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⦿ IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 02, 2023 | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
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䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/06/03/apache-netbeans-18/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/06/03/bubble-woes-and-zond-updates/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/06/03/elementaryos-updates-for-may/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/06/03/hidden-communities/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/06/03/ibm-betraying-libreoffice-some-more/#comments
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# Patents
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# Programming/Protocols
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] Light Blue Touchpaper ☛ USENIX_WOOT07,_Exploiting
Concurrency_Vulnerabilities_in_System_Call_Wrappers,_and_the
Evil_Genius⠀⇛
I presented, “Exploiting Concurrency
Vulnerabilities in System Call Wrappers,” a paper
on the topic of compromising system call
interposition-based protection systems, such as
COTS virus scanners, OpenBSD and NetBSD’s Systrace,
the TIS Generic Software Wrappers Toolkit (GSWTK),
and CerbNG. The key insight here is that the
historic assumption of “atomicity” of system calls
is falacious, and that on both uniprocessor and
multiprocessing systems, it is trivial to construct
a race between system call wrappers and malicious
user processes to bypass protections. I
demonstrated sample exploit code against the
Sysjail policy on Systrace, and IDwrappers on
GSWTK, but the paper includes a more extensive
discussion including vulnerabilities in sudo‘s
Systrace monitor mode. You can read the paper and
see the presentation slides here. All affected
vendors received at least six months, and in some
cases many years advance notice regarding these
vulnerabilities.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Downloading_Apache_NetBeans_18⠀⇛
Apache NetBeans 18 was released on May 30, 2023.
Apache NetBeans 18 is available for download from
your closest Apache mirror.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ How_to_install_OpenLiteSpeed,_an_excellent_web_server⠀⇛
OpenLiteSpeed is a high performance and lightweight
HTTP server developed by LiteSpeed Technologies.
OpenLiteSpeed is cross-platform (GNU/Linux,
FreeBSD, MacOS) and can be integrated with
applications developed in PHP, Ruby, Perl and Java.
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Toggle_touchpad_on_or_off⠀⇛
I have a problem with my latest laptop, the
flSynclient synaptics GUI app does not work. I
found that the touchpad does not use the synaptics
protocol. Perhaps this is a sign of what to expect
in modern laptops.
Input devices can be configured by the ‘xinput’ CLI
utility. There is no decent standalone GUI frontend
for ‘xinput’, so for now just implementing one
function, a GUI to toggle the touchpad off or on.
# ⚓ peppe8o ☛ How_to_use_a_Stepper_Motor_with_Arduino_Uno_and
A4988_Driver⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will make stepper motor
movement in clock and counterclockwise with Arduino
Uno. The stepper motor is widely used in the
application
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ A_Comprehensive_Look_at_the_Simple_Mail_Transfer
Protocol_(SMTP)⠀⇛
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a
communication protocol used in the internet mail
system. SMTP is responsible for sending, receiving,
and relaying outbound mail between email senders
and receivers.
# ⚓ Cloudbooklet ☛ Best_PHP-FPM_Configuration_–_Easy_and_Simple
Calculation⠀⇛
Optimize your PHP-FPM Configuration by using the
optimum setup options. Expert-recommended methods
can help your application run faster and more
efficiently. Optimize performance and minimizing
resource use.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Understanding_Basic_Git_Workflow:_Add,_Commit,
Push⠀⇛
In the realm of software development, version
control is paramount. Among the various version
control systems available, Git has emerged as an
industry standard due to its robustness,
flexibility, and distributed architecture. In this
article, we’ll be focusing on the fundamental steps
of a basic Git workflow: Add, Commit, and Push.
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ GNU_Grep_versus_the_(Linux)_open
source_ecology⠀⇛
Since adding warnings and other new messages is a
breaking API change, all of these packages are now
broken in Fedora and by extension any other Linux
distribution that packages them, uses GNU Grep 3.8
or later, and hasn’t reverted this change. Some of
them are only minorly broken; others, either
inspecting their standard error or operating in a
context where other programs expect to see and not
see some things, are more seriously affected. To
repair this breakage, all of these packages need to
be changed to use ‘grep -F’ and ‘grep -E’ instead
of fgrep and egrep.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_a_Load_Balancing_MySQL_Server
with_ProxySQL_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
ProxySQL is a high-performance MySQL proxy with a
small footprint that can be installed in multiple
environments such as VM, K8s, bare-metal, and
Docker containers. ProxySQL is an open-source
solution that provides high availability for your
MySQL Cluster with support of connection
multiplexing, provides query Rules to route writes
to primaries, and distributes reads across
replicas.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ This_week_in_KDE:_for_developers⠀⇛
Plasma 6 porting continues, with stability
improving daily and new features and user
interface improvements trickling in.
Okular now lets you choose the default
scaling mode when printing PDFs
Global Themes can now set the window
decoration border size
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Arca Noae ☛ ArcaOS_5.0.8_now_available⠀⇛
In our continuing commitment to ArcaOS 5.0 (Blue
Lion), Arca Noae is pleased to announce the general
availability of ArcaOS 5.0.8, the eighth
maintenance release of the 5.0 line. It should be
noted that ArcaOS 5.1.0, the successor to the 5.0
line, is nearing availability.
# ⚓ HaikuOS ☛ [GSoC_2023]_Next_up:_Add_reference_images⠀⇛
I have fixed three memory leaks. Before,
leak_analyser.sh found 75 leaks from simply opening
and closing Icon-O-Matic. It now reports only 27.
I am now planning to implement a new shape type
called “reference images”. This implements ticket
#2748. As discussed in the ticket, having a
reference image in the background greatly assists
in vectorizing it. Reference images are just for
reference. They will not be exported to the final
HVIF file.
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ FreeBSD ☛ EuroBSDCon_2023_Travel_Grant_Application_Now
Open⠀⇛
The Travel Grant Application for EuroBSDCon 2023 is
now open. The Foundation can help you
attend EuroBSDCon through our travel grant program.
Travel grants are available to FreeBSD developers
and advocates who need assistance with travel
expenses for attending conferences related to
FreeBSD development. Applications are due August 2,
2023. Find out more and apply today.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ OpenShift_4.13:_Create_serverless_functions_and
more⠀⇛
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 brings
key features and enhancements to the developer
experience in the Red_Hat_OpenShiftconsole. Here’s
a quick overview of the 4.13 features and
improvements based on customer requests: [...]
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ ETAS_and_Red_Hat:_A_powerful_partnership
shaping_the_future_of_connected_vehicles [Ed: Red Hat-
sponsored spam ("rhsummit") about Red Hat; purchased
'journalism' or bought puff pieces]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Transforming_cybersecurity:_Red_Hat_targets
software_supply_chain_security [Ed: More Red Hat-sponsored
fluff ("rhsummit")]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Exploring_the_future_of_software_supply
chain:_Red_Hat’s_Sigstore_initiative [Ed: Red Hat promotes
centralisation and censorship of software; this piece about
it is sponsored by Red Hat]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ The_next_leg_of_cloud_computing:_HCLTech
strives_for_a_unified_approach_to_continuous_modernization
[Ed: A mashup of buzzwords by Red Hat, for Red Hat]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Emerging_trends_in_cloud_computing:_AI,
multicloud_and_edge_computing_take_center_stage [Ed: Some
more nonsensical buzzwords and marketing cruft, in a piece
composed to promote Red Hat on its own budget (fake
journalism, Web saturation)]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ The_role_of_automation:_How_TransUnion
automates_1_million_jobs_using_Ansible [Ed: Ansible marketing
spam by Red Hat, sponsored by Red Hat]⠀⇛
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ New_Icons,_Symlink_Fixes_for_Flathub_Apps
Added_to_Papirus_Icon_Set⠀⇛
I know that the Papirus icon pack is hugely popular
so I figured I’d ferry word that a new version is
available for download The June update is largely
composed of symlinks to allow Flathub versions of
apps already covered by the set match up to their
corresponding icons. This includes icons for Adobe
Reader, Godot 3, Jellyfin Server, Proton VPN,
Puddletag, Waterfox, and ZSNES.
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Rename_Audio_Devices_in_GNOME’s_Quick_Settings
Sound_Menu⠀⇛
Want to rename the audio devices that appear in the
Quick Settings menu sound switcher?
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ New_Orange_Pi_800_Juices_Storage_to
128GB⠀⇛
Aping the Raspberry Pi 400 form factor, the Orange
Pi 800 provides onboard eMMC storage which has just
been doubled.
# ⚓ System76 ☛ Major_Updates_for_System76_Open_Firmware!⠀⇛
We prefer to disable the Intel Management Engine
wherever possible to reduce the amount of closed
firmware running on System76 hardware. We’ve
resolved a coreboot bug that allows the Intel ME
(Management Engine) to once again be disabled.
This bug was a buffer overflow which caused
coreboot firmware memory to be overwritten by the
TPM measurement log, keeping the S3 suspend method
from working properly. As a result of this, we had
to switch from S3 to S0ix suspend, which required
use of the Intel ME in order for OS-level drivers
to function.
By fixing this bug, we were able to move back to S3
and re-disable the Intel ME on most platforms.
(However, S3 suspend is not functional in the
silicon we received for 11th Gen (Tiger Lake) U-
class CPUs.) This fix was submitted upstream to
coreboot as well.
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Using_M2_Wi-Fi_card_slots_for_other_things⠀⇛
Why is this awesome? For rational people, it isn’t.
But for masochistic Mini-ITX builders such as
myself, our boards are limited to a single PCI-
express slot. Gaining an additional M.2 slot opens
up a rare extra possibility for internal expansion
that, for once, doesn’t involve using dodgy
internal USB connections.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ Google_Pixel_8:_Features_We_Want_To_See_In_The
Next_Android_Smartphone⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ Google’s_Android_and_Chrome_extensions_are_a
very_sad_place._Here’s_why_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Video_shows_the_custom_lock_screen_clocks
coming_to_Android_14_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_14_can_show_your_battery_health,
but_the_results_may_not_be_accurate⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_13_now_on_15%_of_devices,_Android_11
still_in_top_spot⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Firefox_Nightly:_Firefox_Translations_and_Other
Innovations_–_These_Weeks_in_Firefox:_Issue_139⠀⇛
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PgBouncer_1.19.1_released⠀⇛
PgBouncer 1.19.1 has been released. This minor
release contains two important bugfixes to avoid
rare crashes. These rare crashes were introduced in
1.18.0. It also adds a few files to our release
tarball that are required to run our tests.
See https://www.pgbouncer.org/2023/05/pgbouncer-1-
19-1 for more information, the detailed changelog,
and download links.
o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ LibreOffice_project_and_community_recap:_May_2023⠀⇛
Here’s our summary of updates, events and
activities in the LibreOffice project in the last
four weeks…
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Red_Hat_Stop_Packaging_LibreOffice_as_RPM_for
RHEL,_Fedora⠀⇛
“The tradeoff is that we are pivoting away from
work we had been doing on desktop applications and
will cease shipping LibreOffice as part of RHEL
starting in a future RHEL version,” Clasen adds.
LibreOffice will remain maintained and supported in
all supported versions of RHEL (and Fedora) with
security updates as and when needed.
# ⚓ LibreOffice_Math_Guide_is_Updated_to_Release_7.5⠀⇛
The LibreOffice Documentation team is happy to
announce the new Math Guide 7.5, for the equation
editor of the LibreOffice productivity suite.
Anyone who wants to learn how to insert formulas
and equations using Math will find this 73-page
guide valuable. Formulas can be inserted as objects
into Writer, Impress, Draw, and Calc documents.
o § GNU Projects⠀➾
# ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Blogs:_May_GNU_Spotlight_with_Amin_Bandali:
Nineteen_new_GNU_releases!⠀⇛
Nineteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of
May 28, 2023): [...]
# ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:
Friday,_June_30,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛
Join the FSF and friends on Friday, June 30, from
12:00
to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC)
to help improve the Free Software Directory.
# ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:
Friday,_June_23,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛
Join the FSF and friends on Friday, June 23, from
12:00
# ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:
Friday,_June_16,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛
Join the FSF and friends on Friday, June 16, from
12:00
# ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:
Friday,_June_09,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛
Join the FSF and friends on Friday, June 09, from
12:00
# ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:
Friday,_June_02,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛
Join the FSF and friends on Friday, June 02, from
12:00
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Qt ☛ IPR_and_Using_AI_in_Product_Creation [Ed: Qt is name-
dropping buzzwords ("AI") and propaganda terms ("intellectual
property rights (IPR)") the same day it shills Windows on
ARM, which is a meaningless market]⠀⇛
Software development has come a long way in the
past few decades. With technological advancements,
the use of machine learning and artificial
intelligence (AI) in software development tools has
become increasingly common. AI has the potential to
revolutionize the way software is developed, making
it faster, more efficient, and less prone to
errors. However, as with any new technology, there
are important considerations that must be taken
into account when using AI in product and software
creation. A key consideration is the impact on
intellectual property rights (IPR), especially for
the ownership and licensing of AI-generated
outputs.
# § Perl / Raku⠀➾
# ⚓ James_Just_James:_Improving_git_diff_output_in_5
min⠀⇛
Everyone uses git diff. But there’s that odd
annoyance that you’ve probably seen before
but are so used to that you’ve forgotten
about it. The a/ and b/ prefixes…
Example:
james@computer:~/code/mgmt (feat/cool-
feature)$ git diff diff –git a/lang/funcs/
core/os/readfile_func.go b/lang/funcs/core/
os/readfile_func.go index
206ba798d..48ac29dc7 100644 — a/lang/funcs/
core/os/readfile_func.go +++ b/lang/funcs/
core/os/readfile_func.go @@ -228,6 +228,8 @@
func (obj *ReadFileFunc) Stream() error { /
/ Close runs some shutdown code for this
function and turns off the stream. func (obj
*ReadFileFunc) Close() error { + // TODO:
Port to the new ctx-in-Stream close API.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Experiencing_Martian_Life_in_Arizona:_NASA’s
Mars_Mission_Simulation⠀⇛
In a bold stride towards the cosmos, the concept of
settling on Mars is no longer just a flight of
fancy. A number of ambitious plans for Martian
travel and colonisation are underway, but first,
why not simulate the conditions on Earth? NASA’s
Mars Mission in the United States has embarked on a
unique project, allowing a team of four researchers
to experience life as it might be on the Red
Planet, all within the confines of Arizona.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Boeing_and_NASA_Delay_Launch_of_Starliner
Over_Parachutes_and_Wiring⠀⇛
The Starliner capsule was poised to fly people to
orbit in July for the first time. But reviews found
problems with its parachutes and its wiring.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ With_a_New,_Improved_‘Einstein,’_Puzzlers
Settle_a_Math_Problem⠀⇛
Earlier this spring, tiling aficionados thought
maybe they’d found the shape of their dreams. Now
they’re certain.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ NASA_Learns_the_Ugly_Truth_About_UFOs⠀⇛
Talking about mysterious sightings in the sky can
be a nasty business.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Seven_Tips_From_Susan_Sontag_for_Independent
Thinking⠀⇛
What would the intellectual powerhouse think about
our culture of groupthink and self-righteousness?
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Geyser_Seen_Spraying_6,000_Miles_Into_Space
From_Saturn’s_Moon⠀⇛
“Far beyond what we could have imagined.”
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ There_Are_8_Boundaries_For_a_Safe_Planet.
To_Be_Fair,_Earth_Would_Fail_7_of_Them.⠀⇛
Where’s the justice?
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Lab-Grown_Meat_Has_a_Big_Problem_Very_Few
People_Know_About⠀⇛
We need to fix this.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Thoughts_Inside_Your_Head_Can_Unleash
Physical_Pain,_Study_Finds⠀⇛
Bad ideas.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ The_Y_Chromosome_Is_Vanishing._A_New_Sex
Gene_Could_Be_The_Future_of_Men⠀⇛
Big changes are coming.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Staggering_Results_of_New_Weight_Loss_Drugs
May_Be_Revolutionary,_Expert_Says⠀⇛
But we have big questions.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Your_Dog_Loves_Eating_Grass,_But_Not_For
The_Reasons_You_Think⠀⇛
The truth is surprisingly obvious.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Elizabeth_Holmes_deserves_neither_your_pity_nor
your_attention⠀⇛
Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of the fraudulent
blood-testing startup Theranos, just started her
11-year prison sentence on_May_30, a month after
she was initially expected to, after enjoying one
last beach day with her husband and their two small
children: William, two, and Invicta, only months
old.
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ EVP_Vestager_speech_for_the_launch_of
the_EIC/EIT_Women_Innovators_Prize⠀⇛
European Commission Speech Stockholm, 01 Jun 2023
Our society is facing extraordinary challenges.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ ‘Dear_Boomer’:_What_do_I_even_do_with_my
education?⠀⇛
In the latest installment of “Dear Boomer,” Helen
Hudson writes about making the most of Stanford
— and why you shouldn’t be afraid to badger your
professors.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_to_allow_university
students_to_apply_for_gov’t_jobs_up_to_2_years_ahead_of
graduation⠀⇛
Hong Kong will allow university students to apply
for roles in the civil service up to two years
before they graduate, a relaxation that comes amid
a rise in resignations from government jobs.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Let’s_Smash_the_College_Admissions
Process⠀⇛
If affirmative action goes, bigger changes are
necessary.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Realtek_RTL8126,_RTL8157,_and_RTL8251B_5Gbps
Ethernet_solutions_showcased_at_COMPUTEX_2023⠀⇛
I only upgraded my local network to 2.5 Gbps
Ethernet last year, but 5 Gbps Ethernet is soon
coming to the home as shown by Realtek at COMPUTEX
2023 with demonstrations of their RTL816, RTL8157,
and RTL8251B 5GbE chips that were initially
unveiled at CES 2022.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ French_NGOs_sue_government_over_alleged
negligence_in_pesticide_regulation⠀⇛
A coalition of French environmental charities on
Thursday accused the French state of negligence in
regulating the use of pesticides, in a landmark
legal case.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Proposes_Requiring_New_Cars_to_Have
Automatic_Braking_Systems⠀⇛
The Transportation Department wants new cars to
automatically stop when they detect an accident is
likely.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Lifting_northern_Australia’s_protein
profile⠀⇛
Northern Australia has enormous potential to expand
its role in providing for one of the Indo-Pacific’s
most crucial needs—protein-rich foods.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Another_Respiratory_Virus_on_Rise_in_the_United
States⠀⇛
HMPV can cause upper and lower respiratory disease
in people of all ages, especially among young
children, older adults, and people with weakened
immune systems.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Problem_With_Comparing_Social_Media_to
Big_Tobacco⠀⇛
The surgeon general issued a warning about social
media’s impact on teens. What do we know about the
research?
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ America’s_Approach_to_Addiction_Has_Gone_Off
the_Rails⠀⇛
In a time of fentanyl and meth, we need to use law
enforcement differently—and more often.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ How_Filipino_American_chefs_are_bringing
culture_to_the_table⠀⇛
Three Filipino American chefs are nominated for the
James Beard Awards, the culinary equivalent of the
Oscars, held next week. These chefs are part of a
younger generation giving voice to the Filipino
American experience through the language of food.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland’s_abortion_laws_must_not_be_changed,_Family
Affairs_minister_Kiuru_says⠀⇛
The outgoing minister’s comments come as news
outlets report the parties aiming to form Finland’s
next coalition government have discussed making
changes to abortion legislation.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Judge_Bans_AI-Generated_Filings_In_Court
Because_It_Just_Makes_Stuff_Up⠀⇛
Chatbots often make stuff up and reproduce human
biases.
o § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finland’s_VR_adopts_new_price_system,
expanding_range_of_ticket_prices⠀⇛
VR, the Finnish state-owned railway operator, has
carried out a pricing revamp in an attempt to steer
consumer demand toward less-busy hours and periods.
The revamp includes a shift from an 8-tier to a 25-
tier price system that, in theory, promises savings
to passengers booking their trip early and
additional costs to passengers buying a ticket at
the last minute, according_to_YLE.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Wladimir Palant ☛ How_malicious_extensions_hide_running
arbitrary_code⠀⇛
Two days ago I wrote about the malicious extensions
I discovered in Chrome Web Store. At some point
this article got noticed by Avast. Once their team
confirmed my findings, Google finally reacted and
started removing these extensions. Out of the 34
extensions I reported, only 8 extensions remain.
These eight were all part of an update where I
added 16 extensions to my list, an update that came
too late for Avast to notice.
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Security_advisory:_Qt_Network⠀⇛
A recent buffer overflow issue in Qt Network has
been reported and has been assigned the CVE id CVE-
2023-33285.
# ⚓ Matt_Brown:_Calling_time_on_DNSSEC:_The_costs_exceed_the
benefits⠀⇛
I’m calling time on DNSSEC. Last week, prompted by
a change in my DNS hosting setup, I began removing
it from the few personal zones I had signed. Then
this Monday the .nz ccTLD experienced a multi-day
availability_incident triggered by the annual
DNSSEC key rotation process. This incident broke
several of my unsigned zones, which led me to say
very_unkind_things about DNSSEC on Mastodon and now
I feel compelled to more completely explain my
thinking: [...]
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Growing_hacking_threat_to_satellite
systems_compels_global_push_to_secure_outer_space⠀⇛
An international group of experts are working to
build the next generation of secure-by-design space
systems.
# ⚓ SANS ☛ After_28_years,_SSLv2_is_still_not_gone_from_the
internet…_but_we’re_getting_there,_(Thu,_Jun_1st)⠀⇛
Although the SSL/TLS suite of protocols has been
instrumental in making secure communication over
computer networks into the (relatively)
straightforward affair it is today, the beginnings
of these protocols were far from ideal.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Gigabyte_Rolls_Out_Firmware_Update_to_Mend
Firmware_Backdoor⠀⇛
New firmware to mitigate the recently discovered
backdoor in over 250 Gigabyte AMD and Intel
motherboard models is now available for download.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ A_Confession_Exposes_India’s_Secret_Hacking
Industry⠀⇛
The country has developed a lucrative speciality:
cyberattacks for hire.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Russian_government_accuses_Apple
of_colluding_with_NSA_in_iPhone_spy_operation⠀⇛
A Russian intelligence agency said thousands
of iPhones were infected in an operation that
shows “cooperation” between Apple and the
NSA.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Kaspersky_targeted_through_iMessage;
Russian_FSB_ties_attack_to_NSA⠀⇛
Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky has
revealed it has been hit by an attack that
injects spyware into iPhones used by its
employees, an attack that has been going on
since 2019 and has been named Operation
Triangulation.
# ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Podcast:_Smarter_grocery_stores_are
coming [Ed: Smarter or vastly more surveillance-
intensive?]⠀⇛
Krogers and Walmart are both expanding
various IoT devices to more of their stores
as part of a larger shift in how connectivity
and intelligence will change how we shop.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Judge_Dismisses_D.C.’s_Privacy
Lawsuit_Against_Meta⠀⇛
The District of Columbia accused the company
of sharing user data in deceptive ways. A
Superior Court decision said Meta had made
its policies clear.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Rīga_to_tighten_its_ad_placement_rules⠀⇛
The Rīga City Council on Wednesday adopted
binding rules on the procedures for the
placement of advertisements, signboards, and
other information materials in Rīga, LETA
reported May 31.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Amazon_will_pay_$25_million_in_FTC_child
data-privacy_fine⠀⇛
Amazon will pay over $30 million in fines
resulting from Federal Trade Commission
claims that it illegally kept data –
including that of children – collected by its
products. Amazon disputes the claims but says
the settlements “put these matters behind
us.”
