𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Wednesday, March 29, 2023
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⦿ IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Among Users in the World’s Largest Population, Microsoft is the 1% | Techrights
⦿ In One City Alone Microsoft Fired Almost 3,000 Workers This Year (We’re Still in March) | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/03/29/irc-log-280323/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/29/microsoft-is-the-1-percent/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/29/microsoft-seattle-layoffs/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/03/29/blender-3-5/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/29/easyos-kirkstone-5-2/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/29/erosion-of-human-rights/#comments
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Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/03/29/irc-log-280323/
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Posted in IRC_Logs at 1:36 am by Needs Sunlight
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* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-280323.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-280323.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-280323.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-280323.gmi
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✐ Among_Users_in_the_World’s_Largest_Population,_Microsoft_is_the_1%⠀✐
Posted in Asia, Microsoft, Search at 8:37 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Edge developers recently laid off, too (the media_barely_mentioned_this; it’s
all about chaffbot hype)
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇India's_browsers_share⦈_
Summary: A sobering_look_at_India shows that Microsoft lost control of the
country (Windows_slipped_to_16%_market_share while GNU/Linux_grew_a_lot; Bing
is minuscule [1, 2]; Edge fell_to_1.01% and now approaches “decimal point”
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Posted in Microsoft at 8:07 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
In Bill Gates-sponsored media [1, 2] this_week:
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Microsoft_Seattle-area_layoffs_top_2,700_with_tech_giant’s
latest_cuts⦈_
Another_Microsoft_piece_from_a_Microsoft_mouthpiece (Bishop, a Microsoft_Media
Operative):
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Microsoft_job_cuts_surpass_2,700_in_Seattle_region;_security
technology_group_hit_in_latest_round⦈_
The media_in_India (where Microsoft has many layoffs too; GitHub has fired
almost all of its Indian (as in India-based) staff):
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Microsoft_layoffs:_559_employees_fired_from_Seattle_offices,
taking_total_to_over_2,700⦈_
Summary: You can tell a company isn’t doing well when amid_mass_layoffs it pays
endless money to the media — not to actual workers — in order for this media to
go crazy over buzzwords, chaffbots, and other vapourware (as if the company is
a market leader and has a future for shareholders to look forward to, even if
claims are exaggerated and there’s no business model)
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣶⣿⣶⣷⣿⣿⣾⣷⣷⣾⣷⣾⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣷⣾⣾⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⡜⣷⢉⣏⡏⢎⡓⠀⠀⠚⠒⠁⠂⠀⠐⠙⠐⠀⠈⠚⠐⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠂⠀⠓⠛⠛⠂⠋⠓⠃⠀⠀⠘⠓⠂⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤
⣿⣬⣽⣭⣯⣿⣯⣽⣿⣿⣿⣽⣽⣯⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣯⣿⣿⣯⣭⣯⣮⣽⣿⣽⣿⣿⣽⣽⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⠿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⡿⡿⠿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣰⣁⣸⢸⣰⡃⣎⣖⣅⣔⣱⣸⣰⣆⣿⢸⣰⣸⣐⣹⣇⣞⣸⣸⣸⣠⣺⣇⣔⣸⣸⢰⢰⣸⣠⣘⣄⣇⣜⣿⠫⠾⣿⣱⣇⣇⣜⣣⣿⢸⣰⣹⣗⣍⣇⣄⣢⣸⣰⣰⣸⣠⣸⡇⣎⣠⣇⡆⣇⣱⣸⣰⢸⢾⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣾⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⡳⢿⣟⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣊⣨⣀⣄⣓⣇⣃⣰⣇⣘⡎⣼⣷⣪⣀⣇⣓⣰⣸⣸⣸⣘⣀⣇⣃⣇⡃⡎⣼⣇⡂⣇⣆⣃⣇⣃⡇⣢⣿⣸⣸⣀⣻⣇⣇⣇⣿⣸⣀⣀⣣⣀⣗⣑⣘⣿⣰⣜⣸⣘⣸⣸⣀⣃⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣼⣿⣷⣿⣾⣾⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⠀⠀⡀⡀⠀⠄⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢀⡄⣀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⢄⢀⡀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⢀⢀⠀⣀⠀⡀⠠⢤⢄⣄⠀⣠⣀⡀⡀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⣿
⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤
⣿⣵⣴⣬⣤⣥⣼⣯⣴⣥⣭⣯⣤⣶⣼⣿⣧⣴⣽⣼⣾⣧⣭⣬⣴⣤⣼⣷⣴⣤⣤⣮⣿⣷⣥⣼⣿⣴⣽⣥⣥⣿⣿⣧⣽⣬⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣧⣮⣴⣧⣤⣤⣶⣽⣿⣿⣧⣦⣦⣤⣤⣴⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⠻⣟⠿⠿⡿⣿⢟⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⠿⢿⢿⠿⢟⡿⠿⠿⡿⣿⠟⠿⠿⠿⡿⡿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠿⣿⠿⣿⡿⢿⢿⠿⣿⠿⢿⠿⡿⣿⡿⠿⣿⢿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠿⡿⡟⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⠻⠟⡟⠿⡿⠿⠿⠿⡿⢿⠛⠻⡟⡿⢿⠿⡿⢿⠛⠛⠿⢿⡟⢻⠛⡟⢻⡿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⢻⠿⡿⢿⠿⡿⢿⠿⡿⢻⡿⠿⠿⠿⢻⡟⡻⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠟⡻⠿⠿⠿⠿⢻⠻⠿⣿⠿⡟⠛⡛⠿⡿⢿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣤⣦⣧⣬⣧⣧⣵⣥⣧⣼⣼⣬⣧⣧⣼⣠⣧⣽⣼⣼⣤⣽⣯⣵⣥⣧⣼⣧⣴⣼⣼⣇⣵⣼⣭⣗⣼⣤⣧⣼⣤⣿⣼⣧⣷⣤⣮⣼⣧⣧⣧⣵⣼⣼⣼⣭⣴⣤⣬⣴⣽⣼⣴⣤⣷⣥⣧⣧⣧⣬⣧⣼⣤⣽⣿⣿⣿
⣿⠩⠉⡇⠫⢸⢩⠋⢩⡏⠝⠍⡍⡏⢹⢸⡏⡍⢽⡟⠝⡹⡙⠙⢩⣿⠍⡿⡟⡍⠍⠩⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇
⣿⣶⣾⣿⣾⣾⣷⣾⣾⣾⣾⣷⣾⣷⣷⣾⣶⣶⣷⣷⣶⣶⣿⣶⣾⣿⣶⣷⣶⣾⣾⣶⣾⣷⣾⣷⣷⣿⣶⣷⣾⣷⣿⣶⣷⣷⣶⣦⣾⣶⣿⣷⣶⣷⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣩⣭⣍⣟⣛⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡛⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⡇
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢳⣫⣿⣛⢿⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Graphics_Stack
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o BSD
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Arch_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o v/Embedded
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
o Education
o FSF
o GNU_Projects
o Licensing_/_Legal
o Programming/Development
# Rust
* Leftovers
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
# Confidentiality
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Software_Patents
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ Liliputing ☛ System76_Meerkat_mini_Linux_PC_now_available
with_up_to_Intel_Core_i7-1260P⠀⇛
The System76 Meerkat is a compact desktop computer
with support for up to 64GB of RAM, up to two
storage devices (for as much as 16TB of total
storage), and up to an Intel Core i7 mobile
processor.
It’s basically a rebranded Intel NUC. But since
System76 is a Linux PC vendor, the Meerkat comes
with a choice of Pop!_OS or Ubuntu Linux pre-
installed. Previously available with a choice of
10th or 11th-gen Intel Core processor options, the
Meerkat now also supports 12th-gen Intel chips.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Makulu_Max_Development_Update⠀⇛
We have updated the Development Release Highlight
Notes for Makulu Max, you can Click Here to see
what’s happening on the Development front. Some
Really exciting things happening, especially on the
AI and Widget development side of things. See the
Video Below for a Demo of widgets and AI
integration in MakuluLinux Max.
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ AMD_RADV_driver_will_soon_stop_eating_RAM
with_some_games⠀⇛
Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has continued blogging
about Linux graphics driver improvements, with a
fix from developer Samuel Pitoiset landing to stop
the AMD RADV (Vulkan) driver eating up RAM.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Blender_3.5_Released_with_New_Sculpting
Feature,_Light_Sampling,_and_More⠀⇛
Highlights of the Blender 3.5 release include
support for Vector Displacement Map (VDM) brushes
for the Draw brush, a new Extrude Mode for the Trim
tools, light sampling support for Cycles to more
effectively sample scenes with many lights, as well
as Open Shading Language (OSL) support for OptiX.
It also supports non-uniform object scales for spot
lights, improves adaptive sampling for overexposed
scenes to reduce render time, improves GPU
rendering performance on Apple devices, adds
“Select Linked Vertices” to weight the paint mode,
and makes it easier to add F-Curve modifiers to
multiple channels.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ 6_Best_Mastodon_Clients_for_Ubuntu_and_Other
Linux⠀⇛
Are you planning to leave Twitter and join
Mastodon? Use these free and open-source Mastodon
clients for your Linux desktop.
Mastodon is a free and open-source microblogging
platform similar to Twitter. It is designed as a
decentralised platform that can communicate with
other Fediverse protocols such as GNU Social and
Pleroma. With the recent news stories about
Twitter, many users are trying Mastodon and
migrating to the platform.
With that in mind, we give you a list of free
Mastodon clients for Linux desktops as well as
Windows and macOS in this post.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ Have_You_Tried_Virtualbox_Unattended_Guest_OS
Install?⠀⇛
Recently, I updated my VirtualBox installation to
version 7.0.0, I noticed some nice updates on the
graphical user interface (GUI). The first was the
improved theme support, then the new notification
center unifying most of the running processes and
error reporting around the GUI. Additionally, in
VirtualBox 7 you can navigate and search through
the user manual easily via a new help viewer
widget.
But importantly, the new VM wizard has been
reworked to integrate the unattended guest OS
installation and to have a more streamlined
workflow. This was the most intriguing feature for
me, I had never used it before, so I decided to
give it a try.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_To_Restore_a_Particular_Schema_from_a
PostgreSQL_Database_Backup⠀⇛
If you intend to restore only one or a few schemas
from a PostgreSQL backup file, you can use the
pg_restore command, which is used for restoring a
particular PostgreSQL database….
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_To_Install_and_Use_Android_Debug_Bridge_(adb)
in_Linux⠀⇛
Android Debug Bridge (adb) is the most used
command-line tool that enables communication
between a personal computer and a connected
Android-powered device or emulator instance over a
USB cable or TCP/IP (wirelessly).
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ An_interesting_yet_ordinary
consequence_of_ZFS_using_the_ZIL⠀⇛
However, all of this strict TXG ordering goes out
the window once you introduce the ZFS Intent Log
(ZIL), because the ZIL’s entire purpose is to
persist selected operations to disk before they’re
committed as part of a transaction group. Renames
and file creations always go in the ZIL (along with
various other metadata operations), but file data
only goes in the ZIL if you fsync() it (this is a
slight simplification, and file data isn’t
necessarily directly in the ZIL).
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Kontact_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Kontact on Debian 11.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Setup_UFW_Firewall_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to setup UFW
Firewall on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Rancher_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Rancher on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_Last_of_Us_on_Steam_Deck_is_not_great⠀⇛
Here we are, another big release on Steam and sadly
it’s just seemingly not a good experience from my
early testing. Even though it seemed like we might
see good support, the result is nothing of the
sort.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ GOG_giving_away_another_game_during_their
Spring_Sale⠀⇛
Alwa’s Awakening is now up for grabs if you’re in
need of a free game, plus there’s a whole lot of
discounts in GOG’s Spring Sale. To claim the free
game, you need to be logged in. Scroll down a bit
and you’ll see the giveaway banner where you can
grab it. You have until March 30th 2PM UTC to grab
it.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Dolphin_Emulator_for_GameCube_and_Wii_is
coming_to_Steam⠀⇛
Giving you another easy way to download and keep it
up to date, the Dolphin Emulator for GameCube and
Wii is coming to Steam. Even though it’s going to
be on Steam, they don’t dare mention Nintendo
directly on the Steam page: “Dolphin is an emulator
for the big N’s 6th and 7th generation consoles,
featuring enhancements such as increased
resolution, save states, and netplay.”
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Fresh_Steam_Deck_and_Steam_desktop_Beta,
Valve_dropping_old_Windows_support⠀⇛
Steam Deck and Steam desktop both got a fresh Beta
release, with plenty of bug fixing involved and
Valve are dropping support for older versions of
Windows.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Announcing_KTechLab_0.51.0⠀⇛
I’m happy to announce KTechLab release
version 0.51.0.
KTechLab is an IDE for microcontrollers and
electronics.
This new release contains the following
changes:
# updated and improved translations
# the Serial Port component, for better
compatibility, uses Qt’s QSerialPort,
instead of operating-system specific
library calls
# experimental support for Windows; it
requires MSVC 2019 compiler
# various stability fixes
# modernisation of the codebase, porting
away from some deprecated APIs
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ Klara ☛ FreeBSD_or_Linux_–_A_Choice_Without_OS_Wars⠀⇛
Pinning FreeBSD against Linux is a tale as old as
time. But it removes from the necessary
conversation about which technology is most
suitable for its users. Both Linux and FreeBSD are
mature operating systems with a myriad of resources
and features to offer. At times, one will be more
suitable than the other depending on the use case
and aim. In this article, we take time to discuss
where does it fit, and provide the audience with
more reading material before making a decision.
# ⚓ Marian Bouček ☛ OpenSMTPD_on_FreeBSD⠀⇛
Any Google account that has 2-factor authentication
enabled prohibits the so-called “less secure” apps
from using the standard Google password. In order
to overcome this problem, navigate to the Security
page in Google Account and then move to Two-factor
Authentication section. Generate a new special App
Password for the service here.
# ⚓ TuMFatig ☛ Self-Hosted_Calendar_and_Addressbook_services_on
OpenBSD⠀⇛
Once you have self-hosted email up and running, you
may want to add the Calendar and Addressbook
features to your service bag. Nowadays, the
standard protocols regarding those subjects are
CalDAV and CardDAV.
I decided to go with Baikal, the dedicated
CalDAV+CardDAV server based on the sabre/dav
framework ; the same framework used in Nextcloud
DAV services AFAIK.
It relies on PHP and is available as a package on
OpenBSD.
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Will_New_CEO_Dirk-Peter_van_Leeuwen_Bring
‘Open_Source_Way’_Magic_to_SUSE?⠀⇛
As Red Hat slowly loses its open culture under
IBM’s ownership, SUSE might be set to finally
become an important global open-source player, but
only if its board allows the former Red Hatter who
will take the helm on May 2 to bring “the open
source way” to a secretive and “top-down” corporate
culture.
[...]
Melissa Di Donato is out as CEO of SUSE, effective
immediately, and Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen is in, or
will be on May 1. In the meantime, SUSE’s CFO Andy
Myers will be holding the reins as he continues
with his CFO role. According to a press release
from SUSE, Di Donato is leaving to “embark on the
next chapter of her career.” My guess is that she
was let go, and gently pushed out the door with a
generous separation package.
She left quickly and without fanfare. Although a
press release was written and posted online last
week, the PR people at SUSE didn’t bother to notify
many of the tech journalists they typically turn to
when they want to get the news out about a new hire
or product release. Jonas Persson, chair of SUSE’s
board, praised her she was walking out the door,
with something of a “the king is dead; long live
the king” statement.
o § Arch Family⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Arch_Linux_Installer_Gets_Initial_Swapfile
Prototype,_Updated_Sway_Profile,_and_More⠀⇛
Archinstall 2.5.4 is here to implement an initial
swapfile prototype to enable the creation of a
swapfile and hibernation, an updated profile for
the Sway window manager to allow you to install it
with polkit or seatd, as well as the ability to
generate a -fallback variant of boot entries for
systemd-boot.
This release also introduces the ability to save
your entire encryption configuration, adds a sector
unit for parted to make creating partitions easier,
removes the archlinux-keyring package update since
it’s been replaced by a service that populates
keys, and adds support for using the pacstrap -
K command to initialize a new pacman keyring.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Ubuntu_Cinnamon_Gets_Official_Ubuntu_Flavor
Status⠀⇛
Waiting for Ubuntu 23.04 next month?
Well, we already mentioned that one of the exciting
things about the Ubuntu 23.04 release includes a
new official Cinnamon flavor (originally, Ubuntu
Cinnamon Remix).
And, that is now official, as the Technical Board
of Ubuntu approved it with enough votes.
o § v/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Rockchip_RK3588_embedded_PCs_support_PoE,_4G
LTE,_10GbE,_2.5-inch_SATA_HDD,_and_more⠀⇛
Mekotronics provides Android 12, Debian 11, and
Ubuntu images, as well as support for Buildroot.
The new model uses the exact same motherboard as
the Mekotronics R58X-4G and as such, they rely on
the same OS images. One of the images (Ubuntu 22.04
Jammy) has been built with the Armbian build
system, or even by the Armbian team themselves
since Mekotronics thanks Armbian…
I could find videos of the new device in action,
but they should perform the same as the Mekotronics
R58 mini PC which we reviewed earlier, although the
software must have improved since July 2022.
However, the company did upload a video showing how
the 2.5-inch SATA bay works on the R58X-HDD model.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ RAKwireless_launches_modules_designed_for
LoRa_and_BLE5_connectivity⠀⇛
This month, RAKwireless launched a LoRa/BLE5 module
based on the Ambiq Apollo3 Blue SoC and the Semtech
SX1262 optimized for IoT applications. These new
RAK11720 modules start at $7.99 and are compatible
with Arduino programming.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ How_to_build_your_own_Raspberry_Pi_webcam⠀⇛
We slightly amended Max’s original design for the
3D-printed parts so they fit our newest Raspberry
Pi Camera Module 3. You need to print just two
small support pieces so that the Raspberry Pi Zero
2 W and the camera module will sit nicely inside an
Apple iSight shell. You can find the parts on
Printables, and download them for free. We found an
Apple iSight on good old eBay and we’ve made a
disassembly video to show you how to remove the
internals.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ EPROM_Does_VGA⠀⇛
If you wanted to create a VGA card, you might think
about using an FPGA. But there are simpler ways to
generate patterns, including an old-fashioned
EPROM, as [DrMattRegan] points out in a recent
video.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ IOT_Message_Board_Puts_Fourteen-Segment_Displays
To_Work⠀⇛
We’re not sure, but the number of recognizable
alphanumeric characters that a seven-segment
display can manage seems to have more to do with
human pattern recognition than engineering. It
takes some imagination, and perhaps a little
squinting, to discern some characters, though.
Arguably better is the fourteen-segment display,
which has been pressed into service in this just-
for-funsies IOT message board.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Convert_your_3D_printer_into_a_metal_cutting
machine_with_an_Electrical_Discharge_Machining_kit_
(Crowdfunding)⠀⇛
Rack Robotics’ Powercore is an Electrical Discharge
Machining (EDM) kit that converts your existing 3D
printer (or CNC router) into a machine capable of
cutting high-precision and detailed metal parts.
We’ve already seen 2-in-1 3D printers and laser
engravers such as the Creality Ender 3 S1 Pro, but
while this type of machine can usually cut plywood
or engrave stainless steel, the laser is not
powerful enough to cut through aluminum.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Business Today ☛ Realme_C55_review:_A_solid_budget_Android
with_iPhone-like_dynamic_island_–_BusinessToday⠀⇛
# ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ How_to_free_up_space_on_Android_–_Geeky
Gadgets⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ Top_9_Ways_to_Fix_‘Android_Connected_To
WiFi_But_No_Internet’_issue⠀⇛
# ⚓ Computer World ☛ 7_Google_Play_Store_secrets_for_smarter
Android_app_management_|_Computerworld⠀⇛
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Honor_introduces_two_affordable_mid-range
Android-driven_phones_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ A_new_Android_botnet_trojan_is_out_for
your_banking_data⠀⇛
# ⚓ Reuters ☛ Google_scores_partial_victory_in_Android
antitrust_case_in_India_|_Reuters⠀⇛
# ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Google_wins_partial_relief_in_Android
antitrust_case_in_India_|_TechCrunch⠀⇛
# ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Google_loses_appeal,_Rs_1337_crore_fine
upheld_by_NCLAT_in_Android_antitrust_case_|_Technology
News,The_Indian_Express⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Google_again_accused_of_destroying
evidence_in_Android_case_•_The_Register⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ a_Bloomberg_donation⠀⇛
Hi curl admins, Alyssa here from the Bloomberg Open
Source Program Office. I wanted to let you know
that curl was selected as a winner in our inaugural
FOSS Contributor Fund! We wanted to let you know of
the results before we transferred funds via Open
Source Collective. Can you confirm you’ve received
this message? Again, we’re super excited to support
your work and excited that you were selected in our
inaugural vote! Please let us know if we can be of
any further support. All best, Alyssa.
The quote above was received by the curl team on
March 27, 2023 and…
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ curl_code_coverage⠀⇛
A few years back we actually did a build and a test
run in our CI setup that used one of those cloud
services that would monitor the code coverage and
warn if we would commit something that drastically
reduced coverage.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_2023_Hackaday_Prize_Is_Ten,_First_Challenge
Is_Educational⠀⇛
If you were anywhere near Hackaday over the
weekend, you certainly noticed that we launched the
tenth annual Hackaday Prize! In celebration of the
milestone, we picked from our favorite challenges
of years past and came up with four of our
favorite, and even one new one just to keep you on
your toes. But the first challenge round is running
right now, so get your hacking motors turning.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Creative_Commons_Open_Education
Platform:_2022_in_Review⠀⇛
We ran a successful French translation, as well as
the first ever Spanish language sprint for the CC
Certificate course reading content. Thanks to the
efforts of CC Certificate graduates and additional
translators,2 569 million more people will have
access to CC Certificate open educational resources
(OER) in their native languages. These published
works enable 493 million native Spanish speakers
and 76 million native French speakers to access
translations in their languages — not to mention
others who have Spanish or French as a second
language.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Why_We_Must_Defend_Against_the_GOP_Plan_to
Destroy_Public_Education⠀⇛
The following are the prepared remarks by American
Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten
delivered on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at the
National Press Club.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Teachers_Union_Leader_Calls_for_Defending
Public_Education_From_‘Dangerous’_GOP_Attacks⠀⇛
American Federation of Teachers president Randi
Weingarten on Tuesday defended the egalitarian
legacy and goals of public education and outlined a
participatory plan to strengthen it nationwide as
right-wing lawmakers intensify their long-standing
assault on the institution.
o § FSF⠀➾
# ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_LibrePlanet_Workshop_–_April_17_–_Digital
Colonialism,_Surveillance_Capitalism_and_a_Libre_Software
Future_by_Jose_Castro⠀⇛
# ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_LibrePlanet_workshop_–_April_10_–_Newk
Script:_Code_Katas_to_learn_programming_by_Reynaldo_Cordero⠀⇛
o § GNU Projects⠀➾
# ⚓ GNU ☛ parted_@_Savannah:_parted-3.5.28_released_[alpha]⠀⇛
I have released an alpha version of parted-3.5.28
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached
signature[*]:
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-
3.5.28.tar.xz
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-
3.5.28.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
Here are the SHA256 checksums:
af8a880df2e7b577c99ed9ee27a38e3f645896de8354dbfc05d8e81179a6d6dc
parted-3.5.28.tar.xz
49e8c4fc8aae92d8922f39aaae1fcdb0c8be3f3a80d34e006916e93a4a4852fc
parted-3.5.28.tar.xz.sig
[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the
corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download
both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command
like this:
gpg --verify parted-3.5.28.tar.xz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the
required public key,
or that public key has expired, try the following
commands to update
or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify'
command.
gpg --locate-external-key bcl@redhat.com
gpg --recv-keys 117E8C168EFE3A7F
wget -q -O- 'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/
release-gpgkeys.php?group=parted&download=1' | gpg
--import -
This release was bootstrapped with the following
tools:
Autoconf 2.71
Automake 1.16.5
Gettext 0.21
Gnulib v0.1-5949-g480a59ba60
Gperf 3.1
NEWS
Noteworthy changes in release 3.5.28 (2023-03-24)
[alpha]
** New Features
Support GPT partition attribute bit 63 as
no_automount flag.
Add type commands to set type-id on MS-DOS and
type-uuid on GPT.
Add swap flag support to the dasd disklabel
Add display of GPT disk and partition UUIDs in
JSON output
** Bug Fixes
Fix use of enums in flag limits by switching to
using #define
Fix ending sector location when using kibi IEC
suffix
o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾
# ⚓ Joinup ☛ Galileo_HASlib_Service⠀⇛
Funded by European Commission DG-DEFIS, the
National Land Survey of Finland (NLS) distributes
and share under the European Union Public Licence
the HASlib program, an open-source software package
intended to facilitate the implementation of the
Galileo High Accuracy Service (HAS).
# ⚓ National Land Survey of Finland ☛ HASlib:_an_open-source
decoder_for_the_Galileo_High_Accuracy_Service⠀⇛
HASlib is available for download at the GitHub
platform under the European Union Public License
(EUPL). Its design is described in the Master’s
thesis by Oliver Horst, and a shorter description
can be found in the publication Horst et al. 2022.
HASlib was developed in the project Precise and
Authentic User Location Analysis (PAULA), funded by
European Commission DG-DEFIS contract DEFIS/2020/
OP/0002.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Qt_Creator_10_Open-Source_IDE_Released_with
LLVM_16_Support,_CMake_Improvements⠀⇛
Qt Creator 10 comes more than four months after Qt
Creator 9 and introduces new features like the
ability to temporarily drag the progress details
out of the visible area and support for the “Open
as Centered Popup” option to remember the last
search term typed into the input field.
This release also adds support for the latest LLVM
16 compiler infrastructure to further improve C++
20 support in Clang, as well as the interaction
between Qt Creator and Clangd. Also for C++
support, Qt Creator 10 enables the ClangFormat
plugin by default for indentation.
# ⚓ Yoshua Wuyts ☛ Linear_Types_One-Pager⠀⇛
This post represents an overview of an MVP “linear
types” design which we could probably start
implementing and validating today if we wanted to.
