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⦿ Techrights Develops Free Software to Separate the Wheat From the Chaff | Techrights
⦿ Civil Liberties Threatened Online and Offline | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 25, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Ryan Farmer: I’m Back After WordPress.com Deleted My Blog Over the Weekend | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/03/26/curating-the-web/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/26/freedom-online-and-offline/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/26/irc-log-250323/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/26/suspended-by-wordpress-com/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/03/26/midnightbsd-3-0/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/26/more-tiktok-bans-part-2/#comments
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✐ Techrights_Develops_Free_Software_to_Separate_the_Wheat_From_the_Chaff⠀✐
Posted in Free/Libre_Software, Site_News at 12:00 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Summary: In order to separate_the_wheat_from_the_chaff we’ve been working on
simple, modular tools that process news and help curate the Web, basically
removing the noise to squeeze out the signal
THE concept behind Free Software emanates from many programmers’ desire to not
only produce useful software but also to share this usefulness with many other
people, either in exchange for recognition or further improvements to that
software.
Lately we’ve developed a number of programs (Free Software of course, GPLV3-
licensed) that help produce/curate Daily Links. Some time later this month or
next month we’ll properly explain what they are and how they work. Other people
too deserve access to the toolsets. █
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✐ Civil_Liberties_Threatened_Online_and_Offline⠀✐
Posted in Free/Libre_Software at 7:18 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Free Speech Online, Banking Digitally, and More
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/censorship-atm-and-more.webm
Summary: A “society of sheeple” (a term used_by_Richard_Stallman_last_week_in
his_speech) is being “herded” online and offline; the video covers examples
both online and offline, the latter being absence of ATMs or lack of properly-
functioning ATMs (a growing problem lately, at least where I live)
THE video above is an outline of topics we’ve been covering, dealing with,
barely coping with (like struggling_to_get_cash_out_of_ATMs_where_I_live), and
may cover some time soon. One recurring theme will be “online” banking or
banking with “apps”.
The video starts by discussing online censorship. Days ago a longtime
contributor, Ryan Farmer, had his blog suspended for no sane reason! None at
all! If one tries to access anything on his blog it says “baronhk.wordpress.com
is no longer available. The authors have deleted this site.”
This deletion was actually a protest after he had been unjustly suspended,
having published this_article (OMG! Someone call the cops! The headline had the
string “porn” in it!).
There will be a lot more details in IRC scrollbacks, including today’s (to be
publish shortly). As an associate noted on the day of the suspension, “hugo or
jekyll or pelican would be a better choice than wordpress.com” (where the ban/
suspension happened; we’re in discussion with them about restoring the blog).
“The video starts by discussing online censorship.”Free speech online is
threatened. Self-hosting is one way to curb this trend. We’ve spoken strongly
in favour of self-hosting for several years already, cautioning about the
inflation of censorship in the COVID-19 era. Yes, it predates COVID-19, but it
has been getting a lot worse in recent years.
After discussing Ryan’s situation I pivot to a completely different topic,
namely ATMs (or “cash machines” as we call them here). Our ATM journeys are
over for now because machines_that_dispense_cash_have_become_less_dependable.
We’ve surveyed quite a few machines over the past fortnight. Got cash? One
nearby shop let an ATM run out of it (it already had a chance to restock when
it cautioned it had run low) and there are a lot fewer bank branches/offices in
the city, so contingencies are very limited and overcrowded, maybe by
intention. They try to herd all the “clients” into their “apps” and “sites”.
The video above speaks of some recent experiences of mine. It focuses on
NatWest, but I tried in 3 different banks. They’re all acting similarly. They
used to offer actual services, but they are “consolidating” though (fewer
staff, fewer services, fewer places you can go). In the case of NatWest, they
have just 2 branches left in the centre of town. There used to be a lot more.
In some places it’s even worse; some banks “have only a single office with
highly restricted visiting hours,” somebody recently told me. Speaking of this
from a surveillance/tracking perspective, there’s much to be said about the
“war on cash” and what happens when clients cannot withdraw physical money.
More people need to protest this “war on cash”; one person mentioning the
problem is better than zero people naming the problem, e.g. cashless ATMs
(literally no cash in them, one can just do an account’s balance check!).
“A society that cannot pay anonymously is a society that’s easier to censor,
surveil, and abuse in all sorts of other ways.”These things won’t be improving.
We’re heading down a dark path.
“Once people accept that there is no cash in the ATMs they will get removed
because few will complain at that point,” one person told me. “That’s an other
problem which Microsoft has provided: getting people to accept abuse without
complaining and a general learned helplessness about the situation. Worse, many
people have become Microsoft sympathisers due to disinformation and just plain
“magical thinking” about the situation. [...] there is a lot of disinformation
out there combined with wishful, unrealistic thinking and denial of empirical
facts. Then there is the learned helplessness which is even more harmful.
Microsoft [leads to] incompetence. Their sales pitch is that it is so simple
that trained monkeys can run it, but then when it inevitably fails to work as
advertised, whine that it is too hard and that they lack the knowledge and
skill to make it work. In truth those products only have to look good enough to
make the sale to the manager with purchasing authority. After that, it is the
fault of the “IT” dept for not making it work, even though it doesn’t have the
possibility to work. Managers love Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange
because the latter loses mail left right and center, giving them plausible
deniability for their claims that the mail was lost when they neglect a task.
[...] hey love Microsoft Exchange because then people have to give them the
benefit of the doubt about the mail having been lost whenever they use that
excuse.”
Either way, back to ATMs, we need to encourage people to still use them and
still pay with cash. Otherwise, we’re going to lose them. A society that cannot
pay anonymously is a society that’s easier to censor, surveil, and abuse in all
sorts of other ways. █
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Posted in Apple at 7:40 pm by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan
Minutes after posting the commentary on the NBC news article about Apple (post
prior to this one), my blog became “suspended”.
I didn’t know what was going on, so I assumed I had been cancelled again, like
Reddit, where if you post anything anywhere some special snowflake decides
(often through a bot designed to sniff out no no words) that you should be
banned.
Automattic (WordPress.com) refuses to say what led to the ban, but it’s quite
obvious through my history of posts about Apple’s censorship, proprietary
software, the Microsoft Stabber, etc. that there are probably outfits that
would rather that I just go away and not come back.
Automattic says that there’s no robot going around killing blogs without human
review, but beyond this, I have no idea and I’ll never be able to prove
anything.
Things became a little more complicated when I went ahead and shut down my
account, and then someone suggested I should appeal the ban.
I think I’ve been on the “modern” Internet too long where people just silently
“murder” your account with a gun pressed up to a pillow and was just no longer
thinking in terms of “You can appeal this and there’s actually going to be
someone that considers it.”, because again, Reddit.
I deleted my account at Reddit a while back because I was running into issues
where I would say something like “That’s crazy!” in response to something
incredulous and I would get banned, by a bot, which said “You said crazy, and
crazy is an ableist term!” spank spank spank
Combined with the fact that Reddit just went and handed over tons of data about
some users on one of its forums to a copyright troll didn’t help all of this go
down much better. It got me thinking, you know, if you browse around, they’re
watching you. Logging you. Would it not be best if they didn’t have that data?
So I’ve been increasingly “disconnecting” from proprietary “social” media,
because it’s all rather bullshit anyway, full of trolls and creepy companies.
After this run in with Automattic I’m seriously considering just backing up
this entire blog and self-hosting so that nobody else can “complain”.
You know, the whole thing about “You violated the terms!” Oh, what terms?
“TERMS!”
Apparently this is just how Automattic rolls.
And why should we be surprised in this day and age? █
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article forms part of our Linux Around The World series.
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Framework_Unveils_a_New_Laptop_With_Game-
Changing_Open_Source_Module_System⠀⇛
Framework is a company that specializes in
providing modular laptops that feature open-source
hardware modules.
At their Next Level Event 2023, the company
showcased something new and a few updates to its
previous laptop lineup, but it was the 16-inch
laptop that caught our attention.
If you are a gamer, creator, developer, and a power
user looking for customizability on a laptop, you
are about to get excited!
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Ventoy_1.0.90_Adds_Support_for_LibreELEC_11.0
and_Chimera_Linux⠀⇛
In Ventoy 1.0.90, the devs added support for new
GNU/Linux distributions, including Chimera Linux
and the recently released LibreELEC 11.0 and later
versions. With this, Ventoy now supports more than
1,100 ISO images!
Fans of the Fedora Linux distribution will be happy
to learn that this new Ventoy release optimizes
Fedora Linux ISOs’ boot process and improves the
detection of the Fedora Rawhide install media.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Apache_2.4′s_event_MPM_can_require
more_workers_than_you’d_expect⠀⇛
For our web server’s current usage, these settings
are okay. But they’re unfortunately dangerous,
because we allow people to run CGIs on this server,
and the machine is unlikely to do well if we have
even 1,000 CGIs running at the same time. In
practice not many CGIs get run these days, so we’re
likely going to get away with it. Still, it makes
me nervous and I wish we had a better solution.
# ⚓ Rob Landley ☛ Implementing_VisiCalc⠀⇛
I’m writing this in preparation for the Computer
History Museum’s The Origins and Impact of VisiCalc
panel on April 8th 2003. This is basically a draft
and I hope to do some more editing as time permits
and you should expect many typos until then. I’m
also going to continue to edit and change this as I
remember details.
This is my long-delayed attempt at writing about my
experience in writing VisiCalc and the many design
decisions that we made along the way. But even
after nearly a quarter century I remember many of
the details though maybe my memories have evolved.
The process of writing down this experience is
already evoking many memories and, unless proven
otherwise, I’ll assume that they are memories of
real events but others may view it differently and
I will try to correct the more creative aspects of
my memory.
Even simple decisions were only simple in context.
They were all intertwined and I will try to reduce
the confusion by separating aspects of
implementation, design and business.
For more details on the history of VisiCalc and
even a version that still runs on the IBM PC, see
Dan Bricklin’s VisiCalc History pages.
# ⚓ LibreOffice_Czech_User_Guides_are_now_in_the_Bookshelf⠀⇛
The Czech Community is happy to announce the
immediate availability of the Czech LibreOffice
User Guides in the LibreOffice Bookshelf. Thanks to
the efforts of Zdeněk Crhonek and Stanislav
Horáček, the bookshelf has now all recent user
guides in Czech, available in PDF, OpenDocument
(LibreOffice’s native file format) and HTML for
online reading…
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_Neovim_on_Ubuntu_and
other_Linux_Distributions⠀⇛
Want to use Neovim? Here, we show you how to
install it and get the ball rolling.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Install_Budgie_Desktop_10.7.1_in
Ubuntu_Budgie_22.04⠀⇛
This simple tutorial shows how to install the
latest Budgie Desktop 10.7.1 in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
Ubuntu Budgie is one of the official Ubuntu flavors
features the Budgie desktop. While Ubuntu Budgie
22.04 ships with Budgie Desktop 10.6.1, the latest
version has reached v10.7.1.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Streamlining_your_workflow_with_Tmux:_Tips_for
developers⠀⇛
In this guide, we will provide tips and tricks for
developers on how to streamline their workflow
using Tmux. We will cover the creation and
management of Tmux sessions, window and pane
manipulation, and customization options. We will
also explore some popular Tmux plugins for further
customization.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ How_To_Create_Your_Own_AI_Chatbot_Server
With_Raspberry_Pi_4⠀⇛
Harness the power of the latest AI models using
your Raspberry Pi 4.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Tor_Browser_on_Ubuntu_22.04
or_20.04⠀⇛
The Tor Browser is a powerful tool for those who
value privacy, anonymity, and the ability to access
restricted content online. It offers a unique
browsing experience by encrypting your internet
traffic and routing it through a network of
volunteer-operated servers, known as the Tor
network.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Cinnamon_Desktop_Environment
on_Debian_12,_11_or_10⠀⇛
The Cinnamon desktop environment is a modern,
sleek, and highly customizable alternative to the
default GNOME desktop environment found on Debian.
Created as a fork of the GNOME Shell, Cinnamon
focuses on offering users a more traditional
desktop experience.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Nginx_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or
20.04⠀⇛
NGINX is a powerful, open-source web server,
reverse proxy server, and load balancer that has
gained significant popularity in recent years for
its flexibility, performance, and scalability.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Modsecurity_with_Apache_on
Ubuntu_22.04_or_20.04⠀⇛
ModSecurity is a popular and powerful open-source
web application firewall (WAF) designed to protect
your server from various web-based attacks. As a
module for the Apache HTTP Server, it provides
real-time monitoring, logging, and access control
capabilities to secure your web applications from
common exploits and vulnerabilities.
# ⚓ Real Linux User ☛ Quick_Fix_–_How_to_solve_AppImage_not
running_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
When Ubuntu version 22.04 came out, users ran into
strange issues that didn’t play a role before.
# ⚓ Upgrading_a_server_from_Karoshi_V13_to_V14⠀⇛
Introduction Karoshi V13 server and LinuxSchools
V14 server are built using Ubuntu LTS releases and
when they reach the end of update support will
either have to be re-installed with the newest
version or updated to the newest version.
# ⚓ Techtown ☛ Delimited_Files:_Understanding_and_Utilizing
Various_Delimiters⠀⇛
Delimited files are a common format for data
storage and exchange. These files store data in a
tabular structure, where each data value is
separated by a specific character, known as a
delimiter.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Mixxx_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Mixxx on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ Simplify_Your_Process_Management_With_pkill
Command_on_Linux⠀⇛
Have you ever wanted to kill a process running on
your Linux system but didn’t know how to do it
efficiently?
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Draw.io_Desktop_App_on_Rocky_Linux
9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Draw.io Desktop App on Rocky Linux 9.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_SMPlayer_on_Fedora_37⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
SMPlayer on Fedora 37. For those of you who didn’t
know, SMPlayer is a free, open-source media player
that supports a wide range of audio and video
formats.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Game_Jam_Winner_Spotlight:_The_Pigeon_Wager⠀⇛
So far in our series of posts showcasing the
winners in all six categories of the fifth annual
public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1927,
we’ve featured Best Remix winner Lucia, Best
Visuals winner Urbanity, and Best Adaptation winner
To And Again. Today, we’re taking a closer look at
the winner of the Best Deep Cut category: The
Pigeon Wager by Jason Morningstar of Bully Pulpit
Games.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ SOME_CHANGES_TO_THE_DISCORD_CHANNELS. [Ed: Discord (proprietary)
has not worked out for makululinux, so why not use IRC, Matrix
etc.?]⠀⇛
We have had to do some repairs to our Discord channels,
everything should now be up and running. We had a
childish team member exit and tried to sabotage the
discord channels
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ MidnightBSD_3.0⠀⇛
3.0 i386 packages haven’t been built for the
release yet. There are some older ones available
but without the full desktop environment. We’ll be
building those this weekend. We’re uploading some
ISOs but still need to do final testing on them…
# ⚓ FreeBSD ☛ FreeBSD_13.2-RC4_Now_Available⠀⇛
The fourth RC build of the 13.2-RELEASE release
cycle is now available.
Please note that a fifth RC build will be arriving
very soon with one more
bug fix; 13.2-RC5 is expected to be the final
release candidate.
Installation images are available for:
o 13.2-RC4 amd64 GENERIC
o 13.2-RC4 i386 GENERIC
o 13.2-RC4 powerpc GENERIC
o 13.2-RC4 powerpc64 GENERIC64
o 13.2-RC4 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE
o 13.2-RC4 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE
o 13.2-RC4 armv6 RPI-B
o 13.2-RC4 armv7 GENERICSD
o 13.2-RC4 aarch64 GENERIC
o 13.2-RC4 aarch64 RPI
o 13.2-RC4 aarch64 PINE64
o 13.2-RC4 aarch64 PINE64-LTS
o 13.2-RC4 aarch64 PINEBOOK
o 13.2-RC4 aarch64 ROCK64
o 13.2-RC4 aarch64 ROCKPRO64
o 13.2-RC4 riscv64 GENERIC
o 13.2-RC4 riscv64 GENERICSD
Note regarding arm SD card images: For convenience
for those without
console access to the system, a freebsd user with a
password of
freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access.
Additionally,
the root user password is set to root. It is
strongly recommended
to change the password for both users after gaining
access to the
system.
Installer images and memory stick images are
available here:
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/
13.2/
The image checksums follow at the end of this e-
mail.
If you notice problems you can report them through
the Bugzilla PR
system or on the -stable mailing list.
If you would like to use Git to do a source based
update of an existing
system, use the "releng/13.2" branch.
A summary of changes since 13.2-RC3 includes:
o A fix to recalculate mitigations after reloading
microcode on resume; this
unbreaks suspend/resume on some laptops.
o A fix to stack unwinding of kernel dumps on
arm64.
o A kernel panic fix in carp(4).
o Fix bug resulting in misdetecting endianness on
any platform when using
endian.h sometimes.
A list of changes since 13.1 is available in the
releng/13.2
release notes:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.2R/relnotes/
=== Virtual Machine Disk Images ===
VM disk images are available for the amd64, i386,
and aarch64
architectures. Disk images may be downloaded from
the following URL
(or any of the FreeBSD download mirrors):
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/VM-IMAGES/
13.2-RC4/
BASIC-CI images can be found at:
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/CI-IMAGES/
13.2-RC4/
The partition layout is:
~ 16 kB - freebsd-boot GPT partition type
(bootfs GPT label)
~ 1 GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type
(swapfs GPT label)
~ 20 GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type
(rootfs GPT label)
The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK,
and raw disk image
formats. The image download size is approximately
135 MB and 165 MB
respectively (amd64/i386), decompressing to a 21 GB
sparse image.
