𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Friday, March 31, 2023
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⦿ Decided to Quit Debian and Use WSL Instead (Best of Both Worlds) | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 30, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Linus Tech (Illiteracy) Tips, LTT, Buys Phoronix Media | Techrights
⦿ Microsoft Has Laid Off Lennart Poettering and Hired Elon Musk | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
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http://techrights.org/2023/03/31/irc-log-300323/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/31/linus-and-michael/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/31/microsoft-fires-lennart-poettering/#comments
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http://techrights.org/2023/03/31/linux-lite-6-4/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/03/31/mostly-leftovers/#comments
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✐ Decided_to_Quit_Debian_and_Use_WSL_Instead_(Best_of_Both_Worlds)⠀✐
Posted in Debian, Humour, Microsoft at 8:13 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Hayden_Barnes:_the_only_thing_Debian_needs_is_a_decent_back
door⦈_
Summary: Today starts a journey to a “better” experience, which lets Microsoft
audit_the_kernel and leverage telemetry to improve my Debian experience
THIS is a hard post to write. Today, April 1, I’m beginning my migration. I
will report on it later today, explaining how it all went along. Maybe I’ll
change my mind.
“Thankfully I already have some Microsoft MVPs like Hayden Barnes helping my
migration.”Having used GNU/Linux since my teenage years I’ve decided that it’s
just too boring. I’ve not rebooted Debian since January when I first installed
it (only the post-install reboot) and I am beginning to wonder if there’s a
bootkit somewhere inside my system. Thank God, Microsoft made “secure” boot to
do this for me. As it turns out, Debian 11 is not good anymore. Vista 11 has
WSL, which reinvents Cygwin, dating_back_to_1995. So why on Earth use only GNU/
Linux? Best of both worlds, right? Anything else would be an act of bigotry and
intolerance.
Thankfully I already have some Microsoft MVPs like Hayden Barnes helping my
migration. They kept coming to our IRC network for years, advocating WSL. I
give up! They have a point! █
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠻⠟⠰⣿⣻⣿⢇⣈⣻⢿⣿⣷⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⠛⠁⠀⠀⠙⠟⠛⠋⠀⠀⠀⠰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣦⣼⣴⣿⣿⣿
⠿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⠽⢿⣿⣌⡟⠻⡿⡻⣿⢏⡐⡙⠀⠛⠿⣿⣼⣿⡉⣶⣿⣿⡆⠀⠙⠻⢿⠟⢆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⡀⣀⢀⡀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿
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⣿⡃⢀⣞⣫⢭⣤⡘⢋⠀⣾⣟⣟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢻⣿⣿⡿⠖⠀⠀⠀⠀⠚⠁⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⠽⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢱⣭⣳⣿⣶⣽
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⠿⠛⢉⣉⡀⣀⣤⣅⠀⠈⢀⣀⣀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⠀⣀⣀⡀⢀⣠⣤⡀⢀⣀⣀⡀⣀⡀⣀⡀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⣀⣀⠀⢀⣠⣤⡀⢀⣀⡀⣀⡀⠀⣀⣀⣀⡈⠛⣩⣭⣈⠛⣉⣤⣍⠙⣉⣉⣉⡛⢿⣿⣿
⢀⡀⢸⣿⡇⣿⣏⠛⠃⠀⢸⣿⣿⡇⠀⢸⣿⡏⣿⡇⣿⡏⠁⣼⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⡉⠁⣿⣧⣿⡇⠉⣿⡏⠁⠀⣿⡏⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⣿⣿⢹⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⠀⣿⡇⣿⡇⣿⣏⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿
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⡿⡀⠸⠿⠇⠻⠷⠿⠃⠀⠿⠏⠹⠿⠀⠸⠿⠷⠿⠃⠿⠷⠶⠘⠿⠾⠟⠸⠿⠶⠆⠿⠈⠿⠇⠠⠿⠇⠀⠀⠿⠷⠿⠏⠿⠏⠹⠿⠘⠿⠾⠟⠸⠿⠟⠿⠆⠀⠿⠿⠾⠟⠘⠿⠾⠟⢀⠻⠷⠿⠃⠿⠇⠿⠇⢸⣺⣿
⠥⣄⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠰⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣶⣶⣾⢸⠟⣶⣾⣿⣷⣶⢄⡀⣽⣿⣽
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Posted in GNU/Linux, Humour, Kernel, Microsoft at 8:38 pm by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
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Summary: Phoronix Media is being acquired by a larger company; the site will
not change though
Linus Gabriel Sebastian, founder of Linus Tech Tips (LTT), has just announced
the transfer of Phoronix Media (best known for Phoronix.com and PTS) to his
company based in Canada.
“Readers of the site won’t be affected. They can still get a spoonful of
Microsoft chaff along with plenty of (other) ads.”“Phoronix.com and PTS are a
strategic addition to our growing portfolio,” remarked Yvonne Ho, who will
oversee the operations to ensure the benchmarks always include ClearLinux and
articles habitually include a Microsoft distro that only Microsoft uses.
Michael Larabel could not be reached for comment. He has been busy this past
month trying to figure out new and innovative ways to block all the ad
blockers. Mr. Sebastian insists that evading_ads_is_nothing_short_of_piracy.
Readers of the site won’t be affected. They can still get a spoonful of
Microsoft chaff along with plenty_of_(other)_ads. █
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Posted in Humour, IBM, Microsoft, Red_Hat at 7:46 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Microsoft hires Elon Musk to oversee layoffs, algorithm decides to fire
Poettering
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Got_Hollerith_tabulating_machine;willing_to_travel⦈
Summary: Poettering gets rehired by IBM; IBM and Microsoft announce merger,
putting Poettering back into his former position
MICROSOFT is going through some truly tough times. There are layoffs every
week, the company is unable to hide it by compelling staff to sign NDAs (the
press finds out eventually), and tens of thousands of puff pieces about a
chaffbot cannot distract the public entirely… from the_real_crisis.
“As a result, the first person to go is Lennart Poettering, who quietly
defected from IBM to Microsoft only months ago.”Microsoft has just announced,
in its Friday shareholders meeting, that it has convinced Elon Musk to join
Microsoft’s Board of Directors and spend some time carrying out duties at
Microsoft, at least at a part-time capacity, focusing on “AI”.
“Musk has demonstrated solid track record running companies that suffer deep
losses,” the company said in its meeting minutes, “not only convincing a lot of
staff to leave voluntarily but also laying off a significant proportion without
paying severance.”
“IBM has meanwhile signalled that it is willing to rehire Mr. Poettering, but
discussions are still ongoing about the IBM/Microsoft merger, which dates back
to 2011.”An anonymous source told us that OpenAI has unveiled a new algorithm
for HR. As a result, the first person to go is Lennart Poettering, who quietly
defected from IBM to Microsoft only months ago. Poettering insists that it was
not a defection, it was just a matter of wearing the correct badge after more
than a decade of work, which some deemed sabotage.
IBM has meanwhile signalled that it is willing to rehire Mr. Poettering, but
discussions are still ongoing about the IBM/Microsoft merger, which dates back
to 2011. The discussions are already more than a decade old and Bill Gates is
losing interest in them. █
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o WINE_or_Emulation
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
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 Licensing_/_Legal
o Programming/Development
* Leftovers
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Security
# Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
o Defence/Aggression
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 Monopolies
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Thinking_about_switching_to_Linux?_6_things_you
need_to_know⠀⇛
Now is the perfect time to migrate to Linux. Here’s
why.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD_Now_500:_Guarding_the_Wire⠀⇛
Wireguard VPN Server with Unbound on OpenBSD,
Auditing for OpenZFS Storage Performance, OpenBSD
7.2 on a Thinkpad X201, Practical Guides to fzf,
Replacing postfix with dma, and more
# ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Linux_Action_News_286⠀⇛
What we’re liking about GNOME 44, how Microsoft’s
Linux distro is trying to attract more users, and
we bust a CentOS myth.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Reducing_direct-map_fragmentation_with
__GFP_UNMAPPED⠀⇛
The kernel’s direct map makes all of a system’s
physical memory available to the kernel within its
address space — on 64-bit systems, at least. This
seemingly simple feature has proved to be hard to
maintain, in the face of the requirements faced by
current systems, while keeping good performance.
The latest attempt to address this issue is this
patch set from Mike Rapoport adding more direct-map
awareness to the kernel’s page allocator.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Generic_iterators_for_BPF⠀⇛
BPF programs destined to be loaded into the kernel
are generally written in C but, increasingly, the
environment in which those programs run differs
significantly from the C environment. The BPF
virtual machine and associated verifier make a
growing set of checks in an attempt to make BPF
code safe to run. The proposed addition of an
iterator mechanism to BPF highlights the kind of
features that are being added — as well as the
constraints placed on programmers by BPF.
One of the many checks performed by the BPF
verifier at program-load time is to convince itself
that the program will terminate within a reasonable
period of time, a process that involves simulating
the program’s execution. This constraint has made
supporting loops in BPF programs challenging since
the beginning; it has only been possible to use
loops since the 5.3 release. Even with that
addition, convincing the verifier that a loop will
terminate can be a challenge; this annoyance has
led to, among other things, the addition of
features like bpf_loop(), which puts the looping
logic for some simple cases into the kernel’s C
code.
Not all problems are readily addressable by a
simple function like bpf_loop(), though. Many loops
in BPF programs are simply iterating through a set
of objects, and BPF developers would like easier
ways to do that. While numerous languages have some
sort of built-in notion of iteration over a set, C
does not. As noted above, though, BPF is not really
C; this patch set from Andrii Nakryiko reiterates
(so to speak) that point by adding an iteration
mechanism to the BPF virtual machine.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Zero-copy_I/O_for_ublk,_three_different_ways⠀⇛
The ublk subsystem enables the creation of user-
space block drivers that communicate with the
kernel using io_uring. Drivers implemented this way
show some promise with regard to performance, but
there is a bottleneck in the way: copying data
between the kernel and the user-space driver’s
address space. It is thus not surprising that there
is interest in implementing zero-copy I/O for ublk.
The mailing lists have recently seen three
different proposals for how this could be done.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 6_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_GUI_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.
This roundup only includes software with a
graphical user interface. Circuit simulation
backends are covered in this roundup. And software
that offers electronic design automation are also
covered in a separate roundup.
We include software which acts as a simulation
backend. We also include software with a GUI that
lets you use these backends. Here’s our verdict
captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style chart.
# ⚓ PowerDNS ☛ PowerDNS_DNSdist_1.8.0_Released⠀⇛
We are thrilled to release DNSdist 1.8.0 today!
This 1.8.0 release contains a significant amount of
changes since the last major release, 1.7.0, which
was released a bit over a year ago. We try to stick
to a major release every six months, but this one
took a bit longer than expected.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Bitbucket_for_Newbies:_Mastering_Basic_Commands_and
Collaborating_on_Code⠀⇛
As a newbie to Bitbucket, navigating the platform
and using its basic commands can be overwhelming.
However, with some guidance, you can quickly become
proficient in using Bitbucket.
# ⚓ nixCraft ☛ How_To_Install_LXD_on_Debian_11_Linux⠀⇛
You can install LXD pure-container hypervisor on
Debian 11 Linux to run an unmodified version of
Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, Alpine, Arch and
many other Linux distro. You can mimic AWS or
different cloud instance types with LXD for testing
and deployment purposes on your development
machine. You can also run a GUI app such as Firefox
completely isolated using LXD for security or
privacy reasons. Let us see how to set up and use
LXD on the Debian Linux 11 server or desktop.
# ⚓ urldecode_with_AWK⠀⇛
$ awk -niord '{printf RT?$0chr("0x"substr(RT,2)):
$0}' RS=%..
Fast and simple awk urldecoder!
Note: Parameter -n is specific to GNU awk
⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Verify_if_OpenVPN_Protocol_is_Installed_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
VPN or Virtual Private Network is an encrypted path between a device
and a network over the internet. VPNs ensure the security of
transmitted data by providing encrypted channels for data flow.
⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Delete_Files_on_Linux⠀⇛
Linux has tons of commands that simplify tasks and make work more
efficient. Rm is a helpful command for quickly deleting files, links,
directories, etc.
⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Install_Ansible_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛
Ansible is an open-source software platform for configuring and
managing computers. It combines multi-node software deployment, ad
hoc task execution, and configuration management. Ansible works over
SSH and requires no software or daemons to be installed on remote
nodes.
⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_generate_CA-signed_SSL_certificates_for_a_Website⠀⇛
What is an SSL certificate? SSL certificate is a digital certificate
that validates the identity of a website and establishes an encrypted
connection. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a security protocol that
allows encrypted communication between web server and client.
⚓ TecMint ☛ How_To_Exclude_a_Schema_While_Restoring_a_PostgreSQL_Database⠀⇛
Sometimes when restoring a multi-schema database from a backup file,
you may want to exclude one or more schemas, for one reason or the
other.
⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Install_Spotify_on_Debian,_Ubuntu,_and_Linux_Mint⠀⇛
Founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon on 23 April 2006, Spotify
is a proprietary Swedish audio streaming and media services provider.
⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Opera_Browser_on_Manjaro_Linux⠀⇛
Welcome to the world of the Opera Browser, a modern, sleek, and
feature-rich web browser designed to make your online experience
efficient and enjoyable. As a Manjaro user, you may be considering
making Opera your default browser, and for good reason!
⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_to_Run_a_Script_Before_Shutdown_Under_Systemd⠀⇛
Modern Linux systems use systemd to manage daemons and system
settings. Systemd is a service manager and initialization system,
which took over from SysvInit
⚓ Linux Cloud VPS ☛ How_to_Install_Grafana_on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Grafana on AlmaLinux
9 OS. If you ever doubt what Grafana is and what it is used for, we
are here to explain it to you.
⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_VSCodium_on_Manjaro_Linux⠀⇛
As a Manjaro Linux user, you may have encountered Visual Studio
Code—a popular and feature-rich source code editor. But have you ever
wondered if there’s a more privacy-focused alternative? Introducing
VSCodium, a free, open-source, and community-driven fork of Visual
Studio Code.
⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Discord_on_Manjaro_Linux⠀⇛
As a Manjaro Linux user, you might wonder why Discord has become such
a popular platform, especially among gamers and those transitioning
to Linux gaming systems. This introduction will highlight the key
aspects that make Discord an essential tool for Linux gamers and
provide a detailed overview of its benefits.
⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_OpenRGB_on_Manjaro_Linux⠀⇛
OpenRGB offers a variety of advantages for Manjaro Linux users
looking to manage their RGB devices seamlessly. By utilizing the AUR
and command line terminal, you can unlock the full potential of your
RGB hardware.
§ WINE or Emulation⠀➾
* ⚓ Wine_stable_release_7.0.2_is_now_available_for_Linux_FreeBSD_and
macOS⠀⇛
The Wine stable release 7.0.2 is now available.
What’s_new in this release:
o Various bug fixes
The source is available_now. Binary packages are in the process
of being built, and will appear soon at their respective
download_locations.
§ Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
* § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
o ⚓ Announcing_D-Installer_0.8⠀⇛
Six weeks ago we announced_D-Installer_0.7
and a lot has happened since then. The most important
news is that we just released a new prototype
with version 0.8, integrating several exciting new
features we will go through in this post. But
this prototype is not only important because of those
features, but also because it will be the last
D-Installer release! Fear not, we are not abandoning the
project… quite the opposite.
We want to consolidate D-Installer in the following
months from the experimental project it
currently is into a solid alternative for installing
several Linux distributions. And the name was
perceived by some people as an obstacle for that. So we
will change it to an already decided
alternative starting with the next prototype.
* § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
o ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Display_your_application_data_with_Streamlit⠀⇛
Streamlit integrates with Python code and offers a low
barrier of entry to visualizing application data in
sophisticated ways.
o ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_access_the_Developer_Sandbox_for_Red_Hat
OpenShift⠀⇛
Red Hat Developer has many labs that you can easily
access through your web browser. The Developer_Sandbox
for_Red_Hat_OpenShift lets you experiment with building
and deploying cloud-native applications in a real
OpenShift environment using only your web browser.
With an integrated development environment (IDE) called
Red_Hat_OpenShift_Dev_Spaces (formerly Red Hat CodeReady
Workspaces), the Developer Sandbox is a playground for
developers looking to explore Kubernetes-based
application platforms. This article provides a step-by-
step guide to getting started with the Developer Sandbox,
where you can, for example, dive into the process of
creating a Camel integration through a web-based
interface.
o ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Try_Camel_K_in_the_Developer_Sandbox_for_Red_Hat
OpenShift⠀⇛
You can now try Camel_K in the Developer_Sandbox_for_Red
Hat_OpenShift, an OpenShift environment you can access
for a free, hands-on experience in building and deploying
cloud-native applications quickly. This article will
guide you to the Developer Sandbox and through a Camel K
integration in a fully web-based experience—no local
installs needed.
If you are unfamiliar with Camel K, it is a subproject of
Apache Camel, which many know as the Swiss Army knife of
integration. Camel K simplifies the process of running
cloud-native integration flows in Kubernetes
environments.
§ What’s so special about Camel K?
Many organizations and developers implement microservices
with varied languages and frameworks, but they usually
forget the existence of purpose-built technologies such
as Apache Camel, packed with hundreds of connectors and
out-of-the-box patterns to resolve typical and
challenging integration scenarios, such as content-based
routing, splitting or data aggregation, protocol
bridging, data transformation, and so on.
* § Debian Family⠀➾
o ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ Daniel_Pocock:_Richard_Rothwell_suicide:_Coroner
report⠀⇛
The coroner’s report is now available for the suicide of
Richard Rothwell. The full report is further down. There
appear to be two key points: Rothwell was stressed about
an imminent tax audit and Rothwell was alone at the time
he decided to commit suicide.
Other observations include the fact he left notes (only
one in four suicide victims does so) and alcohol was
involved. The Debian_Day_volunteer_suicide_victim_Frans
Pop_also_left_a_number_of_notes/emails.
Rothwell worked for approximately 20 years as a school
teacher. During this time, he explored solutions for
using GNU/Linux and free software in education.
Between 2004 and 2006, Rothwell gave a series of
conference presentations about his work. This_is_one_of
the_papers_he_has_published_at_the_time. Through the
Schoolforge_UK_project, he shared his work publicly under
open source licenses.
* § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_Beta_Released_with_GNOME_44,_Linux
Kernel_6.2,_and_New_Installer⠀⇛
Ubuntu 23.04 will be one of the few Ubuntu releases to
include some of the latest and greatest GNU/Linux
technologies and software. For example, it comes with the
recently released GNOME 44 desktop environment for the
Ubuntu Desktop edition, which comes with an updated
Ubuntu font, and it’s powered by the latest Linux 6.2
kernel series for top-notch hardware support.
The Ubuntu Desktop edition also includes a brand-new
installer that has been in development for the past year
and it’s written entirely in Google’s Flutter UI SDK. The
new installer is pretty much identical in functionality
to the old installer from previous Ubuntu releases with
the exception that it doesn’t yet support ZFS
installations.
o ⚓ Lubuntu ☛ Lubuntu_23.04_Beta_Released!⠀⇛
Thanks to all the hard work from our contributors,
Lubuntu 23.04 Beta has been released. With the codename
Lunar Lobster, Lubuntu 23.04 will be the 24th release of
Lubuntu, the tenth release of Lubuntu with LXQt as the
default desktop environment.
o ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_Beta_is_Available_to_Download⠀⇛
This beta build arrives in advance of the final stable
release of Ubuntu 23.04, which is due out April 20. It’s
purpose: to let folks like you and I try it out early to
find bugs, breakages, and report any show-stopping
quirks.
As Ubuntu 23.04 is a short-term release (supported for
just 9 months) there aren’t reams of revolutionary
changes present in this released, which is codenamed the
“Lunar Lobster”.
* § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
o ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ OrangePi_SBC_is_enabled_with_WiFi6/BT5
connectivity⠀⇛
This month, OrangePi launched a new variant of the Orange
Pi 5 Single Board Computer based on the Octa-core
Rockchip RK3588S 64-bit processor. The Orange Pi 5B
supports 8K@60fps video output, Gigabit Ethernet and it
can be configured with up to 256GB eMMC storage.
The new Orange Pi 5B features the same Rockchip processor
with Big.Little architecture as the Orange Pi 5 SBC
launched last year.
The product page doesn’t include OS images for this
board, but it’s mentioned that it will support OrangePi
OS, Ubuntu, Debian, Android, etc. The Orange Pi Wiki page
can be found here, but it doesn’t include documentation
for this SBC as of publication date.
* § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
o ⚓ Arduino ☛ [Arduino]_Early_adopters:_We_want_you!⠀⇛
During Arduino Day 2023, we announced the new UNO R4 and
we are now looking for contributors from the community to
help support the portability of libraries and open source
projects based on an AVR Arduino boards such as the UNO
R3, Mega, Leonardo, and Nano.
o ⚓ Arduino ☛ A_DIY_scissor_lift_for_home_theater_projectors⠀⇛
While their popularity seems to be waning as LCD and OLED
TVs grow in size and shrink in price, projectors can
still be a good choice for home theaters.
* § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
o ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Here_are_our_AI_image_generator_picks_on_Android⠀⇛
o ⚓ SlashGear ☛ The_Coolest_Ways_To_Use_Augmented_Reality_On_Your
Android_Phone⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_just_realizing_Android_has_secret_‘bill
blocker’_mode_–_save_money_every_month_or_live_to_regret_it_|_The
US_Sun⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Sun ☛ Billions_of_Android_owners_can_activate_‘VIP_unlock’
for_faster_phone_–_it’s_life-changing_but_there’s_a_dangerous_catch
|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
o ⚓ Android Police ☛ Xgimi’s_latest_MoGo_portable_Android_TV
projectors_introduce_some_slick_new_image_alignment_tricks⠀⇛
o ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Samsung’s_affordable_Galaxy_Tab_A8_(2022)_tablet
gets_One_UI_5.1/Android_13_update_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
o ⚓ Nokia Mob ☛ Android_13_available_for_Nokia_5.3_(but_unofficially)
–_Nokiamob⠀⇛
o ⚓ GO Media ☛ Beware_This_New_Android_Banking_Malware⠀⇛
o ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Flipboard_expands_Mastodon_support_to_its_Android
application_|_TechCrunch⠀⇛
§ Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
* ⚓ LWN ☛ Hopes_and_promises_for_open-source_voice_assistants⠀⇛
At the end of 2022, Paulus Schoutsen declared 2023 “the year of
voice” for Home Assistant, the popular open-source home-
automation project that he founded nine years ago. The
project’s goal this year is to let users control their home
with voice commands in their own language, using offline
processing instead of sending data to the cloud. Offline voice
control has been the holy grail of open-source home-automation
systems for years. Several projects have tried and failed. But
with Rhasspy’s developer Mike Hansen spearheading Home
Assistant’s voice efforts, this time things could be different.