What I’m sharing here is a combination of
conversations I’ve had with Gankra and Jonas
Sheevink.
# § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Rust_Basics_Series_#1:_Create_and_Run
Your_First_Rust_Program⠀⇛
In the first chapter of the Rust programming
series, you learn to write and execute your
first program in Rust.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Techdirt_Podcast_Episode_348:_Sci-Fi_&_Silicon
Valley⠀⇛
Science fiction has always served as a source of
inspiration for real technological progress. Sometimes
that’s great, but other times it enables abuse or leads
people to make terrible assumptions that result in
harmful decisions. This week we’re joined by the hosts of
the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct, authors Annalee
Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders, who recently began
tackling this very subject, to discuss the relationship
between Silicon Valley and science fiction.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Magic_8_Ball_Provides_Tech_Support⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Puzzle_of_Ryan_Lee_Wong’s_Activist_Autofiction⠀⇛
Over the din of a Korean barbecue restaurant in Los
Angeles, Reed, the hero of Ryan Lee Wong’s debut novel,
Which Side Are You On, tells his parents that he plans to
drop out of Columbia University after spring break.
Guilt-stricken after Peter Liang’s killing of Akai
Gurley, Reed (of Korean-Chinese heritage) argues that
“everything in college is designed to insulate us from
the world.” It is 2014. Politically awakened through
protests and the left-wing corners of Twitter, he decides
he wants no part of “the great American ladder climb,
where East Asians hoard resources and try to become white
at the expense of Black and Brown people.” This impending
change forces his parents to divulge more about their own
pasts as activists—admitting that they faced the same
choice in university, only to realize life is easier in
the long term when you’re not a partisan.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Kids_leave_empty_lunch_trays_for_Kathy_Hochul_to
promote_more_free_meals_in_NY_budget⠀⇛
About 75% of New York public school students
currently get free meals, according to the Hochul
administration, but lawmakers from both parties say
more can be done.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Particular_Misery_of_College-Admissions
TikTok⠀⇛
A common theory of teen unhappiness says that kids
these days are under an inordinate amount of
pressure to compete. The evidence is all over
social media.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_New_Gaming_Shell_For_A_Mouse⠀⇛
For some gamers, having a light fast polling mouse
is key. [Ali] of [Optimum Tech] loved his 23-gram
mouse but disliked the cord. Not seeing any options
for a comparable wireless mouse, he decided to make
one himself.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Kino_Wheels_Gives_You_A_Hand_Learning_Camera
Operation⠀⇛
Have you ever watched a movie or a video and really
noticed the quality of the camera work? If you
have, chances are the camera operator wasn’t very
skilled, since the whole point of the job is to not
be noticed. And getting to that point requires a
lot of practice, especially since the handwheel
controls for professional cameras can be a little
tricky to master.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ History_Of_The_SPARC_CPU_Architecture⠀⇛
[RetroBytes] nicely presents the curious history of
the SPARC processor architecture. SPARC, short for
Scalable Processor Architecture, defined some of
the most commercially successful RISC processors
during the 1980s and 1990s. SPARC was initially
developed by Sun Microsystems, which most of us
associate the SPARC but while most computer
architectures are controlled by a single company,
SPARC was championed by dozens of players. The
history of SPARC is not simply the history of Sun.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ New_Mexico_tackles_food_insecurity_with_free
school_meals_for_all⠀⇛
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed a
bill to provide free school meals to all students,
setting aside more than $22 million to fund the
program. The legislation aims to combat food
insecurity rates, boost local agriculture, and
reduce food waste.
# ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Bellies_of_the_Rich_Swell_Further_on_the
Back_of_Hunger⠀⇛
Colin todhunter It’s a zero-sum situation. The rich
are robbing the poor to swell their coffers – and
their bellies. In April 2022, Oxfam
reported a terrifying prospect of more than a
quarter of a billion people falling into extreme
levels of poverty in 2022 alone.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Baltimore_Blocks_EPA_Plan_to_Dump_Toxic
Wastewater_From_East_Palestine⠀⇛
A local Democratic lawmaker in Baltimore on Tuesday
credited community members and clean water
advocates for helping to secure an environmental
victory, as the City Council unanimously approved a
resolution to block shipments of contaminated
wastewater from East Palestine, Ohio.
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ UN_warns_of_‘imminent’_global_water
crisis⠀⇛
About 26% of the global population does not have
access to safe drinking water and about 46% of
people lack access to safely managed sanitation
services, according to a new report by the United
Nations.
The UN World Water Development Report 2023 was
released right before the first UN conference on
global water scarcity in nearly a half-century,
which is set to start on Wednesday. While launching
its new report, the United Nations warned of an
“imminent” international crisis.
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Italy_investigates_TikTok_over_‘dangerous
content’⠀⇛
The Italian antitrust authority on Tuesday accused
TikTok of breaching its own guidelines by failing
to remove content related to suicide, self-harm and
poor nutrition.
A recent face-marking challenge, dubbed “French
scar,” has taken the app by storm. The challenge
involves pinching one’s face until it bruises.
# ⚓ Teen Vogue ☛ Occupational_Disease_and_Women:_From_the
Radium_Girls_to_Garment_Workers⠀⇛
All occupational diseases start somewhere.
Sometimes they have a well-known history and
treatment, as with certain cancers, tuberculosis,
and more common stress-related ailments and
fractures. Coal miners develop pneumoconiosis, also
known as black lung. Meatpacking and poultry-plant
workers get repetitive stress injuries. Other
occupational ailments are so specific they almost
sound comical: Mad hatter’s disease, which
afflicted Victorian-era hat makers who fell victim
to mercury poisoning that damaged the nerves and
brain (“mad as a hatter,” get it?); workers and
artists who used lead-based paint and found
themselves poisoned and in pain had painters’
colic; and as potters worked at their kilns, they
breathed in tiny shards of silica dust, which
lodged in and scarred their lungs, giving them
potters’ rot.
No matter what an occupational disease is called,
the reality has always been uglier. Sometimes
capitalism extracts its pound of flesh
metaphorically, and sometimes more literally, but
it’s always the workers who pay the price.
# ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ statezMinister_Järvan:_TikTok_to
be_banned_on_state_officials’_work_phones⠀⇛
In response to an EPL question, in an interview
with the daily, asking whether the Estonian state
has weighed up banning apps such as TikTok on
official phones, Järvan said: “This will be closed
down on all centrally managed devices, this month.”
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ My_6-Year-Old_Son_Died._Then_the_Anti-
vaxxers_Found_Out.⠀⇛
I’m a North Carolina–based journalist who
specializes in countering misinformation on social
media. I know that Twitter, Facebook, and other
networks amplify bad information; that their
algorithms feed on anger and division; that
anonymity and distance bring out the worst in some
people online. And yet I had never anticipated that
anyone would mock and terrorize a grieving parent.
I’ve now received thousands of harassing posts.
Some people emailed me at work.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Over_40%_of_Finns_received_private
healthcare_reimbursements_from_Kela_in_2022⠀⇛
40 percent of Finns received Kela reimbursements
for private healthcare in 2022, according to a
press release from the Social Insurance Institution
of Finland (Kela). This represents a slight
increase from the drop caused by the COVID-19
pandemic. The majority of those receiving Kela
reimbursements for private healthcare were located
in Varsinais-Suomi, Satakunta, and Helsinki.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Prasenjit_Saha,_LTIMindtree_on_the_need_of
cyber_resilient_ransomware_protection [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
Legacy backups are no longer a reliable defence
mechanism against ransomware attacks, the evolving
threat landscape calls for more advanced security
measures. Attackers can now infiltrate systems and
remain undetected for long periods, giving them
ample time to encrypt backup data too. Relying
solely on legacy backups could lead to businesses
losing critical data permanently. Legacy data
backup contains a lot of weaknesses, and lacks the
following elements: [...]
# ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Interview:_Open_source_is_good_for_AI_but,
is_AI_good_for_open_source?⠀⇛
We’re at a weird time with AI and Intellectual
Property. Well, IP has been in a weird place since
Napster launched at the turn of the century! None
of the issues around sharing, remixing, and
controlling have been properly resolved. Copyleft
is a noble goal – but seems more honour’d in the
breach than the observance.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Thousands_Access_Fake_DDoS-for-Hire
Websites_Set_Up_by_UK_Police⠀⇛
The UK’s National Crime Agency has been running
several DDoS-for-hire websites to collect
information about individuals looking to launch
such attacks.
# ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ UK_Sets_Up_Fake_Booter_Sites_To_Muddy
DDoS_Market⠀⇛
The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA)
has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire
websites that seek to collect information on users,
remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal,
and generally increase the level of paranoia for
people looking to hire such services.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ ChatGPT_Data_Breach_Confirmed_as_Security
Firm_Warns_of_Vulnerable_Component_Exploitation⠀⇛
OpenAI has confirmed a ChatGPT data breach on the
same day a security firm reported seeing the use of
a component affected by an actively exploited
vulnerability.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ 14_Million_Records_Stolen_in_Data_Breach_at
Latitude_Financial_Services⠀⇛
Australian financial services provider Latitude
says roughly 14 million user records were stolen in
a recent cyberattack.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ China’s_Nuclear_Energy_Sector_Targeted_in
Cyberespionage_Campaign⠀⇛
A South Asian espionage group named Bitter has been
targeting the Chinese nuclear energy sector.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ Europol_coordinates_armed_special_forces_and
now_also_surveillance_teams⠀⇛
With the Atlas group, the EU has a powerful
police network of 38 member states. On
Germany’s initiative, a „surveillance group“
has now been added.
[...]
However, the governments have decided in the
Council that the agency may coordinate its
special units. Since 2019, a „support office“
for the so-called Atlas Group has been
located at Europol’s Counter-Terrorism Centre
in The Hague. It organises 38 special task
forces from the Schengen states as well as
Great Britain, which will be allowed to
continue participating in police cooperation
in Europe even after Brexit.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ U.S._Hardware_Is_Fueling_Russia’s
Facial_Recognition_Crackdown_on_Anti-War_Dissidents⠀⇛
Not everyone in Russia is happy with Moscow’s
war in Ukraine, but protesting can be
dangerous. On March 4, 20022—a week after it
launched its full scale invasion of
Ukraine—Russia made it illegal to publicly
criticize the war. Some protesters even found
themselves rounded up and sent to the
frontlines. The father of a 13-year old girl
who drew an anti-war picture was recently
sentenced to a year in a penal colony.
The report from Reuters details how facial
recognition software has aided the Kremlin in
its crackdown against dissidents. There are
more than 160,000 cameras in Moscow and 3,000
of them are connected to facial recognition
software. According to Moscow court records,
the technology has aided in the arrest of
hundreds of protestors.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ The_Government_Is_Turning_Border
Surveillance_on_Everyday_Americans⠀⇛
“By viewing these towers on the map,” says
Maass, “you can really get a sense of how
these towers are installed in residential
communities, be it urban or rural, and not
just in the remote expanses of the
Southwest.”
The government hasn’t disclosed much about
the towers beyond their expense, leaving the
people who study and live in the borderlands
with incomplete information. Sam Chambers, a
geography and migration researcher at the
University of Arizona, says that those
studying surveillance in the borderlands
previously “had to rely on documents such as
environmental impact statements or other
public records to know where a tower may be
or had been built—and that was limited to
specific districts and had to be verified.”
Otherwise, researchers had to “learn by word
of mouth or searching for them themselves.”
# ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Amazon_opens_up_its_Sidewalk_Network
to_all⠀⇛
Amazon has opened up its Sidewalk low power
wide-area network for all developers Tuesday,
touting coverage for 90% of the U.S.
population. The online retailer will provide
free test kits so developers can suss out
where Sidewalk has coverage, and how robust
that coverage is.
# ⚓ Emmanuel Maggiori ☛ Amazon’s_cashierless_stores:
artificial_intelligence_or_major_deception?⠀⇛
When I walked into the shop for the first
time, it did indeed feel a bit like science
fiction. You first pass your phone through a
scanner at the turnstile to log in as an
Amazon customer. You then pick up products
while cameras over the ceiling film you;
there are many of them and they seem to cover
every inch of the store. The shopping
experience is rather smooth, as there is no
protocol to follow and no one tells you what
to do—you can put products in a shopping bag,
place them in a backpack, or carry them in
your hands. Once you’re finished, you head to
the exit and the gate opens automatically—no
payment, no cashier, no app.
But then something sketchy happens: Almost
immediately after walking out of the store,
you receive a message from Amazon saying
“thank you for your shopping” and explaining
that they’re “preparing your receipt,” which
you should receive soon. It usually takes a
couple of hours until the itemized receipt is
delivered to you and the payment is taken.
The waiting time varies and can be as long as
50 hours according to some reports. If Amazon
Fresh was truly powered by artificial
intelligence, why the delay?
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_FSB_seeks_‘constant_remote_access’
to_Russian_taxi_service_databases_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian FSB has developed draft
legislation that would give intelligence
agencies “constant remote access” to the
databases kept by taxi companies that are
included on the government’s registry of
“organizers of information dissemination”
(which includes Yandex).
# ⚓ NYOB ☛ Majority_of_credit_bureau_“CRIF”_database
illegal⠀⇛
Decision by Austrian DPA in noyb case: Data
of millions of Austrians have to be deleted
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ US_And_EU_Nations_Request_The_Most_User
Data_From_Tech_Companies,_Obtain_It_More_Than_Two-
Thirds_Of_The_Time⠀⇛
Most tech companies handling data requests
from governments now publish transparency
reports. As everything moves towards always-
online status (including, you know, your
fridge), social media platforms and other
online services have become the favored
targets of government data requests. It just
makes sense to look there first rather than
out there in the real world, where people
(and their communications) are that much more
difficult to locate.
# § Confidentiality⠀➾
# ⚓ Chris Ferris ☛ Public_Access_Key_–_2023⠀⇛
Earlier this week, I did a big no-no. I
deliberately published an AWS Access Key and
its associated secret to GitHub.
While I suspect many of you now think, “what
a horrible cloud security person he is”, I
figured I’d share my learnings.
Timeline of events & quarantine
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Financial,_health,_contact_information
exposed_in_Meriton_data_breach⠀⇛
The property giant contacted around 1900
staff and guests to inform them their data
may have been accessed in the latest cyber
incident involving an Australian company.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Arms_Manufacturer_Says_TikTok_‘Cat
Videos’_Are_Keeping_It_From_Making_Ammo⠀⇛
The Norwegian defense company Nammo said it can’t
expand its factory and make new ammunition because
TikTok’s new data centers nearby are using up all
the electricity.
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Unseen_Taliban_Leader_Wields_Godlike_Powers_in
Afghanistan⠀⇛
Except for some senior Taliban officials who claim
to have seen him in person, Akhundzada, believed to
be in his 70s, is an enigma to Afghans — and the
world — because there is no information about the
man who rules Afghanistan without being seen,
elected or accountable to anyone.
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Pakistan_to_Skip_US_Summit_for_Democracy⠀⇛
A Foreign Ministry statement in Islamabad thanked
Washington for the invitation but did not specify
any reasons for skipping the event. However,
critics attributed the exclusion of longtime ally
China from the event as a likely reason for
Pakistan to opt out, as it did when Biden hosted
the first summit in December 2021.
Islamabad does not want to upset its “all-weather
friend” Beijing, Pakistani English-language Dawn
newspaper reported. Turkey, which maintains close
ties with Pakistan, also has not been invited to
this week’s gathering in Washington.
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ China_Accused_of_Meddling_in_Canada’s
Elections⠀⇛
Chiu, who was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to
Canada, said he later found out through Disinfo
Watch, Quebec-based McGill University and the
Atlantic Council that he was smeared by a
disinformation campaign that sought to influence
ethnic Chinese voters. He said false rumors started
spreading online and on the Chinese instant
messaging app WeChat, that the Conservative Party
and Chiu himself were going to ban the platform in
Canada.
WeChat is the only messaging service that many in
Canada’s Chinese community can use to communicate
with friends and family in China.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Will_the_US-Backed_War_in_Yemen_Ever_End?⠀⇛
This past Saturday marked the eighth anniversary of
the launch of Operation Decisive Storm, the Saudi-
led military intervention in Yemen.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Ted_Cruz_AUMF_Amendment_Would_Authorize_War
With_Iran⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Parliament_approves_Finland’s_application
for_NATO_membership_after_eight_months_of_delay⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Pentagon_Leaders_Admit_Defense_Funding_“Wish
Lists”_Are_a_Bad_Practice⠀⇛
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ The_real_definition_of_victory_for
Ukraine⠀⇛
Genuine Ukrainian independence will only come with
the country as a member of the European Union and
NATO, writes Victor Pinchuk.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Could_the_Final_Surprise_in_Russia’s_War_in
Ukraine_Be_a_Mushroom_Cloud?⠀⇛
Some wars acquire names that stick. The Lancaster
and York clans fought the War of the Roses from
1455-1485 to claim the British throne. The Hundred
Years’ War pitted England against France from 1337-
1453. In the Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648, many
European countries clashed, while Britain and
France waged the Seven Years’ War, 1756-63, across
significant parts of the globe. World War I (1914-
1918) gained the lofty moniker, “The Great War,”
even though World II (1939-1945) would prove far
greater in death, destruction, and its grim global
reach.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ House_Republican’s_Vow_After_School_Shooting:
“We’re_Not_Going_to_Fix_It”⠀⇛
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Hungary_ratifies_Finland’s_Nato_bid,
Turkey_expected_to_follow_suit_shortly⠀⇛
THE HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT on Monday approved the
Finnish application to join Nato by a vote of 182
in favour and 6 against.
Helsingin Sanomat on Monday reported that all the
ratification was opposed only by members of Our
Homeland Movement, a far-right opposition party
that believes expanding the defence alliance would
geographically escalate Russia’s war of aggression
in Ukraine.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Congress_Has_Been_Captured_by_the_Arms
Industry⠀⇛
And We’re Paying the Price (and What a Price It
Is!)
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ Libyan_Coast_Guard:_Again_shooting_instead_of
rescue⠀⇛
The EU Commission supports the Libyan Coast Guard
financially and with equipment. In at least five
cases, the units have used firearms in maritime
distress cases outside their territorial waters.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_China_and_Russia_Deepen_Ties
To_Oppose_US’s_Destabilizing_Actions⠀⇛
The recent accord between Saudi Arabia and Iran,
facilitated by China, signifies a seismic shift in
geopolitical dynamics. This was followed by a
three-day summit between the presidents of China
and Russia in Moscow where they signed agreements
that deepen their cooperation.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ ICC_Charges_Putin_With_War_Crimes_While_US_and
Israeli_Leaders_Enjoy_Impunity⠀⇛
The U.S. celebrates the charges against Putin, but
pressures the ICC to refrain from prosecuting
Israelis and Americans.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Two_police_officers_injured_in_shooting_at_patrol
post_between_Ingushetia_and_North_Ossetia_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Two police officers were injured in a shooting at a
patrol post between Ingushetia and North Ossetia,
the North Ossetian Investigative Committee reported
on Tuesday.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Dad,_you_are_my_hero’:_A_Russian_court_sentenced
a_single_father_to_two_years_in_prison_for_his_daughter’s
antiwar_drawing._But_the_defendant_fled_from_under_house
arrest_the_night_before._—_Meduza⠀⇛
Alexey Moskalev is a single father from Yefremov, a
town in Russia’s Tula region. Back in April 2022,
his 12-year-old daughter Masha “shocked” her school
teachers and principal by drawing an antiwar
picture in art class. The girl’s drawing depicted a
woman with a Ukrainian flag defending her child
from flying missiles. Above the picture, the sixth-
grader had written two slogans: “Glory to Ukraine!”
and “No to war.”
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Now_there’s_just_emptiness’_Residents_of_Dnipro’s
118_Victory_Embankment_apartment_complex_recall_the_airstrike
that_killed_dozens_of_their_neighbors_—_Meduza⠀⇛
On the afternoon of January 14, Russian troops
subjected Ukraine to yet another round of shelling.
One of the missiles they fired, a five-ton Kh-22,
hit a nine-story apartment building on Dnipro’s
Victory Embankment, completely destroying 63
apartments and damaging more than 200. The strike
killed at least 46 people, six of whom were
children, and injured 81, while nine people were
still unaccounted for as of the authorities’ last
public report in late January. While many of the
survivors found new homes after the incident,
others have continued living in the building, where
they can still see the wreckage of neighboring
apartments from their windows. Meduza traveled to
Dnipro to speak to residents of Building No. 118
about what it’s like to live in the aftermath of
such a devastating attack.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Three_cadets_at_military_academy_in_St._Petersburg
die_of_unknown_causes_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Three cadets at the Budyonny Military Academy in
St. Petersburg recently died at the institution,
according to the Russian news outlet Fontanka and
multiple Telegram channels.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Noah’s_Wounds_Were_Not_Survivable’:
Parents_Allow_Detailed_View_of_AR-15_Carnage⠀⇛
On Monday morning, The Washington Postpublished a
series of 3D animations to show “how bullets from
an AR-15 blow the body apart.”
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ 2_Killed_in_Knife_Attack_at_Ismaili_Center
in_Lisbon,_Portugal⠀⇛
The police shot and wounded the assailant at the
Ismaili Center in Portugal’s capital. His motive
was not immediately clear.
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Danish_ship_overrun_by_pirates⠀⇛
Danish-owned tanker Monjasa Reformer has been
attacked and potentially hijacked by pirates in the
Gulf of Guinea. The ship, which belongs to Danish
oil trading company Monjasa, is currently located
roughly 100 kilometres from the southerly coast of
Cameroon.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_to_Lift_the_Fog_of_War_in_Ukraine?_Try
These_Playing_Cards.⠀⇛
To help soldiers quickly distinguish friend from
foe, the Pentagon is issuing playing cards with
pictures of 52 different NATO weapons systems.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Torture_and_Turmoil_at_Ukraine’s
Zaporizhzhia_Plant:_An_Insider’s_Account⠀⇛
The former director of Europe’s largest nuclear
facility describes abuse of Ukrainian workers and
careless practices by the Russians who took control
of the plant.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Some_Ukrainians_Refuse_to_Leave_Avdiivka
Despite_Russian_Bombardment⠀⇛
In Avdiivka, as in Bakhmut and other devastated
places on the front lines, most residents left long
ago, but there are holdouts.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia’s_Push_in_Eastern_Ukraine_Leaves
Avdiivka_in_Ruins⠀⇛
Moscow has struggled to capture new ground in
eastern Ukraine but its bombardment has laid waste
to cities and towns.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ With_US_Opposed,_UN_Security_Council
Rejects_Russia-Led_Push_for_Nord_Stream_Probe⠀⇛
The United Nations Security Council on Monday
rejected a Russia-led effort to launch a fresh
international probe into last year’s sabotage of
the Nord Stream pipelines in the wake of
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s reports
accusing the U.S. of carrying out the attack.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Blue-and-yellow_wooden_drone_crashes_in_Moscow
suburb_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The remnants of a handcrafted drone have been
discovered in New Moscow, part of the Moscow
metropolitan area.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russian_Girl_Sent_to_Orphanage_After
Father_Criticizes_War⠀⇛
Rights activists worry that the separation of a
teenage girl and her father after they criticized
the war in Ukraine might signal a toughening of the
crackdown on dissent.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Kamala_Harris,_at_Former_Slave_Port_in
Ghana,_Ties_Past_to_Present⠀⇛
The vice president leaned into her heritage during
a three-nation trip to Africa to strengthen U.S.
relations on the continent.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Nashville_Mourns_6_Killed_in_129th_U.S.
Mass_Shooting_This_Year,_After_Tennessee_Loosens_Gun_Laws⠀⇛
Nashville is in mourning after a gunman killed six
people at a private Christian elementary school
Monday before being killed by police. The victims
were three adults who worked at the school and
three 9-year-old students. Police identified the
shooter as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, a former
student, who entered the school through a side door
armed with two assault-style weapons and a handgun.
The shooter had written a manifesto laying out
plans for the attack that included maps of the
building, but no motive has been established.
Monday’s massacre was the 129th mass shooting in
the United States this year alone, including 13
school shootings. “People here are still just in
shock,” says Holly McCall, the editor-in-chief of
the Tennessee Lookout. “It’s just not difficult at
all in Tennessee to get any type of weapon. Over
the last six or seven years, we’ve seen the
Legislature increasingly passing laws that even law
enforcement officials and law enforcement
organizations oppose.”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_End_of_the_World_Has_Always_Been_Just
Around_the_Corner⠀⇛
Indulge me for a moment. This is how “The Prophecy”
in my 1962 high school yearbook began. It was
written by some of my classmates in the year we
graduated from Friends Seminary in New York City.
Being an historian, I am jotting down these notes
out of habit, but what I saw and experienced two
days ago I am sure no one else as civilized as I am
will ever see. I am writing for those who shall
come a long time from now. First of all, let me
introduce myself. I am THOMAS M. ENGELHARDT, world-
renowned historian of the late twentieth century,
should that mean anything to whoever reads this
account. After the great invasion, I was
maintaining a peaceful, contented existence in the
private shelter I had built and was completing the
ninth and final volume of my masterpiece, The
Influence of the Civil War on Mexican Art of the
Twentieth Century, when I was seized by a strange
desire to emerge from my shelter, have a look at
the world, and find some companions. Realizing the
risk I was taking, I carefully opened the hatch of
the shelter and slowly climbed out. It was morning.
To my shock, I was in a wide field overgrown with
weeds; there was no sign of the community that had
been there…
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Putin’s_Nuremberg_Moment⠀⇛
The decision by the International Criminal Court to
issue an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin over the
deportation of thousands of children from Ukraine
to Russia is by far the boldest assertion of
international justice in history. Faced with
Russia’s naked aggression in invading Ukraine,
followed by a daily stream of brazen war crimes,
the world, or at least part of it, is living a
Nuremberg moment, pushing the boundaries of the
possible.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Oh_Look,_More_Dead_Kids⠀⇛
What to say. More gun carnage, this time in
Nashville, where three children and three adults
were shot dead at a private Christian school – so
much for God’s protection – in America’s 90th
school shooting this year. But GOP legislators and
Gov. Bill Lee are on it: They’ve eliminated
permits, licenses, registration or background
checks to get more guns, they’ve banned drag shows
and trans health care, and they’re praying with all
their hearts (and bloody hands). One more time:
#ItsTheFuckingGuns.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ From_Media_Outlet_to_‘Non-State_Hostile
Intelligence_Service’⠀⇛
By designating WikiLeaks a spy outfit, the U.S.
government has stacked the deck against Julian
Assange and leveled an unprecedented threat against
journalism.