Note regarding arm64/aarch64 virtual machine
images: a modified QEMU EFI
loader file is needed for qemu-system-aarch64 to be
able to boot the
virtual machine images. See this page for more
information:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64/QEMU
To boot the VM image, run:
% qemu-system-aarch64 -m 4096M -cpu cortex-a57
-M virt \
-bios QEMU_EFI.fd -serial telnet::4444,server -
nographic \
-drive if=none,file=VMDISK,id=hd0 \
-device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \
-device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0 \
-netdev user,id=net0
Be sure to replace "VMDISK" with the path to the
virtual machine image.
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ SUSE_S.A._appoints_Dirk-Peter_van
Leeuwen_as_new_CEO⠀⇛
A veteran of the enterprise software industry,
Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen has spent nearly two decades
at Red Hat, a global leader in open source
solutions. Since joining Red Hat in 2004, he has
held various senior management positions overseeing
sales, marketing and operations, most recently as
Senior Vice President and General Manager of North
America, and before that of APAC.
Melissa Di Donato, the current CEO, has decided to
step down as she embarks on the next chapter of her
career. Under her leadership SUSE listed on the
Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2021 and became one of
Europe’s most valuable public software companies.
During her tenure, SUSE has also completed the
strategic acquisitions of Rancher and NeuVector,
which position the Company strongly in the high
growth markets of container management and
security. SUSE has increased its revenues by over
60% and its adjusted EBITDA by over 70% under
Melissa Di Donato’s leadership.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ 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.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Arduino_UNO_gets_Renesas_hardware_update⠀⇛
The upcoming Open Source board will be equipped
with a 32-bit Renesas RA4M1 processor instead of
the 8-bit ATmega328P chip. Moreover, there will be
a UNO R4 version featuring an ESP32 module for
wireless connectivity.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Arduino_UNO_R4_is_a_giant_leap_forward_for_an
open_source_community_of_millions⠀⇛
The history of making is now ready for the future:
a 32-bit UNO will soon be available thanks to a
powerful Renesas processor Here at Arduino we are
thrilled to announce a new, revolutionary revision
of the iconic UNO board, which will expand the
concept of the open-source brand’s most iconic and
popular product…
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Is_Your_USB-C_Dock_Out_To_Hack_You?⠀⇛
In today’s installment of Betteridge’s law
enforcement, here’s an evil USB-C dock proof-of-
concept by [Lachlan Davidson] from [Aura Division].
We’ve seen malicious USB devices aplenty, from
cables and chargers to flash drives and even
suspicious USB fans. But a dock, however, is new.
The gist is simple — you take a stock dock, find a
Pi Zero W and wire it up to a USB 2.0 port tapped
somewhere inside the dock. Finding a Pi Zero is
unquestionably the hardest part in this endeavor —
on the software side, everything is ready for you,
just flash an SD card with a pre-cooked malicious
image and go!
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Single_Flex_PCB_Folds_Into_A_Four-Wheel_Rover,
Complete_With_Motors⠀⇛
You’ve got to hand it to [Carl Bugeja] — he comes
up with some of the most interesting
electromechanical designs we’ve seen. His latest
project is right up there, too: a single PCB that
folds up into a four-wheel motorized rover.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Attention,_Travelers:_Now_Is_the_Best_Time
to_Switch_to_eSIM⠀⇛
Last year, Apple eliminated the SIM card tray from
the iPhone 14 to free up space. That means the SIM
card, which acts as a key that connects your phone
with cellular networks, is being phased out for
Apple phones.
Where Apple leads, others typically follow, so you
can expect handset makers like Samsung and Google
to also go all-in on eSIM — a digitized SIM card
embedded into the phone’s computer chip that you
can activate with any cellular network’s service
plan.
# ⚓ TheHinduBusinessLine ☛ Google_Drive_gets_new_look_on
Android_tablet_–_The_Hindu_BusinessLine⠀⇛
# ⚓ India Today ☛ How_to_recover_deleted_photos_on_Android_–
India_Today⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ New_Google_Wallpapers_are_available_for_all
Android_phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ XDA ☛ Google_Drive’s_getting_a_new_look_and_bringing_added
functionality_to_Android_tablets⠀⇛
# ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ All_Realme_smartphones_confirmed_to_get_the
Android_13_update⠀⇛
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ OnePlus_11_camera_–_you_no_longer_need
Samsung_Galaxy_or_Pixel_to_take_amazing_photos_on_Android!_–
PhoneArena⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Volker Krause ☛ FOSSGIS_2023⠀⇛
Last week I attended the FOSSGIS-Konferent_2023 in Berlin
and spoke about KDE_Itinerary’s_use_of_OSM_data there.
§ Conference
With three days of three parallel conference tracks with
tightly packed 20 minute slots I only got to see a small
subset of the talks, focusing on the topics most relevant
for KDE_Itinerary.
Some takeaways for me:
# OSM core data model evolution: The initial steps
discussed here aren’t directly impacting KDE’s uses
of OSM data yet,
the possible improvements for more efficient and
accurate tile expiry are something potentially
interesting for our raw data
tile server though (although we currently don’t
implement any form of tile expire yet).
# Indoor positioning (with GPS usually not available
inside buildings there is no similarly prevalent
solution yet, let
alone one that works without needing extra
infrastructure in the building and without
requiring non-standard/not-yet-standard hardware in
phones): Two possible approaches for this were
presented, one using
common inertial sensors and map matching to
compensate the drift, the other using a camera and
a
SLAM-like algorithm.
Nothing published yet unfortunately, so we have to
see how well those actually perform in practice.
# Indoor map data: I found it particularly
interesting to see for which very different
usecases people need
the same kind of data, from navigating through a
train station to city-scale earthquake risk
assessments with a scary level of detail and
accuracy.
I also did my first major conference talk in German
there, which I hopefully managed to do without using
an English term for every other word.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Patrick Jordan Bene ☛ Explaining_my_fast_6502_code
generator⠀⇛
I reckon my compiler isn’t doing more when it comes
to high-level optimizations, so the gains must be
from the code generation side. This makes sense, as
most compilers are multi-target, with backends
designed for modern RISC-like systems, not the
ancient 6502. It doesn’t matter how good GCC or
LLVM’s high-level optimizations are if they falter
at the last leg of the race.
Still, my compiler also beats those designed for
retro and embedded systems, like VBCC, SDCC, and
KickC. For this reason, it seemed like a good idea
to write about my technique.
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ How_fast_do_the_files_read_in?⠀⇛
I will demonstrate how to generate a 1,000 row and
column matrix with random numbers in R, and then
save it in different file formats. I will also show
how to get the file size of each saved object and
benchmark how long it takes to read in each file
using different functions.
# ⚓ Greg_Casamento:_Swift->ObjC_interop⠀⇛
Some interesting notes. I will update this posting
as i find more: * https://dart.dev/guides/
libraries/objective-c-interop
# ⚓ Greg_Casamento:_Compatibility_project_almost_complete⠀⇛
As the much villified theme for star trek
enterprise says “its been a long road getting from
there to here” i am almost done with all of the
work that needed to be done to get us to Catalina
compatibility in GNUstep. The reason this is still
significant is because Apple hasn’t made many
changes to either the Foundation or AppKit APIs
since then. I have been workinf hard over the last
three years. All of the new classes are fully
tested. Once this effort is completed I am going to
focus on printing, which has always been a problem
in GS. And possibly a “reference” distribution.
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Ryan_Barrett_on_HTTP_content_negotiation⠀⇛
I’ve been bitten by this before, and agree_with
Ryan’s_thoughts:
Content negotiation is a feature of HTTP that lets
clients ask for, and servers return, different
content types based on the request’s Accept header.
Sounds great, right? Well, no. Content negotiation
is the classic example of an idea that sounds good
in theory, but for the vast majority of web
developers, turns out to be net harmful in
practice.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ The Local SE ☛ Ten_secrets_you_can’t_keep_in_Sweden⠀⇛
Swedes have a reputation for being private people, so it
might seem paradoxical that details from age to salary to
your home address are easily available to anyone who
knows where to look.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Here’s_How_to_Rewire_Your_Brain_So_You_Actually
Look_Forward_to_Mondays⠀⇛
Yes, it’s possible.
o ⚓ Tedium ☛ A_Side_of_Gloss⠀⇛
Tedium continues on its long journey to fill its glossary
with hundreds of entries, and today’s list takes a long,
hard look at all things food-related.
o ⚓ Tolkien Gateway ☛ Tolkien_Reading_Day⠀⇛
Tolkien Reading Day is an annual event held on the 25
March to celebrate and promote the writings of J.R.R.
Tolkien. It was founded by The Tolkien Society.[1]
o ⚓ Computers Are Bad ☛ docker⠀⇛
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about Docker,
mostly about their boneheaded reversal following their
boneheaded apology for their boneheaded decision to
eliminate free teams. I don’t really care much about this
event in terms of how it impacts my professional work. I
long ago wrote off Docker, Inc. as a positive part of the
DevOps ecosystem. But what’s very interesting to me is
how we got here: The story of Docker, Docker Inc., Docker
Hub, and their relation to the broader world of
containerization is endlessly fascinating to me.
How is it that Docker Inc., creator of one of the most
important and ubiquitous tools in the modern software
industry, has become such a backwater of rent-seeking and
foot-shooting? Silicon Valley continually produces some
astounding failures, but Docker stands out to me. Docker
as a software product is an incredible success; Docker as
a company is a joke; and the work of computing
professionals is complicated by the oddly distant and yet
oddly close connection between the two.
o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Getting_Started_with_GL-S200_Thread_Border_Router
kit⠀⇛
Last week we checked out the hardware for the GL.iNet GL-
S200 Thread Border Router kit with three nRF52840 Thread
Dev Boards, and I’ve now had time to work with the kit,
so I’ll report my getting started experience in the
second part of the review. GL-S200 Initial Set Up I
connected the WAN port to my Ethernet Switch itself
connected to my modem router and the LAN port to my
laptop, so I could access the web interface using the
default IP address (192.168.8.1). The GL-S200 uses the
same Admin Panel as other GL.iNet routers such as the
Beryl AX router we reviewed at the beginning of the year.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Banning_Eagle_Song,_Dragons_Love_Tacos,_A_Thai
Lullaby_and_Pink!_To_Protect_the_Children⠀⇛
The zealots are out in force these days, feverishly
banning pernicious texts like Sneezy the Snowman,
Grandmama’s Pride, A Storm Called Katrina and Dim Sun For
Everyone because they’re “putting children at risk” while
they quietly sit through live-shooter drills. Happily,
some are calling out concerns “their kids’ minds may be
opened by a book.” Among them is Grace Linn, 100, whose
husband died long ago fighting her era’s brownshirts.
“Fear is not freedom,” she says. “Fear is control.”
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Other_people’s_body_odor_could_help_reduce_your
social_anxiety:_study⠀⇛
“The results of our preliminary study show that
combining these chemo-signals with mindfulness
therapy seem to produce better results,” lead
researcher Elisa Vigna said.
# ⚓ NL Times ☛ Official_shell_counting_day:_Counting_seashells
on_Dutch_beaches_for_science⠀⇛
To get a better idea of how many seashells are on
Dutch beaches and in the sea, interested people
could count shells on beaches in the Netherlands on
Saturday. Several organizations have declared
Saturday as shell counting day for this purpose.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘When_We_Fight,_We_Win!’:_LA_School_Workers
Secure_Deal_After_3-Day_Strike⠀⇛
Union negotiators for about 30,000 school support
staffers in California’s Los Angeles County struck
a historic deal with the second-largest district in
the United States on Friday after a three-day
strike.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ LA_School_Workers_Win_Historic_Deal_After_3-Day
Strike⠀⇛
# ⚓ Arjen Wiersma ☛ Open_Universiteit:_Software_Quality
Management⠀⇛
I just finished the Software Quality Management
course. It was a fun course that focused on the
maintainability of code and measuring objective
quality metrics. As is usual in a Master you read a
lot of papers on the topic, from McCabe’s
complexity measure to Fuggetta et al. on the
evolution of the software development process. All
these papers were very interesting and have given
me insights into the evolution of software
development. It was enlightening to offset those
papers with my own experience.
Most of the papers are from the late 1990’s up to
the early 2010’s. During that time I worked in
Silicon Valley and within the Dutch startup
environment. All these companies were on the
frontline of new technologies and methodologies.
The papers hit home most of the time. Several
papers on the implementation of Scrum and how
software evolves felt a bit one-sided from an
academic point of view, but that did not bother me
too much.
# ⚓ Chris Hannah ☛ Engineers_Should_Write⠀⇛
Being a software engineer and a writer, my opinion
is likely biased in favour of this opinion.
However, I have noticed that as I have progressed
in my job, I have found writing to also be much
more important. Whether it’s writing documentation,
reviewing code, planning features, analysing future
architecture, or even just helping other engineers.
There’s a huge benefit to being able to write
clearly, and to be able to explain your thoughts to
your future self, and others.
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Public_Education_Is_Vital_for_Democracy.
But_It’s_Not_the_Solution_to_Poverty_or_Inequality.⠀⇛
By the 1930s, education was one plank in President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s proposed Economic Bill
of Rights, his ambitious social contract that
included the right to a “useful and remunerative
job” that paid enough to provide adequate food,
clothing, and fun, alongside the rights to a decent
home, to adequate medical care, and to live free of
economic want or worry. Education made the list as
part of Roosevelt’s broader vision for expanding
social democracy, Shelton argues, rather than as a
means of helping Americans achieve economic
success.
But within a matter of decades, that vision would
begin to shrink as the “education myth” took hold.
Shelton’s real — and infuriating — contribution
here is to document the extraordinary coalescing of
political elites around the idea that education is
the best, even the only way, for Americans to
realize economic security. By the 1960s, this view
would all but choke off more radical plans for
political and economic equality. The “Freedom
Budget” — the massive spending plan proposed by A.
Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin in 1966 to
provide all Americans with access to a job, living
wage, housing, and health care — was never taken up
by Congress or President Lyndon Baines Johnson. An
effort by Senator Hubert Humphrey and
Representative Augustus Hawkins to enshrine
guaranteed employment into law a few years later
wouldn’t fare much better.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ How_Arm_aims_to_squeeze_device_makers_for
cash_rather_than_pocket_pennies_for_cores⠀⇛
The Softbank-owned British processor designer has
reportedly approached several of its largest
customers about increasing fees for its blueprints,
and charging device makers directly rather than
licensing designs to chipmakers.
Citing multiple industry executives and former
employees, the Financial Times reports that Arm’s
revised license model would see the company charge
based on the value of the end device — a smartphone
or tablet, for example — rather than the value of
the chips based on its designs.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Inside_Digital_Image_Chips⠀⇛
Have you ever thought how amazing it is that every
bit of DRAM in your computer requires a teeny tiny
capacitor? A 16 GB DRAM has 128 billion little
capacitors, one for each bit. However, that’s not
the only densely-packed IC you probably use daily.
The other one is the image sensor in your camera,
which is probably in your phone. The ICs have a
tremendous number of tiny silicon photosensors, and
[Asianometry] explains how they work in the video
you can see below.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Gordon_E._Moore,_Intel_Co-Founder_Behind
Moore’s_Law,_Dies_at_94⠀⇛
His prediction in the 1960s about rapid advances in
computer chip technology charted a course for the
age of high tech.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Gordon_Moore,_1929_—_2023⠀⇛
The news emerged yesterday that Gordon Moore,
semiconductor pioneer, one of the founders of both
Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, and the
originator of the famous Moore’s Law, has died. His
continuing influence over all aspects of the
technology which makes our hardware world can not
be underestimated, and his legacy will remain with
us for many decades to come.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Classic_1960s_Flip_Clock_Gets_NTP_Makeover⠀⇛
Many of the clocks we feature here on Hackaday are
entirely built from scratch, or perhaps reuse an
unusual display type. But sometimes, an old clock
is just perfect as it is, and only needs a bit of
an upgrade to help it fit into the modern world.
One such example is the lovely 1960s Copal flip
clock (in German, Google Translate link) that
[Wolfgang Jung] has been working with — he managed
to bring it squarely into the 21st century without
changing its appearance one bit.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Intel_Disconnects_5G_Modem_Business,_Sells
to_MediaTek⠀⇛
Intel set to exit PC modem business as part of IDM
2.0 strategy.
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ I_fixed_my_1991_386SX-16/20CN_motherboard!⠀⇛
This is a post about a beloved old motherboard, and
my journey to get it working. I love seeing the
process of people on YouTube doing this, so I
thought I’d try something similar by “live
blogging” the experience. It was a lot of fun :).
§ How I got this board
[...]
Aside from some dust, it was in remarkable physical
condition. As you can see in the lower-right corner
near the AT keyboard connector, the Ni-Cd battery
was long since removed, which thankfully saved the
board from any leaking acid. All the manufacturer
date codes I can see show 1991, and the AMI BIOS
sticker is from 1989.
In the lower-centre we have the AMD Am386SX/SXL-25
CPU. If I remember correctly, the SXs were “binned”
versions of the DX that didn’t include a floating
point unit. A math coprocessor could be added
retroactively on boards that supported them, such
as this one with the empty brown socket between the
CPU and rectangular timing crystals. While being a
32-bit part, the external bus also only ran at 16-
bit.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ TikTok_ban_had_‘side_benefit’_of_getting_his
kids_off_platform:_Canada_PM_Justin_Trudeau⠀⇛
The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce
Committee chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a
Republican, said, “TikTok collects nearly every
data point imaginable – from people’s location to
what they type and copy, who they talk to, to
biometric data and more.”
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Utah_outlaws_kids’_social_media
addiction,_sets_digital_curfew⠀⇛
“SB152 requires social media companies to verify
that users in the state are 18 or older to open an
account,” said Cox via Twitter. “Minors will need
parental consent to create an account.”
“HB311 prohibits social media companies from using
a design or feature that causes addiction for a
minor to the company’s social media platform. This
bill also makes it easier for people to sue social
media companies for damages.”
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Utah_Law_Could_Curb_Use_of_TikTok_and
Instagram_by_Children_and_Teens⠀⇛
Governor Cox also signed a second bill on Thursday
that will prohibit social media companies from
employing features or design techniques that could
cause a minor to form an “addiction” to their
online platforms.
