𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Saturday, May 13, 2023
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⦿ IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 12, 2023 | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
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䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
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http://techrights.org/2023/05/13/easyos-5-3/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/05/13/geminispace-org-introduced/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/05/13/mushroom-cultivation/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/05/13/ruby-3-3-0-preview1/#comments
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Devices/Embedded
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
* Leftovers
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Privatisation/Privateering
o Linux_Foundation
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Boosting_Your_Website’s_Performance_with_Nginx
Caching⠀⇛
Website performance has become an increasingly
important aspect of online success. A fast-loading
site provides a better user experience and can lead
to higher search engine rankings. One effective way
to improve your website’s performance is by
implementing Nginx caching.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Beebom ☛ How_to_Set_Environment_Variables_in_Linux_(Guide)
|_Beebom⠀⇛
Ever wondered how you get the same terminal
experience every time you open a new terminal
session in Linux? The terminal pulls the
configuration file and sets the environment
according to the values in the file and the
environment variables. But do you know what even is
an environment variable? In this article, we will
discuss what environment variables are and how to
set appropriate values for them in Linux.
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Boot_Multiple_Operating_Systems
From_One_USB_Drive_with_Ventoy⠀⇛
When it comes to installing an operating system
from scratch, users have the option to burn it onto
a flash drive, then boot into it to begin the
installation. However, if you decide to install a
different OS, you must format the drive, then burn
a new one. This process can be tedious, not to
mention time-wasting. But if you use Ventoy, an
open-source solution, you can instantly access
several installations, even without burning or
extracting them.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Notepad++_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Notepad++ on Debian 11. Whether you’re just
starting out on your coding journey or you’re a
seasoned pro, Notepad++ has everything you need to
take your coding game to the next level.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ A_Gnu_Way_to_Play:_How_to_Get_PC_Games_Running_on_Linux⠀⇛
Gnu/Linux is an open-source operating system that’s
great for programmers, but is it good for gaming?
If you are considering making the switch from
Windows to Linux, you may want to temper your
expectations just a tad. While Linux gaming is
easier than ever—Valve’s Steam Deck runs on a
version of Linux, after all—it still isn’t on par
with what you can get on Windows.
If you try to play any number of games, you will
find that some can suffer small graphical quirks or
decreased performance, while others won’t work at
all. Others may require some web searches and
command-line tweaking to get playable. However,
once you have the basics down, you will be
surprised at how many games you can get running.
# ⚓ Beebom ☛ 10_Best_Linux_Distros_for_Gaming_in_2023_|
Beebom⠀⇛
We have witnessed a lot of technological
innovations since the inception of tech, and one of
the recent improvements that’s nothing short of a
marvel is gaming on Linux. If you were to ask about
the status of Linux gaming, people would have
laughed you off saying it’s not possible to play
AAA games on Linux. But today, thanks to Valve’s
Proton and Steam Deck, Linux gaming has reached
unprecedented heights, and it continues to reach
new milestones. Hence, if you want to start your
gaming journey on Linux, here are the best Linux
distros for gaming.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Devs_Plan_Major_Changes_for_KDE_Plasma
6⠀⇛
Most of us expected that KDE Plasma 6 would
shake things up…
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 8_Things_You_Should_Do_After_Switching
to_GNOME⠀⇛
Switching desktop environments always comes
with some unsolicited troubles. You need to
configure new settings, review installed
applications, and maximize the resemblance
between your old and new desktops. When you
switch to GNOME, this hassle increases
significantly considering how unique GNOME is
compared to other Linux desktops.
Nonetheless, it is easy to get started with
GNOME. You just need to know what things you
should take care of after logging into the
desktop for the first time. You might not
find all these setups relevant, but in the
end, they’ll help you get the best of what
GNOME has to offer.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ The_power_of_Kubernetes:_IBM_works_to
simplify_the_cloud_transformation_journey [Ed: IBM-sponsored
puff piece and an example of media basically printing
whatever it gets paid to]⠀⇛
Although the acceleration of technology has led to
life-changing innovations throughout the years,
complex technologies can be tricky to fully
utilize, causing some organizations to rely on
older technologies. Kubernetes offers efficient
container management and scaling, but the
technology intimidates many developers looking to
implement them during their cloud transformation
journeys.
§ Devices/Embedded⠀➾
* ⚓ IAR_updates_model-based_design_solution_to_master_complex_designs
through_visualization⠀⇛
The latest update of IAR Visual State adds better cross-
platform support for an improved user experience on both
Windows and Linux. The state chart editor and navigator have
been unified into one application with a new look and feel, and
tabbed windows. This allows developers to have the same user
experience on both Windows and Linux. In the latest release,
IAR Visual State supports Linux Ubuntu 18 and Ubuntu 20.
* ⚓ Hackster ☛ An_Ultra-Tiny_RISC-V_Emulator_Turns_the_Raspberry_Pi_Pico
Into_a_Functional,_If_Slow,_Linux_PC_–_Hackster.io⠀⇛
Electronics engineering student Vlad Tomoiagă is looking to get
the diminutive Raspberry Pi Pico and its RP2040 microcontroller
to run a functional Linux-based operating system — by having
its Arm Cortex-M0+ cores emulate a 32-bit RISC-V chip.
“On power-up, the Linux image will be copied into RAM,”
Tomoiagă explains of his creation. “After a few seconds, Linux
kernel messages will start streaming on the console. The boot
process takes about one and a half minute[s]. A prebuilt Linux
kernel and filesystem image […] must be placed in the root of
the SD Card.”
§ Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
* ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Redesigned_Google_Home_app_for_Android_is_now_available_for
everyone_–_SamMobile⠀⇛
* ⚓ The Sun ☛ Billions_of_Android_users_warned_to_delete_‘unnecessary_app’
that_puts_phone_at_risk_of_invasion_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
* ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ Bluetooth_tags_for_Android’s_3_billion-strong_tracking
network_are_here_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛
* ⚓ WCCF Tech ☛ Pixel_7a_will_Only_Get_3_Years_of_Android_Updates,_Seems
Like_Even_Google_Does_Not_Have_Faith_in_its_Mid-Range_Lineup⠀⇛
* ⚓ TechRadar ☛ If_Google_has_forgotten_about_Android_14,_maybe_we_should,
too_|_TechRadar⠀⇛
* ⚓ Forbes ☛ Android_Circuit:_Google’s_New_Pixels,_Honor_Magic_Vs_Release
Dates,_Oppo’s_Android_14_Preview⠀⇛
* ⚓ SlashGear ☛ 10_Android_Auto_Tricks_That_Every_Driver_Needs_To_Know⠀⇛
* ⚓ The Verge ☛ 16_ways_that_Android_14_will_subtly_improve_your_phone_–
The_Verge⠀⇛
* ⚓ Business Insider ☛ OnePlus_11_Review:_Best_Value_in_a_Top-Line_Android
Phone⠀⇛
* ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_14_got_one_mention_during_the_I/O_2023_keynote⠀⇛
§ Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
* ⚓ Djalel Oukid ☛ Top_5_open-source_virtualization_software⠀⇛
The Linux ocean is rich in distributions. Therefore we need
technologies that help us dive into it and discover its
different distributions before installing them physically.Among
the technologies that facilitate such a process is
virtualization software.
* ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ 5_Amazing_Features_of_Serenity_OS⠀⇛
Some big. Some small. All awesome.
* ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Major_Open_Source_Projects:_How_much_money_do_they
actually_make?⠀⇛
Comparing the revenue of some of the biggest names in Free &
Open Source Software.
* § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
o ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ PCLinuxOS_Web_Browser_updates⠀⇛
The following web browsers have been updated and sent to
the software repository. slimjet-browser-39.0.3.0brave-
browser-1.51.114google-chrome-browser-
113.0.5672.92microsoft-edge-browser-
113.0.1774.35waterfox-G-browser-5.1.6firefox-113.0opera-
browser-98.0.4759.39chromium-ungoogled-browser-
113.0.5672.63vivaldi-browser-6.0.2979.18basilisk-browser-
2023.05.01librewolf-browser-112.0.2
o ⚓ Anne_van_Kesteren:_Contributing_to_WebKit⠀⇛
Over the last couple weeks I have looked at the WebKit
code with the intent of fixing a few things in areas of
the web platform I’m familiar with as a personal
curiosity. The code had always appeared hackable to me,
but I had never given it a go in practice. In fact, this
is the first time I have written C++ in my life! Marcos
had given me a quick guide to set up my environment and I
was off to the races.
It has been a lot of fun trying to get things to compile
and making tests pass. And also have the chance to study
how things are implemented in more detail. I wish web
standards had some of the checks available in C++. Now I
am well aware that C++ does not have the best reputation,
but English is even more error-prone. Granted, the level
of abstraction English sits at can also make things
easier.
o § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Microsoft_Wants_Firefox_to_Ditch_Google,
Switch_to_Bing⠀⇛
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* § Hardware⠀➾
o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ $14+_Allwinner_T113-S3_CPU_module_comes_with_128MB
RAM,_256MB_NAND_flash_or_4GB_eMMC_flash⠀⇛
MYiR MYC-YT113X is a low-cost solderable CPU module
powered by an Allwinner T113-S3 dual-core Cortex-A7
processor with 128MB on-chip DDR3 RAM, and fitted with
either a 256MB NAND flash or a 4GB eMMC flash for
storage. The industrial temperature grade module provides
a lower-end alternative to the company’s earlier MYC-
YT507H Allwinner T507-H Cortex-A53 CPU module, and offers
various display, camera, audio, Ethernet, USB, and low-
speed I/Os through a 140-pin stamp hole design.
o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ ASRock_unveils_Intel_Processor_N100_motherboards
with_24-pin_ATX_connector_or_DC-in_jack⠀⇛
ASRock has announced two new similar Alder Lake-
N motherboards powered by a 3.4 GHz Intel Processor N100
quad-core CPU with the N100M micro-ATX motherboard
featuring a 24-pin ATX connector for power, and the
N100DC-ITX mini-ITX motherboard getting powered through a
DC-in jack compatible with 19V power adapters.
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Peloton_Recall_Impacts_2.2_Million_Exercise
Bikes_—_“Immediately_Stop_Using_Them”⠀⇛
A Peloton recall impacts 2.2 million exercise bikes on
the market, with customers being told to immediately stop
using them. The recall affects Peloton exercise bike
model PL01, which was sold from January 2018 through May
2023.
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_Covid_Emergency_Ends,_Surveillance_Shifts_to
the_Sewers⠀⇛
With other virus tracking efforts winding down,
wastewater data is likely to become increasingly
important in the months ahead, scientists say.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Illinois_governor_signs_law_providing_disability
benefits_for_first_responders_who_contracted_COVID-19_before
vaccines_were_available⠀⇛
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law
Wednesday that will provide disability benefits to first
responders who contracted COVID-19 before vaccines were
available. House Bill (HB) 3162, known as the Act-of-Duty
Bill, previously only provided disability pay for various
physical and mental conditions, including heart attacks.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Most_COVID-19_Deaths_May_Be_The_Result_of_a
Completely_Different_Infection⠀⇛
First came the virus …
o ⚓ YLE ☛ StatFi:_Covid_changed_daily_routines⠀⇛
The coronavirus pandemic altered the everyday lives of
Finns in many different ways, according to Statistics
Finland’s latest time use survey.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ $24_billion_could_prepare_the_US_to_tackle_every_viral
pandemic_imaginable⠀⇛
Today(May 11), the covid emergency is_officially_be_over
in the US. It ended globally_last_week.
o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Covid-19:_Sinovac_vaccine_to_be_sold_in
Hong_Kong,_as_Moderna_approved_for_local_use⠀⇛
Sinovac will start selling its CoronaVac Covid-19
vaccines on the Hong Kong market this month, the Chinese
firm announced on Wednesday, according to local media.
* § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾
o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finland’s_VR_to_divest_its_25_passenger_stations
in_coming_years⠀⇛
VR on Wednesday revealed that it has decided to gradually
divest its 25 passenger stations in Finland.
The Finnish state-owned railway company stated in a_press
release that the decision aligns with the de-regulation
of passenger rail services, as well as offers cities and
municipalities an opportunity to develop the areas and
mobility services surrounding the stations.
* § Linux Foundation⠀➾
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ AI,_open_source_and_the_power_of_OmniBOR [Ed:
Cisco aren't open source. 'Linux' Foundation helps distort the
narrative.]⠀⇛
When it comes to identifying potential security risks,
examining the software bill of materials is one of the
first steps tech leaders should take, according to Ed
Warnicke, distinguished engineer at Cisco Systems Inc.
With this essential list, companies using third-party
software and distributed open-source software can
simplify their security vetting process.
⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ The_continuous_delivery_ecosystem:_Interoperability_and
security_take_center_stage [Ed: 'Linux' Foundation is literally purchasing
articles about itself. This is immoral.]⠀⇛
⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Exploring_the_intersection_of_AI,_platform_engineering_and
open-source_ecosystems:_TheCUBE’s_Open_Source_Summit_day_1_analysis [Ed:
Posting "HEY HI" (AI) hype and spam for 'Linux' Foundation, in exchange for
money; this is killing or drowning out any real journalism or inquisitive
minds]⠀⇛
⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ The_AI_tornado_and_the_future_of_open_source:_Open_Source
Summit_Day_2_kickoff_analysis [Ed: More mindless "AI" spam from 'Linux'
Foundation, paid for by proprietary software pushers]⠀⇛
⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Fidelity_Joins_FINOS’_Growing_Buy-Side_Members_Pledging_Open
Source_Adoption⠀⇛
The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), the financial services
umbrella of the Linux Foundation, today announces the addition of
Fidelity Investments (Fidelity) as its newest buy-side member joining
the foundation’s growing community of leading asset managers, hedge
funds, and financial services firms. Fidelity’s membership represents
a continued recognition of the value in open source standards,
projects, and initiatives for the entire financial services
ecosystem.
Following the memberships of Wellington Management and Point72,
FINOS’ community has seen an increase in representation from buy-side
firms, as a strong recognition of the value of FINOS open projects in
cross-constituency industry-wide collaboration.
§ Security⠀➾
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ New_‘Greatness’_Phishing-as-a-Service_Targets_Microsoft
365_Accounts [Ed: With Microsoft, there are back doors. Phishing not
required.]⠀⇛
A new phishing-as-a-service (PaaS) tool has been observed
targeting businesses, mainly in the manufacturing, healthcare,
technology, and real estate sectors.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Former_Ubiquiti_Employee_Who_Posed_as_Hacker_Sentenced
to_Prison⠀⇛
Nickolas Sharp, the former Ubiquiti employee who posed as a
hacker and attempted to extort the firm for $2 million, was
sentenced to prison.
* ⚓ Six_years_prison_for_ex-Ubiquiti_staffer_who_stole_data_and_attempted
to_extort_millions_of_dollars⠀⇛
A former software engineer at Ubiquit Networks has been sent to
prison for six years after stealing gigabytes of data from the
firm, attempting to extort millions of dollars, and harming the
company’s reputation in the media.
Back in January 2021, networking manufacturer Ubiquiti told
users to change their passwords and enable two-factor
authentication (2FA), after it realised gigabytes of
confidential data had been accessed by an unknown party on its
AWS servers and GitHub repositories the previous month.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ OpenSSF_Receives_$5_Million_for_Open_Source_Software
Security_Project [Ed: The companies behind it are close to the government
and enable security breaches; it's not open.]⠀⇛
OpenSSF has added four new members and is receiving $5 million
in funding for its Alpha-Omega open source software security
project.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ US_Probing_Cybersecurity_Risks_of_Rockwell_Automation’s
China_Operations:_Report⠀⇛
US government investigating whether the Chinese operations of
industrial giant Rockwell Automation pose a cybersecurity risk
to critical infrastructure.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Details_Disclosed_for_Exploit_Chain_That_Allows_Hacking
of_Netgear_Routers⠀⇛
Claroty has disclosed the details of 5 vulnerabilities that can
be chained in an exploit allowing unauthenticated attackers to
hack Netgear routers.
* ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Stealthier_version_of_Linux_BPFDoor_malware_spotted
in_the_wild [Ed: They get installed some way. And it's not due to
Linux.]⠀⇛
A new, stealthier variant of the Linux malware ‘BPFDoor’ has
been discovered, featuring more robust encryption and reverse
shell communications.
* ⚓ Duo ☛ Ransomware_Actors_Adopt_Leaked_Babuk_Code_to_Hit_Linux_Systems_|
Decipher [Ed: The issue is VMware (proprietary), not Linux]⠀⇛
A new report from SentinelLabs shows that more threat actors
are adopting the source code, which was stolen and leaked on a
Russian hacking forum in September 2021. In the second half of
2022 and first half of 2023, researchers identified nine
ransomware groups using VMware ESXi lockers based on the leaked
code.
* ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (postgresql-13 and
webkit2gtk), Fedora (git), SUSE (helm and skopeo), and Ubuntu
(cinder, nova, python-glance-store, and python-os-brick).
* ⚓ Herald Sun ☛ Employee_records_exposed_in_Ambulance_Victoria_data
breach⠀⇛
Confidential employee information has been exposed in a data
breach at Ambulance Victoria (AV).
The data in question is the drug and alcohol tests of
prospective graduate paramedics collected between May 2017 and
October 2018.
* ⚓ Richmond_University_Medical_Center_suffers_ransomware_attack;_unclear
if_patient_info_compromised⠀⇛
Richmond University Medical Center (RUMC) in West Brighton
experienced a recent ransomware attack that has triggered an
ongoing network outage at the hospital, an official said.
* ⚓ The Print ☛ Vehicle_data_of_over_2_million_Toyota_users_been_publicly
available_in_Japan_since_a_decade⠀⇛
Toyota Motor Corp said on Friday the vehicle data of about 2.15
million users was left publicly available in Japan for about a
decade from November 2013 to mid-April.
The incident comes as the world’s biggest automaker by sales
makes a push into vehicle connectivity that is seen as crucial
to offering services such as autonomous driving and other
artificial intelligence-backed features.
* ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Bluefield_University_cyberattack_affects_employees,
students,_and_some_students’_parents⠀⇛
n April 30, Bluefield University in Virginia discovered that
they had been the victim of a cyberattack. They announced the
attack to the community and that they had engaged cybersecurity
experts to assist in their remediation efforts. At the time,
they did not call it a ransomware attack and understandably,
did not yet know the scope and extent of the attack.
Their attempts to reassure the community that they had no
evidence of misuse of any information failed to reassure
everyone, though — especially after the individual(s)
responsible for the attack took control of the university’s
RAMAlert system to blast out a message to students. On May 2,
DataBreaches was contacted by a concerned employee who provided
this site with a screencap of the May 1 alert message.
* ⚓ UofL_cybersecurity_expert_says_size_of_Norton_Healthcare_made_it_a
target_for_hackers⠀⇛
The “cyber event” that ended with several systems being taken
offline across North Healthcare properties earlier this week
came as no surprise to Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, director of the
cybersecurity lab at the University of Louisville.
[…]
Norton continues to evaluate its computer systems after the
hacked. The hospital said Tuesday it got a suspicious message
and took several systems offline as a precaution. MyChart
services were partially restored Wednesday, and Norton has
offered no explanation or details outside of the following
written statement….
* ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Data_of_237,000_US_government_employees_breached⠀⇛
The personal information of 237,000 current and former federal
government employees has been exposed in a data breach at the
U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT), sources briefed on the
matter said on Friday.
The breach hit systems for processing TRANServe transit
benefits that reimburse government employees for some commuting
costs. It was not clear if any of the personal information had
been used for criminal purposes.
* ⚓ Illinois_Data_Breach_Exposes_Private_Information_of_Medicaid,_SNAP,_and
TANF_Recipients⠀⇛
The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS)
and Department of Human Services (IDHS) have disclosed a data
breach within the State of Illinois Application for Benefits
Eligibility (ABE) system’s Manage My Case (MMC) portal.
The ABE system is responsible for determining eligibility for
State-funded medical benefits programs (Medicaid), the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
* § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
o ⚓ SANS ☛ Geolocating_IPs_is_harder_than_you_think,_(Thu,_May
11th)⠀⇛
There are several resources available that assist in
geolocating IP addresses. Commercial offerings like
MaxMind (which also offers a free database) have a pretty
good track record in locating a particular IP address.
But still, there are several difficulties when it comes
to IP address-based geolocation.
§ Defence/Aggression⠀➾
* ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Judge_Frees_Former_Justice_Minister_Arrested
for_Brasilia_Riots⠀⇛
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Over_3,000_troops_will_ensure_security_during_Vilnius_NATO
summit⠀⇛
Over 3,000 troops will be involved in ensuring security during
the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius, the army said on Thursday.
* ⚓ Defence Web ☛ ISS:_Sudan’s_war_poses_grave_risks_for_Chad_and_CAR⠀⇛
Opponents in Sudan’s deadly clashes seem determined to continue
fighting despite repeated calls from neighbouring countries,
the African Union and United Nations for a ceasefire. The
stalemate is worrying for Sudan’s neighbours, particularly Chad
and the Central African Republic (CAR), which have previously
felt the devastating impact of deadly conflicts in the country.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Former_US_Marine_charged_with_manslaughter_in_New_York
subway_choking_death⠀⇛
A former US Marine who killed a homeless man by putting him
in a chokehold on the New York City subway will be arrested on
Friday and arraigned on a charge of manslaughter, the Manhattan
district attorney said on Thursday.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Deadly_synagogue_attack_in_Tunisia_was_premeditated,
interior_minister_says⠀⇛
A Tunisian national guardsman behind an attack that killed five
people intentionally targeted the ancient synagogue on the
Mediterranean island of Djerba in a premeditated act, Tunisia’s
interior minister said Thursday.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ 30_killed_as_violence_between_Israel_and_Gaza_escalates⠀⇛
Israel and Gaza militants traded heavy fire Thursday, the third
day of the worst escalation of violence in months that has
killed 29 people in the blockaded Palestinian enclave and one
in Israel.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ 29_Palestinians_Killed_In_Israeli_Airstrikes⠀⇛
The death toll now stands at 29, including at least seven
children, three women and two elderly people.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Urges_Armenia,_Azerbaijan_To_Seize_Peace_Initiatives_After
Deadly_Border_Clashes⠀⇛
The United States on May 11 urged Armenia and Azerbaijan to
seize peace initiatives after the two sides reported fresh
gunfire exchanges along their common border.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Palestinian_Death_Toll_From_Israeli_Airstrikes_Reaches_25⠀⇛
So far, the Israeli occupation forces have killed 15 civilians,
including six children. The number of wounded in Gaza now
amounts to 79 people.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Sudan’s_rival_forces_agree_to_protect_civilians,_no_deal_on
ceasefire⠀⇛
Sudan’s warring factions early on Friday committed to protect
civilians and the movement of humanitarian aid, but did not
agree to a ceasefire and remain far apart, US officials said.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Sudan’s_Clashing_Forces_Agree_to_Allow_Aid_In,_but_Not
to_a_Truce,_U.S._Says⠀⇛
Officials hope the agreement will allow the delivery of
lifesaving aid and ease conditions for the millions of Sudanese
suffering after nearly four weeks of fighting between rival
generals.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Shooting_at_Mercedes-Benz_Plant_Kills_2_in_Germany⠀⇛
A 53-year-old man shot at the two victims at the plant but he
was arrested without any resistance.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Rights_Group_Alleges_Kurdish_Prisoner_Beaten,_Tortured_To_Death
In_Tehran_Prison⠀⇛
Human rights watchdog Hengaw says Saman Darvishi, a Kurdish
prisoner held at Iran’s Evin prison, has died with the cause of
death attributed to assault and torture by Iranian security
forces.
