𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Wednesday, March 22, 2023
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Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/03/22/
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⦿ Apple ’Porn’ Filter | Techrights
⦿ 3.5 Years Later Gemini Protocol and Geminispace Are Still 100% Community-Controlled | Techrights
⦿ Windows Falls to 16% Market Share in India (It was 97% in 2009), Microsoft Layoffs Reach India Too | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Microsoft Has Also Infiltrated the OSI’s Board of Directors After Rigged Elections | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/03/22/apple-porn-filter/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/22/gemini-protocol-2023/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/22/india-os-in-2023/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/22/irc-log-210323/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/22/osi-microsoft-front-group/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/03/22/gnome-44-kuala-lumpur/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/22/official-thunderbird-podcast/#comments
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✐ Apple_‘Porn’_Filter⠀✐
Posted in Apple at 9:07 pm by Guest Editorial Team
Guest post by Ryan Farmer (who adds, “here’s the article that got my [whole]
blog taken down”)
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Summary: Apple and US State Governments Developing System to Require People to
Report Themselves for Watching Porn.
According to NBC News, at least 8 US states are_considering_a_law_that_requires
mobile_device_manufacturers_to_recognize_pornography_and_censor_it
automatically, whether you’re using carrier data or your home’s WiFi, and they
could be exposed to criminal liability if they’re not doing a perfect job, so
expect them to be extremely aggressive with the filters.
Apple is best positioned to implement it since they admit they already have
device scanners and porn filters, and the filters just aren’t on by default
(yet).
“Apple has admitted the porn filters were intended to blur things in iMessage
and alert “parents”.”Apple doesn’t allow software to be installed outside their
App store and these laws would require them to censor their App Store.
Apple has admitted the porn filters were intended to blur things in iMessage
and alert “parents”.
So basically what changes when the 8 states (so far) pass the “model bill” to
ban porn on mobile devices?
Apple changes their “blur and report” system to detect porn being displayed in
any application on the iPhone/iPad.
If it’s illegal, they just go ahead and send an automated report to the cops,
but they do that now, so…
If it’s not illegal, they just blur it and make you hand your driver’s license
information to another app that’s put there by your state and take a face pic,
like iD Me.
“I’m sure that medical students will love this.”Apple has gone pretty quiet
with their alleged “Privacy” campaign, it was always fake, like DuckDuckGo.
The idea is that you bait users into a platform where they have no agency and
can’t stop you, and then put in this fake anti-tracking stuff that’s surface
deep, and then way way down into the bowels of the iOS system, you put spyware
in that’s very quiet about what it’s actually doing so you don’t spook the
user. They think that you have their back while they’re being bugged.
So, in a year or two when you can’t read accurate information in an
encyclopedia or medical journal about the human reproductive system, because
Apple can’t decide if it’s porn or not, and you have to give your driver’s
license to a state government app that tells your state you want to watch porn,
be proud of yourself for defending Apple all of these years saying “Only people
with things to hide need to be worried.”.
I’m sure that medical students will love this. █
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/03/22/gemini-protocol-2023/#comments
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✐ 3.5_Years_Later_Gemini_Protocol_and_Geminispace_Are_Still_100%_Community-
Controlled⠀✐
Posted in Protocol, Site_News at 1:17 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 97211f6980727bf036136cb2469c5cba
Gemini Status Quo
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/gemini-interlude.webm
Summary: Community-centric alternatives to the World Wide Web have gained
traction; one of them, Gemini Protocol, continues to grow in 2023 and we’re
pleased to report progress and expansion
IN the video above I present the latest state of Gemini and how we use it in
Techrights. We’ve_used_it_for_over_2_years. Tux Machines joined_last_year.
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Participants in Diana Leafe Christian's 'Heart of a Healthy
Community' seminar circle during an afternoon session at O.U.R. Ecovillage⦈ In
the video I show Daily_Links, Geminispace_in_general (latest), some_statistics,
and then some limitations too are explained (for instance, we cannot expect the
reader to be able to see images).
Gemini is turning 4 later this year and it’s_still_growing (see latest_image/
chart/graph). █
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Stonehenge_Summer_Solstice⦈_
Stonehenge Summer Solstice. CC_BY-SA_2.0, Link.
Credit: Image at the centre by CQ at en.wikipedia – Transferred from
en.wikipedia to Commons by User “Sunray” using CommonsHelper, CC_BY-SA_2.5.
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠈⠀⠐⠓⣾⣦⡶⢦⡈⣶⠏⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡗⠀⠁⠀⠈⢀⠐⠩⣧⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢞⠷⠀⠠⠀⠀⢴⣿⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣴⣵⡆⠄⠀⠐⠀⠀⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣷⣶⣀⡀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠑⠀⠀⠈⠹⣿⣿⣷⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣏⠉⠁⣀⠄⢆⡠⠚⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣠⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢄⣿⢿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠃⠉⠀⠀⡄⠁⢀⠊⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢭⡜⣿⣿⣿⡝⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠦⠾⡆⠀⠀⠀⠈⢀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣃⣠⣡⡦⢠⣼⠀⠀⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣆⢀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠈⠀⠂⡠⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡁⡄⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⢻⣨⣿⣴⣷⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⡐⠁⡀⣀⣠⣴⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⡿⠍⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠻⠿⣿⢿⠿⣿⣿⡿⡿⢿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢗⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡐⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠣⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠉⠀⠀⠉⠹⡙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡃⠀⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣴⣲⣷⢶⣦⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⢀⠁⠂⠠⠠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣗⡄⣽⠁⠘⡀⠠⠄⠀⠹⣡⡷⣤⡾⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⢁⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⡐⢀⢌⠈⠈⠂⠈⠀⠀⠀⠈⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠇⣤⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⠿⠃⠙⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠐⢼⡟⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣰⣿⣿⣦⣠⣄⣘⣼⡿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡦⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡸⣅⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣾⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣞⣿⣿⣙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣷⢃⡥⣩⠏⣘⡉⠉⡀⠀⣠⠄⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠚⠁⠀⠀⠀⢀⠠⢰⠀⠀⠀⢠⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠨⡏⠙⣿⣿⣯⡗⣿⣿⣿⣝⣹⣽⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣿⣿⠿⢿⢽⣺⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠆⡀⠈⢨⡝⠊⠈⠀⠺⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⠁⠀⠈⡁⠈⢑⢨⣿⣿⣝⣳⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠷⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⡗⣠⣠⣦⣾⡦⣾⡩⣟⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣧⢣⠄⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⢠⡇⠀⠀⠀
⠀⡀⠀⠀⠐⣰⢀⢤⣿⣿⡟⠁⠛⠙⠛⠉⢿⣥⣻⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡴⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⡁⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣯⡏⠛⢋⢤⣶⣤⣸⢿⣿⣿⣿⣟⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣐⣍⡀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠅⠊⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⢀⠡⠀⠀⠀⠇⡀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣾⣿⠗⣭⠧⣤⡀⠀⠩⠁⠁⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢁⣤⣯⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠚⠳⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⢠⡟⠉⠍⠩⣀⠈⠙⢿⣗⠀⠀⠋⣡⣼⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⢨⠐⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⡀⢠⠤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣴⣶⣖⣶⣿⡂⣀⣹⣷⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠯⢏⡦⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⡄⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠈⠀⠸⠀⠈⠉⠁⠀⠀⠙⠉⣼⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠙⠏⠛⠻⠟⣻⣦⠀⠑⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⢚⡄⠀⠂⡦⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⡀⠑⠝⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠠⢰⣟⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⢀⣴⣿⡷⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠴⡆⠸⣿⠴⠻⠁⠋⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣄⠐⠱⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠳⠀⠀⠀⠐⠠⣄⠀⠀⡀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠆⠀⡏⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⢿⣷⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠿⠶⢶⠾⠶⣲⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢷⡄⠄⠀⢀⢤⠀⠀⠦⠀⠅⠀⠤⡔⠄⠠⠂⠉⠉⠰⢦⣀⣀⠈⠚⣮⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⢿⡉⠋⡹⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠠⠀⢀⣀⠠⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣣⡠⠀⠀⠀⠀⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⢶⠟⣿⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠈⠀⠠⠃⠀⡔⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠇⠀⢠⣩⣼⣿⡏⠁⠉⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⢷⠀⠁⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠅⠀⣠⠸⠟⠀⠀⠀⠘⠀⠃⢇⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⢀⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡄⠀⠀⠈⠿⣿⠏⢣⡀⠛⢂⢀⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣨⣅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⡐⠉⠀⠀⠵⠀⠀⣟⣶⣶⡆⠀⢷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⢸⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⢻⠇⠉⠫⣬⣝⣿⣿⣿⡇⠐⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠋⠱⠟⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⢠⢀⠤⣤⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠙⢿⣦⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢼⣿⣿⣿⣀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣝⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠨⠴⣄⡀⠒⠀⠛⠀⠀⠐⠒⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠆⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀
⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣭⢿⣿⣿⢟⣞⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣅⠀⢶⠰⠠⡄⠀⠑⠽⢇⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⡂⠄⣴⣿⣿⣿⡷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⢀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠄⠀⣹⣿⣿⣿⡟⣽⣿⠯⢻⣿⣿⡇⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⢂⣕⠐⠂⠀⠀⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠸⠟⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠇⣿⣿⡎⢁⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠀⠀⠀⠘⡿⣟⣿⣿⣿⡯⣭⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⣀⠄⠈⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⡟⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣿⣻⠙⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣄⣀⣤⣴⣾⣿⠟⣫⠔⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠜⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⠆⠀⣩⣍⠚⣻⠯⠛⣋⣻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⡄⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⣷⠀⠺⢿⣿⠗⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⠏⠀⣼⣿⠋⠀⡏⠹⠀⠐⡊⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠿⠀⠀⢹⠇⠀⢸⠣⣾⣿⣿⣷⣦⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡿⠃⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡞⢰⣺⣿⣿⠟⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠈⠙⠉⠉⡀⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠷⠁⠀⠀⠀⢘⠿⠿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⠁⠀⠙⠿⠻⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⢻⣧⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡾⡺⠁⠀⠀⠀⢀⢻⡝⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣄⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⢢⠁⠀⠀⠀⡰⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡾⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⡿⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢱⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠹⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣋⠤⣀⡤⢀⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡆⠀⡇⠀⣴⣭⣮⠀⠀⢠⣗⣃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢳⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⡆⢻⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠃⠀⣀⢰⡿⡿⠿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠰⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⠁⢸⡇⠀⢹⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢽⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⡆⢣⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠊⠀⠈⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡮⠁⠀⠀⠀⠸⠿⣟⠀⠸⠃⠀⠘⠟⠋⠀⠁⡿⠿⣷⢦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢙⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢈⣬⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⡀⢄⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⢀⢀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠶⣦⣀⡄⠀⡇⢀⢥⣰⣽⢀⡇⠀⠀⣾⠽⠽⠀⠘⡿⠝⡿⠷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣺⡁⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⣆⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣌⣀⡀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠙⢌⡸⠹⡾⠧⠻⠺⣼⠟⡁⢨⠉⠠⡌⢈⡀⡀⢴⣾⠗⠓⠀⠀⡀⠀⡟⠿⣾⠀⠀⠀⢸⡀⠀⢽⢑⣀⡁⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣄⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣰⢠⡻⢇⣀⣷⣿⣿⣾⣾⣴⣤⠃⠞⠀⢄⢀⠀⡀⠄⣥⢤⣤⣴⣾⣿⣦⠤⠄⠢⠀⠀⠀⣿⣧⠀⠐⢻⡍⢩⣱⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⢸⣄⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡌⣁⣾⠏⠙⠿⠿⣿⡿⠟⠋⠁⠈⠀⠀⠕⠸⠮⣦⡤⠂⠋⢀⡉⣝⠛⠛⠛⠳⠾⣾⡄⠀⢾⣿⠋⠂⠀⠘⣶⢟⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠷⠀⠀⠀⢧⠔
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠑⠉⣈⢀⢑⠂⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠒⢀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⡸⣿⠧⠲⠄⠀⡀⡀⡠⢙⡄⢤⣤⣤⡂⢀⣹⣦⣹⣷⣻⣯⣅⠀⠀⠨⣦⠀⠀⠨⣶
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⢀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣠⣄⣀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣤⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣚⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠛⠛⠉⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠠⢰⣼⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣄⢀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣴⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⢀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣖⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Posted in Asia, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Windows at 10:13 am by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇India_OS_in_2023⦈_
Summary: This_month’s_picture from the world’s most populous nation does not
look good for Microsoft (it looks_good_for_GNU/Linux); anonymous_rumour_mills
online say that Microsoft isn’t moving to India but is actually firing_staff
based_in_India, so it’s a case of shrinking, not offshoring. When even low-paid
(much lower salaries) staff is discarded it means things are very gloomy.
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As if it didn’t control the OSI’s agenda and staff already…
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Overt conflict of interest (Microsoft is attacking Open Source)
Summary: Weeks ago we warned that this would happen and for the third or fourth
time in 2 years the_OSI’s_election_process_broke_down; today the Open Source
Initiative (OSI) writes: “The polls just closed, the results are in.
Congratulations to the returning directors Aeva Black…” (Microsoft_employee)
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# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ 8_steps_to_refurbish_an_old_computer_with
Linux⠀⇛
We live in a remarkable era. It wasn’t so long ago
we were all chained to the “upgrade treadmill,”
forced to buy expensive new personal computers
every few years.
Today, with the benefit of open source software,
you can break out of that cycle. One way is to
refurbish old computers and keep them in service.
This article tells you how.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Install_Latest_NodeJS_and_NPM_in_Linux⠀⇛
In this guide, we shall take a look at how you can
install the latest version of Nodejs and NPM on
RHEL-based distributions such as CentOS, Fedora,
Rocky & AlmaLinux and Debian-based distributions
such as Ubuntu & Linux Mint.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Run_Angular_Apps_Using_Angular_CLI_and
PM2⠀⇛
Angular CLI is a command-line interface for the
Angular framework, which is used to create, build
and run your application locally while developing.
It is designed to build and test an Angular project
on a development server. However, if you want to
run/keep your applications alive forever in
production, you need a Node.js process manager such
as PM2.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ NixOS_Series_#5:_How_to_set_up_home-manager_on
NixOS?⠀⇛
Here’s how you can easily set up the home-manager
to install/remove packages on NixOS.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ 4_Useful_Tools_to_Troubleshoot_DNS_Name
Resolution_Problems⠀⇛
DNS (Domain Name System) is the phonebook of the
internet. A Domain name is a unique alphanumeric
address that users type in the URL bar in the
browser in order to access a website.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Install_Angular_CLI_on_Linux⠀⇛
Angular is an open-source, popular, and highly-
extensible front-end application development
framework, used for building mobile and web
applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other
common languages.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_deploy_a_service_to_a_Docker_Swarm
cluster⠀⇛
Docker Swarm is a way to create a cluster for
container deployment. Jack Wallen walks you through
installing a Docker Swarm cluster and then
deploying and managing a service to the cluster.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Warside_is_a_pixel-art_turn-based_tactics
game_much_like_Advance_Wars⠀⇛
Love turn-based tactics and classics like Advance
Wars? You should keep an eye on Warside, as it’s
firmly channelling that same energy. It looks
pretty great and with full cross-platform
multiplayer on top of the story campaign, it’s
certainly piqued my curiosity.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Colourful_retro_platformer_Frogun_Encore
announced_for_Summer_2023⠀⇛
Frogun Encore is the follow-up to Frogun from
Molegato and Top Hat Studios, Inc. that was
released in 2020, giving more family-friendly retro
inspired 3D platforming. Designed much like
classics from the PlayStation 1 / Nintendo 64 era,
the original reviewed reasonably well, so hopefully
they will be working to address any sticking points
from the original.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Upcoming_city-builder_HexLands_sounds_like
a_relaxing_time⠀⇛
HexLands from Portgate Studios has been announced
with a new Steam page live, taking inspiration from
the likes of Islanders, Dorf Romantik and Sid
Meier’s Civilization.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ EmulationStation_Desktop_Edition_2.0_is_out
now⠀⇛
EmulationStation Desktop Edition is a great front-
end open source app for managing various emulators.
A big 2.0 release went up recently too! What does
it support? It works with the likes of
various Commodore Amiga, Google Android, various
Apple models, various Arcade machines, various
Atari machines, various Nintendo machines and the
list goes on for quite a while.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Mask_of_the_Rose_set_to_release_on_June
8th⠀⇛
Mask of the Rose, the incredibly stylish upcoming
dating sim visual novel from Sunless Skies creator
Failbetter Games is set to now release on June 8th.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Big_Ambitions_drops_Native_Linux_support
shortly_after_the_Steam_release⠀⇛
After being in Beta for a while for pre-orders, Big
Ambitions, a role-playing business sim from
Hovgaard Games (who previously developed Startup
Company) launched in Early Access on Steam and then
dropped Native Linux support.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ 3DS,_Wii_U_eShop_Shutdown_Leaves_Archivists_In
The_Wind,_Hobbyists_Pick_Up_The_Pieces⠀⇛
A little over a year ago, we discussed Nintendo’s
shutdown of the eShop for its 3DS and Wii U
consoles. That shutdown ended up being delayed due
to a metric ton of outcry from the gaming public,
but that was only a stay of execution. In a matter
of days, those shops will be discontinued,
preventing anyone from purchasing any titles in
those stores. Many of the titles that are original
to those consoles are not available anywhere else.
Nintendo has made some vague noises about them
becoming available on modern consoles, but all of
those plans live at the pleasure of Nintendo
executives. Coupled with its extremely litigious
nature on matters of intellectual property, that’s
how you get to my nicknaming Nintendo as “the
Disney of the video game industry.”
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GNOME_44_“Kuala_Lumpur”_Officially
Released,_This_Is_What’s_New⠀⇛
Code-named “Kuala Lumpur” in recognition of
the work done by the organizers of GNOME.Asia
Summit 2022 conference, GNOME 44 introduces a
GTK4 port of the Epihaphy (GNOME Web) web
browser, a file chooser grid view for apps
that use the standard GTK file chooser, as
well as support for adding a WireGuard VPN
directly from the Network panel.
GNOME 44 continues to improve the Quick
Settings feature introduced in GNOME 43 by
implementing a submenu to the Bluetooth
button to more easily and quickly connect or
disconnect peripherals, adding descriptions
to buttons to easily see their status, and
implementing a new feature called Background
Apps via a new background monitoring service
in XDG portals 1.16.0.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Meet_the_Canonical_Ceph_team_at_Cephalocon_2023⠀⇛
Date: April 16-18th, 2023
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ NVIDIA_debuts_Jetson_Orin_Nano_Developer
Kit⠀⇛
Today, NVIDIA unveiled their latest Developer Kit
based on the Jetson Orin 8GB module designed for
Robotic and Smart Vision applications. This new
development kit delivers up to 40 TOPs of AI
performance and it can be preordered for $489.00.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hands-On:_NVIDIA_Jetson_Orin_Nano_Developer
Kit⠀⇛
NVIDIA’s Jetson line of single-board computers are
doing something different in a vast sea of
relatively similar Linux SBCs. Designed for edge
computing applications, such as a robot that needs
to perform high-speed computer vision while out in
the field, they provide exceptional performance in
a board that’s of comparable size and weight to
other SBCs on the market. The only difference, as
you might expect, is that they tend to cost a lot
more: the current top of the line Jetson AGX Orin
Developer Kit is $1999 USD
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Google_copies_one_more_Samsung_design_idea_for
Android_14_–_SamMobile⠀⇛
# ⚓ WCCF Tech ☛ How_To_Enable_Earthquake_Alerts_On_Your_Android
Smartphone⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Major_Android_manufacturers_form_an
alliance_to_make_switching_phones_easier⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Every_Samsung_device_that_will_get_four
Android_OS_upgrades⠀⇛
# ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ Free_Fire_OB39_update_APK_download_link_for
Android_devices⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ OnePlus_11R_is_an_alternate_Android
flagship,_with_surprisingly_few_compromises_–_Hindustan
Times⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Billions_of_Android_users_can_unlock_hidden_perks
by_tapping_out_12-letter_code_–_find_secret_Google_menu_today
|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Nokia_C12_Pro_Price:_Nokia_C12_Pro_smartphone
comes_with_Android_12_Go_edition,_4000mAh_battery._See
details_–_The_Economic_Times⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Why_your_open_source_project_needs_a_content
strategy⠀⇛
If you search for content strategy in your favorite
search engine, I bet that you find that it is a term more
strongly associated with marketing content than with
technical content. However, a technical content strategy
is a powerful way to align stakeholders around content
goals for your open source project. In this article, I
explore the benefits of technical content strategy and
how having one can improve the user and contributor
experience of your community projects.
