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⦿ The European Patent Office’s Central Staff Committee Explains the Situation at the EPO to the ’Yes Men’ of António Campinos (Who is Stacking All the Panels) | Techrights
⦿ GNU/Linux in Honduras: 10% Market Share? (Updated) | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 16, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ New Talk: Richard Stallman Explains His Problem With Rust (Trademark Restrictions), Openwashing (Including Linux Kernel), Machine Learning, and the JavaScript Trap | Techrights
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䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/03/17/central-staff-committee-on-team-campinos/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/17/honduras-gnu-linu/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/17/irc-log-160323/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/17/rms-talk-for-latest-perils/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/17/rms-talk-this-evening/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/03/17/centos-newsletter/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/17/john-deere-ongoing-gpl-violations/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/17/libressl-3-7-1-released/#comments
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✐ The_European_Patent_Office’s_Central_Staff_Committee_Explains_the_Situation
at_the_EPO_to_the_‘Yes_Men’of_António_Campinos(Who_is_Stacking_All_the
Panels)⠀✐
Posted in Europe, Patents at 3:57 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 59217133f9f9582b2c0934acb9c644a5
EPO and the GCC Meeting
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/epo-gcc-2023.webm
Summary: The EPO’s management is lying to staff (even right to their faces!)
and it is actively obstructing attempts to step back into compliance with the
law; elected staff representatives have produced detailed documents that
explain the nature of some of the problems they’re facing
THE document_discussed_above [PDF] is very long. It can help explain internal
EPO affairs to outsiders — i.e. people to whom EPO blunders are known only
through media channels (those that Benoît_Battistelli and António_Campinos have
not intimidated into silence with threats of lawsuits and various sanctions).
The Central Staff Committee (CSC) does a good job explaing the “hoax” studies
of the administration, pretending that the EPO is poor in order to lessen the
compensation to staff and thus deter/discourage properly-trainied and
experienced staff from joining/staying. Today’s EPO is gradually running out of
talent; as EPO insiders have warned repeatedly, this will result in further
collapses, including patent quality and validity issues (illegitimate patents
being granted, including European_software_patents). The biggest stakeholders
in the EPO have already complained about the quality of European Patents; they
too stand to lose because many of these patents can be used against them; only
patent litigation firms stand to benefit regardless of the merit of cases.
The “covering message” (like cover letter) for the above PDF stated what was
discussed, albeit the cronies of the President didn’t bother discussing much.
They just said “yes” to proposals. Here’s the outline:
§ Report on the GCC meeting of 28 February 2023⠀➾
Dear colleagues,
The following five items were on the agenda of the GCC meeting of 28
February 2023, on which the CSC members of the GCC raised their
concerns and tried to get further clarifications.
- Revision of Circular No. 364 – Implementation of the New Career
System – Rewards related amendments – for consultation GCC/DOC 02/
2023
- General Guidelines on Rewards 2023 (President’s Instructions on
Rewards) – for consultation GCC/DOC 03/2023
- Amendments of the Service Regulations related to the Staff
Committee Elections (CA/9/23) – for consultation GCC/DOC 04/2023
- GCC Rules of Procedure – for consultation GCC/DOC 05/2023
- Data Protection Framework for the Administrative Council and its
subsidiary bodies – for information GCC/DOC 06/2023
The detailed and reasoned opinions by the CSC members of the GCC can
be read in this paper.
The EPO is in a state of crisis because not only sceptics and critics are
becoming more vocal. Even longtime allies of the Office are growing_impatient.
We reproduce a recent letter below. █
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPO_quality_letter_page_1⦈_
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPO_quality_letter_page_2⦈_
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⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣙⣋⣹⣙⣩⣏⣉⣉⣉⣙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣙⣋⣹⣍⣋⣛⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⢻⠛⠛⠛⢋⠛⠙⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⡻⡟⠛⠛⠛⢻⠛⠛⠋⠛⢛⠏⠛⠛⠛⢻⡝⡛⠛⢿⢻⠛⠛⠋⢻⠙⠛⡟⠛⠋⠛⠛⠹⠛⠛⠛⠛⢻⢛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⡟⢻⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿
⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠛⠛⢻⡛⠛⠛⠙⠛⡟⠛⠛⠛⠛⣻⠃⠛⡟⡛⠟⢿⠛⠛⡟⠙⢻⠛⡛⢻⠛⠛⡟⠛⠛⠹⡟⠛⢻⠛⠛⡟⠛⠛⠛⡟⡛⠛⡛⠚⡟⠛⠛⠛⠛⢻⠛⠓⢛⠛⠻⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢻⣿
⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡗⠛⢛⠛⡛⠛⠛⠛⠓⡟⠛⢻⠛⠛⡟⠛⠛⠛⠛⡟⠛⡛⢛⠛⠛⠛⠛⡛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣯⣥⣥⣤⣤⣼⣤⣄⣤⣥⣤⣤⣥⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣤⣤⣠⣤⣤⣼⣤⣥⣧⣼⣠⣤⣤⣦⣤⣴⣠⣤⣤⣤⣦⣥⣤⣥⣴⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣦⣤⣤⣷⣤⣼⣦⣥⣄⣥⣤⣥⣬⣿⣿⣿⣿
⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣤⣤⣼⣬⣤⣬⣤⣤⣤⣠⣴⣤⣼⣦⣴⣤⣤⣼⣤⣤⣥⣬⣤⣬⣤⣵⣬⣤⣤⣤⣧⣤⣶⣥⣼⣤⣼⣴⣤⣤⣌⣧⣤⣼⣤⣾⣴⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣬⣤⣥⣬⣤⣤⣭⣦⣬⣤⣬⣴⣤⣼⣿⣿
⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣥⣼⣤⣤⣬⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣴⣤⣬⣤⣦⣤⣤⣠⣬⣠⣤⣤⣎⣷⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣧⣤⣬⣬⣥⣾⣥⣤⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣭⣤⣯⣠⣥⣤⣠⣤⣥⣬⣤⣤⣹⣤⣵⣯⣥⣤⣥⣼⣤⣤⣽⣿⣿⣿
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⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣥⣭⣤⣧⣤⣦⣧⣭⣼⣤⣥⣥⣵⣄⣠⣤⣭⣾⣬⣦⣭⣶⣤⣅⣧⣼⣤⣤⣧⣤⣆⣾⣤⣬⣾⣤⣌⣠⣭⣤⣄⣡⣬⣼⣬⣥⣭⣷⣧⣥⣤⣭⣭⣥⣤⣮⣥⣭⣽⣭⣼⣯⣥⣬⣥⣿⣿⣿⣿
⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣡⣩⣬⣭⣤⣮⣥⣻⣬⣭⣭⣭⣬⣻⣭⣼⣭⣬⣧⣌⣩⣌⣯⣬⣩⣬⣽⣭⣭⣯⣭⣍⣭⣬⣭⣼⣭⣶⣭⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠿⡿⠿⠟⠟⠿⠿⠻⠿⠟⡟⠿⠿⠟⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⢿⠻⠿⠻⠿⠻⠿⠿⠿⠻⠿⠿⢿⠿⢻⢿⠿⠿⠿⠻⡿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⢿⡿⠿⡟⠿⠟⠟⠿⠿⠟⠿⣿⣿
⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠶⠷⠶⢶⠶⠶⠲⠶⠶⠶⠳⠶⡶⠶⡷⠶⠷⠒⠿⠶⢲⠾⠶⡖⠲⡲⠖⠾⠶⠶⠶⠾⢲⠾⡶⠶⢿⠶⠖⡶⠶⠷⢶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣷⣷⣷⣾⣶⣷⣷⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿
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⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢿⣿⣏⠛⠛⠙⠙⡟⡟⢛⠛⠋⢻⠟⠙⣻⠛⠋⣏⠛⣏⠻⢹⠋⠋⠛⠛⡛⠛⠛⡏⢛⠋⠋⠟⠉⢿⠉⡏⠉⡏⢉⠩⠛⢛⠋⡟⡟⢛⠛⠛⡛⢛⠛⠋⠛⠛⢛⠋⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢿⣿⡏⠙⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⡟⠋⠙⢛⠛⠛⠛⢹⠋⠛⠛⠛⠛⡟⡛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢿⣿⣏⠛⠛⠙⠙⡛⠛⢛⡋⠛⠛⢻⠛⠙⢹⠛⠟⠏⠉⠋⠛⠛⡟⠛⠛⠛⣛⡟⠋⠙⢛⠛⢻⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⡟⠛⡟⠋⠋⡟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢛⠛⡛⠛⡛⡟⠛⠛⠋⢻⣿⣿⣿
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✐ GNU/Linux_in_Honduras:_10%Market_Share?(Updated)⠀✐
Posted in America at 6:22 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
As per the latest_statistics
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇GNU/Linux_in_Honduras⦈_
Update: ‘Psydroid’ has just pointed out (in IRC) that in_the_United_States_(US)
ChromeOS + GNU/Linux have a market share greater than 10% and Windows is
installed on barely half of laptops/desktops. ChromeOS is technically GNU/Linux
with lots of malware preloaded, but it’s still a kind of Gentoo and thus it’s
fair to say that in the US the share of GNU/Linux is now about 10% or more. If
one counts Android too (Android is powered by Linux), then “Linux” almost has
majority market share in the US.
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Summary: Richard Stallman’s talk is now available above (skip to 18:20 to get
to the talk; the volume was improved over time, corrected at the sender’s end)
The video above is a recording of the talk Richard M. Stallman (RMS) gave some
hours ago. It was a live stream, broadcast by the Free Software Foundation. He
founded it many years ago (the GNU Project turns 40 later this year and he
turned 70 yesterday). The talk itself starts about 20 minutes into the video
above; I had started recording about 15 minutes before the scheduled time of
the talk.
At the start, Dr. Stallman notes that he cannot comment much about technical
aspects of Rust, but he remains concerned (for a year already) about the
trademark aspects. He is still receiving no clarification or assurances on the
matter. Previously he suggested forking it and calling it something like
“crust” (in a talk or a session he did with several Brazilian hackers).
“Openwashing” is not alluded to by that name. But he explains why Linux (the
kernel) is non-free. He then comments on Debian including blobs in the
installer (as of months ago). He mentions “Respect(s) Your Freedom” and alludes
to various peripherals with code inside them. He suggests not being too
judgemental of such microprocessors. Cameras, keyboards, and memory sticks, he
says, typically have some small computers in them. “Our ultimate goal is that
all those should contain free software also,” he stresses. To quote: “We hope
to hope that in the future we’ll be able to [...] replace the non-free programs
at a lower level of the products.”
He asks for a distinction between software coming inside a piece of hardware
and stuff the user adds to it later. These are growing challenges.
He speaks of Machine Learning and rejects the term “AI” (“Hey Hi!”). He
compares it to “dissociated press” — a very old term, not a buzzword or a
misnomer. It’s not just the name of Zonker’s_site (Joe Brockmeier — formerly of
Slashdot, Novell, Red Hat and more). He says that accuracy matters less in the
case of art (like images) so generative algorithms may be OK, but he rejects
chatbots the way Microsoft does that and hypes it up. He’s not impressed by the
idea and warns about privacy aspects. He refers to Uber as “Guber” because it
gives drivers “peanuts”.
“He says that visa or passport applications in the US require proprietary
software on the site (JavaScript).”About 25 minutes into his talk the subject
of “apps” (for so-called ‘smart’ phones) is brought up. He explains that many
“smart” things are “full of malware” and “locked down”, designed to “attack
freedom”. He cites the “war on drugs” to explain that prohibiting things that
hurt society may lead to negative consequences. He wants to “divert society
away” from proprietary software without it becoming oppressive (like bans).
Governments should offer “freedom-respecting” ways of doing things, he says. He
contacts some sites and public organisations by telephone, complaining about
sites that impede Free software users, e.g. for a bus schedule. JavaScript is
among his concerns. Days ago he explained to me that he was moving away from
SearX due to JavaScript being harder to avoid.
He says that visa or passport applications in the US require proprietary
software on the site (JavaScript). “I cannot sent a message to my congressional
representatives,” he notes. He does not like how academic conferences are often
done over Zoom. “I push on this whenever I have the opportunity to,” he says.
“He cautions against becoming “a society of sheeple”.”He complains about
“thought monitoring” systems and schools that use FUD to prevent students using
GNU/Linux — pupils who are connecting to the network with GNU/Linux-running
devices. He gives some examples of the FUD he has heard of. He wants to
encourage people to compete over comebacks — or ways to overcome such FUD
tactics.
He cautions against becoming “a society of sheeple”. He says that visa or
passport applications in the US require proprietary software on the site
(JavaScript).
He finally (towards the end) makes a call for speaking invitations. He wants to
be invited to speak and he repeatedly recommends a_site_which_debunks
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Summary: Tonight in Europe or this afternoon in America Richard M. Stallman
(RMS), who turned 70 yesterday, gives a talk
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is hosting a talk by Richard M. Stallman on
March 17, 2023 at 15:00 EDT (19:00 UTC).
Mar 17, 2023
When
from
03:00 PM to
04:15 PM
Contact Name Miriam_Bastian
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is hosting a talk by Richard M. Stallman
(RMS) on March 17, 2023 from 15:00 to 16:15 EDT (19:00 – 20:15 UTC) in
Somerville, MA. Since LibrePlanet will take place on the following two days
(March 18 and 19), we hope that you’ll be in town. We have a limited amount of
space for an in-person audience, so please sign_up_today if you’d like to see
this talk in person.
The talk is entitled “A tour of malicious software, with a typical cell phone
as example.” Richard Stallman will be speaking about the free software movement
and your freedom. His speech will be nontechnical, admission is gratis, and the
public is encouraged to attend online. We will also broadcast the talk at
fsf.org/live. Remote attendees can ask questions in the #fsf channel of the
Libera.chat IRC network.
Details to the in-person event will be shared upon registration. Please note
that in-person attendees will be required to wear a mask, and other mandatory
coronavirus precautions may be put in place prior to the event.
If you have any questions about the event itself, please write
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Applications
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Proprietary
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ The_System76_Meerkat_Is_a_Tiny_PC_Built_for
Linux⠀⇛
System76 is one of the few PC manufacturers with a
focus on excellent Linux support, with a wide range
of desktops and laptops. Now the company has
brought back the “Meerkat,” a compact PC built for
Linux.
System76 first introduced the Meerkat in 2009,
which was advertised as a “NetTop” (remember
those?), and has gone in and out of production over
the years with occasional hardware upgrades. The
tiny PC is once again available for purchase, this
time with your choice of 10th, 11th, or 12th Gen
Intel Core processors. There are two sizes: a
“short” model (1.42 inches tall) with only one M.2
drive slot, and the “tall” version (2 inches tall)
adds a 2.5-inch drive bay for extra storage
capacity. Both versions are 4.6 x 4.41 inches
across.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Excellent_Utilities:_nvitop_–_GPU_process
management⠀⇛
This utility is automatically installed with the
NVIDIA drivers and lets users query and modify the
GPU device state. While it’s probably the most well
known NVIDIA monitoring tool, there are many other
(and superior) tools available.
nvitop is an interactive NVIDIA device and process
monitoring tool and bills itself as “the one-stop
solution for GPU process management”. Like nvidia-
smi, nvitop is built on top of NVML, but the tool
offers a lot more functionality. It’s free and open
source software written in Python.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Micro_5.4
Public_RC_is_out⠀⇛
We are thrilled to announce the Public Release
Candidate (RC 2) of SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
5.4!
SLE Micro is an ultra-reliable, lightweight
operating system purpose built for edge computing.
Please check out our Product page to learn more,
but for the beta program, please refer to our
dedicated beta page.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ CentOS ☛ CentOS_Newsletter,_March_2023⠀⇛
March 2023 Newsletter Brian Stinson announced that
CentOS Stream 8 is transitioning to being ahead of
RHEL8. This aligns CentOS Stream 8 with the CentOS
Stream 9 workflow. Troy Dawson announced that EPEL
8 Modules are now retired. There was a web+docs
meetup in Brussels. Shaun McCance posted a recap to
centos-promo.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ UNIX_co-creator_Ken_Thompson_is…_a_what
user?_•_The_Register⠀⇛
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ PC Mag ☛ Google_Finds_Dozens_of_Android_Devices_Can_Be
‘Silently’_Compromised_|_PCMag⠀⇛
# ⚓ Top_7_Ways_to_Fix_Notification_Badges_Not_Showing_on
Android_–_Guiding_Tech⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ Android_14_Will_Make_It_Easier_To_Prevent_Low
Battery_Shutdowns_–_Gizchina.com⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_A7_Lite_vs._Tab_A7:
Which_tablet_should_you_buy?⠀⇛
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ NASA_reveals_spacesuit_for_mission_that_could_be
worn_by_first_woman_on_the_moon⠀⇛
NASA and Axiom_Space unveiled Wednesday the first
prototype of a “next generation” spacesuit for
humanity’s return to the moon in 2025 during an
event in Houston, Texas.
Why it matters:The suits_will_be_key to NASA’s
plans to send people to the Moon and the space
agency has pledged to send the_first woman and
first person of color to the Moon on the Artemis
missions.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Samsung_to_spend_$230B_on_new_chip
manufacturing_hub_in_South_Korea⠀⇛
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will spend 300
trillion won, or about $230 billion, over the next
two decades to build a new chip manufacturing hub
in South Korea. The hub, which will be located near
Seoul, is reportedly set to house five
semiconductor plants.
§ Proprietary⠀➾
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Study_finds_humans_beat_ChatGPT_when_creating_phishing
attacks [Ed: Chatbots of Microsoft are worthless hype]⠀⇛
Cybersecurity training services company Hoxhunt Ltd. today
released the findings of a new study into the effectiveness of
ChatGPT-generated phishing attacks, and though the technology
continues to improve, humans actually delivered better results.
§ Defence/Aggression⠀➾
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ One_Person_Killed,_Two_Injured_In_Fire_At_Russian_FSB_Compound
Near_Ukrainian_Border⠀⇛
One person has been killed and two injured by a fire that broke
out in the compound of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in
the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ North_Korea_says_ICBM_test_aimed_to_strike_fear
into_enemies⠀⇛
North Korea says it fired an intercontinental ballistic missile
to “strike fear into the enemies” as the United States and its
allies staged military exercises. The launch occurred hours
before South Korea and Japan agreed to work closely on regional
security with the United States. With four missile displays in
about a week, North Korea has ratcheted up its response to the
biggest U.S.-South Korean military drills in years.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Two_Americas_Index:_Ukraine_divides_conservatives⠀⇛
Four in five Republicans want the U.S. to remain the world’s
leading power — but fewer than half support giving Ukraine
weapons and financial support to try to save itself from
Russia, according to the latest wave of the Axios-Ipsos_Two
Americas_Index.
Why it matters: These conflicting findings come amid a
diplomatic crisis after Russia forced down a U.S. drone above
the Black Sea — and a GOP identity crisis shaping the 2024
presidential race.
§ Environment⠀➾
* ⚓ Turkey_saw_record_number_of_extreme_weather_events_in_2022⠀⇛
Extreme rainfall and floods made up 33.6 percent of all events.
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ Breach Media ☛ Canada’s_plan_to_“clean_up”_the_oil_sands⠀⇛
An ad from the Canadian government that is refreshingly
honest
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ Axios ☛ How_banking_turmoil_is_changing_the_economic_outlook⠀⇛
A handful of large,_troubled_U.S._regional_banks — and maybe
one really_big_European_one — may well accomplish what the
mighty Federal Reserve couldn’t on its own: tightening the
financial screws enough to slow down economic activity in a
meaningful way.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Toys_R_Us_shut_down_its_store_24_hours_after_its_re-entry_into
India⠀⇛
Toys R Us had to close down its only store in India a mere 24
hours after it was opened last week, as part of the US toy
giant’s re-entry into the country.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ American_egg_prices_are_sending_a_signal_to_the_Federal
Reserve⠀⇛
The average prices that US companies paid for goods and
services decreased by 0.1% from January to February, according
to new_producer_price_index_data from the US Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS). The decrease was led by the cost of goods
falling 0.2%, while the price of services fell by 0.1%.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ US_Politicians_Ratchet_Up_Blame_Game_After_SVB_Collapse⠀⇛
The 16th-largest bank in the United States was shut down on
March 10 after depositors rushed to withdraw funds amid
concerns about the bank’s balance sheet.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Indian_banking_saw_a_40%_increase_in_wilful_defaults_in_two
years⠀⇛
Indian banks have managed to bring down non-performing loans
(NPA) in two years, but their wilful defaults rose by 38.5%, or
$11.4 billion.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ French_PM_To_Force_Passage_of_Pension_Reform_Bill⠀⇛
On Thursday morning, the French Senate adopted the definitive
version of the pension reform bill, which will raise the
retirement age by two years to 64 from 2027.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ SVB_Crisis_Highlights_Importance_of_Banking_Regulation⠀⇛
Talking about the root cause of SVB’s collapse, Scott Davies,
founder of CDAM, an investment management firm in London,
argued that the bank’s management should take most of the
blame, followed by the changed regulation and by the Federal
Reserve’s interest rate hikes.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Aggressive_US_Rate_Hikes_Blamed_for_Silicon_Valley_Bank
Debacle⠀⇛
Neil Shearing, chief economist at Capital Economics
consultancy, argued on Monday that more than half the effects
on the real economy of higher interest in developed markets
have yet to be felt.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Credit_Suisse_Announces_Multibillion-dollar_Loan_From_SNB⠀⇛
Switzerland’s second-largest bank saw its shares fall to an
all-time low on Wednesday, down 30 percent.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Proposed_Pay_Deal_Between_Striking_Uk_Health_Workers_And
Govt.⠀⇛
The pay proposal will have to be approved by a vote of union
members.
* ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Load-shedding_and_financially_struggling_users_are
negatively_affecting_DStv,_even_in_SA⠀⇛
Running a successful business is no easy task, most companies
fail. Running a successful business in Africa requires prayer
and fasting.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ French_President_Macron_Approves_the_Pension_Reform_by
Decree⠀⇛
He will enact the reform by deploying the special powers
granted to him by the Constitution.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Government_reportedly_gives_TikTok_an_ultimatum:_Sell
US_business_or_be_banned⠀⇛
Rarely does history repeat itself so quickly, but a report
today suggesting that the Biden administration has demanded
that ByteDance Ltd. sell their stake in TikTok or face being
banned in the U.S. comes just two years after the Trump
administration tried to do nearly the same thing.