The Utah measures come at a moment of heightened
public concern and political action over powerful
social media algorithms that may entice young
people to spend hours online.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_Cigna_Saves_Millions_by_Having_Its
Doctors_Reject_Claims_Without_Reading_Them⠀⇛
When a stubborn pain in Nick van Terheyden’s bones
would not subside, his doctor had a hunch what was
wrong.
Without enough vitamin D in the blood, the body
will pull that vital nutrient from the bones. Left
untreated, a vitamin D deficiency can lead to
osteoporosis.
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Fears_of_outbreak_after_measles_diagnosis_in
South_Australia⠀⇛
There are fears of a measles outbreak in South
Australia after a three-year-old boy was diagnosed
with the disease.
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Mosquito-borne_diseases_expected_to_rise_after
pandemic_across_Queensland⠀⇛
There has been a significant spike in dengue and
malaria cases across the state, according to
Queensland Health.
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ The_Search_for_the_Origins_of_SARS-CoV-2:_“The
Results_on_My_Screen_Were:_Raccoon_Dog,_Raccoon_Dog,_Raccoon
Dog!”⠀⇛
Evolutionary biologist Florence Débarre has long
been searching for gene sequences from the market
in Wuhan. Recently, she made an astounding
discovery. What does it tell us about the origins
of the coronavirus and the resulting pandemic?
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ UN_Nuclear_Watchdog_Chief_To_Visit_Ukraine’s
Russian-Held_Zaporizhzhya_Plant⠀⇛
The United Nations nuclear watchdog has said
Director-General Rafael Grossi will travel next
week to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which
was seized by Russian forces shortly after they
invaded Ukraine.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Autism_rates_rising_fastest_among_minority
children,_CDC_says⠀⇛
Autism is on the rise, especially for minorities,
according to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Microsoft_scrambles_to_fix_Windows_11
‘aCropalypse’_privacy-battering_bug⠀⇛
Users can remove sensitive information or some
other parts of photos, screenshots, and other
images by cropping them using the Snipping Tool
app. The problem is that for the Windows 11 app –
as well as Microsoft’s Snip & Sketch cropping tool
in Windows 10 – the file of the cropped image still
includes the cropped out portions, which can be
recovered and viewed.
# ⚓ SANS ☛ Microsoft_Released_an_Update_for_Windows_Snipping
Tool_Vulnerability,_(Sat,_Mar_25th)⠀⇛
To exploit this vulnerability, the image must be
created under very specific condition listed…
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ US_Charges_20-Year-Old_Head_of_Hacker_Site
BreachForums⠀⇛
The US Justice Department charged Conor Brian
Fitzpatrick, founder of BreachForums, a major
underground website for computer hackers.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Critics_claim_Paris_using_2024_Games_to
introduce_Big_Brother_video_surveillance⠀⇛
France’s National Assembly is due to adopt a
law on Tuesday ahead of the 2024 Olympic
Games in Paris. Article 7 is the most
controversial aspect of this law, as it will
allow AI video surveillance to be used to
detect abnormal behaviour. Human rights
organisations and the French left have
condemned the measure.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Recreating_One_Of_History’s_Best_Known_Spy
Gadgets⠀⇛
[Machining and Microwaves] got an interesting
request. The BBC asked him to duplicate the
Great Seal Bug — the device the Russians used
to listen covertly to the US ambassador for
seven years in 1945. Turns out they’re
filming a documentary on the legendary
surveillance device and wanted to demonstrate
how it worked.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ 20_Years_On,_What_Did_the_Iraq_War_Truly
Cost?⠀⇛
The war claimed more than lives and treasure — it
claimed a future’s worth of lost opportunities.
Now, younger generations are demanding them back.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Police_Use_“Less_Lethal”_Weapons_to_Crush
Social_Movements_Across_the_World⠀⇛
A new report finds that more than 121,000 people
globally were injured or killed by crowd-control
weapons since 2015.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Armed_to_the_teeth’:_Who_runs_—_and_who_funds_—_a
new_private_military_company_in_annexed_Crimea?_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Sergey Aksyonov, the Kremlin-appointed governor of
annexed Crimea, has created his own private
military company called Convoy and headed by
Konstantin Pikalov (call sign: Mazai), a former
Wagner Group leader whom publication Vazhniye
Istorii (Important Stories) called Evgeny
Prigozhin’s right hand man. Meduza summarizes
Vazhniye Istorii’s reporting on the group, its
origins, and its links to both Wagner Group and
official Russian military structures.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Investigative_Committee_opens_a_criminal_case
against_economist_Konstantin_Sonin_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Investigative Committee of the Russian
Federation has opened a criminal case, under the
statute on “fakes” about the Russian Army, against
Konstantin Sonin, a professor of economics at the
University of Chicago, and a former professor at
Moscow’s Higher School of Economics.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Russia_accuses_Azerbaijan_of_violating_ceasefire
agreement_with_Armenia⠀⇛
Russia on Saturday accused Azerbaijan of violating
the Moscow-brokered ceasefire that ended the 2020
war with Armenia, by letting its troops cross over
the demarcation line.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Biden:_U.S._Does_Not_Seek_Conflict_With_Iran_But
Will_‘Forcefully’_Protect_Americans_In_Syria⠀⇛
U.S. President Joe Biden has said the United States
does not seek conflict with Iran but will respond
to protect its personnel in Syria and elsewhere.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iran-Backed_Fighters_On_Alert_In_East_Syria_After
U.S._Strikes,_Activists_Say⠀⇛
Iran-backed fighters were on alert in eastern Syria
on March 25, a day after U.S. forces launched
retaliatory air strikes on sites in the war-torn
country, opposition activists said.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Recent_Airstrikes_Are_Our_Periodic_Reminder_That
We’re_Fighting_a_War_in_Syria⠀⇛
Four years after IS was officially defeated, the
U.S. continues to keep hundreds of troops in Syria
to fight the vanquished terrorist group.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Nordic_Countries_Combine_Air_Defenses_To_Counter
Russian_Threat⠀⇛
Military officials in four Nordic countries have
announced the creation of a unified air-defense
force to counter the perceived threat from Russia.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Lawmaker_Calls_For_Ban_On_ICC_Activity_In
Russia⠀⇛
The pro-Kremlin speaker of the lower house of
Russia’s parliament has called for his country to
ban the activities of the International Criminal
Court (ICC) after it issued an arrest warrant on
possible war crimes for President Vladimir Putin.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ ICC_Charges_Putin_With_War_Crimes_While_US_and
Israeli_Leaders_Enjoy_Impunity⠀⇛
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Chechnya’s_Kadyrov_Decorated_For_Defending_Human
Rights⠀⇛
The controversial head of Russia’s Chechnya region,
Ramzan Kadyrov, has been decorated as an “honored
human rights defender of the Chechen Republic.”
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Recruiting_Convicts_For_Ukraine_War_Has_‘Reduced
Crime_In_Russia’⠀⇛
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Kremlin-connected
businessman who controls the Wagner mercenary
group, has defended the firm’s practice of
recruiting convicts to fight in Ukraine.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Says_Russia_Will_Station_Tactical_Nuclear
Weapons_In_Belarus⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow has
reached agreement to station tactical nuclear
weapons on the territory of close ally Belarus,
which borders both Russia and Ukraine.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_announces_that_Russia_will_deploy_tactical
nuclear_weapons_in_Belarus_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian president Vladimir Putin said on air on
state-run television network Russia 24 that Russia
intends to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the
territory of Belarus.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Extremely_Dangerous_Escalation’:_Putin_to
Station_Russian_Nukes_in_Belarus⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on state
television Saturday plans to station tactical
nuclear weapons in Belarus—an escalation anti-war
campaigners had been warning about and that alarmed
disarmament advocates and experts.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ AUKUS_Nuclear_Submarines:_Accelerating_the
Sleepwalking_to_War_With_China⠀⇛
The March 13 Biden-Albanese-Sunak summit in San
Diego to demonstrate alliance solidarity and to
sign the multi-billion AUKUS (Australia, United
Kingdom, US) nuclear submarine deal accelerated the
pace of the U.S. and China sleepwalking toward
catastrophic war. Compounding the dangers that came
with the creation of the alliance in 2021 as part
of the Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific military
buildup, the new deal also adds to the mountain of
obstacles blocking the way to the U.S.-Chinese
cooperation that is essential if the climate
emergency is to be reversed, the world’s nuclear
arms races stanched, and if the planet’s two most
technologically advanced nations collaborating to
prevent pandemics and discover cancer cures.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Hungary:_Criticism_Makes_It_Hard_To_Cooperate_With
West⠀⇛
The West’s steady criticism of Hungary on
democratic and cultural issues makes the country’s
right-wing government reluctant to offer support on
practical matters, specifically NATO’s buildup
against Russia.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Asia_Fact_Check_Lab:_Did_Putin_kneel_before_Xi
Jinping?⠀⇛
Verdict: False
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Hungary:_Criticism_makes_it_hard_to
cooperate_with_West⠀⇛
Hungary’s foreign minister says the West’s steady
criticism of his country on democratic and cultural
issues makes the right-wing government reluctant to
offer support on practical matters, specifically
NATO’s buildup against Russia. Foreign Minister
Péter Szijjártó also said that Hungary has not
voted on whether to allow Finland and Sweden to
join NATO because its lawmakers are sick of those
countries’ critiques of Hungarian domestic affairs.
Szijjártó spoke to the The Associated Press at the
United Nations on Friday. The European Union, which
includes 21 NATO countries, has frozen billions in
funds to Budapest and accused populist Prime
Minister Viktor Orban of cracking down on media
freedom and LGBTQ rights.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ 6_Army_bases_named_after_Confederate_leaders_get
dates_for_new_names⠀⇛
Several U.S. Army bases will officially get their
new names in the coming months as the military
seeks to redesignate bases_that_currently_honor
Confederate_leaders.
Driving the news:Fort Hood, the major Army base in
central Texas, will be redesignated as Fort Cavazos
on May 9, the base_announced_Friday.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Hungary_would_not_arrest_Putin_despite_ICC_warrant,
official_says⠀⇛
A Hungarian official has said that the country
would not arrest Russian President Vladimir_Putin
if he entered Hungary, despite the International
Criminal_Court_(ICC) warrant for alleged war
crimes.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ White_powder_sent_to_Manhattan_DA_investigating
Trump_deemed_non-hazardous⠀⇛
A letter containing white powder sent Friday to the
office of the Manhattan_district_attorney weighing
charges against former President_Trump contained no
“dangerous substance” inside, according to multiple
reports.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ When_Donald_Paid_Stormy:_A_History_of_Hush
Money⠀⇛
Buying silence is as old as Genesis. Among the
hushers: Bill Cosby, Michael Jackson, Bette Davis,
and a U.S. President with a special friend called
Jerry the Penis.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ House_GOP_blasts_Bragg_for_refusing_to_cooperate
with_their_probe_into_DA’s_case_against_Trump⠀⇛
Members of the House Oversight and Judiciary
committees rebuked Manhattan District Attorney
Alvin Bragg in a letter Saturday for refusing to
cooperate with their probe into the Stormy Daniels
“hush money” case he’s pursuing against former
President Donald Trump.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ GOP_Reps._mull_legislation_to_protect_presidents
from_“politically_motivated”_probes⠀⇛
Top House Republicans said in a letter Saturday
that they’re considering legislation to “protect”
current and former presidents from “politically
motivated prosecutions” in response to Manhattan
District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation into
former_President_Trump.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ At_Texas_rally,_Trump_blasts_investigators_as
“maniacs”⠀⇛
Former President Trump on Saturday blasted the
wide-ranging investigations against him, telling
thousands of supporters at a rally in Texas that
his personal life “has been turned upside down”
because of “prosecutorial misconduct by radical
left maniacs.”
Why it matters: In a rambling speech at the Waco
airport, Trump made his most extensive comments yet
on the legal jeopardy he faces, starting with the
New York probe into alleged hush money he paid to a
porn star over an affair she says they had.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Bakhmut_Battle_‘Could_Be_Stabilized,’
Ukrainian_General_Says⠀⇛
The battle for the city has been the most violent
of recent months, creating an increasingly dire
humanitarian crisis for the few remaining
civilians.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_Says_No_Letup_On_Bakhmut_Front_Despite
Claims_Russian_Offensive_Stalling⠀⇛
Fierce fighting continues near the eastern
Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, with Russia launching
dozens of attacks over the last 24 hours, Ukraine’s
military said in a March 25 briefing.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Idaho_governor_signs_firing_squad
execution_bill_into_law⠀⇛
Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed into law a bill
allowing firing squads to execute death row inmates
when lethal injection drugs are unavailable. The
move makes Idaho the fifth U.S. state to authorize
the execution method. The new law will give the
Department of Correction up to five days after a
death warrant is issued to determine if lethal
injection is available. If not, the execution must
be done by firing squad. The Death Penalty
Information Center says Idaho joins Mississippi,
Oklahoma, Utah and South Carolina as the states
allowing firing squads. South Carolina’s law is on
hold because of a legal challenge.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Russia_‘largely_stalled’_in_Bakhmut,
shifting_focus,_UK_says⠀⇛
The top commander of Ukraine’s military says his
forces are pushing back against Russian troops in
the long and grinding battle for the town of
Bakhmut. British military intelligence published on
Saturday said Russia appeared to be moving to a
defensive strategy in eastern Ukraine. However, the
Ukrainian military cautioned that Bakhmut remained
Russia’s main point of attack for now. The town is
the focus of the longest battle of the 13-month war
in Ukraine. Russia has deployed both regular
soldiers and fighters of the mercenary Wagner Group
in the campaign to seize Bakhmut. Russian forces
must go through the town to push deeper into other
parts of eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_Blow_to_Taiwan,_Honduras_Switches
Relations_to_China⠀⇛
The Central American country changed diplomatic
recognition to Beijing, leaving 12 nations and the
Vatican still recognizing Taiwan as a sovereign
state.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky:_Ukraine_lacks_weapons_and_ammunition_to
launch_counteroffensive_—_Meduza⠀⇛
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky says that
Ukraine cannot begin a counteroffensive campaign
due to a lack of weapons and ammunition, reports
Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ U.N._Human_Rights_Monitoring_Mission:_Both_Russia
and_Ukraine_have_killed,_abused_POWs_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine
(HRMMU) published a report on the treatment of war
prisoners, which says that both sides in the
Russia-Ukraine conflict have participated in
extrajudicial executions of military personnel.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Honduras_ends_decades-long_diplomatic
ties_with_Taiwan⠀⇛
Honduras has announced that it is ending its
decades-long diplomatic relations with Taiwan,
bringing it closer to China as it expands its
footprint in Central America.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ UN_Rights_Official_Concerned_Over_Summary
Executions_Of_POWs_By_Both_Russia,_Ukraine⠀⇛
The United Nations has expressed deep concerned
over what it says were summary executions of
prisoners of war (POWs) by both Russian and
Ukrainian forces on the battlefield.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ A_Helsinki_resident’s_first_encounter_with
a_mass_shooting⠀⇛
In the United States, mass shootings are normal.
Of course, when they happen, they’re followed by
heartbroken communities, thoughts and prayers, and
a heated debate over gun laws… and then the trend
repeats.
⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Emil_Bocek,_Last_Czech_RAF_Pilot_During_WWII,_Dies
at_100⠀⇛
The last living Czech pilot who fought the Nazis while serving with
Britain’s Royal Air Force during World War II has died at age 100
⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Ukraine_Says_Bakhmut_Situation_Is_Stabilising,
Putin_Plays_Down_Tank_Shortage⠀⇛
⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Russia_Pardons_5,000_Former_Criminals_After
Fighting_in_Ukraine,_Prigozhin_Says⠀⇛
More than 5,000 former criminals have been pardoned after finishing
their contracts to fight in Russia’s Wagner mercenary group…
⚓ France24 ☛ Russia_pardons_over_5,000_convicts_after_fighting_in_Ukraine_with
Wagner_Group⠀⇛
More than 5,000 former criminals have been pardoned after finishing
their contracts to fight in Russia’s Wagner mercenary group against
Ukraine, the founder of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said on Saturday.
⚓ JURIST ☛ Israel_dispatch:_defense_minister_calls_for_halt_to_judicial_reform
package_and_protests_in_extraordinary_national_TV_address⠀⇛
Sharon Basch is an Israeli American who spent the last two years
living in Israel before starting her JD at the University of
Pittsburgh School of Law.
⚓ New York Times ☛ Israel’s_Defense_Minister_Says_Government_Should_Halt
Contentious_Judicial_Plan⠀⇛
Yoav Gallant, who oversees Israel’s military, is the first minister
in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to criticize a plan to weaken the
judiciary. His comments follow fears that weeks of unrest have
undermined military capacity.
⚓ France24 ☛ Israeli_defense_minister_urges_government_to_stop_judicial
reforms⠀⇛
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Saturday called on the
government to halt legislation on changes to the judiciary, saying
the bitter dispute over the measures poses a danger to the country.
⚓ New York Times ☛ The_U.S._Volunteers_in_Ukraine_Who_Lie,_Waste_and_Bicker⠀⇛
People who would not be allowed anywhere near the battlefield in a
U.S.-led war are active on the Ukrainian front, with ready access to
American weapons.
⚓ YLE ☛ Finland’s_longest-serving_MP,_Ben_Zyskowicz,_attacked_while
campaigning⠀⇛
National Coalition Party politician Ben Zyskowicz was assaulted by a
man who he said insulted him over his Judaism and support for Nato
membership.
⚓ The Age AU ☛ An_anxious_Asia_arms_for_a_war_it_hopes_to_prevent⠀⇛
Rattled by China’s military buildup, nations across the region are
bolstering defence budgets, joint training, weapons manufacturing and
combat-ready infrastructure.
