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⦿ [Meme] German Efficiency | Techrights
⦿ It Might Be Too Late for the German Government to Fix the EPO (It Had a Lot to Do With This Current Mess) | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 17, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Techrights Was Right: Microsoft Fired More Than 4 Times What the Media Said Last Week | Techrights
⦿ 2 Weeks Later and the City of London Police Took No Action Against Fraudsters Who Defrauded Their Staff (People Who Had Worked on Computer Systems of the Met’s Overlords) | Techrights
⦿ The Argument for UEFI Restricted Boot is Dead | Techrights
⦿ Understanding How the Linux Foundation Really Operates (Looking Beyond the Name and Marketing) | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/07/18/epo-german-efficiency/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/18/fixing-the-epo-2023/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/18/irc-log-170723/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/18/microsoft-media-lied-about-layoffs/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/18/police-refuses-to-enforce-law/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/18/uefi-restricted-boot-is-monopoly/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/18/understanding-how-the-linux-foundation-really-operates-looking-beyond-the-name-and-marketing/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/07/18/akademy-2023-2/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/18/meson-1-2/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/18/tech-illiteracy/#comments
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✐ [Meme]_German_Efficiency⠀✐
Posted in Europe, Patents at 11:27 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇I'll_smoke_out_expensive_examiners;_Danke,Battistelli⦈
Summary: Now that EPO management openly_attacks_and_smears_its_own_staff it’s
hard not to feel like the objective is to destroy what the EPO stood for (for
nearly 50 years)
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EPO Scrutiny Came From Above
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Summary: The German government played a considerable role in EPO abuses, not
just tolerated them, not to mention how it is replacing patent courts with
kangaroo courts that are illegal and unconstitutional (but are plaintiff-
friendly and obscenely_industry-connected, i.e. they presume junk patents have
merit); is there any hope of redemption left?
THE status of the EPO is not good. Stakeholders, such as prolific patent
applicants, are dissatisfied. Benoît_Battistelli and António_Campinos crushed
the Rule of Law to basically grant as many patents as possible. Who exactly is
served by low-quality, invalid, non-compliant (w.r.t. the European Patent
Convention) junk patents, including software_patents?
“It became akin to organised (white-collar) crime where even the overseeing
authorities are complicit.”Aside from legal challenges by patent examiners
we’re seeing some profound attitudinal changes, not limited to stakeholders
complaining but also changes_in_the_German_government's_attitude.
One can hope for substantial remedial actions, but they would have to be so
wide-ranging and deep that perhaps every single person in the EPO’s management
must be removed, along with the enablers at EUIPO and the EU/EC at large. There
are ‘moles’. Well-connected and coordinated corruption of this scale is
difficult to tackle. It can take decades to solve (or dissolve). It became akin
to organised (white-collar) crime where even the overseeing authorities are
complicit.
As the video above notes, they love blaming “the far-right”. But they
selectively assess their own actions. Bad governments cause people to turn to
extreme “alternatives”. Fix it before it’s too late and potentially
irreversible. █
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✐ Techrights_Was_Right:_Microsoft_Fired_More_Than_4_Times_What_the_Media_Said
Last_Week⠀✐
Posted in Finance, Microsoft at 6:46 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
These layoffs impacted_workers_in_Canada,_US,_and_Europe (maybe more). This was
quite broad and it_hasn't_stopped.
2 hours ago: Microsoft’s_latest_layoffs_hit_more_than_1,000_employees_and_bring
big_changes_to_sales_and_customer_service_teams,_insiders_say
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Microsoft's_latest_layoffs_hit_more_than_1,000_employees_and
bring_big_changes_to_sales_and_customer_service_teams,_insiders_say⦈_
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Microsoft_laid_off_more_than_1,000_employees_over_the_past
week,_primarily_in_customer_service_and_sales_roles,_people_familiar_with_the
changes_told_Insider._The_cuts_go_beyond_the_10,000_layoffs_Microsoft_indicated
it_was_planning_earlier_this_year,_according_to_these_people._They_asked_not_to
be_identified_discussing_sensitive_matters.⦈_
Summary: A report published just over 2 hours ago confirms what we’ve been
repeatedly saying this past week. To quote: “Microsoft laid off more than 1,000
employees over the past week, primarily in customer service and sales roles,
people familiar with the changes told Insider. [...] They asked not to be
identified discussing sensitive matters.” As Ryan has just put it in IRC:
“Windows is a remaining value product. The thing was built shoddily a long time
ago and expanded with ticky tacky throughout the years. It’s not surprising
you’d be cutting sales and evangelism jobs when the people who are buying more
licenses are dwindling and were using it all along anyway and now need it to
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣷⣦⣴⣥⣯⣦⣦⣦⣧⣷⣥⣴⣽⣦⣴⣤⣧⣾⣤⣷⣤⣤⣧⣧⣵⣴⣦⣷⣴⣷⣤⣤⣦⣦⣦⣦⣦⣾⣴⣶⣦⣼⣧⣼⣦⣾⣴⣤⣤⣾⣧⣴⣴⣤⣤⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⣎⣈⣑⣀⣀⣆⣹⣘⣈⢡⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⡟⡟⠛⢻⠛⠛⠻⡻⡛⠟⡟⠛⡛⢻⠛⠟⠻⢛⠟⠛⣻⢛⠛⠛⣟⠛⢻⠛⢛⠛⢻⠛⠛⡻⢻⣛⠛⠛⢛⡟⠟⠻⡛⣛⠛⠻⣛⡛⡟⡻⠟⠟⠛⠻⠻⡛⡟⠟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣷⡿⣶⣾⢶⣮⣶⣾⣷⣶⣷⣶⠷⣾⣶⣷⢷⢷⣷⣶⣾⣥⣤⣤⣭⣤⣴⣤⣥⣥⣼⣦⣤⣬⣬⣥⣤⣤⣤⣥⣤⣤⣤⣥⣤⣤⣬⣥⣥⣬⣤⣤⣤⣤⣬⣤⣥⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⣿⡍⣍⠛⢻⠙⠋⠟⠛⠋⡟⠟⠟⠙⢻⠛⠋⠉⡟⠋⠛⠛⡟⠛⠛⡏⠛⢛⠛⣻⠙⠉⠛⢻⠛⠛⠛⢩⢹⠛⠻⠛⠛⡛⠛⠛⠋⡛⠛⠻⠻⠻⠛⠋⠛⢛⠛⠛⢻⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣾⣤⣼⣤⣦⣾⣮⣧⣦⣼⣴⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⢿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⠿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⣊⣀⣀⣚⣐⣘⣋⣸⣿⣽⣥⣼⣤⣼⣼⣤⣤⣷⣤⣼⣼⣧⣤⣼⣿⣍⣬⣾⣮⣼⣤⣼⣧⣠⣥⣷⣱⣤⣤⣾⣼⣯⣧⣦⣧⣿⣤⣼⣠⣤⣤⣼⣦⣤⣤⣬⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢛⣟⢙⣛⠛⠛⣫⠙⢻⢙⣻⣟⣻⠛⠛⢛⣟⡛⢛⢛⡟⢛⣛⠛⠙⡛⣻⠛⣛⣟⢹⡻⣻⡟⣛⢻⡛⣫⣿⡟⣿⣛⢿⢛⠛⠋⢛⣟⣽⡟⠛⣻⡏⠛⢛⡿⢛⠙⣙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣦⣴⣧⣦⣤⣴⣾⣐⣴⣮⣷⣤⣬⣾⣧⣴⣧⣾⣾⣴⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⣆⢉⣽⣩⣩⣭⣹⠍⠫⣹⣍⣩⢉⣉⣩⡯⣸⣡⣝⣭⡇⡱⣉⣎⣐⣱⣹⡏⠍⣍⣉⣤⣹⣎⡱⢈⡍⣭⣉⣩⡁⣸⣿⠉⣡⣷⣩⢩⣉⣍⣽⣯⢹⣉⣉⣩⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⢿⠿⠿⡟⠿⡿⢿⢿⢿⠟⢿⢿⢿⢟⢿⠻⢿⠿⠿⢿⢿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠻⡿⠿⢿⢿⢿⠿⠻⡿⠿⠿⡿⢿⢿⢿⠿⠻⢿⣟⢛⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠟⠿⠿⢻⡿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⢝⡯⠋⢻⠘⢜⠹⠝⠹⡯⠙⠙⢸⡫⠇⢹⢽⠏⠉⢹⠏⠙⢹⠉⠉⠉⠏⢬⠅⣉⠋⡏⠭⠏⠫⠩⢙⠙⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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✐ 2_Weeks_Later_and_the_City_of_London_Police_Took_No_Action_Against_Fraudsters
Who_Defrauded_Their_Staff_(People_Who_Had_Worked_on_Computer_Systems_of_the
Met’s_Overlords)⠀✐
Posted in Fraud, Law at 7:10 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Smells like a cover-up_and_selective_enforcement (or no enforcement)
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Crime victims and City of London Police⦈
If you’re going to commit a white-collar crime, make sure you’re in London. The
cops might even protect you from your victims. What’s the point having a law
when the police refuses to enforce it, even when many people are negatively
impacted by the law-breaking? If a government contractor can assault staff
while cops stand idly, what does that say about the cops? (See meme)
Summary: It has now been a fortnight since we got contacted by the City of
London Police (we’re victims of a very serious crime). If cops were to receive
a scorecard, it would say an “F”; they don’t give a “F” about victims of
crimes, especially when those crimes implicate their friends (as perpetrators),
so the matter is already being escalated
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✐ The_Argument_for_UEFI_Restricted_Boot_is_Dead⠀✐
Posted in Deception, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Security, Windows at 7:35 pm by Dr.
Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum ccc46e19c6698f24b1a7024160a14a66
Users Should Trust Themselves, Not Microsoft
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/trust-outsourced-to-microsoft-nsa.webm
Summary: UEFI “Restricted Boot” (not “Secure” Boot) is — and was all along —
about protecting the Windows monopoly; those who spouted out lies in support of
Restricted Boot are just Microsoft shills (they always were)
THE other day in IRC the subject of UEFI “Restricted_Boot” came_up_again.
'Gulagboy' continues to defend Microsoft’s interests (he never stopped) and
he’s assaulting a lot more than just GNU/Linux users.
“The ludicrous idea of protecting us…from us… by putting Microsoft in charge of
everything never made sense at all.”The latest on this matter (UEFI_‘Security’
is_Totally_Hopeless,_Even_a_Paradox) showed how the UEFI malware circulating
nowadays serves to prove that “Restricted Boot” was never about security.
Basically we won the argument on this “trust” fallacy and it goes beyond
firmwares (it’s the same with http/s, sigStore (applications) and other
things). The ludicrous idea of protecting us…from us… by putting Microsoft in
charge of everything never made sense at all. In fact, misplacing trust and
letting Microsoft control GNU/Linux and BSD is something worthy of The Onion.
As someone put it yesterday, the “Restricted Boot” signing was never about
security as the public and the politicians think of it, but instead about job
security and market lock-in for Microsofters.
Or, as I put it yesterday in IRC, the purpose of ‘secure’ boot, all along, was
to shun GNU/Linux and BSD; now people realise it’s not security and won’t treat
its proponent as security people. They never were. They’ re just Microsoft
shills, hailed by other Microsoft shills, even convicted criminals. █
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Gemini_version_available_♊︎
✐ Understanding_How_the_Linux_Foundation_Really_Operates_(Looking_Beyond_the
Name_and_Marketing)⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, Marketing, Microsoft at
10:47 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum bd972399612fc04ecc135e0218758234
Proxima Systems et al
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/lf-contractor-in-focus.webm
Summary: In an endeavour to better understand a tax-exempt organisation that’s
a misnomer we “follow the money” and decipher who’s running it
THE Linux_Foundation is a pseudo-non-profit that falsely claims to support
Linux among_other_things. A very tiny portion of its budget is actually devoted
to Linux, so it is just piggybacking the powerful brand. Microsoft is among the
biggest clients, with the_highest_number_of_people_in_the_Board.
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Jim Zemlin Kubernetes⦈ We recently took a look at the top
contractor of the Foundation, which is conspicuously_small (there are companies
with the same name that are vastly bigger) but receives an obscene amount of
money. It does not even appear to have an office. So what exactly goes on at
this foundation and is anyone really checking? Does the IRS scrutinise any of
this? Are there auditors? Is there any oversight, except by the board which is
stacked by corrupt companies, especially proprietary vendors? If not, then the
community needs to study what we’re dealing with here and who it is fronting
for. It controls far too many events and imposes_on_them_a_Code_of_Censorship.
