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🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Distress_among_DG1_examiners⦈_
Summary: Distress among DG1 examiners at the EPO is reported; after the
notorious “suicide wave” under Benoît_Battistelli it seems like António
Campinos and his corrupt regime (he surrounded himself by unqualified friends
of his, who barely understand patents but are eager to burn constitutions,
laws, conventions etc. for a living) endanger the lives of examiners
THE push by the EPO for an illegal UPC (promoted_by_Mafia-esque_elements,_eager
to_blackmail_their_critics_and_exposers) was noted here many times before — in
effect a kangaroo court that would authorise illegal EPO policies and even
European_software_patents — a controversial_practice_of_granting_being_the
subject_of_recent_leaks.
“If the EU (or EC) fails to stop this, it too will suffer profoundly.”Nothing
substantial has improved at the EPO and immaterial “progress” isn’t being made;
they’re just flinging lots of crappy patents at the wall and hope some will
stick (maybe with help from the impending — but illegally-promoted — kangaroo
court).
The Central Staff Committee now warns that “Search & Examination Practice[s]”
lead to “Distress among DG1 examiners”.
“In this [already-sent] open letter,” they’ve told colleagues, they said to
“Steve Rowan [that] we note a worrying trend of distress among DG1 examiners
currently confronted with radical changes in search and examination practice in
their technical fields due to directives from their superiors, in several
directorates. The work of these examiners has been supported and even praised
by the Office for many years and their decisions have been generally upheld by
the Boards of Appeals. They do not understand the sudden devaluation of their
work nor the managerial interference. This results in a feeling of
arbitrariness and a lack of self-esteem, which puts a growing number of them in
a situation of psychological distress.”
Here is the full letter from these staff representatives.
European Patent Office
80298 Munich
Germany
Central Staff Committee
Comité central du personnel
Zentraler Personalausschuss
centralSTCOM@epo.org
Reference: sc23043cl
Date:20/04/2023
European Patent Office | 80298 MUNICH | GERMANY
Mr Steve Rowan
Vice-president Patent Granting Process
By email
OPEN LETTER
Distress among DG1 examiners
Dear Mr Rowan,
We note a worrying trend of distress among DG1 examiners currently
confronted with radical changes in search and examination practice in
their technical fields due to directives from their superiors, in
several directorates. The managerial approach to enforce these
changes entails the following:
− examiners are suddenly reproached by their superiors that they have
not followed the European Patent Convention,
− examining divisions which did not provide the outcome hoped for are
reshuffled,
− those who do not comply with the instructions from their superiors
are threatened of not being considered for steps and/or promotions.
This is very badly experienced by those concerned. The work of these
examiners has been supported and even praised by the Office for many
years and their decisions have been generally upheld by the Boards of
Appeals. They do not understand the sudden devaluation of their work
nor the managerial interference. This results in a feeling of
arbitrariness and a lack of self-esteem, which puts a growing number
of them in a situation of psychological distress.
We urge the Office to fulfil its duty of care and organise a meeting
with us to discuss how to put an end to this dramatic situation.
Sincerely yours
Alain Dumont
Chairman of the Central Staff Committee
Where’s the media and where are the stakeholders? Why does “the media”
(captured by bribes from Team UPC) parrot lies for Mr. Rowan and then shelter
those_lies_behind_paywalls_so_that_only_patent_maximalists_can_see_and_rebut
those? It’s time for accountability already. The EPO is a rogue institution and
it is currently attacking the entire court system across the whole EU. If the
EU (or EC) fails to stop this, it too will suffer profoundly. █
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✐ The_Sirius_‘Open_Source’Fantasy—Part_III—Staff_Input(From_Technical
Workers)_Not_Accepted⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 5:31 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Series parts:
Already_Too_Deep_in_Debt
Video_download_link | md5sum e6d79ef1efc46c2747184e07504811b1
Sirius Plans That Never Materialised
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/sirius-fantasies-recalled.webm
Summary: The gross mismanagement of Sirius_‘Open_Source’ is a longstanding
issue; it goes back to 2019 and it culminated in growing levels of deceit, set
aside fraud_aspects, so today we take a look back at another meeting from 2022
LISTENING to audio from almost a year ago (we have about 5 hours of audio from
last summer; this was shared with staff), it now seems clear that Sirius ‘Open
Source’ had a lot of fantasies while drifting further and further away from…
well, ‘Open Source’.
“…it now seems clear that Sirius ‘Open Source’ had a lot of fantasies while
drifting further and further away from… well, ‘Open Source’.”In the start of
summer (2022-06-01) we had a second meeting (out of 3 in total) about the
future of the company and studying it in retrospect it’s easy to understand
witch-hunts, scare tactics etc. Colleagues were subjected to threats and were
isolated from their peers. They deemed this approach “evil” (direct quote).
“Colleagues were subjected to threats and were isolated from their peers. They
deemed this approach “evil” (direct quote).”Much of the ‘meat’ of the meeting
starts a long time after the start with staff that’s actually technical (and
actually doing all the work, even 24/7) raising questions while the others
repeat the same talking points. Basically, managers (which at that point where
like half of all the staff) were discussing many options and presenting each.
They collected suggestions from staff and eventually threw all of them out.
Staff was a bit surprised that after these consultations every suggestion from
the staff was rejected. Every single one of them!
“Staff was a bit surprised that after these consultations every suggestion from
the staff was rejected. Every single one of them!”One of the self-appointed
managers (no relevant skills whatsoever) was discussing the scoring criteria —
e.g. what will be assessed in appraisals. She was only reading the script/
presentation. It’s highly probable she was fully aware of the pension fraud and
she may have directly participated in that. An opportunistic career-climbing
narcissist. The discussion continued about criteria e.g. sick leave (my wife
and I never took even one day off for illness/feeling unwell) and one colleague
was so uncomfortable about the meeting that he left his microphone on mute and
turned off the camera for the entire meeting.
As noted in the video above, the company lied about a lot of things, including
new roles, hiring in the US, new clients in the US and so on. █
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✐ Lori_Angela_Nagel_on_Promoting_Free/Libre_Software_Philosophy⠀✐
Posted in Free/Libre_Software, FSF, Videos at 6:26 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link (skip to about 15 seconds from the start)
https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2821/lp2023-jupiter-
sunday-1155.webm
Summary: The above LibrePlanet talk was_uploaded_a_week_ago_by_the_FSF (slides
here; PeerTube_link has the wrong video); From the official page: “The hardest
part about promoting the free software philosophy is getting people interested
enough in the conversation to listen even if they aren’t already excited about
technology topics. However, most people use software today, yet have complaints
and fears about it. Instead of merely waiting around for the conversation to
turn into a discussion about software usage or technology woes and fears, it
helps to come up with powerful questions that can turn conversations about
anything into conversations about software and why it needs to have the four
freedoms, yet still keeping it engaging for all participants so that it is
relevant. This discussion will be about taking topics people like to discuss
and turning them into freedom respecting software topics by relating them
whatever people are currently talking about using audience supplied examples.
These discussions can take place in forums or chat, online or in person.”
Licence: CC_BY_SA_4.0
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✐ Microsoft’s_Share_in_China:_From_Web_Dominance_to_Almost_Nothing_in_Less_Than
a_Decade⠀✐
Posted in Asia, Deception, Microsoft at 2:56 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Microsoft has lost a lot of its power (now it just huffs and puffs about “AI”
with paid-for puff pieces)
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Internet Explorer (% share, China)⦈
Summary: According to samples from 3 million sites (locally uploaded_data),
Microsoft_is_down_from_almost_complete_dominance_of_the_browser_market_in_China
(2010) to almost nothing; even Edge is hovering at around 5% — nowhere near the
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✐ All_That_Microsoft_Has_Left_Now_is_Distraction_and_Destruction_(Layoffs_and
Deflection_Aplenty)⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Microsoft at 6:33 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 3c1252ce2d09faaf2fc6f4a0ebd336b8
Week of Microsoft Chaff and Layoffs
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/microsoft-report-and-layoffs.webm
Summary: Microsoft is losing it; as a result, the media is being co-opted and
trolling by Microsoft enablers appears to have gotten worse than usual
(borderline illegal)
WITH many_Microsoft_layoffs_every_month_this_year (no, it’s not just the
alleged “10,000″ from January!) it’s worth looking back at and properly
examining what we’ve published so far this week (quite a lot yesterday). It
seems to have attracted particularly nasty and sometimes illegal trolling,
basically vandalising the IRC network by all means available. It resulted in
plenty of distraction and time-wasting.
“It seems to have attracted particularly nasty and sometimes illegal trolling,
basically vandalising the IRC network by all means available.”The video above
focuses on what I studied this morning. I closely monitor the situation at
Microsoft (with focus on layoffs) every 30 minutes or so/thereabouts. It looks
like some truly nasty s*** is about to hit the fan, but endless fluff about
s***GPT will be used to change the subject or distract from the substance. For
this week we shall prioritise articles on this topic as we try to take a better
glance, peering beyond the smokescreen and Microsoft’s paid-for spam (plenty of
it this week, including the straw man that Microsoft means security and any
confrontations to that claim are “sexism”; several British publishers played
along and actively participated in this ludicrous PR). █
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Posted in Deception, Finance, Microsoft at 11:18 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Recent: In_One_City_Alone_Microsoft_Fired_Almost_3,000_Workers_This_Year_(We’re
Still_in_March)
Published 48_minutes_ago
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Summary: Amid more_layoffs_this_week (Azure_is_in_trouble) and now that
mainstream media is consistently predicting bad results for Microsoft (they
will distract with “AI” smokescreen/vapourware*) it’s worth taking note of the
new report (above)
Update: The key part:
Microsoft currently occupies most of the space in Millennium
Corporate Park. CBRE is marketing 497,193 square feet out of the
537,000 square-foot campus. This plan was followed by Microsoft’s
earlier plans to reduce office space by 1.7 million square feet by
not renewing leases in Bellevue and Issaquah. Microsoft has also put
the development of campus expansion project on hold.
“497,193 square feet out of the 537,000 square-foot campus” is about 93%. So it
sounds like they’re almost shutting it all down.
Update #2: Preview_again and it is negative with blame-shifting. Notice how
they blame other companies for this “deceleration”. So now instead of insisting
that “clown computing” was all along the future it’s just this nebulous thing
they call “AI” (they mean chatbots).
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Economic_Concerns⦈_
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣵⣇⣥⣷⣥⣴⣬⣶⣭⣾⣿⣦⣷⣼⣧⣧⣧⣿⣼⣿⣼⣧⣷⣵⣷⣥⣤⣼⣼⣼⣮⣴⣧⣧⣷⣵⣼⣿⣬⣭⣥⣮⣧⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⠿⣿⡿⡿⡿⠿⠿⢿⡿⣿⢿⠿⡿⢿⠿⢿⣿⢿⡿⡿⡿⣿⠿⢿⡿⠿⢿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠉⢉⠉⠉⢉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢩⣉⠉⠉⢹⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣷⣷⣷⣷⣴⣾⣧⣷⣷⣿⣶⣷⣾⣷⣾⣿⣼⣷⣿⣾⣿⣾⣷⣿⣷⣶⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠁⠉⠀⠘⠀⠂⠂⠂⠂⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠉⠘⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡶⠶⠶⢾⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣋⣙⣿⣯⣹⣿⣿⣿⣭⣽⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣏⣻⣋⣿⣿⣿⣏⣹⣿⣙⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣿⣏⣯⣉⣝⣻⣿⣿⡇⠣⠉⢸⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠿⡿⣿⠿⠿⡿⠛⣿⣻⠿⠟⢟⡛⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⢿⢿⠿⣿⠿⢿⣛⠿⣿⠿⠿⢿⢿⣿⢿⢿⡿⠿⣿⡟⠻⡿⢻⣿⣻⠻⣿⣿⢿⢿⡿⢿⠻⡿⣿⡟⢿⣿⡟⡿⠿⠿⠿⡟⣻⠿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⠾⡷⣶⡶⠷⣶⢾⢾⣶⠿⢼⢶⢶⢾⣷⢿⡿⣿⢿⡿⢿⠿⠿⢾⠿⠿⡾⣾⡾⣶⣶⠾⢷⢵⡿⣶⠷⠾⠷⠷⡾⡶⣶⠶⢾⡷⡶⠶⢾⠿⢾⢶⣾⡷⡿⣶⢷⡾⡶⠿⡼⡷⠶⢿⢶⡶⡾⢷⠶⢶⡾⠶⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣴⣧⣿⣬⣼⣷⣵⣼⣿⣤⣽⣬⣽⣴⣿⣵⣸⣿⣼⣥⣵⣤⣤⣼⣤⣼⣎⣿⣧⣽⣿⣤⣴⣽⣯⣮⣤⣬⣤⣧⣌⣧⣿⣤⣼⣧⣽⣤⣤⣤⣿⣿⣯⣿⣤⣿⣯⣯⣦⣬⣮⣿⣤⣴⣼⣧⣾⣤⣤⣾⣧⣧⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣪⣺⣦⣴⣤⣮⣺⣿⣜⣍⣻⣧⣜⣛⣯⣼⣗⣗⣥⣠⣴⣾⣺⣦⣢⣠⣼⣴⣺⣈⣼⣔⣆⣼⣰⣗⣿⣠⣠⣶⣿⣧⣪⣇⣴⣇⣷⣔⣲⣀⣤⣕⣿⣲⣤⣪⣇⣢⣗⣕⣤⣢⣖⣱⣿⣡⣶⣠⣺⣆⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣍⠋⠉⡏⢝⢹⡏⠿⡍⢻⡏⠯⡋⠙⡏⢩⢝⠉⢹⡏⡹⣯⡏⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢻⣟⣟⡛⡛⢛⣛⣿⣛⠟⡛⢻⢛⣻⡟⣿⡛⣛⢛⢛⠛⡻⠛⡟⢟⣿⢻⡟⠛⢛⢟⣟⢻⠛⡛⡿⣻⡻⡛⡛⠛⠻⣻⣟⣟⠛⡛⣛⢻⡟⡛⡿⡛⣟⣿⣻⡻⡛⢛⢻⢛⢻⣟⣿⢛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⡿⠷⢿⠾⣾⣷⣿⢿⡶⠿⡿⠿⡿⠿⡷⡿⠾⠾⢿⡶⡿⡾⠿⠿⠷⠿⣾⣶⡾⠶⡷⢿⣾⣶⠷⠿⠾⣿⣶⢾⢾⡿⠾⣷⢿⠿⢷⣷⣾⢷⢾⢿⢾⣾⢿⢾⠾⠾⠶⠿⢷⣷⡷⣿⣾⣟⡻⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣶⣾⣾⣶⣾⣿⣷⣷⣷⣷⣾⣶⣾⣿⣷⣿⣾⣷⣿⣾⣷⣶⣷⣾⣾⣿⣷⣶⣷⣾⣿⣿⣶⣿⣶⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣶⣿⣶⣼⣾⣿⣷⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣷⣿⣶⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣄⣤⣎⣥⣿⣮⣇⣗⣔⣆⣄⣘⣯⣼⣾⣮⣢⣜⣴⣕⣗⣗⣼⣐⣤⣼⣾⣸⣗⣢⣇⣠⣤⣯⣲⣾⣷⣷⣜⣜⣟⣝⣼⣔⣴⣾⣪⣗⣍⣖⣷⣖⣜⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣹⣿⣻⣯⣫⣉⣉⣉⣽⣿⣟⣿⡍⣉⣽⣏⣉⣩⣏⣮⣉⣉⣹⣿⣻⣫⣏⣉⣭⣩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣩⣿⣿⣿⣙⣏⣻⣗⣿⣉⣿⣯⣉⣾⣏⣏⣉⣉⣉⣽⣷⣛⣽⣿⣯⣹⣱⣩⣍⣉⣭⣯⣫⣉⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣫⣽⡍⣿⡟⠿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⢿⣿⣿⢛⢛⠛⢻⢹⡿⣿⢛⠛⢻⣿⢿⢛⡿⣿⡟⡟⡽⠛⣿⣿⡛⣿⢛⣿⡻⢿⡿⢿⣟⣛⠛⡟⣿⡟⡛⡛⢛⢛⣿⡿⡟⡛⠛⡻⣿⡟⢿⣿⣽⠛⡟⢹⣝⣿⣍⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⠿⡿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣷⢿⠿⣿⣿⢛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⢿⣿⠿⢿⠿⡿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⠿⣿⡿⢿⠿⠿⢿⡿⡿⡿⠷⠿⣿⡿⠾⠿⡿⠿⠿⠾⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣷⣿⣾⣾⣾⣿⣷⣿⡾⢷⣿⣶⣷⢿⢿⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣷⣿⣷⣷⣾⣷⣷⣷⣾⣾⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣾⣶⣷⣿⣾⣿⣷⣾⣾⣿⣿⣶⣷⣷⣶⣾⣶⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣾⣿⣽⣦⣦⣴⣿⣿⣷⣾⣧⣦⣴⣦⣴⣤⣦⣼⣤⣼⣿⣼⣬⣿⣿⣷⣤⣦⣾⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣽⣿⣻⣋⣙⣉⣿⣿⣟⣏⣉⣿⣽⣁⡈⣽⣙⣹⣹⣹⣿⣿⣏⣟⣯⣉⣹⣽⣿⣿⣁⣇⣸⣹⣿⣟⣏⣋⣉⣹⣿⣹⣿⣜⣀⣿⣏⣍⣉⣈⣋⣿⣿⣲⣿⣉⢹⣿⣿⣋⣈⣿⣷⣜⣉⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡫⠍⡫⢙⡏⣻⡟⣿⣿⡟⠟⠋⡛⣻⣿⣿⡟⣟⠉⢹⣻⣯⡏⠩⢹⢿⣻⣿⠻⠛⣻⣿⡝⠛⠋⡟⣿⡟⢿⠻⢹⣿⡟⠛⡏⠫⣹⢫⡯⠉⠍⢽⣿⣿⠻⠻⠛⣟⣻⠙⠟⣿⣿⠿⡟⠛⡛⣿⣿⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡛⡻⠟⢿⡿⠟⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⠟⢻⠾⠿⡿⠿⡟⣿⣿⡟⠟⣿⠿⢿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⠿⡟⢿⣿⡿⠟⡿⢿⢿⣿⣿⢿⠿⡿⣿⡿⡿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⡿⡿⢿⢿⣿⡿⣷⣿⣿⡛⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣶⣷⣧⣶⣶⣾⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⢿⣶⣶⣶⣿⣶⣶⣷⣿⣾⣿⣶⣿⣾⣶⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣷⣾⣿⣷⡶⣶⠾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣿⣷⣷⣶⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⢶⢾⣾⣿⣷⣼⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣽⣿⣷⣭⣠⣬⣼⣧⣼⣤⣤⣽⣿⣥⣸⣧⣤⣽⣿⣧⣤⣤⣼⣬⣤⣷⣻⣿⣦⣥⣬⣤⣬⣧⣼⣿⣦⣤⣤⣤⣦⣼⣿⣾⣥⣼⣬⣿⣿⣽⣽⣬⣠⣭⣽⣿⣿⣬⣦⣬⣼⣷⣯⣥⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣉⣻⣋⣈⣋⣻⢙⣟⣗⣇⣈⣍⣿⣃⣉⣩⣉⣈⡉⣻⣿⣏⣉⣁⣯⣻⣿⣛⣉⣉⡏⣻⣻⣹⣏⣉⣋⣙⣹⣿⣹⣝⣿⣹⣙⣹⣫⣏⣝⣓⣏⣋⣿⣿⣙⣁⣃⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⡝⣯⢹⢽⣿⢿⠿⢿⢿⢿⡿⣿⡏⡝⣿⡏⡿⣽⡿⡿⠿⢿⢿⢽⢿⢿⢿⣿⡿⣿⢫⣯⡿⠿⢿⢿⢿⣿⡟⣿⠿⣿⡏⣿⣿⢿⢹⣿⡿⡏⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣳⣞⣸⣸⣜⣟⣻⣜⣼⣦⣧⣧⣇⣇⣿⣇⣛⣩⣣⣇⣻⣸⣸⣘⣸⣸⢘⢺⣮⣿⣮⣣⣇⣻⣜⣼⣼⣼⣧⣟⣃⣻⣇⣛⣝⣸⣀⣣⣲⣃⢧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⠹⣽⢹⣿⢿⢿⢿⡿⢿⢿⢹⣿⢹⣿⢿⣿⡿⡟⣿⡟⣿⢻⢿⢿⠿⣿⠿⡟⡿⣿⠿⢿⣿⡻⣿⠿⠿⢿⢻⠿⢹⣿⢹⣽⢿⣿⡿⡿⠿⡿⣿⡿⢿⢿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣟⣼⣘⣜⣼⣼⣼⣆⣺⣼⣸⣟⣘⣻⣹⣸⣮⣇⣿⣧⣏⢼⣼⣸⣹⣸⣸⣇⣧⣲⣛⣿⣟⣆⣹⣸⣸⣘⣸⣸⣸⣟⣘⣻⣜⣧⣣⣇⣇⣧⣣⣇⣃⣃⣃⣜⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⢻⣝⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣜⣿⣼⣼⣸⣸⣘⣧⣳⣃⣟⣃⣓⣬⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣽⣿⣿⣯⣿⣽⣽⣽⣿⣷⣯⣯⣿⣿⣼⣽⣼⣧⣿⣽⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣯⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣽⣿⣧⣯⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 770
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/04/25/rayner-lucas-and-tristan-miller-in-libreplanet/#comments
Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/25/rayner-lucas-and-tristan-miller-in-libreplanet/
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Gemini_version_available_♊︎
✐ LibrePlanet_Talk:_Rayner_Lucas_and_Tristan_Miller_on_USENET_and_How_It’s
Moderated⠀✐
Posted in Free/Libre_Software, FSF, Videos at 1:54 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link
https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2819/lp2023-neptune-
sunday-1335.webm
Summary: The above LibrePlanet talk by Rayner Lucas and Tristan Miller is a
remote (not physical presence) talk and it was_uploaded_by_the_FSF_a_week_ago
(slides_here; PeerTube_link); From the official page: “Today’s social media
users are locked into proprietary platforms, under the control of a few large
corporations. Users are not customers, but a product to be sold to advertisers.
