𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Saturday, June 10, 2023
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⦿ IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 09, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Jim Zemlin Boasting in 2022: Linux Foundation Has Revenue of Over 200 Million Dollars; IRS in 2022: Linux Foundation Has Revenue of 139 Million Dollars | Techrights
⦿ ’Linux’ Foundation: Spendings on Salaries Increased More Than 20% in One Year | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/06/10/irc-log-090623/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/06/10/jim-zemlin-boasting-in-2022-linux-foundation-has-revenue-of-over-200-million-dollars-irs-in-2022-linux-foundation-has-revenue-of-139-million-dollars/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/06/10/linux-foundation-spendings-on-wages/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/06/10/client-certificates-in-gemini-and-zig/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/06/10/debian-12-bookworm/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/06/10/libei-1-0-0/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/06/10/wine-8-10/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/06/10/wordle-for-gemini/#comments
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/06/10/irc-log-090623/#comments
Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/06/10/irc-log-090623/
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Gemini_version_available_♊︎
✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Friday,_June_09,_2023⠀✐
Posted in IRC_Logs at 2:39 am by Needs Sunlight
Also available via the Gemini protocol at:
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-090623.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-090623.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-090623.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-090623.gmi
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/06/10/jim-zemlin-boasting-in-2022-linux-foundation-has-revenue-of-over-200-million-dollars-irs-in-2022-linux-foundation-has-revenue-of-139-million-dollars/#comments
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✐ Jim_Zemlin_Boasting_in_2022:_Linux_Foundation_Has_Revenue_of_Over_200_Million
Dollars;_IRS_in_2022:_Linux_Foundation_Has_Revenue_of_139_Million_Dollars⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Finance at 12:47 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
They can’t both be right. So who’s lying, exaggerating, or stashing aside
undeclared money? Counting bank balance as “revenue”?
Zemlin (2022):
http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/zemlin-money.mp4
IRS (Form 990; form_signed_around_the_same_time_as_above):
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Linux_Foundation_revenue⦈_
Summary: As noted here months_ago, the Linux_Foundation is run by a lying,
manipulative charlatan who merely milks the brand “Linux” to enrich himself;
where is that anomaly coming from?
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✐ ‘Linux’_Foundation:_Spendings_on_Salaries_Increased_More_Than_20%_in_One
Year⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Finance, Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, Kernel at 12:14
am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Yesterday: Linux_Foundation_Demotes_Mr._Linux,_Linus_Torvalds,to_Third(in
Salaries),_Only_Uses_Him_for_the_Name
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇'Linux'_Foundation_salary-related_expenditures_rose_from
49,386,990_to_59,791,694_in_one_year⦈_
Summary: As per the document just_published after it had been submitted 7
months ago, salary-related expenditures rose from 49,386,990 to 59,791,694 in
one year
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇'Linux'_Foundation_pays_for_food_consulting⦈_
‘Linux’ Foundation spent over a million bucks in one year for CONSULTING on
food
(also: a few weeks ago Jim_Zemlin_said_he_got_infected_with_COVID-19 — yes, the
irony! — and had to isolate himself in a hotel)
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✐ Gemini_Links_10/06/2023:_Cob(WW)Webs,_Client_Certificates_in_Gemini,_and
Zig⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 10:02 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈
§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
# Programming
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Cob(WW)Webs_and_the_New_AI_Sheen!⠀⇛
If you’ve ever been a kid (most of us have)
then you remember how awesome a New Thing
was. The toy under the tree, the birthday
gift, whatever – new things have a nice
“sheen” to them. The niceness of them being
new. Which (at the time) seems like an “add-
on” to the current things of niceness one
owns. Time and energy to enjoy BOTH things,
right? Until more time/energy gets allotted
to the New Thing, then the old thing becomes
mostly JUST that – old.
I think the WWW will suffer this folly. AI
will become so beneficial, so useful, so
enthralling and (dare I say it) utilitarian,
that the Web (itself) will seem like a
protocol that acts as only that – a protocol
(not even the Web, but the Internet protocol,
pre-dating the WWW by many years). Why?
Because what becomes “old” before anything
else? Where is obsolescence more obvious and
expected, other than technology? It sort of
what a/the thing (laptop, phone, watch) has
going for it – it’s the “latest tech”!
# ⚓ Writing_my_HTML_minimizer_in_half_a_day⠀⇛
This Saturday, I got too bored and decided do
some long overdue housekeeping on my website.
I wanted to minify the HTML files, one
because this website runs on Drogon’s
template engine, which is just like PHP and
won’t collapse whitespace and indentations,
and two because I dislike that the HTML I’m
sending out looks like a mess. Yet I can’t
find a HTML minifier for C++ on GitHub. I’ve
known that HTML is difficult to parse.
Espically the fact that HTML, like Markdown,
does not have a BNF grammar. The best anyone
can do is a simple `.*`. But I looked into
HTML’s parsing rules. And thought to myself,
this isn’t that hard if I don’t want to
maintain it. Espically the HTML5 standard is
very clear on how to handle out of spec HTML.
# ⚓ Client_Certificates_in_Gemini⠀⇛
It’s been longer than I had anticipated since
my last entry, I am surprised that my last
entry was almost 3 months ago. My first
tutorial is a continued work in progress and
I remain steadfast in my desire to write more
and eventually write daily. Blog posts may
not be daily but I would like to write daily
for content to be contributed to this
capsule. Since my last entry, I’ve been
browsing gemini and even Gopher much more
than the general http web.
A major project that I’ve been working on is
making the ultimate terminal computer using a
Raspberry Pi 400. This can be thought have as
a more modern dumb terminal but much more
capable. While there is a window manager in
the form of i3, all the applications are
terminal based. I plan to do a write on it in
the future when I’ve completed it but for now
you’ll have to contend with your imaginations
as to what I could possibly be running. Well
lynx is my web browser and neomutt is my
email client so that should give you come
clues when I say that every app used is a
terminal app.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ zig_napping⠀⇛
Approximately every six months, I approach
#zig – a language in its pre-release stage,
so there’s constantly something new emerging
in it.
This time, I wrote `nap` – an “analog” of the
`sleep` utility that takes a string in the
format 1h15m and then prints the remaining
time until the command execution is completed
every N seconds.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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✐ Links_10/06/2023:Debian_12“Bookworm”⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 10:11 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o BSD
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
o Licensing_/_Legal
o Programming/Development
# Python
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ 7_Stunning_Docks_for_Ubuntu_and_other_Linux⠀⇛
Docks play a crucial role in enhancing the user
experience and productivity on Ubuntu or any other
Linux distribution. With their sleek and intuitive
design, docks provide quick access to frequently
used applications, system settings, and workspace
management.
The docks are complex applications, and there are
very few active projects available in the Linux
ecosystem. The reason might be that the desktop
environment provides built-in capabilities to
transform the respective default panel to a dock.
However, here are the top 7 best docks for Ubuntu
and other Linux distros which still works.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to
Microsoft_SharePoint⠀⇛
They have also made investments in Linux
development, server technology and organizations
including the Linux Foundation and Open Source
Initiative. They have made acquisitions such as
Xamarin to help mobile app development, and GitHub
a hugely popular code repository for open source
developers. And they have partnered with Canonical,
the developers of the popular Ubuntu distro. But
many developers remain hugely sceptical about
Microsoft and their apparent shift to embrace open
source.
This series looks at the best free and open source
alternatives to products and services offered by
Microsoft.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_7_Best_Tools_to_Create_a_Bootable_USB
From_an_ISO_in_Linux⠀⇛
If you have taken the plunge and decided to install
a Linux distribution on your machine, you should
ensure your installation arsenal is ready for use.
The first thing you need is an ISO image of your
favorite Linux distro, which you can boot onto a
flash drive and use to install the OS on your
machine. Unfortunately, creating a bootable USB to
install Linux without the right tools and
applications is challenging.
You can use these top seven USB Linux boot creator
tools to create a bootable USB from an ISO image.
# ⚓ The_Top_17_Open-Source_Tools_for_Securing_Your_Linux_Server
[Ed: Old, but just updated]⠀⇛
Over the years, I have come across many blogs that
claim Linux is impenetrable by security attackers
too many times to count. While it is true that GNU/
Linux operating systems for desktops and servers
come with a lot of security checks in place to
mitigate attacks, protection is not “enabled by
default”.
This is because your cybersecurity ultimately
depends on the tools you have employed to sniff out
vulnerabilities, viruses, and malware, and to
prevent malicious attacks.
# ⚓ Introducing_Strawberry:_The_Ultimate_Music_Player_and
Organizer⠀⇛
Strawberry Music Player is an open-source cross-
platform music player and music collection
organizer with a focus on providing more features
than typical music players would.
Strawberry is a fork of Clementine music player
released in 2018 aimed at music collectors and
audiophiles. It’s written in C++ using the Qt
toolkit and GStreamer.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Use_vimdiff_Like_a_Vim_Pro⠀⇛
Have you ever wondered of writing a vimscript such
that, when you open two files, it highlights the
differences between the opened files and shows you
how they differ? Why do that when vimdiff exists?
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Install_GitLab_CE_on_RHEL9_with
Ansible⠀⇛
Any change in an environment can introduce risk.
However, running management and peripheral services
on the latest version of an operating system helps
build knowledge and confidence within your
organization. And by using your Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (RHEL) systems in their Full Support Phase
(that’s the first five of the ten year support life
cycle), you’re getting the full support experience
that you’re entitled to. Moving your applications
and services to RHEL is better done sooner than
later, and it’s not as hard as you might think.
In this article, I demonstrate how easy it is to
deploy GitLab on a RHEL 9 system. In addition to
using the latest version of RHEL, I also show you
how to use Ansible to automate the deployment
process. That means in the future, you can use
Ansible automation to deploy GitLab onto newer
versions of RHEL upon release.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Generate,_Encrypt_and_Decrypt_Random
Passwords_in_Linux⠀⇛
In this article, we will share some interesting
command-line tools to generate random passwords and
also how to encrypt and decrypt passwords with or
without the slat (a security measure used in
password hashing) method.
Security is one of the major concerns of the
digital age. We set passwords to computers, email,
cloud, phones, documents, and whatnot. We all know
the basic to choose a password that is easy to
remember and hard to guess.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Upgrade_to_Debian_12_from_Debian_11⠀⇛
If you are running Debian 11 Bullseye, you can plan
to upgrade your desktop or server now. However, it
is recommended that you wait until the first point
release, i.e. 12.1 of Debian Bookworm, for critical
server upgrades.
Here are the detailed steps to upgrade.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ eXtremeRate_put_up_their_Steam_Deck_custom
shell_for_pre-order⠀⇛
Ready to ship around the middle of June,
eXtremeRate have now put up pre-orders for those of
you brave enough to mod the entire shell of the
Steam Deck.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ A_Void_Hope_looks_like_a_fun_atmospheric
adventure_with_a_synthwave_soundtrack⠀⇛
Elden Pixels who made Alwa’s Awakening and Alwa’s
Legacy have announced their next game, A Void Hope.
An atmospheric puzzle adventure with a slick
sounding synthwave soundtrack not to be missed.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Competitive_party_game_Unspottable_gets
online_play⠀⇛
Unspottable was a lot of fun at release, giving you
competitive hide and seek amongst the crowd
gameplay but local multiplayer was pretty limiting.
Now though, it has online play!
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ KDE ☛ KDE_today_announces_the_release_of_KDE
Frameworks_5.107.0⠀⇛
KDE Frameworks are 83 addon libraries to Qt
which provide a wide variety of commonly
needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed
and well tested libraries with friendly
licensing terms. For an introduction see the
KDE Frameworks release announcement.
This release is part of a series of planned
monthly releases making improvements
available to developers in a quick and
predictable manner.
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KDE_Frameworks_5.107_Enables_Thumbnail
Caching_on_Encrypted_Volumes⠀⇛
KDE Frameworks 5.107 looks like a small
update that only improves support for
installations with an encrypted home
directory by storing thumbnails in their
typical cache location so that they won’t
have to be re-generated all the time.
It also improves dark mode support for KDE
apps when they are running on other desktop
environments than KDE Plasma and the plasma-
integration package is not installed. This
change was implemented in the Breeze icon
set, which now correctly uses light colors
instead of staying dark.
# ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ This_week_in_KDE:_major_plumbing_work
in_Plasma_6⠀⇛
This week Plasma 6 underwent some major
refactoring to the fundamental Plasma widget
APIs to modernize them and make it harder to
introduce errors when developing new widgets.
Since almost everything in Plasma is a
widget, this necessitated a lot of changes
and QA. After a month of work, it’s now done!
The user-facing side is nil (ideally nobody
will notice anything), but there are some
changes that developers will need to be aware
of to port their widgets. Most widgets
already needed to be ported anyway due to Qt
changes, but hopefully this won’t add much
else. A porting guide has already been
written and can be found here. This work was
done by Marco Martin, with me providing QA
support.
On that subject, we got a lot more organized
about Plasma 6 this week. We now centrally
track status on a new wiki page that shows
the outstanding issues and notable changes.
I’m starting to feel like I see a light at
the end of the tunnel! While I’ve had to use
the X11 Plasma 6 session because the Wayland
one is still a bit too unstable for me to
feel productive, the X11 session now feels
barely buggier than the Plasma 5 X11 session.
It’s really quite nice at this point.
# ⚓ Volker Krause ☛ KDE_Frameworks_6_Bits_&_Pieces
⠀⇛
While most of the effort around the
transition to Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 (KF6)
is probably going into Plasma currently,
there are still a number of lose ends to tie
up in Frameworks itself as well. The below is
far from a comprehensive overview of that
though, it’s merely a few things I have been
involved with recently.
During the 5 era we relied on the text-
template engine Grantlee in several places
(e.g. KHelpCenter, KDevelop, KDE PIM). In the
6 era this will now live on as KTextTemplate
as part of KDE Frameworks.
The final bits for this, the formal review
process and the actual move of the
repository, have now been done as well.
Going forward this will mean one dependency
release cycle less to deal with for
consumers, and a faster and more predictable
way to get upstream fixes rolled out.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ vnet_jail_on_FreeBSD_not_letting_pings
through_from_another_non-vnet_jail⠀⇛
I just restarted my pkg01 jail. Now Nagios can’t
see it on IPv6.
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ OpenSUSE ☛ Leap_15.5_Release_Retrospective_is_open_for
feedback⠀⇛
openSUSE Leap 15.5 was released earlier this week
and release team would like to hear from you about
your experience with openSUSE Leap 15.5.
Did anything go particularly well, or perhaps did
we miss something? Did you have trouble
downloading, installing, or contributing to Leap
15.5? Did you like the overall communication?
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Debian_12_“Bookworm”_Officially_Released,
Here’s_What’s_New⠀⇛
After almost two years of hard work, Debian 12
“Bookworm” is finally here and it’s powered by the
long-term supported Linux 6.1 LTS kernel series.
This kernel brings new and updated drivers to
support modern hardware and it will be officially
supported until December 2026.
New features in Debian 12 “Bookworm” include a new
non-free-firmware repository consisting of non-free
firmware packages split from Debian’s non-free
repository. Those upgrading from Debian 11 to
Debian 12 will have to add the new non-free-
firmware repository to their sources.list files.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Breaking:_Debian_12_‘Bookworm’_Officially
Released_with_Kernel_6.1⠀⇛
Debian, the “Universal operating system”, has
officially unveiled its highly anticipated version
12, codenamed “Bookworm.” Packed with a host of new
features and improvements, Debian 12 ensures users
have access to cutting-edge technologies while
maintaining its renowned stability and reliability.
Here’s what’s new.
# ⚓ Debian ☛ Debian_12_bookworm_released⠀⇛
After 1 year, 9 months, and 28 days of development,
the Debian project is proud to present its new
stable version 12 (code name bookworm).
bookworm will be supported for the next 5 years
thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security
team and the Debian Long Term Support team.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Debian_12_“Bookworm”_Has_Landed⠀⇛
While there is no fixed schedule, a new stable
Debian upgrade appears every two years or so.
Debian 11 was released in 2021, and now in 2023, we
have the next major version bump, i.e., Debian 12.
Interestingly, Debian 12 has been released with
about 100 known bugs, as mentioned in the release
notes. So, you might want to explore the release
details before upgrading or installing it.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 7_Reasons_to_Upgrade_Your_Ubuntu_Installation
to_Ubuntu_23.04⠀⇛
Canonical released the final version of Ubuntu
23.04, nicknamed Lunar Lobster, in April 2023. This
version of Ubuntu provides quite a few changes and
updates that many will surely appreciate.
Compared to the previous Ubuntu versions—22.10
(Kinetic Kudu) and 22.04 LTS (Jammy
Jellyfish)—Ubuntu 23.04 features several changes
that may interest some people in upgrading or at
least trying out the new release.
But with Ubuntu 23.04 only being an interim release
with support until the 20th of January 2024, should
you still upgrade to this version of Ubuntu? Sure!
Here are seven reasons why.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Vibe_with_the_Feather_RP2040_video_synth⠀⇛
The Feather RP2040 and a FeatherWing Proto sit next
to each on the FeatherWing Doubler. The
potentiometers and buttons are wired via the
FeatherWing Proto. This nice show-and-tell will
help you do the wiring. The Feather RP2040 powers
everything via its USB port and runs Arduino code
from the PicoDVI library. All the project code is
up for grabs here.
There are five animations coded onto the video
synth. Twiddle the potentiometer knobs to alter
each animation like a visual DJ. Three of them
adjust the colours, and one changes different
visual aspects depending on which animation is
playing.
# ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ Messing_with_the_Beepberry⠀⇛
The keyboard feels almost as good as any old
Blackberry, though it doesn’t have full support
from behind—I think a good case design could
provide a tiny bit more structure behind the left
and right side of the keyboard. The center keys
feel great, the outside keys have a tiny bit of
flex to them. Ctrl is mapped to the little ‘pick up
phone’ icon (which looks more like an empty bowl to
me), and you can hold down the ‘hang up phone’ (the
park bench on the right) to safely shut down the
device. There’s also a power switch on the bottom.
# ⚓ Radek Koziel ☛ How_I_Hacked_my_Car_Part_6:_Nothing_to_it
but_to_Doom_it.⠀⇛
There is a long standing tradition among hardware
hackers and tinkerers. Once a platform is hacked,
once a gadget is tinkered with, once a device is
understood there will always be someone who asks a
certain, specific question. And that question is:
“Can it run Doom?”
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_Docs_for_Android_defaulting_to
paginated_mode⠀⇛
# ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ vivo_X90_gets_May_2023_Android_security_patch
and_camera_optimizations_with_new_software_update_–
comments⠀⇛
# ⚓ Digital Journal ☛ Android-Compatible_App_For_Unlimited
Texting,_Improved_CRM_Efficiency_Update⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_use_Xbox_Series_S_&_X_remote_play_on_your_Android
Device_–_Phandroid⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ After_customizable_clocks,_what_else_do_you
want_on_the_Android_lockscreen?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 5_Ways_to_Extend_Battery_Life_While_Gaming_on
Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ 8_Android_accessibility_tips_to_make_life_easier_|_Fox
News⠀⇛
# ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Google_Meet_app_for_Android_to_get_a_new
“safety_feature”_when_walking_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ I’m_a_security_expert_–_all_Android_users_need_to
edit_settings_now_before_common_feature_leaves_you_with
costly_bill_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Google_‘policy_change’_brings_back_beloved_‘lost’
Android_feature_years_after_deleting_it_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Android_users_receive_a_free_upgrade_from_Google
–_and_gamers_will_love_it_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ New_Features_for_Android_Phones_and_More_in_2023_–
Phandroid⠀⇛
# ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Your_Android_TV_could_be_getting_a_big_upgrade
–_here’s_what’s_coming_|_TechRadar⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_14_Beta_3_has_a_neat_trick_to_make
Battery_Saver_more_efficient⠀⇛
# ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Android_14_Beta_3_packs_new_stylus-specific
features_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ Google_Skips_Android_13_for_Android_TV_14_Beta-
Gizchina.com⠀⇛
# ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Wear_OS_4-based_One_UI_Watch_5_update_is
powered_by_Android_13_–_SamMobile⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ Tor ☛ New_Alpha_Release:_Tor_Browser_12.5a7_(Android,
Windows,_macOS,_Linux)⠀⇛
Tor Browser 12.5a7 is now available from the Tor
Browser download page and also from our
distribution directory.
This release updates Firefox to 102.12.0esr,
including bug fixes, stability improvements and
important security updates. We also backported the
Android-specific security updates from Firefox 114.
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ Games_curl_too⠀⇛
Finding out they use curl is rarely straight
forward. They virtually never told us before hand.
Many list the curl license somewhere, sometimes you
can find the DLL and some actually include a
mention in on-screen credits displays.
o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾
# ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Do_open_source_licences_cover_the_Ship_of
Theseus?⠀⇛
I think there’s a reasonable argument that de
minimis non curat lex – the law cares not for small
things. Is anyone seriously going to argue that I
stole half a dozen bytes? Could they prove that I
copied that single line from them? Would anyone
care?
And yet, morally, I feel that I should give credit.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Buttondown ☛ What’s_between_a_set_and_a_sequence?⠀⇛
I finally updated the alloydocs to Alloy 6. The
docs now cover how to use temporal operators in
Alloy.
To celebrate, let’s talk something completely
unrelated. The simplest kind of collection is the
set: an unordered collection of unique elements.
All branches of mathematics use sets somewhere, and
in fact you can bootstrap all other collection
types from just sets. Many programming languages
have set types or something that mimics sets, but
it’s less common than sequences, which are ordered
collections of repeatable elements. ≈All
programming languages have some form of sequence.
If sequences are sets + two properties, what are
sets + one property?
# ⚓ Johan Halse ☛ The_Goldilocks_Zone_of_Indirection⠀⇛
I think there’s a Goldilocks Zone of indirection.
Adding layers can be really powerful: it allows you
to re-use code, isolate concepts, and can unlock
some pretty rad ideas. But the mental overhead of
indirection scales exponentially. By the third or
fourth level you’re already losing track of what
you were doing: I’ve had epic debugging sessions
where I had to make like a pirate and draw a
physical HERE BE DRAGONS style map and that’s not
somewhere you want to go unless you really have to.
Remember YAGNI. As I’ve learned and grown during my
career I’ve really come to really appreciate taking
a direct and simple approach rather than going for
flexibility and power.
Of course, in the end the boring and adult answer
to “how much indirection should I use” is “it
depends.” Some parts call for more indirection,
some parts call for less. But the arduous path from
Rockstar Ninja to Senile Senior Developer has
taught me that readability is far and away the most
important property of any codebase. Be mindful of
it whenever you feel like adding a layer of
indirection. Stay in the Goldilocks Zone, so other
humans can read what you’ve written. The computer
doesn’t care either way.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Earthly ☛ Python_Data_Classes_vs_Named_Tuples:
Differences_You_Should_Know⠀⇛
Given that Python data classes are popular,
are named tuples still relevant? What are the
key differences between the two? Are there
advantages of using one over the
other—depending on what we’d like to do?
Let’s take a closer look at both data classes
and named tuples, and try to answer these
questions.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ FAIR ☛ WSJ_Celebrates_Making_It_Harder_for_Poor_People_to_Access
Food⠀⇛
So basically we can expect the new work requirements to
definitely take food vouchers (in other words, food) away
from a bunch of people—perhaps 225,000—and maybe slightly
increase employment. Oh, yeah, they could also worsen
physical and mental health, and increase reliance on food
banks. Is that what rebuilding a culture of work looks
like?