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ To_Avoid_a_War_With_China_Over_Taiwan,_the_US_Needs_To_Back
Down⠀⇛
After members of the House’s committee on China participated in
war games simulating a Taiwan invasion, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-
WI), the committee chair and new face of China hawks in
Congress, said the U.S. must arm Taiwan “to the teeth” to avoid
a Chinese attack on the island.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Australian_trade_minister_heads_to_China_seeking
to_secure_‘unimpeded’_commerce⠀⇛
Australia’s trade minister flew to Beijing on Thursday on a
mission to demolish Chinese import barriers after years of
punishing sanctions and unofficial bans.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ U.S._Sen._Rubio_introduces_bill_to_beef_up_air_bases_that_would
defend_Taiwan⠀⇛
Bill is latest attempt to counter potential Chinese invasion of
Taiwan
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Doing_business_in_Hong_Kong_is_‘risky,’_Jimmy_Lai’s_son_warns
investors,_companies⠀⇛
Sebastien Lai says arbitrary arrests, sentences and raids will
likely continue
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ America’s_Mercenary_Wars⠀⇛
A very useful and informative site, Michigan War Studies
Review, recently stopped publishing book reviews after 18
years. The site’s editor, James Holoka, posted several reviews
written by yours truly, including this one in 2013 on Jeremy
Scahill’s book, Dirty Wars. The idea that “the world is a
battlefield” grows ever stronger in America.
* ⚓ The Strategist ☛ The_five-domains_update⠀⇛
Sea state Iran seized a US-bound oil tanker in the Strait of
Hormuz last week, alleging that it had fled the scene after
colliding with an Iranian vessel.
* ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Dilemmas_of_deterrence⠀⇛
We live in a world where geopolitical stability relies largely
on deterrence. But how can we prove that deterrence works?
Consider the ongoing war in Europe.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Experts_react:_Sudan_at_the_crossroads—where_the
conflict_goes_from_here⠀⇛
Atlantic Council experts react to the conflict in Sudan and
discuss how it will impact the region and beyond.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ French_mayor’s_resignation_amid_far-right_death_threats
sparks_political_outcry⠀⇛
The resignation of a French mayor targeted by the far right
over plans to move an asylum-seekers’ centre prompted a
political outcry Thursday after he faced death threats and an
arson attack on his home.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Armenia,_Azerbaijan_accuse_each_other_of_fresh_crossborder
attacks,_days_ahead_of_EU_talks⠀⇛
Armenia and Azerbaijan on Thursday blamed each other for an
exchange of fire along their restive border, which killed one
person and wounded four, days ahead of EU-hosted peace talks.
§ Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Senators_Push_Overhaul_of_Classification_Rules_After
Trump,_Biden_Cases⠀⇛
Senators introduce bill to reform security classification
system in the US to prevent mishandling of classified
information and promote better use of intelligence.
§ Environment⠀➾
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Macron_urges_pause_in_EU_environment_regulations_in_push_to
‘reindustrialise’_France⠀⇛
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday urged the EU to
pause imposing environmental regulations, saying Europe had
already done far more than other industrial powers.
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ H2 View ☛ Ports_of_Belledune_and_Rotterdam_sign_MoU_to_enhance
hydrogen_cooperation⠀⇛
The Belledune Port Authority (BPA) has signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Port of
Rotterdam to work together on green products and clean
fuels, specifically hydrogen.
o ⚓ H2 View ☛ ‘Europe_is_ready_to_move_hydrogen_to_scale’⠀⇛
“Europe is ready to move the hydrogen industry from niche
to scale,” said Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-
President of the European Commission at the World
Hydrogen Summit in Rotterdam.
o ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Ford_to_sell_three_Mach-E_four-wheel_drive_EVs_in
Australia⠀⇛
In a statement, Ford Australia confirmed pricing for the
three models, online bookings for which opened on
Wednesday. A company spokesperson said the vehicles would
be available in the last quarter of 2023, with delivery
to depend on the order of bookings and allotments to
various dealers.
* § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Wildfires_Threaten_Indigenous_Communities_in_Canada⠀⇛
In recent days, Alberta’s wildfires have forced the
evacuation of oil company workers, cutting oil production
in Canada, the world’s fourth-largest producer, by 4
percent.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Thousands_of_gulls_fall_victim_to_bird_flu_around
Daugavpils⠀⇛
In and around the city of Daugavpils, 1,000 dead gulls
have already been found and eliminated over the past
week. Bird deaths are associated with avian influenza.
Mass deaths have also been reported in Krāslava, Latvian
Radio reported on May 10.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Supreme_Court_backs_California_law_for
more_space_for_pigs._Producers_predict_pricier_pork,_bacon⠀⇛
The Supreme Court has backed a California animal cruelty
law that requires more space for breeding pigs. The pork
industry says that’ll mean higher costs nationwide for
pork chops and bacon. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in an
opinion for the court that “while the Constitution
addresses many weighty issues, the type of pork chops
California merchants may sell is not on that list.” The
pork industry has said the law will force expensive,
industry-wide changes even though a majority of the farms
where pigs are raised are not in the nation’s most
populous state.
o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ 5.5_Earthquake_Shakes_Northeastern_California⠀⇛
The tremor occurred at 16.19 local time (21.19 GMT) and
its epicenter was East Shore.
* § Overpopulation⠀➾
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Spain_approves_emergency_measures_worth_€2.2_billion
to_battle_crippling_drought⠀⇛
Spain’s cabinet on Thursday approved measures worth more
than two billion euros to alleviate the impact of a
prolonged drought that has hit its key agricultural
sector.
o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ The_Global_Challenge_for_the_Courts:_Enforcing
Intergenerational_Equity_or_Lex_Naturalis⠀⇛
No single generation claims tyranny over past
generations or future ones.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ Seeking Alpha ☛ A_$1.2_Trillion_Bubble_In_Artificial_Intelligence_Has
Already_Formed⠀⇛
20 years ago, bubbles were a once or twice per decade sort of
event. The dot com bubble of 1999-2000 was followed by the
housing bubble beginning in 2005.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Government_chose_foreigners_over_farmers:
Nationals⠀⇛
Billions of dollars have been “ripped away” from regional
Australians, the Nationals leader says as he steps up his
attack on the government’s biosecurity levy. David Littleproud
accused the government of ceding sovereignty to foreign
competitors, instead urging for a tax on importers to pay for
the risks they pose.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ ASEAN_Countries_To_Move_Towards_De-Dollarization⠀⇛
The ASEAN finance ministers and central bank governors meeting
agreed to reinforce the use of local currencies to ensure
financial stability.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ French_prosecutors_seek_new_trial_for_Sarkozy_over_Libya
financing_claims⠀⇛
French prosecutors on Thursday demanded that former president
Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been embroiled in legal troubles since
leaving office, face a new trial over alleged Libyan financing
of his 2007 election campaign.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Annual_inflation_at_15.1%_in_April_in_Latvia⠀⇛
The latest data published on May 11 by the Central Statistical
Bureau show that in April 2023, compared to April 2022, the
average level of consumer prices increased by 15.1%.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Average_waiting_time_for_Hong_Kong_public
housing_drops_to_5.3_years;_concern_group_says_still_far_from_target⠀⇛
>The waiting time for general applicants of Hong Kong’s public
rental housing has “slightly reduced” to 5.3 years, according
to the latest government data.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ The_Debt_Ceiling_Fight_Is_a_Reminder_of_America’s_Dire_Fiscal
Future⠀⇛
The longer we wait to address our debt, the more painful it
will be.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Leading_bank_says_budget_won’t_add_to_inflation⠀⇛
Australia’s largest bank says it does not think the federal
budget will add to inflationary pressures in the economy or
push up interest rates.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Leading_bank_says_budget_won’t_add_to_inflation⠀⇛
Australia’s largest bank says it does not think the federal
budget will add to inflationary pressures in the economy or
push up interest rates.
* ⚓ YLE ☛ At_5_euros_a_scoop,_is_ice_cream_becoming_a_luxury?⠀⇛
With inflation raising the cost of raw ingredients, Finns are
paying the price as they line up for their favourite summer-
time treat.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Bank_of_England_Raises_Interest_Rates_to_4.5%,_Highest
Level_in_15_Years⠀⇛
The central bank lifted its benchmark rate a quarter point, to
4.5 percent, as part of its aggressive policy to tame
inflation, but forecast that Britain was likely to avoid a
recession.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Senate_conservatives_break_with_Trump’s_debt_ceiling_comments⠀⇛
Conservative senators on Thursday broke with the cavalier
approach to a potential U.S. debt_ceiling default laid out by
former President_Trump.
* ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Difficulty_obtaining_loans_for_necessary_pipe
renovations_in_some_housing_companies_–_a_significant_societal_problem⠀⇛
Difficulty in acquiring loans for essential pipe renovations
has become a critical issue, according to the Isännöintiliiton
Pipe Renovation Barometer 2023. This situation poses a problem,
particularly in areas where migration is negative.
Isännöintiliiton believes that Finland needs a functional model
for the orderly shutdown of apartment buildings. The Barometer
report suggests that it is difficult for some of the apartment
buildings to obtain loan financing for significant repairs.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Elon_Musk_to_step_down_as_Twitter_CEO,_NBCU’s_Yaccarino
reportedly_in_the_running⠀⇛
Elon Musk announced today that he has hired a new chief
executive officer for Twitter Inc., who will start in about six
weeks. Musk did not name who had been appointed to the role but
did refer to the incoming Twitter CEO as she.
⚓ teleSUR ☛ New_Zealanders_to_Celebrate_Maori_New_Year_in_July⠀⇛
“…the booklet will be widely disseminated to schools and communities
throughout the country…”
⚓ teleSUR ☛ Turkish_Candidates_Vying_for_Support_of_Middle-Class_Voters⠀⇛
Seeking re-election for a third term, incumbent President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan has focused his campaign on economic promises.
⚓ France24 ☛ Generation_Erdogan:_More_than_5_million_young_Turks_to_vote_for
the_first_time⠀⇛
Some 5.2 million young Turks will vote for the first time in the May
14 presidential and legislative elections, and they could be key to
deciding the country’s future. At around 20 years of age, they do not
remember a time before President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been
in power as president or prime minister for two decades. FRANCE 24
went to meet some of them.
⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Claims_that_District_Councils_are_linked_to_Hong
Kong’s_democratic_progression_‘misinterpret’_Basic_Law,_official_says⠀⇛
To claim that Hong Kong’s District Council reforms are related to the
city’s democratic progression are a “complete misinterpretation” of
the city’s mini-constitution, a top government official told the
Legislative Council on Friday morning.
⚓ France24 ☛ Elon_Musk_says_he_has_found_new_Twitter_CEO_to_replace_him⠀⇛
Elon Musk said on Thursday he has found a new chief executive for
Twitter without naming the person and that he will transition to the
role of chief technology officer of the social media platform within
the next few weeks.
⚓ Quartz ☛ Elon_Musk_says_he’s_picked_a_new_CEO_for_Twitter⠀⇛
Elon Musk is the owner of Twitter, but he’s also been serving as the
CEO.
⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Musk_says_he_has_found_a_new_CEO_for_Twitter⠀⇛
Twitter CEO Elon Musk says he has found a new chief executive for the
social media platform and that she will be starting in about six
weeks.
⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Twitter_Disables_Autocomplete_After_It_Recommends_Animal
Torture_and_Mass_Shooting_Videos⠀⇛
Searching for dog and cat videos returned horrifying results.
⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Secure_Messaging_Arrives_on_Twitter_–_Sort_Of.
‘Don’t_Trust_It_Yet,’_Musk_Warns [Ed: It's not secure. Twitter is a MitM.]⠀⇛
Twitter has launched encrypted messaging, offering select users the
ability to communicate more securely
⚓ Security Week ☛ Secure_Messaging_Arrives_on_Twitter_–Sort_of.‘Don’t_Trust
It_Yet,’_Musk_Warns⠀⇛
Twitter launched encrypted messaging, offering select users the
ability to communicate more securely. But its new service is much
more of a baby step than a giant leap forward.
⚓ CS Monitor ☛ China’s_lesson_in_correcting_itself⠀⇛
The regime may have learned that its hyped rhetoric of war on COVID-
19 and Taiwan can backfire.
⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Elon_Musk_Says_He’s_Found_a_Woman_to_Lead_Twitter
as_New_CEO⠀⇛
Elon Musk says he has found a new CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. as it’s
now called
⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Elon_Musk_Says_He_Has_Found_New_Twitter_CEO⠀⇛
⚓ New York Times ☛ Elon_Musk_in_Talks_to_Hire_Linda_Yaccarino_as_Twitter’s_New
CEO⠀⇛
Mr. Musk is in talks about the role with Linda Yaccarino, chairman of
global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal, two people with
knowledge of the matter said.
⚓ Axios ☛ Yaccarino_in_talks_to_become_Twitter_CEO⠀⇛
Linda Yaccarino, NBCUniversal’s veteran advertising sales leader, is
in talks to_become_Twitter’s_CEO, a source familiar with the
conversations tells Axios.
⚓ Axios ☛ Elon_Musk_says_he’s_picked_a_new_Twitter_CEO⠀⇛
Elon_Musk tweeted Thursday that he’s hired someone to be CEO of
Twitter, adding without naming the incoming executive that “shewill
be starting in ~6 weeks!”
Why it matters:Since acquiring the social network last fall, Musk has
been its de facto leader, even amid some criticism from Tesla
shareholders unhappy with his devoting more time away from the
automaker.
⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Top_US,China_officials_meet_in_Vienna_for‘candid’
talks_amid_soaring_tensions⠀⇛
By Aurélia End US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and top
Chinese diplomat Wang Yi met in Vienna this week, Washington and
Beijing announced Thursday, as the two powers seek to maintain
communication amid soaring tensions, especially over Taiwan.
§ Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
* ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Ex-Fugees_Member_Pras_Preps_Defamation_Lawsuits
vs._Rolling_Stone,_50_Cent,_Kyrie_Irving,_Report_Claims⠀⇛
Ex-Fugees member Pras Michel is prepping a defamation lawsuit
against several entities, including Rolling Stone, 50 Cent, and
Kyrie Irving — at least according to the LA Times. Attorneys
for Pras sent letters to representatives of the three entities,
one of which was obtained by The Los Angeles Times.
* ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Marilyn_Manson_Defamation_Claims_Against_Evan
Rachel_Wood_Defanged_by_California_Judge⠀⇛
A California judge has tossed many of the claims in the Marilyn
Manson defamation lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood. The shock
rocker sued the actress over her claims of abuse during the
couple’s relationship.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Seizure_of_Tiananmen_Crackdown_statue_for
national_security_case_‘legal,_reasonable_and_rational,’_police_say⠀⇛
The seizure of a statue commemorating those killed in the
Tiananmen Crackdown for a case under the Beijing-imposed
national security law was “legal, reasonable, and rational,”
Hong Kong police have said.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_security_chief_hits_back_at
journalists’_group_over_suspension_of_newspaper_comic_strip⠀⇛
Hong Kong’s security minister has hit back at a local press
group after it said the suspension of a long-standing political
cartoon strip following repeated government complaints showed
that the city “could not tolerate critical voices.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ France24 ☛ New_law_targets_voyeurism_and_‘upskirt_photography’_in
Japan⠀⇛
For the first time in Japan, lawmakers are moving to
criminalise “sneak photography”, or sexual photos taken without
consent in public places, a recurrent problem in public
transportation which mainly targets young women. The law is a
move in the right direction, our Observer says, though Japan
still has plenty of room for improvement, particularly when it
comes to sexual education.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Biden_administration_warns_‘our_borders_are_not_open’_ahead_of
Title_42_expiration⠀⇛
A Trump-era deportation policy known as Title 42 is set to
expire on Thursday night.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Covid_Policy_Expires,_Casting_Uncertainty_Over_Border:
Live_Updates⠀⇛
Border crossings increased as people attempted to enter the
United States ahead of the lifting of Title 42, which allowed
agents to swiftly remove migrants on public health grounds.
* ⚓ NYPost ☛ RFK_Jr._says_he_will_‘make_the_border_impervious’_if_elected
as_Title_42_is_set_to_expire⠀⇛
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., told
Fox News Digital he will “make the border impervious” if
elected president as Title 42 is set to expire tonight.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ US_bolsters_border_with_Mexico_as_pandemic-era_asylum_rules
expire⠀⇛
Tens of thousands of US law enforcement personnel have been
deployed to the border with Mexico, officials said Wednesday,
as waiting migrants voiced confusion and anger over a looming
change to entry rules.
* ⚓ PHR ☛ Title_42_Replaced_by_Biden’s_Asylum_Ban:_PHR⠀⇛
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) welcomes today’s end of Title
42, a Trump-era policy that weaponized the pandemic to expel
people seeking asylum from the United States. While Title 42
was framed as a way to safeguard Americans from COVID-19, PHR
demonstrated for years that there was never a credible public
health rationale…
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Title_42:_What_is_it_and_how_did_the_US_use_it_to_curb
migration?⠀⇛
This week marks the end of coronavirus restrictions on asylum
that have allowed the U.S. to quickly expel migrants at the
southern border for the last three years.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ House_Republicans_pass_new_asylum_restrictions
as_Title_42_ends;_Biden_promises_veto⠀⇛
House Republicans have passed a sweeping bill to build more
U.S.-Mexico border wall and impose new restrictions on asylum
seekers. The GOP proposal is a hard-line counter to President
Joe Biden’s policies just as migrants are amassing along the
border with the end of coronavirus pandemic restrictions. The
bill has virtually no chance of becoming law. But it sets the
House GOP’s message on the same day as the expiration of Title
42, a public health emergency rule used to expel migrants who
entered illegally. It’s taken months for Republicans to reach a
vote due to intraparty feuds over the legislation.
* ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ Online_Safety_Bill:_A_Danger_to_Democracy⠀⇛
The campaign group, Republic have called for an investigation
into the arrest of eight of their members, including Chief
Executive Graham Smith, ahead of the organisation’s planned
protest of the King’s coronation.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ The_2023_Distinguished_Leadership_Awards:_Honoring
the_women_shaping_the_global_future⠀⇛
Women play a leading role in problem solving, making a historic
difference on battlefields, in protests, and in boardrooms. Our
annual awards honored awardees embodying this role.
* ⚓ Privacy International ☛ Tell_Capita_PLC_to_stop_profiting_from_the
hostile_environment⠀⇛
* ⚓ Privacy International ☛ Charities_protest_Capita_AGM_over_controversial
government_GPS_tracking_contract⠀⇛
* ⚓ Privacy International ☛ Charities_protest_Capita_AGM_over_controversial
government_GPS_tracking_contract⠀⇛
* ⚓ ‘Thrown_out_once_they_no_longer_need_you’:_Tunisian_doctor_in_France
threatened_with_deportation⠀⇛
After arriving in France in 2018, Inès M., a pediatrician, took
on numerous positions at a hospital in Val-d’Oise, in
particular during the Covid-19 crisis. In February, however,
she received an “Obligation to Leave French territory” (OQTF)
notification. Speaking with InfoMigrants, she expressed her
incomprehension over the administrative decision.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Migrants_stuck_at_US_gates_as_covid-era_immigration_policy
expires⠀⇛
Hundreds of migrants from around the world seeking a better
life in the United States have instead found themselves trapped
in squalid conditions near the Mexican border, tantalisingly
close to their destination, and desperate.
* ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Best_practices_for_calamity-ready_governments⠀⇛
To the dismay of immunologists, virologists and public-health
experts, governments are done with learning the lessons of
Covid-19.
* ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ U.S._Implements_New_Strict_Asylum_Rules_at
Mexico_Border_as_Title_42_Expires⠀⇛
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ What’s_Driving_Record_Levels_of_Migration_to_the_U.S.
Border?⠀⇛
The United States is trying to curtail border crossings as a
Covid-era immigration policy lifts this week, but it has little
control over the crises in Latin America that have upended the
lives of millions.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia’s_moms_are_exhausted,_survey_shows⠀⇛
Anticipating Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 14, a survey conducted
by the parent organization Mammamuntetiem.lv conducted a survey
which showed that nearly all mothers of Latvia feel overworked
and exhausted, Inga Akmentiņa-Smildziņa, the organization’s
head, told Latvian Television Thursday.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Pakistan’s_top_court_declares_arrest_of_ex-PM_Imran_Khan
‘invalid’⠀⇛
Pakistan’s Supreme Court declared on Thursday the arrest of
former prime minister Imran Khan “invalid”, two days after his
detention sparked deadly clashes and huge protests nationwide.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Pakistan_deploys_army_to_quell_unrest_over_former_PM_Imran
Khan’s_arrest⠀⇛
Troops were deployed in Pakistan’s capital on Thursday after
the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan triggered two
days of violent protests by his supporters.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Pakistan_Supreme_Court_Deems_Ex-PM_Khan’s_Arrest_Illegal,
Orders_His_Immediate_Release⠀⇛
Pakistan’s government rounded up leaders of the party of former
Prime Minister Imran Khan, arrested hundreds of its supporters
and deployed troops in regions where deadly protests ensued as
he was ordered held for eight days after being arrested in
court two days earlier on fresh corruption charges.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Belarusian_Lawyer_Who_Consulted_With_Imprisoned_Activists_Gets
Six_Years_In_Prison⠀⇛
Belarusian lawyer Anastasia Lazarenka, who consulted with
activists jailed for taking part in mass protests challenging
the official results of an August 2020 presidential election,
has been sentenced to six years in prison.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kazakh_Activist_Starts_Hunger_Strike_To_Protest_Jailing⠀⇛
Activist Vlada Yermolcheva of the rights group Oyan, Qazaqstan
(Wake Up, Kazakhstan) launched a hunger strike on May 11 after
a court in Almaty rejected her appeal against a 15-day jail
term she was handed over the weekend, Yermolcheva’s lawyer
Talghat Miermanov told RFE/RL.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Pakistan:_Supreme_Court_Orders_Release_of_Former_PM_Imran
Khan⠀⇛
At least 10 civilians have been killed and over 1,750 injured
since protests against his arrest began on Tuesday.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Philippine_court_acquits_former_justice_minister
of_drug_charges_after_key_witnesses_said_they_lied⠀⇛
A former Philippine opposition senator and justice minister has
been acquitted of drug charges after key witnesses recanted and
said they lied about her involvement in trafficking. Leila de
Lima has been detained since 2017 on drug charges she says were
fabricated by former President Rodrigo Duterte and his
officials in an attempt to muzzle her criticism of his deadly
crackdown on illegal drugs. His campaign left thousands of
mostly petty suspects dead and sparked an international
investigation as a possible crime against humanity. Duterte,
who left office last year, has insisted on de Lima’s guilt. De
Lima remains jailed with one charge still outstanding. She said
through her attorney that she was looking forward to her full
acquittal.
* ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ AP_PHOTOS:_Migrants_Attempt_to_Cross_Into
the_U.S._Before_Title_42_Ends⠀⇛
Clasping exhausted children, desperate migrants tried to make
their way to the United States Thursday before the end of the
pandemic-era health rule known as Title 42.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ California_AG_launches_civil_rights_probe_into_Antioch_police
after_racist_texts_report⠀⇛
The California attorney general’s office is launching a civil
rights investigation into the Antioch Police Department
following a federal probe into allegations of bigoted text
messages.
Driving the news:Attorney General Rob_Bonta’s announcement
Wednesday follows a joint investigation by the FBI and the
Contra Costa that uncovered evidence alleging that 17 Antioch
officers sent racist, sexist and homophobic messages largely in
2020 and 2021 that almost_half the police department was
included in.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ Supreme_Court_of_India_issues_notice_in
Foundation_of_Media_Professional’s_application_seeking_compliance_with
Anuradha_Bhasin_Internet_Shutdown_Guidelines._#KeepItOn⠀⇛
Based on RTI queries and responses, Foundation for Media
Professionals (“FMP”), one of the original petitioners in
Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India filed a miscellaneous
application seeking compliance with the Anuradha Bhasin
guidelines. The Supreme Court of India was pleased to issue
notice and has admitted the matter for hearing.
* ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Econet_says_Oops!_There_will_be_no_free_data_today_(11_May)
from_6:30pm,_that_was_yesterday⠀⇛
Econet sent out messages saying they would be offering free
data to all their customers from 6:30pm today (the 11th of May)
to 3am on the 12th of May. We figured it was an apology for the
outage their network faced over the past few days.
* ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Government_Affairs_Director_Greg
Guice_To_Testify_Before_Senate_Commerce_Subcommittee_on_Universal
Service⠀⇛
Greg Guice, Director of Government Affairs, testifies before
the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on the state of universal
service.
* ⚓ Purism ☛ Purism_Offers_Secure_Private_Voice_&_Data_Services_For
Smartphone_Owners⠀⇛
Purism is excited to announce that anyone who owns a qualified
smartphone can port their voice and data services, including
their existing phone number, to Purism by purchasing the Librem
AweSIM, a VPN for cellular like service.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Judicial_Disability_and_the_“Great
Dissenter” [Ed: CAFC has a patent maximalist mole inside, using age
as a defence]⠀⇛
Judge Newman’s complaint contains previously unreported
details about the events giving rise to the disability
proceedings against her. For instance, the complaint
discloses an allegation, which was previously redacted
from an order written by Chief Judge Moore in the
disability proceedings, that, in the summer of 2021,
Judge Newman had a heart attack and underwent coronary
stent surgery.
Judge Newman’s complaint responds to that allegation by
stating that “[d]uring the period (June 2021 through
September 2021) when Chief Judge Moore claims that Judge
Newman suffered a heart attack, Judge Newman sat on ten
panels and issued at least eight (including majority,
concurring, and dissenting) opinions.” Chief Judge
Moore’s order, for its part, noted that Judge Newman
wrote many fewer majority opinions than her colleagues
over the past few years.
This dispute over Judge Newman’s ability to perform her
judicial duties is an unfortunate tarnish on Judge
Newman’s reputation and on the image of the Federal
Circuit.
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Adidas_Will_Sell_$1_Billion_in_Unsold_Yeezy
Shoes_After_All_—_The_Latest⠀⇛
Adidas will sell through its $1.3 billion dollar stock of
unsold Yeezy shoes after all. Here’s the latest. Adidas’
new CEO Bjørn Gulden says the company will sell through
its stock of the shoes and donate the proceeds to
charity.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
* Leftovers
o Hardware
o Proprietary
# Windows_TCO
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_Make_use_of_Btrfs
snapshots_to_upgrade_Fedora_Linux_with_easy_fallback⠀⇛
Back in 2018, a previous_article demonstrated how
to use LVM to clone the root filesystem before
upgrading Fedora Linux so as to have a fallback in
the unlikely event that something goes wrong.
Today, the default Fedora Workstation install uses
Btrfs. Now you can use a Btrfs snapshot to make
creating a bootable fallback much easier. Note that
converting or migrating a system to Btrfs from
another filesystem is outside the scope of this
article.
✐ Check that root filesystem is Btrfs⠀✐
This example uses a Pinebook aarch64 laptop. Before
proceeding, first make sure that Btrfs is being
used for the root (system) filesystem. Not every
spin or image uses Btrfs by default.
$ df -T
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used
Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs devtmpfs 4096 0
4096 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 998992 0
998992 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 399600 6360
393240 2% /run
/dev/mmcblk2p3 btrfs 56929280 39796116
15058348 73% /
tmpfs tmpfs 998996 24
998972 1% /tmp
tmpfs tmpfs 5242880 0
5242880 0% /var/lib/mock
/dev/mmcblk2p3 btrfs 56929280 39796116
15058348 73% /f34
/dev/mmcblk2p3 btrfs 56929280 39796116
15058348 73% /home
/dev/mmcblk2p2 ext4 996780 551888
376080 60% /boot
/dev/mmcblk2p1 vfat 194348 31648
162700 17% /boot/efi
tmpfs tmpfs 199796 100
199696 1% /run/user/1000
tmpfs tmpfs 199796 84
199712 1% /run/user/0
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Dealing_with_the_dreaded_‘Broken_Pipe’_error_in
Linux⠀⇛
In Linux, the ‘Broken Pipe’ error is a common issue
that users may encounter when dealing with inter-
process communication or network connectivity. This
error typically occurs when one process tries to
send data to another, but the receiving process is
no longer available or willing to accept that data.
It can be a frustrating problem, but with the right
knowledge and tools, it’s certainly manageable.
# ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ How_to_install_more_software_on_Serenity
OS⠀⇛
There are lots of ports available for Serenity… and
building them is easier than it looks.
# ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_mirror_your_Android_screen_to_your_Linux
Desktop⠀⇛
In this tutorial you will learn how to mirror your
android screen to your linux computer by using an
usb cable.
§ Step 1 – Install Scrcpy
Scrcpy is the utility that we’l be installing and
using to mirror screen of the android phone on your
computer.
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_do_I_Remove_the_KDE_Plasma_Environment
in_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Want to remove the KDE Plasma environment from your
Ubuntu machine and revert back to the default GNOME
desktop environment, you just need to follow a few
simple steps. GNOME is the default desktop
environment that comes pre-installed on Ubuntu
distributions.
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Resolve_Cannot_Connect_to_Database
Server_(MySQL_Workbench)⠀⇛
Not able to connect to the database server on MySQL
Workbench? Solve this error with a simple ALTER
query. I think last week I published an article on
how to install MySQL Workbench on Ubuntu 20.04.
After a couple of days, someone sent me an email.
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Fix_Cleartext_HTTP_Traffic_not
Permitted_in_Android⠀⇛
Yesterday, one of the Android users emailed me and
described his issue. When I launch the application
on the emulator, it crashes, and as soon as I
checked the logs, it stated that “Cleartext HTTP
traffic is * not allowed,” and because of this, I
am not able to test the functionality of my app.
# ⚓ How_to_install_Python_library_in_Ubuntu_Linux⠀⇛
Python is quite a well-known language in today’s
world when Artificial Intelligent backed products
are booming. It is popular because of its
simplicity and versatility.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_AnyDesk_on_Linux_Mint_21/
20⠀⇛
AnyDesk is an advanced remote desktop software that
allows users to access their systems from anywhere
in the world. With its extensive features, high-
speed data transmission, and user-friendly
interface, AnyDesk has become a popular choice
among Linux Mint users. What separates AnyDesk from
other remote desktop software?
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Thunderbird_on_Linux_Mint
21/20⠀⇛
Thunderbird, a powerful, open-source email client,
has been a reliable companion for Linux Mint users
for quite some time. Though Mozilla does not
maintain it, the Thunderbird community has taken up
the mantle, dedicating themselves to continuously
improving this free, robust, and user-friendly
application.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Node.js_on_Linux_Mint_21/
20⠀⇛
Node.js is a compelling platform that has
revolutionized the way we think about server-side
scripting. It’s not just another tool in the
developer’s arsenal, it’s a game-changer.
# ⚓ Rolando_Blanco:_[HowTo]_Install_Passbolt_in_ubuntu_22.04_
(easy_way)⠀⇛
The easy way to install your own Passbolt Server, I
consolidated in the following script.
If you want to use it, copy and paste the following
code in an empty file called “install_passbolt-
ce.sh”
# ⚓ Unpacking_the_Power_of_Cloud_Storage:_Exploring_GCE,_AWS,
and_Azure_Volume_Types_in_Kubernetes⠀⇛
The Importance of Cloud Storage in Modern Computing
Cloud storage has become an essential component of
modern computing.
# ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ Bash_script_to_send_email_from_your_terminal⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we are going to write a bash
script that will send an email from your terminal
on Linux. The script is simple, it asks you enter 3
inputs, message, subject and the email address
where you want to send this email to.
# ⚓ Access_Control:_Leveraging_Namespaces_in_Kubernetes⠀⇛
The Importance of Access Control and Namespaces in
Kubernetes Kubernetes is an open-source container
orchestration system that helps organizations
deploy, scale, and manage containerized
applications more efficiently. However, with great
power comes great responsibility, and managing
access control in Kubernetes can be a daunting
task.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ PCLinuxOS_KDE_Plasma_and_Application
updates⠀⇛
KDE Plasma packages have been updated to
5.27.5 and KDE Application packages have been
updated to 23.04.1. 592 total package updates
for the KDE Plasma Desktop have been shipped
to the PCLinuxOS Software Repository.
# ⚓ Plasma_6_Sprint_2023⠀⇛
I was at the Plasma 6 sprint. It took place
in Augsburg at Tuxedo office, a well-known
german company selling computers that offers
preinstalled with Gnu/Linux and KDE Plasma.
They also are a KDE e.v (i.e foundation)
sponsor. I will certainly consider their
offers when buying hardware.
Their office were great and very nice people
welcomed us.
It was great to get to work in person again
with KDE community members, since I wasn’t in
person at last Akademy in Barcelona.
I am very happy to have met the new
contributors that I hadn’t met before.
Meetings and discussions were incredibly
valuable and galvanizing.
§ Plasma 6
After some detour building plasma 6, I am now
using Plasma 6 Wayland.
It turns out only Qt 6.5.1 and 6.5.0 are
compatible with Plasma 6, not even dev branch
(6.6) are compatible with current plasma dev.
The stability is decent but it made a few
issues glaring that we can take care of head-
on, both visualy and with our development
environment.
Qt6 is now 5 years and we never really used
it, so a few paper cuts were to-be expected.
# ⚓ Plasma_Sprint_2023⠀⇛
IT feels like a billion years before the last
plasma sprint, which was in 2019 in Valencia,
before the pandemic, but finally this year we
are back on track, and was great to see again
many old friends as well as seeing many new
faces for which it was the first sprint.
We were gracefully hosted by Tuxedo_Computers
in Augsburgh, makers of very nice laptops
that come with Linux and KDE Plasma, as well
as being KDE patrons.
First of all, everybody got up to speed with
a full git build of a Plasma 6 session, so
that everybody could participate in
development and discussions from the same
level.
There were many discussions about Plasma 6,
about what we want to do in Plasma and in
Kirigami, how we want to change the look and
defaults for the new major release. Most of
the user-facing changes have been wonderfully
described by Nate.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ risiOS:_An_Easy-to-Use_Fedora-based_Linux
Distribution⠀⇛
We have covered plenty of Arch and Ubuntu-based distros.
What about a distro based on Fedora? And why would you
even need that?
Well, risiOS is one of the best Fedora-based distros that
aims to make the experience easier. While Fedora is not
the most complex distribution, some nuances could become
a hassle when setting it up for the first time.
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS_Kirkstone-series_version_5.3
released⠀⇛
Version 5.2.4 was released on May 4:
https://bkhome.org/news/202305/easyos-kirkstone-
series-version-524-released.html
The two main news items for 5.3 are ext4 folder
encryption
changed from fscrypt v1 to v2, and secondly greatly
improved
Flatpak Installer (Flapi).
The change of fscrypt from v1 to v2 means that the
encrypted
folders prior to 5.3 will no longer be accessible.
For 5.2.3 and
earlier, you need to download the ‘easy-update’
script prior to
updating to 5.3, as explained in the above 5.2.4
announcement blog
post.
You must do this, otherwise update to 5.3 will
break the
installation. Though, the problem only applies if
you enter a
password at bootup and have encrypted folders.
Here are the 5.3 release notes: [...]
o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾
# ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Kernel_updates_available_for_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛
Kernel 6.3.2, 6.2.15, 6.1.28 and 5.15.111 updates
have been shipped to the PCLinuxOS Software
Repository.
# ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ PCLinuxOS_MATE_Desktop_package_updates⠀⇛
Mate Desktop packages have been updated to 1.26.1
and shipped to the PCLinuxOS Software Repository.
51 total package updates for the MATE Desktop.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Cinnamon_Can_Join_AlmaLinux’s_Family_of_Desktop
Live_Images⠀⇛
AlmaLinux, a community-driven enterprise-grade
Linux distribution, has been gaining popularity
among users who seek a free, reliable, and stable
operating system.
The distribution provides a variety of desktop
environments to choose from, including KDE, MATE,
and Xfce. In addition to these options, AlmaLinux
is set to expand its collection by adding an
official Live ISO with the Cinnamon desktop
environment.
In the spirit of Open Source and listening to the
voice of its community, after a user suggested on
the distribution’s Reddit channel to include a
prebuilt installation live image with the Cinnamon
desktop environment, the response was not late.
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Friday’s_Fedora
Facts:_2023-19⠀⇛
Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what
happened this week and what’s coming up. Your
contributions are welcome (see the end of the
post)!
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu News ☛ Extended_Security_Maintenance_for_Ubuntu
18.04_(Bionic_Beaver)_begins_31_May_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ubuntu Fridge ☛ The_Fridge:_Extended_Security_Maintenance
for_Ubuntu_18.04_(Bionic_Beaver)_begins_31_May_2023⠀⇛
Ubuntu announced its 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) release
5 years ago, on April 26, 2018. As with the earlier
LTS releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security
and critical fixes for a period of 5 years. The
standard support period is now nearing its end and
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will transition to Extended
Security Maintenance (ESM) on Wednesday, May 31,
2023.
Users are encouraged to evaluate and upgrade to our
latest 22.04 LTS release via 20.04 LTS. The
supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is via
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Instructions and caveats for the
upgrades may be found at: [...]
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Programming_RejsaCAN-ESP32-S3_CAN_bus_board
with_Arduino_for_car_“hacking”⠀⇛
The RejsaCAN-ESP32-S3 is an ESP32-S3 board suitable
for developers who want to build a car-related
project. It can control or read the data from the
OBD-II connector in your car using 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi
or/and Bluetooth 5 (LE), or for IoT projects,
connecting a sensor to the board and sending data
to an app, the cloud, or log the data to a microSD
Card. The board is designed to be small enough to
be installed in a car.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Chrome_prototyping_Android_14_Predictive_Back
support⠀⇛
# ⚓ First_device_to_update_on_Android_14_Beta_1_|_The_Manila
Times⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 7_Display_Settings_on_Your_Android_Phone_That
Are_Worth_Changing⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this
week_–_Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛
# ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ HTC_teases_May_2023_launch_for_new_Android
smartphone_–_NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Galaxy_killer:_Pixel_7a_is_the_best_Android
phone_you_shouldn’t_buy_–_10_reasons_to_choose_Pixel_7_–
PhoneArena⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Free_Microsoft_Word_alternative:_best_LibreOffice
features_explained⠀⇛
If you don’t have access to Word, fear not, our
experts run through their favourite tips and tricks
for mastering LibreOffice’s free equivalent
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Lemire ☛ ARM_instructions_do_“less_work”?⠀⇛
Modern processors can execute several instructions
per cycle. Because processors cannot easily run
faster (in terms of clock speed), vendors try to
get their processors to do more work per cycle.
Apple processors are wide in the sense that they
can retire many more instructions per cycle than
comparable Intel or AMD processors.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# § Windows TCO⠀➾
# ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ Microsoft_will_take_nearly_a_year_to
finish_patching_new_0-day_Secure_Boot_bug⠀⇛
Unlike many high-priority Windows fixes, the
update will be disabled by default for at
least a few months after it’s installed…
# ⚓ Lake_County_Health_Department_reports_security_breach
that_exposed_residents’_health_data,_personal
information [Ed: Microsoft now makes money from its own
blunders and lack of security; as Ryan put it, "I like
how they say Microsoft is "helping them" when Microsoft
was the entire reason they were attacked in the first
place."]⠀⇛
Lake County officials secured the account and
investigated the unauthorized activity with
Microsoft.
# ⚓ NVISO Labs ☛ Enforce_Zero_Trust_in_Microsoft_365_–
Part_2:_Protect_against_external_users_and_applications
[Ed: Microsoft 360 is inherently vulnerable, even by
design. Those concepts co not belong in the sense
article. Microsoft_and_security_is_“either_or”.]⠀⇛
In the first blog post of this series, we
have seen how strong authentication, i.e.,
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), could be
enforced for users using a free Azure Active
Directory subscription within the Microsoft
365 environment.
o § Security⠀➾
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexico’s_national_forensic
database_to_begin_operations_on_May_29⠀⇛
The new integrated database, mandated by law
in 2017, is designed to address Mexico’s
crisis of disappearances and unidentified
remains.
# ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Metadata_from_a_single_picture_can
destroy_your_privacy⠀⇛
What someone can learn from your Image EXIF
Metadata, and how to secure your photos
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Top_French_court_upholds_universal_jurisdiction
principle_for_crimes_committed_in_Syria⠀⇛
France’s highest court Friday ruled that the
country could try foreign suspects under the
universal jurisdiction principle, greenlighting
inquiries into two Syrians accused of war crimes
and crimes against humanity.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Reporter’s_notebook:_Idlib,_the_last_Islamist
rebel_bastion_in_Syria⠀⇛
FRANCE 24’s jihadism expert Wassim Nasr recently
travelled to Idlib, the northwestern Syrian
province controlled by the armed Islamist rebel
group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), and a desired
target for President Bashar al-Assad and his
regime. During his visit, Nasr became the first-
ever French journalist to meet with Abou Mohammed
al-Joulani – the former chief of al-Qaeda’s Syrian
branch turned HTS leader and today a sworn enemy of
jihadists. Travelling from the Turkish border
through to Idlib via Harem, Atmeh, Ariha, Jisr al-
Choughour and the Christian village of Yacubiyeh,
Nasr shares his notes and observations.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Human_rights_organizations_call_upon_Lebanon_to
halt_deportation_of_Syria_refugees⠀⇛
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), along
with 20 other human rights organizations, issued a
joint statement on Thursday calling out Lebanon’s
deportation of Syrian refugees.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Three_Yemeni_Soldiers_Killed_in_Houthi_Drone
Strike⠀⇛
The drone attack occurs amid a period of relative
calm in the ongoing conflict between government
forces and the Houthis.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Two_Soldiers_Killed_in_New
Azerbaijan-Armenia_Clash_Ahead_of_Peace_Talks⠀⇛
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Haavisto:_Sweden_must_become_Nato_member_by_Vilnius
summit⠀⇛
Turkey and Hungary have yet to ratify the Swedish
membership bid.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Official_Says_26_Security_Officers_Indicted
For_‘Bloody_Friday’_Massacre⠀⇛
The head of Iran’s Armed Forces Judicial
Organization has revealed that indictments have
been issued for 26 individuals suspected of having
links to the November 30 massacre in the
southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan that saw at
least 100 people killed.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Evidence_of_ancient_climate_change
found_in_pre-Hispanic_DNA_study⠀⇛
New genetic evidence suggests some Indigenous
peoples adapted to cope with periods of climate
change rather than migrating.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ How_Australian_wildfires_worsened_African_droughts
and_Atlantic_hurricanes⠀⇛
A fresh example of global climate
interconnectedness has emerged in the effects of
Australia’s catastrophic wildfires of 2019-20
playing out across the world.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Will_Texas_Blow_Up_Its_Energy
Miracle_to_Bolster_Fossil_Fuels?⠀⇛
Legislators are moving to erect barriers to
clean energy development while providing
incentives for fossil fuels.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ How_the_other_half_drives:_Mercedes’_$129,000
electric_EQS_SUV⠀⇛
You know you’re not sliding into just any
electric car when your head settles into a
fluffy white pillow on the headrest of the
Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV.
Why it matters: Electric_vehicles (EVs) are
still out of reach for many, but luckily
that’s beginning to change as more_affordable
models_hit_the_market.
# Still, the EQS SUV — starting at
$104,400 — takes EV ownership to a
whole new level of opulence.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_and_Estonia_to_form_joint_LNG
terminal_working_group⠀⇛
The responsible ministers of Latvia and
Estonia signed a memorandum of cooperation in
Tallinn on Friday, May 12, for the joint use
of the Paldiski liquefied natural gas
terminal in crisis cases, the Latvian
Ministry of Climate and Energy announced.
# ⚓ H2 View ☛ Challenges_standing_in_the_way_of_Mexico’s
$60bn_hydrogen_industry⠀⇛
With its benign location and natural
resources, Mexico has high hopes for
hydrogen.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ New_Mexico_Regulators
Grilled_Over_Oilfield_Spills,_Lack_of_Enforcement⠀⇛
Environmentalists who had praised the
approval of rules adopted nearly two years
ago to crack down on oilfield spills allege
New Mexico regulators aren’t doing enough to
enforce the provisions
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Zim_govt_no_longer_forcefully_taking_15%_of_your
USD_sales,_expects_US$13_bn_forex_inflows_this_year⠀⇛
There’s a System Tazvida song titled ‘Pandagona
Wondipembedzawo’ which translates to ‘When I do
good, praise me.’ It’s about a man pleading for the
world to keep the same energy when he excels as
they do when he flounders. The Zimbabwe govt may
feel like that man sometimes.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Turkish_elections:_In_quake-hit_south,
reconstruction_and_jobs_are_voters’_top_concerns⠀⇛
In the city of Antakya in southern Turkey, which
was heavily damaged by the devastating February 6
twin earthquakes, the Turkish government has made
an ambitious pledge: to rebuild – better – in a
year. But residents there remain sceptical. Not
only do homes need rebuilding, but those who live
there must have jobs to return to as well. Our
correspondents Shona Bhattacharyya, Ludovic de
Foucaud and Hussein Assad report from the quake-
damaged region.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ China’s_Economic_Needs_May_Take_a_Back
Seat_to_Security⠀⇛
Xi Jinping wants to insulate China from perceived
threats from the West. He also wants to promote the
country as deserving of foreign investment and
clout. Can he do both?
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Country_set_to_‘change_course’:
minister_spruiks_budget⠀⇛
There’s no economic future in sentencing people to
a permanent state of poverty, Energy Minister Chris
Bowen said while defending cost-of-living measures
in the federal budget. “This is a change of course
for our country,” Mr Bowen told a Business Western
Sydney lunch on Friday.
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ Speech_EVP_Timmermans_at_61st_Dies
Natalis_of_Twente_University,_Enschede⠀⇛
European Commission Speech Eindhoven, 12 May 2023
It’s time, in our lives, that we start taking good
care of our children and grandchildren. Now.
Because they deserve it, because they are focused
on this positive change.
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ State_aid:_Commission_approves_Danish
measures_to_support_new_export_and_investment_fund⠀⇛
European Commission Press release Brussels, 12 May
2023 The European Commission has approved, under EU
State aid rules, Danish measures to set-up
Denmark’s Export and Investment Fund (‘the Fund’),
with a total estimated value of over €4 billion.
The Fund aims at supporting economic development,
competitiveness, innovation and growth for Danish
companies.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Federal_opposition_calls_for_boost_in
welfare_threshold⠀⇛
The federal opposition has opened up debate on how
those on welfare payments should be able to earn
more money as they face a rising cost of living.
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ AMLO_eyes_constitutional_changes_before
his_departure_in_2024⠀⇛
If Morena wins a Congressional supermajority next
year, President López Obrador says he’ll propose at
least three constitutional amendments.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ The_choice_in_Turkey’s_vote⠀⇛
A watershed national election on Sunday marks an
opportunity to put democratic participation above
disillusionment and fear.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Will_Erdoğan_survive_Turkey_election?_Youth
vote_may_hold_key.⠀⇛
Turkey’s first-time voters, 8% of the electorate,
may decide Sunday’s elections, pitting strongman
President Erdoğan against a diverse coalition.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Erdogan_Amassed_Power_in_Turkey._He_Could
Still_Lose_This_Election.⠀⇛
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has
tilted the political playing field in his favor
over the past two decades, concentrating power in
his own hands. Still, he faces a stiff challenge in
Sunday’s election.