It basically monopolises the dialogue, tilting it all in favour of very large
corporations. █
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✐ Links_18/07/2023:_Akademy_2023_Videos_and_Debian_Brainwashing⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 4:45 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈
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* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Licensing_/_Legal
o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
# Open_Access/Content
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 Monopolies
# Patents
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_launches_its_first_open-source
desktop_operating_system_as_it_moves_to_cut_use_of_US_tech⠀⇛
The project is Beijing’s latest move to build
greater self-sufficiency amid tech sanctions by US.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ View_the_Resource_Usage_of_Your_Docker
Containers⠀⇛
What happens when you have a number of Docker
containers running and something goes awry? Do you
panic and stop
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Best_Steam_Deck_Games_Released_in_the_Past
Week_with_Shogun_Showdown,_Smushi_Come_Home_and_Tokyo_Warfare
Turbo_–_2023-07-16_Edition⠀⇛
Between 2023-07-09 and 2023-07-16 there were 98 new
games validated for the Steam Deck.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Heroes_of_Might_and_Magic_II_game_engine
fheroes2_v1.0.6_out_now⠀⇛
fheroes2 continues to improve the classic Heroes of
Might and Magic II, with a new release available
now with plenty of tweaks and improvements. This is
a cross-platform game engine designed to reproduce
the original game but with many improvements to
gameplay, graphics, AI, wide-screen support, bug
fixes and UI improvements. Giving another classic
game another fresh life on modern platforms.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ LEGO_Bricktales_gets_a_free_Summer_content
update⠀⇛
LEGO Bricktales is a sweet little building
adventure from ClockStone and Thunderful
Publishing, one with Native Linux support and it’s
Steam Deck Verified. A new free update is out now.
Much like the previous Easter update, this is a
themed upgrade for Summer. If you missed it they
also previously updated the game to use Vulkan on
Linux and they added in some UI scaling too!
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Dave_the_Diver_is_a_big_beautiful_blue
gem⠀⇛
I’ve been playing through a game called Dave the
Diver released on 28 Jun, 2023 from developer
MINTROCKET. It seems to have taken Steam by storm
with over 36,000 user reviews (and quickly
growing!) giving it an overwhelmingly positive
rating. After picking up a copy for myself and
playing it, I can see why people love it so much.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Exoprimal_from_Capcom_tested_on_Steam_Deck
and_desktop_Linux⠀⇛
Capcom has now released Exoprimal, an online team-
based shooter and thanks to Fanatical, I was able
to take a look. Plus I have an extra discount on it
for you.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ No_TWiK_post_this_week⠀⇛
No time; Akademy_2023 has eaten up everyone’s
schedule! It promises to be an enjoyable and
useful conference, so I’m sure there will be
lots to talk about next week. See you then!
# ⚓ KDE Videos ☛ Akademy_2023_–_Room_1_–_7/15/2023,_8:46:
38_AM⠀⇛
Akademy is the annual world summit of KDE,
one of the largest Free Software communities
in the world. It is a free, non-commercial
event organized by the KDE Community.
# ⚓ KDE Videos ☛ Akademy_2023_–_Room_1_–_7/16/2023,_8:45:
36_AM⠀⇛
# ⚓ KDE Videos ☛ Akademy_2023_–_Room_2_–_7/16/2023,_9:09:
49_AM⠀⇛
# ⚓ KDE Videos ☛ Akademy_2023_–_Room_1_–_7/16/2023,_8:34:
44_AM⠀⇛
# ⚓ KDE Videos ☛ Akademy_2023_–_Room_1_–_7/16/2023,_1:34:
50_PM⠀⇛
Akademy is the annual world summit of KDE,
one of the largest Free Software communities
in the world. It is a free, non-commercial
event organized by the KDE Community.
# ⚓ KDE Videos ☛ Akademy_2023_–_Room_2_–_7/16/2023,_10:
40:07_AM⠀⇛
Akademy is the annual world summit of KDE,
one of the largest Free Software communities
in the world. It is a free, non-commercial
event organized by the KDE Community.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Slashdot ☛ Red_Hat’s_Decision_Prompts_Outrage_and_Sympathy,
Called_‘Necessary’_and_‘Embarrassing’ [Ed: This neglects to
point out that SiliconANGLE takes bribes from Red Hat to spam
and to lie]⠀⇛
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ Cult_brainwashing:_Charles_Manson,_Andrew
Cater_&_Debian_family_fallacy⠀⇛
The idea that people care for each other is total
nonsense. I’ve been doing voluntary projects with
free software for just as long as Cater. The
earliest record I could find in Debian is from
1998, bug #18511. Despite more than 20 years of
voluntary work, Cater and others attacked my family
and I ruthlessly at a time when I lost two family
members. Upon seeing his words about “family”, I
couldn’t help thinking about the similarities
between the problems of Debian culture and the
Manson Family, simply referred to as the Family,
the infamous cult that used brainwashing to prep
their followers for celebrity murders.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ You_Can_Now_Upgrade_Linux_Mint_21.1_to_Linux
Mint_21.2,_Here’s_How⠀⇛
Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria” arrived over the weekend
as the latest stable Linux Mint release featuring
the Cinnamon 5.8 desktop environment, improvements
to many of the official Linux Mint apps, as well as
up-to-date packages from the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
repositories.
Linux Mint 21.2 uses the same package base as Linux
Mint 21.1 “Vera”, which means that you can easily
upgrade your existing installations without
downloading the new ISO images. But, before
proceeding with the upgrade process, make sure you
have a recent backup of your most important files,
just in case.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Let’s_all_celebrate_#MagPiMonday⠀⇛
It’s super easy. Just tag us in a photo, video, or
text post sharing what you’ve been up to with
Raspberry Pi recently. It doesn’t have to be the
finished product; you can post a pencil drawing of
what you’re hoping to build, or a photo of a very
janky shoebox prototype that will eventually become
an eight-legged, laser-firing robot. We believe in
you.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Introducing_the_Nano_ESP32:_THAT’S_I(o)T!⠀⇛
Create your first – or your next – IoT project with
the new Arduino Nano ESP32. The latest addition to
our wide range of tiny boards with mighty features
pairs the accessibility and flexibility of the
Arduino ecosystem with the potential of the low-
power ESP32-S3 system-on-a-chip microcontroller.
This means you can keep the familiar Nano form
factor (just 45×18 mm!), get all the support you
need – via documentation or our vibrant community –
and master MicroPython in no time.
# ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Plan_for_death_at_the_start_of_building
your_connected_device⠀⇛
In the case of VanMoof, a rival connected e-bike
company has created an app that will purportedly
unlock the VanMoof bikes and provide some
functionality. But relying on a competitor to hack
together some software to control a device made by
another vendor and hoping that, as a user, you can
download your security key from the VanMoof
servers, before those servers are shut down, is not
an ideal scenario.
# ⚓ Data Swamp ☛ Old_Computer_Challenge_v3:_postmortem⠀⇛
Hi! I’ve not been very communicative about my week
during the Old Computer Challenge v3, the reason is
that I failed it. Time for a postmortem (analysis
of what happened) to understand the failure!
For the context, the last time I was using a
restricted hardware was for the first edition of
the challenge two years ago. Last year challenge
was about reducing Internet connectivity.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Arduino_Co-Founder_Will_Take_Your
Questions_Live_on_the_Pi_Cast⠀⇛
As well as being the co-founder of the Arduino
project, Banzi is also its chairman and CTO since
2004. Banzi has also worked as an interaction
designer, educator and open source hardware
advocate. Banzi has worked as a consultant for
clients such as: Prada, Artemide, Persol,
Whirlpool, V&A Museum and Adidas.
We’ll be asking Banzi all about the meteoric rise
of the Arduino project, from the earliest boards
all the way to its latest incarnation, the R4 Uno
range. We’ll also have a selection of Arduino
boards to talk about as we move through the story.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ 5_Things_You_Need_To_Check_On_Your_Android
Phone_Before_Traveling⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ How_to_Optimize_Android_Phone_–_7_Tips_for
Improving_Performance_–_Gizchina.com⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_Share_Your_Android_Phone_or_Tablet_with_Multiple
Users_|_nextpit⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_unlock_clearer_sound_on_an_Android_with_these
amazing_audio-enhancing_features_|_Fox_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Lenovo_Legion_Y700_(2023)_brings_better_specs
to_the_8.8_inch_Android_gaming_tablet_–_Liliputing⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_Auto_Google_Maps_bug_causes_navigation
to_continue⠀⇛
# ⚓ Chrome_for_Android_‘white_screen_flash_(flickering)_or_pop-
up’_bug⠀⇛
# ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ What_is_Google_Go_on_Android?⠀⇛
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Android_or_iOS?_Here’s_what_Instagram_has_to
say_on_which_is_better_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛
# ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Samsung_is_testing_Galaxy_S21’s_Android_14_One
UI_6.0_firmware⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ The_Best_Android_Apps_For_Retraining_Your_Brain
In_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ Purism ☛ Free_Yourself_from_Surveillance_Capitalism_with
the_Liberty_Phone⠀⇛
Surveillance Capitalism has led to internet
centralization and is the reason why monopolistic
tech giants that include Google, Apple, Microsoft,
Amazon, and Meta (Facebook) control access to the
internet while dominating internet commerce and
trade.
Internet centralization has led to cyber-
enslavement and consumer exploitation where these
tech giants have monetized every aspect of their
paying customer’s life through predatory
surveillance and data mining business practices
rooted in Surveillance Capitalism.
Google, Apple, and Microsoft enable app developers
from around the world to monitor, track, and data
mine the operating system end user posing massive
privacy, security, and safety threats to the end
user.
For example, this means that every time you use
your smartphone, tablet PC, connected product,
SmartTV, connected vehicle, or PC, Google, Apple,
Microsoft, plus their app developer partners make
money 24×7/365 days a year regardless if you are an
adult, teen, child, or business end user.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ LibreBoot ☛ GNU_forked_Libreboot?⠀⇛
They forked Libreboot, due to disagreement with
Libreboot’s Binary Blob Reduction Policy. This is a
pragmatic policy, enacted in November 2022, to increase
the number of coreboot users by increasing the amount of
hardware supported in Libreboot. Libreboot’s Freedom
Status page describes in great detail, how that policy is
implemented – the last few Libreboot releases have vastly
expanded the list of hardware supported, which you can
read here.
o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾
# ⚓ The Drone Girl ☛ New_York_drone_hub_brings_in_European
drone_law_expert_for_support_—_here’s_why⠀⇛
These days, GENIUS NY is considered the largest
drone and robotics accelerator program in the
world. It vets startup ideas and offers funds to
the most promising based on viability of business
models. But GENIUS NY has also promised to provide
more support than just money by way of ‘end-to-end’
help, including simply offering up office space at
The Tech Garde (that’s CenterState CEO’s incubator
in downtown Syracuse), as well as the benefit of
ultra-close proximity to New York’s Griffiss
International Airport, one of just seven FAA-
designated UAS test sites in the United States. New
York is also the site of the UTM Pilot Program
Phase 2, and has been the site of other drone
testing projects including drone parachutes.
o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾
# § Open Access/Content⠀➾
# ⚓ Guest_Post_—_Peer_Review_Week_2023_to_Focus_on_Peer
Review_and_the_Future_of_Publishing⠀⇛
It’s an unsettling time in what has been, for
more than 350 years, a remarkably stable
undertaking, with changes taking place in how
research is conducted, the rise of Open
Access (OA) and open science, the evolution
of big data, Natural Language Processing
(NLP), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and
more. Even the transition from analog to
digital publishing represented more of a
change of venue than a fundamental shift in
the business models, norms, or values that
have always sustained and guided scholarly
publishing.
As we consider how to meet the challenges and
take advantage of the opportunities of this
moment in our industry, it makes sense also
to reconsider how we manage peer review
selection, how we gather expert feedback, and
how we honor and reward reviewers. How can we
make peer review easier and more fulfilling
for reviewers, more efficient and effective
for editors and publishers, and more
trustworthy for everyone? How can we
distribute the rewards and responsibilities
of peer review more equitably?
It is imperative for stakeholders across the
whole scholarly ecosystem to work together
proactively to ensure that peer review keeps
up with the evolving publishing landscape and
remains our most powerful tool for evaluating
the rigor, credibility, and interest of
scholarly research.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Quantum_Computing_On_A_Commodore_64_In_200_Lines
Of_BASIC⠀⇛
The term ‘quantum computer’ gets usually tossed
around in the context of hyper-advanced, state-of-
the-art computing devices, but much as how a 19th
century mechanical computer, a discrete computer
created from individual transistors, and a human
being are all computers, the important quantifier
is how fast and accurate the system is at the task,
whether classical or quantum computing. This is
demonstrated succinctly by [Davide ‘dakk’ Gessa]
with 200 lines of BASIC code on a Commodore 64,
implementing a range of quantum gates.
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Insight_1.3_Released⠀⇛
We are happy to announce the Qt Insight 1.3
release.
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Commercial_LTS_Qt_6.2.9_Released⠀⇛
We have released Qt 6.2.9 LTS for commercial
license holders today. As a patch release, Qt 6.2.9
does not add any new functionality but provides bug
fixes and other improvements.
# ⚓ Qt ☛ VxWorks_for_Qt_5.15.14_Released⠀⇛
The release is a source code release made on top
of the Qt 5.15.14 LTS Commercial release.