When developing a content strategy, you should consider
your goals. The goals differ depending on the user. For
the marketing team, the goal of content strategy is to
attract and connect with existing and potential customers
by using content. Marketing content strategists aim to
engage customers and develop relationships with the
brand.
o ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ Results_of_2023_elections_of_OSI_board_of_directors
[Ed: Microsoft_Infiltrated_OSI_Board_of_Directors_After_Rigged
Elections]⠀⇛
The polls just closed, the results are in.
Congratulations to the returning directors Aeva Black…
[Microsoft]
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ NPR ☛ Gwyneth_Paltrow_appears_in_a_Utah_court_for_a_trial_over_a
2016_ski_crash⠀⇛
The trial is being live streamed on YouTube.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ David_Price⠀⇛
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ By_George⠀⇛
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Staying_Alive_in_a_Country_of_Death⠀⇛
“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.”
So screamed the character Howard Beale in the 1976 movie
“Network,” a prescient commentary on the corporate
capture and slow suffocation of America. Howard was a
prime-time news anchor who’d had enough. To some of his
viewers, he was having a mental breakdown on national
television. To others, he saw the country as clearly as a
prophet, saw it for exactly what it was: a fetid cabal of
the rich obsessed with money at the expense of human life
and dignity.
o ⚓ Emmanuel Maggiori ☛ I’ve_been_employed_in_tech_for_years,_but
I’ve_almost_never_worked⠀⇛
When Twitter fired half of its employees in 2022, and
most tech giants followed suit, I wasn’t surprised. In
fact, I think little will change for those companies.
After being employed in the tech sector for years, I have
come to the conclusion that most people in tech don’t
work. I don’t mean we don’t work hard; I mean we almost
don’t work at all. Nada. Zilch. And when we do get to do
some work, it often brings low added value to the company
and its customers. All of this while being paid an amount
of money some people wouldn’t even dream of.
What is happening right now in tech may be one of the
greatest market inefficiencies—or even deceptions—in
history. I am writing this article because I think
outsiders deserve to know what’s really going on in the
field.
o ⚓ [Old] Jopgether SRL ☛ David_Graeber_is_dead_but_the_bullshit_jobs
are_still_there⠀⇛
In an interview with the French daily “Le Monde”1, David
Graeber recalled that “[bullshit jobs] have multiplied
exponentially in recent decades. To be convinced of this,
one only has to listen to employees who are aware of the
low utility of their jobs (…): the consultant, whose
reports are not read by anyone, the assistant stirring
the air because his boss needs to justify his
hierarchical position, the business lawyer earning money
solely thanks to the errors of the system… Millions of
people today suffer from a terrible lack of meaning,
coupled with a feeling of social uselessness. This may
seem paradoxical: in theory, the market economy, which is
supposed to maximize profits and efficiency through
competition, should not allow these useless jobs to
exist. ».
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Brother_Leaves_Voicemails_from_CPEP⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Letters_From_the_April_3/10,_2023,_Issue⠀⇛
He Was a Mensch
To say I loved Victor adds little to the commentary, as
most everyone felt the same [“Remembering Victor
Navasky,” February 20/27]. He was very kind and deeply
respectful, fervent in his beliefs yet as lighthearted as
one can be while aware of so much injustice, and
consistent in integrity and principle. In the years I
worked with him, I never saw any hypocrisy, so unusual in
a person connected to politics and power.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Info_Sought_On_A_Forgotten_Cuban_Radio⠀⇛
Some of the daily normalities of life in the Cold War
seem a little surreal from our perspective in 2023, when
nuclear bombers no longer come in to land just down the
road and you can head off to Poland or Czechia on a whim.
Radio amateurs were one of the few groups of civilians
whose activities crossed the geopolitical divide, and
even though an operator on the other side from ours
couldn’t buy a shiny Japanese radio, their homebrew
skills matched anything we could do with our Western
soldering irons.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Icicle_Patterns_With_Custom_Gantry⠀⇛
[Cranktown City] uses a number of custom-built linear
rails used as gantries for various tools in the shop. The
first is on a plasma cutter, which is precise but
difficult to set up or repair. Another is for mounting a
camera, and while it is extremely durable, it’s not the
most precise tool in the shop. Hoping to bridge the gap
between these two, he’s building another gantry with a
custom bearing system, and to test it he’ll be using it
to create patterns in icicles hanging from an eave at his
shop.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Inside Higer Ed ☛ The_Internet_Archive_Is_a_Library⠀⇛
The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library in San
Francisco, has grown into one of the most important
cultural institutions of the modern age. What began
in 1996 as an audacious attempt to archive and
preserve the World Wide Web has grown into a vast
library of books, musical recordings and television
shows, all digitized and available online, with a
mission to provide “universal access to all
knowledge.”
Right now, we are at a pivotal stage in a copyright
infringement lawsuit against the Internet Archive,
still pending, brought by four of the biggest for-
profit publishers in the world, who have been
trying to shut down core programs of the archive
since the start of the pandemic. For the sake of
libraries and library users everywhere, let’s hope
they don’t succeed.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Local_Efforts_to_Resist_Right-Wing_Attacks_on
Education_Need_National_Support⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Demanding_Respect_for_All_School_Workers,
LA_Teachers_Shut_Down_2nd-Largest_School_District_in_US⠀⇛
An estimated 65,000 teachers and school staffers
from across Los Angeles walked picket lines in the
rain on Tuesday as the city’s public school
district employees went on strike—but more than
half of the picketers were staging the walkout in
solidarity, protesting conditions that don’t
directly affect them.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Silicon_Valley_School_District_Files_Laughable,
Vexatious_RICO_Claims_Against_Big_Social_Media…_But_Not
Facebook_Or_Instagram⠀⇛
Back in January, we wrote about the Seattle public
school district filing an absolutely laughable
lawsuit against basically all of big social media,
based on a bunch of misread and misunderstood
studies, and general moral panic that social media
must be “bad” for kids. In February, we wrote about
the school district in Mesa, Arizona filing a very
similar lawsuit (using the same law firm). We
wondered if we were going to see a flood of such
lawsuits.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ [Repeat] Zimbabwe ☛ The_1.5TB_microSD_card_is_here_but_your
wallet_can’t_handle_it⠀⇛
Micron’s 1.5TB microSD card can handle five years
of continuous 24/7 high-quality recording and its
average time between failures (MTBF) is around 2
million hours. This makes this little SD card
suitable for video security platforms. That is its
intended purpose, not to stick it in a smartphone.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D-Printed_Parts_Don’t_Slow_Down_This_Speedy
Printer⠀⇛
Truth be told, we generally find speed sports to be
a little boring. Whether it’s cars going around in
circles for hours on end or swimmers competing to
be a few milliseconds faster than everyone else, we
just don’t feel the need for speed. Unless, of
course, you’re talking about speedy 3D printers
like “The 100”, which claims to produce high-
quality prints in a tenth the time of an ordinary
printer. In that case, you’ve got our full
attention.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Dispense_60_Bolts_In_2.3_Seconds⠀⇛
We’ve covered a number of projects that assist
makers who need to fill orders for their small
businesses, or kitting. [Helmke] has sorted
thousands of pieces of hardware that they include
with 3D printed parts sold online. They have been
developing an alternative, a modular system for
sorting and packaging specific quantities of parts.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Fresh_PCBs_For_The_Quickshot_II_And_II_Plus
Joysticks⠀⇛
The Quickshot II was released by Spectravideo in
1983 for the Commodore 64 and compatible systems,
with the Quickshot II Plus following the next year.
After decades of regular use, it’s quite
understandable that these old-timers may be having
some functional issues, but as long as the plastic
parts are still good, [Stephan Eckweiler]’s
replacement PCBs may be just the thing that these
joysticks need to revitalize them for another few
decades.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Covid-19_report_based_on_China_samples
puts_suspicion_back_on_raccoon_dog_origins⠀⇛
DNA from raccoon dogs appeared in samples taken
from the Wuhan market linked to early Covid-19
cases in 2019.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Italy_orders_probe_into_TikTok_over_dangerous
content⠀⇛
The Italian Competition Authority said its probe,
which targets Irish company TikTok Technology
Limited, a subsidiary of Chinese-owned TikTok, was
sparked by videos of young people “adopting self-
harming behaviour”, including the “French scar
challenge”.
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ Former_Trump_official_says_TikTok_‘disguised_as
candy’_but_is_‘cocaine’⠀⇛
“The way TikTok is programmed, it preys on
children,” he said. “It’s disguised as candy, and
it’s actually cocaine. And I think this is coming
out everywhere.”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ We_Cannot_Countenance_Windowless_Bedrooms⠀⇛
First of all, I won’t bother to dissect Fijan’s
hypothetical floor plans because I think an
architectural analysis misses the point of why this
sucks. However, I will say a clever architect is
capable of arranging space—even difficult-to-work-
with space—in such a way that they can avoid
obvious problems like windowless bedrooms. That is
literally their job. Second, windows are obviously
not the reason rents are high. The reasons rents
are high are not in any way architectural, but
rather are fundamentally political. Pretending
otherwise is a convenient distraction from the
realities imposed on the city by predatory
developers and landlords, poor urban planning and
land use practices leading to low supply, a lack of
renter protection, and the G-word—gentrification.
Pretty much everywhere, rent used to be cheaper
and, guess what, those buildings, at least
post–tenement laws, had windows.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ What_an_Epic_Women’s_Strike_Can_Teach_Us_Over
70_Years_Later⠀⇛
The 53 women and children packed into Grant County
Jail on June 16, 1951, were not normally ones for
civil disobedience. But eight months into what
would become New Mexico’s longest-lasting strike,
they felt they had little choice but to put their
bodies on the line to demand an end to racially
discriminatory labor practices at the Empire Zinc
Mine in the tiny town of Hanover.1
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ UK_Stokes_Health,_Nuclear_Fears_With
Decision_to_Send_Ukraine_Depleted_Uranium_Shells⠀⇛
Dismissing a warning from Russia that it would
regard the deployment of Western depleted uranium
munitions in Ukraine as an act of nuclear war, a
top British defense official said Monday that the
United Kingdom will send DU armor-piercing tank
rounds to Ukrainian homeland defenders—a move
condemned by peace campaigners in the U.K. and
beyond.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Black_Residents_of_Cancer_Alley_Sue_Local
Government_for_Discrimination_in_Siting_Chemical_Facilities⠀⇛
A discrimination lawsuit filed Tuesday in the
Eastern District of Louisiana alleges that the St.
James Parish Council steered polluting facilities
into Black neighborhoods along the Mississippi
River. As a result, Black residents there are
forced to breathe in more pollution and face a
higher risk of related health problems, according
to the suit filed by Inclusive Louisiana, Mount
Triumph Baptist Church, and RISE St. James.
“We’re being ignored and we have to do whatever we
have to do to stop it,” said Myrtle Felton, a
lifelong resident of St. James Parish and co-
founder of Inclusive Louisiana, a community group
focused on environmental injustices.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ You_can_now_purchase_medicines_in_Spain
using_a_Finnish_electronic_prescription⠀⇛
The use of Finnish electronic prescriptions in
Europe is expanding. Spain is the latest country to
join the scheme. In the first phase, six regions in
Spain will be included in the service.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Multicultural_children_need_support_from
an_early_age⠀⇛
Early childhood education experts specializing in
multicultural education provide early childhood
education professionals with new tools for working
with multicultural children.
§ Proprietary⠀➾
* ⚓ India Times ☛ Majority_of_zero-day_flaws_exploited_in_2022_were_in
Microsoft,_Google_and_Apple_products:_Report⠀⇛
Zero-day vulnerabilities in software products offered by major
tech companies like Microsoft, Google, and Apple were largely
exploited by hackers in 2022, according to information security
firm Mandiant. The report found that operating systems were the
most exploited product type, followed by browsers and network
management products. Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage
groups were found to have exploited the most zero-day
vulnerabilities, with North Korean and Russian actors also
among the hackers exploiting the security flaws. The report
tracked 55 zero-day vulnerabilities in 2022.
* ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ US_Citizen_Hacked_by_Spyware⠀⇛
The New York Times is reporting that a US citizen’s phone was
hacked by the Predator spyware.
A U.S. and Greek national who worked on Meta’s
security and trust team while based in Greece was
placed under a yearlong wiretap by the Greek national
intelligence service and hacked with a powerful
cyberespionage tool, according to documents obtained
by The New York Times and officials with knowledge of
the case. [...]
* ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Global_cybersecurity_skills_gap_increasing:_report [iophk:
Windows TCO]⠀⇛
More organisations were impacted financially due to breaches:
Nearly 50 per cent of organisations suffered breaches in the
past 12 months that cost more than US$1 million to remediate,
which is up from 38 per cent of organisations compared to last
year’s report.
§ Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾
* § Openwashing⠀➾
o ⚓ Tech Times ☛ Stanford_Researchers_Create_ChatGPT_Clone_for_Just
$600:_Introducing_Alpaca_AI⠀⇛
According to the story by Interesting Engineering, they
have unveiled an AI model called Alpaca that works as
well as the ChatGPT but was trained for only $600. This
low-cost solution to create a model of this power is made
possible by an open-source language model called LLaMA 7B
from Mark Zuckerberg’s company, Meta.
§ Security⠀➾
* § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
o ⚓ India Times ☛ TikTok_hits_150_million_US_monthly_users,_up_from
100_million_in_2020⠀⇛
Senate Intelligence Committee chair Mark Warner, who is
cosponsoring legislation to give the administration more
powers to ban TikTok, said at a Christian Science Monitor
breakfast that he did not think TikTok U.S. data was
safe.
o ⚓ Bitestring ☛ Web_fingerprinting_is_worse_than_I_thought⠀⇛
But companies found another way to uniquely identify you
across different sessions and websites without using
cookies or other persistent storage. It’s called web
fingerprinting. Fingerprinting is a more sophisticated
approach to identify a user among millions of others. It
works by studying your web browser and hardware
configuration. Many websites use a fingerprinting library
to generate a unique ID. This library collects data from
multiple JavaScript APIs offered by your web browser. For
example, websites can see web browser version, number of
CPUs on your device, screen size, number of touchpoints,
video/audio codecs, operating system and many other
details that you would not want a typical news website to
see.
All of these values are combined to generate a unique ID.
Surprisingly, each user’s device and browser
specifications differ so much that they get a unique ID
among millions.
I did not think web fingerprinting is serious until I
came across a company which is actually selling
fingerprinting as a service to other websites. I tried
their demo and shocked how accurate it is. Many ecommerce
websites use it because these fingerprinting companies
sell it, saying it prevents credit card frauds and
increases security of the websites.
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Forget_A_TikTok_Ban,_We_Need_To_Regulate_Data_Brokers
And_Pass_A_Real_Privacy_Law⠀⇛
We’ve noted for a while now how the great TikTok moral
panic of 2023 is largely a distraction. It’s a
distraction from the fact we’ve refused to meaningfully
regulate dodgy data brokers, who traffic in everything
from your daily movement habits to your mental health
diagnosis. And it’s a distraction from our corrupt
failure to pass even a baseline privacy law for the
internet era.
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ TSA_Confirms_Biometric_Scanning_Soon_Won’t_Be_Optional
Even_For_Domestic_Travelers⠀⇛
Ah, mission creep. The government loves it. Keeps people
employed, keeps citizens on their toes, keeps privacy-
focused sites in business, etc.
o ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ ORG_and_the3million_challenge_Government_in_the
High_Court_over_the_Immigration_Exemption⠀⇛
Campaigners have a second judicial review hearing in the
High Court on Tuesday 21 March 2023 to challenge the
Government over the immigration exemption in the Data
Protection Act 2018.
§ Defence/Aggression⠀➾
* ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Why_Would_China_Be_An_Enemy?⠀⇛
I am completely at a loss as to why the UK should seek to join
in with the US in considering China an enemy, and in looking to
build up military forces in the Pacific to oppose China.
* ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ War_Made_Easy:_Norman_Solomon_on_How_Mainstream_Media
Helped_Pave_Way_for_U.S._Invasion_of_Iraq⠀⇛
As we continue to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S.
invasion of Iraq, we look at how the corporate U.S. media
helped pave the way for war by uncritically amplifying lies and
misrepresentations from the Bush administration while silencing
voices of dissent. Longtime media critic Norman Solomon says
many of the same media personalities and news outlets that
pushed aggressively for the invasion then are now helping to
solidify an elite consensus around the Ukraine war. “In the
mass media, being pro-war is portrayed as objective. Being
antiwar is portrayed as being biased,” he says. Solomon is
author of War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep
Spinning Us to Death and the forthcoming War Made Invisible:
How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Criminals_at_Large:_The_Iraq_War_Twenty_Years_On⠀⇛
The arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for
Russian President Vladimir Putin came at an opportune moment.
It was, if nothing else, a feeble distraction over the misdeeds
and crimes of other leaders current and former. Russia, not
being an ICC member country, does not acknowledge that court’s
jurisdiction. Nor, for that matter, does the United States,
despite the evident chortling from US President Joe Biden.