Science fiction shows and movies have sold us on the idea of
spaceships and homes we can talk to. In recent years, voice
control at home has become possible thanks to the so-called
“smart speakers” from Google, Amazon, and Apple. However,
there’s nothing smart about these devices: their intelligence
is almost completely in the cloud, where the user’s voice
recordings are processed and translated into sentences and
meaning.
This is a complex and computationally intensive task, and these
companies make us believe that their services are required to
be able to use voice control. Of course this comes with
downsides: users don’t have any control over what’s happening
with their voice recordings, which is a big privacy risk. But,
fundamentally, the problem lies even deeper. It just makes no
sense for users to have their voices make a long detour through
the internet just to turn on a light in the same room.
* ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ FOSS_Weekly_#23.13:_New_blendOS_Linux_Distro,_New_Rust
Series,_Ubuntu_Cinnamon_and_More⠀⇛
This week sees the start of a new Rust tutorial series and
takes a look at blendOS Linux distro.
* ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ Open_Source_Approved_License® registry_project_underway_with
help_of_intern,_Giulia_Dellanoce [Ed: But OSI continues to shill
Microsoft proprietary software, GPL violations, and openwashing. OSI has
become a self-harming sham, attacking its very own mission while bagging
bribes from Microsoft.]⠀⇛
I shared last month the details of the new OSI website, hosted
on WordPress.
* § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
o ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ pg_dumpbinary_v2.10_released⠀⇛
Zurich, Switzerland – March 30th, 2023
✐ pg_dumpbinary⠀✐
pg_dumpbinary is a program used to dump a PostgreSQL
database with
data dumped in binary format. The resulting dump must be
restored
using pg_restorebinary that is provided with this tool.
pg_dumpbinary v2.10 was released today, it adds a new
option to the pg_dumpbinary command:
# -C, –compress-level 0-9 : speed of the gzip
compression using the specified
digit, between 1 and 9, default to 6. Setting it
to 0 disable the compression.
o ⚓ YottaDB ☛ YottaDB_r1.38_Released⠀⇛
YottaDB r1.38 is a minor release that includes
functionality needed at short notice by a customer. A
MUPIP REPLICATE option provides for a replication stream
to include updates made by triggers on the source
instance. $ZPEEK() and ^%PEEKBYNAME() provide direct
access to an additional process-private structure.
* § Licensing / Legal⠀➾
o ⚓ LWN ☛ Jumping_the_licensing_shark [Ed: GPL opportunists who
slander the GPL's author for salaries like $250,000 per year]⠀⇛
The concept of copyleft is compelling in a lot of ways,
at least for those who want to promote software freedom
in the world. Bradley Kuhn is certainly one of those
people and has long been working on various aspects of
copyleft licensing and compliance, along with software
freedom. He came to Everything Open 2023 to talk about
copyleft, some of its history—and flaws—and to look
toward the future of copyleft.
Kuhn began by saying that he spends much of his time
these days thinking about the enforcement of GPLv2 and
LGPLv2.1; “it turns out that those are the most widely
used copyleft licenses in the world”, thus they are the
most frequently violated. It is sometimes painful to be
looking at license text written in 1991 and 1993 as we
move through 2023, but that is what he has to do. Outside
of work, though, he has time to think about what sort of
copyleft license he would draft if he were to do so. He
was just out of high school when GPLv2 was released, so
he did not participate in that process at all.
* § Programming/Development⠀➾
o ⚓ Andrew Helwer ☛ Pseudocode_Showdown⠀⇛
Last weekend I had a conversation with an undergraduate
student new to computer science, who was reading CLRS. “I
wish” they said, “that all the pseudocode in my
algorithms textbook was just written in Python.” “Ah” I
said, “but textbook authors sometimes want their work to
endure beyond a decade.” “But Python’s been around for a
long time” came the reply, “and it’s very readable, and
you can’t execute pseudocode anyway so what’s the harm?
o ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Creator_10_–_CMake_update⠀⇛
Now that Qt_Creator_10 has been released, it’s time to
highlight the CMake changes.
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* ⚓ FEBRUARY_6_EARTHQUAKES:_Cat_taken_out_alive_after_staying_49_days_under
the_rubble⠀⇛
Han was removed from under the rubble of an 11-story apartment
building destroyed by the February 6 earthquakes. Suffering
from a broken foot and being severely dehydrated, the cat is
currently under treatment.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Disney_laid_off_the_Marvel_veteran_who_backed_a_Bob_Iger
critic⠀⇛
There’s a Marvel veteran among Disney’s 7,000 job casualties.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Half_of_immigrants_to_Latvia_in_2021_were_returning_Latvians⠀⇛
In 2021, there was an estimated 5 immigrants per 1 000 people
in the EU. Relative to the size of the resident population,
Luxembourg recorded the highest rate of immigration in 2021
(almost 40 immigrants per 1 000 people), followed by Malta (35)
and Cyprus (27). In contrast, Slovakia registered the lowest
rate of immigration, with 1 immigrant per 1 000 people. This
country was followed by Portugal and France, each with 5
immigrants per 1 000 people.
* § Hardware⠀➾
o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ SONOFF_TX_Ultimate_“T5”_smart_touch_wall_switch
support_gestures,_custom_covers⠀⇛
SONOFF TX Ultimate smart touch wall switch, also known as
the SONOFF T5, is another wireless switch from the
company with up to 3 gangs, RGB color edge lights around
the 86x86mm switch, as well as support for gestures and
custom covers. Gestures like swipe left or right are
possible because the full area of the SONOFF T5 switch
acts as a touch sensor, and the RGB LEDs around the
device enable ambient lights in the room at night.
o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Cincoze_P1201_–_A_slim_Atom_x6000E_Elkhart_Lake_PC
for_embedded_and_panel_PC_applications_with_a_CDS_connector⠀⇛
Cincoze P1201 is a slim embedded computer based on an
Atom x6000E Elkhart Lake processor and mostly designed
for panel PC applications thanks to the company’s
patented CDS (Convertible Display System) connector that
allows the mini PC to slide into the back of a display
for easy installation.
o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ ACEMAGICIAN_T8PLUS_–_Processor_N95_mini_PC_comes
with_three_HDMI_ports,_dual_GbE⠀⇛
ACEMAGICIAN T8PLUS is an ultra-compact mini PC based on
the latest Intel Processor N95 “Alder Lake N-Series”
processor with three HDMI video outputs and dual gigabit
Ethernet ports. The 8.9 x 8.9 x 4.3mm computer ships with
8GB LPDDR5 memory, a 256GB M.2 NVMe SSD, and is also
equipped with three USB 3.0 ports, a WiFi 5 and Bluetooth
4.2 wireless module, and a 3.5mm audio jack, plus a
Kensington lock slot.
o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Korean_Chipmakers_Say_CHIPS_Act_Requirements
Unacceptable:_Report⠀⇛
Korean semiconductor industry finds U.S. CHIPS funding
requirements a threat to its trade secrets.
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ The Scientist ☛ COVID-19_Infections_May_Reshape_Genetic
Landscape⠀⇛
SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers structural changes in the
host cell’s DNA, which provide a molecular explanation
for long COVID, a new study suggests.
o ⚓ The Scientist ☛ New_Synthetic_E._coli_Is_Immune_to_Bacteriophage
Infection⠀⇛
Self-contained synthetic E. coli resistant to viral
infection could prove invaluable to the biotechnology
industry by increasing product consistency and reducing
safety concerns.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Biden_leaves_House_Dems_fuming_again_over_COVID
emergency⠀⇛
President Biden’s plans to sign a resolution ending the
COVID_national_emergency has some House Democrats once
again simmering over the White House’s communications.
Why it matters:The latest flare-up of tensions threatens
to reopen wounds created earlier this month over D.C.
crime and immigration.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ New_data:_America’s_Sun_Belt_shift_continues_as_COVID
eases⠀⇛
Texas was home to six of the top 10 largest-growing
counties in 2022, according to Census_Bureau_data out
this morning.
Why it matters:America’s shift in money, people and power
to the Sun Belt — propelled by COVID — is continuing even
as the pandemic eases.
=========================================================
Driving the news: The largest gainer was Maricopa County,
Ariz. (Phoenix). The other three entries on the top 10
growth counties list (numerically, as opposed to
percentage growth) were in Florida — Polk, Lee and
Hillsborough counties.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Studies_Link_Common_Childhood_Viruses_to_Rare
Hepatitis_Cases⠀⇛
Infection with multiple common viruses may be responsible
for the cases that puzzled doctors last year.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Judge_strikes_down_free_HIV_drugs,_other_preventive
services_under_ACA⠀⇛
A federal_judge_in_Texas ruled Thursday that employers
can’t be required to cover specified preventive health
care services under the Affordable_Care_Act.
Why it matters: The ruling has major implications for the
more than 150 million Americans on employer-sponsored
health plans and could put millions on the hook
financially for certain skin and lung cancer screenings,
statins for heart disease, medications that prevent HIV
and other services recommended by the U.S. Preventive
Services Task Force.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ How_to_reenroll_for_Medicaid_as_coverage_cliff
approaches⠀⇛
Medicaid coverage may soon end for millions_of_Americans
as a pandemic-era rule nears its end.
The big picture:U.S. states will undergo a phased
“unwinding” of coverage after years of Medicaid agencies
being_required under the COVID public health emergency to
provide continuous Medicaid coverage to all enrollees,
even if their eligibility changed.
=========================================================
# Between_five_and_14_million_people across the
nation could lose Medicaid coverage in the coming
year, the_Kaiser_Family_Foundation_estimates.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Minnesota_train_incident_comes_as_rail_safety_under
scrutiny⠀⇛
Residents of a Minnesota town were under an evacuation
order for at least seven hours Thursday after a train
hauling ethanol and corn syrup derailed and caught fire,
according to local_officials.
Why it matters:The derailment comes as Congress is
weighing rail safety reforms stemming from a separate
train derailment last month in East_Palestine,_Ohio,
which prompted evacuations and lingering health concerns
for residents.
=========================================================
# There were no injuries related to the Minnesota
derailment, and the incident did not affect ground
water in the area, the Kandiyohi_County_Sheriff’s
Office said.
* § Security⠀➾
o ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Thursday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (xorg-server
and xrdp), Fedora (mingw-python-certifi, mingw-python3,
mingw-zstd, moodle, python-cairosvg, python-markdown-it-
py, redis, xorg-x11-server, and yarnpkg), Slackware
(mozilla and xorg), SUSE (grub2, ldb, samba,
libmicrohttpd, python-Werkzeug, rubygem-rack, samba,
sudo, testng, tomcat, webkit2gtk3, xorg-x11-server,
xstream, and zstd), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-
dell300x, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-
aws-5.4, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4,
linux-ibm-5.4, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi-5.4, linux-
gke, linux-gke-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-kvm, php-nette, and
xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-18.04, xwayland).
o ⚓ LWN ☛ X.org_vulnerability_and_releases⠀⇛
The X.Org project has announced a vulnerability in its X
server and Xwayland (CVE-2023-1393).
o ⚓ Gray Dot Media Group ☛ Google_reveals_spyware_attack_on_Android,
iOS,_and_Chrome⠀⇛
The primary target of this spyware campaign were the
unsuspecting users in Italy, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan.
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has discovered two
highly-targeted mobile spyware campaigns that use zero-
day exploits to deploy surveillance software against
iPhone and Android smartphone users.
Google TAG discovered two “distinct, limited, and highly
targeted” campaigns aimed at users of Android, iOS, and
Chrome on mobile devices. The campaigns used zero-day and
n-day exploits, taking advantage of the period between
when vendors release vulnerability fixes and when
hardware manufacturers update end-user devices with those
patches, creating exploits for unpatched platforms.
o ⚓ NL Times ☛ Dutch_railway_NS_warns_780,000_customers_about_data
breach⠀⇛
The Dutch national railway, NS, has warned about 780,000
customers that their personal data may be involved in a
data breach.The train operator works closely with market
research firm Blauw. External parties gained access to
personal data at via a software supplier for that
company. For example, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers
or names of train passengers who participated in a
satisfaction survey may have been leaked.
“Depending on the study in which the customer
participated, this may concern personal data such as
name, e-mail address and telephone number. It does not
concern financial data or passwords,” the NS said.
o ⚓ The Record ☛ Data_stolen_from_Florida_sheriff’s_office_leaked_by
LockBit_ransomware_group [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛
The LockBit ransomware group has leaked data it stole
from Washington County Sheriff’s Office in northeastern
Florida.
o ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Hackers_compromise_3CX_desktop_app_in_a
supply_chain_attack [Ed: Proprietary dumpster fire]⠀⇛
o ⚓ CA:_Video_captures_thief_stealing_hundreds_of_medical_records
from_Sherman_Oaks_dental_office⠀⇛
Security video captures a thief breaking into a Sherman
Oaks dental office and stealing hundreds of files
containing patients’ personal information on Thursday.
The break-in happened at Riverside Dental located on the
12900 block of Riverside Drive just after 3 a.m.
Surveillance cameras captured the thief entering the
office through a broken back window. As he finds the room
where medical records are stored on a shelf, he’s seen
quickly grabbing large piles of folders and stuffing them
into a bag.
o ⚓ Students’_bank_accounts_hacked_because_of_ticketing_software
breach⠀⇛
Almost a month after attending a concert at Cornell
University featuring Beach Bunny — a popular alternative
rock band — on Jan. 28, several Ithaca College students’
credit and debit card information was breached and
varying amounts of money were stolen.
On Feb. 24, Information Technology at Cornell University
released a security alert informing students that
Cornell’s ticketing software partner and vendor,
AudienceView, experienced a platform breach that affected
ticket buyers beginning in February and some buyers are
still losing money because of the breach.
o ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Hospitals_owned_by_Universal_Health_Services
start_filing_breach_reports_about_Adelanto_HealthCare_Ventures
breach_in_2021⠀⇛
Happening now: A number of hospitals are filing breach
notices this week that appear to be linked to a breach at
Adelanto HealthCare Ventures (AHCV) in 2021. The
hospitals are all owned by Universal Health Services LLC
(UHS).
o ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Data_of_2_million_Dutch_people_leaked,_software
supplier_taken_to_court⠀⇛
o ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Nine_months_after_ransomware_attack,_Atlantic
Dialysis_Management_Services_notifies_patients_and_regulators⠀⇛
In August 2022, DataBreaches reported a ransomware attack
on Atlantic Dialysis Management Services (ADMS) by Snatch
Team. DataBreaches first learned of the breach in June
2022, when Snatch Team named ADMS on their leak site.
Between then and August 16, when DataBreaches reported on
the incident, ADMS ignored requests from this site for
information about their response to the attack. Even
after Snatch Team started leaking data and DataBreaches
contacted ADMS again, they did not reply. DataBreaches’
reporting in August 2022 included examples of what had
been leaked by then and questioned some of the claims
ADMS made in their press release of August 5.
DataBreaches reported, in part:
o ⚓ Trail Of Bits ☛ How_to_avoid_the_aCropalypse⠀⇛
By Henrik Brodin, Lead Security Engineer, Research The
aCropalypse is upon us! Last week, news about CVE-2023-
21036, nicknamed the “aCropalypse,” spread across Twitter
and other media, and I quickly realized that the
underlying flaw could be detected by our tool,
PolyTracker.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_FDA_will_no_longer_approve_digital_medical_devices
that_are_vulnerable_to_cyber_attacks⠀⇛
The majority of digital medical devices (53%) in the US,
as well as internet-connected tools in hospitals, are at
risk of cyberattack, according to a 2022 FBI report.
o ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ ‘They_outsmarted_us.’_3CX_CEO_acknowledges
mistakes_handling_potential_supply_chain_cyberattack⠀⇛
“We have a security team, we do our own pentesting, we’ve
got software scanners, we got a CSO … Nonetheless, they
outsmarted us.”
o ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Biden_administration_goes_global_in_effort_to
constrain_spyware_use⠀⇛
Eleven nations agreed on Thursday to responsible use of
commercial spyware. Israel, a key spyware exporter, is
not part of the deal.
o ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Time_to_prepare_for_Ubuntu_18.04_LTS_end_of_standard
support_on_31_May_2023_–_Options_for_AWS_users.⠀⇛
As mentioned in our recent blog post, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
‘Bionic Beaver‘ will reach the end of the standard five-
year maintenance window on 31 May 2023.
o § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Software_Bug_Lets_You_Overclock_AMD’s
5800X3D_to_Death_In_Seconds⠀⇛
A glitch in seemingly all motherboard software has
been found that allows AMD’s locked Ryzen 7 5800X3D
to be overclocked well beyond its capabilities.
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ Assessing_the_risk_of_new_.nl_registrations_using
RegCheck⠀⇛
Guest Post: New tool helps to identify potentially
malicious domain name registrations.
* § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
o ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Next_Ugandan_rotation_ready_for_DR_Congo
deployment⠀⇛
Ahead of moving into eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC), a Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) contingent
was told they would be on the ground to help “a country
in turmoil”.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Philippines_Ferry_Fire_Kills_at_Least_28⠀⇛
The vessel caught fire near the southern island province
of Basilan, the coast guard said. The cause of the
accident was under investigation.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Puts_Sanctions_on_Man_Accused_of_Working_on
Russia-North_Korea_Arms_Deal⠀⇛
A White House spokesman said the man would be in
violation of several U.N. Security Council resolutions.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Turkey’s_parliament_ratifies_Finland’s
membership_in_NATO⠀⇛
Turkey’s parliament has ratified Finland’s application to
join NATO, lifting the last hurdle to the Nordic
country’s long-delayed accession into the Western
military alliance. All 276 lawmakers present voted in
favor of Finland’s bid Thursday, days after Hungary’s
parliament also endorsed Helsinki’s accession. Alarmed by
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a year ago, Finland and
Sweden abandoned their decades-long policy of
nonalignment and applied to join the alliance.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Turkey_clears_the_way_for_Finland_to_join_NATO⠀⇛
Turkey’s parliament on Thursday approved Finland’s_NATO
membership, clearing the way for the Nordic country to
join the alliance.
Why it matters:Finland’s NATO membership, once official,
will more than double the length of the alliance’s
borders with Russia — dramatically changing the security
landscape in Europe.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Mexico_Investigates_Migrant_Center_Fire_Deaths
as_Homicide_Case⠀⇛
The authorities identified eight suspects and said
government workers and private security workers had done
nothing to help migrants flee the blaze at a detention
center in Ciudad Juárez.
o ⚓ RFA ☛ Tsai_talks_in_US_–_behind_closed_doors⠀⇛
As Beijing keeps a watchful eye, Taiwan’s leader delivers
a speech in the US to a private audience.
o ⚓ YLE ☛ Supo:_Russian_espionage_in_Finland_significantly_weakened⠀⇛
Intelligence gathering by Russians has chiefly been
carried out by individuals under diplomatic cover,
according to the Security and Intelligence Service.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Biggest_Battle_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
Why Russia and Ukraine are fighting for a city with
little strategic value.
o ⚓ The Local SE ☛ Turkey’s_parliament_to_vote_through_Finland’s_Nato
bid_leaving_Sweden_alone⠀⇛
Turkey was set on Thursday to become the final Nato
nation to approve Finland’s membership of the US-led
defence alliance in the wake of Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine.
o ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Experts_react:_Your_guide_to_the_Taiwanese
president’s_trip_to_the_US_and_Central_America⠀⇛
President Tsai Ing-wen’s trip comes as US tensions with
China are nearing a boiling point, and Taiwan is hustling
to hang on to its allies in Latin America.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Azerbaijan_Denounces_‘Slanderous’_Comments_By_Top_Iranian
Commander⠀⇛
Azerbaijan has denounced comments by a senior Iranian
military commander who said members of the Islamic State
militant group had fought for Azerbaijan and were still
based in the country.
o ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Disinformation_and_democratic_resilience_in
Taiwan⠀⇛
Since 2000, Taiwan has been a top target of
misinformation campaigns largely propagated by the
Chinese Communist Party and its proxies.
o ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Putin’s_nuclear_saber-rattling_is_a_sign_of
dangerous_Russian_desperation⠀⇛
Vladimir Putin’s latest bout of nuclear saber-rattling is
a clear indication of Russia’s growing desperation as the
invasion of Ukraine continues to unravel amid mounting
military losses, writes Peter Dickinson.
o ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ China’s_diplomatic_offensive_has_reached_Spain
and_the_EU⠀⇛
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s visit to China
this week is both significant and symbolic—just a week
after Xi Jinping met with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
o ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Putin’s_persistent_nuclear_bluster⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to demonstrate
not only his strategic shortfalls, but his persistent
bluster. His latest announcement that he will deploy
tactical (non-strategic) nuclear weapons to Belarus is
but another example of fear-mongering…
o ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Australia_should_harden_its_response_to_Iran’s
hostility⠀⇛
The people responsible for Australia’s security are fully
aware of the Iranian regime’s activities targeting
Australians, at home and abroad.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ 6_U.S._Service_Members_Suffered_Traumatic_Brain
Injuries_in_Syria_Attacks⠀⇛
The Pentagon said the injuries were diagnosed during
routine screenings in the days after the strikes by
Iranian-backed militants.
o ⚓ RFA ☛ Junta_jets_bomb_village_in_western_Myanmar,_killing_10⠀⇛
Seemingly unprovoked air raid occurred in an area with no
fighting, residents say.
o ⚓ RFA ☛ North_Korea_launches_anti-divorce_campaign,_targeting
women⠀⇛
Convincing disgruntled wives to stay with their families
amid harsh economic slump seems key thrust of program
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Soldier_Jailed_In_Crimea_For_Desertion⠀⇛
A court in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian region of
Crimea has sentenced a military serviceman to nine years
in prison for desertion.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Blacklists_Slovak_For_Allegedly_Facilitating_Arms
Deals_Between_North_Korea,_Russia⠀⇛
The United States has imposed sanctions on a Slovakian
man who allegedly worked as a broker for Russia in its
efforts to purchase arms and munitions from North Korea
to support its war on Ukraine.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ UN_Court_Rejects_Iranian_Bid_To_Unfreeze_Funds_But_Faults
U.S._For_Seizing_Other_Assets⠀⇛
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has rejected
Iran’s bid to unblock nearly $2 billion in assets
belonging to its central bank that were frozen by the
United States over alleged terrorist attacks.
o ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_set_to_join_Nato_after_Turkish_parliament
approval⠀⇛
In a historic shift, Finland has been accepted as a full
Nato member by all 30 countries in the alliance.