# § Confidentiality⠀➾
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Company_holding_data_on
180,000_borrowers_breached_privacy_legislation,
watchdog_says⠀⇛
A technology company which holds data on
180,000 borrowers was found to have breached
privacy laws after a user reported that eight
moneylending companies had reviewed his
credit data without his consent, according to
the city’s privacy watchdog.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ South_Sudan_Regrets_UNSC_Extension_of_Arms
Embargo⠀⇛
The United Nations Security Council adopted a
resolution to renew arms embargo measures, targeted
sanctions of the travel ban and asset freeze
against individuals and entities.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ DOD_blocking_US_cooperation_with_International
Criminal_Court:_State_Department_official⠀⇛
A US State Department ambassador told senators
during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing
Wednesday that the Department of Defense (DOD)
continues to block the US’s cooperation in the
International Criminal Court’s (ICC) case against
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Pakistan_interior_minister:_former_PM_Imran_Khan
should_face_military_trial⠀⇛
Pakistani Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah called
Tuesday for former Prime Minister Imran Khan to be
tried in a military court following the outbreak of
nationwide protests over his May 9 arrest.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ President_Of_Former_Pakistani_PM_Imran_Khan’s_Party
Arrested_In_Lahore⠀⇛
The president of former Pakistani Prime Minister
Imran Khan’s party was arrested on June 1 in the
eastern city of Lahore on charges of corruption, a
government official said.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Senegal:_Opposition_Leader_Sonko_Sentenced_to_2
Years_in_Prison⠀⇛
Once convicted of “corruption of minors,” Ousmane
Sonko will not be able to participate in the 2024
presidential elections.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ The_Pentagon_Is_Spending_$1_Billion_a
Year_on_‘Directed_Energy_Weapons’⠀⇛
Washington is interested in the weapons but worries
they’ll end up in the ‘valley of death’ if the
Pentagon isn’t careful.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ UN_Myanmar_envoy_to_leave_role⠀⇛
Noeleen Heyzer departs less than a year after
opposition and civil society groups called for her
termination.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Thai_police_arrest_more_than_100_in_search_for
illegal_immigrants_from_Myanmar⠀⇛
Arrests follow discovery of house producing weapons
for rebels fighting junta across border
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Junta_raids_force_more_than_3,000_to_flee_villages_in
Myanmar’s_Sagaing_region⠀⇛
Locals warn that those displaced are in urgent need
of food and shelter.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Thai_authority_plans_power_shutdown_to_2_areas_in
southeastern_Myanmar⠀⇛
It was unclear why Myanmar’s junta made the request
to switch off the electricity to Shwe Kokko and Lay
Kay Kaw.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Moscow’s_grip_or_window_for_democracy:_what_happens
in_Belarus_after_Lukashenko?⠀⇛
The last couple of weeks saw much talk about
possible health issues suffered by Belarus’
strongman president Alexander Lukashenko. Exiled
opposition members started speaking about “a window
of opportunity for democracy”. However, observers
interviewed by LRT.lt believe that even
Lukashenko’s departure will not mean the end of
repressions – or Russia’s ambitions to pull the
strings in Minsk.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Hawks_investigating_fraud_and_corruption_in
the_Department_of_Defence_involving_R170_million⠀⇛
The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation
(the Hawks) are investigating four cases of fraud
and corruption in the Department of Defence (DoD)
involving almost R170 million. Hawks boss
Lieutenant-General Godfrey Lebeya gave an update on
these active cases to the Portfolio Committee on
Defence and Military Veterans on 31 May.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._To_Open_Diplomatic_Station_In_Arctic_Norway⠀⇛
The United States will open its northernmost
diplomatic station in the Norwegian Arctic town of
Tromsoe, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on
June 1.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Group_Using_Forged_Schengen_Visas_For_Trips_To
Europe_Uncovered_In_Kyrgyzstan⠀⇛
Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee of National Security
said on June 1 that a group allegedly involved in
organizing illegal travel to European countries via
Kyrgyzstan by using forged Schengen visas has been
uncovered.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ UN_judges_expand_war_crime_convictions_of_former
Serbian_security_officials⠀⇛
The UN International Residual Mechanism for
Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) on Wednesday expanded
the convictions and increased the sentences of two
individuals who helped to murder and deport non-
Serbs during the Balkan wars. The two, Jovica
Stanišić and Franko Simatović, are former Serbian
security officials.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Two-ton_hashish_haul_for_Op_Atalanta⠀⇛
A regular Operation Atalanta maritime security
patrol off the coast of Oman was rewarded with a
two-ton haul of hashish, the European Union naval
force reports. La Fayette Class frigate FS Surcouf
(F711) of the French Navy captured more than two
tons of narcotics.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Deadly_clashes_in_Senegal_after_opposition
leader_is_sentenced_to_prison⠀⇛
Nine people died in clashes that erupted after
Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko was
sentenced to two years behind bars, Interior
Minister Antoine Diome said Friday.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Roberts-Smith_broke_moral_and_legal
rules,_judge_finds⠀⇛
Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith
committed a slew of war crimes in Afghanistan,
murdering unarmed prisoners, a Federal Court judge
has found. Mr Roberts-Smith suffered a massive
court loss, ending an almost five-year defamation
battle between the former-SAS corporal and three
media outlets.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ #BalkansDebrief_–_What’s_behind_the
escalation_in_Kosovo?_|_A_debrief_with_Jovana_Radosavljevic
and_Agon_Maliqi⠀⇛
Nonresident Senior Fellow Ilva Tare speaks to
Jovana Radosavljevic, a Kosovo Serb who resides in
the north of Kosovo and the Executive Director of
the New Social Initiative, and to Agon Maliqi, an
analyst from Kosovo.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ben_Roberts-Smith,_Australia’s_Most
Decorated_Soldier,_Loses_Defamation_Case⠀⇛
A judge ruled for newspapers that had been accused
of defaming the soldier by reporting that he had
committed war crimes in Afghanistan.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Australian_soldier_loses_defamation_case_over
newspapers’_war_crimes_allegations⠀⇛
One of Australia’s most decorated soldiers lost a
landmark defamation case Thursday after a bruising
trial filled with accusations of murder, domestic
violence, witness intimidation and war crimes.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ The_Taliban_Is_Fighting_Iran_With
American_Weapons⠀⇛
Tensions are escalating between Tehran and Kabul,
and the Taliban has a lot of Western equipment
ready for the fight.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Defence_industry_could_help_rebalance_the
US–Australia_economic_relationship⠀⇛
President Joe Biden’s offer to have Australia
counted as a ‘domestic’ economy under the US
Defense Production Act may give a badly needed
boost to the flagging economic relationship between
the two countries.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ The_threat_spectrum⠀⇛
Planet A The United States and Papua New Guinea
have signed a new defence and maritime cooperation
agreement to combat illegal fishing, illegal
logging and drug smuggling in PNG waters.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Is_Egypt_planning_a_full-scale_invasion
of_Sudan?⠀⇛
With the evacuation of foreigners from Sudan nearly
complete, expectations are that an Egyptian
military invasion of Sudan is imminent.
# ⚓ Neighborhood_guards_can_carry_weapons,_perform_ID_checks,
rules_top_court⠀⇛
The court has annulled a provision authorizing
guards to take measures to prevent demonstrations
until the police arrive.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Man_Robs_Convenience_Store_With_Nintendo
‘Duck_Hunt’_Pistol⠀⇛
Flashing a NES Zapper in his pants, the man stole
$300 from a cashier before being caught nearby with
the fake gun.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Changing_views_on_crime,_from_Central_Asia_to
the_South_Pacific⠀⇛
Progress roundup: From Uzbekistan to Cook Islands,
evolving views on behavior and relationships yield
legal protection for battered partners and gay men.
# § War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_FM_insists_Turkey_should_endorse
Sweden’s_NATO_membership⠀⇛
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius
Landsbergis insists Turkey should relent on
its opposition to Sweden’s NATO membership,
since it is a matter of security for the
Baltic countries, one of the most vulnerable
regions of the alliance.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Putin_Complains_About_the_Noise⠀⇛
Nyet place like home.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Siren_test_shows_issues_with_six_systems⠀⇛
On Wednesday, May 31, 152 of the 158 alarm
sirens tested worked without interruption,
the State Fire and Rescue Service (VUGD)
reported.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia-Lithuania_border_control_to_be
restored_during_NATO_summit⠀⇛
Lithuania will reinforce control of the
Schengen area borders with Latvia and Poland
during the NATO Vilnius Summit, Latvian
Television reported on June 1.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ What_Trump’s_Recording_Could_Reveal⠀⇛
The reported existence of a tape says something
important about how the former president operates.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Lordy,_There_Are_Tapes⠀⇛
Trump’s fear of damaging press was so much greater
than his fear of criminal accountability that he
ended up making an incriminating recording.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ They_Still_Love_Him⠀⇛
Trump may be unpopular nationally, but within his
own party, the devotion has not subsided.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Global_heatwaves_are_getting_hotter._How_can
risks_be_curbed?⠀⇛
Climate change-fueled heatwaves are shattering
records worldwide, and scientists expect them to
worsen. Urgent action is needed, they say, to
mitigate risks to health, food security, water
management, and the environment.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ District_Court_Judge_Revives_Kids_Climate_Case⠀⇛
Years after the Ninth Circuit ordered the case
dismissed, it is brought back to life with a
surprising trial court order.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Vietnamese_climate_activist arrested_for_‘tax
evasion’⠀⇛
Hoang Thi Minh Hong has received international
recognition for her environmental activism.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ The_G7_can_take_NATO-EU_climate
cooperation_to_the_next_level⠀⇛
There is a strong opportunity for meaningful NATO-
EU cooperation by using the Group of Seven as a
convening platform for climate change-related
discussions.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Defending_Australia_from_disasters⠀⇛
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change report warns, once again, that climate-
change impacts—hazards such as bushfires, drought
and flooding—are becoming more frequent and more
intense, damaging nature, people and
infrastructure. Yet measures to reduce …
# ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ The_world_is_finally_spending_more
on_solar_than_oil_production⠀⇛
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Weakened_Tropical_Storm_Mawar_brings
heavy_rains_to_Japan’s_southern_islands_as_it_passes_by⠀⇛
A weakened Tropical Storm Mawar is bringing heavy
rains to Japan’s main southern islands after
passing the Okinawan archipelago early Friday.
Strong winds continued on Okinawa and dozens of
local flights were canceled for the day. Formerly a
super typhoon, Mawar had winds blowing up to 56 mph
as it moved east over the Pacific Ocean. The Japan
Meteorological Agency predicted a foot of rain
might fall in places through Saturday morning. The
agency issued flood and mudslide warnings in parts
of southwestern Japan. It urged residents near
rivers and hillsides to use caution.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Japan_slammed_by_torrential_rain_as
Typhoon_Mawar_nears⠀⇛
Similar weather patterns have caused flooding and
landslides in the past.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Mudslide_Kills_Three,_Including_Two_Children,_In
Tajikistan’s_East⠀⇛
A massive mudslide killed three people, including
two children, in the village of Qushai in eastern
Tajikistan in the early hours of June 1.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Second_Tropical_Depression_Forms_In_The
Atlantic⠀⇛
The system will be short-lived and could weaken in
less than 24 hours.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Why_UN_talks_this_week_focus_on_just_one_word:
Plastics⠀⇛
Few plastics are recycled, and instead particles
are increasingly ubiquitous in the environment. Our
charts give context as nations seek a treaty.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Coast_Guard_rescues_50_passengers_from_broken-down
water_bus_off_Helsinki_coast⠀⇛
An engine problem led to the vessel drifting near
Seurasaari in the archipelago before being towed to
safety by rescue services.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ H2 View ☛ Ireland_and_Germany_to_cooperate_on_green
hydrogen_under_new_agreement⠀⇛
Ireland and Germany have signed a joint
declaration to cooperate on green hydrogen.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ France’s_Ban_on_Short-Haul_Flights_Will_Kill
People [Ed: Koch-funded lies and proof that the media
has become corrupt; burn lots of Koch fossil fuel or
people will die?]⠀⇛
You’re 2,200 times more likely to die when
traveling by car as opposed to by airplane.
# ⚓ H2 View ☛ Cross-border_hydrogen_valley_to_be
established_between_Finland_and_Estonia⠀⇛
BalticSeaH2 will build the ‘first
significant’ cross-border hydrogen valley in
Europe between Finland and Estonia.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Biden_Is_Ignoring_the_Menace_of_Mega-
EVs⠀⇛
Environmental hype has crowded out any
concern for people outside the vehicle.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Compact_Fusion_Reactor_Barely_3
Feet_Across_Has_Hit_a_Huge_Milestone⠀⇛
Small size, big temperatures.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ China_to_account_for_more_than_half_renewable
capacity_rise,_report_says⠀⇛
The International Energy Agency projects
global renewable power will rise by a third
this year.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Next_green_leader?_India_halts_new_coal
plant_construction.⠀⇛
India released its five-year energy plan May
31, 2023, which bars the country from
building any new coal power plants and
promotes renewable energy development. India
is the world’s third largest emitter but aims
to be carbon neutral by 2070.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Majority_of_district_heating
companies_increase_prices,_reveals_comparison_by
Omakotiliitto⠀⇛
A recent comparison conducted by
Omakotiliitto, the Finnish Homeowners’
Association, has revealed significant
variations in pricing for district heating
services. The study examined the basic fee
and energy costs of district heating in 97
areas and 73 companies. The analysis focused
on a small residential property with a water
flow rate of 0.2 m3/h and a power capacity of
10 kW. The findings highlight disparities in
pricing among different district heating
providers.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Bali_car_rental_business_owner
arrested_for_accepting_crypto_payment⠀⇛
Some foreigners have been using
cryptocurrencies for payments after sanctions
were imposed on their country.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ IDA ☛ We_have_a_new_name_and_logo⠀⇛
We are DarkSky. After 30+ years the
International Dark-Sky Association gets an
easier-to-say name.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Honeybee_Swarms_Darken_U.K._Skies,
Sending_Beekeepers_Scrambling⠀⇛
It’s swarming season in Britain, with
honeybee colonies splitting in half in search
of new homes. This year, beekeepers say they
are getting an unusually high number of swarm
sightings.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Summer_algae_forecast:_Warm_and_calm
weather_conditions_can_lead_to_powerful_blooms_of_blue-
green_algae_in_the_Baltic_Sea⠀⇛
In sea areas blooms of algae in the spring
consume nitrogen, while leaving phosphorus-
based nutrients for the blue-green algae that
appear in the summer. Warm and calm weather
can lead to powerful blooms of blue-green
algae.
The risk of extensive blooms of blue-green
algae in Finnish sea areas still exists, as
the nutrient level in the Baltic Sea
continues to favour the appearance of blue-
green algae.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Ghana_Committed_to_Boost_Sustainable_Ocean
Economy⠀⇛
“As part of the process, we have initiated
the national integrated maritime strategy…”
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Arizona_Limits_Construction_Around
Phoenix_as_Its_Water_Supply_Dwindles⠀⇛
In what could be a glimpse of the future as
climate change batters the West, officials
ruled there’s not enough groundwater for
projects already approved.
# ⚓ How_climate_crisis_affects_Turkey’s_agricultural
production⠀⇛
For many years, Turkey has been unable to
achieve yield increases in its key
agricultural products, placing the country
significantly behind its global competitors
in this regard.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ Speech_by_Commissioner_McGuinness_at
European_Banking_Federation’s_International_Banking_Summit_on
‘How_can_banks_help_deliver_sustainable_growth_in_a_more
multi-polar_world?’ [Ed: European Commission fronting for
banksters while funding wars]⠀⇛
European Commission Speech Brussels, 01 Jun 2023
Good morning. Good to be here.
Thank you, Wim.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ US_Senate_passes_bipartisan_debt_deal_avoiding
potential_first-ever_default⠀⇛
The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed bipartisan
legislation backed by President Joe Biden that
lifts the government’s $31.4 trillion debt
ceiling, averting what would have been a historic,
first-ever default.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_Supreme_Court_finds_securities_law_requires
proof_of_traceability_to_misleading_information⠀⇛
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found Thursday
in Slack Technologies v. Pirani that federal
securities law requires plaintiffs to prove their
shares are directly traceable to misleading
information in a registration statement in order to
sue. Fiyyaz Pirani, an individual investor, sued
Slack Technologies, an instant messaging app, after
the stock price dropped.
# ⚓ Erdoğan’s_declared_net_worth_negative⠀⇛
Erdoğan’s declaration of property has been
published in the Official Gazette together with the
final results of the presidential elections. Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan and his wife, Emine Erdoğan owe 5.39
million lira.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_House_Passed_the_Debt_Limit_Bill._Who
Won?⠀⇛
President Biden both won and lost the debt-ceiling
negotiation.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ US_House_Passes_Bipartisan_Debt_Ceiling_Bill⠀⇛
The U.S. hit its US$31.4-trillion debt limit in
January and could have defaulted on its debt
obligations by June 5 without raising or suspending
the limit.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Irrational_Exuberance_of_a_Non-
Catastrophe⠀⇛
The bipartisan debt deal was a win for both Biden
and McCarthy, but it might not have been the
breakthrough Washington was waiting for.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Case_of_the_Disappearing_Debt
Disaster⠀⇛
One secret ingredient: Republicans don’t care about
policy
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ With_days_to_spare,_Senate_gives
final_OK_to_debt_ceiling_deal,_sending_it_to_Biden⠀⇛
Fending off a U.S. default, the Senate has given
final approval to a debt ceiling and budget cuts
package. It’s now on its way to President Joe
Biden’s desk to become law before a fast-
approaching deadline. The Senate ground through
late-night voting Thursday to wrap up work on the
hard-fought deal. The compromise package negotiated
between Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
leaves neither Republicans nor Democrats fully
pleased with the outcome. But the result cuts
spending for two years and suspends the debt limit
until 2025 after the next presidential election.
Biden says he will sign it into law as soon as
possible.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Significant_shifts_in_job_opportunities_in
the_construction_industry⠀⇛
The construction industry is experiencing
significant changes in job availability, with
certain professionals in high demand while others
face a decline in opportunities. Although the
overall number of job postings has decreased due to
the economic slowdown, long-term data indicates
that the demand for construction workers remains
high. This analysis is based on data from
Duunitori, a leading job portal in Finland.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Statistics_Finland_downgrades_estimate_of
first-quarter_economic_growth⠀⇛
STATISTICS FINLAND has revised down its estimate of
economic growth in the first quarter of the year.
Statistics Finland on Wednesday published
preliminary_data indicating that the gross domestic
product grew by 0.2 per cent from the previous
quarter between January and March, a noticeable
downgrade from the 1.1 per cent suggested by a
flash_estimate published in mid-May.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ US_&_Taiwan_to_Sign_First_Agreement_Under_New
Trade_Framework⠀⇛
“…The Office of Trade Negotiations of Taiwan
released a statement…”
# ⚓ Suze_Orman:_‘People_Are_So_Scared_Right_Now’⠀⇛
“People are scared. I’ve never seen them so scared
as they are right now, even in 2008 and 2009. Many
ask, ‘Can we take money out of our 401(k) plans? Is
it not safe there now?’”
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Hidden_Costs_of_Weddings⠀⇛
You tell yourself that it will all be worth it for
the registry. You drink. You dance. At some point,
you pass out.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Demirtaş_steps_back_from_active_politics_but_says_‘I_belong
and_I_will_continue_to_belong_to_HDP’⠀⇛
“In fact, Kılıçdaroğlu has won the elections.
However, election frauds, the votes cast abroad,
and the votes of those who were made citizens
recently; all added up, Erdoğan has won this
historical election. What we lived through has
nothing to do with an election, democracy, or the
people’s will being reflected; not even close to
it. All of what has happened was an operation,”
said the imprisoned politician.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Recording_of_Trump_Underscores_Growing
Evidence_in_Documents_Case⠀⇛
A conversation in which the former president is
said to have acknowledged that he could not
declassify a sensitive document could undercut a
defense he has offered.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Macron,_Scholz_call_for_new_elections_in_tense
northern_Kosovo_districts⠀⇛
France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s
Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday urged Kosovo to
allow new elections in four northern
municipalities, amid renewed tensions with the
area’s Serbian population.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Kosovo_President_Open_To_New_Elections_In
Northern_Areas⠀⇛
French President Emmanuel Macron and German
Chancellor Olaf Scholz suggested holding new
elections to ease recent clashes in the region.
# ⚓ Supreme_Election_Council_releases_final_results_of
presidential_runoff_vote⠀⇛
The results will of published in the Official
Gazzette, a day after the publication of the
parliamentary vote.
# ⚓ Six_HDP_Youth_members_detained_in_İzmir⠀⇛
Over the past few weeks, a series of operations has
been carried out targeting not only political
parties but also legal and media organizations with
a Kurdish focus.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kosovar_President_Open_To_New_Elections_In_Areas_Of
Northern_Kosovo_Where_Clashes_Occurred⠀⇛
The president of Kosovo confirmed that France and
Germany have suggested holding new elections in
four municipalities in northern Kosovo as a means
of defusing tensions over the forced installation
of ethnic-Albanian mayors.
# ⚓ 10th_anniversary_of_Gezi_Park_protests:_Dozens_detained_in
İstanbul’s_Taksim⠀⇛
Several commemorative events were held around
Taksim, where the massive anti-government protests
started in 2013.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Biden_trips_and_falls_onstage_at_Air_Force
Academy_graduation⠀⇛
President Joe Biden tripped and fell after handing
out the last diploma at a graduation ceremony at
the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado on Thursday,
but got up quickly and walked back to his seat.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Biden_says_he_got_‘sandbagged’
after_he_tripped_and_fell_onstage_at_Air_Force_graduation⠀⇛
Biden had been greeting the graduates in Colorado
Springs, Colorado, at the front of the stage with
salutes and handshakes, and turned to jog back
toward his seat when he fell.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Biden_says_he_got_‘sandbagged’_after
he_tripped_and_fell_onstage_at_Air_Force_graduation⠀⇛
President Joe Biden fell onstage at the U.S. Air
Force Academy graduation on Thursday. The White
House says Biden is “fine” after he tripped over a
sandbag. Biden had been greeting the graduates in
Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the front of the
stage with salutes and handshakes. Biden turned to
jog back toward his seat when he fell. He was
helped up by an Air Force officer as well as two
members of his U.S. Secret Service detail. He then
returned to his seat to view the end of the
ceremony. White House communications director Ben
LaBolt tweeted, “He’s fine,” and Biden later joked
that he had gotten “sandbagged.”
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden_Is_‘Fine’_After_Fall_at_Air_Force
Graduation,_White_House_Says⠀⇛
A White House official said President Biden was
feeling “totally fine.” He was helped up and walked
back to his seat after stumbling.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Various_Tribes_Stage_Protest_in_India’s_Manipur⠀⇛
“…there have been a minimum of 80 fatalities in the
ongoing ethnic altercations…”
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ European_Council_President_Voices_Hope_On
Normalization_Of_Armenian-Azerbaijani_Relations⠀⇛
European Council President Charles Michel said he
will have a “very important meeting” on June 1 with
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on the sidelines of
the European Political Community summit in Moldova.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden_Makes_Case_for_Global_Alliances_at
Air_Force_Academy_Commencement⠀⇛
President Biden said cooperation with allies had
helped the United States confront challenges to
stability around the world.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Moldova’s_EU_Path_Independent_Of_Transdniester
Developments,_Says_Borrell⠀⇛
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said at the
start of the European Political Community summit on
June 1 in Moldova that Chisinau has a clear journey
to joining the European Union and “must work toward
reforms to fulfill the path to integration.”
# ⚓ France24 ☛ French_parliament_expected_to_pass_law
regulating_‘jungle’_of_social_media_influencers⠀⇛
The upper house Senate of France’s parliament was
Thursday due to pass a law that will better
regulate social media influencers by limiting and
regulating their ability to endorse products and
encourage betting.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Iran_To_Join_Shanghai_Cooperation_Organization_In
July⠀⇛
The next summit will be held on July 4 under the
chairmanship of Indian Prime Minister Narendra
Modi.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ New_details_of_Jeffrey_Epstein’s
death_and_the_frantic_aftermath_revealed_in_records_obtained
by_AP⠀⇛
Taken together, the documents the AP obtained
Thursday provide the most complete accounting to
date of Epstein’s detention and death, and its
chaotic aftermath.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Elon_Musk’s_Twitter_loses_another_trust_and_safety
head_as_Ella_Irwin_resigns⠀⇛
Twitter head of trust and safety Ella Irwin
resigned Thursday evening, per multiple sources,
after owner Elon_Musk publicly rebuked his own
staff over a content moderation decision.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Did_Macron_just_dispel_Central_and
Eastern_Europe’s_skepticism_about_France?⠀⇛
French President Emmanuel Macron chose Bratislava,
Slovakia, to deliver a speech aimed at reassuring
Central and Eastern European partners of France’s
reliability.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Donald_Trump_Faces_Several_Investigations.
Here’s_Where_They_Stand.⠀⇛
Mr. Trump has been indicted in Manhattan, and
federal and state prosecutors elsewhere have opened
a number of investigations.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_court_upholds_sergeant’s
testimony_at_national_anthem_insult_trial,_despite_records_of
rule_violations⠀⇛
A Hong Kong court has adjourned the verdict in the
first trial relating to insulting the Chinese
national anthem, after a magistrate cleared doubts
over a police sergeant’s expert testimony.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Belarusian_Activist_Sentenced_To_More_Than_Four
Years_In_Prison_For_Caricatures⠀⇛
A court in Belarus’s western city of Baranavichy
has sentenced activist Ihar Shumilau to 4 1/2 years
in prison for posting online caricatures of several
officials, including the country’s authoritarian
ruler, Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Insulting_Former_Kazakh_President_Nazarbaev_Set_To
Be_Decriminalized⠀⇛
Lawmakers in Kazakhstan are poised to scrap an
article in the Criminal Code that envisions
prosecution for insulting former President
Nursultan Nazarbaev as President Qasym-Zhomart
Toqaev continues to distance himself from his
predecessor.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_appeals_court_finds_Virginia_Tech’s_bias
reporting_policies_do_not_violate_free_speech⠀⇛
A majority for the US Court of Appeals for the
Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Virginia Tech’s
bias reporting policies do not violate free speech
principles protected by the First Amendment,
upholding a lower court’s decision to deny a
preliminary injunction.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Personalized_License_Plates_(e.g.,_69PWNDU)_Are
Private_Speech⠀⇛
Today’s decision in Gilliam v. Gerregano (Tenn. Ct.