⚓ Axios ☛ Democrats_now_sympathize_more_with_Palestinians_than_Israelis,_poll
finds⠀⇛
Views of the Israeli-Palestinian_conflict have shifted sharply among
Democrats, who said they sympathized more with Palestinians than
Israelis for the first time in an annual Gallup_survey.
⚓ Axios ☛ U.S._tells_TikTok_owners_to_sell_app_or_face_a_ban⠀⇛
The Biden Administration has warned TikTok that it faces a ban in the
U.S. if its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, does not sell its
stake in the U.S. version of the app, a source confirmed to Axios.
Why it matters: TikTok has become one of the most popular mobile apps
in the country, amassing over 100 million U.S. users. Banning it
would have an immediate impact on millions of everyday Americans, and
would mark a significant escalation of tensions between China and the
U.S.
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ Investigation_about_journalist_closes_after_seven_years⠀⇛
“It was decided that there was no need for a public inquiry
into the related event,” says the notification sent seven years
later to the journalist who was investigated after reporting a
demonstration in Kars.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ In_Israel,_TV’s_dystopian_‘Handmaids’_is_protest
fixture⠀⇛
Coils of red-robed and white-capped women are becoming ominous
fixtures of the mass anti-government protests roiling Israel.
Heads bowed and hands clasped, they are dressed as characters
from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale,”
and are growing in numbers as the protests against Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies intensify. They say they
are trying to ward off what they believe will be a dark future
— much like the novel’s chilling dystopia where women are
stripped of their rights — if the government follows through on
its plan to overhaul the judiciary.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ China_leader_Xi_to_visit_Moscow_in_show_of
support_for_Putin⠀⇛
China says President Xi Jinping will visit Russia from Monday
to Wednesday in an apparent show of support for Vladimir Putin.
No other details were given, but China has declared a “no-
limits” friendship with Russia and refused to condemn Moscow’s
invasion _ even while declaring that the sovereignty and
territorial integrity of all countries be respected. Beijing
has also condemned Western sanctions and accused NATO and the
United States of provoking Russia. Putin invited Xi to visit
Russia during a video conference call the two held in late
December.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ APNIC ☛ Making_a_difference_for_women_in_the_Australian_Internet
industry⠀⇛
Guest Post: Build important skills that support career
advancement in the IAASysters Workshop.
* ⚓ APNIC ☛ Telekom_Malaysia’s_IPv6_readiness_journey⠀⇛
Guest Post: For Telekom Malaysia, deploying IPv6 was a case of
making the most of available resources.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ 2023-03-17_🔤SpellBinding:_UFGHINC_Wordo:_CRORE⠀⇛
o ⚓ Playing_cards_with_indicators_along_one_edge⠀⇛
Minimalists want indicators along as few corners as
possible (if any… grumble grumble).
Lefties want indicators in opposite corners so they can
fan the cards in the opposite direction.
o ⚓ odd_little_film⠀⇛
I was trying to find something worth watching on my
neglected Tubi account and after some awful false starts
(tip: much of Bryan Cranston’s early work is best missed,
though it’s not his fault) I found a budget production
called “Big Dark Energy” and was drawn in by the
soundtrack (sounds like throat-singing in parts).
o ⚓ (privileged)_work_gripes⠀⇛
I’ve been growing a little more unsatisfied with my work
lately. I’ve been working there for nearly 2 years now,
and generally, it is a comfortable job. Office job, home
office 3x a week, lots of union protections and rights,
flextime, nice coworkers, fair pay. I can call in sick
for 3 days without a doctors note and only need one at
the 4th. I get 30 days PTO a year and can take some over
from the previous year, and we have no limited sick days.
I have my own solo office – with walls, we do not have
large offices with cubicles. We even have a sensible
mission that I stand behind and my work actually leaves
somewhat of a mark and ensures the safety of society in a
specific way. I contribute my part to that.
The work I get, what I actually get to see and handle, is
very interesting to me. I enjoy seeing and reading it,
and managing it.
o ⚓ Life’s_Not_Too_Bad⠀⇛
Since late last year life’s been going pretty well.
Things that used to weigh heavily on my mind are no
longer so burdensome. I’ve reclaimed my ‘live in the
moment’ attitude and energy. I’m currently neck-deep in
trying to start my career (again), and I’m
uncharacteristically optimistic about how things will go
over the next couple of months.
I read this interesting article in Neuroscience News that
talked about how our perception of time is directly
linked to our heartbeat. I thought it was fascinating and
that it totally tracks with my own lived experience.
When I look back at times of stress and anxiety in my
life, my perception of time was all over the place.
Between feeling like I didn’t have enough time to
accomplish what I needed to accomplish while also feeling
like every day was a slog, it makes sense that my skewed
sense of time could be linked to an erratic heart rate.
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ Would_You_Like_an_OpenTTD_Save_Game?⠀⇛
This game really deserves more players. It’s absolutely
amazing. OpenTTD owns my heart and soul nowadays.
I’ve come to understand that most new players struggle to
make a profit, and I assume some give up out of
frustration and quit early on. When I started some 6-
7 months ago I made a loss in my first game, but then
read up a bit on how it works. I’m getting pretty good at
it now.
The least thrilling part of the game is that time between
starting a new game and getting the finances going at a
level where you can’t feasibly spend money as fast as
it’s rolling in. I have no idea what the common length of
that time is, but when starting in 1950 I usually make
between $600k-$1000k in the year 1953. By 1955 I’m
guaranteed to make more than a million per year.
o ⚓ Forced_Obsolescence_Hurts_Security⠀⇛
Project Zero at Google has reported a number of
exceptionally severe vulnerabilities in Samsung’s modem
stack, allowing remote code execution with no information
other than a victim’s phone number.
o ⚓ Setting_up_GNU_Emacs_for_Speedata_Publisher⠀⇛
If you follow my “Pebcak’s diary” you already knew that I
am trying to learn these high-level TeX implementations,
such as ConTeXt and Speedata Publisher.
The latter is especially challenging since works
exclusively with “XML Schema” and I found very few native
opensource editors able to work with this XML variation.
o ⚓ The_Grand_Code_Restructuring⠀⇛
In general I don’t like to fuss over code, but this is
exactly what I’ve been doing in preparation of the NLnet
funded work. I’ve spent the last month restructuring
Marginalia’s code base. It’s not completely done, but
I’ve made great headway.
Things got the way they got because in general for
experimental solo-development projects, I think it makes
sense to be fairly tolerant of technical debt.
Since refactoring is something that is extremely
difficult to break up into parallel tracks or do in small
iterations, the cost of refactoring is effectively
multiplied by the number of people that could be working
on the code.
It’s a bit like Amdahl’s Law applied to project
management. When leaning into this, it allows smaller
solo projects to be be extremely nimble compared to
larger projects. Refactoring is very cheap when you’re
working alone because there is no resource contention.
This may seem a weird notion if you’re coming from
working mostly on large projects where any technical debt
is nearly irreversible, but that’s mostly a problem of
large scale software development.
o § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Rainy⠀⇛
I found a CodePen the other day that showed a
method for a rain effect on a web page. I like it a
lot, so I’ve modified it to work without a pre-
processor, and included instructions for how to add
it to a Midnight page (or any other, for that
matter). There are, of course, plenty of other ways
to play with it. I’ve tried to make it as simple as
possible to customize the basics, but going beyond
that will require at least some knowledge of
JavaScript and/or CSS.
# ⚓ Man._We__really__don’t_know_git.⠀⇛
I read through this and couldn’t help but just
shrug and say, “same.” My college education never
mentioned git. Ever. I wound up in some advanced
classes early on, and wound up doing some actual
programming with open-ended results (not workshop
“program this thing the instructor said to do” kind
of drivel). I was working with classmates older
both in terms of their progress toward degrees and
in chronological age.
**Nobody else knew how git worked.** And the only
reason I did is having fallen down the Linux rabbit
hole years prior to that, and wound up picking up
some _very_ basic (read: I didn’t even branch
things properly or grasp what atomic commits were
and how awesome they are) skills with source
control in general.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Kernel_Space
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o FSF
o Licensing_/_Legal
o Programming/Development
# Python
# Java
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Trademarks
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Politics
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Amazon ☛ Amazon_Linux_2023,_a_Cloud-Optimized_Linux
Distribution_with_Long-Term_Support⠀⇛
I am excited to announce the general availability
of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). AWS has provided you
with a cloud-optimized Linux distribution since
2010. This is the third generation of our Amazon
Linux distributions.
Every generation of Amazon Linux distribution is
secured, optimized for the cloud, and receives
long-term AWS support. We built Amazon Linux 2023
on these principles, and we go even further.
Deploying your workloads on Amazon Linux 2023 gives
you three major benefits: a high-security standard,
a predictable lifecycle, and a consistent update
experience.
Let’s look at security first. Amazon Linux 2023
includes preconfigured security policies that make
it easy for you to implement common industry
guidelines. You can configure these policies at
launch time or run time.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Amazon_Linux_2023_released⠀⇛
Amazon has released a new version of its vaguely
Fedora-based, cloud-optimized distribution.
# ⚓ Help Net Security ☛ Amazon_Linux_2023:_Create_and_execute
cloud-based_applications_with_enhanced_security⠀⇛
Amazon Linux 2023 is provided at no additional
charge. Standard Amazon EC2 and AWS charges apply
for running EC2 instances and other services. This
distribution includes full support for five years.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ The_rest_of_the_6.3_merge_window⠀⇛
Linus Torvalds released 6.3-rc1 and closed the 6.3
merge window as expected on March 5. By that time,
12,717 non-merge commits (and 848 merges) had found
their way into the mainline kernel; nearly 7,000 of
those commits came in after the first-half merge-
window summary was written. The second half of the
6.3 merge window was thus a busy time, with quite a
bit of new functionality landing in the mainline.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Kernel_time_APIs_for_Rust⠀⇛
While the 6.3 kernel has gained more support for
the Rust language, it still remains true that there
is little that can be done in Rust beyond the
creation of a “hello world” module. That
functionality was already available in C, of
course, with a level of safety similar to what Rust
can provide. Interest is growing, though, in
merging actually useful modules written in Rust;
that will require some more capable infrastructure
than is currently present. A recent discussion on
the handling of time values in Rust demonstrates
the challenges — and opportunities — inherent in
this effort.
Asahi Lina, who is implementing a graphics driver
for Apple hardware in Rust, has posted a number of
pieces of Rust infrastructure, including a module
for timekeeping functions.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ NFS_filehandles_from_Linux_NFS
servers_can_be_client_specific⠀⇛
The ultimate cause of this is Linux’s NFS export
permissions model. In many NFS servers, export
settings are attached to the export point, such as
/w/435, and these settings include what clients
have access and so on. In Linux, you have things,
such as netgroups, that have a collection of export
settings for a particular export point. This
creates a natural model for giving different
clients different sets of permissions and
attributes, but it also means that all export
attributes are per-client, including ones such as
fsid=. And since the filesystem id is necessarily
part of the NFS filehandle, NFS filehandles as a
whole can be different between different clients.
# ⚓ Doug Brown ☛ Upgrading_my_Chumby_8_kernel_part_4:_reboot/
poweroff⠀⇛
I actually implemented it in U-Boot first, but I
thought the Linux side of it would be more fun to
share. If you want to see what was involved on the
U-Boot side, see this commit from my fork of U-
Boot.
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Create_Installable_ISO_From_A_Linux
System_With_Penguins-eggs⠀⇛
Penguins -eggs is a console utility that allows you
to remaster your Linux system and create an
installable ISO from the live system. Using
Penguins-eggs, you can create both live and
installable version of your current Linux machine,
with or without user data.
Penguins-eggs creates a compressed filesystem from
your current Linux system by removing user data and
the users. You can then fully customize the
resulting ISO with themes and addons to make it
look like your own Linux distribution.
To put this in layman terms, you can backup your
whole install, including all of your personal data
(files, documents, PDFs, music, videos…etc), that
is currently running right now on your internal
SSD/HDD and create an ISO. You can put the ISO in
your external USB and carry a live operating
system. Just plug the USB, boot the ISO and start
using your portable Linux operating system
anywhere. It’s that simple!
# ⚓ 3_ways_to_install_PHPUnit_in_Ubuntu_22.04_or_20.04_LTS⠀⇛
PHPUnit is a software testing framework published
under a GPL license for PHP coders. It is popular
among PHP developers to write custom tests for
their code to benchmark its performance.
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ How_to_share_folders_to_your_network_from_Linux⠀⇛
If you need to share files and folders with other
users on your network from your Linux desktop, we
can walk you through the process.
# ⚓ What_is_the_Tar_command_in_Linux?⠀⇛
The tar in Linux is a commonly used lightweight
command line tool for creating file archives and
compressing them. Not only for archiving, but users
can also use it for extracting, and manipulating
existing archives as well.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_Microsoft_SQL_Server
on_Debian_11 [Ed: This is proprietary software of a company
that attacks Linux and this software does not even run
natively on GNU/Linux]⠀⇛
MSSQL Server or Microsoft SQL Server is an RDBMS
(Relational Database Management System) developed
by Microsoft. This tutorial will show you how to
install and use Microsoft SQL Server on Debian 11.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_install_OTRS_(OpenSource_Trouble
Ticket_System)_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
OTRS is an open-source Ticket Request System that
helps organizations process customer tickets and
requests. This post will explain how to install
OTRS on Debian 11 server.
# ⚓ Beebom ☛ How_to_Rename_a_Directory_in_Linux⠀⇛
In Linux, directories (or folders) are an essential
part of the file system and renaming directories
can be useful when organizing your files. While it
is a simple task, and there are Linux Terminal
commands to make it even easier for you, things
might get confusing initially if you are a
beginner. Renaming a directory in Linux is a simple
process that can be done using the command-line or
the graphical interface. In this article, we will
show you how to rename a directory in Linux using
both of these methods.
# ⚓ Network World ☛ Using_the_at_command_to_schedule_tasks_on
Linux⠀⇛
To schedule a command or script to run at some
particular time, the at command is perfect and
provides many options for specifying the time you
want it to run. It will set the task up to be run
whenever you specify, and you can view the
scheduled tasks or even change your mind and cancel
one of them as you see fit.
The at command differs from cron in that it sets up
a command or script to run only once, while cron
allows you to set up commands or scripts to be run
on a specified schedule – whether every day, once a
week, a couple times a month or even just once a
year.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_List_All_User_Groups_on_Linux⠀⇛
User groups on Linux help you define a set of
permissions that you can then impose on other
users. Unix and Linux come with some pre-configured
user groups, and as an administrator, it’s easy to
create additional groups to further categorize and
manage users.
But before creating a new group, you’d want to know
more about the existing ones. Luckily, there are
several ways to list all user groups present on
Linux, and you can even view the list of groups a
specific user is a part of. Let’s get started.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Terminal_Basics_Series_#5:_View_the_File
Contents_in_Linux⠀⇛
In this chapter of the Terminal Basics series,
you’ll learn about viewing the contents of files in
the Linux command line.
# ⚓ 2023-03-13How_To_Turn_Your_Current_System_To_An_Installable
ISO_(For_Debian,_Ubuntu,_Arch_Linux_and_Manjaro)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Install_NTP_Server_and_Client(s)_on_Ubuntu
22.04_LTS⠀⇛
NTP or Network Time Protocol is a protocol that is
used to synchronize all system clocks in a network
to use the same time. When we use the term NTP, we
are referring to the protocol itself and also the
client and server programs running on the networked
computers. NTP belongs to the traditional TCP/IP
protocol suite and can easily be classified as one
of its oldest parts.
When you are initially setting up the clock to sync
with NTP, it takes six exchanges within 5 to 10
minutes before the clock is set up. Once the clocks
in a network are synchronized, the client(s) update
their clocks with the server once every 10 minutes.
This is usually done through a single exchange of
messages (transaction). These transactions use port
number 123 of your system.
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Create_An_Online_Dictionary_with
Dico_in_Linux⠀⇛
Dico is a modern implementation of the traditional
DICT protocol. It aims to create a fully modular
dictionary server software that you can host almost
anywhere.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ KDE ☛ Adapting_Standard_Usage_Scenario_Scripts_For
KDE_Applications:_My_Journey_As_A_Season_Of_KDE
Mentee⠀⇛
§ My Journey into the KDE Community: From
Season of KDE Application to Mentee
The notification about the Season of KDE
program arrived like a ray of sunshine on a
dreary day, and I eagerly clicked on it to
see what opportunities it held. Amidst the
many exciting project ideas, the Blue Angel
Certification Preparation for KDE
applications stood out to me as a challenge
worth pursuing. I took the first step towards
realizing my goal by engaging in a
conversation with the community and making
some initial contributions to FEEP. On
January 24th, the selected candidates were
announced. My heart was pounding as I scanned
the list of names, and when I saw mine, I let
out a cheer! Being accepted as a mentee in
the KDE community was a great start to the
year 2023.
For the project, I will be using emulation
tools such as xdotool and KDE Eco Tester to
finish preparation of usage scenario scripts
needed to measure KDE applications such as
Kate and GCompris. To help guide my work, my
mentor and I created a to-do list based on my
proposed timeline and we selected the KDE
infrastructure to manage the checklist of
tasks. This was my first exposure to the
diverse range of applications and platforms
provided by KDE for the community.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ GNOME ☛ Martín_Abente_Lahaye:_Portfolio_0.9.15⠀⇛
In terms of visuals, by popular demand, the
most notable change is the use of regular
icons for the files browser view. It should
be easier now to quickly catch what each file
is about. Thanks to @AngelTomkins for the
initial implementation, @Exalm for helping
with the reviews, and to the GNOME design
team for such lovely new icons.
Another addition is support for system-wide
style management. This is specially useful
now that desktops like GNOME provide quick
toggle buttons to switch between dark and
light modes. Thanks to @pabloyoyoista for the
initial implementation.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ New_Linux_Distro_for_Ethical_Hackers_Now_Available⠀⇛
Kali Linux, the open-source Linux distribution that
specializes in ethical hacking, has released its
first 2023 edition. This marks the tenth
anniversary of Kali Linux and comes with a host of
new features and updates. One of the most
significant updates is the introduction of Kali
Purple, a feature designed for defensive security.
Kali Linux has always been known for its offensive
security capabilities, making it accessible to
everyone without the need for expensive licenses,
infrastructure, or coding knowledge. With Kali
Purple, the organization hopes to do the same for
defensive security.
Kali Purple is still in preview mode, and Kali
Linux is keen to stress that it needs time to
mature. The organization has set up a dedicated
community wiki page and hopes to grow a community
on Discord channels.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Removing_support_for_DeltaRPMs_in_Fedora⠀⇛
Way back in 2009, we looked at the presto plugin
for yum, which added support for DeltaRPMs to
Fedora. That package format allows just the binary
differences (i.e. the delta) between an installed
RPM and its update to be transmitted, which saves
network bandwidth; the receiving system then
creates the new RPM from those two pieces before
installing it. Support for DeltaRPMs was eventually
added to the distribution by default, though the
feature has never really lived up to
expectations—and hopes. Now, it would seem that
Fedora is ready to, in the words of project leader
Matthew Miller, “”give DeltaRPMs a sad, fond
farewell””.
Miller raised the question of retiring DeltaRPMs in
a February 21 post to the Fedora devel mailing
list. He pointed to a five-year-old open bug report
that described problems with retaining the .drpm
files for packages due to the way the Pungi
distribution composer works. Miller also noted that
a thread from 2021 discussing “deltarpm
usefulness?” did not come to any firm decision.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Women_in_tech_who_inspired_us⠀⇛
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 3_technologies_that_boost
organizational_resilience⠀⇛
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Debian_project_leader_elections_2023_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
The 2023 election for the Debian project leader
looks to be a relatively unexciting affair:
incumbent leader Jonathan Carter is running
unopposed for a fourth term. His platform lays out
his hopes and plans for that term.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ System76_Meerkat_Alder_Lake_Linux_mini_PC
ships_with_Ubuntu_22.04_or_Pop!_OS_22.04⠀⇛
Most mini PCs ship with Windows, or no OS at all
for barebone models, but Linux-hardware specialist
System76 offers the Meerkat mini PC with either
Pop!_OS 22.04 or Ubuntu 22.04 with a choice of
processors from the 12th Gen Alder Lake, 11th Gen
Tiger Lake, or 10th Gen Comet Lake families.
All models support up to 64GB RAM, M.2 NVMe SSD
storage, and are equipped with four HDMI/
DisplayPort video outputs, Ethernet, and USB ports.
There’s also a Tall version of the Meerkat that
adds a 2.5-inch SATA bat, and the Alder Lake
models, called Meer7, specifically supports the
more recent USB4 and 2.5GbE interfaces.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Enterprises_benefit_from_the_reliability_and
long-term_security_updates_in_Ubuntu_Pro_–_The_Economic_Times
[Ed: Canonical pays for fluff, notice the section it is
under]⠀⇛
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_Default_Wallpaper_Revealed⠀⇛
Ready for your first look at the new default
wallpaper for Ubuntu 23.04?
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Kubernetes_vs_OpenStack:_which_one_to_choose?⠀⇛
Kubernetes vs OpenStack is a common dilemma that
organisations face when considering the
modernisation of their IT infrastructure. Both are
well-established open-source technologies for
building cloud infrastructure, and both bring
tangible benefits, especially when used in
combination. Yet, they differ significantly and
need to be properly bundled to feel like a fully-
integrated solution.
[...]
§ What is OpenStack?