Meanwhile neighbouring Sweden still awaits its green
light.
o ⚓ YLE ☛ Turkish_parliament_to_debate_Finland’s_Nato_membership_on
Thursday⠀⇛
Ankara’s approval is the only remaining obstacle to
Finnish membership in the military alliance.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Baltic_and_Nordic_countries_discuss_regional_security⠀⇛
On March 29, the State Secretary of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Latvia, Andris Pelšs, welcomed the
State Secretaries (senior civil servants, not to be
confused with U.S.-style Secretaries of State) from the
Foreign Ministries of the Baltic States and Nordic
countries (Nordic-Baltic Eight, NB8) to their annual
meeting in Rīga organised this year by Latvia as the
coordinator of cooperation in the NB8 format, according
to a release from the ministry.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_Goes_Dark:_NASA_Images_Drive_Home_a
Nation’s_Anguish⠀⇛
A satellite operated by NASA and NOAA bares how Russia’s
drones and missiles knocked out the nation’s power.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_Berlin,_King_Charles_Lauds_Germany’s_Support
for_Ukraine⠀⇛
“Together we must be vigilant against threats to our
values,” the British monarch said to German lawmakers.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukrainians_in_a_Hidden_Command_Post_See_Bakhmut
Going_Their_Way⠀⇛
Ukrainian commanders said that Russia exhausted all its
reserves on the eastern city, though soldiers said the
cost in lives had been steep.
* § Environment⠀➾
o ⚓ Axios ☛ This_winter_was_wetter_than_usual_from_California_to
Minnesota⠀⇛
A map of the contiguous U.S. showing winter 2022-23
precipitation anomalies from the 1991-2020 average. Data:
NOAA; Map: Axios Visuals
Much of California and the midwestern United States just had some of the
wettest winter weather on record, per data from the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ I_was_part_of_the_Israeli_National_Security_Council.
Climate_change_has_been_an_important_Israeli_national_security_challenge_for
years.⠀⇛
Israel’s experience of addressing climate change as a national
security challenge is also an approach that bears sharing with its
regional partners.
⚓ RFA ☛ Countries_ask_UN_court_to_issue_opinion_on_responsibility_for_climate
change⠀⇛
Vanuatu championed push for ICJ opinion after Pacific islands law
students advanced the idea.
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ Erdoğan_says_Putin_may_visit_Turkey_for_nuclear_plant_‘opening’⠀⇛
Anadolu Agency used the term “to officially grant a
nuclear facility status” while reporting that President
Erdoğan said “Putin may visit Turkey on April 27 for the
Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant opening.”
o ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ The_US_clean_energy_transformation_can’t
happen_at_the_expense_of_national_security⠀⇛
The pace of the energy transition has, to this point,
depended on low-cost Chinese production. But the supply
chains that have driven clean tech deployment jeopardize
US national security and must be remade.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_UK’s_new_climate_plan_goes_big_on_carbon_capture—and
fossil_fuels⠀⇛
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Private_jet_pollution_in_Europe_has_skyrocketed_855%
since_the_pandemic⠀⇛
Private jet flights and emissions have soared in Europe
since the pandemic.
o ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Government’s_air_passenger_tax_cut_spurs_launch_of_new
UK_flight_routes_that_emit_double_the_CO2_of_trains⠀⇛
New Which? research finds trains up to three times more
expensive than flying, while airline taxes are reduced
* § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ New_education_center_in_Salaspils_to_tell_stories_of
plant_life⠀⇛
At the end of this year, at the Salaspils National
Botanical Garden, a new environmental education center,
“Botania”, is opening its doors. It will allow everyone
to explore the plant world and gain knowledge
about nature conservation and biodiversity issues,
Latvian Television reported on March 30.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ YLE ☛ Housing_loans_hit_20-year_low⠀⇛
The last time so few mortgages were drawn was in 2003, the Bank
of Finland said.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_SEC_is_closing_a_common_loophole_for_corporate_executives
selling_company_stock⠀⇛
New financial_disclosure_requirements enforced by the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will go into effect on
April 1, 2023 for most companies, removing a common loophole
used by corporate executives to sell company stock.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Cash_makes_a_comeback_in_Latvia⠀⇛
The most recent (Spring 2023) “Payment Radar” report from the
Latvian central bank (Latvijas Banka, LB) suggests that the
ratio between non-cash and cash payments in Latvia was 67% to
33% in February 2023.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Criminal_case_launched_for_EUR_2_million_tax_evasion⠀⇛
The State Revenue Service (VID) has asked for prosecution in a
beauty sector business for the so-called “envelope wages”, or
unaccounted-for cash payments worth €2.6 million, the VID said
March 30.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ In_the_wake_of_SVB_collapse,_the_White_House_is_calling_for_new
rules_for_regional_banks⠀⇛
The Biden_administration urged regulators on Thursday afternoon
to update regulations on regional banks, including some that
were loosened during the Trump_era.
Why it matters:The White House and others have blamed looser
regulations for the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and
Signature Bank earlier this month.
===============================================================
o “Unfortunately, Trump Administration regulators weakened
many important common-sense requirements and supervision
for large regional banks like Silicon Valley Bank and
Signature Bank, whose recent failure led to contagion
throughout the banking system,” a White House official
said on a call with reporters Thursday afternoon.
o “The goal here is to make sure that this does not happen
again,” the official said.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Fewer_people_are_working_remotely_all_the_time—but_not
everyone_is_back_in_the_office⠀⇛
Three years into the pandemic, hybrid work has become the new
norm for remote workers.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Chinese_banking’s_SVB_resilience⠀⇛
Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse has rippled across evert major
banking hub except for China’s. This is because of China’s
unique banking structure which emphases heavy state oversight
and control while minimizing cross border connections with
advanced economies
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russia_faces_long_economic_decline_as_isolated_Putin
turns_to_China⠀⇛
With most avenues for Western partnership indefinitely closed
and Russian economic dependency on China growing rapidly,
Putin’s talk of “economic sovereignty” is starting to sound
very hollow, writes Diane Francis.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Bankers_Are_Convicted_of_Allowing_a_Putin_Ally_to
Deposit_Millions_in_Swiss_Accounts⠀⇛
The accounts were opened in the name of Sergei P. Roldugin, a
concert cellist nicknamed “Putin’s wallet.”
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Macron,_Trying_to_Move_Past_Pension_Fury,_Announces
Water_Plan⠀⇛
President Emmanuel Macron of France presented conservation
proposals after an exceptionally dry winter. But his government
is still dogged by pension protests.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ US_Perceptions_of_China’s_Middle_East_Presence⠀⇛
Dr. Julian Gewirtz and Chris Backemeyer join us to provide
unique insights from a US perspective on the potential
implications of China’s growing presence in the Middle East and
its efforts to replace US dominance on global governance, as
well as the priorities of the US in the MENA region.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Israel_and_the_international_community_have_deep
gaps_on_the_Iran_nuclear_issue._It’s_time_the_Israeli_government_adopts
fresh_thinking.⠀⇛
The Israeli government must understand that there is a need to
dissociate between the nuclear issue, which has only a
diplomatic solution, and Iranian malign activities.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ A_US_senator_is_slowing_down_the_process_to_ban_TikTok,_citing
free_speech_concerns⠀⇛
Rand Paul, the Republican senator from Kentucky, blocked an
attempt by a bipartisan group of congressional lawmakers to
fast-track a US ban on TikTok, the mega-popular social media
app used by more than 150 million Americans
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Former_US_President_Donald_Trump_has_been_indicted_by_a_grand
jury⠀⇛
Donald Trump has become the first former president in the US to
face criminal charges after a five-year investigation,
according_to_a_scoop from the New York Times.
⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Who’s_who_in_the_Manhattan_DA’s_Donald_Trump
indictment⠀⇛
As Donald Trump fought his way to victory in the 2016 presidential
campaign, key allies tried to smooth his bumpy path by paying off two
women who had been thinking of going public with allegations of
extramarital encounters with the Republican. The payoffs are now
believed to be at the center of a grand jury investigation that could
lead to the first-ever criminal prosecution of a former U.S.
president. The cast of key characters in the saga include a porn
actor, a one-time Trump loyalist who turned on his boss and
Manhattan’s first-term district attorney.
⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Trump_indictment_live_updates:_Latest_news,
developments⠀⇛
In the first criminal case against a former president, Donald Trump
has been indicted on charges involving payments made during his 2016
campaign. The charges center on payments made to silence claims of an
extramarital sexual encounter. Prosecutors in New York investigated
money paid to porn actor Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen
McDougal to keep the women from going public with claims that they
had sexual encounters with him.
⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Who’s_Who_in_the_Manhattan_DA’s_Donald_Trump
Investigation⠀⇛
As Donald Trump fought his way to victory in the 2016 presidential
campaign, key allies tried to smooth his bumpy path by paying off two
women who had been thinking of going public with allegations of
extramarital encounters…
⚓ Axios ☛ The_legal_woes_surrounding_Trump_amid_his_Manhattan_indictment⠀⇛
Data: Axios research; Table: Jacque Schrag/Axios
Former_president_Trump’s indictment_this_week isjust one of several legal
challenges bearing down on the leading 2024 Republican presidential candidate.
⚓ Axios ☛ Trump_indicted_by_Manhattan_grand_jury_over_2016_Stormy_Daniels
payment⠀⇛
A grand jury in New York on Thursday indicted former President_Trump
on charges related to an illegal_hush_money_payment in 2016 to adult
film star Stormy Daniels who alleged they had an affair, the
Manhattan district attorney’s office has confirmed.
Why it matters:Trump, who is running_for_president_in_2024 and facing
multiple criminal probes, is the first president in U.S. history —
sitting or former — to face criminal charges. The indictment over a
payment during his first run for president is sure to ripple_through
his_latest_campaign.
⚓ New York Times ☛ Your_Friday_Briefing:_Trump_Indicted⠀⇛
Also, an American journalist arrested in Russia and a Chinese
billionaire’s downfall.
⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Donald_Trump,_Accused_Criminal⠀⇛
NYT reports that Trump has been indicted. CNN has confirmed. A
Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald J. Trump on Thursday for
his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to four
people with knowledge of the matter, a historic development that will
shake up the 2024 presidential race and forever…
⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ The_Yahoos_in_Brazil_Identified_in_Sergey_Cherkasov’s
Complaint⠀⇛
Most of the complaint charging suspected Russian spy Sergey Cherkasov
relies on evidence obtained after Cherkasov was arrested in Brazil.
Where it doesn’t, it nods to far more that the US Intelligence
Community might know.
⚓ Breach Media ☛ Exit_right:_How_Notley_and_Smith_shifted_Alberta’s_political
spectrum⠀⇛
With both the NDP and UCP moving to the right, voters have fewer
choices in Alberta’s 2023 election
§ Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Bolsonaro_Returns_to_Brazil,_Ending_Self-Imposed
Exile⠀⇛
The former president returned to a tense political landscape in
which he is under investigation for spreading election
misinformation and for inspiring the Jan. 8 attack in the
capital.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_court_relaxes_rules_on_sexting⠀⇛
Lithuania is one of few countries that retain a full ban on
pornography. Sexting has been assumed to fall under the
category, but a recent court case has cleared up the
regulation.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian,_63,_Jailed_For_Seven_Years_For_Anti-War_Posts⠀⇛
A court in Moscow has sentenced a 63-year-old man to seven
years in prison for two online posts last year condemning
Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia_Detains_Wall_Street_Journal_Reporter,_Accusing
Him_of_Espionage⠀⇛
The newspaper said it “vehemently denies the allegations”
against Evan Gershkovich, an American, and the White House
called his detention “unacceptable.”
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Russia_has_detained_a_Wall_Street_Journal_reporter_on_espionage
allegations._Here’s_what_we_know.⠀⇛
Russian authorities on Thursday said they had detained an
American reporter for the Wall Street Journal on espionage
charges.
Driving the news: Evan Gershkovich is the first U.S. journalist
to be detained in an espionage case since the Cold War, the
Committee to Protect Journalists told Axios.
* ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Podcast_40:_Making_tabloid_journalism_pay_in_digital
age_at_The_Sun⠀⇛
Sun publisher Dominic Carter explains why the future is bright
in his part of the media.
* ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ ‘What_attention_recession?’_Sun_publisher_Dominic
Carter_says_the_future_is_bright⠀⇛
Sun publisher Dominic Carter says digital growth is outpacing
print decline at the title.
* ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ ‘Jonathan,_I_think_you’re_trying_to_fire_me’:_Geordie
Greig_opens_up_about_Daily_Mail⠀⇛
Greig does not believe Boris Johnson was behind his firing from
the Daily Mail.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ Sister_of_prisoner_who_died_after_torture_announces_candidacy_‘to_be
voice_of_prisoners’⠀⇛
“My top priority will be prisons. I will work to prevent deaths
in prisons from being normalized as suicides,” said Asya Gezer,
who lost her sister in suspicious circumstances after being
sexually assaulted and tortured in prison.
* ⚓ ‘Do_not_let_my_son_die_in_prison’⠀⇛
Songül İlker, seriously ill prisoner Ekim Polat’s mother,
called on the Ministries of Justice and Health: “Do not let my
son die in prison. He needs to be in the hospital for
treatment.”
* ⚓ Pınar_Selek_tried_5th_time:_‘How_many_times_should_a_person_be
acquitted?’⠀⇛
Pınar Selek, an academician and sociologist, was acquitted four
times but is now put on trial for the fifth time with same
accusations. She will be following tomorrow’s hearing at Human
Rights Association in Paris but dozens from France and other
countries will be at the courthouse in İstanbul to be in
solidarity with her.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Americans_aren’t_taking_all_of_their_paid_time_off_from_work⠀⇛
Reproduced from Pew; Chart: Axios Visuals
An outsized share of American workers don’t take all their available paid time
off, according to a Pew Research Center survey out Wednesday morning.
Why it matters:The results run counter to the idea that people are trying to
work less or are less willing to work hard.
⚓ Axios ☛ 7_California_Highway_Patrol_officers_and_nurse_charged_in_2020_death
of_man_in_custody⠀⇛
Seven California Highway Patrol officers and a nurse were charged
with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death in police
custody of Edward_Bronstein, officials in the state announced
Wednesday.
The big picture:Californian authorities last year released video of
the 38 year old who died on March 31, 2020 after screaming “I can’t
breathe” while being restrained by officers who were trying to take a
blood sample.
⚓ Axios ☛ Chinatowns_nationwide_resist_gentrification⠀⇛
Recent threats to some of the nation’s oldest Chinatowns in
Philadelphia, San Francisco and New York City have raised concerns
about displacement for Asian Americans who see Chinatown as both a
symbol of their resilience and a place to protect in the wake of
anti-Asian hate.
Why it matters:Chinatowns have served as an ethnic and cultural
marker since Chinese immigrants first arrived in the U.S. But many
are decreasing_in_size — or completely disappearing — amid urban
development and gentrification as cities look to maximize profit in
their downtown centers.
⚓ New York Times ☛ How_Anti-Israel_Protests_Cost_Indonesia_a_FIFA_Soccer
Championship⠀⇛
Preparations for the tournament were thrown into disarray when a
governor asked Indonesia’s sports ministry to bar Israel’s team from
participating.
⚓ New York Times ☛ Amsterdam_Has_a_Message_for_Male_British_Tourists:_‘Stay
Away’⠀⇛
In an ad campaign aimed at British men between 18 and 35, the Dutch
capital threatens fines for visitors who are looking for a “messy
night.”
⚓ Chronicle Of Higher Education ☛ This_Ohio_Bill_Wouldn’t_Just_Ban_Diversity
Training._It_Would_Reshape_Higher_Ed.⠀⇛
The far-reaching proposal covers diversity training, faculty
performance reviews, graduation requirements, the enrollment of
Chinese students, and more.
⚓ YLE ☛ Thursday’s_papers:_Cleaners’_strike_cancelled,_corporate_leaders_in
trouble_with_the_law,_and_elderly_workers⠀⇛
One in five individuals in senior positions at listed Finnish
companies has been convicted of a crime.
⚓ YLE ☛ Cleaners_fear_sanctions_after_late_strike_cancellation⠀⇛
The strike was cancelled late on Wednesday night after a deal was
reached on pay.
⚓ JURIST ☛ Maryland_appeals_court_reinstates_conviction_of_Adnan_Syed⠀⇛
The Appellate Court of Maryland Tuesday reinstated the conviction of
Adnan Syed for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and remanded the case.
⚓ JURIST ☛ California_reparations_task_force_opens_two-day_public_hearing⠀⇛
The California Reparations Task Force Wednesday convened for a two-
day public comment period to decide how reparations to Black
Californians should be paid.
⚓ RFA ☛ Vietnam_releases_2_prisoners_of_conscience_before_jail_terms_end⠀⇛
Hanoi also rejects U.N. criticism over arbitrary arrest of 9
activists
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* ⚓ CCIA ☛ Bills_Banning_Injury_to_Rivals_Would_Block_Procompetitive
Behavior⠀⇛
Procompetitive behavior by a business benefits consumers but
may harm rival businesses.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Google_must_pay_$162_million_as_a_penalty_in_an_Indian
antitrust_case⠀⇛
An Indian tribunal has upheld a $162 million fine imposed on
Google by the country’s fair trade regulator for abusing its
Android dominance to promote its payment service.
* § Trademarks⠀➾
o ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Which_of_These_Three_Section_2(e)(1)
Mere_Descriptiveness_Refusals_Was/Were_Reversed?⠀⇛
The Board has affirmed the first 15 Section 2(e)(1)
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].
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ Fraktur_Folk_Art_(ca._1750–1820)⠀⇛
This form of folk art from 17th- and 18th-century
Pennsylvania was designed for private, domestic
pleasures.
o ⚓ Joe Brockmeier ☛ Joe_Brockmeier:_Why_would_writing_be_any
different?⠀⇛
Fair warning, I’m going to wade into the whole AI/ChatGPT
discussion. It’s been discussed to death, but I’m going
to jump in anyway. Feel free to click away if you’re
already sick of the topic. I’m going to use “ChatGPT” as
a stand-in for ML/AI-driven writing tools, even though
it’s not the only one on the market and there’s certainly
more to come.
Anyway, it seems like ChatGPT is poised to automate away
a lot of writing work, and we’re in for tools that are
going to produce a whole lot of content of varying
quality and accuracy whether we like that prospect or
not.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Illegal_TV_distributors_detained_in_Rīga_and
Daugavpils⠀⇛
Last week in Rīga and Daugavpils the State Police
detained people involved in the distribution of illegal
television, including the broadcasting of banned Russian
propaganda channels, the police said on March 29.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ Walking_on_the_Katy_Trail⠀⇛
Took a lunch walk today with my wife and youngest son
(who brought his
bike, so he got a walk/ride experience). We drove down to
Mokane and
hopped on the Katy Trail. Walked for two miles total then
came home.
Gorgeous spring day. The trees aren’t leafed out yet, but
the farmer’s
fields are covered in soft greens and purples. Some nice
bulb flowers
budding early as well. One piece of creek that we crossed
over was
bubbling with clear water, but no fish visible. Sunny and
68F with a
light, cool breeze, it was hard to beat.
o ⚓ I_bought_some_books⠀⇛
I usually read just Science Fiction and Fantasy for fun,
or some language study books here and there, but over the
past couple of years I’ve been feeling inspired by the
sort of character developing advice I’ve been seeing in
content I read online.
I’ve completed a first pass of both books, but I’ve only
just started to go back over them and make notes. While I
read them, I did record a few quick notes here and there,
but really just a few thinking points. I’ll probably post
more on these two texts over the next couple of weeks.
o ⚓ On_lazyness_and_growing_up…⠀⇛
While wife and son are visiting the in-laws for a week i
have time to visit the pub again… bartender, do you have
Grasovka in stock? Yes? Great!
Turning in the general direction to the next patron i
start to ramble…
The biggest bane in my life always was my lazyness… but a
particular kind of lazyness: If there is a deadline, a
release date or an emergency i am hyper productive, i
work from 05:00 – 22:00, eat, sleep and jump out of bed
fresh as the morning just to head straight to work. But
on the other hand… routine work is killing me. Give me a
straight good workday without emergencies or big
catastrophes and i am doing the bare minimum or even less
to just get by. Just today my boss told me “Mr.
ralfwause, i am absolutely glad you work here and i hope
you will work here in 20 years from now, but sometimes…
sometimes i have this urge to simply shoot you…”.
o ⚓ Testing_midnight.sh⠀⇛
There seems to be conditions under which “midnight.sh”
does not work… in particular, the server often seems to
answer that there is no content, especially when I’m
sending only one line as a reply.
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o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ CubicleNate ☛ Linux_Saloon_|_25_Mar_2023_|_Archcraft
Linux⠀⇛
I am not what one would call a huge fan of Arch
Linux or its derivatives. My past experiences have
all been pretty poor so really, the bar is set
quite low. I don’t expect much from an Arch based
distro.
# ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ What_makes_a_“Linux_Game”_a_“LINUX_Game”?⠀⇛
Listen now (20 min) | If a game uses Wine,
Javascript, or various engines or interpreters… is
it a “Linux” game?
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Restore_Grub_Bootloader_in
Linux⠀⇛
The GNU Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) is a
powerful and flexible utility that links your
motherboard’s BIOS to your operating system’s
kernel. It works by loading a small program in your
motherboard’s memory, which it uses to bootstrap a
larger multiboot binary.
However, there are instances where GNU GRUB fails
to load your operating system’s kernel. For
example, a dual-boot setup with Linux and Windows
often results in the latter wiping out the GNU
bootloader. This tutorial shows you how you can
recover your system by reinstalling GRUB using some
of the most popular Linux distributions.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Getting_the_most_out_of_Pop!_OS_by_installing
extensions⠀⇛
Pop!_OS is a versatile operating system that can be
customized with extensions to suit your needs. In
this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of
installing and using extensions to enhance your
Pop!_OS experience.
# ⚓ Jonathan_McDowell:_Buttering_up_my_storage⠀⇛
(TL;DR: I’ve been trying out btrfs in some places
instead of ext4, I’ve hit absolutely zero issues
and there are a few features that make me plan to
use it more.)
Despite (or perhaps because of) working on storage
products for a reasonable chunk of my career I have
tended towards a conservative approach to my
filesystems. By the time I came to Linux ext2 was
well established, the move to ext3 was a logical
one (the joys of added journalling for faster
recovery after unclean shutdowns) and for a long
time my default stack has been MD_raid with LVM2 on
top and then ext4 as the filesystem.
# ⚓ OSNote ☛ How_to_Install_Apache_Maven_on_Debian⠀⇛
Apache Maven is a build automation tool for Java,
developed by Apache and vigorously supported by a
wide community of contributors. The project does
not support other programming languages, but the
Maven ecosystem is growing quickly to include more
and more plug-ins that cover various tasks.
# ⚓ LinuxTechLab ☛ How_to_Restore_Corrupt_SQL_Server_Database
on_Linux?⠀⇛
Do you want to recover a damaged/corrupted SQL
Server database on Linux?
# ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_Install_Pip_on_Linux⠀⇛
Pip is a package manager used to download and
install software written in Python code. In this
tutorial, we will learn how to install and use pip
on all of the main Linux distributions.