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Dark_in_Here⠀⇛
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ U-M_to_pioneer_inter-disciplinary_research
institute_with_$55_million_investment_in_Quantum_research⠀⇛
Steven Cundiff, Harrison M. Randall Collegiate
professor of physics, electrical engineering and
computer science, and Mack Kira, professor of
computer and electrical engineering, will co-direct
the QRI. The Quantum Research Institute is a result
of the Michigan Quantum Science Working Group,
launched by Cundiff and Kira in 2018 following the
National Quantum Initiative Act passed in 2018,
which provided federal funding for quantum
research.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ NASA_Team_Sets_New_Space-to-Ground_Laser
Communication_Record⠀⇛
[NASA] and a team of partners has demonstrated a
space-to-ground laser communication system
operating at a record breaking 200 gigabit per
second (Gbps) data rate. The TeraByte InfraRed
Delivery (TBIRD) satellite payload was designed and
built by [MIT Lincoln Laboratory]. The record of
the highest data rate ever achieved by a space-to-
Earth optical communication link surpasses the 100
Gbps record set by the same team in June 2022.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Gigabyte_Motherboards_Came_With_Sloppy_Backdoor
Users_Had_No_Idea_About⠀⇛
It’s always interesting to me to watch and see what
gets attention in the security and privacy space.
For example, everybody spent the last two years
suffering absolute embolisms at the idea that
TikTok was a threat to privacy, but nobody much
seems to care that an absolute ocean of “smart
devices,” from your router to your television,
routinely come with paper-mache-grade security.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Magnetic_Bubble_Memory_Brought_To_Life_On
Heathkit⠀⇛
There are all kinds of technology that appear
through the ages that find immediate success,
promise to revolutionize the world, but fade to
obscurity almost as quickly. Things like the ZIP
disk, RDRAM, the digital compact cassette, or even
Nintendo’s VirtualBoy. Going even further back in
time [smbaker] is taking a look a bubble memory, a
technology that was so fast and cost-effective for
its time that it could have been used as
“universal” memory, combining storage and random-
access memory into a single unit, but eventually
other technological developments overshadowed its
quirks.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_PDP8_That_Never_Was:_Hollow_State_Logic⠀⇛
[Outer World Apps] noted that there was no PDP-8/
V made by DEC — a variant that used vacuum tubes.
So he’s decided to make one using about 320 6J6A
tubes. He’s got a plan and a few boards completed —
we can’t wait to see it finished.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ These_3D_Printed_Biocatalytic_Fibers_Scrub
Carbon_Dioxide⠀⇛
On today’s episode of “What If?” — what if the
Apollo 13 astronauts had a 3D printer? Well, for
one thing, they may have been able to avoid all the
futzing with duct tape and procedure list covers to
jury rig the lithium hydroxide filters, at least if
they’d known about these 3D printed enzymatic CO2
filters. And time travel…they probably would have
needed that too.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Retrotechtacular:_A_Closer_Look_At_The_VT
Proximity_Fuze⠀⇛
Here at Hackaday, our aim is to bring you only the
freshest of hacks, which carries the burden of
being Johnny-on-the-spot with our source material.
So if something of obvious interest to our readers
goes viral, we might just choose to skip covering
it ourselves, figuring you all have probably seen
it already. But, if we can dig a little deeper and
bring extra value over and above what the viral
content provides — well then that’s another story.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Variety ☛ TikTok_No_Match_for_YouTube_Among_Kids_Under_12:
Survey⠀⇛
The latest “U.S. Precise Advertiser Report: Kids”
(PARK) research from contextual video intelligence
company Precise TV has found that 9 out of 10 kids
access content on YouTube versus 4 in 10 for
TikTok.
The online survey aggregated responses from 2,000
kids age 2-12 in the U.S. to better understand
trends in the content consumption of young
audiences and improve how best to engage with them
across media platforms.
# ⚓ Larry_Cook:_A_time_warp_of_cornucopia_of_antivax_quackery⠀⇛
In the age of COVID-19, everything old is new again
with respect to antivaccine quackery. Robert F.
Kennedy, Jr.‘s antivax group Children’s Health
Defense even held a 23 year memorial at the CDC
over the Simpsonwood conference, which became the
basis of RFK Jr.’s fear mongering antivax
conspiracy theory in 2005 published in Salon.com
and Rolling Stone while antivaxxers like Steve
Kirsch have been resurrecting the old “CDC
whistleblower” conspiracy theory that first arose
in 2014 but was really popularized by Del Bigtree
and Andrew Wakefield’s conspira-documentary VAXXED.
I admit that I didn’t do more than sample the
video, given that it was over four hours long, but
truly I felt like we were doing the Time Warp to 18
years ago. I was further reminded of dredging up of
every debunked old bit of antivax quackery earlier
this week when I came across longtime antivaxxer
Larry Cook‘s June 2023 update to his Vaccine Injury
Treatment, Recovery And Resource Starter Guide.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Affordably_Detecting_Water_Pollutants_Using_3D
Printed_Lattices_And_Plasmonic_Nanoparticles⠀⇛
Although detecting pollution in surface waters has
become significantly easier over the years, testing
for specific pollutants still requires the taking
of samples that are then sent to a laboratory for
analysis. For something like detecting pesticide
run-off, this can be a cumbersome and expensive
procedure. But a 3D printed sensor demonstrated by
[Sara Fateixa] and international colleagues offers
hope that such tests can soon be performed in the
field. The most expensive part of this setup is the
portable Raman spectrometer that is used to detect
the adsorbed molecules on the printed test strips.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Jay Little ☛ Your_Data,_Their_Profits,_Our_Loss:_KTHXBAI
Reddit,_Twitch,_StackOverflow,_Twitter_and_how_BlueSky
Helped⠀⇛
In any event, the saga of Twitter is well known by
now. I won’t harp on it very long. Needless to say,
Twitter was not consistently profitable (mostly
not) before Elon Musk bought it for $44 billion.
After his endless changes, tweaks and trolling of
users and advertisers, Twitter is reportedly worth
a third of what it once was and it’s advertising
revenue has plummeted.
On the flip side StackOverflow is a brand new drama
that is just kicking off. I heard about it for the
first time earlier today. The long and short of it
is that they want to make their content harder to
access so they can force AI companies to pay for
devouring it to train their AI models.
Twitch is relatively recent as well. While they
have rolled back some of their more egregious
changes in response to the negative reaction of
their user base, make no mistake: Twitch wants a
bigger cut and they are actively working to get it.
In Twitches case this is especially sad because
they are owned by Amazon, who frankly doesnt need
anymore money. They have enough goddammit.
Finally we have Reddit, which is the primary
inspiration for this post. They are clearly
interested in positioning themselves for an IPO.
Guess its time for the Venture Capitalists (VCs) to
cash out. As part of this in the last week they
laid off 5% of their workforce and announced they
are forcing users of their “Enterprise” API to pay.
Their proposed prices are so steep, every third
party reddit app worth its weight will be forced to
shutdown, including the iOS app I currently use,
Apollo.
# ⚓ [Repeat] Vice Media Group ☛ Apollo,_the_Best_Reddit_App,_Is
Shutting_Down_Because_of_Reddit’s_New_Fees⠀⇛
“June 30th will be Apollo’s last day. I’ve talked
to a lot of people, and come to claims with this
over the last weeks as talks with Reddit have
deteriorated to an ugly point, and in the interest
of transparency with the community, I wanted to
talk about how I arrived at this decision,” Selig
began a lengthy post that explains how talks
between him and Reddit have seemingly broken down.
Selig said he asked Reddit to push back the July 1
start date, but said he did not get a response.
# ⚓ Fernando Borretti ☛ Depth-First_Procrastination⠀⇛
I want to train a neural network.
So first I must learn the theory—read a textbook,
ankify it. But to understand the math I must first
learn probability and statistics in depth.
Frequentism or Bayesianism? I heard really good
things about Jaynes. Do I have the mathematical
maturity? Maybe I should revise, say, set theory.
The proofs in this textbook are very hard to read,
so I rewrite them and make them more formal and
refactor them into lemmas small enough to put into
spaced repetition. They’re starting to look like
Fitch notation. Maybe I can write my proofs in
first-order logic? Learning logic might give me a
stronger foundation for doing proofs. But what is
logic, really?
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Sanctions_Hearing_For_ChatGPT_Using_Lawyers…
Did_Not_Go_Well⠀⇛
By now you’ve heard of the lawyer who used ChatGPT
for his legal research, and it made up fake cases.
We’ll again remind you that Joshua Browder, the
founder of DoNotPay insisted that this same
underlying technology was so sophisticated that he
offered $1 million to a lawyer who would let it
make arguments in front of the Supreme Court.
# § Windows TCO⠀➾
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ UK:_University_of_Manchester_trying
to_resolve_“cyber_incident”⠀⇛
On Friday morning, the institution said some
of its data had been accessed by an
“unauthorised party” and data have “likely
been copied”.
# ⚓ Bauer Media Group ☛ University_of_Manchester_trying
to_resolve_“cyber_incident”⠀⇛
Bosses have apologised for any concern the
incident may cause to members of the
community. They also advised staff not to
download files from university systems in
order to back them up.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ SaaS_Ransomware_Attack_Hit_Sharepoint
Online_Without_Using_a_Compromised_Endpoint⠀⇛
Cybersecurity firm Obsidian has observed a
successful ransomware attack against
Sharepoint Online (Microsoft 365) via a
Microsoft Global SaaS admin account rather
than the more usual route of a compromised
endpoint.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Another_hospital_hit_by_ransomware:
Columbus_Regional_Healthcare_System_in_North_Carolina
hit_by_Daixin⠀⇛
Columbus Regional Healthcare System (CRHS) is
a non-profit organization in North Carolina
licensed for 154 beds. The Daixin ransomware
group claims that on May 18, they encrypted
the hospital’s servers after exfiltrating
data and deleting backups.
o § Security⠀➾
# § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ (Apparent)_Certificate
Authorities_aren’t_always_actual_CAs⠀⇛
The CA in question was called ‘HiCA’, and
even if you keep good track of the (many) TLS
Certificate Authorities that your browser or
operating system trusts, you may be
scratching your head in puzzlement because
you’ve never heard of it before. That’s
because this (now-ex) ‘CA’ was not an actual
Certificate Authority, and it’s far from the
only such one.
What’s going on is that these days there’s a
lot of white label reselling of what I could
call root CAs, ie the Certificate Authorities
that are trusted by browsers and systems.
Resellers have their own website and brand,
but they don’t have a root CA certificate of
their own in browsers; instead the TLS
certificates they get for you are ultimately
signed by someone else. Sometimes this is a
very direct relationship, and the TLS
certificate visibly belongs to the CA that
the reseller is in front of. At other times,
the reseller has a TLS intermediate
certificate in their own name (for example).
As Andrew Ayer explains on HN (I know),
sometimes this involves the root CA
generating and holding the intermediate CA
certificate itself, basically so that the
branding in the end TLS certificate can have
the reseller’s name on it instead of the root
CA’s name (see also).
# ⚓ DJ Bernstein ☛ Turbo_Boost:_How_to_perpetuate
security_problems._#overclocking_#performancehype
#power_#timing_#hertzbleed_#riskmanagement
#environment⠀⇛
New resource page available on timing
attacks, including recommendations for action
to take regarding overclocking attacks such
as #HertzBleed: https://
timing.attacks.cr.yp.to Don’t wait for the
next public overclocking attack; take
proactive steps to defend your data against
compromise.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Pornhub_Begs_Users_to_Put_Down_the_Tissues
and_Contact_Their_Legislators⠀⇛
In recent months, a slew of conservative
legislatures have passed age verification
laws that would force users of adult sites to
prove that they’re 18 years of age or older
before watching porn. The idea is to protect
children from being exposed to potentially
harmful material at an early age. In Utah,
where one such law was recently enacted,
adult sites are now required to provide
“reasonable age verification methods” for
their users—the likes of which involve
digitally submitting a state issued ID to
adult sites before content can be accessed.
As a result of the new law, which would also
hold companies liable if they deliver adult
content to minors, Pornhub recently pulled
its service out of Utah entirely.
But Utah isn’t the only state that’s headed
towards this kind of regulatory reform. The
state of Louisiana was the first to pass an
age verification law in late 2022 and, since
then, a bevy of other states have introduced
similar “copycat” legislation. Bills in
Arkansas, Virginia, and Mississippi were
recently passed into law, while other states
are said to be mulling their own bills.
# ⚓ [Repeat] New York Times ☛ Louisiana_Passes_Bill_That
Would_Require_Parental_Consent_for_Kids’_Online
Accounts⠀⇛
The Louisiana measure would prohibit online
services — including social networks,
multiplayer games and video-sharing apps —
from allowing people under 18 to sign up for
accounts without parental consent. It would
also allow Louisiana parents to cancel the
terms-of-service contracts that their
children signed for existing accounts on
popular services like TikTok, Instagram,
YouTube, Fortnite and Roblox.
The Louisiana civil code already allows
parents to rescind contracts signed by
unemancipated minors. Laurie Schlegel, the
Republican state legislator who spearheaded
the new measure, said her bill simply made it
clear that the state’s existing contracting
rules also covered accounts on online
content-sharing platforms.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Snowden_Warns_Today’s_Surveillance
Technology_Makes_2013_Look_Like_‘Child’s_Play’⠀⇛
“We trusted the government not to screw us,”
said Edward Snowden. “But they did. We
trusted the tech companies not to take
advantage of us. But they did. That is going
to happen again, because that is the nature
of power.”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_FBI_Is_Back_to_Its_Old_Habits:
Illegally_Spying_on_Protesters⠀⇛
In 2008, a bipartisan Congress took a
sledgehammer to the Constitution. The FISA
Amendments Act codified what the Bush
administration had been doing illegally after
9/11: collecting Americans’ international
communications data on a massive scale,
without anything resembling individualized
suspicion of a crime, let alone a warrant.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Court_Tosses_Phone_Evidence_After_First
Warrant_Was_Too_Vague_And_Second_Warrant_Was_Too_Late⠀⇛
For searches to be compliant with the
Constitution, their underlying warrants need
to be just as compliant. Warrants have been
required for cell phone searches since 2014,
thanks to the Supreme Court’s Riley decision.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ NSO_Competitor_QuaDream_Shutting_Down
After_Finding_It_Can’t_Make_Money_If_It_Can’t_Sell_To
Human_Rights_Abusers⠀⇛
NSO Group is on the ropes after years of
self-inflicted damage metastasized into
months of negative news coverage. Since
worldwide exposure of its customers’ abuse of
its malware, as well as exposing the sort of
people NSO chose to deal with, the company
has discussed getting out of the offensive
spyware business — a move that might simply
become a much shorter phrase: going out of
business.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Criminal_Delusions_of_Donald_Trump⠀⇛
With Donald Trump’s federal indictment on seven
criminal counts relating to the former president’s
seizure of more than 300 classified documents, the
American constitutional system faces another stress
test sparked by a failed autocrat’s malign
narcissism. The charges brought by Justice
Department special prosecutor Jack Smith are both
chilling and bathetic—like so many of Trump’s
crimes, falsehoods, and power plays. Trump
reportedly kept correspondence with North Korean
dictator Kim Jong Un, presumably as a bit of
kitschy memorabilia to impress throngs of
sycophants at his Mar-a-Lago home; he’s also
alleged to have purloined documents revealing
nuclear secrets and outlined a plan to invade Iran
for his private delectation, which brings the
episode closer to the last reel of Dr. Strangelove
than The Interview.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ DOJ_vs._African_People’s_Socialist_Party:
Omali_Yeshitela_Blasts_Charges_of_Being_Russian_Agent⠀⇛
We look at a federal indictment of four U.S.
citizens for alleged election interference that has
received little press attention despite its major
implications for free speech and activism in the
country. In April, the Biden administration charged
four members of a pan-Africanist group with
conspiring with the Russian government to sow
discord in U.S. elections. Omali Yeshitela, chair
of the African People’s Socialist Party, faces
charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States,
along with Penny Hess, Jesse Nevel and Augustus
Romain Jr. Three Russians were also named in an
indictment unsealed by the Justice Department on
Tuesday. This follows a violent FBI raid on the
activists’ properties in Missouri and Florida last
summer. “It’s very clear that this is about more
than what the government has said it’s about,” says
Yeshitela, arguing the real objective in the case
is “to destroy our movement.”
# ⚓ NBC ☛ Reality_Winner_says_she’s_‘blown_away’_by_details_in
indictment_against_Trump⠀⇛
Winner became the first person to be prosecuted and
then sentenced under the Trump administration for
defying the Espionage Act by leaking classified
information. Now Trump faces 31 counts of willful
retention of national defense information — in
violation of the Espionage Act — as well as other
counts related to making false statements and
conspiring to obstruct justice.
“This is probably one of the most egregious and
cut-and-dry cases,” Winner, 31, said in a phone
interview with NBC News of the allegations that
Trump held onto sensitive government documents and
attempted to mislead investigators.
[...]
Winner had been working for national security
contractor Pluribus International at Fort Gordon in
Georgia when prosecutors say she smuggled out a
classified report in her pantyhose detailing the
Russian government’s efforts to pierce a Florida-
based voting software supplier ahead of the 2016
presidential election. That information was later
reported by The Intercept news outlet.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ NATO_Condemns_Russia’s_Decision_To_Quit_Treaty_On
Conventional_Armed_Forces_In_Europe⠀⇛
The treaty was signed in 1990 to establish equal
limitations on major armaments for NATO and the
Warsaw Pact, a collective defense treaty between
the then-Soviet Union and seven Eastern European
countries. The objective of the CFE was to reduce
the possibility of a surprise attack and the
triggering of a major offensive in Europe.
The NATO statement on June 9 said the alliance had
repeatedly called on Russia to comply with the CFE
treaty, but Russia had “not engaged constructively,
and has not taken steps towards full compliance.”
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Iranians_suspected_to_be_helping_Russia_build
a_drone_factory_for_use_in_war_on_Ukraine⠀⇛
Citing newly declassified information, the White
House said on Friday (US time) the drones, or
Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), were built in
Iran, shipped across the Caspian Sea and then used
by Russian forces against Ukraine.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Al_Shabaab_militants_attack_Mogadishu_beachfront
hotel⠀⇛
Al Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for an
attack on an upmarket restaurant in the Somali
capital of Mogadishu on Friday that left at least
seven people injured.
# ⚓ [Repeat] France24 ☛ World_warming_at_record_0.2C_per
decade,_top_scientists_warn⠀⇛
The findings would appear to close the door on
capping global warming under the Paris treaty’s
more ambitious 1.5C target, long identified as a
guard rail for a relatively climate-safe world,
albeit one still roiled by severe impacts.
“Even though we are not yet at 1.5C warming, the
carbon budget” — the amount of greenhouse gases
humanity can emit without exceeding that limit —
“will likely be exhausted in only a few years,”
said lead author Piers Forster, a physics professor
at the University of Leeds.
# ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Spike_in_Russian_GPS_interference
hit_Estonia_in_early_June⠀⇛
The signals jamming efforts have surged in the
aftermath of drone attacks on the Kremlin and other
locations in Moscow, and the interference is of
Russian origin, Bloomberg says.
# ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ Trump_Extremists_Demand_Civil_War,_Mass
Murder_After_New_Indictment⠀⇛
The proposal for mass killing struck user
“BlackPilledMAGA” as going too far: “Doesn’t have
to be thousands, just a few dozen would do. Shit
would STOP immediately.” But user “Nerdrem1”
insisted taking out a few elites wouldn’t make the
difference, suggesting the number of dead required
was on a genocidal scale: “Millions. The real
problem is the people that vote for them, as long
as they exist the problem can’t be solved.” A user
named “Heavy_Metal_Patriot” concurred: “Correct.”
It might be tempting to dismiss these calls for
mass murder as loose talk among angry MAGAdonians.
Yet there is dark history here. In a previous
iteration, The Donald was used to help plot and
promote the violence at the Capitol in 2021, as
detailed in the final report of the House Jan. 6
Committee, including by users who “openly discussed
surrounding and occupying the U.S. Capitol.”
# ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Dangers_of_AI_Revealed_as_Israeli_Bullet
Decides_to_Kill_Somebody⠀⇛
The Guardian has revealed some of the extraordinary
danger of artificial intelligence in a headline
that reveals an Israeli bullet decided all by
itself to kill somebody.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Simply_A(nother)_Killing_In_A_Nasty_World⠀⇛
After days of enraged Americans wondering how a
(white) woman could shoot and kill through a locked
door a (black) mother whose four children she’d
harassed, bullied, called ‘niggers’ and thrown
things at and yet still remain free, the murderous
Karen was finally arrested in stand-your-ground
Florida, where police had to think about it before
deciding it was “simply a killing.” Thus is victim
Ajike ‘AJ’ Owens, “a heart of gold” who “absolutely
lived for her four children,” now “just another
Black soul lost to earth.”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Is_America_Worth_Saving?⠀⇛
All around us things are falling apart.
Collectively, Americans are experiencing national
and imperial decline. Can America save itself? Is
this country, as presently constituted, even worth
saving?
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Special_mention_for_Wagner_Group_in_SIPRI
conflict_report⠀⇛
Last year saw more multilateral peace operations
conducted than in any year during the previous
decade research by the Stockholm International
Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) found. As in
previous years, the United Nations (UN) led the
largest number of multilateral peace operations at
20, SIPRI Peace Operations and Conflict Management
Programme Dr Claudia Pfeifer writes.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Will_AUKUS_FAUKUS?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ AUKUS_coming_to_dinner⠀⇛
Declassified Australia reveals the feast for
lobbyists, US defence contractors and hangers-on
which is the AUKUS $370bn submarines deal, Kelly
Tranter reports.
The defence lobbying firm Pyne & Partners – chaired
by the former Australian Defence Minister
Christopher Pyne – co-hosted an AUKUS reception and
dinner in Washington at the swanky Cosmos Club on
Embassy Row, with Northrop Grumman Corporation, on
3 April 2023.
# § War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ NATO_Condemns_Russia’s_Decision_To_Quit
Treaty_On_Conventional_Armed_Forces_In_Europe⠀⇛
NATO has condemned Russia’s decision to quit
the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in
Europe, saying it “further demonstrates
Moscow’s continued disregard for arms
control.”
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Matthew_Hoh:_A_War_Long_Wanted⠀⇛
Many in Brussels, DC, Kyiv, London and Moscow
have desired this war for decades.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin:_Ukraine’s_counteroffensive_has
started,_but_‘all_its_attempts_have_failed_so_far’_—
Meduza⠀⇛
President of the Russian Federation Vladimir
Putin announced that Ukraine’s
counteroffensive has begun but said that
Ukraine’s Armed Forces have not achieved
their goals at any part of the front.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Three_killed_in_Russian_drone
attack_on_Ukraine’s_Odesa⠀⇛
Ukraine’s military on Saturday said three
civilians were killed in an overnight drone
attack on the Black Sea port city of Odesa, a
day after Russian forces claimed to have
repelled fierce Ukrainian attacks in the
Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions, in the
clearest evidence yet that Kyiv’s long-
awaited counteroffensive has begun. Follow
our blog to see how the day’s events
unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Ukrainian_hackers_target_telecom
firm_connected_to_Russian_central_bank⠀⇛
Banking services in Russia may have been
disrupted by the attack, which comes amid a
Ukrainian counteroffensive.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Accentuate_the_positive’:_Without_clear
orders_from_the_top,_Russia’s_propaganda_media_is_doing
its_best_to_downplay_the_Kakhovka_dam_breach_—_Meduza⠀⇛
As the slow-motion disaster caused by the
collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in
Ukraine’s Kherson region continues, Russian
officials have repeatedly blamed Kyiv for the
crisis. Unusually, however, the Kremlin has
not told the country’s propaganda outlets to
do the same; in fact, it hasn’t issued any
direct instructions for how the events should
be covered at all, two sources from major
pro-government news agencies told Meduza. As
a result, pro-Kremlin outlets have taken
different approaches in their coverage, but
virtually all of them have chosen to downplay
the significance of the disaster as well as
the scale of the flooding. Meduza special
correspondent Andrey Pertsev explains.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Fugitive_Russian_air_force_pilot_is_in
Lithuania,_confirm_officials⠀⇛
A Russian Air Force pilot, Lieutenant Dmitry
Mishov, who fled the country after refusing
to take part in Ukraine’s invasion is
currently in Lithuania, officials have
confirmed.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Concerned_That_Iran_Building_Drone
Factory_Inside_Russia⠀⇛
The United States says it has information
that Iran intends to build a drone-
manufacturing facility inside Russia that
could become operational next year as Moscow
and Tehran step up military cooperation,
posing an increased danger to Ukraine, the
Middle East, and to the international
community.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine’s_GDP_Falls_10.5_Percent_In_First
Quarter_Of_2023⠀⇛
Ukraine’s gross domestic product fell by 10.5
percent in the first quarter of the year
compared with the same period a year ago, the
economy ministry said on June 9.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Dutch_Supreme_Court_Upholds_Decision_Ordering
Return_Of_Crimean_Gold_Artifacts_To_Ukraine⠀⇛
The Dutch Supreme Court on June 9 upheld
lower court decisions ordering the return of
ancient Crimean gold artifacts to Ukraine,
ANP reported, citing the decision.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_Claims_Audio_Proves_Russia_Behind
Destruction_Of_Dam⠀⇛
Ukraine’s Security Service says it
intercepted telephone communications between
Russian military personnel that “confirm”
Russia’s involvement in the destruction of
the Kakhovka dam as Norway’s seismological
institute said it detected a possible
“explosion” around the time of the dam’s
breaching.