OpenStack is a cloud platform. It manages
distributed compute, network and storage resources,
aggregates them into pools, and allows for on-
demand provisioning of virtual resources through a
self-service portal. If you’re familiar with Amazon
Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2),
OpenStack mostly resembles its behaviour, enabling
you to build fully-functional private and public
clouds. OpenStack is widely used by leading telcos,
service_providers, financial_institutions,
manufacturing_companies and governments.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android’s_new_Reading_Mode:_How_to_install_and
use_the_feature⠀⇛
# ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Google_warns_users_to_take_action_to_protect
against_remotely_exploitable_flaws_in_popular_Android_phones
|_TechCrunch⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_just_realizing_‘hidden’_Android
setting_feels_like_‘instant_upgrade’_–_it_takes_seconds_to
find_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ Quick_fix:_get_rid_of_Android’s_Discover_page_–
The_Verge⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Unsecure_Exynos_modems_put_dozens_of
Android_phones_at_risk⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_13_QPR3_could_finally_fix_this
Pixel_Launcher_annoyance⠀⇛
# ⚓ Mashable ☛ Nasty_bug_allows_hackers_to_take_over_many
Android_phones._Here’s_what_you_can_do._|_Mashable⠀⇛
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Google:_Google_says_some_Android_phones_have
a_‘hacking’_problem,_Samsung_has_the_solution_–_Times_of
India⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ NordVPN_Open_Sources_Key_Modules_for_Community
Collaboration⠀⇛
The leading virtual private network service provider –
NordVPN, has announced that it has open-sourced three
products, demonstrating its commitment to transparency
and community collaboration.
As part of this move, NordVPN will release the entire
NordVPN application on Linux, Libtelio – a networking
library used across NordVPN apps on all operating
systems, and Libdrop – a library used to share files over
Meshnet. This means that anyone can examine, alter, and
distribute these elements as they see fit.
o ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ NordVPN_open_sources_its_Linux_VPN_client_and
libraries⠀⇛
As part of this announcement, NordVPN released the source
code for its Linux applications and two libraries –
Libtelio and Libdrop.
“We’re making these products open source as a sign of our
commitment to transparency and accountability,” reads
Nord’s announcement.
o ⚓ LWN ☛ OpenSSH_9.3_released_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
OpenSSH 9.3 has been released. It includes a couple of
security fixes, as well as adding an option for hash-
algorithm selection to ssh-keygen and an option that
allows configuration checking without actually loading
any private keys.
o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ FOSS_Weekly_#23.11:_Ubuntu_23.04_Features,_2_New
Distros,_Terminal_Basics_and_More_Linux_Stuff⠀⇛
Two new distros have been announced this week. Apart from
that, take a look at the features of the upcoming Ubuntu
23.04.
o ⚓ Open_Source_Software:_Top_Sites⠀⇛
This list of open source sites includes several
categories — each of which will be of interest to open
source software users. The “project hosting” category
includes giants who provide server space for open source
code and allow downloads. The “directories” category
includes sites that have created lists of open source
projects.
o ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ OSI_Email_Mistake_Could_Affect_Election_Results
[Ed: And yet another election-related blunder or scandal at OSI. It
happened a lot in recent years and it shows that it's no longer
functioning. Microsoft turned OSI into its openwashing lobbyist.]⠀⇛
Open Source Initiative has committed a faux pas in its
currently underway board of directors election that has
the potential to affect the results. This comes two years
after the organization was forced to scrap the results of
a board of directors election and hold a second election,
after a security hole in its election software was found
to have been exploited.
In this case, such drastic measures will probably not be
necessary to fix the problem, however.
The misstep came on Thursday night, in a get-out-the-vote
email sent by the organizations executive director,
Stefano Maffulli, to OSI members. Voting in the election,
which will decide board members for two individual seats
(voting for a third affiliate seat is only open to
affiliate members), began on February 10 and will
officially run through February 20. In the email,
however, Maffulli told members, “You can vote until
Monday March 21, 1700 UTC – 9am US Pacific.”
Unfortunately, Monday is March 20, meaning March 21 falls
on Tuesday.
o § FSF⠀➾
# ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:
Friday,_March_17,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛
Join the FSF and friends on Friday, March 17, from
12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help
improve the Free Software Directory.
# ⚓ GNU ☛ GNU_Guix:_Building_Toolchains_with_Guix⠀⇛
In order to deploy embedded software using Guix we
first need to teach Guix
how to cross-compile it. Since Guix builds
everything from source, this
means we must teach Guix how to build our cross-
compilation toolchain.
The Zephyr_Project uses its own fork of GCC with
custom configs for
the architectures supported by the project. In this
article, we
describe the cross-compilation toolchain we defined
for Zephyr; it is
implemented as a Guix
channel.
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Zephyr is a real-time operating system from the
Linux Foundation.
It aims to provide a common environment which can
target even the most
resource constrained devices.
Zephyr introduces a module system which allows
third parties to share code
in a uniform way. Zephyr uses CMake to perform
physical component composition
of these modules. It searches the filesystem and
generates scripts which
the toolchain will use to successfully combine
those components into a
firmware image.
The fact that Zephyr provides this mechanism is one
reason I chose to
target it in the first place.
This separation of modules in an embedded context
is a really great thing.
It brings many of the advantages that it brings to
the Linux world such as
code re-use, smaller binaries, more efficient
cache/RAM usage, etc.
It also allows us to work as independent groups and
compose
contributions from many teams.
It also brings all of the complexity. Suddenly most
of the problems
that plague traditional deployment now apply to our
embedded
system. The fact that the libraries are statically
linked at compile
time instead of dynamically at runtime is simply an
implementation detail.
I say most because everything is statically linked
so there is no runtime
component discovery that needs to be accounted for.
o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾
# ⚓ John_Deere’s_ongoing_GPL_violations:_What’s_next_–
Conservancy_Blog_–_Software_Freedom_Conservancy⠀⇛
I grew up on a farm. My parents worked hard to grow
crops and manage the farm business. My parents also
found additional jobs to make ends meet. As farmers
have done for millennia, my family used tools to
farm. Some of those tools were tractors. Farmers
now, as they have for thousands of years, rely on
their ability and right to fix their tools. Perhaps
that’s bending a hand rake back into shape. Maybe
they need to weld a broken three-point hitch back
together. Agriculture was humanity’s first truly
revolutionary technological advancement. Since its
inception, each generation of farmers exercised
their right to repair their tools. This has allowed
agriculture to grow and improve immeasurably. We
take for granted the benefits that this has given
us, and the abundance of food it provides.
The right to repair farm tools is now in serious
jeopardy, not because farmers haven’t fought to
maintain this right, and not even because farmers
haven’t chosen to use tools that guarantee their
right to repair their tools. In fact, most farmers
are still buying tools that have a right to repair
built into them, not by their intrinsic nature, but
by the software that the toolmakers have chosen to
include as part of the tools they sell to the
farmers.
Sadly, farm equipment manufacturers, who benefit
immensely from the readily-available software that
they can provide as part of the farming tools
(tractors, combines, etc.) they sell to farmers,
are not complying with the right to repair licenses
of the software they have chosen to use in these
farming tools. As a result, farmers are cut off
from their livelihood if the farm equipment
manufacturer does not wish to repair their farming
tools when they inevitably fail, even when the
farmer could easily perform the repairs on their
own, or with the help of someone else they know.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ SFC:_John_Deere’s_ongoing_GPL_violations:_What’s_next
[LWN.net]⠀⇛
The Software Freedom Conservancy calls out John
Deere for failure to comply with the GPL and
preventing farmers from repairing their own
equipment.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Variables_in_Python:_Concepts_with
Examples_&_Common_Errors⠀⇛
In Python, a variable is a reserved memory
location that stores a value.
They are names that can be assigned a value
and used to reference it throughout your
code. Using a variable makes a value
accessible & gives values a context/meaning
concerning your code.
This tutorial explains the concept of
variables in Python, their types, and how to
use them with examples in real-world
scenarios.
# ⚓ 2023-03-14Next_Debian/Ubuntu_Releases_Will_Likely_No
Longer_Allow_pip_install_Ouside_A_Virtual_Environment⠀⇛
# ⚓ PyTorch_2.0:_Our_next_generation_release_that_is
faster,_more_Pythonic_and_Dynamic_as_ever⠀⇛
We are excited to announce the release of
PyTorch® 2.0 which we highlighted during the
PyTorch Conference on 12/2/22! PyTorch 2.0
offers the same eager-mode development and
user experience, while fundamentally changing
and supercharging how PyTorch operates at
compiler level under the hood with faster
performance and support for Dynamic Shapes
and Distributed.
This next-generation release includes a
Stable version of Accelerated Transformers
(formerly called Better Transformers); Beta
includes torch.compile as the main API for
PyTorch 2.0, the scaled_dot_product_attention
function as part of torch.nn.functional, the
MPS backend, functorch APIs in the torch.func
module; and other Beta/Prototype improvements
across various inferences, performance and
training optimization features on GPUs and
CPUs. For a comprehensive introduction and
technical overview of torch.compile, please
visit the 2.0 Get Started page.
# § Java⠀➾
# ⚓ Pass_by_Value_Meaning_in_Java⠀⇛
In Java, when you pass a parameter to a
method, a copy of the value of that parameter
is passed to the method, rather than the
original object itself.
# ⚓ What_are_Varargs_in_Java_and_How_to_Use_Them⠀⇛
In Java, varargs (variable-length arguments)
are a feature that allows a method to accept
an arbitrary number of arguments of the same
type. The varargs feature was introduced in
Java 5 and is denoted by an ellipsis … after
the parameter type in the method signature.
# ⚓ What_are_Java’s_Access_Modifiers_and_How_to_Use
Them⠀⇛
In Java, access modifiers are keywords that
determine the accessibility of classes,
methods, and variables in an object-oriented
program. There are four access modifiers in
Java: Access modifiers are used to control
the level of encapsulation of an object-
oriented program and to restrict access to
sensitive or implementation-specific details
of the program.
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ BTHome:_An_open_standard_for_broadcasting_sensor
data⠀⇛
Many wireless sensors broadcast their data using
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). Their data is easy to
receive, but decoding it can be a challenge. Each
manufacturer uses its own format, often tied to its
own mobile apps. Integrating all of these sensors
into a home-automation system requires a lot of
custom decoders, which are generally developed by
reverse-engineering the protocols. The goal of the
BTHome project is to change this: it offers a
standardized format for sensors to broadcast their
measurements using BLE. BTHome is supported by the
Home Assistant home-automation software and by a
few open-firmware and open-hardware projects.
The chances are high that the manufacturer of a BLE
device requires the use of a smartphone app to
remotely view its data. But, technically, there’s
no need to use the app. The device advertises its
name and some data; anyone with a BLE receiver in
the neighborhood is able to pick up those BLE
advertisements. What those apps do is to convert
the raw data to information such as a temperature
or humidity value using a protocol decoder for the
proprietary data format.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Death_toll_from_floods_in_earthquake-hit_cities_rises_to_15⠀⇛
Efforts to find four people in two cities are underway.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Covid_Worsened_a_Health_Crisis_Among
Pregnant_Women⠀⇛
In 2021, deaths of pregnant women soared by 40
percent in the United States, according to new
government figures. Here’s how one family coped
after the virus threatened a pregnant mother.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Can_a_federal_judge_overturn_the_FDA?_Abortion
pill_case_to_decide.⠀⇛
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of Texas is weighing a
high-stakes lawsuit from Christian conservatives
aimed at overturning the Food and Drug
Administration’s approval of an abortion pill.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Pregnancy_and_Covid:_What_Women_Need_to
Know⠀⇛
A pregnant woman is more likely to develop serious
Covid-19 and to die of it. Several factors amplify
the risks.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Liferea_News_Reader_1.14.1_Released_with
A_Critical_Security_Fix⠀⇛
For users of Liferea feed reader, new version
1.14.1 and 1.12.10 were released few days ago. All
users are urged to upgrade due to an important
security fix. Liferea is a free open-source GTK3
feed reader that brings together all of the content
from your favorite subscriptions into a simple
interface.
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_support_‘cracks’_Windows_for
customer_after_activation_fails⠀⇛
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ FakeCalls_Android_malware_returns_with
new_ways_to_hide_on_phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_fixes_Outlook_zero-day_used
by_Russian_hackers_since_April_2022 [Ed: Fake journalism
helps Microsoft portray this as a problem with Russia rather
than a problem with Microsoft, which puts back doors in
things; partisan politics is a low blow and misdirection, as
if only Russians exploit Microsoft holes]⠀⇛
Microsoft has patched an Outlook zero-day
vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) exploited by a
hacking group linked to Russia’s military
intelligence service GRU to target European
organizations.
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_March_2023_Patch_Tuesday
fixes_2_zero-days,_83_flaws [Ed: How Microsoft-connected
media cronies spin this; the reality is vastly worse because
those things are insecure by design]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Forbes ☛ Microsoft_Outlook_Warning:_Critical_New_Email
Exploit_Triggers_Automatically—Update_Now [Ed: Davey Winder
has been a Microsoft propagandist for over a decade already;
here is he is deflecting the blame and writing face-saving
Microsoft lies. Microsoft: blame nations, blame the users,
blame developers, never Microsoft!]⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Thursday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian
(firefox-esr and pcre2), Oracle (nss), Red Hat
(kpatch-patch and nss), SUSE (java-11-openjdk,
kernel, and python310), and Ubuntu (emacs24,
ffmpeg, firefox, imagemagick, libphp-phpmailer,
librecad, and openjpeg2).
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Wednesday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (node-
sqlite3 and qemu), Fedora (libmemcached-awesome,
manifest-tool, sudo, and vim), Red Hat (gnutls,
kernel, kernel-rt, lua, and openssl), Slackware
(mozilla), SUSE (amanda, firefox, go1.19, go1.20,
jakarta-commons-fileupload, java-1_8_0-openjdk,
nodejs18, peazip, perl-Net-Server, python, python-
cryptography, python-Django, python3, rubygem-rack,
and xorg-x11-server), and Ubuntu (ipython, linux-
ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, and linux-kvm).
# ⚓ 7NEWS ☛ Latitude_Financial_hacked_as_300,000_customer
identification_documents_stolen⠀⇛
Financial lender, Latitude Finance, has warned
customers of a major cyberattack in which more than
300,000 customer identification documents were
stolen.
A spokesperson for the company said unusual
activity was detected on its systems over the last
few days, and it appeared the company’s records had
been hacked.
They said hackers stole employee login details to
access personal customer information held by two
other service providers before the company was able
to isolate the incident.
# ⚓ CISA ☛ Threat_Actors_Exploit_Progress_Telerik_Vulnerability
in_U.S._Government_IIS_Server [Ed: US regime paying a steep
price for "choosing" Microsoft]⠀⇛
From November 2022 through early January 2023, the
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
(CISA) and authoring organizations identified the
presence of indicators of compromise (IOCs) at a
federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) agency.
Analysts determined that multiple cyber threat
actors, including an APT actor, were able to
exploit a .NET deserialization vulnerability (CVE-
2019-18935) in Progress Telerik user interface (UI)
for ASP.NET AJAX, located in the agency’s Microsoft
Internet Information Services (IIS) web server.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability
allows for remote code execution. According to
Progress Software, Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX
builds before R1 2020 (2020.1.114) are vulnerable
to this exploit.[1]
# ⚓ The Record ☛ New_threat_group_hacked_EU_healthcare_agency
and_embassies,_researchers_say⠀⇛
A new hacking group is targeting European countries
and organizations in an espionage campaign that
began in June 2022, according to new research.
Cisco’s Talos cybersecurity team calls the new
group “YoroTrooper” and said it has already
successfully compromised accounts connected to a
“critical” European Union healthcare agency and the
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
The researchers also found that it attacked several
embassies.
“Our assessment is that the operators of this
threat actor are Russian language speakers, but not
necessarily living in Russia or Russian nationals
since their victimology consists mostly of
countries in the CIS [Commonwealth of Independent
States],” which includes countries like Azerbaijan,
Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan, the researchers said.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Justice_Department_Investigation_Leads_to
Takedown_of_Darknet_Cryptocurrency_Mixer_ChipMixer⠀⇛
The Justice Department announced today a
coordinated international takedown of ChipMixer, a
darknet cryptocurrency “mixing” service responsible
for laundering more than $3 billion worth of
cryptocurrency, between 2017 and the present, in
furtherance of, among other activities, ransomware,
darknet market, fraud, cryptocurrency heists and
other hacking schemes. The operation involved U.S.
federal law enforcement’s court-authorized seizure
of two domains that directed users to the ChipMixer
service and one Github account, as well as the
German Federal Criminal Police’s (the
Bundeskriminalamt) seizure of the ChipMixer back-
end servers and more than $46 million in
cryptocurrency.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Independent_Living_Systems_updates_its
breach_disclosure;_notifying_more_than_4.2_million_patients⠀⇛
In September 2022, Independent Living Systems LLC
(ILS), a business associate in Florida, notified
HHS and regulators of a network incident that
affected 501 patients. They also provided public
notice, but were unable to identify and notify all
individuals who had been affected. The “501” was
simply a marker to indicate “more than 500.” The
HHS entry hasn’t been updated since then, and HHS
hasn’t yet closed its investigation. But thanks to
ILS’s notification to the Maine Attorney General’s
Office, we now know that the breach affected a
total of 4,226,508 people. HHS may update its entry
in the near future with the number reported to
them.
This week, ILS issued a press release about the
incident on behalf of its covered entity
subsidiaries Florida Community Care LLC and HPMP of
Florida Inc. d/b/a Florida Complete Care. ILS also
issued the notification as a direct provider of
services and on behalf of certain data owner
clients and covered entity health plans.
# ⚓ Decrypt ☛ Plaintiff_Wins_Case_Against_[Cr]ackers_After
Serving_Court_Papers_via_NFT⠀⇛
A federal judge in Florida has ruled in favor of a
plaintiff who sued anonymous hackers and issued
formal notice of the legal action via NFT,
according to recent court filings.
The ruling, a default judgment from Judge Beth
Bloom of the United States District Court Southern
District of Florida, declares that the unidentified
hackers are on the hook for the $971,291 worth of
USDT (Tether) that they stole from plaintiff Rangan
Bandyopadhyay’s Coinbase wallet in December 2021.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ AllCare_Plus_Pharmacy_notifies_5,971
patients_of_phishing_incident_last_year⠀⇛
According to their notification, on June 21, 2022,
AllCare discovered that some employees had received
phishing emails. Their investigation revealed that
some of the employees’ accounts had been
compromised, and the attacker accessed certain
accounts containing patient information. The types
of information in those email accounts included
name, address, date of birth, Social Security
number, other types of identity information,
financial information, and health information such
as health insurance information about prescription
and treatment information.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Beaver_Medical_Group_notifying_patients
whose_information_was_accessed_in_phishing_incident⠀⇛
Beaver Medical Group (BMG) in California is part of
Optum Health. On January 24, BMG discovered unusual
activity in an employee’s workstation. Their
investigation revealed that an unauthorized actor
had launched a targeted phishing attack that gave
them access to the employee’s email account.
# ⚓ CBC ☛ N.L._says_Hive_ransomware_group_was_behind_2021
cyberattack_on_health_systems [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛
The Newfoundland and Labrador government says the
Hive ransomware group was behind a cyberattack that
paralyzed the province’s health-care system a year
and a half ago.
But top government officials still won’t say
whether they paid a ransom.
“We can’t disclose anything about a request for a
ransom, for security purposes,” Justice Minister
John Hogan told reporters Tuesday afternoon.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ NorthStar_Emergency_Medical_Services
notifies_82,450_patients_of_September_hacking_incident⠀⇛
According to a notification letter and press
release by NorthStar, on September 16, 2022,
NorthStar detected abnormal activity in their
network. Investigation subsequently revealed that
an unauthorized actor had accessed files containing
protected health information. The types of
information in the files included names, Social
Security numbers, dates of birth, patient ID
number, treatment information, Medicare/Medicaid
number, and/or health insurance information.
# ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ Lawsuit:_Cop_pulled_over_driver_for_TikTok
livestream—and_shared_driver’s_ID⠀⇛
A Dallas County Sheriff’s Department deputy,
Francisco Castillo, was briefly suspended after
livestreaming a traffic stop, allegedly just to
gain TikTok clout, in 2021. Now, the Texas motorist
that he pulled over, Torry Osby, is suing, saying
that the deputy exposed Osby to risks of identity
theft and break-ins at his home by flashing Osby’s
driver’s license and sharing his personal
information to more than 100 followers tuned into
Castillo’s livestream.
Osby’s lawyer, James P. Roberts, told Ars that it’s
unlikely that their client was the only victim of
Castillo’s alleged privacy-invading social media
abuse. The complaint documents a seeming pattern of
Castillo sharing videos while on duty that seemed
to get more engagement than his other videos,
making it appear likely to Osby’s lawyers that
Castillo was increasingly motivated to create
videos of his police activity in hopes of boosting
his likes and followers.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Romanian_entities_issued_monetary_penalties
for_infosecurity_and_data_protection_failures⠀⇛
Regulators in Romania have issued monetary
penalties to six Romanian entities for insufficient
technical and organizational measures to ensure
information security. Two other entities were
issued fines for other GDPR violations.
# ⚓ Current_Turmoil_and_Future_Risks_in_Resolving_Data_Breach
Class_Actions⠀⇛
Data incident lawsuits, especially class actions,
have the potential to create significant business
disruption, loss of marketplace credibility, civil
liability or regulatory exposure. Consequently,
companies that experience a data incident often
want the issues resolved quickly and at minimal
cost. In terms of litigation, an early settlement
of civil lawsuits in a class action resolution to
sweep up all potential claims may be a good
strategy. Class action settlements can be
structured in a variety of ways, with any number of
different terms, to effectuate the desired result.
# ⚓ Dark Reading ☛ BianLian_Ransomware_Pivots_From_Encryption
to_Pure_Data-Theft_Extortion⠀⇛
The BianLian ransomware group is ramping up its
operations and maturing as a business, moving more
swiftly than ever to compromise systems. It’s also
moving away from encryption to pure data-theft
extortion tactics, in cyberattacks that have so far
bagged at least 116 victims, researchers have
found.
BianLian, first discovered last July, hasn’t
deviated much from its initial tactic: deploying a
custom go-based backdoor once it infiltrates a
network. The functionality of the malware
essentially remains the same except for a few
tweaks, researchers from Redacted said in a blog
post published today.
