𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Friday, June 23, 2023
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⦿ IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 22, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Sceptical of Cancel Artists in Corporate Press | Techrights
⦿ Social Control Media is Going Away Gradually and People Need to Return to Self-Hosting, Blogs, RSS, Truly Independently News Sites | Techrights
⦿ The IBM ’Community’ is Very Busy, and They’re Not Even Telling Us All What This ‘Community’ Has Been Doing for 2 Months Already | Techrights
⦿ Police Out of Control (or Oversight) - Part 10: A Month Has Passed, British Member of Parliament Snubbed by Action Fraud (UK Police) | Techrights
⦿ What IBM Does to RHEL is Neither Surprising Nor Acceptable | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/06/23/irc-log-220623/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/06/23/protecting-us-from-the-communities/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/06/23/social-control-media-is-going-away-gradually-and-people-need-to-return-to-self-hosting-blogs-rss-truly-independently-news-sites/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/06/23/the-ibm-community/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/06/23/uk-police-enjoys-impunity/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/06/23/what-ibm-does-to-red-hat/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/06/23/amiga-archaeology/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/06/23/go-1-21-release-candidate/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/06/23/ibm-angers-the-community/#comments
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✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Thursday,_June_22,_2023⠀✐
Posted in IRC_Logs at 2:55 am by Needs Sunlight
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✐ Sceptical_of_Cancel_Artists_in_Corporate_Press⠀✐
Posted in Deception, GNU/Linux, IBM, Kernel, Red_Hat at 2:51 pm by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 5f6d6616e74b0dfa244456e883620ee3
Cancel Culture on the Move
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/under-the-bus-expedition.webm
Summary: A combination of factors seems to be hinting at a ‘call for blood’,
not just from IBM or IBM-connected press; voices of the community are being
suppressed and this is being “sold” to the public as “protecting” us from
“bigots”
THIS video is just a quick shout-out regarding the Linux_Foundation, which
received or witnessed a lot of embarrassing (but perfectly factual) coverage
from us lately. Some went “viral” and we’re not surprised that we got contacted
about it.
Having said that, contacts also came from familiar names that historically
participated in the corporate coup against Free software communities. In case
there’s character assassination on the way, I’ve decided to record a quick and
informal video. The next video will deal with IBM and what it is doing to Red
Hat. IBM is very unhappy about our coverage and it generally has a lot of scorn
for Free software coders. That’s why it's_trying_to_censor_them in all sorts of
way, if not cancel them altogether in campaigns of defamation spearheaded by
IBM staff. Baiting luminaries with waffle about “master” and plural words.
Apparently believing in a woman’s right to seek abortion is now “ableist”. █
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Self-Hosting,_Blogs,_RSS,_Truly_Independently_News_Sites⠀✐
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Self-hosting, and Not Just WWW
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/after-the-era-of-centralised-nonsense.webm
Summary: Social Control Media is about one company or few companies managing/
herding lots of people and media outlets; we need to get away from that and the
sooner, the better
THE association — either as person or as company — with Twitter is becoming
undesirable. To quote an example_we_saw_yesterday: “I occasionally saw it on
Twitter, before I quit that hellsite, after which I kinda lost track of it.”
Users are still fleeing in droves, albeit some replace Twitter with clones of
Twitter [1].
Twitter lost not one but two “trust and integrity” people in just months. The
eSafety head in Australia is now complaining publicly [2-4] and there are
stories about “racist behavior” [5].
“Social control media is a waste of time and people who replace one network/
platform with another are not correctly diagnosing the problem.”At the moment
it seems impossible that Twitter will turn things around. Twitter is dying, but
it had a lot of momentum before, so the death is a long process.
Social control media is getting smaller, based on reports. It’s not just
Twitter. The Press Gazette reported earlier this week that all top 10 new sites
saw a decline in traffic this past year. So it seems like the Web as a whole is
waning. The Press Gazette has also just said [6]: “There are about 13,000 more
PRs in England and Wales than there are journalists.”
So there are more people lying to you than trying to tell you the truth. No
wonder people walk away. Either way, the above video suggests that self-
hosting, even sometimes such as Gemini, would be vastly preferable. Social
control media is a waste of time and people who replace one network/platform
with another are not correctly diagnosing the problem. █
Related/contextual items from the news:
It’s a weird own goal for various Mastodon admins who are
running a decentralized social network based on interoperable
protocols to pledge that they won’t interoperate with services
from existing social networks if built on the same open
protocols.
It’s not even the hypocrisy, it’s just dumb and undermines the
entire point of interoperable protocols.
“This level of online abuse is already inexcusably high, but if
you’re a First Nations Australian, you are disabled or identify
as LGBTIQ+ you experience online hate at double the rate of the
rest of the population.
“Twitter appears to have dropped the ball on tackling hate. A
third of all complaints about online hate reported to us are
now happening on Twitter.
“We are also aware of reports that the reinstatement of some of
these previously banned accounts has emboldened extreme
polarisers, peddlers of outrage and hate, including neo-Nazis
both in Australia and overseas.”
The statement said If Twitter failed to respond to the legal
notice within 28 days, the company could face maximum financial
penalties of nearly A$700,000 a day for continuing breaches.
explanation⠀⇛
Twitter has lifted bans on 62,000 accounts since new owner Elon
Musk took over.
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner says Twitter has “dropped the
ball” on tackling online hate and has issued a legal notice to
the social media giant demanding an explanation about what it
is doing about the scourge.
eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant says there have been
more complaints about online hate on Twitter in the past year
than any other platform and complaints have spiked since Elon
Musk’s takeover of the company in October.
Schembechler_III’s_PR_firm_apology⠀⇛
On June 7, 2023, Glenn “Shemy” Schembechler III — son of long-
serving Michigan coach Glenn “Bo” Schembechler — published an
op-ed in The Michigan Daily explaining and apologizing for the
racist behavior he exhibited on social media that led to his
resignation.
female⠀⇛
There are about 13,000 more PRs in England and Wales than there
are journalists.
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✐ The_IBM_‘Community’_is_Very_Busy,_and_They’re_Not_Even_Telling_Us_All_What
This_‘Community’_Has_Been_Doing_for_2_Months_Already⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, IBM, Red_Hat at 10:27 am by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
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has_had_for_OpenSource.com_since_April
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⡟⣿⢻⣟⣿⢻⡟⢻⣽⢟⣿⣿⢿⢸⠻⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⡏⣿⢟⢿⡿⣿⡟⣿⢻⠛⡟⣟⣿⢿⡟⣿⢛⣟⣿⢹⠛⢻⠛⡟⣿⣟⣿⣻⠟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⢿⠟⠛⣻⢿⡿⡻⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⣿⣿⠛⣿⢻⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣹⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢋⠉⡉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣿⣿⣿⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉
⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢋⢁⡠⠚⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⡟⠉⠁⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⢋⠔⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠘⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⡧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣧⡀⠀⢽⠙⢿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⡄⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⠛⠶⡇⠀⠈⢻⣿⣷⣤⣄⣀⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⡝⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠛⠁⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⣯⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣷⣦⣤⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣯⣶⣴⠀⠀⠈⠻⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡞⣽⠿⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣦⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⡿⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⠞⢁⠔⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢻⣿⣟⡛⠻⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡛⢿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣟⣿⣿⣟⡻⠿⠛
⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣬⣉⣛⠓⠚⠼⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣷⣋⠀⠀
⠀⠀⡀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣉⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣛⣛⣿⣙⣿⣟⣋⣩⢿⣫
⠢⢈⡀⠄⠀⢀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠘⠈⡎⡆⡇⢸⢸⠀⡇⢸⡇⡎⡎⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⡙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⠿⡾⢾⠾⡷⢷⡾⡾⠶⡷⢾⠷⠿⢶⡿⢿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠙⢿⠿⠯⠽⠏⣨⣉⣙⡛⠻⢿⠽⠻⠉⣙⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣀⣸⣀⣇⣸⣀⣇⣾⣑⣁⣂⣜⣸⣀⣇⣿⣇⣄⣀⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠠⠀⠐⢂⠈⠁⠁⠁⠀⠈⠀⠀⠴⠝⢛⣛⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⢻⠻⢻⠛⣻⠛⡟⢿⠛⡟⡛⢛⡛⠟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠉⠘⠁⠁⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠤⣠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⢙⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣴⣤⣥⣦⣧⣿⣤⣧⣼⣤⣧⣵⣼⣤⣦⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⡀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠠⡀⠈⠉⠈⠁⠈⠉⣻⢷⣿⣿⡷⠾⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⡏⢹⠉⡏⡉⡭⡏⡏⢻⡏⣽⠉⣿⢹⠉⡏⢽⢩⡟⠙⣯⢹⢙⠫⠏⡩⢹⣿⣿⡟⠀⣶⢾⣻⣿⣿⡶⠻⢊⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⢶⣷⣾⣿⣿⡆⢙⣭⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⣷⣾⣶⣷⣿⣶⣷⣶⣾⣷⣾⣶⣿⣶⣶⣷⣾⣾⣷⣷⣿⣾⣶⣾⣶⣷⣾⣿⠟⢀⣶⣮⣭⣿⣿⣥⣿⣷⣿⣏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣉⠉
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢁⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠁
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡋⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⢉⣉⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣧⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠉⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣄⣉⠻⢿⣇⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣬⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠻⡍⢷⠘⡌⢆⠸⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠘⠋⣻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣻⡿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⢛⡏⠁⢻⣆⢡⠱⣈⣣⣤⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣴⠶⠉⠀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⠫⠉⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Member_of_Parliament_Snubbed_by_Action_Fraud_(UK_Police)⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Europe, Fraud, Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, Servers at
8:14 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Series parts:
Ones_Leave_the_Company)
of_Sirius_Fraud
Sirius_‘Open_Source’_and_British_Government
is_a_Skeleton_Crew_(While_Police_is_Dragging_Its_Heels)
Lot_Bigger_Than_Sirius_‘Open_Source’
‘Open_Source’_Gave_the_Victims_of_Its_Crimes_a_Chance_to_‘Cool_Off’
the_Public_Sector_While_Defrauding_and_Stealing_From_Staff
by Action Fraud (UK Police)
Video_download_link | md5sum 0de07faab93ab5373d58e77a04fca707
The MP Comes Marching in
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/sirius-month-after-mp-escalation.webm
Summary: The pension_fraud at Sirius_‘Open_Source’ (committed against
programmers and sysadmins focused on GNU/Linux and Free software) has reached
the political level; so far one can observe that politicians aren’t quite in
control of the police or, contrariwise, the police enjoys immunity or exercises
impunity because it simply doesn’t bother responding to politicians
A MONTH ago I turned to my Member of Parliament (MP) after the police had
failed to look into fraud complaints (myself and colleagues, GNU/Linux
sysadmins for the most part, were victims). My MP’s office said 4 weeks should
be more than enough for police to respond, but nothing has happened, so today I
disclose what happened and what will happen next (it’s far, far from over).
The video above gives a rough introduction to the issue, which is moreover
explained succinctly below. When I contacted my_Manchester_MP a month ago I
said:
Dear █████ ███████,
My name is Roy and I live in Manchester. My employer, which I
resigned from in December, turned out to have engaged in embezzlement
against me for over 5 years. It was pension fraud. My “pension” money
was never given to a pension provider as the payslips said, and
instead went into the management (black hole). Upon further inquiry
this was confirmed by formal letters and I discovered they did the
same to my colleagues. I reported this to Greater Manchester Police,
which insisted that I file a case with Action Fraud. After 4 weeks of
waiting Action Fraud made is abundantly clear that it did not even
look into the case. It just turned away victims. According to media
reports in reputable sources, this is quite common. I reach out to
you as this is a severe political blunder at this point. I chronicled
some of this in http://techrights.org/wiki/Sirius_Open_Source and
http://techrights.org/wiki/Crimes_of_Sirius_Open_Source though it
seems actual enforcement — something only the police can do — is
needed now. Will you please bring up this matter or help me pursue
justice not just for myself but also my colleagues?
Yours sincerely,
A lot of time has passed, a lot of messages were exchanged, but no progress
could be made because the police is “MIA”. (Missing In Action)
Ironically, they call themselves Action Fraud. According to British
broadcasters, they're_notorious_for_not_taking_action. Sure, they take reports.
They have bots to respond to the reports, but what good are bots?
“What we strive to show now is that there’s no system of accountability or, if
such a system does exist, it’s clearly not functioning.”The ‘My “pension”‘
sentence (above) could be further elucidated. It might lead with the fact that
the company withdrew money from paychecks under the pretence of contributing to
the fund but never actually did so. The current wording could be made more
clear. “As for turning away victims,” one person noted, “ensure that it is
clear that there are many of your former colleagues in the mess as well. The
closing line is quite clear, which is important.”
In the next part I’ll share some more correspondence from and to the MP. What
we strive to show now is that there’s no system of accountability or, if such a
system does exist, it’s clearly not functioning. It fails victims and rewards
criminals. █
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Schestowitz
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Red Hat Tightens the Grip or Squeeze
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/redhat-rhel-paywalls.webm
Summary: IBM is stuck in the mindset of the 1980s and 1990s; it does_not_like
the_General_Public_Licence and, having been somewhat of a parasite on GNU and
Linux since the mid-1990s, Red Hat (under IBM leadership/command) now pretends
that Commons are inherently parasitic
THOSE who have been following our IBM_coverage_in_recent_years won’t be
surprised at all by what’s happening right now. It’s far from shocking, they
just do it one little step at a time, turning RHEL into AIX or treating it like
their premium UNIX, which is more or less proprietary (to the extent tolerated
by the GPL if not slightly beyond that).
“If you wish to help GNU/Linux, please don’t help IBM. Devote time and effort
to community-run distros that truly value copyleft rather than barely tolerate
it.”While people online are still debating whether IBM complies with the terms
of the GPL (see some_links_here_in_Tux_Machines and in our previous batches of
Daily Links at Techrights), there’s no doubt that there’s no goodwill here. IBM
does not value the community. It’s driving it away. It views volunteers as
slaves who, at best, “stand in the way” by expressing their views. It’s
removing_them_based_on_their_nationality, especially_the_more_influential_ones.
If you wish to help GNU/Linux, please don’t help IBM. Devote time and effort to
community-run distros that truly value copyleft rather than barely tolerate it.
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Posted in News_Roundup at 10:59 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Politics_and_World_Events
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ Lemongrass⠀⇛
A sauce made from lemongrass leaves, ginger root,
and a frozen chive flower, all crushed together,
then covered with warmed sesame seed oil was pretty
good. It probably needed either more lemongrass or
an actual shallot, or maybe not to pre-heat the oil
so the ginger would be sharper.
Probably lemongrass makes for a good tea (or herbal
infusion or vegetable soup, if you prefer) unless
you’re allergic or otherwise cannot partake. It is
probably not a morning tea.
# ⚓ Friday_link_roundup:_June_23,_2023⠀⇛
Somehow I find this LitRPG-but-it’s-about-sports-
simulation weirdly compelling. Sort of in the same
neighborhood as Jon Bois’ 17776/20020, but not at
all the same genre or writing style. Maybe I just
have a thing for “sports fiction” despite not being
into sports IRL.
It’s not perfect; the MC is written as being clumsy
about stuff like gender and race and it seems like
that’s on purpose, and yet he still manages to
seduce every beautiful woman he encounters because
this is a litRPG. Despite that flaw I still find
the story engaging.
# ⚓ May_and_June_2023⠀⇛
For the first time since I started these monthly
updates, I will do this for a two months periods
since I’ve been pretty busy lately. Next week I’m
traveling so I don’t want to defer more the update.
[...]
Things got more hectic by the end of the month with
the collision of several things: me going to Madrid
for an event (more later), having our apartment
occupied for a few days by the installation of AC,
and the delivery of the news on our first
assignment for Bernat’s pre and primary school.
That eventually was confirmed and now we know the
school for Bernat until he’s 12! 🤯
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_DILOYTR_Wordo:_FERNS⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pancakes⠀⇛
My partner seems to have developed an intolerance
for gluten. She can still eat it, but feels
bloated, gets headaches. So for shared meals, we do
gluten free. For the two decades prior, I made
homemade pancakes every Sunday. This recipe isn’t
written down anywhere; it’s just in muscle memory.
I’m writing it down here so I don’t forget.
o § Politics and World Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Exclusivity_in_leftist_activist_circles⠀⇛
Let’s talk about exclusivity in leftist activist
circles.
i’ve been doing leftist activism for roughly three
decades, but have had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for
most of that, around 25 years.
i’ve also been living with unrecognised /
unacknowledged autism and adhd for most of my life,
only getting diagnosed only a couple of years ago.
Over the years, i’ve continued to try to do
activist work where i could – often educational
stuff, sometimes organisational and infrastructure
stuff, but all too regularly dealing with things
like transphobia, biphobia, whorephobia etc. from
other leftists.
# ⚓ Up_a_little_earlier_than_what’s_become_the_new_normal⠀⇛
Keep in mind that everything self indulges in is
self-indulgent by definition, and the notion of
self tends to be considered pathetic from points of
view suggesting self is merely a conceptual blind
spot obscuring a vast, ineffable underlying
reality.
[...]
It’s liberalism gone fundamentalist, and it’s
several orders of magnitude worse than what past
liberals referred to as “born agains” (amongst
other things) in the 1980s.
# ⚓ Topspace_and_topdrop⠀⇛
For me, topspace involves an incredible feeling of
power – a power constrained, yet one that could be
overwhelming were it to be unleashed. It’s a power
that comes from not only having a substantial
amount of control, but also being very aware of
that, and typically involves a sense of strength
within a centred calm, rooted in knowing that one
can dictate that things will be _thus_. More
generally, it feels like being in ‘flow’[b], like
being very present and “in the moment”.
[...]
For me, there are two aspects of topdrop: the sense
of power and/or superiority draining away of its
own accord, and actively working to ground oneself.
Feeling the sense of power-over[c] drain away can
feel depressing, to greater or lesser extents, due
to a sense of loss. There might be an active
internal resistance to letting this happen, for
whatever reason, and this can in turn lead to the
sort of social issues described above.
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Amiga_archaeology,_Windows_95-98⠀⇛
This toolstack works well enough in most cases. The
Greaseweazle is
normally connected to a small Linux computer I have
in my workshop,
and I have both a 3,5″ and 5,25″ drive connected to
it. In the case
of this Amiga disk-box I’m currently going through,
I naturally
only use the 3,5″ drive.
HXC’s software is a bit clunky and I have to run it
through wine since
I don’t run Windows, but it’s what I’m used to from
before. I have
realized that I could probably replace it with the
disk-utilities by
keirf, since I mostly use it to analyze the disk
and convert
from scp to different formats.
# ⚓ (not_quite)_three_years_of_Gemini_(for_me)⠀⇛
My initial commit to the repository that manages
this capsule is dated 9/7/2020.
Solderpunk says that Gemini dates back from 6/20/
2019, assuming I’m subtracting by 4 properly.
I came for the Calm™ and stayed for the low-
friction publishing with a workflow that I’m used
to (edit text file, git commit text file, upload
text file somewhere, let automated backups do their
thing when they get around to it).
# ⚓ The_Playdate⠀⇛
In which I discuss my thoughts on the Playdate
console and the games I’ve played on it.
[...]
What is funny is for a month or two before I first
heard about the Playdate, I was earnestly looking
for a device that was more pocketable than my
original model Game Boy Advance but was more
capable and/or cheaper than however much GBA Micros
are now. I had decided on getting a Miyoo Mini and
was just waiting for them to get back in stock when
someone on the Fediverse posted about the Playdate,
and literally the instant I saw it I knew I had to
get one.
# ⚓ June_2023_Status_Update⠀⇛
I haven’t posted in a long time here, this is
actually the first entry of the 2023… woops!
Truth to be told, there are various things I’d like
to write about but not enough time, so I thought to
copy the big guys and write a “Status Update” post
myself. It’s more like sending a message in a
bottle though.
So, lots of stuff, right? Let’s go!
[...]
Last month I started to help in the OpenSMTPD-
portable repository. It was starting to rot a bit,
lagging behind what we have in base on OpenBSD and
accumulating cruft.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Why_am_I_here_(in_Geminispace)?⠀⇛
A preface: I’m severely out of practice wrt
writing. This feels kinda meandering, the
ideas don’t seem to flow that well and I’m
not even sure it makes that much sense. It’s
also uncomfortably woe-is-me and humourless.
So… sorry, I guess?
# ⚓ How_to_Kill_a_Decentralised_Network_(such_as_the
Fediverse)⠀⇛
Year is 2023. The whole Internet is under the
control of the GAFAM empire. All? No. Because
a few small villages are resisting the
oppression. And some of those villages
started to agregate, forming the “Fediverse”.
With debates around Twitter and Reddit, the
Fediverse started to gain fame and attention.
People started to use it for real. The empire
started to notice.
# ⚓ How_to_Kill_a_Decentralised_Network_(such_as_the
Fediverse)⠀⇛
As Peter Thiel, one of Facebook’s prominent
investor, put it: “Competition is for
losers.” Yep, those pseudo “market is always
right” people don’t want a market when they
are in it. They want a monopoly. Since its
inception, Facebook have been very careful to
kill every competition. The easiest way of
doing it being by buying companies that
could, one day, become competitors.
Instagram, WhatsApp to name a few, were
bought only because their product attracted
users and could cast a shadow on Facebook.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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Posted in News_Roundup at 12:39 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Open_Hardware/Modding
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o FSF
o Programming/Development
# Rust
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
# Confidentiality
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Software_Patents
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ What_OS_you_should_choose_for_dedicated
server?⠀⇛
CentOS is a free and open-source operating system
that is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
It has all the important features of RHEL. There is
an opinion that CentOS may have fewer features
compared to other Linux distributions because it
doesn’t include the additional tools and software
that come with the paid version of Red Hat.
However, CentOS is preferred by organizations that
prioritize reliability and security over extra
tools and features.
In conclusion, there are many options to choose
from, which can make it challenging to decide. It’s
important to consider what aligns with your
business needs, the level of support you require,
and you’re existing technical skills.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ The BSD Now Podcast ☛ 512:_BSDNow_Live!_9_bits_of_BSDNow_–
Just_speak_into_the_goat⠀⇛
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Seafile_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Seafile on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. If you’re looking for
an easy and secure way to sync and share files on
your Ubuntu system, Seafile Ubuntu is a solution
worth exploring.
# ⚓ Check_if_a_domain_is_available_for_purchase⠀⇛
$ function canibuy { whois "$1" 2>/dev/null | grep
-q 'Registrant' && echo "taken" || echo "available"
}
A quick alias to check if a domain is already
registered or if it’s available for purchase.
