𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Thursday, April 20, 2023
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⦿ IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ LibrePlanet Talk on JShelter for Browsing Securely, Presented by Libor Polčák | Techrights
⦿ A Bunch of Mastodon Posts (from mstdn.social) Were Deleted for “Fake News” and “Violent and Harassing”, and I Was Finally Banned. Here’s a Few. | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/04/20/irc-log-190423/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/04/20/libor-polcak-on-jshelter/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/04/20/mastodon-censorship/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/04/20/kde-gear-23-04/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/04/20/lunar-lobster/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/04/20/ubuntu-23-04-released/#comments
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✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Wednesday,_April_19,_2023⠀✐
Posted in IRC_Logs at 2:18 am by Needs Sunlight
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* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-190423.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-190423.gmi
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Posted in Free/Libre_Software, Security at 7:43 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link
https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2823/lp2023-neptune-
sunday-1000.webm
Summary: The above LibrePlanet talk by Libor Polčák was_uploaded_by_the_FSF
(slides_here; PeerTube_link) 2.5 days ago; From the official page: “The Web is
used daily by billions. Even so, users are not protected from many threats by
default. This presentation will introduce JShelter, a Webextension that helps
in returning the browser to users. JShelter builds on top of previous Web
privacy and security research. JShelter focuses on fingerprinting prevention,
limitations of rich Web APIs, prevention of attacks connected to timing, and
learning information about the computer, the browser, the user, and surrounding
physical environment and location. JShelter provides a fingerprinting report
and other feedback that can be used by future security research. Thousands of
users around the world use the extension every day.”
Licence: GFDL_1.3
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✐ A_Bunch_of_Mastodon_Posts_(from_mstdn.social)Were_Deleted_for“Fake_News”
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Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 8:34 pm by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan
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These are actual examples of what I was shown as the reason behind the bans.
Making fun of CNN and TikTok, criticizing the law in Illinois, discussing that
Facebook and Reddit are nasty and spy on people.
And insulting the King of Mstdn.social.
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Mastodon_suspended⦈_
Disrespecting the moderator was a mild taunt regarding them being too dumb to
figure out what fake news is despite me always citing “the news” from a place
like NPR or CNN or something that I was referring to.
Don’t use Mastodon. It’s a waste of your time.
The servers are banning each other and it’s turned into a bunch of nasty SJWs
on one side and their counterparts, the Nazis and Child Pornographers on the
other.
There’s nowhere for an anti-dogmatic Atheist Left-Libertarian with a sense of
humor.
Dogma traps people into beliefs that are absolutely insane. And they never
justify those beliefs with any evidence. No, things have to be this way
“because they’ve always been that way”.
Some people got together a long time ago, thousands of years before people
understood anything, and when living to 30 made you a village elder, and
decided it was so.
“There’s nowhere for an anti-dogmatic Atheist Left-Libertarian with a sense of
humor.”Or in politics, instead of religion. When a political theory fails to
produce the desired result, you just double down on the theory. If your
criminal justice reforms are followed by a 40% spike in violent crime in
Chicago, yet you continue on as if they were helping.
When people complain about the crime, you say “You have to go along with this
or else you’re racist!”. Okay, nobody said anything about that. We look at what
you did, and what happened and go “Wait. This isn’t working. Why don’t you go
and enforce the laws you have before you come back and tell me you want more?”
Or finance and tax policy. “What did you do with the money I already gave you?”
The government, “Oh, we have 75,000 rotting empty buildings and we’re testing
cocaine on beagle puppies!”
When you’re skeptical of church, the government, and “accepted” economic
theories, all of which have ruined the world by any and all objective
reasoning, you are “evil”.
“You’re the one with the problem. If a lot of people are wrong, you must be
wrong, because there are more of them than you.”You’re the one with the
problem. If a lot of people are wrong, you must be wrong, because there are
more of them than you.
At the heart of the matter, this is why Social Networking, even if it’s not
some multi-billion company that runs ads everywhere and gives the FBI
backdoors, possibly can’t actually work.
What’s going on in Mastodon, the “banned server list” is public, and that’s a
“feature” of the software, they decide what you get to see for you, is that
they’re building a Tower of Babel where it may be open source, but it’s an echo
chamber of fools and idiots.
Like “stux”.
I think I’ve decided that I refuse to be muzzled by the Speech Nazis just so I
can have an account somewhere, which may well get trashed anyway because the
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠰⠴⠶⠶⠶⠰⠾⢰⠲⠶⠶⢰⠶⠶⠶⠶⠗⠴⠶⠶⠸⠶⠶⠶⠖⠷⠶⠶⠶⠇⠶⠆⠶⠷⠾⠶⠶⠶⠶⠲⠶⠶⠖⠰⠶⠶⠶⠆⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠷⣶⢰⡶⠾⠾⠶⠿⠶⠶⠆⠶⠶⠾⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣤⣄⣤⣠⢄⣤⣤⡄⣤⢠⣤⣄⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄⣤⣤⣤⡠⣄⣤⣤⢠⣤⡄⣤⣤⡄⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⢤⢠⣤⢤⡤⣠⣤⣤⠄⣤⣤⡤⣠⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠈⠈⠁⠉⠉⠁⠁⠉⠁⠁⠉⠉⠁⠉⠉⠁⠁⠁⠉⠁⠈⠈⠈⠉⠈⠉⠀⠉⠉⠁⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠉⠈⠀⠉⠈⠀⠉⠁⠉⠈⠉⠉⠉⠈⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣀⢀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⡀⢀⢀⠀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⡀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⣀⣀⡀⡀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠉⠛⠛⠑⠉⠃⠑⠓⠉⠛⠛⠙⠃⠃⠑⠉⠋⠛⠛⠘⠛⠛⠘⠛⠛⠋⠛⠉⠈⠚⠑⠙⠛⠙⠀⠑⠋⠋⠛⠉⠚⠚⠑⠛⠙⠋⠙⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠃⠘⠚⠙⠛⠛⠛⠟⠘⠛⠏⠛⠋⠛⠘⠛⠘⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠘⠛⠛⠛⠛⠃⠙⠛⠛⠋⠋⠚⠘⠋⠚⠋⠛⠛⠁⠚⠛⠘⠛⠛⠛⠛⠓⠙⠚⠛⠛⠛⠛⠸⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⠆⠐⠶⠆⠶⠶⠲⠶⠒⡄⠲⠶⠖⠶⠶⢂⠰⠶⠲⠒⠔⢶⠶⠶⠶⠶⢶⠰⠒⠶⠶⢶⠢⠢⠢⠶⠶⡄⠶⠶⠶⠶⡶⠶⠶⠖⠶⢆⠰⠶⠰⠲⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡄⢠⣠⢤⢠⢄⢴⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄⣤⡴⣤⣦⣴⣤⣤⣤⡄⣤⡤⠠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⢤⠄⡠⡴⢄⣤⣴⣤⣤⡄⣦⣤⣤⣴⣤⣤⣦⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⢀⣀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣠⣀⣀⡀⣀⡄⣄⣀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⡀⣀⣀⢀⣀⣄⣀⣀⣄⣀⣀⣀⣀⣄⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠈⠈⠉⠈⠁⠁⠉⠉⠈⠁⠁⠃⠈⠁⠉⠉⠈⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠁⠈⠉⠉⠉⠈⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠙⠛⠛⠃⠋⠛⠛⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⡠⠠⢄⠠⠀⠠⠠⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠰⢶⢶⠀⠀⠀⠁⠎⠘⠃⠀⠉⠛⠐⠀⠐⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⡀⢀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⢀⡀⣀⠀⢀⡀⢀⡀⣀⠀⣀⠀⠀⡀⡀⢀⢀⣠⢀⢀⢀⣠⢀⢀⡀⠀⡀⡀⡀⡀⢀⠀⣀⢀⠀⢀⣄⠀⡀⠀⠀⢀⠀⢀⡀⣀⢀⢀⡀⠀⠀⡀⣀⣀⠀⣀⢀⡀⢀⡀⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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⠀⠀⠋⠙⠐⠂⠁⠂⠠⠁⠐⠀⠀⠒⠀⠒⠐⠂⠃⠀⠀⠙⠐⠈⠈⠀⠃⠘⠀⠃⠀⠘⠘⠁⠙⠈⠀⠚⠘⠘⠀⠘⠀⠁⠐⠃⠐⠂⠀⠘⠀⠒⠀⠁⠂⠀⠁⠃⠘⠘⠘⠀⠒⠐⠂⠒⠐⠂⠐⠂⠘⠐⠀⠀⠒⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⡆⣂⠐⢐⡂⣂⢐⠀⡆⣒⠀⠂⣂⠐⠀⣒⢀⢂⠀⣶⠀⢆⠠⣴⠠⣸⠀⢰⠀⠆⣂⠀⡆⣒⠀⢆⢴⠀⣢⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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⠀⠀⡀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠗⠺⠠⠥⠂⠇⠎⠒⠻⠰⠀⠨⠅⠀⠀⠉⠀⠣⠼⠰⠀⠅⠿⠨⠅⠭⠀⠤⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⠿⠋⠓⠓⠛⠘⠛⠚⠙⠚⠙⠚⠛⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Kubernetes
# Mozilla
o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS)
o Education
o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
o Programming/Development
# Python
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
# Software_Patents
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ 5_Best_RSS_Feed_Reader_For_Linux_in_2023⠀⇛
Looking for an RSS feed reader that should
aggregate content from your favorite websites,
blogs, podcasts, and YouTube videos, then let me
show you the right RSS feed reader for you.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel P Gross ☛ Making_a_Linux_home_server_sleep_on_idle
and_wake_on_demand_—_the_simple_way⠀⇛
Outcome:
Server automatically suspends to RAM when idle
Server automatically wakes when needed by anything
else on the network, including SSH, Time Machine
backups, etc.
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ An_interesting_mistake_I_made_with
a_(Go)_SSH_client_API⠀⇛
You can criticize the API here for being stringly
typed, but I think that it’s actually natural to do
something like that, especially if you’re initially
designing the API in the old world, before “rsa-
sha2-256″ and when “ssh-rsa” was the (only) key
algorithm you used with ‘ssh-rsa’ keys. In that
world, the official names of key types and key
algorithms were the same; making them two separate
programming types and forcing people to explicitly
convert between them is likely to strike people as
perverse. Do you want to write or even have to use
a function that converts ‘keytype.Ed25519′ into
‘keyalgo.Ed25519′? Most people are going to say no.
Just call it ‘Ed25519′ and be done.
# ⚓ Pi My Life Up ☛ How_to_Change_your_Password_on_Raspberry_Pi
OS⠀⇛
This section will show you how to change your
user’s password without leaving the Raspberry Pi’s
desktop interface.
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Upgrade_To_Fedora_38_From_Fedora_37_
[Workstation_And_Server]⠀⇛
Fedora 38 has been released!! This step by step
tutorial explains how to upgrade to Fedora 38 from
Fedora 37 and older versions. If you’re already
using Fedora 37, you can now safely upgrade to
Fedora 38 desktop or server edition for latest
features, performance and stability improvements.
# ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ How_To_Install_Ubuntu_23.04_Lunar_Lobster_with
Dualboot,_External_Drive_and_UEFI_Setup⠀⇛
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ POSTAL_2_got_a_surprise_20th_anniversary
update_with_Steam_Deck_support⠀⇛
POSTAL 2 from Running With Scissors just had a big
upgrade for the 20th anniversary and there’s lots
of improvements to this classic violent first-
person adventure.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Takara_Cards_is_a_unique_space_sci-fi
deckbuilding_tactical_strategy_game⠀⇛
Fusing together the best elements of deckbuilders
and tactical turn-based battles, Takara Cards is a
little unusual to get into but full of charm to
keep you wanting more. It feels like an evolved
idea from their previous game, NEXT JUMP: Shmup
Tactics, which was also a lot of fun.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Godot_Engine_4.1_to_get_FSR_2.2,_better_3D
support_for_OpenGL,_shader_improvements⠀⇛
Seems like the next update for Godot Engine is
going to be a nice one for game developers, with
multiple graphics enhancements on the way. Detailed
in a new blog post they revealed some of the focus
for Godot 4.1, now that the dust has began to
settle on the huge Godot 4.0 release that provided
Vulkan support.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ HYPERCHARGE:_Unboxed_added_a_slick_story
campaign⠀⇛
HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed is a shooter all about toys, a
bit like the classic movie Small Soldiers and back
in late March, it had a huge free upgrade.
Honestly, this would have been my dream game to
play through growing up. With movies like Small
Soldiers and Toy Story, I probably would have had a
tiny heart attack of excitement seeing this.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Europa_Universalis_IV:_Domination_and_free
update_out_now⠀⇛
Europa Universalis IV: Domination is the latest
expansion for the popular strategy game from
Paradox Interactive and there’s also a free update
for all players.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ New_Tool_Helps_Create_Laser-Cut_Doom_Maps⠀⇛
Doom has a larger cultural footprint than the vast
majority of video games ever made. That inspired
[Theor] to see if it was possible to laser-cut some
of the game’s maps to create a real-world model of
those famous original levels.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KDE_Gear_23.04_Open-Source_Software_Suite
Officially_Released,_Here’s_What’s_New⠀⇛
KDE Gear 23.04 brings much-needed updates to
the Dolphin file manager like the ability to
configure how permissions are shown in the
Details view, support for browsing Apple iOS
devices using the native afc:// protocol, the
ability to run it in superuser mode, and
support for showing a document’s number of
pages in the metadata display.
The Gwenview image viewer has been beefed up
for the Plasma Wayland session allowing users
to zoom in and out on images using touchpad
pinch gestures, the ability to inhibit sleep
and screen locking during a slideshow, more
reliable rotating of images, and smooth
zooming when using Ctrl + scroll on a
touchpad.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Remy Van Elst ☛ OpenVMS_9.2_for_x86,_Installing_HAProxy_and
troubleshooting_UNIX_file_paths⠀⇛
This article shows you how to install HAProxy on OpenVMS
9.2 for x86. I’ve often used HAProxy in my career as a
sysadmin and find it a very useful tool. HAProxy is an
open source, fast, reliable load balancer for TCP and
HTTP-based applications. This guide assumes you’ve set up
your OpenVMS system via my guide and the second part of
my guide, that will give you a fully licensed OpenVMS
installation with networking and SSH access. Since I’ve
used HAProxy so very often to set up high-available
clusters and load balancers, I was surprised but happy to
see it ported to OpenVMS. This guide shows the setup but
also a few OpenVMS specific quirks, like file paths and
troubleshooting error messages / logs.
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSUSE ☛ Get_Ready_for_this_year’s_openSUSE_Conference⠀⇛
Are you ready for this year’s openSUSE Conference?
It will once again take place at the Z Bau, which
was converted into a cultural center in 2014.
The conference schedule is now online abd live
every year, and is packed with tons of great talks.
It’s a great place to do some hacking, socializing
and learning new things about openSUSE and open-
source software.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Fedora_38_Has_Been_Released_With_All_Sorts
of_Newness⠀⇛
The developers of Fedora Linux have gifted us with
yet another stellar release, by way of number 38.
It’s a surprise, given the team rarely delivers
early but it’s certainly an early gift from a
dedicated team.
Fedora 38 stars GNOME 44 and Linux kernel 6.2. The
version of GNOME used in Fedora is straight-up
standard, so there are zero changes made by the
Fedora team.
Some of the new features found in GNOME 44 include
expandable folders in the Files file manager as
well as the icon/thumbnail mode for the file
picker.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ Understanding_the_debian.community_WIPO
UDRP_verdict⠀⇛
The WIPO UDRP verdict is 12 pages long and
surrounded by a lot of ugly noise. The Debian
cabal’s interpretation sounds like a pack of dogs
barking at a cat who is sitting in the tree. Is
there any signal in the noise?
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Machdyne_FPGA_USB_dongle_is_equiped_with_12-
pin_PMOD⠀⇛
The Kolibri is a USB dongle that integrates the
Lattice iCE40 FPGA, a RP2040 microcontroller and a
PMOD connector for I/O expansion. The compact
device is also compatible with the Open Source
Project IceStorm.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ BTT_Pi_is_a_low-cost_Allwinner_H616_based
SBC⠀⇛
BIGTREETECH revealed a Single Board Computer
integrating the Allwinner H616 System-on-Chip. The
embedded device mirrors the Raspberry Pi SBC form-
factor and it provides similar peripherals.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Automatically_monitor_and_irrigate_your_raised
garden_bed_with_the_Arduino_Cloud⠀⇛
Initially, Murphy had researched constructing a
pump that could take water from a pair of rain
storing barrels and deliver it to the garden bed.
However, this would have been costly to build and
maintain, so he instead went with a gravity-fed
setup. In this configuration, gravity would move
water down-slope to a solenoid valve attached to
the Arduino IoT Explorer Kit’s 24V relay pin. Once
wired together, he added a soil moisture sensor for
measuring the water content of the soil, along with
a 12V battery pack and solar charge controller for
off-grid power.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_RISC-V_Supercluster_For_Very_Low_Cost⠀⇛
As ARM continues to make inroads in the personal
computing space thanks to its more modern and
streamlined instruction set architecture (ISA) and
its reduced power demands especially compared to
x86 machines, the main reason it continues to
become more widespread is how easy it is to get a
license to make chips using this ISA. It’s still
not a fully open source instruction set, though, so
if you want something even more easily accessible
than ARM you’ll need to find something like these
chips running the fully open-source RISC-V ISA and
possibly put them to work in a custom supercluster.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Dev Discourse ☛ Asus_ROG_Phone_5/5s_now_receiving_Android
13_update_|_Technology⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ Jack_Dorsey’s_Twitter-like_Bluesky_app_arrives
on_Android_|_Engadget⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Decentralized_Twitter_competitor_‘Bluesky’_now
has_an_Android_app⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ Bluesky,_a_decentralized_Twitter_alternative,
is_now_on_Android_–_The_Verge⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Google_warns_billions_of_Android_users_over
‘bank-raid’_blocker_button_–_check_it’s_not_switched_off
right_now_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Kubernetes⠀➾
# ⚓ Kubernetes_1.27:_Single_Pod_Access_Mode_for
PersistentVolumes_Graduates_to_Beta⠀⇛
With the release of Kubernetes v1.27 the
ReadWriteOncePod feature has graduated to beta. In
this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at this
feature, what it does, and how it has evolved in
the beta release.
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Thunderbird ☛ Meet_The_Team:_Wolf-Martell_Montwe,
Android_Developer⠀⇛
Welcome to a brand new feature called “Meet
The Team!” In this ongoing series of
conversations, I introduce you to the people
behind the software you use every day. We
kicked things off by talking to Thunderbird’s
Product Design Manager Alex Castellani. Now
let’s meet someone much newer to the team:
Wolf-Martell Montwe.
Having recently joined us from Berlin as a
full-time Android developer, Wolf brings his
passion for building mobile applications to
the Thunderbird team. He’ll be helping to
develop new features and an updated interface
for K-9 Mail as we transform it into
Thunderbird for Android. I spoke with him
about his first computer and early gaming
memories, what he hopes to accomplish for the
Thunderbird mobile app, and how our community
of contributors can help.
o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ What_you_need_to_know_about_the_Drupal_9
to_10_migration⠀⇛
Drupal 10 was released in December 2022. If you’re
a current Drupal 9 user, you may be strategizing
your website’s Drupal 9 to 10 migration. Luckily,
the Drupal 9 to 10 migration is being heralded as
the easiest upgrade in Drupal’s history. That’s
because Drupal 10 is backward-compatible with
Drupal 9 and is not a major overhaul of the core
system. But the planning and development process
still requires time and attention to ensure the
migration goes smoothly.
This article takes a deep dive into the Drupal
migration process and how your organization’s
marketing team can provide support along the way.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ APNIC_56_Call_for_Papers_open_now⠀⇛
The APNIC 56 Program Committee (PC) is seeking
presentations, panel discussions, lightning talks,
and tutorials — particularly content that would
suit technical sessions — for the APNIC 56
conference to be held in Kyoto, Japan from 12 to 14
September 2023.
o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ The_sharing_economy_and_the_open
organization⠀⇛
The sharing economy is a new industry built around
sharing resources instead of buying things new
from a factory. If an asset is not being used to
capacity by the owner, there may be others who can
use it so the asset is utilized to its full
potential. The Sharing Economy: The End of
Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism,
by Arun Sundararajan, gave me many new insights
about this business model and how it relates to
many open organization activities.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] Maarten van Emden ☛ Who_Killed_Prolog?⠀⇛
There are a thousand programming languages out
there (Literally, it seems, according to people who
actually count such things.) A classification of so
many species is bound to be complex and subject to
much debate. However messy and controversial things
get low down in the classification, let’s have just
four branches at the top level. I attach to the
name of the class of programming language what I
consider to be the first exemplar of the class, in
chronological order:
— imperative (1956, Fortran)
— functional (1959, Lisp)
— object-oriented (1972, Smalltalk)
— logic (1974, Prolog)
# ⚓ Erlang ☛ More_Optimizations_in_the_Compiler_and_JIT⠀⇛
This post explores the enhanced type-based
optimizations and the other performance
improvements in Erlang/OTP 26.