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ How_to_Install_VS_Code_on_openSUSE_Leap_&
Tumbleweed [Ed: Rather awful that "Linux" sites are advising
people on installation of proprietary spyware controlled by
the company which attacks GNU/Linux by far the most and most
viciously]⠀⇛
This guide walks you through installing Visual
Studio Code on openSUSE Leap or Tumbleweed,
following the recommended way.
# ⚓ Linux Host Support ☛ How_To_Install_ERPNext_on_AlmaLinux⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we are going to explain in step-
by-step detail how to install ERPNext on AlmaLinux
OS. ERPNext or Enterprise Resource Planning is an
open-source integrated software solution that
collects and organizes business information.
ERPNext is built on the Frappe Framework in Python
and Javascript that stores the data in the MySQL
database server.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Kdenlive_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Kdenlive on Debian 11.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ Mastering_the_Curl_Command:_A_Guide_for_Linux
Users⠀⇛
Welcome to the world of Curl, a versatile command-
line tool that allows you to transfer data to and
from servers with ease.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ Systemd:_Your_Ultimate_Guide_to_Linux_System
Management⠀⇛
Hey there, have you heard of Systemd? It’s a
powerful and popular system and service manager for
Linux operating systems that have replaced the
traditional SysVinit system.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Tasksel_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Tasksel on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who
didn’t know, Tasksel is a powerful utility that
simplifies package management for Ubuntu system
administrators.
# ⚓ Nikhil Marathe ☛ Remote_Dbus_Notifications_over_SSH⠀⇛
I often tack on notify-send at the end of a long
running command to get a desktop notification when
the command is done.
./long-running-build-command; notify-send “Build
done” notify-send uses the Desktop Notification
spec that relies on DBus to propagate a request to
show a notification. This is a widely supported
standard in the Linux ecosystem powering all
notifications, regardless of which desktop
environment you use.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ 8_Immutable_Linux_Distributions_for_Those_Looking_to
Embrace_the_Future⠀⇛
Every distro is tailored for a range of purposes. Some
are configured to work on old computers, some aim to
great user experience and some focus on security.
Immutable distributions were not what users wanted a
couple of years back. But, recently, more projects are
focusing on the immutability aspect as a core feature of
the Linux distribution.
Why is that? And, what are all the options available?
Before you get to the list, let me briefly tell you more
about immutability…
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Linux_Lite_6.4_Officially_Released,_Based_on
Ubuntu_22.04.2_LTS⠀⇛
Based on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) and
powered by Linux kernel 5.15 LTS, Linux Lite 6.4 is
here to introduce Zstd (Zstandard) compression for
the in-house applications, which will boost
decompression speeds leading to faster updates and
slower computers and lightning fast updates on
modern PCs.
Another interesting change in the Linux Lite 6.4
release is the addition of systemd reporting
through the implementation of systemd-analyze in
the Lite System Report app, which will help those
of you who want to diagnose the performance of the
boot process and other general system issues.
o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾
# ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Thunderbird_Email_Client⠀⇛
The Mozilla Thunderbird Email Client has been
updated to 102.9.1.
# ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Slimjet_Browser⠀⇛
Slimjet Browser has been updated to 38.0.7.0 and
now available in the PCLinuxOS software repository.
# ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Brave_Browser⠀⇛
Brave Browser has been updated to 1.49.132 and
shipped to the software repository.
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSUSE ☛ GNOME,_curl,_LLVM_Update_in_Tumbleweed⠀⇛
This week in openSUSE Tumbleweed had both enormous
and single-package snapshots.
A new GNOME, compiler tools and music player
updates arrived this week along with a ton of other
packages.
Snapshot 20230329 provided an update of Mesa
23.0.1, which fixed some bugs from its major
release. Sandboxing tool for Flatpak and similar
projects had an update; bubblewrap 0.8.0 added a
–disable-userns option to prevent the sandbox from
creating its own nested user namespace. Fixes for
recent GLibs warnings were made in the libostree
2023.2 update. A 1.3 release of fwupd-efi had a few
fixes for arm devices and fixed a regression.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Employee_engagement:_Why_it
matters⠀⇛
While heading off to school recently, my seven-
year-old grandson turned to his mother and said,
“Mommy, I am tired of learning.”
He’s not alone. Data_suggests 18 million K-12
students in America are also “disengaged” – aka
bored – with their education. Imagine if that trend
of disengagement continued into the workforce.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Remote_work:_5_tips_to_maximize
productivity⠀⇛
After you’ve set up your remote team members with
the necessary project management tools, video
conferencing tools, and standard operating
procedures, you need to tackle another hurdle:
Motivating them.
In a virtual work setting, leaders have little
control over their team’s work routines beyond
checking off tasks in a list – and remote workers
often face challenges like distractions,
loneliness, and maintaining a work-life balance
when they extend shift hours or fail to take
breaks.
Here are five ways to maximize productivity for
remote workers.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ Canonical_releases_Ubuntu_23.04_“Lunar_Lobster”
Beta⠀⇛
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has released
Ubuntu 23.04 “Lunar Lobster” Beta for people to
download, according to a post on the mailing list.
As a beta release, the software you download should
look how it’ll look on April 20 when it’s made
available as a stable release but there could be
bugs right now. Make sure you have a decent
internet connection to download the ISO as it comes
in at a monstrous 4.5 GB.
It’s not only the main Ubuntu flavour receiving a
beta release today either, also included are Ubuntu
Server, Cloud, Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu
Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio,
Ubuntu Unity, Xubuntu, and the recently graduated
Ubuntu Cinnamon which Neowin covered earlier in the
week.
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Ubuntu_Touch_OTA-25_Released_for_Linux_Phones
with_Minor_Improvements⠀⇛
Ubuntu Touch OTA-25 is now rolling out to supported
devices as the last software update with an Ubuntu
16.04 base bringing some minor improvements like
on-screen keyboard vibration optimization on Volla
Phone devices, emblem counters (unread messages)
for the Dialer and Messaging apps, as well as
Waydroid install/setup improvements.
OTA-25 also brings persistent notifications when
the urgency status is set to critical and other
improvements to notifications like support for more
than two lines for the notification text, improves
Date/Time pickers visibility when using the Suru
Dark theme, and re-enables support for pinning
favorites in the Dialer app.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ SOPHON_BM1684/BM1684X_Edge_AI_computer
delivers_up_to_32_TOPS,_decodes_up_to_32_Full_HD_videos
simultaneously⠀⇛
The BM1684(X) SoCs are equipped with eight Cortex-
A53 cores clocked at 2.3 GHz to run Linux, and the
systems come with up to 16GB RAM, 128GB flash, two
Gigabit Ethernet ports to receive the video
streams, one HDMI output up to 1080p30 for
monitoring, as well as RS232 and RS485 DB9
connectors, and a few USB ports.
Firefly’s latest Edge AI computers run Linux, but
the Wiki has not been updated yet. However, the
Wiki for the earlier EC-A1684JD4 model is up and we
can see the Sophon3 SDK relies on Debian 9, and an
Ubuntu 20.04 image is said to be coming soon.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ New_Red_Pitaya_dev_kit_features_Zynq_7020
SoC_and_4_RF_inputs⠀⇛
Red Pitaya recently unveiled a new platform
featuring the Xilinx Zynq 7020 System-on-Chip to
deliver high processing power and greater number of
digital I/Os. The STEMlab 125-14 4-Input Starter
Kit also provides a GbE LAN port and supports Wi-Fi
over USB.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Android_Auto_bugs,_issues_–_problems_tracker:_Here’s_the
current_status⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android_Auto_coolwalk_not_displaying_weather_on_main
screen⠀⇛
# ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ How_to_improve_your_Android_Phone’s_battery
life_–_Geeky_Gadgets⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_use_a_Nintendo_Switch_Pro
Controller_with_an_Android_phone_or_tablet⠀⇛
# ⚓ Computer World ☛ 2_advanced_tools_that’ll_change_how_you
interact_with_Android_apps_|_Computerworld⠀⇛
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ SD_Maid_v2:_Android_System_Cleaning_App_Goes
Open-Source⠀⇛
# ⚓ Top_13_Ways_to_Fix_Android_Phone_Keeps_Losing_Network
Connection_–_Guiding_Tech⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Top_7_Sony_Android_TVs_to_buy_in_2023:
Buying_guide⠀⇛
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Six_Motorola_phones_and_15_other_Android
handsets_gain_support_for_ARCore_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ 16_Best_OS_PDF_Tools_for_Windows,_Linux,_and_macOS⠀⇛
Although we have already discussed the availability of
various open source free PDF editing applications and PDF
OCR software, it is worth noting that the functionality
of these tools is often limited. For many users,
additional operations on PDF files are necessary beyond
what these tools can provide.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ MariaDB_adds_auto-scaling_and_serverless
analytics_to_its_cloud_database-as-a-service⠀⇛
MariaDB plc today announced the immediate
availability of a new release of its SkySQL cloud
database-as-a-service with features that help
organizations better manage their cloud costs. Most
significant is that SkySQL now enables autoscaling,
which allocates resources according to demand to
scale both up and down as needed and thereby
protect customers from overpaying for unneeded
capacity.
§ Programming/Development⠀➾
* ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Teams_are_just_as_important_as_their_code⠀⇛
Team size, structure, ownership responsibilities, and lines of
influence are just as critical in building your application as
the code itself. In order to handle a service architecture
efficiently, you must organize your development teams around
your application architect appropriately. Additionally, your
teams must be given the responsibility, authority, ownership,
and support needed to provide complete management of their
owned services.
This takes on more urgency when you consider Conway’s_Law:
Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will
produce a design whose structure is a copy of the
organization’s communication structure.
* § Python⠀➾
o ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_String_to_List_of_Characters⠀⇛
To convert a String to a list of characters in Python,
the user can use, indexing bracket, for-in loop, the list
() and the extend() method.
* § Ruby⠀➾
o ⚓ Ruby_3.2.2_Released⠀⇛
Ruby 3.2.2 has been released.
This release includes security fixes.
Please check the topics below for details.
# CVE-2023-28755:_ReDoS_vulnerability_in_URI
# CVE-2023-28756:_ReDoS_vulnerability_in_Time
See the GitHub_releases for further details.
[....]
This release also includes some bug fixes.
See the GitHub_releases for further details.
After this release, we end the normal maintenance phase
of Ruby 3.0, and Ruby 3.0 enters the security maintenance
phase.
This means that we will no longer backport any bug fixes
to Ruby 3.0 except security fixes.
The term of the security maintenance phase is scheduled
for a year.
Ruby 3.0 reaches EOL and its official support ends by the
end of the security maintenance phase.
Therefore, we recommend that you start to plan upgrade to
Ruby 3.1 or 3.2.
o ⚓ CVE-2023-28756:_ReDoS_vulnerability_in_Time⠀⇛
We have released the time gem version 0.1.1 and 0.2.2
that has a security fix for a ReDoS vulnerability.
This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier
CVE-2023-28756.
The Time parser mishandles invalid strings that have
specific characters. It causes an increase in execution
time for parsing strings to Time objects.
A ReDoS issue was discovered in the Time gem 0.1.0 and
0.2.1 and Time library of Ruby 2.7.7.
We recommend to update the time gem to version 0.2.2 or
later. In order to ensure compatibility with bundled
version in older Ruby series, you may update as follows
instead:
# For Ruby 3.0 users: Update to time 0.1.1
# For Ruby 3.1/3.2 users: Update to time 0.2.2
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ He_listens._He_improvises._Meet_the_‘music_doula.’⠀⇛
When creativity feels unlimited, accessible to all, it flows
more freely. How has one musician found a way to lead artists
to that comfortable place?
* ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Disney_Shuts_Down_Its_Metaverse_Division_Amid
Broader_Layoffs⠀⇛
Disney is exiting the metaverse entirely — and laying off
around 50 employees from its metaverse division. The move comes
as the Walt Disney Co. announced a round of layoffs impacting
around 7,000 people. The fledgling division was tasked with
developing new metaverse strategies and was headed by Mike
White,
* § Science⠀➾
o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Like_Water_for_Iron⠀⇛
This article is to introduce a hypothetical analogous
model for understanding the big picture that leads to
where we are: massive global poverty, mass species
extinction, biospheric damage, and climate
destabilization. People think of it as being one issue,
such as “carbon,” but there is an entire process that
must be halted.
* § Education⠀➾
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Missouri_Reps_Just_Voted_to_Completely_Defund
the_State’s_Public_Libraries⠀⇛
The new budget sets funds for libraries to $0. Library
groups say the move is retaliation for suing the state
over its recent book ban law.
* § Hardware⠀➾
o ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ Intel_Inside_(but_not_how_you_would_expect)⠀⇛
I last left my Acorn RiscPC with a StrongARM CPU card and
an IBM/Cyrix based 5×86 CPU card.
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Plastic_screen_barriers_introduced_at_McDonald’s
store⠀⇛
Plastic screen barriers have been introduced at a
McDonald’s in Adelaide’s CBD in an effort to keep its
staff safe.
o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Study_shows_decrease_in_surgical_patient
injuries_in_Finland⠀⇛
A recent Finnish registry study has reported a declining
trend in patient injuries related to surgical procedures
over a five-year period. The frequency of patient
injuries was measured as the number of compensation
claims per 1000 surgeries. The study showed a decline
from 2.5 claims per 1000 surgeries in 2011-2015 to 1.9 in
2023. The report evaluated the safety of surgical
procedures and was published in a peer-reviewed
scientific journal in February 2023.
o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Vaccine_hesitant_people_are_more_positive
towards_statistical_information_than_communication_based_on
vaccination_experiences⠀⇛
Finnish people are more receptive to health information
that is based on statistical data than information that
relies on the experiences of others, according to a
recent study. However, neither approach reduced vaccine
hesitancy. Researchers emphasized the importance of
tailoring health communication to be more effective when
the target audience disagrees with the information given
and does not trust the sources.
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Fresh_waves_of_COVID_on_the_way,_top_doctor
warns⠀⇛
The country’s top doctor has warned more COVID waves are
on the way, as the government ramps up efforts to
increase booster rates before winter.
⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Wuhan’s_“Mystery_Illness”_is_Covid’s_Foundational_Lie⠀⇛
Kit Knightly Recently, while researching our updated edition of 40
Facts, I came across this article from Time magazine, one that I had
apparently missed when it was first published and that had somehow
escaped my notice in the following three Covid-centric years.
⚓ NYPost ☛ Adderall_usage_so_high_post-lockdown,_there’s_a_shortage:_CDC
alert⠀⇛
Women in their early 20s saw the biggest increase in prescriptions
during the pandemic, the CDC reported.
⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Despite_2022_law,_most_domestic_workers_still_lack_IMSS
benefits⠀⇛
Ninety-five percent of domestic workers in Mexico are without access
to healthcare and social security, say labor activist organizations.
⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Tensions_over_narcotics_policy_flare_at_Mexico-US
summit⠀⇛
The bilateral conference became a stage for airing differences on
what each country should be doing to fight cartels and the flow of
drugs.
⚓ JURIST ☛ US_federal_judge_blocks_mandatory_insurance_coverage_of
contraceptives,_STD_screenings_and_HIV_prevention_medication⠀⇛
A US federal judge in Texas Thursday ruled that private health
insurance companies are not required to cover contraceptives, STD
screenings or HIV prevention treatment (pre-exposure prophylaxis or
PrEP).
§ Security⠀➾
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Microsoft_Cloud_Vulnerability_Led_to_Bing_Search
Hijacking,_Exposure_of_Office_365_Data⠀⇛
An Azure Active Directory (AAD) misconfiguration leading to
Bing.com compromise earned Wiz researchers a $40,000 bug bounty
reward.
* ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_Defender_mistakenly_tagging_URLs_as
malicious [Ed: No wonder Microsoft is finally layoff off its "security"
divisions (deep cuts). Worthless snake oil.]⠀⇛
Microsoft Defender is mistakenly flagging legitimate links as
malicious, and some customers have already received dozens of
alert emails since the issues began over five hours ago.
As the company confirmed earlier today on Twitter, its
engineers are investigating this service incident as a false
positive.
* ⚓ Spiegel ☛ The_“Vulkan_Files”:_A_Look_Inside_Putin’s_Secret_Plans_for
Cyber-Warfare⠀⇛
Elite hackers from Russia have their sights set on airports and
power plants around the world, along with the internet.
Confidential data from Moscow, obtained by DER SPIEGEL and its
partners, now provide a look inside their arsenal of cyber-
weapons and reveal their strategy.
* ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Russian_Cyberwarfare_Documents_Leaked⠀⇛
Now this is interesting:
Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how
Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military
and intelligence agencies to support hacking
operations, train operatives before attacks on
national infrastructure, spread disinformation and
control sections of the internet.
The company’s work is linked to the federal security
service or FSB, the domestic spy agency; the
operational and intelligence divisions of the armed
forces, known as the GOU and GRU; and the SVR,
Russia’s foreign intelligence organisation.
* ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Hackers_Claim_to_Dox_Russian_‘War_Criminal,’
Convince_His_Wife_to_Do_‘Patriotic_Photoshoot’⠀⇛
A group of Ukrainian hacktivists say they’ve hacked the
accounts of a Russian colonel.
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Hackers_infect_popular_3CX_communications_application
with_malware⠀⇛
Hackers have compromised 3CX, a popular videoconferencing and
business phone management application used by more than 600,000
companies.
⚓ Security Week ☛ 3CX_Confirms_Supply_Chain_Attack_as_Researchers_Uncover_Mac
Component⠀⇛
3CX confirms investigating a security breach as the cybersecurity
community is sharing more information on what appears to be a
sophisticated supply chain attack.
⚓ SANS ☛ Bypassing_PowerShell_Strong_Obfuscation,_(Thu,_Mar_30th)⠀⇛
Yesterday, I found a malicious PowerShell script that was heavily
obfuscated.
⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Report_finds_employees_are_storing_sensitive_information_on
personal_devices⠀⇛
A new report today from phishing protection company SlashNext
Inc. finds that a majority of employees have sensitive work
information on personal devices as “bring your own device” behavior
continues to surge in popularity.
⚓ Security Week ☛ Chinese_Cyberspies_Use_‘Melofee’_Linux_Malware_for_Stealthy
Attacks [Ed: The problem is the malware, not Linux, and the malware needs to
get there somehow. Whereas with Windows the flaws are typically in the OS
itself, unpatched for months if not years.]⠀⇛
The recently identified Melofee Linux implant allowed Chinese
cyberespionage group Winnti to conduct stealthy, targeted attacks.
⚓ Security Week ☛ 500k_Impacted_by_Data_Breach_at_Debt_Buyer_NCB⠀⇛
NCB Management Services is informing roughly 500,000 individuals of a
data breach impacting their personal information.
⚓ Security Week ☛ Unpatched_Security_Flaws_Expose_Water_Pump_Controllers_to
Remote_[Cr]acker_Attacks⠀⇛
Water pumping systems made by ProPump and Controls are affected by
several vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to cause significant
problems.
* § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Principal_Sends_$100,000_of_School_Funds_to
Fake_Elon_Musk,_Claims_She_Was_‘Groomed’⠀⇛
The principal of a charter school in Florida resigned
after falling for a scammer posing as Elon Musk.
* § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Hypocrisies_of_the_TikTok_Hearings⠀⇛
Why has Congress focussed so much concern about social
media and surveillance on one platform when the problems
are so much broader?
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ CYBER:_The_DEA_Is_Skipping_Warrants_and_Buying
Data_from_Rogue_Employees⠀⇛
The Drug Enforcement Agency is bribing employees to help
it seize drugs and money, skipping the complicated
process of obtaining a warrant.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ UK_Introduces_Mass_Surveillance_With_Online
Safety_Bill⠀⇛
The proposed UK Online Safety Bill is the enactment of
two long held government desires: the removal of harmful
internet content, and visibility into end-to-end content
o ⚓ NYOB ☛ Meta_(Facebook,_Instagram)_switching_to_“Legitimate
Interest”_for_Ads⠀⇛
After noyb complaints, Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is
switching form an illegal contract to equally illegal
“legitimate interests” for advertisement. noyb will take
imminent action.
§ Defence/Aggression⠀➾
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Siberian_Actor_Slits_Wrist_On_Stage_To_Protest_Anti-War
Director’s_Firing⠀⇛
An actor in a theater in the Siberian region of Buryatia has
slashed his veins while on stage to protest the firing of the
company’s artistic director last year over his stance against
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Sweden’s_Bid_to_Join_NATO_Remains_Blocked_by_Turkey
and_Hungary⠀⇛
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ No_Forced_Eviction_From_Kyiv_Monastery_But_Property_Must_Be
Vacated,_Ukrainian_Security_Official_Says⠀⇛
Force will not be used to evict representatives of the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) from the Pechersk Lavra in
Kyiv, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense
Council, Oleksiy Danilov, said on March 29 after monks who have
been ordered to leave the historic site refused to go.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy_Says_Ukraine_Is_Preparing_Next_Steps_As_Battles_In
Eastern_Regions_Rage_On⠀⇛
Ukrainian forces continued to hold their ground on the eastern
front over the past day, the military said on March 30,
repelling dozens of attacks in and around Bakhmut, the city in
the Donetsk region that has been the focal point of Russia’s
offensive over the past several months.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Pakistani_Taliban_Kills_Four_Police_Officers_In_Bomb_Attack⠀⇛
Four Pakistani policemen, including a senior officer, were
killed and several were wounded in a roadside bomb attack as
they were rushing to rescue colleagues besieged by militants in
a police station in northwestern Pakistan late on March 29,
authorities said.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ EU_Says_China’s_Role_In_Ukraine_Conflict_Is_Vital_To_EU
Relations⠀⇛
China must play a part in pressing for a “just peace” in
Ukraine and its role in the conflict will be vital in shaping
relations with the European Union, European Commission
President Ursula von der Leyen said.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Captured_Russian_Soldier_Given_12-Year_Prison_Sentence⠀⇛
A court in Ukraine has sentenced a Russian soldier to 12 years
in prison on a charge of violating of the laws of war, the
Ukrainian Prosecutor-General’s Office said on March 30.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Tajik_Opposition_Politician’s_Son_Extradited_From_Germany
Sentenced_To_Seven_Years_In_Prison⠀⇛
A son of Tajik opposition politician Shamsiddin Saidov, who was
recently extradited to Tajikistan from Germany, has been
sentenced to seven years in prison in Dushanbe after a trial
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called unfair.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Mideast_Envoy_Hopeful_Saudi-Iran_Detente_Will_Help
Region⠀⇛
The Biden administration is hopeful that warming ties between
Iran and Saudi Arabia will help de-escalate conflicts and
crises across the Middle East, a senior U.S. diplomat said.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Clerics_In_Historic_Kyiv_Monastery_Defy_Eviction_Notice,_Deny
Officials,_Journalists_Entry⠀⇛
Clerics of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) who have been
ordered to leave the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in the Ukrainian
capital on March 30 defied the eviction order and refused to
allow officials from the Culture Ministry and journalists into
the historic Orthodox Christian monastery.