⚓ DebugPoint ☛ 2_Ways_to_Add_Users_to_SUDOERS_Group_in_Debian_[Tutorial]⠀⇛
In Debian Linux, the SUDOERS group plays a crucial role in granting
administrative privileges to users. Adding users to the SUDOERS group
enables them to execute commands with root privileges, providing them
with the necessary administrative access to perform various tasks on
a Debian system.
This article aims to provide a step-by-step guide on adding a user to
the SUDOERS group in Debian, ensuring that you can effectively manage
user permissions and system security.
§ Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
* § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
o ⚓ KDE Official ☛ Celebrating_25_years_of_The_KDE_Free_Qt
Foundation⠀⇛
On the 22nd of June 1998, the KDE_Free_Qt_Foundation was
founded and has accompanied Qt on its amazing journey to
become the success story that it is today.
Qt has established itself as the go-to solution for UI
development because of its high quality, consistency,
ease of use, and broad cross-platform support. A key
factor in this achievement is Qt’s dual licensing
strategy: Qt is available as free software for open
source, but it is also available under a paid license for
proprietary software development. A legal foundation
ensures the continued availability of Qt as free software
alongside the commercial licensing options.
At the time the KDE Free Qt Foundation was founded, Qt
was developed by Trolltech–the company that originally
developed the framework. The Foundation has supported Qt
through its transitions, first to Nokia, then to Digia,
and finally to The Qt Company. It has the right to
release Qt under the BSD license if necessary to ensure
that Qt remains open source. This remarkable legal
guarantee protects the free software community and
creates trust among developers, contributors, and
customers.
The KDE Free Qt Foundation is a collaboration between The
Qt Company and KDE. KDE is one of the largest Free
Software communities for general-purpose end-user
software, and has been around since 1996.
o ⚓ Qt ☛ The_KDE_Free_Qt_Foundation:_25_Years_of_Celebration⠀⇛
KDE Free Qt Foundation was founded and has accompanied Qt
on its amazing journey to become the success story that
it is today.
§ Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
* § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
o ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ RedHat_Limits_Access_to_RHEL_Source_Code,_Sparks
Controversy_in_Linux_Community⠀⇛
RedHat has made a significant announcement today that is
set to shake up the Linux community. In a move that may
not sit well with some users and developers, Red Hat has
decided to limit access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(RHEL) source code. Going forward, CentOS Stream will
become the exclusive repository for public RHEL-related
source code releases.
o ⚓ Timothée Ravier ☛ Timothée_Ravier:_How_to_make_a_new_rpm-ostree
desktop_variant_in_Fedora?⠀⇛
To do that, you can start from the base_container_image
that already includes the packages common to all
variants. You can then add packages from the comps_group
corresponding to your desktop in Fedora.
At this point, you should consider which apps are going
to be shipped by default, included in the image, and
which ones are going to be installed by default as
Flatpaks.
Take a look at the Universal_Blue_project for examples on
how to do container based variants.
[...]
So you want to make a new rpm-ostree desktop variant in
Fedora to join Silverblue, Kinoite, Sericea and soon
Onyx?
o ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Flock_2023_CfP_extended
to_27_June⠀⇛
Were you keeping an eye on the Flock_2023_call_for
proposals? Were you planning a proposal for this year’s
event in Cork, Ireland from 2–4 August 2023? Did you
miss the deadline to submit? Fear not, because the Flock
2023 CfP is extended for one week only until Tuesday, 27
June. If you were still working on that perfect proposal
for our first return to an in-person event in four years,
there is still time to submit before the deadline.
Submit your proposal for a presentation or workshop in
our new CfP system at cfp.fedoraproject.org. The CfP
system now supports login with the Fedora Account System
(FAS).
o ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_create_a_workspace_via_Try_in_Dev_Spaces
extension [Ed: Red Hat (IBM) it outsourcing to proprietary prison
of Microsoft. Again. What is this company??]⠀⇛
In early June, we released a new web extension for Red
Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces called Try_in_Dev_Spaces.
Version 1.0 of the extension is available for Chromium-
based browsers (Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave,
Opera, etc.), Safari, and Firefox.
* § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Pico-Based_ZX_Spectrum_Emulator⠀⇛
The ZX Spectrum was a popular computer of the 8-bit era.
Now, it’s possible to emulate this machine on a
microcontroller so cheap that it’s literally been given
away on the front cover of magazines. Yes, we’re talking
about the Pico ZX Spectrum project.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ FPGA_Breakout_Board_For_DIP_Package_Shenanigans⠀⇛
FPGAs are supremely flexible and powerful devices.
However, they usually come in QFP or BGA packages that
are altogether difficult for hobbyists to play with. The
DIP-FPGA breakout board aims to solve that problem by
using a carrier PCB to put an advanced chip in a
friendlier form factor.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ DingoQuadruped_Is_A_Cheap_Canine-Like_Robot⠀⇛
Robot humanoids are cool, but also a bit hard to make
work as they only have two legs to stand on. Four-legged
robots can be a bit more approachable. The Dingo
Quadruped aims to be just such an open-source platform
for teaching and experimentation purposes.
o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Particle_launches_Photon_2_Realtek_RTL8721DM_dual-
band_WiFi_and_BLE_IoT_board,_Particle_P2_module⠀⇛
Particle has launched the Photon 2 dual-band WiFi and BLE
IoT board powered by a 200 MHz Realtek RTL8721DM Arm
Cortex-M33 microcontroller, as well as the corresponding
Particle P2 module for integration into commercial
products.
o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Zvidar_Z-GW-V01_Smart_Gateway_runs_Home_Assistant
on_Allwinner_A133_processor⠀⇛
Shenzhen Zvidar Technologies’ Z-GW-V01, also known as the
Zvidar Smart Gateway is a single board computer powered
by an Allwinner A133 quad-core Cortex-A53 processor and
running Ubuntu with the Home Assistant open-source
automation framework. The SBC provides Gigabit Ethernet,
WiFi 5, and Bluetooth connectivity by default, but also
supports plenty of optional wireless modules with Z-Wave,
Zigbee, Thread/Matter, LoRa, or 4G LTE connectivity that
are either soldered to the board connected by a mini PCIe
socket.
§ Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
* § FSF⠀➾
o ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_Workshop:_Video_editing_with_Kdenlive⠀⇛
Edit your videos with free software! Join us for this
virtual workshop with Seth Kenlon.
* § Programming/Development⠀➾
o ⚓ Go_1.21_Release_Candidate⠀⇛
The Go 1.21 first Release Candidate (RC) is available
today on the download page! Go 1.21 is packed with new
features and improvements. Getting the RC (release
candidate) allows you to experiment with it early, try it
on your workloads, and report any issues before the final
release (scheduled for August). Here are some notable
changes and features in Go 1.21; for the full list, refer
to the full release notes.
o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Kernel_5.15.117_compiled_with_9P_features_for
QEMU⠀⇛
The “9P” requirement was discussed in this blog post a
couple of days ago:
https://bkhome.org/news/202306/qemu-recompiled-in-oe-
with-more-features.html
The “9P” enhancements required in the kernel are
explained here:
https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup
I have compiled the Linux kernel version 5.15.117, with
these new features
o ⚓ Buttondown ☛ Agile_is_people,_the_rest_is_commentary.⠀⇛
You may have heard of this new idea called “Agile”, where
you prioritize people over processes etc etc etc. I
occasionally saw it on Twitter, before I quit that
hellsite, after which I kinda lost track of it.
o ⚓ KDAB ☛ Synchronization_in_Vulkan⠀⇛
An important part of working with Vulkan and other modern
explicit rendering APIs is the synchronization of GPU/GPU
and CPU/GPU workloads. In this article we will learn
about what Vulkan needs us to synchronize and how to
achieve it. We will talk about two high-level parts of
the synchronization domain that we, as application and
library developers, are responsible for: [...]
o ⚓ Review_use_of_Qt_module_header_includes⠀⇛
Having come across sources using include statements for
some Qt module headers (like #include <QtDBus>), memories
arose about a check from the static analyzer tool krazy
as once run conveniently on KDE’s former ebn.kde.org
site. That check, called includes, poked one not to use
Qt module headers. Due to resulting in the inclusion of
all the headers of those modules, and then again that of
the other Qt modules used by the module. Which them meant
more stuff to process by the compiler for compilation
units with such module header includes.
So is that perhaps in 2023 no longer a real-world
noticeable issue? A first look at some preprocessor
outputs (with Qt5) for a single line file with just an
include statement hinted though it might still be true:
[...]
o § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ Rust Weekly Updates ☛ This_Week_In_Rust:_This_Week_in_Rust
500⠀⇛
Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in
Rust!
§ Leftovers⠀➾
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ More_flights_as_Kangaroo_Island_bounces_back_from
fires⠀⇛
Qantas is set to add more flights to Kangaroo Island as the
region continues its recovery from devastating bushfires.
The state government says the airline will aim to have 12
return flights each week between Adelaide and Kingscote during
the coming summer, then nine a week during the 2024 winter.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Dwindling_Oxygen_May_Be_Biggest_Threat_to_Titanic
Submersible’s_Passengers⠀⇛
There may be less than a day’s worth of breathable air left in
the Titan, limiting the window for possible rescue of the five
people on board.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Titanic_Sub_and_the_Draw_of_Extreme_Tourism⠀⇛
Diving to the bottom of the ocean is risky. So is flying to
space. But people will keep paying to do both.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Alvin_Submersible_Dive_Reveals_Wonder_and_Danger_of
Risky_Pursuits⠀⇛
A dive in Alvin, a three-person submersible, revealed not only
an alien world but why people engage in such risky pursuits.
* ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Provisional_licence_test_can_now_be_taken_in_Shona,_Ndebele;
plastic_driver’s_licence_upon_us⠀⇛
I know many of you have that laminated blue little paper in
your glove box right now. There are 800,000 of you in that
boat, with the Central Vehicle Registry having a backlog that
dates back to 2019. It looks like you are finally getting a
proper driver’s licence now.
* § Science⠀➾
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Dead_Star’s_Magnetic_Field_Tricked_Astronomers
Into_Thinking_It_Was_Heading_Our_Way⠀⇛
You can stop looking up now.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Tongan_Eruption’s_11_Hours_of_Lightning_Fury
Shattered_Records⠀⇛
We’ve never seen anything like this.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Regular_Short_Naps_Could_Be_The_Easiest_Way_to
Reduce_The_Risk_of_Dementia⠀⇛
In case you needed an excuse.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ 4,000_Year_Old_‘Stonehenge’_Monument_First_of_Its
Kind_in_The_Netherlands⠀⇛
“What a spectacular archaeological discovery!”
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ We_Just_Found_One_of_The_Rarest_Stars_in_The
Galaxy⠀⇛
We’ve only ever seen this once before.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scratches_on_a_Cave_Wall_in_France_Likely_to_Be
Earliest_Example_of_Neanderthal_Art⠀⇛
Creativity runs in the family.
* § Education⠀➾
o ⚓ Reason ☛ New_Test_Data_Show_That_COVID_School_Closures_Rapidly
Accelerated_U.S._Learning_Losses⠀⇛
Nearly two years after most children returned to the
classroom, educational losses continue to grow.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ South_Korea_to_Drop_College_Entry_Exam’s_‘Killer
Questions’⠀⇛
The exam is notorious for extremely difficult problems,
some of which seem to have little to do with the test
topic. Even the president has complained.
* § Hardware⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ No_Frills_Autonomous_Lawnmower_Gets_The_Job_Done⠀⇛
[Nathan] needed an autonomous mower to help on the farm,
so he built his own without breaking the bank. It might
not be the prettiest machine, but it’s been keeping his
roads, fences and yard clear for over a year. In the
video after the break, he gives a detailed breakdown of
its build and function.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Congratulations_To_Our_Op-Amp_Challenge_Winners!⠀⇛
The real world is analog, and the op-amp is the
indispensable building block of many analog circuits. We
wanted to give you analog fanatics out there a chance to
shine and to encourage our digital brothers and sisters
to dip their toes in the murky waters where ones and
zeroes define the ends of a spectrum rather than
representing the only choice. Hence, we presented the Op
Amp Challenge. And you did not disappoint!
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D_Printed_Machine_Shows_How_Braiding_Is_Done⠀⇛
If there’s something more fascinating than watching
cleverly engineered industrial machines do their work, we
don’t know what it could be. And at the top of that list
has to be the machines that do braiding. You’ve probably
seen them, with spools of thread or wire dancing under
and around each other in an endless ballet that somehow
manages to weave a perfect braid. It’s kind of magical.
o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ NOVELDA’s_latest_UWB_radar_presence_sensor
consumes_less_than_100_µW⠀⇛
NOVELDA has unveiled a new low-power ultra-wideband (UWB)
radar presence sensor with a power consumption of under
100 µW and designed to operate on two AAA batteries for
up to four years. We first wrote about NOVELDA in 2021
where we covered their UWB X4 presence sensor capable of
detecting submillimeter movements with a power
consumption of under 2mW. The company has further
optimized the technology and has come up with a 30x5mm
module capable of doing the same with 0.1mW power
consumption. The sensor is said to work behind various
materials such as plastics, tempered glass, and ceramics,
the detection zone size and shape can be adjusted to meet
the application requirements, and the device provides
accurate angle and distance information.
o ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ Ethernet_Switching_Still_Booming_As_Routing
Soldiers_On⠀⇛
If the datacenter is the computer – and it certainly is
for hundreds of companies comprising somewhere well north
of half of server sales worldwide – then the Ethernet
fabric, consisting of switches and routers, is the
backplane of that computer.
o ⚓ Louis-Philippe_Véronneau:_New_Keyboard,_Who_This?⠀⇛
My old Thinkpad X220 has been slowly dying1 and as much
as it makes me sad, it is also showing its age in terms
of computational power. As such, I’ve pre-ordered a
Framework 13 (the AMD version) and plan to retire my X220
when I get it.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ ARC_Automotive_is_unrepentant_in_answering_questions
about_its_exploding_airbag_inflators⠀⇛
ARC Automotive, which supplies about one quarter of
airbag inflators in the US, has responded to National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) questions
regarding its allegedly defective airbag inflators that
have caused at least two deaths.
* § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ NY_Dems_Pass_Medical_Debt_Relief_as_Progressives
Push_to_Expand_Healthcare_to_Undocumented_Residents⠀⇛
In New York, a battle is brewing over a bill called
Coverage for All that would use a surplus of federal
funds to pay people who are undocumented to enroll in the
state’s Essential Plan under the federal Affordable Care
Act, potentially granting 250,000 people access to
healthcare. Immigrant advocates are rallying for the
bill’s inclusion in a two-day special legislative session
despite Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul’s resistance,
calling the bill a chance for the state to “make
history.”
o ⚓ ‘Adopt_a_Mediterranean_Beach’_project_starts_to_combat_plastic
waste_in_the_basin⠀⇛
The project launched to monitor and raise awareness about
plastic waste in the Mediterranean basin will be
coordinated by WWF Turkey, WWF Tunisia, and WWF Greece.
o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Giant_Paint-Eating_Snails_Spotted_in_Florida,
Putting_State_Agriculture_at_Risk⠀⇛
You wouldn’t want to hit one with your car.
o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Aaron_Rodgers_talks_about_mental_health_at
a_psychedelics_conference⠀⇛
Denver is hosting a conference this week that’s being put
on by a psychedelic advocacy group. The group is bringing
together an unlikely cohort of speakers, including NFL
quarterback Aaron Rodgers, former Texas Republican
governor Rick Perry and rapper Jaden Smith. It comes
months after Colorado’s voters decided to join Oregon in
decriminalizing psychedelic mushrooms. Thousands are
expected to attend. Proponents say psychedelics may offer
benefits for things like post-traumatic stress disorder
and alcoholism. Medical experts caution that more
research is needed on the drugs’ efficacy and safety. A
historian of science who has researched the boom and bust
of psychedelic movements says the conference is purely
hype.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Indoor_air:_the_next_public_health_frontier?⠀⇛
o ⚓ PHR ☛ One_Year_On_from_Dobbs,_Scientifically-Baseless_Legislation
Exacerbates_Danger_to_Patients_and_Providers:_PHR⠀⇛
To mark the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson
Women’s Health Organization decision, the following
statement is attributable to Payal Shah, JD, director of
PHR’s Program on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones:
“Over the last year since the U.S. Supreme Court’s
decision to reverse 50 years of federal protection of
reproductive rights,
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Orville_Peck_Postpones_Tour_Due_to_Mental
and_Physical_Health_Concerns⠀⇛
Orville Peck postpones the remainder of his Bronco Tour
due to concerns over his mental and physical health.
Orville Peck has postponed the remainder of his Bronco
Tour, a lineup of summer performances across North
America that started June 20, due to concerns over his
mental and physical health.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ New_Fentanyl_Laws_Ignite_Debate_Over_Combating
Overdose_Crisis⠀⇛
Critics say a fierce law-and-order approach could
undermine public health goals and advances in addiction
treatment.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Right-Wingers_Push_Death_Penalty_Reinstatement_Bills
as_Part_of_Hardline_Agenda⠀⇛
The same forces that are attacking abortion, trans health
care and racial justice are also pushing for more
executions.
o ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Common_food_storage_mistakes_to_avoid⠀⇛
We reveal what should – and shouldn’t – be in your
fridge, and the foods to store separately to prolong
their life. Plus: the science-based tactics to reduce
food waste and save money
* § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
o ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Group-IB_finds_stolen_ChatGPT_credentials_traded_on
dark_web⠀⇛
“Another area of concern is password re-use,” Narang
said. “Historically, we know users tend to reuse
passwords across multiple sites, so if users have had
their ChatGPT account credentials compromised, it’s
possible that other accounts are at risk as well if users
reused their ChatGPT password elsewhere.
“At this time, OpenAI has temporarily paused the
enrolment of two-factor authentication for ChatGPT. Once
enrolment has been re-enabled, users should add it as an
additional security measure.
“However, it’s important to note that information-
stealing malware also steals session cookies, which can
be used to bypass account security features like two-
factor authentication if valid ChatGPT session cookies
are also being sold on the dark web. Irrespective of
this, we still advise users to enable this feature on
their ChatGPT accounts.”
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Deus_Ex_Machina:_Church_In_Germany_Conducts_AI_Created
Mass_To_Mixed_Reviews⠀⇛
To say that developments in the realm of artificial
intelligence are coming fast at this point is a wild
understatement. There’s a ton going on in the space, some
of it showcasing amazing things we can now do using AI,
some of it showing where humans are still very much
needed, and much of the rest watching governments trying
to figure out how to best screw it all up for everyone
else.
* § Security⠀➾
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Critical_WordPress_Plugin_Vulnerabilities_Impact
Thousands_of_Sites⠀⇛
Two critical-severity authentication bypass
vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins with tens of
thousands of installations.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Enphase_Ignores_CISA_Request_to_Fix_Remotely
Exploitable_Flaws⠀⇛
Enphase Energy has ignored CISA requests to fix remotely
exploitable vulnerabilities in Enphase products.
o ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Why_Malware_Crypting_Services_Deserve_More
Scrutiny⠀⇛
If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on
disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend
a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your
malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and
security products. In fact, the process of “crypting”
malware is sufficiently complex and time-consuming that
most serious cybercrooks will outsource this critical
function to a handful of trusted third parties. This
story explores the history and identity behind Cryptor
[.]biz, a long-running crypting service that is trusted
by some of the biggest names in cybercrime.
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Chrome_and_Its_Vulnerabilities_–_Is_the_Web
Browser_Safe_to_Use?⠀⇛
Why are there so many vulnerabilities in Chrome? Is it
realistically safe to use? Can Google do anything to make
the web browser safer?
o ⚓ Security Week ☛ DOJ_Launches_Cyber_Unit_to_Prosecute_Nation-State
Threat_Actors⠀⇛
New National Security Cyber Section will help the US
disrupt and prosecute nation-state threat actors and
state-sponsored cybercriminals.
o ⚓ SANS ☛ Apple_Patches_Exploited_Vulnerabilities_in_iOS/iPadOS,
macOS,_watchOS_and_Safari,_(Thu,_Jun_22nd)⠀⇛
Apple released iOS, macOS, and watchOS updates, patching
three vulnerabilities already being exploited. Two
vulnerabilities affect WebKit, leading to a Safari patch
for older operating systems.
The two WebKit issues (CVE-2023-32439 and CVE-2023-32435)
can be used to execute arbitrary code as a user visits a
malicious web page. The third vulnerability, CVE-2023-
32434, can be used to elevate privileges after the
initial code execution.
o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Apple_Patches_iOS_Flaws_Used_in_Kaspersky
‘Operation_Triangulation’⠀⇛
Apple ships major iOS security updates to cover
code execution vulnerabilities already exploited in
the wild.
o § Confidentiality⠀➾
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ UPS_Canada_discloses_data_breach_following
‘smishing’_campaign⠀⇛
United Parcel Service Inc. has alerted Canadian
customers that a data breach may have resulted in
their personal information getting exposed and used
in phishing attacks. The data breach news was first
shared today on Twitter by threat analyst Brett
Callow, who received a physical letter from UPS
advising him of the data breach.
§ Defence/Aggression⠀➾
* ⚓ European Commission ☛ Press_Statement_on_Climate_and_Security_from
Frans_Timmermans,_Josep_Borrell,_Jens_Stoltenberg,_and_John_Kerry⠀⇛
European Commission Statement Brussels, 21 Jun 2023 EVP Frans
Timmermans, HRVP Josep Borrell, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy
for Climate John Kerry, and NATO Secretary General Jens
Stoltenberg, met in Brussels to discuss the impacts of climate
change on peace and security.
* ⚓ The Nation ☛ Cormac_McCarthy’s_Unforgiving_Parables_of_American
Empire⠀⇛
It’s nice that Cormac McCarthy made it until the orca revolt,
the recent boat attacks by killer whales off the Strait of
Gibraltar. At least three ships have been sunk and many
hobbled. McCarthy never would have written anything so schlocky
in his fiction: His natural world may have been humbling—the
closest thing to the divine found in his pages—yet it’s man who
is the primary agent of violence in his fiction. But riotous
whales do call to mind Melville, who cast a long shadow over
McCarthy. Blood Meridian, McCarthy’s magnum opus, is arguably a
Moby-Dick turned inside out. Three words, terse imperatives,
open both novels: “Call me Ishmael”; “See the child.” And then
one is plunged into an abyss of run-on sentences of compounding
beauty. Of the two, McCarthy was the more exacting when it came
to his prose. His writing is more tightly wound even when he’s
letting his sentences and paragraphs unspool. Both novels,
devoid of women (except for a few background prostitutes in
Blood Meridian), tell of men hunting: a white whale in
Melville’s book and Native Americans to scalp and kill in
McCarthy’s.
