𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Sunday, April 09, 2023
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
* Games
* Desktop_Environments/WMs
o K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
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o Personal
o Politics
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux_Voice_Controller_Teaser_4_–_Web_Commands!⠀⇛
In this video, we look at how capable this little
tool has become at navigating Chromium with many
new commands and an upgraded Speech recognition
Engine.
# ⚓ GNU World Order (Audio Show) ☛ GNU_World_Order_507⠀⇛
**qqc2-breeze-style** , **qqc2-desktop-style** ,
**rocs** , **sddm** , **sddm-
kcm** , **skanlite** from the **kde** software
series of Slackware.
shasum -
a256=2534394b7025909f67fe9f61446d4656e2ea8fbbfe1a6b1c3294f10d38522d1b
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ Sudo_Show_61:_Never_the_Year_of_the_Linux
Desktop⠀⇛
Brandon, Bill, and Neal get together and discuss a
brief history of the Linux Desktop and the
obstacles in the past. They also talk about what is
going on well in the Linux Desktop space and what
is blocking adoption today.
# ⚓ 2023-04-07_Tiny11_has_problems⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-04-07_Massive_Deck_storage_upgrade_now_in_stock_–_but
is_it_worth_the_eye-watering_price_|_Deck_News_–_77⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-04-06_OpenMandriva_Lx_ROME_23.03_overview_|_ROME,_the
OpenMandriva_rolling_edition⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-04-06_Xorg_Vs_Wayland_Is_Just_A_Technical_Detail⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-04-06_The_Arch_Community_HATES_Arch_Installation
Videos⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-04-05_Private_Security_Patching_Is_A_Nightmare_In_Open
Source⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-04-05_Security_Patches_Are_A_Nightmare_In_Open_Source
Projects⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-04-05_It’s_the_culture_🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇:P⦈_⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-04-05_blendOS_2023.01.26_Quick_Overview_#shorts⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-04-04_Switching_To_Wayland:_Why_I’m_Daily_Driving
Hyprland⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-04-04_I_Left_XMonad_For_Bspwm_(How_Am_I_Liking_It?)⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-04-03_How_to_install_siduction_21.1.1⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-04-03_ASUS’s_ROG_Ally_can’t_compete_with_the_Steam
Deck._And_you_can’t_trust_any_handheld_PCs.⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-04-02_We_discuss_the_controversy_around_The_Last_of
Us’_TERRIBLE_PC_port:_Press_Steam_to_Start_Episode_2⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-04-02_Adding_Custom_Actions_To_Your_File_Manager⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-03-31_Steam_Deck_Verified:_The_Future_of_PC_Gaming_or
a_Sisyphean_Task?⠀⇛
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Iotas:_A_Markdown-Based_Note-Taking_Linux_App
That_Syncs_With_Nextcloud_Notes⠀⇛
A good minimalist note-taking app is a treasure
beyond pearls, and one which seamlessly integrates
with your very own private cloud is even more
valuable.
Iotas is a good-looking Markdown editor for Linux
which meshes with Nextcloud Notes and lets you get
on with writing.
# ⚓ Djalel Oukid ☛ Linux_Apps_Tour:_Flameshot,_an_open-source
screenshot_software_with_a_built-in_editor⠀⇛
Flameshot is a free, open-source, cross-platform
tool for taking and annotating screenshots. It
comes with a feature-rich built-in editor to
immediately customize your screenshots.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ Building_Xeact_components_with_esbuild_and
Nix⠀⇛
Xeact has succeeded in its goal of intergalactic
domination of the attention space of frontend
developers. Not only has it been the catalyst
towards my true understanding of front-end
development, it is the most popular frontend
femtoframework as signified by this_handy_graph:
[...]
# ⚓ Linux Buzz ☛ How_To_Setup_SFTP_Server_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this post, we’ll walk you through the steps to
setup an SFTP server on Ubuntu 22.04. SFTP (Secure
File Transfer Protocol) is a secure way to transfer
files between systems using an encrypted
connection.
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Empty_folders_not_recognized_by_git⠀⇛
I had completely forgotten about this. Many years
ago, when using
the Fossil repository, I created a file named
‘EMPTYDIRMARKER’ in every empty folder. However,
when setting up woofQ on github.com in 2022, I
forgot that git also has this limitation.
# ⚓ Evgeni_Golov:_Running_autopkgtest_with_Docker_inside
Docker⠀⇛
While I am not the biggest fan of Docker, I must
admit it has quite some reach across various
service providers and can often be seen as an API
for running things in isolated environments.
One such service provider is GitHub when it comes
to their Actions service.
I have no idea what isolation technology GitHub
uses on the outside of Actions, but inside you just
get an Ubuntu system and can run whatever you want
via Docker as that comes pre-installed and pre-
configured. This especially means you can run
things inside vanilla Debian containers, that are
free from any GitHub or Canonical modifications one
might not want 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇;-)⦈
# ⚓ How_to_install_VS_Code_in_Ubuntu_Linux_via_terminal? [Ed:
This is proprietary spyware controlled remotely by Microsoft.
Don't install it, use something like Kate instead.]⠀⇛
VS Code or Visual Studio Code can be installed on
Ubuntu Linux easily using the command terminal…
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Python_3.10_on_Ubuntu_22.04
|_20.04⠀⇛
Python 3.10 represented a crucial step forward in
the evolution of Python programming, offering an
array of new features and improvements compared to
Python 3.9. However, it’s essential to note that
Python 3.11 is now the current release, and Python
3.12 is under active development RC status.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Needrestart_on_Fedora
Linux⠀⇛
Needrestart is a highly efficient and user-friendly
utility designed to identify and restart services,
applications, and kernel modules that require a
restart after an update. By managing these
restarts, Needrestart helps maintain system
stability, performance, and security on Linux-based
operating systems.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_APT-Fast_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|
20.04⠀⇛
APT-Fast is a powerful, alternative package
management tool for Ubuntu and other Debian-based
systems that aims to improve the efficiency and
speed of package downloads and updates.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Crafting_custom_keyboard_shortcuts_in_Pop!_OS
for_seamless_workflow⠀⇛
In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process
of creating custom shortcuts in Pop!_OS, from
accessing the settings to assigning your preferred
key combinations. Let’s dive in and transform your
Pop!_OS experience with personalized shortcuts that
will keep you in control and optimize your
productivity!
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Linux_Directory_Navigation:_A_Guide_to_Listing
Files_Efficiently⠀⇛
In this guide, we’ll explore the various commands
and techniques to list files in a directory in
Linux, including options for sorting, filtering,
and displaying additional file information.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_display_directory_trees_in_the_Linux
Terminal⠀⇛
Displaying a directory tree in the Linux terminal
is a powerful way to visualize these structures,
providing you with a hierarchical view of your
directories and files. In this guide, we’ll explore
various commands and techniques to display a
directory tree in the Linux terminal, helping you
gain valuable insights into your file organization.
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Install_the_Boost_Library_in_C++_on
Ubuntu_or_any_other_Linux_Distribution⠀⇛
Will show you two simple steps to install boost
library in c++ on Ubuntu/Linux Boost is a portable
set of C++ programming language libraries. It
contains libraries for pseudo-random number
generation, linear algebra, multi-threading, image
processing, regular expressions, and unit testing.
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Build_and_Use_a_Custom_Image_with
Portainer⠀⇛
o ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Remove_PPA_Repository_on_Ubuntu_&_Debian⠀⇛
Personal Package Archives (PPAs) are a convenient way for
Ubuntu and Debian users to install and update software
packages that are not available in the official
repositories. While PPAs are a valuable resource, they
can also become outdated, unsupported, or even
potentially harmful.
o ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Using_CRON_to_Monitor_and_Notify_on_Service_Status_in
Linux⠀⇛
Monitoring the status of critical services running on
your Linux system is essential for ensuring smooth and
uninterrupted operation. One way to achieve this is by
using cron jobs to periodically check the status of these
services and send notifications when their status
changes.
o ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Cinnamon_Desktop_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Cinnamon Desktop Environment on Rocky Linux 9. For those
of you who didn’t know, Cinnamon is a popular desktop
environment that provides a modern and user-friendly
interface for Linux users.
o ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_FileZilla_Client_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
FileZilla on Rocky Linux 9. Are you looking for a
reliable and user-friendly file transfer protocol (FTP)
client for your Rocky Linux 9 system?
o ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Inkscape_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Inkscape on Debian 11. Are you a graphic designer or just
someone looking for a powerful and free vector graphics
editor?
o ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ How_To_Install_OpenShot_On_Ubuntu⠀⇛
OpenShot Video Editor is a popular free and open-source
video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows. At the time of
this article writing, OpenShot 3.1 is the latest version
of the video editing software.
o ⚓ LinuxBuz ☛ How_to_Host_a_Game_Server_(_Best_Dedicated_Server_for
Gaming_)⠀⇛
How to Host a Game Server. In this guide, we will show
you how to make a game server on your own dedicated
server.
o ⚓ LinuxBuz ☛ How_to_Make_a_Minecraft_Server_on_Linux_and_Windows_
(Step_by_Step)⠀⇛
How to Make a Minecraft Server on Linux and Windows.
o ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ How_to_Upgrade_ELK_Stack_7.x_to_ELK_Stack_8.x⠀⇛
How to upgrade Elasticsearch 7 to 8? In this guide, you
will learn how to upgrade ELK Stack 7.x to ELK Stack 8.x.
ELK/Elastic 8 is an improvement version over Elastic 7
that brings about a number of performance improvements,
security enhancements, and new features.
* § Games⠀➾
o ⚓ CubicleNate ☛ Building_a_SteamDeck_Resource⠀⇛
As I have been enjoying this well-built, hand held
computer / gaming console, I have had to do some problem
solving to get things to work.
* § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
o § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Testers_needed:_upgrade_Fedora_KDE_with_Discover⠀⇛
This is a call for people out there to help us test
the major version upgrades on Fedora KDE via
Discover.
In short: no more Dnf System Upgrade for us!
A bit of context/history: for those of you who
follow Nate’s blog you might already know what I am
talking about. Thanks to the awesome work done by
aleasto on this MR, we closed this bug.
There are, of course, a few quirks to solve but
essentially it works.
The @kdesig team has enabled a COPR repository for
those who want to help us test the upgrades from
F37 to F38.
