “Lina Khan
Derangement Syndrome.”
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Massive_Public_Investment_Made_COVID-
19_Vaccines_Possible⠀⇛
In a new study published in the BMJ, Dr.
Hussain Lalani and a team of six other
medical researchers document the massive
extent to which the US public (through the
federal government) financed the development,
production, and purchase of mRNA COVID-19
vaccines. Through March 2022, the US
government spent at least $2.7 billion to
develop and produce these vaccines. As the
researchers note this is a conservative
estimate.
In addition to these investments in research
and development, the US government spent
$29.2 billion through March 2022 to purchase
the COVID-19 vaccines—at about $20.69 per
dose on average, far in excess of estimated
manufacturing costs of $1 to $3 per
dose—bringing total public investment to
$31.9 billion.
# ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-03-08_Nokia’s_string_of
Indonesian_losses_continues_in_Vivo_dispute:_Jakarta
court_declares_patent_infringement_complaint
inadmissible⠀⇛
# ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-03-10_WiFi_router_maker_AVM
deemed_unwilling_licensee_of_standard-essential
patents–but_more_WiFi_6_patent_assertions_by_Huawei_may
be_needed_to_force_settlement⠀⇛
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Agreement_on_Milan_as_seat
central_division_UPC,_competencies_under_debate [Ed:
This is illegal. This is a crime. Team UPC is
discrediting the EU by suggestion clear violations of
the law.]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Strictly_Confidential:_Trade
Secrets_in_German_Patent_Litigation [Ed: Companies
making it "illegal" for people to say what they know or
exercise knowledge/skills they have]⠀⇛
It is now almost a year since the new
confidentiality regime for patent disputes in
Germany entered into force. Since then,
confidentiality requests have become a
standard procedure in German patent
litigation. Courts and counsel have
translated the legal requirements into
manageable routines.
# ⚓ 2023-03-12_Webinar_on_Unified_Patent_Court [Ed:
Unified Patent Court is illegal, unconstitutional, and
thus untenable, but so-called "law" firms try to make a
euro by promoting it and "shilling" such training]⠀⇛
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ SFist ☛ SF-Based_‘Weird_Al’_Yankovic-Themed_Burlesque
Group_Is_Making_a_Documentary,_Will_‘Bare_To_Be
Stupid’⠀⇛
The crowdfunding campaign is making big ask
of $115,000, though in the final stretch,
they’re already close to $100,000. Why so
much money? “Al doesn’t own the rights to a
lot of his early parodies so it really
complicates the matter,” Kintaro explains.
“The story can’t be told without the music of
‘Weird Al’ and music rights are expensive. He
doesn’t own the rights to his early songs,”
according to Odessa Lil. “The Kickstarter is
to help fund that process and finish off the
movie so it can be considered for
distribution or streaming.”
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Why_Would_‘OpenAI’_Send_ChatGPT
Takedown_Notices_to_Google?⠀⇛
Google’s transparency report shows that
‘OpenAI’ has asked the search engine to
remove several ChatGPT-related search
results. These include links to apps and
articles that allegedly infringe on OpenAI’s
rights. While we can’t confirm the legitimacy
of these requests, ChatGPT informs us that
they could be legitimate.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Success_does_not_guarantee_happiness⠀⇛
So, don’t optimize on your success but on your
personal well-being.
# ⚓ Disgust_and_Disappointment⠀⇛
Last Friday I received a phone call from a fellow
Scout leader which
has spent my head spinning between disgust and
disappointment. Turns
out that a Scout leader in the local area had
appeared on a paedophile
hunter Facebook page. It appears he had been
sending messages to a 15
year old boy about meeting up. This particular
person was someone who
I have worked with professionaly and as a volunteer
with. I looked up
to him and thought he was a sensible voice to get
advice from. This
news has shocked me. I am surprised he could do or
contemplate
something so disgusting and debased. My mind has
been spinning ever
since. This has filled my mind and destroyed any
spare thoughts. The
video from the paedophile hunters is a hard watch.
It shows a group
confronting him on his doorstep. His wife comes out
eventually and
doesn’t appear shocked. She is also heavily
involved in local Scouting
and another reason for the mind spinning. What if
she knew and wasn’t
reporting? How could someone do that? I
occasionally hope it is
some sort of mix up. It probably isn’t. The good
news is that the
police have been presented with evidence and are
investigating. I have
no idea if he has been arrested.