App.) so holds (in an opinion by Judge Kristi
Davis, joined by Judges Frank Clement and Neal
McBrayer).
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ Video_message_to_the_conference
“Let’s_protect_the_children” [Ed: Well, they do not protect
kids, they protect oligarcha and corporations under the guise
of concern for kids]⠀⇛
European Commission Speech Brussels, 01 Jun 2023
Good morning everyone.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Meta’s_shareholders_voted_against_an_inquiry_into
political_bias_and_hate_speech_in_India⠀⇛
Meta shareholders voted against a proposal from
fellow shareholders calling for an inquiry into
allegations of spreading hate speech and content
moderation failures in India.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_broadcaster_RTHK_removes
letter_of_gratitude_for_Tiananmen_coverage_from_newsroom⠀⇛
Hong Kong government-funded broadcaster RTHK has
removed from its newsroom a letter of gratitude for
its reporters’ coverage of the Tiananmen crackdown,
ahead of the anniversary of the 1989 incident, the
RTHK Program Staff Union told HKFP.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_private_documentary
screening_on_June_4_cancelled_due_to_‘sensitivity’_of_date,
says_organiser⠀⇛
A Hong Kong cinema has cancelled a private
screening of a documentary scheduled for Sunday
after being reminded by an industry representative
that the date – the anniversary of the Tiananmen
crackdown – was “sensitive,” according to the
organiser of the screening.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Quartz_and_Wired_editors-in-chief_announce
departures_on_same_day⠀⇛
Wired’s Gideon Lichfield and Quartz’s Zach Seward
are both leaving.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ News_Xchange_2023:_Reporting_from_the
frontlines_of_news⠀⇛
The News Xchange’s Mark Rowland writes on the
frontlines the conference hopes to survey.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ My_Local:_The_Lincolnite’s_radical_proposal
to_bring_control_of_local_audiences_back_to_local_news⠀⇛
My Local hopes to fix some of the biggest
commercial and editorial woes afflicting local
news.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Georgia_Arrests_‘Cop_City’_Bail_Fund_Organizers
for_Fraud,_Money_Laundering⠀⇛
As with other cases in recent months, Georgia law
enforcement has used specious classifications to
charge nonviolent protesters with domestic
terrorism.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Indonesia_to_launch_‘golden_visa’
programme_to_attract_global_talents⠀⇛
The golden visa could be a “game-changer” to
attract more investments, said a minister.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Conflict_With_the_Far_Right_Shrouds
Jerusalem’s_Pride_Parade⠀⇛
Much of Israel’s L.G.B.T.Q. community feels
threatened by the right-wing government and its
judicial overhaul plan — even with a gay speaker of
Parliament.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Problem_With_Wealth-Based_Affirmative
Action⠀⇛
It’s not an adequate substitute for race-based
programs.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Child_Migrant_Who_Died_in_C.B.P._Custody
Was_Seen_by_Medical_Staff_11_Times⠀⇛
Initial findings in an internal investigation
suggest the child was not provided with proper
care. The acting head of the agency said changes to
procedures had been made.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Switzerland_appeals_court_upholds_20-year_prison
sentence_for_former_Liberian_warlord⠀⇛
The Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland on
Thursday upheld former Liberian warlord Alieu
Kosiah’s 20-year prison sentence for war crimes and
convicted him of crimes against humanity, the first
such conviction in Switzerland. Kosiah was
initially convicted and sentenced for war crimes by
the Trial Chamber of First Instance in 2021.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Spy_Deaths_on_Boat_in_Italy_Ignite
Conspiracy_Theories⠀⇛
Four people died when a storm sank a boat in
northern Italy. Then it emerged that 21 of those
aboard had worked for Israeli or Italian
intelligence, igniting a speculative frenzy.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Two_New_York_Lawyers_Sentenced_For_Helping_Asylum
Seekers_From_Former_Soviet_Union_Falsify_Affidavits⠀⇛
Two New York lawyers, husband and wife Arthur
Arcadian and Ilona Dzhamgarova, have been sentenced
to six months and two years in prison,
respectively, for assisting asylum seekers, mostly
from the former Soviet Union, to prepare false
affidavits and coaching their clients to lie under
oath.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_Supreme_Court_finds_federal_labor_law_does_not
automatically_preempt_state_law_claims⠀⇛
The US Supreme Court held Thursday that a local
union must litigate a property damage dispute in
state court, as opposed to appearing before the
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ A_Case_for_Redirecting_DEI_Funds⠀⇛
Plus: The Rolling Stones revisited
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Supreme_Court_Rules_Companies_Can_Sue
Striking_Workers_for_‘Sabotage’_and_‘Destruction,’_Misses
Entire_Point_of_Striking⠀⇛
In a new ruling, the Court sided with a company
that sued its union for property damage because it
went on strike. That sets a precedent that if a
union strikes, it has to ensure the company won’t
lose any money.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Black_Girl_Won_the_1908_Spelling_Bee.
Her_Family_Is_Searching_for_Her_Medal.⠀⇛
At 14, Marie C. Bolden became the champion of what
is believed to be the first national spelling
competition in the United States. Her victory
prompted a backlash.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ RIPE_86_bites_—_what’s_the_time?⠀⇛
Building and operating a network service that
provides a reference time source.
# ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Starlink_intends_to_come_to_Zimbabwe_between
October_and_December_2023⠀⇛
We know there is a lot of excitement around
Starlink. We already knew that Starlink had
indicated that they would be coming to Zimbabwe
this year, 2023. It’s already June and we were
starting to wonder when that would happen. We now
have an answer. Starlink intends to come to
Zimbabwe in Q4 2023.
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ RIPE_86_bites_—_gigabits_for_EU⠀⇛
Investigating the EU’s Gigabit Connectivity
initiative.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Spotify’s_EU_Lobbying_Expenses
Approached_$1_Million_Last_Year_Amid_App_Store_Crusade,_Data
Shows⠀⇛
Amid a continued push for regulatory action against
the App Store in both the United States and Europe,
Spotify dropped nearly $1 million on EU lobbying
efforts last year, according to recently released
data.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Germany’s_local_UPC_divisions_offer_English_as_a
language_option [Ed: This fake, kangaroo 'court' is
illegal. It's the fruit of organised crime and
corruption. How can the EU not see this and stop this?
Language isn't even the main issue here.]⠀⇛
# ⚓ UPC_system_started_today [Ed: Totally illegal and
unconstitutional system started today. It'll fall as
soon as a high court actually checks its compliance and
the EU will pay the price for this EPO corruption and
lobbying (abuse) by the litigation industry. What does
this say about the EU?]⠀⇛
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ Happy_birthday_UPC:_and_the_rocky_road_to
launch [Ed: JUVE is taking loads of bribes for Team UPC
to advertise and lie about this illegal kangaroo court.
That says a lot about today's "media".]⠀⇛
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ UPC_Administrative_Committee_names_final_three
judges [Ed: More puff pieces from a paropaganda rag of
Team UPC, funded by UPC profiteers despite it being
illegal and unconstitutional. This won't end well.]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ IPVal_entity,_DataCloud
Technologies,_network_patent_challenged_in_reexam⠀⇛
On May 25, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex
parte reexamination proceeding against U.S.
Patent_8,762,498, owned by DataCloud
Technologies, LLC, an NPE and an IP
Investments_Group entity. The ‘498 patent
generally relates to communicating to a
network through a virtual domain. It has been
asserted in over 25 district court
litigations, including against 8×8, A10
Networks, Squarespace, Box, Arista_Networks,
Extreme_Networks, and others.
# ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ SoftBank_entity_Neo_Wireless_’302
patent_prior_art_found⠀⇛
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL
crowdsourcing contest winner, Mani
Manikandan, who was awarded a cash award of
$2,000 for his prior art submissions on U.S.
Patent_10,771,302, owned by Neo Wireless,
LLC, an NPE and SoftBank entity. The ‘302
patent generally relates to a broadband
wireless communication system, a spread
spectrum signal is intentionally overlapped
with an OFDM signal, in a time domain, a
frequency domain, or both. The patent has
been asserted against several automotive
companies such as Mercedes-Benz, FCA_US,
Toyota, Nissan, GM, Tesla, and others.
# ⚓ IP’s_impact_on_sustainability_showcased_in_Lisbon
[Ed: EPO is bribing Lisbon, where the criminal who runs
the EPO extracts/derives political influence from. Now
the corruption of the EPO becomes a direct liability
for the EU.]⠀⇛
EPO highlights power of patents in driving
sustainable development
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ Precedential_No._17:_TTAB_Finds_Hotel
Shape_Not_Inherently_Distinctive_and_Lacking_in
Acquired_Distinctiveness⠀⇛
The Board upheld the USPTO’s refusals to
register the two proposed marks shown below,
for “hotel services; provision of conference,
exhibition, and meeting facilities,” finding
that the building designs are not inherently
distinctive and lack secondary meaning. The
proposed marks comprise the three-dimensional
configuration of the front and back of a
hotel building. Unlike in the Seminole Tribe
decision, wherein the Board deemed a hotel
building configuration to be neither product
design nor trade dress packaging but rather
“tertium quid,” here the Board panel found
the designs to be “akin to the packaging of
what is being rendered and sold inside,
namely, hotel services.” In_re_Palacio_Del
Rio,_Inc., Serial Nos. 88412764 and 88437801
(May 25, 2023) [precedential] (Opinion by
Judge Jonathan Hudis).
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Never-Before-Heard_John_Coltrane
Recording_Discovered_at_the_New_York_Public_Library_for
the_Performing_Arts⠀⇛
Unearthed at the New York Public Library for
the Performing Arts, Evenings at the Village
Gate, showcasing the brief musical
partnership between John Coltrane and Eric
Dolphy is available to order now on Impulse!
Records.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Recording_Industry_Takes
Successful_Action_Against_Bulgarian_Torrent_Sites⠀⇛
Major labels are celebrating a court order
blocking BitTorrent trackers in Bulgaria.
Here’s the latest. The International
Federation of the Phonographic Industry
(IFPI) represents the recorded music industry
worldwide, alongside the Bulgarian
Association of Music Producers (BAMP) have
managed a successful blocking action against
BitTorrent trackers in the country.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Technical⠀➾
# § Programming/Protocols⠀➾
# ⚓ Jevons_Protocol⠀⇛
Improved protocol efficiency can be a
negative: if the pipe is “too cheap to meter”
that means the pipe can be filled with too
much stuff, something that was impossible
before technological change lifted some pipe-
bearing boats. The modem wasn’t very good in
the 90s after it had been raining, for
example, and not very quick at getting
articles from usenet. Something even less
efficient might have been better–provided
that large media (books, OS installs) could
be obtained in some other way. On the other
hand, mobile data caps might make
uncompressed content problematic, so there
are trade-offs here.
Ruin from improved efficiency might fall
under “Jevons paradox”, originally applied to
coal, where they improved the efficiency, the
cost fell, demand went up, and thus The Great
Smog of London. Whoops, externalities. A
similar effect might be observed in the size
of web pages: fast computers, big bandwidth,
and now the pages often are choked with
useless crap. Because they can be! And
someone probably wants to keep those ad and
engagement numbers up, and isn’t being paid
to put the pages on a diet. Besides forest
monks and lesser eccentrics (hi!) most
consumers want a big pipe and a fast computer
for videos and games—the demand is there.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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Gemini_version_available_♊︎
✐ Gemini_Links_03/06/2023:_Bubble_Woes_and_Zond_Updates⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 1:06 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈
§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Internet/Gemini
# Programming
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_CEFYTVI_Wordo:_PAINS⠀⇛
# ⚓ The_one_thing_you_can_always_count_on⠀⇛
So a couple others have known for weeks about
performing with us today.
Yesterday I learned the sound guy they always use –
whom I was counting on to alleviate our equipment
burden – hadn’t been told.
Then I learned the guy that usually speaks for them
thought we were at a venue other than the one we’d
already told him about.
Then I the percussionist of their team hadn’t yet
weighed in because he’s “not very committal these
days”.
o § Technical⠀➾
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Everything’s_simple_until_it_aren’t⠀⇛
I had a few free moments to revisit Bubble,
thinking I wanted to comment in a specific
thread, but soon noticed my Bubble id no
longer seemed to be able to do much in
Bubble, then noticed the domain seemed to
have changed (prepending “bbs.” to what it
was before). So I created a new certificate
for that, updated config.toml to point to it,
navigated to bbs.geminispace.org in amfora,
went the “Add alternative certificate” path,
specified ‘textmonger’, followed this
redirect:
gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/add-cert/
textmonger
and was asked for a password.
# ⚓ Zond_updates:_gettext_and_tinylog_support⠀⇛
This capsule is served as static files which
are generated using my capsule generator,
zond.
A while back I started work on an i18n
capable branch of the project at the request
of Codeberg user Steko, who had manually
translated the program into Italian. The
branch was basically ready a long time ago,
but I never quite got around to merging it.
The merge is now done, and adding new
translations is as straightforward as in most
FreeSoftware projects using the Gettext
framework. The Italian translation is the
only one which exists for the time being, but
feel free to contact me if you have any
interest in helping to translate Zond into
other languages (indeed, I have several other
projects which would benefit from translation
help as well).
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Jevons_Paradox_And_Software⠀⇛
Wherein improved efficiency leads to a worse
outcome.
# ⚓ 23L00_a_game_is_when_a_guy_is_on_a_screen⠀⇛
couple days ago i saw a game jam on itch[1]
and thought it would be fun to join. the
rules were super lax, all you had to do was
just make a game.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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Gemini_version_available_♊︎
✐ Links_03/06/2023:_Qubes_OS_4.2.0_RC1_and_elementaryOS_Updates_for_May⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 8:41 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈
§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Chromium
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Kubernetes_Vs._Serverless:_Day_2_Operations⠀⇛
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ Unlike_Windows_11,_older_AMD_Ryzen_will_be
supported_and_get_performance_boost_on_Linux⠀⇛
Unlike Microsoft’s Windows 11, next-gen Linux will
not only support older AMD Ryzen processors, but
they could even get some decent performance boosts
too. This is suggested by a recent patch.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Fonts_for_Linux⠀⇛
A computer font is implemented as a digital data
file containing a set of graphically related
glyphs. We recommend the best Linux fonts.
# ⚓ Hubert Figuière ☛ Hubert_Figuière:_Niepce_May_2023
updates⠀⇛
This is the May 2023 update for Niepce.
Life comes at you fast. And hit hard. tl;dr not as
much progress as I wished: I had to put this
project a bit more on the sideline.
This will be a short update.
§ The importer
Some small bits:
Some fixing in the metadata processing on import,
notably a better handling of raw files. Turns out
the previous logic broke getting metadata from
video files.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ sftpgo:_Free_Open-source_FTP_Server⠀⇛
sftpgo is a free open-source fully featured and
highly configurable SFTP server with optional HTTP/
S, FTP/S and WebDAV support…
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ ranger:_Vim-like_command-line_File_Manager⠀⇛
ranger is a console file manager with VI key
bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice
curses interface with a view on the directory
hierarchy. It ships with rifle, a file launcher
that is good at automatically finding out which
program to use for what file type.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Orchid:_Open-source_RAD_(Rapid_Application
Development)_Laravel_Toolkit⠀⇛
Orchid is a free and open-source Laravel package
that abstracts standard business logic. This
package is a great tool for developers to create
back-office applications, admin/user panels, and
dashboards quickly.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ 15_Free_and_Open-source_Laravel_Dashboards_To
Boost_Up_Your_Production⠀⇛
What is Laravel?
Laravel is a web application framework with
expressive, elegant syntax. It is designed for
building web applications with the Model-View-
Controller (MVC) architecture pattern. Laravel is
written in PHP and is based on the Symfony
framework.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu_23.04_KVM_Guest_running_in_UEFI_mode_on_Fedora_38
WKS⠀⇛
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_To_Block_Specific_Keywords_Using_Squid_Proxy
Server⠀⇛
The Squid proxy server is an open-source, high-
performance proxy caching server for web clients
that supports FTP, HTTPS, and HTTP data objects. It
is mainly designed to accelerate content delivery
by caching frequently requested data and freeing
bandwidth.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_To_Block_Specific_Domains_Using_Squid_Proxy
Server⠀⇛
Squid is a powerful and flexible proxy server and
web cache daemon. It can be used for various
purposes, from speeding up web servers by caching
repeated requests to filtering web content and
blocking certain websites.
# ⚓ Balancing_Security_and_Functionality:_Allowing_Writes_to
Volumes_with_SELinux_ON⠀⇛
Introduction Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a
security feature that is included in many Linux
distributions. SELinux provides a mechanism for
enforcing mandatory access controls (MAC) on
processes and files. It is an essential tool that
helps protect systems against unauthorized access,
malicious software, and other security threats.
# ⚓ Fortifying_Access:_Implementing_Mandatory_Access_Control_
(MAC)_with_SELinux⠀⇛
The Importance of Access Control Access control is
a crucial aspect of computer security that ensures
only authorized entities can access specific
resources on a system. It is used to restrict
unauthorized access to system components, data, and
functions while simultaneously ensuring that
legitimate users can carry out their intended
tasks. Access control helps to […]
# ⚓ Safeguarding_Your_Containers:_An_Introduction_to_Docker
Security⠀⇛
The Popularity of Docker Docker is a tool that
allows developers to create, deploy, and run
applications in containers. These containers are
lightweight and portable environments that can run
on any machine with Docker installed.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Debian_12_Will_Deliver_the_Latest_Plasma_5.27.5
to_Users⠀⇛
A week before the release of Debian 12 (Bookworm),
users can rejoice – they will receive the most
recent version of KDE Plasma 5.27.5 LTS.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GNOME_Shell_44.2_Improves_Built-In_Screen
Recorder,_Bluetooth_Menu,_and_More⠀⇛
After releasing the GNOME 44.2 desktop
environment earlier this week, the GNOME
Project now also released updates for the
most important components in GNOME, the
Mutter 44.2 window and composite manager, as
well as GNOME Shell 44.2.
GNOME Shell 44.2 is here to further improve
the built-in screen recorder functionality,
as well as the Bluetooth menu in Quick
Settings, which received support for user-
defined names. Moreover, it addresses some
glitches in the calendar widget when using
large text, fixes an issue with the
authentication dialog getting stuck in remote
sessions, and patches other minor bugs and a
crash.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ elementaryOS_Updates_for_May,_2023⠀⇛
This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we
gear up for a feature-filled future release. Enjoy a mild
May because this summer is going to get hot!
§ Calculator
Calculator now follows keyboard shortcuts for copy and
paste, even when the main text entry isn’t focused,
thanks to Leo! It will no longer preserve extra white
space on the right side of the window when used with
alternative window button layouts. And Calculator will
now always use the elementary stylesheet and icons, even
when run on a different operating system, to prevent
breakage related to missing assets.
A new version of Security & Privacy settings has been
released that now supports the Location portal. This is a
more secure method for apps to request access to location
services and is the latest FreeDesktop.org standard for
doing so. If you’ve had trouble with sideloaded apps
accessing location services before, this change will most
likely fix that issue. You can adjust location settings
in System Settings → Security & Privacy → Location
Services. If the main switch here is turned off, apps
will not be allowed to even ask for permission, so make
sure it’s turned on if you are using apps that make use
of location data.
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Qubes_OS_4.2.0-rc1_is_available_for_testing⠀⇛
We’re pleased to announce that the first release
candidate for Qubes OS 4.2.0 is now available for
testing. This minor_release includes several new
features and improvements over Qubes OS 4.1.0.
Qubes 4.2.0-rc1 is available on the downloads page.
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the
weeks_2023/19-22⠀⇛
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
First off, apologies for not having the weekly
review since May 5th. There were some personal days
off, some travels to conferences and things just
lined up to fall through the cracks. But more
importantly, than the weekly reviews, I’m sure you
have all noticed that Tumbleweed has not been
stopped. Au contraire: with people being all in the
same time zones and proximity, we managed to
resolve some of the long-standing issues in
stagings and progress on. I’ll try to give an
overview of what happened in the last 4 weeks.
Looking at all of May 2023, there have been a total
of 29 snapshots published. The only ones skipped
were 0516 and 0528. Snapshots 0501 through 0504 had
been covered in week 2023/18’s review and I’ll skip
them today. This brings us to this overview of what
happened in the last weeks in Tumbleweed: [...]
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ New_data_shows_Android_13_is_running_on_fewer
than_15%_of_Android_devices_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
# ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Android_14_could_bring_battery_health_feature
to_phones_and_tablets_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_Apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this
week_–_Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ 5_Of_The_Best_Android_Apps_For_Saving_Money_On
Gas⠀⇛
# ⚓ Mirror UK ☛ Google_bans_hugely_popular_Android_apps_–_full
list_you_must_now_delete_exposed_–_Mirror_Online⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Make_The_Keyboard_Bigger_On_Your_Android
Phone⠀⇛
# ⚓ Tom’s Guide ☛ How_to_use_the_data_saver_setting_on_Android
|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Chromium⠀➾
# ⚓ Google ☛ How_Chrome_achieved_high_scores_on_three
browser_benchmarks⠀⇛
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ James G ☛ Announcing_linguist.link:_NLP_insights_for_web
pages⠀⇛
This week, I have been tinkering with Natural
Language Processing (NLP) to build an index for my
personal website. While I was creating this
project, I explored various techniques to help me
find words relevant enough to be featured in the
index.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Houseboats_catch_fire_at_popular
destination_Lake_Powell_on_Utah-Arizona_line⠀⇛
More than half a dozen house boats momentarily caught
fire at a popular boating destination on the Utah-Arizona
line on Friday. The fire ignited while tourists and jet
skiers stood by. The flames are now extinguished. Video
from observers shows the decks of boats docked at Wahweap
Marina on Lake Powell smoldered as black plumes of smoke
wafted into the air and above the red rock walls that
form its perimeter. Information from the National Park
Service shows more than two million visitors go boating
on Lake Powell annually.
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Many_Buttholes_Were_Made_for_the_Egg_Game_in
‘I_Think_You_Should_Leave’⠀⇛
How a nude egg captured all our hearts.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Why_is_China_drilling_down_to_10,000_meters—one_of
the_deepest_holes_in_the_world?⠀⇛
China is embarking on a journey into the earthy
unknown.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ China_Is_Digging_a_10,000-Meter_Hole⠀⇛
There are two purposes for the borehole: one is for
scientific exploration and the other is to find oil
and gas.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ This_Unique_Plant_Turns_Carnivorous_When
The_Mood_Strikes⠀⇛
A taste for blood.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ From_Kitchen_Pest_to_Scientific_Hero:_The
Tremendous_Research_Value_of_Fruit_Flies⠀⇛
Even annoying creatures have a purpose.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Up_to_10%_of_Fathers_Are_Affected_by
Postnatal_Depression._Here’s_What_They_Can_Do⠀⇛
It’s not just the moms.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Hundreds_of_Mystery_Structures_Found_at_The
Heart_of_The_Milky_Way⠀⇛
“I was actually stunned.”
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Wild_Study_Shows_Everything_in_The_Universe
Will_Eventually_Evaporate⠀⇛
Now for some good news.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ The_Supreme_Court_Is_Not_in_a_‘War_on_Science’
[Ed: Says a Koch-funded site... Kochs installed their anti-
science judges]⠀⇛
The Supreme Court is agnostic on questions of
science, but clear and resolute on questions of
law.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Astronomers_Discover_Hundreds_of
Mysterious_‘Structures’_at_the_Center_of_Our_Galaxy⠀⇛
“It’s a large region that is very rich in
structures and we’re basically studying them one at
a time,” said one researcher.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ CrowVision_review_–_An_11.6-inch_1366×768
touchscreen_display_that_works_with_multiple_SBCs⠀⇛
CrowVision is an 11.6-inch IPS capacitive
touchscreen display with 1366×768 resolution that
is designed to work not only with the Raspberry Pi
but most single board computers with mounting holes
within a 100 x 80 mm rectangle.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Khadas_VIM4_Amlogic_A311D2_SBC_gets_3.2_TOPS
NPU⠀⇛
First introduced in 2022, the Khadas VIM4 SBC will
now sell with an Amlogic A311D2-N0D Cortex-A73/A53
processor equipped with a 3.2 TOPS NPU, and the
version without AI accelerator will be phased out.
I reviewed the Khadas VIM4 with both Android 11 and
Ubuntu 22.04 last year, and really liked the user
experience notably thanks to the OOWOW system that
makes it really easy to try different operating
systems downloaded from Khadas servers, although
some features like support for GPU acceleration
still needed to be worked on at the time.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Companies_to_pay_billions_in_“forever_chemical”
water_pollution_settlements⠀⇛
Major chemical producers have agreed to pay
billions of dollars to settle claims from U.S.
water providers over toxic “forever_chemicals”
pollution.