Twenty years on, former US President George W. Bush, former UK
Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Australia’s own John Howard, the
troika most to blame for not just the criminal invasion of a
foreign country but the regional and global cataclysm
consequential to it, remain at large. Since then, Bush has
taken to painting; Blair and Howard have preferred to sell
gobbets of alleged wisdom on the lecture circuit.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Hungary_Obstructs_EU_Statement_On_Putin’s_International
Warrant⠀⇛
Hungary has used its veto power to block a joint statement by
European Union member states on the arrest warrant issued by
the International Criminal Court against Russian President
Vladimir Putin, Bloomberg reported on March 21, quoting sources
familiar with the matter.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Belarusian_Supreme_Court_Rejects_Darya_Losik’s_Appeal_Against
Her_Two-Year_Prison_Term⠀⇛
The Supreme Court of Belarus has rejected an appeal filed by
Darya Losik, the wife of jailed RFE/RL journalist Ihar Losik,
against a two-year prison term she was handed in January for
giving an interview to an independent media outlet.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Jailed_Belarusian_RFE/RL_Journalist_Losik_May_Be_In_Solitary
Confinement⠀⇛
Jailed RFE/RL journalist Ihar Losik may still be in solitary
confinement, sources told RFE/RL’s Belarus Service, following a
rights-group report that he had been taken to hospital after
cutting himself with a sharp instrument to protest against
orders given to him by prison guards.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ In_America’s_Creed,_Blessed_Are_the_Warmakers⠀⇛
In April 1953, newly elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a
retired five-star Army general who had led the landings on D-
Day in France in June 1944, gave his most powerful speech. It
would become known as his “Cross of Iron” address. In it, Ike
warned of the cost humanity would pay if Cold War competition
led to a world dominated by wars and weaponry that couldn’t be
reined in. In the immediate aftermath of the death of Soviet
dictator Josef Stalin, Ike extended an olive branch to the new
leaders of that empire. He sought, he said, to put America and
the world on a “highway to peace.” It was, of course, never to
be, as this country’s emergent military-industrial-
congressional complex (MICC) chose instead to build a
militarized (and highly profitable) highway to hell.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Aces_and_Eights:_Dealing_Death_in_Iraq⠀⇛
* ⚓ Spiegel ☛ The_Chechens_Fighting_on_the_Ukrainian_Side:_Acrylic_Paints
and_Urban_Combat⠀⇛
Muslim fighters from Chechnya have a reputation for brutality,
and thousands of them are fighting for the Russians in Ukraine.
But some have also joined Kyiv in the effort to fend off
Putin’s troops. What is driving them?
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_authorities_raid_homes_of_Memorial_employees_in
connection_with_‘rehabilitating_Nazism’_charges_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian law enforcement officers searched the homes of multiple
employees of the human rights group Memorial on Tuesday morning
in connection with felony charges of “rehabilitating Nazism”
that were filed against the organization earlier this month.
* ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ NATO-Ukraine_Commission_to_be_convened_despite
Hungarian_opposition⠀⇛
* ⚓ Denmark_to_add_war_crimes_to_criminal_code⠀⇛
Denmark is to give international war crimes a specific
paragraph in its criminal code, ending its position as one of
the last European countries not to have specific laws on war
crimes.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Government_Mendacity_and_Media_Complicity_Made_the
Catastrophic_Iraq_Invasion_Possible⠀⇛
As mainstream U.S. media outlets pause to remember the U.S.
invasion of Iraq, it’s clear that there’s a lot they hope we’ll
forget – first and foremost, the media’s own active complicity
in whipping up public support for the war.
But the more you dig into mainstream news coverage from that
period, as our documentary team did last week when we put
together this five-minute montage from our 2007 film War Made
Easy, the harder it is to forget how flagrantly news networks
across the broadcast and cable landscape uncritically spread
the Bush administration’s propaganda and actively excluded
dissenting voices.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Xi_and_Putin_agree_to_advance_their_strategic
partnership,_as_Kishida_makes_surprise_trip_to_Ukraine⠀⇛
Mr Xi told Mr Putin the two countries have enjoyed “deepening
political mutual trust and convergence of interests”.
* ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Prospects_of_a_US_Led_Peace_Movement_in_Ukraine_and
Looking_Back_at_The_US_War_in_Iraq_20_Years_Later_–_The_Project_Censored
Show⠀⇛
* ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ For_20_Years,_Team_Bush_Has_Escaped_Prosecution_for_Their
War_Crimes_in_Iraq⠀⇛
One year after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the International
Criminal Court charged him with war crimes.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Investigation_Belies_UK_Claim_That_No_Civilians_Were
Killed_in_Iraq-Syria_Bombings⠀⇛
British airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants in Iraq
and Syria likely killed dozens of noncombatants despite claims
by U.K. military leaders that no civilians died during such
bombings, a major investigation by the monitor group Airwars
and The Guardian revealed on Tuesday.
* ⚓ Salon ☛ “Jaw-dropping”:_Experts_stunned_after_report_reveals_new_tape
of_Trump_pressuring_Georgia_official⠀⇛
A Fulton County grand jury heard a previously unreported
recording of former President Donald Trump pressuring a top
Georgia Republican to help overturn his election loss in the
state, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
* ⚓ [Repeat] YLE ☛ Finland_still_purchasing_gas_from_Russia⠀⇛
According to data from Finnish Customs, Gasum has purchased a
total of 175 million euros of [fossil] gas from Russia since
February 2022.
* ⚓ [Repeat] Atlantic Council ☛ Putin_the_Pariah:_War_crimes_arrest_warrant
deepens_Russia’s_isolation⠀⇛
The warrant states that Putin “is allegedly responsible for the
war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and
that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from
occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation. There are
reasonable grounds to believe that Putin bears individual
criminal responsibility for the aforementioned crimes.”
The ICC is a comparatively new international organization. It
was created in July 1998 and formally established in 2002. At
present, 123 countries have ratified its statute. They include
all the countries of South America, all EU countries, most of
Oceania, and roughly half of Africa. All these countries are
now theoretically committed to arresting Putin. No sovereign
immunity will shield him.
* ⚓ The Nation ☛ Flouting_War_Crimes_Charges,_Putin_Visits_Occupied
Ukrainian_Territory⠀⇛
Kyiv, Ukraine—Two days after a warrant was issued for his
arrest by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for forcibly
deporting Ukrainian children to Russia, Vladimir Putin toured
Russian-occupied Ukrainian land in Crimea and Mariupol. The
visit was a brazen show of disrespect for the court and for the
victims of Putin’s crimes, as the Russian president strolled by
the sites of some of the most horrific human rights abuses so
far in this war: the bombings in Mariupol of a theater-turned-
shelter that killed 600 people and a maternity ward that killed
at least one pregnant woman.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘I_don’t_understand_why_you’re_beating_me’_Moscow_police
respond_to_art_event_with_violence,_rape_threats,_and_pro-war_slogans_—
Meduza⠀⇛
On March 19, Russian police disrupted an event at Open Space, a
popular co-working and event space in Moscow, that was
dedicated to comic books created by artist Sasha Skochilenko,
who’s currently in prison on felony charges of spreading
“disinformation” about the Russian military. According to the
independent outlet Agentstvo, the speakers at the event didn’t
talk about the war in Ukraine; the discussion was dedicated to
mental health and Skochilenko’s art. The officers physically
beat attendees, threatened to rape them, and set up a bulletin
board with messages like “Ukraine is part of Russia.” The St.
Petersburg-based outlet Bumaga spoke to one of the victims, a
friend of Skochilenko’s named Alexey Belozerov. With Bumaga’s
permission, Meduza is publishing a translation of Belozerov’s
account.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Caught_off_guard_How_the_ICC’s_arrest_warrant_for_Putin_threw
a_wrench_in_the_Kremlin’s_plans_for_2023_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Since the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant
against Vladimir Putin on Friday, the Kremlin has done its best
to appear unfazed. But multiple sources close to the Russian
authorities have told Meduza that the Putin administration was
not expecting the court’s announcement, and that the severe
restrictions the warrant puts on the president’s ability to
travel abroad could poke holes in the image he tries to project
at home.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukraine_Security_Service_charges_popular_blogger_and_Tolstoy
dynasty_member_Artemy_Lebedev_with_justifying_Russian_aggression_—
Meduza⠀⇛
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has published a press
release detailing the suspicions against the popular Russian
blogger Artemy Lebedev.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_Prime_Minister_Mikhail_Mishustin_gives_Christian_name
to_river_in_historically_indigenous_Yamalia_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has given an order to
rename a river that runs through the historically indigenous
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the largest oil-and-gas
producer in the country.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Productive_forgetting’_Historian_Todd_Shepard_reflects_on
Russia’s_war_against_Ukraine_through_the_prism_of_the_Algerian_War_and
France’s_decolonization_—_Meduza⠀⇛
From 1954 to 1962, France waged a bloody war in Algeria,
primarily against the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN).
France’s eventual defeat in the Algerian War would become a
landmark moment in the history of twentieth century
decolonization. However, Paris relinquishing its claim to
Algeria hinged on the power of forgetting rather than postwar
justice and reconciliation. In an interview with researchers
Friedrich Asschenfeldt and Sebastian Hoppe, historian Todd
Shepard — a professor at John Hopkins University and the author
of the award-winning book, The Invention of Decolonization: The
Algerian War and the Remaking of France — reflects on Russia’s
war against Ukraine through the prism of the French-Algerian
experience.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_cargo_ship_crew_rescues_Russian_sailors_who_were
shipwrecked_while_attempting_to_circumnavigate_the_globe_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian Ocean Way is a trimaran whose Russian crew is
attempting to sail around the entire globe. On March 16, the
boat was shipwrecked off the coast of Chile. Unable to repair
the ship’s damaged steering mechanism, the sailors sent out a
distress signal. They soon received a response from the
Sounion, a cargo ship whose captain lived in Mariupol until he
was forced to leave by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kremlin_edits_video_of_Putin’s_Mariupol_visit_to_remove
woman’s_cry_of_‘It’s_all_for_show!’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Kremlin’s press service has edited its official video of
Vladimir Putin’s purportedly spontaneous meeting with Mariupol
residents, removing a portion during which a woman’s voice
could be heard shouting “It’s not real! It’s all for show!” in
a previous version.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ At_least_three_civilians_dead_after_Russian_drone_strikes_on
multiple_Ukrainian_regions_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia used Iranian-made Shahed drones to launch airstrikes on
multiple Ukrainian territories early Wednesday morning,
Ukraine’s General Staff has reported.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_forces_reportedly_repel_naval_surface_drone_attack_in
Sevastopol_Bay_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet repelled an attack from multiple naval
surface drones in the Sevastopol Bay Wednesday morning,
according to Mikhail Razvozhayev, the annexed city’s Russian-
installed governor.
§ Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
* ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ Andrew_Tate_Built_an_Empire_on_Bullshit._Here’s_the
Real_Story⠀⇛
In one case, a supporter of the Tates showed up at the American
accuser’s mother’s house snapping photos. “They are doing
everything they can to silence them,” says Haley McNamara, the
vice president of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation
(NCOSE), an anti-trafficking organization working with some of
the Tates’ alleged victims. “It’s a very serious safety
concern. It’s something that is likely preventing other
survivors from stepping forward.”
For now, the campaign continues to work. More than 200,000
people have signed a petition begging for the brothers to be
released, and have made supportive TikTok videos outside the
jail. Earlier this month, the calls for Andrew’s release grew
to a fever pitch when reports surfaced that he had cancer,
which many of his supporters faithfully tweeted. Tate’s
spokesperson later told us that while a “dark spot on his lung”
was found during a medical consultation before his arrest, no
official diagnosis has been made.
§ Environment⠀➾
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ New_Biden_Monument_Designations_Don’t_Make_Up_for
Disastrous_Willow_Approval:_Critics⠀⇛
Conservation advocates on Tuesday credited yearslong campaigns
led by Indigenous groups and other frontline organizers with
pushing President Joe Biden to designate two new national
monuments in the southwestern U.S., but they also emphasized
that the gesture cannot negate the environmental damage that
the White House set in motion last week when it approved
ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil drilling project.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘An_Act_of_Climate_Denial’:_Biden_Faces_Anti-Willow
Protests_After_IPCC_Report⠀⇛
Further emboldened by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change’s fresh call for rapid emission cuts, campaigners are
planning to rally outside the U.S. Interior Department on
Tuesday morning to protest the Biden administration’s approval
of a massive oil drilling project that—if completed—would spew
millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each
year.
* ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Remembering_Mozambican_Rapper_Azagaia:_Police_Crack
Down_on_Protests_After_Death_of_Cultural_Icon⠀⇛
We speak with Dipti Bhatnagar, climate justice activist based
in Mozambique, about the recent death on March 9 of the popular
rapper and cultural icon Azagaia. He was just 38 years old. He
inspired many with his music and sang about injustice,
including mistreatment of people by the authorities, as well as
about poverty and social injustice. Azagaia’s death has sparked
protests in Mozambique which authorities have violently
suppressed.
* ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ U.N._Warns_“Climate_Time_Bomb_Is_Ticking”_as_Cyclone
Freddy_Death_Toll_Tops_560_in_Malawi_&_Mozambique⠀⇛
In a major new report released Monday, the United Nations is
calling for immediate and drastic cuts to greenhouse gas
emissions in order to stop global warming. The “final warning”
by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change comes as the
death toll from Cyclone Freddy just swept through southeast
Africa, killing hundreds of people and displacing hundreds of
thousands more. Climate justice activist Dipti Bhatnagar with
Friends of the Earth Mozambique describes it as “yet another
reminder that climate impacts are not in the future but very
much happening to our communities right now.” We also continue
our conversation with environmental activists Bill McKibben,
co-founder of 350.org, and Ben Jealous, executive director of
the Sierra Club.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Court_Rules_Greta_Thunberg,_Others_Can_Sue_Sweden_for
‘Insufficient_Climate_Policy’⠀⇛
A Swedish court on Tuesday ruled that hundreds of youth climate
activists including Greta Thunberg can collectively sue Sweden
for the government’s “insufficient climate policy.”
* ⚓ The Local SE ☛ Swedish_court_to_hear_young_people’s_climate_lawsuit
against_the_state⠀⇛
Three hundred young people including activist Greta Thunberg
will get to make their case after a Swedish court agreed to
hear their lawsuit accusing the state of climate inaction.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ British_Head_of_Deep_Sea_Authority_Accused_of_Pushing
for_‘Reckless’_Mining⠀⇛
As delegates from 36 countries convene in Kingston, Jamaica for
a summit on the deep sea, a number of diplomats are accusing
the administrative head of the United Nations-affiliated
International Seabed Authority of trying to push the body to
approve a mining application without first finalizing
regulations on how the project should move forward.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Climate_Homicide’:_Experts_Say_Big_Oil_Should_Be_Held
Criminally_Liable_for_Disaster_Deaths⠀⇛
Fossil fuel corporations—the primary drivers of the climate
emergency—are facing dozens of civil lawsuits that could see
them pay billions of dollars for knowingly unleashing
environmental destruction.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Senior_Climate_Activists_Rally_Across_US_to_‘Stop_Dirty
Banks’⠀⇛
Thousands of seniors outraged at big banks for continuing to
underwrite the expansion of coal, oil, and gas projects took to
the streets in cities across the United States on Tuesday to
demand that financial institutions “stop funding climate
chaos.”
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ Why_the_electric_bicycle_is_gaining_popularity_in_Denmark⠀⇛
Denmark is known as a cycling nation, but an increasing
number of people in the Nordic country are opting for an
electric motor on their bicycle.
o ⚓ Danish_parliament_set_to_vote_through_relaxed_work_permit_rules⠀⇛
Denmark’s parliament is expected to vote on Thursday to
make changes to Denmark’s foreigners law designed to make
it easier to for companies to hire internationally.
* § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ New_Mining_Push_Threatens_Bitterroot_and_Salmon
Rivers⠀⇛
Rising tensions between the US and China have led the
Biden Administration to announce a campaign for
production of rare earth minerals used for production of
electric vehicle batteries, parts for jet engines,
computer chips and more. Securing a Made in America
Supply Chain for Critical Minerals is touted as “Breaking
Dependence on China and Boosting Sustainable Practices.”
However, ramping up production of rare earths has
ramifications for some of America’s most iconic wildlands
and rivers.
For example, existing and projected cobalt mining in the
Panther Creek area in Idaho affects roadless wildlife and
fish habitat just outside of the Frank Church-River of No
Return Wilderness near the Main Fork of the Salmon River.
In another area a special mining district was
grandfathered inside the Frank and now this vast
Wilderness and its salmon and bull trout populations are
threatened by potential mining.
o ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ The_latest_from_Arte:_After_last_year’s_brutal
wildfires,_this_year,_European_countries_prepare_for_summer
together⠀⇛
o ⚓ RFA ☛ North_Korea_removes_fishing_restrictions_in_the_Yellow
Sea⠀⇛
Authorities promise a ‘great wind’ of freshly caught
fish, but people doubt the fish are for them.
* § Overpopulation⠀➾
o ⚓ UN ☛ Flagship_UN_report_extolls_win-win_water_partnerships_to
avert_global_crisis⠀⇛
Globally, two billion people do not have safe drinking
water and 3.6 billion lack access to safely managed
sanitation, the report found.
The global urban population facing water scarcity is
projected to potentially double from 930 million in 2016
to between 1.7 and 2.4 billion people, in 2050.
[...]
The commodification of water will “derail achievement of
the SDGs and hamper efforts to solve the global water
crisis”, the experts said.
o ⚓ RTL ☛ UN_warns_against_‘vampiric’_global_water_use⠀⇛
The report, published by UN Water and Unesco, warns that
“scarcity is becoming endemic” because of overconsumption
and pollution, while global warming will increase
seasonal water shortages in both areas with abundant
water and those already strained.
Richard Connor, the lead author of the report, said that
about 10% of the global population “currently lives in
areas that are high or critical water stress”.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ UN_warns_‘vampiric’_water_use_leading_to_‘imminent’
global_crisis⠀⇛
“If nothing is done, it will be a business-as-usual
scenario — it will keep on being between 40 percent and
50 percent of the population of the world that does not
have access to sanitation and roughly 20-25 percent of
the world will not have access to safe water supply.”
o ⚓ Bankok Post ☛ ‘Vampiric’_water_use_leading_to_‘imminent’_global
crisis,_UN_warns⠀⇛
That high number does not even take into account
pollution from pharmaceuticals, chemicals, pesticides,
microplastics and nanomaterials.
To ensure access to safe drinking water for all by 2030,
current levels of investment would have to be tripled,
the report says.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Warren,_Sanders_Call_for_End_to_Rules_Letting_Billionaire
Dynasties_Dodge_Taxes⠀⇛
* ⚓ The Nation ☛ What_Elizabeth_Warren,_Larry_Summers,_and_Paul_Krugman_All
Got_Wrong_About_SVB⠀⇛
When Silicon Valley Bank went down, many progressives, and much
of the media, immediately pointed to malfeasance, special
pleading and regulatory failures—a conditioned response with a
strong pedigree. But if those were the real causes, then SVB
(and Signature, and First Republic) would have been isolated
cases. It’s clear now that they were not. A systemic crisis is
unfolding—with a systemic cause.
* ⚓ The Nation ☛ Elizabeth_Warren_Is_Right:_Jerome_Powell_Should_Be_Held_to
Account⠀⇛
The fallout from the collapse of California’s Silicon Valley
Bank continues to rock financial and political circles. There
is plenty of finger-pointing and blame-laying going on. But
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren reminds us that a lot
more attention needs to be paid to the role that Federal
Reserve chair Jerome Powell played in the collapse that
continues to shake confidence in the banking system.
* ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Stop_Dirty_Banks”:_Bill_McKibben_&_Ben_Jealous_on
Ending_Big_Bank_Funding_for_Fossil_Fuel_Expansion⠀⇛
We speak with Third Act founder Bill McKibben and Sierra Club
executive director Ben Jealous about protests they’ve organized
today across the United States to demand the four biggest banks
— Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo and Bank of America — stop financing
the expansion of fossil fuel projects.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden_DOL_Praised_for_Historic_Suit_Over_Using_Debt
Threat_to_Stop_Workers_From_Quitting⠀⇛
Workers’ rights advocates are applauding the Biden
administration this week for filing a historic lawsuit against
a Brooklyn-based healthcare staffing agency for coercive
contracts that allegedly violate federal labor law.
* ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ New_York_Times_Tries_for_Pulitzer_Prize_in_Irresponsible
Reporting_on_Bank_Crises⠀⇛
By The Center for Economic and Policy Research The New York
Times seems to think it is a newspaper’s job to promote bank
panics wherever possible. It would be difficult to explain its
reporting on the Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) collapse any other
way. Last week it ran a piece implying that Silicon Valley’s
tech sector was […]
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Banking_Crisis_2023:_Deep_Origins_and_Future
Directions⠀⇛
It’s more than a week since the collapse of the Silicon Valley
Bank, the 16th largest bank in the US at the time of its
collapse and reportedly a source of funding for half of all the
tech start ups in the US.
It’s now become clear the more general banking crisis that has
emerged is not due simply to a rogue, mismanaged bank that
over-extended itself during the recent tech boom and then
somehow mysteriously imploded in just 72 hours, March 7-9,
until seized by the FDIC on the morning of March 10, 2023.
* ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Corporate_Greed_Is_a_Root_Cause_of_Rail_Disasters_Around_the
World⠀⇛
On February 25, Greece experienced its deadliest rail disaster
ever when a freight train ran headlong into a passenger train
coming towards it on the same track, killing 57 people. This
tragic accident, near the city of Larissa, occurred just weeks
after the East Palestine, Ohio rail disaster, and while the
outcomes are different, the root cause is the same: corporate
greed and deregulation.
While two trains colliding on the same tracks might seem
unfathomable to Americans, it shouldn’t be. A similar accident
occurred in Texas in 2016, a year after the U.S. rail industry
refused to meet a Congressionally mandated deadline for
installing a safety system called positive train control, which
would have prevented the accident.
* ⚓ Danish_banks_’well_equipped’_for_financial_instability⠀⇛
Denmark’s banking sector is well equipped to deal with
potential instability should uncertainty seen at some
international banks reach Denmark, according to a national risk
assessment council.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ UK_Rail_Union_Accepts_Improved_Pay_Offer⠀⇛
Turnout in the RMT ballot was nearly 90 percent, with 76
percent voting to accept the new offer covering pay, jobs and
conditions. The vote means “the end of the trade dispute” with
Network Rail.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ The_French_Prepare_National_Strike_Against_Pension_Reform⠀⇛
Trade unions warned that there would be mass protests if
President Macron approved this reform, which requires citizens
43 years of contributions to receive a full pension.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ IMF_Reaches_Staff-Level_Deal_With_Somalia⠀⇛
Authorities are committed to continuing to improve revenue
collection and make room for priority spending while containing
discretionary expenditure pressures in 2023.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Senate_Dems_Urge_Treasury_Chief_to_Crack_Down_on_Rich
Tax_Dodgers⠀⇛
Four U.S senators this week called on Treasury Secretary Janet
Yellen to use her existing authority to go after American
billionaires and multimillionaires who “use trusts to shift
wealth to their heirs tax-free, dodging federal estate and gift
taxes.”
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Critics_Warn_Another_Fed_Rate_Hike_Would_Be_the_‘Straw
That_Breaks_the_Camel’s_Back’⠀⇛
Federal Reserve policymakers convened Tuesday for a two-day
meeting that will culminate in a decision with major
implications for the U.S. and global economies, which have been
jarred by recent banking sector chaos and growing fears of a
broader financial crisis.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Making_Sense_of_the_Latest_Global_Banking_Crisis⠀⇛
The banking crisis that hit Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week
has spread. We recall with a shudder two recent financial
contagions: the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, which led to a
deep Asian recession, and the 2008 Great Recession, which led
to a global downturn. The new banking crisis hits a world
economy already disrupted by pandemic, war, sanctions,
geopolitical tensions, and climate shocks.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Reckless_Capitalist_Banks_Rescued_by_Government
Socialism_–_Again!⠀⇛
Once again, government socialism—ultimately backed by
taxpayers—is saving reckless midsized banks and their
depositors. Silicon Valley Bank (S.V.B) and Signature Bank in
New York greedily mismanaged their risk levels and had to be
closed down. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC),
in return, to avoid a bank panic and a run on other midsized
banks went over its $250,000 insurance cap per account and
guaranteed all deposits—no matter how large, which are owned by
the rich and corporations—in those banks.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Regulation_is_Not_a_Mantra⠀⇛
An item in Ezra Klein’s NYT column last weekend really grabbed
by attention. Ezra cited a Wall Street Journal column that
claimed that the Federal Reserve Board’s stress tests would not
have detected Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) problems, because its
stress tests did not consider interest rate risk.
This struck me as close to crazy. How could a stress test not
consider interest rate risk? I recalled the stress tests that
the Fed and Treasury performed very publicly in March of 2009,
in the middle of the financial crisis. These tests did not
consider interest rate risk for the simple reason that, at that
point in time, soaring interest rates seemed about as likely as
a Martian invasion.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Disastrous_Deregulation_Merry-Go-Round⠀⇛
The recent bank crisis that saw the collapse of the Silicon
Valley and Signature Banks is now being blamed on the
deregulation bill passed by Congress and signed into law by
President Trump in 2018. Just to keep the record straight, the
measure was supported by numerous Democrats as well as
Republicans, including Montana’s Senators Democrat Tester and
Republican Daines.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Curbing_Bad_Behavior_of_Bank_CEOs_Isn’t_as_Hard_as_They
Make_It_Seem⠀⇛
Greg Becker, the deposed chief executive of Silicon Valley
Bank, is facing growing demands to cough up the millions of
dollars he raked in from stock sales soon before the bank’s
sudden demise.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Fed_Now_Has_Another_Reason_to_Halt_Anti-Worker_Rate
Hikes⠀⇛
The debate over the Federal Reserve’s proper course of action
for the rest of 2023 was getting a little stagnant in recent
months. The argument centered on whether inflation’s
persistence was really a sign of an overheated economy that
still needed cooling or if it was due to stubbornly large—but
dampening—ripples stemming from the huge pandemic and war
shocks of previous years. The recent failures of Silicon Valley
and Signature banks and chaos in other corners of the banking
sector definitely provide a new twist to this debate.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ From_Mass_Evictions_to_Education_Cuts,_Dem_Warns_GOP
Austerity_Would_Cause_‘Irreparable_Damage’⠀⇛
The top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee on
Monday released letters from federal agencies that together
provide a detailed look at the implications of the House GOP’s
proposed budget cuts, which would take an axe to programs that
help millions of people make rent, feed their families, and
afford childcare.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ China’s_graduates_hit_back_as_Communist_Party_tells_them_not_to
be_picky_over_jobs⠀⇛
The party’s youth wing says having a degree shouldn’t stop
young people rolling up their sleeves.
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Philadelphia_Aims_to_Start_Guaranteed_Income_Program_for_New
Parents_by_2024⠀⇛
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Philadelphia_Will_Pay_$9M_to_Settle_George_Floyd_Protesters’
Suit_Over_Brutality⠀⇛
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Nationwide_Protests_Demand_End_of_Big_Bank_Funding_for
Fossil_Fuel_Expansion⠀⇛
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ New_Assessments_From_Federal_Agencies_Underscore_Harm_of_GOP
Budget_Cuts⠀⇛
* ⚓ The Nation ☛ Enlightenment_From_Below⠀⇛
The late David Graeber was an anarchist, an activist, and an
anthropologist—and a master storyteller. Throughout his career,
he explored issues of power, freedom, and social justice,
usually over a lengthy period of time, and he embedded his
analysis in rich, evocative anecdotes. In Debt: The First 5,000
Years, he chronicled the “everyday communism” that is the basis
of human society and the ways in which various kinds of debt
came to overlay it as a lever of power and injustice. In The
Dawn of Everything, cowritten with David Wengrow, he proposed
nothing less than an alternative origin and history for human
civilization. Everything Graeber wrote was simultaneously a
genealogy of the present and an account of what a just society
might look like.1
* ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Senators_Had_Questions_for_the_Maker_of_a_Rent-Setting
Algorithm._The_Answers_Were_“Alarming.”⠀⇛
After a ProPublica investigation last year, a group of senators
demanded answers from a real estate tech company that helps
landlords set rents across the country.
The investigation revealed how some of the nation’s biggest
landlords share proprietary information with RealPage, a Texas
company whose software uses the data to recommend rent prices
for available units. Legal experts say the arrangement may
facilitate cartel-like behavior among landlords, who could use
the software to coordinate pricing.
* ⚓ ATMs_Running_Low_on_Cash_and_Even_Out_of_Cash_(Manchester,_England)⠀⇛
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ UEFA_decides_to_allow_flags_with_Greater_Hungary_map
and_Árpád_stripes_at_Hungarian_team’s_matches⠀⇛
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Another_step_up_the_ladder’_Putin_accuses_‘the_collective
West’_of_‘starting_to_use_weapons_with_nuclear_components.’_What_he’s
talking_about_is_depleted_uranium._—_Meduza⠀⇛
In a joint press-conference with Chinese leader Xi Jinping,
Vladimir Putin said that British military aid to Ukraine is
forcing Moscow to respond to the “collective West’s”
determination “to continue its war with Russia to the last
Ukrainian.”
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Twin_chefs_resign_from_Moscow’s_once_Michelin-rated_Twins
Garden_restaurant_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Ivan and Sergey Berezutsky, the two celebrity-chef brothers
behind Moscow’s Twins Garden restaurant, are leaving the
establishment. An Instagram announcement posted by Ivan
Berezutsky on Tuesday marked his last day at the restaurant
that made him an international celebrity.
* ⚓ VOA News ☛ TikTok_Updates_Rules;_CEO_on_Charm_Offensive_for_US
Hearing⠀⇛
The TikTok app has come under fire in the U.S., Europe and
Asia-Pacific, where a growing number of governments have banned
TikTok from devices used for official business over worries it
poses risks to cybersecurity and data privacy or could be used
to push pro-Beijing narratives and misinformation.
* ⚓ Variety ☛ TikTok,_Facing_Possible_U.S._Ban,_Claims_It_Has_150_Million
American_Users⠀⇛
That’s amid a backdrop of the White House’s apparent demand
that ByteDance, the Beijing-based internet company that
controls TikTok, divest its ownership stake in TikTok or face a
U.S. ban. ByteDance has not indicated whether it is considering
complying with the U.S. demands. Meanwhile, pending
congressional legislation, which has bipartisan support, would
grant President Biden the authority to ban TikTok under the
International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
* ⚓ The Nation ☛ Speaker_McCarthy’s_Largesse⠀⇛
He let Marjorie Taylor Greene with the gavel preside. He gave
Carlson the tapes of the riotous day. All the wackos are on the
committees they craved. One must wonder what else he might now
give away.
* ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_Trump_&_the_Stormy_Deep_State⠀⇛
We keep coming face-to-face with the wreckage of the Russiagate
years, when the 45th president threatened the national security
apparatus for, possibly, the first time since Kennedy fired
Allen Dulles as C.I.A. director in 1961.
* ⚓ CBC ☛ Amazon_announces_9,000_more_layoffs,_including_from_successful
AWS_division⠀⇛
The job cuts would mark the second largest round of layoffs in
the company’s history, adding to the 18,000 employees the tech
giant said it would lay off in January. The company’s workforce
doubled during the pandemic, however, in the midst of a hiring
surge across almost the entire tech sector.
* ⚓ India Times ☛ Accenture_to_acquire_Bengaluru-based_industrial_AI_firm
Flutura⠀⇛
Accenture said it plans to bring Flutura’s capabilities to
clients in the energy, chemicals, metals, mining, and
pharmaceutical industries Global professional services company
Accenture on Tuesday said it is acquiring industrial artificial
intelligence (AI) company Flutura for an undisclosed sum.
Bengaluru-headquartered Flutura will strengthen Accenture’s
industrial AI services to increase the performance of plants,
refineries, and supply chains while also enabling clients to
accomplish their net zero goals faster.
* ⚓ India Times ☛ Chatbots’_‘alarming’_output_prompts_US_Senator_to_query
tech_giants_on_safety⠀⇛
As Microsoft, OpenAI, Google and other technology companies
accelerate the release of chatbots and other artificial
intelligence-based tools to the public, a US Senator is
demanding answers about how they intend to protect kids from
harm.
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Legal_Experts_Say_Trump_Witness’s_Testimony_May_Backfire_on
the_Ex-President⠀⇛
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ New_Utah_Law_for_Abortion_Clinics_Effectively_Amounts_to_a
Ban,_Experts_Say⠀⇛
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Idaho_Hospital_Will_Stop_Delivering_Babies_as_Providers_Flee
After_Abortion_Bans⠀⇛
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ GOP_House_Chairs_Jordan,_Comer_and_Steil_Demand_Info_on
Bragg’s_Trump_Inquiry⠀⇛
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Tucker_Carlson’s_True_Lies⠀⇛
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Killeen Daily Herald, Texas ☛ ‘Winnie_the_Pooh’_film_pulled_from_Hong
Kong_cinemas⠀⇛
Public screenings of a slasher film that features Winnie the
Pooh were scrapped abruptly in Hong Kong on Tuesday, sparking
discussions over increasing censorship in the city.
Film distributor VII Pillars Entertainment announced on
Facebook that the release of “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey”
on Thursday had been canceled with “great regret” in Hong Kong
and neighboring Macao.
* ⚓ NBC ☛ Anti-porn_bills_in_8_states_could_force_device_makers_to_censor
sexual_material⠀⇛
In interviews with NBC News, the authors of the original
blueprint legislation — representatives from the National
Center on Sexual Exploitation and Protect Young Eyes, both
advocacy organizations focused on child safety — said that the
original intention of the model bill was to compel device
manufacturers to automatically turn on adult filters for web
browsers and not other applications. Those filters were already
on phones, but not on by default, in 2019 when the draft
legislation was first created.
But Chris McKenna, founder and CEO of Protect Young Eyes,
acknowledged that the legislation could also end up applying to
other device-level filters created in recent years that some
might consider more invasive.
* ⚓ Literary Hub ☛ Why_I_Decided_to_Update_the_Language_in_Ursula_K._Le
Guin’s_Children’s_Books⠀⇛
As Ursula’s literary executor, I recently faced a similar
decision. My mother, known for her young adult and adult
novels, also wrote several children’s books. A
multigenerational fan base has kept her Catwings books in print
in the US since the 1980s. I was excited to move the books to a
new publisher last year.
As we began work on the new editions, I received an unexpected
note from the editor: “I’m writing to propose several minor
changes to the language… to remove words that now have a
different connotation than when the books were originally
published.” The words in question were “lame,” “queer,” “dumb,”
and “stupid,” a total of seven instances across three books.
* ⚓ Quillette ☛ Peer_Review_as_Shadow_Cancelling⠀⇛
Fake reviews, vindictive editors, ignorant reviewers,
“moderation” without reading, rejections for want of “a
critical theory lens,” retention of submissions for a year
without review, and defamation. If you think I gathered these
abuses of peer review in only “woke” fields, think again.
They’re problems in the hardest of sciences. And if you think
academics can avoid these abuses by keeping out of politics,
think again. Submissions are being rejected for their subjects
or conclusions.
I received more stories of abuses than were released for
publication, because of fears of professional retaliation. I
will publish here only stories from academics prepared to go on
the record, including myself.
* ⚓ RTL ☛ Indian_state_extends_internet_ban_in_hunt_for_Sikh_separatist⠀⇛
The blackout extension came after supporters of Amritpal Singh
were filmed vandalising India’s consulate in San Francisco. A
similar disturbance also took place in London.
Authorities in the northern state of Punjab launched a major
search on Saturday for Singh, who has risen to prominence in
recent months demanding the creation of Khalistan, a separate
Sikh homeland.
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Antisemitism_On_Twitter_Has_More_Than_Doubled_Since_Elon
Musk_Took_Over⠀⇛
In the days after Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022,
the social media platform saw a “surge in hateful conduct,”
which its then safety chief put down to a “focused, short-term
trolling campaign.” New research suggests that when it comes to
antisemitism, it was anything but.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Opposition_activists_arrested_in_Phnom_Penh_after_online_comments
about_king⠀⇛
The comments on Facebook seemed to compare Prime Minister Hun
Sen with King Norodom Sihamoni.
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Appeals_Court_Says_Nope_To_Florida_Governor’s_‘Stop_Woke’
Law,_Denies_Request_To_Lift_Injunction_Against_It⠀⇛
Playing to a crowd no one should desire to associate with,
Donald Trump understudy Ron DeSantis has been saddling his
constituents with a variety of noisy, performative legislation.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Anti-Corruption_Foundation:_Navalny’s_penal_colony_pays_double
market_prices_for_cabbage_and_onions_—_Meduza⠀⇛
IK-6, the penal colony where the opposition politician Alexey
Navalny is serving his sentence in Russia’s Vladimir region, is
paying double the market prices, or even higher, for the food
it purchases from wholesale vendors. This is the subject of a
new investigation published by Navalny’s associates at Anti-
Corruption Foundation.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Self-described_’non-existent’_anti-Putin_partisan_movement
Black_Bridge_claims_responsibility_for_fire_that_killed_four_at_FSB
Border_Service_building_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The anti-Putin partisan movement Black Bridge has claimed
responsibility for setting the fire at an FSB Border Service
building in Rostov-on-Don that killed at least four people last
week.
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ French_journalist_kidnapped_in_2021_is_freed_in_Mali⠀⇛
French journalist Olivier Dubois who had been kidnapped in Mali
has been freed, France’s Liberation newspaper reported.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Head_Of_Disbanded_Nobel_Winner_Memorial_In_Moscow_Faces
Possible_Charges_After_Allegedly_Discrediting_Armed_Forces⠀⇛
An investigation has been opened into the head of the disbanded
Memorial Human Rights Center in Moscow, Oleg Orlov, over the
alleged discrediting of Russian forces involved in the
Kremlin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the group said on March
21.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ The Nation ☛ What_Justice_Really_Means_for_Sexual_Assault_Survivors⠀⇛
When the notorious predator Harvey Weinstein was twice
convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to prison, he joined
the estimated 1 percent of rapists who are actually punished
for their crimes. Making an example of him is certainly
instructive to the wider community that has tolerated such
abuses for years, but it may provide cold comfort to the
survivors of his abuse. This is because survivors’ visions of
justice often differ greatly from the resolution that the
criminal justice system offers. Rather than simply punishing
one particularly egregious offender, they want their
communities to hold everyone who enabled his crimes to be held
accountable. As Daniel, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse by
a Catholic priest in the Boston archdiocese, told me, he wanted
some consequences for Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, who had
knowingly covered up hundreds of cases over decades. “I’d like
to see him stripped of his position of authority, his big
diamond ring and his scepter and all that. I’d like to see him
do something humbling, community service that’s not schmoozing,
not fun, not glamorous. They should sell his mansion and give
the proceeds to victims.”
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ State_of_No_Dissent:_Liberals,_Labor_double_down
on_protest_laws_despite_Coco_judgement⠀⇛
Labor and Liberal parties doubled down on their support for
harsh anti-protest laws after a District Court judge overturned
a 15 month prison sentence given to activist Deane Violet Coco
last year. Wendy Bacon has the story.