# ⚓ İnce_formally_withdraws_from_Turkey’s_presidential
election⠀⇛
The Homeland Party’s leader has submitted his
retreat from the race to the electoral authority.
His name remains on the ballot papers on May 14.
# ⚓ TURKEY_ELECTIONS:_Breakaway_candidate_Muharrem_İnce
announces_withdrawal_from_presidential_race⠀⇛
The former CHP member has been seen as a potential
threat to the opposition’s chances of defeating
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Sunday’s polls.
# ⚓ European_Socialists_announce_support_for_Kılıçdaroğlu_in
Turkey_polls⠀⇛
A senior PES official hailed Kılıçdaroğlu and the
united opposition as a “beacon of hope for
democracy, human rights, freedom, cooperation and
bringing Turkey closer to Europe.”
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Popular_YouTube_channel_cancels_election_broadcast_over
threats⠀⇛
Featuring interviews with policial leaders, BaBaLa
TV has attracted millions of views in the run-up to
Sunday’s elections.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Tech_platform_aims_to_quadruple_publisher
revenue_in_tough_economic_climate⠀⇛
“Our mission is to boost UK and US publishers’
revenue four times at one-fourth cost in bad
economic conditions,” Sunny Sen, CEO of
Conscent.ai.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Migrants_Deported_to_Mexico_Face_Criminals
and_Predatory_Officials⠀⇛
Those made to leave the U.S. face gangs and a
Mexican asylum system where cases linger for years.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ AP_PHOTOS:_Crowds_of_migrants_wait
at_the_border_as_Title_42_gives_way_to_new_rules⠀⇛
At points all along the U.S.-Mexico border on
Friday, crowds of migrants clutching sacks of
belongings or holding the hands of children waited
to apply for asylum as new immigration rules took
effect.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Border_appears_calm_after
lifting_of_pandemic_asylum_restrictions⠀⇛
The border between the U.S. and Mexico is
relatively calm, offering few signs of the chaos
that had been feared following a rush by worried
migrants to enter the U.S. before the end of
pandemic-related immigration restrictions. Less
than 24 hours after the rules known as Title 42
were lifted, migrants and government officials on
Friday were still assessing the effect of the
change and the new regulations adopted by President
Joe Biden’s administration to stabilize the region.
A Homeland Security official said the agency did
not see any substantial increase in immigration on
Friday morning.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Nats_accuse_Labor_of_choosing
foreigners_over_farmers⠀⇛
Billions of dollars have been “ripped away” from
regional Australians, the Nationals leader says as
he steps up his attack on the government’s
biosecurity levy. David Littleproud accused the
government of ceding sovereignty to foreign
competitors, instead urging for a tax on importers
to pay for the risks they pose.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Inside_a_migrant_family’s_treacherous_journey_to
the_U.S.-Mexico_border⠀⇛
EL PASO, Texas — Tens of thousands of migrants are
desperately lining up at the doorstep of the United
States, having survived perilous journeys to take a
chance on admission to the U.S. in the_face_of_the
Biden_administration’s_strict_new_migration
policies.
Why it matters:The confusion over changing U.S.
policies has led many to rush to the border. Some
who’ve crossed into the U.S. are being allowed to
stay as they pursue their immigration cases — and
are telling harrowing tales of their struggles.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘I_Don’t_Know_What_the_Future_Holds’:_An
Afghan_Family_at_the_U.S._Border⠀⇛
Hours before the end of Title 42, a family of six
from Afghanistan awaited their fate at the border
wall in Tijuana, Mexico, after traveling through
more than a dozen countries.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘They_see_us_as_terrorists’:_Election_brings
anger,_fear_for_Turkey’s_Kurds⠀⇛
From predominantly Kurdish towns in the earthquake-
hit south to the multicultural metropolis of
Istanbul, Turkey’s Kurds say discrimination and
repression are part of their daily lives – and fear
that another victory for Recep Tayyip Erdogan in
the country’s upcoming elections will mean more of
the same.
# ⚓ Workplace_dispute_results_in_killing_of_two_at_Mercedes
factory_in_Stuttgart⠀⇛
A workplace dispute between workers from Turkey in
a politically tense environment resulted in the
killing of two at the Mercedes factory in
Stuttgart. One laid off worker shot two team
leaders dead. The suspect was taken into custody,
and the police started an investigation.
# ⚓ ACLU ☛ Why_Indigenous_Students_Are_Fighting_to_Wear_Tribal
Regalia_at_Graduation⠀⇛
It’s graduation season, and students are getting
ready to put on their caps and gowns to celebrate
this rite of passage. For many Indigenous students,
this milestone event cannot be fully realized
without wearing traditional tribal_regalia, which
are sacred markers of achievement, tradition, and
connection with ancestors.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Police_to_probe_ex-intelligence_official_over_side
employment⠀⇛
The head of the Finnish Security and Intelligence
Service (Supo) says any suspected problems related
to the agency’s operations must be thoroughly
investigated.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Are_Restaurant_Services_and
Live_Musical_Entertainment_Related_for_Section_2(d)
Purposes?⠀⇛
The USPTO refused to register the mark KOSA
for “restaurant and bar services,” finding
confusion likely with the identical mark
registered for “entertainment in the nature
of music festivals and live musical
performances; entertainment, namely,
production of music festivals and live
performances featuring music; entertainment,
namely, live music concerts.” The key issue,
of course, was whether the involved services
are related for Section 2(d) purposes. How do
you think this appeal came out? In_re_Angel
Asset_Management_LLC, Serial No. 90188208
(May 10, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by
Judge Frances S. Wolfson).
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Inside_the_booming_Taylor_Swift_economy⠀⇛
Taylor Swift’s 52-night,_20-city_tour through
the U.S. is breaking attendance records — and
poised to be one of the highest-grossing
tours of all time.
# But the Eras Tour’sinfluence and impact
extends beyond just ticket and merch
sales.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Politics
o Technical
# Music
# Announcements
# Programming
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ When_reading_is_a_joy_regardless_the_topic⠀⇛
I love discovering authors I want to read despite
the topic, their leanings, biases, etc.
I’m not going to name any in these antenna-
collected parts, because I’d not want to hurt any
feelings, but also because of classic jinxing fear
– in this case that mentioning a name would somehow
(you know how this Murphy’s Law infused world is…)
lead to their suddenly losing whatever their magick
is.
# ⚓ How_rational_human_beings_exchange_ideas⠀⇛
# ⚓ Some_short_story_plots⠀⇛
As i already mentioned, i would like to write
fiction more frequently; i am mostly interested in
short stories as a genre, and having read lots of
them last summer, some short story’ plots have
ocurred to me, although i didn’t use any of them in
actual writing, in part because i have difficulties
writing fiction, in part because they aren’t that
good anyway.
# ⚓ Growing_Tomatoes⠀⇛
This is my second year growing tomatoes. Last year,
I had a total crop of around half a dozen mostly
mushy and small fruits. I’ve learnt a lot of
lessons: this year I’ve started earlier, I’ve given
them all more space, and I’m fertilising them
regularly. They’re already doing very well. It’s
just so satisfying to look out the window — no
matter how my day is going — and see this little
plants that I grew from seed become just that bit
bigger. It’ll be even more satisfying when I can
eat something that I grew that is truly delicious.
Simply cannot wait.
# ⚓ mrpieceofwork_cries_for_help_(and_finally_figured_this
out):_20230512_Friday⠀⇛
# ⚓ mrpieceofwork_cries_for_help_(and_finally_figured_this
out):_20230513_Saturday⠀⇛
# ⚓ The_sad_side⠀⇛
I had a ticket to see Darrin Hacquard play in my
little town tonight with my mom-friend Emma (her
daughter’s first daughter’s age-mate and friend).
I was so excited! I’ve only been out in the evening
without first daughter two or three times in the ~2
years since she was born. I met Darrin at a camp-
fire and he played my wedding. I haven’t seen him
since then, and couldn’t wait to see him again.
Bad communication led to no childcare. Called
around to the people who love first daughter. No
one wanted to change their plans. Daughter knew I
felt sad, resented her some and my friends more, so
refused to sleep & tantrumed for 2 hours. Cancelled
with Emma then thought I could at least come late
when roommate got home, so she went and pointlessly
waited on me.
# ⚓ Lonely⠀⇛
The last month has been mostly tough, with a few
really good days. I loved digging garden beds when
first daughter helped me pick out rocks. I loved
watching first daughter meet a real live turkey for
the first time and gobble at it. I loved going to
church with first daughter and Matthew, then bike
home through the rain laughing. I loved watching
first daughter play at the Erlanger KY old train
station playground.
# ⚓ Reverberations⠀⇛
o § Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Zeroeth_Commandment⠀⇛
Years ago – after wondering what kept regularly so
driving me out of my mind that I finally had to
stop everything else to try to understand it – a
phrase came to me.
So one motivator for formulating the phrase was the
dis-ease of feeling like I was regularly about to
“lose my mind”.
Another was that I’d had some “fundamentalist” days
in my late youth, and so it wasn’t unusual for me
to think in biblical tropes.
And suddenly there it was: the phrase “The Zeroeth
Commandment” came to mind.
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenBSD_vi_Backwards_Search_Bug⠀⇛
The OpenBSD vi† has a bug that prevents a backwards
search for “?”—but only with “extended” regular
expressions enabled—as “?” is special to both the
command (which uses the delimiter “?” to indicate a
backwards search) and to extended regular
expressions (which use the “?” to indicate that the
previous portion of the expression is optional. The
command “??” indicates that the previous regular
expression should be used, but the command “?\?” is
an error because the search delimiter parser
removes the “\” which leaves a search of “?” which
is an invalid extended regular expression. After
sleeping on this I figured that a search of “[?]”
would also work; hiding characters in character
classes also sees use to e.g. prevent a grep from
seeing itself in the process table—but you probably
instead want to use `pgrep foo` and not `ps … |
grep ‘[f]oo’`. Anyways the command “?[\?]” works;
the internal “?” must be escaped to prevent the
outer command delimiter search from yielding the
invalid expression of “[“.
# ⚓ Yretek_–_Game_report_DCC_Level_0_Funnel⠀⇛
We had a good, OSR game today. This came in the
shape of a Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC) adventure
that we could not finish for lack of time. But we
were having a blast even as the premises were
closing and made a point of meeting again same
place, same time.
# ⚓ NixOS,_Gitea/Forgejo,_and_Catppuccin⠀⇛
I spent a couple hours today figuring out how to
get the official [[Catppuccin]] theme for [[Gitea]]
and [[Forgejo]] integrated into my [[NixOS]]
environment. Originally, I had taken the user theme
for Codeberg, tweaked and cleaned it up for my
server, and then used that. But, I decided to go a
little further and submitted a request to make it
official. Someone then made an entirely new package
and made it the official version[1]. After a little
pouting, I decided that I’d rather have someone
else maintain it so I can focus on other things.
# ⚓ So_little_to_tell⠀⇛
I’ve neither posted here nor on my personal gemlog
for ages. Here, because I’m never sure what so say,
except in someone else’s comment section. There,
because most of the ideas I’ve had for posts are
technology oriented (even if slightly weird
technology), and I don’t want to contribute to the
glut of tech content in Geminispace, relative to
other content. I’ll at least do a book review, if
nothing else.
# § Music⠀➾
# ⚓ when_music_is_whirly_and_warped⠀⇛
I am listening to “Lady Picture Show” by STP,
as it got stuck in my head earlier, and it
sounds so weird. I was listening to Gordon
Lightfoot the other night, and it sounded odd
– like it was more or less chords and lyrics
thought of “on the spot”, and then performed
poorly. Like my mind/soul has become an
ephemeral moment of self-amusing thought and
feeling. No *direction*. No *goal*.
# § Announcements⠀➾
# ⚓ Introducing:_Bubble_and_Geminispace.org⠀⇛
It is a Gemini-based bulletin board system
that can be summarized as a union of Station,
Reddit, WordPress, and issue trackers like
GitHub Issues. It is implemented as an
extension module to GmCapsule, my Gemini
server.
Although I have written Bubble primarily for
my own needs, it is also purposefully
designed to be generally useful for other
individuals and communities.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ new_section:_TUI_cheatsheets⠀⇛
I’ve extended Laniakea to include a new TUI
section
I’m talking quite often about my progression
toward command line interface (CLI) or text
user interface (TUI) programs for my every
day use. This is still an ongoing journey and
it is not an easy journey so I thought why
not document what I use, how I use it and add
common keyboard navigation shortcuts to the
mix.
# ⚓ syntax_highlighting_and_prose⠀⇛
This post isn’t meant to start an argument
about syntax highlighting in the context of
code. It has its benefits and drawbacks, and
I don’t care whether you like it or not.
That being said, people arguing against it
sometimes show a paragraph written in regular
English with the different parts of speech
highlighted, to show the absurdity of syntax
highlighting. I don’t believe that is a valid
argument. Prose is read linearly, while code
is read more chaotically. When coding, your
eyes often jump across the place – and color
can help you quickly find code matching the
pattern you’re looking for.
More generally, the distinction is between
passive reading, and editing. Thus, here’s my
stupid idea – what if one actually used
syntax highlighting for editing prose? Colors
as vibrant as often used for programming
would be too distracting, but toned down ones
could perhaps help you scan your work easily.
Different parts of sentences would be easier
to find, repetetive sentences might stand out
more, etc.
# ⚓ How_could_I_not_chime_in_on_a_discussion_about
IDE’s?⠀⇛
I’ve used BSD ex/vi in anger myself. I’ve
also used Heirloom ex/vi quite a lot. And
BusyBox vi, which is surprisingly good. You
can actually be very productive in such a
minimalist environment, being as it is so
distraction free and responsive. This is
especially true if you’re not in a graphical
session.
# ⚓ Just_one_last_IDE_comment_(WARNING:_dad_joke_zone)⠀⇛
I have to believe someone else has thought of
this before, but my head occasionally likes
pursuing rhyme, and while staring at the IDE
acronym in a Linux context the phrase “IDEs
of Arch” suddenly came to mind….
[...]
My wife and I argued a bit because I’m
constantly trying to find non-hurtful/
belittling ways to tell her I think she talks
too much for my mind’s inbound capacity. What
happens is my mind quickly feels as though a
pot of popcorn popping, and then goes into a
fugue-like state to protect itself, leading
to my not remembering nearly enough of what
she’s said, which invariably leadeth unto her
being upset with me for “never listening to
what I have to say”… and, of course, I start
out listening, but basically can’t continue
without possibly risking early stages of
nervous breakdown….
# ⚓ IDE_Discourse⠀⇛
Regarding the current IDE-vs-text-editor
discourse, not to be cute, but years ago,
when I was fresh out of school and working my
first programming job outside of an academic
setting, I remember talking with a senior dev
on my company’s kernel team. He was (and
probably still is) a huge emacs evangelist.
We talked about tooling. And I remember him
telling me, “Use the best tools available on
your platform. On Windows, that Visual
Studio.”
He wasn’t wrong (though it should be noted,
this was in the context of C++ programming).
And that was when Visual Studio was a lot
more heavyweight. These days, it’s a lot more
lightweight, updates are quicker, and it’s
generally just a lot nicer to use. Not to
mention, it’s also free. I remember having to
finangle an academic license for years after
I dropped out of grad school – Visual Studio
wasn’t cheap in those years. But using it now
is great.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Games
# Science
# Programming
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ COVID-19_as_a_Breeding_Ground_for_Ecofascist_Thought⠀⇛
this is an old essay I wrote that is no longer
available at its original host. Posting here for
posterity.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a very scary time
for everyone who has been affected, and the
millions adjacent to it. Fears around the growing
infection numbers and the risk it presents to older
people and those with immune problems especially. A
lot of these fears have manifested in unhealthy
desperation from both individuals[1] and companies
[2]. However, one of the most unsettling reactions
I have seen is the growth of ecofascism.
# ⚓ A_Pirate’s_Guide_to_Audio-books⠀⇛
In the last year I think I’ve said to myself “I
want to read this, but I don’t have time… Let me
get it as an audiobook” 100 times. But then I don’t
because I don’t want to support Amazon/Audible, and
I can’t find a good way to listen to them and find
them. So yesterday I sat down and figured out the
best way to do it so that I can listen to Debt: The
First 5000 Years by David Graeber.
# ⚓ An_Open_Letter_on_Urban_Ecology⠀⇛
this is an old essay I wrote that is no longer
available at its original host. Posting here for
posterity.
The time has come for a new way of thinking about
green space. The automobile industry pushed it to
the side, and made it an afterthought to fill in
all the empty spaces in their massive roads. The
public spaces we can enjoy nature in are relegated
to areas outside the urban center, while inside the
cities we are treated to small patches of manicured
itchy invasive grass. Our trees (when we have them)
provide little in the way of shade, and simply
exist to greenwash the crushing weight of
industrial capitalism and the toll it has on the
people who live there. It is time to think about
our ecology in a new way.
# ⚓ The_primacy_of_the_metaphoric_process…⠀⇛
The primacy of the metaphoric process in the
literary schools of romanticism and symbolism has
been repeatedly acknowledged, but it is still
insufficiently realised that it is the predominance
of metonymy which underlies and actually
predetermines the so-called ‘realistic’ trend,
which belongs to an intermediary stage between the
decline of romanticism and the rise of symbolism
and is opposed to both. Following the path of
contiguous relationships, the realist author
metonymically digresses from the plot to the
atmosphere and from the characters to the setting
in space and time. He is fond of synecdochic
details.
# ⚓ An_introduction_to_mushroom_cultivation⠀⇛
Around here, supermarkets usually carry only very
few species of fresh mushroom. You’ll find the
button mushroom and sometimes oyster, king oyster
or shiitake. Asian supermarkets occasionally also
carry enokitake, but that’s about it. Besides the
button mushroom, they are often quite pricey and
because they don’t have a long shelf life, they are
rarely very fresh.
A good way to get your hands on some fresh specimen
of more species, is to learn about mushroom
identification and foraging for them. If, however,
you don’t have access to a suitable habitat or the
mushroom of your desire is just not in season right
now, mushroom cultivation might be an interesting
option for you.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_GVINRTH_Wordo:_HIGHS⠀⇛
# § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Fingers_and_thumbs⠀⇛
Logicians, mathematicians, linguists, and
other overly smart people often have problems
with something your average hick can easily
express and comprehend: the subset of a set
that excludes another subset.
That’s a mouthful but here are two super
clear examples:
Someone might say “humans and animals” but we
overly smart people will fall over ourselves
saying “humans are animals!” at risk of
missing the original point the speaker was
trying to make.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Wrapping_Up⠀⇛
The Geminispace debate about IDEs rages on!
Well, there were three more posts.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Graphics_Stack
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o WINE_or_Emulation
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o Licensing_/_Legal
o Programming/Development
# Python
* Leftovers
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Pseudo-Open_Source
# Openwashing
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
# Confidentiality
* Defence/Aggression
* Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
* Environment
o Energy/Transportation
o Wildlife/Nature
o Overpopulation
* Finance
* AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
* Censorship/Free_Speech
* Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
* Civil_Rights/Policing
* Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
* Monopolies
o Patents
o Trademarks
o Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_218:_Open_Source_AI,_The_Rescue
Of_Salyut_7,_The_Homework_Machine⠀⇛
This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and
Kristina Panos have much in the way of Hackaday
news — the Op Amp Challenge is about halfway over,
and there are roughly three weeks left in the
Assistive Tech challenge of the 2023 Hackaday
Prize. Show us what you’ve got on the analog front,
and then see what you can do to help people with
disabilities to live better lives!
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ DXVK_2.2_released_supporting_D3D11On12,
plus_improvements_for_game_launchers⠀⇛
DXVK translates Direct3D 9 / 10 and 11 into Vulkan
for Proton and Wine, used on Linux desktop and
Steam Deck for gaming. The new DXVK 2.2 release
sounds like quite a big one, and just shows how
awesome open source is. Once it’s ready and in a
new Proton release, we should see another nice
little bump in game compatibility.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ NVIDIA_open_sources_more_of_RTX_Remix_with
v0.2⠀⇛
NVIDIA has released version 0.2 of RTX Remix today,
which on top of lots of improvements also opens up
their NVIDIA RTX Remix Bridge.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ LocalSend_–_The_Open-Source_Airdrop_Alternative
For_Secure_File_Sharing⠀⇛
If you’re familiar with AirDrop, you know it’s a
popular feature developed by Apple Inc. that
enables seamless file transfer between supported
Macintosh computers and iOS devices using Wi-Fi and
Bluetooth. However, if you’re using Linux and
missing out on this functionality, worry not! We
have a perfect solution for you. Say hello to
LocalSend, an AirDrop alternative designed
specifically for Linux systems. In this guide, we
will discuss how to install and use LocalSend to
securely share files, folders and text messages
between different devices.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Fix_SSH_Permission_Denied_(Public_key)
Error_in_Linux⠀⇛
SSH, an acronym for Secure Shell, is a remote
protocol that is widely used to make remote
connections to servers, network devices, and other
remote hosts that run the service. It uses a
public/private key pair to encrypt traffic between
the user and the remote host.
When making a connection, you might encounter the
“ssh permission denied public key” error. In this
guide, we seek to understand the cause of this
error and how to address it.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Needrestart_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Needrestart on Rocky Linux 9. As a system
administrator, it is important to ensure that all
services on your server are running with the latest
security patches and updates.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_enable_HSTS_for_Enhanced_Web_Security_in
Apache⠀⇛
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a web
security policy mechanism that helps to protect
websites against protocol downgrade attacks and
cookie hijacking. It allows web servers to declare
that web browsers (or other complying user agents)
should interact with it using only secure HTTPS
connections, and never via the insecure HTTP
protocol.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Configue_FirewallD_on_CentOS_9/8_and_RHEL
9/8⠀⇛
As cybersecurity threats continue to evolve, having
a robust firewall setup is no longer a luxury but a
necessity. Firewalls act as the first line of
defense, filtering network traffic to protect your
system from malicious attacks. In Linux systems,
FirewallD has emerged as a popular firewall
management solution, superseding iptables due to
its flexibility [...]
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_enable_HSTS_for_Enhanced_Web_Security_in
Nginx⠀⇛
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a security
mechanism that helps to protect websites from man-
in-the-middle attacks (MITMs). It does this by
instructing browsers to only connect to the website
using HTTPS, and to never downgrade to HTTP.
# ⚓ Julia Evans ☛ Introducing_“Implement_DNS_in_a_Weekend”⠀⇛
Hello! I’m excited to announce a project I’ve been
working on for a long time: a free guide to
implementing your own DNS resolver in a weekend.
The whole thing is about 200 lines of Python,
including implementing all of the binary DNS
parsing from scratch. Here’s the link: [...]
o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾
# ⚓ WINE Project (Official) ☛ WineHQ_–_Wine_Announcement_–_The
Wine_development_release_8.8_is_now_available.⠀⇛
The Wine development release 8.8 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
– More work towards full PE support in the
PostScript driver.
– Initial support for loading ARM64EC modules.
– More work on IME restructuration.
– Various bug fixes.
The source is available at:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.x/wine-
8.8.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be
available from:
https://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on https://
www.winehq.org/documentation
You can also get the current source directly from
the git
repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for
details.
