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⦿ Sirius ’Open Source’ Pensiongate: Time to Issue a Warrant of Arrest and Extradite the Fake ‘Founder’ of Sirius | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 24, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ The Corporate Media is Not Reporting Large-Scale Microsoft Layoffs (Too Busy With Chaffbot Puff Pieces), Leaks Required to Prove That More Layoffs Are Happening | Techrights
⦿ [Meme] Money Deducted in Payslips, But Nothing in Pensions | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/03/25/accountability-sirius-open-source/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/25/irc-log-240323/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/25/leaks-more-microsoft-layoffs/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/25/sirius-payments/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/03/25/decade-of-docker/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/25/gordon-moore-is-dead/#comments
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✐ Sirius_‘Open_Source’_Pensiongate:_Time_to_Issue_a_Warrant_of_Arrest_and
Extradite_the_Fake_‘Founder’_of_Sirius⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Finance, Free/Libre_Software at 12:48 am by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
Previously/context:
Have_Squandered/Plundered_the_Pensions_of_Many_People
to_the_Clients_and_Don’t_Respond_to_Messages
Matter_and_Sirius_is_in_Serious_Trouble
Ever
Summary: Sirius_‘Open_Source’ is collapsing, but that does not mean that it can
dodge accountability for crimes_(e.g._money_that_it_silently_stole_from_its
staff_since_at_least_12_years_ago)
A SCREENSHOT of the PDF from Standard Life was shared_here_(with_sensible
redaction)_a_few_days_ago. Things are belatedly progressing.
This post has taken a long time to prepare as we need to separate gossip/
speculation from verified facts. Standard Life also claims to be pursuing the
facts (since the 7th of March). As per their own update: “Dear Dr Schestowitz,
I have attached our acknowledgement to your complaint. [...] If you’ve any
questions, or problems accessing your acknowledgement, please email me at
[redacted] and I’ll do all I can to help you.”
“This post has taken a long time to prepare as we need to separate gossip/
speculation from verified facts.”They’ve basically been looking into how on
Earth the company (Sirius) was claiming to be paying into Standard Life
accounts that don’t even exist!
The simplest explanation is, Sirius engaged in embezzlement. The management was
contacted several times, being kindly offered the opportunity to explain what
actually happened. Each and every time the response was schtum. For reasons we
detailed here before, litigation seems imminent. Class action lawsuit is also
likely, though the company is in hiding. Staff that actively oversaw and
participated in the embezzlement is criminally liable, even if leaving the
company later. They’ve been made aware of this (fraud, theft, forgery/
embezzlement among the possible charges). Failing that, or in addition to that,
pension providers can be sued. We’ll explain the legal grounds some other day.
What does this have to do with Techrights? Sirius is describing itself as
Britain’s most respected and best established Open Source business.
“The simplest explanation is, Sirius engaged in embezzlement. The management
was contacted several times, being kindly offered the opportunity to explain
what actually happened.”If this is what the “most respected and best
established” boils down to, then there’s serious trouble. Sirius is a major
liability and a stain. This isn’t the company I joined more than 12 years ago.
“You need to lie to keep your job” or “take one for the team” or “do something
unethical/illegal to keep your salary” is the hallmark or symptom of criminal
management, which needs to be prosecuted, not served (except served papers). I
confronted the management many times before leaving (for over a year!) and
nothing improved. They kept paying the salary, but behaviour only worsened over
time, so I reached out to a friend.
Suffice to say, you need not be particularly charismatic to persuade workers
whom you pay to also do bad things, acting out of fear (obedience for a
payment). During a pandemic and financial crises (exacerbated by invasion of
Ukraine) it gets even easier for bad people to compel workers to act
unethically. This is a recipe for disaster.
Internally, as noted here back in December, I had circulated communications to
try to ameliorate things amicably. But regarding my letters, however, they
never wrote anything back. The attitude was to simply ignore the issues and to
ignore the reporter. At one point I mused that I could joke with the boss, “so
how has that secret money from Bill Gates worked out for you, eh?” Does one
reckon that if the CEO goes to prison, Bill Gates will go visit him in prison?
It’s closer than the facility Jeffrey Epstein was in when Gates visited him. As
far as we know, the CEO is in Spokane area/WA somewhere (not too far from
Seattle). He is hiding there, possibly not just from workers but also former
wives.
“Internally, as noted here back in December, I had circulated communications to
try to ameliorate things amicably.”Anyway, E-mails to the CEO are now bouncing.
It’s a company that’s not functioning, lacks the staff to actually meet SLAs,
and sooner or later will receive demands from clients that a refund is issued
(not that the company has any money left).
There’s only one manager left in the company, apparently living with his
girlfriend or someone else somewhere in the US (we cannot verify all the
pertinent details). The company can implode any day now and we might hear just
days later that he has been kicked out with a suitcase (he is working double-
shifts at the moment, trying to slow down the collapse, which is inevitable
anyhow).
The collapse of the company can devastate many people, who “have been in touch
about trying to track down [...] pensions from the original Sirius pension
scheme,” to quote one former colleague. “I am in the same situation and had
previously given up trying to track it down.”
“The Standard Life and NOW: Pensions plans/schemes are both registered with a
company that has only one employee: the CEO.”We still wonder how many people
are impacted by this — probably a lot. It’s hard to find or track down every
single person whom you worked with over a decade ago.
The Standard Life and NOW: Pensions plans/schemes are both registered with a
company that has only one employee: the CEO. He moved everything else to two
shells, one in the UK (Ltd.) and another in the US (Inc.). Both pension
providers investigate this matter now.
Two months ago we requested written assurances from NOW: Pensions that the
pensions cannot be scuttled as before. For the time being, Standard Life
refuses to even tell what happened (the managers there made a guess/hunch) but
it seems like no money ever reached their end. Now that the company is, in
effect, ‘in hiding’ (a former CEO is rushing to delete anything that ever
connected him to the company) It’ll be hard to sue, but accountability is still
possible. The police may soon step in. █
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✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Friday,_March_24,_2023⠀✐
Posted in IRC_Logs at 2:01 am by Needs Sunlight
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✐ The_Corporate_Media_is_Not_Reporting_Large-Scale_Microsoft_Layoffs_(Too_Busy
With_Chaffbot_Puff_Pieces),_Leaks_Required_to_Prove_That_More_Layoffs_Are
Happening⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Microsoft at 1:29 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
New screenshot from thelayoff.com:
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New_article (behind paywall, posted just before the weekend, hence limited
audience):
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Bell's_security_organization_on_Monday⦈_
Summary: Just as we_noted_days_ago, there are yet more Microsoft layoffs, but
the mainstream media gets bribed to go “gaga” over vapourware and chaffbots
(making chaff like “Bill Gates Says” pieces) instead of reporting actual news
about Microsoft
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Posted in Deception, Finance, Fraud, Free/Libre_Software at 3:48 am by Dr. Roy
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🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Sirius_payments⦈_
Summary: Sirius_‘Open_Source’ has stolen money from staff (in secret)
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⡯⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⣀⣴⠞⠛⢉⣥⣶⣦⡍⠙⠛⢶⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⢀⣠⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Server
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
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# Mozilla
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Licensing_/_Legal
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# Python
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
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o Hardware
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# Privacy/Surveillance
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# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
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o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Framework_Laptop_13th_Gen_Improves_on_Every
Aspect,_Announces_New_Laptop_with_Upgradable_GPU⠀⇛
Yesterday Framework had an exciting set of
announcements regarding their line-up – we don’t
usually cover all sorts of press release, but this
is certainly significant enough to make an
exception.
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ SJVN ☛ A_Decade_of_Docker⠀⇛
Today, billions of containers on clouds run the
applications we use every day. And, while container
technology dates back to 2000 with FreeBSD Jails
and Solaris Zones, Docker, the open-source platform
designed to simplify the creation, deployment, and
run applications within containers in 2013, is what
changed the world.
Containers are lightweight, portable environments
that bundle the application’s code, runtime,
libraries, and other dependencies, ensuring
consistency and efficiency across various
environments. This has revolutionized the way
software is developed, shipped, and deployed.
# ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Docker_Free_Team_concerns_linger_after_mea
culpa_|_TechTarget⠀⇛
Docker issued an apology and some clarification
after the end of its Free Team subscription roiled
the open source community last week, but concerns
about the transition remain for some users.
Docker clarified that it will not delete container
images from Docker Hub, after the first
communication from the company mentioned that data
might be subject to deletion and access to accounts
frozen after 30 days.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Blog:_MicroK8s_is_now_on_AWS_marketplace⠀⇛
Everyone knows that MicroK8s is an extremely
lightweight, extensible, reliable, CNCF-compliant
distribution of Kubernetes. What you didn’t know
until now is that it is even easier to install and
manage as part of your AWS marketplace experience.
First, a quick reminder of why MicroK8s is great:
[...]
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Birdtray_Ubuntu_PPA_Updated_With_Unread_Email_Count_And
Xwayland_Fixes_(Thunderbird_Tray_Icon)⠀⇛
Birdtray is a system tray icon for Thunderbird,
which shows the unread email count, with some extra
features.
The application has stopped working a while back—it
no longer shows the unread email count with newer
Thunderbird versions (both the latest Thunderbird
102.* stable and the latest beta—112 at the time
I’m writing this article), and it doesn’t work
properly on Wayland either. I have updated the
Linux Uprising Apps PPA for Ubuntu and derivatives
(and Linux distributions based on it, like Linux
Mint, Pop!_OS, etc.) with fixes/workarounds for
these issues, and I’ll also explain what I did so
you can replicate this on other Linux distributions
if you want to use Birdtray.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Key_rotation_is_not_the_same_as_key
revocation_(or_invalidation)⠀⇛
This is something worth repeating: key rotation
doesn’t give you key revocation, and the two are
different things. Key rotation gets people to
accept and use a new key; key revocation gets them
to not accept the old one. Of course if you revoke
the current key you generally want people to rotate
into using a new one, but you can want people to
rotate into a new key without any particular
revocation of the old one.
# ⚓ Minus ☛ When_root_on_ZFS_breaks_on_Arch_Linux…⠀⇛
Today was update day1. Then the expected unexpected
happened: The ZFS module was missing from
initramfs. Desktop’s dead in the water. I boot up
my laptop to quickly flash an Arch live ISO onto a
USB drive, and while at it also upgrade that one.
Knowing that what went wrong on my desktop would
likely also fail here, I pay a bit more attention
and there it is, in the post-transaction hooks2.
Most notably here: pacman does not exit with an
error code causing yay to just keep going with AUR
upgrades.
# ⚓ How_to_List_All_Groups_in_Linux⠀⇛
Groups on Linux-based operating systems are used to
assign a set of privileges to a group of users.
There are mainly two types of groups in the Linux
distribution operating systems.
Whenever a Linux user creates a file or directory,
then the files within it are allocated to a primary
group, which has the same name as the one of the
current user. Every user has at least one primary
group associated with them. Whenever a new user is
created, it is allocated within a primary group.
Apart from their primary group, Linux users can
also belong to other groups known as secondary
groups.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_and_use_WHOIS_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or_20.04⠀⇛
To get some information about the existing domain
name, you might have used some online WHOIS lookup
tool. However, if you are a Ubuntu user then you
can use your Command terminal to get information
about Domain names or public IP addresses by
installing the WHOIS protocol.
WHOIS is an easy-to-use protocol for querying
databases that store registered users or assignees
of an Internet resource. It’s a reliable way to
access a range of information, from domain names to
IP addresses.
The information WHOIS reveals the domain name’s
creation and expiration dates, the registrar who
manages the registration, and the contact
information of the registrant, administrative
contact, and technical contact. This information
can be useful for a variety of purposes, such as
verifying the authenticity of a website or
identifying potential trademark infringement.
# ⚓ IT Pro Today ☛ What_Is_Linux?_An_Operating_System,
Software,_Program,_and_More⠀⇛
Linux is an open source operating system that is
widely used as an alternative to Windows and macOS.
Learn about Linux features, how it works, and more.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Change_a_Folder_Icon_on_Linux⠀⇛
Do you want your Documents folder to look different
from your Software Projects folder? Linux is very
customizable in that regard and allows you to do
that efficiently.
Having different folder icons makes your system
more intuitive and user-friendly. Plus, it’s very
easy to find folders at a glance. Here’s how you
can easily change directory or folder icons on
Linux.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Fix:_pip_command_not_found_error_in
Ubuntu_and_other_Linux⠀⇛
You might have encountered the “pip command not
found” error while installing any Python package or
module. This error occurs when the system cannot
locate the pip package manager used to install and
manage Python packages.
Here’s how to fix it.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ vkd3d_1.7_is_out_now_for_the_Wine
translation_layer⠀⇛
The Wine team just announced the release of vkd3d
version 1.7, their Direct3D 12 to Vulkan
translation layer. Not to be confused with VKD3D-
Proton, Valve’s own fork of it with a focus on
gaming with Proton.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Rogue:_Genesia_is_another_horde_survivor_
(Vampire-like?)_game_worth_a_look⠀⇛
These Vampire Survivor-like horde survival games
are still all the rage, and I keep discovering
more. Rogue: Genesia is another, with Native Linux
support and it is rated Steam Deck Playable.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Build_your_own_racecar_in_Revhead,_now_with
added_Steam_Deck_support⠀⇛
Revhead, a racing sim all about actually building
your own vehicle, recently had an upgrade with the
developer now supporting the Steam Deck. It also
has Native Linux support. Not one I’ve actually
written about at all before, somehow the original
release was missed in a sea of games back in 2017.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ GE-Proton_7-53_is_out_now_fixing_up_Star
Citizen,_Diablo_IV_and_more⠀⇛
Another fresh tasty release of GE-Proton is now
available, two actually were released in the last
day so here’s what’s new as of GE-Proton 7-53 for
Steam Deck and Linux desktop gaming. GE-Proton is
built and maintained by the community, it is not
affiliated with Valve and the official Proton. See
my full Proton guide for more.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Get_a_bunch_of_horror_games_in_this_latest
game_bundle⠀⇛
Humble Bundle just launched another bundle full of
games, and it looks like many are compatible with
Steam Deck and Linux desktop with Proton. I’ll be
going over the compatibility rating for each title,
saving you some clicking around.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ AMD_detail_more_on_FSR_3_and_their_new_open
source_FidelityFX_SDK⠀⇛
AMD had plenty to show off at GDC, and they’ve done
a bit of a summary and some of it is quite exciting
for future games.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Fanatical_have_another_fantastic_game
bundle_for_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
Fanatical are doing some great bundles lately! They
have another Build your own Play On The Go Bundle
for Spring 2023 now available. The point of these
bundles, is to provide you options to pick and get
a bigger discount across 3, 5 and 8 games together
and all of them are Steam Deck Verified!