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ The_Kakhovka_Catastrophe:_War-Weary
Ukrainians_Reel_under_Massive_Flooding⠀⇛
Was it Russian incompetence or a monstrous
war crime? Following the massive dam breach
on Tuesday morning, several possible theories
have emerged to explain the disaster.
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Moscow’s_Fever_Dreams:_There_Is_Only_One
Possible_Answer_to_the_Kakhovka_Dam_Breach⠀⇛
The breach of the Kakhovka Dam makes it
clearer than ever: A rapid end to the war can
only come through support for Ukraine’s army.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russian_President_Says_Ukrainian
Counteroffensive_Fails⠀⇛
Over the past five days there has been heavy
fighting with numerous casualties being
recorded on the Ukrainian side.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Floods_in_Kherson_Leave_Eight_Dead⠀⇛
On Tuesday, Moscow denounced that Ukrainian
forces carried out sabotage at the Kakhovka
dam, which caused flooding on both sides of
the Dnieper River.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_approves_200,000_euros_in_emergency
aid_to_help_Ukraine_with_Kakhovka_disaster⠀⇛
On June 9, the Cabinet of Ministers adopted a
decision on the allocation of EUR 200 000
from contingency funds for assistance to
Ukraine to address the ecological and
humanitarian crisis caused by
Russia’s destruction of the dam of the
Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) on
June 6.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Russia_claims_it_blew_up_advanced_Ukrainian
tank,_but_video_shows_its_helicopter_attacked_a
tractor⠀⇛
A grainy black-and-white gunsight video
Russia released this week to bolster a claim
its military blew up some of Ukraine’s most
fearsome tanks actually documented the
destruction of a tractor.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Could_Russia_be_held_accountable
for_the_destruction_of_the_Kakhovka_dam?⠀⇛
Initial analysis indicates that Russia
deliberately destroyed the Kakhovka dam in
what would qualify as one of Moscow’s worst
war crimes in Ukraine, but holding the
Kremlin accountable will prove extremely
difficult, writes Danielle Johnson.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Ukraine’s_rise-from-the-ashes
resilience⠀⇛
Rebuilding the country in the midst of war
was thought crazy. Yet look at how one city
devastated by Russian atrocities is
rebuilding.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Battles_Rage_as_Ukraine_Tries_to
Retake_Russian-Occupied_Territory⠀⇛
Military analysts and U.S. officials said it
was too soon to judge the success of
Ukraine’s offensive, which is looking for
weaknesses to exploit, in the face of fierce
resistance.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Battle_Escalates_in_South_as
Zelensky_and_Putin_Each_Claim_Upper_Hand⠀⇛
Russia and Ukraine are presenting divergent
accounts of fighting in the Zaporizhzhia
region, where analysts warn that Kyiv faces a
difficult battle against Moscow’s entrenched
forces.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Dam’s_Destruction_Reshapes_Ukraine,
but_Not_Arc_of_the_War⠀⇛
The main thrust of the Ukrainian
counteroffensive is expected in the
Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions, not along
the Dnipro River, where the fighting quickly
resumed after the disaster.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_Ukraine_Launches
Counteroffensive,_Definitions_of_‘Success’_Vary⠀⇛
Privately, U.S. and European officials
concede that pushing all of Russia’s forces
out of occupied Ukrainian land is highly
unlikely.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Spy_Satellites_Detected
Explosion_Before_Ukraine_Dam_Collapse,_Official_Says⠀⇛
U.S. spy agencies still do not have any solid
evidence to determine who caused the
destruction, the senior administration
official said.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Says_Transfer_Of_Tactical_Nuclear
Weapons_To_Belarus_Will_Start_Next_Month⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on June
9 during talks with Belarusian leader
Alyaksandr Lukashenka that the transfer of
tactical nuclear weapons from Russia to
Belarus will begin immediately after the
construction of facilities is finished on
July 7-8.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_In_Omsk_Detained_On_Treason_Charge⠀⇛
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said
on June 9 that a resident of the Siberian
city of Omsk had been detained on a charge of
high treason amid a growing number of such
cases in recent months.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Uzbek_Official_Calls_For_Scrapping_Talks_With
Russia_On_Constructing_Nuclear_Power_Plant⠀⇛
Rasul Kusherbaev, an adviser to Uzbekistan’s
natural resources minister and a former
lawmaker, has warned against signing of a
deal with Russia on the construction of a
long-discussed nuclear power plant.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ New_Zealand_state_broadcaster
corrects_‘pro-Russian’_stories⠀⇛
The broadcaster said an employee had been
placed on leave pending outcome of
investigation.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Siberian_Activist_Hospitalized_After_Falling
Ill_At_Her_Trial⠀⇛
A rights activist in Russia’s Siberian region
of Buryatia, Natalya Filonova, has been
hospitalized after she fell ill during her
trial on a charge of assaulting police that
she and her supporters reject as politically
motivated.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Releases_Details_on_Iran’s_Help
With_Russian_Drone_Factory⠀⇛
Washington is trying to raise the pressure on
Tehran and make it more difficult to complete
the work on the factory, which would enable
Russia’s military to produce drones
domestically.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ The_Brussels_Declaration:_Russian_lawyers,
legal_scholars,_and_human_rights_defenders_are
endorsing_the_creation_of_an_international_tribunal_to
investigate_the_crime_of_aggression_against_Ukraine.
Meduza_is_publishing_that_document._—_Meduza⠀⇛
In mid-March 2023, the International Criminal
Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant
for Vladimir Putin on charges of ordering the
illegal deportation of children in occupied
parts of Ukraine to Russia. But the ICC
operates on the basis of the Rome Statute,
which Moscow has not ratified, meaning that
Russia doesn’t recognize the court’s
jurisdiction. More than once, Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged the
creation of an international tribunal to
investigate Russian war crimes. Officials in
the United States and the European Union have
expressed support for this initiative, and
the U.S. Senate is already considering a plan
to form an international judicial body that
could hold Russian officials responsible for
crimes against humanity. Twenty-six Russian
lawyers, legal scholars, and human rights
defenders are joining in a declaration to
endorse President Zelensky’s proposal,
denouncing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as an
act of aggression and expressing their
readiness to aid this investigation in any
way possible. The group below signed the
Brussels Declaration in early June, and
Meduza is publishing the text and list of
endorsements below.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_says_Russia_will_start_deploying
tactical_nuclear_weapons_in_Belarus_in_July_—_Meduza⠀⇛
During a meeting with Alexander Lukashenko on
Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin
announced that Moscow will begin to deploy
tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus in July,
once the necessary equipment is fully
prepared, the Russian state news agency
Interfax reported on Friday.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Iceland_to_suspend_embassy_operations_in
Russia_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Iceland announced Friday that it will suspend
the operations of its embassy in Moscow
beginning on August 1.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_authorities_report_new_drone_crashes
in_Belgorod_and_Kursk_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A drone has crashed on the roof of an office
building in Belgorod, according to Governor
Vyacheslav Gladkov. He said the drone did not
detonate but did catch on fire. “There’s
minor damage to the roof and the boiler room,
and two vehicles were also damaged by
shrapnel,” Gladkov said. He said nobody was
injured.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Norwegian_seismologists_say_explosion_was
detected_around_Kakhovka_dam_around_time_of_collapse_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Experts from the Norwegian research
foundation NORSAR, which studies seismic
events, have determined that on the day that
Ukraine’s Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant
was destroyed, an explosion was detected in
the facility’s proximity.
# ⚓ Insight Hungary ☛ Pressman:_“Hungary_stubbornly
continues_deepen_its_“connectivity”_with_Russia”⠀⇛
“Hungary stubbornly continues to maintain and
even deepen its “connectivity” with Russia,”
said US Ambassador David Pressman at a
reception held on Wednesday afternoon at the
Chief of Mission residence in honor of US-
Hungarian scientific collaboration. “Just
this weekend, the Foreign Minister of Hungary
Péter Szijjártó described Russia as Hungary’s
“reliable partner” on energy, and one that
would not be replaced. (…) To continue to
double down on reliance on Russia while it
attempts to decapitate your democratic
neighbor is wrong,” he added.
At the beginning of his speech, Pressman
pointed out that as Hungary expands its
relationship with Moscow, a massive wave of
water from the destruction of the Kakhova
hydroelectric dam has just swept over and
displaced tens of thousands of people in and
around Kherson.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ UK_Imported_£19.3_Billion_in_Fossil_Fuels
from_Authoritarian_Petrostates_in_the_Year_Following
Russia’s_Ukraine_Invasion⠀⇛
UK fossil fuel imports from authoritarian
petrostates surged to £19.3 billion in the
year following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,
a new DeSmog analysis has found.
Government efforts to end the purchase of oil
and gas from Russia have seemingly resulted
in an upsurge in imports from other
authoritarian regimes, including Algeria,
Bahrain, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according
to data from the Office for National
Statistics.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Ten_Years_Ago,_Edward_Snowden_Blew_the
Whistle_on_the_US’s_Most_Secretive_Spy_Agency⠀⇛
The revelations from Snowden that made the most
waves in the United States concerned domestic
surveillance. The very first revelation was a
classified court order from the secret Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court granting an FBI
request that Verizon be forced to turn over all US
persons’ call records to the NSA. Such data did not
include the contents of communications, but it did
include who the calls were from, to whom they were
made, and at what time and for how long. According
to the court order, Verizon was to turn over this
data daily, and the company was gagged by law from
ever telling its customers or the public writ large
about it.
The order was stunning for a number of reasons.
Surveillance, including foreign surveillance,
generally required an individual target. Yet here
the FBI had demanded, and the NSA had received, a
legal mandate that Verizon turn over bulk
information on millions of people with no
identifiable target. The Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court, like the NSA, is supposed to be
focused on foreign intelligence. The order included
purely domestic calls, however, and excluded
foreign ones.
Finally, the order was based on a secret
interpretation of a since expired provision of the
USA Patriot Act. The provision had garnered
significant controversy when the act was proposed,
as civil libertarians believed it would be used to
track library book checkouts. Despite this fierce
opposition, no one believed it would be used for
the bulk collection of US metadata. Even some of
the original proponents of the Patriot Act were
stunned.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ The Economist ☛ Who_is_keeping_coal_alive?⠀⇛
This is mainly meant to happen by starving the
supply chain of funding. More than 200 of the
world’s largest financiers, including 87 banks,
have announced policies restricting investments in
coal-mining or coal-fired power plants. Lenders
representing 41% of global banking assets have
signed up to the Net-Zero Banking Alliance,
pledging to align portfolios with net-zero
emissions by 2050. At the cop26 summit in 2021, the
un predicted that this campaign would “consign coal
to history”. As recently as 2020 the iea believed
consumption had peaked a decade ago.
Yet King Coal looks brawnier than ever. In 2022
demand for it surpassed 8bn tonnes for the first
time. This article will look at who is greasing the
wheels of the once doomed trade. We find that the
market is lively, well-funded and profitable. More
striking still, the motley crew bankrolling it will
probably allow trade to endure well into the 2030s,
lining survivors’ pockets to the detriment of the
planet.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Reach_for_the_Stars⠀⇛
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Montana_Youth-led_Climate_Trial_Will_Go_On_as
Scheduled⠀⇛
Montana’s Republican-led state government has
failed to stop a groundbreaking youth climate
lawsuit against the state from going to trial,
despite last-minute legislative moves that have
altered Montana’s energy and environmental
policies.
The state legislature’s Republican supermajority
passed House Bill 971 just two weeks after it was
introduced in April, and Gov. Greg Gianforte signed
it into law on May 10. The measure bans “evaluation
of greenhouse gas emissions and corresponding
impacts to the climate in the state or beyond the
state’s borders” in environmental impact studies of
major projects, such as fossil fuel pipelines.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Climate_Change_Could_Devastate_Life_in_the
West⠀⇛
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ DOJ_charges_two_Russian_nationals
with_historic_Mt._Gox_hack⠀⇛
Alexey Bilyuchenko is also alleged to have
conspired with a Russian man seeking to be
included in a swap for an imprisoned U.S.
journalist.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Charges_Two_Russians_In_Hack_Of_Mt._Gox
Cryptoexchange⠀⇛
The United States has charged two Russian
nationals related to the 2011 hack of the
cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox and the
operation of the illicit cryptocurrency
exchange BTC-e.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ It’s_Black_and_White:_The_Grevy’s
Zebra_Needs_Our_Help⠀⇛
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Food,_Energy_Prices_Drag_Eurozone_Economies_Into
Mild_Recession⠀⇛
Economic growth was hurt by high food and energy
prices, disrupted trade networks, and instability —
all large impacts of the ongoing Ukrainian
conflict.
# ⚓ DataCenter Dynamics ☛ The_end_of_ZIRP_has_killed_the
Metaverse⠀⇛
Apple has just thrown its hat (or its $3,500 AR
headset) into the ring. Apple’s Vision Pro,
launched at WWDC23 and maybe the most credible AR
product yet, but it could be caught out by a change
in the economic climate, along with a host of hot
ideas that could turn out to have just been “ZIRP
phenomena.”
# ⚓ Citi_to_Cut_50_London_Investment_and_Corporate_Banking
Jobs⠀⇛
The cuts are necessary for the bank to reduce its
cost base because of adverse market conditions,
according to a person within the bank, who isn’t
authorized to speak publicly. Financial News
reported the layoffs earlier.
Citi is also dismantling its global team that
provides commentary and analysis on foreign-
exchange markets, with departures in both London
and New York as well as its Latin America corporate
bond trading team, Bloomberg News reported
separately Thursday.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Higher_rates_to_create_‘pockets_of
distress’_for_SMEs⠀⇛
A leading lender for Australian small and medium
sized businesses is expecting challenges for its
client base as interest rates rise seemingly ever
higher, but not widespread business failures or a
deep recession.
Judo Bank chief risk officer Frank Versace told
reporters on Friday that while the forward outlook
was challenging, many businesses were starting from
a position of strength.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Global_shares_edge_up_boosted_by_Fed
pause_bets⠀⇛
Global equities look set for a small weekly gain
following a Wall Street rally, as rising bets the
Federal Reserve will skip a rate increase next week
overshadowed worries about US markets being drained
of cash.
MSCI’s broad index of global shares edged 0.1 per
cent higher, on track for a weekly rise of 0.6 per
cent.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Rate_outlook_‘could_trigger_another
property_downturn’⠀⇛
Following another interest rate hike and higher
odds for more tightening, the residential property
market’s recovery may be cut short.
The Reserve Bank hiked by another 25 basis points
on Tuesday, taking the cash rate to 4.1 per cent,
and kept its options wide open to keep going if
deemed necessary.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Alan_Joyce_selling_his_own_Qantas
shares_into_the_buy-back,_que?⠀⇛
What’s the scam with the Qantas board letting CEO
Alan Joyce dump $17m worth of his own Qantas shares
into the share buy-back?
The scam is buy-backs. They simply prop up the
share price using shareholders’ own money, not to
mention, in the case of Qantas, the public’s bail-
out money. And this buy-back is already in the red
so Qantas shareholders have helped Alan get out for
a higher price. Meantime, not one new aircraft was
bought under the Joyce regime, so the fleet ran
down, customer service ran down and now Alan’s
successor faces a massive capex bill to fix things.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Kevin_McCarthy’s_Debt-Ceiling_Deal_Gets
Approval_From_the_Billionaire_Class⠀⇛
After bringing the nation to the brink of economic
catastrophe, and then negotiating a debt-ceiling
agreement that literally made it harder for hungry
people to get food, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
hightailed it out of Washington on an urgent
mission: to collect tributes from the oligarchs who
keep him in power.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ There’s_No_Reason_Filing_Taxes_Should_Be_So
Hard⠀⇛
When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act in
2022, lawmakers didn’t just give the IRS a big
funding infusion. They also directed the agency to
look into something that has evaded the United
States for decades: creating a system for Americans
to file their taxes directly with the government
electronically for free, rather than going through
tax preparers, who often skim money off of their
returns.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Next_Time,_Dammit,_Just_Default⠀⇛
The debt deal is now law. Far-right Republicans
were unhappy, because it doesn’t cut spending by
enough. Center-left Democrats (there are no far-
left Democrats in Congress) are unhappy, because
they got nothing: It’s all concessions to win
Republican votes.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Reddit_cuts_five_percent_of_workers_while
API_pricing_shift_sours_developers⠀⇛
Social media community Reddit plans to lay off
about 90 employees, amounting to about five percent
of its 2,000-person staff.
# ⚓ Chris ☛ Handoff_Waste_and_Taylorism⠀⇛
The type of waste we are discussing is called
handoff by Ward, and you might recognise its effect
from your past work experiences: [...]
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ FCC_‘Fines’_Right_Wing_Bullshitters_Wohl,
Burkman_$5_Million_For_Voter_Robocall_Scam⠀⇛
It’s never fully appreciated the way we’ve let
scammers, scumbags, and assorted bullshit artists
hijack the nation’s top voice communications
platform. Or that we’ve let marketing industry
lobbyists slowly degrade the authority of the one
U.S. regulator capable of actually doing something
about it.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Indicted_Again:_Donald_Trump_Faces_Federal
Espionage_&_Conspiracy_Charges_in_Classified_Docs_Probe⠀⇛
In a historic first, the Justice Department has
indicted former President Donald Trump on multiple
felony charges related to his mishandling
classified documents and obstructing the
government’s attempts to recover them. Trump is the
first former president ever to face federal
criminal charges and could potentially spend years
in prison if convicted. He is set to be arraigned
in a Miami court on Tuesday. This latest news adds
to Trump’s legal woes, with the former president
also facing charges in New York related to hush-
money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels in
2016 and another probe in Georgia over his attempts
to overturn the 2020 election results. For more, we
speak with Dennis Aftergut, a former federal
prosecutor and currently of counsel to Lawyers
Defending American Democracy. “We do not have kings
here. We have the rule of law, and no one is above
it, including a former president,” says Aftergut.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Supreme_Surprise:_Court_Upholds_Voting
Rights_Act,_Strikes_Down_Alabama’s_Racially_Gerrymandered
Maps⠀⇛
In a surprise 5-4 decision Tuesday, the U.S.
Supreme Court rejected a racially gerrymandered
voting map in Alabama, upholding a key plank of the
Voting Rights Act that the conservative majority
has spent years whittling away at. Chief Justice
John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with
the court’s liberal justices in finding that
Alabama’s Republican-drawn congressional districts
unlawfully disadvantage Black voters by diluting
their voting power, a violation of Section 2 of the
Voting Rights Act banning voting practices that
discriminate based on race and color. The court
ordered Alabama’s Legislature to redraw the map.
For more on the decision and the state of voting
rights across the country, we are joined by three
guests: Khadidah Stone is a named plaintiff in the
case and works for the civic engagement
organization Alabama Forward; Tish Gotell Faulks is
legal director at the ACLU of Alabama; and Davin
Rosborough is a senior staff attorney with the ACLU
Voting Rights Project who helped represent the
plaintiffs.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Sergey_Sobyanin,_Moscow_mayor_since_2010,
announces_that_he’ll_run_again_this_year_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Sergey Sobyanin, the current mayor of Moscow,
announced on his personal blog that he will run
again for the position in the fall 2023 elections.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ An_‘experienced_strategist’:_The_man_behind
Russia’s_new_ideological_course_for_university_students_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Russian president Vladimir Putin’s administration,
realizing that the country’s young people are the
least likely demographic to support the president
and Kremlin policies, have decided to develop a
special ideological curriculum designed to instill
values like “tradition,” “trust in institutions,”
and “patriotism” in university students. A source
told Meduza that Kremlin policymakers believe
Russia’s problems have always started with its
intelligentsia — the new curriculum aims to form an
intelligentsia that will fall in line with the
Kremlin’s programs. The Russian authorities tapped
Andrey Polosin, a political operator and occasional
scholar, to build the new curriculum, which will be
rolled out in the fall. Meduza takes a close look
at the professional background of a man who has,
while designing a program to make the Kremlin’s
preferred “traditional values” seem cool,
transformed himself from “typical Putin technocrat”
into a long-haired, bearded “crazy professor who
knows everything, or a rockstar, or a prophet.”
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Is_Donald_Trump_kissing_Anthony_Fauci?
With_apparently_fake_photos,_Ron_DeSantis_raises_AI
ante⠀⇛
Those three images are likely AI-generated,
according to an analysis of traces left by
synthetic image generators, said Matthew
Stamm, a professor of electrical and computer
engineering at Drexel University. “Our
results consistently output a decision that
these images are fake,” he said.
The video does not disclose any potential AI
use and the DeSantis campaign did not respond
to a question about whether the images were
fake or whether AI was used to create them.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Self-Exiled_Russian_Journalist_Added_To_Wanted_List
On_Charge_Of_Distributing_Fakes_About_Military⠀⇛
Russia’s Interior Ministry has added journalist
Sergei Podsytnik to its wanted list on unspecified
charges. The editor of Protokol, an online
newspaper in the city of Samara, appeared in the
wanted persons registry on June 9.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ HRW_Calls_On_Kyrgyz_Lawmakers_To_Withdraw
Controversial_‘Foreign_Agents’_Bill⠀⇛
Human Rights Watch has called on Kyrgyz lawmakers
to withdraw a controversial “foreign agents” bill,
calling it “a highly repressive draft law” intended
to “discredit and stigmatize” civil society groups
that receive foreign funding similar to a law in
Russia that has had a chilling effect on NGOs.
# ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Arkansas_is_sued_over_criminal_ban_on
providing_‘harmful’_books_to_minors⠀⇛
By passing Act 372, which also strikes a statute
that protected librarians from being prosecuted for
circulating material “claimed to be obscene,”
Arkansas became one of at least seven states that
have passed laws criminalizing librarians and
school employees who provide books deemed sexually
explicit or “harmful” to minors, The Washington
Post’s Hannah Natanson reported in May. Another
dozen states have considered similar bills.
None of the bill’s four sponsors in the Arkansas
General Assembly responded to a request for
comment. In a May op-ed in the Arkansas Democrat-
Gazette, state Sen. Dan Sullivan defended Act 372,
saying that it simply expands existing prohibitions
on “displaying” harmful material and creates a
process for parents to “appeal the decisions of
unelected librarians to local elected officials.”
