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⦿ Daniel Stenberg Knows Almost Nothing About Gemini and He’s Likely Just Protecting His Turf (HTTP/S) | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 28, 2023 | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/05/29/daniel-stenberg-wrong-about-gemini/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/05/29/irc-log-280523/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/05/29/gemini-fud/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/05/29/linux-pains/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/05/29/smolver-1-2-1-released/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/05/29/snap-and-pipewire-plans/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/05/29/unifont-15-0-04/#comments
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/05/29/daniel-stenberg-wrong-about-gemini/#comments
Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/05/29/daniel-stenberg-wrong-about-gemini/
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✐ Daniel_Stenberg_Knows_Almost_Nothing_About_Gemini_and_He’s_Likely_Just
Protecting_His_Turf_(HTTP/S)⠀✐
Posted in Deception, FUD, Protocol at 2:52 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 60c27626a994551b2361b079b19fa27d
Gemini FUD Based on Ignorance
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/curl-vs-gemini.webm
Summary: The man behind Curl, Daniel Stenberg, criticises Gemini; but it’s not
clear if he even bothered trying it (except very briefly) or just read some
inaccurate, one-sided blurbs about it
THE DETAILED_RESPONSE (in_Daily_Links_already) to yesterday’s_post_from_Daniel
Stenberg merited a long video, aside from a rant in IRC. Stenberg and I used to
argue about all sorts of things and right now he’s badmouthing Gemini while
shilling GitHub, which isn’t just proprietary but also controlled by Microsoft.
Stenberg tends to gravitate towards money, just like the_World_Wide_Web
Consortium.
“My thoughts in the video can be summed up as, Stenberg promotes misconceptions
and misinformation about Gemini.”Stenberg’s background isn’t what many people
assume (he openly_admitted_this_days_ago), but he’s very influential because
his program is used on billions of computers, not just on this planet but also
in Mars.
Stenberg isn’t a rude person. He can sometimes be both amicable and receptive
to feedback. I hope he’ll spend more time actually using Gemini before leaping
to unfair judgments. My thoughts in the video can be summed up as, Stenberg
promotes misconceptions and misinformation about Gemini. Maybe it’s not
intentional or maybe the veiled rationale is the lack of Gemini support in Curl
(there are already Free/libre tools that way are ahead of Curl and support
Gemini — I’ve even compiled some of them). █
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✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Sunday,_May_28,_2023⠀✐
Posted in IRC_Logs at 5:25 am by Needs Sunlight
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* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-280523.gmi
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o ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ What_Is_GNU/Linux_and_Why_Does_Hardly_Anyone_Call
It_That?⠀⇛
You’re interested in Linux and have read a few blog
posts. Along the way, you’ve come across a funny name:
GNU/Linux. What do those letters mean, and why do people
keep appending them to Linux?
This is a simple question, but the answer brings us to a
debate that has persisted in the Linux world for decades.
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# ⚓ 2023-05-27_Patent_Troll_Comes_After_Valve’s_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-27_Fedora_KDE_ditches_X11,_Android_vulnerability,
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# ⚓ 2023-05-26_[Older]_Nintendo_thumbs_players_in_the_eye_one
last_time.⠀⇛
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Support⠀⇛
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Terminal_[For_Retro_Arcade_Game_Lovers]⠀⇛
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resellers…_they’re_bad_news.⠀⇛
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once_again.⠀⇛
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Months._Should_I_Move_To_Arch?_(And_More_Questions)⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-25_[Older]_How_to_install_Microsoft_Fonts_on_MX
Linux_21.3⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-25_[Older]_The_END_of_DISTRO_HOPPING?_All_Linux
distros_in_one_single_system_with_VanillaOS⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-24_[Older]_How_to_install_FreeOffice_on_MX_Linux
21.3⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-24_[Older]_How_to_install_AlmaLinux_OS_9.2⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-23_[Older]_The_FOSS_&_privacy_champion_you_didn’t
know_about:_FRAMASOFT⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-23_[Older]_Arch_Linux_Successfully_Migrates_Repos
To_Git!!⠀⇛
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OS_for_the_community,_by_the_community⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-23_[Older]_How_to_install_Wire_Desktop_on_MX_Linux
21.3⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-23_[Older]_Navigating_Emacs_Documents_With_Imenu⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-22_[Older]_How_to_install_Sublime_Text_on_MX_Linux
21.3⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-22_[Older]_The_Worst_Anti_Linux_Desktop_Blog_Post⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-22_[Older]_Do_You_Need_A_Separate_/home_Partition
for_Linux?⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-22_[Older]_Is_it_safe_to_buy_a_Steam_Deck_right
now?⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-22_[Older]_Manjaro_22.1.0_“Talos”_Xfce_Edition
Quick_Overview_#shorts⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-21_[Older]_X11_Extensions_Made_Xorg_Actually
Usable⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-21_[Older]_Set_Your_Desktop_On_Fire_With_These
GNOME_Extensions⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-21_[Older]_How_to_install_WPS_Office_2019_on_MX
Linux_21.3⠀⇛
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Flask_on_Fedora_38⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Flask on Fedora 38. Are you looking to build web
applications on Fedora 38? Flask, a popular Python
web framework, can be a great option. With its
lightweight and easy-to-use structure, Flask is
perfect for creating simple to complex web
applications.
# ⚓ Detect_Failures_and_Ensure_High_Availability:_DRBD_and
Corosync/Pacemaker⠀⇛
# ⚓ Petros Koutoupis ☛ New_Article:_Detect_Failures_and_Ensure
High_Availability:_DRBD_and_Corosync/Pacemaker⠀⇛
My latest article is now available on the ADMIN
Magazine website (and issue 73 of ADMIN Magazine)
and is called “Detect Failures and Ensure High…
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-05-25_[Older]_How_to_Turn_On_Developer
Mode_on_Chromebook⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-05-24_[Older]_5_Reasons_Why_You_Should
Update_the_Linux_Kernel⠀⇛
Your distro might constantly notify you to update
the Linux kernel. But why should you update it when
it’s been running fine?
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Run_Linux_on_Android_Devices⠀⇛
Want to run Linux on Android? Here are methods for
both unrooted and rooted devices to get a Linux
desktop running on your phone.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ What_Is_a_GZ_File_and_How_Do_You_Unzip_It?
⠀⇛
Found a GZ file on your computer but can’t open it?
Here’s how you extract the file content on Windows,
macOS, and Linux.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Now_a_DevOps_platform,_OpenShift_ups_value_—
and_complexity⠀⇛
Red Hat raises OpenShift’s profile as a DevOps
platform with software supply chain security but
faces questions about networking strategy and
observability staff departures.
# ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Automating_modernization:_Takeaways_from_Red
Hat_Summit_2023⠀⇛
Get an industry analyst’s take on major
announcements from this year’s Red Hat Summit and
AnsibleFest and how the developments fit into
today’s IT landscape.
# ⚓ Oracle_announces_general_availability_of_latest_Oracle
Linux_releases⠀⇛
The latest releases of Oracle Linux enhance the
user experience across on-premises, cloud, and edge
deployments, with a focus on operational
consistency and improved efficiency, to accelerate
time-to-market for critical infrastructure assets.
# ⚓ Fedora_Infrastructure_Status:_s390x_power_outage⠀⇛
The Red Hat Westford location will have more power
line work done. This will require the building to
be powered down in places which will affect various
services like network connections and s390x
builders.
koji builds and composes will be affected with
builds waiting until the s390x builders are able …
# ⚓ SJVN ☛ The_Free_RHEL_9.2_Clone_Distros_Arrive⠀⇛
Hot on the heels of the release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.2, its free rival clones,
AlmaLinux OS 9.2 and Rocky Linux 9.2, arrived on
the scene. Built on the foundation of the RHEL 9.2
source code, both offer the latest RHEL feature
enhancements and features. Classic CentOS may be on
its way to history, but RHEL clones for cost-
conscious users.
Both AlmaLinux OS and Rocky Linux incorporate a
host of security enhancements. These include an
idle session termination rule to the Security
Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), Clevis
automated encryption framework upgrades that
accommodate external tokens, and support for
multiple Certificate Authority (CA) files for
Rsyslog’s TLS-encrypted logging.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_Smoothing_the
transition:_CentOS_Linux_7_to_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux⠀⇛
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_Red_Hat_Advanced
Cluster_Security_turns_4.0_today,_moves_to_PostgreSQL⠀⇛
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_Introducing_Red_Hat
Service_Interconnect⠀⇛
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_Making_cloud-native
more_accessible:_Red_Hat’s_vision_for_Red_Hat_OpenShift_with
hosted_control_planes⠀⇛
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_Modernizing_RHEL
management⠀⇛
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_Podman_Desktop_1.0:
The_next-gen_container_management_solution_streamlining
developers_container_operations⠀⇛
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_Red_Hat_OpenShift
4.13_is_now_available⠀⇛
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_Improving_supply
chain_resiliency_with_Red_Hat_Trusted_Software_Supply_Chain⠀⇛
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Ultimate_Edition_(GNU/Linux):_Innovation_at_its_finest⠀⇛
New toy? I don’t typically talk about products I
buy – I do buy a bunch of them. This product is so
good I have bought 2 of them and I am considering
buying not just a third one, but a fourth one. I
will be forthcoming, it is not cheap. What is it?
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Analyze_the_ambient_sound_around_you_with_this
Arduino_setup⠀⇛
You’ve probably heard that there isn’t any sound in
space. That’s because sound is vibration traveling
through a medium, like air or wood, and space is a
mostly empty vacuum. The frequency of the vibration
in a medium is the pitch of the sound and the
amplitude is the volume.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ James_Just_James:_Blocked_select_logging_(deadlock_finding)
in_golang⠀⇛
I’ve been writing some massively concurrent code
for mgmt lately. The concurrency makes it
incredibly bug prone. In this case it’s usually
races or deadlocks. I’ve got a new trick to make
the process more pleasant.
The Problem:
I’m sure many of you have written some code like
this before:
// just a small excerpt for { select { case <-
someEvent: // some awesome thing happened! case <-
ctx.Done(): return ctx.
# ⚓ Chris ☛ The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of_Conditional
Probabilities⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_Much_Memory_Do_You_Need_to_Run_1_Million_Concurrent
Tasks?⠀⇛
In this blog post, I delve into the comparison of
memory consumption between asynchronous and multi-
threaded programming across popular languages like
Rust, Go, Java, C#, Python, Node.js and Elixir.
Some time ago I had to compare performance of a few
computer programs designed to handle a large number
of network connections. I saw huge differences in
memory consumption of those programs, even
exceeding 20x. Some programs consumed little over
100 MB, but the others reached almost 3 GB at 10k
connections. Unfortunately those programs were
quite complex and differed also in features, so it
would be hard to compare them directly and draw
some meaningful conclusions, as that wouldn’t be an
apple-to-apple comparison. This led me to an idea
of creating a synthetic benchmark instead.
# ⚓ Memory_Allocation⠀⇛
One thing that all programs on your computer have
in common is a need for memory. Programs need to be
loaded from your hard drive into memory before they
can be run. While running, the majority of what
programs do is load values from memory, do some
computation on them, and then store the result back
in memory.
In this post I’m going to introduce you to the
basics of memory allocation. Allocators exist
because it’s not enough to have memory available,
you need to use it effectively. We will visually
explore how simple allocators work. We’ll see some
of the problems that they try to solve, and some of
the techniques used to solve them. At the end of
this post, you should know everything you need to
know to write your own allocator.
# ⚓ “Rewrite_it_in_Rust”_Considered_Harmful?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Writing_Python_like_it’s_Rust⠀⇛
I started programming in Rust several years ago,
and it has gradually changed the way I design
programs in other programming languages, most
notably in Python. Before I started using Rust, I
was usually writing Python code in a very dynamic
and type-loose way, without type hints, passing and
returning dictionaries everywhere, and occasionally
falling back to “stringly-typed” interfaces.
However, after experiencing the strictness of the
Rust type system, and noticing all the problems
that it prevents “by construction”, I suddenly
became quite anxious whenever I got back to Python
and wasn’t provided with the same guarantees.
To be clear, by “guarantees” I don’t mean memory
safety here (Python is reasonably memory safe as-
is), but rather “soundness” – the concept of
designing APIs that are very hard or outright
impossible to misuse and thus prevent undefined
behaviour and various bugs. In Rust, an incorrectly
used interface will usually cause a compilation
error. In Python, you can still execute such
incorrect program, but if you use a type checker
(like pyright) or an IDE with a type analyzer (like
PyCharm), you can still get a similar level of
quick feedback about a possible problem.
# § Perl / Raku⠀➾
# ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-05-26_[Older]_This_week_in_PSC_(108)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-05-25_[Older]_Perl_Weekly_Challenge_#218
–_Feeling_Negative⠀⇛
# ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-05-21_[Older]_Perl_Weekly_Challenge_#217
–_Flattening_the_Matrix⠀⇛
# ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-05-20_[Older]_TWC_217:_Big_and_Boundless
in_The_Matrix⠀⇛
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Writing_summaries_is_more_important_than_reading_more_books⠀⇛
One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books
but to take the time to write summaries for the good
ones. The ROI of spending 2h writing a synopsis is much
higher than spending those 2h powering through the next
book on your list. Reading is not about page count or
speed [1]. What matters is how it changes your thinking
and what you take away from it. Optimize for
comprehension, not volume.
If your goal is to maximize comprehension, you need to
ask questions while you read — questions that you
yourself must try to answer in the course of reading.
This is something I believe curious people do naturally.
Forcing yourself to ask questions and to answer them also
makes it easy to write a synopsis: When you’re done,
simply write down the most important questions you’ve
encountered and how the book has answered them.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Winnie_the_Pooh_‘Run,_Hide,_Fight’_Book
Draws_Parents’_Ire⠀⇛
The Dallas school district apologized for not
providing guidance to parents when it sent students
home with a book that teaches how to respond to
dangerous situations at school.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ Hardware_Addicts_76:_RibbonFet_and_PowerVia,
The_Key_to_Intel’s_Next_Generation_of_CPUs⠀⇛
Welcome to Hardware Addicts, a proud member of the
TuxDigital Network. Hardware Addicts is the podcast
that focuses on the physical components that powers
our technology world.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Belgium_Sentences_Students_Over_Hazing
Death_of_Sanda_Dia⠀⇛
Sanda Dia, a 20-year-old Black student at the
Catholic University of Leuven, died in 2018 after
members of an elite fraternity forced him to drink
fish oil, swallow goldfish and stand in an ice-
filled trench.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Surgeon_General’s_Social_Media_Warning
and_A.I.’s_Existential_Risks⠀⇛
Plus, Kevin and Casey react to this week’s tech
headlines.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora_38_templates_available⠀⇛
New Fedora 38 templates are now available! We
provide fresh Fedora 38 template packages through
the official Qubes repositories, which you can
install in dom0 by following the standard
installation_instructions. Alternatively, we also
provide step-by-step instructions for performing_an
in-place_upgrade of an existing Fedora template.
After upgrading your templates, please remember to
switch_all_qubes_that_were_using_the_old_template
to_use_the_new_one.
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Expeditionary_Cyberspace_Operations⠀⇛
Cyberspace operations now officially_has a physical
dimension, meaning that the United States has
official military doctrine about cyberattacks that
also involve an actual human gaining physical
access to a piece of computing infrastructure.
# ⚓ SANS ☛ DocuSign-themed_email_leads_to_script-based
infection,_(Sat,_May_27th)⠀⇛
Introduction
# ⚓ SANS ☛ Using_DFIR_Techniques_To_Recover_From_Infrastructure
Outages,_(Fri,_May_26th)⠀⇛
Recently, I was involved in a network outage caused
by a defective pfSense firewall appliance.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-22_[Older]_Facebook_and_Instagram
Fined_$1.3_Billion,_Ordered_to_Stop_Sending_EU_Data_to
U.S.⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-22_[Older]_Meta_hit_with_$1.3
billion_fine_over_Facebook’s_EU-US_data_transfers⠀⇛
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan_reports_Chinese_aircraft_carrier
sailed_through_strait⠀⇛
The Shandong sailed in a northerly direction around
midday through the strait sticking to its median
line.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Man_who_opened_Asiana_plane_door_in
mid-air_tells_police_he_was_‘uncomfortable’⠀⇛
He said he “wanted to get off the plane quickly”.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Oath_Keepers_founder_sentenced_to_18_years_for
Jan._6_seditious_conspiracy⠀⇛
A federal judge’s 18-year prison sentence for Oath
Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, is the longest yet
among people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack
on the U.S. Capitol.