However, the swiftness with which the group’s
command-and-control server (C2) deploys the
backdoor has increased, and the group notably has
moved away from ransoming encrypted files to
focusing more on pure data-leak extortion as a
means to extract payments from victims, the
researchers said.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ Manchester_10:_Open_letter_asks
Andy_Burnham_to_tackle_discriminatory_‘gang’
surveillance⠀⇛
Advocacy groups and human rights
organisations have written to the Manchester
Mayor, Andy Burnham, and the Chief Constable
of Greater Manchester, Stephen Watson, to ask
them to investigate discriminatory police
practices in the wake of the conviction of
ten young Black men, known as the Manchester
10.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Chinese-made_drone,_retrofitted_and_weaponized,
downed_in_eastern_Ukraine [Ed: "Chinese-made" does not mean
China sends weapons to the war. Misleading CNN. CNN has since
then removed its own leading story, "Chinese-made drone,
retrofitted and weaponized, downed in eastern Ukraine". CNN
does xenophobia and "war porn"; it does it with style, so
racism and blood-lust are considered "OK".]⠀⇛
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ A_bottom-up_approach_to_authentic_peace⠀⇛
Top-down solutions to violent conflicts often don’t
last. More peace builders are now listening to
local people’s indicators of what constitutes
peace.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ US_drone-Russian_jet_collision_swirls_in
debate._What_happened?⠀⇛
A Russian fighter jet collided with a US
surveillance drone over the Black Sea. The
collision was described as a rare but serious
incident, leading to a US diplomatic protest and
raising concerns over the possible recovery of
sensitive technology by Russia.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Pentagon_Chief_Says_He_Spoke_With_Russia
Over_Drone_Incident⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Japan’s_return_to_path_of
militarisation_‘dangerous’:_China_defence_ministry⠀⇛
Japan unveiled in 2022 a five-year military
expansion plan as a deterrence against China.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Online_seller_injured_after_attack_by
robbers_at_Johor_apartment⠀⇛
The robbery was caught on camera, and the video has
since gone viral on various social media platforms.
# ⚓ Denmark_announces_seven-billion_kroner_Ukraine_fund⠀⇛
A majority in the Danish parliament has approved a
new fund to help Ukraine defend itself against the
Russian invasion.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ China_has_weapons_to_give_Russia_an_edge_in
Ukraine_–_why_hasn’t_it?⠀⇛
China’s growing military relationship with Russia
gives it the potential to tip the scales in
Ukraine. As they weigh whether to help their
northern ally, Chinese leaders are looking east –
to the United States and Taiwan.
# ⚓ Denmark_confirms_‘object’_found_near_Nord_Stream_2
pipeline⠀⇛
Denmark’s foreign minister has confirmed that the
Russian gas company Gazprom has found an ‘object’
near the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, although he said
nothing about what it might be.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Renewables_surge,_yet_carbon_emissions_hit
record._What_gives?⠀⇛
How can the world be massively shifting toward
renewables and boosting its overall carbon
emissions at the same time? We parse the progress
in a global transition that’s far from finished.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Electricity_will_cost_33.2p_per_kWh_from
April:_here’s_how_much_your_appliances_will_cost_to
run⠀⇛
Although the government’s EPG is staying
where it is, there’s still a small change to
individual energy unit rates. We’ve updated
our running costs for washing machines,
dishwashers, fridge freezers and more
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Allure_of_Exotic_Animals_in_Strange
Places⠀⇛
Thefts from the Dallas Zoo made headlines.
But Texas is a hotbed for ownership of all
kinds of rare species.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ By_sharing_housing,_seniors_and_migrants_in
Sweden_build_bridges⠀⇛
Migrant youths and Swedish seniors face different
difficulties, but help each other solve them in a
shared-living project, finding common ground.
# ⚓ Danish_house_prices_could_fall_by_nearly_10_percent_in
2023⠀⇛
A new forecast by Denmark’s central bank
Nationalbanken predicts that house prices could
fall by 9.4 percent this year.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_European_Central_Bank_Meets_to_Raise
Rates_Amid_Uncertainty⠀⇛
The E.C.B. is the first major central bank to set
monetary policy since banking worries gripped
financial markets, and its decision could be a
gauge on how far the reverberations are expected to
spread.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Credit_Suisse_shares_hit_an_all-time_low,
prompting_Swiss_regulators_to_offer_financial_support⠀⇛
Shares of Credit Suisse fell as much as 30% on
Wednesday (March 15) after its largest shareholder
ruled out any more investment in the bank.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Here’s_how_women_can_use_pay_transparency_to
negotiate_job_offers⠀⇛
With new salary range laws rolling out across the
US, experts say that pay transparency is a leading
tool for narrowing the gender_pay_gap.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Silicon_Valley_Bank_helped_finance_China’s
innovation_economy._What_happens_next?⠀⇛
Before it became infamous for the weaknesses_on_its
balance_sheet, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was known
for the strength of its ties_to_the_tech_industry.
# ⚓ [Repeat] Quartz ☛ Inflation_slowed_in_February—another
reason_for_the_Fed_to_slow_rate_hikes⠀⇛
US consumer prices rose by 0.4% from January to
February, while the year-on-year rise in prices
dropped from 6.4% in January to 6% in February,
according to new_data_from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
# ⚓ [Repeat] New Yorker ☛ [Humour]_Scaled-Back_Benefits_for_a
Silicon_Valley_Recession⠀⇛
The annual conference is moving from Maui to the
Metaverse—an equally exotic locale! And we’re
discontinuing fertility assistance, but that went
without saying, right?
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ South_Korea’s_Yoon_hints_at_keeping_cap
on_weekly_working_hours_below_60⠀⇛
A plan unveiled in March aimed to allow workers to
extend their working hours in busy seasons.
# ⚓ Today_in_Denmark:_A_roundup_of_the_news_on_Thursday⠀⇛
Municipalities criticise government bureaucracy,
lawyers push for court case against party leader
and Credit Suisse ripples reach Denmark. Here are
the lead news stories in Denmark on Thursday
morning.
# ⚓ Danish_national_bank_says_wage_increases_will_keep
inflation_high⠀⇛
Thousands of people who work in Denmark are set to
receive wage increases under new collective
bargaining agreements, but the flip side for
private finances is a likely knock-on effect
maintaining inflation.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Japan_to_lift_restrictions_on_chip
material_exports_to_South_Korea⠀⇛
It is a move towards ending a feud that has spanned
several years between the two tech powerhouses.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Stocks_slide,_safety_shines_as_bank
fears_spread⠀⇛
Asian stocks tumbled on Thursday, and investors
bought gold, bonds and the dollar as fear of a
banking crisis was reignited by fresh troubles at
Credit Suisse, leaving markets on edge ahead of a
European Central Bank meeting later in the day.
# ⚓ [Repeat] Quartz ☛ Meta_announced_another_10,000_layoffs_as
part_of_its_“year_of_efficiency”⠀⇛
Meta announced another round of layoffs affecting
about 10,000 employees, or about 13% of its global
workforce, on Tuesday (March 14). CEO Mark
Zuckerberg announced the downsizing in an update to
the company’s “year of efficiency” plan, a
blueprint for making Meta more profitable amid a
squeeze in the tech industry.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Bailouts_create_a_moral_hazard_even_if
they_are_justified._Is_there_another_way?⠀⇛
The US guarantee for Silicon Valley Bank and
possible Swiss intervention for Credit Suisse raise
important questions. Here’s one alternative
approach for large depositors.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Credit_Suisse_to_borrow_up_to_$54_billion_from
central_bank_after_shares_plunge⠀⇛
Swiss bank Credit Suisse said Thursday it will move
to shore up its finances, borrowing up to $54
billion from the central bank after its shares
plunged, dragging down other major European lenders
in the wake of bank failures in the United States.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Aust_share_market_plunges_again,
closing_at_10-week_low⠀⇛
The Australian share market has fallen sharply
again, hitting a 10-week low after the banking
crisis spread to Europe amid fears about the
solvency of Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Australian_dollar_gold_price_climbs_to
record_heights⠀⇛
The Australian dollar gold price has hit a record
high as investors seek safety following the
collapse of several United States banks. The
precious metal reached $A2874 per ounce overnight,
exceeding the previous record of $A2868 from August
2020, according to gold mining consultants Surbiton
Associates.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ CYBER:_WTF_Is_Going_on_With_the_Silicon
Valley_Bank_Bailout?⠀⇛
Silicon Valley’s favorite banks are dead. Why is
the government stepping in to prop them up?
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ No,_Diversity_Did_Not_Cause_Silicon_Valley
Bank’s_Collapse [Ed: Partisan straw man. The people who
plundered and crushed this system want us, the victims, to
bicker over divisive nonsense. And lose focus of the real
criminals.]⠀⇛
Blaming workplace diversity or environmentally and
socially conscious investments for the firm’s
downfall signals a “complete lack of understanding
of how banks work,” one expert said.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ France_Holds_Its_Breath_Over_Tense_Pension
Vote_After_Large_Protests⠀⇛
In a test for President Emmanuel Macron’s political
goals, lawmakers will decide on his proposal to
raise the retirement age for most workers by two
years, to 64.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ I_Was_an_S.V.B._Client._I_Blame_the
Venture_Capitalists.⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Analysis-For_Goldman_Sachs,
SVB’s_Botched_Stock_Sale_Had_a_Silver_Lining⠀⇛
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Why_failed_Silicon_Valley_Bank_was_an_outlier⠀⇛
Data: S&P_Global_Market_Intelligence; Chart: Axios
Visuals
At most banks, roughly half of all deposits are uninsured. Silicon_Valley_Bank
was not most banks.
⚓ Axios ☛ Inside_Biden’s_SVB_move_to_stop_future_bank_runs⠀⇛
The Biden administration’s guiding principle in protecting depositors
after the failures of Silicon_Valley_Bank and Signature_Bank came
down to this, Axios has learned: Prevent bank runs beyond the initial
crisis.
Why it matters:The administration’s move to shield the banks’
depositors — and let banks with profiles similar to SVB and Signature
get pummeled by the stock market — carried significant risks.
⚓ Axios ☛ Credit_Suisse_to_borrow_up_to_$54_billion_from_Switzerland’s_central
bank⠀⇛
Credit_Suisse will borrow up to 50 billion Swiss francs ($53.68
billion) from the Swiss National Bank under a covered loan facility
as well as a short-term liquidity facility, the company announced
Wednesday.
⚓ Axios ☛ Silicon_Valley_is_working_with_Wall_Street_to_buy_some_SVB_assets⠀⇛
The U.S. government is in no rush to sell Silicon_Valley_Bank, but
prospective bidders are circling.
The big buzz centers around Apollo Global Management, which was
rebuffed by the FDIC last weekend when it offered to buy SVB’s loan
book.
⚓ Axios ☛ Progressives_and_bankers_find_common_ground_in_SVB_crisis⠀⇛
The Federal Reserve doesn’t just set monetary policy. It’s also the
primary regulator for many banks — including the failed Silicon
Valley_Bank. Now, progressives and the banking industry — unlikely
bedfellows to be sure — are blaming the Fed for that bank’s epic
collapse.
Why it matters:Calls for tighter regulation typically follow any kind
of big banking crisis, but details matter. With SVB’s failure, one
question is, was it the laws on the books that failed, or a lapse in
their enforcement? The answer, in theory, helps prevent the next
crisis.
⚓ Off Guardian ☛ The_SVB_Collapse:_How_financial_crisis_boosts_the_rise_of
CBDCs⠀⇛
Kit Knightly Last Friday saw the total failure of the Silicon Valley
Bank, the 16th biggest bank in the United States. The biggest bank
failure since the 2008 financial crisis By Sunday, the Silvergate
Bank and Signature Bank had joined SVB in full collapse.
⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ CEO:Bailing_Out_Tech’1000000x_More_Important_Than
Defending_Ukraine’⠀⇛
The banking crisis has given us a fascinating peek into the
psychology and priorities of tech insiders while under pressure.
⚓ WhichUK ☛ Reforms_to_pension_tax_rules_set_to_give_savers_a_boost⠀⇛
Chancellor overhauls pension tax rules to encourage older people to
remain in work
⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Poverty_Solutions_marks_impact_of_action-based_research_in
2022⠀⇛
From informing how the U.S. Census estimates populations to
reimagining land contracts as a path to homeownership, Poverty
Solutions tackled the structures of poverty through action-based
research in 2022.
⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Credit_Suisse_bank_shares_plunge_in_global_market_turbulence⠀⇛
The internationally connected Credit Suisse bank staggered Wednesday
as the collapse of two U.S. midsize banks rippled across Europe.
Investors have been quick to sell stocks in other banks, concerned
about more vulnerability in the system.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ The_New_Investigation_into_Bannon_and_Boris_Buried
Under_Bannon’s_Bluster⠀⇛
Buried 22 paragraphs below some flashy quotes from Steve
Bannon, NYT reveals that he — along with the subject of a
profile, Boris Epsheyn — is under legal scrutiny for the crypto
currency scam they used to bilk a lot of Trump loyalists.
* ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Guo_Wengui_Arrested⠀⇛
Steve Bannon’s sometime partner, Guo Wengui, was arrested this
morning on a sweeping financial fraud and conspiracy
indictment.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ TikTok_Pushed_by_U.S._to_Resolve_National_Security
Concerns [Ed: This does not tackle the principal issue, which is mental
manipulation. They pretend "privacy" is the core issue.]⠀⇛
The demand hardens the White House’s stance toward the popular
video app, which is owned by the Chinese internet company
ByteDance.
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Fallout_of_Fox_News’_Public_Shaming⠀⇛
The Dominion lawsuit has exposed instances of pandering
and duplicity, but none of it is likely to change the
network’s business model.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ NCAC ☛ NCAC_Executive_Director_Christopher_Finan_to_Retire⠀⇛
New York, NY, March 13, 2023 – The National Coalition Against
Censorship (NCAC) announced today that Executive Director
Christopher M. Finan will retire this summer after 40 years of
defending free expression and First Amendment rights.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Lehrmann_sure_of_‘millions_in_defamation’_from
reports⠀⇛
Before being charged with sexual assault, former Liberal
staffer Bruce Lehrmann said he could obtain “millions in
defamation” over media reports about the alleged rape of
Brittany Higgins.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Family_detentions?_Why_Biden_is_tacking_right_on
immigration.⠀⇛
President Joe Biden’s recent shift on immigration policy shows
the challenge of balancing order and compassion. It may also
reflect concerns about a coming surge at the border, following
the rollback of a pandemic-era measure.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ San_Francisco_board_hears_100_ideas_for_Black
reparations⠀⇛
San Francisco could become the first major city to fund
reparations for slavery and systemic racism. The Board of
Supervisors heard a proposal of over 100 measures including
eliminating debt, selling homes for $1, and awarding $5 million
to Black residents.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Pakistan_unrest:_Supporters_clash_with_police_trying_to
arrest_Khan⠀⇛
Police attempts to arrest former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran
Khan have triggered two days of street clashes with supporters.
Since 1947, at least seven former prime ministers of Pakistan
have been arrested in various cases and tried by courts.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ IPRs_and_the_APA:_Review_of_Director’s
Discretion to_Initiate_IPRs [Ed: Crouch et al, bribed by the patent
litigation 'industry', still doing anything they can to scuttle any
challenges to fake patents]⠀⇛
Apple brought an action against the USPTO Director Vidal
in district court under the Administrative Procedure Act
(APA), 5 U.S.C. §§ 701– 706, challenging the Director’s
instructions to the Board regarding exercise of
discretion in IPR institution decisions. In Apple v.
Vidal, 2022-1249, — F.4th — (Fed. Cir. Mar. 13, 2023),
Judge Taranto (joined by Judges Lourie and Stoll) largely
affirmed the district court’s dismissal, confirming that
the Director’s instructions are unreviewable. The court
did separately reverse a tertiary challenge to allow
Apple to proceed on a claim related to the note-and-
comments procedure of the APA.
o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Preparing_for_Automated_Examination
[Ed: Promoting Microsoft gimmicks and lies to merely pretend patent
examination is no longer necessary and a bunch of chatbots an truly
understand novel ideas]⠀⇛
Associates around the country today are drafting motions,
patent applications, and other documents using some
version of ChatGPT. Of course, If I were a judge or
examiner, I might also be interested in using AI to help
facilitate my decision-making. ChatGPT is good for that
as well and can provide a reasoned structure, including
identifying of prior art and obviousness standards.
o ⚓ EPO_discusses_digitalisation_at_eighth_eSACEPO_meeting [Ed: The
criminals who run the EPO and grant loads of fake parents use
"digitalisation" as pretext for granting loads of fake patents on
software. This is class warfare using stacked panels controlled by
monopolists.]⠀⇛
User representatives from Europe, China, Japan, Korea and
the United States met online to exchange on digital
transformation in the patent grant process and advances
in online services.
* § Trademarks⠀➾
o ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTAB_Affirms_Two_Refusals_of_“ROSE_PETALS”_for
Supplements_Not_Containing_Rose_Petals⠀⇛
The Board wasted little time in affirming the USPTO’s
refusals to register the proposed mark ROSE PETALS for
“Dietary supplements in capsule form not containing rose
petals as an ingredient.” The Board found the mark to be
deceptive under Section 2(a) and, alternatively,
deceptively misdescriptive under Section 2(e)(1). In_re
Intimate_Science, Serial No. 90123272 (March 13, 2023)
[not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Cynthia C. Lynch).
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ What_is_home?⠀⇛
Returning home from the coast I was entranced by endless
forests of
ferns in the undergrowth of leafless tree swallowed by
layers of thick
green moss, swirling fog meeting the sky and ground. I
may be a
“computer person” but I never feel at home indoors. I
always want to
be surrounded by green and cold and damp and dark. My
boyfriend often
calls me a forest fairy, a dryad.
o ⚓ Lost_In_Translation⠀⇛
… in no way related to my continued adventures in CDDA
that involved me arriving back at my base at 3AM with a
deer I had accidentally run over and no headlights on
account of none surviving the return trip directly
through the acid ants …
So one cannot simply say “hold my beer” in lojban. Well,
I guess you could, but that would imply you would be
holding the beer, probably in your cupped hands. Gross.
We have technology for this! Bottles, mugs, her teacups,
the skulls of your enemies, flower pots, etc. Anyways.
Beer. What you are actually holding is, usually, a
container that contains the beer, a point that English
kind of negligently glosses over–hold my beer. Probably
because you are in a hurry to do something stupid, and if
you took a long time to say it, you might think better of
it, or more likely you will have forgotten by the time
you got done expositing. Ent wisdom, yo.
* § Politics⠀➾
o ⚓ Oxymoronist:_Sy_Hersh⠀⇛
Seymore Hersh’s recent article on substack shows what
news is no longer fit to print in the mainstream press,
at least in the US. Himself being a celebrity reporter,
it should be hard to put the mute on his explosive
pipeline story. There have been some healthy debate as to
the sufficiency of relying on one unnamed source, even
though many other news stories taken absolutely seriously
have also relied on a single anonymous source. Then came
another version of the pipeline story, much more vague,
and worse, some of its more detailed claims have been
debunked as implausible or impossible (e.g. in an article
by Scott Ritter on Consortium News, March 14).
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ Warez:_The_Infrastructure_and_Aesthetics_of_Piracy⠀⇛
I have converted Martin Paul Eve’s book “Warez: The
Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy” into Gemtext.
o ⚓ sdf_minecraft_and_lone_wolf_and_cub⠀⇛
Sometimes I run myself ragged until the wheels fall off
and I am
forced into downtime procedures. I am currently
experiencing one of
those instances. Too much work and giving of my time and
energy has
brought me here. I need to take better care of myself. I
was
supposed to be on a vacation now but instead, I am
resting at home,
not on vacation, using vacation time for sick time. The
older I get,
the more I encounter this. And sometimes I beat myself up
a bit
about it, but not this time since there is awareness of
the pattern
and I took contrary action.
Since I have had some downtime, I decided to reinstall
minecraft and
log onto SDF’s minecraft server. It has been quite some
time since
I was on and was happy to see that my base was still
intact. There
were a few people on and I tried to catch up.
o ⚓ MNT_Pocket_Reform⠀⇛
I noticed that the MNT Pocket Reform crowdfunding has
been running for
a few days [1]. It already reached the funding goal but
they are still
open for further support.
The device is smaller than the “full” (12.5″) MNT Reform
and about 50%
lighter (it is said to be under 1 kg). It has 7″ screen
(the device is
actually bigger than that because screen bezel is
considerable).
Anyway, it can use the same CPU cards as the big Reform
and has a
similar level of hackability.
o ⚓ NetBSD_and_SC⠀⇛
It seems that the NetBSD 9.3 has a modern (7.16) version
of the sc(1),
the console-only spreadsheet calculator. I was used to
the older (6.22)
release which was traditionally available in many
“classic” UNIX
systems like the IRIX (as was included in many linux
distros, too).
By modern I mean the latest stable version (the 7.16 is
from 2002), my
favorite 6.22 is a bit older (1990s). The initial release
was in 1981,
by the way.
I have no problem with modern stuff it it is not worse
than the old
one. Unfortunately, there 7.x line added some features
which have made
my work harder.
o ⚓ Lynx⠀⇛
I am a bit curious who still uses the Lynx browser [1]? I
don’t call it
a “WWW browser” because it can do also the Gopher
protocol (and does it
very well).
There are more modern solutions (which can combine the
Gopher and the
Gemini, for example) adn also some purely Gopher
browsers. I have tried
some of them but I am still the Lynx user.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Kernel_Space
o Games
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
o Education
o Programming/Development
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o History
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ Liliputing ☛ System76_Meerkat_mini_Linux_PC_now_available
with_up_to_Intel_Core_i7-1260P⠀⇛
While the design is similar for all models, models
with newer processors tend to have slightly better
specs. For example you get a Gigabit Ethernet port
on Comet Lake systems, compared with 2.5 GbE
Ethernet on Tiger Lake and Alder Lake models. The
Alder Lake version also features support for WiFi
6E while versions with older chips top out at WiFi
6.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.2.7⠀⇛
I'm announcing the release of the 6.2.7 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_6.1.20⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.103⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.175⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.237⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.19.278⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.14.310⠀⇛
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Spring_Sale_is_live,_Steam_Deck_gets
a_discount_and_startup_movie_customization⠀⇛
The 2023 Steam Spring Sale is now live, and with it
Valve has put the Steam Deck on sale for the first
time.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Space_colony_building_sim_Starmancer_gets_a
huge_content_upgrade⠀⇛
After quite a while of waiting, Ominux Games have
released The Wilderness update for space colony
building sim Starmancer. This is the first proper
update to the game since early 2022, and it needed
it because it was very Early Access, although it
was clearly going in the right direction.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Get_a_whole_bunch_of_kart_racers_in_this
latest_game_bundle⠀⇛
Humble Bundle have put up another game bundle full
of treats, this time a whole bunch of indie kart
racers to speed through. As I usually do, I’ll go
over each title individually and list the rating
for Steam Deck, along with ProtonDB rating for
Desktop users to save you some clicking around.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Upcoming_base-building_RTS_‘Dying_Breed’
set_after_a_WW2_nuclear_holocaust⠀⇛
Set in an alternate timeline where WW2 ended in a
full nuclear holocaust, the classic base-building
RTS named Dying Breed is worth keeping an eye on.