Wine is available thanks to the work of many
people. See the file
AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Wine_8.8_is_out_now_with_more_PE_work,
initial_support_for_ARM64EC_modules⠀⇛
Time for a bit of weekend Wine? The translation
layer for running Windows games and apps on Linux
and other platforms development release v8.8 is out
now. Once a year a new stable release is made with
the next being Wine 9.0, and Wine is just one part
of what allows Steam Play Proton to play some of
the biggest games around on Linux desktop and Steam
Deck.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Björn Wärmedal ☛ Quarndown_Transport_Needs_Expert
Assistance⠀⇛
Yes, this is a post about OpenTTD. You’re probably
used to it by now 😄️
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Nintendo_Switch_emulator_yuzu_gets_a_huge
performance_boost⠀⇛
Emulation coding is tricky business done by some
people that are clearly 100x smarter than I am, and
now the Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu devs are just
showing off.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Reus_2_announced_letting_you_shape_humanity
again⠀⇛
Abbey Games are back and they’re making a sequel to
Reus, their god game from 2013 where you play as
giant beings in control of shaping planets in Reus
2. This time they’re being published by Firesquid
Games.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ ChimeraOS_42,_the_Linux_distro_for
handhelds_and_consoles_v42_is_out⠀⇛
Want to get Linux onto your handheld PC or your
living room PC console? ChimeraOS is probably what
you’re going to want and version 42 has just been
released. Since Valve haven’t yet released SteamOS
3 currently used on the Steam Deck for everyone,
this is probably the next best thing.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Mechabellum_is_an_auto-battling_Supreme
Commander_–_I’m_completely_hooked⠀⇛
Mechabellum is a new Early Access release from Game
River and Paradox Arc (the publishing arm of
Paradox Interactive). It’s an auto-battler like say
Dota Underlords and Auto Chess, but with big mech
units with battles like Supreme Commander.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ World_Turtles_is_a_city-builder_on_the_back
of_a_space_turtle_out_now⠀⇛
City-builders come in all shapes and sizes and now
you can build on the back of a massive turtle
flying through space in World Turtles.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KDE_Frameworks_5.106_Improves_Breeze
Icons,_Plasma_Browser_Integration,_and_More⠀⇛
The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks
5.106 as another monthly update to the KDE
Frameworks 5 open-source collection of more
than 80 add-on libraries to Qt providing
common functionality to the KDE Plasma
desktop environment and KDE Gear software
suite.
Work continues on the major KDE Frameworks 6
series, but that doesn’t mean that the KDE
Frameworks 5 series does not receive any
attention. In fact, KDE Frameworks 5.106 is
here with more improvements to the Breeze
icon theme, the Dolphin file manager,
Partition Manager, Plasma Browser
Integration, and other components.
# ⚓ Kdenlive ☛ Kdenlive_23.04.1_released⠀⇛
Kdenlive 23.04.1 has just been released, and
all users of the 23.04.0 version are strongly
encouraged to upgrade.
The 23.04.0 release of Kdenlive introduced
major changes with the support of nested
timeline. However, several issues leading to
crashes and project corruption went unnoticed
and affected this release.
This should now be fixed in Kdenlive 23.04.1.
While we have some automated testing, and
continue improving it, it is difficult to
test all configurations and cases on such a
large codebase with our small team. We are
however planning to improve in this area!
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ This Week in GNOME ☛ This_Week_in_GNOME/Felix_Häcker:
#95_Overlaid_Zoom⠀⇛
Update on what happened across the GNOME
project in the week from May 05 to May 12.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ HaikuOS ☛ Haiku_Activity_&_Contract_Report,_April_2023⠀⇛
As is the usual way of things, the monthly Activity
Report is hereby combined with my Contract Report.
This report covers hrev56888 through hrev56961.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_CPE_Weekly_update_–
Week_19_2023⠀⇛
This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community
Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any
questions or feedback, please respond to this
report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on
libera.chat.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Home_Assistant_Automatically
Warms_Car_on_Cold_Mornings⠀⇛
According to Richard, the issue began when he
couldn’t always remember to start his car on cold
mornings. Sure, you can automate something like
this with Alexa, but he needed the car to start
itself without the need to remember the command.
That’s where Pi comes into play. Using Home
Assistant, he’s created a system that will trigger
his car to start on mornings when the temperature
gets too low.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Meet_Fran_Scott:_Lego_Master_and_engineering
genius⠀⇛
FS: Unfortunately, on my way to university, there’s
always been this sort of divide between design and
technology on the one hand and the sciences on the
other; if you could do the science bits, you didn’t
do design and technology, you had to just stick to
the sciences to get the points to get to the
university that you wanted to.
Now that I had my degree, I was still enjoying the
design and technology. I started to build props
[for the Science Museum] and got approached for
lots of freelance work where people from other
organisations were asking me to build things.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Help_us_understand_UK_students’_attitudes_to
coding⠀⇛
Your UK school is invited to take part in a project
to help us evaluate students’ attitudes to coding
and how they are impacted by Code Club.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Rocketry_with_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛
I used an Estes D12-5 engine for my rocket. This is
a single-stage engine with a 24mm diameter,
designed for rockets with a maximum lift weight of
less than 270g. Perfect for the Estes Green Eggs.
As soon as I stumbled across the Rockit RP2040-
based model rocket flight controller on Tindie, I
had to have one. Rockit (Rocket Operation Computing
Kit) is a compact and inexpensive flight computer
designed by Dan Invents from Finland for small
model rockets. Among its many features, this board
has an altimeter, accelerometer, and temperature
sensor, all of which record data to a microSD card
for post-flight analysis. Dan did a fantastic job
with this board, and even included a 5V boost
converter with 2A current output in order to
control servos for more advanced rocketry.
Alternatively, it can be used to power a Raspberry
Pi and camera: now we’re talking!
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Shape-changing_user_interface_improves_haptic
navigation⠀⇛
The researchers designed S-BAN (Shape-Based
Assistance for Navigation) to work with existing
GPS navigation systems, such as Google Maps on
smartphones, but to provide a better user
experience. The S-BAN device looks like a small
remote and the fore end actuates in two dimensions.
It can move forward and backward, and pivot left
and right to guide the user. If, for instance, the
user needs to make an immediate left turn, it will
pivot left. This lets people with visual
impairments navigate through touch and helps
everyone else walk with their eyes up instead of
focused on their phones.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Arduino_Pro_at_SPS_Italy_2023⠀⇛
Mark your calendars: May 23rd-25th we’ll be at SPS
Italia, one of the country’s leading fairs for
smart, digital, sustainable industry and a great
place to find out what’s new in automation
worldwide.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ TactorBots_is_a_complete_toolkit_for_robotic
touch⠀⇛
So much of the research and development in the area
of haptic feedback focuses on universal devices
that can create a wide range of tactile sensations.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Uninstall_Bloatware_Apps_On_Your_Android
Phone⠀⇛
# ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ HTC_teases_May_2023_launch_for_new_Android
smartphone_–_NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ 8_Best_Antivirus_Apps_For_Android_Phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ Nokia_pushes_Android_13_update_to_all_11
eligible_models⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ Easy_6_Methods_to_Fix_Instagram_DM_Videos
Not_Working_on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Millions_of_Android_phones_are_shipping_with
malware_already_installed_|_TechRadar⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ Millions_of_Android_smartphones_come_pre-loaded
with_this_malware⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Central ☛ How_to_record_HDR_video_on_Android_|
Android_Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_snooze_notifications_on_your
Android_phone⠀⇛
# ⚓ How’s_Android_14_Beta_2_Treating_You?⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ The_modern_browser_experience_has
some_impressive_subtle_tricks⠀⇛
My current mouse has additional ‘rocker’ buttons,
which Firefox (and probably other web browsers) map
to forward and back one page, just like the
keyboard shortcuts of Alt + Right Arrow and Alt +
Left Arrow. Over the time I’ve become completely
acclimatized to using them and having them just
work, so it took a while for me to consciously
notice a surprising situation where the ‘back’
rocker button worked.
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Thunderbird ☛ Mozilla_Thunderbird:_Thunderbird_for
Android_/_K-9_Mail:_April_Progress_Report⠀⇛
We’re back with another progress report as we
continue improving K-9 Mail for its
transformation to Thunderbird for Android! We
spent most of the_previous_month preparing
for a new stable release. In April 2023, we
finally published K-9 Mail 6.600.
(By the way, if you missed the exciting news
last summer, K-9 Mail is now part of the
Thunderbird family, and we’re working
steadily on transforming it into Thunderbird
for Android. If you want to learn more, check
out our Android_roadmap, this blog_post,
and this_FAQ.)
o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ We_are_looking_for_tender_ideas_and_proposals_to_improve
LibreOffice⠀⇛
One of the goals of The Document Foundation and the
community it represents is to improve LibreOffice
to make it even more competitive with other office
suites.
# ⚓ LibreOffice_user_interface_improvements:_Annual_Report
2022⠀⇛
Design (UI and UX) has been one of the major focus
points of LibreOffice in the last few years, and
the Design community has produced new icon sets and
a number of incremental updates to the user
interface – menus, toolbars and the SideBar – along
with improvements to the NotebookBar…
o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾
# ⚓ Adriaan Roselli ☛ #AudioEye_Is_Suing_Me⠀⇛
The most substantive change in the amended
complaint (there is more than one change) might be
this demand on page 31:
w (d) Granting Plaintiff an injunction enjoining
Defendant from making future defamatory or
disparaging statements about Plaintiff and
requiring Defendant to remove his prior defamatory
or disparaging statements about Plaintiff, and
including further injunctive relief as the Court
deems just and proper;
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Ruby_3.3.0-preview1_Released⠀⇛
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby
3.3.0-preview1. Ruby 3.3 adds a new pure-Ruby JIT
compiler named RJIT, uses Lrama as a parser
generator, and many performance improvements
especially YJIT.
# ⚓ Miguel Young de la Sota ☛ Single_Abstract_Method_Traits⠀⇛
Rust and C++ both have very similar operational
semantics for their “anonymous function”
expressions (they call them “closures” and
“lambdas” respectively; I will use these
interchangably). Here’s what those expressions look
like.
# ⚓ Thorsten Ball ☛ The_Age_of_a_Software_Project⠀⇛
I was recently talking to a friend about how you
work on a project must change depending on where in
its lifecycle the project is.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Nikhil Marathe ☛ Python_Gotcha:_Idiomatic_file
iteration_has_bad_performance⠀⇛
While convenient, this is far from optimal
for I/O intensive programs. I would say this
default behavior isn’t a good idea for
anything larger than human-created text
files, and its presence in the base class of
all I/O objects is certainly some kind of
path dependence. Throughout the ecosystem,
there are lots of places that iterate over
files this way, and there are other places
that go out of there way to inefficiently
implement this contract, leaving a lot of
performance on the table.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Cable_Noose⠀⇛
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Mail_shipment_figures_dropped_in_2022_in_Latvia⠀⇛
The lifting of Covid-19 restrictions in 2022 changed
users’ habits in the use of postal services – the total
number of postal parcel shipments decreased by 1.3
million or 5.2%, and letters by 24%, according to data
published by the Public Utilities Supervisory Commission
(SPRK) on May 12.
o ⚓ EFF ☛ Dressed_to_Judge:_EFF’s_7th_Annual_Tech_Trivia_Night⠀⇛
Every year the Cybertiger stalks his prey: pressing nerds
everywhere with the most obscure, fascinating, minutiae
of tech-related questions to quiz digital freedom
supporters on their tech know-how. Who will come out on
top, he wonders? Well, we found out last week, on
Thursday, April 27 for EFF’s 7th Annual Tech Trivia
Night!
Thankfully, this year, the Cybertiger (EFF’s one and only
Cooper Quintin, Senior Staff Technologist) wasn’t the
only one dressed up for the occasion. Our three judges
also dazzled the attendees: Jon Callas with a red velvet
suit and top hat, Eva Galperin with a very judgmental
gown, Ava Salas with a goth dress and cat ears.
After going through a fit check for everyone on stage,
the competition was ready to start! Seven teams put their
tech-know-how to the test, all ready to battle it out for
the chance to win champion trophies and EFF prize packs.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Out_of_Eden⠀⇛
o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ How_‘Star_Trek:_Picard’_informs_us_about
cybersecurity⠀⇛
But sometimes Hollywood gets it right by depicting
reality in ways that both entertain and educate. And
that’s important, because whether it’s a large company,
government or your personal information, we all share
many of the same cybersecurity threats and
vulnerabilities. As a former cybersecurity industry
practitioner and current cybersecurity researcher, I
believe the final season of “Star Trek: Picard” is the
latest example of entertainment media providing useful
lessons about cybersecurity and the nature of the modern
world.
o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Brittney_Griner_Plays_in_First_WNBA
Preseason_Game_Since_Detainment_in_Russia⠀⇛
Brittney Griner strolled down the sideline about 1 1/
2 hours before the Phoenix Mercury played and hugged and
high-fived her teammates, coaches and opposing players
o ⚓ YLE ☛ APN_Podcast:_Finland’s_English-language_conundrum⠀⇛
This week’s show hears from a group of parents fighting
to keep their children in an international school, learns
about an innovative attempt to reach Russian gamers, and
looks ahead to Finland’s cha cha chances at this year’s
Eurovision Song Contest.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Give_Them_a_Raise!_Teachers_Deserve_Much
More_Than_a_Week_of_Appreciation⠀⇛
To this day, I have yet to meet a person incapable
of naming a teacher who made an impact on their
life. No matter if they attended an under-resourced
or well-off school, nearly everyone has had a
teacher who made them believe in themselves, taught
them to love a subject they thought they were
terrible at, or opened up their view of the world.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_higher_education_system_drifts_away_from
Bologna_Process_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on higher
education reform in Russia, consolidating the shift
of the education system away from the Bologna
Process and international accreditation standards.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Between_socialist_promise_and_totalitarian_threat
Owen_Boynton_reviews_Masha_Karp’s_‘George_Orwell_and_Russia’
—_Meduza⠀⇛
In his two most famous novels, “Animal Farm” and
“Nineteen Eighty-Four,” the lifelong socialist
George Orwell cautioned his readers, chiefly
conceived to be the British leftists, about the
dangers of totalitarianism they had to take into
account if they wanted to secure a more just and
equal future for the working classes. In her new
book, “George Orwell and Russia,” Masha Karp — an
Orwell scholar and Russian Features Editor at the
BBC World Service — explores in depth George
Orwell’s political views, the Russian roots of his
novels, and the way Orwell himself had been drawn
into the propaganda struggle between Britain and
the Soviets when he found himself composing the
controversial “Orwell’s list” of 1949. Owen Boynton
reviews Masha Karp’s book, finding a great deal to
admire, but taking issue with parts of the author’s
moral argument about Orwell.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Peak_Of_Vacuum_Tube_Radio_Design⠀⇛
One of the more popular trends in the ham radio
community right now is operating away from the
shack. Parks on the Air (POTA) is an excellent way
to take a mobile radio off-grid and operate in the
beauty of nature, but for those who want to take
their rig to more extreme locations there’s another
operating award program called Summits on the Air
(SOTA) that requires the radio operator to set up a
station on a mountaintop instead. This often
requires lightweight, low-power radios to keep
weight down for the hike, and [Dan] aka [AI6XG] has
created a radio from scratch to do just that.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Non-Destructive_Digital_Back_For_A_Classic
Leica⠀⇛
As digital photography has become so good, perhaps
just too good, at capturing near-perfect pictures,
some photographers have ventured back into the
world of film. There they have found the
imperfections requiring technical skill to cope
with that they desire, but they’ve also come face-
to-face with the very high cost and sometimes
sketchy availability of film stocks. From this has
come the so-called post-digital movement which
marries analog cameras and lenses with digital
sensors, and of this a particularly nice example
comes from [Michael Suguitan]. He’s taken a classic
Leica M2 rangefinder camera, and built a new back
for it containing a Raspberry Pi Zero and sensor.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Prize_2023:_Finger_Tracking_Via_Muscle
Sensors⠀⇛
Whether you want to build a computer interface
device, or control a prosthetic hand, having some
idea of a user’s finger movements can be useful.
The OpenMuscle finger tracking sensor can offer the
data you need, and it’s a device you can readily
build in your own workshop.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Your_Childhood_Inventions_Brought_To_Life⠀⇛
If you are the kind of person who reads Hackaday,
you probably spent time in school doodling little
design day dreams. [Allen Pan] gets it, and he’s
taken it upon himself to make some of those
daydreams into reality. You can see how it worked
out — or didn’t — in the video below.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ What_Is_A_Schumann_Resonance_And_Why_Am_I_Being
Offered_A_7.83Hz_Oscillator?⠀⇛
Something that probably unites many Hackaday
readers is an idle pursuit of browsing AliExpress
for new pieces of tech. Perhaps it’s something akin
to social media doomscrolling without the induced
anger, and it’s certainly entertaining to see some
of the weird and wonderful products that can be had
for a few dollars and a couple of weeks wait. Every
now and then something pops up that deserves a
second look, and it’s one of those that has caught
my attention today. Why am I being offered planar
PCB coils with some electronics, described as
“Schumann resonators”? What on earth is Schumann
resonance, anyway?
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Jennifer_Margulis:_The_intersection_between_antivaccine
beliefs_and_cancer_quackery⠀⇛
Back before the pandemic, in 2018—a time that now
seems like ancient history—I took note of a woman
whom I referred to as a rising star in the
antivaccine movement, because she was. At the time,
I took notice of Jennifer Margulis mainly because,
after having co-authored a book with antivax
pediatrician Dr. Paul Thomas and for a blog post
that brought her to my attention entitled Medical
Doctors Concerned We Are Giving America’s Children
Too Many Vaccines Too Soon. It was a typical
antivax assertion of the time, that vaccines were
causing autism and all sorts of other health
problems in children because we were giving too
many of them to children at too young an age. (Of
course, antivaxxers would never say how many and at
what age they considered “safe.”) Her post was the
“gateway” that led me to look at the sorts of
antivaccine misinformation Margulis had been laying
down on her website and elsewhere. After the
pandemic hit (and totally predictably), Margulis
pivoted effortlessly, as so many antivaxxers did,
to anti-COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and grift.
Of course, she has no clear expertise in medicine
to speak of, as her PhD is in English, specifically
19th century American Literature, African-American
Literature, and American Studies, but that hasn’t
stopped her from becoming prominent in the
antivaccine movement.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ More_People_Died_From_the_Failures_of
Obamacare_Than_From_Covid-19⠀⇛
Why a better healthcare system is needed.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ CDC_Data:_Omicron_Subvariant
XBB.1.16,_or_Arcturus,_Responsible_for_14%_of_New_COVID-19
Cases⠀⇛
The CDC this week reduced the coronavirus data it
publishes after the public health emergency
declaration related to the coronavirus ended.
# ⚓ Recycling_workers_offer_depots_as_refuge,_colleagues_as
blood_donors_in_an_earthquake⠀⇛
İstanbul’s Recycling Workers Association outlined
their action plan for a potential earthquake, which
involves repurposing their waste facilities into
shelters and proposing their (migrant) companions
as unbound strong rescuers and blood donors.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Health_Insurance_Claim_Denied?_See_What
Insurers_Said_Behind_the_Scenes⠀⇛
Learn how to request your health insurance claim
file, which can include details about what your
insurer is saying about you and your case.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Societal_Cost_of_‘Forever_Chemicals’
Estimated_at_Over_$17,000,000,0000⠀⇛
An upcoming report by Sweden-based organization
ChemSec will detail the costs of the continued use
of so-called “forever chemicals” which go
overlooked by their manufacturers—the “societal”
price that individuals and governments pay as the
chemicals remain in the environment long after they
are used in a range of products.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 70+_US_Lawmakers_Demand_EPA_Boost
Regulation_of_Microplastic_Pollution⠀⇛
Citing extensive research which has shown recently
that microplastics are ubiquitous in the
environment, more than 70 U.S. House members on
Friday wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency
to demand stronger regulation of the microscopic
particles that are used in everyday household items
and have been linked to respiratory diseases and
cancers.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Sanders,_Jayapal_Plan_Town_Hall_on
Healthcare_as_Human_Right_to_Promote_Medicare_for_All_Bill⠀⇛
As Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Pramila Jayapal
prepare to reintroduce legislation to establish a
national health program expanding Medicare to all
Americans, the two lawmakers announced on Friday
their plans to hold a town hall at the U.S. Capitol
on May 16 regarding the need for Medicare for All.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ APA_Report_Says_That_Media_&_Politicians_Are
Simply_Wrong_About_Kids_&_Social_Media;_Media_Then_Lies_About
Report⠀⇛
What if the media and the politicians threw a moral
panic about kids and social media… and the actual
experts didn’t come along? The American
Psychological Association has put out a thoughtful,
nuanced study, about kids and social media, that
suggests that the hyperventilating we’ve heard
about is misplaced, and that there are some simple
common sense approaches that parents can and should
take to make sure their kids are having a healthy
experience with social media.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_man_jailed_for_11_months
for_‘inciting_others’_to_spread_Covid-19_and_harm_judges⠀⇛
A Hong Kong man has been jailed for 11 months after
he pleaded guilty to three counts of incitement
linked to encouraging others to spread the Covid-19
virus and cause harm to the city’s judges and
police officers. District Judge Clement Lee
sentenced defendant Chung Chi-chiu to prison on
Friday…
# ⚓ H2 View ☛ Singapore_rules_out_ammonia_ship_transfers_in
2023⠀⇛
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA)
has quashed reports indicating it was ready to
conduct the first transfer of ammonia in
Singapore’s port waters before the end of 2023.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Ali Reza Hayati ☛ We_need_free_and_open_passwordless
login⠀⇛
It’s been a while since Google introduced its
passkey login system which users won’t need to set
and remember passwords in order to log in to their
accounts. Now, Google is giving its users option to
switch to passkey-only login for their accounts.
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Ted_Chiang_on_the_Risks_of_AI⠀⇛
EDITED TO ADD: Ted Chiang’s previous essay,
“ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web” is also worth
reading.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Will_A.I._Become_the_New_McKinsey?⠀⇛
So, I would like to propose another metaphor for
the risks of artificial intelligence. I suggest
that we think about A.I. as a management-consulting
firm, along the lines of McKinsey & Company. Firms
like McKinsey are hired for a wide variety of
reasons, and A.I. systems are used for many
reasons, too. But the similarities between
McKinsey—a consulting firm that works with ninety
per cent of the Fortune 100—and A.I. are also
clear. Social-media companies use machine learning
to keep users glued to their feeds. In a similar
way, Purdue Pharma used McKinsey to figure out how
to “turbocharge” sales of OxyContin during the
opioid epidemic. Just as A.I. promises to offer
managers a cheap replacement for human workers, so
McKinsey and similar firms helped normalize the
practice of mass layoffs as a way of increasing
stock prices and executive compensation,
contributing to the destruction of the middle class
in America.
# ⚓ Franz Dill ☛ Meta_Says_ChatGPT-Themed_Malware_Is_Beginning
to_Spread⠀⇛
The social media company’s latest threat analysis
warns about malware promising to provide some type
of “AI functionality.” It says so far, in 2023, it
discovered 10 malware families disguised as a
generative AI program that attempts to access
people’s accounts. The goal is to take over a
computer so that it can run unauthorized ads from
compromised machines. These ads are how they make
money by making people buy fake software/malware.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ My_AI_Girlfriend_Charges_$1/Minute_and
Only_Wants_to_Talk_About_Sex⠀⇛
According to Marjorie’s manager, Ishan Goel,
Caryn’s AI model uses the longest conversations
users had with it for training. If one user had an
hour-long conversation with the bot, it would
consider that conversation successful and use the
content of that interaction to inform how the bot
behaves in future interactions. This suggests that
the most engaged Caryn AI users talked about sex, a
lot.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Apple_Is_Trying_to_Compete_With_Adobe’s
Creative_Cloud_Dominance⠀⇛
While Adobe has, for years, offered discounts to
college students, as soon as they graduate, the
cost of the suite more than doubles, to $54.99 per
month for a 12-month license, with a significant
fee if you attempt to cancel early. Apple’s App
Store certainly has its problems, but it doesn’t
try to gouge you with a huge cancellation fee as
you try and cut bait.