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-25_[Older]_U.S._Capitol_rioter_photographed
with_feet_on_desk_in_Nancy_Pelosi’s_office_sentenced_to_over
4_years⠀⇛
# ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ OffG’s_Quick_Take:_White_House_Truck_Attack
–_A_LITERAL_False_Flag?⠀⇛
Perhaps you heard, on Monday night a man allegedly
attempted to ram a U-Haul truck into the White
House railings, with the avowed intent of killing
the President. He didn’t quite get that far,
naturally. The man was later identified as one “Sai
Varshith Kandula”, a Missouri man of Indian
descent.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Colombia’s_Peace-Whisperer_Makes_Plenty_of
Enemies⠀⇛
Leyner Palacios’s push for dialogue, forgiveness
and reconciliation has made him the face of peace
in Colombia — and subjected him to death threats.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Military_drills_held_across_Finland_this_weekend_as
Nato_warships_visit_Helsinki⠀⇛
The Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) warn that the use
of dummy drill ammunition as well as military
aircraft and helicopters may cause noise
disturbances in certain areas.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Separatists_in_Indonesia’s_Papua
threaten_to_shoot_NZ_hostage_if_denied_talks,_video_shows⠀⇛
Guerrilla fighters kidnapped Phillip Mehrtens in
February.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ What_the_world_should_expect_from
Erdogan_now⠀⇛
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan triumphed in
his re-election bid on Sunday. Our experts break
down what to expect next on the war in Ukraine,
NATO enlargement, Syria, and more.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Turkey’s_President_Erdoğan_wins_re-election⠀⇛
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared
victory in Sunday’s presidential runoff, triumphing
over a united opposition and claiming another five-
year term.
Why it matters:This was expected to be the most
difficult election of Erdoğan’s two decades in
power.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ VP_Harris,_1st_woman_to_give
commencement_speech_at_West_Point,_welcomes_cadets_to
‘unsettled_world’⠀⇛
Vice President Kamala Harris has become the first
woman to deliver a commencement speech at West
Point. In her address, the vice president lauded
graduating cadets for their noble sacrifice in
serving their country. But she noted an “unsettled
world” because of Russian aggression and the rising
threats that China poses. Some 950 men and women
took part in the graduation ceremony. While Harris
visits West Point, New York, President Joe Biden
heads to Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Thursday to
dole out advice to graduates at the U.S. Air Force
Academy. Earlier this month, the president was the
commencement orator at Howard University, his vice
president’s alma mater.
# § War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Drones_Over_the_Kremlin:_Is_Ukraine_Trying
To_Assassinate_Putin?⠀⇛
On May 3, two slow moving drones flew over
the Kremlin and then exploded in flames when
the Russian military forced them down.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Ukraine_downed_58_out_of_59_drones_in
Russia’s_overnight_attack,_says_Kyiv⠀⇛
Kyiv on Sunday said it had shot down 58 out
of the 59 drones that Russia launched in an
overnight attack. The attack was the largest
of its kind on the Ukrainian capital since
the start of the war, according to local
officials. Read our live blog for all the
latest developments in the war in Ukraine.
All times are Paris time (GMT+2).
# ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘They_should_be_embarrassed’:_Ukraine’s
Kostyuk_calls_out_French_Open_crowd_after_boos⠀⇛
Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk took issue with the
French Open’s notoriously fickle crowd, and
players’ silence over the war in her home
country, after she was booed off the court on
Sunday for declining to shake hands with her
Belarusian opponent on an otherwise
unremarkable opening day at Roland Garros.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Belarus’_Sabalenka_defeats_Ukraine’s
Kostyuk,_Tsitsipas_reaches_second_round_at_French
Open⠀⇛
The famously fickle Paris crowd made
themselves heard on the opening day of
the French Open, booing when Ukraine’s Marta
Kostyuk refused to shake hands after her
first-round defeat by Aryna Sabalenka of
Belarus on Sunday.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Take_A_Stand_On_War,_Ukraine’s_Kostyuk_Tells
Belarus’s_Sabalenka_At_French_Open⠀⇛
Marta Kostyuk refused to shake hands with
Aryna Sabalenka after their first-round match
at the French Open and the Ukrainian says the
Belarusian should take a stronger, more
personal stand against Russia’s war against
Ukraine.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Over_100_Germany_civil_servants_to_leave
Russia_as_war_in_Ukraine_continues⠀⇛
Over 100 diplomatic staff and teachers
working for German cultural organization
Goethe-Instituts are scheduled to leave
Russia by June following a ruling from the
Russian government, according to a Saturday
report from German news agency Suddeutsche
Zeitung.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ International_Bar_Association_calls_for_UN
to_create_tribunal_for_Russia⠀⇛
The International Bar Association (IBA)
adopted a resolution for the creation of a
Special Tribunal on Saturday for Russia to
try crimes of aggression in Ukraine.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Japan_unveils_further_sanctions_on_Russia
following_G7_Summit⠀⇛
Japan’s government announced new sanctions
Friday against Russia for its ongoing
invasion of Ukraine and recent agreement to
deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus. The
sanctions include measures meant to freeze
the assets of 17 Russian individuals and 78
entities.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy_Seeks_Sanctions_On_Iran_As_Ukraine
War_Rages_On⠀⇛
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy
initiated sanctions against Iran for a period
of 50 years, according to state news agency
Unian, referring to a presidential
legislative initiative received by the
Ukrainian parliament.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Wagner_Chief_Prigozhin_Says_Kremlin_Blanking
Him_On_State_Media_Will_Provoke_Backlash⠀⇛
Russia’s most powerful mercenary said on May
28 he was convinced that senior Kremlin
officials had banned reporting about him on
state media, cautioning that such a
misleading approach would lead to a backlash
from the Russian people within months.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Iran_Dismisses_Ukraine’s_Drone_Supply
Claims_as_Baseless⠀⇛
Ukraine and Western countries have accused
Iran of exporting suicide drones to Russia
for use in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Make_Russia_Pay⠀⇛
The West has already frozen some $300 billion
in Russian assets. Here’s the case for
seizing them.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ French_Open:_Ukraine’s_Kostyuk_Booed
After_No_Handshake_With_Belarusian_Sabalenka⠀⇛
Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine had the crowd on her
side initially, but then was booed after she
did not shake hands with Aryna Sabalenka of
Belarus after losing to her in straight sets.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_Repels_Large_Russian_Drone
Attack_on_Kyiv⠀⇛
More than 40 drones were intercepted over
Kyiv, where city officials said at least one
person had been killed, probably by falling
debris.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Security_threat_or_arbitrary_rejection?
Belarusian_exiles_battle_with_Lithuania’s_migration
policies⠀⇛
Russian and Belarusian citizens applying for
residence in Lithuania have to prove they are
not a threat to national security. They have
to fill out questionnaires with questions
like “Whose is Crimea?” and fear arbitrary
decisions from Lithuania’s institutions.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ More_wetlands_wiped_out?_Supreme_Court_favors
farmers_over_protections.⠀⇛
The Supreme Court is curtailing the federal
government’s power to protect some wetlands, making
it easier for farmers and developers to fill or
disturb wetlands. The decision weakens the Clean
Water Act, a bedrock environmental law.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_may_have_more_EU_funds_frozen_if_tax_reform
stalls_–_finance_minister⠀⇛
The European Commission will suspend transfers to
Lithuania from the Recovery and Resilience Facility
(RRF) if the government’s proposed tax reform
stalls, Finance Minister Gintarė Skaistė warned on
Wednesday.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Higher_power_bills_to_‘drive
Victorians_to_poverty’⠀⇛
Victorians will be driven into poverty by higher
power bills after the state’s economic regulator
pushed forward with its default offer increase,
community advocates warn.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Case_Against_Student_Debt_Relief
Barely_Even_Pretends_to_Make_Sense⠀⇛
A loan servicing agency looks to make more money,
not less, if Biden’s plan goes into effect.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Police_probe_into_PwC_tax_info_case
could_be_broadened⠀⇛
Federal police investigating claims against PwC are
looking at whether potential criminal activity at
the consulting giant extends beyond one individual.
The confirmation came as the government raised
concerns about legal constraints handicapping it
from getting out of existing PwC contracts
following revelations a former partner
shared confidential tax policy information to drum
up business.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Senators_to_probe_government_action_on
PwC_scandal⠀⇛
Finance department officials are set to be grilled
on how the government plans to respond to the
scandal over consultants PwC. In January, a now
former PwC partner was caught sharing confidential
federal government tax policy information to drum
up business.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Milkrun_is_reborn_with_new_Woolworths
partnership⠀⇛
Collapsed fast grocery delivery service Milkrun has
been rescued by industry giant Woolworths. The
company emailed customers on Thursday, announcing
it would now be branded Milkrun powered by Metro.
Supplied by Woolworths Metro, the takeover sees
Milkrun and its blue branding become a part of the
grocery chain’s Metro60 platform.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Hypo:_Finland_to_see_biggest_property_price_drop_in
30_years⠀⇛
A monthly market review by the home financing
specialists Hypo found that housing prices will
fall by an average of seven percent in Finland
during 2023.
# ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Ex-Slack_CEO_Stewart_Butterfield_explains_‘the
root_of_all_the_excess’_after_tech’s_over-hiring—and_it’s_all
about_prestige⠀⇛
Tech companies have been laying off workers in
droves this year. One big reason is that they hired
too many people in the first place when times were
easier. Stewart Butterfield, the former CEO of
Slack, shared some insights this week on how the
over-hiring can happen, identifying a behavior
among supervisors that he considers the “root of
all the excess.”
# ⚓ India Times ☛ IT_company_Airmeet_lays_off_30%_of_workforce;
reasons_that_CEO’s_email_to_employees_gives_for_job_cuts⠀⇛
Homegrown virtual events platform Airmeet has
reportedly laid off nearly about 30 per cent of its
workforce. The job cuts are across various
departments. According to the Inc42 website, the
layoffs impacted sales, marketing, tech and
operations departments at the Bengaluru-based
startup. The job cuts are spread across the
company’s operations in India, the US and Europe.
Backed by Sequoia Capital, the platform recently
raised $35 million in its Series B funding round
from Prosus Ventures, Sistema Asia Fund.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘I_am_not_at_all_safe,’_says_ex-Pakistani_PM
Khan_as_he_condemns_mass_arrests_of_supporters⠀⇛
Pakistan’s former prime minister and PTI party
leader Imran Khan was released on bail on May 12
after being arrested on graft charges. Since then,
he says he has been “isolated” at his home, cut off
from the senior leadership of his party, while
thousands of his supporters have been arrested.
“Anyone who supports PTI is either arrested or has
gone underground,” he told FRANCE 24 from his home
in Lahore.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kazakh_Activist_Sent_To_Pretrial_Detention_Instead
Of_Being_Released_After_Serving_Jail_Term⠀⇛
The chairman of Kazakhstan’s unregistered Algha
Kazakhstan (Forward Kazakhstan) party, Marat
Zhylanbaev, has been sent to pretrial detention for
two months instead of being released after serving
a 20-day jail term.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ E._Jean_Carroll_on_Defamatory_Trump,_and_Rob
Marshall_on_“The_Little_Mermaid”⠀⇛
Carroll and her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, on their
next move against Donald Trump’s campaign of
defamation. Plus, the director of Disney’s new film
on bringing the mermaid to life.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ E._Jean_Carroll_Discusses_Trump’s
Comeuppance⠀⇛
Since losing a civil case to the journalist, who
accused him of sexual abuse and defamation, Trump
has doubled down on his attacks.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ken_Paxton_Fighting_for_Conservative
Causes_Has_Helped_Him_Survive_Legal_Woes⠀⇛
With the Texas House set to vote on his
impeachment, Mr. Paxton is counting on political
support that he’s amassed as a Republican legal
firebrand.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Impeachment_Vote_for_Texas_Attorney
General_Ken_Paxton:_What_to_Know⠀⇛
The Texas House is set to vote on Saturday on the
impeachment of Mr. Paxton, the culmination of years
of official complaints and legal proceedings
involving the three-term attorney general.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Here’s_Why_So_Many_People_Are_Moving_to
the_U.K.⠀⇛
Despite post-Brexit restrictions and government
vows to control it, immigration to Britain reached
an all-time high in 2022, driven by war, politics
and economics.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘Different_Standards’:_The_Struggle_of
Indigenous_Journalists_in_Australia⠀⇛
The departure of the TV host Stan Grant has set off
a conversation about race and racism in the
country’s media industry.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ PM_makes_plea_to_opponents_to_back
Indigenous_voice⠀⇛
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has implored
parliament to back the Indigenous voice, saying the
body would lead to a more united and reconciled
country. As debate on the constitutional change
continued in parliament, the prime minister sought
to reassure opponents of the voice that the
proposal was a simple change that would provide
meaningful action.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Ben_Roberts-Smith_to_learn
defamation_fate⠀⇛
Almost 11 months after his lengthy trial,
Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith
will soon learn whether his defamation case
over war crimes reports has been successful.
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-27_[Older]_Twitter_pulls_out_of
EU’s_voluntary_Code_of_Practice_against
disinformation⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-05-26_[Older]_Ron_DeSantis_Is
Too_Extremely_Online_to_Stand_a_Chance⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-25_[Older]_Twitter_Is_Shifting
Right_|_Future_Tech⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-25_[Older]_US:_DeSantis
announces_presidential_run_amid_Twitter_flaws⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-25_[Older]_Twitter_says_startups
can_‘experiment’_with_its_data_for_$5,000_a_month⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-24_[Older]_Meta_Begins_Its_Next
Round_of_Mass_Layoffs⠀⇛
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Berlin_Police_Investigate_Roger_Waters
Over_Nazi-Style_Uniform⠀⇛
Mr. Waters, a founder of Pink Floyd, who has long
been critical of Israel, has worn similar clothing
in the past when playing songs from Pink Floyd’s
album “The Wall.”
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Brussels,_Tehran_Swap_Prisoners_In_Move_Criticized
By_Iranian_Exile_Group⠀⇛
Belgium and Iran have swapped prisoners in an
exchange mediated by Oman, a move criticized by an
exiled Iranian opposition group as “shameful.”
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Iran_Frees_Belgian_Aid_Worker_in_Prisoner
Swap⠀⇛
The aid worker, Olivier Vandecasteele, had been
sentenced to 40 years in prison for spying. The
former diplomat was convicted of plotting a 2018
bomb attack.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Purra_threatens_to_quit_government_talks_unless
“sufficient_results”_are_reached_on_Friday⠀⇛
“Immigration as a whole is difficult,” the Finns
Party leader said on Friday.
# ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ Board_nominations_open⠀⇛
Open Rights Group is electing three Board members
for a two year term, to help lead our governance
and oversight at a time of major change. As we grow
to meet new challenges, we need a Board with
greater diversity that will help us find new allies
and funders.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Jailed_Kyrgyz_Politician_Jeenbekov’s_Wife_Sent_To
Pretrial_Detention_On_Corruption_Charge⠀⇛
Salkynai Alimbaeva, the wife of jailed Kyrgyz
opposition politician Ravshan Jeenbekov, was sent
to pretrial detention for two months on May 26 on
corruption charges.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ India’s_civic_spirit,_still_safely_housed⠀⇛
A new Parliament building reflects Hindu
architecture, yet it also has sparked a vigorous
defense of the country’s democratic ideals.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Restaurant_Chain_Franchises_Face_Scrutiny
From_the_FTC⠀⇛
Troubles at the restaurant chain Burgerim highlight
concerns about whether franchisees need more
protection in their contracts with franchisers.