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Contributor_Summit_2023_–_Venue,_Registration,_and
More⠀⇛
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Finding_Duplicate_Values_in_a_Data_Frame_in_R:_A
Guide_Using_Base_R_and_dplyr⠀⇛
In data analysis and programming, it’s common to
encounter situations where you need to identify
duplicate values within a dataset. Whether you’re a
beginner or an experienced programmer, knowing how
to find duplicate values is a fundamental skill. In
this blog post, we will explore two different
approaches to accomplish this task using base R
functions and the dplyr package in R. By the end,
you’ll have a clear understanding of how to detect
and manage duplicate values in your own datasets.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ Programmer_vs_System_Administrator:_Which_Career
Path_is_Right_for_You⠀⇛
Careers in the technology space and broad and
diverse and require different sets of skills.
Programming and Systems Administration are two
occupations that stand out and you are likely to
find professionals in these fields in almost every
company.
The rising demand for programming and
administration skills has opened doors to
freelancers who bridge the gap and work for
companies seeking experts in the same field.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ “What_do_you_want_me_to_do?”⠀⇛
While sitting at a lobby coffee shop this morning
(shocking!), I saw a delivery worker arrive with a
package. After failing to receive any acknowledgement
from the downstairs intercom, he whipped out his phone
and had a lengthy call with the recipient.
I’m paraphrasing, but it went like this:
I’m downstairs with your package. Uh huh. Yes. Can I
deliver it? Yes? Where to? Okay, but are you here? Do you
want me to leave it here? No? Okay, can you buzz me up
then? No, I’m downstairs. The address on the package. I
can come up, or leave it here, which one?
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ A_number_from_A_Million_Random_Digits⠀⇛
This comes from line 2,530 in the legendary book A
Million Random Digits, with 100,000 Normal
Deviates:
1.049
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ CER ☛ What_Humanities_Scholars_Want_Students_To_Know_About
the_Internet:_Alternative_Paths_for_Alternative_Endpoints⠀⇛
Her list explains a huge part of the Web, but was
completely orthogonal to what I was thinking about
teaching. She wasn’t asking me to teach tools. She
wanted me to teach fundamental concepts. She wanted
students to have understanding about a set of
technologies and ideas, and the students really
didn’t need IP addresses and packets to understand
them.
The important insight for me was that the computing
that she was asking for was a reasonable set, but
different from what we normally teach. These are
advanced CS ideas in most undergraduate programs,
typically coming after a lot of data structures and
algorithms. From her perspective, these were
fundamental ideas. She didn’t see the need for the
stuff we normally teach first.
# ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Why_you_should_attend_the_University_of
Luck⠀⇛
Most top flight universities around the world have
the same problem. They have space for 100 students
on a specific course. 15,000 apply. How do they
select the best-of-the-best-of-the-best?
My answer is – they don’t.
They should ignore extra-curricular activities
(that tend to bias against poorer students with
less free time). Ignore admission essays (which
aren’t read, can be creepily voyeuristic, and are
probably copy-and-pasted). Ignore relevant
experience (which, again, can be bought). Ignore
whether someone’s parents went to the school.
Ignore skin colour, religion, sex, gender, credit-
score, disability, and everything else2.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Monitor_One_–_A_customizable_cellular_IoT
gateway_for_industrial_equipment_monitoring⠀⇛
Particle’s Monitor One Developer Edition is a
customizable cellular IoT gateway for monitoring
industrial equipment packaged in an IP67 rugged
enclosure with reference firmware, and suitable for
rapid prototyping with support for a range of I/Os
and sensors, and even a prototyping area for to
solder your own circuitry. Like the company’s
earlier Tracker One asset tracker, the Monitor One
is based on the Tracker SoM with a Nordic Semi
nRF52840 Arm Cortex-M4 wireless SoC for Bluetooth
connectivity, a Quectel LTE Cat M1 (North America)
or Cat 1 with 3G and 2G fallback (EMEA), u-blox
Neo-M8U GNSS module, and an ESP32 for WiFi location
support. The new customizable cellular IoT gateway
still integrates with the Particle IoT PaaS
(Platform as a Service), and the company also
provides developer tools.
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Troubleshooting_my_Am386SX’s_RAM_issues⠀⇛
Last month I talked about getting a gorgeous Tseng
ET4000AX ISA graphics card for my recently-fixed
Am386SX motherboard. I was looking forward to
seeing Windows 3.0 [sic] in 256-colour goodness for
the first time since our childhood PC, and maybe
even GEM.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Quantum_Computing_Qubit_Entanglement
Record_Broken_at_51⠀⇛
Researchers at the University of Science and
Technology of China have managed to entangle a
record 51 qubits. More importantly, the qubits
weren’t just entangled in pairs, but as a single
system, a required step on the road to more useful
quantum computing.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Semiconductor_Struggle⠀⇛
The U.S. and China are engaged in a great-power
struggle, and chips are part of the fight.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘An_Act_of_War’:_Inside_America’s_Silicon
Blockade_Against_China⠀⇛
The Biden administration thinks it can preserve
America’s technological primacy by cutting China
off from advanced computer chips. Could the plan
backfire?
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Racism_towards_American_patients_of_African
descent_drives_disparities_in_maternal_mortality,_UN_report
reveals⠀⇛
A UN report published this month found that racism
from health care providers is likely contributing
to higher rates of pregnancy-related deaths among
people of African descent in North and South
America.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Nearly_one_fourth_of_China’s_young_people_report
mental_health_problems⠀⇛
Depression in China isn’t just an individual issue,
but involves collective trauma, sufferers say.
# ⚓ Ali Reza Hayati ☛ Managed_and_controlled_sleep:_an
experiment⠀⇛
I’m not gonna achieve anything from this
experiment, I’m just curious to see what happens if
instead of eight hours straight, we sleep for two
hours, four times a day.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ Teleport ☛ Simplify_Teleport⠀⇛
For this month’s newsletter, I’m going to cover a
range of things you can do to simplify your
Teleport deployment, so you can spend less time
maintaining Teleport and more time enjoying the
summer!
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ The_birth_of_id_Software⠀⇛
In the space of about one second, at the age of
almost 23, I had glimpsed my future, my colleagues’
future, and the future of PC gaming, and that
future was phenomenal.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Future_of_AI_Is_War⠀⇛
A world in which machines governed by artificial
intelligence (AI) systematically replace human
beings in most business, industrial, and
professional functions is horrifying to imagine.
After all, as prominent computer scientists have
been warning us, AI-governed systems are prone to
critical errors and inexplicable “hallucinations,”
resulting in potentially catastrophic outcomes. But
there’s an even more dangerous scenario imaginable
from the proliferation of superintelligent
machines: the possibility that those nonhuman
entities could end up fighting one another,
obliterating all human life in the process.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ A_Voicebot_Just_Left_Me_Speechless⠀⇛
But a world in which the bots can understand and
speak my name, and yours, is also an eerie one.
ElevenLabs is the same voice-cloning tech that has
been used to make believable deepfakes—of a rude
Taylor Swift, of Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro debating
Ratatouille, of Emma Watson reading a section of
Mein Kampf. An AI scam pretending to be someone you
know is far more believable when the voice on the
other end can say your name just as your relatives
do.
# ⚓ Dark Reading ☛ Microsoft_‘Logging_Tax’_Hinders_Incident
Response,_Experts_Warn⠀⇛
A recent email compromise by Chinese APT group
Storm-0558 highlights a lack of access to security
logging by many Microsoft 365 license holders,
prompting calls from researchers to abolish it.
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Barts_Health_NHS_Trust_faces
ransomware_threats_from_Russian_organisation_BlackCat [Ed:
Windows TCO]⠀⇛
According to BlackCat, these documents contain
personally identifiable information of both
employees and clinicians associated with the Trust,
including National Insurance Numbers (referred to
as Social Security Numbers by the organisation).
In addition to personal data, the documents are
claimed to contain financial information such as
client documentation, credit card details,
financial reports, accounting and loan data, as
well as insurance agreements.
# ⚓ Mirror UK ☛ Elon_Musk_admits_Twitter_is_50%_down_in
advertising_revenue_and_drowning_in_debt⠀⇛
Elon Musk admitted Twitter has lost half of its
advertising revenue.
In a reply to a tweet offering business advice,
Musk tweeted Saturday, “We’re still negative cash
flow, due to (about a) 50% drop in advertising
revenue plus heavy debt load.”
“Need to reach positive cash flow before we have
the luxury of anything else,” he concluded.
# ⚓ India Today ☛ Amazon_fires_more_employees,_says_layoffs
will_help_improve_business⠀⇛
A “small number” of employees from the Amazon
Pharmacy division have been fired by the company,
Amazon confirmed to the media. Here are all the
details.
# ⚓ Heartfelt_Plea_on_LinkedIn:_Former_Microsoft_Employee’s
Emotional_Job_Appeal⠀⇛
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ SANS ☛ Analysis_Method_for_Custom_Encoding,_(Wed,_Jul_5th)
[Ed: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
In diary entry “Deobfuscating_a_VBS_Script_With
Custom_Encoding“, I decoded a reader submitted VBS
script with custom encoding of the payload.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Monday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gpac,
iperf3, kanboard, kernel, and pypdf2), Fedora
(ghostscript), SUSE (bind, bouncycastle,
ghostscript, go1.19, go1.20, installation-images,
kernel, mariadb, MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-
branding-SLE, php74, poppler, and python-Django),
and Ubuntu (cups, linux-oem-6.1, and ruby2.3,
ruby2.5, ruby2.7, ruby3.0, ruby3.1).
# ⚓ City_of_Odessa_dealing_with_data_breach⠀⇛
According to the City of Odessa, mayor Joven was
advised that the city dealt with a serious data
breach.
It was discovered that accounts assigned to a
terminated high-ranking employee have been recently
accessed, and sensitive information was
transferred.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Two_California_plastic_surgery_practices
suffer_cyberattacks_and_embarrassing_patient_data_leaks⠀⇛
On June 21, BlackCat (AlphV) threat actors added
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery to their leak site.
“We have lots of PII and PHI, including a lot of
pictures of patients that they would not want out
there,” the listing read. “It be in your best
interest to reach out before we release all data.
Leak to follow if no contact made.”
On July 8, that text was replaced with a different
message: “Dr. David Kim and Dr. Eugene Kim does not
care about patient privacy. Only fill they pockets
with money,” BlackCat claimed in their usual
insulting manner.
# ⚓ No_Need_to_Hack_When_It’s_Leaking,_Monday_edition:_Dating
App_That_Claims_50_Million_Users_Suffered_a_Data_Breach⠀⇛
A majority of the records referred to an
application called 419 Dating – Chat & Flirt.
However, inside the database, I also saw
information related to other dating apps called
Meet You – Local Dating App by Enjoy Social App,
and Speed Dating App For American by MyCircle
Network Corp. The presence of what appeared to be
logos and development files pertaining to these
apps in the same database may be suggestive of the
likelihood that all three dating apps are owned or
developed by the same company using different
names. There were also documents related to a
couple of location-tracking applications found in
the database, though we can’t assure they are
related in any way to 419 Dating due to the lack of
information available online that the companies are
connected. According to multiple listings of
software download sites, 419 Dating – Chat & Flirt
is developed by a Chinese company called SILING APP
(also visible in the web archive). I immediately
sent a responsible disclosure notice and although
the database was quickly secured no one ever
replied. The app used to be available on the Google
Play Store but was removed shortly after my
notification. However, the app is still available
on many other websites. Per its own advertisement
campaign, the 419 Dating app claims to have 50
million users worldwide.
The database appears to contain a massive number of
user records that include customer names, account
numbers, emails, passwords, and more. In total, the
database contained more than 600 compressed server
logs.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Systemd Free ☛ Anonymity_and_corporate_FOSS⠀⇛
Q: But why is there such hectic push to
acquire either personal identities (through
phone verification or electronic payment) or
a corporate/legal-identity before you are
able to publish? In the past, you could
participate in movement activities and hand
leaflets out, or newspapers, or just sheets
of paper with an essay, nobody asked your id,
and unless state agencies recorded your
picture and identified you, you remained
anonymous within a crowd. Except for military
regimes most “democratic constitutions”
protected the right to free speech.
# ⚓ NYOB ☛ Norwegian_DPA_temporarily_bans_behavioral
advertising_on_Facebook_and_Instagram⠀⇛
Following a CJEU ruling that declared Meta/
Facebook’s GDPR approach largely illegal, the
Norwegian DPA (Datatilsynet) is the first
national data protection authority declaring
behavioral advertising on the company’s
platforms Facebook and Instagram illegal.
