𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Thursday, May 25, 2023
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⦿ IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
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䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
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http://techrights.org/2023/05/25/debian-reunion/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/05/25/desire-for-gemini/#comments
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* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
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# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ Destination_Linux_324:_Wayland,_The_Future_Of
Linux_But_When?⠀⇛
This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we
discuss the final push for Wayland adoption. Then
we discuss pipewire and the future of Linux Audio.
Plus, we have our tips/tricks and software picks.
All this and more coming up right now on
Destination Linux to keep those penguins marching!
# ⚓ 324:_Wayland,_The_Future_Of_Linux_But_When?⠀⇛
FULL SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/
destination-linux/dl-324/
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.113⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.1.30⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.3.4⠀⇛
I’m announcing the release of the 6.3.4 kernel.
All users of the 6.3 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 6.3.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/
stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.3.y
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web
browser:
https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/
linux-s…
thanks,
greg k-h
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Meet_Inkscape’s_New_About_Screen_Artist⠀⇛
Inkscape 1.3 is due to be released this summer. For
each major release, we host a contest for artists
who compete to have their artwork displayed on
Inkscape’s About Screen.
Overall, there were 54 entries submitted for the
1.3 About Screen. The Inkscape community voted, and
the 5 remaining entries were then subjected to a
second round of votes by the Inkscape contributors.
This year was a close contest, with numerous high
quality entries!
The winner of the 2023 Inkscape 1.3 About Screen
Contest is Denis Kuznetsky with his illustration
“Isometric Madness”.
Each time we hold an About Screen Contest, we
interview the winner and share the conversation
with the Inkscape community. Read what our winning
artist, Denis, had to say below.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Top_20_essential_Linux_applications_you_should
install⠀⇛
Linux is known for its robustness, security, and
the vast array of software available for it. But
with such a wide range of applications, it can be
challenging to decide which ones to install. If
you’re a Linux user looking for software that can
enhance your productivity, improve system
performance, or manage multimedia files, we’ve got
you covered.
In this article, we’ve handpicked the top 20 must-
have applications for Linux users, providing a mix
of well-known favourites and hidden gems.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 10_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Color_Pickers⠀⇛
To provide an insight into the quality of software
that is available, we have compiled a list of 10
high quality color pickers.
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Microsoft_Edge_Redesign_Hits_Dev_Builds_for
Linux [Ed: OMGLinux (sister site of OMG Ubuntu) boosting
Microsoft proprietary spyware that steals all the passwords
of all users without even asking for consent. Bad optics,
Joey. Bad advice.]⠀⇛
Microsoft Edge (dev) on Ubuntu 23.04
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ curl_8.1.1_lets_do_this⠀⇛
Only 6 days since the previous release we are again
here with a curl release. It turned out 8.1.0 had
some rather nasty regressions that we felt were
urgent enough to warrant another round on the dance
floor. So here goes curl 8.1.1. A bugfix release.
# ⚓ Announcing_Istio_1.16.5⠀⇛
This release note describes what’s different
between Istio 1.16.4 and 1.16.5.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Allow/Restrict_Access_by_IP_Address
in_NGINX⠀⇛
For secure and better-control web access in NGINX,
you can allow and restrict certain IP address,
ranges, subdomains, & URLs in the NGINX
configuration. The NGINX web server provides you
with a range of configurations to secure your web
server, web application, etc. Including the
control of user access based on the IP address.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ How_to_Stress_Test_CPU_in_Linux⠀⇛
Want to stress test your CPU in Linux? Here’s how
you can do it effortlessly.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives_to_popular_CLI_tools:_rm⠀⇛
This article spotlights alternative tools to rm, a
command that removes files or directories.
# ⚓ Installing_GStreamer_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or_20.04_LTS_Linux⠀⇛
GStreamer is a framework for developers dealing in
multimedia applications. Because this framework
helps in creating multimedia apps and pipelines for
audio and video processing.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Fix_“host_key_has_just_been_changed”_error_on
SSH⠀⇛
Hello, friends. Working with SSH is essential as a
sysadmin. That’s why some errors can give you many
headaches, but eventually, they have a pretty
simple solution. Today, for example, you will learn
how to fix “host key has just been changed” error
on SSH.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Permanently_Disable_Swap_Partition_in
Linux⠀⇛
The swap partition or swap file in a Linux
operating system acts as a temporary storage area
on the hard drive, which the system uses when the
physical memory (RAM) is full.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Decoding_$?:_The_Heart_of_Error_Handling_in_Bash
Scripting⠀⇛
Bash, the Bourne Again SHell, is one of the most
widely used shell scripting languages due to its
compatibility with Unix and Linux systems. It
offers a host of built-in functions and variables
that make scripting more efficient and less error-
prone. One such variable is `$?`, an integral part
of error handling in Bash scripting.
# ⚓ Gary_Benson:_Which_uninstalled_package_provides_a_file?⠀⇛
$ apt-file find guestmount
guestmount: /usr/bin/guestmount
guestmount: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/
guestmount
guestmount: /usr/share/doc/guestmount/
changelog.Debian.gz
guestmount: /usr/share/doc/guestmount/copyright
guestmount: /usr/share/man/ja/man1/guestmount.1.gz
guestmount: /usr/share/man/man1/guestmount.1.gz
guestmount: /usr/share/man/uk/man1/guestmount.1.gz
# ⚓ Craig_Small:_Devices_with_cgroup_v2⠀⇛
Docker and other container systems by default
restrict access to devices on the host. They used
to do this with cgroups with the cgroup v1 system,
however, the second version of cgroups removed this
controller and the man page says:
Cgroup v2 device controller has no interface files
and is implemented on top of cgroup BPF.
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ Missing_Extensions_Option_in_GNOME_Tweaks
Tool⠀⇛
Not able to find an extension setting or option in
the GNOME Tweaks tool in GNOME 40 or later?
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ LHB_Linux_Digest_#23.07:_gz_log_files,
Self-hosting,_Memory_Probing_and_More⠀⇛
A new dedicated self hosting corner along with the
regular Linux tips and tutorials.
# ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ Linux_command_to_quit_SSH_connection⠀⇛
# ⚓ Seamless_Deployments:_Launching_and_Updating_Applications
in_Kubernetes⠀⇛
Introduction Kubernetes has emerged as the go-to
platform for container orchestration, and it has
gained widespread popularity due to its ability to
automate application deployment, scaling, and
management. Kubernetes provides a highly modular
architecture that allows developers to build
containerized applications that can be deployed
across various cloud environments with ease.
# ⚓ Navigating_Kubernetes:_A_Comprehensive_Guide_to
Understanding_Helm⠀⇛
Introduction In today’s fast-paced software
development environment, businesses require a
reliable, scalable, and efficient platform to
manage their applications. Kubernetes has emerged
as a leading solution for container orchestration
and management. It is an open-source platform that
enables users to deploy, scale, and manage
containerized applications seamlessly.
# ⚓ Pushing_Boundaries:_Exploring_Advanced_Kubernetes
Capabilities⠀⇛
Introduction Kubernetes has quickly become the go-
to platform for managing containerized applications
in modern software development. It offers a
powerful and flexible solution to automate the
deployment, scaling, and management of
applications.
# ⚓ Charting_Success:_Creating_Custom_Helm_Charts_for
Kubernetes⠀⇛
Introduction Kubernetes is an open-source container
orchestration platform that automates the
deployment, scaling, and management of
containerized applications. It provides a powerful
toolset for managing complex distributed systems,
but configuring it can be challenging. This is
where Helm charts come in.
# ⚓ Cluster_Capacity:_Making_Informed_Choices_and_Effective
Management⠀⇛
The Importance of Cluster Capacity Cluster capacity
refers to the ability of a group of entities, such
as machines, people, or systems, to work together
in an efficient and effective way. It involves
managing the resources within a cluster to ensure
that they are being used optimally.
# ⚓ Linux Journal ☛ Using_the_Linux_Cat_Command_to_Manage_Files
and_Directories⠀⇛
In the realm of Linux command-line tools, few
commands are as versatile and widely used as cat.
This article dives deep into the capabilities of
the Linux cat command, merging insights from
multiple sources to provide you with a
comprehensive understanding of its usage. From
basic file manipulation to concatenation and text
processing, we will explore the numerous
possibilities offered by this command.
Understanding the Basics of the cat Command
The cat command, short for “concatenate,” is a
powerful tool for working with files in Linux. With
its simple syntax and intuitive functionality, it
is a must-know command for any Linux user. Let’s
start by examining the basic usage and some of its
core features.
# ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Install_Ansible_AWX_on_Kubernetes
Cluster⠀⇛
In this post, we will show you how to install
Ansible AWX on Kubernetes (k8s) cluster step by
step. Ansible AWX is a powerful open-source tool
for managing and automating IT infrastructure.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Setting_Up_an_SFTP_Server_on_CentOS/RHEL
Systems⠀⇛
Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is a protocol
that provides a secure and reliable mechanism for
accessing, transferring, and managing files on
remote systems over an SSH connection.
# ⚓ Jonathan Dowland ☛ Jonathan_Dowland:_neovim_plugins_and
distributions⠀⇛
I’ve been watching the neovim community for a while
and what seems like a cambrian explosion of plugins
emerging. A few weeks back I decided to spend most
of a “day of learning” on investigating some of the
plugins and technologies that I’d read about:
Language_Server_Protocol, TreeSitter, neorg (a
grandiose organiser plugin), etc.
It didn’t go so well. I spent most of my time
fighting version incompatibilities or tracing
through scant documentation or code to figure out
what plugin was incompatible with which other.
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Moving_to_ansible_facts['distribution']⠀⇛
I always add conditions to my Ansible playbooks to
check the target OS and distribution. Until
recently I did this: [...]
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Bodhi_Linux_7.0_Beta_is_Ready_for_You_to
Test⠀⇛
The latest iteration of the Bohdi Linux
distribution is now available for those who want to
experience what’s in store and for testing
purposes.
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ InterDigital_video_codec_patent
challenged_in_reexam⠀⇛
On May 16, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte
reexamination proceeding against U.S._Patent
8,085,845, owned by InterDigital_VC_Holdings. The
’845 patent relates generally to hybrid video
coding in a single block and has been designated as
essential to SISVEL’s_AV1_patent_pool.
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ Cabinet_Netter_proves_design_patent_valid_after
disputing_Wayback_Machine_evidence⠀⇛
Cabinet Netter has successfully challenged the
Japan Patent Office after it questioned the novelty
of a filed design patent, belonging to Ascendence
Flight Technologies, which covers a new hybrid
aeroplane. Using evidence from online internet
archive the Wayback Machine, the Japan Patent
Office said the patent was not novel based on the
alleged filing date.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Fedora_Plans_to_Drop_X11_Support_in_Plasma_6
Completely⠀⇛
For years, one of the most hotly debated topics on
the Linux desktop has been the replacement of the
X11 protocol with Wayland. Moreover, despite
popular belief that X11 is already too old and that
Wayland is the way to go, X11 is generally still
supported in all Linux distributions for various
reasons.
However, the Fedora KDE Plasma spin developers have
plans to take a significant move by dropping
support for X11 entirely following the release of
Plasma 6, which is currently in early development.
Here are their main arguments behind this decision.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ iW-RainboW-G55M_is_an_OSM-LF_compliant
module_based_on_TI_AM62A_Cortex-A53_processor⠀⇛
The company provides support for Linux on the
Cortex-A53 cores and FreeRTOS for the Cortex-R5F
cores. The TI AM62A module appears to be pin-to-pin
compatible with the earlier iW-RainboW-G50M OSM-
L system-on-module and as such works with the same
carrier board that offers dual gigabit Ethernet,
two CAN headers, one USB 2.0 OTG port, two USB 2.0
host port, a microSD card, audio in and out jacks,
a MIPI CSI connector, an RS232, and a full function
UART.
There may be some differences in terms of the exact
features due to the differences between NXP i.MX 93
and Texas Instruments AM62A processors. iWave
Systems also provides hardware and software
documentation, and a Linux 5.10.153 or higher BSP,
but every document is only available after leaving
your email and getting manually approved by a
company’s representative including the product
brochure!
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ This_robotic_dispenser_will_tell_you_if_you
forget_to_take_your_pills⠀⇛
Many types of medications (such as anti-depressants
like SSRIs) can have a very negative effect if they
aren’t taken on a regular basis. Even taking them a
few hours late can harm a person’s mood and cause
physical discomfort.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ 12_Things_You_Should_Stop_Doing_On_Your_Android
Phone_Immediately⠀⇛
# ⚓ Business Insider ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_Watch5_Pro_Review:_Best
Smartwatch_for_Samsung_Phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ How_to_set_up_and_use_Emergency_SOS_on
Android_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Google_reveals_how_to_fix_Android_‘storage
nightmare’_with_simple_tricks_–_long_list_will_save_you_|_The
US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Wallpaper_Wednesday:_Android_wallpapers
2023-05-24_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Android_owners_are_just_noticing_a_hidden_feature
that_makes_sharing_Wi-Fi_with_pals_so_much_easier_|_The_US
Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ GO Media ☛ How_to_Block_YouTube_Ads_on_Your_Android_TV⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ How_to_share_your_location_on_Android_–
Android_Authority⠀⇛
# ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ How_to_factory_reset_an_Android_Phone_–
Geeky_Gadgets⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_stop_your_games_and_apps_from
crashing_on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Data_Stealing_Malware_Discovered_in_Popular
Android_Screen_Recorder_App⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gadgets Now ☛ android:_iQoo_launches_its_first_Android
tablet_iQoo_Pad:_Here’s_what_it_offers⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google_will_pay_you_for_finding_bugs_in
its_first-party_Android_apps⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Firefox_115_Will_Let_You_Open_Links_or
Search_with_Middle-Click_on_New_Tab_Button⠀⇛
This new feature will enable middle-click
paste of your clipboard’s contents, whether
it’s an URL or plain text, on the New Tab
button. So middle-clicking on the New Tab
button will open whatever is in your
clipboard, no matter from where the content
(URL or text) was copied (that means it can
be from any of your apps).
As you can imagine, this will save you some
time as you won’t have to first open a new
tab and then paste the URL or text you copied
on your clipboard. The copied text will be
opened with your default search provider, as
expected.
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ This_is_Thunderbird_Email_Client’s_Brand
New_Logo⠀⇛
The Thunderbird project is in rude health of
late. It’s bagged a big boost in funding
thanks to donation drives, got an official
Android app, and showcased a major UI
redesign that has a lot of people, myself
included, super stoked.
With the project now thriving Thunderbird’s
Project Manager, Ryan Sipes, has revealed a
brand new icon for the app that they say
“properly represents this revitalization”.
And here it is…
o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ The_tragedy_of_the_commons⠀⇛
In 2018, Ann Arbor voters approved a charter
amendment to develop a city-owned surface parking
lot in the middle of downtown into an “urban park
and civic center commons.”
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Remove_Special_Characters_From_String
Python⠀⇛
To remove special characters from a string
the “regular expressions”, “looping”, “join
(), and filter()” methods, and the “replace
()” method are used in Python.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Compile()_Function⠀⇛
The “compile()” function in Python is a
built-in function that is utilized to compile
Python code into “bytecode” by accepting
several parameters.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Matplotlib_Pie_Chart⠀⇛
To create a pie chart in Python, the
“matplotlib” library’s “pie()” function can
be used along with the multiple required
parameters.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Copy_a_File_in_Python⠀⇛
To copy a file various methods are used in
Python such as “shutil.copyfile”,
“shutil.copy()”, “read()” with “write()” and
“shutil.copyfileobj()”.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ NumPy_Inverse⠀⇛
The “numpy.linalg.inv()” function of the
“numpy.linalg” module is utilized to compute
the inverse of the given nonsingular matrix.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Next()_Function⠀⇛
The Python “next()” function iterates over an
iterable object and returns the next item
from the iterable and stops with the
exception when no items are left.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Sorted_Reverse⠀⇛
The “sorted()” function is used to sort the
strings, lists, tuples, etc. in ascending or
descending order or based on single or
multiple “key” parameter values.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Remove_all_Instances_From_List⠀⇛
To remove all instances from the input string
in Python, the “remove()”, “filter()”, and
“list comprehension” methods are used.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Finds_the_String_in_the_File_and
Print⠀⇛
The “built-in file” operations, “regular
expressions”, “read()” and “readlines()”
methods are used to find a string in a file
and print it in Python.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Overwrite_a_file_in_Python⠀⇛
Python has several methods for overwriting
files such as the “write()” method, the
“truncate()” method, the mode “w”, “shutil”
module, or the “os” module, etc.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_string_comparison⠀⇛
To compare strings in Python, various methods
such as the “Comparison Operators” or the
“is” and “is not” operators are used.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Matplotlib_Vertical_Line⠀⇛
To create single or multiple vertical lines
and spans on your plots various methods such
as “axvline()”, “vlines()”, and “ax.axvspan
()” are used in Python.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_to_records⠀⇛
The Pandas “to_records()” method converts a
DataFrame to a NumPy record array, which can
be exported to other applications.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ List_Files_in_a_Directory_Python⠀⇛
To list files in a directory in Python, apply
the “os.listdir()”, “glob.glob()”, “os.walk
()”, “scandir()” functions or the
“pathlib.Path.glob()” method.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Dictionaries⠀⇛
Python “dictionaries” are a flexible data
structure used in a broad range of
applications and can be created via “curly
braces {}” or “dict()” function.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Denzel_Curry_lights_up_Frost_Festival_with_fluid
rhythms_and_immersive_energy⠀⇛
This Saturday was Stanford Concert Network’s annual Frost
Fest. The night was packed with engaging, stylistically
diverse and satisfying performances that did not
disappoint, writes Sarayu Pai.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Madeleine_McCann_Disappearance:_Portugal
Searches_for_Missing_Girl⠀⇛
The case of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann, who disappeared
while vacationing with her family in Portugal, has drawn
international attention for years.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Madeleine_McCann_Case:_Here’s_What_We_Know⠀⇛
A new search in Portugal has brought the case of the
British girl, missing since 2007, back to the headlines.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_First_10_Words_of_the_African_American
English_Dictionary_Are_In⠀⇛
An exclusive look at a dictionary consisting entirely of
words created or reinvented by Black people. (Don’t
worry: All three variants of “bussin” are included.)
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘Time_Shelter,’_by_Georgi_Gospodinov,_Wins
International_Booker_Prize⠀⇛
Georgi Gospodinov’s acclaimed satire, translated by
Angela Rodel, is the first Bulgarian novel to win the
prestigious award.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_Migration_to_U.K._Soars,_Britain_Targets
Visas_for_Students’_Kin⠀⇛
The government, which has been mostly focused on asylum
seekers crossing the English Channel, is now turning to
limiting some pathways for legal migrants.
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Ohai,_feels_weird_being_back⠀⇛
Thanks to all of you who reached out; I’ll admit I took
Jim’s passing, and some others in the extended family,
pretty hard. I’ve lost important people in my life many
times, but never a close friend like that. I’ve also had
the flu which hasn’t helped!
My sister put it best when she said that by continuing to
use his moral compass, and writing posts as though they
were directed at him, he’s still influencing the world. I
really like that.
As I said in my farewell post, I’m still thinking of ways
to remember him in a more permanent and fitting way. For
now, I’ve added him to the dedications section of the
About page.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ This_prolific_Mexican_inventor_was_also
once_Public_Enemy_No._1⠀⇛
Victor Ochoa pioneered early flight and renewable
electricity and was a friend of Teddy Roosevelt. He
was also an enemy of the Mexican state.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Signs_of_Monster_Stars_10,000_Times_Our
Sun’s_Mass_Found_at_The_Dawn_of_Time⠀⇛
Here be dragons.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Alien_Hands_And_Walking_Corpses_Among_Some
of_The_World’s_Rarest_Mental_Conditions⠀⇛
Strange but true.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Giant_Spot_Is_Crossing_The_Sun_And_You
Don’t_Even_Need_a_Telescope_to_See_It⠀⇛
Break out those fancy eclipse glasses!
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ U-M_launches_institute_to_accelerate_quantum
research,_education⠀⇛
U-M will invest $55 million to launch a
multidisciplinary Quantum Research Institute and
recruit up to eight new faculty members with
expertise in quantum.
# ⚓ U-M_only_U.S._university_helping_build_massive_telescope⠀⇛
The Extremely Large Telescope — the largest optical
telescope ever built — could change everything we
know about the universe, and U-M is the only U.S.
university involved in building it.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ The_Forest_Floor_Makes_a_Faint_Sound,_If
You_Listen_Close⠀⇛
A hidden world.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ NASA_return_to_the_Moon_could_be_imperiled_by
politics⠀⇛
NASA’s flagship programto get people back to the
Moon is at risk in the debate over the country’s
budget.
Why it matters: The Artemis program has survived
two presidential administrations and has bipartisan
support in Congress.
===================================================
# Both administrations have worked to reduce
the political risk of the multibillion-
dollarprogram, awarding multiple contracts to
commercial companies in multiple states and
partnering with international space agencies.
What’s happening: Efforts to insulate Artemis from
possible cuts, delays and cancellation arefacinga
major test with the current budget fight on Capitol
Hill.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ NASA_found_the_Japanese_Moon_lander_that_crashed
into_the_Moon⠀⇛
ispace’s attempt to become the first private
company to safely land a robot on the Moon left a
mark: A NASA space telescope orbiting Earth’s
nearest neighbor in space spotted the impact of the
vehicle on the lunar surface.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ USB4_docking_station_support_up_to_five_4K
displays_with_120_Hz_refresh_rate⠀⇛
Action Star Technology, a Taiwanese OEM/ODM of USB
productivity solutions part of Qisba (BenQ group),
has unveiled its USB4 penta-4K120 docking station
at Computex 2023 with support for up to five 4K
displays at a refresh rate of up to 120 Hz. The
docking station is based on Synaptics chips, and
besides support for up to five 4K displays, it can
also handle up to three 8K displays at 60+ Hz, and
offers Ethernet, audio, and 10 Gbps USB 3.2
interfaces.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Ford_Pledges_to_Include_AM_Radio_in
Every_Upcoming_Vehicle⠀⇛
Ford pledges to include AM radio in every upcoming
vehicle, with software updates to include it in
recent vehicles, following pressure from lawmakers.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Dell_and_Nvidia_debut_Project_Helix_to
speed_up_on-premises_generative_AI_software [Ed: Dell-
sponsored puff pieces dressed up as "HEY HI" (AI)
nonsense...]⠀⇛
Dell Technologies Inc. and Nvidia Corp. today
detailed Project Helix, a joint initiative designed
to help companies run generative artificial
intelligence software in their own on-premises data
centers. The initiative has produced a series of
offerings dubbed validated designs.
⚓ Ghacks ☛ SanDisk_confirms_major_issues_with_Extreme_SSDs⠀⇛
Reports about SanDisk Extreme and Extreme Pro drives becoming
unreadable out of the blue have started about 4 months ago. SanDisk
has now responded to an inquiry by Ars Technica, stating that it is
aware of the issue and plans to release a firmware fix for some
affected models “soon”.
⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Lunduke’s_History_of_Computers_–_Volume_3⠀⇛
DRM-Free PDF is now ready for download!
§ Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
* ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexico’s_farmers_seek_government_help_as_grain
prices_fall⠀⇛
Farmers across Mexico have called on the government to take
action, as the industry faces making significant losses on this
year’s harvest.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Food_shortage_spreads_in_North_Korea,_with_some_starving_farmers
unable_to_work⠀⇛
Desperate families flee by boat to South Korea to escape
hardship.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ South_Carolina_ready_to_renew_abortion_ban
around_6_weeks_of_pregnancy_after_Senate_vote⠀⇛
The South Carolina Senate has approved a bill that would ban
most abortions after around six weeks of pregnancy, sending the
bill to the governor who has promised to sign it. The proposal
passed on Tuesday restores the ban South Carolina had in place
when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.
That ban was overturned by the state’s highest court because it
violated the state Constitution’s right to privacy. Republicans
have been searching for an answer to that ruling because it
left abortion legal through 22 weeks of pregnancy and sharply
increased the number of abortions taking place in South
Carolina as most other Southern states enacted stricter laws.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ South_Carolina_Senate_Passes_6-Week_Abortion_Ban⠀⇛
The legislation, which faced a filibuster led by five women
senators, now heads to the governor who has said he will sign
it.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Here_are_all_of_the_abortion_debates_happening
this_week_in_US_courts_and_statehouses⠀⇛
Lawmakers in South Carolina have passed an abortion ban while a
judge in Montana was weighing restrictions there. Those are the
latest developments in the shifting landscape of law since the
U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned Roe v. Wade and the
nationwide right to abortion. Nebraska on Monday adopted a 12-
week ban just weeks after stricter ones narrowly failed in the
conservative-dominated state. Last week, North Carolina
lawmakers last week overrode the Democratic governor’s veto of
a ban on abortion after the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Meanwhile, a federal court is deciding whether to uphold a
judge’s ruling rescinding approval for a drug used for
abortion. The pill, mifepristone, remains on the market for
now.
* ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Significant_decrease_in_reimbursed_private_doctor
visits_through_Kela_in_April_2023⠀⇛
In April 2023, the number of individuals receiving
reimbursements for private doctor visits through Kela (The
Social Insurance Institution of Finland) decreased by 80,000
compared to March. The reduction in private medical fees and
the elimination of reimbursements for examinations and
treatment may have had some impact on the utilization of
services. This article explores the implications of these
changes and the broader context of private healthcare services
in Finland.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Surgeon_General_Warns_That_Social_Media_May_Harm
Children_and_Adolescents⠀⇛
The report by Dr. Vivek Murthy cited a “profound risk of harm”
to adolescent mental health and urged families to set limits
and governments to set tougher standards for use.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_History_of_U.S._Surgeon_General_Warnings:_Smoking,
TV,_Safer_Sex_and_More⠀⇛
Public advisories from the nation’s top doctor are infrequent,
but sometimes become turning points in American life.
* ⚓ Hatay’s_new_hospital_inaugurated_by_Erdoğan_remains_largely
unfinished⠀⇛
The new Defne State Hospital, ostensibly completed within 60
days, still has construction works that potentially endanger
public health, a delegation from medical organizations reports.
* ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Zig-Zag_Cuts_Heal_Differently_to_Straight_Incisions,
And_Now_We_Know_Why⠀⇛
Not all cuts are the same.
* ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Common_Fungus_Evolved_to_Grow_20,000_Times_Bigger_in
Just_a_Few_Years⠀⇛
A beast of a yeast.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ An_African_Country_Faces_Challenges_to_Protect_Girls
From_HPV⠀⇛
Almost all cervical cancer deaths now occur in developing
countries. Tanzania is trying to inoculate girls against the
virus that causes the disease — nearly 20 years after rich
countries began offering the shot.
* ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Flesh-Eating_Bacteria_Seem_to_Thrive_on_Plastic_And
Seaweed_Blooms⠀⇛
This could come back to bite us.
* ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Toxic_Fragments_of_Bacteria_Leaking_From_The_Gut_May
Drive_Weight_Gain⠀⇛
A new culprit behind obesity.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ CDC_investigating_salmonella_outbreak_in_6
states_linked_to_Papa_Murphy’s_cookie_dough⠀⇛
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other
agencies are investigating reports of 18 salmonella infections
linked to Papa Murphy’s cookie dough. The CDC said Tuesday that
interviews with sick people show that raw cookie dough sold at
Papa Murphy’s Take ‘N’ Bake pizza stores may be contaminated.
The CDC says people have been sickened in Washington, Oregon,
Idaho, Utah, California and Missouri. Two people have been
hospitalized. No deaths have been reported. The number of sick
people is likely higher than the number reported, and could
extend to other states. People who have Papa Murphy’s raw
chocolate chip cookie dough and s’more bars dough should throw
it away.
§ Proprietary⠀➾
* ⚓ Microsoft_is_forcing_you_to_upgrade_Windows_10 [Ed: Microsoft
understaffed amid mass layoffs; it cannot maintain the codebases.]⠀⇛
Microsoft will soon be automatically updating anyone running
old versions of Windows 10 to 22H2, with everything else
unsupported come June 13.
* ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_365_hit_by_new_outage_causing
connectivity_issues⠀⇛
Microsoft is investigating service issues preventing users from
accessing their Microsoft 365 accounts and blocking access to
installed apps.
* ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Microsoft_struggles_to_find_solutions_to_Windows_11_problems⠀⇛
Windows 11 has been plagued by a range of issues, leaving both
users and the tech giant grappling for solutions. Recent
reports reveal that Microsoft has acknowledged the existence of
certain problems within Windows 11 that it is currently unable
to rectify. These issues have affected users of Windows 11 as
well as those still using Windows 10, leading to frustration
and uncertainty about the future of Microsoft’s operating
systems.
* ⚓ IT Jungle ☛ Update_On_Critical_Security_Vulnerability_In_PowerVM⠀⇛
Earlier_this_week, we told you about a very serious security
vulnerability in the PowerVM hypervisor when running on Power9
and Power10 systems. IBM found the vulnerability itself and
immediately set about to patch the vulnerability, which it
revealed on May 17 along with patches to firmware in systems
that are managed by the Hardware Management Console, or HMC.
§ Security⠀➾
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Digital_security_in_Indonesia_remains_a_work_in
progress⠀⇛
Islamic bank’s recent data breach shows that more needs to be
done to beef up online defences.
* § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Meta_sold_Giphy_at_a_$262_million_loss⠀⇛
Three years after Facebook parent company Meta bought
Giphy for $315 million, it’s selling the GIF search
engine to Shutterstock for just $53 million, a $262
million loss on the deal.
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Meta_sells_Giphy_to_Shutterstock_at_huge_loss
following_antitrust_ruling⠀⇛
Meta Platforms Inc. today said it has agreed to sell
Giphy Inc. to Shutterstock Inc. at a huge loss after it
was ordered to divest the company on competition grounds.
Meta, then known as Facebook, acquired Giphy, the startup
behind the GIF animated image sharing platform of the
same name, in May 2020 for $315 million.
⚓ JURIST ☛ Ireland_issue_€1.2B_fine_against_Meta_Ireland_for_violating_EU_data
protection_law⠀⇛
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced the conclusion
of its inquiry into Meta Ireland, issuing the Facebook parent company
with a €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) fine. DPC ordered Meta to stop
transferring Facebook users’ data from Europe to the US.
⚓ Quartz ☛ Meta_has_a_$11_billion_reason_not_to_leave_the_EU⠀⇛
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta, the parent
company of Facebook and Instagram, €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) for
sending European citizens’ personal data to the US in violation of
the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the EU’s sweeping
data privacy law.
⚓ NYPost ☛ High_profile_Quebec_cold_case_of_teen_rape_and_murder_cracked_after
nearly_50_years⠀⇛
With the help of DNA evidence, police in Longueuil, Quebec identified
Franklin Maywood Romine as the murderer of teenager Sharron Prior in
1975 in the Montreal suburb.
⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Alastair_Campbell_tells_Mirror_group_hacking_trial_he_was
targeted_by_private_investigators⠀⇛
The ex-No 10 comms chief accused Piers Morgan of “two-faced conduct”
while editing the Mirror.
§ Defence/Aggression⠀➾
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Syria’s_Assad_should_be_put_on_trial,_says_French_foreign
minister⠀⇛
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should be put on trial
following “hundreds of thousands of deaths” and “chemical arms
use” during the country’s civil war, the French foreign
minister said on Tuesday.
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ It’s_a_Bad_Idea_for_Biden_to_Broker_Saudi-Israeli
Normalization⠀⇛
Reprinted with permission from the Quincy Institute for
Responsible Statecraft The Biden administration is reportedly
planning to pursue a normalization deal between Israel and
Saudi Arabia before the end of this year. According to Axios,
President Biden will seek to work out the deal before the
election campaign “consumes” his agenda.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Navy_Steps_Up_Efforts_to_Curb_Iran’s_Ship
Seizures_in_Strait_of_Hormuz⠀⇛
The United States is increasing patrols in the busy shipping
lanes, where Iranian forces have taken two internationally
flagged tankers in recent weeks.
* ⚓ The Strategist ☛ When_wars_are_fought_in_cities,_nobody_wins⠀⇛
On 29 April 2023, Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health reported
that the death toll from clashes between the Sudanese Armed
Forces and the Rapid Support Forces had risen to 528, with
thousands injured.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Remembering_Uvalde_children’s_joy_one_year_after_shooting⠀⇛
In Uvalde, reminders of the mass shooting at Robb_Elementary
School— and the town’s_resolve in the face of tragedy — remain
one year later.
Details: Crosses surround the bright blue fountain in a
downtown square. Friends_and_family have left notes for their
loved ones in English and Spanish, recalling yearbook
signatures. Dried flowers cover the ground.
* ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ AMLO_responds_to_reports_a_senior_official_was
victim_of_espionage⠀⇛
The N.Y. Times reported that Pegasus spyware has been used
against Deputy Interior Minister Alejandro Encinas, and
implicated the military.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Mexican_President_Said_He_Told_Ally_Not_to_Worry_About
Being_Spied_On⠀⇛
The leader acknowledged that he had been told the government’s
top human rights official was targeted by spyware, but sought
to downplay the surveillance on Tuesday.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Mental_health_help_on_standby_for_Uvalde_a_year_after
shooting⠀⇛
More Uvalde_familiesare in need of mental health support as the
trauma of the school shooting intensifies for some people one
year after the_tragedy.
What’s happening:About 2,000 Uvalde residents have sought
mental health support from the Ecumenical Center since the
shooting, and the organization saw increase of about 20% in the
number of people reaching out as the one-year mark approached,
CEO Mary Beth Fisk tells Axios.
* ⚓ The Strategist ☛ How_the_Quad_can_become_more_than_an_anti-China
grouping⠀⇛
To be strategically successful, the Quad needs buy-in from the
rest of the Indo-Pacific region, notably from Southeast Asia.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan_tour_operators_eager_for_rebound_in_cross-
strait_tourism,_but_travellers_are_wary⠀⇛
Taiwanese say they will ‘wait and see’ how the political
situation unfolds before deciding on a holiday in China.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Korea_space_race_heats_up_with_North_and_South
planning_launches⠀⇛
The North is upgrading its space centre to accommodate the
increased demands of leader Kim Jong Un.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Japan_won’t_join_Nato,_but_local_office_considered,
PM_Kishida_says⠀⇛
Mr Kishida made these comments at a Parliament session on
Wednesday.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Turkish_drone_strike_kills_several_Yazidi_fighters_in_Iraq⠀⇛
A Turkish drone strike in northern Iraq on Tuesday killed three
Yazidi fighters affiliated with the rebel Kurdistan Worker’s
Party (PKK), security officials in the autonomous Kurdish
region said.
* ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ The_War_on_Reality_(Revisited)⠀⇛
CJ hopkins Reality isn’t what it used to be. It never really
was, but that’s another story. This one isn’t about reality per
se. It’s about the War on Reality, the one we’re in the middle
of, the war that started when the War on Terror was cancelled
in the Summer of 2016.
* ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Man_pleads_guilty_for_failure_to_stop_in_crash_that
killed_a_Kent_student⠀⇛
Timothy Michael Brind Jr. of Atwater pleaded guilty to failure
to stop in a 2022 accident that killed Kent State student Colin
Pho. Brind was charged with the third-degree felony before the
Portage County Court of Common Pleas Wednesday.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Senators_Promote_Closer_Serbia-Kosovo_Ties_In_Balkans
Visit⠀⇛
Two U.S. senators on May 23 said they hope that European Union-
backed negotiations between Kosovo and Serbia can achieve
results this year in resolving the dispute between the two
countries and normalizing their relations.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Taliban_Mulls_Guidelines_For_Letting_Female_NGO_Staff_Resume
Work⠀⇛
Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee
Council, said on May 23 that key Taliban officials told him in
meetings that they are close to finalizing guidelines that will
allow Afghan women to resume working for nongovernmental
organizations.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan_says_last_wartime_‘comfort_woman’_has_died
at_92⠀⇛
More than 200,000 women were sexually enslaved by Japan’s
military during World War II.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ East_African_Countries_Start_Training_of_Rapid_Reaction
Forces⠀⇛
Soldiers from Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya,
Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda take part in the
training.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_Women_Are_Giving_Birth_Amid_Chaos_in_Sudan⠀⇛
War in the northeast African nation has forced pregnant women
to drive “through hell” to reach the dwindling number of
hospitals and clinics, or turn to overworked midwives to give
birth at home.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Somali_Military_Officers_Train_to_Improve_Maritime_Security⠀⇛
The coastline has often been exploited by illegal fishing and
smugglers, and a well-trained and equipped navy is needed to
ensure that the country can fully benefit from the blue
economy.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Walmart_to_pay_California_$500,000_in_settlement
over_sale_of_brass_knuckles⠀⇛
Walmart will pay half a million dollars in civil penalties to
the state of California over allegations that it was selling
and allowing third-party vendors to sell brass knuckles on its
website. State Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the
settlement on Tuesday. Brass knuckles are illegal weapons in
many states, including California. Bonta says investigators
found approximately 250 products that could be classified as
brass knuckles on Walmart’s website, 60% of which were sold
directly by the company. Walmart said it didn’t violate any
state laws but believed a settlement was in everyone’s best
interest.
§ Environment⠀➾
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Climate_scientists_flee_Twitter_as_hostility_surges
following_Musk’s_takeover⠀⇛
Scientists suffering insults and mass-spam are abandoning
Twitter for alternative social networks as hostile climate-
change denialism surges on the platform following Elon Musk’s
takeover.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ French_ban_on_short-haul_flights_comes_into_effect_in_push
for_climate-friendly_train_travel⠀⇛
France on Tuesday formally banned domestic flights on short
routes that can be covered by train in less than two-and-a-half
hours — a move aimed at reducing airline emissions that has
also irked the industry.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘Go_to_hell,_Shell’:_More_than_100_climate_activists_storm
annual_shareholder_meeting⠀⇛
British oil and gas giant Shell faced a stormy shareholders’
gathering Tuesday, as environmental protesters hit out over its
pledge to tackle carbon emissions.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Climate_fix_‘impossible_alone_and_possible
together’⠀⇛
Billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes’ tech firm Atlassian has issued
a guide to help like-minded companies reduce their carbon
footprint.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Asia_water,_energy_supplies_at_risk_as_climate_woes
mount,_research_shows⠀⇛
Rivers including the Ganges, the Yangtze, the Mekong and the
Salweenis are vulnerable to climate risk.
* ⚓ YLE ☛ Orpo:_Climate,_immigration_now_central_focus_of_government
negotiations⠀⇛
The four parties aiming to form Finland’s next coalition
government have been locked in negotiations since 2 May, but
immigration and climate policy are considered two of the most
divisive topics.
* ⚓ YLE ☛ Police_release_Elokapina_climate_activists,_probe_into_protest
continues⠀⇛
A group of 38 demonstrators were detained on Monday following a
protest outside the forestry firm UPM’s pulp mill near the city
of Kouvola.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Phoenix_Blackout_in_Heat_Wave_Would_Overwhelm
Hospitals,_Study_Warns⠀⇛
New research warns that nearly 800,000 residents would need
emergency medical care for heat stroke and other illnesses in
an extended power failure. Other cities are also at risk.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ New_study_finds_nearly_2_billion_at_risk_from_“dangerous
heat”⠀⇛
Absent new, more ambitious climate policies, the world is
headed for a magnitude of climate_change that would put about 2
billion people at risk of extreme heat by the end of the
century, a new_study finds.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Can_the_oil_industry_help_address_climate_change?_Saudi
Arabia_says_yes.⠀⇛
The effort to abate climate change has a new player: Saudi
Arabia. Yet some doubt the world’s second-largest oil producer
will strike the right balance between current needs and future
necessities.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Energy_Dept._rejects_$200M_grant_to_battery
maker_after_GOP_criticism_over_alleged_ties_to_China⠀⇛
The Biden administration has canceled plans to award a $200
million grant to a U.S. battery manufacturer amid criticism
from Republican lawmakers over the company’s alleged ties to
China. Texas-based Microvast was one of 20 companies to win
preliminary grants totaling $2.8 billion to boost domestic
manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles. The company
is building a battery plant in Tennessee and was in talks with
the Energy Department for a $200 million grant funded through
the 2021 infrastructure law. A spokeswoman for Energy Secretary
Jennifer Granholm confirmed Tuesday that negotiations with
Microvast were canceled but did not offer a specific reason.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Big_food_and_fashion_companies_are_setting_science-based
nature_targets_for_the_first_time⠀⇛
Seventeen companies have signed up to a pilot project to set
the first- ever science-based nature targets (SBNTs), so as to
halt and reverse the impact of industrialization on
biodiversity and the natural environment.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ In_Sweden,_recycled_fabrics_turn_old_clothes_into_new
fashion⠀⇛
To address the fashion industry’s rampant waste problem,
innovators are processing old clothes into brand-new textiles.
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Mining_ready_to_ride_biggest_boom_with
climate_in_mind⠀⇛
Mining leaders are confident they can ride the clean
energy boom and reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
according to a global survey. KPMG Global Mining Leader
Trevor Hart is in Perth for the AFR Mining Summit where
mining giants and minnows are chasing funding and supply
deals.
o ⚓ H2 View ☛ DOE_announces_nearly_$42m_in_funding_for_US_clean
hydrogen_projects⠀⇛
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced up to
$42m in funding for 22 clean hydrogen projects in 14
different states.
o ⚓ RFA ☛ US_sanctions_North_Korean_crypto_operations⠀⇛
Besides stealing cryptocurrency, Pyongyang allegedly has
tech specialists ‘fraudulently’ working remote jobs.
o ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Treasury_Department_sanctions_entities_tied_to
North_Korean_IT_scams,_hacking⠀⇛
North Korea’s use of malicious cyber activity to evade
international sanctions has become a growing problem for
U.S. national security.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Mountain_of_FTX_Evidence:_Emails,_Chat_Logs,
Code_and_a_Notebook⠀⇛
Prosecutors investigating Sam Bankman-Fried, the
cryptocurrency exchange’s founder, have accumulated more
than six million pages of documents and other records.
o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Six_Security_Personnel_Killed_In_Suspected_Militant
Attack_On_Hungarian-Owned_Energy_Facility_In_Pakistan⠀⇛
Four policemen and two private security guards were
killed in an attack by dozens of gunmen on a Hungarian-
owned gas and oil extraction facility in northwestern
Pakistan, officials said on May 23.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Electric_car_popularity_on_the_rise_in_Latvia⠀⇛
Over the past two years, electric car numbers have
increased – the sector has had the fastest growth ever.
The number of electric car charging points is therefore
also increasing. Several experts addressed by Latvian
Radio on May 24 said that the number of charging networks
is optimal, while some say Latvia is lagging behind.
* § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ The_Montreal_Protocol_Turned_Out_to_Have_an
Amazing_World-Changing_Side_Effect⠀⇛
The best climate treaty we’ve ever had.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Orcas_Are_Sinking_Boats_Off_The_Coast_of_Europe
And_We_Have_No_Idea_Why⠀⇛
Is it just a fad?
o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Doerr_School_announces_greenhouse_gas_removal_as
its_first_focus_area⠀⇛
While many in the school consider the removal of
greenhouse gasses an essential part of mitigating the
effects of climate change, critics worry that the
school’s first Flagship Destination is too closely tied
to the interests of the oil and gas industry.
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Billie_Eilish,_H.E.R.,_Lenny_Kravitz,_Jon
Batiste_will_Headline_Global_Citizen’s_‘Power_Our_Planet:_Live_in
Paris’_Festival⠀⇛
Global Citizen’s ‘Power Our Planet: Live in Paris’
festival has announced headliners including Lenny
Kravitz, Billie Eilish, H.E.R., and Jon Batiste. The
festival is happening on June 22 in Paris at the Champ de
Mars to raise awareness and call on world, business, and
philanthropic leaders to take a stand against global
inequality and climate…
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Damage_control:_How_the_World_Bank_reformed_and
Brazil_curbs_illegal_gold⠀⇛
Progress roundup: Efforts to protect people with less
power include Brazil’s testing to identify illegal gold,
and the World Bank’s 30-year-old reforms.
* § Overpopulation⠀➾
o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Aid_agencies_call_for_international_aid_for_Horn_of
Africa_emergency⠀⇛
Multiple global and local aid agencies called for $7
billion full funding for the UN response to food
emergencies in the Horn of Africa Tuesday, ahead of
Wednesday’s Horn of Africa High Level Pledging
Conference.
o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ UNICEF:_+_7_Million_Malnourished_Children_in_Horn_of
Africa⠀⇛
“The crisis in the Horn has been devastating for
children”
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Arizona,_California,_and_Nevada_agreed_to_use_less_water
to_save_the_Colorado_River⠀⇛
Three of the seven US states that benefit from the
Colorado River have agreed to use less water to help
preserve the natural resource.
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Western_states_strike_a_deal_to_conserve_water_from
Colorado_River⠀⇛
Arizona, California, and Nevada agree to significantly
cut their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado
River in exchange for money from the federal government.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ AMLO:_government_could_buy_Citibanamex_if_Grupo
México_pulls_out⠀⇛
Following rumors of Grupo México changing its mind about
purchasing the bank, President López Obrador said he’d consider
a government buyout.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Turkey’s_Next_President_Will_Win_an_Economy_in_Peril⠀⇛
A surge in government spending before the election this month
and pressure on the country’s currency could hit the economy in
coming months, experts say.
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_Bank_calls_on_lenders_to_offer_fixed-rate_mortgages⠀⇛
Lithuania’s central bank has proposed to oblige commercial
banks and other lenders to offer people fixed interest rates on
their mortgages for at least five years. The move comes in
response to sky-rocketing repayment sums, as most lenders in
Lithuania only offer variable-rate mortgages.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Lessons_From_a_Renters’_Utopia⠀⇛
Worldwide, housing has become a nightmare of expense and
speculation. What did Vienna do right?