# ⚓ Minister_engages_in_heated_exchange_with_protesters_via_bus
microphone_as_many_detained⠀⇛
Days into the crucial presidential vote, Minister
Soylu visited İstanbul’s Gazi neighborhood, known
for its working-class demographics and historical
association with leftist and socialist groups.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_government_backs_plans_to_set_up_special
agency_for_migrants⠀⇛
The Lithuanian government on Wednesday approved
amendments aimed at reforming the existing migrant
reception and accommodation system, including plans
to set up a special agency.
# ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-25_[Older]_30_tips_after_police_release
photos_of_AZ_rioters;_Seven_arrests_beforehand⠀⇛
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Vietnam_Activist_Jailed_for_Mocking
Official’s_Salt_Bae_Meal⠀⇛
A powerful Communist official ate a gold-encrusted
steak in London. An activist who poked fun at the
excess was sentenced to more than five years.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Belarusian_Art_Manager_Gets_Two_Years_In_Prison
Amid_Ongoing_Crackdown⠀⇛
A court in Belarus’s northeastern city of Vitsebsk
has sentenced musician and art manager Uladzimer
Bulauski to two years in prison as authoritarian
ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s regime continues its
brutal crackdown on dissent.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finnish_court_issues_10.5-year_sentence_for_more_than
100_sex_crimes⠀⇛
The Pirkanmaa District Court on Thursday convicted
a man of sex crimes and related offences involving
over 100 victims, most of them minors.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Taliban_waging_war_against_women,_rights
groups_say_in_call_for_action⠀⇛
Report by two human rights groups, including
Amnesty, says Taliban treatment of women is gender-
based persecution, a crime against humanity.
Imprisonment, torture cited in call to
international community to take legal action.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Judge_Temporarily_Blocks_South_Carolina
Abortion_Ban⠀⇛
The new law prohibited most abortions after six
weeks, and was just signed into law.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ A_New_Way_to_Hear_Some_Revelatory
Charlie_Parker_Bootlegs⠀⇛
“Bird in L.A.,” now available on streaming,
features Parker’s audacious artistry in a
wide range of live settings.
# ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-05-26_[Older]_A_right_to_information
when_there’s_no_IP:_CJEU_discusses_the_scope_of_Article
8_Enforcement_Directive [Ed: IP is misleading;
copyright?]⠀⇛
# ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-05-24_[Older]_The_Nice_Classification
conundrum⠀⇛
# ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-05-22_[Older]_[Guest_post]_What_if_AI
wrote_this_post?_–_An_inquiry_into_the_impact_of_AI_on
the_creative_industries⠀⇛
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Technical⠀➾
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ The_HTTP_client_person_as_seen_from_Gemini⠀⇛
If we’re trading random opinions about what
is visually pleasing, I find gemtext to be
quite pleasing and readable, and tag the
modern web as “vigorously unusable” for a
variety of reasons that very much includes
the visual–annoying pop-ups, CPU wasting
animations, anemic fonts, low contrast,
unreadable colors, etc. If a site works in
w3m, it can sometimes be as good as gemtext.
[...]
Why does the protocol need high transfer
speeds? And the energy waste of gemini is
trivial compared to that of the modern web.
Start Firefox? No, I already know what the
CPU fans sound like, and how much memory does
that piggy want this year?
[...]
If by “normal” you mean a document bloated
with menus, tracking, ugly visuals, dark
patterns, autoplaying videos, pop-ups,
images, javascript with a visible refresh
rate like Word 6 had, and who knows how many
security vulnerabilities along for the ride,
then, probably not.
A recent web page I was trying to summarize
weighed in at ~350,000 bytes; the actual
content on that page was probably 1300 bytes.
And that was without any additional resources
that a Firefox would go out and grab by
default. Gemini? Cat the text into a file.
HTML? Load up a parser library, learn how CSS
Selectors are useless, and that all that
pretty OO code is too slow, try another
parser library, figure out how to build a
buffer up with the text you want, emit those
blocks into a plain-text form… err, you were
saying something funny about gemini being a
waste of CPU?
[...]
Trusting all of the Certificate Authority
certificates that ship with a typical web
client has its own set of problems. Maybe
some nice government told someone to sign
something, or there’s a corrupt employee, or
the black hats can use lettuce encrypt just
as well as anybody else.
[...]
Certificate Authorities have various
problems, as mentioned above, and some folks
do use lettuce encrypt certificates on their
gemini servers, and a gemini client could
easily offer HTTPesque verification, if you
want (mine does). In practice TOFU hasn’t
been a problem, so a mandate of CA certs is
not showing up in my crystal ball.
# ⚓ Rosy_Crow_1.1.0_Released⠀⇛
Client certificates may be imported and
exported. Note that only individual PEM-
encoded file which contains both the
certificate *and* the private key may be
imported. Identities exported from Lagrange
fit this pattern, and have been confirmed to
work in Rosy Crow. Importing and exporting
encrypted keys is supported via password
entry.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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✐ Gemini_Links_29/05/2023:_GNU/Linux_Pains_and_More⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 8:38 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Politics
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Protests_Against_“Irrevesible_Damage”⠀⇛
I do not regret going to that protest yesterday.
Going there was very easy: I took the train to Tel-
Aviv Savidor Central railway station. and found the
place easily. I already know the place because I
once lived and worked in Ramat Gan.
We had a demonstration next to somewhere where the
launce of the translation of the book “Irreversible
Damage – The Transgender Craze Seducing Our
Daughters” by Abigail Shrier was to take place. So,
I just went there with some transgenders and other
activists to protest.
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ nreal_air⠀⇛
I guess I had them too close to my eyes as I
couldn’t make out the bar at the bottom of the
screen, but now the text is a little blurry around
the left edge. It seems if I wear them too close
they are more comfortable and clear but I have to
give up the bottom edge. Or I can let them sit
further down my nose, and see everything, but the
edges are blurry.
That being said, I can read text! The terminal
looks really sexy. While checking out reviews I
couldn’t find a single instance of anyone saying
how good the terminal looks, so this was really
important to me. I’ll try it later with my Switch
and eventually my PinePhones.
# ⚓ Linux_Pains⠀⇛
Just when I start thinking that Linux is getting
close to perfect, I get a dose of reality. But
somehow I always think it will be different this
time.
I had to switch to another machine, largely because
I didn’t feel like lugging my laptop to NYC yet
again. I have an ancient laptop here, with an i7-
3632QM, a decade-old yet totally adequate
processor. I was planning to give it to my father-
in-law, and loaded Zorin OS because it looks close
enough to Windows. But then I didn’t, because he
would just have his friend load pirated Windows on
it and accumulate viruses, games, and porn and
complain that it doesn’t work right all the time.
[...]
Notably, I almost gave up on Ubuntu and installed
Arch, as it seems more aligned with my current
brainus orientation — that is, I am spending more
time dicking around than doing anything useful. I
don’t even remember what it was that I was trying
to do anyway. Oh, well, I think my vim config needs
some tweaking.
# ⚓ RESP_as_a_General_Purpose_Serialization_Protocol⠀⇛
For the past six thousand years I have been the
maintainer of a medium-popularity driver for the
Redis database.
# ⚓ Sbanken/DNB_a.k.a._what_to_do_when_your_bank_no_longer
supports_ApplePay⠀⇛
I shall give you a little background as why I have
written this post because I started thinking about
it due to recent changes in the banking market here
in Norway. However, if that is of no interest to
you, skip straight to § “The workaround”.
# ⚓ Net_news⠀⇛
I’m still into net news! It’s the technology that
powered Usenet.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ A_couple_comments⠀⇛
It’s probably not the conclusion I think you
were hinting at 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:-)⦈ but
I concluded quite some time ago I prefer
taking my chances on pure text from what may
or may not be legitimate others (by which I
mean others more interested in communicating
with me than gaming me) over gobs of techo
happy horseshit in order to create some
bulletproof protocol beneath mind-boggling
visual fireworks.
[...]
Well, maybe I will check
it out based on your testimony. It’s just so
hard to tear myself away from the command
line: I swear I feel a visceral plummeting of
my IQ whenever I do so…. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:
-)⦈
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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Gemini_version_available_♊︎
✐ Gemini_Links_29/05/2023:_Rosy_Crow_1.1.1_and_Smolver_1.2.1_Released⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 12:50 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Politics
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
# Announcements
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Fighting_Thermodynamics⠀⇛
It’s too darned hot.
I have a particular weakness, and it’s this: I
can’t take the heat.
I’ve always lived in parts of the world where it’s
mostly not too hot; unfortunately this means that
when it does get hot there isn’t air conditioning.
It all comes to a head at night; if it’s hotter
than about 24° (75° Fahrenheit) then I find it
really, really hard to sleep.
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_EWMORVH_Wordo:_GENOA⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023_Week_19/20/21:_Status_and_Photos⠀⇛
On the heels of visiting Boston for the first time,
we traveled to England this month to attend my
sister-in-law’s wedding. She moved to the UK last
year and was legally wed to an Englishman she’d
been dating for over a decade, but this year the
couple were able to arrange a proper ceremony. My
wife served as one of the bridesmaids in a small,
intimate ceremony near the southern coast of
Britain.
o § Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ War_is_over?⠀⇛
Friends in my country’s military branches tell me
the effects of peace China brokered over the last
two months—between Saudi and Iran, in Yemen, in
Syria, and peace’s stabilizing influence in Iraq.
Navy sailors are coming home in large numbers from
land bases in the region with trauma from on-base
sexual assault and such. It’s hard to exploit
Saudi-Iran peace. Three US administrations over
more than 15 years wanted out, wanted to “pivot.”
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Rosy_Crow_1.1.1_Released_(Maintenance)⠀⇛
Version 1.1.1 is a maintenance release intended to
fix a couple of issues with 1.1.0; it includes the
following changes:
* I modified the color of links while using the
Black theme to make them more readable.
* I fixed an issue that was causing settings to
overwrite each other. Settings (including the last-
visited-page and current active identity) will
persist after restarting.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Bubble⠀⇛
I’m a big fan of skyjake’s work on Lagrange.
I use amfora on the CLI to proofread my
gemlog, but all my actual browsing, my
exploration, is in Lagrange. It’s well laid
out. It’s beautiful. Just a singular and
deeply impressive piece of software, one I
like using very much. I’ve been a developer
professionally for seventeen years in
September. There’s very little software I
like, and a lot that I don’t.
# ⚓ Missing_The_Point⠀⇛
Gemtext does not support CSS, JS, or inline
images. Daniel does note similarities to
gopher elsewhere (deridingly), but doesn’t
put 2 and 2 together here. Yes, gemini
defines a very poor transport for the modern
(large) web, *yawn*. But for gemtext
documents the way the protocol is actually
used (and in fact specified in the doc he
read), gemini pages consistently load much,
much faster than web pages in practice.
[...]
By my count: 3 of these are really great
points that are so clear they were probably
just missed by Solderpunk, the final one
definitely misses the point, and the first
and third points are debatable (changing the
TOFU recommendation is probably a cultural
non-starter but I’m glad he calls attention
to the burden it imposes on client
implementors).
Kneejerk defensiveness is just going to
prevent us from learning what we can, even
from imperfect sources.
# § Announcements⠀➾
# ⚓ Public_Service_Announcement_–_smolver_Security_Hole
Mitigated⠀⇛
I have mitigated smolver’s security defect
mentioned about a week ago.
If you are running smolver, please update to
v1.2.1 (or later, if you find this in the
future) and follow the instructions in the
‘For smolver Admins’ section as soon as
possible.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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✐ Links_29/05/2023:_Snap_and_PipeWire_Plans_as_Vendor_Lock-in⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 8:43 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Debian_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS)
* Leftovers
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Privatisation/Privateering
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
* Environment
o Energy/Transportation
o Wildlife/Nature
o Overpopulation
* Finance
* AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
* Censorship/Free_Speech
* Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
* Civil_Rights/Policing
* Monopolies
o Patents
o Software_Patents
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-05-21_[Older]_Linux_Weekly_Roundup
#236⠀⇛
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ The TLLTS Podcast ☛ 2023-05-25_[Older]_The_Linux_Link_Tech
Show_Episode_1005⠀⇛
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Alan Pope ☛ Alan_Pope:_Simple_RSS_Mastodon_Bot⠀⇛
Linux Matters I recently started presenting Linux
Matters podcast with my friends Martin Wimpress and
Mark Johnson.
In episode 4 (that link will only work once the
episode is released) I briefly talked about some
simple bots I setup on the Ubuntu Social Mastodon
instance (which, incidentally I talked about in
episode 1).
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Plans_to_Switch_CUPS_Printing_Stack_to
Snap⠀⇛
Ubuntu 23.10 is aiming to ship the CUPS printing
stack as a snap package. Canonical’s Till
Kamppeter, who is also the project lead for the
OpenPrinting Project, says he wants to “…switch
Ubuntu 23.10, the Mantic Minotaur, as planned, to
use the CUPS Snap as its printing system and the
Printer Application Snaps as drivers for non-IPP-
driverless printers.”
# ⚓ Jan_Grulich:_PipeWire_camera_support_in_Firefox⠀⇛
We finally reached a major milestone with Chromium
110, which was a release where we finally got
screen sharing enabled by default on Wayland, and
since then you no longer have to go into the
preferences and enable the flag you need. That
doesn’t mean my work there is over, but I’ve
shifted my focus to something related but slightly
different and that is PipeWire camera support.
# ⚓ Projects_selected_for_LibreOffice_in_the_Google_Summer_of
Code_2023⠀⇛
Improve PGP/GPG encryption support: the project
aims to enhance the experimental PGP/GPG encryption
support in LibreOffice by addressing several
shortcomings, such as the need to select recipients
anew for every save and the difficulty in finding
the right keys.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ 2023-05-28_[Older]_How_I_set_up_a
server_for_testing_new_Grafana_versions_and_other_things⠀⇛
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ How_to_Update_Snap_Packages_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Snap packages are automatically updated. But you
can still control the updates manually. Learn all
about Snap updates here.
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-05-25_[Older]_How_to_install
Microsoft_Fonts_on_MX_Linux_21.3⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-05-24_[Older]_How_to_install
FreeOffice_on_MX_Linux_21.3⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_How_to_install_Wire
Desktop_on_MX_Linux_21.3⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-05-22_[Older]_How_to_install
Sublime_Text_on_MX_Linux_21.3⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-05-21_[Older]_How_to_install_WPS
Office_2019_on_MX_Linux_21.3⠀⇛
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Enable_Fractional_Scaling_in_Fedora_with
GNOME⠀⇛
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS introduced fractional scaling in
2020 by introducing 100%, 125%, 150%, 175% and
200%. It is available in Settings under the Display
page.
But in the Fedora workstation with the default
GNOME desktop, only 100% and 200% scaling are
available.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ Emmanuele_Bassi:_Configuring portals⠀⇛
One of the things I’ve been recently working
on at Igalia is the desktop portals
implementation, the middleware layer of API
for application and toolkit developers that
allows both sandboxed applications to
interact with the host system. Sandboxing
technologies like Flatpak
and Snap expose the portal D-Bus interfaces
inside the sandbox they manage, to handle
user-mediated interactions like opening a
file that exists outside of the locations
available to the sandboxed process, or
talking to privileged components like the
compositor to obtain a screenshot.
Outside of allowing dynamic permissions for
sandboxed applications, portals act as a
vendor-neutral API for applications to target
when dealing with Linux as an OS; this is
mostly helpful for commercial applications
that are not tied to a specific desktop
environment, but don’t want to re-implement
the layer of system integration from the
first principles of POSIX primitives.
# ⚓ Medium ☛ Gotam_Gorabh:_GSoC_2023_[Week_1_Report]:
Create_a_New_“System”_panel_in_GNOME_Settings⠀⇛
Project Title: Create a New “System” panel in
GNOME Settings
Mentor : Felipe Borges
Contributor : Gotam Gorabh
§ Introduction
This summer I’m working on a project titled
Create a New “System” panel in GNOME
Settings, which aims to create a New System
panel. This blog summarizes my progress
during the bonding period and the first week
of the Google Summer Of Code 2023.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ How_and_why_EasyOS_is_different_page_updated⠀⇛
Easy keeps evolving and the documentation falls behind.