I will now explain shorty what are the steps you
need to follow to perform the upgrade via Discover:
First enable our COPR…
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Motorola_devices_to_soon_receive_Android_13_update_;_Here’s
the_full_list_of_devices⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Access_your_Android_Phone_from_PC:_How_to_do_it?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Brave_for_Android_is_now_blocking_annoying_“use
our_app”_prompts_on_websites⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Best_games_like_GTA_on_Android_in_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ The_5_Best_ChatGPT_Apps_For_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ The_Honor_70_is_one_of_14_Android_phones
newly_awarded_ARCore_support_by_Google_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ 10_Reasons_Why_You_Should_Consider_Next.js_In
your_Next_Project⠀⇛
Next.js is a React-based open-source framework used
for building server-side rendered (SSR) web
applications. Next.js provides an excellent
developer experience, thanks to its developer-
friendly features like automatic code splitting,
hot module replacement, and easy deployment.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Archivy_Is_A_Full-Featured_Knowledge_Base_System
For_Developers_and_Researchers⠀⇛
Archivy is an outstanding open-source knowledge
repository that empowers you to learn and retain
information using your own personal and extensible
wiki. It is an exceptional bookmarking and
archiving system that enables you to save any
webpage content as soon as you bookmark it.
# ⚓ Drew DeVault ☛ Writing_Helios_drivers_in_the_Mercury_driver
environment⠀⇛
Helios is a microkernel written in the Hare
programming language and is
part of the larger Ares operating system. You can
watch
my FOSDEM 2023 talk introducing Helios on_PeerTube.
Let’s take a look at the new Mercury driver
development environment for Helios.
As you may remember from my FOSDEM talk, the Ares
operating system is built out
of several layers which provide progressively
higher-level environments for an
operating system. At the bottom is the Helios
microkernel, and today we’re going
to talk about the second layer: the Mercury
environment, which is used for
writing and running device drivers in userspace.
Let’s take a look at a serial
driver written against Mercury and introduce some
of the primitives used by
driver authors in the Mercury environment.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Generate_Random_RGB_Colors_in_Python⠀⇛
Random RGB Colors can be generated in two
formats in Python, one is the hex code and
the other is the set of values for Red,
Green, and Blue.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Python_Decorators_Demystified:_A
Comprehensive_Guide⠀⇛
Python decorators are a powerful and
expressive feature that allows you to modify
the behavior of functions or methods in a
clean and maintainable way. They can be used
to perform various tasks, such as logging,
memoization, and access control, without
modifying the code of the decorated function.
# ⚓ Didier Stevens ☛ Update:_dnsresolver.py_Version
0.0.3⠀⇛
I added support for label * (wildcard label).
dnsresolver_V0_0_3.zip (http)MD5:
18958CEEB8CD62B50D6533A477008649SHA256:
E8BB634C9D5562D640D23AA426948D166977193931794E67761F1BCD2436466E
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ Python_Decorators:_Concepts_and
Examples⠀⇛
Decorators are a powerful concept in Python
programming that allows you to modify the
behavior of functions or classes in an
elegant and reusable way. This article will
provide an overview of Python decorators,
discussing their core concepts and showcasing
examples of creating and applying them in
your code.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Create_a_List_of_Lists_in_Python⠀⇛
To create a list of lists in Python, use the
bracket notation used for list initialization
or use the append() method to add lists into
a list.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_error:_list_indices_must_be
integers_or_slices,_not_a_tuple⠀⇛
This error is caused by passing a tuple
instead of an index value or a range of index
values to access the elements of the list.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ A_stitch_in_time:_Hong_Kong_designer_Toby
Crispy_fights_fast_fashion_with_slow_sewing_inspired_by_memories⠀⇛
Hong Kong designer Toby Crispy used to own three floor-
to-ceiling closets stuffed full of clothes, with more
pieces lying around her home in red-white-blue nylon bags
and paper bags.
o ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Top_5_Emerging_Technologies_to_Watch_Out_For_in_2023⠀⇛
As we continue to navigate through the ever-evolving
world of technology, it’s essential to keep an eye on the
emerging trends that hold the potential to transform
industries and redefine the way we live and work.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Jazz_saxophonist,_teacher_Edward_“Kidd”
Jordan_dies_at_87⠀⇛
Jazz saxophonist and music teacher Edward “Kidd” Jordan
died in his sleep Friday, surrounded by family at his New
Orleans home. Family publicist Vincent Sylvain said
Jordan grew up in Crowley before moving to New Orleans
where he became a professor at Southern University of New
Orleans and later chaired the university’s Jazz Studies
Program. Jordan also was an instructor at the New Orleans
Jazz and Heritage Foundation’s School of Music for 25
years. He also served as Artistic Director for the Louis
Armstrong Satchmo Jazz Camp. Jordan’s survivors include
his wife and seven children, four of whom are
professional musicians. Jordan was 87.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Meet_Jeremy_Hansen,_the_First_Canadian_Headed_to
the_Moon⠀⇛
Jeremy Hansen, 47, will be one of four astronauts on
NASA’s Artemis II moon mission and the first from Canada
to venture into deep space.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Swedish_Warship_Sank_in_1628._It_Is_Still
Yielding_Secrets.⠀⇛
Researchers are learning more about those who died after
the Vasa sank, including a woman known as “G,” who was
long believed by scientists to be a man.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ New_Season,_New_Music⠀⇛
Looking for new music recommendations? Introducing an
antidote to the algorithm.
o ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ What_is_RDBMS_(Relational_Database_Management
Systems)⠀⇛
A Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) is a
powerful software tool that manages and maintains
structured data in an organized and efficient manner. The
relational model, introduced by Dr. E.F. Codd in 1970,
laid the foundation for modern database management
systems.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Teachers_look_at_retraining_amid_Lithuania’s_drive_to_cut
Russian_language_teaching⠀⇛
After the Ministry of Education has hinted at plans to
significantly reduce the teaching of Russian in
Lithuanian schools, teachers are looking to retrain for
fear of losing their job.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ How_to_colour_Easter_eggs_–_cheap_and_sustainable_natural
methods⠀⇛
Decorating eggs for Easter is an ancient tradition.
Although today we can choose from a range of artificial
dyes, in the past, people coloured Easter eggs using only
natural ingredients. These methods are worth remembering
for they are cheaper and more sustainable.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Shock_Boson_Result_Upending_Physics_Was_a
Miscalculation,_Scientists_Say⠀⇛
We can explain.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Russell Coker ☛ Russell_Coker:_Storage_Trends_2023⠀⇛
In 2021 I stated that as MSY had 2TB disks for $72
and 2TB SSD for $245 it was barely worth
considering a 2TB disk and anything less than 2TB
wasn’t worth considering. Now for 2TB storage from
MSY NVMe starts at $129, SATA SSD starts at $143,
and hard disks start at $75. I guess that NVMe is
slightly cheaper due to some combination of
economies of scale for manufacture/sales and having
less postage costs. It really doesn’t make sense to
consider hard disks for storing 2TB or less.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ China’s_Loongson_Unveils_32-Core_CPU,
Reportedly_4X_Faster_Than_Arm_Chip⠀⇛
Loongson launches the 3D5000, a domestic server
processor with 32 cores and support for eight DDR4
memory channels.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Thousands_of_doctors_plan_to_walk
off_job_again_in_England⠀⇛
The British public health system is warning that a
planned four-day strike by tens of thousands of
doctors could lead to the postponement of a
quarter-million medical appointments. A policy
director with the National Health Service said
Saturday that the impact of a strike planned for
Tuesday by so-called junior doctors is expected to
be far greater than a three-day walkout last month.
The strike would be the latest in a wave disruptive
labor actions by public sector workers demanding
pay hikes to offset inflation exceeding 10%, as
union wages have have fallen in real terms over the
past decade.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Probe_under_way_into_deaths_of_Johor
elderly_couple_after_eating_pufferfish⠀⇛
Probes are being conducted to identify the
supplier, wholesaler and seller of the pufferfish.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Tick-borne_encephalitis_cases_nearly_at
record_levels_in_2022⠀⇛
Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), also known as tick-
borne meningitis, has become increasingly common in
Finland over the past ten years, spreading rapidly
throughout the country. Although there were fewer
cases last year than in the record-breaking year of
2021, the long-term trend is upward. Additionally,
the number of ticks has increased over the past few
decades, and they are now found in almost all parts
of Finland except for the northernmost Lapland
region. At the same time, TBE virus-carrying ticks
have been found in new areas.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Access_to_abortion_pills:_What_does_an_1870s
law_have_to_do_with_it?⠀⇛
On Friday, a Texas judge used an 1873 law to ban
sending abortion pills through the mail. Almost
simultaneously, a Washington state judge issued a
dueling opinion, likely meaning the issue will go
to the Supreme Court. Here’s what the law says and
how it’s being used.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Why_Exercise_Is_an_Important_Pillar_of_Any
Weight_Management_Regimen⠀⇛
Put in the work.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Seattle Times ☛ Seattle’s_commercial_real_estate_market
slows_as_bank_challenges_pile_up [Ed: Microsoft layoffs noted
again by this Bill Gates-bribed publisher]⠀⇛
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ SANS ☛ Microsoft_Netlogon:_Potential_Upcoming_Impacts_of
CVE-2022-38023,_(Sat,_Apr_8th)⠀⇛
It improves the Netlogon security by enforcing RPC
sealing instead of signing off the communication
with the Domain Controller. RPC sealing is a
security measure that both signs and encrypts the
messages sent over the wire by the Netlogon
protocol.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_Leaked_Pentagon_Documents_Show_About
Wagner’s_Influence⠀⇛
The Russian mercenary group has extended its
network for acquiring weapons — a sign of its
reach, but also a possible indication that
sanctions are forcing it to branch out from its
Russian backers.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Leaked_Document_Shows_the_Dire_Nature_of
Battle_for_Bakhmut⠀⇛
An assessment that appears in a new batch of leaked
classified documents appears to show that Ukraine
was close to losing a key battle of the war in
February.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Leaked_Documents_Show_Seoul_Torn_Between
U.S._Demands_and_Its_Own_Policy⠀⇛
The documents showed the United States most likely
spied on a key Asian ally as pressure built for
South Korea to help Washington supply ammunition to
Ukraine.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Readers_write:_War_in_Ukraine_and_hope_for_the
high_seas⠀⇛
Letters to the editor published in the April 17
magazine. Readers ponder the war in Ukraine, the UN
High Seas Treaty, and the joys of curling.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Citizens’_initiative_calls_for_Russian_consulate
closure_in_Mariehamn⠀⇛
Some say Åland’s demilitarised status puts it at
risk now that Finland is a Nato member.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_launches_three_days_of
military_drills_in_Taiwan_Strait⠀⇛
By James Edgar with Matthew Walsh in Pingtan China
launched military drills around Taiwan on Saturday,
in what it called a “stern warning” to the self-
ruled island’s government following a meeting
between its president and the US House speaker.