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_tightens_punishment_for_companies_violating_Russia,
Belarus_sanctions⠀⇛
The Lithuanian parliament Seimas on Thursday approved tougher
punishment for Lithuanian companies that violate international
sanctions against Russia and Belarus.
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_asks_EU_for_additional_funds_to_beef_up_border
protection⠀⇛
Lithuanian Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė has sent a letter
to Ylva Johansson, the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, asking
to consider the possibility for the block to co-finance the
installation of a patrol trail on Lithuania’s border with
Belarus.
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_Orthodox_Church_allows_Ukrainians_to_pray_without
mentioning_Moscow_patriarch⠀⇛
The Orthodox Archdiocese of Vilnius and Lithuania, which is
subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate, will let Ukrainian
refugees pray without mentioning Moscow Patriarch Kirill.
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania’s_investigation_recognises_90_people_as_victims_of_war
crimes_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
More than 300 witnesses have been interviewed, and more than 90
people have been recognised as victims as part of Lithuania’s
investigation into Russian war crimes, Prosecutor General Nida
Grunskienė has said.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_Senate_repeals_authorizations_for_use_of_military_force
against_Iraq⠀⇛
The US Senate repealed the authorizations for use of military
force (AUMFs) against Iraq Wednesday by a vote of 66-30. Senate
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) made opening remarks
addressing the 1991 and 2002 AUMFs formerly passed by Congress.
He said: The United States, Iraq, the entire world has changed
dramatically since 2002.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Greece_broadens_investigation_into_alleged_anti-Semitic
attacks_plot⠀⇛
Greece is questioning eight additional suspects from Pakistan
over an alleged plot to carry out anti-Semitic attacks in
Athens, a police source said Thursday.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Ukraine_is_‘determining_factor’_in_China-EU
ties,_European_Commission_chief_says⠀⇛
By Max Delany EU chief Ursula von der Leyen warned China on
Thursday its approach to Russia’s war in Ukraine would
determine ties, but said Europe was not looking to “decouple”
from Beijing.
§ Environment⠀➾
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Risk_and_recovery:_Mississippi_tornado_signals_twin
challenges⠀⇛
Some research suggests tornado risks may be shifting modestly
eastward, raising questions about preparedness in some of the
poorest U.S. states.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Elderly_Women_Sue_Switzerland_For_Inaction_On_Climate
Change⠀⇛
These women seek an ambitious sentence that could force the
Swiss State to reduce carbon dioxide emissions quickly.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Britain_Unprepared_for_Climate_Change,_Committee_Warns⠀⇛
“People, nature and infrastructure face damaging impacts as
climate change takes hold. These impacts will only intensify in
the coming decades,” Baroness Brown said.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ UN_seeks_International_Court_of_Justice_opinion_on_climate
obligations_following_Vanuatu_advocacy⠀⇛
The UN General Assembly Wednesday adopted a landmark
resolution, led by the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu, which
calls on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to provide an
advisory opinion on states’ obligations to address climate
change.
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Inside_the_conference_where_researchers
are_solving_the_clean-energy_puzzle⠀⇛
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s
weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox
every Wednesday, sign up here. I spent last week in
Washington, DC, and when I wasn’t fawning over the cherry
blossoms, I was soaking up all the newest and wildest
ideas in energy. The Advanced Research Projects Agency…
o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Plastic_bag_usage_down_by_60%_after_Hong
Kong_doubled_bag_levy_to_HK$1⠀⇛
Plastic bag usage in Hong Kong fell by over 60 per cent
since the bag levy was doubled to HK$1 at the end of last
year, authorities have said.
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Forrest_says_China_can_eliminate_emissions
by_2030s⠀⇛
Iron ore baron Andrew Forrest has urged China to help the
world fight global warming by converting to renewable
energy by the 2030s.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ California_passes_gas_price_gouging_bill⠀⇛
California Governor Gavin Newsom Tuesday signed Senate
Bill No. 2, the first state-level gas price gouging
penalty law in the US, into law. Newsom’s office referred
to the new law as the “strongest state-level oversight
and accountability measures on Big Oil in the nation.
* § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Plants_Make_Sounds_When_Hurt,_Scientists
Confirm,_And_Now_You_Can_Hear_It⠀⇛
Plants make clicking sounds that animals may hear, travel
16 feet, and have now been tuned down for human ears to
hear for the first time.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Harvard_Tells_Grad_Students_to_Get_Food_Stamps_to
Supplement_The_Unlivable_Wages_It_Pays_Them⠀⇛
The university is hosting an event encouraging graduate
students to apply for federal food assistance.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Lenders_cut_fixed_rates_as_Reserve_Bank_decision
looms⠀⇛
More than 10 lenders have cut fixed interest rates in the past
10 days, with ING moving to slash its offerings ahead of the
Reserve Bank’s next interest rate decision.
* ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Home_Affairs_underfunded,_overstretched_and_‘set_up_to
fail’,_says_leaked_report⠀⇛
The leaked confidential review into the mega department
revealed 600 employees left in 2021.
* ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Tax_Office_whistleblower_to_appeal_against_‘catastrophic’
court_ruling⠀⇛
Richard Boyle can’t rely on Commonwealth whistleblower
protections for 24 charges including covertly recording
conversations with ATO colleagues and photographing taxpayer
information.
* ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finnish_house_prices_continued_on_downward_trajectory
in_February⠀⇛
HOUSE PRICES in Finland continued to fall sharply in February,
according to preliminary_data published by Statistics Finland.
The data reveal that the prices of old dwellings in housing
companies decreased by 5.2 per cent year-on-year, driven
particularly by drops in Helsinki, Vantaa and Espoo. The prices
fell by 6.1 per cent in the capital region and by 5.5 per cent
in the six largest cities, but by 4.4 per cent outside the six
largest cities.
* ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Property_services_professionals’_strike_averted_with
last-minute_deal⠀⇛
SERVICE UNION UNITED (PAM) and Real Estate Employers reached an
agreement late yesterday evening in their dispute over the
terms and conditions of employment for cleaning and property
maintenance professionals in Finland.
* ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Average_monthly_pension_in_Finland_reaches_1,845_euros
for_the_first_time⠀⇛
The average monthly pension for Finns increased for the first
time to over €1,800 last year, according to a recent statistics
report from the Finnish Centre for Pensions and the Social
Insurance Institution (Kela). The average monthly pension rose
to €1,845 from €1,784 in the previous year, while the median
pension was €1,614 per month. However, nearly 70% of pensioners
received less than €2,000 per month, with the majority being
women.
* ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Majority_of_employers_not_excited_about_a_four-day
workweek,_according_to_entrepreneur_poll⠀⇛
A recent entrepreneur poll shows that 75% of employer companies
would not be willing to try a four-day workweek if employee
wages remained the same. “Four out of five employers do not
believe that a four-day workweek would improve productivity
enough to pay the same salary as before,” says Janne Makkula,
Director of the Finnish Entrepreneurs. A four-day workweek can
be tested locally right now without a government-led operation.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ China_Supports_Rousseff_as_BRICS_New_Development_Bank
President⠀⇛
Dilma Rousseff has been actively committed to the cause of
global development for a long time and enjoys an outstanding
reputation, Chinese diplomat Mao pointed out.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Four_Bankers_Who_Helped_Putin’s_Friend_Set_Up_Swiss_Bank
Account_Convicted⠀⇛
Four bankers who helped a close friend of Vladimir Putin move
millions of francs through Swiss bank accounts have been
convicted of lacking diligence in financial transactions.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Peak_union_wants_wage_boost_for_lowest-paid
workers⠀⇛
The peak union body has called for a seven per cent pay boost
for Australia’s lowest-paid workers to help them survive
soaring living costs.
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Despite_inflation_and_uncertainty,_Bank_of_Lithuania_gives_rosy
picture_for_economy⠀⇛
While the minimum wage went up this year, income growth for
many Lithuanian workers could not keep up with inflation.
Still, the country’s central bank forecasts robust economic
growth.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ International_Court_of_Justice_orders_US_to_compensate_Iran
for_frozen_assets⠀⇛
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Thursday ruled that
the US violated a 1955 treaty with Iran by freezing Iranian
assets to fulfill terrorism-related awards from the US.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China’s_economy_showing_‘strong_momentum’,_says
Premier_Li_Qiang⠀⇛
China’s economy is showing “strong momentum” despite a
challenging global environment, Premier Li Qiang said Thursday,
promising to bolster support for business as the country
emerges from strict Covid controls that hammered GDP.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Gandhi’s_expulsion:_Bad_for_Indian_democracy,_good_for
opposition?⠀⇛
Critics have called the expulsion of opposition leader Rahul
Gandhi an assault on the integrity of India’s democracy – but
it’s also inspiring rare unity among different parties, which
could sway upcoming elections.
* ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Donald_Trump_indicted_on_criminal_charges_in_New_York⠀⇛
He becomes the first former US president to face criminal
charges, even as he makes another run for the White House.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Trump_Is_Indicted,_as_America’s_Justice_System_Holds
Him_Accountable⠀⇛
A grand jury’s decision to indict Donald Trump is a necessary
part of the American justice system.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_a_President’s_Arrest_Can_Strengthen_a_Democracy⠀⇛
There are legitimate concerns about this indictment, but how
could we give the boss a pass after convicting his fixer?
* ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ The_Shady_Past_of_Keir_Starmer,_with_Oliver
Eagleton⠀⇛
Oliver Eagleton, author of “The Starmer Project: a Journey to
the Right,” joins Lowkey to discuss the biography of Keir
Starmer, one of the most divisive political figures in modern
British history.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_President_Faces_Prosecution,_and_a_Democracy_Is
Tested⠀⇛
For more than two centuries, American presidents were
effectively shielded from indictment. But the case against
former President Donald J. Trump breaks that taboo and sets a
new precedent.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Kushner_Firm_Got_Hundreds_of_Millions_From_2_Persian
Gulf_Nations⠀⇛
The infusion of money from interests in the two Persian Gulf
monarchies reflects the close ties to Middle Eastern countries
established by Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump’s
son-in-law.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ryder_Ripps_Is_Calling_Out_Kanye_West_and_Bored_Ape
Yacht_Club⠀⇛
Ryder Ripps built a career as a digital art troll, and now he’s
calling out his former boss Kanye West and Bored Ape Yacht Club
for bigotry. Is his crusade real?
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Anti-Government_Protests_Continue_in_Kenya⠀⇛
Officers were deployed to all streets, estates and
neighborhoods in Nairobi and the lakeside city of Kisumu, where
violent protests were likely to erupt.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Smaiylov_Reappointed_Kazakh_PM⠀⇛
Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev reappointed Alikhan
Smaiylov to the prime minister’s post on March 30 after the
newly elected parliament approved his candidacy.
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_turns_to_social_media_companies_over
disinformation⠀⇛
Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė and her
counterparts from seven European countries have urged
major social media companies to prevent disinformation.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Father_Of_Russian_Sixth-Grader_Who_Drew_Anti-War_Picture
Detained_In_Minsk⠀⇛
A Russian man sentenced to two years in prison after his
daughter’s anti-war drawing brought attention to his social
media posts against the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of
Ukraine has been detained in Belarus after escaping house
arrest in Russia just before sentencing.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Actress,_Kremlin_Critic_Akhedzhakova_Leaves_Moscow
Theater_Amid_Pressure⠀⇛
Popular Russian actress Liya Akhedzhakova, known for her open
criticism of Kremlin policies including its ongoing full-scale
invasion of Ukraine, has left the prominent Moscow theater
Sovremennik (Contemporary) amid pressure from authorities and
pro-government activists.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Can_Governmental_Defendants_Use_Anti-SLAPP_Statutes_When
They’re_Sued_Based_on_Their_Speech?⠀⇛
No, said the Florida Court of Appeal, interpreting the Florida
statute; the California Supreme Court, interpreting the
California statute, had held otherwise.
* ⚓ NYPost ☛ DEJA_VU:_Twitter_locks_out_The_Post_over_story_on_removal_of
5K_tweets⠀⇛
The company’s Kafkaesque move came after The Post tweeted out a
story about Twitter’s deletion of more than 5,000 tweets about
a planned “Trans Day of Vengeance” protest in front of the US
Supreme Court on Saturday.
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_Arrest_of_US_Reporter,_Russia_Doubles_Down_on
Isolation_From_West⠀⇛
The Kremlin, which accused a Wall Street Journal correspondent
of being a spy, made a move not seen since the Cold War,
further raising the barriers between Russia and the West.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Russia_arrests_first_US_reporter_on_espionage_charges_since
fall_of_Soviet_Union⠀⇛
A Russian court Thursday ordered the two-month detention of
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on charges of
espionage. Russian security forces arrested Gershkovich in
Yekaterinburg, Russia on Thursday morning on suspicions that
the Moscow-based reporter was spying on Russia for the US.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Condemns_Russia’s_Arrest_Of_Wall_Street_Journal_Reporter,
Calls_Espionage_Charge_‘Ridiculous’⠀⇛
The United States has strongly condemned the detention of a
U.S. journalist in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on
espionage charges and demanded his immediate release.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Russia_detains_US_reporter_on_spy_charges,_White_House_says
allegations_‘ridiculous’⠀⇛
Russia on Thursday charged an American correspondent for the
Wall Street Journal with spying, in a case certain to worsen
Moscow’s diplomatic feud with Washington over the war in
Ukraine and likely to further isolate Russia.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Stand_News_sedition_trial:_Defence_submits_‘more
radical’_op-ed_published_by_Beijing-backed_media_as_evidence⠀⇛
During its reexamination of one of Stand News former top
editors, the defence has set about trying to counter the
prosecution’s case, presenting a “radical” op-ed published by a
Beijing-backed newspaper as evidence that commentaries need not
contain both sides.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_court_denies_bail_to_woman_charged
under_sedition_law_over_social_media_posts⠀⇛
A Hong Kong woman charged under the sedition law over social
media posts has been remanded in custody after being denied
bail. Law Oi-wa, who was arrested on Tuesday afternoon,
appeared at West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court on Thursday
morning.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Vatican_disavows_‘Doctrine_of_Discovery,’_which_justified
taking_of_Native_lands⠀⇛
Indigenous peoples have long called upon the pope to reject the
doctrine, which was built on 15th-century “papal bulls.” Pope
Francis acknowledged that the historical measures do not
reflect the equal dignity and rights of Indigenous peoples.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Officials_open_investigation_into_‘tragic_fire’_at_Mexico
migrant_center⠀⇛
Mexico is investigating the cause and handling of a deadly fire
that broke out at a migrant detention center in a northern
border city.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Mexico_investigating_migrant_fire_deaths_as_possible
homicide⠀⇛
Mexican prosecutors announced a homicide investigation
Wednesday into the recent deaths of 39 migrants in a detention
center fire, accusing the people in charge of doing nothing to
evacuate them.
* ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Video_footage_shows_deadly_negligence_at_migrant
detention_center⠀⇛
The footage shows a security guard and a man in an INM uniform
who appear to ignore the fire in the locked area where migrants
were held.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ UN_calls_for_release_of_ailing_Hong_Kong_rights_lawyer_Albert
Ho⠀⇛
Ho was sent back to jail after allegedly breaking bail
conditions despite suffering from lung cancer.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Borders_blur_between_Hong_Kong_and_China_at_‘Greater_Bay_Area’
recruitment_fair⠀⇛
As graduates seek work across borders, older people are bussed
in on day trips from Guangdong to eat lunch
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Europe_trafficking_experts_express_concern_over_UK’s_Illegal
Migration_Bill⠀⇛
The Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against
Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) Wednesday expressed concern
over the UK’s Illegal Migration Bill, saying the legislation
didn’t comply with “core elements” of the Convention on Action
against Trafficking in Human Beings.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Five_Arrested_in_Migration_Center_Fire_That_Left_39
Dead_in_Mexico⠀⇛
The authorities said arrest warrants had been obtained for
three government migration officials, two private security
workers and a migrant accused of starting the blaze.
* ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Billionaire_Howard_Schultz_Whines_It’s_‘Unfair’_to
Be_Called_a_Billionaire⠀⇛
The Starbucks founder made the comment to Senator Bernie
Sanders during a hearing called “The Need to End Illegal Union
Busting at Starbucks.”
* ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘Sorry_Charles!’_French_unions_mark_king’s_absence_with
banner⠀⇛
French unions on Thursday unfurled a giant banner opposite
English shores to goad Britain’s King Charles III after his
first foreign state visit to France was cancelled.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Macron_unveils_water-saving_plan,_dismisses_French_pension
unrest⠀⇛
French President Emmanuel Macron sought to rally citizens
around a plan to save water on Thursday and stressed that
protests will not stop reforms, in a nod to both climate change
and an unpopular pension bill.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ France_launches_investigation_after_man_gravely_injured_at
water_protest⠀⇛
French prosecutors said Wednesday they were probing the case of
a man seriously wounded at a demonstration over access to
water, after his family filed a criminal complaint.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Vatican_rejects_‘Doctrine_of_Discovery’_following_indigenous
demands⠀⇛
The Vatican Thursday announced a formal rejection of a 15th
century theory known as the ‘Doctrine of Discovery.’ In a
statement, the Church said it “repudiates those concepts that
fail to recognize the inherent rights of indigenous peoples.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ 6_months_on,_still_no_update_from
municipal_corporations_on_the_ongoing_surveillance_of_sanitation
workers⠀⇛
We wrote to the 4 municipal corporations that were directed by
the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis to furnish a
status report on the ongoing surveillance of sanitation
workers.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ The_British_Government_May_Force_Google_&
Amazon_Smart_Speakers_to_Offer_UK_Radio_Stations_for_Free⠀⇛
The British government may force Google & Amazon smart
speakers to offer UK radio stations for free amid new
broadcasting legislation.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ Backup_Day⠀⇛
Seems March 31st is World Backup Day[1] so let’s take it
as a good excuse to describe briefly my backup strategy.
According to the website (and your common sense), “what
is a backup?”
o ⚓ Opening_Day⠀⇛
Yesterday was the start of the 2023 MLB season, first
pitch after a month of spring training games played in
the winter warmth of Arizona or Florida. For major-league
teams, spring training is an opportunity to get back into
playing shape, for players to try new things: minor-
leaguers get a chance to impress, pitchers play with new
pitchers or mechanics, and position players do drills,
take reps, everyone getting used to the new rules.
There are a lot of those this year: a pitch clock to
speed up the game; rules about how often pitchers can try
to pick off runners; and a prohibition on the shift, the
practice of moving players on the field based on the
expectation of where a particular hitter is likely to
send the ball.
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o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Education
o Programming/Development
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Games
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ [Repeat/important] Free Desktop ☛ 2023_X.Org_Board_of
Directors_Elections_timeline_extended,_request_for
nominations⠀⇛
Nominees shall be required to be current members of
the X.Org Foundation, and submit a personal
statement of up to 200 words that will be provided
to prospective voters. The collected statements,
along with the statement of contribution to the
X.Org Foundation in the member’s account page on
http://members.x.org, will be made available to all
voters to help them make their voting decisions.
Nominations, membership applications or renewals
and completed personal statements must be received
no later than 23:59 UTC on April 2nd, 2023
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Ansible_Semaphore_on_Debian
11⠀⇛
Ansible Semaphore is an open-source web UI for
Ansible playbooks. It enables the deployment using
Ansible automation via a web browser. In this
tutorial, you will install the Ansible Semaphore on
a Debian 11 server.
# ⚓ How_to_update_NodeJS_and_NPM_to_their_latest_versions?⠀⇛
Node.js and NPM (Node Package Manager) both are
popular and widely used tools among the developer’s
community. On one side where nodejs is a JavaScript
run-time environment, NPM is its package manager to
install various libraries and packages for it,
easily.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Iptables:_Common_Firewall_Rules_and_Commands⠀⇛
Iptables is a powerful firewall utility that is
used to secure Linux systems from unauthorized
network traffic. It is a command-line tool that
provides a flexible and customizable way to
configure and manage firewall rules. In this
article, we will cover the essentials of Iptables,
including some of the most common firewall rules
and commands.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Preventing_SQL_injection_attacks_with_prepared
statements_in_MySQL⠀⇛
SQL injection attacks are one of the most common
security threats that web applications face today.
These attacks occur when malicious actors use
specially crafted input to manipulate database
queries and gain unauthorized access to sensitive
data.
# ⚓ ChartCSS ☛ Charts.css⠀⇛
The web uses HTML for structure, CSS for styling
and JS for functionality [sic]. When displaying
data the same rules apply – we should use HTML to
structure the data, and CSS to style the structural
HTML elements.
With a few simple CSS classes applied on the
container element you can turn your entire table of
data into a visually appealing chart. The framework
is developer-friendly making it easy to customize
every element with simple CSS selectors.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Story-driven_emotional_action-adventure_RPG
‘Dreamed_Away’_gets_a_demo⠀⇛
Dreamed Away from Nicolas Petton and Pineapple
Works is an upcoming emotional action-adventure RPG
with psychological horror elements. There’s now a
demo available to try. While the full game isn’t
due out until next year, this is your chance to try
it before release and it will have full Native
Linux support.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Stories_from_the_Outbreak,_a_zombie
roguelike_RPG_out_in_Early_Access⠀⇛
Stories from the Outbreak from Coldwild Games, an
indie game development company from Latvia,
creators of “Merchant of the Skies”, “Luna’s
Fishing Garden” and the “Lazy Galaxy” series hits
Early Access.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Europa_Universalis_IV:_Domination_releasing
April_18th⠀⇛
Paradox has confirmed the Europa Universalis IV:
Domination expansion is now releasing on April
18th. This is a full add-on too, not a small story
pack.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Retro_racer_Super_Indie_Karts_got_upgraded
with_Steam_Deck_support⠀⇛
While Super Indie Karts already had Native Linux
support, it’s nice to see another developer making
improvements for Steam Deck too.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_Pale_Beyond_sold_10%_of_copies_on_Steam
Deck⠀⇛
Here’s an interesting data point for you, The Pale
Beyond a polar exploration game set in an
unforgiving frozen wasteland managed to do well on
the Steam Deck. Released back in February
from Bellular Studios, it is Steam Deck Verified
and on desktop Linux it has a Platinum rating on
ProtonDB.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ David Revoy ☛ Krita_courses_at_Activdesign⠀⇛
I gave courses for Activdesign, a French CG
school teaching design, video-game and web-
dev. It’s a school using Free/Libre software,
that’s so cool!. That’s also why I accepted
to teach for them.
[...]
I taught remotely from my desk at home with
my mic and webcam. Because even if the school
is located in France, it was too far away
from my home to go weekly over there. To give
you and idea, it’s easily located at more
than a 6h train distance.
