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⦿ Microsoft Layoffs in the Buzzwords Department | Techrights
⦿ Geminispace: Still Growing, Still Community-Controlled | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 31, 2023 | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
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✐ Microsoft_Layoffs_in_the_Buzzwords_Department⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Microsoft at 7:53 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Far too many divisions at Microsoft operate at a loss and it is unsustainable,
even with bailouts from taxpayers, facilitated_by_Trump_and_Biden_in_more
recent_years under the guise of coronavirus “stimulus” and “defence” contracts
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Debt_Loading⦈_
Summary: Microsoft hired or acquired (acquisition-based_hiring, which enables
faking growth, faking wealth when no actual money changes hands, and sometimes
debt-loading) a lot of “trash” and “hype”; now it pays the price
IT is far too easy to get cynical these days, seeing how technology gets
described in the media. We wrote many articles in the past, condemning or just
playfully mocking all sorts of marketing buzzwords.
Here’s the latest_at_Microsoft: (hard to keep track already of all those waves
of layoffs; it’s not_just_10,000_staff_but_a_lot_more)
Microsoft is shutting down its metaverse unit comprising 100
employees amidst broader layoffs. Microsoft has
internally announced disbanding its Industrial Metaverse Core group,
a division comprising around 100 employees focused on bringing the
metaverse to industrial environments through software.
Just a fortnight or so after Microsoft fired “AI” staff it is firing the
“Metaverse” staff. What next? Will Microsoft also fire all the “Smart” staff
and be left with a bunch of Cantrells? █
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✐ Geminispace:_Still_Growing,_Still_Community-Controlled⠀✐
Posted in Free/Libre_Software, Protocol at 8:32 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Almost 2.4k live (online) capsules are observed_by_Lupa_right_now
(there are more, but Lupa cannot see them all), with just 31 more to go before
this 2,400 milestone
THE growth of Gemini did not stop. 2021 and 2022 were exciting years of growth
for Gemini; we made many videos and published many articles about that. Just
because we barely do that anymore doesn’t mean we mothballed the thing and it
doesn’t mean that users abandoned it. In terms of the number of Gemini servers,
it continues to grow. In terms of actual users who surf Geminispace, that too
is growing. Here are the stats for the last two weeks of March, from Techrights
alone:
24644 page requests on 2023/03/17
34315 page requests on 2023/03/18
33622 page requests on 2023/03/19
37344 page requests on 2023/03/20
18577 page requests on 2023/03/21
12592 page requests on 2023/03/22
23301 page requests on 2023/03/23
15574 page requests on 2023/03/24
38011 page requests on 2023/03/25
18483 page requests on 2023/03/26
35098 page requests on 2023/03/27
17227 page requests on 2023/03/28
8096 page requests on 2023/03/29
7546 page requests on 2023/03/30
33676 page requests on 2023/03/31
Almost 50,000 of the above were transported through a Web proxy.
“Many people use “apps”, but that’s a different problem…”The Tux_Machines
Gemini_capsule, which is relatively new (only months old), there have been
14.5k requests since the start of the month (April). So there too there has
been a lot of activity.
The World Wide Web is shrinking (more sites shut down than new ones created;
Google continues_to_dominate), but people flock elsewhere. They’re still
online, but they may be using other protocols. Many people use “apps”, but
that’s a different problem…
Here is the growth of Gemini visualised (graph plotted just 2 hours old).
Gemini, unlike W3C-led bloat, is community-controlled. █
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Gemini_capsules_April_2023⦈_
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dpkg…
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ 8_Useful_Linux_Shutdown_Commands_to
Reboot_or_Shut_Down_Your_Linux_PC_–_Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛
Whether it’s for an SSH Ubuntu server or because
your mouse stopped working, learning how to use
Linux shutdown commands on the command line works
wonders for everybody. Here we show you how to
master the shutdown command to quickly shut down
your PC.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_use_SSHFS_to_share_files_between
computers⠀⇛
SSHFS is a handy tool for mounting remote file
systems over SSH connections. In this article,
we’ll guide you through the process of installing
and using SSHFS on Ubuntu, from setting up SSH to
mounting remote file systems and managing
permissions.
# ⚓ How_to_change_NPM_version_in_Linux,_Windows_or_macOS?⠀⇛
Working on different Node.js projects and the
version of dependencies required by them; you may
often need to switch between different versions of
the Node Package Manager (NPM). However, for
beginners, it can be a tricky task but don’t worry.
# ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_to_Permanently_Change_Your_MAC_Address_on
Linux⠀⇛
Every network interface has a unique MAC address,
set by the manufacturer. It’s how network
connections identify connection endpoints. On
Linux, you can permanently change a MAC address if
you want.
o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾
# ⚓ WINE Project (Official) ☛ WineHQ_–_Wine_Announcement_–_The
Wine_development_release_8.5_is_now_available.⠀⇛
The Wine development release 8.5 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
– Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.7.
– Better error reporting in the IDL compiler.
– Support for shared Wow64 Classes registry key.
– More cleanups in IME support.
– Support for configuring a WinRT dark theme.
– Various bug fixes.
The source is available at:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.x/wine-
8.5.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be
available from:
https://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on https://
www.winehq.org/documentation
You can also get the current source directly from
the git
repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for
details.
Wine is available thanks to the work of many
people. See the file
AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ The_very_first_article_about_video_games_on
Linux…_from_1994⠀⇛
Yes. It’s about DOOM. And, no. The reviewer didn’t
have working sound on Linux.
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Epic_Linux_Gaming_Predictions_for_2023⠀⇛
We are back with our prediction game that’s been
going on since 2021! In 2021 we had a lot of great
insights about where the future was headed, in 2022
not as much…
# ⚓ ScummVM ☛ ScummVM_Enables_AI_to_Play_Point-and-Click
Adventure_Games⠀⇛
The ScummVM project, a free and open-source
software project that allows users to play classic
point-and-click adventure games on modern systems,
has announced a major breakthrough in the field of
artificial intelligence gaming.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Plasma_5.27_–_Can’t_say_there_are_many
differences,_but_’tis_ok⠀⇛
I am not 100% sure what to think about Plasma
5.27. In a way, it feels like a non-release.
Yes, there are some improvements, and some
new features, but nothing major that I could
see. The differences are tiny, say if I
compare to Plasma 5.24, which I explored
quite extensively lately. The bulk of it
works fine, the bulk remains unchanged, and
so I am not sure the latest KDE bundle really
warrants its own version. But that’s a small
technicality complaint really.
What I didn’t like was a handful of
application problems that shouldn’t be there.
Welcome Center, Discover, Kate, they all had
unnecessary niggles. In particular, Welcome
Center does not feel complete. Some baseline
ergonomics could also be better. Stability
was decent, performance great. If you’re a
Plasma person, then you should definitely
explore. But some Plasma editions are simply
better than the rest. Today, here, we have an
average offering. If you want the best this
desktop environment can offer, I’d say, for
now, 5.24 is what you want. Anyway, see you
soon.
# ⚓ Volker Krause ☛ February/March_in_KDE_Itinerary⠀⇛
Since the last last_summary_post
two month ago a lot has happened around KDE
Itinerary again,
ranging from supporting more travel document
and ticket types to better guidance to the
right
spot on a train station platform.
§ New Features
Platform section highlighting
The train station map can now also highlight
platform sections, next to the platform
itself.
Depending on the level of detail of the
available information in the OSM map data,
the train
schedule, seat reservation and the vehicle
layout we can use that to much more precisely
indicate
where on the platform you need to go.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ This Week in GNOME ☛ Felix_Häcker:_#89_Steady
Framerates⠀⇛
Update on what happened across the GNOME
project in the week from March 24 to March
31.
# ⚓ GNOME ☛ Michel_Dänzer:_Ensuring_steady_frame_rates
with_GPU-intensive_clients⠀⇛
On Wayland, a surface is the basic primitive
used to build what users refer to as a
“window”. Wayland clients define their
contents by attaching buffers to surfaces.
This turns the contents of the buffer into
the current surface contents. Wayland clients
are free to attach a new buffer to a surface
anytime. When a Wayland compositor like
Mutter starts working on a new output frame,
it picks the latest available buffer for each
visible surface. This is called “mailbox
semantics” (the buffers are metaphorical
letters falling into a mailbox, the visible
“letter” is the last one on top).
§ Problem
With hardware accelerated drawing, a client
normally attaches a new buffer to a surface
right after it finished calling OpenGL/
Vulkan/<insert your favourite drawing API>
APIs to define the contents of the buffer.
When the compositor processes the protocol
requests attaching the buffer to the surface,
the GPU generally hasn’t finished drawing to
the buffer yet.
Since the contents of the compositor’s output
frame depend on the contents of each visible
surface, the former cannot complete before
the GPU finishes drawing to each of the
picked surface buffers (and subsequently to
the compositor’s own output buffer, in the
general case).
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ The_6_Best_Lightweight_Linux_Distros_–_The_Tech_Edvocate⠀⇛
Linux is a powerful and customizable operating system
that can cater to any type of user, from developers to
gamers. However, not all users need a high-end operating
system that demands powerful hardware specs to run
smoothly. Lightweight Linux distributions are ideal for
users with low-powered systems or machines with limited
hardware resources. These distros use minimal memory and
processing power, making them fast and reliable.
In this article, we’ve compiled a list of the 6 best
lightweight Linux distros that are great for running on
older hardware or low-powered machines.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Latest_release_of_EuroLinux_Desktop_–_what_will_we_find_in
Version_9.1?⠀⇛
EuroLinux Desktop is a modern operating system that
combines the look and functionality of both Windows
and macOS with the reliability and security of
server-based Linux distributions.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Do_advanced_Linux_disk_usage_diagnostics
with_this_sysadmin_tool⠀⇛
Do advanced Linux disk usage diagnostics with this
sysadmin tool
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 4_ways_upskilling_helps_to_retain
and_attract_IT_talent⠀⇛
4 ways upskilling helps to retain and attract IT
talent
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Tech_Titans:_The_crossroads_of
humanity_and_technology⠀⇛
Tech Titans: The crossroads of humanity and
technology
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_Beta_Released!_Linux_Kernel
6.2_&_GNOME_44⠀⇛
The Ubuntu Team announced the Beta release of the
Ubuntu 23.04 “Lunar Lobster” today! Ubuntu 23.04 is
a short team release with 9 months support! The
final stable release will be available in next few
weeks.
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ A_Sneak_Peek_at_Ubuntu_23.04:_What’s_New_in_the
Beta_Release⠀⇛
Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu
operating system, is gearing up for the release of
Ubuntu 23.04, codenamed ‘Lunar Lobster,’ scheduled
for April 20. So, with the final release just
around the corner, users eagerly await to see what
new features and improvements will be included in
the final release.
In this article, we will take a closer look at the
upcoming Ubuntu 23.04 release based on our
impressions of the just-released ‘Lunar Lobster’
Beta and explore some exciting new features and
enhancements set to be included.
So, if you’re a Ubuntu fan or just curious about
what this latest version has to offer, read on to
discover more!
# ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_Beta_is_now_available:_here_is_what
is_new⠀⇛
Canonical has released Ubuntu 23.04 Beta today. It
is available in the usual flavors, including Ubuntu
Desktop and Server, Kubuntu, MATE, Studio, Unity,
and the recently promoted Ubuntu Cinnamon.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ 8_Best_Raspberry_Pi_Alternatives_For_IoT_Development⠀⇛
Raspberry Pi is a good starting point whenever you
want to build an app, device, or project for the
IoT marketplace. This credit card-sized device has
changed the very concept of personal computing, and
supports prototyping of every kind of new developer
idea. It does have a few limitations though.
Despite the excellent specs of the Raspberry Pi 4,
this single-board computer lacks important
capabilities as an embedded engineering device.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ AAWireless:_Why_you_need_one_for_your_car_
[Video]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ghacks ☛ How_To_Organize_Your_Home_Screen_on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this
week_–_Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Millions_of_Android_users_are_just_realising
hidden_developer_trick_that_is_the_ultimate_privacy_hack_|
The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Wired ☛ 12_Top_New_Android_14_Features_(2023):_How_to
Install,_Features,_Release_Date_|_WIRED⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Container Journal ☛ Nobl9_Unveils_Open_Source_EKG_Tool_to_Monitor
Kubernetes⠀⇛
Nobl9 this week add an open source Essential Kubernetes
Gauges (EKG) monitoring capability to that makes it
simpler to track a range of metrics.
⚓ Bloomberg ☛ Bloomberg_Launches_FOSS_Fund_to_Support_Free_and_Open_Source
Projects⠀⇛
Modern digital infrastructure relies on innumerable open source
dependencies developed and maintained primarily by volunteers: The
open source community is what makes the web work. Participating in
these communities allows large organizations to help shape the latest
and best technologies available.
[...]
When the first FOSS Contributor Fund was launched, documentation was
published to encourage other companies to follow suit. In the four
years since, numerous institutions including Microsoft, Johns Hopkins
University, Salesforce, Sentry, Zeiss, and others have launched
programs inspired by the original FOSS Fund. Such funds seek to have
a direct impact on the sustainability and security of critical
digital infrastructure.
In January of 2023, inspired by Indeed’s original initiative,
Bloomberg launched its first round of employee voting for its
inaugural FOSS Contributor Fund, a partnership between the company’s
Open Source Program Office (OSPO) and its Corporate Philanthropy
department.
* § Events⠀➾
o ⚓ Alejandro_Acosta:_My_SCaLE20x_adventure⠀⇛
I know I’ve mentioned it before, but SCaLE conference is
getting better each year. SCaLE is probably the best
conference in North America that has a strong focus on
the community and it is always a cause of joy to see such
a diverse audience and attendees under the same roof and
under the same sentiment of belonging. The success of the
conference -the one that has made possible twenty
editions of it- doesn’t come free, there’s an
enthusiastic group of incredible people behind it. Kudos
and lot of recognition to each of them.
If I was asked to describe this year’s experience in
SCaLE with a single word, I would say that is “Chances”.
I’m going to go deeper into this ahead, but this
conference made me wonder several times “what are the
chances of this happening?”. One of the advantages of
attending a nerds conference is that you may find someone
who would actually calculate it. It reminds me of that
Sheldon quote that reads “was that rhetoric or would you
like me to do the math?” LOL
Due to COVID pandemic (and probably other strong
reasons), this year’s SCaLE was just eight months apart
from last edition. It may not sound like a big deal but
there are some factors that made a big difference: not
the usual twelve months for planning, sunny hot summer
weather versus rainy chilly winter weather and the chance
of venue as well, this year the conference returned to
Pasadena.
This time I arrived early enough to attend the conference
from day one. Thursday is usually used for community
events like Kubernetes Community Day, CEPH Day,
PostgreSQL day, workshops, etc. Since my flight landed
at 6:00am I was able to practically use most of the day
in the Kubernetes community day.
* § Programming/Development⠀➾
o ⚓ The_Definition_of_Senior:_A_Look_at_the_expectations_for_Software
Engineers⠀⇛
The truth is that answering these questions is a very
subjective matter and different people or different
companies might give very different answers.
In this article, I’ll try to give you my take, based on
my opinion and personal experience.
o ⚓ Why_Engineers_Need_To_Write_–_by_Ryan_Peterman⠀⇛
I hated writing in high school. It wasn’t objective like
my favorite subjects, math and science. It also didn’t
help that we had to write about old, hard-to-understand
literature like Shakespeare. But my perspective on
writing changed once I started working full-time as a
software engineer.
o ⚓ The_Ambiguous_Zone_–_Ben_Northrop⠀⇛
On the other end is when we go rogue. We find some
“requirement” that might be useful (but no one really
asked for), or some new approach or technology that’s
interesting or “hot”, and then spend the entire sprint in
our coding cave joyfully building it out. Will it
actually help the project? Err…maybe? Regardless though,
it’ll be fun, because we love nothing more than smooth
sailing – not being beholden to the ideas, thoughts, or
reservations of others (well, that is, until they see our
4k-line pull request!).
o ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Design_Studio_4.0.1_Released⠀⇛
We are happy to announce the release of Qt Design Studio
4.0.1!
Qt Design Studio is a HMI creation tool. Users of Qt
Design Studio can rapidly create and validate basic 2D
and 3D user interfaces with ease. Qt Design Studio
outputs the frontend part as production-quality QML
source code which then is integrated into the rest of the
Qt application project.
⚓ Rlang ☛ Computing_Rank_Dependent_Utility_in_R:_Getting_More_out_with_RDU_Data
()⠀⇛
In a previous blog post I discussed how we can compute rank dependent
utility in R.
* § Python⠀➾
o ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Permutations_of_a_List⠀⇛
The permutations() method of the itertools package can be
used to find all possible permutations of a list in
Python along with a limit on the tuple size.
o ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Time.sleep_Milliseconds⠀⇛
The Python Time.sleep() method can be used to delay the
execution of the code for a set interval by passing
milliseconds after dividing them by 1000.
* § Java⠀➾
o ⚓ Make_your_own_Optionals⠀⇛
I took out all the comments and did a little
reformatting, but this is the entire class. Just around
150 lines managing one nullable field.
Take a minute to read or skim it before moving on.
* § Rust⠀➾
o ⚓ Making_Python_100x_faster_with_less_than_100_lines_of_Rust⠀⇛
A while ago at $work, we had a performance issue with one
of our core Python libraries.
This particular library forms the backbone of our 3D
processing pipeline. It’s a rather big and complex
library which uses NumPy and other scientific Python
packages to do a wide range of mathematical and
geometrical operations.
Our system also has to work on-prem with limited CPU
resources, and while at first it performed well, as the
number of concurrent physical users grew we started
running into problems and our system struggled to keep up
with the load.
§ Standards/Consortia⠀➾
* ⚓ The_Twitter_API_is_now_effectively_unmaintained_|_snarfed.org⠀⇛
Hi all! I don’t have much new to say about the ongoing chaos at
Twitter or the impending death of the free API tier. I’d just
like to draw your attention to this page that shows Twitter
employees’ posts here on this forum, in chronological order,
descending.
Before December, a large number of employees posted here
regularly on a wide range of topics. Over the last few months,
only a single Twitter employee has posted here consistently,
and only about the Ads API. A couple others have posted once or
twice, but not recently.
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* ⚓ The_age_of_average⠀⇛
In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and
Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market
research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what
Americans desire most in a work of art.
Over 11 days the researchers at Marttila & Kiley Inc. asked
1,001 US citizens a series of survey questions.
What’s your favourite colour? Do you prefer sharp angles or
soft curves? Do you like smooth canvases or thick brushstrokes?
Would you rather figures that are nude or clothed? Should they
be at leisure or working? Indoors or outside? In what kind of
landscape?
* ⚓ Treat_your_to-read_pile_like_a_river,_not_a_bucket⠀⇛
I’m going to take a wild guess here and say that you, like me,
have a large pile (or digital equivalent) of books or articles
you’ve been meaning to get around to reading, plus maybe a long
queue of podcast episodes to which you’d love to listen, if
only you had the time. It’s the archetypal “first-world
problem”, I know. But one worth reflecting on – because it’s a
microcosm of a broader mistake that makes it more stressful
than in needs to be to build a fulfilling and productive life:
the problem of Too Many Needles.
It’s amusing to reflect that at an earlier stage in the history
of the web, information overload was widely held to be a
temporary issue. Yes, true, for the time being we were getting
deluged by a zillion irrelevant blog posts, emails and news
updates. But that wouldn’t last, because soon we’d have better
technology for finding what we wanted, while disregarding the
rest. The real trouble, according to the leading techno-
optimist Clay Shirky, wasn’t information overload, but “filter
failure”. We needed – and we’d eventually get – more
sophisticated ways to filter the wheat from the online chaff.
And then we’d no longer feel overwhelmed.
* ⚓ Jacob Kaplan Moss ☛ Incompetent_but_Nice_–_Jacob_Kaplan-Moss⠀⇛
A question I’ve never been able to answer to my satisfaction:
how do you manage people who are nice but can’t do the work?
* § Science⠀➾
o ⚓ The Scientist ☛ High-Resolution_Microscope_Watches_Proteins_Strut
Their_Stuff⠀⇛
Modification on a high-resolution fluorescent microscopy
technique allow researchers to track the precise
movements of motor proteins.
o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Plants_cry_out_when_they_are_stressed_and_thirsty,
researchers_found⠀⇛
And you thought to be an uncomplaining bunch.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Random_Numbers_Can_Now_Be_Generated_at_Record
Speed,_All_Using_Quantum_Fluctuations⠀⇛
Think of a number…
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Horses_Transformed_Native_American_Life_Far
Earlier_Than_We_Thought,_New_Study_Reveals⠀⇛
A history finally recognized.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Bizarre_Space_Explosion_Was_The_Flattest_Of_Its
Kind_Ever_Seen⠀⇛
“We never thought that explosions could be this
aspherical.”
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Alzheimer’s_May_Not_Actually_Be_a_Brain_Disease,
Expert_Says⠀⇛
Are we looking at this the wrong way?
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Create_World’s_Lightest_Paint:_Just_3
Pounds_Covers_a_Boeing_747⠀⇛
It also repels heat and lasts for centuries.
* § Education⠀➾
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ ACLU_alleges_Pennsylvania_school_district_discriminated
against_after-school_satanist_club⠀⇛
A Pennsylvania school district violated the First
Amendment rights of an after-school satanist club by
banning its members from gathering for regular meetings
on school grounds, the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) argued in a complaint filed Thursday.
* § Hardware⠀➾
o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Japan_Officially_Restricts_Sales_of_Chipmaking
Equipment_to_China⠀⇛
Japan follows the U.S. and the Netherlands with curbs
against China’s semiconductor sector.
o ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Multi-die_systems_define_the_future_of
semiconductors⠀⇛
To say that semiconductor technology is part of the
fabric of modern society is not an overstatement—it
underpins everything from our cars to our phones to our
home appliances.
o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ STMicro_STLINK-V3PWR_debugging_&_programming_probe
supports_power_measurement⠀⇛
STMicro STLINK-V3PWR is a new in-circuit debugging and
programming probe made for STM32 microcontrollers and
that is said to provide accurate power measurement. The
probe is especially useful for battery power IoT and
wireless applications and is able to measure current
values from nanoamps up to ~500mA with up to ±0.5%
accuracy. The STLINK-V3PWR can also power the target over
a single USB cable up to 2A.
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_MPs_vote_down_plans_on_state-owned_pharmacies⠀⇛
Lithuanian lawmakers have voted down plans to establish
state-owned pharmacies that would operate in hospitals.
The proposals were initiated by a group of opposition
MPs.
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Australians_bracing_for_health_insurance
price_hikes⠀⇛
Australians with private health cover are set to be
slogged by premium price hikes as many toss-up whether to
downgrade or cancel their insurance because of cost of
living pressures. Health insurance premiums are expected
to rise by an average of 2.9 per cent this year,
according to comparison service iSelect.
o ⚓ Denmark_extends_limit_on_medicine_prices_in_response_to
inflation⠀⇛
Denmark’s health ministry has agreed with regional health
boards and the representative body for the country’s
pharmaceutical industry to limit the price on medicines
for the next two years.
o ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Where_did_everybody_go?_Twin_Cities
shrink_as_suburbs_grow_in_first_years_of_pandemic⠀⇛
In the first two years of the pandemic, Ramsey County
lost a greater share of its population than every
Minnesota county except one.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Scientists_are_bickering_over_who_was_first_to_identify
covid’s_genome⠀⇛
The Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data
(GISAID), a large database launched in 2008 to collect
and share the genome information of influenza viruses, is
a key tool for scientific cooperation at the
international level.
