𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Tuesday, May 16, 2023
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⦿ Coming Soon: 10 Screens, More Peripherals | Techrights
⦿ No Patent Quality and No Independence for EPO Judges (Cautionary Tale About Patent Maximalists in UPC Rota) | Techrights
⦿ [Meme] Only the Very Best Judges | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 15, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Analysing Who’s Left at Sirius ’Open Source’ | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/05/16/10-screens/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/05/16/epo-shambles-defined/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/05/16/fine-epo-judges/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/05/16/irc-log-150523/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/05/16/many-left-sirius-open-source/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/05/16/arch-git-migration/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/05/16/centralisation-concerns/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/05/16/sourceware-in-sfc/#comments
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✐ Coming_Soon:_10_Screens,_More_Peripherals⠀✐
Posted in Site_News at 4:34 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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My Desk Explained
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/multi-pc-setup.webm
Summary: After various changes (adding plants, 3 large speakers etc.) I’ve
decided to explain how my office is configured for maximal visibility (almost
no need for virtual desktops)
THE other day I was asked about my desk’s arrangement and how it was
facilitating improved workflow, productivity etc. in light of this_post_and
photograph. It was about the site turning 16.5 years old (we’ll soon have 36.5k
blog posts!).
“All the machines run GNU/Linux and the recording above was done using OBS.”The
video above illustrates some of the things I learned through trial and error,
including being able to exercise while working (mostly reading) and
ergonomically important tips/tricks. Being at the desk about 100 hours a week
means that posture and “micro-breaks” are very important. The way different
computers and screens are used is explained in passing (not in-depth; we did
that in past years) and there are changes coming next week while my wife goes
on holiday, rendering her second computer available to me (so a total of 8
keyboards on the desk). All the machines run GNU/Linux and the recording above
was done using OBS. No preparations done for this video; it was 100%
spontaneous. █
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✐ No_Patent_Quality_and_No_Independence_for_EPO_Judges_(Cautionary_Tale_About
Patent_Maximalists_in_UPC_Rota)⠀✐
Posted in Europe, Patents at 1:11 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Deposed as Chairman May 2021; Not how EPO was made⦈
Summary: Europe’s largest patent office continues to be “Shambles Defined” in
terms of quality and in terms of justice; why doesn’t the mainstream media
raise awareness of this? (Likely political reasons and heavy lobbying, not to
mention bribery of large publishers like the Financial Times)
THE EPO‘s staff union, SUEPO, has just_highlighted this new_article. “The EPO
met again with in-house counsel who are concerned that patent quality standards
are slipping in favour of speedy grants,” says the introduction, but it’s
behind a paywall. Benoît_Battistelli and António_Campinos have done great
damage to promote European_software_patents and inflate_a_bubble. A source has
meanwhile shared with us the way patent attorneys leverage the “Hey Hi” (AI)
hype to push software patents. Bastian Best sent a message yesterday, full of
tracking inside the message, entitled “Software patents in Europe (presentation
slides)” (he’s shamelessly promoting such patents for 15+ years already). He
says: “It’s all about the technical contribution, but what exactly is
“technical” at the European Patent Office? Is it “technical” when engineers
solve hard industrial problems with AI?”
Totally meaningless junk. The rest speaks of “Statistics on AI patent filings
in Europe”. This also mentions “A checklist for structuring software patent
claims” and “A checklist for structuring software patent claims”…
So the EPO has opened itself to such abuse, bolstered further by buzzwords.
Where do the Boards of Appeal stand on the matter? Well, they clearly have no
independence or a mind of their own. Not anymore…
This happens to have been the subject of discussion in blog_comments lately.
“The damage has been done,” the latest comment says. Right next to it we have
this new rant about Calle Josefsson [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], the notorious judge who is
a “yes man” of corrupt EPO managers. These people make a career out of sucking
up to the most corrupt establishment. Prepare for Klaus Grabinsky, another
opportunist who grabbed the chance to serve the abuses. Although there are
plenty of comments there (we’ve archives most of them in IRC), some better than
others, here’s the latest one on “BREAKING: In-person proceedings are still the
“Gold Standard” – Boards of Appeal start to diverge on ViCo (T 2432/19)” (post
by IPKat): “A good question about objections under Article 24 EPC. Indeed, that
question is highly pertinent to every petition for review that, at least in
part, is based upon the imposition of VICO as the format for oral proceedings.
And yet the President of the Boards has no problem appointing himself to the
EBA in respect of such petitions. For example, see the_composition_of_the_EBA
for_R12/22, which has not changed since it was first set almost 1 year ago
[...] Arguably, the participation of the President as a member of the EBA for
cases concerning the validity and/or interpretation of Art 15a RPBA falls foul
of Article 24(1) EPC. It is a shame that the EBA in G 1/21 failed to consider
that point. However, given that the President was excluded under Article 24(3)
EPC from EBA for G 1/21, there is no doubt that, for the same reasons, he MUST
be excluded from all other cases concerning Art 15a RPBA. Any other outcome
would cause (yet more) serious damage to the perception of independence of the
EBA.”
The European Patent Register is cited above. One can see that the patent
microcosm itself is openly admitting that this system is out of control. Will
they go a step further and suggest that the UPC would be a disaster for the
EU’s reputation unless it was stopped in its tracks? SUEPO ought to speak a lot
more often against the UPC. FFII seems a little upset that SUEPO isn’t doing
enough in that area. The UPC is, among other things, a Trojan horse for
software patents. The appointment of Grabinski is a shining clue to that
effect. █
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣤⣤⣤⣾⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⣛⣛⣿⠛⣛⠛⢿⡟⢋⡛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⡿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠠⡀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣛⣛⣿⠀⠛⠃⣸⠀⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⣺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠛⠛⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣄⠛⠃⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣠⣿⣿⣧⣴⣶⡶⠖⠂⢠⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣤⣶⣶⣶⣾⣆⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⢿⣿⣿⠿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣁⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢿⠿⡟⢹⣋⣭⡙⢿⡟⢩⣍⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣴⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠘⣄⠃⣿⠁⣶⠆⢸⡷⣤⡌⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣶⣿⣷⣶⣷⣾⣷⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢛⠻⡛⣿⠟⣛⠛⣿⡟⠛⠇⢸⡿⠛⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣦⣄⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⠀⡇⢸⠋⣭⡅⢸⠀⣿⡇⢸⡁⢈⣉⣈⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣴⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣼⣤⣧⣼⣦⣭⣦⣼⣧⣤⣦⣼⣷⣤⣥⣼⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠋⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠉⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠠⣿⣿⣿⡉⠄⠉⢻⠀⠈⣉⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⡟⠉⣀⠉⢻⠋⠀⢈⡟⠉⠀⠉⢧⠀⠀⣼⠋⠀⣈⡟⠁⠀⣹⠏⢁⡀⠉⢿⠀⢈⡀⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠉⠉⣯⠀⢒⠀⢸⠀⢸⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⡏⠉⢀⣼⣆⡀⠉⢀⣼⠓⠂⢀⣧⡀⠒⠒⣾⠀⠀⣿⠓⠂⢀⣟⠒⠀⣸⣄⠈⠉⢀⣾⠀⢸⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⡟⣽⢹⣾⣿⣿⡟⣭⣝⣿⢭⣽⠫⠭⢻⣭⣽⢭⣽⡫⣽⡟⣭⣝⣿⣩⣍⣿⣽⣿⣿⣯⠭⢻⣿⡇⣿⠫⠝⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣳⠽⢮⣿⣟⣽⣧⣛⣫⣿⣛⣼⣞⣛⣿⣿⣿⣛⣼⣛⣫⣧⣛⣫⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣛⣻⣟⣻⣸⣿⣇⣿⣝⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠿⣃⡇⣯⡇⠴⢹⡹⢎⣧⢻⡁⣯⡇⠆⢿⣿⠻⠌⣧⢓⣿⣇⢻⣿⡇⡇⢿⢻⢹⠸⡇⣷⠰⠎⡇⣟⠧⢹⢸⠎⣿⣿⣧⣻⠸⡟⠇⢿⡘⣿⣿⠿⠴⣇⠿⣸⠿⠼⣿⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡤⣤⢤⡤⣤⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⡻⣿⣛⡻⣿⢟⢻⣿⣛⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣟⣿⣻⣗⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⡏⣶⣶⣿⢸⣯⣶⣼⣏⣒⣺⢳⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⣧⢿⣳⣿⣿⢿⣷⣏⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣯⡗⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠯⠿⠼⠿⢿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣯⣵⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣷⣭⣿⣷⣭⣾⣿⣿⣵⣿⣯⣽⣼⣿⣿⢦⣿⣿⣿⣭⣭⣿⣮⣵⣿⣿⣼⣿⣭⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠛⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⢀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢙⣿⣶⣬⣿⡿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⡀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣟⢀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡟⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⡏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠚⠛⠛⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⠁⢸⡟⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⡏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⣿⣛⠋⠙⡛⠛⠢⠀⠀⣿⡇⣭⣽⢱⣶⣼⡇⣿⣿⢱⣶⣽⡾⣧⣹⢳⡇⣿⣷⡆⣿⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣦⣤⠀⠀⣨⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⡇⣭⣽⢱⣶⣾⡇⣿⣿⢱⣶⣼⡞⣯⣼⢷⣏⣒⣺⣧⣶⣕⡶⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠷⣾⡇⢤⣤⠄⢠⣿⣧⣿⣿⣾⣭⣾⣧⣿⣿⣾⣭⣾⣷⣾⣧⣿⣧⣿⣿⣧⣿⢮⠵⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠈⠛⠋⠒⠛⠐⠤⡄⠀⣼⣧⣿⣿⣿⣭⣾⣧⣿⣿⣾⣭⣾⣷⣼⣧⣾⣷⣭⣿⣿⣿⣯⣵⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⣘⡂⠀⠊⠁⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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✐ [Meme]_Only_the_Very_Best_Judges⠀✐
Posted in Europe, Patents at 1:25 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇President-approved_judges⦈_
Summary: The brown-nosing judges of Benoît_Battistelli and António_Campinos are
a perfect_fit for today’s EPO, which grants_loads_of_legally-invalid_patents
for_the_sake_of_money (in exchange for monopolies)
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⣓⣛⢟⣛⡻⢿⣟⡛⣛⡛⢛⣛⣛⣛⢛⣀⡀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⠀⢀⣀⠀⣀⣀⢀⣀⡀⣀⣀⠀⣀⣀⢀⡀⣀⢀⣀⢀⣀⡀⠀⢀⡀⣀⢀⡀⣀⣀⠀⣀⣀⢀⣀⡀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣹⣿⣿⣿⢸⣯⡹⣯⣛⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡅⣿⣼⡍⣿⢉⣀⣼⢿⡆⣿⣿⢸⣯⡷⣿⣽⢧⣿⣿⣾⣇⣿⢸⣯⢸⡏⣿⠀⢸⡇⣿⢸⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⢸⣯⡹⣯⣟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠿⢰⡸⠿⠿⠸⠧⠼⢧⠿⠸⠿⠿⠿⠻⠿⠄⠿⠿⠇⠿⢨⡍⠿⠻⠇⠿⠀⠸⠇⠀⠿⠸⠏⢿⡿⠋⠿⠟⠸⠧⠼⠧⠿⠀⠼⠇⠿⡼⠇⠿⠿⠟⢿⠿⠸⠧⠜⢧⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⡿⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠿⠗⠙⠳⢬⣿⣷⣶⠒⣿⣿⠿⠿⠛⠋⢀⣀⣸⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠆⣩⣵⣶⢿⠟⢻⣿⣿⣷⣮⡻⣿⡅⢐⢢⠣⠀⣆⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⣤⣤⡀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣱⣿⣿⣉⡤⠽⢓⢋⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣬⣶⠶⣾⣛⢻⣻⣿⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⣀⣤⢆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢹⣿⣿⣿⡧⢵⡗⠿⣉⣰⠮⢿⣿⢃⣟⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣆⠚⣏⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣤⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡿⣛⣿⣧⣭⣿⣷
⣿⢿⣿⡿⠿⠛⢿⡼⣿⣿⣿⠧⠖⣚⣩⣡⣮⡶⢾⣷⣍⠕⣻⣿⣟⣯⣿⣿⣙⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣇⣴⣶⣾⣿⡖⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⠛⣿⡿⢿⣿
⣷⣿⡟⠀⠀⢀⣠⣩⣬⣟⣻⠷⠾⠿⢛⣫⢉⡾⠷⣶⡄⣂⢼⡿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠱⠠⢝⡨⣿⠿⢿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⠄⠦⠤⠤⠤⠤⢤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣴⣿⣿⢿⣿⣟⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠘⠣⠶⣿⡿⠋⠁
⣿⣿⣿⣦⣷⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣟⡸⣵⠀⡄⡏⣧⡇⠨⢠⣴⣤⣨⠜⠘⣿⠿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⣤⣤⡀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣥⣬⣽⡿⠃⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠛⠛⠛⠀⠀⠈⢀⣠⣼
⣿⡟⢻⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣧⠱⠽⠾⠛⠛⢋⣉⣀⣁⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣖⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⡇⠀⠈⢿⢷⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡀⣉⣙⣿⣵⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠽⠟⢿
⣿⣷⡾⠟⠃⣿⣿⣿⡎⠉⠙⠛⢷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣷⠀⠀⠠⢰⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢘⣻⠃⣸⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣯⡄⠀⣶
⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⡇⠀⣀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⢈⢤⣤⡠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣯⣽⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢺⠁⠀⢿
⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⡇⢀⣌⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣯⣶⣿⣀⣄⣲⣼⡬⣉⣣⣀⣠⣤⣄⡀⠀⢠⣤⣬⣸⣿⣿⣗⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢀⣘⣤⣦⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢘⠀⠀⣸
⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣷⣛⣽⣿⣿⣿⡉⠛⣿⣿⠿⢿⢿⡿⣼⡟⢿⣿⣿⣟⣫⠛⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠥⡀⠀⠀⠀⠰⣿⢿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣇⣀⣹⡿⠿⠟⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢾
⠀⢠⣶⣆⠀⢀⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⢤⣿⡿⣿⡟⢿⣏⠀⠀⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⠀⠀⠀⢦⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠆⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⣮
⣢⣼⡿⠿⠾⠋⠚⣿⠯⠶⠿⡟⢿⡏⠱⠾⠻⣟⠛⠃⠀⠉⠀⠀⣀⣀⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⡴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣶⣶⣤⣜⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣼⠛⠿⣿⣿⣏⠠⡀⢀⣈⣐⡐⠀⠀⣧⢻
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣠⣤⣤⣴⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⠀⠀⣿⣳⣶⣾⣿⣿⣧⠁⠀⠹⠛⠻⠿⠿⠼⣤
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Gemini_version_available_♊︎
✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Monday,_May_15,_2023⠀✐
Posted in IRC_Logs at 7:21 am by Needs Sunlight
Also available via the Gemini protocol at:
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-150523.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-150523.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-150523.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-150523.gmi
Over HTTP:
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✐ Analysing_Who’s_Left_at_Sirius_‘Open_Source’⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Fraud, Free/Libre_Software at 4:38 am by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum b43a8714d95a926e3a638b57659a2470
Quite Likely Last Year of Sirius
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/sirius-almost-nobody-left.webm
Summary: The situation at Sirius_‘Open_Source’ is getting grimmer by the day or
by the week; there’s almost nobody left at the company and those who are still
there look for a way out, an escape from the sinking ship
THE crimes of Sirius aside, as the_police_investigates_these_too_slowly (as
expected all along and right from the start), today we take a quick look at the
company as seen from the eyes of Microsoft (LinkedIn). There seems to be almost
nobody left there; from what we can gather, it’s a very contingency-based semi-
operational mode, trying to retain what’s left of the contracts. A couple of
months ago a reasonably new employee was given more authority, as others left
the company, creating a highly critical skills vacuum.
Will the company reach its 25th anniversary? That doesn’t seem so likely. For
privacy reasons the video above does not show the screen and instead I’m
reading or explaining what I am seeing before me (on a separate computer). █
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Server
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Arch_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o Education
o Programming/Development
# Python
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Pseudo-Open_Source
# Openwashing
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ COSMIC_desktop_from_System76_coming_along
nicely⠀⇛
System76 are busy hacking away on their new
upcoming COSMIC desktop environment, and their
latest development blog post is looking good. They
also recently released System76 Scheduler 2.0, to
further optimize the performance of their Linux
distribution.
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Blog:_Kubernetes_1.27:_KMS_V2_Moves_to
Beta [Ed: Blog of Kubernetes now a megaphone of Microsoft,
which attacks Linux and Free software in all sorts of ways]⠀⇛
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Unix Men ☛ Modern_eCommerce_Development_with_Headless
Frameworks_and_Synergy_of_Linux⠀⇛
In the past, eCommerce developers were limited by
the technology they could use. However, today’s
advances in eCommerce development have allowed for
more innovative solutions that can be created using
headless frameworks and Linux servers. This trend
is transforming how eCommerce platforms are built,
allowing for greater flexibility and scalability.
# ⚓ Linux Cloud VPS ☛ Sign_up_for_a_LinuxCloudVPS_today⠀⇛
Apache CouchDB is a free yet reliable non-
relational or NoSQL database engine. It is written
in Erlang language and natively supports data in
JSON format. The data can be accessed and queried
via the HTTP protocol, making it easier and more
scalable compared to traditional SQL relational
databases like MySQL. CouchDB also offers
replication capability and provides high
availability access. This tutorial will show you
how to install CouchDB on AlmaLinux.
# ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ Underline_Your_Links⠀⇛
I’ve talked about this myself in the past and I
wholeheartedly agree with Jatan on this. While
perusing the internet I’ve seen links that are
formatted in all kinds of ways, even ones that
don’t seem to be formatted at all and are, to my
eye at least, completely indistinguishable from the
rest of the body text.
# ⚓ Jatan Mehta ☛ Colored_vs._underlined_links⠀⇛
Colored text links on the Internet are popular. The
familiar blue touted by a majority of hyperlinks on
the Web goes back to 1993. However, as the linked
article explores, web links used to be underlined
for a decade before they went blue. I think we
should go back to having underlined links
everywhere for several reasons.
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ The_time_our_Linux_systems_spend_on
integer_to_text_and_back_conversions⠀⇛
We run the Prometheus host agent on all of our
Linux machines. Every fifteen seconds our
Prometheus server pulls metrics from all the host
agents, which causes the host agent to read a bunch
of /proc files (for things like memory and CPU
state information) and /sys files (for things like
hwmon information). These status files are text,
but they contain a lot of numbers, which means that
the kernel converted those integers into text for
us. The host agent then converts that text back
into numbers internally (I believe a mixture of 64-
bit integers and 64-bit floats), only to turn
around and send them to the Prometheus server as
text again (see Exposition Formats, also). On the
Prometheus server these text numbers will be turned
back into floats. All of this takes CPU cycles,
although perhaps not many CPU cycles on modern
machines.
# ⚓ Earthly ☛ Linux_Text_Processing_Command⠀⇛
This tutorial aims to introduce you to the concept
of Linux text processing, highlight its benefits,
and provide an overview of the commonly used text
processing commands. You will also learn about
their use cases and how they can help automate
tedious tasks, making them more manageable in a
matter of seconds.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Guide_to_Set_up_Full_Wayland_with_Arch_Linux⠀⇛
Arch Linux users may find setting up a custom
install with Wayland complex. Only KDE Plasma and
GNOME have up-to-date Wayland support among all the
mainstream desktop environments. Xfce, LXQt and
other desktops are developing Wayland support, but
they are not ready yet.
On the window manager front, Sway has full Wayland
support in Arch Linux. That being said, I wanted to
test how Wayland is performing in Arch and want to
give you a status check as of today.
Here’s what I found.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ What_Is_a_KVM?_Kernel-Based_Virtual_Machines
Explained⠀⇛
Virtual machines are an essential tool for running
guest operating systems. If you’ve never heard of
KVMs, you’re not alone. It’s easy to wonder: what
is KVM, and what does it stand for? How can you use
KVM as a virtualization technology in your
projects?
Getting started with KVMs on Linux is a simple
process. If you want to run other Linux
distributions or even Windows on your Linux PC, all
you need to do is install a few modules and prepare
your PC for virtualization. Here’s how you can
start using KVM on Linux.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Time_running_out_to_swap_your_Minecraft
account_over_to_Microsoft [Ed: An "important reminder" that
you should quit playing this game; try Minetest]⠀⇛
Mojang recently sent out a rather important
reminder, as the time is running out to swap your
Mojang account for Minecraft over to Microsoft.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Roots_of_Pacha_removed_from_Steam_after
fight_with_publisher_Crytivo⠀⇛
Seems the indie team at Soda Den are having some
issues with their publisher Crytivo, and their
fight has caused Roots of Pacha to be removed from
Steam for now.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Albion_Online_‘Knightfall’_is_here_with_new
content_and_improved_controls⠀⇛
Offering up plenty of new content for players to
explore, the Knightfall update for Albion Online is
here and it may be time to give it another look.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Roblox_still_plan_to_make_it_work_with_Wine
on_Linux⠀⇛
The situation is currently a bit messy, with
conflicting statements but it appears that Roblox
should work again on Linux / Steam Deck with Wine
eventually.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Fanatical’s_Bundle_Fest_begins_with_the
Killer_Bundle_26⠀⇛
Fanatical do a Bundle Fest every now and then,
where a new bundle of games is announced every day
for a week and the first is the Killer Bundle 26.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ New_DOS_PCs,_In_2023?⠀⇛
It’s not likely that we’ll talk about a new PC here
at Hackaday because where’s the news in yet another
commodity computer? But today along comes not one
but two new PCs courtesy of the ever bounteous hall
of wonders at AliExpress, that are unusual enough
to take a look at. If you have around $250 to
spare, you can have a brand new, made in 2023,
80386sx plamtop PC capable of running Windows 95,
or an 8088 laptop for DOS. Just what on earth is
going on?
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Arch Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Git_migration_announcement⠀⇛
This Friday morning (2023-05-19) the Git packaging
migration will start until Sunday (2023-05-21). The
Arch Linux packaging team will not be able to
update packages in any of the repositories during
this period.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Ubuntu_23.10_to_Offer_Improved_Management_of
PPAs_for_Better_Security⠀⇛
Development of Ubuntu 23.10 kicked off at the end
of April 2023 and now we start to see new features
landing in the upcoming release. One of these new
features was revealed by Canonical’s Julian Andres
Klode on the Ubuntu mailing list and it’s related
to how PPA archives will be handled.
Until now, Ubuntu managed PPA archives through a
traditional .list file that was stored in the /etc/
apt/sources.list.d/ directory and accompanied by a
GPG keyring stored on /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ $99.00_Orange_Pi_5_Plus_SBC_is_now_available
to_order⠀⇛
Orange Pi recently launched a single board computer
equipped with an octa-core Rockchip RK35588 SoC
along with an up to 6 TOPs NPU. The new SBC can
handle up to four displays, two 2.5GbE LAN
interfaces and many other expansion ports.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Sonos_discontinues_important_feature_for
Android_devices_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ The_Best_Wellness_Apps_On_Android_For_Stress
And_Anxiety⠀⇛
# ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ How_to_fix_a_frozen_Android_Phone_–_Geeky
Gadgets⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ How_to_find_your_IMEI_number_on_an
Android_phone_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Together_raises_$20M_to_decentralize_and_open-
source_AI_model_creation⠀⇛
As part of this mission, Together aims to establish open
source as the default way to design and build AI. One of
its aims is to create open models that outperform their
closed-source brethren. To do this, Together is
collaborating with various open-source groups, academic
and corporate research labs, while assembling an
impressive team of committed AI researchers, engineers
and practitioners.
o ⚓ Together ☛ Together’s_$20M_seed_funding_to_build_open-source_AI
and_cloud_platform⠀⇛
When Chris, Percy, Ce and I first got together last year,
we all felt it was clear that foundation models
represented a generational shift in technology, maybe the
most significant since the invention of the transistor.
At the time, we could see the trend toward centralization
of these models within a small number of corporations due
to the vast expense of high-end GPU clusters needed for
training. Meanwhile, the open community that had led the
innovations in AI over the prior decades had limited
agency in shaping the coming world of AI. In founding
Together, we were driven by the belief that open and
decentralized alternatives to closed systems were going
to be important — and possibly critical for business and
society.
o ⚓ Olaf Alders ☛ PrettyGoodPing:_Now_with,_you_know,_Ping⠀⇛
When I first created prettygoodping.com, it didn’t just
check SSL/TLS expiration dates and domain name
expirations. It could also ping servers and make HTTP
HEAD requests to check URL uptime. However, I didn’t add
the existing ping and HTTP HEAD checks to the beta
accounts. That made for a simpler launch as there were
fewer things to go wrong, but it also made for a more
confusing name. PrettyGoodPing didn’t, you know, ping.
I’ve been beta testing the ping and HEAD checks in my own
account for a few months now and I’m happy with them.
It’s time to make them more widely available.
o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ School_Result_Management_System_in_LibreOffice_Base_
[Projects_for_Students]⠀⇛
In this tutorial, I will walk you through the steps
to create a simple school result management system
in LibreOffice Base.
The tutorial outlines the steps to create a
database, tables, forms and how to extend it for
your needs.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ EuroBSDCon ☛ EuroBSDCon_2023_will_be_in_Coimbra,_Portugal:
September_14-17,_2023⠀⇛
EuroBSDCon is the International annual technical
conference held in a different European country
each year. It focuses on gathering users and
developers working on and with 4.4BSD (Berkeley
Software Distribution) based operating systems
family and related projects.
# ⚓ DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ SEMI-BUG_and_CARP_tomorrow [iophk:
16 May]⠀⇛
SEMIBUG’s having a presentation on CARP tomorrow.
It’s being given by Nick Holland who has a long
presentation history. It’ll be online through
Jitsi, so anyone can see it.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Lemire ☛ Computing_the_UTF-8_size_of_a_Latin_1
string_quickly_(ARM_NEON_edition)⠀⇛
While most of our software relies on Unicode
strings, we often still encounter legacy encodings
such as Latin 1. Before we convert Latin 1 strings
to Unicode (e.g., UTF-8), we must compute the size
of the UTF-8 string. It is fairly easy: all ASCII
characters map 1 byte to 1 byte, while other
characters (with code point values from 128 to 256)
map 1 Latin byte to 2 Unicode bytes (in UTF-8).
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Working_with_Dates_and_Times_Pt_2:_Finding_the_Next
Mothers_Day_with_Simplicity⠀⇛
Mother’s Day is a special occasion to honor and
appreciate the incredible women in our lives. As
programmers, we can use our coding skills to make
our lives easier when it comes to important dates
like Mother’s Day. In this blog post, we’ll walk
through a simple and engaging R code that helps us
find the next Mother’s Day. So grab your coding
hats, and let’s get started!
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ Node.js_Version_Managers_–_Install_and_Run
Multiple_Node.js_Versions⠀⇛
Node.js version managers, also known as
“environment managers” are tools that enable
developers or system administrators to install and
manage several Node.js versions on their computers
or servers.
These managers are useful since different projects
may require different versions of Node.js, and
manually switching between versions can be
difficult.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky ☛ It’s_easier_to_code_review
Rust_than_Python⠀⇛
On Monday, I was talking to a friend about
programming and I mentioned that I prefer to
review Rust code over Python code. He asked
why, and I had some rambling answer, but I
had to take some time to think about it. It
boils down to the fact that I can give a much
better review of Rust code, despite having
much more exposure to Python.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Whose_Planet_Are_We_On?⠀⇛
What happens when LTAI (Less Than Artificial
Intelligence) gives way to AI?
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Once_Again,_‘Free_Speech_Absolutist’_Elon_Musk_Caves
To_Authoritarian_Censorial_Bullies⠀⇛
We tend to think of McSweeney’s as a satire magazine, but
on this one, it’s dead on: [...]
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] uni New Mexico ☛ Introduction_To_Fourier_Transforms
For_Image_Processing⠀⇛
The Fourier Transform ( in this case, the 2D
Fourier Transform ) is the series expansion of an
image function ( over the 2D space domain ) in
terms of “cosine” image (orthonormal) basis
functions.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Quillette ☛ The_Cost_of_Dissent⠀⇛
Wherever possible, dissent should proceed from
wisdom, which follows dialogue and deliberation.
Uninformed dissent inhibits or destroys the very
innovation and progress that diversity of opinion
is meant to bring about, turning a society into a
Tower of Babel, in which atomized individuals spout
mutually unintelligible opinions. Such a situation
was described by the early modern Italian
philosopher of history Giambattista Vico in his
masterpiece, New Science: [...]
# ⚓ The Drone Girl ☛ Smithsonian_Air_and_Space_Museum_to_host
awards_ceremony_for_female_drone_industry_trailblazers⠀⇛
The 2023 Women in Emerging Aviation Technology
Awards is not a new program, but it’s gone through
quite the evolution. It started as simply a drone-
focused awards ceremony but — as drones have
morphed to encompass similar tech like air taxis —
the awards program also grew to encompass general
’emerging aviation technology.’
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Prize_2023:_A_DIY_Voice-Control
Module⠀⇛
If science fiction taught us anything, it’s that
voice control was going to be the human-machine
interface of the future. [Dennis] has now whipped
up a tutorial that lets you add a voice control
module to any of your own projects.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ This_$12_CNC_Rotary_Axis_Will_Make_Your_Head
Spin⠀⇛
[legolor] brings us a great, cheap rotary axis to
add to your small 3 axis CNC mills. How are you
going to generate G-Code for this 4th axis? That’s
the great part, and the hack, that [legolor] really
just swapped the Y axis for the rotation. To finish
the workflow and keep things cheap accessible to
all there’s a great trick to “unwrap” your 3D model
so your CAM software of choice thinks it’s still
using a linear Y axis and keeps your existing
workflow largely intact. While this requires an
extra step in Blender to do the unwrapping, we love
the way this hack changes as little of the rest of
your process as possible. The Blender script might
be useful for many other purposes too.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Modern_CO2_Laser_Reviewed⠀⇛
If you’ve got a laser cutter, it is highly probable
that it uses a laser diode. But more expensive
machines use a carbon dioxide laser tube along with
mirrors. There was a time when these lasers came in
two flavors: very expensive and amazing or
moderately expensive and cheaply made. However, we
are seeing that even the moderately expensive
machines are now becoming quite advanced. [Chad]
reviews a 55-watt xTool P2. At around $5,000, it is
still a little spendy for a home shop, but it does
have pretty amazing features. We can only hope some
less expensive diode lasers will adopt some of
these features.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Free_TV_With_A_Catch:_New_Normal_Or_Inevitable
Hardware_Bonanza?⠀⇛
The dystopian corporate dominated future may have
taken a step closer, as a startup called Telly
promises a free 55 inch 4K TV with a catch — a
second screen beneath the main one that displays
adverts. The viewers definitely aren’t the
customers but the product, and will no doubt have
every possible piece of data that can be harvested
from them sold to the highest bidder. There’s even
a microphone and camera pointed at the viewer, to
complete the 1984 experience. In a sense it’s
nothing new, as certain TV manufacturers have been
trying to slip adverts into the interfaces on their
paid-for smart TVs for years.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Paste_Extruder_For_Normal_Printers⠀⇛
In the bright sunshine of a warm spring afternoon
at Delft Maker Faire, were a row of 3D printers
converted with paste extruders. They were the work
of [Nedji Yusufova], and though while were being
shown printing with biodegradable pastes made from
waste materials, we were also interested in their
potential to print using edible media.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-04-26_[Older]_The_Dogs_of_Chernobyl⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Witnessing_the_Resilience_of_Mothers_in
Southern_Bangladesh⠀⇛
As we celebrate Mother’s Day, I am inspired by the
incredible strength and resilience of mothers
worldwide. But as an obstetrician-gynecologist who
has treated patients in crisis regions around the
world, I am reminded of the countless mothers
globally who struggle to keep their children
healthy and safe, often in the face of
insurmountable obstacles. Through my travels, I
have witnessed firsthand the devastating
consequences that can result when women do not have
access to the basic maternal health services they
need. The consequences of inadequate maternal
health services are heartbreaking, from preventable
complications during pregnancy and childbirth to
the devastating loss of a child.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Family_That_Controlled_Liberty_HealthShare
Shows_Financial_Strain⠀⇛
In just a handful of years, members of a Canton,
Ohio, family built a financial empire that included
a boutique airline, a bank in the Missouri Ozarks,
a chain of carpet stores, a marijuana farm in
Oregon, and more than $20 million in real estate.
The “conglomerate,” as the Beers family calls it,
was made possible by hundreds of millions of
dollars collected from Americans who thought they
had found an affordable alternative to medical
insurance. Instead, many were saddled with debt.
The conglomerate, however, is showing signs of
strain as the family downsizes its workforce and
sells off some of its holdings. These moves will
free up cash, said an attorney who represents
several family members, and allow them to pay off a
court settlement related to its alleged fraud. Now,
another big debt has come their way: Several family
members face liens placed against their properties
for millions in back taxes.
# ⚓ ProtocolKills.com_revisited:_Misinformed_refusal_turned_up
to_11⠀⇛
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about
ProtocolKills.com, a website and effort started by
a woman named Greta Crawford in order to
“inform”—misinform, actually—the public about the
supposed dangers of hospital protocols to treat
COVID-19 and how hospitals, not COVID-19, had
killed so many people and almost killed her, a
conclusion that she came to seemingly because
everyone in her family caught COVID-19 but she was
the only one who was hospitalized with serious
illness from it. Basically, a large part of the
website includes anecdotes from COVID-19 patients
who became severely ill and were hospitalized (or
their surviving family members if they didn’t make
it), all complaining about how doctors and
hospitals wouldn’t treat them or their loved ones
with ivermectin or any other unproven/disproven
treatment or quackery and how intubation,
remdesivir, intubation, and everything else about
conventional medicine, not COVID-19, had harmed
them or killed their loved ones. Indeed, I had
become aware of the website when I saw this poster
in a shop window near the barber shop where I had
just gotten a haircut (and where I had happened to
walk past last week while heading to a restaurant,
only to see that the images are still there):
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ What_Demon_Copperhead_Gets_Right_About
Appalachia⠀⇛
Barbara Kingsolver dedicates her Pulitzer
Prize–winning novel Demon Copperhead to survivors
of the opioid crisis and foster care. It wouldn’t
be an exaggeration to say that the book is
dedicated to me: I am an Appalachian who was put in
foster care thanks to, in part, my father’s opioid
addiction.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ The_AI_Attack_Surface_Map_v1.0⠀⇛
Once those AI-powered products and services start
to appear we’re going to have an entirely new
species of vulnerability to deal with. We hope with
this resource to bring some clarity to that
landscape.
# ⚓ The Economist ☛ What_does_a_leaked_Google_memo_reveal_about
the_future_of_AI?⠀⇛
They have changed the world by writing software.