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ A_victory_in_Europe_for_clean_governance⠀⇛
Three years after mass anti-graft protests in Bulgaria, the
EU’s poorest state may have new leaders dedicated to honesty
and transparency.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Sarajevo_Police_Detain_Former_Mayor_On_Charges_Of_Abuse_Of
Office,_Forgery⠀⇛
Police in the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina have detained the
former mayor of Sarajevo and current ambassador to Qatar on
criminal charges of abuse of office, forgery, and other related
offenses, the prosecutor’s office confirmed to RFE/RL.
* ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ The_nature_of_unaffordable_living_in_Ann_Arbor⠀⇛
Initially moving to Ann Arbor in August of 2021, I was blind to
the inner workings of the housing market. As a freshman living
in the dorms, I didn’t have to worry about finding off-campus
housing.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Congress_braces_for_grueling_week_as_debt_deadline_nears⠀⇛
House leadership in both parties is advising members that they
could be kept in session into Memorial Day weekend or be called
back to vote mid-way through recess next week.
Why it matters:Treasury Secretary Janet_Yellen tripled down
Monday on her warning that the U.S. could hit the debt ceiling
“X-date” as soon as June 1.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Debt_ceiling_talks_grind_on,_but_Republicans_say
there’s_a_‘lack_of_urgency’_from_White_House⠀⇛
Debt ceiling talks showed few signs of outward progress as
negotiators for President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin
McCarthy are trading more budget-cutting ideas. Republicans
warn there’s a “lack of urgency” at the White House to resolve
the budget standoff in time to avert a potentially chaotic
federal default. Democrats say Republicans are responsible for
the holdup. Failure to strike a deal would be unprecedented,
and certain to throw U.S. financial markets into turmoil,
inflicting economic pain on households at home and abroad.
Negotiators are trying to strike a budget deal to lower
spending in exchange for a vote to raise the borrowing limit.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ McCarthy_Faces_Balancing_Act_on_Debt_Ceiling_Deal⠀⇛
With right-wing Republicans all but certain to oppose any
bipartisan compromise, the speaker has a narrow path to push
one through the closely divided House.
* ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Shutdown_or_Not,_the_Police_State_Will_Continue_to
Flourish⠀⇛
John Whitehead “There is no more dangerous menace to
civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile
men.” Ludwig von Mises Once again, the police state is up to
its old tricks, stoking tensions over whether or not the
government is forced to shut down, even partially, due to
a default on the national debt.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Public_tech_bank:_A_newer_deal⠀⇛
The failure of Silicon Valley Bank sent shockwaves throughout
the tech and banking sector. The bank had played a pivotal role
with venture capitalists, tech companies, and—in a lofty
sense—America’s new ideas.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_US_debt_ceiling_fight_is_a_short-term_phenomenon_for
markets⠀⇛
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_US_Treasury_may_have_to_break_the_law_to_keep_the_world’s
richest_nation_from_default [Ed: "Richest" only based on totally
fictional measures, including yardsticks like BOGUS valuations (companies
that rake in billions in losses and are estimated to be "worth" many
billions) while the population racks up 50 trillion dollars in debt]⠀⇛
Congress is putting US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in a
tough_spot.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Argentina’s_new_2,000_peso-note_honors_a_suspected_Nazi
sympathizer⠀⇛
Argentina has introduced a new peso banknote as it battles
soaring levels of inflation.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_ferry_firms_‘caught_off_guard’_when
gov’t_revealed_their_request_for_fare_hikes_of_up_to_100%⠀⇛
Proposed ferry fare hikes of up to 100 per cent were
preliminary, and operators are still in negotiations with the
government, representatives from two ferry firms told an
Islands District Council meeting on Monday.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Producer_prices_up_11.3%_on_year_in_Latvia⠀⇛
Data published on May 23 by the Central Statistical Bureau show
that in April 2023, compared to April 2022, the level of
producer prices in the Latvian industry increased by 11.3%.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ PM_to_meet_Modi_at_Kirribilli_after_huge_welcome⠀⇛
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set to welcome his Indian
counterpart Narendra Modi to Admiralty House ahead of official
talks. Mr Albanese and Governor-General David Hurley will meet
with Mr Modi at Kirribilli ahead of bilateral talks on
Wednesday morning.
* ⚓ MAY_24:_Countdown_to_Turkey_runoff_vote:_Delayed_swearing-in_of
parliament_sparks_speculations⠀⇛
As President Erdoğan and his rival Kılıçdaroğlu gear up for the
runoff vote on May 28, we bring you updates on the aftermath of
the parliamentary and presidential elections, along with the
developments leading up to the decisive second round.
* ⚓ Circassians_on_159th_anniversary_of_Tsitsekun:_‘The_name_of_this_is
genocide’⠀⇛
The Circassians in Turkey held commemoration ceremonies in
Kefken and in Ankara on May 21, the 159th anniversary of the
Tsitsekun.
* ⚓ Ancestral_Alliance_breaks_up:_Responses_to_Oğan’s_support_for_Erdoğan⠀⇛
Ümit Özdağ, the president of the Victory Party in the alliance,
is going to make his own announcement today at 13:00 pm.
* ⚓ Vote_cast_on_behalf_of_intensive_care_patient_in_Çorum⠀⇛
The CHP chairperson in Çorum announced that a vote was
illegitimately cast on behalf of a person who was in intensive
care at the time of the May 14 election and that they will
pursue court action related to the fraud.
* ⚓ Kılıçdaroğlu:_‘US_dollar_will_be_30_lira_if_they_win’⠀⇛
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu asked the voters to “take their decision for
the economy” in the video he posted today.
* ⚓ Imam_inviting_people_to_take_arms_was_suspended_from_duty⠀⇛
The Directorate of Religious Affairs suspended the imam of the
Cebeci Mosque in Sultangazi, İstanbul, who, during a Friday
praying, invited the community to take arms on May 28 night, in
the second round of the presidential elections.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ron_DeSantis_to_Announce_2024_Presidential_Run_With
Elon_Musk_on_Twitter⠀⇛
Adding a twist to the beginning of his presidential campaign,
the Florida governor is expected to appear on a live audio
conversation with Mr. Musk, the social platform’s owner, on
Wednesday evening.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Trump_challenger_DeSantis_to_enter_2024_race_in_Twitter
event_with_Musk⠀⇛
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, whose impassioned battles over
pandemic lockdowns and divisive cultural issues have endeared
him to conservatives, will announce on Wednesday he is seeking
the Republican presidential nomination, placing him on a
collision course with former President Donald Trump.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Senegal_prosecutor_calls_for_10-year_jail_term_for
opposition_leader_Sonko⠀⇛
The trial of Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko on rape
charges adjourned early Wednesday, with the prosecutor calling
for a 10-year jail term in a case that has sparked tensions in
the West African country.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Senegal’s_opposition_leader_Sonko_fails_to_show_up_at_high-
stakes_rape_trial⠀⇛
A Senegalese court on Tuesday resumed the trial of opposition
leader Ousmane Sonko on rape charges, but he failed for the
second time running to attend the high-stakes proceedings.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Relative_calm_in_Sudan_as_ceasefire_brings_some_respite_from
fighting⠀⇛
Artillery fire could be heard in parts of Khartoum and
warplanes flew overhead on Tuesday, residents said, though an
internationally monitored ceasefire appeared to have brought
some respite from heavy fighting in the Sudanese capital.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Sudan’s_ceasefire_in_danger_as_fighting_continues_in
Khartoum⠀⇛
Artillery fire could be heard in parts of Khartoum and
warplanes flew overhead on Tuesday, residents said, raising
fears that intense fighting would erupt and shatter Sudanese
hopes raised by an internationally-monitored ceasefire.
* ⚓ ADF ☛ Sudan_Conflict_Threatens_to_Ensnare_Neighbors⠀⇛
As fighting continues in Sudan, it is not just the Sudanese
people who are fearful for their future. The entire region is
anxiously watching the developments.
* ⚓ ADF ☛ Sudan’s_Warring_Parties_Fight_to_Control_Information⠀⇛
Nearly a year before hostilities broke out between Sudan’s
rival generals, a private jet touched down at an airfield in
Khartoum. Members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) met the
plane during its brief visit. On board, according to reports,
was a package of high-end surveillance technology known as
Predator.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Chief_Justice_Says_Supreme_Court_Is_Working_to_Address
Ethics_Questions⠀⇛
In remarks at an awards ceremony, Chief Justice John G. Roberts
Jr. also addressed heckling at law schools and security for
members of the court.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Trump_Lawyers_Seek_Meeting_With_Garland_Over_Special
Counsel_Inquiries⠀⇛
Two lawyers for the former president asserted that he was being
treated unfairly in the investigations into his handling of
classified documents and his efforts to remain in power.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Good_News_on_Unemployment_for_Black_Americans⠀⇛
And another reason, in case you needed one, that policymakers
should avoid a gratuitous recession.
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ From_the_Community_|_Thought_police_or_moral
integrity?⠀⇛
“There is a line; there are people Stanford will not
associate with,” writes computer science and electrical
engineering professor Philip Levis. “Perhaps Ms. Mercer
and Mr. Murdoch are close to the line. Perhaps they
are far. We won’t know unless we debate the matter and
consider the facts.”
o ⚓ Reason ☛ Brickbat:_But_I_Read_It_On_the_Internet⠀⇛
Rep. Linda Sanchez (D–Calif.) clearly thought she had
a “gotcha” moment during a hearing of the the House
Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the
Federal Government. Sanchez asked FBI whistleblower
Marcus Allen if his Twitter account was @MarcusA97050645.
“That is absolutely not my account, ma’am,” Allen said.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Cadwalladr_seeks_Supreme_Court_ruling_over_‘chilling’
Arron_Banks_£1m_costs_order⠀⇛
Observer reporter ready to take case to European Court of Human
Rights if necessary.
* ⚓ Breach Media ☛ The_RCMP_suppresses_honest_reporting_about_colonialism⠀⇛
When journalists document the efforts of Indigenous land
defenders, the RCMP obstructs and arrests them
* ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Spotify_Issues_Statement_on_Removal_of_Mohammed
Assaf_Song,_“Ana_Dammi_Falastini”⠀⇛
After the patriotic Palestinian song “Ana Dammi Falastini” (My
Blood is Palestinian) was removed from streaming serv
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ With_Pardon_of_Roman_Protasevich,_Belarus_Fuels_a_Tale
of_Betrayal⠀⇛
Roman Protasevich became a symbol of the struggle for democracy
when Belarus forced down a plane and arrested him. Now it has
pardoned him, and former allies say he has turned on them.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Indigenous_voice_an_‘unknown_risk’:_ex-PM
Morrison⠀⇛
Former prime minister Scott Morrison has used a rare speech in
parliament to oppose the upcoming Indigenous voice referendum.
Mr Morrison said the proposal was “ill-defined” and would
create constitutional risk in enshrining an Indigenous voice to
parliament and executive government.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Media_watchdog_fines_news_portal_for_alleged_word_misuse⠀⇛
The National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP) has decided
to impose an administrative penalty of €8,500 on the Internet
news portal tvnet.lv for the alleged misuse of the word
“deportation”, according to LETA’s information on May 23.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Software_engineer_who_photographed_US_landmarks
for_possible_attacks_gets_12_years_in_prison⠀⇛
A New Jersey software developer who prosecutors say once
photographed landmarks in New York, Boston and Washington,
D.C., for possible terrorist attacks has been sentenced to 12
years in prison. Federal Judge Paul G. Gardephe says it seems
Alexei Saab is no longer a danger or likely to commit crimes.
Saab was sentenced on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. A
jury last year rejected a charge of providing material support
for a terrorist group, convicting Saab of receiving military-
type training from Hezbollah’s Islamic Jihad Organization.
Gardephe said Saab has become a model prisoner since his 2019
arrest.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Florida’s_Restrictions_on_Property_Purchases_by_Chinese
Citizens_Hark_Back_to_a_Dark_History_of_Xenophobia⠀⇛
In a federal lawsuit on behalf of legal U.S. residents from
China, the ACLU argues that “Florida’s New Alien Land Law” is
unconstitutional.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ China_citizens_challenge_Florida_law_restricting_foreign
nationals_from_purchasing_property⠀⇛
A group of Chinese citizens who live in Florida, along with a
real estate firm that serves clients of Chinese descent, filed
a lawsuit Monday challenging a Florida law that imposes
restrictions on some foreign nationals and businesses from
buying property in the state.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Rights_attorney_Yu_Wensheng,_wife_Xu_Yan_‘could_be_at_risk_of
torture’_after_arrest⠀⇛
Authorities also step up pressure on lawyers who might
represent the couple, their friends say.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Hong_Kong_court_dismisses_Jimmy_Lai’s_challenge_to_ban_on
representation_by_British_lawyer⠀⇛
A Hong Kong court has dismissed an attempt by jailed media
tycoon Jimmy Lai to overturn a decision barring his British
lawyer from representing him in an upcoming trial under the
national security law.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Justice_Sec:_Those_found_not_guilty_under
security_law_at_Hong_Kong_High_Court_could_be_detained_again_if_gov’t
appeals⠀⇛
People acquitted under the Beijing-imposed national security
law at Hong Kong’s High Court could be remanded if the
government appeals their exoneration, the city’s justice
minister has said.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Bill_to_Force_Texas_Public_Schools_to_Display_Ten
Commandments_Fails⠀⇛
A Republican effort to bring religion into classrooms faltered,
though lawmakers were poised to allow chaplains to act as
school counselors.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ ‘What_are_they_afraid_of?’:_Hong_Kong_justice
minister_questions_public_concern_over_passing_of_city’s_own_security
law⠀⇛
Hong Kong will balance the protection of national security with
upholding human rights when legislating the city’s own security
law, the justice chief has said.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Thousands_of_Hong_Kongers_cancel_organ_donation,_prompting_order
for_police_probe⠀⇛
Move appears driven by concern about plan to integrate the
system with mainland China
* ⚓ RFA ☛ China_makes_getting_a_tourist_visa_to_Tibet_tougher_for_foreign
visitors_in_Nepal⠀⇛
New rules require in-person interviews and fingerprinting.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Primary_1_pupil_in_China_dies_after_being_hit_by
teacher’s_car_in_school⠀⇛
The male teacher, who is in his 20s, is assisting the police
with investigations.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Vietnamese_prisoner_of_conscience_accuses_jailers_of_giving_him
contaminated_water⠀⇛
Nguyen Van Duc Do experienced abdominal pain and had diarrhea.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ PM_welcomes_India’s_Modi_but_human_rights_calls
persist⠀⇛
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has welcomed the finalisation
of a new migration pact with India as he hosts his counterpart
Narendra Modi for bilateral talks.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Activists_Say_Iran’s_‘Eye_Victims’_Under_Government_Pressure
With_Arrests⠀⇛
Two Iranian protesters known as “eye victims” have been
arrested in what rights activists say is a campaign by
authorities to silence those who have been shot in the face by
security agents during months of unrest.
* ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ The_impending_EU_AI_Act_and_its_potential
effect_on_India’s_AI_Policy⠀⇛
The EU AI Act is moving forward swiftly. What does this mean
for India?
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ APNIC ☛ Failed_expectations⠀⇛
What can be learned from the failures and successes of
technology deployment?
* ⚓ APNIC ☛ Network_design:_Dual_ISP,_DMZ,_and_the_network_edge_—_Part_2⠀⇛
Guest Post: Network designing for the edge — a detailed look at
high level edge connection including BGP guidance.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Musician_Maria_Schneider_Cannot_Certify_a
Class_Action_Against_YouTube,_Judge_Rules⠀⇛
On Monday, YouTube gained a small victory in the ongoing
battle against Schneider’s infringement claims. Attorneys
for Schneider had urged Judge Donato to let the case
proceed as a class action, but Donato ruled, “Copyright
claims are poor candidates for class-action treatment.”
In the long-running David vs. Goliath courtroom
confrontation, Goliath scored another win.
o ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Local_titles_aim_to_safeguard_£40m_public_notice
income_with_new_online_portal⠀⇛
The Google News Initiative-funded portal officially went
live on Monday.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Graphics_Stack
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
o Programming/Development
# Rust
* Leftovers
o Science
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
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 Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Software_Patents
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Mesa_23.1.1_Improves_VA-API/H.264_Decoding_for
Firefox_on_Fedora_37,_Fixes_Bugs⠀⇛
Mesa 23.1.1 is here packed with many fixes for
various of its open-source graphics drivers,
improving VA-API / H.264 decoding with the Mozilla
Firefox web browser on Fedora Linux 37 systems with
an AMD Radeon RX 6600 graphics card, as well as VA-
API video output on AMD Radeon RX 6600 GPUs.
This first Mesa 23.1 point release also improves
support for several video games, such as Assassin’s
Creed Valhalla for RADV (Radeon Vulkan Driver), Tom
Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege for ANV (Intel Vulkan
Driver), Pixel Game Maker MV, MS Flight Simulator
and Battlefield 1-5 on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
GPU with RADV.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ Step-by-Step_Guide:_Kubernetes_Monitoring_with
Prometheus_and_Grafana⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will provide you with a step
by step guide on Kubernetes monitoring with
Prometheus and Grafana. Being able to monitor a
Kubernetes cluster is fundamental in ensuring the
health of the cluster, performance and scalability.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Scarlett_Gately_Moore:_KDE_Gear_23.04.1_Snaps
Released!_Snapcraft_updates_and_more.⠀⇛
I have completed the 23.04.1 KDE Gear
applications release for snaps! With this
release comes several new KDE Snaps!
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Jonathan_Carter:_Debian_Reunion_MiniDebConf_2022⠀⇛
It wouldn’t be inaccurate to say that I’ve had a
lot on my plate in the last few years, and that I
have a *huge* backlog of little tasks to finish.
Just last week, I finally got to all my keysigning
from DebConf22. This week, I’m at MiniDebConf
Germany in Hamburg. It’s the second time I’m here!
And it’s great already. Last year I drafted a blog
entry, but never got around to publishing it. So,
in order to mentally tick off yet another thing,
here follows a somewhat imperfect (I had to delete
a lot of short-hand because I didn’t know what it
means anymore), but at least published post about
my activities from a year ago.
This week (well, last year) I attended my first
ever in-person MiniDebConf_and_MiniDebCamp_in
Hamburg,_Germany. The last time I was in Germany
was 7 years ago for DebConf15 (or at time of
publishing, actually, last year… for this same
event).
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Apply_Real-Time_Audio_Effects_on_Ubuntu_with
Easy_Effects⠀⇛
As you may infer from the name, PulseEffects was
built around and designed for PulseAudio. Most
major Linux distributions have switched from
PulseAudio to PipeWire for their audio handling.
Enter Easy Effects, a successor to PulseEffects
that sports a modern GTK4 interface, and an
expanded set of features that enable to function as
a powerful audio effects processor for PipeWire
applications. It offers an equalizer, limiter, and
compressor (among others) and a built-in spectrum
analyser.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ ARIES_FIVEberry_–_A_Community_RISC-V_SBC
powered_by_Renesas_RZ/Five_processor⠀⇛
ARIES Embedded will provide a Yocto Linux BSP for
the board and says it’s well-suited for entry-class
social infrastructure gateway control and
industrial gateway control. The company highlights
the system-on-module offers a parallel LCD
interface, a MIPI CSI camera input, and two CAN-FD
interfaces, but their description of the 40-pin
GPIO header is as clear as mud with two I2C and
“GPIOs”, so I’m not sure whether all those can be
accessed on the GPIO header, or only a subset as
listed in the specifications.
One of the reasons for the limited level of detail
is that the FIVEberry RISC-V SBC will only be
available in Q3 2023 at a yet-to-be-determined
price. More details may be found on the product
page.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Purism ☛ Librem_5_Product_Report_and_Roadmap_for_2023⠀⇛
It has been some time since we last published a
global product report for the Librem 5 phone. This
is not because of slowing down our development
effort, it is the opposite. We have been very busy
and we have made substantial progress during the
last few months.
We have been listening to our customers and
realized that while most of what we had initially
planed to implement for the Librem 5, in PureOS,
and for the Librem line in general was already
there, it was just missing the finishes that make a
coherent and polished experience. Therefore, we
decided to reorganize our development goals toward
putting all the pieces together and polishing the
default experience of the Librem devices.
Convenience is critical for wider adoption and
easier use.
A few years ago I made a blog post saying that
Purism’s design would comply with the Ethical
Design Manifesto from Ind.ie and this is still the
case.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Enabling_automated_pipeline_maintenance_with_edge
AI⠀⇛
Pipelines are integral to our modern way of life,
as they enable the fast transportation of water and
energy between central providers and the eventual
consumers of that resource. However, the presence
of cracks from mechanical or corrosive stress can
lead to leaks, and thus waste of product or even
potentially dangerous situations.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_14_Beta_2.1_is_here_to_fix_some_of
the_worst_remaining_bugs⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_14_Beta_2.1_rolling_out_with_many
Pixel_bug_fixes⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ HBO_Max_rebranding_renders_dedicated
button_on_Android_TV_remotes_useless⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Make_Your_Android_Phone’s_Battery_Last_Longer
With_This_Google_Clock_Trick⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Android_owners_must_delete_three_apps_now_or_your
account_could_be_BANNED_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_just_realizing_Android_‘six_tap’_trick
can_save_you_from_‘empty_bank’_nightmare_–_it’s_too_good_to
ignore_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Google_warns_billions_of_three_Android_settings
you_must_NEVER_switch_off_if_you_want_to_avoid_bank-emptying
criminals_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ What_is_the_Android_security_–_privacy_hub?_The_Android_13
feature_explained⠀⇛
# ⚓ Do_this_before_you_ever_throw_that_old_Android_phone_away_|
Fox_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ Business Insider ☛ Best_Android_Phones_in_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ Motorola_Edge+_(2023)_Review:_Android_Flagship
Phone_Greatness_With_One_Major_Flaw⠀⇛
# ⚓ Top_9_Ways_to_Fix_Android_TV_Stuck_on_Loading_Screen_–
Guiding_Tech⠀⇛
# ⚓ WCCF Tech ☛ It_Only_Takes_A_$15_Circuit_Board_To_Bypass_An
Android_Smartphone’s_Fingerprint_Security,_According_To
Researchers⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ How_do_I_enable_wireless_charging_on_my
Android_phone?⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ Polhemsrådet⠀⇛
I was invited, and I have accepted, to become a
member of Polhemsrådet, the “Polhem Council”, that
works for the Polhem Prize nomination committee and
serves to appoint the award winners. I consider it
a great honor to get to serve on this board.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Phoenix_Player:_Beautiful_Open-source_Audio
Player_with_Flutter⠀⇛
The Phoenix Project is a free open-source beautiful
audio player for Android and iOS built with Flutter
and Dart.
* Beautiful glassmorphism design
* Lyrics
* No data collected
* Cut, fade and set ringtone
* A flashlight-visualizer
* Share now-playing
* Ad-free
* Wallpapers from artwork
# § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ Rust Weekly Updates ☛ This_Week_In_Rust:_This_Week_in
Rust_496⠀⇛
Hello and welcome to another issue of This
Week in Rust!