# ⚓ Daniel Lemire ☛ Defining_interfaces_in_C++_with_‘concepts’_
(C++20)⠀⇛
Thankfully, C++ now has the equivalent to a Go or
Java interface, and it is called a concept (it
requires a recent compiler with support for C++20).
You would implement it as so…
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Explore_data_visually_with_Python
tools⠀⇛
Open source tools have been instrumental in
advancing technology and making it more
accessible to everyone. Data analysis is no
exception. As data becomes more abundant and
complex, data scientists always look for ways
to simplify their workflow and create
interactive and engaging visualizations.
PyGWalker is designed to solve such problems.
PyGWalker (Python binding of Graphic Walker)
connects a working environment of Python
Jupyter Notebook to Graphic Walker to create
an open source data visualization tool. You
can turn your Pandas dataframe into a
beautifully crafted data visualization with
simple drag-and-drop operations.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Baseball’s_Owners_Have_Ball_Games_Shorter_—_and
Maybe_Fan_Lives,_Too⠀⇛
These billionaires seem to care more about their bottom
lines than fan safety.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Water_Solves_Mazes,_Why_Not_Electrons?⠀⇛
A few weeks ago, we looked at a video showing water
“solving” a maze. [AlphaPhoenix] saw the same
video, and it made him think about electrons
“finding the path of least resistance.” So can you
solve a maze with foil, a laser cutter, a power
supply, and some pepper? Apparently, as you can see
in the video below.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Rutgers_Strikers_Run_the_Table⠀⇛
Institutions of higher education in the United
States are in crisis. Essential research is
suffering. Highly qualified instructors lack job
security and struggle to make ends meet. Students
graduate saddled with debt. Public universities,
the backbone of our system of higher education,
have been starved of funding. Recently though, a
ray of hope, in the form of a series of innovative
strikes launched by segments of the higher
education faculty at universities around the US,
has emerged from the debacle. Most recently, last
week’s tentative victory in a strike of the three
faculty unions at Rutgers University in New Jersey
has shown a way forward. At the three Rutgers
campuses, graduate employees, adjunct instructors,
non-tenure-track professors, tenured faculty, and
others had been working without a contract since
July 2022. Although represented by different
unions, they faced down together the
administration’s threats of court injunction to
secure a victory against the short-term contracts
and low wages that have long bedeviled American
colleges and universities.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Library_introduces_new_interface_for
archival_finding_aids⠀⇛
The library’s homegrown system has been replaced
with ArcLight, an open-source system widely used by
academic libraries and archives.
Finding aids describe the contexts of archival
collection boxes or folders, and help researchers
discover and request the materials relevant to
their work for viewing in designated reading rooms.
# ⚓ Tedium ☛ Textbooks_of_the_Air⠀⇛
Remote learning. If you have kids and are at all
familiar with the ebbs and flows of the remote
education process, you probably realize it kind of
sucks, that for all of its innovation, it puts
distance between learners and educators—which is a
good thing when you’re dealing with a once-in-a-
century disease, but not so great when you’re
trying to maximize the learning process.
Nonetheless, when you get a distance from that
learning process, remote education can feel
extremely innovative, even in its most rudimentary
forms. Distance learning is something that, when it
first emerged, felt like a new frontier—even at a
time when that frontier admittedly was a bit
limited compared to what we have today. Especially
when all we had to push it forth was the radio
dial. Today’s Tedium tries its best to capture the
excitement of educational radio in the 1920s and
1930s—even though, in a world of podcasts, we’d
probably take it for granted today. — Ernie @
Tedium
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Biden_Preparing_Executive_Order_to_Limit_US
Investments_in_China⠀⇛
The White House is preparing to take unprecedented
action to limit US investments in China’s tech
sector, POLITICO reported on Tuesday. The action
would come in the form of an executive order signed
by President Biden that would require American
companies to notify the government of new
investments in Chinese tech. It […]
# ⚓ PC Engines ☛ PC_Engines_apu_platform_EOL⠀⇛
After a long production run, AMD will accept last
orders for the SOC used in our apu2/3/4/5/6 boards
by end of June 2023.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Look_At_Sega’s_8-Bit_3D_Glasses⠀⇛
From around 2012 onwards, there was a 3D viewing
and VR renaissance in the entertainment industry.
That hardware has grown in popularity, even if it’s
not yet mainstream. However, 3D tech goes back much
further, as [Nicole] shows us with a look at Sega’s
ancient 8-bit 3D glasses [via Adafruit].
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hacking_An_Apartment_Garage_Door_With_New
Remotes⠀⇛
[Old Alaska] had a problem. He needed a second
remote for his apartment garage door, but was
quoted a fee in the hundreds of dollars for the
trouble of sourcing and programming another unit.
Realizing this was a rip-off given the cheap
hardware involved, he decided to whip up his own
sneaky solution instead.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Striking_and_Distressing’:_More_Than_a
Third_of_US._Residents_Breathe_Unhealthy_Air⠀⇛
Almost 120 million people–or more than a third of
the U.S. population–are exposed to unhealthy levels
of ozone or particulate matter pollution where they
live.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Influencer_Economy_Is_Warping_the
American_Dream⠀⇛
Fifty-four percent of young Americans would become
an influencer if given the chance. This statistic,
from a 2019 Morning Consult report, has made the
rounds and been profusely ridiculed by people
online. But if you look a little deeper, this
desire reflects a deep economic pessimism on the
part of Gen Z. A 2022 survey found that 23 percent
of the generation never expects to retire, while 59
percent does not own or expect to own a home in
their lifetime, numbers that were higher than for
any other generation surveyed. Gen Z was also more
likely to work multiple jobs and do independent
work, despite many of them wanting more permanent
roles.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ There’s_no_technical_fix_to_a_problem
driven_by_ideology⠀⇛
Second, in what has unfortunately been an under-
discussed risk, TikTok could continue to skew its
video recommendations in line with the geopolitical
goals of the CCP. This threat continues to worsen
as more and more people get their news and
information from online platforms such as TikTok
over which the Chinese party-state can control,
curate and censor content.
There’s ample evidence that TikTok has done this in
the past. Leaked content moderation documents have
previously revealed that TikTok has instructed ‘its
moderators to censor videos that mention Tiananmen
Square, Tibetan independence, or the banned
religious group Falun Gong’, among other censorship
rules. TikTok insists that those documents don’t
reflect its current policy and that it had since
embraced a localised content moderation strategy
tailored to each region.
# ⚓ El País ☛ Superbugs_gain_a_foothold_in_the_trenches_of_the
Ukraine_war⠀⇛
Since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine in
February 2022, wounded civilians and soldiers who
were initially stabilized in Ukrainian and Polish
hospitals have been transferred to neighboring
countries for further treatment. Between March and
December last year, 47 patients from Ukraine were
treated at the Musculoskeletal Surgery Center at
the Charité-Berlin University of Medicine.
# ⚓ India ☛ US_Teen_Dies_After_Attempting_TikTok_‘Benadryl
Challenge’,_Parents_Warn_Others⠀⇛
In the past few years, many dangerous trends had
kids falling prey to online games and challenges
that caused them grievous harm and claimed their
lives. One such was a Blue Whale challenge, alleged
to be linked to numerous deaths worldwide. A
similar challenge took a life of a 13-year-old boy,
Jacob Stevens, from Ohio, US. The boy tragically
died after overdosing on over-the-counter
medication while attempting a viral TikTok trend
called ‘Benadryl Challenge’. As per reports, Jacob
Stevens ingested 12-14 pills of Benadryl while his
friends shot the video. This challenge encourages
viewers to take large doses of the antihistamine to
“experience hallucinations”.
# ⚓ India News ☛ 13-Year-Old_Dies_In_USA_After_Attempting
‘Benadryl_Challenge’_On_TikTok⠀⇛
The life-threatening challenge urges viewers to
take as many as 12 tablets at a time to experience
hallucinations. It is to be noted that the maximum
allowed dose in a 24-hour period is six tablets for
children 6 to under 12 years of age and 12 tablets
for adults and children over 12 years of age.
Taking more than the recommended amount can lead to
nausea, seizures, or even death.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ FDA_Only_Inspected_6%_of_Foreign_Drug
Manufacturing_Facilities_in_2022⠀⇛
For years, U.S. pharmaceutical companies have
relied on drugs produced overseas to meet
Americans’ medical needs. And for years, it’s been
clear that federal drug regulators couldn’t keep up
with inspections of the plants that made those
drugs.
But a series of recent deaths linked to eyedrops
produced overseas that were tainted with bacteria
points to just how seriously behind the Food and
Drug Administration is. Three people died and eight
others were blinded in the United States from the
drops, which were made in a plant in the Indian
state of Tamil Nadu that the agency had never
inspected prior to the outbreak. Worse, public
health officials say they have detected the drug-
resistant bacterial strain, which had never been
seen in the U.S., among patients who never used the
eyedrops, meaning it has likely achieved community
spread.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Why_We_Must_Beat_Back_Private_Equity’s
Deadly_Hold_on_Nursing_Homes⠀⇛
Unbeknownst to most people with loved ones in
nursing homes, it’s often nearly impossible to
determine if the facility you’ve entrusted your
family member to is owned by a private equity
firm–an ownership structure that has been shown to
result in worse health outcomes for patients, at
greater cost. Within the past two decades, the
once-obscure private equity industry has ballooned
in size from $1 trillion in 2008 to nearly $4.5
trillion in 2021. Millions of people in the United
States have been directly impacted by an industry
that was once known mostly to finance insiders like
institutional investors and financial journalists.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ NYT_Blames_US_Public_for_Collapse_of_Pandemic
Safety_Net⠀⇛
A ban on evictions. Required paid leave. Continuous
Medicaid coverage. Free school meals. Emergency
SNAP allotments. An extra $600 a week in
unemployment benefits. Child tax credit expansion.
Thousands in stimulus checks. These measures were
part of a suite of policies the US government
passed […]
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Will_the_West_Turn_Ukraine_Into_a_Nuclear
Battlefield?⠀⇛
Why Depleted Uranium Should Have No Place There.
# ⚓ Byram_Bridle_is_upset_at_Timothy_Caulfield_because_he
“won’t_debate”_antivaxxers⠀⇛
It seems as though Neil deGrasse Tyson‘s massive
error in agreeing to debate antivax propagandist
Del Bigtree on his home ground (namely his The
Highwire podcast) is the blogging gift that keeps
giving, both from people defending his decision
but, far more, from antivaxxers who approve of it
and use it as a cudgel to attack skeptics and
science communicators like me (i.e., the ones who
refuse to debate cranks and science deniers on
general principles). One such science communicator
is Timothy Caulfield, a professor of law at the
University of Alberta and the research director of
its Health Law Institute, and one such science
denying antivaxxer upset at such science
communicators is Dr. Byram Bridle, who dropped an
article on his Substack yesterday entitled We Need
to Follow the Science of Our ‘Misinformation’
‘Experts’. In it, Dr. Bridle, in an act of
projection typical of cranks like him, accuses
Caulfield of “misinformation” and not “following
the science,” because of course he does.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Nearly_50_Million_in_West_and_Central
Africa_Facing_Hunger,_Partly_Due_to_‘Climate_Shocks’⠀⇛
United Nations humanitarian officials on Tuesday
renewed warnings that as many as 48 million people
across West and Central Africa will likely go
hungry in the coming months due to severe food
insecurity driven by armed conflict, Covid-19,
inflation, and the worsening climate emergency.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘What_the_Climate_Emergency_Looks_Like’:
Extreme_Heat_Busts_Records_Across_Asia⠀⇛
Hundreds of millions of people throughout Asia are
suffering Wednesday as a deadly heatwave
turbocharged by the fossil fuel-driven climate
crisis continues to pummel large swaths of the
continent, with little relief in sight—reigniting
calls for immediate action to slash greenhouse gas
pollution.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ [Repeat] JURIST ☛ Sweden_public_radio_network_Sveriges
Radio_ceases_activities_on_Twitter⠀⇛
SR stated that it has for a long time de-
prioritised its presence on Twitter and has now
decided to stop being active on the platform
together. It attributed its decision to quit
Twitter due to a loss of relevance to Sweden’s
audience, claiming that the audience has simply
chosen other places to be. As a result, SR chose to
deactivate or delete its remaining accounts.
# ⚓ Boston Globe ☛ State’s_second-largest_health_insurer
suffers_cybersecurity_[breach]⠀⇛
The state’s second-largest insurer suffered large
technical outages due to a cybersecurity ransomware
incident.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Medusa_ransomware_crew_brags_about
spreading_Bing,_Cortana_source_code⠀⇛
“There are many digital signatures of Microsoft
products in the leak. Many of them have not been
recalled,” the gang continued. “Go ahead and your
software will be the same level of trust as the
original Microsoft product.”
Obviously, this could be a dangerous level of trust
to give miscreants developing malware. Below is
Callow’s summary of the purported dump of source
code presumable obtained or stolen somehow from
Microsoft.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ UK_pensions_dept_hands_Softcat_£250M_for
Microsoft_subscriptions⠀⇛
Announced earlier this week, the contract is set to
provide a licensing subscription service for
Microsoft, or equivalent, products and incorporates
a number of product suites used by the DWP,
including Office 365, Windows and Server products.
o § Security⠀➾
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ ShotSpotter_Attempts_To_Memory_Hole
Itself,_Rebrands_As_‘SoundThinking’⠀⇛
You know you’re fucked when the only way out
of your current SEO/PR nightmare is to
distance yourself… well, from yourself. Some
of this predates Google’s search engine
stranglehold. But altering public perception
sometimes means hoping someone will look at
your shiny new logo, rather than your
disturbing past.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Facebook_puts_a_price_on_privacy
for_US_users_and_it’s_not_enough_to_buy_a_cup_of
coffee⠀⇛
The complaints arose from accusations that
Facebook allowed political consulting firm
Cambridge Analytica to access the personal
data of 87 million Facebook users,
information the firm allegedly used to target
voters with political ads, both on and off
Facebook, during the 2016 election seasons in
the US and UK.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ [Repeat] ADF ☛ Report:_[Attackers]_Use_‘Backdoor’_Attacks
to_Access_Computer_Networks⠀⇛
About 45% of Africa’s 1.3 billion people have
[Internet] access. Nigeria has the continent’s
largest number of internet users at more than 109
million and is one of the countries in Africa most
frequently targeted for cyberattacks.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Gamers_Encouraged_Not_to_Commit_War
Crimes_in_‘Fortnite’_Mode_Designed_by_Red_Cross⠀⇛
“Every day, people play games set in conflict zones
right from their couch. But right now, armed
conflicts are more prevalent than ever,” the
website said. “And to the people suffering from
their effects, this conflict is not a game. It
destroys lives and leaves communities devastated.
Therefore, we’re challenging you to play FPS by the
real Rules of War, to show everyone that even wars
have rules—rules which protect humanity on
battlefields IRL.”
# ⚓ Neritam ☛ Social_Media_Giants_‘Directly_Aided’_Fascist
Insurrection_in_Brazil⠀⇛
Referencing the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S.
Capitol, which was also abetted by social media
giants, Arduini added that “we’ve now seen this
happen in two of the world’s [...]
# ⚓ ADF ☛ Somalia_Targets_al-Shabaab’s_Revenue_Streams⠀⇛
Somalia’s Deputy Minister of Information,
Abdirahman Yusuf Al-adala, recently gave a
startling update on the country’s war against the
powerful and deeply embedded al-Qaida-linked
extremist insurgency it has fought since 2006.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Joe_Lauria:_Leaks_Spelling_the_End_for
Ukraine⠀⇛
Leaked U.S. intelligence documents have exposed
Western disinformation about Ukraine winning the
war. Now the heavy fighting moves to Washington,
writes Joe Lauria.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Strange_changes_in_the_number_of_Russian
diplomats_in_Hungary⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Fidesz_stands_up_for_Ukraine’s
territorial_sovereignty_in_the_EP⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Ukraine_Leaks_Punch_Hole_in_War
Propaganda⠀⇛
The U.S. corporate media’s first response to the
leaking of secret documents about the war in
Ukraine was to throw some mud in the water, declare
“nothing to see here,” and cover it as a
depoliticized crime story about a 21-year-old Air
National Guardsman who published secret documents
to impress his friends. President Biden dismissed
the leaks as revealing nothing of “great
consequence.”
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ IIB,_known_as_Russian_spy_bank_to_pull
out_of_Hungary⠀⇛
# ⚓ ADF ☛ Militants_Could_Find_Foothold_in_Northern_Ghana⠀⇛
For several years, Ghana has been preparing for
terror groups expanding southward from the Sahel.
Groups aligned with al-Qaida and the Islamic State
group have intensified attacks in the northern
parts of Gulf of Guinea states, including Benin,
Côte d’Ivoire and Togo.
Bawku also has seen more than 4,000 refugees from
Burkina Faso settle in nearby camps after fleeing
extremist violence across the border.
The government already has acknowledged that
terrorist groups operating in West Africa are
recruiting Ghanaians.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ We_Must_Challenge_the_Bipartisan_War_Party⠀⇛
Two years ago, Joe Biden’s agenda signaled that the
Democratic Party wing of our governing class was
finally ready to face the long-accumulating
economic, political, and social crises facing the
country. It was never going to be easy. The costs
of transition to a secure and prosperous future are
enormous—and it is a task of decades.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Rep._Gaetz_Resolution_Would_Make_Biden
Disclose_Number_of_US_Troops_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
Leaked Pentagon documents revealed the US and other
NATO members have US special operations forces
inside Ukraine.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Epidemic_of_School_Shootings⠀⇛
The school shooting in Columbine, Colo., 24 years
ago should have marked a turning point for gun
policy in the United States. But as the nation
reels from yet another deadly attack in 2023—this
time in Nashville, leaving six dead—it’s clear that
when it comes to the safety of our children, the US
is headed in the wrong direction. In fact, 2022 was
a record-breaking year, with 46 incidents. As of
April 6, 377 school shootings have taken place
since Columbine, according to The Washington Post.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Why_Eisenhower’s_“Chance_for_Peace”_Address
Still_Matters⠀⇛
Seventy years ago this month, on April 16, 1953,
President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave an historic
address to the American Society of Newspaper
Editors titled “The Chance for Peace.” The speech
offered a searing indictment of the policies of
nuclear buildups and excessive military spending:
1Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a
theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those
who are cold and are not clothed. This world in
arms is not spending money alone. It is spending
the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its
scientists, the hopes of its children.2
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Stop_the_War(s)⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Ukraine_Is_Another_Chapter_in_the_Forever
War⠀⇛
“It is time,” President Biden announced in April
2021, “to end the forever war” that started with
the invasion of Afghanistan soon after the tragic
terror attacks on this country on September 11,
2001. Indeed, that August, amid chaos and disaster,
the president did finally pull the last remaining
US forces out of that country.
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Why_The_US_Justice_Department_Was_Lenient
In_Charging_Pentagon_Documents_Leaker⠀⇛
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ Rheinmetall_presents_small_drone_bomber:_Fixed-
wing_aircraft_to_drop_smart_grenades⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_FSB_says_it_thwarted_plot_to_sabotage
Crimean_energy_facility_—_Meduza⠀⇛
FSB officers detained a resident of Kerch, who is
suspected of planning to sabotage energy
infrastructure in Crimea. The FSB reports that the
suspect holds both Russian and Ukrainian
citizenship.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ FSB_investigates_Moscow_police_for_selling_law-
enforcement_data_on_dark_web_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and the
Interior Ministry’s internal security division are
conducting a joint inquiry into the data leaks
allegedly enabled by the Moscow police. The news
outlets Baza, TASS, and RBC all report on the
inspections now taking place across police
departments in Moscow’s Central Administrative
District.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Like_an_insect_in_an_enclosed_space’_Meduza’s
readers_on_why_they’re_staying_in_Russia_amid_the_Kremlin’s
new_crackdown_on_draft_evasion_—_Meduza⠀⇛
On April 14, Vladimir Putin signed a law that
allows the Russian military to issue draft
summonses electronically, closes the country’s
borders to draftees who don’t report for service,
and deprives “draft evaders” of numerous rights.
Unlike the president’s mobilization announcement in
September, the new legislation didn’t provoke an
especially strong reaction inside Russia, and
there’s no sign that draft-eligible citizens are
leaving the country en masse. Meduza asked our
readers who plan to stay in Russia to explain how
they feel about the new policies — and why they’re
not convinced they need to go abroad. We’re
publishing some of the most notable responses
below.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ State_Duma_committee_claims_springtime_electronic
conscription_summonses_will_be_for_‘testing_only’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The State Duma’s Security Committee chair Andrey
Kartapolov says this spring’s conscription drive
will involve a test distribution of electronic
summonses. The deputy claims that these digital
notices will not be legally binding for the
recipients.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Jerry_Mander_Was_the_Groundbreaking_Activism-
Adman⠀⇛
Jerry Mander died recently in Hawaii after a long
illness, according to his wife, the filmmaker
Koohan Paik-Mander.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Taylor_Swift_didn’t_fall_for_FTX_because_she
asked_a_simple_question⠀⇛
$100 billion: How much FTX was willing to pay
the celebrated singer-songwriter. They had
reached the late stages of negotiating a
sponsorship deal a little before the
[cryptocurrency] exchange crumbled last
November. A report in Rolling Stones cites an
anonymous source saying Swift “would not, and
did not, agree to an endorsement deal,” but
smaller-scale partnerships, like a ticketing
arrangement involving NFTs for her Eras Tour,
was on the table. But she turned that down,
too.