⚓ LRT ☛ ‘Things_will_be_bad_in_Russia_for_a_very_long_time’_–_interview_with
persecuted_Russian_student_who_fled_to_Lithuania⠀⇛
Olesya Krivtsova, a 20-year-old university student, faced up to a
decade in prison for “justifying terrorism” and “discrediting the
Russian armed forces”. She has now fled to Lithuania. Many Russian
officers “got kicked in the teeth” for her escape and started
threatening her family, Kritsova says in an interview with LRT.lt.
§ Environment⠀➾
* ⚓ NL Times ☛ Extinction_Rebellion_protesters_enter_grounds_of_Eindhoven
Airport,_blocking_private_jet_area⠀⇛
“The rebels block the private jet area at Eindhoven Airport.
The entrance to the VIP lounge is occupied and the
Luchtfietsers are also present at the airport. The activists do
not enter the runway in order not to disturb other flights to
and from the airport,” said XR.
* ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland’s_carbon_neutrality_goal_at_risk_due_to_slow_forest
growth,_warns_WMO_Chief_Taalas⠀⇛
The 2035 goal is challenging – and achieving it has become more
difficult as Finland’s forests will not be as big a carbon sink
in the future as had been assumed, said Petteri Taalas, head of
the World Meteorological Organisation.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Himalayas:_The_climate_time_bomb_threatening_India⠀⇛
In the world’s highest mountain range, global warming threatens
thousands of glaciers, resulting in increasingly frequent
natural disasters: landslides, avalanches and glacier
collapses. Our reporters Alban Alvarez and Navodita Kumari
travelled to the small northern Indian state of Uttarakhand,
where these disasters are compounded by a rush to develop
infrastructure such as hydroelectric dams.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Pension_reform:_French_government_will_not_‘yield_to
violence’,_says_Macron⠀⇛
French President Emmanuel Macron strongly condemned violence
that erupted in Thursday’s demonstrations against raising the
French retirement age and said he would not give in to it.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Germany_reaches_deal_with_EU_on_phaseout_of_combustion
engines⠀⇛
The European Union and Germany have reached a deal on the
future use of combustion engines, officials said on Saturday,
an issue that has been closely followed by the auto industry.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Council_of_Europe_commissioner_accuses_France_of_excessive
force_against_protestors_over_pension_reform_bill⠀⇛
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja
Mijatovic Friday accused the French police of using violence
and excessive force against protestors demonstrating opposition
against French President Emmanual Macron’s circumventing an
outvoted pension reform bill increasing the retirement age from
62 to 64, without a parliamentary vote.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘Some_officers_think_everything_is_allowed’:_CNRS_researcher
deplores_French_police_brutality⠀⇛
Tensions are rising in France after President Emmanuel Macron
in a televised interview Wednesday refused to compromise on the
government’s controversial pension reform bill. As peaceful
demonstrations turn to social unrest, police forces are picking
up their batons and using them on protesters.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden_Chooses_Fossil_Fuels_Over_Us⠀⇛
The sun was beating down and my ears were ringing. My hands
gripped the megaphone as we chanted, “No more drilling, no more
drilling, no more drilling on federal lands!” The words we
chanted were President Joe Biden’s verbatim, a broken promise
made on the campaign trail in 2020. Just over a week after
approving a massive oil drilling plan in the Arctic called the
Willow project, President Biden hosted a conservation summit at
the Department of the Interior. Youth climate justice
organizers from Zero Hour protested alongside allied
organizations outside the summit for hours, determined not to
let Biden forget his broken promise. Administration officials
and the president himself entered and left the building,
pretending to ignore us and our demands, but we didn’t quiet
down. We don’t plan to stop protesting the outrageous decision
any time soon.
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ From_the_African_Coast_to_Towers_of_Wall_Street,
the_Climate_Bombs_Are_Ticking⠀⇛
“Your people can’t take it anymore, Lord In exchange for
oil and gas they sell our country.”
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Call_for_a_Livable,_Fossil-Free_Future_Grows
Louder⠀⇛
The IPCC’s 6th Assessment Synthesis Report released this
week summarizes what we already knew: that the climate
crisis, whose visibility has grown more pronounced over
every season, is unequivocally happening.
* § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ I_Am_Haunted_by_What_I_Have_Seen_at_Great_Salt
Lake⠀⇛
The Latter-day Saints church has the moral authority and
political sway to save Great Salt Lake.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Illegal_Mining_Fuels_Crisis_for_Indigenous_Tribe
in_Brazil’s_Amazon⠀⇛
Illegal mines have fueled a humanitarian crisis for the
Yanomami Indigenous group. Brazil’s new president is
trying to fight back.
o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ A_Photographic_Mission_to_Make_an_Amazonian_Tribe
Known⠀⇛
The activist and artist Claudia Andujar says, “I spent my
life trying to understand the Yanomami, and to try and
transmit what I understood.”
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ At_Least_26_Killed_as_Powerful_Tornado_Tears
Through_Mississippi⠀⇛
Dozens more were injured after a deadly tornado ripped
through a rural area. The death toll is expected to rise.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Mississippi_tornadoes_kill_23,_injure
dozens_overnight⠀⇛
Emergency officials in Mississippi say 23 people have
been killed by tornadoes that tore through the state on
Friday night, destroying buildings and knocking out power
as severe weather that produced hail the size of golf
balls moved through several southern states. The
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency confirmed the
death total early Saturday with dozens of injuries and
four people missing throughout the state. The agency says
in a Twitter post that search and rescue teams from
numerous local and state agencies were deployed along
with personnel to assist those impacted by the tornadoes.
The rural towns of Silver City and Rolling Fork have
reported severe destruction as the tornado swept
northeast at 70 mph without weakening.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Deadly_tornado_and_thunderstorms_rip_through
Mississippi⠀⇛
Rescuers combed through rubble on Saturday after a
powerful storm tore across Mississippi overnight, killing
at least 25 people there and another in Alabama, leveling
dozens of buildings and spawning at least one devastating
tornado.
* § Overpopulation⠀➾
o ⚓ RFA ☛ UN_water_conference_ends_with_hundreds_of_non-binding
commitments⠀⇛
But conservation groups slam agenda for lacking
accountability
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Violent_clashes_erupt_over_agro_industry_water
megabasins_project_in_western_France⠀⇛
French police again clashed with protesters Saturday as
campaigners sought to stop the construction of reservoirs
in the southwest, the latest in a series of violent
standoffs as social tensions erupt nationwide.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Corporate_Real_Estate_Investors_Are_Accelerating_the
Affordable_Housing_Crisis⠀⇛
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Which_tech_firms_are_most_exposed_to_the_banking
crisis?⠀⇛
The financial services industry has always been a leading
consumer of tech with big information technology budgets. The
recent banking crisis will add even more headwinds to the
already challenging IT spending climate and several tech firms
are exposed.
⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Deadly_Results_of_Economic_Inequality⠀⇛
If you grew up in America, then you almost definitely have heard some
variation of the refrain: “America is the greatest country in the
world.”
⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Vietnam’s_crackdown_on_corruption_chokes_affordable_home
supply⠀⇛
Average apartment prices in Ho Chi Minh City grew 43 per cent in
2022.
⚓ teleSUR ☛ Unrest_In_France_Postpones_King_Charles’_State_Visit⠀⇛
“The King and Queen consort’s state visit to France has been
postponed,” Buckingham Palace said.
⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Final_data_coming_to_inform_next_RBA_rates_decision⠀⇛
The Reserve Bank will soon get the final two pieces of the economic
puzzle that will inform its key April cash rate decision. Both a
pause and another hike are still in play, with analysts undecided on
which way the central bank will go.
⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Big_Tech,_weapons,_tax_havens,even_Rupert_Murdoch–
secrets_from_the_Future_Fund_investment_vault⠀⇛
The secretive Future Fund’s chairman Peter Costello might not like
it, but Freedom of Information requests are peeling back the lid on
the Fund’s weighty overseas investments. Philip Dorling and Rex
Patrick report the more controversial ones.
Big Tech, Big Pharma and Big Oil are the top of the pops in a newly
released list of Future Fund Investments across the United States,
United Kingdom and a range of tax havens, notably among the Cayman
Islands.
⚓ New York Times ☛ 200,000-Dollar_Fine_Aims_to_Expose_Money_Laundering_in
Canada⠀⇛
In a new bid to end the use of shell companies to hide crimes and
avoid taxes, the federal government will require clear records of
corporate ownership. Will provincial governments follow?
⚓ New York Times ☛ Welcome_to_Muskville,_Texas⠀⇛
Companies shouldn’t need to build worker housing. Workers shouldn’t
have to live in company towns.
⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Lure_of_the_‘Made_in_America’_Sales_Pitch⠀⇛
Geopolitics forced an entrepreneur, Taylor Shupe, to bring jobs back
from China. It’s helping sell his meme-inspired socks too.
⚓ The Age AU ☛ Wall_Street,_ASX_look_for_support_to_stem_banking_crisis_as
Deutsche_Bank_wobbles⠀⇛
Concerns that US authorities haven’t completely stemmed the contagion
from the banking crisis will drive sharemarkets again this week.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Kash’s_Castles_of_Scatter_and_Evan_Corcoran’s_BCC⠀⇛
John Solomon seems very concerned about sharing the
correspondence he and Kash Patel had with NARA General Counsel
Gary Stern last summer.
* ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Matt_Taibbi:_People_Can_Win⠀⇛
We’ve been trained to think that endless rule by tiny
minorities of really horrible people is the natural order of
things, but that turns out to be just another lie.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Defiant_Belarusian_Opposition_Marks_Freedom_Day_As_Western
Leaders_Vow_Continued_Support⠀⇛
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has
reasserted the bloc’s “commitment to support the Belarusian
people” on the occasion of Belarus Freedom Day on March 25.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Russia_to_station_nuclear_arms_in_Belarus,_says_Putin⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he would deploy
tactical nuclear weapons in neighbour and ally Belarus.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ ‘When_we_are_together,_we_drive_these_changes.’_What
Xi_and_Putin’s_deepening_alliance_means_for_the_world_order.⠀⇛
At the three-day meeting this week in Moscow, the Russian
president’s desperation met the Chinese leader’s opportunism.
The visit marks an inflection point for global order.
* ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Craig_Murray:_Why_Would_China_Be_an_Enemy?⠀⇛
To react to Beijing’s growing economic power by increasing
Western military power is hopeless. It is harder to think of a
more stupid example of lashing out in blind anger.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Brazil’s_Lula_cancels_trip_to_China_because_of
pneumonia⠀⇛
Brazil’s presidential palace says that President Luiz Inácio
Lula da Silva has canceled his trip to China after contracting
pneumonia. The 77-year-old Lula was admitted to a hospital in
the capital of Brasilia with flu-like symptoms and was
diagnosed with “bacterial and viral bronchopneumonia due to
influenza A,” the palace said in a statement. The leftist
leader’s health was reassessed on Saturday and, despite
improvement, he was advised to “postpone the trip to China
until the cycle of viral transmission ends,” the note said. is
press office later confirmed that the trip had been canceled.
Chinese authorities have been informed.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Push_to_expand_voting_rights_in_US_for_those
held_in_jails⠀⇛
Criminal justice and election officials, along with voting
rights advocates, are working across the United States to
expand voting among jail detainees. The effort is an
acknowledgement that tens of thousands of people being held
pretrial haven’t lost that fundamental right to vote. In
Chicago, hundreds of people in the Cook County Jail have been
voting in this year’s mayor’s race. Other places where voting
rights advocates have worked with local election and jail
officials to offer voting for detainees include Denver, Harris
County, Texas, Los Angeles County and the District of Columbia.
In Illinois, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says voting brings a
sense of empowerment and is a way to inspire change.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Fans_rush_to_snap_up_‘last’_Hong_Kong_football
jerseys_before_‘China’_added_to_official_name⠀⇛
Hundreds of supporters of the Hong Kong men’s football team
have queued up in the hope of snatching up what may be the last
jersey of its kind before the Hong Kong Football Association
(HKFA) adds “China” to its name.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_asylum_seekers_face_bureaucratic_maze
and_deportation_under_tightened_policy⠀⇛
After more than five years navigating the bureaucratic maze of
Hong Kong’s asylum system, John faces a new fear: deportation
under a recently amended “removal policy”. “When you’re running
for your safety, you never know where you go.
* ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Who_Do_You_Believe,_and_Why?⠀⇛
Todd Hayen There is an awful lot of “I know I’m right” chatter
going around on both sides. I am just curious, what makes you
so sure you are right? And what makes them so sure they are
right?
* ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ ‘Lies’,_lawmakers_and_leaks:_the_week_at_the
mañaneras⠀⇛
President López Obrador covered Mexico’s human rights record,
economic growth, “political tourism” and more at the weekday
morning pressers.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Can_Movements_Stop_Politicians_From_Inevitably_Selling
Out?⠀⇛
It is a pattern we see again and again: New political hopefuls
are elected to office espousing progressive values and vowing
to challenge the status quo in Washington, D.C. They are sent
off with high hopes. But then, over time, the change they
promise never materializes.
* ⚓ Russell Graves ☛ Why_People_Hate_Tech:_A_Response_to_Tech
Entrepreneurship_and_Shifting_Sentiment⠀⇛
The article I’m responding to directly, and then expanding out
from, is titled Tech Entrepreneurship and Shifting Sentiment.
Go read it, and if you can make it to the end without at least
one giggle, snort, or eyeroll, you’re doing better than I did.
The author correctly identifies that the sentiment has shifted
against the tech industry, but then proceeds to hypothesize
about some reasons, and… well, I think it’s safe to say that
they’ve not made it outside their little social bubble of “tech
startup” workers in a long, long while.
* ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Accenture_puts_19,000_staffers’_heads_on_the_chopping
block⠀⇛
The monster redundancy process involves some 2.5 percent of the
existing 738,000-strong workforce that are spread across
offices and operations in more than 200 cities in 49 countries.
* ⚓ Dawn Media ☛ TikTok_says_half_of_Americans_use_site_as_ban_threat
looms⠀⇛
Chew also asked the app’s devoted users to “let me know in the
comments what you want your elected representatives to know
about what you love about TikTok.”
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ “Creed_III”_Reflects_Immense_Class_Divide_in_Black_America
But_Fails_to_Heal_It⠀⇛
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ Reason ☛ Zoom_Workshopping_Large_Libel_Models?_Liability_for_AI
Output⠀⇛
I have a very rough draft of this article; I’d love to
hear comments on it, of course, but I’d also like to
workshop it by Zoom, in case some people are interested.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ The_Scammer_Tricking_Instagram_Into_Banning_Influencer
Accounts⠀⇛
Just after midnight on Sept. 13, Kristian “Murda” Murphy was
watching TV at home in Boca Raton, Florida, when his phone
began buzzing.
“Murda u always outside we gon see you,” read a message from an
account he didn’t recognize.
* ⚓ Neritam ☛ Burning_Books_and_Destroying_Education_on_the_Path_to_Fascist
Dictatorship⠀⇛
Targeting educators was a priority with strict penalties
imposed on what could be taught, leading to the firing of
thousands of university professors and teachers, while others
* ⚓ Dawn Media ☛ Man_gets_death_sentence_for_blasphemy_in_Peshawar⠀⇛
An anti-terrorism court here on Friday convicted a man on the
charges of committing blasphemy and other religion-related
offences on social media and sentenced him to death and
imprisonment on multiple counts.
A total Rs1.2 million fine was also imposed on the convict.
* ⚓ NDTV ☛ Pak_Man_Sends_Blasphemous_Message_On_WhatsApp_Group,_Sentenced
To_Death⠀⇛
Although many cases involve Muslims accusing fellow Muslims,
rights activists have warned that religious minorities —
particularly Christians — are often caught in the crossfire,
with blasphemy charges used to settle personal scores.
§ Freedom of Information / Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ ECHR_rules_European_Convention_protects_the_freedom_of
expression_of_an_eyewitness_to_a_road_accident⠀⇛
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Thursday delivered
its judgement, wherein it held that the freedom of expression
of an eyewitness to a road accident is protected by Article 10
(freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human
Rights (Convention).
* ⚓ NDTV ☛ Indian_Journalist_In_US_Alleges_Attack_By_Khalistani_Supporters
Near_Embassy⠀⇛
Indian journalist Lalit Jha said he was hit on his left ear
with two sticks by the Khalistani supporters.
* ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ TUNE_IN:_Stella_Assange,_Stefania_Maurizi,_and_Kevin
Gosztola_In_Berlin⠀⇛
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Our_newsroom_turned_into_a_cult’:_How_a_‘liberal’_Telegram
channel_began_peddling_Kremlin_disinformation_to_1.6_million_people_—
Meduza⠀⇛
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Of_course_there_are_threats’:_Putin:_Russia_has_three_times
as_many_tanks_as_Ukraine,_ten_times_the_aircraft,_and_will_deploy
tactical_nuclear_weapons_in_Belarus_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian president Vladimir Putin gave an interview to the All-
Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Corporation,
which ran the interview on state-run television network Russia
24. During the interview, Putin Western countries’ plans to
supply Ukraine with weapons and ammunition, as well as the
current state of Russia’s military-industrial complex. The
Russian president also announced his plans to deploy tactical
nuclear weapons on the territory of neighboring Belarus. Meduza
shares the most important parts of Putin’s remarks.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Pope_Increases_Lay_Leaders’_Responsibility_in_Sexual
Abuse_Law⠀⇛
The most significant part of the law, a permanent version of a
2019 measure, may be its impact on the “lay faithful,” who will
be more accountable for abuse.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Paul_Rusesabagina,_‘Hotel_Rwanda’_Hero,_Freed_From
Prison⠀⇛
Paul Rusesabagina, a critic of Rwanda’s president, was tricked
into entering the country, then sentenced to 25 years after
what his supporters called a show trial.
* ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Characters_from_“Succession”_as_Members_of_an_Improv
Team⠀⇛
The staff of Waystar Royco go off script.
The Myth of the Alpha Wolf ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/science/
elements/the-myth-of-the-alpha-wolf
* ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Myth_of_the_Alpha_Wolf⠀⇛
The model of aggression and dominance has infected human
society. But new research shows how wrong we got it.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Steven_Rattner’s_Not_Afraid_Of_Work_From_Home,_He’s
Afraid_Of_Worker_Power⠀⇛
The United States is in the middle of a long-overdue resurgence
in labor organizing, antipathy to corporate power, and class
analysis. This is terrifying to business executives and the
ultra-rich, especially those affiliated with the Democratic
Party. What was once the party of Bill Clinton sounds more and
more like the party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt again, as
ever-greater numbers of Democratic voters bring back good-old
American “us vs. the bosses” economic populism.
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ The_Graduate_Worker_Unionization_Movement_Is_Spreading_Like
Wildfire⠀⇛
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Ron_DeSantis_Delivers_Corporate_America’s_Anti-Union
Wish_List_in_Florida⠀⇛
Florida’s 2023 legislative session has kicked off with a pair
of bills chock full of new labor regulations long sought after
by anti-union activists.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ India_Supreme_Court_says_affinity_test_is_not_essential_to
determine_caste/tribe_claim⠀⇛
The Supreme Court of India Friday delivered its ruling wherein
it held that the affinity test is not a litmus test to decide a
caste name and is not an essential part of the process of the
determination of the correctness of a caste/tribe name in every
case.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Vague_Visa_Rules_Leave_Laid-Off_Twitter_Worker_Unable_To
Return_to_U.S.⠀⇛
Foreign-born tech workers in the U.S. have been especially
vulnerable as tech giants lay off large shares of their work
forces.
* ⚓ NPR ☛ Afroman_put_home_footage_of_a_police_raid_in_music_videos._Now
the_cops_are_suing_him⠀⇛
Law enforcement had searched his home on suspicion of drug
trafficking and kidnapping, but found no evidence and filed no
charges against him. He says they kicked down his door, broke
his video surveillance system, stole money from him and
frightened his family.
Afroman, whose real name is Joseph Foreman, told NPR in a phone
interview that what he did next was his “smartest, most
peaceful solution.”
“I asked myself, as a powerless Black man in America, what can
I do to the cops that kicked my door in, tried to kill me in
front of my kids, stole my money and disconnected my cameras?”
he says. “And the only thing I could come up with was make a
funny rap song about them and make some money, use the money to
pay for the damages they did and move on.”
* ⚓ TruthOut ☛ US_and_Canada_Announce_Joint_Plan_to_Turn_Away_Asylum-
Seekers⠀⇛
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Politicians_Should_Be_Held_Equally_Accountable_to_the
FCC’s_New_Rules_and_Stop_Spamming_Voters⠀⇛
Do you have a friend, maybe an ex-girlfriend or an ex-
boyfriend, who won’t stop texting you? Then you know how
annoying it is, and difficult it is, once they have your
number, to block them.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ A_Dane_Abroad:_The_potential_pitfalls_of_an
unregulated_tech_race⠀⇛
In a recent New York Times article, tech writer Kevin Roose
reported a bizarre encounter he’d had with a Bing chatbot in
which it had told him, among other things, that it dreamt of
being human…
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Moderna_stands_its_ground_at_Sanders_hearing⠀⇛
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel would not commit during a
Senate hearing Wednesday to reconsidering the decision to
roughly quadruple the price of his company’s COVID-19
vaccine once government purchases end.
o ⚓ US Senate ☛ PREPARED_REMARKS:_HELP_Committee_Hearing_on_Moderna
COVID-19_Vaccine_Pricing,_CEO_to_Testify⠀⇛
Do we not need to change the current culture of greed
into a culture which understands that science and medical
breakthroughs should work for ordinary people, and not
just enrich large corporations and CEOs? And, in that
respect, it is important to remember the contributions of
great scientists like Dr. Jonas Salk who, in the 1950s,
invented the vaccine for polio. Salk’s work saved
millions of lives and prevented millions more from being
paralyzed.
It has been estimated that if Dr. Salk had chosen to
patent the polio vaccine he would have made billions of
dollars. But he did not.
When asked who owns the patent to this vaccine Dr. Salk
said: “Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent.
Could you patent the sun?”
o ⚓ Boston Globe ☛ At_Senate_hearing,_Bernie_Sanders_grills_Moderna
CEO_for_quadrupling_COVID_vaccine_price⠀⇛
Last month, Moderna told investors that it had settled on
a $400 million “catch-up payment” to the NIH for using
the agency’s patented technology in its vaccine. At the
Senate hearing, Bancel said that the company has decided
to “abandon” its patent in the dispute. “We are moving on
because we cannot agree on what happened,” he said.
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana acknowledged
that “Americans pay too much for prescriptions drugs” but
took issue with the title of the hearing — ‘Taxpayers
Paid Billions For It: So Why Would Moderna Consider
Quadrupling the Price of the COVID Vaccine?’ — which he
thought inappropriately “presumed guilt.”
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Major_Publishers_Mull_Legal_Action_Against_Pirate
Ebook_Platform⠀⇛
With Sci-Hub and Z-Library making headlines over the past
few months and the Internet Archive’s legal battle still
ongoing, publishers seem prepared to defend every last
inch of their rights. That includes Cengage, Macmillan,
McGraw-Hill and Pearson, as they investigate what appears
to be a blatant pirate ebook platform. A closer look
reveals even more dubious activity.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Internet_Archive_to_Appeal_‘Chilling’_Federal
Ruling_Against_Digital_Books⠀⇛
Internet Archive vowed to appeal after a U.S. district
court judge on Friday sided with four major publishers
who sued the nonprofit for copyright infringement.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Internet_Archive_is_Liable_for_Copyright
Infringement,_Court_Rules⠀⇛
The Internet Archive’s online book lending library is not
protected by the fair use exception to copyright. Major
book publishers successfully argued that the Archive’s
lending of scanned books amounts to copyright
infringement. In a decision published Friday, a New York
federal judge found that the Archive’s fair use defenses
weighed strongly against the digital book lending
operation.
o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Judge_Rules_Online_Archive’s_Book
Service_Violated_Copyright⠀⇛
A federal judge has sided with four publishers who sued
an online archive over its scanning of millions of
copyrighted works and offering them for free to the
public
o ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Disappointed_in_Decision
Restricting_Ability_of_Libraries_To_Lend_Books⠀⇛
New ruling jeopardizes the rights of all readers to
acquire knowledge and further risks your rights to lend,
repair, and resell what you own.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ Slot_diegetics⠀⇛
The spell slot system as implemented in 5e was first seen
in a video game called Wizardry; they called it “spell
points” in that game but you had separate pools of “level
1 spell points”, “level 2 spell points” and so on, just
like 5e’s slots.
So for a more JRPG-like vibe, you could lean into that.
Call slots spell points or mana points or magic points or
whatever game you’re more familiar with—not only video
games, there are other table top games that uses MP. The
hack, compared the cockamamie spell point system option
in the DMG, is to just keep “the separate pools per
level”, just like slots work non—i.e. don’t change
anything, it’s just a new name for them.
o ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ACEINTY_Wordo:_PAILS⠀⇛
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Monopolies
o Patents
o Software_Patents
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Politics
o Technical
# Announcements
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-20Linux_Weekly_Roundup_#227⠀⇛
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Framework_Laptop_13_Finally_Gets_AMD_Options⠀⇛
I’m not lucky enough to own one (yet) but, on sheer
concept alone, I am a big fan of Framework’s
modular 13-inch laptop…
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Container Journal ☛ Docker,_Inc._Celebrates_10th
Anniversary_With_Alliances⠀⇛
Docker, Inc. celebrated the 10th anniversary of the
namesake artifact used widely for building cloud-
native applications by announcing alliances with
Ambassador Labs to improve the developer experience
and Hugging Face to make it simpler to launch and
deploy machine learning applications on a cloud
service using DockerFile. In addition, Docker,
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ The_Podman_Perspective_|_Self-Hosted
93⠀⇛
Alex goes all in on Rootless Podman, Chris is
saving his Nextcloud install from disaster, and a
special guest joins us. Special Guest: Alex Ellis.
# ⚓ Linux in the Ham Shack ☛ LHS_Episode_#501:_FreeDV_Deep_Dive
2⠀⇛
Hello and welcome to the 501st episode of Linux in
the Ham Shack. In this episode, we talk with
Mooneer Salem, K6AQ, primary developer on the
FreeDV team.
# ⚓ The TLLTS Podcast ☛ The_Linux_Link_Tech_Show_Episode_997⠀⇛
joel plays with his ai.
# ⚓ 2023-03-24Chatting_With_Linux_Content_Creator_Jack_Keifer⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-03-24How_to_install_Flowblade_video_editor_on_Linux
Lite_6.2⠀⇛
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 100_Essential_and_Must-Have_GUI_Linux
Applications⠀⇛
There is a staggering amount of proven open source
software available to download. But it’s really
difficult to keep up with the cream of the cream.
That’s where this compilation aims to help.
We select the best-of-breed GUI (Graphical User
Interface) software ranging from projects coded by
individual programmers, small teams of enthusiasts,
extending to large multinational corporations. The
compilation largely reflects software that our
volunteers use as their daily drivers.
We mostly recommend cross-platform software, but,
where appropriate, make some exceptions. We include
a select few proprietary applications along the
way. We try to avoid duplication as much as
possible. A few of omissions will definitely raise
some eyebrows. For example, there’s no room for
Firefox even though it’s open source software
(unlike Chrome) and some of our volunteers strongly
prefer it over any other web browser.
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Tuba_is_a_Magnificent_New_Mastodon_App_for
Linux⠀⇛
Faithful fans of the Fediverse need to check out
Tuba, a new Vala/GTK app for Linux that is fine-
tuned for social interactions.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Command_to_Install_UNRAR_in_Ubuntu_22.04_or_20.04⠀⇛
UNRAR is a free command utility (GPL licensed) on
Linux systems for decompressing and extracting
files that are compressed and archived in the RAR
archive format. RAR is a popular archive format
that is proprietary but commonly and widely used to
compress large files.
# ⚓ Glances_installation_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Linux⠀⇛
Glances is a free open-source command line software
solution for Linux systems to monitor computer
activity in real time. It can be considered a good
alternative to top/Htop command line system
monitoring tools for Ubuntu. Here in this tutorial,
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_enable_mod_headers_on_Apache_Web
server?⠀⇛
Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to
enable mod_headers on Apache web server. The
tutorial is intended for Debian / Ubuntu or some
derivatives of these. Let’s go. Introduction
According to the information provided by Apache
This module provides directives to control and
modify HTTP request and response headers.
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-24How_to_install_the_Brave
Browser_on_a_Chromebook_in_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-24How_to_install_Flowblade
video_editor_on_Linux_Lite_6.2⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-23How_to_install_FreeOffice_on
Linux_Lite_6.2⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-23How_to_install_Pinta_on_a
Chromebook_in_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Fix:_pip_command_not_found_error_in
Ubuntu⠀⇛
A quick and simple guide to fix pip command not
found in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. 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.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_I_created_a_Red_Hat_OpenShift
cluster_on_tiny_hardware⠀⇛
Build an OpenShift cluster on a small, sub-$300
computer.
# ⚓ 2023-03-20Firebird_5_compiling_on_Oracle_Linux_8_Ampere_V1_
(arm64)⠀⇛
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Quick_and_efficient_Tmux_session_and_window
switching⠀⇛
This guide provides tips for quickly switching
between Tmux sessions and windows, including
keyboard shortcuts, navigation commands, and
customization options.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ The_guide_to_installing_and_using_Ruby_on
Ubuntu⠀⇛
In this guide, we will provide a step-by-step
tutorial on how to install Ruby on Ubuntu. We will
cover the installation process using both the
command line and package manager, as well as how to
check the installation to ensure it is working
correctly. We will also explore some popular tools
for setting up a development environment, including
Ruby on Rails.
# ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ Configure_Log_Retention_Period_in_ELK_Stack⠀⇛
How do I change the log retention policy in elk
stack? In this tutorial, you will learn how to
configure log retention period in ELK stack.
Elasticsearch uses ILM (Index Lifecycle Management)
policies to define what actions to be applied to
indices according to your performance, resiliency,
and retention requirements.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_manage_multiple_SSH_sessions_from_a
single_window_with_EasySSH⠀⇛
Jack Wallen shows you how you can wrangle all of
those SSH connections you use daily into a single,
easy-to-use application.
# ⚓ Techtown ☛ Deploying_Your_XAMPP_Project_to_a_Web_Server⠀⇛
XAMPP is a popular solution for web development and
testing on a local machine. However, once you have
completed your web application, you will need to
deploy it to a web server to make it available to
the public.
# ⚓ Techtown ☛ Securing_XAMPP:_Best_Practices_and_Tips⠀⇛
XAMPP is a popular web server solution for
developers who need to test and develop web
applications on their local machines. However, like
any other software, XAMPP can be vulnerable to
security threats if not configured and managed
properly. In this article, we will discuss best
practices and tips for securing XAMPP.
# ⚓ Techtown ☛ Configuring_XAMPP_for_Your_Development
Environment⠀⇛
XAMPP is a free and open-source web server solution
that includes Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl. It is
widely used by developers for testing and
developing web applications on their local
machines. Configuring XAMPP for your development
environment can be a straightforward process if you
follow the steps outlined below.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_WildFly_Java_Application
Server_with_Nginx_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Wildfly is a simple, lightweight, and flexible
application runtime used to build Java
applications. This tutorial will show you how to
install Wildfly with Nginx as a reverse proxy on
Ubuntu 22.04.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Type_Accented_Characters_in_Linux⠀⇛
You may wonder how to type accented characters in
Linux. Fortunately, it’s easy to do so with a
keystroke or a character map application.
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Inspect_Container_Images_with_the_docker
scan_Command⠀⇛
If you’re serious about container security, then
you know it all begins at the beguine…images. No
matter how much work you put into locking down your
deployments, your network, and your infrastructure,
if you base your containers on images with
vulnerabilities, those deployments will simply not
be secure. And simply trusting that a random image
pulled from Docker Hub is enough is a big mistake.
Sure, there are verified images to be had on Docker
Hub, but those verifications cost quite a bit for a
company, so not every image is verified. And
although you can generally trust verified images,
it’s best to know, first-hand, that trust is
warranted.
And as far as unverified images, every single one
you attempt to use could cause you problems. To
that end, you must scan them for vulnerabilities.
If you find an image contains vulnerabilities, at
least you’re informed and, in some cases, you could
mitigate a vulnerability by updating the packages
contained within an image.
Fortunately, there are a number of tools you can
use to scan those images. One such tool is built
right into Docker, called docker scan. It’s very
easy to use and reports back very simple
information about any known vulnerabilities it
finds.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ This_week_in_KDE:_Distro_upgrades_for
Fedora_KDE_in_Discover⠀⇛
With the new XwaylandVideoBridge utility, you
can now screencast native Wayland windows
from Xwayland apps like Discord (Aleix Pol
Gonzalez and David Edmundson, Link)
Dolphin now has an option to not change the
information and preview shown in the
Information Panel when hovering over files,
and to instead only do so when deliberately
selecting files (Oliver Beard, Dolphin 23.08.
Link)…
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-03-2212_New_Linux_Distros_That_Launched_in
2022⠀⇛
Hundreds of new Linux distros spawn each year, with many
becoming the norm among the community. Here are some
distros that were released in 2022.
o ⚓ Why_I_Will_Never_Use_Alpine_Linux_Ever_Again⠀⇛
Nowadays, Alpine Linux is one of the most popular options
for container base images. Many people (maybe including
you) use it for anything and everything. Some people use
it because of its small size, some because of habit and
some, just because they copy-pasted a Dockefile from some
tutorial. Yet, there are plenty of reasons why you should
not use Alpine for your container images, some of which
can cause you great amount of grief…
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the
week_2023/12⠀⇛
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week we released only 5 snapshots, but one was
hefty in size and we needed the extra time for the
mirrors to settle again and get the bandwidth back
under control. The large snapshot was due to the
change in the default compiler: Tumbleweed has been
rebuilt entirely using GCC 13. The released
snapshots were numbered 0316, 0317, 0318, 0319, and
0321.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Friday’s_Fedora
Facts:_2013-12⠀⇛
Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what
happened this week and what’s coming up. Your
contributions are welcome (see the end of the
post)!
I have weekly office hours most Wednesdays in the
morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time). Drop by if
you have any questions or comments about the
schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See
the upcoming_meetings for more information.
# ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_Use_sysfs_to_restart
failed_PCI_devices_(WiFi_cards,_sound_cards,_etc.)⠀⇛
This article describes one method of restarting PCI
devices. It demonstrates restating a wireless
device. But the concept should work on any device
whose device driver has adequate hotplug support.
[1]
Computers typically consist of several
interconnected devices. Some devices can be
physically disconnected and reconnected with ease
(for example, most USB devices). Others might
require a specific interaction with the operating
system or specific software. And others will
require a full reboot.
Built-in laptop wireless cards are PCI devices that
could fail at runtime but might not be easy to
physically disconnect and reconnect without a full
reboot. In many cases these devices can be
restarted through Linux’s sysfs interface without
having to do a full reboot of the computer.
This article will specifically demo how to restart
an Atheros wireless card which has locked up.
# ⚓ Fabio_Alessandro_Locati:_Fedora_Sericea_and_Sway_Spin
beta⠀⇛
The Fedora Project released Fedora 38 beta images.
The Fedora Sway Spin and the Fedora Sericea ones
are in the long list of released images!