# § Windows TCO⠀➾
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Illinois_Data_Breach_Exposes_Private
Information_of_Medicaid,_SNAP,_and_TANF_Recipients⠀⇛
The Illinois Department of Healthcare and
Family Services (HFS) and Department of Human
Services (IDHS) have disclosed a data breach
within the State of Illinois Application for
Benefits Eligibility (ABE) system’s Manage My
Case (MMC) portal.
# ⚓ [Repeat] Illinois ☛ Illinois_Data_Breach_Exposes
Private_Information_of_Medicaid,_SNAP,_and_TANF
Recipients⠀⇛
The breach involved unauthorized accounts
created in the ABE system, which accessed and
linked to existing customer MMC accounts by
using the customers’ personal information,
which was stolen from another source.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Cybercriminals_have_adapted_since
Microsoft’s_decision_to_block_macros⠀⇛
Macros — which enable certain automation in
particular file types — were long a favorite
way for [crackers] to lace documents with
malicious scripts to download malware onto
targeted systems during email phishing
campaigns, the researchers said in a new
report. But after Microsoft’s February 2022
decision, which the company fully implemented
by July, attacks enabled through macros have
dropped off precipitously, the researchers
said in a report published Friday ahead of a
talk at the Sluethcon cybercrime conference
in Arlington, Virginia.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Why_Microsoft_just_patched_a_patch
that_squashed_an_under-attack_Outlook_bug⠀⇛
To remind you of the original bug, tracked as
CVE-2023-23397: it was possible to send
someone an email that included a reminder
with a custom notification sound. That custom
sound could be specified as a URL path within
the email.
If a miscreant carefully crafted a mail with
that sound path set to a remote SMB server,
when Outlook fetched and processed the
message, and automatically followed the path
to the file server, it would hand over the
user’s Net-NTLMv2 hash in an attempt to log
in. That would effectively leak the hash to
an outside party, who could potentially use
the credential to access other resources as
that user, allowing the intruder to explore
internal network systems, steal documents,
impersonate their victim, and so on.
o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾
# § Openwashing⠀➾
# ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ The_open-source_AI_boom_is
built_on_Big_Tech’s_handouts._How_long_will_it_last?
[Ed: There's no "open-source AI boom"; they're
proprietary and they actively abuse Free software, e.g.
with GPL violations. This publisher is taking money
from Microsoft entities, so such propaganda is not
unexpected.]⠀⇛
Last week a leaked memo reported to have been
written by Luke Sernau, a senior engineer at
Google, said out loud what many in Silicon
Valley must have been whispering for weeks:
an open-source free-for-all is threatening
Big Tech’s grip on AI. New open-source large
language models—alternatives to Google’s Bard
or OpenAI’s ChatGPT that researchers…
[...]
But this open-source boom is precarious. Most
open-source releases still stand on the
shoulders of giant models put out by big
firms with deep pockets. If OpenAI and Meta
decide they’re closing up shop, a boomtown
could become a backwater.
For example, many of these models are built
on top of LLaMA, an open-source large
language model released by Meta AI. Others
use a massive public data set called the
Pile, which was put together by the open-
source nonprofit EleutherAI. But EleutherAI
exists only because OpenAI’s openness meant
that a bunch of coders were able to reverse-
engineer how GPT-3 was made, and then create
their own in their free time.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ WordPress_Plugin_Vulnerability_Exposed
Ferrari_Website_to_Hackers⠀⇛
A vulnerability in a WordPress plugin exposed the
official website of sports car maker Ferrari to
hacker attacks.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Toyota:_Data_on_More_Than_2_Million
Vehicles_in_Japan_Were_at_Risk_in_Decade-Long_Breach⠀⇛
A decade-long data breach in Toyota’s online
service put some information on more than 2 million
vehicles at risk.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Spain_Arrests_Hackers_in_Crackdown_on_Major
Criminal_Organization⠀⇛
Spanish authorities have announced the arrest of 40
individuals for their roles in a group involved in
bank fraud, identity theft, and money laundering.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ CISA,_FBI:_Ransomware_Gang_Exploited
PaperCut_Flaw_Against_Education_Facilities⠀⇛
CISA and FBI have observed a ransomware gang
exploiting a recent PaperCut vulnerability in
attacks targeting the education facilities
subsector.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Leaked_Babuk_Code_Fuels_New_Wave_of_VMware
ESXi_Ransomware⠀⇛
SentinelOne sees multiple threat groups adopting
the leaked Babuk source code to build their own
VMware ESXi lockers.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Organizations_Informed_of_Over_a_Dozen
Vulnerabilities_in_Rockwell_Automation_Products⠀⇛
Rockwell Automation customers have been informed
about potentially serious vulnerabilities in
several products, shortly after news of an
investigation into the firm’s China operations.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ 1_Million_WordPress_Sites_Impacted_by
Exploited_Plugin_Vulnerability⠀⇛
Exploitation of a critical vulnerability in the
Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin
started immediately after a patch was released.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Australian_Enterprise_Software_Maker
TechnologyOne_Resumes_Trading_Following_Hack⠀⇛
Australian enterprise software maker TechnologyOne
said its internal Microsoft 365 system was
compromised in a cyberattack.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ FBI_Buys_Confirmation_Bias,_Asks_Cop_Shops
To_Show_Them_On_The_Req_Form_Where_Encryption_Hurt
Them⠀⇛
It has been more than 1,800 days since the
FBI said it would correct its incorrect total
of (allegedly) uncrackable encrypted devices
in its possession. Back in the glory days of
its “going dark” narrative, the FBI claimed
it had more than 7,800 impenetrable devices
in its possession. Some congressional
scrutiny, much of it spearheaded by Senator
Ron Wyden, forced the FBI to actually take a
look at its presumed totals. That additional
scrutiny forced the FBI to admit its tracking
software had vastly over-represented its
supposed encryption problem.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Clearview_Fined_Again_By_French_Government
For_Failing_To_Pay_Fines_Already_Owed_To_French
Government⠀⇛
Clearview has been giving web scraping a bad
name since its arrival on the scene a couple
of years ago. Scraping isn’t necessarily bad.
Web scraping can provide data sets that help
improve things for people everywhere. But
this effort can also be used to do the sort
of thing Clearview has been doing: grabbing
any and all personal data/photos that aren’t
locked down, shoehorning them into a massive
database, and selling access (along with its
facial recognition AI) to anyone who wants
it, from gym owners to billionaires to cops.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ France_Punishes_Clearview_AI_For
Failing_To_Pay_Fine⠀⇛
France’s privacy watchdog doled out further
penalties to US firm Clearview AI for failing
to pay a 20-million-euro fine imposed last
year over data breaches.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Ex-ByteDance_exec_claims_CCP_“maintained”
access_to_U.S._data⠀⇛
The Chinese Communist Party “maintained
supreme access” to data belonging to TikTok
parent company ByteDance, including data
stored in the U.S., a former top executive
claimed in a lawsuit Friday.
Why it matters: The allegations come as
federal officials weigh the fate of the
social media giant in the U.S. amid growing
concerns_over_national_security and data
privacy.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ex-ByteDance_Executive_Accuses
TikTok_Parent_Company_of_‘Lawlessness’⠀⇛
The former executive sued ByteDance, which
owns TikTok, for wrongful termination and
accused the company of lifting content from
rivals and “supreme access” by the Chinese
Communist Party.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Executive_Fired_From
TikTok’s_Chinese_Owner_Says_Beijing_Had_Access_to_App
Data_in_Termination_Suit⠀⇛
A former executive at TikTok’s parent company
ByteDance accuses the tech giant of serving
as a “propaganda tool” for the Chinese
government
[...]
Among the most striking claims in Mr. Yu’s
lawsuit is that ByteDance’s offices in
Beijing had a special unit of Chinese
Communist Party members sometimes referred to
as the Committee, which monitored the
company’s apps, “guided how the company
advanced core Communist values” and possessed
a “death switch” that could turn off the
Chinese apps entirely.
“The Committee maintained supreme access to
all the company data, even data stored in the
United States,” the complaint said.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Why_cash_will_become_a_commoner;_and
other_top_tech_&_startup_stories_this_week⠀⇛
In its Future of Retail Payments Report 2023,
consultancy firm Bain and Co has predicted
that by FY2026, cash will go down to 48% of
overall payments in the country. Currently,
it is at 70%. That is a steep fall,
especially since FY26 is less than two years
away.
# ⚓ The Drone Girl ☛ This_woman_oversees_drone_flights_in
more_than_130_different_countries⠀⇛
Margherita Bruscolini is Head of Drones at
Globhe, a massive drone data-gathering
company based in Sweden that works with more
than 8,000 drone operators worldwide to
collect high-resolution drone data from more
than 130 countries, which are then delivered
to clients.
Globhe’s drone flights span various verticals
—mainly global health, water, extreme weather
events, environment, agriculture, forestry,
infrastructure, and renewable energy.
Globhe’s customers are businesses,
governments, organizations and researchers —
all of whom seek Globhe’s high-resolution
drone data to increase their own work
efficiencies and/or lower costs through
applications such as map-making or conducting
inspections.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Executive_fired_from_TikTok’s
Chinese_owner_says_Beijing_had_access_to_app_data_in
termination_suit⠀⇛
A former executive at TikTok’s parent company
ByteDance accuses the tech giant of serving
as a “propaganda tool” for the Chinese
government. The allegations were made in a
complaint filed Friday in San Francisco
Superior Court as part of his wrongful
termination lawsuit. Yintao Yu claims that
the Chinese government monitored ByteDance’s
work from within its Beijing headquarters. He
also alleges ByteDance used software to
scrape user content from competitors like
Instagram and Snapchat without permission.
ByteDance did not reply to a request for
comment.
# § Confidentiality⠀➾
# ⚓ Ciprian Dorin Craciun ☛ Experimenting_with_multi-
factor_encryption⠀⇛
In the beginning of 2023 I’ve started
extending my open-source project z-tokens,
from just supporting passwords (plus other
related tokens) generation and hashing (with
various well-known algorithms), with support
for a very “opinionated” encryption tool.
I know that “opinionated” is currently a very
misused word, from “opinionated” web
frameworks, to “opinionated” cryptography
tools. However, in this case I think I’m not
misusing it, as I’ll try to describe further.
# ⚓ Franz Dill ☛ NIST_on_Post_Quantum⠀⇛
NIST has release a draft of Special
Publication 1800-38A: Migration to Post-
Quantum Cryptography: Preparation for
Considering the Implementation and Adoption
of Quantum Safe Cryptography.” It’s only four
pages long, and it doesn’t have a lot of
detail—more “volumes” are coming, with more
information—but it’s well worth reading.
* § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Former_NBA_star_Dwight_Howard_stirs_Chinese
anger_by_calling_Taiwan_a_country⠀⇛
The US basketball player appeared in a promotional video
with Taiwan’s vice-president William Lai.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Haiti’s_Choice_Is_Social_Revolution_or_Foreign
Intervention⠀⇛
With long experience of chaos, violence, and
dysfunctional governance, Haiti looks now to be on the
verge of new crisis in the form of foreign military
intervention. U.S. and United Nations decision-makers
have held back, but now they look to be moving, again.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Pakistani_Police_Are_Making_Protesters_Disappear⠀⇛
Rawalpindi, Pakistan—On Tuesday evening, I was walking
through downtown Rawalpindi toward General Headquarters,
the army’s national command center. Earlier that
afternoon, former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan had
been picked up from Islamabad High Court by the Pakistan
Rangers, a paramilitary force controlled by the country’s
powerful army. This had prompted thousands of his
supporters to take to the streets in a show of protest,
and there were reports on social media that military
installations, including GHQ, had been attacked. A police
statement later claimed that 1,650 protesters were
arrested in the Punjab province, a number that is
unquestionably short of the reality. I decided to visit
the scene to report on what was happening.
o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Former_Pakistani_PM_Imran_Khan_Freed_on_Bail
After_Days_of_Mass_Protests_over_His_Arrest⠀⇛
We look at the political crisis in Pakistan as the
Islamabad High Court on Friday granted two weeks’ bail to
former Prime Minister Imran Khan after his arrest sparked
mass protests. Paramilitary forces arrested Khan on
corruption charges, but Pakistan’s Supreme Court later
ruled his arrest was “invalid and unlawful.” Khan served
as prime minister from 2018 to 2022, when he was ousted
from office in what he called a “U.S.-backed regime
change” plot carried out by his political opposition.
Mohammed Hanif, an award-winning writer and journalist
based in Karachi, says the corruption accusations are
part of a larger power struggle in the country, pitting
the extremely popular Khan against the country’s
establishment, including the military. “Elections are
due, and they want to keep him out of the election race.
Either they want to disqualify him or put him behind
bars,” says Hanif.
o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Shock_&_Surprise”:_Serbia_Reels_from_Two_Mass
Shootings,_Demands_Stronger_Gun_Control⠀⇛
We speak with Serbian journalist Ljiljana Smajlović as
Serbia reels from a pair of mass shootings that left 17
people dead, incidents that spurred mass protests and
demands for stronger gun control. In light of the
massacres, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić vowed to
completely disarm the country. More than 6,000
unregistered guns and weapons were turned in after the
government announced a month-long amnesty on illegal
weapons. “People are stunned. Their sense of security has
been taken away completely,” says Smajlović. She notes
the shock of the mass shootings is providing a rare
opening for the opposition to attempt to weaken the
ruling party, which has been in power for more than a
decade.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Baltic_PMs_focus_on_energy_security_and_Ukraine_in
Tallinn⠀⇛
The Prime Ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were
meeting in Tallinn Friday under the auspices of the
Baltic Council of Ministers with future energy security
and more help for Ukraine top of their joint agenda.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Vestager_visits_to_discuss_economy_and_Ukraine⠀⇛
On Thursday, May 11, Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis
Kariņš met with the Executive Vice President of the
European Commission, Margrethe Vestager in Rīga, to
discuss issues related to the European Union’s economic
development, as well as the continuation of support for
Ukraine.
o ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Andriy_Yermak:_Italy_is_defending_common
European_values_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is right to say
that helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian
invasion is about freedom, justice, and common values,
writes the head of Ukraine’s Office of the President,
Andriy Yermak.
o ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russian_War_Report:_Russia_wages_an_invisible
war_with_radar_waves_and_Russian_music_across_borders⠀⇛
As Russia continues its assault on Ukraine, the Atlantic
Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) is
keeping a close eye on Russia’s movements across the
military, cyber, and information domains.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Russia_acknowledges_retreat_north_of_Bakhmut_as
Ukraine_claims_advances⠀⇛
Moscow acknowledged on Friday that its forces had fallen
back north of Ukraine’s battleground city of Bakhmut
after a new Ukrainian offensive, in a retreat that the
head of Russia’s Wagner private army called a “rout”.
o ⚓ Truthdig ☛ America’s_Hidden_Private_Soldiers⠀⇛
At least as far back as the Civil War through World Wars
I and II, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and the first Gulf
War, “contractors,” as we like to call them, have long
been with us. Only recently, however, have they begun
playing such a large role in our wars, with an estimated
10% to 20% of them directly involved in combat and
intelligence operations.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Wife_of_jailed_Russian_activist_Kara-Murza_says_she
will_‘never_stop_fighting’_for_him⠀⇛
FRANCE 24 spoke to Evgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition activist who
was recently sentenced to 25 years in jail by a Moscow
court for “high treason” because of his outspoken
criticism of the war in Ukraine. Kara-Murza sent a
message to her jailed husband: she will “never stop
fighting” for him. She also discussed the current
situation in Russia and said she felt unable to return
there as she feared the authorities would arrest her to
“put pressure” on her husband.
o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_to_send_special_envoy_to_visit
Ukraine,_Russia⠀⇛
China will send a special envoy to Ukraine, Russia and
other European nations from Monday, Beijing said on
Friday, the highest-ranking Chinese diplomat to visit the
war-torn country since Moscow’s invasion last year.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Moscow-affiliated_Ukrainian_Orthodox_Church_bishop
sentenced_to_3_years_in_prison⠀⇛
A Metropolitan of the Moscow-affiliated Ukrainian
Orthodox Church (UOC-MP) was sentenced to three years in
prison Friday after pleading guilty before a Ukrainian
court to “violating the equality of citizens.
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Ukraine_dispatch:_‘I_woke_up_to_feel_my_house_shaking
due_to_a_night_attack_on_Kyiv’⠀⇛
Ukrainian law students and young lawyers are reporting
for JURIST on developments in and affecting Ukraine. This
dispatch is from Olha Chernovol, a Ukrainian lawyer who
was forced to leave Ukraine in March 2022 after the
Russian invasion and who is now completing a post-
doctoral fellowship at the University of Ottawa in
Canada.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_mulls_stepping_up_training_of_Ukrainian_troops_–
minister⠀⇛
Lithuania is considering providing more instructors for
the training of Ukrainian troops, Lithuanian Defence
Minister Arvydas Anušauskas said on Friday while visiting
Lithuanian instructors in Germany.
o ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ “Independent”_Ukrainian_“Kill_List”_Actually
Run_By_Kiev,_Backed_by_Washington⠀⇛
New evidence reveals that Ukraine’s infamous covert “kill
list” is a product of the Ukraine regime, effectively
funded by the CIA, amongst others, and hosted by NATO.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy’s_Office_Denies_He_Made_Request_For_Eurovision
Speech⠀⇛
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office on May
12 denied it had requested that he address the Eurovision
song contest final scheduled for May 13 in Liverpool,
England.
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Eurovision_2023:_A_message_of_hope,_reprieve_from
war,_for_Ukraine⠀⇛
Eurovision returned to the U.K. after 25 years, but the
focus this week has been on Ukrainian culture. The finals
take place Saturday in Liverpool, England. Fan favorites
include Finnish Käärijä’s “Cha Cha Cha” and “Tattoo” by
Sweden’s Loreen.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine’s_Offensive_Could_Set_Stage_for
Diplomacy_With_Russia,_U.S._Officials_Say⠀⇛
While exploring endgames, Biden aides say they reject any
push for peace talks — including from China — that would
freeze the current front lines and Russia’s gains.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S.,_German_Officials_Discuss_Efforts_To_Counter_Russian
Sanctions_Evasion⠀⇛
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met with German
Finance Minister Christian Lindner on May 12,
underscoring the importance of working together to
counter evasion of Western sanctions imposed on Russia
over its war in Ukraine, the U.S. Treasury said.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukrainian_Soldiers_Risk_Their_Lives_to_Keep
Weapons_From_the_Black_Market⠀⇛
They can’t track every shell, but at a time of heightened
scrutiny in Washington they know they can ill afford
slips with the big ticket items.
o ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Operation_Counterstrike:_What_Might_the_Approaching
Ukrainian_Offensive_Achieve?⠀⇛
Ukraine will likely unleash its counteroffensive soon
with tanks, drones and fresh troops. Kyiv badly needs
some kind of success. The troops aren’t only fighting the
Russians – they also need to prove to the West that they
are still worthy of support.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Acknowledges_Retreat_North_Of_Bakhmut_After_Major
Advance_Of_Ukrainian_Troops⠀⇛
The Russian Defense Ministry has acknowledged its forces
retreated from positions north of the city of Bakhmut in
Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region that for months has been
the scene of heavy fighting.
o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Russians_Flee_as_Ukraine_Advances_on
Bakhmut⠀⇛
Russia’s uniformed and paramilitary forces appear to be
in a state of panic as Ukraine begins advances on the
strategic city.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Social_Media_Giants,_Gun_Dealer_Among_Defendants
in_Buffalo_Massacre_Lawsuit⠀⇛
Groups representing survivors and loved ones of victims
of last May’s racist massacre at the Tops Friendly
supermarket in Buffalo, New York on Friday sued numerous
social media and streaming companies, a gun dealer, a
body armor manufacturer, and the shooter’s parents for
the wrongful deaths of 10 Black people murdered in the
attack.
o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Six_Children,_Russian_Official
Reported_Hurt_in_Luhansk_Missile_Strike⠀⇛
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine’s_Advances_Near_Bakhmut_Expose_Rifts_in
Russian_Forces⠀⇛
Russia’s pro-war bloggers were quick to claim that
Ukraine’s long-anticipated counteroffensive had begun,
but Ukrainian officials downplayed the advances.
o ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Russian_cargo_vessel’s_Simon’s_Town_berthing
escalated_to_enquiry⠀⇛
The apparent clandestine visit of a Russian cargo vessel
to Naval Base (NB) Simon’s Town in December will be
addressed by an independent enquiry headed by a retired
judge, a statement attributed to South African President
Cyril Ramaphosa said amid a growing diplomatic row with
the United States over South Africa allegedly supplying
Russia…
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Noted_Russian_Scientist_Placed_Under_House_Arrest_On
Charge_Of_Financing_An_Extremist_Group⠀⇛
A court in the city of Pereslavl-Zalessky, about 140
kilometers northwest of Moscow, on May 12 placed noted
Russian physicist and mathematician Sergei Abramov under
house arrest on a charge of financing an unspecified
extremist group.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Lost_and_Bloody_Souls_in_the_Nuclear_Age⠀⇛
More mass killings. More bloody “normal”—not just in
Texas, not just in the United States, but around the
world.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia’s_Jailed_Former_‘Aluminum_King’_Gets_Additional
Prison_Term_In_2005_Murder_Case⠀⇛
A court in Siberia on May 12 sentenced jailed businessman
Anatoly Bykov to 11 years in prison for his involvement
in ordering the assassination of a rival businessman in
2005.
o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Niinistö:_We_must_have_the_courage_to_speak
about_peace,_too⠀⇛
PRESIDENT Sauli Niinistö hosted a dinner for the
diplomatic corps at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki
on Thursday, marking the first such gathering in four
years due to the disruption caused by the coronavirus
pandemic.
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Cardona:_Student_loan_repayment_pause_will_end_“no_later
than_June_30″⠀⇛
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said that the current
pause_on_student_loan_repayments will end “no later than
June 30.”
Driving the news: “The emergency period is over and we’re
preparing our borrowers to restart,” Cardona said
Thursday at a Senate appropriations committee hearing.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_New_Round_of_Middle_East_Fighting⠀⇛
The death of an imprisoned Palestinian militant leader on
a hunger strike prompted new skirmishing.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Fighting_Between_Israel_and_Islamic_Jihad:_Where
Things_Stand⠀⇛
Exchanges of fire continued on Friday despite overnight
mediation efforts for a cease-fire.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Kim_Iversen_Show:_Gordon_Brown_CHALLENGED_on
Ukraine⠀⇛
Max Jones joins Kim Iversen to discuss his confrontation
of U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown on his calls for the
ICC to prosecute Vladimir Putin for war crimes.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ UK_Confirms_It’s_Supplying_Ukraine_With_Long-Range
Missiles⠀⇛
The provision of Storm Shadow missiles marks an
escalation of NATO support for Ukraine.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Did_They_Drill_the_Brother’s_Head?_Who_Will_Be
the_Third_One?_Will_It_Be_Me?⠀⇛
The searing images, by “the poster child for America’s
torture program,” stun. “Like clockwork,” Abu Zubaydah
was ceaselessly beaten, rectal-fed, hung by his hands,
slammed into walls and waterboarded 83 times during Darth
Cheney’s grisly, senseless “enhanced interrogation
techniques.” In newly released drawings, Zubaydah
documents his abuse during 21 years at Guantánamo. Still
there, he’s “the forever prisoner” – not for what he did
(he was never charged) but for what was done to him.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Political_repression_is_a_self-replicating_machine’
What_Belarus’s_recent_past_can_tell_us_about_Russia’s_future_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Observers have long compared Vladimir Putin’s regime in
Russia to Alexander Lukashenko’s rule in Belarus. When
protests swept the latter country in 2020 (only to be
forced back into submission as winter set in), many
speculated that Russia might be headed down the same
path. In 2022, Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of
Ukraine, and the domestic repressions against anyone who
dared speak out against Putin’s policies did indeed reach
an unprecedented level, but it appears to be only the
beginning of the Kremlin’s crackdown. At Meduza’s
request, Artyom Shraibman, a Belarusian political
scientist and a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie
Russia Eurasia Center, explains what Russians can expect
if their country continues moving in the same direction
as Belarus.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ State_Duma_deputy_Viktor_Vodolatsky_reportedly_injured
by_artillery_fire_in_Luhansk_—_Meduza⠀⇛
State Duma deputy from the United Russia faction Viktor
Vodolatsky was injured by artillery fire in Luhansk,
reports Interfax, citing an announcement by the Russian-
appointed authorities of the annexed LNR.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Explosion_disrupts_power_supply_in_Melitopol_—_Meduza⠀⇛
An explosion occurred in Melitopol, a city in the
Russian-annexed part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region.