[...]
When Yahoo News sought comment from Pompeo, the
former CIA director did not respond to requests.
However, during an event at Hillsdale College
following publication, a student questioned him.
“Don’t believe everything you read in Yahoo News,”
Pompeo replied, as he scratched his forehead nearly
the same way Director of National Intelligence
James Clapper did when he lied to senators about
NSA warrantless surveillance.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Bicyclists_Deserve_the_Right_to_Free
Movement⠀⇛
At the same time, I find bike advocacy in the
United States to be extremely frustrating. Our
cities deserve better bike infrastructure because
cyclists deserve to live and to go about their
lives free of mortal danger. That, it must be
remembered, is the central task. The numbers are
unacceptable. In 2018 alone, a bicyclist was killed
approximately every third day in the greater
Chicago area. Each of these unnecessary deaths is
blood on the hands of feckless politicians who
refuse to do the necessary work to create streets
that would ameliorate the carnage because it
requires inconveniencing a certain type of crank
who thinks the city exists as a place to park their
car. When the life of a bike rider is torn from
their friends and families, often nothing is done
because infrastructure requires money, and funding
things like bike lanes (or, while we’re at it,
other public goods like schools or transportation)
means diverting money from other interests (like,
say, violent, lawless police forces who terrorize
the poor and protect only private property). In
America, a bicyclist is usually not envisioned as
being on par with someone who drives a car. They
are stereotyped as either a rich hobbyist in
spandex or as drunks who lost their driver’s
license and have to rely on a lesser form of
transport. While in Ljubljana, everyone rides their
bike because the space has been made for them to do
so. It is that simple.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ Greens_urge_UK_government_to_rule_out_new
fossil_fuels_in_net_zero_strategy⠀⇛
As the government prepares to announce its revamped
net zero strategy on Thursday, the Greens have
urged Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Energy
Security and Net Zero, to choose the policies that
will bring the most benefit to households across
the UK as well as to the environment.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ The_World_Is_Burning,_but_Fossil_Fuel_Companies
Are_Meeting_Behind_Closed_Doors_to_‘Future-Proof_Gas’._This
Should_Be_Criminal.⠀⇛
By Lisa Göldner, Lead Campaigner from Greenpeace
Germany for the Fossil Free Revolution campaign
France, Nigeria, Finland, South Sudan, Italy, Peru,
Romania. What do all of these places have in
common? They are just some of the countries in
which Europe-headquartered fossil fuel companies
stand convicted or credibly accused of criminal,
civil, or administrative offences.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Turning_point:_More_US_electricity
generated_by_renewables_than_coal⠀⇛
In 2022, electricity generated from renewable
energy passed coal electricity production in
the United States for the first time. Experts
say renewables are now the most affordable
source of new electricity for much of the
country.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ The_US_Has_Seen_50_Chemical_Spills_or
Fires_This_Year,_and_It’s_Only_March⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ A_‘Landmark_Victory’_for_Consumers
and_Climate_as_California_Passes_Big_Oil_Price_Gouging
Law⠀⇛
Climate and consumer advocates on Tuesday
hailed California lawmakers’ passage of
legislation aimed at tackling Big Oil price
gouging as the proposal headed to the desk of
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who said he
will sign the measure into law.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Crypto_Mining_at_Gas_Wells_Sparks_Regulatory
Headaches,_Outcry_in_Northwestern_Pennsylvania⠀⇛
By Audrey Carleton This story originally
appeared in Capital & Main, and is part of
Covering Climate Now, a global journalism
collaboration strengthening coverage of the
climate story.
Longhorn Pad C is located about half a mile
south of a small cemetery and a little over a
mile north of a Methodist church in Elk
County, in northwestern Pennsylvania. With a
population of around 30,000, this county sits
squarely in the center of the path the
Marcellus Shale formation takes as it curves
through the commonwealth.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ How_is_bitcoin_still_trading_(for_now)_at
$27,000?⠀⇛
It’s a reasonable answer. Amid the smoldering
crater that is the [cryptocurrency] market,
bitcoin has somehow made maybe not a
comeback, but at least a stand. For all the
tokens, coins, forks, chains and NFTs,
bitcoin remains the gold standard in
cryptocurrency.
# ⚓ Alaska Beacon ☛ U.S._Senate_panel_probes_how_crypto
mining_increases_energy_consumption⠀⇛
“Bitcoin mining in the United States uses as
much power as we need to light every single
home in our country, and that demand on our
grid is only going to grow,” Markey said in
opening remarks.
Markey’s bill, introduced Monday, would
require cryptocurrency asset operators to
report emissions to the Environmental
Protection Agency, and would mandate the
agency to conduct a study of energy usage
required by thousands of robust, special-use
computers to add new transactions to the
decentralized digital accounting ledger, he
said. The text of the bill was not yet
published.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ North_Korean_hackers_turn_to
‘cloud_mining’_for_[cryptocurrency]_to_avoid_law
enforcement_scrutiny⠀⇛
Unlike other North Korean hacking units
engaged in cryptocurrency-related cybercrime,
researchers at Mandiant believe that APT 43
is using its loot to fund its own hacking and
cyberespionage activities, not sending it
back to the regime for a nuclear weapons
program. Instead, the group takes the cleaned
funds to purchase infrastructure such as
website domains to further espionage
activities.
“They don’t need $100 million to rent servers
to run C2 nodes. They need much smaller
amounts,” said Joe Dobson, Mandiant Principal
Analyst. “We see them targeting everyone. I
like to say, ‘There’s no fish too small.’ If
someone has funds in their [cryptocurrency]
wallet, they will get targeted.”
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Mandiant_Catches_Another_North_Korean
Gov_Hacker_Group⠀⇛
Mandiant flags APT43 as a “moderately-
sophisticated cyber operator that supports
the interests of the North Korean regime.”
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Nigerian_BEC_Scammer_Sentenced_to
Prison_in_US⠀⇛
Solomon Ekunke Okpe was sentenced to four
years in prison in the US for his role in a
BEC fraud ring.
# ⚓ Mandiant ☛ APT43:_North_Korean_Group_Uses_Cybercrime
to_Fund_Espionage_Operations⠀⇛
Tracked since 2018, APT43’s collection
priorities align with the mission of the
Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), North
Korea’s main foreign intelligence service.
The group’s focus on foreign policy and
nuclear security issues supports North
Korea’s strategic and nuclear ambitions.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ For_the_love_of_nature:_Outdoorspeople
help_lawmakers_bridge_divides⠀⇛
Climate action can be politically divisive.
But a love for nature is bringing people
together – even in Washington.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Salmon_Hatcheries_Get_More_Federal
Funding,_Tribes_Say_It’s_Not_Enough⠀⇛
The federal government has announced plans to
increase funding for the Columbia River
Basin’s salmon hatcheries, the often-
crumbling facilities that maintain the
river’s dwindling salmon populations. But
tribes and state agencies say the influx of
funds is only a fraction of what is needed.
The Bonneville Power Administration, the
federal agency that’s required to pay for
salmon recovery using proceeds from selling
power generated by hydroelectric dams, is
putting an additional $50 million toward
repairs at hatcheries operated by tribes and
states. The agency also plans to increase
annual funding for hatchery upkeep from
$500,000 to $2.7 million.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Small_shareholders_abandoned_as
private_equity_muscles_in_on_Nitro._What’s_the_scam?⠀⇛
Private equity funds taking listed companies
private is never an act of benevolence. They spot
an undervalued company, buy it, strip assets where
possible, take out the cash, borrow to the hilt and
sack as many of the staff as they can get away
with; and then presto, a couple of years later, the
company is re-listed or on-sold, at great profit.
It’s a great scam if you can afford it, but not so
much for minority shareholders who just have to
take what they get and lose out on the value
uplift.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Chipotle_Must_Pay_$240K_to_Workers_After_It
Closed_Unionizing_Store_in_Maine⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ What_if_the_People_Owned_the_Banks?⠀⇛
This raises a simple question: Is this banking
system the best we can do? New York progressives
see room for an alternative. Even before this
latest bank failure, they were pushing for the
passage of the New York Public Banking Act—one of
many proposals across the country that could
transform American finance by introducing a public
banking option.
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ R_in_Finance_and_Accounting_Sector_in_Korea⠀⇛
Woo June Jung, Founder of the R Korea Group (also
on Facebook) recently talked to the R Consortium to
discuss his efforts to promote the use of R in
Korea. He stressed the importance of communities
and also shared the group’s experience of hosting
an annual R User Conference in Korea for six
consecutive years. They R Korea Group stopped
hosting the conference during the pandemic but are
hopeful to start again this year. He also discussed
his work on two accounting projects developed in R.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Monopoly_Bank_Bailout⠀⇛
Never in our nation’s history have we allowed a
player to pass Go without collecting two hundred
dollars, and we cannot start now.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ March_in_Paris⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘The_Billionaire_Bailout’:_FDIC_Chair_Says
the_Biggest_Deposit_Accounts_at_SVB_Held_$13_Billion⠀⇛
In prepared testimony for a Senate Banking
Committee hearing slated for Tuesday morning, the
chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
reveals that the 10 largest deposit accounts at
Silicon Valley Bank held a combined $13.3 billion,
a detail that’s likely to intensify criticism of
federal regulators’ intervention in the firm’s
recent collapse.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ The_10_Largest_Deposit_Accounts_at_SVB_Held_$13
Billion,_FDIC_Chair_Says⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ The_latest_from_Arte_Weekly:_A_look
behind_the_French_protests_against_Macron’s_pension_bill,_and
why_Romania_is_looking_to_ban_gambling_adverts⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ After_Bank_Collapses,_US_Regulators_Urged
to_Impose_Rules_on_Climate-Related_Financial_Risk⠀⇛
In the wake of recent bank collapses and protests
across the United States demanding financial
institutions end fossil fuel financing, 50 climate,
environmental justice, and Indigenous rights groups
on Tuesday advocated for new regulations.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ France_Fears_Pensions_Protest_Standoff_Is
Getting_More_Violent [Ed: French police is violent and
attacking millions of French people's freedom is an extreme
form of violence. NY Times helpd distort, warp, reverse the
narrative.]⠀⇛
On a new day of strikes and marches, President
Emmanuel Macron’s government rejected a call by
labor unions to suspend his pension overhaul.
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Tivoli_to_celebrate_180_years_by_jacking
up_prices⠀⇛
High inflation prices has prompted famous
Copenhagen amusement park to increase entre fee
despite raking in record turnover last year
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ A_frustrated_French_public_defies_Macron._But
do_protests_matter?⠀⇛
Protests against President Macron’s retirement
reforms have inflamed France. Yet in a country
where demonstrating is practically de rigueur, how
much difference does marching really make in a
situation like this?
# ⚓ UM-Dearborn_program_readies_students_for_shifting_auto
industry [Ed: When universities are really controlled by
corporations like Ford, which moreover control the syllabus
(more buzzwords) and turn the institutions into training
centres future staff pays for (tuition fees)]⠀⇛
Launching this fall, the revamped Automotive and
Mobility Systems Engineering master’s program is
built for an industry being transformed by
electrification and autonomy.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Poll_suggests_housing_maintenance_fees_set_to_rise⠀⇛
Finnish housing is often owned by co-operative
companies, with shareholders paying monthly fees
for maintenance and repairs.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Maintenance_fees_of_housing_companies_on
sharp_rise:_Kiinteistöliitto_survey⠀⇛
Maintenance fees for apartment buildings are
increasing rapidly in Finland, according to a
survey conducted by the Finnish Real Estate
Federation. The survey revealed that more than 20%
of housing companies are threatened by the increase
in maintenance costs, with just over 2% facing
significant risk. Although the majority of housing
companies believe their financial situation is
stable, the cost of living varies significantly
from municipality to municipality.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Top_Fed_Officials_Criticize_Silicon_Valley
Bank_Executives_at_Senate_Hearing⠀⇛
Officials blamed executives at Silicon Valley Bank
for its failure on March 10, while adding that
Federal Reserve oversight is in for a revamp.
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ More_people_migrating_to_Denmark_for
work⠀⇛
Over 31,000 people arrived for a job in 2022, which
was a 24 percent increase compared to the previous
year…
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ OpenRequest:_Pirates_launch_citizen
participation_website_and_seek_suggestions_on_preventing
corruption⠀⇛
The Pirate Party Members of the European Parliament
are launching OpenRequest, a unique participatory
tool giving citizens the opportunity to suggest
issues that should be raised in the European
Parliament. For example, citizen suggestions can
trigger parliamentary questions to Commission or
Council, research tasks to the European
Parliament’s Research Service or the sending of an
open letter by Members of the European Parliament.
On top of that, the OpenRequest website publicly
documents the status of the proposals.
The European Pirates have long advocated for more
direct democracy and transparency in the European
project, which this new tool promotes. In view of
the recent Qatargate corruption scandal, Pirates
specifically seek citizen suggestions on how the EU
could better prevent corruption, conflicts of
interest and intransparency.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ AI_Is_Exposing_Who_Really_Has_Power_in
Silicon_Valley⠀⇛
The result is an uncomfortable disparity between
who does the work that enables these AI models to
function and who gets to control and profit from
them. This sort of disparity is nothing new in
Silicon Valley, but the development of AI is
shifting power further away from those at the
bottom at a time when layoffs have already resulted
in a sense of wide-ranging precarity for the tech
industry. Overseas workers won’t reap any of these
profits, nor will the people who might have aspects
of their work—or even their entire jobs—replaced by
AI, even if their Reddit posts and Wikipedia
entries were fed into these chatbots. Well-paid
tech workers might eventually lose out too,
considering AI’s coding abilities. In the few
months since OpenAI has blown up, it has reminded
Silicon Valley of a fundamental truth that office
perks and stock options should never have been able
to disguise: Tech workers are just workers.
# ⚓ Mullvad VPN ☛ The_chat_control_proposal_does_not_belong_in
democratic_societies⠀⇛
The European Commission is working on a legislative
proposal called chat control. If the law goes into
effect, all EU citizens will have their
communications monitored and audited. Now is the
time to stop it.
# ⚓ CNBC ☛ Elon_Musk_says_only_verified_users_will_show_up_in
Twitter’s_recommendation_feed_in_further_shake-up⠀⇛
Elon Musk said that only verified accounts will
appear in Twitter’s “For You” recommendation feed,
as the billionaire further shakes up the social
media platform.
# ⚓ BW Businessworld Media Pvt Ltd ☛ Job_Platform_Indeed_To_Lay
Off_Over_2,000_Employees⠀⇛
US-based job search platform Indeed on Wednesday
said it will let approximately 2,200 people go.
This is roughly 15 per cent of the company’s
headcount.
# ⚓ Variety ☛ Disney_Shuts_Down_Metaverse_Unit_as_Part_of_First
Wave_of_Layoffs⠀⇛
The elimination of Disney’s Next Generation
Storytelling & Consumer Experiences group, led by
company veteran Mike White, affects about 50
employees, Variety confirmed. The news was first
reported by the Wall Street Journal. A Disney rep
declined to comment.
The shutdown of Disney’s metaverse group came
Monday with the first wave of the company’s move to
slash 7,000 jobs under interim CEO Bob Iger, which
is part of its attempt to reduce $5.5 billion in
costs. Following this week’s layoffs, there will be
a larger second round of cuts next month, Iger told
employees in a memo Monday. A final round of
layoffs will hit “before the beginning of summer,”
according to Iger.
# ⚓ Variety ☛ Elon_Musk_Says_Only_Verified_Twitter_Accounts
Will_Appear_in_For_You_Timeline_Starting_in_April⠀⇛
Musk’s verification policy has raised concerns
about misinformation on the site, as virtually
anyone willing to pay the price could attempt to
impersonate a public figure under the guise of
verification. However, Twitter has taken steps to
prevent this by reviewing Twitter Blue accounts
before granting them verification.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ GitHub_fires_85%_of_its_India_workforce⠀⇛
The tech industry has been hit hard by a wave of
job cuts as companies try to adjust to new market
realities. GitHub, the world’s leading code-hosting
platform for software development, has fired about
85% of its workforce in India. Out of 216
employees, 183 have been asked to leave, including
the entire engineering team responsible for
building GitHub for the world, said a source on
condition of anonymity.
# ⚓ 37signals LLC ☛ Why_is_paid_social_media_a_bad_idea?⠀⇛
The bet is this: Can you fund a social network with
user payments? In contrast to the current
established wisdom that only targeted ads will do
it. We don’t know! Nobody has ever tried to do it
at this scale. All the attempts have usually been
baked in from the beginning, thus posing a real
challenge to reaching critical mass. But Musk is
now going to try the experiment on a network that
already has critical mass. THAT’S INTERESTING!
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘We’re_Not_Gonna_Fix_It,’_Says_GOP
Congressman_After_Nashville_Mass_Shooting⠀⇛
U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett was accused of saying
“the quiet part out loud” after the Tennessee
Republican responded to the massacre in Nashville
on Monday by arguing there’s not much Congress can
do to prevent mass shootings.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Corbyn_Expected_to_Run_as_Independent_After
Starmer’s_Move_to_Bar_Him_From_Labour⠀⇛
Former U.K. Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is expected
to seek reelection as an independent next year
after current Leader Keir Starmer and his
establishment allies on Tuesday made good on their
pledge to formally block the leftist member of
Parliament from running under the party’s banner.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Forget_Shadow_Banning,_Now_Elon_Is_Shadow
Boosting_Accounts_He_Likes,_While_Trying_To_Drive_Away_Users
Who_Won’t_Pay⠀⇛
Elon Musk says he’s against a “lords and peasants”
system on Twitter.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Chris_Christie_Grilled_at_Town_Hall_After
Positioning_Himself_as_Anti-Trump⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Youth_Organizers_Are_Uniting_Marginalized
Communities_to_Stop_Atlanta’s_Cop_City⠀⇛
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Fostering_a_Fourth_Democratic_Wave:_A
playbook_for_countering_the_authoritarian_threat⠀⇛
This report seeks to catalyze support for
nonviolent pro-democracy movements fighting against
authoritarian rule by proposing new approaches and
tools to support civil resistance movements,
advancing a new international norm — the “Right to
Assist” pro-democracy movements — and developing
strategic and tactical options to constrain
authoritarian regimes.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Carlos_Moreno_Wanted_to_Improve_Cities.
Conspiracy_Theorists_Are_Coming_for_Him. [Ed: When the term
"Conspiracy Theorists" is used in the press it might be a
straw man (to distract from the real issues). This awful
article is moreover trying to insinuate that critics of
"Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates", a notorious serial
criminal, are just dangerous, violent cranks.]⠀⇛
Researchers like Carlos Moreno, the professor
behind a popular urban planning concept, are
struggling with conspiracy theories and death
threats.
[...]
For high-profile figures, such as the infectious-
disease expert Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and the
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, misinformation and
the hostility it can cause have long been a part of
the job description.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ What’s_Hot_on_TikTok?_Defending_Its
C.E.O.⠀⇛
After lawmakers grilled TikTok’s chief executive
last week, the app’s users argued that the platform
should not be banned in the United States over
national security concerns.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Palestinians_to_Pay_the_Price_as_Netanyahu
Pauses_Judicial_Overhaul_While_Further_Empowering_Far_Right⠀⇛
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
agreed to delay a push to overhaul and weaken
Israel’s judiciary until the next parliamentary
session. The retreat came after months of
unprecedented mass protests and a general strike on
Monday that shut down much of Israel. Netanyahu had
earlier fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant,
for suggesting a delay to judicial changes. In a
concession to his far-right governing allies,
Netanyahu has also agreed to establish a new
national guard under the control of Itamar Ben-
Gvir, the ultranationalist national security
minister who was once convicted of racist
incitement against Palestinians and supporting a
terrorist group. “He already has an immense amount
of power over police forces that regularly inflict
violence on Palestinians. Now there is talk of him
having this national guard,” journalist Natasha
Roth-Rowland, an editor with +972 Magazine, says of
Ben-Gvir. We also speak with Palestinian American
analyst Yousef Munayyer, who says the public
outrage over the judicial plan is due to many
Israelis seeing their own rights threatened for the
first time. “The rights of Palestinians … have not
been upheld by these courts for a very long time,”
says Munayyer.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Netanyahu_Delays_Judicial_Overhaul_While_Further
Empowering_Israel’s_Far_Right⠀⇛
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Where_the_accent_is_on_merit⠀⇛
Scotland’s new leader, the first Muslim to lead a
Western European state, adds to a growing embrace
of values over personal identity.
# ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Putin_&_Xi’s_Moscow_agreements⠀⇛
Riley Waggaman It was a big week for Russia-China
experts, who collectively managed to write 10,000
hot takes about what happened in Moscow without
explaining what actually happened in Moscow. Is
there a reason why all Russia-China commentary
disintegrates into esoteric abstractions by the
second paragraph?
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Tlaib_Leads_Call_for_$1.2_Billion_in
Humanitarian_Assistance_for_Yemen⠀⇛
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Monday led two dozen
House Democrats in urging Congress to allocate at
least $1.2 billion in humanitarian aid for
Yemen—whose people have suffered eight years of
U.S.-backed Saudi war—in next year’s budget.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Dem_Lawmakers_Back_Coalition’s_Call_for_US
Human_Rights_Institution⠀⇛
Progressive U.S. lawmakers including Reps. Rashida
Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Katie Porter on Tuesday
joined a call for the Biden administration to take
steps to form a national institution that would
monitor and promote human rights within the United
States, noting that the U.S. considers itself an
arbiter of human rights standards across the globe.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Solar_Rorts_–_Federal_Labor_caught_in
$200_million_pork_barrelling_scheme⠀⇛
Independent MP Rebekha Sharkie has just dropped a
bombshell in Federal Parliament. The Labor
Government has been caught in a blatant pork
barrelling. Rex Patrick explains the corruption
that is “Solar Rorts”.
Pork barrelling is defined by the NSW Independent
Commission Against Corruption as “the allocation of
public funds and resources to targeted electors for
partisan political purposes”. It’s corruption. It’s
taking taxpayers’ money and directing it at
projects that are intended to ‘buy’ votes to allow
people to stay in power. That is, using taxpayers’
money for personal benefit.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Why_You_Fell_for_the_Fake_Pope_Coat⠀⇛
Pope Francis’s rad parka fooled savvy viewers
because it depicted what would have been a
low-stakes news event—the type of tabloid-
y non-news story that, were it real, would
ultimately get aggregated by popular social-
media accounts, then by gossipy news outlets,
before maybe going viral. It’s a little
nugget of internet ephemera, like those
photos that used to circulate of Vladimir
Putin shirtless.
# ⚓ New Scientist ☛ Should_you_be_worried_that_an_AI
picture_of_the_pope_went_viral?⠀⇛
Should we be worried? Web culture expert Ryan
Broderick has called the pope image “the
first real mass-level AI misinformation
case”. But the issue has actually been
brewing for a few weeks, following an update
to Midjourney that significantly improved the
standard of output. Earlier in March,
Midjourney-created images of former US
president Donald Trump being arrested
similarly went viral. Those images were
generated from prompts provided by Eliot
Higgins, the founder of Bellingcat, an
investigative journalism group.
# ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Quarter_of_5-year-olds_watch
TikTok_videos_that_‘blur_fact_and_fiction’⠀⇛
Children are drawn to “dramatic” content
online and videos made by professional
“influencers” but often fail to distinguish
between what is real and what is fake. “For
the children in this study, it often seems
that it matters more whom something has been
said by than whether it’s true,” Ofcom said
in its annual Children’s Media Lives report.
The authors of the study said: “Much of the
content the children were consuming seemed
designed to maximise stimulation and minimise
the investment required of them. Videos were
fast-paced, short-form, with deliberately
choppy editing.
[...]
For some children, TikTok is replacing Google
as a primary source of information. [sic]
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Obama_warns_about_dangers_of_AI,
polarisation_and_Murdoch_at_Sydney_event⠀⇛
“So much of who we are and how we understand
the world is related to the stories we
receive. If we are vulnerable to bad stories,
we can do horrendous things,” he said.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Quillette ☛ An_Auckland_Mob_Shut_Down_a_Women’s_Rights
Activist—And_Proved_Her_Point⠀⇛
British women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen,
also known as Posie Parker, is the prototypically
impolite gender crit, often engaging in aggressive
and confrontational tactics that, at times, have
turned her into something of a pariah. Yet by sheer
doggedness, Keen now has managed to thoroughly
discredit her trans-activist opponents, by rousing
them to scenes of misogynistic violence that are
even now circulating on social media as viral
sensations.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Roger_Waters:_We_are_on_the_road_to
Frankfurt_/_Concert_in_Frankfurt_to_be_secured_by_interim
injunction⠀⇛
Roger Waters has noted with pleasure the decision
of the Munich City Council that his 21.05.2023
concert in the Olympiahalle Munich will take place
as planned :
“I am very happy to be able to perform in Munich
for my fans. A ban on my concert would have been
illegal. The City of Munich’s decision is good news
for freedom of speech in Germany.”
# ⚓ CNN ☛ An_influential_Chinese_blogger_disappeared_from_the
internet._This_woman_says_she_knows_why⠀⇛
Program Think had so closely guarded their identity
that no supporters knew who the blogger was –
except that they had been a programmer inside
mainland China with a decade-long career in
information security.
Now, almost two years later, the wife of a blogger
recently sentenced to seven years in a Chinese
prison for “inciting subversion of state power”
believes she has the answer to the question: What
happened to Program Think?
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Child’s_Drawing,_a_Dad’s_Antiwar_Posts,
and_Russia’s_Latest_Orphan⠀⇛
Aleksei Moskalyov did not wait to hear his sentence
for “discrediting the Russian Armed Forces” on
Tuesday. Years behind bars for posts on social
media seemed like a foregone conclusion in
contemporary Russia. So Mr. Moskalyov slipped off
his geotracking ankle bracelet and fled from house
arrest.