# ⚓ Arkansas Times ☛ Waivers_required_for_kids_to_use_the
Eureka_Springs_library_as_new_censorship_law_goes_into
effect,_Washington_Post_reports⠀⇛
Those bookstore owners joined in a federal lawsuit
filed June 2 that takes aim at what they call “a
vague, sweeping law that restrains public libraries
and booksellers in Arkansas from making available
constitutionally protected books and other media to
their patrons and customers.” Other plaintiffs
include the Central Arkansas, Fayetteville and
Eureka Springs public library systems, the Arkansas
Library Association, booksellers, a 17-year-old
bookworm and other library advocates.
The plaintiffs argue the new law obliterates
Americans’ First Amendment rights to distribute,
access and engage with books and media.
# ⚓ Walled Culture ☛ Music_label_uses_copyright_law_to_ask
Google_to_de-list_a_Wikipedia_page_with_information_it
doesn’t_like⠀⇛
It’s hardly news that many of these requests are
abusive, and often used to take down perfectly
legal material. But a recent takedown request to
Google is exceptional in this respect. As
TorrentFreak explains, the complaint, made under
the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA),
apparently comes from the independent music label
“Because Music”, and targets download and
conversion software that allows YouTube material to
be downloaded as a file.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ A_decade_on,_giant_duck_once
censored_in_mainland_China_returns_to_Hong_Kong_as_double-
bill_installation⠀⇛
During its 2013 visit to Hong Kong, the solo lemon-
hued bird ruffled feathers in Beijing after
internet users edited the famous “Tank Man” photo
from the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown by
replacing the tanks with ducks.
Internet searches for “yellow duck” were banned in
mainland China in the run-up to June 4 that year,
the anniversary of the crackdown, as Beijing
forbids discussion of the day Chinese troops
crushed demonstrations.
# ⚓ [Repeat] BIA Net ☛ Turkey_bans_OnlyFans_following_court
order⠀⇛
Freedom House, a US-based think tank, in the 2022
edition of its global online freedom report,
categorized Turkey as “very poor” in terms of
content blocking measures. According to the Freedom
of Expression Association, by the end of 2021, the
country had blocked over 467,000 URL addresses,
encompassing a range of websites, including
thousands that feature adult content.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Finist_the_Bright_Falcon_In_her_play,_Svetlana
Petriychuk_tries_to_understand_why_Russian_women_convert_to
radical_Islam_—_but_the_Russian_authorities_have_jailed_the
playwright_for_‘terrorist_propaganda.’_Read_the_controversial
play_(or_watch_the_production)_—_Meduza⠀⇛
On May 4, the Russian authorities arrested two
female theater artists: playwright Svetlana
Petriychuk and director Zhenya Berkovich, whose
2021 production of Petriychuk’s play, “Finist the
Bright Falcon,” had won the dramatist a Golden
Mask, a prestigious theater award in Russia. In the
play, Svetlana Petriychuk combined the devices of
court drama and traditional Russian folk tale to
tell the story of hundreds of real Russian women
who converted to Islam, starting long-distance
relationships with radicalized Muslim men and later
moving to Syria — only to find themselves convicted
and jailed for terrorism upon return to Russia.
Shortly after it was performed by the theater
collective Daughers of Soso, the work was denounced
by the ultraconservative Russian National
Liberation Movement (NOD), for allegedly glorifying
the Islamic State and justifying terrorism. Anna
Razumnaya has translated Petriychuk’s play for
Meduza, with permission from the playwright’s
spouse and acting agent, theater director Yury
Shekhvatov. Another English translation, by
Alexander Vartanov, also exists and is yet to be
produced.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Disruption:_Creator_Edition_—_Unveiling
the_Program_&_Speakers⠀⇛
# ⚓ EFF ☛ China_Must_Release_Program_Think_Blogger_Ruan
Xiaohuan,_Champion_of_Free_Expression_Who_Spoke_Out_Against
Censorship_and_Oppression⠀⇛
China is not alone in this practice. Regrettably,
countries around the world continue to abuse such
crimes and numerous others to target their people.
We have documented bloggers in the Middle East,
Vietnam, Ethiopia, and elsewhere who, like Ruan,
have been thrown in prison and given outrageous
prison sentences or subjected to physical violence
by authorities, echoing a disturbing pattern of
persecution against dissenting voices. Courageous
bloggers, journalists, and writers are treated like
criminals for protecting and enhancing free
expression and privacy. This is a grave injustice.
EFF joins free speech advocates around the world in
calling for Ruan’s immediate release. States are
obliged to uphold the right to free expression
enshrined in Article 19 of the UN Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. The UN Human Rights
Council has affirmed that the same rights that
people have offline must also be protected online,
including the right to privacy and free expression.
The right “to seek, receive and impart information”
includes a right to devise and share tools that
enable and protect those abilities.Ruan’s journey
to becoming one of China’s most well-known and
courageous bloggers began amid a successful career
as a cybersecurity expert. A college dropout with a
passion for computer science, Ruan worked for
cybersecurity companies, and later landed a
government job as chief engineer for the
information security system of the 2008 Beijing
Summer Olympics. He continued his career in
industry, but eventually decided to pursue open-
source software development. He quit his job and
started his blog in 2009.At first, he focused his
writing on software development. But that year was
the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square
protests, and the government began blocking foreign
websites, including the website that hosted his
blog.He found a way around the blockage, and
published tutorials so his followers could continue
seeing his posts. It was at that point that he
began blogging about how to hide your online
identity, how to circumvent China’s Great Firewall,
and, increasingly, politics. As China clamped down
even further, banning Western social media
platforms and mandating censorship software on new
computers, he wanted to speak out. “I don’t want to
keep silent anymore, and I don’t want to avoid
these issues anymore,” he blogged, according to an
English translation. “It’s time to write something
other than technology.”Over the next 12 years,
Program Think published over 700 posts about
politics, security, and corruption, from building a
database of hundreds of wealthy individuals and
their ties to the Chinese Communist Party to “how
to overcome the wall,” seemingly undetected or
outwitting China’s internet police. In 2013 Program
Think was nominated for the Deutsche Welle
International Best of Blogs Award.In prescient
comments to Deutsche Welle, Ruan said two
incidents—the suspicious death of a villager
protesting a land grab to make way for the
government-approved construction of a power plant,
and pro-democracy protests where marchers were
beaten and arrested—led him to call for public
marches on his blog and focus on politics to raise
awareness about China’s corrupt government. “At the
time, blog posts calling on netizens to take to
the streets were in nature ‘inciting subversion of
state power,’” he noted. “But I have been safe
because I am more experienced in concealing
identities.”In explaining his decision to write
about politics instead of just technology, he said
everyone is touched by politics, even if they don’t
realize it. “Many netizens have always had a
misunderstanding, thinking that politics has
nothing to do with their own lives…But everyone has
to understand one thing: You don’t have to care
about politics, but politics will care about
you.”Ruan urged people to speak out against
injustice, putting himself at risk to inform,
inspire, and motivate others to challenge attacks
on freedom of expression. By silencing Ruan,
imposing such a severe punishment, and denying him
the ability to choose his own counsel to challenge
his conviction, China’s playbook for stamping out
criticism and free expression is on full display.
We condemn this injustice and call for Ruan’s
release.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Elon_Musk_Says_Twitter_Is_Going_To_Get_Rid_Of
The_Block_Feature,_Enabling_Greater_Harassment⠀⇛
One of the most important tools for trust and
safety efforts is the “block” feature, allowing a
user to entirely block someone else from following
them. Yes, on Twitter you can get around this by
going into incognito mode, but overall, the feature
is a very useful tool for those being harassed to
limit access to their abusers. Indeed, one of the
biggest criticisms early on of the (still in
invite-only beta) Bluesky social media app was that
it opened its doors to thousands of users before
they had implemented a “block” feature (that has
since been added). Lots of people argued that
launching social media today without the “block”
feature is malpractice.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Suspects_Named_in_Killing_of_Philippine
Journalist⠀⇛
In a statement [sic] on Facebook, Paul Gutierrez,
executive director of the Presidential Task Force
on Media Security, named the two gunmen as Narciso
Ignacio Guntan and Isabelo Lopez Bautista.
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ CNN_Needs_More_Than_a_New_CEO—It_Needs_a_New_Model
of_Journalism⠀⇛
With “democracy itself” at stake, Licht decided to
give Donald Trump a town hall event stocked with
supporters, in which little effort was made to rein
in the presidential candidate’s lies and insults.
The outcome? As the Atlantic‘s Tim Alberta put it,
“The only one who wasn’t angry, it seemed, was
Trump, most likely because he’d succeeded in
disgracing the network on its own airwaves.”
# ⚓ ANF News ☛ Journalist_Gök_has_letters_seized_and_visits
denied⠀⇛
The letter Gök, who is in Diyarbakır High Security
Closed Prison No. 1, sent to journalist Hüseyin
Aykol was seized by the Letter Reading Commission.
In the letter the journalist talked about the
pressures the judiciary has exerted on him since
2017 for photographing the murder of Kemal Kurkut
by the police. Gök’s objection against the seizure
of the letter by the Letter Reading Commission was
rejected on the same day, on the grounds that “in
his letter he accused the state of being a
murderer”.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ It’s_Time_to_Call_Abortion_Bans_What_They
Are—Torture_and_Cruelty⠀⇛
The Human Rights Committee is only one of multiple
international bodies that have found that the
denial of abortion care can violate global
prohibitions on torture and ill-treatment. For
example, the UN Committee against Torture, which
monitors the Convention against Torture and Other
Forms of Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment or
Punishment (which the United States ratified), has
found that denial of abortion care and restrictive
abortion laws can in some cases cause “physical and
mental suffering so severe in pain and intensity as
to amount to torture.” The committee has also found
that abortion laws that lack exceptions in cases of
life or the health of a pregnant person, or in
cases of rape, incest, or fetal impairment, may
constitute torture and ill-treatment. Most
recently, the Colombian Constitutional Court cited
the fact that human rights bodies have found that
denial of abortion services can constitute torture
and ill-treatment in its decision to decriminalize
abortion under all circumstances to 24 weeks.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Private_Employers_May_Not_Fire_Employees_for
Writing_to_the_Legislature,_Tennessee_Court_Holds⠀⇛
In Smith v. BlueCross BlueShield of Tenn., decided
today by the Court of Appeals of Tennessee (in an
opinion by Chief Judge Michael Swiney, joined by
Judges John McClarty and Kristi Davis), Smith
alleged that BlueCross had wrongly fired her for,
among other things, “email[ing] Tennessee state
legislators with her concerns and grievances
regarding vaccine mandates.” The court concluded
that this stated a claim under Tennessee law: [...]
# ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Amnesty_Turkey_‘walks_away’_from_collective
bargaining,_says_union⠀⇛
Amnesty Turkey has walked away from collective
table with the Sosyal-İş union affiliated with DİSK
Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (DİSK),
the union said on Wednesday.
Releasing a statement, the union asserted that
Amnesty International was endangering the workers’
union rights, noting that the negotiations started
after a two-month delay.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Warnock_Probes_Whether_State_Trampled_Free
Speech_Rights_of_Cop_City_Protesters⠀⇛
Even while raising concerns over free speech,
however, Warnock praised the law enforcement
involved in the case.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Family_Settles_Lawsuit_Over_Jefferson
Rodriguez’s_Death_on_WI_Dairy_Farm⠀⇛
Local officials in Wisconsin are planning to
improve how sheriff’s deputies communicate with
people who don’t speak English in response to a
ProPublica report that found that an investigation
into the death of an 8-year-old Nicaraguan boy
living on a dairy farm was mishandled due to a
language barrier.
Dane County supervisors said that their goals
include making language access a key part of
department equity plans and creating a dedicated
countywide language-access coordinator.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Pat_Robertson’s_Genocidal_God_Has_Called_Him
Home⠀⇛
When General Efraín Ríos Montt assumed dictatorial
control over Guatemala after a coup in March 1982,
he was able to bolster his murderous rule by
calling on a special group of friends, the leaders
of the American religious right. Guatemala is a
predominately Roman Catholic country, but Ríos
Montt converted to evangelical Christianity in
1978, becoming an adherent of the Church of the
Word, a California-based sect.1
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Voting_Rights_Act_Has_Survived_Another
Attempt_on_Its_Life⠀⇛
Yesterday, in a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court
affirmed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and
ruled that Alabama could be sued over its racially
gerrymandered congressional maps. Chief Justice
John Roberts wrote the majority opinion for the
court, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena
Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, as well as
alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Australia_urged_to_honour_the_past_and
vote_for_voice⠀⇛
Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney has
referred to Bob Hawke’s great regret at not
delivering on a treaty as she quoted his widow
saying if he was alive today he would urge voters
to deliver a voice to parliament.
Speaking at the Barunga Festival in the Northern
Territory on Saturday, Ms Burney referred to
the 1988 Barunga Statement which called for the
recognition of Aboriginal rights.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Recreating_An_Analog_TV_Test_Pattern⠀⇛
While most countries have switched to digital
broadcasting, and most broadcasts themselves have
programming on 24/7 now, it’s hard to remember the
ancient times of analog broadcasts that would
eventually stop sometime late at night, displaying
a test pattern instead of infomercials or reruns of
an old sitcom. They were useful for various
technical reasons including calibrating the analog
signals. Some test patterns were simply camera
feeds of physical cards, but if you wanted the most
accurate and reliable test patterns you’d need a
Philips pattern generator which created the pattern
with hardware instead, and you can build your own
now because the designs for these devices were
recently open-sourced.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Supreme_Court_Sends_Bad_Spaniels_Back_to
Obedience_School,_Leaves_Rogers_Test_Mostly_Intact⠀⇛
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision
Thursday in Jack Daniel’s Properties v. VIP
Products, a trademark case we weighed in on
in an amicus brief. The main question before
the Court was whether the Rogers test—a
special test for trademark infringement
that’s more protective of free
expression—should be applied to VIP’s parody
of Jack Daniel’s trademarks for a “Bad
Spaniels” dog toy. Novelty dog toys aren’t
exactly our usual focus at EFF, but this case
was an important one because the Supreme
Court had never ruled on whether the Rogers
test is valid at all. Activists, artists, and
regular internet users frequently use
trademarks for expressive purposes, and the
Rogers test provides important protection
from legal threats.
The good news is that the Court didn’t reject
the Rogers test, nor did it change the test
itself. Instead, it ruled against VIP on
narrower grounds, holding that Rogers’
heightened First Amendment protections didn’t
apply because VIP was using “Bad Spaniels” as
a trademark of its own—that is, to identify
the source of the product.
As the Court explained, the defining
characteristic of a trademark is that it
signals the source of a good or service to
consumers. For example, when you see the word
“Oreo” on a package of cookies, you know
those cookies came from the same company as
every other pack of Oreo cookies. That makes
“Oreo” a trademark. On that same package, you
might also see the words “chocolate sandwich
cookies.” That gives you some information
about what’s inside, but it doesn’t tell you
anything about who made the cookies—so that
phrase is not functioning as a trademark.
Trademark law rests on the assumption that
knowing who made your cookies (or dog toy, or
whiskey) helps you decide what to buy. The
law regulates the use of trademarks so that
consumers can confidently rely on their
associations between trademark, source, and
experience.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Record_Labels_and_RCN_Open_to
Settling_Piracy_Liability_Lawsuit⠀⇛
Internet provider RCN and several major music
companies are exploring options to settle
their piracy liability dispute. A mediator
was assigned this week to help the parties
reach a deal but the same can’t be said about
a lawsuit filed against the ISP by a group of
filmmakers. That battle only appears to have
intensified, with a new law firm and evidence
provider joining the case.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ YouTube_Orders_‘Invidious’_Privacy
Software_to_Shut_Down_in_7_Days⠀⇛
The developers of Invidious, a privacy-
respecting alternative front-end for YouTube,
have received a cease-and-desist notice from
YouTube’s legal department. The free and open
source software, which provides a YouTube
experience minus advertising and user
tracking, has been instructed to shut down
within seven days. As things stand,
cooperation isn’t on the agenda.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o Programming/Development
# Python
# Rust
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Pseudo-Open_Source
# Openwashing
o Security
# Fear,_Uncertainty,_Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux in the Ham Shack ☛ LHS_Episode_#506:_The_Weekender
CIV⠀⇛
It’s time once again for The Weekender. This is our
departure into the world of hedonism, random topic
excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Beebom ☛ 5_Best_Sticky_Note_Apps_for_Linux_(2023)_|
Beebom⠀⇛
One of the best ways to take note of your schedule,
chores, and things to do is by using sticky note
apps. For those unaware, a basic sticky notes app
can be used to pen down important things, which
could be chores, to-do lists, or ideas when you’re
browsing. Linux has quite a decent collection of
productivity apps and here are the five best sticky
note apps for Linux.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ 6_Best_Linux_project_management_software_in
2023⠀⇛
Project management solutions allow for efficient
task management, project progress tracking, smooth
team collaboration and several other benefits.
There are several project management applications
that work on Linux. In this article, we share the
six best Linux project management software in 2023.
You will get to learn about the key features, pros,
cons and pricing for each software. We also shared
some tips on choosing the best Linux project
management software for your needs.
# ⚓ Free Desktop ☛ libei_1.0.0⠀⇛
libei 1.0.0 is now available.
libei is a library to send Emulated Input (EI) to a
matching Emulated Input
Server (EIS) which can receive those events with
libeis, also part of this
project.
libei uses GitLab releases, for tarballs please
see:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libei/-/
releases/1.0.0
# Changes:
Note that there is one minor protocol change
(`ei_connection.sync`) and
one ABI (not API) change in libeis since the RC2
despite previous
statements that the protocol and API are stable. In
both cases it was
better to do it now while every user of libei(s) is
still in draft than
having to special-case those instances for the next
10 years.
An rebuild will take care of of the ABI change,
making sure libei
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Manage_multiple_environments_with_Terraform
workspaces_|_TechTarget⠀⇛
Terraform workspaces let DevOps teams manage
configurations for different environments in a
centralized way. Get started with workspaces
through hands-on examples in this tutorial.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Creator_11_Beta_released⠀⇛
We are happy to announce the release of Qt
Creator 11 Beta!
# ⚓ GSoC-23_Community_Bonding_Period_Blog_#2⠀⇛
Hello world,
This is my second blog post for Google Summer
of Code 2023, where I will share what I
accomplished during the GSoC-23 community
bonding period.
✐ Community Bonding period⠀✐
During this time GSoC contributors spend 3
weeks learning about their organization’s
community and preparing for their coding
project. They get to know mentors, read
documentation, get up to speed to begin
working on their projects
During the community bonding period, the
organizers took two introductory sessions
kick starting our journey. The first Welcome
Session was about the best practices and tips
for a successful Google Summer of Code.
Following that, GSoC Contributor Summit took
place, during which previous participants and
mentors shared their experiences of being
part of GSoC.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ Akshay_Warrier:_GSoC_2023:_Week_2_Report⠀⇛
In this post, I’ll go over everything I did
in my first two weeks of GSoC.
§ Project
Make GNOME Platform demos for Workbench
§ Mentors
Sonny Piers, Andy Holmes
§ Project Planning
We first started out with a meeting to
discuss a project plan, decide what needs to
be done, and came up with a workflow that’ll
work for everyone. Sonny made a Kanban board
and filled it with some tickets to start us
off. Our mentors briefly explained to us the
functionality of some of the widgets and gave
us an idea of what’s expected from the demos,
so that we are not completely clueless when
we start working on them. And when everyone
is on the same page, we mark the ticket as
“Ready” which means anyone is free to take up
the ticket and start working on it. We also
decided that we’ll have meetings weekly, to
discuss the upcoming week’s work and also
solve any issues or roadblocks that we may
have come across along the way.
§ Week 1
The first thing I did was finish one of my
previously open pull_requests which was a
demo for AdwHeaderBar, a simple widget but a
very commonly used one. The demo shows a
header bar with a primary menu, a secondary
“Open” menu, and a “New Tab” button similar
to Text Editor.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ GNU ☛ GNU_Guix:_Parameterized_Packages_for_GNU Guix⠀⇛
Hello Guix!
I’m Sarthak and I’ll be working on implementing
Parameterized Packages for GNU Guix as a Google_Summer_of
Code intern under the guidance of Pjotr Prins and Gábor
Boskovits.
§ What are Parameterized Packages?
One of the many advantages of free_software is the
availability of compile-time options for almost all
packages. Thanks to its dedication to building all
packages from source, Guix is one of the few GNU/Linux
distributions that can take advantage of these compile-
time features; in fact, many advanced users such as those
using Guix on High-Performance_Computing_Systems and new
ISAs_like_RISC-V have already been doing this by
utilizing a feature known as Package_Transformations.
Parameterized Packages are a new type of package
transformations that will be able to tweak an even wider
array of compile-time options, such as removing unused
dependencies or building a package with support for just
a specific locale. These will have a wide variety of
applications, ranging from High-Performance Computing to
Embedded Systems and could also help tackle a few of
Guix’s issues like large binary sizes and dense
dependency graphs.
o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ libGLX.so.0_fix_for_Kdenlive_AppImage⠀⇛
I posted about the missing libGLX.so.0 in the Kdenlive
AppImage:
https://bkhome.org/news/202305/kdenlive-appimage-vs-
flatpak.html
libGLX.so.0 is in the ‘libglvnd’ package, that is in
mainstream Linux distributions, but not in EasyOS. It is
a wrapper for different libGL packages, as explained
here: [...]
o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Run_QEMU_VM_in_EasyOS⠀⇛
I haven’t had much to do with VMs in the past, but there
is a lot of interest, so looking into it.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_CPE_Weekly_Update_–
Week_23_2022⠀⇛
We provide you both infographic and text version of
the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look
at what we did, just look at the infographic. If
you are interested in more in depth details look
below the infographic.
Week: 05 June – 09 June 2023
# ⚓ My_thoughts_on_Flatpak_(that_nobody_asked_for)⠀⇛
Hindsight preface: This was written in very tired
state.
I have been chatting about this with people who
know more than I ever will about Flatpak.
Soo I have added few edits here and there.
If I seem frustrated, most of my frustration is
aimed at the unnecessary shit slinging over
packaging formats.
We all want the good stuff, why the hell are we
fighting?!
# ⚓ Jiri_Eischmann:_Help_Us_Test_Evolution⠀⇛
It was not an easy task to make Evolution run
nicely as a flatpak, but Milan Crha managed to do
it and we’ve been fine-tuning it for the last 3
years. There are still some use cases that don’t
fully work in a flatpak, but they don’t affect most
users. Evolution has established itself well on
Flathub, too. It has accumulated over 130k
installs. There are roughly 12-15k “active”
installations.
Some time ago I also started building Evolution for
the beta channel on Flathub. When there are already
development releases of the upcoming version (it
will be 3.49.x this cycle), I build those for the
beta channel. If they’re not available yet, I push
stable releases there right after the upstream
release is done, roughly one week before they go to
the stable channel.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Jonathan_Carter:_Phone_upgraded_to_Debian_12⠀⇛
A long time ago, before the pandemic, I bought a
Librem_5 phone from Purism. I also moved home since
then, and sadly my phone was sleeping peacefully in
a box in the garage since I moved.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Release_management_for_snaps_made_simpler⠀⇛
Release management is the process of planning,
scheduling, testing and deploying new versions of
software. To make this process simpler for snap
developers, we have released a new feature called
progressive releases. Continue reading to
understand what they are, why they are important
and how you can use them in the Snap Store.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ NXP_Releases_New_Processor_Family_to_Support_Linux-based
Edge_Devices⠀⇛
The latest NXP edge processor has built-in support
for a familiar development tool.
Aiming to bring the flexibility of Linux to edge
computing hardware, NXP Semiconductors has released
the i.MX 91 family of processors. The i.MX 91
family is the latest release in the i.MX 9 series
of applications processors that provide higher
performance and improved security to bolster the
extensibility at the edge.