But techy types are also known for composing
lengthy memos in prose, the most famous of which
have marked turning points in computing. Think of
Bill Gates’s “Internet tidal wave” memo of 1995,
which reoriented Microsoft towards the web; or Jeff
Bezos’s “API mandate” memo of 2002, which opened up
Amazon’s digital infrastructure, paving the way for
modern cloud computing. Now techies are abuzz about
another memo, this time leaked from within Google,
titled “We have no moat”. Its unknown author
details the astonishing progress being made in
artificial intelligence (AI)—and challenges some
long-held assumptions about the balance of power in
this fast-moving industry.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ Navy_retirees_see_cuts_to_monthly_benefits,_must
repay_$7M_after_system_overpayment_error⠀⇛
The Navy Times first reported the error, which
resulted in incorrect service time calculations for
1,283 retirees from August 2019 to February.
That error created a total debt of about $6.8
million, according to new data obtained by NBC
News. The personal debts incurred range from $35 to
more than $70,000, the Defense Finance and
Accounting Service said Monday.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ Navy_doctors_and_dentists_are_told_they_owe_3_more
years_of_service_after_military_admits_to_another_record-
keeping_error⠀⇛
At least 65 dentists and physicians with the Navy
Reserves have had three to four years of service
erased from their records after an error was
discovered in how their retirement credits had been
calculated, the Navy said. Navy Reserve dentists
and doctors provide care to members of any branch
of service and their family members.
Four affected physicians and dentists came forward
with their plights, speaking to NBC News on the
condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation,
days after the Army acknowledged a similar
administrative error affecting hundreds of aviation
officers.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ Army_aviators,_ready_to_leave_the_military,_are_told
they_owe_3_more_years_instead⠀⇛
As part of a program known as BRADSO, cadets
commissioning from the U.S. Military Academy or
Army Cadet Command from 2008 and 2020 were able to
request a branch of their choice, including
aviation, by agreeing to serve an additional three
years on active duty.
For years, the Army allowed some aviation officers
to serve those three years concurrently, and not
consecutively, along with their roughly contracted
seven or eight years of service.
In a phone call with reporters Thursday, Army
officials admitted “errors” in the system, which
they noticed a few months ago, led to the
discrepancy.
# ⚓ Gannett ☛ Building_curious_machines⠀⇛
“Seafloor mapping can help us understand ocean
currents that drive our climate system by moving
heat around the planet, help us understand
ecosystems, help us find natural resources, help us
predict earthquakes and tsunamis, and of course,
any time you want to do any kind of engineering on
the seafloor, you need a very accurate map,” Mayer
said. “But the most exciting thing is that we just
don’t know what’s there. You can’t go out and map
the seafloor without finding something exciting.”
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ U-M_experts:_We_need_to_emphasize_AI’s
societal_impacts_over_technological_advancements⠀⇛
Most importantly, both say we need to be less in
awe of the technological advancements and more
focused on the societal risks and benefits.
This conversation is excerpted from the podcast,
Business and Society with Michigan Ross.
o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾
# § Openwashing⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ OpenAI_readies_new_open-source_AI
model:_report⠀⇛
The company did not immediately respond to
Reuters’ request for a comment.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-04_[Older]_CISA_Releases_One_Industrial
Control_Systems_Advisory⠀⇛
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ CISA_adds_new_Linux_vulnerabilities_to
catalog,_warns_they’re_being_actively_exploited [Ed:
Microsoft_inside_CISA; iophk: note the years on those CVEs]⠀⇛
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency has added seven new Linux-related
vulnerabilities to its catalog and warned that
they’re being actively exploited.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ CISA:_Several_Old_Linux_Vulnerabilities
Exploited_in_Attacks [Ed: Those are not new at all; are they
having a go at FUD?]⠀⇛
Several old Linux vulnerabilities for which there
are no public reports of malicious exploitation
have been added to CISA’s KEV catalog.
# ⚓ CISA_Warns_Several_Old_Linux_Vulns_Exploited_in_Attacks⠀⇛
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency
(CISA) added seven new Linux vulnerabilities to its
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on
Friday based on evidence of active exploitation,
some of which have been known for a decade…
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Ireland’s_privacy_regulator_is_a
gamekeeper-turned-poacher⠀⇛
That cozy relationship meant that the US tech
giants were well-situated to sabotage
Ireland’s privacy regulator, who would be the
first port of call for Europeans whose
privacy had been violated by American firms.
For many years, it’s been obvious that the
Irish Data Protection Commission was a
sleeping watchdog, with infinite tolerance
for the companies that pretend to make
Ireland their homes. 87% of Irish data
protection claims involve just eight giant US
companies (that pretend to be Irish).
But even among hardened GDPR warriors, the
real extent of the Data Protection
Commissioner’s uselessness is genuinely
shocking. A new report from the Irish Council
for Civil Liberties reveals that the DPC
isn’t merely tolerant of privacy crimes,
they’re gamekeepers turned poachers, active
collaborators in privacy abuse: [...]
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Interior_minister_of_self-declared_‘LNR’_Igor
Kornet_seriously_injured_in_explosion_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The interior minister of the self-declared Luhansk
People’s Republic (LNR), Igor Kornet, was injured
in an explosion in Luhansk, reports Russia’s state
media TASS and RIA Novosti.
# ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Putin_war_criminal_poster_taken
down_from_Narva_Castle_walls⠀⇛
Speaking to ERR’s Russian-language news, Maria
Smorževskihh-Smirnova, director of the Narva
Museum, responsible for the action, said that the
plan had been to leave the installation where it
was into the start of this week, by which time it
would have fulfilled its function.
That function was a response to a May 9 concert
played on the Russian side of the Narva river,
under the eaves of the Ivangorod Castle which was
viewable, and audible, from the Estonian side.
# ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Million_more_migrants_heading_to_Britain
before_next_election,_ministers_warned⠀⇛
The revelation came on top of a record 504,000 in
net migration posted last summer with expert
forecasts that net migration could rise further to
hit a record 700,000 for the year ending December –
and potentially even 997,000 when the official
figures are published in two weeks’ time.
While the warnings from officials are about legal
migration, Rishi Sunak has made tackling illegal
entry into the UK one of his five priorities
# ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Summary_of_Statement_Public_Prosecutor’s
Office,_Central_and_Contact_Point_Cybercrime_(ZAC)_on_the
public_hearing_of_the_Digital_Affairs_Committee_of_the_German
Bundestag_on_“Chat_Control”⠀⇛
The assessment is made primarily from the
perspective of prosecutorial and general law
enforcement practice. The perspectives of
prevention, improved compliance and other effects
on societal, political as well as technical aspects
are only examined in their respective interaction
with law enforcement in view of the expertise
available here.
The proposal for a regulation also has an impact on
the activities of the national law enforcement
authorities dealing with the crime of child abuse
in the digital space.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Ongoing_Catastrophe:_Israel_Threatens_New
Mass_Expulsions_as_Palestinians,_U.N._Mark_75th_Nakba
Anniversary⠀⇛
Palestinians across the globe are marking the 75th
anniversary of the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic),
when some 700,000 Palestinians fled from or were
violently expelled from their homes upon Israel’s
founding in 1948. The occasion comes as five days
of fighting, that killed 33 Palestinians in Gaza
and two people in Israel, was brought to a stop
this weekend after the Israeli army and the
militant group Islamic Jihad agreed to a Egyptian-
brokered ceasefire. Today the United Nations is
holding its first-ever high-level special meeting
to commemorate the Nakba. We host a roundtable
discussion with Munir Nuseibah, a human rights
lawyer and director of Al-Quds Human Rights Clinic
in Jerusalem; Saleh Hijazi, a member of the
Palestinian Boycott National Committee; and Peter
Beinart, editor-at-large for Jewish Currents.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ 100_Years_of_Palestinian_Popular_Resistance⠀⇛
The 1947–49 Nakba is the consciousness-searing
fulcrum of Palestinian history. It signified the
consolidation of the Zionist project in Palestine,
which resulted in the dispossession of 750,000 to a
million Palestinians from their lands, homes, and
livelihoods. The term “Nakba” means catastrophe: a
world-destroying upheaval. Among the 7 million
Palestinian refugees today left waiting in the
anteroom of history—and the 7 million more living
in their historic homeland under an expanding
regime of expropriation and domination—this
catastrophe is as much a condition of the present
as it is a wound of the past.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Reflections_on_the_75th_Anniversary_of_a_Nakba
That_Never_Ended⠀⇛
If you’re driving across the length of our bruised
geography, you will at various points encounter
rubble. Sometimes it is the rubble of a house in
Jerusalem, demolished once, or more than once, in
the past few decades. Other times, it is the ruins
of a village, depopulated in 1948, now poorly
concealed under a forest of pine trees planted by
the Jewish National Fund. Sometimes it is the
rubble of a bullet-strafed home in the occupied
Syrian Golan, which came to its knees during the
1967 invasion. Other times, it is the rubble of a
residential building bombed during one of the
assaults on the besieged Gaza Strip—in 2008, ’09,
’12, ’14, ’19, or ’21. Or, if you are reading this
a few years from now, it may well be the wreckage
of Silwan, Masafer Yatta, and the Naqab, towns that
are still bustling but threatened.
As you breeze through this landscape, you will
likely come across towns and refugee camps with
posters of our martyrs pinned all over the walls.
The dates on some of the posters may be difficult
to decipher, but you can guess when they were first
plastered by looking at their condition: If they
are pristine and vibrant, they’re fresh off the
press; if brittle and faded, damaged by rain, dirt,
or stray bullets, and peeling off the walls, they
might be from some time ago—the Second Intifada or
one of the intifadas that came after. Many, likely
most, of the faces will be unfamiliar to you, for
they have been killed outside the international
news cycle—their deaths marked only by fleeting
local headlines. If you slow down to read, you
might find portraits of a father and a son sharing
the same wall, an uncle and a niece, sometimes from
the same year, sometimes generations apart.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Shootings⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungary_and_China_can_count_on_each_other
to_strengthen_the_voice_of_the_peace_camp_–_Szijjártó_in
Beijing⠀⇛
“Hungary and China can count on each other to
strengthen the voice of the peace camp, and the two
countries will work closely together to achieve a
ceasefire in Ukraine as soon as possible and to
establish peace talks,” Hungarian Minister of
Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in
Beijing on Monday.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Czechs_reject_Orbán’s_comparison_of_the
unification_of_EU_with_Hitler’s_plans⠀⇛
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský rejected Viktor
Orbán’s comparison of the unification of Europe
with Hitler’s plans, pointing out that no one is
forcing Hungary to be part of the European
community.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_chief_federal_investigator_launches
criminal_case_against_security_guards_who_wouldn’t_let_him
onto_construction_site_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s Investigative Committee head Alexander
Bastrykin has launched a criminal case against the
security guards who wouldn’t let him onto a St.
Petersburg construction site on May 14.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kremlin_says_to_rely_on_‘official_information’
about_health_of_Alexander_Lukashenko,_who_hasn’t_appeared_in
public_since_May_9_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov urged Russians to
look to “official reports” for information
regarding the health of Alexander Lukashenko.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ France_pledges_additional_military_aid_to_Ukraine
after_surprise_talks_—_Meduza⠀⇛
France pledged to send dozens of armored vehicles
and light tanks to Ukraine after a surprise three-
hour meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and French
President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Art_conservators_alarmed_by_Putin’s_decision_to
transfer_Andrey_Rublev’s_fragile_‘Holy_Trinity’_masterpiece
from_Tretyakov_Gallery_to_church_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox
Church has announced that Andrey Rublev’s famous
“Holy Trinity” ikon, until now part of the
Tretyakov Gallery collection, is church property
once again, following Vladimir Putin’s special
order.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kremlin_has_reportedly_banned_senior_officials
from_resigning_under_threat_of_criminal_prosecution_—
Meduza⠀⇛
The Kremlin has threatened to press felony charges
against senior Russian officials who resign while
the war is going on, according to the independent
outlet iStories.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Aeroflot_has_reportedly_ordered_flight_attendants
not_to_record_plane_malfunctions_before_consulting_pilot_—
Meduza⠀⇛
In March 2022, shortly after Russia was hit with
new sanctions in response to its full-scale
invasion of Ukraine, the country’s largest
commercial airline, Aeroflot, reportedly sent out
an internal memo instructing senior flight
attendants to record technical failures and cabin
equipment malfunctions only after consulting the
plane’s pilot.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_spends_$22_million_on_radio_network
analyzers_to_combat_drone_attacks_in_Rostov_region_and
annexed_Crimea_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Main Radio Frequency Center (GRChTs), an entity
overseen by Russia’s federal censorship agency, has
purchased equipment for determining the source of
radio emissions and for spectrum analysis,
according to Forbes Russia.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_airline_Azimut_cleared_for_direct_flights
from_Russia_to_Georgia_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Georgia’s government has cleared the Russian
airline Azimut for direct flights into the country,
TASS reports. Charter flights between Moscow and
Tbilisi are set to begin on May 17.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_lawmakers_approve_amendment_to_martial_law
allowing_elections_and_deportation_of_residents_in_annexed
territories_—_Meduza⠀⇛
An amendment to a law on holding elections during
martial law won committee approval in Russia’s
State Duma, reports Russian state media TASS.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Lukashenko_says_Belarusian_troops_on_high_alert
after_‘four_aircraft_shot_down_in_Bryansk_region’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Belarusian troops are on high alert after “four
aircraft were shot down in Russia’s Bryansk
region,” reported Alexander Lukashenko, in a
meeting with the Belarusian military.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_Defense_Ministry_claims_to_have
intercepted_Storm_Shadow_missile_—_Meduza⠀⇛
In its daily briefing, the Russian Defense Ministry
announced that, within the past 24 hours, the
Russian air defense had intercepted a long-range
Storm Shadow missile. The agency did not specify
where or when exactly the missile had been shot
down.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘A_very_grim_portrait’_Political_scientist_Erica
Frantz_on_what_Russia’s_future_holds_after_Putin_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Political scientist Erica Frantz, an associate
professor at Michigan State University, has been
studying authoritarian regimes for more than 15
years and has written multiple books on the topic.
She and her coauthors have compiled a database of
nearly 300 authoritarian regimes that have existed
around the globe since 1946. Using these data, the
researchers have analyzed how and why various
autocracies have come to an end, how often their
leaders have fallen from power after starting wars,
and what’s happened to their countries after their
deaths. Meduza special correspondent Margarita
Lyutova spoke to Frantz about what her research
portends for the future of Russia.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Classification_Reform_Bill_Would_Give
President,_Security_Agencies_Even_More_Power_To_Maintain
Secrets⠀⇛
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_EU_showed_it’s_possible_to_reduce_carbon
emissions_while_posting_economic_growth⠀⇛
The European Union (EU) has announced that its
carbon emissions significantly declined in the
final fiscal quarter of 2022, even as its gross
domestic product (GDP) grew. Emissions fell by 4%
year-over-year, while GDP increased by 1.5% during
the same period.
This is a major milestone for the trading bloc,
which has looked to balance economic growth with
its aggressive plan to transition to renewable
energy sources.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ HRW_says_fossil_fuel_phaseout_and_rights
safeguards_are_essential_for_Global_Plastics_Treaty⠀⇛
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged countries
involved in ongoing negotiations for an
international anti-plastic pollution treaty to
address the role of fossil fuels in plastic
production. The organization also cited the need
for human rights protections to be included within
this Global Plastics Treaty.
On November 28, 2022, countries began treaty
negotiations based on a United Nations resolution
mandating the creation of a legally binding
instrument to end plastic pollution by the end of
2024. Senior HRW researcher Katharina Rall stated
that “the race to tackle the plastic crisis and
prevent a climate catastrophe requires every
country to tackle these problems at their common
source by urgently phasing out fossil fuels.” HRW
also notes that fossil fuel production, the primary
contributor to the global climate crisis, is “the
ultimate source of plastic pollution.”
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Montana_Is_Paying_a_Climate_Denier_to_Give_Expert
Testimony_in_Upcoming_Trial⠀⇛
Montana has hired a climate scientist turned
climate contrarian to be an expert witness in an
upcoming trial challenging the state’s promotion of
fossil fuels.
Climatologist Judith Curry has already billed the
state around $30,000 for a report filed in the case
Held v. State of Montana, according to the
deposition she made in December to an attorney for
the 16 young Montanans suing the state. Curry also
claimed that she charged $400 an hour for her
consulting work, although she did not disclose the
full amount Montana will pay her for appearing in
court.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Breaking_The_Silence_On_Climate_Change⠀⇛
It’s the biggest issue of our time. So why are so
few of us talking about it?
In the UK, 57 percent of us talk about climate with
friends and family infrequently, rarely, or never.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ SCOTUS_Case_May_Slash_Regulation_of
Everything_From_Workers’_Rights_to_Clean_Air⠀⇛
Overruling “Chevron deference” could imperil
our health, safety, labor, air, water, food
and environmental protections.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Three_new_coal_mines_and_a_coal
extension_get_environmental_approval._What’s_the
scam?⠀⇛
No coal mine will be left behind! Environment
Minister Tanya Plibersek waited until media
mayhem of the Federal Budget aftermath last
Tuesday to approve three new coal mines and a
coal mine extension. What’s the scam?