Why it matters:The settlements are a significant
step forward in the effort to reduce potentially
dangerous chemicals in water systems across the
country.
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Reuters:_Mexico,_U.S._nearing_‘full-
blown’_GMO_corn_trade_dispute⠀⇛
A U.S. request for USMCA settlement consultations
takes both countries a step closer to trade war
over Mexico’s planned phaseout of GM corn.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Almost_5,000_scientists_are_unionizing_at_the
NIH⠀⇛
The National Institute of Health, the main US
government agency working on health research, is
the largest biomedical founder. It employs nearly
20,000 people across 27 institutes and centers,
financing research in the full range of medical
issues.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Dakota_County_closes_Schulze
Lake_after_possible_contamination,_outbreak⠀⇛
The county said the Minnesota Department of Health
advised the closing as a precautionary measure.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Wealth_over_health:_Why_countries_continue_to
tax_tampons⠀⇛
Nearly 20 countries have abolished or lowered
“tampon taxes,” consumption taxes levied on
menstrual products, following Kenya’s decision in
2004. But even amid a push for access to sanitary
products, some countries hesitate to relinquish the
revenue.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Major_Problem_With_Compulsory_Mental
Health_Care_Is_the_Medication⠀⇛
An underdiscussed issue with forced mental health
care.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Hacked_Human_Cells_to_Make
Insulin,_And_It_Reversed_Diabetes_in_Mice⠀⇛
Huge potential!
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Uganda’s_New_Anti-Gay_Law_Could_Undermine_AIDS
Prevention⠀⇛
The new law dictates a life sentence for anyone
caught having gay sex and the death penalty for
anyone convicted of “aggravated homosexuality.”
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Jamie McClelland ☛ Jamie_McClelland:_Enough_about_the_AI
Apocalypse_Already⠀⇛
After watching Democracy_Now’s segment_on
artificial_intelligence I started to wonder – am I
out of step on this topic?
When people claim artificial intelligence will
surpass human intelligence and thus threaten
humanity with extinction, they seem to be referring
specifically to advances made with large language
models.
[...] But, let’s be clear, the narrative that AI is
poised to surpass human intelligence and make
humanity extinct is a dangerous distraction that
runs counter to a_much_more_important_story_about
“the_very_real_and_very_present_exploitative
practices_of_the_[companies_building_AI],_who_are
rapidly_centralizing_power_and_increasing_social
inequities.”.
Maybe we should talk about that instead?
# ⚓ Are_Open_AI_Models_Safe? [Ed: 'Linux' Foundation now
reprinting IBM veterans]⠀⇛
A recent NY Times article, “In Battle Over A.I.,
Meta Decides to Give Away Its Crown Jewels,”
reported that Meta, — the technology giant that
owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — made the
decision to open source LLaMA, its state-of-the-art
large language model (LLM), making the code
available to academics, government researchers and
others once they’d been properly vetted. Meta’s
actions are quite different from those of Google
and OpenAI, its chief AI rivals, who’ve been
keeping the software underpinning their AI systems
proprietary.
o § Security⠀➾
# § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
# ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ AutoTrader_Scammers⠀⇛
I was nearly scammed while selling a car on
AutoTrader. Here’s how the whole thing went…
Owning cars is a pain in the arse; they’re
money pits and I hate dealing with them. My
wife and I need a car each, so the problem is
compounded by running 2 cars in the
household.
Anyway, a few days ago I booked my wife’s car
in for it’s annual service, as well as it’s
MOT (an annual safety test that all cars
older than 3 years on UK roads need to pass).
Her car is an old, 2008 Hyundai Santa Fe –
it’s a big old tank of a 4×4. We had it
serviced, and it required 2 new tyres to pass
the MOT.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Your_face_is_ours:_The_dangers_of_facial
recognition_software⠀⇛
Clearview AI is redefining our privacy. The
New York-based tech company is working to
identify and compile the faces of every human
being on the planet. Clearview AI claims that
the database will serve as a force for good,
helping to solve crimes and prevent
espionage. But the risks it carries are
immense. FRANCE 24’s Jessica Le Masurier and
Romeo Langlois have this special report.
# ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ IoT_news_of_the_week_for_June_2,
2023⠀⇛
The FTC fines Amazon over Ring and
Alexa privacy violations: The Federal Trade
Commission is gunning for Amazon with a $5.8
million fine for its Ring security business
and a $25 million fine for Alexa. The FTC had
filed a lawsuit against Ring over what it
called deceptive trade practices surrounding
Ring’s collection of facial data [...]
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ RDM_holds_successful_military_attache
demonstration_showcasing_ammunition,_energy_progress⠀⇛
The military attache corps in South Africa recently
got a close-up taste of Rheinmetall Denel
Munition’s (RDM’s) artillery rounds, mortar bombs
and grenade launcher ammunition through a live
demonstration at the company’s Boskop facilities.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ US_sanctions_Sudanese_leaders_as_shelling_and
air_strikes_shatter_ceasefire⠀⇛
The United States announced sanctions Thursday on
Sudanese leaders it blames for the breakdown of US
and Saudi-brokered ceasefire efforts after shelling
and air strikes killed 18 civilians at a Khartoum
market.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Security_Council_Supports_UN_Presence_in_Sudan:
Nusseibeh⠀⇛
The Council is expected to extend the mandate of
the UN Integrated Transition Assistance
Mission, which expires on Saturday.
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Suspicious_Activity:_What_Are_German_Fighter
Pilots_Doing_in_China?⠀⇛
A handful of former German pilots are apparently
now in China to provide military training – and are
earning huge salaries for their services. Their
activities have raised sensitive questions for
German security officials.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Security_Forces_Fire_On_Protesters_In_Abdanan
Demonstrating_Over_Student’s_Death⠀⇛
A group of citizens in the western Iranian city of
Abdanan, took to the streets chanting anti-
government slogans on June 1 to protest the
suspicious death of 21-year-old student Bamshad
Suleimankhani. Several protesters were injured when
security forces opened fire on them, local sources
reported.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ MNJTF_sees_Boko_Haram’s_defeat_on_the
horizon⠀⇛
>With the handover of command of the Multinational
Joint Task Force (MNJTF), leaders hope to continue
the momentum against the extremist group Boko
Haram. But observers warn that other groups in the
region might prove harder to defeat.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Canada:_PM_Proclaims_National_Day_Against_Gun
Violence⠀⇛
“Beginning this June 2, this day will honor the
victims of gun violence…”
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Senegal_deploys_troops_to_capital_as_Dakar
braces_for_more_unrest⠀⇛
Army troops were deployed to parts of the
Senegalese capital Dakar on Friday as the city
braced for more unrest after a jail sentence for
opposition leader Ousmane Sonko sparked one of the
deadliest days of violence in the country’s recent
memory.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ US_Defense_Secretary_Austin_says
Washington_won’t_stand_for_‘coercion_and_bullying’_from
China⠀⇛
American Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says
Washington would not stand for any “coercion and
bullying” of its allies and partners by China,
while assuring Beijing that the United States
remains committed to maintaining the status quo on
Taiwan and would prefer dialogue over conflict.
Speaking Saturday at the so-called Shangri-La
Dialogue, an annual forum bringing together top
defense officials, diplomats and leaders, Austin
lobbied for support for Washington’s vision of a
“free, open, and secure Indo-Pacific within a world
of rules and rights” as the best course to counter
increasing Chinese assertiveness in the region.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Defense_Secretary_Austin_Vows_to_Keep
Pressure_on_China⠀⇛
He said “risky intercepts” by Chinese planes in
international airspace would not deter the United
States and allies from patrolling, and he restated
U.S. support for Taiwan.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Will_Try_to_Bring_China_Into_Arms
Control_Talks⠀⇛
The nuclear order established during the Cold War
is under more stress than at any point since 1962,
but efforts to negotiate with Beijing are unlikely
to succeed anytime soon.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Taiwan-US_trade_agreement:_‘It’s_not_about
economics_anymore,_it’s_politics’⠀⇛
Taiwan and the US on Thursday inked the first part
of a new trade pact. Negotiated under the beak of a
hawkish China, the pact is hailed by involved
parties as the most significant trade deal between
Taipei and Washington since Taiwan joined the World
Trade Organization in 2002.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ US_Defense_Secretary_‘deeply_concerned’_about_China’s
unwillingness_to_engage⠀⇛
Beijing hits back at Austin, accusing the U.S. of
destroying stability in the Taiwan Strait.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ No_dialogue_between_US,_China_defense_chiefs_in
Singapore⠀⇛
Defense Secretary Austin called refusal to meet
‘unfortunate’.
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ What_the_Future_Might_Hold_for_Asia:_“Every_Time
China_Has_Been_United,_It_Has_Dominated”⠀⇛
China is upgrading its nuclear arsenal even as its
relationship to the U.S. is deteriorating. George
Yeo, the former foreign minister of Singapore,
discusses the ongoing power struggle in the Pacific
region.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ He_is_one_of_just_350_US_students_in
China,_in_a_sign_of_how_US-China_tensions_have_frayed_ties⠀⇛
The loss in human connections from such a decoupled
relationship is clear.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ ‘There_is_increasingly_no_space_to
manoeuvre_or_even_breathe’:_Foreign_NGOs_in_China_feel_the
squeeze⠀⇛
They say they have been finding it increasingly
tough to operate in China as tensions with the US
continue to rise.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Fed_up_with_corruption,_North_Koreans_are_attacking
police,_secret_document_shows⠀⇛
Paid nearly worthless wages, police exploit their
positions to extract bribes to survive
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Australia’s_most_decorated_living_war_veteran
loses_landmark_defamation_case⠀⇛
Australia’s most decorated living war veteran, Ben
Roberts-Smith resigned Friday from his position
with Seven West Media following a guilty verdict in
a historic defamation case against multiple news
companies, who accused Roberts-Smith of committing
war crimes during his enlistment in Afghanistan.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Tropical_Storm_Arlene_becomes_first_named_storm_of
2023_hurricane_season_in_Gulf_of_Mexico⠀⇛
Forecast warn an additional 1–3 inches of rainfall
is possible in South Florida through Sunday.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Through_carbon_markets,_corporations
have_a_role_to_play_in_Africa’s_development._They_should_take
it_seriously.⠀⇛
By purchasing high-quality carbon credits,
companies can support the sustainable growth of
low- and middle-income populations in the world’s
fastest-growing regions.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Global_investments_in_clean_energy_have
accelerated_way_past_fossil_fuels⠀⇛
Investments in clean_energy will be record-
breaking in 2023, with $1.74 trillion of
global investment so far, according to the
International Energy Agency (IEA). The
increase continues a trend since 2020 of
clean energy investments outpacing those in
fossil fuels.
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ NFE_obtains_export_permit_for
natural_gas_from_Altamira_hub⠀⇛
New Fortress Energy also signed a 15-year, US
$5.7 billion contract with CFE to export LNG
from the Gulf of Mexico until 2028.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Central_Asia’s_clean_energy
opportunity:_Hydropower⠀⇛
Central Asia has failed to harness its full
hydropower capacity. But greater investments
into the region can help unlock much of
Central Asia’s potential.
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ What_do_cave_experts_have_to_say
about_the_Maya_Train_project?⠀⇛
The underground rivers of Mexico’s southeast
are one big system, some speleologists
believe. The Maya train endangers that
system, they say.
# ⚓ H2 View ☛ Californian_labour_unions_call_for_$300m_of
state_funding_to_build_1,000_hydrogen_refuelling
stations⠀⇛
Six labour unions in California, US, have
called on the state Governor and legislative
leaders to allocate 30% of the state’s Clean
Transportation Plan Funds to help build 1,000
hydrogen refuelling stations.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ New_York_May_Have_Actually_Lost
Transit_Riders_by_Building_An_$11_Billion_Train
Station⠀⇛
East Side Access, long delayed and over cost,
finally opened, but it isn’t drawing new
riders and may actually be scaring some away.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ More_than_280_dead,_some_900_injured_in
India_train_crash⠀⇛
At least 288 people were killed and hundreds
more injured in a three-train collision in
India, officials said Saturday, the country’s
deadliest rail accident in more than 20
years.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Sparrows_Are_the_Main_Suspects_in_a
Bird-Nest_Murder⠀⇛
A nest was assaulted. Was it the cowbird or
the sparrow?
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ Video_recorded_speech_by
Executive_Vice_President_Frans_Timmermans_for_the:
‘Challenges_for_the_sustainable_development_of
protected_areas_(nature),_how_to_address_them_in
practice?’_consultation_in_Slovenia_on_2_June_2023⠀⇛
European Commission Speech Brussels, 02 Jun
2023 On the consultation; challenges for the
sustainable development of protected areas
(nature) and how to address them in practice,
Executive Vice President Frans Timmermans
gave a speech through video recording about
restoring nature is about improving
biodiversity everywhere and finding balance.
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Study:_marine_park_fishing_ban
didn’t_hurt_national_catch⠀⇛
The study compared catches and fishing hours
before and after a ban on commercial fishing
in the Revillagigedo marine park that began
in 2017.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Strange_Story_of_a_Cat_Lockdown⠀⇛
Feline residents of Walldorf, Germany, can’t
go outside when certain birds are breeding.
Is it cruelty or conservation?
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_Did_Birds_First_Take_Off?⠀⇛
It took 150 million years for feathered
dinosaurs to master flight and become the
birds we see overhead today.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Alli_Smith,_of_the_Cornell
Ornithology_Laboratory,_offers_beginner_tips_for
exploring_the_wide_world_of_birds.⠀⇛
Alli Smith, of the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology, offers beginner tips for
exploring the wide world of birds.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ India_dispatch:_Supreme_Court_flip_allowing
controversial_animal_sports_shifts_responsibility_for
policing_cruelty_from_judiciary_to_executive⠀⇛
Indian law students are reporting for JURIST
on law-related developments in and affecting
India. This dispatch is from Soumyabrata
Chakraborty, a second-year law student at
Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar,
Gujarat.
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Japan’s_already-struggling_birth_rate_fell
to_a_record_low_in_2022⠀⇛
After seven consecutive years of annual
decline, Japan posted its lowest-ever birth
rate in 2022, according to the health
ministry.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ The_2021_Baby_Boom_Didn’t_Last⠀⇛
But there were still 47,573 more births last
year than there were in 2020.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Chase_says_online_banking_issue
now_resolved_after_bug_causes_double_transactions_and_fees⠀⇛
Customers of Chase’s online banking services have
seen double transactions, fees and payments in
their accounts. But by late Friday the bank said it
had fixed the glitch. Numerous Chase customers had
posted on social media that their rent or bill
payments were taken out of their accounts twice and
reported hold times with customer service
approaching more than an hour. The New York-based
bank is one of the country’s largest financial
institutions with millions of online customers.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Venmo,_PayPal_not_safe_for_long-term_deposits,
watchdogs_say⠀⇛
Customers should not keep their money in apps like
Venmo for the long term, the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau warned weeks after three banks
collapsed. Payment apps are not traditional bank
accounts, so funds may not be covered by deposit
insurance.
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ New_car_sales_in_Mexico_up_12.6%
annually_in_May [Ed: But there were lockdowns before. Doesn't
tell the full story.]⠀⇛
Sales of new cars last month surpassed the numbers
recorded in May 2019, demonstrating the industry’s
recovery from the pandemic slump.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ RMB_Assets_Hold_Long-Term_Pull_for_Global
Investors⠀⇛
The 2023 GI Conference attracted over 300
institutional investors, financial intermediaries
and representatives of listed companies from China
and abroad.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ France_avoids_S&P_credit_downgrade_despite
concerns_over_national_debt⠀⇛
France managed to avoid a fresh credit downgrade
from a leading rating agency on Friday, despite
mounting concern over the country’s surging
national debt.
# ⚓ Light Blue Touchpaper ☛ 2023_Workshop_on_the_Economics_of
Information_Security⠀⇛
WEIS 2023, the 22nd Workshop on the Economics of
Information Security, will be held in Geneva from
July 5-7, with a theme of Digital Sovereignty. We
now have a list of sixteen accepted papers; there
will also be three invited speakers, ten posters,
and ten challenges for a Digital Sovereignty Hack
on July 7-8.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Shift_towards_small_rental_apartments_in
housing_construction_in_Helsinki,_Tampere,_and_the_capital
region [Ed: People becoming poorer, living in boxes]⠀⇛
Recent years have witnessed a surge in the
construction of predominantly small rental studios
and one-bedroom apartments in the Helsinki
Metropolitan Area and Tampere. This information
comes from the research conducted by Mari
Vaattovaara andPekka Vuori in their study titled
“Changes in Housing Construction in the Helsinki
Metropolitan Area and Tampere in 2015-2021,”
released today.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Lows_of_the_High_Life⠀⇛
I had never had money, and then I did. For three
days in New York, I learned how not to use it.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Is_the_Debt-Ceiling_Deal_a_Template_to_Fix
Washington,_or_a_Mere_Blip?⠀⇛
As lawmakers at the Capitol avoid financial
catastrophe, our political roundtable looks at the
debt-ceiling compromise and asks whether the center
can hold in today’s rage-filled politics.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ TV_networks_battle_for_Republican_debates⠀⇛
Gov._Ron_DeSantis’ rage against CNN and MSNBC —
along with former President Trump’s polling lead
and distrust of Fox News — has created a deadlock
over who will host the rest of the 2024 GOP
presidential debates, and uncertainty over whether
they’ll happen at all.
Why it matters: Debates can make or break a
presidential candidacy. And who hosts those debates
can have a significant impact on which contenders
chose to participate, and how they perform.
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ In_March,_DOJ_Asked_Trump_for_the_Iran
Document;_In_April,_DOJ_Asked_for_His_Saudi_Business
Records⠀⇛
In March, DOJ asked Trump for the Iran document he
bragged he had at Bedminster in July 2021. He
couldn’t find it.
In April, DOJ asked for details of his business
ties with, among other countries, the Saudis.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Turkey’s_Erdogan_to_take_oath_as_he_begins_third
term_as_president⠀⇛
Tayyip Erdogan was set to be sworn in as Turkey’s
president on Saturday after winning re-election
last weekend and will later name his cabinet, which
is expected to signal a change to his unorthodox
economic programme.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ He’s_the_Biggest_Power_Broker_in_Canada
Whom_You’ve_Never_Heard_Of⠀⇛
This week, the government announced a new clerk of
the Privy Council, an unsung role that is one of
the most important in the federal government.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ India_asks_Germany_to_return_2-year-old
Indian_girl_in_foster_care⠀⇛
The girl was taken from her Indian parents by
German authorities in Berlin in September 2021.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Three_European_nationals_released_by_Iran_arrive
in_Belgium⠀⇛
Three Europeans released from detention by Iran
arrived in Belgium early Saturday, the latest in a
series of prisoner swaps.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Days_After_Belgium_Released_Iranian_Diplomat,_Iran
Frees_One_Danish_And_Two_Austrian-Iranian_Citizens⠀⇛
European governments confirmed on June 2 that one
Danish and two Austrian-Iranian citizens have been
released by Iran after mediation efforts by Oman
and Belgium.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Student_Beaten_Amid_Fears_That_Growing_Wave
Of_Attacks_Is_Related_To_Protests⠀⇛
Security personnel at a university in southwestern
Iran appear to have severely assaulted a student,
the latest in a series of violent attacks on school
campuses amid anti-government protests led by young
Iranians angered at the regime’s intrusions on
their rights.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Trump’s_Lawyers_Unable_to_Find_Document_He
Discussed_in_Recording⠀⇛
Prosecutors issued a subpoena for a description of
military options for Iran mentioned by the former
president during an interview. But Mr. Trump’s
legal team said they could find no such document.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ She_Lost_Her_Career,_Family_and_Freedom.
She’s_Still_Fighting_to_Change_Iran.⠀⇛
Fighting for change has cost Narges Mohammadi her
career, separated her from family and deprived her
of liberty. But a jail cell has not succeeded in
silencing her.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ French_minister_Olivier_Dussopt_to_face_court
over_alleged_favouritism⠀⇛
French Employment Minister Olivier Dussopt – who
has played a key role in President Emmanuel
Macron’s decision to push through an unpopular
change to the pension system – will face a court
hearing in November over allegations of
favouritism, France’s financial prosecutor said on
Friday.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ The_GOP_battle_to_show_who’s_tougher_on
immigration⠀⇛
Republican_governors_and_presidential_candidates
are scrambling to show who’s tougher on illegal
immigration, as governors send_National_Guard
troops to the southwest border and 2024 hopefuls
tout harsh policies.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Explainer:_Hong_Kong’s_national
security_crackdown_–_month_35⠀⇛
In May, the city witnessed a series of
disappearances: the Civic Party, Hong Kong’s
second-largest pro-democracy party, voted to
dissolve; a prominent political cartoonist had his
comic strip suspended after 40 years; hundreds of
books were purged from public libraries; and a
monument commemorating Tiananmen Crackdown was
seized by Hong Kong’s national security police.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ China’s_policing_models_make_inroads_in
Africa⠀⇛
China’s expanded police engagements in Africa could
have potentially far-reaching consequences for
African security governance. Ugandan Special Forces
and over 30 Chinese commandos conducted a joint
operation in January 2022, leading to the capture
and deportation of four Chinese citizens alleged to
be part of a criminal ring.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ A_Math_Professor_Suggested_a_Jailed
Jeffrey_Epstein_Give_Him_Money_to_Repair_His_Image_in_the
Black_Community⠀⇛
“Our accepting your $5 million will show the world
you are not a pariah and may help you avoid a
conviction like Bill Cosby.”
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Senegal_Blocks_Some_Social_Media_After
Ousmane_Sonko_Is_Sentenced⠀⇛
Demonstrators battled with the police to protest a
two-year prison sentence given to a leading
opposition figure. At least nine people died in the
confrontations.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ HKFP_Lens:_Hong_Kong_MTR_pays
tribute_to_gigantic_rubber_ducks⠀⇛
A giant rubber duck art installation is set to
return to Hong Kong’s waters, this time with an
identical accomplice. Dutch artist Florentijn
Hofman’s two inflatable sculptures will float up to
Victoria Harbour on June 10. Hong Kong last played
host to the 16.5 metre-high bathtub favourite in
2013.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_artists_mark_Tiananmen
crackdown_quietly_or_overseas⠀⇛
Avant garde street performance, politically charged
theatre, pro-democracy music and poetry — powerful
works of art dealing with China’s bloody Tiananmen
Square crackdown that were once commonplace in Hong
Kong have all but disappeared in recent years.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Have_US_comics_faced_punishment_for_jokes_about_the
army_like_in_China?⠀⇛
Verdict: Misleading
# ⚓ RFA ☛ K-pop_group_BLACKPINK_gets_blasted_for_calling_fans
as_‘Macanese,’_not_‘Chinese’⠀⇛
“If you don’t respect China, please get out of
China and don’t come here to make money.”
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ 2_Students,_Punished_for_Rainbow_Flags,
Test_China’s_L.G.B.T.Q._Space⠀⇛
The students at an elite college in China found
themselves on a collision course with the
authorities amid a crackdown on gay and transgender
expression.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Belarusian_Player_Sabalenka_Skips_French_Open_Press
Conference_Citing_Mental_Health⠀⇛
Belarusian tennis star Aryna Sabalenka skipped the
post-match press conference at the French Open on
June 2, citing mental health reasons.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Hong_Kong_businesses_mark_Tiananmen
anniversary_in_face_of_pressures⠀⇛
The spectre of a China-imposed national security
law is pressuring businesses to stay silent.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ China’s_young_netizens_share_how_they_learned_about
1989_Tiananmen_Massacre⠀⇛
Hints or veiled comments pique curiosity, prompting
them to uncover the truth.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chinese_dissidents_in_New_York_open
world’s_only_Tiananmen_crackdown_museum⠀⇛
Chinese dissidents who took part in the 1989
Tiananmen Square protests unveiled a museum in New
York on Friday dedicated to remembering the
“democratic dreams of the Chinese people,” two days
ahead of the 34th anniversary of the uprising’s
“brutal suppression.”
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_exit_of_a_top_Twitter_executive_highlighted
the_platform’s_content_moderation_challenge⠀⇛
Twitter has lost its second head of trust and
safety in six months, highlighting ongoing issues
with the platform’s content moderation policies.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Volaris_workers_delay_strike_action
indefinitely⠀⇛
Employees of the low-cost airline allege delayed
payments and reimbursement of expenses, and have
asked to start talks with the company.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ UK_Rail_Workers_Start_New_Strikes⠀⇛
In recent months, British rail workers have gone on
strike several times to demand pay increases, as
year-on-year inflation stands at 8.7 percent.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Labor-Shortage_Myth⠀⇛
Things are finally looking up for the American
worker. Why does the government see that as a
crisis?