# ⚓ The Week ☛ How_voracious_Bitcoin_mining_is_messing
with_Texans⠀⇛
How much energy do Bitcoin mines use?
A lot. The biggest Bitcoin mine in the U.S. —
operated by Riot Platforms in an abandoned
Alcoa aluminum smelting plant in Rockdale,
Texas, about an hour outside of Austin — uses
the same amount of electricity as the nearest
300,000 homes, the Times reports. Add in the
Bitdeer mine about a mile away, and
Rockdale’s Bitcoin mines use more power than
all the houses in a 40-mile radius.
A 1 megawatt mine consumes more energy per
day than a typical U.S. home does in two
years. Lee Bratcher, president of Bitcoin
lobbying group the Texas Blockchain Council,
estimates that Bitcoin miners use about 2,100
MW of power in Texas each day, while the
Texas state comptroller’s office said
cryptocurrency mining operations consume
3,000 MW.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Tory_MPs_Accept_£20,000_from_Director_of
Climate_Science_Denial_Group⠀⇛
Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt
and Conservative MP Liam Fox have each
received £10,000 from companies owned by a
director of the Global Warming Policy
Foundation (GWPF) – one of the UK’s leading
climate science denial groups.
New parliamentary records show that Mordaunt
received £10,000 on March 28 from the
management consultancy First Corporate
Consultants. The firm is owned by Terence
Mordaunt, a director at the GWPF who served
as its chair from April 2017 to November
2019.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ The_EPA’s_Newly_Proposed_Rule_for_Chemical
Emissions_Won’t_Lessen_the_Risk_for_Children_in_One
Louisiana_Community_for_Years_to_Come⠀⇛
The Environmental Protection Agency’s
Administrator Michael Regan announced a new
proposed rule to govern toxic chemical air
emissions at an April 6 press conference
choreographed to have the Denka Performance
Elastomer Plant, a synthetic rubber
manufacturing facility in St. John the
Baptist Parish, Louisiana, as a backdrop.
The Denka plant is located next to the
Mississippi River in the middle of an 85-mile
stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans
lined with chemical plants and refineries
that President Joe Biden referred to as
“Cancer Alley” when he rolled out
his environmental policy, is one of many that
will be subjected to new regulations included
in the proposed rule, if it is finalized and
enacted.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ UK_Report_Shows_Promise_of_100%_Clean
Energy—Without_Nuclear_Power—by_2050⠀⇛
A best-case scenario in which the United
Kingdom fully transitions to renewable energy
with no nuclear generation would save more
than £100 billion—over $124 million—toward
achieving net-zero by 2050 and produce 20%
fewer carbon emissions, an analysis published
this week concludes.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Could_California’s_Next_Dam_Removal
Take_Place_on_This_Endangered_River?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Peering_Down_Into_Talking_Ant_Hill⠀⇛
Watching an anthill brings an air of
fascination. Thousands of ants are moving
about and communicating with other ants as
they work towards a goal as a collective
whole. For us humans, we project a complex
inner world for each of these tiny creatures
to drive the narrative. But what if we could
peer down into a miniature world and the ants
spoke English? (PDF whitepaper)
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ To_stem_water_crisis,_Tunisians_turn_off
their_taps⠀⇛
Radhia Essamin, from the Tunisian Water
Observatory, said the decision to cut the
water supply was not surprising, given the
country’s worrisome water shortage. But it
should have been handled differently, she
said, notably with a campaign so people could
prepare themselves ahead of time.
“That is why we consider these measures
incomplete. Before taking any measures, the
citizen must be … made aware of the
importance of water rationing,” she said. “A
booklet should have been published
[explaining] water consumption, storage,
timing, and the quantity allowed to be
stored.”
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ India_Is_Passing_China_in
Population._Can_Its_Economy_Ever_Do_the_Same?⠀⇛
Instead, India addressed its fears of
overpopulation and reduced the growth rate
through more organic and gradual ways,
including serious efforts to promote
contraception and smaller families. As mass
education has spread, especially among girls
and women, the fertility rate has dipped to
just above the level required to maintain the
current population size.
# ⚓ California ☛ After_the_deluge:_Floods_may_taint_more
drinking_water_in_California⠀⇛
In agricultural regions, decades’ worth of
fertilizers applied to orchards and row
crops, and tons of cow manure stored in
ponds, releases nitrogen into the ground. As
much as 40% of nitrogen in fertilizer may
eventually enter groundwater supplies.
Thousands of households have wells
contaminated with nitrate. For public water
systems, about one in every 10 water samples
collected from 20,000 wells in the Tulare
Lake Basin and the Salinas Valley exceeded
the drinking water standard for nitrate,
according to a 2012 UC Davis report to state
officials. But the full scope of the problem
is unknown, partly because Central Valley
residents have an estimated 150,0000 private
drinking water wells, which are not routinely
monitored for pollutants.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ The_‘Elite’_Breeding_Couple_Are
Terminally_Online_Redditors_Who’ve_Gone_Viral_Before⠀⇛
The Collins’ Reddit habits, at least under
those usernames, have died down in recent
years; they’re busy seeding the earth, after
all. But a true poster never retires. They’re
still on Twitter, posting as a joint account,
defending their ideas by praising the fascist
Terran Federation from Starship Troopers.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Poverty_conundrum_for_Jim_Chalmers_as
welfare_report_lands,_Budget_looms⠀⇛
Billions for AUKUS submarines are not a good look
in light of Welfare Report showing rising poverty.
Ben Phillips reports on Treasurer Jim Chalmers’
Budget conundrum.
Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Minister for
Social Services Amanda Rishworth established an
Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee in December
2022 to advise the government on ways to lift
economic inclusion and reduce disadvantage.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Illegal_Corporate_Price-Fixing’_Is_Rampant
in_US_Economy:_Report⠀⇛
As working-class households continue to struggle
amid a cost-of-living crisis driven largely by
corporate profiteering, a new investigation shows
that large companies operating in the United States
have paid nearly $100 billion in fines and
settlements since 2000 “to resolve allegations of
covert price-fixing and other anti-competitive
practices in violation of antitrust laws.”
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ New_York_Times:_Biden_Admin_Ignored
Warnings_About_Migrant_Child_Labor,_Punished_Whistleblowers⠀⇛
Our guest Hannah Dreier, a Pulitzer Prize-winning
reporter at The New York Times, has published a
bombshell new investigation headlined “As Migrant
Children Were Put to Work, U.S. Ignored Warnings.”
It reports that the Biden administration has
repeatedly ignored or missed warnings about a surge
of migrant children as young as 12 working in
factories across the United States under grueling
and often dangerous working conditions in serious
violation of child labor laws. “People were
punished for bringing this to the attention of
their supervisors,” says Dreier.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Progressive_Coalition_Speaks_Out_as_Big
Business_Moves_to_Crush_Julie_Su⠀⇛
As corporate interests continue to attack Julie Su,
dozens of progressive organizations on Wednesday
pressured a U.S. Senate panel to swiftly advance
the labor secretary nominee, who “has devoted her
life to fighting for workers’ rights, holding
exploitative employers accountable, leveling the
playing field for high-road employers, and doing
pioneering work to protect the most vulnerable of
workers.”
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Eurostat:_Hungarian_inflation_still
highest_in_EU_at_25.6_percent⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Policy_Murder’:_Research_Shows_Poverty_Is
4th_Leading_Cause_of_Death_in_US⠀⇛
Research published this week in the Journal of the
American Medical Association estimated that poverty
was linked to at least 183,000 deaths in the United
States in 2019 among people aged 15 or older,
making inadequate income the nation’s fourth-
leading mortality driver that year behind heart
disease, cancer, and smoking.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Senior_Groups_Tell_Kevin_McCarthy_to
‘Release_His_Hostage’_and_Back_Clean_Debt_Ceiling_Hike⠀⇛
An alliance of senior advocacy groups, progressive
organizations, and labor unions demanded Wednesday
that Congress quickly approve legislation to
increase the debt limit without any conditions,
warning the House GOP’s pursuit of steep spending
cuts is risking an “economic calamity” and
imperiling key benefits.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Why_the_Government_Should_Hit_the
Regenerate_Button_on_its_AI_Bill⠀⇛
As anyone who has tried ChatGPT will know, at the
bottom of each response is an option to ask the AI
system to “regenerate response”. Despite increasing
pressure on the government to move ahead with Bill
C-27’s Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA),
the right response would be to hit the regenerate
button and start over. AIDA may be well-meaning and
the issue of AI regulation critically important,
but the bill is limited in principles and severely
lacking in detail, leaving virtually all of the
heavy lifting to a regulation-making process that
will take years to unfold. While no one should
doubt the importance of AI regulation, Canadians
deserve better than virtue signalling on the issue
with a bill that never received a full public
consultation.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Formerly_Verified_Users_Aren’t_Buying_The
Twitter_Blue_Elon_Musk_Is_Selling⠀⇛
As you likely know, Elon Musk has been shilling
Twitter Blue as his plan to save Twitter since
basically four hours after he took over the
company. In theory, pushing Twitter Blue was a good
idea. Twitter Blue was the plan to offer a premium
service to loyal Twitter users by upselling them on
some useful premium features. It existed pre-Musk,
but the company had never done a particularly good
job marketing it (you can say that about many of
old Twitter’s services).
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘We’re_Not_at_That_Point’:_Durbin_Rejects
Calls_to_Drop_Archaic_Blue_Slip_Norm_for_Judges⠀⇛
“We’re not at that point yet,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-
Ill.) told HuffPost when asked if he’s considering
scrapping the so-called “blue slip courtesy”—a non-
binding rule that Republicans tossed aside for
circuit court nominees when they last controlled
the Senate.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ How_Open_Bargaining—and_Not_Letting_Management
Set_the_Ground_Rules—Led_to_a_Union_Victory⠀⇛
Before the recent mass shootings, Louisville, Ky.,
was best known for bourbon, baseball bats, and
horse racing. The races can sometimes surprise you.
Just last year, an unknown horse named Rich
Strike—with the second-longest odds against him in
the Kentucky Derby’s entire 147-year
history—finished ahead of an elite field. In
another upset, in this right-to-work state where
only 7.9 percent of the workforce are covered by
union contracts, the members of Local 1447 of the
Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) beat back racist
divide-and-conquer proposals by management last
November to win a great contract. But their victory
relied on method—not luck.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ In_1969_Abe_Fortas_Became_the_First_Justice
Forced_to_Resign._Should_Clarence_Thomas_Be_Next?⠀⇛
As pressure grows on Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas to resign over his decades-long relationship
with a billionaire benefactor, we speak with legal
journalist Adam Cohen, who says there is a
precedent that should guide lawmakers in how to
address the growing scandal. In 1969, Justice Abe
Fortas was forced to resign after his financial
relationship came to light with businessman Louis
Wolfson, who paid Fortas to consult for his
foundation. Fortas was a Democratic appointee, but
the scandal led to a bipartisan call for his
resignation — even though his replacement would be
named by Republican President Richard Nixon and
shift the balance of the court. Cohen writes in a
guest essay for The New York Times that the strong,
bipartisan outrage against Fortas “is both a
blueprint for how lawmakers could respond today and
a benchmark of how far we have fallen.”
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ The_Justice_&_the_Billionaire:_Clarence
Thomas_Failed_to_Disclose_Real_Estate_Deal_with_GOP
Megadonor⠀⇛
Calls continue to grow for Supreme Court Justice
Clarence Thomas to step down or to be impeached,
after ProPublica uncovered more damning information
about his relationship with Republican megadonor
Harlan Crow. According to the new report, Thomas
and his family sold a house and two vacant lots in
Savannah, Georgia, to Crow for around $130,000 but
never disclosed the sale, which appears to be a
violation of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act. In
addition to being a major benefactor to Thomas and
the GOP, Crow is also an avid collector of Nazi
memorabilia, including a copy of Mein Kampf signed
by Hitler, paintings by Hitler, Nazi medallions,
swastika-embossed linens, and a garden filled with
statues of 20th century dictators. We speak to
Justin Elliott, a reporter for ProPublica who
helped break the story.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Former_deputy_culture_minister_Olga_Yarilova
arrested_in_Moscow_—_Meduza⠀⇛
In Moscow, investigators arrested Russia’s former
deputy minister of culture, Olga Yarilova, for
allegedly embezzling over 200 million rubles
(around $2.5 million) while participating in a
project called the Pushkin Card. TASS, citing a
source in law enforcement, and the Telegram channel
112 both reported on the case.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ An_executive_branch_gone_berserk_Journalist_and
activist_Grigory_Okhotin_explains_what_happened_to_civil
liberties_in_Russia_over_two_decades_under_Putin_—_Meduza⠀⇛
In 2011, after grossly falsified parliamentary
elections triggered mass protests and a wave of
political arrests in Russia, journalist Grigory
Okhotin and software engineer Daniil Beilinson
began publishing data about nationwide political
persecutions. The project, dubbed “OVD-Info,” is
now one of Russia’s key civil-liberties advocacy
organizations, providing both information and pro-
bono legal services to people faced with real or
potential political persecution. After more than a
decade of observing protest dynamics in the
country, Okhotin is convinced that depriving
citizens of basic rights threatens not only the
country’s well-being but also the safety and
prosperity of the outside world. In an essay for
Meduza, Okhotin reflects on more than two decades
of Putin’s policies and explains how the consistent
erosion of the Russians’ political rights
ultimately resulted in the invasion of Russia’s
closest neighbor, Ukraine.
# ⚓ Robert Reich ☛ How_Republicans_Are_Stepping_Closer_to
Fascism⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Ron_DeSantis_Might_Have_Already_Blown_His_Shot
at_2024⠀⇛
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been spending
plenty of time out of state as he promotes his book
and continues his maybe run for president. He
signed an unpopular six-week abortion ban just
before 11 pm Thursday, then headed to Liberty
University in Virginia, where he weirdly didn’t
discuss it with the heavily right-wing students and
staff. Huh.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Jim_Jordan_Wants_to_Make_Alvin_Bragg_the
Villain,_but_It’s_Not_Working⠀⇛
When Thomas Dewey, arguably the most nationally
prominent Manhattan district attorney before Alvin
Bragg, was running for the post in 1937, he made it
clear that he was prepared to go after political
wrongdoers. A young special prosecutor who had made
a name for himself taking on gangsters, Dewey
announced his candidacy on the Republican Party
line because, he said, he believed it was necessary
to go after Tammany Hall, the Democratic political
machine that once dominated the politics of New
York City. He said, “[I]t has become clear to me
that there is an alliance between crime and certain
elements of Tammany Hall. For twenty years Tammany
Hall has controlled criminal prosecutions and for
twenty years the power of the criminal underworld
has grown. This alliance must be broken.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ McCarthy_Finally_Unveils_‘Republican
Default_Disaster’_Bill⠀⇛
Again rebuffing calls from people across the United
States, congressional Democrats, and President Joe
Biden for a clean debt limit hike, GOP House
Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday officially
unveiled a 320-page bill full of proposed cuts.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Free-Market_Dogma’_Creates_Disasters_from
East_Palestine_to_Ukraine⠀⇛
By now everyone is familiar with the derailment of
Norfolk Southern (NS) freight train 32N on February
3 in East Palestine, Ohio. After a nearly two-mile
long train carrying toxic chemicals derailed, a
controlled burn of the chemicals in several
railcars resulted in the release of noxious gases
into the air. These included phosgene, a substance
used in gas warfare in World War I. After many days
of contradictory explanations, foot-dragging, and
buck-passing, the railroad and all levels of
government finally conceded the seriousness of the
incident.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Turbopatriots_and_regional_governors_Who_loves_the
letter_Z_and_why?_Meduza_explains._—_Meduza⠀⇛
On the eve of the February 2022 invasion of
Ukraine, Russian propagandists and pro-Kremlin
bloggers started to publish pictures of military
equipment located near the border with Ukraine and
painted with the Latin letters Z and V. The letter
Z, in particular, soon became a key element of the
propaganda campaign justifying the Kremlin’s war of
aggression. In the 13 months since the start of the
war, the letter’s popularity and visibility have
not waned. Today, Z is a distinctive symbol of the
most radically inclined faction of the “party of
war,” which supports the most brutal combat
methods, including terrorism. Acolytes of that
ideology currently share a tenuous alliance with
the Kremlin. Though the so-called Z-heads’ goals
hardly align with those of Putin’s inner circle,
many less powerful politicians are eager to
appropriate Z for their own benefit. Meduza
explains the ideology behind Z and the subculture
most strongly associated with this odd symbol.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Prosecution_seeks_nine_year_prison_sentence_for
former_Interior_Ministry_employee_accused_of_‘spreading
fakes’_about_the_war_—_Meduza⠀⇛
During a hearing at Moscow’s Perovsky District
Court, the prosecution requested that Sergey Klokov
(Vedel) serve nine years in a penal colony. Klokov,
who previously worked at Russia’s Ministry of
Internal Affairs, was charged with “spreading war
fakes,” reports Mediazona and Network Freedoms. The
prosecution asked the court to strip Klokov of his
title and to suspend him from government employment
for a period of five years.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_suggests_renaming_Russia’s_new_youth
organization_to_the_Pioneers_—_Meduza⠀⇛
President of Russia Vladimir Putin suggested that a
new Russian youth organization consider using
naming itself Pioneers, the name of a mass youth
organization in the Soviet period. The organization
chose the name Movement of the First for itself in
December 2022. It took three votes for the
organization to decide on its name at its first
meeting. Eventually, Movement of the First won, and
Pioneers came in fourth place out of five in the
final round of voting.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Jurors_in_murder_case_against_Kaliningrad
neonatologists_say_judge_pressured_them_to_deliver_guilty
verdict_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Four jurors in the case against Elina Sushkevich
and Yelena Belaya, two Kaliningrad doctors charged
with murdering a newborn baby to keep their
hospital’s official infant mortality rate low, have
said the judge for the case pressured them into
returning a guilty verdict, the website Medvestnik
reported on Wednesday, citing Sushkevich’s lawyer.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Montana’s_TikTok_Ban_Won’t_Work⠀⇛
There are ways for your location to be pegged to
your digital identity. Many data sources on your
phone—GPS signals, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth networks,
and the pinging of nearby cell towers—can be used
to estimate your whereabouts, sometimes with
startling precision. Different shows and movies are
offered by streaming platforms such as Netflix
depending on which country you’re in (an instance
where the general locations offered by IP addresses
are precise enough), and gambling sites will lock
you out if you manually enter a zip code where
their services are illegal. But none of these
examples demonstrate how an app store could prevent
users in a given state from accessing one specific
app.
Either the legislators passing the bill simply
didn’t understand the technology, Wheeler argued,
or they broke an old military adage: “Don’t give an
order you know can’t be followed.” To actually
implement something like this effectively—feel free
to enjoy the irony here—America would need to have
an internet structured and governed more like
China’s, with a mass-surveillance infrastructure
built in.
# ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Iowa’s_starvation_strategy⠀⇛
I don’t really buy that “the cruelty is the point.”
I’m a materialist. Money talks, bullshit walks.
When billionaires fund unimaginably cruel policies,
I think the cruelty is a tactic, a way to get the
turkeys to vote for Christmas. After all, policies
that grow the fortune of the 1% at the expense of
the rest of us have a natural 99% disapproval
rating.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Fox_settles_with_Dominion._That’s_not
the_end_of_it.⠀⇛
Fox Corp. agreed Tuesday to pay $787 million
to Dominion Voting Systems to settle a
defamation suit over false claims aired by
Fox News about voting machines used in the
2020 election. The deal was announced on what
would have been the first day of a high-
profile trial in a Delaware court that was
widely seen as a test of First Amendment
protections for news organizations.
Pretrial revelations about how Fox fed
misinformation to its viewers about the 2020
vote to maintain its ratings had already
embarrassed the country’s most powerful
conservative media outlet. And Dominion’s
attorneys have claimed victory for its
defense of the truth. But the settlement –
among the largest ever paid by a media
company – doesn’t appear to compel Fox to
admit wrongdoing or issue public apologies.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ It_Costs_$787.5_Million_to_Lie_to_the
Public._Fox_News_Can_Afford_It.⠀⇛
Documents released prior to the trial
produced a steady torrent of damning evidence
showing that Fox executives and on-air
personalities knowingly broadcast claims
about rampant Democratic-orchestrated
election fraud in the 2020 presidential
balloting that weren’t remotely factual. The
raft of pretrial revelations also included
prime-time Fox personalities venting against
Trump as—in Tucker Carlson’s words—a raging
“demonic force” principally known for
“destroying things.” “I hate him with a
passion,” Carlson announced, in one of his
only truthful utterances on the subject. Fox
CEO Rupert Murdoch wasn’t much more
restrained; he directed the Fox operation to
try to “make Trump a nonperson” during the
run-up to the January 6 insurrection, and
made the case to call the 2020 election early
and accurately for Biden.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Everybody_Knows_What_Fox_News_Is
Now⠀⇛
Say this for Carlson, he can pack a lot into
a few words. There’s an implicit agreement
here: Whether or not you, the viewer, are
correct in the technical sense, you are right
in the larger sense. You are the authentic
voice of this country. So you deserve to feel
right about your beliefs, about your enemies,
about how you have been cheated. You deserve
— through whatever combination of insinuation
or hypotheticals or myths — to have the space
to keep believing it, without us making that
harder.
