𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Friday, April 07, 2023
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⦿ IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 06, 2023 | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
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䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/04/07/credcheck-1-0/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/04/07/kubuntu-23-04-beta-released/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/04/07/pclinuxos-magazine-and-more/#comments
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
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o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
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# Patents
# Trademarks
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* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ System76_Shows_First_Pics_of_Fully
Customized_Linux_Laptop_Prototype⠀⇛
Consumer Linux hardware pioneer System76 is
readying its first fully own-designed laptop.
Codenamed “Virgo” the firm hopes to move beyond
whitebook customizer status, with a range of fully
bespoke Linux portables. Teasing this important
milestone in the company’s evolution, Founder and
CEO of System76, Carl Richell, took to Twitter with
some images of prototype parts.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux in the Ham Shack ☛ LHS_Episode_#503:_The_Weekender
CIII⠀⇛
It’s time once again for The Weekender. This is our
departure into the world of hedonism, random topic
excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 100_Awesome_and_Must-Have_TUI_Linux_Apps⠀⇛
This article selects 100 TUI apps that largely
reflects software our volunteers use as their daily
drivers.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Journal:_Self-hosted_User-friendly_Journaling
System_With_Sharing_option⠀⇛
Journal Is A Self-hosted Private Journaling System
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Cowyo:_Wiki_System_For_Minimalists⠀⇛
cowyo is a truly remarkable self-contained wiki
server that makes jotting notes an incredibly easy
and lightning-fast process. The most impressive
feature of cowyo is its unrivaled simplicity,
making it a perfect choice for anyone who values an
intuitive and easy-to-use interface. But that’s
just the beginning.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Boost_Note_Has_Evolved_from_a_Note-taking_App_to
a_Powerful_Project_Management_Tool⠀⇛
Boost Note is a document driven project management
tool that maximizes remote DevOps team velocity.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Rento:_Is_an_Open-source_Knowledge_Base⠀⇛
Raneto is an open-source Knowledgebase platform
that uses static Markdown files to power your
Knowledgebase.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ FOSS_Weekly_#23.14:_Immutable_Linux_Distros,
Gedit_Tweaks,_Color_Styles_in_Linux_Mint_&_More⠀⇛
Ever heard of an immutable Linux system? Learn
about them in this edition of FOSS Weekly.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ Building_a_Self-Hosted_Microblog⠀⇛
This resulted in my spending more time fiddling
with my Micro.blog site, or its related back-end,
instead of actually…you know…posting. I decided
there had to be a better way, but I had a few
requirements for my self-hosted microblog: [...]
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ 21_Tar_Command_Examples_in_Linux⠀⇛
The Linux “tar” stands for tape archive, which is
used by a large number of Linux/Unix system
administrators to deal with tape drive backup in
Linux.
The tar command in Linux is used to rip a
collection of files and directories into a highly
compressed archive file commonly called tarball or
tar, gzip and bzip in Linux.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Open,_Extract_and_Create_RAR_Files_in
Linux⠀⇛
RAR is the most popular tool for creating and
extracting compressed archive (.rar) files. When we
download an archive file from the web, we required
a rar tool to extract them.
RAR is available freely under Windows operating
systems to handle compressed files, but
unfortunately, the rar tool doesn’t pre-installed
under Linux systems.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ Most_Commonly_Asked_Questions_in_Linux
Interviews⠀⇛
If you have already achieved your Linux
certification and are looking forward to securing a
Linux job, it pays a great deal to prepare for an
interview that tests your knowledge of the ins and
outs of Linux.
In this guide, we present to you some of the most
commonly asked questions in Linux interviews and
answers.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Migrate_CentOS_7_to_AlmaLinux_8_Using
ELevate_Repo⠀⇛
CentOS 7 reaches the end of life on June 30th, 2024
marking the end of the CentOS Project after CentOS
8 was prematurely discontinued back on December
31st in favor of CentOS Stream.
Thankfully, you can migrate from CentOS 7 to
AlmaLinux 8 or any major Enterprise 8.x RHEL
distributions such as Oracle Linux 8, Rocky Linux
8, or CentOS Stream 8 using the Elevate
Project.Table of Contents1What is
Elevate?Preliminary StepStep 1: Update CentOS 7
SystemStep 2: Install Elevate Repository in CentOS
7Step 3: Install Leapp Utility in CentOS 7Step 4:
Migrate CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8Conclusion
# ⚓ How_to_Install_AnyDesk_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Need to install AnyDesk on your Ubuntu machine?
This guide will walk you through the process step-
by-step, making it easy to get up and running.
# ⚓ How_to_Create_Proxy_Server⠀⇛
Want to create your own proxy server? This step-by-
step guide will show you how to set up a proxy
server on your computer or server.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ A_Comprehensive_Guide_to_Transferring_Files_Over
SSH⠀⇛
Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic network
protocol used for secure communication and remote
command execution between computers. One of its
most common use cases is transferring files
securely over a network.
# ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_to_Install_Jetty_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we are going to explain to you in
step-by-step detail how to install Jetty on Ubuntu
22.04 [...]
# ⚓ LinuxTuto ☛ How_to_Install_Varnish_with_Nginx_on_AlmaLinux
9⠀⇛
Varnish is a popular open-source web application
accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse
proxy [...]
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Pluma_Text_Editor_on_Ubuntu_22.04
LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Pluma Text Editor on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Are you
looking for a reliable and easy-to-use text editor
for your Ubuntu 22.04 system? Look no further than
Pluma! Pluma is a …
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Sublime_Merge_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Sublime Merge on Debian 11.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_WildFly_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
WildFly on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who
didn’t know, WildFly is a flexible, lightweight,
and open-source application server that is written
in Java.
# ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ How_To_Fix_“Mount_Point_Does_Not_Exist_Error”
In_Linux⠀⇛
If you are a Linux user then you might come across
this error “mount point does not exist” when you
try to mount your device.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Best_way_to_copy_large_folders_on_Linux⠀⇛
Hello, friends. Today we are going with a post
dedicated to Linux newbies and not so newbies.
Today, we will tell you the best way to copy large
folders on Linux.
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Install_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Server
Edition⠀⇛
This step by step tutorial explains how to create a
Ubuntu bootable USB drive and how to install
install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS server version with
screenshots.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ Installation_of_Ubuntu_22.04_Server_with_LAMP
Stack⠀⇛
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, released
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) on April 21,
2022, for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu
Cloud, and Ubuntu Core with a five years long term
support guaranteed…
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Migrate_CentOS_7_to_AlmaLinux_8_Using
ELevate_Repo⠀⇛
CentOS 7 reaches the end of life on June 30th, 2024
marking the end of the CentOS Project after CentOS
8 was prematurely discontinued back on December
31st in favor of CentOS Stream. Thankfully,
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ trurl:_Command-line_tool_for_URL_Parsing_and
Manipulation_URL⠀⇛
Daniel Stenberg has created a new tool for the open
source community that allows for easy parsing and
manipulation of URLs.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ HaikuOS ☛ Haiku_Activity_&_Contract_Report,_March_2023⠀⇛
Thanks again to all who contribute to Haiku, and
especially those donors who make my contract possible!
Later this month, I intend to write up a long and
technical article about Haiku’s kernel condition
variables, which have some interesting properties not
found on most other operating systems, and for which I
rewrote the implementation between the beta3 and beta4
releases. So, stay tuned for that!
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Red_Hat_at_30:_Success_with_a_Whiff_of_Open
Source_and_Linux⠀⇛
Red Hat’s 30th anniversary is a testament to the
power of Open Source and the strength of the Linux
community. Happy Birthday, Red Hat!
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Council_policy
proposal: equalize_“auxiliary”_positions⠀⇛
At our hackfest earlier this year, the Council
agreed that we want to drop the distinction between
full and auxiliary positions on the Council.
Instead, we should have all members on an equal
footing. The concerns expressed by some on the
former Fedora Board (the predecessor to the
Council) haven’t come to pass. But we have seen a
negative impact: people in these roles feel less
empowered to act, and unsure about their standing
as a “real” member of the Council.
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Community_Blog
monthly_summary:_March_2023⠀⇛
This is the latest in our monthly_series
summarizing the past month on the Community Blog.
Please leave a comment below to let us know what
you think.
# ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ Daniel_Pocock:_Brno_suicides:_in_defence_of
Red_Hat_&_Fedora⠀⇛
In 2022 I was one of the bloggers who analyzed the
tragic Debian_Day_Volunteer_Suicide.
Shortly after that, people began asking me to
publish something about suicides in Brno. In the
Debian case, all of us Debian Developers have full
access to the debian-private history so we can all
verify the authenticity of the messages. I’ve never
worked for Red Hat and I’ve never been to Brno so
there is no easy way for me to verify an email and
publish it on my blog.
Furthermore, in the case of Frans Pop, it is hard
to deny a connection to Debian because he resigned
to_commit_suicide_the_night_before_the_Debian_Day
anniversary. Red Hat employs_1180_people_in_Brno,
that is a large enough number that if one person
did commit suicide it may be completely unrelated
to their workplace.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Find_mistakes_in_your_playbooks_with
Ansible_Lint⠀⇛
Find mistakes in your playbooks with Ansible Lint
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ IT_hiring:_Why_your_tech_stack
matters⠀⇛
The stock market can rise and fall; a pandemic can
overtake the globe; overall employment rates can
fluctuate wildly – but one thing will stay the
same: the demand for tech talent.
Over the last decade – and especially in the last
few years – the tech sector has shown itself to be
curiously invulnerable to wider trends in
employment. Unemployment in the sector has hovered
at around 2 percent, even with the recent layoffs
and much to the frustration of recruiters, who work
tirelessly to secure top talent in an ultra-
competitive field.
Accordingly, the usual perks employers use to lure
in high-quality candidates – say, lax remote work
policies, employee perks, salary, and benefits –
are less effective when it comes to recruiting tech
candidates.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Cybersecurity_hiring:_Drive
transformation_through_new_talent_pipelines⠀⇛
The evolving technology landscape has spurred
business transformation across industries – driving
efficiency and unlocking new opportunities for
companies to scale and increase impact.
But as businesses evolve, potential threats are
expanding too. Business leaders must navigate an
increasingly complex, ever-changing world of
cybersecurity imperatives that require innovative
approaches to mitigate these new risks.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Build_the_foundation_for_you_zero_trust_strategy
with_Ubuntu_confidential_computing [Ed: Canonical promotes
clown computing outsourcing disguised as "privacy" (it's
not)]⠀⇛
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ Installation_of_Ubuntu_22.04_Server_with_LAMP
Stack⠀⇛
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, released
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) on April 21,
2022, for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu
Cloud, and Ubuntu Core with a five years long term
support guaranteed on software and updates until
April 2032.
The scope of this tutorial is to present a classic
installation of Ubuntu 22.04 Server made from a CD
media or a USB bootable stick and also, a basic
installation of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and
PHP) packages stack with basic configurations.Table
of Contents1Download Ubuntu 22.04 ServerStep 1:
Installing Ubuntu 22.04 ServerStep 2: Basic Network
ConfigurationsStep 3: Install LAMP Stack in Ubuntu
22.04
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Pico_W_Brings_Retro_Nintendo
Controllers_to_Switch⠀⇛
Acting as the bridge between the past and the
present, this Raspberry Pi Pico W project uses
original Nintendo controllers with its latest
console.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ $15_Adafruit_Feather_RP2040_with_DVI_Output
Port_connects_to_your_HDMI_TV_or_monitor⠀⇛
“Adafruit Feather RP2040 with DVI Output Port” is
another Raspberry Pi RP2040 board with an HDMI port
that can output DVI video signal (no audio) to most
TVs or monitors with an HDMI input port thanks to
the PicoDVI project.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Cardboard_drones_running_open_source
flight_software_take_off_in_Ukraine_and_beyond⠀⇛
The Corvo Precision Payload Delivery System (PPDS)
costs less than $3,500 apiece, a price made
possible by the craft’s use of FOSS and commercial-
off-the-shelf hardware.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ Guide:_How_to_Install_GCAM_8.8_in_all_Android
smartphones⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ YouTube_Music_rolling_out_Library_grid_view_on
Android_[U]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Central ☛ Xiaomi_13_Ultra_is_confirmed_for_an_April
launch_|_Android_Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Central ☛ Google_releases_Android_13_QPR3_Beta_2.1,
brings_improvements_to_your_Pixel’s_modem_|_Android_Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android_13_QPR3_Beta_2.1_Released_to_Update_Pixel_Modems⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ 5_best_practices_for_PatternFly,_an_open_source
design_system⠀⇛
Have you ever admired the facets of a gemstone? The
angles and slants are a thing of beauty. You can see that
a multi-faceted gemstone shines brighter than a flat one.
You may also see this kind of beauty when analyzing a
multi-faceted design system. A design system is a
collection of guidelines, standards, and resources for
creating consistent and unified user interfaces (UI).
Like the facets of a diamond, an open source design
system rich with diverse contributions and community
engagement ultimately leads to better product
experiences.
The PatternFly project is an open source design system
for Red Hat products. But open source doesn’t end with
PatternFly’s code. Behind PatternFly is a team of people
who create designs completely in the open. From designers
and developers to researchers and writers, we work
together to operate as an open source community.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ I_like_how_Gemini_handles_links⠀⇛
I’ve been spending more time on Gemini, and
enjoying the experience. It’s not just a
lightweight protocol for computers, it’s quick to
download and easy to read for us too. You don’t
realise just how much we’ve sacrificed on the
modern web until you use something that unabashedly
usable.
# ⚓ Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ Mullvad_Browser⠀⇛
There is a new application available for Sparkers:
Mullvad Browser What is Mullvad Browser? The
Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser
developed in a collaboration between Mullvad VPN
and the Tor Project. It’s designed to minimize
tracking and fingerprinting. You could say it’s a
Tor Browser to use without the Tor Network.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ credcheck_v1.0_released⠀⇛
§ PostgreSQL credcheck extension
The credcheck PostgreSQL extension provides general
credential checks, which will be evaluated during
the user creation, during the password change and
user renaming. By using this extension, a set of
rules can be defined:
# allow a specific set of credentials
# reject a certain type of credentials
# enforce use of an expiration date with a
minimum of day for a password
# define a password reuse policy
o § FSF⠀➾
# ⚓ FSF ☛ Free_Software_Gigabit_Mini_VPN_Router_(TPE-R1400)
from_ThinkPenguin,_Inc._now_FSF-certified_to_Respect_Your
Freedom
⠀⇛
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) awarded Respects
Your Freedom (RYF) certification to the Free
Software Gigabit Mini VPN Router (TPE-R1400) from
ThinkPenguin, Inc. The RYF certification mark means
that this product meets the FSF’s standards in
regard to users’ freedom, control over the product,
and privacy.
This is ThinkPenguin’s first device to receive RYF
certification in 2023, adding to their vast
catalogue of certified devices from previous years.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ 7_Reasons_Why_Laravel_Framework_is_the_Best_for_Your
Website⠀⇛
Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web application
framework that uses the model-view-controller (MVC)
architectural pattern to create web applications.
Taylor Otwell created it in 2011, and it has since
become one of the most popular PHP frameworks,
widely used by developers worldwide.
# ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ GDC_2023:_Retrospective⠀⇛
We attended the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in
San Francisco this year.
# ⚓ Daniel Lemire ☛ Are_your_memory-bound_benchmarking_timings
normally_distributed?⠀⇛
When optimizing software, we routinely measure the
time that takes a given function or task. The
typical assumption is that we get a normal
distribution, and so we should therefore report the
average time.
# ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_RcppArmadillo
0.12.2.0.0_on_CRAN:_New_Upstream_Minor⠀⇛
Armadillo is a powerful
and expressive C++ template library for linear
algebra and scientific
computing. It aims towards a good balance between
speed and ease of use,
has a syntax deliberately close to Matlab, and is
useful for algorithm
development directly in C++, or quick conversion of
research code into
production environments. RcppArmadillo
integrates this library with the R environment and
language–and is
widely used by (currently) 1052 other packages on
CRAN, downloaded 28.6 million
times (per the partial logs from the cloud mirrors
of CRAN), and the CSDA_paper (preprint
/_vignette) by Conrad and myself has been cited 522
times according
to Google Scholar.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael_Ablassmeier:_tracking_changes_between_pypi
package_releases⠀⇛
I wondered if there is some tracking for
differences between packages
published on pypi, something that stores this
information in a format
similar to debdiff..
I failed to find something on the web, so
created a little utility which
watches the pypi
changelog for new
releaes and fetches the new and old version.
# ⚓ Python Speed ☛ Polars_for_initial_data_analysis,
Polars_for_production⠀⇛
In this article we’ll use both two APIs and
see how Polars lets you transition from
looking at the data to something we can run
even more efficiently in production.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Replace_String_in_File⠀⇛
To replace a string in a file, open the file
with open(), read the data with read(),
replace the data with replace() and store it
back in the file with write().