Datatilsynet imposes a temporary ban for the
usage of said approach by Meta. noyb welcomes
this decision as a first important step and
hopes that other DPAs will follow.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Meta_fined_by_Norway_regulator
Datatilsynet_over_data_privacy_breaches⠀⇛
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms
will be fined one million crowns ($100,000)
per day over privacy breaches unless it takes
remedial action, Norway’s data protection
authority said on Monday, in a move that
could have wider European implications.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Finland’s_Neoliberal_and_Far-Right
Alliance_Is_a_Sign_of_Things_to_Come_in_Europe⠀⇛
Junnila is not the only controversial politician in
his party. Many other Finns Party MPs have been
convicted of ethnic agitation. The party’s
ideological leader Jussi Halla-aho, now the speaker
of the Parliament of Finland, once wrote about his
desire for foreigners to rape several left-wing and
liberal female politicians. The new finance
minister — Finns Party leader Riikka Purra — got
her start in politics by commenting on Halla-aho’s
online guestbook in 2008, making a bevy of racist
statements about immigrants.
Still, it is not the Finns that are in the driver’s
seat. They are an accessory to this government,
playing second fiddle to bring neoliberalism and
austerity to a new level, a local variation of a
model that is being replicated across Europe.
# ⚓ Bridge Michigan ☛ Opinion_|_The_case_against_allowing
internet_voting_in_Michigan⠀⇛
The Michigan House is likely to vote soon to expand
the use of [Internet] voting, sometimes called
electronic ballot return, in future Michigan
elections. It might sound like a great way to
expand voter access, but internet voting is
extremely risky. Election experts deeply familiar
with the many aspects of election security
expressed significant concerns when the House
introduced this legislation.
[...]
Michigan elections must remain free, fair, and
accountable. HB4210 will not help.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Trump_and_Allies_Forge_Plans_to_Increase
Presidential_Power_in_2025⠀⇛
The strategy in talking openly about such
“paradigm-shifting ideas” before the election, Mr.
Vought said, is to “plant a flag” — both to shift
the debate and to later be able to claim a mandate.
He said he was delighted to see few of Mr. Trump’s
Republican primary rivals defend the norm of
Justice Department independence after the former
president openly attacked it.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Once_seen_as_‘conservative,’_FBI_now_faces
attacks_from_the_GOP⠀⇛
Trust in the FBI has been plummeting among
Republicans during the Trump era, as voters
increasingly see institutions – including law
enforcement – as being weaponized for political
purposes.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ UN_official:_Africa_is_‘key_battleground_for
terrorism’⠀⇛
These incidents are just some of the most recent
terrorist attacks committed by groups linked to al-
Qaida and the Islamic State group (IS) around Sub-
Saharan Africa, which counterterrorism experts say
is now the world’s terrorism hot spot. Half of the
victims killed by terrorist violence last year were
in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to the United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Terrorism in Africa was among the subjects broached
during a recent high-level U.N. conference of heads
of counterterrorism agencies, including those from
Interpol, the international criminal police agency;
Qatar; the United States; and Google’s senior
manager for strategic intelligence.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “The_Doomsday_Machine”:_Confessions_of
Daniel_Ellsberg,_Former_Nuclear_War_Planner⠀⇛
As we remember Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel
Ellsberg, who died in June, we look at how he was
also a lifelong anti-nuclear activist, stemming
from his time working as a nuclear planner for the
U.S. government. In December 2017, he joined us to
discuss his memoir, The Doomsday Machine:
Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. “This was an
actual war plan for how we would use the existing
weapons,” he noted, “many of which I had seen
already that time.”
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Sudan_fighting_sparks_communications_blackout_in
Khartoum,_disease_outbreaks⠀⇛
War-torn Sudan’s capital experienced a
communications blackout for several hours on
Friday, residents said, as the army and
paramilitary forces waged intense battles across
Khartoum and humanitarian groups warned of
worsening crises.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Sudan_on_the_brink_of_civil_war_as_millions
flee_to_neighbor_states⠀⇛
Conflict continues in Sudan after tensions between
the military and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
exploded into open fighting in April. Around 3.1
million people have fled, and the United Nations
fears the fighting become a “full-scale civil war.”
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Recent_French_riots_boost_support_for_far
right’s_anti-immigration_rhetoric⠀⇛
Widespread riots in France sparked by the police
killing of a teenager with North African roots have
revealed the depth of discontent roiling poor
neighborhoods — and given a new platform to the
increasingly emboldened far right.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ The_disturbing_evolution_of_China’s
foreign_policy⠀⇛
The international community has recently been
rocked by the Hong Kong government’s chilling
decision to place bounties on eight exiled
activists, two of whom are currently residing in
Australia.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_think_tank_director_charged_with_acting_as
agent_of_China⠀⇛
The US Attorney for the Southern District of New
York announced on Monday that it was charging Gal
Luft, the co-director of a US think tank, with
acting as an unregistered agent of China, arms
trafficking and sanctions violations.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Blinken,_Wang_Yi_meet_on_ASEAN_sidelines_in_Jakarta⠀⇛
New signs of tension emerge as the two powers
continue to negotiate a resumption of
communications.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_executes_kindergarten_teacher_for
poisoning_pre-schoolers,_killing_one_child⠀⇛
Wang Yun killed one child and injuring 24 others by
poisoning their porridge with sodium nitrite in
2019.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Philippines_greenlights_Barbie_film
screening,_to_blur_dashes_in_South_China_Sea_map⠀⇛
It said the contentious map does not depict
Beijing’s nine-dash line claim over the South China
Sea.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan_says_Chinese_air_force,_navy
staged_mass_drill_to_island’s_south⠀⇛
July 12, 2023 10:20 AM
China has, over the past three years, regularly
sent warplanes into Taiwan’s air defence
identification zone.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ China_Urges_the_Cessation_of_Hostilities_in
Sudan⠀⇛
“China hopes that the United Nations and
international partners will support the efforts of
regional organizations and cooperate with them…”
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Modi_gets_a_Bastille_Day_red_carpet,_but_China
can_rain_on_the_geostrategic_parade⠀⇛
India’s promise as a counterweight to China in the
Indo-Pacific led French President Emmanuel Macron
to invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi as guest of
honour at the July 14 Bastille Day military parade.
But does India have the will and means to deliver?
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ The_lessons_of_New_Zealand’s_China
diplomacy⠀⇛
It wasn’t that long ago that Australian and New
Zealand prime ministers were falling over
themselves to run trade missions to the People’s
Republic of China.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Senegalese_opponent_charged_over_verbal_attack
on_President_Macky_Sall⠀⇛
A Senegalese opposition politician was on Tuesday
charged with committing an offence against the
president, his lawyer said, in a case over recent
comments he made about President Macky Sall.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ China_conducts_a_100-day_‘strike_hard’_campaign
against_Uyghurs⠀⇛
The crackdown coincides with the anniversary of
2009 ethnic violence.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ China_Doesn’t_Want_to_Compete._It_Wants_to
Win.⠀⇛
A recent flurry of diplomatic talks shouldn’t be
taken to mean that Beijing is looking for
compromise with Washington.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ South_Korea_asks_China_to_play
‘constructive_role’_against_North’s_threats⠀⇛
It is a common interest of Seoul and Beijing for
North Korea to stop provocations and return to
dialogue.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China’s_Wang_Yi_urges_stable_ties_with
India_as_military_tensions_simmer⠀⇛
India and China share a 3,800km frontier, and
fought a brief but bloody war over it in 1962.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_China_and_Chinese_Mafias_Overseas_Protect
Each_Other’s_Interests⠀⇛
PRATO, Italy — On a rainy June afternoon, six
Chinese mobsters hurried across the plaza of a drab
apartment complex near the medieval gates of this
Tuscan textile capital.
Their targets, two gang rivals in their early 20s,
were eating in a small Chinese diner. Drawing
machetes, the attackers stormed in.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Solomon_Islands_leader_feels_he’s_‘back_home’_amid
weeklong_visit_to_China⠀⇛
China, Solomon Islands signed 9 agreements
including for police cooperation and aviation.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ US,_Australia_call_for_China-Solomons_police_pact_to
be_made_public⠀⇛
Solomon Islands-China relations have blossomed
since the Pacific island country cut ties with
Taiwan.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ High_examples_for_peace_on_the_high_seas⠀⇛
China’s violent taking of islands in the South
China Sea has pushed nations in the region to start
settling their own maritime disputes. Their example
of building trust might wear off on Beijing.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Dalai_Lama_says_Chinese_officials_want_to_contact_him
over_Tibet_issues⠀⇛
China protested the Tibetan spiritual leader’s
meeting with a U.S. delegation in New Delhi.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kosovo_Buys_Turkish_Bayraktar_Drones⠀⇛
Kosovo has bought a batch of Turkish-made Bayraktar
drones, Prime Minister Albin Kurti said on July 16
as the Balkan country faces unrest in the north
where ethnic Serbs refuse to recognize Pristina
authorities.
# § War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Baltic_Sea_becomes_a_NATO_lake_–_what_does_it
mean?⠀⇛
Now that Turkey has dropped its opposition,
the path is clear for Sweden to join NATO.
What are the expectations on both sides
regarding Swedish membership of the Western
military alliance?
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ German_Whistleblower_Protection_Act:_Police
officers_should_report_violations_themselves⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ US_Watchdog_Validates_Whistleblower_Claims
Against_Agriculture_Department’s_Largest_Research_Facility⠀⇛
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ US_climate_envoy_John_Kerry_heads_to
China_to_restart_environmental_talks⠀⇛
US climate envoy John Kerry will head to China on
Sunday to meet with his counterpart Xie Zhenhua and
restart stalled talks between the world’s two
biggest emitters of planet-warming gases. Kerry’s
trip to China — his third as President Joe Biden’s
climate emissary — follows weeks of record-setting
summer heat that scientists say is […]
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ A_new_energy_pact_for_Africa⠀⇛
Many people associate technologies like solar and
wind power with efforts to tackle climate change.
But for the world’s most vulnerable populations,
they are much more than a clean-energy solution.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ US_special_envoy_John_Kerry_in_China_to_restart
stalled_climate_talks⠀⇛
US special envoy for climate John Kerry arrived in
Beijing on Sunday for a three-day visit aimed at
renewing bilateral cooperation on climate change
between the world’s two biggest polluters. His trip
follows on the heels of two other high-profile
visits by US officials in recent weeks after years
of tension between Beijing and Washington.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_Climate_Shocks_Multiply,_Designers_Seek
Holy_Grail:_Disaster-Proof_Homes⠀⇛
The homebuilding industry has been slow to adopt
changes that can better protect against extreme
weather. Some architects are showing what’s
possible.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ US,_China_envoys_strive_to_revive
climate_diplomacy⠀⇛
The two sides aimed to rebuild trust following a
suspension in talks in 2022.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Dangerous_heat_wave_spreads_across_southern_U.S.⠀⇛
A dangerous, historic heat_wave that was expected
to peak Sunday across_the_Southwest is spreading
across southern U.S. states, with no major cool
down in sight for many areas.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Heavy_rain_in_southern_Japan_leaves_up
to_six_people_dead,_three_missing⠀⇛
Japan has been hit by unusually heavy rain, raising
fears of the pace of climate change.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Climate_Disasters_Daily?_Welcome_to_the
‘New_Normal.’⠀⇛
Around the United States, dangerous floods, heat
and storms are happening more frequently.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Flooding_in_Vermont_has_surpassed_levels_seen
during_Hurricane_Irene_in_2011,_officials_say⠀⇛
Severe_storms sweeping the U.S. Northeast disrupted
flights and caused catastrophic flooding that
officials in Vermont said Monday had surpassed
levels experienced by the remnants of the deadly
2011 Hurricane_Irene, which washed away homes and
roads.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Smelter_granted_new_five-year
licence⠀⇛
The Nystar smelter at Port Pirie has been granted a
new operating licence with stricter environmental
conditions.
The Environment Protection Authority says the five-
year licence until June 2028 will allow the company
to demonstrate its long-term commitment and
investment in reducing lead emissions.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Heatwaves_scorch_parts_of_three_continents,
threaten_to_top_record_temperatures⠀⇛
Scorching weather gripped three continents on
Sunday, whipping up wildfires and threatening to
topple temperature records as the dire consequences
of global warming take shape.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Discover_Ancient_Traces_of_The
Oldest_Glaciers_Ever_Found⠀⇛
A lost world hidden under South Africa.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_to_undertake_ambitious_wind_energy
projects_in_coming_years⠀⇛
If the private developers and also the state
really implement the current plans for the
coming years in setting up wind parks, the
operation of such generators could produce
electricity for more than half of Latvia,
Latvian Radio reported on July 17.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ EU,_Tunisia_sign_‘partnership’_accord_on
migration,_economy_and_renewable_energy⠀⇛
The European Union and Tunisia on Sunday
signed a memorandum of understanding for a
“strategic and comprehensive partnership” on
irregular migration, economic development and
renewable energy.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ US_working_with_India_on_platform
to_speed_its_energy_transition:_Yellen⠀⇛
They will develop an investment platform to
lower the cost of capital and increase
private investment.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_New_Job_for_Electric_Vehicles:
Powering_Homes_During_Blackouts⠀⇛
Some energy experts say battery-powered
vehicles will increasingly help keep the
lights on and support electric grids, rather
than straining them.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ How_cities_can_drive_the_energy
transition_in_the_Western_Hemisphere⠀⇛
Expanding access to critical minerals and
increasing manufacturing capacity is at the
top of the Biden administration’s
decarbonization agenda. ayors, who have shown
their ability to deliver on domestic
investment projects, have begun exploring
opportunities for international
collaboration.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ International_Atomic_Energy_Agency_chief
meets_South_Korea_legislators_amid_Fukushima_discharge
plan_protests⠀⇛
Director General of the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi faced
questions from South Korean legislators at a
Seoul forum on Sunday over his decision to
endorse Japan’s proposal to discharge water
from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the
ocean.