All this, trial or no trial, makes clear what
Fox News really is. It’s a service provider.
That service is the maintenance of a reality
bubble and the deference to beliefs that
Fox’s hosts helped shape.
# ⚓ [Repeat] New York Times ☛ Why_Fox_Had_to_Settle⠀⇛
Davis prohibited Fox from arguing that the
network was merely reporting on allegations
made by Donald Trump and his lawyers, which
Fox contended were newsworthy whether or not
they were true. So the case would turn not on
whether Fox had aired defamatory falsehoods,
which Davis determined it had, but on
whether, in airing defamatory falsehoods, Fox
had displayed “actual malice” — essentially,
reckless disregard for the truth.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘Our_Own_Guys_Are_Shelling_Us’:_How
Russian_Propaganda_Plagues_Ukraine⠀⇛
They repeat Russian propaganda lines,
accusing the West of causing the war and the
Ukrainian Army of shelling homes in order to
force people to leave.
“They are doing it on purpose,” Natasha said.
“They said people need to be evacuated. They
need the land.”
Ukrainian soldiers call them “waiters,”
people who refuse to be evacuated and are
holding out in their homes in anticipation of
a Russian takeover of their region, even as
the Russian bombardment endangers their
lives. They represent a diminishing minority
in Ukraine, which overwhelmingly supports
independence from Russia, but nevertheless
amount to thousands of civilians.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Why_the_Dominion-Fox_News_Settlement
Is_Rubbish⠀⇛
Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems have
agreed to settle Dominion’s defamation
lawsuit for $787.5 million. (Dominion had
sued for $1.6 billion over allegations that
Fox defamed the voting company by knowingly
or recklessly airing false claims tying
voting machines to a conspiracy to undermine
the 2020 presidential election.)
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Publisher_scrubs_mentions_of_Kyiv_from
Kyivan_Rus_section_of_history_textbooks_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A new edition of the Russian fourth-grade
textbook The World Around has removed several
references to Kyiv in chapters about the
history of Kyivan Rus, reports Mediazona.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Vladimir_Kara-Murza’s_defense_lawyer_Vadim
Prokhorov_leaves_Russia,_threatened_with_prosecution_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Vadim Prokhorov, the defense attorney who
represented the Russian politician Vladimir Kara-
Murza during the trial that concluded on April 17,
has left Russia, amidst threats of being disbarred
and prosecuted.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow_court_rejects_opposition_politician_Ilya
Yashin’s_appeal_against_prison_sentence_for_speaking_about
Russian_atrocities_in_Bucha_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Moscow City Court has rejected Russian
opposition politician Ilya Yashin’s appeal against
his 8.5-year prison sentence for allegedly
spreading “disinformation” about the Russian
military, the independent outlet Mediazona reported
on Wednesday.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Lawyers_say_jailed_single_father_Alexey_Moskalev’s
whereabouts_unknown_for_six_days_and_counting_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Lawyers and human rights workers have reportedly
been unable to find Alexey Moskalev, the single
father from Russia’s Tula region who was arrested
in Belarus after escaping house arrest, for the
past six days.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Bolshoy_Theater_drops_‘Nureyev’_ballet_from
repertoire,_bending_to_Russia’s_anti-LGBT_censorship_law_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Moscow’s Bolshoy Theater has permanently canceled
Kirill Serebrennikov’s production of “Nureyev,” a
ballet celebrating the Soviet-born star dancer and
choreographer. The production has now been dropped
from Bolshoy’s repertoire.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Twitter_Suspends_Reporter_For_Reporting_On
Twitter_Hack,_Using_Same_Policy_Old_Twitter_Used_To_Block_NY
Post_Hunter_Biden_Story⠀⇛
The nonsense never ends. As you’ll recall, there
was a big kerfuffle (that still hasn’t fully ended)
over a decision by Twitter in October of 2020 to
block the sharing of a NY Post article about the
contents of what was then alleged to be (and since
mostly confirmed) Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop
hard drive. What has since come out is that there
was thorough debate within Twitter about whether or
not this was a good idea, but the decision was made
in an abundance of caution, as the provenance of
the information was still unclear, and there were
some questionable aspects to the information being
released.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ ‘Lovejoy’s_Law’_And_Tech_Moral_Panics⠀⇛
One of the central arguments for a recent rash of
age verification laws across the country is to
“protect the children.” Utah Gov. Spencer Cox
called his signing of controversial social media
laws a means for “protecting our kids from the
harms of social media.” Arkansas Gov. Sarah
Huckabee Sanders said in a press conference that
her signing of the so-called Social Media Safety
Act will help prevent the “massive negative impact
on our kids.” Once he entered office, Sen. Josh
Hawley, said that loot boxes in popular video games
placed “a casino in the hands of every child in
America.” Louisiana State Rep. Laurie Schlegel
called her unconstitutional age verification bill
in order to access pornography in the state a
measure to counter how “pornography is destroying
our children.” This all sounds the same.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Hey,_Lizzo,_You’ve_Been_Lied_To._KOSA_Will_Harm
Kids⠀⇛
It’s always a mixed bag when entertainment industry
stars get roped into supporting this or that
internet regulation. Remember how there was a
Hollywood-backed campaign to have a bunch of big
name stars support FOSTA, the bill that sounded
good to people who didn’t understand intermediary
liability law, but has literally ended up killing
women and increasing sex trafficking, while making
it harder for law enforcement to stop sex
trafficking?
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ After_Fox_Settlement,_Assault_on_Media
Protections_Is_Likely_to_Continue⠀⇛
The agreement by Fox News to settle for $787.5
million — among the largest payouts ever in a
defamation lawsuit — means that the scope of the
Sullivan ruling will not be tested this time.
In that 1964 decision, the justices ruled that to
win a libel suit, public officials had to do more
than show that factual inaccuracies in an article
harmed them. They also had to prove that those
falsehoods were the product of “actual malice” — in
other words, they were intentional or caused by a
reckless disregard for the truth.
# ⚓ [Repeat] JURIST ☛ Russia_court_denies_detained_US
journalist’s_appeal_of_espionage_charges⠀⇛
Russian authorities denied Gershkovich bail and
ordered that he be held in Russia’s Lefortovo
prison to await trial until May 29, after which
they can request a time extension. Gershkovich’s
lawyers were prepared to guarantee bail of 50
million rubles ($600,000) and to agree to
constraints on his movements and house arrest if
granted bail, WSJ reported. The court still refused
to grant bail or the appeal.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russian_Court_Rejects_Wall_Street_Journal
Reporter’s_Appeal⠀⇛
The Gershkovich case represents one of Mr. Putin’s
most drastic attacks to date on freedom of the
press. It is the first time that the Russian
government has brought such serious charges against
a journalist officially accredited by the country’s
Foreign Ministry, and the first time a Western
journalist in Russia has been charged with
espionage since the Cold War.
U.S. officials are concerned that the case appears
to signal an even more severe Kremlin crackdown on
independent news outlets and the free flow of
information within Russia. On Monday, in another
escalation, a Moscow court sentenced Vladimir Kara-
Murza, a Kremlin critic and Washington Post
contributor, to 25 years in prison — an unusually
harsh sentence that is longer than what is often
given for murder.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Free_Those_Who_Expose_Government_Misdeeds,
Jail_Those_Who_Try_To_Conceal_Them⠀⇛
People shouldn’t be punished for revealing the
secrets of the government, governments should be
punished for keeping secrets from the people.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Ending_30-Year_Saga,_Judge_Rules_Haitian
Activist_Targeted_by_ICE_Should_Not_Face_Deportation_Again⠀⇛
A New York immigration judge on Tuesday ruled that
Jean Montrevil, a Haitian immigrant and longtime
activist, will no longer face deportation, after a
decade of being targeted by Immigration and Customs
Enforcement for his activism. Montrevil was
deported to Haiti in 2018 under the Trump
administration but got a second chance in 2021,
when Virginia Governor Ralph Northam granted him a
pardon for two drug convictions from three decades
earlier, which ICE had used as a pretext to deport
him. Montrevil sought to regain his legal
immigration status and was allowed to return to the
United States on a 90-day special parole, but the
threat of deportation continued to hang over his
head — until Tuesday, when the decades-long saga
came to a close. “It was huge for me,” says
Montrevil in his first interview following the
ruling. We also speak with Alina Das, part of
Montrevil’s legal team and co-director of the
Immigrant Rights Clinic at NYU School of Law, who
says Black people face much harsher treatment under
immigration law than others.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Supreme_Court_Postpones_Crucial_Abortion
Pill_Ruling⠀⇛
An anticipated ruling on access to mifespristone,
one of two medications used in a majority of
abortions in the U.S., was delayed by the U.S.
Supreme Court on Wednesday, giving the court until
Friday to rule on the availability of the pill.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ In_Gun-Obsessed_US,_‘Stand_Your_Ground’
Laws_Blamed_for_Fresh_Spate_of_Shootings⠀⇛
Numerous shootings of people who have mistakenly
approached the wrong property have raised alarm
among gun control advocates, as the United States
faces what one columnist called the effects of a
“national experiment in freely giving deadly
weapons to anyone who wants one.”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ “I_Live_in_a_Gray_Area”:_Being_a_Trans_High
School_Student_Without_Support⠀⇛
After I cut my hair short for the first time, a
friend at school saw me. “You look like a boy,” he
said. It felt validating—especially coming from a
boy—and it started to click that maybe I wasn’t the
girl I thought I was.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ The_Farda_Briefing:_Iranian_Women_Defy_Newest
Police_Crackdown_On_Hijab_Violators⠀⇛
The authorities have intensified efforts to enforce
the hijab as more women flout the law. Women have
been emboldened by the nationwide antiestablishment
protests that erupted in September following the
death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini soon after she was
arrested by the morality police for allegedly
violating the hijab law. During the demonstrations,
women and girls removed and burned their head
scarves.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ T-Mobile_Simply_Lies_When_Pressed_About_9,000
Lost_Jobs_In_Wake_Of_Sprint_Merger⠀⇛
Former T-Mobile CEO John Legere repeatedly promised
in print that the Sprint merger would result in
a massive surge in new jobs. In a rambling missive
that took aim at critics of the deal who predicted
job losses, the former potty-mouth CEO proclaimed
that critics were lying, and that the deal would be
“job positive from day one” and every day
thereafter.
# ⚓ FTC_Chair_Lina_Khan_Asked_About_Microsoft_–_Activision_Deal
In_US_Gov’t_Hearing⠀⇛
It’s clear at this point it isn’t just a handful of
senators and congresspeople – the US government has
taken an interest in the Microsoft- Activision
deal, and in Sony’s game industry dominance.
The Microsoft – Activision deal has come up again
in the most unlikeliest of situations – a US House
Committee hearing. It probably won’t be a surprise,
though, if I told you this hearing involves FTC
chair Lina Khan.
# § Software Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ [Older] FSF ☛ Google’s_decision_to_deprecate_JPEG-XL
emphasizes_the_need_for_browser_choice_and_free
formats⠀⇛
Whether it’s through the millions of dollars
Google has funneled into development and
advertising or the “convenience” that it
offers users in exchange for freedom, the
fact remains that Google Chrome is the
arbiter of web standards. Firefox, through
ethical distributions like GNU IceCat and
Abrowser, can weaken that stranglehold.
Google’s deprecation of the JPEG-XL image
format in February in favor of its own
patented AVIF format might not end the web in
the grand scheme of things, but it does
highlight, once again, the disturbing amount
of control it has over the platform
generally.
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ Diziet ☛ The_Rust_Foundation’s_bad_draft_trademark
policy⠀⇛
The Rust Foundation’s proposed new trademark
policy is far too restrictive, and will cause
(more) drama unless it is substantially
revised.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Aaron_Judge,_MLB_Beats_Back_Trademark
Opposition_From_Squatter⠀⇛
It’s nothing new that famous and recognizable
sports figures have gotten into the business
of filing all kinds of trademarks around
their names, nicknames, and other terms and
phrases associated with them. Anthony Davis
trademarked “Fear The Brow” as a result of
his identifiable unibrow, for instance.
Remember Jeremy Lin? You might not if you’re
not a basketball fan of a certain age, but he
likewise got into the trademark game for his
moniker “Linsanity.” It’s all a little silly
in most cases, but there are business reasons
why this occurs, so it’s also not entirely
out of the realm of the reasonable.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ [Repeat] Jonathan Faber ☛ Recent_AI_and_deep-fake
activity⠀⇛
Not that it needs to be demonstrated, but
recent AI and deep-fake developments further
demonstrate the need for meaningful Right of
Publicity recognition.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Brazil’s_Ministry_of_Justice_Asks
Google_to_Deindex_Pirate_Sites⠀⇛
Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public
Security has asked Google to remove 167
pirate site domains from its search results.
The authorities cite an unpublished court
order that lists Cuevana, Vizer, Novaflix,
Overflix, Ultraflix, Pelisplushd, and many
other unauthorized streaming and download
sites.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Movie_&_TV_Show_Piracy_Sites
Disappear_in_Wake_of_ACE/MPA_DMCA_Subpoenas⠀⇛
Over the past several days at least four
pirate streaming sites have disappeared, with
one stating it will never return. What
prompted this sudden exodus is yet to be
confirmed, but two of the sites were recently
targeted in MPA/ACE DMCA subpoenas. Two also
appear on the UK’s Police Intellectual
Property Crime Unit’s ‘Infringing Website
List’.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Good_Music_You_Haven’t_Heard_Of⠀⇛
“Music is my life” is a cliche, so I’ll refrain
from saying it. Suffice it to say that my life has
revolved significantly around music for a very long
time.
Starting from high school I was one of those kids
who had headphones on at every possible second.
While not quite so anti-social anymore, I have
worked as a developer for more than 10 years at
this point, and have spent every work day of all of
those listening to music while coding. And that’s
to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands of
miles driven, workouts worked, and dinners cooked
while blasting tunes.
# ⚓ a_warm_candle_glow…⠀⇛
I finally did it! I finally completed my goal! Even
though it might never be seen by anyone… I’m so
proud for finishing it. Especially in a time where
my productivity levels are so low and everything
seems exhausting. I still did it.
# ⚓ New_Comic_Out_April_20⠀⇛
My birthday is April 20, and I always like to treat
myself by releasing a comic or album or something.
This year’s comic is “The Divine Tapestry: No
Respite For The Weary”.
# ⚓ Sunset_Gets_Political_II_–_Dark_Days⠀⇛
I normally avoid talking about politics outside of
areas I feel like I have a strong enough
understanding, and I usually don’t feel comfortable
expressing strong opinions on day-to-day politics.
I’m uncomfortable with the political system in
general and with both major US parties, and I’m
ashamed of some of my past bad takes. I’m also
really bad at expressing a lot of this kind of
thing.
[...]
I humbly ask you: please – please – don’t vote for
the Republican Party, and please speak out against
bigotry and discrimination when you see it.
o § Technical⠀➾
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Capsule_Changes⠀⇛
The tags pages, despite being so sparse, are
too cluttered, so I’ve removed any tag
listings where there is only one tag. This
means a much shorter all tags page, though
that makes it something of a misnomer. I’m
also hiding any tags on a note where that
note is the only one with that tag.
From the perspective of my notes, that tag is
useful for searching, but from the
perspective of the capsule, there’s no other
page to navigate to from that link, so it
doesn’t serve a purpose.
[...]
I’ve finally added a contact page. Not much
more to say about it. Unless Agate does
something with the Gemini mentions RFC, I
have no plans to implement that on my own. It
looks like a big headache.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Benchmarks
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Gentoo_Family
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Programming/Development
# Python
# Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Linux_Foundation
o Security
# Fear,_Uncertainty,_Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ System76_Refreshes_Its_Serval_WS,_Adder_WS,_and
Bonobo_WS_Linux_Laptops⠀⇛
After updating the Oryx Pro and Gazelle laptops
earlier this year, System76 now offers updated
versions of the Serval WS, Adder WS, and Bonobo WS
models featuring HK-class processors from the 13th
Gen Intel Core i9 13900HX “Raptor Lake” series, up
to 64GB DDR5 RAM, NVIDIA 40 series of graphics
cards, 4K displays, and refresh rates as high as
165Hz.
Starting at $1599 USD, the new Adder WS laptop is
System76’s first notebook offering featuring the
NVIDIA 40 GPU series up to GeForce RTX 4070. It’s
also equipped with an Intel Core i9 13900HX CPU
with 24 cores and 32 threads, and DDR5 RAM.
# ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ System76_Has_Many_New_Linux_Laptops_For_You⠀⇛
System76 is one of the brands Linux enthusiasts
geek out the most about, and with good reason. The
company is not only behind the Pop!_OS Linux
distribution but also has a lot of hardware of its
own. It is now releasing a range of new Linux-
powered laptops for you to check out.
System76 recently announced one new laptop, the
Gazelle, but today’s announcement is seeing three
new offerings added to the fray. We have the Adder
WS, the Serval WS, and the Bonobo WS, ordered from
least to most premium. The Adder WS’s big step up
compared to the Gazelle is the addition of NVIDIA’s
RTX 4000 GPUs, with the Adder coming with up to an
RTX 4070. It can also be outfitted with up to an
Intel Core i9-13900HX CPU, with a total of 24
processing cores, as well as DDR5 RAM.
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ The_Kubuntu_Focus_Ir14_is_an_upcoming_Linux_laptop
worthy_of_powering_the_KDE_Plasma_desktop⠀⇛
Kubuntu Focus focuses on laptops that run the
Kubuntu operating system. For those that aren’t
aware, Kubuntu is an official spin of Ubuntu that
uses the KDE Plasma desktop in place of GNOME.
KDE Plasma offers many of the same elements most
users are accustomed to (panel, system tray,
desktop menu, clickable desktop icons, etc). It’s
similar to the Windows desktop UI, only with more
flexibility and customization. And given how
elegant KDE Plasma is, one would expect a laptop to
power that desktop to be equally so.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD_Now_503:_Fast_Unix_Commands⠀⇛
ZFS Optimization Success Stories, Linux Namespaces
Are a Poor Man’s Plan 9 Namespaces, better support
for SSH host certificates, Fast Unix Commands,
Fascination with AWK, and more
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ The_early_days_of_Linux⠀⇛
My name is Lars Wirzenius, and I was there when
Linux started. Linux is now a global success, but
its beginnings were rather more humble. These are
my memories of the earliest days of Linux, its
creation, and the start of its path to where it is
today.
I started my computer science studies at the
University of Helsinki in the fall of 1988, and met
Linus Torvalds, who was the other new Swedish
speaking student in computer science that year.
Toward the end of that first year, we had gotten
access to a Unix server, and I accidentally found
Usenet, the discussion system, by mistyping rm as
rn, the Usenet reader. I told Linus about it and we
spent way too much time exploring this.
After the first year, we both went away to do the
mandatory military service, though in different
places. We returned to our university studies in
the fall of 1990, and both took the course on C and
Unix programming, which included a fair bit of
theory of the Unix kernel architecture as well.
This led to us reading about other operating system
kernels, such as QNX and Plan 9. Linus and I
discussed with some enthusiasm how an operating
system should be built correctly. We had all the
overconfidence of 20-year-old second-year
university students. Everyone is better off that
this wasn’t recorded for posterity.
In January 1991, Linus bought his first PC from a
local shop that assembled computers from parts. The
PC had a 386 CPU, which was relatively fancy at
that time, because Linus wanted to explore
multitasking. Also, since he came from a Sinclair
QL with a 32-bit Motorola 68008 CPU, he wanted a
32-bit CPU, and did not want to step down to a 16-
bit one, so a 286 was not an option. Linus’s first
PC had a whopping 4 megabytes of RAM and a hard
drive.
He got a copy of the game Prince of Persia, which
occupied most of his spare time for the next couple
of months. He later also bought a copy of MINIX,
because after using Unix at the university, he
wanted something like that at home as well.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Seeking_an_acceptable_unaccepted_memory_policy⠀⇛
Operating systems have traditionally used all of
the memory that the hardware provides to them. The
advent of virtualization and confidential computing
is changing this picture somewhat, though; the
system can now be more picky about which memory it
will use. Patches to add support for explicit
memory acceptance when running under AMD’s Secure
Encrypted Virtualization and Secure Nested Paging
(SEV-SNP), though, have run into some turbulence
over how to handle a backward-compatibility issue.
Normally, when the operating-system kernel boots,
it discovers the available memory and happily sets
itself up to use that memory. Version 2.9 of the
UEFI specification, though, added the concept of
unaccepted memory; when this mechanism is in use, a
system (normally a virtualized guest) will be
launched with its memory in an unaccepted state.