The Perrottet government’s response to a NSW District Court
Judge Mark Williams decision to overturn harsh sentences given
to Violet Coco and her co-accused firefighter Alan Glover was
to commit monitoring the laws and consider making them even
stronger if it wins the NSW election on Saturday.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Advancing_Parole_Board_Reform_in_Alabama⠀⇛
In the “land of the free” and “home of the brave,” and perhaps
nowhere more than in Alabama, the overuse of
incarceration—physically and psychologically ripping families
apart instead of doing more to address the root causes of
crime—has to change.
The insidious, inhuman harm mass incarceration inflicts affects
us all. But by the same token, it’s important to acknowledge,
especially as Alabama sets course on building a billion-dollar
prison, it’s poor Black and brown families at every turn who
suffer most in our criminal “justice” system.
Disproportionately it’s poor Black and brown men and women
whose futures some Alabama officials are conspicuously
conscribing in outrageously overpriced, to-be-built, cells.
* ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Some_Good_News_for_the_Women_of_Honduras⠀⇛
When the news first came out, we were in shock. Then came a
slow calm of disbelief. This is an old habit inherited from the
2009 coup, when every time we thought the repression would ease
up and that the world was not going to put up with such
nonsense in the 21st century, the regimen imposed new measures.
One of those was the executive decree that prohibited the
emergency contraception pill (ECP), aimed at the rights of all
women.
We learned to normalize bad news, as if it were a change in the
weather, with impassiveness and resignation.
* ⚓ RTL ☛ Suit_says_Meta_board_‘turned_blind_eye’_to_human_trafficking⠀⇛
A shareholder lawsuit filed late Monday accuses board members
of Instagram and Facebook parent Meta of shirking their duties
by ignoring human and sex trafficking on the tech giant’s
social platforms.
The suit filed in the Court of Chancery in the US state of
Delaware calls for Mark Zuckerberg, along with other executives
and board members, to be ordered to institute reforms and pay
damages.
* ⚓ Sky News ☛ Channel_crossings:_People_smugglers_are_‘settling_in
Britain,_renting_houses_and_investing_profits_in_UK_businesses’⠀⇛
He said that migrants arriving at the camps near Calais and
Dunkirk would quickly be introduced to intermediaries acting on
behalf of smugglers, and would then choose which to go with.
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ BBC_Disciplined_Commentator_Who_Spoke_Out_Against_UK’s_Anti-
Immigrant_Law⠀⇛
* ⚓ EFF ☛ Civil_Rights_Organizations_File_Amicus_Brief_in_Support_of_EFF
Lawsuit_Against_Discriminatory_SFPD_Surveillance⠀⇛
At the height of the George Floyd protests in 2020, the San
Francisco Police Department (SFPD) spied on thousands of
demonstrators in real time by using a business district’s
network of over 300 cameras. The SFPD targeted protests against
police brutality led by Black people and other people of
color, chilling future racial justice protests by making people
less likely to come out in the future out of fear of reprisals
from police. The SFPD’s surveillance also violated San
Francisco’s Surveillance Technology Ordinance—fought for by
marginalized groups—which requires city agencies to get the
Board of Supervisors’ approval before using surveillance
technology. The SFPD failed to get Board approval, so EFF and
the ACLU of Northern California sued San Francisco on behalf of
three community organizers and the case is now on appeal.
This January, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law
Caucus (ALC) and Black Movement Law Project (BMLP), along with
18 other civil rights and grassroots organizations, filed an
amicus brief in support of our lawsuit. These organizations
detailed SFPD’s long history of spying on San Francisco’s
communities of color and political dissidents. In the 1890s,
for example, SFPD’s “Chinatown Squad”—one of the country’s
earliest police forces used explicitly to address a panic over
“ethnic crime”—was raiding Chinese homes and businesses and in
some cases physically destroying them with axes. This was
shortly after the city spent two decades surveilling Chinatown
and mapping every room of every building there.
A century later, in the 1970s, SFPD rebranded the “Chinatown
Squad” as a “Gang Task Force,” which ultimately lost a class-
action lawsuit for dragnet surveillance and arrests in Chinese
communities. Around the same time, the SFPD’s Intelligence Unit
wiretapped and spied on meetings of groups that fought for
civil rights or against imperialism. After 9/11, the police
chief called for recreating the Intelligence Unit and joked
publicly about Arab residents of the city blowing up buildings.
Shortly after, a civil rights coalition uncovered records
showing that SFPD stopped auditing its intelligence gathering
and secretly agreed to share information with the FBI.
* ⚓ Papers Please ☛ Airlines_want_even_more_people_put_on_the_no-fly_list⠀⇛
Undeterred by the manifest unfairness of the US government’s
current no-fly list, some airlines and their allies are
apparently renewing a campaign they began last year to get
Congress to create yet another extrajudicial procedure by which
the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) could put even
more people on the US no-fly list.
Seriously? Can anyone really think that the way to make the
current bloated and bigoted no-fly list more fair is to add
even more names to it? That what the TSA needs is more
authority to impose arbitrary and judicially unreviewable
sanctions on disfavored members of the traveling public? That
the branch of the government best qualified to exercise the
power to make decisions that restrict people’s rights and in
some cases would cost them their livelihood, perhaps for life,
is the TSA?
This is exactly the wrong way to go. If a bill to protect air
travelers is going to be reintroduced and considered in
Congress, it should be the Freedom to Travel Act.
* ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ As_New_York_Pays_Out_Millions_In_Police_Misconduct
Settlements,_Lawmakers_Ask_Why_They_Keep_Happening⠀⇛
Nearly two decades ago, the New York Police Department drew
national headlines for its violent response to protests outside
the 2004 Republican National Convention. Officers wrapped
demonstrators in orange mesh netting and shipped them off to a
dirty Manhattan pier, where they were fingerprinted and held,
some for more than 24 hours.
The protesters sued, and after years of tense litigation, the
city settled what the New York Civil Liberties Union then
called the “largest protest settlement in history” — an $18
million payout to resolve claims that the police had violated
the civil rights of about 1,800 people.
* ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Have_a_Student_in_New_Mexico_Schools?_Here_Is_What_to
Know_About_How_School_Discipline_Works.⠀⇛
This is a guide to school discipline in New Mexico and Gallup-
McKinley County Schools. You can print and share a short copy
of this guide.
* ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ European_Parliament_joins_lawsuit_against_Hungary
over_anti-gay_law⠀⇛
* ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ The_Gypsies_just_stand_there_silently,_as_if_waiting
for_God_to_bless_them_too⠀⇛
* ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Pakistani_Women_Are_Not_All_Right⠀⇛
The country’s annual march for women’s rights was a defiant act
of self-assertion that once again sparked panic and
condemnation from conservatives.
* ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Eva:_Gender_gap_in_party_preferences_has_continued_to
widen_in_Finland⠀⇛
THE DIVERGENCE of party preferences among men and women has
increased in Finland.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ Hackaday ☛ BitTorrent_For_Language_Models⠀⇛
In the old days of the Internet, FTP was sufficient for
downloading the occasional file. But with the widespread use of
computer audio and video, it was easy to swamp an FTP server so
— eventually — BitTorrent was born. The idea was you would
download bits and pieces of a file from different places and,
in theory, people would download bits and pieces that you have
if they need them. Now Petals wants to use this same method
with language models. These AI language models are all the
rage, but they take significant computer resources. The idea
behind Petals is like BitTorrent. You handle a small part of
the model (about 8 gigabytes which is small compared to the 352
gigabytes required), and other people have other parts.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* ⚓ India Times ☛ Google_denies_destroying_‘chat’_evidence_in_US_antitrust
lawsuit⠀⇛
Alphabet Inc’s Google has denied intentionally destroying
evidence in the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit
over the company’s search business, in a response to the
government’s bid for sanctions in federal court.
The Justice Department last month alleged Google failed to
preserve certain internal corporate “chat” communications. The
DOJ said Google told U.S. investigators in 2019 that the
company had put a hold on allowing auto-deletion of those
instant messaging records.
* ⚓ Variety ☛ WGA_Would_Allow_Artificial_Intelligence_in_Scriptwriting,_as
Long_as_Writers_Maintain_Credit⠀⇛
But contrary to some expectations, the guild is not proposing
an outright ban on the use of AI technology.
Instead, the proposal would allow a writer to use ChatGPT to
help write a script without having to share writing credit or
divide residuals. Or, a studio executive could hand the writer
an AI-generated script to rewrite or polish and the writer
would still be considered the first writer on the project.
* ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ DeSantis_Privately_Called_for_Google_to_Be_“Broken_Up”⠀⇛
Florida governor Ron DeSantis has frequently railed against
“Big Tech.” He has accused Google, Facebook and Twitter of
silencing conservative voices.
But in private, DeSantis has gone even further.
* ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ DeSantis_Privately_Called_for_Google_to_Be_‘Broken_Up’⠀⇛
In previously unreported videos from a closed-door Teneo
Network conference, Florida’s Republican governor takes his
anti-big tech rhetoric beyond what he has said publicly.
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Appalling’:_Biden_Administration_Declines_to
Force_Big_Pharma_to_Cut_Price_of_Prostate_Cancer_Drug⠀⇛
Patient advocates on Tuesday blasted the Biden
administration’s refusal to compel the manufacturer of a
lifesaving prostate cancer drug developed completely with
public funds to lower its nearly $190,000 annual price
tag.
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Christian_Dawson_—_Open_Culture_VOICES,_Season
2_Episode_7⠀⇛
Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that
highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as
well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening
up cultural heritage. Christian Dawson is the Executive
Director of the MHz Foundation which provides technology
tools for GLAM institutions and organizations to improve
their open access programs. Christian has worked with
numerous organizations which now share their collections
openly thanks to the work of the MHz Foundation and
Curationist.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ RIAA_Hunts_Pre-Release_Music_Pirates_Behind
UnreleasedSounds.gg⠀⇛
Music streaming apps like Spotify offer more than 100
million tracks but for some, nothing sounds better than
leaked, unreleased music. ‘Unreleased Sounds’ is a site
dedicated to this type of content and already linked to
many high-profile leaks. After an artist, linked to
Avicii, asked fans not to buy “stolen” music last year,
the RIAA now wants to know who’s behind the site.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Internet_Archive’s_Copyright_Battle_with_Book
Publishers_Nears_Climax⠀⇛
A copyright lawsuit filed by major book publishers
against the Internet Archive is set to define the
boundaries of digital book lending. The parties shared
their positions at a New York federal court yesterday.
The Internet Archive claims that its library is protected
by fair use and does no harm to rightsholders. For their
part, the book publishers see massive infringement and
damages.
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Why_Link_Taxes_Like_Canada’s_C-18_Represent_An_End_To
An_Open_Web⠀⇛
Well, here we go again. For years now, the legacy news
industry, often led by lobbyists for Rupert Murdoch, have
been pushing a bizarre plan to tax links on the internet.
The entire rationale for this plan seems to be “news
organizations used to be rolling in easy money, they
failed to innovate with the times, and now Google and
Meta are rolling in easy money, so we should just make
Google and Meta give news orgs cash.”
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_DLOPRYU_Wordo:_SCART⠀⇛
o ⚓ degree_crisis⠀⇛
I feel burnt out and unenthusiastic about my degree. My
grade average currently is 1.5 (not the American kind
where 4 is good, but the reverse, so I am actually pretty
good so far). This current assignment is absolutely
horrible and it’s pushing me to my limits in a bad way
that is entirely unneccessary.
I just can’t look at this document anymore. I spent 2
months working on it and I am done. I have lost all
oversight over it, it confuses me, I fight to get back
into the topic mentally every day. Specific parts have
been written by me so long ago they don’t even feel like
mine and I forget they exist in the document. I lost the
plot, because I’ve been looking so much at this that I
cannot see it with a fresh, curious mind anymore. I am
beaten.
o ⚓ Taking_visions_with_ChatGPT⠀⇛
Artificial intelligence has some good things to say,
surprisingly, but it is by no means perfect. But it can
be a useful tool (or a “mirror”) to help clarify my
thoughts.
o ⚓ A_brief_statement_regarding_my_past_involvement_in_a_cult⠀⇛
This is a brief statement from me regarding my past
involvement in a dubious religious sect, and to clarify
the present status.
Some readers may recognize me as a de facto “leader”-like
figure in a quasi-religious movement, so-called
“Filianism.”
* § Technical⠀➾
o § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Ben’s_Gemcast_Episode_47⠀⇛
* Fedora 38 and Debian Stable
* Computer Upgrades
* Iraq vs. Ukraine
* GoToSocial
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o BSD
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS)
o Programming/Development
# Python
# Java
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Pseudo-Open_Source
# Openwashing
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Thunderbird ☛ Mozilla_Thunderbird:_The_Official_Thunderbird
Podcast_Is_Here⠀⇛
Welcome to the debut episode of the Thunderbird
podcast, which we’re affectionately calling the
ThunderCast! It’s an inside look at the making of
Thunderbird, alongside community-driven
conversations with our friends in the open-source
world. We can’t wait for you to listen!
[...]
§ Highlights from Episode 1
# What to expect on future episodes of
ThunderCast
# We’re hiring!
# Is Thunderbird still part of Mozilla?
# Alex starts a band, Ryan is building a
keyboard, Jason’s island adventures
# 4 years of “invisible work” to prepare for
Supernova
# Thunderbird on Android… and iOS
§ Chapter Markers
The ThunderCast includes chapters for podcast
players that support the feature. If yours does
not, here are some timestamps to help you navigate
the episode:
# (00:00) – ThunderCast: What To Expect
# (02:07) – Meet Ryan
# (08:55) – Meet Alex
# (12:24) – Loving Your Work
# (18:07) – Meet Jason
# (21:06) – Geeking Out
# (31:37) – Mozilla + Thunderbird: A history
lesson
# (41:22) – Supernova: Setting The Stage
# (56:28) – “Email is not broken”
# (01:05:23) – K-9 Mail → Thunderbird Android
# (01:16:36) – Closing comments
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 5_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Photo_Geotagging
Tools⠀⇛
GPS is also popular among other individuals
constantly on the move such as mountain bikers,
snowmobilers, hikers, cross-country skiers. There
are so many diverse uses of GPS ranging from
keeping track of vulnerable members of society,
finding pets that have collars with built-in GPS,
or tracking equipment while traveling. Even
footballers in training are monitored and tracked
by football clubs with GPS.
Geotagging is the process of adding geographical
identification metadata to various media such as a
geotagged photograph or video, websites, SMS
messages, QR Codes or RSS feeds and is a form of
geospatial metadata.
This article picks the finest photo geotagging
tools. All of the software featured is free and
open source goodness. The chart below summarizes
our findings.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Ntopng_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Ntopng on Debian 11.
# ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ How_To_Setup_UFW_(Uncomplicated_Firewall)_On
Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we are going to show you the
method to set up UFW on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Avidemux_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Avidemux on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_YOURLS_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
YOURLS on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
# ⚓ Comparing_Minikube,_KinD,_and_k3d⠀⇛
Introduction Minikube, KinD, and k3d are all
popular options for setting up Kubernetes clusters
on a local machine. Each has its own unique
features and benefits, but it can be difficult to
determine which one is best for your needs.
# ⚓ Creating_a_multi-node_cluster_with_k3d⠀⇛
Introduction Kubernetes has become the de facto
standard for container orchestration, and for good
reason. It allows you to easily manage containers
at scale and provides features like automatic
scaling, load balancing, and rolling updates.
However, setting up a Kubernetes cluster can be a
daunting task.
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ How_to_Replace_Environment_Variables_Using
the_envsubst_Command⠀⇛
Learn how to replace environment variables using
the envsubst command. This guide will show you how
with examples and tips.
# ⚓ High_availability_concepts⠀⇛
In today’s fast-paced world, businesses and
organizations heavily rely on their IT systems and
applications to run their daily operations. These
systems are designed to handle a large amount of
data, complex processes, and transactions, making
them critical to the success of the organization.
# ⚓ Creating_a_bare-metal_cluster_from_scratch⠀⇛
In today’s world of computing, more and more
companies are looking to optimize their hardware by
creating bare-metal clusters. Bare-metal clusters
are clusters of computers that are stripped down to
their bare essentials, meaning that they only have
the minimum required software to run the cluster.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Configure_ELK_Stack_on_Rocky_Linux⠀⇛
ELK stack is a powerful open-source tool that is
widely used for analyzing and visualizing logs and
other data. The stack consists of Elasticsearch,
Logstash, and Kibana. Elasticsearch is a search and
analytics engine for analyzing logs.
# ⚓ Peter ‘CzP’ Czanik ☛ Syslog-ng_101,_part_12:_Elasticsearch_
(and_Opensearch,_Zinc,_Humio,_etc.)⠀⇛
One of the most popular destinations in syslog-ng
is Elasticsearch (and OpenSearch, Zinc, Humio,
etc.). The 12th part of my syslog-ng #tutorial
shows you how to send log messages to
Elasticsearch.
# ⚓ Peter_Czanik:_Syslog-ng_101,_part_12:_Elasticsearch_(and
Opensearch,_Zinc,_Humio,_etc.)⠀⇛
This is the 12th part of my syslog-ng tutorial.
Last time, we learned about enriching log messages
using syslog-ng. Today, we learn about how to send
log messages to Elasticsearch.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Difference_between_single_and_double_quotes_in
Bash⠀⇛
Bash, the shell used in most Linux distributions,
provides several ways to quote strings.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_block_bad_bots_using_.htaccess⠀⇛
If you’re a website owner, you’re probably well
aware of the importance of search engine
optimization (SEO). However, what many website
owners don’t realize is that there are bots
crawling the internet that can harm your site’s SEO
and overall functionality.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Save_Command_Output_to_a_File_in_Linux⠀⇛
In Linux, the command line is a powerful tool for
interacting with the system. One common task when
working with the command line is saving the output
of a command to a file for future reference.
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Show_Security_Warning_Message_to
Unauthorized_SSH_Users⠀⇛
It’s a good idea to add some kind of security
warning message that makes it clear to unauthorised
SSH users that they are not allowed to access the
system. Giant corporate companies permit their
employees to gain access to the company system
remotely via SSH.
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Add_Dynamic_Wallpapers_to_Your_GNOME_Desktop⠀⇛
Want your desktop to be more in-tune with the time
of day? There’s a neat collection of dynamic
wallpapers for the GNOME desktop that offer up
exactly that.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_APF_on_Rocky_Linux_9_/_Alma_Linux
9⠀⇛
Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to
install APF on Rocky Linux 9 / Alma Linux 9.