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Read_File_Into_String⠀⇛
To read a file into a string in Python, use
the read() method, the readlines() method
with string concatenation and the read_text()
method from Path package.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_UnboundLocalError⠀⇛
UnboundLocalError is caused when a local
variable is accessed before the assignment of
value. Or due to the confusion between local
and global scope.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Generate_a_Random_Boolean_Value⠀⇛
To generate random boolean values in Python,
first generate random numeric values and then
use the bool() method to convert them into a
boolean.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_String_to_a_Dict⠀⇛
To convert a Python String into a Dictionary,
use the json.loads() method, the
ast.literal_eval() method, or generator
expressions.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_String_Escape_Quotes⠀⇛
To use quotes within a string in Python, use
a different set of quotes to declare the
string and in between a string or use
backslash “\” before quotes.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Print_Numpy_Array_with
Precision⠀⇛
To print the values of the Numpy Array with
specific precision in Python, use the
set_printoptions() method and define the
precision argument.
# § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Make_a_web-safe_color_guide_with
Bash⠀⇛
When computer displays had a limited color
palette, web designers often used a set of
web-safe colors to create websites. While
modern websites displaying on newer devices
can display many more colors than the
original web-safe color palette, I sometimes
like to refer to the web-safe colors when I
create web pages. This way I know my pages
look good anywhere.
You can find web-safe color palettes on the
web, but I wanted to have my own copy for
easy reference. And you can make one too,
using the for loop in Bash.
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ Andrew Helwer ☛ Inlining_SVGs_for_Dark_Mode⠀⇛
I will here indulge in the traditional practice of
using my blog to talk about how I’m using my blog.
This page is built with the Hugo static site
generator. I recently updated it to use the latest
version of the beautifulhugo theme, which
unbeknownst to me included a dark mode colorscheme.
Recent browsers use the prefers-color-scheme option
to automatically choose light or dark mode CSS
styles, if the website supports it. And my website
did support it, not that I knew it until people
started commenting that my syntax-highlighted code
blocks were unreadable! I figured out how to toggle
light/dark mode in Firefox (ctrl+shift+I to open
the inspector pane then click the sun/moon icons),
perused my website, and found an even greater
problem: my treasured vector diagrams that I put so
much time & effort into were completely invisible
against a dark background! Here’s a quick post
about supporting dark mode on my blog by inlining
SVGs and setting their color with the currentColor
CSS variable.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ James G ☛ Fun_with_words:_Computer_science_jargon⠀⇛
Earlier this week, I evaluated whether I should create a
Fun with Words series on this blog in which I talk about
interesting and amusing words and phrases ^1. I was
looking through my open tabs in Firefox on my phone and
saw an idea for a Fun with Words theme: jargon in
computer science comprised of two words that are not
usually next to each other. Specific? Yes indeed. Fun?
Yes!
o ⚓ James G ☛ Writing_moods⠀⇛
At last night’s Homebrew Website Club meetup, I noted
that I struggled to find the utility of a digital gardens
for myself. Ender ^1 said that digital gardens are a
different “mood” for writing. We discussed Maggie
Appleton’s ^2 “topography over timelines” principle, and
other features that make digital gardens distinct. The
“mood” framing made a lot of sense to me.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ JWST_Captures_Details_of_The_Four_Most
Distant_Galaxies_Ever_Seen⠀⇛
Only 320 million years after the Big Bang.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ World_First:_Monkeys_Fall_Pregnant_With
Engineered_Embryo_Structures⠀⇛
A controversial breakthrough.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Researchers_Studied_a_Circadian_Clock_in
Real_Time_in_a_First_For_Science⠀⇛
It’s complicated.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Scientists_Find_‘Mountains’,_Widespread
Structures_Near_Earth’s_Core⠀⇛
The core of our planet could be surrounded by the
warped remnants of an ancient sunken ocean floor, a
new study says.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Medieval_Monks_Could_Have_Unknowingly
Recorded_The_Ferocity_of_Volcanic_Activity⠀⇛
“Like blood, then turned into darkness.”
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Snake_Discovered_That_Actually_Does
Cartwheels,_And_We_Have_Pics_to_Prove_It⠀⇛
Later, losers!
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Physicists_Simulated_a_Black_Hole_in_The
Lab,_And_Then_It_Started_to_Glow⠀⇛
Wait, what?
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ What_can_high_schools_learn_from_their_post-
pandemic_upperclassmen?⠀⇛
The resumption of in-person schooling didn’t
generate an automatic return to normalcy. What can
school systems learn from students nearing the end
of their K-12 experience?
# ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ MSc_–_completed!⠀⇛
I’ve got to say, it has been… an experience. I’ve
relentlessly blogged about the process. The
academic content was pretty good, but the
administration by QA.com was nothing short of
atrocious.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ CAN_do_attitude:_How_thieves_steal_cars
using_network_bus⠀⇛
It all started when a Toyota RAV4 belonging to one
of the tech gurus suffered suspicious damage to the
front wing and headlight housing, and was
eventually successfully stolen. Some sleuthing and
reverse engineering revealed how the motor was
finally nicked.
# ⚓ 37signals LLC ☛ The_hardware_we_need_for_our_cloud_exit_has
arrived⠀⇛
It’s been a long time since I last saw a physical
piece of hardware used to run our services at
37signals. I vaguely remember doing a tour of our
Chicago data center over a decade ago, but
somewhere along the line, I just lost interest in
the iron itself. Now the interest is back, because
hardware is fun again, so let me share my
excitement with you!
# ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ Secure_Computing_with_Zymbit’s_D35⠀⇛
In addition, there’s a built-in accelerometer that
can be used alongside other tamper prevention
methods if you so choose, to detect if the device
was picked up, or was subject to shock attacks.
There’s an entire API to interact with the physical
security features.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Finland_Is_Still_Officially_The_Happiest
Place_on_Earth._Here’s_Why⠀⇛
It starts with equality.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Giant_Study_Pinpoints_Specific_Gut_Bacteria
Linked_to_Alzheimer’s⠀⇛
We found something.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ HIPAA_can’t_keep_up_with_digital_health⠀⇛
Nearly three decades old, HIPAA appears obsolete
and riddled with new technology-induced gaps.
Why it matters: With regulators unable and
politicians unwilling to address the shortcomings
of the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act, private companies are offering
a fix.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Vaccines_aren’t_toxic_but_Facebook_mom
groups_are⠀⇛
I’d like to issue a PSA to all of the parents who
outlawed “SpongeBob SquarePants” in the late
aughts: A yellow cartoon sponge did not awaken the
signs of my adolescent ADHD. It was Club Penguin’s
Pizzatron 3000, thank you very much.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Scientists_Find_Earliest_Direct_Evidence
of_People_Doing_Drugs_in_Europe⠀⇛
3,000 years ago in a Spanish cave, humans were
tripping.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Lithium_in_Drinking_Water_Identified_as
Potential_Risk_Factor_For_Autism⠀⇛
The effects could start before birth.
# ⚓ PHR ☛ Global_Medical_and_Human_Rights_Groups_Call_on
Türkiye_to_End_Persecution_of_Doctors⠀⇛
In a letter issued today, four international
medical and human rights organizations call on
Turkish authorities to drop the baseless charges
against the leadership of the Turkish Medical
Association (TMA) at a time when doctors are
urgently needed to tend to victims of the 6
February earthquake that have caused over 56,000
deaths in Türkiye…
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ ChatGPT_Is_Pretty_Bad_At_Poetry,
According_To_Poets⠀⇛
Poets say rumors of their obsolescence at the hands
of AI has been greatly exaggerated.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Amazon_Shut_Down_DPReview._The_Community
Is_Saving_It⠀⇛
In response to Amazon’s shuttering of the bedrock
digital photography community, developers are
taking steps to protect the crowdsourced data and
revive the community on brand new websites like
DPRevied.
# ⚓ ChatGPT_Goes_Haywire:_AI_Chatbot_Falsely_Accuses_Innocent
Highly-Respected_Law_Professor_for_Sexually_Harassing
Students⠀⇛
Jonathan Turley, Shapiro Chair of Public Interest
Law at George Washington University, was left
shocked when he realised ChatGPT named him as part
of a research project on legal scholars who
sexually harassed someone.
o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾
# § Openwashing⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ How_to_lead_through_change_with_open
leadership⠀⇛
Change is hard. It often brings discomfort,
anxiety, and confusion. Even as an Agile
enthusiast, I sometimes feel I’m not
welcoming change the way I should.
Change is often hard because the predecessor
of change is chaos. Being in chaos is a
natural part of the change process and an
integral part of evolution. If chaos is
handled poorly, it may result in
inefficiencies, stress, demotivation, loss of
direction, and poor performance. However, it
also presents an opportunity to rethink,
reorganize, refresh, reboot, experiment, and
invent.
Open leadership is critical here. The Open
Organization defines open leadership as a
mindset and set of behaviors that anyone can
learn and practice. Open leaders think and
act in service to another person, group,
team, or enterprise attempting to accomplish
something together.
Open leaders acknowledge change, lead it with
a generative-lean-agile mindset, and welcome
it with intuition, focus, and enthusiasm.
# ⚓ The Hindu ☛ Musk_partially_delivers_on_his_Twitter
open-source_promise_Premium⠀⇛
At the heart of Twitter’s business model is
the recommendation algorithm. It is a set of
rules that enables the platform to deliver
content based on users’ interests and
preferences. It is with the help of this
system that advertisers promote their brands.
Content flows into a user’s timeline through
two channels. One pipeline channels content
posted by people that the user follows and
the other is filled with posts flowing from
accounts that could potentially interest the
user.
The latter timeline, called ‘For You’, acts
as a predictive tool to suggest feeds that a
user may be interested in. It helps the
micro-blogging site find answers to questions
like — what is the probability a user will
engage with another user in the future, what
communities on Twitter might a user be
interested in and what tweets are trending
within them. Answers to such questions help
the platform recommend relevant content.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Ransomware_gang_releases_new_data_stolen
from_the_City_of_Oakland [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
The Play ransomware group shared 600 gigabytes of
data on its leaks site in its second release,
including Oakland Police Department files, council
members’ communications and city staff’s medical
records. By contrast, the first release of stolen
data in March was a more modest 10 gigabytes.
The ransomware attack took place on Feb. 8,
knocking some of the city’s information technology
systems offline. The city declared a state of
emergency on Feb. 16 because of ongoing network
outages caused by the attack. The attack did not
affect 911 services, but certain nonemergency
systems were forced offline.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Cisco_Patches_Code_and_Command_Execution
Vulnerabilities_in_Several_Products⠀⇛
Cisco has released patches for high-severity
vulnerabilities impacting Secure Network Analytics
and Identity Services Engine (ISE) products.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Microsoft_leads_effort_to_disrupt
illicit_use_of_Cobalt_Strike,_a_dangerous_[cracking]_tool_in
the_wrong_hands [Ed: Gross and negligent inversion of
narratives; the culprit here is Microsoft, Microsoft isn't
the solution]⠀⇛
The action against illicit versions of legitimate
Cobalt Strike applications represents the
culmination of a year-long investigation.
[...]
Cobalt Strike, an adversary emulation tool that
information security professionals use to evaluate
network and system defenses to enable better
security, like other legitimate hacking tools, is
regularly abused by cybercriminals as part of
attacks ranging from financially motived cybercrime
to high-end state-aligned attacks.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Thieves_Use_CAN_Injection_Hack_to_Steal
Cars⠀⇛
An innocent-looking portable speaker can hide a
hacking device that launches CAN injection attacks,
which have been used to steal cars.
[...]
Specifically, the thieves pulled off the bumper and
unplugged the headlight cables in an attempt to
reach wires connected to an electronic control unit
(ECU) responsible for the vehicle’s smart key.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Success_of_Genesis_Market_Takedown_Attempt
Called_Into_Question⠀⇛
Law enforcement announced the takedown of Genesis
Market, but the impact on the cybercrime
marketplace’s infrastructure may be limited.
# ⚓ LinuxSecurity ☛ Several_Distros_Release_Important
Advisories_for_Actively_Exploited_Linux_Kernel_Use_After_Free
Vuln⠀⇛
Several high-impact security vulnerabilities were
recently discovered and fixed in the Linux kernel.
These flaws could result in memory exhaustion,
system crashes, denial of service (DoS), the
exposure of sensitive information, cross-site
scripting (XSS) attacks, privilege escalation
attacks, or the execution of arbitrary code.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ ACLU ☛ Tesla_Camera_Scandal_is_the_Latest_Lesson_in
Dangers_of_Letting_Companies_Record_You⠀⇛
Tesla employees passed around videos taken in
car owners’ private garages and other
interesting recordings captured by the
cameras built in to the company’s vehicles,
Reuters_reported today. “We could see them
doing laundry and really intimate things. We
could see their kids,” according to one of
nine former employees who told the news
agency about the practice.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Google_Wants_Android_Users_to_Have
More_Control_Over_Their_Data⠀⇛
Developers of Android applications will be
required by Google to allow users to delete
their account and data from within the app
and online.
# ⚓ Reuters ☛ Special_Report:_Tesla_workers_shared
sensitive_images_recorded_by_customer_cars⠀⇛
Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric
car owners that their privacy “is and will
always be enormously important to us.” The
cameras it builds into vehicles to assist
driving, it notes on its website, are
“designed from the ground up to protect your
privacy.”
But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla
employees privately shared via an internal
messaging system sometimes highly invasive
videos and images recorded by customers’ car
cameras, according to interviews by Reuters
with nine former employees.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Smile!_UK_cops_reckon_they’ve
ironed_out_gremlins_with_real-time_facial_recog⠀⇛
The report [PDF] from the National Physical
Laboratory found that when face-match
thresholds in Neoface were set to 0.6 (the
default setting), correct identification
occurred 89 percent of the time someone
walked into a recognition zone. False
positive rates, per the report, were just
0.017 percent.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ UK_fined_TikTok_nearly_USD_16_million
for_misusing_children’s_personal_data⠀⇛
TikTok has been fined almost $16m by the UK
Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for
breaching data protection laws, including
misusing children’s data. The regulator
estimated that more than one million users,
under age 13, used the platform in
contradiction of its own rules last year. The
fine covers breaches committed between May
2018 and July 2020.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ UK_Government_Fines_TikTok
Nearly_$16_Million_‘For_Misusing_Children’s_Data,’_Says
the_Platform_‘Should_Have_Done_Better’⠀⇛
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO),
which bills itself as “the UK’s independent
body set up to uphold information rights,”
just recently announced the multimillion-
dollar fine against TikTok. Of course, it’s
long been known that the highly controversial
video-sharing app has a generally young
userbase.
# ⚓ EDRI ☛ Open_Letter:_Defend_encryption_and_put_human
rights_at_the_core_of_cyber-crime_related_policies:_A
civil_society_response_to_the_leaked_notes_of_the_EU-US
Senior_Officials_Meeting_on_Justice_and_Home_Affairs_on
16_and_17_March [PDF]⠀⇛
The undersigned organisations work to defend
human rights in the digital era. We are
writing this joint letter as we are deeply
concerned with with the disregard for
international human rights standards and the
planned attacks against encryption in the
leaked notes from the EU-US Senior Officials
Meeting on Justice and Home Affairs, held in
Stockholm on 16 and 17 March.
# ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ Charter_Suggests_Network
Authentication_Layer_for_Equipment_Certification⠀⇛
Charter Communications is recommending the
Federal Communications Commission require
device manufacturers seeking equipment
authorization to add a layer of
authentication security to protect against
cyberthreats.
In a letter to the commission on Friday, the
telecommunications company suggested the
commission require, as a condition of
certification, devices pass a security
authentication step to connect to the user’s
network. When an [Internet]-connected device
connects to a network, it can also access
sensitive information being shared on it –
leaving the door open to malicious activity.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ New_World_Order:_The_International_Criminal
Court_and_War_on_Russia⠀⇛
It is in the ranks of the Party, and above all the
Inner Party, that the true war enthusiasm is found.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Over_1,000_now_face_charges_in_connection_to_Jan._6
riots⠀⇛
In the 27 months since a mob of Trump supporters
breached_the_Capitol, more than 1,020 people have
been charged in connection to the insurrection and
around 533 have pleaded guilty, the Department of
Justice said Thursday.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ U.S._admits_Afghanistan_evacuation_should_have
begun_sooner⠀⇛
The U.S. acknowledged its evacuations_from
Afghanistan in 2021 should have begun sooner — but
largely blamed the Trump administration, according
to a newly releasedNational Security Council
document outlining key moments.
Why it matters:The chaotic withdrawal from
Afghanistan in summer 2021 — a pain_point in
Biden’s presidency that’s drawn bipartisan
criticism — has also become a growing target_of
GOP-led_congressional_investigations.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Biden_review_of_chaotic_Afghan
withdrawal_blames_Trump⠀⇛
It does acknowledge that the evacuations should
have started sooner.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ UN_rejects_Taliban_order_barring_women_from
working_in_its_ranks⠀⇛
The United Nations has said it will not accept a
Taliban order this week that bars women in
Afghanistan from working for the U.N. In response,
the U.N. said it will be working with Afghan
authorities to end the “unparalleled violation.”
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Review_Of_Chaotic_Afghan_Withdrawal_Blames
Trump⠀⇛
An interagency review led by the National Security
Council of the chaotic 2021 withdrawal of U.S.
troops from Afghanistan largely lays the blame on
former President Donald Trump, saying President Joe
Biden was “severely constrained by conditions
created by his predecessor.”