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Slimbook_Titan,_Kubuntu,_RGB_backlight
keyboard⠀⇛
I figured that I only have two options. I
could manually compile the controller module,
load it into memory, and then manually issue
brightness and pattern commands to the
following path: /sys/class/leds/,
specifically the qc71_laptop struct. The
other option is to use the Slimbook RGB tool.
Not happy with either, I must say.
In the end, I decided that perhaps, for now,
the easiest option is to use the software
provided by Slimbook. After all, the team
maintains a dozen plus utilities for their
different laptop models, and they are trying
to give the user the best possible
experience, considering the limitations. By
and large, the keyboard tool isn’t as ugly or
ungainly as I’ve feared. It’s quite elegant,
in fact. So I think, we might call this a
happy ending. More Titan adventures coming
your way soon!
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ Hari Rana ☛ How_to_Propose_Features_to_GNOME⠀⇛
Recently, GNOME added an option into GNOME
Settings to adjust pointer acceleration,
which was a feature that the developers and
designers were originally against. One person
managed to convince them, by giving one
reason. Thanks to them, pointer acceleration
options are now available in GNOME Settings!
Firstly, I’m going to summarize the relevant
parts of the proposal and discussion behind
the addition, and explain how it was
accepted. Then, to build on top of that,
GNOME’s philosophy and the importance of
taking it into consideration. And lastly, how
to propose features to GNOME and what to
avoid.
However, this article is not about whether
GNOME is successful with their philosophy,
and the tone of developers and designers.
Additionally, this isn’t about where to
propose features, rather how to formulate the
proposal and what to consider.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ AppImage_Installer_can_now_update⠀⇛
AppImage Installer (aii) is a recent exciting project,
see
previous blog posts:
# AppImage
Installer_simplified_info_window — March 19, 2023
# AppImage
Installer_bug-fix_and_more_apps — March 19, 2023
# Wrapping
up_AppImage_Installer — March 15, 2023
# AppImage
Installer_for_EasyOS — March 14, 2023
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Trisquel_11.0_“Aramo”_release_announcement⠀⇛
Our most ambitious release to date, Trisquel 11.0
Aramo is out! After extensive work and thorough
testing, we are proud to declare Aramo to be
production-ready. This release brings many
improvements and covers more grounds both in terms
of machines supported and in installation options.
Here are some highlights of the main
accomplishments included in this release:
# ⚓ Proxmox_VE_7.4_released!⠀⇛
we’re very excited to announce the release of
Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.4. It’s based on
Debian 11.6 “Bullseye” but using a newer Linux
kernel 5.15 or 6.2, QEMU 7.2, LXC 5.0.2, and ZFS
2.1.9.
# ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2203/21_Archman_20230321⠀⇛
# ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_ArcoLinux_23.04.03⠀⇛
# ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_Kubuntu_20.04.6⠀⇛
# ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_Proxmox_7.4_“VE”⠀⇛
# ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_SmartOS_20230323⠀⇛
# ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_Ubuntu_Budgie_20.04.6⠀⇛
# ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_Ubuntu_Kylin_20.04.6⠀⇛
# ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_Ubuntu_MATE_20.04.6⠀⇛
# ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_Ubuntu_20.04.6⠀⇛
# ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_Xubuntu_20.04.6⠀⇛
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ Teaching_an_odd_dog_new_tricks⠀⇛
We – that is to say the storage team at SUSE – have
a tool we’ve been using for the past few years to
help with development and testing of Ceph on SUSE
Linux. It’s called sesdev because it was created
largely for SES (SUSE Enterprise Storage)
development. It’s essentially a wrapper around
vagrant and libvirt that will spin up clusters of
VMs running openSUSE or SLES, then deploy Ceph on
them. You would never use such clusters in
production, but it’s really nice to be able to
easily spin up a cluster for testing purposes that
behaves something like a real cluster would, then
throw it away when you’re done.
I’ve recently been trying to spend more time
playing with Kubernetes, which means I wanted to be
able to spin up clusters of VMs running openSUSE or
SLES, then deploy Kubernetes on them, then throw
the clusters away when I was done, or when I broke
something horribly and wanted to start over. Yes, I
know there’s a bunch of other tools for doing toy
Kubernetes deployments (minikube comes to mind),
but given I already had sesdev and was pretty
familiar with it, I thought it’d be worthwhile
seeing if I could teach it to deploy k3s, a
particularly lightweight version of Kubernetes.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ Trisquel_GNU/Linux_11_is_Released_with
Download_Links,_Mirrors_and_Torrents⠀⇛
Trisquel 11 is officially released at the time of
LibrePlanet Conference 2023 on 19 March marking its
nineteenth years. The website announcement is
published on Monday, 20 March, by emphasizing that
now it is based on Ubuntu 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish”
LTS, will be supported for five years until 2027
and supporting even more architecture including
ARM64 and POWER. Now as the tradition goes, we
publish the news with the download links, mirrors,
torrents and checksums including necessary how to’s
like making bootable and installing it to all dear
readers. Happy downloading!
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ This_internet_uptime_indicator_reduces
frustration⠀⇛
Bandwidth may have increased dramatically over the
past couple of decades, but internet connections
are often still quite unreliable. For people with
unreliable connections, it becomes a chore to check
a browser over and over again to find out when the
internet is back up. To avoid that hassle, Emily
Velasco built this monitor.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Guide ☛ I_just_tried_the_first_Android_phone_you_can
repair_yourself_—_here’s_what_happened_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛
# ⚓ Forbes ☛ Android_Circuit:_Pixel_8_Pro_Details_Leaks,
Samsung_Galaxy_A54_Review,_Androidâs_Premium_Phone_Woes⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android’s_volume_slider_could_start
looking_less_goofy_on_bigger_phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ OnePlus_11_March_update_is_rolling_out
with_new_Android_Auto_support⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pocket Lint ☛ Android_phones_could_soon_sync_apps_between
devices_so_your_faves_are_always_with_you⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Android’s_Private_DNS_Feature:_Everything_You
Need_to_Know⠀⇛
# ⚓ ANBERNIC_Launches_the_RG405M_Handheld_with_an_Android-based
OS_–_Phandroid⠀⇛
# ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Five_or_more_reasons_why_Samsung_is_the_best
Android_phone_brand_–_SamMobile⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Best_Android_emulators_for_PC_and_Mac⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ Android_14_will_introduce_a_long-awaited
feature!_–_Gizchina.com⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ LWN ☛ Free_software_during_wartime_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Just over 27 years ago, John Perry Barlow’s declaration
of the independence of Cyberspace claimed that
governments “have no sovereignty” over the networked
world. In 2023, we have ample reason to know better than
that, but we still expect the free-software community to
be left alone by the affairs of governments much of the
time. A couple of recent episodes related to the war in
Ukraine are making it clear that there are limits to our
independence.
The free-software community has, indeed, proved resilient
to many events in the wider world. The dotcom bust mostly
brought an end to the silliness and accelerated our work
toward useful goals. The September 11 attacks (and the
horrors that followed) had little direct effect on the
community; the same is true of the 2008 economic crisis.
The pandemic closed down much of the world, but seemingly
sped up free-software development. Even the war in
Ukraine and the upheavals around it have, apparently,
barely touched our community. All of these events had
(and are still having) horrific consequences for many of
the people involved, but the development community as a
whole was often able to carry on as if many of the
world’s troubles were taking place in another universe.
Recently, though, our community has been lightly touched
in a couple of ways. The ipmitool repository at GitHub
was locked, and its maintainer denied access, as a result
of his status as an employee of the sanctioned Russian
firm Yadro. And, in the kernel community, a developer
with the Russian firm Baikal Electronics was told by a
networking maintainer that “We don’t feel comfortable
accepting patches from or relating to hardware produced
by your organization”. The specific reasons for this
discomfort were not spelled out, and no policy for the
kernel project as a whole has been expressed, but one
possible motivation, as described by Konstantin
Ryabitsev…
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Carson_City_Linux_users_group_meets_April_15_at_library⠀⇛
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ SJVN ☛ Too_little?_Too_late?_Mozilla_throws_its_hat
into_the_AI_ring⠀⇛
In 2020, Mozilla released a paper, Creating
Trustworthy AI. In it, its analysts defined
“trustworthy AI as AI that is demonstrably
worthy of trust, tech that considers
accountability, agency, and individual and
collective well-being.” So, for example, this
action plan seeks to eliminate bias; protect
privacy and security while avoiding the
centralization of AI power in the hands of a
few big tech companies.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ A_steamy_dream_about_a_PL/pgSQL_blog
engine⠀⇛
If you’ll stop interrupting me, I had a dream last
night where I implemented a blog engine in PL/
pgSQL, broadly the Postgres equivalent to PL/SQL. I
wrote posts in pgAdmin on my desktop, and the
stored procedures wrote out static HTML based on
the posts in the database. Other queries were
passed down from nginx to generate archive pages as
needed.
o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Jalkut ☛ Spelunking_Apple’s_Open_Source⠀⇛
Since the earliest days of Mac OS X, Apple has
complied with the licenses for the dozens of open
source components it includes in the OS by posting
(sometimes a little belatedly) updated versions of
the source code to its Open Source at Apple web
page.
This resource is useful primarily to developers,
but may also interest curious technophiles who want
to take a peek “behind the curtain” to see how much
of the magic just beneath our fingertips is made.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Databricks_open-sources_an_AI_it_says_is_as
good_as_ChatGPT,_but_much_easier_to_train⠀⇛
Instead of creating its own model from scratch or
using LLaMA, Databricks took a much older and open-
source LLM called GPT-J, which was created by
EleutherAI several years earlier. GTP-J was the
foundation on which Dolly was built. The model,
Databricks said, “has not made a huge splash,
presumably because it does not exhibit magical
instruction-following capabilities.”
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Databricks_pushes_open-source_chatbot_as
cheaper_ChatGPT_alternative⠀⇛
Databricks wants enterprises to train their own AI
models using its software. Ghodsi said the
company’s researchers had taken a two-year-old
model that was freely available and trained it with
a small amount of data for three hours on single
computer that anyone with a credit card could rent.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Bertrand Meyer ☛ A_full,_free_online_version_of_Object
Success_(1995)⠀⇛
Copyright notice: The text is not in the public
domain. It is copyrighted material (© Bertrand
Meyer, 1995, 2023), made available free of charge
on the Web for the convenience of readers, with the
permission of the original publisher (Prentice
Hall, now Pearson Education, Inc.). You are not
permitted to copy it or redistribute it. Please
refer others to the present version at
bertrandmeyer.com/success.
# ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ [talk]_The_carcinization_of_Go_programs⠀⇛
So you are aware: you are reading the written
version of a conference talk. This is written in a
different style that is more lighthearted,
conversational and different than the content
normally on this blog. The words being said are the
verbatim words that were spoken at the conference.
The slides are the literal slides for each spoken
utterance. If you want to hide the non-essential
slides, please install this userstyle: No fun
allowed. If this isn’t enough, please edit it to
also hide this CSS class: xeblog-slides-essential.
Doing this may make the presentation page harder to
understand.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Earthly ☛ Introducing_the_New_Features_in_Python
3.11⠀⇛
This article will introduce you to some of
the new features of Python 3.11. These
features include: [...]
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ Scott O’Hara ☛ The_search_element⠀⇛
Today, March 24th 2023, the HTML specification
added a new grouping content element. The search
element.
Please be aware that this element landing in the
HTML spec today does not mean it is available in
browsers today. Issues have been filed to implement
the search element in the major browsers, including
the necessary accessibility mappings. Keep this in
mind before you get all super excited and willy
nilly add this new element to your pages.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Finish_Line:_Confronting_bad_managers⠀⇛
It’s hard enough to give candid feedback to a friend or
subordinate. Giving it to your boss is so much harder —
and can get you booted if you botch it.
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Flash_floods_hit_several_areas_in_JB_after
Friday’s_downpour⠀⇛
A downpour on Friday afternoon inundated several areas in
Johor Bahru as areas in Malaysia’s southern state Johor
continues to be stricken by floods.
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ A_surfing_town_in_Hainan_where_young_Chinese
go_to_‘lie_flat’⠀⇛
Riyuewan’s future is at a crossroads after the end of
China’s zero-Covid policy and borders are open.
o ⚓ [Old] American University ☛ TikTok_Tanks_Concerts,_According_to
Artists:_What’s_Next?⠀⇛
This new culture was raised in a vacuum, cultivated and
refined in lonely highschooler bedrooms and basements all
across the world. The platform was used by various
communities which compounded their identities by sharing
outfits, music, and art with like minded and similarly
isolated people. The content, as eye catching as it is,
lacks an essential ingredient to the growth of concert
culture, people.