# ⚓ Bankless Times ☛ LBRY_Closes_Doors_After_$111K
Securities_Fraud_Fine⠀⇛
According to SEC, the company raised $12.2
million illegally from LBC sales
Users could post and watch videos on Odysee
using the LBRY protocol
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ This_Blind_Fish_Lives_in_Darkness,
But_Somehow_It_Can_Still_Perceive_Light⠀⇛
Some have even lost their eyes entirely.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Canada’s_record-breaking_wildfires_burned
more_than_10_million_hectares_this_year⠀⇛
Canadian wildfires have burned more than 10
million hectares (24.7 million acres) this
year, a record-breaking figure that has
surpassed scientists’ most pessimistic
predictions, government data showed Saturday.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Mozambican_Accused_in_$2_Billion
‘Tuna’_Scandal_Is_Extradited_to_New_York⠀⇛
Manuel Chang, the former finance minister of
Mozambique, is at the center of a scandal
that roped in American investors.
# ⚓ The Toronto Star ☛ The_Toronto_Zoo_wants_you_to_stop
showing_the_gorillas_your_cellphone._Here’s_why⠀⇛
“Great apes and other primates too have been
shown to understand the correspondence
between a 2D digital image and a real thing
in the world, so they can understand and make
that cognitive link. So I think that’s kind
of why images and videos are interesting to
them the same way they are to us,” Martin
says.
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Why_China’s_Young_People_Are_Not
Getting_Married⠀⇛
Marriages in China are at a record low.
Recent political and economic turmoil have
added another reason to postpone tying the
knot.
# ⚓ New Statesman ☛ The_two-child_benefit_cap_makes_the
future_a_luxury⠀⇛
A social model dependent on importing
hundreds of thousands of people a year is not
sustainable, both because of public attitudes
and this country’s stubborn refusal to build
housing, infrastructure, or any of the other
essential supports of a growing population.
Nor is it ethical to maintain a system that
relies on there always being poorer nations
whose skilled professionals and most mobile
workers we can skim off to top up the
Exchequer and keep British public services
ticking over. We need a comprehensive
overhaul of the way the tax system handles
children – and one that goes much farther
than just abolishing the welfare cap.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Average_five-year_mortgage_rate_rises_above_6%_–
what_can_borrowers_do_now?⠀⇛
It’s a grim milestone for first-time buyers and
remortgagers, but lower rates can still be found
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Home_builder_Bentley_Homes_slides_into
liquidation⠀⇛
Another Victorian home builder has slid into
liquidation, leaving clients and creditors in the
lurch.
Timothy Holden of insolvency firm Crouch Amirbeaggi
was on Friday appointed as the liquidator for
Melbourne-based Bentley Homes.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ PwC_sells_government_arm_amid
questions_over_conflict⠀⇛
PwC has offloaded its embattled government
consultancy arm, but questions remain around the
firm’s conflict of interest.
The under-fire organisation has agreed to the $1
sale to private equity firm Allegro Funds to pave
the way for the transfer of 1750 employees to the
new buyer in the wake of its tax scandal.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ 55_Years_After_the_Launch_of_the_Poor_People’s
Campaign,_Taking_Stock_of_Interlocking_Injustices⠀⇛
New fact sheets by the Poor People’s Campaign and
the Institute for Policy Studies reveal disturbing
data on systemic racism, poverty and inequality,
ecological devastation, and militarism in every
U.S. state.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ New_Economic_Initiatives_in_Kenya⠀⇛
The East African nation’s economy will expand by
5.0% in 2023.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Looming_U.S._Investment_Restrictions_on
China_Threaten_Diplomatic_Outreach⠀⇛
Any such restrictions are expected to anger Beijing
and will be the first test of the new channels of
communication that the world’s two largest
economies are trying to restore.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ EDRI ☛ All_eyes_on_EU:_Will_Europe’s_AI_legislation_protect
people’s_rights?⠀⇛
Up for debate over the next months will be the
limits for police’s use of surveillance technology,
how far people affected can challenge the use of
AI, and how far companies should play a role in
deciding the reach of this legislation.
As we watch the painful and infuriating
consequences of unchecked police power in France,
we cannot ignore the descent into a state of
heightened surveillance and violence enacted by
police.
# ⚓ Myth_–_Nobody_Wants_to_Work⠀⇛
Lots of places pushing that $15/hr minimum wage,
some already have it. Target lead the charge
bumping to $15/hr in 2017 and now starting wage
goes up to $24/hr. I’m sure there are other
companies upset I didn’t toot their horn here, but
you need to understand, Target tried to be “college
kid cool” and pay well. If you can start at more
than $18/hr with just a high school education, you
didn’t do bad. Unless you are willing to go into
“the trades” where you do a lot more labor without
air conditioning, $24/hr plus some form of health
insurance is about the best you can hope for. I’m
told they’ve hired from within their store ranks
for people to be Web developers and other IT roles
at corporate.
The shit companies sit around chanting “Nobody
wants to work.” They just don’t finish the phrase
“Nobody wants to work for us because we are a shit
company paying shit wages.”
I have written about The Minimum Wage Debate many
times.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Open_Democracy_editor_and_CEO_Peter
Geoghegan_steps_down⠀⇛
He is replaced as CEO by former managing director
Satbir Singh.
# ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Abu_Dhabi_Secrets:_How_Qatar_Seeks_to_Leverage
Its_Influence_in_Europe⠀⇛
The United Arab Emirates and Qatar are battling for
influence in Europe. A data leak has revealed how
Abu Dhabi has sought to discredit its rival with
the help of a private intelligence company in
Switzerland – an effort that extends into Germany.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ African_tech_workers_press_global_social_media
giants_for_better_conditions⠀⇛
African content moderators urge tech giants to
provide adequate mental health care and fair pay in
recognition of their grueling but vital role.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ National_World_journalists_pass_no
confidence_vote_in_chairman_David_Montgomery⠀⇛
Unionised staff said they urged shareholders to
“intervene as a matter of urgency”.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Lessons_From_the_Catastrophic_Failure_of_the
Metaverse⠀⇛
There was a time, not so long ago, when every major
architect on this planet was “building” in the
Metaverse, the brand name for the open-world
virtual reality platform and associated projects
under the aegis of Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta. Last
year, some staggering names such as Zaha Hadid
Architects, Grimshaw, Farshid Moussavi, and, of
course, the Bjarke Ingels Group pledged to create
“virtual cities,” virtual “offices,” and equally
vague sounding “social spaces” to be funded with
cryptocurrency and supplied with art (NFTs). The
eagerness to latch onto whatever the newest trend
the increasingly desperate and failure-prone tech
industry dished out was so palpable that even real-
life developers like hotel chain CitizenM and
brands like Jose Cuervo got involved and threw what
one presumes is a whole lot of actual money at the
enterprise. The rush to move into virtual real
estate was a full-on frenzy.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Excessive_trust_in_political
knowledge_increases_on_social_media⠀⇛
The increasing prevalence of social media has
led many Finns to gain more confidence in
their political knowledge. This trend may be
attributed to the online platforms that
provide an environment where individuals can
easily find affirmation for their beliefs
without necessarily improving their level of
political literacy.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Chinese_state_media_is_pumping_out_bad_news
about_US,_Britain⠀⇛
Grim reports come amid steady exodus of
middle class Chinese fleeing the country
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ ANF News ☛ Thousands_of_activists_arrested_across_Iran
since_the_beginning_of_the_year⠀⇛
Since the beginning of the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi”
actions that started after the murder of Jîna Amini
in Iran, the arrests continue.
At least a thousand activists have been arrested
since the beginning of 2023. It was announced that
513 of those detained were Kurds and the others
were Baloch.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Lawsuits_Have_Become_the_Weapon_of_Choice
Against_Activists⠀⇛
SLAPPs don’t usually win in court, but that’s not
what they’re intended to do. Instead, they set out
to threaten activists and drain the financial
resources of social movements. They often unfold as
years-long wars of attrition, where corporations
and governments with disproportionately large
resources grind down the financial, emotional, and
legal capacities of activists. The threat of such a
suit—typically brought against individuals or
groups that confront powerful people or
institutions—discourages free speech and
association, chilling democracy itself.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Campus_Right’s_Long_War_on_Free_Speech⠀⇛
Overseeing the birth of YAF were two defenders of
McCarthyism and the stamping out of free speech:
Buckley himself and his protégé M. Stanton Evans,
author of YAF’s credo, “The Sharon Statement.”
Buckley first came to public attention as the
disgruntled Yale graduate who warned in God and Man
at Yale (1951) of the evils that higher education
poses for Christian lovers of the free market. In
that book, he called for discarding the
“superstition” of academic freedom so the academy
could be purged of dangerous voices (by which he
meant Keynesian economists and atheists). Buckley’s
second book, cowritten with his brother-in-law L.
Brent Bozell, was a defense of McCarthyism,
McCarthy and His Enemies (1954). Evans was, like
many of the younger writers who gravitated toward
National Review, a mini-Buckley: a Yale alumni made
dizzy by worries of subversion in academia and the
government. He would go on write Blacklisted by
History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy
and His Fight Against America’s Enemies (2007).
(Ann Coulter blurbed it as the “greatest book since
the Bible.”)
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Iran_Steps_Up_Policing_of_Women_Who_Defy
Strict_Dress_Code⠀⇛
Iran is once again deploying police officers on the
streets to enforce its conservative dress code for
women, which many have flouted since the protest
movement that rattled the country began last fall,
according to state news media and social media
posts.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Iran_authorities_announce_morality_police_campaign
forcing_women_to_wear_hijab⠀⇛
The 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was arrested by the
Tehran police on September 14, 2022 for wearing an
“improper” hijab and died after two days in
custody. The incident sparked protests in major
cities throughout the country, which lasted for
months and only died down earlier this year
following a major crackdown. At least 469 people
have been killed during the protests.
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Iran’s_morality_police
returns_despite_protests_against_hijab_rules⠀⇛
The Iranian regime has taken all sorts of measures
to quell the protests. Thousands have been detained
and hundreds have been killed in the last few
months, but the regime has refused to bow down.
Iran’s supreme leader blamed the United States and
Israel for the protests and added that the “riots”
were “engineered” by Iran’s enemies.
“I say clearly that these riots and the insecurity
were engineered by America and the occupying, false
Zionist regime [Israel], as well as their paid
agents, with the help of some traitorous Iranians
abroad,” he said last year. But the supreme leader
did not care to back his claims with some evidence.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Iran’s_morality_police_resume_patrols_after_lull
following_death_of_Mahsa_Amini⠀⇛
Several Iranian celebrities joined the protests,
including prominent directors and actors from the
country’s celebrated film industry. Several Iranian
actresses were detained after appearing in public
without the hijab or expressing support for the
protests.
In a recent case, actress Azadeh Samadi was barred
from social media and ordered by a court to seek
psychological treatment for “antisocial personality
disorder” after appearing at a funeral two months
ago wearing a cap on her head.
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Why_is_Iran_reintroducing_its_‘morality
police’?⠀⇛
In September last year, the 22-year-old Kurdish
womanMahsa Jina Aminidied in hospital three days
after being arrested by the “morality police” for
wearing her hijab incorrectly. Her death, allegedly
caused by maltreatment, sparked nationwide protests
that shook the country for months. The authorities’
violent response resulted in the deaths of
hundreds. Many women refused to give in and
increasing numbers dared to appear in public
without covering their heads. In December,
officials claimed that the “morality police” had
been disbanded.
But recently there have been reports of its return
by several journalists and social media users in
the Iranian capital Tehran, and also other cities.
On Sunday, a video began circulating on social
media that captures the moment when dozens of
passers-by intervened to prevent “morality police”
officers from arresting three women in the northern
city of Rasht.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Why_the_Remote-Work_Debate_Stays_So_Heated⠀⇛
Nick Bloom, a Stanford economics professor who
studies remote work, told me that “research and
evidence are slowly catching up” to the work-from-
home debate. In five years, he predicted, the topic
will be less controversial. Bloom and two
colleagues, Jose Maria Barrero and Steven J. Davis,
published a working paper earlier this month that
collects some of the existing work-from-home
research, pulling both from their own work and from
other papers. One interesting finding is that
although fully remote work has been correlated with
a drop in productivity, hybrid work (which occurs
widely in white-collar fields such as tech and
business services) was not linked to any
productivity loss—and could actually help with
recruitment and retention.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Businessmen_Broke_Hollywood:_And_now
they_don’t_want_to_pay_their_employees.⠀⇛
Our two unions have not been on strike together
since 1960. The writers’ pickets at shooting
locations had already shut down an estimated 80
percent of productions. Now SAG’s strike rules
dictate that actors not only can’t shoot or do
voice-over work for productions; they also cannot
attend red carpets or promote any Motion Picture
Association projects—something that was already a
challenge, given that the writers’ strike had shut
down the nighttime talk shows that were such a
staple of the press circuit.