In escaping, Mr. Moskalyov, a single parent, left
behind not just his home but his 13-year-old
daughter, Maria — though even before the verdict
had been read, she appeared lost to him. For the
past month, the child, known as Masha, has been in
a state-run orphanage, forbidden to communicate
with her father.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ In_Internet_Speech_Cases,_SCOTUS_Should_Stick_Up
For_Reno_v._ACLU⠀⇛
It was by no means certain that the internet would
enjoy full First Amendment protection. The radio is
not shielded from the government in that way. Nor
is broadcast television. Both Congress and the
President supported placing online speech under
some degree of state control. In Reno v. ACLU
(1997), however, the Supreme Court could find “no
basis for qualifying the level of First Amendment
scrutiny that should be applied to this [new]
medium.” Liberty won out.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Academic_freedom_is_structurally
compromised_only_in_Hungary_in_the_EU,_according_to_an_EP
study⠀⇛
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Police_Board_to_investigate_Erdogan_effigy_removal⠀⇛
An effigy of Turkish President Reccep Tayyip
Erdogan was confiscated at a demonstration in
Helsinki on Saturday.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Sources_tell_Forbes_Russia_that_VK_server
expansion_could_herald_YouTube_ban_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Ever since the Russian authorities cracked down on
independent news outlets, foreign social networks,
and all manner of anti-government speech in the
wake of their full-scale invasion of Ukraine,
observers have been anticipating a ban on YouTube,
one of the country’s most popular sites and a haven
for anti-war content. More than a year later,
Russians can still access the service freely, but
according to sources from the country’s
telecommunications industry who spoke to Forbes
Russia, the homegrown social media site Vkontakte
recently began expanding its network of servers —
possibly in anticipation of a future YouTube ban.
Here’s what we know.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Tove_Jansson_heirs_won’t_renew_Moomin_product
licenses_in_Russia_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Moomin Characters, the Finnish branded goods
company run by the heirs of the popular artist and
writer Tove Jansson, has declined to renew or
extend Moomin product licenses for partners in
Russia.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ St._Petersburg_court_forces_Russian_communists_to
take_down_Jean-Paul_Sartre_anti-anticommunist_meme_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Jean-Paul Sartre’s essay “Maurice Merleau-Ponty est
vivant,” written after the death of his philosopher
friend, contains the following maxim: “Tout
anticommuniste est un chien.” “Every
anticommunist,” that is, “is a dog.”
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘He_stalked_and_terrorized_her’:_A_Moscow
journalist_was_charged_with_killing_her_abusive_ex-husband.
Now_she_could_lose_custody_of_her_sons._—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Chris_Hedges_Report:_How_Mexico’s_Epidemic_of
Murdered_Journalists_is_an_Ominous_Warning_to_the_Press
Everywhere⠀⇛
Over 150 journalists have been assassinated in
Mexico since 2000. Behind the killings is a nexus
of corruption and violence that links organized
crime, police, and government.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ At_Least_39_Asylum_Seekers_Dead_After_Fire_at
Migrant_Jail_in_Mexico⠀⇛
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Erasing_stigmas:_Women_workers’_unique_right,
and_an_inclusive_census⠀⇛
Progress roundup: Spain passes Europe’s first
menstrual leave law, Chile’s fishers sacrifice
catch for marine refuges, Singapore makes a High
Line.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Bush,_Pressley_to_Co-Chair_Congressional
Equal_Rights_Amendment_Caucus⠀⇛
A coalition of Democratic U.S. lawmakers led by
Reps. Cori Bush and Ayanna Pressley on Tuesday
announced the launch of a new caucus aimed at
realizing the centurylong goal of adding an Equal
Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ West’s_Uneven_Response_to_Human_Rights
Crimes_Exposes_Broken_Global_System:_Amnesty⠀⇛
Hypocrisy and humanity’s failure to “unite around
consistently applied human rights and universal
values” expose a system unfit to tackle global
crises, according to a report published by Amnesty
International on Monday, the 75th anniversary of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ ‘Objectivity’_Obliterates_Empathy_and_Curiosity⠀⇛
FAIR’s commentary by Conor Smyth (2/28/23) on
former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie Jr.’s
anti-objectivity manifesto (Washington Post, 1/30/
23), and New York Times columnist Bret Stephens’
overwrought response to it (2/9/23), was right on
point.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Fire_Kills_Nearly_40_at_Migrant_Detention
Facility_Near_US-Mexico_Border⠀⇛
At least 39 migrants were declared dead Tuesday
after a fire was started overnight at a detention
facility in Ciudad Juárez, close to the U.S.-Mexico
border.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Randall_Robinson_(1941-2023)_on_Haiti’s
Unbroken_Agony,_from_U.S._Coups_to_Haiti’s_“Debt”_to_France⠀⇛
We continue to remember the lawyer and human rights
activist Randall Robinson, the founder of the
racial justice group TransAfrica, who died last
week at age 81. Robinson was a leader in the U.S.
movement against South African apartheid and was a
prominent critic of U.S. policy in Haiti, including
the U.S.-backed coup against President Jean-
Bertrand Aristide in 2004. Democracy Now! spoke to
Robinson in 2007 about that episode and how foreign
powers have interfered in Haiti throughout the
country’s history, beginning with the slave revolt
against France that established Haiti as the first
free republic in the Americas in 1804. “The
Haitians believed that anybody who was enslaved
anywhere had a home and a refuge in Haiti. Anybody
seeking freedom had a sympathetic ear in Haiti. But
because of that, the United States and France and
the other Western governments, even the Vatican,
made them pay for so terribly long,” said Robinson,
who had just published the book An Unbroken Agony:
Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a
President.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Rule_of_Law_Is_Under_Attack_by_the
Republican_Judges⠀⇛
As someone who regularly writes about the courts
and the law, I often feel more like an obituary
writer. Hardly a week goes by without Republican
judges killing a fundamental right of Americans,
often inventing a reactionary new legal doctrine
from whole cloth to do so.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Huge_Blow_to_the_Rule_of_Law,’_Donziger
Says_of_Supreme_Court_Decision_on_Chevron_Case⠀⇛
Environmental attorney Steven Donziger was joined
by a number of U.S. Supreme Court observers on
Monday in denouncing a decision by seven of the
nine justices, who refused to consider Donziger’s
case regarding the appointment of three special
prosecutors after he was charged with criminal
contempt of court.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ SCOTUS_Denies_Steven_Donziger’s_Request_for
Appeal_of_Conviction_in_Chevron_Case⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ You_Strike_the_Women,_You_Strike_the_Rock,_You
Will_Be_Crushed⠀⇛
What constitutes a crisis worthy of global
attention? When a regional bank in the United
States falls victim to the inversion of the yield
curve (i.e., when short-term bond interest rates
become higher than long-term rates), the Earth
nearly stops spinning. The collapse of Silicon
Valley Bank (SVB) […]
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_the_Republican_Push_for_‘Parents’
Rights’_Is_Really_About⠀⇛
The culture war that conservatives are currently
waging over education is, like the culture wars in
other areas of American society, a cover for a more
material and ideological agenda.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_court_overturns_acquittal_of_LGBT_rights
activist_and_artist_Yulia_Tsvetkova_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A Vladivostok court has overturned the acquittal of
Yulia Tsvetkova, an LGBT rights activist and artist
who was charged with “distributing pornography” for
sharing art that depicted vulvas, a popular Russian
Telegram channel reported on Tuesday, citing
Tsvetkova’s lawyer.
# ⚓ BBC ☛ Swiss_court_case_ties_human_rights_to_climate
change⠀⇛
More than 2,000 women are taking the Swiss
government to court claiming its policy on climate
change is violating their right to life and health.
The case is the first time the European Court of
Human Rights (ECHR) will hear a case on the impact
of climate change on human rights.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Taliban_arrests_prominent_girls’_education_activist
as_repressive_clampdown_continues⠀⇛
Some of its most striking restrictions have been
around education, with girls barred from returning
to secondary schools and universities, depriving an
entire generation of academic opportunities.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in
Afghanistan (UNAMA) said Wesa was arrested in the
capital Kabul on Monday and called on the Taliban
to clarify his whereabouts.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ Climb_off_the_mandatory
activation_TRAIn⠀⇛
In this post, we analyse the 40 comments submitted
in response to TRAI’s consultation paper titled
‘Consultation Paper on Introduction of Calling Name
Presentation (CNAP) in Telecommunication Networks’,
highlighting privacy concerns, especially in the
absence of a data protection law.
# ⚓ James G ☛ I’m_working_on_a_new_version_of_my_printed_blog⠀⇛
In 2021, I embarked on a journey to print out the
content on my blog. The scope of the project was
limited. I decided to print all of my coffee posts
published both on this blog as well as Steampunk
Coffee, for whom I had written numerous blog posts.
I decided to print only the coffee posts so that
the printed version would have a theme. I was
excited by the prospects of being able to hold my
writings on coffee in my hands, and looked forward
to a day where I could print another volume. That
time has come.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Consumers_Aren’t_Buying_Automaker_Plans_To_Make
Everything_A_Subscription⠀⇛
For numerous years, automakers have been keen to
boost consistent monthly income by pushing users
subscription services. The problem: whether it’s a
specific in-car 5G wireless broadband connection
(made kind of irrelevant by the fact everyone has a
tetherable smartphone), or subscriptions for app-
based services like remote starting: consumers
aren’t really interested.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Microsoft_Yanked_Forthcoming_Game’s_PlayStation
Port_To_Make_It_Exclusive⠀⇛
Timing, as they say, is everything. We’ve been
talking about Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of
Activision Blizzard a lot lately and for good
reason. It’s a huge deal, both in terms of the size
of the purchase relative to the video game
industry, but also because of what it could mean
for the overall competitive marketplace in the
industry as well. The regulators have expressed
varied levels of concern and Microsoft’s rebuttal
to those concerns has mostly been to ink 10-year
deals with other platforms to keep the key series
Call of Duty non-exclusive, at least for that
timeframe. All the while, throughout this and
previous acquisitions taking place in a climate of
market consolidation, Microsoft executives have
made vague, non-committal statements about how it
doesn’t actually want to go the exclusivity route
with its titles generally.
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Brazil:_leading_case_allows
revival_of_a_patent_application⠀⇛
The Brazilian Patent Statute (Federal Law
#9,279/96) establishes that foreign
applicants must appoint and maintain a
representative in Brazil for each patent
application filed with the Brazilian Patent
and Trademark Office (BRPTO). Only through a
patent agent—be it a person or a legal
entity—can a foreign application file and
prosecute an application.
# § Software Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ EPO_Patent_Index_2022:_most
applications_concern_digital_communication [Ed:
Software patents basically]⠀⇛
The European Patent Office received 193 460
applications last year, an increase of 2.5%
compared to 2021 and a new record. Digital
communication (+11.2% over 2021) was the
field with the highest number of patent
applications, followed closely by medical
technology (+1.0%) and computer technology
(+1.8%). These are some numbers from the
EPO’s Patent Index 2022, which was published
today.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ Blights_of_the_Bookish:_An
Essay_on_Diseases_Incidental_to_Literary_and_Sedentary
Persons_(1768)⠀⇛
In this essay on the ailments of sedentary
lifestyles, reading and scholarly study have
tragic and sometimes fatal consequences.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Soft_Corruption_Of_Link_Tax_Bills:
Enriching_The_News_Orgs_Politicians_Want_To_Endorse
Them⠀⇛
Okay, this is just getting silly. We just
explained why the various attempts to tax
Google and Meta to fund the owners of news
organizations (often hedge funds who have a
long history of pocketing any cash and
cutting jobs) is a clear attack on the open
web. And yet, many people keep pushing these
laws.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Eric_Luth_—_Open_Culture_VOICES,
Season_2_Episode_8⠀⇛
Open Culture VOICES is a series of short
videos that highlight the benefits and
barriers of open culture as well as
inspiration and advice on the subject of
opening up cultural heritage. Eric Luth is a
Project Manager at Wikimedia Sweden where he
organizes collaborations, events, and
exchanges of practices in the cultural
sector. Wikimedia Sweden also organizes edit-
a-thons for Wikipedia articles.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ China_Shuts_Down_Major_Manga_Piracy
Site_Following_Complaint_From_Japan⠀⇛
Anti-piracy group CODA is reporting the
shutdown of B9Good, a pirate manga site that
targeted Japan but was operated from China.
In response to a criminal complaint filed by
CODA on behalf of six Japanese companies,
which were backed by 21 others during the
investigation, Chinese authorities arrested
four people and seized one house worth
$580,000
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Sony_Music_Has_Serious_Concerns_About
AI-Synthesized_Vocals⠀⇛
Artificial intelligence is now a mainstream
topic but while most people focus on the
positives, the music industry is concerned
about potential threats. In IFPI’s latest
Global Music Report, insiders stress that
music’s ‘human’ element should stay at the
forefront. According to Sony, the same
applies to AI-synthesized voices, which
should not replace human vocals.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ MPA,_Amazon_&_Apple_Win_$30m_in
Damages_Against_Pirate_IPTV_Services⠀⇛
In 2021, Universal, Disney, Paramount, Warner
and Columbia, partnered with Amazon and Apple
in a lawsuit targeting two U.S-based pirate
IPTV services. After the operator of
AllAccessTV and Quality Restreams put up an
early fight, including allegations that one
of his services was disguised as a VPN
provider, the studios have walked away with a
$30 million damages award.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Lasagna⠀⇛
My friend told me she was making spaghetti while
her boyfriend was watching hockey. The point was
the normalcy of it all, even if she should be in a
bit of a culture shock.
My girlfriend made a lasagna for our daughter and
I. She said, “Someone said that lasagna is the way
to a man’s heart.”
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ADGLUSR_Wordo:_GLOAT⠀⇛
# ⚓ Fun_with_Artificial_Intelligence:_AI-generated_art_1⠀⇛
# ⚓ She_took_her_sweet_time_making_sense_to_me.⠀⇛
She took her sweet time making sense to me.
But finally, in that fluorescent interrogation
chamber, she put words to what came out as a groan
a year prior.
I listened defensively.
And shut out grimey thoughts meant for someone I
knew better.
Who leaves the country in a fit?
I should’ve seen the signs.
Not a renegade or a wanderer.
She came here running.
# ⚓ do_i_enjoy_debating?⠀⇛
Short answer: it’s complicated
Usually I would prefer sitting back and just let
argument go on their own, unless the conversation
gets to the point where either side points out
something that’s very obviously just incorrect (not
necessarily when the person is being highly
emotional).
# ⚓ Re:_Bullet_Points_vs_Prose⠀⇛
Luke Gearing generously posted some side-by-side
comparisons of bullet points vs prose.
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Switching_the_US_to_the_Metric_System⠀⇛
I’ve taken to stating measurements in metric, and
then restating them in legacy units. “It’s 10
degrees, or 50 degrees in legacy units”. “It’s
about a kilometer walk from here to there, or 3/
5 of a mile in legacy units”.
On another subject, everyone should definitely use
YYYY-MM-DD (AKA big endian) for dates. Europeans
seem to use little endian, DD/MM/YYYY. The US uses
middle endian, MM/DD/YYYY, which is absolutely
bonkers.
# ⚓ def-briefly-mode⠀⇛
Here’s an Emacs macro that lets you easily make
modes turn on briefly and then turn themselves off
after a while.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ I_moved,_and_other_major_life_events⠀⇛
Actually, I moved twice since my last update,
but this should be a more permanent location,
I’m now a mortgage-haver.
Often errantly referred to as “homeowner”,
I’ve signed the next 15 years of my life
away, so I think I’m a lot less likely to
have another 10-month vacation to work
fulltime on open source.
I also got engaged and married to the
beautiful woman who has been so encouraging
over the last two years. (We met shortly
after I started this capsule, so if you’ve
also started writing in Gemini-space, maybe
there are nuptials in your future?)
# ⚓ web,_gemini,_ftp,_open,_distributed⠀⇛
I want to close my tabs, and it seems like a
waste to just close them.
So here we go.
This started with someone on IRC bringing up
an old topic we talk about
every so often. They want some decentralized
way to search the internet
and my original reaction was something like,
getting site authors to
implement search on their own site using some
common API, then users
can search all of those sites through it.
Usually my brain went into
the OpenSearch direction where people
to xml documents that
define a format for searching the site, with various output formats
that clients can then parse reliably, like rss, or atom.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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Posted in News_Roundup at 2:54 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈
§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Arch_Family
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Programming/Development
# Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh
* Leftovers
o Education
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Privatisation/Privateering
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
o Trademarks
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ 317:_Home_Automation_with_Home_Assistant_Plus_New
Alternative_to_ChatGPT⠀⇛
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ 317:_Home_Automation_with_Home_Assistant_Plus
New_Alternative_to_ChatGPT_–_Destination_Linux_–_TuxDigital⠀⇛
This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we will
be discussing building an automated home, the open
source way.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ OBS_Studio_29.1_Promises_AV1/HEVC_Streaming
over_RTMP,_Lossless_Audio_Recording⠀⇛
OBS Studio 29.1 promises new features like support
for streaming AV1/HEVC over RTMP for YouTube,
support for surround sound for AJA capture cards,
new lossless audio recording options for FLAC,
ALAC, and PCM (including 32-bit float), as well as
support for multiple audio tracks in Simple output
recording.
The upcoming OBS Studio release also promises
features like a setting to record in fragmented MP4
and MOV video formats, new settings to select the
audio encoder for streaming and recording, and a
new option to preload media sources used in
Stingers to memory.
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ 5_of_the_Best_Steganography_Tools_in
Linux⠀⇛
Steganography is the art and process of putting one
type of information inside another in an attempt to
hide it. This is often done in situations where an
individual wants to preserve secret information
inside normal objects.
This guide shows five of the best steganography
tools currently available in Linux. It also shows
you how you can hide your first message using these
utilities.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 5_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Backend
Electronic_Circuit_Simulators⠀⇛
Electronic circuit simulation uses mathematical
models to replicate the behavior of an actual
electronic device or circuit. Simulation software
allows for modeling of circuit operation and is an
invaluable analysis tool.
Simulating the circuit with SPICE is the industry-
standard way to verify circuit operation at the
transistor level before committing to manufacturing
an integrated circuit. The SPICE simulators help to
predict the behavior of the IC under different
operating conditions, such as different voltage and
current levels, temperature variations, and noise.
Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary
LinuxLinks-style ratings chart.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Firewalld:_Common_Firewall_Rules_and_Commands⠀⇛
Firewalld is a dynamic firewall utility that
provides a user-friendly interface for managing
firewall rules on Linux systems. It is designed to
be easier to use than traditional firewalls like
Iptables, while still providing powerful features
for securing your network.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_configure_SOAP_web_services_with_Apache
Camel⠀⇛
This article demonstrates how to configure Simple
Object Access Protocol (SOAP) web services with the
Red Hat build of Apache Camel, Quarkus version. In
Apache Camel version 3, the support for the SOAP
protocol is still provided by the CXF framework.
Therefore, on Quarkus, we will be relying on the
camel-quarkus-cxf-soap extension.
✐ A common REST to SOAP transformation use case⠀✐
With the CXF runtime, there is a distinction to
make between a SOAP service and the client of a
SOAP service.
# ⚓ How_to_install_PNPM_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or_20.04⠀⇛
PNPM is an efficient alternative to NPM and Yarn
package managers for Node.js packages, which works
differently than them to manage modules. In this
article, we learn how to install PNPM on Ubuntu
22.04 or 20.04 Linux systems. What is the PNPM
Nodejs, package manager?
# ⚓ What_is_the_difference_between_vsftpd_and_ProFTPd?⠀⇛
FTP is a standard protocol that is used to transfer
files widely, and FTP servers like Vsftpd and
ProFTPd provide a way to use that protocol and
access plus transfer files stored on a remote
server.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_prevent_fork_bombs_on_your_Linux
development_servers⠀⇛
Learn how to protect your Linux server from the
fork bomb denial-of-service attack with this video
tutorial by Jack Wallen.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Create_Lightweight_Slideshow
Presentations_in_Your_Linux_Terminal⠀⇛
Slideshow presentations are an essential and
unavoidable part of corporate and academic life
thanks to their ability to help you plan and
structure the dissemination of information to your
audience.
But snazzy graphics and transition effects can be a
distraction from the core information, with the
effort you put into making a visually appealing
PowerPoint better spent elsewhere.
Slides is a terminal-based presentation tool for
Linux that processes Markdown files—helping you to
create and present slideshows without ever leaving
your terminal!
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_List_Manually_Installed_Packages_in
Ubuntu_&_Debian⠀⇛
Keeping track of the packages you have manually
installed on your Ubuntu system is essential for
managing your software and maintaining a clean
system. This article will guide you through the
process of listing manually installed packages in
Ubuntu using various command-line tools, such as
apt, dpkg, and apt-mark.
# ⚓ Peter ‘CzP’ Czanik ☛ Syslog-ng_101,_part_13:_Updating
syslog-ng,_syslog-ng_4⠀⇛
Version 4 of syslog-ng is now available. The good
news is that it is fully backwards compatible. If
the version string in your configuration is set to
a 3.X version, it will work as expected even after
updating to version 4. Of course you might run into
corner cases, but I had no problems even with
complex configurations. Today, we learn about
updating syslog-ng, and some of the new features of
syslog-ng 4.
Or you can read the rest the tutorial as a blog at:
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/
syslog-ng-101-part-13-updating-syslog-ng-syslog-ng-
4
# ⚓ Peter_Czanik:_Syslog-ng_101,_part_13:_Updating_syslog-ng,
syslog-ng_4⠀⇛
This is the 13th part of my syslog-ng tutorial.
Last time, we learned about sending log messages to
Elasticsearch. Today, we learn about updating
syslog-ng, and some of the new features of syslog-
ng 4.
https://youtu.be/205eMGS51XU
§ Type support in syslog-ng 4
Version 4 of syslog-ng is now available. The good
news is that it is fully backwards compatible. If
the version string in your configuration is set to
a 3.X version, it will work as expected even after
updating to version 4. Of course you might run into
corner cases, but I had no problems even with
complex configurations.
The major new feature of syslog-ng 4 is type
support. When using the JSON and PatternDB parsers,
syslog-ng stores the type information alongside
name-value pairs. You can also set type information
using rewrite rules.
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ How_to_Quickly_Merge_PDF_Files_on_Linux⠀⇛
PDF files are a common part of digital life so at
some point you might want or need to merge multiple
PDF files into one, single document.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_CoreFreq_on_Ubuntu_20.04_|_22.04
LTS⠀⇛
CoreFreq is a CPU monitoring tool that provides
detailed information about your processor’s
performance, including real-time temperature
readings, clock speeds, and utilization statistics.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ 12_Apk_Commands_in_Alpine_Linux_Package
Management⠀⇛
Alpine Linux is a lightweight, security-oriented
Linux distribution designed for routers, firewalls,
VPN gateways, and servers. It uses the musl libc
library and BusyBox utilities, making it small and
efficient.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS_Kirkstone-series_version_5.2
released⠀⇛
Easy version 5.1.1 was released on March 20, 2023,
see blog announcement:
https://bkhome.org/news/202303/easyos-kirkstone-
series-511-released.html
Since then, there has been a complete recompile of
the packages, with
many version bumps, including Chromium. There have
also been
improvements to the AppImage Installer, and more
apps added. See 5.2
release notes:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/
kirkstone/2023/5.2/release-notes.htm
Each category in the AppImage Installer is starting
to fill up:
Download ‘easy-5.2-amd64.img’ from here:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/
kirkstone/2023/5.2/
Or mirror in Europe by kind courtesy of NLUUG:
https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/easyos/amd64/
releases/kirkstone/2023/5.2/
If you don’t know how to write a drive image file
to a USB-stick, read this:
https://easyos.org/install/how-to-write-easyos-to-
a-flash-drive.html
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Finnix_125_Linux_Distro_Arrives_for_Sysadmins
with_Linux_Kernel_6.1_LTS⠀⇛
Powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.1 LTS
kernel series, Finnix 125 is here to introduce
several new packages, namely the aespipe AES
encrypting/decrypting pipe, iperf3 network
performance measurement and tuning tool, ncdu disk
utility, and netcat-traditional as the “classic”
version of the netcat computer networking utility.
Finnix 125 also comes with an updated apt update
command that will now download both “testing” and
“unstable” indices to allow users to install
packages that may be hinted out of testing.
However, the developer notes the fact that apt
pinning is set to “testing” by default.
# ⚓ Finnix ☛ Finnix_125_released⠀⇛
Today marks the release of Finnix 125, the original
utility live Linux distribution. Finnix 125
includes a number of fixes, new packages and new
features:
# Linux kernel 6.1 (Debian 6.1.0-6)
# New packages: 2048, aespipe, iperf3 (finnix/
finnix#37), ncdu, netcat-traditional,
ninvaders, vitetris
# Note that netcat-openbsd continues to be
included and is the default nc
# apt update will now download both “testing”
and “unstable” indices, to allow for
installing packages which may currently be
hinted out of testing. Apt pinning is
configured so testing will continue to be
preferred to unstable, however.
# Updated to memtest86+ 6.10, which now
includes a UEFI version which is included in
the “Utilities” boot submenu when booting on
a UEFI system. Note that this is not signed
and will not work with Secure Boot.
# 7z will invoke the installed 7zr program,
unless the user explicitly installs “p7zip-
full”
# Upstream Debian package updates
# Many minor fixes and improvements
# Note for people who embed Finnix in other
systems: boot=live is no longer needed to be
passed as a kernel boot command line.
o § Arch Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Arco Linux ☛ Looking_for_an_Office_application_on_Linux⠀⇛
Here we show you how easy it is to install either
* libreoffice-still (stable)
* libreoffice-fresh (cutting-edge)
But there is more – follow in the coming years what
office tools come and go and install them via
pacman or an AUR helper like yay, paru, trizen and
others.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Hybrid_work:_Culture_change
required⠀⇛
Hybrid work has set new standards in the workplace.
But many companies have not realized the full
potential of a hybrid environment, primarily
because they are still operating in the mindset of
traditional workplace practices.
Technical infrastructure changes to support remote
work will no longer suffice as employees return to
the office for part of the week. Now, organizations
must ensure employees have a consistent experience
regardless of location.