* ⚓ The Strategist ☛ A_tale_of_two_invasions⠀⇛
The leader of an authoritarian country with enormous energy
reserves builds up his armed forces along the border of a
weaker neighbour, one he claims has no right to exist as an
independent country. H
* ⚓ Defence Web ☛ ISS:_Sudan_needs_African_Union_boots_on_the_ground⠀⇛
While international and regional responses to the crisis in
Sudan have been swift, they haven’t stopped the violence
perpetrated against civilians. Slow, ineffective talks have
seen the country’s devastating humanitarian crisis worsen.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Sudan_no_closer_to_peace_as_another_breached_ceasefire
ends⠀⇛
The Sudanese capital was again under fire Wednesday, after the
latest breached ceasefire between warring generals ended
without any sign of an end to more than two months of war.
* ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Namibia_Maintains_Open-Door_Policy_for_Refugees⠀⇛
This African country commemorated 2023 World Refugee Day under
the theme “Hope Away From Home: a World Where Refugees Are
Always Included.”
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ As_violent_crime_soars,_Israeli_Arabs_ask:_Where’s_the
government?⠀⇛
In Arab towns in Israel, violent crime has been the top
concern, and the right-wing government is facing accusations of
neglect. Is a recent massacre enough to shock officials into
effective action?
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Arrest_of_Mexican_Army_General_Ordered_in_Case_of
Missing_Students⠀⇛
The 43 students are believed to have been murdered in 2014, an
atrocity that galvanized the country. The arrest warrant names
a general and 15 other soldiers.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Sanctioning_China_in_a_Taiwan_crisis:_Scenarios_and
risks⠀⇛
New research on possible options and their costs of G7
sanctions on China in the event of a Taiwan Crisis.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Biden_likens_China’s_Xi_to_a_dictator;_Beijing_slams_remark
as_‘absurd,_irresponsible’⠀⇛
US President Joe Biden likened China’s President Xi Jinping to
a dictator in remarks at a fundraising reception on Tuesday,
one day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded a
visit to Beijing. China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday slammed
Biden’s remarks as an “open political provocation”.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Biden_‘dictator’_comment_sparks_Beijing_backlash⠀⇛
Just days after the Secretary of State’s first visit to Beijing
relations take another turn for the worse.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_foreign_ministry_slams_US_President_Joe
Biden’s_comments_likening_Xi_Jinping_with_‘dictators’⠀⇛
China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday slammed comments by US
President Joe Biden equating Chinese leader Xi Jinping with
“dictators” as an “open political provocation”.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Explosion_at_restaurant_kills_dozens_in_northwest_China⠀⇛
At least 31 people were killed when an explosion caused by a
gas leak ripped through a restaurant in the northwestern
Chinese city of Yinchuan, state media said Thursday.
* ⚓ NYPost ☛ Cooking_gas_explosion_leaves_31_dead_at_a_restaurant_in
China⠀⇛
An hour before the explosion, employees noticed the smell of
cooking gas and discovered that a gas tank valve was broken,
according to Xinhua.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Restaurant_explosion_kills_31_in_north-west_China⠀⇛
June 22, 2023 2:15 PM
Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered a probe, state media
said.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Explosion_at_Barbecue_Restaurant_in_China_Kills_31⠀⇛
The deadly blast, in the northwestern city of Yinchuan, was
blamed on a gas leak, and it is likely to prompt closer
scrutiny of restaurants that feature gas grills.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ US_Coast_Guard_ship_transited_Taiwan_Strait_after
Blinken’s_China_visit:_US_Navy⠀⇛
The US Navy described the transit as ‘routine’.
§ Environment⠀➾
* ⚓ Axios ☛ “Oppressive”_heat_wave_in_Texas_and_southern_U.S._may_linger
into_Fourth_of_July_holiday⠀⇛
An “oppressive” record-breaking_heat_wave that’s helped_fuel
deadly_storms in Texas and surrounding states could continue
through the Fourth of July holiday weekend, the National
Weather Service warned Wednesday.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Billie_Eilish_to_headline_climate_awareness_concert_at
Paris’s_Eiffel_Tower⠀⇛
Billie Eilish, Lenny Kravitz and Jon Batiste are headlining a
concert aimed at building awareness around climate at the foot
of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Thursday.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Greta_Thunberg_voices_support_for_climate_group_shut_down_by
France⠀⇛
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Wednesday gave her
backing to a climate group shut down by the French government
amid accusations it foments violence.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ France_outlaws_climate_activist_group_involved_in_protest
against_agro_industry_reservoirs⠀⇛
The French government issued a decree Wednesday outlawing an
activist climate group it accuses of fomenting violence in a
series of recent demonstrations, including one that saw fierce
clashes with police over an irrigation project.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Will_India_lightning_strike_deaths_rise_as_climate
change_worsen?⠀⇛
In India, thunderstorms and lightning are killing 2,500 people
every year.
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ This_pipeline_was_snarled_in_court._Then_Congress_stepped
in.⠀⇛
With construction likely to resume, the controversial pipeline
pits goal of energy independence against climate concerns and
eminent domain.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Drought_in_Iran_Leaves_Some_Chasing_the_Last_Drops_of
Water⠀⇛
Lawmakers are warning that one province will run out within
three months, and the shortage is inflaming tensions with the
country’s neighbors.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Endangered_Species_Act_to_Be_Strengthened⠀⇛
New rules would void Trump-era changes that made it easier to
remove animals and plants from the endangered list.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Beijing_breaches_40_deg_C_for_first_time_in_9
years⠀⇛
The latest round of heatwaves coincide with the Dragon Boat
Festival long weekend in China.
* § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ NT_looks_to_revamp_mining_royalties_scheme⠀⇛
The Northern Territory is looking to revamp its mineral
royalties scheme after a recent report declared it
uncompetitive and a deterrent to investment.
The region currently employs a profits-based arrangement
to collect royalties on mining projects.
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ National_power_grid_‘on_alert’_due_to_high
energy_demand⠀⇛
The National Energy Control Center said current energy
demand is surpassing the grid’s optimal operating margin,
increasing blackout risks.
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Green_bank_invests_$50_million_to_cut
farming_emissions⠀⇛
Australia’s green bank has joined forces with a Canadian
pension fund to reduce the carbon footprint of farming.
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) will invest
$50 million in Wilga Farming, an agriculture investment
vehicle for sustainable farming and carbon sequestration.
o ⚓ H2 View ☛ South_Korea_and_Japan_to_cooperation_on_hydrogen
policy⠀⇛
South Korea and Japan look set to bolster policy
cooperation on hydrogen in industry and safety.
* § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Tokyo_residents_find_comfort_in_fluffy,
street-strolling_alpacas⠀⇛
Visitors to the indoor alpaca petting zoo pay 1,000 yen
to spend 30 minutes with the animals.
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Government_reports_on_Jaguar_National_Park
progress_in_Tulum⠀⇛
The new nature reserve will provide a number of services
for visitors, as well as connections to the beach and
Maya Train.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Lebanese_activists_rally_to_save_remaining_public
coastline_from_illegal_development⠀⇛
On June 6, local authorities finally demolished a private
home illegally built decades before on Abou Ali, a public
beach about 50 miles north of Beirut – a major win for a
group of NGOs and citizens called Coast for All. This
group has come together to fight the illegal construction
that is threatening the Lebanese coastline and preventing
the public from accessing the sea and beaches.
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Singaporean_man_jailed_and_fined_for_trying
to_smuggle_11_wild_birds_into_Malaysia⠀⇛
They included blue and golden macaws, red macaws and a
yellow-headed amazon parrot.
* § Overpopulation⠀➾
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_U.S._Population_Is_Older_Than_It_Has_Ever
Been⠀⇛
New census data shows that the country’s median age is
now 38. In 1980, it was 30.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Experts_divided_on_rent_controls_and_housing
supply⠀⇛
A controversial proposal to freeze rents has been criticised as
a supply dampener but others argue it could do the opposite.
Price protection for renters, preferably in the form of a two-
year freeze and then caps on increases after that, has become
the biggest sticking point between the Greens and Labor as the
federal government tries to push its signature housing fund
through parliament.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Rents_to_Rise_for_2_Million_New_Yorkers_This_Year⠀⇛
Rent-stabilized apartments have enabled many people to stay in
a city that grows ever more expensive. But for the second year
in a row, rents will rise.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ China’s_economy_may_have_slipped_into_a_“liquidity_trap”⠀⇛
Data: FactSet, People’s Bank of China; Chart: Axios Visuals
The world’s second-largest economy may be in treacherous macroeconomic terrain
known as a “liquidity trap.”
Why it matters: China’s massive economy has been the main source of global
economic growth for most of the last three decades.
⚓ The Strategist ☛ AUKUS_needs_to_focus_on_critical_minerals⠀⇛
Much of the public policy discourse on AUKUS, the security
partnership between Australia, the UK and the US, has focused on
nuclear-powered submarines (Pillar 1)..
⚓ France24 ☛ Paris_summit_aims_to_overhaul_global_financial_system_for_‘climate
solidarity’_with_South⠀⇛
Around 50 heads of state, along with representatives from
international institutions and civil society, will attend a summit
hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday and Friday in
Paris. Their objective is to develop a new global financial system so
the most vulnerable countries will be better equipped to combat both
poverty and climate change.
⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ ZIMRA_denies_allegations_that_it_lost_tax_records_dating_back_6
years⠀⇛
There were reports that the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA), the
body responsible for collecting taxes and other revenue streams for
the government in Zimbabwe, had lost tax records dating back 6 years.
The story went, Zimra’s digital repository and server crashed leading
to the loss of data.
⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ How_Beijing’s_newest_global_initiatives_seek_to_remake_the
world_order⠀⇛
Recommendations on how US policymakers and European and Indo-Pacific
partners can better understand China’s latest development and
security initiatives to meet the rising competition.
⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Jokowi_declares_5-day_weekend_to_get_Indonesians
spending⠀⇛
Indonesian President declared June 28 and 30 as leave days around Eid
al-Adha holiday on June 29.
⚓ County’s_jobless_rate_ticks_up_to_3%⠀⇛
Unemployment in Bartholomew County increased in May but remained
among the lowest in Indiana as possible signs emerge nationally that
the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes may be taking effect.
The unemployment rate in Bartholomew County stood at 3% in May, up
from 2.2% in May 2022 and tied with several counties for the fourth
lowest rate in the state, according to figures released this week by
the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
⚓ Turkey ☛ Uber_to_lay_off_200_workers_in_recruitment_division⠀⇛
US-based global ride-hailing firm Uber has decided to lay off 200
workers in its recruitment division, according to multiple reports.
The decision is a result of the company trying to maintain a steady
headcount and manage costs, said the reports on Wednesday.
Although the layoff is less than 1% of the firm’s total workforce of
almost 33,000 employees around the world, it represents 35% of its
recruitment division.
Uber’s rival Lyft started preparing in April to cut at least 1,200
workers, or approximately 30% of its 4,000 workforce, to better meet
the needs of riders and drivers.
⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 5_Reasons_Why_Xbox_Series_X|S_First-Party_Games_Are_Struggling
[Ed: Xbox_is_floundering]⠀⇛
Even with the support of Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Studios, Xbox
still plays catch-up with PlayStation regarding its first-party
exclusive games. But why is this?
With all the popularity of Xbox Game Pass and the money Microsoft has
invested into Xbox Games Studios, you would think that Xbox Series
X|S exclusives would have improved vastly.
There are some key aspects associated with how Xbox approaches
exclusive games that hold back its first-party roster, but what are
they? Let’s take a look.
⚓ Quartz ☛ Why_is_Congress_suddenly_so_concerned_about_bank_capital
requirements?⠀⇛
At Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell’s latest appearance on Capitol
Hill, US lawmakers had the opportunity to ask him about what drove
the central bank’s choice to put a hold on interest rate hikes.
⚓ Axios ☛ Fed_chair_expects_interest_rates_will_increase_“somewhat_further”
this_year⠀⇛
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers on Wednesday there
is still “a long way to go” to cool_inflation and interest rates are
expected to rise further this year.
Why it matters:Powell began two days of appearances before Congress,
where he is facing questions about the rate hiking campaign that the
Fed paused as inflation continues_to_runs_hot, as well as the impact
of higher rates on the economy and labor market.
⚓ WhichUK ☛ Inflation_remains_at_8.7%_–_are_savings_rates_catching_up_yet?⠀⇛
Rising prices for air travel and recreation keeps inflation high
⚓ Spiegel ☛ The_Camembert_Crisis:_Market_Goes_Soft_for_French_Cheese⠀⇛
Cheeses like brie, Roquefort and Comté are an important part of
French culture. But now droughts, inflation and changing diets are
putting a dent in sales. Camembert is faring particularly badly.
⚓ Amazon_Layoffs:_A_Deep_Dive_into_Tech_Industry_Trends⠀⇛
In recent times, large tech companies such as Microsoft Corp,
Amazon.com, Inc, Alphabet Inc, and others have faced significant
layoffs. These layoffs not only impact the tech industry but also
have widespread implications beyond it. In this article, we will
explore the reasons behind these layoffs and their consequences.
Drawing insights from industry experts and former tech leaders, we
aim to shed light on the underlying factors that contribute to such
workforce reductions.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Vote_‘yes’_and_make_our_lives_better,_say_land
councils⠀⇛
Representatives of the Northern Territory land councils have
delivered the Barunga Declaration to Prime Minister Anthony
Albanese and talked up their support for a First Nations voice.
The declaration calls “for the recognition of our peoples in
our still young constitution by enshrining our voice to the
parliament and executive government, never to be rendered
silent with the stroke of a pen again”.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ ‘Get_on_with_the_program’:_PM’s_blunt_housing
message⠀⇛
Anthony Albanese has firmly rejected a Greens plan for rent
caps as the government looks for other ways to make housing
more affordable and available.
The prime minister doubled down on his call for the party to
back Labor’s $10 billion housing plan.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Vote_‘yes’_and_make_our_lives_better,_say_land
councils⠀⇛
Representatives of the Northern Territory land councils have
travelled to Canberra to deliver the Barunga Declaration to
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and talk about their support
for a First Nations voice.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Alito_defends_using_“vacant”_seat_on_private_jet_for_Alaska
fishing_trip [Ed: The accusations come from bribed outlet of Bill
Gates... what's he to gain here? Is he weaponising media like Shelton
Adelson did? Attacking judges he dislikes?]⠀⇛
Why it matters:The op-ed was posted hours before ProPublica
published_an_investigation saying Alito took a luxury vacation
with billionaire Paul Singer, who later had cases before the
Supreme Court.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Justice_Alito’s_Reply_in_Wall_Street_Journal_Surprises
ProPublica [Ed: Bill Gates bribes ProPublica. Another Adelson-styled
strategy for dethroning judges via media? Not impossible.]⠀⇛
The Wall Street Journal made the unusual decision to let
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. pre-empt ProPublica’s article about
him in its opinion pages.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Justice_Alito_Defends_Private_Jet_Travel_to_Luxury
Fishing_Trip [Ed: Murdoch media responds to Gates-funded "media"
(increasingly propaganda outlet that omits any mention of Microsoft and
Gates crimes). Media has quickly become an oligarch's weapon, not media
for the public.]⠀⇛
In an opinion essay in The Wall Street Journal, the justice
disputed a ProPublica report, saying he was not required to
disclose the trip or recuse himself from his benefactor’s
cases.
* ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Peter_Strzok_Claims_He_Spoke_to_John_Durham_about_the
Clinton_Conspiracy_Theory_Document⠀⇛
In his report, John Durham claimed that Peter Strzok only ever
spoke to his team about Alfa Bank. But Strzok says that’s
false, that he spoke to him about Durham’s Clinton conspiracy
theory.
* ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ In_the_End,_the_Leopards_Who_Launched_the_Durham
Investigation_Ate_His_Face⠀⇛
Durham set off in 2019 to chase down the conspiracy theories of
people with close ties to Matt Gaetz. And Durham ended it by
having Gaetz accuse Durham of the same things of which Durham
accused others.
* ⚓ European Commission ☛ Mr_Olivér_Várhelyi_addresses_the_participants_of
the_“EU_opportunity_week”_in_Belgrade⠀⇛
European Commission Speech Brussels, 21 Jun 2023 Dear Prime
Minister, Ministers,
Ladies, and Gentlemen,
Serbia has made a strategic choice when it applied for EU
membership.
* ⚓ European Commission ☛ Mr_Olivér_Várhelyi’s_speech_at_the_23rd_meeting
of_the_PCC_SEE_Committee_of_Ministers_in_Bucharest⠀⇛
European Commission Speech Brussels, 21 Jun 2023 Dear
Ministers, [...]
* ⚓ France24 ☛ Three_killed_in_Israeli_drone_strike_as_violence_escalates
in_West_Bank⠀⇛
Israel’s military on Wednesday killed three members of a
“terrorist cell” in a rare drone strike in the occupied West
Bank, the army said, further escalating the deadly violence
that has roiled the territory in recent days.
* ⚓ Astana_talks_highlight_steps_toward_Turkey-Syria_normalization⠀⇛
The Astana guarantors have emphasized the importance of
continuing the process of normalizing relations between Ankara
and Damascus.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kazakhstan_Abruptly_Announces_It_Will_No_Longer_Host_Syria
Talks⠀⇛
Kazakhstan abruptly said on June 21 that it will stop hosting
talks aimed at resolving the Syrian conflict that erupted 12
years ago.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ House_GOP_erupts_into_infighting_over_Boebert’s_resolution_to
impeach_Biden⠀⇛
House Republicans erupted into infighting on Wednesday as
leadership and members across the conference pushed back on a
burst_of_impeachment_votes being forced by right-wing
lawmakers.
Why it matters:It’s an escalation of an increasingly
acrimonious internal GOP dynamic as members of the right-wing
Freedom Caucus try_to_seize_control of the party’s agenda.
===============================================================
o “I think they’ve kind of gone rogue,” said Rep. Ken
Calvert (R-Calif.), an ally of House Speaker Kevin
McCarthy (R-Calif.).
* ⚓ Axios ☛ Texas_Senate_blocks_state_Sen._Angela_Paxton_from_voting_in
husband’s_impeachment_trial⠀⇛
Texas’ Senate voted Wednesday to start state Attorney General
Ken_Paxton’s_impeachment_trial on Sept. 5 and to bar his wife,
state Sen. Angela Paxton, from voting on the historic
proceedings.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Is_China_a_developing_country?_What_does_international_law_say
about_its_status?⠀⇛
Verdict: Partially Correct
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Indonesia_moves_ASEAN_military_drills_to_uncontested_waters_in
South_China_Sea⠀⇛
The drills scheduled for September were originally planned to
take place in an area claimed by China.
* ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ #BalkansDebrief_–_Will_Montenegro_form_a_new
government?_|_A_debrief_with_Petar_Popovic⠀⇛
Nonresident Senior Fellow Ilva Tare discusses the post-election
political landscape in Montenegro with Petar Popovic, associate
professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of
Zagreb.
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ Reason ☛ Lab_Leak_Theory:_1,_Misinformation_Cops:_0⠀⇛
Confirmation of Wuhan scientists as “patients zero” makes
the lab leak theory look likely—and the misinformation
police look like fools.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Brendan_O’Neill:_A_Heretic’s_Manifesto⠀⇛
Spiked’s leading polemicist defends J.K. Rowling, Brexit, and
Enlightenment values of free speech and pluralism.
* ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ “A_Global_Digital_Compact”_–_UN_promoting_censorship,
social_credit_&_much_more⠀⇛
Kit Knightly Late last month the office of the United Nation’s
Secretary General published a policy document on aims for the
future of the internet. A follow-up to the 2021 report “Our
Common Agenda”, the new report’s title says it all really, “A
Global Digital Compact”.
* ⚓ Reason ☛ Journal_of_Free_Speech_Law:_“Structuring_a_Subsidy_for_Local
Journalism,”_by_Prof._Kyle_Langvardt⠀⇛
Just published as part of the symposium on Media and Society
After Technological Disruption, edited by Profs. Justin “Gus”
Hurwitz & Kyle Langvardt.
* ⚓ Axios ☛ States_fight_to_save_books_from_growing_number_of_bans_across
U.S.⠀⇛
As a record-number_of_book_bans sweep the nation amid
increasing pressure from the political right, some state-level
elected officials are pushing back.
The big picture: It’s the latest salvo in the culture war that
has taken hold between liberals and conservatives over what
kids can read — and that has become a rallying cry for top
Republicans as the 2024 elections near.
===============================================================
Driving the news: Last week, Illinois became the first state to
pass a law penalizing libraries that ban books.
o Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed_a_bill that will make
public libraries ineligible for state funding if they ban
materials because of “partisan or doctrinal” disapproval.
✐ Why books are getting banned⠀✐
The book banning movement —which often targets books written by
or about members of the LGBTQ community and people of color —
is not taking place through “isolated challenges,” Kasey
Meehan, director of the Freedom to Read project at PEN America,
told Axios.
* ⚓ Graduates_read_full_version_of_medical_vow_despite_dean_censoring
‘sexual_orientation’⠀⇛
The Medicine Students branch of the Turkish Medical Association
shared the video showing the İstanbul University Medical
Faculty graduates not obeying the dean’s censored version, but
reading out “sexual orientation” also, among the factors that
must not interfere with a doctor’s duty to a patient.
* ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Texas_Book_Ban_Bill_Sets_a_Dangerous_Precedent_for_the
Narratives_of_Young_People_in_Education⠀⇛
By Cameron Samuels / Project Censored Amid an unprecedented
wave of censorship, many of our state legislators have left no
mercy for LGBTQ+ Texans. Censorious legislation like House Bill
900 and Senate Bill 13 attempt to relate queer identity with
sexual obscenity. The bills target educators’ expertise and
diminish students’ right to read in a vitriolic attack on queer
[…]
* ⚓ IT Wire ☛ eSafety_head_goes_after_Twitter_for_content_promoting_online
hate⠀⇛
“This level of online abuse is already inexcusably high, but if
you’re a First Nations Australian, you are disabled or identify
as LGBTIQ+ you experience online hate at double the rate of the
rest of the population.
“Twitter appears to have dropped the ball on tackling hate. A
third of all complaints about online hate reported to us are
now happening on Twitter.
“We are also aware of reports that the reinstatement of some of
these previously banned accounts has emboldened extreme
polarisers, peddlers of outrage and hate, including neo-Nazis
both in Australia and overseas.”
The statement said If Twitter failed to respond to the legal
notice within 28 days, the company could face maximum financial
penalties of nearly A$700,000 a day for continuing breaches.
* ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Australia_says_Twitter_is_top_platform_for_online
hate,_demands_explanation⠀⇛
Twitter has lifted bans on 62,000 accounts since new owner Elon
Musk took over.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Twitter_has_‘dropped_the_ball’_on_tackling_online
hate⠀⇛
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner says Twitter has “dropped the
ball” on tackling online hate and has issued a legal notice to
the social media giant demanding an explanation about what it
is doing about the scourge.
eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant says there have been
more complaints about online hate on Twitter in the past year
than any other platform and complaints have spiked since Elon
Musk’s takeover of the company in October.
* ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ The_intent_and_impact_of_language:_A_close_reading_of
Glenn_Schembechler_III’s_PR_firm_apology⠀⇛
On June 7, 2023, Glenn “Shemy” Schembechler III — son of long-
serving Michigan coach Glenn “Bo” Schembechler — published an
op-ed in The Michigan Daily explaining and apologizing for the
racist behavior he exhibited on social media that led to his
resignation.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Hong_Kong_station_deletes_thousands_of_shows_in_ongoing_erasure
of_public_dissent⠀⇛
Shows and episodes with political and satirical content are
being taken down from an online podcast platform.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ What_Juneteenth_Looks_Like_for_Incarcerated_People⠀⇛
“As Black men in prison, we live the tension between
celebrating the abolition of slavery and struggling inside the
system that replaced it.”
* ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Families_push_for_full_school_days_for_children_with
disabilities⠀⇛
Some U.S. schools remove children with disabilities from the
classroom if they display challenging behavior. While schools
say this is necessary for safety, advocates argue that the
shortened days amount to discrimination and a violation of
civil rights.
* ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Increase_in_prison_population_linked_to_clearing
backlogs_from_the_COVID_years⠀⇛
The annual statistical yearbook of the Finnish Criminal
Sanctions Agency has been released, providing insights into the
lengths of punishments for prisoners and community sanctions,
the most common types of crimes, and the trends impacting
client numbers. One notable finding from the data of 2022 is
that the clearance of backlogs resulting from the COVID-19
years has significantly contributed to the increase in the
prison population.
* ⚓ YLE ☛ Helsinki_police_officer_faces_fines_over_protester_pepper
spraying⠀⇛
Charges against six other officers were dropped.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Hollywood_writers_at_rally_say_they’ll_win_as
strike_reaches_50_days⠀⇛
Fifty days into a strike, and about 1,000 Hollywood writers and
their supporters have marched across Los Angeles for a new
contract with studios that includes payment guarantees and job
security. Speakers at Wednesday’s rally emphasized the
solidarity the Writers Guild of America has received from other
unions, including SAG-AFTRA. Writer and guild board member Adam
Conover told the crowd at the La Brea Tar Pits, “We are going
to win because they need us.” The group representing studios
says the writers’ demands would include paying them when there
is no work. There have been no negotiations since the strike
began on May 2.
* ⚓ Security Week ☛ Cooperation_or_Competition?_China’s_Security_Industry
Sees_the_US,_Not_AI,_as_the_Bigger_Threat⠀⇛
China’s security and surveillance industry is focused on
shoring up its vulnerabilities to the US and other outside
actors, worried about risks posed by hackers, advances in AI
and pressure from rival governments.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Judicial_copying_case_shows_that_legal_system
can_correct_its_mistakes,_says_Hong_Kong_justice_minister⠀⇛
The case of a Hong Kong national security judge who was
censured by a higher court for copying demonstrates that the
legal system can correct its mistakes, according to justice
minister Paul Lam.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Three_Uyghur_brothers_who_fled_into_India_a_decade_ago_aim_to
seek_asylum_in_Canada⠀⇛
Detained since 2013, the brothers face threat of deportation to
China, lawyer says
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ New_York_jury_convicts_former_police_sergeant_and_two_others
for_acting_as_illegal_agents_of_China⠀⇛
A Brooklyn, New York, jury on Tuesday convicted a former New
York City police sergeant and two others for acting as illegal
agents of Chinese authorities when they attempted to intimidate
US residents to return to China. Michael McMahon, a former New
York City police sergeant, faces up to 20 years in prison.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Tibetan_political_leader_calls_for_‘true_autonomy’_within_China
in_Australian_address⠀⇛
Sikyong Penpa Tsering says ‘it is the quality of the rule’ that
matters most to Tibetans.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ INTERVIEWS:_The_forgotten_legacy_of_June_4’s_women⠀⇛
The women of the 1989 democracy movement on Tiananmen Square
blazed a trail for the activists who came after.
* ⚓ RFA ☛ Don’t_display_slogans,_wear_provocative_T-shirts_in_Hong_Kong,
Taiwan_tells_citizens⠀⇛
Taiwan updates security warnings to avoid getting arrested
under security law
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ UN_special_representative_claims_Libya_electoral_reforms_fall
short_of_aims⠀⇛
UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya,
Abdoulaye Bathily, noted in his briefing to the UN Security
Council on Monday that despite a Libyan joint committee’s
progressive efforts to finalize Libya’s electoral laws, the
initiatives fall short of resolving some contentious issues.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ How_Deterrence_Policies_Create_Border_Chaos⠀⇛
Additional security may work in the short term. But migrants
quickly adapt by taking alternative, more dangerous routes.
* ⚓ WORLD_REFUGEE_DAY:_At_least_21_refugees_killed_in_racist_attacks_in
Turkey_in_three_years,_says_rights_group⠀⇛
The HRFT has called for an immediate end to discrimination and
hate speech targeting refugees and asylum seekers
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Malaysian_Government_Asks_Interpol_To_Arrest_An_American
Comedian_Over_Her_Airline_Crash_Joke⠀⇛
The government of Malaysia isn’t too concerned about free
speech. It may be a tourist destination, but it’s still
subservient to a ruling class that likely can thank inbreeding
for its current place at the top of the heap.
* ⚓ New York Times ☛ Dozens_of_Migrants_Bound_for_Canary_Islands_Feared
Dead_as_Boat_Sinks⠀⇛
Twenty-four people were rescued and two confirmed dead, but 35
others were missing after an inflatable vessel heading to the
Spanish archipelago sank, an aid group said.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ IOC_Warns_Afghanistan_About_Paris_Olympics_Status_Over_Blocking
Sports_For_Women_And_Girls⠀⇛
The Afghanistan team’s status for the 2024 Paris Olympics was
put in question by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
over growing frustration with the Taliban for blocking access
to sport for women and girls.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Comcast_Tells_FCC_It’s_Just_Too_Hard_To_Explain_Its_Bullshit
Broadband_And_TV_Fees_To_Consumers⠀⇛
For the better part of the decade, the generally feckless FCC
has been trying to require that broadband ISPs be a little more
honest about broadband fees and limits at the point of sale.
The FCC has been pondering implementing a “nutrition label for
broadband” for years but could never quite get around to it.
The infrastructure bill demanded it, so the FCC finally got
around to acting.
* ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ We’ve_Been_Thinking_About_the_Internet_All_Wrong⠀⇛
Instead of imagining online life as a massive town square, we
should be turning to the field of public health for
inspiration.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Apple_engaged_in_‘coercive’_interviews_and_other
anti-union_tactics_at_New_York_store,_judge_rules⠀⇛
A U.S. labor board judge has ruled that Apple illegally
subjected employees to “coercive” interviews and interfered
with distribution of union leaflets at a New York City Apple
Store. Tuesday’s ruling was the first time that an
administrative law judge at the National Labor Relations Board
has ruled against Apple. The ruling requires Apple to “cease
and desist” from activities that the judge found to violate
established labor protections. Apple must also post notices at
the World Trade Center location informing employees of their
labor rights and pledging that the company will honor them.
Apple had no comment on the ruling.
* ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Google_slams_Microsoft_for_locking_customers_into_Azure
cloud_platform⠀⇛
Google LLC has accused its longtime cloud rival Microsoft Corp.
of engaging in anticompetitive behavior in an official
complaint to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The internet
giant said in a letter to the FTC today that Microsoft employs
software licensing restrictions that effectively force
customers to use its Azure cloud computing services…
* ⚓ Forbes ☛ Google_Accuses_Microsoft_Of_Tricking_Customers_Into_Cloud
Service_Contracts⠀⇛
Google has reportedly filed a formal complaint with the Federal
Trade Commission accusing competitor Microsoft of tricking
customers into contracts with its Azure cloud server business,
The Information reported Wednesday.
* ⚓ Quartz ☛ Novo_Nordisk_is_proactively_protecting_its_weight_loss_drugs
from_copycats⠀⇛
Novo Nordisk is making moves to prevent the misuse of
semaglutide.
The Danish company has filed several lawsuits in the US against
certain medical spas, weight loss or wellness clinics, and
compounding pharmacies, some of which wrongfully use Novo
Nordisk trademarks, to stop them from advertising and selling
counterfeits of its semaglutide products.
The world’s largest company for diabetes treatments alleges
illegal marketing and sales practices by third-parties “created
a high risk of consumer confusion and deception as well as
potential safety concerns” considering compounded products “do
not have the same safety, quality and effectiveness assurances”
that its products, approved by Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), do.
* ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Publishers_square_up_for_new_battle_with_Google_in
Spain⠀⇛
Spain is the latest jurisdiction taking action to force the
duopoly to pay for news.>
* ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ The_US_city_that_scares_Chinese_Amazon
sellers⠀⇛
China Report is MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about
technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your
inbox every Tuesday. Want to know how to make Chinese Amazon
sellers anxious? Put Chicago in the delivery address when you
order. Why? Because in the last few years, many sellers have
been slapped with massive lawsuits for…
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Ozmo_Licensing_Wi-Fi_patent_likely_invalid⠀⇛
On June 20, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
(PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an
IPR filed by Unified against U.S._Patent_9,264,991, owned
and asserted by Ozmo Licensing LLC. The ‘991 patent is
generally directed to a wireless hub that integrates
wireless networks and has been asserted against HP,_Inc,
Acer, Dell_Technologies, and TCL.
View district_court_litigations_by_Ozmo_Licensing.
o ⚓ JUVE ☛ Germany’s_case_numbers_drop,_but_Düsseldorf_remains_most
important_patent_location [Ed: JUVE has been bribed by Team UPC and
the litigation 'industry' to promote even even glorify illegal
agenda, using misinformation and outright lies. This is who and
what t hey work for not. It's not journalism.]⠀⇛
In 2022, patent owners showed restraint when it came to
filing new patent suits in Germany. Case numbers have
once again decreased.
o ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Conflicts_between_UPCA_and_national_laws:_a
dangerous_riddle? [Ed: UPC both illegal and unconstitutional. At
least they admit this sometimes.]⠀⇛
“One person’s misfortune is another person’s happiness”
(i.e., “le bonheur des uns fait le malheur des autres”…
This French proverb could easily be applied to the
subject I’m dealing with today: conflicts between UPCA
and national laws, which will undoubtedly be a joy for
legal Counsels and a misfortune of the system’s users…
o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Judge_Newman’s_Standoff_with_the
Federal_Circuit:_Refusal_to_Comply_as_Misconduct [Ed: CAFC has its
own Diane Feinstein]⠀⇛
The Federal Circuit’s special investigation committee
recently released an order in focusing on next steps in
its ongoing investigation into the conduct and capacity
of Judge Newman. Although the investigation generally
centers on disability and misconduct in her role as judge
— the most recent order narrows the focus to the question
of whether Judge Newman’s refusal to submit to medical
testing constitutes misconduct that could potentially
lead to her removal from the bench. The committee’s next
steps will be to hold a closed-door hearing on July 13
solely on this issue. The committee appears to be
tacitly admitting that its allegations of general
misconduct are insufficient alone and that it cannot
prove disability without a medical evaluation. Still,
the committee is moving forward methodically and the
order indicates that the refusal-to-cooperate is one area
that it could fairly efficiently review and reach a
conclusion sufficient to make a final recommendation to
the Judicial Council, despite Judge Newman’s lack of
cooperation.
o ⚓ IP5_Offices_discuss_office-led_initiatives_on_climate-related
innovations [Ed: Greenwashing by criminals who hijacked the EPO to
do highly unlawful things. They give environmentalism a bad name by
granting monopolies.]⠀⇛
Annual meeting of the IP5 Offices: addressing climate
change through an accessible and inclusive IP system.
o ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Australian_brain-computer_interface_inventors_up_for
European_award [Ed: Why dpes Sam Varghese write puff pieces for EPO
criminals now? Is he not aware??]⠀⇛
“The first patients have already received implants, four
people in Australia and three in the US. In December
2021, an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patient used the
device to send a tweet using only their thoughts,” the
statement said.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Dolby_Atmos_Wants_You_to_Listen_Up._(And_Down.
And_Sideways.) [Ed: It became a patent troll and it is attacking
GNU/Linux distros, too]⠀⇛
True believers in the immersive audio format say it could
restore a musical appreciation lost to a generation that
has come up during the streaming era.
o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Certiorari_Petition:_Wakefield_v.
Blackboard_–_Challenging_Judge_Newman’s_Competency⠀⇛
This week, the Supreme Court is considering the re-filed
certiorari petition of Franz Wakefield, dba
CoolTVNetwork.com v. Blackboard, Inc., No. 22-819. The
petition’s basis stems from the debate over Judge
Newman’s competency. The appellate case was decided by a
panel that included Judge Newman, and the petitioner
relies heavily upon the public documents circulated in
the ongoing disability hearing. Including the repeated
statements suggesting that Judge Newman lacks competence
and “may suffer from impairment of cognitive abilities
(i.e., attention, focus, confusion and memory).” The
petition notes that Judge Newman’s colleagues acted
unanimously to remove her from being assigned new
cases. Wakefield is pursuing his case pro se and so it
lacks some fine points, but the thrust of the claims here
are quite
* § Software Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Another_InterDigital_patent_in_SISVEL_AV1_pool
appears_not_essential⠀⇛
As part of an ongoing series examining the patent holders
and pools erroneously designating patents as essential,
we highlight U.S._Patent_9,674,556 titled “Methods and
apparatus for in-loop de-artifact filtering.” This patent
is owned by InterDigital_VC_Holdings,_Inc. InterDigital
has designated the ’556 patent as essential to the AV1
standard as a part of SISVEL’s_AV1_Patent_Pool. SeeAV1
Patent List, AV1 Family AV1-056, available at https://
www.sisvel.com/images/documents/Video-Coding-Platform/
PatentList_AV1.pdf.
InterDigital’s ’556 patent should not be considered to be
essential to the AV1_standard. The ’556 patent is
directed to in-loop artifact filtering, and in
particular, two filters for successively performing in-
loop filtering. The claims of the ’556 patent require (1)
“a deblocking filter for performing a first pass to
reduce blocking artifacts” and (2) “an adaptive sparse
de-noising filter for performing a second pass to reduce
noise.” ’556 patent, claim 1.
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Filmmakers_Take_Reddit_to_Court_Again_to_Unmask
‘Piracy’_Commenters⠀⇛
Through a California federal court, a group of filmmakers
wants Reddit to disclose the identities of several users
who made piracy-related comments. The filmmakers say the
users could provide key evidence in an ongoing lawsuit
against Internet provider Grande. In line with its
response to a similar request earlier this year, Reddit
objects once again, citing its users’ right to anonymous
speech.
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Brazil_Introduces_a_‘Taylor_Swift_Bill’_to
Crack_Down_on_Ticket_Scalpers⠀⇛
Problems caused by scalpers during the sale of tickets to
Taylor Swift’s South America tour could trigger similar
regulations to those proposed in U.S. Congress. Fans
trying to score tickets to Taylor Swift’s upcoming Eras
Tour stop in São Paulo have been going through the
wringer.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o BSD
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Programming/Development
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Security
# 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 § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Unix Men ☛ Optimizing_Web_Performance_with_Linux:_Tools_and
Techniques [Ed: This_is_webspam_disguised_as_article_about
“Linux”_(see_links_there)]⠀⇛
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to
Apple_Calculator⠀⇛
In 2020, Apple began the Apple silicon transition,
using self-designed, 64-bit ARM-based Apple M1
processors on new Mac computers. Maybe it’s the
perfect time to move away from the proprietary
world of Apple, and embrace the open source Linux
scene.
Apple’s Calculator app lets users perform basic
arithmetic calculations with the standard
calculator. With the scientific calculator you can
also perform exponential, logarithmic, and
trigonometric functions.
Apple Calculator is propriety software and not
available for Linux. We recommend the best free and
open source alternatives.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Remove_Old_Unused_Linux_Kernels⠀⇛
Each installed Linux kernel occupies a significant
amount of disk space. Over time, as you update your
kernel to newer versions, older kernels can
accumulate on your system, taking up valuable disk
space. By removing old kernels, you can free up
disk space, allowing for more efficient utilization
and preventing potential storage shortages. In this
guide, we will learn how to find and remove old
unused Kernels in Linux operating systems.
# ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ What_Is_the_AUR_in_Arch_Linux,_and_Should_You
Use_It?⠀⇛
The AUR is one of the jewels in the crown of Arch
Linux, providing thousands of additional software
packages. But is this user-driven repository safe
to use, or should you avoid it?
[...]
The AUR (Arch User Repository) is a community
driven software repository that provides upwards of
85,000 software packages to Arch Linux users.
Unlike other Arch repositories such as the core,
extra, and multilib repositories, the AUR doesn’t
host ready-to-install packages. In fact, it doesn’t
host binary files or packaged software at all.
The AUR hosts package build files, called
PKGBUILDs. These are shell scripts that are run by
the Arch makepkg tool. When makepkg runs, it looks
for a file called “PKGBUILD.” If it finds one, it
opens it and follows the instructions inside it to
create a software package archive on your computer.
If you’re familiar with compiling on the command
line, a PKGBUILD file and makepkg work together in
a similar fashion to a MAKEFILE and the make
utility.
The PKGBUILD instructions download source code
files and other files that are required to create
the package archive. The pacman tool is called
automatically to install the software from the
package archive.
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Styling_OPML_and_RSS_with_XSLT_to_XHTML⠀⇛
I do the same thing with my feeds. I normally see
JavaScript libraries recommended, but it seems
heavy and a bit redundant when our browsers can
literally render it however we want for us, for
free: [...]
# ⚓ Darek Kay ☛ Style_your_RSS_feed⠀⇛
RSS is not dead. It is not mainstream, but it’s
still a thriving protocol, especially among tech
users. However, many people do not know what RSS
feeds are or how to use them. Most browsers render
RSS as raw XML files, which doesn’t help users
understand what it’s all about: [...]
In this post, I’ll explain how to style RSS feeds
and educate readers at the same time.
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ A_further_update_on_IPv6_extension_headers⠀⇛
Following the publication of RFC 7872 in 2016, a
number of research teams have been looking at the
nature of network and host behaviours in discarding
IPv6 packets with various extension headers (EH).
The findings reported in RFC 7872 were a
significant level of packet loss (‘significant’
being above 10% in all cases) for IPv6 packets that
contained extension headers that carried
Destination Options (DST), Hop-by-Hop Options (HBH)
and Fragmentation Controls (Frag).
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Set_up_a_Bastion_Server_with_Warpgate
on_Debian⠀⇛
A Bastion Server refers to a computer/machine/
server that is designed and configured specifically
to withstand attacks on computer networks. The
functionality of the Bastion Server is similar to a
proxy or load balancer for applications. It allows
you to access computers or servers that are located
in DMZ networks.
# ⚓ Cloudbooklet ☛ How_to_Open_Port_in_Linux:_Simple_Step-by-
Step_Guide⠀⇛
Learn how to open port in linux with step-by-step
instructions. Discover the essential commands and
configurations to enable smooth communication and
enhance network connectivity on your Linux system
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Understanding_the_LD_LIBRARY_PATH_Environment
Variable⠀⇛
In the world of Linux, environment variables play a
crucial role in determining the behavior of various
processes in the system. One such environment
variable is LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This article aims to
provide a comprehensive understanding of the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable in Linux.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Passbolt_CE_Password_Manager
on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛
Passbolt is a free and open-source password manager
based on PHP, MySQL, and OpenPGP. It is a self-
hosted application server, you can install it on
your server. This tutorial will show you how to
install Passbolt Password Manager with a MariaDB
database server and Nginx web server on an
AlmaLinux 9 server.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Prometheus_and_Node_Exporter
on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and
alerting platform. In this guide, we’ll go over the
installation of Prometheus and Node Exporter step-
by-step on AlmaLinux 9 servers.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_LEMP_Stack_(Nginx,_PHP_and
MariaDB)_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
The LEMP software stack is a group of open-source
software that enables a server to host dynamic
websites and apps written in PHP. It is an acronym
for Linux, Nginx (pronounced as Engine-X), MySQL,
and PHP.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Set_LD_LIBRARY_PATH_in_Linux⠀⇛
Linux, with its unfathomable capabilities, has
etched itself into the hearts of developers and
system administrators. One of the quintessential
elements in sculpting a resilient Linux environment
is understanding the usage of environment
variables, particularly LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
# ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_setup_SMTP_email_on_Ghost⠀⇛
In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure
SMTP on Ghost.
Ghost is a content management system that you can
use to manage content on your blog. In order to
send emails from Ghost, one needs to configure
emails manually on the config.production.json.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Monitor_Memory_Usage_with_Smem_in
Linux⠀⇛
In the sophisticated world of Linux, efficient
memory management is paramount for optimizing
system performance. Smem is a robust memory
reporting tool that arms you with the vital ability
to keep an eagle eye on memory usage.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_start,_stop,_and_restart_services_in
Linux⠀⇛
Controlling services in Linux doesn’t have to be a
confounding experience. Here’s how the process
works and why it is often seen as an overly
complicated task.
# ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_How_to_use_Testing_Farm
outside_of_RHEL⠀⇛
Continuous integration in public projects is widely
used. But it has limitations such as the size of
the resources and the execution time. For instance,
when you use GitHub actions free tier, you are
limited to agents with 2cpu and 7GiB of memory and
a total execution time of 2000 minutes per month.
Similar limitations are used by other CI providers
like Azure Pipelines or Travis CI. The mentioned CI
systems are popular. But for some use cases, free
tier is not enough. Fortunately, for community
projects which are maintained or co-maintained by
Red Hat or Fedora/CentOS projects, there is Testing
Farm.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Vampire_Survivors_is_getting_a_co-op_mode⠀⇛
Thought you were over your Vampire Survivors fix?
Think again, they’re adding in a whole new local
co-op mode for the entire game.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Classic_LucasArts_games_emulator_DREAMM
adds_early_Linux_support⠀⇛
Want a way to play classic LucasArts games on
Linux? While some ways already exist like ScummVM,
another is DREAMM and it now has early Linux
support.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Fanatical_has_another_Steam_Deck_game
bundle_plus_you_could_win_a_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
Fanatical are offering up some Summer treats. Not
only do they have a bundle of games that work on
Steam Deck but you can also enter to win a Steam
Deck and a whole bunch more with it.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Metal_Gear_Solid:_Master_Collection_Vol._1
confirmed_for_a_Steam_release⠀⇛
I have to admit I am a little bit excited by this.