Dubbed “United Sharp Sword”, the three-day
operation — which state media said includes
rehearsing an encirclement…
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chinese_seaside_tourists_brush_off
military_drills_over_Taiwan⠀⇛
By Matthew Walsh Chinese tourists on an island near
Taiwan sunned themselves and snapped seaside
selfies on Saturday, unaware — or at least
unbothered — by Beijing’s launch of major military
drills in the strait beyond.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ US_urges_‘restraint’_as_China
launches_Taiwan_military_drills⠀⇛
The United States on Saturday called on China to
show restraint as Beijing launched military drills
around Taiwan, stressing that Washington was ready
to meet its security commitments in Asia. &
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_in_second_day_of_‘Joint_Sword’
military_drills_encircling_Taiwan⠀⇛
By James Edgar, with Amber Wang in Taipei and
Matthew Walsh in Pingtan China deployed dozens of
fighter jets and warships around Taiwan on Sunday
for a second day of large-scale military drills, in
an angry show of force following a meeting between
the island’s president and the US House speaker.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ China_launches_war_games_around_Taiwan⠀⇛
Taiwan detects scores of Chinese warplanes, ships
around it after Tsai Ing-wen returned from U.S.,
Central America.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_in_second_day_of_‘Joint_Sword’
military_drills_encircling_Taiwan⠀⇛
China calls military drills a “stern warning” to
Taiwan’s government following meeting between its
president and the US House speaker.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Human_wave_tactics_are_demoralizing_the
Russian_army_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has not gone
according to plan but he still hopes to win a long
war of attrition. However, Russia’s reliance on
human wave tactics risks undermining morale within
his invading army, writes Olivia Yanchik.
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_jails_man_for_scaring_1,100
chickens_to_death⠀⇛
The Chinese authorities said the 1,100 dead
chickens were worth 13,840 yuan (S$2,680).
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Long-Lost_Letter_Shows_That_Einstein
Predicted_That_Animals_Had_‘Super_Senses’⠀⇛
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Antibiotic_Resistance_Can_Emerge_in
Your_Gut_Even_Without_Antibiotics_Use⠀⇛
Wait, what?
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Tigers_Have_Unique_Personality_Traits_That
Help_Them_Survive_in_The_Wild,_Says_Study⠀⇛
Who’s a good kitty?
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Dangerous_Flesh-Eating_Microbes_Pose
Growing_Threat_Along_US_Coast⠀⇛
It’s gaining ground.
* § Finance⠀➾
o ⚓ Axios ☛ A_different_kind_of_mortgage_crisis⠀⇛
The 2008 financial crisis was caused, in part, by
mortgage lenders taking on too much risk. Now, the
pendulum has swung so far in the opposite direction that
the private sector has all but ceased taking on mortgage
risk any more.
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Fentanyl,_fuel,_and_inflation:_the_week_at
the_mañaneras⠀⇛
President López Obrador addressed the fentanyl crisis,
fuel prices, easing inflation and more at the weekday
morning pressers.
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Umpire_under_pressure_to_lift_wages_for_low-
paid_staff⠀⇛
“We are the working poor … there’s no work/life balance
as I can’t afford a life.” Comments such as this, from a
full-time retail assistant manager, are being put to the
industrial umpire as it weighs up giving Australia’s low-
paid a big boost in their pay packets.
* § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Macron_visited_Beijing_despite_protests_in_France_that
show_no_sign_of_stopping⠀⇛
French president Emmanuel Macron met with Chinese leader
Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, in an attempt to bolster
the deteriorating relationship between the West and
China. Macron reportedly pressed Xi to condemn Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine during a closed-door meeting.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ House_GOP_dysfunction_fuels_Democrats’_hardball_budget
tactics⠀⇛
Democrats are digging in their heels on debt_ceiling and
budget talks amid reports that House Speaker Kevin
McCarthy (R-Calif.) is struggling to wrangle his unwieldy
conference.
Why it matters:Time is running out for Congress and the
White House to agree on a budget and increase the
government’s debt ceiling to avert a potentially
catastrophic default this summer.
o ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Columbia_Journalism_Review–and_Now_Columbia
School_of_Journalism–Have_a_Russian_Intelligence_Problem⠀⇛
The best measure of how inadquate CJR’s attempt to
explain the series Jeff Gerth made making false claims
about the Russian investigation is that the even made no
mention of Gerth’s undisclosed reliance on a Russian
intelligence report of dubious reliability.
o ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ When_Techbros’_Circle_Jerk_Becomes_a_Circular
Firing_Squad⠀⇛
It is to laugh: Elmo is pissing on one of his investors
because his investor’s investment decided to launch a
platform competing with Twitter.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Managers_more_likely_to_still_be_allowed_to_work_from
home⠀⇛
Data: Barrero, et. al, 2021, “Why_working_from_home_will
stick”; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals
A growing number of companies are requiring workers to come back to the office
— but not necessarily their managers.
By the numbers: 62% of non-managers work exclusively onsite, compared to 45% of
managers, according to an Axios analysis of recent_survey_data.
=> =============================================================================
Between the lines:There are several reasons managers are more able to work from
home.
⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Fake_News_Curated_by_the_Deep_State:_Government_Spin_Doctors
Control_the_News_Cycle⠀⇛
John & Nisha Whitehead “We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We
are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is
telling us the truth.” Former New York Times reporter Sydney
Schanberg Let’s talk about fake news stories, shall we?
⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Perpetual_Cognitive_Dissonance⠀⇛
Todd Hayen There’s a clinical term in psychology, which in the
vernacular would be described with the phrase, “I think I am going
crazy.” This is “cognitive dissonance.”
§ YouTube Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-07_[Older]_Investigation_Finds_YouTube_Served_New
Teen_User_Almost_30_Andrew_Tate_Videos_in_Less_Than_2_Hours⠀⇛
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_Trump’s_Election_Lies_Send_Right_Side
Broadcasting_to_Seven-Day_YouTube_Jail⠀⇛
* ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_YouTuber_Shot_While_Filming_a_Prank_Video
at_a_Mall⠀⇛
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Elon_Musk_“Censors”_Matt_Taibbi’s_Post_about_Twitter
“Censoring”_the_“Hunter_Biden”_“Laptop”_Story⠀⇛
Yesterday, Elon Musk did to Matt Taibbi what Taibbi called an
incredible scandal when Twitter throttled the NYPost story on a
laptop claimed to be Hunter Biden’s.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Rival_rulings_on_medication_abortion_hypercharge_the
post-Roe_legal_war⠀⇛
A pair of conflicting federal court rulings on Friday created
arguably the most contentious and chaotic legal flashpoint over
abortion access since the Supreme Court’s ruling last summer
that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the right to an abortion
nationwide.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Dating_Advice⠀⇛
BOB. Hey hey, folks, it’s time for another episode
of the Cupid’s Chatline. I’m your host, Bob. Today
we have a very special guest–Ilmarinen! That’s
right, the Eternal Hammerer. Hi Ilmarinen!
# ⚓ Progress_(?)⠀⇛
The city transport corporation apparently has
recently purchased a new bus model. It is this bus
that triggered a whole line of thoughts. There are
a few additions on the bus that struck me as
utterly pointless; progress for the sake of
progress.
# ⚓ Spring⠀⇛
Spring is here, but it can still be chilly. My SO
and I were out early today,
and it was cold in the shade, but warm in the sun.
The cherry blossoms are all
gone now, replaced by nice green leaves, and lots
of nice flowers are out.
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ABENUTQ_Wordo:_LATHE⠀⇛
# ⚓ Live_a_So-Called_Normal_Life⠀⇛
I dumped a thought into my “Twtxt feed” (which
needs a new name, as the original idea’s
association with *Twitter* dissolved long ago) this
morning concerning the drug problem in España. I
don’t normally concern myself with such issues, but
I’d had a conversation with Marisa, who is a
partaker of Benzodiazepine, about the fact that
Spain is shoulders and torso above all other
countries on this ball of steel and greenery in the
consumption of said chemical.
# ⚓ re:_christyotwisty’s_10_Questions_for_March/April_2023⠀⇛
April 2023 five questions from christyotwisty:[1]
CoT: What is your most memorable recent dream?
o § Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ New_Jersey_Becomes_a_Safe_Haven⠀⇛
Over the last year we’ve seen countless bills
proposed and passed across the United States
targeting LGBTQIA+ people, primarily the
transgender community. These laws affect all
people, regardless of cis, or trans, het or queer.
Sports bans open the door for cis girls to get
inspected, or have their medical records invaded
upon to “be sure”. We saw not too long after
Florida passed laws against trans athletes and
legalizing investigations by schools, a cis girl
was questioned for beating some other child. It’s
insane, and it’s important we protect all
marginalized folks, and respect the freedoms of
peoples bodies, and our rights to live our lives as
we see fit (especially, when these decisions
literally DO NOT AFFECT ANYONE BUT OURSELVES). As
they’re often the gateway into more strict and
invasive laws.
# ⚓ Holy_Week_reflections⠀⇛
Christians obsess with the cross: both the literal
symbol of the crucifix and the message behind it.
After all, it is the most prominent and universally
understood mark of Christianity. The crucifix is a
prominent feature in just about every Christian
church regardless of denomination.
The centrality of the cross in the Christian faith
is sacrosanct among most believers throughout the
history of the Church. The Apostle Paul made the
cross the foundation of his message (cf., 1 Cor. 1:
18; Gal. 6:14).
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ home_again⠀⇛
I have made my home here again. After months of
exploring, nothing has been as effective and
fulfilling as this. I’ve searched for a place to
display my thoughts, Twitter being the shining
light. However, as I’m sure you’re aware, Twitter
is not such a great place… leading me to find
another solution. I’ve returned to the small-web
and I have hope that I’ll stay a while.
# ⚓ Yretek_🍃_Treasures_of_the_Wild_East_–_Prep⠀⇛
That’s so very right, prepping the adventure took
me three hours or so. That was easy, mainly because
I know my setting quite well, as I’ve written quite
a few stories set on it. It’s also that I embrace
making stuff up on the fly as I play solo. I don’t
like this approach playing with a group, but in
solo role-playing, I tend to play in small chunks,
so there’s no concern about interrupting play,
while I imagine things up to my heart delight.