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Tina_Turner,_resilient_singer_hailed_as_the
‘Queen_of_Rock_and_Roll,’_dies_at_83⠀⇛
Tina Turner, the dynamic rock and soul singer who rose
from humble beginnings and overcame a notoriously abusive
marriage to become one of the most popular female artists
of all time, has died, according to a post on her
verified Facebook page.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Target’s_Pride_collection_is_the_latest_casualty_of
increasing_intolerance⠀⇛
Target is pulling some Pride collection products off its
shelves after some customers made their homophobic
feelings known.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ We_May’ve_Detected_A_Rare_‘Missing_Link’
Black_Hole_in_Our_Own_Celestial_Backyard⠀⇛
Hello there.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Brain_and_Spine_Implants_Allow_Paralyzed
Man_to_Walk_Naturally_Again⠀⇛
In a new study, researchers describe a device that
connects the intentions of a paralyzed patient to
his physical movements.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Simply_Feeling_Hungry_Might_Be_Enough_to
Slow_Down_The_Aging_Process⠀⇛
No need to starve after all.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Brain_And_Spine_Implants_Restore_Movement
in_a_Man_Paralyzed_by_an_Accident⠀⇛
Turning thought into action.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Paralyzed_man_walks_for_first_time_in_over
a_decade_with_electronic_brain_implants⠀⇛
A 40-year-old Dutch man who was paralyzed in a
cycling accident in China in 2011 has walked again
thanks to a brain-machine interface.
⚓ Latvia ☛ Farmers_uncertain_about_survival_after_spring_frosts⠀⇛
Farmers, especially fruit and berry growers, are currently in a
difficult situation because the damage caused by the frost has
severely damaged farms. The Latvian Agricultural Cooperative
Association meets with fruit and berry producers on Wednesday to
discuss the impact of the devastating frost of spring.
⚓ Science Alert ☛ The_Reality_of_Hallucinations_Is_More_Complex_Than_You_Might
Think⠀⇛
They’re not always about distress.
⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Older_adults_use_patient_portals,_but_access_and_attitudes
vary⠀⇛
Far more older adults these days log on to secure websites or apps to
connect with their health information or have a virtual health care
appointment, compared with five years ago, a new poll shows.
⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Women_more_likely_to_die_following_heart_attack_than_men:
Study⠀⇛
According to findingspresented at Heart Failure 2023, a scientific
congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), women are more
than twice as likely as males to die following a heart attack.
“Women of all ages who experience a myocardial infarction are at
particularly high risk of a poor prognosis,” said study author Dr
Mariana Martinho of Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal.
⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Over_half_a_million_wound_care_sessions_annually_in_the_HUS
area⠀⇛
The overall healthcare costs associated with wound care are
comparable to the costs of treating obesity or cancer. By
implementing a tiered approach to wound care and enhancing expertise
in the field, it is possible to optimize the allocation of resources
and reduce the prevalence of wounds.
Approximately one percent of individuals over the age of 50 suffer
from chronic, poorly healing wounds.
⚓ France24 ☛ Paralysed_man_walks_again_thanks_to_thought-controlled_implants⠀⇛
A paralysed man has regained the ability to walk smoothly using only
his thoughts for the first time, researchers said on Wednesday,
thanks to two implants that restored communication between brain and
spinal cord.
⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_patients_to_get_priority_for_locally_donated
organs_under_cross-border_scheme,_medic_says⠀⇛
Organ transplant waiting lists will not be shared between Hong Kong
and China, and only organs which cannot be allocated locally will
undergo cross-border matching, an expert said on Wednesday after the
government announced local hospitals would be integrated into the
national China Organ Transplant Response System.
§ Proprietary⠀➾
* ⚓ India Times ☛ Microsoft’s_healthcare_AI_division_Nuance_Communications
announced_job_cuts⠀⇛
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn recently announced job cuts. Now
another Micorosft arm is preparing to lay off employees.
Microsoft-acquired Nuance Communications, the speech
recognition company is planning to lay off employees.
* ⚓ Verizon_to_Customer_Service_Reps:_Layoffs_Are_Coming⠀⇛
There seems to be no end in sight for mass tech layoffs, as
Verizon reportedly told a bunch of their customer service
employees that layoffs were all but certain to hit their
company next.
If you’ve still got a job in tech, you’re one of the lucky
ones. Companies like Meta, Google, and Microsoft have led the
way in firing more than 100,000 tech employees this year alone,
and it’s clearly going to get worse before it gets better.
* ⚓ Meta_Announces_Another_Round_Of_Layoffs⠀⇛
Layoffs have become a common trend in the tech industry these
past few months, with major tech companies like Microsoft,
Twitter and Amazon all falling under the pressure.
Facebook’s parent company, Meta Inc. was also not immune to
this trend. Meta announced the first layoff in November last
year, which saw 11000 jobs cut off, it also laid off another
4000 employees in April but now Meta is conducting another
round of layoffs, which it announced on Wednesday, would affect
another 6000 employees.
According to the tech company, these cuts are part of the
company’s so-called “Year of Efficiency”, which Meta hopes to
massively restructure itself to reduce cost and flatten the
organization structure.
§ Security⠀➾
* § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Australia_calls_out_China_for_cyber
espionage⠀⇛
A cyber expert has warned China could be using
sophisticated cyber malware to infiltrate critical
systems in Australia and shut them down in the event of a
war. Australia joined Five Eyes partners in outing China
as being behind a cluster of cyber attacks targeting
critical infrastructure in the United States.
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Emails_Show_SpaceX_Bungled_Elon_Musk’s_Private
Jet_Privacy⠀⇛
FOIA docs reveal that SpaceX enrolled Elon Musk’s jet in
a federal program to prevent tracking, failed to
implement it properly, then asked for help during the
@ElonJet meltdown.
o ⚓ Fabio_Alessandro_Locati:_EU_EDPB_vs._Irish_DPC_vs._Meta
Platforms⠀⇛
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has evaluated
the legality of Facebook’s (now Meta Platforms) data
transfer for over 10 years. In those 10 years, we have
seen the Irish DPC trying to avoid ruling on the matter
multiple times and the European Data Protection Board
(EDPB) forcing them to do it. We now have a final ruling
on the matter, which is unfavorable to Meta.
§ Defence/Aggression⠀➾
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ US,_South_Korea_start_live-fire_drills_set_to_anger
Pyongyang⠀⇛
South Korea and the US are marking the 70th anniversary of an
alliance forged during the Korean War.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Student’s_hand_gets_hacked_off_by_attacker_in_China
during_a_live_stream⠀⇛
Another student was also attacked and suffered injuries on the
back.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China’s_new_ambassador_arrives_in_US_as
superpowers_face_‘severe_challenges’⠀⇛
China’s new ambassador to the United States has arrived in the
country, vowing to shoulder the “heavy responsibility” of a
superpower relationship that is “facing severe challenges”. Xie
Feng, a career diplomat with extensive experience in
Washington, arrived in New York on Tuesday, Beijing’s embassy
in the US said in a statement.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Capitol_rioter_who_rested_feet_on_desk_in_Pelosi’s_office
sentenced_to_over_4_years_in_prison⠀⇛
The Arkansas_man_photographed with his feet on a desk inside
then-House Speaker Nancy_Pelosi’s office during the Capitol
riot was sentenced to four-and-a-half-years in prison on
Wednesday.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Capitol_rioter_photographed_propping_feet_on
desk_in_Pelosi’s_office_sentenced_to_over_4_years⠀⇛
An Arkansas man who propped his feet on a desk in then-House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in a widely circulated photo from
the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced Wednesday to more than four
years in prison. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said
Richard “Bigo” Barnett became one of the faces of the Jan. 6
riot, and at times he seemed to enjoy the notoriety that came
with the media attention and social media following he amassed.
Barnett, a retired firefighter from Gravette, Arkansas, was
convicted at trial on eight counts, including felony charges of
civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Third_time’s_the_charm:_South_Korea_set_for
Thursday_launch_of_homegrown_space_rocket_Nuri⠀⇛
Wednesday’s launch was scuttled due to faults in a system that
controls a helium tank.
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ US_Treasury_sanctions_four_North_Korean_entities
engaged_in_malicious_cyber_activities⠀⇛
The U.S. Department of Treasury has sanctioned four North
Korean organizations, as well as one individual, for engaging
in malicious cyber activities. Officials announced the move on
Tuesday. Additionally, the Treasury Department detailed that
South Korea has also sanctioned the organizations and
individual in question.
⚓ France24 ☛ Clashes_between_rival_factions_in_Sudan’s_capital_undermine
fragile_ceasefire_deal⠀⇛
Clashes between rival military factions broke out on Wednesday
in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, residents said, threatening to shatter a
fragile ceasefire designed to allow for the delivery of aid and
create conditions for a more lasting truce.
⚓ Defence Web ☛ ISS:_Could_UN_funding_for_AU_peace_missions_become_the_norm?⠀⇛
The African Union (AU) and its regional economic communities have
deployed about 27 peace support operations in Africa since the 2000s.
These missions have faced various challenges, including the absence
of a guiding political strategy, an over-reliance on military-heavy
deployments and a lack of multidimensional capabilities and skills.
⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Biden_picks_history-making_Air_Force_fighter_pilot_to
serve_as_next_Joint_Chiefs_chairman⠀⇛
President Joe Biden will announce Thursday that he is tapping Air
Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr., a history-making fighter pilot with deep
knowledge of China, to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff. Brown’s confirmation would mean that, for the first time, both
the Pentagon’s top military and civilian positions would be held by
African Americans. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the first Black
Pentagon chief, has been in the job since the beginning of the
administration. If confirmed by the Senate, Brown would replace Army
Gen. Mark Milley, whose term ends in October, as the nation’s next
top military officer.
⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ The_US_needs_to_be_proactive_in_order_to_break_its
escalatory_cycle_with_Iran⠀⇛
Here we go again. On March 23, Iran-backed Iraqi militias launched a
drone attack that killed an American contractor and wounded another,
as well as twenty-four US military personnel.
⚓ European Commission ☛ Recorded_remarks_by_Commissioner_Lenarčič_at_the_Senior
Officials_Meeting_for_the_people_of_Sudan⠀⇛
European Commission Speech Brussels, 24 May 2023 Ladies and
gentlemen,
We meet today at a moment of urgent crisis for the people of Sudan.
§ Environment⠀➾
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ As_Typhoon_Mawar_hit,_these_identical_twin
meteorologists_kept_Guam_informed⠀⇛
Guam residents facing down the strongest typhoon to hit their
remote U.S. Pacific island territory in decades had identical
twin meteorologists helping them get ready and stay safe this
week. The National Weather Service’s Guam office employs Landon
Aydlett as its warning coordination meteorologist. His brother
Brandon Aydlett is the science and operations officer. The 41-
year-olds tag-teamed Facebook live broadcasts watched by
thousands as Typhoon Mawar approached. Landon Aydlett said
Thursday morning that working with his brother is like working
with his best friend. He says they never planned to work
together but the jobs fell in their laps and they followed
their heart and passion for the work.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Horn_of_Africa_to_Experience_Dry_June-September_Weather⠀⇛
In the coming months, the frequency and intensity of the rains
will decrease significantly in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda, South
Sudan, and Sudan.
* ⚓ European Commission ☛ Intervention_by_Commissioner_Lenarčič_at_the
High-level_Pledging_Event_for_the_Humanitarian_Response_in_the_Horn_of
Africa⠀⇛
European Commission Speech Brussels, 24 May 2023 It is true the
EU is a major donor in the horn of Africa region. Drawing
attention to crises early on and acting swiftly to help people
in need.
* ⚓ European Commission ☛ Recorded_remarks_by_Commissioner_Lenarčič_at_the
Senior_Officials_Meeting_for_the_people_of_Sudan⠀⇛
European Commission Speech Brussels, 24 May 2023 Ladies and
gentlemen,
We meet today at a moment of urgent crisis for the people of
Sudan.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ SA_urged_to_bid_for_UN_climate_change_conference⠀⇛
South Australia’s peak business group says the state should
look to host the world’s leading conference on climate change
to push its green credentials.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ German_police_carry_out_nationwide_raids_against_Last
Generation_climate_activists⠀⇛
German police on Wednesday carried out raids across seven
states targeting climate activists of the “Letzte Generation”
(Last Generation) group, which has sparked controversy with
protesters glueing themselves to roads to block traffic.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Will_We_Ever_Get_an_SEC_Climate_Disclosure_Rule?⠀⇛
The Securities & Exchange Commission again delays issuing a
controversial anticipated rule.
* ⚓ European Commission ☛ Video_Recorded_Keynote_Speech_by_EVP_Timmermans
for_the_FES_Just_Climate_Annual_Flagship_Conference_on_24-05-2023⠀⇛
European Commission Speech Brussels, 24 May 2023 Climate change
and biodiversity loss will remain the defining challenges of
our lifetime. They affect everyone. With the European Green
Deal, we are showing that it’s possible. The EU has made
emissions reductions an irreversible legal obligation. We have
an opportunity to do better.
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia’s_power_distribution_rates_will_jump_in_July⠀⇛
As of July 1 this year, electricity distribution and
transmission tariffs will rise in Latvia, which will
affect all users, according to information by the Public
Utilities Commission (SPRK) on May 24.
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Power_bills_to_surge_by_nearly_25pct_for
thousands⠀⇛
Power bills will surge by nearly 25 per cent
for thousands of Australian households under a new
ceiling electricity price set by the energy regulator.
The default market offer, determined by the Australian
Energy Regulator, determines the maximum price retailers
can charge customers in NSW, South Australia and
southeast Queensland.
o ⚓ LRT ☛ Brussels_calls_on_Lithuania_to_scrap_energy_subsidies,
strengthen_healthcare⠀⇛
The European Commission recommends that Lithuania scrap
energy subsidies, strengthen primary health care, improve
social services, and reduce dependence on fossil fuels
and energy imports.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvians_keen_to_recycle_old_tires⠀⇛
In 2025, Latvia and other European Union (EU) Member
States will have to collect for recycling 90% of the
volume of tires sold on the market. Until the end of May,
tires can be disposed of free of charge in four locations
where they will further be recycled, Latvian Television
reported Wednesday.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Unsurprisingly,_Chevron’s_carbon_offsets_are_mostly
junk⠀⇛
New research published Wednesday (May 24) by Corporate
Accountability, a nonprofit corporate watchdog, has found
that 93% of Chevron’s carbon offset programs between 2020
and 2022 have not led to reductions of greenhouse gas
emissions.
o ⚓ H2 View ☛ Bio_Friends_selects_Prime_Plasma’s_hydrogen_production
technology_for_Korean_refuelling_stations⠀⇛
Prime Plasma has applied for a US patent to produce clean
hydrogen.
* § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Can_50_tons_of_dinosaur_fossils_help_hatch
paleontology_in_Niger?⠀⇛
Landlocked Niger is home to stunning dinosaur fossils.
Scientists aim not only to find them but also to build
homegrown research expertise.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Asian_stocks_sink_on_US_debt_ceiling_jitters⠀⇛
Asian shares fell to a two-month low on Thursday, and the US
dollar rose as the impasse in negotiations to raise the US debt
ceiling kept investors wary of risky assets due to the hit the
global economy will take if the US government defaults.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Free_loans_from_Commbank⠀⇛
Michael talks about Commbank’s dodgy dealings with corporate
cops and senior journos in order to collude to take down bank
victims advocates.
* ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ New_Max_Planck_center_generates_knowledge_to
understand_root_causes_of_inequality⠀⇛
The University of Helsinki, in collaboration with the German
Max Planck Foundation, has established a research center
focused on studying health from the perspective of social
inequality. The center will commence its operations at the
beginning of July. The research center enables cutting-edge
population-based studies on health, with the aim of influencing
society as a whole.
* ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Inflation_slows_to_6%_in_first_half_of_May⠀⇛
The latest numbers show that overall consumer prices fell 0.32%
in the first half of the month compared to the second half of
April.
* ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Inflation_drops_sharply_to_8.7%_–_but_can_any_savings_rate
beat_it?⠀⇛
Slower rises in energy bills helped ease inflation, but food
prices continue to soar
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Breach Media ☛ To_beat_a_bold_right_wing_in_Alberta,_Rachel_Notley_bets
on_timidity⠀⇛
The Alberta NDP is walking a tightrope by trying to appeal to
both conservative and progressive voters
* ⚓ Hatay’s_new_hospital_inaugurated_by_Erdoğan_largely_unfinished⠀⇛
The new Defne State Hospital, ostensibly completed within 60
days, still has construction works that potentially endanger
public health, a delegation from medical organizations reports.
* ⚓ MAY_24:_Countdown_to_Turkey_runoff:_Kılıçdaroğlu_walks_tight_line
between_Kurdish,_ultranationalist_support⠀⇛
As incumbent Erdoğan and rival Kılıçdaroğlu prepare for the
decisive round of the presidential race, we bring you post-
parliamentary updates and developments leading to May 28′s
runoff.
* ⚓ Anti-migration_leader_endorses_Kılıçdaroğlu_in_Turkey’s_presidential
runoff_vote⠀⇛
After days of negotiations, Ümit Özdağ has declared support for
the opposition candidate against incumbent President Erdoğan.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Turkish_anti-immigrant_party_leader_endorses_Erdogan
challenger_Kilicdaroglu⠀⇛
Turkey’s anti-immigrant Victory Party leader endorsed
opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu on
Wednesday, potentially boosting the challenger as he aims to
make up ground and defeat President Tayyip Erdogan in Sunday’s
runoff election.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Kroenig_and_Ashford_debate_the_implications_of
Turkey’s_elections⠀⇛
On May 19, Foreign Policy published its biweekly “It’s
Debatable” column featuring Scowcroft Center deputy director
Matthew Kroenig and Emma Ashford assessing the latest news in
international affairs.
* ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ China’s_“summer_Davos”_2023⠀⇛
Next month the World Economic Forum will be hosting its “Summer
Davos” in Tianjin, China. Described as the “Annual Meeting of
the New Champions”, this has been an important yearly WEF event
since 2010, always hosted somewhere in China.
* ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Australia_needs_to_be_clear-eyed_about_India
relationship_after_Modi_visit⠀⇛
An Australian official once told me that Australians struggle
to think beyond the American-led Anglosphere and alliance.
There might have been some hyperbole in that remark.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_failed_to_sway_outcome_of_Canada’s_last_2
elections,_top_Ottawa_official_finds⠀⇛
By Michel Comte China sought to interfere in Canada’s last two
elections but failed to sway the outcomes, a top official
reviewing allegations of vote meddling said Tuesday.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ The_Republican_Primary_Consensus_for_Sending_the_Military_Into
Mexico⠀⇛
Presidential contender Tim Scott, who announced recently, says
he will use “the world’s greatest military to fight these
terrorists” south of the border. He’s not alone.
* ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexico_to_offer_temporary_work_visas_to_Central
American_migrants⠀⇛
The president said the new visa program meets the workforce
needs of his flagship projects and will help slow migration to
the United States.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ China_Ramps_Up_Culture_Crackdown,_Canceling_Music_and
Comedy_Shows⠀⇛
Performances across the country were canceled last week after
Beijing began investigating a stand-up comedian.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Media_ethics_body_criticizes_penalty_over_word_misuse⠀⇛
The Latvian Media Ethics Council said in a statement on May 24
that the decision of the National Electronic Mass Media Council
(NEPLP) to fine the Tvnet.lv portal for alleged misuse of the
word ‘deportation’ is “disproportionate, undemocratic and
bureaucratic”.
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ The_Fight_To_Free_Julian_Assange,_with_Kevin
Gosztola⠀⇛
Uncover the truth behind Julian Assange’s detainment and the US
government’s escalating attacks on WikiLeaks in this eye-
opening interview with Kevin Gosztola, shedding light on the
invaluable information exposed by WikiLeaks and the potential
collapse of a secretive system.
* ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Why_Masha_Gessen_Resigned_from_the_PEN_America_Board⠀⇛
A conversation about balancing free-speech commitments in an
era of war.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ 1_in_2_workers_are_bullied._Here’s_what_to_do_if_that’s_you⠀⇛
One in two workers are affected by workplace bullying. The
negative impacts range from depression to suicidal tendencies.
So, why aren’t more people talking about it?
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Chinese_citizens_are_suing_the_state_of_Florida_for_barring
them_from_buying_homes⠀⇛
A group of Chinese citizens are suing the state of Florida over
a new law that restricts their ability to buy property in the
state.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Swatch_dares_Malaysia_to_confiscate_rainbows_after
Pride_watches_raid⠀⇛
The public spat is likely to spark renewed concern about the
government’s commitment to minority rights.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Swatch_is_defending_its_rainbow_watches_against_Malaysia’s
LGBTQ_censorship⠀⇛
Malaysian authorities raided 11 Swatch stores on May 13 and 14,
seizing rainbow watches from the company’s Pride collection
amid the country’s growing crackdown on LGBTQ expression…
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Hong_Kong_leader_slams_Cathay_Pacific_over_treatment_of_mainland
Chinese_passengers⠀⇛
Flight attendants fired after they commented about passengers
who don’t speak English or Cantonese
* ⚓ RFA ☛ US_House_panel_urges_further_action_Uyghur_forced_labor⠀⇛
Select Committee on China also tells Congress to more urgently
prepare for a Taiwan conflict.
* ⚓ EDRI ☛ Chaos_Communication_Camp_2023⠀⇛
Chaos Communication Camp is the Chaos Computer Club’s (CCC)
quadrennial hacker meeting and open-air hack party, now in
Mildenberg for the third time.
* ⚓ EDRI ☛ AMA_(Ask_Me_Anything):_responsible_data_and_social_justice
edition⠀⇛
On Thursday, June 1, The Engine Room is hosting its first ever
video-conference AMA (ask me – us – anything)! From 5-6pm CET,
members of the team will gather in a video conference to answer
your questions about responsible data.
* ⚓ ACLU ☛ It’s_Time_for_Congress_to_Update_Our_Genetic_Nondiscrimination
Law⠀⇛
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) was
enacted in 2008 to protect Americans from being widely
discriminated against by a then new technology: genetic
testing. The law was written after genetic discrimination
emerged in the 1970s. At the time, programs to screen and
identify genetic carriers of sickle cell anemia, a disease
which afflicts many Black Americans, were being mandated by
states. These mandated screening programs targeted Black
people, perpetuating racial bias and stigmatization. Congress
acted to make this genetic discrimination illegal. But now,
GINA is 15 years old and needs to be updated to reflect a new
threat of abuse of biological information — epigenetic
discrimination. Because the law was written before many modern
advances in the field of genetics, it is unclear whether its
protections will extend to the novel types of information that
will soon be generated from millions of Americans.
§ Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Netflix’s_password_sharing_crackdown_has_arrived_in_the_US_and
another_100-odd_countries⠀⇛
Netflix’s password sharing crackdown is swiftly making its way
around the world.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ PTAB_Finds_Patentee_Breached_Duty_of
Candor_During_IPR_But_in_Doing_So_Conflates_Rule_56_and_IPR_Candor
Rules⠀⇛
In a single decision issued by several panels, the Board
held that the patentee had failed to act in good faith
by, boiled down, intentionally withholding material test
data that was inconsistent with the arguments it was
making in favor of patentability of both original and
proposed substitute claims. The case is Spectrum
Solutions LLC v. Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics LLC,
IPR2021-00847 (Patent 8,084,443 B2), IPR2021-00850
(Patent 8,293,467 B2), IPR2021-00854 (Patent 8,669,240
B2), IPR2021-00857 (Patent 9,212,399 B2), IPR2021-00860
(Patent 9,683,256 B2) (May 3, 2023).
o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Guest_Post:_Margo_Bagley,_The
Diversity_Pilots_Initiative [Ed: Disguising monopoly as
"Diversity"]⠀⇛
This post is the first in a series relating to the
Diversity Pilots Initiative, a project co-organized by
Professors Bagley & Chien together with personnel from
the USPTO that seeks to advance inclusive innovation
through rigorous research. The first blog in the series
is here and resources from the first conference of the
initiative are available here. Below, Professor Bagley
introduces herself, the project, and the series. – Jason
Rantanen
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Aeritas_wireless_purchasing_patent_affirmed
invalid_in_ex_parte_appeal⠀⇛
On May 11, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
affirmed the Examiner’s final rejection of all claims of
U.S._Patent_9,390,435, owned and asserted by Aeritas,
LLC. The ‘435 patent relates to using a mobile device to
make online purchases based on received notifications
related to products or services of interest based on the
location of the mobile device and other notification
criteria. The patent had been asserted in over 20
litigations but all cases have been terminated.
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ SoftBank_entity,_Neo_Wireless,_prior_art
found⠀⇛
Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found
on four patents owned by Neo Wireless, LLC, an NPE and
SoftBank entity.
We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-
quality submissions that were made on this patent. The
ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of
thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the
industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable
validity by finding and submitting prior art in the
contests.
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ The_USPTO_Needs_Your_Input_Now_–_Help_Fight
NPEs⠀⇛
You can help support our economy, reduce wasteful NPE
litigation, and stop the assertion of bad patents. All it
takes is a few minutes of your time.
The USPTO has issued a set of proposed_rules, nearly all
of which will make it harder for everyone, including
Unified, to challenge bad patents.
o ⚓ JUVE ☛ Top_litigation_firms_in_Austria_2023 [Ed: Webspam or
spamfarm disguised as true endorsement; this is what JUVE
became.]⠀⇛
o ⚓ JUVE ☛ Top_filing_and_litigation_firms_in_Austria_2023 [Ed:
SPAM]⠀⇛
o ⚓ JUVE ☛ Top_filing_firms_in_Austria_2023 [Ed: SPAM]⠀⇛
o ⚓ JUVE ☛ Video:_JUVE_Patent’s_Austria_ranking_2023 [Ed: More UPC
propaganda; this site is bribed by Team UPC.]⠀⇛
In JUVE Patent’s Austria ranking 2023, Mathieu Klos
presents the latest developments in the Austrian patent
market. JUVE Patent’s Austria ranking 2023: an overview
With the launch of the Unified Patent Court imminent, the
Austrian patent community is both enthusiastic and
apprehensive.
* § Software Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ GEVC_video_codec_patent_revoked_by_EPO⠀⇛
On May 23, 2023, the European Patent Office revoked all
claims of EP_3151566_B1, owned by GE_Video_Compression,
LLC. The EP ’566 patent is part of a family purportedly
essential to HEVC and part of the Access_Advance patent
pool. This filing is a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts
in its SEP_Video_Codec_Zone.
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘Simply_the_best’:_Tributes_pour_in_for_Tina_Turner
after_death_of_music_legend⠀⇛
A collection of tributes that poured in Wednesday from
musicians, actors and athletes following the death
of musical superstar Tina Turner.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Tributes_for_Tina_Turner,_the_global_music
superstar,_after_her_death_at_83⠀⇛
From Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger to NBA legend
Magic Johnson, many paid tribute to music superstar Tina
Turner following her death on Wednesday. The “What’s Love
Got to Do With It” singer died at the age of 83 after a
long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich. Jagger
says he’s saddened after hearing about the passing of his
friend Turner, who he performed with in 1985. Johnson
posted a photo on Twitter with him Turner calling the
singer one of his favorite artists of all time. Erykah
Badu called Turner a “cultural icon,” while both former
President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden also paid
tribute to the late superstar.
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Despite_Vinyl’s_Resurgence,_CD_Baby_Is
Exiting_the_Physical_Distribution_Game_and_Closing_Its_Warehouse⠀⇛
Following an October layoff round and an April
reorganization within its Downtown parent, CD Baby is
getting out of the physical distribution game.
o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Artificial_intelligence_homework_trend_spreads_in
Latvian_schools⠀⇛
Once, teachers worried that parents were doing homework
instead of children. Now, in both primary and secondary
schools, more and more pupils are submitting to teachers
their artificial intelligence compositions – writings,
essays, and reviews. The trend is new but spreads
rapidly, Latvian Radio reported May 25.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Technical⠀➾
o ⚓ I_can’t_think_of_a_title⠀⇛
somewhat: created account, posted once, commented on a
post or two, responded to a couple surveys, noted a
couple “like” notifications. I can find my way around.
o ⚓ ed⠀⇛
All this enthusiasm about newsgroups has brought me back
to `tin`. Back in the early days, when I got an account
at the computer centre of our university, when I learned
about email and Usenet, I used tin to read the news. This
was before I learned about Emacs. I guess at the time I
was still using vi? Or whatever they used as the standard
editor back then?
[...]
It’s not so bad, actually! I even managed to write
sections of the buffer to a new file, and run `fmt` on
it. It’s not perfect because when I read the formatted
file, the lines get appended at the end of the buffer
instead of being inserted at the current line. There are
still workflows to work out! 😄
o ⚓ re:Six_years_of_gopher⠀⇛
Really enjoyed solderpunk’s 6 year post[1]. He called it
“naval gazing” (I was an early slashdotter too my
friend!), but I didn’t find it self-absorbed at all; I
mean, not more than I would expect from someone’s
personal journal/log. That’s the point of the journal, I
think! And it’s a pleasure to read what other people are
doing and thinking. At least, that’s how I view it.
So thanks, solderpunk!
The time really has flown on gopher and pubnix.
o ⚓ terminal_applications⠀⇛
i finally found an rss reader i like, newsboat! i’ve been
looking for a bunch of basic tools i can use from my
terminal, and an rss reader is up there on the list of
importance. i’ve been learning how to use vim for the
past couple months and i feel like i’m getting there, but
i’m nowhere close to power user. i also want to move to
using smol.pub and midnight.pub solely from the terminal
(which i can do now, because i’ve added the feeds to my
reader). let me know if you’ve got any other tools i
should check out!
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Gemini*_and_Gopher
# Personal
# Technical
# Internet/Gemini
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
# § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ It_could_have_been_so_simple⠀⇛
# ⚓ April/May_Update⠀⇛
Fell a bit behind with updating this journal,
so I thought I should write up a small entry.
There’s been some good things and some bad
this past month.
I should probably start with the bad news. I
mentioned a few months ago that one of our
beloved family cats was very ill. She was
finally put down last week. I’m still
processing the whole thing, so I don’t think
I’m quite ready to talk too much about it
just yet. I think I will be writing something
up about her soon, and perhaps making a page
on the site for her.
# ⚓ churning_The_Midnight_toil⠀⇛
I keep coming back here. Daily. Odd. I <3
M.p, and the folks here, but I keep coming
back to say this and that when I don’t have
“a lot” to say. Even life updates – for those
I keep up with through e-mail, they know
what’s going on with me, my future move to
another part of Missouri, etc., and even that
is a “wait on the USPS” game right now (until
tomorrow? Or Friday?).
I asked the Webmaster of W.a to delete my old
blogs from there, on Discuss.write.as, and I
doubt he’ll comply. I doubt he’ll acknowledge
such a request, because I am not a fire
hydrant in NYC to snap a photo of with a
vintage camera.
I also opened/closed a Mastodon acct today.
The toxicity of the Mastodon TL “feed” (it’s
layout, some statuses there) flooded into my
brain as if I had taken a half-step back from
the firehose of debauchery of Twitter,
proving to me that; yes, when one walks away
from a true addiction, every step away is
only as good as the next step further away
from it.
# ⚓ Experience_Does_Not_Require_a_Dualist_Explanation⠀⇛
Chalmers begins by making an important
distinction between awareness and experience
as different things which are both often
referred to as consciousness. He calls
awareness and related aspects of
consciousness the “easy problems:” the
ability to control our behavior, observe,
react, and focus our attention. These are all
things which we might not understand fully
right now, but which we can reasonably expect
to eventually understand through the
empirical methods already available to us.
# § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ On_Profit⠀⇛
Others may experience that megacorps are
unprofitable–too much stress, and not
worshiping money may find that which
remains–a paycheck, or the fearful
climbing–isn’t much a draw.
Worse, megacorps create work in IT even if
you avoid their wares–oh, yeah, Microsoft
does that, you need to twiddle these options
so Excel is less likely to corrupt your data;
or, oh, yeah, Chrome does that, they WONTFIX,
try another browser when you see that error.
Splash damage, as it were. Perhaps with
appropriate regulatory scrutiny or some
actual competition for a change there would
be remedies for or more alternatives to such?
# ⚓ Violence⠀⇛
Today I saw @gherhartd@ludosphere.fr working
on an anti-violence manifesto for games. He
said he intended it for the people he played
with or for the imaginary designers of the
games he’d like to play.
I am conflicted.
I used to be firmly in the camp of violence
is fun precisely because my life and the
lives of the people are around me appears
practically free violence.
# ⚓ dithering_photos⠀⇛
I made a short z-shell script to apply
dithering to input pictures.
The whole thing started when Skyjake on
geminispace.org pointed me to the low-tech
magazine the other day. The low-tech magazine
operates a solar powered server to host a
version of the magazine, fully willing to let
it go offline when there is a longer spell of
bad weather. One of the many things they do
to preserve energy is to convert their
pictures to four gray values, dither it for
more pleasant looks and apply a tint.
What I do in my script is inspired by, but
different to their final results. I started
out to see for myself how big the file size
difference actually is but then thought I
might one day turn this into something
useful.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ My_Desire_for_Gemini⠀⇛
Recently there has been a big stir
about a new service on Gemini called
Geminispace^. Almost everything that
can be said about the service can be
said, so while I do have some thoughts
about it, I won’t belabor any points
here. Instead, I found myself
reflecting this evening on the protocol
and what it means to me.
My attraction to Gemini largely stems
from its ease of deployment relative to
Web sites and other Internet services.
Provisioning public access is usually
the hardest part: otherwise, all one
needs is a certificate, a ready-to-run
server package, and an open port. I
know Gopher is even easier to set up
and manage, but Gemini’s ability to
provide user authentication gives it
enough power for my use cases.
# ⚓ 23K04_the_beach_that_makes_you_old⠀⇛
okay so i’ve got a lot of stuff to talk
about but I know i’m going to have
trouble elaborating on concepts if I
just braindump here. So i’ll just wrote
about one thing, and then I can write
about the other stuff tomorrow. That
way I can also get the satisfaction of
publishing more frequent logs!
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Dory:_a_Misfin_protocol_library_in_Rust⠀⇛
I’m intrigued enough by the spec that I
started working on a Rust crate which
implements the spec. It’s early days,
but the goal is to implement the spec
in such a way that it can be used
either by a standalone Misfin server or
as part of a larger Gemini (or other
smallweb) application.
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Posted in News_Roundup at 11:01 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
# Open_Access/Content
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 Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/`utrality
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Linux_Fu:_Making_Progress⠀⇛
The computer world looks different from behind a TeleType
or other hardcopy terminal. Things that tend to annoy
people about Unix or Linux these days were perfectly
great when you were printing everything the computer said
to you. Consider the brevity of most basic commands. When
you copy a file, for example, it doesn’t really tell you
much other than it returns you to the prompt when it is
done. If you are on a modern computer working with
normal-sized files locally, not a big deal. But if you
are over a slow network or with huge files, it would be
nice to have a progress bar. Sure, you could write your
own version of copy, but wouldn’t it be nice to have some
more generic options?
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ Sick_of_Microsoft?_How_to_Make_the_Switch_From_Windows_to
Linux⠀⇛
Microsoft has made the switch to Windows 11, but if
you are sick of embedded advertisements, constant
updates, data collection, and rising hardware
requirements, we don’t blame you. There is a very
real possibility your Windows 10 machine can’t even
upgrade to the next iteration of Windows, so what
are you supposed to do?
If you have ever considered making the jump to a
different operating system, now is the perfect
time. But if you don’t want to pay more for a Mac,
it’s important to remember that you are not stuck
with the Windows-macOS binary or even have to
settle for the browser-based Chrome OS.
Instead, with a little patience and some command
line acumen, you can turn to the world of Linux.
Despite what you may think, it’s easier to make the
jump than you may think. Here’s how to install a
Linux distro and then download and manage apps to
get you started.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ Linux_Out_Loud_64:_Linux_Workflow⠀⇛
This week, Linux Out Loud chats about our Linux
workflow. Welcome to episode 64 of Linux Out Loud.
We fired up our mics, connected those headphones as
we searched the community for themes to expound
upon. We kept the banter friendly, the conversation
somewhat on topic, and had fun doing it.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ 1½_Topics:_realtime_throttling_and_user-space
adaptive_spinning⠀⇛
The Linux CPU scheduler will let realtime tasks hog
the CPU to the exclusion of everything else —
except when it doesn’t. At the 2023 Open Source
Summit North America, Joel Fernandes covered the
problems with the kernel’s realtime throttling
mechanism and a couple of potential solutions. As a
bonus, since the room was unscheduled for the
following slot, attendees were treated to a
spontaneous session on adaptive spinning in user
space run by André Almeida.
# The_2023_LSFMM+BPF_Summit: the first set of reports from the
annual gathering of storage, filesystem, memory-management,
and BPF developers. Sessions written up so far include:
# A_storage-standards_update: an overview of what is
coming in the storage area, with a focus on CXL 3.0.
# Peer-to-peer_DMA: transferring data directly between
NVMe devices.
# The_state_of_the_page_in_2023: an update on the project
to use folios everywhere and, eventually, reduce struct
page to a single pointer.
# Reconsidering_the_direct-map_fragmentation_problem: for
years, kernel developers have worried about the
performance impacts of breaking up the kernel’s direct
map. Perhaps that worry was misplaced.
# Memory-management_changes_for_CXL: a discussion of
suggested changes to enable better management of CXL-
attached memory.
# The_future_of_memory_tiering: there is a lot of
interest in tiered-memory systems, but a lot of
implementation questions remain.
# Live_migration_of_virtual_machines_over_CXL. Using CXL
shared-memory pools to move VMs with no gap in service.
# Memory_overcommit_in_containerized_environments:
helping virtual-machine managers get memory to the
right places.
# User-space_control_of_memory_management: another
proposed mechanism to allow user space to make memory-
management decisions.
# A_2023_DAMON_update: an overview of recent enhancements
to the DAMON user-space memory-management tool and a
look forward to what is coming next.
# High-granularity_mappings_for_huge_pages: a technique
for using huge pages while suffering less internal
fragmentation.
# Computational_storage: a new NVMe feature for
offloading computation on data to NVMe devices of
various kinds.
# FUSE_passthrough_for_file_I/O: optimizing Filesystem in
Userspace (FUSE) for “passthrough” filesystems.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Beebom ☛ 10_Best_Linux_Text_Editors_in_2023 [Ed: Terrible
list as it starts with proprietary spyware of Microsoft -
- something GNU/Linux users must learn to avoid]⠀⇛
A large population of Linux users are primarily
software developers, enthusiasts, and people who
are just getting started with Linux. One of the
most popular apps for everyone on Linux is a text
editor. Now, Windows comes with Notepad and other
third-party text editors, and so does Linux. The
difference is, because Linux is not very popular,
the text editors on the platform are not very well
recognized. Hence, in this article, let’s look at
some of the 10 best text editors on Linux.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 8_Useful_Bluetooth_Tools_for_Linux⠀⇛
We recommend a variety of different Bluetooth tools
besides BlueZ, the official implementation of the
Bluetooth protocol stack.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Machine_Learning_in_Linux:_Spleeter_–_source
separation_library⠀⇛
Spleeter is a source separation library with pre-
trained models written in Python. It’s free and
open source software.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ FOSS_Weekly_#23.21:_Pip_Issue,_CPU_Stress
Testing_and_More_Linux_Stuff⠀⇛
Changes to Pip mechanism, stress testing CPU and
other Linux tips and tutorials in this edition of
FOSS Weekly.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Single_Line_Comments_in_CSS⠀⇛
Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a
website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found
himself missing some of the ergonomics from Sass.
Having mostly abandoned Sass on personal projects,
I was curious what he felt was missing.
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Encryption_for_stream_based
protocols_versus_‘RPC’_protocols⠀⇛
In my views on protocols and encryption, I called
SMTP and IMAP ‘stream based protocols’ without
really explaining what I meant and why this
mattered (and why NFS v3 isn’t really one, even
though it’s also transported over TCP). While
writing a comment on that entry I came to a
realization about this in the context of
encryption. The short version is that stream based
protocols have context, or equivalently that a
specific connection for such a protocol has state,
state that’s not explicitly specified in each of
the messages that are exchanged over the connection
(but instead established from the sequence of
messages).
# ⚓ Net2 ☛ How_to_Install_Microsoft_Teams_on_Ubuntu_22.04 [Ed:
This is Microsoft's proprietary spyware; don't help GNU/Linux
users install that, teach them how to bypass it]⠀⇛
In today’s diverse workplace, Microsoft Teams has
become an invaluable tool for seamless
communication and effective collaboration. While
commonly associated with Windows and macOS, Ubuntu
users have also recognized the power and
versatility of this platform.
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Fix_VMware_Could_Not_Connect
‘Ethernet_0’_to_Virtual_Network_‘/dev/vmnet8’⠀⇛
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_set_up_a_DHCP_server_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to
set up a DHCP server on Debian 11. The process is
simple; however, many options depend on the needs
of the network.
# ⚓ Popsicle_–_Multiple_USB_File_Flasher_for_Linux⠀⇛
Popsicle is a free and open-source USB file flasher
for parallelly flashing multiple USB devices. It
has a simple, themeable user interface with a
straightforward
# ⚓ How_to_start_XAMPP_in_Ubuntu_using_the_command_line?⠀⇛
XAMPP is a local server environment that is useful
for developers or anyone who want to test some web
application locally, either to develop further or
experience it before using it in production. It
offers a complete LAMP stack that includes Apache,
MySQL, PHP, and Perl.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Etherpad_on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛
Etherpad is a free and open-source alternative to
Google Docs and Zoho Writer services. Etherpad is a
collaborative and real-time text editor for your
team, it’s accessible from anywhere at any time
because Etherpad is a web-based text editor.
# ⚓ Untangling_the_Web:_Grasping_the_Kubernetes_Networking
Model⠀⇛
Introduction Kubernetes has become the go-to
platform for deploying and managing containerized
applications at scale. Originally developed by
Google, Kubernetes has been adopted by major
organizations like Microsoft, IBM and Red Hat as a
vital component of their cloud infrastructures.
# ⚓ Streamlined_Connectivity:_Exploring_Kubernetes_Networking
Solutions⠀⇛
Introduction Kubernetes is a powerful container
orchestration system that can help organizations
achieve greater efficiency and scalability in their
application development processes. However,
managing the networking infrastructure of a
Kubernetes cluster can be challenging, particularly
as the size and complexity of the cluster grows.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Elasticsearch,_Fluentd_and
Kibana_(EFK)_Logging_Stack_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Log monitoring and analysis is an essential part of
server or container infrastructure and is useful
when handling complex applications. One of the
popular logging solutions is the Elasticsearch,
Fluentd, and Kibana (EFK) stack.
# ⚓ LinuxTuto ☛ How_to_Install_CodeIgniter_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
CodeIgniter is a fast, lightweight, and open-source
PHP framework used for developing web applications.
# ⚓ Balancing_Act:_Exploring_Load_Balancing_Options_in
Kubernetes⠀⇛
Introduction As more and more applications are
deployed as microservices, Kubernetes has become a
popular choice for container orchestration. One of
the key features of Kubernetes is its ability to
automatically load balance traffic between multiple
instances of an application.
# ⚓ Custom_Solutions:_Crafting_Your_Own_CNI_Plugin_for
Kubernetes⠀⇛
Introduction Kubernetes has emerged as the most
popular container orchestration platform, providing
a scalable and reliable infrastructure for
deploying and managing containerized applications.
One of the essential components of Kubernetes is
its networking model, which enables the
communication between different pods, services, and
nodes in a cluster.
# ⚓ Mastering_Helm:_Effective_Usage_in_Your_Kubernetes
Environment⠀⇛
Introduction Kubernetes is a powerful container
orchestration platform that enables the deployment,
scaling, and management of containerized
applications. Helm is a tool that adds another
layer of functionality on top of Kubernetes by
providing an efficient way to package, deploy, and
manage applications in your Kubernetes environment.
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ Understanding_Linux_File_And_Directory
Permissions_–_A_Detailed_Guide⠀⇛
Gain a deeper understanding of Linux file and
directory permissions. Master the chmod command in
Linux to change file and directory permissions with
our comprehensive guide.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Court_Allows_Gamers’_Amended_Suit_To_Block
Microsoft,_Activision_Deal_To_Go_Forward⠀⇛
While we’ve talked a great deal now about
Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision
Blizzard, most of the focus has been on how three
major regulatory bodies are handling approving, or
not, the purchase. But those regulatory bodies are
not the only ones challenging the purchase. A small
group of gamers filed their own private suit to
block the acquisition, arguing that they would be
negatively impacted if it were approved. That was
earlier this year and the judge dismissed the suit,
stating that the plaintiffs had not provided enough
specific evidence of harm in its complaint to allow
the suit to move forward. However, the court also
provided the plaintiffs with the ability to re-file
the suit and told them what the court would be
looking for in an amended complaint.
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ Google_is_testing_Steam_games_on_Chromebooks
with_Intel_N100/N200_chips_–_Gizchina.com⠀⇛
Google is testing Steam games for entry-level Intel
Alder Lake N100/N200 Chromebooks in alpha.
Chromebooks require specific hardware to provide a
quality experience for Steam games, and not all
Chromebooks are compatible with Steam. For the
initial launch, Google has prepared a list of 100
Steam games they have tested on various
Chromebooks. However, Steam on ChromeOS is
currently only in beta testing, so there may be
some issues while Google is still improving the
experience.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Halls_of_Torment_is_out_in_Early_Access_–_a
great_fusion_of_Diablo_and_Vampire_Survivors⠀⇛
What do you get if you combine classic Diablo with
Vampire Survivors? Well one developer decided to
show you with an unholy combination in Halls of
Torment.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Exil_is_a_post_apocalyptic_fusion_of_Hollow
Knight_&_Cuphead⠀⇛
Hollow Knight and Cuphead fused together in a post
apocalyptic setting? Yes please. Exil not only
sounds good but it looks the part too. It will also
have full Linux support.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ This_Unity_to_Godot_importer_has_me_a
little_excited⠀⇛
There’s a lot to be interested and excited about
when it comes to Godot Engine, the free and open
source game engine and now Unity game devs may want
to keep watch. Shared on Twitter, which seems to
have raised the eyebrows of and excited many
developers, is a new project that aims to let you
import Unity projects into Godot.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Comet_is_an_open_source_implementation_of
GOG_Galaxy_SDK_that_needs_testing⠀⇛
One sticking issue with GOG currently is GOG
Galaxy, and how it has no support for Linux. Now
the Comet project aims to bridge the gap.