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ ‘Pandora’s_Box’:_Doctors_Warn_of_Rising_Plant
Fungus_Infections_in_People_After_‘First_of_Its_Kind’_Case⠀⇛
The first case of C. purpureum infecting a person has
doctors warning of a rising tide of fungus spurred by
climate change and urbanization.
o ⚓ RFA ☛ North_Korean_bootleggers_targeted_in_raids,_home_searches⠀⇛
The recent crackdown on corn-based moonshine comes amid
food shortages.
o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Train_Carrying_Ethanol_Derails_In_Minnesota⠀⇛
Residents within a 0.8-kilometer radius of the derailment
were evacuated in the middle of the night.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ OCD_Is_a_Serious_Illness,_And_It’s_More_Common
Than_You_Think⠀⇛
Treatment can be life changing.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ A_Texas_ruling_threatens_to_take_away_several_free
preventive_health_services_for_Americans⠀⇛
One of the most important changes Americans experienced
with the onset of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was that
a large suite of preventive services and treatments—from
contraceptives to heart monitoring to mammograms—had to
be covered in full by insurance policies. But a new
ruling could change that.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ DOJ_files_lawsuit_against_Norfolk_Southern_Railway_for
East_Palestine_train_derailment⠀⇛
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday filed a
lawsuit against Norfolk Southern Railway over the
February 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The
DOJ claims that Norfolk Southern released harmful
pollutants into the area surrounding the derailment site,
potentially exposing nearby residents to significant
health issues.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Medicare_Delays_a_Full_Crackdown_on_Private
Health_Plans⠀⇛
After intense lobbying by insurers, U.S. health officials
say changes to reduce overbilling in Medicare Advantage
will be phased in over three years.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Senator_John_Fetterman_Checks_Out_of_Hospital
After_Depression_Treatment⠀⇛
In a statement, he announced his departure from Walter
Reed Military Medical Center and urged those suffering
from mental health challenges to seek help as he did.
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Maya_beekeepers_blame_Bayer-Monsanto_for
deaths_of_300,000_bees⠀⇛
The cause of the incident is unconfirmed until laboratory
tests are concluded. But some farmers allege it is linked
to aerial fumigation.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Concerns_about_future_elderly_care_in_Latvia⠀⇛
More than a fifth or 22% of Latvia’s population is at
least 64 years old; the proportion of working-age
population tends to fall, according to the results of the
last census. With the population ageing, geriatric care
is becoming a profession of the future, but currently,
young healthcare experts are not that interested, Latvian
Radio reported March 31.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Stopping_problems_before_they_start:_DoD
aims_for_more_proactive_mental_health_care⠀⇛
The Defense Department wants to expand its budget for
mental health care, and the services are starting new
programs to prevent harmful behavior.
o ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Former_Soldiers_Without_a_Future⠀⇛
Originally posted at TomDispatch. It’s the military from
hell – and, no, I don’t mean the Russian army, though, it
certainly qualifies. Few now doubt that Vladimir Putin is
a war criminal (and not just because of those Ukrainian
children his forces exported to Russia for adoption).
o ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ We’re_inhaling,_eating,_and_drinking
toxic_chemicals._Now_we_need_to_figure_out_how_they’re_affecting
us.⠀⇛
What are chemical pollutants doing to our bodies? It’s a
question that’s been on my mind this week, for a few
reasons. Last week, people in Philadelphia cleared
grocery shelves of bottled…
* § Proprietary⠀➾
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Italy_bans_ChatGPT_over_inappropriate_content_and
privacy_concerns⠀⇛
Italy’s Data Protection Authority (DPA) Friday issued a
statement banning further use of ChatGPT, an artificial
intelligence (AI) chat platform, within the country.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Italy_temporarily_blocks_ChatGPT_over
privacy_concerns⠀⇛
Italy is temporarily blocking the artificial intelligence
software ChatGPT in the wake of a data breach as it
investigates a possible violation of stringent European
Union data protection rules. The government’s privacy
watchdog said Friday that it’s taking provisional action
“until ChatGPT respects privacy.”
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Italy_blocks_OpenAI’s_ChatGPT,_opens_probe_over
privacy_failings⠀⇛
Italy’s Data Protection Authority on Friday temporarily
banned OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and launched a probe over
a suspected breach of the artificial intelligence
application’s data collection rules.
* § Security⠀➾
o ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Implementing_a_Linux_Server_Security_Audit:_Best
Practices_and_Tools⠀⇛
A security audit is an essential part of maintaining the
security and integrity of your Linux server. Regular
audits help identify potential vulnerabilities,
misconfigurations, and deviations from security best
practices.
o ⚓ SANS ☛ Use_of_X-Frame-Options_and_CSP_frame-ancestors_security
headers_on_1_million_most_popular_domains,_(Fri,_Mar_31st)⠀⇛
X-Frame-Options HTTP security headers (not just) in order
to prevent phishing pages, which overlay a fake login
prompt over a legitimate website, from functioning
correctly. Or, to be more specific, to prevent them from
dynamically loading a legitimate page in an iframe under
the fake login prompt, since this makes such phishing
websites look much less like a legitimate login page and
thus much less effective.
o ⚓ The Verge ☛ Huge_Microsoft_exploit_allowed_users_to_manipulate
Bing_search_results_and_access_Outlook_email_accounts⠀⇛
/ Researchers discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft’s
Azure platform that allowed users to access private data
from Office 365 applications like Outlook, Teams, and
OneDrive.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Report:_Chinese_State-Sponsored_Hacking_Group
Highly_Active⠀⇛
Chinese hacking group linked previously to attacks on
U.S. state government computers is still “highly active”
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Lumen_Technologies_Hit_by_Two_Cyberattacks⠀⇛
Communications and IT company Lumen Technologies fell
victim to two cyberattacks that led to data theft.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Leaked_Documents_Detail_Russia’s_Cyberwarfare
Tools,_Including_for_OT_Attacks⠀⇛
Documents show that Russian IT company NTC Vulkan was
requested to develop offensive tools for government-
backed hacking group Sandworm.
o ⚓ The Guardian UK ☛ ‘Vulkan_files’_leak_reveals_Putin’s_global_and
domestic_cyberwarfare_tactics⠀⇛
o ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Backdoored_version_of_popular_video-conferencing_app
found_on_GitHub⠀⇛
The company’s researchers said analysis of the binary had
shown that a backdoored version of ffmpeg.dll was among
the files that were dropped during installation.
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 ⚓ Security Week ☛ Mandiant_Investigating_3CX_Hack_as_Evidence_Shows
Attackers_Had_Access_for_Months⠀⇛
Several cybersecurity companies have published blog
posts, advisories and tools to help organizations that
may have been hit by the 3CX supply chain attack.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Severe_Azure_Vulnerability_Led_to_Unauthenticated
Remote_Code_Execution⠀⇛
A high-severity vulnerability in Azure Service Fabric
Explorer could have allowed a remote, unauthenticated
attacker to execute arbitrary code.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ FDA_Announces_New_Cybersecurity_Requirements_for
Medical_Devices⠀⇛
The FDA is asking medical device manufacturers to provide
cybersecurity-related information when submitting an
application for a new product.
o ⚓ Container Journal ☛ Fairwinds_Automates_Remediation_of_Kubernetes
Misconfigurations⠀⇛
Fairwinds this week added an Automated Fix Pull Requests
(PRs) capability to its commercial platforms that
identifies and automatically remediates Kubernetes
misconfigurations.
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Army_officer_detained_in_connection_with
Defense_Ministry_hack⠀⇛
El Universal newspaper reported that an officer who
worked in Sedena’s IT department was detained in
connection with the “Guacamaya” hack.
o ⚓ RFA ☛ North_Korean_hacker_group_poses_as_journalists_and_experts
to_steal_intel⠀⇛
Report tracks activities of ‘APT43’ since 2018, elevates
status to ‘named threat actor’
o ⚓ Bankok Post ☛ Agencies_hunt_for_[cr]acker⠀⇛
Authorities are hunting down a [cr]acker who has
threatened to release the personal data of 55 million
Thais if the government agency allegedly involved in the
leakage of information fails to meet a ransom demand by
April 5.
o ⚓ CNN ☛ FDA_requires_medical_devices_be_secured_against
cyberattacks_|_CNN_Business⠀⇛
The Food and Drug Administration will now require medical
devices meet specific cybersecurity guidelines after
years of concerns that a growing number of internet-
connected products used by hospitals and healthcare
providers could be hit by hacks and ransomware attacks.
o ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Fake_ransomware_gang_targets_U.S._orgs_with
empty_data_leak_threats⠀⇛
Fake extortionists are piggybacking on data breaches and
ransomware incidents, threatening U.S. companies with
publishing or selling allegedly stolen data unless they
get paid.
o ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Today’s_“Don’t_Say_‘Ransomware’_Award”_goes
to….⠀⇛
DataBreaches probably sounds like a broken record after
six years of calls for more transparency in breach
notifications. Sadly, the situation has gotten worse in
the past year. Not only do entities fail to admit they
suffered a ransomware attack, but they fail to inform
patients if the patient’s protected health information
was leaked or is freely available on the internet.
Yesterday, the Institute for Liver Health LLC, doing
business as Arizona Clinical Trials and Arizona Liver
Health (“ALH”) issued a press release about a “data
security incident.” Their statement indicates that they
had no idea they had been attacked until law enforcement
contacted them on January 30 to tell them that their name
had shown up “in a part of the internet used by criminals
as an entity whose information may have been taken by a
criminal.”
o § Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation⠀➾
# ⚓ Computer World ☛ Researchers_warn_of_Wi-Fi_security_flaw
affecting_iOS,_Android,_Linux_|_Computerworld⠀⇛
The vulnerability could let attackers hijack
network traffic; iOS, Linux, and Android devices
may be affected.
# ⚓ IT World CA ☛ Cyber_Security_Today,_March_31,_2023_–_World
Backup_Day_advice,_new_malware_targeting_Linux_and_more [Ed:
It targets not Linux but some vulnerable stuff that may or
may not also run on top of GNU/Linux. “Sponsored By:
[Gartner_logo_RGB (1)]”]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gray Dot Media Group ☛ New_Cylance_Ransomware_Targets_Linux
and_Windows,_Warn_Researchers [Ed: Mere "tweets" as sources
with insufficient details, e.g. how the malware gets there in
the first place]⠀⇛
The cybersecurity researchers at Palo Alto Networks
Unit 42 have discovered a new strain of Cylance
Ransomware, which has already claimed several
victims. Researchers noticed it early Friday
morning, and further probing revealed that it is
targeting Linux and Windows devices.
o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ The Local SE ☛ Swedish_inquiry_calls_for_state-run_digital
ID_and_low-risk_bank_accounts⠀⇛
A Swedish government inquiry into the payment
system has called for the state to launch its own
digital ID and a new type of basic, low-risk bank
account to help the estimated 1m people with no, or
limited, access to digital payments.
# ⚓ dwaves.de ☛ the_positive_the_negative:_bigdata_+_AI_could
help_early_detect_cancer_|_privacy_is_security_–_why_mass
surveillance_–_German_court_rules_mass_bulk_data_gathering_
(calls,_SMS,_IP_including_location)_illegal⠀⇛
the positive: Okay let’s ALWAYS focus on the
positive first: data, the web, free flow of
information has given mankind new abilities: online
learning-from-each-other (“social learning” one of
said to be strong points of humans vs animals)
better decision making…
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Hong_Kong_police_ask_for_billions_to_fund_digital
network_linked_to_bodycams⠀⇛
Police cite the 2019 protest movement, saying they
need to ‘safeguard national security.’
* § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ North_Carolina_lawmakers_override_governor_veto_on_gun
rights_bill⠀⇛
North Carolina lawmakers Wednesday overrode Governor Roy
Cooper’s veto on a bill that would allow residents to buy
a handgun without a permit.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Canada_dispatch:_Nova_Scotia_Mass_Casualty_Commission
recommends_sweeping_policing_and_gun_law_reforms_in_final_report_on
worst_mass_shooting_in_Canadian_history⠀⇛
William Hibbitts is JURIST’s Deputy Editorial Director.
He files this report from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Yesterday, March 30, the Mass Casualty
Commission investigating the 2020 Nova Scotia spree
shooting released its final report, marking the
culmination of a prolonged investigation into Canada’s
worst mass shooting and the RCMP’s ignominious response
to it.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Vilnius_demands_Minsk_to_halt_Belarus_NNP⠀⇛
Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry has handed over a diplomatic
note of protest to Minsk, demanding that it immediately
halt the operation of Astravyets nuclear power plant,
located some 50km from Vilnius, until all nuclear safety
issues identified by international missions are resolved.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Portugal,_Romania_take_over_NATO’s_Baltic_air_policing
mission⠀⇛
Portugal and Romania took over the NATO Baltic air
policing mission from Poland and France on Thursday, the
Lithuanian Defence Ministry reported.
o ⚓ The Local SE ☛ KEY_POINTS:_Five_things_you_need_to_know_about
Sweden_and_Nato⠀⇛
After decades of staying out of military alliances,
Finland and neighbouring Sweden announced bids to join
Nato in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last
year. Here are five things to know about the two
countries’ membership bids.
o ⚓ The Local SE ☛ Nato_chief_calls_for_‘rapid_conclusion’_of
Sweden’s_Nato_ratification⠀⇛
Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg called for a ‘rapid
conclusion’ of Sweden’s stalled Nato ratification
process, as he said that on Friday that Finland would
formally become a member of the defence alliance within
days.
o ⚓ YLE ☛ Leaders_welcome_Turkey_Nato_approval⠀⇛
A number of leaders and decision makers reacted to the
Turkish legislature’s vote to ratify Finland’s Nato
membership bid late on Thursday night.
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 ⚓ New York Times ☛ Turkey_Approves_Finland’s_NATO_Membership,_a
Defeat_for_Putin⠀⇛
Finland’s entry into the military alliance after Turkey
formally signed off is a significant defeat for President
Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_Finland,_Leaders_Celebrate_NATO_Membership
Progress⠀⇛
Finland’s president, Sauli Niinistö, said his country
would “be a strong and capable ally, committed to the
security of the alliance.”
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Sanna_Marin,_Finland’s_Political_Rock_Star,
Could_Be_Slipping⠀⇛
Parliamentary elections on Sunday are extremely tight
among the three biggest parties, with the prime
minister’s Social Democrats in a tough fight to lead the
next government.
o ⚓ YLE ☛ Sanna_Marin_on_Nato_process:_“I_am_very_proud_of_the
Finnish_people”⠀⇛
Finland’s Prime Minister praised the Finnish people and
the political leadership for their cooperation throughout
the Nato application process.
o ⚓ YLE ☛ What’s_next_on_Finland’s_road_to_Nato?⠀⇛
Once the acceptance letters from all 30 member states are
in Washington, Nato’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
will send an official invitation letter to Finland.
o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Turkish_Parliament_Ratifies_Finland’s_Entry_Into_NATO⠀⇛
“Finland will formally join our Alliance in the coming
days,” NATO Secretary Stoltenberg said.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Belarus,_Echoing_Russia,_Raises_Prospect_of
Nuclear_Conflict⠀⇛
Because of the conflict in Ukraine, President Aleksandr
G. Lukashenko of Belarus said, “a third world war loomed
on the horizon with nuclear fires.”
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Putin_Allies_Must_Decide_Whether_to_Host_a
Wanted_Man⠀⇛
The International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for
President Vladimir V. Putin could thrust his allies into
domestic and foreign legal disputes, experts say.
o ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Moz_body_burning_investigation_ongoing⠀⇛
A gruesome video which surfaced earlier this year of
bodies seemingly dumped into a fire and burnt in
Mozambique by soldiers is still being investigated after
drawing widespread condemnation.
o ⚓ Defence Web ☛ SADC_putting_the_brakes_on_money_laundering,_terror
financing⠀⇛
The Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Secretariat is stepping up the region’s resolve to fight
money laundering, terrorism financing and proliferation
finance.
o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Turkey’s_Grand_National_Assembly_ratifies
Finnish_Nato_membership⠀⇛
THE GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY of Turkey on Thursday voted
276–0 in favour of ratifying the Finnish bid to accede to
Nato, inducing a series of satisfied comments from policy
makers in Finland.
The ratification is set to be next approved by Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Turkey’s_parliament_ratifies_Finland’s_application_to
join_NATO⠀⇛
Turkey’s parliament on Thursday ratified Finland’s
application to join NATO, lifting the last hurdle in the
way of the Nordic country’s long-delayed accession into
the Western military alliance.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ For_Ukrainian_Convicts,_a_Strange_Odyssey
Through_Russian_Prisons⠀⇛
When Russian troops left Kherson, they took with them
2,500 Ukrainian convicts from local prisons. For some, it
was the start of a bewildering, five-country journey
highlighting the war’s absurdity.
o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Taiwan’s_Tsai_Ing-wen_visits_US,_as_China
threatens_reprisal⠀⇛
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in New York
Wednesday for a visit that has triggered threats of
reprisal by China if she meets with House speaker Kevin
McCarthy — and US warnings for Beijing not to overreact.
o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Taiwan_ex-president_Ma_Ying-jeou_calls_for
Beijing_exchanges_during_China_visit⠀⇛
Taiwan ex-president Ma Ying-jeou on Thursday called for
maintaining exchanges with China as he met with a Beijing
official during a historic mainland visit, a trip
Taipei’s ruling party has called “regrettable”. Ma’s
visit is the first trip to the mainland by a former or
current leader of Taiwan in over seven decades.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Austria_MPs_walk_out_of_Parliament_to_protest_support_of
Ukraine_in_war_against_Russia⠀⇛
Far-right members of the Austrian Parliament Thursday
walked out of the legislature during a live video speech
by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in protest of
Vienna’s support of Ukraine in the war.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_remains_opposed_to_having_aggressor_state
athletes_at_Olympics⠀⇛
As Russia’s war in Ukraine continues, the participation
of athletes from Russia and Belarus in the upcoming
Olympic Games is not acceptable, the head of the Latvian
Olympic Committee (LOC) Žoržs Tikmers said after the
organization’s general assembly on March 30, reprted the
LETA newswire.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_Marks_Bucha_Massacre_Anniversary_As_Russia_Shells
Cities_In_East⠀⇛
Ukraine on March 31 marked one year since Russian forces
withdrew from Bucha, leaving behind hundreds of bodies of
murdered civilians on the streets of the commuter town
near the capital in what Kyiv said was a massacre and a
Russian war crime.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Bucha_must_become_‘symbol_of_justice’,_says_Ukraine’s
Zelensky⠀⇛
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday called
for Bucha to become a “symbol of justice” on the one-year
anniversary of Russia’s withdrawal from the town now
synonymous with war crimes allegations. His visit to the
martyred town came after Belarusian President Alexander
Lukashenko said Russia could place intercontinental
nuclear missiles in his country, “if necessary”.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ White_House_Urges_Russia_To_Act_Professionally_During_UN
Security_Council_Presidency⠀⇛
The White House has urged Russia to conduct itself
professionally when it assumes its scheduled UN Security
Council presidency next month.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Western_arms_supplies_‘no_guarantee’_of_a_decisive
victory_for_Ukraine⠀⇛
Ukraine has been preparing to launch a spring
counteroffensive to recapture territory seized by
Russians and is hoping to repeat the success of its
counterattacks last September. Despite the supply of
Western arms, including battle tanks, Ukrainian forces
will have to change their tactics if they hope to achieve
a breakthrough, according to historian and retired army
officer Michel Goya.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Police_In_North_Kazakhstan_Investigate_Group_Calling_For
‘Sovereign_Kazakh_Soviet_Socialist_Republic’⠀⇛
Police in the North Kazakhstan region say they are
investigating a group in the regional capital, Petropavl,
called the People’s Council.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Hague_trial_of_former_Kosovo_president_and_Kosovo
Liberation_Army_officers_set_to_start⠀⇛
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers in the Hague Friday
announced the trial of four former Kosovo Liberation Army
(KLA) members is due to begin Monday. The former Prime
Minister of the Provisional Government of Kosovo (PGoK),
Hashim Thaçi is amongst those who will stand trial.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Wimbledon_lifts_ban_on_Russian,_Belarusian_players,_to
compete_as_‘neutrals’⠀⇛
Wimbledon lifted its ban on Russian and Belarusian
players on Friday and will allow them to compete in the
grasscourt Grand Slam this year as “neutral” athletes in
a climbdown from the stance it took after Moscow’s
invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Wimbledon_lifts_ban_on_Russian,_Belarusian_players⠀⇛
Wimbledon will allow Russian and Belarusian players to
compete as “neutral” athletes in the grasscourt Grand
Slam this year.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_Condemns_Wimbledon_Decision_To_Lift_Ban_On
Russian_Players⠀⇛
Ukraine has condemned the decision to allow Russian and
Belarusian tennis players to compete at the Wimbledon
tennis tournament.
o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_to_Focus_on_Ending_US_Hegemony:_Foreign_Policy
Concept⠀⇛
To build a multipolar world, Russia will create
conditions to counter any neo-colonial ambitions.
o ⚓ Spiegel ☛ “Mafia_Methods”:_Viktor_Orbán_Ups_the_Pressure_on
German_Companies_to_Leave_Hungary⠀⇛
German companies have long been active in Hungary. But
now, Viktor Orbán is trying to force some of them to
leave. And when they do, his closest allies stand to
profit.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ UN_rights_chief:_rule_of_law_at_risk_in_Guatemala⠀⇛
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk
Thursday expressed alarm at the continued erosion of the
rule of law in Guatemala.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Kenya_dispatch:_mass_protests_prompt_concerns_over
police_brutality_and_pending_restrictions_on_demonstrations⠀⇛
Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Kenya.
Anti-government demonstrations were held across Kenya
both Monday and Thursday this week after a call by Azimio
opposition party leader Raila Odinga. These have been
just about all that everyone has been talking about. The
whole week seemed like a movie.
o ⚓ AntiWar ☛ This_Women’s_History_Month,_Celebrate_the_Resolve_of
Jeannette_Rankin⠀⇛
Do we have a shortage of female heroes in this country?
Are virtuous women that scarce? Or is it simply that
Women’s History Month, by eliminating women from the
conversation who don’t fit the narrative of the State
Department and the Pentagon, failed to achieve its goal?
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Spanish_PM_Says_He_Encouraged_China’s_Xi_To_Speak_With
Zelenskiy⠀⇛
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez encouraged Chinese
President Xi Jinping on March 31 to talk to the Ukrainian
leadership and learn firsthand about Kyiv’s peace formula
to help bring an end to Russia’s invasion.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iran’s_IRGC_Says_Israeli_Air_Strike_In_Syria_Kills_One_Of
Its_Officers⠀⇛
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says an
Israeli attack in Syria on March 31 killed one of its
officers in a sign of Israel’s increasing efforts to
counter Tehran’s foothold in the country.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Lukashenka_Defends_Placement_Of_Russian_Tactical_Nuclear
Weapons_In_Belarus⠀⇛
The authoritarian ruler of Belarus, Alyaksandr
Lukashenka, has defended a Russian plan to place tactical
nuclear weapons — including intercontinental ballistic
missiles if necessary — on Belarusian territory, saying
the country is coming under increased threats from the
West.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Leader_Of_White_Supremacist_Group_Wanted_In_U.S._Arrested
In_Romania⠀⇛
The leader of a U.S. neo-Nazi group wanted in the United
States for allegedly fomenting violence at political
rallies has been apprehended by Romanian authorities in
Bucharest.
o ⚓ RFA ☛ UK’s_Labour_Party_to_recognize_Uyghur_genocide_if_it_wins
elections⠀⇛
David Lammy says China must be held accountable for human
rights abuses.
o ⚓ RFA ☛ Taiwan_speeds_up_preparation_for_potential_conflict_with
China⠀⇛
In July, Taiwan’s military will hold its first drill at a
civilian airport, turning highway sections into runways.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Seeks_To_Keep_Yemen-Bound_Ammunition_Seized_From
Iran⠀⇛
The United States is seeking to keep more than 1 million
rounds of ammunition the U.S. Navy seized in December as
it was in transit from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary
Guards Corps (IRGC) to militant groups in Yemen, the
Justice Department said.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Croatia_Returns_Migrants_To_Bosnia_Amid_Spike_In_Illegal
Border_Crossings⠀⇛
Croatia on March 31 returned a second group of migrants
to Bosnia-Herzegovina amid questions about where the
migrants should be allowed to apply for asylum.
o ⚓ RFA ☛ Cambodia_faces_July_election_without_international
observers⠀⇛
As threats and arrests continue, the EU says ‘inclusive,
transparent’ conditions are not in place for vote.
o ⚓ RFA ☛ Chinese_Christians_exiled_in_Thailand_taken_to_court_for
overstaying_visas⠀⇛
A police official says they may not be deported to their
home country.
* § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ ‘Unmanageable_conflict_of_interest’:_Ombudsman_slams
fellow_integrity_watchdog⠀⇛
In a new integrity headache for the Andrews government,
Ombudsman Deborah Glass says she will not engage with the
Inspector who oversees her office.
* § Environment⠀➾
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ UN_to_start_taking_deep-sea_mining
applications⠀⇛
The International Seabed Authority is set to start
accepting applications from companies that want to mine
the ocean’s floor after the United Nations body spent two
weeks debating standards for the new and controversial
practice.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_a_Land_With_No_Soccer,_Group_Hopes_to_Use_It
to_Score_Climate_Goals⠀⇛
The Marshall Islands Soccer Federation aims to draw
interest in the sport — and to growing global warming
events in the Pacific.
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Bird-breeding_bonanza_seen_after_record
flooding_in_New_South_Wales_wetlands⠀⇛
April 01, 2023 5:00 AM
The mass breeding was welcome because in recent years,
the region has often resembled a desert.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ UK_report:_‘lost_decade’_of_climate_change_planning_will
hit_vulnerable_groups⠀⇛
The UK Climate Change Committee Wednesday reported that
Britain is “not adequately prepared” for the damaging
effects of climate change. In its 2023 report to
Parliament, the group found limited evidence of the
implementation of adaptation needed at a national scale
to mitigate the risks of climate change.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ ECHR_hears_two_landmark_climate_change_cases⠀⇛
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Wednesday heard
oral arguments in two cases in which the applicants are
accusing their respective governments, France and
Switzerland, of failing to take steps to prevent climate
change.
o § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Eurozone_Inflation_Falls_to_6.9%,_as
Energy_Prices_Ease⠀⇛
The rate of inflation in countries using the euro
slipped to 6.9 percent over the year through March,
from 8.5 percent the previous month, but underlying
price gains edged higher.
# ⚓ H2 View ☛ Australian_hydrogen_industry_could_generate
AUD$40bn_in_GVA_by_2040,_says_NERA_report⠀⇛
A new report by National Energy Resources Australia
(NERA) and Arup has suggested Australia’s hydrogen
industry has the potential to generate AUD$40bn
($26.8bn) in domestic gross value added (GVA) by
2040.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Making_the_most_of_Australia’s_endowment
of_critical_minerals⠀⇛
The geostrategic scramble to reduce supply-chain
dependencies for critical minerals has overshadowed
opportunities for Australia to use its resources to
provide major benefits for the nation.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Can_Italy_play_an_effective_role_in
helping_to_stabilize_the_Mediterranean_Sea_region?⠀⇛
Thanks to its central geographical position in the
Mediterranean Sea and the advanced technological
skills of Italian energy companies, Italy is
playing a key role in the region through their
strong energy diplomacy.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Has_Bitcoin_Benefited_From_the_Banking
Crisis?_Not_in_the_Way_Its_Fans_Hoped.⠀⇛
Bitcoin’s price has soared since banks failed this
month, but there’s little evidence that the surge
is being driven by investors treating the virtual
currency as a financial alternative.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ New_Rules_Will_Make_Many_Electric_Cars
Ineligible_for_Tax_Credits⠀⇛
The Biden administration hopes its guidelines for
up to $7,500 in tax credits will encourage
automakers to reduce their reliance on China for
batteries and raw materials.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Tesla_and_Musk_Lose_Ruling_on_Factory
Union_Issues⠀⇛
A court upheld a finding that Tesla wrongly fired a
worker involved in labor organizing and that a
Twitter post by Elon Musk was illegally anti-union.
# ⚓ Positech Games ☛ Economics_of_solar_batteries_(big_and
small)⠀⇛
I’m lucky enough to be the proud owner of a 9.5kwh
battery in my cellar. Its a GivEnergy battery (A UK
company, although the actual battery is predictably
made in China). Its AC-coupled, which means it sits
on the ‘house’ side of the fusebox/consumer unit.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Rīga’s_central_heating_prices_to_go_down_in
April⠀⇛
As of April 1, the Rīga centralized heating company
Rīgas siltums thermal energy tariff will be EUR
165.32 per megawatt-hour (MWh) (excluding VAT),
which is 10% less compared to the current tariff,
the company said March 31.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Bed,_Bath_&_Beyond_is_making_a_$300_million_effort
to_skirt_bankruptcy⠀⇛
Bed Bath & Beyond is offering $300 million of its
stock in yet another attempt to keep itself afloat.
o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_Taiwan’s_Waters,_a_Hunt_for_Tiny,
Wriggling_‘Gold’⠀⇛
For generations, people have fished for baby eels
in the island’s estuaries. But they seem to be
getting harder to find.
o § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Immigrants_now_make_up_10_percent_of_France’s
population,_says_statistics_agency⠀⇛
A tenth of people living in France in 2021 were
born foreigners, national statistics agency INSEE
said on Thursday, in its first study on immigration
in a decade.
* § Finance⠀➾
o ⚓ Breach Media ☛ Housing_crisis_pushes_once-thriving_co-op_movement
back_into_the_spotlight⠀⇛
Co-ops offer ‘an affordable and democratic alternative’
to the private housing market. But government restraint
means they must fight for survival
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Europe’s_inflation_eases_as_energy_falls_but
food_up⠀⇛
Inflation in the 20 countries using the euro slowed to
6.9 per cent in March – the lowest level in a year. Food
costs are still on the rise but energy prices have
fallen, making a sharp turnaround after months of
punishing increases.
o ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ How_The_Rich_Are_Prepping_For_End_Times,_And
Why⠀⇛
The ruling class knows what’s coming: social instability
caused by a combination of the climate crisis, banks
failing, the soul-killing inequality of late-stage
capitalism, and the impending dilution of the
petrodollar.
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Tenants_of_America’s_Biggest_Landlord_Form
Union_to_Fight_Evictions,_Rent_Hikes⠀⇛
The Blackstone Tenants Union (BTU) in San Diego aims to
fight evictions and rising rents since the corporate
landlord ended a COVID-19 eviction pause.
o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ High_tax_wedge_in_Finland:_Less_than_half_of_pay
increase_goes_to_employees’_pockets⠀⇛
Keskuskauppakamari, one of Finland’s leading business
organizations, has updated its verokiilalaskuri or tax
wedge calculator to highlight the high cost of employing
workers in Finland. The tax wedge is the difference
between the total cost of labor to the employer and the
net income received by the employee after taxes and other
mandatory contributions have been deducted.
o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ BRICS_Group_Works_On_A_New_Form_Of_Currency⠀⇛
“Transition to settlements in national currencies is the
first step,” Alexander Babakov said.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ French_Anger_at_Macron_Seeps_Into_Bordeaux⠀⇛
Even Bordeaux, known for its surrounding vineyards and
conservative politics, has become a flashpoint. The City
Hall’s charred doors attest to that.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Huawei_reported_its_biggest_annual_decline_in_profit
amid_American_sanctions_on_chip_technology⠀⇛
Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei reported its
largest annual decline in profit on Friday (March 31),
citing China’s strict pandemic restrictions and rising
commodity prices for its drop in sales.
o ⚓ YLE ☛ One_quarter_of_people_with_disabilities_in_Finland_at_risk
of_poverty,_marginalisation⠀⇛
Low income and under-employment are more common among
people with disabilities compared to the rest of the
population, according to a Statistics Finland report.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ More_counterfeit_money_found_in_Latvia_last_year_than_in
2021⠀⇛
Last year, 889 counterfeit units of money were detected
in Latvia, which is 26.5% more than in 2021, according to
“Payment radar” published by the Latvian central bank
(Bank of Latvia) on March 31, LETA reported.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Central_bank_adjusts_economic_forecasts_for_Latvia⠀⇛
Latvijas Banka (LB), the Latvian central bank published
revised macroeconomic forecasts March 31, which came with
the caveat that at the moment there is “persistently high
uncertainty”.
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Central_bank_raises_interest_rate_to_11.25%,
another_record_high⠀⇛
The Bank of Mexico’s key rate has now risen 725 basis
points in the current tightening cycle, which began in
June 2021.
o ⚓ Reason ☛ Social_Security_Will_Be_Insolvent_by_2033⠀⇛
New data from the program’s trustees show that insolvency
will hit a year sooner than previously expected, giving
policy makers just a decade before automatic benefit cuts
occur.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Virgin_Orbit’s_share_price_hit_a_new_record_low_in_the
wake_of_mass_layoffs⠀⇛
Richard Branson’s rocket company is running out of fuel.
o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Winners_of_Hong_Kong’s_‘free’_flights_say
additional_charges_more_than_expected⠀⇛
Winners of the Hong Kong government’s mass plane ticket
giveaway have said that while they were under no illusion
that the flights being offered were indeed free, the fees
they were asked to pay were steeper than they expected.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ France’s_hard-left_CGT_union_elects_first_woman_leader
amid_pension_fight⠀⇛
France’s hard-left CGT union has elected its first woman
leader, two CGT sources told Reuters on Friday.
o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Iran_Welcomes_The_Hauge_Court_Ruling_On_US-Frozen
Assets⠀⇛
“The U.S. duty to compensate our country for the assets
freezing shows the legitimacy of our demands,” the Irani
Foreign Affairs Ministry stated.
o ⚓ 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).
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Microsoft_Is_Shutting_Down_Its_Metaverse
Unit_Amidst_Broader_Layoffs⠀⇛
Microsoft is shutting down its metaverse unit comprising
100 employees amidst broader layoffs. Microsoft has
internally announced disbanding its Industrial Metaverse
Core group, a division comprising around 100 employees
focused on bringing the metaverse to industrial
environments through software.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ EU_May_Need_To_Reintroduce_Tariffs_On_Ukrainian_Grain,
PMs_Say⠀⇛
Tariffs on Ukrainian agricultural imports may need to be
reintroduced if an influx of products that is pushing
down prices in EU markets cannot be stopped by other
means, several prime ministers of eastern states said.
* § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
o ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ How_a_computer_scientist_talks_to_her_daughter
about_TikTok⠀⇛
The debate over TikTok’s national security risk is lost
on many young users, except if your mom is a technologist
focused on global threats.
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Twitter_Won’t_Charge_$1,000-a-Month
Verification_Fees_for_the_Largest_Businesses_and_Advertisers,_Says
New_Report⠀⇛
Twitter won’t charge $1,000-a-month verification fees for
its most prominent businesses and advertisers.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Scoop:_White_House_won’t_pay_for_Twitter_verification⠀⇛
The White House will not pay to have its staff’s official
Twitter profiles continue_to_be_verified, according to
guidance issued to staffers via an email obtained by
Axios.
Why it matters: Official White House staffers rely on
their verified accounts to inform the public on behalf of
the administration. Verification, combined with the
designated Twitter profiles, helped to ensure the public
could trust those messages.
o ⚓ NYPost ☛ White_House_won’t_pay_for_staffers’_Twitter_Blue
verification⠀⇛
“Staff may purchase Twitter Blue on their personal social
media accounts using personal funds,” White House
Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty wrote in an
email Friday.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Trump_negotiating_surrender_after_becoming_first_ex-US
president_to_face_criminal_charges⠀⇛
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced
Thursday that his office had contacted the attorney of
former US President Donald Trump to coordinate his
surrender following the first grand jury indictment of an
ex-president in the country’s history.
o ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Douglass_Mackey’s_Criminal_Twitter_Trolling⠀⇛
A jury just declared that the kind of disinformation that
Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk are welcoming back on Twitter
can be a crime.
o ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Trump’s_People_Have_Attempted_to_Cover_Up_That_He
Cheated_to_Cover_Up_Cheating_in_2016_at_Least_Six_Times⠀⇛
Trump wailed last night that his “indication” was a
matter of free and fair elections. He’s right. It’s about
one of at least six efforts he and his agents have made
to cover-up that he cheated to win in 2016.
o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Has_Modi_Pushed_Indian_Democracy_Past_Its_Breaking
Point?⠀⇛
With the media and judiciary already under attack, the
Prime Minister’s main opponent was just banned from
Parliament.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Twitter’s_Blue_Check_Apocalypse_Is_Upon_Us.
Here’s_What_to_Know.⠀⇛
Elon Musk, Twitter’s owner, is changing the platform’s
longstanding practice of verifying accounts. That has
implications for a range of users.
* § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Now_Playing_in_China:_Putin-Aligned_Artists
Shunned_in_the_West⠀⇛
As Russia works to shore up its image and rebuild its
soft power after its invasion of Ukraine, it is
strengthening cultural ties with friendly nations,
including China.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Former_Putin_Speechwriter_Gallyamov_Accused_Of
Discrediting_Russian_Armed_Forces⠀⇛
A self-exiled former speechwriter of Putin, Abbas
Gallyamov, whose name appeared in Russia’s online
registry of wanted persons last week, is suspected of
discrediting Russia’s armed forces, a charge Russian
authorities have been using to stifle any criticism of
Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_47:_Democrat_‘infuriated’_by
Benny_Tai’s_‘seditious’_article,_court_hears_in_national_security
trial⠀⇛
It was “arrogant” and “irresponsible” for Hong Kong legal
scholar Benny Tai, one of 47 pro-democracy figures
prosecuted in the city’s largest national security case,
to publish an article that threatened to force the
authorities to respond to 2019 protesters’ five demands,
a local court has heard.
* § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
o ⚓ Pro-government_association_leader_threatens_local_journalist⠀⇛
The head of the Ak Youth association threatened the
Kocaeli-based journalist Merve Dişli to “put you in your
place.”
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ With_its_arrest_of_an_American_reporter,_Russia
doubles_down_on_isolation.⠀⇛
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Evan_Gershkovich,_WSJ_Reporter_Detained_in
Russia,_Likely_to_Spend_Months_in_Prison⠀⇛
Russia detained Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for The Wall
Street Journal, and accused him of espionage. The Journal
and U.S. officials have vehemently denied the allegation.
o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Unimaginable_Horror_of_Evan_Gershkovich’s_Arrest
in_Moscow⠀⇛
It’s painful and surreal to write these words: Evan
Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, is
being held by Russian authorities on espionage charges.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden_Calls_on_Russia_to_Free_Detained_American
Reporter⠀⇛
Demands for Evan Gershkovich’s release also came from the
leaders of dozens of news media and press freedom
organizations, including The New York Times and the
Committee to Protect Journalists. Here is what we’re
covering:
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Russian_missiles_hit_Ukraine’s_Kharkiv_as_Moscow
detains_US_journalist⠀⇛
At least six Russian missiles hit the northeastern
Ukrainian city of Kharkiv late on Thursday, local
officials said, adding that emergency workers were
assessing the damage and casualties. Earlier, Russia’s
FSB security service detained a US reporter for the Wall
Street Journal on spying charges, drawing immediate
condemnation from the West and calls for his release.
* § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
o ⚓ RFA ☛ Former_prisoner_of_conscience_harassed_by_Vietnamese_police
after_release⠀⇛
The intimidation began after Nguyen Thi Ngoc Suong
attended an appeals trial for other activists.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kazakh_Tycoon_Related_To_Former_President’s_Family_Handed
Eight-Year_Prison_Term⠀⇛
Kazakh tycoon Qairat Boranbaev, whose daughter is the
widow of the grandson of former President Nursultan
Nazarbaev, has been sentenced to eight years in prison on
corruption charges.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Bialiatski’s_wife_in_Vilnius_pleads_for_solidarity_with
oppressed_Belarusians⠀⇛
Political prisoners in Belarus need solidarity and constant
attention, Natalia Pinchuk, the wife of imprisoned Nobel Peace
Prize winner Ales Bialiatski, said in Vilnius on Friday.
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ US_court_rules_Musk_Tesla_union_campaign
tweet_illegal⠀⇛
A US appeals court says Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk violated
federal labour law by tweeting employees of the electric
vehicle maker would lose stock options if they joined a
union.
o ⚓ Torture_of_child_in_Diyarbakır:_Lawyers_appeal_against_officers’
release⠀⇛
The officers being charged with injury rather than
torture shows that the authorities indent to cover up the
officers’ crimes, according to the head of the Diyarbakır
Bar.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Bodies_of_8_Migrants_Found_in_River_Along_U.S.-
Canadian_Border⠀⇛
The authorities were searching for more bodies in the St.
Lawrence River of migrants believed to have been
attempting to cross illegally into the United States.
o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Cambodia_Makes_Progress_on_Children’s_Rights,_UNICEF
Says⠀⇛
The proportion of children attending school increased at
all levels in 2021
o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Ancient_DNA_Study_on_Lost_History_of_American_Slavery⠀⇛
During an expansion project for the Gaillard Center, a
group of construction workers discovered the remains of
36 African descendants.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ UN_expresses_concern_over_‘arbitrary_arrests’_in
Afghanistan⠀⇛
UN Human Rights media spokesperson Jeremy Laurence
Thursday issued a statement on the situation in
Afghanistan, highlighting the UN’s “alarm” at the ongoing
arbitrary arrests and detentions of civil society
activists and media workers in Afghanistan…
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Why_Latvia_cannot_afford_to_live_without_gender
equality⠀⇛
Latvian central bank economist Krista Kalnbērziņa takes a
deep dive into gender inequality and its economic
consequences in this piece from the central bank’s
macroeconomics.lv website.
o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong’s_new_protest_regulations_are
designed_by_those_who_don’t_like_protests⠀⇛
Our police commissioner has no sense of irony. Remember
the long-running struggle, during the 2019 disturbances,
to persuade the police to obey the law which requires
them to display an identifying number when on duty in
uniform? Numbers are, however, now compulsory – not for
police, but for demonstrators.
* § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
o ⚓ RTE ☛ RTÉ_RADIO_1_TO_CEASE_BROADCASTING_ON_LONG_WAVE⠀⇛
RTÉ RADIO 1 TO CEASE BROADCASTING ON LONG WAVE KEEP
LISTENING TO RTÉ RADIO 1 | WWW.RTE.IE/KEEPLISTENING RTÉ
has today announced that RTÉ Radio 1 will cease
broadcasting on Long Wave 252 (LW 252) from Friday 14th
April 2023.
o ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Competition_in_Canada_Takes_Another_Hit:
Government_Gives_Go_Ahead_for_Rogers_–_Shaw_Merger⠀⇛
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-
Philippe Champagne has worked hard to fashion himself as
a future party leader based on boundless energy to sell
Canada the world. Indeed, Champagne’s oft-repeated
stories of cold calls that resulted in investments by
companies such as Volkswagen and Moderna paint a picture
of a minister jetting around the world in support of the
Canadian economy. Unfortunately, Champagne’s record is
also one of a minister less interested in what is
actually happening at home.
* § Monopolies⠀➾
o ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Google_says_Microsoft_cloud_practices_are_anti-
competitive⠀⇛
Alphabet’s Google Cloud has accused Microsoft of anti-
competitive cloud computing practices and criticised
imminent deals with several European cloud vendors,
saying these do not solve broader concerns about its
licensing terms.
In Google Cloud’s first public comments on Microsoft and
its European deals its Vice President Amit Zavery told
Reuters the company has raised the issue with antitrust
agencies and urged European Union antitrust regulators to
take a closer look.
o § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ “Future_FRAND_negotiations_would_benefit_from
increased_transparency” [Ed: FRAND is a misnomer and it
describes something that should not even exist in the first
place]⠀⇛
After a long wait, the UK has once again confirmed
its jurisdiction to calculate a FRAND rate between
a patent holder and patent implementer. Earlier in
March, judge James Mellor of the UK High Court
finally handed down his decision in the case
between patent holder InterDigital, and patent
implementer Lenovo.
# ⚓ Tailoring_our_patent_information_products_and_services_to
users’_changing_needs [Ed: A lot of those tools are obviously
in direct violation of the EPC, according to insiders, but
EPO does not care about the law, it's a reckless den of
corporate crime now]⠀⇛
SACEPO working party convenes to discuss recent
advances and future developments in the EPO’s tools
and documentation.
o § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTAB_Posts_April_2023_Hearing_Schedule⠀⇛
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Tee-Tee-Ā-
Bee) has scheduled eight (8) oral hearings for the
month of April 2023. Five of the hearings will be
held via video conference; three will be held “in-
person” in Alexandria, VA. Briefs and other papers
for each case may be found at TTABVUE via the links
provided.
o § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ IFPI_Officially_Addresses_Italian
Court’s_Latest_Ruling_in_Cloudflare_Dispute:_‘An_Important
Precedent’⠀⇛
In July of 2022, the IFPI celebrated an Italian
court’s interim injunction against Cloudflare
(NYSE: NET), which the industry representative
accused of “making it possible for users to access
copyright infringing websites.” Now, the IFPI has
formally responded to a new decision upholding the
injunction.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ Book_recommendation⠀⇛
Book recommendation: The power of fun by Catherine Price.
A serious and well-researched look at having True Fun (a
state when playfulness, connection and flow happen).
o ⚓ “Never_split_the_difference”_book_notes⠀⇛
These are my personal takeaways after reading “Never
split the difference” by Chris Voss. Note that the book
contains much more knowledge wisdom and that these notes
only contain points I personally found worth writing
down. This is mainly for my own use, but you might find
it helpful too.
o ⚓ [Old]_re:_A_response_to_jecxjo_(a_response_to_wholesomedonut)⠀⇛
In essence: “Yup, sounds about right”. Don’t worry about
it. Spend time having fun. I am very passionate about
software engineering. I love to do it. But if I’m
spending 40 hours building software, I certainly have 0
motivation to spend the few hours I have outside of work
doing that…
o ⚓ The_Stonecutter,_Part_5⠀⇛
He found that clouds had a great freedom. No longer was
he bound to the orbit of the Sun. He could now travel
wherever he wanted whenever he wanted.
Nighttime was not a blind spot for him anymore. That was
something he hadn’t reflected on when he was the Sun, but
now he found entertainment in obscuring the moon to make
someone lose their way in the dark, or dispersing himself
to reveal the starry night to a loving couple.
o ⚓ Winning⠀⇛
As an analogy, let’s say you wanna get fit so you decide
to take a walk. You decide to go to the park. Now, the
intended destination of your walk is the park, and the
purpose of the walk is to get fit.
Russ has a post investigating the origins of the quote
with other variants that make it clearer what Knizia
meant.
o ⚓ ABIMOSR_Wordo:_VIOLS⠀⇛
o ⚓ Obstacles_removed⠀⇛
In my last post, a ridiculous 5 months ago, I was
lamenting on not keeping up with my blogging because I
didn’t have sufficient tooling to make it easy. What a
terrible excuse.
Over the holidays I made time to finish up some code to
create an atom feed from my blog entries. Alas, my coding
skills are a bit rusty these days and it took longer than
expected but it’s there, and if you can read this, it
works!
o ⚓ Emacs_On_My_Writing_PC⠀⇛
So I decided to install Emacs on my writing PC for while
I work on writing my gemlogs. This I felt was a good way
to get a sense of what Emacs feels like basically by
default, since I’ve installed a bunch of stuff on my
other machines, since I want it to be an IDE. I expected
it to work well, because, well, Emacs is an old piece of
software! So.. let me talk through my Emacs setup on a
virtual-terminal only PC.
o ⚓ Cloud_spotting_blues⠀⇛
tfurrows wrote a phlog post yesterday[1] centred mostly
around
responding to severe weather advisories and warnings.