Much like the writers, actors are looking for
increases in their residual pay—compensation that’s
akin to royalty checks—once-reliable income that
has all but vanished in the pivot to streaming.
Actors are also seeking protections against
artificial intelligence using their voice and
image.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_Iraq_Tries_to_Chill_Critics,_Its_Newest
Target_Is Social_Media⠀⇛
New regulations on “degrading content” are part of
a broader campaign to silence independent voices.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Booking_a_hotel_room_for_the_Asian_Games?_Local
police_will_be_watching_you.⠀⇛
Facial recognition cameras are installed in guest
room doors, a notice warns guests.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Beijing_mulls_ban_on_commercial_ads_on_public_buses
in_Tiananmen_Square⠀⇛
Goal seems to be to avoid tainting purity of
communist monuments with commercialism
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Doxxing_campaign_targeting_Hong_Kong_protesters_had
China_links:_report⠀⇛
Campaign exposing personal information on 2,000
protesters was ‘designed to avoid attribution.’
# ⚓ Reason ☛ My_New_Article_on_Legislative_Restrictions_on
Classroom_Speech⠀⇛
I am pleased to see that my latest article on the
efforts of state legislatures to restrict what
ideas professors can endorse in the classroom has
now been published. “Professorial Speech, the First
Amendment, and Legislative Restrictions on
Classroom Discussions” appears in the latest issue
of the Wake Forest Law Review.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ A_Win_for_the_First_Amendment,_and_a_Loss_for
Partisans_Who_Want_to_Weaponize_Censorship⠀⇛
One thing is clear about Missouri v. Biden: The
decision cannot be understood by viewing it through
a polarized lens.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Jean_Carroll’s_Libel_Lawsuit_Against_Donald_Trump
for_His_2019_Statements_Can_Go_Forward⠀⇛
From Judge Lewis Kaplan’s opinion today in Carroll
v. Trump (S.D.N.Y.): This is a defamation case
brought by writer E. Jean Carroll against President
Donald Trump, as he then was, for statements Mr.
Trump made in June 2019 shortly after Ms. Carroll
publicly accused him of sexual assault. In those
statements, Mr. Trump denied Ms.…
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Dyson_exploitation_libel_claim_versus_C4
News_heard_at_Court_of_Appeal⠀⇛
Sir James Dyson himself is no longer pursuing the
case after a judge ruled his claim out.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ 10th_Cir._Narrowly_Reads_“Injury_Litigated_Against
Would_Be_Incurred”_Basis_for_Pseudonymous_Litigation⠀⇛
The court concludes that this justification doesn’t
generally let plaintiffs sue pseudonymously in
libel or disclosure of private facts that seek
damages.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Hong_Kong_man_jailed_for_‘insulting’_China_and
Hong_Kong_flag⠀⇛
A Hong Kong court sentenced a man on Friday to 18
days in jail for “insulting” the national flag and
regional flag, according to Hong Kong Free Press.
The man, Yung Ching-man, was charged with one count
of desecrating the Chinese national flag and one
count of insulting the regional flag.
[...]
The National Flag and National Emblem Ordinance was
amended in 2021. The charge against Yung is based
on the amendment for insulting the national flag by
misuse. That amendment also stipulates the correct
display and use of the national flag and national
emblem. It was enacted by the Standing Committee of
the National People’s Congress in October 2020. The
amendment could not take effect in Hong Kong
directly, but is put into effect by local
legislation pursuant to the Hong Kong Basic Law.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_security_law_Article_23
would_target_‘modern-day_espionage’_and_‘[Internet]
loopholes,’_security_chief_says⠀⇛
Article 23 of the Basic Law stipulates that the
government shall enact laws on its own to prohibit
acts of treason, secession, sedition and subversion
against Beijing. Its legislation failed in 2003
following mass protests and it was not tabled again
until after the onset of the separate, Beijing-
imposed security law in 2020. Pro-democracy
advocates fear it could have a negative effect on
civil liberties.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Hong_Kong_Journalist’s_Association:_‘Press_freedom
index_hits_new_low’⠀⇛
Hong Kong’s press freedom score dropped four times
in four consecutive years, said the Hong Kong
Journalist’s Association Friday when releasing its
Press Freedom Index for 2023.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Mexico_journalist_killed_amid_spate_of_anti-news
media_violence⠀⇛
Despite repeated violence against journalists, the
Mexican police were investigating without taking
into account their journalistic backgrounds, as RSF
observed.
# ⚓ CPJ ☛ Burkina_Faso_suspends_third_French_media_outlet_in
under_8_months⠀⇛
Burkinabè authorities should immediately reverse
the suspension of French television news channel La
Chaîne Info (LCI) and stop censoring local and
foreign media coverage of the jihadist insurgency
in Burkina Faso and the Sahel region, the Committee
to Protect Journalists said Monday.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Unionize_the_Postdocs⠀⇛
There is much at stake in this fight. Postdocs
bring in billions of dollars in grants to
universities, and the potential of our research
outputs is worth even more. Yet a staggering 94.8
percent of us report that low pay negatively
affects our personal and professional lives.
Postdoc scholars often leave our positions after
years of having been asked to sacrifice too much in
terms of low pay, impacts on our mental health, and
delays in starting a family.
Individual researchers suffer on account of poor
conditions for postdocs and the resulting retention
crisis — and so does the public, which depends on
the work that we do. Making postdoc jobs
sustainable is in the common interest, as our work
is critical to solving the biggest problems our
society faces, like climate change and global
pandemics.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ St._Louis_Police_ID_Man_Who_Died
After_an_Officer_Shocked_Him_With_a_Taser⠀⇛
The same officer then applied what’s known as a
“drive stun,” which involves placing the Taser
directly on the skin, police said.
# ⚓ NPR ☛ Iran’s_morality_police_return_in_a_new_campaign_to
impose_Islamic_dress_on_women⠀⇛
On Sunday, Gen. Saeed Montazerolmahdi, a police
spokesman, said the morality police would resume
notifying and then detaining women not wearing
hijab in public. In Tehran, the men and women of
the morality police could be seen patrolling the
streets in marked vans.
# ⚓ IDA ☛ Arkaroola_Wilderness_Sanctuary_becomes_South
Australia’s_first_International_Dark_Sky_Sanctuary⠀⇛
Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary comprises over
63,000 hectares of conservation land in the
Flinders Ranges and Outback of South Australia. It
is significant for the Adnyamathanha people, whose
cultural connections to the land remain strong and
vibrant, with stories that relate directly to the
landscape. It is one of Australia’s outstanding
geological “hotspots”, with a rich biodiversity
recognized by the Arkaroola Protection Act 2012.
Established in the rugged, arid mountain
environment in 1968 by Dr. Reg Sprigg and his wife,
Griselda, their aim was for tourism activities to
promote and support ongoing conservation,
education, and research.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ Actors_vs._AI:_Strike_brings_focus_to_emerging_use_of
advanced_tech⠀⇛
Artificial intelligence tools that mimic humans
have in recent years become far more effective in
creating images and text — and more common.
Technology that replicates individuals’ faces and
voices is becoming more prominent in Hollywood.
Chatbots like ChatGPT, which can convincingly
reproduce human writing, have surged in popularity
since late last year. But they also have clear
shortcomings: the bots often get basic facts wrong
and are derivative when asked to write creative
works.
The actors’ concerns highlight a broader anxiety
among entertainers and people in many other
creative professions. Many fear that, without
strict regulation, their work will be replicated
and remixed by artificial intelligence tools, and
that such a transformation will both cut their
control over their work and hurt their ability to
earn a living.
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Tracking_Down_a_Suspect_through_Cell_Phone
Records⠀⇛
What’s interesting to think about is what happens
when this kind of thing becomes cheap and easy:
when it can all be done through easily accessible
databases, or even when an AI can do the sorting
and make the inferences automatically. Cheaper
digital forensics means more digital forensics, and
we’ll start seeing this kind of thing for even
routine crimes. That’s going to change things.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Burner_phones._Pizza_crust._DNA_on_burlap._A_New_York
architect_was_charged_with_killing_3_women_in_Gilgo_Beach
serial_killings_cold_case⠀⇛
The case was broken open thanks to cell phone data,
credit card bills and DNA testing, which ultimately
led them to arrest Heuermann, 59, authorities said.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Iran’s_morality_police_resume_patrols_after_lull
following_death_of_Mahsa_Amini⠀⇛
Iranian authorities on Sunday announced a new
campaign to force women to wear the Islamic
headscarf and morality police returned to the
streets 10 months after the death of a woman in
their custody sparked nationwide protests.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ No_Pseudonymity_or_Sealing_in_College_Student’s
Race_Discrimination_Lawsuit⠀⇛
A federal court rejects plaintiff’s arguments “that
sealing … is required because she is being
‘slandered and libeled’ and ‘[m]aking [her]
information public would magnify the effects of
[defendants'] wrongdoing’ rather than right those
wrongs.”
# ⚓ RFA ☛ NBA_star_says_he_was_dumped_for_China_criticism⠀⇛
Former No. 3 draft pick tells Congress his support
for Uyghurs and Tibetans threatened the NBA’s
profits.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Three_Uyghur_groups_receive_grants_from_Elie_Wiesel
Foundation⠀⇛
The grants aim to help shed light on China’s
genocide of Uyghurs, foundation head says.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Hong_Kong_police_question_family_of_exiled_activist
Nathan_Law⠀⇛
City’s chief vows to hunt down wanted overseas
activists, likens them to ‘rats crossing the
street.’
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Euro_monopoly_cops_to_probe_Microsoft_for
slipping_Teams_into_Office⠀⇛
The latest case, which the Financial Times says
will go under the spotlight imminently, pertains to
Microsoft injecting Teams into its online Office
suite in 2017. Rival Slack lodged a complaint with
the EU in 2020, griping that the Windows giant was
“force installing [Teams] for millions, blocking
its removal, and hiding the true cost to enterprise
customers.”
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Microsoft_granted_two-month_pause_of_UK
appeal_over_Activision_deal⠀⇛
The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruled on
Monday that the full hearing of Microsoft’s appeal,
which was due to begin on July 28, should be
adjourned.
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Essential_Elements_Test
for_Reissues_Patents⠀⇛
Just in time for my early August floating
trip down in the Ozarks, the Federal Circuit
has affirmed the USPTO’s rejections of
Float’N’Grill’s proposed reissue claims. The
problem: the reissue claims omit an
“essential element” of the original invention
in violation of 35 U.S.C. 251. The case here
is quite similar to the maligned essential
elements test of Gentry Gallery, but relies
upon the reissue statute rather than the
written description requirement of Section
112(a).
Float’N’Grill’s US 9,771,132 covers a
floating grill. In patent lingo, we call this
a “floating apparatus with grill supports” to
allow grilling while floating in water. The
disclosed embodiment uses magnets to
removably secure the grill to the grill
supports, and the original claims required a
plurality of magnets.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ NPR ☛ Thousands_of_authors_urge_AI_companies_to_stop
using_work_without_permission⠀⇛
“It says it’s not fair to use our stuff in
your AI without permission or payment,” said
Mary Rasenberger, CEO of The Author’s Guild.
The non-profit writers’ advocacy organization
created the letter, and sent it out to the AI
companies on Monday. “So please start
compensating us and talking to us.”
Rasenberger said the guild is trying to get
these companies to settle without suing them.
# ⚓ Business Insider ☛ Generative_AI_tools_are_quickly
‘running_out_of_text’_to_train_themselves_on,_UC
Berkeley_professor_warns⠀⇛
Several lawsuits filed against OpenAI in the
past few weeks allege the company used
datasets containing personal data and
copyrighted materials to train ChatGPT. Among
the biggest was a 157-page lawsuit filed by
16 unnamed plaintiffs, who claim OpenAI used
sensitive data such as private conversations
and medical records.
The latest legal challenge, presented by
lawyers for comedian Sarah Silverman and two
additional authors, accused OpenAI of
copyright infringement due to ChatGPT’s
ability to write up accurate summaries of
their work. Two additional authors, Mona Awad
and Paul Tremblay, filed a lawsuit against
OpenAI in late June that makes similar
allegations.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Graphics_Stack
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS)
o GNU_Projects
o Programming/Development
* Leftovers
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Linux_Foundation
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Linux_has_nearly_half_of_the_desktop_OS_Linux
market⠀⇛
Linux is now a little more than three 3 per cent of the
desktop OS market, excluding the just over four per cent
that is ChromeOS. Which is also Linux, but the wrong kind
of Linux.