# ⚓ Fedora_Silverblue_on_Acer_Aspire_Switch⠀⇛
After the untimeliy and way to early demise of my
Thinkpad (yes, the
one i praised in another entry) i was forced to
look into which
machine i make my next daily driver. After diving
into the big
treasure chest that is my companies heap of used
electronics i
discovered an Acer Aspire Switch convertible. Its
from 2018 if i
remember correctly, sports an intel atom processor,
2GB of RAM and an
tiny HD with only 32 GB disk space. But on the
upside: It has an
amazing battery life of nearly a full day (compare
this to the < 2
hours of the Thinkpad) and due to its construction
as a convertible
its super portable.
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World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Programming/Development
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Pseudo-Open_Source
# Openwashing
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
o Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Fentanylware_(TikTok)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Web_Server_Like_It’s_1998_With_This_Restored
Internet_Appliance⠀⇛
Hackaday readers fit into two broad categories:
those who experienced the wild and woolly early
days of the Internet, and those who are jealous
that they missed it. And it’s safe to say that both
groups will get something out of this aggressively
Web 1.0 retro experience, courtesy of a server that
was actually part of it.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ OpenShot_Video_Editor_3.1.0⠀⇛
OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video
editor licensed under the GPL version 3.0. OpenShot
can take your videos, photos, and music files and
help you create the film you have always dreamed
of. Easily add sub-titles, transitions, and
effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube,
Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats.
What really sets OpenShot apart from other video
editors is the easy-to-use user interface.
OpenShot has many great features, such as trimming
and arranging videos, adjusting audio levels,
transitions between videos, compositing multiple
layers of video, chroma-key / green screen effect,
and support of most formats and codecs.
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Package_manager_tutorial_updated⠀⇛
I posted that the “pkg” desktop icon now offers
four package managers:
https://bkhome.org/news/202304/package-manager-
wrapper-improved.html
Now have updated the tutorial:
The update has, hopefully, explained the concepts
more clearly.
Note, if you have viewed the tutorial previously,
do a page-refresh by holding down the CTRL-key then
click on the “page reload” button in the browser.
Reason for that, is that just clicking on “page
reload” may not update the images.
# ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ Chromium_(also_ungoogled)_now_at_version
112⠀⇛
Last week the Chromium source code major version
was upped to 112. According to the developer blog,
this release addresses 16 security issues, none of
them critical. Nevertheless, better safe than
sorry, so the Slackware packages (15.0 and -
current) for Chromium are now ready for downloading
from my repository or any of its mirrors.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ 20_Most_Commonly_Asked_MySQL_Interview
Questions⠀⇛
In today’s world where data becomes increasingly
crucial for businesses and organizations, the
ability to manage and analyze data efficiently is
more important than ever. More specifically, MySQL
is a popular database management system
# ⚓ Linux Buzz ☛ How_To_Setup_SFTP_Server_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this post, we’ll walk you through the steps to
setup an SFTP server on Ubuntu 22.04.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Game_Jam_Winner_Spotlight:_Tower_Tree_Stories⠀⇛
Well, here we are at the last of our series of
posts showcasing the winners in all six categories
of the fifth annual public domain game jam, Gaming
Like It’s 1927. So far we’ve featured Best Remix
winner Lucia, Best Visuals winner Urbanity, Best
Adaptation winner To And Again, Best Deep Cut
winner The Pigeon Wager, and Best Digital Game
winner Escape from 1927. Today, we’re wrapping
things up with a look at the winner of the Best
Analog Game category: Tower Tree Stories by David
Harris.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ [Stable_Update]_2023-04-06_–_Kernels,_Systemd,_Nextcloud
26,_Linux-Firmware,_LibreOffice_7.5.2⠀⇛
Another stable branch update with some usual
package updates for you.
# ⚓ [Stable_Update]_2023-04-06_–_Kernels,_Systemd,_Nextcloud
26,_Linux-Firmware… [Ed: Mabox 23.03 is out also]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Archcraft_XFCE_and_LXDE_ISOs_(April_2023)⠀⇛
New ISOs of Archcraft XFCE and LXDE is now
available to download.
# ⚓ LiveRaizo_v14.23.04.02i_released!⠀⇛
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Open_source_smartwatch_integrates_ESP32
mcu⠀⇛
ThePiHut featured this week an open source ePaper
watch powered by an ESP32 module. Some of the
peripherals featured include a 3-axis
accelerometer, a vibration motor, a LiPo battery
connector and many other features.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Ken Shirriff ☛ Reverse-engineering_the_division_microcode
in_the_Intel_8086_processor⠀⇛
I recently examined multiplication in the 8086, and
now it’s time to look at the division microcode.1
(There’s a lot of overlap with the multiplication
post so apologies for any deja vu.) The die photo
below shows the chip under a microscope. I’ve
labeled the key functional blocks; the ones that
are important to this post are darker. At the left,
the ALU (Arithmetic/Logic Unit) performs the
arithmetic operations at the heart of division:
subtraction and shifts. Division also uses a few
special hardware features: the X register, the F1
flag, and a loop counter. The microcode ROM at the
lower right controls the process.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Your_Fuji_Digital_Camera_Is_Hackable⠀⇛
There was a time when a digital camera was a
surprisingly simple affair whose on-board processor
didn’t have much in the way of smarts beyond what
was needed to grab an image from the sensor and
compress it onto some storage. But as they gained
more features, over time cameras acquired all the
trappings of a fully-fledged computer in their own
right, including full-fat operating systems and the
accompanying hackability opportunities.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ The_KDE_Qt5_Patch_Collection_has_been_rebased_on_top_of_Qt
5.15.9⠀⇛
Commit: https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qt5/-/commit/
4c0d35b0991216766ca301de205599d1daa72057
Commercial release announcement: https://www.qt.io/
blog/commercial-lts-qt-5.15.9-released
OpenSource release announcement: https://lists.qt-
project.org/pipermail/announce/2023-April/
000406.html
As usual I want to personally extend my gratitude
to the Commercial users of Qt for beta testing Qt
5.15.9 for the rest of us.
# ⚓ Month_two_as_KDE_Software_Platform_Engineer⠀⇛
It’s been a month since my first_post about my work
as KDE Software Platform Engineer, so let’s have a
look at what I have been doing since then.
# ⚓ 37signals LLC ☛ Go_Rails_World⠀⇛
This new conference will kick off at quite a
momentous occasion, too: Celebrating the 20th
anniversary of Ruby on Rails! I started working on
the framework in the summer of 2003 as part of the
development of Basecamp. By October, the framework
had a shape that would be completely recognizable
today, with Active Record and Action Pack in place.
# ⚓ Tedium ☛ Hiding_in_the_Basket⠀⇛
Like the first Easter egg in 1968, Robinett’s
attempt to bestow credit on himself was an act of
political protest. But the protest he was making
was against the practices of the industry in which
he worked—because it reflected how creative work
that made Atari millions of dollars was simply not
valued at anywhere close to what it earned the
company.
# ⚓ WikiMedia ☛ From_hell_to_HTML:_releasing_a_Python_package
to_easily_work_with_Wikimedia_HTML_dumps⠀⇛
Therefore, it is often desirable to work with HTML
versions of the articles instead of using the
wikitext versions. Though, in practice this has
remained largely impossible for researchers. Using
the MediaWiki APIs or scraping Wikipedia directly
for the HTML is computationally expensive at scale
and discouraged for large projects. Only recently,
the Wikimedia Enterprise HTML dumps have been
introduced and made publicly available with regular
monthly updates so that researchers or anyone else
may use them in their work.
However, while the data is available, it still
requires lots of technical expertise by
researchers, such as how different elements from
wikitext get parsed into HTML elements. In order to
lower the technical barriers and improve the
accessibility of this incredible resource, we
released the first version of mwparserfromhtml, a
library that makes it easy to parse the HTML
content of Wikipedia articles – inspired by the
wikitext-oriented mwparserfromhell.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ tabular_and_flextable⠀⇛
Function tables::tabular() is a powerful tool that
let users easily create simple and complex cross
tables. Function as_flextable() is simple to use,
it transforms ‘tables’ objects into ‘flextable’
objects and let you enrich the table with extra
information and or formats.
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Go_1.21_will_(likely)_have_a_static
toolchain_on_Linux⠀⇛
At this point you might wonder why the Go toolchain
is dynamically linked against the system glibc.
Although I haven’t tried to analyze symbol usage,
the obvious assumption is that it’s dynamically
linked because various Go tools want to download
packages over the network, which requires looking
up DNS names, which is a very common cause of
dynamically linking to glibc.
# ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ The_Path_Dependence_of_YAML⠀⇛
A hypothesis is that YAML is not only popular
because it is more human-readable/writable than
JSON but also because it is significantly more
machine writable as a raw string.
# ⚓ The Economist ☛ It_doesn’t_take_much_to_make_machine-
learning_algorithms_go_awry⠀⇛
Some data-poisoning attacks might just degrade the
overall performance of an AI tool. More
sophisticated attacks could elicit specific
reactions in the system. Dr Tramèr says that an AI
chatbot in a search engine, for example, could be
tweaked so that whenever a user asks which
newspaper they should subscribe to, the AI responds
with “The Economist”. That might not sound so bad,
but similar attacks could also cause an AI to spout
untruths whenever it is asked about a particular
topic. Attacks against LLMs that generate computer
code have led these systems to write software that
is vulnerable to hacking.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Revisiting_Borland_Turbo_C_And_C++⠀⇛
Looking back on what programming used to be like
can be a fascinatingly entertaining thing, which is
why [Tough Developer] decided to download and try
using Turbo C and C++, from version 1.0 to the more
recent releases. Borland Turbo C 1.0 is a doozy as
it was released in 1987 — two years before the C89
standardization that brought us the much beloved
ANSI C that so many of us spent the 90s with. Turbo
C++ 1.0 is from 1991, which precedes the
standardization of C++ in 1998. This means that
both integrated development environments (IDEs)
provide a fascinating look at what was on the
cutting edge in the late 80s and early 90s.
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Mechanical_GIF_Animates_With_The_Power_Of
Magnets⠀⇛
It doesn’t matter how you pronounce it, because
whichever way you choose to say “GIF” is guaranteed
to cheese off about half the people listening. Such
is the state of our polarized world, we suppose,
but there’s one thing we all can agree on — that a
mechanical GIF is a pretty cool thing.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Everything_advertised_on_social_media_is
overpriced_junk⠀⇛
Specifically, stuff that’s pushed to you via targeted ads
costs an average of 10 percent more, and it significantly
more likely to come from a vendor with a poor rating from
the Better Business Bureau. This may seem trivial and
obvious, but it’s got profound implications for media,
commercial surveillance, and the future of the
[Internet].