With older music fans having learned from those older
than them, a whole generation of teenagers were left
behind; creating an education gap and a bookend in US
live music history. They were robbed of the subtle
guiding hand of a million judgmental stares and
belligerent concert goers showing them the ropes. This
time, no “old heads” were around to demonstrate how to
mosh safely, drink responsibly, and act in a way that
allows all to enjoy themselves. The result is rude
behavior that creates an unwelcoming environment not
worthy of the almost holy feeling live shows provide.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ There’s_a_Massive_‘Hole’_in_the_Sun_the
Size_of_20_Earths_Right_Now⠀⇛
The “hole” isn’t really a hole, but rather is a
large region much cooler than the rest of the Sun,
causing it to appear black. As explained by NOAA in
its alert on Wednesday, the dynamics of the coronal
hole were expected to speed up the solar winds, and
so the agency warned of minor-to-moderate
geomagnetic storms as a result, falling under the
classifications G1 and G2 (on a scale that goes all
the way up to G5).
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Why_60,000_Education_Workers_Walked_Off_the
Job_In_Los_Angeles⠀⇛
On March 21, the 25,000 custodians, cafeteria
workers, campus aides, bus drivers, teaching
assistants, special education aides, building and
grounds workers who are members of the Service
Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 99,
walked off the job in a three-day unfair labor
practices strike against their employer, the Los
Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The
decision by 35,000 mostly teacher colleagues—myself
among them, members of United Teachers Los Angeles
(UTLA)—to refuse to cross SEIU’s picket line led a
total of 60,000 workers across two unions to go on
strike together, hitting the streets united, and
creating one of the largest labor actions Los
Angeles has ever seen. In a deepening of the last
13 years of national upsurge among education
workers—often called “Red for Ed”—the SEIU members’
strike added a distinctly purple (the SEIU’s
traditional color) hue.
# ⚓ ROS Industrial ☛ ROS_2_Training_Event_Hosted_by_RPI
Featuring_New_Advanced_Topic⠀⇛
At the start of March, Tiffany Cappellari, my
colleague, and I made our way to Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY, to deliver ROS2
Training to members of our ROS-Industrial
community. Rensselaer Polytechnic, in addition to
being a prestigious academic institution, has been
a proud partner in project work with many other
ROS-Industrial Consortium members, collaborators,
and those in need of more advanced capability. RPI
kindly hosted our first in-person training of
calendar year 2023.
# ⚓ Teleport ☛ Teleport_at_KubeCon_+_CloudNativeCon_Europe
2023⠀⇛
Sounds great, but I can hear a good security-minded
engineer ask, “If all infrastructure can be managed
in one place, is this actually safe?”
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ I_Won’t_Buy_A_YubiKey_🔗⠀⇛
Like Garrit, I use Bitwarden’s built in TOTP multi-
factor tokens for most things, as I think it’s a
good balance between security and convenience. Yes,
it can probably be compromised, but it would have
to be an extremely knowledgeable and motivated
threat actor. So the risk is worth it for me.
# ⚓ Garrit Franke ☛ I_won’t_buy_a_YubiKey⠀⇛
I’ve been thinking about this for some time now,
but I ultimately don’t think the benefits outweigh
the hassle of always carrying around another device
that I risk losing or breaking.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Turing_Award_goes_to_Robert_Metcalfe,_co-
inventor_of_the_Ethernet⠀⇛
Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) was just a
few years old when Metcalfe arrived and set up the
lab with that internet precursor, ARPANET.
But that didn’t connect the hundred new Alto
personal computers and laser printers, so Metcalfe
drew on his experiences with the University of
Hawaii’s AlohaNet, and together with the late David
Boggs built a hundred node network – now known as
the first Ethernet – in two years.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ European_Health_Data_Space_amendments:
Let‘s_keep_patients_in_full_control_of_their_health_files!⠀⇛
According to this poll, Europeans want to be asked
explicitly for consent before doctors or
researchers are given access to their patient files
and data. The majority of patients thus prefer an
approach different from what the European
Commission (no choice) and the Rapporteurs (opt-out
only) propose. Specifically, 54% of Europeans want
to allow access by doctors to their patient records
only with their explicit consent, whereas 37%
support the principle of automatic access. When it
comes to research, 75% of citizens are willing to
grant researchers access to their patient records
and data only with their explicit consent, while
only 20% support the opposite approach of automatic
access (as a rule).
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Medical_equipment_manufacturer_Bio_Business
scaled_up_with_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛
Our tiny computers and microcontrollers do all
sorts of cool things. One application sees them
powering portable device monitors which allow CPAP
(continuous positive airway pressure) machines to
check oxygen levels, and display information on LCD
screens for the patient. We’re also inside an
oxygen concentrator that lets the user adjust their
own flow while making efficient use of the oxygen
in ambient air.
# ⚓ NDTV ☛ Happy_“My_Kids_Can’t_Use”_It_Anymore:_Justin_Trudeau
On_TikTok_Ban_In_Canada⠀⇛
Speaking at a joint news conference with U.S.
President Joe Biden in Ottawa, Trudeau said: “Our
concerns around TikTok are around security and
access to information that the Chinese government
could have to government phones. It’s just a
personal side benefit that my kids can’t use TikTok
anymore.”
# ⚓ El País ☛ France_bans_TikTok,_Instagram_and_Twitter_from
government_staff_phones⠀⇛
France announced Friday it is banning the
“recreational” use of TikTok, Twitter, Instagram
and other apps on government employees’ phones
because of concern about insufficient data security
measures. The move follows similar restrictions on
TikTok in democratic countries amid fears about the
popular video-sharing app’s Chinese connections.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ UK_Plan_to_Send_Depleted_Uranium_Shells_to
Ukraine_Raises_Fears⠀⇛
“You’ll have seen the concerns we’ve expressed over
the years about any use of depleted uranium given
the consequences of such usage. And those would
apply to anyone who provides such armaments. We
have made clear… concerns about any use of depleted
uranium anywhere,” Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for
the UN Secretary, said.
Depleted uranium is the main by-product of uranium
enrichment and is a chemically and radiologically
toxic heavy metal, according to the United Nations
Environment Programme.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Utah_becomes_first_state_to_sign_law_limiting_kids’
social_media_use⠀⇛
Utah became on Thursday the first state to enact
legislation that restricts_children_and_teens from
using social media without their parents’ consent.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Why_America_was_uniquely_vulnerable_to_COVID⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ EPA_Opens_New_Public_Comment_on_Proposed
Asbestos_Ban⠀⇛
The Environmental Protection Agency took an unusual
step last week: It opened a new period in which the
public can comment on its proposed asbestos ban.
The agency had gotten new information, officials
said, including a series of ProPublica reports on
dangerous working conditions in factories that use
asbestos to make chlorine.
Asbestos has been long known to cause deadly
cancers and other serious illnesses. While dozens
of countries have outlawed the substance, the U.S.
still imports hundreds of tons each year, mostly
for use in chlorine manufacturing.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Unleashing_the_Power_of_Cloud_Native_with_Oracle_Cloud
Native_Environment⠀⇛
Thanks to the hospitality of OpenVirtualization.pro
community and the proficous collaboration with
Storware I have the pleasure to share with you some
interesting news about Oracle Cloud Native
Environment, the Kubernetes distribution for hybrid
and multi-cloud deployments developed and
maintained by Oracle.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Oracle_job_cuts_begin_at_health_IT_arm
Cerner_•_The_Register⠀⇛
Oracle is set to make a number of job cuts at
Cerner, the electronic health records company it
acquired last year, as its shift workloads to its
cloud infrastructure.
Big Red paid $28 billion for Cerner in June,
promising an expansion of its health sector of
activity.
However, a report from Bloomberg suggests that
Oracle has begun a round of layoffs in an effort to
reduce costs. Staffers were told last week that
jobs had been eliminated, with marketing, creative
services, and technical positions affected.
# ⚓ Buttondown ☛ GPT_is_revolutionary⠀⇛
In retrospect, I feel kinda bad for not paying
attention to this sooner. Back in November a friend
excitedly told me that ChatGPT is sentient, because
it gave him good answers to a lot of “tough
questions.” I tried (and failed) to explain that it
was just statistical prediction and wasn’t actually
conscious. It didn’t occur to me that this friend
was not a programmer and couldn’t call an API to
save his life, and yet had no problem accessing and
using ChatGPT. That’s where the revolution happens.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Tesla_[Cracked]_Twice_at_Pwn2Own_Exploit
Contest⠀⇛
On the second day of the contest in Vancouver,
Canada, Synacktiv’s researchers created an exploit
chain that used a heap overflow and an out-of-band
(OOB) write vulnerability to pop the Tesla-
Infotainment system. The [crack] was described as
“Unconfined Root” and scored the Synacktiv team a
$250,000 cash prize.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Microsoft_threatens_to_restrict_data_from
rival_AI_search_tools⠀⇛
Microsoft Corp has threatened to cut off access to
its [Internet]-search data, which it licenses to
rival search engines, if they do not stop using it
as the basis for their own artificial intelligence
chat products, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Microsoft_breaks_geolocation,_locking
users_out_of_Azure_and_M365⠀⇛
The reader’s info said the mess was caused by “a
recent deployment applied to an infrastructure for
regulating user geolocation had inadvertently
provided incorrect IP location data.”
This resulted in users who had an IP-based
conditional access policy experiencing the sign-in
issues mentioned above.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian
(chromium, libdatetime-timezone-perl, and tzdata),
Fedora (flatpak and gmailctl), Mageia (firefox,
flatpak, golang, gssntlmssp, libmicrohttpd,
libtiff, python-flask-security, python-owslib,
ruby-rack, thunderbird, unarj, and vim), Red Hat
(firefox, kpatch-patch, nss, openssl, and
thunderbird), SUSE (containerd, hdf5, qt6-base, and
squirrel), and Ubuntu (amanda, gif2apng, graphviz,
and linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp,
linux-ibm, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-
oracle, linux-raspi).
# ⚓ Matthew Garrett ☛ We_need_better_support_for_SSH_host
certificates⠀⇛
Github accidentally committed their SSH RSA private
key to a repository, and now a bunch of people’s
infrastructure is broken because it needs to be
updated to trust the new key. This is obviously
bad, but what’s frustrating is that there’s no
inherent need for it to be – almost all the
technological components needed to both reduce the
initial risk and to make the transition seamless
already exist.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Garrett:_We_need_better_support_for_SSH_host
certificates⠀⇛
Matthew Garrett looks at the recent disclosure of
GitHub’s private host key, how it probably came
about, and what a better approach to key management
might look like.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Interesting_note_about_the_BreachForums
situatio⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hearst Communications ☛ Our_Lady_of_the_Lake_hit_by
cyberattack;_victims_say_hackers_got_Social_Security_and
other_data⠀⇛
A cyberattack on Our Lady of the Lake University’s
computer network compromised personal data on its
faculty, students and even individuals who applied
to the university but never attended.
The private Catholic university on San Antonio’s
West Side this week confirmed that it recently
found evidence that “unauthorized access” to its
network occurred about Aug. 30 and that “a limited
amount of personal information was removed.” It
declined to detail the types of information taken.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Justice_Department_Announces_Arrest_of
“Pompompurin”_and_Disruption_of_BreachForum’s_Operation⠀⇛
Fitzpatrick’s arrest and the disruption of
BreachForums comes nearly a year after the
Department of Justice announced the seizure of a
predecessor hacking marketplace, Raidforums, and
unsealed criminal charges against RaidForums’
founder and chief administrator, who is the subject
of extradition proceedings in the United Kingdom.
# ⚓ CNA ☛ Rio_Tinto_data_vendor_GoAnywhere’s_possible_breach
spotted_in_Jan-end⠀⇛
U.S. cybersecurity firm Fortra said suspicious
activity was identified within its GoAnywhere
software nearly two months ago, a day after Rio
Tinto in a staff memo said personal data of some of
its Australian employees may have been stolen.
The internal memo seen by Reuters on Thursday
revealed payroll information, like payslips and
overpayment letters, of a small number of the
mining giants’ Australian employees from January
2023 had possibly been seized by a cybercriminal
group.
# ⚓ IT Pro ☛ Pension_Protection_Fund_confirms_employee_data
exposed_in_GoAnywhere_breach⠀⇛
The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has confirmed
that data belonging to current and former employees
has been exposed in the wake of the GoAnywhere
breach.
In a statement to IT Pro, the fund, which manages
pension assets for nearly 300,000 clients, said it
has informed affected staff and is providing
support and monitoring services for those impacted
in the breach.
# ⚓ Warning_to_Seniors:_Personal_Data_of_254K_Medicare
Beneficiaries_at_Risk_After_Breach⠀⇛
Hundreds of thousands of Americans’ personal
information is at risk after Medicare’s data was
breached. Now, lawmakers want answers.
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and House Committee on
Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers,
R-Wash., sent a letter demanding a range of
documents and communications from the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services.
# ⚓ TechHQ ☛ It’s_not_just_Windows_that_gets_malware [Ed: But
not every OS has intentional back doors/bug doors for the NSA
et al]⠀⇛
Seemingly immune for so long, here’s a reminder
that MacOS and Linux need to protect themselves
against malware, too.
# ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Kids_tech_camp_iD_Tech_still_silent_weeks
after_data_breach⠀⇛
Parents are still looking for answers weeks after
hackers stole the personal data of thousands of
users from kids’ tech coding camp iD Tech, with
some fearing that their children’s data was
compromised in the data breach.
iD Tech, which provides on-campus classes and
online tech and coding courses for kids, has yet to
acknowledge the breach or notify parents.
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Windows,_Ubuntu,_and_VMWare_Workstation
hacked_on_last_day_of_Pwn2Own⠀⇛
# ⚓ Windows_11,_Tesla,_macOS_&_Ubuntu_Desktop_Hacked_–_Pwn2Own
Day_One⠀⇛
On the first day, Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 hacking
challenge participants compromised Windows 11,
Tesla, macOS, and Ubuntu Desktop.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ In_Push_To_Dismiss_Lawsuit,_CIA_Says
Americans_Who_Visited_Assange_Had_No_Privacy_Rights⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNA ☛ Rio_Tinto_data_vendor_GoAnywhere’s_possible
breach_spotted_in_Jan-end⠀⇛
The internal memo seen by Reuters on Thursday
revealed payroll information, like payslips
and overpayment letters, of a small number of
the mining giants’ Australian employees from
January 2023 had possibly been seized by a
cybercriminal group.
# ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Expect_biometric_mass_surveillance
in_Paris_in_2024:_French_Parliament_approves_automated
monitoring_of_public_spaces_for_„suspicious
behaviour“⠀⇛
Last week, 41 MEPs from different political
groups had sent an open letter to the French
Parliament, calling to stop the unprecedented
plans to automate the mass surveillance of
citizens’ behaviour in public using
artificial intelligence. MEPs warned against
the crippling effect of such mass
surveillance of public spaces, which had
never been conducted before in Europe, and
which is setting a precedent. The signatories
to the open letter include several
negotiators of the proposed EU Artificial
Intelligence Act which committed to ban
biometric mass surveillance, including co-
rapporteur Brando Benifei (Socialist Group).
Pirate Party Member of the European
Parliament Patrick Breyer, initiator of the
letter, comments: [....]
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Finland’s_NATO_membership_approved_in_Ankara_in
Parliamentary_Commission⠀⇛
Foreign Affairs Commission of the Parliament of
Turkey approved the protocol for Finland’s NATO
membership yesterday while Finland’s president
Sauli Niinisto signed the NATO legislation of his
country in a ceremony the same day.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ UN_report:_Ukrainian_and_Russian_POWs_faced
torture,_executions⠀⇛
The UN published a report Friday highlighting
summary executions, torture, and other instances in
which Russia and Ukraine violated international
human rights laws in their treatment of prisoners
of war.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ North_Korea_Says_It_Tested_a_Nuclear-
Capable_Underwater_Attack_Drone⠀⇛
Such a test would be a first for Kim Jong-un’s
weapons program. But there was no independent
confirmation that it had happened.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Senators_Urge_Biden_to_Send_Evidence_of
Russian_War_Crimes_to_the_ICC⠀⇛
Despite Pentagon resistance, a bipartisan group
stressed that Congress had voted to legalize
support for the court’s Ukraine war investigations.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Due_Diligence_Firm_Says_China
Detained_Its_Employees⠀⇛
Five Chinese nationals were taken away Monday, and
the company, which does corporate investigations,
and its law firm have been unable to contact them.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Refuge_for_Russians_and_Ukrainians,_Bali
Rethinks_Its_Open-Door_Policy⠀⇛
After multiple accounts of tourists behaving badly,
its governor wants Russia and Ukraine to lose
access to Indonesia’s visa-on-arrival program.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_Canada,_Biden_Offers_Cooperation,_Not
Threats⠀⇛
Deals on migration and trade emerge from a meeting
that restored ties between the two nations after
four years of tension under the former U.S.
president, Donald J. Trump.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Sanna_Marin:_Finland_supports_joint_EU_ammo_for
Ukraine⠀⇛
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked
Finland for its latest defence shipment.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 500,000_Rally_in_Support_of_Mexican_President
and_Against_US_Intervention⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ US_Bombs_Syria_2_Weeks_After_House_Voted_Against
Withdrawing_Troops⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ Aaron_Mate_at_UN:_OPCW_cover-up_denies
justice_to_Syria_victims⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Michael_Moore:_Guns_Don’t_Kill_People,
Americans_Kill_People⠀⇛
On the 20th Anniversary of “Bowling for Columbine”
winning the Oscar, you can watch it for free
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ More_Guns_Won’t_Serve_the_Cause_of_Peace⠀⇛
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.1
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Trump_Preemptively_Blames_Manhattan_DA_for_His
Own_Loyalists’_Violent_Protests⠀⇛
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ EU_governments_sued_for_violating_human_rights
through_climate_inaction⠀⇛
The first case being heard next Wednesday focuses
on the health impact of climate change-induced
heatwaves, in a case brought by thousands of
elderly Swiss women against the Swiss government as
part of a six-year legal battle.
Also on Wednesday, the court will hear a case
brought by Damien Carême, a member of the European
Parliament for the French Green party, who is
challenging France’s refusal to take more ambitious
climate measures.
The third case, due to be heard after the summer
concerns six Portuguese youths, who are taking on
33 countries – including all 27 European Union
member states, Britain, Norway, Russia,
Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine.
They, too, argue those countries have violated
their rights and should be ordered to take more
ambitious action to address climate change. Six
other climate cases are pending.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Facing_Up_to_the_Climate_Reckoning_Ahead⠀⇛
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
recently released the “summary for policymakers”
section of the group’s forthcoming Synthesis
Report, the final portion of its massive Sixth
Assessment Report. Two messages in particular have
stood out in both media coverage and the report
itself. The 1.5 degrees C warming threshold
scientists say is the line between relative
stability and extreme volatility—which may be
irreversible—is more likely than not to occur
within around five years, even under scenarios
positing very low carbon emissions. This has
accompanied the urgent message that there’s still
time to avert calamity. As the IPCC report notes,
the consequences of crossing the 1.5º C threshold
will linger for thousands of years. But halting
greenhouse gas emissions entails removing fossil
fuels from the world’s ships, planes, cars, farms,
factories, militaries, homes, and buildings. Doing
this in a few years would be like turning the
world’s biggest ship 180 degrees at a moment’s
notice—without using fossil fuels. The assessment
report’s 3,675 pages tells us what technology has
to change to avert disaster. But changing
technology is a deeply political process; even
swapping in renewable energy for fossil fuels has
proven to be a politically fraught and difficult
prospect. So how, exactly, are these massive
changes supposed to happen?
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_meat_industry_blocked_the_IPCC’s_attempt_to
recommend_a_plant-based_diet⠀⇛
It’s no secret that climate change discourse is
shrouded in obfuscation, disinformation,
greenwashing and lies, both outright and of
omission. But a recent leak of a draft of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
report released on March 20 has been particularly
enlightening when it comes to just how…
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Entire_Tribal_Towns_Forced_to_Relocate
Due_to_Climate_Crisis_–_Validated_Independent_News⠀⇛
Relocating entire communities at once is the most
extreme way to adapt to climate change. Relocations
are likely to become more common as conditions
worsen, with dozens, if not hundreds, of mostly
Indigenous communities forced to relocate. Managed
retreats are disruptive, uprooting entire
communities and cultures, adding complicated layers
to each community’s exodus, from choosing new
locations to allocating the funds provided by the
Interior Department.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Behind_the_#StopCopCity_Domestic_Terrorism
Warrants⠀⇛
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, in
collaboration with several other law enforcement
agencies, charged 23 more people with ‘domestic
terrorism’ for their alleged involvement in the
ongoing effort to stop ‘Cop City’ and to defend the
Weelaunee Forest in unincorporated DeKalb County…
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Oil_Companies’_Obscene_Profits⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ EU_weighs_up_future_of_wood-burning
as_renewable_energy⠀⇛
The European Union’s race to rid itself of
dependence on Russian fossil fuels is well
underway. The International Energy Agency
says widespread bids to beef up energy
security “turbocharged” growth of green power
in 2022, and EU parliamentarians hope to ramp
up renewables targets to reach 45% of bloc-
wide energy consumption by 2030.
The word “renewable” often conjures up images
of wind farms or solar panels — less so
scenes of burning trees. But biomass, which
includes firewood, plants and other organic
materials, makes up 60% of the EU’s renewable
energy mix according to the European
Commission.
As the bloc now reviews its landmark
renewable power legislation, a political
battle over firewood’s future is playing out
in Brussels.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Pipeline_Protests_in_Utah_Could_Now_Get
You_at_Least_Five_Years_in_Prison⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Nuclear_Plant_Shuts_Down_After_New_Leak
Near_Mississippi_River⠀⇛
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Fossil_Fuel_Firms_Use_Permitting_Loopholes
to_Fast-Track_LNG_Export_Projects_Near_Black
Communities⠀⇛
Years before Hurricane Katrina levee failures
flooded New Orleans, a Louisiana hurricane
expert warned federal officials of the
potential for the levees to break. Now, Ivor
van Heerden, the former deputy director of
Louisiana State University’s Hurricane
Center, is concerned about the disastrous and
potentially lethal consequences of a
hurricane hitting a liquified natural gas
(LNG) export terminal under construction
south of New Orleans.
“Once again we’ve got politicians and state
agencies ignoring the facts, just like they
did with Hurricane Katrina,” van Heerden
said. “We’re going to have another
catastrophe.”
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ An_Australian_River_Choking_on_Fish
Corpses,_and_a_Community_Full_of_Anger⠀⇛
It’s the latest clash over a river basin in
New South Wales, Australia, in an arid land
where social, economic and environmental
interests collide over water issues.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ How_“too_big_to_fail”_banks_became_a_symbol_of
safety⠀⇛
Once upon a time, “too big to fail” was shorthand
to villainize big banks — these days, it’s a way to
say “your money is safe.”
# ⚓ Axios ☛ How_the_banking_crisis_could_ripple_through_the
economy⠀⇛
The U.S. banking system appears to be stabilized,
for now, following extraordinary government_actions
to head off an all-out disaster after Silicon
Valley_Bank’s failure.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ King_Charles_Postpones_Trip_to_France_Amid
Pension_Protests⠀⇛
For President Emmanuel Macron, who has been the
target of widespread fury and protests after he
pushed through an increase in the retirement age, a
planned royal visit was particularly ill-timed.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ No,_Bill_Maher,_Student_Debt_Cancellation_Is
Not_a_“Giveaway”⠀⇛
In November, CNBC published an article arguing that
borrowers benefiting from President Biden’s student
debt cancellation plan will largely spend their
savings on “non-essential” items, citing a poll
from Intelligent.com: “73 percent of anticipated
recipients say they expect to spend their debt
forgiveness on non-essential items, including
travel, dining out and new tech.” The article
caused quite a stir, including on Real Time with
Bill Maher earlier this month. Maher, citing the
poll to his guest, Senator Bernie Sanders, called
President Biden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 of
student loan debt per borrower a “giveaway.”
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Light Blue Touchpaper ☛ Interop:_One_Protocol_to_Rule_Them
All?⠀⇛
The Digital Markets Act ruled that users on
different platforms should be able to exchange
messages with each other. This opens up a real
Pandora’s box. How will the networks manage keys,
authenticate users, and moderate content? How much
metadata will have to be shared, and how?
In our latest paper, One Protocol to Rule Them All?
On Securing Interoperable Messaging, we explore the
security tensions, the conflicts of interest, the
usability traps, and the likely consequences for
individual and institutional behaviour.
# ⚓ The North Lines IN ☛ Social_Media_now_out_of_bound_for_J&K
Employees!⠀⇛
The official communication has said that while
using different social media platforms like
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. or Instant
Messaging applications like WhatsApp, Telegram
etc., employees have been seen to air disparaging
views on subjects that they are expressly barred
under rules to comment upon. Employees have been
seen to comment or act or behave in a manner that
does not conform to the acceptable standards of
official conduct, as envisaged in the
aforementioned guidelines and the rules.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Olivers⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Pious_Pence_and_Sanctimonious_Ron_Take_a
Pounding⠀⇛
Donald Trump might be in legal trouble, but in the
world of Republican politics, he’s still the top
dog. Polls consistently not only show him leading
in the race to become the Republican nominee but
also indicate that his domination over rivals such
as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former vice
president Mike Pence is actually increasing. This
is evident in both polling aggregations such as
Morning Consult and individual polls such as
Monmouth’s. As New York Times reporter Nate Cohn
noted on Wednesday, Monmouth shows Trump continuing
to gain in the presidential primary, with Trump up
41-27. This is longest-long-term trend from a high-
quality poll in the race. Since December, Trump has
gained 15 points while DeSantis has lost 12 points.
# ⚓ New Statesman ☛ TikTok’s_CEO_testified_before_the_US
Congress._It_did_not_go_well⠀⇛
It was not a good day for TikTok’s prospects in the
US. In the hours before Chew’s testimony, a
spokesperson for China’s commerce ministry
announced that Beijing would “firmly oppose” a move
to force the sale of TikTok. Multiple committee
members seized on the comments as supposed evidence
of the precise link that the company insists does
not exist.
“The CCP believes they have the final say over your
company,” Rodgers told Chew. “I have zero
confidence in your assertion that ByteDance and
TikTok are not beholden to the CCP.” She described
the app as a threat to national security, US
citizens’ privacy and the mental health of the
country’s children, telling Chew: “Your platform
should be banned.”
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ China_Denies_Pressuring_Companies_Like
TikTok_to_Spy_on_Users⠀⇛
The Foreign Ministry rebuffed claims by U.S.
lawmakers that TikTok could be a tool of
surveillance for the Chinese government.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Twitter_is_about_to_start_purging_unpaid_blue
ticks⠀⇛
Legacy blue tick account holders on Twitter have
just over a week left to pay to retain their
verification badges.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Trump_Rally_Falls_During
Anniversary_of_Waco’s_Dark_Past⠀⇛
Former President Donald Trump’s rally in Waco,
Texas, this weekend comes amid the 30th anniversary
in the city of the infamous deadly standoff at the
Branch Davidians compound
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Powder,_Threat_Sent_to_Manhattan
DA_Investigating_Trump⠀⇛
A powdery substance was found Friday with a
threatening letter in a mailroom at the offices of
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ North_Koreans_speak_of_awful_prison
conditions⠀⇛
Survivors of North Korean prisoners have spoken of
the awful conditions they endured.