# ⚓ A_No-Fee_Linux_CVE_Scan_from_Wind_River⠀⇛
Wind River released a no-fee professional-grade
scanning tool to identify Common Vulnerabilities
and Exposures (CVEs). The Wind River Studio Linux
Security Scanning Service is designed for the
distinct requirements of embedded Linux
environments indicating when a fix or patch is
available for a given CVE.
# ⚓ Electronics Weekly ☛ Processor_boards_for_touch_displays
can_run_Linux⠀⇛
Powertip has created a multi-option display-driving
single-board computer (right) that uses daughter
boards (left below) to add Quad core 64bit Arm CPUs
running at 1.6GHz – either NXP with four Cortex-A53
CPUs, or Rockchip with four Cortex-A35 CPUs.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Collabora ☛ MLfix_to_quickly_fix_datasets⠀⇛
Contrary to traditional software development, data is
more important than code in machine learning. Building a
high-performing model requires using reliable, precisely
labelled data but poor-quality data is not always
obvious.
o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ LibreOffice_Native_Language_Projects_–_TDF’s_Annual_Report
2022⠀⇛
By helping to translate and market LibreOffice
around the world, native language projects bring
enthusiasm and passion to the global community.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ My_Approach_to_Building_Large_Technical_Projects⠀⇛
Whether it’s building a new project from scratch,
implementing a big feature, or beginning a large
refactor, it can be difficult to stay motivated and
complete large technical projects. A method that
works really well for me is to continuously see
real results and to order my work based on that.
We’ve all experienced that feeling of excitement
starting a new project. The first few weeks you
can’t wait to get on the computer to work. Then
slowly over time you get distracted or make up
excuses and work on it less. If this is for real
work, you forcibly slog your way to the finish line
but every day is painful. If this is for fun, you
look back years from now and remember what could’ve
been.
I’ve learned that when I break down my large tasks
in chunks that result in seeing tangible forward
progress, I tend to finish my work and retain my
excitement throughout the project. People are all
motivated and driven in different ways, so this may
not work for you, but as a broad generalization
I’ve not found an engineer who doesn’t get excited
by a good demo. And the goal is to always give
yourself a good demo.
# ⚓ The_Many_Problems_with_Celery_|_Log_Blog_Kebab⠀⇛
With some possible fixes
# ⚓ InfoQ ☛ Debugging_Outside_Your_Comfort_Zone:_Diving_Beneath
a_Trusted_Abstraction⠀⇛
This article takes a deep dive through a complex
outage in the main database cluster of a payments
company. We’ll focus on the aftermath of the
incident and dive deep into the internals of
Postgres.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Setting_and_Getting_the_Default_Timezone
in_Python⠀⇛
Working with timezones is an essential part
of many Python applications. Whether you’re
building a scheduling system, a logging tool,
or any other application that involves dates
and times, setting the default timezone is a
critical function.
# § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Rust_I_Wanted_Had_No_Future⠀⇛
In a recent podcast about Rust leadership,
the BDFL question came up again and Jeremy
Soller said (in the understatement of the
century) that “I believe Graydon would have
said no to some things we all like now”. And
this echoes a different conversation on
reddit where I was reminded that I meant to
write down at some point how “I would have
done it all differently” (and that this would
probably have been extremely unsatisfying to
everyone involved, and it never would have
gone anywhere).
Boy Howdy would I ever. This is maybe not
clear enough, and it might make the question
of whether the project “really should have
had a BDFL” a little sharper to know this:
the Rust We Got is many, many miles away from
The Rust I Wanted. I mean, don’t get me
wrong: like the result. It’s great. I’m
thrilled to have a viable C++ alternative,
especially one people are starting to
consider a norm, a reasonable choice for day-
to-day use. I use it and am very happy to use
it in preference to C++. But!
There are so, so many diferences from what I
would have done, if I’d been “in charge” the
whole time.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ RFA ☛ Ducking_controversy⠀⇛
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Jacking_Off_Has_Evolutionary_Benefits
Going_Back_40_Million_Years,_Study_Says⠀⇛
Masturbation is an “ancient trait” in the world of
primates, including humans, according to a study
that looked at how self-pleasure helped us evolve.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Editorial_Board_|_Don’t_make_Stanford_the
next_Berkeley⠀⇛
The Editorial Board argues that Stanford should
reveal how race is currently factored into
admissions, and lay out a roadmap of how the
University would respond to a Supreme Court
decision ending affirmative action. “If Stanford
truly prioritizes giving students “the opportunity
to learn from the wonderful diversity of
identities, experiences, and perspectives that
exist in the world”, then it should work in advance
to transparently inform students and all who will
be affected by this monumental ruling,” the Board
writes.
# ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ GSC_symbolically_rescinds_Honor_Code_change
approval,_discusses_Murdoch_and_Mercer_relationship_to
Stanford⠀⇛
In a show of solidarity with the Undergraduate
Senate following the Faculty Senate’s bypassing of
their vote on the Honor Code, the GSC unanimously
voted to symbolically endorse the rescindment of
SenD#831.
# ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Rights_and_research:_Hoover_event_explores
treatment_of_Chinese_American_academics⠀⇛
A Hoover Institution event discussed racial-
profiling of Chinese scholars in America and
examined institutional efforts to protect research.
Speakers talked the ‘Chinese Initiative’ and its
consequences.
# ⚓ ‘The_only_winning_move_is_not_to_play’⠀⇛
When the makers of plagiarism-detection software
Turnitin announced they would add the ability to
detect writing created by generative artificial
intelligence, UM-Dearborn opted out.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ University,_GEO_settle_unfair_labor_practice
complaints⠀⇛
U-M and the Graduate Employees’ Organization have
reached an agreement to settle several unfair labor
practice complaints filed as part of ongoing
contract negotiations between the parties.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ UMich_and_GEO_reach_settlement_on_Unfair
Labor_Practices_and_lawsuit⠀⇛
The University of Michigan and the Graduate
Employees’ Organization have reached a settlement
on the unfair labor practice charges filed by each
party with the Michigan Employment Relations
Commission.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Oklahoma_Breaches_the_Wall_Between_Church
and_State⠀⇛
Religious liberty, not religious authority, should
be the aim of the American right.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Low Tech Mag ☛ Low-tech_Magazine:_The_Comic⠀⇛
In early 2022 I received an email from Guillaume
Lion, a young filmmaker based in Brussels, Belgium.
Having read Low-tech Magazine for several years,
Guillaume recently_started_making_comics, which he
considers low-tech cinema. He proposed to visit me
in Barcelona and make a portrait of me. I have
never taken myself too seriously, so Guillaume came
by later that year. The comic originally appeared
in French in the Belgian_magazine_Médor and was
translated by Mira Matthew.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ TSMC_Exec_Tells_U.S._Workers_to_Expect
Long_Hours_or_Go_Home⠀⇛
TSMC exec responds to disgruntled U.S. employees by
suggesting those who aren’t ready to work long
hours should try a different industry.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Desktop_GPU_Sales_Lowest_in_Decades:
Report⠀⇛
Intel continues to solidify positions on the
desktop discrete GPU market as sales of graphics
cards shrink.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Drought_might_ruin_fungi_fun_this_year_in_Latvia⠀⇛
This summer, mushroom yields are likely to be
adversely affected by drought, the Latvian National
Museum of Natural History’s mycologist Inita
Dāniele told LETA on June 8.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Teens_could_need_their_parents_permission_to_have
a_social_media_account_in_Louisiana⠀⇛
The Louisiana state legislature unanimously passed
a bill on Tuesday (June 8) banning minors from
creating their own accounts on websites across the
internet, without express parental consent. It now
goes to the desk of Governor John Bel Edwards,
where it is unclear whether it will be signed into
law.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Non-LSD_hallucinogen_use_rising_among_young
adults⠀⇛
Young adults ages 19-30 nearly doubled their past-
12-month use of non-LSD hallucinogens in the United
States from 2018-21, according to a study by U-
M and Columbia University.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Battle_Over_Smartphones_at_School⠀⇛
Plus: The decline of morality is an illusion.
o § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Lawyer_Who_Used_ChatGPT_Faces_Penalty_for
Made_Up_Citations⠀⇛
In a cringe-inducing court hearing, a lawyer who
relied on A.I. to craft a motion full of made-up
case law said he “did not comprehend” that the chat
bot could lead him astray.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Twitch_in_Tailspin,_Walking_Back
Restrictions_As_Users_Revolt_Over_Changes⠀⇛
On Tuesday, Twitch released new advertising
restrictions for its platform. On Wednesday night,
the platform began walking those rules back as the
community revolted. Or did it? The new platform
rules would prevent any advertising partnerships
outside of Twitch-supported ads. That means no
‘burned-in’ video, display, or audio ads are
allowed anymore.
# ⚓ Cloudbooklet ☛ Falcon_vs._LLaMA:_A_Comparison_of_Two_Large
Language_Models⠀⇛
Falcon vs. LLaMA: Falcon and LLaMA are two of the
most popular large language models (LLMs). We
evaluate and contrast the two models in terms of
size, training data, capabilities, and performance
in this post. We also explore the advantages and
disadvantages of each model.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Is_artificial_intelligence_about_to_be
regulated?⠀⇛
Advanced artificial intelligence technologies are
being adopted at an unprecedented pace, and their
potential to revolutionise society for good is
enormous.
o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾
# § Openwashing⠀➾
# ⚓ As_Open_Source_on_the_Mainframe_Continues_to_Gain
Popularity,_Linux_Foundation_Announces_Call_for
Papers⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux_Foundation,_NSC_team_up_on_Open_RAN⠀⇛
The National Spectrum Consortium and Linux
Foundation have announced a formal
collaboration focused on Open RAN software
prototypes, demonstrations and development,
including an open-source reference stack.
The NSC is a group of nearly 400
organizations that operates under a
streamlined contract authority that is meant
to enable closer and faster collaboration
between government and industry, giving the
federal government direct access to private
companies in order for the government to
quickly acquire and leverage new
technologies.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian
(jupyter-core, openssl, and ruby2.5), Fedora
(firefox), Mageia (libreoffice, openssl, and
python-flask), Red Hat (python and python3),
Slackware (mozilla, php8, and python3), SUSE (java-
1_8_0-ibm, libcares2, mariadb, and python36), and
Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-
xenial, linux-gke, linux-intel-iotg, linux-raspi,
linux-xilinx-zynqmp, and mozjs102).
# ⚓ Bauer Media Group ☛ University_of_Manchester_trying_to
resolve_“cyber_incident” [Ed: Likely Windows TCO]⠀⇛
The University of Manchester has confirmed experts
are working to resolve a “cyber incident”.
On Friday morning, the institution said some of its
data had been accessed by an “unauthorised party”
and data have “likely been copied”.
The uni said it was working with a number of
organisations including the Information
Commissioner’s Office, National Cyber Security
Centre and National Crime Agency.
# ⚓ Hackers_Follow_Through_with_Dark_Web_Threat_After_Law_Firm
Rejects_Ransom:_Enjoy! [Ed: Likely Windows TCO]⠀⇛
A hacking group claiming to be Russian-linked
cybercriminals has published sensitive data from
one of Australia’s largest law firms, HWL Ebsworth,
after the firm refused to pay their ransom demands.
The AlphV ransomware gang, also known as BlackCat,
announced on the dark web that it had released 1.45
terabytes of data allegedly stolen from HWL
Ebsworth in late April. The group claims to have
financial and insurance data, credit card
information, agreements, and reports. The firm is
investigating the claim and has confirmed that it
will not submit to the ransom demand.
The hack has caused concern for HWL Ebsworth’s
clients, which include ANZ, the South Australian,
Queensland, and ACT governments, the Environment
and Human Services Department, and the Australian
Taxation Office (ATO). The federal government has
confirmed that it was a client of the law firm and
may have been affected by the breach. The Home
Affairs department has set up three “working
groups” to respond to the hack, including a
specialist legal team and a Sensitive Information
Working Group to manage any information exposed in
the breach related to vulnerable people, national
security, and law enforcement matters.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Another_hospital_hit_by_ransomware:
Columbus_Regional_Healthcare_System_in_North_Carolina_hit_by
Daixin [Ed: Likely Windows TCO]⠀⇛
Columbus Regional Healthcare System (CRHS) is a
non-profit organization in North Carolina licensed
for 154 beds. The Daixin ransomware group claims
that on May 18, they encrypted the hospital’s
servers after exfiltrating data and deleting
backups.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Intellihartx_notifies_490,000_patients_of
Fortra/GoAnywhere_breach⠀⇛
Intellihartx LLC in Tennessee is notifying 489,830
of its clients’ patients about the Fortra/
GoAnywhere breach by Clop. The types of information
that may have been compromised include name,
address, medical billing and insurance information,
certain medical information such as diagnoses and
medication, and demographic information such as
date of birth and Social Security number.
# ⚓ USDOJ ☛ Russian_Nationals_Charged_With_Hacking_One
Cryptocurrency_Exchange_and_Illicitly_Operating_Another⠀⇛
According to court documents, Alexey Bilyuchenko,
43, and Aleksandr Verner, 29, both Russian
nationals, are charged with conspiring to launder
approximately 647,000 bitcoins from their hack of
Mt. Gox. Bilyuchenko is also charged with
conspiring with Alexander Vinnik to operate BTC-
e from 2011 to 2017.
# § Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation⠀➾
# ⚓ CyberRisk Alliance LLC ☛ Cyclops_ransomware’s_info
stealer_seeks_Windows,_Linux_system_compromise⠀⇛
Cyclops ransomware’s info stealer, which is
similarly based on the Go programming
language as its ransomware’s macOS and Linux
versions, facilitates the exfiltration of
operating system details, computer names, and
process counts, as well as .TXT, .PDF, .DOC,
.XLS, . PNG, .JPG, and .JPEG files, which are
then sent to a remote server, according to an
Uptycs report.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ The Markup ☛ From_“Heavy_Purchasers”_of_Pregnancy
Tests_to_the_Depression-Prone:_We_Found_650,000_Ways
Advertisers_Label_You_–_The_Markup⠀⇛
A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website
revealed a massive collection of “audience
segments” used to target consumers based on
highly specific, sometimes intimate
information and inferences
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ State_Department_Offers_$5_Million
for_Information_on_Key_Anom_Distributor⠀⇛
The FBI secretly created its own encrypted
phone company. Now the U.S. government wants
help capturing Maximilian Rivkin, one of its
alleged top brass.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia,_Lithuania,_U.S._to_reach_‘Baltic_Zenith’⠀⇛
From June 10 to 20, international military
exercises dubbed “Baltic Zenith 2023″ will take
place in southern Kurzeme region at the Šķēde
military training range and at the Jūrmalciems
military aviation training facility, during
which soldiers of Latvia, Lithuania and the United
States will improve their skills in combat firing
at airborne targets.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Nashville_School_Shooter’s_Parents_to_Hand
Ownership_of_Writings_to_Victims⠀⇛
The family’s decision to relinquish legal ownership
of writings left by the Nashville school
shooter comes amid a fierce legal battle over
whether the writings should be made public.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ UN:_Aid_to_Be_Delivered_in_Sudan_Cease-Fire_or
Not⠀⇛
“But, we need to see an end to the violence and the
looting of humanitarian facilities”
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Pakistan’s_Imran_Khan_Gets_Bail_On_Murder_Charges⠀⇛
Ousted Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan secured
bail on June 8 from the Islamabad High Court over
murder charges, blocking his arrest for 14 days,
his lawyer Gohar Khan said.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Siberian_Rights_Defender_Handed_18-Year_Prison_Term
On_Illegal-Drugs_Charge_He_Rejects⠀⇛
A court in the Siberian city of Kemerovo on June 7
sentenced noted human rights defender Dmitry
Kamynin to 18 years in prison for allegedly
distributing illegal drugs, a charge he and his
supporters call retaliation by local authorities
for his rights activities.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Sarajevo_Court_Sentences_Five_Ethnic_Serbs_To
Prison_For_Crimes_Committed_During_Bosnian_War⠀⇛
Bosnia’s state court has sentenced five ethnic Serb
ex-policemen to prison terms for committing war
crimes against Muslim Bosniak civilians during the
1992-1995 Bosnian War.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ UN_tribunal_declares_Rwanda_genocide_suspect_unfit
to_stand_trial⠀⇛
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal
Tribunals (IRMCT), a United Nations (UN) tribunal,
declared Wednesday that Félicien Kabuga, one of the
last fugitives of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, is
unfit to stand trial due to dementia.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Myanmar_military_kills_6_people_in_raid_on_Sagaing
region_village⠀⇛
Locals say troops shot 4 People’s Defense Force
members and 2 civilians.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Piriou_hands_over_first_OPV_58S_patrol_vessel
to_Senegal⠀⇛
French shipyard Piriou has handed over the first of
three OPV 58S patrol vessels to Senegal’s Navy as
part of a contract signed in November 2019.
Construction of the first vessel, Walo, bean in
October 2020 and it was launched in April 2022
before being handed over at Piriou’s shipyard in
Concarneau on 2 June.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Restocking_US_and_allies’_arsenals
starts_with_getting_industry_involved_at_the_NATO_summit⠀⇛
The upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius offers an
opportunity for government officials and the
defense industry to get on the same page about the
true urgency of inadequate defense supply chains.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Some_offenders_are_too_dangerous_to_be
freed⠀⇛
Countering terrorism while preserving essential
freedoms and holding together a stable and
harmonious community isn’t an easy task, but it has
been managed effectively by successive Australian
governments and their agencies.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ The_five-domains_update⠀⇛
Sea state The US Navy has released a video showing
a Chinese navy ship nearly colliding with an
American destroyer in the Taiwan Strait.
# ⚓ American Oversight ☛ American_Oversight_Sues_for_Records
Related_to_White_Supremacist_Incidents_in_the_Military⠀⇛
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Operationalizing_integrated_deterrence:
Evolving_the_joint_force’s_application_of_targeting_across
the_competition⠀⇛
General James E. Cartwright, Lieutenant Colonel
Justin M. Conelli, and Clementine G. Starling
advance a framework for operationalizing integrated
deterrence.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Weighing_the_risks_in_naval_ship
procurement⠀⇛
The Australian National Audit Office’s recent
report on the Hunter-class frigate program
contained a number of significant revelations, but
one of the most striking was the statement by the
surface ships advisory committee [...]
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ American Oversight ☛ Defense_Department_Spent_Nearly_$1
Million_at_Trump_Properties_from_July_2017_to_November_2019,
Records_Obtained_by_American_Oversight_Reveal⠀⇛
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_falls_short_of_EU_recycling_targets⠀⇛
Finland’s recycling rate in 2020 was 41.6 percent,
while the EU’s 2025 target is over 55 percent. The
Environment Ministry is worried about rising
incineration since last year.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ India_monsoon_reaches_Kerala_after
longest_delay_in_4_years⠀⇛
The authorities had expected the rains on June 4
but a cyclonic storm delayed the onset.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Philippines’_Mayon_Volcano_“Quietly_Erupts”,
PHIVOLCS_Alerts⠀⇛
“…parameters indicate that very slow extrusion of
shallow degassed magma is ongoing…”
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Myanmar_junta_shuts_down_NGO_access_to_cyclone-hit
Rakhine_state⠀⇛
Aid groups had obtained permission to travel in the
state only a day earlier.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Primavera_Sound_Cancels_Initial_Dates
Over_Severe_Weather_Concerns⠀⇛
Echoing cancellations in New York, the Primavera
Sound festival has canceled initial dates due to
severe weather concerns. “Thursday’s Primavera
Sound Madrid has been cancelled for safety reasons
in view of the adverse weather forecast,”
organizers informed attendees via social media.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Coinbase_isn’t_changing_a_thing_in_the_wake
of_the_SEC’s_lawsuit_against_it⠀⇛
Coinbase, undaunted by a lawsuit from the US
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
alleging it offered unregistered securities
to retail investors, continues to operate its
business as it always has.
# ⚓ H2 View ☛ Spain_awards_€100m_to_seven_green_hydrogen
projects⠀⇛
The Spanish Government on Tuesday (June 6)
granted €100m ($107.7m) in aid to seven
projects that look set to integrate
electrolysers into industrial settings for
green hydrogen production.
# ⚓ H2 View ☛ UK_and_Scottish_Governments_urged_to_set
interim_hydrogen_production_targets⠀⇛
The UK and Scottish Governments should set
interim targets for their hydrogen strategies
to ensure production and Net Zero commitments
are met, according to a Scottish Affairs
Committee report.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Binance_attorneys_say_SEC_Chair_Gary
Gensler_offered_to_advise_crypto_company_in_2019⠀⇛
The lawyers of Binance Holdings Ltd. have
alleged that United States Securities and
Exchange Commission Chair Gary Genser offered
to be an adviser to the company prior to
taking up his post at the SEC.
§ Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ AirNow_and_Other_Apps_to_Help_You_Track_Air_Quality
Near_You⠀⇛
Air quality levels have been a source of intense interest this
week. There are a number of ways to keep track of them on your
phone.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Where_there’s_fire,_there’s_smoke:_Public_safety_lesson
for_Eastern_US⠀⇛
The severity of Canadian wildfire smoke has startled the United
States and may prompt Eastern communities to draw safety
lessons from the fire-prone West.
* ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Why_Air_Quality_Index_Readings_Vary_So_Much_During
Wildfire_Smoke_Events⠀⇛
How you, a newly minted AQI expert, can sort through the data
noise from AirNow and PurpleAir.
* ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ There_Is_No_Plan_For_This_Predictable_Event,_New
York_City’s_Mayor_Says⠀⇛
Mayor Eric Adams said there is “no blueprint or playbook” for
hazardous air quality, but he did suspend alternate side
parking.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ New_Yorkers_Suffer_Over_Smoke_From_Canadian_Wildfires⠀⇛
The air quality index in New York City reached “hazardous”
levels on Wednesday afternoon.
§ Overpopulation⠀➾
* ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Stanford_researchers_create_model_to_help_farmers_reduce
water_usage⠀⇛
Stanford researchers developed a tool that uses soil moisture
as an indicator of evapotranspiration rates of plants.
Accurately measuring evapotranspiration could allow for
irrigation using less water.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Happiest_Way_to_Change_Jobs⠀⇛
How to rock your work rather than let the work rule you
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Student_loans?_US_approves_$42B_to_forgive_debt_for_public
workers.⠀⇛
The United States rolls out a loan forgiveness program to
encourage public service. Open to teachers, librarians, nurses,
and others, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program cancels
a borrower’s remaining student debt after 10 years of public
interest.
* ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Tesco_could_be_breaking_the_law_due_to_unclear_pricing,_says
Which?⠀⇛
Tesco should introduce unit pricing on Clubcard offers so
shoppers can compare
grocery prices more easily
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Hospitality_Sector_in_New_Zealand_Has_Most_Filled_Jobs⠀⇛
“…a total of 12,196 jobs added to the industry…”
* ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ FBC_to_acquire_Standard_Chartered’s_business_in_Zimbabwe⠀⇛
We saw it coming years before it was announced. Standard
Chartered lost interest in the Zimbabwean market a long time
ago and were, to be frank, just biding time, waiting for
something to change. Last year, they said they had seen enough
and decided Zimbabwe was too hot to handle. Their loss is FBC’s
gain.
* ⚓ Jobless_claims_hit_32-month_high⠀⇛
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last
week rose to its highest level since October 2021, but the
labor market remains one of the healthiest parts of the U.S.
economy.
The Labor Department reported Thursday that U.S. applications
for jobless claims were up from 233,000 by 28,000 to 261,000
for the week ending June 3. Weekly jobless claims are
considered representative of U.S. layoffs.
The four-week moving average of claims, which evens out some of
the weekly variations, rose by 7,500 to 237,250.