These companies have little reason to care about fostering healthy discussion,
only to keep advertisers happy. But there is another model for social media.
Federated social networks began with Usenet, a distributed system of discussion
forums invented a decade before the World Wide Web. Since then, projects such
as Mastodon and Diaspora have used open standards and common communication
protocols to give users power to choose their own social media experience. What
lessons can we learn from Usenet? What does it get right, and what could it do
better? And does Usenet still have a place on the modern Internet?”
Licence: GFDL_1.3
䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 816
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/04/25/sfc-sells-thank-yous/#comments
Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/25/sfc-sells-thank-yous/
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Gemini_version_available_♊︎
✐ Software_Freedom_Conservancy_is_Selling_Verbal_Thank-Yous_So_That_Its_Chief
Can_Earn_a_Quarter_Million_Dollars_Per_Year,_Tax-Free⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Finance, Free/Libre_Software at 3:03 pm by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
The people who give talks (i.e. actually work) do not get paid
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇SFC_sponsors⦈_
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇SFC_sells_thank-yous⦈_
Summary: Just advertised by the greedy_SFC is an upcoming event; the business
model is rather telling (basically mimicking the Linux_Foundation, where even
the “thanks” are just sponsored words coming from someone’s mouth)
⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⡀⠀⢀⠀⠀⡀⠀⢀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⢸⠀⠀⢈⠀⠀⠇⠑⠀⡄⠑⠀⡄⠈⡔⠀⠀⢀⠔⠀⠀⠰⢀⠄⠁⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠈⠈⠀⠈⠈⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠈⠉⠁⠀⠁⠈⠉⠁⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣇⠲⢼⢛⣙⢿⢋⡙⡟⣋⢻⠋⣙⠟⣉⢻⠛⣹⢋⣻⢘⡙⡗⣿⢛⡙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣍⣋⣸⢈⣋⣼⣘⣡⣇⣿⣸⣑⣂⣆⣋⣼⣸⣏⣑⣸⣸⣇⣇⣿⢈⣁⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⠛⡿⠿⠿⡿⠿⢿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠿⠟⡿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠿⢿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⡿⠻⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⡿⢿⢿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠻⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠿⢿⡟⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣶⣧⣶⣶⣷⣾⣾⣿⡶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣿⣦⣶⢾⣶⣶⣷⢷⡼⣶⣾⢿⣶⣾⣾⣶⡶⣶⡶⣶⡷⢶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣷⣶⣶⣷⡶⣷⣶⣶⢾⣦⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣾⣦⡾⣶⢷⣶⢶⣶⣶⡶⠶⠷⣶⣾⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣤⣦⣼⣤⣤⣮⣴⣤⣷⣤⣧⣬⣤⣤⣤⣥⣤⣧⣼⣼⣶⣤⣧⣤⣶⣦⣼⣤⣶⣤⣤⣥⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣤⣧⣧⣬⣮⣤⣤⣥⣧⣤⣿⣤⣤⣼⣥⣼⣵⣤⣤⣤⣧⣧⣤⣴⣼⣧⣤⣼⣤⣿⣦⣥⣥⣬⣬⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣠⣀⣇⣟⣇⣝⣷⣀⣀⣀⣮⣪⣀⣁⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣂⣈⣏⣇⣉⣏⣉⣸⣞⣹⣹⣉⣉⣉⣏⣇⣉⣏⣉⣉⣋⣋⣹⣹⣇⣈⣩⣙⣋⣿⣈⣉⣉⣉⣉⣹⣻⣉⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⢟⡛⠛⢻⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠋⠉⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⡾⣶⣶⡶⠾⡶⡶⡶⡾⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢹⢛⢛⠛⠟⡏⡛⠛⠻⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣥⣥⣦⣧⣥⣮⣥⣯⣬⣥⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⡖⠐⣶⣶⢈⢈⡌⢈⢈⣬⢙⠁⣌⠠⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣠⣀⣄⣀⣷⣑⣻⣂⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣭⠉⣝⠉⠭⣫⡋⢽⣩⢩⣽⣻⢯⢉⢝⣩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⠩⠉⡏⠉⣿⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣉⡉⢉⣉⠉⣿⠿⠿⣿⠿⡿⣿⠿⠿⣿⡿⠿⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⣉⡙⢉⡙⠟⢉⣙⠋⣉⣋⠹⢉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⠀⡏⢐⣂⣘⠀⣴⡇⢐⣂⣸⠀⣶⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⣶⣇⡙⢃⣌⠒⣀⡐⢂⣸⣆⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣼⣿⣤⣷⣤⣥⣼⣤⣿⣷⣬⣤⣾⣤⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⡿⠿⡿⠿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠖⣠⠀⡇⡷⢃⡴⢆⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⢤⣄⣹⠛⠟⠻⣿⠿⠛⠿⡟⠻⠛⢿⡿⠛⠻⣿⠟⠛⠿⡟⠻⢻⠟⠛⢿⡇⠸⠛⢿⠀⣿⠛⠛⠿⡿⠟⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣷⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠒⢦⡄⢸⠀⢾⠆⢸⠀⣿⠀⡇⢰⣷⠀⠧⢈⡀⠃⠰⣿⠀⡇⢰⡿⠄⣉⠐⡇⢸⡇⢸⠀⣿⠀⣿⠀⡧⢌⡁⢺⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣴⣾⠀⣦⣴⣿⣶⣤⣶⣷⣾⣿⣶⣷⣤⣴⣿⣶⣤⣾⣷⣾⣿⣦⣤⣾⣷⣾⣷⣾⣶⣿⠀⣤⣾⣷⣦⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠁⣠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⠀⠀⠸⠟⠁⢀⣴⣾⣿⣿⡿⠋⠁⣠⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣂⣠⣀⣰⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣌⣱⣀⣌⣀⢂⣠⣀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠋⠙⠍⠹⠙⠝⠘⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢐⠍⢙⠁⡙⠉⠫⠋⠝⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣢⡏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠟⠻⡳⡿⡻⠛⢟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢛⠟⡟⢻⡟⠻⡻⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠟⣻⡟⠻⡻⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣅⣬⣴⣥⣡⣥⣤⣬⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣧⣧⣬⣥⣤⣵⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣅⣤⣬⣡⣤⣥⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣇⣰⣱⣀⣀⣀⣀⣄⣄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣀⣧⣀⣠⣀⣸⣄⣀⣀⣅⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣠⣣⣇⣠⣠⣀⣀⣀⣐⣄⣀⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣨⣈⣖⣅⣀⣱⣗⣎⣈⣆⣈⣈⣸⣀⣁⣄⣌⣂⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠹⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠋⠙⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡛⠃⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣟⠍⢝⣉⣍⣉⠍⡏⣫⡫⣹⢍⣉⣉⣩⡫⣟⣍⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⡉⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣄⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣴⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣽⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣟⣋⣁⣉⣁⣏⣩⣹⣫⣋⣏⣉⣩⣉⣉⣉⣹⣉⣍⣘⣉⣀⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠹⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠹⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠋⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣉⣍⣁⣏⣩⣨⣉⣍⣽⣯⣍⣩⣉⣩⣉⣈⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣴⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣽⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣘⣉⠉⣉⣏⣩⣹⣉⣋⣿⣁⣈⣈⣉⣷⣩⣇⣈⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠹⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣝⠹⢩⡏⠉⡉⡋⢉⠉⠉⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣤⣺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣠⣄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣽⣿⢸
⡇⡟⠿⠻⡛⡻⠛⡿⣛⠛⠛⠛⡻⠟⢟⡟⠻⣟⢿⢛⣟⡻⠻⢛⡟⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠹⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣷⣾⣶⣷⣿⣶⣿⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣷⣷⣷⣷⣷⣾⣿⣷⣶⣾⣷⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣽⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣨⣓⣵⣧⣺⣀⣀⣈⣠⣹⣉⣀⣀⣇⣈⣨⣀⣯⣢⣳⣁⣀⣀⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠹⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣍⣏⣽⣭⣉⣋⣩⣩⠉⣏⣩⣉⣉⣉⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣽⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣫⣪⣶⣄⣴⣨⣮⣪⣸⣀⣀⣨⣨⣨⣸⣀⣀⣇⣔⣝⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠍⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡭⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣉⣉⣉⣉⣭⣉⣉⣉⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸
⡇⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢸
⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
⡇⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
⡇⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
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sunday-1155.webm
Summary: The above LibrePlanet talk by Weiming Hu is a remote (not physical
presence) talk and it was_uploaded_by_the_FSF last week (slides_here; PeerTube
link); From the official page: ‘”Open science” is a movement that promotes the
freedom to share knowledge and data in science. Its recent success largely
depends on our ability to reproduce and then improve on existing research
products. It is about ensuring that researchers have sufficient access to
information and the necessary tools for analysis. This movement goes hand in
hand with the free software movement, as it has the potential to revolutionize
sciences by providing powerful tools for data analysis, modeling, and
visualization. I would like to focus my talk on the connection and missing
links between free software and open science, particularly in environmental and
data sciences. The talk is devoted to raising awareness and promoting
conversations on how we can better advance sciences with free software and
knowledge sharing.’
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Kernel_Space
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Education
o GNU_Projects
o Programming/Development
* Leftovers
* Hardware
* Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
* Proprietary
* Security
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Linux_kernel_6.3_is_out_now_here’s_some
quick_highlights⠀⇛
Linus Torvalds announced the full release of Linux
kernel 6.3, and with it plenty of the usual
improvements everywhere.
# ⚓ MaskRay ☛ Linker_notes_on_AArch32⠀⇛
This article describes target-specific details
about AArch32 in ELF linkers. I described AArch64
in a previous article.
# ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ The_ptrace_syscall⠀⇛
ptrace (“process trace”) is a system call in Unix
and Unix-like operating systems that intercepts
system calls. It’s a powerful tool that enables
tools like debuggers (e.g., gdb), reverse
engineering tools, tracing, code injection, and
even simple sandboxing. (see proot for an example
of a ptrace sandbox). The most interesting part of
ptrace is that you can do all of these things
completely in user space (even sandboxing!).
# ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Tanenbaum–Torvalds_Debates,_Part_1⠀⇛
Their exchanged messages on Usenet would later be
called the “Tanenbaum-Torvalds debates.” While
sometimes veering off topic and into “flame war”
territory, they touched on issues still relevant
today in system design.
In them, Tanenbaum makes three predictions:
Microkernels are the future
x86 will eventually lose to RISC
Everyone will run a free GNU OS
Breaking each down, what happened, why it happened,
and the important lessons.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ QEMU_8.0_hatches_more_support_for_Arm_and
RISC-V⠀⇛
Version 8.0, released last week, doesn’t alter any
fundamentals but does add support for plenty of
hardware and instructions.
Some of the additions are simple, such as the
ability to handle Intel’s Sapphire Rapids fourth-
gen Xeon silicon, or emulate Arm’s Cortex-A55 and
Cortex-R52 processors.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Carlos Becker ☛ Sharing_open,_pbcopy_and_pbpaste_over_SSH⠀⇛
I think I talked about this a couple of times
before, but I usually work by SSH-ing from my mac
into a Linux machine (a rather chunky one, might I
add).
While it allows me to work faster when I’m not home
and with a poor internet connection, it has some
drawbacks too. Two of them are the lack of
clipboard integration and the fact that open (or
xdg-open) won’t work.
In this post I’ll show you how I got around that.
It’s worth nothing that I’ll focus more on a macOS
to Linux workflow, and will hereby refer to them as
client and host.
Enough said, let’s get to it!
# ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Using_Pandoc_to_format_a_Dissertation_from
Markdown_to_HTML,_PDF,_and_ePub⠀⇛
Metawork is so much more fun than real work.
Sharpening your pencils. Colour coordinating your
filing system. Creating Gantt charts of what you
intend to do. Marvellous!
In that spirit, here’s how I used the venerable
pandoc to convert my MSc dissertation from .md into
a variety of more readable formats.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ NVM_–_Install_Multiple_Node.js_Versions_in
Linux⠀⇛
Node Version Manager (NVM in short) is a simple
bash script to manage multiple active node.js
versions on your Linux system. It allows you to
install multiple node.js versions, and view all
versions available for installation and all
installed versions on your system.
Nvm also supports running of a specific node.js
version and it can show the path to the executable
to where it was installed, and much more.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Compile_and_Install_OpenSSH_from_Source_in
Linux⠀⇛
OpenSSH is a free and open source, full
implementation of the SSH protocol 2.0, which
provides a number of tools for securely accessing
and managing remote computer systems, and managing
authentications keys, such as ssh (a secure
replacement for telnet), scp, sftp (secure
replacement for ftp), ssh-keygen, ssh-copy-id, ssh-
add, and more.
Recently OpenSSH 9.3 was released and ships with
many new features and bug fixes; you can read the
SSH release notes for more information.
# ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Configure_DHCP_Server_on_RHEL_9_/_Rocky
Linux_9⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Check_Running_Process_in_Linux⠀⇛
As a system administrator, you might need to check
all the processes that are consuming your
computer’s resources.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ HDR_and_Colour_Management_patches_for_Steam
Deck_+_AMD_GPUs_under_review⠀⇛
Developer Melissa Wen recently sent in patches to
improve HDR and Colour Management on Linux for
Steam Deck and potentially other AMD GPUs. The work
is being done by Melissa Wen, Joshua Ashton and
collaboration with Harry Wentland.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Fanatical_team_up_with_JSAUX_again_and_you
can_win_a_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
Feeling lucky? Fanatical and accessory brand JSAUX
have teamed up for a bundle of games, and with it a
chance to win a Steam Deck and a whole lot of
extras.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Pixel-art_Sims_styled_game_Tiny_Life_hits
Early_Access_on_May_3rd⠀⇛
Ellpeck Games have announced their pixel-art game
inspired by The Sims, Tiny Life will be releasing
with Linux support on May 3rd. From what I’ve
played of some of the earlier builds, it showed a
huge amount of promise.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Linux_and_Steam_Deck_compatibility_tool
Luxtorpeda_gets_upgraded_in_v63⠀⇛
Luxtorpeda is a very interesting project. It’s a
compatibility layer (like Proton) but designed to
help you run Native Linux game engines for various
Steam games.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Valve_moves_ELDEN_RING_back_to_Proton_7_as
it_has_issues_with_newer_Proton⠀⇛
Certain games on Steam that you play across either
Linux desktop or Steam Deck get a specific version
of Proton set by Valve, and at times they don’t
quite work right like ELDEN RING.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ HaikuOS ☛ Haiku’s_(Kernel)_Condition_Variables_API:_Design_&
Implementation⠀⇛
A few months after my contract with Haiku, Inc. began, I
rewrote the implementation of the Haiku kernel’s
condition variables (as opposed to our userspace
condition variables, which are from POSIX.) As this new
implementation has run in Haiku for over a year and
shipped in the latest release with no sign of any
remaining issues, I figured it is high time for a deep-
dive on the API, its implementation history, and the
design of the new implementation I wrote.
I expect this article will be of broader interest than
just to Haiku’s community, because Haiku’s condition
variables API has some notable (and powerful) features
not found in those of other operating systems, and its
implementation is thus likewise unique (at least, as far
as I have been able to figure out.)
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSUSE ☛ Next_Version_of_Leap_Micro_Reaches_Release
Candidate⠀⇛
The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce its
modern lightweight host operating system Leap Micro
5.4 has reached its Release Candidate phase.
The last beta introduced a new SELinux module for
Cockpit. This release has the default setting of
SELinux for new installations that have been
changed from permissive to enforcing mode, which
can be switched to permissive mode or disabled.
Podman updates to version 4.3.1 in this host-OS
release. This new version brings in many new
features and several improvements like better
support for containers in multiple networks, better
IPv6 support and improved performance.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Message_to_Red_Hat_associates_today⠀⇛
Editor’s note: Earlier today, president and chief
executive officer of Red Hat, Matt Hicks, shared
the following email with Red Hatters.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ What_to_expect_with_6G_and_the_industrial
IoT⠀⇛
It’s 2035 and you’re a plant manager inside a
manufacturing line that produces electric vehicles.
Or maybe it’s Twinkies. Either way, inside this
factory setting a dozen years into the future
someone needs to predict what types of things you
might want to know.
If this seems like a tough job, it is. But that’s
exactly what the folks who are building the 6G
cellular communications standard are trying to do
today. Expected to launch in 2030 and extend
through 2040, the 6G communications standard will
be the improved version of 5G, but with a few new
tricks up its sleeve for the industrial IoT,
overall network infrastructure, and even consumer
features.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ [Repeat] Mark Hansen ☛ Pram/Stroller_Camera_Mount⠀⇛
After the baby arrived, we had lots of family
visits, leading to family photos. I wanted us all
to be in the family photos, so something needs to
hold the camera.
The normal answer is “get a tripod”, but don’t we
already have a rigid, stable, movable frame: our
pram! Could I use that?
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ CinePI:_a_high-end_film_camera_built_on
Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛
Whenever a new Camera Module, or updated software
for existing camera hardware comes out, we dream of
all the cool things we could do with it. While
custom cinematography and automated processes are
high on our list, making a cinematic-quality camera
is where Csaba Nagy went with CinePI.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Bendy_robotic_tank_steers_by_flexing⠀⇛
To test this idea, Burton 3D-printed almost the
entirety of the vehicle. That includes the track
itself, which is made of several rigid segments
that link together. There is just enough movement
in the connections to allow a segment to sit at an
angle relative to its neighbors. Conventional
motors in front and back units spin the track, and
an Arduino Mega 2560 board controls them. Between
the two units is a joint that pivots horizontally.
A linear actuator arm controls the angle between
the front and back units, forcing the track to
bend.
# ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ Transmit_Sensor_Data_Over
Bluetooth⠀⇛
SparkFun’s newest Bluetooth tutorial will teach you
everything you need to know to get started with
sending sensor data over Bluetooth. This tutorial
covers how to send and display data from a triple
axis accelerometer using the ESP32 Thing Plus C.
We’ve covered sending sensor data over Wi-Fi
before, but this time we’re doing things a little
bit differently. Our Sending Sensor Data via
Bluetooth tutorial will teach you the basics of
utilizing Bluetooth technology in your IoT project.
# ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ Schneider_Euro_PC:_Restoration_Part_1⠀⇛
At the end of my keyboard PC blog post I mentioned
that I really wanted a Schneider Euro PC. Finally,
a couple of weeks ago, a Euro PC in a sorry state
popped up on eBay at a reasonable price. So, I went
ahead and bought it. Knowing it was a bit of gamble
whether or not I could restore it, I went for it
anyway. As it truly is a great part of history.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ 5_things_you_didn’t_know_you_can_do_on_an_Android_|_Fox
News⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Fix_The_Most_Common_Android_Auto
Problems⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pocket Lint ☛ How_to_fix_crashing_Android_apps_and_solve
problems⠀⇛
# ⚓ Future Publishing Limited ☛ More_Nothing_Phone_(2)_concept
renders_emerge,_showing_a_classy_Android_phone_|_T3⠀⇛
# ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ One_UI_6.0_based_on_Android_14_destined
for_imminent_launch_in_2023_–_NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pixel_6_freezing_when_typing_on_Android_13_QPR3_Beta_3⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gadgets Now ☛ Things_to_keep_in_mind_before_updating
Android_smartphones_and_tablets⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Your_Android_phone_might_be_making
accidental_911_calls⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ BMW’s_Digital_Key_Plus_feature_is_finally
supported_on_Android_devices_–_The_Verge⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Fix_The_Most_Common_Android_Auto
Problems⠀⇛
# ⚓ Best_Medicine_Reminder_Apps_for_Android_–_Phandroid⠀⇛
# ⚓ Tom’s Guide ☛ Google_Pixel_Tablet_could_finally_make
Android_tablets_exciting_again_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛
# ⚓ Google_Pixel_6_units_reportedly_freezing_when_typing_on
Android_13_QPR3_Beta_3⠀⇛
# ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Nokia_G11_Plus_is_receiving_Android_13_update_–
GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Audacity_3.3_Released_with_More_Real_Time_Effects⠀⇛
Building on last autumn’s release, Audacity 3.3.0 makes
more of its built-in effects realtime capable. The Bass &
Treble, Distortion, Phaser, Reverb and Wahwah effects can
now be applied to “live” input. There’s also a beta
version of Beats and Bars — though I couldn’t find it.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Singapore_tells_its_people:_Go_forth_and
block_those_ads⠀⇛
Of course, don’t forget these ad-blocking tools
come with features to whitelist adverts on your
favorite, trusted websites, cough.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ Peter Eisentraut ☛ CREATE_commands_in_PostgreSQL_releases⠀⇛
Here is a fun little view on the progress of
PostgreSQL. Consider the number of “CREATE
SOMETHING” commands each release contains. As more
features are added over time, more such CREATE
commands are added.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ MWL ☛ Ten_Years_of_Penguicon_Pop_Tarts⠀⇛
At the closing ceremony, the con chair asked the
GoHs there was anything that went wrong. I said
something along the lines of “you were magnificent.
the only thing I could possibly say is that there
was no toaster for the Pop Tarts.”
o § GNU Projects⠀➾
# ⚓ Interview_about_Linux-libre_to_nixsanctuary.com⠀⇛
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Linux-libre to
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First published
here.