This is a critical point in the release of those
Fedora artifacts based on Sway since it is the
first time it has been possible to test them for
the wider public. Although the Fedora Project has
been creating Sway artifacts for a couple of
months, those were based on Rawhide, which is “a
not always stable” version of Fedora, since it
tracks far in the future (4-10 months) versions of
Fedora.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ ChatGPT:_Top_3_industries_that_can
benefit_now [Ed: Red Hat keeps prompting this overhyped
proprietary spyware of Microsoft; who does Red Hat truly work
for these days?]⠀⇛
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ peppe8o ☛ Force_Sensitive_Resistor_and_Arduino:_FSR402
Wiring_and_Code⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will use Force Sensitive
Resistor with Arduino Uno to measure pressure and
weight. Based on the pressure on the Force
Sensitive
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux On Mobile ☛ 2023-03-19Weekly_GNU-like_Mobile_Linux
Update_(11/2023):_Pocket_Reforms_and_Other_Improvements⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Emmanuel Maggiori ☛ I’ve_been_employed_in_tech_for_years,
but_I’ve_almost_never_worked⠀⇛
When Twitter fired half of its employees in 2022,
and most tech giants followed suit, I wasn’t
surprised. In fact, I think little will change for
those companies. After being employed in the tech
sector for years, I have come to the conclusion
that most people in tech don’t work. I don’t mean
we don’t work hard; I mean we almost don’t work at
all. Nada. Zilch. And when we do get to do some
work, it often brings low added value to the
company and its customers. All of this while being
paid an amount of money some people wouldn’t even
dream of.
What is happening right now in tech may be one of
the greatest market inefficiencies—or even
deceptions—in history. I am writing this article
because I think outsiders deserve to know what’s
really going on in the field.
# ⚓ Project_Management_for_Software_Engineers⠀⇛
At some point in your career you will be asked to
manage a project. This can be intimidating, it can
be scary, but it doesn’t have to be. We can
leverage some time-honoured techniques, and adapt
them to the unique approach required for software
projects to deliver on time, on budget, and with
success.
This article is a collection of techniques I’ve
learned for managing projects over time, that
attempts to combine agile best practices with
project management best practices. If you study
project management to any level of depth, it is
inevitable that you will come across the Project
Management Institute, or PMI. The PMI is a global
professional body that provides training and
certification in project management topics. PMI
provides different certification options, including
some for Agile processes and Scrum.
# ⚓ Jordan Kaye ☛ Go_slow_to_move_fast⠀⇛
Technical debt is an often debated topic. Like most
concepts in software, it isn’t particularly
difficult to find arguments supporting opposite
sides of the spectrum – in a single minute of
searching I was able to find that some believe that
technical debt doesn’t exist, while others feel
that technical debt is the most important aspect of
product development. From the conversations that
I’ve had with others in the industry, both within
my place of work and with technical leaders from
other companies, I’ve come to believe that one of
the root causes of the gap between these viewpoints
is primarily definitional.
Part of the reason that some people don’t like the
term “technical debt” is that they feel it becomes
an excuse. To these individuals, everything that
software engineers don’t like within the system on
which they’re working gets labeled as debt, and
that debt becomes a boogeyman that gets blamed for
all of their problems. Those on the other side of
the argument feel almost the exact opposite:
technical debt gets little attention and they’re
forced to spend inordinate amounts of time
struggling against implementations and concepts
that make it more difficult to make changes than it
otherwise could be. An interesting realization (and
something that makes this conversation particularly
difficult) is that both groups can be right at the
same time. This can be true only because the two
groups are misunderstanding one another. But where
does this misunderstanding come from?
# ⚓ Why_people_misuse_inheritance⠀⇛
In the thread, he recalls the adage “prefer
composition over inheritance”. This is a well-known
principle of good OOP code, and yet inheritance is
commonly used where composition would serve better;
the question that comes to my mind is, “Why?” I
think I have at least a partial answer, but let me
meander a bit before getting to it.
The thread gives an example use case of a map that
counts explicit insertions, which is the example
I’ll use here. If you inherit and override the put
() method, the behavior you get may be wrong, or
may be right in one version and wrong in the next.
On the other hand, you didn’t have to write a lot
of code.
(One post, an oldie but a goodie, that
significantly influenced my thinking on this
matter, suggests that you should never override a
method that was not designed to be overridden, and
talks about how building this into the language
slightly improves ergonomics when you do override.)
Suppose I did the “right” thing and used
composition (in this case, also delegation, and
also the decorator pattern, for people who think in
GoF design patterns). I would have to implement the
map interface, calling down to a map implementation
that stores the actual data. To implement the Map
interface in Java I would need to implement 25
methods! Most of them would be boilerplate, just
passing the arguments to the equivalent method on
the delegate. Other languages are not better (the
Haskell Data.Map module has more than 100
functions).
# ⚓ Lawrence Tratt ☛ How_Big_Should_a_Programming_Language
Be?⠀⇛
Reading the thought-provoking “Patterns &
Abstractions” post reminded me of a long-held
opinion I have about programming language design:
we have a tendency to keep adding features to a
language until it becomes so big [1] that its sheer
size makes it difficult to use reliably. Since most
of us spend most of our time programming in one
language, it can be difficult to see a common trend
amongst languages in general.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ I_Re-Joined_Twitter⠀⇛
I’ve decided to re-join Twitter. I miss an awful lot
about it and I might leave Mastodon too.
Yes, you read that right. I’ve decided to re-join
Twitter. There’s a lot of stuff I miss from the social
network – the community, the threads, the hot takes. the
fun.
I feel like Mastodon is becoming way too serious…it needs
more of those fun-time Twitter folk. Because I intend for
Twitter to be my primary social network, I’m thinking
about putting my Mastodon profile out to pasture too.
But what lead me to these decisions? Well dear reader,
that’s a looooong story. So I decided to do a video about
it instead of writing War and Peace.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ 4_ways_for_execs_to_leverage_social_media_better [Ed:
No, social control media is a waste of time, going down the drain,
even banned.]⠀⇛
As a business community, we’ve tried to shame execs into
being on social media for at least 10 years, and the
results are decidedly mixed. Despite the expectations
from employees and consumers, only half of the CEOs in
the S&P 500 are on social media.
o ⚓ Culture_Viruses⠀⇛
In large organizations, culture is key. The values and
habits of an organization, and what it rewards and
punishes, are the background radiation driving towards
discrete outcomes in a world of infinite possibility.
Your culture is a living thing – it changes and adapts to
new teammates, external forces, and the broader
environment. And sometimes it gets sick; sometimes your
culture gets a virus.
A Culture Virus is a contagious idea that hooks into your
culture like a pathogen, passing from person to person,
and very often preying on the weak and struggling – the
people who are susceptible to convenient excuses.
Below we’ll work through examples of common culture
viruses that can occur as companies grow. These elements
of culture aren’t matters of style – if you let them
creep into your company, they will meaningfully deflate,
devalue, and debase your company.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ The Scientist ☛ A_Protein-Rich_Diet_Helps_Mice_and_Flies
Sleep_More_Soundly:_Study⠀⇛
The effect appears to be mediated by a gut-secreted
peptide that signals to neurons in the brain that
modulate the response to mechanical vibrations.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ MIPI_CSI_camera_works_with_Intel_Atom_x7000,
Processor,_and_Core_i3_Alder_Lake-N_processors⠀⇛
Most Intel processors do not come with a MIPI CSI
camera, but some Alder Lake-N processors do, and
Leopard Imaging has designed the LI-ADL-ADP-IMX415-
MIPI-081H MIPI CSI camera module that is compatible
with the Intel ADL-N CRB (Alder Lake-N Customer
Reference Board) and custom Alder Lake-N boards
equipped with a compatible MIPI CSI connector. The
13MP camera supports resolutions up to 3864 x 2176
and works with boards and embedded systems based on
Intel Atom processors x7000E Series, Intel Core i3-
N processors, and Intel Processors N-Series
processors.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Gordon_Moore,_Intel_Co-Founder_and_Creator
of_Moore’s_Law,_Dies_at_Age_94⠀⇛
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, famous for defining
Moore’s Law, has passed away peacefully at his home
in Hawaii.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ TikTok_CEO_Grilled_by_Skeptical_Lawmakers
on_Safety,_Content⠀⇛
A nearly six-hour grilling of TikTok’s CEO by
lawmakers brought the platform’s 150 million U.S.
users no closer to an answer as to whether the app
will be wiped from their devices.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ DEA_overseas_review_barely_mentions
corruption_scandals⠀⇛
After nearly two years and $1.4 million spent, the
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration released an
external review of its overseas operations that
barely mentioned recent corruption scandals and
offered a series of recommendations that critics
dismissed as overly vague. Much of the report
outlines the DEA’s 69-country “foreign footprint,”
while lauding its efforts to plug gaping holes in
the oversight of undercover money laundering
operations. The probe followed reporting by The
Associated Press on a disgraced former DEA agent
who confessed to laundering money for Colombian
drug cartels and skimming millions to fund an
international joyride of parties and prostitutes.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Minnesota_nuclear_plant_shuts_down
for_leak;_residents_worry⠀⇛
A Minnesota utility has begun shutting down a
nuclear power plant near Minneapolis after failing
to stop the release of radioactive material.
Officials say it is not dangerous, but nearby
residents are concerned. Xcel Energy started
shutting down the plant in Monticello on Friday.
The utility’s president says after it cools over
the next few days, workers will cut out a pipe that
is over 50 years old and had been leaking tritium.
He says Xcel will then have the pipe analyzed in
hopes of preventing similar leaks in the future. He
says the spill has not left the utility’s property.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ As_Xcel_takes_nuclear_plant
offline,_it_continues_to_reassure_Monticello_residents_that
water_is_safe⠀⇛
The tritium isn’t a risk to the drinking water of
Monticello or the nearby city of Becker, said the
Minneapolis-based utility’s president.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Drinking_a_Bottle_of_Water_Past_Its
Expiration_Date?_Here’s_What_to_Know⠀⇛
Yes, even bottled water can go bad.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Don’t_Sit_With_Your_Legs_Crossed._An
Anatomy_Expert_Explains_Why.⠀⇛
Seriously.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ An_Obscured_Face_Behind_COVID-19_May
Finally_Be_Emerging⠀⇛
A startling revelation.
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Defense_Ministry_announces_cloud
seeding_plan_to_combat_drought⠀⇛
The air force will look to carry out the chemical
process, to try and break the drought that is
affecting Mexico City.
# ⚓ The Local SE ☛ Will_smaller_production_costs_lead_to_lower
food_prices_in_Sweden?⠀⇛
Costs for food producers dropped in February for
the second month in a row. Does this mean food
prices will drop soon?
# ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ 40_Facts_You_NEED_to_Know:_The_REAL_Story_of
“Covid”⠀⇛
We first published our hugely popular cribsheet in
September of 2021 in response to dozens – even
hundreds – of reader requests for sources and data.
It was intended as a resource and link dump as much
as an article, and intentionally free of
interpretation, editorialising or opinion.
# ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ And_we_stop_it_now_for_the_“real”_common
good⠀⇛
This was a very difficult opinion to write because
there are many people I love who have been
vaccinated and I don’t want to be the one in any
way to upset or put fear into them. I was reluctant
to publish this but having just watched Piers
Morgan being interviewed by Triggernometry…
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Federal_appeals_court_blocks_Biden’s_COVID-19
vaccination_mandate_for_federal_employees⠀⇛
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Thursday blocked President Joe Biden’s COVID-19
vaccine mandate for federal employees. The decision
came from an en banc rehearing of the appeal, which
was previously decided in favor of the government
by a three-judge panel of the same court.
# ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Newly_revealed_coronavirus_data_has
reignited_a_debate_over_the_virus’s_origins⠀⇛
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Rwanda_Heightens_Surveillance_Following_Marburg
Virus_Outbreak⠀⇛
Illness caused by the Marburg virus presents
abruptly, with high fever, severe headache and
severe malaise.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-03-23Untitled_Goose_Tool_Aids_Hunt_and_Incident
Response_in_Azure,_Azure_Active_Directory,_and_Microsoft_365
Environments [Ed: CISA_is_infiltrated_by_Microsoft]⠀⇛
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ CISA_Ships_‘Untitled_Goose_Tool’_to_Hunt
for_Microsoft_Azure_Cloud_Infections [Ed: CISA_is_infiltrated
by_Microsoft]⠀⇛
The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency ships a
new tool to help network defenders hunt for signs
of compromise in Microsoft’s Azure and M365 cloud
deployments.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ CISA_Gets_Proactive_With_New_Pre-Ransomware
Alerts [Ed: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
CISA has sent notifications to more than 60
organizations as part of a new initiative to alert
entities of early-stage ransomware attacks.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ PoC_Exploit_Published_for_Just-Patched
Veeam_Data_Backup_Solution_Flaw⠀⇛
Proof-of-concept code to exploit a just-patched
security hole in the Veeam Backup & Replication
product has been published online.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Critical_WooCommerce_Payments_Vulnerability
Leads_to_Site_Takeover⠀⇛
A critical-severity flaw in the WooCommerce
Payments WordPress plugin could allow attackers to
take over site administrator accounts.
# ⚓ James_Bottomley:_Converting_Engines_to_OpenSSL-
3_Providers⠀⇛
Engines in OpenSSL have a long history of providing
new algorithms (Russian_GOST hash/signature etc)
but they can also be used to interface external
crypto tokens (pkcs#11) or even key managers like
my_own_TPM_engine. I’ve actually been using my TPM2
engine for nearly a decade so that I no longer have
to have an unprotected private keys anywhere on my
laptops (including for ssh). The purpose of this
post is to look at the differences between
Providers and Engines and give advice on the
minimum necessary Provider implementation to give
back all the Engine functionality. So this post is
aimed at Engine developers who wish to convert to
Providers rather than giving user advice for
either.
# ⚓ Netcraft ☛ LinusTechTips_YouTube_channels_hacked_to_promote
cryptoscams⠀⇛
The hijacking_of_YouTube_accounts_to_promote_bogus
cryptocurrency_schemes_is_nothing_new. At Netcraft,
we’ve previously blogged about the scale_of
cryptocurrency_scams, and we saw attacks on at
least 2,000 distinct IP addresses every month in
the past year. Cryptocurrency-themed attacks remain
popular with cybercriminals, but yesterday we had
the opportunity to observe the recent high-profile
attack on LinusTechTips as it unfolded.
# ⚓ BBC ☛ YouTube_accused_of_not_tackling_Musk_Bitcoin_scam
streams_–_BBC_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ dwaves.de ☛ Linus_Tech_Tips_Team:_Youtube_Account_hijacked
&_DELETED_for_Elon-live-stream-Crypto-Scam_via_well_faked
Mail_Attachment.pdf.zip⠀⇛
a well faked Mail Attachment.pdf.zip was opened by
a team member, infecting a (Windows 10?) PC in the
background browser login tokens in the form of
cookies & browser passwords were exfiltrated mail
attachments are STILL the #No1 threat…
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Exploding_USB_Sticks⠀⇛
In case you don’t have enough to worry about,
people are hiding_explosives–actual ones–in USB
sticks:
In the port city of Guayaquil, journalist
Lenin Artieda of the Ecuavisa private TV
station received an envelope containing a
pen drive which exploded when he inserted
it into a computer, his employer said.
# ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Fortra_told_breached_companies_their_data_was
safe⠀⇛
Software maker Fortra told its corporate customers
that their data was safe — even when it wasn’t —
following a ransomware attack on its systems,
TechCrunch has learned.
… TechCrunch has heard from two victim
organizations that only learned that data had been
exfiltrated from their GoAnywhere systems after
they each received a ransom demand. Both
organizations had been previously told by Fortra
that their data was unaffected by the ransomware
attack.
# ⚓ Hackers_Steal_$500,000_Worth_of_Tokens_from_Arbitrum
Airdrop⠀⇛
Hackers have managed to steal $500,000 worth of
tokens from layer-2 scaling solution Arbitrum’s
March 23 airdrop. The theft was carried out through
the use of vanity addresses, customized
cryptocurrency addresses that contain specific
words or phrases chosen by the user to make them
more personal and identifiable. While vanity
addresses offer a level of personalization and
identification, their safety is questionable, as
they can compromise the security of users’ private
keys.
The hacker compiled vanity addresses that were
eligible to receive ARB tokens and generated
similar addresses using vanity address generators.
This allowed them to redirect the airdropped tokens
to their own addresses, making it impossible for
the original owners to claim their ARB tokens.
Several crypto users have expressed sadness about
their stolen ARB tokens, with many being unaware of
the reason behind the loss and having no idea what
to do about it.
# ⚓ Cyber_breach_affects_eastern_NC_postal_service⠀⇛
Some United States Postal Service workers in the
eastern North Carolina and Jacksonville area are
missing paychecks due to a cyber attack.
The mail service is conducting an investigation,
but employees are unhappy with the outcome so far,
they said.
Larisa Covington, from Jacksonville, said in
February she was expecting her direct deposit to
hit her account and realized her banking
information had changed to one she had never heard
of.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ The_BreachForums_case:_The_HHS-OIG_did
WHAT?!?_Why?⠀⇛
An affidavit by FBI Special Agent John Longmire in
support of the criminal complaint against Conor
Fitzpatrick, aka “Pompompurin” (Pom), the owner of
BreachForums, states that since “on or around March
2022,” HHS-OIG investigated an administrator and
certain members of BreachForums. The affidavit does
not explain why HHS-OIG started investigating Pom
or some of the new forum’s members. There had never
been any public statement suggesting that HHS-OIG
had been involved in investigating or seizing
RaidForums, BreachForum’s predecessor, which had
been seized in February. So why did HHS-OIG start
investigating Pom and some BreachForum members in
March 2022?
# ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Hacking_contest_Pwn2Own:_Ubuntu,_Tesla,_macOs_and
Windows_11_cracked⠀⇛
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-23Feds_Stalked_Suspects_With_an
Apple_AirTag,_Report_Says⠀⇛
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ UN_accuses_Russia_and_Ukraine_of_‘summary
executions’_of_prisoners⠀⇛
The United Nations said Friday it was “deeply
concerned” by what it described as summary
executions of prisoners of war carried out by
Russian and Ukrainian forces on the battlefield.
Earlier in the day, Russia’s former President
Dmitry Medvedev said Russian forces may have to
advance as far as Kyiv or Lviv to destroy
“infection” in Ukraine.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Mohamed_ElBaradei:_‘The_Iraq_war_was_about
regime_change,_not_WMDs’⠀⇛
Mohamed ElBaradei was director general of the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from 1997
until 2009. In an interview with FRANCE 24, he
reflected on the US-led invasion of Iraq 20 years
ago this week, which he opposed. “If I now look in
hindsight, it was not really about weapons of mass
destruction. It was about regime change,” he said.
ElBaradei added: “They (the US) thought the best
pretext was to say that Saddam Hussein was linked
to al Qaeda and had WMDs (…) They didn’t really
have any evidence. It was all about belief. And
they started a slew of deception and
misinformation.”
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Mūrniece_meets_Lithuanian_counterpart_in_Vilnius⠀⇛
Thursday, March 23, saw Defense Minister Ināra
Mūrniece heading to Lithuania on a working visit,
where she met with Lithuanian Defense Minister
Arvydas Anušauskas in Vilnius.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Ukrainian,_Latvian_ministers_agree_on_logistics
cooperation⠀⇛
Ukrainian minister of the Cabinet Oleh Nemchinov
and Latvian Economics Minister Ilze Indriksone met
Thursday in Rīga and agreed on bilateral economic
cooperation in trade, transport, energy and
investments, Latvian Television reported on March
23.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Biden:_US_will_‘forcefully’
protect_personnel_in_Syria⠀⇛
President Joe Biden says the U.S. will respond
“forcefully” to protect its personnel after U.S.
forces retaliated with airstrikes on sites in Syria
used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary
Guard.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Conflict_in_Syria_Escalates_Following
Attack_That_Killed_a_U.S._Contractor⠀⇛
U.S. officials said the main air defense system at
the coalition base was “not fully operational” at
the time of Thursday’s attack, which killed a U.S.
contractor and wounded six other Americans.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Biden:_US_will_‘forcefully’_protect
personnel_in_Syria⠀⇛
President Joe Biden says the U.S. will respond
“forcefully” to protect its personnel after U.S.
forces retaliated with airstrikes on sites in Syria
used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary
Guard. The U.S. strikes followed a suspected
Iranian-linked attack Thursday that killed a U.S.
contractor and wounded six other Americans in
northeast Syria. “The United States does not, does
not seek conflict with Iran,” Biden said in Ottawa,
Canada, where he is on a state visit. But he said
the U.S. is prepared “to act forcefully to protect
our people. That’s exactly what happened last
night.” Activists said the U.S. bombing killed at
least four people.
# ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Biden_authorizes_airstrike_in_Syria_after
suspected_Iranian-affiliated_drone_kills_US_contractor_and
wounds_5_US_troops⠀⇛
The US conducted an airstrike in Syria against what
it said were Iranian-affiliated facilities after a
suspected Iranian drone on Thursday struck a
facility housing US personnel in the country,
killing an American contractor and wounding five US
service members.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Georgia_activist_killed_by_troopers
shot_first,_officers_say⠀⇛
Georgia authorities say state troopers in January
fatally shot an environmental protester who had
fired at authorities after a trooper shot pepper
balls into the protester’s tent. That’s according
to incident reports obtained Friday by the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution. The records offer the most
complete account yet of authorities’ version of the
Jan. 18 killing of Manuel Paez Terán, who went by
the name Tortuguita. The newly obtained incident
reports say Paez Terán briefly spoke to officers
while inside a tent and refused to leave, prompting
authorities to fire pepper balls. Authorities say
Paez Terán then fired multiple shots, and six
officers returned fire, shooting the activist more
than a dozen times.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ 2023-03-24Poland_Will_Soon_Send_Fighter_Jets_to
Ukraine_–_Prime_Minister⠀⇛
# ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-03-25Rutte:_EU_leaders_close_to_an
agreement_on_extra_€3.5_billion_for_Ukraine_weapons⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-23EU_leaders_endorse_Ukraine
ammunition_deal⠀⇛
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ 2023-03-20Millions_In_Extra_Funding_Pledged_For_ICC
Work_In_Ukraine⠀⇛
# ⚓ RFA ☛ 2023-03-21Putin,_Xi_touch_on_Ukraine_in_Moscow_talks
as_Japan_PM_turns_up_in_Kyiv⠀⇛
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ 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. It’s the
latest security scare as the prosecutor weighs a
potential historic indictment of former President
Donald Trump. The letter said, “Alvin, I am going
to kill you,” according to a person familiar with
the matter. The person was not authorized to speak
publicly about an ongoing investigation and did so
on condition of anonymity. The discovery, in the
same court building where a grand jury is expected
to resume work Monday on the Trump case, came amid
increasingly hostile rhetoric from the Republican.
# ⚓ American Oversight ☛ News_Roundup:_Investigations_into
Trump⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ The_AUKUS_debate_Australia_needs_to_have⠀⇛
The government confirmed last week that selected
Royal Australian Navy surface ships and submarines
will in the foreseeable future be equipped with US
long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finland_needs_Hornet_jets_in_coming_years,
says_minister_of_defence⠀⇛
MINISTER of Defence Antti Kaikkonen (Centre) on
Thursday viewed that Finland will need its Hornet
fighter jets in the coming years.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ New_Zealand_raises_concerns_with_China
on_South_China_Sea,_Taiwan⠀⇛
New Zealand’s foreign minister also noted “deep
concerns” regarding Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Support_Grows_to_Have_Russia_Pay_for
Ukraine’s_Rebuilding⠀⇛
Although U.S. officials have cautioned against
seizing Russia’s reserves in foreign banks, others
say it’s “crazy” not to after Moscow’s war of
aggression.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ No_Letup_in_Bakhmut_as_Ukraine_and_Russia
Brace_for_Battles_Elsewhere⠀⇛
Both sides expect a Ukrainian offensive while the
Bakhmut fight continues, but the head of the Wagner
mercenary group said Russia must be clearer about
its goals.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Trajectories_of_Iraqi_youth_two_decades
after_the_2003_invasion:_Between_aspirations_and_reality⠀⇛
On March 20, 2023, the Atlantic Council’s Iraq
Initiative hosted a discussion with a number of
young Iraqi civil society activists and prospective
leaders to reflect on the 20th anniversary of the
2003 Iraq invasion.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russian_War_Report:_Kremlin_edits
footage_of_Mariupol_visit_to_remove_women_shouting_at_Putin⠀⇛
After Putin was yelled at in Mariupol, the Kremlin
cut the exchange from their official video. RIA
Novosti published the whole interaction.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Right-Wing_Serbian_Parties_Protest_Agreement_With
Kosovo_On_Anniversary_Of_NATO_Bombing_Campaign⠀⇛
Supporters of four right-wing Serbian opposition
parliamentary parties demonstrated in Belgrade,
blocking traffic and demanding the government
reject a plan agreed by Serbian President
Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovar Prime Minister Albin
Kurti on the process of normalizing relations.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ New_U.S._Sanctions_Target_Individuals,_Entities,
Assets_In_Belarus,_Including_Lukashenka’s_Jet⠀⇛
The U.S. Treasury Department on March 24 issued new
Belarus-related sanctions against nine individuals
and three entities in response to an ongoing
crackdown on the country’s pro-democracy movement
and civil society.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ UK_barristers_call_upon_government_to_address
climate_crisis⠀⇛
Over 100 Barristers Thursday signed a declaration
calling upon the UK government and colleagues to
address the causes and consequences of the climate
crises and to advance a just transition to
sustainability, posing concerns over how serious
governments around the world are taking the climate
emergency.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Biden_and_oil:_What_does_responsibility
mean_in_a_new_energy_era?⠀⇛
The Biden administration’s recent leasing and
permitting actions raise questions about the
prudence of new oil development during a
global push toward cleaner energy.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Do_Kwon,_Crypto_Fugitive,_Led_a_Very
Public_Life_While_on_the_Run⠀⇛
Do Kwon, the founder of the failed crypto
company Terraform Labs, is facing charges by
the authorities in both South Korea and the
United States.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_temptation_of_high_oil_prices_is_shaking
Norway’s_climate_commitments⠀⇛
Offshore oil is booming. According to the
research firm, Rystad, spending on offshore
oil investments exceeded $100 billion in 2022
for the first time in a decade, and will do
so again in 2023 and 2024. Norway, the
Scandinavian country that has positioned
itself as a climate leader, is driving some
of this boom.…
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ A_South_Korean_crypto_boss_was_finally
arrested_after_a_six-month_manhunt⠀⇛
The co-founder of Singapore-based crypto
fintech firm Terraform Labs was detained in
Montenegro yesterday (Mar. 23). Do Kwon was
wanted by the South Korean police, the US
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and
Interpol—the latter issued a red notice for
his arrest last September.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ South_Korean_Crypto_Fugitive_Charged_With
Forgery_In_Montenegro⠀⇛
Montenegro has charged South Korean citizen
Do Kwon, the former CEO and co-founder of
cryptocurrency company Terraform Labs, with
forgery after police confirmed his identity
and that of another South Korean, Chang Joon,
who was also charged.
# ⚓ Denmark_and_Germany_announce_plans_for_hydrogen
pipeline⠀⇛
Germany and Denmark will work together to
construct a pipeline to transport hydrogen
between the two countries, ministers
announced on Friday.
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Green_hydrogen_to_flow_from_Denmark
to_Germany_from_2028⠀⇛
The climate minister, Lars Aagaard, and the
German economy and climate minister, Vice
Chancellor Robert Habeck, signed an agreement
on Friday morning in Copenhagen to build a
land-based hydrogen pipeline from Denmark to
Germany, which will commence operations in
2028.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Baltic_International_Bank_liquidation_process
approved⠀⇛
The Court of Economic Affairs has approved the
liquidation application of Baltic International
Bank submitted by the Bank of Latvia, the LETA news
agency reported March 24.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Raw_milk_purchase_price_rose_nearly_50%_last
year⠀⇛
Provisional data compiled by the Central
Statistical Bureau and published March 24 of Latvia
show that in 2022 the annual average purchase price
of raw milk grew by 153 euros per tonne (EUR/t) or
48.2 % reaching 471 EUR/t.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Customs_officers_sentenced_to_prison_for_bribery⠀⇛
The Economic Affairs Court of Latvia (ELT) on March
24 charged several customs officers with bribery in
one of the so-called “Terehova cases”, according to
LETA.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Pension_reform:_French_government_will_not
‘yield_to_violence’_Macron_says [Ed: Reversal of narratives.
The victim is now "violent".]⠀⇛
French President Emmanuel Macron strongly condemned
violence that erupted in Thursday’s demonstrations
against raising the French retirement age and said
he would not give in to it.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ 457_French_Jailed_In_Paris_Over_Rallies_Against
Pension_Reform⠀⇛
A recent poll showed that almost 70 percent of the
citizens reject President Macron’s pension reform
proposal, which intends to raise the retirement age
from 62 to 64.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Macron_‘is_not_a_king’:_1_million_French
protest_pension_reform⠀⇛
Over a million people protested across France
Thursday to oppose President Macron’s proposal to
increase the retirement age from 62 to 64. Amid
violent nationwide demonstrations, unions called
for strikes to coincide with King Charles III’s
visit.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ France_pension_reform_bill_protests_continue_as
King_Charles_III’s_visit_is_cancelled⠀⇛
Scattered protests in France continued Friday,
following Thursday’s mass demonstrations over
nationwide opposition to President Emmanuel
Macron’s controversial pension reform bill.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ French_Anger_Shifts_From_Pension_Law_to
Focus_on_Macron⠀⇛
After ramming through a law raising the retirement
age without a full parliamentary vote, the French
president faces something approaching a
constitutional crisis.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Spasms_of_Violence_and_‘Wild_Protests’
Jolt_Paris⠀⇛
Opponents of pension overhaul, mostly young people,
hold nightly “wild protests,” marked by vandalism,
saying it is the only way to make their voices
heard.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Los_Angeles_Schools_and_30,000_Workers
Reach_Tentative_Deal_After_Strike⠀⇛
The three-day walkout included Los Angeles Unified
School District teachers, gardeners, bus drivers,
cafeteria workers and special education assistants.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Los_Angeles_Schools’_Staff_Returns_To_Work_After
3-Day_Strike⠀⇛
These workers began striking after nearly a year of
unsuccessful negotiations with the Los Angeles
Unified School District about wage raises.
# ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ What_the_banking_crisis_means_for
mortgage_rates⠀⇛
Mortgage rates have taken would-be buyers on a ride
this year — and it’s only March. Generally, home
buyers can anticipate mortgage rates to move down
through the rest of this year as the banking crisis
drags on, which could cool down inflation. But
there are bound to be some bumps along the way.
# ⚓ The Local SE ☛ Swedish_bank_predicts_key_interest_rates
will_drop_in_November⠀⇛
A new interest rate prognosis from Swedish state-
owned SBAB bank predicts that Sweden’s central bank
will hike key interest rates substantially in
April, but will be able to lower them again as
early as November.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Poverty,_marginalisation_risks_rising_in_Finland⠀⇛
Around 75 percent of households in Finland would be
able to pay unexpected expenses, while 25 percent
would not, Statistics Finland reports.
# ⚓ Why_Construction_Projects_Always_Go_Over_Budget⠀⇛
Boston, Massachusetts is one of the oldest cities
in America, founded in 1630, more than a few years
before the advent of modern motor vehicles. In the
1980s, traffic in downtown Boston was nearly
unbearable from the tangled streets laid out
centuries ago, so city planners and state
transportation officials came up with what they
considered a grand plan. They would reroute the
elevated highway and so-called “central artery” of
Interstate 93 into a tunnel below downtown and
extend Interstate 90 across the inner harbor to the
airport in another tunnel. Construction started in
1991, and the project was given the nickname Big
Dig because of the sheer volume of excavation
required for the two tunnels. In terms of cost and
complexity, the Big Dig was on the scale of the
Panama Canal or Hoover Dam. It featured some of the
most innovative construction methods of the time,
and after 16 years of work, the project was
finished on time and under budget…[Grady makes a
skeptical face into the camera]
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Sinn_Féin_Party_Leader_Mary_Lou_McDonald:_“We
Will_See_a_Reunification_Referendum_Within_the_Decade”⠀⇛
Mary Lou McDonald’s star is rising in Ireland,
which could put her in a position to push for
reunification with Northern Ireland. DER SPIEGEL
speaks with her about why she thinks success might
be possible.
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-24France_bans_TikTok_(and_Candy_Crush)
from_government_phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-23Here’s_what_TikTok’s_CEO_told_Congress
about_the_app’s_ties_to_China_and_teen_safety⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-24The_Morning_After:_What_TikTok’s_CEO
told_Congress_about_the_app’s_ties_to_China⠀⇛
# ⚓ France24 ☛ 2023-03-24TikTok_CEO_grilled_by_skeptical_US
lawmakers_over_national_security_threat⠀⇛
# ⚓ France24 ☛ 2023-03-24France_to_ban_TikTok_on_civil
servants’_work_phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ 2023-03-24Daily_Cartoon:_Friday,_March_24th⠀⇛
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Teens_on_TikTok?_New_Utah_law_says_ask_your
parents_first.⠀⇛
Utah’s Gov. Spencer Cox signed a pair of measures
requiring parental consent before kids can sign up
for sites like TikTok and Instagram. The new laws
also limit time spent on social media and require
age verification for anyone using social media.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ US_lawmakers’_minds_were_already_made_up_about
TikTok⠀⇛
When TikTok_CEO_Shou_Zi_Chew showed up on Capitol
Hill this week to testify at a House Energy and
Commerce Committee hearing, committee chair Cathy
McMorris Rodgers, a Republican from Washington,
immediately set_the_tone for the ordeal.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ 2023-03-24The_TikTok_Hearings_Inspired_Little
Faith_in_Social_Media_or_in_Congress⠀⇛
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ 2023-03-23Your_Friday_Briefing:_U.S.