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 is now
confirmed to be coming to Steam. So we could be
playing classic Metal Gear on Linux desktop and
Steam Deck with Proton very soon.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Classic_open_source_FPS_Xonotic_0.8.6
released_with_new_game_modes⠀⇛
Xonotic 0.8.6 is an essential upgrade for anyone
playing this classic free and open source arena
shooter, due to a security issue but there’s also
plenty of new features and additions.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ SDL_2.28.0_released_and_goes_into
maintenance_mode,_now_focusing_on_SDL_3⠀⇛
SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) is a cross-platform
development library designed to provide low level
access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and
graphics hardware used by a great many companies
and SDL 2 is now pretty much finished.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ IPFire Official Blog ☛ IPFire_Location_is_now_available_on
Debian_&_Fedora⠀⇛
IPFire Location is a geo location database which
will tell you in which country a host on the
Internet is located. It will also tell you in which
Autonomous System (AS) this host is. In IPFire we
use this information to make better decisions about
which connections to block and we use it to collect
metrics, etc.
But it is not only IPFire which benefits from this
data. This is something we designed into the
project from the very beginning when we launched it
as a very lightweight library that is also very
portable. So far, one of the many other users of
our location database is the Tor project, but the
list is getting longer and longer
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ More_HAMMER2_offline_support⠀⇛
You can now create, delete, and snapshot PFS on
HAMMER2 even when the drive isn’t mounted; Tomohiro
has added offline support.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ AlmaLinux’s_response_to_Red_Hat’s_policy_change [Ed:
See the comments]⠀⇛
The AlmaLinux organization has posted a message
describing the impact of Red Hat’s decision to stop
releasing the source to the RHEL distribution and
how AlmaLinux will respond.
# ⚓ Web Pro News ☛ Red_Hat_Takes_Aim_at_Rocky_Linux_&
AlmaLinux,_Restricts_RHEL_Code_Access⠀⇛
CentOS started out as a downstream, RHEL-compatible
community enterprise distro. The project eventually
joined Red Hat but remained independent. In 2020,
however, Red Hat killed CentOS and announced CentOS
Stream, a replacement option that is upstream of
RHEL instead of downstream as the original CentOS
was.
CentOS creator Gregory Kurtzer created Rocky Linux
in response, and CloudLinux created AlmaLinux, both
of which are RHEL-compatible downstream distros
that fill the same role as the original CentOS.
Since Red Hat has no control over Rocky Linux or
AlmaLinux, it appears the company is taking aim at
them by restricting RHEL source code access to
CentOS Stream. This will make it more difficult for
Rocky and Alma to maintain the 1:1 compatibility
they currently have with RHEL.
# ⚓ Adam_Young:_RHEL,_Rocky,_and_CentOS⠀⇛
When talking about Rocky Linux or other distros
based on RHEL,
I don’t think that it is a good idea to paint any
one person as the bad guy or that they are the bad
guy or operating in bad faith. I do not think this
is the case with any of the people behind Rocky.
I was in sales at Red Hat during this time, and I
winced when I heard the announcement. While Stream
was and is a great step forward, closing off the
Open But unsupported CentOS option was bad for Red
Hat’s business. Instead of walking into an
organization built around Yum and RPM, and the
tools that managed them, we’d end up waling into
organizations built around apt and .deb.
As A Linux guy, I don’t care. As Red Hat employee,
I did.
# ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ Dear_Red_Hat:_Are_you_dumb?⠀⇛
So at this point, I have to say: fool me once, Red
Hat—shame on you. Fool me twice?
At this point I’m determining whether I want to
continue supporting just Fedora, or just dropping
all support for RHEL and RHEL-like distributions on
my open source projects. It’s not worth the hassle
if I’m not even sure projects like Rocky or Alma
Linux can fill in the gap left by CentOS’s demise
for users like me.
# ⚓ AlmaLinux Official ☛ Impact_of_RHEL_changes_to_AlmaLinux⠀⇛
This change means that we, as builders of a RHEL
clone, will now be responsible for following the
licensing and agreements that are in place around
Red Hat’s interfaces, in addition to following the
licenses included in the software sources.
Unfortunately the way we understand it today, Red
Hat’s user interface agreements indicate that re-
publishing sources acquired through the customer
portal would be a violation of those agreements.
# ⚓ Rocky Linux ☛ Rocky_Linux_Expresses_Confidence_Despite_Red
Hat’s_Announcement⠀⇛
Rocky Linux, a prominent community-driven open-
source distribution of Enterprise Linux (EL),
remains confident in its ability to continue as a
bug-for-bug compatible and freely available
alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL),
despite changes in accessibility. Red Hat’s
announcement yesterday states that the sources for
RHEL will no longer be accessible from
git.centos.org. While this decision does change the
automation we use for building Rocky Linux, we have
already created a short term mitigation and are
developing the longer term strategy. There will be
no disruption or change for any Rocky Linux users,
collaborators, or partners.
# ⚓ Ask_Noah_Show_339_–_Episode_339:_Matt_Hicks⠀⇛
Matt Hicks the CEO of Red Hat joins the Ask Noah
Show to discuss his hands on approach in his
leadership role!
# ⚓ Silcon Republic ☛ Automation_can_feel_like_you_have_‘an
expert_sitting_next_to_you’⠀⇛
Red Hat’s Mark Swinson breaks down one of the
company’s latest additions to its automation
capabilities for developers.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ RHEL:_Behind_the_scenes_of_a_simple
backport⠀⇛
Bug fixes and security updates are essential
components of the value of a Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (RHEL) subscription. These ensure that you,
as a RHEL subscriber, have access to the latest
essential updates so your systems remain protected
and refreshed. And it’s all possible thanks to Red
Hat’s practice of backporting patches.
A “backport” is when a critical fix from a new
version of software is applied to an old but
supported version. Not all operating systems or
distributions can manage that workload, but
stability and security is important to Red Hat.
When Red Hat backports a patch, you benefit from
important security updates and bug fixes without
the need of upgrading to, and testing, a new
version of the software.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Confidential_computing:_5_support
technologies_to_explore⠀⇛
This article is the last in a six-part series (see
my previous blog) presenting various usage models
for Confidential Computing, a set of technologies
designed to protect data in use. In this article, I
explore interesting support technologies under
active development in the confidential computing
community.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Compiler_–_Ready_To_Launch⠀⇛
Launching a new product should be cause for
celebration. All too often in the tech industry,
launch day is a source of worry, and in the worst
cases, scrambling panic. But it doesn’t have to be
that way.
What can we learn from the gaming industry’s
frequent launches? Why is it so difficult to get
launch day right? And why aren’t companies better
prepared for the problems they know are coming?
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Green_opportunity_in_telco:_Transform
from_the_packet_networking_to_computing_by_IOWN_(Innovative
Optical_and_Wireless_Network)⠀⇛
This past spring, the IOWN Global Forum held its
Annual Member Meeting in Osaka, Japan. The event
kicked off with a video message from the Prime
Minister of Japan, KISHIDA Fumio, during which he
said that ”IOWN can be a key to resolve common
global issues, and the government of Japan will
provide firm support for it.” This was a great
endorsement.
The goal for this year’s meeting was set by Dr.
Katsuhiko Kawazoe, President and Chairperson of
IOWN Global Forum, who shared that establishing a
”Vision to Reality” was the main objective.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ 7,000_spam_messages_&_Debian_Day_Volunteer
Suicide⠀⇛
In 2022, Software in the Public Interest, Inc filed
an opposition against the Debian trademark
registration in Switzerland. As a basis for their
application, they claim that Debian is a well known
trademark under the Paris Convention. To justify
this claim, they submitted the following list of
companies exploiting Frans Pop & Debian. How many
of these companies have a Modern Slavery Policy?
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Linux_Mint_21.2_gets_a_Beta_release⠀⇛
Linux Mint 21.2 is getting close to release now
with a Beta available for testing across their
Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce desktop environments.
Probably one of my favourite Linux distributions,
because they’ve been going a long time now and have
a real focus on the normal desktop user
experience.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Kubeflow_vs_MLFlow:_which_one_to_choose?⠀⇛
Data scientists and machine learning engineers are
often looking for tools that could ease their work.
Kubeflow and MLFlow are two of the most popular
open-source tools in the machine learning
operations (MLOps) space. They are often considered
when kickstarting a new AI/ML initiative, so
comparisons between them are not surprising.
This blog covers a very controversial topic,
answering a question that many people from the
industry have: Kubeflow vs MLFlow: Which one is
better?
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ This_converted_RC_car_uses_a_Portenta_H7_to_drive
itself⠀⇛
After selecting the “RC Pro Shredder” as the
platform, Ellis implemented a VNH5019 Motor Driver
Carrier, a servo motor to steer, and a Portenta H7
+ Vision Shield along with a 1.5” OLED module.
After 3D printing a small custom frame to hold the
components in the correct orientation, nearly 300
images were collected of double-ringed markers on
the floor. These samples were then uploaded to Edge
Impulse and labeled with bounding boxes before a
FOMO-based object detection model was trained.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Arduino_Portenta_C33_starts_at_$64.00⠀⇛
The Portenta C33 is a compact module based on an
ARM Cortex M33 microcontroller from Renesas
Electronics. Featuring integrated Wi-Fi and
Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity, as well as
several I/Os, the Portenta C33 offers a viable
solution for a wide range of applications,
including IoT gateways and remote control systems.
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Can_this_laptop_finally_make_tech_sustainable?⠀⇛
Framework’s laptops look to solve this. Almost
every key component is replaceable – from critical
internals such as the screen, speakers, battery and
motherboard to things like the keyboard and
individual USB ports. So if your laptop is faulty,
you damage it or you simply want to upgrade, you
don’t have to compromise cost-effectiveness over
eco-friendliness. That’s the theory, anyway.
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ I_don’t_expect_to_see_competitive
RISC-V_servers_any_time_soon⠀⇛
Obviously if RISC-V is going to take over in
datacenters, there need to be RISC-V servers that
people can buy, including off the shelf. This is
especially the case for non-cloud datacenter usage
of servers; only the cloud players and a few other
big places design and manufacture their own
servers. These servers need suitable good RISC-
V CPUs and chipsets (either as systems on a chip or
separately). Apart from performance, these systems
need multi-socket support, lots of PCIE lanes, ECC
with large modern RAM standards, and so on. Given
that moving to RISC-V will make people’s life
harder, these servers and their CPUs need to be
unambiguously better than the x86 (and ARM) server
systems available at the same time. Given that
domination has a lead time these servers need to be
available in quantity and proven quality before
that five (or ten) year deadline, probably years
before.
# ⚓ [Old] Wired ☛ NYPD_Intelligence_Op_Targets_Dot-Matrix
Graffiti_Bike⠀⇛
Though they’d never seen him use the bike, the
police arrested Kinberg on criminal mischief
charges prior to the convention start, during an
interview on Broadway Avenue with MSNBC’s Ron
Reagan. The arrest took place on a spot where, two
days earlier, Kinberg had printed out the water-
soluble message, “America is a free speech zone”
during an interview with MSNBC’s Countdown With
Keith Olbermann.
# ⚓ [Old] Wired ☛ Cops_Put_Brakes_on_Bike_Protest⠀⇛
Two days before a yearlong project to create a Wi-
Fi-enabled bicycle-mounted dot-matrix printer could
spray anti-Bush messages in chalk on city streets,
it came to a grinding halt.
On Saturday, New York City police confiscated the
gadgetry-laden bike following the arrest of its
inventor, who had just concluded an interview with
MSNBC.
Joshua Kinberg, the 25-year-old creator of Bikes
Against Bush, was arrested on charges of criminal
mischief and criminal possession of graffiti
instruments, according to Sgt. Mary Christine
Doherty of the New York City Police Department. He
was held for 24 hours and was released on Sunday
morning without bail.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Turns_Truck_into_Giant_Dot
Matrix_Printer⠀⇛
The printing process works by dropping splotches of
water onto the road while the truck is driven. The
water is dropped carefully to shape letters and
form custom messages. The system is mounted to the
back of the truck and controlled from inside the
cabin using a web interface. As a message is
parsed, a series of tubes direct water into
position and activate precisely to create shapes
much like a dot matrix printer.
The Raspberry Pi is responsible for running the web
interface, accepting user input for new messages
and sending the command to trigger the water-based
printing system. In this case, Ryder has opted to
use a Raspberry Pi 4 but you could get away with
using an older model like a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ or
maybe even a Raspberry Pi Zero.
In the video, Ryder breaks down the design and
assembly process for the project which relies on
several hoses and valves. Solenoids are used to
release the water when directed by the Raspberry
Pi. A bucket of water is in the back of the truck
connected to the printer system making it easy to
refill.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ The_Raspberry_Pi_Foundation_and_edX:_A_new
way_to_learn_about_teaching_computing⠀⇛
We’ve joined the partner network of edX to bring
our high-quality online training to many more
educators worldwide and enable them to teach
learners about computing.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Turns_Truck_into_Giant_Dot
Matrix_Printer⠀⇛
Ryder Damen is using a Raspberry Pi to print custom
messages on the road with water while driving
around.
# ⚓ Xinnor,_ScaleFlux_squish_the_RAID_rebuild⠀⇛
The host server had a dual-socket Xeon Gold 6342
CPU with 48 cores and 512GB of DRAM. It ran Ubuntu
22.
[...]
An Aerospike certification tool (ACT) was
downloaded from GitHub and it generated a workload
for the test and monitored the tail latency. The
essential latency goal was that at most 5 percent
of transactions exceed 1 millisecond.
[...]
This all looks remarkable. RAID rebuilds normally
are lengthy affairs, particularly with disk drives
and particularly with high-capacity devices.
ScaleFlux CSD 3000 series SSDs run the capacity
gamut from 3,2TB through 3.84TB, 6.4TB, 7.68TB to
15.36TB. It would be interesting to see the test
repeated with the 15.36TB drives, with the rebuild
taking 12 hours assuming a linear progression. You
could rebuild faster by setting the Xinnor
Reconstruction priority differently.
# ⚓ NVIDIA_Jetson_AGX_Orin_Edge_AI_Computing_System⠀⇛
IBASE Technology a renowned global manufacturer of
embedded boards and systems, announced the launch
of its latest EC3500 edge AI computing system
designed for AI applications in smart retail,
healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation
sectors. Based on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB /
Jetson AGX Orin 64GB, the EC3500 is equipped with
either an 8-core or a 12-core NVIDIA Arm Cortex
A78AE v8.2 64-bit processor, delivering
unparalleled processing power capable of handling
the most demanding AI workloads with ease.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Ian Betteridge ☛ Meta_and_Mastodon_–_What’s_really_on_people’s
minds?⠀⇛
It’s a weird own goal for various Mastodon admins who are
running a decentralized social network based on
interoperable protocols to pledge that they won’t
interoperate with services from existing social networks
if built on the same open protocols.
It’s not even the hypocrisy, it’s just dumb and
undermines the entire point of interoperable protocols.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Tor ☛ New_release:_Tor_Browser_12.5⠀⇛
Tor Browser 12.5 is now available from the
Tor Browser download page and our
distribution directory. Many of the features
in this release were made possible thanks to
two projects:
Since 2021 we’ve provided digital security
training to hundreds of journalists and human
rights defenders in Brazil, Ecuador and
Mexico alongside Guardian Project and Tails.
During these workshops we documented pain
points with our applications’ user
experience, and returned to validate
potential solutions with Tor Browser Alpha in
follow-up trips.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ InfoWorld ☛ 3_great_Git_alternatives:_Fossil,_Mercurial,
and_Subversion⠀⇛
Git started life as version control software
developed to manage the source code for the Linux
kernel. It’s since become the default, go-to tool
for managing source codebases for just about every
open source project—and many closed-source ones,
too.
[...]
If any of these issues trouble you, you might be
curious about feasible alternatives to Git. They do
exist, and many of them prosper in their own spaces
because they offer features Git doesn’t have. In
this article, we’ll look at three of the biggest
Git alternatives: Fossil, Mercurial, and
Subversion. We’ll cover their features and use
cases and the projects they’re being used in right
now.
# ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Dev_snapshot:_Godot_4.1_beta_3⠀⇛
We are getting confident in the state of Godot 4.1!
To wrap things up here’s the last beta release,
bringing more fixes to reported issues.
# ⚓ Positech Games ☛ What_I_learned_from_fixing_a_dumb_bug_in
my_graphics_code⠀⇛
If you are a coder working on real-time graphics
stuff like games, and you have never used a
graphics profiler, you need to fix that right away.
They are amazing things. You might be familiar with
general case profilers like vtune, but you really
cannot beat a profiler made by the hardware vendor
for your graphics card or chip. In this case, its
the intel graphics monitor, which launches separate
apps to capture frame traces, and then analyze
them.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Adopting_a_low-ops_approach_with_software
operators⠀⇛
A software operator can help resolve this paradox.
In software operators, the automation is covered by
source code, and the DevOps engineer or SRE can
exercise control by defining and reviewing this
code. Using software operators results in
implementations that are testable and more reliable
at runtime. Proven engineering methodologies ensure
high-quality development leading to stable releases
of operators – that is one way of implementing SRE.
However, operating applications is not just about
writing automation code: operating applications
poses challenges when building solutions: [...]
# ⚓ IT Tavern ☛ Troubleshooting:_Asking_The_Right_Questions⠀⇛
In this post, I want to present some simple
questions on how to start any troubleshooting
session. The main goal is to gather enough
information to narrow down the root cause of the
problem, let you grasp the impact of this incident
and set a priority, and decide what the next steps
of the actual troubleshooting work will look like.
It should be clear that not all questions are
needed for every session, but it can give you some
ideas, and you can modify them to your needs. I bet
I forgot some essential questions, so please let me
know, and I’d be happy to add them to the post.
The primary motivation for this post is work-
related. I’ve just celebrated the 100th ticket with
“It doesn’t work” with no further information that
was forwarded to me, and I decided to write this
post as a reference for the minimum of information
any ticket should contain before it gets sent to
the next level (besides restarting the device or
checking DNS).
# ⚓ [Repeat] Buttondown ☛ Agile_is_people,_the_rest_is
commentary.⠀⇛
I see this sentiment all over the net: everybody is
making Agile too complicated; just follow the
principles and do your best.
# ⚓ Jay Little ☛ Developer_Brethren,_its_Time_to_Embrace
Boring!⠀⇛
Frankly, this situation pisses me off. Mostly
because when these developers decide to change
everything and rewrite their portion of my tech
stack from scratch, it basically forces me to waste
a ton of time, which could’ve been spent solving
actual user problems, trying to adapt, rework or
rewrite my code that depends upon their code.
Nobody wins here.
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Version_1.0.1_of_NIMBLE_released,_fixing_a_bug_in
version_1.0.0_affecting_certain_models⠀⇛
We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN
and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building
and sharing analysis methods for statistical
models, especially for hierarchical models and
computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and
SMC).
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Several_Key_PerformanceAnalytics_Functions_From_R
Now_In_Python_(special_thanks_to_Vijay_Vaidyanathan)⠀⇛
So, thanks to my former boss, and head of direct
indexing at BNY Mellon, Vijay Vaidyanathan, and his
Coursera course [...]
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Miami-Dade_County_Public_Employee_Salary_Research_–
An_Analysis_in_R,_Python,_and_Julia⠀⇛
This analysis was co-authored by data scientists,
Scott Fisher and Douglas Davila-Pestana. Mr. Fisher
developed the Python code for the […]
The post Miami-Dade County Public Employee Salary
Research – An Analysis in R, Python, and Julia
first appeared on Remix Institute.
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Unleashing_the_Power_of_Sampling_in_R:_Exploring
the_Versatile_sample()_Function⠀⇛
Sampling is a fundamental technique in data
analysis and statistical modeling. It allows us to
draw meaningful insights and make inferences about
a larger population based on a representative
subset.
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Design_Studio_4.2_Released⠀⇛
We are happy to announce the release of Qt Design
Studio 4.2.
# ⚓ LinuxTechLab ☛ The_Symbiotic_Relationship_between_DevOps
and_Linux⠀⇛
In the sphere of software development, the marriage
of DevOps and Linux is as harmonious as a ballet.
Their perfectly coordinated dance, twirling in the
rhythm of innovation, is an epitome of technical
symbiosis. But what fuels this seamless
performance? Let’s delve into the intricacies of
this unique partnership and how it continues to
redefine the world of software development.
Introduction to DevOps and Linux: Unpacking the
Enigma
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Titanic_sub_operator_OceanGate_was_warned_of_safety
concerns,_documents_show⠀⇛
The company whose submersible vanished in the North
Atlantic on a tourist dive to the wreck of the Titanic
was repeatedly warned that there might be catastrophic
safety problems posed by the way it was developed,
documents show.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ More_ships_join_search_for_missing_Titanic_sub_amid
fears_of_dwindling_oxygen_supply⠀⇛
The race against time to find a submersible that
disappeared on its way to the Titanic wreckage site
entered a new phase of desperation on Thursday morning as
the final hours of oxygen possibly left on board the tiny
vessel ticked off the clock.
o ⚓ France24 ☛ Rescuers_cling_to_hope_as_‘underwater_noises’_are
detected_in_Titanic_sub_search [Ed: This certainly make a lot of
noise in the media, but they all died, and they likely deserved
it]⠀⇛
Rescuers searching for a missing tourist submersible near
the wreck of the Titanic have detected “underwater
noises” in the search area, the US Coast Guard said
Wednesday, with oxygen for the five on board rapidly
running out more than two days after they lost contact.
o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ I-95_Collapse_in_Philadelphia_Didn’t_Cause_a
Traffic_Disaster,_Data_Shows⠀⇛
When an overpass collapsed, politicians and experts
predicted calamity for months. After less than a week,
things returned “close to normal.”
o ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ ‘This_World_Can’t_Tear_Me_Down’_rips_into_the
animus_of_Nazis_and_establishments⠀⇛
Italian cartoonist Michele Rech, otherwise known as
Zerocalcare, is a household name in Italy as the
country’s most prominent cartoonist.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Clash_of_the_Titans⠀⇛
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Scientists_Are_Hunting_for_Alien_Objects
in_the_Ocean,_And_They’ve_Just_Found_Something⠀⇛
A team including Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb may
have just found a trace of an interstellar object,
which Loeb believes could be alien in origin.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Archaeologists_Discover_World’s_Oldest
Neanderthal_Cave_Engravings⠀⇛
The mysterious 57,000-year-old designs open up a
new window into the lives and culture of our
ancestors.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ The_digital_conundrum_facing_Danish
education⠀⇛
The education minister, Mattias Tesfaye, has taken
a proactive stance and asked Styrelsen for
Uddannelse og Kvalitet, Stuk, the agency for
education and quality, to craft a set of guidelines
on screen usage in schools.