The state-owned Russian news outlet RIA Novosti reported
the incident.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Prigozhin_on_Bakhmut:_‘The_flanks_are_crumbling,_the
front_is_collapsing’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Wagner Group founder Evgeny Prigozhin has repeated his
claim, first made yesterday, that Russian Defense
Ministry troops surrendered their positions on the
outskirts of Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, allowing
Ukraine’s Armed Forces to occupy important tactical
heights. Prigozhin’s press service released a video of
the tycoon’s response to media requests for his comments.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Wagner_Group_head_Evgeny_Prigozhin_calls_on_Russian
Defense_Minister_to_come_to_Bakhmut_—_Meduza⠀⇛
In a letter posted on Telegram Friday, Wagner
paramilitary cartel founder Evgeny Prigozhin called on
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu to come to the
Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, where heavy fighting has been
ongoing for more than nine months. The letter is dated
May 11.
o ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ President_Novák_tries_to_defend_Chief_of
General_Staff’s_historical_distortion,_but_Polish_ambassador
expects_an_apology⠀⇛
Hungarian President Katalin Novák took to Twitter to try
to explain the scandalous statement by newly appointed
Chief of General Staff Gábor Böröndi that World War II
could have been prevented if the world had made peace
with Nazi Germany before it was too late.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Perm_police_arrest_three_people_for_alleged_Russian_army
fundraising_scam_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Perm police have arrested three people on suspicion that
they were defrauding donors in a fake fundraising
campaign purportedly in support of the Russian army while
using the name of RT head Margarita Simonyan, according
to the Russian Interior Ministry.
o ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungary_only_EU_country_not_to_sign_OSCE_report
criticising_Belarus⠀⇛
Hungary is the only EU member state not to have backed a
report that drew attention to the “politically motivated
repression” of the Minsk regime and the large number of
political prisoners, Radio Free Europe reports.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukraine’s_counteroffensive_has_started!_Or_maybe_not!
Panic_among_Russian_war_bloggers_was_quickly_stemmed_by_the_Defense
Ministry._Here’s_what’s_really_going_on._—_Meduza⠀⇛
In the evening on May 11, multiple Russian Telegram
channels supporting the invasion began announcing that
the counteroffensive everyone had been expecting from
Ukraine for the past several months had finally begun.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Mi-28_helicopter_crashes_in_Crimea,_killing_both
pilots_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A Russian Mi-28 attack helicopter crashed in Crimea
during a training flight, reports Interfax, citing
sources in Russia’s Defense Ministry. Both pilots were
killed.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Worse_than_the_maximum_sentence_As_Russian_AWOL
convictions_spike,_judges_are_effectively_sending_defendants_back
to_war_—_Meduza⠀⇛
In the first four months of 2023, Russian military courts
heard 1,053 felony cases under the Criminal Code’s
article against “unauthorized abandonment of a military
unit,” which can carry a punishment of up to 10 years in
prison. That’s more cases than in the entirety of 2022
(when courts heard 1,001 such cases), according to the
independent outlet Mediazona, which took its data from
the official websites of Russia’s military courts.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Defense_Ministry_official_says_Ukrainian_troops
advancing_in_direction_of_Soledar_along_entire_contact_line_—
Meduza⠀⇛
A Russian Defense Ministry representative reported Friday
that Ukrainian forces were advancing in the tactical
direction of Soledar “along the entire contact line
extending more than 95 kilometers” (59 miles) on
Thursday.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Computer_scientist_in_Yaroslavl_region_reportedly_put
under_house_arrest_for_sending_money_to_Navalny’s_Anti-Corruption
Foundation_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A court in Russia’s Yaroslavl region has put a local
resident under house arrest on suspicion that he
“financed extremist activities.”
* § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
o ⚓ Finland ☛ Secret_room_inside_popular_game_contains_independent
journalism_forbidden_in_Russia⠀⇛
After the start of the war on Ukraine, Russia has banned
its citizens from accessing such online services as
Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, as well as the sites of
several Western media, including Helsingin Sanomat. Due
to this, a large proportion of Russians are not aware of
what is going on in Ukraine, for example.
The Russian state-controlled media are not telling the
truth.
[...]
Early this year, Helsingin Sanomat commissioned two well-
known map designers to create a Counter-Strike map
imitating a Slavic city. A secret room was hidden in the
map.
* § Environment⠀➾
o ⚓ RFA ☛ China’s_CO2_emissions_hit_record_in_first_quarter,_report
says⠀⇛
Increase driven by post-COVID economic rebound, stimulus
and drought.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Cyclone_Mocha_Moves_Toward_Myanmar_and
Bangladesh⠀⇛
If current forecasts hold, the storm could be the
strongest and most dangerous since 2010 to hit the area,
which is the site of many refugee camps.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden_Accused_of_Breaking_Key_Climate_Pledge
After_Ex-Im_Bank_Backs_Indonesia_Oil_Refinery⠀⇛
Climate groups accused President Joe Biden of violating
his pledge to end public financing for international
fossil fuel projects after the U.S. Export-Import Bank
voted Thursday to approve a $99.7 million loan for an
Indonesian oil refinery.
o ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Unauthorized_Disclosure:_Steven_Donziger⠀⇛
o § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ How_did_Sam_Bankman-Fried_get_away_with_peddling
FTX?⠀⇛
As FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried prepares to go on
trial for several of the 13 charges against him,
the crypto world is getting pressured by regulators
around the globe to make sure they’re not liable
for another fraudulent scheme.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Four-Fifths_of_Board_Members_at_America’s_Top_Six
Banks_are_Climate_Conflicted⠀⇛
Four in five bank directors at the six largest
banks in the U.S. have ties to polluting companies
and organizations, including major fossil fuel
companies, according to a new DeSmog analysis.
The research raises fresh concerns about the extent
of anti-environmental influence inside some of the
nation’s most powerful boardrooms at a time when
campaigners are pushing the banks to enact stronger
environmental policies at their annual shareholder
meetings.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Sempra_LNG_Lobbyists_Ghost_Wrote_Louisiana
Officials’_Letters_Supporting_Gas_Storage_Project⠀⇛
In an effort to gain federal approval for a natural
gas storage project in south Louisiana, Sempra LNG
lobbyists crafted letters for Louisiana elected
officials to send to federal regulators in support
of the project.
Last fall, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) greenlit the Hackberry gas storage project,
which involves converting underground domes
constructed in the 1970s to mine for salt into
storage space for up to 25.5 billion cubic feet of
natural gas. Sempra LNG has been trying to build
the project in Cameron Parish since 2006, when the
company planned to store gas in the caverns from
its liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility.
Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing later
created a surplus in U.S. natural gas, which is
primarily composed of methane, a potent greenhouse
gas.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ East_African_Groups_Urge_Policymakers_to
Ditch_Fossil_Fuels_for_Renewables⠀⇛
More than three dozen progressive advocacy groups
implored East African leaders this week to stop
funding fossil fuel projects and instead ramp up
investment in renewable energy production and other
green economic initiatives.
# ⚓ RIPE ☛ The_Climate_Cost_of_the_AI_Revolution⠀⇛
ChatGPT and other AI applications such as
Midjourney have pushed “Artificial Intelligence”
high on the hype cycle. In this article, I want to
focus specifically on the energy cost of training
and using applications like ChatGPT, what their
widespread adoption could mean for global CO₂
emissions, and what we could do to limit these
emissions.
# ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ AI_Hype_Will_Drive_Datacenter_GPU
Prices_Sky_High⠀⇛
People are not going to be any more patient about
adding generative AI to their workloads today than
they were in the late 1990s and early 2000s to add
Web infrastructure to modernize their applications
to deploy interfaces for them on the Internet. The
difference this time around is that the datacenter
is not transforming itself into a general purpose
X86 compute substrate, but rather is becoming more
and more of an ecosystem of competing and
complementary architectures that are woven together
to provide the overall best possible bang for the
buck across a wider variety of workloads.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Airlines_Azimuth_and_Georgia_Airways_plan_to
resume_direct_flights_between_Russia_and_Georgia_by_late_May
—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia-based airline Azimuth and Georgian Airways
are completing the “last formalities” before
starting direct flights between Russia and Georgia
later this month, says Russian state broadcaster
RBC.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Europe’s_new_energy_problem:_it_now_has_too_much
gas⠀⇛
Europe has come a long way from the frenzied
stockpiling driving up natural gas prices a year
ago.
o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_Regulation_Makes_Preventing_Colorado
Wildfires_Difficult⠀⇛
Colorado’s snowcapped Rockies towered in the
distance on a crisp April day as firefighter Emilio
Palestro used a torch to ignite damp prairie grass
within view of a nearby farmhouse and a suburban
neighborhood.
Propelled by a breeze, orange flames crackled up a
ditch bank, devouring a thick mat of dead grass,
cornhusks and weeds. It was neither too windy, nor
too humid, nor too hot — a rare goldilocks moment
for firefighters to safely clear irrigation ditches
of weeds, grasses and brush that can block the flow
of water and spread wildfire.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ US_Supreme_Court_judges_found_common_ground_on_a
case_about_the_humane_treatment_of_pigs⠀⇛
The US Supreme court has sided with a California
law mandating pork sold in the state come from pigs
raised in humane conditions.
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Species_Spotlight:_Matschie’s_Tree_Kangaroo
—_an_Elusive,_Arboreal_Marsupial⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Green_Groups_Relieved_as_Release_of
Genetically_Engineered_Mosquitoes_Averted_in_California⠀⇛
In what green groups on Friday called “a victory
for environmentalists, scientists, and vulnerable
agricultural communities across California,” state
officials announced a day earlier that a
controversial release of genetically engineered
mosquitoes in the Central Valley has been
suspended.
o § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ ABC ☛ Pope_joins_Meloni_in_urging_Italians_to_have_more
kids,_not_pets⠀⇛
Italy recorded a record low number of live births
last year, 392,598, which combined with an elevated
number of deaths, 713,499, has accelerated the
demographic trend that threatens to crash the
country’s social security system. The government of
Premier Giorgia Meloni is backing a campaign to
encourage at least 500,000 births annually by 2033,
a rate that demographers say is necessary to
prevent the economy from collapsing by growing the
wage-earning population as retirees draw on their
pensions.
* § Finance⠀➾
o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ G7_Finance_Leaders_Vow_to_Contain
Inflation,_Strengthen_Supply_Chains_but_Avoid_Mention_of_China⠀⇛
The Group of Seven’s top financial leaders say they are
united in their support for Ukraine and determination to
enforce sanctions against Russia for its aggression
o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Debt_Ceiling_Talks_Push_Washington
Toward_New_Era_of_Deficit_Cuts⠀⇛
One outcome is clear as Washington reaches for a budget
deal to end the debt ceiling standoff: The ambitious
COVID era of government spending is giving way to a new
focus on stemming deficits
o ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Whistleblower_Desiree_Fixler_on_the_DWS_and_Deutsche
Bank_Controversy:_“I_Haven’t_Seen_Such_a_Cultural_Overhaul”⠀⇛
Desiree Fixler served as head of sustainability at the
DWS. Her ouster after criticizing the German fund
internally for “greenwashing” generated considerable
outrage against parent company Deutsche Bank. In an
interview, she talks about the mendacity of the financial
industry and an apology she is still waiting to receive.
o ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ It’s_“Everything_Week”_on_the_Buick.⠀⇛
It’s “Everything Week” on the Buick. I had to replace a
broken, leaking, power steering rack, some lower control
arms, and do the brakes. I shouldn’t have had to do the
brakes since Car-X did them last year.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Once_an_Evangelist_for_Airbnbs,_She_Now_Crusades
for_Affordable_Housing⠀⇛
Precious Price ditched her profitable business of renting
home stays to tourists to combat the mounting housing
crisis.
o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ CBO:_Breathing_Room_on_Debt_Ceiling
‘X-Date’?⠀⇛
A mixed report on the date the nation will default on its
debt comes as the White House and Congress are in a high-
stakes game of chicken over raising the debt limit.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Pretty_Troubling’:_Progressives_Raise_Concerns
Over_White_House_Comments_on_Spending_Cuts⠀⇛
After meeting with congressional leaders earlier this
week as the U.S. barrels toward a catastrophic debt
default, President Joe Biden said that “we should be
cutting spending,” a remark that fueled concerns among
progressives that the White House is preparing to cede to
at least some Republican demands in exchange for a deal
to lift the debt ceiling.
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Kathryn_Campbell_–_from_RoboDebt_ignominy_to
plum_Defence_job_with_the_PM’s_help⠀⇛
Kathryn Campbell is well known in the parklands and on
the footpaths where some of Australia’s most
disadvantaged live. Witnesses at the RoboDebt Royal
Commission made her the face of the governance scandal.
But in stark contrast to those affected by RoboDebt, she
now sits in a plum job inside the Department of Defence
on her old $900K salary. Former senator Rex Patrick
examines the ins and outs.
Kathryn Campbell AO CSC was not liked by Labor senators.
The Senate inquired into Centrelink’s Compliance Program
(“RoboDebt”) from September 2019 to May 2022, and whilst
senators didn’t penetrate Minister Stuart Robert’s
improper public interest immunity shield preventing
fulsome evidence being available to the Committee, they
had a pretty good idea about what had gone on.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Global_private_equity_giants_are_sniffing_opportunity_in
India’s_credit_crunch⠀⇛
Global private equity majors are looking to fund Indian
businesses directly as banks take a step back.
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ G7_aims_to_diversify_supply_chains_for
stability:_draft⠀⇛
Finance leaders from the Group of Seven advanced
economies have set a year-end deadline for launching a
new scheme to diversify global supply chains, according
to a final draft of their communique.
o ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Over_US$11.4_million_(equivalent)_bid_for_gold-backed
digital_tokens_in_first_issue⠀⇛
We were not able to buy gold tokens before the deadline
yesterday. We tried different banks and came up short in
all cases. One bank told us they were waiting on
instructions from their Head Office on how they should
process gold token purchase requests.
* § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Kevin_McCarthy_Tried_to_Cancel_a_Discussion_on
Palestine._Rashida_Tlaib_Had_It_Anyway.⠀⇛
Representative Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-
American elected to Congress, hosted an educational event
on Wednesday at the Capitol to highlight the 75th
anniversary of what Palestinians recall as al-Nakba,
which is Arabic for “the catastrophe.” But it wasn’t
easy.1
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Why_Trump_Was_Found_Liable_for_Sexual_Assault_but
Not_Rape⠀⇛
You may be wondering how on earth did a jury find Donald
Trump liable for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll but
not for raping her—and what’s the difference anyway?
Welcome to the decade-long battle in New York state to
change the definition of rape in the first degree (aka
Rape 1).
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Clarence_Thomas_Is_What_He_Wrongly_Accuses_Black
Folks_of_Being⠀⇛
For four decades, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
has extolled the importance of “personal responsibility.”
He has chastised those who “make excuses for black
Americans” and argued there is a need to “emphasize black
self-help.” He has denigrated affirmative action programs
on the grounds that they “create a narcotic of
dependency” where there should be “an ethic of
responsibility and independence.” He bemoans the
“ideology of victimhood” that allows the marginalized to
“make demands on society for reparations and recompense.”
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Suits_at_CNN_Have_Always_Loved_Trump⠀⇛
CNN CEO Chris Licht says he is proud of the Wednesday
night town hall with Donald Trump, where the former
president got to spew forth his usual toxic mixture of
misogyny and conspiracy theories. Along with repeated
lies that the 2020 election was stolen, Trump took the
opportunity to insult E. Jean Carroll (recently awarded
$5 million in a lawsuit where the jury found Trump had
defamed and sexually assaulted her). Trump referred to
Carroll as a “wack job” and also went after his CNN
interviewer Kaitlan Collins as a “nasty person.” (“Nasty”
being a slur Trump reserves for women who defy him).1
o ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ The_Media’s_Past_Indifference_to_Trump’s_Past
Abuse_of_Pardons_Invites_Him_To_Do_It_Again⠀⇛
Of course Trump will pardon January 6 criminals if he
wins in 2024! Why wouldn’t he?!?! You let him blather on
for an hour, even discussed future pardons with him, with
not a single mention of his past abuses.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Republican_Voters_Are_Ready_for_the_Next_Culture
War⠀⇛
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_GOP_Has_a_Very_Anti-American_Agenda⠀⇛
If you vote for a Republican, you’re selecting someone
who—once elected—is unlikely to support your views on the
issues that matter to you most. Instead, here’s what
you’re choosing:
o ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ The_Easter_Island_Heads_Don’t_Face_the_Sea⠀⇛
Sylvia Shawcross Welcome to your Off-Guardian Friday/
Saturday opinion piece.
o ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ If_it_cannot_fulfil_its_original_mission,
what’s_the_point_of_the_European_Union?_–_Orbán⠀⇛
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visited the
Hungarian town of Veszprém on Friday morning, where he
gave a speech at the opening of ActiCity, the new Centre
for Dance and Movement Arts, which was established with
the support of the European Capital of Culture (ECC)
program.
o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Kentucky_Is_Latest_Battleground_for
Secretaries_of_State_Facing_Election_Falsehoods_During_Primaries⠀⇛
Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams still doesn’t
have a clear path for reelection despite winning
bipartisan praise during his first term in office and
expanding voter access during the COVID-19 pandemic
o ⚓ Member_of_pro-government_foundation_caught_distributing_fake_CHP
leaflets⠀⇛
CHP members were suspicious of a group distributing
leaflets in Esenler of İstanbul. They checked and saw
that the leaflets being distributed were fake leaflets in
the name of their party, and one of the people
distributing them was a representative of the pro-
government foundation TÜGVA.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Wins_World_Judo_Gold_Under_Neutral_Flag⠀⇛
Arman Adamian of Russia won a world judo title on May 12
at the first major international team competition to
welcome back Russian and Belarusian athletes since last
year’s invasion of Ukraine.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ South_Africa_Denies_Approving_Arms_Sale_To_Russia_After
U.S._Ambassador’s_Allegation⠀⇛
The South African government did not approve any weapons
shipments to Russia late last year, the country’s
communications minister said on May 12, one day after the
U.S. ambassador to South Africa said he was confident
that a Russian ship had picked up weapons at a South
African port in December.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Metropolitan_Of_Ukrainian_Orthodox_Church_Sentenced_To
Three_Years_In_Prison_With_Probation_Term⠀⇛
A court in Ukraine has sentenced Ukrainian Orthodox
Church (UOC) Metropolitan Iosaf (Petro Huben) to three
years in prison with a two-year probation term on a
charge of premeditated violation of citizens’ equal
rights.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy_Sanctions_Individuals,_Entities_Cooperating
With_Russia_In_Maintaining_Occupied_Steelworks_Giant⠀⇛
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has signed a
decree imposing sanctions on 13 individuals and 28
entities that he said have been cooperating with Russian
occupying authorities in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya region,
helping to maintain the Zaporizhstal steelworks giant.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Three_Russian_Men_Who_Fought_With_Wagner_Arrested_On
Robbery,_Extortion_Charges⠀⇛
Three former fighters of Russia’s Wagner private
mercenary group who returned to their home region of
Volgograd after taking part in Moscow’s invasion of
Ukraine have been arrested on charges of robbery and
extortion.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Turkey_Reports_Progress_On_Ukraine_Grain_Deal⠀⇛
Turkey says talks to extend a deal allowing grain exports
from Ukraine via the Black Sea following the Russian
invasion are nearing an agreement before it expires on
May 18.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ China_Sending_Special_Envoy_To_Visit_Ukraine,_Russia⠀⇛
China will send a special envoy to Ukraine, Russia, and
other European nations from May 15.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ China_Will_Send_an_Envoy_to_Russia_and_Ukraine
to_Help_Negotiate_an_End_to_the_War⠀⇛
Li Hui, China’s special representative for Eurasian
affairs, is expected to begin his trip on Monday.
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ G-7_finance_chiefs_fret_over_threat_of
greater_economic_uncertainty_at_end_of_meeting_in_Japan⠀⇛
They cited reasons such as the Ukraine war and surging
inflation worldwide.
o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Zelenskiy_Expected_in_Rome_to_Meet
Pope_Francis,_Italian_Officials⠀⇛
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Wendy_Sherman,_the_Deputy_Secretary_of_State,
Plans_to_Retire⠀⇛
She began her first diplomatic job 30 years ago, led
talks on the Iran nuclear deal and grapples with China
and Russia. She is also the first woman to be deputy
secretary of state.
o ⚓ Insight Hungary ☛ Former_US_ambassador_urges_Trump_campaign_to
hire_Orban’s_spin_doctor⠀⇛
Former US Ambassador to Hungary David Cornstein has urged
the Trump campaign team to hire Orban’s strategist, Arpad
Habony, Axios reports. However, the former US president’s
team has no plans to hire Orban’s spin doctor. While Mr.
Cornstein was in Budapest during the Trump presidency, he
frequently met with Habony despite the State Department’s
concerns.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Is_Nancy_Pelosi_Still_Representing_San_Francisco
in_Congress?⠀⇛
With so much of the recent talk about House Speaker
Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s political future—Will she run
again? If not, who will succeed her? and her past: her
2023 Award of Honor from the American Hospital
Association “for her efforts to advance health care
throughout her career”—San Franciscans might easily
forget that she is not San Francisco’s Representative
Emerita, but is actually San Francisco’s Representative
for real. But the fact is that there’s a need for some
real representation coming up, real soon, that she needs
to get on top of.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Elon_Musk_Appoints_Linda_Yaccarino_Twitter’s_New
Chief⠀⇛
Now Ms. Yaccarino is set to become the face of Twitter
2.0. Mr. Musk said on Friday that he had selected Ms.
Yaccarino, 60, to become the company’s chief executive.
Hours earlier, NBCUniversal announced that Ms. Yaccarino
was leaving, effective immediately.
o ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ King,_Gallagher_urge_Biden_to_nominate_Walden
as_national_cyber_director⠀⇛
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, and Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-
Wisc., who chair the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, said
on Friday that the administration risks losing momentum
in implementing its cybersecurity strategy without a
permanent national cybersecurity director.
o ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Lawmakers_tell_Biden_to_act_quickly_to
nominate_a_national_cyber_director⠀⇛
Under the legislation establishing the office, the
national cyber director is charged with advising the
president on cybersecurity policy and strategy. It
replaced a White House “cyber czar” position that former
president Donald Trump eliminated. The Solarium
Commission contended that the White House needed “a more
robust and institutionalized national-level mechanism for
coordinating cybersecurity and associated emerging
technology issues.”
o ⚓ The Wall Street Journal ☛ NSA_Chief_Paul_Nakasone_Has_Said_He
Expects_to_Step_Down_in_Coming_Months⠀⇛
Gen. Nakasone, 59 years old, has said he is eyeing a
possible departure in August or September after spending
more than five years jointly running the two
organizations, one of the people said, while others said
his timing was less precise. Gen. Nakasone’s plans could
change, in part because his deputy at NSA, George Barnes,
also is expected to retire soon, the people said.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ The_ballot_of_Mirziyoyev_In_Uzbekistan,_an_old_power
play_gives_the_president_a_new_start_—_Meduza⠀⇛
o § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Erdogan_Rival_Accuses_Russia_Of_‘Deep_Fake’
Campaign_Ahead_Of_Presidential_Vote⠀⇛
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the main election rival of
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, issued a warning
to Russia, accusing it of releasing fake material
on social media ahead of the May 14 ballot.