# What is your key role in Linux-
libre development at the moment?
Would it be wrong to call you Mr
Linus of Linux-libre?
I’m a janitor, which is honorable
and purposeful, requires some skill
and sometimes intense labor, but is
not comparable to the effort,
responsibility and leadership
positions of e.g. Mr Torvalds in
the
kernel Linux, or by Dr Stallman in
the GNU Project.
I am in charge of figuring out what
needs to be cleaned up, and what
can stay, and of not making too
much of a mess in the process so
that,
once I take the garbage out, things
remain functional. Of course I’m
talking about things that don’t run
on garbage. Those that do are
fundamentally incompatible with my
job, and with your freedom.
Now, I’m a bit of a hi-tech
janitor, so instead of just
cleaning
things up myself, I also teach some
bots to do the cleaning, and to
look for garbage, so I don’t have
to do that over and over and over.
So most of the time I, and more
recently co-maintainer Jason Self,
can
just call the robots in when a new
upstream release is out, and then
check that they’ve done their job
well, adjusting as needed.
Mr Torvalds started the kernel
Linux, wrote a huge amount of code
for
it, manages a large community of
contributors, decides when it’s
time
to release and when it’s time to
test a little more.
I did not start Linux-libre (Jeff
Moe did), there’s been little room
for contributors (programming the
bots doesn’t take so much effort),
and we follow the upstream release
schedule as closely as we can.
More importantly, I care a lot
about making sure Linux-libre is
released in accordance with the
values of Free Software. He,
despite
having identified with Free
Software till around mid nineties,
doesn’t
seem to mind that bits and pieces
of Linux don’t fit in with the
values of our movement, or even
with the definition adopted by the
dissident community in which Linux
is mistaken as an icon and a
shining example of something that
it actually isn’t.
Here I’m not talking about people
who refer to the GNU Operating
System as Linux, I’m talking about
there being parts of the kernel
Linux for which no source code is
available, and whose included
binaries are distributed under
obnoxious licenses that prohibit
modification or even reverse
engineering. These parts, and
therefore
the whole containing them, are not
Free Software, and are not
Open-Source Software either. I kid
you not: the famous package
distributed by Mr Torvalds, held as
the canonical example of Open
Source Software, does not meet the
definition of Open Source Software.
Open Source misses_the
point,
but it seems to do so with a
vengeance and with intent. Its
exploitation resembles some faith-
based businesses (fake churches) in
that they are about getting well-
meaning, faithful people to
contribute under false pretenses:
freedom-loving people are misled
into contributing their time,
loyalty and effort to advance
projects
that try to be perceived as having
a commitment to freedom, despite
taking positions and making
decisions that progressively drive
users
away from freedom.
Like, Linux contains binary blobs,
and it depends on a much larger
collection of blobs, whose
canonical (yet incomplete)
distribution has
grown to over half the size of the
“source” distribution of the kernel
Linux. The kernel grows fast, but
the blobs grow so much faster!
They used to be separate programs,
now some of them are entire
operating systems. There’s even one
that contains a copy of the
kernel Linux itself. So, you see,
labeling the kernel Linux, as well
as the GNU/Linux distributions that
contain it and the blobs it
demands, as Open Source Software,
as aligned with the pursuit of
Software Freedom… that’s a bit of a
scam, if you ask me. And if
they’re honest about the goal,
their strategy to pursue it has
been
clearly self-defeating: the more
they embrace blobs, the farther
their
users get from freedom, and the
harder it becomes to achieve
freedom.
Me, I devote my time and energy for
users and developers to not be
fooled this way; for us to have
freedom, or at least a path to it,
within our reach.
So, summing up the answer to the
question, my role in GNU Linux-
libre
is very much unlike Mr Torvalds’ in
Linux.
# How is Linux-libre different from
the Linux kernel? Is it all
about the binary blobs? Or is there
much more to it in terms of
security, privacy and open hardware
development?
I generally prefer to write “kernel
Linux”, because “Linux kernel” is
often misunderstood and
mistranslated as if it meant
“kernel of
Linux”. That makes no sense, given
that Linux is a kernel, but a lot
of people have been misled into
believing it is more than a kernel.
Linux-libre is a slightly modified
version of the kernel Linux. We
strive to make minimal changes to
make Linux compliant with the GNU
Free_System_Distribution
Guidelines.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky ☛ Rust_allows_redeclaring_local
variables_to_great_benefit⠀⇛
A lot of programming languages allow variable
shadowing in new scopes. Early on, you learn that
it can cause errors and can be confusing, but is
situationally appropriate sometimes.
Something that’s less commonly allowed is
redeclaring variables to shadow them locally. And
when it is allowed, it’s often considered bad
practice and confusing.
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Programming_on_Unix_and_automatic
memory_management⠀⇛
This isn’t just an aspect of general Unix
development after all sorts of people got their
hands on it (and created things like Perl). In Bell
Labs Research Unix and then Plan 9, I think pretty
much every new language (or language) created for
and on Unix was one with automatic memory
management. One exception is Plan 9′s Alef, but no
less a person than Rob Pike has said that one
reason for Alef’s failure was its lack of automatic
memory management.
# ⚓ Michael Kohl ☛ Rails_quick_tips_#7:_Project-specific
.irbrc⠀⇛
In a previous installment of this series, I wrote
about adding a project-specific .pryrc to Ruby/
Rails projects. However, over the past couple of
years, IRB gained some nice features and I don’t
use Pry much anymore because it’s one less
dependency I need to worry about. That doesn’t mean
I want to give up on per-project configuration
files though, which turned out to be slightly more
complicated with IRB.
# ⚓ Olaf Alders ☛ Autocorrecting_my_Git_Commands⠀⇛
I spend most of my day at the command line and,
although I took a couple of years of typing classes
in high school, typos are constantly tripping me
up.
With a lot of my time on the command line being
spent using git, I like to take advantage of git’s
ability to fix typos automatically. In my dot files
I run this command as part of my git configuration:
[...]
# ⚓ [Old] Adrian Alic ☛ Measuring_the_Impact_of_False_Sharing⠀⇛
In this article, I would like to find out the
concrete performance penalty of false sharing for
my data structure. I’ll be measuring the effects on
both ARM (Apple Silicon) and x86 (Intel/AMD)
processors.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ The_27_Best_IDEs_and_Code_Editors_for_Linux⠀⇛
C is an excellent, powerful, and general-purpose
programming language that offers modern and generic
programming features for developing large-scale
applications ranging from video games, search
engines, and other computer software to operating
systems.
C language is usually considered the base for many
other programming languages (C++, JavaScript, Java,
PHP, Perl, Python, and more) due to its easy and
efficient language design which includes a
relatively small set of features that can be used
to develop more complex systems and applications.
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ C_vs._Go:_Comparing_programming
languages⠀⇛
Go is a modern programming language that derives
much of its history from the C programming
language. As such, Go is likely to feel familiar to
anyone who writes programs in C. Go makes it easy
to write new programs while feeling familiar to C
programmers but avoiding many of the common
pitfalls of the C programming language.
This article compares a simple C and Go program
that adds the numbers from one to ten. Because this
program uses only small values, the numbers won’t
grow to be too big, so they only use plain integer
variables. Loops like this are very common in
programming, so this simple program makes it easy
to compare C and Go.
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Retry_your_Python_code_until_it_fails⠀⇛
Sometimes, a function is called with bad inputs or
in a bad program state, so it fails. In languages
like Python, this usually results in an exception.
But sometimes exceptions are caused by different
issues or are transitory. Imagine code that must
keep working in the face of caching data being
cleaned up. In theory, the code and the cleaner
could carefully agree on the clean-up methodology
to prevent the code from trying to access a non-
existing file or directory. Unfortunately, that
approach is complicated and error-prone. However,
most of these problems are transitory, as the
cleaner will eventually create the correct
structures.
Even more frequently, the uncertain nature of
network programming means that some functions that
abstract a network call fail because packets were
lost or corrupted.
A common solution is to retry the failing code.
This practice allows skipping past transitional
problems while still (eventually) failing if the
issue persists. Python has several libraries to
make retrying easier. This is a common “finger
exercise.”
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Learn_Tcl/Tk_and_Wish_with_this_simple
game⠀⇛
Explore the basic language constructs of Tcl/Tk,
which include user input, output, variables,
conditional evaluation, simple functions, and basic
event driven programming.
My path to writing this article started with a
desire to make advanced use of Expect which is
based on Tcl. Those efforts resulted in these two
articles: Learn Tcl by writing a simple game and
Learn Expect by writing a simple game.
I do a bit of Ansible automation and, over time
have collected a number of local scripts. Some of
them I use often enough that it becomes annoying to
go through the cycle of:
I use macOS on a daily basis. What I really wanted
was a menu item or an icon to bring up a simple UI
to accept parameters and run the thing I wanted to
do, like in KDE on Linux.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Chatting_With_Local_AI_Moves_Directly_In-Browser,
Thanks_To_Web_LLM⠀⇛
Large Language Models (LLM) are at the heart of natural-
language AI tools like ChatGPT, and Web LLM shows it is
now possible to run an LLM directly in a browser. Just to
be clear, this is not a browser front end talking via API
to some server-side application. This is a client-side
LLM running entirely in the browser.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ What’s_Life_Like_for_the_Child_of_a_Psychoanalyst?⠀⇛
At the start of Milton Wexler’s career as a
psychoanalyst, he devoted his practice to what was still
uncharted territory for American practitioners in the
1930s: He attempted to treat schizophrenia through
psychotherapy. After making a name for himself at the
Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kan., he moved to the
Hollywood Hills in the 1950s, where he became the go-to
therapist for troubled artists, a roster of patients that
included the likes of Frank Gehry, John Altoon, and, on
occasion, Marilyn Monroe. By the 1980s, Wexler was
devoting his free time to hereditary diseases and brought
needed funding to research for the genetic roots of
Huntington’s disease—an affliction that upended the lives
of his wife and her family. While Wexler’s contributions
to science are undeniable, he was transgressive and
unorthodox in achieving those ends, rendering him a
contested figure: first in the world of psychoanalysis,
for his use and defense of harsh therapeutic methods, and
later in the media, for breaking doctor/patient protocols
by getting too close with his patients and sometimes
collaborating with them, as he did with the director
Blake Edwards.
o ⚓ The Drone Girl ☛ Seriously_huge_drones_headed_for_New_York_(like,
up_to_300_pounds,_huge)⠀⇛
Drones as heavy as 300 pounds have found a home in New
York. Most of the drones everyday folks think of
(including the drones primarily covered on this website)
weigh less than 55 pounds. But now, heavyweight drones
(at least those up to 300 pounds) are welcome to the
party. Yes, you read that right — 300 pounds.
55 pounds has largely been the maximum size of what
people talk about in the commercial drone space. That’s
largely because the Federal Aviation Administration’s
Small Unmanned Aircraft System Rule (officially titled 14
CFR part 107) is only applicable to unmanned aircraft
that weigh less than 55 pounds at takeoff. It’s
relatively easy to get a drone pilot’s license to operate
drones under 55 pounds and — save for what is relatively
few exceptions like restricted airspace — drones under
the 55-pound threshold can generally be legally flown in
the U.S.
o ⚓ Sound Matters ☛ Significantly_Different_Mono/Stereo_Mixes_on
Records⠀⇛
In mild cases, the difference between the stereo and mono
versions of a song or album can be summarised by the
different mixing techniques used to give each instrument
or part its own “space” in the mix.
There are, though, examples where things are a little
more extreme. It’s not uncommon for the stereo version of
a record to feature entirely different takes or a
radically different mix, as engineers experimented with
the format.
Here are just a few examples where the mono version of a
recording is significantly different to the stereo
release.
o ⚓ Niels Provos ☛ What_is_Indie_Music?_Activ8te’s_Comprehensive
Guide_for_New_Listeners_and_Musicians⠀⇛
Discover the world of indie music, its rich history, and
its diverse sub-genres as we explore the evolution and
impact of this boundary-pushing genre for new listeners
and musicians alike.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Mark Dominus ☛ Math_SE_report_2023-04:_Simplest-possible
examples,_pointy_regions,_and_nearly-orthogonal_vectors⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Warmer_Ice_Cream?⠀⇛
What if you could tweak the recipe on ice cream to
keep it frozen at higher temperatures? The idea
comes from massive conglomerate Unilever. Among
other things, the brand owns a wide variety of ice
cream brands, from Ben & Jerry’s to the Magnum and
Cornetto lines. Instead of running freezers at the
industry standard of -18 °C (0°F), the company is
experimenting with upping the temperature to -12 °C
(10 °F) instead.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Washington_State_Legislature_Strengthens
Oversight_of_Private_Special_Education_Schools⠀⇛
Washington lawmakers voted nearly unanimously
Friday to strengthen oversight of private special
education schools that serve some of the state’s
most vulnerable public school students.
These schools, called nonpublic agencies, received
more than $50 million in public funding last school
year to serve roughly 500 public school students
with complex disabilities. But an investigation by
The Seattle Times and ProPublica revealed that weak
state oversight had allowed serious problems to
fester for years at the largest of the schools in
Washington state.
# ⚓ Teens_still_reading_books_in_age_of_social_media⠀⇛
The research, which is part of the Health Behavior
in School-aged Children (HBSC) program under the
auspices of the World Health Organization, was
conducted in the fall of 2022 with 6,250 students
from grades 6, 8 and 10. It showed that 40.7% of
adolescents in Greece aged 11, 13 and 15 years old
were reading literature outside of school during
the survey period. Girls were reading more (48.7%)
compared to boys (31.8%), and 11-year-olds (51.6%)
compared to 13-year-olds (39.8%) and 15-year-olds
(32.6%).
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Orbán_praises_Hungarian_teachers_on_day
of_nationwide_strike_–_but_fails_to_mention_the_strike⠀⇛
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Testing_Part_Stiffness?_No_Need_To_Re-invent_The
Bending_Rig⠀⇛
If one is serious about testing the stiffness of
materials or parts, there’s nothing quite like
doing your own tests. And thanks to [JanTec]’s 3-
Point Bending Test rig, there’s no need to reinvent
the wheel should one wish to do so.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Half_Crystal_Radio,_Half_Regenerative_Radio⠀⇛
A rite of passage in decades past for the
electronics experimenter was the crystal radio.
Using very few components and a long wire antenna,
such a radio could pick up AM stations with no
batteries needed, something important in the days
when a zinc-carbon cell cost a lot of pocket money.
The days of AM broadcasting may be on the wane, but
it’s still possible to make a crystal set that will
resolve stations on the FM band. [Andrea Console]
has done just that, with a VHF crystal set that
whose circuit also doubles as a regenerative
receiver when power is applied.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Messing_With_A_Cassette_Player_Never_Sounded_So
Good⠀⇛
Cassette players and tapes are fertile hacking
ground. One reason is that their electromechanical
and analog nature provides easy ways to fiddle with
their operation. For example, slow down the motor
and the playback speed changes accordingly. As long
as the head is moving across the tape, sound will
be produced. The hacking opportunities are nicely
demonstrated by [Lara Grant]’s cassette player mod
project.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ $60_Robot_Arm_Is_Compact⠀⇛
Thanks to 3D printing and inexpensive controllers,
a robot arm doesn’t need to break the bank anymore.
Case in point? [Build Some Stuff] did a good-
looking compact arm with servos for under $60. The
arm uses an interesting control mechanism, too.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Op_Amp_Contest:_Go_Down_An_Octave,_No_FFT,_No
PLL,_No_Oscillator!⠀⇛
We like a project that makes us think, and that was
certainly the case with [MS-BOSS]’s octave
downshifter that’s an entry in our current op-amp
contest. Instead of resorting to an FFT, or a PLL,
it uses a technique best described as a custom
analogue computer to implement the maths of octave
downshifting. It’s an extremely clever approach,
and we don’t mind admitting took us more than one
read to understand how it works.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ GOP_Debt_Limit_Bill_Could_Put_Over_10
Million_at_Risk_of_Losing_Medicaid:_Analysis⠀⇛
The House GOP leadership’s newly released debt
ceiling legislation would have potentially
devastating impacts on Medicaid recipients across
the United States, putting more than 10 million
low-income people at risk of losing health coverage
under the program.
# ⚓ Antivaxxers_attack_scientific_consensus_as_a_“manufactured
construct”⠀⇛
Recently, I wrote about the mistake that Neil
deGrasse Tyson made by appearing on the podcast of
antivaccine leader and influencer Del Bigtree. In
brief, I argued that it is, with only rare
exceptions, a very bad idea for a scientist,
physician, or science communicator to agree to
debate a science-denying crank like Del Bigtree. It
doesn’t much matter what the specific variety of
science denier is, either. They can be antivaxxers,
cancer quacks, climate science deniers who deny the
scientific consensus that human activity is causing
major changes to earth’s climate, or creationists
who deny the scientific consensus of evolution.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Can’t_Win,_So_They_Cheat’:_GOP_Tries_to
Keep_Abortion_Rights_Off_Ballot_After_Big_Losses⠀⇛
Last year, after the U.S. Supreme Court ended the
federal right to abortion, voters in Kansas,
California, Michigan, Vermont, Kentucky, and
Montana used the ballot initiative process to show
their support for reproductive freedom, both by
defeating GOP-backed anti-abortion measures and
approving constitutional amendments aimed at
preserving abortion access.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Democrats_Should_Make_Abortion_a_Cornerstone
Issue⠀⇛
Ballot initiatives are the best electoral
bellwether for where the abortion fight stands in
the United States in the post-Dobbs era. There were
ballot initiatives in six states in 2022 and they
revealed a remarkable consensus that cut across the
usual regional divides: The pro-choice side won not
just in blue states like Vermont and California but
also in purple states like Michigan—and even in
very red states like Montana, Kansas, and Kentucky.
In an otherwise polarized country, abortion has
become the opposite of a wedge issue. It doesn’t
matter if voters are Black or white, women or men,
Democrats or Republicans, college-educated or high
school dropouts: Overwhelming majorities of most
major demographics support a woman’s right to
control her own fertility as previously enshrined
under Roe v. Wade. When given a chance to vote for
it, they will vote for reproductive freedom.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ What’s_Next_in_Legal_Fight_over
Mifepristone?_Supreme_Court_Protects_Access_to_Abortion_Pill
for_Now⠀⇛
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday halted a ban and
other restrictions on the abortion medication
mifepristone, keeping the nation’s most popular
abortion method available for now as an appeal of
the nationwide ban on the pill plays out. The ban
was issued earlier this month by the Trump-
appointed Texas Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who ruled
the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old
approval of the drug was invalid. The case is
likely to end up before the Supreme Court again
after making its way through a lower appeals court.
We speak with Mary Ziegler, law professor at the
University of California, Davis, whose new piece
for The Atlantic is headlined “The Justices Pass on
an Abortion-Pill Ban…Until they hear a better
case.”
# ⚓ Greece ☛ Expert_warns_of_mental_toll_of_social_media⠀⇛
Is the addiction caused and fueled by social
networks a new “drug”? How has the digital world
changed our social and mental lives? Answers to
these questions are sought by Dr James Davies, an
associate professor of medical anthropology and
psychology at the University of Roehampton in
London.
In his recent work “Sedated: How Modern Capitalism
Created Our Mental Health Crisis,” Davies attempts
to explain why, while the progress in all areas of
health has been spectacular, in mental health
things are stagnant, if not worse than 40 years
ago. Davies spoke to Kathimerini about this and
other issues.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Reuters ☛ Wall_St_dips,_dollar_gains_on_mixed_earnings,
economic_worries_|_Reuters⠀⇛
“Investors are holding their breath for the
earnings reports from Alphabet and Microsoft later
in the day, and they’re worried that they may be
disappointed,” Stovall added.
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ deleting_system32\curl.exe⠀⇛
I just want to emphasize that if you install and
run Windows, your friendly provider is Microsoft.