According to the project website: APF is an
iptables(netfilter) based firewall system designed
aroundThe essential needs of today’s Internet
deployed servers and the uniqueneeds of custom
deployed Linux installations.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_Robo_3T_(Studio_3T)_on_Ubuntu
20.04_|_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
Today you will learn how to Install Robo 3T (Studio
3T) on Ubuntu 20.04 / 22.04 LTS Robo 3T, formerly
known as Robomongo, is a popular open-source
MongoDB management tool.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_Easy_Effects_on_Ubuntu_20.04_|
22.04_LTS⠀⇛
Easy Effects is a powerful audio processing
software that can enhance the quality of your sound
recordings. It is a great tool for podcasters,
musicians, and anyone who wants to improve the
sound quality of their recordings. In this article,
we will show you how to install Easy Effects on
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_Install_Kernel_6.x_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛
Hello, friends. Upgrading the Linux kernel is an
important but risky process that can improve
support for our software. So today, you will learn
how to install the 6.x kernel on Rocky Linux 9.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Tmux_Pane_Splitting:_Vertical_&_Horizontal
Techniques⠀⇛
We will walk you through the necessary steps and
commands to create, resize, and navigate Tmux panes
effortlessly. Whether you’re a Tmux beginner or a
seasoned user looking to enhance your skills, this
guide will provide you with valuable insights and
practical tips for optimizing your Tmux pane
management. Let’s dive in and start mastering the
art of Tmux pane splitting.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ The_beginner’s_guide_to_Linux_Mint_cloud
computing⠀⇛
We will start by defining cloud computing and its
advantages, then delve into the different types of
cloud computing models, and finally, introduce
Linux Mint as a cloud platform. By the end of this
article, you will have a better understanding of
cloud computing and how Linux Mint can help you
leverage its benefits.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_KubeSphere_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Kubesphere free and open-source Kubernetes platform
and cloud-native application management verified by
CNCF. It’s an enterprise-grade Kubernetes container
platform with feature-rich and tailored for hybrid
multi-cloud deployment.
# ⚓ Linux.org ☛ LFCS_–_File_Transfer_Protocol_(FTP)⠀⇛
Everyone probably uses FTP at one point or another.
In this article, we will set up an FTP server and
configure it for anonymous connections. We will
also set it up to be used as a repository and then
actually use it as a repository from another
server.
So, Server 1, that is currently a DNS server, will
also be an FTP Server. Then, once the repository is
up and running, we will use Server 2 to install
files from Server 1.
# ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ The_Most_Common_Flags_in_/proc/cpuinfo
with_Examples⠀⇛
The /proc/cpuinfo file is a plain-text read-only
file that contains information about the CPU, and
displays a wealth of information about the CPU
including
# ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Install_CRI-O_(Container_Runtime)_on
Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
CRI-O is an opensource and lightweight container
runtime for Kubernetes. It is an implementation of
the Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface (CRI)
using Open Container Initiative (OCI) compatible
runtimes. It’s a perfect alternative to Docker when
running Kubernetes.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ DF_vs_DU_Command_in_Linux:_Key
Differences⠀⇛
You’ve probably heard of the df and du commands if
you’re a Linux user. They are both used to check
disk usage, but they work in slightly different
ways. This article will explore the key differences
between these two commands, including their syntax,
output, and usage.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_OpenRGB_on_Linux_Mint_21_or
20⠀⇛
OpenRGB is a free, open-source software solution
that provides a unified control interface for RGB
lighting in computer systems, peripherals, and
other compatible devices. Developed by a dedicated
community, OpenRGB aims to eliminate the need for
multiple proprietary software solutions by offering
compatibility with various devices and
manufacturers.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Docker_on_Fedora_Linux⠀⇛
Are you a developer or system administrator seeking
to enhance your application’s portability and
scalability? Docker is an outstanding platform for
packaging, distributing, and running applications
inside containers. This article will guide you
through installing Docker on Fedora Linux, one of
the most popular Linux distributions.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Save_Command_Output_to_a_File_in
Linux⠀⇛
Linux command line interface (CLI) is a powerful
tool that allows users to interact with the
operating system using text-based commands.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_PowerShell_on_Linux_Mint_21
or_20 [Ed: Better to migrate away from it, not give Microsoft
any leverage over the platform it is constantly attacking]⠀⇛
PowerShell is a powerful scripting language and
command-line shell designed for Windows, Linux, and
macOS platforms. Developed by Microsoft, it is a
versatile tool for system administrators and
developers to automate tasks, manage
configurations, and enhance productivity.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Avidemux_on_Linux_Mint_21_or
20⠀⇛
Avidemux is a free and open-source video editing
software that offers a user-friendly interface for
performing various video manipulation tasks.
Designed for both beginners and advanced users, it
supports a wide range of video formats and provides
essential editing features.
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Enable_TRIM_For_SSD_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛
If you are using a Solid State Drive (SSD), you
should know that you shouldn’t run any
defragmentation_or_free_space_consolidation
software on it. So how do you clean up your SSD and
free up the empty space? TRIM is the command we use
to inform the OS to do the cleaning job. Windows 11
allows you to manually_run_TRIM_through_the_fsutil
command. But what about Ubuntu? How can you enable
TRIM for SSD in Ubuntu?
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Configure_Logitech_or_SteelSeries_Headset
in_Ubuntu_via_This_App⠀⇛
Got a Logitech or SteelSeries headset? This app may
help to adjust sidetone, get battery state, toggle
LED, and set inactive time in Ubuntu Linux.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ LabPlot_2.10⠀⇛
Today we are announcing the availability of
the latest release of LabPlot: Say hello to
LabPlot 2.10!
This release comes with many new features,
improvements and performance optimizations in
different areas, as well as with support for
new data formats and visualization types.
The major new features are introduced below.
For a more detailed review of the changes in
this new release, please refer to the
ChangeLog_file.
The source code of LabPlot, the Flatpak and
Snap packages for Linux, as well as the
installer for Windows and the image for macOS
are available from our download_page.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ GNOME ☛ Michael_Catanzaro:_WebKitGTK_API_for_GTK_4_Is
Now_Stable⠀⇛
With the release of WebKitGTK 2.40.0,
WebKitGTK now finally provides a stable API
and ABI for GTK 4 applications. The following
API versions are provided:
# webkit2gtk-4.0: this API version uses
GTK 3 and libsoup 2. It is obsolete and
users should immediately port to
webkit2gtk-4.1. To get this with
WebKitGTK 2.40, build with -DPORT=GTK -
DUSE_SOUP2=ON.
# webkit2gtk-4.1: this API version uses
GTK 3 and libsoup 3. It contains no
other changes from webkit2gtk-4.0
besides the libsoup version. With
WebKitGTK 2.40, this is the default API
version that you get when you build
with -DPORT=GTK. (In 2.42, this might
require a different flag, e.g. -
DUSE_GTK3=ON, which does not exist
yet.)
# webkitgtk-6.0: this API version uses
GTK 4 and libsoup 3. To get this with
WebKitGTK 2.40, build with -DPORT=GTK -
DUSE_GTK4=ON. (In 2.42, this might
become the default API version.)
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ Klara ☛ Accelerating_Datacenter_Energy_Efficiency_by
Leveraging_FreeBSD_as_Your_Server_OS⠀⇛
Explore how FreeBSD aids datacenter energy goals,
promoting efficiency in design – operation, while
supporting industry – government initiatives.
# ⚓ DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ SSH_->_automatic_VM⠀⇛
I like the idea of virtualized machines springing
into existence just by trying to connect to them.
This is OpenBSD-specific, but could probably be
extrapolated to bhyve or NVMM.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Save_the_date:
Flock_to_Fedora_2023⠀⇛
Good news! I’m excited to announce the return of
Flock_to_Fedora, our annual contributor conference.
Save the date so you can plan to join us 1-5 August
2023 in Cork, Ireland. After three years, we’re
ready to get together in person to make plans and
share ideas.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Why_inflation_should_not_stop_IT
hiring⠀⇛
With inflation driving prices up and leaders
looking to reduce costs, employers are weighing
whether and where to cut back while simultaneously
trying to attract top talent. But instead of
cutting_staff, IT leaders should prioritize showing
employees they are valued. Reassuring current
employees in uncertain_times will also serve to
attract new talent.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Trisquel_11_Released,_Based_on_Ubuntu_22.04
LTS⠀⇛
…a new version of Free Software Foundation (FSF)
endorsed Trisquel is available to download.
Trisquel 11…
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Linux_Mint_vs._Ubuntu:_A_Comprehensive
Comparison⠀⇛
Need help deciding between Mint and Ubuntu? Let’s
break down the key differences to help you choose
the best distribution for your needs.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Pironman_review_–_A_Raspberry_Pi_4_enclosure
with_M.2_SATA,_safe_power_off,_RGB_LED_strip,_and_more_
(Sponsored) [Ed: It's a shame that CNX still runs "Sponsored"
chaff]⠀⇛
# ⚓ [Repeat] CNX Software ☛ Qualcomm_Robotics_RB1_and_RB2
development_kits_launched_for_$199_and_up⠀⇛
We quickly mentioned the Qualcomm Robotics RB1 and
RB2 development kits in our post about Lantronix
Open-Q 2210RB and 4210RB SiPs mostly to complain
about the lack of information at the time. But
things have changed the Qualcomm Robotics RB1 and
RB2 devkits for cheaper, smaller Linux-powered
robots with lower power consumption are now
available, and we have more details with three
options: Core Kit, Vision Kit, and Full Kit.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Nvidia’s_New_Orin_Nano_Developer_Kit:_Like
a_Raspberry_Pi_for_AI⠀⇛
Today, Nvidia announced the new entry-level board
for its Jetson range of single board computers.
Replacing the Jetson Nano, the Jetson Orin Nano
promises great processing power while remaining
power efficient.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Get_more_out_of_your_phone:_Integrate_it_with
your_Arduino_Cloud_projects⠀⇛
Remote monitoring with a mobile app is a must for
all the IoT device management platforms. In
general, having a mobile app offers a more complete
and convenient user experience for IoT device
management platform users, which can improve their
satisfaction and loyalty.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ OnLogic_Helix_401_–_A_compact_fanless
industrial_computer_powered_by_an_Alder_Lake_Embedded
processor⠀⇛
OnLogic Helix 401 is a fanless industrial computer
with a compact design powered by a choice of Alder
Lake Embedded processors from Celeron 7305E to Core
i7-1270PE designed for edge computing, Industry
4.0, Internet of Things (IoT), and more. The
computer supports up to 64GB DDR5 memory, SATA or
NVMe storage via two M.2 sockets, and offers up to
four video outputs via DisplayPort and USB4 ports,
dual Gigabit Ethernet, optional WiFi and/or 4G or
5G cellular connectivity, COM and CAN bus ports,
and Digital Input/Output (DIO) connector.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ A_Fediverse_Backup?⠀⇛
I have been thinking about having a backup account on the
Fediverse, but I’m struggling with which service to use.
We’ve been having some challenges over on Fosstodon
recently. Between availability issues thanks to large
influxes_of_users, technology problems and DDoS attacks,
it’s been a fun few months.
Problem is, when Fosstodon is down, I have no presence on
the Fediverse, so we can’t inform people as to what’s
going on. With that in mind, I’d like to setup an
alternate account on the Fedi for me to use. Plus, it
also allows me to post about my other hobbies outside of
tech; like fish keeping, motorbikes, home steading etc.
o ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ A_5-minute_tour_of_the_Fediverse⠀⇛
People want to communicate over the internet as easily as
they do in real life, with similar protections but,
potentially, farther reach. In other words, people want
to be able to chat with a group of other people who
aren’t physically in the same location, and still
maintain some control over who claims ownership of the
conversation. In today’s world, of course, a lot of
companies have a lot to say about who owns the data you
send back and forth over the world wide web. Most
companies seem to feel they have the right to govern the
way you communicate, how many people your message
reaches, and so on. Open source, luckily, doesn’t need to
own your social life, and so appropriately it’s open
source developers who are delivering a social network
that belongs, first and foremost, to you.
The “Fediverse” (a portmanteau of “federated” and
“universe”) is a collection of protocols, servers, and
users. Together, these form networks that can communicate
with one another. Users can exchange short messages,
blog-style posts, music, and videos over these networks.
Content you post is federated, meaning that once one
network is aware of your content, it can pass that
content to another network, which passes it to another,
and so on.
Most platforms are run by a single company or
organization, a single silo where your data is trapped.
The only way to share with others is to have them join
that service.
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Open-source_project_helps_solve_centralized
infrastructure_problems⠀⇛
Foundational open-source projects usually result in
ground-breaking technologies being made available to the
general public, not arbitrarily controlled by one
company.
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Grafana_Labs_enhancements_aimed_at_reducing
cloud-native_complexity [Ed: Siliconangle is rapidly becoming a
paid-for_spam_service or spammers for hire.]⠀⇛
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Q&A:_Solo.io_brings_open-source_community_to_the
enterprise⠀⇛
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ CloudNativePG_1.19.1,_1.18.3_and_1.17.5
Released!⠀⇛
The CloudNativePG Community has released a new
update for the supported
1.19, 1.18 and 1.17 versions of the CloudNativePG
Operator.
Versions 1.19.1, 1.18.3 and 1.17.5 are patch
releases containing a few
bug fixes and minor enhancements, including:
# enable overriding the default backup target
policy for ScheduledBackup and
Backup resources
# additional metrics and information in the
status, about the last time of
success or failure of a backup
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL_JDBC_42.6.0_Released⠀⇛
The PostgreSQL pgJDBC team is proud to announce the
release of version 42.6.0.
This version has two major changes.
1. The use of synchronized has been replaced with
re-entrant locks. This is will facilitate the use
of lightweight threads aka Project Loom.
2. Previously we used Object.finalize() to monitor
for connection leaks. Java 9 has Cleaner, but we
still need to support Java 8.
thankfully Juan Lopes wrote LazyCleaner. We
borrowed the code (Thanks again!) and are now using
LazyCleaner instead of finalize().
Many thanks to those who contributed!
See the ChangeLog for details.
The release has been pushed to Maven central.
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ pgBadger_v12.1_published⠀⇛
Grenoble, France – March 20th, 2023
§ pgbadger v12.1
pgBadger is a PostgreSQL performance analyzer,
built for speed with
fully detailed reports based on your PostgreSQL log
files.
pgBadger 12.1 was released today, this is a
maintenance release that
fixes issues reported by users since past six
months.
o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾
# ⚓ WordPress ☛ WordPress_6.2_Release_Candidate_3⠀⇛
WordPress 6.2 Release Candidate 3 is now available
for download and testing.
This version of the WordPress software is under
development. Please do not install, run, or test
this version of WordPress on production or mission-
critical websites. Instead, it is recommended that
you test RC3 on a test server and site.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Danylo_Piliaiev:_Command_stream_editing_as_an_effective
method_to_debug_driver_issues⠀⇛
In previous posts, “Graphics_Flight_Recorder_–
unknown_but_handy_tool_to_debug_GPU_hangs” and
“Debugging_Unrecoverable_GPU_Hangs”, I demonstrated
a few tricks of how to identify the location of GPU
fault.
But what’s the next step once you’ve roughly
pinpointed the issue? What if the problem is only
sporadically reproducible and the only way to
ensure consistent results is by replaying a trace
of raw GPU commands? How can you precisely
determine the cause and find a proper fix?
Sometimes, you may have an inkling of what’s
causing the problem, then and you can simply modify
the driver’s code to see if it resolves the issue.
However, there are instances where the root cause
remains elusive or you only want to change a
specific value without affecting the same register
before and after it.
The optimal approach in these situations is to
directly modify the commands sent to the GPU. The
ability to arbitrarily edit the command stream was
always an obvious idea and has crossed my mind
numerous times (and not only mine – proprietary
driver developers seem to employ similar
techniques). Finally, the stars aligned: my
frustration with a recent bug, the kernel’s new
support for user-space-defined GPU addresses for
buffer objects, the tool I wrote to replay command
stream traces not so long ago, and the realization
that implementing a command stream editor was not
as complicated as initially thought.
# ⚓ Bálint_Réczey:_Building_the_Linux_kernel_in_under_10
seconds_with_Firebuild⠀⇛
Russell published an interesting_post about his
first experience with Firebuild accelerating
refpolicy‘s and the Linux kernel‘s build. It turned
out a few small tweaks could accelerate the builds
even more, crossing the 10 second barrier with
Linux’s build.
§ Build performance with 18 cores
The Linux kernel’s build time is a widely used
benchmark for compilers, making it a prime
candidate to test a build accelerator as well. In
the first run on Russell’s 18 core test system the
observed user+sys CPU time was cut by 44% with an
actual increase in wall clock time which was quite
unusual. Firebuild performed much better than that
in prior tests. To replicate the results I’ve set
up a clean Debian Bookworm VM on my machine: [...]
# ⚓ Zig_Bits_0×2:_Using_defer_to_defeat_memory_leaks⠀⇛
Let’s talk about how to detect memory leaks in Zig
and avoid them by using the defer statement.
# ⚓ Continuing_on_API_Endpoint_Documentation_for_Package_and
File_Sources⠀⇛
You might have been already using our new openAPI
Documentation. We now want to let you know we added
some more documentation about package endpoints and
we added the new section about file endpoints. You
can check them out below! Sources – Packages
Sources – Files After kicking off the API
documentation remake in January 2021, we’ve
continued with the Build and Workers endpoints in
April 2021, we followed with Sources Projects and
Search endpoints…
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ WebAssembly_enables_Fermyon_to_deliver
serverless_architecture_that_executes_at_sub_1_millisecond
speeds⠀⇛
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_can_I_refresh_a_page_with_jQuery⠀⇛
Refreshing a page is a common task in web
development, and it can be accomplished easily with
jQuery. Whether you need to update content, reset
form fields, or trigger a new request to the
server, jQuery offers a variety of methods to
refresh a page.
# ⚓ SANS ☛ String_Obfuscation:_Character_Pair_Reversal,_(Tue,
Mar_21st)⠀⇛
I found a malicious_.LNK_file_on_MalwareBazaar that
contains an obfuscated URL. The obfuscation is a
classic one, with a twist: string reversal, not per
character, but per character pair.
# ⚓ Fixing_QtKeychain_freezing_on_Apple_devices [Ed: Wasting
KDE time... on Apple devices]⠀⇛
Working on the Nextcloud desktop client, I stumbled
into a nasty little bug. If you tried to add or
remove a user account, the app would often freeze
for a while.
# ⚓ Caolán_McNamara:_GTK_4.10_and_LibreOffice_accessibility⠀⇛
Towards GTK 4.10 some of the functionality to
integrate LibreOffice’s internal accessibility
support with GTK has been exposed. Some
experimenting this week with GTK trunk gives me the
above, writer’s document accessibility hierarchy
integrated with the GTK one.
Very little actually works, but a working base to
start from.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ XOR_Two_Strings_in_Python⠀⇛
The “ord()” function converts string values
into their ASCII representatives and passes
to XOR. “^” operator returns the difference
of converted ASCII values.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Sort_Nested_List_in_Python⠀⇛
In Python, “sort()” and “sorted()” methods
sort a nested list in ascending, descending
order, based on the index of a tuple or with
respect to length.
# ⚓ Geeks For Geeks ☛ Python_Do_While_Loops⠀⇛
In Python, there is no construct defined for
do while loop.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Convert_String_to_JSON_in_Python⠀⇛
In Python, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
is a commonly used data format for exchanging
data between applications. JSON data is
represented as a string in Python, but
sometimes it’s necessary to convert that
string into a JSON object to work with it
more effectively.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ What_are_the_Python_Static_Variables⠀⇛
Python is a popular high-level programming
language, known for its simplicity,
versatility, and ease of use. One of the
useful features of Python is the ability to
define static variables. In this article, we
will discuss what are static variables in
Python and provide some examples.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ GET_and_POST_requests_using_Python⠀⇛
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is a
protocol that allows data communication on
the web. It uses various methods to transfer
data between the client and the server. Two
of the most commonly used methods are GET and
POST.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ GET_and_POST_requests_using_Python⠀⇛
In today’s world, web applications and APIs
play a significant role in data exchange and
communication. We often need to send HTTP
requests such as GET and POST to interact
with these web services.