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ New_Steam_Games_with_Native_Linux_Clients
with_Pawperty_Damage,_Butterflies_and_Erra:_Exordium_–_2023-
05-24_Edition⠀⇛
Between 2023-05-17 and 2023-05-24 there were 36 New
Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For
reference, during the same time, there were 312
games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux
versions represent about 11.5 % of total…
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# ⚓ Ricardo García ☛ What_is_the_X.Org_Foundation,_anyway?⠀⇛
A few weeks ago the annual X.Org Foundation Board
of Directors election took place. The Board of
Directors has 8 members at any given moment, and
members are elected for 2-year terms. Instead of
renewing the whole board every 2 years, half the
board is renewed every year. Foundation members,
which must apply for or renew membership every
year, are the electorate in the process. Their main
duty is voting in board elections and occasionally
voting in other changes proposed by the board.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Mageia_9_Beta_2_is_Available_for_Testing⠀⇛
A new beta build of Mageia 9 is available for
testing.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Business Wire ☛ Red_Hat_Simplifies_Management_for_Red_Hat
Enterprise_Linux_Across_the_Hybrid_Cloud⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 5_Reasons_to_Use_Flatpak_to_Install_Software
on_Linux⠀⇛
You’re probably familiar with the frustration that
comes with software that just won’t install.
Unfortunately, this is something that almost every
Linux user has encountered once or twice—and that’s
where application distributors like Flatpak come in
handy.
Here are some of the best advantages you can enjoy
when installing Linux software with Flatpak.
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Fedora_Plans_to_Drop_X11_Support_in_Plasma_6
Completely⠀⇛
The Fedora KDE Plasma spin will boldly move to go
all-in on Wayland, dropping X11 when Plasma 6 comes
out. Here’s why.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ HDR_and_Colour_Management_for_AMD_/_Steam
Deck_and_KDE_Plasma_coming_along⠀⇛
With all the work going on right now to get Linux
to properly support HDR, another patch set has
landed to hopefully get some of it hooked up. This
is the second attempt, after the first Request For
Comments was sent in April.
# ⚓ Hans_de_Goede:_Fedora_IPU6_camera_support_now_available_in
rpmfusion-nonfree⠀⇛
InstallationI am happy to announce that Intel’s
IPU6 camera stack has been packaged in rpmfusion
and now can be installed under Fedora 37 and newer
with a single `dnf install` command.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ Sparky_Conky_Manager_0.2.0⠀⇛
The Sparky Conky Manager updated up to version
0.2.0. What is Sparky Conky Manager? Sparky Conky
Manager is a small, Yad based tool which lets you
launch or stop Conky and edit its configuration
file. This version features 4 more Conky configs,
alongside to the Sparky’s default one, to be
launched via the GUI tool.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Web Pro News ☛ Linux_Distro_Reviews:_Kubuntu⠀⇛
Kubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distros,
especially among those running the KDE desktop
environment (DE), and for good reason.
Kubuntu is often described as the “just works”
distro, earning a solid reputation for reliability
and stability.
# ⚓ Web Pro News ☛ Linux_Distro_Reviews:_KDE_Neon⠀⇛
KDE Neon is the official KDE distro and one of the
more unusual Linux distros, especially among those
based on Ubuntu.
# ⚓ Business Wire ☛ Corent_Announces_Support_for_Azure_Linux
Container_Host_for_Azure_Kubernetes_Service_(AKS) [Ed:
Microsofters using "Ubuntu" to promote Microsoft]⠀⇛
…add Azure Linux node pools to existing Ubuntu
clusters, or migrate your Ubuntu nodes to Azure
Linux nodes.
# ⚓ Corent_Announces_Support_for_Azure_Linux_Container_Host_for
Azure_Kubernetes_Service_(AKS) [Ed: Attacking GNU/Linux on
behalf of Microsoft]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Virtualization ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_‘Lunar_Lobster’_First_Look
[Ed: From Microsoft site]⠀⇛
Last month, I wrote an article on the release of
Ubuntu 23.04 (aka Lunar Lobster). After going
through the release notes and its press release,
there were a few new features that I wanted to
investigate further: its new installer (Flutter);
its new desktop environment (GNOME 44); and its
support for Azure Active Directory (AAD) for logon
authentication. To get a better idea of how well
these new features functioned, I worked with it a
bit.
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ Which_Ubuntu_Flavor_Should_You_Choose⠀⇛
If you are a fan of Ubuntu but not a fan of Gnome,
what can you do? You should know that you are not
stuck using the Gnome version of Ubuntu.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_at_OSCAfest_2023⠀⇛
The Open Source Community Africa Festival
(OSCAFEST) is a prestigious yearly conference that
garners a significant turnout of students,
developers, designers, and corporate entities. It
encompasses an array of talks, workshops, and
initiatives aimed at promoting the growth of open
source culture, contribution, development,
community, etc., across the continent. This year’s
event will take place in the incredible city of
Lagos, Nigeria on June 15-17th.
Canonical is a proud sponsor of OSCAfest and will
be providing several workshops this year:
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Blog:_Collaboration,_openness_and
partnership:_key_themes_from_this_year’s_WomenTech_Global
Conference⠀⇛
From 9 to 12 May this year, people from 165
countries gathered virtually for the Women in Tech
Global Conference. The conference is the flagship
event of the WomenTech Network, a community for
women in tech worldwide. Canonical was a gold event
sponsor, and several team members participated as
keynote speakers, networking hosts and attendees.
When looking at the agenda in the weeks leading up
to the conference, the number of speakers and
sessions listed already hinted at the appetite for
networking with a community of women,
underrepresented groups and their allies in tech,
science and engineering. A spirit of collaboration
was palpable throughout the event, with close to
12,500 attendees participating across time zones.
Participants’ willingness to share lessons learned
and mistakes made gave many presentations a
refreshing sense of authenticity.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Isn’t_it_About_Time_for_a_Standard_RTOS_API?⠀⇛
There is a seemingly endless number of RTOSes used
with embedded MCUs, most of which have their own
proprietary functionally as well as a unique API.
Some of the APIs are good, and some not quite as
good. In reality, the delta between a good and
less-good RTOS API is quite small — most RTOS APIs
will do the trick. As I look back on my last 30+
years, I’ve come to realize propriety RTOS APIs
have had and continue to have a profound negative
impact on embedded development and on our industry
as a whole.
# ⚓ Centerm_launches_new_products_Q7_Smart_POS_and_B70_Linux
POS_in_Seamless_2023⠀⇛
Recently, Centerm, a core subsidiary of Star-net
Group(SZ.002396), launched new products Q7 smart
POS and B70 Linux POS in Seamless 2023. Its booth
no. is 20, Sheikh Saeed Halls 1 – 3 & Trade Arena,
DWTC.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Snagboot_is_an_open-source_cross-vendor
recovery_tool_for_embedded_targets⠀⇛
Bootlin has just released the Snagboot open-source
recovery tool for embedded platforms designed to
work with multiple vendors, and currently STMicro
STM32MP1, Microchip SAMA5, NXP i.MX6/7/8, Texas
Instruments AM335x and AM62x, and Allwinner “sunxi”
processors are supported.
Silicon vendors usually provide firmware flashing
tools, some closed-source binaries, that only work
with their hardware. So if you work on STM32MP1
you’d use STM32CubeProgrammer, while SAM-BA is the
tool for Microchip processors, NXP i.MX SoC relies
on UUU, and if you’ve ever worked on Allwinner
processors you’re probably family with sunxi-fel.
Bootlin aims to replace all those with the Snagboot
recovery tool.
# ⚓ ROS Industrial ☛ ROS-Industrial_celebrates_10_years_of
uniting_researchers_and_industry_to_solve_industrial
automation_challenges_with_open-source_software⠀⇛
Things started to change when the Robot Operating
System (ROS) – an open-source software platform
founded in 2007 by Willow Garage, the Stanford AI
Laboratory, and Open Robotics – started reappearing
in research papers. ROS helped open the door to R&D
scalability across industry and academia, enabling
a means to abstract robotics hardware, while also
bringing a modularity and notion of abstraction and
reproducibility to the robotic research space.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ AntSDR_E200_features_ZYNQ_FPGA_and_AD936x
chipsets⠀⇛
CrowdSupply featured today the new AntSDR E200
software-defined radio (SDR) educational platform
optimized for applications involving Wi-Fi, GSM,
LTE and other wireless solutions.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Sort_up_to_280_coins_per_minute_with_this_3D-
printed_machine⠀⇛
The bulk of the device is comprised of the drum
which has many round slots placed around its inner
circumference that coins can travel within. It is
set at an angle that matches the stationary
underside, and this is necessary because the coins
should only fall through when the drum reaches the
top half of its cycle. Since each coin denomination
is slightly bigger or smaller, the series of
rectangular slots have varying sizes to separate
the denominations, and every drop is picked up by
an infrared distance sensor when it detects a
change in light levels caused by the passing coin.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Monitoring_glaciers_in_Peru,_Nepal,_and
India_with_Raspberry_Pi_cameras⠀⇛
Fast forward to now, and Liam and his colleagues
Duncan Quincey and Mark Smith have published their
full findings: Evaluation of low-cost Raspberry Pi
sensors for structure-from-motion reconstructions
of glacier calving fronts. They’ve also showcased
their affordable Raspberry Pi-based setup at an
international climate summit in Peru, and
encouraged local and national governments to adopt
this kind of glacial monitoring to help them adapt
to climate change challenges.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Leaving_Apple_&_Google_–_Murena_&_/e/OS_roadmap_for_2023
and_beyond⠀⇛
This year marks the 5th year since I started the /
e/OS project! And we have gone from a few articles
about the inital intention to a smartphone OS and a
private cloud used by tens of thousands of users.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ curl_user_survey_2023⠀⇛
For widely used, widely distributed open source
project such as curl, we often have little to no
relation at all with our users and therefore it is
hard to get feedback and learn what works and what
is less good.
Our best and primary way is thus simply to ask
users every year how they use curl.
# ⚓ Tor ☛ New_Alpha_Release:_Tor_Browser_12.5a6_(Android,
Windows,_macOS,_Linux)⠀⇛
Tor Browser 12.5a6 is now available from the Tor
Browser download page and also from our
distribution directory.
This release updates Firefox 102.11.0esr, including
bug fixes, stability improvements and important
security updates. There were no Android-specific
security updates to backport from the Firefox 113
release.
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Thunderbird ☛ Mozilla_Thunderbird:_Introducing_The
Brand_New_Thunderbird_Logo!⠀⇛
Hello Thunderbird Family! After nearly 20
years, we are thrilled to share a completely
redesigned Thunderbird logo that honors our
history and vital connection to Mozilla,
while carrying us forward into the next 20
years.
It’s no secret that after many years of being
viewed as stagnant, Thunderbird is enjoying a
resurgence. Our project is thriving with a
renewed sense of purpose, and we see an
invigorating energy bubbling up from our
users, our community of contributors, and our
core team.
Just like the software, the current
Thunderbird logo has seen small, iterative
improvements throughout the last 20 years.
But now the software is evolving into
something more modern (while retaining its
powerful customization) and we believe it
deserves a fresh logo that properly
represents this revitalization.
But you should never forget your roots, which
is why we asked Jon_Hicks, the creator of the
original Firefox and Thunderbird logos, to
re-imagine his iconic design in light of
Thunderbird’s exciting future.
o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾
# § Open Access/Content⠀➾
# ⚓ Jon Udell ☛ When_the_rubber_duck_talks_back⠀⇛
Here was the problem. The pre-release version
of the plugin consolidated pagination for
many tables in one place. That was a good
thing, but the downside was that there was
only one Steampipe table which represented
what should have been many of them. So you
could say select * from mastodon_timeline but
then you had qualify with where timeline =
‘home’ or where timeline = ‘local’ and so on.
For a user of the plugin this was awkward,
you’d rather say select * from
mastodon_timeline_home or select * from
mastodon_timeline_local, and reserve the
where clause for more specific purposes. The
v1 plugin made separate tables, but
duplicated the pagination logic on a per-
table basis. It worked, and was good enough
to ship the plugin in time to demo at
FediForum, but it obviously needed
improvement.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Get_File_Size_from_System⠀⇛
There are several ways to get the file size
in Python such as using the “os.path.getsize
()”, “os.stat()”, or “pathlib.Path().stat()”
method.
# ⚓ Jussi Pakkanen ☛ Advanced_dependency_management_and
building_Python_wheels_with_Meson⠀⇛
Everything here uses only Meson. There are no
external dependency managers, unix userland
emulators or special terminals that you have
to use.
In theory this could work on macOS too, but
the code is implemented in C++23 and Apple’s
toolchain is too old to support it.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ dupeGuru:_Fine_and_Remove_Duplicated_Files
in_Any_System⠀⇛
dupeGuru is a cross-platform (Linux, OS X,
Windows) GUI tool to find duplicate files in
a system. It’s written mostly in Python 3 and
has the peculiarity of using multiple GUI
toolkits, all using the same core Python
code. On OS X, the UI layer is written in
Objective-C…
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Faster_CPython_at_PyCon,_part_two⠀⇛
In part one of the tale, Brandt Bucher looked
specifically at the CPython optimizations
that went into Python 3.11 as part of the
Faster CPython project. More of that work
will be appearing in future Python versions,
but on day two of PyCon 2023 in Salt Lake
City, Utah, Mark Shannon provided an overall
picture of CPython optimizations, including
efforts made over the last decade or more,
with an eye toward the other areas that have
been optimized, such as the memory layout for
the internal C data structures of the
interpreter. He also described some
additional optimization techniques that will
be used in Python 3.12 and beyond.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Own_More_Than_One_‘Scope?_You’ve_Got_Nothing_On_This
Guy!⠀⇛
We’re guessing that quite a few of our readers have a
surprising amount of redundant test gear, and we
ourselves have to admit that more than one instrument
adorns our benches. But we are mere dilettantes, amateurs
if you will, compared to [Volke Kloke]. He’s got 350 of
them in his average American home, and we have to say,
among them are some beauties.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Paranoia_Strikes_Deep:_Our_Loss_Of_A_Peaceful
Commons⠀⇛
Jordan Neely was a (black) “normal nerdy kid” who loved
street performing as Michael Jackson; after he “lost it”
from seeing his mother murdered, he became an unhoused,
under-served, mentally ill man whose distress one day was
so discomfiting that (big, white) Daniel Penny – who
“love(s) all people” – saw fit to choke him to death on
the floor of a subway car. In a stand-your-ground country
of fear and rage and self-appointed judge, jury and
executioner, thus do we become “a people without
empathy.”
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Automatic_Coin_Sorter_Brings_Order_To_Your_Coin_Jar⠀⇛
Few things hold as much promise as the old coin jar.
Unfortunately, what’s generally promised is tedium, as
one faces the prospect of manually sorting, counting, and
rolling the accumulated change of cash transactions past.
Unless, of course, you’ve got a fancy automatic coin
sorter like this one.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D_Printing_Bio-Inspired_Microphone_Designs_Based_On
Moth_Ears⠀⇛
If many millions of years of evolution is good for
anything, it is to develop microscopic structures that
perform astounding tasks, such as the marvelous biology
of insects. One of these structures are the ears of the
lesser wax moth (Achroia grisella), whose mating behavior
involves ultrasonic mating calls. These can attract the
bats which hunt them, leading to these moths having
evolved directional hearing that can pinpoint not only a
potential mate, but also bat calling sound.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Glass_Robot_From_A_Solarpunk_Future⠀⇛
You may have heard of a heart of glass or have a glass
jaw, but have you ever seen a glass robot?
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Small_Study_Reveals_How_to_Measure_Chronic
Pain_Using_Brain_Signals⠀⇛
It’s an objective view into the brain.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ How_to_get_absentee_students_their_diploma?
Add_lots_of_caring.⠀⇛
Facing chronic absenteeism, how are high schools
helping students cross the graduation finish line?
Often, it comes down to three words: connection,
flexibility, and relevance.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Thursday’s_papers:_Russian_immigrants,_munitions
boom,_digital_diplomas⠀⇛
For the first time this year, new upper- secondary
school graduates will now receive an electronic
diploma, which can be downloaded free of charge
online.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_John_Durham_and_the_Burying
of_American_History⠀⇛
There are certain things I do not quite get since
Special Counsel John Durham’s report on the
epically corrupt conduct of Donald Trump’s enemies
during the 2016 election campaigns went to Congress
last week. Many things, actually. For all the
ground Durham covers in his 306–page report, I […]
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ 4Square Media Pty Ltd ☛ Lenovo_Slash_Headcount_As_Profits
Slump_72%_In_The_Last_Quarter_–_channelnews⠀⇛
Days after releasing one of the most innovative
notebooks ever released by a PC Company, Lenovo
Group has moved to slash their workforce after
reporting that net profit of the world’s largest
personal-computer maker dropped 72% off the back of
a 24% fall in revenues in the last quarter.
Between five and nine percent of the Companies head
count is set to be retrenched including staff in
Australia, where the business is still looking for
a new CEO following the promotion of former local
CEO Matt Codrington.
Net profits for the quarter slumped to US$114
million while revenue fell 24% to $12.635 billion.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ AMD_Radeon_RX_7600_announced_for_$269_with
8GB_VRAM⠀⇛
Even with all the talk about 8GB VRAM simply not
being enough now for all the new games coming out,
we’re still seeing multiple launches with it. Now
with the AMD Radeon RX 7600 priced at $269.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Adding_Variometer_Functionality_To_A_GPS⠀⇛
Flying a glider, or similarly piloting a paraglider
or hang glider, can all be pathways into aviation
with a lower barrier of entry than powered flight.
Sacrificing one’s engine does generate a few
complexities, but can be rewarding as the pilot
searches for various means of increasing altitude
like ridge soaring or thermaling. You’ll need a
special instrument called a variometer to know just
how much altitude you’re gaining though, like this
one which is built into commercially-available
handheld GPS units.
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ The_enforceability_of_boilerplate⠀⇛
If you haven’t been watching the controversy
surrounding Asus recently, the company’s high end
AMD motherboards have been implicated in a series
of catastrophic CPU failures.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Battery_Bot_Makes_Sure_Cordless_Tool_Packs_Are
Always_Topped_Up⠀⇛
There was a time not that long ago when every tool
was cordless. But now, cordless power tools have
proliferated to the point where the mere thought of
using a plain old wrist-twisting screwdriver is
enough to trigger a bout of sympathetic repetitive
injury. And the only thing worse than that is to
discover that the batteries for your tools are all
dead.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ ‘Fever’_cases_spread_in_North_Korea,_but_hard_to_say
if_it’s_COVID⠀⇛
A possible second wave of virus could delay
reopening of vital trade with China.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Vending_machines_in_Japan_evolving_with
advanced_tech⠀⇛
Contactless vending machines grew popular during
the Covid-19 pandemic, with some of them
incorporating AI.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Study:_Problematic_social_media_use_threatens
children’s_sleep⠀⇛
The topic of children using mobile phones in
schools is on the agenda in government talks this
month.
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ How_to_get_rid_of_fruit_flies_and_stop_them
coming_back⠀⇛
We reveal the common fruit fly mistakes you could
be making – and what to do instead
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_to_Know_About_Limiting_Your_Child’s
Screen_Time⠀⇛
In a 19-page report, Surgeon General Vivek H.
Murthy said on Tuesday that while social media
offered some benefits to younger people, including
the ability to connect with communities, it also
exposed them to potential harms, such as
cyberbullying and content that promotes eating
disorders, self-harm and other destructive
behavior. Social media also hurts exercise, sleep
and other activities, he said.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Microsoft’s_Nuance_Communications_prepares_for_layoffs_in
healthcare_AI_division⠀⇛
Layoffs are underway at Nuance Communications, the
speech-recognition company acquired by Microsoft
for $19.7 billion, as the company directs its
attention towards its healthcare business.
According to the Boston Globe, Nuance CEO Mark
Benjamin informed employees about the job cuts
through an internal memo, without providing
specific details regarding the number of affected
staff members or departments.
# ⚓ The Business Journals ☛ Microsoft_reportedly_faces_employee
backlash_over_raises,_layoffs⠀⇛
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) is facing criticism
from employees over its decision to forego salary
increases for full-time workers this year,
according to Business Insider.
The Redmond tech giant told employees on May 10
that it wouldn’t give raises or increase its budget
for bonuses and stock awards, according to an email
from CEO Satya Nadella.
The same day, Microsoft disclosed in a filing with
Washington state that it was laying off 158 workers
at its Redmond headquarters, after completing its
10,000-employee companywide workforce reduction
between January and March.
# ⚓ Microsoft’s_AI_Ethics_Team_Have_All_Been_Let_Go⠀⇛
There seems to be news from the AI world every
single day. It’s often confusing and almost always
super technical, so I’ve been assuming (or at least
hoping) that some folks with ethics were keeping
tabs on everything from the inside.
# ⚓ NVIDIA Corporation ☛ NVIDIA_and_Microsoft_Drive_Innovation
for_Windows_PCs_in_New_Era_of_Generative_AI [Ed: This
illustrates how WSL is in fact an attack on GNU/Linux]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Sam_Altman_Wants_The_Government_To_Build_Him_A
Moat⠀⇛
For my final post of last year, I wrote about the
many reasons to be optimistic about a better
future, one of which was that we were seeing the
crumbling of some large, bureaucratic
(enshittified) companies, and new competitive
upstarts pushing the boundaries. One of those areas
was in the artificial intelligence space. As I
noted in that piece, a few years ago, if you spoke
to anyone about AI, the widespread assumption was
that there were only four companies who could
possibly even have a chance to lead the AI
revolution, as (we were told) it required so much
data, and so much computing power, that only
Google, Meta, Amazon or Microsoft could possibly
compete.
# ⚓ NPR ☛ Ron_DeSantis_debuts_presidential_bid_in_a_glitch-
ridden_Twitter_‘disaster’⠀⇛
Its staff has been whittled down to just about 10%
of what it was before Musk’s acquisition, following
mass layoffs and hundreds of others quitting.
Outages have become far more common. Overall system
bugginess has also become the norm for many users.