As the “How and why EasyOS is different” page may be the
first stop for those checking out Easy, I have updated
it:
https://easyos.org/about/how-and-why-easyos-is-
different.html
Tomorrow afternoon, after returning from a family
engagement, plan to do a complete recompile in
OpenEmbedded, updating many packages.
After that, some sanity testing, then likely to release
Easy 5.3.2. We can test that, with a view to releasing
5.3.3 that will be announced on Distrowatch. That’s the
plan anyway.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Jonathan_Carter:_MiniDebConf_Germany_2023⠀⇛
This year I attended Debian_Reunion_Hamburg (aka
MiniDebConf Germany) for the second time. My goal
for this MiniDebConf was just to talk to people and
make the most of the time I have there. No other
specific plans or goals. Despite this simple goal,
it was a very productive and successful event for
me.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Cortex_M0_based_dev_kit_is_equipped_with
barometric_air_pressure_sensor⠀⇛
The DPS310/368 Kit2Go from Infineon is a low-cost
development board powered by the XMC100 industrial
microcontroller. The compact embedded board can be
quickly integrated into IoT and embedded
applications since it supports the Arduino IDE
platform.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Milk-V_Mars_single_board_computer_features
RISC-V_StarFive_processor⠀⇛
The Milk-V Mars is a new single board computer
built on the StarFive JH7110 RISC-V processor.
# ⚓ Fabio_Alessandro_Locati:_Fedora_on_Pine64_ROCKPro64⠀⇛
Recently, I was looking for a couple of Single
Board Computers (SBCs) for a project I’m working
on. Given the characteristics I was looking for,
there were not many options; in the end, I opted
for the ROCKPro64 by Pine64.
Once I received the SBC, I immediately tried to put
Fedora on it. The process proved slightly more
complex than I was expecting since I assumed that
U-Boot (or some other boot loader) was already
present on the board.
# ⚓ Linux On Mobile ☛ 2023-05-27_[Older]_Weekly_GNU-like_Mobile
Linux_Update_(21/2023):_A_slow_week⠀⇛
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Lenovo_Tab_Extreme_now_available_(high-
performance,_high-price_Android_tablet)_–_Liliputing⠀⇛
# ⚓ XDA ☛ Contacts_synced_with_your_Google_account_may_suddenly
disappear_from_your_Android_phone,_but_it’s_reversible⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ ARM’s_latest_CPUs_push_Android_phone_makers
toward_64-bit_only_devices_|_Engadget⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ Best_6_Ways_to_Take_Screenshots_and_Share
Them_on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_14_Beta_2.1_is_causing_issues_with
the_Google_Camera_app⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ Beware_of_this_malware_that_can_hack_your
Android_device⠀⇛
# ⚓ WCCF Tech ☛ Google_Has_Changed_How_Contacts_Sync_on_Android
and_People_Aren’t_Going_to_Be_Happy⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ [Working]_Fix_Qualcomm_Crash_Dump_Mode_on
Android_phones:_Best_3_ways⠀⇛
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Why_is_your_Android_phone_so_slow?_Doesn’t
matter,_here_is_how_to_fix_it!_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Turn_Any_Article_Into_A_Mini-Audiobook
With_This_New_Android_Feature⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ FSFE ☛ 2023-05-24_[Older]_Interoperable_Europe_Act:_Committee_of
the_Regions_fails_to_substantially_promote_Free_Software⠀⇛
o ⚓ 2023-05-24_[Older]_FLOSS_Weekly_733:_Open_Source_Science_–_Tim
Bonnemann,_Open_Source_Science⠀⇛
o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾
# ⚓ Joe Brockmeier ☛ Joe_Brockmeier:_WordPress,_poster_child_of
the_LAMP_stack,_turns_20⠀⇛
WordPress turned 20 over the weekend. Older than
that, if you count the b2_codebase_WordPress_forked
from. 20 years for a project is quite an
accomplishment, but WordPress hasn’t merely
survived for 20 years. The open source CMS powers a
huge chunk of the Internet and has shown how
commerce and community can coexist successfully for
the long haul.
It’s hard to convey how impressive WordPress was
when it was launched, if you haven’t dabbled with
the CMSes of the time. By the time WordPress 1.0
was released, I’d fussed_with_static_site
generators_(Blosxom),_phpWebLog,_and_even
Slashcode. Standing up a CMS on shared hosting was
non-trivial.
Here was WordPress. Easy to install, easy to use,
ran well on minimal hardware if you didn’t have
heavy traffic, and entirely free. It was just a few
steps and you could have a blog running in five
minutes on a shared hosting account. You could have
a site set up in an hour if you were happy with a
stock theme.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-05-26_[Older]_A_Tennessee_County_Misuses
Opioid_Funds⠀⇛
# ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-05-22_[Older]_Green_Party_response_to
Keir_Starmer’s_speech_on_the_future_of_the_NHS⠀⇛
# ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-05-22_[Older]_The_Climate_Crisis_Is_a
Health_Crisis_Too⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-26_[Older]_Don’t_Chug_Poppers,_FDA
Warns⠀⇛
# ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-05-25_[Older]_Universal_Social_Security_Can
Reduce_Poverty,_Inequality⠀⇛
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-26_[Older]_OpenAI_CEO_rolls_back
threat_to_quit_Europe_over_regulation [Ed: Microsoft
blackmailing countries]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-25_[Older]_YouTube_Stories_are_going
away_on_June_26th⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-25_[Older]_Long_Story_Short:_YouTube
Stories_Are_Shutting_Down⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-24_[Older]_10_Horror_Movies_That_Will
Make_You_Log_Off_Social_Media,_Possibly_Forever⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_YouTuber_Ordered_to_Read_His
Defamation_Sentence_Every_Week_on_Camera⠀⇛
# ⚓ Variety ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_YouTube_Pitching_Advertisers
on_Unskippable_30-Second_Ads_for_TV_Content⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-21_[Older]_Anti-regime_activists_in_Canada
accuse_Cuba_of_using_YouTube_channel_to_intimidate_them⠀⇛
# ⚓ EIN Presswire ☛ Ace_Cloud_Introduces_Advanced_Linux_VDI
Services_for_Enhanced_Virtual_Desktop_Experience⠀⇛
o § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾
# ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-05-22_[Older]_Greens_urge_radical
railway_rethink_as_Transpennine_Express_enters_last_week_of
contract⠀⇛
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-26_[Older]_CISA_Adds_One_Known_Exploited
Vulnerability_to_Catalog⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-25_[Older]_CISA_Releases_One_Industrial
Control_Systems_Advisory⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-25_[Older]_CISA_Warns_of_Hurricane/Typhoon-
Related_Scams⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_CISA_and_Partners_Update_the
#StopRansomware_Guide,_Developed_through_the_Joint_Ransomware
Task_Force_(JRTF)⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_CISA_Releases_Four_Industrial
Control_Systems_Advisories⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_Hitachi_Energy’s_AFS65x,_AFS67x,
AFR67x_and_AFF66x_Products⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_Hitachi_Energy’s_RTU500_Series
Product⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_Mitsubishi_Electric_MELSEC_Series
CPU_module⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_Horner_Automation_Cscape⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-22_[Older]_CISA_Adds_Three_Known_Exploited
Vulnerabilities_to_Catalog⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-25_[Older]_Moxa_MXsecurity_Series⠀⇛
# ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-24_[Older]_CISA_and_Partners_Release
Cybersecurity_Advisory_Guidance_detailing_PRC_state-sponsored
actors_evading_detection_by_“Living_off_the_Land”⠀⇛
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-22_[Older]_Amazon’s_Palm-Scanning
Tech_Also_Knows_How_Old_You_Are⠀⇛
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-22_[Older]_You_can_now_use
Amazon’s_palm-reading_tech_to_buy_alcohol⠀⇛
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-05-27_[Older]_Africa_Day_2023:
Remembering_the_Past_and_Looking_for_a_Better_Future⠀⇛
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-05-26_[Older]_Africa_needs_peace
and_stability_to_develop,_says_AU Chairperson Assoumani⠀⇛
# ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-27_[Older]_Thinking_the_‘unthinkable’:_How
China_could_change_Canada’s_conversation_about_nuclear_subs⠀⇛
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-05-21_[Older]_BRICS_Membership:_A
Game-Changer_for_Saudi_Arabia’s_Economy?⠀⇛
* § Environment⠀➾
o ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-24_[Older]_Video:_Shell_shareholders_meeting
cut_short_as_security_carry_climate_activists_away⠀⇛
o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-05-28_[Older]_Role_of_Renewable_Energy_in
Mitigating_Climate_Change_as_part_of_Saudi_Vision_2030 [Ed: The
biggest polluters do the biggest greenwashing; person X promises
climate response by [some year X is already retired or dead]]⠀⇛
o ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-28_[Older]_Almost_1580_XR_climate_activists
arrested_on_A12,_40_prosecuted⠀⇛
o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-28_[Older]_Netherlands:_Police_arrest
1500_climate_activists_at_protest⠀⇛
o ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-28_[Older]_One_XR_climate_activist_still
detained,_other_48_activists_released⠀⇛
o ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-27_[Older]_XR_climate_activists_want_to_block
A12_in_The_Hague,_about_3000_protesters_expected⠀⇛
o ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-05-27_[Older]_UN_numbers_say_meat_is_bad_for_the
climate._The_reality_is_worse.⠀⇛
o ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-05-26_[Older]_John_Kerry
highlights_role_of_China_in_dealing_with_climate_change⠀⇛
o ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-05-21_[Older]_Canada’s_Prairies_Are_on
Fire._The_Time_for_Bold_Climate_Action_Is_Now.⠀⇛
o ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_In-N-Out_—_and_the_Whole
California_Business_Lobby_—_Is_Fighting_a_Landmark_Climate_Bill⠀⇛
o § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_Spain_Runs_on_Green_Energy
for_9_Hours_for_First_Time⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-28_[Older]_South_Africa_braces_for
winter_with_severe_power_outages⠀⇛
# ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-05-25_[Older]_Green_Party_response_to
new_Ofgem_price_cap⠀⇛
o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-05-28_[Older]_Amazonia_and_the_World⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-05-26_[Older]_The_secret_world_of
moss,_ancient_ancestor_of_all_plants_and_vital_for_the_health
of_the_planet⠀⇛
o § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_Why_the_new_Colorado_River
agreement_is_a_big_deal_— even_if_you_don’t_live_out_West⠀⇛
* § Finance⠀➾
o ⚓ Thousands_of_employees_may_be_laid_off_in_Rolls_Royce,_emphasis
on_making_operations_economical⠀⇛
Aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce is planning to lay off
thousands of employees. The company hired consultants led
by McKinsey & Co. to advise the company on the issue.
According to the information, the company plans to lay
off 3,000 non-manufacturing staff out of the total number
of its employees present all over the world.
Apart from laying off employees, the company plans to
merge its non-manufacturing departments. The company has
civil aerospace, defense, and power systems divisions in
non-manufacturing. Through this, the company wants to
make its operations economical.
o ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-28_[Older]_Canada’s_competition_rules_under_review
as_fed-up_consumers_face_high_prices_and_few_choices⠀⇛
o ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-05-26_[Older]_Greens_respond_to
Chancellor’s_statement_on_recession_being_a_price_worth_paying⠀⇛
o ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-05-22_[Older]_Greens_pledge_to_bring
democracy_to_private_sector_housing_and_end_feudal_leaseholds⠀⇛
o ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-28_[Older]_Banks_in_the_Netherlands_still_not
doing_enough_to_fight_tax_avoidance⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-05-22_[Older]_The_Aussie_who_turned_Morgan
Stanley_into_a_‘killer_machine’⠀⇛
* § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-27_[Older]_Hong_Kong_political_party
disbands_amid_China_crackdown⠀⇛
o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-27_[Older]_Taiwan_says_Chinese_aircraft
carrier_sailed_through_strait⠀⇛
o ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-05-25_[Older]_Greens_call_for_compassionate
and_rational_approach_to_migration⠀⇛
o ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-05-28_[Older]_Keir_Starmer_Is_Keeping_New
Labour’s_Authoritarianism_Alive⠀⇛
o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-27_[Older]_Germany’s_new,_‘holistic’
national_security_strategy_delayed_again⠀⇛
o ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-27_[Older]_Amsterdam_streets_renamed_by
activists_in_protest_against_TikTok_queues⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_The_First_Social-Media_Babies
Are_Growing_Up—And_They’re_Horrified⠀⇛
* § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
o ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-05-26_[Older]_Ron_DeSantis’s_Censors_Go_After
Inspirational_Poem_About_Unity⠀⇛
o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-05-24_[Older]_White_House,
Advocates_Slam_Florida_School’s_‘Censorship’_of_Inauguration_Poem⠀⇛
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-05-22_[Older]_Censorship_at_the_American
Psychological_Association⠀⇛
* § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-26_[Older]_Belarus_court_rejects_appeal
from_journalist_Andrzej_Poczobut⠀⇛
* § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
o ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-23_[Older]_Amazon_again_accused_of_breaking
labor_laws_at_unionized_warehouse⠀⇛
o ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-05-24_[Older]_Unions_Can_Organize_High-
Turnover_Workplaces⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-05-22_[Older]_Rust_out:_why_boredom_at
work_can_be_harmful_and_what_employers_can_do_about_it⠀⇛
o ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-05-24_[Older]_For_Airline_Workers,_a
Willingness_to_Strike_Gets_the_Goods⠀⇛
o ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-26_[Older]_Lululemon_promises_2,600_new_jobs_after
exemption_from_some_immigration_rules⠀⇛
o ⚓ France24 ☛ 2023-05-26_[Older]_‘Daughters_of_Anarchy’:_Iranian
women_fight_for_the_right_to_ride_motorbikes⠀⇛
o ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-05-28_[Older]_In_Turkey,_the_Real
Opposition_Is_on_the_Left⠀⇛
* § Monopolies⠀➾
o ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-05-22_[Older]_As_of_today,_Microsoft_could
consummate_the_Activision_Blizzard_purchase_without_fear_of
sanctions_from_a_U.S._court:_investment_bank_Macquarie_recommends
going_ahead [Ed: It’s quit revealing that Microsoft_pays_Florian
for_shilling_again]⠀⇛
o § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ ‘Entry_into_force_of_the_Unitary
Patent_package_appears_as_a_risky_bet’ [Ed: Much worse: it's
illegal. This will bruise the EU very badly, as EPO
corruption crosses over to it.]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ ‘Unfortunate’_that_rules_for_judges
Unified_Patent_Court_came_so_late [Ed: No, it's illegal. This
entire system is illegal and it will explode, sending the EU
into a crisis.]⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-22_[Older]_Judge_Newman_and_the_On-Going_Attempts
to_Remove_Her_from_the_Federal_Circuit⠀⇛
# ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-05-24_[Older]_Ericsson_strikes_down
patent_underlying_KPN’s_$32_million_jury_verdict_from_August
2022:_PTAB_invalidates_all_challenged_claims⠀⇛
# ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-05-24_[Older]_USPTO_Director_Kathi
Vidal’s_reforms_of_discretionary_denial_rules_are_fair_and
balanced:_abuse_of_all_sorts_must_be_curbed,_including
extortion_and_circumvention_of_litigation_estoppel⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-05-24_[Older]_The_Quest_for_an_“Artificial
Intelligence”_Inventor [Ed: Stupid buzzwords misused by the
patent litigation fanatics]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-05-27_[Older]_Optis_v._Apple_FRAND
ruling_could_be_delayed_by_Justice_Marcus_Smith’s_new_merger
case_(Microsoft-ActivisionBlizzard);_GenghisComm_sues_Toyota
over_SEPs;_updates_on_Nokia-OPPO,_KPN-Ericsson⠀⇛
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-28_[Older]_Europe_grapples_with
Last_Generation_climate_protests⠀⇛
o § Software Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-26_[Older]_Google_fined_$32.5_million
for_infringing_on_Sonos_patent⠀⇛
# ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-05-22_[Older]_Avanci_Broadcast_patent
pool_adds_ETRI,_KPN,_NEC,_NERC-DTV,_thereby_increasing
coverage_of_ATSC_3.0_standard-essential_patent_families_to
80%⠀⇛
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o WINE_or_Emulation
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o GNU_Projects
o Programming/Development
# Python
# Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Education
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# Privacy/Surveillance
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# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ 9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup:_May_28th,_2023⠀⇛
This was another slow week, but I managed to bring you
some interesting stories like the biggest change for
Linux users in the upcoming Firefox 115 web browser,
another exciting change for the upcoming KDE Plasma 6
desktop environment, or the Cartridges game launcher as
the “Flatpak App of the Week.”