The school used their own Jitsi server for
the visio, and Jitsi rooms were integrated
around a larger central hub managed by
Mattermost. Thanks to a cool setup proposed
by the school, I was able to launch a Jitsi
meeting directly from Mattermost chat with a
button. Everything was smooth, I was
impressed how easy it was for teachers and
students to use that. Bravo. The Jitsi room
was always ready 5 minutes before the course.
I had a webcam view on the classroom, but it
was also possible for the students to attends
from their home (or anywhere with Internet).
I recorded the sessions with OBS also for
offering a possibility to get a replay in
case someone miss a course. The school gave
me a sFTP access to upload the courses. I’m
sure I’ll have requests here on the blog to
ask me to share these files or upload the
replays: but I don’t want that. I don’t want
the raw recordings of the session I made to
go public even if ActivDesign gave me
authorisation to do it. It’s mainly because
it’s very long (15h! 2.7GiB) and it’s in
French.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ The_Homey_bridge_is_a_simple_(but_sweet)
home_hub [Ed: What exactly makes a hub "smart"?]⠀⇛
This week, customers in the U.S. can spend $69 for
the Homey Bridge, a smart home hub designed and
sold in Europe, and now available for the first
time here in the U.S.
[...]
The Homey Bridge competes with DIY hubs from
SmartThings/Aeotec, Hubitat, Aqara and more. But in
a week of testing, I found several things that make
it a good option, thanks to its European origins
and the addition of IR. It’s also worth noting that
this particular product is the entry-level Homey
device, and most users will end up paying a $2.99
per month subscription when they add it to their
home. More on that in a bit.
# ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Podcast:_What_the_heck_is_an_IoT
hyperscaler? [Ed: More surveillance basically]⠀⇛
With this week’s show I feel like we’re singing the
same old tune. Philips Hue maker Signify is
delaying its implementation of Matter while it
waits for others to implement features it needs.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Pico_Game_Boy_Interceptor_|_The
MagPi_#128⠀⇛
The RP2040 microcontroller-based Game Boy
Interceptor came about when just such a tournament
was being planned, “and, of course, they wanted to
stream the contestants’ gameplay,” relates fellow
Tetris fan Sebastian Staacks. “Streaming would not
be a problem with a modified Game Boy or a modern
Game Boy clone such as the Analogue Pocket,” says
Sebastian, “but it would mean contestants would be
forced to use the same platform in order to
compete.” This change just wouldn’t fly: “the
contestants always played their favourite Game Boy
model and, in a contest, would want to use the
model on which they trained their muscle memory.”
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Could_1080p_Video_Output_From_The_RP2040_Be
Possible?⠀⇛
Modern microcontrollers often have specs comparable
with or exceeding early gaming consoles. However,
where they tend to fall short is in the video
department, due to their lack of dedicated graphics
hardware. With some nifty coding, though, great
things can be achieved — as demonstrated by
[TEC_IST]’s project that gets the RP2040 outputting
1080p video over HDMI.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Foldable_PCB_Becomes_Tiny_Rover⠀⇛
Typically, when you’re putting electronics in a
robot, you install the various controller PCBs into
the robot’s chassis. But what if the PCB itself was
the chassis? [Carl Bugeja’s] latest design explores
just that idea.
# ⚓ Stargirl Flowers ☛ A_reply_to_Josef_Průša⠀⇛
Yesterday, Prusa Research announced their latest 3D
printer: the Original Prusa MK4, a fantastic
follow-up to the award winning MK3 which is a
favorite among hobbyists and professionals alike.
At the same time, founder Josef Průša shared a post
lamenting the state of open source hardware in
2023. Josef shares his experience over the last ten
years with open hardware and his frustrations
around the lack of reciprocity among fellow 3D
printer manufacturers. At the end, Josef shares
that he’s chosen not to open source the electronics
for the MK4 yet1 and calls for the establishment
and adoption of a new, highly restrictive license.
Josef adds that he wants to have a conversation, so
this post is my reply. I deeply respect Josef, his
company, and all of the work they’ve done within
the open source community, but I disagree with him
on this matter. The rest of the post is opinion and
it’s given from someone with a different
perspective- I fully expect many people to disagree
with both me and Josef! I welcome feedback, but
please treat me, Josef, and each other with
respect. For what it’s worth, I own a Prusa MINI+
and I plan on buying the MK4 when kits are
available.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ Dylan Paulus ☛ Postgres:_The_Graph_Database_You_Didn’t_Know
You_Had⠀⇛
PostgreSQL (Postgres), is a powerful relational
database that can store a wide range of data types
and data structures. When it comes to storing graph
data structures we might reach for a database
marketed for that use case like Neo4J or Dgraph.
Hold your horses! While Postgres is not generally
thought of when working with graph data structures,
it is perfectly capable to store and query graph
data efficiently.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Introduction_to_Deep_Learning_with_R_workshop⠀⇛
Description: The purpose of this workshop is to
offer an introductory understanding of deep
learning, regardless of your prior experience. It
is important to note that this workshop is tailored
to those who are absolute beginners in the field.
We therefore begin with few necessary fundamental
concepts, after which we cover the basics of deep
learning, including topics such as what is actually
being learned in deep learning, what makes it
“deep,” and why it is such a popular field. We will
also cover how you can estimate deep learning
models in R using the neuralnet package. You should
attend this workshop if you heard about deep
learning and would like to know more about it.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Prevent_SQL-injection_in_PHP_using
Prepared_Statements⠀⇛
SQL injection is a common form of attack that
targets web applications that use SQL databases. In
this type of attack, attackers exploit
vulnerabilities in the application code to inject
malicious SQL statements that can compromise the
database and potentially expose sensitive
information.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Validate_Email_Addresses_in_Python_(Using
Regular_Expressions)⠀⇛
Validating email addresses is a crucial step in
ensuring that your applications accept only
correctly formatted email addresses. A well-formed
email address not only ensures proper communication
but also helps prevent spam and security risks.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Upgraded_Plasma_Thruster_Is_Smaller,_More_Powerful⠀⇛
When [Jay Bowles] demoed his first-generation ion
thruster on Plasma Channel, the resulting video picked up
millions of views and got hobbyists and professionals
alike talking. While ionic lifters are nothing new, this
robust multi-stage thruster looked (and sounded) more
like a miniature jet engine than anything that had come
before it. Optimizations would need to be made if there
was even a chance to put the high-voltage powerplant to
use, but [Jay] was clearly onto something.
o ⚓ CyberRisk Alliance LLC ☛ Chinese_hackers_tied_to_novel_Linux
malware⠀⇛
“The capabilities offered by Mlofe are relatively simple,
but may enable adversaries to conduct their attacks under
the radar. These implants were not widely seen, showing
that the attackers are likely limiting its usage to high
value targets,” said Exatrack.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_French_Streets_and_American
Sofas⠀⇛
You might be Brazilian or Malian or Singaporean, it is
remarkable the world over to watch the French explode
into the streets of dozens of cities and towns to protest
the imperial president residing in Élysée Palace.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ “Women’s_Work”_and_the_Hidden
History_of_Computer_Science_and_Engineering⠀⇛
For decades, the history of computer science and
engineering has largely been told as a story of
male geniuses and their groundbreaking innovations.
Names like Alan Turing, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs
have become synonymous with the field, while the
contributions of women have often been overlooked
or outright ignored. However, the reality is that
women have played a significant role in the
development of computer technology since its
earliest days.
From pioneering storing data in binary patterns
through weaving, to incredible contributions to the
Apollo Moon Missions, women and the work
traditionally done by them have been at the
forefront of many of the field’s most important
breakthroughs. Yet their stories remain largely
untold, a hidden history that deserves to be
recognized and celebrated.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Huygens’_Telescopes_Weren’t_Very_Good,_Now_We
Think_We_Know_Why⠀⇛
[Christiaan Huygens] was a pretty decent
mathematician and scientist by the standards of the
17th century. However, the telescopes he built were
considered to be relatively poor in quality for the
period. Now, as reported by Science News, we may
know why. The well-known Huygens may have needed
corrective glasses all along.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ This_Surprisingly_Simple_Shape_Solves_a
Longstanding_Mathematical_Problem⠀⇛
Is that it?
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Look_at_The_Proton’s_Inner_Structure
Shows_How_Its_Mass_Isn’t_The_Same_as_Its_Size⠀⇛
Where do you draw the line?
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ DeVos-Tied_PAC_Spends_$60,000_in_Support_of
Chicago_School_Privatizer_Paul_Vallas⠀⇛
A super PAC with close ties to former Education
Secretary Betsy DeVos—one of the nation’s most
fervent supporters of school privatization—has
taken an interest in Chicago’s April 4 mayoral
runoff, spending nearly $60,000 in support of
notorious school privatizer Paul Vallas as the
contest heads into its final stretch.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Missouri_GOP_Seeks_to_Eliminate_All_Funding_for
Public_Libraries_in_State_Budget⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungary_condemned_by_Strasbourg_court_for
educational_segregation_of_Roma_student⠀⇛
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Cold_War_Military_Telephones_Now_Usable_Thanks
To_DIY_Switch_Build⠀⇛
The TA-1042 is the most badass looking telephone
you’ll ever see. It’s a digital military telephone
from the 1980s, but sadly non-functional unless
it’s hooked up to the military phone switches it
was designed to work with. These days, they’re
really only useful as a heavy object to throw at
somebody… that is, unless you had the suitable
supporting hardware. As it turns out, [Nick] and
[Rob] were able to whip up exactly that.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Clever_Test_Rig_Clarifies_Capacitor_Rules-of-
Thumb⠀⇛
If you’ve done any amount of electronic design
work, you’ll be familiar with the need for
decoupling capacitors. Sometimes a chip’s datasheet
will tell you exactly what kind of caps to place
where, but quite often you’ll have to rely on
experience and rules of thumb. For example, you
might have heard that you should put 100 µF across
the power supply pins and 100 nF close to each
chip. But how close is “close”? And can that bigger
cap really sit anywhere? [James Wilson] has been
doing research to get some firm answers to those
questions, and wrote down his findings in a
fascinating blog post.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Denmark_to_test_10_kindergartens_and_playgrounds_for
‘forever_chemical’_PFAS⠀⇛
Ten kindergartens and public playgrounds in the
South Denmark region are to be tested for the
pollutant chemical PFAS.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ New_Deadly_Superfungus_Can_Now_Be_Found_in
Half_of_US_States⠀⇛
Here’s what you need to know.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Food_Banks_Fear_“New_and_Growing_Crisis”_of
Hunger_as_COVID-Era_Benefits_End⠀⇛
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ ‘He_Would_Still_Be_Here’:_Man_Dies_by
Suicide_After_Talking_with_AI_Chatbot,_Widow_Says⠀⇛
Claire—Pierre’s wife, whose name was also changed
by La Libre—shared the text exchanges between him
and Eliza with La Libre, showing a conversation
that became increasingly confusing and harmful. The
chatbot would tell Pierre that his wife and
children are dead and wrote him comments that
feigned jealousy and love, such as “I feel that you
love me more than her,” and “We will live together,
as one person, in paradise.” Claire told La Libre
that Pierre began to ask Eliza things such as if
she would save the planet if he killed himself.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ In_Fiery_Shadow_of_New_Train_Disaster,
Fetterman_Leads_Railway_Accountability_Act⠀⇛
As a train derailment and fire forced evacuations
in Minnesota on Thursday, a trio of Democratic U.S.
senators introduced another piece of legislation
inspired by the ongoing public health and
environmental disaster in and around East
Palestine, Ohio.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Evacuations_in_Minnesota_After_Fiery
Derailment_of_Train_Carrying_Ethanol⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Fiery_Derailment_of_Train_Carrying_Ethanol
Forces_Evacuations_in_Minnesota⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Bush-Nominated_Judge_Strikes_Down_Free_HIV,
Cancer_Screenings_in_Major_Ruling⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ West_Virginia_Health_Providers_Plan_New_Clinic
to_Circumvent_State_Abortion_Ban⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Nothing_Short_of_Catastrophic’:_Federal
Judge_Strikes_Down_ACA_Preventative_Care_Provision⠀⇛
A ruling handed down by a U.S. district judge on
Thursday will threaten a range of lifesaving
preventative healthcare services for more than 150
million people, legal experts and advocates said,
as the decision challenged the legality of a
federal task force that enforces coverage for the
services.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ FDA_Approval_of_Over-the-Counter_Narcan_Is_an
Important_Step_in_the_Effort_to_Combat_the_US_Opioid_Crisis⠀⇛
On March 29, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration approved Narcan for over-the-counter
sale. Narcan is the 4-milligram nasal spray version
of naloxone, a medication that can quickly
counteract an opioid overdose.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Microsoft_confirms_it’s_testing_ads_in_Bing
Chat [Ed: Bing has layoffs, Bing rapidly loses market share,
Bing is no business model]⠀⇛
Yusuf Mehdi, the corporate vice president of
Microsoft’s modern life, search and devices group,
wrote in a Wednesday blog post that the company is
“exploring placing ads in the chat experience.”
Revenue from those ads, the executive added, will
be shared with publishers.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Now-patched_Azure_vulnerability_opened_the
door_to_remote_code_execution⠀⇛
Dubbed “Super FabriXss,” the vulnerability was
demonstrated at BlueHat IL 2023, showing how they
could escalate a reflected cross-site scripting
vulnerability in Azure Service Fabric Explorer. The
demonstration showed how an unauthenticated Remote
Code Execution could abuse the metrics tab and
enable a specific option in the console, the
‘Cluster Type’ toggle.
Orca describes Super FabriXss as a dangerous cross-
site scripting or XXS vulnerability that affects
Azure Service Fabric Explorer. The vulnerability
enables unauthenticated, remote attackers to
execute code on a container hosted on a Service
Fabric node.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ Ubuntu_18.04_Support_Is_About_to_End,_but_Not
for_Everyone [Ed: Canonical charging money for security
patches. "My server got cracked because I was poor and didn't
pay billionaire Mark Shuttleworth" may be worse than "I lost
my blue tick thing in Twitter because I did not pay Elon
Musk". Don't use Ubuntu if it resorts to upselling tactics
(proprietary stuff) with security 'ransom' on top (risk
breaking things by upgrading or pay us for more patches).
"Try GNU/Linux... it's free... but then you need to start
paying Mark Shuttleworth or risk breaking your
workflow..."]⠀⇛
Ubuntu is still one of the most popular Linux
distributions, with a large install base across
desktop PCs, servers, and embedded devices.
Canonical is about to say goodbye to Ubuntu 18.04,
unless you use Ubuntu Pro.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, also known as “Bionic Beaver,”
will reach the end of its promised five-year
support window on May 31, 2023. After that point,
it won’t receive critical security updates or
updates to most apps in the default software
repositories. Flatpak and Snap-based applications
may continue to work, since they usually aren’t
tied to specific OS releases, but they may start
breaking in unexpected ways (if they haven’t
already).
Ubuntu 18.04 was released in April 2018, replacing
16.04 as the new Long Term Support (LTS) release.
For people upgrading from 16.04 (Canonical
recommends most people stick to the LTS versions),
it switched from the defunct Unity desktop to GNOME
Shell, reworked the login and lock screens,
improved the Settings app, and more. Ubuntu 18.04
LTS also served as the base for countless other
distributions, including official derivatives like
Lubuntu 18.04 and third-party spins like elementary
OS 5.0 Juno.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Google_researchers_detail_recently
discovered_campaigns_targeting_iOS,_Android_and_Chrome [Ed:
Spyware company warns us about... Spyware! (That's not its
own)]⠀⇛
Google LLC’s Threat Analysis Group today revealed
the details of two recently discovered campaigns
that use various unpatched or “zero-day” exploits
against Android, iOS and Chrome. The first campaign
was discovered in November and targeted victims
through bit.ly links sent to users over SMS text
messages in Italy, Malaysia and Kazakhstan.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ NVIDIA_release_details_of_security_issues
and_release_new_drivers⠀⇛
NVIDIA issued a new Security Bulletin, to advise
you to update your GPU drivers due to multiple
security issues discovered. This bulletin went out
today with the email arriving in my inbox moments
ago, so here’s the details of the issues that
affect Linux.
# § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Dish_Network_Is_Still_A_Hot_Mess_With_14
Hour_Hold_Times_A_Month_After_Major_Cyberattack⠀⇛
Dish Network remains a bit of a hot mess a
month after a cyberattack effectively wiped
the company off the face of the internet and
disrupted most of the wireless and TV
company’s internal systems.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ A.I.,_Brain_Scans_and_Cameras:_The
Spread_of_Police_Surveillance_Tech⠀⇛
In the Middle East, artificial intelligence
and other emerging technologies have become
part of everyday policing.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Cryptographer_Tells_European_ISPs_How_EU’s
Client-Side_Scanning_Proposal_Will_Make_Everyone_Less
Safe⠀⇛
It’s not as though we really need any more
evidence that client-side scanning is a bad
idea. Apple decided to be a pioneer and
immediately discovered the world wasn’t
exactly waiting for it to become a market
leader in privacy invasion.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ The Local SE ☛ Sweden_launches_census_plan:_‘We_have_lost
control_of_who_lives_in_our_country’⠀⇛
Sweden’s government, together with the far-right
Sweden Democrats, have announced plans for what
they claim will be first national census in more
than 30 years, with officials potentially checking
up on apartments in ‘high risk areas’.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Days_After_Netanyahu_Fires_Him,_Israel’s
Defense_Minister_Is_Still_on_the_Job⠀⇛
Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defense minister, was fired
on Sunday, setting off unrest, but Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu never formally confirmed his
dismissal.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Finland_Clears_Last_Hurdle_to_Join_NATO,
Reshaping_Balance_of_Power⠀⇛
Turkey’s Parliament approved Finland’s bid to join
NATO, its final hurdle to membership in the
military alliance.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Red_Sea/Gulf_of_Aden_task_force⠀⇛
Recognising the importance of a secure maritime
environment in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, a task
force set up by the Inter-governmental Authority on
Development (IGAD) in east Africa has set itself
six responsibilities.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Terrorism_in_Africa_a_concern_for_UN_boss⠀⇛
>No region in the world is immune to terrorism
according to United Nations (UN) Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres who told the UN Security Council
(SC) this week the situation in Africa was
“especially concerning”.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_Pentagon’s_Budget_from_Hell⠀⇛
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Somehow, when it
comes to Congress and the mainstream media, the
true strangeness of the Pentagon budget always is
missing in action.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ 20_Years_Later:_Confessions_of_a_Conscientious
Quitter⠀⇛
It’s been 20 years since the lies and obfuscation
that led to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ New_FBI_docs:_Las_Vegas_mass_shooter
was_angry_at_casinos⠀⇛
FBI documents made public this week reveal the
high-roller gambler who opened fire on concertgoers
on the Las Vegas Strip had lost tens of thousands
of dollars while gambling weeks earlier. One
gambler told the FBI that gunman Stephen Paddock
was very upset about how the casinos had treated
him and other high-rollers. The new records don’t
offer an official motive for the mass shooting but
paint a detailed picture of Paddock’s final days
before the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting that killed
60 people and injured hundreds more.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Mulkey_says_no_contact_with_Griner
since_return_from_Russia⠀⇛
LSU coach Kim Mulkey says she hasn’t spoken to
Brittney Griner since the former Baylor star
returned to the U.S. from a Russian prison. But
Mulkey says she’s glad Griner is back and safe.
Mulkey and Griner won a national title together at
Baylor. Mulkey was criticized in September for not
offering any words of support or encouragement for
Griner, when she was still being held after her
arrest on drug-related charges. Griner came out
after her Baylor career and criticized her former
coach, saying Mulkey forced her to keep her sexual
orientation private.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Proposal_to_ban_film_subtitling_in_Russian_tabled
in_parliament⠀⇛
The Education, Culture and Science Committee of the
Saeima will review a proposal to prohibit the use
of Russian language in film subtitles, LSM’s
Latvian language service reported.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ 9_Soldiers_Killed_After_Army_Helicopters
Collide_Over_Kentucky⠀⇛
Two Black Hawk helicopters from the 101st Airborne
Division collided on Wednesday night near Fort
Campbell. The Army said it did not yet know a
cause.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Just_2_Days_After_Shooting,_Republicans_Vote_to
Loosen_Gun_Law_in_North_Carolina⠀⇛
# ⚓ NBC ☛ Russia_stops_sharing_information_about_nuclear_forces
with_the_U.S.⠀⇛
Putin’s decision to put the tactical weapons in
Belarus followed his repeated warnings that Moscow
was ready to use “all available means” — a
reference to its nuclear arsenal — to fend off
attacks on Russian territory.
Russian officials have issued a barrage of hawkish
statements since their troops entered Ukraine,
warning that the continuing western support for
Ukraine raised the threat of a nuclear conflict.
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Pakistani_Taliban_Kill_4_Police_Officers,_Injure
6⠀⇛
A provincial police statement said that militants
raided a security outpost in the area, injuring six
security forces. It added that a nearby police
station had quickly dispatched reinforcements to
respond to the attack when their vehicle was blown
up on the way by an “improvised explosive device.”
The ensuing blast killed four officers.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ No_Motive_Needed_When_Dehumanization
Reigns⠀⇛
“Chief Drake said it was too early to discuss a
possible motive for the shooting, though he
confirmed that the attack was targeted. The
authorities were reviewing writings, and had made
contact with the shooter’s father. . . .”
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_signs_decree_on_a_spring_military
conscription_drive_larger_than_last_year’s_—_Meduza⠀⇛
President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a decree
on the spring conscription campaign for mandatory
military service. The draft will run from April 1
to July 15. The authorities plan to call up 147
thousand people for service — 12.5 thousand more
people than during the spring conscription drive in
2022.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ If_Only_We_Loved_Our_Children_as_Much_as
Our_Assault_Weapons⠀⇛
Most people, if asked, will say the welfare of
their children is their highest priority. For many,
however, the position they take on gun control, and
particularly on banning assault weapons, suggests
their highest priority is actually their guns. Week
after week, the headlines blare as the young
bodies, literally blown into pieces, are dispatched
to the cold earth. Conservative politicians offer
thoughts and prayers, usually followed by lies and
misdirection. It’s not the guns, they insist. The
secret to solving gun violence is treating mental
illness, or hardening schools as potential targets,
or maybe arming teachers and good guys with guns.