# ⚓ Scott Feeney ☛ It’s_time_to_leave_Twitter⠀⇛
Note: I wrote the following post on November 4,
2022, the day I deleted my Twitter account, but
decided not to publish it. It seemed unnecessary
because there was already a huge wave of migration
off Twitter. Unfortunately, lots of people I know
have stayed on, too, and seem in denial about what
Twitter now is. Charlie Warzel’s piece, Twitter Is
a Far-Right Social Network, made me reread this
draft and realize it’s only become truer in the
past half year. I still prefer Mastodon and
compatible fediverse services, but Bluesky, despite
its issues, is now another less-bad alternative.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Twitter_Is_a_Far-Right_Social_Network⠀⇛
In December, I argued that if we are to judge Musk
strictly by his actions as Twitter’s owner, it is
accurate to call him a far-right activist. As a
public figure, he has demonstrated an unwavering
commitment to the right’s culture war against
progressivism—which he refers to as “the woke mind
virus”—and his $44 billion Twitter purchase can
easily be seen as an explicitly political act to
advance this specific ideology. Now the site itself
has unquestionably transformed under his leadership
into an alternative social-media platform—one that
offers a haven to far-right influencers and
advances the interests, prejudices, and conspiracy
theories of the right wing of American politics.
# ⚓ El País ☛ Ron_DeSantis_suffers_technical_problems_while
launching_campaign_with_Elon_Musk_on_Twitter⠀⇛
At first, Musk launched the Twitter Space from his
account, but it never worked properly. After just
over 21 minutes, the broadcast was cut off. Those
who stayed tuned to that link would not have been
able to hear the candidate. David Sacks, who was
acting as moderator, opened another broadcast and
after another three minutes, for those who found
out that the initial link was not valid and went to
the new one, the rebroadcast was available.
# ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ DeSantis’_Twitter_Campaign_Launch_Was_a
Glitch-Filled_Disaster⠀⇛
Later in the botched event, Musk seemed to be
discussing technical issues with the broadcast. “So
just to simplify this, we’re just going to use—” he
said at one point, the audio then shutting off. He
commented that there were “just so many people” on
the call, and that Twitter was “reallocating”
server resources to deal with the exceptionally
large audience. As the troubleshooting continued
for 20 minutes, instrumental music occasionally
played.
# § Windows TCO⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Researchers_Spot_APTs_Targeting_Small
Business_MSPs⠀⇛
Proofpoint warns that APT actors linked to
Russia, Iran and North Korea are increasingly
targeting small- and medium-sized businesses.
# ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ China_state-sponsored_actor_carries_out
‘attack’_on_US_critical_infrastructure,_Microsoft_says
[Ed: Microsoft_puts_back_doors_in_everything_and_then
blames_China]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Microsoft_Catches_Chinese_.Gov
Hackers_in_Guam_Critical_Infrastructure_Orgs [Ed:
Microsoft itself is the problem; stop treating
Microsoft as the expert and people who use the holes as
the biggest problem.]⠀⇛
Microsoft says it has caught Chinese
government hackers siphoning data from
critical infrastructure organizations in
Guam, a U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Chinese_Malware_Hits_Systems_on
Guam._Is_Taiwan_the_Real_Target?⠀⇛
China has never acknowledged [breaking] into
American networks, even in the biggest
example of all: the theft of security
clearance files of roughly 22 million
Americans — including six million sets of
fingerprints — from the Office of Personnel
Management during the Obama administration.
That exfiltration of data took the better
part of a year, and resulted in an agreement
between President Barack Obama and President
Xi Jinping that resulted in a brief decline
in malicious Chinese cyberactivity.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Chinese-linked_hackers_target
critical_infrastructure_in_US_and_Guam⠀⇛
“States conduct long-term intrusions into
critical infrastructure to prepare for
possible conflict, because it may simply be
too late to gain access when conflict
arises,” said John Hultquist, the chief
analyst at Mandiant Intelligence at Google
Cloud, noting that “preparation does not mean
that attacks are inevitable.”
o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾
# § Openwashing⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Democratizing_AI_with_open-source_language
models [Ed: Openwashing and surveillance all-in-one]⠀⇛
Meta trained LLaMA on publicly available data
sets, such as Wikipedia and Common Crawl. The
code to run LLaMA is GPLv3-licensed, but to
obtain the full weights of the model, users
were required to fill out a form and agree to
a “non-commercial bespoke license”. Moreover,
Meta proved to be quite selective in granting
access. But within a week, the weights were
leaked on BitTorrent, and LLaMA kickstarted
the development of a lot of derivatives.
Stanford University introduced Alpaca 7B,
based on the LLaMA model with seven billion
parameters and supplemented with instructions
based on OpenAI’s text-davinci-003 model of
the GPT-3.5 family. Both the data set and the
model were released under the CC BY-NC 4.0
license and thus do not permit commercial
use. One reason for this is that OpenAI’s
terms of use disallow the development of
models that compete with OpenAI.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Security_Advisory:_Qt_Network⠀⇛
Qt Network incorrectly parses the strict-transport-
security (HSTS) header, allowing unencrypted
connections to be established, even when explicitly
prohibited by the server. This happens if the case
used for this header does not matching directly.
Unencrypted connections are susceptible to man-in-
the-middle attacks. Those connections could be
established by using URLs with the http instead of
the https scheme. With HSTS, the https scheme must
be used regardless.
# ⚓ Open Source For U ☛ Vulnerability_Testing_Using_Kali
Linux⠀⇛
Kali Linux is a popular distribution of Linux, most
famously used in the field of cybersecurity. This
article is about vulnerability testing using Kali
Linux. We go through how to install the uniscan
vulnerability scanner, and then test the
vulnerabilities of a website using this tool.
Vulnerability testing is basically a software
approach to test a system and evaluate the risks
that are there in the system function, in order to
take measures to mitigate and prevent these from
actually happening. Now let us get started.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Wednesday⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libssh
and sofia-sip), Fedora (cups-filters, dokuwiki,
qt5-qtbase, and vim), Oracle (git, python-pip, and
python3-setuptools), Red Hat (git, kernel, kpatch-
patch, rh-git227-git, and sudo), SUSE (openvswitch,
rmt-server, and texlive), and Ubuntu (binutils,
cinder, cloud-init, firefox, golang-1.13, Jhead,
liblouis, ncurses, node-json-schema, node-xmldom,
nova, python-glance-store, python-os-brick, and
runc).
# ⚓ PyPI_was_subpoenaed⠀⇛
In March and April 2023, the Python Software
Foundation (PSF) received three (3) subpoenas for
PyPI user data. All three subpoenas were issued by
the United States Department of Justice. The PSF
was not provided with context on the legal
circumstances surrounding these subpoenas. In
total, user data related to five (5) PyPI usernames
were requested.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ PyPI_was_subpoenaed⠀⇛
It is, it seems, a week of Python Package Index
(PyPI) news. On the PyPI blog, Director of
Infrastructure at the Python Software Foundation
(PSF), Ee Durbin, has posted an admirably detailed
description of the organization’s response to three
subpoenas it received for PyPI user information in
March and April. The requests for information were
quite broad and the PSF did produce the requested
material (to the extent possible), which involved
five PyPI user accounts, under the advice of
counsel.
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft:_Notorious_FIN7_hackers
return_in_Clop_ransomware_attacks [Ed: Microsoft is the
security culprit and Windows is full of holes. The Microsoft
sites try to paint Microsoft as security champion. That's an
outrageous lie.]⠀⇛
“Financially motivated cybercriminal group Sangria
Tempest (ELBRUS, FIN7) has come out of a long
period of inactivity,” the company said in a series
of tweets from the Microsoft Security Intelligence
Twitter account.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ NYS_settles_charges_against_PracticeFirst
stemming_from_2020_ransomware_incident [Ed: 95% of the time
ransomware means Windows]⠀⇛
In July 2021, Professional Business Systems, Inc.
d/b/a Practicefirst Medical Management Solutions
and PBS Medcode Corp., a medical management company
that processes data for health care providers,
issued a press release about a hacking incident
that occurred in December 2020. As DataBreaches
noted at the time, it appeared that they likely
paid ransom because one line in their statement
was, “The actor who took the copy has advised that
the Information is destroyed and was not shared.”
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Cuba_ransomware_claims_cyberattack_on
Philadelphia_Inquirer [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛
The Cuba ransomware gang has claimed responsibility
for this month’s cyberattack on The Philadelphia
Inquirer, which temporarily disrupted the
newspaper’s distribution and disrupted some
business operations.
The Philadelphia Inquirer is Philadelphia’s largest
(by circulation) newspaper. It is the third-longest
continuously operating daily newspaper in the U.S.,
founded in 1829, and it has won 20 Pulitzer Prizes
for its journalistic excellence.
# ⚓ Dorchester_school’s_IT_system_struck_by_cyber_attack [Ed:
Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛
A Dorchester school’s been hit by a cyber attack,
with hackers demanding a ransom.
The Thomas Hardye School’s IT systems and website
went down on Sunday night (21st May) with the
problem discovered before lessons started on Monday
morning.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Apria_Healthcare_notifies_1.2_million
patients_of_hacking_incidents_in_2019_and_2021⠀⇛
HIPAA requires that covered entities notify HHS and
affected patients of a reportable breach within 60
calendar days of discovery of a breach. Exceptions
are made if law enforcement asks an entity to delay
notification so as not to interfere with an
investigation, but such requests are infrequent.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Inside_How_TikTok_Shares_User_Data⠀⇛
Employees of the Chinese-owned video app have
regularly posted user information on a
messaging and collaboration tool called Lark,
according to internal documents.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Montana_vs._TikTok:_State’s
$10,00-a-Day_Fine_Stands_as_Attorney_General_Digs_In⠀⇛
Montana is the first state in the United
States to ban TikTok. It will fine tech
giants $10,000 a day for keeping the app
available for those in the state. Now the
state’s attorney general weighs in. Montana
Governor Greg Gianforte signed the first
state-wide ban on TikTok into law last week.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_digital_authority_pushes_DPI_tools
and_IP_geolocation_to_surveil_Internet_traffic_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development has
presented a policy paper on the country’s
communications sector and a strategy for its
development in 2024–2035, Forbes Russia
reports.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Heritage_Foundation_Says_That_Of_Course
GOP_Will_Use_KOSA_To_Censor_LGBTQ_Content⠀⇛
We’ve talked a lot about KOSA, the “Kids
Online Safety Act” that has massive
bipartisan support in Congress. The latest
version was introduced with 26 Senators as
sponsors or co-sponsors. We’ve explained over
and over again how the bill is
unconstitutional and will actually do a lot
to harm kids.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Prigozhin_Forecasts_Disaster_if_Russia
Does_Not_Move_Into_Total_War_Footing⠀⇛
Yevgeny Prigozhin has been ramping up pressure on
Russia’s military leadership and extending his
criticism to the country’s moneyed elites.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Preliminary_probe_finds_evidence_dozens_of_Navy
conscripts_treated_inappropriately⠀⇛
The suspected offences include abuse of authority,
service offence, illegal threats, assault and minor
assault.
# ⚓ ANF News ☛ Yazidis_in_Europe_condemn_the_international
silence_on_attacks_against_Shengal_and_Maxmur⠀⇛
The statement continued: “Although the Iraqi
central government seems to be responsible for the
recent escalation in the Maxmur refugee camp, the
main force behind the attacks is Erdogan and his
local collaborators. The attempt to turn the Maxmur
camp, which is under the auspices of the United
Nations Refugee Committee, into an open prison
clearly shows that the UN is under the influence of
expansionist and aggressive forces in the region.
The increasing attacks against the Yazidi community
in Shengal and the frequent resettlement of pro-
ISIS people in the region aim at completely
removing the Yazidi community from the region.”
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_urges_China_not_to_help_Russia_pursue_its
war⠀⇛
Pelšs also “called on China to exercise its
influence as a permanent member of the United
Nations Security Council” to help end Russia’s
aggression in Ukraine and “urged against giving any
assistance to Russia – neither in the military
sector nor in the circumvention of sanctions.”
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Iran_is_using_its_cyber_capabilities_to
kidnap_its_foes_in_the_real_world⠀⇛
The Islamic Republic has been steadily improving
and sharpening its cyber warfare, cyber espionage,
and electronic sabotage abilities, staging complex
operations that, while not always successful, show
what experts in the field describe as devious
inventiveness.
In addition to its nuclear ambitions, its refining
of missile technologies, and cultivation of armed
ideologically motivated proxy paramilitary groups,
Iran’s electronic warfare and intelligence
operations are emerging as yet another worry about
the country’s international posture.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘We_need_to_take_a_page_from_North_Korea’s_book’
Evgeny_Prigozhin_speaks_even_more_frankly_than_usual_in_new
77-minute_interview_—_Meduza⠀⇛
On May 24, pro-Kremlin political strategist
Konstantin Dolgov released an extensive interview
with Wagner paramilitary cartel head Evgeny
Prigozhin in which the tycoon, in Dolgov’s words,
answered “all the tough questions.” Over the course
of the 77-minute conversation, Prigozhin criticizes
the Russian Defense Ministry, describes his
relationship to Russia’s elites, and gives his
prediction for what the future of the war will
hold. Meduza has translated some of the most
notable quotes from the interview.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_Defense_Ministry_says_Ukrainian_naval
drones_attacked_Russian_ship_in_Black_Sea_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s Defense Ministry said that Ukrainian naval
drones attacked the Ivan Khurs ship, a part of the
Black Sea Fleet, on the morning of May 24.
According to the ministry, the ship was not damaged
and all three drones that carried out the attack
were destroyed.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ St._Petersburg’s_historic_Kresty_Prison_building
up_for_sale_—_Meduza⠀⇛
St. Petersburg’s historic Kresty jailhouse, built
in the 19th century and notorious for the many
political prisoners who had been kept there, is
reportedly up for sale.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Kissinger_at_100:_New_War_Crimes_Revealed
in_Secret_Cambodia_Bombing_That_Set_Stage_for_Forever_Wars⠀⇛
A bombshell new investigation from The Intercept
reveals that former U.S. national security adviser
and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was
responsible for even more civilian deaths during
the U.S. war in Cambodia than was previously known.
The revelations add to a violent résumé that ranges
from Latin America to Southeast Asia, where
Kissinger presided over brutal U.S. military
interventions to put down communist revolt and to
develop U.S. influence around the world. While
survivors and family members of these deadly
campaigns continue to grieve, Kissinger celebrates
his 100th birthday this week. “This adds to the
list of killings and crimes that Henry Kissinger
should, even at this very late date in his life, be
asked to answer for,” says The Intercept’s Nick
Turse, author of the new investigation,
“Kissinger’s Killing Fields.” We also speak with
Yale University’s Greg Grandin, author of
Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s
Most Controversial Statesman.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Limits_of_Saudi_Normalization_With
Israel⠀⇛
The Biden administration is devoting what energy
the State Department has aside from the effort to
defend Ukraine to achieving diplomatic
normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Chris_Hedges_on_Weapons_to_Ukraine,_Military
Buildup_to_China_and_Pentagon_Spending⠀⇛
The war in Ukraine is well into its second year,
and the United States is insistent on pumping
billions more into the quagmire that has already
seen thousands of lives lost and millions
displaced.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_War_in_Ukraine_Was_Provoked—and_Why_That
Matters_to_Achieve_Peace⠀⇛
By recognizing that the question of NATO
enlargement is at the center of this war, we
understand why U.S. weaponry will not end this war.
Only diplomatic efforts can do that.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ State_Duma_considers_banning_Russians_with_access
to_state_secrets_from_travel_abroad_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s State Duma has passed in first reading a
bill on restricting the right to foreign travel for
people with access to state secrets.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin’s_tactic_of_inaction_could_backfire_at_home
Russia’s_restless_political_class_could_soon_run_out_of
patience_with_the_president’s_passive_approach_—_Meduza⠀⇛
In recent months, Vladimir Putin has so rarely
discussed strategic issues that it might give the
impression he’s not interested in the future at
all. Political scientist Tatiana Stanovaya suggests
that behind Putin’s silence is the expectation that
external foreign policy dynamics will change in his
favor, which would allow him to go back to
discussing the Kremlin’s strategic goals. While we
shouldn’t call the Russian president’s expectations
completely unfounded, it’s possible that Russia’s
political class could soon lose their patience with
Putin’s passive approach. With Carnegie Politika’s
permission, Meduza is publishing Tatiana
Stanovaya’s article in full.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Jeffrey_Sachs:_Bipartisan_Support_of_War,
from_Iraq_to_Ukraine,_Is_Helping_Fuel_U.S._Debt_Crisis⠀⇛
The United States faces a default on its debt in
early June if a deal on the debt ceiling is not
reached between the Biden administration and
Republicans in Congress before then. House Speaker
Kevin McCarthy is pushing for sweeping budget cuts
and new work requirements for recipients of
government programs, including Social Security,
Medicare, Medicaid and SNAP. Notably, however,
neither Republicans nor Democrats are proposing
cuts to one of the biggest drivers of the nation’s
debt: the massive U.S. military budget. “We’ve got
to get this military-industrial lobby under
control, but it’s hard to do, because it’s a
bipartisan affair,” says our guest, economist
Jeffrey Sachs, whose recent article is headlined
“America’s Wars and the US Debt Crisis.”
# § War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Evgeny_Prigozhin_claims_10,000_Russian
convicts_died_in_Wagner_Group’s_Bakhmut_operation_—
Meduza⠀⇛
In an interview with the pro-Kremlin
political consultant Konstantin Dolgov,
Evgeny Prigozhin gave his estimate of Wagner
Group’s casualties in the Bakhmut operation.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ FSB_arrests_defense_facility_engineer_for
allegedly_working_with_Ukrainian_intelligence_—
Meduza⠀⇛
A design engineer at a defense and industrial
facility in Rostov-on-Don was arrested on
suspicion of working with the Ukrainian
Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence
Directorate, claims the Russian FSB.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Starbucks_and_Unilever_are_sourcing_tea_from
plantations_linked_to_rights_abuse⠀⇛
The global tea industry has had its hands
full with the economic implications of the
Ukraine war. But hidden away is another
problem it needs to handle: rights abuse in
plantations.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Ukrainian_refugee_flow_across_Latvian_border
continues⠀⇛
Asylum seekers from Ukraine continue to cross
the Latvian border. The border inspection
post to Grebneva also operates a border
information point where the involvement of
young volunteers is currently urgently
needed. The situation is exacerbated by the
need to provide assistance to citizens of
other countries, Latgale Television reported
on May 24.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ British_Warmongering_Is_Driving_Europe
Towards_Catastrophe_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made
an unexpected trip to Britain last week on a
whistle-stop tour of European capitals,
pleading for more powerful and longer-range
weapons to use in his war against Russia.
What was hard to ignore once again was the
extent to which the UK is playing an outsize
role in Ukraine.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Biden_Picks_New_NSA_head,_Key_to
Support_of_Ukraine,_Defense_of_US_Elections⠀⇛
U.S. President Joe Biden has picked a new NSA
and Cyber Command leader to oversee America’s
cyber warfare and defense.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Why_Western_fighter_jets_are
critical_to_Ukraine’s_success—and_how_Australia_could
help⠀⇛
US President Joe Biden’s decision on 19 May
to help facilitate Ukraine’s efforts to
procure advanced fourth-generation fighter
aircraft was a significant shift in America’s
posture.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Pro-Kyiv_Russian_group_says_it_‘didn’t
lose_a_single_soldier’_in_cross-border_raids_on
Belgorod⠀⇛
FRANCE 24 spoke to exiled Russian opposition
figure Ilya Ponomarev, the political
representative of the Freedom of Russia
Legion. This Ukraine-based paramilitary group
of Russian volunteers has been involved in
cross-border incursions into Russia’s
Belgorod region in the past last few days.
Ponomarev claimed the pro-Ukrainian, anti-
Putin group “didn’t lose a single soldier”
and is successfully making progress inside
Russia. Ultimately, “our guys will be in
Moscow and Putin will not be in the Kremlin,”
he predicted.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Russian_border_region_Belgorod_targeted_by
overnight_drone_attacks,_says_official⠀⇛
A Russian official in the southern Belgorod
region bordering Ukraine said Wednesday that
the territory was targeted by numerous drones
overnight, following an armed incursion into
the territory from Ukraine. The news comes
after the state TASS news agency cited
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying
that Russia would achieve all its goals in
Ukraine via its “special military operation”
or through other means. Read our live blog to
see how all the day’s events unfolded. All
times are Paris time (GMT+2).
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Russia_launches_‘terror’_investigation
following_attacks_in_region_bordering_Ukraine⠀⇛
Russian authorities on Tuesday announced an
investigation into attacks in the Belgorod
region, bordering Ukraine, as Moscow’s
unprovoked invasion of Ukraine continues into
its second year.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Ireland_eyes_floating_hotels_to
house_asylum_seekers⠀⇛
Ireland is planning to tender for floating
hotels and ships to house asylum seekers, the
government says, as it struggles to
accommodate an unprecedented number of
arrivals amid a years-long housing crisis.
Close to 100,000 people fleeing the war in
Ukraine and other conflicts have arrived in
Ireland in the last year, a 25-fold increase…
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Germany_Reportedly_To_Buy_Leopard_Tanks,
Howitzers_To_Make_Up_For_Ukraine_Supplies⠀⇛
Germany will buy 18 Leopard 2 tanks and 12
self-propelled howitzers to replenish stocks
depleted by deliveries to Ukraine, a member
of the parliamentary budget committee that
approved the purchase on May 24 told Reuters.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Norway_Says_It_Will_Help_Train_Ukrainian
Pilots_On_F-16_Jets⠀⇛
Norway will support training programs for
Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets,
Norwegian Defense Minister Bjoern Arild Gram
said on May 24
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Orthodox_Church_Of_Ukraine_Approves_Calendar
Switch_In_Widening_Diversion_From_Russia⠀⇛
In another sign of the widening fissure
between the main Orthodox churches in Ukraine
and Russia over the Kremlin’s war against its
neighbor, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine
(OCU) has approved a switch to the revised
Julian calendar, a move that will move
Christmas forward to December 25.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Self-Proclaimed_Commander_Of_Russia_Incursion
Calls_Raid_A_‘Test_Of_Strength’⠀⇛
Denys Nikitin (aka Kapustin), a self-
proclaimed commander of the Russian Volunteer
Corps, said the cross-border incursion from
Ukraine into Russia was a “test of strength”
by the group along with allied fighters of
the group calling itself Freedom of Russia
Legion.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Five_Foreign_Nationals_To_Be_Tried_In
Absentia_In_Russia_For_Joining_Ukrainian_Armed_Forces⠀⇛
Russia’s Southern District Military Court in
Rostov-on-Don said on May 24 that five
foreign nationals will be tried for joining
Ukraine’s armed forces fighting against
Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Japan_To_Provide_100_Military_Vehicles_To
Ukraine⠀⇛
Japan held a ceremony on May 24 marking its
planned donation of about 100 military
vehicles to Ukraine, as Tokyo seeks to
provide equipment that can be of broader
military use than its earlier shipments of
helmets and hazmat suits.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Germany_To_Help_Boost_NATO’s_Eastern_Flank_In
Ukraine,_President_Tells_Romania⠀⇛
Germany will make further contributions to
strengthen NATO’s eastern flank in response
to the ongoing war in Ukraine, German
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in
Romania on May 24.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Stoltenberg_Says_Ukraine_Joining_NATO_During
War_‘Not_On_The_Agenda’⠀⇛
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said
Ukraine’s accession to the Western military
alliance will not happen while the war is
going on but that the membership path is
there for the future.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia’s_Belgorod_Suffers_New_Drone
Attack⠀⇛
On Monday, Ukrainian saboteurs supported by
armored vehicles also launched a raid against
this region which is north of the border with
Ukraine.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ In_shadow_of_Ukraine_war,_Latvia_turns
wary_eye_on_local_Russians⠀⇛
Since the Ukraine invasion, Russian speakers
in Latvia are being wrongly stigmatized
wholesale as pro-Moscow, deepening mistrust
among ethnic Latvians.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ For_Ukrainians_in_a_Russia-tied_church,
war_brings_a_crisis_of_faith⠀⇛
For its sheer destructiveness and
unpredictability, war challenges faith. In
Ukraine’s conflict, the fault lines cut
directly through a religion that for
centuries was synonymous with identity.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Fresh_From_Attack_on_Russian_Soil,
Raiders_Taunt_the_Kremlin⠀⇛
The cross-border raid by Russian fighters
based in Ukraine appeared intended in part to
force Moscow to divert its soldiers from the
battlefield.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukrainians_Were_Likely_Behind
Kremlin_Drone_Attack,_U.S._Officials_Say⠀⇛
American spy agencies do not know exactly who
carried out the attack this month, but
suggest it was part of a series of covert
operations orchestrated by Ukraine’s security
services.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Pro-Ukraine_Fighters_Behind_Cross-
Border_Attack_Pledge_More_to_Come⠀⇛
Military analysts suggested that the two-day
incursion was aimed at forcing Russia to
divert troops from the front in southeastern
Ukraine and embarrassing the Russian
government.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Battle_for_Bakhmut_Is_Over.