You can even try a demo right now. The world has
found peace but there’s a strange new energy source
emerging from underground, and so naturally a fight
is brewing over it with you being able to enter the
world as either human or mutant-cyborgs.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Slime_3K:_Rise_Against_Despot_looks_like_a
fun_time⠀⇛
Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot is a fresh
announcement from Konfa Games and TinyBuild, a
spin-off from their earlier game Despot’s Game:
Dystopian Battle Simulator that I quite enjoyed.
This time it’s going to be an action rogue-lite,
and it could be pretty chaotic from the
screenshots.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_hitting_retail_in_Hong_Kong,
Taiwan_and_later_Japan_and_South_Korea⠀⇛
Valve’s partner Komodo has announced they’ve teamed
up with Acer, as they’re bringing the Steam Deck to
retail stores in Asia.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Valheim_got_a_big_patch_with_performance
upgrades_and_controller_improvements⠀⇛
Valheim continues to get improvements and it’s
easily one of my favourite survival games, it’s
just fantastic with a couple of friends. This new
update should make it even better.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_and_desktop_Steam_upgraded_with
LAN_transfers_out_of_Beta⠀⇛
A fresh big stable update to the Steam Client has
rolled out for Steam Deck and desktop Steam,
bringing with it the useful LAN transfer feature.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Adolfo Ochagavía ☛ The_birth_of_a_package_manager⠀⇛
Since my time at the university, pursuing a Computer
Science degree, I have always been fascinated by
programming languages and the tooling around them:
compilers, IDEs, package managers, etc. Eventually, that
got me involved as a hobbyist in the development of the
Rust compiler and rust-analyzer, but I never got the
chance to work professionally on programming language
tooling… until two months ago! In January, the nice folks
at prefix.dev asked me to help them develop the rattler
package manager, and there is lots to tell about what we
have achieved since then, so buckle up!
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ ESP32S3_dev_board_can_be_pre-ordered_for
$7.49⠀⇛
The XIAO ESP3S3 is a thumb size module enabled with
2.4GHz Wi-Fi and BLE 5.0 connectivity. The new
SeeedStudio board includes lithium battery charging
support and it provides up to 11x GPIOs.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Fish_Tank_Dosing_Pump_Built_Using_Pi_Pico⠀⇛
When you’re maintaining a fish tank, it’s actually
quite important to get all your basic chemistry
right. Mismanage things, and you’ll kill all the
helpful bacteria in the tank, or kill your fish
when things get too alkaline or too acidic. To help
him get things just right, [yojoebosolo] built a
custom dosing pump to maintain his fishtank.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ RP2040_smart_event_badges_for_Hacker_Hotel⠀⇛
Hacker Hotel attendees weren’t given just any old
badge and lanyard this year; they were adorned with
an RP2040-based piece of artwork that not only sent
you around the hotel to find everything, but also
tested you with a few on-board games.
RP2040 is the brains of this event amulet, with a
CR2032 coin cell powering everything. The top third
of the badge carries the circuitry and the lower
two thirds has a row of buttons and LEDs which do
lots of fun things. More on that later.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Berlin:_Final_Schedule,_Last_Call_For
Tickets,_And_More⠀⇛
Hackaday Berlin is just about a week away, and
we’ve just put the finishing touches on our
preparations. And that includes a snazzy landing
page, the full schedule, details on the Friday
night meetup, and more.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 8086_Multiply_Algorithm_Gets_Reverse
Engineered⠀⇛
The 8086 has been around since 1978, so it’s pretty
well understood. As the namesake of the prevalent
x86 architecture, it’s often studied by those
looking to learn more about microprocessors in
general. To this end, [Ken Shirriff] set about
reverse engineering the 8086’s multiplication
algorithm.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Undeadly ☛ OpenSSH_9.3/9.3p1_released⠀⇛
On 2023-03-15, the release of version 9.3 of OpenSSH was
announced: [...]
o ⚓ Mailing list ARChives ☛ LibreSSL_3.7.1_Released⠀⇛
We have released LibreSSL 3.7.1, which will be arriving
in the LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror
soon. This is the final development release for the 3.7.x
branch, and we appreciate additional testing and feedback
before the stable release coming soon with OpenBSD 7.3
o ⚓ Undeadly ☛ LibreSSL_3.7.1_Released⠀⇛
With a message to openbsd-announce and other lists, Brent
Cook (bcook@) announced the release of LibreSSL 3.7.1,
with numerous improvements.
o ⚓ PowerDNS ☛ Third_Release_Candidate_of_PowerDNS_DNSdist_1.8.0⠀⇛
We are very happy to release the third candidate of what
will become dnsdist 1.8.0!
o ⚓ Brad Taunt ☛ Installing_Ruby_with_RVM_on_Alpine_Linux⠀⇛
For some on-going projects I need to switch to different
versions of ruby. Although there exist many step-by-step
instructions on installing and configuring rvm for most
Linux distros, there aren’t many focused on Alpine “daily
drivers”.
So this post is more or less a helpful document for my
future self. If it happens to help others then that’s an
added bonus!
o ⚓ Purism ☛ Toward_Matrix_support_in_Chats_–_Part_2⠀⇛
Matrix integration within the Chats app is progressing
and this post is detailing the development progress since
the last one. This update is not so much about new
features but more about bug fixes and great improvements
that make Chats slowly becoming an everyday “1 to 1” and
“small groups” messaging app for both SMS/MMS and the
more private end to end encrypted IP conversations.
Until now, one of the main issues that prevented me from
using Chats for everyday Matrix conversations with my
friends and family was the fact that after rebooting the
phone, my session would constantly be re-created, along
with a new session ID that made me have to re-verify the
session from another device over and over again. This is
now fixed, since v0.7.0 and after weeks of using it, my
phone is still using the same session ID.
Another annoying issue that was affecting both SMS/MMS
and IP messaging was the duplication of messages in the
conversation. A full restart of Chats by rebooting the
phone would restore the conversation with no duplicated
messages. This has also been fixed in v0.7.0.
o ⚓ Call_for_Papers_for_LibreOffice_Conference_2023⠀⇛
Meet us in Bucharest, and tell us what you’re doing with
LibreOffice!
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] David Hamann ☛ nginx_alias_misconfiguration_allowing
path_traversal⠀⇛
I recently came across an nginx server that had a
vulnerable alias configuration which allowed anyone
to read files outside the intended directory. In
the following post I will describe the
misconfiguration and provide demo files so that you
can experiment with it yourself.
# ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ A_quick_guide_to_getting_Mozilla_VPN_working
on_a_headless_Linux_server⠀⇛
The Mozilla VPN service is great, but it doesn’t
work using the CLI if you have a “headless” server.
After a bit of faffing about, I got it working. I
suffered so you don’t have to.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ MWL ☛ “Run_Your_Own_Mail_Server”_chapter_0⠀⇛
I’m about to open “Run Your Own Mail Server” for
sponsorships. This book is a little different than
most other books I’ve written, so I’m sharing the
introductory chapter.
This is uncopyedited. Unreviewed. It exists to
illustrate scope, not for folks to send me
corrections. Yet. Before I complete the book, I
will probably discard and redraft this chapter.
Bridge Out Ahead. Slippery When Wet. No warranty of
fitness for purpose. Probably causes cancer, chin
hemorrhoids, and alternaria leaf blight.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Canonical ☛ Help_us_build_better_doc⠀⇛
While there are many developers, though, there are
few technical authors to translate all this glory
into immortal prose — or at least into a decent
how-to guide. In fact, large teams of 20 or 30
developers often depend on just one writer to
produce all of their documentation. This seems like
an unbalanced workload: many features, many
developers, one technical author — and yet, it’s a
very common practice.
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Kaizen_Project_for_R_Package_Documentation⠀⇛
Beginning with the present open call for proposals,
the ISC will award grants for projects to improve
the documentation of “essential” R or Bioconductor
packages. By essential, we mean packages that help
to form the backbone of R’s capabilities in some
area of statistical or computational analysis and
are important to an identifiable segment of the R
Community. It is likely that a significant
proportion of the packages in CRAN Task Views and
on Bioconductor will meet these criteria.
# ⚓ Lawrence Tratt ☛ Rust’s_Two_Kinds_of_‘Assert’_Make_for
Better_Code⠀⇛
Daniel Lemire’s recent post “runtime asserts are
not free” looks at the run-time cost of assert
statements in C and shows that a simple assert in a
frequently executed loop can cause significant
overhead.
My own opinion on assertions has shifted over the
years, from “I don’t see the point” to “use them
sparingly” to “use them as much as possible”. That
last shift is largely due to Rust having two kinds
of “assert” statement – assert and debug_assert –
which has allowed me to accurately express two
different kinds of assertions, largely freeing me
from performance worries. If you come from a
language that only has one kind of assert
statement, this distinction can seem pointless, so
in this post I want to briefly explain why it
helped shift my thinking.
# ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ Shape_drawing_on_the_SSD1351_display⠀⇛
Based on the previous few posts, we now have lots
of things we can do with the SSD1351 display. One
additional thing we can play with this time is
drawing shapes. There are a few tricks to doing
this quickly. As with previous posts, this will
work on other displays with minimal effort to
convert it.
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Write_documentation_that_actually_works
for_your_community⠀⇛
What distinguishes successful and sustainable
projects from those that disappeared into the void?
Spoiler — it’s community. Community is what drives
an open source project, and documentation is one of
the foundational blocks for building a community.
In other words, documentation isn’t only about
documentation.
Establishing good documentation can be difficult,
though. Users don’t read documentation because it’s
inconvenient, it goes out of date very quickly,
there’s too much, or there’s not enough.
The development team doesn’t write documentation
because of the “it’s obvious for me, so it’s
obvious to everyone” trap. They don’t write because
they are too busy making the project exist. Things
are developing too fast, or they’re not developing
fast enough.
But good documentation remains the best
communication tool for groups and projects. This is
especially true considering that projects tend to
get bigger over time.
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ Jussi Pakkanen ☛ The_PDF_text_model_is_quite_nice,
actually⠀⇛
As was discussed earlier, the way PDF handles fonts
and glyphs is arcane and tedious. It takes a lot of
boilerplate and hitting your shins against sharp
stones to get working. However once you do and can
turn to the higher level text functionality, things
become a lot nicer. (Right-to-left, vertical and
calligraphic scripts might be more difficult, but I
don’t know any of those.)
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Is_Love_Extreme?:_A_Politics_of_Honest
Indignation⠀⇛
Recently I met a cousin for lunch whom I had not seen in
years. Our mothers were first cousins in their small kin
group of 6 first cousins, five of them women, who
sparkled with robust intelligence and humor right up into
old age. Talking about my writing – she had never read my
essays as far as I know – I mentioned how I had come to
be, to my own surprise, a thinker, in love with my power
to imagine forth ideas. She smiled, and said something to
the effect of of course you’re smart like all the Stebers
(our mutual great-grandfather, son of Alsatian
immigrants, was a prodigious inventor, holder of many
patents). I corrected her: But I never knew I could
think. Growing up in a household where ideas and politics
were not discussed, argued over, etc., – in fact where
opinions apparently were a private matter not to be aired
in public – I never knew the having of ideas was a
dimension of humanness, not meant to be optional.
Of course, I didn’t say all this to her. But now I know
that being discouraged from thinking, from forming ideas
about the most important matters that one must express/
defend as one’s truth – is a severe deprivation. (We
could once have called it a deprivation particularly
affecting women, but looking around, the absence of
serious thinking is now the norm.)
o ⚓ Austin Z Henley ☛ Don’t_trap_me_in_a_chat_window⠀⇛
It is important to not trap the user into the chat
window. Let them use the rest of the application in
collaboration with the AI! This will take time for deeper
integrations to happen, and it is what will really make
these AI features shine.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Mice_Who_Stop_Fearing_Cats⠀⇛
We enjoy having a feeling that we are in control in our
lives, and most of us will do incredible feats of mental
gymnastics to retain that (often) illusory belief. We may
cede to some amount of circumstantial nudging, but
overall we want to believe, especially if from America,
that ultimately we are in control of at least our belief
system and behaviors. But what if I told you there’s a
very good chance the biome in your own body, that is the
microbial life and previous footprint of infections,
could be a very large determining factor in your mood and
perhaps even risk taking behaviors?
Many have heard about the effects found in mice that
become infected with toxoplasmosis.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Lobster_Crawl_to_Revolution⠀⇛
Aside from his Symbolist autobiography Aurelia, Gerard de
Nerval was also famous for walking his pet lobster around
town on a leash. Memorably, the leash was a pink ribbon
(Satie paid homage to Nerval by binding his late-period
musical scores in pink bows). This lobster also seems a
fine metaphor for Nerval’s historical studies in The
Illuminated, or the Precursors of Socialism, first
published in 1852, now superbly translated into English
by Peter Valente and published by Wakefield Press. Lost
on dry land, the lobster makes its sidereal way, halting
and prehistoric, arriving in its own time—if it arrives
at all, for this journey might be all of crustacean
life—back again at the waters’ edge. Water signifies
flowing time. The ripples on its face are the echoes of
deep undersea currents, the origins of revolutions which
bubble up and flash for a brilliant instant on the
surface before receding into uninterrupted calm.
At first glance, the subtitle of his book seems
mysterious and contradictory: mysticism and materialism
are united. Nerval’s ‘precursors of socialism’ are six
disparate figures who played some role in the making of
the French Revolution. He traces their eccentric
lifelines in a great web of ideas and wild biographies
which forms a secretive milieu in the fabric of the
times, a set of anomalies orbiting the momentous event of
1789. The book ends with the establishment of the
Consulate, and with it comes the victory of bourgeois
power and the final cessation of the revolutionary
moment.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ How_I_Entered_the_Art_World⠀⇛
I became a professional philosopher, like every academic
nowadays, by taking graduate classes, learning to write
and critique philosophical essays and reading the
relevant literature. And then writing a doctoral
dissertation. Entering the philosophy world is a well-
organized activity, but entering the art world is
generally a less formal process. I entered thanks to the
complicated relationship with a businessman whom I will
identify as T. (For reasons that will become clear, I
prefer not to name him.) His story is interesting and
maybe revealing, and since he’s passed, as have many of
the other people in this story, now it can be frankly
told.
T was a gifted, generous printer and art dealer who made
and sold monotypes, and unique works of art on paper. I
was introduced to him by an artist friend. T wanted to
have a book about his art, and so he hired me as his
writer. At the start, I knew nothing about monotypes, and
so I had to spend some years visiting T’s studio and
interviewing his artists. There were experienced writers
ready to do such a book. Really, then, so I gradually
realized, what T wanted was a relationship. And so I
spent a lot of time with him. Although not a particularly
bookish person, he respected my intellectual interests.
Coming from a privileged family, T had a vast, two-story
studio and home in Tribeca. At the center of his life
were the big printing presses. T introduced many of the
artists he worked with. He traded art on the walls at a
grand, very nearby French restaurant for an amazing tab,
and so we benefitted from that exchange. Once when the
famous English critic David Sylvester came to town, we
wined and dined him. Often we took other guests there.
And on one occasion, T and I traveled to Italy together.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Lesson_of_the_Lisbon_Earthquake⠀⇛
The great earthquake that suddenly destroyed Lisbon in
November 1755 was perhaps the most disastrous natural
phenomenon to strike Europe since the Mt. Vesuvius
explosion of the first century—at maybe 9 on the Richter
scale it virtually leveled the largest of the
continent’s great capitals, with the immediate deaths of
perhaps 50,000 people and the loss of vast amounts of
treasure from the vast Portuguese empire stored along the
Tagus. But it was more: it was an event that changed the
way Europeans thought not only about a benevolent God but
about the role of humans in the earth’s systems, and thus
ushered in the Age of Enlightenment.
Challenges to that thought had begun to surface in Europe
earlier in the century. Descartes in France had come up
with a Discourse in 1637 that held that individual humans
were capable of determining truths, by reasoning and
scientific analysis: “Cogito, ergo sum.” Newton followed
not long after with his Principia Mathematica in 1687
that provided the tools by which to capture scientific
reasoning and natural law, and thus the road to
progress. The Enlightenment—the triumph of a human-
centered mode of thought and action that proved
individual use of logical reason and scientific method
led to personal liberty and social advancement, to which
the church and the crown were only impediments.
o ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ The_Alphabet_as_Technology⠀⇛
If I was on the alphabet marketing team — and I’m not
talking about Google’s parent company here — I’d plug
some punchy tagline like, “Twenty-six boring letters, an
infinite number of exciting possibilities.”
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Coffee_Grinder_Gets_Bluetooth_Weighing⠀⇛
Some people take their coffee grinding seriously. So what
do you do when the hot new grinders automatically weigh
coffee, and yours doesn’t? Well, if you are like [Tech
Dregs] and the rest of us, you hack your existing
grinder, of course. The link is to the source code, but
for a quick overview, check out the video below.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Fear_of_God⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ To_Build_a_Better_World,_We_Have_to_First_Imagine
It⠀⇛
Reckoning is an act of doing. It’s what V (formerly Eve
Ensler), the author, activist, and playwright started
doing during the quiet times of Covid. The result is her
new best-selling memoir. Reckoning is a collection of
poetry, prose, polemic, and play excerpts dating back to
the 1980s. She calls “reckoning” the antidote to fascism,
and it’s ultimately not something we can each of us do
alone. V is a Tony and Obie Award–winning phenomenon. Her
play, The Vagina Monologues, has been performed in more
than 140 countries and sparked a movement to stop
violence, V-Day, which turns 25 this year.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Beautiful,_Lonely,_and_Degraded:_Gavin_Lambert’s
LA⠀⇛
First published in 1971, Gavin Lambert’s delectable novel
The Goodby People takes place in a Los Angeles as
beautiful as it is degraded: The dusk comes on warm, with
“just enough humidity to make it cling,” and scarlet
flowers float on swimming pools, while the Santa Monica
mountains, choked by smog, appear as desolate in the
distance as a “photograph of the moon.” The city’s
inhabitants are similarly disaggregated and dissociated
by distances of “twenty or thirty miles.” Sex is casual;
relationships are transitory, and people tend to leave
without a trace. Everyone in The Goodby People, whether
they hail from the rich enclaves of the coast or a squat
in East Hollywood, is alone, it seems, but connection is
our narrator’s intent.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ University_of_Tartu_researchers
developing_Estonia’s_first_lunar_rover⠀⇛
Researchers and students at the Tartu Observatory
of the University of Tartu have begun work on the
development of what will become Estonia’s first
ever lunar rover. The project aims to land Estonian
technology on the Moon by the end of this decade or
the start of the next.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Library Case ☛ [IFLA]’s_Frustrating_Elections_2023⠀⇛
As an individual member of IFLA, I have very
limited voting rights in the organisation’s
election of a new Governing Board. Nonetheless, I
try to follow the ongoing elections. Today I looked
at the candidates and their “motivational
statements”, i.e. their self-presentations and
programme statements (these can be read here).
In general, I feel somewhat despondent that not a
single one of them, as far as I could see, has
anything new or substantial to offer. The demand
for openness and transparency that so many mention
is a good value, but how much is this value worth
on its own? Candidates attest to their love, care
and enthusiasm for running and engaging with IFLA.
But they carefully avoid setting any strategic
goals or elaborating on what should change. The
underlying, implicit idea behind their “programme
statements” is apparently that Ifla’s current
global vision and strategy are perfectly
satisfactory, that Ifla should by and large
continue as hitherto, except for this flaw of lack
of openness, transparency, which is now to be
corrected. The same applies to the reasons given by
the Verein Deutscher Bibliothekarinnen und
Bibliothekare (read more here) for abstaining from
involvement in Ifla’s election process. The Swedish
Library Association, (SLA) for their part, wants to
“replace the entire board”. In the name of openness
and transparency, one would, however, expect them
to announce their own candidates for the new board
and why they should be voted for. Therefore, is
good that the SLA has at least disclosed the name
of Leif Mårtenson whom they have nominated for the
important post of Treasurer. I’ll return to their
choice further down.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Don’t_Look_Now,_But_the_Far_Right_May_Be
Trying_to_Steal_the_Future⠀⇛
If you’re a well-informed Republican leader, you
know you have a problem. The extreme right-wing,
which is really the only right-wing that exists
these days, is losing the future. Baby boomers may
still love them, but millennials and Generation
Zers largely reject their agenda. Year by year, as
more boomers disappear, Gen Zers, the age group
Republicans do by far the worst with, are not only
coming of age, but also voting in greater numbers
than many expected. Meanwhile, while the data is
somewhat mixed, recent evidence suggests
millennials may actually be growing even less
conservative as they age.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Texas_Officials_Stage_‘Hostile_Takeover’_of
Houston_Schools⠀⇛
Public education advocates on Wednesday were
outraged as Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s
administration announced the state would take over
the Houston Independent School District despite
recent improvements in school performance that were
achieved as the district remains chronically
underfunded.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Tens_of_Thousands_of_New_Zealand_Teachers
Strike_to_Protest_Shortages,_Low_Pay⠀⇛
An estimated 50,000 New Zealand educators walked
off the job Thursday to demand better pay, improved
working conditions, and more government support
amid a worsening cost-of-living crisis and a
teacher shortage that has left many questioning
their future in the profession.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Strike_at_The_New_School_Spawned_a_Radical
Coalition_That’s_Still_Going_Strong⠀⇛
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Robot_Hand_Looks_And_Acts_Like_The_Real_Thing⠀⇛
Throughout history, visions of the future included
human-looking robots. These days we have plenty of
robots, but they don’t look like people. They look
like disembodied arms, cars, and over-sized hockey
pucks concealing a vacuum cleaner. Of course
there’s still demand for humanoid robots like
Commander Data, but there are many challenges:
eyes, legs, skin, and hands. A company known as
Clone may have the solution for that last item. The
Clone Hand is “the most human-level musculoskeletal
hand in the world,” according to the company’s
website.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Replacing_A_Clock_IC’s_Battery⠀⇛
You can find a lot of strange things inside IC
packages. For example, the Dallas DS12885 and
DS12887 real time clock “chips” were available in a
large package with an internal battery. The
problem, of course, is that batteries die. [New Old
Computer Show] wanted to restore a machine that
used one of these devices and was able to repair
the device. You can see two videos below. In the
first video, he replaces both the battery and adds
an external oscillator which would be necessary for
the DS12885. However, he actually had the DS12887,
which has an internal oscillator, something the
second video explains.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Taking_Apart_IKEA’s_Latest_Air_Quality_Sensor⠀⇛
Whether it’s because they’re concerned about
worsening pollution or the now endemic variants of
COVID-19, a whole lot of people have found
themselves in the market for a home air quality
monitor thee last couple of years. IKEA noted this
trend awhile back, and released the VINDRIKTNING
sensor to capitalize on the trend.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ NPR ☛ The_U.K._is_the_latest_to_ban_TikTok_on_government
phones_because_of_security_concerns⠀⇛
Cabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden told
Parliament that the ban applies with immediate
effect to work phones and other devices used by
government ministers and civil servants. He
described the ban as a “precautionary move,” and
said it does not apply to personal phones and
devices.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ UK_to_ban_TikTok_on_government_phones⠀⇛
TikTok has come under increasing scrutiny due to
fears that user data from the app owned by Beijing-
based company ByteDance could end up in the hands
of the Chinese government, undermining Western
security interests.
Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre has been
reviewing whether TikTok should be barred from
government phones, while the United States, Canada,
Belgium and the European Commission have already
banned the app.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ New_Zealand_to_ban_TikTok_on_devices_with
access_to_parliamentary_network⠀⇛
Gonzalez-Montero, in an email to Reuters, said the
decision was taken after advice from cybersecurity
experts and discussions within government and with
other countries.
“Based on this information the Service has
determined that the risks are not acceptable in the
current New Zealand Parliamentary environment,” he
said.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.K._Bans_TikTok_on_Government_Devices⠀⇛
Speaking in Parliament, Oliver Dowden, a senior
cabinet minister, announced the ban with immediate
effect, describing it as “precautionary,” even
though the United States, the European Union’s
executive arm, Canada and India had already taken
similar steps. New Zealand did so on Friday.
Social media apps collect and store “huge amounts
of user data including contacts, user content and
geolocation data on government devices that data
can be sensitive,” Mr. Dowden said, but TikTok has
aroused more suspicion than most because of its
owner, the Chinese company ByteDance.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ New_Zealand_to_ban_Chinese-owned_app
TikTok_from_lawmakers’_devices⠀⇛
New Zealand will ban Chinese-owned social media app
TikTok from lawmakers’ devices, officials told AFP
Friday, becoming the latest Western nation to act
on security fears about the platform. TikTok will
be banned on all devices with access to the
parliamentary network, Parliamentary Service chief
executive Rafael Gonzalez-Montero said.
# ⚓ BW Businessworld Media Pvt Ltd ☛ New_Zealand_Bans_TikTok_On
Phones_Of_MPs_Amid_Rising_Security_Concerns⠀⇛
The executive informed of the new move to the New
Zealand MPs after Britain banned the Chinese-owned
video app on government phones with immediate
effect, overnight recently.
# ⚓ [Old] New York Times ☛ Young_TikTok_Users_Quickly_Encounter
Problematic_Posts,_Researchers_Say⠀⇛
Once young users viewed and liked content about
body image and mental health, TikTok automatically
recommended related videos to them every 39
seconds, according to the researchers. To test the
app, the researchers set up eight accounts in
August, posing as 13-year-olds, the minimum age for
users, in the United States, Britain, Australia and
Canada.
“The pathways into extreme content were so
innocuous,” Imran Ahmed, chief executive of the
Center for Countering Digital Hate, said in an
interview. “Your eye might be caught by a video of
an aspirational body in beautiful clothes and very
quickly the algorithm realizes you’re interested in
body image.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_(Bad)_Trip_to_the_Most_Radioactive_Place
in_America⠀⇛
The following is an adapted excerpt from the
preface of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the
Most Toxic Place in America (Haymarket Books, 2022)
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Self-Appointed_Covid_Experts_Are_At_It
Again⠀⇛
Over the past month, two topics in Covid science
have made the news everywhere, from newspapers like
The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The
Wall Street Journal to cable news channels, and
across social media and other websites. The first
was precipitated by a systematic review of studies
on masking by the Cochrane Library. The second was
whipped up by a Department of Energy assessment on
Covid’s origins.
# ⚓ “Can_colleges_mandate_Ozempic?”_Clever_or_clueless_analogy?
You_be_the_judge!⠀⇛
It’s been a while since my attention has been drawn
back to Dr. Vinay Prasad, the 0.2 FTE academic
oncologist at UCSF who before the pandemic first
caught my attention because he appeared to be a
champion of evidence-based medicine and more rigor
in clinical trials used to approve oncology drugs.
The operative phrase is “appeared to be” because,
soon after the pandemic hit, Dr. Prasad took a heel
turn into COVID-19 contrarianism and antivax-
adjacent propaganda to the point of going full
Godwin and likening interventions to slow the
spread of the pandemic to incipient fascism,
whining about the “misinformation police” and
“obsessive criticism” on social media of COVID
contrarians like him, and disparaging fear of
COVID-19 as irrational anxiety. In retrospect, I
shouldn’t have been so surprised, given how a few
months before the pandemic Dr. Prasad had started
attacking skeptics who debunked antivaccine
pseudoscience and alternative medicine like
homeopathy because, apparently, he viewed such an
activity as too beneath his massive intellect,
likening it to “dunking on a 7′ hoop.” In
retrospect, I suppose that it was inevitable that
he’d write something as mind-bogglingly stupid as
his latest Substack, Can colleges mandate ozempic?
and violate Betteridge’s law of headlines by
answering, “Established precedent says yes!”
# ⚓ How_Forest_Loss_Can_Unleash_the_Next_Pandemic⠀⇛
The forests around the epicenter of the world’s
worst Ebola outbreak are getting patchier. The next
pandemic could emerge from the edges around these
patches, where wildlife and humans mix.
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ New_report:_Denmark’s_air_quality_worst
in_the_Nordics⠀⇛
Things are improving, but according to figures from
IQ Air, the air quality in the country fails to
live up to WHO guidelines
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ ABC ☛ OpenAI_CEO_Sam_Altman_says_AI_will_reshape_society,
acknowledges_risks:_‘A_little_bit_scared_of_this’⠀⇛
In his interview, Altman was emphatic that OpenAI
needs both regulators and society to be as involved
as possible with the rollout of ChatGPT — insisting
that feedback will help deter the potential
negative consequences the technology could have on
humanity. He added that he is in “regular contact”
with government officials.
ChatGPT is an AI language model, the GPT stands for
Generative Pre-trained Transformer.
# ⚓ Google ☛ Multiple_Internet_to_Baseband_Remote_Code
Execution_Vulnerabilities_in_Exynos_Modems⠀⇛
In late 2022 and early 2023, Project Zero reported
eighteen 0-day vulnerabilities in Exynos Modems
produced by Samsung Semiconductor. The four most
severe of these eighteen vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-
24033 and three other vulnerabilities that have yet
to be assigned CVE-IDs) allowed for Internet-to-
baseband remote code execution. Tests conducted by
Project Zero confirm that those four
vulnerabilities allow an attacker to remotely
compromise a phone at the baseband level with no
user interaction, and require only that the
attacker know the victim’s phone number. With
limited additional research and development, we
believe that skilled attackers would be able to
quickly create an operational exploit to compromise
affected devices silently and remotely.
The fourteen other related vulnerabilities (CVE-
2023-26072, CVE-2023-26073, CVE-2023-26074, CVE-
2023-26075, CVE-2023-26076 and nine other
vulnerabilities that are yet to be assigned CVE-
IDs) were not as severe, as they require either a
malicious mobile network operator or an attacker
with local access to the device.
o § Security⠀➾
# § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] David Hamann ☛ Beware_of_wilcards_paths_in_sudo
commands⠀⇛
So while the wildcard sounds like an easy way
to solve the initial problem, it is always
better to be explicit about what a user can
do (either by putting a restricting regular
expression in place or – even better – always
explicitly targeting a file or declaring a
static argument), for example by listing all
the full commands with the different
arguments that are allowed to be executed or
by building a small wrapper program.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ IS:_Police_investigate_minister’s_WhatsApp
account_hijacking_claims⠀⇛
“We are trying to find out whether a crime
has really happened here or not,” said NBI
inspector Sami Siurola.
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ Microsoft_adding_AI_technology_to_Word,
Excel⠀⇛
In a news release, Microsoft said its new AI
feature, referred to as Copilot, will be
built off of “the power of large language
models (LLMs) with business data and the
Microsoft 365 apps, to unleash creativity,
unlock productivity and uplevel skills.”
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ 4.2M_records_exposed_in_breach_at
healthcare_provider_Independent_Living_Systems⠀⇛
Independent Living Systems LLC, a Florida-
based healthcare and managed care solutions
provider, has suffered a data breach with the
records of some 4.2 million individuals
potentially stolen.
In a statement March 14, the company said it
experienced an “incident involving the
inaccessibility of certain computer systems
on its network” last July 5. ILS hired
outside cybersecurity specialists and
launched an investigation, which found that
an unauthorized actor obtained access to
certain systems between June 30 and July 5,
2022.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ FBI_Latest_To_Admit_To_Bypassing_Warrant
Requirements_By_Purchasing_Location_Info_From_Data
Brokers⠀⇛
Well… fuck the Supreme Court, I guess.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Yes,_The_US_Government_Threatening_To
Block_TikTok_Violates_The_1st_Amendment⠀⇛
You may have heard that the Biden
administration has told TikTok that it must
be divested from ByteDance or it will be
banned in the US. At least that’s what TikTok
said the administration has said. The end
result of this might well be that ByteDance
divests of TikTok, but we should be clear:
the threat, and any potential block, would be
a clear, blatant, dangerous violation of the
1st Amendment.
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ German_Data_Protection_Commissioner_finds
numerous_deficiencies_in_surveillance⠀⇛
On Wednesday, the German Federal Commissioner
for Data Protection, Ulrich Kelber, presented
his latest report on activities at a press
conference in Berlin. presented. It shows
that last year the authority was notified of
10,658 data protection violations last year,
a good five per cent more than in 2021.
Kelber, a former SPD member of parliament,
monitors compliance with data protection at
federal public agencies as well as at
companies that provide telecommunications and
postal services. For this purpose, he and his
team undertakes inspection visits and
prepares audit reports, which are followed by
recommendations or orders. Kelber also
regularly checks their implementation. The
control of other business enterprises, clubs,
associations or political parties, on the
other hand, is the responsibility of the 16
state commissioners for data protection.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Oregon’s_DMV_Database_Is_Broken_And_That
Means_Innocent_People_Are_Spending_Months_Behind_Bars⠀⇛
The Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles is
pretty much just renting a car from Hertz.
Participating in either system greatly
increases your chances of spending time
jailed for crimes you didn’t commit.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ The Economist ☛ What_to_make_of_a_clash_between_a_Russian
jet_and_an_American_drone⠀⇛
In the latest encounter, American officials say
that the Su-27s conducted 19 close passes and
sprayed jet fuel on the Reaper, possibly to obscure
its sensors. On the last pass, one jet struck the
Reaper’s rear propeller forcing its controllers to
glide it into the water. Russia denies this
account, insisting that the plane fell into the sea
after “sharp manoeuvring”. A video from the Reaper,
released by US European Command on March 16th
(pictured above), corroborates the American claims.
It shows the Su-27 swooplng up wildly next to the
drone, and a damaged propeller in the aftermath.
American officials have described the intercept as
“unsafe”, “unprofessional” and “juvenile”—but Lloyd
Austin, America’s defence secretary, said that it
was not clear whether the collision itself was
intentional. Russian pilots are likely to have
taken greater risks with a drone than they would
have done had a human pilot been on board. In 2016
China seized an American naval drone in the South
China Sea—something it would not have dreamed of
doing with a crewed vessel.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Blinken_Visits_Niger_as_Biden_Moves_to_Counter
China_and_Russia_in_Africa⠀⇛
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Blinken_Visits_Niger,_Home_to_U.S._Drone
Base,_as_Biden_Moves_to_Counter_China_&_Russia_in_Africa⠀⇛
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting
Niger and Ethiopia as part of the Biden
administration’s growing competition with China and
Russia for influence across Africa. Niger has
become a critical U.S. ally in the Sahel region,
and the U.S. opened a new drone base in the city of
Agadez in 2019. The U.S. has about 800 military
personnel in Niger, and Blinken’s trip marks the
first visit to the country by a U.S. secretary of
state. “Niger is one of the last strongholds of
U.S. security partnerships in the region,” says
Stephanie Savell, co-director of the Costs of War
Project at Brown University, who has researched
U.S. militarism in West Africa and beyond. We also
speak with writer and activist Coumba Toure, chair
of the board for TrustAfrica and an ambassador for
Africans Rising for Unity, Justice, Peace and
Dignity. “Africa needs to be looked at as a
continent where there are human beings, not just
for power gains and for exploitation,” says Toure.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Niinistö_expects_Erdogan_to_announce_approval_of_Nato
membership_on_Friday⠀⇛
“The Turks have hoped that I will be there to
acknowledge it when they announce this decision,”
Niinistö said.
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Denmark’s_military_spending_on_the_rise
as_world’s_powers_sharpen_claws⠀⇛
Yesterday the prime minister of Mongolia told
British newspaper The Times of his fears that the
world is sliding into a new Cold War. This can only
be bad news, he lamented, for small democracies
like his, which is squeezed
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Will_Peace_Hold_in_Tigray?_Blinken_Visits
Ethiopia_Four_Months_After_Truce_Reached_to_End_War⠀⇛
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met
Wednesday with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed
and other top officials, including leaders from the
northern Tigray region. Blinken praised the four-
month-old peace deal that ended two years of
fighting between government troops and forces in
Tigray, and called for accountability for war
crimes committed during the conflict without
casting blame on either side. Blinken also
announced $331 million in new U.S. humanitarian
assistance for Ethiopia. “It’s an important trip by
the secretary of state, because the U.S. is one of
the major brokers of the peace deal that was signed
in November between the Tigrayan officials and the
federal government,” says journalist Tsedale Lemma,
founder of the Addis Standard, an English-language
monthly news magazine based in Ethiopia. She says
the U.S. must push for the “full implementation” of
the peace deal, which is currently not happening.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Veterans_in_Labor:_How_Unions_Benefit
From Ex-Soldiers_in_Their_Ranks⠀⇛
Even in the era of identity politics, one category
of identity is much ignored: what journalist Joe
Glenton calls “veteranhood.” In the U.S., nineteen
million people, across several generations, share a
strong sense of personal identity based on having
served in the military.
Mainstream media outlets tend to notice veterans
only when they’re voting Republican or joining
right-wing militias, white supremacist groups, or
other MAGA-land formations. On the left, former
soldiers who become anti-war activists are highly
regarded. But the far larger number of military
veterans (more than 100,000) who become law
enforcement officers are seen, for good reason, as
contributing to the problem of militarized
policing, along with the better known Pentagon-to-
police equipment pipeline.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungarian_government_blocked_Ukraine’s
accession_to_NATO_cyber_centre_until_war,_now_it_would
approve_it⠀⇛
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Reuters:_Turkey_to_approve_Finland’s_Nato_bid
independently_from_Sweden’s,_Hungary_delays_vote_again⠀⇛
Turkey will ratify Finland’s application by mid-
April, the news agency says, while the timetable
for Hungary’s decision remains unclear.
# ⚓ DiEM25 ☛ Yanis_Varoufakis_brutally_attacked_by_group_of
thugs_in_Athens⠀⇛
A short while ago, Yanis Varoufakis was the victim
of a cowardly attack. He was at an Athens
restaurant with DiEM25 members from all over
Europe, when a small group of thugs stormed the
place shouting aggressively, falsely accusing him
of signing off on Greece’s bailouts with the
Troika. Varoufakis stood up to talk to them but
they immediately responded with violence, savagely
beating him while filming the scene.
# ⚓ Greece ☛ Varoufakis_blames_‘hired_thugs’_for_assault⠀⇛
“A small group of thugs stormed the place shouting
aggressively, falsely accusing him of signing off
on Greece’s bailouts with the troika. Varoufakis
stood up to talk to them but they immediately
responded with violence, savagely beating him while
filming the scene,” a DiEM25 statement read.
MeRA25, the Greek wing of DiEM25, described it as a
“brazen fascist attack.”
# ⚓ Hellas Posts English ☛ Yanis_Varoufakis:_One_of_the
perpetrators_of_the_attack_was_identified⠀⇛
The unanimous condemnation of the parties of the
democratic arc, reminded that such fascist
incidents are not tolerated in democracy.
Executives of MERA25, speaking to protothema.gr,
they spoke of provocations but also of a
“professional” blow. “This is a well-organized
provocation, a fascist attack against Yanis
Varoufakis” his close associate pointed out.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_Supreme_Court_declares_the_Freedom_of
Russia_Legion,_reportedly_comprised_of_Russian_volunteers
fighting_for_Ukraine,_a_‘terrorist_organization’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has
declared a unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
known as the Freedom of Russia Legion, a “terrorist
organization.”
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ A_Russian_military_underwater_robot_reportedly
finds_downed_U.S._drone_in_the_Black_Sea_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The American MQ-9 reaper drone, which was shot down
over the Black Sea, has been found near Sevastopol,
at a depth of 850–900 meters (nearly 3,000 feet).
Sevastopol publication ForPost reported the news,
citing a source close to Russia’s Defense Ministry
who is familiar with the details of the operation.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Cacophany,_Not_Harmony:_US_Foreign_Policy’s
Terrible_Tune⠀⇛
On March 14, a Russian SU-27 fighter brought down a
US MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea. The exact
details of where and how remain a mystery even
after the release of drone video showing what
appears to be a dump of jet fuel onto the drone,
but those details don’t matter much. The incident
mainly serves as an excuse for more ratcheting up
of US-Russian tensions around the war in Ukraine.
When I think of drones, I’m more likely to think of
music — yes, music — than of unmanned military
aircraft. And thinking about the drone effect in
music provides a useful analogy to US foreign
policy.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Dead_souls_The_Anti-Corruption_Foundation’s_ex-
chairman_says_the_West_should_lift_sanctions_against
repentant_Russian_elites,_but_his_group_has_cleared_just
three_people_since_August_(because_they_died)_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Last week, Alexey Navalny’s longtime associate
Leonid Volkov resigned from his chairman’s post at
ACF International (also known as the Anti-
Corruption Foundation), amid a scandal around his
surreptitious signing of two letters seeking
sanctions relief for several Russian oligarchs. But
Volkov hasn’t abandoned the rationale he endorsed
in those letters. In an invited policy op-ed
published in the March 18 issue of The Economist
(where he is identified as “Navalny’s chief of
staff”), Volkov continues to argue the same line
about the need for “rethinking” personal sanctions
against Russia’s elites. The scandal around
Volkov’s abuse of his position at ACF, however, has
revealed inconsistencies and murky places in the
foundation’s own international policy proposals.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Death,_Destruction_&_Resilience:_Nadje_Al-
Ali_on_the_20th_Anniversary_of_U.S._Invasion_of_Iraq⠀⇛
As the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of
Iraq approaches next week, Democracy Now! begins
our look at the Iraq War’s lasting after-effects on
Iraqi society and the shape of global politics
today. “The story of the past 20 years is a story
of destruction, devastation, corruption,
incompetence, but also a story of resilience,” says
Nadje Al-Ali, director of the Center for Middle
East Studies at Brown University and author of
several award-winning books on the U.S. invasion
and occupation of Iraq, including What Kind of
Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ What_Did_the_Iraq_War_Really_Cost?⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ March_To_Iraq_War,_20_Years_Later:_March
16,_2003⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Even_Peace_Is_Made_in_China⠀⇛
The Iran-Saudi deal spells trouble for U.S.
hegemony but potentially a new chapter of peace and
prosperity in a deeply troubled world.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Biden_Announces_Support_for_Senate’s_Iraq_War
Authorization_Repeal⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Urbanity_of_Evil:_20_Years_After_the
Invasion_of_Iraq⠀⇛
Vast quantities of lies from top U.S. government
officials led up to the Iraq invasion. Now, marking
its 20th anniversary, the same media outlets that
eagerly boosted those lies are offering
retrospectives. Don’t expect them to shed light on
the most difficult truths, including their own
complicity in pushing for war.
What propelled the United States to start the war
on Iraq in March 2003 were dynamics of media and
politics that are still very much with us today.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Not-So-Winding_Road_from_Iraq_to
Ukraine⠀⇛
March 19th marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S.
and British invasion of Iraq. This seminal event in
the short history of the 21st century not only
continues to plague Iraqi society to this day, but
it also looms large over the current crisis in
Ukraine, making it impossible for most of the
Global South to see the war in Ukraine through the
same prism as U.S. and Western politicians.
While the U.S. was able to strong-arm 49 countries,
including many in the Global South, to join its
“coalition of the willing” to support invading the
sovereign nation of Iraq, only the U.K., Australia,
Denmark and Poland actually contributed troops to
the invasion force, and the past 20 years of
disastrous interventions have taught many nations
not to hitch their wagons to the faltering U.S.
empire.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden_Shows_Support_as_Senate_Advances
Repeal_of_Iraq_War_Authorizations⠀⇛
As the U.S. Senate on Thursday teed up a vote to
end the congressional authorizations for the Gulf
and Iraq wars, President Joe Biden formally backed
the bipartisan bill.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_serviceman_who_confessed_killing_civilian
in_Ukraine_gets_suspended_prison_sentence_for_‘spreading
fakes’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A military court in Khabarovsk has issued a 5.5-
year suspended sentence in the case of Daniil
Frolkin. Earlier, prosecution had requested a six-
year prison term for Frolkin, who told the
independent Russian publication iStories about
killing a civilian in Andriivka, a village in the
Kyiv region of Ukraine.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Fire_in_Rostov-on-Don_FSB_building_kills_one,
injures_two_as_ammunition_explodes_inside_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A fire broke out in the Rostov-on-Don FSB Border
Service building, as reported by the Interfax,
citing local emergency services.