In a letter to the country’s public schools,
Tesfaye wrote: ”Children’s screen use has been
rising rapidly in recent years and more and more
research is suggesting that it is not healthy,”
according to Politiken.
The guidelines could be developed for each stage of
the educational system, contends Tesfaye,
effectively adapting to the age-specific needs of
the users.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Intel_Discontinues_Arc_A770_Limited
Edition_GPU⠀⇛
Intel has announced that the chipmaker has
discontinued the Arc A770 Limited Edition gaming
graphics card.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Intel_to_Operate_Foundry_and_Manufacturing
More_Like_a_Separate_Business [Ed: Way to hide financial
LOSSES, like IBM with Kyndryl]⠀⇛
Intel’s Internal Foundry Services and manufacturing
business will report its own P&L, which will sell
to both internal and external customers.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ 8K_TV_box_board_features_Amlogic_S928X
Cortex-A76/A55_SoC⠀⇛
The “YB910_428_V1.0” is an Amlogic S928X penta-core
Cortex-A76/A55 board designed for 8K TV boxes with
up to 8GB RAM, an HDMI 2.1a port, Gigabit Ethernet
and WiFi connectivity, optical S/PDIF, a 3.5mm
audio jack, and a few USB 3.2/2.0 ports. We first
started to see Amlogic S928X TV boxes from
manufacturers such as SEI Robotics and SDMC last
year, but those companies mostly cater to operators
and I’ve yet to see any retail Amlogic S928X
devices. The YB910 board could mean we are about to
see some S928X devices for sale very soon.
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Will_an_SSD_improve_my_laptop?⠀⇛
Our tech experts explain how installing an SSD
(solid state drive) can result in faster boot
times, quicker application loading and improved
responsiveness
# ⚓ System76 ☛ System76_Unveils_a_Powerful_New_Oryx_Pro,_Making
It_the_Favorite_Flagship_Laptop_For_Engineers.⠀⇛
One of the most notable features of the Oryx Pro is
the 16:10 screen ratio. The extra vertical real
estate provides more space to view code, documents,
and other work-related content, making it easier
for developers to multitask and streamline their
workflow.
# ⚓ System76 ☛ Bonobo_WS_Laptop_Returns:_The_Ultimate
Powerhouse_for_Demanding_Workloads⠀⇛
Boasting 12TB of storage, the Bonobo WS has the
highest max storage of all System76 laptops. With a
24-core Intel i9-13900HX processor, users can
expect faster speeds and smoother performance for
complex tasks like compiling and rendering.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Japan’s_Fukushima_wastewater_plan_is_safe,_says
expert_on_Pacific_islands_panel⠀⇛
The Fukushima nuclear plant operator is testing
equipment to dilute the wastewater and pipe it out
to sea.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ New_survey_peeks_into_sexual_lives_and_satisfactions
of_Lithuanians⠀⇛
Around three-fifths (59 percent) of Lithuanians
would have sex more often if they had the choice,
according to a survey published on Wednesday.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania’s_Jewish_community_says_it_feels_unsafe
after_MP’s_anti-Semitic_posts⠀⇛
Recent anti-Semitic statements by MP Remigijus
Žemaitaitis incite ethnic tensions and make Jewish
people feel insecure, say Lithuania’s Jewish
community representatives.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_considers_banning_e-cigarette_sales_outside
pharmacies⠀⇛
Lithuanian legislators have proposed the idea of
confining sales of electronic cigarettes to
pharmacies in an effort to discourage smoking among
teenagers. The parliament has recently passed
amendments, banning electronic cigarettes with
added flavours.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Meat_and_milk_consumption_declined_in
Finland_in_2022,_says_Luke⠀⇛
MEAT CONSUMPTION continued to decline in Finland in
2022, reveal preliminary statistics released by
Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke).
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finns_eating_less_meat_and_fish_–_higher_prices
likely_to_blame⠀⇛
People in Finland devoured around 26 kg of cheese
and 11 kg of eggs per capita last year.
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ How_to_find_cheap_insect_repellent_that_works⠀⇛
Keep mosquitos, ticks and other biting insects at
bay for less
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ How_to_get_rid_of_fruit_flies_and_stop_them
coming_back⠀⇛
We reveal the common fruit fly mistakes you could
be making – and what to do
instead
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Evangelical_leader_hopes_conference
is_‘testosterone_booster_shot’_for_anti-abortion_2024
candidates⠀⇛
A year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
Wade, some of the Republican Party’s most powerful
evangelical Christian voices are gathering to
celebrate a ruling that sent shockwaves through
American politics. At the Faith & Freedom
Coalition’s annual conference in Washington, GOP
presidential candidates will be urged to keep
pushing for stronger abortion restrictions, even as
Democrats insist the issue will buoy them ahead of
the 2024 election. Former President Donald Trump
will give the keynote address Saturday night. Many
of his Republican rivals are set to speak Friday,
including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice
President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott and former New
Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finland_ranks_as_the_seventh_most
expensive_country_in_Europe⠀⇛
According to an international price comparison,
Finland has a cost of living that is over a quarter
higher than the EU average. Alcohol, in particular,
stands out as exceptionally expensive in Finland,
with alcohol prices ranking as the third highest in
Europe, trailing only Iceland and Norway.
A price comparison coordinated by Eurostat, the
statistical office of the European Union, reveals
that the price level for alcohol in Iceland,
Norway, Finland, and Ireland is even four times
higher than in Hungary, the cheapest country in
Europe.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ AI_Is_an_Existential_Threat_to_Itself⠀⇛
Generative-AI programs may eventually consume
material that was created by other machines—with
disastrous consequences.
# ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ The_iPad_was_meant_to_revolutionize
accessibility._What_happened?⠀⇛
In December 2022, a few months after learning that
he’d won an Iowa Arts Fellowship to attend the MFA
program at the University of Iowa, David James “DJ”
Savarese sat for a televised interview with a local
news station.
# ⚓ [Repeat] The Register UK ☛ Microsoft_rethinks_death
sentence_for_Windows_Mail_and_Calendar_apps⠀⇛
Microsoft intends to shut down its at-times-
maligned Mail and Calendar apps, fold their
capabilities into a new Outlook for Windows, and
use the opportunity to – unsurprisingly – bring in
more AI.
However, when this will happen is now in flux.
# ⚓ The Drone Girl ☛ Skydio,_Flyability:_more_drones_focus_on
Remote_ID_compliance⠀⇛
Even though Flyability is known for making drones
that fly indoors, even it’s seeking to become
Remote ID compliant. Today, the Swiss drone maker
released a new version of its Elios 3 drone that is
compliant with FAA regulation on UAS Remote
Identification.
That’s despite the fact that its drones are
designed to fly in indoor spaces (which are not
under FAA regulation). But the company says it
doesn’t want its drones restricted to indoor use.
In fact, its Elios 3 drone has seen significant use
cases outdoors, including inspecting and mapping of
pipe racks offshore and on land, as well as
radiation surveying of radioactive waste
structures. The Elios 3 launched last May as the
world’s first collision-tolerant drone equipped
with a LiDAR sensor for indoor 3D mapping.
# ⚓ Franz Dill ☛ Marc_Andreessen:_Why_AI_Will_Save_the_World⠀⇛
First, a short description of what AI is: The
application of mathematics and software code to
teach computers how to understand, synthesize, and
generate knowledge in ways similar to how people do
it. AI is a computer program like any other – it
runs, takes input, processes, and generates output.
AI’s output is useful across a wide range of
fields, ranging from coding to medicine to law to
the creative arts. It is owned by people and
controlled by people, like any other technology.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Lawyers_who_cited_fake_cases_hallucinated
by_ChatGPT_must_pay⠀⇛
Yes, you got that right: the lawyers asked ChatGPT
for examples of past cases to include in their
legal filings, the bot just made up some previous
proceedings, and the attorneys slotted those in to
help make their argument and submitted it all as
usual. That is not going to fly.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Reddit_Chaos_Continues_as_Hackers
Demand_$4.5M_Ransom,_Communities_Still_Dark⠀⇛
As the Reddit blackout chaos continues, a hacker
group has claimed responsibility for the February
2023 hack. The BlackCat ransomware group says they
were behind the attack, stealing 80GB of data from
the company. Now the group is asking for $4.5
million dollars and a rollback of the planned API
changes.
# ⚓ Hectic Geek ☛ Secure_Your_Business_and_Gain_Customer_Trust
with_SSL_Certificate_Management⠀⇛
Data breaches and cyber threats are rising, so
safeguarding sensitive information and customer
trust is vital for businesses.
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Holidaymakers_warned_about_the_dangers_posed_by
ATM_scammers⠀⇛
Follow these tips to stay safe when withdrawing
cash abroad
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Chinese_malware_accidentally_infects
networked_storage_•_The_Register⠀⇛
Malware intended to spread on USB drives is
unintentionally infecting networked storage
devices, according to infosec vendor Checkpoint.
The software nasty comes from a group called Camaro
Dragon that Checkpoint’s researchers on Thursday
suggested conduct campaigns similar to those run by
China’s Mustang Panda and LuminousMoth attack
gangs.
Checkpoint regards Camaro Dragon as most interested
in Asian targets – its code includes features
designed to hide it from SmadAV, an antivirus
solution popular in the region.
# ⚓ SANS ☛ Word_Document_with_an_Online_Attached_Template,_
(Fri,_Jun_23rd)⠀⇛
It has been a while since I spotted such kind of
document. Yesterday, I found a Word document
(SHA256:
5070e8a3fdaf3027170ade066eaf7f8e384c1cd25ce58af9155627975f97d156)
# ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Linux_servers_are_being_infected_with_a
dangerous_new_malware [Ed: The_problem_here_is_truly_awful
passwords,_not_Linux_at_all]⠀⇛
Cybersecurity firm AhnLab’s Security Emergency
response Center (ASEC) has uncovered an attack
against, “inadequately managed” Linux SSH servers
whereby malware is being installed and spread.
Most notable has been the installation of a Tsunami
DDoS Bot, but ShellBot, XMRig CoinMiner, and Log
Cleaner malware have also all been spotted.
Because Tsunami’s source code is publicly
available, it has been used in numerous attacks
against IoT devices and is often seen deployed
alongside Mirai and Gafgyt, though Tsunami attacks
on Linux servers are just as common.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Thursday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (avahi,
hsqldb, hsqldb1.8.0, minidlna, trafficserver, and
xmltooling), Oracle (.NET 6.0, .NET 7.0, 18, c-
ares, firefox, kernel, less, libtiff, libvirt,
python, python3.11, texlive, and thunderbird), Red
Hat (c-ares, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, less,
libtiff, libvirt, openssl, and postgresql),
Slackware (bind and kernel), SUSE (bluez, curl,
geoipupdate, kernel, netty, netty-tcnative, ntp,
open-vm-tools, php8, python-reportlab, rustup,
Salt, salt, terraform-provider-aws, terraform-
provider-null, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (bind9,
linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp,
linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-kvm,
linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux-azure, linux-gcp,
linux-ibm, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, and linux-ibm).
# ⚓ Two_apprehended_in_CoWin_portal_data_leak_case⠀⇛
In a major breakthrough, the Delhi Police Special
Cell has apprehended a man and a juvenile from
Bihar in connection with the alleged data leak from
the CoWin portal, the Centre’s official platform
for Covid-19 vaccination registration and
certification.
According to police sources, the adult man, whose
identity has been withheld pending further
investigation, is suspected of being involved in
the unauthorised sharing of sensitive vaccination
data on the encrypted messaging app, Telegram.
The sources have revealed that the man, believed to
be in his late twenties, allegedly gained access to
the portal.
# ⚓ The Texas Tribune ☛ Stephen_F._Austin_State_University
students_grow_anxious_about_falling_behind_as_school_reels
from_cyberattack_last_week⠀⇛
More than a week after Stephen F. Austin State
University was hit with a cyberattack, leaders at
the public university in the East Texas Pineywoods
are still working to fully restore email and other
online services for the 11,600-student campus.
University spokesperson Graham Garner confirmed
Tuesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is
looking into the incident, which occurred about 10
days ago, but did not provide any additional
details. In a statement, a spokesperson for the FBI
Dallas field office confirmed the investigation but
declined to provide more information about the
investigation.
While the university has restored access to the
internet and the university’s online teaching
portal, students and faculty say the hack has
caused serious disruptions, especially for students
taking summer courses.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Confused_about_the_drama_with_the_new
BreachForums?_Reading_this_will_either_help_you_or_make_your
head_spin.⠀⇛
Over the past week, DataBreaches has been contacted
by a few journalists who have been somewhat
understandably confused about the situation with
the original BreachForums and a new forum calling
itself BreachForums. And from reading news reports
this week, I see that some journalists are making
errors, so this post is as much for those wishing
to report on BreachForums as much as to provide an
update as to what has evolved into a bit of a soap
opera.
# ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ SMS_Phishers_Harvested_Phone_Numbers,
Shipment_Data_from_UPS_Tracking_Tool⠀⇛
The United Parcel Service (UPS) says fraudsters
have been harvesting phone numbers and other
information from its online shipment tracking tool
in Canada to send highly targeted SMS phishing
(a.k.a. “smishing”) messages that spoofed UPS and
other top brands. The missives addressed recipients
by name, included details about recent orders, and
warned that those orders wouldn’t be shipped unless
the customer paid an added delivery fee.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Law_enforcement_seizes_domains_owned_by
“Pompompurin”_and_one_currently_owned_by_DataBreaches⠀⇛
When the owner of Breached.vc was arrested in
March, people expected to see Conor Fitzpatrick’s
BreachForums site seized by authorities. Somewhat
surprisingly, it wasn’t, and Baphomet, the forum’s
administrator, was able to post messages on the
site explaining what was going on and that he was
taking the site down for fear it had been
compromised. For months, the site was empty except
for a warning posted by Baphomet not to trust any
site claiming to be them. But when a new forum also
called BreachForums opened, more warnings appeared
on breached.vc. But who was posting them? Was it
law enforcement or someone who still had access to
the domain?
[...]
DataBreaches does not know when the warrant for
seizure was first written or authorized, but in any
event, not all domains seized today were related to
BreachForums and DataBreaches hopes the government
recognizes the over-reach and corrects it.
Tomorrow, DataBreaches will contact the USAO or
court and ask about trying to get breaches.net un-
seized. DataBreaches makes no predictions as to how
this will go.
[...]
Why the government decided to seize the domains now
has not been revealed by the government. There has
been no press release today by the U.S. Attorney
for the Eastern District of Virginia, DOJ Main, or
the FBI. Perhaps they will issue one tomorrow that
explains why they delayed for three months and
first seized domains now.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Google_announces_$20_million_investment
for_cyber_clinics [Ed: Google also puts back doors in things,
so don't be misled. Google is a Gulag and a lab of NSA et
al.]⠀⇛
The announcement dovetails with growing interest in
Congress to invest in the next generation of the
cyber workforce.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ EDRI ☛ Open_letter:_Improvements_to_the_enforcement
of_the_General_Data_Protection_Regulation⠀⇛
EDRi has signed an open letter organised by
consumer and civil society organisations to
welcome the intention of the European
Commission to improve the enforcement of the
General Data Protection Regulation. We call
on the Commission to ensure that the draft
Regulation improves the efficiency of
enforcement and ensures data subjects can
exercise their rights in a fair, effective,
and affordable manner.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Yet_Another_Synthetic_Moral_Panic_over
Privacy⠀⇛
Episode 463 of the Cyberlaw Podcast
# ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Smart_gate_locks_are_still_barred
from_the_market⠀⇛
On a recent Internet of Things podcast
episode, we took a voicemail from Greg on our
podcast hotline. Greg’s property has a fence
in the back so it’s not close to the house..
He uses HomeKit today but is planning to add
a Hubitat hub as well for Z-Wave support.
# ⚓ EDRI ☛ Open_letter:_EU_Lawmakers_must_uphold_human
rights_to_privacy_and_free_expression_in_the_Political
Ads_Regulation⠀⇛
EDRi and 26 civil society organisations,
voice our deep concern regarding the worrying
developments related to the Regulation on the
Targeting and Transparency of Political
Advertising.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Apple_is_plotting_the_death_of_the
password⠀⇛
Apple’s newest software updates—iOS 17 and
macOS Sonoma—will automatically assign users
unique passkeys, tied to their Apple IDs,
that can replace individual passwords in
accounts across the [Internet].
# ⚓ DroidGazzette ☛ Here’s_why_cops_in_this_nation_ask
Android_users_to_disable_Emergency_SOS_feature⠀⇛
This problem with accidental Emergency SOS
calls has crossed the Atlantic and is now a
problem in the U.K. which is quite ironic
since we had mentioned the Beatles earlier in
this article. According to the BBC, the
U.K.’s 999 switchboards (the emergency number
is the country is 999) are getting inundated
with calls. The National Police Chiefs
Council blames this on an Android update that
added the Emergency SOS feature that has
devices calling 999 after the power button is
pressed five or more times.”Nationally, all
emergency services are currently experiencing
record high 999 call volumes,” says the
Council. “There’s a few reasons for this, but
one we think is having a significant impact
is an update to Android smartphones.” The
update the U.K. police are talking about is
the one that released the final version of
Android 13 to Android device users last
August.
# ⚓ NYOB ☛ TeleSign_secretly_profiles_half_of_the_world’s
mobile_phone_users⠀⇛
Today, noyb filed a complaint against
TeleSign, a US company which profiled
millions of phone users. TeleSign generates a
“reputation score” and sells its services to
various clients like TikTok, Microsoft or
Salesforce. TeleSign secretly received the
mobile phone data from BICS, a Belgian
company that provides interconnection
services for many mobile phone companies.
# ⚓ NYOB ☛ Advertising_company_Criteo_fined_€_40_Million
for_GDPR_infringements⠀⇛
The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL)
fined Criteo, a major online advertisement
and tracking company in Europe, €40 million
for violating the GDPR. This decision is
based on complaints filed by noyb and Privacy
International in December 2018. The CNIL
found that the company failed to comply with
data subject rights under the GDPR and could
not prove that they obtained valid consent.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Army_has_a_critical_role_in_defence
strategic_review’s_‘integrated_force’⠀⇛
We tend to look for winners and losers in any
Australian government announcement, and the defence
strategic review (DSR) is no exception.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Pratt_&_Whitney_to_build_engine_factory_in
Morocco⠀⇛
Pratt & Whitney will launch an affiliate, Pratt &
Whitney Maroc (PWM), in Casablanca, to manufacture
detailed static and structural machined parts for
various engine models.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Cuban_President_Holds_Meeting_With_His_Serbian
Counterpart⠀⇛
“…Díaz-Canel will develop an intense work agenda
during his visit to Serbia…”
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Bomb_Blast_Kills_Three_People_in_Police_Vehicle
in_NE_Kenya⠀⇛
“…the victims are two policemen and an engineer…”
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ AI_as_Sensemaking_for_Public_Comments⠀⇛
To help democracy scale better in the face of
growing, increasingly interconnected populations—as
well as the wide availability of AI language tools
that can generate reams of text at the click of a
button—the US will need to leverage AI’s capability
to rapidly digest, interpret and summarize this
content.
# ⚓ Greece ☛ The_Taliban_government_[sic]_runs_on_WhatsApp.
There’s_just_one_problem.⠀⇛
There was just one problem: WhatsApp had blocked
his account to comply with U.S. sanctions.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Daniel_Ellsberg:_Master_of_War,_Champion_of
Peacexs⠀⇛
Ellsberg’s second speech, at the 1962 University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor commencement, was delivered
by Secretary of State Robert McNamara. The
Secretary urged a policy of deterrence whereby the
US and Soviets agreed to nuke only military targets
and to spare the cities and their populations. This
seemed to favor the Americans. Khrushchev raged
that “it was deceptive to the American people
because bases in the United States were in or near
large cities.” As far as the First Secretary was
concerned, the speech was saying to him,“that
McNamara was somehow trying to make nuclear war
seem less bloody and therefore more acceptable,”
and said Khrushchev, “To get the population used to
the idea that nuclear war will take place.”
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ US_Military_Personnel_Receiving
Unsolicited,_Suspicious_Smartwatches⠀⇛
The U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division is
urging military personnel to be on the lookout for
unsolicited, suspicious smartwatches in the mail,
warning that the devices could be rigged with
malware.
# ⚓ CBC ☛ Most_Canadians_don’t_know_about_the_bombing_of_Air
India,_the_worst_terrorist_attack_in_Canada’s_history:_poll⠀⇛
The flight from Montreal to London exploded off the
Irish coast, making the bombing the deadliest
terrorist incident in Canada’s history.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ At_Least_Two_Dead_In_Hungarian_Military_Helicopter
Crash_In_Croatia⠀⇛
A Hungarian military helicopter crashed on June 21
during a training mission in neighboring Croatia,
killing at least two people on board, the country’s
Defense Ministry said.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ US_Media_Blind_to_American_War_Carnage⠀⇛
On the first day of March 2022, visitors to The New
York Times homepage saw a headline across the top
of their screens in huge capital letters: ROCKET
BARRAGE KILLS CIVILIANS It was the kind of
breaking-news banner headline that could have
referred to countless US missile attacks and other
military assaults…
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Daniel_Ellsberg:_The_Establishment’s
Whistleblower⠀⇛
The Nixon administration was mustard keen to bang
up Ellsberg for what would have been 115 years, and
Russo for 35. The charges, absurd reading then as
they are now, were for conspiracy, espionage, and
larceny. Central to this particularly vicious
effort on the part of President Richard Nixon and
his inner circle was the release of the Pentagon
Papers, a government document running into 7,000
pages that was much at odds with public statements
made by respective presidential administrations on
US involvement in the Indo-China War. Both men had
been analysts and researchers at the RAND
Corporation, with the former tasked with nuclear
wargaming scenarios. Russo had aided Ellsberg in
the mammoth task of copying the papers.
The treatment dished out by the US national
security state was very much the blueprint for what
is taking place against the WikiLeaks founder.
Initial indictment, followed by further grand jury
hearings, followed by another round of indictments.
As Sheinbaum remarked, the absurdity of the charges
was self-evident. “Conspiracy against whom?” he
asked. “The American people to whom the documents
belonged in the first place? The press to whom the
Pentagon Papers were given – not sold – so that
they could better inform the people on how a
succession of administrations had deceived them and
wasted this country’s lives, resources, and honor?”