# ⚓ Day_1_Haru_2023⠀⇛
Sumo is back for another tournament. We are back in
Osaka for this
one. I must admit, this one creeped up on me and I
was not feeling the
excitement in the build up. However, there is much
to be excited
about.
Terunofuji remains kyujo and so is not fighting.
This is expected
although he has been training again. There has been
lots of noise
around him taking part in the Jungyo (travelling
show case) after the
basho. Sounds promising and hopefully he is not
suffering too much.
The disgraced former Ozeki, Asanoyama is back
fighting in Makuuchi
after dropping down a fair few divisions. Oh wait,
he is just
visiting. Yes, his previous efforts to get out of
Juryo last basho had
failed. However, he did get a win today so
hopefully he will be back
into the top division.
# ⚓ Morality_in_dream_content⠀⇛
The dreams that I can remember the next day are
rarely concrete enough to describe in words, but
last night I had an odd one. It’s amusing how, as
far as I can recall, the dreams just, like,
seamlessly place you into a certain context that
makes sense in the dream.
# ⚓ aphantasia⠀⇛
I am thinking about the limitations my aphantasia
imposes on me at times.
The topic has been getting more attention the past
few years, but honestly, I do not keep up with any
of it, so I don’t know if they made any progress in
what causes it, if it’s even “real”, how to treat
it, and so on.
I just know that most of the time, I do not have a
mental image. At all. Just knowledge. Internally
visualizing stuff largely does not work for me. I
never got the joke about “not thinking about the
pink elephant” because of it. I read books and I
don’t see anything. I play pen and paper roleplay
and I don’t see anything. Not being able to see
anything in front of my mental eye has shaped the
way I understand 3D space, math, and art. When I do
art, I work on it until it looks right for me. I
sadly cannot imagine something and then bring it to
the medium like it is in my head. I would love to
have a finished product in my head and then
following along my mental image until it looks like
it does in my head.
# ⚓ Music_Finds_(March_2023)⠀⇛
Some notes on new bands I’ve been getting into,
plus some comments on music discovery.
# ⚓ Their_grate⠀⇛
Polyseme: Spelled the same, pronounced the same,
same etymology
Homonym: Spelled the same, pronounced the same,
different etymology
Homograph: Spelled the same, pronounced
differently, regardless of etymology
Homophone: Spelled differently, pronounced the
same, regardless of etymology
[...]
Polysemes are not homonyms, nor vice versa.
Polyseme means “many meanings”, homonym means “same
name”, homograph means “same writing”, homophone
means “same sound”.
# ⚓ Cultural_appropriation⠀⇛
I feel that the left’s reaction against cultural
appropriation is good but some are missing that the
flipside is cultural imperialism and we might need
to walk the tightrope between the two of them
(sometimes erring on one side, sometimes the other)
instead of diving headfirst into compulsive white
normativity.
Clarification needed before I mention the word
“radfem” just to make it explicit that it’s
inherently queer inclusive, and you’ll see why as I
get into the essay proper. The deluded TERF cult is
a snake’s nest of inconsistencies, illogic,
propaganda and alliances with the far right.
They prop up what they claim to fight: oppressive,
suffocating gender normative limitations. They
claim to be “gender critical” while being 24/
7 complicit in the performance of gender. They deny
the existence of wall while being the wall. They
have forgotten the fight for pants.
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_DEIKOSV_Wordo:_LINTS⠀⇛
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Obsidian⠀⇛
I’ve been using Obsdian as a means for visualizing
my notes as well as a way to package up some of my
notes for sharing and collaborating with others. It
makes for a really nice way for mortals to view my
markdown content. I’ve already added support for
most of the same features Obsidian has in my own
process, well before discovering Obsidian, but the
thing that has me going back to Obsidian is that
oh-so-nice ~murder wall~ *Infinite Canvas*.
I like dropping original source materials into a
canvas and then starting to write markdown notes
off to the sides where I’m contextualizing the new
information. I’ve also used it to map out my
capsule hierarchy from the perspective of user
workflow. And I’ve made use of the excellent
Excalidraw plugin to convert some hand drawn
diagrams into SVGs. It’s **really** nice.
# ⚓ Linux_$HOME_encryption_with_ecryptfs⠀⇛
In this article, I’d like to share with you about
the Linux specific feature ecryptfs, which allows
users to have encrypted directories.