Ensuring that your company’s culture and technical
infrastructure align is critical to improving
efficiencies, remaining agile, providing a better
customer experience, and enhancing employee
satisfaction. This pays off with improved
productivity, greater revenue, and talent
retention.
Achieving a cohesive company culture within a
hybrid environment requires close collaboration
between human resources (HR) and information
technology (IT). Working together, these teams can
ensure their company gets the most from its
investments in employees and IT infrastructure,
benefitting the company now and in the future.
Transitioning from a traditional company culture to
one that supports hybrid work is a three-part
process:
[...]
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Ubuntu_Cinnamon_Joins_the_Official_Flavor
Family⠀⇛
Are you looking for a fresh take on the Ubuntu
desktop? The final piece in the Ubuntu mosaic has
been added, and Cinnamon is now an official flavor.
So far, the collection of Ubuntu’s official flavors
included representatives of all major desktop
environments, including Kubuntu (KDE Plasma
Desktop), Xubuntu (Xfce Desktop), Lubuntu (LXQt
Desktop), Ubuntu MATE (MATE Desktop), and Ubuntu
Budgie (Budgie Desktop). The big missing one was
Cinnamon. Well, as of today, that’s no longer the
case.
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ Ubuntu_Cinnamon_Remix_set_to_become_official
flavour⠀⇛
Ubuntu 23.04 is less than a month away from release
and there’s a pleasant surprise too because
Canonical has decided to make Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix
an official flavour in the upcoming release. Not
everyone is happy with the heavily tweaked GNOME
desktop that Ubuntu comes with normally so
community-created flavours are also made available
and granted official status by Canonical when the
flavour is of good quality.
# ⚓ Beta News ☛ Ubuntu_Cinnamon_becomes_an_official_flavor,
making_Linux_Mint_obsolete⠀⇛
Linux Mint is a fairly popular operating system.
But why do so many people use that Ubuntu-based
distribution? People may tell you several reasons,
but the reality is, many Ubuntu users are just not
comfortable with the default desktop environment.
Because Unity, and now GNOME, are so radically
different from the traditional Windows interface,
some people flocked to Linux Mint and its familiar
Cinnamon desktop environment. Mate and Xfce are
Mint desktop options too, but make no mistake,
Cinnamon is the crown jewel of the distro.
# ⚓ Phoronix ☛ Ubuntu_Cinnamon_Becomes_An_Official_Flavor_For
Ubuntu_23.04⠀⇛
Since 2019 there has been Ubuntu Cinnamon as an
unofficial remix of Ubuntu paired with Linux Mint’s
Cinnamon desktop environment.
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Cinnamon_is_Now_an_Official_Ubuntu
Flavour⠀⇛
What’s the best way to sample the Cinnamon desktop
on top of an Ubuntu base? You may be minded to
answer Linux Mint (and that wouldn’t be a wrong
answer) but with the upcoming release of Ubuntu
23.04 there’ll be a new choice to consider.
# ⚓ Mike_Gabriel:_UbuntuTouch_Focal_OTA-1_has_been_released⠀⇛
Yesterday, the UBports core developer team released
Ubuntu Touch Focal OTA-1
(In fact, Raoul, Marius and I were in a conference
call when Marius froze and said: the PR team
already posted the release blog post; the post is
out, but we haven’t released yet… ahhhh… panic…
Shall I?, Marius said, and we said: GO!!! This is
why the release occurred in public five hours ahead
of schedule. OMG.)
For all the details, please study:
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/
ubuntu-touch-ota-1-focal-re…
§ Credits
Thanks to all the developers, other contributors
and funding providers that helped to reach this
massive milestone.
# ⚓ Accelerate_Your_Performance_Testing_on_Ubuntu_with_k6_and
Postman-to-k6⠀⇛
Performance testing is crucial to software
development. It ensures your application can handle
high traffic and usage without crashing or slowing
down. Many tools are available for performance
testing, but two popular ones are k6 and Postman.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ How_to_create_a_VSCode_Linux_remote_environment
[Ed: Canonical is shilling proprietary spyware of Microsoft
instead of teaching people to use Free software not
controlled by a company that attacks Linux from many
angles]⠀⇛
What’s the best way to get a Linux environment in
VSCode?
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ A_history_of_robotic_pets_(and_how_to_make_your
own)⠀⇛
Humans have domesticated animals since the dawn of
time. Dogs (our oldest furry friends) were owned by
humans as far back as 30,000 years ago, and since
then we’ve formed bonds with all kinds of different
creatures. It was only in the last century, though,
that we started to actually build our own pets.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ New_Firefox_Update_Improves_Performance
for_Linux_Wayland_Users⠀⇛
It is extremely frustrating when your
computer is too slow. Unfortunately, many
Linux users had this issue when browsing with
Firefox on devices that use the Wayland
display server.
Troubleshooting methods like clearing cookies
usually get your web browser running quickly
again. But how can this Firefox bug be fixed?
And what can you do to prevent browser lag in
the future?
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ How_to_use_a_fork_of_the_Go_compiler_with_Nix⠀⇛
Sometimes God is dead and you need to build
something with a different
version of Go than upstream_released. Juggling
multiple Go toolchains is possible, but it’s not
very elegant.
However, we’re in Nix land. We can do anything*.
I got accepted to Gophercon_EU and a
lot of it involves doing weird things with
WebAssembly and messing
with assumptions people make about how filesystems
work. Given that
most of my audience is going to be Go programmers
and that I’m already
going to be cognitively complicating how core
assumptions about
filesystems work, I want to show my code examples
in Go when at all
possible.
Go doesn’t currently support WASI, but there is a
CL_in_progress
that adds the port under the name GOARCH=wasm
GOOS=wasip1. I wanted
to pull this into my monorepo’s Nix flake so that I
can run gowasi build foo.go and get foo.wasm in the
same folder to experiment with.
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Why_you_should_use_Python_and_Rust
together⠀⇛
Python and Rust are very different languages, but
they actually go together rather well. But before
discussing how to combine Python with Rust, I want
to introduce Rust itself. You’ve likely heard of
the language but may not have heard details about
how it works.
§ What is Rust?
Rust is a low-level language. This means that the
things the programmers deal with are close to the
way computers “really” work.
For example, integer types are defined by bit size
and correspond to CPU-supported types. While it is
tempting to say that this means a+b in Rust
corresponds to one machine instruction, it does not
mean quite that!
Rust’s compiler’s chain is non-trivial. It is
useful as a first approximation to treat statements
like that as “kind of” true.
Rust is designed for zero-cost abstraction, meaning
many of the abstractions available at the language
level are compiled away at runtime.
For example, objects are allocated on the stack
unless explicitly asked for. The result is that
creating a local object in Rust has no runtime cost
(though initialization might).
Finally, Rust is a memory-safe language. There are
other memory-safe languages and other zero-cost
abstraction languages. Usually, those are different
languages.
Memory safety does not mean it is impossible to
have memory violations in Rust. It does mean that
there are only two ways that memory violations can
happen:
# A bug in the compiler.
# Code that’s explicitly declared unsafe.
Rust standard library code has quite a bit of code
that is marked unsafe, though less than what many
assume. This does not make the statement vacuous
though. With the (rare) exception of needing to
write unsafe code yourself, memory violations
result from the underlying infrastructure.
# ⚓ Buttondown ☛ Everything’s_an_API⠀⇛
Hi Everybody,
April_Cools is this weekend! A bunch of people who
normally write tech stuff will be writing about a
bunch of other topics. If you’ve got a blog and
find April Fools to be eye-rollingly trite, come
join us! You don’t need to pour your heart and soul
into a 10,000 epic, just write something fun and
genuine and out of character for you.
I’ve got a lot on my plate this week, so I’ll keep
this newsletter short and sweet. Hyrum’s_law:
With a sufficient number of users of an API, it
does not matter what you promise in the contract:
all observable behaviors of your system will be
depended on by somebody.
Fair enough, but what do we mean by “API”? We
always use “API” to mean the official designated
interfaces, but when you get down to it, you can
use anything as an interface!
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ The_APNIC_Hackathon_is_back!⠀⇛
The APNIC Hackathon at APRICOT 2023 produced some
impressive results on the topic ‘IPv6 Diagnostics
Framework’.
# ⚓ Peter_Hutterer:_New_gitlab.freedesktop.org_spamfighting
abilities⠀⇛
As of today, gitlab.freedesktop.org allows anyone
with a GitLab_Developer_role_or_above to remove
spam issues. If you are reading this article a
while after it’s published, it’s best to refer to
the damspam_README for up-to-date details. I’m
going to start with the TLDR first.
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ How_to_use_Podman_in_GitLab_Runners⠀⇛
A GitLab Runner is an application that works with
GitLab CI/CD to run jobs in a pipeline on GitLab’s
infrastructure. They’re often used to automatically
compile applications after code has been committed
or to run tests on a code base. You can think of
them as cloud-based Git_hooks.
The main public GitLab_instance provides many
easily accessible shared runners ready for use in
your CI pipeline. You can find a list of shared
runners in your repository’s Settings -> CI/CD -
> Runners on GitLab.
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Bug_fixes_for_AppImage_Installer⠀⇛
Alfons reported that in the “Other” category, the
“Online Information” button didn’t work. Fixed.
https://forum.puppylinux.com/
viewtopic.php?p=85384#p85384
Forum member Airdale reported liking Ungoogled
Chromium and looked
forward to the update feature. I replied that
cannot update it:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/
viewtopic.php?p=85386#p85386
I have fixed that also; however, do have a problem
with updating at
some repositories, so have had to hard-code to
download just one
version. Last night I discovered this:
https://github.com/dvershinin/lastversion
# ⚓ Jonathan Dowland ☛ Jonathan_Dowland:_daily_log⠀⇛
The solution I’ve adopted for now is another Vim
plugin,
taskwiki, which synchronises tasks
with Taskwarrior3, an external task-management
tool.
If I mark a task as “done”, Taskwiki updates all
references to that task to
reflect the new state. I can also construct queries
to list all tasks matching
some criteria. I have a special Vimwiki page named
“Backlog” which runs the
query “all tasks tagged ‘redhat’ in state
‘pending’” (Linked from the
boilerplate at the top of every page I write, for
quick access):
= Backlog | +redhat status:pending =
* [ ] buy milk (still todo)
Much like the base Vimwiki plugin, Taskwiki is very
opinionated, and I’ve had
to tame it by disabling several of its features.
I’ve also hit a couple of
mildly frustrating bugs (#368,
#425). I might one day
have a go at writing an alternative, simpler plugin
in Lua (Neovim’s native scripting
language), but for now it works well enough and I
don’t have the time.
There’s very little in this current workflow for
managing scheduling tasks, and
that’s probably where the focus should be for my
next iterative improvement
efforts. I think Taskwarrior, the underlying tool,
has some good support for
that. I’d particularly like some more visual
approaches for managing the
backlog, such as something Kanban-style.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Validate_Email_Address_in_JavaScript⠀⇛
Email validation is a crucial part of any
application that requires user registration or
input of email addresses. Validating email
addresses ensures that the input data is accurate,
which helps prevent spam, reduces errors, and
ensures that messages are delivered to the correct
recipients.
# § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ 10_Bash_Tricks_Every_Developer_Should
Know⠀⇛
Bash is a popular shell scripting language
used in Unix-based operating systems like
Linux and macOS. It is widely used by
developers, system administrators, and power
users for automating tasks and managing
systems. Bash offers many powerful features
and shortcuts that can make your life easier
and improve your productivity.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Head_of_Powerful_Teachers_Union
Blasts_Republican_Attempts_to_Gut_Public_Education⠀⇛
American Federation of Teachers President Randi
Weingarten said the GOP is exacerbating problems
with declining enrollment, academic setbacks, and
mental health and substance abuse challenges.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ The_Digital_Wellness_Lab_aims_to_mediate_between
TikTok_and_parents⠀⇛
As some states try to regulate_children’s_social
media_use and TikTok emerges as a geopolitical chew
toy, a new clearinghouse has emerged for mediating
between tech companies and those concerned about
their products’ impact on kids: the Digital
Wellness_Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and
Harvard Medical School.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Social_media’s_new_pay-for-play_rules⠀⇛
Social media is getting pricier for users who want
to unlock special features and privileges.
Why it matters: Users who once believed they were
contributing their time and creativity are now
being asked to pay up by cash-hungry platforms.
===================================================
Driving the news: Elon Musk on Monday tweeted that
beginning April 15, only tweets by verified users
will show up in Twitter’s default main feed of “For
You” recommendations. Verification, formerly a
service Twitter offered public figures, is now
available only to $8-a-month subscribers.
# ⚓ Peru’s_authorities_seize_2.3_tons_of_cocaine_heading_to
Turkey⠀⇛
According to officials from Peru, it was the first
time they had such an incident with a Turkey-bound
ship.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Cyclists’_Federation_opposes_ministry’s_proposed
blood_alcohol_limit_for_bike_riders⠀⇛
Introducing a specific blood alcohol limit would
ultimately do more harm than good, the federation
says.
# ⚓ Matt_Brown:_Ventilation_Monitoring⠀⇛
The importance of clean, fresh indoor air is one of
the most tangible takeaways of the Covid-19
pandemic. In addition to being an effective risk
mitigation strategy for reducing the spread of
respiratory illnesses, clean, fresh air is
necessary to enable effective cognitive
performance.
Monitoring indoor air quality is relatively easy to
do, but traditionally has not been a key focus. I
believe air quality monitoring should be accessible
for any indoor space, and for highly occupied
indoor spaces should be provided on a continuous
basis.
[...]
§ Next steps
Many small businesses and organisations are likely
to have poor air quality and opportunities for
improvement similar to the example above that are
waiting to be found and fixed, and the existing
products available are neither focused or ideal for
the needs of this market.
I have spent some time over the past six months
building a basic CO2_monitoring_service that I have
used to deploy ventilation monitoring to our local
school, and a few other local businesses. There are
a number of challenges that still need to be
addressed in order to scale the business up, but I
think there is a reasonable chance that I can build
a viable business that offers an attractive and
useful solution that would accelerate the
deployment of ventilation monitoring for small
businesses and organisations.
In an upcoming post, I will explain the foundations
of the service that I have built to date, the
challenges that need to be overcome and how I plan
to evolve the service from the current prototype
into a sustainable, bootstrapped business.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Apple_launches_buy_now,_pay_later
service_in_US [Ed: Apple trying to become a lender because
people lack money to spend on 'i' things]⠀⇛
Apple Inc has launched its buy now, pay later
service in the United States that will allow
consumers to pay for purchases over time. The
service, Apple Pay Later, will allow users to split
purchases into four payments spread over six weeks
with no interest or fees, the company said.
# ⚓ Mashable ☛ Microsoft-Owned_GitHub_Lays_Off_Entire
Engineering_Team_In_India,_Impacting_142_Roles_–_Tech⠀⇛
The layoffs were not performance-related, and the
affected employees have been given two months’ pay
as severance.
[...]
This is not the first time GitHub has implemented
layoffs, as the company announced the cutting of
10% of its workforce just last month. The company
has also paused hiring until further notice.
o § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ The_quiet_privatization_of_government_health
insurance_programs [Ed: The privatisation and monopolisation
of everything]⠀⇛
The biggest public health insurance programs have
become increasingly privatized over the last
decade, even while politicians sparred over whether
government-run health care should be expanded to
cover more Americans.
Why it matters:Although privately run Medicare and
Medicaid plans are still highly regulated and
funded by the government, the commercialization has
complicated efforts to rein in medical spending and
unleashed fierce partisan fights like the ongoing
one over Medicare Advantage.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Tuesday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (dino-
im and runc), Fedora (qemu), Red Hat (firefox),
SUSE (chromium, containerd, docker, kernel, and
systemd), and Ubuntu (graphicsmagick, linux-azure,
linux-gcp, linux-oem-5.14, linux-oem-5.17, linux-
oem-6.0, linux-oem-6.1, and node-url-parse).
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ SUSE_claims_new_era_of_confidential_computing
through_its_adaptable_Linux_platform [Ed: This has nothing to
do with security; it's about pacifying companies, via
paperwork mostly, about outsourcing all their data to spying
firms that are notorious for snooping; "confidential
computing" dubbed, founded and led by some of the very worst
offenders out there, operating via some openwashing proxy
based in California]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ So_you_leaked_data_on_BreachForums,_but
weren’t_the_hacker?_Can_you_be_prosecuted_for_leaking?⠀⇛
In the wake of the arrest of “Pompompurin,”
BreachForums’ self-proclaimed owner and moderator,
DataBreaches has been contacted by a number of
anxious folks who want to know if they are at risk
of being arrested for their own actions.
Obviously, DataBreaches is not a lawyer or any kind
of authority and can’t provide any assurances. But
nor does this site feel comfortable sitting back
while so many forum users from BreachForums and/or
RaidForums spout incorrect information about some
U.S. laws.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Illinois_Gastroenterology_Group_settles
class_action_litigation_for_undisclosed_sum⠀⇛
There has been a settlement in litigation stemming
from a breach previously noted on DataBreaches.
Without admitting guilt or wrongdoing, Illinois
Gastroenterology Group has agreed to pay an
undisclosed sum to settle claims from an October
2021 data breach first disclosed in April 2022. The
incident involved unnamed threat actors accessing
and exfiltrating data on more than 227,000
patients.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ A_listing_about_a_government_victim
disappeared_from_LockBit’s_site._But_why?_(UPDATE1)⠀⇛
When an entity has been the victim of a
cyberattack, they’d be smart not to discuss the
attack via their email system or voice system if
those systems could be compromised and the
attackers could be monitoring them.
But you’d think that there would be some records
made involving incident response, such as notes or
resolutions on whether the entity will pay a ransom
demand or whom they are notifying, etc. Could all
records be on an external counsel’s server so as to
protect it from monitoring and perhaps discovery in
any litigation? Perhaps.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Norwegian_data_protection_authority_fines
U.S._firm_almost_$240,000_for_failure_to_notify_within_72
hours⠀⇛
It’s encouraging to see breach notification
deadlines taken seriously. The Norwegian Data
Protection Authority has imposed a monetary penalty
of NOK 2.5 million on Argon Medical Devices for
breaching Article 33 (1) of the GDPR. That article
requires controllers to notify the regulator of a
personal data breach within 72 hours.
# ⚓ French_CNIL_is_setting_the_tone_for_2023:_patients_data_and
medical_research_on_its_radar⠀⇛
While the French Data Protection Authority (the
“CNIL”) has consistently emphasized the importance
of protecting health data, there will be even more
focus for 2023 with more investigations and
sanctions in this sector. The CNIL declared patient
data as one of its four priority topics for
investigations in 2023, and initiated its program
with two official warnings issued to organizations
conducting medical research (Sponsors) about their
GDPR breaches. The CNIL is now more than ever
underscoring the significance of compliance with
data protection regulations within the realm of
medical studies.
CNIL has always been very attentive to the
processing of health data and to their security and
confidentiality. It regularly publishes content on
its website (practical information sheets,
guidelines and binding recommendations), and has
also made health data security one of its priority
topics for its investigations back in 2020 and
2021. It also regularly supports needs of health
data localization within the European Union, for
example in guidelines regarding early-access
programs and health data warehouses. The CNIL also
issues and regularly updates its standards for
clinical studies, known as Méthodologies de
reference (MR) like MR-001 or MR-003 for research
involving human beings or MR-004 for research not
involving human beings (e.g., for reuse of health
data). The CNIL is now taking its efforts even
further, kicking off 2023 with an intensified focus
on medical research and patient data protection.
# ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ Ethical_hackers_urged_to_respond_to
Computer_Misuse_Act_reform_proposals⠀⇛
The deadline for submissions to the government’s
consultation on reform of the Computer Misuse Act
is fast approaching, and ethical hackers and
security experts need to make their voices heard,
says Bugcrowd
# ⚓ A_hospital_went_dark_after_it_was_hacked._It’s_still
reeling_two_years_later⠀⇛
As the second year of the pandemic was nearing an
end, employees at Johnson Memorial Health hoped
they could catch their breath after dealing with a
weeks-long tsunami of COVID-19 hospitalizations and
deaths. But on a Friday at 3 a.m., the hospital
CEO’s phone rang with an urgent call from the chief
of nursing.
“I remember like it was yesterday,” said Dr. David
Dunkle, chief executive officer of the health
system based in Franklin, Indiana. “My chief of
nursing said, ‘Well, it looks like we got hacked.’”
# ⚓ kpcyrd:_Writing_a_Linux_executable_from_scratch_with
x86_64-unknown-none_and_Rust⠀⇛
I recently mentioned on the internet I did work in
this direction and a_friend_of_mine asked me to
write a blogpost on this. I didn’t blog for a long
time (keeping all the goodness for myself hehe), so
here we go. 🦝 To set the scene, let’s assume we
want to make an exectuable binary for x86_64 Linux
that’s supposed to be extremely portable. It should
work on both Debian and Arch Linux. It should work
on systems without glibc like Alpine Linux. It
should even work in a FROM scratch Docker
container. In a more serious setting you would
statically link musl-libc with your Rust program,
but today we’re in a silly-goofy mood so we’re
going to try to make this work without a libc. And
we’re also going to use Rust for this, more
specifically the stable release channel of Rust, so
this blog post won’t use any nightly-only features
that might still change/break. If you’re using a
Rust 1.0 version that was recent at the time of
writing or later (>= 1.68.0 according to my
computer), you should be able to try this at home
just fine™.
This tutorial assumes you have no prior programming
experience in any programming language, but it’s
going to involve some x86_64 assembly. If you
already know what a syscall is, you’ll be just
fine. If this is your first exposure to programming
you might still be able to follow along, but it
might be a wild ride.
If you haven’t already, install rustup (possibly
also available in your package manager, who_knows?)
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ Mitigating_DDoS_using_an_anycast_playbook⠀⇛
Guest Post: How to redistribute traffic between
anycast sites during a DDoS attack.
# ⚓ Linux_Kernel_Vulnerabilities_in_Ubuntu_Let_Hackers_Launch
DOS_Attack_&_Execute_Arbitrary_Code [Ed: An account on the
machine is needed and a live session is needed too]⠀⇛
Several security vulnerabilities were recently
addressed by Canonical in both Graphviz and the
Linux kernel of Ubuntu.
Recent discoveries include null pointer dereference
vulnerabilities in Graphviz and improper handling
of indirect branch prediction isolation between L1
and L2 VMs in the KVM VMX implementation of the
Linux kernel.
# ⚓ CSO ☛ Hackers_changed_tactics,_went_cross-platform_in_2022,
says_Trend_Micro [Ed: Microsoft talking points, Microsoft-
sponsored platform]⠀⇛
Payouts from ransomware victims declined by 38% in
2022, prompting hackers to adopt more professional
and corporate tactics to ensure higher returns,
according to Trend Micro’s Annual Cybersecurity
Report.
Many ransomware groups have structured their
organizations to operate like legitimate
businesses, including leveraging established
networks and offering technical support to victims.
There is an increasing level of professionalism
from these groups and the adoption of more
sophisticated business tactics, Trend said.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ QR_codes_could_unlock_lower-cost
payments,_says_RBA [Ed: Australia wants to punish
people who pay with cash and reject spyphones that
track them around]⠀⇛
The Reserve Bank has flagged QR code-enabled
transactions and other innovative payment
technologies to trim the cost of paying for
things.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ ADF ☛ Wagner_Group_Targets_Chad_for_Sahel_Expansion⠀⇛
In its ongoing attempt to expand across the Sahel,
Russia’s Wagner Group may choose Chad as its next
target. Unlike other Sahelian countries, which have
invited Wagner mercenaries, Chad could be Wagner’s
first attempt at overthrowing a sitting government,
according to analysts.
# ⚓ ADF ☛ Terror_Groups_Prey_on_Vulnerable,_Cost_Continent
Billions⠀⇛
Moustapha was running out of hope. The Nigerien man
had a family to feed but little means to do so.
Like scores of people around the continent, he was
persuaded to join and fight for a violent extremist
organization.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Leopard_2_and_Challenger_Tanks_Arrive_in
Ukraine⠀⇛
The deliveries of advanced equipment are expected
to assist Kyiv with a potential spring offensive.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_I.O.C._defers_discussion_on_whether
Russian_and_Belarusian_athletes_will_compete_in_the_2024
Olympics.⠀⇛
# ⚓ ADF ☛ Eritrea_Looms_as_Potential_‘Spoiler’_of_Peace_in
Ethiopia⠀⇛
As Ethiopia begins the difficult task of fostering
peace and reconciliation after a devastating civil
war, observers are warning that neighboring Eritrea
could upend the process.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Belarus_Says_It’s_Willing_to_Host_Russian
Nuclear_Weapons⠀⇛
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia floated the
idea of positioning nuclear weapons in Belarus last
year, but recently raised the idea again, with more
concrete details.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russian_Father_Flees_Before_Conviction
That_May_Leave_His_Daughter_in_Orphanage⠀⇛
Aleksei Moskalyov was convicted over antiwar
comments on social media that came to light after
his daughter made a drawing at school.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Climate_protesters_shut_out_of_banking
summit [Ed: Cops protect bankers, not the planet]⠀⇛
Climate protesters have attempted to crash a
banking summit where executives of the country’s
biggest banks have been spruiking their
decarbonisation agendas. Activists, including
survivors of natural disasters, chanted and held
banners calling out the big four banks’ continued
funding of fossil fuel projects on Tuesday…
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Kirkuk_pipeline_to_be_closed_as_Turkey_fined_1.4
billion_dollars_in_arbitration_case_won_by_Iraq⠀⇛
The production halt of the 450,000 barrels of
oil per day might be a blow to the KRG’s
economy. Baghdad welcomed the decision.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._and_Japan_Reach_Deal_on_Battery
Minerals⠀⇛
While the terms of the deal are limited, the
agreement appears to provide a model for
resolving recent trade spats between the
United States and some of its closest allies.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Lawmakers_Rebuke_Biden_for_Bypassing
Congress_in_Trade_Deal_With_Japan⠀⇛
A statement from two Democrats called the
Biden administration’s deal “unacceptable,”
saying it should have been made available to
Congress and the public for review.