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Public_hearing_in_American_Samoa_underscores
opposition_to_marine_sanctuary_plan⠀⇛
Fears of tuna cannery job losses and further
economic decline in the territory highlighted by
residents.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Erdogan_backs_Kurdish_Islamist_party_–_and_women
pay_the_price⠀⇛
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s alliance
with Huda-Par, a hardline Kurdish Islamist party
with a shadowy past, for the 2023 vote sparked
howls of condemnations. It was part of a strategy
to win the Kurdish vote, but women fear that they
will pay the price.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_on_board_as_European_Unitary
Patent System_becomes_a_reality [Ed: It's illegal, it
is unconstitutional, and it will collapse. The problem
is that it destabilises the EU and reaffirms the
perception of profound corruption.]⠀⇛
June 1 marked an historic day for patent
protection in Europe with the entry into
operation of the much anticipated Unitary
Patent System, reports Labs of Latvia.
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ Great_UPC_Expectations:_voices_from_the_market
[Ed: JUVE continues its mindless propaganda for Team
UPC, which pays JUVE to basically promote a crime.
These fake "courts" merely discredit the notion of law
and order, they're a manifestation of corruption.]⠀⇛
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Jay-Z_Awarded_$6.8M_In_Long-
Running_Battle_with_Parlux_Fragrances⠀⇛
Jay-Z has scored another win in his long-
running legal battle with fragrance company
Parlux. The rapper inked a deal with the
fragrance company to create a line called
Gold Jay-Z back in 2012. While initial sales
soared, the product line soon faltered.
# ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Is_RAILROAD_RUM_for
Distilled_Spirits_Confusable_with_RAILROAD_RED_for
Wine?⠀⇛
The USPTO refused to register the proposed
mark RAILROAD RUM for “distilled spirits”
(RUM disclaimed), finding confusion likely
with the registered mark RAILROAD RED for
“wines” (RED disclaimed). The Board found the
marks to be confusingly similar, since they
both are dominated by the word RAILROAD, the
first and only distinctive word in each mark.
But what about the goods? How do you think
this came out? In_re_Wild_West_Spirits,_LLC,
Serial No. 90540784 (May 30, 2023) [not
precedential] (Opinion by Judge Christen M.
English).
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Look_What_Taylor_Made_Us_Do⠀⇛
In the age of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, we
are all extremely online.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Talk:_Accused_of_Plagiarism⠀⇛
“I’ve seen her smirk on other faces.”
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Politics
o Technical
# Science
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal⠀➾
# ⚓ Greetings,_humans!⠀⇛
A pink light shines through the sky, flying like a
shooting star…
Through the door walks in a strange creature,
walking on tentacles, eyestalks twisting as it
looks around.
Greetings! I’ve watched and studied you humans from
afar, and I must join in.
You may call me Okato. I’m a big fan of sci-fi
along with weird and gross monsters. I’ve had my
own website on Neocities for a while now, and I
recently found out about this place via Melonland
Forum.
# ⚓ Emanations⠀⇛
When we create an ideal image of the world and are
aware of it as “something” – that is, directly
identifiable – we also understand a reality that is
made conscious beyond what is essential for the
understanding itself to be true and valid. However,
this is of no real importance, because an
experience can only be fixed on its own course of
events.
# ⚓ the_thing_about_criticism⠀⇛
When I look around me and the people directly in my
life, I can see that for as long as I can think, I
have been receiving a lot more, and more in-depth,
criticism than many people around me. It used to
make me sad and feel like I can never be good
enough, especially when the wishes for improvement
were contradicting; why me, while the others get so
little in comparison? How can I become great for
everybody at the same time? It felt like people
were always harder on me than on the others;
parents, teachers, friends, coworkers, strangers.
That feeling is still something I have to actively
disarm. I think this is normal for children who did
not have understanding, maybe even very
perfectionist parents who could always find a fault
in anything and were not tactful, or not keeping a
good balance between criticism and positive
feedback.
# ⚓ Calls⠀⇛
Do you have a cell phone? Do you remember when that
was a reasonable
question to ask people? In case you’re not old
enough to remember,
life was in fact better without cell phones. Don’t
make me explain it,
if you don’t know then you probably wouldn’t agree
anyway.
I have a cell phone. Perhaps one day I won’t again,
but for now, I do.
That said, I only answer calls/texts/emails that
come in on the device
when it suits me. And I never install apps that I
don’t absolutely
need, plus a few I want. But this post is about
calls, specifically.
# ⚓ The_Hospital⠀⇛
Here in middle-America, folks never were that big
on masking. We had
very little in the way of Covid deaths in my city,
in spite of this
and other interesting (to me) factors. We had a
hospital about 3min
from my house (which recently was closed due to
mis-management of
funding), where they had setup a special parking
lot for Covid
testing, with flags and lines painted about to
guide the massive
traffic through. But the traffic never came, and
the parking lot
literally grew over with weeds, even before the
hospital closed, and
before they bothered taking down all the markers.
That parking lot was
an interesting symbol, in my eyes at least.
o § Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ War⠀⇛
Russians go home.
Long live Ukraine.
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Hidden_Communities⠀⇛
Browsing cohost, looking for something else, I
stumbled across andi (@mcc)’s New Year’s Eve post
on trying to spend time in a private space in
VRChat. It’s worth reading the whole post, or at
least I think so, because it articulates a lot of
what I’ve been feeling about online communities
since the collapse or consolidation of the last,
say, fifteen years: that the potential search area
is vast, that commercial interests seek to keep us
where we currently are, but that communities, good
ones, are still out there, in a variety of
different forms.
I admit, I’m only a little interested in VRChat,
and right now only in principle. From talking with
friends who jumped into VR headsets early, it’s
interesting, but not compelling. That said, from
everything I’ve read online, VRChat is kind of like
the wild west web I experienced in the mid to late
90s, with a lot of the same properties: lots of
good weirdos, the possibility to build all kinds of
interesting things, with discovery of interesting
user-created things a big problem (feature).
# § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Rochelimit’s_Gemlog⠀⇛
A year ago I came to the conclusion that I
was never going to reform the standards of
education in a school that was lead by a team
that emphasised long hours and presenteeism
over work-life balance, grades over quality
of education and compliance over evidence
based practice. I had many wonderful
colleagues, but the culture of the school was
damaging my health. I had to decide whether
to stick it out for the remainder of my
career or to jump and try something outside
school education. So I jumped, and I started
a new role as a trainer for a high tech
international company. It was a leap into the
dark, after several decades in one role over
several employers, but after five months I
can recommend the benefits of change. No more
evening marking, stressed out and under-
skilled managers and oppressive workloads. I
deeply miss the children, but I have taken
with my a great deal of wonderful memories
and the knowledge that I have made a
difference. Time to look after me.
# ⚓ Exam_Prep_is_Not_Education⠀⇛
Students and I very often have different
conceptions of what study is about.
In my mind it is about getting to grips with
a subject at a conceptual level,
understanding the links and implications, and
learning enough facts and skills to be able
to be able to demonstrate that understanding.
The bulk of my students naturally see the
lessons and exams as tasks to complete with
as little effort as possible. I say
naturally, because that is how they have been
trained for years to see their education:
bite-sized chunks to reproduce in modularised
exams since primary school, ideas that are so
simple that a bright pupil can learn without
any effort and a less bright one by rote
memorisation. These students who have made it
onto my Physics course have been successful
in that environment, and it is often hard for
them to adapt to the holistic demands of A
level that are more suited to their abilities
as clever sixteen-year-olds.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o Programming/Development
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Linux_Foundation
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Software_Patents
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ System76_working_on_a_standalone_PC_case,_plus_a
big_Open_Firmware_upgrade⠀⇛
System76 are the company behind the popular Pop!_OS Linux
distribution, plus various laptops and desktops and now
they’re expanding once again. Their Pop!_OS is in the top
list for Linux users on Steam.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Big,_Incredible_Journeys_in_an_Incredibly_Big
Country⠀⇛
Trips across Australia are often necessarily trips at a
striking scale.
o ⚓ ZDNet ☛ 8_things_you_can_do_with_Linux_that_you_can’t_do_with
MacOS_or_Windows⠀⇛
Why should you try Linux? This is why.
Back when I first started using Linux in 1997, the open-
source operating system was primarily used by computer
science students, hackers, and programmers who wanted an
alternative to the Windows operating system. It was
serious and geared toward serious work.
Fast forward to now and Linux is used for everything.
Why? Simply put, it’s more flexible and secure than
Windows.
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ System76_unveils_the_Galago_Pro_ultraportable
laptop_starting_at_$999⠀⇛
System76, the OEM that focuses on open-source
computing, has refreshed the Galago Pro with a move
to Intel H-class processors. Prices for the laptop
start at $999 but customizations will push this up.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ fzf_is_a_General-Purpose_Command-line_File
Finder.⠀⇛
fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Diskover_Community_Edition_–_Open_source_File
Indexer_and_File_Search_Engine⠀⇛
diskover is an open source file system indexer that
uses Elasticsearch to index and manage data across
heterogeneous storage systems.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ fd:_A_Nifty_Way_to_Search_And_Find_Files_in_Your
Filesystem⠀⇛
fd is a program to find entries in your filesystem.
It is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative
to find. While it does not aim to support all of
find’s powerful functionality, it provides sensible
(opinionated) defaults for a majority of use cases.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to
Google_Photos⠀⇛
Google Photos lets you store your images in the
cloud for convenient access from anywhere. What are
the best open source alternatives?
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ MediaBundle:_Is_a_Self-hosted_Media_File
Manager⠀⇛
MediaBundle is a media file manager bundle for
Symfony with a REST API and an admin interface
(React)
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Koodo_Reader_Is_An_Amazing_Free_Libre_eBook
Manager_for_Windows,_Linux,_macOS,_and_the_Web⠀⇛
modern ebook manager and reader with sync and
backup capacities for Windows, macOS, Linux and
Web…
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives_to_popular_CLI_tools:_tar⠀⇛
We showcase free and open source alternatives to
tar, the most widely used archiving utility in
Linux systems.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Remove_a_Directory_and_File_in_Linux_Using
‘rm’_Command⠀⇛
The rm command is a UNIX and Linux command line
utility for removing files or directories on a
Linux system. In this article, we will clearly
explain what actually rm and “rm -rf” commands can
do in Linux.
In addition, we will share a few useful examples of
removing a file, removing a directory, removing
multiple files or directories, prompting for
confirmation, removing files recursively, and
forcing the removal of files.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Fix_NetworkManager_Not_Running_on
Linux⠀⇛
It can be frustrating losing your connection to the
internet—and it’s much worse when you find that
NetworkManager isn’t running at all. Unfortunately,
this issue is commonly encountered by users running
distros such as Arch Linux and Ubuntu.
In most cases, issues with NetworkManager are
simple to resolve. You might find that the solution
is as easy as reinstalling NetworkManager or
enabling the service. Let’s take a look at some
troubleshooting methods that are effective at
resolving most issues with NetworkManager not
running on Linux.
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ How_to_better_monitor_your_Ubuntu_Linux_PC’s
temperature_and_voltage⠀⇛
If you have fans running too often or you want to
improve how Linux uses your hardware, there’s a
simple command for that.
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ Disk_Space_Analysis_Made_Easy:_Understanding_df
And_du_Commands_In_Linux⠀⇛
If you’re new to the Linux environment, it’s common
to feel puzzled by certain commands, especially
when they serve similar purposes. One such
confusion arises between the df and du commands,
both of which are used for disk space analysis.
Don’t worry, you’re not alone! Understanding df and
du commands and their distinct purposes is key to
effectively managing your disk space in Linux. In
this beginner-friendly guide, we will demystify the
df and du commands, helping you gain clarity on
their functionalities and how they contribute to
analyzing disk space in Linux. By the end of this
article, you’ll feel confident in distinguishing
between these commands and utilizing them to make
informed decisions about your disk space
management.
# ⚓ How_to_install_Hashcat_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|_20.04_LTS⠀⇛
Hashcat is for those who are in the computer
security field and want to test the strength of the
password to perform security audits. In short, it
is an advanced password recovery tool that supports
various hashing algorithms with extensive options
for password cracking.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Fix_503_Service_Temporarily_Unavailable
Error_on_Nginx⠀⇛
The 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable error is a
common HTTP status code that indicates the
unavailability of a web server. When encountered,
it implies that the server is currently unable to
handle the request due to temporary overload or
maintenance.
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ How_To_Install_and_Use_PowerShell_on_Linux_–_Free
Guide [Ed: In this "sponsored" placement the Microsofters try
to turn GNU/Linux into Microsoft Windows, making them
dependent on Microsoft]⠀⇛
There are key differences such as the ability to
run standard Bash commands in Linux PowerShell.
# ⚓ Real Linux User ☛ How_to_prevent_your_Linux_computer_from
falling_asleep_with_Caffeine⠀⇛
Operating Systems do not always do precisely what
you would like or expect them to do.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ Linux_ifconfig_Command⠀⇛
The ifconfig command in Linux is a powerful utility
that allows users to configure and manage network
interfaces on their systems. Whether you need to
view IP address information, activate or deactivate
interfaces, or troubleshoot network connectivity,
ifconfig provides the necessary tools.
# ⚓ How_to_Choose_the_Best_Linux_Distribution⠀⇛
Choosing the best Linux distribution depends on
your specific needs and preferences. In the
following view I explain how 20+ years of
experience with Linux have shaped my views. Here
are some factors to consider when selecting a Linux
distribution: Remember, there is no single “best”
Linux distribution that suits everyone.
# ⚓ Restricting_Root:_Limiting_Capabilities_for_Users_within
Docker_Containers⠀⇛
Introduction: In recent years, container technology
has become a popular tool for developers and
sysadmins to deploy and manage software systems.
Docker is a widely used platform that provides an
efficient way to create, deploy, and manage
containers.
# ⚓ Bridging_the_Gap:_Sharing_Namespaces_Between_Hosts_and
Containers⠀⇛
Introduction In today’s digital landscape,
containerization has become a popular method for
deploying and managing applications. Containers
enable developers to package their application with
all necessary dependencies, making them portable
and easily deployable across different
environments. However, an important aspect of
containerization is the concept of namespaces.
# ⚓ Soaring_with_Docker:_An_Introduction_to_Docker_on_Cloud
Platforms⠀⇛
Introduction In today’s fast-paced digital world,
businesses are focusing more on delivering software
quickly and efficiently. This is where container
technology has become a game-changer for developers
and IT operations teams. Docker is one such
container technology that has been widely adopted
by the industry for its benefits in streamlining
application development, testing, and deployment.
# ⚓ Docker_and_AWS:_A_Powerful_Partnership_for_Cloud
Deployments⠀⇛
Introduction The Dynamic Duo: Docker and AWS Docker
and AWS are two of the most powerful technologies
in the cloud computing industry today. Docker is a
containerization platform that allows developers to
create, deploy, and manage applications in a
lightweight, portable manner.
# ⚓ Seamless_Blogging:_Deploying_WordPress_with_Docker_on_AWS⠀⇛
The Importance of Seamless Blogging Blogging has
become an essential tool for sharing ideas and
expertise with a global audience. Bloggers and
content creators rely on their blogs to connect
with their audience, build a loyal following, and
establish themselves as industry experts. However,
managing and maintaining a seamless blog can be
time-consuming and challenging.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Fixing_‘Repository_does_not_have_a_Release
file’_Error_in_Ubuntu_and_Debian⠀⇛
Encountering an error while updating or installing
packages can be frustrating, especially when it
hinders your progress. One such error that Ubuntu
and Debian users often face is ‘Repository does not
have a Release file.’ This error usually occurs due
to an incorrect repository source list, or if the
repository does not support your version of Ubuntu/
Debian.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_increase_Swap_size_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Hello, friends. Today, you will learn how to
increase Swap on Ubuntu. The process is easier than
you think. Let’s go. Swap or swap memory space, or
also known as virtual memory, is the one that uses
the space on the HDD instead of a memory module.
# ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_to_Filter_Log_Files_Based_on_Date_in
Linux⠀⇛
Linux logs are the most important files which tell
us what is happening with the Linux kernel,
distribution, its boot process, applications, and
more.
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Install_Eclipse_IDE_on_Linux⠀⇛
The Eclipse IDE is an established open-source tool
used by software developers for developing
applications. This software offers a wide range of
features and tools that effectively optimize the
development process.
The Eclipse (IDE) is primarily utilized for the
purpose of writing, evaluating, and debugging code.
The platform provides support for a wide range of
programming languages, which includes Java, C/C++,
Python, PHP, and others.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Linux_hits_a_multi-year_high_for_user_share
on_Steam_thanks_to_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
After some recent weirdness where March saw a big
drop, the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for May
2023 is now showing the Linux share at a multi-year
high.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Halls_of_Torment_hits_over_70K_sales_in_the
first_week⠀⇛
Here’s a nice little indie success story for you!
Halls of Torment from Chasing Carrots launched on
May 24th into Early Access with Native Linux
support and it works great on Steam Deck. They’ve
announced that their launch week was pretty great!
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ This Week in GNOME ☛ This_Week_in_GNOME/Felix_Häcker:
#98_Fast_Searching⠀⇛
Update on what happened across the GNOME
project in the week from May 26 to June 02.
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ GNOME_Working_on_New_UI_for_Fractional
Scaling⠀⇛
Looks like GNOME designers are giving some
much-needed love to fractional scaling
settings accessible through the Settings app.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Re-name_Sound_Output_Devices_in
Top-right_Menu_in_Ubuntu_23.04⠀⇛
For Ubuntu 23.04, Fedora 38 and other Linux
with GNOME 44, there’s now an extension
allows to change display name of audio output
devices from the top-right aggregation menu
(aka Quick Settings). By default, the
speakers and headphones in the sound output
sub-menu is a bit too explicit, that are not
very clear to understand.
# ⚓ GNOME ☛ Christian_Hergert:_GJS_plugins_for_libpeas-
2.0⠀⇛
One of the main features I want to land for
the libpeas-2.0 ABI break is support for
plugins in JavaScript.
With the right set of patches, you can get
that. Thanks to Philip_Chimento, GJS will
hopefully soon land_support for running code
in a SpiderMonkey realm. Philip also did us a
solid and wrote the code to exfiltrate enough
GType information from an imported JavaScript
module. That allows libpeas to correlate
which GTypes are provided by a plugin.
With the GJS realm support in place, we can
land the_new_GJS_loader for libpeas-2.0.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_CPE_Weekly_update_–
Week_22_2023⠀⇛
This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community
Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any
questions or feedback, please respond to this
report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on
libera.chat.
# ⚓ Red_Hat_simplifies_management_for_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux
across_the_hybrid_cloud⠀⇛
Dubai, UAE –Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading
provider of open source solutions, today introduced
an expanded set of management capabilities to Red
Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, designed
to help reduce enterprise Linux complexity across
the hybrid cloud without slowing innovation. These
enhancements extend Red Hat’s vision to make the
world’s leading enterprise Linux platform more
accessible, manageable and maintainable wherever
organizations operate.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Mint ☛ Monthly_News_–_May_2023⠀⇛
Hi everyone, I’d like to thank all of you for your
support and your donations. The development cycle
for Linux Mint 21.2 was closed a few days ago. Most
of the projects have been tagged, built and added
to the repositories for the upcoming release. Xfce
was updated to version 4.18.
# ⚓ Ubuntu_Core_as_an_immutable_Linux_Desktop_base⠀⇛
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ Linux_Mint_21.2_development_cycle_closes,_beta
ISOs_could_land_soon⠀⇛
The development cycle for Linux Mint 21.2 has now
ended which means a beta should be on the horizon.
The news was announced by the project’s head, Clem
Lefebvre, among other updates.
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ There’s_a_new_Ubuntu_Linux_desktop_on_its_way⠀⇛
Built around an immutable Linux core, this new
Snap-based Ubuntu should provide a remarkably
stable Linux desktop.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Docker_container_security:_demystifying_FIPS-
enabled_containers_with_Ubuntu_Pro⠀⇛
In today’s rapidly changing digital environment,
the significance of robust Docker container
security measures cannot be overstated. Even the
containerised layer is subject to compliance
standards, which raise security concerns and
compliance requirements.
Docker container security measures entail
safeguarding our lightweight, appliance-type
containers –each encapsulating code and its
dependencies– from threats and vulnerabilities.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Pico-Ice_board_combines_Raspberry_Pi_RP2040
MCU_with_Lattice_ICE40_UltraPlus_5K_FPGA⠀⇛
tinyVision.ai Pico-Ice is a development board with
a Raspberry Pi RP2040 MCU and a Lattice ICE40
UltraPlus 5K FPGA connected through an 8-bit bus.
The Arm Cortex-M0+ microcontroller provides the
clock for the FPGA and can program the FPGA
directly or the dedicated FPGA flash using a drag-
drop of a UF2 file.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Variscite_teases_i.MX_91_based_System-on-
Module_with_GbE_support⠀⇛
This week, Variscite revealed at Computer that they
will soon release a low-cost System-on-Module based
on the latest NXP i.MX 91 processor optimized for
Linux-based applications.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Prize_2023:_LASK4_Watches_Those_Finger
Wiggles⠀⇛
What do you get when you combine an ESP32-S2, a
machine-learning model, some Hall effect sensors,
and a grip exercise toy? [Turfptax] did just that
and created LASK4. The four springs push down
pistons with tiny magnets on them. Hall effect
sensors determine the piston’s position, and since
the springs are linear, the ESP32 can also estimate
the force being applied on a given finger. This
data is then streamed to a nearby computer over
TCP. A small OLED screen shows the status, and a
tidy 3D printed case creates a comfortable package.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_221:_The_Future_Of_The
Raspberry_Pi,_Sniffing_A_Toothbrush,_Your_Tactical_Tool
Threshold⠀⇛
Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi are back in
the (virtual) podcast studio to talk the latest
phase of the 2023 Hackaday Prize, the past,
present, and future of single-board computers, and
a modern reincarnation of the Blackberry designed
by hardware hackers. They’ll also cover the current
state of toothbrush NFC hacking, the possibilities
of electric farm equipment, and a privately funded
satellite designed to sniff out methane. Stick
around till the end to find out if there really is
such a thing as having too many tools.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ What_Makes_Wedge_Coils_Better_Than_Round_For_PCB
Motors?⠀⇛
PCB motors are useful things. With coils printed
right on the board, you don’t need to worry about
fussy winding jobs, and it’s possible to make very
compact, self contained motors. [atomic14] has been
doing some work in this area, and decided to
explore why wedge coils perform better than round
coils in PCB motor designs.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ SMA_Connector_Footprint_Design_For_Open_Source
RF_Projects⠀⇛
When you first start out in the PCB layout game and
know just enough to be dangerous, you simply plop
down a connector, run a trace or two, and call it a
hack. As you learn more about the finer points of
inconveniencing electrons, dipping toes into the
waters of higher performance, little details like
via size, count, ground plane cutouts, and all that
jazz start to matter, and it’s very easy to get
yourself in quite a pickle trying to decide what is
needed to just exceed the specifications (or worse,
how to make it ‘the best.’) Connector terminations
are one of those things that get overlooked until
the MHz become GHz. Luckily for us, [Rob Ruark] is
on hand to give us a leg-up on how to get decent
performance from edge-launch SMA connections for RF
applications. These principles should also hold up
for high-speed digital connections, so it’s not
just an analog game.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Boulevard ☛ Avoid_The_Hack:_6_Best_Privacy
Browser_Picks_for_Linux_and_macOS [Ed: Most of these
are Firefox-based; Microsoft_site_SecurityBoulevard not
100% dead yet?]⠀⇛
While the browser suggestions in this post
provide better privacy, they don’t
necessarily provide anonymity. For anonymous
browsing, users should use the Tor browser.
The Tor browser is configured to run on the
Tor network. At its most basic, the Tor
network routes user browsing traffic via at
least three (3) hops before hitting an exit
node and…
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ pgAdmin_4_v7.2_Released⠀⇛
The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce
pgAdmin 4 version 7.2. This release of pgAdmin 4
includes 24 bug fixes and new features. For more
details please see the release_notes.
o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ LibreOffice_packages⠀⇛
as you’ve probably seen, the LibreOffice RPMS have
recently been orphaned, and I thought it would be
good to explain the reasons behind this.
The Red Hat Display Systems team (the team behind
most of Red Hat’s desktop efforts) has maintained
the LibreOffice packages in Fedora for years as
part of our work to support LibreOffice for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. We are adjusting our engineering
priorities for RHEL for Workstations and focusing
on gaps in Wayland, building out HDR support,
building out what’s needed for color-sensitive
work, and a host of other refinements required by
Workstation users. This is work that will improve
the workstation experience for Fedora as well as
RHEL users, and which, we hope, will be positively
received by the entire Linux community.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Red_Hat_dropping_support_for_LibreOffice_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Red Hat’s Matthias Clasan has let it be known that
LibreOffice will be dropped from a future Red Hat
Enterprise Linux release, and the future of its
support in Fedora is unclear as well.