The scam is to do it when nobody is watching,
like the aftermath of the Budget when the
story will get buried. In a week when Violet
Coco and 7 environment activists were on a 48
hour hunger strike calling for “no new coal
no new gas”, the Environment Minister quietly
approved three new coal mines, a coal mine
extension and there is another coal seam gas
project up for approval on Friday?
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Scientists_Have_Now_Linked_Worsening_Western
Wildfires_to_Top_Polluters⠀⇛
New research for the first time links
wildfire risks and impacts in western North
America to carbon emissions traceable to the
world’s largest fossil fuel and cement
companies. The analysis has important
implications for corporate climate
accountability and may help bolster
litigation aimed at holding fossil fuel
producers liable for climate-related damages,
the researchers say.
According to the study led by researchers at
the Union of Concerned Scientists, more than
a third of the total area burned by forest
fires in the western United States and
southwestern Canada since 1986 is
attributable to the “Carbon Majors” — a term
representing the 88 largest fossil fuel and
cement companies that collectively have
contributed a majority of the carbon
emissions warming the planet.
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Human_Activities_Have_Drastically
Reduced_Habitat_for_Asian_Elephants⠀⇛
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Mass_layoffs_continue_following_growth_during_pandemic⠀⇛
Jenny Craig Inc., Gap Inc., Microsoft Corp. and
LinkedIn Corp. are among the new additions to the
growing list of companies cutting the size of their
workforce.
The layoffs come after businesses increased their
hirings during the COVID-19 pandemic, when sectors
such as retail generated more revenue as a result
of increased spending from people working remotely.
Additionally, economic uncertainty, especially with
the declaration of a recession looming, is also a
concern within corporations.
The unemployment rate was 3.4% in April while
productivity fell by 2.7%, according to data from
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
# ⚓ The_world’s_largest_professional_network_is_laying_off
workers⠀⇛
LinkedIn, the professional network that’s become a
popular platform for workers to share news of their
layoffs, recently announced some layoff news of its
own.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Tech_companies_cut_jobs_to_chase_growth,
but_watch_out_for_those_shareholder_returns⠀⇛
Publicly listed technology companies under pressure
to make deep job cuts can underestimate the often
negative impacts redundancies may cause, both
financially and culturally, as well as the harm to
shareholder returns.
According to data tracking service Layoffs.fyi,
some 675 technology businesses have so far waved
bye-bye to 193,950 employees in the year to date,
compared to 164,591 chopped by 1,056 companies in
2022.
# ⚓ The Stack ☛ A_technology_downturn_and_mass_layoffs_are
having_competing_effects_on_FOSS⠀⇛
Over the past year, the technology sector has faced
mass layoffs and redundancies worldwide. During
2022, there were more than 15 million layoffs in
the US alone. According to data gathered on
Layoffs.fyi on the technology sector, there have
been more than 186,000 roles cut across 637
companies so far in 2023.
# ⚓ Microsoft’s_cost-cutting_measures:_More_jobs_on_the_line,
no_raise_for_staff⠀⇛
Microsoft has started laying off 158 employees at
its headquarters in Redmond. The layoffs commenced
on May 5th and were documented in a recent filing
with the state Employment Security Department
(ESD).
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Joe_Biden,_Culture_Warrior⠀⇛
Joe Biden is a reluctant culture warrior. For the
first half of his presidency, Biden’s theory of
politics was based on the idea that Democrats could
best rebuild from their losses of the last decade
by winning back white working-class voters. This
required focusing on bread-and-butter issues while
treating culture war topics as distractions. Before
the Dobbs decision last June elevated reproductive
freedom to a dominant election issue, Biden was
notoriously reluctant to even say the word
“abortion.” Writing in The Atlantic in March,
Ronald Brownstein observed that at the start of his
term Biden was “betting that the non-college-
educated workers, especially those who are white,
who constitute the principal audience for the
Republican cultural offensive will prove less
receptive to those divisive messages if they feel
more economically secure.”
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ 5_Lives_Upended_After_Dealing_With_“We_Buy
Ugly_Houses”⠀⇛
HomeVestors of America, the company behind the “We
Buy Ugly Houses” ads, says it’s in the business of
helping people.
Sometimes, the quick cash its franchises provide in
exchange for a property at vastly below market
value does help the owner.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Quest_To_Replace_Chinese_Gear_In_U.S._Telecom
Networks_Is_A_Hot,_Under-funded_Mess⠀⇛
As the U.S. has tried to untether itself from
Chinese tech, one major policy goal by both parties
has been to purge U.S. telecom networks of Chinese
telecom gear. The worry (sometimes substantiated,
sometimes not) is that Chinese intelligence has
embedded all manner of nefarious backdoors in
sensitive telecommunications gear (you’re to ignore
that the U.S. also routinely does this).
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ With_Lula_in_Charge,_What’s_Next_for_the
Brazilian_Left?⠀⇛
Brazil is the largest nation with the largest
economy in Latin America. It has gone through a
tumultuous transition over the past decade: from a
left-leaning government to one that was right-wing
and authoritarian and now back to a Workers’
Party–led coalition government under President Luis
Inacio Lula de Silva. Transcribed by Jana
Silverman.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-04-17_[Older]_Clarence_Thomas_Proves
It’s_Time_for_Supreme_Court_Term_Limits⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Erdoğan’s_Hold_on_Power_in_Question_as
Votes_Counted_in_Turkey⠀⇛
Whether Turkey’s authoritarian president, Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan, maintains power remains an open
question as officials continue to count votes
following Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary
elections.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Turkey_Presidential_Election_Heads_to
Runoff_as_Erdoğan_Faces_Toughest_Challenge_of_2-Decade_Rule⠀⇛
Turkey’s closely watched presidential election is
headed to a May 28 runoff, as both incumbent
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his main rival
fell short of the 50% needed to win outright in
Sunday’s vote. Erdoğan is facing his toughest
challenge since coming to power 20 years ago, as
opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu leads a
broad coalition in a bid to unseat him amid
criticism for his administration’s economic
policies, weakening Turkey’s democracy and poor
response to the deadly February earthquakes.
Kılıçdaroğlu has vowed closer ties with NATO and
the EU and to reinforce democratic institutions. We
get an update from Istanbul with Turkish historian
Kaya Genç, who says Erdoğan’s political survival
was a “stunning comeback” that contradicted polls
predicting a comfortable first-round victory for
Kılıçdaroğlu. “This was a total shock for the
Turkish establishment,” he says.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Special_Counsel_Reveals_2016_Trump-Russia_FBI
Investigative_Failure⠀⇛
A four-year investigation conducted by U.S. Special
Counsel John Durham has concluded that the FBI
lacked “actual evidence” to investigate Donald
Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and relied too
heavily on unproven claims in the Steele Dossier
provided by Trump’s political opponents. Here is an
excerpt from the report detailing the FBI’s
“confirmation bias:” “Throughout the […]
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Mothers_on_Six_Continents_Demand_Action_to
Protect_Children_From_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛
From Australia to Zimbabwe, mothers on Saturday
peacefully occupied public spaces and called for
urgent societal transformation to avert the worst
impacts of the fossil fuel-driven climate
emergency.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ In_Honor_of_Mother’s_Day,_Let_Us_Organize⠀⇛
To be a good mom, you have to be a great organizer.
Whether it’s fair or not, in most families, moms
organize just about everything—transportation to
school and sporting events, shopping, meals,
medical appointments, and much more. That’s why
we’re the best hope for Americans who are concerned
about climate change. We’re already skilled
organizers. Many of us are already successfully
applying our organizing skills to the climate
crisis. If we want to have a planet that is safe
for our kids, more of us need to do so.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Beyond_Cards_and_Phone_Calls:_Deepening
Mother’s_Day⠀⇛
The 19th century origins of Mother’s Day differ
vastly in spirit and purpose from celebrations of
it in the 20th and 21st centuries.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Türkiye_users’_access_to_Twitter_restricted_ahead
of_presidential_election⠀⇛
Twitter has not made publicly available which
information has been affected by this restriction
on access. This is the second time this year that
the use of Twitter has been limited for users based
in Türkiye. In February, the government briefly
blocked access to Twitter and other social media
platforms in the wake of a devastating earthquake
which killed almost 50,000 people.
# ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Twitter_says_it_will_restrict_access
to_some_tweets_before_Turkey’s_election⠀⇛
The decision once again puts Twitter CEO Elon
Musk’s controversial free speech policies into the
spotlight. This time, critics say, he is ceding to
demands from Turkey’s right-wing leader, President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Much of Turkey’s media is
under government control, and critics accuse
Erdogan of cracking down on social media companies
to stifle opposition voices as he tries to stay in
power.
# ⚓ Joinup ☛ Better_legislation_for_smoother_implementation⠀⇛
This session explored six elements of the
Interoperable Europe Act proposal that are of
particular interest to our community. These are:
[...]
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Inside_a_Teamster_Rebellion:_This_Is_What
Union_Democracy_Looks_Like⠀⇛
In the early morning of April 12, members of
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 90
rallied in the parking lot of the United Parcel
Service distribution hub in Des Moines, Iowa, to
prepare for what could be the largest strike
against a single company in US history later this
summer. The sun was shining as the union
distributed “hot dogs for breakfast” to a crowd
that started small but quickly ballooned to over
100, workers said. People were standing on trucks
giving speeches to their coworkers. “We had workers
talking about working six days a week, talking
about getting written up for calling in sick,” said
Tanner Fischer, the 26-year-old president of the
local, who has been working for UPS since he was
18.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Introducing_the_2023_Puffin_Student_Writing
Fellows⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Henry_Kissinger,_War_Criminal—Still_at_Large
at_100⠀⇛
Henry Kissinger should have gone down with the rest
of them: Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Dean, and
Nixon. His fingerprints were all over Watergate.
Yet he survived—largely by playing the press.1
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Kissinger’s_Bloody_Paper_Trail_in_Chile⠀⇛
As Henry Kissinger reaches 100 years of age on May
27, Chileans are preparing to commemorate the 50th
anniversary of the bloody military coup that the
former US national security adviser helped
orchestrate in September 1973. Kissinger’s
controversial career is littered with scandals and
crimes against humanity: support for mass murderers
and torturers abroad, domestic wiretapping,
clandestine wars in Indochina, and, as Greg Grandin
reminds us, secretly sabotaging the quest for peace
in Vietnam. But his pivotal role in the covert US
efforts to undermine democracy in Chile, aiding and
abetting the rise of the infamous dictator Augusto
Pinochet, will always be the Achilles’ heel of
Kissinger’s much-ballyhooed legacy. 1
The declassified historical record leaves no doubt
that Kissinger was the chief architect of US
efforts to destabilize the democratically elected
government of Socialist Party leader Salvador
Allende. Once Allende was overthrown, Kissinger
became the leading enabler of Pinochet’s repressive
new regime. “I think we should understand our
policy—that however unpleasant they act, this
government is better for us than Allende was,” he
told his deputies as they reported to him on the
human rights atrocities in the weeks following the
coup. At a private June 1976 meeting with Pinochet
in Santiago, Secretary of State Kissinger offered
platitudes rather than pressure: “My evaluation is
that you are a victim of all left-wing groups
around the world,” he told Pinochet, “and that your
greatest sin was that you overthrew a government
which was going communist.” 2
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Polish_Ambassador_and_Hungary’s_Chief_of
General_Staff_settle_dispute⠀⇛
Gábor Böröndi, Hungarian Chief of General Staff,
and Polish Ambassador Sebastian Kęciek met after
Kęciek expressed his indignation at Böröndi’s words
in an open letter.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Marianne_Williamson:_From_Third_Way_to_Third
Eye⠀⇛
The right seeks to win converts, an old political
adage has it, and the left punishes heretics. Best-
selling spiritual author Marianne Williamson
scrambles this distinction in more ways than one.
Williamson is something of an adept at
conversion—having landed the imprimatur of name-
brand lifestyle brokers such as Oprah Winfrey
behind her justice-minded vision of ecumenical New
Age faith. Last week, as Williamson set out to
address a packed house at the downtown Washington
franchise of Busboys and Poets, a chain of
progressive minded bookstore-eateries in metro
D.C., it wasn’t quite clear what sort of call to
redemption was in the offing.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ Chinese_authorities_arrest_ChatGPT_user
for_generating_fake_news⠀⇛
The suspect, identified only by his surname
Hong, is accused of using OpenAI’s chatbot to
generate news articles describing a fatal
train crash that officials say was “false
information,” according to a police statement
reported by South China Morning Post. After
discovering the article on April 25th,
authorities found multiple versions of the
same story with different accident locations
had been simultaneously posted to 20
additional accounts on Baidu-owned blogging
platform Baijiahao.
# ⚓ SCMP ☛ ChatGPT:_China_detains_man_for_allegedly
generating_fake_train_crash_news,_first_known_time
person_held_over_use_of_AI_bot⠀⇛
Chinese regulations that took effect in
January require videos and photos made using
deep synthesis tech to be clearly labelled to
prevent public confusion
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ EU_Commission_Asks_EU_Council_Lawyers_If
Compelled_Client-Side_Scanning_Is_Legal,_Gets_Told_It_Isn’t⠀⇛
Lots of ideas have been floated by legislators and
others in hopes of limiting the distribution of
child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Very few of
these ideas have been good. Most have assumed that
the problem is so horrendous any efforts are
justified. The problem here is that governments
need to actually justify mandated mass privacy
invasions, which is something that they almost
always can’t do.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Colorado_Law_Will_Require_Homes_to_Be_More
Wildfire_Resistant⠀⇛
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed into law Friday a
bill that mandates a statewide wildfire-resistant
building code, a step that scientists say will help
protect residents and first responders as climate
change intensifies blazes.
The bill creates a 21-member board charged with
developing standards for new and substantially
remodeled homes in high-risk areas, including rules
for using fire-resistant construction materials and
clearing vegetation around residences. The board —
which will include building industry
representatives; urban and rural residents and
government officials; an architect; fire officials;
and insurers, among others — must be appointed by
Sept. 30 and adopt a minimum building code by July
1, 2025. The law requires the code to be reviewed
every three years.
# ⚓ Stage Media Company Limited ☛ Rushdie_awarded_Freedom_to
Publish_award_at_Nibbies⠀⇛
Supported by the anti-censorship organisation Index
on Censorship, the award was presented to Rushdie
by author Monica Ali at the British Book Awards
held at Grosvenor House on Monday evening (15th
May). In a video acceptance, Rushdie said: “We live
in a moment, I think, at which freedom of
expression, freedom to publish has not in my
lifetime been under such threat in the countries of
the West.
“Obviously, there are parts of the world where
censorship has been prevalent for a long-time,
quite a lot of the world – Russia, China, in some
ways India as well. But in the countries of the
West, until recently, there was a fair measure of
freedom in the area of publishing. Now I am sitting
here in the US, I have to look at the extraordinary
attack on libraries, and books for children in
schools. The attack on the idea of libraries
themselves. It is quite remarkably alarming, and we
need to be very aware of it, and to fight against
it very hard.”
# ⚓ Slate ☛ Elon_Musk_Didn’t_Just_Do_Turkey’s_Bidding.
Censoring_for_Strongmen_Is_Now_a_Pattern.⠀⇛
But the timing upped the stakes here. The
restrictions occurred on the eve of a highly
anticipated national election, one in which
incumbent Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erodgan
faced his strongest presidential challenge in two
decades. Even more on the nose, Erdogan’s newfound
electoral weakness this cycle stemmed in no small
part from his disastrous response to the crippling
February earthquakes that leveled much of Syria and
Turkey while killing more than 50,000 Turks; in the
immediate aftermath, one of Erdogan’s first
responses was to entirely restrict Turkish
citizens’ Twitter access, as the platform was
inundated with criticism of the president that one
would never find on Turkey’s state-sanctioned
media.
# ⚓ Business Insider ☛ ‘Free_speech_opportunist’_Elon_Musk
caved_to_government_pressure_to_censor_tweets_ahead_of_the
Turkish_election._Critics_argue_SpaceX_dealings_with_the
country’s_right-wing_leader_may_have_caused_the_reversal.⠀⇛
Elon Musk’s reputation as a free speech absolutist
took another hit on Saturday after Twitter sided
with the Turkish government and censored the
accounts of political opponents ahead of a
contentious election.
In an announcement posted Friday evening, at
approximately 6 a.m. in the country, Twitter’s
official Global Government Affairs account declared
the platform would “restrict access to some content
in Turkey” in response to legal requests made of
the social media site.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘I’m_not_a_numerologist,_but…’_Bishop_Tikhon
Shevkunov,_reputed_to_be_Putin’s_personal_confessor,_presents
a_confused_jumble_of_geopolitical_ideas_—_Meduza⠀⇛
In a new interview with the Russian journalist
Ksenia Sobchak, Orthodox Christian bishop Tikhon
Shevkunov (reputed to be Vladimir Putin’s personal
confessor and “spiritual guide”) shared a series of
dubious and ill-founded opinions about Russia’s
special place in the world, the West’s imminent
clash with China, Ukraine’s doomed statehood, and
other ideas barely compatible with rationality and
informed governance. Paying tribute to Ksenia
Sobchak’s father, the former St. Petersburg mayor
Anatoly Sobchak, Shevkunov invoked Anatoly
Sobchak’s prejudices against Ukraine, voiced back
in 1994. Meduza has condensed Shevkunov’s remarks,
keeping them in the first person and staying close
to his tone and rhetoric. Here’s our summary of the
opinions shared by the man entrusted with Vladimir
Putin’s spiritual well-being.