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Magician_Did_a_Famous_Trick_For_Monkeys,
But_The_Real_Magic_Was_Their_Reactions⠀⇛
Are you watching closely?
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Ancient_Hair_Reveals_Traces_of
Hallucinogenic_Drugs_Taken_3,600_Years_Ago⠀⇛
Old habits.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Reactivating_A_Harris_RF-130_URT-23
Transmitter⠀⇛
If you enjoy old military hardware, you probably
know that Harris made quite a few heavy-duty pieces
of radio gear. [K6YIC] picked up a nice example:
the Harris RF-130 URT-23. These were frequently
used in the Navy and some other service branches to
communicate in a variety of modes on HF. The entire
set included an exciter, an amplifier, an antenna
tuner, and a power supply and, in its usual
configuration, can output up to a kilowatt. The
transmitter needs some work, and he’s done three
videos on the transmitter already. He’s planning on
several more, but there’s already a lot to see if
you enjoy this older gear. You can see the first
three below and you’ll probably want to watch them
all, but if you want to jump right to the tear
down, you can start with the second video.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Design_For_People⠀⇛
We all make things. Sometimes we make things for
ourselves, sometimes for the broader hacker
community, and sometimes we make things for normal
folks. It’s this last category where it gets
tricky, and critical. I was reminded of all of this
watching Chris Combs’ excellent Supercon 2022 talk
on how to make it as an artist.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Russia’s_New_Mystery_Shortwave_Station⠀⇛
The Buzzer, also known as UVB-76 or UZB-76, has
been a constant companion to anyone with a
shortwave radio tuned to 4625 kHz. However,
[Ringway Manchester] notes that there is now a
second buzzer operating near in frequency to the
original. Of course, like all mysterious stations,
people try to track their origin. [Ringway] shows
some older sites for the Buzzer and the current
speculation on the current transmitter locations.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Online_pornography_messes_up_the_minds_of
minors:_experts⠀⇛
“Pornography is primarily made for men; experience
shows that it changes the way boys perceive girls,
with female classmates increasingly being perceived
as sexualized objects,” said Freitag. “Girls, on
the other hand, think they are expected to do
certain things that they find really painful or
disgusting because they think that is what is
expected of them, and they fear they will be seen
as prude, or will perhaps lose their relationship.”
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_75_years_of_the_WHO:
Not_a_‘global_health_police’ [Ed: Taking up bribes from
Famous Criminal Bill Gates as if the conflict of interest
won't become abundantly apparent and disgrace the UN as a
whole]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Two_Years_Later,_Biden_Has_Yet_to_Appoint
Key_Safety_Regulator_at_DOT⠀⇛
More than halfway through President Biden’s term,
there remain numerous critical appointed positions
across the executive branch that remain empty. My
colleagues have writtenextensivelyabout the scope
of this confirmation crisis. Some notable remaining
vacancies include a seat on the Federal
Communications Commission, around two dozen US
Attorneys, and a seat on the National
Transportation Safety Board. While much of this is
due to obstruction by Senate Republicans, the
importance of advancing good nominees remains. The
fixes to the procedural delays are beyond Biden’s
control (though not necessarily beyond Senate
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s). But fighting to
get the right people into positions of authority is
still a top priority. As the mantra goes: personnel
is policy.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Are_there_any_modern_closed-source
programming_languages?⠀⇛
At a recent OpenUK meetup, one of the participants
declared that Open Source had comprehensively won.
While businesses might not always release their
proprietary source code, 100% of everything they
wrote used an open source programming language.
# ⚓ New Statesman ☛ We_are_all_prisoners_of_WhatsApp⠀⇛
Including, inevitably, professional communications,
and that is where the trouble starts. WhatsApp
combines the immediacy of the water-cooler chat,
with the permanent record of the minuted meeting,
and this is quite obviously a recipe for disaster.
It’s easy, even natural, to use it for the kind of
casual chat once reserved for face-to-face
communications. The problem is they’re then
preserved forever.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Microsoft_coughs_up_some_change_after
allegedly_selling_software_to_no-no_companies⠀⇛
Microsoft will pay more than $3.3 million to settle
allegations it busted US sanctions by selling
software and services to blacklisted companies and
individuals in Russia, Iran, and other countries.
(That figure is about 25 minutes of quarterly
profit for Microsoft; it banked $17.4 billion in
net income in just the final three months of 2022.)
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ MSI_hit_in_cyberattack,_warns_against
installing_knock-off_firmware⠀⇛
Indeed, the gang claims to have all the tools
necessary to develop a potentially malicious BIOS
and then digitally sign it in a way that it appears
legitimate and can be installed on victims’ PCs
once they’re lured into downloading it. Assuming
the miscreants haven’t poisoned MSI’s downloads,
you’ll really want to avoid installing what turns
out to be malware at the firmware level and instead
stick to the official updates.
# ⚓ Russell Graves ☛ Bulb_Reviews:_Ecosmart_Smart_Bulb_Wi-Fi
Tunable_and_Full_Color_LED⠀⇛
The back has the usual warnings, and I’ll point to
the upper right corner as a case of “Wait, really,
now?” This is one of the many LED bulbs not rated
for use in “totally enclosed fixtures,” or in
“recessed fixtures.” What this means is that unless
it’s a bare bulb in a lamp, it’s likely to overheat
and fail long before rated lifespan – because most
home light fixtures are either enclosed or
recessed. I’m unclear as to if this includes
“downward facing bulbs with a glass shroud, open at
the bottom” – that’s an area of future research.
The short of it is, it’s cheap, and it needs very
good cooling to avoid early death. But, at least,
you can use it in an upright table lamp! Does
anyone still use those? My nice “table lamp” burns
kerosene (it’s a rather beautiful Aladdin mantle
type, and I really should review it soon).
o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾
# § Openwashing⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ A_search_engine_for_Creative
Commons⠀⇛
Are you looking for content that is openly
licensed that you can reuse? Then you might
be interested in Openverse. Openverse is an
innovative tool that searches over 300
million pictures from an aggregation of
different databases. It goes beyond just
searching for an image by giving users access
to tags created by machine learning models
and one-click attribution. With so many
visuals to explore, users can find the
perfect image to make their project more
engaging. The content comes from a variety of
sources, including the Smithsonian, Cleveland
Museum of Art, NASA, and the New York Public
Library.
In 2019, the CC Search tool provided by the
Creative Commons site was adopted by the
WordPress project. Openverse is the new
incarnation of CC Search.
Currently, Openverse only indexes images and
audio-visual content. Searches for video are
available from external sources. Plans are in
place to add additional representations of
open-access texts, 3D models, and more. They
have one common goal: Grant access to the
estimated 2.5 billion Creative Commons
licenses and public domain works available
online. All the code utilized is open source.
Please be aware that Openverse does not
guarantee that the visuals have been
correctly provided with a Creative Commons
license or that the attribution and any other
related licensing information collected are
precise and complete. To be safe, please
double-check the copyright status and
attribution information before reusing the
material. To find out more, please read the
terms of use in Openverse.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Cybernews ☛ Rogers_Communications_data_allegedly_sold_on_a
hacker_forum⠀⇛
Rogers’ leak includes data from the company’s
active directory, including information on
customers, the attackers claim. The company
confirmed the leak, saying some of Rogers’
employees “business contact information” was
exposed.
# ⚓ HIPAA:_Deficient_or_Miscast⠀⇛
The development of new technology in healthcare and
the massive expansion in sources of healthcare data
have both created many complications when it comes
to protecting and securing sensitive information
about individuals. Inevitably, the discussion then
turns to the role of HIPAA, which then turns to
HIPAA not meeting current needs.
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Iran-Based_Hackers_Caught_Carrying_Out
Destructive_Attacks_Under_Ransomware_Guise⠀⇛
he Iranian nation-state group known as MuddyWater
has been observed carrying out destructive attacks
on hybrid environments under the guise of a
ransomware operation.
That’s according to new findings from the Microsoft
Threat Intelligence team, which discovered the
threat actor targeting both on-premises and cloud
infrastructures in partnership with another
emerging activity cluster dubbed DEV-1084.
# ⚓ Paris Beacon News ☛ Mastodon_Vulnerability_Exposes
Sensitive_Information:_Data_Leak_Alert⠀⇛
Mastodon, a social network based on software for
servers of the same name, has been found to have a
vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to
read individual pieces of information. The problem
was caused by inadequate filtering of the data
transferred during LDAP authentication. The
vulnerability allows attackers to smuggle in an
LDAP database query, which can be used to read
information about users bit by bit. Despite the
vulnerability, it was not possible for attackers to
get password hashes.
The vulnerability has been labelled CVE-2023-28853,
with a risk assessment of “high”. Mastodon versions
from 2.5.0 were affected, but the developers have
since closed the security gaps in versions 4.1.2,
4.0.4, and 3.5.8. The release notes for the three
new Mastodon versions include a description of the
vulnerability and version 3.0.6 of Ruby as a
security update to address a previous ReDoS
vulnerability.
# ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Alcohol_recovery_startups_Monument_and_Tempest
shared_patients’_private_data_with_advertisers⠀⇛
For years, online alcohol recovery startups
Monument and Tempest were sharing with advertisers
the personal information and health data of their
patients without their consent.
Monument, which acquired Tempest in 2022, confirmed
the extensive years-long leak of patients’
information in a data breach notification filed
with California’s attorney general last week,
blaming their use of third-party tracking systems
developed by ad giants including Facebook, Google,
Microsoft and Pinterest.
# ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Throne_fixes_security_bug_that_exposed
creators’_private_home_addresses⠀⇛
A recently fixed security bug at a popular platform
for supporting creators shows how even privacy-
focused platforms can put creators’ private
information at risk.
Throne, founded in 2021, bills itself as “a fully
secure, concierge wishlist service that acts as an
intermediary between your fans and you.” Throne
claims to support more than 200,000 creators by
shipping out thousands of their wish list items per
day, all the while protecting the privacy of the
creators’ home address.
# ⚓ Clinic_hackers_threaten_to_destroy_information_about
patients_with_infectious_diseases⠀⇛
The cyberattack that the Hospital Clínic de
Barcelona suffered at the beginning of March, and
which disrupted its activity, is still open and
bothers the Catalan authorities. After the recent
steps taken by the Mossos d’Esquadra to end the
case, blocking the pirate gates at the beginning of
the week, now the authors of the “hack” have
threatened this Thursday to publish new stolen
data.