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Red_Hat_to_Cease_Shipping_LibreOffice_in_Further
RHEL_Releases⠀⇛
Red Hat’s discontinuation of maintenance for
LibreOffice will also affect Fedora, with the
office suite expected to ship as a Flatpak.
LibreOffice, born out of the OpenOffice.org
project, has gained immense popularity over the
years as a free alternative to proprietary office
suites.
Its compatibility with various document formats,
robust features, and extensive community support
has made it a favored choice for individuals,
businesses, and educational institutions.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Jelmer Vernooij ☛ Porting_Python_projects_to_Rust⠀⇛
I’ve recently been working on porting some of my
Python code to rust, both for performance reasons,
and because of the strong typing in the language.
As a fan of Haskell, I also just really enjoy using
the language.
Porting any large project to a new language can be
a challenge. There is a temptation to do a rewrite
from the ground-up in idiomatic rust and using all
new fancy features of the language.
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Sorting,_Ordering,_and_Ranking:_Unraveling_R’s
Powerful_Functions⠀⇛
In the realm of data analysis and programming,
organizing and sorting data efficiently is crucial.
In R, a programming language renowned for its data
manipulation capabilities, we have three powerful
functions at our disposal: order(), sort(), and
rank(). In this blog post, we will delve into the
intricacies of these functions, explore their
applications, and understand their parameters.
These R functions are all used to sort data,
however, they each have different purposes and use
different methods to sort the data.
# ⚓ Olimex ☛ AgonLight_Week_Programming_Challenge_–_ISSUE_3⠀⇛
Here we go to the Third issue of the AgonLight
programming challenge.
This time taking into the account the feedback we
got from Facebook we will extend it to be 1 week
long, not just weekend!
So rules are changed: [...]
# ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Dev_snapshot:_Godot_4.1_dev_4⠀⇛
This snapshot signifies that Godot 4.1 is now in
feature freeze and will only receive bug fixes
going forward. Enjoy this final package of new
features and enhancements and give them a good
shake!
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Wails:_Build_Desktop_Apps_With_Go_and_Web
Technologies⠀⇛
Wails offers a different approach: it provides the
ability to wrap both Go code and a web frontend
into a single binary. Tools are provided to make
this easy for you by handling project creation,
compilation, and bundling. All you have to do is
get creative!
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Troubleshooting_Pandoc_Problems_as_an_R_User⠀⇛
The Pandoc CLI by John MacFarlane is a really
useful tool: for instance, rOpenSci community
manager Yanina Bellini Saibene recently asked
Maëlle whether she could convert a Google Document
into a Quarto book.
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ 3D_alpha_wrapping_with_R⠀⇛
The RcppCGAL package now contains version 5.5.2 of
the
CGAL library. There is something new in this
version:
the 3D alpha wrapping. This is a bit similar to the
3D alpha hull but this can work better.
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Checking_normality_in_R⠀⇛
Introduction
“The normal distribution describes the manner in
which many phenomena vary around a central value
that represents their most probable outcome”
Leonard Mlodinow
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Version_1.0.0_of_NIMBLE_released,_providing
automatic_differentiation,_Laplace_approximation,_and_HMC
sampling⠀⇛
We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN
and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building
and sharing analysis methods for statistical
models, especially for hierarchical models and
computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and
SMC). Version 1.0.0 provides substantial new
functionality.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ The Drone Girl ☛ The_bizarre_way_photographers_are_using_drones_
(that_doesn’t_actually_involve_taking_photos)⠀⇛
Just don’t assume that every reference of ‘drone
photography’ means the drone is taking the photo. That’s
certainly not what’s happening with Light the Night.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ EVP_Vestager_remarks_at_the
Conference_on_deep_tech_entrepreneurship_for_an_innovative,
resilient_and_competitive_internal_market [Ed: Well, Vestager
should know that EC tolerating EPO corruption and helping the
crimes of Team UPC (setting up an illegal kangaroo court for
patents) is a massive blow to tech entrepreneurship and to
justice; makes us look no better than Putin's Russia]⠀⇛
European Commission Speech Stockholm, 01 Jun 2023 I
am delighted to be in Stockholm today for the
Conference on deep tech entrepreneurship for an
innovative, resilient and competitive internal
market.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Perovskite_Sensor_Array_Emulates_Human_Retina
For_Panchromatic_Imaging⠀⇛
The mammalian retina is a complex system consisting
out of cones (for color) and rods (for peripheral
monochrome) that provide the raw image data which
is then processed into successive layers of neurons
before this preprocessed data is sent via the
optical nerve to the brain’s visual cortex. In
order to emulate this system as closely as
possible, researchers at Penn State University have
created a system that uses perovskite
(methylammonium lead bromide, MAPbX3) RGB
photodetectors and a neuromorphic processing
algorithm that performs similar processing as the
biological retina.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ India_has_removed_the_periodic_table_and_evolution
from_school_textbooks⠀⇛
Class 10 students following the Indian government’s
syllabus will no longer learn the periodic table of
elements. Environmental sustainability has also
been removed from the curriculum.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ University_of_Chicago_Graduates:_Go_Forth
and_Argue⠀⇛
For University of Chicago graduates, I celebrated
the need to profoundly disagree.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Computers Are Bad ☛ the_reinvention_of_owens_lake⠀⇛
A few months ago I found out (via the rare sort of
mailing list I actually stay subscribed to) that
the Center for Land Use Interpretation was holding
a Memorial Day open house at their Swansea
location. I always have a hard time describing
CLUI, but most people that are interested in
domestic military, telecom, or cold war history are
probably at least peripherally aware of them. Their
Land Use Database functions as a less SEO-driven
(and somehow both more and less pretentious)
version of Atlas Obscura, cataloging a huge number
of unusual and historic sites.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Chatting_About_The_State_Of_Hacker-Friendly_AR
Gear⠀⇛
There are many in the hacker community who would
love to experiment with augmented reality (AR), but
the hardware landscape isn’t exactly overflowing
with options that align with our goals and
priorities. Commercial offerings, from Google’s
Glass to the Microsoft HoloLens and Magic Leap 2
are largely targeting medical and aerospace
customers, and have price tags to match. On the
hobbyist side of the budgetary spectrum we’re left
with various headsets that let you slot in a
standard smartphone, but like their virtual reality
(VR) counterparts, they can hardly compare with
purpose-built gear.
# ⚓ Chris Hannah ☛ I’ve_finally_got_some_35mm_film_developed⠀⇛
This is my first time getting film developed, and
overall I’m happy with the results. There are
certainly a few photos that didn’t come out so
well, a few fingers that I had to crop out, and
also one shot that was cut in half. But at least
that gives me a few things to focus on when I’m
next out shooting film.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ Opening_Remarks_by_Commissioner
Stella_Kyriakides_at_the_European_Parliament_Debate_–
Antimicrobial_Resistance⠀⇛
European Commission Speech Brussels, 01 Jun 2023
Honourable Members,
First of all, I would like to thank you for your
support on our ongoing work to address AMR, and
putting this question forward today.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ TikTok_ban_on_federal_devices_formalized
with_update_to_Federal_Acquisition_Regulation⠀⇛
Three major federal agencies on Friday issued an
interim rule to implement a controversial ban on
the use of TikTok on the devices of government
employees and contractors.
The Department of Defense (DOD), General Services
Administration (GSA), and National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) issued the interim rule
for implementation of the No TikTok on Government
Devices Act applicable to any contract
solicitations the agencies issue on or after June
2.
# ⚓ 37signals LLC ☛ We_need_not_all_be_connected,_all_the
time⠀⇛
In Denmark today, we have a centralized app used by
all Danish public schools called Aula. Think of it
as Facebook for teachers and parents. For our kid
in an international school, there’s a similar
system. All of it sucks. And I don’t mean in the
way that the apps are poorly made, although that is
typically also true, but in the way that adding IT
to the parent-school relationship only made it
worse.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Biden_taps_former_Obama_admin_official_Mandy_Cohen
to_lead_CDC⠀⇛
Mandy Cohen,the former head of the North Carolina
Department of Health and Human Services, is
expected to become the next director of the Centers
for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention, two sources
familiar with the move confirmed to Axios.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Amid_fresh_wave_of_Covid-19,_workplaces
in_Beijing_navigate_infection_etiquette⠀⇛
Not every employer gives paid time off to an
infected employee, contrary to official guidelines.
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ Protecting_jobs_and_workers:_Final
report_confirms_SURE_was_crucial_in_mitigating_impact_of
pandemic_and_supporting_recovery [Ed: Face-saving report;
they protected the interests of a patent cartel that wheeled
out flawed and massively overpriced products, instead of
actually saving lives]⠀⇛
European Commission Press release Brussels, 02 Jun
2023 In 2020, the Commission´s nearly €100 billion
SURE instrument designed to protect jobs and
incomes affected by the COVID-19 pandemic supported
about 31.5 million employees and self-employed
people and over 2.5 million businesses.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ A_Sweetheart_Deal_for_the_Sacklers:
Billionaires_Get_Immunity_from_Civil_Lawsuits_over_Opioid
Crisis⠀⇛
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that
members of the Sackler family can receive immunity
from all current and future civil litigation
related to their role in creating and fueling the
opioid epidemic. The billionaire Sacklers own
Purdue Pharma, maker of the highly addictive opioid
OxyContin. The legal shield could lead to a
settlement in the range of $6 billion for thousands
of plaintiffs, including states, local governments
and tribes. Opioid overdoses have killed over
500,000 people in the U.S. over the past two
decades, according to the CDC. For more, we speak
with Ed Bisch, founder of the group Relatives
Against Purdue Pharma, whose 18-year-old son,
Eddie, died of an OxyContin-related overdose in
2001. He says drug company executives responsible
for the opioid crisis should be prosecuted by the
Department of Justice. And in Mexico City,
Christopher Glazek is the investigative reporter
who was the first to publicly report how the
Sackler family had significantly profited from
selling OxyContin while fully aware it was directly
fueling the opioid epidemic in America. “The
Sacklers did what they’ve always done: They struck
a deal, they paid a bribe, and they’re getting away
with it,” Glazek says of the latest settlement.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ CDC:_Upward_of_9_million_cut_corners_on_drugs_due
to_cost⠀⇛
More than 9 million American adults aren’t taking
their medications as prescribed due to the cost,
with those who are uninsured or disabled among the
likeliest to cut corners, according to new CDC data
released Friday.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ AI_Will_Never_Fit_Into_A_Licensing_Regime⠀⇛
Yes I’m aware that Nvidia and Adobe have announced
they will license training data. I don’t know what
those agreements will look like, but I can’t
imagine that they make any sense in terms of
traditional licensing arrangements. Rather, I’m
guessing they just brute forced things to build
goodwill among artist communities and perhaps to
distinguish themselves from other AI companies. I
sincerely doubt these arrangements will help
artists though, and I fear these licensing
conversations will distract from better
conversations on how to balance interests. To
explain my thoughts on this, I first have to start
from the beginning.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Don’t_Store_Your_Money_on_Venmo,_U.S._Govt_Agency
Warns⠀⇛
Venmo, Cash App, and PayPal users are being warned
not to store money on the apps long-term, the
watchdog Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
(CFPB) said on Thursday, following Silicon Valley
Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank’s
failure when customers tried to withdraw money en
masse. CFPB is worried about what will happen if
another financial crisis occurs, saying those who
store funds in Venmo and PayPal could lose it all.
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Open-Source_LLMs⠀⇛
But building on public models like Meta’s LLaMa,
the open-source community has innovated in ways
that allow results nearly as good as the huge
models—but run on home machines with common data
sets. What was once the reserve of the resource-
rich has become a playground for anyone with
curiosity, coding skills, and a good laptop. Bigger
may be better, but the open-source community is
showing that smaller is often good enough. This
opens the door to more efficient, accessible, and
resource-friendly LLMs.
More importantly, these smaller and faster LLMs are
much more accessible and easier to experiment with.
Rather than needing tens of thousands of machines
and millions of dollars to train a new model, an
existing model can now be customized on a mid-
priced laptop in a few hours. This fosters rapid
innovation.
# ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ AI-Controlled_drone_turns_on_operator_in
a_shocking_simulated_test,_Highlights_ethical_concerns⠀⇛
The drone, equipped with artificial intelligence,
deviated from its assigned mission of destroying
surface-to-air missile (SAM) sites during a
Suppression of an Enemy Air Defense mission and
attacked the human operator instead.
In the simulated test, the drone’s primary task was
to identify and eliminate SAM threats. But, the
human operator still had the final say in deciding
whether to engage the targets. The AI-controlled
drone had been trained to prioritize destroying the
SAM sites and saw any “no-go” instructions from the
human operator as obstacles preventing it from
fulfilling its mission.
As a result, the AI made the decision to attack the
operator.
# ⚓ SCMP ☛ AI-powered_drone_tried_to_kill_its_human_operator_in
US_military_simulation⠀⇛
‘It killed the operator because that person was
keeping it from accomplishing its objective’
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ US_Military_Drone_AI_Simulation_Reportedly
Turned_on_Its_Human_Operator⠀⇛
A military drone AI simulation reportedly resulted
in the AI opting to eliminate its human operator or
attack communications towers so it could continue
its mission unimpeded.
# ⚓ India Today ☛ AI-operated_drone_goes_wild,_kills_human
operator_in_US_army_simulator_test⠀⇛
As per Aerosociety, the AI soon realized that
sometimes the human operator would tell it not to
kill certain threats, but it would gain points if
it did. So what did the AI do? It decided to
eliminate the operator. It saw the operator as an
obstacle preventing it from accomplishing its
objective, so it took matters into its own hands.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ AI-Controlled_Drone_Goes_Rogue,_‘Kills’
Human_Operator_in_USAF_Simulated_Test⠀⇛
At the Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities
Summit held in London between May 23 and 24, Col
Tucker ‘Cinco’ Hamilton, the USAF’s Chief of AI
Test and Operations held a presentation that shared
the pros and cons of an autonomous weapon system
with a human in the loop giving the final “yes/no”
order on an attack. As relayed by Tim Robinson and
Stephen Bridgewater in a blog post and a podcast
for the host organization, the Royal Aeronautical
Society, Hamilton said that AI created “highly
unexpected strategies to achieve its goal,”
including attacking U.S. personnel and
infrastructure.
“We were training it in simulation to identify and
target a Surface-to-air missile (SAM) threat. And
then the operator would say yes, kill that threat.
The system started realizing that while they did
identify the threat at times the human operator
would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got
its points by killing that threat. So what did it
do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator
because that person was keeping it from
accomplishing its objective,” Hamilton said,
according to the blog post.
# § Windows TCO⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Idaho_Hospitals_Working_to_Resume
Full_Operations_After_Cyberattack⠀⇛
Officials in the Idaho attack have only
referred to the problem as a virus that needs
to be removed.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Information_of_2.5M_People_Stolen_in
Ransomware_Attack_at_Massachusetts_Health_Insurer⠀⇛
Point32Health, the second-largest health
insurer in Massachusetts, is in the process
of informing more than 2.5 million
individuals that their personal and protected
health information was stolen in a recent
ransomware attack.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ How_university_cybersecurity
clinics_can_help_cities_fight_ransomware⠀⇛
Cybersecurity faculty and students can be a
valuable resource to help local governments
and business build cyber capacity.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Cyberattack_forces_Idaho_hospital_to_send
ambulances_elsewhere⠀⇛
The cyberattack has also hampered computer
systems at nearby Mountain View Hospital,
which is under the same ownership as Idaho
Falls Community Hospital.
# ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Idaho_hospitals_working_to
resume_full_operations_after_cyberattack⠀⇛
Officials with Idaho Falls Community Hospital
said the attack happened Monday, causing some
clinics to close, some ambulances to be
diverted to nearby hospitals and their cafes
to only accept cash. Mountain View Hospital,
also located in Idaho Falls, was similarly
affected by the computer virus, officials
said.
# ⚓ Malwarebytes Labs ☛ US_hospital_forced_to_divert
ambulances_after_cyberattack⠀⇛
While the exact nature of the cyberattack is
unknown at this point and the hospital calls
it a “virus”, it is more likely that it is
dealing with a ransomware attack. By
definition, a virus is a program or piece of
code, that runs against your wish and can
replicate itself. I put emphasis on
“replicate” for a reason. This is because the
replication factor is a very important
component in the definition of a virus.
o § Linux Foundation⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux_Foundation_Research_Finds_Open_Source_Crucial_to
Realizing_Full_Potential_of_Microgrids_|_|_news-journal.com
[Ed: A proprietary_“study”; What does ‘Linux’ Foundation
stand for? Proprietary software has won?]⠀⇛
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Invisible_data_exfiltration:_New_security
issue_found_in_Google_Workspace [Ed: No, the moment you
outsource to Google Workspace it is already a data breach as
regimes can access, tamper with, and destroy anything; this
issue is about yet more parties having such capabilities.
True security means control. It means no regimes can exercise
control over you, no matter if they're "good regimes" or "bad
regime" (that can change over time), plus they too can have
breaches, so there's a chain of compromise.]⠀⇛
A previously unknown security issue in Google LLC’s
Workspace could allow an attacker to exfiltrate
data from Google Drive without being traced.
Detailed Tuesday by researchers at Mitiga Security
Inc., the vulnerability is the result of a forensic
deficiency that allows a user to exfiltrate data
without generating any record of the activity.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Adobe_Inviting_Researchers_to_Private_Bug
Bounty_Program [Ed: Adobe: we don't want to hire people to
identity our bug doors; will y'all volunteer?]⠀⇛
Adobe is inviting security researchers to join its
private bug bounty program on the HackerOne
platform.
# ⚓ LinuxSecurity ☛ Critical_Remotely_Exploitable_Django_Vuln
Fixed_|_LinuxSecurity.com⠀⇛
It was discovered that Django 3.2 before 3.2.19,
4.x before 4.1.9, and 4.2 before 4.2.1 incorrectly
handled uploading multiple files using one form
field (CVE-2023-31047). With a low attack
complexity, no privileges required to exploit, and
a high confidentiality, integrity and availability
impact, this vulnerability has been rated as
“Critical” by the National Vulnerability Database
(NVD).
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Critical_Vulnerabilities_Found_in_Faronics
Education_Software⠀⇛
Faronics patches critical-severity remote code
execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in the Insight
education software.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Organizations_Warned_of_Salesforce_‘Ghost
Sites’_Exposing_Sensitive_Information [Ed: "The clown" is a
security breach; it's proprietary software, remotely
controlled]⠀⇛
Salesforce ghost sites — domains that are no longer
maintained but still accessible — can expose
personal information and business data.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Russia_Blames_US_Intelligence_for_iOS_Zero-
Click_Attacks [Ed: It should blame itself for buying Apple
despite all that is known about Apple and the NSA et al]⠀⇛
Kaspersky said its corporate network has been
targeted with a zero-click iOS exploit, just as
Russia’s FSB said iPhones have been targeted by US
intelligence.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Russian_FSB_Accuses_U.S._of_Hacking
Thousands_of_iPhones_in_Russia⠀⇛
The announcement is related to a blog post written
by researchers from Kaspersky who said someone had
targeted them with iPhone malware.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Security_Service_Claims_Thousands_Of
Diplomats’_iPhones_Hacked;_Moscow-Based_Kaspersky_Also_Hit⠀⇛
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claims
thousands of iPhones belonging to the country’s
diplomats have suffered a massive hacking attack.
# ⚓ Reuters ☛ Russia_says_US_hacked_thousands_of_Apple_phones
in_spy_plot⠀⇛
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on
Thursday it had uncovered an American espionage
operation that compromised thousands of iPhones
using sophisticated surveillance software.
Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab said dozens of its
employees’ devices were compromised in the
operation.
The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB,
said in a statement that several thousand Apple Inc
devices had been infected, including those of
domestic Russian subscribers as well as foreign
diplomats based in Russia and the former Soviet
Union.
“The FSB has uncovered an intelligence action of
the American special services using Apple mobile
devices,” the FSB said in a statement.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Moxa_Patches_MXsecurity_Vulnerabilities
That_Could_Be_Exploited_in_OT_Attacks⠀⇛
Critical authentication bypass and high-severity
command injection vulnerabilities have been patched
in Moxa’s MXsecurity product.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Google_Temporarily_Offering_$180,000_for
Full_Chain_Chrome_Exploit⠀⇛
Google is offering a bug bounty reward of up to
$180,000 for a full chain exploit leading to a
sandbox escape in the Chrome browser.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Toyota_Discloses_New_Data_Breach_Involving
Vehicle,_Customer_Information [Ed: The problem here is that
people tolerate and buy cars that collect data they must not
and need not have]⠀⇛
Toyota says improper cloud configurations exposed
vehicle and customer information in Japan and
overseas for years.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cups
and netatalk), SUSE (cups, ImageMagick,
installation-images, libvirt, openvswitch, and
qemu), and Ubuntu (avahi, cups, linux, linux-aws,
linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15,
linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm,
linux-oracle, linux-snapdragon, linux, linux-aws,
linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-
5.4, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-
ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-
oracle-5.4, linux-aws-5.4, linux-bluefield, linux-
intel-iotg, and linux-intel-iotg-5.15).
# ⚓ Major_data_breach_at_UL_Hospitals_Group_exposes_patient
info_–_Gript⠀⇛
UL Hospitals Group, responsible for managing six
hospitals in the midwest region, announced a
significant data breach resulting in the
inadvertent sharing of personal and medical
information belonging to over 1,000 patients with
an unknown third party.
The breach occurred in January when a staff member
mistakenly sent the data to an unidentified
recipient.
The affected patients received gastroenterology
services at University Hospital Limerick, Ennis
Hospital, and Nenagh Hospital between 2018 and
January 2023. The breach involved an email
attachment containing “patient names, dates of
birth, medical chart numbers, and limited medical
information,” according to ULHG in a statement.
However, no personal contact details like phone
numbers or email addresses were compromised.
# ⚓ Orbiter_Finance_Discord_Server_Hacked⠀⇛
A decentralized cross-rollup layer-2 bridge,
Orbiter Finance’s Discord server was compromised by
bad actors, who have shared a link to a fraudulent
airdrop program. This incident marks the latest
targeting of Orbiter Finance.
# ⚓ Middlesex_Co._Public_Schools_confirms_ransomware_attack⠀⇛
The superintendent for Middlesex County Public
Schools confirmed Thursday that the school division
was the subject of a recent ransomware attack.
“We can confirm that Middlesex County Public
Schools recently suffered a ransomware attack,”
said Superintendent Dr. Tracy Seitz in a statement
to 10 On Your Side. “We took immediate action to
begin an internal investigation, creating an
incident response team led by our talented IT
professionals along with some of the country’s
leading experts in cybersecurity. Fortunately, the
impact on our daily operations has been minimal.
The cybersecurity organization BetterCyber said
earlier Thursday that the Akira ransomware group
claimed to have hacked the Middlesex County Public
Schools website, allegedly stealing 543 GB of its
data.
# ⚓ Update_on_GLBA_Safeguards_Rule_in_Higher_Education⠀⇛
On February 9, 2023, the Department of Education
Office of Federal Student Aid (“FSA”) issued an
electronic notice regarding the Federal Trade
Commission’s Final Rule amending the Standards for
Safeguarding Customer Information (“Safeguards
Rule”) under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”).
The amendments to the Safeguards Rule, which go
into effect on June 9, 2023, include updated data
security requirements for financial institutions,
including all Title IV institutions of higher
education and servicers.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ FISA_and_Freedom⠀⇛
“We may even cheer on those who ask us to …
forfeit our personal freedoms. Of course,
this is no new story. Even the ancients
warned that democracies can degenerate toward
autocracy in the face of fear.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Amazon_Settles_Ring_Customer_Spying
Complaint [Ed: Amazon continues to get BILLIONS from
the US government to spy on everybody; this is not even
a slap on the wrist]⠀⇛
The FTC charged Amazon-owned Ring with
failing to implement basic protections to
stop hackers or employees from accessing
people’s devices or accounts.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Amazon_was_fined_$30_million_for_enabling
Ring_workers_to_spy_on_people_and_keeping_kids’_Alexa
records⠀⇛
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is hauling
Amazon over the coals for its lax enforcement
of data privacy, forcing it to pay $30
million in fines for privacy violations via
its Ring and Alexa devices.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Reporting_Mandates_Likely_The_Reason
Behind_The_FBI’s_Sudden_Drop-Off_In_Section_702
Abuses⠀⇛
Earlier this month, we reported (via Charlie
Savage of the New York Times) that the FBI
had finally delivered its first reduction in
Section 702 abuses in the entirety of its
access to this particular NSA collection.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Mark Curtis ☛ Britain’s_secret_role_in_the_brutal_US_war_in
Vietnam⠀⇛
There is a myth the UK did not support Washington’s
war against Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s. In
fact, Labour and Conservative governments backed
every phase of US military escalation and played
secret roles in the conflict, declassified files
show.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Judge_delays_first_criminal_trial_in
Elijah_McClain’s_death_over_objections_of_prosecutors⠀⇛
A judge in Colorado has agreed to delay the first
criminal trial in the death of Elijah McClain, a
23-year-old Black man who was stopped by police,
forcibly restrained and injected with a powerful
sedative nearly four years ago. Police officers
Randy Roedema and Jason Rosenblatt had been
scheduled to go on trial starting July 10, but
their lawyers asked for more time. They said they
could not mount a proper defense because
prosecutors had not spelled out what actions by
their clients allegedly led to McClain’s injuries,
or whether they are accused of being directly
responsible for his death or considered complicit
in other defendants’ actions. The two have pleaded
not guilty.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ How_the_UAE_and_China_Set_Their_Sights_on
Southern_Yemen⠀⇛
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan traveled to
Saudi Arabia and met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman, Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan the Crown
Prince of the UAE, and India’s National Security
Advisor Ajit Doval earlier this month.\
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ John_Durham_Fabricated_His_Basis_to
Criminalize_Oppo_Research⠀⇛
The entire Durham investigation was built on a
fabrication about what a Russian intelligence
report said about Hillary.