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Himalayan_glaciers_could
lose_up_to_80%_of_their_ice_due_to_global_warming:_Report⠀⇛
“The glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalaya are a
major component of the Earth system. With two
billion people in Asia reliant on the water that
glaciers and snow here hold, the consequences of
losing this cryosphere are too vast to
contemplate,” said Izabella Kozol, Icimod’s deputy
director general.
The melting of glaciers will increase the threat of
flash floods, avalanches, and droughts. Last year,
Pakistan witnessed deadly floods as a result of the
severe heatwave that caused the melting of glaciers
and record monsoon rains. Multiple experts blamed
climate change for the damage witnessed by the
South Asian nation.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Tropical_Storm_Bret_grows
stronger_as_eastern_Caribbean_islands_prepare_for_heavy
flooding⠀⇛
Tropical Storm Bret is growing stronger as it takes
aim at islands in the eastern Caribbean that are
bracing for torrential rainfall, landslides and
flooding. Bret had maximum sustained winds of 65
mph (100 kph) on Wednesday night and was moving
westward across the Atlantic Ocean at 16 mph (26
kph). The storm was located some 290 miles (465
kilometers) east of Barbados and is expected to
grow stronger before lashing several eastern
Caribbean islands late Thursday at near hurricane
strength. Tropical storm warnings were issued for
St. Lucia, Dominica and the French Caribbean island
of Martinique as officials in the region urged
people to prepare.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Crematorium_fills_up_as_heatwave
scorches_northern_Indian_town⠀⇛
A major hospital in Uttar Pradesh recorded at least
80 deaths since June 15 as temperatures soared.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_Panama_Canal_is_restricting_large_ships
because_of_drought⠀⇛
Starting Sunday (June 25), container ships in the
Panama Canal will be limited to a depth of 43.5
feet or 13.3 meters.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ How_ESG_investing_can_better_serve
sustainable_development⠀⇛
2022 revealed several roadblocks preventing
ESG from contributing to sustainable
development. To change course, more clarity
and agreement from both private data
providers and from regulators is necessary.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ An_Unexpected_Upset_In_EV_Charging
Standards⠀⇛
Last November, Tesla open-sourced parts of
its charging infrastructure, not-so-humbly
unveiling it as the North American Charging
Standard (NACS). It’s finally taking off with
a number of manufacturers signing on.
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ A_green_transition_that_leaves
no_one_behind [Ed: Typical greenwashing from career
politicians]⠀⇛
European Commission News Brussels, 21 Jun
2023 A world leaders’ open letter on the
occasion of the Paris Summit for a new global
financial pact
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Fire_Breaks_Out_At_Romanian_Refinery_On_Black
Sea_Coast⠀⇛
A blast followed by a fire occurred on June
21 at Romania’s largest oil refinery,
Petromidia, located on the Black Sea coast,
Romanian emergency services were quoted by
local media as saying.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Four_electric_buses_a_step_toward
cleaner_campus_fleet⠀⇛
The set, manufactured by New Flyer, includes
three 40-foot electric buses and one 60-foot
articulated electric bus. The buses will be
put into regular service this fall.
# ⚓ ACM ☛ Keeping_[Attackers]_Off_the_Electrical_Grid⠀⇛
Today, commercial OT networks in the U.S.
that strictly follow the NIST guidelines are
more secure, but according to Fuhr, new
attack vectors are being opened by the
numerous “smart” electric meters rolled out
in recent years which, on the positive side,
allow grid operators to manage power more
efficiently, but on the negative side form
new vulnerabilities in the OT control
infrastructure.
“The proliferation of smart meters and grid-
controlled home automation devices is outside
the scope of our current research project,
and realistically a variety of network
configurations are used so there is no single
answer, but to employ an overused phrase, the
attack surface is certainly increasing,” said
Fuhr.
# ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ Getting_Ready_for_Winter⠀⇛
Even though it’s the middle of summer, we had
2 tonnes of fire wood delivered yesterday.
We’re obviously not using our fire at the
moment, but when it comes to the long, harsh
Welsh winters, you need all the firewood you
can get.
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Scoot_was_one_of_the_worst_airlines
I’ve_flown⠀⇛
But while the Scoot planes we flew were
spotless, and some of the cabin crew were
great, it wasn’t “budget SIA”. I could
nitpick dozens of things, but four things
stood out.
# ⚓ El País ☛ Binance:_The_last_great_
[cryptocurrency]fraud⠀⇛
Binance is the world’s largest cryptocurrency
exchange platform. Coinbase is the largest
cryptocurrency exchange platform in the
United States. The U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued both for
illegal trading on the stock market. As
Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine says, there
are two ways to be illegal in this business:
one is technical, and the other is stealing.
All [cryptocurrency] trades have been
technically illegal in the U.S. since the SEC
decided that most [cryptocurrency] assets are
not commodities, which are tangible consumer
goods such as oil or grain. Instead, they are
securities: financial products that represent
an interest in a company such as bills, bonds
or stocks. Under U.S. law, securities are
subject to certain obligations and
regulations that commodities are not. For
example, they must be registered and
authorized by the SEC.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Will_The_Lilium_Jet_Work?_A_Deep-Dive_Into
The_Physics_Behind_EVTOL_Aircraft⠀⇛
The Lilium Jet is a proposed eVTOL (electric
Vertical Take Off and Landing) aircraft that
the German company Lilium GmbH has claimed it
will bring to the market ‘soon’, which would
made it the first eVTOL aircraft in the world
to enter into commercial service. As anyone
who has any experience with VTOL knows, it’s
a tricky subject to engineer, let alone when
you want to do it fully electric. In a deep-
dive video on the Lilium Jet and eVTOL in
general, [John Lou] goes through the physics
behind VTOL take-off, landing and flight, as
well as range and general performance.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Why_didn’t_the_deer_cross_the_road_in
Latvia?⠀⇛
The total length of the Latvian State road
network is 20 000 kilometers, but overall
there are around 70 000 kilometers of
different roads in the country. More than 200
road accidents with forest animals were
reported last year and many are likely
unreported. There are no specially installed
animal passes, Latvian Television’s “Vides
fakti” reported.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ All_it_takes_is_one_spark_–_high_risk_of_forest
fires_throughout_Finland⠀⇛
When a forest fire warning is in force, it is
forbidden to start an open fire in or near a
forest.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Warm_waters_prompt_fishing_permit_suspensions⠀⇛
The sale of fishing permits has been
suspended for two sites where water
temperatures have risen to critically high
levels, especially for salmon.
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Colorado_River_water_rights:_Supreme
Court_rules_against_Navajo_Nation⠀⇛
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against the
Navajo Nation Thursday in a dispute involving
water from the drought-stricken Colorado
River. The Navajo interpreted an 1868 treaty
as ensuring a sufficient supply of water to
its community, but the court disagreed.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Tipping_Gets_‘More_in_Your_Face,’_and_Not
Everyone_Likes_It⠀⇛
It seems to be a point of pride for most
Australians that we’re not like the U.S., where the
minimum wage is so low for many restaurant workers
that consumers are effectively required to
subsidize their pay through tips. (The minimum wage
here is 21.38 Australian dollars, or $14.34 — about
double that of the U.S.)
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Perth_Mint_probed_over_money
laundering_compliance⠀⇛
A powerful parliamentary inquiry will examine
multiple controversies facing the Perth Mint.
The inquiry, set up by WA Liberal senator Dean
Smith, will investigate the mint’s compliance with
money laundering and terror laws.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Warner_Bros_Discovery_Merger_Gets_Dumber_As
Layoffs_Continue_And_Company_Licenses_Streaming_Content_To…
Netflix⠀⇛
By now we’ve well established that the series of
mergers that began with AT&T’s doomed acquisition
of Time Warner and ended with Time Warner’s
subsequent spin off and fusion with Discovery was
some of the dumbest, most pointless “business”
exercises ever conceived by man.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ 30%_of_America’s_homeless_population_is_in
California⠀⇛
A_new_study is busting myths about homelessnessin
California.
# ⚓ Breach Media ☛ Toronto_police_are_squatting_on_land_meant
for_affordable_housing⠀⇛
Under John Tory, Toronto’s police ducked austerity
and blocked housing. Under Mark Saunders, the force
would be emboldened
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Asia_stocks_subdued,_Powell_testimony
fails_to_surprise⠀⇛
Asian shares are off to a tentative start after
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell stuck to his
recent hawkish tone as investors assess the future
rate policy path from the Fed.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares
outside Japan was marginally lower at 522.93 in
early trade on Thursday.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Competition_watchdog_inspects_Latvia’s_food
prices⠀⇛
Elsewhere in the world, food prices are declining,
but tn the Baltic States they are growing.
According to the Central Statistical Bureau, prices
for food and non-alcoholic beverages increased by
nearly 18% during the year. Representatives of the
Competition Council (KP) said during the meeting of
the Saeima Submissions Committee on June 21 that
they are examining food prices in supermarkets.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia’s_producer_prices_up_4.6%_in_May⠀⇛
Data published on June 21 by the Central
Statistical Bureau show that in May 2023, compared
to May 2022, the level of producer prices in the
Latvian industry increased by 4.6 %.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Live_Nation_Shareholders_Vote_Against
$139_Million_Pay_Package_for_CEO_Michael_Rapino⠀⇛
Amid tense scrutiny over its ticketing practices,
Live Nation shareholders have voted ‘no’ on the
proposed $139 million pay package for CEO Michael
Rapino.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ CBC ☛ Canadians_will_no_longer_have_access_to_news_content
on_Facebook_and_Instagram,_Meta_says⠀⇛
Now that the bill has received royal assent, the
Department of Canadian Heritage will draft
regulations specifying the application of the act
and provide guidance on implementing it. It should
take six month for Bill C-18 to come into force.
“A free and independent press is fundamental to our
democracy,” Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo
Rodriguez said in a statement. “It levels the
playing field by putting the power of big tech in
check and ensuring that even our smallest news
business can benefit through this regime and
receive fair compensation for their work.”
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Google_Backs_Creation_of_Cybersecurity
Clinics_With_$20_Million_Donation⠀⇛
Google CEO Sundar Pichai pledged $20 million in
donations on Thursday to support and expand the
Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics to introduce
thousands of students to potential careers in
cybersecurity, while also helping defend small
government offices, rural hospitals and nonprofits
from hacking.
b Pichai said the new initiative addresses both the
rising number of cyberattacks — up 38% globally in
2022 – and the lack of candidates trained to stop
them.
# ⚓ Interesting Engineering ☛ Musk_meets_Modi_and_hints_at
‘significant’_Tesla_investment_in_India⠀⇛
Tesla’s decision to enter one of the biggest
markets for electric vehicles has been on hold for
the past year after the company and officials in
India could not come to an agreement over the
sourcing of vehicles. The latter insisted that the
cars be made locally, while Tesla wanted to export
cars to the market first to test demand.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Let’s_make_something_uplifting’_Why_Russia’s
liberal_creatives_seek_grants_from_an_institute_that_pours
money_into_online_Kremlin_propaganda⠀⇛
IID was founded in 2015 to “establish dialogue
between stakeholders in the Internet ecosystem and
the government.” The initiative had come from the
information scientist Sergey Plugotarenko (head of
Russia’s Association for Electronic Communication,
or RAEC, who is also on the board of the pro-Putin
All-Russia People’s Front) and his longtime
colleague Sergey Grebennikov, who then headed
ROTsIT, an organization claiming to “develop and
disseminate Internet technologies serving the
interests of Russian citizens.” Thanks to their
history of good relations with the government, “the
two Sergeys” (as others sometimes called them
behind their backs) secured the support of
Vyacheslav Volodin, who was then first deputy chief
of staff in the Kremlin. Volodin gave the green
light, and IID was launched, with the intent that
it would consult the government on “Internet-
related questions.”
# ⚓ Robert Reich ☛ Does_the_Constitution_Ban_Trump_from_Running
Again? Donald_Trump…⠀⇛
Donald Trump should not be allowed on the ballot.
Section_3_of_the_14th_Amendment prohibits anyone
who has held public office and taken an oath to
protect the Constitution from holding office again
if they “have engaged in insurrection” against the
United States.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Trump_Trial_Setting_Could_Provide
Conservative_Jury_Pool⠀⇛
If Judge Aileen Cannon sticks to her initial
decision to hold the trial in Fort Pierce, Fla.,
the jury would be drawn largely from counties that
Donald Trump won handily in his previous campaigns.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Biden_rolls_out_the_red_carpet_for_Indian_PM
Modi’s_White_House_visit⠀⇛
US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi are expected to deepen defense and
technology cooperation between their countries
during Modi’s official visit to the White House,
despite lingering concerns about human rights in
India.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Indian_Dissidents_Have_Had_It_With_America
Praising_Modi⠀⇛
To support the defenders of India’s embattled
democracy, just tell the truth.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Modi’s_Visit_to_the_US_Whitewashes_India’s
Far-Right_Violence⠀⇛
On Tuesday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
arrived in New York ahead of his first official
state visit to the United States in almost a
decade. The trip will include a dinner with
President Joe Biden, a congressional address, and
an invitation-only event to speak to the Indian-
American diaspora.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Why_Does_Ro_Khanna_Want_Modi_to_Address
Congress?⠀⇛
On June 22, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi,
will be in Washington, D.C., for his first official
state visit. And US political elites are busy
preparing for his fete. The prime minister will
address a joint session of Congress and attend a
state dinner in his honor at the White House. This
will only be President Joe Biden’s third state
dinner. Just a few years ago—from 2005 to 2014—the
US barred Modi from entering the country because of
his alleged role as Gujarat’s chief minister in the
2002 Gujarat riots in which nearly 2,000 Indians,
most of whom were Muslim, were murdered.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Dangerous_Reality_of_Modi’s_India⠀⇛
Mr. Modi’s version of India is no less skewed than
Donald Trump’s of the United States, even if Mr.
Modi has been more successful at getting the media
and global elite to buy into it.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Modi’s_State_Visit:_Biden_Embraces_Indian
Leader_Despite_Rights_Crackdown⠀⇛
President Joe Biden is hosting Indian Prime
Minister Narendra Modi for a four-day state visit
this week amid growing concerns about the Indian
leader’s human rights record. Modi has been prime
minister since 2014, during which time he has
cracked down on dissent, curtailed the free press,
targeted Muslims and other minorities and pushed an
aggressive form of Hindu nationalism that violates
the pluralistic vision of modern India’s founders.
For years, Modi was banned from even entering the
United States over his role in anti-Muslim riots in
2002 that left over 1,000 dead in Gujarat, where
Modi was the chief minister. Despite criticism of
the state visit from some progressive lawmakers,
the White House sees India as a key partner in
countering Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific
region. We go to Mumbai to speak with Rana Ayyub,
Indian journalist and global opinions writer for
The Washington Post.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Why_Pakistan_army_is_targeting_Imran_Khan’s
party⠀⇛
Who’s responsible for the May 9 riots in Pakistan?
Some Pakistanis say the army’s furor at former
Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party is misdirected.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Pentagon_documents_leak_suspect_Teixeira_pleads
not_guilty_in_US_court⠀⇛
An Air National Guardsman accused of leaking US
military secrets pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to
six federal counts of willful retention and
transmission of classified information relating to
national defense, a court filing showed.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_airman_suspected_of_leaking_classified
documents_pleads_not_guilty_in_federal_court⠀⇛
Jack Teixeira, the US airman suspected of leaking
classified government documents, pleaded not guilty
on Wednesday before a federal judge in a
Massachusetts courtroom. Teixeira is charged with
six counts of willful retention and transmission of
classified information.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Cuban_President_Miguel_Díaz-Canel_Arrives_in
France⠀⇛
“with regret we have learned of the unfortunate
explosion that occurred this afternoon in the
center of Paris…”
# ⚓ American Oversight ☛ Congress_Cites_Records_Obtained_by
American_Oversight_that_Show_Durham_Investigation’s
Politicization⠀⇛
# ⚓ American Oversight ☛ In_the_Records:_A_Trump_Political
Appointee’s_Involvement_in_the_Durham_Investigation⠀⇛
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ EU-US_joint_statement_following_the
EU-US_Ministerial_on_Justice_and_Home_Affairs⠀⇛
European Commission Statement Stockholm, 21 Jun
2023 1. On 21 June 2023, the Swedish Presidency of
the Council of the European Union hosted the EU-US
Ministerial Meeting on Justice and Home Affairs in
Stockholm.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Brazilian_President_Meets_With_Pope_Francis⠀⇛
After his visit to Italy, Lula da Silva will leave
for Paris to attend the summit on a new global
financial pact.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Sierra_Leone_opposition_party_protests_Electoral
Commission⠀⇛
Opposition-led protests broke out in Sierra Leone
on Wednesday amid growing tensions surrounding the
country’s presidential elections, set to take place
next weekend, according to local JURIST sources. In
support of the All People’s Congress, Sierra
Leone’s leading opposition party, protesters in the
capital city of Freetown demonstrated against the
country’s election authorities.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_gov’t_blames_pandemic_for
the_city’s_drop_in_international_competitiveness_rankings⠀⇛
Hong Kong has been ranked seventh in
competitiveness among 64 economic entities, falling
two places from year, according to the latest
report by Switzerland’s International Institute for
Management Development (IMD).
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Hunter_Biden_Plea_Deal_Leaves_House
Republicans_in_a_Pickle⠀⇛
The White House can now point out that it let the
legal process take its course, which is what has
happened.
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ “The_Final_Battle”:_A_Trip_through_Trump’s
America⠀⇛
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking
another term in the White House. A trip through
Republican-controlled states reveals just how
radically America has already changed. Can the
country survive a second Trump tenure?
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Trump_Seems_to_Be_Afraid,_Very_Afraid⠀⇛
That was the big revelation of his interview with
Fox’s Bret Baier.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Should_Joe_Biden_Pardon_Donald_Trump?⠀⇛
According to Danielle Pletka, a senior fellow at
the American Enterprise Institute, if the President
“wants to deliver on his promise to heal the
country, he could do so with one action.”
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Trump_is_discussing_his_criminal_case_openly.
Can_he_do_that?⠀⇛
In his first televised interview since his
indictment for hoarding classified documents,
former President Donald Trump discussed the case
with Fox News host Bret Baier. Speaking publicly
about a legal case is unusual and risky, according
to legal experts.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ House_Censures_Adam_Schiff_Over_His_Role
Investigating_Trump⠀⇛
The move by the G.O.P.-led House was the first in
what could be a series of votes seeking to punish
those whom Republicans have deemed enemies of the
party.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Former_F.B.I._Analyst_Goes_to_Prison_for
Taking_Classified_Documents⠀⇛
Like former President Trump, the former analyst was
accused of violating the Espionage Act, taking home
hundreds of classified documents and being
unhelpful.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Gaps_Between_Media_and_Reality⠀⇛
Readers share examples of media portrayals
that are at odds with their own life
experiences.
# ⚓ NPR ☛ Googling_‘abortion_clinic_near_me’?_The_top
result_is_often_an_anti-abortion_clinic⠀⇛
When people are looking for abortion
services, they often turn to Google,
searching a phrase like “abortion clinic near
me” or “planned parenthood.”
Yet the ads they’ll see at the top of the
Google search results are often not abortion
providers at all, but instead misleading ads
for anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers”
— facilities that use various tactics to
dissuade or delay pregnant people from
getting an abortion.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Malaysia_Says_It_Will_Take_Legal
Action_Against_Meta_Over_Harmful_Content_on_Facebook⠀⇛
The Malaysian Communication and Multimedia
Commission said Facebook has recently been plagued
by a “a significant volume of undesirable content”
relating to sensitive issues on race, religion and
royalty as well as defamation, impersonation,
online gambling and scam advertisements.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zhenya_Berkovich_is_being_prosecuted_on_terrorism-
related_charges._But_the_Internet_is_up_in_arms_because_she
calls_herself_a_‘directoress.’_Why_do_Russian_feminists_use
‘feminitives’?⠀⇛
One of the critics of the rhetoric of recognition
exemplified by the feminitives is the American
philosopher Nancy Fraser. She does not believe that
inclusive language is enough to solve society’s
structural problems. “We are facing,” she writes,
“a new constellation in the grammar of political
claims-making — and one that is disturbing on two
counts.” [...]
# ⚓ CPJ ☛ Turkish_journalist_Sedef_Kabaş_facing_new_trial_for
‘insulting’_President_Erdoğan⠀⇛
During the June 22 hearing, which a CPJ
representative attended, Kabaş’s lawyers asked to
take the case to another court after the current
one denied their plea to either dismiss the case or
acquit the journalist; the court delayed the second
hearing in her case until November 16, 2023, to
give Kabaş’s lawyers time to justify that request.
Kabaş was arrested for the same charge over her on-
air comments in January 2022. She was found guilty
and sentenced to two years and four months in
prison, but was released pending appeal on March
11, 2022.
Insulting Turkey’s president can carry a prison
sentence of up to four years, with an added penalty
if the insult was made in public, according to
Article 299 of the Turkish penal code.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Reddit_Tells_Mods_That_Protesting_By_Changing
Sub_To_NSFW_Violates_The_Rules⠀⇛
The enshittification of Reddit continues. Yesterday
we wrote about the next move from protesting mods
to switch their subs to NSFW, which strips those
subreddits of ads, and how Reddit was experimenting
with removing the mods who did that. For what it’s
worth, just a few days ago, Reddit insisted in a
comment that it wasn’t “threatening” mods with
removal, and then just days later it literally did
remove the mods, so nice going Reddit comms: you’ve
completely fucked over whatever credibility you
might have had.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Germany_domestic_intelligence_agency_reports
extremist_crime_at_record_high⠀⇛
German Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy
Faeser and President of the Federal Office for the
Protection of the Constitution (BfV) Thomas
Haldenwang unveiled the BfV’s annual report on
Tuesday, highlighting the increasing threat of
extremism in Germany as the number of crimes
committed by political extremists reached a record
high in 2022.
# ⚓ Primary_school_staff_suspended_in_İstanbul_after_‘rainbow
decorations’⠀⇛
The suspension of the teachers came after a tweet
by the former mayor of Ankara. İstanbul LGBTI+
Pride Week Committee has expressed support for the
affected teachers.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Volunteer_Yale_Psych_Prof’s_Nonrenewal_for
Publicly_Diagnosing_Trump_&_Dershowitz_Doesn’t_Violate_Conn.