# § Java⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Oracle_aims_to_sustain_Java’s_27-year
franchise_with_version_20_rollout⠀⇛
Oracle Corp. today announced the availability
of Java 20, the latest version of the popular
programming language and development
platform.
§ Standards/Consortia⠀➾
* ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ What_exactly_is_a_unified_LPWAN_and_why_do_we_want
one?⠀⇛
This is the year of the Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN).
And much like in home or even industrial networks, where
multiple wireless protocols cozy up to one another, when it
comes to blanketing large areas with low data-rate
connectivity, users will have several options to choose from.
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ A_blank_text_editor⠀⇛
Before I started writing this, the buffer in this text editor
was empty.
I wonder what it could have held?
* ⚓ Erdoğan:_Earthquakes_to_cost_Turkey_104_billion_dollars⠀⇛
EU countries pledged 7 billion euros to help Turkey rebuild the
earthquake-hit regions.
* ⚓ Ministry:_Identities_of_42_children_surviving_the_earthquakes_could_not
yet_be_identified⠀⇛
1915 unattended children were rescued from under the debris and
registered after the February 6 earthquakes, 42 of whom could
not yet be identified, the Ministry announced.
* § Science⠀➾
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Discover_RNA_Component_Buried_in_The
Dust_of_an_Asteroid⠀⇛
Life’s building blocks may indeed have been alien.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Risk_of_Giant_Asteroids_Hitting_Earth_Could_Be
Worse_Than_We_Realized⠀⇛
We may have underestimated this.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Satellites_Pose_‘Unprecedented_Global_Threat’,
Scientists_Warn._Here’s_Why.⠀⇛
They’ve doubled in number since 2019.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ News_Analysis:_UK_Commits_$3_Billion_to_Support
National_Quantum_Strategy⠀⇛
SecurityWeek spoke to VC firm Quantum Exponential about
the UK National Quantum Strategy and investments in
quantum computing.
* § Education⠀➾
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Los_Angeles_Schools_Shut_Down_After_LAUSD
Workers_Launch_3-Day_Strike⠀⇛
The work stoppage began early Tuesday morning with a
picket line at a district bus yard.
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ L.A._strike:_Custodians,_counselors,_school_workers
picket_for_pay⠀⇛
Los Angeles school workers are striking for three days
over stalled contracts. In the second-largest school
system in the country, working conditions have gone down
every year, said Danielle Murray, a special education
assistant on the picket line.
o ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ School_workers_in_the_nation’s_second-largest
district_go_on_strike,_shutting_down_schools._Here’s_what_they
want⠀⇛
A union representing 30,000 Los Angeles school
custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers and other
support staff has started a three-day strike with support
from the district’s teachers, effectively stopping
classes for more than a half million students in the
nation’s second-largest school system.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Los_Angeles_school_workers_strike_closes_second_largest
school_district_in_US_for_3_days⠀⇛
For three days, starting Tuesday, hundreds of schools in
the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in
California will be closed due education faculty and
staff’s strike for increased wages and better conditions.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Los_Angeles_schools_close_for_3_days_as_workers_across
2nd_largest_U.S._district_strike⠀⇛
Thousands of workers in the Los_Angeles_Unified_School
District, the second largest in the U.S., walked off the
job Tuesday over failed contract negotiations, joining
teachers and other education staff across the city on a
three-day strike.
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ All_Hormonal_Contraceptives_Raise_Breast_Cancer
Risk_Slightly,_Study_Finds⠀⇛
This is important.
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Plastic_chemicals_doing_untold_human_harm:
scientists⠀⇛
A global coalition of scientists and other experts say
the human race is swimming in a toxic soup of chemicals
used to make plastics, with potentially dire consequences
for humanity. A landmark analysis has just been published
by almost 50 internationally renowned experts, including
scientists focused on public and environmental health.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Treatment-resistant_fungal_infections_spread_during
pandemic⠀⇛
An emerging fungal infection that can prove fatal in
communal health settings spread further and became more
drug-resistant during the_pandemic, a Centers for Disease
Control review of surveillance data found.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Report_of_Wuhan_Market_Samples_Found_Covid_and
Raccoon_Dog_Genetic_Material⠀⇛
In a much-anticipated study, experts described a swab
that was positive for the coronavirus and contained loads
of genetic material from raccoon dogs.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘We_Were_Helpless’:_Despair_at_the_CDC_as_the
Covid_Pandemic_Erupted⠀⇛
Current and former employees recall rising desperation as
Trump administration officials squelched research into
the new coronavirus.
* § Proprietary⠀➾
o ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Digital_Advertising_in_Toradex’s_Torizon [Ed: Qt brags
about putting ads inside user interfaces, even if users do not want
these]⠀⇛
Monetizing your embedded devices can seem like a daunting
challenge at first. With the large variety of ad networks
and technologies, plus the uncertainty of support for
various hardware platforms, it might not seem worth the
effort. However, serving ads on embedded devices running
Qt has never been easier with Qt Digital Advertising and
Toradex’s_Torizon.
* § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾
o § Openwashing⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Lange ☛ Daniel_Lange:_Linux_App_Summit_–_Linux
applications_apparently_unable_to_produce_a_five_page
sponsorship_brochure [Ed: Also mentions the 'Linux'
Foundation. It does not support or promote Linux. It controls
some infrastructure of Linux. Not the same thing.]⠀⇛
I’ve been mocking the Linux foundation for
producing_their_annual_report_on_Macs. And again.
But catching the Linux App(lication) Summit to
produce their 5_page_sponsorship_brochure one
Windows with Adobe…
[...]
P.S.: Just checked the Linux_Foundation’s_2022
Annual_Report titled “Leadership in Security and
Innovation” … Adobe InDesign 18.0 (Macintosh).
* § Security⠀➾
o ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Not_applying_updates?_You’re_doing_it_wrong⠀⇛
All your excuses for not doing updates—from fear of
downtime to concerns about testing—are wrong.
o ⚓ QSB-088:_Two_Xen_issues_affecting_PV_(stub-)domains_(XSA-428,
XSA-429)⠀⇛
We have published Qubes_Security_Bulletin_(QSB)_088:_Two
Xen_issues_affecting_PV_(stub-)domains_(XSA-428,_XSA-
429). The text of this QSB and its accompanying
cryptographic signatures are reproduced below. For an
explanation of this announcement and instructions for
authenticating this QSB, please see the end of this
announcement.
o ⚓ XSAs_released_on_2023-03-21⠀⇛
The Xen_Project has released one or more Xen_security
advisories_(XSAs).
The security of Qubes OS is affected.
Therefore, user action is required.
§ XSAs that DO affect the security of Qubes OS
The following XSAs do affect the security of Qubes OS:
# XSA-428
# XSA-429
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Ransomware_Gang_Publishes_Data_Allegedly_Stolen
From_Maritime_Firm_Royal_Dirkzwager⠀⇛
The Play ransomware gang has published data stolen from
Dutch maritime services company Royal Dirkzwager.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Exploitation_of_55_Zero-Day_Vulnerabilities_Came
to_Light_in_2022:_Mandiant⠀⇛
Mandiant has conducted an analysis of the zero-day
vulnerabilities disclosed in 2022 and over a dozen were
linked to cyberespionage groups.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Malicious_NuGet_Packages_Used_to_Target_.NET
Developers [Ed: Microsoft TCO]⠀⇛
Software developers have been targeted in a new attack
via malicious packages in the NuGet repository.
o ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Fear_of_feds_leads_to_stolen_data_site_BreachForums
being_shut_down⠀⇛
The new admin, who goes by the handle Baphomet, said in a
statement posted on the forum that shutting down the sire
was the only safe decision after it had been confirmed
that the FBI had access to the machine of Pompompurin,
the original administrator of the site.
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Ferrari_discloses_‘cyber_incident’_that_involved
a_ransom_demand⠀⇛
Italian vehicle manufacturer Ferrari S.p.A. has disclosed
that it has suffered a “cyber incident” that involved a
threat actor with a ransom demand related to certain
client contact details. Upon receipt of the ransom
demand, the company launched an investigation with an
outside cybersecurity firm.
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Hackers_increasingly_use_phone_and_email
harassment_to_extort_ransom_payments⠀⇛
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Google_Pixel_Vulnerability_Allows_Recovery_of
Cropped_Screenshots⠀⇛
A vulnerability in Google Pixel phones allows for the
recovery of an original, unedited screenshot from the
cropped version.
o ⚓ Purism ☛ Forbes_Cybersecurity_Trends_For_2023_Meet_Purism_Supply
Chain_Security_Standards! [Ed: Forbes is a Microsoft propaganda
mill, hardly an authority on security (Microsoft spreads back
doors, not security)]⠀⇛
PureOS Offers End-to-End Supply Chain Software and
Firmware Security According to the Forbes Article,
“Cybersecurity Trends – Statistics for 2023”, there are
eight macro risks to watch out for in 2023 according to
the Bipartisan Policy Research Center which include the
following: Evolving Geopolitical Environment- Supply
chain threats due to the Russian Ukraine war.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Organizations_Notified_of_Remotely_Exploitable
Vulnerabilities_in_Aveva_HMI,_SCADA_Products⠀⇛
Industrial organizations using HMI and SCADA products
from Aveva have been informed about potentially serious
vulnerabilities.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Ferrari_Says_Ransomware_Attack_Exposed_Customer
Data⠀⇛
Ferrari said that a ransomware attack was responsible for
a data breach that exposed customer details, but did not
impact company operations.
o ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Hacker_tied_to_D.C._Health_Link_breach_says
attack_‘born_out_of_Russian_patriotism’⠀⇛
The hacker who took responsibility for the D.C. Health
Link breach claims to have targeted U.S. politicians out
of allegiance for Russia.
o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ NYOB ☛ Political_microtargeting_on_Facebook:_an_election
promise_just_for_you!⠀⇛
Political microtargeting on Facebook: an election
promise just for you!
noyb filed a series of complaints against several
German political parties. The parties had used
microtargeting on Facebook during the 2021 federal
election and targeted potential voters.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Snapshot:_Which_countries_have_made_the
most_progress_on_CBDCs_so_far_in_2023⠀⇛
Despite only being three months into 2023, these 18
countries have made significant progress on central
bank digital currencies.
* § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
o ⚓ ADF ☛ One_Year_On,_Russia’s_War_on_Ukraine_Still_Causing_Pain_in
Africa⠀⇛
ADF STAFF Hardly a meal goes by that people don’t feel
the effects of Russia’s war on Ukraine. One year after
Russia’s invasion, food prices remain elevated and
inflation is devouring the budgets of consumers,
governments and relief agencies.
o ⚓ ADF ☛ Calls_Grow_to_Dismantle_Terrorists’_Financial_Networks⠀⇛
ADF STAFF Terrorist organizations need a constant stream
of money to function, and a growing body of evidence
suggests they get this funding by trafficking natural
resources. Oil, gas, wildlife, timber, and minerals such
as gold, diamonds and coltan are all items that terrorist
groups exploit to finance their operations.
o ⚓ ADF ☛ Report:_Russia’s_Ukraine_Invasion_Aids_Terrorist
Recruitment⠀⇛
ADF STAFF Besides clogging supply chains and sending
prices for food and other goods skyrocketing, Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine may also be a boon for terrorists in
some parts of Africa.
o ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ US_to_send_Patriot_missile_systems_to_Ukraine
faster_than_originally_planned⠀⇛
Patriot missile defense systems are set to be deployed to
Ukraine faster than originally planned and a group of 65
Ukrainian soldiers will complete their training on the
systems at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in the coming days, US
defense officials said on Tuesday.
o ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ House_GOP_uses_its_new_power_in_extraordinary
effort_to_shield_Trump_from_indictment⠀⇛
CNN — Donald Trump’s Republican allies in the House are
doing what the former president taught them to do – use
government power to try to keep his legal threats at bay.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Untouchable_U.S._troops_in_Lithuania⠀⇛
This month the Pentagon has been accused of blocking the
sharing of U.S. intelligence with the international
criminal court (ICC). Located in The Hague, Netherlands,
and created by a treaty called the Rome Statute first
brought before the United Nations, the International
Criminal Court operates independently.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ The_Ukraine_War_and_Great_Power_Competition⠀⇛
The term Great Power competition (GPC) can be used as a
framework to analyze interstate relations, such as those
between the United States and the Russian Federation.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Plans_to_Send_Abrams_Tanks_to_Ukraine_Far
Sooner_Than_Expected⠀⇛
Excess M1A1 tank “hulls” are to be refitted and
refurbished to make them ready on a quicker timeline for
Ukraine than new tanks could be delivered.
o ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Prospects_for_Israeli–Palestinian_peace_more
remote_than_ever⠀⇛
A massive double crisis is emerging between the Jordan
River and the Mediterranean.
o ⚓ The Strategist ☛ How_will_Australia_pay_for_the_AUKUS
submarines?⠀⇛
Australia’s nuclear-powered submarine fleet is going to
be expensive.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_Says_Explosion_in_Crimea_Destroyed
Russian_Cruise_Missiles⠀⇛
Kremlin-appointed authorities in Crimea denied the claim
saying that all the drones had been “aimed at civilian
objects.”
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Idaho_legislature_passes_bill_to_use_firing_squads_as_a
method_of_execution⠀⇛
The Idaho legislature Monday passed House Bill 186 which
will allow firing squads as a method of execution, making
death by firing squad the standard execution procedure if
lethal injections are found to be unconstitutional. The
bill also gives the state’s Department of Corrections
(DOC) the authority to set the procedures for firing
squad executions.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Australia_soldier_charged_with_war_crimes_in
Afghanistan⠀⇛
The Australian Federal Police and the Office of the
Special Investigator (OSI) Monday stated that a member of
the Australian Defence Force (ADF) had been arrested and
charged for war crimes committed in Afghanistan.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_Department_of_State_finds_all_parties_in_Ethiopia-
Tigray_conflict_committed_war_crimes⠀⇛
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Monday stated that
all parties involved in the conflict in Ethiopia
committed war crimes.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_parliament_calls_for_international_recognition
of_Russia_as_terrorist_state⠀⇛
The Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, has passed a
resolution, calling on other countries to designate
Russia as a terrorist state.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ ‘Balts_will_fight,_but_they_are_small.’_Zelensky_on_future
if_Ukraine_falls⠀⇛
In an interview with The Atlantic magazine, Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia would attack
Moldova and the Baltic states if Ukraine fell.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Russians_to_be_banned_from_buying_property_in_Lithuania⠀⇛
Lithuania is planning to ban Russian citizens from
purchasing real estate in the country.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanians_grow_more_enthusiastic_about_NATO_–
Eurobarometer⠀⇛
Lithuanians’ trust in NATO and the European Union has
increased over the past year, as has their support for
the EU’s further enlargement, the latest Eurobarometer
survey showed on Tuesday.
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Ukraine_Is_Successfully_Using_a_140-Year-Old
Machine_Gun_Against_Russia⠀⇛
The M1910 has been used in WW1, the Russian Civil War,
and WWII. Now Ukraine is using it to defend Bakhmut.
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ US_in_Iraq:_What_remains_20_years_after_the
invasion?⠀⇛
The U.S. invaded Iraq 20 years ago this week and
currently maintains a consistent presence of roughly
2,500 soldiers scattered throughout the country. These
troops are deemed essential to demonstrate commitment to
the region and as a safeguard against Iran.
* § Environment⠀➾
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ A_liveable_future_for_all_is_possible,_if_we
take_urgent_climate_action⠀⇛
A major UN “report of reports” from the authoritative
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
outlines the many options that can be taken now, to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to human-caused
climate change.
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ World’s_Most_Powerful_Precious_Metal_Traders
Upset_to_Learn_They_Bought_Piles_of_Worthless_Rocks⠀⇛
Stores of nickel held in a Dutch warehouse keep turning
out to be piles of stone.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_‘Rocking_Chair_Rebellion’:_Seniors_Call_On
Banks_to_Dump_Big_Oil⠀⇛
Older climate activists gathered in cities around the
country for a day of action targeting banks that finance
fossil fuel projects.
o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Court_allows_Greta_Thunberg,_activists_to_sue_Sweden
over_climate⠀⇛
Their youth-led Aurora group says “the Swedish state does
not treat the climate crisis as a crisis”.
o § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Stanford_cancels_Tuesday’s_final_exams_amid
power_outages⠀⇛
Stanford canceled all remaining final exams on
Tuesday due to ongoing weather-related power
outages, which are affecting buildings across
campus.
# ⚓ H2 View ☛ Hydrogen_Utopia,_Powerhouse_Energy_redraw_Irish
waste_plastic-to-hydrogen_plans⠀⇛
Hydrogen Utopia International (HUI) and Powerhouse
Energy Group (PHE) have relocated their planned
Irish waste plastic-to-hydrogen project from
Tippery to Longford.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Solar_energy_boom_may_face_network_bottleneck⠀⇛
Finland’s solar energy generating capacity is
moving into industrial scale production, spurring a
need to upgrade parts of the power distribution
grid.
# ⚓ Renewable Energy World ☛ 5_mega_solar_projects_starting
construction_in_2023⠀⇛
According to the Solar_Energy_Industries
Association_(SEIA), the United States solar
industry continues to set records. SEIA predicted
that the country’s total installed solar capacity
would more than quadruple by 2030, with annual
installations reaching 45 GW. This growth has been
driven by declining costs of solar technology,
favorable government policies, and increasing
demand for renewable energy sources.
o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ ‘Horrifying’_Plastic_Rocks_Emerge_in_Remote
Island_Paradise⠀⇛
A disturbing new geological hybrid.
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Cuban_ship_loaded_with_Maya_Train
ballast_damages_reef⠀⇛
The cargo vessel “Melody” anchored near Puerto
Morelos in a protected coral reef in the Caribbean,
according to area divers.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ French_court_orders_fishing_ban_after_hundreds
of_dolphins_wash_up_on_coast⠀⇛
France’s top administrative court on Monday ordered
the government to ban fishing in parts of the
Atlantic to protect dolphins which have washed up
dead in their hundreds.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ New_US_national_monuments_to_protect_both_the
sacred_and_scientific⠀⇛
President Joe Biden is establishing national
monuments. In Nevada, a desert mountain sacred to
Native Americans will be protected in addition to
the U.S. Army Castner Range in El Paso, Texas, and
a marine sanctuary in remote waters near Hawaii.
o § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ EU_joins_efforts_to_address_the_global
water_crisis_and_ensure_water_security_for_all_by_2050⠀⇛
From tomorrow, at the United Nations Water
Conference in New York from 22 to 24 March, the EU
will be confirming its strong engagement for global
water security by announcing 33 commitments for
action starting now.
# ⚓ Overpopulation ☛ Dangerous_distraction_or_elephant_in_the
room?_The_role_of_population_growth_during_three_decades_of
increasing_carbon_emissions⠀⇛
How often have you heard some version of this
claim: “population growth is not a problem for
climate change, because populations are growing in
poor countries whose contributions to global
emissions are negligible”? It gets repeated like a
mantra, soothing words that banish thought.