In particular, they warned that “in the near
future” they will publish information about
patients with infectious diseases and information
about the use of experimental drugs in the elderly
that the Barcelona center carries out. The
‘hackers’, the Ransom House collective, have
already published thousands of controversial data
from the hospital in the first ‘deep web’.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ PharMerica_and_BrightSpring_Health_Services
hit_by_Money_Message⠀⇛
PharMerica, owned by BrightSpring Health, is a
national pharmacy network serving partners in over
3,100 long-term care, senior living, IDD/behavioral
health, home infusion, specialty pharmacy, and
hospital management programs. BrightSpring® Health
Services provides comprehensive home and community-
based health services to complex populations
needing specialized care. Both are headquartered in
Kentucky.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_Privacy_Executive_Rob
Leathern_Is_Out_At_Google._Now_He_Wants_to_Talk_About
AI.⠀⇛
# ⚓ Reuters ☛ Iran_installs_cameras_in_public_places_to
identify,_penalise_unveiled_women⠀⇛
After they have been identified, violators
will receive “warning text messages as to the
consequences”, police said in a statement.
The move is aimed at “preventing resistance
against the hijab law,” said the statement,
carried by the judiciary’s Mizan news agency
and other state media, adding that such
resistance tarnishes Iran’s spiritual image
and spreads insecurity.
# ⚓ BBC ☛ Iran_installs_cameras_to_find_women_not_wearing
hijab⠀⇛
A police statement published by the state-run
Islamic Republic News Agency said the system
used so-called “smart” cameras and other
tools to identify and send “documents and
warning messages to the violators of the
hijab law”.
# ⚓ Kodi Foundation ☛ IMPORTANT:_Kodi_Forum_–_Data
Breach⠀⇛
In the last 24 hours we became aware of a
dump of the Kodi user forum (MyBB) software
being advertised for sale on internet forums.
This post confirms that a breach has taken
place.
MyBB admin logs show the account of a trusted
but currently inactive member of the forum
admin team was used to access the web-based
MyBB admin console twice: on 16 February and
again on 21 February. The account was used to
create database backups which were then
downloaded and deleted. It also downloaded
existing nightly full-backups of the
database. The account owner has confirmed
they did not access the admin console to
perform these actions.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Letters:_23andMe_and_Your_Biodata⠀⇛
On an episode of The Time of Monsters, Jeet
Heer spoke with Professor Myles W. Jackson
about the implications of DNA databases and
the question of who “owns” this information,
particularly as it pertains to 23andMe and
its customers [“Big Pharma Wants to Own Your
DNA Info,” December 21, 2022]. This is an
important topic and one that deserves healthy
debate. We’ve always maintained at 23andMe
that our customers own their DNA, and that
testing is first and foremost a choice. Those
who are not comfortable with DNA testing, for
any reason, should not get tested. We carry
this ethos of choice—and
transparency—throughout our product and the
manner in which we conduct business. Choices
presented to customers when they decide to
test include what types of information they’d
like to receive from our test, whether or not
they’d like 23andMe to store their DNA sample
(they can elect to have it discarded), and,
crucially, how their data may or may not be
used by 23andMe or third parties. We talk
publicly about our research collaborations,
such as those with academic institutions,
nonprofit organizations, and pharmaceutical
companies, so that customers are aware of how
their information may be used, if they do in
fact choose to opt in to our research
program.
At 23andMe we conduct research to help
advance science, develop our product to
return new insights to customers, and develop
new medicines for serious unmet medical
needs. Thus far, 23andMe research has led to
more than more than 200 publications, most of
which are in collaboration with academic
researchers. This program is conducted pro
bono for the purpose of publishing genetic
insights that may allow the field to advance
research in a number of areas, including the
genetics of cancer, Covid-19, Parkinson’s,
and many more. We’ve also been able to expand
our ancestry composition to include areas of
the globe that historically have been
underrepresented in genetics. These include
regions in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Research is conducted in-house by 23andMe
scientists, studying de-identified, aggregate
information from customers who have consented
to participate under our Main Research
Consent. The process of consenting to
research is separate from the terms of
service and is entirely voluntary. Notably,
this is an opt-in process, meaning customers
must proactively elect to participate and are
not defaulted into participation. Customers
have the option to change this consent at any
time. Our research is overseen by a third
party institutional review board, or IRB, to
ensure that the work is conducted to the
highest ethical standards and guidelines and
that proper, informed consent is carried out.
23andMe will not share any customer data with
third parties for research purposes without a
customer’s explicit consent.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_France_hikes_military
reservist_age_to_70⠀⇛
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Polish_prime_minister:_EU_may_fast-track_Moldova
application⠀⇛
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki Thursday
said that officals may fast-track Moldova’s
application for accession to the European Union.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Tennessee_legislature_votes_to_expel_two_lawmakers
for_protesting_to_end_gun_violence⠀⇛
Tennessee lawmakers Thursday voted to expel two
Democratic lawmakers for participating in a March
30 protest in the capitol, in which lawmakers
joined students and activists in calling for an end
to gun violence.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Only_‘compatriots’_in_war_How_plans_for_a_new
mosque_in_Moscow_exposed_the_limits_of_Russia’s_religious
pluralism_—_Meduza⠀⇛
In early February, residents of Moscow’s Kosino-
Ukhtomsky District started protesting in opposition
to the rumored construction of a new mosque in
their area. Over the weeks that followed, the
demonstrations grew into a bizarre and ugly
spectacle on which everyone from MMA fighters to
Chechnya Governor Ramzan Kadyrov to Russian
Orthodox Church head Patriarch Kirill felt
compelled to weigh in. On April 5, Moscow Mayor
Sergey Sobyanin announced that the protesters would
get their wish, and that a new site had been chosen
for the mosque. The solution was sold as a win-win,
but public figures from Dagestan and Chechnya say
the incident triggered xenophobia that will leave
Russia’s Muslims worse off in the long run.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_Behind_Bars:_Prisoners_are_now_signing_18-
month_contracts_to_fight_in_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian prisoners who have been recruited by
Russia’s Defense Ministry since February 2023 are
now signing contracts to serve the Russian military
for 18 months, reports Olga Romanova, head of the
NGO Russia Behind Bars, on Telegram. Romanova
writes that she learned of the new practice in the
Sverdlovsk and Yaroslavl regions.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Hi,_I’m_Elya,_I’m_nine_and_a_half._I’m_hiding
from_the_war.’_Children_from_Mariupol_left_messages_and
drawings_on_the_walls_of_a_basement_where_they_hid_as
Russia’s_siege_destroyed_the_city_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Mariupol was almost completely destroyed during the
Russian army’s invasion of Ukraine. While the city
took artillery fire, many residents, including a
number of children, hid in the Priazovskyi State
Technical University. The kids sheltering there
wrote messages on the building’s walls. After
Russian troops captured Mariupol, construction
workers from Russia entered the city. Among them
was Alexey, a native of Mykolaiv, who left Ukraine
for Bashkortostan, in Russia, in 2014. He found the
messages left by children hiding from shelling on
the basement walls of Priazovskyi University.
Journalists from news outlet The Village published
photos of the children’s words and drawings. With
The Village’s permission, Meduza is sharing photos
and English translations of the words left by
children hiding in a basement from Russian bombs.
# ⚓ New_Batch_of_Classified_Documents_Appear_on_Social_Media
Sites⠀⇛
A new batch of classified documents that appear to
detail American national security secrets from
Ukraine to the Middle East to China surfaced on
social media sites on Friday, alarming the Pentagon
and adding turmoil to a situation that seemed to
have caught the Biden administration off guard.
The scale of the leak — analysts say more than 100
documents may have been obtained — along with the
sensitivity of the documents themselves, could be
hugely damaging, U.S. officials said. A senior
intelligence official called the leak “a nightmare
for the Five Eyes,” in a reference to the United
States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada,
the so-called Five Eyes nations that broadly share
intelligence.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ A_Russian_soldier_who_converted_to_Buddhism_is
sentenced_to_two_years_in_prison_for_refusing_to_return_to
war⠀⇛
According to Tarasova, the court found Vasilets
guilty of not following orders during combat, an
offense which carries a sentence of three years in
prison. The prosecution sought the maximum sentence
for Vasilets, reports Telegram channel Military
Ombudsmen.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Evgeny_Prigozhin,_Leonid_Slutsky_attend_Vladlen
Tatarsky’s_funeral_in_Moscow_—_Meduza⠀⇛
War blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, who was killed on
April 2 in an explosion in a St. Petersburg cafe,
was buried in Moscow’s Troyekurovo Cemetery.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ 31_children_return_to_Ukraine_from_Russian-
controlled_territories_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The charitable organization Save Ukraine reports
that 31 children have returned from Russian-
controlled territories to Ukraine.
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_Dutch_court
blocks_plans_to_cut_Schiphol_Airport_flights⠀⇛
# ⚓ RTL ☛ ‘We’ve_been_thinking_from_the_car_perspective
for_far_too_long’⠀⇛
On Saturday afternoon, our colleagues from
RTL Radio hosted a roundtable discussion on
urban planning. Their guests were ProVëlo
President Monique Goldschmit, Urbanist Tom
Becker from the University of Luxembourg, and
Senior Advisor at the Ministry of Mobility
Christophe Reuter.
One of the conclusions of the roundtable was
that people have been thinking from the
perspective of the car for far too long. The
guests agreed that bicycle traffic must be
expanded, among other things to reduce car
congestion in cities.
# ⚓ BBC ☛ Ukraine_to_export_electricity_again_after
months_of_Russian_attacks⠀⇛
Ukrenergo said on Saturday that Russia has
launched more than 1,200 missiles and drones
at its energy facilities so far during the
war.
The company described the assault as the
largest attempt to destroy a European
country’s energy system.
o § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ The Hindu ☛ Explained_|_Will_platforms_have_to_take_down
‘fake_news’?⠀⇛
The fact check unit of the Press Information Bureau
(PIB), which has been ‘debunking’ WhatsApp forwards
and news articles on Central Government schemes and
departments for years, will be notified as the
official fact checker for the Union Government. As
such, whenever any news is notified as fake, social
media companies will lose their “safe harbour” for
such content, opening them up to lawsuits or other
legal action. Social media companies have
traditionally enjoyed legal immunity for content
posted by users, as the Information Technology Act,
2000 treats them as intermediaries. Under the IT
Rules they lose this status if, among other things,
they don’t have a grievance officer for India, or
don’t address user complaints on time. Additionally
now, with this amendment, they will lose their safe
harbour immunity for posts that have been flagged
by the government as misinformation.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ US,_NATO_military_plans_leak:_Actual_war
strategy_or_Russian_fake_news?⠀⇛
The purported classified documents surfaced on
Twitter and Telegram, and immediately sparked a US
Department of Defense probe. Uncle Sam said it is
checking out the blueprints, which may well be
misinformation.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Why_Leaked_Pentagon_Documents_Are_Still
Circulating_on_Social_Media⠀⇛
It was not clear on Saturday whether the Pentagon
material was hacked or intentionally leaked — the
images circulating appeared to be photographs of
documents. The documents could fall into a gray
area that, at least in the past, would have led to
discussion among compliance officers inside the
company about whether they qualified for a
takedown.