You need to contact Microsoft for support and help
with Windows related issues. The curl.exe you have
in System32 is only provided indirectly by the curl
project and we cannot fix this problem for you. We
in fact fixed the problem in the source code
already back in December 2022.
If you have removed curl.exe or otherwise tampered
with your Windows installation, the curl project
cannot help you.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Mojang_Continues_Crackdown_on_Minecraft
‘Pirates’ [Ed: Microsoft attacking anything that resembles
what it overpaid for, even Free software clones]⠀⇛
Mojang is leaving no stone unturned in its efforts
to wipe browser-based ‘clone’ Eaglercraft off the
Internet. In addition to pursuing hosting services,
Discord, and GitHub repositories, Mojang is also
asking Google to disappear Eaglercraft from search
results. While the original developer appears to
have thrown in the towel, for now at least, others
show no sign of stopping.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Where_are_we_now_–_Microsoft_363?_Cloud
suite_suffers_another_outage⠀⇛
The outage is only the latest to hit Microsoft this
year and comes just days after a problem causing
high CPU utilization rates in some of its
infrastructure tanked the use of various services
for many users who were unable to sign into their
Microsoft 365 accounts.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Your_Messaging_Service_Should_Not_Be_a_DEA
Informant⠀⇛
The bill, named the Cooper Davis Act, is likely to
result in a host of inaccurate reports and in
companies sweeping up innocent conversations,
including discussions about past drug use or
treatment. While explicitly not required, it may
also give internet companies incentive to conduct
dragnet searches of private messages to find
protected speech that is merely indicative of
illegal behavior.
Most troubling, this bill is a template for
legislators to try to force internet companies to
report their users to law enforcement for other
unfavorable conduct or speech. This bill aims to
cut down on the illegal sales of fentanyl,
methamphetamine, and counterfeit narcotics. But
what would prevent the next bill from targeting
marijuana or the sale or purchase of abortion
pills, if a new administration deemed those drugs
unsafe or illegal for purely political reasons? As
we’ve argued many times before, once the framework
exists, it could easily be expanded.
The law targets the “unlawful sale or distribution
of fentanyl, methamphetamine” and “the unlawful
sale, distribution or manufacture of a counterfeit
controlled substance.”
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Reverse_ATMs_take_bills,_dispense_cards_as
stores_go_cashless [Ed: Terrible attack on people's
rights. Do not promote this utter junk. Cashless is for
the brainless. Look up "sheep".]⠀⇛
As stores and restaurants attempt to go
cashless, they’re installing “reverse ATMs”
that dispense stored-value cards in exchange
for greenbacks.
Why it matters: More businesses are eschewing
cash — a trend accelerated_by_the_pandemic —
but states and cities are passing_laws
banning them from doing so, in deference to
people who don’t have bank accounts or credit
cards.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Senator_Durbin’s_‘STOP_CSAM_Act’_Has_Some
Good_Ideas…_Mixed_In_With_Some_Very_Bad_Ideas_That_Will
Do_More_Harm_Than_Good⠀⇛
It’s “protect the children” season in
Congress with the return of KOSA and EARN IT,
two terrible bills that attack the internet,
and rely on people’s ignorance of how things
actually work to pretend they’re making the
internet safer, when they’re not. Added to
this is Senator Dick Durbin’s STOP CSAM Act,
which he’s been touting since February, but
only now has officially put out a press
release announcing the bill (though, he
hasn’t released the actual language of the
bill, because that would actually be helpful
to people analyzing it).
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_EARN_IT_Bill_Is_Back,_Seeking_To
Scan_Our_Messages_and_Photos⠀⇛
If EARN IT passes, we’re likely to see state
lawmakers step in and mandate scanning of
messages and other files similar to the plan
that Apple wisely walked away from last
year.
# ⚓ Washington’s_COVID-19_exposure_notification_app_to
end_May_11⠀⇛
Washington’s COVID-19 exposure notification
app is scheduled to conclude May 11 in tandem
with the end of the Public Health Emergency.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Lasting_Devastation_of_Global_Atomic_War⠀⇛
It’s sure to be a blood-soaked spring in Ukraine.
Russia’s winter offensive fell far short of
Vladimir Putin’s objectives, leaving little doubt
that the West’s conveyor belt of weaponry has aided
Ukraine’s defenses. Cease-fire negotiations have
never truly begun, while NATO has only strengthened
its forces thanks to Finland’s new membership (with
Sweden soon likely to follow). Still, tens of
thousands of people have perished; whole villages,
even cities, have been reduced to rubble; millions
of Ukrainians have poured into Poland and
elsewhere; while Russia’s brutish invasion rages on
with no end in sight.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Global_Military_Spending_Hits_All-Time_High
of_$2.24_Trillion:_Analysis⠀⇛
An annual analysis published Monday revealed that
global military spending rose to an all-time high
of over $2.2 trillion last year, driven largely by
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Western
response, as well as the steadily increasing
Pentagon budget in the United States.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ MaxBytes:_Former_U.K._Prime_Minister_Gordon
Brown_Challenged_on_Ukraine⠀⇛
Max Jones attended a panel hosted by the University
of Southern California’s Center for Political
Future featuring former Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom, Gordon Brown.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Drone_packed_with_explosives_found_in_Moscow
region_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A drone stuffed with explosives has been found in
the Moscow Region, TASS and Baza reported.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Head_of_annexed_Sevastopol_announces_nighttime
drone_attack_on_city_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Mikhail Razvozhayev, governor of annexed
Sevastopol, reported that on the night of Monday,
April 24, the city was attacked by surface drones.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ War,_What_Is_It_Good_For?⠀⇛
The American experience of war since 1945 should
have offered an all-too-obvious lesson for us, as
well as for the planet’s other great powers, when
it comes to the value of giant military
establishments and the conflicts that go with them.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ When_Will_Great_Military_Powers_Ever
Learn?⠀⇛
I was born on July 20, 1944, amid a vast global
conflict already known as World War II. Though it
ended with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in August 1945 before I could say much
more than “Mama” or “Dada,” in some strange
fashion, I grew up at war.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Red_Cross_Continues_To_Want_To_Pretend_That
Video_Game_Wars_Are_IRL_Wars⠀⇛
I think I can state the following without
controversy: video games are, by and large, a path
for escaping the real world for the sake of
entertainment. The idea is that the real world can
be a place that we want to get away from, diving
into some fantasy world where the same rules don’t
apply, our mundane tasks don’t exist, and we can do
things digitally that we would never even consider
doing in real life. I, for instance, have not even
one single time stomped a turtle to death only to
pick up its carcass-shell to be thrown at one of my
enemies. And yet I’m a fan of the Super Mario Bros.
series of games.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Sudan_Will_Be_“Nightmare_Beyond_Belief”_If
Conflict_Grows,_Warns_Humanitarian_Leader_Jan_Egeland⠀⇛
As fighting continues in Sudan between the military
and the paramilitary group known as the Rapid
Support Forces, we speak with Norwegian Refugee
Council head Jan Egeland, who says humanitarian
work in the country has been paralyzed as a result
of the power struggle. “There is hardly any
humanitarian work in large parts of Sudan,” says
Egeland, who adds that the conflict has already
devolved into a war that “will be impossible to
stop if it lasts for much longer.”
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Sudan:_Death_Toll_Tops_420_as_Fear_Grows
That_Fighting_Between_Rival_Generals_Could_Lead_to_Proxy
War⠀⇛
The United States and other countries moved to
evacuate diplomats and citizens from Sudan over the
weekend amid fighting between rival military
factions that’s killed at least 420 people and
injured over 3,700 more, in a crisis that began on
April 15 when the Sudanese military and the
paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support
Forces began exchanging fire in the capital
Khartoum, further dashing hopes of a return of
civilian rule in the country. CNN reports the
powerful Russian mercenary group Wagner has backed
the RSF by providing the paramilitaries with
surface-to-air missiles. Wagner founder Yevgeny
Prigozhin has denied the report but offered on
Friday to act as a mediator between the two warring
factions. Meanwhile, many residents remain trapped
in Khartoum with dwindling supplies of food, water,
medicine and power. For more on the crisis, we
speak with Khalid Mustafa Medani, associate
professor of political science and Islamic studies
who chairs the African Studies Program at McGill
University. He says neither side has much support
from the civilian population, which has shown an
overwhelming commitment to a democratic transition.
“It’s not so much a civil war, but essentially a
fight to the death between two generals,” says
Medani.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ May_9_Victory_Day_parade_in_St._Petersburg_will
reportedly_lack_an_air_show_—_Meduza⠀⇛
In St. Petersburg, the annual May 9 Victory Day
parade will take place this year with no air show,
reports Petersburg publication Fontanka.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ TASS:_Vnukovo_International_Airport_closes
airspace_following_drone_sighting_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The airspace above Moscow’s Vnukovo airport is
closed after a drone was allegedly spotted in the
area, reports TASS, citing emergency services.
# ⚓ Turkey_remains_15th_largest_military_spender_in_world
despite_drop_in_expenses⠀⇛
Despite the decrease over the past three years,
Turkey remains the 15th largest spender on military
in the world, and the seventh largest in Europe,
according to a new SIPRI report.
# ⚓ Defense_Ministers_of_Turkey,_Russia,_Syria_and_Iran_to_meet
in_Moscow⠀⇛
Defense Minister of Turkey announced that the
meeting where the defense ministers and heads of
intelligence services of the four countries will
meet is planned to take place in Moscow tomorrow.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Presidential_spox:_Putin_is_‘as_mega-active_as
ever’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian president,
called rumors that Vladimir Putin has body doubles
“a lie.” His remarks came during a speech at an
educational marathon, where leaders in culture and
business speak on topics like artificial
intelligence and intercultural communication.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Former_prime_minister_of_Kazakhstan,_arrested
during_last_year’s_uprising,_sentenced_to_18_years_in_prison
—_Meduza⠀⇛
A court in Astana sentenced Karim Massimov, former
prime minister and head of the National Security
Committee of Kazakhstan to 18 years in prison,
reports Interfax. Massimov was arrested during mass
civil unrest in Kazakhstan in January 2022.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ New_York_Court_Rules_State_Police_Can’t_Keep
Hiding_Its_Misconduct_Records_From_The_Public⠀⇛
In 2020, the New York State legislature finally
took a tool of opacity out of law enforcement’s
hands. For forty years, law enforcement agencies
had the option of rejecting officer misconduct
records requests by citing 50-a, the law that said
these records could be considered exempt from the
state’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL).
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘This_Must_Stop,’_Say_Climate_Activists
Targeting_US_Banks’_Fossil_Fuel_Financing⠀⇛
Demanding an end to fossil fuel financing amid a
worsening planetary emergency, climate and
environmental justice campaigners on Monday staged
coordinated protests in three cities against a trio
of the biggest U.S. banks a day ahead of their
annual shareholder meetings.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden_Admin_Further_Endorses_Disastrous_MVP
While_Claiming_Environmental_Justice_Support⠀⇛
Climate advocates on Monday denounced the
“hypocrisy” of the Biden administration, which
doubled down on the White House’s push for the
completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline late
last week, just as President Joe Biden was pledging
a renewed commitment to environmental justice.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Climate_Coalition_to_UK_Government:_‘You
Had_Your_Chance—Now_We’re_Stepping_It_Up’⠀⇛
They gave British leaders until Monday to engage
with their demands or face a renewed wave of civil
disobedience, and as their deadline passed without
a response, climate campaigners had a new message
for the right-wing U.K. government: “You had your
chance—now we’re stepping it up.”
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ A_Texas_Shrimper_Led_a_Fight_to_Stop_Plastic
Pollution._Now_She’s_Won_the_“Green_Nobel_Prize”⠀⇛
Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation South Texas
shrimper who took on a multi-billion dollar
corporate polluter in court and won, has received a
2023 Goldman Prize for environmental activism.
Wilson’s $50 million settlement with Formosa
Plastics Corp. – for illegal pollution of the bays
surrounding its Point Comfort, Texas plant – is the
largest monetary settlement to date in a lawsuit
brought by a private individual under the Clean
Water Act, according to Texas RioGrande Aid, the
legal aid agency that represented Wilson.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Goldman_Prize_Goes_to_Activists_Who_Scored
Huge_Victories_Over_Corporate_Polluters⠀⇛
Activists from Zambia, Indonesia, Turkey, Finland,
Brazil, and the United States were awarded the 2023
Goldman Environmental Prize on Monday for fighting
destructive mining projects, working to protect
imperiled marine ecosystems, shielding Indigenous
land from corporate plunder, and holding a powerful
plastics company accountable for dumping toxic
waste on Texas’ Gulf Coast.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ The_Federal_Government_Accidentally_Burned
Down_Their_Houses,_Then_Made_It_Hard_to_Come_Home⠀⇛
The wildfire had already burned 160 square miles of
northern New Mexico forest last spring when it
suddenly surged ahead, reducing to ash the cozy
cabin David Martinez had built for himself more
than two decades earlier.
Martinez, now 64, had fled days before, one of
15,000 people ordered to leave as the fire spread.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ H2 View ☛ Netherlands_and_UK_expand_energy
collaboration⠀⇛
The Netherlands is starting to join the
renewables dots after announcing plans for a
wind powered-connected electricity link to
the UK.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ US_Supreme_Court’s_Blow_to_Big_Oil
‘Should_Open_the_Floodgates_for_More_Lawsuits’⠀⇛
Campaigners and frontline communities
celebrated Monday after the U.S. Supreme
Court declined to hear five appeals from
major fossil fuel companies hoping to shift
climate liability cases from state to federal
court, where polluters are more likely to
prevail.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Busy_Cheetahs,_Critical_Lions,
Surging_Tigers_and_Other_Big_Cat_News⠀⇛
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ Microsoft_Again_Beats_Challenge_to_401(k)
Plan’s_BlackRock_Funds⠀⇛
The amended complaint against Microsoft includes
new comparisons and metrics for judging the
BlackRock funds, but these changes aren’t enough to
state a viable claim for fiduciary imprudence under
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the
court said.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ State_Duma_to_consider_bill_on_30-percent_income
tax_withholding_for_Russians_working_from_abroad_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A new bill on taxing remote workers has been
submitted for consideration by Russia’s State Duma.
If passed, it’ll require employers to withhold 30
percent of the income earned by employees
considered tax non-residents in Russia. Russians
working abroad but maintaining their resident
status will be taxed at the base rate of 13–15
percent.
# ⚓ Cybernews ☛ Alphabet_CEO_took_home_$220m_in_2022:_nice_work
if_you_can_get_it⠀⇛
Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Alphabet,
Google’s parent company, remains one of America’s
best paid CEOs. He was compensated a total of $220
million in 2022 – and that doesn’t even include the
vast sum spent on his security expenses.
Filings published late last week show Pichai was
awarded a big chunk of shares worth more than $218
million last year. His base annual salary of $2
million hasn’t moved since 2020, and besides that
Alphabet allocated almost $6 million towards
Pichai’s personal security.
Other Alphabet executives, including Prabhakar
Raghavan, senior vice president of Google’s
knowledge and information, and chief business
officer Philipp Schindler both made around $37
million. They’re also awarded shares every year.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Pity_about_the_corporate_treason;_PWC
is_back_winning_juicy_government_contracts⠀⇛
PwC leaked secret tax data from its government work
to foreign tax avoiders, potentially costing
Australians billions. Like nothing ever happened,
they are now picking up multimillion dollar public
contracts again. Callum Foote reports.
Three months on from revelations that consultancy
firm PWC leaked confidential government briefings
to its private clients, assisting them in creating
tax avoidance structures, the global giant is back
working for government agencies. Fact is, they
never left. Just one partner copped a license ban
and the firm agreed to – be slapped with a wet
compliance lettuce – engage in an ethics program.
# ⚓ Forbes ☛ 2023_Layoff_Tracker:_3M_Lays_Off_6,000_While
Disney_Cuts_4,000⠀⇛
3M on Tuesday started implementing its second wave
of layoffs in recent months, as part of a massive
restructuring plan aimed at cutting annual costs by
as much as $900 million, while Disney began its
second wave of layoffs Monday as part of a massive
restructuring plan announced earlier this year—as
high inflation and economic instability continue to
push major U.S. firms to reduce their head counts.
# ⚓ NDTV ☛ “My_Heart_Goes_Out_To…”:_Meta_Employee_Writes
Heartfelt_Note_On_Getting_Sacked⠀⇛
The information technology (IT) industry is
experiencing employment losses in all areas, from
large layoffs at Meta, Google, Amazon, and
Microsoft to small companies and apps.
An ex-Meta employee’s post on LinkedIn is going
viral at a time when the corporate world is
discussing the recent layoffs in the sector.
The post was written by Micah Vono, who, according
to his LinkedIn profile, worked at Meta as a
content programme manager.
# ⚓ People_Are_Getting_Laid_Off⠀⇛
There seems to be no apparent evidence to support
layoffs in this lucrative industry, and there is
plenty of money in the coffers of these firms to
retain their staff. However, these companies
continue to piggyback on each other, with
Microsoft, Google, Meta ( Facebook ), IBM,
Salesforce, and Amazon making sweeping cuts,
according to UNSW Newsroom.
# ⚓ Ocado_closes_centre_as_grocery_inflation_dips⠀⇛
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Grandpa,_Tell_Me_About_the_Time_the_Supreme
Court_Picked_a_Fight_with_the_Future⠀⇛
Major media outlets often describe the six justices
who make up the far-right majority on the Supreme
Court simply as conservatives, but they are much
more than that. In a very real sense, they are
revolutionaries, kindred spirits who are using
their judicial power to remake America. And the
fact a majority of Americans don’t approve isn’t
slowing them down.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Why_Trump_Shouldn’t_Be_Allowed_to_Run_in
2024⠀⇛
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Elon_Seems_To_Think_The_Cruelest_Thing_He_Can_Do
To_People…_Is_To_Pretend_They_Want_To_Associate_With_Him⠀⇛
Let’s start this post out by noting that a key
reason Elon Musk said he was getting rid of the
legacy Twitter verification system was that it was
arbitrary and unfair and created a “lords and
peasants” scenario. Keep that in mind, because
you’re going to want to remember that by the end of
this article.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Is_the_Hungarian_government_training
diplomats_in_a_crash_course?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungarian_government_reaches_technical
agreement_on_most_valuable_EU_reform⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Tucker_Carlson,_‘Purveyor_of_Hate,’_Out_at
Fox⠀⇛
Less than a week after avoiding a trial regarding
its election lies with a $787.5 million settlement,
Fox News announced on Monday that its top-rated
prime-time host, Tucker Carlson, is leaving the
network effective immediately.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Small_Town_Libraries_Don’t_Want_Imported
Book_Bans⠀⇛
Growing up in Milwaukee, the local branch of the
public library was always just a bus ride away. But
when my family moved to central Pennsylvania when I
was entering high school, we lived in a rural
region that didn’t even have a public library.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Former_Wagner_Group_commander,_who_described
killing_children_in_Ukraine,_brought_in_for_questioning_in
Saratov_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Vladimir Osechkin, founder of the anti-corruption
project Gulagu.net, says that former Wagner Group
commander Azamat Uldarov has been brought in for
questioning in the Saratov region. Uldarov recently
described killing children as well as fellow
mercenaries who refused to obey orders in Ukraine.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Does_that_make_me_Charon?’_In_her_fiction,_Polina
Barskova_is_determined_to_see_through_‘the_endless_shimmer_of
untruths,_half-truths,_and_pseudo-truths.’_Anna_Razumnaya
reviews_her_new_book._—_Meduza⠀⇛
When talking about her birth city, the American
scholar and Russian writer Polina Barskova prefers
to speak of it as “Leningrad–Petersburg.” This is
deliberate. The city’s composite identity, built up
over time in layers, cannot, she intimates, be
either embraced or disowned piecemeal. As a
historian, she is conscious of the propaganda aims
implicit in each of those names: the Soviet
ambitions written into “Leningrad” and the older
imperial claims etched into “St. Petersburg.” As a
poet, she is sensitive to the clash between the
intimate lives of real people and their monolithic
representations in the so-called “historical
memory.” In a recent interview, she described those
narratives as an “endless shimmer of untruths,
half-truths, and pseudo-truths.” Barskova’s Living
Pictures is a collection of stories about learning
to see through this shimmering web, which proves to
stretch far beyond Russia and its peculiar
problems. Set in places as diverse as San
Francisco, small-town Massachusetts, Siberia, and
(of course) Leningrad–Petersburg, these stories
come forward as searchingly intimate and by turns
tender, sensuous, macabre, absurd, ambivalent, yet
always immensely and movingly vulnerable. Anna
Razumnaya discusses Polina Barskova’s new book and
what makes it such a superbly satisfying read.