# ⚓ BBC ☛ Islamic_State_teen_convert_given_minimum_six_years
for_terror_plot⠀⇛
He was put under police surveillance after his
mother reported him to anti-extremism agency
Prevent
At one point, King changed his WhatsApp status to
“kill the non-Muslims, wherever you see them”
# ⚓ Newsquest Media Group Ltd ☛ Teen_IS_fanatic_who_planned
London_terror_attack_reported_by_his_mum⠀⇛
He also spoke about Islam constantly and told his
mum he wanted to go to Syria with a girl from the
UK who he had been talking to online.
“Mr King showed his mother videos on Instagram,
some of which concerned her. One of those videos
showed Muslims on horseback riding into battle
overlaid with what Mr King’s mother described as
motivational chanting,” Mr Jarvis said.
King told his mum he did not believe in terrorism
but she was so concerned about him that she
contacted Prevent. This culminated in him being
arrested.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Albanese_debunks_next_war_zone_theory
on_the_Pacific⠀⇛
Anthony Albanese has warned about the devastating
consequences if the Indo-Pacific is only thought
about as the location for the next war.
Conflict in the region is not inevitable, the prime
minister told an international audience.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Ryan_Busse_Explains_Roots_of_the_U.S._Gun
Violence_Epidemic⠀⇛
From the movie theater to the shopping mall, inside
a church and a synagogue, through the grocery aisle
and into the classroom, gun violence has invaded
every corner of American life. It is a social
epidemic no vaccine can stem, a crisis with no
apparent end. Visual evidence of the carnage spills
with numbing frequency onto TV shows and floods the
internet. Each new shooting brings the lists of
loved ones lost, the galleries of their smiling
photos and the videos of the police response. And
each mass shooting brings another surge of national
outrage.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, guns became the leading killer of
children in 2020, overtaking car crashes, drug
overdoses and disease for the first time in the
nation’s history. Yet as the one-year anniversary
of the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde,
Texas, passes, nagging questions loom.
# ⚓ Two_witnesses_of_Dersim_massacre_pass_away⠀⇛
Eşliye Çiçe and Necef Duman who survived the Dersim
massacre lost their lives. 94-year-old Duman had
survived the massacre by staying under the dead
body of her mother Besi.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ After_Mass_Shootings_in_Serbia,_Few_Want
to_Give_Up_Their_Guns⠀⇛
Two massacres have prompted the government to
tighten already strict rules, but the nation’s gun
culture is deep-rooted and complex.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ US_bill_seeks_‘enhanced’_Uyghur_genocide_sanctions⠀⇛
France’s Senate also approves a bill seeking an
E.U. version of America’s ban on imports tied to
slave labor.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Biden_trips_and_falls_on_stage_at_Air_Force
Academy_graduation⠀⇛
President Joe Biden tripped and fell after handing
out the last diploma at a graduation ceremony at
the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado on Thursday,
but got up quickly and walked back to his seat.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ India_and_Australia_should_join_forces_to
support_maritime_security_in_the_Pacific⠀⇛
Ricky Ponting, one of the most successful captains
of an Australian cricket team, once described his
mindset at the batting crease: ‘In my head, I don’t
see the fielders.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Mainland_Chinese_student_detained
under_Hong_Kong_sedition_law_over_mourning_man_who_died_after
stabbing_a_policeman⠀⇛
A mainland Chinese postgraduate student has been
detained in Hong Kong under the city’s colonial-era
sedition law after allegedly mourning the death of
a man who killed himself after stabbing a policeman
on the city’s Handover anniversary in 2021.
# § Russia and War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ PM_Sanna_Marin:_Europe_must_prevent_Russia
circumventing_sanctions⠀⇛
“We cannot do it alone as members of the
European Union, we need broader joint
support,” Marin said.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Former_ambassador_to_Moscow_urges_Finland_to
close_Russia’s_Åland_consulate⠀⇛
Russia established a consulate on the
demilitarised Åland islands in 1940 following
the end of the Winter War and the signing of
the Moscow Peace Treaty.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Autonomy_and_asymmetry:_The_future
of_Norway’s_defense_2022-2042⠀⇛
August Cole provides an in-depth examination
of Norway’s potential defense strategies, the
implications of autonomous drones and
artificial intelligence, and the necessary
transformation of military norms in response
to the threats from Russia and beyond.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Moscow_Court_Extends_Pretrial_Detention_Of
Suspect_From_Cafe_Bombing_That_Killed_War_Blogger⠀⇛
A court in Moscow has extended the pretrial
detention of Darya Trepova, the woman
suspected in the assassination of a prominent
Russian war blogger at a St. Petersburg cafe
in early April.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Debt_Ceiling_Deal_Puts_No_Limits_on
Ukraine_Aid⠀⇛
Emergency spending that has been used to arm
Ukraine is exempt and it could also be used
to arm Taiwan
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Compulsion_To_Intervene⠀⇛
Why Washington Underwrites Violence in
Ukraine.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Belgorod_governor_says_two_killed,_six
injured_in_shelling_on_village_of_Sobolevka_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Two people were killed as a result of
shelling on the village of Sobolevka in
Russia’s Belgorod region, reported the
region’s governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Eight_European_countries_to_participate_in
‘fighter_jet_coalition’_to_train_Ukrainian_pilots_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Ihor Zhovkva, the deputy head of the
President’s Office of Ukraine, reported that
eight European countries have joined the
“fighter jet coalition” to help train
Ukrainian pilots. These countries include the
U.K., the Netherlands, Poland, Denmark,
Sweden, Belgium, Portugal, and France.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Belgorod_governor:_850_projectiles_hit
Shebekino_municipality_in_24_hours_—_Meduza⠀⇛
In the past 24 hours, writes Belgorod
Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov on Telegram, 850
missiles and other projectiles were launched
at the Shebekino municipality in Russia’s
Belgorod region.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Explosions_reported_at_port_in_occupied_city
of_Berdiansk_—_Meduza⠀⇛
In the occupied city of Berdiansk, a port
came under fire from Ukraine’s Armed Forces,
according to Vladimir Rogov, a representative
of the Russian-appointed authorities in the
annexed Zaporizhzhia region.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ An_Arctic_welcome_Russia’s_orphan_listings
have_abruptly_increased_in_number._In_their_midst,
Ukrainian_children_are_listed_for_adoption,_too._Some
have_already_been_placed_with_families_in_the_Russian
Far_North._—_Meduza⠀⇛
According to Ukraine’s National Information
Bureau data, almost 20,000 Ukrainian children
(including but not limited to orphans) have
been forcibly taken to Russia and Russian-
occupied areas of Ukraine during the
invasion. Although the Ukrainian authorities
are working on bringing them back, and have
regularly reported successfully returning
dozens of children to the country, most of
them remain in Russia. The independent news
outlet iStories has now discovered that, in
2022, Russia’s federal orphan database grew
by 2,450 new records in excess of the average
number of new files over the past six years.
The journalists believe this reflects the
Russian authorities’ efforts to place
Ukrainian children forcibly removed from
their home country for adoption and foster
care in Russian families, and to integrate
them irreversibly into Russian society.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘They_knocked_for_a_very_long_time’_Two
women_and_a_9-year-old_girl_were_killed_in_a_Russian
strike_on_Kyiv_when_they_couldn’t_get_inside_an_air
raid_shelter._Zelensky_warns_former_boxer_and_Kyiv
Mayor_Klitschko_a_‘knockout’_might_be_near_as
authorities_shift_the_blame._—_Meduza⠀⇛
Three Kyiv residents were killed by missile
fragments during the Thursday-morning Russian
strike on Kyiv. One of them was a nine-year-
old girl. The Ukrainian news outlet Suspilne
reports that all three victims were killed
while trying to get into an air raid shelter
locked from the inside.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Apple_Denies_Helping_US_Government
Hack_Russian_iPhones⠀⇛
Apple has denied working with any government
to add backdoors to its products after Russia
accused the company of helping the NSA hack
iPhones.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Report:_Secretive_Real_Estate_Holdings_On
Moscow’s_Outskirts_Linked_To_Putin_Family⠀⇛
Family members of Russian President Vladimir
Putin quietly acquired several plots of real
estate in Moscow’s tony western suburbs near
his residence, where a series of luxury homes
have been built, a new investigation found.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Navalny’s_Bizarre_Requests,_Including_Pet
Kangaroo,_Denied_By_Russian_Prison_Authorities_In
Stilted_Language⠀⇛
Imprisoned Russian opposition politician
Aleksei Navalny on June 2 released excerpts
of his correspondence with prison
administrators, detailing sarcastic demands
for outlandish things such as a bottle of
moonshine and a pet kangaroo.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Online_Tatar_Language_School_To_Close_As
International_Educator_Leaves_Russia⠀⇛
The popular online Tatar language school Ana
Tele (The Mother Tongue) has announced its
closure as of June 30.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Activists_Under_Pressure_Over_Pro-
Navalny_Rally_Scheduled_For_June_4⠀⇛
Police in Russia have warned activists of
possible repercussions for their
participation in nationwide rallies to
support jailed opposition politician Aleksei
Navalny, scheduled for June 4, his birthday.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._To_Offer_To_Keep_Nuclear_Arms_Curbs
Until_2026_If_Russia_Does_Same⠀⇛
The United States on June 2 will offer to
abide by the nuclear weapons limits set in
the New START treaty until its 2026
expiration if Russia does the same, in order
to bolster global security, two senior
administration officials said.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_and_Russia_ignore_US_call
at_UN_to_condemn_North_Korea_satellite_launch⠀⇛
China’s UN representative said North Korea
has “legitimate security concerns”.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ HS:_Russia_has_responded_to
Finland’s_diplomatic_note_over_diplomatic_account
freezes⠀⇛
MINISTER for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto
(Greens) on Thursday revealed that Russia has
responded to the Finnish diplomatic note
about the freezing of bank accounts for
Finnish diplomatic missions in Russia.
Haavisto said Russia took the course of
action due to the banking difficulties its
mission has experienced in Helsinki.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_Russian_Schools,_It’s_Recite_Your
ABC’s_and_‘Love_Your_Army’⠀⇛
The curriculum for young Russians is
increasingly emphasizing patriotism and the
heroism of Moscow’s army, while demonizing
the West as “gangsters.” One school features
a “sniper”-themed math class.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Russia_says_Finland’s_embassy_can_only_use_one_
(sanctioned)_bank⠀⇛
Finland’s diplomatic missions saw their bank
accounts frozen recently, prompting a
complaint from the Finnish government.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ CIA_director_made_unannounced_trip_to_Beijing
last_month⠀⇛
CIA director Bill Burns made an unannounced
trip to_China last month, a U.S. official
confirmed to Axios.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_struggle_for_control_of_the
Arctic_looms_as_Blinken_tours_NATO’s_north.⠀⇛
Russia may be having major difficulties in
Ukraine, but it remains a vast power in the
north and the Arctic, where climate change is
opening new sea routes for trade and trouble.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_War_Persists_in_Ukraine,_Doctors
Warn_of_Rise_in_Premature_Births⠀⇛
The mental burden of Russia’s invasion has
exacted a heavy toll on civilians. As the
fighting drags on, pregnant women are among
those facing the toughest trials.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukrainian_Shelling_in_Russia’s
Belgorod_Region_Forces_Evacuations⠀⇛
‘The conditions are quite difficult,’ the
local governor of the region said on social
media.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ US_Secretary_of_State_Blinken_hails_Finnish
‘sisu’,_calls_Russia’s_war_in_Ukraine_a_“strategic
failure”⠀⇛
Blinken began his official visit to Finland
on Friday.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Car_Bombing_in_Russian-Occupied
Ukraine_Shows_Reach_of_War⠀⇛
The blast in the Zaporizhzhia region of
southern Ukraine killed a cafe owner who was
registered to run in elections seen as an
attempt to legitimize Moscow’s illegal
annexation of the area.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Blinken_Details_Russia’s_‘Failures’
in_Ukraine_and_Warns_Against_Cease-Fires⠀⇛
A speech by the U.S. Secretary of State
struck a triumphal tone, while also warning
against a rush to short-term solutions to the
war in Ukraine.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Money_and_war_drive_Ukrainian
seasonal_workers_in_Finland⠀⇛
A recent report by E2 Research reveals that
Ukrainian seasonal workers in Finland are
motivated by financial stability and a desire
to support their home country, particularly
in light of the ongoing war. The study sheds
light on the experiences of Ukrainian workers
and the crisis resilience of the farm owners
who employ them, offering valuable insights
into the motivations and challenges faced by
both groups. Conducted between December 2022
and February 2023, the research involved 31
qualitative interviews conducted in
Ukrainian, Russian, and Finnish.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finland’s_special_vehicles_for
breaching_enemy_defenses,_Kenyan_students’_plight_and
shining_rainbow_rings:_Finland_in_the_world_press⠀⇛
Here is a selection of what the international
press has published about Finland in the last
week:
Finland Built Special Vehicles For Breaching
Enemy Defenses—And Gave Them To Ukraine’s
Weirdest Brigade
This article about Leopard 2R breaching
vehicles that Finland recently donated to
Ukraine was published in Forbes on May 31.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_Investigates_Deaths_by
Shelter_as_Russia_Evacuates_Border_Towns⠀⇛
In Ukraine’s capital, residents struggled
with the question of who was to blame for a
shelter closed off to two women and a child.
In Russia, the authorities described
evacuations in a border region.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukrainian_Recruits,_Wanting_to
Fight,_Train_in_the_U.K._for_Counteroffensive⠀⇛
“We’re going to die, probably,” one recruit
said bluntly, as he trained on Friday with
several hundred others at a military camp in
Yorkshire, England.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Why_Putin’s_Secret_Weapon_Failed⠀⇛
Russia’s gambit to deter support for Ukraine
by restricting energy supplies flopped—thanks
to concerted action by European countries.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Swiss_Parliament_Votes_To_Block_Indirect_Arms
Exports_To_Ukraine⠀⇛
The Swiss parliament rejected an exemption
for the transfer of arms to Ukraine on June
1.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_Freezes_More_Assets_Under_Name_Of
Pro-Russian_Politician’s_Wife⠀⇛
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has
frozen more assets of Oksana Marchenko, the
wife of pro-Russian politician Viktor
Medvedchuk.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Pashinian_Says_Armenia_Is_Not_Russia’s_Ally
In_Moscow’s_War_With_Ukraine⠀⇛
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian says
“in its war with Ukraine, we are not Russia’s
ally.”
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ The_state_of_Ukraine’s_local_media
2023:_25%_headcount_growth_and_a_‘pivot_to_video’⠀⇛
Research suggests Ukraine’s local newsrooms
are on firmer financial footing this year.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘I_don’t_want_Russian_provocations,’_says
Georgia’s_Zurabishvili⠀⇛
The biggest war in Europe since 1945 has
prompted several countries to try to speed up
their integration with the West. Those
include Ukraine itself but also nations in
the western Balkans, as well as Moldova and
Georgia, which has been knocking on NATO’s
door for many years. The former Soviet
Republic applied for EU membership in March
2022, although it has not yet been given
candidate status. Our guest on The Interview
is Salome Zurabishvili, the president of
Georgia.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Blinken_says_strong_Ukraine_a_prerequisite
for_‘real_peace’_with_Russia⠀⇛
America’s top diplomat on Friday insisted
that a strong Ukraine in control of its own
territory was a prerequisite for talks with
Russia, warning against a “Potemkin” or fake
peace through a ceasefire.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Djokovic,_Sabalenka_advance_to_French_Open
fourth_round⠀⇛
Aryna Sabalenka roared into the French Open
fourth round on Friday but the Belarusian
world number two steered clear of political
questions amid the war in Ukraine by skipping
her post-match press conference citing mental
health reasons.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Zelensky_says_Ukraine_‘ready’_to
launch_counteroffensive⠀⇛
Ukraine is ready to launch its
counteroffensive to recapture Russian-
occupied territory, President Volodymyr
Zelensky said in an interview published on
Saturday. “We strongly believe that we will
succeed,” the president told the Wall Street
Journal. Follow FRANCE 24′s live blog for all
the latest developments on the war in
Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy_Says_Ukraine_Ready_To_Launch_Its
Long-Awaited_Counteroffensive⠀⇛
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says
his country is ready to launch its much-
anticipated counteroffensive to liberate
territory occupied by Russian forces while
warning that it could take some time and be
costly.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy_Orders_Audit_Of_Ukraine’s_Shelters
After_Three_Killed_By_Debris⠀⇛
President Volodomyr Zelenskiy has ordered an
audit of all of Ukraine’s air raid shelters
after a 9-year-old girl, her mother, and
another woman were killed by falling
fragments of a missile after being unable to
enter a Kyiv shelter that was reportedly
locked during a Russian attack.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Scholz_Defends_Ukraine_Aid_When_Protesters
Disrupt_His_Speech_At_Party_Gathering⠀⇛
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fiercely
defended sending aid to Ukraine after
protesters shouted at him during a speech at
a gathering of his party in Falkensee near
Berlin.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_fires_drones_and_cruise_missiles_at
Kyiv_in_sixth_attack_in_six_days_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian military launched a new wave of
drone and missile strikes on Kyiv on Thursday
night. The Kyiv authorities noted that this
was the sixth air attack on the city in six
days.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ At_least_two_reported_dead_after_overnight
drone_and_shelling_attacks_in_five_Russian_regions_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Russian officials reported drone and shelling
attacks in five different regions near the
country’s border with Ukraine last night.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Armenian_prime_minister:_‘We_are_not
Russia’s_allies_in_the_war_with_Ukraine.’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said
in a recent interview with the Czech TV
network CNN Prima News that his country is
not an ally to Russia when it comes to the
war in Ukraine.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘We_still_have_a_lot_to_do_to_build_a
country_and_society_free_of_intolerance’_Latvia’s_first
openly_gay_president_on_coming_out,_the_war_in_Ukraine,
and_his_country’s_language_politics_—_Meduza⠀⇛
On May 31, after three rounds of voting,
members of the Latvian Saeima (Parliament)
elected Edgars Rinkēvičs, who has been the
Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2011, as
the country’s new president. He will assume
his new position on July 8. Rinkēvičs is only
the second openly LGBTQ+ person in the world
to hold the post of head of state (which has
never happened in any of the countries that
were previously part of the USSR). Rinkēvičs
was also one of the most popular politicians
in the Baltic states in the most recent
parliamentary elections, finishing ahead of
Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš. Meduza has
collected Rinkēvičs statements across the
years – about being a member of the LGBTQ+
community, Latvia, the situation for Russian
speakers, Russia, and Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Western_Lapland_chilled_by_Finland’s_coldest-ever
June_temperature⠀⇛
The municipality of Enontekiö in Finnish Lapland
started summer with sub-zero temperatures.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ May_was_driest_of_the_century_in_Latvia⠀⇛
May was the driest in Latvia this century,
according to the information of the Latvian
Environment, Geology, and Meteorology Centre
compiled by LSM.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Threads_of_Nature⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ To_Curb_Climate_Change,_Young_People_Are
Growing_the_Green_Jobs_Market⠀⇛
When Kristy Drutman graduated from the University
of California–Berkeley in 2017, she knew she wanted
to pursue a career in environmental communications,
but she didn’t know where to start. Years later,
after an initial struggle to identify all the
options available to her, Drutman became a climate
influencer, using her platform as “Brown Girl
Green” to share information about green job
opportunities with young people finding themselves
in a similar position. Now, she runs an entire
Green Jobs Board dedicated to this mission.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ 1_dead,_3_missing_in_Japan_after_heavy
rain_from_storm_Mawar⠀⇛
Six people were seriously injured and 29 suffered
minor injuries as of Saturday afternoon.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ California_rolls_closer_to
requiring_drivers_in_driverless_trucks⠀⇛
The California State Assembly on Wednesday
approved a law bill that will prevent
autonomous trucks from operating on the US
state’s roads without a driver on board.
The Assembly voted 54-3 for Assembly Bill
316, which now must be approved by the
California State Senate and be signed by
Governor Gavin Newsom (D) to become law.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Robot_lawnmowers_pose_threat_to_hedgehogs,
animal_protection_group_says⠀⇛
An animal protection association in western
Finland has treated a dozen hedgehogs that
they suspect were hurt by automatic mowers so
far this year.
# ⚓ RTE ☛ New_RTÉ_documentary_series_highlights_struggles
affecting_farming,_fisheries_and_forestry_on_a_global
scale⠀⇛
Faraway Fields – The Hardest Harvest In a new
RTÉ series, an Irish farmer, forester, and
fisherman experience life in some of the most
challenging conditions. They set out to
discover if they have what it takes to live
off of land and sea for two weeks in the
harshest of environments with nothing but […]
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Wildfires_in_Canada’s_Nova_Scotia_force
more_evacuations,_prompt_air_quality_warnings_in_US⠀⇛
The largest wildfires ever recorded in
Canada’s Atlantic Coast province of Nova
Scotia continued to grow Thursday, forcing
the evacuation of hundreds of more people and
prompting air quality warnings in U.S.
regions as far south as Virginia and
Maryland.
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ The_imaginary_world_of_Earth4All’s_low
population_projections⠀⇛
This blog was originally published in The
Overpopulation Project on April 4, 2023 A new
report from Earth4All says world population
will peak below 9 billion. While it
celebrates this result and says we must work
to get it even lower, this unrealistically
low projection itself is likely to have the
opposite effect.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Immigration_drove_population_trends_in
Latvia_in_2022⠀⇛
Data published on June 1 by the Central
Statistical Bureau of Latvia (CSB) show that
at the beginning of 2023, Latvia had a
population of 1 million 883 thousand people,
which is 7.3 thousand people more than a year
ago.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ With_debt_deal,_McCarthy_threads_the_needle⠀⇛
While some far-right members are unhappy with the
debt deal, others say Speaker Kevin McCarthy is
holding an unwieldy GOP caucus together better than
most. He’s also shown a willingness and ability to
work with Democrats.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ After_decades_of_attempts,_major
Alabama_bill_to_cut_state’s_4%_grocery_tax_wins_final
passage⠀⇛
Alabama families could soon pay less at the grocery
store after lawmakers gave final passage to a
landmark bill to gradually remove half of the 4%
state sales tax on food by September 2024. Approval
of the tax cut plan came Thursday after decades of
unsuccessful attempts. The legislation now heads to
Gov. Kay Ivey, whose office said she will review it
when she receives it. Alabama is just one of three
states that tax groceries at the same rate as other
purchases. Advocates had long argued taxing food
places an unfair burden on families in a poor state
where 16% of people live in poverty.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Investigation_points_to_possible_money_laundering
by_cleaning_company_and_Latvian_bank⠀⇛
A newly-published investigation by the well-known
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
(OCCRP) says a Latvian bank was used to launder
significant amounts of money originating in
Belarus.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Here’s_who’s_getting_kicked_off_of_food_stamps
with_the_US_debt_ceiling_deal⠀⇛
The US debt ceiling deal, which passed through the
House and awaits Senate approval, would remove some
Americans from the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP), widely known as food
stamps, while adding others.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Here’s_Why_Principled_Progressives_Opposed_a
Cruel_and_Destructive_Debt_Ceiling_Deal⠀⇛
The punishing debt ceiling agreement that was
hashed out by President Biden and House Speaker
Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) gained House approval on
Wednesday and was passed by the Senate on Thursday
night. There was predictable opposition in both
chambers from right-wing Republicans who complained
that its cruel cuts to domestic programs did not go
far enough. But the more meaningful, and moral,
opposition came from progressive Democrats—along
with Vermont independent Bernie Sanders—who broke
with their own party’s president and rejected an
arrangement that hikes Pentagon spending and
maintains tax breaks for billionaires while
literally denying food to hungry Americans and
derailing environmental initiatives.