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Seymour_Hersh_Alleges_US_Role_in_Nord
Stream_Pipeline_Blast_–_Validated_Independent_News⠀⇛
For more than a decade, Russia has exerted
influence in the region by supplying Germany and
other Western European nations with natural gas via
Nord Stream 1. The completion of Nord Stream 2 in
late 2021 effectively doubled the amount of
relatively inexpensive gas flowing from Russia to
Western Europe, further weakening US influence over
European nations, including its NATO allies.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Objecting_to_One_of_the_Highest_US_Military
Budgets_in_History⠀⇛
Last week, the White House released President
Biden’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2024, which
begins October 1 of 2023.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Democratic_End_to_Ukraine’s_War?⠀⇛
Notably absent until now from the Western narrative
regarding the current war in Ukraine and how it
might end has been any suggestion that the wishes
of the people who lived prior to February 24, 2022
in the four eastern and southern oblasts whose
sovereignty has since September 2022 been formally
contested between Russia and Ukraine might be of
any conceivable relevance.
Realistically, there are only two ways for this
sovereignty dispute to be decided: (i) by further
and potentially intensified deaths and destruction
until one side of the other achieves “victory”,
however defined, in a war which neither Russia nor
the United States believes it can afford to lose or
(ii) by the votes of a majority of those resident
in each oblast prior to February 24, 2022 in
referendums organized by the United Nations or
another agreed international organization, with
both sides committed to accept the referendum
results.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Anti-China_Offensive⠀⇛
The leading endeavor of U.S. foreign policy is now
containment of the rise of China, “our most
consequential strategic competitor,” as the 2022
National Defense Strategy notes at its start. The
response to this “pacing challenge” includes
confrontation over Taiwan and obstruction of
technological progress, while China’s burgeoning
network of economic alliances is singled out as a
threat that must be contained. These are shrewd
ways of pursuing an overriding goal of U.S. foreign
policy, making American preeminence in global power
last as long as possible. But the anti-China
offensive should be opposed as morally wrong.
While, if anything, it worsens repressiveness in
China, it encourages an invasion of Taiwan,
obstructs the escape from poverty of hundreds of
millions in China, and increases the likely future
worldwide toll of U.S.-induced violent disorder.
The strategic wisdom of these responses to the
challenge of China’s rise extends this condemnation
to the grand strategic goal that motivates them.
Confrontation over Taiwan is one prong of the anti-
China offensive. Since 2020, the U.S. has sent
warships, sometimes two at once, about once a month
through the Taiwan Strait. Since 2019, U.S. arms
sales to Taiwan have amounted to $19.5 billion,
accompanied by increased deployment of U.S.
military personnel, including Special Forces.
Interviewed this past September, Biden followed up
on previous assertions of a U.S. commitment to
defend Taiwan, noting that “Taiwan makes their own
judgments about their independence … that’s their
decision” before saying that U.S. forces would
defend Taiwan if “there was an unprecedented
attack.” In October, encouraged by this surging
support, the president of Taiwan announced plans
for a massive military build-up and declared, “We
have no room for compromise” in “defend[ing] our
national sovereignty.” In December, Biden signed
the Taiwan Enhanced Resilience Act, which
authorizes $2 billion a year of aid providing
military equipment for the next five years, with
loan guarantees for Taiwan’s purchases from non-
government sources.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ “One_China,”Taiwan,_U.S._Power,_and_Biden
Saber-Rattling_into_a_Crisis⠀⇛
While the Ukraine-Russia war rages on, President
Joseph Biden has set his sights on preparing for a
much bigger conflict—an economic and political, and
potentially military, war against the Peoples
Republic of China (PRC). Over the past several
months tension between the U.S. and China has
escalated rapidly to a host of issues as seemingly,
some trivial and some deadly serious.
The U.S. has been on a collision course with China
for some time, especially since the 2016 Trump
campaign put a bullseye on the PRC because of its
big balance-of-trade surplus due to cheap labor and
the comparative price of its currency, and then
Trump upped the ante when he placed tariffs on the
PRC and began a virulent anti-China (and anti-
Chinese) campaign when COVID broke out.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Dagestani_police_colonel_sentenced_to_life_in
prison,_in_connection_with_Islamic_terrorist_attack_that
killed_41_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A military court in Moscow has sentenced a high-
ranking police official from Kizlyar, Dagestan, to
life in prison.
o § History⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ For_Women’s_History_Month,_Let’s_Make
History⠀⇛
It seems like every year women’s history Month gets
less political and more corporate-celebratory.
Yay, women! Who would have dreamed in 1980, when
Jimmy Carter proclaimed the first Women’s History
Week, that we would see Hershey’s honoring the
month in 2023 by releasing limited-edition
chocolate bars. But we have bigger issues than
candy.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Polycrisis:_When_Will_the_World_End?_Professor
Gott’s_Equation_Gives_an_Answer!_(Also_as_a_Video!)⠀⇛
My colleague Professor Richard Gott III from the
elite university of Princeton has developed a
simple mathematical model to answer this and many
other questions that suffer from a high degree of
uncertainty and published his research in the
prestigious journal Nature.
The following post is based on “A math equation
that predicts the end of humanity” by William
Poundstone, who also wrote a whole book on the
matter (“The Doomsday Calculation”).
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Alliance_of_60+_Groups_Demands_Farm_Bill
That_Rejects_False_Climate_Solutions⠀⇛
Dozens of climate action, Indigenous rights, and
public interest groups on Thursday announced an
alliance that plans to engage with lawmakers ahead
of this year’s congressional debate on the Farm
Bill, calling on them to pass legislation that
rejects carbon offsets, carbon markets, and other
policies that perpetuate a planet-heating
agricultural system.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Groups_Vow_to_Sue_Biden_for_Ignoring_Demand
to_End_Drilling_on_Public_Lands⠀⇛
Three environmental groups on Thursday filed a 30-
day notice of their intent to sue the Biden
administration for refusing to respond to a
petition to wind down fossil fuel extraction on
public lands and waters.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ In_Reversal_of_Trump-Era_Stance,_Biden_DOJ
Backs_Colorado_Communities_Suing_Big_Oil⠀⇛
Climate defenders on Thursday applauded the Justice
Department’s move to support communities suing a
pair of oil companies by urging the U.S. Supreme
Court to deny the corporations’ bid to keep the
case out of state court.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Willow_Oil_Project_Won’t_Make_Us_Safer⠀⇛
On Monday, the Biden administration green-lighted
the Willow Project, a controversial oil drilling
venture inside the Arctic Circle proposed by the
fossil fuel giant ConocoPhillips. The decision was
a bitter disappointment to the legions of young
people who had turned out in 2020 to elect the man
who had once promised an end to oil drilling on
federal lands—“period, period, period.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Climate_Policy’s_on_Shaky_Ground_in_the
Farm_Bill⠀⇛
Members of Congress have begun drafting the 2023
“Farm Bill,” and they’ll be wrangling over it
through most of the year. This legislation, passed
into law anew every fifth year or so since the
1930s, has had far-reaching influence on food and
farming in the United States. Each version of the
bill is given its own name; the previous one, for
example, was called the Agriculture Improvement Act
of 2018. Given the nature of the early debate over
this bill-in-the-making, it might end up deserving
to be called the Food and Climate Bill of 2023.
Over the next two years, any legislation explicitly
aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions will be
dead on arrival in the GOP-controlled House of
Representatives. By default, the Farm Bill may now
be the playing field for the only climate game in
town, according to Washington-watchers such as
Peter Lehner, who represents the group
Earthjustice. He told Politico last month, “The
farm bill is probably going to be the piece of
legislation in the next two years with the biggest
impact on the climate and the environment.”
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Second-hand_clothes_find_way_to_Finnish_department
store_shelves⠀⇛
The second-hand clothing market is booming in
Finland.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ More_Cryptocurrency_Gaslighting⠀⇛
Ignacio de Gregorio is a “crypto expert” with
8.5K followers on Medium and he’s worried. In
The one word that can kill Crypto is back he
discusses the New York Attorney General’s
suit agains KuCoin and, once again,
demonstrates how gaslighting is central to
the arguments supporting cryptocurrencies.
Below the fold I point out the flaws in his
argument.
I’ll start by pointing out that I couldn’t
find any disclosure as to whether de Gregorio
is long or short cryptocurrencies or related
companies. So it is safe to assume that he is
one of the majority of “crypto experts”
Talking Their Book. And that, with typical
crypto-bro misogyny, he personifies the
villain of the piece (my emphasis): [...]
# ⚓ Renewable Energy World ☛ Will_Michigan_cash_in_on
community_solar_or_get_left_behind?⠀⇛
Fortunately, bills that would do exactly that
were just introduced into the Michigan
legislature by state Sens. Jeff Irwin (D-Ann
Arbor) and Ed McBroom (R-Waucedah Township).
This bipartisan legislation consists of two
bills: SB 152 would require the Michigan
Public Service Commission (MPSC) to issue new
regulations ensuring all customers have
opportunities to participate as subscribers
to a community solar facility, among other
provisions. No less than 30% of the
electricity produced by each community solar
facility would be reserved for low-income
households and service organizations.
Meanwhile, SB 153 would establish rules for
those customers to receive proportional bill
credits for the output of the community solar
facilities to which they subscribe.
There is another reason community solar is
particularly important right now: DTE and
Consumers Energy are putting forth their own
proposals for utility-owned “community solar”
programs. It would be a problem if the future
of community solar in Michigan is only
utility-owned. The current existing utility
programs are small, not offered in
communities across the state, and expensive –
all issues that could be addressed with more
competition and broader opportunities for
community solar.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Crypto-linked_bank_failures_fuel
regulation_debate⠀⇛
Global finance was rocked by the collapse of
Silicon Valley Bank last week, and the
digital currency sector was hit hard by the
demise of US crypto lenders Silvergate and
Signature — just months after the bankruptcy
of troubled crypto exchange trading platform
FTX.
Regulators are increasingly keen for
oversight of a sector which boomed during the
Covid pandemic when many people were stuck at
home.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ [Cryptocurrency]_investors_pull_$3
billion_from_stablecoin_USDC_in_three_days⠀⇛
Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies designed to
maintain a constant exchange rate with
traditional currencies. USDC is the second-
biggest stablecoin with a market cap of $37.6
billion.
From Monday to Wednesday, Circle processed
$3.8 billion of USDC redemptions (investors
swapping their tokens back into U.S. dollars)
and created $0.8 billion more of the token,
Circle’s blog post said, meaning investors
have pulled around $3 billion overall in the
three days.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Gazprom_net_profits_slashed_by_two-thirds_in
2022_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Gazprom has reported a net profit of 747.25
billion rubles in 2022, writes the Russian
business publication Kommersant. (This is
about $9.79 million in today’s money.)
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ US_Justice_Department_Tells_Supreme_Court_to
Reject_Big_Oil_Petition_in_Colorado_Climate_Lawsuit⠀⇛
Communities in the United States suing major
fossil fuel producers over climate-related
harms got a boost in court on Thursday. At
the request of the U.S. Supreme Court, the
Department of Justice weighed in on a key
procedural question that has been ensnaring
the progress of many climate accountability
lawsuits — the question of where the lawsuits
should be heard.
In 2018, the city and county of Boulder and
the county of San Miguel in Colorado filed
suit in state court against ExxonMobil and
Suncor, arguing the oil companies’
disinformation about their products hurt
Coloradans. But the oil companies pushed for
the case to be tried in federal, not state,
court – a seemingly minor distinction that
could have major consequences.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ The_Fight_to_Define_‘Green_Hydrogen’_Could
Determine_America’s_Emissions_Future⠀⇛
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Conservative_MP_Set_to_Pocket_£153,600_from
Fossil_Fuel-Linked_Firms⠀⇛
Tory MP for The Wrekin, Mark Pritchard,
stands to earn £153,600 in the next 12 months
from three jobs with companies that have an
interest in fossil fuels.
A new update to Pritchard’s register of
interest shows that the MP has accepted a
£46,800 a year role with the Texas-based
Focal Point Energy LLP, an energy investment
and development company that works for fossil
fuel firms. The company is run by a former
energy adviser to Donald Trump’s
administration, and is advised by a former
Republican senator who has questioned climate
science.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Fossil_Fuel_Giants_Urged_to_‘Pay_Up’
After_Tropical_Cyclone_Freddy_Kills_300+⠀⇛
As the death toll from Tropical Cyclone
Freddy continues to rise, climate justice
advocates are imploring the fossil fuel
corporations most responsible for the
destruction to reduce their planet-wrecking
emissions, compensate victims, and fund
rebuilding.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Snow_leopard’s_prey-catching_skills
stun_the_Internet._Watch⠀⇛
Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Parveen
Kaswan regularly shares intriguing wildlife-
related posts on Twitter. From sharing
mesmerizing pictures of wildlife to
challenging people to identify various
creatures, the IFS officer’s Twitter account
is filled with several fascinating posts. And
his recent post on the microblogging site is
no different. It captures a snow leopard
catching its prey along a super steep slope.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Amazon_Rainforest_Destabilizes_the
World⠀⇛
A new 40-year study discovered the eye-
opening fact that what happens in the Amazon
Rainforest impacts the entire Earth system.
This puts an exclamation point on the fact
that the Amazon Rainforest, the planet’s most
crucial source of life support, is in deep
trouble mainly because of massive
deforestation.
The Amazon River Basin is the world’s largest
rainforest, larger than the next two largest
rainforests combined, the Congo Basin and
Indonesia, and roughly the size of the forty-
eight contiguous United States covering 40%
of South America including parts of Brazil,
Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela,
Guyana Suriname and French Guiana.
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Water_Experts_Look_to_Change_Attitudes,
Policies⠀⇛
Even when water is accessible, in too many
instances it is unsafe to drink. Ho said
water quality is an issue that should be of
“prime concern” given that chemicals, heavy
metals, hormones and other potentially toxic
substances are routinely present in the U.S.
water supply.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Niels Provos ☛ The_Mandalorian_Beskar_Project_Concludes
with_$20,000_Donated_to_Second_Harvest⠀⇛
In the video, I document the process of creating a
Beskar ingot as seen in the Mandalorian. To create
the distinctive Beskar look, I selected two types
of steel, 1095 – a plain high carbon steel, and
15n20 – a steel with high nickel content. Through a
series of forge welding operations, the different
types of steel were fused together under pressure
and very high temperatures, eventually reaching
around 170 layers. The ingot was then forged and
ground to achieve its final dimension. To complete
the process, the Galactic Empire sigil was hot
stamped onto the ingot and the steel was heat
treated, polished, and etched with ferric chloride
to bring out the stunning pattern that resembles
the iconic Beskar ingot from the Mandalorian
series.
The project not only showcased the incredible
craftsmanship involved in creating a beautiful
replica of the iconic Beskar steel, but also
brought together a community of passionate fans who
wanted to make a positive impact. The initial
giveaway in the video stimulated this donation
campaign, which helped increase awareness about the
issue of hunger and food insecurity in California.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ The_endless_harm_of_pokies_gambling_–
Perrottet_and_Minns_at_odds_as_Election_looms⠀⇛
With $95 billion a year fed into NSW’s poker
machines, and close to $10bn in player losses,
gambling reform is high on the list of key policy
issues for the looming NSW election. Which party
provides the best policy platform to curb gambling
harm in the biggest poker machine province in the
world? Callum Foote investigates.
Australians are some of the heaviest gamblers in
the world, and NSW tops the country in terms of
losses to poker machines, with roughly $5 billion
in losses every six months according to the latest
government statistics.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ “We_need_to_pressure_the_Hungarians”_–
leaked_documents_reveal_collapse_of_Russian-led_bank_in
Budapest⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Values_of_Budget⠀⇛
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ No_end_to_above_average_inflation_–
Nationalbanken⠀⇛
Central bank revises forecast to predict an overall
rate of 3.6 percent for 2024 – over double its
previous estimate
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ CFPB_Launches_Long_Overdue_Probe_Of
Unaccountable_Data_Broker_Market⠀⇛
We’ve noted for a while that the performative
histrionics surrounding TikTok are really just a
distraction from our corrupt failure to police
dodgy data brokers or pass even a basic privacy law
for the internet era. U.S. companies don’t want to
lose money by empowering consumers or being
ethical, and the U.S. government doesn’t want to
get warrants for data it can buy cheaply from
brokers.
# ⚓ DataGeeek ☛ Food_Inflation:_Comparing_with_Interactive
Chart_of_{ggiraph}⠀⇛
According to authorities, up to 205 million are
facing food insecurity in about 45 countries.
Besides global warming that causes poor rainfall
performance, another strong reason to worry about
the issue is the Russian invasion of Ukraine which
causes trade-related restrictions.
I’ve just wondered how this reflects on food
inflation. To do that, we will examine the food CPI
rates of some G20 countries. First, we build our
dataset.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ GOP_Author_of_Bank_Deregulation_Bill_Says
‘No_Need’_for_Tougher_Safeguards⠀⇛
Republican Sen. Mike Crapo, the lead author of a
2018 bank deregulation law that weakened key
guardrails designed to prevent another financial
crisis, insisted this week that there is “no need”
to impose more strict rules following two of the
largest bank collapses in U.S. history.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ What_Will_It_Take_to_End_the_Billionaire
Bailout_Society_We_Live_In?⠀⇛
In case we need any more proof, the bailout of the
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is yet another overt sign
that we are operating within a new version of
capitalism. The wealthiest among us have little
fear of losing money from their most important
financial investments. They know they will be
bailed out, and the rest of us will pick up the
tab.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Aside_From_the_Military_Bloat,_Biden_Budget
Is_Worth_Celebrating⠀⇛
How can we measure what our leaders value? One way
is to look at their budgets.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Champion_for_Working_Families’:_Bernie
Sanders_Backs_Brandon_Johnson_for_Chicago_Mayor⠀⇛
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday endorsed
progressive Cook County Commissioner Brandon
Johnson in Chicago’s mayoral race, calling the
former public school teacher a “champion for
working families” and touting his support for taxes
on the rich to fund critical social services.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Dennis_Kucinich_and_Michael_Hudson_on_the
Anatomy_of_Bank_Failures⠀⇛
This is a wide-ranging discussion about the anatomy
of bank failures. Dave Kelley, the moderator, is a
pension actuarial expert, headquartered in Ohio.
Chairman of the Domestic Policy subcommittee of the
Govt Oversight Committee, Kucinich, as a senior
member of Congress, investigated the subprime
meltdown (see you tube videos), grilling Wall
Street titans. Michael Hudson […]
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Startup_revolution_Can_Central_Asia_reap_the
rewards_of_Russia’s_IT_exodus?_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ This_is_Fascism,_SVB_Bailout_Edition⠀⇛
The very public failure of SVB (Silicon Valley
Bank) is raising concerns of a renewed wave of bank
failures that threatens Western economies. The
subtext is residual fear that the earlier (mid-
2000’s) bank crisis was never adequately addressed.
The very bankers who sank the banking system back
then were handed trillions in public largesse to
cover their losses, but the system of Wall Street
provision of credit to fuel capitalism was never
reconsidered. As then Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner put it, ‘the US doesn’t do nationalization
(of banks).’
Part of the political calculus behind the earlier
bailouts was the role of Wall Street in support of
American imperialism. Neoliberalism was claimed in
a constructive way to be ‘war by other means’
because it transferred wealth from the economic
periphery to the center without a shot being fired.
Trade was to replace warfare went the theory. That
the US has been the most capitalist and the most
militaristic nation in the world over the last
century has done little to discredit this theory
amongst true believers. These true believers now
run the US.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Why_Is_the_Republican_Party_Suddenly_Weakening
Child_Labor_Laws?⠀⇛
In Arkansas, children as young as 14 will soon be
able to work up to 48 hours a week—without the
permission of their parents. Iowa legislators are
considering a bill that would allow teens to work
in mining and meatpacking. And in Ohio, a bill
currently sailing through the legislature would let
14- or 15-year-olds work until 9 pm year-round.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Child_Labor_is_Back…with_a_Vengeance!⠀⇛
Child labor is back. That’s because rich
corporations and their political parasites want it
back. What better way, they doubtless imagine, for
penniless, unaccompanied migrant children to spend
their time than performing dangerous tasks in
slaughterhouses or moiling with toxic cleansers in
factories? What else are these kids going to do
with their time? Go to school? Not likely, if our
oligarchs have it their way. Corporate billionaires
need workers, especially post-Great Resignation,
when millions of employees, after remembering
thanks to covid that life is short, basically said
“You can take this lousy job and shove it.” As a
result, it’s a tight labor market, despite the
Federal Reserve’s best efforts to boost
unemployment, to wit, Fed chairman Jerome Powell’s
interest rate increases, his volley in the class
war that backfired, potentially taking down the
banks (poetic justice that could ruin us all). And
a tight labor market means higher wages. Our
corporate bigwigs don’t like that at all, and thus
eye child workers all the more eagerly, because
they can pay them peanuts.
Also jumping on the tawdry child labor bandwagon
are states like Minnesota and Iowa. There, GOP
legislators want exceptions to child labor
regulations, so kids can work longer hours and to
“protect employers from liabilities due to sickness
or accidents,” per the proposed bills’ language, as
RT reported February 24. Washington even lends a
hand – with a new rule in January, lowering the age
of professional truck drivers from 21 to 18. So
now, according to CNN January 19, 18-year-olds can
drive semi-trucks across state lines, because “the
U.S. government is setting up an apprenticeship
program for young truckers.” This will lead to many
more collisions and other potentially lethal
events, but the feds don’t care – like Powell, they
see a class war to win for the billionaires, so
road safety? A thing of the past, innit?
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Teapot_Dome_Redivivus:_How_Clinton_and_Gore
Opened_the_Alaskan_Arctic_to_Oil_Drilling⠀⇛
Imagine building 70 new coal-fired power plants
that will emit 9 million metric tons of carbon
pollution a year (the same as two million gas-
powered cars) and more than wipe out all emissions
savings from renewable energy projects on U.S.
public lands by 2030. Imagine constructing hundreds
of miles of roads and pipelines, two airstrips, a
gravel mine and a big processing plant on tundra
and wetlands where the permafrost is already
melting so quickly that it will have to be
artificially-refrozen to keep the whole enterprise
from collapsing.