That system will not be able to make use of the
memory provided until that memory has been
explicitly accepted. On such systems, the
bootloader will typically pre-accept enough memory
to allow the guest kernel to boot; that kernel must
take responsibility for accepting the rest before
using it.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ The_shrinking_role_of_semaphores⠀⇛
The kernel’s handling of concurrency has changed a
lot over the years. In 2023, a kernel developer’s
toolkit includes tools like completions, highly
optimized mutexes, and a variety of lockless
algorithms. But, once upon a time, concurrency
control came down to the use of simple semaphores;
a discussion on a small change to the semaphore API
shows just how much the role of semaphores has
changed over the course of the kernel’s history.
At its core, a semaphore is an integer counter used
to control access to a resource. Code needing
access must first decrement the counter — but only
if the counter’s value is greater than zero;
otherwise it must wait for the value to increase.
Releasing the semaphore is a matter of incrementing
the counter. In the Linux kernel implementation,
acquisition of a semaphore happens with a call to
down() (or one of a few variants); if the semaphore
is unavailable, down() will wait until some other
thread releases it. The release operation,
unsurprisingly, is called up(). In the classic
literature, as defined by Edsger Dijkstra, those
operations are called P() and V() instead.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Standardizing_BPF⠀⇛
The extended BPF (eBPF) virtual machine allows
programs to be loaded into and executed with the
kernel — and, increasingly, other environments. As
the use of BPF grows, so does interest in defining
what the BPF virtual machine actually is. In an
effort to ensure a consistent and fair environment
for defining what constitutes the official BPF
language and run-time environment, and to encourage
NVMe vendors to support BPF offloading, a recent
effort has been undertaken to standardize BPF.
BPF programs are written in C, and compiled into
BPF bytecode. Like other bytecode instruction sets,
BPF programs are platform-independent and just-in-
time (JIT) compiled. For a long time, “platform-
independent” for BPF simply meant the ability to
run BPF programs on multiple different
architectures on Linux. That definition has
expanded in recent years, with Microsoft
implementing a version of BPF for Windows, and
network-interface vendors, such as Netronome,
providing the ability to offload BPF networking
programs. NVMe vendors are also looking into
supporting offloading functionality to BPF for
storage devices with a new framework called eXpress
Resubmission Path (XRP), though this effort is
currently stalled due to BPF not being
standardized.
o § Benchmarks⠀➾
# ⚓ Hot Hardware ☛ AMD_Ryzen_7_7800X3D_Benchmark_Battle_Pits
Windows_11_Against_Ubuntu_Linux⠀⇛
Staunch Linux advocates have been saying for some
time that the Unix derivative’s application
performance outstrips that of Windows, assuming all
other factors are equal. Valve even proved it back
in 2012 by porting Left 4 Dead 2 to Linux as part
of its original Steam Machine push.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Unix Men ☛ Linux-Based_Safety_Management_Software:_A
Comprehensive_Guide⠀⇛
Safety management software is a crucial tool for
businesses to effectively manage workplace safety,
reduce risks, and maintain compliance with industry
regulations. In today’s world, safety management
systems are essential for preventing workplace
accidents and ensuring employee well-being. But
what makes Linux a great platform for safety
management software? Let’s find out!
If you are looking to perform a fire inspection of
a building or facility using software on a Linux
system, you can use a combination of tools to help
you plan, visualize, and analyze building layouts
with regard to fire safety
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ What_Is_Manuskript_and_How_Does_It_Help_You
Write_Novels?⠀⇛
Writing a novel is hard, and it’s difficult to keep
track of character arcs, branching plot lines, and
random ideas which drift into your head and then
vanish before you have a chance to flesh them out.
Manuskript is an open-source utility for Windows,
macOS, and Linux, which can help you to organize
your thoughts, lay out your chapters, and explore
motivations.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ AddictiveTips ☛ How_to_Install_the_Backdrop_CMS
Dependencies_on_Ubuntu_Server⠀⇛
The Backdrop CMS system requires several
dependencies that the user must install, including
the Apache web server, MySQL, PHP, and several PHP
extensions. To start the installation of these
dependencies, launch a terminal and SSH into the
server or launch a terminal physically.
# ⚓ 2_Ways_to_install_Bitwarden_on_Debian_12_or_11_Linux⠀⇛
Bitwarden is a password manager that offers both
SAAS service and the opportunity for admins to
create their own password manager server using the
open-source Bitwarden server.
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Watchtower:_Automatically_Update_Docker
Container_Images⠀⇛
Keep your Docker container images up-to-date
effortlessly with Watchtower! Learn how to update
them automatically with our guide.
# ⚓ Ignoring_databases_to_write_to_a_binary_log_in_MySQL⠀⇛
Hey there, fellow database enthusiasts!
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Tips_and_Tricks_for_Optimizing_Linux_Device
Performance⠀⇛
In this article, we’ll explore various tips and
tricks that can help you optimize your Linux device
performance, ensuring that your system runs
smoothly and efficiently. We’ll cover topics such
as choosing the right distribution, optimizing
system settings, managing resources, and
maintaining a clean file system.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Exploring_the_Pop!_OS_community_and_support
resources⠀⇛
In this guide, we will explore the numerous
community and support resources available to help
you get the most out of your Pop!_OS experience.
From vibrant online forums to official
documentation, you’ll never feel lost or alone as
you navigate your way through this powerful
operating system.
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ How_to_kill_a_process_in_Linux⠀⇛
Sometimes a process or application can cause
problems on a Linux machine. When that happens,
you’ll need to know how to kill the wayward
process.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ New_Steam_Games_with_Native_Linux_Clients
with_AfroPenguin_and_I_Did_Not_Buy_this_Ticket_–_2023-04-19
Edition⠀⇛
Between 2023-04-12 and 2023-04-19 there were 23 New
Steam games released with Native Linux clients.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Gentoo Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ [Joke]_Man_wakes_from_2_year_coma_to_find
Gentoo_stage_2_install_still_going⠀⇛
“It cut my total time spent waiting for this Gentoo
install to complete by almost half!”
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Introducing_SUSE_support_for_the
newest_model_of_IBM_LinuxONE_Rockhopper_and_IBM_z16
Platforms⠀⇛
The ground-breaking combination of IBM and SUSE
security and sustainability initiatives pave the
way to better choices for our customers. This is
exemplified by IBM’s recent announcement of the new
IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 and IBM z16 Single Frame
platforms. These latest systems: Launch a new era
of sustainability with a more cost-effective
rackmount system.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Canonical ☛ Canonical_releases_Ubuntu_23.04_Lunar_Lobster⠀⇛
Today Canonical announces the release of Ubuntu
23.04, codenamed “Lunar Lobster”. Available to
download and install from https://ubuntu.com/
download.
“This Ubuntu milestone release demonstrates our
progress in raising the bar for the enterprise
developer desktops, thanks to our best-in-class
Linux integration with Active Directory Domain
Services and now Azure Active Directory”, said Mark
Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical. “Our expanded
investment in Ubuntu gaming means your downtime is
just as satisfying”.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Desktop_23.04_release_roundup⠀⇛
Every new release of Ubuntu Desktop comes packed
with new features and functionality to enable
developers, gamers, creators and tinkerers. Ubuntu
23.04 is no exception.
Our focus, as always, has been improving quality,
performance and enjoyment for all our users,
whether that’s more elegant update handling for
snaps, improved UI for installation and quick
settings or a more accessible gaming experience.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Studio ☛ Ubuntu_Studio_23.04_Released⠀⇛
The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the
release of Ubuntu Studio 23.04, code-named “Lunar
Lobster”. This marks Ubuntu Studio’s 33rd release.
This release is a regular release and as such, it
is supported for 9 months (until January 2024).
Since it’s just out, you may experience some
issues, so you might want to wait a bit before
upgrading. Please see the release notes for a
complete list of changes and known issues.
# ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_Lunar_Lobster_is_Released_with
Download_Links,_Official_Flavors_and_Torrents⠀⇛
Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster is here! Congratulations
to all computer users especially Ubuntu community
as Canonical releases Lunar Lobster on Thursday, 20
April 2022. This is a regular release with 9-month
support that comes with a lot of new technologies.
Continuing the surprise of Ubuntu Unity in the
previous release Kinetic Kudu, in this release we
are surprised by the official introduction of two
flavors Cinnamon, the user friendly interface
flagship of the famous Linux Mint, and Edubuntu,
the revival of the school-oriented operating
system. In this article, you will be able to
download Ubuntu 23.04 and all official flavors to
later install one into your desktop PC, laptop, and
server. Happy downloading!
# ⚓ Ubuntu News ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_(Lunar_Lobster)_released⠀⇛
Ubuntu 23.04, codenamed “Lunar Lobster”, is here.
This release continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of
integrating the latest and greatest open source
technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux
distribution. The team has been hard at work
through this cycle, partnering with the community
and our partners, to introduce new features and fix
bugs.
Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 features a new installer,
unifying the Ubuntu server and desktop installation
engine, enabling the same autoinstall configuration
workflows for both desktops and servers. The UI
sports a refreshed user interface with a modern but
familiar first-time user experience.
This release includes GNOME 44, delivering further
usability improvements with a focus on new quick
settings options for bluetooth device management
and dark mode. And desktop snaps now benefit from
new refresh functionality for quicker application
of updates.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_is_out_now_with_GNOME_44_and_a
stable_Steam_Snap⠀⇛
Canonical has today released Ubuntu 23.04, their
latest short-term new-feature release (it’s not an
LTS) that will be supported until January 2024.
One of the big user-facing additions is the new
installer that they say offers a “streamlined and
more intuitive user experience”. While it offers up
a refresh look the code behind the scenes is the
biggest change, since it now shares the code-base
with Ubuntu Server so they can give a more
consistent experience.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_“Lunar_Lobster”_is_Available_for
Download._This_is_What’s_New⠀⇛
Ubuntu 23.04, codenamed “Lunar Lobster”, has been
released as the first short-term version of 2023.
It will receive support for nine months until
January 2024. This version focuses on enhancing
Ubuntu’s core backend and adopting new packages and
technology to prepare for next year’s LTS release
(Ubuntu 24.04).
This is what’s new.
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ You_Can_Now_Upgrade_Ubuntu_22.10_to_Ubuntu
23.04,_Here’s_How⠀⇛
Dubbed Lunar Lobster, Ubuntu 23.04 introduces
several new features and improvements, such as the
latest Linux 6.2 kernel for better hardware
support, the latest GNOME 44 desktop environment, a
new Mesa graphics stack for gaming, as well as some
of the most recent GNU/Linux technologies.
Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) was released on October
20th, 2022, and it’s only supported for nine
months, until July 2023. Since this isn’t an LTS
(Long Term Support) release, users might want to
consider upgrading to Ubuntu 23.04 as soon as
possible.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_(Lunar_Lobster)_released⠀⇛
The Ubuntu 23.04 release is out. Headline features
include a new installer, GNOME 44, Azure Active
Directory authentication, and more.
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Canonical_unveils_Ubuntu_23.04_‘Lunar_Lobster’:_A
Linux_distro_for_work_and_play⠀⇛
Canonical has officially released Ubuntu 23.04,
codenamed Lunar Lobster, which is the latest
version of its Linux distribution and it boasts
improvements for enterprise developer desktops,
gaming enhancements, a revamped installer, and an
expanded focus on gaming.
“This Ubuntu milestone release demonstrates our
progress in raising the bar for the enterprise
developer desktops, thanks to our best-in-class
Linux integration with Active Directory (AD) Domain
Services and now Azure Active Directory,” said
Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Searching_for_an_elusive_orchid_pollinator⠀⇛
He was in a “Raspberry Pi phase” a year or so later
and thought he could use that device to help in the
search. He put up a block diagram of the Raspberry-
Pi-based camera system that he built. It uses an
infrared camera to continuously take pictures of a
target flower. It is powered by two “very heavy,
unfortunately” sealed lead-acid (SLA) batteries
using a power distribution board that allows him to
swap batteries in the field without shutting down.
He also designed a companion board with a realtime
clock, small display for power monitoring, and that
could drive an infrared floodlight at night.
He started out taking full-resolution photos, but
“it was taking too long to take a photograph,
relatively speaking”; he reduced the resolution to
1920×1080, which allowed him to take a photo every
0.8 seconds. The “3.2 million photographs” from the
title of his talk referred to what he gathered in a
normal month-long season: a bit over 100K photos
per day for roughly 30 days. Over a season, five
different flowers were monitored in succession.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ 100ASK-V853-Pro_–_A_feature-rich_Allwinner
V853_board_designed_for_AI_vision_applications⠀⇛
The 100ASK-V853-Pro board is a development kit
consisting of an Allwinner V853 system-on-module
board (SoM) and a feature-rich carrier board with a
large number of interfaces. Allwinner V853 supports
up to 1TOPS of NPU computing power and is mainly
for AI vision application development. The core
board contains a DDR and eMMC as well as a PMU chip
(AXP2101) and is connected to the carrier board
through a board-to-board connector.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ ArduPico_–_An_Arduino_UNO_compatible
baseboard_for_Raspberry_Pi_Pico⠀⇛
WisdPi ArduPico is an Arduino UNO-shaped baseboard
designed for the Raspberry Pi Pico and compatible
boards that enables makers to reuse most Arduino
shields available on the market and also adds for
few I/Os and features.
# ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Hands_on_with_the_Matter_beta_for_Home
Assistant⠀⇛
Now that I’m done reviewing the latest Matter
devices from Nanoleaf, it’s time to turn my
attention back to Home Assistant. Since I haven’t
taken a deep dive on this open source smart home
platform in a few years, I recently set it up on a
spare Raspberry Pi.
# ⚓ Matter_Explained:_What_You_Need_to_Know_About_This_Next-gen
Smart_Home_Protocol⠀⇛
The dream of smart home unity may finally be here
thanks to Matter. This next-gen smart home protocol
helps all your various smart home devices play well
together without numerous apps or complicated
setups. Ideally, this will drastically change the
future of smart home technology for the better.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Net2 ☛ Top_10_Android_Emulators_for_Linux⠀⇛
As technology keeps evolving, the demand for top-
notch Android emulators for Linux has exploded.
Android emulators are nifty software that lets you
run Android apps on your computer, creating a
virtual Android environment for
testing, development, or gaming.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ In_letter_to_EU,_open_source_bodies_say_Cyber
Resilience_Act_could_have_’chilling_effect’_on_software
development_|_TechCrunch⠀⇛
13 open source industry bodies have published a
letter asking the Europe to reconsider aspects of
its proposed Cyber Resilience Act.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ Aerospike_Database_6.3_Offers_Better_Resource_Management⠀⇛
Aerospike is releasing Aerospike Database 6.3,
delivering operational, quality, performance, and
stability improvements.
Aerospike Database 6.3 adds support for OpenSSL 3,
which means that it runs well on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 9 (RHEL) and its many clones, as well as
Ubuntu 22.04. The release continues to support RHEL
and Debian-compatible Linux distributions that come
with OpenSSL 1. One caveat is that support for
Debian 10 on ARM64 hardware has been discontinued,
however, server 6.3 still runs on Debian 10 on
x86_64.
Ubuntu 18.04 was removed from the list of supported
Linux distributions, starting with server 6.3.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Bringing_the_Developer_Sandbox_to_you_at_Red_Hat
Summit⠀⇛
The Developer_Sandbox_for_Red_Hat_OpenShift offers
you free access to a Red_Hat_OpenShift cluster.
It’s a great way to learn about and experiment with
containers, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and
microservices.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Python_3.12:_error_messages,_perf_support,_and
more⠀⇛
Python 3.12 approaches. While the full
feature set of the final release—slated for
October 2023—is still not completely known,
by now we have a good sense for what it will
offer. It picks up where Python 3.11 left
off, improving error messages and
performance. These changes are accompanied by
a smattering of smaller changes, though Linux
users will likely make use of one in
particular: support for the perf profiler.
# § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Using_Logical_Operators_in_Bash:_A
Comprehensive_Guide⠀⇛
Bash, or the Bourne-Again SHell, is a
powerful and versatile scripting language
widely used in the Linux and Unix
environments. One of the key features of Bash
scripts is the ability to create conditions
and control the flow of execution using
logical operators.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_Linux_Bourne_Shell_Explained⠀⇛
The Bourne shell is one of the oldest shells
still in use on modern Linux systems, even
though it’s not as widely used as Bash.
Here’s what you need to know about the Bourne
shell on Linux.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ 8_Hours_of_Loneliness_Can_Be_as_Draining
For_Some_People_as_Going_Without_Food⠀⇛
It’s a physical need.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ This_String_Theory_“Star”_Looks_And_Acts
Exactly_Like_a_Black_Hole⠀⇛
Up close, it looks very different.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Five_Experts_Explain_Whether_AI_Could_Ever
Become_as_Intelligent_as_Humans⠀⇛
Anything you can do, it can do .
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Hidden_Underwater_Resource_Is_Worth_Way
More_Than_Expected,_Study_Reveals⠀⇛
We’ve totally underestimated it.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Breathtaking_Images_Show_The_Sun_Disappear
in_Rare,_Hybrid_Solar_Eclipse⠀⇛
What a time to be alive.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ How_Long_Could_The_Human_Lifespan_Get?_The
Answer_May_Surprise_You⠀⇛
We’re only beginning to see the potential.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Same_job,_different_pay:_the_story_of_two_physics
teachers_in_Latvia⠀⇛
The teacher’s salary is influenced by a variety of
factors, meaning that for the same position, one
can be overloaded and underpaid whereas another can
work a decent load and get decent pay. Latvian
Television met with two physics teachers on April
19, Solveta and Kārlis, with vastly different loads
and wages.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Tech_Industry_Pioneer_Sees_a_Way_for_the
U.S._to_Lead_in_Advanced_Chips⠀⇛
Ivan Sutherland played a key role in foundational
computer technologies. Now he sees a path for
America to claim the mantle in “superconducting”
chips.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ AAEON_BOXER-8224AI_–_An_NVIDIA_Jetson_Nano
AI_Edge_embedded_system_for_drones⠀⇛
AAEON BOXER-8224AI is a thin and lightweight AI
edge embedded system solution based on NVIDIA
Jetson Nano system-on-module and designed for
drones, or other space-constrained applications
such as robotics. AAEON BOXER products are usually
Embedded Box PCs with an enclosure, but the BOXER-
8224AI is quite different as it’s a compact and
22mm thin board with MIPI CSI interfaces designed
to add computer vision capability to unmanned areal
vehicles (UAV), as well as several wafers for dual
GbE, USB, and other I/Os.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Seagate_to_pay_US$300m_fine_for_shipping_hard
drives_to_Huawei⠀⇛
The sale of the drives took place between August
2020 and September 2021.
Seagate has now changed its stance, and agreed to
settle the matter by paying the fine.
The two other main hard drive manufacturers,
Toshiba and Western Digital, were found to be in
compliance with the strictures put in place in
2019.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ E.U._Weighs_Temporary_Restrictions_on
Ukrainian_Grain⠀⇛
An E.U. proposal would pause Ukrainian grain
exports to five countries that say their farmers
are being hurt by a glut of cheap imports. Here is
what we’re covering:
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ European_Commission_Proposes_Support_for_Farmers
Affected_By_Ukrainian_Grain_Transports⠀⇛
The European Commission has proposed measures for
wheat, maize, sunflower seed, and rape seed from
Ukraine after a joint complaint from five EU
countries — Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and
Slovakia — over a drop in prices on local markets
because of the influx from Ukraine.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_Covid-19_protesters_released
after_four_months’_detention:_Sources⠀⇛
Ms Cao Zhixin and Ms Zhai Dengrui were released on
Wednesday, according to their friends.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Thailand_air_pollution_leads_millions
to_seek_medical_help⠀⇛
Bangkok and Chiang Mai were among the most polluted
cities in the world on Thursday morning.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Exclusive:_Nickel_mine_in_Colombia_destroying
biodiversity_and_health⠀⇛
Thirty media outlets in the Forbidden Stories
consortium of investigative journalists, including
FRANCE 24, are continuing the work of Colombian
journalist Rafael Moreno, who was murdered in
October 2022. In particular, Moreno was
investigating Cerro Matoso, an open-pit nickel mine
in Colombia’s northern Córdoba region. For 40
years, its operation by an Australian company has
been eating away at the ancestral land of the Zenú
Indians, who accuse the mine of spreading disease
and desolation on their land.
o § Linux Foundation⠀➾
# ⚓ Business Wire ☛ Aviz_Launches_Cutting-Edge_Experience
Center_in_Collaboration_with_Community_and_Seven_Networking
Vendors_to_Lower_the_Barrier_to_Entry_for_SONiC [Ed: Linux
Foundation acting as a front group of Microsoft here]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Cloud_Native_Computing_Foundation_Welcomes_HLCTech’s
Upgrade_to_Platinum_Membership_with_a_Seat_on_the_Governing
Board⠀⇛
# ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ DENT_Network_Operating_System_Collaborates
with_OCP_to_Integrate_Switch_Abstraction_Interface_(SAI)⠀⇛
The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit
organization enabling mass innovation through open
source, today announced the incorporation of the
Open Compute Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI)
into the open source DENT Network Operating System
(NOS) project. This move marks a milestone in the
collaboration between the Linux Foundation and the
Open Compute Project (OCP), aimed at benefiting the
entire open-source community by providing a unified
and standardized approach to networking across
hardware and software.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ EFF_on_the_UN_Cybercrime_Treaty⠀⇛
EFF has a good_explainer on the problems with the
new UN Cybercrime Treaty, currently being
negotiated in Vienna.