Right at
the end he mentions participating in “weather spotter /
Skywarn
training”, something provided by the US National Weather
Service.
This seems to basically be a program to “crowdsource”
early detection
of heavy weather (what did we call “crowdsourcing” before
that
became a term?). I would certainly be interested to read
more
about this experience!
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ Make_your_server_available_through_a_VPN_endpoint_IP⠀⇛
Let’s say your ISP don’t provide static IP and you want
to self host your website, emails and stuff at home. Or
you can’t setup a rDNS. Or your usual Internet access is
down and you want to keep your server up using your
smartphone connection sharing capabilities.
o ⚓ Idiotbox_to_watch_youtube_without_a_browser⠀⇛
o ⚓ tootik:_Gemini+fediverse=❤️⠀⇛
tootik is a new social network thingy that speaks a tiny
subset of ActivityPub and has a Gemini frontend.
o § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Writing_Hello_world_from_scratch_Part_II:_designing_the
CPU⠀⇛
Designing the ISA and the simulator is fine and
dandy but it does not beat running a custom CPU on
real hardware. Unfortunately, I don’t have tens of
thousands of euros to make a custom chip. The best
I can do is to run it on an FPGA. An FPGA is a chip
with a lot of logic gates that can be wired
together to make any logic circuit. And our CPU is
a logic circuit.
What we need to do is to use a hardware description
language such as Verilog or VHDL to describe the
CPU. I choose to use Verilog as I prefer its more
concise syntax but both languages can do the same
things in a very similar manner.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Graphics_Stack
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Education
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ KDE Videos ☛ KDAB_News_03/2023_–_Calls_for_Speakers_KDE
Akademy,_QtWS,_Qt_Desktop_Days;_EW23_Recap_and_more⠀⇛
Welcome to KDAB News, the monthly update for
developers working with Qt, C++ and 3D
technologies.
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ Mike_Blumenkrantz:_Developers_Developers_Developers⠀⇛
§ A New Frontier
As everyone expects, Khronos has recently done a
weekly_spec_update_for_Vulkan.
What nobody expected was that this week’s update
would include a mammoth extension,
VK_EXT_shader_object.
Or that it would be developed by Nintendo?
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Machine_Learning_in_Linux:_Dalai_–_LLaMA_and
Alpaca⠀⇛
Dalai bills itself as “the simplest way to run
LLaMA on your local machine”.
Given that our Machine Learning in Linux series
focuses on apps that make it easy to experiment
with machine learning, Dalai looks an interesting
project to spotlight.
What’s LLaMA? It’s an acronym for Large Language
Model Meta AI, a collection of open and efficient
foundation language models designed to help
researchers advance their work in this subfield of
AI.
Large Languages Models trained on massive amount of
text can perform new tasks from textual
instructions. They can generate creative text,
solve maths problems, answer reading comprehension
questions, and much more. Like other large language
models, LLaMA works by taking a sequence of words
as an input and predicts a next word to recursively
generate text.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_Pidgin_on_Ubuntu_20.04_|_22.04
LTS⠀⇛
Pidgin is a popular open-source instant messaging
application that allows users to communicate with
friends and family on multiple chat networks
simultaneously.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_BlueMail_on_Ubuntu_20.04_|_22.04
LTS⠀⇛
Hi, in this post, you will learn how to install
BlueMail on Ubuntu
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_SpiderFoot_on_Ubuntu_20.04_|
22.04_LTS⠀⇛
SpiderFoot is an open-source reconnaissance tool
that automates the process of collecting and
analyzing data from various sources, such as search
engines, social media, and DNS records. It is a
powerful tool for penetration testers, researchers,
and security professionals.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_1Password_on_Ubuntu_20.04_|_22.04
LTS⠀⇛
In this guide, we will show you how to install
1Password on Ubuntu systems. 1Password is a popular
password manager that helps users generate strong
and unique passwords, store them securely, and
autofill them on websites and apps.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_Tig_on_Ubuntu_20.04_|_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
Tig is a text-mode interface for Git, a popular
version control system used by developers to manage
source code. It provides a simple and intuitive
interface for viewing and browsing Git
repositories, making it an essential tool for
developers.
# ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Install_Cockpit_Administration_Tool_on
Debian_Linux⠀⇛
Cockpit is a server administration tool. Its main
purpose is to replace the standard administration
GUI of a web hosting company and enable remote
administration.
It offers methods not normally available in the
Control Panel software, such as access to HTTP
requests. With these advanced methods, it is ideal
for server-side tasks such as setting up cron jobs
or other tasks you need to do via shell script on
Unix/Linux servers. In addition, other people (or
even your own staff) can easily create their own
scripts using one of the supported scripting
languages.
# ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Install_Dotclear_CMS_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Dotclear CMS is open-source software that allows
you to create a simple, powerful, and easy-to-
maintain blog. It offers an intuitive interface for
managing content from multiple categories in your
blog.
It was initially designed for running blogs but now
includes support for photo galleries, polls,
calendars and other features as well as extensive
plugin architecture – there are more than thousands
of plugins and themes available for Dotclear.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ 3_Command_Line_Tools_to_Install_Deb_Packages_in
Ubuntu⠀⇛
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install
local software packages (.DEB) in Debian and its
derivatives such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint using
three different command line tools and they are
dpkg, apt, and gdebi.
This is useful to those new users who have migrated
from Windows to Ubuntu or Linux Mint. The very
basic problem they face is installing local
software on the system.
# ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_FFmpeg_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
FFmpeg is open-source and cross-platform that
handles a variety of multimedia files. It holds
several audio and video libraries such as
libavdevice, libavformat, libswscale, and many
more. It is an easy stream analyzer for multimedia.
Besides being a popular developer tool, it offers a
powerful command-line interface for multimedia
tasks. This free computer software was developed in
2000. Youtube, Trell, Mux, VLC Media Player, and
many popular websites and multimedia platforms use
FFmpeg.
This guide will help you to install FFmpeg on
Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 and shows you how to
perform video and audio file conversion using
FFmpeg.
# ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Install_OpenEMR_on_CentOS_and_Rocky_Linux⠀⇛
OpenEMR is the world’s leading open-source
electronic medical record (EMR) and medical
documentation system. OpenEMR aims to provide a
better alternative to its proprietary competitors.
It is secure, customizable, scalable, feature-rich,
and designed to meet the needs of small to large
healthcare organizations.
It has been used in over 200 countries/territories
worldwide since 2002. The information below will
help you better understand OpenEMR.
# ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Install_PgAdmin_4_on_Debian⠀⇛
PgAdmin is an open-source administration tool for
Postgres databases. It has a graphical user
interface written with the Qt application framework
and uses libpq as its backend driver to communicate
with the database server.
It can be used to manage local or remote PostgreSQL
servers, create new databases, execute SQL queries
and scripts against those databases using an
interactive query editor that provides syntax
highlighting and intelligent autocomplete, among
other things, import data from various sources into
the database or generate reports from within the
program about available space in tablespaces or
indexes as well as many other things.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Create_Colorful_ASCII_Arts_in_Your
Linux_Terminal_With_draw⠀⇛
Paint programs have been an essential part of the
computer experience for decades—giving you a
creative outlet for doodles, as well as a way of
sketching ideas, drawing portraits, and expressing
your artistic appreciation for the world outside
your window.
Typically, you’ll need a machine with an X server
to express your digital soul on a virtual canvas,
but with draw, you can sketch colorful drawings
without leaving your terminal.
# ⚓ AddictiveTips ☛ How_to_install_GitFiend_on_Linux⠀⇛
GitFiend is an easy-to-use, simple Git client for
Linux, Mac OS, and Windows. It is designed for
“Humans,” and has tons of useful features. Here’s
how you can install GitFiend on Linux.
[...]
If you use Ubuntu, you must install the GitFiend
application on your system via their downloadable
DEB package. To get your hands on this DEB package,
start by launching a terminal window.
You can launch a terminal window on Ubuntu by
pressing Ctrl + Alt + T on the keyboard. Or, by
searching for “Terminal” in the app menu and
launching it that way. Once the terminal app is
open, use the wget command to download the DEB
package.
# ⚓ Enrico_Zini:_Things_I_learnt_in_March_2023⠀⇛
# str.endswith()
can take a tuple of possible endings instead
of a single string
§ About JACK and Debian
# There are 3 JACK implementations: jackd1,
jackd2, pipewire-jack.
# jackd1 is mostly superseded in favour of jackd2, and as far
as I understand,
can be ignored
# pipewire-jack integrates well with pipewire and the rest of
the Linux audio
world
# jackd2 is the native JACK server. When started it handles the
sound card
directly, and will steal it from pipewire. Non-JACK audio
applications will
likely cease to see the sound card until JACK is stopped and
wireplumber is
restarted. Pipewire should be able to keep [working as a JACK
client[(https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/
wikis/JACK)
but I haven’t gone down that route yet [...]
⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Install_Xen_Orchestra_Appliance_(XOA)_In_XCP-ng_Server⠀⇛
In this guide, we will discuss what is Xen Orchestra (XO), how to
install Xen Orchestra Appliance (XOA), how to access Xen Orchestra
Web UI, and finally how to connect to XOA via SSH.
⚓ Citizix ☛ How_To_Setup_Kube_State_Metrics_on_Kubernetes⠀⇛
In this article, we will learn what kube-state-metricsis, the
importance of enabling kube-state-metrics in your cluster, some of
its use cases, and how to implement it in your cluster.
⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Suricata_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Suricata on Rocky
Linux 9. Are you looking for a network intrusion detection and
prevention system that is both powerful and easy to use? Look no
further than Suricata!
⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Remove_Users_on_Linux:_A_Step-by-Step_Guide⠀⇛
Linux is known for its security and flexibility, but it also requires
some basic knowledge to manage users and groups on the system.
⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_FreeIPA_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FreeIPA on Rocky
Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, FreeIPA is the ultimate
open-source solution for identity, policy, and audit management.
⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Fixing_Mount_Point_Does_Not_Exist_Error_in_Linux⠀⇛
Learn how to troubleshoot and fix the ‘mount point does not exist’
error in Linux with our step-by-step guide.
§ Games⠀➾
* ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Humble_has_a_bundle_of_Survivors-Like_games,_including
Boneraiser_Minions_(a_favourite)⠀⇛
Here’s your chance to jump into the Survivors-Like games
phenomenon, so I guess that’s what we’re calling games like
Vampire Survivors now? Survivors-Like? Humble Bundle has some
good picks here but I do find it mildly amusing they didn’t
manage to pull in the game that started the recent trend for a
“best of” bundle.
* ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Release_candidate:_Godot_4.0.2_RC_1⠀⇛
With the GDC 2023 past us, we are getting ready for the 4.1 dev
cycle. But that doesn’t mean current Godot 4.0 users have to
wait, because here’s a release candidate for 4.0.2, with a
handful of fixes and extra enhancements!
* ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Vulkan_gets_a_new_extension_to_improve_shaders_with
help_from_Nintendo⠀⇛
Well this is a fair bit unexpected. As happens quite often
there was a specification update to the Vulkan API, and with it
came a brand new extension to help with shaders — which
Nintendo contributed towards.
* ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Vampire_Survivors:_Tides_of_the_Foscari_DLC_releases
April_13th⠀⇛
As if it hasn’t sucked away enough of our free time already
right? Vampire Survivors: Tides of the Foscari is arriving on
April 13th. Giving you a bunch more content at a small price
of $1.99 / €1.99 / £1.59.
* ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ GOG_giving_away_Deep_Sky_Derelicts_during_the_finale_of
their_Spring_Sale⠀⇛
The fourth and final giveaway on GOG during their Spring Sale
is for Deep Sky Derelicts, a tactical roguelike RPG set in a
grim dystopian future, where mankind has scattered across the
galaxy.
* ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Stop_an_organism_spreading_and_protect_humanity_in
Xenospore,_now_with_a_big_upgrade⠀⇛
The free game Xenospore sees you try to stop the spread of a
strange and deadly organism and there’s a big upgrade out
now. At a very basic level it sort of reminds me of Into the
Breach because of the small tile-based world, and the alien
stuff. It’s very different though. Mentioned here on
GamingOnLinux back in September last year, it’s come a long
way.
* ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Dark_sci-fi_roguelike_Deadnaut:_Signal_Lost_looks_great
and_it’s_out_now⠀⇛
Deadnaut: Signal Lost from the developer of Deadnaut, Zafehouse
Diaries and Fear Equation is officially out now with Native
Linux support. A game that was mentioned here on GamingOnLinux
just recently, as the developer was looking for Linux testers.
As they promised, a proper demo is also now available along
with the full release.
§ Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
* § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
o ⚓ Jonathan Riddell ☛ isoimagewriter_0.9.1⠀⇛
Just out is isoimagewriter 0.9.1, an unstable alpha
release of the ISO image disk writing tool for USB and
flash drives.
This adds udisks2 support and drops KAuth support. It
also adds Qt6 and KF6 support. However I don’t think
Windows support or signature checking is working
currently.
https://download.kde.org/unstable/isoimagewriter/0.9.1/
isoimagewriter-0.9.1.tar.xz
https://download.kde.org/unstable/isoimagewriter/0.9.1/
isoimagewriter-0.9.1.tar.xz.sig
o ⚓ Scarlett_Gately_Moore:_KDE_Snaps!_Many_new_releases,_more_to
come.⠀⇛
I have been extremely busy the last 2 weeks churning out
KDE snaps! All of the have been tested and released on
AMD64 and Arm64 architectures. If you run into any
problems please file bugs @ http://bugs.kde.org and feel
free to assign me. Thanks!
o ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ This_week_in_KDE:_it’s_the_little_things_that
count⠀⇛
This week a lot of people made a lot of fixes and
improvements to a lot of small-to-medium yet longstanding
issues. I challenge any reader to read through the whole
post and not find any instances of things that had been
annoying them being fixed this week!
§ Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
* ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ AppImage_Installer_now_using_xdotool⠀⇛
Also, there was a bug. ROX-Filer is supposed to have
appropriate
mime-handling for each AppImage. Fixed, now correctly extracts
MimeType
field from the .desktop file inside the .AppImage file.
Added a new game, CroMagRally, and a paint program that is very
good with graphics tablets, MyPaint.
Thinking about what to do next with the Installer, I am
concerned
that it downloads and installs the latest AppImage from github.
From my
limited experience with AppImages, it would seem that a release
may work
now, but a later release may not.
This potential problem is due, I think, to a lack in strictness
of
the rules required for constructing AppImages. A developer may
release
one, then later on update or change his host system, then when
build the
next release, it will be broken on EasyOS. This can very easily
happen,
and is a reason why I am not entirely happy with using
AppImages.
So, I am thinking of changing the Installer so that it
downloads an
AppImage release known to work, not necessarily the latest.
Later on,
the user can update to the latest, and if it doesn’t work, can
roll
back.
Note, as a precaution, I have been archiving them, so if one
disappears, we still have it:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/packages/appimage/
easyos/oe/kirkstone/
* ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ AppImage_Installer_now_parsing_json_file⠀⇛
This morning I posted about using xdotool, to obtain the
AppImage to download:
https://bkhome.org/news/202303/appimage-installer-now-using-
xdotool.html
Before that, I had fiddled around with downloading a json file,
but
wasn’t doing it right. Have now read up a bit more on the
topic. For
example, these sites: [...]
* § New Releases⠀➾
o ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Linux_Lite_6.4:_The_Improved_and_Enhanced_Version⠀⇛
Still based on Xfce 4.16, Linux Lite 6.4 has a refreshed
look, updated package base, and Linux Kernel 5.15.
As the name implies, a Ubuntu-based Linux Lite is
designed to be a lightweight, fast, and easy-to-use Linux
distro. It is popular for users with older hardware or
those who want a simple and user-friendly operating
system.
Linux Lite comes preinstalled with various software,
including the LibreOffice suite, the Firefox web browser,
and the VLC media player. It also includes multiple
customization options and features, such as a system
backup tool and a simple, intuitive interface.
o ⚓ Beta News ☛ Kick_Microsoft_Windows_11_out_of_your_life_and_switch
to_Linux_Lite_6.4_today⠀⇛
Linux Lite is a popular Linux distribution that is
designed to be easy to use for people switching from
Windows. The latest version, Linux Lite 6.4, includes a
number of new features and improvements, making it a
great choice for anyone looking for a reliable and user-
friendly Linux distribution.
Linux Lite 6.4 is a lightweight Linux distribution based
on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS. The distro includes a number of
bug fixes and security updates. The operating system is a
smart choice for users who are new to Linux or who are
looking for a more lightweight alternative to Windows or
macOS.
Linux Lite 6.4 uses kernel 5.15.0-69 and comes with some
excellent software pre-installed. For instance, you get
Google Chrome 111, GIMP 2.10.30, Thunderbird 102.9, VLC
3.0.16, and LibreOffice 7.4.6. This version of the
operating system also offers an an updated Papirus icon
theme, new wallpapers, and a larger hardware database.
* § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾
o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ OpenMandriva_Rome_version_23.03_is_out_now⠀⇛
The project known as OpenMandriva has released new
installation images for its rolling-release edition, with
the latest kernel and the latest KDE Plasma – among many
other choices.
OpenMandriva was the last to fork and continue the
Mandriva distro when its eponymous parent company went
under, meaning that it’s one branch of a closely-related
family of distros we looked at about a year ago.
It maintains two branches of its distro today:
OpenMandriva Rome is a rolling-release distro,
continually receiving updates. Its slower-moving stable-
release sibling is OpenMandriva Lx, which is currently on
version 4.3, with KDE Plasma 5.23 and kernel 5.16.
o ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ OpenMandriva_23.03_ROME_is_Released_with_Download
Links,_Mirrors_and_Torrents⠀⇛
OpenMandriva, the French-origin general purpose operating
system successor to Mandriva, has released the latest of
its rolling release edition “ROME” version 23.03 to
download. It improves the previously released ROME by
adding more choices for the users including GNOME and
Server. We listed things about the release in brief and
we hope you will enjoy it. Happy downloading!
* § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
o ⚓ Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the_week
2023/13⠀⇛
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week we are fully back on track with 7 published
snapshots. One significant change to mention again is:
RPMs for i586 (intel 32bit systems) are no longer part of
the regular Tumbleweed snapshots. This has been moved
into a legacyx86 port in OBS and is published separately
on download.opensuse.org. See also this_announcement on
the factory mailing list.
* § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
o ⚓ Rakuten_+_Rocky_Linux_=_open_RAN_economics_and_sustainability_at
scale⠀⇛
Switching lanes from Red Hat to Rocky Linux for its cloud
telco OS is designed to keep Rakuten’s disaggregated
network model sustainable at scale.
o ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Friday’s_Fedora_Facts:
2023-13⠀⇛
Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this
week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome
(see the end of the post)!
o ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_CPE_Weekly_update_–_Week
13⠀⇛
This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform
Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback,
please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-
cpe channel on libera.chat.
We provide you both infographics and text version of the
weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what
we did, just look at the infographic. If you are
interested in more in depth details look below the
infographic.
o ⚓ Remi Collet ☛ Remi_Collet:_PHP_version_8.1.18RC1_and_8.2.5RC1⠀⇛
Release Candidate versions are available in testing
repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS
/ Alma / Rocky and other clones) to allow more people to
test them. They are available as Software Collections,
for a parallel installation, perfect solution for such
tests, and also as base packages.
RPM of PHP version 8.2.5RC1 are available
o as base packages
# in the remi-php82-testrepository for Enterprise Linux 7
# in the remi-modular-testforFedora35-37 and Enterprise Linux ≥
8
o ⚓ Filipe_Rosset:_Fedora_rawhide_–_fixed_bugs_2023/02⠀⇛
Bug 2161445 – converseen-0.9.10.1 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2161445
Opened Bug 2169129 – please update libofx to latest
0.10.9
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2169129
Opened Bug 2169130 – please build libofx for epel9
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2169130
o ⚓ Filipe_Rosset:_Fedora_rawhide_–_fixed_bugs_2022/12⠀⇛
Bug 2138951 – aime-8.20221031 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2138951
Bug 2142183 – sakura-3.8.6 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2142183
* § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
o ⚓ Ubuntu Studio ☛ Ubuntu_Studio:_Ubuntu_Studio_23.04_Beta
Released⠀⇛
The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the beta
release of Ubuntu Studio 23.10, codenamed “Lunar
Lobster”.
While this beta is reasonably free of any showstopper
installer bugs, you may find some bugs within. This image
is, however, mostly representative of what you will find
when Ubuntu Studio 23.04 is released on April 20, 2023.
§ Special notes:
The Ubuntu Studio 22.10 disk image (ISO) exceeds 4 GB and
cannot be downloaded to some file systems such as FAT32,
and may not be readable when burned to a DVD. For this
reason, we recommend downloading to a compatible file
system. When creating a boot medium, we recommend
creating_a_bootable_USB_stick with the ISO image, or
burning to a Dual-Layer DVD.
o ⚓ Ubuntu Fridge ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_(Lunar_Lobster)_Beta_Released⠀⇛
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Beta release
of the Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop, Server, and Cloud products.
Ubuntu 23.04, codenamed “Lunar Lobster”, continues
Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and
greatest open source technologies into a high-quality,
easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at
work through this cycle, introducing new features and
fixing bugs.
This Beta release includes images from not only the
Ubuntu Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, but also the
Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu
Cinnamon, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio,
Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu flavours.
o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Enough_of_it!_Ubuntu_to_Ditch_Snap_Completely_With
24.04_LTS_Naughty_Nightingale⠀⇛
Despite putting so much weight behind Snap, Ubuntu
continues to lose in the race of ‘universal Linux
packaging’.
While all kinds of distros are adopting Fedora’s Flatpak,
Ubuntu’s Snap is being rejected even by Ubuntu-based
distros like Linux Mint and elementary OS.
Nitrux, Vanilla, gLinux, and many more distros have
ditched Ubuntu for Debian, and Snap probably played a
role in the decision-making.
o ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Blog:_Automotive_industry_trends_for_2023_and
beyond⠀⇛
§ 2023, the year of transformations
After the rough COVID-19 years, 2022 has seen the start
of economic improvements. Although the automotive
industry is experiencing its worst sales_numbers_in_over
a_decade, it saw increased profits thanks to strong
demand, allowing for higher prices. Geopolitical issues
such as the war in Ukraine and microchip shortages are
forcing analysts and OEMs to remain careful regarding
their forecasted results. Indeed, as we are all beginning
to feel the effect of inflation and uncertain energy
supplies, production volumes may be lower than expected.
Nevertheless, we are seeing a lot of innovations in the
automotive space. Let’s dive a little deeper into the
latest automotive industry trends and see how they match
with the switch towards software-defined_vehicles.
§ Electric vehicles everywhere?
With the willingness to reduce carbon emissions and the
implementation of stricter emissions regulations, OEMs
are investing more and more in the development of
electric vehicles. In parallel, customers are turning to
EVs in order to have cleaner alternatives but also
cheaper costs compared to petrol and diesel. Whether this
holds true in the future, is still to be determined as
electricity costs are rising too.
What is certain is that EVs are giving rise to a lot of
related technologies geared to help companies deliver on
the promise of usability, sustainability and costs. Many
of these technologies are undergoing research and ripe
for investment. For example, battery technologies need
improvements. There’s also the charging infrastructure,
which is still one of the pain points preventing
customers from switching from ICE vehicles to EVs.
Software_also_plays_a_significant_role_in_EVscompared to
ICE vehicles. Indeed, the charging management, the engine
performance, and the range optimisation of EVs relies
heavily on software. Another type of vehicle that relies
heavily on software is, of course, the elusive self-
driving car.
* § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
o ⚓ Bring_home_Infinix_Y1_43_inch_Full_HD_Smart_Linux_TV_available_on
Flipkart_at_massive_discount_of_38%⠀⇛
If it’s about a smart LED TV that is available at an
affordable price Infinix Y1 43-inch Full HD Smart Linux
TV can be the best for you. The Infinix Y1 43-inch Full
HD Smart Linux TV is available on Flipkart at a 38% of
massive discount which lets users buy it for just Rs
15,499 in place of Rs 24,999. If you are looking for an
EMI option that is also available that lets you grab it
for just Rs 759 a month. An exchange offer of up to Rs
7,000 can also be availed on this LED.
o ⚓ ARC ☛ Wago_Implements_Bosch_Rexroth’s_Linux-Based_OS⠀⇛
The German manufacturer, Wago, will use Bosch Rexroth’s
ctrlX OS in their controllers in the medium and high
performance classes. They will be the first system and
technology partner for this real-time capable, Linux-
based operating system.
In an unprecedented move, Bosch Rexroth has uncoupled its
ctrlX OS operating system from their own control hardware
and made it available for industrial use. This means that
other companies and even competitors can use the
operating system in their own applications and act as
system and technology partners. According to Bosch, ctrlX
OS is designed for real-time use and applicable at all
layers – from the field level to edge devices to the
cloud. By installing ctrlX OS, customers gain access to
the entire ecosystem, including a wide range of apps
available for download from the ctrlX Store.
* § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
o ⚓ Raspberry_Pi_NTP_Server⠀⇛
Setting up an NTP server on a Raspberry Pi to serve the
LAN clients without them having to contact the Internet.
o ⚓ Arduino ☛ Old_RC_transmitter_becomes_new_MIDI_controller⠀⇛
If you’re going to produce electronic music on a PC, you
need some sort of input tool. That can be your keyboard
and mouse, but most producers prefer to use a dedicated
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) controller.
o ⚓ peppe8o ☛ Interfacing_a_Tilt_Sensor_with_Arduino_Uno⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will use a tilt sensor with the
Arduino Uno to measure an object’s orientation or tilt.
This sensor has wide applications
o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Metal_enclosures_for_the_Raspberry_Pi_Compute
Module_4_IO_board⠀⇛
Nevertheless, it turns out there are at least two of this
type of metal enclosures for the CM4 IO board, and when
buying full systems, they may provide a way to source
Raspberry Pi CM4 system-on-modules since individual
modules are so hard to purchase if you are not a company
with some minimum monthly production volume.
o ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Measure_pi_with_a_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛
March 14th is celebrated around the world as Pi Day. Many
people celebrate Pi Day by measuring pi with objects
found around the house. I wanted to do something similar
for this year’s Pi Day using my Raspberry Pi 3B. Read on
to learn how I measured pi using my Raspberry Pi.
What you’ll need:
* § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
o ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_Keep_letting_you_open_notes_side-by-side_on
Android⠀⇛
o ⚓ Forbes ☛ XGIMI_Launches_New_Portable_MoGo_Projectors_With_Android
Smarts_And_Innovative_Auto_Setup_Systems⠀⇛
o ⚓ Forbes ☛ Android_Circuit:_Galaxy_S24_Ultra_Leaks,_OnePlus_And
Oppo_In_Europe,_Pixel_Tablet_Details⠀⇛
o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ X88Pro_13_8K_TV_box_runs_Android_13_on_Rockchip
RK3528_SoC_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
o ⚓ Android_Auto_‘GPS_signal_lost’_issue_in_Google_Maps_troubling
users⠀⇛
o ⚓ What_is_the_best_android_emulator?_|_NextPit_Forum⠀⇛
o ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ GM_confirms_it’s_dropping_Apple_CarPlay_and
Android_Auto_from_2024_EVs_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Verge ☛ GM_is_cutting_off_access_to_Apple_CarPlay_and_Android
Auto_for_its_future_EVs_–_The_Verge⠀⇛
o ⚓ SlashGear ☛ Why_Your_Android_Phone’s_Keyboard_Isn’t_Showing_Up,
And_How_To_Fix_It⠀⇛
o ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_4_Best_Alternatives_to_TWRP_Recovery_on
Android⠀⇛
o ⚓ Android Authority ☛ The_best_Nintendo_3DS_emulators_for_Android_–
Android_Authority⠀⇛
o ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Check_the_Google_Voice_Material_You_Redesign_on
Android⠀⇛
§ Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
* ⚓ Bruce Perens ☛ Site_Under_Construction⠀⇛
30-March-2023: Bruce is re-installing WordPress and will port
sites to the new install, just to have a clean install
* § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
o § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ A_quarter_century_of_Mozilla⠀⇛
March 31, or “three thirty-one,” is something of a
talisman in the Mozilla community. It’s the date
that, back in 1998, Mozilla first came into being —
the date that we open-sourced the Netscape code for
the world to use.
This year, “three thirty-one” is especially
meaningful: It’s Mozilla’s 25 year anniversary.
A lot has changed since 1998. Mozilla is no longer
just a bold idea. We’re a family of organizations —
a nonprofit, a public benefit-corporation, and
others — that builds products, fuels movements, and
invests in responsible tech.
And we’re no longer a small group of engineers in
Netscape’s Mountain View office. We’re
technologists, researchers, and activists located
around the globe — not to mention tens of thousands
of volunteers.
But if a Mozillian from 1998 stepped into a Mozilla
office (or joined a Mozilla video call) in 2023, I
think they’d quickly feel something recognizable. A
familiar spirit, and a familiar set of values.
When Mozilla open-sourced our browser code 25 years
ago, the reason was the public interest: We wanted
to spark more innovation, more competition, and
more choice online. Technology in the public
interest has been our manifesto ever since —
whether releasing Firefox 1.0 in 2004, or launching
Mozilla.ai earlier this year.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ A_quarter_century_of_Mozilla_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
The Mozilla project celebrates 25 years of
existence.
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Making_the_impossible_possible_—_again⠀⇛
Looking ahead at Mozilla’s next quarter century In
the world of tech, some challenges can feel
impossible to solve. That was the feeling many of
us had 25 years ago — before we’d heard of Mozilla.
* § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
o ⚓ German_LibreOffice_community_meeting,_March_2023_in_Essen⠀⇛
LibreOffice is developed by a worldwide community, and
many members of this community live in German-speaking
countries. From 24 to 26 March, some of them met at the
Linuxhotel in Essen. There was an informal meeting on
Friday evening, while the main discussions started on
Saturday.
* § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
o ⚓ Unix Men ☛ WebP:_What_is_it?_How_do_I_work_with_it_on_Linux⠀⇛
WebP image format has been promoted by Google since 2010,
in particular through the Chromium project. Initially,
WebP was promoted as an alternative to JPEG because the
quality is the same, but the images weigh less.
Gradually, the format developed and acquired features
such as support for transparency, animation, and the
ability to compress images without losing the quality.
On average, the weight of images is reduced by around
30%, which allows webmasters to place more images on
their platforms. Thus, there are a plethora of websites
today, including YouTube, the Google Play Store, and the
Facebook Android add-on, that use this image format.
Since 2013, WebP was used in the Play Store for app
screenshots, previews, and app logos, reducing the size
of images by 35% without compromising quality. WebP is
supported by most well-known browsers, making it a one-
stop solution for working with images on the web.
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* § Education⠀➾
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Democrats_split_over_education_in_Chicago_mayoral
runoff⠀⇛
In Chicago’s mayoral runoff Tuesday, Democrats Brandon
Johnson and Paul Vallas offer very different visions for
fixing the city’s ailing schools.
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Medicaid’s_continuous_enrollment_ends_today._Up_to_14
million_Americans_could_lose_their_coverage⠀⇛
A thin silver lining of the pandemic in the US has been
that more people have been insured than ever before.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Can’t_live_on_buckwheat_and_noodles:_cost-of-living_makes
Lithuanian_students_move_in_with_parents⠀⇛
Rising rents and prices of basic commodities are forcing
some young people to move in with their parents. Students
say it’s getting difficult to afford day-to-day life.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Obamacare_ruling_gives_Democrats_new_political_ammo⠀⇛
Democrats may hate the substance of yesterday’s court
ruling striking_down elements of the Affordable Care Act
— this time, its requirement that employers cover certain
preventative care services. But politically, it feeds
right into the party’s 2024 campaign narrative.
Why it matters:Defending the ACA has been a tried-and-
true strategy for Democrats since the GOP tried to repeal
it in 2017. Judicial threats to the law easily fold into
messaging about right-wing extremist judges that the
party has been building on since the Supreme Court
overturned the federal right to abortion.
=========================================================
# And while Republicans may still not be huge fans of
the law, its preventative care provisions weren’t
exactly topping their list of grievances.
o ⚓ PHR ☛ PHR_Welcomes_National_Association_of_Medical_Examiners’_
(NAME)_Policy_Reversal_on_“Excited_Delirium”_as_a_Cause_of_Death⠀⇛
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) welcomes the new
position statement from the National Association of
Medical Examiners (NAME), which states that the
Association no longer endorses the term “excited
delirium.”
o ⚓ NYPost ☛ Cookie_lovers_warned_to_stop_eating_raw_dough_amid
salmonella_outbreak:_CDC⠀⇛
Raw, or unbaked, flour could be contaminated with the
bacteria, which causes foodborne illness and leads to
upset stomach, fever, chills, vomiting and cramps.
* § Security⠀➾
o ⚓ Hacker News ☛ New_Wi-Fi_Protocol_Security_Flaw_Affecting_Linux,
Android_and_iOS_Devices⠀⇛
A group of academics from Northeastern University and KU
Leuven has disclosed a fundamental design flaw in the
IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi protocol standard, impacting a wide
range of devices running Linux, FreeBSD, Android, and
iOS.
o ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Chinese_RedGolf_Group_Targeting_Windows_and_Linux
Systems_with_KEYPLUG_Backdoor [Ed: Windows has bug doors for the
NSA; in this case, the problem isn't Linux but very long-unpatched
systems (2021)]⠀⇛
o ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (joblib,
json-smart, libmicrohttpd, and xrdp), Fedora (thunderbird
and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (dino, perl-Cpanel-
JSON-XS, perl-Net-Server, snort, tigervnc/x11-server, and
xapian), SUSE (curl, kernel, openssl-1_0_0, and shim),
and Ubuntu (glusterfs, linux-gcp-4.15, musl, and
xcftools).
o ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Tracking_the_Adelanto_Healthcare_Ventures_breach
on_DataBreaches.net⠀⇛
At the present time, we do not know numbers affected for
each hospital or in total, but that data will also be
added to the post as that information becomes available.
o ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ 3CX_knew_its_app_was_flagged_as_malicious_but_took
no_action_for_7_days_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛
The support team for 3CX, the VoIP/PBX software provider
with more than 600,000 customers and 12 million daily
users, was aware its desktop app was being flagged as
malware but decided to take no action for a week when it
learned it was on the receiving end of a massive supply
chain attack, a thread on the company’s community forum
shows.
o ⚓ The Record ☛ US_commits_$25_million_to_Costa_Rica_for_Conti
ransomware_recovery [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛
The U.S. government is sending $25 million to the
government of Costa Rica to help the country recover from
a devastating ransomware attack last year that crippled
several key agencies.
In May 2022, Costa Rica’s newly elected president Rodrigo
Chaves declared a state of emergency after the now-
defunct Conti ransomware group severely damaged the
Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Public Works and
Transport and the Costa Rican Social Security Fund. The
gang posted messages openly calling for the overthrow of
the government before demanding a $20 million ransom.
o ⚓ GMH_under_review_for_potential_HIPAA_breach⠀⇛
The unauthorized access into Guam Memorial Hospital’s
network is undergoing a detailed review for a possible
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or
HIPAA breach.
The information came to light during the public
hospital’s monthly board meeting Wednesday.
GMH legal counsel Jeremiah Luther maintains that no
patient or employee records were compromised, saying they
got lucky.
o ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ ES:_Secondary_education_center_hit_by_Stormous⠀⇛
After several months out of the public eye, the pro-
Russian Stormous Ransomware group reappeared in February.
Now they have claimed an attack on a secondary education
center, the Instituto De Educación Secundaria Ies Emilio
Canalejo Olmeda (IESCO) in Cordoba, Spain.
o ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Attacked_by_Vice_Society_earlier_this_month,
Lewis_&_Clark_finds_files_with_personal_information_have_now_been
leaked⠀⇛
It appears that Lewis & Clark in Oregon has been the
victim of a ransomware attack by Vice Society.
o ⚓ Florida_city_water_cyber_incident_allegedly_caused_by_employee
error⠀⇛
In 2021, news broke of a cyberattack at the Oldsmar,
Florida, water treatment plant, an event that sparked
fears about the cyber vulnerabilities of critical
infrastructure.
At the time, reports suggested that a worker at the plant
saw his computer being remotely accessed and controlled.
His mouse moved to open functions to control water
treatment protocols, and then the amount of sodium
hydroxide, or lye, in the water was changed from about
100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million. The
operator immediately reduced the chemical to the proper
level and alerted a supervisor.
The alleged hack, which gained worldwide publicity from
subsequent press conferences given by Pinellas County
Sheriff Bob Gualtieri and other leading officials,
prompted an investigation led by the FBI and the U.S.
Secret Service, as well as a joint federal advisory
warning water treatment facility operators of the dangers
they faced from hackers and urging them to upgrade their
security systems.
[...]
Braithwaite said that the various investigations spawned
by the incident, including one by the Florida Office of
Information Technology, were particularly critical of the
staff in Oldsmar, which he said runs its water treatment
facility on a network made up of five computers and a
couple of iPads.
o ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Consumer_lender_TMX_discloses_data_breach
impacting_4.8_million_people⠀⇛
TMX Finance and its subsidiaries TitleMax, TitleBucks,
and InstaLoan have collectively disclosed a data breach
that exposed the personal data of 4,822,580 customers.
TMX is a public financial service that operates equities,
fixed income, derivatives, and energy markets exchanges,
with a business presence in the United States, Canada,
the U.K., Australia, and China.
o ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ “A_crucial_learning_experience.”_–_ICO_calls_for
highest_standards_in_HIV_services_after_NHS_Highland_reprimand⠀⇛
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a
reprimand to NHS Highland for a “serious breach of trust”
after a data breach involving those likely to be
accessing HIV services.
The ICO has called for serious improvements to data
protection safeguards amongst HIV service providers,
stating that there is “simply no excuse”, and that “the
stakes are just too high” given the impact on people’s
lives.
A formal reprimand has been issued to NHS Highland, which
emailed 37 people likely to be accessing HIV services,
inadvertently using CC (carbon copy) instead of BCC
(blind carbon copy). The error meant recipients of the
email could see the personal email addresses of other
people receiving the email, with one person confirming
they recognised four other individuals, one of whom was a
previous sexual partner.
o ⚓ LinuxStans ☛ Setting_up_a_VPN_on_Linux_without_a_Native_App⠀⇛
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up a VPN on
Linux if your VPN provider doesn’t have a native app
built for Linux.
Sadly, support and availability for apps on Linux are
scarce. Most of the time, if you’re using some service or
app, chances are it’s available for Windows and Mac, not
for Linux. This is a frequent case with VPN providers.
Luckily, it’s pretty easy to set up a VPN on Linux on any
distro from any VPN provider.
Some VPN providers (for example, Mullvad and ProtonVPN)
do have native apps for Linux. But even when they do,
people still prefer setting up the VPN on their own
directly from the distro.
Another case (that I’m using) is VeePN. They do have
support for various devices, but not for Linux. So when
I’m using their VPNs, I just use a browser add-on or on
rarer occasions network-manager. I’ll focus on Ubuntu in
this tutorial, but the instructions are very similar for
other distros.
o ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Can_a_White_House_initiative_compel_tech
companies_to_write_safer_code?⠀⇛
Software liability reform is a centerpiece of the Biden’s
recent national cybersecurity strategy. Implementing it
will be a challenge.
o ⚓ Diffoscope ☛ Reproducible_Builds_(diffoscope):_diffoscope_240
released⠀⇛
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the
release of diffoscope
version 240.
o ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ German_Police_Raid_DDoS-Friendly_Host
‘FlyHosting’⠀⇛
Authorities in Germany this week seized Internet servers
that powered FlyHosting, a dark web service that catered
to cybercriminals operating DDoS-for-hire services. Fly
Hosting first advertised on cybercrime forums in November
2022, saying it was a Germany-based hosting firm that was
open for business to anyone looking for a reliable place
to host malware, botnet controllers, or DDoS-for-hire
infrastructure.
o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘Thousands_of_Dollars_for_Something_I
Didn’t_Do’⠀⇛
Because of a bad facial recognition match and other
hidden technology, Randal Reid spent nearly a week
in jail, falsely accused of stealing purses in a
state he said he had never even visited.
* § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
o ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russian_War_Report:_A_new_private_military
company_emerges_in_Crimea⠀⇛
Plus, Russia and its political allies in Moldova are
inflaming the information space around Transnistria.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia_and_Ukraine_Step_Up_Recruitment,_Bracing
for_Fights_Ahead⠀⇛
After a winter of intense battles and heavy losses in
Ukraine’s east, both Russia and Ukraine are taking steps
to replenish their depleted forces.
* § Environment⠀➾
o § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_US_is_reducing_tax_credits_for_foreign-made_EV
models⠀⇛
The US Treasury Department announced new electric
vehicle (EV) tax rules that will reduce or cut tax
credits on EVs primarily made in foreign markets in
an attempt to combat China’s growing market share
in emission-free automobile production.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Battery-related_fires_spark_push_for_regulation⠀⇛
Local, state and federal lawmakers have introduced
a flurry of attempts to regulate lithium-ion
batteries, following aspate of fires.
Why it matters: Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries
are the workhorse power source today for digital
devices, and they’re increasingly providing a
backbone for the climate-inspired electrification
of everything.
===================================================
The big picture: In the past, batteries used in
laptops or smartphones raised the most concern for
fire risk. As their reliability has increased,
fires started by the larger batteries used in
vehicles and mobility devices such as scooters and
e-bikes have captured public attention.
o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Orca_whale_starts_‘journey_to_freedom’_after
50_years_in_captivity⠀⇛
Lolita, an orca whale, is being returned to her
home waters in the Pacific Northwest after 50 years
of captivity. “It’s a step toward restoring our
natural environment,” said Howard Garrett, of the
advocacy group Orca Network.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Police_Traveled_500_Miles_To_Seize_Girl’s_Pet_Goat
for_Slaughter⠀⇛
A 9-year-old backed out of a deal to sell her pet
goat for slaughter. Local officials and sheriff’s
deputies used the power of the state to force her
to go through with it.
* § Finance⠀➾
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Exactly_who_is_the_investor_behind_Virgin_Orbit’s_failed
$200_million_rescue?⠀⇛
I definitely believe that a large part of it [is] as a
space enthusiast.” That’s what Matthew Brown told CNBC on
March 23, when asked why he was considering a $200
million investment into Virgin Orbit, a nearly bankrupt
rocket company.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Wall_Street’s_bonus_slump⠀⇛
Data: Office of the New York State Comptroller; Chart:
Axios Visuals
Average bonuses_on_Wall_Street last year suffered their steepest fall since
2008′s market bloodbath — dropping 26% from the year before to an average of
$176,700, according to the Office of the New York State Comptroller.
Why it matters:It’s another headwind for New York City and New York State,
where revenues are heavily reliant on personal income taxes, which in turn are
driven by Wall Street pay packages.
=> =============================================================================
* The drop_in_Wall_Street_bonuses will translate into estimated declines of
$457 million in state income tax revenue and $208 million in city
revenues compared with 2021.
* That slowdown will add to other budgetary pressures expected this year,
like declining values for commercial office buildings, which are expected
to cut NYC tax revenues by 1.3%, according to the city’s Independent
Budget_Office.
* Traditionally, Wall Street bonuses have also been important for the
Manhattan-centric markets for high-end real estate and fine art.
⚓ Axios ☛ Why_banks_hate_the_Fed’s_repo_facility⠀⇛
Data: Federal Reserve; Chart: Axios Visuals
The year was 2013. The great concern among the Federal Reserve’s leaders was
that, with the world awash in dollars they had created, they wouldn’t be able
to raise rates even when they felt they needed to.
Zoom out:Their solution was a tool that has now swelled to massive size — $2.3
trillion as of Wednesday — and is making banks angry, as they see it as a major
factor in their loss of deposits.
=> =============================================================================
Why it matters:The “overnight reverse repurchase agreement facility” (ON RRP)
enables money market mutual funds to accept vast sums of investors’ money and
pay their customers higher interest rates than banks typically do.
⚓ New York Times ☛ How_a_Trump-Era_Rollback_Mattered_for_Silicon_Valley_Bank’s
Demise⠀⇛
An under-the-radar change to the way regional banks are supervised
may have helped the bank’s rapidly growing risks to go unresolved.
⚓ New York Times ☛ Why_Schwab_Got_Hit_in_the_Panic_Over_Regional_Banks⠀⇛
Like Silicon Valley Bank, the company holds billions in bonds that
have declined in value. But it has access to billions in cash, if
needed, analysts say, and is much more diversified.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Freedom_House:_Turkey’s_elections_among_most_vulnerable_in_the_world⠀⇛
The low score reflects the government’s concentration of power,
strict laws criminalizing online expression, and extra-legal
efforts to stifle dissent and independent journalism, according
to the report.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Banning_TikTok_alone_will_not_solve_the_problem_of
US_data_security⠀⇛
TikTok is just a symptom of a much bigger problem involving
China-based technology. Here are some steps US policymakers can
take now.
* ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ White_House_talks_with_TikTok_stall_after_blistering
congressional_hearing⠀⇛
TikTok’s general counsel said Friday the company hasn’t heard
from the Biden administration since CEO Shou Zi Chew appeared
before Congress.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Sobering_moment:_Americans_reflect_on_Trump_indictment⠀⇛
The historic indictment of a former president sparked a full
range of reactions today, from concern to relief to a mixture
of both.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ McConnell_is_among_few_high-profile_Republicans_to
stay_silent_on_Trump’s_indictment.⠀⇛
Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, had previously
been a vocal critic of the former president’s conduct in
connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
* ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Donald_Trump_was_just_indicted…but_why?⠀⇛
Kit Knightly Last night it was announced that former-President
Donald Trump was being indicted by the Manhattan Grand Jury, he
is expected to surrender himself to authorities later today.
The indictment is sealed until arraignment, but we do know the
rough nature of the charge(s).
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ For_Some_G.O.P._Voters,_Fatigue_Slows_the_Rush_to
Defend_Trump⠀⇛
The Republicans who will pick their 2024 nominee expressed
anger, defensiveness and also embarrassment about the
indictment facing Donald J. Trump.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden’s_Response_to_Trump’s_Indictment?_4_Ways_to_Say
No_Comment.⠀⇛
President Biden believes that presidents should not comment on
pending legal matters. He also does not want to be baited into
a reaction.
* ⚓ 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.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Criminal_indictment_opens_new_stage_in_the_Trump_odyssey⠀⇛
The indictment of former President Donald Trump brings a new
act in the narrative arc of his political rise, fall, and
hoped-for redemption in 2024.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ A_truth-bearing_defense_against_China⠀⇛
Democracies like Taiwan are learning from each other on how to
reinforce their values against attempts to divide through
digital propaganda.
* ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Frothing_in_the_fast_lane⠀⇛
Some days the world will make you spitting mad. This naturally
brings us to the little understood but seriously important
Philaenus spumarius aka the meadow spittlebug or froghopper.
* ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Indictment_of_Donald_Trump:_He_Had_It_Coming⠀⇛
The indictment of Donald Trump was long overdue. In a
constitutional democracy, nobody can stand above the law.