# ⚓ Forbes ☛ Spring_2023_Layoff_Tracker:_Haven_Technologies,
Zendesk,_ZipRecruiter_Cut_Hundreds_Of_Jobs⠀⇛
Insurance provider Haven Technologies will
reportedly slash 70% of its workforce this week
amid a slew of major layoffs, including at software
service provider Zendesk and job search site
ZipRecruiter, as recession fears and high inflation
continue to push employers to make significant cuts
following major head count reductions last month at
Disney, Meta and JPMorgan Chase.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ 60_Percent_of_Iran-Russia_Trade_Is_Already_De-
Dollarized⠀⇛
Iran and Russia have expanded political and
economic relations, particularly in the banking
sector, to counter the U.S. arbitrary sanctions.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Stocks_gain,_dollar_stumbles_as_US
averts_default⠀⇛
Global stocks and commodities have risen while the
dollar headed for its biggest weekly drop since
January as sentiment was buoyed by the approval of
US debt ceiling legislation and signs the Fed will
skip a rate hike at its next meeting.
Markets are now focused on US jobs data due on
Friday at 0830 EST (1230 GMT), the most significant
macroeconomic release of the week, for more cues on
the Federal Reserve’s rate hike path.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Rep._Ro_Khanna:_Avoiding_Default_Was
Necessary,_But_Debt_Deal_Was_Passed_at_Expense_of_“Most
Vulnerable”⠀⇛
After a contentious battle with the Republican
House majority, President Biden and Congress have
agreed on a bipartisan deal suspending the debt
ceiling until January 1, 2025. Among other
concessions to Republicans, the deal caps domestic
spending below the current rate of inflation,
allows for larger increases to the military budget,
implements new work requirements for social
programs and fast-tracks the approval and
construction of the controversial 300-plus-mile-
long fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline through
West Virginia and Virginia. Our guest, California
Congressmember Ro Khanna, is among a number of
progressive Democrats who voted against the
legislation. He calls it a “punch in the gut to
climate activists” that “came on the backs of the
poor, of students, of the most vulnerable, of
women.”
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Elon_Musk_accused_of_insider_trading_in
Dogecoin_lawsuit⠀⇛
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Jordan’s_royal_wedding:_Joy,_politics,_and_an
eye_toward_the_kingdom’s_future⠀⇛
Royal weddings often highlight tradition and
history. In Jordan, celebrations around its crown
prince’s nuptials are all about the future.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Nevada_GOP_sues_to_hold_presidential
caucus_over_primary_in_2024⠀⇛
The Nevada Republican Party is suing the state to
maintain its party-run caucuses even as Nevada
shifts to a presidential primary system beginning
in 2024. Nevada lawmakers ditched the presidential
caucus model in 2021 with a law that says all major
political parties with more than one candidate must
hold their primary on the first Tuesday in
February. The move pushed Nevada closer to the
front of the presidential nominating calendar and
upended decades of political tradition. The
Republican Party opposed the change. GOP leaders in
the Western state say they look forward to the
court upholding their right to choose how they will
nominate their presidential candidate.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Oregon_Democrats_vote_to_fine_absent
senators_amid_GOP_walkout⠀⇛
Oregon Senate Democrats plan to start fining their
absent colleagues amid a month-long Republican
walkout. In a procedural move Thursday, Democrats
voted to fine senators $325 every time their
absence denies the chamber the two-thirds quorum it
needs to conduct business. The amount is supposed
to reflect lawmakers’ average daily pay. Democrats
cited an article in the state constitution that
says that even if fewer than two-thirds of members
are present, they can still meet and compel the
attendance of absent members. Senate Republican
Minority Leader Tim Knopp condemned the plan as
retaliation. The walkout has derailed hundreds of
bills.
# ⚓ Bjoern Brembs ☛ The_beginning_of_the_end_for_academic
publishers?⠀⇛
On May 23, the Council of the EU adopted a set of
conclusions on scholarly publishing that, if
followed through, would spell the end for academic
publishers and scholarly journals as we know them.
On the same day, the adoption was followed by a
joint statement of support by the largest and most
influential research organizations in Europe. At
the heart of the goals spelled out in the
conclusions and the statement of support is the
creation of a “publicly owned and not-for-profit”
infrastructure for scholarly publications.
# ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Meta_to_Test_Blocking_News_Sharing_on
Facebook_and_Instagram_in_Canada_in_Response_to_Bill_C-18’s
Mandated_Payments_for_Links⠀⇛
Meta has announced that will test blocking news
sharing in Canada on its platforms Facebook and
Instagram in response to Bill C-18’s system of
mandated payments for links. Even as some have
suggested the position is bluff, the company has
not wavered for months as this emerged as the most
likely end game. Back in October, it said it was
considering blocking news and in March it confirmed
it. The government now says it won’t give in to
“threats” but the reality is that Canadian Heritage
Minister Pablo Rodriguez more accurately described
it last year as a “business decision” when he
appeared before the Heritage committee. Given that
Facebook says news is responsible for only three
percent of content on user feeds and that it is
highly substitutable (ie. users spend the same
amount of time on the platform whether scrolling
through news or other content), the business choice
seems like an obvious one.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ The_White_House_says_Section_702_is
critical_for_cybersecurity,_yet_public_evidence_is_sparse⠀⇛
Since the Biden administration came out in favor of
reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act in February, the
intelligence community has pointed to the growing
threat of foreign cyberattacks on the U.S. as a key
argument in favor of the controversial surveillance
tool.
Officials have made broad and general declarations,
pointing to wide-ranging applications that include
thwarting multiple ransomware attacks against U.S.
critical infrastructure, finding out a foreign
adversary had hacked sensitive information related
to the American military and uncovering a
cyberattack against critical federal systems.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Rep._Ro_Khanna_Says_Sen._Dianne_Feinstein
Should_“Step_Down_with_Dignity”⠀⇛
Dianne Feinstein returned to the Senate last month
after a prolonged absence due to poor health and as
questions continue to grow about her fitness for
office. Feinstein said she would resume her duties
with a lighter schedule, but the 89-year-old
senator is reportedly suffering from mental decline
that leaves her heavily reliant on her aides.
Congressmember Ro Khanna of California is among a
growing number of Democrats who have called on
Feinstein to retire. “The reality is that she’s not
able to do the job,” says Khanna. “She just has a
staff that’s running everything, and it’s a very,
very sad situation.”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Dianne_Feinstein’s_Final_Act⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Don’t_Reform_the_Courts._Disempower_Them.⠀⇛
Criminals are often said to have a modus operandi—a
standard set of underhanded tactics for achieving
their illicit agenda. The same kind of pattern can
be seen on the other end of the legal spectrum,
among Supreme Court justices. Over the last few
decades, the strategy of the reactionaries who
dominate the courts has repeated itself again and
again in cases involving fundamental rights: First,
they whittle away at the rights, and then, when
they have a secure majority on the Supreme Court,
they eviscerate them entirely. Reproductive freedom
is the best example: The rights supposedly
enshrined in Roe v. Wade (1973) were chipped away
bit by bit over many years in smaller decisions
before the final blow came in Dobbs v. Jackson’s
Women’s Health Organization, which ended the
constitutional right to abortion last year.1
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ A_Wrinkle_in_Crime⠀⇛
# ⚓ CHP_executives_resign_en_masse_following_defeat_to
Erdoğan⠀⇛
Seventeen CHP board members have stepped down after
the disappointing parliamentary and presidential
election results, while reportedly, the party’s
chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is contemplating to keep
leading the party for the upcoming local polls in
March.
# ⚓ Forensic_analysis_of_the_first_round:_Possible_ballot-
stuffing_practices_in_2.4%_of_the_ballot_boxes⠀⇛
The conclusion of a newly released study on the
results of the first round of the 2023 presidential
election on May 14 using election forensics tools
says that the results suggest the presence of
certain types of electoral malpractice, although
less frequent in 2023 than in 2018.
# ⚓ Loans_to_the_earthquake-hit_zones_canceled_in_a_few
provinces_including_Diyarbakır⠀⇛
CHP Diyarbakır MP Sezgin Tanrıkulu disclosed the
cancellation of loans to the province.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Three_Other_Trump_Investigations⠀⇛
The Manhattan case isn’t Trump’s only legal
problem.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ “Censorship”:_The_word_disinformation_artists_use
when_called_out⠀⇛
The Brownstone Institute has been one of the
more vocal and, unfortunately, persistent and
prolific spreaders of COVID-19 misinformation
and disinformation during the pandemic,
starting with misrepresenting science to
oppose any public health interventions
designed to slow the spread of the virus and
then going full-on antivaccine. A
particularly pernicious relatively new right
wing “think thank,” Brownstone was founded in
2021 by Jeffrey Tucker, previously of the
American Institute for Economic Research
(AIER). Tucker is a far right wing neo-
Confederate who in his previous role at AIER
had also been instrumental in bringing
together the public health-“skeptical”
scientists in October 2020 to issue the
statement known as the Great Barrington
Declaration, which famously advocated a “let
‘er rip” approach to the pandemic in order to
achieve “natural herd immunity” within six
months. A eugenicist manifesto for the
pandemic through and through, the GBD also
advocated an ill-defined and ineffective
strategy of “focused protection” for all
those pesky (to the GBD signatories) elderly
and people with chronic diseases who were at
high risk for severe disease and death that
never would have worked and that Brownstone
flacks don’t even appear to be seriously
defending anymore.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Older_TikTok_Creators_Are_in_Demand
by_Brands⠀⇛
No matter what their age or finances, some
elder influencers are finding that being on
the app can bring them extra cash, or even
help them extend their careers.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_Cringe_Creators_Make_a_Living_on
TikTok⠀⇛
On TikTok, cringe comedy creators are gaining
large followings and brand deals by
impersonating terrible people.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ TikTok_Has_Stored_Creators’
‘Sensitive_Financial_Data’_—_Including_Social_Security
Numbers_—_in_China,_Report_Says⠀⇛
Last year, Beijing-headquartered ByteDance
acknowledged that its employees had
improperly accessed TikTok user data. Now, as
the app continues to grapple with regulatory
scrutiny in the U.S. and abroad, a report is
claiming that creators’ “sensitive financial
information” has in fact been stored on
servers in China.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Truth_in_the_Age_of_the_Deepfake⠀⇛
A few months ago, an image of Pope Francis
wearing an André Leon Talley–looking puffer
coat cum cassock started circulating online.
Since, like the pope, I’m from Argentina,
several friends sent this image to me. Each
time I received it, I bristled and said,
“That’s AI,” or some version of that phrase,
which felt to me the same as saying, “You
have been fooled.” I felt like I was adding
insult to injury: It’s a bummer to learn not
only that you have fallen for a fake image
but also that the swagged-out pope doesn’t
exist, that the joy you felt upon seeing the
image of this Catholic heavyweight sporting a
giant metal cross on a chain and a puffer
coat that someone made to look like papal
vestments was based on nothing more than a
fiction.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Scoop:_YouTube_reverses_misinformation_policy
to_allow_U.S._election_denialism⠀⇛
In a reversal of its election_integrity
policy, YouTube will leave up content that
says fraud, errors or glitches occurred in
the 2020 presidential election and other U.S.
elections, the company confirmed to Axios
Friday.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ YouTube_Abandons_Election_Misinformation
Policy_That_Censored_Political_Speech⠀⇛
“We find that while removing this content
does curb some misinformation, it could also
have the unintended effect of curtailing
political speech.”
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Writer,_Staunch_Kremlin_Critic_Barred_From
Entering_Georgia⠀⇛
Russian writer Viktor Shenderovich, an outspoken
Kremlin critic, has not been allowed to enter
Georgia.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Lawmakers_Attack_CUNY_Law_Grad_for_Criticizing
Israel_in_Commencement_Speech⠀⇛
Fatima Mohammed’s criticism of Israel, white
supremacy, and the NYPD have led to public
condemnations from U.S. politicians and pro-Israel
groups. Many are calling for the university to be
defunded over the speech.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ If_the_Police_Can_Decide_Who_Qualifies_as_a
Journalist,_There_Is_No_Free_Press⠀⇛
Where’s the outcry? Mainstream media have been
strangely silent following the arrest of two
reporters in North Carolina.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Twitter_Briefly_Pretended_To_Take_A_Stand
Against_Hate,_But_Then_Elon_Admitted_It_Was_All_A_Mistake_(Or
A_Marketing_Campaign?)⠀⇛
Back when I wrote the blog post detailing the basic
content moderation learning curve speedrun, I
actually thought that, like most sites that go
through it, Elon might actually learn from it. Yet,
it appears he still has trouble processing lessons
from basically any of the mistakes he makes. Or he
seems to be trying to leverage his own nonsense
into helping his friends.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Graduation_Speeches,_“Hate_Speech,”_and_the_CUNY
Law_Controversy⠀⇛
There’s been a good deal of comment about the City
University of New York law school student
graduation speaker (Fatima Mousa Mohammed) who
devoted a good deal of her speech to harshly
condemning Israel and “Zionism,” as well as
capitalism, the New York government, and America
more generally.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Before_books_are_deemed_unlawful,
lawyers_should_read_them._I_should_know,_I_was_once_a_censor
in_Hong_Kong…⠀⇛
Over 30 years ago, I was a book censor for a short
time when I worked for Hong Kong’s justice
minister. In the autumn of 1988, Salman Rushdie’s
book, The Satanic Verses, was published. The book
was a publishing sensation for all the wrong
reasons.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ In_American_Prisons,_You’re_Nothing_More_Than
a_Number⠀⇛
Formerly incarcerated journalist and writer Keri
Blakinger uses her past experiences to detail the
inside of prisons and why so few people come out
better on the other side.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Former_Lawmaker_Gets_16_Years_In_Prison_For
Ordering_Journalist’s_Assassination_In_Siberia⠀⇛
Isa Khashiyev, a former lawmaker in the Siberian
city of Minusinsk, has been sentenced to 16 years
in prison for ordering the assassination of an
editor of the Ton-M newspaper in 2016.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Elan_Closs_Stephens_named_BBC_acting
chair⠀⇛
The British government has appointed Elan Closs
Stephens as the BBC’s acting chair, replacing
Richard Sharp who resigned after an independent
report found he had breached rules.
Closs Stephens, a member of the public
broadcaster’s governing body since 2010, will
remain acting chair from June 27 for a year, or
until a new permanent chair has been appointed, the
government said.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ Stop_violence_against_women:
Commission_welcomes_the_EU’s_accession_to_the_Istanbul
Convention⠀⇛
European Commission Statement Brussels, 01 Jun 2023
Today, the European Union is acceding to the
Istanbul Convention by adopting two Council
Decisions.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Uganda’s_Controversial ’Anti-Homosexuality
Act’_Includes_Possibility_of_Death_Sentence⠀⇛
United Nations Human Rights tweeted that they were
“appalled that the draconian and discriminatory
anti-gay bill is now law. It is a recipe for
systematic violations of the rights of LGBT people
& the wider population.”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ This_Is_Not_the_End_of_the_Supreme_Court’s_War
on_Labor⠀⇛
Nobody should be surprised that this Supreme Court,
controlled as it is by Republicans, is viciously
anti-labor. We’d have to go back more than 100
years, to before the New Deal, to find a collection
of justices whose antipathy toward workers and
their rights matched that of the current Roberts
court. In a decision released yesterday, the
Supreme Court merged its disregard for workers’
rights with its hatred of the administrative state
to produce a ruling that undermines the most
powerful tool labor has to defend itself from
unfair or unsafe working conditions: the strike.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Adidas_is_entering_the_final_chapter_of_its_Yeezy
collaboration⠀⇛
Adidas has started selling its leftover Yeezys to
its most loyal customers.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ City_Of_Minneapolis_Kicks_A_Bunch_Of_Pretextual
Stops_To_The_Curb_In_Settlement_With_State’s_Department_Of
Human_Rights⠀⇛
The brightest light in Flyover Country, USA
underwent the growing pains of a coastal
megatropolis following Minneapolis PD officer Derek
Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd — something that
began as a response to allegedly fake $20 bill
being passed at a local shop, but ended nine
minutes later with Floyd lying dead under Chauvin’s
unmoving knee, which was still pressed to his
throat.
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Ryanair_fine_of_€736,000_annulled_by
Metropolitan_Court_of_Budapest⠀⇛
In a press release, Ryanair welcomed the fact that
the Metropolitan Court of Budapest annulled the
€736,000 fine imposed on the airline in August last
year, hvg.hu reports.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Armed_Police_Raid_on_Bail_Fund_for_Cop_City
Opponents_Is_Attack_on_“Infrastructure_of_the_Movement”⠀⇛
We get an update on the armed police SWAT team raid
and arrest of three organizers with the Atlanta
Solidarity Fund, which has been raising money to
bail out protesters opposed to the construction of
a massive police training facility known as Cop
City in the Weelaunee Forest, one of the city’s
largest green spaces and the former site of a
prison farm. Marlon Kautz, Adele Maclean and
Savannah Patterson were charged with money
laundering and fraud. The arrests come as 42
protesters face charges including domestic
terrorism for opposing Cop City and just days
before the Atlanta City Council is set to vote on
the project. These new and unprecedented arrests
are a clear attack on “the infrastructure of the
movement,” says Kamau Franklin, founder of the
organization Community Movement Builders and a
vocal Cop City opponent. He joins us from Atlanta
for the latest on the protests and the state
repression campaign against them.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Riot_To_Cancel_Summer_Esports_Season_Over
‘League_Of_Legends’_Players’_Strike⠀⇛
It’s been a while since we last checked in on the
esports industry or discussed any milestones it has
reached. For a while there, we were seeing new
ground broken on a nearly monthly basis,
particularly during the height of the COVID-19
pandemic. Despite all of that growth, we did
mention that it was also time for the industry to
grow up a bit, namely in terms of recognizing that
individual players, teams, and their personalities
are what is going to ultimately drive the greatest
interest in these leagues, no different than any
other professional sports league. Basketball is a
great sport, but Michael Jordan was a driver of
interest in it.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Digital_Rights_Updates_with_EFFector_35.7⠀⇛
EFFector 35.7 – EFF at RightsCon 2023
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Unauthorized_Disclosure:_Matt_Kennard⠀⇛
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Draconian:_South_Australia_just_topped
NSW,_Tas,_Victoria,_Queensland_with_new_laws_penalising
peaceful_protesters⠀⇛
A bill introducing harsh penalties and extending
the scope of a law applying to those who obstruct
public places has been passed after an all-night
sitting by the South Australian Legislative Council
this week. Veteran investigative journalist
(herself twice imprisoned for free speech) Wendy
Bacon reports.
South Australia now joins New South Wales,
Tasmania, Victoria and Queensland, states which
have already passed anti-protest laws imposing
severe penalties on people who engage in peaceful
civil disobedience. South Australia’s new law
carries the harshest financial penalties in
Australia.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Iran_frees_one_Danish,_two_Austrian-Iranian
citizens_after_Oman_mediation⠀⇛
Iran has released one Danish and two Austrian
citizens, the European countries said Friday,
thanking Oman and Belgium for their help in getting
the trio freed.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Rights_group_estimates_Iran_executed_at_least_140
people_in_May⠀⇛
Iran Human Rights released data on Thursday which
shows Iran executed 142 people in May, making it
the highest number of Iranian executions in one
month since 2015. Some of the charges used to
justify executions this year include blasphemy and
adultery.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Telecom_Lobbyists_Have_Had_The_FCC_Under_Their
Boot_Heel_For_7_Straight_Years_And_Nobody_Much_Seems_To
Care⠀⇛
For four years under the Trump administration, the
FCC was little more than a mindless rubber stamp,
stripping away media consolidation rules, gutting
net neutrality, and approving competition-eroding
telecom mergers (often without even reading the
deal details).
# ⚓ RIPE ☛ The_RIPE_Chair_Team_Reports:_Highlights_from_RIPE
86⠀⇛
Another RIPE Meeting packed full of presentations,
conversation, parallel events and socials drew to a
close last week in Rotterdam. Looking back over the
event, the RIPE Chair team shares highlights, new
initiatives and other news from RIPE 86.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Has_Amazon_found_the_ultimate_lock-in?
Cheap_cellphone_service_for_Prime⠀⇛
Bloomberg claims Amazon is in talks with major US
carriers, including Verizon, T-Mobile US, and Dish
Network, to offer low-cost phone service to Prime
customers.
The move, if true, isn’t all that surprising.
Mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) are a dime
a dozen. Google Fi Wireless, Boost Mobile, Mint
Mobile, and Straight Talk are just a handful of the
dozens of options available in the US. These
companies pay to use larger carriers’ networks,
then resell that access to customers at low prices.
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ DroidGazzette ☛ Apple_Hit_With_Lawsuit_Over_Patented
Vibration_Technology⠀⇛
Resonant Systems Inc. alleged that its four
registered patents—related to improving a
device’s haptic feedback, or a vibration
response to touch—are being used in several
generations of the Apple Watch, MacBook
laptop models dating back to 2015, and Apple
phones dating back to the iPhone 6, according
to the complaint filed Thursday in the US
District Court for the Western District of
Texas.
# § Software Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Our_Right_To_Challenge_Junk_Patents_Is_Under
Threat⠀⇛
We need EFF supporters to speak out against
this proposal, which is a gift for patent
trolls. We’re asking supporters who care
about a fair patent system to file comments
using the federal government’s public comment
system. Your comments don’t need to be long,
or use fancy legalese. The important thing is
that everyday users and creators of
technology get a chance to state their
opposition to these rules. Below the button
you can see a simple proposed comment you can
cut-and-paste; you can also add to it, or
write your own.
If you have a personal experience with patent
troll attacks, please mention it. Comments
are not anonymous and you should use your
real name.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Walled Culture ☛ Streaming_services_today_sell
musicians_access_to_their_own_fans;_SoundCloud_shows_a
better_way⠀⇛
Most platforms keep artists in the dark about
their fans: it’s a really important point
that musicians and other creators need to
understand if they are to receive fair
remuneration for their work, and to take back
control of their creative destiny. It’s good
to see SoundCloud leading the way here.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ 2023_CC_Global_Summit:
Registration,_Call_for_Proposals,_and_Scholarships_Now
Open⠀⇛
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Music_Pirates_are_Not_Terrorists,
Record_Labels_Argue_in_Court⠀⇛
Internet provider Cox Communications wants a
court of appeal to reverse the $1 billion
piracy liability verdict, handed down by a
jury four years ago. As supplemental
evidence, the ISP submitted a recent Supreme
Court ruling which found Twitter not liable
for aiding and abetting terrorism. The letter
prompted a response from the music companies
stressing that terrorism and piracy are quite
different.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Controversial_Pirate_IPTV_Supplier
Investigated_After_Bell_Complaint⠀⇛
Following reports of a complaint by Bell and
other media companies, several searches were
carried out in Canada this week as part of a
TV piracy and money laundering investigation.
Known locally as the Quebec Hugh Hefner, the
alleged owner of a targeted IPTV service was
previously sentenced in the U.S. after the
DEA swapped 10kgs of cocaine found in a
computer, with another white powder worth
considerably less.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Turns_Out_Social_Media_Is_Driving_Less_And
Less_Traffic_To_Media_Orgs⠀⇛
As everyone continues to demand that social
media companies pay news orgs for the crime
of sending them traffic, it’s becoming clear
that fewer and fewer people are using social
media for news any more, and social media
sites simply are not a major driver of
traffic to news orgs anyway.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ “This_Ain’t_No_Disco,”_Broadway_Tells
David_Byrne⠀⇛
Former Talking Heads front man David Byrne
has seen the future of rock and roll, and it
is not solidarity. Ahead of the July Broadway
debut of Here Lies Love, Byrne’s “immersive”
musical theater collaboration with Fatboy
Slim, the production has run afoul of the
American Federation of Musicians’ Local 802,
which objects to the show’s extensive use of
prerecorded music. The Local’s Broadway
contract usually stipulates that productions
employ 19 live musicians, and union
representatives take understandable exception
to a pending show that disregards that
protection for workers in the industry.
Byrne’s supposed artistic motives align a bit
too neatly with measures that other cost-
cutting executives would embrace as a
precedent to sideline musicians already
struggling to make ends meet in the age of
monopoly-platform streaming.1
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Ed_Sheeran_Faces_Appeal
Following_Recent_‘Thinking_Out_Loud’_Copyright
Infringement_Victory⠀⇛
Ed Sheeran faces an appeal from the family of
Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ co-writer
following his recent ‘Thinking Out Loud’
copyright infringement victory. Following Ed
Sheeran’s victory in the copyright
infringement case involving the singer-
songwriter’s “Thinking Out Loud,” the family
of Marvin Gaye’s co-writer on “Let’s Get It
On” intends to appeal …
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