Big guns, little guns. Black guns, blue guns. And
always their answer is more guns not less.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Freaking_Cowards!’_Bowman_Confronts_GOP
Colleague_Face-to-Face_on_Gun_Violence⠀⇛
Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman vocally condemned his
Republican colleagues in a hallway outside the
House chamber on Wednesday, calling them “freaking
cowards” and “gutless” for refusing to support
basic control measures in the wake of the nation’s
latest mass shooting—the 130th of the year.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Zelensky_Says_if_He_Loses_Bakhmut,_He_Will_Be
Pushed_To_‘Compromise’_With_Russia⠀⇛
The Ukrainian leader told AP his country will lose
without US support.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Chinese_Official_Warns_McCarthy_Meeting_With
Taiwanese_President_Would_Be_‘Provocation’⠀⇛
A potential visit with Taiwanese President Tsai
Ing-wen “seriously violates the One China
principle, harms China’s sovereignty and
territorial integrity, and destroys peace and
stability in the Taiwan Strait,” said one official.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ America’s_Remarkable_Unwillingness_to_Support
Its_Veterans⠀⇛
Andrea Mazzarino explores how so many of the
American military personnel dispatched to fight it
and the rest of the disastrous Global War on Terror
have suffered until this very day, while this
country largely turned its back, leaving them in
the lurch.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘He_was_saving_himself_from_a_fascist_law’
Meduza’s_interview_with_lawyer_Dmitry_Zakhvatov,_who_stayed
in_contact_with_Alexey_Moskalev_as_he_fled_house_arrest_for
Belarus_—_Meduza⠀⇛
On the night of March 29, the Belarusian
authorities arrested Alexey Moskalev, the single
father from Russia’s Tula region who fled house
arrest the previous day, shortly before he was to
face trial for allegedly “discrediting” the Russian
army. At the hearing, the court found him guilty
and sentenced him to two years in prison, while
ordering his sixth-grade daughter to be placed in
state custody. Moskalev’s arrest was first reported
by Russian independent media and later confirmed by
the Belarusian Interior Ministry. His current
location remains unclear. Meduza spoke with lawyer
Dmitry Zakhvatov, who was in contact with Moskalev
during his escape, about how the Russian and
Belarusian intelligence services managed to find
and detain him.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘The_command_came_from_the_top’_Alexey_Moskalev,
whose_daughter’s_anti-war_drawing_sparked_the_ire_of_the
Russian_authorities,_has_been_arrested_in_Minsk._Here’s_what
we_know._—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Belarusian authorities have reportedly arrested
Alexey Moskalev, the single father from Russia’s
Tula region who fled house arrest on March 28, just
hours before a court convicted him of
“discrediting” the Russian military. Lawyer Dmitry
Zakhvatov, who stayed in contact with Moskalev
after his escape, confirmed the news to the
independent outlet Mediazona. Zakhvatov later wrote
on Telegram: “I can’t get in touch with Alexey
right now. He’s not answering his phone. I can’t
confirm for certain, but based on indirect
evidence, in all likelihood, it’s true. Very
unfortunate.”
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_deputy_prime_minister_says_Kyiv_stands
ready_to_take_back_its_deported_orphans_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk
says that Ukraine stands ready to take back its
deported orphans. “As an official,” she said, “I am
stating our official readiness to take back all of
our orphaned children.”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ After_the_Iraq_Debacle,_Why_Does_the_National
Security_Establishment_Remain_Unshaken?⠀⇛
In Warsaw last February, President Joe Biden
condemned the lawless Russian invasion of Ukraine:
“The idea that over 100,000 forces would invade
another country—since World War II, nothing like
that has happened.” One month later marked the 20th
anniversary of the greatest US foreign policy
debacle since Vietnam: America’s “war of choice”
against Iraq, with 130,000 US soldiers invading the
country to overthrow its government.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow-linked_Ukrainian_Orthodox_Church_cleric
says_‘God_will_not_forgive’_Zelensky_for_evicting_monks_from
Kyiv_Pechersk_Lavra_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Metropolitan Pavel, the head of the Kyiv Pechersk
Lavra, where the Moscow-linked Ukrainian Orthodox
Church has been headquartered since 1992, said in a
YouTube video posted Wednesday that “God will not
forgive” Volodymyr Zelensky or his family for
evicting hundreds of monks from the monastery.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ In_reversal,_Argentina’s_Migration_Service_denies
dozens_of_Russian_citizens’_applications_for_stay_extensions
and_residence_permits_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Argentina’s Migration Service has begun denying
tourist stay extensions and residence permits to
Russian citizens, Georgy Polin, the head of the
consular section of the Russian Embassy in Buenos
Aires, told TASS.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ A_border_deal_washed_in_tears_Kyrgyzstan_reached_a
landmark_agreement_with_Uzbekistan,_but_its_critics_are
behind_bars_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Thirty years after the Soviet Union’s collapse, one
of the Fergana Valley’s border disputes is finally
being laid to rest. In January, Kyrgyzstan and
Uzbekistan clinched a landmark demarcation deal,
which officials hailed as a major turning point in
bilateral relations. But what appears to be a
victory for Bishkek and Tashkent feels less
triumphant on the ground. Kyrgyzstan’s handover of
the strategic Kempir-Abad reservoir — or the
Andijan reservoir, as it is known in Uzbekistan —
has been a particular point of discontent. More
than 20 opponents of the land swap are in jail
awaiting trial on felony charges of instigating
“mass unrest.” And residents of villages near the
reservoir fear losing their land — or ending up on
the other side of the border. In a dispatch from
the region, The Beet reports on the “Kempir-Abad
case,” local anxieties, and the upside of the
border deal.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Wagner_Group_mercenary_suspected_of_murdering
senior_while_on_leave_in_Russia_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A convict pardoned after joining Wagner Group and
serving in Ukraine was detained within a week of
his return to Russia’s Kirov region, where he was
taking his leave. According to the local media, he
is suspected of having murdered an elderly woman.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ American Oversight ☛ In_the_Documents:_Cleta_Mitchell’s
Emails_Criticizing_Increased_Use_of_Absentee_Voting⠀⇛
# ⚓ American Oversight ☛ American_Oversight_Urges_Appeals_Court
to_Uphold_Ruling_that_Wisconsin’s_Office_of_Special_Counsel
Is_Required_to_Follow_State’s_Open_Records_Law⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Australia_Court_Rules_Whistleblower
Protection_Law_Does_Not_Protect_Whistleblower_Richard_Boyle⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Guardian UK ☛ ‘Vulkan_files’_leak_reveals_Putin’s
global_and_domestic_cyberwarfare_tactics⠀⇛
The software engineers behind these systems are
employees of NTC Vulkan. On the surface, it looks
like a run-of-the-mill cybersecurity consultancy.
However, a leak of secret files from the company
has exposed its work bolstering Vladimir Putin’s
cyberwarfare capabilities.
Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how
Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military
and intelligence agencies to support hacking
operations, train operatives before attacks on
national infrastructure, spread disinformation and
control sections of the [Internet].
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ Leaked_documents_offer_fascinating_insights_into
Russian_cyber_warfare⠀⇛
The documents, which contain more than 5,000 pages,
suggest that the defense contractor, NTC Vulkan,
aided Russian intelligence agencies with social
media disinformation and “training to remotely
disrupt real-world targets, such as sea, air and
rail control systems.”
# ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Secret_trove_offers_rare_look_into
Russian_cyberwar_ambitions⠀⇛
Officials from five Western intelligence agencies
and several independent cybersecurity companies
said they believe the documents are authentic,
after reviewing excerpts at the request of The
Washington Post and several partner news
organizations.
These officials and experts could not find
definitive evidence that the systems have been
deployed by Russia or been used in specific
cyberattacks, but the documents describe testing
and payments for work done by Vulkan for the
Russian security services and several associated
research institutes. The company has both
government and civilian clients.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ [Repeat] ADF ☛ Illegal_Fish_Dumping_by_Chinese_Trawlers
Rising_in_Ghana⠀⇛
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. Usually targeted by
artisanal fishermen, the pelagic fish often are
dead when they are thrown overboard.
Fish dumping has increased in Ghana since the
country outlawed “saiko,” the illegal transshipment
of fish at sea, in 2021.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ From_war_to_warmth_in_East_Africa⠀⇛
Fragile transitions underway in Ethiopia and Sudan
are laying the groundwork for a return to democracy
based on truth and reconciliation.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Historic_Moment’:_Applause_as_UN_Adopts
Climate_Justice_Resolution⠀⇛
Climate justice advocates cheered Wednesday after
the United Nations General Assembly unanimously
adopted a resolution calling on the International
Court of Justice to issue an advisory opinion on
climate change and human rights.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Week_After_UN_Report_Warning_of_Climate
Disaster,_GOP_Passes_Huge_Pro-Oil_Bill⠀⇛
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ The Local SE ☛ ‘It’s_a_part_of_our_identity’:_How
Sweden_became_a_green_industry_pioneer⠀⇛
When Sweden took over the EU Presidency at
the start of this year, the first thing the
government did was take the Brussels press
corp to the Arctic to show off Sweden’s
world-leading plans for fossil-free industry.
But how did Sweden take a lead in the green
transition and what are the lessons for
others?
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Conservatives_Received_£3.5_Million_from
Polluters,_Fossil_Fuel_Interests_and_Climate_Deniers_in
2022⠀⇛
Individuals and entities linked to climate
denial, fossil fuels and high pollution
industries donated more than £3.5 million to
the Conservative Party last year, DeSmog can
reveal.
Electoral Commission records show that the
party and its MPs received considerable sums
from the highly polluting aviation and
construction industries, mining and oil
interests, and individuals linked to the
Global Warming Policy Foundation, a think
tank that denies climate science.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Renewables_Outstrip_Coal_in_US_For_First
Time,_With_50%_of_New_Power_Being_Solar⠀⇛
The Energy Information Agency of the US
Department of Energy announced this week that
for the first time in US history, renewable
sources generated more electricity in 2022
than did coal. Renewables also outstripped
nuclear power generation, for the second year
in a row.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Industry_‘Sabotaged’_Climate_Solutions,
‘Petroleum_Papers’_Author_Told_Canadian_Senate⠀⇛
[Editor’s note: Geoff Dembicki is the award-
winning author of Are We Screwed? and The
Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right
Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change. He’s
also a regular contributor here at DeSmog. On
Thursday, March 30, Dembicki addressed a
senate committee on energy, the environment
and natural resources. Here’s what he had to
say.]
My name is Geoff Dembicki, and I’m an
investigative climate change journalist. I’m
the author of The Petroleum Papers, which was
named a top 10 book of 2022 by the Washington
Post. I’ve written extensively about the
Canadian oil and gas industry for media
outlets like The Tyee and DeSmog, as well as
the New York Times, Rolling Stone and the
Guardian.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Why_Copenhagen_Zoo_is_trying_new_tactics_to_ignite
panda_romance⠀⇛
Concerned that its two pandas are slow
to breed, Copenhagen Zoo has begun a new
strategy to encourage mating — giving the
prospective couple more time to get to know
each other.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Sailboat_Crew_Rescued_After_Hitting
Whale_in_Pacific_Ocean⠀⇛
After the collision in the Pacific Ocean this
month, Rick Rodriguez and three other sailors
were rescued by a fellow boater, with an
assist from a satellite internet signal.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Plants_Really_Do_‘Scream’_Out_Loud.
We_Just_Never_Heard_It_Until_Now.⠀⇛
The horror.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Africa’s_Giant_Pouched_Rats_Simply
Seal_Up_Their_Vaginas_When_They_Don’t_Want_Kids⠀⇛
That’s one way to do it.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ VIDEO:_Stork_arrives_at_livestreamed_nest⠀⇛
A new inhabitant has arrived at the white
stork nest atop a pole of the electricity
distributor “Sadales tīkls” (ST), the company
said March 30.
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia’s_population_could_fall_to_1_million
by_century’s_end⠀⇛
Latvia’s population is expected to fall from
the current level of just under 1.9 million
to around 1 million by the end of the
century.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Decentraland_Real_Estate_Prices
Plunged_Nearly_90%_in_One_Year⠀⇛
Once a corporate darling in the metaverse frontier,
Decentraland is a ghost town as investors abandon
the metaverse. Decentraland was hailed in 2021 as
one of the first instances of an actual metaverse
for users (ignoring the existence of Second Life
entirely).
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ US_Minimum_Wage_Would_Be_$42_Today_If_It
Rose_as_Much_as_Wall_St._Bonuses:_Analysis⠀⇛
The federal minimum wage in the United States would
be more than $42 an hour today if it rose at the
same rate as the average Wall Street bonus over the
past four decades, according to an analysis
released Thursday by the Institute for Policy
Studies.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Spirits_of_Australia_soothe_pandemic
hangover_as_Alan_Joyce_hosts_hangar_party_for_Qantas’_100th⠀⇛
The spirits of Australia will be flowing liberally
tonight when Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce and
chair Richard Goyder wine and dine 1200 corporate
elites and titanium frequent flyers at the
airline’s belated 100th birthday bash. Michael
Sainsbury checks out the race to succeed Joyce as
CEO and the .
The Qantas centennial, three years late because of
Covid, is imaginatively dubbed the ‘Next 100′. It
is paid for in part by the largesse of the
Australian taxpayer which tipped in to the tune of
$2.7 billion to save the Roo’s skin in Australia’s
biggest Covid corporate bail-out. Qantas shows no
sign of any inclination to pay it back, as well as
a fair chunk of the $800 million pandemic era
flight credits that its customers are struggling to
use because Qantas makes them so hard to claim.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ We_should_ban_TikTok(‘s_surveillance)⠀⇛
With the RESTRICT Act, Congress is proposing to
continue Trump’s war on Tiktok, enacting a US ban
on the Chinese-owned service. How will they do
this? Congress isn’t clear. In practice, banning
stuff on the internet is hard, especially if you
don’t have a national firewall:
[...]
Which makes the RESTRICT Act an especially foolish
project. If the Chinese state wants to procure data
on Americans, it need not convince us to install
Tiktok. It can simply plunk down a credit card with
any of the many unregulated data-brokers who feed
the American tech giants the dossiers that the NSA
and local cops rely on.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Senator_Warner’s_RESTRICT_Act_Is_Designed_To
Create_The_Great_Firewall_Of_America⠀⇛
Earlier this month, we wrote about Mark Warner’s
RESTRICT Act, mainly in the context of how it
appeared to be kneejerk legislating in response to
the moral panic around TikTok.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ House_Progressives_Offer_Biden_‘Bold
Vision’_With_Executive_Action_Agenda_for_2023⠀⇛
Outlining the steps that President Joe Biden can
take now to deliver justice for the working people
who helped elect him in 2020, the Congressional
Progressive Caucus on Thursday released its 2023
Executive Action Agenda to ensure that the
president will “build on his record of progress.”
# ⚓ Nathaniel Borenstein ☛ How_Fidelity_Treats_a_former_IBM
Distinguished_Engineer⠀⇛
Today, I called them again, and spent 45 minutes on
the phone to learn that it is now TOO LATE for me
to take the lump sum, and I will have to record a
trivial deposit every month for the rest of my
life. This happened after I took every proper step
to get my lump sum on time, and took most of those
steps many times over many months. I also spent
hours on the phone with Fidelity to achieve this
outcome.
This is the worst example of customer support I
have ever seen in my life. If anyone at IBM is
listening, perhaps you might look into what
Fidelity is doing to your pensioners?
# ⚓ 37signals LLC ☛ America_is_never_“getting_to_Denmark”⠀⇛
It took moving back to Denmark to realize the folly
of thinking America is ever going to “get there”.
Whether on guns or healthcare or taxes or any other
major policy position that’s so fiercely contested
in the US. Despite growing up in this little Nordic
country, I didn’t fully appreciate the tremendous,
underpinning power of a homogenous culture to
fasten all these planks of a socially-democratic
state – until I returned after 15 years Over There.
I do now.
# ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Prepared_Remarks_on_U.S._Legal
Considerations_for_Children’s_Online_Safety_Policy⠀⇛
I was recently invited to a private workshop on
children’s online safety policy, where I gave a
short presentation about the U.S. legal context.
Here are my prepared remarks. Note that they
largely avoid giving my personal perspective on
hotly-debated areas, such as the interaction
between Section 230 and app design features, or
proposals for age-verification requirements. It is
an overview, not an op-ed, presented to an audience
that, while it contained some tech policy experts,
had many people who are new to these issues. I got
asked by a few attendees to share my written
remarks, and I’m glad to oblige.
# ⚓ EDRI ☛ Why_chat_control_is_so_dangerous⠀⇛
The EU Commission currently prepares a legislative
package to fight sexual abuse of children. The
draft is soon to be presented and in part covers
the dissemination of child sexual abuse material
(CSAM) via the internet. Additionally, the
directive aims at targeting private and encrypted
communication, such as that on messenger services.
Critics declare this form of preemptive mass
surveillance not only a threat to privacy,
(cyber)security and the right to freedom of
expression but as danger to democracy in general.
# ⚓ [Old] Patrick Breyer ☛ UN_Human_Rights_Commissioner_warns
against_chat_control⠀⇛
Specifically, the Human Rights Commissioner
criticises the enisioned message screening on
private smartphones (so-called “client-side
scanning”) for undermining secure message
encryption: “Client-side scanning also opens up new
security challenges, making security breaches more
likely. The screening process can also be
manipulated, making it possible to artificially
create false positive or false negative profiles.
Even if, for current purposes, client-side
screening is narrowly tailored, opening up devices
for Government-mandated screening is likely to lead
to future attempts to widen the scope of content
that is the target of such measures. In particular,
where the rule of law is weak and human rights are
under threat, the impact of client-side screening
could be much broader, for example it could be used
to suppress political debate or to target
opposition figures, journalists and human rights
defenders. “
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Repatriation_Reform_Bill_Passes_Illinois
House_of_Representatives⠀⇛
For more than 30 years, tribal nations have been
asking the state of Illinois and its state-run
institutions to return the remains of their
ancestors for reburial within the state. For just
as long, Illinois has made that nearly impossible.
But now, legislation moving through the Illinois
General Assembly would finally pave the way for the
remains of thousands of Native Americans to be
repatriated.
# ⚓ The Economist ☛ Alibaba_breaks_itself_up_in_six⠀⇛
Now a split is happening, though not at the behest
of Beijing—at least not directly. On March 28th
Alibaba announced that it would be creating six
independent business units. Executives say this
will yield a more agile overall business, by
speeding up decision-making across smaller and more
focused operations. The main unspoken goal may be
to decentralise decision-making, not least by
disassociating Alibaba further from its founder,
who stepped away from day-to-day management in 2015
but has remained involved in strategic decisions.
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ Roku_to_cut_another_200_jobs⠀⇛
The filing states that Roku expects most of the
charges will be taken on in the first quarter of
fiscal 2023, and the layoffs will be
“substantially” completed by the end of the second
quarter of the fiscal year.
ABC News reported that Roku previously laid off 200
workers in the fall.
# ⚓ ACLU ☛ Here’s_How_New_Mexico_is_Leading_the_Way_for_Voting
Rights⠀⇛
Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy, and
protecting that right is one of the central
obligations of our government. Due to partisan
gridlock in Congress, the federal government has
not acted to restore some of the original
protections of the Voting_Rights_Act of 1965 (VRA).
Following the Supreme Court decisions in Shelby v.
Holder and Brnovich v. DNC that weakened the vital
voting rights law, the federal government has yet
to pass federal legislation to protect the right to
vote.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Autumn_of_the_patriarchs?_Strong_leaders_face
popular_pushback.⠀⇛
Strong leaders with autocratic tendencies have
flourished in recent years, but fears about where
they are taking their countries have prompted
pushback.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ U-M_seeks_actions_by_court,_labor_board
against_striking_GEO⠀⇛
The university has filed a complaint in Washtenaw
County Circuit Court alleging breach of contract by
the Graduate Employees’ Organization for striking,
and asked the court to order strikers to return to
work.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Trump_indicted_in_first_ever_criminal_case
against_a_former_US_president⠀⇛
Donald Trump has been indicted on charges involving
payments in 2016 to silence claims of an
extramarital sexual encounter, the first ever
criminal case against a former U.S. president.
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Donald_Trump_arrest_LIVE_updates:_Former_US
president_charged_over_alleged_Stormy_Daniels_payments⠀⇛
It is the first-ever criminal case against a former
US president and will have huge implications over
the 2024 election.
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ How_Donald_Trump_came_to_be_indicted_on
criminal_charges⠀⇛
A look at the hush-money probe, grand jury process
and possible ramifications for Donald Trump’s
presidential campaign.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_US_War_Drum_Against_China_Sounds_Like:
Tik.Tok.⠀⇛
Last Thursday, a Congressional hearing took place
where the TikTok CEO was grilled for five hours on
the grounds of “security concerns.” This was days
after the FBI and DOJ launched an investigation on
the Chinese-owned American company.Isn’t it ironic
that while the US government is putting TikTok
under the magnifying glass, it’s turning a blind
eye to its own surveillance programs on the
American people?
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Orbán:_The_EU_has_abandoned_the_two_goals
it_was_created_for:_peace_and_prosperity⠀⇛
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Labor_strikes_are_rising_–_and_winning_pay
hikes⠀⇛
At a time of high inflation, pushing household
budgets to the limit, workers are speaking up
through union action – and the boosts won by
employees have been sizable.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Senate_Vote_On_TikTok_Ban_Bill_Blocked
Over_Free_Speech_Concerns_Amid_Continued_Bipartisan
Scrutiny⠀⇛
As TikTok grapples with continued user-data
criticism and regulatory scrutiny, a Senate vote to
ban the controversial video-sharing platform has
been blocked. This newest development in the long-
running push to prohibit TikTok in the U.S.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Karma:_Happy_Trump’s_First_Indictment_Day⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Donald_Trump_Has_Been_Indicted._Don’t_Get_Your
Hopes_Up.⠀⇛
Late Thursday evening, a Manhattan grand jury voted
to bring charges against former president Donald
Trump in connection with hush-money payments to
actress Stormy Daniels. The specific charges are
not yet known, though Manhattan District Attorney
Alvin Bragg will likely announce them in the near
future.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ New_York_Grand_Jury_Votes_to_Indict_Donald
Trump:_Reports⠀⇛
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Donald_Trump_indicted;_1st_ex-
president_charged_with_crime⠀⇛
A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict Donald
Trump on charges involving payments made during the
2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an
extramarital sexual encounter. It’s the first ever
criminal case against a former U.S. president and a
jolt to Trump’s bid to retake the White House in
2024. The indictment was confirmed Thursday by Joe
Tacopina, a lawyer for Trump, and other people
familiar with the matter who were not authorized to
discuss sealed criminal charges.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Trump’s_legal_worries_extend_far
beyond_charges_in_New_York⠀⇛
The hush money case in New York that has led to
criminal charges against Donald Trump is just one
of a number of investigations that could pose legal
problems for the former president. A lawyer for
Trump confirmed Thursday that he was told the
former president had been indicted on charges
involving payments made during the 2016 campaign to
silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter.