The draft treaty has the potential to
rewrite criminal laws around the world,
possibly adding over 30 criminal offenses
and new expansive police powers for both
domestic and international criminal
investigations.
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ New_Zero-Click_Exploits_Against_iOS⠀⇛
CitizenLab has identified three_zero-click_exploits
against iOS 15 and 16. These were used by NSO
Group’s Pegasus spyware in 2022, and deployed by
Mexico against human rights defenders. These
vulnerabilities have all been patched.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Misconfiguration_leaves_thousands_of
servers_vulnerable_to_attack,_researchers_find⠀⇛
Simple mistakes and configuration errors is still a
major cybersecurity issue, according to security
firm Censys.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Ransomware_group_behind_Oakland_attack
strengthens_capabilities_with_new_tools,_researchers_say⠀⇛
The group known as PLAY is using custom tools
researchers say allow it to be faster and more
efficient when carrying out ransomware attacks.
# ⚓ SANS ☛ Taking_a_Bite_Out_of_Password_Expiry_Helpdesk_Calls,
(Wed,_Apr_19th)⠀⇛
By call volume, the top problem that most Helpdesks
face is expired or forgotten passwords.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Russian_Man_Who_Laundered_Money_for_Ryuk
Ransomware_Gang_Sentenced⠀⇛
Russian national Denis Dubnikov has been sentenced
to time served after he pleaded guilty to charges
related to laundering money for the Ryuk ransomware
group.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Enterprises_Exposed_to_Hacker_Attacks_Due
to_Failure_to_Wipe_Discarded_Routers⠀⇛
Discarded enterprise routers are often not wiped
and contain secrets that could be highly useful to
malicious hackers.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Google_Patches_Second_Chrome_Zero-Day
Vulnerability_of_2023⠀⇛
Google warns of another zero-day vulnerability in
Chrome, only days after addressing a similar issue.
# ⚓ EIN Presswire ☛ Deceptive_Bytes’_new_Active_Endpoint
Deception_solution_for_Linux_is_now_available⠀⇛
Deceptive Bytes is thrilled to announce the release
of the first Linux version of its Active Endpoint
Deception solution with support for enterprise
server distributions: Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, and
SLES.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ DC_Health_Link_Data_Breach_Blamed_on_Human
Error⠀⇛
The recent data breach of personal information for
thousands of users of Washington D.C.’s health
insurance exchange, including members of Congress,
was caused by basic human error
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Thursday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian
(golang-1.11), Fedora (chromium, golang-github-
cenkalti-backoff, golang-github-cli-crypto, golang-
github-cli-gh, golang-github-cli-oauth, golang-
github-gabriel-vasile-mimetype, libpcap, lldpd,
parcellite, tcpdump, thunderbird, and zchunk), Red
Hat (java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, and kernel),
SUSE (chromium, dnsmasq, ImageMagick, nodejs16,
openssl-1_0_0, openssl1, ovmf, and python-Flask),
and Ubuntu (dnsmasq, libxml2, linux, linux-aws,
linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-
gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-
hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm,
linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-
raspi-5.4, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-
azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-dell300x, linux-gcp,
linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle,
linux-raspi2, linux-oem-5.17, linux-oem-6.0, linux-
oem-6.1, and linux-snapdragon).
# § Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation⠀➾
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Pakistani_Hackers_Use_Linux_Malware
Poseidon_to_Target_Indian_Government_Agencies [Ed: That
malware needs to get there somewhere, and not owing to
"Linux"]⠀⇛
The Pakistan-based advanced persistent threat
(APT) actor known as Transparent Tribe used a
two-factor authentication (2FA) tool used by
Indian government agencies as a ruse to
deliver a new Linux backdoor called Poseidon.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ US_Eavesdrops_on_UN_Secretary_Guterres:
Washington_Post⠀⇛
A leaked document revealed that Antonio
Guterres was “not happy” about having to
travel to Kiev to meet Ukrainian President
Zelensky in early March.
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ AMLO_accuses_Pentagon_of_spying
on_Mexico⠀⇛
The president was responding to a leaked U.S.
military document reacting to the prospect of
Mexico’s armed forces running civilian
aviation.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Experts_say_Congress_should_do
more_to_keep_data_brokers_from_exposing_Americans’
private_information⠀⇛
Lawmakers also raised concerns about how data
brokers sell Americans’ health data,
including mental health and reproductive
information.
# ⚓ EDRI ☛ France_becomes_the_first_European_country_to
legalise_biometric_surveillance⠀⇛
EDRi member and Reclaim Your Face partner La
Quadrature du Net charts out the chilling
move by France to undermine human rights
progress by ushering in mass algorithmic
surveillance, which in a shocking move, has
been authorised by national Parliamentarians.
# ⚓ EDRI ☛ Civil_society_urges_European_Parliament_to
protect_people’s_rights_in_the_AI_Act⠀⇛
In the run up to the AI Act vote in the
European Parliament, civil society
organisations call on the European Parliament
to prioritise fundamental rights and protect
people affected by artificial intelligence
systems.
# ⚓ EDRI ☛ EDRi-gram,_19_April_2023⠀⇛
In this edition of the EDRi-gram, we are
inviting you to share your feedback on a
draft programme for an initial decolonising
process for the digital rights field in
Europe.
Multiple voices are raised against the EU
CSAR proposal amidst plans revealing the wish
to systematise government access to data.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Holding_the_Islamic_Republic_of_Iran
accountable_for_atrocity_crimes⠀⇛
Under the principle of universal jurisdiction,
certain domestic justice systems allow prosecutions
in national courts for crimes committed abroad,
regardless of the victim’s or perpetrator’s
nationality. This manual outlines the universal
jurisdiction process in selected European states
for those pursuing prosecutions of crimes committed
by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Cert.lv’s_head:_Latvia’s_cyberspace_still_at_high
risk⠀⇛
Latvia’s cyberspace security risks are still at a
high level, said Baiba Kaškina, head of the
Information Technology (IT) Safety Incident
Prevention Institution Cert.lv, in an interview
with Latvian Television April 19 morning.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ The_threat_spectrum⠀⇛
Planet A The G7 has pledged to increase the pace of
renewable energy development by collectively
increasing offshore wind capacity by 150 gigawatts
and solar capacity to more than a terawatt by 2030.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Lecture:_‘The_problem_of_Russia’s_international
accountability’⠀⇛
President Egils Levits is the keynote speaker at an
event April 20 to mark the 25th anniversary of the
Riga Graduate School of Law (RGSL).
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Official_fired_over_military_rations_contract⠀⇛
The Latvian Ministry of Defense said April 19 it
had dismissed an official from post over a
controversial military procurement contract.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Russia’s_digital_warriors_adapt_to
support_the_war_effort_in_Ukraine,_Google_threat_researchers
say⠀⇛
Russian hacking operations in support of
intelligence gathering and information operations
related to the war show no signs of slowing down.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Vietnam_speeds_land_reclamation_in_South_China_Sea⠀⇛
Developments include new harbors, helipads and
radar domes but no military installations.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ UK_alarm_over_Chinese_businessman
and_‘secret_police_station,’_as_Beijing_warns_of_‘hearsay’⠀⇛
The UK on Wednesday promised to get tough on
authoritarian regimes operating overseas, after
newspaper claims about a London-based businessman’s
links to a secret Chinese police station.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Russian_spy_ships_planning_North_Sea_sabotage,
Scandinavian_media_report⠀⇛
A documentary being aired by Scandinavian public
broadcasters on Wednesday evening claims Russia has
a spy programme in the North Sea planning the
sabotage of energy infrastructures in Northern
Europe.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Imposes_Sanctions_On_Network_Of_Suppliers_For
Iran’s_Drone_Program⠀⇛
The United States has imposed sanctions on a
network of companies and suppliers — mostly based
in China — that the Treasury Department says
support Iranian drone manufacturing.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Commander_Of_Russia’s_Pacific_Fleet_Resigns_After
Snap_Inspection⠀⇛
The commander of Russia’s Pacific Fleet, Admiral
Sergei Avakyants, has resigned following a snap
inspection of the military preparedness of the
fleet’s units.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Will_Crisis-Plagued_Netanyahu_Start_a_War_To_Save
His_Skin?⠀⇛
A favored tactic of Israeli prime ministers in
trouble is to provoke a confrontation, or at least
overreact to ensure one develops, and then send in
the army.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Snowden_and_Teixeira:_Ten_Years_of_Disaster⠀⇛
Ten years ago Edward Snowden was helped to escape
by WikiLeaks and to publish his revelations by The
Intercept, Guardian, New York Times, and others.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_CIA,_AQAP,_and_the_Never-Ending_Excuse_To
Bomb_Yemen⠀⇛
On January 30th, the US launched an R9X flying
Ginsu knife bomb from a drone, killing Hassan al-
Hadrami, the current leader of AQAP in Yemen,
marking one of the few times this weapon has been
used in combat.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Leaks_Reveal_Reality_Behind_US_Propaganda_in
Ukraine⠀⇛
The US corporate media’s first response to the
leaking of secret documents about the war in
Ukraine was to throw some mud in the water, declare
“nothing to see here,” and cover it as a
depoliticized crime story about a 21-year-old Air
National Guardsman who published secret documents
to impress his friends.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Latvia_searches_for_citizen_who_fought_for_Russia
against_Ukraine⠀⇛
Latvia’s authorities have announced a search for
the country’s citizen, Aleksandrs Mališevs, who
fought for Russian forces against Ukraine.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ NATO_draws_up_Baltic_defence_plans,_presents_them_to
member_states⠀⇛
NATO has drawn up defence plans for the Baltic
states and has recently presented them to
representatives from all member states, the
15min.lt news website reported on Wednesday.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_MPs_mull_proposing_joint_military_training
area_with_Latvia⠀⇛
The Lithuanian parliamentary Committee on National
Security and Defence has asked the country’s
Defence Ministry to look into the idea of
establishing a joint military training area with
Latvia.
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Zim_could_meet_50%_of_electricity_demand
using_solar_by_2025,_says_govt._From_which_projects?⠀⇛
As I write this, the Zimbabwe Power Company
is producing 684MW of electricity, against a
demand that is likely around 2200MW with this
chilly weather. Pre-school maths tells me,
that we are around 1500MW short, hence the
load shedding. This is happening on most
days.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Taylor_Swift_Turned_Down_a_$100
Million_FTX_Sponsorship_Deal,_Lawyer_Says⠀⇛
Taylor Swift avoided the class action lawsuit
against FTX’s celebrity promoters by simply
asking about unregistered securities — and
coming to her own conclusions.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Tesla’s_Profit_Dropped_Sharply_in_First
Quarter_as_It_Cut_Prices⠀⇛
The electric carmaker has reduced prices by
thousands of dollars this year to bolster demand
and fend off competition.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Tesla_slashed_prices_for_a_sixth_time_this_year_to
alleviate_the_loss_of_Biden’s_EV_tax_credits⠀⇛
Tesla slashed US prices for some Model 3 and Model
Y vehicles for the sixth time this year, according
to its website, as the world’s largest electric
vehicle (EV) manufacturer looks to increase demand.
The decision comes on the eve of its first quarter
earnings report, which is expected to show a dip in
profit.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ House_G.O.P._Eyes_Rescinding_Unspent_Covid
Money_as_Part_of_Its_Fiscal_Plan⠀⇛
Estimates put the amount of leftover money between
$50 billion and $70 billion. But even if
Republicans could claw it back, it would not make
much of a dent in the deficit.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Jamie_Dimon_will_have_to_explain_how_much_JPMorgan
knew_of_Jeffrey_Epstein’s_crimes [Ed: What about Bill Gates
and Microsoft?]⠀⇛
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon will be questioned
under oath about the bank’s alleged complicity in
the sex trafficking ring run by Jeffrey Epstein.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Canada’s_Largest_Federal_Public_Service_Union
Goes_on_Strike⠀⇛
As a result of the strike, Canadians should expect
that some federal public services will be delayed
or unavailable.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Apartment_rents_increase_in_Finland,_but_most_outside
of_capital_area⠀⇛
The biggest rent hikes were seen in Hämeenlinna,
Oulu and Rovaniemi.
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ A_New_Superpower?:_India’s_Economic_Rise_Holds
Promise_for_the_Country_and_Beyond⠀⇛
India is now the world’s most populace country and
will likely soon become the third largest economy
on the globe. For decades, economists have been
predicting that India’s time would come. Has it
finally arrived?
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ IIB_Says_It’s_Leaving_Budapest_After_U.S._Sanctions
Hit_Hungarian_Officials_At_Bank⠀⇛
The International Investment Bank (IIB) says it
will leave its headquarters in Budapest and return
to Russia after the Hungarian government withdrew
its representatives from the Moscow-led institution
after the United States imposed sanctions on three
IIB officials.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Government_bails_out_Porter_Davis
clients_left_in_limbo⠀⇛
Customers caught in building insurance limbo after
the collapse of Porter Davis have been thrown a $15
million lifeline by the Victorian government.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Future_of_Social_Media_Is_a_Lot_Less
Social⠀⇛
Facebook, TikTok and Twitter seem to be
increasingly connecting users with brands and
influencers. To restore a sense of community, some
users are trying smaller social networks.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Total_TikTok_ban_should_be_next_step:
US_commissioner⠀⇛
Legislation banning TikTok altogether should be the
next next step in addressing security concerns
about the social media app, a US commissioner has
urged. A federal parliamentary inquiry is examining
the risks posed to Australian democracy by foreign
interference through online platforms such as
TikTok.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ BuzzFeed_News_is_shutting_down_as_part_of_company-
wide_layoffs⠀⇛
BuzzFeed News is shutting down.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Fox_Settles_Dominion_Suit,_but
Smartmatic_Case_and_Others_Loom⠀⇛
Another election technology company,
Smartmatic, is suing news outlets, including
Fox, over false claims of election fraud, and
Dominion has other cases pending.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Gov’t_website_with_Chinese_anthem
download_links_tops_Google_results_for_‘Hong_Kong_national
anthem’⠀⇛
A government webpage about the Chinese national
anthem has replaced a Hong Kong pro-democracy song
at the top of Google’s search rankings. The change
came after multiple mix-ups that saw the protest
tune played in place of the city’s official anthem
at international sporting events.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Fox_News_Remains_an_Aberration_in_American
Journalism⠀⇛
A trial would have demonstrated the full extent of
the company’s practice of deliberate deceit.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ After_Fox_Settlement,_Assault_on_Media
Protections_Is_Likely_to_Continue⠀⇛
Those who argue that the news media should pay a
steeper price for mistakes are pushing to have a
landmark Supreme Court ruling overturned.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Indian_court_denies_Rahul_Gandhi’s
appeal_to_stay_defamation_conviction⠀⇛
The move has fuelled uncertainty over whether he
will be able to contest an election due next year.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Activist_Who_Gave_Interview_To_Jailed_U.S.
Reporter_Gershkovich_Sent_To_Pretrial_Detention⠀⇛
A court in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg has
ordered two months of detention for a local
activist who was interviewed by Evan Gershkovich
and helped the jailed Wall Street Journal reporter
before the American journalist was arrested on
espionage charges.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Lawyer_Who_Defended_Noted_Opposition
Figures_Flees_Country⠀⇛
Russian lawyer Vadim Prokhorov, who has defended
noted opposition figures such as jailed politicians
Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya Yashin, as well as the
late Boris Nemtsov, has fled Russia fearing for his
safety.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Macron_heckled_on_first_French_outing_since
bitter_pension_battle⠀⇛
French President Emmanuel Macron was loudly booed
by crowds in eastern France on Wednesday as he
embarked on his first trip to a French region since
signing his unpopular pensions reform into law.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ DOJ_reaches_$365,000_settlement_with_General
Motors_in_discrimination_dispute⠀⇛
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced
Tuesday that it secured a $365,000 settlement with
General Motors Company (GM) over the company’s
alleged discrimination against non-US citizens.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Yes,_Pras_Michel_of_The_Fugees_Was_an
FBI_Informant⠀⇛
Rapper Pras Michel testifies that he was an FBI
informant when he received millions from current-
fugitive Jho Low. On April 18, Pras Michel opted
to testify in his federal conspiracy trial,
explaining he made the decision “after consulting
with my attorneys and the universe.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ France_kicks_off_push_to_‘appease’_nation_with
row_over_immigrant_welfare_fraud⠀⇛
The French finance minister’s pledge to crack down
on immigrants abusing France’s welfare system has
triggered a fresh row in a country reeling from a
bitter battle over pension reform, casting doubt on
President Emmanuel Macron’s ability to deliver on a
pledge to “appease” and unify the nation in a
hundred days.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Video_of_dancer_in_mosque_inflames_Uyghur_anxieties
about_China’s_attacks_on_religion⠀⇛
Travel promotional video comes amid domestic
tourism campaign to visit Xinjiang
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ After_a_String_of_Layoffs_and
Shakeups,_Downtown_Music_Holdings_Re-Organizes_Once
Again⠀⇛
Following a series of layoffs, shakeups, and
controversies, Downtown Music Holdings is
undergoing yet another re-organization. Life
hasn’t been easy in the trenches of Downtown
Music of late. The company recently announced
a round of layoffs in March, with impacted
people working at CD Baby, Songtrust,
Downtown’s publishing unit, and Downtown
Music Holdings.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Obedience⠀⇛
Obedience is one of those virtues not commonly
wanted nowadays. It can even be the least wanted
one. That’s simply because we are being told that
we should listen to noone but ourselves, that we
are the decisive ones in our lives. Well… In some
meanings those probably are true. But to say, that
those statements are always true is a grave
mistake!
# ⚓ Yretek_–_Treasures_of_the_Wild_East_–_Solo_RPG_–_01⠀⇛
Just in case, you have not read my previous
entries: this one is meant to be a story written
with dice, i.e. the product of a solo, tabletop
role-playing game.
# ⚓ Pool⠀⇛
My dad’s parents owned a pool table when he was
young. My grandfather taught him how to play, and
when my dad attended university, he spent quite a
bit of time at local pool halls and competing in
small tournaments. When he and my mother moved to
the town where I grew up, he purchased a table for
himself, and he taught me and my sister the game.
One of my high school friends frequented a pool bar
near me, but I usually didn’t have the time to join
him, especially during my college days. However,
I’ve always enjoyed the game, and I’ve always
wanted to get better than I am.
# ⚓ Codigo_Penal_de_Cuba:_translation⠀⇛
It being the 20th April, I was curious about the
status of drug laws in Cuba. It seems they’re
defined in the Penal Code (Codigo Penal), which was
updated in 2022. I couldn’t find an English
translation offhand, so here’s my manual attempt
for the relevant section.
# ⚓ my_school_experience⠀⇛
I have been in college for 3 years. I started when
I was a junior in high school, and am now almost
finished as the equivalent of a freshman in
college. I was able to start as a junior because of
my state’s program that allowed me to take college
credits while in high school. I went to a small
(and underfunded) school that had a very small
course list, which mean that I met the requirements
for graduation very quickly. Soon after taking the
ACT, they allowed me to go to the Ohio State
University, free of charge, for the remainder of my
time in school (or I could graduate early, but that
was a poor decision and would leave me in a tough
spot at the time). So, I buckled up and joined 2 or
3 other students that were in the same boat as me,
and headed to Ohio State. This was during the
COVID-19 lockdown so it was all online but
nonetheless I started taking courses. Long story
short, I made it and was able to receive my degree
from Ohio State before I even received one from my
high school. I am very thankful for my
opportunities and relatively proud of the work that
went into accomplishing that. I am now on my way,
with 50% completed, to receiving my bachelor’s
degree in Software Engineering from Western
Governor’s University. However, my accomplishments
are not the main focus of this post; in fact, I
very rarely like sharing it with people because it
makes me uncomfortable and I’m sure it inspires bad
feelings occasionally as well. No, this is about
the many failures I endured throughout my school
career.
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Headphone_charging_UX_🎧⠀⇛
My wireless headphones have a battery that lasts
for ages. Hooray! But eventually it goes flat, and
then two things happen.
# ⚓ Testing_the_Network⠀⇛
Other reasons might include overly zealous
firewalls, though there one might expect the packet
to be dropped, not a signature mismatch–maybe it’s
a zealous and buggy firewall? Such are not unknown.
Even with a zealous firewall that blocks ICMP echo
requests (or the responses, or both), all sorts of
other protocols and ports could be open. Or maybe
pings are rate limited and your system happened to
be beyond the limit when you tested it. In this
case one might try the same thing and expect a
different result (Einstein).
That pkg_add works indicates that HTTPS works and
likely also DNS, too. Everything else could be
broken–maybe the hypothetical firewall only allows
DNS and HTTPS. Package requests could be done by IP
address, in which case DNS could also be blocked.