# ⚓ Police_prevent_Armenian_Genocide_commemoration_in
İstanbul⠀⇛
The event that had taken place in Sultanahmet could
not be held in the last for years due to the bans
and the pandemic.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘“Nureyev”_will_live_on,_in_freedom’_Stage
director_Kirill_Serebrennikov_on_the_Bolshoi-banished_ballet
and_why_Rudolf_Nureyev’s_story_matters_today_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Last week, Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater dropped Kirill
Serebrennikov’s “Nureyev,” a ballet production
celebrating the Soviet-born star dancer and
choreographer, from its repertoire. In a series of
Telegram posts, Serebrennikov responded to the
cancelation, objecting to the theater’s General
Manager Vladimir Urin, who said that the decision
to permanently cancel the show was “only natural”
in view of Russia’s new law prohibiting so-called
“LGBT propaganda.” It’s certainly true that Rudolf
Nureyev’s life did not conform to the Putinist idea
of “traditional values” any more than it fit the
Soviet canons of virtue. The bisexual dancer
defected from the Soviet Union in 1961 and never
looked back. Today, “Nureyev” is once again leaving
the Russian stage to “live in freedom.” In his
director’s statement, Kirill Serebrennikov explains
the new political significance of his ballet and
why he believes in the production’s future.
# ⚓ Why_are_April_24_remembrances_being_banned?⠀⇛
Eren Keskin, the Chairperson of Human Rights
Association who speaks to bianet about the banning
of Remembrance Days on April 24 says that the
Justice and Development Party has become the
implementer of the official ideology which they
were once complaining about.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ 300_former_foreign_correspondents_in_Moscow_demand
Lavrov_release_Evan_Gershkovich_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A group of foreign journalists who used to work in
Moscow published an open letter to Russian foreign
minister Sergei Lavrov, demanding the immediate
release of The Wall Street Journal correspondent
Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested in Russia on
espionage charges.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ What_the_UK’s_Arrest_of_a_French_Publisher_Means_for
Public_Intellectuals_the_World_Over⠀⇛
London—En route to the London Book Fair, the United
Kingdom’s long-running annual book-publishing trade fair,
a French publisher had an unusual run-in with British
border officials last week. On April 17, Ernest Moret—who
works as the foreign rights manager for France’s left-
leaning Éditions la Fabrique and as agent for the
acclaimed science fiction writer Alain Damasio—was pulled
aside for questioning at Paris’s Gare du Nord long enough
to miss his train to London. He and his colleague Stella
Magliani-Belkacem were able to catch a later train, only
to arrive at London’s St. Pancras station to yet another
surprise: plainclothes British police officers were
awaiting their arrival. Once on British soil, authorities
detained Moret, citing Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act
2000 based on his alleged involvement in either past or
future French protests regarding the wildly unpopular
pension reforms President Emmanuel Macron’s government
pushed through in mid-April.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ One_Runner’s_Journey_to_Freedom⠀⇛
Adam wakes up at dawn, before everyone else, and goes for
a run, circling the house he shares in Libya with other
migrants, most of whom, like him, are in their teens and
from the Horn of Africa. The 14-year-old is always
dressed in brightly colored sportswear. After his run—a
time when you might catch a rare glimpse of his smile—he
jumps rope a few times before returning to the house to
do some cleaning. Once the others get up, they play
foosball and table tennis. Adam is considered the best
table tennis player in the house, having learned it in
Ethiopia, where it’s popular.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 3,000_Migrants_March_Through_Mexico_to_Protest
Detention_Centers⠀⇛
As the Biden administration seeks to expand its anti-
immigration policies at the U.S.-Mexico border, thousands
of Central and South American asylum-seekers are taking
part in a march that began Sunday in southern Mexico to
protest the detention centers where migrants are being
held in the country—some after being expelled from the
United States.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ What_the_GOP_Is_Dying_to_Ban…⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Zombie_Populism_of_Today’s_GOP⠀⇛
For all the elite hand-wringing we’ve seen over the
scourge of right-wing “populism” these past seven
years, the awkward fact of the matter is that
populism has never aligned very closely with the
long-term goals of American conservatism.
Originally an uprising among the self-styled
producing classes of the early industrial age,
Populism sought to broaden and deepen the
fundamental precepts of American democracy via the
direct election of senators, popular ballot
initiatives, and a new system of currency designed
to reward labor over the speculative accumulation
of capital.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ First_Appellate_Court_Finds_Geofence_Warrant
Unconstitutional⠀⇛
Geofence warrants, which we have written about
extensively before, are unlike typical warrants for
electronic information because they don’t name a
suspect and are not even targeted to specific
individuals or accounts. Instead, they require a
provider—almost always Google—to search its entire
reserve of user location data to identify all users
or devices located in a geographic area during a
time period specified by law enforcement.
In the Meza case, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department
deputies were investigating a homicide and had
video footage suggesting the suspects followed the
victim from one location to another before
committing the crime. To try to identify the
unknown suspects, they sought a warrant that would
force Google to turn over identifying information
for every device with a Google account that was
within any of six locations over a five hour
window. The warrant covered time periods where
people were likely to be in sensitive places, like
their homes, or driving along busy streets. In
total, police requested data for geographic area
equivalent to about 24 football fields (five to six
city blocks), which included large apartment
buildings, churches, barber shops, nail salons,
medical centers, restaurants, a public library, and
a union headquarters.
Typically, as in this case, geofence warrants lay
out a three-step process by which police are
supposed to execute the warrant: first, Google
provides anonymized identifiers for each device
within the geofenced area; second, police identify
a subset of those devices and ask Google for
additional information on where those devices
traveled over an expanded time period; and finally,
police identify a further subset of the anonymized
devices and ask Google to unmask them and provide
detailed account information for those device
owners. A judge is only involved in issuing the
initial warrant, and police have little or no
direction from the court on how they should narrow
down the devices they ultimately ask Google to
identify. This can allow the police to arbitrarily
alter the process, as they did in this case, or
attempt to unmask hundreds or even thousands of
devices, as they have in other cases.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Justice_Ministry_announces_plans_to_ban
passport_gender_marker_changes_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian Justice Ministry is planning to pass
legislation that would ban people from changing the
gender markers in their passports and other
identification documents, the agency’s head,
Konstantin Chuychenko, told state media on Monday.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ A_New_Bill_in_Oregon_Could_Target
Environmental_Protesters_as_Terrorists⠀⇛
The blue state could become the 20th in the U.S. to
enact a so-called critical infrastructure law.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 10_Years_After_Rana_Plaza,_Fast_Fashion’s
Complex_Supply_Chains_Still_Put_Workers_at_Risk⠀⇛
On April 24, 2013, a multistory garment factory
complex in Bangladesh called Rana Plaza collapsed,
killing more than 1,000 workers and injuring
another 2,500. It remains the worst accident in the
history of the apparel industry and one of the
deadliest industrial accidents in the world.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ There_Is_No_Future_for_a_Labor_Movement_That
Fails_to_Organize_at_Amazon⠀⇛
More than 1 million US workers are employed at
Amazon today—the majority at its vast network of
more than 1,300 warehouses and logistics centers,
with tens of thousands in tech centers around the
country. That’s more workers than UPS and FedEx
combined, more than the entire US auto
manufacturing industry. Another 600,000 work
internationally for the company.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Historic_Victory’:_Amazon_Contractor
Delivery_Drivers_Join_Teamsters⠀⇛
In what the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
on Monday called a “historic victory,” 84 drivers
and dispatchers in Palmdale, California have joined
the union and reached a tentative deal with an
Amazon “delivery service partner” that may be
losing its contract with the online retail giant.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Stalin_Is_Dead,Tuckums_Is_Gone,_The_Masses
Rejoice⠀⇛
In good news for America, “sentient white
supremacist bow tie,” “angry barking walrus,” and
“worst human being known to mankind” Tucker Carlson
has been unceremoniously dumped by his overlords at
Faux News, evidently not for being a racist POS
whose toxic $787.5 million lies threatened
democracy but for bad-mouthing said overlords.
America’s response: “Don’t let the door hit you on
your way out. Actually, let it.” He departed
declaring, “Let them eat bugs,” and still lying.
Thoughts and prayers.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Tucker_Carlson,_‘Purveyor_of_Hate,’_Out_at
Fox⠀⇛
Less than a week after avoiding a trial regarding
its election lies with a $787.5 million settlement,
Fox News announced on Monday that its top-rated
prime-time host, Tucker Carlson, is leaving the
network effective immediately.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Workers_Fighting_Union-Busting_May_Have_a_New
Legal_Tool_at_Their_Disposal⠀⇛
A class-action lawsuit against a California-based
grocery retailer could set a new precedent against
union-busters.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ US-Located_Chinese_Cop_Shops_Allegedly_Targeted
People_For_Comparing_President_Xi_To_Winnie_The_Pooh⠀⇛
Perhaps you may have heard the DOJ recently
arrested Chinese nationals and shuttered “Chinese
police stations” located in New York following an
investigation into the sort of foreign national
work our government tends to find repulsive, even
as it does the same thing elsewhere in the world.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ DEA’s_Fentanyl_Narrative_Clown_Car_Being
Overseen_By_A_‘Reformer’_Who_Replaced_Old_Corruption_With_Her
Own_Brand_Of_Corruption⠀⇛
The DEA has always been ridiculous when it comes to
drugs. It overplays the downside, refuses to
acknowledge any upside, and has been instrumental
in ensuring people suffering from mental health
issues are unable to access the drugs that might
help them most.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ EFF_and_ECNL’s_Comment_to_the_Meta_Oversight_Board_on
the_Term_‘Shaheed’⠀⇛
EFF recently submitted comments in partnership with
the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL)
in response to the Oversight Board’s request for
input on the moderation of the Arabic word
“shaheed.” The Oversight Board was created by Meta
in 2020 as an appellate body and has 27 members
from around the world who review contested content
moderation decisions made by the platform. The
Board opened public comment on the term after
accepting Meta’s request for a policy advisory
opinion on its approach to moderating the term
“when used to refer to individuals it classifies as
dangerous, including terrorists.”
EFF and ECNL’s comments address the over-moderation
of the word and other Arabic-language content,
particularly through the use of automated content
moderation tools. The comments also highlight the
practical difficulties of moderating the term, and
content written in the Arabic language generally
speaking due to the complexities of translating
high-context languages like Arabic.
Additionally, the comments highlight that
refraining from using automated content moderation
tools for content removal with the word “shaheed”
is “imperative for ensuring the free expression of
Arabic-speaking users.”
# ⚓ EFF ☛ California_Bill_to_Stop_Dragnet_Surveillance_of
People_Seeking_Reproductive_and_Gender-Affirming_Care_Passes
Key_Committees⠀⇛
EFF is a proud co-sponsor of A.B. 793, along with
ACLU California Action and If/When/How. The bill
targets a type of dragnet surveillance that can
compel tech companies to search their records and
reveal the identities of people who have driven
down a certain street or looked up particular
keywords online. These demands, known as “reverse
demands”, “geofence warrants,” or “keyword
warrants,” enable law enforcement in states across
the country to request the names and identities of
people whose digital data shows they’ve (for
example) spent time near a California abortion
clinic or searched for information about gender-
affirming care online. EFF has long opposed the use
of these unconstitutional warrants; following the
Dobbs decision and an increase in laws
criminalizing gender-affirming case, they pose an
even greater threat.
So far, California lawmakers seem to understand
these dangers. The bill passed on a bipartisan vote
out of the Assembly Public Safety committee on
April 11. Last week, it also passed the Assembly
Judiciary committee.
More than 50 civil liberties, reproductive justice,
healthcare equity, and LGBTQ+ advocacy groups form
the support coalition on the bill, including NARAL
Pro-Choice California, Equality California, Planned
Parenthood Affiliates of California, and the
American Nurses Association/California. The bill is
now headed to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee.
# ⚓ Erdoğan_urges_young_people_to_stay_away_from_‘pro-LGBT’
opposition⠀⇛
As the elections near, the president has resorted
to religious and anti-LGBTI+ rhetoric.
# ⚓ Over_100_journalists,_lawyers,_politicians_detained_in
raids_targeting_pro-Kurdish_groups⠀⇛
The police raided homes and offices across 21
cities. The charges are still unclear.
# ⚓ Police_officers_accused_of_torturing_child_indicted_for
‘deprivation_of_liberty’⠀⇛
The indictment has been criticized by lawyers who
argue that the prosecutors are trying to let the
perpetrators get away with their crimes.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Former_law_enforcement_officer_sentenced_to_seven
years_in_penal_colony_for_private_phone_conversations,
qualified_as_‘public’_since_phone_line_was_tapped_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A Moscow court sentenced Semiel Vedel, a former
captain of the Interior Ministry’s Internal
Service, to seven years in prison for “spreading
fakes” about the Russian military, Mediazona
reports.
# ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Defence_Fund_Appeal_–_United_Nations_Human
Rights_Committee⠀⇛
Now that precisely the same individuals who
organised the conspiracy to frame Alex Salmond are
under heavy police investigation for financial
fraud, many people are now prepared to listen who
refused to do so before.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Norwegian_Refugee_Council:_Violence,
Climate_&_Poverty_Are_Fueling_Migration_from_Central
America⠀⇛
We continue our conversation with Jan Egeland,
secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council,
who has just returned from Honduras. He calls on
the international community to do more to help in
Central America, where one in three people are in
urgent need of humanitarian aid, and gangs, drug
trafficking and violence are forcing many to flee
north. North Americans, says Egeland, must “honor
the legitimate asylum applications for protection
of people” from their “own neighborhood.”
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Dumb_State_Laws_Blocking_Community_Broadband
Could_Mar_Historic_Subsidy_Efforts⠀⇛
We’ve noted a few times how there’s an absolutely
historic infusion of more than $60 billion in
broadband subsidies on the way thanks to both COVID
relief (American Rescue Plan Act) and the recent
infrastructure bill (Infrastructure Investment and
Jobs Act).
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ Precedential_No._13:_TTAB_Allows
Cancellation_Respondent_to_Correct_Registration
Ownership⠀⇛
The underlying application for the registered
mark FAT BEAR for motor scooters was filed in
the name of Fatbear Scooters, LLC on December
19, 2019, but that entity did not exist as of
the filing date. Petitioner Phat Scooters
moved for partial summary judgment on its
claim that the registration is void ab initio
because the application was not filed by the
rightful owner of the mark. The Board,
however, allowed the respondent to correct
the misidentification because the error was
“inadvertent, made in good faith, and has
been formalized through the filing of and
issuance of the limited liability
certificate.” Phat_Scooters,_Inc._v._Fatbear
Scooters,_LLC,_Isaac_Ashkenazie_and_Isaac_D.
Ashkenazie_d/b/a_Fatbear_Scooters, 2023
USPQ2d 486 (TTAB 2023) [precedential].
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ EFF ☛ The_DMCA_Cannot_Protect_You_From_Your_Own
Words⠀⇛
This is exactly what happened recently to a
journalist who resurfaced an actor’s own
words to raise concern about his actions.
When David Choe came back into the public eye
thanks to his role in a popular Netflix
series, some people, including investigative
journalist Aura Bogado, remembered a story he
told in a 2014 podcast about sexually
assaulting a masseuse. Bogado talked about it
on Twitter and included a link to the video
clip from the podcast (which she had obtained
from fellow journalist Melissa Stetten, who
broke the story in 2014). Choe responded to
the controversy in at least two ways: by
insisting he fabricated the story, and by
using false copyright claims to try to get
the video erased from the internet.
His first strategy may be effective. The
second should not be.
The David Young Choe Foundation claims it
owns the copyright in the podcast, which may
or may not extend to the specific episode in
question. But whether or not Choe owns the
rights, Bogado’s posting of the short clip
was an obviously lawful fair use – classic
criticism and commentary, with receipts.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Leaked_EC_Plan_to_Combat_IPTV_Piracy
Disappoints_Rightsholders⠀⇛
After informing rightsholders there would be
no new legislation to tackle online piracy of
live sports, the European Commission said it
would come up with a “toolbox” to fight
illegal streams – under existing law already
dismissed by rightsholders as inadequate. The
EC’s recommendations have already leaked
online and according to reports,
rightsholders are very disappointed.
o § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
# § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_AGINUTQ_Wordo:_CALLA⠀⇛
# ⚓ Cars_and_Power_Demonstration⠀⇛
I have thought about cars a lot because ever
since I was young I have amassed a large
amount of miniatures, and here are some of
them.
Obviously, the first and foremost of cars is
to get people from one place to another. I’m
not going to discuss any aspect of this,
because it’s not my focus, and anyway smarter
people have already made enough comments
about that. I’d like to instead discuss a
more side-effect aspect, which is hinted at
in the title above.
# § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ trademarks_patents_copyrights⠀⇛
Trademarks, patents, and copyrights are
different types of intellectual property.
And they are all annoying.
So are licenses.
And all of this.
Wherever it’s a choice, MIT+Apache-2.0 dual-
license.
Same for documents if they are embedded.
# ⚓ Here_we_go_round_the_tech_failure_bush⠀⇛
And now I can’t remember what URL I submitted
that
worked the first time. I think I also changed
things on
my end in a way possibly provoking trouble. I
think when
I first submitted my gemlog URL, I had no
index.gmi file
therein. But now I do. Regardless, I’ve tried
submitting
just the URL to the gemlog directory, then
another to
the index.gmi file therein… I’ve tried
reuploading the
new post file and the index.gmi file to force
timestamp
updates… but I’m still not seeing that new
post hit
Antenna.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Dabbling_in_Dart⠀⇛
I work at a big tech company on a
programming language called Dart.
So, naturally I use it for any hobby
programming and will probably end up
writing Dart code to interact with
Gemini.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Programming/Development
# Perl_/_Raku
# Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh
* Leftovers
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ Destination_Linux_320:_The_Chumby_on_Jill’s
Treasure_Hunt!⠀⇛
This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we will
be visiting Jill’s computer museum to check out The
Chumby in Jill’s Treasure Hunt. Then we take a look
at some new offering from Pine64.
# ⚓ 320:_The_Chumby_on_Jill’s_Treasure_Hunt!⠀⇛
# ⚓ Late_Night_Linux_–_Episode_226⠀⇛
Great new releases of Fedora and Ubuntu, growing
pains as Red Hat turns 30, Firefox continues to
improve, old drive encryption can be cracked, and
KDE Korner.
# ⚓ WordPress ☛ WP_Briefing:_Episode_54:_A_Bill_of_Rights_for
the_Open_Web⠀⇛
Join WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden
Chomphosy in the 54th episode of the WordPress
Briefing as she explores the concept of the four
freedoms of open source and likens it to today’s
Bill of Rights for the open web.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Petros Koutoupis ☛ RapidDisk_9.1.0_now_available⠀⇛
RapidDisk is an advanced Linux RAM Disk which
consists of a collection of modules and an
administration tool.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Network World ☛ Understanding_Linux_file_system_types⠀⇛
You may not spend much time contemplating the
characteristics of the file systems on your Linux
system, but the differences between the various
file system types can be both interesting and
highly relevant. This article explains commands
that you can use to verify your file system types
and describes their differences.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_CyberPanel_on_Ubuntu_22.04_/
20.04⠀⇛
Hello, dear friends. In this post, you will learn
how to install CyberPanel on Ubuntu 22.04 / 20.04.
This is one of the best admin panels that we can
find for all Linux and the installation of this is
very easy.
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ VirtualBox_7_on_Fedora_38:_A_Complete
Installation_Guide⠀⇛
VirtualBox 7 + Fedora 38: The perfect combination
for virtualization enthusiasts. Our installation
guide has all the details.
# ⚓ Linux Journal ☛ Installing_and_Using_Yarn_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Yarn is a powerful JavaScript package manager that
is compatible with npm and helps automate the
process of installing, updating, configuring, and
removing npm packages. Yarn provides speed and
reliability by caching downloaded packages and
parallelizing operations. In this tutorial, we will
cover how to install both the latest version and
classic version of Yarn on Ubuntu, along with an
overview of basic Yarn commands and options.
# ⚓ How_to_install_XFCE_GUI_on_AWS_Ubuntu_EC2_Instance⠀⇛
Whether you are running Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04 or
any other version of this Linux, here we learn the
commands to install XFCE GUI on Ubuntu Linux
running on AWS EC2 Instance.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ Redis_Made_Easy:_A_Step-by-Step_Guide_to
Installing_Redis_on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛
Redis is a popular and open-source in-memory key-
value data store. It supports various data
structures such as Hash, Lists, Sets, Strings, and
many more. This tutorial will show you how to
install and configure Redis on the AlmaLinux 9
server.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Cacti_on_Rocky_Linux⠀⇛
Cacti is an open-source web-based monitoring tool
based on PHP and MySQL. This guide will teach you
how to install the cacti monitoring tool on the
Rocky Linux system.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Customize_Ubuntu_23.04_to_Look_Like
macOS⠀⇛
Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster, released in April 2023,
brings forth many exciting features. Despite
intense competition from OSes such as macOS and
Windows, Ubuntu has still managed to create a niche
for itself in the market.
If you are an Ubuntu aficionado fascinated by
macOS’s layout, you can imbibe the look and feel
onto your Ubuntu 23.04 desktop. With these basic
but effective methods, you can make Ubuntu look
like macOS.