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ How_Putin_saved_NATO⠀⇛
When Finland cleared the last hurdle for NATO
membership last week, major Western newspapers
buried the story. Yet Foreign Minister Pekka
Haavisto justly celebrated ‘these historic
days’—the end of 75 years of neutrality.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Arab_states_are_normalizing_with_the
Assad_regime._This_is_the_Middle_East’s_1936_moment.⠀⇛
Now diplomatic relations are set to be restored
between Syria and two behemoths of the Arab League:
Egypt and Saudi Arabia, who are the holders of the
all-important veto on Assad’s return to regional
respectability.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ China_promises_resolute_response_after_Tsai-McCarthy
meeting⠀⇛
Chinese and US aircraft carriers are sailing near
Taiwan as Beijing accuses Washington of ‘crossing
the line’.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian_Forces_Hold_Bakhmut_As_Russian_Strikes_In
Kherson_Injure_Civilians⠀⇛
Ukrainian and Russian forces battled on April 6 in
the eastern city of Bakhmut, while in the Kherson
region Russian strikes injured seven people.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ China_cannot_be_peace_mediator_for_Ukraine_–
Lithuanian_FM⠀⇛
China cannot act as a peace mediator over Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine as Beijing’s peace plan would
result in the loss of Ukraine’s sovereignty,
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis
has said.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ US,_Microsoft_reach_settlement_over_tech
firm’s_sanctions_violations⠀⇛
Microsoft has agreed to remit about $3 million to
settle its potential civil liability for more than
1,300 apparent sanctions violations in relation to
restrictions on Cuba, Iran, Syria and Russia
involving the export of services or software from
the US to sanctioned jurisdictions, the US Treasury
Department said in a statement.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ American Oversight ☛ American_Oversight_Adds_Wake_TSI_to
Lawsuit_Against_Fulton_County,_Pa.,_for_Election_Review
Records⠀⇛
# ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Aimar_Ventsel:_Why_are_the
Russians_not_protesting?⠀⇛
That Russia is locked in an existential struggle is
evidenced in the coffins coming back from Ukraine
and fresh graves in the cemeteries. And those
losses are adding to the hatred people have for the
West, not the Kremlin. The fact that TV Rain, which
now has 15 million viewers in Russia after moving
to the Netherlands, changes nothing.
Of course, Russian residents are not in favor of
the war. They do not like it that they and their
country are criticized in the West. They also do
not like the fact they can no longer travel to
Europe for vacation and studies. That several
Western products that people had gotten used to
have disappeared is also highly inconvenient, as is
the fact that the ballooning cost of living is a
problem for most people in Russia. However, none of
it matters one little bit.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Scott Feeney ☛ One_day_of_harassment,_intimidation,_and
vandalism_from_Monkeybrains_and_Mission_Kids⠀⇛
Unfortunately, our efforts are strongly opposed by
two newcomer businesses that feel entitled to park
there for free, indefinitely: the private preschool
Mission Kids and the ISP Monkeybrains. This
Tuesday, their opposition crossed over into
personal insults, harassment, intimidation, threats
of violence, and the destruction of two of our
garden beds—all over the course of three hours from
noon to 3pm.
These businesses know they have no serious legal
argument to any rights to the parcel and that the
neighbors don’t support their land grab. They’re
desperate to hold onto their free parking, so
they’re trying to create a toxic environment for
our volunteers and visitors so we give up.
# ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Scientists_call_for_more_action
to_reduce_pharmaceutical_residues_in_water⠀⇛
Estonia has lower amounts of pharmaceutical
residues in its waters than other more populous
countries. However, scientists say the country
should nevertheless develop a strategy to further
reduce these levels.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ The_threat_spectrum⠀⇛
Planet A Updates to Australia’s emissions reduction
‘safeguard mechanism’ will limit new gas and coal
investments while hard-capping total greenhouse gas
emissions.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Electric_scooter_parking_reform
begins_in_Helsinki_city_centre⠀⇛
From now on, shared electric scooters and
bicycles may only be parked in designated
places in the city centre and parts of the
inner city. Leaving an electric scooter or
bicycle in other places in the area is
unequivocally a parking violation.
The parking reform will be implemented with
regional road signs prohibiting the parking
of shared electric scooters and bicycles.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finnair_to_discontinue_routes_to
Turku_and_Tampere⠀⇛
FINNAIR on Wednesday announced its decision
to discontinue flights to Turku and Tampere
as of 1 May 2023.
The Finnish majority state-owned airline
revealed that the flights – the shortest in
its domestic route network – will be replaced
with coach services primarily because of the
economic and environmental issues arising
from their low passenger load factors, around
35 per cent.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ “Only_in_Australia”:_Glencore
greenwash_scraps_coal_mine_for_even_more_toxic_blue
hydrogen⠀⇛
Anglo-Swiss coal giant Glencore has confirmed
it intends to transform the Wandoan mega coal
mine into a feedstock for dirty hydrogen
production in the Surat Basin hydrogen
project. That means even more pollution than
using the fuels directly, Callum Foote
reports.
Glencore has confirmed it will not pursue
what would have been one of Queensland’s
largest thermal coal mines and is instead
doubling down on what analysts say is an
increasingly dubious coal-fired hydrogen and
ammonia project.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ IDA ☛ Community_of_Xichong_recognized_as_first
International_Dark_Sky_Community_in_China⠀⇛
XICHONG, Shenzhen, China – Xichong, Shenzhen,
is now an International Dark Sky Community
certified by DarkSky International. Becoming
the first International Dark Sky Community in
China, this recognition is a milestone for
Shenzhen to achieve […]
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Envious_and_Deceived:_8_Billion_and
Counting_–_A_Synopsis⠀⇛
On my daughter Abby’s ninth birthday, I
promised her “the greatest gift of all: I’m
going to teach you ancient Greek. And just
wait until you go to college—you’ll have your
pick.” By the time she entered her senior
year, Abby was singing Homer, while I dreamt
of admissions officers hand-springing over
her application.
# ⚓ RTL ☛ Why_are_animal-to-human_diseases_on_the_rise?⠀⇛
But above all, the expansion of human
activities and increased interactions with
wildlife increase the risk that viruses
capable of infecting humans will “find” their
host.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Asian_stocks_slide_as_global_recession
worries_weigh⠀⇛
Asian stocks and US equity futures have sunk while
bonds and the safe-haven US dollar and Japanese yen
were bid as mounting evidence of a US slowdown
fuelled worries for a global recession.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Aussies_count_coins_and_avoid_rain
with_Easter_at_home⠀⇛
Nearly two-thirds of Australians are staying home
this Easter as a combination of cost of living
pressures, wet weather and travel warnings scupper
holiday plans for the long weekend.
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ What’s_happening_to_the_cost_of_renting?⠀⇛
With demand outstripping supply in the rental
market, tenants continue to be hit with high rent
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexico_joins_10_countries_in_regional
anti-inflation_agreement⠀⇛
The 11 nations agreed to a joint statement
addressing increased regional trade and cooperation
in an effort to mitigate inflation.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Layoffs_via_Zoom,_once_novel,_will_outlast_the
pandemic⠀⇛
Born out of necessity in the pandemic, the once-
reviled virtual layoff seems here to stay.
Why it matters:Thepractice of firing_people_via
Zoom or email is picking up steam alongside an
uptick in layoffs — particularly among the
professional classes where many folks are still
working either fully or partly remotely.
===================================================
# “Asking somebody to commute into an office
they rarely go to anyway, just to let them
know they lost their job in a public setting
feels cruel in a way that it never did
before,” says Andy Challenger, senior vice
president at outplacement firm Challenger,
Gray & Christmas Inc.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Jobless_claims_aren’t_as_low_as_they_seemed⠀⇛
Pretty much every Thursday morning this year, we’ve
had a head-scratching mystery about the number of
people filing new claims for unemployment benefits
being exceptionally_low, amid reports of layoffs
and a softer job market.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Dogecoin_Holders_Thank_Elon_Musk_for_the
Pump,_Now_Waiting_for_the_Dump⠀⇛
“If he doesn’t say anything, but just removes the
logo, will everyone get out at that point?” mused
one Dogecoin investor.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Some_German_companies_now_offering_work
from_vacation_destinations⠀⇛
New forms of work are only slowly gaining
acceptance in Germany. Some 8 percent of German
companies offer their employees the opportunity to
also work from their vacation destination, finds
the latest Randstad ifo Personnel Manager Survey.
In some cases, this involves a reduction in working
hours. “In the competition for skilled workers,
this can be a means of giving employees a better
work-life balance,” saysJulia Freuding from the ifo
Institute’s Fürth Branch.
# ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ UPDATE_2-Jes_Staley_attacks_JPMorgan,_demands
separate_trial_over_Jeffrey_Epstein⠀⇛
Jes Staley, the former JPMorgan Chase & Co private
banking chief and Barclays Plc chief executive,
accused JPMorgan of “slanderous” attacks as he
seeks to delay a trial in the bank’s lawsuit
accusing him of concealing what he knew about
Jeffrey Epstein.
# ⚓ The_war_for_talent_is_over⠀⇛
For nearly two decades, the battle for talent has
shaped how firms around the world are run and
governed. With firms deriving value mainly from
their human capital, rather than from the physical
assets they owned, a talented workforce came to be
coveted more than plants or machines. In 2001, the
celebrated management consultant Peter Drucker
published an article entitled The Next Society, in
which he argued that giving more freedom to what he
called knowledge workers is essential, as the key
battle of this century is the war for talent. And
he was almost right.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Sales_of_new_flats_have_slowed_to_a_crawl,
reports_YLE⠀⇛
THE NUMBER of tower cranes on the horizon – an
indication of how well the economy is doing,
according to an old adage – has decreased, reports
YLE.
Data from Statistics Finland reveal that building
contractors began construction on a total of 1,734
flats in January, signalling a drop of 835 from
January 2021. At the same time, the number of
vacant newly built flats is high partly because of
a high number of newly completed flats and partly
because of a slowdown in sales.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ruble_Drops_To_Prewar_Value_Against_Dollar⠀⇛
The ruble fell against the U.S. dollar in trading
on April 6 to the value it held just before
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Alex_Saab:_The_Venezuelan_Diplomat
Kidnapped_by_the_United_States_with_Alex_Saurez⠀⇛
Alex Saurez, author of “The Diplomat,” a book about
the US kidnapping of Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab,
joins Lee Camp to discuss the exreajudicial
kidnapping, the court case that followed, and much
more.
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ The_Tampico_Affair:_how_Mexico_saw_the
US’_1914_invasion⠀⇛
As the anniversary of the U.S. taking Veracruz
nears, we look at how Mexicans reacted to the
fourth invasion of Mexico in under a century.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_president_describes_joining_Communist
Party_as_‘youthful_indiscretion’⠀⇛
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda has described
joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as
a “youthful indiscretion”.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Senior_Twitter_Lawyer_Resigns,_the_Latest
in_a_Series_of_Executive_Departures⠀⇛
A senior lawyer at Twitter submitted his
resignation on Thursday, four people familiar with
the matter said, becoming the latest in a string of
executives to leave the company since Elon Musk
took it over nearly six months ago.
The lawyer, Christian Dowell, rose to the top of
Twitter’s legal department in recent months after
the company’s legal leaders resigned or were fired
by Mr. Musk. Mr. Dowell had been intimately
involved in Twitter’s recent negotiations with the
Federal Trade Commission, two people familiar with
those discussions said.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ TikTok_Bans_Heat_Up_As_Australian
Government,_More_US_States_Enact_Ban⠀⇛
Australia banned TikTok this week from all federal
government-owned devices, citing security concerns,
as the latest US-allied country to take action
against the Chinese-owned short video app.
Additionally, more US states, including Arizona and
Florida, continue to ban TikTok at the federal
level.
These bans highlight the growing concerns that the
Chinese government could use the platform, owned by
ByteDance Ltd., to harvest user data to advance its
political agenda. But in the case of Australia, the
ban risks renewing diplomatic tensions between the
country and China, its largest trading partner.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Cybersecurity_skills_deficit:_Critical
positions_remain_unfilled;_rise_in_security_incidents [iophk:
Windows TCO]⠀⇛
According to the Fortinet 2023 Global Cybersecurity
Skills Gap Report, challenges facing enterprises
related to the cybersecurity skill deficit are
affecting organizations worldwide.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia_Accused_of_Spreading
Disinformation_at_U.N._Security_Council⠀⇛
Moscow used its rotating presidency of the
Security Council to host a session on
deported Ukrainian children, leading some
officials to walk out.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Macron’s_meeting_with_Xi_could
affect_the_direction_of_the_war.⠀⇛
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Macron_Appeals_To_Chinese_President_To_Help
End_War_In_Ukraine⠀⇛
French President Emmanuel Macron has urged
Beijing to talk sense into Russia over the
war in Ukraine, telling his Chinese
counterpart that Russia’s aggression had
dealt a blow to international stability.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Riley_Reid’s_Twitter_Hacked_and
Posting_Extremely_Racist_Things_for_Days_to_2_Million
Followers⠀⇛
One of the biggest pornstars in the world has
been hacked to spread hateful content and
Twitter hasn’t done anything about it for
days.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Anti-war_Russians_struggle_to_be_heard⠀⇛
The Kremlin has worked hard to create the
impression of overwhelming Russian public support
for the invasion of Ukraine but anti-war sentiment
may become more visible if Putin’s army suffers
further battlefield defeats, writes Christopher
Isajiw.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Media_Briefing:_Proposed_UN_Cybercrime_Treaty
Negotiations_Headed_in_Troubling_Direction,_Sidestepping
Human_Rights_Protections_and_Threatening_Free_Expression,_EFF
and_Allies_Warn⠀⇛
# ⚓ Essel Group ☛ Salman_Khan_wants_OTT_censorship:_‘Vulgarity,
nudity….should_stop’⠀⇛
Salman Khan made some controversial remarks
regarding OTT content at an event recently after he
urged filmmakers to make “clean content”. The
Bollywood actor asked for censorship of digital
platforms and said that filmmakers should not cross
the limit.
# ⚓ Quillette ☛ Beijing’s_Campus_Offensive⠀⇛
Chinese-supported student groups in the West are
being used to control discussion about China,
censor critics, and lead protests against invited
speakers
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Ambassador,_Russian_Diplomat_Discuss_Arrested
Reporter⠀⇛
U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy and a top
Russian diplomat met on April 6 to discuss a Wall
Street Journal reporter who was arrested last week
on espionage charges.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ News_UK_accounts:_Sun_losses_hit_£127m_due
to_legal_costs_while_Times_titles_double_profits⠀⇛
Much of the losses at Sun publisher News Group
Newspapers were down to provisions made for legal
cases.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ ABC_sued_over_Higgins_and_Tame_address
to_Press_Club⠀⇛
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has hit the
ABC with a defamation lawsuit more than a year
after it aired Brittany Higgins’ speech about
violence against women. The litigation is part of
Mr Lehrmann’s continuing attack against media
reporting of Ms Higgins’ rape claims.
# ⚓ ABC ☛ Inside_the_3_so-called_‘catch_and_kill’_payments_in
Trump’s_indictment⠀⇛
In August 2015, shortly after announcing his
candidacy for president, Donald Trump convened a
meeting at his namesake Manhattan skyscraper to
hatch a plan to “suppress negative stories” that
might threaten to derail his White House bid,
prosecutors claimed in charging documents on
Tuesday.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ UN_Tells_Afghan_Staff_to_Stay_Home_Until_Taliban
Clarifies_Ban_on_Female_Aid_Workers⠀⇛
This week’s order by the Taliban to fire all female
employees was the first time the world body has
received such an order since its inception in 1945.
The order followed the Islamist group’s previous
edicts terminating women’s right to work, education
and many other basic liberties.
# ⚓ Teen Vogue ☛ Pretrial_Detention_Punishes_Poor_People_for
Being_Unable_to_Afford_Bail⠀⇛
The selected essays below comprise the
observations, reflections, and insights from
students in the Bail Practicum after they litigated
bail hearings for people who were detained because
they are poor. In every case, students are not just
advocates but direct witnesses to the harm,
suffering, and deeply rooted unfairness embedded
within the criminal legal system. These essays
point to the myriad harms of pretrial detention
that will persist unless transformative action is
taken by the county.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Japan’s_crackdown_on_truck_driver
overtime_raises_fears_of_economic_breakdown⠀⇛
It has sparked fears of a critical shortage of
truck drivers that could leave a third of all cargo
undelivered.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Are_robot_waiters_the_future?
Some_restaurants_think_so⠀⇛
Many think robot waiters are the solution to the
industry’s labor shortages. But others say they
aren’t much more than a gimmick.