Unlikely, but possible.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Graphics_Stack
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Licensing_/_Legal
o Programming/Development
# Python
# Rust
* Leftovers
* Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
* Environment
o Energy/Transportation
o Wildlife/Nature
o Overpopulation
* Finance
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Linux_Action_News_289⠀⇛
What we like about Fedora 38, why the Rust
foundation is in hot water, and more.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.2.12⠀⇛
I'm announcing the release of the 6.2.12 kernel.
All users of the 6.2 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 6.2.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/
git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.2.y
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web
browser:
https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/
linux-s...
thanks,
greg k-h
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.1.25⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.108⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.178⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.241⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.19.281⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.14.313⠀⇛
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ Free Desktop ☛ mesa_23.1.0-rc2⠀⇛
Hello everyone,
The second release candidate for 23.1.0 is now
available.
If you find any issues, please report them here:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/
new
The next release candidate is expected in one week,
on April 26th.
Cheers,
Eric
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Kushal_Das:_Tumpa_0.10.0_is_ready⠀⇛
I am happy to announce Tumpa_0.10.0_release.
Tumpa is a desktop application which allows you to
create OpenPGP keys and also allows uploading them
to Yubikeys with a user friendly GUI. With Tumpa,
all you need is a few form inputs and few clicks,
and done! No more wrangling and breaking your head
with command line interface.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Pit ☛ 20_Best_JavaScript_Editors_for_Linux⠀⇛
Not long ago, people considered JavaScript an
obsolete language that tends to mess things up more
than help.
# ⚓ Phoronix ☛ QEMU_8.0_Released⠀⇛
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ RSS_Guard_4.3.4⠀⇛
RSS Guard is a simple (yet powerful) feed reader.
It is able to fetch the most known feed formats,
including RSS/RDF and ATOM. It’s free, it’s open-
source. RSS Guard currently supports Czech, Dutch,
English, French, German, Italian. RSS Guard will
never depend on other services – this includes
online news aggregators like Feedly, The Old Reader
and others.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Upgrade_to_Fedora_38_from_Fedora_37⠀⇛
Hello, friends. Today, you will learn how to
upgrade to Fedora 38 from Fedora 37. Fedora 38 has
been recently released as a stable version,
including many changes that make it an attractive
release this year.
# ⚓ How_to_install_Apache,_PHP_and_MySQL_on_Debian_12_or_11⠀⇛
Combined Apache, PHP, and MySQL create a basic but
popular web development stack known as LAMP (Linux,
Apache, MySQL, PHP). This open-source stack is
widely used for building PHP-based web applications
and websites.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_KeePassXC_on_Fedora_38/37/36
Linux⠀⇛
In the digital age, securing your online accounts
is more important than ever. Passwords serve as the
first line of defense against unauthorized access,
and a password manager can help you maintain
strong, unique passwords for all your accounts. One
such password manager is KeePassXC, a powerful,
open-source solution to secure sensitive
information.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Sysdig_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛
Sysdig is an innovative, powerful, and versatile
monitoring and troubleshooting solution that caters
to the needs of modern containerized environments.
# ⚓ Linux Journal ☛ How_To_Master_the_RPM_Command⠀⇛
As a Linux user, you’ve likely encountered RPM (Red
Hat Package Manager), a powerful package management
system used by various Linux distributions
including Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and
more. RPM is known for its simplicity, ease of use,
and enhanced security features. In this guide,
we’ll explore the RPM command and its practical use
cases, from installing and upgrading packages to
querying and verifying them. Let’s get started!
# ⚓ Linux.org ☛ Trying_Out_Some_Nautilus_Extensions⠀⇛
Nautilus is the default File Manager used on the
GNOME desktop in Ubuntu.
For those of you use Nautilus as your default File
Manager, I am going to cover some extensions that
you can add to make Nautilus function better for
you.
NOTE: Nautilus is not just available on Ubuntu, but
you can install it on other distros as well. The
extensions may not be available or have a different
name.
Administrator Privileges
# ⚓ dwaves.de ☛ Palemoon_Firefox_based_browser_how_to_fix
“Could_not_find_the_Mozilla_runtime.”_startup_error_problem
issue⠀⇛
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_MongoDB_on_Fedora_38⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
MongoDB on Fedora 38. Are you looking to install
MongoDB on your Fedora 38 system but don’t know
where to start? Look no further!
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_SELinux_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
SELinux on Rocky Linux 9. Are you worried about the
security of your system resources?
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_LAMP_Stack_on_Fedora_38⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
LAMP Stack on Fedora 38.
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Upgrade_To_Fedora_38_From_Fedora_37_
[Workstation_And_Server]⠀⇛
Fedora 38 has been released! This step by step
tutorial explains how to upgrade to Fedora 38 from
Fedora 37 and older versions.
# ⚓ peppe8o ☛ How_to_use_a_Flex_Sensor_with_Arduino_Uno⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will use Arduino with a flex
sensor to get the degree of bending. Flex sensors
are commonly used in applications such
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ KDE ☛ KDE_Gear_23.04⠀⇛
New apps join KDE Gear ⚙️ 23.04 and unlock
access to fledgling social media platforms,
online video streaming services, podcasts,
and much more. This new generation of apps
are designed to work both on your computer
and mobile phone right out of the box.
But, of course, if you are also looking
forward to new versions of the KDE tools you
already know and trust, those are here too!
Classics like Spectacle, Dolphin, Kdenlive,
Kate, and Okular all boast shiny new
features, code optimizations, and performance
improvements.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Use_Redfish_to_manage_servers
automatically⠀⇛
Learn the basics of using Redfish and how to set up
the Redfish Mockup Server.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ AI_vs._machine_learning_vs._data
science:_How_to_choose⠀⇛
Recent advancements in artificial_intelligence_(AI)
have made the technology more accessible in
everyday use, thrusting AI to the forefront in
nearly every industry. Executives want to know how
they can use AI to optimize and streamline
operations, grow their businesses, and increase
revenue. Employees want to know how AI can make
their jobs easier.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Digital_transformation:_4_trends_to
pay_attention_to_right_now⠀⇛
The pandemic propelled many businesses to adopt
digital technologies faster than ever before. While
the immediate rush to adopt new technologies and
services that address pandemic-related challenges
has subsided, investing in digital transformation
has not: Worldwide spend on new technologies and
services is steadily increasing year over year and
will reach US$3.4 trillion by 2026, according
to recent Statista research.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_build_RHEL_images_for_edge_deployments⠀⇛
As edge infrastructure scales outside the data
center into remote locations, small-factor devices
such as IoT, POS, and sensors that have Linux
images, need a way to be updated at scale.
The rpm-ostree core premise is that by default, the
updates should base on a whole base image that is
created and tested offline, and once ready deployed
everywhere into the remote locations, overriding
the previous image and lowering the risks of
patching at scale.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ OpenJDK_8u372_to_feature_cgroup_v2_support⠀⇛
The control group (cgroup) pseudo filesystem is the
key feature enabling resource quotas on containers
deployed on Kubernetes. The cgroups filesystem is a
Linux kernel feature and comes in one of three
forms, depending on the hosts’ configuration:
# cgroup v2, or unified hierarchy
# cgroup v1, or legacy hierarchy
# hybrid (basically cgroup v1, but some system
services use cgroup v2).
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ Tails_5.12,_a_privacy-oriented_operating_system,
comes_with_improved_persistent_storage⠀⇛
Tails 5.12 is now available. It comes with several
improvements for the persistent storage feature
such as secure password generation and a new delete
data option after disabling the feature.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_“Lunar_Lobster”_Is_Now_Available
for_Download,_This_Is_What’s_New⠀⇛
Dubbed the “Lunar Lobster”, Ubuntu 23.04 is powered
by the latest Linux 6.2 kernel series and features
the recently released GNOME 44 desktop environment
series. These two changes, which bring numerous new
features, will make many Ubuntu users upgrade their
existing installations.
Another major change in the Ubuntu 23.04 release is
a brand-new installed for the Ubuntu Desktop
edition, which has been in development for a few
years now and it’s written entirely in Google’s
Flutter UI SDK. While it preserves the
functionality of the old installer, the new one is
missing support for new ZFS installations.
# ⚓ Kubuntu_23.04_Lunar_Lobster_Released⠀⇛
The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu
23.04 has been released, featuring the ‘beautiful’
KDE Plasma 5.27 simple by default, powerful when
needed.
Codenamed “Lunar Lobster”, Kubuntu 23.04 continues
our tradition of giving you Friendly Computing by
integrating the latest and greatest open source
technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux
distribution.
# ⚓ Ubuntu_MATE_23.04_Release_Notes⠀⇛
Ubuntu MATE 23.04 is the least exciting Ubuntu MATE
release ever. The good news is, if you liked Ubuntu
MATE 22.10 then it is more of the same; just with
better artwork! I entered this development cycle
full of energy and enthusiasm off the back of the
Ubuntu Summit in Prague, but then I was seriously
ill and had a long stay in hospital. I’m recovering
well and should be 100% in a couple of months. This
setback and also changing jobs a couple of months
ago has meant that I’ve not been able to invest the
usual time and effort into Ubuntu MATE. I’m happy
to say that I’ve been able to deliver another solid
release with the help of the Ubuntu community.
# ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_Lunar_Lobster_Released⠀⇛
Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster has been released. You
can now update or download Ubuntu 23.04. Ubuntu
23.04 Lubar Lobster comes up with some new features
and upgrades from existing Ubuntu. Meanwhile, It is
not a Long-Term Support version. Ubuntu 23.04 will
be supported for 9 months until January 2024.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_Releases_With_New_Installer,_A_New
Flavour,_and_GNOME_44⠀⇛
It is that time of year, a new Ubuntu release!
Ubuntu 23.04.
However, it is not a Long-Term Support version. So,
Ubuntu 23.04, codenamed Lunar Lobster is not
everyone.
If you want the latest and greatest and do not mind
upgrading your system within a year, this release
is for you. And if you want to stick to one version
for a few years, you should continue with Ubuntu
20.04 LTS or Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_is_Now_Available_to_Download⠀⇛
This update is the latest short-term release of the
Ubuntu Linux operating system and is supported by 9
months of ongoing support, bug fixes, and critical
app updates. This might not sound like a long time
but Ubuntu 23.10 is released in 6 months time and
users of this release will be able to upgrade to
it.
# ⚓ Beta News ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_Lunar_Lobster_makes_for_easier
enterprise_deployment⠀⇛
From today, Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) will be
available for download, publisher Canonical has
announced. The release marks a significant step
forward for enterprise deployment and
customization.
A unified Ubuntu server and desktop installation
engine, Subiquity, supports the same autoinstall
configuration workflows for both desktops and
servers, making life easier for admins. The Ubuntu
23.04 installer has a refreshed user interface with
a modern but familiar first-time user experience,
along with new enterprise management capabilities.
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_‘Lunar_Lobster’_Released,_Here’s
What’s_New⠀⇛
Ubuntu 23.04 ‘Lunar Lobster’ has just hit the
streets, and it is packed with a plethora of new
features and improvements that are sure to delight
Ubuntu enthusiasts and Linux users alike. It is an
interim release of Ubuntu, but if you are now
entering the Ubuntu world, we will briefly explain.
# ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_“Lunar_Lobster”_brings_a_new
installer,_GNOME_44,_and_promotes_Steam_to_stable⠀⇛
Canonical is releasing the next major update to its
popular Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution today. Ubuntu
23.04, also known by the code name “Lunar Lobster,”
introduces a new operating system installer, an
updated default desktop environment, updates to
many pre-installed applications, and smoother
downloads and installation of applications packaged
in the snap format.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Kubuntu_23.04_Release_is_Here!⠀⇛
If you are looking for a KDE-based distribution,
Kubuntu is a no-brainer as an official Ubuntu
flavour.
With Kubuntu 23.04, you can expect an enhanced KDE
experience and several other improvements.
Let me take you through the highlights of the
Kubuntu 23.04 release.
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_Official_Flavors_Released,_Here’s
What’s_New⠀⇛
Included as part of the Ubuntu 23.04 release, there
are the following official flavors: Kubuntu 23.04,
Xubuntu 23.04, Lubuntu 23.04, Ubuntu Unity 23.04,
Ubuntu Cinnamon 23.04, Edubuntu 23.04, Ubuntu
Studio 23.04, Ubuntu MATE 23.04, Ubuntu Budgie
23.04, and Ubuntu Kylin 23.04.
As you can see, Ubuntu 23.04 comes with two new
official flavors, namely Ubuntu Cinnamon and
Edubuntu. The Edubuntu 23.04 flavor was already an
official flavor but it hasn’t been updated for
about nine years. The new release uses the GNOME
desktop environment, just like Ubuntu.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Malware_apps_on_Android?_Do_this_to_keep_your
phone_safe_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
# ⚓ XDA ☛ Two_months_after_its_launch,_Jack_Dorsey’s_Twitter
alternative_comes_to_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Square_now_lets_Android_sellers_pay_with_just_a
tap_|_TechRadar⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Central ☛ How_to_record_and_customize_your_Android
alarm_clock_sounds_|_Android_Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_disable_emergency_government_alerts_on_Android_|
Trusted_Reviews⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_quickly_disable_apps_on_your
Android_phone_or_tablet⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Fedora_Legal_SPDX
hackfest⠀⇛
Fedora Legal will be conducting a SPDX_identifier
hackfest on April 26, 2023 during a four hour
block. Please join us on Wednesday, April 26, 2023
between 10:00 AM EDT / 1400 UTC / 16:00 CEST and
14:00 EDT / 1800 UTC / 20:00 (CEST)onGoogle_Meet.
Information is also on the SIGs_calendar.
# ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ Open_Source_ensures_code_remains_a_part_of
culture [Ed: So why does OSI promote proprietary software for
proprietary sponsors?]⠀⇛
Software is a cultural artifact, a proxy for the
law in the lives of every citizen, a tool for
control and for freedom depending on the hand that
wields it. It is imperative that all software is
open for scrutiny and preserved for posterity.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_CAN_Bus_API_extensions⠀⇛
The latest Qt 6.5 release introduced a lot of new
features. You can read about all of them in the
recent_blog_post. This blog post will give an
overview of the improvements that we have made to
the Qt CAN Bus module.
# ⚓ Mike_Blumenkrantz:_They_Say⠀⇛
✐ A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words⠀✐
You think you’re ready but you’re not.
# ⚓ Zig_Bits_0×3:_Mastering_project_management_in_Zig⠀⇛
In this post, I’m sharing tips & tricks about
managing/maintaining an open-source Zig project and
mentioning the commonly used practices. I’m also
giving a brief introduction to my first-ever Zig
project “linuxwave” which led to the writing of
this series.
# ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Release_Management_Post_Godot_4.0⠀⇛
We outline our plan for future Godot releases and
Godot 4.1 specifically, which you can expect at the
end of June, after three months of feature merging
and one month of bug fixing.
# ⚓ Try_the_Inkscape_1.3_alpha0_pre-release!⠀⇛
On April 2, we released Inkscape 1.3 alpha0 for
testing! You can get it here.
Please download this if you would like to help us
test the_brand-new_features for Inkscape 1.3 (or if
you’re curious!). Martin also made a funny_video
for_you, where you can learn about testing
Inkscape.
# ⚓ Andy_Wingo:_structure_and_interpretation_of_capacitor
programs⠀⇛
Good day, hackers! Today’s note is a bit of a
departure from compilers internals. A client at
work recently asked me to look into cross-platform
mobile application development and is happy for the
results to be shared publically. This, then, is the
first in a series of articles.
§ Mobile apps and JavaScript: how does it work?⠀➾
I’ll be starting by taking a look at Ionic/
Capacitor, React_Native, NativeScript, Flutter/
Dart, and then a mystery guest. This article will
set the stage and then look into Ionic/Capacitor.
The angle I am taking is, if you were designing a
new mobile operating system that uses JavaScript as
its native application development language, what
would it mean to adopt one of these as your primary
app development toolkit? It’s a broad question but
I hope we can come up with some useful conclusions.
⚓ GCC ☛ GCC_13.1_Release_Candidate_available_from_gcc.gnu.org⠀⇛
The first release candidate for GCC 13.1 is available from
https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/13.1.0-RC-20230419/
ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/13.1.0-RC-20230419/
and shortly its mirrors. It has been generated from git commit
r13-7224-g865d712a9a20ee.
I have so far bootstrapped and tested the release candidate on
x86_64-linux, i686-linux, powerpc64le-linux and aarch64-linux.
Please test it and report any issues to bugzilla.
If all goes well, we'd like to release 13.1 on Wednesday, April 26th.
* § Python⠀➾
o ⚓ TecMint ☛ 10_Best_Python_IDEs_to_Use_in_2023⠀⇛
Python is a general-purpose programming language for
building anything; from backend web development, data
analysis, and artificial intelligence to scientific
computing.
* § Rust⠀➾
o ⚓ Rust Weekly Updates ☛ This_Week_In_Rust:_This_Week_in_Rust_491⠀⇛
Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust!
Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to
build reliable and efficient software.
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* ⚓ New Yorker ☛ “The_Phantom_of_the_Opera”_Takes_a_Final_Bow⠀⇛
Vinson Cunningham, Helen Shaw, and Michael Schulman revisit
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mega-musical.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Pink_Door_Is_Deemed_Too_Bright_for_Edinburgh⠀⇛
Miranda Dickson was told that the color failed “to preserve the
character” of the Scottish city’s New Town district, a UNESCO
World Heritage site. This week she painted the door peacock
green.
* § Hardware⠀➾
o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Intel_Preps_2000W_Coolers_for_Future_Chips⠀⇛
Intel hints that it will be designing next-gen chips up
to 2000W, and is aiming to get new cooling materials and
technologies in place ahead of their arrival.
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ A_Fresh_History_of_Lactose_Intolerance⠀⇛
In “Spoiled,” the culinary historian Anne Mendelson takes
aim at the American fallacy of fresh milk as a wonder
food.
o ⚓ Defense_chiefs_of_Turkey,_Ukraine_discuss_grain_deal⠀⇛
The deal enabled the export of over 28 million tons of
grain and foodstuffs from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Ukraine_grain_export_via_Lithuania_would_be_‘great
opportunity’,_says_FM⠀⇛
Lithuania should seize the opportunity to export more
Ukrainian grain via its seaport of Klaipėda, Lithuanian
Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said on
Wednesday.
* § Proprietary⠀➾
o ⚓ Mashable ☛ Microsoft_drops_Twitter_from_its_advertising_platform
[Ed: Microsoft is no better than Musk and it has money problems]⠀⇛
Twitter is being removed from yet another big B2B
platform. And this time it’s one of the biggest companies
in the tech industry.
o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Political_Fallout_of_a_Tech_Executive’s_Murder⠀⇛
Jay Caspian Kang discusses how the killing of Bob Lee
exacerbated tensions in San Francisco over crime and
prosecution.
o ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ Elon_Musk_threatens_to_sue_Microsoft_over_AI
training⠀⇛
Shortly after reports emerged on Wednesday that Microsoft
is about to remove Twitter from its ad platform, Twitter
CEO Elon Musk fired back with the threat of a lawsuit,
claiming the computer giant illegally used Twitter’s
data, such as users’ tweets, to train its artificial
intelligence (AI) tools.
* § Security⠀➾
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Oracle_Releases_433_New_Security_Patches_With
April_2023_CPU⠀⇛
Oracle’s April 2023 critical patch update (CPU) includes
433 new security patches, including more than 70 that fix
critical vulnerabilities.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Microsoft:_Iranian_Hackers_Moved_From_Recon_to
Targeting_US_Critical_Infrastructure⠀⇛
A subgroup of Iran-linked APT Phosphorus (Mint Sandstorm)
has started to quickly adopt PoC exploit code targeting
vulnerabilities in internet-facing applications.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ US,_UK:_Russia_Exploiting_Old_Vulnerability_to
Hack_Cisco_Routers⠀⇛
US and UK government agencies have issued a joint warning
for Russian group APT28 targeting Cisco routers by
exploiting an old vulnerability.
o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ EDRI ☛ Spyware_is_only_the_tip_of_the_iceberg:_we_need_to
protect_journalists_from_all_forms_of_surveillance⠀⇛
The EDRi network published amendments and
recommendations for the European Media Freedom Act
(EMFA) proposal calling for comprehensive
protection for journalists, journalistic sources
and human defenders against surveillance measures.
# ⚓ EDRI ☛ Police_cameras_won_Big_Brother_Awards_in_Czechia⠀⇛
EDRi member in the Czech Republic Iuridicum
Remedium handed out its anti-prizes for the
eighteenth time in March 2023. 2022 was
exceptional: one of the “awardees” came for the
award, and the others had to express themselves
under the pressure from the media.
# ⚓ ACLU ☛ Widespread_Newborn_DNA_Sequencing_Will_Worsen_Risks
to_Genetic_Privacy⠀⇛
Newborn screening programs are a vital public
health measure implemented in the U.S. and across
the world, with about one_third of babies born
globally undergoing some screening. As part of this
program in the U.S., nearly every baby born has
blood drawn soon after birth, and that blood is
tested for a panel of potentially life-threatening
inherited disorders. Current newborn screening
programs have been invaluable, both in lowering
medical costs through early detection and
intervention and in decreasing the toll of human
suffering that comes from a late diagnosis.
Unfortunately, innovation in this field is rapidly
outpacing the law, leaving families vulnerable to
privacy invasions.