# ⚓ CNBC ☛ Vice_Media_files_for_bankruptcy_to_enable_sale_to
lenders_including_Soros_and_Fortress⠀⇛
A consortium of Vice’s lenders which includes
Fortress Investment, Soros Fund Management and
Monroe Capital is looking to acquire the company
following the filing.
# ⚓ NPR ☛ Vice_Media,_once_worth_$5.7_billion,_files_for
bankruptcy⠀⇛
A group of Vice lenders is set to purchase the
embattled company’s assets for $225 million and
take on significant liabilities, listed at $500
million to $1 billion, according to the filing in a
New York federal court. That group, which includes
Fortress Investment Group and Soros Fund
Management, lent it $20 million to keep it afloat
during the sale process, during which other lenders
can make higher bids.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ “Hi_Babe”_Case:_Commbank_boss_Matt
Comyn_revealed_in_payments_to_ASIC_star_witness⠀⇛
Commbank CEO Matt Comyn and two high-profile
journalists have been dragged into ASIC’s case
against bank victim advocate Geoff Shannon – along
with NAB. Lisa-Jane Roberts reports startling
revelations from a Southport court about dealings
between big banks, the corporate regulators and the
media.
The case of Crown v Shannon resumed yesterday after
a 6-month adjournment was ordered to give the
defence time to sift through approximately 16,000
documents that the corporate regulator ASIC, the
complainant, had failed to disclose when the trial
began last November.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-04-27_[Older]_Stop_Hiring_and_Re-
Hiring_Terrible_Officers⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Beware:_Ron_DeSantis’_Attack_on_Voting
Rights_Won’t_Stay_in_Florida⠀⇛
In an increasingly unsafe and, frankly, unhinged
America, one of the things that keeps me up at
night is the question of whether Governor Ron
DeSantis’s far-right Florida will ultimately serve
as a model for a national Republican Party in
charge of the entire federal government.
(Legislative and executive branches aside, of
course no political party is technically supposed
to control the ostensibly nonpartisan judicial
branch. But we all know how that’s going.)
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Title_42_Was_Inhumane_and_Illegal._So_Are
Biden’s_New_Border_Policies.⠀⇛
Biden’s decision to utilize and repackage rather
than reject Trump’s amped-up deportation apparatus
is no surprise.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Colorado’s_Top_Court_Seems_Reluctant_To_Give
Judicial_Blessing_To_‘Reverse’_Keyword_Search_Warrants⠀⇛
Having figured out the internet is a great place to
find things, cops are increasingly relying on
warrants that target tech companies in hopes of
finding suspects, rather than finding suspects
first and working forward from there.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Court_Suppresses_Breathalyzer_Results_In_27,000
DUI_Cases_After_Years_Of_Being_Jerked_Around_By_The_State
Crime_Lab⠀⇛
For more than a decade, the Massachusetts State
Police crime lab hid information from judges,
prosecutors, and criminal defendants. This is
nothing unusual for this state and its crime labs.
The words “Massachusetts,” “crime lab,” and
“scandal” have gone hand-in-hand for years.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ One_Big_Union⠀⇛
In Butte, Mont., masked men woke up radical labor
organizer Frank Little, dragged him from their car,
and then hanged his lifeless body from a railroad
bridge. In Bisbee, Ariz., the county sheriff
organized a gun-wielding posse that packed more
than 1,000 striking miners into boxcars and sent
them nearly 200 miles into the New Mexico desert
without food or water. In the state of Washington,
a local jury convicted several working men of
murder after they defended their union hall from an
armed raid by American Legionnaires, four of whom
were killed in the fracas. In Chicago, a federal
court found all 101 national leaders of that same
union guilty of conspiring to violate the Espionage
Act, passed to criminalize opposition to World War
I. The trial judge sentenced most of them to
lengthy terms in prison, where abuse against anti-
war dissenters was common.1
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Podcast_Episode:_People_With_Disabilities_Are_The
Original_Hackers⠀⇛
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ President_Novák_talks_with_protesting
students_and_teachers_face_to_face⠀⇛
The protesters invited President Novák to the
demonstration planned for 19 May and asked her not
to sign the status law, but the President said she
could not promise that. After about ten minutes of
debate, Novák went to the Presidential Palace, and
the queuing teachers and students eventually went
inside as well . There, they displayed a banner on
the terrace of the palace quoting a blog post
written by Katalin Novák in 2010, when she and her
family were living in Germany because of her
husband’s job:
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Sharp_increase_observed_in_number_of
foreign_workers_in_Hungary⠀⇛
By 2030, the Hungarian government intends to
increase the number of those employed by half a
million, and although it plans to do this mainly
from domestic sources, statistics show that
companies are increasingly relying on guest workers
borrowed from abroad instead of Hungarian
labourers, Népszava reports.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Digital_Rights_Updates_with_EFFector_35.6⠀⇛
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ Learn_How_to_Speak_About_Broadband,
Say_State_Directors_and_Advocates_at_Connect_(X)⠀⇛
Knowing how to speak about broadband with
communities that we work in is an essential piece
of the puzzle that can serve to complicate the
process if not handled well, said Scott Woods, vice
president of community engagement and strategic
partnership at Ready.net.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Computer World ☛ EU_Commission_OKs_Microsoft’s_$69B
acquisition_of_Activision_Blizzard⠀⇛
While the Commission said it was reassured that the
commitments offered by Microsoft “fully address the
competition concerns identified by the Commission,”
the approval is conditional on full compliance with
the commitments. An independent trustee under
supervision of the Commission will be in charge of
monitoring their implementation.
[...]
To remedy this, Microsoft has offered comprehensive
licensing commitments over a 10-year duration that
would require the company to license popular
Activision Blizzard games automatically to
competing cloud gaming services.
# ⚓ Vox ☛ Microsoft’s_big_video_game_merger_just_got_an_extra
life⠀⇛
The decision shows that, though the three countries
or regions have expressed similar views about the
need to rein in Big Tech’s power, they aren’t in
lockstep. Microsoft may have a green light to close
the deal in the EU, but it can’t actually do it
without getting the same from the UK and the US.
The matter is currently winding its way through the
court system in the US and the UK’s decision is
being appealed. While Microsoft and Activision
Blizzard are both major players in the gaming
industry and shouldn’t have much trouble carrying
on separately, not being able to merge does hurt
their ambitions to get even bigger.
When the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority
(CMA) rejected the Microsoft acquisition, it was
because it believed it would make Microsoft too
powerful in the nascent cloud gaming market, as
Microsoft has the Xbox Cloud Gaming and PC Game
Pass offerings, as well as the Azure cloud
computing platform. The CMA cited fears that
Microsoft would have to increase the price of its
Game Pass subscriptions to account for the tens of
billions of dollars it spent to acquire Activision,
that it would make Activision’s titles exclusive to
its own services, and that the games were not open
to computers that didn’t have Windows operating
systems.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ What’s_next_for_the_Microsoft-Activision_deal
after_receiving_EU_approval?⠀⇛
Specifically, the regulators require Microsoft to
automatically grant a license for Activision
Blizzard games to any competing cloud-based gaming
service, effectively giving consumers the right to
stream any game they had already purchased on any
device and using any type of operating system.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ European_Commission_approves_Microsoft
acquisition_of_Activision_Blizzard⠀⇛
Despite opposition from the UK CMA, and the ongoing
legal battle in the USA, the acquisition of
Activision Blizzard takes a step forward as the
European Commission has approved it now.
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Excl:_Counsel_hopeful_of_EPO_quality_deal_despite
latest_stalemate⠀⇛
The EPO met again with in-house counsel who
are concerned that patent quality standards
are slipping in favour of speedy grants
# ⚓ Biglaw_Associates_Are_Growing_Increasingly_Worried
About_Layoffs⠀⇛
You always wake up feeling ‘I could be could
be next.’ It’s not at the kind of panic level
right now, but a slow broil, where you feel,
especially if you’re having a less busy work
day, ‘what if we’re next,’ and ‘what if this
quietness means that I’m useless and not
contributing enough to the firm and I’m
actually just dead weight that the firm needs
to get rid of.’ That kind of thinking works
its way into your bones.”
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Small_Cafe_Changes_Its_Name_Due_To_Having
Spanish_Word_For_‘Coffee’_In_Its_Name⠀⇛
There are lots of reasons why trademark
disputes get really stupid, really fast. The
mother of all those reasons is, of course,
the USPTO’s inability to cast a critical eye
towards the applications its receives. Far
too many trademarks are granted for words and
terms that are not unique source-identifiers
of goods and services. But one other, and I
think related, common cause of stupid
trademark disputes is when foreign languages
get involved. What is an obviously generic or
descriptive term in English suddenly confuses
the examiners as the Trademark Office the
moment those words are in another language.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Lcamtuf ☛ Large_language_models_and_plagiarism⠀⇛
My goal here isn’t to downplay the utility of
LLMs; I think they are powerful tools that
will reshape the way we interact with
computers and perform a variety of tasks. But
I think we don’t grasp the vastness of the
internet and don’t realize how often LLMs can
rely on simply copying other people’s work,
with some made-up padding and style transfer
tricks thrown in here and there.
As a content creator, I’m not excited about
this. I opted my website out from ChatGPT,
which is why the chatbot can’t tell you much
about vintage propaganda comics or about
casting polyurethane resins into CNC-machined
molds. But Google doesn’t extend the same
courtesy to me: if I want to stay on the open
[Internet], I gotta “consent” to Bard.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Copyright_Abuses_Preview_A_World_Without
Section_230⠀⇛
Recently artist and actor David Choe made
headlines by citing alleged copyright
violations to scrub the internet —
including journalists’ social media
accounts — of clips from a 2014 podcast where
he seemingly admitted raping a masseuse. He
later claimed that he made up the story for
shock value and said it should be taken as
performance art.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Major_YouTube_Copyright_Lawsuit_Nears
Trial_With_Almost_Everything_On_the_Line⠀⇛
Maria Schneider’s lawsuit against YouTube
alleges several types of mass copyright
infringement and repeat infringer failures.
The trial begins next month, with proposed
jury instructions already running to 243
pages. YouTube believes it will win, but the
stakes are rarely this high. In addition to
damages, the plaintiffs want YouTube to
disclose details of files that remain on the
site after identical copies were removed due
to DMCA notices. And that’s not all.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Copyright_Alliance_Backs_RIAA_in_Key
YouTube_Ripper_Lawsuit⠀⇛
The Copyright Alliance has filed an amicus
curiae brief backing the RIAA in its legal
battle with stream-ripping site Yout.com. The
non-profit group, which represents
rightsholders in key legal and policy issues,
claims that numerous business models will be
devastated if YouTube ripping is declared
legal.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Going_In_Circles⠀⇛
This might be the start of a company logo from the
1980s or so? (A totally unscientific skim of BYTE
magazine vol. 8, no. 8 shows various instances of
horizontal lines in e.g. the IBM logo, BASF floppy
drive artwork, and a few other places.)
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Politics
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_HIYORSL_Wordo:_BOOKY⠀⇛
# ⚓ Poem_Instead_of_a_Post⠀⇛
Years ago my mother told me that she still felt the
same as she did when she was younger, but when she
looked in the mirror she didn’t recognize the woman
looking back at her. I’m feeling some of that these
days: aging well (I tell myself), but still aging,
wondering how I can in some respects feel so close
to who I’ve been throughout my life, but also feel
so far away from it.
# ⚓ Lantashi’s_Dance_–_Huyrlikan⠀⇛
I am continuing my writing adventure. I have a
secret project that only my close friends and
family know about, that I hope to publish this year
or next. I’ve made really good progress on that.
But I am also continuing with my light-hearted
stories, such as the one about me, Lantashi (the
Dungens & Dragons character who also happens to
post on Gemini!). I hope to keep publishing those
here, on Lantashi’s Capsule.
# ⚓ Ruminations_on_self⠀⇛
It’s really hard being perpetually watched by
someone that’ll guilt you when they think you’re
fucking up with respect to their interests in your
doing things for them.
Oh, the madness of performing for self-interested
audience!
# ⚓ Bulldogs_Can’t_Swim⠀⇛
Years ago I had a giant Argentinian bulldog. I
would never own a bulldog, and the idea of ‘owning’
animals generally irks me, but that’s what
happened. Our neihgbor kept putting a bulldog puppy
into our kid’s arms, and after a while everyone
wanted to keep it. And so we wound up with a
bulldog.
We also had another dog, a fast mutt obviously
built for racing, and the bulldog grew up
alongside, thinking she had to run fast. And she
did — she didn’t have much stamina, but she could
sprint! She was a bowling ball, knocking everything
and everyone who stood in her way, to the delight
of children.
# ⚓ Christina’s_5_questions⠀⇛
We spend almost a third of our lives comatose,
hallucinating, mostly amnestic, automatically
washing our brains, doing routine maintenance
with elevated core temperature. You can wake
us. If we go too long without sleep we get
paranoid, hallucinate, forget stuff, get sick,
intentionally kill ourselves, or accidentally
crash our means of conveyance.
# ⚓ Football_Club_Barcelona_wins_La_Liga_2023⠀⇛
And just like that, with a few games to spare, FCB
won their 27th La Liga Title. Crazy! It was a
really good domestic season for them and one that
was hard thought. Xavi has been at the club for 1.5
Seasons and has improved the team’s defense
dramatically. FCB has always been a club with a
style that is more focused on attacking, rather
than defending. However, after Neymar and Suarez
left the club, the attack has been lackluster, and
I guess one way to help with attacking is to make
sure you don’t let any goals through.
Idealistically, the club are not playing “Barcelona
Football” anymore, Tiki Taka is gone, teams know
how to defend against it. This is the difficult
part for Xavi; trying to maintain that Barcelona
style, but yet still winning all the trophies.
# ⚓ Hey_bartender,_a_water_please._Cold.⠀⇛
I want to be the guy that made it by doing what he
loves. IT is burning me out. I don’t want to stare
at a computer all day long. But nothing else pays
so well right now. And with my family it is hard to
‘jump into’ something else.
# ⚓ Mary_Magdalene⠀⇛
Here’s a short story for you all. I did post it
when I first arrived here at The Midnight Pub a
couple of weeks ago, but I deleted it, because I
got the feeling that some of you didn’t get it,
misunderstood it, or even got offended by it. That
wasn’t my intention, it’s just a story, a beautiful
one in my (perhaps a bit screwed up) mind, not
because of how it’s written (I wouldn’t dare have
such an inflated opinion of myself), but because of
what it’s all about. It’s my take on the story of
Jesus and Mary Magdalene. A struggling carpenter’s
son who found his true calling in life, a rich and
well-situated man’s daughter who didn’t wanna get
married to someone twice her age, someone she
didn’t really know, didn’t love. A holy epitaph of
sorts, a love story and an hommage to Harry Dean
Stanton, the actor, singer and renaissance man, who
I really admired for his candor, his singing and
his straight-forward acting. I wrote the story a
few weeks after his death in September 2017. I’ve
put some autobiographical elements in it, but
mainly, it’s just a made-up fairy tale to be amused
by, or, of course, to be fucking outraged by, if
that’s the reader’s inclination. It is what it is.
A bit harsh, explicitly outspoken (x-rated), here
and there, I know, but with this said, I truly
believe that you beautiful people can see through
all that and find your way into the heart of Mary –
the character, the symbol, the woman who did what
she needed to do to be able to follow her heart –
to believe in herself, in the man she loved
(platonically or otherwise), in something greater
than herself, in truth, in forgiveness, in
compassion, in humanity!
o § Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ The_owner_class⠀⇛
I sometimes mention the owner class on here and I
just wanna be super specific that it’s not a
specific smokey-room secret society group of
people, nor a specific ethnicity.
[...]
This means that 13% of the people have 87% of the
stuff. (Pareto wasn’t too far off.)
And then among the 87% remaining people, it’s once
again true that 13% of the people have 87% of the
stuff, and so on—the owner class is you and me, at
one point, compared to the global poor.
# ⚓ Brownshirts_vs_climate⠀⇛
The throughline of fascism that’s been most
resilient through modern day is the idea of class
struggle being replaced by “workers should comply
with owners against a common enemy”, and then that
enemy is pretty replacable with the scare of the
day.
Pit-in-the-stomach feeling reading the news today
as the brownshirts in Sweden are gearing up to
delay climate solutions even harder, through
outright denial. This is a horror show since the
other parties are already bad and insufficient at
climate stuff. We definitiviely can’t afford to add
a big old stinking Overton magnet in the opposite
direction.
# ⚓ How_the_failures_of_psychiatrists_contribute_to_people
self-diagnosing_with_adhd⠀⇛
Over the years i’ve heard and read many negative
experiences of psychiatrists. Most of the people
relating these experiences are women and/or afab;
most of the psychiatrists involved are cis men.
Common themes are arrogance, condescension and
dismissiveness – not particularly surprising, given
the presence of not only gender dynamics, but also
things like class privilege on the part of the
psychiatrists involved. The stories range from
“that wasn’t so great” through to “I was actively
psychologically damaged or traumatised”.
Although, in theory, one can lodge complaints about
these things with various professional and
government bodies, it’s unlikely to be a trivial
process in practice. In fact, it’s likely to
require a substantial amount of resources, both
psychological and financial – and many clients of
psychiatrists simply don’t have these resources.