# ⚓ ACLU ☛ In_Michigan,_a_Historic_Victory_for_Abortion
Rights⠀⇛
Last year’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade proved
to be a major galvanizing moment for people who
support abortion rights in communities across the
country as some bans already on the books began to
go into effect. One of those states is Michigan,
where a grassroots coalition had growing concerns
about an archaic 1931 abortion ban that could go
into effect if the Supreme Court overturned Roe,
and had already been working to prepare. Their
tireless work put abortion rights on the ballot
with Proposition 3, which secures the right to
reproductive freedom in Michigan, protecting
abortion, prenatal care, birth control, and all
reproductive health care.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Justice_Thomas_reportedly_took
undisclosed_luxury_trips⠀⇛
He didn’t report them on financial disclosure
forms, ProPublica reports.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Clarence_Thomas_took_luxury_trips_from_billionaire
GOP_donor_without_disclosure:_report⠀⇛
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has traveled
aboard a major Republican donor’s superyacht and
personal jet for more than 20 years.
# ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Pluralistic:_Clarence_Thomas_and_the
generosity_of_a_far-right_dark-money_billionaire_(06_Apr
2023)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Supreme_Court_ethics_criticism_grows_louder_with
Clarence_Thomas_investigation⠀⇛
A ProPublica investigation alleging Justice
Clarence_Thomas accepted luxury trips from an
influential Republican megadonor is fueling calls
for strict ethics guidelines on the Supreme Court.
Why it matters: Recent controversies involving big
donors and chummy D.C. friendships have put a harsh
spotlight on the high court as public trust in the
institution falls_to_historic_lows.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ The_complexities_of_growing_up_in_an
immigrant_household⠀⇛
One. Two. Three. I closed my eyes as each number
echoed in my head and my anxiety grew. I focused on
my internal counting, hoping to prevent a shut
down. However, it couldn’t mask the sound of my
family circling around me as they spoke about a
deportation in our local Mexican store.
# ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Modern_cars,_touch_interfaces_–_Highway_to
Hell⠀⇛
I don’t wanna be driving no smartphone, do you?
Here’s an article discussing the pointless trend of
all-touch dashboard consoles in modern cars,
focusing on safety, ergonomics, efficiency, proven
driving test results with touch versus buttons,
other considerations, and more. Enjoy.
[...]
As you well know, I love cars. I also hate
stupidity. The question is, which of the two
emotions is stronger? Recently, I started having to
face this question while driving more recent models
from various manufacturers. I noticed a steady and
worrying trend of the “cockpit digitalization”,
that is more and more stuff being moved away from
physical controls into pointless touch interfaces.
At first, it was trivial things. But now, it’s come
down to important things like media and climate
control.
This prompted me to write this article. While I
normally “only” do car reviews in my car section,
that does not mean I have to exclusively limit
myself to just this domain. Furthermore, I think
this topic is so important that is merits
discussion. Well, not really discussion. More sort
of disdain. Let us begin.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ The_Internet_Freedom
Foundation’s_statement_on_the_notification_of_the_IT
Amendment_Rules,_2023⠀⇛
IFF’s statement on the notified IT Amendment Rules,
2023, in relation to online gaming and fact
checking by a government unit. Read our concerns
regarding the impact on online free speech here.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ The_brave_new_world_of_procedurally-
generated_stores⠀⇛
Have you ever had a sense of déjà vu browsing the
web, as though you’ve seen something before? Wait,
as opposed to a sense of déjà vu having not seen
something before? How does that make sense? Where
am I? What am I looking at? Have I made this
mistake before?
Well today I’m thrilled, excited, and amazed to
introduce you to the Lese store! Not your thing?
What about Razo? Too expensive? I’m sure Buto has
you covered. Or Zono. Or Dazo. Or Bupo, surely you
can trust a name like that.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Inside_Amazon_Studios:_Big_Swings
Hampered_by_Confusion_and_Frustration⠀⇛
Like Apple, Amazon is not a traditional
entertainment company but a huge retailer with a
side hustle in Hollywood. Amazon’s view is that the
more hours you spend watching Prime Video, the more
likely you are to renew your membership and the
more likely you are to shop on the site. As Amazon,
like Netflix, pursues overseas growth in the wake
of saturation in the U.S., Salke notes that in some
countries like South Africa and Argentina, Amazon’s
programming is the tip of the spear, entering the
territory before retail sales or fast, free
shipping is even available. “International is
everything,” she says. “It is our business to
deliver global shows for a global audience.”
# ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ Amazon_Web_Services_and_Microsoft_Azure_face
antitrust_probe⠀⇛
The UK’s communications watchdog has called for a
probe into Microsoft and Amazon’s dominance of the
country’s cloud computing market in the latest
challenge to the tech giants from global
regulators.
Ofcom said on Wednesday it was “particularly
concerned” by the practices of Amazon Web Services
and Microsoft, which together control between 60
and 70 percent of the UK cloud market. It has
proposed referring the sector to the Competition
and Markets Authority for further investigation.
Cloud computing is dominated by Amazon and
Microsoft, and has become a crucial driver of
revenue at the tech giants.
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Litigation_Financing_Transparency_Must_be_a_Global
Effort⠀⇛
Despite varying widely, the structure of
legal systems among democratic, free
countries are built on consistent underlying
principles. Promoting equality, freedom, and
justice is a common theme among them.
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Sunrise_hickups_at_the_Unified
Patent_Court [Ed: The biggest issue with the Unified
Patent Court is that it's illegal, unconstitutional,
and a corruption of the justice/court system, not some
technical glitch]⠀⇛
The Unified Patent Court is struggling once
more with technical issues. In the meantime,
the registrar has stated he cannot give legal
advice on the UPC’s opt-out procedure. Two
days ago, the court announced that technical
maintenance was needed due to technical
difficulties, and that the CMS would not be
available for three days [...]
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Gilead_Sciences_v_NuCana_–_two
trials_for_the_price_of_one_(or_two)⠀⇛
On 21 March 2023, Meade J gave a bumper
judgment in the revocation action brought by
Gilead in respect of two of NuCana’s patents
from the same family (EP (UK) 2 955 190 and
EP (UK) 3 904 365, the “Patents”), which
relate to nucleoside analogues.
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Which_of_These_Three_USPTO
Refusals_Was/Were_Reversed?⠀⇛
In re Cameron Sexton for State
Representative, Serial No. 90211624 (March
31, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by
Cindy B. Greenbaum). [Refusal to register
PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS for poster, t-shirts,
political information services, political
fundraising services, and on-line journals
featuring politics, on the ground that the
proposed mark fails to function as a
trademark.]
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Federal_Circuit_Narrows
Scope_for_Copyrighting_Software_Function⠀⇛
The copyright lawsuit between the data-
software company SAS Instituteand its scrappy
copycat World Programming has been
interesting to follow over the past several
years, and the Federal Circuit has now issued
a controversial opinion in the case. SAS
Inst. v. World Programming Ltd., — F.4th —
(Fed. Cir. 2023). The majority opinion
authored by Judge Reyna and joined by Judge
Wallach affirmed the lower court ruling that
SAS failed to establish copyrightability of
its claimed program elements. Writing in
dissent, Judge Newman argued that the
majority’s rejection of copyrightability
represents a “far-reaching change” not
supported by either precedent or good
policy. I called this outcome controversial.
The outcome would also be controversial had
Judge Newman’s position prevailed.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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Installer⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 8:38 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o FSF
o Programming/Development
* Leftovers
o Proprietary
o Security
o Finance
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ User-space_shadow_stacks_(maybe)_for_6.4⠀⇛
Support for shadow stacks on the x86 architecture
has been long in coming; LWN first covered this
work in 2018. After five years and numerous
versions, though, it would appear that user-space
shadow stacks on x86 might just be supported in the
6.4 kernel release. Getting there has required a
few changes since we last caught up with this work
in early 2022.
Shadow stacks are a defense against return-oriented
programming (ROP) attacks, as well as others that
target a process’s call stack. The shadow stack
itself is a hardware-maintained copy of the return
addresses pushed onto the call stack with each
function call. Any attack that corrupts the call
stack will be unable to change the shadow stack to
match; as a result, the corruption will be detected
at function-return time and the process terminated
before the attacker can take control. The above-
linked 2022 article has more details on how x86
shadow stacks, in particular, work.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ The_curious_case_of_O_DIRECTORY|O_CREAT⠀⇛
The open() system call offers a number of flags
that modify its behavior; not all combinations of
those flags make sense in a single call. It turns
out, though, that the kernel has responded in a
surprising way to the combination of O_CREAT and
O_DIRECTORY for a long time. After a 2020 change
made that response even more surprising, it seems
likely that this behavior will soon be fixed,
resulting in a rare user-visible semantic change to
a core system call.
The O_CREAT flag requests that open() create a
regular file if the named path doesn’t exist
(adding O_EXCL will cause the call to fail if the
path does exist). O_DIRECTORY, instead, indicates
that the call should only succeed if the path
exists and is a directory. It is not possible to
create a directory with open(); that is what mkdir
() is for. So the combination of O_CREAT and
O_DIRECTORY requests the kernel to create a
directory (which is supposed to already exist) as a
regular file — which clearly does not make sense.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Harald Sitter ☛ Firefox_and_KeePassXC_Flatpaks⠀⇛
Flatpaks are amazing and all that. But application
sandboxing, so an application cannot do anything it
wants, is a challenge – even more so when you have
two applications that need to talk to each other.
Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that
native-messaging sandboxing support for Flatpak has
been in development for over a year. To celebrate
its anniversary I thought I’d write down how to
drill a native-messaging sized hole into the
sandbox. This enables the use of native messaging
even without portal integration, albeit also
without sane degrees of sandboxing.
First off, please understand that this undermines
the sandbox on a fairly fundamental level. So,
don’t do this if you don’t keep your Firefox
updated or visit particularly dodgy websites.
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ OpenShot_3.1_Open-Source_Video_Editor_Released
with_Improved_Profiles,_More⠀⇛
Coming fourth months after OpenShot 3.0, the
OpenShot 3.1 update is mostly a bugfix and
stability release. It improves the profiles by
adding more than 400 export profiles and a new
Profile UI, improves the Undo / Redo system,
including grouping actions, and improves the
Preview & Split Clip dialog to correct aspect ratio
and sample rate.
OpenShot 3.1 also comes with a huge Time Re-mapping
update that includes improvements to audio
resampling, bezier curve audio support, as well as
better support for backwards audio, an improved
Caption effect that now offers better VTT support
and smaller text by default, and improved keyboard
bindings, especially for the arrow keys.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ A_Quick_Guide_to_Install_and_Play_GOG_Games_on
Linux⠀⇛
Want to access and play GOG games on Linux? Here’s
how to do that.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ 12_Ping_Command_Examples_to_Test_Your_Network⠀⇛
Ping is a simple, widely used, cross-platform
networking utility for testing if a host is
reachable on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. It
works by sending a series of Internet Control
Message Protocol (ICMP)
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ 9_Practical_Examples_of_Tail_Command_in_Linux⠀⇛
As Linux users, we often work with long-running
background Linux processes, which are called
daemons or services. Some of the common examples of
the services are Secure Shell (sshd), Network
Manager (networkd), Volume Manager
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ 10_SCP_Commands_to_Transfer_Files/Folders_in
Linux⠀⇛
Linux administrators should be familiar with the
command-line environment. Since GUI (Graphical User
Interface) mode in Linux servers is not common to
be installed. SSH may be the most popular protocol
to enable Linux
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ 21_Tar_Command_Examples_in_Linux⠀⇛
The Linux “tar” stands for tape archive, which is
used by a large number of Linux/Unix system
administrators to deal with tape drive backup in
Linux. The tar command in Linux is used to
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Open,_Extract_and_Create_RAR_Files_in
Linux⠀⇛
RAR is the most popular tool for creating and
extracting compressed archive (.rar) files. When we
download an archive file from the web, we required
a rar tool to extract them.
# ⚓ How_to_use_MOTD_in_Ubuntu_22.04_|_20.04_Linux_or_any
version⠀⇛
Learn how to show a custom message upon login
Ubuntu 22.04 / 20.04 server or desktop to users on
the command terminal using the MOTD file.
MOTD is a simple text file in a Linux system that
is used to display some custom text message on
login using the command line locally or SSH. MOTD’s
full form is “Message of the Day”. The necessity of
this simple MOTD is to display some alert,
important information such as system maintenance,
security updates, or any other relevant message to
Linux users by the Admin.
Suppose you have a couple of Linux systems in your
office and want to display important info to all
users upon their login in such a case MOTD can be a
quite useful tool.
The file used by the MOTD is generally located
under the /etc directory of the Linux which can be
edited manually to display custom messages. If you
have scripting knowledge then can display
dynamically generate messages.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 4_Ways_to_Fix_OpenShot_Crashing_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
It is extremely frustrating when you want to edit a
video but OpenShot keeps crashing. Unfortunately,
many Ubuntu users encounter this issue with
OpenShot because of things like corrupt video files
or misconfigured preferences.
You might be wondering how you can prevent OpenShot
from crashing on Ubuntu. Luckily, these issues with
OpenShot are easy to fix once you know the right
troubleshooting methods.
# ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Tired_of_Windows?_Here_is_how_to_try_Linux_Mint⠀⇛
Linux Mint is a well-known Linux distribution that
offers users the chance to try it before they
install it. In this guide, we will explain how to
try Linux Mint and, if you like it, how to replace
Windows with it.
Linux Mint is a free and open-source operating
system that is designed to be user-friendly and
easy to use. It is based on Ubuntu, and it comes in
three desktop environments: Cinnamon, MATE, and
Xfce. It offers a number of features and
applications that make it a great choice for both
new and experienced users.
These features include the ability to customize the
desktop, a software manager that makes it easy to
find and install new software, and a wide range of
applications for everything from browsing the web
to editing documents. Linux Mint is also known for
its stability, security, and reliability.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Kubuntu_Lunar_Lobster_(23.04)_Beta_Released⠀⇛
The beta of Kubuntu Lunar Lobster (to become
23.04 in April) has now been released, and is
available for download.
This milestone features images for Kubuntu
and other Ubuntu flavours.
Pre-releases of Kubuntu Lunar Lobster are not
recommended for…
# ⚓ Volker Krause ☛ Branching_KDE_PIM_for_the_final_phase
of_the_Qt_6_port⠀⇛
After KDE Frameworks branched in January
and Plasma followed in February
to enter the final phase of the transition to
Qt 6, KDE PIM is following now.
The approach taken here might also be
applicable for other KDE Gear modules.
§ KDE PIM Sprint
Coordination and planning for this happened
at the KDE_PIM_sprint
in Toulouse last weekend, see also Kévin’s
report about this.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ This Week in GNOME ☛ Felix_Häcker:_#90_Enabling
Feedback⠀⇛
Update on what happened across the GNOME
project in the week from March 31 to April
07.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ CachyOS:_Arch-based_Distro_for_Speed_and_Ease_of
Use⠀⇛
Arch Linux is suitable for advanced users looking for a
challenge to use Linux on their system.
However, many Arch-based distributions have made it
possible for new users to get into the distribution
family by making things easier. Options like Garuda
Linux, Manjaro Linux, and others make it convenient for
new users.
And one of the exciting options among them is CachyOS.
Well, you might already know about blendOS (which is also
an Arch-based distro, still in the works). It is not
remotely similar, but if you are exploring Arch-based
distros, you can check it out.
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ OpenSUSE_MicroOS_Desktop:_a_Flatpak-based_immutable
distribution⠀⇛
Immutable Linux distributions are on the rise
recently, with multiple popular distributions
creating their own immutable versions; it could be
one of the trends of 2023, as predicted. While many
of these immutable distributions are focused on
server use, there are also some that offer a
desktop experience. OpenSUSE MicroOS Desktop is one
of them, with a minimal openSUSE Tumbleweed as the
base operating system and applications running as
Flatpaks or in containers. In its daily use, it
feels a lot like a normal openSUSE desktop. Its
biggest benefit is availability of the newest
software releases without sacrificing system
stability.
Linux users who want to keep up with the latest
software generally choose a rolling-release
distribution, such as Tumbleweed, Arch Linux, or
Gentoo Linux. However, this approach might
introduce the risk of incompatibility between
software versions or result in an unstable system.
On the other hand, stable or Long-Term Support
(LTS) distributions cater to the needs of users who
prioritize stability over cutting-edge software.
Of course, many users want the best of both worlds:
the latest software versions on a stable base
operating system. There are solutions that
generally bypass the distribution’s native package-
management system. Flatpak, Snap, and AppImage are
the leading technologies for this purpose.
Applications are packaged together with their
dependencies, thus preventing interference with
each other or the underlying distribution. With
this approach, users are able to run updated
software without encountering dependency woes or
compromising system stability.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Friday’s_Fedora
Facts:_2023-14⠀⇛
# The Fedora Council is considering a proposal
to_remove_the_full/auxiliary_member
distinction.
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Flatpak_Installer⠀⇛
I have created an installer for Flatpaks, based on
the same GUI as used in the AppImage Installer.
I gave the AppImage Installer the rather flippant
name of “Appi”, and
now equally flippant name of “Flapi” for the
Flatpak Installer.