That’s basically what you’re getting with the
Willow Project, the massive oil drilling operation
just approved on Alaska’s North Slope by Biden’s
Interior Department. This grotesque operation
prompted Al Gore to waddle forth with a rare rebuke
of a fellow New Democrat: “The proposed expansion
of oil and gas drilling in Alaska is recklessly
irresponsible. The pollution it would generate will
not only put Alaska native and other local
communities at risk, it is incompatible with the
ambition we need to achieve a net zero future. We
don’t need to prop up the fossil fuel industry with
new, multi-year projects that are a recipe for
climate chaos. Instead, we must end the expansion
of oil, gas and coal and embrace the abundant
climate solutions at our fingertips.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Enraging_Workers,_Macron_Bypasses
Parliament_With_‘Nuclear_Option’_on_Retirement_Age_Hike⠀⇛
Amid protests against French President Emmanuel
Macron’s unpopular plan to overhaul the country’s
pension system, his government on Thursday chose
the “nuclear option,” opting to use a
constitutional procedure to force through reforms,
including raising the retirement age from 62 to 64,
without a vote in the lower house of Parliament.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Execs_Make_Millions_via_Timely_Trades_of
Competitors’_Stock⠀⇛
On Feb. 21, 2018, August Troendle, an Ohio
billionaire, made a remarkably well-timed stock
trade. He sold $1.1 million worth of shares of
Syneos Health the day before a management shake-up
caused the company’s stock to plunge 16%. It was
the largest one-day drop that year for Syneos’
share price.
The company was one Troendle knew well. He is the
CEO of Medpace, one of Syneos’ chief competitors in
a niche industry. Both Syneos and Medpace handle
clinical trials for biopharma companies, and that
year they had jointly launched a trade association
for companies in the field.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ State_Secretary_strikes_back_at_MEPs
criticising_Hungarian_Foreign_Minister_for_trip_to_Minsk⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ ‘Europe_is_suffering_from_a_psychosis_of
war’_–_Orbán_in_Ankara⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ What_Can_Americans_Do_About_Having_a
National_Political_Party_Built_on_Hatred?⠀⇛
Denver conservative radio host Mandy Connell
publicly changed her party affiliation from
Republican to independent on her program this
Monday, a week after giving a thoughtful and
largely apolitical interview to Talkers Magazine
publisher Michael Harrison on his podcast. On her
own program she was blunt:
# ⚓ Insight Hungary ☛ EP_criticizes_Szijjártó_for_Minsk_visit⠀⇛
The European Parliament adopted a resolution on
Belarus on Wednesday, including a paragraph
on Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó’s
recent trip to Minsk. The resolution underlines
the importance of strengthening EU unity concerning
Belarus, including the diplomatic isolation of the
current regime.
They condemn any actions, including “high-ranking
visits to the de facto authorities in Minsk, which
could cast doubt on the Union’s unequivocal non-
recognition of the Lukashenka regime”. The EP
“deplores the 13 February 2023 visit to Minsk by
the Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó,
which contradicts the EU policy on Belarus and
Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, and
disapproves of the continuing issuance by some
Member States of Schengen visas to individuals
close to Aliaksandr Lukashenka”.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Perhaps_Protests_Will_Help_People_Recognize
That_Israel_Is_Not_a_Country_of_Law_and_Order⠀⇛
As hundreds of thousands, throughout Israel, joined
anti-government protests, questions began to arise
regarding how this movement would affect, or
possibly merge, into the wider struggle against the
Israeli military occupation and apartheid in
Palestine.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Report_Reveals_Tape_of_Trump_Pressuring_Georgia
Official_to_Overturn_Election⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Report:_“Dysfunction”_in_Congress_Can_Be
Remedied_by_Proportional_Representation⠀⇛
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Government_Hasn’t_Justified_a_TikTok_Ban⠀⇛
So we are troubled by growing demands in the
United States for restrictions on TikTok, a
technology that many people have chosen to
exchange information with others around the
world. Before taking such a drastic step, the
government must come forward with specific
evidence showing, at the very least, a real
problem and a narrowly tailored solution. So
far, the government hasn’t done so.
Nearly all social media platforms and other
online businesses collect a lot of personal
data from their users. TikTok raises special
concerns, given the surveillance and
censorship practices of its home country,
China. Still, the best solution to these
problems is not to single-out one business or
country for a ban. Rather, we must enact
comprehensive consumer data privacy
legislation. By reducing the massive stores
of personal data collected by all businesses,
TikTok included, we will reduce opportunities
for all governments, China included, to buy
or steal this data.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Silicon_Valley_Bank_Didn’t_Fund_Black
Lives_Matter⠀⇛
Claremont’s dishonest accounting is clearer
when it calls out other corporations for
their BLM projects. It shows the firm 3M
pledging a whopping $50 million to “BLM.” But
the investment is mainly focused on
supporting STEM learning in Black
communities, Marshall says, with a pledge of
$50 million over five years. The first year,
$5 million went to the United Negro College
Fund for work in St. Paul, Minn., hardly the
same as BLM.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Deadly_Disinformation_–_The
Underreported_Scandal_at_the_New_York_Times⠀⇛
Today’s assignment…
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Briahna_Joy_Gray_Asks_Matt_Taibbi_The
Right_Questions⠀⇛
Matt Taibbi was surprised to get a
confrontational interview from Briahna Joy
Gray, who like him, is linked with the
horseshoe theory of politics (left and right
are the same). The occasion for the interview
was that Taibbi has been revealing the
Twitter files, the leaked documents from the
Jack Dorsey era of Twitter.
Gray is a much more nuanced thinker than
Taibbi and frustrates both the Trumpenleft
(Paul Street’s genius term) and the
Brandonleft (the part of the left that keeps
being shocked by Joe Biden’s “betrayals”).
See Joshua Frank’s aptly named piece recently
in CounterPunch.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Important_Victory’_for_Florida_Higher_Ed:
Court_Upholds_Block_on_DeSantis_Censorship_Law⠀⇛
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday
kept in place a preliminary injunction against
Florida GOP policymakers’ school censorship law in
what rights advocates celebrated as “an important
victory for professors, other educators, and
students.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ DeSantis_Aims_to_Revoke_Liquor_License_for_Hotel
That_Hosted_Drag_Show_Last_Year⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ How_an_English_Footballer_Took_On_the_BBC⠀⇛
It is said that the British are resistant to
change. This, after all, is a country where the
peaceful departure of a 96-year-old monarch can
dominate the news cycle for weeks, where tennis
players at Wimbledon can be asked to change outfits
if they break the all-white dress code by wearing
too much color, where some private members’ clubs
in central London still refuse to admit women, and
where graduation ceremonies at Oxford and Cambridge
are still conducted in Latin.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ What_Policymakers_Need_to_Know_About_the_First
Amendment_and_Section_230⠀⇛
Alongside EFF Senior Staff Attorney Aaron Mackey,
the panel included Billy Easley, Senior Public
Policy Lead at Reddit, and Emma Llanso, Director of
the Free Expression Project at the Center for
Democracy and Technology (CDT). Senator Ron Wyden
(D-OR), one of the co-authors of Section 230, gave
opening remarks.
Senator Wyden opened the panel with background on
the law: it simply establishes the principle that
the person who creates and posts content is
responsible for that content. Thanks to Section 230
and the First Amendment, websites can take down
what they want. Section 230 is essential to smaller
companies and startups: “The big guys can take care
of themselves,” but the small guys should be able
to compete with the big guys, Wyden explained. The
law democratizes speech, and elevates the choices
of users. Thanks to Section 230, people are able to
speak out.
Wyden then discussed the latest Supreme Court
cases. In Gonzalez v. Google, the petitioning
plaintiffs made a radical argument about Section
230. They asked the Supreme Court to rule that
Section 230 doesn’t protect recommendations we get
online, or how certain content gets arranged and
displayed. In Twitter v. Taamneh, the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that online
services can be civilly liable under the Anti-
Terrorism Act (ATA) based on claims that the
platform had generalized awareness that members of
a terrorist organization used its service.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Arizona_Governor_Vetoes_Bill_Banning_Critical
Race_Theory⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Transparency_International_shutters_its_Russia
office_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian branch of Transparency International,
an international organization combatting
corruption, has announced that it will end its
operations in the country.
# ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ Publisher_Deletes_Race_From_Rosa_Parks
Story_for_Florida⠀⇛
In the lesson by Studies Weekly used in elementary
schools today, segregation is clearly defined: “The
law said African Americans had to give up their
seats on the bus if a white person wanted to sit
down.” But in the initial version created for
Florida’s review, the lesson reads: “She was told
to move to a different seat because of the color of
her skin.” And in the second updated version, race
is removed completely: “She was told to move to a
different seat.”
# ⚓ Associated Press ☛ Experts_say_attacks_on_free_speech_are
rising_across_the_US⠀⇛
“It’s pretty mind-boggling that so many politicians
are waving the flag of freedom while doing anything
they possibly can to infringe on the free speech
rights of Americans,” Paulson said.
Still, no one political group has a monopoly on
censorship — aggression is increasing across the
spectrum, Cohn said.
# ⚓ CPJ ☛ French_journalist_Cemil_Şanlı_receives_death_threat,
accosted_outside_home⠀⇛
Later that day, he filed a criminal complaint with
local police in a suburb of Paris reporting the
threat as well as an incident about a month before
in which two people with their faces covered
accosted him outside of his home and insulted him,
according to the journalist and news reports.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Tibetan_speaker_repeatedly_interrupted_by_Chinese
delegates_at_UN_session_in_Geneva⠀⇛
Chinese delegates repeatedly interrupted the
Tibetan representative of the Dalai Lama as she
spoke Wednesday about cultural rights violations in
Tibet on behalf of a humanitarian group during a
meeting of the U.N.’s Human Rights Council in
Geneva, Switzerland.
Thinlay Chukki from the Tibet Bureau Geneva, the
official agency of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan
government-in-exile, began describing the treatment
of Tibetan children and nomads in China’s far-
western Tibet Autonomous Region on the behalf of
the Society for Threatened Peoples.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Axios_Fires_Reporter_for_Calling_DeSantis_Press
Release_“Propaganda”_in_Email⠀⇛
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Unicode_Roman_Numerals_and_Screen_Readers⠀⇛
How would you read this sentence out aloud?
“In Hamlet, Act Ⅳ, Scene Ⅸ…”
Most people with a grasp of the interplay between
English and Latin would say “In Hamlet, Act four,
scene nine”. And they’d be right! But screen-
readers – computer programs which convert text into
speech – often get this wrong.
Why? Well, because I didn’t just type “Uppercase
Letter i, Uppercase Letter v”. Instead, I used the
Unicode symbol for the Roman numeral 4 – Ⅳ. And, it
turns out, lots of screen-readers have a problem
with those characters.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Girls_Do_Porn_Cameraman_Ordered_to_Pay
Victims_More_Than_$100,000⠀⇛
The cameraman for sex trafficking ring Girls Do
Porn has been ordered to pay victims more than
$100,000 in total, including half of what he makes
working in the prison system for his two-year
sentence.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Will_Harvard’s_New_President_Act_to_Confront_the
University’s_Legacy_of_Slavery?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Trashing_Asylum:_the_UK’s_Illegal_Migration
Bill⠀⇛
He was standing before a lectern at Downing
Street. The words on the support looked eerily
similar to those used by the politicians of another
country. According to UK Prime Minister Rishi
Sunak, Stop the Boats was the way to go. It harked
back to the same approach used by Australia’s Tony
Abbott, who won the 2013 election on precisely that
platform.
The UK Illegal Migration Bill is fabulously own-
goaled, bankrupt and unprincipled. For one thing,
it certainly is a labour of love in terms of the
illegal, as the title suggests. In time, the
courts may well also find fault with this ghastly
bit of proposed legislation, which has already
sailed through two readings in the Commons and
resting in the Committee stage.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Utah_Judge_Pauses_Order_to_Return_Siblings_to
Father⠀⇛
After two months barricaded in a bedroom to defy a
court order directing them to be returned to the
custody of their father, who they say abused them,
Utah siblings Ty and Brynlee Larson emerged after a
judge delayed enforcing the custody change while a
new criminal probe into the father is resolved.
“New information has come forward today regarding
serious allegations of abuse,” Judge Derek Pullan
said in a Monday hearing, citing the criminal probe
first reported by ProPublica.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Judge_in_Abortion_Medication_Case_Appears
Sympathetic_to_Calls_for_Ban⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_True_Costs_of_Renting_a_Home⠀⇛
In 1937, the American folklorist Alan Lomax invited
Louisiana folksinger Huddie Ledbetter (better known
as Lead Belly) to record some of his songs for the
Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Lead Belly
and his wife Martha searched in vain for a place to
spend a few nights nearby. But they were Black and
no hotel would give them shelter, nor would any
Black landlord let them in, because they were
accompanied by Lomax, who was white. A white friend
of Lomax’s finally agreed to put them up, although
his landlord screamed abuse at him and threatened
to call the police.
In response to this encounter with D.C.’s Jim Crow
laws, Lead Belly wrote a song, “The Bourgeois
Blues,” recounting his and Martha’s humiliation and
warning Blacks to avoid the capital if they were
looking for a place to live. The chorus goes,
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ El_Salvador_Under_a_“State_of_Exception:”
Human_Rights_Violations_and_Suspension_of_Freedoms⠀⇛
The pro-government deputies approved in early
January the tenth extension of martial law that
allows the government, among other things, to hide
information on public spending. The exception
regime includes the suspension of the
constitutional guarantees of Salvadorans and the
use of the military in public security.
Since March 2022 when El Salvador’s government
began implementation of its cornerstone security
strategy, it has been marked by reports of human
rights violations, arbitrary detentions, abuses by
security forces, forced disappearances, and
blockades to access to public information by the
State.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Movement_Behind_the_Judge_and_the_Junk
Science_Poised_to_Block_Access_to_Mifepristone⠀⇛
At a hearing that Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk tried to
hide, in a state that won’t be affected by his
actions because abortion is already banned there,
the avowedly anti-abortion judge heard arguments
Wednesday in a case that could upend access to
medication abortion nationwide. In an Amarillo,
Tex., courtroom, attorneys with the Christian right
legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) asked
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk to revoke the FDA’s 23-
year-old approval of mifepristone, the first of two
drugs used in medication abortion, which makes up
more than half of all abortions in the United
States.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Civil_Society_Organizations_Urge_Ghana’s_Parliament
to_Reject_Repressive_Anti-LGBTQ+_Bill⠀⇛
As we’ve said before, this bill is not only an
assault on the rights of LGBTQI+ people to exist,
but it also represents a grave threat to freedom of
expression. While Ghanaian law has long
criminalized same-sex sexual activities, the new
proposal goes much further by threatening up to
five years in jail for publicly identifying as
LGBTQ or “any other sexual or gender identity that
is contrary to the binary categories of male and
female.”
The sentence increases if the offending person
expresses their gender beyond or identifies outside
of the so-called “binary gender.” The bill also has
a blanket prohibition on advocating for LGBTQI+
rights and explicitly assigns criminal penalties
for speech posted online, and threatens online
platforms—specifically naming Twitter and Meta
products Facebook and Instagram—with criminal
penalties if they do not restrict pro-LGBTQ
content.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Montana’s_Anti-Trans_Bill:_an_Attempt_to
Legalize_Discrimination⠀⇛
All the hullabaloo about how much or little SB458
will cost the State of Montana, if the bill is
enacted, completely misses the most important flaw
in this proposed piece of legislation. In
attempting to define sex and sexuality to include
only sperm and egg producers, SB 458 is nothing
other than a disingenuous attempt to put a legal
gloss on the exact sort of discrimination that
Article II, section 4 of Montana’s Constitution
specifically prohibits.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Immigration_Policy_Doesn’t_Have_to_be_This
Way⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Biden’s_Betrayal_of_D.C.’s_Black_Youth⠀⇛
Perhaps the most agonizing thing in my final days
as a trial lawyer—at the D.C. Public Defender
Service, over a decade ago—was the long hours spent
trying to persuade young Black male teenagers, some
charged as adults, some legally defined as adults
(despite still-tender ages), to plead guilty in
carjacking cases—the least awful option they had.
Indigent, impetuous, and often inadequately loved
and nurtured, these Black boys incongruously grow
up in the shadow of rich, white marble monuments;
they exist in the perilous margins, living close
to—but figuratively far from—the halls of power of
our “shining city on a hill.” Invariably these boys
were—and they still are—shipped off to
unconscionably full federal prisons; there they
serve a significant spell of their already
shattered lives—the shards of which stick out,
sharply, in social service records, and ineffably
sad sentencing memoranda.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Abortion_Bans_Could_Exacerbate_the_US’s_Already
High_Rate_of_Preterm_Births⠀⇛
# ⚓ Court House News ☛ GirlsDoPorn_cameraman_to_pay_$100,000_to
two_victims⠀⇛
Theodore Wilfred Gyi, who shot over 100 videos for
GirlsDoPorn and its offshoot, GirlsDoToys, pleaded
guilty in 2021 to one count of conspiracy to commit
sex trafficking through his work with the operators
of the website, Matthew Wolfe and Michael Pratt, to
coerce young women to appear in porn videos. In
2022, a federal judge sentenced Gyi to four years
in prison.
Now U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino ordered
Gyi to pay $31,508.11 in restitution to one victim
and $72,341 to another. Both victims are identified
only by their initials in the restitution order.
# ⚓ NPR ☛ Denver_donates_35_bison_to_Native_American_tribes⠀⇛
The city of Denver has donated 35 bison to several
Native American tribes and one memorial council in
Colorado, Oklahoma and Wyoming. The transfers
marked another example of Indigenous people
reclaiming stewardship over land and animals their
ancestors managed for thousands of years.
After a ceremony on Wednesday, the animals were
loaded onto trucks and moved to tribal lands.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Fascists_in_the_Courts_and_the_Need_to
Abandon_Liberal_Surrender_and_Complicity⠀⇛
Sometimes it is hard to know who is worse: the
Christian white nationalist neofascists who keep
pushing the nation further right or the hollow and
passive resistance of the fake-opposition Weimar
Democrats who keep accommodating the ever more
mainstreamed far right.
But we don’t have to choose. The fascisation of US
politics and policy reflects, among other things, a
symbiotic, even “co-dependent” dance between the
Republikaner right and those aligned with the not-
so leftmost of the two dominant capitalist parties
– the dismal Dems.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ For_First_Time,_US_Democratic_Voters
Sympathize_More_With_Palestinians_Than_Israelis:_Poll⠀⇛
Gallup poll results revealed Thursday that while,
for the first time, more U.S. Democratic voters now
sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis,
left-leaning respondents also “want solutions that
respect Israel’s needs as well.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Poll:_Democrats_Sympathize_With_Palestine_Over
Israel_For_the_First_Time⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Mass_Protests_and_False_Hope:_Israel’s
Supreme_Court_is_No_Friend_of_the_Palestinian_People⠀⇛
As hundreds of thousands, throughout Israel, joined
anti-government protests, questions began to arise
regarding how this movement would affect, or
possibly merge, into the wider struggle against the
Israeli military occupation and apartheid in
Palestine.
Pro-Palestine media outlets shared, with obvious
excitement, news about statements made by Hollywood
celebrities, the likes of Mark Ruffalo, about the
need to “sanction the new hard right-wing
government of (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin)
Netanyahu”.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ “A_Closed,_Burnt_Huwara”:_How_Israeli_Settlers
Launched_A_Pogrom⠀⇛
Nablus—When the first call from the central
dispatch unit at the Palestinian Red Crescent
Society (PRCS) was received in the afternoon of
February 26, Mohannad Hawah, 25, was among the
first volunteers to respond.1
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Rachel_Corrie_‘Lives_On_in_All_of_Us,’_Say
Palestinians_20_Years_After_IDF_Killed_Activist⠀⇛
Palestinian rights activists on Thursday remembered
the life and legacy of Rachel Corrie, the American
human rights defender who was crushed to death by
an Israeli military bulldozer on March 16, 2003
while trying to shield a Palestinian home from
demolition in occupied Gaza.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Another_Refugee_Tragedy⠀⇛
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ ‘The_Whole_System_Is_Stacked_Against_a_Person_With_a
Disability’⠀⇛
Janine Jackson interviewed the Disability Economic
Justice Collaborative’s Kim Knackstedt about
disability policy for the March 10, 2023, episode
of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited
transcript.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ White_House_Anonymously_Throws_Gigi_Sohn_Under
The_Bus_After_Screwing_Up_Her_FCC_Nomination⠀⇛
Earlier this month we noted how a sleazy telecom
and media giant smear campaign successfully
derailed the FCC nomination of popular reformer
Gigi Sohn, keeping the agency gridlocked (quite
intentionally) without the voting majority to do
much of anything deemed “controversial” by
industry.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Opponents_Slam_Government_Approval_of_$31
Billion_Railroad_Merger⠀⇛
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Denmark’s_Piracy_Blocklist_Adds
YouTube_Rippers_&_Expands_to_239_Sites⠀⇛
Denmark is one of the leading countries when
it comes to pirate site blocking orders. The
first blocking case started 17 years ago and
since then, over 200 sites have been added to
ISP blocklists. This week, nine new sites
were added, and with targets such as
y2mate.com, savefrom.net and loader.to there
is a heavy focus on YouTube rippers.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ After_ACE_Shuts_Down_Streamzz,
Pirates_Demand_Refunds_But_Get_Zebras_Instead⠀⇛
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment
has shut down Streamzz, a stream hosting
service that reportedly offered 75,000 movies
and 15,000 TV episodes for display on more
than 60 pirate sites. Reports suggest that
those owed money aren’t getting paid. Having
their Hollywood and in some cases adult
movies swapped out for random wildlife videos
hasn’t made things any better.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ ‘Destiny_2’_DLC_Suddenly_Results_In
Copyright_Strikes_For_Streamers⠀⇛
We haven’t always spoken in glowing terms
about Bungie, the game studio behind the
Destiny franchise. That being said, in more
recent days, Bungie has also taken some very
positive steps when it comes to protecting
its fans from copyright takedown abuse, while
also highlighting for the record that the
DMCA takedown process employed by streaming
sites absolutely sucks out loud. So, when it
comes to how Bungie generally behaves on
matters of intellectual property, it’s kinds
of like an annoying Facebook relationship
status: it’s complicated.
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