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Russians_Accused_of_Doctoring_Leaked_Western
Documents_on_Ukraine_War⠀⇛
“The altered numbers expose them [the Russian
intelligence services] completely. And it shows
that the main reason of this was to convince the
Russian public that only 17,000 [Russian] soldiers
died,” said Andrey Piontkovsky, senior fellow at
the Institute of Modern Russia, headquartered in
New York.
“This is a propaganda operation designed primarily
for Russian public opinion,” Piontkovsky told VOA’s
Russian Service on Friday, adding that what has
been released does not contain “any detailed
harmful military information.”
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ New_York_Indictment_Is_Just_the_Beginning_of
Trump’s_Mounting_Legal_Woes⠀⇛
The New York district attorney’s case against Trump
is a strong one.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ ProPublica_report_alleges_US_Supreme_Court_Justice
Thomas_failed_to_report_gifts⠀⇛
ProPublica Thursday released a report purporting to
show substantial, unreported gifts accepted by US
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. ProPublica,
a US-based news source, relied upon flight records,
internal memos and individuals present at specific
events to compile the allegations.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘It_Is_Your_Duty’:_Dem_Lawmakers_Urge_Chief
Justice_to_Probe_Clarence_Thomas_Secret_Trips⠀⇛
As congressional Democrats scoffed at U.S. Supreme
Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ attempt to defend
taking luxury vacations funded by a billionaire
Republican mega-donor, a group of 16 Democratic
lawmakers on Friday urged Chief Justice John
Roberts to investigate “allegations of unethical
and potentially unlawful conduct” by a member of
the nation’s highest court.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Reproductive_Rights_Advocates,_House_Dems
Blast_MAGA_Judge’s_Move_to_Block_Abortion_Pills⠀⇛
Reproductive rights advocates and Democratic U.S.
lawmakers on Saturday condemned a far-right federal
judge’s ruling that threatens access to
mifepristone—one of two drugs commonly used in
abortion pills—while calling on the Biden
administration to do everything in its power to
ensure access to the medication.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ We_Are_Still_Here,_and_We_Will_Not_Bow
Down⠀⇛
Plunging into totalitarianism, Tennessee’s GOP has
boldly decreed the best way to end the slaughter of
kids by guns is to expel two young black lawmakers
urging we end the slaughter of kids by guns. In “a
farce” of stunning contrasts, poised, eloquent
Reps. Jones and Pearson blasted a venomous GOP who
ousted them for doing their job – giving voice to
their constituents. Jones: “We called for a ban on
assault weapons, you called for an assault on
democracy.” Now can we say they’re fascists?
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Another_Loser_Republican_Goes_Out_Whining⠀⇛
What is it about many modern day Republican
candidates?
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Tennessee_Exposes_Swift-Moving_Fascism
Within_the_GOP⠀⇛
The expulsion of two Black state legislators for
peaceful protest in Tennessee April 6 has long
roots in political repression and the legacy of
racism in the U.S. But it also is a signpost of the
chilling escalation of autocratic assaults on
democracy that have mushroomed since the ascent of
Donald Trump.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Democracy_or_Apartheid:_You_Can’t_Have
Both⠀⇛
For two consecutive nights this week, during the
holy month of Ramadan, the Israeli military stormed
Al-Aqsa mosque. They entered the mosque before
prayer was over, firing rubber bullets, stun
grenades, and tear gas at Palestinian worshippers.
These events left at least 12 Palestinians injured,
and over 400 were arrested on the first night.
Following the raid, Israeli violence spread across
the west bank. Dozens have been hurt by inhaling
poisonous gas fired by Israeli forces, and a
settler in occupied East Jerusalem shot a
Palestinian child.
# ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Govt_says_fact-check_body_to_curb
misinformation,_critics_allege_censorship⠀⇛
Studies have shown that misinformation is a big
issue on every major social media platform. In many
cases, it is the content that most often goes viral
on these sites, thanks to their own algorithms, and
users – with varying motivations – who share such
information. But, these platforms have also become
an important tool for people – particularly from
marginalised groups – to exercise their right to
free speech.
[...]
The question that arises then is if social media
companies will exercise their agency to decide
whether they should let a piece of content labelled
fake by the government on their platform. If they
do, they could lose safe harbour and attract a
lawsuit; and if they don’t, they will become party
to a censorship exercise.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Google_and_Amazon_struggle_to_lay_off_workers
in_Europe⠀⇛
In the US, companies can announce widespread job
cuts and let go of hundreds if not thousands of
workers within months — and many have. Meanwhile,
in Europe, mass layoffs among tech companies have
stalled because of labor protections that make it
virtually impossible to dismiss people in some
countries without prior consultations with employee
interest groups.
# ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Kadri_Liik:_Russia_has_gone_from
an_authoritarian_to_a_totalitarian_state⠀⇛
Putin has met with military bloggers who support
conquering Ukraine but are critical of how it is
being done.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Big_Wins_for_the_People_in_Wisconsin_and
Chicago⠀⇛
History was made this week when Donald Trump became
the first president to be criminally charged. He
pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying
business records. He has yet to be indicted,
however, for the far more serious offense of
promoting an insurrection and attempting to
overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential
election. Most prominent Republicans have refused
to criticize Trump for any of his alleged crimes.
# § Twitter⠀➾
# ⚓ RTL ☛ Musk’s_Twitter_tags_US_radio_NPR_as_‘state-
affiliated’⠀⇛
The designation of “state-affiliated media”
for Washington-based National Public Radio —
a label also applied to government-owned
Chinese and Russian outlets — comes just days
after Twitter stripped The New York Times of
its verified status on the platform, the
first sign of Musk’s updated policies for
news media.s
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]
Elon_Musk_calls_New_York_Times_‘hypocritical’_for
refusing_to_pay_for_Twitter_blue_tick⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_The_Morning_After:
Twitter_keeps_legacy_verified_blue_ticks_around,_for
now⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_Elon_Musk_Makes_It
Harder_to_Distinguish_Between_Blue_Verified_and_Paid
Checkmarks_to_Save_Face⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-04-02_[Older]_Twitter
Pulls_Check_Mark_From_Main_New_York_Times_Account⠀⇛
# ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_The_ridiculous_but_important
Twitter_check_mark_fiasco_keeps_getting_worse⠀⇛
# ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_Why_your_Twitter_page_is
changing_and_may_have_a_dog_on_it⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-07Doge’s_Twitter_Reign_Ends,
Triggering_Memecoin_Slump⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_Dogecoin_jumps_after_Elon
Musk_replaces_Twitter_bird_with_Shiba_Inu⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_Dogecoin_currency
surges_after_Musk_changes_Twitter_logo⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_Musk’s_Twitter_promised_a
purge_of_blue_check_marks._Instead_he_singled_out_the
New_York_Times⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_What’s
Happening_With_Twitter_Blue_Check_Marks?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_Twitter_is_covered_in
Doge_for_no_discernible_reason⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_Twitter_stokes
confusion_as_‘verified’_drama_continues⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNET ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_Twitter_Check_Marks:_What
All_the_Different_Colors_Mean_–_CNET⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_Humiliation_Machine:_10
Broken_Promises_From_Elon_Musk⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_Twitter_shut_off_its
free_API_and_it’s_breaking_a_lot_of_apps⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_What_did_Twitter’s
‘open_source’_algorithm_actually_reveal?_Not_a_lot.⠀⇛
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ 2023-04-07_[Older]_Twitter_Takes_Aim
at_Posts_That_Link_to_Its_Rival_Substack⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_16_Celebrities_Who_Won’t
Pay_Elon_for_Blue_Checks⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_More_Ex-Tweeps_Sue
Twitter_for_Alleged_Illegal_Layoffs⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_Twitter_Adds_‘State-
Affiliated_Media’_Label_to_NPR⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_Twitter_designates_NPR
as_‘US_state-affiliated_media’⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_The_New
‘Transparent’_Twitter_Isn’t_Very_Transparent⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-04-07_At_Twitter,_Elon_Musk
Is_Doing_a_Great_Job_of_Disproving_the_Idea_of
Meritocracy⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-07_A_McDonald’s_Exec_Is_Worried
Elon’s_Tweets_Are_‘Perpetuating_Racism’⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-07_Substack_Is_Totally_Borked_on
Twitter⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-04-07_Twitter_blocks_interactions_on
tweets_with_Substack_links⠀⇛
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ 2023-04-07_How_Elon_Musk_Is_Changing
the_Twitter_Experience⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-06_Twitter_Says_Its_Blue_‘Half_Ads’
Promise_Is_Actually_Materializing⠀⇛
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_Hong_Kong_47:
Democrat_‘admits_mistake’_over_Facebook_post_reading_‘fight
against_tyranny’⠀⇛
# ⚓ Reason ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_Is_Telling_Someone_To_‘Die’_on
Facebook_Protected_by_the_First_Amendment?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Monopoly_board_games_disappear_from_Russian_stores
—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian stores are out of Monopoly board games,
reports state broadcaster RBC.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Russia_formally_charges_Wall_Street_Journal
reporter_with_espionage⠀⇛
Investigators from the Russian Federal Security
Service (FSB) Friday formally charged Wall Street
Journal (WSJ) reporter Evan Gershkovich with
espionage. Nevertheless, Gershkovich and WSJ
continue to deny the charges and maintain the
American reporter’s innocence.
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ How_Africa’s_Sahel_Region_is_Becoming_a_Media
Desert⠀⇛
Home to numerous violent Islamist extremists, the
region suffers from political instability and
sometimes regular coups, including two in Mali and
Burkina Faso and one in Chad since 2020.
In some Sahel countries, journalists are persecuted
by armed Islamist factions and ruling military
juntas alike — the former abducting or killing
reporters, the latter restricting press freedoms or
conducting arbitrary arrests.
“We have seen the trends that after taking power,
the military juntas have not hesitated to reshape
the media landscape in order to better serve their
interests,” said Sadibou Marong, sub-Saharan Africa
director at Reporters Without Borders, which this
week published a new report on the region. “This
has been the case in Mali and Burkina Faso, where
local broadcasting of several French media outlets
has been suspended.”