* ⚓ In_the_United_States,_the_double_penalty_for_holders_of_H1B_technology
visas⠀⇛
In January, Haoning Zhang, 33, was among the batch of layoffs
announced by Google. Two months later, after his notice, the
young engineer, of Chinese origin, left the offices of the
search engine in Irvine (California), where he had been
employed for eight months. Since then, he has given himself two
missions: to find a job and above all a visa.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Hun_Sen_says_he’s_no_longer_concerned_Cambodian_workers_will_be
forced_from_Thailand⠀⇛
Earlier this week, the Cambodian leader worried that the new
Thai government would target migrant workers.
* ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Barclays_ousted_as_buyer_sought_for_Telegraph_and
Spectator⠀⇛
Sale of Telegraph and Spectator to highest bid now looks
likely.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Dollar_dominance:_Preserving_the_US_dollar’s_status
as_the_global_reserve_currency⠀⇛
Dr. Carla Norrlöf, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic
Council’s GeoEconomics Center, testified to the US House
Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial
Institutions and Monetary Policy. Below are her prepared
remarks for the committee on preserving the US dollar’s status
as a global reserve currency.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Trump_indicted:_What_to_know_about_the_documents
case_and_what’s_next⠀⇛
Donald Trump’s indictment on charges of mishandling classified
documents at his Florida estate has brought renewed attention
to one of the most notable cases in Justice Department history.
The federal charges represent the biggest legal jeopardy so far
for Trump, coming less than three months after he was charged
in New York with 34 felony counts of falsifying business
records. A person familiar with the indictment tells The
Associated Press that Trump has been charged with seven counts
but that the exact charges are under seal.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Former_U.S._President_Faces_Federal_Charges_for_the
First_Time_in_History⠀⇛
It was not immediately known what specific charges the former
president is facing. One person briefed on the matter said
there were seven counts.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Inside_Trump’s_Club_When_the_Indictment_Call_Came⠀⇛
It was a more familiar drill this time for the former
president, his aides and allies, who cranked their political
spin machine and fund-raising operation into action.
* ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Live_updates_|_Trump_Classified_Documents
Indictment⠀⇛
Follow along for the latest on former President Donald Trump,
who announced Thursday on social media that he’s been indicted
on charges of mishandling classified documents at his Florida
estate.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ This_Indictment_Is_Different⠀⇛
As Trump faces federal charges, the evidence seems stronger,
and the legal issues simpler.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Former_US_president_Donald_Trump_indicted_in_classified
documents_case⠀⇛
US federal prosecutors have indicted former US President Donald
Trump in their investigation into his potential mishandling of
classified government documents, Trump announced Thursday via
his social media platform Truth Social. As of the time of this
report, federal prosecutors at the Department of Justice (DOJ)
have yet to confirm the indictment.
* ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Trump_charged_over_classified_documents_in
1st_federal_indictment_of_an_ex-president⠀⇛
The indictment carries unmistakably grave legal consequences,
including the possibility of prison if he’s convicted.
* ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Trump_indicted:_What_to_know_about_the
documents_case_and_what’s_next⠀⇛
Donald Trump’s indictment on charges of mishandling classified
documents at his Florida estate has brought renewed attention
to one of the most notable cases in Justice Department history.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Indictment_Brings_Trump_Story_Full_Circle⠀⇛
The former president assailed Hillary Clinton for her handling
of sensitive information. Now, the same issue threatens his
chances of reclaiming the presidency.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_Supreme_Court_rejects_Alabama_congressional_maps_as
racially_gerrymandered⠀⇛
In a 5-4 vote, the US Supreme Court found Thursday in Allen v.
Milligan that Alabama’s legislature violated the voting rights
of Black Alabamians with the composition of the state’s
congressional maps.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ El_Salvador_president_signs_electoral_reform_cutting_seats_in
Legislative_Assembly⠀⇛
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Wednesday signed a
controversial electoral reform into law that will slash the
number of seats in the country’s Legislative Assembly from 84
to 60. President Bukele and his party Nuevas Ideas argue that
the measure will cut costs and promote greater efficiency.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Chris_Licht_and_CNN⠀⇛
A conversation with Tim Alberta about his reporting on the
network and its former leader
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Does_CNN’s_Turmoil_Mean_There’s_No_Room_on_Cable_for
Independent_News?⠀⇛
Chris Licht’s tenure illuminated how increasingly hard it can
be to find success on the divided cable news dial.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ An_Interview_With_Tim_Alberta_on_CNN’s_Turmoil⠀⇛
Highlights from a “Radio Atlantic” conversation with the writer
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ John_Roberts_Throws_a_Curveball⠀⇛
The Voting Rights Act lives to see another day.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ This_Is_Not_the_Time_for_a_Third_Presidential
Candidate⠀⇛
The No Labels plan is just too risky.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Supreme_Court_sides_with_Black_voters_in_Alabama
redistricting_case⠀⇛
In a 5-4 ruling the Supreme Court justices affirmed a lower-
court decision that Alabama’s redistricting to concentrate
Black voters in a single district violated the Voting Rights
Act. In a surprise move, two conservatives sided with the
court’s liberals.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ From_MLK_to_Black_Power:_Books_trace_the_Civil_Rights
Movement⠀⇛
Three books delve into the Civil Rights Movement from Martin
Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent campaigns to the rise of the Black
Panthers.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Halted_House:_McCarthy_welcomes_fallout_challenge_from
Biden_deal⠀⇛
Since Tuesday, conservative Republicans have arrested the
House’s operations, refusing to support routine procedural
votes. The move signals discontent from the far right over the
debt-ceiling deal negotiated by Speaker Kevin McCarthy with
President Joe Biden.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_Pat_Robertson_Created_the_Religious_Right’s_Model
for_Political_Power⠀⇛
The celebrity minister, who died Thursday, built a media empire
and openly sought to leverage his popularity among evangelicals
to influence government and the culture.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Is_Gen_Z_Coming_for_the_GOP?⠀⇛
Not all young people are Democrats.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Netanyahu_Sends_in_the_Clowns⠀⇛
The Israeli prime minister has spent decades drumming out all
competent challengers. Now he has no capable successors.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Poland’s_Imperiled_Democracy⠀⇛
The remarkable staying power of populist governments—thanks in
part to their willingness to bend the rule of law—is a warning
to America.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Don’t_Forget_the_Other_Half_of_Europe’s_Abortion
Compromise⠀⇛
Yes, many countries in Europe restrict abortion far more than
America did under Roe. But they also do a lot more to support
women and children, once those children are out of the womb.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Pat_Robertson_moved_seamlessly_between_religion_and
politics⠀⇛
Pat Robertson, who died Thursday, launched the far-reaching
Christian Broadcasting Network, ran for president as a
Republican in 1988, and founded the Christian Coalition, which
cemented the Republican Party’s enduring alliance with
evangelical voters.
* ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ This_Indictment_Will_Likely_Come_Too_Early_for_Trump_to
Consolidate_the_Party⠀⇛
I a Trump indictment comes in the next few weeks, it could
provide Republicans an opportunity to distance themselves from
Trump.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Trump’s_Indictment_Puts_Us_Into_Uncharted_Waters⠀⇛
How politically radical could the base of the Republican Party
become between now and the 2024 presidential election?
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ FBI_arrests_Texas_businessman_linked_to
impeachment_of_state_Attorney_General_Ken_Paxton⠀⇛
FBI agents have arrested a Texas businessman at the center of
the scandal that led to the historic impeachment of state
Attorney General Ken Paxton. Online records show that Nate Paul
was booked into an Austin jail Thursday afternoon after being
taken into custody by federal agents. It was not immediately
clear what charges led to his arrest, and the jail records said
only that he was being held on a federal detainer. Paul’s
entanglements with Paxton were central to the GOP-led state
House of Representatives’ overwhelming vote to impeach the
Republican last month.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Kevin_McCarthy_Facing_Tough_Choices_After_House
Mutiny⠀⇛
Lawmakers in both parties fear that the rebellion by the
extreme right could endanger spending bills and other big
legislative initiatives if it persists, shaping the speakership
in the most difficult of ways.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Supreme_Court’s_Alabama_Voting_Rights_Case_Has
Implications_for_Other_Southern_States⠀⇛
A decision that said Alabama’s congressional voting maps were
detrimental to Black voters was celebrated by advocates — and
could mean changes to voting in other states.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Supreme_Court_Gives_the_Voting_Rights_Act_a_Tenuous
New_Lease_on_Life⠀⇛
The main remaining power of the landmark 1965 law, over racial
bias in political mapmaking, gets an unexpected buttressing
from a court that had been weakening the law for years.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ In_major_win_for_voting_rights,_Supreme_Court_sides_with
Black_Alabamians⠀⇛
In one of the biggest rulings of this term so far, the Supreme
Court upheld a key section of the Voting Rights Act. The case
has important implications for both 2024 elections and
democracy overall.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ A_Supreme_Court_Ruling_That_Could_Tip_the_House⠀⇛
The Court delivered a rare victory for voting rights—and may
have given Democrats a handful of new seats.
* ⚓ YLE ☛ Government_to_sell_off_under-used_office_space⠀⇛
Just three in ten state office workers are working on site on
any one day, on average.
* ⚓ YLE ☛ Marin_meets_Stoltenberg_in_Brussels,_receives_leadership_award⠀⇛
While in the Belgian capital, Marin will also receive a
Trailblazer award from the Women Political Leaders group.
* ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ RFK_Jr._Could_Be_Laying_the_Groundwork_for_a_Third-
Party_Run⠀⇛
With a coalition of anti-vax activists, crypto enthusiasts,
Silicon Valley moguls, and supporters from across the horseshoe
of extremism.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Pornhub_Tells_Users_to_Take_Action_Before
Politicians_Take_Their_Porn_Away⠀⇛
Porn viewers in Virginia, Arkansas, and Mississippi are now met
with a video imploring them to contact their representatives
about age-verification laws.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Australia:_Nazi_Salute_Banned,_Bid_to_Stop_Far-Right
Extremists⠀⇛
“there is no place in Australia for symbols that glorify the
horrors of the Holocaust”
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Australia_government_to_introduce_legislation_banning
swastikas_and_other_Nazi_symbols⠀⇛
Australia Attorney General Mark Dreyfus said on Thursday that
he will introduce a bill next week banning the public display
of the Nazi Hakenkreuz, commonly known as the swastika, and SS
Bolts. The bill will also ban the trade of any items which bear
these symbols.
* ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Apollo,_the_Best_Reddit_App,_Is_Shutting_Down
Because_of_Reddit’s_New_Fees⠀⇛
“Talks with Reddit have deteriorated to an ugly point.”
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ US_lawmakers_slam_State_Dept._plan_to_invite
Hong_Kong’s_US-sanctioned_John_Lee_to_APEC_in_San_Francisco⠀⇛
US Democratic and Republican lawmakers have urged Washington
not to invite Hong Kong’s sanctioned leader John Lee to an
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San
Francisco in November, describing him as a “human rights
abuser.”
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Top_Hong_Kong_court_approves_gov’t_application
to_appeal_acquittal_of_former_Tiananmen_vigil_activist⠀⇛
Hong Kong’s top court will hear an appeal by the government
against an earlier ruling that overturned the conviction of
former Tiananmen vigil activist Chow Hang-tung over an
unauthorised commemoration.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ The_international_community_must_protect_women
politicians_from_abuse_online._Here’s_how.⠀⇛
At RightsCon, human-rights advocates and tech leaders who have
faced harassment online detail their experiences—and ways the
international community can support women moving forward.
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Nick_Robinson_interview:_Whatever_happened_to_broadcast
news_impartiality?⠀⇛
Robinson talks Today, the threat (or lack thereof) posed by
podcasts and his workaholic ways.
* ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Digital_natives_on_the_ropes:_What_next_for_online_news
publishers?⠀⇛
What publishers can learn from the troubles facing Buzzfeed and
Vice.
* ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Google_to_finally_launch_News_Showcase_in_the_US_as
part_of_local_news_support_package⠀⇛
Partner publications include the Wall Street Journal, AP,
Reuters and Bloomberg.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Google_has_officially_changed_its_mind_about_remote_work [Ed:
Gulag makes workers less happy to cause many of them to resign, hence no
need to lay off]⠀⇛
Yet another big tech baron is beckoning workers back to the
office. Now Google is doubling down on enforcing in-person
work, according to a_new_company_notice.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Quiet_quitters_lack_clarity_on_this_key_job_perk⠀⇛
While the term ‘quiet quitting’ may be having its zeitgeist
moment, it’s just a new name for a very old behavior—and it’s a
lot more nuanced than an employee simply doing the bare minimum
at work.
* ⚓ AntiWar ☛ State_Secrets_Undermine_Due_Process⠀⇛
In a public courtroom of the United States of America, in which
a high-level criminal case is being tried, the prosecutors are
permitted to press a buzzer on their table in the midst of
argument to the court by defense counsel.
* ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Supreme_Court’s_Damper_on_the_Right_to_Strike⠀⇛
In a near-unanimous opinion, the Justices made it easier for
employers to sue labor unions for damages caused by a work
stoppage.
* ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Women,_Technology,_Glitter_Pancakes_and_Existential
Unease_at_the_Malibu_Barbie_Cafe⠀⇛
What Barbie means in 2023 seems as unclear to the designers of
the Barbie Malibu Cafe as to anyone else—but they do make a
great garlic aioli.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Reality_Show_That’s_Tackling_the_Toxic_Workplace⠀⇛
Top Chef has spent the past 20 seasons redefining what it means
to be a chef—and a leader.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Cambodia’s_leader_tells_garment_workers_that_opposition_is
pushing_for_sanctions⠀⇛
If next month’s election isn’t free, the E.U. could raise
tariffs – a move that could cause factory closures.
* ⚓ LRT ☛ Detaining_migrants_was_necessary,_says_Lithuanian_minister⠀⇛
Interior Minister Agne Bilotaitė said the detention of
migrants, deemed unconstitutional by a Lithuanian court on
Wednesday, was necessary to protect the country.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ The_European_Commission’s_Rita_Wezenbeek_on_what
comes_next_in_implementing_the_Digital_Services_Act_and_Digital_Markets
Act⠀⇛
At a DFRLab RightsCon event, Wezenbeek spoke about the need to
get everyone involved in the implementation of the DSA and DMA.
* ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ What_is_Media_Access_Control_(MAC)_Address?⠀⇛
Understanding the function and importance of MAC addresses is
essential for anyone dealing with computer networks, be it a
home network or a complex business setup. This article provides
a comprehensive guide on Media Access Control (MAC) addresses,
their role in network communication, and their significance in
today’s digital world. What is a MAC Address? [...]
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Apple_v._Vidal:_A_Case_for_the_Supreme
Court_on_USPTO_Discretionary_Denial⠀⇛
Under former director Iancu, the USPTO created a set of
guidelines allowing the PTAB to deny IPR institution even
in situations where the challenger raises strong
challenges. These discretionary denials are known
as Fintiv guidelines based upon the precedential case of
Apple Inc. v. Fintiv, Inc., IPR2020-00019 (P.T.A.B.
2020). The statute appears to provide the USPTO Director
with discretion in at least two key ways: (1) The statute
does not expressly require institution but rather sets
the reasonable-likelihood of success as a minimum
threshold for granting institution. (2) The statute also
indicates that the decision of whether to issue is non-
appealable, suggesting a discretionary approach.
* § Trademarks⠀➾
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Guns_N’_Roses_Case_Against_Texas_Guns_and
Roses_Store_Dismissed_by_California_Judge⠀⇛
A California judge has dismissed a trademark infringement
lawsuit filed by Guns N’ Roses against a store called
Texas Guns and Roses that sells — you guessed it — guns
and roses.
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Dua_Lipa_‘Levitating’_Lawsuit_Jointly
Dropped_With_Prejudice_Days_Following_Dismissal_Order⠀⇛
Earlier this week, a federal judge dismissed the Dua Lipa
“Levitating” lawsuit, questioning whether the London-born
artist had in fact accessed the allegedly infringed
track. Now, despite being given leave to amend the
complaint, the plaintiffs have agreed to drop the action.
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Spotify_Pivots_Podcasting_Strategy_Yet
Again,_This_Time_to_Syndication [Ed: Spotify loses a billion
dollars a year (1,000 million), desperate to find something that
actually makes money; of course Spotify is also terrible for
musicians too]⠀⇛
Spotify pivots its podcasting strategy yet again — this
time with an eye on syndication. Spotify is shifting its
podcast strategy again, making its exclusives available
on other platforms to gain revenue through syndication.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o WINE_or_Emulation
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Programming/Development
# Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Security
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Software_Patents
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Hectic Geek ☛ Fedora_Server_vs_Ubuntu_Server:_Comparison
for_Enterprise_Applications⠀⇛
Fedora Server and Ubuntu Server have long been key
players in enterprise applications, offering robust
functionality for web and application servers. Each
has a unique blend of features and benefits that
make them suitable for various uses.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Audacity_3.3.3_Fixed_EQ_Scaling_&
Audio.com_Upload_Flow_(Ubuntu_PPA)⠀⇛
Audacity audio editor released version 3.3.3 a day
ago. The new release fixed the Filter Curve EQ and
Graphic EQ scaling when resizing the dialog.
Previously, resizing it only cause large blank area
while leaving EQ unchanged. The release also fixed
audio.com upload flow.
# ⚓ What_Will_Happen_After_All_Major_News_Sites_Die_Isn’t
Pretty⠀⇛
With webspam, chaff, sponsored puff pieces and
worse things being presented as “the news” we’re
running out of actual purpose for the World Wide
Web
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Fixing_DDR4-1867_on_a_Supermicro_server⠀⇛
If you’re refurbishing an old box that’s only
detecting your DDR4-2133 or 2400 as 1867 MHz, get
into the BIOS and disable POR: [...]
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Portainer_on_Debian_11⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Portainer on Debian 11. Looking to simplify your
container management? Portainer is your answer!
This fantastic open-source tool makes it easy to
manage and deploy your containerized applications.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_SuiteCRM_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛
SuiteCRM is an open-source customer relationship
management solution written in PHP. It’s a fork of
the popular SugarCRM. In this post, you will learn
how to install SuiteCRM using the Nginx web server
and Let’s Encrypt SSL on a Rocky Linux 9 server.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Puppet_Server_and_Agent_on
AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛
Puppet is a centralized configuration management
and automation tool. This guide shows you how to
install Puppet Server and Agent on AlmaLinux
servers. We’ll also show you how to start with the
Puppet configuration management tool by creating
the first Puppet deployment for LAMP Stack.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_KDE_Plasma_on_CentOS_Stream
9/8⠀⇛
When it comes to Linux desktop environments,
diversity is one of the greatest strengths. KDE
Plasma, often simply referred to as KDE, is one
such desktop environment that has been honed over
the years for optimum performance and aesthetics.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_configure_SSH_keys_for_new_Linux_users⠀⇛
In Linux, creating a new user and setting up an SSH
key for them is a common task, especially in
environments that require secure and efficient
remote access. SSH keys provide a more secure way
of logging in compared to passwords.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Tor_Browser_on_Rocky_Linux
9/8⠀⇛
Tor Browser is an open-source software toolset that
serves as a formidable guardian of user privacy and
online freedom. Developed by the Tor Project, the
browser is essentially a modified version of
Mozilla Firefox, equipped with several privacy-
focused enhancements.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Next.js_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|
20.04⠀⇛
As the digital world continues to evolve, Next.js
stands as a beacon of progress in the sphere of web
development. Developed by Vercel, Next.js is a
robust, open-source JavaScript framework that
enables the creation of high-performing static
websites and server-side rendered applications,
leveraging the power of React.js.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_Install_Sentry_using_Docker?⠀⇛
In this post, you will learn how to install Sentry
using Docker. This method ensures compatibility
but, above all, ease of processing. Sentry is an
open-source application that works as a real-time
error monitor.
# ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_create_a_web_app_with_flask⠀⇛
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install
flask and create a simple web app using flask.
Flask is a python web framework that you can use to
create python web apps.
If you are a python programmer or just starting to
learn python, and want to build web
# ⚓ Preserving_Your_Progress:_How_to_Export_Docker_Images⠀⇛
Introduction Docker images have become an integral
part of the modern software development process,
particularly with the adoption of containerization
technology. A Docker image is a pre-configured
package that contains all the dependencies and
libraries needed to run an application.
o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾
# ⚓ WINE Project (Official) ☛ WineHQ_–_Wine_Announcement_–_The
Wine_development_release_8.10_is_now_available.⠀⇛
The Wine development release 8.10 is now available.
What's new in this release:
- All PE->Unix transitions go through the syscall
interface.
- Mouse cursor clipping improvements.
- Support for virtual memory placeholders.
- Locale and timezone data updates.
- Various bug fixes.
The source is available at:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.x/wine-
8.10.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be
available from:
https://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on https://
www.winehq.org/documentation
You can also get the current source directly from
the git
repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for
details.
Wine is available thanks to the work of many
people. See the file
AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ Wine_8.10_lands_with_uTorrent_crash_fix_and_other
performance_improvements⠀⇛
Wine 8.10 has been released to the development
branch. It comes with several improvements and bug
fixes. Wine lets you run Windows programs in both
Linux and macOS with some success.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Boosting_Open-Source:_GNOME_Extensions_Now
Support_Donations⠀⇛
Want to thank the GNOME extension developers
for their work? They now have the option to
add a donate button.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ HaikuOS ☛ Haiku_Activity_&_Contract_Report,_May_2023⠀⇛
As is the usual way of things, the monthly Activity
Report is hereby combined with my Contract Report.
This report covers hrev56962 through hrev57061. It was
quite a busy month!
jscipione fixed Deskbar’s window size limits in
horizontal mode, and cleaned up some parts of its source
code.
jscipione reworked Tracker’s handling of read-only
folders and volumes. Now, instead of triggering errors,
menu actions related to editing will simply be disabled
outright. In addition, the faded gray background (which
was already used for queries, virtual directories, and
some other special views) will also be used in any read-
only folder or volume. He also cleaned up and refactored
some of the code for clarity and consistency.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Red_Hat_to_Help_Transform_the_Automotive
Industry_at_the_Edge_with_ETAS⠀⇛
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced a collaboration
with ETAS, the Bosch subsidiary responsible for the
development of application-independent software for
vehicles and the cloud, to deliver an in-vehicle
automotive platform that will lower the development
cost and further accelerate time-to-market for
automakers. This pre-integrated and pre-tested
foundation platform will provide automakers with a
streamlined out-of-the-box developer experience to
deliver application software. The ETAS
deterministic middleware solution will
significantly accelerate the development of
advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)
applications with Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating
System positioned to provide a continuously-
certified and open standards-based operating
system.
# ⚓ Techstrong Group ☛ Supercharging_Ansible_Automation_With
AI⠀⇛
Whether the latest incarnations of generative AI
will live up to their seemingly great promise
remains to be seen. This does not always happen
with new technology, but the torrent of AI
advancements is promising disruption across nearly
every industry. Instead of posing a threat to human
roles, AI now aims to make tasks easier, faster and
more efficient. “This is precisely what we have
been trying to achieve with Ansible and automation
through generative AI models,” according to Richard
Henshall, senior manager of Ansible Product
Management at Red Hat. “At the end of the day, AI
is another form of automation, and while we do not
have thinking computers yet, we do have highly
advanced and powerful models that can automate
access to data.”
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ ABB_and_Red_Hat:_Delivering_operational
excellence_at_the_industrial_edge⠀⇛
Edge computing continues to push the boundaries and
capabilities of modern information technology (IT).