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ ‘Death_and_destruction’:_Trump_intensifies_his
attack_on_criminal_investigators⠀⇛
As tensions in the US intensify, the attorney
overseeing the investigation into the former
president has also received a death threat.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_I’m_Reading:_The_Rise_of_Fascism
Edition⠀⇛
A comic novel from the 1930s opens a window on days
when what would become a dangerous political
movement was seen as a silly hobby.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Scotland’s_Leader_Apologizes_for_Past
Practice_of_Forced_Adoptions⠀⇛
Nicola Sturgeon said the practice, which was
relatively common until the 1970s, was among the
gravest injustices in Scottish history.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Friday’s_papers:_Hungary’s_Nato_promise,_train
traffic_resumes_and_TikTok’s_election_influence⠀⇛
TikTok posts by Finns Party supporters appear to be
resonating with younger and first-time voters,
according to Helsingin Sanomat.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Free_Speech_(or_Not)_at_Stanford⠀⇛
A federal judge spoke at Stanford Law School. Chaos
ensued.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Large_Libel_Models:_An_AI_Company’s_Noting_That
Its_Output_“May_[Be]_Erroneous]”_Doesn’t_Preclude_Libel
Liability⠀⇛
[An excerpt from my forthcoming article on "Large
Libel Models? Liability for AI Outputs."]
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Kurdish_newspaper_Xwebûn’s_account_restored_by_Twitter⠀⇛
The account of the weekly Kurdish newspaper Xwebûn
with 29 thousand 488 followers that was blocked on
February 22 was restored by Twitter.
# ⚓ ‘I_am_going_to_work_in_the_Parliament_for_a_Truth
Commission’⠀⇛
Apê Musa’s son, Dicle Anter believes that
unidentified murders are the black box of Turkey.
31 years after his father, a prominent Kurdish
writer, and journalist was assassinated, he will be
a candidate for MP.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Siberian_Journalist_Imprisoned_For_Anti-War_Stance
Says_She_Was_Beaten_While_In_Custody⠀⇛
The charge against her stemmed from her online
posts about an attack by Russian military jets
against a theater in the Ukrainian port of Mariupol
that killed hundreds of civilians, including
children.
Ponomarenko said in July that while in pretrial
detention she was forcibly taken to a psychiatric
clinic where she was ordered to undergo a
“psychiatric evaluation” and forcibly injected with
unknown substances when she demanded her personal
belongings or hygiene items.
# ⚓ Don’t Extradite Assange ☛ Protected:_Guilty_of_Journalism_–
Book_Conversation_with_Kevin_Gosztola_and_Rebecca_Vincent⠀⇛
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Wyoming_Passes_Bill_Banning_Sale_of_Abortion
Pill⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_GOP’s_War_on_Obamacare_Is_Screwing_Up_Its
War_on_Abortion⠀⇛
The Supreme Court was eager to revoke reproductive
rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
Organization in part so that Republican governors
and legislatures would be free to come up with
ever-more-draconian methods to force pregnant
people to give birth against their will. Red states
have answered the call and passed laws that treat
pregnant people as second-class citizens, depriving
them not just of bodily autonomy but also access to
life-saving medical care. To call it a “race to the
bottom” undersells the depths to which theocratic
state governments are willing to sink to in their
zeal to control women and girls.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Police_Use_“Less_Lethal”_Weapons_to_Crush_Social
Movements_Across_the_World⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Starbucks_Union_Unveils_7_Unionizing_Stores
During_Company_Shareholder_Meeting⠀⇛
# ⚓ Axios ☛ The_unseen_Asian_American_mental_health_crisis⠀⇛
Asian Americans’ psychological stateover the last
few years has been one of hypervigilance and
pretending — constantly having to act as if
everything is “business as usual” even amid high-
profile_anti-Asian_attacks and the aftereffects_of
collective_trauma, health advocates and experts
tell Axios.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Michigan_Repeals_Right-To-Work_Law⠀⇛
A decade as a right-to-work state made Michigan
better off.
# ⚓ New Statesman ☛ The_dirty_secret_behind_the_cost-of-living
crisis⠀⇛
The first step would be to finally repudiate the
myth of central bank competence on inflation. The
belief that central banks can successfully manage
prices, if made “independent” of governments, rests
on the 15 years of economic stability before the
2008 financial crisis. The Great Moderation saw
inflation level out at low levels across the
developed world, and coincided with a fad for
declaring central banks “independent” of their
governments when making interest rate decisions.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Non-Disparagement_Clauses_Are
Retroactively_Voided,_NLRB’s_Top_Cop_Clarifies⠀⇛
The general counsel of the National Labor Relations
Board issued a clarifying memo on Wednesday
regarding the “scope” of a February ruling by the
federal agency’s board that said employers cannot
include blanket non-disparagement clauses in their
severance packages, nor demand laid-off employees
keep secret the terms of their exit agreements.
# ⚓ BoingBoing ☛ Afroman_filmed_the_cops_raiding_his_home_and
made_funny_music_videos_with_the_footage._Now_they’re_suing
him_over_their_hurt_feelings.⠀⇛
That the deputies tampered with his camera system
brings home that the raid was malicious rather than
investigatory–and serves as a reminder that
security cameras should dump to the cloud, not just
to a local DVR or NAS. Even the dumbest home
invaders know to find and take them nowadays.
# ⚓ [Old] Vice Media Group ☛ Afroman_Got_Raided_by_Cops,_So_He
Put_Them_in_His_Music_Video⠀⇛
The clips I picked verified what I was saying. I
didn’t want people to think I’m yelling wolf. When
I lie to a cop, that’s a charge. It’s called false
information to a police officer. But this guy can
lie to me and it’s not a charge. It’s nothing. It’s
“Oh, whoop-dee-doo, big deal and your doors on the
ground, and your gate’s effed up, and I’m leaving.
I lied on the warrant. I tore your house up. And
fuck you, nigger. God bless America.” That’s why I
picked those clips. Look at these guys going
through my pockets for kidnapping victims, right?
Where are the kidnapping victims in my suit
pockets? Look at these guys going through my CDs.
They probably stole some of my masters and then
they go have them on eBay and stuff. Is that why
they wanted to turn the cameras off, so they can
take some memorabilia or whatever?
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Afroman_Sued_by_Law_Enforcement
Officers_Who_Raided_His_Home⠀⇛
Four deputies, two sergeants, and a detective claim
that Afroman, whose real name is Joseph Foreman,
took footage of their faces during the raid and
used it in music videos and social media posts
without their consent — a misdemeanor under Ohio
state law.
The officers are also suing on civil grounds with
claims that Foreman’s use of their likeness in
videos and social media posts result in their
“emotional distress, embarrassment, ridicule, loss
of reputation, and humiliation,” asking for an
injunction to take down all videos and posts
containing their likeness.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Applauds_Fifth_U.S.
Circuit_Court_Decision_Affirming_Constitutionality_of_FCC’s
Universal_Service_Fund⠀⇛
Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirms
universal service fund and the FCC’s actions to
connect us all are constitutional.
# ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Privileged_Conversations_|_Apr._2023⠀⇛
Public Knowledge has the pleasure of inviting you
to a multifaceted program focused on training and
developing the next generation of tech policy
experts and public interest advocates that reflects
the diversity of voices and experiences in our
society.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ UK_narrows_antitrust_probe_into_Microsoft’s
Activision_Blizzard_acquisition⠀⇛
The U.K.’s antitrust regulator will narrow the
focus of its probe into Microsoft Corp.’s plan to
buy Activision Blizzard Inc. for $68.7 billion.
The Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA,
disclosed the development today.
[...]
The CMA plans to publish its final report about the
deal on April 26.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Neil_Young_Says_‘Concert_Touring_Is
Broken’_After_The_Cure/Ticketmaster_Debacle⠀⇛
“It’s over. The old days are gone,” Neil Young
begins his complaint. He says he gets letters from
fans who are angry at $3,000 tickets for a benefit
concert. “That money does not go to me or the
benefit. Artists have to worry about ripped off
fans blaming them for Ticketmaster add-ons and
scalpers,” he continues. “Concert tours are no
longer fun.”
Neil Young then shares a bit of a news article
about The Cure and Robert Smith’s attempts to keep
ticket prices low for fans. They opted out of
dynamic pricing, with each ticket costing $20. But
after service fees and facility fees and order
processing fees, the price paid by fans was double
the face value of the ticket. What should have been
$80 for four tickets eventually cost $172 at
checkout.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Internet Archive ☛ The_Fight_Continues⠀⇛
But it’s not over—we will keep fighting for
the traditional right of libraries to own,
lend, and preserve books. We will be
appealing the judgment and encourage everyone
to come together as a community to support
libraries against this attack by corporate
publishers.
We will continue our work as a library. This
case does not challenge many of the services
we provide with digitized books including
interlibrary loan, citation linking, access
for the print-disabled, text and data mining,
purchasing ebooks, and ongoing donation and
preservation of books.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Cloudflare_Disables_Access_to
‘Pirated’_Content_on_its_IPFS_Gateway⠀⇛
Cloudflare helps to provide access to
millions of websites on the regular web. The
company also offers an IPFS gateway, making
it easier to access content on the
censorship-resistant storage network. Unlike
its CDN and DNS services, Cloudflare reports
that it disables IPFS access in response to
copyright abuse complaints.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Style,_Copyright,_and_Generative
AI_Part_2:_Vicarious_Liability⠀⇛
One of the claims raised in the suit against
Stable Diffusion and Midjourney is that AI
tools should be held vicariously liable for
copyright infringement because their users
can use the systems to create infringing
works. Typically, legal liability arises
where someone directly commits an act that
harms another person in such a way that the
law can hold that person responsible for
their actions. This is “direct liability.” If
a distracted driver hits a cyclist, the
cyclist might ask the court to make the
driver pay any damages, because the driver is
directly liable for the accident. Normally,
third parties are not considered responsible
for the acts of other people. So, the law
would probably not hold anyone but the driver
liable for the accident — not a passenger,
and not even one who was helping to navigate
or who had asked the driver to make the trip.
And unless the car was faulty, the
manufacturer of the car would not be liable
either, even though if no one had made the
car the accident would not have happened: the
car could have been used without harming
anyone, but in this case it was the driver
who made it cause harm.
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ The_Internet_Archive_has_lost_its_first
fight_to_scan_and_lend_e-books_like_a_library⠀⇛
The two sides went to court on Monday, with
HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin
Random House joining Hachette as plaintiffs.
In his ruling, Judge Koetl considered whether
the Internet Archive was operating under the
principle of Fair Use, which previously
protected a digital book preservation project
by Google Books and HathiTrust in 2014, among
other users. Fair Use considers whether using
a copyrighted work is good for the public,
how much it’ll impact the copyright holder,
how much of the work has been copied, and
whether the use has “transformed” a
copyrighted thing into something new, among
other things.
# ⚓ [Old] EFF ☛ Hachette_v._Internet_Archive⠀⇛
Four publishers sued the Archive, alleging
that CDL violates their copyrights. In their
complaint, Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley,
and Penguin Random House claim CDL has cost
their companies millions of dollars and is a
threat to their businesses.
They are wrong. Libraries have paid
publishers billions of dollars for the books
in their print collections, and are investing
enormous resources in digitization in order
to preserve those texts. CDL helps ensure
that the public can make full use of the
books that libraries have bought and paid
for. This activity is fundamentally the same
as traditional library lending, and poses no
new harm to authors or the publishing
industry. Libraries have never been required
to get permissions or pay extra fees to lend
books. And as a practical matter, the
available data shows that CDL has not and
will not harm the publishers’ bottom line.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Various_Thoughts_–_Astronomy_News_and_Articles⠀⇛
I read an interesting, brief article in the March
2023 Reflector magazine, called “IS THE SOLAR
SYSTEM STABLE?”, exploring the question of whether
our solar system should remain stable over very
long periods of time. Author Berton Stephens gave a
short summary of historical methods that have been
used to calculate future astronomical positions.
And then he discussed the challenges involved in
modeling the solar system accurately.
# ⚓ Treadmill_While_Working⠀⇛
Over the past few years, I’ve developed some health
consequences associated with a now decades-long
desk-job life. The solution is simple enough in
theory, but in practice I can’t easily walk away
from my income source.
That’s a lie which I don’t believe–I could just
walk away. We like to tell ourselves that we don’t
have choices, but we do. I’ll put it this way
instead: I don’t want to walk away from my income
source. Instead, I want to believe I can solve the
problem through more mindfulness.
# ⚓ Multi-referee_campaigns⠀⇛
I’m playing in a German multi-referee game using
AD&D 1st ed in Greyhawk. Each referee runs a region
and characters can cross over from one region to
the other. In practice, as a player, I’ve found it
easier to just create a character for every region
I want to play in because time records are strictly
kept and yet time drifts between the regions.
Currently my region is one month “ahead” of a
neighbouring region, for example.
I’m also playing in a mostly German and some
English multi-referee game using H&H where we all
have characters in a starting town and each referee
runs an adjacent region or a nearby dungeon. We
have Stonehell and Barrowmaze as well as two
wildness hex-maps.
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Is_Systemd-free_really_for_me?⠀⇛
I’ve been running Systemd-free distros for the past
few years.
When I first got into Linux in 2016, it seemed like
all the “cool” Linux people used Systemd-free
distros and hated on Systemd, but now it seems like
this group is not held in the same esteem as they
once were. More frequently I hear people more so
making fun of this mentality and seeing it as
overly dogmatic. By the time I had started using
Linux Systemd was already ubiquitous so I ended up
learning it in the process of learning how to use
Linux.
When I first tried out Void, I remember trying to
start sshd and being utterly baffled when I got the
message “command not found: systemctl” since on
every other distro I had used, that was the way you
started things. It wasn’t until then that I finally
understood really what Systemd was.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Who_Goes_First?⠀⇛
Usually a sleep(3) call of some sort will be
added to ensure that one thing happens after
the other. This is a false promise, as the
system might become busy beyond that of the
sleep interval and then who knows which bit
of code happens first. Usually it works out,
if you don’t mind the waiting and guessing at
what a suitable delay should be.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Server
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Politics
o Technical
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Framework_modular_laptop_adds_Intel_Raptor
Lake,_AMD_Ryzen_motherboards,_16-inch_laptop_frame⠀⇛
When we first covered the Framework modular laptop
in 2021 it came with a choice of 11th generation
Intel Tiger Lake Core processors, up to 64GB RAM,
up to 4TB SSD storage, a 13.5-inch display, a Full
HD webcam, and a 55Wh battery. Modular electronic
devices have been worked on by several companies
over the years, but such endeavors usually result
in failure due to costs and other difficulties.