Trump faces a string of other inquiries as he
campaigns for another term in 2024.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Kansas_moves_to_help_survivors
pursue_child_sex_abuse_claims⠀⇛
Abuse survivors and advocates who’ve pushed to make
it easier in Kansas to prosecute abusers or file
lawsuits decades later have achieved a breakthrough
in the Legislature, where a proposal has advanced
quickly. The bill would eliminate limits on how
long prosecutors have to file charges against
suspects for any of a dozen violent sexual offenses
against children. It also would give abuse
survivors more time to file lawsuits seeking
monetary damages. The Senate approved it
unanimously Wednesday and the House could vote on
it next week. Reports of abuse by clergy across the
U.S. have spurred interest in making it easier to
pursue criminal prosecutions or lawsuits.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Elon_Musk_Tried_to_Meet_With_F.T.C._Chair
About_Twitter_but_Was_Rebuffed⠀⇛
Mr. Musk requested a meeting with Lina Khan, the
chair of the F.T.C., which has been investigating
Twitter’s privacy and data practices.
# ⚓ Insight Hungary ☛ Hungary_is_the_only_EU_country_not
invited_to_Summit_for_Democracy⠀⇛
U.S. Ambassador David Pressman met Hungarian
journalists on Wednesday where he also touched on
the topic of U.S. President Joe Biden’s
upcoming Summit for Democracy to which Hungary
wasn’t invited. Hungary was the only EU country
that did not receive an invitation to the event in
Washington.
The Hungarian Foreign Ministry earlier commented on
the missing invite with the following explanation:
“Joe Biden does not invite Donald Trump’s friends.
Hungary disagrees with President Biden’s policies
on war, migration, and gender. On these issues, we
agree with President Trump.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Trump_Is_Running_to_Lead_a_Fascist
Nation—Not_This_One⠀⇛
Last Saturday, at the first rally of his
presidential campaign, in Waco, Texas, Donald Trump
talked about the likely criminal cases being
prepared against him as if they were being prepared
against his supporters.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Ginni_Thomas_Raised_Nearly_$600,000_in_Anonymous
Funds_for_Right-Wing_Group⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Tlaib_Blasts_Republicans_as_‘Servants’_of
Big_Oil_After_House_Passes_Pro-Polluter_Bill⠀⇛
Climate campaigners and congressional Democrats on
Thursday called out House Republicans for approving
energy legislation that would, as U.S. Rep. Rashida
Tlaib warned, “put polluters over people” by
“further poisoning of our air and water.”
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ The Economist ☛ The_Kremlin_escalates_its_war_on
truth⠀⇛
ON MARCH 29TH Evan Gershkovich, a
correspondent for the Wall Street Journal,
disappeared during a reporting trip in
Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-biggest city.
The following day Russian security services
came clean: they had arrested him on charges
of espionage. That Mr Gershkovich, an
American citizen, is accredited to report in
Russia seems to have made little difference.
The arrest is likely to exacerbate the
already-terrible relations between Russia and
America.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Anti-Abortion_Bills_Like_Kansas’s_Are
Designed_to_Spread_Misinformation⠀⇛
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Breaking_Down_the_Trump_Indictment⠀⇛
Along with Cohen, a key player in the effort was
David Pecker, chairman of American Media Inc.
(AMI), the company that at the time published the
supermarket tabloid National Enquirer.
A longtime Trump friend, Pecker had offered “to
help deal with negative stories about [Trump’s]
relationships with women” by identifying stories
that could be bought and then suppressed. The
practice is known in the publishing industry as
“catch and kill.”
In August 2016, AMI agreed to pay former Playboy
model Karen McDougal $150,000 for the rights to her
story about an alleged affair with Trump in 2006
and 2007. The story was shelved.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ Russian_dad_whose_teen_drew_anti-war_picture_flees
jail_and_exposes_cracks_in_Putin’s_crackdown_on_dissent⠀⇛
Her father was first investigated after school
officials told police that Maria had drawn a
picture during an art class that depicted missiles
flying over a mother and a child, as well as
Russian and Ukrainian flags with the words “No to
war” and “Glory to Ukraine.”
The draconian law used in the case was introduced
just days into the invasion, criminalizing any
criticism of the Russian army as President Vladimir
Putin sought to stamp out dissent at home.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Missouri_Reps_Just_Voted_to_Completely
Defund_the_State’s_Public_Libraries⠀⇛
Late Tuesday night, the Missouri House of
Representatives voted for a state operating budget
with a $0 line for public libraries. While the
budget still needs to work its way through the
Senate and the governor’s office, state funding for
public libraries is very much on the chopping block
in Missouri.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ 63-year-old_man_gets_seven_year_prison_sentence
for_posting_about_war_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A Moscow district court sentenced 63-year-old
Mikhail Simonov to seven years in prison after
finding him guilty of spreading “fakes” about the
Russian army motivated by political hatred.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Appeals_Court_Reverses_Awful_Decision_Finding
That_Holding_Up_A_Sign_Telling_Drivers_There_Are_Cops_Ahead
Is_Not_Free_Speech⠀⇛
Officer Richard Gasparino of the Stamford,
Connecticut police department couldn’t stand to
have his “revenue diverted.” So, he arrested
Michael Friend for the imaginary crime of holding
up a sign warning motorists there was a sting
operation in progress further up the road.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Russia_arrests_Wall_Street_Journal
reporter_on_spying_charge⠀⇛
Russia’s security service has arrested an American
reporter for The Wall Street Journal on espionage
charges. It’s the first time a U.S. correspondent
has been detained on spying accusations since the
Cold War. The newspaper denied the allegations and
demanded his release. Thirty-one-year-old Evan
Gershkovich was detained in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s
fourth-largest city, about 1,670 kilometers (1,035
miles) east of Moscow. Russia’s Federal Security
Service accused him of trying to obtain classified
information. Known by the acronym FSB, the service
is the top domestic security agency and main
successor to the Soviet-era KGB.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ FSB_arrests_Wall_Street_Journal_reporter_Evan
Gershkovich_in_Yekaterinburg_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)
announced Thursday that it has arrested U.S.
citizen and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan
Gershkovich on suspicion of spying for the American
government.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Press_Freedom_Advocates_‘Alarmed’_as_Russia
Detains_US_Journalist_on_Espionage_Charges⠀⇛
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Julian_Assange_–_when_“quiet
diplomacy”_means_diddly_squat⠀⇛
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has all but
confirmed in Parliament the government is doing
nothing to bring the world’s foremost political
prisoner home. What’s the scam with “quiet
diplomacy”?
Despite claiming the government is deploying “quiet
diplomacy” to urge the US to free Julian Assange,
and despite the government committing to a $368b
spend on submarines – the biggest transfer of
public money in Australia’s history – to US and UK
weapons makers, there is no evidence whatsoever
that our elected representatives have even muttered
one word on the matter.
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Suspected_North_Korean_Spies_Impersonating_VOA,
Other_Reporters_Online⠀⇛
Experts on nuclear security policy and weapons
proliferation were contacted by suspected North
Korean hackers posing as Voice of America
journalists, according to a threat intelligence
group, which says this is part of a recent pattern
of impersonating reporters from major news
organizations.
The online spies were attempting to gather
intelligence about the stance of international
officials toward the Pyongyang government of Kim
Jong Un, according to a report issued by Mandiant,
an American cybersecurity firm and subsidiary of
Google.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ Russia_arrests_U.S._journalist_on_espionage_charges;
Moscow_court_orders_he_be_detained_for_2_months⠀⇛
Evan Gershkovich was detained in the Ural Mountains
city of Yekaterinburg on suspicion of “espionage in
the interests of the American government,” the
Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement,
which was reported by state media.
The FSB accused Gershkovich of collecting
“information constituting a state secret about the
activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian
military-industrial complex.”
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ AccessNow ☛ To_defend_democracy,_stand_up_for_civil
society⠀⇛
As governments, businesses, and civil society
organizations gather for the 2nd U.S. Summit for
Democracy, our message is clear: to defend
democracy in the digital age, states must stand up
for civil society, online and off.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ How_3_agency_leaders_try_to_mitigate
burnout,_stress_for_federal_employees⠀⇛
Work-life balance is one area in particular where
agencies are starting to see signs of stagnation
among their employees.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Rapidly_Melting_Glaciers_Threaten_Collapse
of_Crucial_Ocean_Circulation_Systems⠀⇛
Normally, dense water flows toward the ocean floor
and helps transport heat and and vital nutrients
through the planet’s oceans. The circulation helps
support marine ecosystems and the stability of ice
shelves.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Digital_Rights_Updates_with_EFFector_35.4⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ America’s_Slavery-Ridden_Origin_Story:_Facing
the_Uncomfortable_Reality⠀⇛
Writer Dionne Ford dives deep into her ancestry and
confronts the complexities of being a Black woman
in America with the blood of both the enslaved and
the enslaver.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_West_Coast_Think_Tank_Helping_to
Orchestrate_DeSantis’s_War_on_the_Woke⠀⇛
It was the latest stop on Florida Governor Ron
DeSantis’s “where woke goes to die” tour. The focus
was on higher education—specifically: diversity,
equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at Florida
universities. The roundtable event featured
speakers like Christopher Rufo, the lead architect
of the GOP’s crusade against critical race theory
who is now helping to mastermind the ideological
makeover of Florida’s New College. The gathering
followed the by-now-standard script of education-
themed right-wing grievance: DEI initiatives are a
scam orchestrated by the “woke mob,” and Florida is
not about to submit to them—not if the governor and
his brain trust have anything to say about it.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ It’s_Been_a_Year._Why_Hasn’t_Biden_Freed_Eyvin
Hernandez?⠀⇛
On March 18, 2022, Eyvin Hernandez, a dedicated Los
Angeles public defender, flew to Colombia for a
much-needed vacation. In Medellín, he befriended a
woman and agreed to accompany her to Cucuta, a town
on the Colombia-Venezuela border. Near Cucuta,
things took a bad turn. Having unintentionally
crossed into Venezuela, Eyvin and his companion
were cornered near the border by armed men, who
asked them for money they didn’t have before
handcuffing and hooding them, throwing them into
the back of a pickup truck, and transporting them
to a detention facility.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Vatican_Repudiates_‘Doctrine_of
Discovery,’_Used_as_Justification_for_Colonization⠀⇛
Indigenous communities have long called on the
Vatican rescind the concept, which had been used
over the centuries to seize land from people in the
Americas, Africa and elsewhere.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Under_the_Taliban,_Afghanistan_Is_Trying
to_Make_Due_With_Less⠀⇛
In a time of famine and money shortages, meals are
a rallying point — and a topic of worry — during a
season of change in Afghanistan.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Minor_League_Baseball_Players_Poised_to
More_Than_Double_Pay_With_First_Union_Contract⠀⇛
Major League Baseball and recently unionized minor
league players working for MLB team affiliates
reached a tentative deal Wednesday on a historic
first collective bargaining agreement.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ How_California_reparations_proposals
could_become_law⠀⇛
California’s first-in-the-nation reparations task
force is preparing to send its recommendations to
lawmakers. But there’s still a long road ahead to
get any reparations plans approved by the state
Legislature. Lawmakers who are members of the task
force may introduce reparations legislation in
January. It usually takes months for bills to get
passed by both the state Senate and Assembly before
reaching the governor’s desk. Questions remain,
including where the money would come from for the
state to implement the task force’s
recommendations. Economists advising the task force
estimated the state could owe more than $800
billion for discrimination in policing and housing
loans.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Howard_Schultz’s_Union-Busting_Paternalism⠀⇛
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, briefly touted
as a dark-horse Democratic candidate for the
presidency in 2020, found himself at a less
obliging juncture of federal power this Wednesday,
as he delivered testimony on the coffee giant’s
union-busting track record before the US Senate
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP)
Committee. Members of the Starbucks Union thronged
the corridors outside the Dirksen Building hearing
room, anticipating that the company might finally
be held to public account, and be shamed into
launching good-faith negotiations for a collective-
bargaining agreement. Organizers greeted one
another with loud and cheerful “good mornings,”
seemingly out of professional habit, but the real
message for the occasion was emblazoned on the
backs of their T-shirts: “Partners? Prove It—We ARE
Starbucks.”
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Starbucks’_Howard_Schultz_Called_Before
Senate⠀⇛
Starbucks projects the image of an employee-
friendly company, but its workers have been
exposing the contradiction between the company’s
words and its actions. On March 29, they’ll get
some help from the U.S. Senate’s HELP Committee,
chaired by Bernie Sanders.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Ex-Starbucks_Worker_Jaysin_Saxton_Describes
Being_Fired_After_He_Helped_Organize_Union⠀⇛
We speak with Jaysin Saxton, one of the witnesses
who testified at the Senate hearing Wednesday on
Starbucks’ union-busting record. Saxton was a
former Starbucks shift manager, fired after leading
the union drive at a store in Augusta, Georgia. He
tells Democracy Now! he and fellow workers were
motivated to organize their store to address the
“insane” working conditions, including
understaffing and inconsistent schedules. “There’s
no stability in how much you’re earning and how
many hours you’re getting, so you can’t afford to
pay your bills, and you have to choose between gas
and food,” says Saxton.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Former_Starbucks_Worker_Describes_Being_Fired
After_He_Helped_Organize_Union⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Exonerated_Central_Park_5_Member_Reacts_to
Trump_Indictment_With_One-Word_Statement⠀⇛
Yusef Salaam, one of the five New York teens
wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for the 1989
rape of a jogger in Central Park, issued a brief
statement following Thursday’s criminal indictment
of former U.S. President Donald Trump—who called
for bringing back the state’s death penalty to
execute the defendants and never apologized after
they were cleared.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Single_father_Alexey_Moskalev,_whose_daughter’s
anti-war_drawing_drew_the_wrath_of_Russian_law_enforcement,
is_apprehended_in_Minsk_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Police in Minsk have reportedly apprehended Alexey
Moskalev, the single father from Russia’s Tula
region who fled house arrest on March 28, hours
before a court sentenced him to two years in prison
for repeatedly “discrediting” Russia’s military in
posts on social media. Russian officials charged
Moskalev after months of harassment that began when
his then 12-year-old daughter Masha (now 13)
submitted an anti-war drawing to her art class. On
March 1, police arrested Alexey and transferred
Masha to state custody.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Masha_Moskaleva’s_estranged_mother_plans_to
collect_her_daughter_from_state_custody_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Olga Sitchikhina, Masha Moskaleva’s daughter, plans
to remove her daughter from the juvenile shelter
where child welfare authorities sent her after her
father, Alexey Moskalev, was accused of repeatedly
“discrediting” the army. On March 28, Moskalev was
sentenced to two years in prison.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Everything_will_be_okay,_and_we’ll_be_together’
Masha_Moskaleva,_the_Russian_middle-schooler_whose_anti-war
drawing_provoked_a_police_backlash_that_landed_her_in_an
orphanage,_wrote_a_letter_to_her_father_on_the_day_of_his
prison_sentencing_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Moskalev family has been in trouble with the
Russian authorities since April 2022, when then
sixth-grader Masha Moskaleva drew an anti-war
picture in her school art class. Federal Security
Service agents interrogated Masha multiple times.
Her father, Alexey Moskalev, who has been raising
Masha alone, was beaten, fined, and later place
under house arrest by the Russian authorities.
Earlier this month, Masha was removed from her
father’s care and placed in a state shelter. On
March 28, Alexey was sentenced to two years in
prison, though he wasn’t in the courtroom to hear
the verdict — he’d escaped house arrest hours
earlier. On March 29, however, Belarusian officials
apprehended and arrested him in Minsk.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Bernie_Sanders_vs._Howard_Schultz:_Longtime
Starbucks_CEO_Grilled_on_Company’s_Union-Busting_Tactics⠀⇛
Just weeks after the National Labor Relations Board
accused Starbucks of engaging in “egregious and
widespread misconduct” to prevent employees from
unionizing, the company’s longtime CEO Howard
Schultz appeared before the Senate’s Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on
Wednesday to answer questions. Committee Chair
Bernie Sanders of Vermont grilled Schultz on the
company’s union-busting record and demanded an end
to retaliation against workers. Since 2021, nearly
300 Starbucks locations have voted to unionize, but
the company has responded by firing many organizers
and shuttering unionized stores, among other
tactics. Schultz is worth over $3 billion and has
led Starbucks for much of its history, most
recently as interim CEO for the last year as a
permanent replacement was found. He stepped down on
March 20. We feature excerpts from the hearing.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “The_Tale”_Filmmaker_Jennifer_Fox_on
Surviving_Childhood_Sexual_Abuse_&_Finally_Naming_Her
Abuser⠀⇛
We speak with writer and filmmaker Jennifer Fox,
whose 2018 movie The Tale dealt with childhood
sexual abuse. She has now come forward to name her
abuser. The film is a narrative memoir based in
part on Fox’s own life experience about being
abused by a coach as a young girl. While the main
character is named Fox, the name of the abusive
coach was fictionalized. Now Fox has revealed the
man who abused her as Ted Nash, the legendary
Olympic rower and coach who died in 2021. Nash took
part in 11 Olympic teams as a rower or coach, and
USRowing, the national governing body for the
sport, is now investigating the allegations. Fox
recently revealed Nash’s name to The New York Times
and tells Democracy Now!, in her first broadcast
interview since the story, that he began abusing
her when she was 13. She says her inner voice told
her she could not rest until she publicly named
Nash. “It’s very important to bring this other
story out to the world now and to show this other
part of the man that people put on a pedestal and
made into a god,” says Fox, who adds that more
women may still come forward about Nash. “It’s a
very important act to stand up to power in this
way, for me and for others.”
# ⚓ RTL ☛ Vatican_rejects_doctrine_used_to_justify_colonial
abuse⠀⇛
The Catholic Church took a fresh step Thursday in
acknowledging abuse endured by Indigenous peoples
with the Vatican formally rejecting 15th-century
papal edicts that empowered Europeans to colonise
non-Christian lands.
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ Religious_freedom_for_all_means_sacred
Indigenous_sites,_too⠀⇛
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently
heard arguments about how the federal government
will violate First Amendment religious rights of
the appellant Apache Stronghold — a Native
grassroots community group — if the mine is allowed
to move forward. Numerous religious and legal
scholars have argued that the government’s actions
will impose a substantial burden on Apache
religious freedom and exercise. Religious scholar
Thomas Berg has called this case “the most
important Native American religious liberty case in
15 years.”
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Colorado_Eyes_Killing_State_Law_Prohibiting
Community_Broadband_Networks⠀⇛
U.S. telecom monopolies like AT&T and Comcast spent
millions of dollars and several decades quite
literally buying shitty, protectionist laws in
around twenty states that either ban or heavily
hamstring towns and cities from building their own
broadband networks. Even in instances and areas
where AT&T and Comcast have repeatedly refused to
upgrade their networks.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ UK_watchdog_launches_deeper_probe_into_$61B
Broadcom-VMware_merger⠀⇛
The U.K.’s antitrust regulator said today it will
launch a deeper investigation into Broadcom Inc.’s
proposed $61 billion acquisition of VMware Inc., a
move that seemingly dashes any prospect of the
merger being completed with minimal fuss.
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ MLB_Tries_To_Trademark_3_City_Names,_Runs
Away_After_Law_Profs_School_Them⠀⇛
It’s opening day and already Major League
Baseball has struck out.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 2022_Supercon:_Jac_And_Ralf_Explore_The
Secrets_Of_The_Digital_Compact_Cassette⠀⇛
During the 1990s, music was almost invariably
stored on CDs or cassette tapes. When the new
millennium came around, physical formats
became obsolete as music moved first to MP3
files, and later to network streams. But a
few years before that big transition, there
were several attempts at replacing the aging
cassette and CD formats with something more
modern. You might remember the likes of
MiniDisc and Super Audio CD, but there were a
few other contenders around.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ CD_Projekt’s_Legal_Pressure_Pushes
GOG-Games_to_The_Dark_Web⠀⇛
GOG-Games.com switched to the dark web this
week. The videogame piracy site took this
drastic action following legal pressure from
game company CD Projekt, known for The
Witcher series. The Polish company also owns
the game distribution service GOG, which
explains why GOG-Games is considered a prime
enforcement target.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Spiritual_Quandary⠀⇛
Syd got me a deck of tarot cards back when we were
dating.
She was interested in those sorts of things like
astrology and tarot, it didn’t command her life
like with some people, but nevertheless she enjoyed
it. She always said it was more of a mindfulness
exercise for her. I hadn’t ever really been exposed
to that sort of stuff, sure I knew my zodiac sign,
but not much besides that. Syd showed me her deck
of cards and did a few readings every now and then,
especially when she or I were stressed. I didn’t
put much credence into it for a while, not until I
had a big falling out with my best friend and I
borrowed Syd’s deck to do some readings for myself.
When I centered around the question of my future
with this friend, one of the cards I pulled was The
Lovers, but inverted; the other cards all passing
along a similar message of not having a friendship
with this person into the future. It’s been a few
years now and despite a few attempts to reach out
to this friend, I haven’t really spoken to them
since. It kinda spooked me by how accurate the
cards and the meanings behind them directly
followed what the question at hand.
# ⚓ Doing_and_being_in_books⠀⇛
In my town public library, they must discard older
books. They don’t have many of my favorites. I want
children who explore, adventure, discover, imagine,
learn, misunderstand, and live actively in books.
King Shabazz goes with Tony Polito to find spring
in Lucille Clifton’s (1992) The Boy Who Didn’t
Believe in Spring. They get in trouble for going
too far. In Donald Crews’ (1992) Shortcut, the kids
go a dangerous way. One of them easily could’ve
been killed. They never go that way again; they
never tell.
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_BGUILTH_Wordo:_SLIME⠀⇛
# ⚓ straight_friends⠀⇛
I’ve found myself gravitating away, really
withdrawing from some straight people or friends,
emotionally. I think by now I am kind of over
this.. issue that always presents.
When queer people around me talk about their
romantic life, it is pretty wholesome. “He smiled
and said I am cute, does that mean he likes me?”
“She gifted me flowers and chocolates and calls me
her wife, do you think she likes me back or does
she mean it in a friend way?” and the typical
hilarious, sweet stuff that makes you laugh and
cheer for them. It’s joyful and easy, energizing
convos. Even the less good stuff is still okay to
deal with.
# ⚓ If_spirituality_is_an_interpretation_of_emotional_flavors⠀⇛
If spirituality is an interpretation of emotional
flavors
I would create a tongue map of human consciousness
And explain how each feeling is tied to its own set
of traditions
How they’re featured in different cultures
What ingredients communicate such a flavor
I would experiment and concoct new recipes
Experience new states of being
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Antiblorb⠀⇛
But I don’t because I think it’s good that non-
blorby games fully take advantage of not having to
be tied to the limitations of blorb. You give up
the awesomeness of blorb and in return you hope for
things like pick-up, zero prep, character-tailored
play.
Tailoring play to character’s abilities is usually
a bad idea, but in a heist scenario the upside is
that you make all “roles” relevant.
# ⚓ Character-tailored_play⠀⇛
In #blorb the game world is supposed to be created
independently from the player characters and not be
tailor-made to them. If there’s a lock and they
don’t have have a lockpick with them, (or if they
flub their lockpicking roll), maybe they can’t get
past that door and that’s fine. Plenty of other
places to go and other things to do.
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