So let’s start customizing your Ubuntu 23.04
desktop so it looks like macOS.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Slashdot ☛ KaOS_Linux_Celebrates_10_Years_with_New_ISO
Release_Featuring_Pre-Release_KDE_Plasma_6⠀⇛
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_debug_OpenShift_operators_on_a_live
cluster_using_dlv⠀⇛
Debugging operators can be tricky, especially if
the operator needs to be debugged on a live
cluster, which is useful for developing Red_Hat
OpenShift cluster operators. Remotely running delve
debugger inside the container helps in this case.
This article is about debugging operators live in
an OpenShift cluster on the fly by rebuilding the
operator container image and using go dlv remotely
through the oc port-forward.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Optimize_container_images_for_NGINX_and_Apache
HTTPd⠀⇛
Container image size matters. Let’s look at an
experiment that reduced Apache HTTP and NGINX
servers to micro container images. This article
walks through the process we used to achieve the
final result, plus how many megabytes (MB) this
approach saved.
For this experiment, we used Fedora RPMs, but a
similar approach should work in other operating
systems or container images, as you see in the list
of available images (there is an Apache HTTP server
image that uses CentOS Stream 8 and 9 RPMs).
A shortcut: If you are only interested in the
result and want to try out the micro variant of
Apache HTTP or NGINX server container images, check
out the images in the following registries.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_to_install_Red_Hat_OpenShift_Local
on_your_laptop⠀⇛
Install Red Hat OpenShift Local on your own machine
to test your applications and configurations before
deployment.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ GPT-4:_5_ways_it_can_help_your
digital_transformation [Ed: Red Hat hyping up Microsoft. Who
does this company exist to serve anyway?]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Artificial_intelligence:_6_ways_it
improves_decision-making [Ed: Did Red Hat outsource marketing
to Microsoft?]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 5_Harvard_Business_Review_articles
that_will_resonate_with_CIOs_right_now⠀⇛
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 4_ways_CIOs_are_rethinking_digital
transformation⠀⇛
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Reimagining_employee_retention:_4
tips⠀⇛
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Bits_from_Debian:_Debian_Project_Leader_Election_2023,
Jonathan_Carter_re-elected⠀⇛
The voting period for the Debian Project Leader
election has ended, with all of the votes tallied
we announce the winner is: Jonathan Carter, who has
been elected for the forth time.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Canonical_Releases_Ubuntu_23.04_with_Azure_Active_Directory
Support [Ed: Canonical markets Ubuntu to Micrtosofters]⠀⇛
Last week, Canonical announced the release of
Ubuntu 23.04. The latest version of its Linux
distribution includes improved Azure Active
Directory support, a new desktop installer, and
other enterprise-focused features.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Electronics Weekly ☛ Ros_2_robotics_software_now_on_iWave
single-board_computers_running_Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛
ROS is a software run-time and communication
protocol, intended to allow complex software to be
designed without specific hardware knowledge. Also
available on Windows and MacOS, ROS versions for
Ubuntu are linked to the version of Ubuntu.
“ROS is an open-source robot meta-operating
system,” according to iWave. “It performs
operating-system-like functions such as hardware
abstraction, low-level device control,
implementation of commonly-used functionality,
message passing between processes, and package
management. ROS also includes tools and libraries
for acquiring, constructing, writing, and running
code across multiple computers.”
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Detect_a_crying_baby_with_tinyML_and_synthetic
data⠀⇛
When a baby cries, it is almost always due to
something that is wrong, which could include, among
other things, hunger, thirst, stomach pain, or too
much noise.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Cops_ask_Android_users_to_disable_Emergency
SOS_over_accidental_911_calls_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ Delete_These_19_Malicious_Android_Apps_Now!_–
Gizchina.com⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ 10_Best_Drawing_Apps_For_Android_Phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ Lifewire ☛ Nokia_Welcomes_Android_13_and_the_April_Security
Patch_to_the_G11_Plus⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNET ☛ At_$479,_OnePlus’_First_Android_Tablet_Looks_to
Stand_Out_in_the_Crowd_–_CNET⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ Open_Source_is_Striving_in_Latin_America,_Here_is
Why!⠀⇛
Latin America is undoubtedly a thriving hub for open
source software development. The region boasts a
significant number of highly skilled open-source
developers, and the community is consistently making
remarkable strides towards creating innovative solutions
that cater to various industries.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Blitz_Adds_Full-stack_Engine_To_Next.js⠀⇛
Next.js is a popular React-based framework for
building scalable web apps. It can also be used to
build desktop apps using Tauri or Nextron, or
mobile apps using Iconic. Although it comes bare-
bones, it has a vast ecosystem and strong community
support.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ 13_Most_Used_Open-source_Free_Laravel_CMS_For
Building_Scalable_Sites_In_2023⠀⇛
What is a Laravel?
Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web application
framework that has revolutionized the way web
development is done. Created in 2011 by Taylor
Otwell, Laravel has quickly become one of the most
popular PHP frameworks in the world, and for good
reason.
# ⚓ Josef_Strzibny:_Reflections_on_my_24h_startup_challenge⠀⇛
I completed a first startup challenge I set for
myself. 24 hours and 30 days to build an MVP and
find people to try it. How it went and what’s next?
# ⚓ Jonathan Dowland ☛ Jonathan_Dowland:_Separate_hledgers⠀⇛
In a_previous_blog_post I described the use of
virtual postings to track accidental personal/
family expenses. I’ve always been uncomfortable
with that, and in hledger_1yr I outlined a
potential scheme for finally addressing the virtual
posting problem.
# ⚓ Drew DeVault ☛ Who_should_lead_us?⠀⇛
Consider these two people, each captured in the
midst of delivering a technical
talk.
Based on appearances alone, what do you think of
them?
The person on the left is a woman. She’s also
pretty young, one might infer
something about her level of experience
accordingly. I imagine that she has led
a much different life than I have, and may have a
much different perspective,
worldview, identity, and politics than I. Does she
complain about sexism and
discrimination in her work? Is she a feminist? Does
she lean left or right on
the political spectrum?
The person on the right looks like most of the
hackers I’ve met. You’ve met
someone who looks like this a thousand times. He is
a man, white and middle-aged
– that suggests a fair bit of experience. He
probably doesn’t experience or
concern himself with race or gender discrimination
in the course of his work. He
just focuses on the software. His life experiences
probably map relatively well
onto my own, and we may share a similar worldview
and identity.
Making these assumptions is a part of human nature
– it’s a useful shortcut in
many situations. But they are assumptions based
only on appearances. What are
the facts?
# § Perl / Raku⠀➾
# ⚓ Rakulang ☛ rakudoweekly:_2023.17_ReleasePeriod⠀⇛
This week saw a number of remarkable
releases: first of all a new version of
Rakudo (2023.04), which was released by
Justin DeVuyst (with the binary packages for
various Linux distributions by Claudio
Ramirez, including for the latest Ubuntu and
Fedora). This was followed up by the release
of Rakudo Star 2023.04 by Anton Oks.
# § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Bash_Examples_for_“Press_any_key_to
continue…”⠀⇛
In this article, we will explore the
techniques for detecting keypresses in Bash
scripts and how to make your script wait for
user input before proceeding. This skill is
essential when developing interactive shell
applications that require user interaction or
confirmation before executing specific
actions.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ AMLO_tests_positive_for_COVID-19,_says
it’s_‘not_serious’⠀⇛
President López Obrador has tested positive for
COVID-19 for a third time, but he says he is fine
and will return to work within the week.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Carbon_monoxide_deaths_are_climbing,_putting
families_in_peril:_‘My_son_is_lucky_to_be_alive’⠀⇛
Kristie Dusenberry, a mother and grandmother who
lives with her family on a farm in American Falls,
Idaho, knows all too well the devastating impacts
of carbon monoxide poisoning.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Dow_Jones_Losses_Deepen_In_Afternoon_Trading_As_Google,
Microsoft_Earnings_Loom⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Wall Street Journal ☛ Microsoft_Earnings_Growth_Likely
Slowed_Last_Quarter_Amid_Economic_Concerns [Ed: Notice how
they blame other companies for this "deceleration"]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Nasdaq ☛ Microsoft_(MSFT)_to_Downsize_Office_Space_With
Redmond_Exit⠀⇛
Microsoft currently occupies most of the space in
Millennium Corporate Park. CBRE is marketing
497,193 square feet out of the 537,000 square-foot
campus. This plan was followed by Microsoft’s
earlier plans to reduce office space by 1.7 million
square feet by not renewing leases in Bellevue and
Issaquah. Microsoft has also put the development of
campus expansion project on hold.
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_365_search_outage_affects
Outlook,_Teams,_and_SharePoint⠀⇛
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing issue
preventing some customers from using the search
functionality across multiple Microsoft 365
services.
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ Microsoft_will_reportedly_unbundle_Teams_from
Office_to_avoid_antitrust_concerns⠀⇛
Microsoft has agreed to stop bundling its Teams
remote collaboration software with its Office
productivity suite, according to Financial Times.
# ⚓ Salesforce’s_Tableau_to_Sublease_212,000_SQFT_In_Seattle
and_Kirkland [Ed: Proprietary monoliths perishing, leaving
empty offices]⠀⇛
Salesforce, the tech giant that owns Seattle-based
Tableau, is further contributing to the softening
office market in the area by giving up significant
amounts of office space in two Tableau buildings
located in Seattle and Kirkland, according to a
report in the Seattle Times. The company confirmed
the news in April, revealing plans to sublease
almost 120,000 square feet at the Data 1 building
in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, close to
Tableau’s headquarters, as well as an additional
92,000 square feet at Kirkland Urban, a mixed-use
development.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ LinuxInsider ☛ Lazarus_Hackers’_Linux_Malware_Linked_to_3CX
Supply-Chain_Attack [Ed: The issue here is 3CX, not
"Linux"]⠀⇛
New cyber research connects the infamous North
Korea-aligned Lazarus Group behind the Linux
malware attack called Operation DreamJob to the 3CX
supply-chain attack.
# ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Blog:_Updates_to_the_Auto-refreshing
Official_CVE_Feed⠀⇛
Since launching the Auto-refreshing_Official_CVE
feed as an alpha
feature in the 1.25 release, we have made
significant improvements and updates. We are
excited to announce the release of the
beta version of the feed. This blog post will
outline the feedback received, the changes made,
and talk about how you can help
as we prepare to make this a stable feature in a
future Kubernetes Release.
# ⚓ Golang_crypto/ecdh_and_the_TPM⠀⇛
I have lately been trying to learn more about the
Trusted Platform Module (TPM) as they are capable
of key creation and sealing secrets in a secure
manner. They are common hardware these days and
make for a reasonable ways to store secrets.
# ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Mozilla_confirms_memory_leak_in_Firefox⠀⇛
Mozilla confirmed a rare memory leak in recent
versions of its open source web browser Firefox
that occurs under rare conditions.
The organization released Firefox 112.0.1 a few
days ago, the latest stable version of the web
browser. The update addressed a issue related to
cookies in Firefox. Affected Firefox versions would
set the last used date of cookies thousands of
years in the future, which had the result that
users were logged out of web services.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ ACLU ☛ Is_the_Government_Tracking_Your_Social_Media
Activity?⠀⇛
The Biden administration has been quietly
deploying and expanding programs that surveil
what people say on social media, using tools
that allow agents and analysts to invisibly
monitor the vast amount of protected speech
that occurs online. For years, these kinds of
tools have been increasingly used for a range
of controversial law enforcement and
intelligence purposes. But some of the most
troubling programs continuously monitor the
social media posts of non-citizens to decide
who gets to live, study, or stay in the
United States.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Over_half_of_Finns_worried_about
card_security,_yet_card_payments_remain_popular_for_app
purchases [Ed: Use cash, it's a lot safer in most ways.
Better for human rights, too. It can even save your
life if mugging attempted. It's better to give away all
your cash than to give away some "smart" phone, which
typically means you lose far more than just the worth
of the phone.]⠀⇛
A recent national survey conducted by Qvik, a
Finnish mobile app development company, has
found that over half (53%) of Finnish people
are worried about the security of their bank
or credit card information when saving their
details on mobile apps for payments. However,
despite these concerns, people of almost all
ages still prefer to pay for applications on
their smartphones or tablets using a bank or
credit card.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Susan_Rice_to_leave_White_House_domestic_policy
post⠀⇛
Susan Rice, the director of the White House
Domestic Policy Council, is stepping down from her
post, President_Biden announced Monday.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_Says_Russian_Troops_Are_Evacuating
Civilians_From_Occupied_Areas_of_South⠀⇛
Russian troops are forcibly relocating residents
near the southern city of Kherson as fighting there
intensifies, Ukrainian officials said Sunday.
# ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ No,_Saudi_Arabia_did_NOT_do_9/11⠀⇛
The bombshell 911 news this past week, is that a
freshly-published court filing from Jul 2021, has
revealed at least two of the 19 alleged “hijackers”
may have been recruited by the CIA.
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Senator_proposes_bill_to_create
‘national_plan’_for_green_hydrogen⠀⇛
If the bill passes Congress, it will mandate
the nation’s energy ministry to research the
feasibility of a state-owned hydrogen
company.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Urban_sprawl_guarenteed_the_success_of
online_retail⠀⇛
(This was originally written last week, but I
didn’t get around to posting. I’ve set the publish
date to today).
A recent TV ad in Japan for the world’s largest
online retailer was supposed to highlight its
impressive automated warehouses and logistics, but
instead it served to connect the dots for me on
something I’ve been thinking about for years.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023_layoff_tracker:_The_latest_on_which_companies
have_announced_job_cuts_|_CNN_Business⠀⇛
BuzzFeed, Lyft, Whole Foods and Deloitte all
recently announced layoffs affecting thousands of
US workers. They join a growing list of companies
cutting back on their workforce this year amid
concerns about economic uncertainty, as well as the
need to rightsize after going on a hiring spree
during the pandemic.
# ⚓ ICIJ ☛ U.S._Treasury_faces_a_wave_of_criticism_over
faltering_push_to_unmask_anonymous_companies_and_track_dirty
money⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gap_Inc_to_cut_hundreds_of_jobs_in_another_round_of
layoffs:_report⠀⇛
# ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ RapidAPI,_valued_at_$1_billion_last_year,_cuts
staff_by_50%⠀⇛
Rapid (previously known as RapidAPI), a startup
that built out an API marketplace valued at $1
billion last year, is cutting 50% of its staff
TechCrunch has learned.
According to an email to employees from CEO Marc
Friend viewed by TechCrunch, the move is part of “a
significant restructuring” in an effort to “right-
size the company.”
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Cable_news_in_chaos_after_3_major_departures⠀⇛
A slew of shocking media firings, all occurring in
less than 24 hours for different reasons, has
thrown the cable news industry into a tailspin.
Why it matters: Cable news is already under
extraordinary_pressure to survive. But the drama
engulfing some of the industry’s top personnel is
putting a spotlight on how chaotic the industry has
become.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ With_14,600_millionaires,_Johannesburg_is_Africa’s
wealthiest_city⠀⇛
South Africa’s commercial capital, Johannesburg,
remains Africa’s wealthiest city.
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ At_6.24%,_inflation_drops_to_lowest
level_in_18_months⠀⇛
According to government statistics released Monday,
inflation hasn’t been lower since October 2021,
although interest rates remain high.
# ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Pluralistic:_How_Goldman_Sachs’s_“tax-loss
harvesting”_lets_the_ultra-rich_rake_in_billions_tax-free_(24
Apr_2023)⠀⇛
With the IRS Files, Propublica ripped away the veil
of performative complexity disguising the scams
that the ultra-rich use to amass billions and
billions (and billions and billions) of dollars,
paying next to no tax, or even no tax at all.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Elon_Musk_Just_Had_His_Most_Humiliating
Weekend_at_Twitter_Yet⠀⇛
Musk trolled and punished people by forcing them to
have blue checks, which were meant to be a sought-
after status symbol that would drive revenue.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Fox_Replaces_Tucker_Carlson_with_Lying_Chatbot
[Ed: Satire: sounds like a job for Microsoft. Bots that "lie"
or spread falsehoods.]⠀⇛
Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch said that the former
host had been “rendered obsolete by swift advances
in lying technology.”
# ⚓ Axios ☛ “This_changes_things_permanently”:_Tucker_Carlson
firing_stuns_conservatives⠀⇛
Primetime host Tucker Carlson’s abrupt_firingfrom
Fox News has sent shock waves throughout the
political and media ecosystem, driving a wedge
between the conservative movement and the biggest
platform in cable news.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ On_theCUBE_Pod:_Elon_Musk’s_very_bad_week
and_the_ban_on_TikTok_in_Montana⠀⇛
There’s no question that Elon Musk had a tough
week. On April 20, the Space Exploration
Technologies Corp.’s, known as SpaceX, Starship
rocket blew up just minutes after launch. Musk’s
chaotic tenure at X Corp. (formerly Twitter Inc.)
also entered an uncertain new phase as it removed
“legacy” blue checkmarks from formerly verified
accounts…
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Rishi_Sunak_took_questions_on_LinkedIn—and_no_one_mentioned
inflation,_strikes,_or_the_NHS [Ed: Microsoft controls (and censors for)
the British government]⠀⇛
Ahead of Rishi Sunak’s first event on LinkedIn, the British
prime minister invited members of the public to submit
questions that he would answer live.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ A_jury_is_weighing_up_Ed_Sheeran’s_“Thinking_Out_Loud”
against_Marvin_Gaye’s_“Let’s_Get_It_On”⠀⇛
Was Ed Sheeran’s“Thinking Out Loud”a rip-off of Marvin
Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On”?
o ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Responds_to_Ninth_Circuit_of
Appeals_Epic_v._Apple_Decision⠀⇛
Today, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Apple’s
favor in the ongoing Epic v. Apple litigation over
Apple’s App Store rules that force developers like Epic
to pay Apple up to 30% of the revenue they earn from
digital transactions in apps. Its litigation against
Google is ongoing.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ Strings_To_Numbers⠀⇛
Suppose we wish to convert strings to numbers. There are
various reasons for this; a trivial one is to colorize
IRC nicknames or by a hostname according to some
algorithm. Lagrange apparently does this to colorize
gemini capsules, so you might cheat and look at how it
does that. Hostnames are already numbers, sequences of
them, though we may want to color particular hosts in
particular ways, maybe hosts under .com should be similar
to one another. Another and more typical way would be to
feed the sequence of numbers into a hash function, a
digital equivalent of sausage.
o ⚓ A_rub,_or_a_couple_rubs⠀⇛
Well, I’ve got a rub or two that I’d love to discuss. Not
as dramatic
as death, only as dramatic as taxes. The rubs in question
have to do
with sustainable living, and the so-called Green
Movement. The former
concept I really appreciate, the latter I view as a form
of societal
cancer.
* § Technical⠀➾
o § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Exposed_Capsule_Directories⠀⇛
My capsule currently uses Jetforce, a Python-based
Gemini server. I’ve been quite happy with its
versatility and ease of setup, and I think it works
well for anyone who wants a no-nonsense hosting
solution.
The invocation for Jetforce includes an “–index-
file FILE” flag, which tells the server to check if
a given directory contains a file named “FILE”, and
if so, serve that file instead of listing the
directory’s contents. I have enabled this flag on
my server, as I suspect most others have. If the
index file is not present, the server still lists
the directory’s contents. I did not take this fact
into mind–I simply assumed the server would give a
resource-not-found error.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o Programming/Development
* Leftovers
o Proprietary
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Kernel_Podcast:_S2E4_–_2023/04/24⠀⇛
Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 6.3,
noting, “It’s been a calm release this time around,
and the last week was really no different. So here
we are, right on schedule”. As usual, the
KernelNewbies website has a summary_of_Linux_6.3,
including links to the appropriate LWN (Linux
Weekly News) articles with deep dives for each new
feature (if you like this podcast and want to
support Linux Kernel journalism, please subscribe
to_Linux_Weekly_News).
Linux 6.3 includes additional support for the Rust
programming language, a new red-black tree data
structure for BPF programs, and the removal of a
large number of legacy Arm systems.
With the release of Linux 6.3 comes the opening of
the “merge window” (period of time during which
disruptive changes are allowed to be merged into
the kernel source code) for what will be Linux 6.4
in another couple of months. The next podcast
release will include a full summary.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ The_6.3_kernel_is_released⠀⇛
Significant changes in this release include the
removal of a lot of obsolete Arm board files and
drivers, ongoing improvements to the (still
minimal) Rust language support, red-black trees for
BPF programs, ID-mapped mounts for tmpfs
filesystems, BIG TCP support for IPv4, support for
non-executable memfds, the hwnoise jitter-
measurement tool, and a lot more. See the LWN
merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the
(in-progress) KernelNewbies 6.3 page for more
information.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Machine_Learning_in_Linux:_Upscaler_–_upscale
and_enhance_images [Ed: CEO quoted and positive spin]⠀⇛
Our Machine Learning in Linux series focuses on
apps that make it easy to experiment with machine
learning.