In October 2022, a global consortium of scientists
and other newborn DNA sequencing researchers
convened to discuss a bold possibility for future
care: Every baby born in the U.S. could have their
full genome sequenced as an addition to existing
newborn screening programs. This means that doctors
would have on record all of the baby’s DNA, in
addition to drawing their blood and testing for
specific, known inherited disorders that can cause
serious health problems at birth. The data derived
from the blood samples now is fairly limited and
only relevant to the baby’s health at birth. This
includes data on the date, location, and time of
birth; the mother’s name and address, the disorder
being screened for, and a value indicating whether
the baby is likely to have a particular hereditary
disorder.
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Surveillance:_Do_you_really_need_a_smart
kettle?⠀⇛
We recently tried out the Swan Alexa Smart Kettle,
the first kettle with an official Alexa
partnership. It could be the closest you get to
having a butler, but do you really need one?
* § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_R.S.F._posts_a_video_showing_its_fighters
outside_the_presidential_palace.⠀⇛
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Denmark,_Netherlands_To_Donate_14_Leopard_2_Tanks_To
Ukraine⠀⇛
Denmark and the Netherlands will jointly donate 14
Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, the two countries said on
April 20.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine’s_Space_Agency_Says_Flash_Over_Kyiv_Was_Not_A
Falling_Satellite⠀⇛
Ukraine’s space agency says a flash of light that
appeared on April 19 over the capital was not due to a
falling NASA satellite, as earlier reported by the
military.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Defense_Secretary_Urges_Swift_NATO
Membership_for_Sweden⠀⇛
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, visiting Sweden,
said he hoped that objections to adding the country to
the alliance would be ironed out by midsummer, when
member states meet in Lithuania.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ China_is_cementing_its_position_as_an_Arctic_superpower
through_Russia⠀⇛
China is advancing its superpower status in the world’s
coldest regions. And to get there faster, the country has
built stronger ties to Russia to supply equipment in the
Arctic, a new report by the Center for Strategic and
International Studies (CSIS) reveals.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Pakistan_Places_First_Order_For_Discounted_Russian_Crude,
Says_Minister⠀⇛
Pakistan has placed its first order for discounted
Russian crude oil under a new deal struck between
Islamabad and Moscow, the country’s petroleum minister
said, with one cargo to dock at Karachi port in May.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ NATO’s_Stoltenberg_Visits_Kyiv_As_Drones_Target
Dnipropetrovsk_In_Southeastern_Ukraine⠀⇛
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is visiting Kyiv
for the first time since the start of Russia’s unprovoked
invasion of Ukraine, an alliance official said on April
20, as Russia rained more drones on Ukrainian civilians
amid heavy fighting in the east.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Announces_$325_Million_In_Additional_Military_Aid
For_Ukraine⠀⇛
The United States is sending Ukraine about $325 million
in additional military aid, including an enormous amount
of artillery rounds and ammunition, the Pentagon said on
April 19.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ A_U.S._arms_race_with_Russia_and_China_could_spin_out_of
control⠀⇛
The U.S. suddenly faces a new arms race that could be
more dangerous than the Cold War: This time there will be
three_nuclear_superpowers.
The big picture:China is on track to become a nuclear
peer with the U.S. and Russia — and Moscow and Beijing
have shown signs they could align against Washington.
=========================================================
# Chinese President Xi Jinping’s apparent
determination to close the gap with the Cold War-
era nuclear behemoths, and his increasingly close
relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin,
mean the next arms race could be more unpredictable
than the last one.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ China_Is_on_Track_to_Become_Nuclear_Superpower,
Ushering_in_New_Age⠀⇛
China is on track to massively expand its nuclear
arsenal, just as Russia suspends the last major arms
control treaty. It augurs a new world in which Beijing,
Moscow and Washington will likely be atomic peers.
o ⚓ Breach Media ☛ Noam_Chomsky_on_Canadian_war_criminals_and_a_world
after_capitalism⠀⇛
In an interview with The Breach, the scholar discusses
Canadian imperialism, the dangers of NATO and building a
better future
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Sudan’s_Generals_Dined_With_Peace_Negotiators,
Then_Started_a_War⠀⇛
What led the two generals, recently allies, to turn their
forces on each other — devastating a country of 45
million people?
o ⚓ LRT ☛ New_NATO_plans_will_not_surrender_Baltics_to_Russian
occupation_–_Estonian_MoD⠀⇛
New NATO plans for the defence of its eastern flank would
keep Russian forces out of the Baltics, says Estonian
Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur, confirming reports by the
New York Times.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Switzerland_Adds_Russia’s_Wagner,_RIA_News_Agency_To_Sanctions
List⠀⇛
Switzerland says it is adding the Russian private mercenary
group Wagner and the RIA FAN news agency to its sanctions list.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Sudan_Conflict_Explained:_What_We_Know_About_Clashes
Between_Military_Factions⠀⇛
The strategically important country in northeastern Africa has
been consumed by fighting between two military factions, with
plans for a transition to a civilian-led democracy now in
shambles.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Here_are_the_latest_developments_in_Sudan.⠀⇛
* ⚓ LRT ☛ As_Baltics_expect_new_NATO_defence_plans,_there’s_no_agreement
yet_–_Lithuanian_ambassador⠀⇛
NATO’s Baltic defence plans are expected to be approved in
principle by June’s meeting of the alliance’s defence
ministers, according to Deividas Matulionis, Lithuania’s
ambassador to the organisation.
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Candle_thrown_at_Belarus_embassy_in_Vilnius_causes_small_fire⠀⇛
A burning candle was thrown into the grounds of the Belarusian
Embassy in Vilnius on Thursday night, police said.
* ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Trudy_Rubin:_The_Pentagon_documents_leak
will_embolden_Putin_as_he_tries_to_outlast_Ukraine⠀⇛
“The West has given Ukraine enough to survive, but not enough
to win.”
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ ‘Not_the_same_Bibi’:_Why_Israel’s_public_has_turned_on
Netanyahu⠀⇛
Just over 100 days into his newest tenure as prime minister,
questions are mounting about whether Benjamin Netanyahu can
keep Israel united and secure, his extremist partners at bay,
and his government intact.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Scores_killed_in_stampede_in_Yemen’s_capital,_officials_say⠀⇛
At least 78 people were killed in a stampede at a financial aid
distribution event in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, late Wednesday,
Reuters_reported, citing official Houthi media.
Driving the news:Witnesses told AP that the stampede took place
when an electrical line exploded after armed Houthi rebels
fired into the air to try to control the crowd.
===============================================================
o The event was organized by merchants to give out
charitable donations at a school to mark the final days
of the holy month of Ramadan, per Reuters. Dozens were
injured, AP reported.
o Houthi officials said two of the event’s organizers had
been detained and an investigation was underway.
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Is_Taiwan_really_Europe’s_problem?⠀⇛
The French president may have caused upset by saying the EU
should be more independent in its dealings with China. But
analysts suspect other EU leaders may feel the same – even as
pressure to side with the US increases.
* ⚓ LRT ☛ German_diplomat:_EU_should_have_one_single_army_–_interview⠀⇛
If Russia can claim victory in Ukraine, it would catastrophic
for European security, says Wolfgang Ischinger, a German
diplomat and former head of the Munich Security Conference.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Inspector_General_Says_U.S._Aid_May_Be_Flowing_to_the
Taliban⠀⇛
The special inspector general for Afghanistan’s reconstruction
accused the Biden administration of blocking his efforts to
track assistance.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Papua_New_Guinea,_United_Kingdom_tighten_defense_relationship⠀⇛
The Pacific country is forging closer security ties to
countries in the AUKUS nuclear subs pact.
§ Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
* ⚓ American Oversight ☛ American_Oversight_Lawsuit_Comes_to_a_Close_After
Two_Years_Fighting_for_Public_Records_from_Arizona_Senate’s_Discredited
Election_‘Audit’⠀⇛
§ Environment⠀➾
* ⚓ YLE ☛ Prosecutor_demands_fines_for_police_pepper_spraying_climate
protesters⠀⇛
All but one of 16 demonstrators who were pepper sprayed are
demanding that officers pay them 1,500 euros each in damages.
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ Albania_to_extradite_cryptocurrency_exchange_founder_to_Turkey_on
‘fraud’_charges⠀⇛
Fatih Özer had fled Turkey last year after shutting down
his cryptocurrency exchange.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Taylor_Swift_didn’t_fall_for_FTX_because_she_asked_a
simple_question⠀⇛
Taylor Swift’s inquisitiveness saved her from jumping on
the doomed FTX bandwagon.
* § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Contest_for_Children_to_Hunt_Feral_Cats_Is
Scrapped_in_New_Zealand⠀⇛
The country aggressively tries to control invasive
species, but the culling event, which was to be part of a
bigger hunting competition, generated a backlash.
* § Overpopulation⠀➾
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ India_Is_Surpassing_China_in_Population⠀⇛
We look at India’s looming status as the world’s most
populous country and also give you the latest on the Fox
News settlement.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania’s_deputy_finance_minister_resigns_over_conflict_of
interests⠀⇛
Lithuanian Deputy Finance Minister Gediminas Norkūnas, who was
found by an ethics watchdog to have been in a conflict of
interest over owning a stake in a state-controlled energy
company, is stepping down and is leaving office on April 28,
the Finance Ministry said on Thursday.
* ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Over_half_a_million_m2_of_prime_office_space_lies
empty_in_Finland’s_capital_area⠀⇛
Helsinki Research Forum recently updated its estimates on the
vacancy rates of the central office areas in the Helsinki
metropolitan area, as well as the current state of the office
stock. As of the end of March, there were approximately 528,000
square meters of empty office space, with an average vacancy
rate of 12.6 percent.
The research group examined the use of office space in a total
of 12 different neighborhoods in Helsinki, Espoo, and Vantaa.
* ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Inflation_drops_slightly_to_10.1%_–_how_will_it_affect_your
savings?⠀⇛
This month’s figures sets student loan interest in September
but a cap will protect graduates from soaring inflation
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Renters_and_landlords_as_partners?⠀⇛
Pandemic-era bans on evictions have evoked a healthy rethink on
ways to curb adversity and costs of evicting tenants.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ GOP_holdouts_coalesce_around_McCarthy’s_debt_ceiling_bill⠀⇛
Most House Republicans haven’t even begun to dig into the GOP
leadership’s_230-page_debt_ceiling_bill, but some key lawmakers
are already signaling they are prepared to vote for it.
Why it matters:House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) hopes
that showing he can get 218 votes for a debt ceiling increase
and corresponding budget cuts finally could bring the White
House to the negotiating table.
===============================================================
* ⚓ Axios ☛ McCarthy_unveils_$1.5_trillion_debt_ceiling_package⠀⇛
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy proposed a debt_ceiling increase
on Wednesday of $1.5 trillion — paired with a package of
spending cuts.
Why it matters: If McCarthy can get Republicans to pass the
plan through the House — which is far from certain — he’ll have
something concrete in negotiations_with_the_White_House.
===============================================================
In a speech on the House floor, McCarthy said the plan includes
the following spending cuts:
o Setting discretionary spending at Fiscal Year 2022 levels
o Capping spending growth at 1% a year
o Pulling back unspent COVID funds
o Repealing IRS_funding_legislation
o House energy legislation called_HR1
o Ending President Biden’s student loan forgiveness
o Repealing some Inflation Reduction Act tax credits
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Canada’s_Federal_Workers_Strike_Over_R.T.O._and_Pay⠀⇛
The largest public sector union in Canada went on strike on
Wednesday over wages and return to office rules, causing delays
to border crossings and passport and income tax services.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_next_90_days_will_tell_us_how_high_US_rents_will_get_in
2023⠀⇛
Just like US inflation overall, prices on housing rentals
continue to rise, but at a much slower pace than a year ago.
What does that mean for rents in the months ahead? Economists
are about to get their closest look yet.
* § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
o ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Micropayments_for_news:_With_the_right_tech,
revenue_model_could_still_take_off⠀⇛
Micropayments are the revenue solution that won’t go
away. But can they ever work for news?
o ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ How_the_Government_Proved_Their_Case_against_John
Podesta’s_Hacker⠀⇛
For years, denialists have said that the Mueller
indictment charging twelve GRU hackers in the hack-and-
leak of the DNC and other victims might not be proven in
court. Here’s how DOJ proved a hack-and-trade case
involving one of those twelve.
o ⚓ George Hosu ☛ Open_Brains⠀⇛
The year is 2026. Turns out that, in spite of much
evidence to the contrary in 2023, early Wittgenstein was
wrong, and language is neither used nor particularly
useful as a substrate for communicating direction
information about reality.
Language models and multimedia generation models have
really come to form, TikTok has now removed all human
content creators, and most moderately intelligent people
suspect somewhere between all and most “social media”
“creators” to be bots.
Still, while having made the online and “knowledge work”
space significantly weirder, in some ways it’s all the
same. A lot of spam, most people are employed to think,
speak and type question whether or not their job has any
use of meaning, and everyone’s trying to sell you
something.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Snap_CEO_Evan_Spiegel_would_“love”_a_TikTok_ban⠀⇛
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel is making no secret of the threat
TikTok poses.
o ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Protect_our_data,_not_just_our_security⠀⇛
The past month for social media regulation has been
nothing short of chaotic, to put it lightly. From the
congressional hearing with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew to
members of the Senate bringing forward the RESTRICT Act,
social media regulation has been a major focus of the
federal government.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_sends_‘mixed_signals’_to_Belarusian_opposition,
says_Seimas_speaker⠀⇛
The presidential veto and the proposal to impose the same
restrictions on Russian and Belarusian citizens is not
right, Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktorija
Čmilytė-Nielsen says, adding that it runs against
Lithuania’s established stance towards the Belarusian
opposition.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Former_Russian_Deputy_Culture_Minister_Olga_Yarilova
Arrested_For_Alleged_Fraud⠀⇛
A Moscow court has ordered the arrest of former Russian
Deputy Culture Minister Olga Yarilova on suspicion of
involvement in a fraud that led to the alleged
embezzlement of 200 million rubles ($2.5 million).
* § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
o ⚓ CCIA ☛ Greater_Internet_Regulations_–_like_NetzDG_–_Hurt
Investment,_Innovation,_and_Free_Speech⠀⇛
Recent government mandates across the world calling for
greater internet regulation and requiring social media
sites remove user-generated content.
o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ When_the_Culture_Wars_Come_for_the_Public_Library⠀⇛
A Montana county’s battle shows how faith in public
learning and public space is fraying.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Bolshoi_Theater_Drops_Ballet_About_Life_Of_Nureyev_From
Repertoire_Over_‘Gay_Propaganda’_Law⠀⇛
The Bolshoi Theater in Moscow has dropped a ballet about
Russian dance legend Rudolf Nureyev from its repertoire
after a law on so-called “gay propaganda” was tightened.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Azerbaijan_Says_It_Has_Detained_20_People_For_Allegedly
Promoting_Iranian_‘Propaganda’⠀⇛
Azerbaijani media say 20 people allegedly affiliated with
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry were arrested on April 19 as
relations between the two countries fray.
* § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Monitor_reporter’s_trial_opens:_Why_India_treats
journalists_as_terrorists⠀⇛
Monitor contributor Fahad Shah’s long detention and
ongoing trial raise questions about India’s approach to
terrorism.
o ⚓ Journalist_Mehmet_Güleş_sentenced_to_prison_for_‘terror
propaganda’_after_retrial⠀⇛
The top appeals court had previously overturned Güleş’s
sentence for the same offense.
o ⚓ Journalist_Serdar_Akinan_detained_in_police_raid_on_his_home⠀⇛
The reason for the detention is not yet clear. Akinan
recently interviewed a social media figure who has been
leveling corruption allegations against government
officials and businesspeople.
* § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
o ⚓ AccessNow ☛ Myanmar’s_“counter-terrorism”_by-laws_must_be
denounced_for_what_they_are_–_illegal⠀⇛
Read in Burmese Last month, the Myanmar military issued a
slew of new by-laws pursuant to the country’s 2014
Counter Terrorism Act – all of which give the junta vast
o ⚓ RFA ☛ Over_20,000_locals_flee_as_Myanmar’s_military_raids_Sagaing
region_villages⠀⇛
Troops killed 5 People’s Defense Force members during
fierce fighting.
o ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ Introducing_Sara_Alsherif [Ed: Open Rights
Groups seems to be moving away from its original goals]⠀⇛
My name is Sara Alsherif, and I am excited to introduce
myself as the new Programme Manager for the Migrant
Digital Justice Programme. I am a human rights defender
and digital rights researcher with a master’s degree in
digital media from the University of Sussex.
o ⚓ Another_actress_facing_sentence_for_‘insulting’_officer_accused
of_sexual_assault⠀⇛
The case centers around the death of an 18-year-old woman
who accused a military officer for sexual assault before
attempting to kill herself.
o ⚓ Facebook_shows_political_ads_to_men⠀⇛
Research by Gözlemevi, an initiative working to raise
awareness about digital political ad activities, reveals
that the platform most frequently used for this purpose
shows political ads overwhelmingly to men.
* § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
o ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ Daniel_Pocock:_Anzac.Day_falls_to_German_domain
squatter⠀⇛
In 2022, a new top-level domain suffix, .day, was
introduced_to_the_Internet_by_Google.
The Anzac.Day domain name has been registered by a
German:
Registrant: Guidealot UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)
& Co. KG
Cöthner Strasse 36
04155 Leipzig
GERMANY
The company has a_web_site_at_Guidealot.de.
There is another_page_with_details_of_the
management. The director is Nico Jaeschke and
the phone number is +49_341_51_94_24_26, email
address info@guidealot.de.
I feel that domain squatting on Anzac.day is
hideously disrespectful and an act of bad
faith.
* § Monopolies⠀➾
o § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Winning_artists_announced [Ed: Criminals masquerading again
as lovers of art]⠀⇛
The EPO has commissioned two artists to transform
old paper patent applications into exciting new
artworks for The Hague and Munich
# ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Entangled_Media_file_sharing_patent
challenged⠀⇛
On April 17, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex
parte reexamination proceeding against U.S._Patent
8,484,260, owned by Entangled Media LLC. The patent
relates to operating on files located on multiple
devices using a singular file system and is being
asserted against Dropbox.
View district_court_litigations_by_Entangled_Media.
# ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ ETRI/HBNU_video_codec_patent_likely
invalid⠀⇛
On April 19, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal
Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged
claims in an PGR filed by Unified against U.S.
Patent_11,212,553, owned by the Electronics_and
Telecommunications_Research_Institute_(ETRI) and
Hanbat_National_University_Industry-Academic
Cooperation_Foundation.
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ Samsung_Electronics_joins_Avanci_4G_vehicle
licensing_programme⠀⇛
Avanci has announced electronics giant Samsung as
its newest licensor, after the Korean company
signed an agreement to join the patent pool’s
Avanci Vehicle 4G, Avanci Aftermarket and Avanci
Broadcast licensing programmes.
o § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTAB_Reverses_Two_Refusals_of_BEAUTY_POPS_for
Cosmetic_Kits:_Likelihood_of_Confusion_and_Mere
Descriptiveness⠀⇛
In an extremely rare ex parte double reversal, the
Board tossed out two refusals to register the mark
BEAUTY POPS for a “cosmetic kit for applying
superfoods that function as a facial mask for
nourishing and revitalizing the skin, the kit
comprising face mask powder, tray, spatula and
spoon, the foregoing used, when the powder is mixed
with water and frozen, to create an applicator that
has the appearance of a lollipop.” The Board found
the mark not likely to cause confusion with the
registered mark POPBEAUTY for “cosmetics and non-
medicated skin care preparations” under Section 2
(d) and not merely descriptive of the goods, under
Section 2(e)(1). However, Applicant Lynda Truong
was required to disclaim the word BEAUTY. In_re
Lynda_Truong, Serial No. 90612249 (April 13, 2023)
[not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Cindy B.
Greenbaum).
# ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Is_“FREEDOM_X”_Confusable_With
“OXLIFE_FREEDOM”_For_Related_Medical_Products?⠀⇛
The USPTO refused to register the mark FREEDOM X,
in standard character and stylized forms, for
“cannulas for oxygen concentrators for medical
applications,” finding confusion likely with the
registered mark OXLIFE FREEDOM for “oxygen
concentrators for medical applications.” The Board
found the goods to be related and complementary,
since “cannulas for oxygen concentrators for
medical applications are necessarily used with
oxygen concentrators for medical applications – at
the same time, by the same consumers.” But what
about the marks? How do you think this came out? In
re_3B_Medical,_Inc., Serial Nos. 88948110 and
88953956 (April 17, 2023) [not precedential]
(Opinion by Judge Robert H. Coggins).
o § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ Troubled_Waters:_Reading_Urine_in
Medieval_Medicine⠀⇛
From cabbage green to course meal, medieval
manuscripts exhibit a spectrum of colours and
consistencies when describing urine. Katherine
Harvey examines the complex practices of uroscopy:
how physicians could divine sexual history,
disease, and impending death by studying the body’s
liquid excretions.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_XEHMTUA_Wordo:_SAUNA⠀⇛
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