# ⚓ RSF ☛ “What_it’s_like_to_be_a_journalist_in_the_Sahel”_–
RSF_report_on_threats_to_journalism_in_this_African_region⠀⇛
Five journalists have been killed in the Sahel in
the past 10 years, while two others recently went
missing. Hundreds of others have been threatened
and can no longer work without putting their lives
in danger. In the 40 pages of its latest report,
What It’s Like to Be a Journalist in the Sahel, RSF
reveals the extent to which the conditions for
practicing journalism have worsened in this part of
the world, and how it is becoming a “no-news zone”.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Designates_Self-Exiled_Kremlin_Critic,
Journalist_Arkady_Babchenko_‘Foreign_Agent’⠀⇛
# ⚓ [Repeat] The Dissenter ☛ Belmarsh_Warden_Blocks_Assange
From_Meeting_With_Representatives_Of_Press_Freedom
Organization⠀⇛
Rebecca Vincent, the director of operations and
campaigns for RSF, declared, “We followed all rules
this morning. We were there very early with all
required documentation. Without even checking our
documentation, we were told that we would not be
allowed in.”
“The first official that we spoke to said that they
had received ‘intelligence’ that we were
journalists, and therefore we would not be allowed
to visit,” Vincent added. “No further discussion
was possible. We were informed that the decision
had been taken by the prison governor directly.”
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ How_Putin_Criminalized_Journalism_in_Russia⠀⇛
Ordinary journalistic activity—indeed, the ordinary
details of a young American man’s life—are recast
as evidence of espionage. Under Russian law, it may
indeed be evidence. In 2012, as Vladimir Putin
cracked down in the wake of mass protests, Russia
broadened the definition of espionage so that
reporting and other professional activities could
be interpreted as spying. Contrary to popular
perception and common sense, in Russia, “espionage”
does not need to mean working for a foreign
intelligence service or even a foreign
government—under the 2012 definition, espionage can
include gathering information for any foreign
organization the Russian government sees as
threatening the security of the country. The
F.S.B., the successor agency to the K.G.B., claims
that Gershkovich was collecting classified
information, but Russian law makes it possible to
prosecute someone for espionage for using publicly
available information; conversely, simply obtaining
information, without sharing it with anyone, can be
a crime. Finally, the law doesn’t require the
prosecution to prove intent. Back when the law was
changed, the F.S.B. argued that the previous
version had been too restrictive and “lack of proof
of ‘hostile’ intent was used by defense as an
argument to release the accused and defendants from
criminal responsibility.”
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Dissident_Chinese_artist_Ai_Weiwei
launches_new_London_show⠀⇛
>China feels it has the “right to redefine the
global world order”, Chinese dissident artist Ai
Weiwei told AFP on Wednesday ahead of the opening
in London of his first design-focused exhibition.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ US_Media_Cheer_as_France_Forces_Old_People_to
Work⠀⇛
The pension of the average French person is already
facing cuts over the coming decades.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Macron_Fails_to_Persuade,_So_Opts_for
Coercion⠀⇛
President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular pension
reform, forced through undemocratically, will fuel
support for the far right and further weaken
voters’ faith in politics.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Savage_Capitalism:_From_Climate_Change_to_Bank
Failures_to_War⠀⇛
The following is excerpted from David Barsamian’s
recent interview with Noam Chomsky at
AlternativeRadio.org.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ How_Investors_Accelerate_the_Affordable
Housing_Crisis⠀⇛
Investor purchases accounted for 24 percent of all
residential real estate sales in Boston in the
fourth quarter of 2022. A 10 percent tax on those
sales could yield $82 million in revenue.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Chris_Hedges:_The_Hypocrisy_of_the_Christian
Church⠀⇛
This is a talk Chris Hedges gave on April 6 at a
protest at Princeton Theological Seminary demanding
the removal of hedge fund billionaire Michael Fisch
as chair of the seminary’s trustee board.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ A_Zealot_Judge_Has_Ordered_a_Nationwide
Abortion_Pill_Ban⠀⇛
United States District Court Judge Matthew
Kacsmaryk outlawed distribution of the abortion
drug mifepristone in a 67-page ruling Friday
evening. The order revokes the Food and Drug
Administration’s approval of one of the most
commonly used methods to terminate an unwanted
pregnancy, and his order could end access to the
drug nationwide.
# ⚓ El País ☛ Can_a_robot_do_your_job?_Here_are_the_professions
in_danger_of_extinction⠀⇛
Pilar Pulgar, a 51-year-old supermarket cashier,
feels her “legs tremble” when she sees a customer
using an automated checkout. Estefanía García, 28,
is “scared” by the automation at the new
distribution center where she works, after years
employed at a warehouse that used hardly any
automation at all. José Luis, a 42-year-old sales
representative, says his company regularly
threatens him with the prospect of being replaced
by a machine: “They convey this to us quite
explicitly, to make us feel like we’re expendable.”
Other workers in danger of being replaced by
automation are more optimistic. “It’s hard for me
to imagine how what I do could be automated,” says
Beatriz Espinilla, 39, who is in charge of fitting
car doors on an assembly line. “It requires very
fine, detailed work,” she says. “There’s some
uneasiness, but I’m not that worried,” adds Diego
Martin, a 36-year-old train conductor.
o § Fentanylware (TikTok)⠀➾
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_Why_Denmark_should_be
concerned_about_TikTok⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_Governor_Says
Arizona_Will_Restrict_TikTok_on_State_Devices⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-04-02_[Older]_The_biggest_ways_TikTok_has
changed_American_culture⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_UK_privacy_watchdog_fines
TikTok_$15.8_million_for_misusing_kids’_data⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_The_Influencer_Industry
Is_Having_an_Existential_Crisis⠀⇛
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Ted_Cruz,_Elizabeth_Warren,
and_More_Unlikely_Senators_Propose_Bill_to_Break_Up_Google
and_Meta⠀⇛
# ⚓ El País ☛ How_Taylor_Swift_turned_her_career_into_a_money-
making_machine⠀⇛
Swift proved she was here to stay. Her tenth studio
album, Midnights, broke several records. It became
the most-listened record in history on Spotify on
its release date, with 184.6 million plays in just
24 hours. In the United States, over 1.5 million
copies were sold in a week, and its songs swept the
Billboard Hot 100′s top 10. Swift’s albums also
accounted for one of every 25 vinyls sold in the
U.S. in 2022: Midnights topped the list with 1.7
million copies, and Folklore, originally released
in 2020, took seventh place with 174,000. The
streaming era may have ended the days of astronomic
sales figures, but her numbers come close to those
of pop artists at the end of the last century.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ I_Went_to_Maggie_Rogers’
Ticketmasterless,_In-Person_Presale⠀⇛
“There’s a lot of conversation right now about
combatting bots and making sure tickets get
directly into the hands of fans, and at a
reasonable price. Ticketing fees have never been
higher and a lot of people, me included, are
justifiably frustrated and concerned,” Rogers wrote
in a Thursday post. “I’ve been thinking about this
over the last few months and wanted to provide you
with another option. So this time, in an effort to
eliminate bots and lower fees — we’re going analog.
Come buy an in-person ticket like it’s 1965.”
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Patent_case:_Nokia_Solutions_and
Networks_OY_vs._Oleading_B.V._and_Reflection_Investment
B.V.,_Netherlands⠀⇛
In the next chapter in the FRAND-related
battle between Nokia and Oppo, Nokia tried to
obtain an injunction in relation to Oppo’s
sales through Oleading and Reflection.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Z-Library_Plans_to_Let_Users_Share
Physical_Books_Through_‘Z-Points’⠀⇛
Z-Library appears to be shrugging off a
criminal investigation as if nothing ever
happened. The site continues to develop its
shadow library and, following a successful
fundraiser, now plans to expand its services
to the physical book market. Z-Library
envisions a book ‘sharing’ market, where its
millions of users can pick up paperbacks at
dedicated “Z-Points” around the globe.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Yretek_🍃_Introducing_Treasures_of_the_Wild_East_a_solo_RPG
or_writer’s_game⠀⇛
Hello all. You might be expecting me to be writing
in Spanish, that if you expected me at all. Well,
that was for two reasons: I’m much less confident
in my English skills than I used to be, and I
wanted to help growing the Spanish “sector” of the
Gemini-verse. Yet the thing is that the Spanish
Gemini-verse is not growing and might be even
stalling, IMHO. So, without forsaking the Spanish
language completely, I’ll be posting much more
often in English. So help me God, and all that.
# ⚓ Rubber_Soul_–_moving_out/procrastinating⠀⇛
I’m not sure if I could fully tell you why, but
I’ve had this compulson in my mind that I need to
purchase The Beatles – Rubber Soul on vinyl – but
specifically around the time that I’m moving in
with my partner (next weekend). I guess I’ve been
listening to this album a fair bit recently, and
maybe it’s just that it reminds me of this moment –
and I want to have something material as a kind-of
calendar item to mark the moment.
o § Technical⠀➾
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Re:_Why_Gemini_is_boring⠀⇛
What the fuck!?
(And don’t go “it’s not about your posts,
Sandra” because those posts about Emacs and
text semantics were from me .)
I have, at the time of me writing this, 744
posts about non-techy stuff (compared to 205
about tech topics).
Two weeks ago I made seven posts on Antenna
in one day (March 25th). Only one of which
was tech-related.
I get shit from Planet Scheme people because
I don’t post about tech enough. Drew left
gemini because people on Gemini didn’t post
about tech enough.
# ⚓ How_I_gopher?⠀⇛
I’ve read [How Anna gophers] and I thought
that it’s a good idea for a
new series. So I’d like to write how I
gopher.
The great thing is that you don’t need to
install any software and the
Gopher server is available at SDF.org out of
the box. Just copy the
text file to the gopher subdirectory located
in your home
directory. When this subdirectory does not
exist, you need to run the
mkgopher command and issue the setup command
in it. In fact, the
command only creates a symlink in our home
directory, which could be
done without it.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Releasing_Some_New_Common_Lisp_Macros⠀⇛
Last week or so I finally sat down and wrote
my pretty ideal binding macro for Common
Lisp—basically a rite of passage for any
Lisper given all the other ones I’ve stumbled
across. I just fully rewrote it yesterday
after using it in some real code and cleaning
it up a bit; so I guess I should actually
tell people about it in case anyone ends up
interested in it since I really like it so
far. Although like almost all of my projects
it’s written for me and I don’t expect anyone
else to end up using it (not necessarily a
bad thing).
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