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Fox_News_Suffers_Major_Setback_in_Dominion
Case⠀⇛
A judge said the suit would go to trial, for a jury to
weigh whether the network knowingly spread false claims
about Dominion Voting Systems, and to determine any
damages.
o ⚓ Reason ☛ Today’s_Order_Allowing_Dominion_Voting’s_Case_Against
Fox_to_Go_Forward⠀⇛
The order, which denied Fox’s motion for summary judgment
and partly granted Dominion’s motion for summary judgment
as to certain elements of the claim, is here; it’s 130
pages long, and I’m likely not to have the time soon to
get through the whole thing and digest it, but I thought
I’d pass it along.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Reason ☛ There_Was_No_Good_Reason_Offered,_It_Turns_Out,_for_the_Gag
Order_on_Students_in_Doe_v._UNC⠀⇛
On Feb. 28, I blogged about Doe v. U.N.C. Sys. (W.D.N.C.), a
case challenging the expulsion of plaintiff Jacob Doe for
alleged sexual assault; in the case, the court issued a quite
remarkable TRO that, among other things, required defendants
“to direct all individuals, including but not limited to
employees and students…
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Ban_on_Knowingly_False_Statements_During_Emergencies_Struck
Down_on_First_Amendment_Grounds⠀⇛
From Judge Pedro Delgado-Hernández’s opinion today in
Rodriguez-Cotto v. Perluisi-Urrutia (D.P.R.): Article 5.14(a)
criminalizes, after the Governor of Puerto Rico has decreed by
executive order an emergency or disaster, to knowingly,
purposely or recklessly: (1) give a warning or false alarm,
knowing that the information is false…
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Florida_vs._Florence:_Visitors_to_David_statue_weigh_in_on
US_school_uproar⠀⇛
In Tallahassee, Florida, parents pressured a school principal
into resignation after an image of Michelangelo’s nude David
statue was shown to a sixth grade art class.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Hillsdale_College_Revokes_Curriculum_License_to_“Classical”
School_Over_Its_Objections_to_Michelangelo’s_David⠀⇛
“This drama around teaching Michelangelo’s ‘David’ sculpture,
one of the most important works of art in existence, has become
… a parody of … the actual aims of classical education.”
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Communications_Can_Be_Defamatory_Even_If_Readers_Realize
There’s_a_Considerable_Risk_of_Error⠀⇛
And AI programs’ “tendency [to, among other things, produce
untruthful content] can be particularly harmful as models
become increasingly convincing and believable, leading to
overreliance on them by users. Counterintuitively,
hallucinations can become more dangerous as models become more
truthful, as users build trust in the model when it provides
truthful information in areas where they have some
familiarity.”
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ Journalist_investigated_for_describing_ruling_alliance_as_‘racist,
reactionary’⠀⇛
After a Kurdish Islamist party joined the ruling alliance,
Ruşen Takva described the bloc as “racist, right-wing and
reactionary.”
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Cold_War_echoes:_US_journalist_arrested_for_espionage_in
Russia⠀⇛
The Russian Federal Security Service arrested an American
journalist, Evan Gershkovich, for espionage charges. The
newspaper denies the allegations and demands his release, and
the Biden administration has condemned the arrest “in the
strongest terms.”
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Espionage_Charge_Adds_Hurdle_to_Freeing_a_Reporter
Detained_in_Russia⠀⇛
The Biden administration recently secured the release of two
Americans convicted of criminal charges in Russia, but even
fabricated charges of spying can raise the stakes.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ ACLU ☛ How_the_ACLU_is_Showing_Up_For_Abortion_Access_Nationwide⠀⇛
Across the country, the ACLU, allied organizations, volunteers,
and organizers are mobilizing together in the ongoing battle
for our reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy — regardless
of which state we call home. When anti-abortion extremists
attempt to enforce bans on abortion, we show up. When they
prioritize abortion bans over legislation that would actually
improve their constituents’ lives, we show up. When overzealous
prosecutors go after health care providers and patients seeking
abortion care, we_show_up. When it’s time to make our voices
heard in the ballot box and the streets, we show up.
Here are some of the ways we’ve shown up to protect abortion
access in states across the country.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Douglass_Mackey_Convicted_for_Vote-by-Tweet_Meme⠀⇛
Here’s the E.D.N.Y. U.S. Attorney’s Office press release:
Douglass Mackey, also known as “Ricky Vaughn,” was convicted
today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of the charge of Conspiracy
Against Rights stemming from his scheme to deprive individuals
of their constitutional right to vote.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ May_Universities_Revoke_Degrees_Based_on_Findings_of_Ex-
Student’s_“Academic_Misconduct_in_Pursuit_of_That_Degree”?⠀⇛
Yes, says the Texas Supreme Court, applying Texas law.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ Digital_censorship_in_Punjab:_internet
shutdowns_and_account_suspensions⠀⇛
Internet services in Punjab were shut down from March 18 till
March 21 (in some districts till March 24). Reportedly, around
120 twitter accounts were suspended/ withheld. We wrote to the
Punjab government and MeitY raising concerns about the internet
shutdown and withheld accounts, respectively.
* ⚓ APNIC ☛ Everything,_everywhere,_all_the_time_(for_the_Internet_at
least)⠀⇛
Will LEO Internet change Internet operations significantly in
2023?
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Opposes_Faulty_‘Journalism’
Bill_Undermining_Open_Internet_and_Free_Speech_Online⠀⇛
Today, Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) along with Dick
Durbin (D-IL), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and other co-
sponsors reintroduced the “Journalism Competition and
Preservation Act.”
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ Lockpicking_house_rules_for_D&D⠀⇛
On the DM side, all you’ve got to do is add 8 to the DC
listed in the module (use 23 (a.k.a. 15+8) if there’s no
DC listed).
The rogue’s goal is to put tension on the lock’s
cylinder, and then bind the six pins.
Five of the pins, you bind with d6‘s. Roll them
carefully, one at a time, to find out which pins you
bind. Keep track of the rolled numbers. The number you
roll is the pin you bind. So if you roll a four, that
means the fourth pin is binding. If you roll a three,
that means the third pin is binding. If you have five
dice, you can leave the rolled dice on the table to
represent the bound pin.
o ⚓ The_storm_continues⠀⇛
Hard to believe it’s been over a year since I last posted
here
Not much has changed. We’re approaching the year
anniversary of a family death, and I’ll be out of town
taking care of my father when the actual anniversary
occurs.
It’s hard to know how to feel about anything. The only
thing I feel is tired.
I’ve been practicing banjo more lately. I’m decent.
Fingerpicks came in but they’re difficult to use and I
don’t actually know how to play finger style.
o ⚓ Just_Deserts⠀⇛
o ⚓ It’s_Friday_again⠀⇛
Starting tomorrow we’ll be in April already. 2023 it
starting to pick up speed,
at least for me.
I have become fond of reading a physical newspaper now,
and I’m trying to
decide which paper to subscribe to. It has become a daily
ritual for me to sit
in my quiet study and read. I’ve found that with a
physical paper I don’t have
any distractions, I’m not staring at a white screen, and
I spend more time
reading in silence.
o ⚓ “vampire_boys”_(2011)⠀⇛
plot summary: caleb (looks like the platonic ideal of
early 2010s fictional twink) moves to california for uni.
jasin is a vampire nearing his 100th year, and he and his
coven will die if he doesn’t find “the one” and transform
them into a vampire soon. well luckily it all works out
for everyone. that’s it that’s the movie.
o ⚓ you_folks_would_probably_like_this⠀⇛
watched Life After BOB a few days ago. and then again,
and again, and I think a couple more times I had watched
it over the course of the last couple of days, because I
think it is *so* fascinating. 50-minute anime short film
live-rendered in Unity, part of an upcoming series, based
on the premise on if an AI could live your life better
than you can… I encourage you to dive deeper into its
surrounding ouevre; Ian Cheng’s work is freakishly
inspiring, despite the dubiousness of his Twitter Blue
subscription. either way, I’d love to hear your thoughts
on the movie!
o ⚓ Sixty⠀⇛
Ah, so bitter sweet. Reminds me of my travels in Latin
America in 1985..1990. Wonder what Constanza Sofia is up
to these days. Dreaming about time gone by. Do I regret?
No. It took a while to realize that I made good
decisions. But as I get old and fogey and my health is
not what it should be, I can’t image traveling down South
at this moment. Looked at the map today. Anyone been to
Puerto Misahuallí these days? Or to San Pedro de Atacama?
Fond memories, I have to say.
o ⚓ I_found_out_what_that_one_flower_was_called⠀⇛
So, two years ago I made a post about flowers blooming in
the park next to my house, and there was one I hadn’t
identified yet. I now know: its name is Scilla
mischtschenkoana. It is apparently native to the
Caucasus, so someone (probably the municipality) must
have planted them here.
o ⚓ no_more_routine_for_me⠀⇛
Skincare routines do not make sense for me anymore. I
think I got caught up in it the past few years because it
was so ubiquitous online and it was presented as this
prerequisite to having a good productive day and not
looking like 90 when you’re 23 (rolls eyes).
When you slather 5-12 products on your face twice a day,
that uses them up so fast, and you’re constantly
replenishing and buying, and all these companies and
influencers are so grateful for that. But do all of us
really need that? I think if there isn’t anything medical
going on with your skin, you most likely don’t and it’s
worth trying out to instead fit the care to your needs
that day. It saves a lot of product, time, packaging
waste and money. Maybe your natural skin barrier is
better off being a little less treated and removed
constantly. I really don’t like all this .. preventative
care anymore? Obviously don’t let things get bad, but now
that I am “out of it” I really don’t understand why we
are treating skin with products it doesn’t seem to be
needing at that time, just to avoid that it ever could?
Like why apply moisturizer if the skin looks well
moisturized in the mirror because I already did it that
day? Just because it’s evening now?
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ Amateur_Radio_Update_2023-03-31⠀⇛
I’m making good progress on journey into CW using the
IC_746 PRO and a straight key. Using some koch trainer
free software, I got up to a reliable effective 5WPM for
all letters and numbers, and three punctuation marks. I’m
using Farnsworth timing, where you tap out the characters
quickly, but you add extra spacing in-between the
characters to slow down the overall rate (Effective WPM).
This gives you more time to mentally process the
characters and write them out, until you get better at
it. So right now I practice copy with 12 WPM tapping
speed but effective 7 WPM. My idea was to keep bumping up
the WPM until EWPM equals WPM.
o ⚓ about_my_notes⠀⇛
Last night I did have time to look at how subscriptions
work on Gemini. It’s just Atom feeds, an XML document
with a list of links/dates/descriptions. That makes it
pretty easy to add support. I just have to decide if I
want my regular note additions to pop up in the atom
feed, or just these main page posts.
I also considered putting in a giant page of links to all
content, since that would give me a starting point for
reviewing my notes. But I could also create a CGI for
returning random links… Now is a good time to explain how
I planned on using the notes section of the capsule.
o § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Trying_out_7off⠀⇛
I’ve replaced my use of md2gemini with 7off. The
main motivation being that I’m not happy with link
rendering.
# ⚓ RE:_On_Mastodon_DDoS’ing_Sites⠀⇛
Not sure how to announce a substantial update to an
already published post, if I want to have it all in
one place. I guess I just link to the post, create
a thread on Cosmos, subsequently delete this post
in a couple of days (gasp!), and redirect the URL
to the older post.
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World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Open_Hardware/Modding
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Programming/Development
# Rust
* Leftovers
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
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
# Software_Patents
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Podman_Desktop_–_Containers_&_Kubernetes_(Podcast_#15_w/
Markus_Eisele)⠀⇛
In the fourth episode of the Red Had Podcast
Series, we talk about Podman Desktop with our
guest, Markus Eisele, Global Marketing Tools
marketing lead at Red Hat. Join us for an
insightful and extensive conversation on Podman
Desktop, containers, and Kubernetes.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ WebAssembly_Breaks_Away_from_the
Browser⠀⇛
What makes WebAssembly a game-changer for runtime
environments? Red Hat CTO Chris Wright chats with
Principal Software Engineer Ivan Font about the
exciting potential of WASM for edge computing and
beyond. From its humble beginnings as a tool to
execute code portably in a browser, WASM has gained
a lot of recent buzz for its potential as a
lightweight, secure, and architecture-neutral
runtime environment. But what role does WASI play
in extending WebAssembly’s capabilities beyond the
browser?
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ How_to_Check_Your_Wi-Fi_Signal_Strength_from
the_Command_Line⠀⇛
This free, open source tool has a neat ncurses-
based UI that shows a real-time graph of signal
strength for the wireless network you’re currently
connected to.
# ⚓ Julia Evans ☛ Building_a_custom_site_for_zine_feedback⠀⇛
The basic strategy for getting feedback there was
to email people a PDF and ask for feedback. This
was kind of inefficient, and so over the past
couple of years, I’ve worked a lot with Marie
Flanagan to improve the process. In this post we’ll
talk about: [...]
# ⚓ Rachel ☛ Administrivia:_HTML_generation_and_my_general
clowniness⠀⇛
I’ve been kind of quiet these past few weeks. Part
of that has been from plowing a bunch of work into
getting serious about how all of the /w/ posts get
generated. I figure if I’m going to start leaning
on people to not do goofy things with their feed
readers, the least I can do is make sure I’m not
sending them broken garbage.
# ⚓ The_Inside_Playbook⠀⇛
New reference architecture: Deploying Ansible
Automation Platform 2 on Red Hat OpenShift
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Identical Games ☛ Fight_or_Perish⠀⇛
Fight or Perish was a Gauntlet clone I found on
osgameclones.com. I downloaded it almost two years
ago but never got around to checking it out. It was
created by Bill Kendrick at New Breed Software. He
had a bunch of game project that I’d love to play
with. His game Bobobot was the subject of the first
Open Game Source article. Fight or Perish was more
of a prototype than a finished game.
Fight or Perish was listed twice on
osgameclones.com. In addition to Gauntlet, it was
listed as a Dandy clone. Dandy was an game for
Atari 8-bit computers published by Atari. Ed Long
acknowledged Dandy as inspiration for Gauntlet
which led to a lawsuit that was settled out of
court.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ EuroLinux_Desktop_9.1_Released_As_Easy
Windows_Workstation_Replacement⠀⇛
EuroLinux, the Poland-based ten-year-old startup
that for many years has been offering a clone of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, today announced the
release of EuroLinux Desktop 9.1. Unlike the
company’s eponymous flagship distribution for
servers that has been available for years,
EuroLinux Desktop was introduced in September for
companies wanting to move their employees from
Windows or Mac Workstations to Linux.
In order to make it easy for employees to make the
transition, the distro uses a modified GNOME
desktop environment that presents a UI that will be
familiar to users who have never worked in a Linux
environment. EuroLinux is hoping that with a
reduced learning curve for users, the distro will
be an attractive alternative to Windows and Macs,
and help the company gain traction in the EU where
there has been pushback by government regulators
against proprietary offerings from the U.S., mainly
for privacy and security reasons.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Red_Hatters_on_30_years_of_innovation,
collaboration_and_community⠀⇛
It goes without saying that Red Hat has experienced
a lot of change over the years. What was once a
small company founded by entrepreneurs and techies
Bob Young and Marc Ewing is now a global leader in
open source technology and innovation. As we
reflected upon the last three decades and took a
look back at all we’ve learned and accomplished, a
familiar story came to mind–how Red Hat got its
name.
Our company moniker comes directly from Ewing. As a
student in this college computer lab, people would
say, “If you need help, look for the guy in the red
hat,” in reference to his beloved red Cornell
lacrosse cap. The sentiment of our name’s origin
rings true today, but with a slight adjustment–if
you need help, look for a Red Hatter.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ This_PC_keyboard_hides_an_interesting
secret…⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ ADLINK_presents_Pocket_AI_with_NVIDIA_RXT
GPU⠀⇛
ADLINK introduced today the Pocket AI which is a
plug-and-play AI accelerator based on the NVIDIA
RTX A500 GPU with 4GB GDDR6 64-bit memory. The
Pocket AI is compatible with NVIDIA CUDA libraries
and it supports Windows 10/11 and Linux.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software_–_March_2023⠀⇛
Here are the latest updates to our compilation of
recommended software. Open source software at its finest.
We’ve been focusing on our Machine Learning in Linux
series this month, so updates to our open source
compilation have been lighter than usual.
As always, we love receiving your suggestions for new
articles or additional open source software to feature.
Let us know in the Comments box below or drop us an
email.
The table above shows our articles published in March
2023.
o ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Blender_3.5_Released_with_Hair-Raising
Improvements⠀⇛
Blender 3.5 features the usual crop of bug fixes,
performance patches, and stability tune ups. But it’s
notable for introducing big improvements to the way it
handles hair.
Yes, hair.
o ⚓ Frederic Cambus ☛ Toolchains_adventures_–_Q1_2023⠀⇛
This is the seventh post in my toolchains adventures
series. Please check the previous posts in the toolchains
category for more context about this journey. There was
no Q4 2022 report as there wasn’t really anything
worthwhile to write about, only some usual Pkgsrc and
OpenBSD toolchains related ports updates.
o ⚓ Mark Hansen ☛ Mastodon_Account_Verification_with_Ghost_Blog⠀⇛
I would like my profile to be clear that it’s the real
me, not some spammer pretending to be me. You achieve
this with Mastodon verification: [...]
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ 6_new_books_added_to_Big_Book_of_R⠀⇛
Many thanks to Sergey Bolshakov and Mokandil for
some of this update’s submissions!
I want to again give a special thanks to Niels
Ohlsen for helping me vet books and adding them to
the collection. Niels is the co-organiser of the
Dataviz meetup in Bremen, Germany. If you’re in the
area, why not look them up on LinkedIn and Meetup?
I’m applying for a grant to upgrade the Big Book of
R. Have a look at the details and if you like, take
two minutes to submit your statement of support!
# § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ Wesley Moore ☛ Building_a_Classic_Mac_OS_App_in
Rust⠀⇛
Instead of using my funemployment to build
useful things I have continued to build
things for old versions of Mac OS. Through
some luck and a little persistence I have
actually managed to get Rust code running on
classic Mac OS (I’ve tried Mac OS 7.5 and
8.1). In this post I’ll cover how I got here
and show a little network connected demo
application I built—just in time for the end
of #MARCHintosh.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ El País ☛ ‘It_used_to_be_dumb,_but_now_it’s_everywhere’:_welcome
to_the_era_of_vertical_video⠀⇛
In a few short years, what once was one of the most
disdained formats has become established as the favored
choice for all the main platforms
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ City_on_Fire⠀⇛
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Move_Aside_Yoda,_It’s_Furby’s_Turn_On_Luke’s_Back⠀⇛
When you want a backpack that turns heads and gets people
talking, you can get ahead of the conversation with a
talking backpack. [Nina] created a rucksack with the
legendary babbler itself, the infamous Furby.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ See_Satellites_In_Broad_Daylight_With_This_Sky-Mapping
Dish_Antenna⠀⇛
If you look up at the night sky in a dark enough place,
with enough patience you’re almost sure to see a
satellite cross the sky. It’s pretty cool to think you’re
watching light reflect off a hunk of metal zipping around
the Earth fast enough to never hit it. Unfortunately, it
doesn’t work during the daylight hours, and you really
only get to see satellites in low orbits.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Single-Stair_Layouts_Are_Not_Going_to_Fix_the
Housing_Crisis⠀⇛
If you’ve been around architecture and urbanism circles
for the last few years, you might have heard about
something called “single-stair” layouts. While not a new
concept (it’s been present in European multifamily
buildings for a very long time), single-stair apartment
buildings have, like upzoning before it, become the
latest concept to gain “it will fix our cities” panacea
status among a certain type of pragmatic liberal urban
pundit. If we build using single-stair, it could lower
rents! It could make better streetscapes! It could make
America more like Blessed Mother Europe! Wow, the housing
crisis is suddenly solved, thanks to this one weird
trick!
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ What_We’ll_Be_Celebrating_When_Harriet_Tubman
Appears_on_the_20-Dollar_Bill⠀⇛
Every single image staring back at us from US paper
currency tells a story. Taken together, these images form
a narrative about the nation, its values, and its people.
Until recently, the story of symbolism on US money has
been one of how white America has racialized the
mythology of the nation in its own image and interests.
Currently, the images on US permanent paper money portray
no women, no people of color, no Native Americans, and no
working-class people. The images on the money, like our
monuments, statues, street names, and geographical place
names should be seen as contested territory. This is
article is excerpted and adapted from Clarence Lusane’s
book Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the
Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy (2022),
published by City Lights Books.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Objectivity_for_What?⠀⇛
In her poignant column in response to the Texas Democracy
Foundation’s since-rescinded vote to shutter the Texas
Observer, Andrea Grimes fondly recalls the monthly
parties where staff and supporters of the Observer shared
food, drink, the occasional risk of a natural gas
explosion, and an appreciation o the publication’s
history of producing accountability journalism in pursuit
of a more equitable Texas.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ 37signals LLC ☛ How_to_have_buckets_of_time⠀⇛
Rejecting this way of working is why I usually feel
very content about the progress I’m able to make on
the things that matter, without feeling overwhelmed
or busy all the time. Because it really just isn’t
that busy most of the time! It’s focused, sure. But
not busy.
Again, let’s look at email. I use HEY’s Focus &
Reply feature to get back to people who don’t need
an urgent reply (which is almost everyone). I let
the bucket fill up with 30-40-50 emails over a week
or two, then I knock out replies to all of them in
less than an hour. Just make that contrast. Letting
your attention being disturbed 30-40-50 times over
a week or two vs accepting a single interruption in
the form of a focused hour. It’s a monumental
difference.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Working_With_Old_High-Voltage_EPROMs_Is_Fussy⠀⇛
EPROMs, those UV-erasable memory chips of the 80s
and 90s, once played a crucial role in countless
electronic devices. They’ve become relics of a
bygone era, but for enthusiasts of vintage
electronics, the allure of these light-sensitive
devices remains strong. Today, we’re diving into
[Kevin Osborn]’s nostalgic journey as he uncovers
the secrets of old EPROMs loaded with Atari 7800
code.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Creating_A_3D_Visualization_Of_Freely_Moving
Organisms_Using_Camera_Array_And_Software_Algorithm⠀⇛
Observing a colony, swarm or similar grouping of
creatures like ants or zebrafish over longer
periods of time can be tricky. Simply recording
their behavior with a camera misses a lot of
information about the position of their body parts,
while taking precise measurements using a laser-
based system or LiDAR suffers from a reduction in
parameters such as the resolution or the update
speed. The ideal monitoring system would be able to
record at high data rates and resolutions, while
presenting the recorded data all three dimensions.
This is where the work by Kevin C. Zhou and
colleagues seeks to tick all the boxes, with a
recent paper (preprint, open access) in Nature
Photonics describing their 3D-RAPID system.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Tiny_Yet_Functional_Bike_Built_From_Scratch⠀⇛
Sometimes, you just want to go ride your bike in
the great outdoors, but you can’t be bothered
throwing it in the back of the car. That wouldn’t
be a problem if you rode this latest build from
[The Q]: a bike small enough to fit in a handbag.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_212:_Staring_Through_ICs,
Reading_Bloom_Filters,_And_Repairing,_Reworking,_And
Reballing⠀⇛
It was quite the cornucopia of goodness this week
as Elliot and Dan sat down to hash over the week in
hardware hacking. We started with the exciting news
that the Hackaday Prize is back — already? — for
the tenth year running! The first round, Re-
Engineering Education, is underway now, and we’re
already seeing some cool entries come in. The Prize
was announced at Hackday Berlin, about which Elliot
waxed a bit too. Speaking of wax, if you’re looking
to waterproof your circuits, that’s just one of
many coatings you might try. If you’re diagnosing a
problem with a chip, a cheap camera can give your
microscope IR vision. Then again, you might just
use your Mark I peepers to decode a ROM. Is your
FDM filament on the wrong spool? We’ve got an all-
mechanical solution for that. We’ll talk about
tools of the camera operator’s trade, the right to
repair in Europe, Korean-style toasty toes, BGA
basics, and learn just what the heck a bloom filter
is — or is it a Bloom filter?