While disk encryption done with cryptsetup/LUKS is
very performant and secure, there are some edge
cases in which you may want to use ecryptfs,
whether the disk is LUKS encrypted or not.
# ⚓ DST_Hot_Takes⠀⇛
So as a US American most* of us transitioned into
Daylight Savings time last night (well “this
morning”)… overnight… We jumped forward and hour
cutting into our precious sleep time.
This is always controversial because, it sucks. It
throws off sleep schedules, messes up your internal
clock, etc. But it’s great because as the days
lengthen it shifts the social clock to be inline
with solar time over the spring and summer months,
allotting more “daylight hours” to social time.
# ⚓ Re:_Feature_Poor_sudo_Replacement⠀⇛
Ordinarily I’d say Unix, not Linux. This time I
said Linux intentionally, because if you’re using
another form of Unix then you are already not the
average user.
When I first started using Linux very few
distributions shipped with sudo. If you needed to
do sysadmin type things then you used su in a
terminal and became root until you were done. The
thing is, people are lazy, and a lot of people
would just leave that root terminal running because
typing a password is so much work.
The first distro I personally saw that provided
sudo by default was Ubuntu. They also discouraged
the use of su to have a long running terminal by
providing a default configuration that did not add
your own personal user to the `wheel` group and
disallowed logging in as root graphically. Now,
they may very well not have been the first to go
down this route. They were the first that I
personally noticed. Over time, most Linux distros
have followed a similar path.
# ⚓ Re:_Ham_Radio,_Silent_Key_Archive⠀⇛
As a moderately new ham, got my ticket back in
2011, I have had the same thoughts wholesomedonut
has. Such a wonderful hobby that is filled with
aging hobbyists and dying knowledge. Discussions
online from younger generations tend to drift off
into annoyance with topics being had on the radio
and older operators getting annoyed that computers
are getting in the way with the bands being filled
with the sound of modems rather than voice and
Morse Code (CW). There is a good YouTube community
of operators trying to revive the hobby, though
revive may be the wrong word as numbers of new
licensees has increased over the past few decades.
While they all have been talking about why they get
annoyed with others in the hobby, I have been
thinking for quite some time why the hobby itself
may not last.
# ⚓ Going_Postel⠀⇛
A short summary of the above is to “reduce
ambiguity over time and create a healthy
ecosystem”. Nuance has been gained; various
downsides of “being liberal in what you accept”
have been noted. Old implementations were expected
to be conservative in what they sent, and to
silently discard unexpected inputs unless the
specification required an error message. The draft
instead recommends “active maintenance” instead of
an accumulation of tolerances for whatever wacky
things the other end might do.
# ⚓ quick_review:_isekai_nonbiri_nouka_and_tamayura:
hitotose.⠀⇛
A quick note before we start, this is an
experimental first post and does not represent what
this gemlog may look like in the future. I hope to
do more in depth analysis of more interesting
shows, or at least something better than this. So
consider sticking around for that. anyway, on with
the show.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ More_Running_Multiple_Servers⠀⇛
To continue my progress of replacing my
simple web pages with Gemini proxied capsules
I needed to get Kineto[1] to run multiple
instances pointing to different pages and
served on different ports. Only problem,
kineto doesn’t support config files and
systemd unit files kind of suck with a
dynamic layout.
I’ve never been a big fan of systemd. When
possible I’ve actively worked at not running
it. Making a monolith isn’t great but that it
the design that shows unseasoned developers.
A purely configuration based init system is
create when you have nothing special going on
but that is rarely the case.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Note_to_Self:_Git_Aliases⠀⇛
# ⚓ Sleep_deprived_musings_on_the_history_of_the_SCP
Wiki,_creative_writing,_community_contribution,_and
happiness,_and_coffee⠀⇛
An interesting set of essays about one of my
favorite collaborative fiction projects from
its earliest conceptions as a loose set of
4chan threads to a proper wiki akin to what
it is today. Also some juicy drama in there
if you have a taste for the flavor of petty
human interactions.
Oh and also noticed skylar’s capsule was
down, she has an excellent scp article – to –
gemtext converter service hosted on her
capsule which I like using every now and
then. Gemtext in Lagrange remains my favorite
way to read. Sent her a message, hopefully it
will be back up shortly.
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World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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