I have just got it going, tested by installing
OpenShot. Lots more
work to do, but here are some snapshots.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Ubuntu_stops_shipping_Flatpak_by_default⠀⇛
Canonical recently announced that it will no longer
ship Flatpak as part of its default installation
for the various official Ubuntu flavors, which is
in keeping with the practices of the core Ubuntu
distribution. The Flatpak package format has gained
popularity among Linux users for its convenience
and ease of use. Canonical will focus exclusively
on its own package-management system, Snap. The
decision has caused disgruntlement among some
community members, who felt like the distribution
was making this decision without regard for its
users.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Google_prepares_to_help_you_find_your_Android
phone_even_when_it’s_powered_off_–_Liliputing⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ 9to5Google_Log_Out:_Streaming_should_replace
native_Android_apps_on_Chromebooks⠀⇛
# ⚓ XDA ☛ YouTube_Music_for_Android_rolls_out_real-time
lyrics⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Soon_you_can_locate_your_Android_phone_even
when_powered_off⠀⇛
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ You_will_soon_be_able_to_stream_and_control
your_Android_device_from_a_Chromebook_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
# ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Sleep_problems?_Change_these_settings_on
your_Android_phone_right_now_|_Technology_News,The_Indian
Express⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pocket Lint ☛ Android_is_getting_two_vital_privacy
improvements⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Central ☛ How_to_use_new_tools_for_Google_Chrome_on
Android_tablets_|_Android_Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Central ☛ Jabra_Elite_4_review:_For_Android_users
on_a_budget_|_Android_Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ I_used_the_Xiaomi_13_Pro_–_and_it_made_me
a_better_photographer_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛
# ⚓ Nokia Mob ☛ Nokia_T20_gets_new_Android_12_Build_|
Nokiamob⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § FSF⠀➾
# ⚓ GNU ☛ health_@_Savannah:_GNU_Health_Hospital_Management
patchset_4.2.1_released⠀⇛
Dear community
GNU Health 4.2.1 patchset has been released !
Priority: High
§ Table of Contents
# About GNU Health Patchsets
# Updating your system with the GNUHealth
control Center
# Installation notes
# List of other issues related to this patchset
§ About GNU Health Patchsets
We provide “patchsets” to stable releases.
Patchsets allow applying bug fixes and updates on
production systems. Always try to keep your
production system up-to-date with the latest
patches.
Patches and Patchsets maximize uptime for
production systems, and keep your system updated,
without the need to do a whole installation.
NOTE: Patchsets are applied on previously installed
systems only. For new, fresh installations,
download and install the whole tarball (ie,
gnuhealth-4.2.1.tar.gz)
§ Updating your system with the GNU Health control
Center
Starting GNU Health 3.x series, you can do
automatic updates on the GNU Health HMIS kernel and
modules using the GNU Health control center
program.
Please refer to the administration manual section
( https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/
Control_Center )
The GNU Health control center works on standard
installations (those done following the
installation manual on wikibooks). Don’t use it if
you use an alternative method or if your
distribution does not follow the GNU Health
packaging guidelines.
§ Installation Notes
You must apply previous patchsets before installing
this patchset. If your patchset level is 4.2.1,
then just follow the general instructions. You can
find the patchsets at GNU Health main download site
at GNU.org (https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/health/)
In most cases, GNU Health Control center
(gnuhealth-control) takes care of applying the
patches for you.
Pre-requisites for upgrade to 4.2.1: None
Now follow the general instructions at
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/
Control_Center
After applying the patches, make a full update of
your GNU Health database as explained in the
documentation.
When running “gnuhealth-control” for the first
time, you will see the following message: “Please
restart now the update with the new control center”
Please do so. Restart the process and the update
will continue.
# Restart the GNU Health server
§ List of other issues and tasks related to this
patchset
# bug #64014: Update gender identity in patient
evaluations and reports
# bug #64009: Include signing health
professional and avoid scrolling in patient
evaluation
# bug #64007: Summary report is not using
FreeFonts family
# bug #63993: Python-sql error on patient
evaluation report
Update gender identity in patient evaluations and
reports
For detailed information about each issue, you can
visit :
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=health
About each task, you can visit:
https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?group=health
For detailed information you can read about Patches
and Patchsets
# https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/
Patches_and_Patchsets
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Build_faster_with_Buck2:_Our_open_source_build_system⠀⇛
Buck2, Meta’s open source large-scale build system,
is now publicly available via the Buck2 website and
the Buck2 GitHub repository. While it shares some
commonalities with other build systems (like Buck1
and Bazel), Buck2 is a from-scratch rewrite. Buck2
features a complete separation of the core and
language-specific rules, with increased
parallelism, integration with remote execution and
virtual file systems, and a redesigned console
output. All of these changes are aimed at helping
engineers and developers spend less time waiting,
and more time iterating on their code.
# ⚓ Yuan_Yijun:_More_cli_fun⠀⇛
When Secure Boot is enabled, the “akmods-nvidia”
package will build and install kmod-nvidia that is
not usable right away. Previously I followed some
documents to run a cli script to “sign the modules”
but it stopped working recently.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Google_Bard_“AI”_Hallucinates_the
Details_of_Michael_Pratt,_One_of_the_GirlsDoPorn_Criminals.⠀⇛
Michael Pratt was on the FBI’s ten most wanted
list. He entered the United States from New
Zealand, started a porn company, and ended up
facing rape, kidnapping, sex crimes involving
minors, and bankruptcy fraud.
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ Halo_veteran_Joseph_Staten_is_leaving
Microsoft⠀⇛
A writer and designer on three previous Halo games
and Destiny, Staten joined the Infinite team after
the game was delayed from its original 2020 release
date.
# ⚓ Joseph_Staten_Reportedly_Leaving_Microsoft⠀⇛
Joseph Staten had a huge roll at Microsoft
following his departure from Bungie nearly a decade
ago. He voluntarily took on a creative lead role in
2020 at 343 Industries. Following the subpar
gameplay shown for Halo Infinite during the Xbox
Games Showcase that year. While he did course
correct Halo Infinite and ensured it launched in
2021. The game was still lacking in iconic features
that became mainstays in the Halo franchise.
# ⚓ Seattle-area_office_market_vacancy_continues_to_rise_amid
layoffs,_inflation [Ed: Mass_layoffs_at_Microsoft]⠀⇛
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Mageia (ldb/
samba, libapreq2, opencontainers-runc, peazip,
python-cairosvg, stellarium, and zstd), Oracle
(httpd and mod_http2, kernel, and nss), SUSE
(conmon, go1.19, go1.20, libgit2, openssl-1_1, and
openvswitch), and Ubuntu (emacs24).
# ⚓ Culbertson_Memorial_Hospital_hit_by_cyber-attack⠀⇛
Culbertson Memorial Hospital officials reported
Friday the hospital had been the victim of a cyber-
attack last week.
Officials stated they discovered a network
disruption at 3 a.m. March 30 that required
information systems to be taken offline.
“This action disabled access to most functions
while we investigated the activity,” Culbertson CEO
Gregg Snyder said in a statement released Friday
afternoon. “We immediately retained third-party
specialists to assist us with our investigation.”
# ⚓ Bankok Post ☛ Suspected_hacker_‘a_soldier’⠀⇛
A hacker who claimed to have obtained the personal
data of 55 million Thais is an army officer who
appears to have acted alone, authorities said
yesterday.
Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn, minister of Digital
Economy and Society, and Pol Lt Gen Worawat
Watnakhonbancha, chief of the Cyber Crime
Investigation Bureau (CCIB), held a press
conference yesterday amid reports that the suspect
and his wife had been detained.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ MSI_Confirms_Cyberattack,_Advises_Caution
With_Firmware⠀⇛
Gaming hardware manufacturer MSI confirmed today
that it was the victim of a cyberattack. In a brief
statement on its website, the company said that the
attack hit “part of its information systems,” which
have since returned to regular operations.
The company advises its customers only to get BIOS
and firmware updates from the MSI website and no
other sources. It’s light on details, saying that
after “detecting network anomalies,” MSI
implemented “defense mechanisms and carried out
recovery measures,” and then informed the the
government and law enforcement.
# ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ Proskauer_Cyber_Attack_Left_Sensitive_Client
Data_Unguarded⠀⇛
A data breach at Proskauer Rose exposed client
data, including sensitive legal and financial
information, the law firm confirmed Friday.
“Our tech security team recently learned that an
outside vendor that we retained to create an
information portal on a third-party cloud-based
storage platform had not properly secured it,”
Joanne Southern, a Proskauer spokeswoman, said via
email.
The breach, which the firm called the result of a
cyber attack, was first reported by TechCrunch.
Data containing financial and legal documents,
contracts, non-disclosure agreements and financial
deals were released in the leak, according to the
report.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Aspire_Public_Schools_reveals_2022_breach;
Rochester_Public_Schools_dealing_with_current_attack⠀⇛
Aspire Public Schools in California submitted
notifications to at least two state attorneys
general. According to its notification, Aspire
learned that an unauthorized party gained access to
one Aspire email account…
# ⚓ A_Visual_Journey_Through_Computer_Setups_Revealed_by_Recent
Cybercrime_Raids_–_realhackhistory⠀⇛
First an admission by me, I’m not a hardware nerd.
I know my way around PCs, can swap out parts as
needed and can tell a MacBook from a Chrome Book
but if you are expecting an exacting breakdown of
the computers or tech we’re going to be looking at
here you may be disappointed.
Now that that’s out of the way, I’m fascinated by
seeing the behind the scenes of big cybercrime
operations, and especially interested in seeing the
work spaces of the people involved and the
equipment they are working with. Most of these
people raided seem to be working from home, and
sometimes sharing a living space with other gang
member suspects.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ 7×7_Dental_Implant_&_Oral_Surgery_alleged
victim_of_Abyss_ransomware_group⠀⇛
A leak site called “Abyss” recently added 7×7
Dental Implant & Oral Surgery Specialists of San
Francisco (7×7) to their site and claimed to have
114 GB of the dental practice’s files. A file tree
showing 2,891 directories and 63,557 files was
posted as proof of claim.
Some of the filenames suggest business-related
internal documents, while others are likely
employee-related files. The bulk of the files
appears to be patient-related. Most of these are
image files in .jpg or .dcm format. Some .pdf files
appear to be referral letters or reports.
# ⚓ Cointelegraph ☛ Sentiment_recovers_$870K_after_negotiations
with_hacker⠀⇛
Lending protocol Sentiment has managed to recover
the stolen funds from the recent hack by offering
the hacker a bounty worth $95,000.
In an on-chain transaction on the Arbitrum
blockchain, Sentiment sent a message to the hacker
offering $95,000 if the hacker returned the funds
by April 6, urging the hacker to “do the right
thing.“ If the hacker did not return the funds, the
protocol also offered the money to anyone who could
help find and prosecute the culprit.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Rebecca_Giblin_on_chokepoint_capitalism⠀⇛
The fourth and final keynote for Everything Open
2023 was given by Professor Rebecca Giblin of the
Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. It
revolved around her recent book, Chokepoint
Capitalism, which she wrote with Cory Doctorow; it
is “”a book about why creative labor markets are
rigged — and how to unrig them””. Giblin had
planned to be in Melbourne to give her talk in
person, but “the universe had other plans”; she got
delayed in Austin, Texas by an unexpected speaking
slot at the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference,
so she gave her talk via videoconference from
there—at nearly midnight in Austin.
She began by playing the animated teaser video for
the book. It describes how the tech and content
firms are choking out competition so that they can
take the lion’s share of any revenue generated
before it ever reaches the artists and others who
actually did the creative work. The book also has
lots of ideas for “how we can recapture creative
labor markets to make them fairer and more
sustainable”, Giblin said in the video.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Kushal_Das:_40_years_of_the_first_email_to_Sweden⠀⇛
40 years ago today, at 14:02 on 1983/04/07 (7th
April), Björn Eriksen received the first ever email
in Sweden. It was from Jim McKie of European Unix
Network (EUnet) in Amsterdam. Björn had a VAX 780
running BSD. The following is the actual email:
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Noguchi_Filing_System⠀⇛
The Noguchi Filing System is for keeping track of
physical paper. I keep paper in envelopes on a
shelf and new envelope go on the right (or on the
left if you live in Japan) and if I use an
envelope, it goes on the right as if it were new.
Linux nerds can think of this as sorting the
envelopes by atime. Envelopes always must have a
date along the spine and a word or sentence
describing what’s in ‘em. Optionally they can have
a color, using markers or stickers. Noguchi even
cut them off one inch so that the a4 documents in
there stick up a bit.
# ⚓ The_New_Super_Mario_Bros._Movie⠀⇛
There are a ton of these that appears pretty much
everywhere in the movie. An average 10 year old who
watches the movie in guidance of their parents may
not understand many of them, but for someone who
invests their time into this one franchise, you can
see a lot of them just appearing and alpearing and
appearing to you, and it’s a fan service, but a
good one.
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Learning_How_To_Write⠀⇛
During the second quarter of the year, I am going
to make a more concerted effort to learn how to
write long, fictional pieces. I have a number of
ideas that I want to develop into full stories, but
I find it very difficult to do so.
There are a number of obstacles that hinder my
ability to write, but over the next couple of
months I am going to methodically try different
techniques to overcome them. I’m only a few days
into this new endeavour and I’ve already found a
few things that have helped.
# ⚓ website_overhaul⠀⇛
I am currently redoing one of my neocities
websites. It was initially kept as some carrd-esque
site, but I decided I want to do more with it and
transfer some stuff from my other neocities there
as well to make it a proper hub of my projects.
# ⚓ Fixed_up_my_old_MyTouch⠀⇛
Writing on a smartphone is a pain, and yet I keep
trying to do it. I finally dug my old MyTouch Q out
of storage to try using it instead, since it has a
very handy slide-out keyboard, only to find that
the battery was so dead it wouldn’t even charge.
After running around to a few different battery
stores and cell phone repair shops, I resigned
myself to ordering a replacement battery off eBay
(which is, weirdly, a more reputable storefront
than Amazon these days). And now it works again!
The SIM card holder is too big for my current one,
so it can’t be a proper phone, but that’s fine by
me. I just want to use it for writing and maybe
listening to music while I do so.
# ⚓ Keep_infrastructure_free⠀⇛
A lot of essayists wanting to push the square peg
of open source software into the round peg of quid-
pro-quo market capitalism.
# ⚓ mbox⠀⇛
Mailbox is the traditional storage format for
emails on unix; a Mail Transport Agent (MTA) such
as Sendmail would chat up a Mail Delivery Agent
(MDA) such as mail.local or procmail, and
eventually if everything went well the message
would be appended to a file, /var/mail/spongebob
perhaps. That’s the conventional BSD directory.
A major disadvantage is the problem of locking–how
does the MDA append a message given that at the
same time another program, perhaps the user’s mail
client, is editing the file? Locking! This assumes
both sides use the same locking, and may become
terribly complicated should the mailbox files be
located on a NFS server.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ social_platforms⠀⇛
i often find myself switching platforms
because i don’t feel like any of them are a
perfect fit. i’ve even attempted to bring all
of the work onto myself, building personal
social platforms but to no avail. i’ve
realized the solution is extremely simple yet
almost no platform can provide that.
hopefully the pub can do that for me. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴
🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈
# ⚓ Re:_Making_a_90s_Website_(waffle)⠀⇛
User waffle over at midnight pub asked about
making a 90′s website[1].
I was there, waffle… making crappy websites
for money!
Here are my tips:
1. Think in terms of tables. Kind of like css
grid layouts, except not
at all. Mentally chop your content up into
rows and columns, and make
liberal use of colspan and rowspan. Don’t be
afraid of borders,
they’re pretty. OR, drop the borders and use
background images in the
cells, which you can chop up with old
software. It’s called “slicing”
and it was all the rage in the 90s.
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World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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✐ Links_07/04/2023:_PCLinuxOS_Magazine_and_More⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 1:44 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Programming/Development
# Python
# Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD_Now_501:_Boot_that_Snapshot⠀⇛
Nextcloud + OpenBSD = <3, Understanding the Origins
of DTrace, Bastille Templates for FreeBSD Jails,
Initial support for guided disk encryption in the
OpenBSD installer, Dynamic host configuration
please, OpenBSD Storage Management tutorial at
BSDCan 2023, Jan/Feb 2023 Column Out in the FreeBSD
Journal, and more
# ⚓ 2023-03-29_[Older]_FLOSS_Weekly_725:_VanillaOS_on_a_Stick_–
Pietro_di_Caprio,_VanillaOS⠀⇛
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ Oracle_Linux_and_Unbreakable_Enterprise_Kernel_(UEK)
Releases⠀⇛
I’ve decided to create this blog entry just to
share Oracle Linux and UEK releases, how those are
associated and which UEK releases are available on
different OL versions. So, maybe, this article
could be useless for many people who already know
which UEK releases are available on each OL
release.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Loupe_Image_Viewer_is_Now_Available_on
Flathub⠀⇛
The image viewer being eyed up as a potential core
app in future versions of the GNOME desktop is now
available on Flathub.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_VirtualBox_7.0_on_Linux_Mint
21/20⠀⇛
VirtualBox, a powerful and widely used open-source
virtualization solution, has recently released its
major update – VirtualBox 7.0.0 on October 10,
2022. This release brings a plethora of new
features, enhancements, and fixes, making it even
more robust and user-friendly.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ The_Guide_to_Granting_User_Permissions_to
Folders_with_Ease⠀⇛
Managing user permissions is essential for ensuring
that sensitive data is protected and that users
have the appropriate level of access to shared
resources. In this tutorial, we will explain how to
give a user permission to a folder in Linux using
the chmod, chown, and chgrp commands.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Use_Emojis_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_12_Best_Note-Taking_Apps_for
Chromebooks⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Understanding_the_/etc/group_File_on_Linux⠀⇛
The contents of the /etc/group file can seem
cryptic at first. But all it contains is
information on locally configured groups on a Linux
system.