What’s_Next_for_Russia?⠀⇛
Seizing the city took 10 months and untold
lives. Most likely, analysts say, Russia’s
exhausted forces will settle into a defensive
crouch, preparing for Ukraine’s
counteroffensive.
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ Remarks_by_Executive_Vice-
President_Dombrovskis_at_the_press_conference_on_the
2023_European_Semester_Spring_Package⠀⇛
European Commission Speech Brussels, 24 May
2023 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Journey_to_St._Petersburg,_Moscow,_and
Crimea⠀⇛
At the end of April of this year, the two of
us ventured together to Russia. We went with
the purpose of fact-finding and also to make
a point that we do not believe that Russia
should be isolated from the world through
sanctions and travel bans.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russia’s_‘data glasnost’_didn’t
last_long._Here’s_how_to_tell_whether_sanctions_are
working.⠀⇛
Economic data is still coming out of Russia,
and Russian Central Bank Governor Elvira
Nabiullina and other financial elites have
been pushing for making even more data
available. But that’s changing.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Massive_U.S._Aircraft_Carrier_Sails_Into_Oslo
For_NATO_Exercises,_Angering_Russia⠀⇛
The world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS
Gerald R. Ford, sailed into Oslo on May 24, a
first for such a U.S. ship, in a show of NATO
force at a time of heightened tension between
NATO and Russia.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Date_Set_For_Trial_Of_Siberian_Missile
Scientist_Charged_With_High_Treason⠀⇛
Anatoly Maslov, the first of three Russian
hypersonic missile scientists from the
Siberian city of Novosibirsk to be charged
with treason, will go on trial on June 1, the
St. Petersburg City Court said.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Another_Crimean_Tatar_Activist_Gets_Lengthy
Prison_Term_in_Russia_On_Terrorism_Charges⠀⇛
A court in Russia’s southwestern city of
Rostov-on-Don has sentenced another Crimean
Tatar activist to 18 years in prison on
terrorism charges.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky_advisor_says_Ukraine’s
counteroffensive_has_already_begun_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Volodymyr Zelensky’s communications advisor
Mykhailo Podolyak said in a new interview
with the Italian TV channel RAI that
Ukrainian troops have already begun their
counteroffensive.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian-installed_authorities_in_Crimea
report_overnight_drone_attacks_on_peninsula_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Moscow-installed head of the Russian
authorities in annexed Sevastopol, Mikhail
Razvozhoyev, said on Telegram that the city
came under attack by drones on Wednesday
night but that air defenses downed the
weapons.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Evgeny_Prigozhin_announces_start_of_Wagner
Group’s_withdrawal_from_Bakhmut_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Evgeny Prigozhin’s press service has
published a new video in which the Wagner
Group head announces the start of the
paramilitary cartel’s withdrawal from
Bakhmut.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Novaya_Gazeta_Europe_publishes_account_by
anonymous_participant_in_Belgorod_raid_—_Meduza⠀⇛
One of the participants in the May 22 raid on
Russia’s Belgorod region told Novaya Gazeta
Europe the story of the incursion in his own
words. The source did not share his name with
Novaya Gazeta Europe, and he also declined to
say which group he was with (both the Freedom
of Russian legion and the Russian Volunteer
Corps, groups of Russian nationals who fight
for Ukraine, said they participated in the
raid). He specified only that he is a citizen
of Russia.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘They’re_stationed_in_front_like_targets’
Russia_is_sending_untrained_conscripts_to_defend_its
border_in_Belgorod_—_Meduza⠀⇛
At the start of September 2022, the Russian
authorities began sending conscripts in large
numbers to the country’s Belgorod region,
which borders Ukraine. Technically, the young
men are stationed “outside of the conflict
zone,” as is required by law. In reality,
however, they spend their days digging
trenches and hiding from shellfire in
dugouts, according to journalists from the
independent outlet 7×7. The conscripts’
relatives have filed official complaints with
the Defense Ministry and even held protests
calling for the authorities to “pull their
sons out” of the border area; officials have
responded by threatening to prosecute the
relatives and retaliate against the
conscripts themselves. Meduza summarizes
7×7’s investigation.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_fossil_fuel_industry_owes_at_least_$23.2
trillion_in_reparations_for_climate_change⠀⇛
A new study by the environmental research group One
Earth estimates the world’s top fossil fuel
companies have emitted around 36% of all global
emissions since 1988. That amounts to 403,092
metric tons of CO2 emissions, based on the group’s
2023 analysis that builds on the Carbon Majors 2018
data set.
The aim of the study is to provide, for the first
time, a methodology to quantify the economic
impacts of individual companies’ damage to the
climate. Estimates for the reparations are
conservative, as they do not take into account
factors including lives and livelihoods lost,
species extinction, and biodiversity loss.
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ ‘Time_is_not_on_our_side’_—_Islands_urge
climate_action⠀⇛
Tuvalu, a small island state in the Pacific, is
facing disaster due to rising sea levels. The
island nation’s special envoy told DW there could
be “total inundation” of the island within the
century.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Vantaa_approves_tram_project⠀⇛
The discussion at the council meeting on
Monday evening lasted for more than five
hours.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ €2.3b_Danish_investment_in_Finnish_wind
energy⠀⇛
The level of wind power production in Finland
has been rising at a rapid pace. Last year,
wind-generated power on the market increased
from 3,200 megawatts at the beginning of
January to 5,200 megawatts by the end of the
year. So far this year, it has gone up by yet
another 500 MW.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Our_Addiction_to_Online_Shopping_Is
Poisoning_These_Neighborhoods⠀⇛
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Record-breaking_50,000_people
immigrated_to_Finland_in_2022⠀⇛
A RECORD-BREAKING 49,998 people immigrated to
Finland in 2022, according_to_Statistics
Finland.
The total represents an increase of
14,000–21,000 from previous years, an
increase that may be partly attributable to
the scrapping of entry restrictions related
to the coronavirus pandemic, Johannes
Hirvelä, the director of development at the
Finnish Immigration Service (Migri), stated
to STT on Wednesday.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Meta_will_start_laying_off_THOUSANDS_of_workers_next_week
in_fresh_round_of_mass_cuts_during_Mark_Zuckerberg’s_‘year_of
efficiency’⠀⇛
Meta is slashing thousands more jobs next week in
the third round layoffs as billionaire owner Mark
Zuckerberg keeps his promise to make 2023 a ‘year
of efficiency’ for the firm.
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram
announced the latest cuts in a question and answer
session with employees on Thursday.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Free_loans_from_Commbank⠀⇛
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Facebook_owner_Meta_slashes_business_teams_in
final_round_of_layoffs⠀⇛
Meta Platforms Inc, owner of Facebook, slashed jobs
across its business and operations units on
Wednesday as it carried out its last batch of a
three-part round of layoffs, part of a plan
announced in March to eliminate 10,000 roles.
Dozens of employees working in teams such as
marketing, site security, enterprise engineering,
program management, content strategy and corporate
communications took to LinkedIn to announce that
they were laid off.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Minnesota_Passes_Right_to_Repair⠀⇛
The Minnesota law is part of an omnibus bill and
state legislators added the portions about repair
to it on May 17. The new law will go into effect on
July 1, 2024 and covers all electronics except
video game consoles, cars, medical devices,
cybersecurity tools, and farm and construction
equipment.
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ Extension_of_the_date_of
applicability_of_the_RED_delegated_act_on_cybersecurity,
privacy_and_protection_from_fraud⠀⇛
This draft act is open for feedback for 4 weeks.
Feedback will be taken into account for finalising
this initiative. Feedback received will be
published on this site and therefore must adhere to
the feedback rules.
# ⚓ Vox ☛ Ron_DeSantis’s_very_online_and_very_disastrous_2024
campaign_announcement⠀⇛
To put it mildly, it was a disaster. The audio feed
cut in and out, users were continually kicked off
the app, and, for the first 20 minutes, all anyone
could hear was feedback, wait music, and occasional
crosstalk as Sacks and Musk tried to figure out
just what was going on. It was chaos and anarchy.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Elon_Musk’s_Event_With_Ron_DeSantis
Exposes_Twitter’s_Weaknesses⠀⇛
Instead, the event began with more than 20 minutes
of technical glitches, hot mic moments and drowned-
out and half-said conversations before the
livestream abruptly cut out. Minutes later, the
livestream restarted as hundreds of thousands of
listeners tried to tune in. Mr. DeSantis had not
said a word at that point.
# ⚓ Gannett ☛ Florida_Gov._Ron_DeSantis’_presidential
announcement_on_Twitter_plagued_by_technical_problems⠀⇛
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign
got off to a rocky start Wednesday when his
announcement event on Twitter was plagued by
technical difficulties, which persisted for more
than 20 minutes before the governor was able to
deliver his speech and participate in a question-
and-answer session.
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ Five_takeaways_from_Ron_DeSantis’s_glitch-ridden
campaign_launch⠀⇛
It was beset with technical difficulties from the
start. Many users reported being unable to log onto
the event, and those who did had to struggle with
audio that was interrupted, garbled, or dropped out
entirely.
For those who were able to listen live, the event
turned into a cringe-fest.
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ Air_Force_general_selected_to_lead_NSA,_Cyber
Command⠀⇛
President Biden has nominated Air Force Lt. Gen.
Timothy Haugh to serve as the new head of the NSA
and the U.S. Cyber Command, according to an Air
Force notice seen by Politico.
If confirmed, Haugh will replace Gen. Paul
Nakasone, the current leader of the NSA and the
U.S. Cyber Command. Haugh currently serves as the
deputy commander of U.S. Cyber Command.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ EU_Commissioner:_Hungary_not_even_close
to_the_finish_line_on_EU_money⠀⇛
Hungary is not even close to the finish line on EU
money, according to the EU’s budget commissioner,
Johannes Hahn, Euronews reports.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ European_Commission_gives_green_light_to
Paks_II_contract_modification⠀⇛
The European Commission has approved the amendment
to the contracts for the construction of the new
units of Hungary’s Paks nuclear power plant, which
will allow the acceleration of the Paks investment,
Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó announced on his
Facebook page.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Conciliation_on_education_bill_a
political_puppet_show_according_to_opposition_leader⠀⇛
Ferenc Gelencsér, president of Momentum said at a
joint press conference of the parties and the
teachers’ trade unions after Wednesday’s
conciliation on the status law, which was convened
by Interior Minister Sándor Pintér half an hour
before the student protests last Friday.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Corporate_Media_Ignores_True_‘Crisis_of
Democracy’_in_Israel:_That_It_Isn’t_One⠀⇛
What mainstream outlets just can’t seem to see that
is so glaringly obvious.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Elon_Musk_displaces_Rupert_Murdoch,_Fox_News_to_be
king_of_conservative_media⠀⇛
Elon_Musk has displaced Rupert Murdoch and Fox News
as the king of conservative media in recent weeks.
Why it matters: Fox News used to be the place where
conservatives went to break news. But the right-
wing_ecosystem has turned on the network, leaving
Twitter as the center of media gravity for the
Republican Party just as the 2024 election heats
up.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Dissecting_the_Durham_Report⠀⇛
Join Reason on YouTube Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern
with Eli Lake to discuss what the Durham report
tells us about the FBI, the media and U.S.
politics.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Fact_check:_Turkey’s_Erdogan_shows
false_Kilicdaroglu_video⠀⇛
Research by DW’s fact-checking team in
cooperation with DW’s Turkish service shows
that the video at the campaign rally was
manipulated by combining two separate videos
with totally different backgrounds and
content.
This video presented by Erdogan comes after
experts warned of increased manipulation on
Turkish social media ahead of the election.
# ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ ‘It’s_Disgusting’:_Rosalía_Fires_Back
at_Artist_Who_Shared_Photoshopped_Nude_Photos_of_Her⠀⇛
According to screengrabs circulating on
social media, Reyes, or someone with access
to his Instagram account, shared the
photographs on his Stories. They appeared to
be altered versions of photos Rosalía had
originally taken and shared of herself.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Public_Criticism_Might_Be_the_Best_Way_to
Reform_the_Supreme_Court⠀⇛
In past instances of public criticism, the court
has occasionally changed its ways.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Vietnamese_activist_known_as_‘Onion_Bae’_sentenced_to
5_½_years_in_prison⠀⇛
He was convicted of propaganda under Article 117 of
the country’s Penal Code, which carries a minimum
sentence of five years and a maximum of 12, after
being found guilty of criticizing the government
online.
Bui, 39, who ran a beef noodle stall in Danang,
achieved notoriety in 2021 after posting an online
video mimicking the Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe,
known as “Salt Bae.”
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Arizona_Judge_Overturns_Incredibly_Stupid
Restraining_Order_Against_A_Journalist_Who_Dared_To_Knock_On
A_Politician’s_Door⠀⇛
For a brief moment of time, a judge in Arizona
conspired with a vindictive politician to pretend
the First Amendment didn’t exist. Senator Wendy
Rogers — who was censured by the state senate last
year for stating her political opponents should be
hanged — took litigious offense at the methods
deployed by journalist Camryn Sanchez, who covers
the state senate for the Arizona Capitol Times.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Stupidity_Of_Making_Porn_Filters_Mandatory
On_Mobile_Devices_(And_Other_Musings_On_Reality)⠀⇛
Lawmakers in the Alabama state legislature have
voted for a bill that would require parental
controls and NSFW content filters to be enabled on
every phone and tablet sold in the state. House
Bill (HB) 298, or the Protection of Minors from
Unfiltered Devices Act, cleared the state House
with an overwhelming 70-8 vote, with two dozen
members abstaining from voting, last week. Now in
the Senate, HB 298 is seeing success after the
bill’s sole sponsor, state Rep. Chris Sells, failed
in some previous legislative sessions to push this
legislation to approval.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Jesse_Singal:_How_To_Stay_Honest_While_Doing
Journalism⠀⇛
The Blocked & Reported cohost talks about cancel
culture, activism vs. truth, and why he quit
Twitter.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ To_Save_the_News,_We_Must_Shatter_Ad-Tech⠀⇛
Once, tech platforms promised that “behavioral
advertising” would be a bonanza for both media
companies and their tech partners. Rather than
paying commissioned salespeople to convince firms
to place ads based on a publication’s reputation
and readership, media companies would run ads
placed by the winners of a slew of split-second
auctions, each time a user moved from one page to
another.
These auctions would offer up the user, not the
content, to an array of bidders representing
different advertisers: “What am I bid for the right
to show an ad to a depressed, 19 year old male
Kansas City Art Institute sophomore who has
recently searched for car loans and also shopped
for incontinence pads?” In an eyeblink, every ad-
slot on the page would be filled with ads purchased
at a premium by advertisers anxious to reach that
specific user. And that user will like it! They
will be grateful for the process and all the
“highly relevant” advertisements it dangled under
their nose.
Such an arrangement has numerous moving parts. The
“ad-tech stack” includes [...]
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ ‘The_Digital_Gulag’:_Kremlin’s_new_technology
to_control_Russia⠀⇛
Russian activists face escalating government
scrutiny through digital surveillance, social media
monitoring, and facial recognition systems.
President Vladimir Putin’s administration utilizes
technology to control and censor citizens.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Scholars_Say_Ancient_Icon_Will_Be_Damaged
If_Transferred_To_Orthodox_Church⠀⇛
Russian scholars have urged Culture Minister Olga
Lyubimova not to transfer the ancient Holy Trinity
icon by medieval painter Andrei Rublev from
Moscow’s state-run Tretyakov Gallery Arts Museum to
the Russian Orthodox Church’s premises, saying the
artifact will be damaged during the process.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ 95-year-old_Australian_woman_dies_after_police_shoot
her_with_stun_gun⠀⇛
Clare Nowland, who had dementia, had been
hospitalized in Coma in New South Wales state since
her skull was fractured when she fell on May 17
after Constable Kristian White shocked her with a
stun gun.
# ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ As_Writers_Strike,_AI_Could_Covertly
Cross_the_Picket_Line⠀⇛
Once again, a strike is happening during a period
of widespread economic uncertainty spurred by
inflation, concerns of a recession, and mass
layoffs in media and entertainment. But this time
around, there’s a twist: the ascension of
generative artificial intelligence. If half the
internet can be tricked by an AI-created Drake and
The Weeknd collab, could that same tech write
scripts and enable studios to create more content
for less money?
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Freedom⠀⇛
# ⚓ Shadowproof ☛ Protest_Song_Of_The_Week:_‘La_Banda_Más
Chingón_en_Wyoming’_By_No-No_Boy_Featuring_Mariachi_Los
Broncos⠀⇛
No-No Boy released their debut album “1942” in
2018, but it has since evolved primarily into a
Saporiti project. Saporiti followed it up in 2021
with the album “1975,” which featured considerable
vocal, musical, and production contributions from
Emilia Halvorsen. The album title referred to the
year Saigon fell.Similar to “1942,” Saporiti
explored his own family heritage and connected that
heritage to the. experiences of those in WWII
Japanese internment camps. He linked this history
to modern-day immigrant detention centers and
refugee camps.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Congress_Must_Exercise_Caution_in_AI_Regulation⠀⇛
Congress should be paying attention to AI
technologies. Many are tools with extraordinary
potential. They can help users distill large
volumes of information, manage numerous tasks more
efficiently, and change how we work – for good and
for ill, depending on where you sit. Influential
corporate and government actors recognize the
ability of AI to redistribute power in ways they
can’t control, which is one reason so many are
seeking Congressional intervention now.
But Congress should regulate with extreme caution,
if at all, and focus on use of the tools rather
than the tools themselves. If policymakers are
worried about privacy, they should pass a strong
privacy law. If they are worried about law
enforcement abuse of face recognition, they should
restrict that use. And so on. Above all, they must
reject the binary thinking that AI technologies are
going to lead to either C-3PO or the Terminator.
Unfortunately, policymakers seem more inclined to
move fast and break things.
o § Internet Policy/`utrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Biden_Tries_Again:_Picks_Anna_Gomez_For_Long-
Empty_FCC_Spot⠀⇛
By now we’ve talked at length about the hot mess
that has been the Biden administration’s attempt to
properly staff the FCC. After an inexplicable 8
month delay, the Biden administration picked
popular consumer advocate Gigi Sohn for the spot.
But a relentless, often homophobic, multi-year
smear campaign by telecom/media giants and their
GOP allies scuttled Sohn’s chances.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ CBC ☛ Peloton_rebrands_in_bid_to_be_known_as_‘more_than_a
bike_company’⠀⇛
The company rolled out new pricing for tiered
membership that ranges from $12.99 US to $24 US per
month, and said that its app now offers the largest
number of free classes since its launch in June
2018.
# ⚓ CBC ☛ Netflix_to_start_charging_U.S._customers_an_extra_$8
for_sharing_account_outside_the_house⠀⇛
In an email to its 70 million U.S. customers on
Tuesday, Netflix said it will limit viewership of
its programming to people living in the same
household. Those who subscribe to Netflix’s
standard or premium plans — which cost $15.50 US to
$20 US per month — will be able to allow another
person living outside their household to use their
password for an additional $8 per month, a $2
discount from the company’s standard stand-alone
plan.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Poll:_Illegal_streaming_on_the_rise_in_Nordic
countries⠀⇛
A new survey finds that nearly half of 15-24
year olds have engaged in some form of
content piracy.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Sharp_Rise_in_Piracy_Rates_Across
Sweden,_Denmark,_Finland_&_Norway⠀⇛
A Mediavision survey reports a sharp rise in
piracy rates across the Nordic region. Movie
and TV show consumption, whether streamed or
downloaded, is up in Sweden, Denmark, Finland
and Norway. The largest number of pirates can
be found in Sweden, where a quarter of 15 to
74-year-olds pirate content, levels last seen
in 2016.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ European_Commission_Calls_for_Pirate
Site_Blocking_Around_the_Globe⠀⇛
The European Commission has published its
biannual list of foreign countries with
problematic copyright policies. One of the
highlighted issues is a lack of pirate site
blocking, which is seen as an effective
enforcement measure. Interestingly, the EU
doesn’t mention the United States, which is
arguably the most significant country yet to
implement an effective site-blocking regime.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Games_Showcase:_One_Minute_Chess⠀⇛
It’s a game you almost certainly know. Let me tell
you about it.
By “one minute chess” I mean the standard game, but
with about the fastest time control that’s
playable: one minute on the clock. Total. For all
of your moves.
It’s a variant I discovered at Uni, and it makes
the game fast, furious and a little bit insane.
I’ve only played it online, I don’t know if it’s
feasible on a physical board.
# ⚓ Let’s_Play_The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Tears_of_the_Kingdom⠀⇛
Gameplay spoilers for Tears of the Kingdom start on
Day ≤1, and plot spoilers start on Day 1. The
introduction, right below, has minor gameplay
spoilers for Breath of the Wild, the previous game.
You should also expect even more plot and/or
gameplay spoilers for BotW later on.
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ABCFTKI_Wordo:_LUPUS⠀⇛
# ⚓ In_the_Land_of_Invented_Names⠀⇛
In Ursula K. Le Guin’s “A Wizard of Earthsea”,
names are power. The child-wizard Duny is given his
true name, Ged, by his mentor Ogion. But thereafter
he adopts the name Sparrowhawk, a self-selected
name which acts as a shield, preventing a wizard
from being seen and known as he truly is.
The first time I remember using a name for myself
that wasn’t my given one was at a jamboree in the
early 90s. The tuck shop had facilities for making
nametags. When I decided what I wanted to be
called, I went with what some of the other campers
called me. The name short-lived. Based on my
appearance. I don’t think I’ve been called that
before or after. But it was my first experience
trying on a name that didn’t, in a legal or
societal sense, belong to me. What is it? Doesn’t
matter, it’s gone.
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