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Why_A_Community_Hackerspace_Should_Be_A_Vital
Part_Of_Being_An_Engineering_Student⠀⇛
Travelling the continent’s hackerspaces over the
years, I have visited quite a few spaces located in
university towns. They share a depressingly common
theme, of a community hackerspace full of former
students who are now technology professionals,
sharing a city with a university anxious to own all
the things in the technology space and actively
sabotaging the things they don’t own. I’ve seen
spaces made homeless by university expansion, I’ve
seen universities purposefully align their own
events to clash with a hackerspace open night and
discourage students from joining, and in one
particularly egregious instance, I’ve even seen a
university take legal action against a space
because they used the name of the city, also that
of the university, in the name of their
hackerspace. I will not mince my words here; while
the former are sharp practices, the latter is truly
disgusting behaviour.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ How_a_computer_scientist_talks_to_her
daughter_about_TikTok⠀⇛
Nadya Bliss and her 12-year-old daughter Coco have
been talking about technology for as long as the
two can remember. Nadya is a computer scientist who
is also the executive director of the Global
Security Initiative at Arizona State University.
Technology and national security issues take up
much of her time. While she loves tech and embraces
many of its benefits, she is acutely aware of its
darker sides, too. As a parent of a tween, the
topic of social media — and especially TikTok — is
commonplace in their household and among their
friends. While many lawmakers and national security
experts in Washington and elsewhere around the
country are calling for an outright TikTok ban,
those concerns are lost on the many millions of
tweens and teens who spend hours on the app every
day. Nadya and Coco, who is a sixth grader and
among the minority of her peers without TikTok,
recently talked about how the app — and the
omnipresence of technology in just about every
kid’s life today — is changing parenting and
childhood. The following conversation between Nadya
and Coco has been edited for clarity and length.
[...]
Nadya: Like what? Like how it affects people?
Coco: It affects the people who are on it. They
start to change the way they talk. The slang they
use. The way they move in general. If you’re on
TikTok, you do TikTok dances. It’s just what you
do.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden_DOJ_Sues_Norfolk_Southern_for
‘Unlawfully_Polluting_the_Nation’s_Waterways’⠀⇛
The Biden administration on Friday took its latest
step to hold Norfolk Southern accountable for the
disaster continuing to unfold in East Palestine,
Ohio and the surrounding area, filing a lawsuit
against the rail company for sending toxic
chemicals into the environment.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ New_Bigger_Risks_Await_Poorly_Regulated_Rail
Industry⠀⇛
In July of 2013, a train carrying Bakken oil from
North Dakota derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic,
Quebec, killing 47 people and destroying the
downtown. I spent the five years after that
accident researching what happened, following the
railroad regulatory process that spans the U.S.-
Canada border, and publishing a book about that
experience. The main lesson of that book was that
the regulatory process in America is deeply flawed
and controlled by industry — both rail and oil
interests.
As we approach the 10-year anniversary of Lac-
Mégantic, the disaster in East Palestine shows just
how little was done to protect the public from
these dangerous trains. Meanwhile, the public is
facing new rail risks that are receiving scant
attention — and once again federal regulators are
allowing industry to move forward without proper
consideration of the health and safety risks. I
live three blocks from a busy rail line and what
worries me the most when I hear the trains rumble
past is not that they’re carrying vinyl chloride or
even Bakken oil, but the looming risk of mile-long
trains of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and
hydrogen.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ CDC_Investigators_Fell_Ill_While_Assessing
Contamination_in_East_Palestine⠀⇛
Reports that several investigators with the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention became
ill earlier this month when they visited East
Palestine, Ohio offered the latest evidence on
Friday that the air and water in the town is less
safe than state officials and rail company Norfolk
Southern have claimed, following the company’s
train derailment in February.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ One_of_America’s_Worst_Judges_Just_Gutted_a
Key_Part_of_Obamacare⠀⇛
One of the most important parts of the Affordable
Care Act is its requirement that insurance
companies cover preventive care. As we approach a
full generation of people who have come of age
under the protections provided by the ACA, it’s
easy to forget that in the before times, it was
incredibly difficult for poor people to get
preventive care, and prohibitively expensive for
middle-class people to do the same. That meant that
a lot of times, people just had to wait to get sick
before their insurance plans even kicked in. It
meant that a lot of people wouldn’t get mammograms
or colonoscopies. It meant a lot more “negative
health care outcomes” and human suffering.
# ⚓ The_Brownstone_Institute_fear_mongers_about_mRNA_vaccines⠀⇛
Earlier this month, I discovered a new antivaccine
flack named Alan Lash, who writes for the
“spiritual child of the Great Barrington
Declaration (GBD),” the Brownstone Institute and
caught my attention by regurgitating an old common
antivax trope about distrusting physicians. The
GBD, as you might recall, was a declaration created
at the American Institute for Economic Research
(AIER), a right-wing “free market” think tank, by
three libertarian-leaning scientists who served as
useful idiots for AIER to drape its pro-business,
anti-government leanings into a scientific-seeming
“declaration” advocating a eugenicist “let ‘er rip”
approach to the COVID-19 pandemic in early October
2020. Whenever I discuss the GBD, I like to note
two things. First, there was no vaccine yet.
Second, the entire idea of the GBD was to let SARS-
CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, rip
through the “young and healthy” population to build
up “natural herd immunity” by letting them go about
their business with no pandemic restrictions while
using a vaguely defined—nearly completely
undefined, actually—strategy of “focused
protection” to keep the vulnerable (e.g., the
elderly and those with chronic health conditions
that put them at high risk of dying of COVID-19)
supposedly safe. It was a strategy that obviously
never could have worked, and epidemiologists
pointed out that it would never work at the time.
This time around, Mr. Lash is regurgitating antivax
disinformation about mRNA vaccines in general in an
article entitled The mRNA Platform: What It Is,
What It Means.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Lawmakers_Have_Renewed_the_Effort_to_Ban
Asbestos⠀⇛
Citing ProPublica’s reporting, lawmakers on
Thursday reintroduced a bill that would ban the use
of asbestos in the United States, bringing it in
line with dozens of countries that have outlawed
the carcinogenic substance.
Even though asbestos is known to cause deadly
diseases, the U.S. still allows companies to import
hundreds of tons of the raw mineral. It is
primarily used by two chemical manufacturers,
OxyChem and Olin Corp., in the production of
chlorine. The legislation, called the Alan
Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act of 2023, would ban
the import and use of all six types of asbestos
fibers. It would give OxyChem and Olin two years to
transition its asbestos-dependent chlorine plants
to newer, asbestos-free technology.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Apple’s_integrity-free_APFS_turns_six⠀⇛
APFS is copy-on-write, so that’s a start. But it’s
boggles the mind that a company could seriously
launch a file system in 2017 without integrity
checks… or at least the ability to enable it. But
then, Apple have lost the plot with their desktop
OSs for a number of years now.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Guam_Memorial_Hospital_under_review_for
potential_HIPAA_breach⠀⇛
How many times have we heard entities claim that
they got lucky and no patient, student, or employee
data was accessed or acquired, only to discover
later — as Los Angeles Unified School District and
Wilkes-Barre Technical Center recently learned —
that yes, personal and sensitive information had
been compromised?
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Letting_users_block_injected_third-party_DLLs_in
Firefox⠀⇛
On Windows, third-party products have a variety of
ways to inject their code into other running
processes. This is done for a number of reasons;
the most common is for antivirus software, but
other uses include hardware drivers, screen
readers, banking (in some countries) and,
unfortunately, malware.
Having a DLL from a third-party product injected
into a Firefox process is surprisingly common –
according to our telemetry, over 70% of users on
Windows have at least one such DLL! (to be clear,
this means any DLL not digitally signed by Mozilla
or part of the OS).
Most users are unaware when DLLs are injected into
Firefox, as most of the time there’s no obvious
indication this is happening, other than checking
the about:third-party page.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ British_govt_tech_supplier_Capita
crippled_by_‘IT_issue’ [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
“The reality is that we’ve had no access to
anything related to Capita’s Azure Directory (AD)
or Azure Active Directory, which includes VPN and
all Microsoft 365 and Azure services,” a Register-
reading Capita insider told us.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ 3CX_Knew_Its_App_Was_Being_Flagged_By_AV
Platforms,_Did_Very_Little_During_Supply_Chain_Attack⠀⇛
If you don’t use the 3CX VoIP platform, or work in
the MSP space with companies that do, you may have
missed the news that the company suffered a massive
supply chain attack over the past few days. With
comparisons being made to the SolarWinds fiasco,
this was really, really bad. Unsuspecting clients
of 3CX had Windows and Mac versions of the app to
hundreds of thousands of customers deployed on
their computers with malware snuck inside. That
malware called out to actor-controlled servers,
which then deployed more malware designed to allow
for everything from browser hijacking to remote-
takeover of the computer entirely. A hacking group
associated with the North Korean government is
suspected to be behind all of this.
# § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Exploiting_(or_abusing)
password_fields_for_Multi-Factor_Authentication⠀⇛
I’ve recently been looking into how people
add Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to
their OpenVPN systems, both using commercial
solutions and home grown ones. One of the
things that makes this difficult is that I
believe the OpenVPN authentication protocol
is old fashioned enough that it doesn’t
provide for multi-step interaction. Instead,
clients can send either or both of a TLS
client certificate and a username plus
password pair to the server, and the server
gets to decide. However, common OpenVPN
server software allows you to plug in your
own code to do the user and password
authentication, and so it turns out that
people have used this to add MFA.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ NYOB ☛ Meta_(Facebook,_Instagram)_switching_to
“Legitimate_Interest”_for_Ads⠀⇛
As the Wall Street Journal reports, Meta
(Facebook and Instagram) is switching from an
illegal contract to equally illegal basis
“legitimate interests” for advertisement,
after noyb won a series of complaints against
them. noyb will take imminent action, as the
clear case law and guidance does not allow a
company to argue that its interests in
profits overrides the users’ right to
privacy.
# ⚓ Remy Van Elst ☛ Cookie_/_Privacy_Policy⠀⇛
This Cookie Policy was last updated on March
31, 2023 and applies to citizens and legal
permanent residents of the European Economic
Area and Switzerland
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ NYPD_blues:_Cops_ignored_93_percent
of_surveillance_law_rules⠀⇛
The NYPD, however, has rejected 93 percent of
the advice from an independent oversight
body, the Department of Investigations’ (DOI)
Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the
force about how to comply with the law.
According to OIG’s Ninth Annual Report [PDF],
the cop watchdog made 15 recommendations and
the NYPD refused to implement 14 of them.
These include recommendations like
identifying the organizations with which NYPD
shares surveillance data: “NYPD should
identify in each IUP [Impact and Use Policy]
each external agency, by name, with which the
Department can share surveillance data.”
# ⚓ Privacy International ☛ Joint_submission_to_European
Commission_on_cross-border_sharing_of_data_for_mixed
criminal_law_and_immigration_control_purposes⠀⇛
The European Commission’s initiative for a
‘Security-related information sharing system
between frontline officers in the EU and key
partner countries’ is a further development
along the path of problematic border
externalisation, and a trend of increasing
use of large-scale processing of the personal
data of non-EU citizens for combined criminal
law and immigration control purposes, that
civil society has been speaking out against
for years. PI and others filed a joint
submission to the consultation.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ After_Students_Challenged_Proctoring_Software,
French_Court_Slaps_TestWe_App_With_a_Suspension⠀⇛
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Without_Verification,_What_Is_the_Point_of_Elon
Musk’s_Twitter?⠀⇛
Twitter used to do a better job of content
moderation than many of its social media
competitors. The company tended to err on the
side of labeling objectionable content rather
than removing it. Twitter had an admirable
commitment to transparency and standing up
for its users (that isn’t to say it was good:
content moderation at scale almost never
turns out well. It simply had smarter
failures than the rest).
Twitter’s good qualities—features and
practices that many users all over the world
came to rely on—are all but gone now.
Twitter first introduced blue checkmarks in
2009, after celebrities complained of being
impersonated on the platform. While
verification was only available to well-known
public figures (e.g. actors, athletes,
politicians) at first, checkmarks were later
rolled out to companies, journalists,
activists, and even social media influencers.
In 2016, the company briefly rolled out a
verification application process, so
individuals who could prove their notability
could get verified. That process was shut
down after a white supremacist was verified
through it, and wasn’t reopened until late
2020, with tighter qualifications.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Bad_Content_Moderation_Is_Bad,_And_Government
Interference_Can_Make_It_Even_Worse⠀⇛
However, buried in these misunderstandings
from Congress, and most of the witnesses
called to testify, was a genuinely serious
problem: Government officials keep asking
online services to remove or edit users’
speech, raising the specter of
unconstitutional interference with private
platforms’ moderation decisions. And worse,
the public lacks any transparency into how
often this occurs.
Regardless of your ideological preference, we
should always worry about government coercion
that results in censoring users’ speech
online, which violates the First Amendment
and threatens human rights globally. The
government is free to try to persuade online
services to remove speech it believes is
harmful, but the choice to remove users’
speech should always remain with the
platform.
So Congress is right to investigate the
relationship between platforms and the
government, and both should be more
transparent about official requests to remove
users’ content.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Forbes ☛ In_A_Surprise,_China-Linked_TikTok_Grabs_Power
Norway_Needs_To_Make_Ammo⠀⇛
With all the easily accessible regional energy in
central Norway now spoken for, ammunition provider
Nammo AS is out of luck.
# ⚓ BMG ☛ Norwegian_weapons_manufacturer_hit_by_TikTok’s_energy
usage⠀⇛
Ammunition manufacturer Nammo is unable to expand
its largest factory in Innlandet, Norway, because a
new data centre used by social media app TikTok is
using all the electricity.
# ⚓ Evening Standard UK ☛ Energy-hungry_TikTok_‘cat_videos’
altering_the_course_of_armed_conflict_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
Nammo claims that it can’t make as much ammunition
as Ukraine would like, stating that the country
would like that supply to increase tenfold. “We see
an extraordinary demand for our products which we
have never seen before in our history,” Brandtzaeg
added.
With questions about TikTok’s links to the Chinese
government refusing to go away, this raises
interesting geopolitical questions. After all, the
disruption of European arms manufacturing could be
seen as a significant perk for China, whether
intentional or not.
“I will not rule out that it’s not by pure
coincidence that this activity is close to a
defence company,” Brandtzaeg said when asked about
that angle.
# ⚓ Newsweek ☛ Ukraine_Ammunition_Supply_Threatened_by_‘TikTok
Cat_Videos’⠀⇛
The electricity of the region is being used up by a
data center whose bigger client is TikTok. The
embattled social-media platform has come under
increased scrutiny in the U.S. for its ties with
China.
# ⚓ The Hindu ☛ Hijab_row:_Face_recognition_cameras_installed,
checkpoints_opened_at_the_Vellore_fort⠀⇛
Face recognition cameras, metal detectors,
checkpoints and barricades have been installed at
the 16th Century fort in Vellore, following the
arrest of seven persons, including a juvenile, for
allegedly forcing a woman to remove her hijab at
the fort. Round-the-clock bike patrol has also been
introduced.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_authorities_to_use_electronic_military
summonses_for_the_first_time_in_spring_conscription_drive_—
Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian authorities will reportedly begin
issuing electronic military summonses for the first
time as part of the country’s routine spring
conscription drive.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_authorities_hit_two_officers_with_felony
charges_for_allegedly_failing_to_prevent_Ukrainian_missile
strike_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian authorities are investigating the
country’s first felony case of “violating the rules
of combat duty,” Kommersant reported on Friday.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Just_2_Days_After_Shooting,_Republicans_Vote
to_Loosen_Gun_Law_in_North_Carolina⠀⇛
Republicans announced the veto override effort just
hours after the elementary school shooting in
nearby Nashville.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Stop_the_Absurd_Debate”:_Parkland_Father
Calls_for_Nationwide_Education_Strike_to_Demand_Gun_Reform⠀⇛
In the wake of the mass shooting at a private
Christian elementary school in Nashville,
Tennessee, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said
Wednesday Republicans “want to see all the facts”
before proposing any new gun legislation. Just last
week, Manuel Oliver, father of one of 17 people
killed in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida,
was arrested in the Republican-controlled House
after he and his wife Patricia spoke out during a
subcommittee hearing on the Second Amendment. He
joins us to call for a national education strike to
push for action on the U.S. gun violence epidemic.
His new op-ed for The Daily Beast is “Arrest Gun-
Loving Members of Congress—Not Grieving Fathers.”
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ahead_of_spring_military_draft,_Russian_state
bureaucracy_portal_stops_letting_users_delete_their_data_—
Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian state bureaucracy portal Gosuslugi
(“State Services”) has disabled the option that
allowed users to delete their profile data. The
change happened shortly after the Defense Ministry
announced that it would begin sending electronic
conscription summonses to eligible people this
spring.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Meet_the_Nashville_ER_Doctor_Who_Joined
1,000+_Protesters_at_Tennessee_Capitol_Demanding_Gun
Control⠀⇛
More than a thousand students rallied at the
Tennessee state Capitol Thursday to demand gun
control, just days after a mass shooting at a
Nashville Christian elementary school where three
adults and three 9-year-olds were killed.
Republicans hold a supermajority in Tennessee’s
Legislature and have loosened gun restrictions. We
speak with Dr. Katrina Green, an emergency
physician in Nashville who has lost patients to gun
violence and joined in Thursday’s protest. “People
are angry, and that’s part of the reason I went
down there, as well,” says Green. “Tennessee has
become a state where it just seems like they want
everybody to have a gun, no matter what.”
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_US_War_Drum_Against_China_Sounds_Like:
Tik._Tok.⠀⇛
The ongoing effort to investigate and ban TikTok is
not about our privacy, but about fueling more
aggression against China.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Covering_(Up)_Antiwar_Protest_in_US_Media⠀⇛
March 18 DC peace march almost completely blacked
out in US corporate media.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ 365_days_as_a_free_Ukrainian_city_again_President
of_Ukraine_Volodymyr_Zelensky_visited_Bucha_to_commemorate
the_anniversary_of_its_liberation_and_to_honor_the_victims_of
war_crimes_—_Meduza⠀⇛
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky posted a
video dedicated to the anniversary of the
liberation of Bucha. “Bucha and the surrounding
region. 33 days of occupation. More than 1,400
dead, 37 children among them. More than 175 people
found in mass graves and torture chambers. 9,000
Russian war crimes. 365 as a free Ukrainian city
once again. A symbol of the occupying army’s
atrocities. We will never forgive. We will punish
all the perpetrators,” the president of Ukraine
said.
# ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ ICC’s_Putin_arrest_warrant_based_on_State
Dept-funded_report_that_debunked_itself⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Nuclear_Midnight_Over_Ukraine⠀⇛
The prospect of a nuclear holocaust has always been
terrifying. But in the last years of the Cold War
and the three decades that followed its end, the
existential challenge of nuclear weapons became
less of a clear and present danger.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ To_Hell_and_Back_for_Disregarded_(and
Discarded)_US_Veterans⠀⇛
Here’s something we seldom focus on when it comes
to war, American-style, even during the just-passed
20th anniversary of our disastrous invasion of
Iraq: many more soldiers survive armed conflict
than die from it. This has been especially so
during this country’s twenty-first-century War on
Terror, which is still playing out in all too many
lands globally.
# ⚓ 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.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Amid_Fears_Over_Russia-Belarus_Nuke_Deal,
UN_Official_Calls_for_Talks_to_Ease_Tensions⠀⇛
The United Nations disarmament chief on Friday
called for de-escalatory talks to curb the risk of
nuclear war amid global concerns about Russian
President Vladimir Putin’s plan to station so-
called “tactical” nuclear weapons in Belarus.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Daniel_Ellsberg_Says_He_Once_Gave_The_New
York_Times_Documents_That_They_Didn’t_Print⠀⇛
# ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ The_So_Far_Non-Existent_Vulkan_Leaks⠀⇛
The Guardian, Washington Post and Der Spiegel have
today published “bombshell” revelations about
Russian cyber warfare based on leaked documents,
but have produced only one single, rather innocuous
leaked document between them (in the Washington
Post), with zero links to any.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Canadian_Police_Arrest_Indigenous_Protesters_in
Clash_Over_Pipeline_Construction⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ California_Fines_Manufacturer_for_Knowingly
Exposing_Workers_to_Toxic_Chemical⠀⇛
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Lost_Decade:_How_Shell_Downplayed_Early_Warnings
Over_Climate_Change⠀⇛
Narrated in the upper-crust accent favoured by
British documentary-makers of the era, Shell’s 1981
film Time for Energy assesses the scope for solar,
wind, nuclear, and other sources of power to end
the world’s dependence on finite reserves of oil.
By the closing credits, the viewer is left in
little doubt that there is only one fuel plentiful
and versatile enough to carry the world “safely”
into the 21st century: coal.
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Why_Climate_Grief_Is_an_Essential_for
Climate_Action⠀⇛
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Wired ☛ These_Angry_Dutch_Farmers_Really_Hate
Microsoft⠀⇛
The heated exchange between Ruiter and
Microsoft’s security guard shows how
contentious Big Tech’s data centers have
become in rural parts of the Netherlands. As
the Dutch government sets strict
environmental targets to cut emissions,
industries are being forced to compete for
space on Dutch farmland—pitting big tech
against the increasingly political population
of Dutch farmers.
There are around 200 data centers in the
Netherlands, most of them renting out server
space to several different companies. But
since 2015, the country has also witnessed
the arrival of enormous “hyperscalers,”
buildings that generally span at least 10,000
square feet and are set up to service a
single (usually American) tech giant. Lured
here by the convergence of European internet
cables, temperate climates, and an abundance
of green energy, Microsoft and Google have
built hyperscalers; Meta has tried and
failed.
# ⚓ Positech Games ☛ Economics_of_solar_batteries_(big
and_small)⠀⇛
There are many reasons to get a home battery.
Its a cool gadget, its also an incredibly
strong way to reduce your energy bills (we
basically run our whole house 24/7 on off-
peak electricity at 75% off), and its also a
great thing to partner-up with solar panels
to ensure you use all that free power and
don’t go exporting it to the evil energy
company for a pitiful rate. I have to admit,
although I was fully aware that we exported a
lot of power on those days we were out, or we
were not running much stuff, I had totally
underestimated the impact. I’m currently
running a big desktop PC/Monitor, router,
wifi boosters and a bunch of other stuff, all
from solar, on a cloudy day in march in the
UK, AND filling the battery slightly…
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Elon_Musk_seeks_to_end_$258_billion
Dogecoin_lawsuit⠀⇛
Investors accused Musk, the world’s second-
richest person according to Forbes, of
deliberately driving up Dogecoin’s price more
than 36,000% over two years and then letting
it crash.
They said this generated billions of dollars
of profit at other Dogecoin investors’
expense, even as Musk knew the currency
lacked intrinsic value.
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ WWF:_Finland_uses_annual_share_of_natural
resources_in_3_months⠀⇛
People in Finland had consumed their share of
the Earth’s natural resources just three
months into the year by Friday, 31 March.