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Catching_up_with_the_Founder_and_CEO_of
Portainer⠀⇛
Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting the CEO and
founder of Portainer, Neil Cresswell.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ 10_Best_Open_Source_Note-Taking_Apps_for_Linux⠀⇛
A note-taking app allows you to record notes on the
go, whether you are in class or studying, reading
somewhere, at work, or in a meeting. There are so
many note-taking apps you can install and use on
Linux systems.
In this article, we will review the 10 best open-
source note-taking applications you can use on
Linux systems.
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ Sniffnet:_Application_to_Comfortably_Monitor
your_Network_Traffic⠀⇛
Sniffnet is a great tool to use if you want to
easily keep an eye on network traffic.
It has a simple GUI interface that lets you filter
the network based on the application’s protocol and
sends you an alert when a set threshold limit is
reached.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Installing_and_configuring_Python_in_Linux
Mint⠀⇛
In this guide, we will provide a step-by-step
tutorial on how to customize the Tmux status bar in
Linux. We will cover the basic syntax of Tmux
status bar configuration, as well as some practical
examples to demonstrate how to add, remove, and
rearrange components. We will also explore some
popular Tmux plugins for further customization.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Upgrade_Python_Pip_Packages_in
Linux⠀⇛
Pip is a widely used package installer and manager
for Python projects, and it enables you to install,
update, and manage packages efficiently.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Perl_on_Rocky_Linux_9_or_8⠀⇛
Perl is a powerful and flexible programming
language often used for text manipulation, web
development, and system administration tasks. As a
high-level language, it has a rich set of features
that make it an excellent choice for various
applications.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Customizing_the_Tmux_status_bar_in_Linux⠀⇛
In this guide, we will provide a step-by-step
tutorial on how to customize the Tmux status bar in
Linux. We will cover the basic syntax of Tmux
status bar configuration, as well as some practical
examples to demonstrate how to add, remove, and
rearrange components. We will also explore some
popular Tmux plugins for further customization.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Tmux_copy-paste_mode_tips_and_tricks_for
productivity⠀⇛
In this guide, we will explore various tips and
tricks for using Tmux’s copy-paste mode, including
how to navigate between panes and windows, how to
copy text to the clipboard, and how to paste text
from the clipboard back into the terminal.
# ⚓ Real Linux User ☛ Quick_Fix_–_How_to_solve_Unable_to_update
Snap_Store_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ The_guide_to_mastering_cron_jobs_in_Linux
Mint⠀⇛
In this guide, we will provide a comprehensive
overview of configuring and managing cron jobs in
Linux Mint. We will cover the syntax of cron
expressions, how to schedule jobs, how to edit and
delete existing jobs, and how to troubleshoot
common issues. We will also explore some practical
examples of using cron to automate routine tasks.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ A_step-by-step_guide_to_creating_custom_Tmux
key_bindings⠀⇛
In this guide, we will explore the process of
creating custom key bindings in Tmux, a powerful
terminal multiplexer. You will learn how to map
your preferred key combinations to Tmux commands,
allowing you to perform tasks more efficiently.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Fail2Ban_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or
20.04⠀⇛
Fail2Ban is an open-source, widely-used intrusion
prevention software that helps to protect servers
from unauthorized access attempts and brute force
attacks. It works by analyzing log files and
banning IP addresses that exhibit malicious
behavior, such as too many failed login attempts.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ Nginx_Custom_Fail2ban_Filters_and_Jails:_10
Examples⠀⇛
Nginx is a widely recognized web server and reverse
proxy server, renowned for its exceptional
performance, stability, and efficient resource
utilization. It is extensively employed for serving
web applications, load balancing traffic, and
enhancing website performance.
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-20How_to_install_DataGrip_on
Linux_Lite_6.2⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-21How_to_install_Discord_on
Linux_Lite_6.2⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-23How_to_install_FreeOffice_on
Linux_Lite_6.2⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-20How_to_install_DataGrip_on
Linux_Lite_6.2⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-20How_to_install_The_Mixed
Island_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_WonderCMS_with_Nginx_on
Ubuntu_22.04_or_20.04⠀⇛
WonderCMS is a fast, lightweight, and efficient
content management system (CMS) that simplifies
website creation and maintenance. Its user-friendly
interface, combined with robust features, makes it
an ideal choice for users who are looking for a
hassle-free way to manage their web content.
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-22How_to_install_Ghostery_Dawn
on_a_Chromebook_in_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-21How_to_install_Gnome_Mahjongg
on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-22How_to_install_Inkscape_on
Linux_Lite_6.2⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-20How_to_install_The_Mixed
Island_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-23How_to_install_Pinta_on_a
Chromebook_in_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_UNRAR_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or
20.04⠀⇛
UNRAR is a powerful, versatile, and widely-used
tool designed for extracting files from RAR
archives. RAR, which stands for Roshal Archive, is
a proprietary archive file format developed by
Eugene Roshal.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Kate_Text_Editor_on_Ubuntu
22.04_or_20.04⠀⇛
Kate – KDE Advanced Text Editor – is a powerful,
open-source text editor designed for developers and
programmers, offering a wide array of features for
handling and manipulating text files.
# ⚓ How_to_detect_devices_connected_to_my_LAN?⠀⇛
Port Authority is an excellent and fast tool for
Android that allows you to detect devices connected
to your Local Area Network and scan its ports
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_VMware_Workstation_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
VMware Workstation on Debian 11.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_check_if_a_file_does_not_exist_in_Bash⠀⇛
Bash, or the Bourne Again SHell, is a popular Unix
shell used for scripting and automating tasks in
Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like systems. One
common task in Bash scripting is checking whether a
file does not exist.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Docker_on_Fedora_37⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Docker on Fedora 37. As a powerful and versatile
containerization platform, Docker has
revolutionized the way software is developed and
deployed.
# ⚓ 2023-03-24Changing_the_data_directory_in_MySQL⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-03-24Configuring_the_MySQL_Parameters⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-03-24MySQL_Configuration_Using_Global_and_Session
Variables⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-03-24Using_parameters_with_MySQL_startup_script⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-03-24How_to_Use_the_MySQL_Config_File_for
Configuration⠀⇛
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_KubeSphere_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
KubeSphere on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Zoom_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Zoom on Rocky Linux 9. In the current era of remote
work and virtual communication, video conferencing
has become an essential part of our lives.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Clone_All_Remote_Branches_in_Git
Repository⠀⇛
Git is an essential tool for developers, enabling
efficient code versioning, management, and
collaboration. One of the core functionalities of
Git is the ability to clone remote repositories to
your local machine.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Setting_Up_Redis_for_PHP_Session_Storage_on
Linux⠀⇛
Redis is an in-memory data structure store, widely
used as a database, cache, and message broker. It
is particularly useful for managing PHP sessions
due to its high performance, low latency, and data
persistence capabilities.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Top_10_JQ_Commands_Every_Linux_Developer_Should
Know⠀⇛
JQ is a versatile command-line JSON processor for
Linux that allows developers to parse, filter, and
transform JSON data quickly and efficiently. Its
powerful features make it an indispensable tool for
anyone working with JSON files on Linux systems.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Practical_Examples_of_JSON_Processing_with_JQ_in
Linux⠀⇛
JQ is a powerful and flexible command-line JSON
processor for Linux, designed to parse, filter, and
transform JSON data. Its lightweight nature and
speed make it an essential tool for developers
working with JSON files.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Pushing_new_local_branches_to_remote_git
repositories⠀⇛
Git is an essential tool for developers, enabling
efficient code versioning, management, and
collaboration. One of the key aspects of working
with Git is sharing local branches with remote
repositories, allowing multiple team members to
contribute to the same project.
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ Status_Resolved_ERROR:_2002_(HY000):_Can’t
connect_to_local_MySQL_server_through_socket⠀⇛
It is very frustrating when you see this ERROR 2002
(HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server
through socket on your terminal when you try to
open MySQL.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Install_iRedMail_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Hello, friends. Today in this post, you will learn
how to install iRedMail on Ubuntu 22.04 With
iRedMail, you can deploy an OPEN SOURCE, FULLY
FLEDGED, FULL-FEATURED mail server in several
minutes, for free. iRedMail is a tool that allows
you to quickly deploy a fully open-source mail
server.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ LinuxStans ☛ 2023-03-24A_Distro-Hopper’s_Guide_to_Hacking_on
Linux_for_Beginners⠀⇛
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Ubuntu_20.04.6_Released!_Fix_Secure_Boot
&_Integrate_Ubuntu_Pro⠀⇛
The Ubuntu team announced the 6th point release for
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. According to the release note,
Ubuntu 20.04.6 fixed the Secure Boot issue for the
amd64 installer: Unlike previous point releases,
20.04.6 is a refresh of the amd64 installer media
after recent key revocations, re-enabling their
usage on Secure Boot enabled systems.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ SparkFun_Thing_Plus_module_supports
Bluetooth_5_Low_Energy⠀⇛
The SparkFun Thing Plus NINA-B306 is a compact
embedded device optimized for portable and wireless
applications. This product is enabled with BLE 5.0
connectivity and it features a MicroSD card slot,
6-DoF IMU, an Environmental sensor and LiPo battery
management.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Dead_Raspberry_Pi_Boards,_PMICs,_And_New_Hope⠀⇛
Since the Raspberry Pi 3B+ release, the Pi boards
we all know and love gained one more weakpoint –
the PMIC chip, responsible for generating all the
power rails a Pi needs. Specifically, the new PMIC
was way more vulnerable to shorting 5V and 3.3V
power rails together – something that’s trivial to
do on a Raspberry Pi, and would leave you with a
bricked board. Just replacing the PMIC chip, the
MxL7704, wouldn’t help since the Raspberry Pi
version of this chip is customized – but now, on
Raspberry Pi forums, [Nefarious19] has reportedly
managed to replace it and revive their Pi.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Keychain_6809⠀⇛
When you think of tiny microcontroller boards, you
probably think of a modern surface mount processor.
Not [Andreas Jakob]. His 5×5 cm keychain computer
rocks a 6809 CPU at a blistering 1 MHz or, if you
prefer, a 6309 that runs at 5 MHz. The RAM — all
32K — is in a SMD package to make it fit, but the
board also sports a 27C256 EPROM which means that
chip and the CPU take up most of the PCB.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this
week_–_Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Billions_of_Android_users_urged_to_check_hidden
app_settings_–_look_for_‘red_alert’_signs_as_soon_as_possible
|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Why_can’t_I_sync_blocked_numbers_to_a
new_Android_phone?⠀⇛
# ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_to_Turn_On_or_Off_the_Always_On_Display
for_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Clear_The_Google_Maps_App_Cache_On_Your
Android_Phone⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Disable_App_Notifications_On_Your
Android_Phone⠀⇛
# ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ Nubia_Pad_3D:_Pre-orders_open_for_new
Android_tablet_with_innovative_3D_display_–_NotebookCheck.net
News⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Enjoy_An_Open-Source_Espresso⠀⇛
One of the core principles of the open-source
movement is that anyone who wants to build on a
piece of work, in whatever way they want, is easily
able to. With source code freely available, the
original project can be expanded upon, modified,
updated, or simply looked at and used as
inspiration. Usually we think about this in the
realm of software freedom, but hardware is an
important component as well. And not just
electronics hardware, either. [Norm] demonstrates
this espresso machine which was built on these
open-source foundations.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ 2023-03-21Rare_Cosmic_Event_Will_See_5
Planets_Align_in_The_Sky._Here’s_How_to_Watch.⠀⇛
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Plan_To_Jam_Mobile_Phones_In_Schools_Is
Madness⠀⇛
Mobile phones in schools. If you’re a teacher,
school staffer, or a parent, you’ve likely got six
hundred opinions about this very topic, and you
will have had six hundred arguments about it this
week. In Australia, push has come to shove, and
several states have banned the use of mobile phones
during school hours entirely. Others are
contemplating doing the same.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Gordon_E._Moore,_the_Intel_Co-Founder
Behind_Moore’s_Law,_Dies_at_94⠀⇛
His prediction in the 1960s about exponential
advances in computer chip technology set a course
for the age of high tech.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Digitizing_Sound_On_An_Unmodified_Sinclair
ZX81⠀⇛
Whatever the first computer you used to manipulate
digital audio was, the chances are it came with
dedicated sound hardware that could play, and
probably record, digitized audio. Perhaps it might
have been a Commodore Amiga, or maybe a PC with a
Sound Blaster. If you happen to be [NICKMANN]
though, you can lay claim to the honor of doing so
on a machine with no such hardware, because he
managed it on an unmodified Sinclair ZX81.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Glowscope_Reduces_Microscope_Cost_By_Orders_Of
Magnitude⠀⇛
As smartphones become more ubiquitous in society,
they are being used in plenty of ways not
imaginable even ten or fifteen years ago. Using its
sensors to gather LIDAR information, its GPS to get
directions, its microphone to instantly translate
languages, or even use its WiFi and cellular radios
to establish a wireless hotspot are all things
which would have taken specialized hardware not
more than two decades ago. The latest disruption
may be in microscopy, as this build demonstrates a
microscope that would otherwise be hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ The_GOP_was_the_antivax_party_before_Ron_DeSantis,_but_now
he’s_turbocharged_its_resistance⠀⇛
Earlier this week, Vanity Fair published and
article by Katherine Egan entitled Inside Ron
DeSantis’s Plan to Ride Anti-vaxxism to the White
House. I was inspired, if you will, to use this
story as a starting point for today’s post because,
while it didn’t report anything that I didn’t
already know about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and
his embrace of antivax politics, it was nonetheless
alarming for a couple of reasons. First, it
represents what I see as the cementing of
resistance to public health interventions,
including vaccines, as key element that is part of
the Republican Party’s identity now. Second, the
story seems to lack a sense of history, treating
this development not as the predictable result of a
process dating back at least to 2010 or so, but as
some new phenomenon that’s occurred since the
pandemic. It’s not. I’ll start with the blurb after
the title:
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Anti-Vax_Movement_and_the_Medical_Freedom
Hustle⠀⇛
In December 2021, Francis Collins, the outgoing
head of the $45 billion federal National Institutes
of Health declared himself utterly flummoxed. “I
never imagined,” the walrus-whiskered Collins told
PBS, “a year ago…that we would still have 60
million people” resisting vaccines. This article
has been adapted from Matt Hongoltz-Hetling’s If It
Sounds Like a Quack…: A Journey to the Fringes of
American Medicine. Copyright © 2023. Available from
PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a
subsidiary of Hachette Book Group.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Utah_Law_Could_Curb_Use_of_TikTok_and
Instagram_by_Children_and_Teens⠀⇛
The law, which prohibits social networks from
allowing minors to have accounts without parental
consent, may come as welcome news to many families
even as it raises privacy concerns.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Senate_Dems_Blast_Medicare_Advantage_Giants
Over_‘Exorbitant’_CEO_Pay⠀⇛
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley are calling
attention to the massive profits and “exorbitant”
executive salaries of top Medicare Advantage
insurers such as UnitedHealthcare and Humana, which
are leading a lobbying blitz against efforts to
combat widespread fraud in the privately run
healthcare program.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ The_FBI’s_BreachForums_bust_is_causing
‘chaos_in_the_cybercrime_underground’⠀⇛
The dramatic fall of one of the preeminent
cybercrime communities on the web will have major
implications for the cybercrime markets.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ It’s_a_bot-eat-bot_world_as_cyber
criminals_go_hi-tech⠀⇛
So-called deepfakes are being used to manipulate
voters, launch business scams or even generate fake
pornography to harass and extort.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ The_Candidate_and_the_Spy:_James
Bamford_on_Israel’s_Secret_Collusion_with_Trump_to_Win
2016_Race⠀⇛
In his new book, Spyfail: Foreign Spies,
Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of
America’s Counterintelligence, investigative
journalist James Bamford reveals that Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dispatched
a secret Israeli agent to the United States
in the spring of 2016 to help Donald Trump
win the presidential election. The agent met
with advisers to Trump and offered to share
secret intelligence with the campaign against
Hillary Clinton. Bamford’s investigation
finds that while American media fixated on
Russia’s role in swaying the 2016 election,
Israeli interference was completely ignored.