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ South_Korea_will_give_families_$770_a_month
for_one_year_to_have_a_baby⠀⇛
South Korea’s birth rate has reached alarming
new lows. Births shrank to 0.78 per woman
last year, from 0.81 in 2021, which already
put the country lowest in the world. If that
trend continues, South Korea’s population
will be less than half what it is now by the
end of the century.
# ⚓ Overpopulation ☛ Do_three_Pacific_islands_provide
lessons_for_achieving_a_sustainable_human_population?⠀⇛
These islands were more-or-less isolated,
microcosms that perhaps tell us what is going
to happen with the global population.
Anthropological accounts also describe
remarkable forms of birth control. Do they
tell us anything about how to achieve
sustainable populations today?
# ⚓ ADF ☛ Illegal_Fish_Dumping_by_Chinese_Trawlers_Rising
in_Ghana⠀⇛
It is illegal for fishing vessels to discard
unwanted fish in Ghanaian waters, but the
practice continues, causing waste,
environmental degradation and lost income for
artisanal fishermen. According to a recent
report by the Environmental Justice
Foundation (EJF), captains typically discard
juvenile, lower-value fish to make room for
more valuable species.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Five_major_banks_in_France_have_been_raided_as
part_of_a_tax_fraud_probe⠀⇛
French authorities raided five major banks on March
28 as part of a long-term investigation into
alleged money laundering and tax evasion.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Substack_is_fundraising_directly_from_its
writers⠀⇛
Newsletter company Substack, which reportedly
struggled_to_fundraise last year amid a broader
downturn in the tech market, wants its next round
of financing to come directly from its pool of
writers.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania’s_tax_changes_to_hit_country’s_middle
class:_self-employed_and_small_firms_to_be_most_affected⠀⇛
Finance Minister Gintarė Skaistė has presented tax
reforms that have been in the pipeline for several
years. If it goes through, small businesses and
self-employed workers will be the most affected.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_mobile_operator_to_up_charges_on_Ukraine
calls⠀⇛
The telecommunications company Tele2 is
discontinuing discounts on call charges in Ukraine.
Calls to Lithuania and within Ukraine will become
six times more expensive.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Monthly_inflation_likely_to_keep
drifting_down⠀⇛
The monthly consumer price index, introduced by the
Australian Bureau of Statistics to supplement the
less volatile quarterly version, is tipped to keep
falling from its December peak of 8.4 per cent
annual growth.
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Geico_Auto_Insurance_Tries_Picking
Pockets_by_Over-Estimating_Annual_Mileage_During_Renewal⠀⇛
Geico Auto Insurance Tries Picking Pockets by Over-
Estimating Annual Mileage During Renewal I received
my next six month term from GEICO the other day,
after receiving an email that SeaMonkey said was
“suspicious” the prior month, stating that I needed
to update my annual mileage estimate, or GEICO
would just go ahead and reset it…
# ⚓ Axios ☛ “Badwill”_hunting:_The_difference_between_the_bank
failures_of_2008_and_today⠀⇛
Data: FactSet; Chart: Axios Visuals
When government intervened to save Credit Suisse and Silicon_Valley_Bank, a lot
of people lost a lot of money — shareholders and some bondholders are zeroed
out; senior executives are unceremoniously fired. The acquiring banks, on the
other hand — UBS and First Citizens — both ended up with extraordinary gains on
their balance sheets.
⚓ Axios ☛ The_huge_question_created_by_SVB’s_failure⠀⇛
When bank supervisors do their best work, you will not hear about it.
You will never read about how a heroic bureaucrat identified a risk
to an institution’s health, flagged it to management and, as a
result, the bank didn’t fail.
* By design, most bank supervision work is strictly confidential,
and “Local bank remains open” is not the stuff of newspaper
front pages.
⚓ YLE ☛ Housing_prices_decline_again_in_February⠀⇛
Sales volumes of old apartments and row houses were also down by 32
percent in February.
⚓ New York Times ☛ Your_Wednesday_Briefing:_China’s_Billions_in_Bailouts⠀⇛
Also, a shake-up at Alibaba and a rare glimpse at a ruined city in
Ukraine.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Rot_of_nation’s_core_values_quantified_by_single_poll⠀⇛
Data: Wall Street Journal/NORC poll. Chart: Axios Visuals
Rarely does one poll stare so deeply into the soul of a nation and tell its
story. But a new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll exposes generational and
political_divides that echo loudly and transformatively across our culture,
politics and governance.
Why it matters: Bill_McInturff, the pollster on earlier editions of this
survey, told The Journal that the combined toll of political division, COVID
and the lowest economic confidence in decades appear to be having “a startling
effect on our core values.”
⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Twitter_to_deny_features_for_non-blue_ticks_in_shake-
up⠀⇛
Twitter is set to scrap features for users who do not pay a monthly
fee for a blue tick verification, according to new rules shared by
billionaire owner Elon Musk.
⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Xi’s_‘Chilling’_Remarks:_What_the_New_Multipolar_World
Means_for_the_Middle_East_and_Africa⠀⇛
If this geopolitical shift continues, the world will, once again,
find itself divided into camps. While it is too early to determine,
with any degree of certainty, the winners and losers of this new
configuration, it is almost certain that a US-western-dominated world
is no longer possible.
⚓ ADF ☛ Experts_Urge_New_Approach_in_Countering_Coups⠀⇛
The recent outbreak of coups in West Africa has cast a spotlight on
some shortcomings in transitioning back to democracy. Since 2020,
military juntas have swept to power in Mali (2021, 2022), Burkina
Faso (twice in 2022) and Guinea. Four failed coup attempts also took
place in West Africa in 2022.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ AccessNow ☛ A_new_blow_to_freedom_of_expression_in_Tunisia⠀⇛
Tunisia’s Decree law 54 is supposed to fight cybercrime.
Instead, it threatens freedom of expression and undermines
democratic principles.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Litigation_‘scare_campaign’_on_voice_unfounded,_PM
says⠀⇛
Concerns that the Indigenous voice to parliament will lead to
multiple High Court legal challenges are unfounded, the prime
minister says.
* ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Roger_Waters_V._the_Machine:_Inside_the_Pink_Floyd
Frontman’s_Battle_For_Free_Speech_in_Germany⠀⇛
After being blacklisted as “anti-Semitic,” Roger Waters has
embarked upon a legal battle against German authorities over
his support for BDS, criticism of the Israeli government and
support for the Palestinian people.
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ Journalist_Abdulkadir_Turay’s_release_postponed_for_three_months⠀⇛
The reporter of the now-closed Dicle News Agency responded to
the board’s decision that he has no regrets.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ Officers_deny_accusations_in_the_investigation_on_torture_of_child⠀⇛
Five police officers have been arrested in the scope of the
investigation on the alleged torture of a 14-year-old in Lice,
Diyarbakır on March 21 during the Newroz celebrations.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ West_Papua_–_a_human_rights_tragedy_right_on_our
doorstep⠀⇛
It’s the decades-long human rights tragedy that Australia
avoids. Abuses elsewhere get stern condemnation sometimes
backed by sanctions, arms and sanctuary for refugees. But
Indonesia’s brutal suppression of separatists in West Papua
goes untouched. It’s too close to home.
* ⚓ Court_rejects_forensic_medical_examination_request_in_the_case_on
suspicious_death_in_prison⠀⇛
All requests the lawyer of the family made for taking the
testimonies of all witnesses, for exploration at the scene of
the event, and for a forensic medical examination were
rejected.
* ⚓ No_action_taken_despite_allegation_of_rape_in_repatriation_center_in
Iğdır⠀⇛
A young woman from Afghanistan made a criminal complaint of
sexual assault in the Iğdır repatriation center but the
offenders are still kept at the same removal center with her.
* ⚓ YLE ☛ MP_al-Taee:_Child_protection_services_treat_immigrant-background
kids_arbitrarily⠀⇛
Finland’s Children’s Ombudsman, Elina Pekkarinen, voiced
concern that families with immigrant backgrounds are
overrepresented as clients in the child protective services
sector.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Tech_giants_caught_between_escalating_U.S.-China_tensions⠀⇛
Apple CEO Tim Cook for the first time since the pandemic
traveled to China this weekend, where he touted the company’s
strong relationship with the country at a business conference
organized by the Chinese government.
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ UPC_Registry_reports_on_some_common_issues_in_use_of_CMS [Ed:
Bristows, a serial liar and pusher for an illegal UPC, wants you to
think that UPC issues are merely some CMS bugs. This is an attack
on the constitutions and many law firms should be disbarred for
lobbying against the laws of many countries.]⠀⇛
* ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ The_Brandeis_Brief_in_Patent_Cases⠀⇛
Louis D. Brandeis was a famous lawyer long before becoming a
Supreme Court Justice. In the 1908 case of Muller v. Oregon,
Brandeis represented the State of Oregon defending the state’s
rule restricting the number of hours that women could work in
certain industries. In defense of the law, Brandeis filed a
brief that presented social science research and empirical
evidence to support the argument that long working hours had
negative effects on women’s health and family life.
* ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Bye_Bye_Functional_Claims⠀⇛
Oral arguments from Amgen v. Sanofi suggest the potential of a
blockbuster Supreme Court decision further derogating
functional claim limitations (all of which are also genus
claims). A key question is whether the court will include
limiting language that that directs impact primarily upon the
“unpredictable arts.”
At oral arguments, the Supreme Court was quite hostile to the
patentee counsel Jeffrey Lamken and his attempt to defend
Amgen’s functionally claimed genus of antibodies. I believe
that Lamken took the wrong turn by first repeatedly telling the
court that the claim covered only about 400 antibodies, before
eventually admitting that a scope covering millions of yet
unidentified antibodies.
§ Trademarks⠀➾
* ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Which_of_These_Three_Section_2(d)_Refusals
Was/Were_Reversed?⠀⇛
The Board has affirmed 36 of the first 38 Section 2(d) refusals
that it reviewed this year. Here are three more. At least one
was reversed. How do you think these three cases came out?
[Results in first comment].
In_re_77_Enterprises_LLC, Serial No. 87639234(March 24, 2023)
[not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Marc A Bergsman) [Section
2(d) refusal of 77 SPORTBAR for “bar and restaurant services,
namely providing of food and beverages for consumption on the
premises; restaurant and sports bar services with televisions
on premises,” in view of the registered mark 77 SOCIAL CLUB and
design for “catering services; restaurant and bar services.”]
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Eating_your_info_vegetables⠀⇛
I agree that it can often be worthwhile getting
into some things that might take a bit of an
effort.
For non-fiction, How to Read a Book is still good.
Even though it came out in 1972, it’s core message
of reading & synthesizing is still relevant, even
more relevant, in today’s hypertext world.
That book has a chapter on fiction, too, a good
one, but nothing beats Comme un roman for ridding
ourselves from the chore parts of fiction and
cultivating a breezy love of reading for pleasure.
# ⚓ US_Paper_Sizes_Rant⠀⇛
Instead we use a weird mix of sizes that have no
relation to any other. The ISO sizes are
consistent, so that, for instance, an A5 page is
the same size as half an A4 page, but has the same
aspect ratio, so if you reduce an A4 page down to
A5 size, it fits perfectly. Reduce an 8 ½ ×11 inch
page to 5½ ×8 and you leave a large part of the
page empty! So stupid!
I have a tendency to print stuff on 5½ ×8 size
pages (that’s an almost standard US size, sometimes
called Statement, Digest, Halfletter, etc.) as
pamphlets, and resizing 8½×11 pages to do that just
looks ugly. It’s maybe enough to make me pay the
extra cost for A4 paper…
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Making_a_Simple_Podcast_TUI_with_MPV,_FZF_and_Podget⠀⇛
If you’ve read any of my glog posts about my
Pinephone you may remember that I have a custom
terminal interface that consists of various command
line programs and scripts that do all the common
things I typically do on the Pinephone. A podcast
client is one thing that I hadn’t totally settled
on a solution for yet. I was using Castero, which
is quite nice, but wanted something simpler that
just downloaded all the new episodes at once.
Over the last few weeks I was mulling and searching
for an easy way to make a simple terminal file
select menu to launch my podcasts but I hadn’t
found anything that was quite what I had in mind.
Then ~lettuce goes and posts a great little thing
on using fzf to make simple little terminal menus
and it gave me an idea. Fzf is already installed
because it is a depency of ytfzf, the youtube/
peertube TUI program I already use. So thanks
lettuce for that inspiration.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Server
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Programming/Development
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Software_Patents
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ System76_Announces_New_Gazelle_Linux_Laptop
with_a_13th_Gen_Intel_CPU,_64GB_RAM⠀⇛
The new Gazelle Linux laptop is powered by a 13th
Gen Intel Core i9 13900H CPU with 14 cores, 20
threads, 24 MB cache, integrated Intel Iris Xe
graphics, and up to 5.4 GHz clock speed and
features the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 dedicated
graphics card, which makes it ideal for gaming and
high-performance CUDA workloads on-the-go.
The Gazelle comes with a sleek design in 15-inch
and 17-inch thin bezel Full HD matte display
flavors featuring 144Hz refresh rate, as well as
wide viewing angles and vivid colors, support for
up to three external displays, support for up to
64GB dual-channel 3200 MHz DDR4 RAM, as well as
support for up to 4TB of PCIe 4.0 and 4TB of PCIe
3.0 NVMe storage for a total of 8TB NVMe storage.
# ⚓ Beta News ☛ System76_refreshes_Gazelle_Linux_laptop_with
Intel_Core_i9-13900H_CPU_and_NVIDIA_GeForce_RTX_3050_GPU⠀⇛
Today, System76 unveils the latest generation of
its Gazelle laptop. The Gazelle is a powerful and
versatile laptop that is perfect for a wide range
of users. It is a great choice for creative
professionals, gamers, and anyone who needs a
powerful laptop for work or play.
The Gazelle is powered by the 14-core Intel Core
i9-13900H processor, which offers a max clock speed
of 5.4Ghz. This new CPU provides up to 8 percent
better performance compared to the previous
generation of the Gazelle laptop. The computer also
features an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 GPU, which
delivers exceptional performance for both gaming
and graphics-intensive tasks.
# ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ System76_Gazelle_Laptop_Has_Linux_and_an_RTX
3050⠀⇛
System76 sells a lot of desktops and laptops built
with desktop Linux in mind, like the compact
Meerkat desktop that was just updated. Now the
company is bringing back its Gazelle mobile
workstation, complete with a Core i9 CPU and RTX
3050 graphics.
The Gazelle is one of the company’s high-end
workstation laptops, with the previous model having
a 12th Gen Intel Core i7 processor, a 15.6 or 17.3-
inch screen, up to 64 GB RAM, and an RTX 3050, 3050
Ti, or 3060. The new model replaces the CPU with an
Intel Core i9-13900H processor, which has 14 cores,
20 threads, and a maximum clock speed of 5.4 GHz.
That’s a lot of power in a PC that is still
(somewhat) portable. For graphics, System76 has
trimmed back the GPU options to a single choice:
the RTX 3050.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ System76_announce_new_Gazelle_laptop,_13th
Gen_Intel_paired_with_NVIDIA⠀⇛
What System76 said is their “most budget-friendly
laptop which features a discrete GPU”, the new
Gazelle laptop has been announced. I continue to be
a big fan of their work, as their hardware always
looks great. They continue to be one of the leading
manufacturers of Linux hardware, and software with
their Pop!_OS and open firmware work too.
“Designed to unleash your engineering or creative
potential, you can do your best work and watch
progress unfold in each stage of production across
four displays (incl. up to three external
displays). With its sleek design available in a 15”
or 17” 144Hz display and RTX-powered graphics, the
Gazelle is capable of beautiful gaming and high-
performance CUDA workloads on-the-go.” — System76
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Container Journal ☛ Architecting_and_Managing_Cloud-Native
Infrastructure⠀⇛
Becoming a cloud architect is a challenge. To
become a cloud architect, you must have knowledge
and experience above what other architects have.
Cloud architects are expected to be experts in
cloud technology and be the cloud thought leaders
within their organization.
# ⚓ Container Journal ☛ Release_Makes_Shifting_SaaS_Apps_to
Private_Clouds_Simpler⠀⇛
Release today made generally available a Release
Delivery platform that uses a container description
to create a full environment that enables cloud
applications to be deployed in a private cloud
computing environment.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Simplifying_cloud-native_with_container
management_and_orchestration⠀⇛
Since containers have become heavily embedded in
the enterprise world, deployment difficulties and
Kubernetes configuration have emerged. This begs
the question: What is the right path to cloud-
native?
⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Beyond_Kubernetes:_Exploring_the_full_ecosystem_of_container
orchestration_tools⠀⇛
Kubernetes’ place in the essential toolkit for enterprise IT has been
well-established. What may be less widely known is that the container
orchestration technology is now surrounded by an entire ecosystem of
management tools. These include capabilities for cost optimization,
pre-configured development environments, command line packages and
cluster management.
⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Simplification,_agility_and_scale_drive_Platform9’s_vision
for_Kubernetes_and_cluster_management⠀⇛
Kubernetes and containers have driven the transformation of
applications to cloud-native platforms, yet they have carried a great
deal of complexity along the way. This has led to the rise of out-of-
the-box solutions designed to let companies focus on key goals
instead of the computerized pipes that run the business.
§ Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
* ⚓ Late_Night_Linux_–_Episode_222⠀⇛
Docker damages what little FOSS goodwill it has left, the
Internet Archive inevitably loses a legal fight, GitHub’s SSH
key snafu, Microsoft fails to read the room regarding crypto,
Mozilla’s foray into AI raises an eybrow or two, a national
treasure takes the piss out of Félim, and more.
§ Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
* ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Install_&_Try_out_Ubuntu’s_New_Fonts_in_Ubuntu_22.04
|_20.04⠀⇛
The Ubuntu design team is working on new Ubuntu fonts and
proposes to use as default in the upcoming Ubuntu 23.04. For
testing purpose, the team posted the .deb packages for the new
fonts in this thread.
* ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Command_Line_e-Book_Readers_for_Linux,_Mac,_and_more⠀⇛
Because sometimes reading in a terminal is darned pleasant.
* ⚓ ID Root ☛ The_Ultimate_Guide_to_Using_Gzip_on_Linux:_Simplify_Your_File
Compression⠀⇛
Have you ever come across a large file on your Linux system
that you needed to share or upload, but it was just too big?
* ⚓ nixCraft ☛ How_to_refresh_and_reload_group_membership_on_Linux_without
a_reboot_or_logging_in_again⠀⇛
Do you want to refresh and reload the group membership on Linux
without rebooting the Linux machine or logging in again? Try
the newgrp command to log in to a new group without logging in
again or reboot the system.
* ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_to_work_with_a_list_of_dictionaries_in_Ansible⠀⇛
How to work with a list of dictionaries in Ansible
* ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Zoom_Client_on_Manjaro_Linux⠀⇛
As a Manjaro Linux user, you might seek a reliable and user-
friendly video conferencing platform for daily communication.
Look no further, as Zoom is the perfect solution for you!
* ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_install_and_use_the_Cockpit_desktop_client_for
easier_remote_Linux_administration⠀⇛
Make administering all your Cockpit-enabled servers even easier
with the help of the Cockpit Client desktop application.
* ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_install_and_use_Terminator_Terminal_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
In this step-by-step guide, we will show you how to install
Terminator on Ubuntu and get started using its many features.
From customizing your layout to using keyboard shortcuts, we
will cover everything you need to know to use Terminator like a
pro.
§ Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
* § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
o ⚓ This_Month_in_Plasma_Mobile:_March_2023⠀⇛
We have been busy these past two months!
The last version of Plasma 5 was released in February,
and so development work has shifted toward Plasma 6. This
involves porting from Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5 to Qt6 and
KDE Frameworks 6. As a result, development is quite
chaotic right now, but we are hard at work!
There is no set timeline for when the first version of
Plasma 6 will come out, but it is expected to be within a
year.
For applications, they are now part of the regular KDE
Gear releases and will have a release next month (KDE
Gear 23.04).
In other news, we (and the rest of KDE) have a new forum!
General discussion and support can now take place there,
which will provide an alternative to the current matrix
room and mailing list.
Devin also attended SCaLE 20x in California, and was able
to demo a bunch of devices running Plasma Mobile!
o ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Plasma,_GwenView,_increase_sidebar_font_size⠀⇛
GwenView is the default image viewer – and sort of image
manipulation – program in Dolphin. It’s pretty decent.
But in Kubuntu 22.04, the way it’s configured by default,
as I’ve explained it in my Slimbook Titan review, the
usability is subpar. You have no menu, no buttons for
quick actions. But Plasma is awesome, and you can
customize things as much as you need or like. So, I
quickly remedied the initial shortcomings. I added a
menu, I added a bunch of buttons to the toolbar, disabled
video view, added checkered background to images with
transparency, and changed shortcuts for quicker action
and work, like Esc for exit, s for save, c for crop, and
similar.
The one thing I wasn’t able to instantly fix is the
sidebar. The stuff there is simply too small. The
interface obeys my HD scaling all right, so there isn’t
an issue there, but for some reason, the folder contents,
image details or image manipulation operations listed on
the left side are rendered in tiny font. The text is too
small to comfortably “see”, and there isn’t a toggle/
option anywhere in GwenView’s menu. OK, let’s rectify
that.
o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KDE’s_Plasma_Mobile_Gets_Ported_to_KDE_Frameworks_6
and_Qt_6⠀⇛
While the KDE Project is also working hard on the Plasma
6 desktop environment series, Plasma Mobile users will be
happy to learn that repository for Plasma Mobile packages
was already ported to KDE Frameworks 6 and Qt 6.
But during this porting a lot of things were rewritten
and improved, including the brightness slider in the
action drawer for smoother user interaction, the task
switcher, which is now a KWin effect and can be opened if
there’s no apps running, and the audio overlay to open
much faster when pressing the audio buttons on your
device.
§ Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
* ⚓ LinuxStans ☛ Best_Linux_Distros_for_Security_and_Privacy⠀⇛
When it comes to internet security and privacy, Linux operating
systems (distros) are the best option. But with so many Linux
distros available, it can be difficult to know which one will
provide you the anonymity you so require.
* ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Proxmox_Backup_Server_2.4_Adds_LDAP_Realm_Authentication⠀⇛
Proxmox Backup Server is an open-source backup solution that
allows users to back up and restore virtual machines,
containers, and physical hosts. It is designed to work with
Proxmox Virtual Environment, a powerful open-source
virtualization platform.
The software provides a web-based user interface for managing
backups, creating backup jobs, and restoring data. It supports
various backup types, including full, incremental, and
differential backups, and can store backups locally or
remotely.
Today, Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH released a new version of
its backup management platform, Proxmox Backup Server 2.4, so
let’s check what’s new.
* § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
o ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Maximizing_Edge_Performance:_The_Power_of
the_KubeMQ,_Rancher_Prime,_and_K3s_Integration⠀⇛
* § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
o ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ Ubuntu_Touch_OTA-1_Focal_mobile_operating_system
released⠀⇛
UBports has this week announced the release of the latest
update to the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system
specifically created to provide users with a privacy and
freedom-respecting mobile operating system. Ubuntu Touch
OTA-1 Focal is now available for the following Fairphone
4, Google Pixel 3a, Vollaphone 22, Vollaphone X and
Vollaphone.
* § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Powers_Commodore_64_Expansion
Cartridge,_Plays_Doom⠀⇛
Bringing the power to a 40+ year old vintage computer,
the Raspberry Pi provides CPU horsepower and more RAM
than the Commodore 64 could ever dream of.
o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_GPIO_Pinout:_What_Each_Pin_Does_on
Pi_4,_Earlier_Models⠀⇛
The Raspberry Pi has 40 GPIO pins that connect to
sensors, lights, motors and other devices. Here’s a map
and detailed explanation of what each does, including on
the Pi 4.
* § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
o ⚓ Purism ☛ New_Automatic_Power-On_firmware_for_Librem_Mini⠀⇛
Our latest coreboot/SeaBIOS and PureBoot releases bring
new firmware configurations for the Librem Mini v1 and
v2! Many users use the Librem Mini as a headless server
and have asked for firmware that would boot up
automatically when powered, like an appliance.
Once enabled, the setting persists as long as the RTC
battery is plugged in. The setting is in the EC’s
battery-backed RAM, and the new BIOS configurations
enable this setting during boot.
* § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
o ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_just_realizing_they’re_texting_on_Android
totally_wrong_–_five_reckless_mistakes_no_one_should_be_making_|
The_US_Sun⠀⇛
o ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Download_an_Email_as_a_PDF_in_Gmail_on
Android⠀⇛
o ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Everything_new_in_Android_13_QPR3_Beta_2_[Gallery]⠀⇛
o ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_13_QPR3_Beta_2_is_out_now_for_your
Google_Pixel_phone⠀⇛
o ⚓ XDA ☛ Android_13_QPR3_Beta_2_brings_improved_Adaptive_Charging
and_welcome_bug_fixes⠀⇛
o ⚓ Android_13_QPR3_Beta_2_is_Here_for_Pixel_Phones⠀⇛
o ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_13_QPR3_Beta_2_rolling_out_to_Pixel⠀⇛
o ⚓ XDA ☛ Android_14_will_make_it_easier_to_hide_your_phone’s_PIN
from_shoulder_surfers⠀⇛
o ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_14_bringing_app_actions_to_share_sheet,
more⠀⇛
o ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ Nexus_Android_Malware_Targets_450_Financial
Applications⠀⇛
o ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Wallpaper_Wednesday:_Android_wallpapers_2023-
03-29_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛
o ⚓ Android_Auto_Problems_and_Bugs_Tracker:_Check_the_Latest_Status⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Sun ☛ Dozens_of_Android_apps_are_draining_your_battery_–
check_‘vampire’_list_to_kill_them_as_soon_as_possible_|_The_US
Sun⠀⇛
o ⚓ Business Wire ☛ Evolution_Digital_and_OpenSync_Partner_on_First
Android_TV_Set-Top_Box_Integration_|_Business_Wire⠀⇛
§ Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
* ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ 2023_State_of_Open_Source_Report:_key_findings_and_analysis
[Ed: OpenLogic_is_a_Microsoft_proxy; OSI relies on Microsofters (the
people_who_took_over_OSI) to do a “2023 State of Open Source Report”]⠀⇛
* § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
o ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ InfluxDB_FDW_2.0.0_released⠀⇛
We have just released version 2.0.0 of the Foreign Data
Wrapper for InfluxDB.