On top of that, I tell you all about the latest releases
of the Nitrux distribution, Tux Paint open-source digital
painting app for children, and Mesa open-source graphics
stack. Check out the hottest news of this week and access
all the distro and package downloads in 9to5Linux’s Linux
weekly roundup for May 28th, 2023, below.
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Unix Men ☛ 5_Major_Benefits_of_Having_a_Managed_Security
Services_Provider_(MSSP)_For_Unix_and_Linux [Ed: “The annual
security breaches for Unix and Linux infrastructure is at an
all-time high,” says this linkspam piece, which spreads FUD.
Yet another linkspam_piece.]⠀⇛
The annual security breaches for Unix and Linux
infrastructure is at an all-time high, with almost
1.7 million Linux malware floating across the
internet for 2022 alone. That’s a 650% increment
from 2021.
That’s why most tech companies working on UNIX and
Linux are looking for healthy Managed Security
Services Provider (MSSP) solutions. However, many
still stay numb to the changes.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ GNU World Order (Audio Show) ☛ GNU_World_Order_514⠀⇛
Comparing Drupal, WordPress, and Static Site CMS
shasum -
a256=53654792398897a7aeb78722de8fc557ab661bf60508be58c9fc14f7ad24c6b2
# ⚓ Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Episode_377_–_The_world
is_changing_too_fast_for_humans_to_understand⠀⇛
Josh and Kurt talk about PyPI suspending new
accounts and packages for a day, and a 60 minutes
story about deepfakes. The problems are mostly the
same, but for very different reasons. The world is
changing faster than we can keep up, so what is a
human to do?
# ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ The_Sound_of_Rust_|_LINUX_Unplugged
512⠀⇛
We take a “Rust-only tools” challenge for a week
and admit what worked, and what sucked. Plus, a
surprise guest.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Introducing_my_Telegram_Bot_for_Remote_PC_Monitoring_and
Control:_telegram-remote-bash⠀⇛
Hello, Tech enthusiasts! I am beyond excited to
introduce to you my first project on GitHub – a
Bash-based Telegram Bot that allows you to monitor
and control a remote computer!
# ⚓ Unix Men ☛ Revolutionizing_Video_Making_with_Linux:
Unleashing_Creative_Potential [Partly linkspam]⠀⇛
In today’s digital age, videos have become an
integral part of our lives. From social media
platforms to professional presentations, videos
have the power to captivate and engage audiences
like never before. With the increasing demand for
high-quality video content, it is essential to have
versatile tools that allow users to unleash their
creative potential. Enter Linux, the open-source
operating system that has been revolutionizing the
world of video making. In this article, we will
explore how Linux empowers creators to merge videos
seamlessly and provides a plethora of creative
possibilities.
Linux’s open-source nature is the cornerstone of
its success in the realm of video making. Unlike
proprietary software, Linux is free and offers
unrestricted access to its source code. This allows
developers and users to modify, enhance, and
customize the software according to their needs.
The open-source community has created a vast
ecosystem of video editing tools and applications
that cater to various requirements, making Linux a
versatile platform for video creators.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_GitHub_Desktop_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
GitHub Desktop on Debian 11. Are you a Debian 11
user and want to streamline your GitHub workflow?
Look no further than GitHub Desktop, the user-
friendly interface for managing Git repositories.
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ My_current_editor_usage_(as_of_mid
2023)⠀⇛
I use three (Unix) editors on a regular basis, and
there’s a story or two in that and how my editor
usage has shifted over time. For me, the big shift
has been that vim has become my default editor, the
editor I normally use unless there’s some special
circumstance. One way to put it is that vim has
become my editing path of least resistance. This
shift isn’t something that I would have predicted
years ago (back then I definitely didn’t
particularly like vim), but looking back from today
it feels almost inevitable.
# ⚓ How_to_start_Docker_Container_automatically_on_Boot_in
Linux⠀⇛
Containerization is not a new technology anymore,
millions of apps using it and in this, Docker has
played quite an essential role in providing a
platform for managing and deploying Conatiner-based
applications.
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Using_exec_Command_in_Bash_Shell_Scripts⠀⇛
The shell built-in exec command is used for
executing commands in shell scripts.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_Gitosis_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
In this post, you will learn how to install Gitosis
on Ubuntu 22.04. According to the GitHub profile
gitosis is a software for hosting git repositories.
You can manage git repositories, provide access to
them over SSH, with tight access control and not
needing shell accounts.
# ⚓ Measuring_Success:_Collecting_Metrics_in_Kubernetes
Environments⠀⇛
Introduction Kubernetes has emerged as a leading
container orchestration platform. Since its
inception in 2014, Kubernetes has gained
significant popularity among IT organizations. It
is an open-source platform that allows developers
to automate deployment, scaling, and management of
containerized applications across clusters of
hosts.
# ⚓ Function-as-a-Service:_Navigating_Kubernetes_FaaS
Frameworks⠀⇛
Introduction In recent years, the trend towards
serverless computing has gained significant
momentum. As a result, Function-as-a-Service (FaaS)
has emerged as a popular technology to deploy
serverless applications.
# ⚓ Empowering_Your_Cluster:_Integrating_Istio_into_Your
Kubernetes_Environment⠀⇛
Introduction Modern software development relies
heavily on the use of containerization and
orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes. As
developers continue to build more complex
applications, the need for an efficient and
scalable infrastructure becomes increasingly
important.
# ⚓ Tracking_Progress:_Mastering_Logging_Techniques_with
Kubernetes⠀⇛
The Importance of Logging Techniques in Kubernetes
Kubernetes has become the go-to platform for
managing containerized applications at scale. In
modern software development, it’s crucial to have
an efficient and reliable system in place to manage
logs, track progress, and troubleshoot issues.
# ⚓ Solving_the_Puzzle:_Effective_Troubleshooting_for
Monitoring_Kubernetes_Clusters⠀⇛
The Rise of Kubernetes and Its Importance in Modern
Software Development Kubernetes, also known as K8s,
is an open-source container orchestration platform
that has gained significant popularity among
developers in recent years. It was originally
developed by Google and is now maintained by the
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
# ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ Update_the_NVIDIA_Drivers_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS
[How_To]⠀⇛
In this tutorial post, we will show you the process
to update the NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
It is highly recommended to upgrade the latest
version of the NVIDIA GPU drivers.
# ⚓ How_to_Kill_Processes_in_Linux_\_Ubuntu?⠀⇛
If you are looking for different ways of killing
processes or know what killing a process (kill
Process) is, you are in the right spot. This
article will explain everything you need to know
about killing processes in Linux in detail. No
matter if you are a Linux System Administrator, a
Novice Linux User, or running and managing your own
VPS Server on Linux. There might come a certain
situation where you must kill a process manually.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Siege_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|
20.04⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Ristretto_Image_Viewer_on
Ubuntu_22.04_|_20.04⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Joplin_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|
20.04⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Composer_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|
20.04⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Quod_Libet_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|
20.04⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_PhotoQT_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|
20.04⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_GNU_Emacs_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|
20.04⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Akregator_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|
20.04⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_HandBrake_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|
20.04⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Jami_on_Fedora_38/37/36
Linux⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Yarn_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Ionic_Framework_on_Debian
12/11/10⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Telegram_on_Debian_12/11/
10⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Discord_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Redis_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Apache_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Nginx_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Wine_8.0_on_Debian_12/11/
10⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Microsoft_Fonts_on_Debian
12/11/10⠀⇛
o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾
# ⚓ ScummVM ☛ There’s_that_name_again._Matia._What’s_going_on
here?⠀⇛
Schizm: Mysterious Journey, the second supported
game of the V-Cruise_engine, is ready for public
testing!
Created in 2001 by Detalion and published by LK
Avalon, this acclaimed 3D-rendered panoramic first-
person adventure has you puzzle your way through an
alien world as a team of two scientists split up
when their ship crash-landed on the planet.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Kdenlive_AppImage_vs_Flatpak⠀⇛
I recently posted that have chosen Kdenlive for creating
videos:
In EasyOS 5.3.1, Kdenlive is available as an AppImage and
a Flatpak, so which one to use?
Firstly, installed the AppImage, version 23.04.1, and ran
it from a terminal to see startup messages. Pulling out
some highlights:
mlt_repository_init: failed to dlopen /
tmp/.mount_kdenli62zXlw/usr/lib/mlt-7/libmltmovit.so
(libGLX.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory)
...
no alsa devices available
The MLT movit plugins are consequently not available.
Easy does not have libGLX.so.0 — it is available in a
package, just not installed. Anyway, Kdenlive works,
tested a video and sound also works.
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Nitrux_2.8.1_Released_with_Linux_Kernel_6.3,
Plasma_Wayland_by_Default⠀⇛
Nitrux 2.8.1 may sound like a small point release
to last month’s Nitrux 2.8, but it’s a massive
update that brings exciting changes like the latest
and greatest Linux 6.3 kernel series, Plasma
Wayland as the default session, as well as all the
latest KDE software including Plasma 5.27.5,
Frameworks 5.106, and Gear 23.04.1.
Plasma Wayland is clearly the number one attraction
of this release and the devs tried their best to
make it work as flawless as possible for everyone.
For this, they have added xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
to prevent font rendering issues, especially with
Flatpak apps.
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ MX_Linux’s_Refreshed_Identity:_Get_Ready_for_MX-
23_‘Libretto’⠀⇛
MX Linux pays homage to its origins with a logo
revamp, unveiling the highly anticipated MX-23
‘Libretto’ public beta.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_F38_FESCo_election:
Interview_with_Tom_Stellard⠀⇛
I have a background in compilers and toolchains,
and I would like to use some of the knowledge I’ve
gained over the years of building and
troubleshooting applications to help make Fedora
better. Specifically, I’m interested in helping
packagers avoid making common mistakes through
standardized macros and packaging practices and
also by increasing the reliance on CI.
I’m currently one of the maintainers of the LLVM
packages in Fedora which is a set of 15 packages
that provide a C/C++/Fortran compilers as well as a
set of reusable compiler libraries that are used
for developing other languages and for developer
tools, like IDEs.
I’ve also worked on two system wide change requests
to help standardize the use of make within Fedora
packages. These changes helped to make spec files
more consistent across all of Fedora and also made
it possible to remove make from the default
buildroot.
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_F38_FESCo_election:
Interview_with_Major_Hayden⠀⇛
This is a part of the Elections Interviews series
for Fedora Linux 38. Voting is open to all Fedora
contributors. The voting period starts on Monday,
29 May and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on
Sunday, 11 June.
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_F38_FESCo_election:
Interview_with_Stephen_Gallagher⠀⇛
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_F38_elections
voting_now_open⠀⇛
Voting in the Fedora Linux 38 elections is now
open. Go to the Elections_app to cast your vote.
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_F38_Mindshare
election:_Interview_with_David_Duncan⠀⇛
§ What is your background in Fedora? What have you
worked on and what are you doing now?
I have been participating in Fedora community for a
number of years. I started as one of the Fedora
Ambassadors. I settled in working on Cloud a few
years back and then found a job that really
supported that work. Now I spend a lot of time
working on the Cloud efforts.
§ Please elaborate on the personal “Why” which
motivates you to be a candidate for Mindshare.
I had the opportunity to serve on the Mindshare
committee last year after one of the members found
it necessary to focus their efforts elsewhere. I
found it very fulfilling to work with the team.
There are a lot of challenges around building a
strong community and I have always enjoyed being a
part of that efforts. I think that I can continue
that work again.
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_F38_Mindshare
election:_Interview_with_Luis_Bazan⠀⇛
I have already been a Fedora contributor for 12
years, I have worked in different teams, I am in
the LATAM region.
I have always tried to do my best within the Fedora
community and I would like to join the Mindshare
team to share my ideas for creating tasks that help
the community continue to grow as we always have.
Currently we need to do more events or anything
that joins the LATAM region that is a bit
neglected. We require more activities, not only
national, we also want some international
activities and this problem dates back to before
the pandemic that affected us all.
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_F38_FESCo_election:
Interview_with_Benjamin_Beasley⠀⇛
As a Fedora Linux, CentOS, and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux user for well over a decade, and as a
contributor to the Fedora community for the last
several years, I find that wise and steady
technical leadership has been one of the Fedora
project’s great strengths. In my one term on FESCo,
I think I have made a useful contribution to this
tradition.
It’s my practice to listen more than I speak;
respect different people’s perspectives and styles
of communication; and remember that idealism and
pragmatism can exist in complementary rather than
adversarial opposition.
I directly maintain around 170 rather diverse
packages. A few of my particular interests are
scientific/technical and mathematical packages,
font-related software, and the Python ecosystem. I
also co-maintain or contribute to a variety of
packages via the neuro-sig and python-packagers-sig
packaging groups, and I regularly contribute fixes
to other packages and to upstream projects.
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_F38_FESCo_election:
Interview_with_Neal_Gompa⠀⇛
As a long-time member of the Fedora community as a
user and a contributor, I have benefited from the
excellent work of many FESCo members before me to
ensure Fedora continues to evolve as an amazing
platform for innovation. For the past few years, I
have had the wonderful privilege of serving as a
member of FESCo for the first time, and I enjoyed
my time serving to steer Fedora into the future,
and I wish to continue to contribute my expertise
to help analyze and make good decisions on evolving
the Fedora platform.
The bulk of my contributions to Fedora lately are
on the desktop side of things. In the last year,
I’ve been working steadily on improving Fedora’s
multimedia capabilities, which included bringing in
FFmpeg into Fedora and enabling a new range of
applications, libraries, and services to be
packaged and hosted on Fedora Linux. This even
leads to enabling creative professional work for
video and making video streaming possible with
software shipped in Fedora. Most recently, I helped
kickstart the Budgie SIG and assisted with
bootstrapping the Fedora Budgie spin and Fedora
Onyx. Finally, my newest effort is around the
bringup of the Fedora Asahi Remix by the Asahi SIG
to support Fedora Linux on Apple Silicon Macs. This
is being done in close collaboration with the
upstream Asahi Linux community and members of that
community are now part of the Fedora community too.
Beyond the desktop and more into the clouds, I have
been engaging with folks at AWS to bring them more
into the Fedora community in a similar vein to how
I helped bring Facebook into the Fedora community.
This has also led to a proper revival of the Fedora
Cloud Working Group and the Fedora Cloud Edition
for Fedora Linux 37. We’re currently working on
expanding our coverage of Fedora Cloud Edition in
public cloud platforms, as well.
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_F38_Council
election:_Interview_with_Sumantro_Mukherjee⠀⇛
I hail from APAC (India) and would like to focus on
bringing in more non-US perspectives, which
includes bringing in more contributors from diverse
backgrounds.
Efficient utilization of our brand-new_design
assets which are now in multiple languages to
onboard a variety of users (general and power-
users) to the Fedora community as contributor
either to functional sides (QA, packaging..etc)
and/or outreach.