He joins us from Washington, D.C., for more
on what’s been uncovered during his
investigation. “The Israelis got what they
wanted, and Trump got what he wanted, and the
American public was screwed in the meantime,”
Bamford says.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ Norman_Solomon_on_the_Iraq_Invasion,_20_Years
Later⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_accuses_Slovakia_of_violating_a_bilateral
agreement_by_sending_fighter_jets_to_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s Federal Service of Military-Technical
Cooperation (FSMTC) says that Slovakia took an
“unfriendly step” toward Russia and violated its
international obligations when it supplied Ukraine
with MiG-29 fighter jets.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Imprisoned_rocket_scientist_offers_expert_help_to
Russian_military_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A pardons commission in Russia’s Tula region has
recommended granting a clemency petition submitted
by a rocket scientist now serving a sentence in one
of the region’s penal colonies.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ No_to_war-themed_commercial_branding_The_likes_of
Heroic_Bucha_Kombucha,_Azovstal_radish_varietal,_and_Heroes
Don’t_Die_beer_may_have_to_leave_the_market_as_Ukraine’s
legislators_seek_a_ban_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A group of Verkhovna Rada legislators has proposed
a bill to ban war-themed commercial branding in
Ukraine.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow_opposition_politician_Elvira_Vikhareva
reports_she_was_poisoned_with_heavy_metal_salts_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Moscow opposition politician Elvira Vikhareva was
poisoned by heavy metal salts several months ago,
the Russian outlet Sova reported on Friday, citing
lab tests that Vikhareva underwent after she
started experiencing symptoms.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Emerging_From_the_Bomb_Shelter:_My_Life_at
World’s_End⠀⇛
Indulge me for a moment. This is how “The Prophecy”
in my 1962 high school yearbook began. It was
written by some of my classmates in the year we
graduated from Friends Seminary in New York City.
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ ‘People_Have_Been_Protesting_Against_Cop_City_Since
We_Found_Out_About_It’⠀⇛
Janine Jackson interviewed Community Movement
Builders’ Kamau Franklin about the fight against
Cop City for the March 17, 2023, episode of
CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Trump_Warns_of_‘Death_and_Destruction’_If
He’s_Indicted⠀⇛
Government watchdogs on Friday said former
President Donald Trump has potentially placed
himself in even more legal jeopardyafter he
threatened violence if he’s charged in a criminal
case in New York.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Putin_Is_a_War_Criminal._Full_Stop._And_So
Are_Many_US_Leaders_Never_Held_to_Account⠀⇛
It’s true – Russian president Vladimir Putin is a
war criminal. As I wrote when the conflict with
Ukraine began: “the attack on Ukraine was a clear
violation of international law, and there is
absolutely no excuse for this invasion.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Congress,_Do_Your_Job,_End_US_Support_for
the_War_in_Yemen⠀⇛
Having just observed the 20th anniversary of the US
invasion of Iraq, the United States Senate is
currently considering S. 316, a bill sponsored by
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) to repeal the anachronistic
Authorizations for the Use of Military Force (AUMF)
against Iraq, which date to 1991 and 2002. This
action is long overdue, and part of a recent effort
by Congress to reclaim its constitutional authority
over matters of war and peace. The Biden
Administration supports the measure, which is
significant as Joe Biden, as a US Senator, voted
for the 2002 AUMF, while he opposed the 1991
measure.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ US_Bombs_Syria_Two_Weeks_After_House_Voted
Against_Withdrawing_Troops⠀⇛
The U.S. launched airstrikes in Syria on Thursday
after one American contractor was killed and five
service members were injured in an attack by a
drone that the Pentagon claims was of “Iranian
origin.”
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Pure_looting,_thievery,_and_banditry’_Russia_has
seized_roughly_1,000_businesses_in_Ukraine’s_annexed_regions,
new_investigation_finds_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Journalists from Novaya Gazeta Europe have
discovered 1,150 companies on Ukraine’s annexed
territories that are registered with the Russian
government.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Kenya,_Uganda_strengthen_defence_ties⠀⇛
Senior officers from the Kenyan and Ugandan defence
forces met in Nairobi this week to further cement
“engagement and collaboration as partners seeking
sustainable security solutions”. The two-day joint
defence committee (JDC) meeting follows last year’s
signing of a defence co-operation agreement.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania-Belarus_border_now_100-percent_surveilled_–
ministry⠀⇛
Lithuania’s entire border with Belarus is now
covered by surveillance systems, the Interior
Ministry said on Friday, adding that the next step
is to set up a patrol trail, with 20 million euros
in EU funding sought for the project.
# ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Iran_International:_Inside_the_“Saudi-
Funded”_Network_Promoting_Regime_Change_in_Iran⠀⇛
Iran International: Alan Macleod reveals how a
network of Western and Saudi interests converged to
create the ultimate propaganda tool in a failed bid
to overthrow the government of Iran.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Daniel_Ellsberg,_the_Man_Who_Leaked_the
Pentagon_Papers,_Is_Scared⠀⇛
The whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg has never run
out of secrets.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ UK_Lawyers_Sign_‘Declaration_of_Conscience’
Not_to_Prosecute_Peaceful_Climate_Protesters⠀⇛
More than 120 mostly English lawyers on Friday
published a “declaration of conscience” pledging to
withhold their services from “supporting new fossil
fuel projects” and “action against climate
protesters exercising their democratic right of
peaceful protest.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ In_Blow_to_Koch_and_Exxon,_Federal_Judges
Say_Minnesota_Climate_Suit_Belongs_in_State_Court⠀⇛
Minnesota on Thursday scored a significant
procedural win in a lawsuit seeking to hold Big Oil
accountable for lying to consumers about the
dangers of burning fossil fuels and thus worsening
the deadly climate crisis.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Minnesota_Nuclear_Plant_Shuts_Down_After
New_Leak_Near_Mississippi_River⠀⇛
The operator of a Minnesota nuclear power plant
said the facility would be taken offline Friday to
repair a new leak near the Mississippi River, an
announcement that came a week after the company and
state officials belatedly acknowledged a separate
leak that occurred in November.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kremlin_to_skip_annual_Earth_Hour_campaign_after
World_Wildlife_Fund_named_‘foreign_agent’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Kremlin will not take part in this year’s Earth
Hour, an annual environmental awareness campaign
sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in which
participants around the world turn off the lights
for one hour, according to the Russian state news
outlet Interfax.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Cost_of_diesel_stubbornly_high
as_war_ratchets_up_price⠀⇛
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is partly to
blame for inflated diesel prices, which have
soared beyond the cost of regular petrol. The
price of diesel remained significantly higher
than petrol in the December quarter of 2022,
with supplies reduced from Russia as well as
from France because of refinery strikes.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ A_Hidden_Threat_to_Bats:_Hunting⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Entire_Towns_Evacuated_as_Climate-
Fueled_Wildfires_Start_‘Very_Early’_in_Spain⠀⇛
A large wildfire raging in Spain’s eastern
Valencia region forced more than 1,500 people
to flee their homes on Friday, providing
further evidence of life-threatening
consequences of the fossil fuel-driven
climate crisis and bolstering the case for
meaningful mitigation efforts.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘No_One’s…_Having_Fun’:_Surveys_Show
Soaring_US_Economic_Pessimism⠀⇛
A pair of polls published Friday revealed that the
rising cost of living is causing financial strain
for most Americans—especially people with lower
incomes—and that pessimism about the state and
future of the country’s economy is pervasive and
spreading.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Behind_Trump’s_Possible_Arrest_and_the
Latest_Banking_Crisis_Lurks_the_Billionaire_Oligarchy⠀⇛
What connects the two biggest stories now
dominating the news — Donald Trump’s likely arrest
and the Fed’s bailouts of shaky banks?
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Private_Opulence_and_Public_Squalor_in_the
US⠀⇛
The Federal Reserve is not working for the people
but for wealthy individuals and corporations that
can afford to have a say in the rules.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ You_Can’t_Even_Tell_Who’s_Rich_Anymore⠀⇛
One of the great disappointments of contemporary
life is that in times of hopelessly vast income
inequality, society’s arch-capitalists—and many
very rich people in general—are boring. The zenith
of their boringness? How they dress. Look, for
example, at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerburg. Extremely
rich guy. If you saw him on the street, walking
around in a Patagonia vest and a quarter-zip
pullover paired with chinos, you’d easily mistake
him for one of your dad’s friends. Bill Gates
dresses more like your friend’s granddad—khakis,
long-sleeved rugby shirt, loafers. Elon Musk does
that infuriating 2010s tech-guy thing where he
pairs an ill-fitting blazer with a T-shirt and
jeans. These men, when they wear suits, look like
penguins, waddling around galas and red carpets
completely ill at ease with themselves. It’s not
just tech billionaires, either. If you flip through
People, you’ll see ungodly rich actors and
actresses being snapped in Nike sweatpants,
Starbucks cups in hand.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “France_Is_Furious”:_Anger_Grows_at_Macron
for_Raising_Retirement_Age_as_Millions_Strike_&_Protest⠀⇛
French unions say nearly 3.5 million people took to
the streets Thursday in a nationwide general strike
to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s deeply
unpopular move to raise the retirement age from 62
to 64. Macron forced the legislation through the
French National Assembly last week, using a
constitutional clause to bypass a parliamentary
vote. Macron’s government survived a vote of no
confidence Monday by just nine votes, but public
anger shows no signs of abating, with France’s
major trade unions planning another nationwide
protest for Tuesday. “Not only is the government
trying to do this pension reform that people see as
fundamentally unfair, but they’re ignoring
historically large protests even by French
standards,” says journalist Cole Stranger from
Marseille. His new guest essay in The New York
Times is headlined “France Is Furious.”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ You_Can’t_Solve_the_Homelessness_Crisis
Without_Housing⠀⇛
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Deutsche_Bank,_UBS_shares_hammered
amid_banking_fears⠀⇛
Banking stocks have fallen sharply in Europe with
heavyweights Deutsche Bank and UBS Group pummelled
by worries the worst problems in the sector since
the 2008 financial crisis have not yet been
contained. Deutsche Bank fell for a third day,
sinking more than 11 per cent
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Rep._Ro_Khanna_on_Regulating_Banks,_TikTok,
China,_Ukraine_&_His_Vote_on_the_“Horrors_of_Socialism”⠀⇛
We speak with Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna
about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and
Signature Bank, regulating the banking sector, and
how Federal Reserve interest rate hikes contributed
to the banking crisis. Silicon Valley Bank was
based in Khanna’s district in California, and he
has criticized fellow Democrats who supported a
2018 bill that weakened oversight for some banks.
“We need to regulate large regional banks the same
way that we regulate the Big Four banks,” says
Khanna. He also talks about growing concern from
lawmakers about the social video app TikTok, the
Biden administration’s policy on Taiwan and
Ukraine, and more.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Twitter_to_revoke_‘legacy’_verified_badges
as_Twitter_Blue_rolls_out_globally⠀⇛
Twitter Inc. today announced that it will revoke
“legacy” verified badges in April as it made its
Twitter Blue paid verification service available
globally.
⚓ Techdirt ☛ How_Forcing_TikTok_To_Completely_Separate_Its_US_Operations_Could
Actually_Undermine_National_Security⠀⇛
Back in August 2020, the Trump White House issued an executive order
purporting to ban TikTok, citing national security concerns. The ban
ultimately went nowhere — but not before TikTok and Oracle cobbled
together “Project Texas” as an attempt to appease regulators’ privacy
worries and keep TikTok available in the United States.