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Inkscape_Tutorial:_Line_Art_Designs⠀⇛
Again, watching YouTube for graphics tips, I came
across a video on the channel Logos by Nick where
he shows us how to make a simple line art logo
using some of the Path tools. His was a mountain,
trees and water with the sun behind it, and it was
really good!
I decided to go a different direction, so I used a
trace I made of tuxlink’s awesome Dobie from the
wallpaper he gave us recently, and made something
sort of similar. When you set up your page, make
sure the setting “Scale Stroke Width” is turned
off. That way, when you make your stroke width 5
pixels, and then resize something, the pixel width
will stay 5, making things uniform. It’s much
easier than going to Fill & Stroke and changing it
with every line. Also, remember to use the command
Path > Object to path on the objects that you draw,
since we’re using path commands.
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Exploring_LXQt:_A_Basic_Guide,_Part_3⠀⇛
In this part 3 of the series, I’ll illustrate how
to add a keyboard layout, use the “Custom Command”
plugin, edit images and customize your panel.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ ScummVM ☛ phone_rings_Let’s_Play_Ball!”⠀⇛
We are proud to announce that network-enabled
Humongous Entertainment titles are now playable
online! Anyone who has a copy of Backyard Football,
Backyard Baseball 2001, and even Backyard Football
2002 (which was originally a LAN-only title) can
download the latest daily_build* of ScummVM and
play online games against real people!
This all became possible because the three
developers from the Backyard Sports Online fork had
joined the team and brought their services with
them to the ScummVM. These are LittleToonCat, Jim
“jibbodahibbo” Westerkamp and Sam “QuestionMonkey”
Kupfer.
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Game_Zone:_Dave_Gnukem_1.0⠀⇛
Who doesn’t remember the classic 1991 Apogee
Software game that brought the hero Duke Nukem to
the world? Yes, Duke Nukem started out as a 2D
platform game.
Duke Nukem 1 was a famous original 16-color 320×200
‘classic’ game released by Apogee Software in 1991
that launched the Duke Nukem series. The original
Duke Nukem 1 was created by Todd Replogle (co-
creator of the Duke Nukem series), John Carmack (of
id Software), Scott Miller (founder of 3D Realms),
Allen H. Blum III, George Broussard, and Jim
Norwood.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Screenshot_Showcase⠀⇛
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Repo_Review:_Calcurse⠀⇛
g application for the command line. It helps keep
track of events, appointments and daily tasks. It
has lots of functionality, is lightweight, fast,
reliable and portable (due to being text-file
based). The PCLinuxOS repositories have ver. 4.6.0
(released in March 2020).
Calcurse’s name is a combination of ‘calendar’ and
‘curses’ (the name of the library used to build the
user interface). Calcurse is multi-platform. It is
available on Linux, three BSD distributions and
macOS (via the Homebrew project).
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Repo_Review:_Buttercup_Password_Manager⠀⇛
Buttercup Password Manager is a modern and feature-
rich open source password manager that was recently
added to the PCLinuxOS repositories. Featuring 256
bit AES encrypted vaults, Buttercup provides a high
level of security for your passwords and other
sensitive information. In addition to the desktop
program, mobile versions are available for iOS and
Android, along with browser extensions for Firefox
and Google Chrome.
The user interface has a polished, well designed
look to it, making Buttercup Password Manager very
easy to navigate and use. Each vault opens up in a
separate tab, allowing you to easily switch between
them. Creating a new vault is as simple as clicking
on the + button in the upper toolbar.
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Expanded_Choices:_AppImage_&_Flatpak_Packages⠀⇛
Most of the time, the sage advice around the
PCLinuxOS forum is to NOT install software from
outside of the official PCLinuxOS repository. It’s
a trivial task to run into what is dis-
affectionately called “dependency hell.” You also
lack a full listing of changes made to your system,
so installing even one “unofficial” piece of
software could break 10 other working programs, or
even render your installation unusable (or even
unbootable).
If things do “go South” for your installation, good
luck trying to figure out exactly what went wrong,
since you have no idea what changes were made to
your system. Plus, unless you install software from
a trusted source, you could unknowingly install
malware, spyware, viruses, ransomware, cryptomining
software, credential stealing software, etc.
Sometimes, it can be difficult to know exactly who
to trust.
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ From_The_Chief_Editor’s_Desk…⠀⇛
Personally, I’ve avoided the new AI chatbots like
the dog tries to avoid fleas. AI chatbots are
definitely in their infancy, and should only
improve as time goes on. But we also need some
controls on these chabots. In more extreme views, I
sometimes have visions of an AI monstrosity like
Skynet in the Terminator movies. Unless their use
is restricted and their abilities rolled out more
slowly to give people a chance to get use to their
capabilities, the line of truth could very easily
be more easily blurred and/or obliterated.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Even_Amstrad_Spectrums_Need_Their_Bugs_Fixing⠀⇛
The history of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum is one that
mirrors the fortunes of the British home computer
industry, one of an early 8-bit boom followed by a
sharp decline as manufacturers failed to capitalise
on the next generation of 16-bit machines. The grey
ZX Spectrum on [Keri Szafir]’s bench is one that
encapsulates that decline perfectly, being one of
the first models produced under the ownership of
Amstrad after Sir Clive’s company foundered.
Amstrad made many improvements to the Spectrum, but
as she demonstrates, there are still some fixes
needed.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Clubs_Conference_2023:_Ideas_and_tools_for
CoderDojos_and_Code_Clubs⠀⇛
Learn from and be inspired by CoderDojo and Code
Club volunteers who shared practical tools and
ideas at the Clubs Conference 2023.
# ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Podcast:_We_need_a_standard_for_aging_in
place⠀⇛
This week’s podcast is focused on IoT
infrastructure, with our first conversation
explaining the upcoming 6G cellular connectivity
standard. After that, we discuss sales of IoT
connectivity chips and modules, and the leaders in
each category before moving on to low-power wide
area network news from Unabiz, which is open
sourcing the code for Sigfox.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ PC Mag ☛ Here’s_What_It’s_Like_to_Rent_an_eSIM_on_an
Android_Phone_|_PCMag⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ 9_Android_Camera_Features_To_Become
Photographer!_–_Gizchina⠀⇛
# ⚓ Nokia Power User ☛ Nokia_XR20_5G_–_Nokia_T20_(new_Android
12_Build)_receiving_March_Security_update_2023_now_(Markets)
–_Nokiapoweruser⠀⇛
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Update_to_Android’s_WhatsApp_Beta_app_makes
it_easier_to_use_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ KDAB ☛ Qt_Desktop_Days_Returns_–_June_20th-21st⠀⇛
We want Qt Desktop Days to provide concrete,
applicable insights that relate to desktop software
development mainly – but not exclusively – with Qt,
because we know there’s a lot of it out there.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Resolving_the_“Invalid_Host_header”_Error_in
Vue.js⠀⇛
The “Invalid Host header” error is a common issue
encountered by developers working with Vue.js
applications. This error occurs when the
development server receives a request with an
unrecognized or mismatched host header.
# ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Who_profits_from_open_source_maintainers’
work?⠀⇛
You might not know Jordan Harband’s name, but if
you’ve developed a JavaScript application, there’s
a good chance you’ve relied on a package he
maintains.
Harband is a software engineer who currently
maintains hundreds of widely used open source
packages in the JavaScript npm package registry.
One of those packages alone is downloaded millions
of times per week, with nearly 1.6 billion all-time
downloads.
Open source software is increasingly foundational
to corporate IT environments, and that growing
importance has come with heightened expectations
for open source maintainers. But for the
individuals like Harband who keep open source
software afloat, maintaining their projects is both
personally fulfilling and a serious struggle.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Cloudbooklet ☛ Machine_Learning_Algorithms_in
Python⠀⇛
Machine Learning is a subfield of artificial
intelligence that enables computers to learn
and improve from experience without being
explicitly programmed. It involves the use of
statistical algorithms and models to analyze
and identify patterns in data, which are then
used to make predictions or decisions. Python
has become one of the most popular
programming languages for implementing
machine learning algorithms, thanks to its
simplicity, flexibility, and robust libraries
like NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn.
# ⚓ Cloudbooklet ☛ Automated_Machine_Learning_(AutoML):
An_Overview⠀⇛
AutoML, short for Automated Machine Learning,
has emerged as a game-changing technology
that is democratizing Machine Learning by
making it more accessible and less time-
consuming for non-experts. AutoML platforms
use advanced algorithms and machine learning
techniques to automate many of the complex
tasks involved in building Machine Learning
models, allowing developers to focus on more
strategic tasks.
# § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
# ⚓ Network World ☛ Verifying_bash_script_arguments⠀⇛
Check out how you can ensure that proper
arguments are passed to your bash scripts.
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ Eric Bailey ☛ Sabbath_mode_and_assistive_technology
features⠀⇛
Activating a device’s Sabbath mode is usually not a
straightforward affair. It usually requires a very
specific, non-obvious, and convoluted set of button
presses that must occur in a sequence specified in
the dusty corners of an instruction manual.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Woe_is_We⠀⇛
o ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Incarcerated_Deaf_Community_Finds_New_Lifeline
–_Validated_Independent_News⠀⇛
Prison is an institution where fundamental human rights
are often treated as negotiable, rather than inalienable.
These conditions are exacerbated for those living with a
disability. Without video communication options, there
are very limited options for those who are deaf and want
to communicate with sign language. As the COVID-19
pandemic escalated, phone calls became essential for
those in prison, which created a major disadvantage for
deaf people who did not have access to the proper
technology to make this possible. The importance of this
accommodation is underscored by the fact that many
convicts are incarcerated without anyone fluent in
American Sign Language (ASL). With the new rule in place,
the deaf and hard-of-hearing community in correctional
facilities will have the opportunity to communicate using
sign language.
o ⚓ Project Censored ☛ New_Jersey_Corrections_Ombud_Investigates
Charges_That_Guards_Organized_Prisoner_“Fight_Club”_–_Validated
Independent_News⠀⇛
According to Ombudsperson Terry Schuster his office
forwarded five such complaints to the Department of
Corrections’ Special Investigations Division for formal
investigation. In email to The Appeal, Schuster wrote
that “several people” in the RHU had “alleged incidents”
that “suggested a pattern” of security staff misconduct.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Everyone_Deserves_Grandeur⠀⇛
The only time I visited Milan, I emerged from a narrow
street onto the Piazza del Duomo. As soon as I saw the
ornate cathedral presiding over the open square, I
started laughing—so much I couldn’t stop. The sight was
so overwhelming, absurd even, that I couldn’t look at it
for more than a few seconds at a time without bursting
into a nervous, incredulous chuckle. I felt like I was
looking at something forbidden, scandalous even. Over the
course of my stay, I walked by it, next to it, behind it,
and across it. I even paid to go inside.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ St._Clair_Bourne’s_Cinema_of_Solidarity⠀⇛
In Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1983, a Black soldier
was a rare sight. What could he be doing? As a member of
the occupying British Army, he was there for the same
reason that five Black American civil rights activists
were: because of “the Troubles,” the latest manifestation
of the 800-year conflict between Ireland and Britain. But
in the end, the soldier and the activists were on
opposite sides.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Inside_the_Prisoner-led_Struggle_to_Win
Education_for_All⠀⇛
Prisoners in Washington State are renewing their
fight to democratize education amid new
restrictions threatening their decade-old program.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Old VCR ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_Refurb_weekend:_DEC_AlphaPC
164LX⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Retrotechtacular:_Voice_Controlled_Typewriter
Science_Project_In_1958⠀⇛
Hackaday readers might know [Victor Scheinman] as
the pioneer who built some of the first practical
robot arms. But what was a kid like that doing in
high school? Thanks to a film about the 1958 New
York City Science Fair, we know he was building a
voice-activated typewriter. Don’t believe it? Watch
it yourself below, thanks to [David Hoffman].
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Reviving_A_Legend:_Mamiya_RB67_Repair⠀⇛
When it comes to professional medium format analog
cameras, the Mamiya RB67 is among the most well-
known and loved, ever since its introduction in
1970. Featuring not only support for 120 and 220 mm
film options, but also a folding and ‘chimney’
style view finder and a highly modular body, these
are just some reasons that have made it into a
popular – if costly – reflex system camera even
today. This is one reason why [Anthony Kouttron]
chose to purchase and attempt to repair a broken
camera, in the hopes of not only saving a lot of
money, but also to save one of those amazing
cameras from the scrap heap.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Fast_Scanning_Bed_Leveling⠀⇛
The bane of 3D printing is what people commonly
call bed leveling. The name is a bit of a misnomer
since you aren’t actually getting the bed level but
making the bed and the print head parallel. Many
modern printers probe the bed at different points
using their own nozzle, a contact probe, or a non-
contact probe and develop a model of where the bed
is at various points. It then moves the head up and
down to maintain a constant distance between the
head and the bed, so you don’t have to fix any
irregularities. [YGK3D] shows off the Beacon
surface scanner, which is technically a non-contact
probe, to do this, but it is very different from
the normal inductive or capacitive probes, as you
can see in the video below. Unfortunately, we
didn’t get to see it print because [YGK3D] mounted
it too low to get the nozzle down on the bed.
However, it did scan the bed, and you can learn a
lot about how the device works in the video. If you
want to see one actually printing, watch the
second, very purple video from [Dre Duvenage].
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ CPSC_Advances_New_Portable_Generator_Safety
Rule⠀⇛
The federal government is moving forward with
sweeping new regulations to make portable
generators safer, citing the increasing number of
deaths they cause and the failure of manufacturers
to protect consumers.
On Wednesday, the Consumer Product Safety
Commission voted unanimously to advance a proposal
that would require portable generators to emit less
carbon monoxide and to shut off automatically when
the deadly gas reaches a certain level. The
invisible and odorless gas emitted by the devices
claims an average of 85 lives a year, making
generators one of the deadliest consumer products
the CPSC regulates.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Tube_Amplifier_Uses_Low_Voltage,_Sips_Battery⠀⇛
Much like vinyl records, tube amplifiers are still
prized for their perceived sound qualities, even
though both technologies have been largely replaced
otherwise. The major drawback to designing around
vacuum tubes, if you can find them at all, is often
driving them with the large voltages they often
require to heat them to the proper temperatures.
There are a small handful of old tubes that need an
impressively low voltage to work, though, and
[J.G.] has put a few of them to work in this
battery-powered audio tube amplifier.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden_Vetoes_Move_by_GOP,_Corporate_Dems_to
Block_Water_Regulations⠀⇛
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday vetoed
legislation pass by congressional Republicans and
corporate Democrats to stop the federal government
from protecting public health and the planet,
blocking a resolution passed by both chambers last
month to gut water protections.
# ⚓ Something_I_never_thought_I’d_see:_RFK_Jr._is_apparently
running_for_President⠀⇛
I’ve been writing about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and
his antivaccine activities for a very long time
now. Indeed, the few really longtime readers still
left here know that my very first post for this
blog that went viral was about RFK Jr. The year was
2005, and, to their eternal shame, both Salon.com
and Rolling Stone simultaneously published an
article by RFK Jr. entitled Deadly Immunity, and my
deconstruction of his version of his version of I
like to call the central conspiracy theory of the
antivaccine movement, which posited that in 2000
the CDC met in an Atlanta suburb to “cover up” the
evidence that the mercury-containing preservative
thimerosal was the cause of the “autism epidemic.”
It was nonsense, of course, based on
a misrepresentation of how in epidemiological
studies seemingly “positive” associations disappear
when confounders are properly taken into account.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘I_can_only_imagine_what_happened_to_him’:_The
mother_of_a_non-verbal_teen_with_autism_recounts_rescuing_her
son_from_a_care_facility_in_Crimea_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Battery-powered_‘shark’_cleans
plastic-infested_waters⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Jayapal_Laments_Biden_Cave_to_Insurance
Industry_on_Medicare_Advantage⠀⇛
Noting that progressives in Congress recently
helped lead the White House to the brink of
implementing far-reaching reforms to Medicare
Advantage and bringing relief to taxpayers who for
years have been overpaying insurers that run the
program, Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Thursday
criticized the Biden administration’s plan to delay
making changes to the system following aggressive
lobbying by the insurance industry.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ We_Had_New_York_City’s_Back_During_the
Pandemic._Now_We_Need_It_to_Have_Ours.⠀⇛
“Is the food okay?”
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_EA_is_cutting_around_800_jobs
in_company_restructuring⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Forget_ChatGPT_And_Play_Rock-Paper-Scissors_With
Yourself_Instead⠀⇛
This isn’t like the cool AI everyone’s getting
caught up with these days, but we’re sure it will
make a fun party gimmick nonetheless.
# ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_UvA_lecturer_concerned_about
ChatGPT’s_potential_dangers_such_as_racist_and_sexist
language [Ed: Distracts from vastly worse problems like
veiled disinformation by governments, corporations; even
plagiarism. As if the "isms" are the foremost problem.]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Microsoft_to_pay_$3.3M_to_settle_sanctions,_export_control
violations⠀⇛
Microsoft will pay more than $3.3 million to settle
charges from two federal agencies its subsidiaries
violated sanctions laws and export controls across
their dealings in four sanctioned countries and
Ukraine’s Crimea region, which is under Russian
control.
# ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Oops:_Samsung_Employees_Leaked_Confidential
Data_to_ChatGPT⠀⇛
Samsung employees are in hot water after they
reportedly leaked sensitive confidential company
information to OpenAI’s ChatGPT on at least three
separate occasions. The leaks highlight both the
widespread popularity of the popular new AI chatbot
for professionals and the often-overlooked ability
of OpenAI to suck up sensitive data from its
millions of willing users.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ SANS ☛ Security_headers_you_should_add_into_your
application_to_increase_cyber_risk_protection,_(Thu,_Apr
6th)⠀⇛
Web applications are a wide world that is currently
the object of numerous cyberattacks, mostly seeking
to compromise the information directly in the
clients that use them.
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_CISA_Adds_Ten_Known_Exploited
Vulnerabilities_to_Catalog [Ed: Microsoft tops the list!]⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_CISA_Releases_One_Industrial
Control_Systems_Advisory⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Supply_Chain_Attack_Against
3CXDesktopApp⠀⇛
# ⚓ RIPE ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Intercept_and_Inject:_DNS
Response_Manipulation_in_the_Wild⠀⇛
# ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ Threat_researchers_dissect_anatomy_of_a
Royal_ransomware_attack [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛
Trellix researchers have shared the details of a
Royal ransomware attack on one of its customers,
revealing insight into the tactics, techniques and
procedures (TTPs) employed by one of the world’s
most active and dangerous ransomware operations.
Royal ransomware was first detected in January of
2022 but the group ramped up its activity from
September onwards. It has since become a widespread
and dangerous threat and the subject of warnings
from US authorities.
[...]
Royal used these privileges to run a PowerShell
command and launch the PowerSploit post-
exploitation framework via Cobalt Strike’s service
on port 11925. In this case, it downloaded and
executed the PowerView module.
# ⚓ PC Linux ☛ ICYMI:_LastPass_Data_Breach_Post_Mortem
⠀⇛
LastPass attacks began with a hacked employee’s
home computer. The investigation now reveals the
password manager company’s data vault was
compromised, according to an article on
TechRepublic. The password manager’s company has
released two security bulletins, one for LastPass
users and another one for business administrators.
Hopefully, most of you reading this were like me,
and ditched LastPass altogether after they severely
limited the “free accounts,” which included
deleting all of my data from LastPass and porting
everything over to BitWarden. We covered the move
from LastPass to BitWarden, as well as the whole
LastPass money-grab, in the April 2021 issue of The
PCLinuxOS Magazine.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_These_Countries_Share
the_Most_Data_With_Cops⠀⇛
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Federal_Agency_Acquired_NSO_Group_Malware
Via_Front_Company_After_NSO_Was_Blacklisted_By_Commerce
Dept.⠀⇛
A leak of alleged customers’ targets — a list
that included journalists, human rights
activists, religious leaders, government
critics, and political figures — turned a
trickle of news about Israel-based NSO Group
into a steady stream of harrowing
revelations.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Now_Is_the_Time_for_a_Federal_Ban_on
Facial_Recognition_Surveillance⠀⇛
Cities and counties across the country have
banned government use of face surveillance
technology, and many more are weighing
proposals to do so. From Boston to San
Francisco, Jackson, Mississippi to
Minneapolis, elected officials and activists
know that face surveillance gives police the
power to track us wherever we go. It also
disproportionately impacts people of color,
turns us all into perpetual suspects,
increases the likelihood of being falsely
arrested, and chills people’s willingness to
participate in first amendment protected
activities. Even Amazon, known for operating
one of the largest video surveillance
networks in the history of the world,
extended its moratorium on selling face
recognition to police.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ American_Companies_Are_Helping_Power
Russia’s_Massive_Facial_Recognition_System⠀⇛
Russia’s fighting a war in Ukraine and a war
at home. As residents express their
displeasure with their government, the
government’s cameras and facial recognition
AI are going into overdrive to ensure Putin
and his pals control the narrative.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Iowa_Becomes_Sixth_State_To_Pass_An
Internet_Privacy_Law⠀⇛
While there’s a lot of talk about how getting
privacy legislation right is hard (it is), or
that doing it wrong could pose many problems
(it could), that should never derail
attention from the real reason the U.S. has
no federal privacy law in 2023: Congress is
blisteringly, comically corrupt. And with
numerous, deep-pocketed industries lobbying
it in unison, quality federal privacy law
never had a chance.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Database_Shows_ICE_Is_Bypassing_Courts_And
Sending_Subpoenas_To_Schools,_Charitable_Organizations,
And_Abortion_Clinics⠀⇛
There’s something about some government
agencies that make them revolt against the
notion of checks and balances. Some federal
agencies have extra privileges that make it
much, much easier. A large number of agencies
can issue their own subpoenas, demanding
data, recordings, and other information from
their targets — self-issued documents that
bypass the court system entirely.
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_French_MPs_Approve
Controversial_Surveillance_Tech_Under_Olympics
Pretext⠀⇛
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ House_Speaker_McCarthy_Meets_Taiwan’s_Tsai_in
California⠀⇛
McCarthy has become the highest-level US official
to meet with a Taiwanese president on US soil since
the 1979 diplomatic shift.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ ‘The_Swedes_should_figure_out_how_to_win
our_trust’_–_Gulyás⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Sparing_the_Athletes:_Revising_the_Russia-
Belarus_Sporting_Ban⠀⇛
Collateral damage? Deserving and worthy of their
punishment? The exclusion and banishment of
Russian and Belarusian athletes has become the
acceptable prejudice of many governments and a slew
of sporting bodies. After the invasion of Ukraine
in February last year, a number banded together to
find ways to punish Russia, […]
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ UN_Human_Rights_Council_Condemns_Impact_of
Unilateral_Sanctions⠀⇛
The resolution presented by Azerbaijan on behalf of
Non-Aligned countries noted the impact of sanctions
on key rights related to life, health, and freedom
from hunger. It was predictably rejected by the US
and its allies.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “The_Undertow”:_Author_Jeff_Sharlet_on
Trump,_the_Far_Right_&_the_Growing_Threat_of_Fascism_in
U.S.⠀⇛
We speak with award-winning journalist and author
Jeff Sharlet, who has spent the last decade
reporting on the growing threat of fascism across
the United States. In his new book, The Undertow:
Scenes from a Slow Civil War, Sharlet says the
language of “civil war” has become central to
right-wing rhetoric, mainstreamed by former
President Donald Trump, Congressmember Marjorie
Taylor Greene and other Republicans.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungarian_government_plans_to_extend_the
state_of_danger_once_again⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Orthodox_Patriarch_Kirill_appoints_top_Russian
military_priest_in_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox
Church (ROC), has appointed Archpriest Dimitry
Vasilenkov, a cleric of the St. Petersburg
bishopric, in charge of the ROC military clergy
deployed in Ukraine.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Volunteer_Corps_announces_a_‘visit’_to_the
Bryansk_region_after_Bryansk_governor_reports_thwarting
‘Ukrainian_saboteurs’_in_the_region_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), a group whose
members say they are Russians who fight for
Ukraine, that it has “paid another visit” to the
Bryansk region, according to a post on the group’s
Telegram channel.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kaliningrad:_An_imperial_gem_and_a_thorn_in
everyone’s_side_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Prosecution_demands_25-year_prison_sentence_for
Vladimir_Kara-Murza_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Vladimir Kara-Murza’s lawyer, Maria Eismont, told
reporters at a Moscow municipal court that a
prosecutor asked for a 25 year prison sentence for
the opposition policitican.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ FSB_prosecutes_16-year-old_boy_for_alleged_railway
sabotage_in_southwest_Siberia_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Federal Security Service (“FSB”) has arrested a
16-year-old boy in Russia’s Kemerovo region, in
connection with an alleged railway sabotage
incident in the area.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Bryansk_governor_says_FSB_thwarted_attempt_by
‘Ukrainian_saboteurs’_to_cross_into_Russian_territory_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz said Thursday
that the FSB’s border service prevented an attempt
by a “Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group”
to cross into Russian territory.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Omsk_residents_who_left_Russia_during_mobilization
report_being_summoned_for_questioning_by_FSB_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Federal Security Service (FSB) officers in Russia’s
Omsk region have begun summoning residents who left
the country during mobilization for questioning,
the independent outlet iStories reported on
Thursday.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukraine’s_military_publishes_video_of_Ukrainian
strike_on_Russian_territory_for_the_first_time_—_Meduza⠀⇛
For the first time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have
released footage of a Ukrainian strike on Russian
territory, according to the German outlet Bild.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainians_install_screen_on_border_with_Belarus
and_broadcast_war_footage_—_Meduza⠀⇛
In Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, a large screen has
reportedly been set up on the border with Belarus
and is being used to show footage from Russia’s war
in Ukraine.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ ‘Our_Finnish_friends_still_have_a_lot_to
learn_about_integrity’_–_Hungarian_State_Secretary_for
Bilateral_Relations⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ iStories:_As_many_as_8,000_Russian_volunteers_and
mercenaries_have_been_killed_in_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Over the course of nearly a year of Russia’s full-
scale war in Ukraine, by publication iStories’
count, almost 8,000 volunteers and mercenaries in
private military companies fighting for Russia have
been killed.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ State_Duma_to_reconsider_a_bill_that_permits
delivery_of_military_summonses_by_registered_mail_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The State Duma voted to return a bill from 2018 to
consideration in a second reading. The draft
legislation, if passed, would change the current
procedure for conscription for mandatory military
service.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Shock,_Grief_After_Unhoused_Woman_Killed
and_Volunteers_Injured_in_Reno_Car_Attack⠀⇛
A Nevada man has been arrested and charged with
murder after allegedly telling police he
intentionally rammed his car into a group of
volunteers feeding unhoused people in Reno on
Monday evening, killing one woman and critically
injuring two others.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Israel_Attacks_Al-Aqsa_Two_Nights_in_a_Row,
Beating_Worshippers_at_Holy_Site⠀⇛
Israeli forces conducted violent raids on the Al
Aqsa Mosque compound two nights in a row, beating
worshipers and forcing Palestinians out of the holy
site in order to make way for Jewish pilgrims on
Passover.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_America’s_Remarkable
Unwillingness_to_Support_Its_Veterans⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_US_War_Planners_Court
China’s_Neighbors⠀⇛
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Bowling_Green_Whistleblower_on_Koch
Influence_in_Faculty_Hiring_Faces_Dismissal_–_Validated
Independent_News⠀⇛
The controversy began in 2015 when Coons sent
emails to colleagues regarding the hiring of a
candidate for a position in the philosophy
department. At the time, Coons believed the
candidate did not meet the qualifications for the
position. In 2019, having been hired, the person
helped the department secure a $1.6 million grant
from the Charles Koch Foundation. In response,
Wilson reported, Coons “expressed his view that the
Koch money corrupted the hiring process in the
department” and Coons has continued to
“occasionally raise these concerns in emails to
colleagues.” As Wilson noted, the Koch Foundation
was known at the time to have “used its funding to
influence academia.” Nevertheless, colleagues in
the philosophy department did not side with Coons,
and he was shunned by his department.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Unite_to_Survive’:_Mass_Banner_Drop
Promotes_XR_Climate_Rally_at_UK_Parliament⠀⇛
Dozens of colorful banners were dropped across the
United Kingdom on Thursday to invite people to
London later this month for a four-day peaceful
protest outside Parliament demanding action on the
climate emergency to ensure “a future that is safe
and fair.”
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Protecting_Mature_Forests_Slows_Climate
Change,_So_Why_Is_Biden_Still_Allowing_Them_to_Be_Logged?⠀⇛
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Why_Has_the_Right_Become_Obsessed_With
Climate-Friendly_Banking?⠀⇛
The demise of Silicon Valley Bank last month
triggered plenty of angst among solar energy
developers. Before it collapsed, SBV claimed
it had “financed or helped finance 62 percent
of community solar projects in America,”
according to Washington Post business
reporter Evan Halper. At first, it wasn’t
clear who might fill that gap. MAGA
politicians took great delight in the
disruption of what they tediously referred to
as the “woke” economy. Senator Josh Hawley
(R-Mo.) typically tweeted this non sequitur:
“So these SVB guys spend all their time
funding woke garbage—‘climate change
solutions’—rather than actual banking.”
Meanwhile, Stephen Miller, the vampirish
mastermind of Donald Trump’s 2017 Muslim
travel ban, asked all too rhetorically how
much time and money that bank had spent on
what he called equity, diversity, and climate
“scams.”
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Bombing_of_Nord_Stream_—_This_Act_of
War_Against_Europe_Requires_Congressional
Investigation⠀⇛
President Biden’s own statements predicting
the end of Nord Stream, preliminary to the
devastating attack on its infrastructure,
point to the necessity of determining whether
or not the president was speaking from his
singularly informed position of the Chief
Executive, as Hersh indicated.
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_FTX’s_Sam_Bankman-Fried_to
face_new_bribery_conspiracy_charge_in_U.S.⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Global_Coal_Phaseout_Must_Speed_Up_to
Avert_‘Climate_Chaos’:_Analysis⠀⇛
To avert the worst consequences of the
climate crisis, the world must stop building
new coal plants and shut down existing ones
at nearly five times the current rate.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Aviation_Industry_Awarded_£18_Billion_of
Public_Finance_Since_Paris_Agreement⠀⇛
A UK government agency has provided billions
of pounds worth of financial support to the
high-carbon aviation sector since the Paris
climate agreement was adopted in 2015, DeSmog
analysis shows.
UK Export Finance (UKEF) has effectively
subsidised new airports, aircraft, and
maintenance, despite stating that the oil-
dependent industry is unlikely to begin
cutting emissions “materially” until the
2030s.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Oil_and_Gas_Worker_Survey_Sheds_Light_on
Unstable_and_Unsafe_Working_Conditions⠀⇛
As a carpenter for a contractor company,
Cullen Boudreaux worked in oil refineries
throughout Louisiana. “I think a lot of
regular people don’t realize how dangerous it
really is,” he said of his experience in the
oil and gas industry. Boudreaux described a
time when he halted work on a project because
he smelled a leak, but said that other times
he was worried he would lose his job if he
called out safety hazards.
For five years, he chased after contract jobs
at different plants. Some lasted a year and a
half and others were two or three months
long. Last year, Boudreaux was forced out of
the industry after a back injury. “I was
tired of the layoffs and the inconsistency of
pay and looking for work and stuff like
that,” he said. He recently took a job as a
manager at a restaurant in New Orleans.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_What_the
complicated_social_lives_of_wasps_can_teach_us_about
the_evolution_of_animal_societies⠀⇛
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_In_“the_Land_of_the
Revolution,”_Emmanuel_Macron_Can’t_Just_Ignore_the_Popular
Will⠀⇛
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_FT:_Is_France_on_the
road_to_a_Sixth_Republic? [Ed: Remember who controls FT. The
people who do the oppressing in France.]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Win-Win-Win_of_Student_Debt
Cancellation⠀⇛
The Supreme Court is gearing up to weigh in on the
ongoing student loan debt debate prompted by
President Joe Biden’s sweeping debt cancellation
plan that would help over 35 million Americans.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ House_Progressives_Revive_Legislation_to
‘Cut_Child_Poverty_by_Nearly_Two-Thirds’⠀⇛
A trio of progressive U.S. lawmakers on Thursday
reintroduced legislation that advocates say would
slash the nation’s child poverty rate by nearly
two-thirds.
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-24_[Older]_Kathy_Hochul_Is
Committed_to_New_York’s_Billionaires⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNA ☛ Tech_layoffs_and_how_different_parts_of_the_world_are
dealing_with_them⠀⇛
After several tech giants including Amazon, Meta
and Microsoft fired thousands in India, Mr Agarwal
is not interested in working with big tech for now.
He is instead hoping to build on his experience at
Twitter to set up a policy consulting firm.
# ⚓ Piles_of_debt_may_factor_into_Hyland’s_sweeping_layoffs⠀⇛
# ⚓ Disney’s_Recent_Trend_Angering_Employees,_Customers_of
Amazon,_Microsoft,_Boeing,_Others⠀⇛
Guests of the Walt Disney World Resort may use
Microsoft Edge to plan their trips, drive in a Ford
or General Motors vehicle to the parks (or board a
Boeing 747 to fly to Orlando), and post vacation
photos to Facebook. Aside from this, The Walt
Disney Company has no real affiliation with
companies like Microsoft, Ford Motor Company,
General Motors, Boeing, Amazon, LinkedIn, and
Facebook. But in 2023, there is an undeniable tie
that binds them, and it’s an unfortunate one.