“According to the latest calculations, Finns
are the 16th-fastest consumers of their share
of earth’s natural resources in the world,”
WWF Finland’s conservation advisor Jussi
Nikula said in a press release.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Trustees_Report_Shows_Social_Security
Expansion_a_‘Question_of_Values,_Not_Affordability’⠀⇛
The board of trustees for Medicare and Social
Security released a report Friday showing the
programs’ trust funds will be able to cover all
benefits and expenses until 2031 and 2034
respectively, findings welcomed by advocates as
further confirmation that the key lifelines are
strong and can be expanded.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Media_Has_No_Interest_In_Paying_For_Twitter
Blue⠀⇛
It’s been so weird the way Elon Musk and his
friends have been jealous of underpaid, overworked
journalists who happened to have blue check marks
next to their name. There’s some sort of deep-
seated insecurity to think that just because
Twitter decided some people should be verified to
avoid problems with impersonation that it was some
sort of status symbol (again, as full disclosure,
at some point in 2020 or 2021, my account got
verified, though this was through no request on my
own: until then I had been happily unverified, and
one day I showed up and there was a mark next to my
name with me not having asked for it and without
any interest in getting it).
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Two_GOP_Officials_Kicked_Off_Surry_County
Election_Board⠀⇛
The courtroom was packed when the North Carolina
State Board of Elections convened on Tuesday to
consider removing two members of the Surry County
Board of Elections from their posts. At the Surry
County GOP convention not long before, one board
member, Tim DeHaan, had appealed for people to
attend the meeting at the county courthouse. And
now, dozens of supporters, one with “We the People”
tattooed on his forearm and another with cowboy
boots stamped with American flags, whispered
tensely among themselves.
DeHaan and Jerry Forestieri were facing the state
elections board because, at a November meeting to
certify the county’s 2022 general election results,
they had presented a co-signed letter declaring “I
don’t view election law per NCSBE as legitimate or
Constitutional.” Then Forestieri refused to certify
the election, while DeHaan only agreed to certify
it on a technicality.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ministry_of_Justice_designates_musician_Maksim
Pokrovsky_a_“foreign_agent”_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s Justice Ministry has included Maksim
Pokrovsky, the leader of the rock group Nogu
Svelo!, on its list of “foreign agents,” according
to the ministry’s website.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Navalny’s_Anti-Corruption_Foundation_blacklists
Alfa_Group_partners_it_previously_sought_to_extricate_from
sanctions_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Alexey Navalny’s associates at the Anti-Corruption
Foundation (ACF) have updated their list of “bribe-
takers and warmongers,” adding the names of Alfa
Group Consortium’s shareholders Mikhail Fridman,
Alexey Kuzmichev, and German Khan to the list.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ New_York_The_Latest_State_To_Ponder_A_Netflix
Tax⠀⇛
Hungry to boost municipal budgets, a growing roster
of states and cities have spent the last five years
or so trying to implement a tax on Netflix, Hulu,
and other streaming services.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Vatican_Rejects_‘Doctrine_of_Discovery’,
Used_to_Justify_Colonial_Conquest_and_Land_Theft⠀⇛
In a historic shift long sought by Indigenous-led
activists, the Holy See on Thursday formally
repudiated the doctrine of discovery, a dubious
legal theory born from a series of 15th-century
papal decrees used by colonizers including the
United States to legally justify the genocidal
conquest of non-Christian peoples and their land.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Wisconsin’s_Supreme_Court_Race_Could_Restore
Democracy_in_America’s_Most_Gerrymandered_State⠀⇛
Gerrymandering, the process by which elected
officials draw legislative and congressional
district maps that benefit themselves and their
parties, is widely understood as antithetical to
democracy. Decrying the maneuvers by which partisan
politicians use the redistricting process to gain
“control of state legislatures and congressional
delegations before a single vote is cast,” former
President Barack Obama explains, “That is not how
democracy is supposed to work.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘They_Have_a_Lot_of_Money…_We_Have_the
People’:_Sanders_Rallies_for_Brandon_Johnson_in_Chicago⠀⇛
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders stumped for progressive
Chicago mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson late
Thursday, imploring the city’s voters to turn out
in record numbers to overcome what he described as
the powerful establishment forces backing
conservative Democrat Paul Vallas.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Trump_Indicted_on_Criminal_Charges_in_NY_as_3
Other_Investigations_Continue⠀⇛
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Indicted:_Trump_Faces_Criminal_Charges_in
NY;_Three_Other_Investigations_into_Ex-President_Continue⠀⇛
In an unprecedented move, a Manhattan grand jury
voted Thursday to indict former President Donald
Trump for hush-money payments made to adult film
star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential
campaign to hide an alleged affair, making Trump
the first former U.S. president to face criminal
charges. While the precise details of the charges
are not yet known, the development culminates years
of political, business and personal legal troubles
for Trump, who still faces three other major
investigations. We look at the charges in this case
and others that Trump faces, with Ellen
Yaroshefsky, who teaches legal ethics as a
professor at Hofstra University Law School.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ DA’s_Office_Tells_GOP_Republicans_to_Cease
‘Inflammatory_Accusations’_About_Trump_Case⠀⇛
On the heels of former President Donald Trump’s
historic indictment, Manhattan District Attorney
Alvin Bragg’s office on Friday told three top
Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House that their
“attempted interference with an ongoing state
criminal investigation—and now prosecution—is an
unprecedented and illegitimate incursion on New
York’s sovereign interests.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘This_P*ssy_Grabbed_Back’:_Stormy_Daniels
Speaks_Out_After_Trump_Indictment⠀⇛
Stormy Daniels reacted Friday to the criminal
indictment of former U.S. President Donald Trump
with a play on his infamous taped remarks seemingly
confessing to sexually assaulting women.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Manhattan_Court_Pursues_Florida_Man_for_White-
Collar_Crime⠀⇛
With Donald Trump’s indictment on apparent charges
of concealing improper campaign finances in
Manhattan, all the classic elements of Trump-
centric scandal-mongering are in place. There are
the salacious details surrounding the transaction
at the heart of the alleged offense—a hush-money
payoff engineered by Trump’s since-convicted legal
fixer Michael Cohen to porn star Stormy Daniels,
whom Trump allegedly bedded in 2006 (which he has
since denied). There’s the self-interested partisan
dissection of the charges, with Democrats eagerly
anticipating Trump’s long-deferred appointment with
legal accountability, and Republicans righteously
launching congressional investigations of Manhattan
District Attorney Alvin Bragg—when they’re not also
threatening more mob-led mayhem to split the
country in two. The political press, meanwhile,
will lurch into overdrive, with breathless
speculation upon speculation on what a Trump
indictment might mean for the GOP primaries, the
other legal investigations of the former
president’s misconduct, and the parlous state of
the American republic.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Trump’s_Indictment_Will_Dominate_the_2024
Election⠀⇛
With the decision of New York’s grand jury to
indict Donald Trump on more than 30 counts of
falsifying business records, the United States
enters uncharted waters. It would be historic even
if all that happened is that a former president,
for the first time, faced criminal charges. But
Trump is not just any former president. He’s
currently running for the GOP nomination. That
fact, combined with his long-standing penchant for
trying to delegitimize legal investigation into his
actions and his use of the presidential pardon
power for political advantage, means that Trump’s
indictment is going to be a major issue in the next
presidential election.1
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Chicago’s_Election_Will_Shape_the_Future_of
Public_Safety_in_America⠀⇛
Chicago’s per capita police spending has,
officially, more than tripled since 1964. The city
now employs about twice as many police officers per
capita as the national average—markedly more than
any other large city except Washington, D.C. The
Chicago Police Department has attempted nearly
every possible police intervention and reform.
Meanwhile, many of Chicago’s segregated Black and
brown neighborhoods continue to suffer from high
rates of poverty and violence. In recent years,
this violence has begun to spill over into the
downtown business core and, as a result, to
increasingly concern the city’s wealthy donor
class. This article is published in partnership
with The TRiiBE.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Reagan’s_Treason,_Two_Bushes_and_the_$23
Million_Payoff⠀⇛
Last week, a Texas pol, Ben Barnes, confessed that
he was personally involved—and therefore an
eyewitness to–high treason: The Ronald Reagan
campaign’s successful secret deal with the Iranian
government to hold 52 Americans hostages so that
Reagan could defeat Jimmy Carter. ]
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Rebutting_3_GOP_Talking_Points_on_Trump
Indictment⠀⇛
Donald Trump has been indicted.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Donald_John_Trump’s_Indictment_and_the
Triviality_of_Evil⠀⇛
A New York Grand Jury empaneled by Manhattan
District Attorney Alvin Bragg has indicted the
former president, Donald John Trump. I give all
three of Trump’s names because that is usually how
the felons are referred to in the press.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_GOP_Is_the_Party_of_Grift⠀⇛
Nobody ever accused Republicans of not knowing how
to make a buck or BS-ing somebody into voting for
them. Lying to people for economic or political
gain is the very definition of a grift.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘The_Grift_Continues’:_Trump_Campaign,_GOP
Allies_Beg_for_Money_After_Indictment⠀⇛
The Trump campaign and the former president’s
Republican allies wasted no time attempting to turn
Thursday’s indictment news into a lucrative
fundraising opportunity, appealing to their right-
wing supporters for cash on live television and in
a flurry of late-night emails.
# ⚓ [Repeat] Common Dreams ☛ Karma:_Happy_Trump’s_First
Indictment_Day⠀⇛
Wowza. It seems the Manhattan grand jury’s
indictment of lifelong grifter and twice-impeached,
way-past-time-for-him-to-be-gone former pretend
president Trump charges him with 34 counts related
to business fraud, which must cover more than just
hush money to Stormy, the porn star who may have
saved America. Trump is expected to appear in court
Tuesday. Until then, patriots are berserk with glee
at the prospect justice may finally be done.
Gwyneth freed, Trump indicted. What a country.
# ⚓ [Repeat] 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.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Fetterman_‘So_Happy_to_Be_Home,’_Set_to
Return_to_Senate_After_Hospitalization_for_Depression⠀⇛
Democratic U.S. Senator John Fetterman is back in
his hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania and looking
forward to returning to work soon after being
released Friday from Walter Reed military hospital
in Maryland, where he was treated for depression.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Tsunami_Arrives⠀⇛
# ⚓ El País ☛ How_a_little-known_U.S._agency_holds_power_over
TikTok’s_future⠀⇛
At the heart of this social media business and
national security drama is the increasingly tense
relations between the U.S. and China. The video-
sharing platform with 150 million U.S. users is
best known for quick snippets of viral dance
routines and has been under scrutiny for years by
federal authorities who say that its Chinese parent
company, ByteDance, could share sensitive user data
with the Chinese government, or push propaganda and
misinformation on its behalf.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Senate_Vote_On_TikTok_Ban_Bill_Blocked
Over_Free_Speech_Concerns_Amid_Continued_Bipartisan
Scrutiny⠀⇛
As mentioned at the outset, the senator – whose “No
TikTok On Government Devices” bill became law near
2022’s conclusion and went into effect in March –
just recently called for a vote on the legislation
concerning the countrywide ban. (Senator Hawley
also voiced his opposition to the comparatively
far-reaching RESTRICT Act, which he says would
“give new open-ended authority to federal
bureaucrats.”)
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Only_22%_of_American_Adults_Oppose
Banning_TikTok,_Survey_Finds_—_Including_56%_of_Active
Users⠀⇛
Expanding upon the point, 88% of Americans are “not
at all” (59%) or “not too” (29%) confident that
Chinese social media companies follow “what their
privacy policies say they will do with their
personal information,” according to the survey
results. A nearly identical portion of U.S. adults
aren’t at all or too confident that Chinese social
media companies use “their personal information in
ways that they are comfortable with.”
# ⚓ Interesting Engineering ☛ Virgin_Orbit_suspends_operations,
lays_off_90%_of_employees⠀⇛
Hart stated that the corporation would cut all but
100 roles, accounting for around 90 percent of the
staff and that the layoffs would affect every team
and department. According to an SEC filing, Virgin
Orbit decided “to cut expenses in light of the
company’s inability to secure sufficient funding.”
The layoffs accounted for 675 positions or nearly
85 percent of the total.
# ⚓ CNBC ☛ Virgin_Orbit_fails_to_secure_funding,_will_cease
operations_and_lay_off_nearly_entire_workforce⠀⇛
Virgin Orbit is ceasing operations “for the
foreseeable future” after failing to secure a
funding lifeline, CEO Dan Hart told employees
during an all-hands meeting Thursday afternoon. The
company will lay off nearly all of its workforce.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Banning_TikTok_alone_will_not_solve_the
problem_of_US_data_security⠀⇛
But TikTok users’ usage of the social media app,
even if only to generate business, does not
mitigate the potential threats to US national
security associated with it. In December, Director
of National Intelligence Avril Haines warned about
the potential uses of TikTok by Beijing stemming
from the data the app collects and the possibility
of using it to influence public opinion. TikTok’s
algorithm, for example—which experts view as more
advanced than that of Facebook parent company
Meta—could be used by China to create propaganda
that seeks to influence or manipulate elections and
the broader information environment.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Every_Day_is_April_Fool’s_Day
Now⠀⇛
It takes only seconds of critical thinking to
see that each of these are fake, but as AI-
generated shitposting becomes easier, it’s
inevitable that one of these will catch you
with your guard down, or appeal to some basic
emotion you are too eager to believe. Tucker
Carlson, for example, read that fake call to
behead Christians on his show as if it were
real.
Even if you’re trained in recognizing fake
imagery and can immediately spot the
difference between copy written by a language
model and a human (content that’s
increasingly sneaking into online articles),
doing endless fact-checking and performing
countless micro-decisions about reality and
fraud is mentally draining. Every year, our
brains are tasked with processing five
percent more information per day than the
last. Add to this cognitive load a constant,
background-level effort to decide whether
that data is a lie.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Hunting_down_the_haters_How_Rostec,_the_Russian
military’s_industrial_supplier,_waged_a_PR_war_on_Telegram_—
Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Midjourney_CEO_Says_‘Political_Satire_In_China
Is_Pretty_Not_Okay,’_But_Apparently_Silencing_Satire_About_Xi
Jinping_Is_Pretty_Okay⠀⇛
As a rule, it’s a good idea to be particularly
suspicious of defenses of censorship that —
coincidentally — materially benefit the people
espousing them. In this case, the argument in favor
of censorship is coming from founder and CEO of AI
image generator Midjourney, David Holz. And Holz
makes clear that he is willing to exempt Xi Jinping
from the tool’s capabilities to retain Midjourney’s
viability in China.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Meduza_is_collecting_letters_for_Evan_Gershkovich
The_Russian_authorities,_who_claim_The_Wall_Street_Journal
reporter_was_‘engaged_in_espionage,’_are_holding_him_in_a
Moscow_detention_center_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Journalist Evan Gershkovich was arrested on March
30 on orders from Russia’s Federal Security
Service, which claims that he was involved in
“espionage” — an offense punishable by up to 20
years in prison. Without a shred of evidence, a
chorus of Russian state officials has repeated
these allegations against Evan, who’s now being
held at Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo detention
center. Meduza is proud to join media outlets
around the world in demanding Evan Gershkovich’s
immediate release.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_European_Union’s_Digital_Trade_Rules:
Undermining_European_Policy_to_Rein_in_Big_Tech⠀⇛
This report shows how Big Tech companies are
working to constrain the ability of EU democratic
bodies to regulate their activities in the public
interest through “trade” agreements, which are
binding and permanent.
# ⚓ [Repeat] Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungary_condemned_by_Strasbourg
court_for_educational_segregation_of_Roma_student⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Lamar_Jackson’s_Sin:_Not_Playing_Their_Game⠀⇛
Lamar Jackson, the quicksilver quarterback for the
Baltimore Ravens, is in collusion limbo. He is 26
years old. He is a former NFL Most Valuable Player.
He is beloved by teammates and fans. And he is in a
purgatory from which there is no easy way out. For
a casual fan, this story can seem to require a
degree in contract law. But here are the broad
sketches: Jackson has what’s called a “non-
exclusive franchise tag,” which means he is due to
make $32.5 million playing for the Ravens in
2023—far below the market value for his skills. But
as a free agent he is also able to court a contract
from other teams. The Ravens would then have the
option to match the offer. Jackson revealed earlier
this week on Twitter that he requested a trade on
March 2 and hoped the Ravens would accommodate him.
There is one problem: Jackson has received no free-
agent offers, and trade partners cannot be found.
# ⚓ [Repeat] Telex (Hungary) ☛ Orbán:_The_EU_has_abandoned_the
two_goals_it_was_created_for:_peace_and_prosperity⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Starbucks_Workers_Forced_to_Laugh_as
Schultz_Testifies_He’s_No_Union-Buster⠀⇛
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, under threat
of subpoena, has finally appeared before the United
States Senate to answer for the company’s union-
busting practices.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Truly_Troubling’:_Claiming_Western
Invasion_Imminent,_Lukashenko_Says_Belarus_Seeks_Nuclear
Weapons⠀⇛
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday
claimed without evidence that his government needs
to “safeguard” the Eastern European country from a
looming Western invasion, saying he is seeking to
station intercontinental nuclear missiles there to
defend Belarus against the United States and other
countries in the West.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘We_won’t_stop_at_anything’:_Lukashenko_promises
to_deploy_strategic_nuclear_weapons_‘if_need_be’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Alexander Lukashenko is prepared to deploy not just
tactical, but also strategic nuclear weapons in
Belarus. The president of Belarus made this clear
when addressing the National Assembly on Friday.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ UK_Amazon_workers_to_strike_for_six_days_in
April⠀⇛
GMB said more than 560 workers at the warehouse in
Coventry would walk out on April 16-18 and April
21-23. Workers at the site staged the first strike
at the U.S. tech company’s operations in Britain in
January, followed by a further seven days in
February and March.
# ⚓ NPR ☛ The_Vatican_repudiates_‘Doctrine_of_Discovery,’_which
was_used_to_justify_colonialism⠀⇛
The doctrine was invoked as a legal and religious
standing by Europeans who “discovered” new lands
and violently seized it from people who had been
living there for generations. It has been cited in
different arenas for centuries, including by the
U.S. Supreme Court — as early as 1823 and as
recently as 2005.
“The statement repudiates the very mindsets and
worldview that gave rise to the original papal
bulls,” the Rev. David McCallum, executive director
of the Program for Discerning Leadership based in
Rome, told NPR.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_People_Executed_or_Sentenced_to_Death
in_Iran’s_Protest_Crackdown⠀⇛
Their trials were fast-tracked behind closed doors
by Iran’s Revolutionary Court system, with
government-assigned lawyers representing the
defendants. The evidence presented has often been
opaque, sometimes relying on coerced confessions or
grainy video footage. Rights groups say that in
some cases, there are accounts and evidence of
torture.
Not every detail of the judicial proceedings or the
purported crimes could be confirmed, but The Times
interviewed friends and relatives of some
defendants and corroborated information with
activists and reports by Amnesty International and
other major human rights groups.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Tibetan_street_vendors_in_Lhasa_targeted_amid_‘clean
up’_the_streets_campaign⠀⇛
Local authorities began implementing the “Clean Up
Lhasa” campaign on March 20 in the city of about
560,000 people in which they are inspecting all
street vendors in and around the Jokhang Temple, or
Tsuglagkhang, said the sources who declined to be
identified for safety reasons.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Apple_wins_appeal_against_UK’s_decision_to
investigate_its_mobile_browser⠀⇛
Technology giant Apple won its appeal against the
decision by Britain’s anti-trust regulator to
launch an investigation into its mobile browser and
cloud gaming services, the Competition Appeal
Tribunal ruled on Friday.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Meta_defeats_photo_app’s_antitrust_case_in_US
court⠀⇛
US District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto in Brooklyn, New
York, federal court said in her 67-page order that
Phhhoto Inc had failed to timely bring its claims
under relevant US antitrust law that sets a four-
year window and under New York state competition
provisions that have a three-year statute of
limitation.
# § Software Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Stupid_Patent_of_the_Month:_Traxcell_Tech_Gets
Ordered_To_Pay_Attorneys’_Fees⠀⇛
U.S. Patent No. 10,820,147 is owned by
Traxcell Technologies. It’s not clear what,
if anything, Traxcell ever made. The company
applied for patents back in 2002. By 2004, it
had a bare-bones website stating that its
mission “is to provide leading edge
technology and innovation to in [sic] the
field of telecommunications.” Today, its
business is pretty clear—Traxcell is a patent
troll. The company’s website has little
information beyond its patents, which have
been used in dozens of lawsuits since 2017.
The key claim of the ‘147 patent is long, but
it essentially describes a wireless device
that collects and shows location information,
and also includes traffic congestion
information. There’s also the “feature” that
the device can allow, or disallow, tracking
(a standard feature on modern smartphones).
This patent has come up in more than 20 of
Traxcell’s lawsuits in the last two years,
with its litigation picking up steam as the
patent’s expiration date of September 2022
drew near. It’s been used to sue major cell
phone companies like T-Mobile and Verizon,
the makers of online maps like Google and
Apple, and delivery and gig companies. It’s
sued FlightAware for using publicly available
flight-tracking information, and the Curb app
for tracking taxis, and Instacart for
tracking its own shoppers.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Apple_wins_US_appeal_over_patents_in
$502_million_VirnetX_verdict⠀⇛
Apple Inc persuaded a U.S. appeals court on
Thursday to uphold a patent tribunal’s ruling
that could imperil a $502 million verdict for
patent licensing company VirnetX Inc in the
companies’ long-running fight over privacy-
software technology.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit affirmed a decision from the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office that invalidated
the two patents VirnetX had accused Apple of
infringing.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Stupid_Patent_Of_The_Month:_Traxcell_Tech
Gets_Ordered_To_Pay_Attorneys’_Fees⠀⇛
If someone loses a patent lawsuit very
badly—to the point where they face orders to
pay attorneys’ fees—you wouldn’t think they
would be eager to come back to court with a
nearly identical lawsuit. But that’s what has
happened with this month’s patent. What’s
more, the lawyer representing the patent
owner, William Ramey, has been ordered to pay
attorneys’ fees no fewer than five times in
recent years.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ News_Publishers_Admit_They_Get_Value_From
Search_Traffic,_Even_As_They_Demand_Extra_Compensation
For_It⠀⇛
In recent years, major media organizations
have been lobbying Congress to enact
legislation, the “Journalism Competition and
Preservation Act,” requiring search engine
providers to engage in a form of collective
bargaining about the tax they would pay to
media publishers for the privilege of
providing links to their news articles,
backed up by mandatory interest
arbitration in which the thumb would be
placed on the scales by simply assuming that
the search engine companies could not refuse
to provide links and would be required to
pay something. The contention of the “News
Media Alliance” has been that the search
engines take value (access to news reporting
that is expensive to produce) and provide
nothing in return.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ DeSantis_May_Be_Learning_What_The
Copyright_World_Has_Always_Known:_Disney’s_Lawyers
Don’t_Fuck_Around⠀⇛
We’ve already covered how Florida man
Governor Ron DeSantis flipped out that
Disney, the largest employer in his state,
offered some mild criticism over one of his
unconstitutional censorship bills, and
decided to retaliate by (1) removing the
stupid questionable “theme park exemption”
his office had directly worked with Disney to
insert into his unconstitutional social media
bill and (2) move to take control over the
special board that that had been set up
decades ago, giving Disney effective control
over everything around Disney World.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Pirate_Site_Blocking_Decreases
Internet_Traffic,_Research_Finds⠀⇛
New academic research shows that blocking
pirate site domain names effectively
decreases internet traffic and, presumably,
piracy. However, widespread blocking by ISPs
doesn’t necessarily boost the use of paid VoD
or TV services. When it comes to legal
alternatives, the researchers only find a
marginal boost in TV viewership.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Canadian_ISPs_Blocked_Pirate_IPTV_&
Logged_Customer_IP_Addresses⠀⇛
When Canada’s Federal Court issued an
injunction compelling ISPs to block pirate
IPTV services on behalf of NHL broadcasters,
the judge ordered a report to ensure
compliance with the order. This report offers
considerable insight into the blocking
process but also reveals how some of Canada’s
ISPs logged customers’ connections and shared
data on their attempts to access pirate IPTV
services.
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