Worse, there can even be limitations on sharing
information via informal channels: here in
Australia, private Facebook groups can be held
liable for defamation if people in that private
group say “I had this negative experience with this
particular psychiatrist”
# ⚓ Autism,_the_mental_health_professions,_gaslighting,_and
trauma⠀⇛
i recently mentioned that the mental health
professions have gaslit and traumatised us
autistics. Someone quite reasonably asked “In what
way?” My reply got long, so i’ve decided to instead
put it up as a post. tl;dr: If you’re at all
concerned about the mental health professions’
historical and current attitudes towards us queers,
you should definitely be concerned about their
historical and current attitudes towards autistics.
# ⚓ Populism⠀⇛
It’s weird how the shift from workers vs owners to
pluralists vs populists has been presented as this
new phenomenon by commentators like Norris and
Inglehart, the latter arguing that it’s because of
how the new generation has new values.
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ “the_only_way_to_win,_is_not_to_play”⠀⇛
I haven’t. I have nothing against AI, but I will
not be delving into it with reckless abandon (or at
all) like I did w/ the WWW in the mid-90s. A lot of
headache (for me, my life) could have been head off
if I had not gone down The Rabbithole.
The Web is great. It’s also so elementary in
“concept” (or was, now it’s a reality) that it’s
hard to imagine civilization became so enamored
with it.
A server talks to another server. The messages can
be, and are, fast. Fairly quicker than the postal
service, and back and forth continuously should one
choose.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Self_Referential_Post⠀⇛
It refers to itself in three different ways:
First it describes itself in sufficient
detail that a casual observer could identify
whether any post is equivalent to my post;
although of course they could not be certain
that it’s the same instance or even whether
it’s identical to my post.
# ⚓ Are_we_rebuilding_the_centralized_web,_minus
tracking?⠀⇛
It has been some time since my last gemlog
entry (or blog post for that matter)… Mainly
because real life and work has been crazier
than usual… I’ve managed to stay more or less
up to date with content I wanted to read, but
not with my writings… But when free time is
more limited than usual, priorities and
choices must be made ^^.
/!\: This post contains what I believe will
be a *very* unpopular opinion about bubble
and how gemini is getting more centralized
and dependant on a small number of users /
services, if you disagree and might get
angry, ignoring this post may be the best :).
I don’t expect response to this post, so
don’t force yourself either. /!\
# ⚓ Bubble_and_Geminispace.org_–_Worry_About
Centralization⠀⇛
If I were to choose a core mission for the
project, it would be to enhance social
interactions inside the Gemini community. I
think something fundamental was lost after
the Gemini mailing list shut down. While
aggregated gemlogs are a sort of a
communication medium, the level of friction
is very high and there are quite high
technical barriers to participation. (The
Usenet group is good to have around, but
let’s face it: in the year 2023, Usenet is a
relic.) I would be very happy if Bubble and,
for now, Geminispace.org, can bring a sense
of cohesion and connectedness to the
community in a way that is “native” to the
Gemini protocol.
# ⚓ Re:_Bubble_and_Geminispace.org_–_Worry_About
Centralization⠀⇛
I do kinda agree with @bacardi55 that
centralization is dangerous because it
decreases resilience, even when the central
power is as benevolent and kind as @skyjake
haha.
While it’s not currently having any negative
effects, just the basic surface way in which
browsing geminispace.org using Lagrange is
analogous to using google.com on the chrome
browser makes me a little uneasy.
# ⚓ Station’s_thoughts_on_gemini_and_centralization?⠀⇛
# ⚓ feeds_are_a_dark_pattern⠀⇛
I’m glad to see the current wave of non-
corporate social media. I’m also disappointed
to see how most of them copy the worst
feature of corporate ones – the feed.
I know this might sound weird, especially if
you haven’t tried out anything else – but
bear with me.
One of the issues with feeds is how they
(don’t) handle the conflict between frequent
vs. rare posters. Their posts are all mixed
together. The only way to ensure that you’ve
seen the posts from the latter is to try to
scroll down as much as possible each time –
which gets addictive. The alternative is to
just take short peeks of the feed – seeing
posts only from a small minority of the
people you follow.
# ⚓ smolZINE_–_Issue_38⠀⇛
We’re back! You’ve all been busy doing some
pretty rad things around geminspace and
that’s great to see. As always, if you are
enjoying smolZINE and have any desire to
contribute, please check out the Community
Contributions section at the bottom and get
in touch. HINT: The more contributions I get
the more often I will publish new issues ;-).
# ⚓ Slightly_around_the_Gemini_horn⠀⇛
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Programming/Development
# Python
# Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh
# Java
* Leftovers
o Education
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
# Confidentiality
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Patents
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 6_Ways_You_Can_Help_Make_Linux_Better⠀⇛
While Linux is a great OS, some pitfalls can make it less
easy to use than Windows or macOS. Since Linux distros
are community-driven projects, if you want them to be
better, it’ll be up to you to contribute.
Here are some ways you can contribute to improving the
Linux ecosystem.
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ 7_of_the_Best_Linux_Server_Distros_in
2023⠀⇛
The majority of the web servers around the world
are running Linux. If you are a web administrator,
choosing a suitable Linux server distribution is
very important, as it can make your work much
easier. This guide shows seven of the best server-
focused Linux distributions that you can install
for free.
# ⚓ Trail Of Bits ☛ Introducing_Windows_Notification_Facility’s
(WNF)_Code_Integrity⠀⇛
By Yarden Shafir, Senior Security Engineer WNF
(Windows Notification Facility) is an undocumented
notification mechanism that allows communication
inside processes, between processes, or between
user mode processes and kernel drivers.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Late_Night_Linux_–_Episode_229⠀⇛
Thunderbird shows that asking users for money
works, Red Hat’s priorities seem to be moving away
from the community, Mozilla is set to show the
Fediverse how it’s done, Mastodon simplifies its
onboarding experience, Linux is better than Windows
on handhelds…
# ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ “Internet_bots,_Fedora_layoffs,_&_C64
Games”_–_Lunduke’s_Big_Tech_Show_–_May_15th,_2023⠀⇛
Listen now (53 min) | (All future episodes on
Lunduke.Locals.com)
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Reminders:_A_Nifty_Open-Source_Linux_App_To
Help_You_Get_Things_Done⠀⇛
Are you often forgetting things? Want a little help
remembering your tasks?
While you can always use note-taking apps for
Linux, they may not effectively remind you of tasks
and things.
The ‘Reminders’ app can be your little helper,
reminding you of your pending work.
Let’s see what it can do for you.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_deploy_JBoss_EAP_on_an_Azure_virtual
machine [Ed: Red Hat boosting Microsoft again and it's
proprietary software with back doors]⠀⇛
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Plex_Media_Server_on_Linux_Mint
21⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Plex Media Server on Linux Mint 21. Are you tired
of managing your media files across multiple
devices? Do you want a seamless media streaming
experience that can be accessed from anywhere? Look
no further than Plex Media Server.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Use_the_Recursive_Grep_Command_to
Search_in_the_Directory⠀⇛
Practical guide on how to use the recursive “grep”
command to search the content in a directory of
multiple files using different types of options and
patterns.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Check_If_the_File_Exists_in_Bash⠀⇛
The method of checking if a regular file exists in
Bash or not in the current or particular location
using the file test operators with the “test”
command.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Bc_Command_in_Bash_Scripts⠀⇛
Tutorial on the various uses of the “bc” command in
Bash scripts to generate the fractional value of
any mathematical calculation with the precision
value.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ .Bash_Profile_File_in_Bash⠀⇛
Tutorial on the “.bash_profile” file in Bash to set
the environment variable or define any script to
perform the automated tasks at the startup of the
system.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Customizing_your_Pop!_OS_system_with_themes_and
icons⠀⇛
Pop!_OS, a Linux distribution developed by
System76, offers a clean and modern desktop
experience. While its default look is impressive,
you might want to customize it further to suit your
personal taste. One of the best ways to personalize
your desktop is by changing its themes and icons.
Whether you prefer a minimalist look or a vibrant
style, there’s a theme and an icon pack out there
for you.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ Docker_CE_on_Alma_Linux_9:_A_Quick_and_Easy
Installation_Guide⠀⇛
Docker is an OpenSource software that provides OS-
level virtualization for developing, shipping, and
running applications. In this guide, you will learn
how to install Docker CE (Community Edition) on
Alma Linux 9.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ 3_Different_Ways_to_Install_Node.js_on
AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛
Node.js is a cross-platform java-script runtime for
server-side programing language. It’s built on top
of Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine, which allows you
to execute JavaScript code on the server side. This
tutorial will show you how to install Node.js on
AlmaLinux 9.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives_to_popular_CLI_tools:_df⠀⇛
This article spotlights alternative tools to df, a
utility that reports file system space usage in
Linux and other UNIX operating systems.
# ⚓ IT Pro Today ☛ How_To_Copy_Directories_in_Linux⠀⇛
Need to copy a directory from one Linux system to
another? This guide will show you how, with tips
and tricks for getting the job done quickly and
efficiently.
# ⚓ Linux Host Support ☛ How_to_Install_and_Configure
Elasticsearch_on_AlmaLinux⠀⇛
Elasticsearch is an open-source search engine built
on the Apache Lucene library. Elasticsearch was
initially released in 2010 and has become the most
popular search engine application ever since.
People use Elasticsearch for log analytics, full-
text search, operational use cases, etc. Magento,
as a well-known e-commerce application also uses
Elasticsearch as its search engine.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_KubeSphere_on_Alma_Linux_9⠀⇛
Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to
install KubeSphere on Alma Linux 9. Let’s go for
it. According to the tool’s website: KubeSphere is
a distributed operating system managing cloud-
native applications with Kubernetes as its kernel.
It provides a plug-and-play architecture for the
seamless integration of third-party applications to
boost its ecosystem.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_Install_Docker_on_Fedora⠀⇛
Although we have touched on the topic of Docker on
the site, we have not done it for Fedora. So, in
this post, you will learn how to install Docker on
Fedora. This post works for both Fedora 38 and
Fedora 37.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_To_Set_Up_a_Private_Docker_Registry_on
Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
If you are working for an organization and want to
keep your Docker images in-house for quick
deployment, then hosting a private Docker
repository is perfect. This tutorial will teach you
how to set up and use a private Docker registry on
a Ubuntu 22.04 server using Amazon S3 as a storage
location.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Apache_Maven_on_Ubuntu_22.04
|_20.04⠀⇛
Apache Maven is a powerful build automation tool
primarily used for Java projects. However, its
versatility extends beyond Java, as it can also be
used to build and manage projects written in C#,
Ruby, Scala, and other languages. Hosted by the
Apache Software Foundation, Maven was formerly part
of the Jakarta Project.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Electron_Framework_on_Ubuntu
22.04_|_20.04⠀⇛
Electron, formerly known as Atom Shell, is a free
and open-source software framework that’s been
making waves in the world of desktop application
development.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Repair_Corrupted_MySQL_Tables⠀⇛
Navigating the task of repairing corrupted tables
in MySQL can indeed be challenging. But it can be
made significantly easier with the right techniques
and thorough understanding. Our extended guide
provides the requisite knowledge to mend corrupted
MySQL tables and introduces a few extra strategies
to ensure optimal database performance.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_KiCad_on_Linux_Mint_21/20⠀⇛
KiCad is a powerful, open-source software suite
designed for electronic design automation (EDA).
The software allows users to design and create
schematics for electronic circuits, and layout
printed circuit boards (PCBs).
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Bodhi_Linux_7.0_Beta_is_Now_Available_for
Testing⠀⇛
Bodhi Linux, the lightweight and elegant
distribution based on Ubuntu LTS, has released its
latest beta version for testing. The Bodhi Linux
7.0.0 release is designed to improve the user
experience by offering improved performance and
security features and is currently under
development for a few months.
The beta release is a significant step towards the
full release of Bodhi Linux 7.0, and users are
invited to provide feedback and suggestions to
improve the final product through the official
forum.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Rocky_Linux_9.2_Is_Now_Available_for_Download,
Here’s_What’s_New⠀⇛
Rocky Linux, a powerful enterprise-grade Linux
distribution based on the RHEL, has gained
widespread popularity among developers, sysadmins,
and organizations seeking a stable and secure
platform.
Less than a week after the RHEL 9.2 release, Rocky
Linux 9.2 followed suit, offering expanded
capabilities, security updates, and other fixes.
So, the new stable Rocky Linux 9.2 release for
x86_64, aarch64, and s390x architectures, powered
by Linux kernel 5.14, is ready for production and
to power up your computing needs and workloads. So
let’s see what’s new.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Tails_5.13_Enables_LUKS2_by_Default_for
Persistent_Storage_and_Encrypted_Volumes⠀⇛
Tails 5.13 looks like a small release, but it
introduces an important change to better protect
your anonymity and keep your files secure at all
times. Starting with this version, all newly
generated Persistent Storage and LUKS encrypted
volumes will be using version 2 of the Linux
Unified Key Setup (LUKS) disk encryption
specification by default.
As you can imagine, LUKS2 offers stronger
cryptography by default when compared to the first-
generation LUKS specification. Unfortunately, this
release doesn’t enable LUKS2 on existing Persistent
Storage and LUKS encrypted volumes, but the
development team announced plans to provide users a
migration plan from LUKS1 to LUKS2 in the next
release, Tails 5.14, due out in June 2023.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Makes_‘Significant_Changes’_to_PPAs_for
23.10⠀⇛
A new version of the software-properties package is
rolling out to Mantic Minotaur daily builds. The
update makes brings a “significant change” to the
way personal package archives (better known as
PPAs) are managed on Ubuntu systems.
What’s changing?
Well, in current versions of Ubuntu when you add a
PPA (via the command line — you can add them via
Software & Updates but I’m not sure how key
handling works there) a .list file for the PPA is
created in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, and the
corresponding gpg keyring placed at /etc/apt/
trusted.gpg.d.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Beginner’s_Guide_to_System_Updates_in_Linux
Mint⠀⇛
Keeping your system updated is essential for any
operating system. Linux Mint is no different.
Linux Mint has a robust update system. It provides
timely security patches for the kernel and other
software packages. That’s not it. You also get
updates on the applications you installed using the
Software Manager tool.
Basically, apart from security patches, your system
receives new features, bug fixes, improved hardware
support, performance enhancement, and a lot more.
While the Updater tool is straightforward, it may
still seem overwhelming if you are new to Linux
Mint.
This is why we at It’s FOSS came up with this
beginner’s guide idea. It will give you some ideas
about using this tool and the best practices you
should follow.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Arduino-Powered_Instrument_Uses_Breath_to
Play_MIDI_Notes⠀⇛
Xavier Dumont is using an Arduino Micro to drive
this MIDI instrument that requires the player to
blow to make noise.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ An_open-source,_breath-controlled_MIDI_device⠀⇛
The simplest MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital
Interface) input devices use good ol’ fashioned
buttons: push a button and the device sends a MIDI
message to trigger a specific note. But that
control scheme doesn’t replicate the flexibility of
a real instrument very well, because a standard
button is a binary mechanism.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_13_QPR3_Beta_3.2_rolling_out_with
Pixel_bug_fixes⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android_13_QPR3_Beta_3.2_Update_Arrives_to_Fix_More_Bugs⠀⇛
# ⚓ Tom’s Guide ☛ One_of_Google_TV’s_best_features_is_rolling
out_to_Android_TV_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android_TV_Gets_That_Sweet_Live_TV_Tab_Goodness⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_TV_now_has_free_live_channels_too⠀⇛
# ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ Don’t_buy_the_Pixel_Tablet;_get_this
cheaper_Android_tablet_instead_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hot Hardware ☛ Google_Explains_Sudden_Battery_Drain_Issue
On_Android_Devices_And_Issues_A_Fix_|_HotHardware⠀⇛
# ⚓ Computer World ☛ Google_I/O_and_the_curious_case_of_the
missing_Android_version_|_Computerworld⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Sourceware,_one_of_the_longest_standing_Free_Software_hosting
platforms,_joins_SFC⠀⇛
A news_item from Software Freedom Conservancy.
Important Free Software infrastructure project finds non-
profit home
As a home for Free Software projects since 1998,
Sourceware is a on the Sourceware_projects page.
Becoming an SFC member project will improve future
operations carried out by dedicated volunteers to and
furthering the mission of Free Software hosting. This
will accelerate the Sourceware technical_roadmap to
improve and modernize the infrastructure.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ David_Humphrey:_Thinking_about_Context⠀⇛
I’ve written_recently about my_work on
ChatCraft.org. I’ve been doing a bunch of
refactoring and new feature work, and things
are in a pretty good state. It mostly works
the way I’d expect now. Taras_and_Steven
have_filed_a_bunch_of_good_ideas related to
sharing, saving, and forking chats, and I’ve
been exploring using SQLite_Wasm for offline
storage. But over the weekend I was thinking
about something else. Not a feature exactly,
but a way of thinking about the linear flow
of a chat. The more I’ve worked with
ChatCraft, the more I’ve learned about this
form of dialog. Because a number of separate
features flow from this, I thought I’d start
by sketching things out in my blog instead of
git.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Hello_World_Program_in_C++_Language⠀⇛
How to create a “Hello world” program in the C++
language by creating a C++ file to write a program,
create a main() function, compile it, and run the
code.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Float_to_String⠀⇛
To convert a Python float to the specified
string the “str()” function, “f-string”
method, and “repr()” function are used in
Python.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Print_Exception_Message⠀⇛
The “print()” function, the “logging” module,
or the “traceback” module are used along with
the “try-except” block to print exception
messages in Python.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Math_Range_Error⠀⇛
The math range error occurs when a
mathematical calculation returns a result
that exceeds the maximum value that can be
stored in the computer’s memory.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Matplotlib_Colorbar⠀⇛
The “plt.colorbar()” function of “matplotlib”
module in Python is used to add vertical or
horizontal colorbar in a plot to visualize
data with different colors.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Solve_Python_SyntaxError_Can’t
Assign_to_Function_Call⠀⇛
“SyntaxError: Can’t Assign to Function Call ”
can occur due to various reasons like
incorrect use of “=” operator, or using
parentheses instead of brackets.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Remove_Last_Character_from
String⠀⇛
To remove the last character from a string
several methods such as using “List Slicing”,
using “Loops”, using the “rstrip()” function,
etc. are used in Python.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Seaborn_Subplots⠀⇛
To create a “Seaborn” subplot various method
such as using the “plt.subplots()” function
and using the “seaborn.FacetGrid()” function
is used in Python.
# § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Check_the_Number_of_Arguments_in_the
Bash_Script⠀⇛
Checking the uses of the number of arguments
in Bash script for various purposes such as
error handling, providing messages based on
the number of arguments.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Bash_Sleep_Command⠀⇛
How to use the Bash sleep command to stop the
execution of the script for a certain period
or do any scheduled task before executing a
particular script.
# § Java⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Java_Catch_Multiple_Exceptions⠀⇛
Practical guide on catching the multiple
exceptions in Java programming using a try-
catch statement and the usage of the try-
catch blocks in Java programming.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ New_Movements_in_Contemporary_Architecture⠀⇛
TikTok filterism, renovating Frank Gehry buildings to
make them even wigglier, and more.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_We_Lose_When_We_Push_Our_Kids_to
‘Achieve’⠀⇛
The sense of happiness that comes from absorption
in a thing we are truly drawn to can be discovered
but not taught.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ No_Degree?_No_Problem._Biden_Tries_to
Bridge_the_‘Diploma_Divide.’⠀⇛
President Biden is trying to appeal to working-
class voters by emphasizing his plans to create
well-paid jobs that do not require a college
degree.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Between_the_stacks:_A_day_in_the_life_of_a
library⠀⇛
Despite legislators’ threats to defund libraries,
this busy one looks toward the future, with plans
to expand its embrace of the community.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Study:_Fear_of_childbirth_intensified_by
Covid-19_pandemic⠀⇛
According to a new Dartmouth study, the COVID-19
epidemic increased expectant women’s anxiety about
childbirth.
The researchers were especially interested in
determining which factors predict childbirth fear
in the United States and how the pandemic has
altered this fear and birth outcomes. The research
was published in the journals Evolution, Medicine,
and Public Health.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Japan_Is_Unmasking,_and_Its_Smile_Coach_Is
Busy⠀⇛
After three years of Covid-era masking, some
Japanese people feel their facial expressions are a
bit rusty. Enter Keiko Kawano, smile instructor.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Transportation_Department_breach_exposes
data_of_federal_employees⠀⇛
The incident may have affected a total of 237,000
current and former staff across government,
according to Reuters.
# ⚓ NVISO Labs ☛ We’re_celebrating_our_10th_anniversary!⠀⇛
From 5 people to almost 220 people. From working
from our founders’ apartment to five offices in
four countries. From an unknown challenger to being
a reference in multiple fields in cyber security.
As a company, NVISO has come a long way since 2013
and we want to take a moment to celebrate what we
have accomplished together so far.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ TikTok_Whistleblower_Says
Chinese_Communist_Party_Has_Backdoor_Access_to_American
User_Data⠀⇛
A former ByteDance executive fired from the
company has filed a lawsuit alleging the
company has backdoor access to U.S. user data
in China.
# § Confidentiality⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Ex-Telstra_boss,_corporate
leader_to_oversee_PwC_probe⠀⇛
Top business leader Ziggy Switkowski AO has
been installed to look under the hood at
embattled consultancy PwC after it became
mired in a tax scandal. The former Telstra
boss will lead the review after a former PwC
partner was caught sharing confidential
federal government tax policy information to
other partners and staff.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ In_Her_Own_Words:_A_Hiroshima
Bomb_Survivor_Learns_English_to_Tell_Her_Story⠀⇛
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Gaza_ceasefire_largely_holds_as_Palestinians,
Israelis_count_deadly_cost⠀⇛
Calm returned to Gaza Sunday as a fragile ceasefire
largely held, leaving Palestinians and Israelis to
count the cost of five days of cross-border fire
that killed dozens.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_First,_Palestinian_Displacement
Commemorated_at_United_Nations⠀⇛
The event, marking the displacement of hundreds of
thousands of Palestinians when Israel was created,
was condemned by the Israeli ambassador to the
world body.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finnish_Air_Force_training_jet_crashes_in_Central
Finland⠀⇛
Both pilots managed to escape the jet in their
ejection seats before it crashed.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Man_in_custody_after_baseball
bat_attack_hurts_2,_including_intern,_at_congressman’s
Virginia_office⠀⇛
U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia says a man
with a baseball bat walked into his Fairfax office,
asked for him, and assaulted two of his workers.
Fairfax City Police in northern Virginia said in a
tweet that a man is in custody and that the victims
were treated for non life-threatening injuries. The
Virginia Democrat said the man entered his district
office Monday morning and asked for him before
before the attack that injured two women in his
office — an outreach director and an intern working
her first day on the job. He said he knew of no
motive for the attack.
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ President_von_der_Leyen_outlines_EU
priorities_ahead_of_major_summits_in_the_next_week⠀⇛
European Commission News Brussels, 15 May 2023
President von der Leyen underlined the importance
of a united response to the Russian invasion as
well as of the reliable and continued support for
Ukraine.
# ⚓ The_New_Ukraine_with_Stavroula_Pabst⠀⇛
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Wagner_chief’s_rants_highlight_Russian
infighting_ahead_of_Ukraine_offensive⠀⇛
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s public rants
against Russia’s military leadership point to
mounting infighting within Putin’s invading army as
it prepares to face a potentially decisive
Ukrainian offensive, writes Olivia Yanchik.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ France_‘not_getting_the_credit_it_should’_for
Ukraine_support⠀⇛
There was an amicable mood between Volodymyr
Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron as the two leaders met
in Paris on Sunday – a far cry from the diplomatic
storm created by Macron’s warning against
“humiliating” Russia this time last year. Analysts
say France is still much more cautious than the US
and the UK when it comes to arming Ukraine –
although it would be unfair to characterise
Macron’s position as soft.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_UK_promises_attack_drones,_missiles_for
Ukraine_as_Zelensky_visits_Sunak⠀⇛
Britain announced Monday that it would deliver
long-range attack drones and air-defence missiles
to Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelensky
continued his European tour with talks with UK
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The Ukrainian President
has met with leaders in Italy, Germany and France
in recent days, securing a promise from French
President Emmanuel Macron to provide additional
military aid to Ukraine including light tanks,
armoured vehicles and military training.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Wagner_chief_dismisses_report_that_he_offered
Ukraine_Russian_troop_locations⠀⇛
The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group on
Monday slammed reports that alleged he offered
information on Russian troop positions to Ukraine
as “laughable” and a result of a possible smear
campaign.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Farmers_in_Ukraine_risk_their_lives_to_work_the
land_amid_mines⠀⇛
In the regions of Ukraine no longer under Russian
control, the colossal amount of mines and
explosives still in the ground have resulted in the
deaths of at least 185 people, according to the
Ukrainian government. For the second year in a row,
many Ukrainian farmers have not been able to plant
their crops. However, some small-scale farmers
continue to work their contaminated land, risking
their lives in the process. FRANCE 24′s Catherine
Norris Trent, Johan Bodin and Dmytro Kovalchuk
report.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Macron_promises_Zelensky_more_light_tanks_and
armoured_vehicles⠀⇛
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a
surprise visit to Paris for talks Sunday night with
French President Emmanuel Macron, extending a
multi-stop European tour that has elicited fresh
pledges of military support as his country gears up
for a counteroffensive against Russian occupation
forces. The two leaders will discuss Ukraine’s
military and humanitarian needs. Follow our blog to
see how the day’s events unfolded. All times are
Paris time (GMT+1).
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_man_sentenced_for_stealing_Ukraine_aid
money⠀⇛
A Lithuanian court has handed a prison sentence of
two years and three months to a man who stole funds
raised for aid to Ukraine and used the money to buy
a car, prosecutors said on Monday.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ UNESCO_tasks_Lithuania_to_draw_up_Curonian_Spit
protection_plan_without_Russia⠀⇛
Lithuania will draw up a value protection plan for
the Curonian Spit, a UNESCO World Heritage Site,
without Russia. The prior requirement for the two
countries to jointly prepare such a plan for the
entire Baltic Sea peninsula was changed because of
the ongoing war in Ukraine.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Russia’s_disintegration_will_happen_and_it_will_not
be_peaceful_–_interview⠀⇛
Russia’s disintegration started before its invasion
of Ukraine, but the war accelerated the process.
The Kremlin is likely to look for enemies in an
attempt to maintain its crumbling state, which
could lead to provocations against the Baltic
states and Poland, Janusz Bugajski, an expert at
the Jamestown Foundation, says in an interview with
LRT.lt.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Sees_More_Indications_of_‘Burgeoning_Defense
Relationship’_Between_Russia,_Iran⠀⇛
The United States sees more indications that Russia
and Iran are expanding a defense partnership that
will help Moscow prolong its war in Ukraine, the
White House said on May 15.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian_Tycoon_Dmytro_Firtash_Suspected_Of
Embezzlement⠀⇛
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on May
15 that Dmytro Firtash, a powerful tycoon indicted
by the United States for corruption, along with
managers of companies under his control had been
served with “notices of suspicion” of embezzlement.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy_Returns_From_European_Tour_With_Weapons
Pledges,_Hope_For_Fighter_Jet_Coalition⠀⇛
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has
returned to Ukraine from a European tour during
which he collected more pledges for military
backing from allies in Rome, Berlin, Paris, and
London.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Top_Chinese_Envoy_To_Visit_Ukraine,_Russia_On
‘Peace’_Mission⠀⇛
A top Chinese envoy will begin a tour of Ukraine,
Russia, and other European cities on May 15 in a
trip Beijing says is aimed at discussing a
“political settlement” to the Ukraine crisis.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ UK_To_Provide_Combat_Drones_to_Ukraine⠀⇛
As part of its military aid, the UK provided combat
drones and air defense missiles to Ukraine
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Japanese_Rally_Against_G7_Summit_in_Hiroshima⠀⇛
In the upcoming summit, the G7 countries will seek
ways to support President Vodolomyr Zelensky and
escalate the Ukraine conflict.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ European_Leaders_Meet_in_Iceland
to_Reaffirm_Values_as_Ukraine_War_Rages_On⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Ukraine_Authorities_Expose_Piles
of_Cash_in_Supreme_Court_Corruption_Probe⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Russia_Launches_New_Wave_of
Night_Attacks_on_Kyiv⠀⇛
By Gleb Garanchich and Sergiy KarazyKYIV (Reuters)
-Russia launched a fresh wave of air attacks on the
Ukrainian capital early on Tuesday and…
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Macron:_France_Open_to_Training
Ukraine_Fighter_Jet_Pilots⠀⇛
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron
said in an interview with France’s TF1 television
on Monday that France is open to training…
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_European_Tour,_Zelensky_Reaps_Billions
More_in_Promised_Military_Aid⠀⇛
His trips to Britain, Germany, France and Italy
demonstrated the shifting political landscape when
it comes to supporting Kyiv, as concerns grow about
U.S. backing as the presidential election looms.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S.-Made_Technology_Is_Flowing_to_Russian
Airlines,_Despite_Sanctions⠀⇛
Russian customs data shows that millions of dollars
of aircraft parts made by Boeing, Airbus and others
were sent to Russia last year.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukrainians_Write_Angry_Message_to_Russia
on_Bombs⠀⇛
Ukrainians have a lot to say to Russia, and many
have chosen to say it in ink on the sides of
rockets, mortar shells and even exploding drones.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ With_New_Weapons,_Ukraine_Has_Much_of_What
It_Needs_for_Counteroffensive,_Analysts_Say⠀⇛
The additions to Ukraine’s arsenal, which include
more tanks, drones and other weapons from Germany,
may signal that Western officials believe Kyiv’s
forces could reclaim significant swaths of
territory.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Wagner’s_Prigozhin_Disputes_Report_That_He
Offered_to_Betray_Russia⠀⇛
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the founder of the private
military group, dismissed a report from The
Washington Post saying that leaked intelligence
showed he had offered to share Russian Army
positions with Ukraine.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ ISS:_South_Africa’s_dangerous_game_of_Russian
roulette⠀⇛
The bombshell conference by United States (US)
Ambassador Reuben Brigety on 11 May triggered a
diplomatic spat between Washington and Pretoria.
The accusation that South Africa loaded weapons
onto a sanctioned Russian ship in December 2022 is
significant and could fundamentally alter relations
between the two countries.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Orders_Moscow_Arts_Museum_To_Hand_Over
Ancient_Icon_To_Orthodox_Church⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered
Moscow’s state-run Tretyakov Gallery Arts Museum to
hand over the country’s ancient Trinity icon, by
medieval painter Andrei Rublyov, to the Russian
Orthodox Church.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Artist_Sentenced_For_Creating_Giant_Snow
Sculpture_Of_Poop_In_St._Petersburg⠀⇛
Russian artist Ivan Volkov told RFE/RL that he has
been sentenced to five months of “correctional
work” for creating a snow sculpture in January 2022
in the form of a giant feces near the Field of Mars
in the city of St. Petersburg, where those who died
in the 1917 Russian Revolution are buried.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Tajikistan_Extradites_Ossetian_Wife_Of_Islamic
State_Recruiter_To_Russia⠀⇛
Tajikistan has extradited Madina Bandarenko, the
Ossetian wife of a notorious recruiter for the
Islamic State extremist group in Tajikistan, to
Russia along with her four children.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Lawyer_Dismisses_2016_Trump-Russia
Investigation⠀⇛
U.S. special counsel censures the FBI’s handling of
the 2016 Trump-Russia investigation.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Prosecutor_ends_probe_of_FBI’s
Trump-Russia_investigation_with_harsh_criticism,_but_no_new
charges⠀⇛
Prosecutors secured a guilty plea from an FBI
employee but lost the only two criminal cases they
took to trial.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Vanishing_Acts_of_Vladimir_Putin⠀⇛
One of the seeming paradoxes of the Russian
President is the degree to which he is at once a
unitary micromanager and an absent, aloof, and
often indecisive leader.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Report_on_FBI’s_Trump-Russia
Investigation:_Some_Problems_but_Not_the_‘Crime_of_the
Century’⠀⇛
An investigation into the origins of the FBI’s
probe into ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s
2016 presidential campaign has finally been
concluded
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Russia_Denounces_Macron_Over
China_Comments⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ US_Special_Counsel_Faults_FBI’s
Handling_of_2016_Trump-Russia_Probe⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Prosecutor_Ends_Probe_of_FBI’s
Trump-Russia_Investigation_With_Harsh_Criticism,_but_No_New
Charges⠀⇛
A special prosecutor has ended his four-year
investigation into possible FBI misconduct in its
probe of ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s
2016 presidential campaign
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Former_U.S._Embassy_Employee_Is_Being_Held
in_Moscow,_Russian_State_News_Says⠀⇛
The State Department had no immediate comment on
the report that the man, identified as Robert
Shonov, had been arrested and charged with
conspiracy.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Durham_Report_Finds_Fault_With_FBI_Over
Trump-Russia_Investigation⠀⇛
The special counsel’s final report nevertheless did
not produce blockbuster revelations of politically
motivated misconduct, as Donald J. Trump and his
allies had suggested it would.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Special_counsel_Durham_blasts_FBI’s_Trump-Russia
investigation⠀⇛
Special counsel John_Durham concluded in a long-
awaited report released Monday that the FBI’s basis
for launching its explosive investigation into the
2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia was “seriously
flawed.”
Why it matters: In the more than 300-page_report,
Durham leveled withering criticism at investigators
— accusing them of causing “severe reputational
harm” to the FBI.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ “Tell_us_what_was_loaded_on_the_Lady_R”_–
OUTA⠀⇛
The war of words around Lady R and her supposed
South African arms/weapons cargo generated comment
and response from academics, civil society,
politicians and others with probably the most
objective coming from the Organisation Undoing Tax
Abuse (OUTA).
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Staff_Members_Attacked_With_Bat_at_Rep.
Connolly’s_Virginia_Office⠀⇛
Two people were hospitalized after the attack at
the Fairfax office of Representative Gerald E.