Web server statistics aggregator Statcounter announced
last week that as of June 2023, Linux accounts for 3 per
cent of desktop operating system use. However, this is
still surpassed by ChromeOS, which means that desktop
Linux has less than half of the desktop Linux market. If
you feel that this is a bit weird, we agree with you.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ MakuluLinux_4K_Text_to_Image_Generator_!⠀⇛
After a lot of work, a lot of testing and some
downtime and then a lot more work and many
sleepless nights and then a lot more work… Our 4K
A.I Text to Image generator is ready for use. It is
currently only available to our Patreon Members of
rank tier “Major” and above.
# ⚓ Destination_Linux_332:_The_Swiss_Army_Knife_of_Linux
Distros⠀⇛
FULL SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/
destination-linux/dl-332/
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ Destination_Linux_332:_The_Swiss_Army_Knife
of_Linux_Distros⠀⇛
This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we’re
putting the BlendOS immutable operating system to
the test.
# ⚓ Late_Night_Linux_–_Episode_238⠀⇛
Canonical takes control of LXD and it’s a little
bit messy, Fedora might implement opt-out
telemetry, and Félim sneaks in a mini KDE Korner.
Plus more fallout from the RHEL source code
restriction drama including surprising moves from
SUSE and Oracle, and a sensible submissive solution
from Alma.
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ NVIDIA_535.86.05_Linux_Graphics_Driver_Improves
Wayland_Support,_Fixes_Bugs⠀⇛
NVIDIA 535.86.05 is here a little over a month
after the NVIDIA 535.54.03 release to further
improve Wayland support by addressing a video
memory leak that occurred when turning off a
connected monitor when using certain Wayland
compositors.
This release also improves support for OpenGL and
Vulkan apps by addressing a bug that caused
excessive memory consumption when switching to a
virtual console from X when these apps were
running, as well as a bug that caused corruption
and a regression causing a system hang when running
certain Vulkan apps with sync-to-vblank enabled.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ Blender_3.6.1⠀⇛
Blender is the free and open source 3D creation
suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D
pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation,
rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even
video editing and game creation. Through it’s open
architecture, Blender provides cross-platform
interoperability, extensibility, an incredibly
small footprint, and a tightly integrated workflow.
Blender is one of the most popular Open Source 3D
graphics application in the world.
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ VirtualBox_7.0.10_Released_with_Initial_Support
for_Linux_Kernels_6.4_and_6.5⠀⇛
Coming three months after VirtualBox 7.0.8, the new
release adds initial support for the Linux 6.4
kernel series for both guests and hosts, initial
support for the upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel series
only for hosts, initial support for Indirect Branch
Tracking for hosts, and initial support for both
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 9.3 kernels for guests and hosts.
Also for Linux Guest Additions, the VirtualBox
7.0.10 release introduces general improvements in
the installer area, fixes an issue when the
reloading of the vboxvideo module caused a kernel
panic in some guest machines, and fixes an issue
when kernel modules were rebuilt during each boot
when guests without X11 installed.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 8_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_Desktop
Genome_Browsers⠀⇛
There are numerous tools to browse genomes. While
there’s considerable overlap in functionality, each
software offers unique features or data.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Telegram_on_Pop!_OS⠀⇛
Telegram—a name widely recognized within the sphere
of modern digital communication. Lauded for its
security measures, open-source status, and user-
friendly interface, Telegram has become a top
choice for those in search of a versatile
communication platform. .
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ Adding_ZONEMD_protections_to_the_root_zone⠀⇛
Guest Post: The new record type will add an
additional layer of cryptographic security to
ensure the reliability of root zone data.
# ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ How_To_Install_Grub_Customizer_On_Ubuntu
22.04_LTS_And_Linux_Distros⠀⇛
Last Updated on July 17, 2023 by Prabha How To
Install Grub Customizer On Ubuntu 22.04 LTS And
Linux Distros. Grub Customizer is a software
package that allows the user to customize the Grub
boot menu.
# ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ How_To_Install_Canon_Printer_Driver_In_Ubuntu
22.04_LTS⠀⇛
Last Updated on July 17, 2023 by Prabha How To
Install Canon Printer Driver In Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Canon Printer is one of the most widely used
printers right now. Due to its increasing usage,
Canon started to provide support for Linux users
too.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_compare_two_directories_in_Linux
terminal⠀⇛
When managing files and directories in a Linux
environment, you may sometimes need to compare two
directories for various reasons such as checking
differences in files, syncing directories, or
verifying backups. Linux provides powerful
utilities like ‘diff’ and ‘rsync’ to help with this
task.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_check_your_Fedora_version_via_GUI_and
command_Line⠀⇛
Fedora, being one of the most popular Linux
distributions, sees regular updates and versions
released by its developer community. As a user,
it’s important to keep track of the version you’re
using, be it for software compatibility,
troubleshooting, or simply staying updated with the
latest features. Fortunately, Fedora offers easy
ways to check your system’s version, both through
the graphical user interface (GUI) and the command
line.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_install_missing_ifconfig_command_on
Linux⠀⇛
In the Linux world, the ‘ifconfig’ command is a
tried-and-true utility for network interface
configuration, used by many to display or
manipulate network interface parameters. However,
with the advent of more modern tools like ‘ip’,
‘ifconfig’ might not come pre-installed on some
Linux distributions, leaving some users perplexed
when they try to use it.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Cockpit_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛
In the realm of server management, Cockpit has
emerged as a game-changer. This user-friendly,
open-source software offers a tangible solution for
sysadmins, developers, and even tech-savvy
individuals to manage and monitor servers. Some
noteworthy features include: Cockpit presents many
advantages, especially when compared with other
server management tools.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_find_PID_and_PPID_in_Linux⠀⇛
In Linux, every process that runs on your system is
assigned a unique Process ID (PID), and it’s
associated with a Parent Process ID (PPID) that
identifies the process that started it.
Understanding these concepts and knowing how to
retrieve these IDs can significantly aid in
effective process management, from monitoring
system activities to debugging issues.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Discord_on_Pop!_OS⠀⇛
Discord has earned its badge as the “Swiss Army
Knife” of gaming and streaming chat clients. It
excels in versatility, allowing users to connect,
collaborate, and coordinate with ease, while also
offering a myriad of additional features.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Linux_File_Timestamps:_How_to_use_atime,_mtime,
and_ctime⠀⇛
In the world of Linux, understanding file
timestamps is crucial for effective file
management. Every file in a Linux system has three
timestamps associated with it: atime (Access),
mtime (Modify), and ctime (Change). These
timestamps offer valuable information about when a
file was last accessed, modified, or changed.
However, their roles and differences can sometimes
be confusing.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_7-Zip_on_Pop!_OS⠀⇛
7-Zip, a prodigious name in the realm of file
archiving, stands tall with its extensive feature
set and superior performance. This powerful
software tool is open-source, granting developers
and enthusiasts access to its core, fostering a
constant cycle of innovation and refinement.
# ⚓ Installation_of_Node.js_on_Linux_for_Newbies⠀⇛
Node.js is quite popular among developers and Linux
users. The capability of providing JavaScript
functionalities outside the web browser using
Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine opens the door for
many possibilities.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_RubyMine_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
RubyMine on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who
didn’t know, RubyMine is a powerful integrated
development environment (IDE) specifically designed
for Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications.
# ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ Fix_“Updating_from_such_a_repository_can’t_be
done_securely”_Error_In_Linux⠀⇛
How to fix the “Updating from such a repository
can’t be done securely” error in Linux You might
have encountered this error while trying to run the
apt update or the apt upgrade command.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Delete/Disable_Swapfile_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
In Ubuntu, as in other Linux distributions, the
swap file is an essential component of the system’s
memory management. It acts as a virtual memory
layer, allowing the system to utilize hard disk
space as a form of RAM when physical memory is
full.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Using_Fallocate_command_to_create_specific_size
files⠀⇛
In Linux, managing files and directories is a daily
task. Occasionally, you may need to create files of
a particular size for various reasons, such as
testing disk usage, simulating file sizes for
applications, or even benchmarking storage
performance. The ‘fallocate’ command is a built-in
Linux utility designed for this purpose, and it can
efficiently create files of a specific size.
# ⚓ How_To_Install_Debian_12_Bookworm⠀⇛
Hey Debian Users, are you looking for a
comprehensive guide for installing the latest
stable version of Debian 12?
# ⚓ How_to_Upgrade_From_Debian_11_to_Debian_12⠀⇛
This blog will unfold the journey of upgrading your
already installed Debian 11 to Debian 12 (codenamed
“Bookworm”).
# ⚓ How_to_Install_Graylog_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Wondering, how to install Graylog on your Ubuntu
22.04 or Ubuntu 20.04?
# ⚓ How_to_Install_Pure-FTPd_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Now that you landed on this guide, I assume that
you want to install the Pure-FTPd server on Ubuntu
22.04 or Ubuntu 20.04.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_VNC_Server_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Sometimes, the goal is to not only access the
terminal of a server from another machine but to
gain full control…
# ⚓ Exploring_Information_Gathering_with_Maltego:_A
Comprehensive_Guide⠀⇛
Familiar with Maltego Kali Linux Welcome you, I am
glad you are here continue reading my notes on
Penetration Testing Tutorial…
# ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Step-by-Step_Guide_Installing
openSUSE_Leap_on_your_virtualized_environment⠀⇛
Introduction openSUSE Leap is a robust and reliable
Linux distribution, built from the same source code
used to build SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) making it
binary compatible with one of the most trusted
operating systems to run mission critical
workloads.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ A_declarative_approach_to_Linux_networking_with
Netplan⠀⇛
Linux networking can be confusing due to the wide
range of technology stacks and tools in use, in
addition to the complexity of the surrounding
network environment. The configuration of bridges,
bonds, VRFs or routes can be done programmatically,
declaratively, manually or with automated with
tools like ifupdown, ifupdown2, ifupdown-ng,
iproute2, NetworkManager, systemd-networkd and
others. Each of these tools use different formats
and locations to store their configuration files.
Netplan, a utility for easily configuring
networking on a Linux system, is designed to unify
and standardise how administrators interact with
these underlying technologies. Starting from a YAML
description of the required network interfaces and
what each should be configured to do, Netplan will
generate all the necessary configuration for your
chosen tool.
In this article, we will provide an overview of how
Ubuntu uses Netplan to manage Linux networking in a
unified way. By creating a common interface across
two disparate technology stacks, IT administrators
benefit from a unified experience across both
desktops and servers whilst retaining the unique
advantages of the underlying tech.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Google_Chrome_114_Display_Broken_with_Skia,
Shader_in_Linux_[Fixed]⠀⇛
After the Google Chrome 114 update in May, many
users reported graphics and display issues in
rendering many websites. That includes Chrome’s own
settings and other native windows.
Here’s how to fix it.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Upgrade_to_Linux_Mint_21.2_from_21.1_[Complete
Guide]⠀⇛
Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria” is recently released
with the latest packages and updates. If you are
running Linux Mint 21.1, here’s how you can upgrade
to this latest version.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ My_Report_From_Akademy_2023⠀⇛
As mentioned previously on this blog, I took
a break from my vacations for the past couple
of days. I attended Akademy_2023 over the
week-end and I’m now typing this during my
trip back home.
[...]
§ Keynote: Libre Space Foundation –
Empowering Open-Source Space Technologies
We started the day with a nice keynote about
the Libre Space Foundation. It was very
interesting and inspiring to see how open
source can go into space. The project started
in 2011 and despite all the regulation
required they managed to get their first
satellite in orbit in 2017. This is not a
small feat. Of course, everything they
produce is free and reusable by others. It
was nice to touch upon some of their more
specific constraints which impact quite a bit
the cycles for producing software and
hardware.
§ KDE Goals – a review and plans going
forward
This was followed by a session about the KDE
Goals. All three current community goals were
covered.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ New_Containers_and_VMs_sub-category_in_forum⠀⇛
Traffic in the EasyOS section of the Puppy Forum has
increased, looks like time to create sub-categories.
Well, for now just the one.
I asked rockedge (Erik), who hosts the forum, if there
could be a new “Containers and VMs” sub-category under
“EasyOS” and he has done it, moving many existing threads
into the new sub-category: [...]
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ New_tuning_guide:_Optimizing_Linux
for_AMD_EPYC™_9004_Series_Processors⠀⇛
EPYC is AMD’s flagship mainstream server
microprocessors and supports 1-way and 2-way
multiprocessing. The first generation was
originally announced back in May 2017: At time
being, it replaced the previous Opteron server
family with the introduction of the Zen
microarchitecture for the mainstream market.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Biztech_site_claims_Red_Hat_source_code_move_has
majority_support [Ed: This is a lie from SiliconAngle. And
SiliconAngle is taking bribes from Red Hat/IBM. Lies for
money, also SPAM for money.]⠀⇛
However, some of the companies he cited as offering
support to Red Hat have little connection to open
source, like Josh Amishav, founder and chief
executive of the data breach monitoring firm,
Breachsense.