* § Finance⠀➾
o ⚓ Crypto_&_the_SVB_Banking_Crisis_with_Marty_Bent_&_Michael
Krieger⠀⇛
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Protests,_appeals,_referendum:_What’s_next_for
France’s_pension_reform?⠀⇛
After the French government this week survived two no-
confidence votes sparked by the use of special executive
power to push pension reforms through parliament,
President Emmanuel Macron faces public outrage and
constitutional appeals amid swirling rumours of a
dissolution of parliament, a change of government and
even a referendum on the new retirement measures.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Macron_defiant_as_anger_simmers_over_French_pension
reform⠀⇛
French President Emmanuel Macron appeared defiant on
Tuesday after his government narrowly survived no-
confidence votes, telling allies he would stand by his
beleaguered prime minister.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Macron_Plots_Next_Move_in_French_Pensions
Dispute⠀⇛
The future of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term was
unclear after a no-confidence vote triggered by his
effort to raise France’s retirement age fell short by
only nine votes.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Regional_Banks_and_Regulators_Try_to_Soothe
Depositors’_Fears⠀⇛
While some executives said money wasn’t being pulled from
their small and midsize banks, the “too big to fail”
giants attracted business customers.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Big_Question_for_the_Fed:_What_Went_Wrong_With
Bank_Oversight?⠀⇛
As the Federal Reserve reviews the failure of Silicon
Valley Bank, and Congress prepares for hearings, bank
oversight is getting a closer look.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ France_President_Macron_survives_no_confidence_vote_amid
mass_protests_against_pension_bill⠀⇛
French President Emmanuel Macron Monday survived a vote
of no confidence by a slim margin of nine votes.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Hundreds_arrested_as_French_protests_continue_after
government_survives_no-confidence_vote⠀⇛
Hundreds of people were arrested across France after
sporadic protests broke out hours after President
Emmanuel Macron’s government narrowly survived a no-
confidence motion in parliament on Monday over a deeply
unpopular pension reform.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Biden_issues_first_veto,_allowing_retirement_funds_to
continue_climate_change_considerations⠀⇛
US President Joe Biden Monday issued the first veto of
his presidency, rejecting legislation seeking to overturn
a Department of Labor (DOL) rule which allows retirement
fund managers to consider environmental, social and
governance (ESG) factors when selecting investments.
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Perth_Mint_‘co-operating’_with_financial
crime_auditors⠀⇛
Perth Mint is learning from “past mistakes” and co-
operating fully with an investigation by the financial
crime regulator, its chair says. The WA government-owned
corporation is being audited by AUSTRAC, having
acknowledged instances of historical non-compliance with
anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing
obligations.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanians_more_concerned_about_inflation_than_most
Europeans_–_survey⠀⇛
Sixty-four percent of Lithuanians consider inflation to
be one of the two most important issues facing their
country at the moment, compared to the EU average of 53
percent, the latest Eurobarometer survey has found.
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Sex_Worker-Led_Payment_Platform_Shuts_Down
After_Being_Cut_Off_by_Processor⠀⇛
Crypto payment processor SpankPay announced on Monday
that it would shut down because of financial
discrimination.
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Company_Loyalty_Leads_to_Exploitation_and
Unpaid_Work:_Study⠀⇛
The rules of the economy aren’t what they once were.
Loyalty these days is preyed upon, sniffed out by
managers who need to find someone to put in extra hours
or otherwise take advantage of.
o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finnish_households’_savings_rate_hits_new_low
since_2006⠀⇛
THE SAVINGS of Finnish households have dwindled since the
scrapping of last coronavirus restrictions, reports
Helsingin Sanomat.
o ⚓ YLE ☛ Nearly_a_thousand_jobs_to_go_at_Valmet_Automotive⠀⇛
Valmet Automotive is cutting the workforce at its
Uusikaupunki car factory by nearly 1000, through
redundancies and furloughs.
* § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ US_company_denounces_‘illegal’_takeover_of
facility_in_Quintana_Roo⠀⇛
Vulcan Materials has called Mexico to task after soldiers
occupied its marine terminal near Playa del Carmen in the
middle of the night.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ A_common_vision_for_China_with_the_Egyptian
General_Intelligence_Service⠀⇛
China relies a lot on the Egyptian role and the role of
the Egyptian General Intelligence Service as an active
and original party in resolving the problem of the Arab-
Israeli conflict, and China is following very carefully
the meetings that took place in the Palestinian Gaza
Strip between Major General Abbas Kamel…
o ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ AUDIO:_Catte_Black_on_Perspective_with_Jesse
Zurawell⠀⇛
OffG’s founding editor Catte Black appears on Perspective
with Jesse Zurawell to talk, covid, Ukraine and evolving
nature of the grand narrative. TNT Radio is a 24/
7 internet radio station, available here. You can also
listen to back-episodes of Perspective here and follow
host Jesse Zurawell on Telegram here.
o ⚓ NYPost ☛ Rand_Paul_calls_for_DA_Alvin_Bragg_to_be_jailed_for
‘disgusting_abuse_of_power’_in_Trump_probe [Ed: GOP now wants to
arrest judges, not the people who broke the law and who judges wish
to hold accountable (Rand Paul's dad was a GOP candidate and the
son is still in GOP)]⠀⇛
“A Trump indictment would be a disgusting abuse of power.
The DA should be put in jail,” Paul (R-Ky.) wrote in a
scathing tweet on Tuesday.
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ A_Muscular_U.S._Foreign_Policy_and_Changing
Alliances⠀⇛
Imagine a country rich in fossil fuels and another nearby
that is Europe’s premier industrial power in dire need of
those resources — is that a match made in heaven? Not
according to Joe Biden who quashed it as if it was a
match made in hell.
o ⚓ Shirish_Agarwal:_Anti-national_says_the_Indian_Law_Minister.⠀⇛
Anti-national and Anti-India judges – Kiren Rijiju, Law
Minister.
For those who can’t see the above poster says the
following – ‘A handful of retired Supreme Court judges
who are part of ‘Anti-India’ and are trying to make
Indian judiciary play role of the Opposition party. – Law
Minister Kiren Rijiju.
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ TikTok_CEO_addresses_American_users_in_video_as
pressure_mounts_on_the_company⠀⇛
As the TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew prepares for
his grilling in front of Congress this Thursday and bad
news comes from Europe, he made a video today reminding
Americans how great TikTok is.
⚓ New York Times ☛ Pulling_the_Plug_on_TikTok_Will_Be_Harder_Than_It_Looks⠀⇛
The tensions over the Chinese-owned social media app will come to a
head on Thursday, when the company’s chief executive testifies on
Capitol Hill.
⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Fired_by_NBC,_hired_by_Piers_Morgan:_Peter_Arnett_on_covering
fall_of_Baghdad_20_years_on⠀⇛
Pulitizer Prize-winning Peter Arnett recalls the US military blunders
that saw three journalists killed.
⚓ LRT ☛ Eight_in_ten_Lithuanians_pessimistic_about_situation_in_country_–
poll⠀⇛
Eight out of ten Lithuanians think that the situation in the country
is getting worse, a poll conducted by Baltijos Tyrimai for LRT has
found.
⚓ Axios ☛ These_are_the_countries_where_TikTok_is_banned⠀⇛
Data: Axios Research; Chart: Rahul Mukherjee/Axios
More than a dozen countries around the world have introduced full, partial or
public sector bans on TikTok amid heightened national security concerns.
Why it matters:Most of the bans that have been introduced are limited to public
sector or government devices. But a growing number of private companies are
unilaterally blocking the app as the U.S. government considers an outright ban
if TikTok’s Chinese owners don’t sell the U.S. version of the app.
⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ With_Friends_Like_These:_A_rough_start_to_testimony_from
defense_witnesses_at_Proud_Boys_sedition_trial⠀⇛
A new phase of the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial has started
out rough with defense witnesses fumbling through testimony
⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Lordy,There_Are[Transcribed]_Tapes⠀⇛
Among the things that then-Chief Judge Beryl Howell ordered Evan
Corcoran to turn over on Friday were “transcriptions of personal
audio recordings” involving his representation of Donald Trump.
⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Barbara_Jones_Rules_Project_Veritas_Was_Not_Engaged_in
Journalism_When_Brokering_Ashley_Biden’s_Stolen_Diary⠀⇛
In the investigation of the Ashley Biden diary theft, Barbara Jones
has ruled against Project Veritas on most issues.
§ Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
* ⚓ ADF ☛ New_Report_Examines_Russian_Wagner_Group’s_Expansion_Across
Africa⠀⇛
“The Grey Zone” is the name of the Telegram channel affiliated
with Russia’s Wager Group mercenaries — a name that also
reflects the lawless space in which Wagner works. “The Grey
Zone” is also the title of a new analysis of Wagner’s
activities by the Global Initiative against Transnational
Organized Crime.
* ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Distinguishing_between_soft_power_and_propaganda_in
South_Korean_foreign_policy⠀⇛
As a middle power, South Korea has gone above and beyond when
it comes to projecting its soft power on a global level.
* ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Sunday_Times_editor_Ben_Taylor_given_‘crystal_clear’
assurance_no_Times_merger_coming [Ed: Murdoch's propaganda machine
reachign Scotts too]⠀⇛
The Scottish editions of the Times titles were merged into a
seven-day operation last month.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Fox_News_seeks_restraining_order_against_its_producer_who
testified_in_Dominion_lawsuit⠀⇛
Fox News is seeking a temporary restraining order against a
senior producer named in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation
lawsuit against the network.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Turkey_blocks_access_to_platform_monitoring_web_censorship⠀⇛
The EngelliWeb platform has been keeping a tally of the number
of banned web addresses, including news articles.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_student_fined_HK$8,000_for_putting
stickers_on_lampposts_on_Tiananmen_crackdown_anniversary⠀⇛
A student from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has
been fined HK$8,000 for putting stickers on lampposts and road
signs on the anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown last year.
Miles Kwan appeared in front of magistrate Tsang Hing-tung at
the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Tuesday.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_ex-lawmaker_Albert_Ho_arrested_by
national_security_police_while_on_bail⠀⇛
Hong Kong pro-democracy former lawmaker Albert Ho has been
arrested by national security police while on bail. Ming Pao,
HK01, and Sing Tao cited sources saying hat Ho’s arrest on
Tuesday morning was over allegedly interfering with witnesses.
The 71-year-old, who has been charged under the Beijing-imposed
national security law for allegedly inciting subversion…
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Winnie_the_Pooh_horror_film_pulled_in_Hong_Kong,
but_gov’t_says_it’s_approved_for_screenings⠀⇛
Screenings of British horror flick Winnie the Pooh: Blood and
Honey have been inexplicably axed in Hong Kong and Macau after
the distributor cancelled its release. The local film
censorship board told HKFP, however, that the film still has
approval for release.
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘The_nightmare_is_over’:_Journalist_Olivier_Dubois_held
hostage_in_Sahel_returns_to_France⠀⇛
French journalist Olivier Dubois, 48, made an emotional return
home on Tuesday following nearly two years in captivity in the
Sahel, greeted by his family and President Emmanuel Macron at
an airport near Paris.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ ACLU ☛ My_Conviction_Meant_40_Years_Without_A_Vote._Not_Anymore.⠀⇛
When I was convicted of a felony, I knew I wouldn’t be able to
vote, but it didn’t sink in until I got my sentence: 40 years
of probation. That meant 40 years without a vote. I wouldn’t
get to the ballot box again until I was 71 years old.
The moment it hit me, I felt separated from the world, from my
own country. Just cut out of society completely. I didn’t even
know it was possible to fight back until I became the lead
plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the law, brought by the ACLU
and the ACLU of Minnesota.
* ⚓ ACLU ☛ An_Idaho_College_Censored_Their_Reproductive_Health_Care_Art,
But_These_Artists_Won’t_be_Silenced⠀⇛
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe_v._Wade last June, anti-
abortion politicians didn’t just leap at the opportunity to ban
abortion — they also threatened our ability to freely_share
information about abortion and reproductive health care,
including in artwork and other forms of creative expression.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ An_imperative_for_women’s_political_leadership:
Lessons_from_Brazil⠀⇛
Women are essential to democracy, yet face systematic barriers
to political entry and impact. Using the case of Brazil, we
analyze the state of women’s political participation and of
political violence against women. We propose timely, actionable
approaches to reduce women’s unique political challenges and to
further strengthen democratic health.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Report_Finds_London_Police_Force_Is_Sexist_and
Racist⠀⇛
The report, ordered up after the murder of Sarah Everard by a
London police officer in 2021, denounced the culture within
Britain’s largest police force and called for change.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Strains_Emerge_Inside_the_Union_That_Beat_Amazon⠀⇛
Nearly a year after its victory on Staten Island, the Amazon
Labor Union is grappling with election losses and internal
conflict.
* ⚓ The Age AU ☛ New_laws_triggering_the_referendum_on_an_Indigenous_Voice
on_the_brink_of_passing_Senate⠀⇛
New laws triggering the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to
Parliament are on the brink of passing the Senate.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Report_finds_London_police_racist,_misogynist_and
homophobic,_recommends_‘complete_overhaul’⠀⇛
The London police forces, Britain’s largest, is institutionally
racist, misogynist and homophobic and could still be employing
rapists and murderers, a scathing independent review said
Tuesday.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ UK_Metropolitan_Police_is_institutionally_racist,_sexist_and
homophobic,_new_report_finds⠀⇛
A review into the London Metropolitan Police Service (Met)
Tuesday found the Met to be institutionally racist, sexist and
homophobic. Sparked by the murder of Sarah Everard by a Met
police officer in 2021, the review made multiple
recommendations to help tackle issues within the police force.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_Department_of_State_addresses_‘significant_human_rights
issues’_in_India_in_new_report⠀⇛
The US Department of State Monday released its annual report on
human rights, addressing what it considers significant issues
with and abuses of human rights in India.
* ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Police_could_keep_names_secret_after_charge_under_new
draft_guidelines⠀⇛
The proposed guidance states that forces “can” name charged
suspects. The current advice is they “should”.
* ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Garbage_men_go_on_strike_in_Copenhagen⠀⇛
Strife relating to working conditions could affect rubbish
collection across all districts in the city
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Millions_of_low-income_broadband_customers_facing_steep_price
rises⠀⇛
We’re calling on telecoms companies to cancel 2023 mid-contract
price hikes for financially vulnerable customers
* ⚓ APNIC ☛ ZDNS:_A_fast_DNS_toolkit_for_Internet_measurement⠀⇛
ZDNS is a modular and open source active DNS measurement
framework optimized for large-scale research studies of DNS on
the public Internet.
§ Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
* ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ New_York_State_Proposes_8%_Sales_Tax_on_Spotify,
Netflix,_Other_Streaming_Services⠀⇛
New York State proposes an 8% sales tax on Spotify, Netflix,
and other streaming services to increase funding for public
transit. New York state residents may soon be required to pay
more for streaming services, according to a report from WGRZ.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ JUVE ☛ Insulet_and_Peterreins_Schley_win_PI_over_insulin_pumps_at
Düsseldorf_Regional_Court [Ed: Medical products REMOVED... (yes,
people with diabetes may die)... because of PATENTS. This system is
so arcane and inherently imperialistic that they still use terms
like "royalty".]⠀⇛
Insulet has recently obtained a preliminary injunction
against Berlin Chemie in the first-instance Düsseldorf
court (case ID: 4c O10/23). Berlin Chemie is a subsidiary
of the Italian medical devices manufacturer Menarini
Diagnostics, which markets various modern applications
for people with diabetes under the GlucoMen brand.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Drug_shortages_upend_hospitals_care,_cancer_treatments
[Ed: Patents prevent mass production. So people die. When only one
company is "allowed" to make some drug it exploits the monopoly to
cause shortages/scarcity, then spikes the prices even further than
patents alone allow.]⠀⇛
Supplies of some essential drugs used in hospitals are
hitting 10-year lows, forcing rationing and pharmacy
workarounds.
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Wi-Fi_6_improvements_resulting_in_more
litigation⠀⇛
In the first article of a two-part series posted on
IPWatchdog, Samuel_Baird, Director of Analytics at
Unified_Patents, and Craig_Thompson, GM/COO for Unified
Consulting, recently used OPEN’s_IEEE and OPAL’s_Wi-Fi_6
landscape to understand how 3GPP technologies have
migrated in Wi-Fi 6.
o ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ New_edition_of_Visser’s_Annotated_EPC_–_the
highlights [Ed: This book has become completely irrelevant because
the criminals who took over the EPO are routinely violating the EPC
and nobody holds them accountable for it. Moreover, there's a
conflict of interest in this "coverage".]⠀⇛
This year’s release of Visser’s Annotated European Patent
Convention, or as it is commonly known, simply “Visser”
is just around the corner. Since the previous edition,
updated until March 2022, there have been several law
changes, as well as new case law and updates in the
Guidelines.
o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ All_Inventors_are_Human;_All_Humans
are_Inventors [Ed: Patent extremists and profiteers still help this
man troll the patent system]⠀⇛
Petitioners in Thaler v. Vidal ask the Supreme Court one
simple question:
Does the Patent Act categorically restrict the statutory
term ‘inventor’ to human beings alone?
Thaler Petition for Writ of Certiorari. Only a court with
substantial hubris would be willing to take-on this case,
but I’m confident that the Supreme Court is up for the
task.
* § Trademarks⠀➾
o ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_How_Did_These_Three_Recent_Section_2(d)
Appeals_Turn_Out?⠀⇛
Here are three recent appeals from Section 2(d) refusals.
As previously mentioned, a former TTAB judge once told me
that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) case
95% of the time just by looking at the marks and the
involved goods and services. How do you think theses
three cases came out? [Results in first comment].
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ Chaos_Bewitched:_Moby-Dick_and_AI⠀⇛
Do androids dream of electric whales?
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Bad_Bunny’s_Ex-Girlfriend_Files_$40_Million
Lawsuit_for_Unlicensed_Use_of_Her_‘Bad_Bunny,_Baby’_Recording⠀⇛
Bad Bunny’s ex-girlfriend files a $40 million lawsuit for
the unlicensed use of her ‘Bad Bunny, Baby’ recording.
Bad Bunny’s ex-girlfriend is suing the singer for at
least $40 million for the well-known voice recording she
provided that he has used in two of his songs.
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Music_Licensing_Talks_with_Twitter_Stall
Under_Elon_Musk_Leadership,_Says_Report⠀⇛
A new report suggests Elon Musk’s cost-cutting measures
at Twitter have impacted music licensing talks. Elon
Musk’s takeover of Twitter in October 2022 has caused
chaos for employees and business partners.
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ The_Cure_Tried_to_Stop_Scalpers._Brokers_Are
Selling_Entire_Ticketmaster_Accounts_Instead⠀⇛
Inside the secretive markets scalpers use to buy and sell
entire Ticketmaster accounts to sidestep restrictions.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ More_Twlight_2023-03-21_(Fairbanks,_AK,_USA)⠀⇛
I found a nearby spot with a better view to the west, at
the southern end of Peger road. I was not able to get out
early enough tonight to see the sun setting behind the
hills, but I got a few good photos of twilight scenery.
o ⚓ Rural_hospital⠀⇛
Evy started a new job at the rural hospital in our
town. I’ve been in there before, in the emergency
department once or twice, and in the FQHC clinic on
the 3rd floor more often. She came from a big
academic medical center with hundreds of beds. The
hospital where she works now has 5 floors and many
wings, but only 25 beds: 18 on her unit, 5 intens-
ive care, and I guess the rest in emergency.
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