Law,⠀⇛
holds the Second Circuit.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Can_a_Florida_School_District_Ban_a_Children’s
Book_About_Gay_Penguins?⠀⇛
The answer’s more complicated than you might think.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Scaling_trust_on_the_web⠀⇛
The Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web’s
report captures analysis of the systems gaps and
critical opportunities that will define how the
next generation of online spaces will be
constructed.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Europe’s_best-selling_newspaper_is_cutting_jobs
and_looking_ahead_to_AI⠀⇛
A wave of job cutshitting German tabloid Bild,
Europe’s best-selling newspaper, are just a taste
of what’s to come as even print publications
prioritize digital media and embrace_artificial
intelligence.
[...]
In a memo to staff first reported by German
newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine on June 19, Bild’s
parent company, Axel Springer, shared plans for a
reorganization that will involve the loss of some
200 roles. Bild, which currently employs about
1,000 people, will discontinue the publishing of
six of its 18 regional editions, and close two-
thirds of its regional offices.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Prosecutor_Seeks_19-Year_Sentence_For_Daghestani
Journalist,_Co-Defendants_Charged_With_Financing_Terrorism⠀⇛
A Russian prosecutor on June 22 asked for a 19-year
sentence for reporter Abdulmumin Gadzhiyev and his
two co-defendants from the North Caucasus region
and Daghestan on charges of financing terrorism
that the three men and their supporters reject as
politically motivated. [...]
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Russia_court_rejects_US_journalist’s_appeal_for
release_ahead_of_espionage_trial⠀⇛
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the newspaper that
employs Gershkovich, also commented on the court’s
ruling. They said, “Although the outcome was
expected, it is no less an outrage that his
detention continues to be upheld. Evan has been
wrongfully detained for more than 12 weeks for
nothing more than doing his job as a journalist. We
continue to demand his immediate release.”
# ⚓ CPJ ☛ Haitian_television_station_owner_disappears_days
after_brief_abduction_of_his_journalist_wife⠀⇛
The Committee to Protect Journalists on Thursday
called on Haitian authorities to investigate the
reported kidnapping of Pierre-Louis Opont, the
president of Haiti’s independent Télé Pluriel
channel 44, and the brief abduction of his
journalist wife Marie Lucie Bonhomme.
The disappearance of Opont on Tuesday, June 20,
came days after Bonhomme, a veteran reporter for
Haiti’s radio station Vision 2000, was abducted
from her home for several hours, according to news
reports and Bonhomme.
# ⚓ New Eastern Europe ☛ “Justice_is_the_best_prevention”⠀⇛
On February 25th 2018, the bodies of Slovak
investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée
Martina Kušnírová were found in their home in Veľká
Mača, not far from Bratislava. The murder shocked
the country, sparking the biggest protests in
Slovakia since the fall of communism and leading to
a political crisis that would culminate on March
15th with the resignation of Prime Minister Robert
Fico.
On May 19th, the entrepreneur Márian Kočner, the
suspected mastermind behind the killing, was
acquitted by the Special Criminal Court. As the
country approaches parliamentary elections later
this year, we discussed the current situation in
Slovakia with Matt Sarnecki, the director of the
related film called “The Killing of a Journalist”.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Reporters_Convicted_of_‘Trespass’_for_Doing_Their
Jobs⠀⇛
The guilty verdict came the same day the Justice
Department blasted Minneapolis for harassing the
press.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ ‘The_damage_has_already_been_done’:
Hong_Kong_journalist_Bao_Choy_on_winning_a_battle_but_not_the
war⠀⇛
After leaving Hong Kong’s top court on a warm June
morning, Bao Choy was overwhelmed by a mixture of
jubilation and sadness.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_Supreme_Court_finds_government_is_not_obligated
to_secure_Navajo_Tribe_water_access⠀⇛
In writing the 5-4 majority opinion, Justice Brett
Kavanaugh rested on a strict reading of the treaty.
The court found that while there is express
language regarding water rights via groundwater,
rivers, streams, lakes and springs, there was no
language regarding the government’s duty to secure
water for the tribe. Ultimately, the court held
that the 1868 treaty “contained no ‘rights-creating
or duty-imposing’ language that imposed a duty on
the United States to take affirmative steps to
secure water for the Tribe.”
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Protecting_Marine_Life_Also_Benefits_the
People_Nearby,_Study_Finds⠀⇛
Protecting coastal areas of the ocean from fishing,
mining and other human activity can also help
people living nearby, according to a study
published on Thursday in the journal Nature
Sustainability.
People living close to these areas had better food
security and greater household wealth, the study
found. The region studied is the Mesoamerican coral
reef system, which stretches just off Central
America’s eastern coast for about 600 miles from
Mexico south to Honduras.
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ Abolish_Frontex:_Criticism_of_mentioning_activists
in_Europol’s_“Trend_Report”_on_Terrorism⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ 50_Years_Later,_the_UpStairs_Lounge_Fire_Is
More_Important_to_Remember_Than_Ever⠀⇛
Fifty years ago, on June 24, 1973, an arsonist set
the UpStairs Lounge, a queer nightclub in New
Orleans’ French Quarter, ablaze. When the flames
cleared, 32 people were dead and another 15 were
injured. The attack would stand as the largest act
of mass murder against the LGBTQ+ community until
the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Ted_Kaczynski_We_Hardly_Knew_Ye⠀⇛
However, even with those legendary stats and all
the hyped-up true crime mythology that comes with
them, at the end of another crowded news day, Ted
Kaczynski was still just another number in
America’s perpetually swelling human zoo and after
the world took a moment to spit on his grave with
the cameras rolling, they gleefully returned to
their business-as-usual of masturbating to
celebrity car crash footage while setting the
rainforest on fire. Maybe I’m the sick one here,
but I just can’t seem to bring myself to join them
back in the daily grind. Something about leaving
that broken old man hanging in his cell gives me a
dull ache in the pit of my heart.
I won’t sit here and try to pretend that Ted
Kaczynski was some kind of folk hero. He was a
killer and most of his victims were just innocent
civilians. So, why then should I mourn the death of
such a ghastly creature? If I had to answer this
vexing question in the simplest of terms, I would
say that it’s because Ted was a fellow outsider and
in spite of all his many sins, he was also right
about far more things than any truly evil person
ever could be. Burn me at the stake if you must but
I feel that this lonesome bastard has at the very
least earned himself the right to one obituary that
acknowledges the uncomfortable fact that he was
indeed a human being.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Student_Monitoring_Tools_Should_Not_Flag_LGBTQ+
Keywords⠀⇛
But in practice, these flags don’t work very
well—many of the terms flagged by these student
monitoring applications are often ambiguous,
implicating whole swathes of the net that contain
benign content. Worse still, these tools can alert
teachers or parents to content that indicates
something highly personal about the student—like
the phrase “am I gay”—in a context that implies
such a phrase is dangerous. Numerous reports show
that the regular flagging of LGBTQ+ content creates
a harmful atmosphere for students, some of whom
have been outed because of it. This is particularly
problematic when school personnel or family members
do not understand or support a queer identity.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Blood-Quantum_Laws_Are_Splintering_My
Tribe⠀⇛
The rules were supposed to preserve my community.
Instead they are slowly cutting people out of it.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Hackers_Release_Documents_Reportedly
Showing_Raisi_Approved_Funds_To_Suppress_Unrest⠀⇛
A group of hackers has reportedly leaked government
documents suggesting Iranian President Ebrahim
Raisi approved the use of at least 100 trillion
Iranian rials ($200 million) to put down protests
during the recent nationwide unrest.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Waiting_for_the_Justices⠀⇛
We’re covering the coming affirmative action
ruling, the search for a submersible and Hunter
Biden.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Hunter_Biden:_President’s_Son_Takes_Plea
Deal_on_Tax_&_Gun_Charges,_But_Legal_Trouble_May_Not_Be
Over⠀⇛
Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, is
pleading guilty to federal tax offenses and a
separate felony gun charge for which he is avoiding
prosecution, according to a plea agreement with the
Justice Department announced Tuesday. The deal caps
a multiyear probe by the Trump-appointed U.S.
attorney in Delaware. As a result, Hunter Biden is
unlikely to spend any time behind bars despite the
sweeping investigation into his personal and
business conduct that Republicans have attempted to
portray as unethical influence peddling directly
implicating the president in corruption. But is
this the end of Hunter Biden’s legal trouble? We
speak with The Intercept’s Ken Klippenstein about
the plea deal, as well as what other evidence the
FBI may have about Hunter Biden.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ It’s_Official:_The_DOJ_Stalled_the
Investigation_Into_Donald_Trump⠀⇛
On Monday morning, The Washington Post published a
devastating story about attempts by leadership at
the Department of Justice—including, most notably,
Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Attorney
General Lisa Monaco, and FBI Director Chris Wray—to
avoid prosecuting Donald Trump. The story exposes
how the DOJ quashed efforts to aggressively pursue
Trump and other politically connected Republicans
for their roles in attacking the Capitol on January
6, 2021, and instead adopted a more “cautious”
approach aimed at avoiding the appearance of
partisanship. Garland, it would seem, cared more
about appearing fair (to Republicans) than seeking
justice against the Republicans who tried to
overthrow the government.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Let’s_Stop_Casually_Comparing_Donald_Trump_to
Eugene_Debs⠀⇛
Donald Trump is in a world of legal trouble, and
that’s inspired widespread speculation about
whether the frequently indicted former president
could end up running for a second term from a
prison cell.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kurdish_Prisoner_Reportedly_Executed_In_Iran⠀⇛
Human rights groups say Hayman Mostafaei, a Kurdish
prisoner, was executed in the early hours of June
21 at the Sanandaj Central Prison in western Iran.
# ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ WATCH:_Finding_The_Better_Way⠀⇛
In June of 2023, James Corbett delivered two
presentations at The Better Way conference in Bath,
England: “Between The Raindrops” on the topic “From
Electrosmog to Nature’s Frequencies” and “The
Limits of My Language” on the topic “From Thought
Control to Free Thought.” This is the recording of
those presentations. If you couldn’t afford the …
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Largest_and_Fastest_Religious_Shift_in
America_Is_Well_Underway⠀⇛
We’re dechurching at a rapid clip.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Paul_Singer_Sets_Fishing_Record_by_Catching
Two-Hundred-Pound_Supreme_Court_Justice⠀⇛
The billionaire revealed that the jurist was “much
easier to catch” than he had anticipated.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Reddit_Gave_Its_Moderators_Freedom—And
Power⠀⇛
A series of recent protests reveal just how much
the site depends on its moderators’ free labor.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Eighteen_Belarusian_Activists_Handed_Lengthy_Prison
Terms⠀⇛
A court in Belarus has sentenced self-exiled
opposition activist Vadzim Prakopyeu to 25 years in
prison on multiple charges, including allegedly
coordinating an attempted arson attack at the house
of a pro-government lawmaker in June 2021.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Republika_Srpska_Assembly_Votes_To_No_Longer
Publish_Decisions_Of_Bosnia_High_Representative⠀⇛
The National Assembly of the Republika Srpska has
adopted changes in the law which imply that
decisions by the high representative in Bosnia-
Herzegovina will no longer be recognized.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Hun_Sen_likes_proposal_to_build_parks_honoring_his
‘win-win’_policy_to_end_civil_war⠀⇛
But critics see it as a waste of money and suspect
he will use the project to pump up image ahead of
July vote.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Myanmar’s_civilian_death_toll_climbs_amid_soldier
massacres,_bloody_clashes⠀⇛
Killings are happening where fighting is fiercest.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Vice_UK_staff_to_strike_for_two_days_over
redundancy_terms⠀⇛
Press Gazette understands 23 jobs at Vice are at
risk of redundancy.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Census_reveals_total_number_of_journalists
and_PRs:_More_than_half_female⠀⇛
There are about 13,000 more PRs in England and
Wales than there are journalists.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Lessons_from_ITV_on_how_news_outlets_should
cover_their_own_crises⠀⇛
What ITV, the BBC and The Guardian have done right
– or wrong – in recent crises about themselves.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ City_Council_bans_traffic_stops_for_minor
traffic_infractions,_initiates_the_bidding_process_for
unarmed_crisis_response_team⠀⇛
The Ann Arbor City Council met at Larcom City Hall
Monday evening to pass the driving equality
ordinance, which would prohibit police from
conducting traffic stops for certain minor traffic
violations including cracked windshields, cracked
taillights or expired registration tags on its
first read.
# ⚓ Shadowproof ☛ Protest_Song_Of_The_Week:_‘John_Wayne_Was_a
Nazi’_By_Fucked_Up_&_The_Halluci_Nation⠀⇛
The song challenged the celebrated actor for his
bigotry and role in helping to prop up an
oppressive colonial system. It refers to his movies
that often portrayed Wayne as a heroic cowboy
fighting against the villainous Native Americans.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ SCOTUS_Upheld_ICWA_But_Questions_Remain_for
Native_American_Families⠀⇛
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 1978
Indian Child Welfare Act. The decision, by a 7-
2 vote, meant that the law will continue to require
giving preference to placing adoptable Native
American children with Native families.
Kathryn Fort, director of the Indian Law Clinic at
the Michigan State University College of Law,
represented tribes who appealed after a federal
judge in Texas declared ICWA unconstitutional in
2018. She’d spent months anticipating that the
Supreme Court would make major changes to the law
or even dismantle it.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Seven_Pakistanis_Arrested_For_Alleged_Key_Role_In
Migrant_Ship_That_Sank_Off_Greece,_Leaving_500_Missing⠀⇛
Pakistani authorities said on June 21 that they
have arrested seven alleged key figures in a human
trafficking ring following last week’s sinking of
an overcrowded smuggling vessel off Greece that
left more than 500 migrants missing, including
Pakistanis.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ New_Zealand_Immigration_Minister_Resigns,
Conflicts_of_Interest⠀⇛
“As Minister of Immigration, Michael made the
decision to include telecommunications technicians
on the immigration Green List…”
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Superyacht_Gave_a_Lifeline_to_100
Migrants_Thrown_Into_the_Sea⠀⇛
A $175 million vessel responded to a distress call
and helped rescue survivors in one of the
Mediterranean’s worst wrecks in decades, reflecting
the new inequality of the seas.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_Hopes_of_a_Better_Life_Ended_on_a
Migrant_Ship_Off_Greece⠀⇛
About two dozen of those on the fishing vessel that
capsized off Greece came from Bandli, a community
in northeastern Pakistan with a long history of
young men chasing a brighter future abroad.
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Immigration_to_Finland_continues_to_be
high_–_interest_in_studying_in_Finland_is_growing⠀⇛
Finland has experienced a significant increase in
immigration, primarily driven by individuals moving
to the country for work or education with their
families. Unlike other parts of Europe, Finland has
not seen a surge in applications for international
protection. These findings are highlighted in the
Finnish Immigration Services’ latest report on
immigration titled “Immigration_to_Finland.”
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Immigration_hardliner_Halla-aho_elected_as_Finland’s
Speaker_of_Parliament⠀⇛
With new speakers and cabinet ministers sworn in,
Finland’s new legislature and government will
finally get down to work, nearly three months after
the election.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ [Repeat] The Strategist ☛ Could_Russia_deliver_on_the
threat_to_cut_the_US_and_Europe_off_from_the_[Internet]?⠀⇛
Undersea cables, also known as submarine cables,
are the physical infrastructure that connects the
digital world. Hundreds of fibre-optic cables, some
no thicker than garden hoses, are laid out across
the ocean floor, enabling the real-time global
transmission of data and communications signals.
These cables facilitate around 99% of [Internet]
traffic as well as the telephone calls, data
transfers and other telecommunications that enable
modern life to function. The first undersea
telegraph cable was laid in 1858; today, there are
almost 400, most of which are commercially owned
and operated.
While Medvedev’s threat may have just been sabre-
rattling, if Russia followed through on it and cut
undersea cables, the consequences would be
immediate and widespread.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Reason ☛ It_Takes_6_Clicks_To_Cancel_Amazon_Prime_and_the
FTC’s_New_Lawsuit_Says_That’s_Too_Many⠀⇛
The ideal number of clicks to cancel an online
subscription may be four or five instead of six,
but we don’t need government to make that decision.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ FTC_sues_Amazon_over_‘tricking_people_into_Prime
subscriptions’⠀⇛
“Consumers had to first locate the cancellation
flow, which Amazon made difficult.
“Once they located the cancellation flow, they were
redirected to multiple pages that presented several
offers to continue the subscription at a discounted
price, to simply turn off the auto-renew feature,
or to decide not to cancel.
“Only after clicking through these pages could
consumers finally cancel the service.”
The FTC also alleged that Amazon attempted to delay
and hinder its investigation in multiple instances.
Amazon has not yet issued any public statement
about the FTC move.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ FTC_Sues_Amazon_Over_Tricking_Users_Into
Signing_Up_for_Prime⠀⇛
The Commission alleges that Amazon Prime’s
“manipulative” enrollment and “labyrinthine”
cancellation processes are illegal.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_Federal_Trade_Commission_sues_Amazon_over
deceptive_subscription_practices⠀⇛
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued retail
platform Amazon.com Wednesday over allegations that
Amazon deceived users into purchasing renewable
subscriptions to its Prime service, which allows
customers to save on delivery fees.
# ⚓ NPR ☛ FTC_sues_Amazon_for_‘tricking_and_trapping’_people_in
Prime_subscriptions⠀⇛
Federal regulators have sued Amazon, alleging the
company for years “tricked” people into buying
Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to
cancel. \
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ FTC_sues_Amazon_over_Prime_sign-up_and
cancellation_interfaces⠀⇛
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today
sued Amazon.com Inc. over the subscription
management interfaces of its Prime service.
Introduced in 2005, Prime provides access to free
shipping, discounts and other benefits for a
monthly fee. The service reached 100 million users
in 2018. According to Amazon, it passed 200 million
users about three years later.
⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Hearing_Over_Microsoft’s_Takeover_of_Activision_Blizzard_Begins,
With_Bigwigs_Set_to_Testify⠀⇛
Microsoft’s $68.7 billion bid to acquire video game maker Activision
Blizzard has arrived in court. An evidentiary hearing that pits both
tech giants against the Federal Trade Commission began at 8:30 A.M.
Pacific (11:30 A.M. Eastern) on Thursday morning. Big money and an
industry-wide restructuring are at stake over the corporate merger—
which has stoked pushback globally. In the first few hours of the
proceedings, a minor bombshell has already dropped—an unsealed email
that could undermine the arguments of the merger’s main opponent,
Sony.
⚓ [Old] Time ☛ Why_We_Should_All_Be_Worried_About_‘Chokepoint_Capitalism’⠀⇛
Chokepoint Capitalism is the title of a new book co-authored by
Doctorow, an [Internet] freedom activist, and Rebecca Giblin, a
scholar at the University of Melbourne. The pair coined the term to
describe what they say is the defining feature of the modern economy:
corporations weaponizing their power to crush competition and lock in
customers. The idea behind free market capitalism—that firms would
compete fairly and thus drive prices down—has been corrupted in
practice, Giblin and Doctorow argue. Chokepoint capitalism, they
write, ultimately results in higher prices for customers and lower
wages for workers. At the same time, the system diverts record
profits to corporations, which they can reinvest to further cement
their power.
⚓ Quartz ☛ Gannett_is_piling_onto_the_antitrust_claims_against_Google⠀⇛
Gannett, the largest owner of newspapers in the US, is suing Google,
alleging that the tech company’s dominance over the digital
advertising market violates federal antitrust law.
⚓ Quartz ☛ California_enlisted_the_likes_of_Amazon,_eBay,_and_Etsy_to_fight
organized_retail_theft⠀⇛
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is gathering a squad of sorts
to fight organized retail theft.
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ European Commission ☛ InvestEU:_EIF_to_facilitate_up_to_€280
million_in_new_financing_to_Czech_and_Slovakian_SMEs_and_mid-caps
by_Komerční_banka [Ed: But EU is ATTACKING SMEs. See what it did
this month with the ILLEGAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL Unified Patent
Court]⠀⇛
European Commission Press release Luxembourg, 21 Jun 2023
European Investment Fund guarantees will support debt
financing for about 6,500 micro [...]
* § Trademarks⠀➾
o ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Is_KOKOMO_for_Fresh_Fruits_Confusable
With_KOKOMO_for_Wine?⠀⇛
The USPTO refused to register the mark KOKOMO for “Fresh
fruits and vegetables; live plants, namely, live table
grape vines; live plant material, namely, live table
grape vine plant material; all of the foregoing excluding
tomatoes and field corn, rye grass and perennial rye
grass” in Class 31, finding confusion likely with the
identical mark registered for “wine.” We know that when
the marks are identical, a lesser degree of similarity
between the involved goods is needed to support a
likelihood of confusion refusal. How do you think this
one came out? In_re_International_Fruit_Genetics,_LLC,
Serial No. 88711163 (June 15, 2023) [not precedential]
(Opinion by Judge Cynthia C. Lynch).
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ Specimens_of_Fancy_Turning_(1869)⠀⇛
Thirty albumen silver prints of designs created through
ornamental lathework.
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ How_Much_Does_Spotify_Pay_for_1_Million
Streams?_The_Answer_In_2023_Is_Downright_Depressing⠀⇛
How much does Spotify pay for 1 million streams? The
answer in 2023 is increasingly depressing — just ask
Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth. If you’re wondering
how much Spotify pays for a million streams, the answer
has only gotten worse since we covered a significant
spreadsheet of royalties way back in 2016.
o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ What_to_Do_About_Fake_Drake_Songs⠀⇛
Generative A.I. has become very good at imitating famous
pop stars. How should musicians respond?
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ RIAA_Targets_‘AI_Hub’_Discord_Users_Over
Copyright_Infringement⠀⇛
‘AI Hub’ is a rapidly growing Discord server where users
share guides and AI models, including voice models of
major musicians. The RIAA suggests that the server is
dedicated to copyright infringement and wants it shut
down. Through a DMCA subpoena, the anti-piracy group
further asks Discord to disclose the identities of
several users.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Pirate_IPTV:_Police_Target_13_Suspects,_Seize
620K_Euros_in_Cash/Crypto⠀⇛
Italian police say they have targeted 13 people in Italy
and Germany suspected of selling access to pirate IPTV
services. Italian police units collaborated with their
counterparts in Germany, with international judicial
cooperation channels coordinated by Eurojust. Police say
they seized over 620,000 euros in cash and crypto, and
shut down 60 Telegram channels.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Megaupload_Fugitive_Arrested_By_Armed_Police_11
Years_After_The_Raid⠀⇛
Since 2012, Kim Dotcom has been fighting extradition to
the United States where he faces serious charges related
to cloud storage site Megaupload. During that time, very
little has been said about Megaupload graphic designer,
Julius Bencko. A wanted man in the U.S., Bencko was
arrested this month by armed police in the Czech
Republic, who filmed the event and published it online.
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