Giving suggestions and bringing new perspectives
from technical and outreach are my primary
motivators.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ The_moment_for_AI [Ed: Red Hat CEO is
promoting phony trends or buzzwords that help Microsoft
distract from mass layoffs, product closures, and other
crises; if Red Hat becomes a caricature company or a 'meme',
it won't manage to retain -- let alone gain -- truly
technical people]⠀⇛
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ [Repeat] Ruben Schade ☛ Remembering_how_the_Nintendo_Wii
was_cracked⠀⇛
This was my favourite nugget in a great video about
how Team Tweezers circumvented protections in the
Wii console to run homebrew software. It proves how
tenuous all this stuff can be when your
cryptography is let down by one of the most
fundamental C programming mistakes they teach you
at uni.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Mangle_Videos_With_RecurBOY_And_A_Raspberry_Pi
Zero⠀⇛
You used to need a lot of equipment to be a video
DJ. Now you can do it all with a Raspberry Pi Zero
and [cyberboy666]’s recurBOY. And if you missed out
on the 1970’s video-editing psychedelia, now’s your
chance to catch up – recurBOY is a modern video
synth with all of the bells and whistles, and it’ll
fit in your pocket. Check out [cyberboy666]’s demo
video if you don’t yet know what you’re getting
into. (Embedded below.)
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Adapter_Sends_Keyboard_Input
From_iPad_via_HID_to_Devices⠀⇛
Canatee is a teacher using two Raspberry Pis to
power his iPad keyboard shortcut system that helps
add comments to students’ work.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Google_alerts_users_about_unsecure_Android
TV_OS_boxes_|_Technology_News,The_Indian_Express⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_top_Android_video_editing_apps⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Our_17_top_Android_tips_and_tricks_every
smartphone_owner_should_know⠀⇛
# ⚓ Computer World ☛ 5_smart_Chrome_browser_alternatives_for
Android_|_Computerworld⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ 14_Coolest_Android_Phones_You_Can’t_Buy_In_The
United_States⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ Android_14′s_DeviceAsWebcam_allows_you_to_use
your_phone_as_a_high-quality_webcam⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ Avoid_These_12_Android_Slow_Down_Mistakes_–
Gizchina.com⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ Full_Guide:_How_to_Install_Complete_Android
OS_on_a_PC?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ How_to_Easily_Find_Wi-Fi_Passwords_on_Your
Android_Device_–_Gizchina.com⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Enable_Developer_Options_On_Your_Android
Phone⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Install_Android_Apps_On_A_Smart_TV⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Choose_Which_Folders_to_Back_Up_in
Google_Photos_on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ Tecno_Camon_20_series_of_Android
smartphones_with_high-res_rear_cameras_and_unique_design
launch_in_India_–_NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Djalel Oukid ☛ myTUXEDO,_a_Nextcloud_based_storage_offered_with
TUXEDO_devices⠀⇛
myTUXEDO is an open-source Nextcloud-based cloud storage
service developed by TUXEDOComputers.
o ⚓ WP20_&_Audrey_Scholars⠀⇛
Today is the 20th anniversary of the first release of
WordPress. None of us knew what we were getting into when
it started, but we had a shared conviction that the four
freedoms of the GPL combined with a mission to
democratize publishing was something worth spending our
time on. There will be celebrations in cities around the
world, please join if there’s one happening near you.
o ⚓ Libre Arts ☛ LibreArts_Weekly_recap_—_28_May_2023⠀⇛
Once again, a very short recap. Week highlights: Blender
Studio announces their next open movie project, Intel
Open Image Denoise 2.0 is out with major improvements,
Krita and Ardour are getting new features.
When I posted last week that the GIMP team was meeting
somewhere in the EU, I had no idea where. And now that I
know, wow!
Not only Simon Budig went back to contributing, Michael
Natterer is back too. There’s also Niels De Graef helping
with general stuff like the build system, and Carlos
Garnacho (GNOME) sending various patches.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ The_Gemini_protocol_seen_by_this_HTTP
client_person⠀⇛
There is again a pull-request submitted to the curl
project to bring support for the Gemini protocol.
It seems like a worthwhile effort that I support,
even if it is also a lot of work involved and it
might take some time before it reaches the state in
which it can be merged.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ Peter Eisentraut ☛ PostgreSQL_compile_times⠀⇛
The arithmetic here is unsurprising up to a point.
This machine has 12 CPU cores, so you get speedups
until around -j12. But it’s notable that the gains
level off at 8. It could be because there are 8
“performance” cores and 4 “efficiency” cores, and
the efficiency cores aren’t that helpful for this?
Or maybe because there is just not that much more
parallelism to be had in the build.
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PGCloud_Conference_London:_Call_for_Papers_is
Now_Open!⠀⇛
The Call for Papers is now open for PGCloud
Conference London! Taking place in London on 10th
August 2023.
We are looking for proposals in English on any
topic relating to PostgreSQL and how to optimize,
manage, and scale it in a cloud environment. Talk
submissions are welcome from a wide variety of
PostgreSQL users, from app developers, DBAs,
operations engineers, decision makers, and
PostgreSQL contributors.
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ pg_dumpbinary_v2.11_released⠀⇛
pg_dumpbinary dumps a PostgreSQL database to a
binary format. The resulting dump must be restored
using pg_restorebinary, which is provided.
pg_dumpbinary 2.11 was released today, it fixes a
major issue at restore time.
o § GNU Projects⠀➾
# ⚓ GNU ☛ unifont_@_Savannah:_Unifont_15.0.04_Released⠀⇛
Unifont 15.0.04 is now available. This is a minor
release, and the final release to have TrueType
fonts in its default build. Future releases will
only build their OpenType equivalents, although it
will still be possible to build TrueType versions
manually by invoking “make truetype” in the font
directory.
Minor changes have been made to Greek and Coptic
glyphs in the range U+0370..U+03FF, adjusting the
tonos placement for capital vowels and ensuring
that all baseline and x-height alignments are
consistent. Two heart icons were modified. Glyphs
for the ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR) script
Engsvanyáli (U+E100..U+E14F) have also been added.
Full details are in the ChangeLog file.
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/unifont/unifont-
15.0.04/
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/unifont/unifont-
15.0.04/
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/unifont/unifont-15.0.04/
https://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-
15.0.04/
https://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-
15.0.04/font-builds/
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Deleted_files_in_a_freshly_cloned_git
repo⠀⇛
Conclusion: Don’t use special characters, spaces,
or emojis in your file names.
# ⚓ Thorsten Ball ☛ What_do_others_do_without_tests?⠀⇛
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_move_the_complete_Git_repository⠀⇛
Git has become the de facto standard for version
control and collaboration in software development.
At times, developers may need to move an entire Git
repository, including its history, branches, and
tags, to a new location or hosting service.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Create_Rich_Report_From_Many_Sources_with
pyreports⠀⇛
pyreports is a python library that allows you
to create complex report from various sources
# § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Handling_Special_Characters_in_Shell
Scripts⠀⇛
In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the
shell serves as a command-line interpreter,
permitting users to issue commands that the
OS will then execute. Among the most popular
shell interpreters are Bourne shell (sh),
Bash (Bourne Again SHell), and csh (C-shell).
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Links:_May_28,_2023⠀⇛
The Great Automotive AM Radio War of 2023 rages on,
with the news this week that Ford has capitulated,
at least for now. You’ll recall that the opening
salvo came when the US automaker declared that AM
radio was unusable in their EV offerings thanks to
interference generated by the motor controller.
Rather than fixing the root problem, Ford decided
to delete the AM option from their EV infotainment
systems, while letting their rolling EMI generators
just keep blasting out interference for everyone to
enjoy. Lawmakers began rattling their sabers in
response, threatening legislation to include AM
radio in every vehicle as a matter of public
safety. Ford saw the writing on the wall and
reversed course, saying that AM is back for at
least the 2024 model year, and that vehicles
already delivered without it will get a fix via
software update.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Casualties_after_tourist_boat_sinks_in_Italy’s_Lago
Maggiore_in_Lombardy_region⠀⇛
A tourist boat capsized in a storm on Italy’s Lago
Maggiore in the northern Lombardy region on Sunday, with
at least one person confirmed dead, Italian media
reported.
o ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Notes_to_Poetry:_Or,_defending_freedom_for_the
future⠀⇛
Der Zauberlehrling (1797) is the title of a famous ballad
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a re-telling of an ancient
Egyptian myth that was later put to music by the French
composer, Paul Dukas, in his orchestral scherzo
L’Apprenti sorcier (1897).
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Barely_staying_afloat:_The_pervasive_culture
of_Duck_Syndrome_at_Stanford⠀⇛
The concept of students making relentless work look
effortless has been deemed ‘duck syndrome’ by many
at Stanford, due to the image of a duck floating
across the water peacefully while kicking hard
underneath. But despite its humorous name, it may
have serious self-esteem and mental health
consequences for students at Stanford and beyond.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Student_Suspended_From_University_For
Refusing_To_Wear_Hijab_Summoned_In_New_Case⠀⇛
Sepideh Rashno, a 28-year-old Iranian writer and
student arrested last year for refusing to wear the
mandatory hijab, has said she has been summoned to
appear before the Tehran Prosecutor’s Office in
relation to a supposed new case against her.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Arm_unveils_Cortex-X4,_Cortex-A720,_Cortex-
A520_CPUs,_Immortalis-720_GPU⠀⇛
Arm has just announced the new Total Compute
Solutions 2023 (TCS23) with Cortex-X4, Cortex-A720,
and Cortex-A520 Armv9.2 CPU cores, and the 5th
generation (i.e. no Valhall) Immortalis-720 GPU
that will initially be found in SoC for premium
smartphones and laptops before reaching the other
markets over the years. The announcement follows
TCS22 platform announced in June 2022 with Cortex-
X3, Cortex-A715 and 510 cores plus the Immortalis-
715 GPU that was eventually found in the MediaTek
Dimensity 9200 SoC integrated into OPPO and Vivo
smartphones, and the new TCS23 CPU cores offer up
to 15% performance improvement, 40% higher
efficiency, while the Immoralis-720 GPU offers
similar performance and efficiency improvements on
the graphics front.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ BBC_Master_128_Revealed⠀⇛
[Adrian] comments that the BBC Master 128 is a rare
8-bit computer, and we agree — we couldn’t remember
hearing about that particular machine, although the
BBC series is quite familiar. The machine has a
whopping 128 K of RAM, quite a bit for those days.
It also had a 6502 variant known as the 65C12,
which has an extra pin compared to a 6502 and
doesn’t use the same clock arrangement. A viewer
sent him one of these machines, which apparently
was used in the BBC studios. You can see this rare
beauty in the video below.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Electronic_Connect_4_Console_Doesn’t_Use_LCD⠀⇛
You might think that making your own electronic
games would require some kind of LCD, but lately,
[Mirko Pavleski] has been making his using
inexpensive 8X8 WS2812B LED panels. This lets even
a modest microcontroller easily control a 64-pixel
“screen.” In this case, [Mirko] uses an Arduino
Nano, 3 switches, and a buzzer along with some 3D
printed components to make a good-looking game. You
can see it in action in the video below.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Review_of_BIGTREETECH_Pad_7_Klipper_pad_with
Creality_Ender-3_Pro_S1_3D_printer⠀⇛
I received the BIGTREETECH Pad 7 7-inch Klipper pad
and tablet PC for review earlier this month. I’ve
already tested it with a Raspberry Pi CM4 as a
Linux tablet PC with touchscreen, and I’ve now
reinstalled the BTT CM1 Allwinner H616 system-on-
module to run the pre-install Klipper OS and
connect the Pad 7 to a Creality Ender-3 Pro S1 3D
printer. When I first booted the Pad 7 it ended up
with an error message from Klipper complaining
about a missing configuration file. I connected to
WiFi and update all software packages, but it
didn’t help. It’s just because the Pad 7 needs to
be configured for a specific printer.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ French_researchers_slam_former_hospital_director
for_‘unauthorised’_Covid_trial⠀⇛
French medical bodies on Sunday called on
authorities to punish researcher Didier Raoult for
“the largest ‘unauthorised’ clinical trial ever
seen” into the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat
Covid-19.
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ 1:_Muscle_Medicine:_The_Surprising_Link
Between_Building_Muscle,_Living_Longer_and_Treating_Chronic
Disease⠀⇛
In today’s episode we’re diving deep into some
fascinating new research that shows just how
powerful building muscle can be when it comes to
preventing and treating chronic diseases.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Havoc-Wreaking_‘Zombie_Drug’_Xylazine
Records_First_Death_in_UK⠀⇛
Not for humans.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ AI_Creates_Killer_Drug⠀⇛
Researchers in Canada and the United States have
used deep learning to derive an antibiotic that can
attack a resistant microbe, acinetobacter
baumannii, which can infect wounds and cause
pneumonia. According to the BBC, a paper in Nature
Chemical Biology describes how the researchers used
training data that measured known drugs’ action on
the tough bacteria. The learning algorithm then
projected the effect of 6,680 compounds with no
data on their effectiveness against the germ.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Doing_This_One_Thing_Makes_Insomnia_Even
Worse,_Psychologists_Warn⠀⇛
Do you really want to know?
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Biggest_Study_Yet_Suggests_Electric
Stimulation_Boosts_Brain_Function⠀⇛
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Systems_error_affecting_electronic
gates_leaves_travelers_to_UK_waiting_for_hours⠀⇛
Travelers arriving in the U.K. faced long delays
Saturday after a technical problem shut electronic
border gates at airports across the country for
most of the day. That fault forced everyone to have
their passports checked manually on what was
expected to be one of the busiest travel weekends
of the year. The Home Office, the government agency
responsible for immigration and borders, said at 6
p.m. London time that all the electronic gates were
working again. It provided no details about what
caused the problem.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Lawyer’s_reliance_on_ChatGPT_leads_to_false
case_citations_in_airline_lawsuit⠀⇛
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ SANS ☛ We_Can_no_Longer_Ignore_the_Cost_of_Cybersecurity,_
(Sun,_May_28th)⠀⇛
I read recently that disregarding cyber risks is a
way of inviting trouble and unnecessary attention
to any organization. Cyber threats is nothing new,
everyone is a target taking many forms whether it
is by some form of scanning or targeted phishing.
For example, Sophos describes the naughty nine
which are all some form of services that can be
purchased for a price (i.e. access, malware,
phishing, crypting, etc).
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Driver’s_licenses,_addresses,_photos:
Inside_how_TikTok_shares_user_data⠀⇛
The profusion of user data on Lark alarmed
some TikTok employees, especially since
ByteDance workers in China and elsewhere
could easily see the material, according to
internal reports and four current and former
employees. Since at least July 2021, several
security employees have warned ByteDance and
TikTok executives about risks tied to the
platform, according to the documents and the
current and former workers.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Time_To_End_the_FBI’s_FISA_Follies⠀⇛
This is reprinted from the Orange County
Register with permission. Late last Friday,
the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence (ODNI) released a heavily
redacted April 2022 Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court (FISC) opinion and order
dealing with the highly controversial FISA
Section 702 intelligence collection program…
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_planning_national_cat_register⠀⇛
The size of Finland’s cat population is
unknown, according to authorities.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Inside_South_Korea’s_race_to_become_one
of_the_world’s_biggest_arms_dealers⠀⇛
South Korea is the third-largest supplier of
weapons to Nato and its member states.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ [rewind]_Ron_Kovic_and_Maj._Danny_Sjursen:_The
Great_Con_of_American_Patriotism⠀⇛
The two veterans trace the United States’ violent
trajectory since the Vietnam War.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Kissinger_vs._‘The_Most_Dangerous_Man_in
America’⠀⇛
“Daniel Ellsberg is the most dangerous man in
America. He must be stopped at all costs.” —Henry
Kissinger In 1970, before whistleblower Daniel
Ellsberg shared copies of the Pentagon Papers with
several newspapers in the United States, Ellsberg
was invited by his friend Lloyd Shearer […]
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Suspect_who_dated_Utah_radio_host_nabbed_in_Mexico
after_‘painstaking’_effort:_police⠀⇛
Manuel Omar Burciaga-Perea, 36, was taken back to
Utah from Mexico City by the U.S. Marshals Service
following years-long international efforts,
according to a press release last Friday and
reported by local ABC4.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Explosive_Devices_Cause_121_Casualties_in_Yemen
in_Q1⠀⇛
There are millions of landmines and unexploded
ordnance scattered across the country, and these
weapons will continue to kill and maim civilians
for years to come.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Kosovo_police_fire_tear_gas_at_Serb_protest
against_appointment_of_Albanian_mayors⠀⇛
On Friday, police in the northern Kosovo city of
Zvecan fired tear gas at protests opposing the
appointment of ethnic-Albanian mayors. The action
injured 10 people as local Serbs gathered in front
of the Zvecan municipal administration building,
according to Serbian state TV.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ No_glory_for_‘hakpok’_bullies_in_South
Korea’s_school_violence_epidemic⠀⇛
School violence is endemic in South Korean schools,
said an attorney who specialises in bullying cases.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Japan_aims_to_destroy_any_North_Korean
missile_after_Pyongyang_warns_of_satellite_launch⠀⇛
May 29, 2023 6:50 AM
Japanese government said it would do all it could
to collect and analyse information from the launch.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Official_Says_Conflict_With_Afghanistan
Detrimental_To_Both_Sides⠀⇛
An Iranian Foreign Ministry official has said
following the outbreak of border clashes between
Iranian border guards and Taliban fighters that any
conflict between the two countries is detrimental
to both of them.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Iran_Strengthens_Security_at_Afghanistan_Border
After_Clashes⠀⇛
Two Iranian border guards and one Taliban fighter
were killed during armed clashes near a border
police station on Saturday.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ At_Least_3_Die_in_Clashes_on_Iranian-
Afghan_Border⠀⇛
The fighting comes amid rising political tension
between the two countries over the flow of water
from the Helmand River in Afghanistan into eastern
Iran.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Sudan_War_Strikes_a_Blow_to_the_Country’s
Emerging_Art_Scene⠀⇛
Dozens of Sudanese artists and curators have fled
their studios and galleries in the capital,
jeopardizing thousands of artworks and imperiling
an art scene central to the 2019 revolution.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Turkey’s_Kurdish_areas_serve_as_petri_dish_for
illiberal_democracy_test⠀⇛
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been
reelected in a runoff that experts say is the
latest trend in the rise of illiberal democracies.