Connolly, a Democrat. A man was in custody, the
police said.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Enticing,_not_inciting,_gun_owners⠀⇛
A gun amnesty in Serbia after two mass shootings
helps open a dialogue with gun owners over the
source of safety in society.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Why_RFK’s_Candidacy_Matters_to_the_Conservative
Cause⠀⇛
Self-evidently, there are any number of things
about RFK’s policy platform that we don’t cotton to
very much, and haven’t for decades. Back in the day
we were always on opposite sides with respect to
aggressive environmental regulation.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Bogus_Foreign_Policy_Narratives_Go_Unchallenged⠀⇛
One maddening feature of foreign policy debates in
the United States is how frequently journalists and
policy experts fail to challenge dominant
narratives even when those narratives have glaring
defects. Such malfeasance has facilitated a growing
list of Washington’s policy blunders and outright
debacles.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Cyclone_Mocha_Leaves_Thousands_Homeless_in
Bangladesh_and_Myanmar⠀⇛
There was less damage than predicted, but the
Rohingya refugee camps on the coast of Bangladesh,
where most live in simple shanties, were hit
particularly hard.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Cyclone_Mocha_inflicts_heavy_damage_on_Myanmar’s
Rakhine_state⠀⇛
While casualties were relatively few, Sittwe was
battered and remains flooded
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ HRW_says_fossil_fuel_phaseout_and_rights
safeguards_are_essential_for_Global_Plastics_Treaty⠀⇛
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged countries
involved in ongoing negotiations for an
international anti-plastic pollution treaty to
address the role of fossil fuels in plastic
production. The organization also cited the need
for human rights protections to be included within
this Global Plastics Treaty.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ H2 View ☛ Frankfurt_orders_10_more_hydrogen-powered
Solaris_buses⠀⇛
Frankfurt’s public transport management
company In-der-City-Bus (ICB) is set to
receive 10 hydrogen-powered Solaris buses as
part of an €6.5m ($7m) investment.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Doctors_repeatedly_ask_public_to_be_careful
on_electric_scooters⠀⇛
With the weather getting more pleasant, the
Rīga East Clinical University Hospital
(RAKUS) sees people injured in scooter
accidents almost daily. Injuries are often
severe, and doctors repeatedly plead with the
public to wear helmets and treat other road
users with respect, Latvian Television
reported on May 15.
# [Ed: Mass surveillance mandated: "Users will also be
able to use a digital wallet on a smartphone or
smartwatch to pay for travel"]
⚓ IT Wire ☛ Victoria’s_myki_ticketing_system_to_get_new
contractor_in_December⠀⇛
Users will also be able to use a digital
wallet on a smartphone or smartwatch to pay
for travel – though one can load a digital
myki on a smartphone right now.
The statement said Conduent operated
ticketing systems in 24 cities, including
Dubai, Paris, Montreal and New Jersey.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ New_Jersey’s_Senators_Push_Back_on
Congestion_Pricing⠀⇛
Senators Robert Menendez and Cory Booker
joined the fight against the tolling program,
which would charge drivers who enter
Manhattan below 60th Street.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Get_a_new_car_or_fix_the_one_you_have?
More_Americans_choose_to_fix.⠀⇛
Instead of buying new cars, Americans are
holding onto their old ones due to increased
prices, and simply cars are lasting longer.
The average age of a U.S. vehicle on the
roads is now a record 12.5 years, according
to data gathered by S&P Global Mobility.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Nokian_Tyres_to_furlough_all_160_workers_in_heavy
tyres_division⠀⇛
The Finnish company was hit hard by sanctions on
Russia and left its operations in the country
earlier this year.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Where_Next?_Vermont_Shrinks
Housing_Program_for_Homeless_People_as_Advocates_Raise
Alarm⠀⇛
As federal money has dried up, Vermont is ending
the last of its COVID-era hotel housing for
homeless people
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Yellen_holds_firm_on_potential_June_1_debt_ceiling
deadline⠀⇛
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has repeated her
warning that the U.S. government could run out of
money as early as June 1, and has shortened the
potential buffer period to days, not weeks.
Why it matters: Yellen’s latest forecast keeps up
the pressure on President Biden and Congress to
find an agreement on how to raise the debt ceiling
before the Treasury department reaches the so-
called_X-date.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden_Expresses_Optimism_on_Debt_Limit,
but_a_Deal_Remains_Elusive⠀⇛
President Biden and congressional leaders will
resume face-to-face talks on Tuesday to raise the
debt limit and avoid a default.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Why_Are_Americans_So_Negative_About_the
Economy?⠀⇛
It’s an interesting question, given that the
economy is actually looking remarkably strong.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Federal_public_servants_offered_10.5
per_cent_pay_hike⠀⇛
A pay offer of 10.5 per cent over three years has
been made to commonwealth public servants. Chief
negotiator Peter Riordan on Tuesday released the
federal government’s pay offer for Australian
Public Service employees. The offer is the largest
pay increase that APS employees will have received
in over 10 years.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ JobSeeker_threshold_change_would_cost
less:_Dutton⠀⇛
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says a proposal to
lift the working hours threshold for those on
JobSeeker would allow them to earn more while
putting less strain on the budget’s bottom line.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Kela:_Increasing_number_of_working_parents_in_Finland
require_income_support⠀⇛
The share of households — where one or both adults
are employed — receiving income support has
increased from 6 percent to 9 percent between 2017
and 2022.
# ⚓ BBC ☛ Record_numbers_not_working_due_to_ill_health_–_BBC
News⠀⇛
Mental health issues and back and neck pain have
contributed to the rise in long-term sickness.
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ 17_ways_to_save_money_on_your_household_bills_and
living_costs_in_2023⠀⇛
Expert advice on cutting your fuel usage, food
costs, energy bills and more
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ NSW_premier_commits_to_‘historic’_gig
worker_equality⠀⇛
A decades-old inequality driving a wedge between
those who deliver dinners and their customers will
be soon addressed, the NSW premier has promised.
Transport union leaders gave NSW Premier Chris
Minns a standing ovation as he pledged to amend the
state’s decades-old workplace laws to include ride-
share and food delivery drivers.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland’s_food_prices_finally_starting_to_fall⠀⇛
While overall food prices are significantly higher
than one year ago, economists say a slight drop in
average prices in April compared to March show
signs of a turning point.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland’s_largest_landlord_firm_plans_10%_rent
hikes⠀⇛
Heka, the Helsinki City Housing Company, owns
around 50,000 rental apartments in the capital
region.
# ⚓ Massive_cost_savings_eyed_as_11,000_Vodafone_jobs_face_axe,
so_why_no_big_tech-style_layoffs_rally?⠀⇛
Big workforce layoffs have been a common theme
linking technology-based businesses this year (and
in 2022). A big question facing Vodafone’s (VOD)
retail investors is why it’s swing of the jobs axe,
unveiled today (16 May), is not getting markets
excited like it has on the other side of the
Atlantic.
Share prices of big tech companies like Alphabet
(GOOG:NASDAQ), Microsoft (MSFT:NASDAQ) and
Facebook-owner Meta Platforms (META:NASDAQ) have
uniformly romped higher in recent weeks thanks to
commitments to streamline bloated work forces.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Vice_Media_files_for_Chapter_11_bankruptcy⠀⇛
Vice_MediaGroup filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
early Monday morning, marking the end of a long,
strenuous effort to sell itself after its business
stopped growing.
Why it matters: It represents a significant fall
from grace from what was once one of the most
highly-valued media startups in the internet era.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Representative_Of_Pro-Russia_Party_Wins_Election
For_Regional_Leader_In_Moldova’s_Gagauzia⠀⇛
Evghenia Gutul of the pro-Russia Shor party has won
the regional leader election in Moldova’s Gagauzia
autonomous region.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Tunisia_sentences_opposition_leader_Ghannouchi
to_a_year_in_prison⠀⇛
A Tunisian court on Monday sentenced Rached
Ghannouchi, one of the main opponents of Tunisian
President Kais Saied, to a year in prison on
terrorism-related charges, local media reported.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Mysterious_Killing_of_Chinese_Gold_Miners
Puts_New_Pressure_on_Beijing⠀⇛
The massacre of nine workers in the Central African
Republic and other recent attacks raise questions
about China’s ability to protect its citizens
overseas.
# ⚓ YSK:_Erdoğan_49.40%,_Kılıçdaroğlu_44.96%,_Oğan_5.2%⠀⇛
Supreme Election Council Chairperson Ahmet Yener
announced that as of 09:45 am there are only 27
inland and 1529 abroad ballot boxes that have not
yet been counted, with current results showing 99%
of the votes cast inland, and 84% of those cast
abroad.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Lehrmann_trial_juror_‘deeply_sorry’
for_misconduct⠀⇛
The juror who caused a mistrial in Bruce Lehrmann’s
rape trial was “deeply sorry” for their actions,
new documents reveal. Mr Lehrmann faced a criminal
trial in the ACT Supreme Court last year over a
rape allegation made by his former colleague
Brittany Higgins. He denies the allegation and
pleaded not guilty.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Lehrmann_defence_questioned_on_police
actions_in_trial⠀⇛
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann’s defence
lawyer will face further questions at an
independent inquiry into how the ACT justice system
handled Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Vice_Media:_From_Murdoch_money_to
bankruptcy_in_a_decade⠀⇛
One analyst said Vice “never figured out a model at
all”.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Vice_Media_declares_bankruptcy⠀⇛
Daily operations will continue as normal as a sale
process begins.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Bulgaria’s_Chief_Prosecutor_Refuses_To_Resign,
Denounces_‘Trash’_In_Parliament⠀⇛
Bulgarian chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev has refused
to step down, tearing up his resignation letter on
national television and attacking unnamed rivals in
parliament as “political trash.”
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ When_a_peer_is_not_necessarily_one’s_equal⠀⇛
There were no English dukes until 1337. Up until
then, the English referred to the grandest
aristocrats with the good old Germanic word “earl.”
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Georgia_Prosecutor_Rebuts_Trump’s_Effort
to_Scuttle_Elections_Case⠀⇛
The prosecutor, Fani Willis, responded dismissively
to a motion filed by Donald Trump’s lawyers that
accused her of bias and sought to have her
disqualified.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ ‘Kidfluencers’_are_on_the_rise._But_who_is
cashing_in?⠀⇛
Illinois is poised to pass groundbreaking
legislation that will protect the earnings of child
social media stars. A unanimously approved bill
would require child influencers to receive a
percentage of earnings from online content.
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ John_Durham_Repeats_Debunked_Claims_in
Report_to_Garland⠀⇛
Open thread on John Durham’s corrupt report.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Chicago’s_Unlikeliest_Mayor,_Brandon_Johnson⠀⇛
The former union organizer makes the leap from
protest to politics.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Cambodia’s_top_opposition_party_officially_blocked
from_July_elections⠀⇛
Decision appears to pave the way for Hun Sen’s
party to keep grip on power.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Forbes_acquired_by_former_cover_star_and
youngest_self-made_billionaire_Austin_Russell⠀⇛
The self-driving car tech founder will hold an 82%
interest in Forbes Global Media Holdings.
# ⚓ Vote_counting_continues_in_the_morning:_What_did_leaders
say_for_the_second_tour?⠀⇛
Both Erdoğan and Kılıçdaroğlu pointed to a second
tour in the presidential elections, while Oğan who
received over 5 percent of the votes for the
presidency, said they will take a decision for the
best benefit of the nation. CHP İstanbul’s
Chairperson announced at 6:42 am in the morning
that vote counting still continues in İstanbul, and
that the votes are safe.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Opposition_Forms_New_Coalition_in_Thailand
After_Election⠀⇛
Thais voted overwhelmingly for change on Sunday,
but the military-appointed Senate could still block
the opposition’s nomination for prime minister.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Thailand’s_top_opposition_parties_agree_to_join
forces_after_big_electoral_win⠀⇛
Move Forward leader Pita Limjaroenrat says he has
invited five opposition parties to form a new
government.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Power_shift_in_Thailand:_Opposition_surges,
what’s_ahead?⠀⇛
Thailand’s opposition has won a substantial
majority, challenging conservative parties and the
former general who led the country for nine years.
The election results reflect discontent among young
voters, but the next government coalition remains
uncertain.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ ‘Bangkok_Spring’_sets_up_showdown_over
role_of_Thai_monarchy⠀⇛
May 16, 2023 10:35 AM
Move Forward Party is calling for changes to a law
restricting criticism of the Thai monarchy.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Thai_opposition_‘ready_to_form_government’_after
landslide_election_result⠀⇛
Thailand’s progressive Move Forward Party claimed
victory in the country’s election Monday after a
stunning result that decimated military-backed
parties, which have ruled the kingdom for nearly a
decade.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_Supreme_Court_to_decide_if_lawmakers_can_sue
for_disclosure_of_Trump_hotel_records⠀⇛
The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a case
in which members of Congress are seeking the
disclosure of information regarding a real estate
contract entered into by one of former president
Donald Trump’s companies.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ One_Secret_to_a_Latin_American_Party’s
Dominance:_Buying_Votes⠀⇛
In Paraguay, the Colorado Party has held power for
seven decades. On Election Day, it rounds up
Indigenous people and pays them for their votes.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Nikki_Haley’s_Financial_Disclosures_Show
Speaking_Fees_and_Other_Income⠀⇛
The disclosure, filed with the F.E.C., also shows
that Ms. Haley is still on the board of United
Homes Group, a large homebuilder in the Southeast.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_47:_Not_convincing_that
ex-journalist_Gwyneth_Ho_would_uphold_Basic_Law,_prosecution
witness_claims⠀⇛
A prosecution witness at Hong Kong’s landmark 47
democrats trial has said that she was not convinced
that defendant Gwyneth Ho would uphold the city’s
mini-constitution. Amy Yeung, who was a returning
officer during the 2020 Legislative Council
elections, appeared before the court on Monday.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Malaysian_YouTuber_will_not_apologise
for_‘B40_routine’_video⠀⇛
The video shows Mr Ryzal’s portrayal of the daily
life of a less-fortunate person who spends
excessively.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ A_major_J-pop_agency_apologized_over_the
allegations_of_sexual_abuse_involving_its_late_founder⠀⇛
Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates, a giant
in the J-pop industry, issued an apology to those
who have accused its late founder Johnny Kitagawa
of sexual abuse.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Top_Japanese_Talent_Agency_Apologizes
Amid_Sexual_Abuse_Accusations⠀⇛
The chief executive of the agency said she had not
been aware of the claims against the agency’s
founder, despite years of them coming to light.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Elderly_Hongkonger_known_for_protest
song_performances_pleads_not_guilty_to_7_permit_violations⠀⇛
An elderly Hong Kong man has pleaded not guilty to
seven counts of ticketed charges for allegedly
playing the erhu and collecting funds in public
without government permission. The retiree was
acquitted of a similar charge for performing with
the traditional Chinese musical instrument at a bus
terminus.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_proposes_legislation_to
give_people_more_say_on_end-of-life_care⠀⇛
Hongkongers will have more say on the manner and
place of their end-of-life care under a proposed
bill and amendments set to be considered at the
legislature.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iran_Arrests_Eight_For_Leading_Strike_Over_Wages_At
Key_Gas_Site⠀⇛
Iranian authorities have arrested eight people for
allegedly leading a workers’ strike over wages at a
key gas site in the south of the country, local
media reported on May 14.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Tony_Awards_Broadcast_Can_Proceed_After
Striking_Writers’_Union_Agrees⠀⇛
The Tony Awards, a key marketing opportunity for
Broadway, can go ahead in an altered form after the
striking screenwriters’ union said it would not
picket this year’s broadcast.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Voices_from_the_picket_lines:_Three_writers_on
why_they’re_striking⠀⇛
The Monitor interviewed three of the people on
strike – a newcomer, a mid-career writer, and a
veteran – about their tribulations and triumphs in
the industry.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ University_presents_GEO_with_comprehensive
contract_offer⠀⇛
U-M’s negotiating team has delivered to the
Graduate Employees’ Organization a comprehensive
package in response to all outstanding issues. The
package includes an increased compensation offer.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Florida_Judge_Argues_That_§_230_Is_Beyond
Congress’s_Power⠀⇛
White v. Discovery Communications, LLC, decided
Wednesday by the Florida Court of Appeal, rejected
a man’s libel claim against Netflix, on
jurisdictional grounds (stemming in part from a
particular procedural feature of the case), and
against Microsoft on § 230 grounds.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Have_State_Legislatures_Gone_Rogue?⠀⇛
Two Black legislators are expelled, then a trans
lawmaker is censured. The political scientist Jacob
Grumbach explains why state legislatures are making
anti-democratic moves.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ RFC_9234_observed_in_the_wild⠀⇛
Guest Post: There is still hope for BGP route leak
prevention.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ France_opens_investigation_into_Apple_over
alleged_‘planned_obsolescence’_for_smartphones⠀⇛
France is investigating US tech giant Apple over it
allegedly planning for smartphones to become out of
date through restricting their repair, prosecutors
and an association said on Monday.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Apple_Investigated_for_“Programmed
Obsolescence”⠀⇛
French authorities opened a court case against the
technology company for making its old iPhones
irreparable.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ EU_approves_Microsoft’s_Activision_Blizzard
acquisition_as_Azure_reportedly_faces_scrutiny⠀⇛
The European Commission, the European Union’s
executive branch, has approved Microsoft Corp.’s
plan to acquire Activision Blizzard Inc. for $68.7
billion. The decision was made public this morning.
The development coincided with a report from
Bloomberg that revealed the EU is conducting an
informal probe into Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud
platform.
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Pedersen_’920_message_distribution_patent
likely_invalid⠀⇛
On May 15, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed
by Unified against U.S._Patent_6,965,920, owned and
asserted by Peter Henrik Pedersen. The ’920 patent is
generally directed to the specification and management of
how messages are distributed to recipients.
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $2,000_for_Flick_Intelligence_information
sharing_patent_prior_art⠀⇛
A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was
added seeking prior art on at least claim 14 of U.S.
Patent_9,465,451, owned by Flick Intelligence, LLC, an
NPE. The ‘451 patent generally relates to a computer
program product for displaying additional information
about a displayed point of interest.
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