# ⚓ Microsoft_Ends_Measurement_Of_Chicago_Air_Pollution⠀⇛
“A citywide project that tracked Chicago’s air
pollution using more than a hundred low-cost air
quality sensors ended last week after the tech
company Microsoft, which led the project, quietly
announced to its users that it was shuttering the
program,” reports MuckRock. “Microsoft’s air
quality monitoring program, called Project Eclipse,
began in July 2021 when it placed air sensors atop
bus shelters across the city in partnership with
the city of Chicago, the advertising firm JCDecaux,
which designs the city’s bus shelters, Chicago’s
Environmental Law and Policy Center and… community
organizations. For almost two years, the sensors
delivered one of the few detailed pictures of how
air pollution varies by neighborhood in the U.S.”
In a statement from the company, which just laid
off thousands of workers: “Microsoft said it
decided to close its air quality initiative after
its research arm, which ‘continuously evaluates
research projects to determine directions and
future investment,’ had decided now was ‘a natural
point to conclude the work.’”
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Feds_Say_Serial_Swatter_Had_a
Discord_for_Fans_to_Follow_His_Exploits⠀⇛
# ⚓ Bridge Michigan ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Cooling_off_period
proposed_for_Michigan_lawmakers_to_become_lobbyists [Ed: The
correct policy would be to ban all "lobbying"]⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Macron_Fails_to_Persuade,_So_Opts_for
Coercion⠀⇛
# ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_KDC-F_condemns_Turkish
interference_in_French_internal_affairs⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Unlimited_potential_for_fraud’:_Online_voting_is
the_key_to_Russia’s_election_rigging,_but_the_next
presidential_election_will_require_gerrymandering_too_—
Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian authorities have decided the reduce the
number of election polling stations available to
voters. In Moscow, ahead of the mayoral election
planned for September, officials are slashing the
number of municipal polling locations by almost 40
percent, as confirmed by Tsentrizberkom (“TsIK”),
Russia’s state election authority. In other
regions, the reduction is less stark, reaching
about 10 percent.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Big,_Earnest_Love_That_Propelled
Brandon_Johnson_to_Victory_in_Chicago⠀⇛
In Chicago on Tuesday, hope won out over cynicism.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Trump’s_Indictment:_A_Wakeup_Call_for
Resurrecting_Democracy⠀⇛
Donald Trump’s indictment for criminal behavior has
no precedent in American history. How could a
functioning democracy choose such a man as
President?
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ There_Was_No_Trump_Violence_This_Week._But
What’s_Coming?⠀⇛
The weekend Donald Trump wrongly claimed he’d be
“arrested” within a few days, as his incitements to
supporters to get violent kept coming, I found
myself thinking about the best and most disturbing
nonfiction book I’d recently read: Jeff Sharlet’s
The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War. It’s
both perfect and impossible to describe. As the
Washington Post review put it: “At the time, the
storming of the US Capitol felt unbelievable.
Reading ‘The Undertow,’ it feels inevitable.” This
amazing book makes all of it into tragic sense.1
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Clarence_Thomas’_Luxury_Travel_Sparks_Call
for_Investigation⠀⇛
Influential Democratic lawmakers have called for
immediate investigations and vowed to create
stricter ethics rules following a ProPublica report
that revealed Justice Clarence Thomas has, for
decades, failed to disclose luxury trips he
received from a real estate magnate and
conservative megadonor.
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, who chairs the Senate
Judiciary Committee — influential for its role in
vetting and confirming Supreme Court nominees —
said his panel is calling for an “enforceable code
of conduct” for justices. “The ProPublica report is
a call to action, and the Senate Judiciary
Committee will act,” Durbin said.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Clarence_Thomas_Secretly_Accepted_Luxury
Trips_From_GOP_Donor⠀⇛
In late June 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme
Court released its final opinion of the term,
Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet
headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on
vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic
archipelago on a superyacht staffed by a coterie of
attendants and a private chef.
If Thomas had chartered the plane and the 162-foot
yacht himself, the total cost of the trip could
have exceeded $500,000. Fortunately for him, that
wasn’t necessary: He was on vacation with real
estate magnate and Republican megadonor Harlan
Crow, who owned the jet — and the yacht, too.
# ⚓ Chronicle Of Higher Education ☛ Can_U.S._Research_Recover
From_the_China_Initiative?⠀⇛
A year after the Justice Department shut down the
Trump-era program, scrutiny of academics’ foreign
ties still chills collaborations.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Impeachment_Vote_Demanded_as_Report_Exposes
Clarence_Thomas’_Billionaire-Funded_Luxury_Trips⠀⇛
Progressives on Thursday urged congressional
Democrats to immediately push for investigations
and impeachment proceedings after bombshell
reporting by ProPublica revealed that right-wing
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been
taking luxury trips funded by a billionaire
Republican megadonor for more than 20 years without
formally disclosing them—a likely violation of
federal law.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ AOC_Says_Clarence_Thomas_‘Must_Be
Impeached’_Over_‘Almost_Cartoonish’_Corruption⠀⇛
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that
right-wing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
should be impeached by the U.S. House in the wake
of ProPublica reporting that exposed the judge’s
billionaire-funded luxury vacations.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘A_Very_Dark_Day_for_Tennessee’:_House_GOP
Expels_Democrat_Justin_Jones⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Ousted_Tennessee_Lawmaker_Justin_Jones_Vows
to_Keep_Fighting_for_Gun_Control⠀⇛
Justin Jones, the Democratic Tennessee lawmaker who
was expelled from the state Legislature on
Thursday, said he was trying to protect all
children from the scourge of gun violence—including
the children of the Republican colleagues who
subsequently voted to oust him—while vowing to keep
fighting for gun control.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Nearly_270_State_Lawmakers_Denounce_‘Anti-
Democratic’_Expulsion_Effort_by_Tennessee_GOP⠀⇛
Lawmakers from 35 states on Thursday signed a
letter condemning the Tennessee Republican Party as
it prepared to expel three Democratic
representatives who joined a protest demanding gun
control legislation in the State Capitol, with the
letter accusing the state GOP of racist and “anti-
democratic” conduct.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-03-24_[Older]_WHO
counters_Musk’s_claims_about_new_treaty_on_pandemic⠀⇛
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Nochnye_Snaipery_lead_singer_Diana_Arbenina
reported_to_state_prosecutor_for_‘discrediting’_Russian_army
—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian rock star and Nochnye Snaipery lead
singer Diana Arbenina has become the subject of a
complaint directed to the State Prosecutor’s
office. Its author is Vitaly Borodin, head of the
Federal Security and Anti-Corruption Project, who
already has a reputation for initiating prosecution
cases against the independent Russian media.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Free_Speech_Absolutist_Elon_Musk_Reminds_People
He_Laid_Off_That_If_They_Disparage_Him_He_May_Sue_Them⠀⇛
Elon Musk has repeatedly referred to himself as a
“free speech absolutist” and promised that on his
Twitter even his “worst critics” would be welcome.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ An_awkward_situation_at_the_tank_factory_In_the
wake_of_Evan_Gershkovich’s_arrest_in_Yekaterinburg,_a_young
couple_from_a_nearby_city_faces_treason_charges_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Following espionage charges against jailed Wall
Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, arrested
last week in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s Federal
Security Service opened an apparently related case
against a married couple from the nearby industrial
city of Nizhny Tagil, home to the Russian tank
manufacturer Uralvagonzavod. The circumstances of
these latter arrests suggest that the FSB is
building a treason investigation that intersects at
least in part with the prosecution of Evan
Gershkovich.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Rep._Rashida_Tlaib_Calls_for_End_of_Julian
Assange_Extradition⠀⇛
Congressional action has finally sprung for the
jailed WikiLeaks founder.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Reporters_Without_Borders_Denied_Entry_to
Visit_Assange_in_U.K._Prison;_No_NGO_Has_Seen_Him_in_4
Years⠀⇛
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spent the last
four years locked up at the Belmarsh high-security
prison in London, where he has been fighting
extradition to the United States on espionage
charges. He faces up to 175 years in prison if
convicted. This week, amid growing concerns about
Assange’s health, Reporters Without Borders
attempted to become the first NGO to visit with
Assange since his arrest four years ago. Despite
being given approval, RSF representatives,
including our guest, RSF secretary-general and
executive director Christophe Deloire, were denied
entry.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Calls_Grow_for_Russia_to_Free_Jailed_U.S.
Journalist_Evan_Gershkovich,_Accused_of_Espionage⠀⇛
We speak with Joshua Yaffa, a close friend of Evan
Gershkovich, The Wall Street Journal reporter who
has been jailed in Russia since his arrest last
week, when he was accused of trying to obtain state
secrets related to the Russian military — days
after the United States indicted a Russian man in
Brazil on espionage charges. Gershkovich’s parents
left the Soviet Union for the United States before
he was born, and he has reported in Russia since
2017. He faces up to 20 years in prison if
convicted. Press freedom groups have denounced his
arrest and urged Russia to immediately release him.
Yaffa is The New Yorker’s Moscow correspondent,
where his recent piece is titled “The Unimaginable
Horror of a Friend’s Arrest in Moscow.” We are also
joined by Christophe Deloire, secretary-general and
executive director of Reporters Without Borders,
which has called Gershkovich a “Russian state
hostage.”
# ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_CPJ_submits_evidence_on_Hong_Kong
media_freedom_to_UK_parliamentary_group⠀⇛
# ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_Nigerian_journalist_Agba_Jalingo
detained_on_cybercrime_charges⠀⇛
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Tufts_Students_Urge_University_to
Address_Campus_Housing_Crisis_Driven_by_Over-Enrollment_–
Validated_Independent_News⠀⇛
For several years, Tufts has admitted more students
can it can house, despite student grievances
regarding the consequences for campus housing
options. Other universities that over-enrolled
students during the COVID-19 pandemic are now faced
with the challenge of housing students arriving on
campus after having deferred admission earlier in
the pandemic.
# ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_Police_union:_Harder_action
must_be_taken_against_structural_racism_in_the_police_force⠀⇛
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ After_criticism_of_police_violence:_France’s
interior_minister_threatens_125-year-old_civil_rights
organisation⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Hindu_Nationalist_Campaign_to_Promote
Yoga⠀⇛
On the sunny winter morning of January 29, a group
of Indian Americans dressed in white polo shirts
and black trousers gathered at a softball field in
Scottsdale, Ariz., to practice yoga. On blue
tarpaulin sheets and yoga mats, the group of 40-odd
people, including men, women, and children,
performed 108 Surya Namaskar, or sun salutations,
in the next three hours.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Humane_Migration_Policy⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Despicable’:_Idaho_Becomes_First_US_State
to_Restrict_Interstate_Travel_for_Abortion_Care⠀⇛
Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Wednesday made his state
the first in the U.S. to restrict interstate travel
for abortion care by signing legislation that aims
to prevent minors from traveling to obtain an
abortion without parental consent.
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_EU:_Stronger_Rules_Needed_for
Political_Ads⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_Tirana_Hassan_to_Lead_Human_Rights
Watch⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_Vietnam:_Drop_Charges_against
Human_Rights_Activist⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Exile_or_Prison:_Egypt’s_Offer_To
Critics_Abroad⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_UN_Experts_Find_War_Crimes,_Crimes
Against_Humanity_in_Libya⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Burkina_Faso:_TV_News_Broadcasts
Suspended⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Japan_to_Hold_Retrial_for_Decades-
Old_Death_Sentence⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Myanmar_Junta_Dissolves_Political
Parties⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_New_Nepal_Police_Chief_Has
Questions_to_Answer_on_Torture⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Pakistan:_Prisoners_Deprived_of
Adequate_Health_Care⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Sri_Lanka:_IMF_Loan_Risks_Eroding
Rights⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Taliban_Expand_Civil_Society
Crackdown⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Tanzania_Undermines_Right_to
Health_of_Maasai_Community⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_US:_Texas_Attack_on_Migrants
Reaches_New_Extremes⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_WNBA_Stars_Condemn_Sex_Abuse_of
Mali_Players⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Zambia:_Repeal_Law_That_Restricts
Civil_Society⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_DR_Congo:_Rampant_Intercommunal
Violence_in_West⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_France,_EU:_Raise_Rights_During
Top-Level_China_Visit⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Namibian_Communities_Deserve_a_Say
in_German_Reparations_Deal⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Tanzania_Undermines_Right_to
Health_of_Maasai_Community⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_UN_Paints_Bleak_Picture_of_Rights
in_Sri_Lanka⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Bangladesh:_Halt_‘Pilot’_Plan_to
Return_Rohingya⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Guatemala:_End_Arbitrary_Exclusion
of_Candidates⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Kosovo:_War_Crimes_Trial_to_Begin
in_The_Hague⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Rape_Survivor_Testifies_Publicly
in_Guinea_Massacre_Trial⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_Thailand:_Don’t_Return_Chinese
Asylum_Seekers⠀⇛
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Genuine_use_and_the_principle
of_permissible_alterations⠀⇛
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ RPC_builds_up_London_patent_team_with_EIP
partner_hire [Ed: JUVE persists with posting of SPAM
instead of news, basically ads disguised as reporting.
The money for this doesn't just buy ads but also
lobbying for illegal policies, using false "news" and
disinformation, notably UPC propaganda. JUVE is not a
publisher but a cynical scam.]⠀⇛
Matt Jones (47), who has joined international
commercial law firm RPC as a partner, moves
after nine years as a partner at patent
boutique, EIP. His addition will strengthen
the RPC patent practice, as well as
contributing to its IP capacities in general.
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Chipotle_Sues_Sweetgreen_For_Having_Its
Own_‘Chipotle_Burrito_Bowl’⠀⇛
If there is one aspect of trademark law that
should be the most understandable for
business leaders and their lawyers, if not
for the general public, it’s that you
generally cannot get trademarks on purely
descriptive terms. Yes, you can name your
product Coca-Cola and get a trademark on that
term, but you cannot get a trademark on
“cola” or “soda” and threaten or sue everyone
else who uses it to describe their own
products. Simple, right?
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ ISPs_Fail_to_Dismiss_Filmmakers’
Piracy_Liability_Lawsuits⠀⇛
Internet providers WideOpenWest and Grande
Communications will have to defend themselves
against filmmakers’ piracy liability claims.
In two separate lawsuits, filmmakers accused
the companies of turning a blind eye to
piracy. The ISPs characterized the filmmakers
as copyright trolls and requested dismissals,
but the allegations failed to convince the
courts.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Two_Founders_of_Piracy_Giant_Zone-
Telechargement_Sentenced_in_France⠀⇛
After being founded in 2012, the popularity
of French pirate download site Zone-
Telechargement soon attracted interest from
the authorities. In 2016, with the platform
recently crowned the 11th most-visited site
in France, two friends were arrested on
suspicion of being the site’s founders. Seven
years later, a court has now handed both men
custodial sentences.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Wax_Sticks⠀⇛
Light is physically the same as sound except higher
pitched (too high for ears).
Green, the colloquial name for waveforms near 570
terahertz, is more treble (a.k.a. colder) than red/
orange/yellow, but more bass (a.k.a. warmer) than
blue.
The seven colors of the rainbow starting with red
is like the seven big keys on a piano starting on
A4, except one trillion times higher frequency (ten
to the power of twelve).
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_IMOPVTS_Wordo:_GLIDE⠀⇛
# ⚓ Book(s)_Review:_The_Black_Fleet_Crisis⠀⇛
Earlier this week I finished reading “The Black
Fleet Crisis”, a trilogy of Star Wars novels by
Michael P. Kube-McDowell. Part of the Legends
canon, the series consists of the books “Before the
War”, “Shield of Lies”, and “Tyrant’s Test”.
The story takes place in 9 ABY, or nine years after
the Battle of Yavin featured in the original “Star
Wars film. The leader of the isolationist Yevetha
visits the center of galactic government in
Coruscant, ostensibly to broker a political
alliance with Princess Leia and the New Republic,
but he has much more sinister plans in mind. Luke
Skywalker embarks on a quest with a strange woman
who promises that he will learn about the mother he
never knew. Meanwhile, Lando Calrissian
investigates a mysterious vagabond starship and
discovers the secret of its origins.
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Machine_Learning—good_and_bad_arguments_against⠀⇛
I hate machine learning so much, to the point that
I’m almost willing to consider bad arguments
against them! But ideally let’s stick to good
arguments against them, and see how far we can get.
I started hating ML from a gut feeling first, and
had to come up with arguments and reasons later.
Feels over reals. I think most people work this way
without being aware of it. What the thinker thinks,
the prover will prove.
# ⚓ Daily_driving_Void⠀⇛
I’ve had Void as a second boot option for months
now, and before that I had a fairly long running
VM. I’ve been interested in moving to Void for a
while for a couple of reasons, but the biggest
would be that I wanted a distro based on Musl libc.
I already made this particular jump on one machine,
the Raspberry Pi 4 which runs this gemlog, my Gitea
instance and an Apache server. It’s been rock solid
and I haven’t had to do anything other than install
updates since the first week I brought it up. I
haven’t had that kind of stability in a long time.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ It_Was_a_Time_for_Patching⠀⇛
The last three weeks have been exceptionally
busy and exhausting, as we’ve been throwing
birthday parties for family and friends,
coming down and recovering from a flu, and
dealing with a teething baby. Every now and
then I get a good night’s sleep and manage to
be productive, but that happens more seldom
than I’d like…
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