This release can work with PostgreSQL 11, 12, 13, 14 and
15.
This release improves following item (from 1.2.0): [...]
* § Programming/Development⠀➾
o ⚓ Rlang ☛ R_config:_How_to_Manage_Environment-Specific
Configuration_Files⠀⇛
How many times have you encountered a file path issue
when running your code on a different environment?
Probably far too many. It doesn’t need to be the case
anymore – The R config package is here to allow you to
manage environment-specific configuration files.
o ⚓ Qt ☛ What_is_in_Qt_Insight_1.0?⠀⇛
Qt Insight is a product analytics solution providing
real-world data into how people use a software
application or a digital device. The first version of Qt
Insight for General Availability was released in March
2023. Qt Insight consists of three major components: The
Qt Tracker software library embedded in the Qt
application, the Qt Insight Cloud Services, and the Qt
Insight Console for analyzing behavioral data in a web
browser.
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Pareidolia_and_pattern_matching⠀⇛
You know that feeling when you see a book online or in a store,
and you buy it because it looks interesting, only for it to sit
on a shelf or your ebook list forever? I’ve been plowing
through them lately, and turns out that Ruben guy was right,
these were interesting!
Two entirely unrelated books, one about German philosophy, and
another about what a glorious con Bitcoin is, mentioned the
phenomena of Pareidolia. It sounded more like a small European
flower than a psychological phenomena, but I wanted to check it
out.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ 4_ways_to_win_at_work_during_layoffs⠀⇛
In the short span since 2023 began, more than 100,000 of the
world’s most skilled workers are reported to have had their
jobs abruptly terminated.
* ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ First_Directly_Elected_UAW_President_Vows_‘War
Against_Our_One_and_Only_True_Enemy:_Multibillion_Dollar_Corporations’⠀⇛
Shawn Fain, running as part of a reform slate of candidates,
swept the ballot to take control of a union that has been
marred by corruption.
* ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Want_to_Curb_City_Crime?_Evict_Fewer_Tenants,_Study
Says⠀⇛
Rising evictions rates pose a threat to social cohesion and
public safety, a new report concludes.
* § Science⠀➾
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ JWST_Gives_Us_Our_Best_Look_Yet_at_Earth-Sized
Exoplanet_TRAPPIST-1b⠀⇛
We’ve never been able to observe like this before.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Created_a_New_Recyclable_Plastic_Not
Made_From_Crude_Oil⠀⇛
We need more solutions like this.
* § Hardware⠀➾
o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ DRAM_Prices_Dropped_20%_in_Q1_2023,_Will_Keep
Falling_in_Q2⠀⇛
TrendForce says DRAM prices down 20% in Q1 2023, will
continue to fall in Q2 2023.
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Horrifying_Epidemic_of_Teen-Age_Fentanyl_Deaths
in_a_Texas_County⠀⇛
Students have overdosed during class, in bathrooms, and
in an elementary-school parking lot.
o ⚓ WhichUK ☛ 6_surprising_foods_and_drinks_that_could_affect_your
medication⠀⇛
What you eat or drink can affect how well your medication
works, and can even be dangerous
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Well-Known_Buffer_Against_Cognitive_Decline_Has
Zero_Effect,_Study_Finds⠀⇛
This is so puzzling.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ World_First:_Dementia_Linked_to_Brain
Abnormalities_From_High_Blood_Pressure⠀⇛
It matches up.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Hospitals:_healthcare_services_might_only_be_provided
for_a_fee_this_year⠀⇛
The lack of money for regional and local hospitals
causes uncertainty about their future. After a meeting of
the Latvian Hospital Association on March 27, hospitals
estimate that medical services might only be provided for
a fee starting from the autumn, Skrunda Television
reported Monday.
o ⚓ The Local SE ☛ ANALYSIS:_Why_four_in_five_Swedes_off_sick_with
stress_are_women⠀⇛
Gender inequality in workplaces, household chores and
healthcare prejudices are all factors behind Sweden’s
gender gap in stress-related sick leave, according to
experts.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Brazil_hits_700,000_virus_deaths,_2nd
highest_in_the_world⠀⇛
Brazil’s government has reported the 700,000th death from
COVID-19 in the South American nation, which has the
second most victims of the virus after the United States.
Brazilian health experts say most people dying of COVID-
19 in recent days are either unvaccinated or suffer from
other debilitating diseases. Health Minister Nisia
Trindade criticized former President Jair Bolsonaro for
his handling of the pandemic. Bolsonaro refused to take
the vaccine during the pandemic and flouted health
restrictions.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Wyoming_abortion_clinic_fire_suspect_to_go
free_pending_case⠀⇛
A woman accused of setting fire to a Wyoming abortion
clinic will be released from jail while her case
proceeds. A judge ruled Tuesday that 22-year-old Lorna
Roxanne Green must live with her parents and continue as
a college student. On social media, the Casper woman
posted details including competing in a bike race and
visiting a butterfly garden but showed no anti-abortion
views. Investigators say Green told them the planned
clinic in Casper was giving her anxiety and nightmares,
so she decided to burn it down last May. Her attorney,
Ryan Semerad, said he’s pleased Green is being released
and looks forward to defending her.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Man_charged_with_firebombing_Wisconsin
anti-abortion_office⠀⇛
Federal prosecutors have charged a man with firebombing a
prominent Wisconsin anti-abortion lobbying group’s office
last year. The U.S. attorney’s office in Madison
announced that 29-year-old Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury
was arrested Tuesday at Boston’s Logan International
Airport and charged with one count of attempting to cause
damage by means of fire or an explosive. Prosecutors
believe Roychowdhury threw Molotov cocktails into the
Wisconsin Family Action office in Madison on May 6. The
attack came about a week after a draft opinion suggesting
the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn the landmark Roe v.
Wade decision that legalized abortion leaked. The court
did overturn the ruling in June. Online court records did
not list an attorney for Roychowdhury.
o ⚓ ’No_quick_fix’_for_Danish_cancer_waiting_lists:_health_minister⠀⇛
Health Minister Sophie Løhde said on Thursday that she
“deeply regrets” missed deadlines for bowel cancer
treatment at Aarhus University Hospital, but that the
government does not have an immediate fix for the
problem.
o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ New_Avian_Flue_Case_Is_Detected_In_China’s_Canton
Province⠀⇛
The infected woman, who is 56 years old, had exposed to
live poultry before contracting the disease.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_to_discard_1.5m_Covid_vaccines,_to_donate_2.3m⠀⇛
Some 1.5 million Covid-19 vaccines are ready for disposal
in Lithuania, while another 2.3 million jabs have been or
will be donated to other countries, 15min.lt reported on
Tuesday, citing data from the Health Ministry.
* § Proprietary⠀➾
o ⚓ Elon_Musk_and_others_sign_open_letter_calling_for_pause_on_AI_—
True_Story⠀⇛
The prevalence of AI has increased massively in recent
years, with systems such as chatbot ChatGPT quickly
becoming part of everyday life.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Surprise!_ChatGPT_Turns_Out_to_Be_Terrible_at
Wordle⠀⇛
The shocking truth is revealed.
* § Security⠀➾
o ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ 3_reasons_why_OTA_updates_are_important_[Part_II]⠀⇛
Devices are everywhere but they all need maintenance.
Maintaining household gadgets such as laptops, printers
and smart watches has become easier over the years as
update technology evolves. Today, users do not have to
even think about updates – they can seamlessly take place
in the background or overnight. These updates take place
over-the-air (OTA) and have revolutionised the way that
we keep hardware, software or firmware maintained. Now
devices can easily stay updated, even when distributed
across a city, country or continent.
o ⚓ CVE-2023-28755:_ReDoS_vulnerability_in_URI⠀⇛
We have released the uri gem version 0.12.1, 0.11.1,
0.10.2 and 0.10.0.1 that has a security fix for a ReDoS
vulnerability.
This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier
CVE-2023-28755.
§ Details
A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component. The
URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific
characters. It causes an increase in execution time for
parsing strings to URI objects.
The uri gem version 0.12.0, 0.11.0, 0.10.1, 0.10.0 and
all versions prior 0.10.0 are vulnerable for this
vulnerability.
o ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Hackers_used_spyware_made_in_Spain_to_target_users
in_the_UAE,_Google_says_|_TechCrunch⠀⇛
Security researchers say they have seen hackers targeting
victims using spyware developed by a Spanish company.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ New_Zealand_intelligence_agencies_concerned_over_foreign
nation_cyberattacks⠀⇛
The New Zealand Intelligence and Security Committee
Monday held its annual review, with cyberattacks being
the primary concern across reports.
o ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ Twitter_source_code_leaked_on_GitHub_has_been
removed [Ed: Microsoft deletes code again... for Elon Musk and
Saudi dictators ]⠀⇛
A portion of the social media site’s source code was
posted on GitHub shortly after widespread layoffs at
Twitter.
o ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Security_Vulnerabilities_in_Snipping_Tools [Ed:
Microsoft TCO]⠀⇛
Both Google’s_Pixel’s_Markup_Tool and the Windows
Snipping_Tool have vulnerabilities that allow people to
partially recover content that was edited out of images.
o ⚓ SANS ☛ Network_Data_Collector_Placement_Makes_a_Difference,_(Tue,
Mar_28th)⠀⇛
A previous diary [1] described processing some local PCAP
data with Zeek. This data was collected using tcpdump on
a DShield Honeypot. When looking at the Zeek connection
logs, the connection state information was unexpected. To
help understand why, we will compare data from different
locations on the network and process the data in a
similar way.
o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Amazon_opens_developer_access_to_its
Sidewalk_wireless_network [Ed: Highly malicious and pervasive
mass surveillance]⠀⇛
Amazon.com Inc. announced today that it will enable
developers to use its Sidewalk wireless network,
which allows connected devices such as smart home
appliances to access the internet. Many consumers
have devices from Amazon’s Echo smart speaker
series in their homes.
⚓ Reason ☛ No_Pseudonymity_for_Plaintiff_in_Lawsuit_That_Would_Further
Publicize_His_Criminal_History⠀⇛
From Doe v. HireRight LLC, decided yesterday by Judge Stephen McNamee
(D. Ariz.): Four years ago, Plaintiff was charged with two felonies.
As part of a plea agreement, he pled guilty to both charges in
exchange for one of the charges being downgraded to a misdemeanor.
⚓ Reason ☛ The_Government_Is_Turning_Border_Surveillance_on_Everyday
Americans⠀⇛
As the government sets its sights on migrants crossing the border,
native-born Americans have also come under its watchful eye.
⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ CISA_director_says_cutting_agency’s_budget_would_return_it
to_‘pre-SolarWinds_world’⠀⇛
Director Jen Easterly said that if the agency’s proposed budget for
FY 2024 dropped to pre-2022 totals, it would put the nation at risk.
⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ U.S._Hardware_Is_Fueling_Russia’s_Facial_Recognition
Crackdown_on_Anti-War_Dissidents⠀⇛
According to a new report, Russia’s facial recognition systems are
powered by American technologies.
§ Defence/Aggression⠀➾
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Memorial_to_Latvia’s_defenders_pulled_over_in_Bauska⠀⇛
A monument to Latvia’s defenders against the second Soviet
occupation has been toppled in Bauska, Latvian Television
reported on March 27.
* ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ 39_migrants_killed_in_fire_at_Ciudad_Juárez
detention_center⠀⇛
A total of 68 Central American and South American men were
being held at the detention center in the Chihuahua city
opposite El Paso, Texas.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Dozens_killed_in_fire_at_migrant_detention_center_on_Mexico-
US_border⠀⇛
At least 39 migrants died in a fire that broke out at an
immigration detention center in a Mexican city on the US
border, the Mexican government said Tuesday.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ 40_killed_in_fire_at_immigration_detention
center_in_Mexico⠀⇛
Migrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze at an
immigration detention center in northern Mexico, starting a
fire that killed at least 40 people. That’s according to the
Mexican president. It was one of the deadliest events ever at a
Mexican immigration lockup. Hours after the fire broke out late
Monday, rows of bodies were laid out under sheets outside the
facility in Ciudad Juarez, which is across from El Paso, Texas,
and a major crossing point for migrants. Ambulances,
firefighters and vans from the morgue swarmed the scene.
Twenty-nine people were injured. At the time of the blaze, 68
men from Central and South America were being held at the
facility.
* ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Defence_capability_and_the_‘not_used_since_Vietnam’
critique⠀⇛
One of the most used quotes in support of the argument that the
Australia Defence Force has no need for tanks…
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_signs_up_for_European_joint_Ukraine_ammunition
procurement⠀⇛
On Monday, March 27, 2023, Latvian Minister of Defense Ināra
Mūrniece signed an agreement on Latvia’s accession to the
planned procurement of the European Defense Agency (EDA) for
the joint purchase of ammunition by Norway and EU member states
for Ukraine.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Belarus_Alleges_Western_‘Pressure’_Prompted_Decision_To_Host
Russian_Nukes⠀⇛
Belarus claims it was “forced” to agree to host Russian
tactical nuclear weapons on its territory in response to what
it called “unprecedented political, economic, and information
pressure” from the West.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ IOC_To_Decide_Russian,_Belarusian_Participation_In_Paris
Olympics_‘At_Appropriate_Time’⠀⇛
The executive board of the International Olympic Committee
(IOC) says it will make a decision “at the appropriate time” on
whether to allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete at
next year’s Paris Olympics.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ IAEA_Chief_Grossi_Says_Deal_To_Protect_Ukrainian_Nuclear_Plant
‘Close’⠀⇛
A deal to protect Europe’s largest nuclear power plant from a
catastrophic accident due to fighting in Ukraine could be
“close,” said the head of the International Atomic Energy
Agency, Rafael Grossi.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Says_It_Will_Keep_Calling_For_Nord_Stream_Probe_After_UN
Failure⠀⇛
The Kremlin said on March 28 that it would keep demanding an
international investigation into explosions that damaged the
Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea last year, after
failing to win backing for a probe at the United Nations.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_and_Belarus_Strengthen_Their_Integration⠀⇛
Meanwhile, Germany delivered Ukraine the first batch of Leopard
2 tanks.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_Olympic_chief_–_IOC_will_continue_to_tread_water_on
Russia_issue⠀⇛
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not plan to make
immediate decisions on the participation of Russian and
Belarusian athletes in the Paris Games, President of the
Latvian Olympic Committee (LOK) Žoržs Tikmers told Latvian
Radio March 28.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia-Belarus_border_fence_construction_slower_than_planned⠀⇛
The construction of a permanent fence on the Latvian–Belarusian
border has been carried out throughout winter without
interruption. The planned length has not been achieved though,
due to insufficient freezing for the construction works to take
place in swampy areas, Latvian Television reported March 28.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Police:_Nashville_shooter_fired_indiscriminately
at_victims⠀⇛
Police say the Nashville school shooter legally bought seven
firearms in recent years and hid the guns from their parents
before killing three children and three adults at a Christian
school. Police on Tuesday said the shooter did not specifically
target their victims during the shooting at The Covenant School
on Monday. The victims included three 9-year-olds and the head
of the school. Shooter Audrey Hale was a former student at the
school. Authorities say Hale was not known to them before the
attack. Police say Hale was under a doctor’s care for an
undisclosed emotional disorder.
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ We_Don’t_Have_To_Choose_Between_Nuclear_Madmen⠀⇛
The announcement by Vladimir Putin over the weekend that Russia
will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus marked a
further escalation of potentially cataclysmic tensions over the
war in neighboring Ukraine.
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_Best_Way_To_Protect_US_Troops_in_Syria⠀⇛
Last week saw a sharp increase in attacks on US troops
occupying northeastern Syria, with a drone strike against a US
base blamed on “pro-Iran” forces and a US counter-strike said
to have killed at least 19 people. After the US retaliation,
another strike by “pro-Iran” forces hit a number of US sites in
Syria.
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_Ukraine_War_Enters_the_2024_US_Presidential_Election_–
Stage_Right⠀⇛
Opposition to Joe Biden’s proxy war to destroy Russia has
entered the 2024 US Presidential election – from stage Right.
And the growing anti-interventionist sentiment among grass
roots conservatives and libertarians is alarming Establishment
warhawks on both “left” and “right.” They are furious.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russia’s_Ukraine_invasion_is_eroding_Kremlin
influence_in_Kazakhstan⠀⇛
The invasion of Ukraine was meant to advance Vladimir Putin’s
vision of a revived Russian Empire. Instead, it is forcing
other neighboring countries like Kazakhstan to urgently
reassess their own relationships with Moscow.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Bulgaria_Suspects_Russian_Role_In_Bomb_Threats_Closing_Schools
For_Second_Day⠀⇛
Dozens of Bulgarian schools were closed for a second day on
March 28 following bomb threats with investigators saying they
were looking into potential Russia-linked terror actions meant
to disrupt the upcoming snap parliamentary elections scheduled
for April 2.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ EU_Official_Calls_On_Kyrgyzstan_To_Prevent_Russia_From_Evading
Sanctions⠀⇛
David O’Sullivan, the European Union’s special envoy for the
implementation of sanctions, has called on Kyrgyzstan and other
nations in Moscow’s political and economic sphere to avoid
assisting Moscow’s attempts to evade sanctions imposed on
Russia over its ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania,_Estonia_deny_profiting_from_EU’s_Ukraine_aid
reimbursements⠀⇛
On Tuesday, Politico reported that six EU countries, including
Estonia and Lithuania, are profiting from sending military aid
to Ukraine. According to the Lithuanian and Estonian
governments, the report is misleading.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_Fires_Supersonic_Missiles_At_Mock_Target_In_Sea_Of
Japan⠀⇛
Missile ships of the Pacific Fleet fired Moskit cruise missiles
at a mock enemy sea target.
* ⚓ LRT ☛ UN_committee_urges_Lithuania_to_review_sanctions_on_Belarusian
potash⠀⇛
A UN committee has urged Lithuania to review its decision to
ban the transit of Belarusian fertilisers, saying that it leads
to food insecurity in Africa and Latin America.
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Estonia_raises_eyebrows_claiming_reimbursement_for_aid_to_Ukraine
–_media⠀⇛
Tensions grow in the European Union over some countries’
military aid to Ukraine. Estonia is allegedly sending old
weapons to Ukraine but is being reimbursed by the European
Peace Facility (EPF) as if for new ones, Politico reported on
Tuesday.
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Amnesty_scolds_Lithuanian,_Western_‘hypocrisy’_following_Ukraine
invasion⠀⇛
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 unleashed
numerous war crimes and generated a global energy and food
crisis, but it also laid bare the hypocrisy of Western states
that reacted to the Kremlin’s aggression, Amnesty International
said in its annual report on human rights.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Amnesty_Report_Says_‘Hypocrisy’_Of_Western_States_Laid_Bare_By
Russia’s_Invasion_of_Ukraine⠀⇛
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 unleashed
numerous war crimes and generated a global energy and food
crisis, but it also laid bare the hypocrisy of Western states
that reacted to the Kremlin’s aggression, Amnesty International
said in its annual report on human rights.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Launches_Fresh_Wave_Of_Drones_Against_Ukraine⠀⇛
Russia launched another wave of Iranian-made drones on Kyiv and
its surroundings, but Ukraine’s air defenses shot down almost
all of them and there were no immediate reports of casualties,
the military said on March 27, as heavy fighting continued in
and around Bakhmut.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._To_Withhold_Some_Nuclear_Data_From_Russia_After_Moscow’s
Treaty_Suspension⠀⇛
The United States has told Russia it will withhold some data on
its nuclear forces in response to Moscow’s suspension of
participation in the New START nuclear arms treaty.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ North_Korean_robbers_kill_two_women_as_crime_wave_intensifies⠀⇛
Residents say that starvation is causing more people to resort
to robbery and theft.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ N._Korea’s_Kim_calls_for_ramping_up_production_of_‘weapon-
grade_nuclear_material’⠀⇛
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for his country to
expand production of “weapon-grade nuclear materials” and build
more powerful weapons, state media reported Tuesday.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ UK_raises_Northern_Ireland_terror_threat_rating_to_‘severe’
ahead_of_Biden_visit⠀⇛
The UK government raised the terror threat level in Northern
Ireland to “severe” on Tuesday, ahead of an expected visit by
US President Joe Biden to mark the 25th anniversary of a
landmark peace accord.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Scottish_parliament_confirms_Humza_Yousaf_as_new_first
minister⠀⇛
Scotland’s parliament on Tuesday confirmed Humza Yousaf will
replace Nicola Sturgeon as first minister, the devolved
nation’s youngest and the first Muslim leader of a government
in western Europe.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Two_dead_in_knife_attack_at_Islamic_centre_in_Lisbon,
assailant_shot_by_police⠀⇛
An attacker armed with a knife killed two women on Tuesday at
an Islamic centre in the Portuguese capital Lisbon before being
shot and wounded by police, authorities said.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Myanmar_junta_dissolves_Aung_San_Suu_Kyi’s_political_party⠀⇛
Myanmar’s junta-stacked election commission on Tuesday
announced Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy
party would be dissolved for failing to re-register under a
tough new military-drafted electoral law, state media said.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_IOC_recommends_return_of_Russian_athletes_to_sports
but_delays_decision_on_Paris_Olympics⠀⇛
A decision on whether athletes competing for Russia and Belarus
will be able to participate in the Paris 2024 Olympics will be
taken “at the appropriate time”, said Olympic chief Thomas Bach
on Tuesday, as he defended plans to get athletes from the two
countries to join sports competitions as “neutral parties”
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Ukraine:_Shortage_of_prosthetic_limbs_as_casualties_mount⠀⇛
As the war in Ukraine grinds on, a prosthetics clinic in Kyiv
is doing its best to provide artificial limbs to the stream of
wounded Ukrainian servicemen passing through its doors. But the
clinic, like others around the country, is struggling to keep
up with demand and fears more wounded may soon need its help
amid talk of a new Ukrainian counteroffensive in the east.
* ⚓ Defence Web ☛ UN_delegation_meets_senior_Ugandan_military_officers_in
search_for_peace⠀⇛
A United Nations (UN) delegation seeking facts on peace and
security in the troubled Great Lakes part of Africa was hosted
by the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Force (UPDF) at the weekend.
* ⚓ Defence Web ☛ ISS:_South_Africa’s_police_must_prioritise_trust⠀⇛
The South African public has low and declining trust and
confidence in its police. This impedes efforts to reduce crime,
deliver quality services, and lay the foundation for economic
growth. Last year, the South African Human Sciences Research
Council reported that just 27% of citizens had some trust in
the police.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Belgium_arrests_eight_in_‘terror_attack’_probe_following
house_raids⠀⇛
Police have detained eight people during investigations into an
alleged plot to commit “terrorist attacks” in Belgium, the
federal prosecutor’s office said Tuesday.
§ Environment⠀➾
* ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Earth_Futures_Institute_Logo_Competition⠀⇛
The UCSC Earth Futures Institute at UCSC needs a logo. The UC
Santa Cruz (UCSC)Earth Futures Institute needs a logo. We would
love to see your ideas. The first prize is $750, the second
prize is $500, and the third prize is $250.
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finland’s_Fortum_and_Outokumpu_co-operate_on
small_modular_reactors⠀⇛
FORTUM and Outokumpu have entered into a partnership to
explore the possibilities of building a small modular
reactor in Finland.
The Finnish duo will look into a number of collaborative
approaches along with the economic, regulatory and
technological feasibility of small modular reactors with
a view to finding answers within a couple of years,
Heikki Malinen, the CEO of Outokumpu, stated to YLE on
Thursday, 23 March.
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Reuters:_US_ultimatum_to_Mexico_over_energy
dispute_imminent⠀⇛
The U.S. wants to see “clear progress” on the energy
issue, Reuters reported Monday; an escalation could lead
to tariffs against Mexico.
o ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Australia_should_hedge_its_bet_on_battery
manufacturing⠀⇛
Australia is assured of rapid growth in exports of the
key minerals needed to make modern batteries…
o ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Country_spotlight:_Unlocking_a_high-energy
future_for_Zambia⠀⇛
Smart investment in Zambia could drive a high-energy,
high-growth future as the country reforms. This could
make Zambia a model for neighboring countries looking to
strike out on their own energy transformations.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Germany_has_successfully_watered_down_a_planned_EU_ban
on_the_sale_of_combustion-engine_cars⠀⇛
European Union members formally approved a ban on the
sale of new carbon dioxide (CO2)-emitting cars by 2035.
What was meant to be a milestone legislation towards the
decarbonization of the European car industry was watered
down by Germany to provide an exemption for cars running
on e-fuels.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ BYD_profit_surged_by_400%_last_year_as_the_electric
vehicle_market_keeps_going_in_China⠀⇛
BYD—China’s largest electric vehicle (EV)
manufacturer—announced that it sold a record number of
cars last calendar year, boosting the company’s profit by
more than four times.
o ⚓ Bartosz Ciechanowski ☛ Bicycle⠀⇛
There is something delightful about riding a bicycle.
Once mastered, the simple action of pedaling to move
forward and turning the handlebars to steer makes bike
riding an effortless activity. In the demonstration
below, you can guide the rider with the slider, and you
can also drag the view around to change the camera angle:
Compared to internal combustion engines or mechanical
watches, bicycles are fairly simple machines – most of
their parts operate in plain sight.This article has many
interactive demonstrations which are best seen on the
website.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_US_is_accusing_Sam_Bankman-Fried_of_bribing_Chinese
officials_with_crypto⠀⇛
Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of the
cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been charged with
bribing Chinese officials with $40 million in
cryptocurrency in a new superseding indictment in the
Southern District of New York (SDNY).