At the same time, operational technology (OT)
requirements are becoming more and more aligned
with IT. As a result, a paradigm shift is taking
place in the industrial sector as manufacturers
turn to open source technologies to support more
agile operational technology (OT) platform
architecture and capture real-time data insights at
the edge. In fact, IDC predicts that by 2024, 30%
of industrial organizations will have become leaner
and more agile than their competitors as a result
of making real-time operational insights available
anytime, anywhere, to anyone1.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ ed_Hat_Recognized_as_a_Challenger_in
2023_Gartner®_Magic_Quadrant™_for_DevOps_Platforms [Ed:
Gartner is just a corrupt_lobbyist_and_liar_that_gets_paid_by
IBM_and_Microsoft_to_pretend_to_endorse_some_products]⠀⇛
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Wouter_Verhelst:_Planet_Debian_rendered_with_PtLink⠀⇛
As I blogged before, I’ve been working on a Planet
Venus replacement. This is necessary, because
Planet Venus, unfortunately, has not been
maintained for a long time, and is a Python 2
(only) application which has never been updated to
Python 3.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ Ubuntu_23.10_Mantic_Minotaur_will_let_you_snap
four_windows_to_each_corner⠀⇛
Ubuntu 23.10 will feature enhanced tiling
capabilities, allowing users to easily snap windows
to the four corners, as well as horizontally and
vertically. This feature could improve
productivity.
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ Ubuntu_snap_developers_can_now_roll_out_their
updates_progressively⠀⇛
Ubuntu snap developers can now progressively
release their apps to end users. This will let app
creators test their app among a subsection of users
to ensure there are no lingering bugs.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Allwinner_H3_compact_SBC_supports_10/100
ethernet
⠀⇛
The WuKong Board H3 Zero is a small single board
computer powered by a quad-core Allwinner H3
processor. The board comes with 10/100Mbps Ethernet
support and various GPIOs for interfacing external
devices.
This board appears to be a Orange Pi Zero LTS clone
since it features the same processor and provides
very similar peripherals. The product page mentions
that the standard version comes with 256MB SDRAM,
but it can support up to 512MB.
The User Manual indicates that the 26-pin header
interface is similar to the pinout of the Raspberry
Pi Model A/B. The WuKong board is also compatible
with operating systems such as Android, Ubuntu,
Debian, etc.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Ultra-Compact_embedded_platform_with_a_7″
TFT_LCD_and_GbE_LAN⠀⇛
ICOP also highlights the dev board’s open frame
design since it facilitates easy integration into
diverse applications; it can be conveniently
mounted on surfaces or within enclosures.
Additionally, the open-frame design allows for
flexible customization, enabling users to add
peripherals and connectors as needed.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Axiomtek_AIE110-XNX_is_an_affordable_Edge_AI
Developer_Kit_based_on_NVIDIA_Jetson_Xavier_NX⠀⇛
Axiomtek AIE110-XNX Edge AI developer kit provides
up to 21 TOPS of accelerated AI computing
performance thanks to an NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX
system-on-module with a 6-core NVIDIA Carmel ARM
v8.2 64-bit CPU and a 384-core NVIDIA Volta GPU
with 48 Tensor Cores.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ A_first_look_at_i-Pi_SMARC_1200_(Genio_1200)
development_kit⠀⇛
ADLINK Technology’s i-PI SMARC 1200 is an
industrial prototyping kit for AI IoT and Robotics
based on a SMARC 2.1 compliant LEC-MTK-I12000
system-on-module (SoM) powered by the MediaTek
Genio 1200 (MT8395) octa-core Cortex-A78/A55 AIoT
processor with a 4.8 TOPS AI processor. The company
sent me a sample for evaluation and review, and in
this first post, I’ll go through an unboxing and
how to boot the system with the supported Yocto
Linux or Ubuntu. i-Pi SMARC 1200 unboxing The i-Pi
SMARC 1200 may be destined for industrial users,
but it still comes with a neat retail package. The
“i-Pi LEC-MTK-I1200-44-64G/EU” kit features a CPU
module with 4GB LPDDR4 memory and 64GB UFS storage.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Building_a_custom_broom_controller_for_Hogwarts
Legacy⠀⇛
For fans of Harry Potter, Hogwarts Legacy is a
dream game. It drops you into the Potterverse where
you can become a wizard, casting spells and riding
brooms to your heart’s content. It is a very
immersive game, but you lose some of that immersion
when you realize you’re actually just pushing
buttons on a gamepad.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Advancing_the_future_of_the_internet_by
making_math_more_inclusive⠀⇛
More than ever, we need a movement to ensure
the internet remains a force for good. The
Mozilla Internet Ecosystem (MIECO) program
fuels this movement by supporting people who
are looking to advance a more human-centered
internet.
[...]
Born in Adelaide, Australia to a Malaysian
Chinese family, Brendan’s experience spans
wide: He frequently visited Asia, earning a
joint undergraduate degree at the National
University of Singapore and the Australian
National University. Before going to graduate
school in Oxford, where he would get his
Ph.D. in computer science, he studied with
the mathematical physicist John Baez. Baez
became one of his Ph.D. advisers and a close
collaborator, and he now sits on the advisory
council at the Topos_Institute, where Brendan
is chief executive.
AlgebraicJulia, Brendan’s project with the
MIECO program, aims to create new approaches
to scientific computing by bridging the gap
between stakeholders in different fields,
facilitating structured and formal
communication between them.
AlgebraicJulia can produce easy-to-understand
visualizations and predictions by creating
models that, for example, can predict the
spread of diseases and the impact of human
behavior. This feature can help build trust
between stakeholders and the public, thereby
making the technology sphere more reflective
of human values.
As Brendan put it, “The goal is to make
[these theories] useful for the general
public without individuals having to go
through all the technical aspects of
mastering them. Instead, we hope to use them
to create tools for better communication and
cooperation.”
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ The_Bash_Special_Characters_You
Should_Know_About⠀⇛
Not all characters are equal in Bash. Some of
them carry out special functions, tweak
commands, and help us manipulate data. That’s
why we’ve compiled the following list with
the most important Bash special characters.
Read on to find out how to use them and how
they can make your daily Bash life easier.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Apple’s_Face_Computer,_Crypto_Chaos_and_How
Teens_Really_Feel_About_Social_Media⠀⇛
This isn’t the first time Apple has introduced a bulky
piece of hardware that nobody is sure people will want to
buy. Can Apple pull off another wearable revolution?
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ An_Extremely_Rare_Mutation_Landed_a_Woman
in_Prison_For_Murder⠀⇛
And science set her free.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Absolutely_Wild_Hypothesis_Suggests_IBS
Could_Be_a_Form_of_‘Gravity_Intolerance’⠀⇛
It all adds up. (Or down?)
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Iran_Unveils_‘Quantum’_Device_That
Anyone_Can_Buy_for_$589_on_Amazon⠀⇛
What Iran’s military called “the first product of
the quantum processing algorithm” of the Naval
university appears to be a stock development board.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ US_CHIPS_Act_Funding_Under_Attack
Following_Debt_Ceiling_Fight⠀⇛
The US CHIPS Act, the measure that oversees the
distribution of around $280 billion in funding for
semiconductor-related pursuits, may not have as
secure a funding guarantee as previously thought.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Apple’s_M2_Ultra_Seemingly_Can’t_Beat_AMD
and_Intel_Rivals⠀⇛
Apple’s M2 Ultra cannot beat Intel’s Core i9-
13900K, thrashed by AMD’s Threadripper Pro and
Intel’s Xeon W9.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Apple_and_Amazon_failed_to_win_a_dismissal_of_an
iPhone_price-fixing_lawsuit_against_them⠀⇛
A federal judge in Seattle rejected the proposed
dismissal of a lawsuit targeting Apple and Amazon
for inflating the prices of iPhones and iPads on
Thursday (June 9).
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Canada_to_join_Mexico-US_GM_corn
dispute_talks_as_observer [Ed: Patented carcinogens: Mexico
isn't falling for it.]⠀⇛
Canada will now attend USMCA consultation meetings
between the U.S. and Mexico as an interested party,
since it exports GM produce to Mexico.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ UN_joins_US_in_suspending_food_aid_to_Ethiopia
over_diversion_of_supplies⠀⇛
The United Nations World Food Program said Friday
that it is temporarily suspending food aid to
Ethiopia because its supplies are being diverted,
an announcement that came a day after the United
States Agency for International Development said it
was doing the same.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Nearly_95%_of_Finland’s_swimming_waters_clean,
European_Environment_Agency_reports⠀⇛
The EU water quality assessment does not include
toxic blue-green algae blooms, though.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Most_of_Finland’s_cocaine_use_in_Helsinki_area,
wastewater_tests_show⠀⇛
Cocaine use is steadily increasing, particularly in
the capital region, but in other cities, its use
has been low or even non-existent, according to the
THL.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Witness_Patients’_Brains_‘De-
Aging’_After_Changing_Their_Diet⠀⇛
Up to 9 months younger.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Regular_Exercise_Could_Increase_Your
Tolerance_For_Pain⠀⇛
Makes you that much stronger.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Understanding_How_Spiders_Make_Their_Silk
Could_Help_Us_Treat_Alzheimer’s⠀⇛
A web of lessons.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Experimental_Alzheimer’s_drug_endorsed_for_full
approval_by_FDA_advisers⠀⇛
A panel of Food and Drug Administration advisers on
Friday unanimously endorsed an experimental
Alzheimer’s_drug that’s been shown to have modest
success slowing the progression of the disease,
clearing a hurdle for full agency approval.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Allina_Health_Pauses_Policy_of_Cutting_Off
Care_for_Patients_in_Debt⠀⇛
Allina Health, a large health system in the
Midwest, had withheld care for patients who had
$4,500 in medical bills.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ How_Lifeguards_Lost_Their_Luster⠀⇛
There’s a lifeguard shortage in America. It’s been
going on for a century.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ An_Everest_Climber_Had_‘No_Energy,_No
Oxygen,_Nothing.’_A_Sherpa_Saved_Him.⠀⇛
The arduous six-hour rescue in May came during an
especially deadly spring climbing season on the
world’s highest mountain.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ SANS ☛ Undetected_PowerShell_Backdoor_Disguised_as_a
Profile_File,_(Fri,_Jun_9th)⠀⇛
PowerShell remains an excellent way to compromise
computers. Many PowerShell scripts found in the
wild are usually obfuscated.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Filing_reveals_489,000_more_patients’_data
was_stolen_in_GoAnywhere_breach⠀⇛
A filing submitted to the Office of the Maine
Attorney General has revealed that 489,830 more
people were affected by this year’s GoAnywhere
breach than previously believed. TechCrunch
reported the development this morning. The filing
in question was submitted by a company called
Intellihartx LLC that manages patient balances and
collections for healthcare organizations.
§ Defence/Aggression⠀➾
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Macron_visits_victims_as_France_reels_from_knife_attack_on
children_in_Annecy⠀⇛
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday visited the hospital
where preschool children who were wounded in a knife attack in
the Alpine town of Annecy were being treated. Four children and
two adults were injured in the attack by a Syrian refugee. The
president said that their conditions were improving.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Macron_Meets_Victims_and_‘Backpack_Hero’_After
Stabbing_Attack_in_France⠀⇛
Two adults and four children were injured in the assault, which
shocked the country and could have been worse if not for the
intervention of a 24-year-old man known only as Henri.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ France_hails_‘hero_with_backpack’_who_intervened_in_Annecy
knife_attack⠀⇛
The attacker slashed at the 24-year-old man with the knife that
he used to savagely stab one young child after another. But
rather than run, Henri held his ground – using a weighty
backpack he was carrying to swing at the assailant and fend off
his blade.
* ⚓ LRT ☛ ‘Lithuania’s_defence_is_also_Germany’s_defence,’_says_Seimas
speaker⠀⇛
Lithuania and Germany share the same views on defence, Speaker
of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen said on
Friday after her meeting with visiting President of the German
Bundestag Barbel Bas in Vilnius.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Trinidad_and_Tobago:_From_the_Caribbean_to_the_caliphate⠀⇛
The twin island state of Trinidad and Tobago lies between the
South American coast of Venezuela and the West Indies. Home to
roughly 1.5 million inhabitants of African and Indian descent,
the tiny Caribbean nation has one of the world’s highest
volunteer rates for the Islamic State (IS) group. Between 2013
and 2016, more than 130 Trinidadians left to join the IS group,
making the island country one of the world’s biggest recruiting
grounds, per capita, for would-be jihadists. Since the fall of
the self-declared caliphate in 2017, 90 Trinidad and Tobago
nationals, including 56 children, have been detained in camps
in Syria and are unable to return home. FRANCE 24′s Cyrille
Charpentier and Damien Lansade report.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Bibi_postpones_meeting_on_settlement_plan_that_would_divide
West_Bank_after_U.S_pressure⠀⇛
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin_Netanyahu has decided to
postpone next week’s scheduled meeting on the highly sensitive
settlement plan in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank, two
Israeli officials told Axios.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Sweden_to_Allow_NATO_Troop_on_Its_Soil⠀⇛
NATO is more optimistic that Turkey will approve Sweden’s
membership before or soon after an alliance summit next month.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Anti-junta_groups_align_at_Myanmar’s_Sagaing_Forum,_minus_shadow
government⠀⇛
Observers question whether the NUG’s absence points to a schism
within the opposition.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Facing_bankruptcy,_pro-democracy_Hong_Kong_news_channel_calls_for
financial_support⠀⇛
Channel C struggles to cover costs after trying to fill a void
left by strict government censorship
* ⚓ France24 ☛ One_UN_peacekeeper_killed_and_four_seriously_wounded_in_Mali
attack⠀⇛
At least one United Nations peacekeeper was killed and four
others seriously injured when their patrol was attacked in
northern Mali on Friday, the peacekeeping mission MINUSMA said.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ UN_voices_support_for_Sudan_envoy_declared_‘persona_non
grata’⠀⇛
The United Nations on Friday expressed support for its envoy to
Sudan, saying a decision by local authorities to declare Volker
Perthes ‘persona non grata’ was a violation of international
law.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Missile_threats,_scandals_and_becoming_an
accidental_TV_star:_Reflections_on_8_years_in_S._Korea⠀⇛
June 10, 2023 5:00 AM
ST Correspondent Chang May Choon recalls the challenges and
surprises as her eight-year posting in Seoul ends.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Children_Killed_in_Somalia_Mortar_Shell_Explosion⠀⇛
A previously unexploded mortar shell went off as children were
playing around it in a city in southern Somalia.
* ⚓ Child_murders:_The_guilt_lies_in_the_culture_of_impunity⠀⇛
In this country, the armed conflict, bullets, bombs, and
armored vehicles took the lives of hundreds of children. The
perpetrators have either not stood trial at all, or received
minor punishments, almost like rewards. The systematic impunity
is creating new perpetrators every day.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ President_Vucic_Plays_Up_His_Role_as_Defender_of
Serbs⠀⇛
President Aleksandar Vucic, who has been the target of protests
in Belgrade, has been playing up his role defending Serbs in
Kosovo, where tensions have recently flared.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ IS-K_Claims_Afghan_Attack_On_Taliban_Official’s_Funeral⠀⇛
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an
explosion inside a mosque during a funeral service for a
Taliban official in the northern Afghanistan province of
Badakhshan.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Judge_weighs_challenge_to_gag_order_in
University_of_Idaho_killings⠀⇛
A judge overseeing the case against a man charged with killing
four University of Idaho students is considering whether to
revoke or alter a gag order that largely bars attorneys and
other parties in the case from speaking with news reporters. A
coalition of more than 30 media organizations has challenged
the order during a hearing Friday, saying it violates the
Constitution’s guarantees of free speech and a free press. A
lawyer for one of the victim’s families has also made that
argument in the case set to be heard Friday. But prosecutors
and the defendant’s lawyers insist it’s needed to prevent
prejudicial news coverage that could damage Bryan Kohberger’s
right to a fair trial.
§ Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
* ⚓ American Oversight ☛ News_Roundup:_Trump_Accountability,_White
Supremacy_in_Military_Lawsuit,_Arizona_and_Wisconsin_Election_Reviews⠀⇛
§ Environment⠀➾
* ⚓ RFA ☛ China_braces_for_yet_another_‘furnace’_summer⠀⇛
Experts say the country may face higher temperatures than last
year’s records.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ El_Nino_is_back,_and_it’s_brought_the_threat_of_extreme
weather_with_it⠀⇛
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
declared on Thursday that the El Nino climate pattern is now
underway, bringing the threat of more frequent tropical
cyclones in the Pacific, increased rainfall and flooding in
parts of the Americas and rising temperatures across the globe.
* ⚓ IDA ☛ Aenos_National_Park_named_first_International_Dark_Sky_Park_in
Greece⠀⇛
AENOS ARGOSTOLI, Kefalonia, Greece – Aenos National Park
achieves official designation by DarkSky International as the
first certified International Dark Sky Park in Greece.
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ NYPost ☛ Saudi_crown_prince_threatened_US_‘economic_consequences’
during_feud_over_oil_production:_report⠀⇛
The crown prince claimed in private that “he will not
deal with the U.S. administration anymore” and promised
“major economic consequences for Washington,” according
to the document.
o ⚓ European Commission ☛ EVP_Vestager_Keynote_Speech_at_the
NordicSIF_Conference_“Greening_Europe:_Our_Union_in_Transition”⠀⇛
European Commission Speech Copenhagen, 09 Jun 2023 I am
very happy to be with you here today. Without
exaggeration, you are among the most influential actors
in Europe’s green transition.
o ⚓ European Commission ☛ The_EU_disburses_€450_million_to_the
Western_Balkans_partners_delivering_on_the_Energy_Support_Package
for_the_region⠀⇛
European Commission News Brussels, 09 Jun 2023 In
December 2022, during the EU – Western Balkans Summit,
when the EU re-confirmed its full and unequivocal
commitment to the European Union membership…
o ⚓ YLE ☛ Transport_energy_consumption_declined_last_year,_less
liquid_biofuel_sold⠀⇛
Use of biofuel – part of a key dispute in the ongoing
government formation talks – declined last year.
o ⚓ H2 View ☛ Salt_structures_for_large-scale_hydrogen_storage
identified_in_Newfoundland⠀⇛
Vortex Energy Corporation has said it has identified two
large salt structures suitable for hydrogen storage in
Newfoundland, Canada, each exceeding a storage volume of
over two million metres3.
o ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Saudi_Arabia_is_requiring_companies_to
establish_headquarters_in_the_kingdom._That_strategy_may_pay_off.⠀⇛
Saudi Arabia’s goal is to get 480 companies to open
regional headquarters by 2030 to grow the Saudi economy.
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ AMLO_predicts_‘good_news’_for_FAA_rating
after_Buttigieg_meetup⠀⇛
AMLO spoke with U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete
Buttigieg about Mexico’s aviation safety and the
development of cargo routes to AIFA.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Founders_of_Three_Arrows,_Failed_Crypto_Fund,
Are_Living_Large⠀⇛
The implosion of Three Arrows Capital, a cryptocurrency
hedge fund, devastated the industry. Its two founders
spent the next year surfing, meditating and traveling the
world.
o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Binance.US_to_halt_customer_dollar_withdrawals
amid_SEC_lawsuit⠀⇛
Binance.US has informed users that they will lose the
ability to withdraw their dollar funds from its platform
next Tuesday. In the Thursday tweet that announced the
move, the company also stated it’s no longer accepting
dollar deposits. The move comes as Binance.US faces
mounting scrutiny from the U.S. Securities Exchange
Commission.
⚓ Quartz ☛ Binance_took_a_drastic_step_in_the_aftermath_of_the_SEC_lawsuit⠀⇛
Binance is breaking up with the US dollar because the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit against the crypto exchange, which
alleges that it offered customer unregistered securities, has
strained its US banking relationships.
⚓ CS Monitor ☛ End_of_the_line_for_California_transit_riders?_Funding_gets
slashed.⠀⇛
Californians have always loved their cars but now the state’s public
transit system has lost $2 billion in government funding. A decline
in ridership during the pandemic is partly to blame, but advocates
say scaling back will weaken the system even more.
⚓ H2 View ☛ AECOM_to_oversee_Chemours’_French_green_hydrogen_facility
expansion⠀⇛
Infrastructure consulting firm AECOM has been appointed to oversee
the expansion of The Chemours Company’s green hydrogen facility in
Villers-Saint Paul, France.
⚓ France24 ☛ Colombia_children_found_alive_in_Amazon_jungle_40_days_after_plane
crash⠀⇛
Four Indigenous children who had been missing for more than a month
in the Colombian Amazon rainforest were found alive and flown to the
capital Bogota early Saturday.
⚓ Science Alert ☛ Emissions_And_Warming_Are_Both_Breaking_Records._Time_Is
Running_Short.⠀⇛
The situation as it unfolds.
⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Lawmakers_propose_to_weaken_Obama_rule_requiring
airlines_to_advertise_full_airfare_price⠀⇛
Congress will consider rolling back an Obama-era rule that requires
airlines to show the total cost of a ticket when advertising fares.
Republicans and Democrats on the House Transportation Committee
proposed Friday to let airlines exclude taxes and fees from
advertised fares, as long as the full price is available by clicking
a hyperlink or through some other way. That’s in a bill to
reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration for five more years.
The bill would also make it slightly easier to become an airline
pilot by increasing the amount of training that can be done in
simulators instead of flying a plane.
§ Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ The_US_and_Canada_saw_dangerous_smoke_this_week.
It’s_a_routine_peril_for_many_developing_countries⠀⇛
Thick, smoky air from Canadian wildfires made for days of
misery in New York City and across the U.S. Northeast this
week. But for much of the rest of the world, breathing
dangerously polluted air is an inescapable fact of life — and
death. Almost the entire world breathes air that exceeds the
World Health Organization’s air-quality limits at least
occasionally. The danger grows worse when that bad air is more
persistent than the nightmarish shroud that hit the U.S. —
usually in developing or newly industrialized nations. Many
such nations have weak or little-enforced environmental laws.
They suffer increased air pollution for other reasons, too,
including a reliance on coal, lower vehicle emissions standards
and the burning of solid fuels for cooking and heating.
* ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Sear_the_Fear⠀⇛
Waking up to the red sun in the morning when sailors take
warning is a miracle nevertheless. The world turns as it always
has. Early in June here in the grand country of Canada, in the
province of Quebec the lily of the valley honeys the air.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Canadian_Wildfires_Are_Burning_Where_They_Rarely_Have
Before⠀⇛
Of the more than 400 fires burning in Canada, more than one-
third are in Quebec, which has little experience with so many
and such large wildfires.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_to_Help_Thousands_of_Canadians_Displaced_by
Wildfires⠀⇛
Federal and provincial governments have pledged to match
donations to the Canadian Red Cross for those affected by
wildfires in Nova Scotia, Alberta and the Northwest
Territories.
* ⚓ Science Alert ☛ These_Primordial_Organisms_May_Have_Been_The_First
Predators_on_Earth⠀⇛
Ancient ancestors we never knew about?
* ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Why_Scientists_Are_‘Interviewing’_Captive_Birds_Before
Releasing_Them_Into_The_Wild⠀⇛
“How do you respond to challenges?”
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Canada_Records_10_New_Wildfires⠀⇛
Wildfires have so far ravaged some 45,000 square kilometers of
land in Canada.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Forest_fire_warning_in_place_for_coming_days⠀⇛
High temperatures and dry conditions have created a heightened
risk of forest fires, according to the State Fire and Rescue
Service (VUGD) and the Latvian Environment, Geology and
Meteorology Center (LVĢMC) June 9.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Canada’s_Ability_to_Prevent_Forest_Fires_Lags_Behind
the_Need⠀⇛
Provincial firefighting agencies are stretched thin, there is
no national agency and it’s hard to get approval for controlled
burns — factors that have exacerbated recent outbreaks.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Will_Wildfires_Like_Canada’s_Become_the_New_Normal?⠀⇛
Canada’s devastating fires and toxic smoke might not recur
every year, but the heat from climate change increases the
risks of a wide range of disasters.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Smoke_from_Canadian_wildfires_continues_to_shroud_eastern_US
in_noxious_haze⠀⇛
Smoke from Canadian wildfires shrouded US cities in a noxious
haze again Thursday, delaying flights and disrupting outdoor
events in what President Joe Biden called a “stark reminder” of
climate change.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_to_Know_About_Canada’s_Exceptional_Wildfire
Season⠀⇛
Wild fires started earlier, are higher in number and spread
across much of the country, burning millions of acres as
climate change turns more of the country’s forest into a
tinderbox.
* ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ As_global_temperatures_increase,_birds_are_getting
smaller⠀⇛
According to a recent University of Michigan study that
synthesized datasets from Chicago and the Amazon rainforest,
birds have been getting smaller as climate change progresses.
This effect is most pronounced in smaller bird species.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Pros_and_cons_of_the_‘superpeso’:_A_perspective
from_our_CEO⠀⇛
Our CEO Travis Bembenek shares his thoughts on the accelerating
strength of Mexico’s currency and its impact on individuals and
businesses.
* ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ GPS_shows_where_reporter’s_Turkey_quake_aid_went_—
and_didn’t⠀⇛
Reporter Pamela Cerdeira placed Airtags on the rice and toilet
paper she gave a Mexico City collection center, then tracked
their movements.
* ⚓ New_Governor_of_the_Central_Bank_is_Hafize_Gaye_Erkan⠀⇛
Mehmet Şimşek, the Finance Minister in the new cabinet, wanted
to have Erkan, a CEO in the finance sector in the US, as the
Governor of the bank.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ What’s_next_for_student_loans_if_SCOTUS_knocks_down_Biden’s
debt_forgiveness?⠀⇛
If the Supreme Court knocks down US President Joe Biden’s
attempt to wipe out a chunk of the nation’s student loan debt,
it’s unlikely that Biden will pursue other population-wide debt
cancellations from the Education Department, according to a
report from the Wall Street Journal based on anonymous sources.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ What’s_the_Right_Inflation_Target_for_the_American
Economy?⠀⇛
Should it be 2 percent or bust? Probably not.
* ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ RBZ_says_‘don’t_worry,_banks_have_enough_USD_to_back_your
Nostro_balances’⠀⇛
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has released an official statement
on the Nostro account issue. If you were under a rock, a couple
of leaked bank memos raised concerns about the status of Nostro
accounts in the country.
* ⚓ The Week ☛ What_happened_to_the_coming_recession?⠀⇛
The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives,
rounded up from around the web:
A surprisingly strong jobs report should put recession talk to
rest, said Jonathan Levin in Bloomberg. The Labor Department
last week reported that employers added 339,000 jobs in May,
“the most since January and a number entirely out of line with
widespread predictions of an imminent recession.” In addition
to May’s report, “significant upward revisions to previous
months’ data” show that the labor market “isn’t even really
cooling off — let alone collapsing.” Economists have been
“projecting a weaker economy ‘just around the corner’ all
year,” thanks to the Federal Reserve’s interest rate increases.
Headlines about mass layoffs at big tech firms and Wall Street
banks added to the feeling of economic gloom. But concerns
about the labor market, consumer spending and company earnings
look overstated.
* ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Twitter_is_refusing_to_pay_its_Google_Cloud_bills-
Platformer⠀⇛
Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills as its
contract comes up for renewal this month, which could result in
the social media company’s trust and safety teams being
crippled, Platformer reported on Saturday.
* ⚓ Latvia ☛ Foreign_trade_down_10.6%_on_year_in_Latvia⠀⇛
Provisional data published on June 9 by the Central Statistical
Bureau (CSB) show that in April 2023 the foreign trade turnover
of Latvia amounted to EUR 3.5 billion, which at current prices
was 10.6 % less than a year ago.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Indictment_takeaways:_Trump’s_alleged_schemes
and_lies_to_keep_secret_papers⠀⇛
The federal indictment against Donald Trump accuses the former
president of illegally hoarding classified documents at his
Florida estate after leaving the White House in 2021, and then
scheming and lying to thwart government efforts to recover
them. Justice Department prosecutors brought 37 felony counts
against Trump in their indictment, relying upon photographs
from Mar-a-Lago, surveillance video, text messages between
staffers, Trump’s own words, those of his lawyers, and other
evidence. An aide to Trump, Walt Nauta, was charged as a co-
conspirator with six felony counts.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ House_GOP_responds_to_Trump_indictment_with_renewed_FBI
scrutiny⠀⇛
The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee on Friday doubled
down on its request for the Justice Department to provide
documents about the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lag0 last year.
* ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Tucker_Carlson_Is_Sort_of_Back⠀⇛
The former Fox host is embracing his new outsider status with
“Tucker on Twitter.”
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Short_Circuit:_A_Roundup_of_Recent_Federal_Court_Decisions⠀⇛
Fake Instagram accounts, offensive Facebook comments, and pro
se parents.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Palestinian_President_to_Visit_China⠀⇛
Beijing has positioned itself as a mediator in regional
conflicts in the Middle East.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Blinken_to_travel_to_China_next_week:_Reports⠀⇛
US Secretary of State had canceled February trip over alleged
Chinese spy balloon
* ⚓ RFA ☛ China’s_new_cultural_enforcers_get_into_uniform⠀⇛
Dark-blue uniformed officials are unleashed to crack down on
‘uncivilized’ behavior in film, TV, culture.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Surprising_Supreme_Court_Decision’s_History_With_the
American_South⠀⇛
To understand the significance of this week’s U.S. Supreme
Court ruling, books about the Deep South’s changes in the 20th
century are critical to read.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Can_He_Fix_‘Palace_of_Scaffolding’_in_Time_for
Belgium’s_200th_Birthday?⠀⇛
For an architect trying to renovate his beloved but crumbling
Palace of Justice in Brussels, once the largest building in the
world, the design challenges pale compared with the political
ones.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ What_kinds_of_government_documents_was_Trump_holding_at_Mar-a-
Lago?⠀⇛
Former US president Donald Trump was indicted_on_37_counts in a
classified documents probe, including a charge under the
Espionage Act.
* ⚓ NYPost ☛ Secret_Service_will_not_seek_‘special_accommodations’_for
Trump’s_Miami_court_appearance⠀⇛
The Secret Service will not seek “special accommodations” ahead
of former President Donald Trump’s arraignment in a Miami
federal courthouse on charges related to his alleged
mishandling of classified documents.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Donald_Trump_Indicted_on_More_Than_30_Charges_in_Classified
Documents_Case⠀⇛
The feds allege the former president was keeping classified
documents on America’s nuclear program and defense capabilities
in his Mar-a-Lago resort.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Trump_aide_Walt_Nauta_indicted_in_classified_documents_probe⠀⇛
Walt Nauta, an aide to former_President_Trump, has been
indicted in the investigation into his handling of classified
documents, according to the 49-page indictment unsealed on
Friday.
Driving the news:Nauta worked in the Trump White House and at
Mar-a-Lago, where one of his jobs was to transport cardboard
boxes with papers of the former_president, according to the
indictment.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Trump_Indicted,_Faces_Federal_Criminal_Charges_Under_Espionage
Act⠀⇛
Plus: FIRE investigates “woke” Florida professor’s dismissal,
inequality index finds progress across multiple dimensions, and
more…
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ Federal_court_refuses_to_hear_disciplinary_case_against_former
Trump-connected_DOJ_official⠀⇛
A federal court in Washington DC on Thursday refused to
intervene in a disciplinary hearing over former Department of
Justice (DOJ) official Jeffrey Clark’s participation in an
effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_ex-president_Trump_faces_37_criminal_counts_in_unsealed
federal_indictment_on_retention_of_classified_documents⠀⇛
US federal prosecutors Friday unsealed a 38-count indictment
against former President Donald Trump and his former aide
Waltine Nauta. Special Counsel Jack Smith, appointed by the
Department of Justice (DOJ) to oversee the investigation into
Trump, charged Trump with 31 counts of willful retention of
national defense information.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Indictment_Is_Stunning._Will_Trump_Supporters
Care?⠀⇛
The former president has a diabolical genius for selling his
supporters on an alternative version of reality.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Stupidest_Crimes_Imaginable⠀⇛
The federal indictment of Donald Trump depicts a man who knew
that what he was doing was wrong and went to great lengths to
cover it up.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ An_Exit_from_the_GOP’s_Labyrinth_of_Trump_Lies⠀⇛
The special counsel’s indictment offers party leaders their
best escape from the loyalty trap yet—if they choose to take
it.
* ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Donald_Trump_stored,_showed_off_and_refused
to_return_classified_documents,_indictment_says⠀⇛
Prosecutors say the documents he stowed, refused to return and
in some cases showed to visitors risked jeopardizing not only
relations with foreign nations but also the safety of troops
and confidential sources.
* ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Trump’s_Latest_Indictment_Is_Also_About_the_Future_of_the
Country⠀⇛
With the former President facing federal charges, our political
roundtable considers how much baggage is too much to win the
Republican nomination.
* ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Trump_Indictment_Speaks_for_Itself⠀⇛
Against the former President’s miasma of lies and
disinformation, finally, a damning set of facts.
* ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Trump_Is_Desperately_Trying_to_Define_the_Narrative_About
His_Federal_Indictment⠀⇛
Days before he appears in court to face seven criminal charges,
the former President is trying to rally his base and elected
Republicans behind his false claim that the case is “a hoax.”
* ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ The_Flavors_of_Trump’s_Obstruction⠀⇛
Jack Smith charged Trump and Walt Nauta with seven different
kinds of obstruction, before charging Nauta alone for false
statements.
* ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ John_Durham’s_Blind_Man’s_Bluff_on_DNS_Visibility⠀⇛
When John Durham made claims in a filing that led Donald Trump
to issue death threats against Michael Sussmann, he had
evidence in hand his claims were wrong.
* ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Lock_Him_Up!_Trump_Charged_with_Crimes_He_Believes
Candidates_Can_Be_Charged_With⠀⇛
Donald Trump has been indicted under the Espionage Act.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Trump_indictment:_As_legal_peril_grows,_so_does_political
divide⠀⇛
As Donald Trump faces new legal jeopardy, his charges of a
corrupt Department of Justice are heightening the nation’s
political rifts.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Trump_indicted:_In_historic_first,_ex-president_faces
federal_charges⠀⇛
Indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents at his
Florida home, Donald Trump becomes the first former U.S.
president to face federal criminal charges. The development is
expected to bear weighty legal and political consequences.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Analysis:_Trump_Indictment_Shows_His_Actions_Were_More
Blatant_Than_Known⠀⇛
The accounts in the 49-page indictment provide compelling
evidence of a shocking indifference toward some of the
country’s most sensitive secrets.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Why_Trump_can_still_run_for_president_and_be_elected_despite
indictments⠀⇛
Former President Trump has been_indicted_twice — and faces
potential criminal convictions — but he’s not barred from
running for or assuming presidential office.
Why it matters: While Trump is the first former U.S. president
toface_criminal_charges, his legal peril doesn’t endanger his
legally viable path to a second term — and could even be a boon
politically, experts told Axios.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Another_Indictment⠀⇛
Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents was genuinely
unusual.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Special_counsel_on_Trump_indictment:_“We_have_one_set_of_laws
in_this_country”⠀⇛
“We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to
everyone,” special counsel Jack_Smith said on Friday in his
first public remarks following the indictment of former
President_Trump.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_Jack_Smith_Can_Succeed_in_His_Case_Against_Trump⠀⇛
The special counsel has four hurdles to overcome.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Trump’s_Indictment:_Given_What_We_Know,_Not_Charging
Him_Would_Be_the_Greater_Scandal⠀⇛
The available evidence supports the indictment by the special
counsel Jack Smith.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Former_British_PM_Boris_Johnson_steps_down_as_MP_over
‘Partygate’_report⠀⇛
Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson shocked Britain on
Friday by quitting as a lawmaker after being told he will be
sanctioned for misleading Parliament.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Spain’s_hard_left_unites_ahead_of_July_election_in_boost_to
Sanchez⠀⇛
Spain’s hard left decided Friday to join forces on a single
political platform for the July 23 elections, in a boost for
Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s reelection hopes.
* ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Only_26_per_cent_Meta_employees_have_faith_in_their
leadership:_Report⠀⇛
This comes as the employees continue to deal with the after-
effects of the mass layoffs the company carried out since last
year. Several employees have reportedly spent weeks sharing
responsibilities from their colleagues who left the company
after being laid out. The remaining employees are reportedly
trying to figure out while being used to new managers, a
Washington Post report stated.
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ Reason ☛ Journal_of_Free_Speech_Law:_“Defamation,_Disinformation,
and_the_Press_Function,”_by_Prof._RonNell_Andersen_Jones⠀⇛
Just published as part of the symposium on Media and
Society After Technological Disruption, edited by Profs.
Justin “Gus” Hurwitz & Kyle Langvardt.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Don’t_Censor_Racism_Out_of_the_Past⠀⇛
The classic movie The French Connection was stealth edited to
remove an offensive exchange.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Hong_Kong_opposition_party_activists_protest_account_closures_at
HSBC_head_office⠀⇛
The League of Social Democrats say the move has hampered their
ability to raise funds from supporters.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_Thailand,_Defamation_Lawsuits_Can_Make_Free_Speech
Costly⠀⇛
In Thailand, companies and people in positions of power often
use libel suits to intimidate and punish activists and critics.
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ India,_China_have_expelled_nearly_all_of_each
other’s_journalists_amid_fraying_ties⠀⇛
Visa for last Chinese reporter in India hasn’t been
renewed, China has threatened countermeasures on last Indian
reporter.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ ACLU ☛ Will_Customs_and_Border_Protection’s_Revised_Vehicle_Pursuit
Policy_Make_Us_Safer?⠀⇛
The United States’ border region has always borne the brunt of
our most aggressive immigration enforcement efforts, including
dangerous high-speed vehicle pursuits by Border Patrol agents
that far too often end in serious injuries and deaths.
After years of public outcry from advocates, victims, and
borderland residents, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
announced a revised vehicle pursuit policy earlier this year.
This new policy, which took effect this month after a delay,
includes measures that we believe can be important for
safeguarding the lives of everyone in our communities. But
serious questions remain about the implementation, training,
and enforcement of the new policy that will be critical for its
success.
Our extensive concerns about CBP’s vehicle pursuit policy
reflect a tragically long and growing list of pursuits that
have ended in deaths or serious injuries. The ACLU of Texas’
Fatal_Encounters tracker has tallied dozens of deaths from CBP
vehicle pursuits over the past decade.
* ⚓ Amnesty_Turkey_‘walks_away’_from_collective_bargaining,_says_union⠀⇛
The organization denies the accusations, saying that it had
offered a pay rise higher than the official inflation figures
in the country.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Activist_Says_Authorities_Trying_To_Push_Him_Out_Of_The
Country⠀⇛
Prominent Iranian civil activist Hossein Ronaghi says he won’t
leave the country despite moves by the government to ratchet up
pressure on him, including the freezing of his bank accounts
and the violation of his civil rights.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Families,_Rights_Groups_Accuse_Iranian_Government_Of
Intimidation_Tactics_By_Desecrating_Graves⠀⇛
A series of attack on the graves of protesters killed during
nationwide protests in Iran have sparked accusations from
activists and families of the dead that the government is using
intimidation to quell any further unrest following the death of
a woman while in police custody in September 2022.
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ UK_Metropolitan_Police_commissioner_apologizes_for_treatment
of_LGBTQ+_community⠀⇛
In a letter addressed to LGBTQ+ campaigner Peter Tatchell, the
Metropolitan Police (Met) Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley became
the first UK police chief to apologize on Wednesday for the
force’s homophobic failings.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Illinois_adopts_new_LGBTQ+_protections_for
community_deemed_‘under_attack’_in_the_US⠀⇛
Illinois is making it easier for gay couples to marry and
moving toward gender-inclusive language in laws affecting
LGBTQ+ youth in foster care through two new laws signed Friday
by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. They will become effective on Jan. 1,
2024 and on Aug. 8, respectively. Illinois is one of several
U.S. states that has worked to reinforce LGBTQ+ rights, as
others advance bills that target the community. The two new
pro-LGBTQ+ Illinois laws were signed about a week into Pride
month, a season intended to celebrate the lives and experiences
of LGBTQ+ communities, but which this year takes place in a
contentious political climate.
* ⚓ METU_Pride_March_marred_by_interventions,_detentions⠀⇛
Posters promoting the “protection of the family” were hung on
campus prior to the parade.
* ⚓ European Commission ☛ Speech_by_President_von_der_Leyen_on_a_new
section_on_Jewish_life_in_interwar_Europe_at_Yad_Vashem,_co-financed_by
the_EU⠀⇛
European Commission Speech Brussels, 09 Jun 2023 The history of
the Jewish people is the history of Europe.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ Science Alert ☛ The_Bizarre_True_Story_of_The_Nightmare_Woman_Haunting
The_Internet⠀⇛
“This is a true horror story.”
§ Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Netflix’s_password-sharing_crackdowns_prompts_an_increase_in
subscriptions⠀⇛
Netflix saw a sharp increase in its number of subscribers after
its decision to crack down on password sharing in the US,
according to data from streaming analytics firm Antenna.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Broadphone_tracking_patent_reexam_granted⠀⇛
On June 2, 2023, less than a month after Unified filed_an
ex_parte_reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit
(CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new
questions of patentability on the challenged claims of
U.S._Patent_8,594,698, owned and asserted by Broadphone
LLC. The ‘698 patent generally relates to determining the
location of a device based on the relative signal
strength for each of a plurality of nearby, identified
“antenna stations” and determining whether the device is
within the proximity of a “device-specific target
location”. The patent has been asserted against Samsung.
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Atlantic_IP_Services_entity,_Speir
Technologies,_prior_art_found_on_three_patents⠀⇛
Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found
on three patents owned by Speir Technologies, an Atlantic
IP_Services subsidiary.
We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-
quality submissions that were made on this patent. The
ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of
thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the
industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable
validity by finding and submitting prior art in the
contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to
participate.
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Dominion_Harbor_entity,_Redwood_Technologies,
prior_art_found_on_three_patents⠀⇛
Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found
on three patents owned by Redwood Technologies, LLC, an
NPE and entity of the Dominion_Harbor_Group.
o ⚓ JUVE ☛ Germany_and_Britain_dominate_list_of_representatives_at
the_UPC [Ed: UPC is illegal, but JUVE is being bribed by Team UPC
to pretend this crime (unconstitutional kangaroo court) is A-OK]⠀⇛
Shortly after the Brexit referendum in the summer of
2016, all patent experts thought the same thing: The
United Kingdom is out of the UPC. Whereas British judges,
patent attorneys and lawyers were bitterly disappointed,
many from continental Europe were delighted. For those in
Amsterdam, Düsseldorf, Munich and Paris it meant one
fewer major competitor.
* § Software Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ Action_needed_to_protect_against_patent_trolls [Ed:
But OSI and Linux Foundation are sponsored and controlled by very
large patent trolls]⠀⇛
The Linux Foundation, Unified Patents and Electronic
Frontier Foundation hosted a webinar this week to give an
overview of the serious issue of patent trolls and the
recent proposal from the United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) to change the current rules for
protecting and defending Open Source software from patent
trolls.
* § Trademarks⠀➾
o ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ Parody_at_the_TTAB:_Does_the_Supreme_Court’s_“Bad
Spaniels”_Ruling_Change_the_Game?⠀⇛
You may have heard that the Supreme Court issued its
decision in the “Bad Spaniels” case yesterday [pdf here],
vacating the Ninth Circuit’s decision that, inter alia,
had immunized VPI from trademark infringement under
Rogers v. Grimaldi. The Court ruled that, since VPI was
(concededly) using its comedic design as a source
indicator, Rogers did not apply. Therefore, the Ninth
Circuit was wrong in reversing the district court’s
finding of likelihood of confusion.
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_Draft_Bill_C-11_Policy_Direction:_Canadian
Heritage_Implicitly_Admits_What_It_Spent_Months_Denying⠀⇛
The government released its long-promised_draft_policy
direction on Bill C-11 to the CRTC yesterday. The policy
direction is open for public comment until July 25, 2023,
after which the government will release a final version
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the bill will be interpreted.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
# Programming
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_AGHNRUY_Wordo:_???⠀⇛
# ⚓ Making/Meeting⠀⇛
Last year I managed to download my entire
LiveJournal archives. My last post there was over a
decade ago, and for at least five years my posting
had slowed to every few months (at best), but all
in all I wrote there for eleven years. Kind of
incredible. Everything I said, and others, dumped
to text and XML. Hard to read, so often I explore
by means of grepping a name, or a phrase.
In addition to this, I’ve got an almost-complete
archive of my old HTML journal, the handwritten
kind, gathered in pieces from the Wayback across
three or four of my old sites whose robots.txt
allowed crawling.
[...]
But then there are the handful of places that did
stick, or click, or however you want to look at it.
For me those include dialup BBSs, online journals,
the forum for fucked up teens when I was 18 (and
whew, that last one’s complicated). But also: the
people of the poetry community on Twitter,
something good in the sludge of that site. Then,
geminispace.
# ⚓ writing_as_a_writer⠀⇛
Think of stuff. Write it down. If blogging, hit
“Publish”, too.
Do this with no time compartmentalization nor
boundaries (either time-wise or word-wise) every
day. Seven days a week, most weeks. Birthdays/Xmas:
optional (for me, the holidays themselves are
optional, and now the writing part, too, but…)
This is how I see writing.
# ⚓ Saturday_afternoon_at_the_MP⠀⇛
On my way home from running some errands I decide
to take a detour via The Midnight Pub. Its hot,
there is no need to hurry. I scan the messages on
the board. Uh, ~jack has been “redacted”. Hmmm.
Digital suicide? I wonder. And there is some
mention of plausible looking word frequencies.
Sigh. “Is there still some place without the new
shiny technology …” I ask myself.
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ gsettings_command⠀⇛
One of the things I find annoying about Ubuntu
Desktop defaults is that when I open a new
application it opens in the upper left corner. I
then drag it to the center screen and start
working. It’s amazing how a small inconvenience can
grind on you over time. When I’ve search the net
for changing this behavior the usual suggestions
are “install gnome-tweaks”. This seems ham-handed.
I think continue searching and eventually find the
command below. So I am making a note of the command
here in my blog so I can find it latter.
# ⚓ Excel_Scottish_Land_Tax_calculator⠀⇛
Me and my partner are in the process of buying our
first house. In Scotland, property transactions are
subject to Land Tax[1]. Land Tax is calculated
based on the property price and is based on tiers.
The first 145k is free, then 145-250k is subject to
2% tax, 250-325k is 5% and so on. For first time
buyers the tax free amount is raised to 175k.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Wordle_for_Gemini_published⠀⇛
First, pardon my english but I want to get
the word out. Since I saw winter’s comments
about how NYT was transforming Wordle’s
experience into a crappy one, I remembered I
still have in this capsule my own clone that
works over Gemini and it is simple enough to
have anyone put it on their own. Mine works
with a spanish word dictionary, but you can
have it generate the database with *any* word
list. It will take care of the client
certificates to keep a way of a session and
track if you’ve already solved or not the
current word and pick a new one when 16
minutes have passed.
# ⚓ How_Online_Ads_Work⠀⇛
Gemini tries to avoid the worst of the web,
and for most people ads and tracking are high
on that list.
But, there is a lot about how ads work that
is not common knowledge.
You almost certainly know what online ads
look like; you may even have clicked on them
from time to time—possibly by mistake. You
might have considered what information is
flying around in the cloud to support those
ads. You’re less likely, I think, to have
considered how much money changed hands, and
between whom.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Can_a_child_process_affect_the_working_directory_of
the_parent_process?⠀⇛
# ⚓ Shared_Libraries⠀⇛
Is an educational document, good to work
through to better understand compiling and
linking shared libraries. To recap, and using
C instead of C++ one needs a program that
uses a library, plus a few supporting script…
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