The Kurdish heartland of Diyarbakir has been there
before, but now it has spread from the periphery to
the centre, and probably beyond Turkey’s borders.
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ EU-Turkey_tensions_set_to_continue_after
Erdogan’s_victory⠀⇛
The European Commission is critical of the
increasingly authoritarian rule of Recep Tayyip
Erdogan. “The EU’s serious concerns on the
continued deterioration of democracy, the rule of
law, fundamental rights and the independence of the
judiciary have not been addressed,” European
External Action Service officials wrote in their
2022 report on Turkey.
Instead, backsliding continues, they wrote. Their
“concerns increased over economic governance and
the good functioning of the market economy.”
# ⚓ El País ☛ Jan._6_rioters_are_raking_in_thousands_in
donations._Now_the_US_is_coming_after_their_haul⠀⇛
Their fundraising success suggests that many people
in the United States still view Jan. 6 rioters as
patriots and cling to the baseless belief that
Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election from
Donald Trump. The former president himself has
fueled that idea, pledging to pardon rioters if he
is elected.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Wieslander_quoted_in_Wall_Street_Journal
on_Turkey_&_Sweden’s_NATO_accession⠀⇛
“The Turkish leader’s demands have created a
political knot that will be difficult to address
unless he is willing to soften his stance, said
Anna Wieslander, the Stockholm-based director for
Northern Europe at the Atlantic Council. ‘It’s
worrisome that he put something on the table which
is not solvable,’ Wieslander said. ‘Turkey is
creating a wedge in the alliance. This serves the
interest of Russia, keeping NATO fragmented,’ she
added. “Sweden needs support from other NATO allies
to solve this.”
# ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ How_Al-Qaeda’s_Recent_Growth_in_Africa
Poses_a_Threat_to_Global_Security⠀⇛
The primary focus of Al-Qaeda’s recent growth and
development seems to be the African continent.
While it is hard to determine if Al-Qaeda is
expanding, it is clear that its activities in
Africa are increasing. The organization is working
to establish a stronger presence in the region, and
it is attempting to recruit more members from
various African countries. It has also been
reported that Al-Qaeda is working to secure more
funding from wealthy donors in the region.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Missing_girl_in_eastern_Latvia_still_not_found⠀⇛
The search efforts for the seven-year-old Justīne
Reinikova, who has been missing for three weeks
from the Rogovka village of Rēzekne municipality
have so far been unsuccessful, the State Police
(VP) said Sunday, May 28.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ NATO_Head_Urges_Kosovo_To_Ease_Tensions_With
Serbia⠀⇛
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on May 28 called on
Kosovo to tone down tensions with Serbia, two days
after violent clashes between Kosovar police and
protesters opposed to Albanian mayors taking office
in ethnic Serbian areas.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Memorial_Day:_Honor_the_Fallen_by_Ending_Wars⠀⇛
During the summer of 2018 my family and I were
passing through Oklahoma. We were going home to
central Texas from a family camp where my wife had
been both a camper and counselor growing up.
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ OATHS_BROKEN,_OATH_KEEPERS_BOWED:_Sentences
for_2_more_in_marquee_Jan._6_conspiracy_case⠀⇛
Raw emotions positively dominated a federal
courthouse in Washington, D.C. this week as the
Justice Department secured significant sentences
for two more Oath Keepers involved in a larger
conspiracy to forcibly stop America’s transfer of
power on Jan. 6, 2021.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ IGAD_Condemns_Attack_on_Ugandan_Peacekeepers_in
Somalia⠀⇛
The Ugandan army is yet to establish the number of
casualties. The al-Shabaab, however, claims to have
killed over 130 soldiers.
# § War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Glenn_Greenwald:_Jeffrey_Sachs_on_US
Provoking_Ukraine_War⠀⇛
Jeffrey Sachs and Glenn Greenwald discuss the
role of the U.S. in provoking the proxy war
in Ukraine, and how the war could have been
avoided.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_signs_law_denouncing_Treaty_on
Conventional_Armed_Forces_in_Europe_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed
into law a bill officially denouncing the
Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
(CFE). The new law was published on the
Russian government’s official legal
information portal.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Staving_off_apocalypse,_Putin-style_Meduza’s
Ideas_editor_reflects_on_why_the_Russian_authorities
peddle_the_notion_that_the_future_is_evil_—_Meduza⠀⇛
In the early Putin years, the authorities
still put out slogans that promised a better
future, like “Doubling the GDP” or the
maximally abstract but nice-sounding
“Modernization of Russia.” But since the
early 2010s, official rhetoric has switched
its focus to the struggle against external
threats and preventing the political
apocalypse the Kremlin associates with the
“color revolutions.” The tasks the Kremlin
has now set for itself and Russian society
are not future developmental milestones but,
instead, the vague goals of the “special
military operation” in Ukraine and indicators
for the country’s so-called elections. If we
try to look at what’s currently happening in
Russia with a fresh set of eyes, we might
find it strange that Putin is even still in
power. Meduza’s Ideas editor Maxim Trudolubov
explains what’s going on.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_puts_U.S._Senator_Lindsey_Graham_on
federal_wanted_list_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s Interior Ministry has put U.S.
Senator Lindsey Graham on its federal wanted
list “under an article of the Criminal Code,”
the state-run news outlet RIA Novosti
reported on Monday.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_launches_‘largest_drone_attack_yet’
on_Kyiv,_killing_at_least_one_person_—_Meduza⠀⇛
On May 28, Russian troops attacked Kyiv using
Iranian-made Shahed drones. According to
local authorities, it was the largest attack
on Kyiv since the beginning of Russia’s full-
scale invasion of Ukraine. On May 28, the
city celebrates Kyiv Day.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_on_the_defensive?_Meduza_shares_an
updated_combat_map,_the_latest_from_Bakhmut,_and_how
the_Belgorod_raid_could_change_the_course_of_the_war._—
Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_reportedly_shoots_down_drones
attacking_Krasnodar_oil_refinery_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Several drones were shot down as they
approached the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia’s
Krasnodar region, report local officials.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ New_Russian_history_textbook_includes
chapter_on_war_in_Ukraine_and_Russia’s_‘struggle
against_collective_West’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s history textbook for students in
10th and 11th grade will now include a
chapter on the full-scale invasion of
Ukraine. Journalists from the news outlet
Sota received photographs of the textbook
from a teacher in Arkhangelsk.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kyiv_authorities_say_city’s_air_defenses
downed_40_Russian_drones_and_missiles_overnight_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Kyiv City Military Administration head Serhii
Popko has reported that air defense forces
shot down 40 Russian drones and cruise
missiles over the city on Sunday night. “No
strikes on Kyiv were permitted,” he wrote on
Telegram, noting that this was Russia’s 15th
attack on the Ukrainian capital since the
start of May.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ What’s_the_Use_of_William_Blake?⠀⇛
Fire In the Museum What’s the use of William Blake?
Or for that matter, what’s the use of any art and
literature in an age of climate change, proxy wars,
nuclear threat, pandemic, and the rise of fascism?
Rather than study and enjoy works by long dead
poets or […]
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Major_insurer_cites_climate_change_as_it_stops_home
insurance_sales_in_California⠀⇛
State Farm is no longer homeowner insurance
applications in California due to “historic
increases in construction costs outpacing
inflation” and “rapidly growing catastrophe
exposure” to extreme_weather events like wildfires,
the company announced.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Insurers_nudged_to_reward_adaption_to
floods_and_fires⠀⇛
Insurers have been urged to slash premiums on homes
that have been adapted to better withstand fire,
floods and other climate change-fuelled disasters.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ More_than_1,500_arrested_during_Netherlands
climate_protests⠀⇛
More than 1,500 people were arrested during a
protest by the Extinction Rebellion climate group
in The Hague on Saturday, Dutch police said.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Richard_Revesz_and_His_Agency_Are_Remaking
the_Pollution_Fight⠀⇛
Richard Revesz is changing the way the government
calculates the cost and benefits of regulation,
with far-reaching implications for climate change.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_Observatory_to_launch_heat
alert_when_temperatures_hit_35_degrees_Celsius⠀⇛
The Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) has just launched a
new “Special Weather Tips” notification, which will
be issued to app users when the mercury reaches, or
exceeds, 35 degrees Celsius, it announced in a
press release last Friday. Currently, when
temperatures reach 33 degrees Celsius, the HKO will
issue a Very Hot Weather Warning.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_CCTV_Cameras_That_Recorded_The
Chernobyl_Disaster_And_Aftermath⠀⇛
When we picture the Chernobyl Nuclear Power
Plant disaster and its aftermath, we tend to
recall just the commonly shared video
recorded by television crews, but the unsung
heroes were definitely the robotic cameras
that served to keep an eye on not only the
stricken reactor itself but also the sites
holding contaminated equipment and debris.
These camera systems are the subject of a
recent video by the [Chernobyl Family]
channel on YouTube, as they tear down, as
well as plug in these pinnacles of 1980s
vidicon-based Soviet engineering.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Exxon_confirms_Tax_Office_in
pursuit_as_it_and_Chevron_rip_$13bn_dividends_out_of
Australia⠀⇛
Woohoo! Two of the biggest tax cheats,
ExxonMobil and Chevron (auditors for both are
PwC) have finally begun to pay a mite of
income tax in Australia but they also ripped
out more than $13bn in dividends and returns
of capital last year. Michael West reports
their latest financials.
The financial statements for the year to
December for ExxonMobil Australia and Chevron
Australia filed recently with ASIC show the
stupendous profits being made and puny taxes
being paid by the foreign oil and gas giants
in this country.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Movements_of_rare_all-white_panda
spotted_in_China⠀⇛
With no spots on its body and unique red
eyes, the albino panda could be the only one
of its kind.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Marsupials_Are_‘Far_More_Evolved’
Than_Other_Mammals,_Even_Humans⠀⇛
We can explain.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Bizarre_Footage_May_Show_Octopus
Waking_Up_From_a_Nightmare⠀⇛
Strange stuff!
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Ultrasound_Induces_Torpor-Like_State
in_Animals,_Experiment_Shows⠀⇛
Could it work for humans?
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Fascinating_Evolution_Of_Micromouse⠀⇛
You would think there are only so many ways
for a robotic mouse to run a maze, but in its
almost 50 year history, competitors in
Micromouse events have repeatedly proven this
assumption false. In the video after the
break, [Veritasium] takes us on a fascinating
journey through the development of Micromouse
competition robots.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ ‘Sniffing’_Eggs_May_Provide_An
Efficient_Way_to_Identify_Chick_Embryo_Sex⠀⇛
This is more important than you might think.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Read:_Kevin_McCarthy_releases_text_of_bill_to_raise
debt_ceiling_limit_and_avoid_default⠀⇛
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) released
text of the bill to raise the debt ceiling limit
until 2025 Sunday evening following his_deal with
President_Biden over the weekend.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Debt_ceiling_deal:_What’s_in,
what’s_out_of_the_bill_to_avert_US_default⠀⇛
The details of the deal between President Joe Biden
and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are out. The 99-
page bill produced from their agreement Sunday
would avoid a federal default while limiting
government spending. But the two leaders still have
to persuade Congress to pass the bill. Both sides
can point to some victories in the package. It
includes provisions to fund medical care for
veterans, change work requirements for some
recipients of government aid and streamline
environmental reviews for energy projects. But some
conservatives are concerned that the compromise
doesn’t cut future deficits enough. And Democrats
have been worried about proposed changes to work
requirements in programs such as food stamps.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Biden,_McCarthy_reach_final_deal_on_debt_ceiling
days_before_potential_default⠀⇛
With days to spare before a potential first-ever
government default, President Joe Biden and House
Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached final agreement
Sunday on a deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling
and worked to ensure enough Republican and
Democratic votes to pass the measure in the coming
week.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ With_Debt_Ceiling_Deal_in_Hand,_McCarthy
and_Biden_Turn_to_Task_of_Selling_It⠀⇛
With the right and the left up in arms about the
agreement in principle reached by the president and
the speaker, both sides started to make the case
for its quick passage, a tall order in Congress.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ White_House_&_Republicans_Reach_Debt_Ceiling_Deal
in_Principle⠀⇛
The debt ceiling has been modified 102 times since
World War II, according to the U.S. Congressional
Research Service.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Rents_to_income_levels_shoot_up_to
near_decade_highs⠀⇛
Renters are handing over nearly one-third of their
income to service a new lease as prices continue to
skyrocket. The portion of income going towards rent
has reached its highest level since 2014, according
to new analysis by ANZ and property data firm
CoreLogic.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ PM_calls_for_PwC_tax_leak_employees_to
be_named⠀⇛
The list of PwC employees allegedly involved in the
tax advice scandal should be made public, Anthony
Albanese says. The Prime Minister described the
scandal as a terrible indictment and said
transparency was needed on what took place.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Biden_and_McCarthy_tout_“historic”_debt_ceiling
deal_to_a_divided_Congress⠀⇛
President_Biden said Sunday his debt ceiling deal
with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
“prevents the worst possible crisis: a default for
the first time in our nation’s history.”
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Biden_and_McCarthy_reach_a_final
deal_to_avoid_US_default_and_now_must_sell_it_to_Congress⠀⇛
The debt ceiling deal has come with just days to
spare before a potential first-ever government
default. On Sunday, President Joe Biden and House
Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached a final agreement
and they are urging Congress to quickly pass it.
Biden pronounced the development “good news” in
remarks at the White House announcing the
agreement. This followed a tentative compromise
announced late Saturday. The deal risks angering
some Democratic and Republican lawmakers as they
begin to unpack the concessions, which include
spending cuts. McCarthy and Biden spoke Sunday
evening as negotiators drafted legislative text.
They face a June 5 deadline when Treasury says the
U.S. would risk a debt default.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ “Thread_the_needle”:_Party_leaders_sell_divergent
realities_on_debt_ceiling_deal⠀⇛
The White House and House GOP are each performing
careful balancing acts as they race to sell their
debt_ceiling_deal to lawmakers as a decisive
victory — without alienating the other side.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Biden,_McCarthy_reach_debt-ceiling_deal._Now
Congress_must_approve.⠀⇛
President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin
McCarthy have reached an “agreement in principle,”
leaving Congress just days to approve the deal and
avoid default.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Prison_sentence_possible_for_former_Latvian
central_bank_president⠀⇛
Prosecutors have asked for a prison sentence
for the former president of the Latvian central
bank (Bank of Latvia) Ilmārs Rimšēvičs and
businessman Māris Martinsons, the Latvian
Television broadcast De Facto reported on May 28.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Better_off_not_working?_These_are_Finland’s_top_three
incentive_traps⠀⇛
For one in five unemployed people it doesn’t pay to
work, says the Research Institute of the Finnish
Economy (Etla).