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ SBF_Accused_of_Bribing_Chinese_Officials_With
$40_Million_in_Crypto⠀⇛
Sam Bankman-Fried allegedly sent a “bribe payment” of $40
million to a private crypto wallet to attempt to get FTX
accounts unfrozen.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ FTX_founder_charged_with_bribing_China_officials_to
unfreeze_assets⠀⇛
US federal prosecutors Tuesday charged Samuel Bankman-
Fried, former CEO and co-founder of crypto trading
platform FTX, with bribing Chinese government officials
in early 2021 as part of a superseding indictment.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Spring_favorable_for_hydropower_production_in_Latvia⠀⇛
This year, Latvia’s rivers have experienced the largest
floods in the last ten years, which has allowed the
Daugava hydroelectric power plant (HES) to produce a
large amount of electricity, the operational information
of the transmission company Augstsprieguma tīkls shows,
according to weatherman Toms Bricis.
o ⚓ H2 View ☛ Green_hydrogen_production_plant_begins_operations_in
South_Wales⠀⇛
Protium and its partner organisations has announced the
start of green hydrogen operations at Baglan Energy Park,
South Wales.
* § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Enormous_sperm_whale_skull_stolen_from_NSW_museum⠀⇛
NSW Police are investigating the theft of a sperm whale
skull outside a museum on the South Coast.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Cherry_blossoms_are_blooming_earlier_than_expected⠀⇛
Spring is just beginning but the cherry blossoms have
already reached peak bloom in Washington, DC. The
National Park Service documented peak bloom on March 23
this year, two weeks earlier than April 4, which is the
historical_average peak bloom datesince 1921.
* § Overpopulation⠀➾
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_world_“population_bomb”_might_not_go_off_after_all⠀⇛
When the global population passed the 8 billion mark on
Nov. 15 last year, demographers had a peak in sight: 10.4
billion, around the year 2080.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ The Age AU ☛ ASX_slides_lower_as_banks_falter;_$A_jumps⠀⇛
The Australian sharemarket dropped on Wednesday as the
financials sector fell, and after Wall Street slid lower.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Singapore-China_project_in_Guangzhou_to_speed_up
expansion⠀⇛
The second phase of the China-Singapore Smart Park will be
completed in June ahead of its October timeline.
* ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ 37_million_euros_invested_in_248_startups_from_Finnish
angel_investors⠀⇛
In 2022, Finnish angels invested 37 million euros in 248 growth
companies, says the latest study conducted by the Finnish
Business Angels Network (FiBAN), collecting answers from 450
private investors out of FiBAN’s 670 members. 7% of FiBAN
members’ investments were made outside of Finland. The most
popular countries were Estonia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Tariffs_on_Baby_Formula_Returned._So_Did_the_Shortages.⠀⇛
Huh, what a wild coincidence.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ airBaltic_luxury_car_purchase_raises_eyebrows⠀⇛
Transport Minister Jānis Vitenbergs (National Alliance) will
demand explanations from the national airline airBaltic in
relation to the costly purchase of the 2022 “E-tron” electric
car in leasing for the company, the Transport
Ministry Communications Department said in a release on March
28.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Survey:_Majority_supports_reduced_VAT_on_catering_in_Latvia⠀⇛
A reduction of the value-added tax (VAT) rate for public
catering from 21% to 5% or 12% is supported by 83% of Latvian
residents, according to a survey conducted by the Latvian
Restaurant Society (LRB), the Latvian Hotel and Restaurant
Association (LVRA) and the public opinion research center SKDS
in March this year, LSM’s Latvian language service reported.
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Micron_posts_biggest-ever_loss,_but_says_generative_AI
will_drive_new_demand_for_memory_chips⠀⇛
Computer chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. delivered its largest
quarterly loss on record today after announcing an inventory
writedown of more than $1.4 billion, but its stock price stayed
flat as executives stated their belief that the memory chip
market has bottomed out.
⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Disney_abandons_metaverse_division_amid_layoffs⠀⇛
Walt Disney Co. has reportedly ditched its metaverse division as part
of a broader restructuring process that will cut the company’s
operating expenses by $5.5 billion and lay off 7,000 employees over
the next two months.
⚓ Quartz ☛ Disney’s_first_round_of_layoffs_knocked_the_metaverse_off_its
priority_list⠀⇛
The Mouse House is moving away from the metaverse.
⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_Will_Not_Leave_WTO⠀⇛
“…there are grounds to remain in the organization as a full member in
order to maintain stable relations with developing countries…”
⚓ teleSUR ☛ Gonfreville_Refinery_Shutdown_In_France⠀⇛
The 240 000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery supplies the entire Ile-
de-France region.
⚓ teleSUR ☛ Fuel_Shortages_Reach_Almost_16%_Of_France’s_Gas_Stations⠀⇛
The departments of Loire-Atlantique, Mayenne, Ille-et-Vilaine and
Maine-et-Loire are hardly affected by fuel shortages.
⚓ France24 ☛ A_look_back_at_when_French_protesters_defeated_government_reform
plans⠀⇛
Anger at President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform shows no sign of
abating, with protests, strikes and unrest set to continue and both
sides digging in their heels. To shed some light on the current
stand-off, FRANCE 24 looks back at the last times the unions
successfully forced the government to U-turn on changing the system:
over pension reform in 1995 and over a youth labour law reform in
2006.
⚓ France24 ☛ ‘Abandoned_by_all’:_Why_small-town_France_is_up_in_arms_over
Macron’s_pension_reform⠀⇛
France’s small and mid-size towns have been at the forefront of the
battle against President Emmanuel Macron’s contentious pension
reform, in some places staging the biggest rallies in living memory.
In the former Yellow Vest bastion of Montargis, where protesters
rallied for a tenth time on Tuesday, the deeply unpopular reform has
exacerbated resentment of the government.
⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Debt_ceiling_impasse:_McCarthy_presses_Biden_to
negotiate⠀⇛
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he’s growing
increasingly concerned about President Joe Biden’s unwillingness to
negotiate on lifting the nation’s borrowing authority. He says in a
letter to the president dated Tuesday that the White House position
“could prevent America from meeting its obligations and hold dire
ramifications for the entire nation.” The White House says McCarthy
and the Republicans are to blame, refusing to put forward their own
budget plan before formal negotiations. The Treasury Department has
resorted to “extraordinary measures” to avoid default on the nation’s
$31.4 trillion borrowing authority. But those measures will run out,
possibly as early as June.
⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_ramping_up_bailout_loans_to_Belt_and_Road
countries,_report_says⠀⇛
China has handed out $240 billion worth of bailout loans to 22
developing countries at risk of default over the past two decades,
with the trend accelerating in recent years, a report said Tuesday.
⚓ France24 ☛ French_financial_prosecutors_search_bank_offices_over_dividend
stripping⠀⇛
French authorities on Tuesday searched offices of several large
banks, including Societe Generale, BNP Paribas and HSBC on the
suspicion of money laundering and fiscal fraud, a spokesperson of the
PNF financial prosecution office told Reuters.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ France_Becomes_the_Latest_Country_to_Ban_TikTok_On
Government_Devices,_Citing_National_Security_Concerns⠀⇛
Days following TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s appearance before
Congress, France has become the latest country to prohibit the
video-sharing app’s use on government devices.
* ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Twitter_Will_Remove_Legacy_Blue_Checks_on_April_1
—_What_Does_It_Mean?⠀⇛
Twitter announces it will be winding down its legacy
verification program and removing legacy verified checkmarks on
April 1 in favor of its paywalled Twitter Blue.
Twitter announced the end of its legacy verification program on
April 1,
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Banning_TikTok_Is_a_Power_the_Federal_Government_Doesn’t
Deserve⠀⇛
Today, TikTok. Tomorrow, who knows?
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ N.C._board_removes_election_officials_who
refused_to_certify⠀⇛
North Carolina’s state elections board has removed two county
election officials who had refused to certify the 2022 election
results after state officials determined they violated their
duty to comply with state law. The state board voted
unanimously Tuesday to dismiss Surry County elections secretary
Jerry Forestieri and board member Timothy DeHaan in one of the
strongest disciplinary actions taken against local officials
who’ve delayed or refused to certify election results.
Forestieri and DeHaan had questioned the legitimacy of state
election law and court decisions disallowing photo ID checks
and voter residency challenges. DeHaan ultimately signed on to
certify the vote, while Forestieri did not.
* ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Traffic_up_but_revenue_down_for_The_Tab_publisher_as_UK
online_ad_downturn_bites⠀⇛
The Tab and Entertainment Daily publisher reported a 3% year-
on-year drop in gross profits.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Australian_state_passes_landmark_legislation_giving_Indigenous
population_a_first_‘voice_to_Parliament’⠀⇛
In a special sitting Sunday, the Parliament of the Australian
state of South Australia passed the First Nations Voice Bill
2023, amending the state’s constitution to enable
representatives elected by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people of the state to directly address ministers and
government departments on specific legislation and reforms…
* ⚓ France24 ☛ President_Biden_warns_Israel_‘cannot_continue_down_this
road’_in_judiciary_standoff⠀⇛
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned Israel it “cannot
continue” pressing for deeply controversial judicial reforms —
now on hold — which have prompted months of unrest and
criticism among Western allies.
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Montenegro’s_President:_EU’s_Neglect_Gave_Russia_A
Platform⠀⇛
Montenegro’s pro-Western president criticized the
European Union for allegedly allowing Russia to spread
its influence in the Western Balkans, saying the volatile
region has become a “platform” for anti-EU policies due
to the bloc’s “negligence.”
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Displaying_swastikas,_other_hate_symbols_in_Qld_could
result_in_jail⠀⇛
A series of incidents has prompted the Palaszczuk government to
move to ban the display of symbols such as the swastika,
including on social media.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Wendy_Sherman_on_the_United_States’_priorities_as_it
takes_the_helm_of_the_Freedom_Online_Coalition⠀⇛
US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman outlined the
priorities for the world’s democratic tech alliance, from
protecting fundamental freedoms online to building resilience
against digital authoritarianism.
* ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_Latest_Bill_C-11_Debate:_Sacrificing_Freedom_of
Expression_for_Quebec_Culture_Lobby_Support⠀⇛
The Bill C-11 debate continued for hours in the House of
Commons yesterday with a dispiriting discussion featuring MPs
from all sides ignoring or exaggerating the implications of the
bill.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Congressmen_urge_Elon_Musk_to_address_rising_hate_speech_on
Twitter_since_takeover⠀⇛
US Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Mark Takano (D-CA)
Tuesday urged Twitter CEO Elon Musk to address the rise in hate
speech on the social media platform since he purchased it in
October 2022.
* ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Is_the_David_porn?_Come_see,_Italians_tell
Florida_parents⠀⇛
The invitation comes after the school principal was forced to
resign following parental complaints that an image of the nude
Renaissance masterpiece was shown to a sixth-grade art class.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Father_Of_Russian_Sixth_Grader_Who_Drew_Anti-War_Picture
Escapes_House_Arrest,_Given_Prison_Term_In_Absentia⠀⇛
A man in Russia’s western region of Tula whose daughter last
year drew an anti-war picture at school has been sentenced to
two years in prison in absentia on a charge of discrediting
Russia’s armed forces.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Performances_By_Pro-Kremlin_Opera_Singer_Canceled⠀⇛
Two venues in the United States have canceled performances by
Russian opera singer Ildar Abdrazakov over his open support of
the Russian government’s policies.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_ice_hockey_body_suggests_preventing
play_until_correct_anthem_confirmed_after_protest_song_blunder⠀⇛
Hong Kong’s ice hockey body has said it may ask athletes not to
enter the rink until they had confirmed that sporting event
organisers would play the correct anthem.
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ The Guardian UK ☛ Texas_Observer_journalists_raise_$270,000_in_bid_to
save_publication_|_Texas_|_The_Guardian⠀⇛
Magazine’s editors asked board not to lay off anyone for a
month if staff raised $200,000 after Friday’s vote to cease
publication
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Hong_Kong_press_freedom_groups_condemn_harassment_of
journalists⠀⇛
Press freedom groups in Hong Kong, including Hong Kong
Journalist Association (HKJA) and Reporters Without Borders
(RSF), Monday condemned the region’s harassment of journalists.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_press_group_receives_more_reports_of
reporters_being_tailed,_as_police_slam_‘unverified_speculation’⠀⇛
Hong Kong’s largest journalists group has said it received
several recent reports of journalists being tailed, as police
slammed the group over “unverified speculations” that those
following journalists were suspected of being members of law
enforcement.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Union_calls_for_probe_after_Hong_Kong_journalists_followed_by
unidentified_men⠀⇛
Two men evade questions about their identities after following
a court reporter to work
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Activist_sentenced_to_6_years_for_giving_interviews_to_U.S.-based
program⠀⇛
Truong Van Dung was convicted under Article 88, used to target
dissidents.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ FRANCE_24_strongly_deplores_the_suspension_of_its
broadcasting_in_Burkina_Faso⠀⇛
FRANCE 24 was informed on March 27, 2023, via a press release
from the Burkina Faso government, of the indefinite suspension
of the broadcasting of its programmes in the country. FRANCE
24’s management strongly deplores this decision and refutes the
unfounded accusations that call into question the channel’s
professionalism.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_court_denies_bail_to_Portuguese
national_under_security_law⠀⇛
A Portuguese national, who allegedly managed social media
accounts for the Hong Kong Independence Party, has been ordered
to remain in custody pending trial under the Beijing-enacted
national security law.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Amnesty_International_annual_report:_Finland’s_border
measures_threaten_asylum_rights,_double_standards_in_human_rights
combat⠀⇛
Amnesty International’s yearly report on the state of human
rights around the world reveals the double standards and
inadequacy of the international system in combating human
rights abuses in 2022. While Finland receives praise for
reforms to sexual assault and abortion laws, there is still
room for improvement regarding the right to protest. The
Russian invasion of Ukraine had a massive impact on the
realization of human rights in many ways, including war crimes
committed by Russian forces, such as forced transfers and
indiscriminate attacks on civilians, as well as exacerbating
global energy and food crises.
* ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Has_Benjamin_Netanyahu’s_Assault_on_Israeli_Democracy_Been
Stopped?⠀⇛
In the face of mass protests, the Prime Minister has backed
down from his plan to overhaul the judiciary—for now.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Caution_in_crisis-hit_Israel_after_Netanyahu_pauses_reform⠀⇛
Caution prevailed in Israel Tuesday after Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to pause controversial judicial
reforms which sparked a general strike and mass protests, with
the crisis far from over.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Ex-Californian_sentenced_for_child_mutilation-
sex_scheme⠀⇛
A former Southern California man who convinced troubled girls
as young as 12 to perform masochistic acts and urged one to
become his sex slave has been sentenced to 27 years in federal
prison. Matthew Locher was sentenced in Los Angeles on Tuesday
by a judge who called him “a parent’s worst nightmare.”
Prosecutors say the former Redondo Beach man got into online
conversations with girls suffering from mental health issues,
grooming them to harm themselves and send him images.
Authorities also say that, encouraged by Locher, a 12-year-old
girl ran away from her Ohio home after setting it on fire in a
failed bid to kill her parents.
* ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Jamelle_Bouie:_What_the_Republican_push_for
‘parents’_rights’_is_really_about⠀⇛
“Parents’ rights,” like “states’ rights,” is quite particular.
* ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Jonathan_Bernstein:_Wisconsin_judicial
election_is_bad_for_democracy⠀⇛
The most expensive judicial election ever.
* ⚓ Danish_government_to_increase_tax_break_for_trade_union_members⠀⇛
The Danish government says it wants trade union membership to
be made cheaper by increasing tax subsidies given on membership
fees.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ The_French_Keep_on_Protesting_Despite_Police_Brutality⠀⇛
During the tenth day of protest against the Macron’s pension
reform, the spirits of the French continue to burn throughout
the country.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ The_Macron_Administration_Lashes_Out_at_Environmental
Activists⠀⇛
The verbal attack against environmental rights defenders comes
amid a display of unprecedented police brutality.
* ⚓ Spiegel ☛ The_Beneficiary_of_Bedlam:_Marine_Le_Pen_Surges_as_Macron’s
Star_Fades⠀⇛
The intense protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s
pension reform in France have put him on the defensive. Right-
wing populist Marine Le Pen is reaping the benefits.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ French_PM_agrees_to_talks_with_union_leaders as_740,000
protest_pension_reform⠀⇛
After a tenth day of nationwide protests against pension
reforms, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has offered to
meet leaders from eight unions for talks early next week.
Hundreds of thousands of people took part in Tuesday’s strikes
and protests across France, nearly two weeks after French
President Emmanuel Macron forced an unpopular pension reform
through parliament.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Fresh_strikes,_protests_kick_off_in_France_as_Macron_stands
firm_on_pension_reform⠀⇛
France Tuesday braced for another day of strikes and protests
with President Emmanuel Macron remaining defiant over the
controversial pensions reform that has sparked turmoil in the
country.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Malaysia_measures_to_abolish_mandatory_death_penalty
introduced_in_parliament⠀⇛
Malaysia’s Parliament Monday began its consideration of two
bills introduced to abolish mandatory death penalties for
certain sentences. The Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty
Bill of 2023 would reverse prior laws that require a mandatory
death sentence for 33 different offenses.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Prominent_Afghan_Girls’_Education_Advocate_Detained_By
Taliban⠀⇛
A prominent activist for the right to education for Afghan
girls, Matiullah Wesa, has been detained by the Taliban, his
brother and the United Nations said on March 28.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Founder_of_Afghan_girls’_education_project_arrested_in
Kabul,_says_UN⠀⇛
The founder of a project that campaigned for girls’ education
in Afghanistan has been detained by Taliban authorities in
Kabul, his brother and the United Nations said Tuesday.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Court_Cancels_Acquittal_Of_LGBTQ_Activist_In_Case_Of
‘Pornographic’_Art⠀⇛
A court of appeals in Russia’s Far Eastern city of Vladivostok
has canceled the acquittal of LGBTQ activist and artist Yulia
Tsvetkova in a high-profile pornography case involving nude
drawings and other artwork.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Bosnian_Serb_Entity_Says_Controversial_Draft_Law_Will_Monitor
NGOs’_Financial_Flows⠀⇛
A controversial draft law approved by the government of
Republika Srpska that would require nonprofit organizations
funded from abroad and active in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Serb
entity to register and report on their work will require them
to submit their “financial flows” to the Justice Ministry.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Former_President_Ma_Ying-jeou’s_trip_to_China_undermines_Taiwan
government:_critics⠀⇛
Ma’s visit comes as his opposition Kuomintang chooses
rapprochement with Beijing despite rejecting Chinese rule.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Ex-president_ruffles_feathers_with_claim_that_Taiwanese_are
‘ethnically_Chinese’⠀⇛
Ma’s comments echo Beijing’s ‘unification’ claim that people in
Taiwan, China come from the same family
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Public_gatherings_must_be_‘in_accordance_with
the_law,’_Hong_Kong’s_John_Lee_says_after_protesters_made_to_wear_tags⠀⇛
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive John Lee has said that all public
gatherings must be conducted “orderly, peacefully and in
accordance with the law.
§ Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
* ⚓ Reason ☛ New_York_Lawmakers_Want_To_Use_a_‘Netflix_Tax’_To_Pay_for_the
Subway⠀⇛
From delivery fees to streaming taxes, New York can’t stomach
having MTA users actually pay for the system themselves.
* ⚓ CCIA ☛ Network_Usage_Fees:_A_Tax_in_Search_of_a_Purpose⠀⇛
Pleas from broadband networks for a so-called “fair share” of
content providers’ revenue….
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Google_wins_partial_relief_in_Android_antitrust_case_in
India_|_TechCrunch⠀⇛
Google received some relief in its key market of India after a
tribunal court set aside four of 10 directives from the
country’s competition regulator.
* ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Germany_sours_on_Microsoft_again,_launches_antitrust
review_•_The_Register⠀⇛
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ JUVE ☛ Hoffmann_Eitle_and_MGI_prevail_as_Boards_of_Appeal_revoke
Illumina_patent [Ed: Yet more fake patents were granted by EPO]⠀⇛
Illumina’s EP 3 002 289, which the Boards of Appeal
revoked due to added subject matter, is one of several
patents protecting “modified nucleotides for
polynucleotide sequencing”. The BoA judges argued that
the literal claim construction could not be amended by
reference to the description.
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Dominion_Harbor_entity_Liberty_Peak_Ventures
RFID_patent_held_invalid⠀⇛
On March 23, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
(PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified
Patents, LLC v. Liberty Peak Ventures LLCholding all
challenged claims of U.S._Patent_8,066,181 unpatentable.
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ IPVal_entity_Rosen_Technologies_thermostat
patent_likely_invalid⠀⇛
On March 23, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
(PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an
IPR filed by Unified against U.S._Patent_7,156,318, owned
and asserted by Rosen Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity
of IP_Valuation_Partners.
* § Software Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ AV1_Live_Streaming_Is_Finally_Coming_To_YouTube
[Ed: Patent Pandora's box... software patents]⠀⇛
A preview of YouTube’s new AV1 live stream support was
tested by EposVox, showing amazing video quality results
with the new codec.
o ⚓ JUVE ☛ EPO_Patent_Index_shows_green_energy_and_communication
driving_record_growth [Ed: Well, "communication" as in software
patents, too?]⠀⇛
Today, the European Patent Office has published its EPO
Patent Index 2022. For the fifth consecutive year, the
office has recorded a growth in patent applications.
Numbers increased by 2.5% compared to 2021, reaching
193,460 patent applications in total.
o ⚓ JUVE ☛ J_A_Kemp_hires_new_partner_to_strengthen_biotech_practice
[Ed: 100% spam for a patent litigation firm, marketing disguised as
"news"; for sponsors that also receive agenda/lobbying/propaganda
for their money.]⠀⇛
Andreas Theisen (41), who has joined J A Kemp as a
partner, is a qualified microbiologist. As such, he
specialises in biological therapeutics and diagnostics,
and in particular therapeutic antibodies, gene therapy
and cell-therapy products. J A Kemp gains partner Theisen
began his career as a technical assistant at patent
attorney firm Mathys & Squire.
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Reason ☛ Defamation_and_Copyright⠀⇛
Several commenters asked: If AI companies don’t have a
copyright in works created by their programs, how can
they be held liable under defamation law? Defamation law
and copyright law are two different bodies of law, aimed
at serving different interests, and with different
definitions.
o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_arrests_4_over_major_anime_piracy
site,_Japanese_lobby_group_says⠀⇛
A major website for pirated Japanese anime has shut down
after Chinese authorities arrested four people accused of
involvement, according to a Tokyo-based lobby group that
hailed the move as “groundbreaking”.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ Zettelkasten⠀⇛
A Zettelkasten is a physical slipbox of note cards.
Technically my li’l box of index cards for D&D counts as
a Zettelkasten although it’s not organized that way at
all, instead it uses a double-alpha system.
Zettelkästen enabled these researchers to do a couple of
new things with text, but we don’t need them today.
o ⚓ Summer_time_again⠀⇛
Recently there was another time shift. This time it was
from a winter
time to the summer time (oops, too much mentions of
“time” in just one
sentence!) so we lost one hour of sleep.
Obviously, everyone is a bit sleepy this week (including
myself).
And my electronic gadgets dislike the shift ever more. As
usual, most
of Linux devices handle the change automatically (usually
thanks to the
NTP, I thing). Even the Pebble smartwatch changed the
time without my
intervention. (but it is not a Linux device, of course)
o ⚓ How_I_use_index_cards_for_D&D⠀⇛
I cleaned out my box of A7 index cards. Turns out it was
pretty well sorted already. I’ve been kind of messed up
about what goes where, records-wise.
Now, I often think A7 was a little small, so don’t take
this as a reco for that size. But, I’m leaning towards
sticking with them.
o ⚓ aphantasia_II:_do_personal_projects_matter?⠀⇛
I recently thought about my childhood and if maybe, my
ability to envision stuff wasn’t as bad in my childhood.
I remember reading lots of books, big books even for a 7-
8 year old, and having at least some idea of what the
characters and scenery looked like for me. When I
remember these books and try to think of their plot, I
see what I imagined the characters and parts of the plot
or world to look like. Rather blurry and only for a few
seconds, but I do. I remember being disappointed when
movie versions had things differently than the image in
my head. That means it must have worked back then, right?
At least partially?
So, what changed?
[...]
What held me back the most is that my self esteem was
shattered back then by various different forces, and I
was very much a person that needed to do everything
perfectly immediately and the prospect of failing scared
me hard. Everything made me immediately cry and quit, if
I started at all. These are not good for developing any
kind of hobby that makes you create instead of just
consume other people’s work. You need to be comfortable
with failure for that, and be proud and happy you worked
on it at all. It helps if you have fun during the process
regardless of the outcome, but mentally, I wasn’t there
at all. All I cared about was the final product (and it
being good enough to be posted, probably). I also find it
is hard to engage in creative hobbies when you feel like
you have to hide yourself away at home. My mother is the
queen of unsolicited brutally honest “advice”, so I was
afraid of creating anything around her or letting her see
anything I do.
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ Runit_vs_S6⠀⇛
Since the init subject seems to have gotten people
talking, I thought it might be worth going a little more
in depth about the lineage, similarities, and differences
between Runit and S6. Or, at the very least, my
experience in relation to the subject.
[...]
Interestingly, SysV Init has this same capability built
in. A service can be specified in /etc/inittab with the
respawn option and it will be automatically restarted if
it dies. However this functionality was never adopted by
any major operating system that I know of, being
relegated to use only as a way of respawning tty logins
through the getty and later agetty programs.
Bernstein had some interesting ideas on software
development that he passed on to his disciples. One of
his tenets was that if an interface sucked, then you
write a better interface and use that instead. Laurent
Bercot definitely took that to heart and replaces a lot
of libc functionality and low level primitives with his
skalibs distribution, which is required for most of the
other software that he writes (including S6 and
Execline).
o ⚓ Why_can’t_I_just_setup_the_damn_blog⠀⇛
I just can’t seem to set up my blog. I have plenty of
things to write about, ideas I want to share, projects I
want to write up. A good few of these projects are even
underway right now, with post skeletons sitting in a
folder in my notes application. I even have a domain name
already, a fun domain hack that I originally bought for a
different site. However, when it comes to the actual blog
itself, I keep getting hung up on small quibbles.
o ⚓ mosque_favourites⠀⇛
i’ve been going to the small little corner mosque (tucked
between squat shawarma places and immigration firms)
pentadaily, lately. i, being small and relentless, have
given nicknames (completely in my head, i don’t actually
know any of their names) to my favourite visitors.
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