Lawmakers_Blast_TikTok’s_C.E.O.⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-03-24France_Bans_TikTok,
Twitter_From_Government_Staff_Phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-03-24Canada’s_Trudeau_Says
TikTok_Ban_Had_‘Side_Benefit’_of_Getting_His_Kids_off
Platform⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-03-24McCarthy_Expects_US
House_Will_Pass_Legislation_to_Address_TikTok⠀⇛
# ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-03-24The_rise_of_the_TikTok_scold⠀⇛
# ⚓ YLE ☛ 2023-03-24Friday’s_papers:_Hungary’s_Nato_promise,
train_traffic_resumes_and_TikTok’s_election_influence⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-03-21China_could_be_harvesting
TikTok_data,_but_much_of_the_user_information_is_already_out
in_the_open⠀⇛
# ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-03-22Dutch_companies_not_concerned_about
TikTok_on_employees’_phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-03-22Dutch_government_bans_officials_from
installing_TikTok_on_work_phone⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-19How_Many_Countries_Have_Banned
TikTok?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-20The_BBC,_Which_Has_4_Million_Followers
on_TikTok,_Tells_Employees_Not_to_Download_TikTok⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-03-20Please_Get_Me_Out_of_Dead-Dog
TikTok⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-03-20TikTok_Hits_150
Million_U.S._Monthly_Users,_up_From_100_Million_in_2020⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-21TikTok_Announces_‘Refreshed’_Community
Guidelines_Ahead_of_Congressional_Hearing⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-21TikTok’s_CEO_Has_a_Message_for
Congress:_America_Needs_This_App⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-23Congress_Browbeats_TikTok’s_CEO_in
Brutal_5-Hour_Hearing⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-22Here’s_What_TikTok’s_CEO_Will_Tell
Congress⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-21Italy_investigates_TikTok_over
‘dangerous_content’⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-23TikTok_CEO_faces_off_with_US
lawmakers⠀⇛
# ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-03-23What_to_know_about_TikTok’s_fate_in_the
US⠀⇛
# ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-03-239_questions_about_the_threats_to_ban
TikTok,_answered⠀⇛
# ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-03-21Is_TikTok_too_big_to_ban?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-03-233_winners_and_3_losers_from_Congress’s
TikTok_hearing⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-03-23TikTok_CEO_finds_no_allies_among_U.S.
lawmakers_in_tense_Congress_grilling⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-03-24TikTok_is_owned_by_a_Chinese_company._So
why_doesn’t_it_exist_there?⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-03-24See_how_TikTok_compares_to_China’s_heavily
censored_version,_Douyin⠀⇛
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Happy_Crime-Fraud_Exception_Day,_for_Those
Who_Celebrate⠀⇛
As investigations relying on the witness testimony
of Michael Cohen and Evan Corcoran converge this
week, it’s a reminder that for at least seven
years, Trump’s lawyers have exposed themselves
legally in assistance of Trump’s cover-ups.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Former_Trump_Officials_Must_Testify_in
2020_Election_Inquiry,_Judge_Says⠀⇛
The ruling paves the way for testimony from Mark
Meadows and others. Separately, a Trump lawyer
appeared before a grand jury looking into the
former president’s handling of classified
documents.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ G.O.P._Demands_on_Prosecutor_in_Trump_Case
Test_Limits_of_Oversight_Power⠀⇛
The Manhattan district attorney is resisting
demands by House Republicans that he provide
information about the hush money inquiry, setting
up a potential legal showdown.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Israel’s_Army_Fears_Effect_of_Judicial
Crisis_on_Battlefield_Readiness⠀⇛
A judicial overhaul has prompted many military
reservists to avoid volunteer duty. Military
leaders have privately warned that this might
require scaling back operations.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Can_AI_programs_be_trusted_to_report_the
news? [Ed: Conflating chatbots with something else]⠀⇛
Editors remain cautious about the use of
artificial intelligence in reporting. But
used responsibly, they say, it can free up
local journalists while augmenting their
coverage – for instance, with AI-produced
summaries of city council meetings.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Bishkek_Court_Orders_Check_Of_Language_In_Video
That_Sparked_Blockage_Of_RFE/RL’s_Kyrgyz_Websites⠀⇛
Bishkek’s Lenin District Court has ordered an
examination of the language used in a video the
government cited when it halted the operations of
RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service, saying it contains
elements of inciting ethnic hatred and war
propaganda, an allegation the broadcaster has
rejected.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Opposition_Leader_Navalny_Placed_In
Punitive_Solitary_Confinement_Again⠀⇛
Imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei
Navalny has been placed in a punitive solitary
confinement cell for the 12th time since mid-
August, his Telegram channel said.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Estonia_Expels_Russian_Diplomat_For_‘Spreading
Propaganda’_In_Favor_Of_Moscow’s_Military_Actions⠀⇛
Estonia has declared a staff member of Russia’s
Embassy in Tallinn persona non grata for “directly
and actively undermining Estonia’s security and
constitutional order, spreading propaganda that
justifies Russia’s military action and causing
divisions in Estonian society.”
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong’s_sports_federation_blasts
ice_hockey_body’s_‘administrative’_problems_for_protest
anthem_blunder⠀⇛
Hong Kong’s ice hockey body has been accused by the
city’s Sports Federation & Olympic Committee
(SF&OC) to be “all talk and no action” over a
national anthem blunder at an international
competition. It added that the organisation had
problems with its administration.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_Art_Week:_Pro-protest
billboard_art_removed_as_‘it_contained_political_messages,’
says_gallery⠀⇛
A digital artist who hid the names, ages and jail
terms of convicted Hong Kong protesters in a SOGO
mall video billboard installation says organisers
have been forced to remove it.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Blogger_Varlamov,_Human_Rights_Lawyer
Chikov_Listed_As_‘Foreign_Agents’⠀⇛
Russia’s Justice Ministry has added blogger Ilya
Varlamov and lawyer Pavel Chikov of the Agora legal
defense organization to the “foreign agents”
registry.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-23New_Ukrainian_army_regulations_limit
reporters’_access_to_frontlines⠀⇛
# ⚓ LRT ☛ 2023-03-20Ukraine’s_Nova_Poshta_opens_branch_in
Vilnius⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Press_freedom_groups_condemn
harassment_of_Hong_Kong_journalists_after_HKFP_reporter
tailed⠀⇛
Press freedom groups have condemned the harassment
and surveillance of local journalists, after an
HKFP court reporter was followed from her home to
her workplace for over an hour by two men with
earpieces on Wednesday. The duo tailed the reporter
during morning rush hour, despite efforts to board
and alight different trains.
# ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ RBZ_could_face_sanctions_following_Al_Jazeera
documentary._That’s_a_big_deal⠀⇛
Al Jazeera released the first of four parts to
their explosive documentary on corruption and
looting in Zimbabwe yesterday. Titled ‘Gold Mafia’
the documentary exposes the dealings of some
government officials, prophets, pastors, and
businesspeople profiting from the illegal movement
of gold. Reactions to the docu have been mixed.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ ACLU ☛ How_Officials_in_Georgia_are_Suppressing_Political
Protest_as_‘Domestic_Terrorism’⠀⇛
Over the past few months, 42 activists have been
charged with “domestic_terrorism” under Georgia
state law. Their acts of “terrorism”? Alleged
property damage and trespassing while protesting.
These prosecutions exemplify a highly problematic
trend of the government — both state and federal —
using domestic terrorism powers to punish dissent.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Exclusive:_We_Spoke_to_‘Stop_Cop_City’
Activists_Facing_Terrorism_Charges⠀⇛
42 people have been arrested for alleged ties to
the protest movement, which opposes a $90 million
police training facility in the Atlanta forest.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Rights_organization:_UK_asylum_housing_system_is_‘cruel
by_design’⠀⇛
UK charity organisation Refugee Action Thursday reported
that the UK’s asylum housing system is “cruel by design,”
and outlined the poor conditions and systems of
racialised segregation towards the asylum seekers.
o ⚓ RFA ☛ Uyghurs_tell_Congress_of_gang_rape,_shackles_and
sterilization⠀⇛
Two survivors of Chinese concentration camps describe
torture and dehumanization at heart of genocide.
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ House_hears_Uyghur_testimonies_on_human_rights
abuses_in_China⠀⇛
A special House committee hearing on Thursday included
testimonies from two Uyghur women detained by the Chinese
government in “reeducation” camps. The U.S. joins a
global effort to raise awareness of the mistreatment of
the Uyghur community in China.
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ 32_states_and_counting:_Why_parents_bills_of_rights
are_sweeping_US⠀⇛
In 2023, at least 32 states are considering a Parents
Bill of Rights, as parents look for greater say in the
education of their children.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Ticketmaster_Reportedly_Faces_Class-
Action_Suit_Over_the_‘Artificially_Inflated’_Price_of_Drake
Tickets_in_Canada⠀⇛
Ticketmaster is reportedly grappling with yet
another class-action lawsuit – this time over the
price of Drake tickets in the artist’s native
Canada. Regional outlets including the Toronto Star
just recently shed light upon the complaint, which
represents the latest in a long line of cost-
centered actions against the Live Nation-owned
ticketing platform.
# ⚓ 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. Microsoft
announced its plans to acquire Activision Blizzard
early last year.
⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-03-21Focus_of_Activision_Blizzard_merger_debate_shifts
from_concerns_to_constructive_solutions_and_procompetitive_effects:_Epic_Games
welcomes_Microsoft’s_mobile_app_store_plans [Ed: By Microsoft's shill, which it
paid]⠀⇛
⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-24UK_watchdog_no_longer_thinks_Microsoft’s_Activision
Blizzard_merger_is_a_threat_to_console_competition_(updated)⠀⇛
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ 10_years_of_Cooperative_Patent_Classification_marked [Ed:
Campinos commits crimes at EPO, claims credit for things he had
nothing to do with]⠀⇛
President Campinos: CPC now the most powerful
classification system in the world
o ⚓ JUVE ☛ G_2/21:_Enlarged_Board_of_Appeal_allows_post-filed_data_to
prove_technical_effect [Ed: The Enlarged Board of Appeal is a
kangaroo court, but it is glorified by a mouthpiece of Team UPC,
i.e. the EPO coup plotters]⠀⇛
So far, established European Patent Office case law
requires that, in order for the examiners to account for
data submitted after filing a patent, it must be
plausible from the application as filed, in combination
with common general knowledge, that the technical effect
was already achieved at the date on which the patent was
filed.
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $14,000_for_SoftBank_entity,_Entropic
Communications,_prior_art⠀⇛
Unified added 7 new PATROLL contests, with a $2,000 cash
prize for each, seeking prior art on the list below. The
patents are owned by Entropic Communications, an NPE and
SoftBank subsidiary. The contests will all end on May 15,
2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click
on each link below.
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $4,000_for_Fractus_antennas_patent_prior_art⠀⇛
Two new PATROLL contests have been added, with a $2,000
cash prize for each, seeking prior art on claim 31 of
U.S._Patent_8,456,365 and claim 1 of U.S._Patent
8,674,887. The patents are owned by Fractus, SA, an NPE,
and have_been_asserted against ADT.
o ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Unified_Patent_Court_provides_information
about_issues_concerning_sunrise_period [Ed: UPC is illegal and it
will be taken down fast; Team UPC keeps issuing fluff to
'legitimise' the crime]⠀⇛
The Registrar of the Unified Patent Court has provided
information on most commonly identified issues regarding
the sunrise functionalities of the Court’s CMS.
* § Software Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Virtual_Creative_Artist_media_content_patent
likely_invalid⠀⇛
On March 22, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
(PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an
IPR filed by Unified against U.S._Patent_10,339,576,
owned and asserted by Virtual Creative Artist, LLC. The
’576 patent is directed towards a process for creating
and publishing media content on an electronic exchange.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Duckburg_Family_Trees_(Rota_vs_Rosa)⠀⇛
It’s neither OK that Elvira and Scrooge are
siblings nor that they are Donald’s parents (kind
of contradicts Scrooges early appearances in
Barks). It’s even less OK that they are both those
things. That book came out in Swedish in 86 (two
years after its original Italian publication), I
saw it and always wanted to read it, but when I did
get a chance to a few years later, in the later
eighties, I was super weirded out and not happy.
(The Swedish book also contained two Lockman/Strobl
stories and they were pretty good.)
# ⚓ body_image⠀⇛
I have found myself more relaxed with certain
aspects of my body the past few months.
I remember as a teen, it was basically normalized
to be obsessed about your body in a way that
doesn’t even make sense and that you hopefully,
usually, grow out of; at least I did, gradually,
but did most of my growing the past year or so, I
think.
# ⚓ Retcon-style_mechanics⠀⇛
The playtest for the version of D&D that’s
codenamed “D&D One” has Guidance and Resistance
spells be post-hoc instead of pre-hoc and I thought
that seemed great at first but through playtesting
we’ve run into trouble. The more we use it, I’ve
gone from “sure, that makes sense” to hating it,
but my players are becoming more entrenched in
loving it.
To me it feels like retconning and I’m not into it.
Jarring and unfun.
I like fortune at the end and dislike “fortune in
the middle” mechanics, like how you can retcon your
attacks by spending points, and this is even worse
since what you add retroactively is even more dice.
It’s “fortune in the middle and then even more
fortune”.
# ⚓ Wither_proficiency_dice?⠀⇛
When 5e was being playtested, the proficiency bonus
wasn’t a static +2, +3, +4, +5, or +6. It was a d4,
d6, d8, d10 or d12. The character sheet was much
simpler, too. You had your basic ability modifiers
and then you would just note if you were
proficient. So if you had +3 strength, you’d roll
d20+3 if you weren’t proficient but if you were,
you’d also toss on a d4 (at lower levels, and more
at higher levels).
# ⚓ Fortune_at_the_End⠀⇛
I love what RPG designers call “Fortune at the
End”; making your decisions before the roll and
then the roll shows you what happened. You have all
kinds of ways to influence the roll but you do that
first, and then there’s the showdown. Poker and
roulette are similar in that regard. You think
you’ve figured out when to hold’em and now it’s
time for a prayer on the flop. I hate fighting in
real life but these kinds of mechanics feel, to me,
appropriate to how a good swashbuckling movie
should feel. You’ve swung your sword or drawn back
your bow and now all you can do is see how it
landed.
This is contrasted with “Fortune in the Middle” or
“Fortune in the Beginning”, where you roll your
dice but then you get to fiddle endlessly with the
result with points and chips and spends and this
and that and the other. Legalized fudging. Not my
jam. I want tension and release, not tension and
hold-on-let-me-just-tweak-some-levers.
o § Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ If_that_would_be_true⠀⇛
If that would be true, why would it upset me?
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Re:_Systemd-free⠀⇛
There’s a recent post by Lesogorov about SystemD-
free distros that’s worth a read if this sort of
thing interests you.
Around 2017 I started migrating away from using old
crappy X86 desktops as home servers to a small army
of Raspberry Pi’s. I immediately ran into a few
SystemD related issues that somewhat soured my
feelings towards it.
[...]
The heart of the issue is that SystemD was
attempting to mount all disks before that disk had
even finished spinning up, causing the mount to
fail because the kernel didn’t even know the disk
existed yet.
[...]
I’ve since found Void. I am extremely positive
about Void. It’s not perfect, but it really is very
good. I love that it uses Musl libc. It uses Runit
for init and process supervision, which is crazy
simple.
[...]
I’ve got Alpine in a VM for evaluation. I have to
say, I’m totally impressed. I can see this
replacing Arch as my development environment
because it’s actually up to date (Void lags just
enough to annoy me) and it is also Musl libc based.
There are a couple things I’m not entirely happy
with though. I don’t particularly care for BusyBox,
as I’ve seen the code, and I’m also not entirely
happy with the way packages are split.
[...]
This is not a great tendency. I’d point out that
Unix was originally brought up in large part
because Ken Thompson needed an OS to run his Space
Travel video game on the PDP-7. A few
collaborators, notably Dennis Ritchie, who were
frustrated with how large Multics had grown,
chipped in and it took off.
[...]
Would I recommend a non-systemD distro? Depends. If
a person has a bit of experience Void makes a great
server and a decent desktop. I actually think
Alpine makes a great desktop, but you have to have
some knowhow to bring it up. I wouldn’t recomment
Artix.
# ⚓ A_New_Firefox_Workflow⠀⇛
It feels like the web has really changed a lot over
the past decades, but innovation in web browser
workflows has been stagnant by comparison. For the
most part everyone is still just doing the address
bar and horizontal tab list at the top of their
screen, and it’s only been fairly recently that
some browsers like Vivaldi and even Edge have
started experimenting beyond that.
I gave Vivaldi a try yesterday and really liked it.
I had it set up with a vertical tab bar on the left
and a side panel with various bookmarks at the
right, a setup that I think makes a lot of sense
since I can sometimes end up with dozens of tabs.
Hardly any websites make full use of the available
screen width anyway. I almost stuck with Vivaldi,
but a couple obscure bugs with keyboard shortcuts
had me coming back to Firefox in the end.
# ⚓ A_Retro-grouch_and_ATB_computer⠀⇛
“Retro-grouch” is a facetious term I believe was
originally meant pejoratively to denote a bike geek
out of step with the current trend in new bicycle
technology. Now I see it laughingly and
affectionately adopted by many folks passionate
about steel all-terrain bicycles, practical
commuter accoutrements, and resistance to keeping
up with new, useless, expensive bike technology
‘innovations.’
I favor just this kind of riding for a few reasons.
It values tried and true tools and technology. We
don’t need to adopt hydraulic brakes, tubeless
tires, and internal routing. These things are more
expensive in the first place, and require new tools
and specialized parts, and often expert level
knowledge. Alternatively, classic bike setups can
be understood reasonably by me, an amateur, through
experimentation, how-to books and tutorials, and
they use fairly universal swappable parts.
# ⚓ Going_Github⠀⇛
The main reason is I’m kind of tired of the amount
of spam bots that keep signing up to my Gitea. The
juice of self-hosting a public-access git forge,
even locked down to prevent arbitrary repo
creation, that juice just isn’t worth the squeeze.
# ⚓ Oddball_Technologies⠀⇛
One of my core principle to IT: Try to use
different stuff. Don’t be afraid of the _weird_
things. In a lot of cases, the weirdness is your
friend. Usually the weird is a deisgn or feature to
solve a need that is not met by the mainstream.
Even if not, there’s a lot to learn from the weird.
This is why I write web services in C++,
investigate GNUnet, use a TLS library that’s not
OpenSSL, maintains OpenBSD support for libraries,
and so on. Maybe Gemini to a certain degree. See, I
run into problems. A lot of them. I see
certificates breaking, connection reset and even
code that just don’t work on certain OS-es that is
not used widely. But I also learned a lot from the
process. The fact that OpenSSL is not fully
compliant to the RFC, that opening a file is not
always possible even if permission is correct.
# ⚓ Saying_LLMs_Lack_“Understanding”⠀⇛
# ⚓ The_“Tens-Complement”_system⠀⇛
One thing to know with houserules is that you’ve
got to know when to walk away if the houserule is
about a part of the game that’s not mainly under
your purvey.
# § Announcements⠀➾
# ⚓ Gemtexter_2.0.0_–_Let’s_Gemtext_again^2⠀⇛
I proudly announce that I’ve released
Gemtexter version `2.0.0`. What is Gemtexter?
It’s my minimalist static site generator for
Gemini Gemtext, HTML and Markdown written in
GNU Bash.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ schlemoize⠀⇛
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