# ⚓ Axios ☛ McCarthy_and_Biden’s_debt_ceiling_plan_faces_a_big
test⠀⇛
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President_Biden
finally have their debt ceiling deal. Now comes the
hard part: Rushing it through an uneasy Congress in
just one week, before the government’s projected
default on June 5.
Why it matters:The stakes are especially high for
McCarthy (R-Calif.), whose survival_as_speaker
could be at stake if he can’t contain the anger of
right-wing Republicans who already are panning the
compromise.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Shortage_of_lifeguards_could_lead_to_more_drownings
and_fewer_open_pools⠀⇛
A national_lifeguard_shortage will keep thousands
of pools across the country closed or operating
with reduced hours for the third summer in a row.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ US_slams_China’s_ban_on_buying_Micron_chips
as_‘economic_coercion’⠀⇛
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said late
Saturday that her country “won’t tolerate” China’s
recent ban on the purchase of memory chips from
Micron Technology Inc. and added that the U.S.
government is working closely with its allies to
counter what she termed “economic coercion.”
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Meet_the_New_Mayor:_How_a_Refugee_Won_Over_a
Conservative_German_Town⠀⇛
The election of Ryyan Alshebl, a young man who fled Syria,
offers surprising lessons for a Germany wrestling with its
multicultural identity after an influx of refugees in 2015.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Want_to_move_to_Japan?_Government_mulls_introducing
digital_nomad_visa⠀⇛
Some countries allow digital nomads to stay for about six
months to two years.
* ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Missing_the_Soprano⠀⇛
I had the chance to catch up over a few drinks with an old
friend just retired from the diplomatic service. I guess I too
would have been doing that around now, had I not stumbled upon
extraordinary rendition and torture and quixotically attempted
to stop it.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Spain’s_conservative_People’s_Party_winning_in_local_and
regional_elections⠀⇛
Spain’s ruling Socialists suffered heavy losses to opposition
conservatives in Sunday’s local election, with around 95% of
the votes counted, showing their electoral vulnerabilityahead
of an end-of-year general election.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Voting_Begins_in_Spain,_Pedro_Sánchez_First_Leader_to_Vote⠀⇛
“…215,000 ballot boxes have been distributed in the pre-
selected 23,000 polling stations…”
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Polling_Stations_Close_for_Subnational_Elections_in_Spain⠀⇛
Polling stations have closed at 20.00 local time in the
Peninsula.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ UPDATE_Spain:_Turnout_in_Subnational_Elections_Remains_Low⠀⇛
It is expected that 1.7 million young people will go to the
polls for the first time.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Modi_Opens_India’s_New_Parliament_Building_as
Opposition_Stays_Away⠀⇛
The complex is a testament to the prime minister’s power to get
things done, but the ceremony also put the nation’s political
divisions on display.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Albanese_takes_aim_at_Indigenous_voice
‘doomsayers’⠀⇛
Australians are being underestimated by “doomsayers” promoting
scare campaigns about the Indigenous voice to parliament,
Anthony Albanese says. The prime minister will on Monday
deliver the Lowitja O’Donoghue Oration in Adelaide, where he is
expected to take aim at opponents of the voice and reiterate
his confidence that the referendum will succeed.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Inside_Fox’s_Legal_and_Business_Debacle⠀⇛
Fox’s handling of the defamation suit brought by Dominion
Voting Systems, which settled for $787.5 million, left many
unanswered questions.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Who_Should_We_Honor_on_Memorial_Day?⠀⇛
The commemoration is intended to remember, honor and salute the
nation’s fallen service members. But not all of those we should
recognize fit neatly into that definition.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Chris_Christie,_Glenn_Youngkin,_Chris_Sununu:_Who_Can
Save_the_G.O.P._in_2024?⠀⇛
Nothing delights the MAGA king more than curb-stomping the
weak. Where does the Republican Party go from here?
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ For_Trump,_the_More_GOP_Presidential_Candidates_the
Better⠀⇛
Ron DeSantis entered the presidential race last week along with
Tim Scott, with others to follow. For the former president, the
more candidates the better.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea_to_hold_key_ruling_party_meeting_in
early_June⠀⇛
The meeting will review the country’s national economic plans
in the first half of 2023.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ 85_Million_Turkish_Citizens_Won_the_Elections_–_Erdogan⠀⇛
The Turkish Electoral Commission confirmed Erdogan’s victory,
having obtained 52.16% of the votes with 99.85% of the ballots
counted.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ UPDATE_Türkiye:_Erdogan_Achieves_55.8_Pct_of_the_Votes⠀⇛
President Erdogan defeated opposition candidate Kilicdaroglu,
who only reached 44.2 percent of citizen support.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ From_Biden_to_Putin,_world_leaders_congratulate_Erdogan_on
election_win⠀⇛
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin were among world leaders
congratulating Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after he
won Sunday’s historic runoff election to extend his two-decade
rule.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ World_Leaders_Congratulate_Erdogan_on_Re-Election_in
Türkiye⠀⇛
After serving as Prime Minister between 2003 and 2014, Erdogan
became President in 2014. Once re-elected, he is expected to
remain in office until 2028.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Right_Is_All_Wrong_About_Masculinity⠀⇛
Shrieking on Twitter is not a masculine virtue.
* ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Three_Things:_Crustpunk_Nazi_Bar_Update,_$42K_Extortion
Edition⠀⇛
It’s been a while since we had a chat about the crustpunk Nazi
bar known as Twitter. The dead-ending bird decided to press the
issue for us.
* ⚓ Ex-MP_Ali_Şeker_faces_attempted_lynching_in_Urfa_over_voting
irregularities⠀⇛
The politician was assaulted while attempting to protest
against people voting on behalf of others.
* ⚓ Opposition_parties_report_voting_irregularities⠀⇛
Opposition party members raised concerns about irregularities
in several provinces during today’s second round of the
presidential election. One incident involved allegations of
votes being cast on behalf of individuals living abroad in
Çavuşlar village, Bingöl, where a delegation from the
Republican People’s Party (CHP) encountered resistance and was
attacked while trying to intervene.
* ⚓ Leaders_cast_their_votes⠀⇛
The political party leaders share their messages as they cast
their votes in the presidential runoff elections.
* ⚓ Erdoğan_secures_re-election_in_closely_contested_runoff⠀⇛
Receiving over 52 percent of the votes, President Erdoğan has
secured a victory over his opponent Kılıçdaroğlu, ensuring an
extension of his two-decade rule.
* ⚓ Erdoğan_vows_inclusivity_while_maintaining_‘terror’_accusations_in
victory_speech⠀⇛
The president has said that his victory marks the beginning of
the “century of Turkey” and that it means all 85 million people
in the country have won.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Turkey’s_Erdogan_reelected_president_with_52.1%_of_vote⠀⇛
The head of Turkey’s election commission has declared Recep
Tayyip Erdogan president again after voters took to the ballot
box for a historic runoff on Sunday. With more than 99% of the
ballot counted, Erdogan holds a near five percent lead over
opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Turkey’s_Erdoğan_wins_reelection,_beating_close
challenger⠀⇛
With almost all votes counted, Turkey President Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan declared victory in a runoff election, extending his 20
years as president.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Recep_Tayyip_Erdogan_of_Turkey_Is_Re-elected⠀⇛
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given few indications that he intends
to change course at home, where he faces a looming economic
crisis, or in foreign policy, where he has vexed Western
allies.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Turkey’s_Presidential_Runoff_Election_2023:_What_to
Know⠀⇛
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had an edge on his challenger,
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, going into the critical vote on Sunday to
shape Turkey’s future.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Texas_AG_Paxton_impeached,_suspended_from_duties
immediately⠀⇛
Texas state Attorney General Ken Paxton was impeached on
articles including bribery and abuse of public trust after
years of alleged crimes.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Texas_House_Impeaches_Attorney_General_Over_Corruption⠀⇛
Ken Paxton repeatedly abused his office and committed at least
three felonies in an effort to help a friend and political
donor.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Texas_House_of_Representatives_votes_to_impeach_state_attorney
general⠀⇛
The Texas House of Representatives voted Saturday to impeach
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton by a vote of 121 to 23.
Paxton will now face a trial in the Texas Senate, where
Paxton’s wife is a member, and has been suspended from office
pending the upcoming trial, pursuant to Texas law.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ken_Paxton’s_Impeachment_Exposed_Long-Growing_Rifts_in
Texas_G.O.P.⠀⇛
The building conflict between moderates and hard-liners in one
of the Republican Party’s most important states highlights
tension over the future of the party.
* ⚓ [Repeat] New York Times ☛ Impeachment_Vote_for_Texas_Attorney_General
Ken_Paxton:_What_to_Know⠀⇛
The move on Saturday was the culmination of years of official
complaints and legal proceedings involving the three-term
attorney general.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Dianne_Feinstein_Relies_Heavily_on_Staff_to_Function
in_Senate⠀⇛
The California Democrat is surrounded by a large retinue of
aides at all times, who tell her how and when to vote, explain
what is going on when she is confused, and shield her from the
press and public.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Texas_Passes_Bills_Targeting_Elections_in_Democratic
Stronghold⠀⇛
The bills’ passage was the culmination of a Republican effort
to increase oversight of voting in Harris County, which
includes Houston.
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Facebook_users_lose_access_after_violations_of
linked_spam_Instagram_accounts_they_don’t_own⠀⇛
A growing number of Facebook users are reporting an issue
in which their Facebook accounts are being disabled
because of violations attributed to linked Instagram
accounts that the Facebook users themselves do not own.
⚓ India Times ☛ AI_political_fakery_sparks_fears_for_US_2024_race⠀⇛
“Creating content is time-consuming and costly, now imagine being
able to do 10 times as much with no extra staff effort,” said Reavie.
“There will also be a lot of generated content that will be false… It
will be fast and easy to flood channels with content and difficult
for the average person to know otherwise.”
The ability of Americans to agree on objective truths will also be
challenged, with a huge swath of the US population already deeply
distrustful of establishment media.
⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Elon_Musk_is_Right:Bellingcat_is_a_Western‘Psy-Op’⠀⇛
The Twitter CEO draws establishment media outrage for criticizing a
NATO state propaganda outfit.
⚓ Axios ☛ Worries_mount_about_misinformation_in_science⠀⇛
Speakers described how the attention economy’s business model
intersects with the very human desire to belong — fueling an
information environment riddled with misinformation and
disinformation.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Chris_Hedges:_The_Democratic_Party’s_Crucifixion_of_Matt
Taibbi⠀⇛
Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files,
are used to censor left-wing and right-wing critics. This
censorship apparatus has been turned on the reporter who
exposed them.
* ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Music_Company_Asks_Google_to_Delist_‘YouTube
Downloader’_Wikipedia_Article⠀⇛
The music industry is doing all it can to get rid of its
YouTube ripping problem. The RIAA and BPI, for example,
regularly send DMCA anti-circumvention notices to Google,
asking the company to remove sites from search results.
Independent label “Because Music” has also joined in the action
but some notices sent in their name are quite broad, to say the
least.
* ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Witch-Hunt_against_Roger_Waters_continues_as_cancel
culture_and_Israel_lobby_join_forces⠀⇛
Roger Waters, the renowned co-founder of the legendary rock
band Pink Floyd, finds himself at the center of a controversy
following a Berlin concert. The Berlin police have launched an
investigation into Waters over a ”Nazi-style uniform” he wore
during the concert.
The focal point of the investigation is a costume worn by
Waters during the performance of “In the Flesh,” a song from
the rock opera “The Wall.”
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong’s_exhibition_centre_axed_booking_for
concert_without_reason,_says_pro-democracy_singer_Anthony_Wong⠀⇛
The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) has
refused to lease its venue to pro-democracy Cantopop singer
Anthony Wong, the singer said last Friday. The singer said he
was initially notified in January that his application to book
a venue at the HKCEC was successful.
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ Futurism ☛ Google_Unveils_Plan_to_Demolish_the_Journalism_Industry
Using_AI⠀⇛
Google’s new AI-powered search interface, dubbed “Search
Generative Experience,” or SGE for short, involves a feature
called “AI Snapshot.” Basically, it’s an enormous top-of-the-
page summarization feature. Ask, for example, “why is sourdough
bread still so popular?” — one of the examples that Google used
in their presentation — and, before you get to the blue links
that we’re all familiar with, Google will provide you with a
large language model (LLM) -generated summary. Or, we guess,
snapshot.
* ⚓ New Statesman ☛ Ben_Smith:_“The_New_York_Times_hired_a_bunch_of
lunatics”⠀⇛
The populist 2010s, Smith argued, were “totally entwined with
social media”. They were fuelled by “the mechanics of Facebook,
and particularly of Twitter, that ‘I’m going to say something
false, you’re going to get mad, and that’s going to amplify my
false claim’”.
* ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Journalists_face_attacks,_obstructions_on_election_day⠀⇛
KRT TV reporter Sultan Eylem Keleş was prevented from
broadcasting by an AKP member, who is responsible for a school
in Kadıköy district, while she was filming in Istanbul’s
Kadıköy district.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ RFA ☛ North_Korea_arrests_5_Christians_during_underground_church
service⠀⇛
Religion is illegal in North Korea, so they will likely be sent
to a labor camp.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Student_Suspended_From_University_For_Refusing_To_Wear
Hijab_Summoned_In_New_Case⠀⇛
Sepideh Rashno, a 28-year-old Iranian writer and student
arrested last year for refusing to wear the mandatory hijab,
has said she has been summoned to appear before the Tehran
Prosecutor’s Office in relation to a supposed new case against
her.
* ⚓ New Statesman ☛ When_did_a_decent_life_become_out_of_reach_of_the
unambitious?⠀⇛
There was a point in time, not too long ago, when having modest
expectations meant that you could afford not to be relentless
about your career. You had your work and your life and the
former supported the latter well enough, and all was well. Your
house probably wasn’t a mansion and your clothes definitely
weren’t designer but these things weren’t for everyone anyway,
right? That felt like an acceptable deal to make.
What happens when it’s not those luxuries out of your reach but
basics, though? Because that’s the country we live in now. To
have a decent life in Britain, you now need to earn the sort of
money that would once have had you earmarked as a try-hard.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Somalia_to_introduce_direct_universal_suffrage_in_2024⠀⇛
Somalia’s government and federal member states said Sunday that
direct universal suffrage would be introduced with local
elections set for June 2024.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Somalia_announces_plans_to_implement_direct_universal_suffrage
by_2024⠀⇛
Somali officials announced Sunday that the country would
institute a direct one-person-one-vote democracy by 2024. This
comes after years of attempts to achieve direct universal
suffrage, first passed by the Somali legislature in 2019, which
have fallen apart due to political division and internal
conflict.
* ⚓ Police,_gendarmerie_file_complaint_against_CHP_İstanbul_head⠀⇛
The Gendarmerie General Command and the Security General
Directorate stated that they intend to lodge a criminal
complaint against Canan Kaftancıoğlu, the İstanbul branch
chairperson of the CHP, for warning ballot committee members
about police officers.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ APNIC ☛ MITM_attacks_in_public_Wi-Fi_networks_without_rogue_access
points⠀⇛
Guest Post: New attack can evade security mechanisms by
spoofing a legitimate access point to send a forged ICMP
redirect message.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ Rats_on_The_Boat:_a_BitTorrent_Search_Engine_for
HACKERS⠀⇛
BitTorrent search program for desktop and web. Collect
and navigate over base of torrents statistic, categories,
and give easy access to it. Work over p2p network and
support Windows, Linux, macOS platforms.
* Works over p2p torrent network, doesn’t require any
trackers
* Supports own p2p protocol for additional data transfer
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