Upscaler is GUI GTK4 software that uses
sophisticated AI models to enhance your images by
guessing what the details could be. It’s free and
open source software.
There’s a similar project we’ve reviewed called
Upscayler. Upscaler is a different project, but
both Upscaler and Upscayler are GUI frontends for
Real-ESRGAN, software which creates practical
algorithms for general image/video restoration.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives_to_popular_CLI_tools_for_Linux⠀⇛
One of the many strengths of Linux is that there
are lots of choices.
This series looks at alternatives to popular CLI
tools. Many of them are classic commands that have
been modernised in some way, such as written in a
funky programming language with additional
functionality added. The alternatives are not
necessarily drop-in replacements. The vast majority
of alternatives offer a CLI, but we don’t exclude
GUI tools.
This is a new series, so bear with us while we ramp
up the compilation.
All the software featured here is free and open
source.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ How_to_Enable_AppImage_Support_in_Ubuntu
23.04⠀⇛
If you’re an avid user of AppImages wondering why
they don’t appear to work in Ubuntu 23.04, I’ve got
you covered.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Optimise_your_ROS_snap_–_Part_5⠀⇛
Welcome to Part 5 of our “Optimise your ROS snap”
blog series. Make sure to check Part 4. This fifth
part is going to cover two different optimisations.
The first one, covers the compression algorithm.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Set_Up_Linux_and_Linux_Apps_on_a
Windows_PC⠀⇛
Virtual machines have been around for a while—since
1999, to be precise, when VMware first introduced
the concept of virtualization. They have evolved
multiple times over the years, but the primary
purpose is still the same: to help you run a
specific operating system on top of a ‘host’
computer that works on a different OS.
Windows has a few options to choose from when it
comes to picking a virtual machine. VirtualBox,
VMware, and Bootcamp are some of the free options
you can try out. And then there’s Parallels,
Bluestacks, etc., on the proprietary side, too.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Adriaan de Groot ☛ Akonadi_with_SQLite_on_FreeBSD⠀⇛
On FreeBSD, the default database for Akonadi
is now SQLite3.
Existing users of MySQL as the database are
unaffected.
“Unaffected” is perhaps not the whole truth.
There’s an update to MySQL in the FreeBSD
ports tree which bumps the default MySQL from
5.7 to 8.0, which happened to my workstation
as well. After that, Akonadi would no longer
start because MySQL wouldn’t accept the data
directory. This is what I found in ~/.local/
share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err: [..].
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ What’s_new_in_GNOME_44⠀⇛
I use GNOME as my primary desktop environment
on my Linux PC at home. GNOME gives me an
easy-to-use graphical desktop that provides
the flexibility I need yet doesn’t get in my
way when I focus on my work.
GNOME recently released GNOME 44 with a bunch
of new features. I reached out to the GNOME
team to ask about the latest version and what
was in it. Here’s what team members Caroline
Henriksen (brand manager), Matthias Clasen
(GNOME developer and release team member),
and Allan Day (design team) had to share.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Xorg_back_to_old-school_without_libinput⠀⇛
The Easy Dunfell-series does not have ‘xf86-input-
libinput’ nor
‘libinput’ packages. Doesn’t have ‘xf86-input-tslib’ nor
‘tslib’ packages either.
For the Kirstone-series, decided to get more “with it”
and added the above packages. However, ‘xf86-input-tslib’
crashes Xorg on my Acer Aspire 3 laptop. Which doesn’t
have a touchscreen.
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Arch-based_blendOS_has_a_Cool_Trick_up_its
Sleeve⠀⇛
Imagine being able to install apps from Arch,
Fedora, Ubuntu, Android, and even the web onto a
single distribution. That’s what blendOS does.
Created by the same maintainer as Ubuntu Unity,
blendOS allows you to use the native Arch package
manager (pacman), as well as dnf (from Fedora) and
apt (from Ubuntu). Both dnf and apt are made
available as containers by way of the Podman
container runtime engine (with a bit of help from
Distrobox for init and NVIDIA driver support).
Even though blendOS is based on Arch Linux, the
developers have made it such that you can use any
app from a supported distro. On top of that, you
can choose between either the GNOME or KDE Plasma
desktop.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red_Hat_Layoffs_Help_Company_‘Compete_In_a_New
Environment’⠀⇛
Early Monday morning, Matt Hicks, who has served as
the company’s president and CEO for less than a
year, sent a company-wide email announcing the Red
Hat layoffs.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ IBM_pauses_counting_its_billions_to_trim
Red_Hat_staff⠀⇛
On Monday, Matt Hicks, CEO of IBM-owned Red Hat,
said the Linux distro maker plans to lay off just
under four percent of its roughly 20,000 person
workforce, which amounts to less than 800 people.
In a published note, Hicks said the staff
reductions will occur over the next few months.
“Our reductions will focus on general and
administrative and similar roles across all
functions and represent a reduction of just under
four percent in total,” he said. “We will not
reduce roles directly selling to customers or
building our products.”
# ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_The_Community_Platform
Engineering_F2F_2023_Experience_–_Part_I⠀⇛
The Community_Platform_Engineering_team is a Red
Hat-sponsored team dedicated to the Fedora_Project
and CentOS_Project that contributes to developing
limited-scoped projects called initiatives,
maintaining the community infrastructure, and
helping manage releases of our offerings. As a
remote-only team, the members were unable to get
many opportunities to strategize the next big thing
as a team and to bond with their fellow teammates
beyond the scope of the designated work. Owing to
the fact that the last team face-to-face meeting
took place in Waterford City, Ireland in 2019, it
became necessary for the team to meet up again when
the travel restrictions started loosening up. After
all, the popular saying “absence makes the heart
grow fonder” applies to everyone — even to
community members and teammates, right?
Barcelona, Spain was selected as the destination
for the team face-to-face meeting and the duration
was picked to be from 20th March 2023 to 23rd March
2023. As this was going to be one of the first
times that people started embarking on travels
again after a long spell of inactivity during
COVID-19, the management made sure to begin the
travel planning and event management well in
advance to account for everyone in the team. This
was no small feat to achieve considering the fact
that the team had grown significantly since the
last team face-to-face meeting; both in terms of
member counts and scope diversity. The common
accommodation point was chosen to be Hotel_Abba
Balmoral,_Barcelona for the entire team, which is
located at the very heart of the city and around a
walking distance from the nearest Red_Hat_office.
# ⚓ Fedora_Infrastructure_Status:_FMN_frontend_outage⠀⇛
FMN’s web interface will be inaccessible during the
outage, but the backend service that sends
notifications will keep running. No notification
will be lost.
# ⚓ NeuroFedora ☛ The_NeuroFedora_Blog:_Next_Open_NeuroFedora
meeting:_24_April_1300_UTC⠀⇛
Please join us at the next regular Open NeuroFedora
team meeting on Monday 24 April at 1300 UTC. The
meeting is a public meeting, and open for everyone
to attend.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu Fridge ☛ The_Fridge:_Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue
784⠀⇛
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 784
for the week of April 16 – 22, 2023. The full
version of this issue is available here.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Attention_Android_Users_—_Activate_This_New_Privacy_Setting
to_Help_Keep_Thieves_Out_of_Your_Phone_«_Android_::_Gadget
Hacks⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Billions_of_Android_users_warned_to_delete_19
apps_right_now_–_‘criminals’_may_be_hiding_on_your_phone_|
The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Nokia Mob ☛ Nokia_G11_Plus_is_receiving_Android_13_|
Nokiamob⠀⇛
# ⚓ Forbes ☛ Investors,_Take_Note:_GM,_Ford,_And_Volkswagen_Are
All_Adopting_Android_Automotive⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ BMW_drivers_can_start_unlocking_their_cars
with_Android_phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ BMW_brings_digital_car_key_support_to
Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Best_Android_Car_Stereos_For_Easy
Connectivity_–_Times_of_India_(April,_2023)⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ The_5_Best_Android_Apps_For_Editing_Videos_In
2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ Online Tech Tips ☛ Top_10_Ways_to_Turn_Flashlight_On_and
Off_in_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Central ☛ Android_users_in_India_may_soon_see_a_new
alternative_to_Google_Play_Store_|_Android_Central⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Luis_Villa:_Notes_on_using_Freedom_to_block_digital
distractions⠀⇛
I’ve been using freedom.to more or less since it
launched. I was recently asked by someone howI use it,
and since it didn’t fit in the text box on that platform,
here’s a mid-ish-long set of notes on how I use it.
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Felipe_Borges:_Thanks_everyone_for_Linux_App_Summit_2023!⠀⇛
We just wrapped up the 2023 edition of Linux App
Summit here in Brno, and the conference was a
blast! I was delighted to see so many friends and
new people. I feel the future of Desktop Linux and
our ecosystem is in very good hands!
# ⚓ Joe Brockmeier ☛ Joe_Brockmeier:_See_you_at_Open_Source
Summit_North_America!⠀⇛
In just a few weeks I’m going to be dusting off the
slide clicker and giving two talks at Open_Source
Summit_North_America. I’ll be giving one talk on
databases and containers, and another talk about
working with text on Linux using Vim and other
tools. Kind of a 101 for people who might want to
delve into some command line magic for working with
text.
# ⚓ Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) ☛ Linux_Plumbers
Conference:_eBPF_&_Networking_Track⠀⇛
Linux Plumbers Conference 2023 is pleased to host
the eBPF & Networking Track!
For the fourth year in a row, the eBPF & Networking
Track is going to bring together developers,
maintainers, and other contributors from all around
the globe to discuss improvements to the Linux
kernel’s networking stack as well as BPF subsystem
and their surrounding user space ecosystems such
libraries, loaders, compiler backends, and other
related system tooling.
The gathering is designed to foster collaboration
and face to face discussion of ongoing development
topics as well as to encourage bringing new ideas
into the development community for the advancement
of both subsystems.
o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ Annual_Report:_The_Document_Foundation_in_2022⠀⇛
In 2022 we had with elections for the foundation’s
Membership Committee, along with regular Advisory
Board calls, and support for other projects and
activities (This is part of The Document
Foundation’s Annual Report for 2022 — we’ll post
the full version here soon.)
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Andy_Wingo:_structure_and_interpretation_of_nativescript⠀⇛
Greetings, hackers tall and hackers small!
We’re only a few articles in to this series on
mobile application development frameworks, but I
feel like we are already well into our journey. We
started our trip through the design space with a
look at Ionic_/_Capacitor, which defines its user
interface in terms of the web platform, and only
calls out to iOS or Android native features as
needed. We proceeded on to React_Native, which
moves closer to native by rendering to platform-
provided UI widgets, layering a cross-platform
development interface on top.
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* § Proprietary⠀➾
o ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ What_Frightens_Me_the_Most_About_Stock
Investing?_“AI”_(Microsoft,_Google,_Coca-Cola…..)_Bonus:_Crypto_and
Samsung⠀⇛
No, not the thought of living in the Future War of The
Terminator.
[...]
According to Gartner (which itself is Microsoft-
affiliated), PC shipments have fallen more than 30% in
the first quarter of 2023 vs. the comparable period last
year, and so new PCs sales are not happening. Are people
switching to Macs? Apple had the worst decline of a
single OEM. Even worst than Lenovo.
Microsoft has basically given up on demanding “TPM 2.0”
or new PCs, and has unofficially started trying to
cannibalize all the Windows 10 systems it can by waving
them through. Figuring that they’ll at least make some
extra money with all of the additional adware and spyware
if they can’t sell you on a new PC?
o ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Microsoft_earnings:_AI_hype_could_take_backseat_to
cloud_growth_troubles⠀⇛
* § Security⠀➾
o ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Monday⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (389-ds-base,
chromium, connman, curl, redis, and thunderbird), Fedora
(ceph, doctl, dr_libs, ffmpeg, freeimage, golang-github-
digitalocean-godo, insight, libreswan, mingw-binutils,
mingw-freeimage, mingw-freetype, openvswitch, rnp,
suricata, webkitgtk, and wireshark), Mageia (dnsmasq,
emacs, openimageio, php-smarty, redis, squirrel/supertux,
and tcpdump), Red Hat (emacs), and SUSE (avahi, chromium,
dmidecode, indent, jettison, openssl, openstack-cinder,
openstack-nova, python-oslo.utils, and ovmf).
o ⚓ ABC ☛ San_Bernardino_County_Sheriff’s_Department_shuts_down
internet_systems_following_recent_cyberattack⠀⇛
More than two weeks after the San Bernardino County
Sheriff’s Department was hit with a cyberattack, the
department is still working to get all of its systems
back online.
Multiple sources have told Eyewitness News that the hack
likely started after someone clicked a hyperlink that was
malicious, and that suddenly encrypted many of the
department’s systems.
o ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Yellow_Pages_Canada_confirms_cyber_attack_as
Black_Basta_leaks_data⠀⇛
Yellow Pages Group, a Canadian directory publisher has
confirmed to BleepingComputer that it has been hit by a
cyber attack.
Black Basta ransomware and extortion gang claims
responsibility for the attack and has posted sensitive
documents and data over the weekend.
Founded in 1908, the Yellow Pages Group today owns and
operates the YP.ca and YellowPages.ca websites, along
with Canada411 online service.
o ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Naivas_Supermarket’s_System_Hacked,_Data_Stolen⠀⇛
Wycliffe Musalia reports that Kenya’s Naivas supermarket
chain in Kenya has been the victim of a ransomware
incident, but the chain assures customers that certain
customer data such as payment card data was never at risk
because it is not stored on their system.
From the news report, it sounds like the company notified
law enforcement, brought in CrowdStrike, and published a
notice to consumers on Twitter on April 23.
o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Data_Bill_age-gating_worries_edtech,_gaming,
social_media_firms⠀⇛
With India retaining the age of children as below
18 in the upcoming Digital Personal Data Protection
Bill, 2022, firms across several sectors such as
edtech, gaming apart from social media are
concerned about being significantly impacted.
Experts pointed out that the international norms
for age of consent is 16 and are arguing that a
significant part of the population will have to go
through many hoops to get Internet access. They
argued that the poor’s access to videos, access to
technology and access to platform information will
get impacted further increasing the digital divide
for them.
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ UK_Threatens_End-to-End_Encryption⠀⇛
In an open letter, seven secure messaging
apps—including Signal and WhatsApp—point out that
the UK’s Online Safety Bill could destroy end-to-
end encryption: [...]
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ WhatsApp_and_Signal_Threaten_to_End_Service_in_UK
if_‘Online_Safety_Bill’_Passed⠀⇛
Meta’s WhatsApp is threatening to leave the UK if
the government passes the Online Safety Bill,
saying it will essentially eliminate its encryption
methods. Alongside its rival company Signal and
five other apps, the company said that, by passing
the bill, users will no longer be protected by end-
to-end encryption, which ensures no one but the
recipient has access to sent messages.
# ⚓ [Old] The Verge ☛ WhatsApp_says_it_will_leave_the_UK_rather
than_weaken_encryption_under_Online_Safety_Bill⠀⇛
WhatsApp’s warning follows similar threats from
another encrypted messaging app, Signal. The
president of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, said last
month that the company “would absolutely 100
percent walk [away from the UK] rather than ever
undermine the trust that people place in us to
provide a truly private means of communication.”
* § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Protests_in_France_Are_About_to_Collide_With_the
2024_Paris_Olympics⠀⇛
“No withdrawal, no Olympics.” The slogan spread across
social media after President Emmanuel Macron signed a law
raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. Hundreds of
thousands have taken to the streets in fiery protest.
Macron, who undemocratically fast-tracked the
legislation, has seen his popularity slump like a wet
baguette. A recent poll showed that if last spring’s
election between Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le
Pen were replayed today, the neofascist would trounce the
centrist president 55 percent to 45 percent. Activists
even torched the awning of one his favorite brasseries.
o ⚓ ANF News ☛ KNK:_The_genocide_at_the_hands_of_the_Ottoman_Empire
in_1915_must_be_recognised_by_Turkey⠀⇛
“Beginning on the 24th April,1915, the Ottoman Empire and
their allies began a major genocide against the local
Christians, together with a large number of Yezidi Kurds,
living in Mesopotamia and Anatolia. This genocide was led
by Ittihad and Terakki Society (The Committee of Union
and Progress), the gangs of the Special Organization
called Teşkîlât-ı Mahsûsa (a paramilitary organisation),
the The Hamidiye Regiments/Cavalries and the officers of
the Ottoman Army.
* § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
o ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Celebrating_Daniel_Ellsberg_Week:_A_Special
Episode_of_the_Project_Censored_Show_with_Kevin_Gosztola_and_Daniel
Ellsberg_–_The_Project_Censored_Show⠀⇛
NOTES: Kevin Gosztola is the managing editor of
Shadowproof, and also writes at The Dissenter. He has
covered the Julian Assange legal proceedings in the UK
from their beginning, as well as other press-freedom and
whistleblower cases. His new book on the Assange case,
Guilty of Journalism is now available in bookstores.
Daniel Ellsberg is best known for leaking classified
Pentagon documents in 1971, which revealed covert
operations against North Vietnam, as well as secret
assessments that the war could not be won, and executive-
branch lies to Congress and the US public. In the decades
since then, Ellsberg has remained an antiwar activist,
and an ally of whistleblowers. The news of his recent
diagnosis of an inoperable cancer has prompted press-
freedom advocates to declare a week of appreciation for
Ellsberg, to begin Monday April 24.
* § Environment⠀➾
o ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Supreme_Court_Rejects_Big_Oil’s_Bid_to_Derail_Climate
Liability_Lawsuits⠀⇛
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied requests from
major oil companies to intervene in climate liability
lawsuits aimed at holding fossil fuel producers
accountable for climate damages and alleged
disinformation campaigns. The court’s denial of the
industry’s petitions means that the lawsuits can advance
in state courts, where companies like ExxonMobil and
Shell could be forced to face trial.
“Big Oil companies have been desperate to avoid trials in
state courts, where they will be forced to defend their
climate lies in front of juries, and today the Supreme
Court declined to bail them out,” Richard Wiles,
president of the advocacy organization Center for Climate
Integrity, said in a statement.
o ⚓ Center for Clilmate Integrity ☛ Supreme_Court_Allows_Climate
Lawsuits_Against_Big_Oil_to_Go_Forward_in_State_Courts⠀⇛
Justices Deny Fossil Fuel Companies’ Petition to Review
Lower Court Rulings for Communities Across U.S., Removing
a Major Hurdle for Dozens of Accountability Lawsuits
Against Big Oil
o § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Interesting Engineering ☛ E-fuels:_EU-based_automaker_is
testing_‘low_carbon_fuels’_for_existing_cars⠀⇛
Amsterdam-headquartered automaker, Stellantis, is
betting on synthetic fuels, also known as e-fuels,
to keep combustion engines alive, even as the world
looks to electrify transportation in the near
future.
Formed only in 2021, Stellantis is a merger of two
legacy carmakers, the Italian Fiat Chrysler and
French Peugeot S.A. Even as the merger has plans in
place to comply with the European Union mandate to
sell only battery electric vehicles by the end of
the decade, Stellantis isn’t giving up on the
combustion engine vehicles just yet.
# ⚓ Stéphane Huc ☛ OpenBSD:_Managing_an_inverter/converter_with
NUT⠀⇛
Having an Eaton Ellipse ECO UPS, I use the NUT
project to manage it under OpenBSD.
# ⚓ Interesting Engineering ☛ Stockholm_launches_world’s_first
autonomous,_fully-electric_passenger_ferry⠀⇛
Stockholm has become the first city in the world to
launch a self-driving, fully-electric commercial
passenger ferry. The ferry, an electric catamaran
with a capacity of 25 people, will operate between
Kungsholmen and Søder Mellarstrand in Stockholm
with 15 hours of continuous electric operation
every day.
The vessel is part of a project aimed at creating
more sustainable urban mobility and attracting
international interest due to its green profile.
# ⚓ Cision News ☛ Premiere_of_the_world’s_first_self-driving
ferry⠀⇛
Stockholm launches the world’s first self-driving
commercial passenger ferry – entirely powered by
electricity. The Norwegian shipping company
Torghatten AS is behind the initiative and will
operate the passenger ferry between the Stockholm
islands of Kungsholmen and Södermalm.
* § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Supreme_Court_to_hear_cases_involving_disputes
over_public_officials_blocking_people_on_social_media⠀⇛
The two cases right now may not have the same spotlight
appeal, but the question remains: Do officials have the
right to block their critics, or is their doing that a
breach of free speech considering they work for the
public? The outcome of these cases could have profound
ramifications down the line.
o ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Why_child_safety_bills_are_popping_up_all
over_the_US⠀⇛
Bills ostensibly aimed at making the [Internet] safer for
children and teens have been popping up all over the
United States recently. Dozens of bills in states
including Utah, Arkansas, Texas, Maryland, Connecticut,
and New York have been introduced in the last few months.
They are at least partly a response to concerns,
especially among parents, over the potentially negative
impact of social media on kids’ mental health.