⚓ Techdirt ☛ Jim_Jordan_Weaponizes_The_Subcommittee_On_The_Weaponization_Of_The
Gov’t_To_Intimidate_Researchers_&_Chill_Speech⠀⇛
As soon as it was announced, we warned that the new “Select
Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” (which
Kevin McCarthy agreed to support to convince some Republicans to
support his speakership bid) was going to be not just a clown show,
but one that would, itself, be weaponized to suppress speech (the
very thing it claimed it would be “investigating.”)
⚓ TruthOut ☛ WI_Supreme_Court_Candidate_Defends_Campaigning_With_“Stop_the
Steal”_Organizer⠀⇛
⚓ Press Gazette ☛ UK’s_biggest_online_publishers_in_February_2023:_Guardian_and
Future_drop_out_of_top_20_as_Tiktok_enters⠀⇛
Press Gazette’s ranking of the biggest online publishers in the UK,
using Ipsos iris data.
⚓ Press Gazette ☛ How_and_why_digital_publishers_should_consolidate_their_tech
stacks⠀⇛
How having fewer technology tools under one system can drive revenue
and subscriptions.
⚓ New York Times ☛ There’s_a_Problem_With_Banning_TikTok._It’s_Called_the_First
Amendment.⠀⇛
American users of the social media platform are indisputably
exercising their constitutional rights when they post and consume
content on the site.
⚓ FAIR ☛ What_Fox’s_Bad_Calls_on_Election_Night_2020_Say_About_2024⠀⇛
The problems Fox News had on Election Night 2020 don’t bode well for
the election of 2024.
⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Trump_Rally_in_Waco_Called_Not_a_Dog_Whistle,But_a‘Blaring
Air_Horn’_to_Far-Right⠀⇛
While former U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign insists it
is purely coincidental that his planned Saturday rally in Waco, Texas
falls during the 30th anniversary of a deadly 51-day siege targeting
a religious cult, some Texans and extremism experts aren’t buying it.
⚓ Meduza ☛ Political_scientist_Abbas_Gallyamov_appears_on_Russia’s_federal
‘wanted’list—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s Ministry of Internal affairs has put political scientist and
consultant Abbas Gallyamov on the federal “wanted” list, reports
Mediazona.
⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Scorched-Earth_Politics’:_Indian_MP_Ousted,_Sentenced_to_2
Years_Over_Modi_Insult⠀⇛
Democracy defenders sounded the alarm Friday after senior Indian
opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was ousted from his parliamentary seat
a day after being sentenced to two years in prison in a dubious
defamation case involving an insult against the surname of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi.
⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Whitmer_Signs_‘Historic’_Workers_Rights_Bills_Into_Law_in
Michigan⠀⇛
Workers’ rights advocates in Michigan on Friday applauded as
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a repeal of the state’s so-
called “right-to-work” law and restored the prevailing wage standard
for state-funded construction projects.
⚓ Techdirt ☛ Which_Sucker_Companies_Are_Going_To_Pay_Elon_Musk_$1,000/Month_To
Get_An_Ugly_Gold_Badge?⠀⇛
Elon Musk’s next big revenue bet is that companies really, really,
really want to show up as “verified.” All evidence suggests that very
few Twitter users are interested in paying Elon $8/month to
constantly break the site or engage in ego-driven experiments that
make the general experience worse.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Utah’s_Governor_Live_Streams_Signing_Of_Unconstitutional
Social_Media_Bill_On_All_The_Social_Media_Platforms_He_Hates⠀⇛
On Thursday, Utah’s governor Spencer Cox officially signed into
law two bills that seek to “protect the children” on the
internet. He did with a signing ceremony that he chose to
stream on nearly every social media platform, despite his
assertions that those platforms are problematic.
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Man_Loses_Maine_Vanity_Plates_Describing_His_Love_For_Bean
Mush⠀⇛
It’s absolutely stupid just how often we’ve had to write about
issues surrounding license plates. For convoluted reasons that
involve how plates, which are mandated on all cars by states,
are government property, that means that a state disallowing a
vanity plate therefore does not violate the First Amendment.
There are caveats to that that have been explored by federal
courts, while other plate-holders have won in the lower courts.
And, yet, the disputes over what constitutes a “vulgar” vanity
plate continue unabated.
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ AOC_Slams_GOP_for_Banning_Children’s_Book_“Life_of_Rosa
Parks”_for_Being_“Woke”⠀⇛
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Progressives_Slam_Passage_of_GOP_‘Book_Banning_Bill’⠀⇛
Progressive lawmakers and education advocates on Friday
condemned federal Republican lawmakers’ foray into the
nationwide attack on people of color and the LGBTQ+ community
as the GOP-led U.S. House passed the so-called Parents Bill of
Rights Act—legislation that critics said is aimed at banning
books and further ostracizing marginalized communities, while
providing no improvements to children’s safety at school.
* ⚓ EFF ☛ Victory_at_the_Ninth_Circuit:_Twitter’s_Content_Moderation_is_Not
“State_Action”⠀⇛
Twitter is a private entity, so the government and the courts
cannot tell it what speech it must remove or what speech it
must carry. The First Amendment restricts censorship only by
the government, not private entities, unless those entities are
using government power or otherwise effectively acting as the
government. But in O’Handley, even if Twitter and the
government were “generally aligned in their missions to limit
the spread of misleading election information[, s]uch alignment
does not transform private conduct into state action.”
Moreover, as we argued in our amicus brief in the case, holding
Twitter liable for content moderation would likely violate the
platform’s own First Amendment rights. For example, when
Twitter took down plaintiff Rogan O’Handley’s tweets and then
his account, it made an editorial decision about what content
it would publish.
O’Handley’s lawsuit, relied on the fact that the California
Office of Election Cybersecurity flagged one of O’Handley’s
tweets for supposedly violating Twitter’s misinformation
policy. But as the Ninth Circuit explained, Twitter developed
and applied that policy at its discretion, and the government
did not order Twitter to take any action. The court said, and
we argued in our brief, that Twitter is not a state actor
unless it “ceded control” over its content moderation process
to the government. In general, the government is free to talk
to Twitter, and Twitter is free to listen (or not listen).
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Jailed_Russian_opposition_politician_Alexey_Navalny_sent_to
‘punishment_cell’_for_‘improperly_introducing_himself’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny, who’s currently
serving a nine-year prison sentence, has been sent to a
“punishment cell” for the 12th time in eight months. According
to a post he made on Twitter, Navalny’s “offense” was
“improperly introducing himself.”
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Amazon_Union_Gets_Favorable_Finding_on_Warehouse
Access_for_Organizing⠀⇛
Federal labor regulators said that Amazon had illegally barred
off-duty employees from work sites and that the policy was
aimed at union backers.
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Judge_Denies_Bond_for_8_People_Rounded_Up_in_Mass_Arrest_for
Opposing_Cop_City⠀⇛
* ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Cop_City:_Judge_Denies_Bond_to_People_Rounded_Up_in
Mass_Arrest_for_Opposing_Police_Training_Facility⠀⇛
In Atlanta, a judge has denied bond for 8 of the people
indiscriminately arrested at a music festival against the
proposed “Cop City” police training facility in the Weelaunee
Forest. Jailed since March 5, they are charged with domestic
terrorism based on scant evidence like muddy clothes or simply
being in the area at the time of the festival. We’re joined by
Micah Herskind, an Atlanta community organizer, who calls the
charges “political prosecutions” and a blatant “attempt to
repress this social movement that is trying to stop Cop City.”
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Speechless’:_US,_Canada_Agree_on_Plan_to_Turn_Away
Asylum-Seekers⠀⇛
In a move that critics say will push people to attempt more
dangerous border crossings, the United States and Canada on
Friday are expected to announce an agreement allowing both
countries to block migrants from seeking asylum at unofficial
points of entry.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Biden_Administration_Makes_It_Clear_Broadband_Consumer
Protection_Has_Never_Been_Much_Of_A_Priority⠀⇛
Earlier this month we noted how a successful, often homophobic
smear campaign scuttled the nomination of popular reformer Gigi
Sohn to the FCC. The GOP and telecom sector, as usual, worked
in close collaboration to spread all manner of lies about Sohn,
including claims she was an unhinged radical that hated
Hispanics, cops, puppies, and freedom.
* ⚓ Internet Society ☛ Fostering_the_Next_Generation_at_the_NDSS
Symposium⠀⇛
The NDSS Symposium fosters the next generation of Internet
security leaders—like 16-Year-old California high school
student Aditya Puri.
§ Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ American_Farm_Bureau_Continues_To_Sell_Out_Farmers_On
Meaningful_‘Right_To_Repair’_Reform⠀⇛
We’ve noted how agricultural machinery giants like John Deere
have spent several years waging war on independent tractor
repair shops in a bid to monopolize maintenance and drive up
costs. We’ve also noted that every time industry promises to
stop doing this, it turns out they’re largely full of shit.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Trademarks⠀➾
o ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Is_“THE_HARRIMAN_HOTEL”_Primarily
Merely_a_Surname_for_Hotel_Services?⠀⇛
The USPTO refused to register THE HARRIMAN HOTEL for
hotel, real estate, and health spa services, deeming the
mark to be primarily merely a surname under Section 2(e)
(4). Applicant argued that HARRIMAN is a rare surname
(ranking 6694th in the 2010 Census list of surnames
occurring 100 or more times), and that, because William
Averell_Harriman is an historical figure, HARRIMAN would
not likely be perceived by consumers as primarily a
surname but rather would be seen as referring
specifically to him. How do you think this came out?
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ New_Pirate_IPTV_Bill_Moved_to_Senate_as_Italy
Takes_on_‘Digital_Mafias’⠀⇛
A bill designed to crack down on pirate IPTV services has
been unanimously approved by Italy’s Chamber of Deputies.
If passed by the Senate, telecoms regulator AGCOM,
broadcasters, and anti-piracy affiliates are poised and
ready to go. Pirate streams will be blocked within
minutes, maybe even seconds, according to reports. Stream
suppliers will face three years in prison and for those
who watch them, 5,000 euro fines will be on the table.
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Neil_Young_Says_‘Concert_Touring_Is_Broken’
After_The_Cure/Ticketmaster_Debacle⠀⇛
Following The Cure’s showdown with Ticketmaster, Neil
Young says the current concert touring model is broken.
“It’s over. The old days are gone,” Neil Young begins his
complaint. He says he gets letters from fans who are
angry at $3,000 tickets for a benefit concert.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ Monster_Trivia⠀⇛
o ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_CIUNOTJ_Wordo:_HILUM⠀⇛
o ⚓ Neighborhood_Twilight_2023-03-24_(Fairbanks,_UK,_USA)⠀⇛
I had plans to go see the sunset tonight, but those plans
fell through, due to circumstances outside my control. I
took a little walk through the neighborhood, however, and
got one idyllic photo…
o ⚓ Album_#211:_Fairport_Convention_–_Unhalfbricking⠀⇛
If you go to a record fair in the UK, you’d be forgiven
for thinking Fairport Convention was a *genre* rather
than a band. Which is exactly the sort of mainstream
recognition that would make past me decide not to bother
with a band. Today’s pick is past me being shown up once
again.
* § Politics⠀➾
o ⚓ Fix_Democracy⠀⇛
Israelis now protest a proposed reform to the Hich Court
of Justice
because they are afraid that Israel will become a
dictatorship.
I fo to some of the protests. but I do not go to block
highways.
When large masses of people protests that way and the
government cannnot
control the population by law enforcement, there’s is a
folly about which
you can read in Barbara W. Tuchman’s book “Yhe March of
Folly”.
o ⚓ Love_the_sinners,_hate_the_sin?⠀⇛
Earlier this month, conservative talking head Michael
Knowles ignited a controversy over his statement, both on
his TV show and at the CPAC 2023, that called for an
“eradication of transgenderism.”
Knowles then accused the media outlets that reported his
speech as a call for genocide, of a “libel” and demanded
retractions.
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ Looking_at_new_search_engines⠀⇛
I happened across a small number of lesser known search
engines and decided to try them out. I’m excluding any
that didn’t work.
o ⚓ Oracle_Cloud_might_screw_me_over⠀⇛
o ⚓ Podcast_numbers⠀⇛
2019-03-01 Podcast Numbers talked about estimating the
number of listeners for a podcast. These days my web
server only keeps logs for 4 days. Thus, stats are
limited. Here’s what I did for the Internet Office Hours.
o § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Two_Key_Takeaways_from_“A_Philosophy_of_Software_Design”⠀⇛
This past week I’ve been reading “A Philosophy of
Software Design” by John Ousterhout. I picked up
the book after watching his talk on YouTube[1] that
gives a general overview of the themes. The ebook
was only a few quid and whilst its not super long
its still great value for money. Probably the best
serious tech book I’ve read to date, although not
as fun as Ed Mastery by Michael W Lucas[2].
The main idea that Ousterhout argues is that good
software design is not just about writing code that
works, but also about creating code that is easy to
understand, maintain, and modify over time. He has
various pointers towards good design and red flags
to identify bad design, but there are really two
key points that I walk away with. First, the
importance of thinking strategically rather than
tactically, and second how the value of
abstractions comes in the size of the ratio between
their interface and their implementation.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Jenkins_Demo_Stand_For_Modern_Times⠀⇛
Once you’re working on large-scale software
projects, automation is a lifesaver, and Jenkins is
a strong player in open-source automation – be it
software builds, automated testing or deploying
onto your servers. Naturally, it’s historically
been developed with x86 infrastructure in mind, and
let’s be fair, x86 is getting old. [poddingue], a
hacker and a Jenkins contributor, demonstrates that
Jenkins keeps up with the times, with a hardware
demo stand called miniJen, that has Jenkins run on
three non-x86 architectures – arm8v (aarch64),
armv7l and RISC-V.
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