# ⚓ Kılıçdaroğlu_accuses_Russia_of_meddling_in_Turkey’s
elections⠀⇛
If Moscow wants its friendship with Ankara to
continue after the elections, it should “keep your
hands off the state of the Turks,” said the
opposition candidate.
# ⚓ Kılıçdaroğlu_says_won’t_be_intimidated_by_pro-Erdoğan
‘paramilitary_groups’⠀⇛
The opposition candidate has once again raised
concerns about the potential involvement of
“paramilitary groups,” who he claims may resort to
violence in the event that Erdoğan loses the
election.
* § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Defamation_Is_Having_A_Moment;_But_Beware_The_Influx
Of_Bad_Cases⠀⇛
Defamation cases are having quite a moment. The threat of
a likely loss in a big defamation suit resulted in Fox
News settling for $787 million just as trial was set to
begin in the Dominion case, And then, this week, we saw
E. Jean Carroll win her defamation (and sexual abuse)
lawsuit against Donald Trump, with a jury awarding her $5
million.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Russian_rap_artist_blacklisted_in_Latvia⠀⇛
A Russian-speaking resident of Estonia, Artemy Ivanov
aka rapper ‘Temada’, who caused outrage among many Rīga
residents by holding street concerts in Russian during
the Easter holidays, has been denied entry into Latvia,
Latvian Television reported on May 11.
o ⚓ NYPost ☛ Russian_woman_gets_2-year_suspended_sentence_for_leaving
‘insulting’_note_on_Putin’s_parents’_grave⠀⇛
A 60-year-old Russian woman was given a two-year
suspended sentence on Thursday for leaving a note with an
“insulting inscription” on the grave of President
Vladimir Putin’s parents, independent news sites reported
on Thursday.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Russian_writer_doused_with_ketchup_in_Vilnius⠀⇛
Russian writer Viktor Shenderovich was doused with
ketchup by a protester in Vilnius on Thursday.
o ⚓ EFF ☛ The_UK_Online_Safety_Bill_Must_Not_Violate_Our_Rights_to
Free_Speech_And_Private_Communication⠀⇛
Clause 110 of the bill requires websites and apps to
proactively prevent harmful content from appearing on
messaging services. This will mandate the screening of
all user content, all the time. It’s not compatible with
encryption, or our right to privacy. When our words,
personal photos, and videos are screened for compliance
with state-mandated criteria, this interferes with our
rights to free speech online. And where screening is done
by algorithms, the decision to remove content will be
taken without context.
The briefing states:
Throughout the UK legislative process, EFF has stressed
that mandated scanning obligations will lead to
censorship of lawful and valuable expression. The Online
Safety Bill also threatens another basic human right: our
right to have a private conversation. That’s why we have
called for action to make sure that users’ rights to
private messaging and end-to-end encryption are
safeguarded, not abandoned.
o ⚓ EFF ☛ The_Law_Should_Not_Require_Parental_Consent_for_All_Minors
to_Access_Social_Media⠀⇛
Utah and Arkansas have already passed such laws. When
they go into effect in March 2024 and September 2023,
respectively, anyone under eighteen will be required to
obtain parental consent before accessing social media.
The same would be true nationally under the Protecting
Kids on Social Media Act, which was recently introduced
in Congress. And though it doesn’t directly require
parental consent for social media, the Kids Online Safety
Act, too, would require platforms to implement “parental
supervision” tools that would force them to verify child-
parent relationships. Once the Utah and Arkansas laws are
in effect, young people will not be able to access social
media using a login without a complicated approval
process that would require parents and guardians to share
their private information with social media platforms or
third-party verification services.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_MPs_turn_to_language_watchdog_over_Kaliningrad’s
name⠀⇛
Two Lithuanian conservative MPs have turned to the
country’s Commission of the Lithuanian Language with a
proposal to stop using the name of the Russian exclave of
Kaliningrad.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Two_Women_From_Karelia_Flee_Russia_Fearing_For_Safety
After_Anti-War_Posts⠀⇛
Two women from Russia’s northwestern region of Karelia,
Anna Trusova, 57, and Irina Nippolainen, 59, have fled
the country after authorities launched a probe against
them in March, accusing them of public calls for actions
compromising Russia’s national security.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Crucial_Question_in_Thailand’s_Election:_Can
You_Criticize_the_King?⠀⇛
Liberal voters have intensified their scrutiny of the
Thai monarchy in recent years. Conservatives have
responded with a campaign to defend the institution at
all costs.
o ⚓ [Repeat] OpenRightsGroup ☛ Online_Safety_Bill:_A_Danger_to
Democracy⠀⇛
Even though Smith had liaised with police for months, the
eight were arrested early on Saturday morning for
allegedly possessing items that could be used for a “lock
on” protest, under new powers rushed into laws days
before the coronation. These items were in fact luggage
straps used to carry placards, but as more than 20
organisations warned the Public Order Act 2023 is so ill-
defined: “essentially any person walking around with a
bike lock, packet of glue, roll of tape or twine, or any
number of other everyday objects could be at risk of
having been found to have committed this offence, so wide
is the net cast by it”.
[...]
Within weeks of being introduced, critics of the Public
Order Act have been proved right: its broad powers will
enable the police to close down protests and suppress
dissent. The Act builds on draconian powers included in
the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, which
gives the police powers to close down protests because of
“noise”, “unease” and the risk of “serious disruption”.
Both of these laws also extend the police’s powers to
stop and search members of the public, despite evidence
that such powers are used disproportionately used against
racialised communities.
* § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Seymour_Hersh:_The_Fall_of_James_Jesus_Angleton⠀⇛
My part in the sacking of the notorious
counterintelligence chief.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Still_No_Justice,_A_Year_Since_Shireen_Abu_Akleh’s
Killing⠀⇛
The senior Al-Jazeera journalist was killed and her
colleagues attacked by Israeli forces while they were
covering an Israeli army raid on a refugee camp in Jenin
in the occupied West Bank last year in May.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ IDF_Called_Out_for_‘The_Most_Hollow_of_PR
Apologies’_Over_Shireen_Abu_Akleh_Killing⠀⇛
The Israel Defense Forces’ chief spokesperson outraged
people worldwide with a televised interview Thursday, the
one-year anniversary of the IDF killing Al Jazeera
correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead as she
reported from the occupied West Bank on May 11, 2022.
o ⚓ CPJ ☛ UK_police_arrest_journalist_Rich_Felgate_while_covering
coronation_protest⠀⇛
On May 6, police arrested Felgate, a freelance journalist
and documentary filmmaker, while he covered an
environmental protest held during King Charles III’s
coronation, according to news reports and the journalist,
who spoke to CPJ.
* § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
o ⚓ [Repeat] New York Times ☛ Striking_Writers_Find_Their_Villain:
Netflix⠀⇛
The W.G.A. had been negotiating with the Alliance of
Motion Picture and Television Producers, which bargains
on behalf of all the major Hollywood studios, including
Netflix, before talks broke down last week. The writers
went on strike on May 2. Negotiations have not resumed,
and Hollywood is bracing for a prolonged work stoppage.
Last week, at a summit in Los Angeles a day after the
strike was called, one attendee asked union leaders which
studio has been the worst to writers. Ellen Stutzman, the
chief negotiator of the W.G.A., and David Goodman, a
chair of the writers’ negotiating committee, answered in
unison: “Netflix.” The crowd of 1,800 writers laughed and
then applauded, according to a person present at that
evening who spoke on condition of anonymity because of
the sensitivity of the strike.
o ⚓ Truthdig ☛ The_Question_No_One_Is_Asking_about_Jordan_Neely’s
Death⠀⇛
The NYPD told Truthdig that officers “responded” at 2:27—
seven minutes after the first clocked call for help — but
video shows a train clock at 2:28 with no officers on the
scene. The department has not replied to queries about
when, exactly, officers arrived to administer first aid.
According to New York City statistics, in critical
situations, the average time from 911 call to police
arriving at the scene is 7.5 minutes.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zemfira_takes_Justice_Ministry_to_court_over_‘foreign
agent’_designation_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Singer Zemfira Ramazanova has filed a lawsuit against
Russia’s Justice Ministry, requesting that her inclusion
on the ministry’s list of “foreign agents” be declared
illegal. State broadcaster RBC reports that a
representative of the singer filed the suit on her behalf
on May 10.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Attorney_faces_felony_charges_for_refusing_to_testify
against_client,_jailed_for_‘striking’_policemen_with_ballpoint_pen
—_Meduza⠀⇛
The authorities in Buryatia are prosecuting Natalia
Nizovkina, a civil liberties activist and defense
attorney representing the Ulan-Ude resident Natalia
Filonova in a separate overtly political case.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Cyprus_and_Malta_annul_dozens_of_‘golden_passports’
belonging_to_Russian_nationals_sanctioned_by_E.U._—_Meduza⠀⇛
Cyprus and Malta revoked citizenship obtained in exchange
for investment from dozens of Russian nationals, and
members of their families, who are subject to E.U.
sanctions. Der Spiegel reports that, in response to a
request by European Parliament member Moritz Kerner,
Cyprus annulled nine “golden passports” issued to Russian
nationals who have been sanctioned, as well as another 34
passports belonging to their relations. Malta revoked two
sanctioned Russian nationals’ citizenship.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ These_Unions_Are_on_the_Front_Lines_Fighting_Against
the_Uberization_of_Us_All⠀⇛
In the past year and a half, start-up unionization
efforts such as those at Starbucks, Amazon, Trader Joe’s,
and Apple have been satisfying to witness for those of us
hungry for social justice in the United States. We have
their backs, and we’ll continue to root for them.1
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ How_a_Scrappy_Group_of_Young_Moms_Transformed_the
Way_We_Think_About_Teen_Pregnancy⠀⇛
In 2013, a picture of a baby with tight curls and tears
rolling down his cheeks greeted passengers on the New
York City subway.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_GOP’s_Threats_to_Women’s_Rights⠀⇛
o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ As_Title_42_Ends,_Asylum_Seekers_Face_Inhumane
Border_Conditions,_New_Restrictions_&_Fast_Deportation⠀⇛
The Trump-era Title 42 policy has come to an end, but the
Biden administration has instituted what human rights
advocates say amounts to a new asylum ban. We get an
update from the San Ysidro border crossing near San
Diego, California, where hundreds of asylum seekers have
been sleeping on the ground under trash bags and foil
blankets, with many reporting they’ve not eaten in days.
Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service
Committee’s U.S.-Mexico Border Program, says Biden’s
anti-asylum policies are “reconfiguring the concept of
asylum to a point where it no longer offers the promise
that it did post-World War II.”
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden’s_New_Asylum_Ban_Continues_the
Psychological_Warfare_on_the_U.S._Border⠀⇛
On April 8, three young Venezuelan men were detained in
El Paso, Texas, where they had just crossed the border
from Ciudad Júarez, Mexico. They were among the 183,000
undocumented people reportedly apprehended by the United
States Border Patrol that month, which, according to the
Reuters news agency, constituted a 13% increase from
March.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Migrants_stuck_at_US_gates_as_Covid-era_immigration
policy_expires⠀⇛
As pandemic-era asylum restrictions ended early Friday,
migrants in northern Mexico faced more uncertainties
about a new online system for appointments to seek asylum
in the U.S. Some migrants still waded apprehensively into
the Rio Grande, defying officials who shouted for them to
turn back, while elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border
people hunched over cell phones trying to access an
appointment app that may change their future.
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Ebrard:_‘No_confrontations’_at_border_as
Title_42_migration_rule_ends⠀⇛
The policy, which for years allowed the U.S. to quickly
expel migrants to contain the spread of COVID-19, ended
at 11:59 p.m. Thursday.
o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ U.S._Sanctions_on_Venezuela_&_Cuba_Fuel_Migration
Even_as_Biden_Restricts_Asylum_Seekers_at_Border⠀⇛
The number of asylum seekers from Cuba and Venezuela is
expected to grow as the Trump-era Title 42 asylum
restriction ends. A group of House Democrats are urging
the Biden administration to lift sanctions on the
countries, which they say are driving people to leave
their homes out of economic desperation. We speak with
Venezuelan economist Francisco Rodríguez, author of a new
report for the Center for Economic Policy and Research,
“The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions.”
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Covid-Era_Border_Policy_Expires⠀⇛
Title 42, which lifted at midnight, had allowed the swift
removal of migrants on public health grounds. Though
holding facilities were full, border crossings remained
lower than predicted.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ ‘He_wanted_to_live_the_American_Dream’:
Honduran_teen_dies_in_US_immigration_custody⠀⇛
The mother of a 17-year-old boy who died this week in
U.S. immigration custody is demanding answers from
American officials, saying her son had no known illnesses
and had not shown any signs of being sick before his
death. The teenager, Ángel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoza,
was detained at a facility in Safety Harbor, Florida, and
died Wednesday. His death underscores concerns about a
strained immigration system as the Biden administration
manages the end of asylum restrictions known as Title 42.
His mother, Norma Saraí Espinoza Maradiaga, told The
Associated Press in a phone interview that her son
“wanted to live the American Dream.”
o ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Now_Protest_Is_a_Moral_Duty⠀⇛
The torrential rain was shed from the policeman’s flat
hat via its curved plastic peak, forming a curtain of
water that flowed down in front of him, obscuring his
face.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Gig_Work_Is_Getting_Dangerous⠀⇛
Underpaid app workers are facing more pressure to accept
risky clients. That’s putting them in danger.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ A_Few_Words_on_‘Less_Than_Artificial
Intelligence’_From_a_Human_Practioner⠀⇛
After almost 79 years on this beleaguered planet, let me
say one thing: this can’t end well. Really, it can’t. And
no, I’m not talking about the most obvious issues ranging
from the war in Ukraine to the climate disaster. What I
have in mind is that latest, greatest human invention:
artificial intelligence.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Very,_Very_Scary’:_Intensifying_Cyclone_Mocha
Takes_Aim_at_World’s_Largest_Refugee_Camp⠀⇛
Officials in Bangladesh and Myanmar are preparing Friday
to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people as a tropical
storm turbocharged by the fossil fuel-driven climate
crisis strengthens in the Bay of Bengal.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ At_Least_Two_Migrant_Children_From_Honduras_Have
Died_in_US_Custody_This_Year⠀⇛
After the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on
Friday confirmed that a 17-year-old Honduran in the
United States without a parent or guardian died in
government custody earlier this week, CBS Newsrevealed
another recent death.
* § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ NY_AG_Doles_Out_Wrist_Slap_Fine_To_Companies_That
Helped_Telecom_Giants_Use_Fake_And_Dead_People_To_Lie_About_Net
Neutrality⠀⇛
You might recall how when U.S. telecom giants lobbied the
Trump FCC to kill net neutrality, they hired a bunch of
PR firms to flood the FCC with fake comments from a bunch
of fake and dead people. The goal: create the illusion of
support for shitty, unpopular policies. It’s a pretty
popular tactic by corporations and lobbying firms looking
to influence the government and/or create the illusion of
consensus.
o ⚓ ‘Infrastructure_work’_at_leading_mobile_operator_on_the_election
day_raises_concerns⠀⇛
The employees will not be able to come to the Turkcell
headquarters or connect to their computers between May 12
and 15. There will be no similar practices by the other
mobile operators. The concerns led to a 5 percent drop in
the price of Turkcell shares.
o ⚓ EFF ☛ Eight_Years_Holding_ISPs_to_Account_in_Latin_America:_A
Comparative_Outlook_of_Victories_and_Challenges_for_User_Privacy⠀⇛
Through periodic reports within the ¿Quién defiende tus
datos? project, key digital rights groups in Colombia
(Fundación Karisma), Perú (Hiperderecho), México (R3D),
Brazil, (InternetLab), Chile (Derechos Digitales),
Paraguay (TEDIC), Argentina (ADC), Spain (Eticas), and
Panamá and Nicaragua (IPANDETEC), have been rating ISPs
and holding them to account vis-à-vis privacy best
practices and international human rights standards.
Evaluating companies’ public statements, policies,
service contracts, transparency reports, law enforcement
guidelines, and judicial or administrative challenges to
government demands for user data, each national edition
assesses whether and how ISPs defend users’ privacy and
protect their data.
The report we are releasing today provides an overview
and comparative analysis of this series of editions. It
highlights achievements and gaps throughout editions’
shared criteria, looking at companies’ data protection
and digital security policies, how transparent ISPs are
about government data demands, whether they notify users
about data requests, and whether they require a previous
judicial order to hand user data to authorities. It
compares the performance of regional and global
companies, like Telefónica and América Móvil, in
countries the project covers. The imbalances this
comparison reveals is a mix of gaps in companies’
commitments and in national law, which mirrors how weak
or strong privacy safeguards are in countries’ legal
frameworks. Moreover, the report describes how our
partners’ studies revealed privacy issues during the
COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the rise of data-sharing
agreements with governments related to policies aimed at
curbing the spread of the virus.
o ⚓ RIPE ☛ RIPE_NCC_Cloud_Strategy_Framework_(v2)⠀⇛
Our cloud strategy framework provides the principles and
requirements for the cloud architecture of the RIPE NCC
services. To determine these requirements, it uses the
service criticality framework, more specifically its
availability component rating.
We published our cloud strategy framework in November
2021. Since then, we worked on developing the service
criticality framework and published its final version in
May 2022. We have recently published the criticality
ratings for some of our core services. At the same time,
we realised that we need to update the cloud strategy
framework to better reflect the reality and the diversity
of services we provide.
* § Monopolies⠀➾
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Biden_Nominates_Legacy_Entertainment_Industry
Copyright_Enforcer_To_Be_New_IP_Czar⠀⇛
I have to admit that I’d lost track of the whole White
House IP Czar position. Officially, the “Intellectual
Property Enforcement Coordinator” or IPEC, the job was
created by the “Pro-IP Act” in 2008, and we warned that
the whole thing was an attempt to turn the White House
into Hollywood’s private copyright police force. The
first IPEC didn’t come until after President Obama was
elected, and while he was in office, there were two IPECs
who served under him, with somewhat mixed results. The
first one, got off to a rocky start, but was willing to
listen to non-maximalist opinions, and eventually
produced some more balanced reports on “IP enforcement.”
o § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Mondaq ☛ European_Union:_New_EU_Patent_Proposals_Published
–_Compulsory_Licensing,_An_SPC_For_Unitary_Patents_And
Centralised_SPC_Application_Procedure,_And_Reforms_To_The
SEPs_System⠀⇛
The European Commission has today (27 April 2023)
published proposals for changes impacting on
patents in the EU in relation to compulsory
licensing of patents in crisis situations, reforms
to the Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) system
(including the EUIPO being able to set SEPs licence
fees worldwide) and the introduction of a
Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) for the
new unitary patent right [sic] (UP) and a
centralised SPC application procedure for this and
national SPC rights [sic]. [...]
# ⚓ Scottish Society for Computers and Law ☛ European
Commission_proposes_Regulation_on_essential_standard
patents⠀⇛
The European Commission has proposed Regulations on
standard essential patents, compulsory licensing of
patents in crisis situations, and amendments to the
laws about supplementary protection certificates.
These aim to create a more transparent, effective
and futureproof intellectual [sic] property [sic]
rights [sic] framework.
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ CMS_Unified_Patent_Court_can’t_cope
with_influx_of_opt-outs [Ed: UPC is a fake, invalid "court";
many parties recognise it upfront and want nothing to do with
it?]⠀⇛
Less than three weeks before the planned opening of
the Unified Patent Court, a message has been
published on its website as a reaction to problems
with the content management system, which
apparently isn’t able to cope with the growing
inflow of opt-outs.
# ⚓ USPTO_Invalidates_VLSI_Patent—So_Why_Didn’t_They_Review_It
The_First_Time?⠀⇛
Earlier today, the USPTO issued its final written
decision in IPR2021-01064. The final written
decision found that all challenged claims in VLSI’s
patent were in fact invalid. So what makes this IPR
special? Well, the challenged patent was one of
the patents underlying VLSI’s $2 billion verdict
against Intel.
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ T_2432/19:_Boards_of_Appeal_declare_in-person
proceedings_new_“gold_standard” [Ed: These Boards of Appeal
are not independent; until this is corrected all this
stenography misses the real issue: EPO corruption]⠀⇛
In July 2021, an EPO press communiqué confirmed
that compulsory video conferencing is admissible,
under the European Patent Convention, in appeal
proceedings “in a general emergency”. Then, in
November 2021, the Enlarged Board of Appeal
released its final reasoning in G 1/21.
# ⚓ H2 View ☛ Seven_transport_takeaways_from_European_Patent
Office’s_report [Ed: Patent extremists given a platform to
boost a defunct, corrupt EPO. Greenwashing PR from Marks and
Clerk, Team UPC]⠀⇛
Dominic O’Connor, Principal, Chartered (UK) and
European Patent Attorney, at Marks & Clerk,
reflects on this year’s European Patent Office
report and latest developments involving patent
filings for hydrogen technology.
o § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Iron_Maiden_Opposes_Women’s_Lingerie_Company_For
Using_The_Word_‘Maiden’⠀⇛
Iron Maiden, the band, is not a band I have thought
about much in the last, oh, let’s call it 20 years.
They have made it onto our pages before,
specifically for behaving like trademark bullies,
which is apropos. I say that as the band most
recently is opposing the trademark application for
a lingerie company that goes by the name “Maiden
Wear,” asserting that the public is going to think
that the company is associated with the band
because the band also sells clothing merch.
o § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Walled Culture ☛ Ed_Sheeran_has_won_yet_another_copyright
infringement_case_–_and_that’s_outrageous⠀⇛
Aside from the extraordinary idea that anyone can
hold the copyright on a sequence of just four
chords, there’s another striking aspect to this
latest case. It was not Marvin Gaye himself
alleging harm from Sheeran – Gaye died nearly 40
years ago, in 1984 – but the family of the co-
writer of the song, Ed Townsend, who died in 2003.
Copyright is supposed to be about incentivising
artists to create, so the idea of taking a living
creator to court over alleged copying of dead
artists’ work is particularly reprehensible.
Moreover, in this case, copyright nearly caused a
very real future loss for culture: [...]
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Court_Denies_Grande’s_Challenge_of_$47
Million_Music_Piracy_Verdict⠀⇛
Internet provider Grande Communications’ challenge
of a $47 million music piracy verdict has failed to
achieve the desired result. A federal court in
Texas denied Grande’s request for judgment as a
matter of law or a new trial. This means the
company will now take its dispute with the major
music labels to the Court of Appeals.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Potential_Impact_on_Major_Pirate_Sites_as
Vietnam_ISPs_Face_New_Responsibilities⠀⇛
Major pirate sites, including Fmovies, 9anime,
BestBuyIPTV, Abyss.to, Fembed, and 2embed, are
reportedly linked to or directly operated from
Vietnam. Enforcement efforts have faced challenges
but things may be about to change. From verifying
customer identities to clarified ISP liability,
through content blocking, takedown tools and the
ability to unmask infringers, a government decree
appears to offer rightsholders a smorgasbord of
opportunities.
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