However, the content of these bills varies drastically
from state to state. While some aim to protect privacy,
others risk eroding it. Some could have a chilling effect
on free speech online. There’s a decent chance that many
of the measures will face legal challenges, and some
aren’t necessarily even enforceable. And altogether,
these bills will further fragment an already highly
fractured regulatory landscape across the US.
The situation is very messy and complex. But below the
surface, there are some important arguments that will
shape how tech is regulated in the US. Let me walk you
through three of the most important debates.
o ⚓ India Times ☛ Twitter_a_serious_danger_for_traditional_media’s
ability_to_control_narrative:_Elon_Musk⠀⇛
Musk has always been at the loggerheads with traditional
media.
o ⚓ India Times ☛ Coding_is_the_only_global_language,_I_wish_more
Indian_kids_learn_it:_Tim_Cook⠀⇛
In an interaction with IANS during his India visit last
week, Cook said that coding is one thing schools
worldwide including in India should embrace early in
children’s lives.
o ⚓ Arab News ☛ Tucker_Carlson_out_at_Fox_News,_network_confirms⠀⇛
Fox News said Monday it has “agreed to part ways” with
Tucker Carlson, its popular and controversial host, less
than a week after settling a lawsuit over the network’s
2020 election reporting.
The network said in a press release that the last program
of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” aired Friday.
“We thank him for his service to the network as a host
and prior to that as a contributor,” the press release
from the network said.
Carlson became Fox’s most popular personality after
replacing Bill O’Reilly in Fox’s prime-time lineup in
2016. He’s also consistently drawn headline for
controversial coverage, including most recently airing
tapes from the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection to minimize
the impact of the deadly attack.
o ⚓ Tucker_Carlson_Out_At_Fox_News,_No_New_Shows_Or_Farewell_To
Audience⠀⇛
Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News, RadarOnline.com can
confirm, after the network confirmed his shocking
departure in a statement.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Don’t_Let_the_Door_Hit_You_in_the_Ass,_Tucker
Carlson!⠀⇛
I hate to find happiness in the misfortune of others… oh,
screw that. The news that Fox fired racist misognyist
authoritarian Tucker Carlson, its top-rated host, makes
me very happy indeed. I know they’ll replace him with
someone comparably monstrous. But Carlson is a uniquely
awful monster, and his departure is good news for truth,
democracy—and women.
o § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ El País ☛ Be_careful_when_using_plant_identifying_apps,_as
they_can_be_quite_imprecise⠀⇛
A study published in the journal Plos One shows
that some of the most famous apps for identifying
plants can have accuracy as low as 4%. The
researchers used Google Lens, iNaturalist, Leaf
Snap, PlantNet, Plant Snap and Seek, with the aim
of identifying 38 species of herbaceous plants in
their natural habitats in Ireland. What they found
was that most of them yielded unreliable results;
even the best one did not exceed 88% accuracy.
# ⚓ [Old] PLOS ☛ A_repeatable_scoring_system_for_assessing
Smartphone_applications_ability_to_identify_herbaceous
plants⠀⇛
The ubiquity of Smartphone applications that aim to
identify organisms, including plants, make them
potentially useful for increasing people’s
engagement with the natural world. However, how
well such applications actually identify plants has
not been compressively investigated nor has an
easily repeatable scoring system to compare across
plant groups been developed. This study
investigated the ability of six common Smartphone
applications (Google Lens, iNaturalist, Leaf Snap,
Plant Net, Plant Snap, Seek) to identify herbaceous
plants and developed a repeatable scoring system to
assess their success. Thirty-eight species of plant
were photographed in their natural habitats using a
standard Smartphone (Samsung Galaxy A50) and
assessed in each app without image enhancement. All
apps showed considerable variation across plant
species and were better able to identify flowers
than leaves. Plant Net and Leaf Snap outperformed
the other apps. Even the higher preforming apps did
not have an accuracy above ~88% and lower scoring
apps were considerably below this. Smartphone apps
present a clear opportunity to encourage people to
engage more with plants. Their accuracy can be
good, but should not be considered excellent or
assumed to be correct, particularly if the species
in question may be toxic or otherwise problematic.
* § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
o ⚓ Wired ☛ Facebook_Made_BuzzFeed,_Then_Killed_It⠀⇛
In his memo announcing the closure of BuzzFeed’s news
operations, CEO Jonah Peretti acknowledged a grave
mistake: He hadn’t worked out that Facebook wasn’t his
friend.
o ⚓ CPJ ☛ Journalist_Kayvan_Samimi_rearrested_in_Iran,_held_in
undisclosed_location⠀⇛
On April 20, authorities in Tehran arrested Samimi, the
editor-in-chief of the state-run Iran-e Farda magazine,
and took him to an undisclosed location, according to
news reports. Samimi was due to speak on April 21 on a
panel organized by a group of Iranian journalists and
university professors, according to those reports and a
person familiar with the situation who spoke to CPJ on
the condition of anonymity, for fear of government
reprisal.
o ⚓ CPJ ☛ Chinese_journalist_Dong_Yuyu_held_since_February_2022,
facing_espionage_charges⠀⇛
On March 23, 2023, Dong’s family was notified that he
would face trial for espionage, according to that
statement and a statement by the U.S. National Press
Club. Dong’s family said they had kept his detention
private in hopes that the charges could be reduced or
dropped, but went public after they were informed that
his case would be sent to trial.
* § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ A_Group_of_Amazon_Drivers_Just_Joined_One_of
the_Biggest_Unions_in_the_US⠀⇛
Amazon drivers and dispatchers in California have joined
the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the
oldest, largest, and most powerful unions in the U.S., to
organize for better working conditions, according to an
announcement by the Teamsters on Monday.
On the same day, workers marched on Amazon’s management
offices at the warehouse to demand that the company
respect their right to unionize. This is the first time
the Teamsters have successfully organized an Amazon-
related facility.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S.,_EU,_Britain_Tighten_Sanctions_On_Iran_For_Rights
Abuses,_With_Focus_On_IRGC⠀⇛
The European Council on April 24 said it was placing
sanctions on eight individuals, with most linked to the
IRGC and its financial arm and on telecom company
Ariantel, which it said plays a key role in government
efforts to “quash dissent and critical voices in Iran.”
* § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
o ⚓ New Indian Express ☛ Boosting_connectivity_in_border_villages:
254_4G_mobile_network_towers_launched_in_Arunachal⠀⇛
The towers will connect around 70,000 people with the
fast [Internet], and among them are many villages that
have remained unconnected since independence.
These towers will provide connectivity to 336 villages,
mostly in border areas. The government has already
approved the installation of altogether 2,605 4G mobile
towers which will cater to 3,721 villages in this
frontier state.
o ⚓ APNIC ☛ The_Philippines_Internet_landscape⠀⇛
The Philippines is an archipelago comprising three major
island groups: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao with 7,641
islands at high tide and a population of 113 million
spread across roughly 2,000 of those islands. The
Philippines has 10 international subsea cable systems,
nine International Cable Landing Stations (CLS), 678
Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs), 10 local Internet
Exchange Points (IXPs), and 14 data centres currently.
o ⚓ RIPE ☛ All_We_Saw_at_SEE_11⠀⇛
On 4-5 April, the South East Europe (SEE) Internet
community gathered in the coastal town of Split, Croatia
– the same country where we held the first SEE meeting
over a decade ago. Over 100 participants from 19
countries joined to discuss developments in IPv6, BGP
security, DNS, peering, IXPs, and the local
telecommunications market.
* § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
o ⚓ Unmitigated Risk ☛ The_Evolution_and_Limitations_of_Hardware
Security_Modules⠀⇛
Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) have not substantially
evolved in the last two decades. The advent of enclave
technology, such as Intel SGX and AMD SEV, despite their
weaknesses [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9], has enabled some to build
mildly re-envisioned versions of these devices [10].
However, the solutions currently available on the market
today are far from meeting the needs of the market. In
this paper, we will explore what some of the shortcomings
of these devices look like and discuss how the market for
them has evolved.
o ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Switch_hacker_Gary_Bowser_released_from_jail,
will_pay_Nintendo_25-30%_income_‘for_the_rest_of_his_life’⠀⇛
Bowser was sentenced in February 2022 to 40 months in
prison for his part as a member of a hacking group called
Team-Xecuter, which in 2013 began creating and selling
circumvention devices enabling users to play illegal ROMs
on consoles, including Switch and 3DS.
o ⚓ 1981 Media Ltd ☛ Switch_hacker_Gary_Bowser_released_from_jail,
will_pay_Nintendo_25-30%_income_‘for_the_rest_of_his_life’⠀⇛
In order to pay off Nintendo fully under this agreement,
Bowser would have to earn at least $40 million before
taxes. Given that Bowser is 53 years old, TorrentFreak
suggests this will mean Bowser is unlikely to ever fully
clear his debt and will likely be paying Nintendo for the
rest of his life.
o ⚓ India Times ☛ Netflix_to_invest_$2.5_billion_in_South_Korean
content⠀⇛
“Netflix is delighted to confirm that we will invest USD
2.5 billion in Korea including the creation of Korean
series, films, and unscripted shows over the next four
years,” Sarandos said in a statement given to AFP
Tuesday.
* § Monopolies⠀➾
o ⚓ CNBC ☛ Apple_declares_‘resounding_victory’_after_decision_reached
in_Epic_Games_appeal⠀⇛
An appeals court on Monday mostly sided with Apple over
its App Store rules in a suit with Epic Games.
The decision signals that Apple’s control over the App
Store and the fees it charges likely won’t significantly
change as a result of an ongoing legal challenge by Epic
Games.
o ⚓ India Times ☛ Apple_cannot_ban_links_to_outside_App_Store
payments,_US_appeals_court_says⠀⇛
Apple said it may appeal the decision. The U.S. 9th
Circuit Court of Appeal upheld a 2021 order in an
antitrust case brought by “Fortnite” creator Epic Games
that could require Apple to allow developers to provide
links and buttons for third-party in-app payment options
and avoid paying sales commissions to the iPhone maker.
Apple shares ended the day up slightly at $165.33. The
appeals court sided with Apple on nine other matters in
the case, agreeing with the trial court that Apple’s App
Store rules do not violate antitrust laws and allowing
its commissions of up 30% for in-app payments to stand.
o § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Double_patenting_and_the_Brazilian
patent_practice⠀⇛
The Brazilian Patent Statute (Law #9,279/96) does
not explicitly prohibit double patenting per se.
However, as shown in the statistics set out below,
the BRPTO regularly considers double patenting.
This is based on the BRPTO’s interpretation of
Article 6 of the Patent Statute (as set out below).
# ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ AI_Inventor_and_the_Ethics_Trap
for_US_Patent_Attorneys⠀⇛
The Supreme Court denied certiorari in Thaler v.
Vidal, a case involving inventor Dr. Stephen
Thaler’s attempt to patent an invention created by
his artificial intelligence (AI) system, DABUS.
Thaler argued that DABUS, not himself or any other
human, conceived the invention and identified its
significance. However, both the United States
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Court
of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC)
maintained that US patent laws require a human
inventor, and as a result, they refused to consider
Thaler’s patent application.
In his petition to the Supreme Court, Thaler asked
if the Patent Act restricts the statutory term
“inventor” solely to human beings. The current
legal stance in the US remains that the answer to
this question is “yes,” human inventors and only
human inventors.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Intel’s_Patent_Details_Meteor_Lake’s
‘Adamantine’_L4_Cache⠀⇛
While the patent itself does not mention Meteor
Lake, images supplied with it clearly demonstrate a
processor with two high-performance Redwood Cove
and eight energy-efficient Crestmont cores on one
tile produced on Intel 4 fabrication process, a
graphics chiplet based on Intel’s Gen 12.7
architecture (Xe-LPG), an SoC tile containing two
more Crestmont cores, and an I/O chiplet
interconnected using Intel’s Foveros 3D technology.
The description corresponds to that of Intel’s
Meteor Lake processor. Meanwhile, the Adamantine L4
cache can be used for a wide array of applications
beyond Meteor Lake.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ US_Supreme_Court_snubs_that_guy_who_wants
AI_recognized_as_patent_inventors⠀⇛
This all stems from Stephen Thaler, a computer
scientist and founder of Imagination Engines, who
sued the head of the US Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO) in 2020 after his patent applications were
rejected. Thaler had filed them on behalf of his AI
system named DABUS, claiming the software came up
with the idea of a fractal food container and a
unique pattern for an emergency light beacon that
he wished to patent. Thaler put DABUS down as the
inventor in the submissions.
The USPTO, however, didn’t accept Thaler’s
paperwork since it could only consider inventions
from “natural persons” and not machines. In an
attempt to challenge the decision, Thaler and his
lawyer Ryan Abbott sued Andrei Iancu, who was the
director of the patent office at the time, in
federal court in eastern Virginia. The lawsuit was
later directed against Katherine Vidal, who took
over to lead the office in 2022.
o § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ CTV News ☛ Ed_Sheeran_hit,_Marvin_Gaye_classic_soul_of
copyright_trial⠀⇛
While the jury will hear the recordings of both
songs, probably many times, their lyrics — and
vibes — are legally insignificant. Jurors are
supposed to only consider the raw elements of
melody, harmony and rhythm that make up the
composition of “Let’s Get It On,” as documented on
sheet music filed with the United States Patent and
Trademark Office.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ed_Sheeran_Trial:_Did_He_Copy_Marvin_Gaye?
Here’s_What_to_Know.⠀⇛
Sheeran is expected to testify at the trial, which
is getting underway less than two weeks before he
plans to release a new album and begin an extensive
North American stadium tour. The case, originally
filed in 2017, has been delayed multiple times.
The music industry is keenly interested in the
outcome. Over the last decade, the business has
been rocked by a series of infringement suits that
have involved questions of just how much or how
little of the work of pop songwriters can be
protected by copyright, and how vulnerable they are
to legal challenges.
# ⚓ ABC ☛ Ed_Sheeran_to_face_trial_over_copyright_claim
involving_Marvin_Gaye’s_Let’s_Get_it_On⠀⇛
The heirs of Ed Townsend, who co-wrote the 1973
soul classic, are suing Sheeran, alleging the
English pop star’s hit 2014 tune Thinking Out Loud
has “striking similarities” to Let’s Get It On and
“overt common elements”.
# ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Did_Ed_Sheeran_hit_pilfer_Marvin_Gaye
classic?_Trial_to_tell⠀⇛
The lawsuit filed in 2017 has finally made it to a
trial that is expected to last a week in the
Manhattan federal courtroom of 95-year-old Judge
Louis L. Stanton.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ Armchair_Philosopher_on_Definition_of_Creativity⠀⇛
Recently, I got into a debate with a friend of mine about
whether AI art is.. art and whether is should be allowed
in commercial projects. He is on the position that it is
not as it can only mix and replicate existing works. Thus
not art. While I’m on the team calming that it can be and
we don’t know yet due to the lack of understanding of the
what even art **exactly** means. Also that when we
advance enough to create a special kind of AI – a full
brain simulation – it should be treated as an actual
person and thus be allowed to create art.
o ⚓ Sunrise_+_More_Birds_2023-04-24_(Fairbanks,_AK,_USA)⠀⇛
I caught this nice sunrise on the way into work, about
6am.
o ⚓ Album_#244:_B.B._King_–_Live_at_the_Regal⠀⇛
Generally speaking, I’m not a big fan of live albums.
This is a good one, but it’s still a live album. I’ve
also yet to find a way in to the blues generally, so..
this was never going to be a huge hit for me.
What does work is the energy of the whole thing. The
whole band are working together amazingly, there is just
the right amount of crowd noise – no background chatter,
but enthusiastic whoops and cheers, giving you some of
the feeling off being there. And the charisma of B. B. is
inspirational. But the songs aren’t for me, so while it
was a pleasure to listen to, I won’t be back soon.
o ⚓ Album_#243:_George_Michael_–_Faith⠀⇛
The good songs are great. There just aren’t that many
great songs on here. By the end it really starts tailing
off. It’s a quintessential solo effort after a band
breaks up: some good ideas, but too much filler.
o ⚓ When_Seemingly_Infinite_Becomes_Suddenly_Finite⠀⇛
… or, we’re buying a house!
We’ve been renting our current apartment for 4yr
now, and yesterday our bid was accepted on a house.
Needless to say, it’s been a whirlwind of a day.
Shopping for mortgages, emailing attorneys,
organizing pay stubs, etc.
But what struck me most has been the sensation that
the small routines of my life will be changed.
The little things, like the dishwasher door needing
an extra shove or the lamp chord working 25% of the time.
In our four years here I’ve come to accept them
as part of life; seemingly infinite in nature.
And then just like that, they’re finite. As I
loaded the dishwasher tonight, I thought about how
it was one of the last dozen times I would run it.
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ thoughts_on_nosurf⠀⇛
I thought back on my time when I was really active in the
nosurf subreddit. I used to be one of the three taking
care of the project around 2018/19; I helped moderate the
subreddit, build the site, write articles for the blog,
make informative threads on the forum and so on (as
anthymnx)
I left at some point because of differing opinions about
the project and personal issues. Right now I think the
sub is leaderless, accounts deleted, website is no more,
forum and blog are also gone, last time I checked.
o ⚓ On_So-Called_AI⠀⇛
The marketers are at it again, whipping up a public
frenzy with generative AI. To be fair, it’s pretty
amazing, but once again it is not what it looks like, and
the backlash will inevitably come, bringing yet another
AI winter.
History rhymes, and in case of AI it rhymes like
clockwork, in 30-year cycles. Long enough for a new
generation to come and be excited by the mass media
frenzy before forgetting all about it.
o ⚓ New_Technological_Frontiers_Pt._2⠀⇛
It was I guess “technically” the first chatbot to use
GPT-4, and I would say it is still the best one currently
on the market. Initially rolled on February 7th, it was
memed at launch. Not only did it make errors, it made
headlines when it seemingly tried to convince people it
wanted to be human, along with flirting with people.
o ⚓ Error_mounting_/dev/sdb2_wrong_fs_type,_bad_option,_bad
superblock_on_/dev/sdb2,_missing_codepage_or_helper_program,_or
other_error⠀⇛
o ⚓ Online_Gambling⠀⇛
Or maybe it should just be called gambling? I don’t know.
Regardless, the ads are everywhere. I’ve been a baseball
fan since I was a teenager. I watch the Blue Jays, and
catch most games. Previously, when the games were
available via MLB.tv, there were no ads. It was glorious:
just baseball and a wavering image during commercial
breaks. Then, a couple of years ago, Rogers (the
corporate owners of the Jays) decided to black out the
Jays on MLB.tv. If you were living in Canada, you had to
either pay up for Sportsnet Now, or, you know, sail the
high seas.
o ⚓ ESP32⠀⇛
Surprisingly, I am really fond of this device — even
though it is pretty much an undocumented hodgepodge of
weird crap. However, it is _a lot_ of weird crap in
there, and the CPU is interesting.
o ⚓ darkmode..⠀⇛
I found that about:config option
privacy.resistFingerprinting has a feature that breaks
light and dark mode css styling. so if you’re scratching
your head why websites stay stuck in light mode even if
about:config’s style changes, it is probably this.
o ⚓ notes_about_Firefox⠀⇛
/I/ prefer to not use DNS over HTTPS because I run my own
DNS servers and would prefer for everything on my network
to use them.
o ⚓ Dating_Apps_Suck_2:_Electric_Boogaloo⠀⇛
Tomorrow will be the year anniversary of the first post I
made to Gemini
[...]
I’ve come to realize that many of the things I described
are just part of the game of online dating. Being left
without a response is par for the course, along with
unprompted unmatching. I’ve even done it myself a few
times. Each time it would happen to me I would feel so
hurt, thinking “why couldn’t they have just let me down
easy with a simple no”, but after some time I’ve realized
how much worse that would feel. Likewise it’s not easy to
say no to someone. Some time after June of last year I
stopped getting completely infatuated with each person I
matched with, and after those dates with Jade in August,
I’ve stopped liking anyone I’ve matched with all
together. Sure there will be aspects that I may find
attractive, either in their appearance or something
interesting in their bio, but I come at them with a
neutral attitude, looking for things to be weary of, not
solely aspects to admire.
o ⚓ Postfix_SASL_Configuration⠀⇛
Thanks to the Free Thinker and his recent post on postfix
configuration [0]. While I was aware of port 587 and its
use, I have
been using the same postfix config for years and have
always used
port 25 for SASL authentication from remote email clients
without
much thought. I also use fail2ban on the server because
of the
non-stop SASL login attempts.
o § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Splitting_French_and_English_capsules⠀⇛
I was posting both french and english posts on this
capsule, but since I created a new one, I will only
post english posts here.
# ⚓ A_comic,_a_cameo_and_an_extraction_of_the_incorrect
essence⠀⇛
So a few years ago I was in a Discord chat for /r/
worldbuilding. I was talking to one of the mods,
who happened to be running a web comic at the time.
As it turned out, the comic is mostly horror-
themed, which is /entirely/ not my cup of tea, so I
don’t actually read it.
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