Another company, venture capital firm, TSVC
Management, was also quoted, with its general
partner Spencer Greene attempting to play down the
importance of the GNU Project as it was founded 40
years ago.
# ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ AlmaLinux_Will_No_Longer_Aim_for_1:1_RHEL
Compatibility⠀⇛
In lieu of what IBM/Red Hat has done with the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux source, distributions like
AlmaLinux have been forced to make changes to how
they build their operating systems.
# ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_Packit_–_how_to_trigger
jobs_manually⠀⇛
Packit is an open-source project aiming to ease the
integration of your project with Fedora Linux,
CentOS Stream, and other distributions. Projects
that use Packit usually build RPM packages. This
article will introduce new features. The new user
onboarding process is available here.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ Sparky_2023.07⠀⇛
This is the July update of Sparky rolling iso
images which works on Linux kernel 6.3, and
provides updated packages from Debian ‘trixie’ and
Sparky ‘sisters’ testing repos.
# ⚓ Ben_Hutchings:_FOSS_activity_in_June_2023⠀⇛
I uploaded sgt-puzzles to unstable. This brought in
the new upstream version previously in
experimental. I incorporated an updated German
translation from Helge Kreutzmann, and made
translation updates less tricky to do.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Linux_Mint_21.2_‘Victoria’_Released_in_All
Three_Flavors⠀⇛
On Sunday Linux Mint announced the release of Linux
Mint 21.2 across all three of its mainstream
editions. Like other releases in the 21.x series,
this release will be supported until 2027.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Fridge ☛ The_Fridge:_Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue
796⠀⇛
The full version of this issue is available here.
# ⚓ Ubuntu News ☛ Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue_796⠀⇛
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 796
for the week of July 9 – 15, 2023.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Adapter_Board_Expands_The_Pi_Zero⠀⇛
The standard Raspberry Pi computers have been in
short supply for a while now, so much so that
people are going to great lengths to find
replacements. Whether it’s migrating to alternative
single-board computers or finding clones of the Pi
that are “close enough”, there are solutions out
there. This method of building a full-size
Raspberry Pi with all of the bells and whistles
using the much-less-in-demand Pi Zero also stands
out as a clever solution.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Discussing_The_Finer_Points_Of_Space-Worthy
Software⠀⇛
At the dawn of the Space Race, when computers were
something that took up whole rooms, satellites and
probes had to rely on analog electronics to read
from their various sensors and transmit the
resulting data to the ground. But it wasn’t long
before humanity’s space ambitions outgrew these
early systems, which lead to vast advancements in
space-bound digital computers in support of NASA’s
Gemini and Apollo programs. Today, building a
spacecraft without an onboard computer (or even
multiple redundant computers) is unheard of. Even
the smallest of CubeSats is likely running Linux on
a multi-core system.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Android_users_are_being_tricked_into_installing
malicious_browser_apps_–_here’s_how_to_stay_safe_|
TechRadar⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_A05_spotted_on_Wi-Fi_Alliance
with_Android_13_and_dual-band_support⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Central ☛ This_Android_handheld_is_about_to_turn
into_an_Oculus_Quest_|_Android_Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ Top_10_Ways_to_Fix_Bluetooth_Keeps_Disconnecting_on_Android
–_Guiding_Tech⠀⇛
# ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ How_to_fix_your_Android_phone_when_it_won’t
connect_to_WiFi_–_Geeky_Gadgets⠀⇛
# ⚓ Dignited ☛ Common_Android_Features_Missing_on_Google_Pixel
Phones_–_Dignited⠀⇛
# ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ Top_3_ways_to_use_your_Android_smartphone
as_a_modem⠀⇛
# ⚓ Future Publishing Limited ☛ Leaked_Xiaomi_14_specs_could
reveal_a_killer_Android_phone_|_T3⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾
# ⚓ Kiwi_TCMS:_OffSec_has_chosen_Kiwi_TCMS⠀⇛
OffSec is an American international company working
in information security, penetration testing and
digital forensics. Operating from around 2007, the
company has created multiple open source projects,
advanced security courses, the ExploitDB
vulnerability database, and the popular Kali Linux.
It has recently released the Kali Purple platform,
a dedicated platform for cyber defence analysts and
a platform for security services.
# ⚓ Shirish_Agarwal:_WordPress_Cookies,_Debdelta,_RISC,
Manipur,_Libraries_in_Kerala.⠀⇛
One of the most irritating things about WordPress
is whenever I start a firefox session, WordPress
asks for cookie selection. I make my choices but
it’s not persistent. The next session the same
thing happens again. It does keep my identity but
for some unknown reason doesn’t respect the Cookie
selection. I usually use Firefox ESR (102.13.0esr-
1) on Testing.
Also, for more than a week I have found debdelta
not working as it should. To give a brief history,
the idea of debdelta is to save bandwidth, whether
it 100 kbps or 1 mbit or whatever, the moment you
give debdelta-upgrade it will try to see if there
is a delta of the debs that you want to upgrade.
The sequence is as follows or at least that is what
I do –
o § GNU Projects⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ GIMP_Dev_Release_Completes_GTK3_Port,_Adds
Headerbar_Option⠀⇛
Though not stable (i.e. expect bugs) this release
gives us our best look yet at how what the stable
GIMP 3.0 release will comprise of when it’s
released later this year (a release candidate of
GIMP 3.0 draws close, for those interested).
First up, devs say GIMP’s GTK3 port is now
“officially done”.
If you’ve paid any attention to GIMP’s development
efforts in the past few years you’ll know that
porting the app to GTK3 has been a real fear. For
devs, it must be such a relief to see all those
blood (not literal, I hope), sweat, and tears pay
off.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ GNU ☛ GNU_Shepherd_0.10.2_released⠀⇛
We are pleased to announce the GNU Shepherd version
0.10.2, a bug-fix release of the new 0.10.x series,
representing 28 commits over 7 weeks.
The 0.10.x series is a major overhaul towards 1.0,
addressing shortcomings and providing new features
that help comprehend system state.
# ⚓ Meson_1.2⠀⇛
Added support for the Metrowerks Embedded ARM and
Metrowerks Embedded PowerPC toolchains (https://
www.nxp.com/docs/en/reference-manual/
CWMCUKINCMPREF.pdf).
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Pavolia_Reine_discusses_her_3D_debut⠀⇛
Aside from derailing her into talking about pancakes for
a few minutes (cough), I asked if she’d been nervous, and
if so she’d hid it well.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Remote_Code_Execution_On_An_Oscilloscope⠀⇛
There are a huge number of products available in
the modern world that come with network
connectivity now, when perhaps they might be better
off with out it. Kitchen appliances like
refrigerators are the classic example, but things
like lightbulbs, toys, thermostats, and door locks
can all be found with some sort of Internet
connectivity. Perhaps for the worse, too, if the
security of these devices isn’t taken seriously, as
they can all be vectors for attacks. Even things
like this Rigol oscilloscope and its companion web
app can be targets.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ GLASNOST_Is_A_Computer_That_Makes_Transparency_A
Priority⠀⇛
We live in a world where most of us take the
transistor for granted. Within arm’s length of most
people reading this, there are likely over ten
billion of them sending electrons in every
direction. But the transistor was not the first
technology to come around to make the computer a
possibility, but if you go to the lengths of
building something with an alternative, like this
vacuum tube computer, you may appreciate them just
a tiny bit more.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ “Whole_body_scans”:_Back_from_the_grave_and_ready_to
party⠀⇛
It just struck me the other day that, in less than
a year and a half, I will have been at this
blogging thing for two whole decades. I’ve been
writing for SBM for over fifteen and a half years,
having started my first blog more than three years
before that and having been active on Usenet
countering quackery and antivaccine pseudoscience
for five or six years before that. (Yes, I’ve been
at this in one form or another since the late
1990s.) I was reminded by a recent spate of
laudatory (or at least
very unskeptical) stories about Neko Health last
week touting their “lofty promise of preventative
healthcare via full-body scans backed by AI
software” of the very first time that I actually
put my then relatively recent turn to combatting
dubious medicine into action with respect to a
medical fad that had been going on for quite some
time, that of whole body scans for preventative
healthcare.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Positive_Covid_Milestone [Ed: This is
untrue in the UK; number of deaths still vastly above
averages.]⠀⇛
In a sign that the pandemic really is over, the
total number of Americans dying each day is no
longer historically abnormal.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ In_Hawaii,_can_breadfruit’s_resurgence_bring
food_security?⠀⇛
Diane Ragone’s research and promotion of a long-
ignored Hawaiian staple has, quite literally, born
fruit – with big implications for food security.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_Exchange_Online_hit_by_new
outage_blocking_emails⠀⇛
o § Linux Foundation⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ Estonian_Tech_Agency_and
Open_Voice_Network_Team_to_Demonstrate_Voice
Interoperability⠀⇛
The Information Systems Authority of the Government
of Estonia (RIA) and the Open Voice Network (OVON),
an open source association of the Linux Foundation,
today announced an agreement to test and
demonstrate interoperability of voice assistants
across different technological platforms – a first
for the voice industry.
The demonstration will use specifications developed
by the Open Voice Network, and allow users of the
Estonia RIA’s new citizen assistant for government
services, Bürokratt, to connect to and directly
interact with third-party voice assistants and
independent digital services. RIA leaders expect
this, in time, to enable service providers and
citizens/users to enjoy wide-ranging, standardized,
and secure communications between agents and
solutions.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Embracing_Consolidation_and_Squashing
Silos⠀⇛
While silos pose significant dangers to an
enterprise’s cybersecurity posture, consolidation
serves as a powerful solution to overcome these
risks, offering improved visibility, efficiency,
incident response capabilities, and risk
management.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Owner_of_Cybercrime_Website_BreachForums
Pleads_Guilty⠀⇛
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the owner of the infamous
cybercrime website BreachForums, has pleaded guilty
in a US court.
# ⚓ Tech Times ☛ SOHO_Router-Targeting_Botnet_AVrecon
Infiltrates_More_Than_70,000_Devices_in_20_Countries:_How
Dangerous_Is_This_Malware_Strain? [Ed: They try to twist this
as a "linux" issue rather than SOHO issue]⠀⇛
A stealthy Linux malware called AVrecon has been
infecting over 70,000 small office/home office
(SOHO) routers, creating a botnet primarily aimed
at stealing bandwidth and operating as a hidden
residential proxy service.
# ⚓ What_You_Need_to_Know_about_Open-Source_Software_Supply
Chain_Security⠀⇛
Whenever you buy something, you receive the product
of a massive collaboration, not just one company.
That shirt started as raw materials at cotton farms
that passed through logistics providers to get to
manufacturers, who sent it through more trucking
companies to land at a retailer. Just as physical
products pass through this supply chain, so does
software.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ MOVEit_Hack:_Number_of_Impacted
Organizations_Exceeds_340⠀⇛
The number of entities impacted by the MOVEit hack
— either directly or indirectly — reportedly
exceeds 340 organizations and 18 million
individuals.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Exploitation_of_ColdFusion_Vulnerability
Reported_as_Adobe_Patches_Another_Critical_Flaw⠀⇛
Adobe patches critical code execution vulnerability
in ColdFusion for which a proof-of-concept (PoC)
blog exists.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Fortescue_Metals_admits_it_suffered_breach,_Cl0p
claims_credit⠀⇛
“Importantly, our investigations showed that this
information was not confidential in nature.
“We notified the Australian Cyber Security Centre
of the incident, and our internal investigation and
remediation actions are now complete.”
Cl0P did not provide any further details about the
quantum of data stolen, if any.
It is unclear whether Cl0p attacked Fortescue
through the secure managed file transfer software
MOVEit Transfer or through some other vector.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Google_virus_database_VirusTotal_leaks_subscriber
information:_report⠀⇛
The magazine said confidential information from the
German Federal Office for Information Security or
BSI had also been uploaded to the database.
Der Spiegel said it had verified that the names on
the leaked list were authentic. “Twenty accounts
alone lead to the Cyber Command of the USA, part of
the American military and a hub for offensive and
defensive hacking operations,” the report said.
# ⚓ Kali_Linux_and_Man-in-the-Middle_Attacks:_Empowering
Ethical_Hackers⠀⇛
Man in the middle attack is the most popular and
dangerous attack in Local Area Network.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Massachusetts_Prepares_To_Ban_The
Collection_And_Abuse_Of_Cell_Phone_Location_Data⠀⇛
For more than a decade now, app makers, phone
makers, wireless companies — and pretty much
everybody else — has been collecting and
monetizing your daily movement habits.
There’s genuinely no reason most of these
companies (like, say, your light bulb maker)
need this information, but because the U.S.
is too corrupt to pass a real privacy law,
they collect it and sell access to it because
they can.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Meta’s_Threads_Didn’t_Launch_In_The_EU:_Is
That_Showing_The_Failure_Or_Success_Of_The_Digital
Markets_Act?⠀⇛
As you almost certainly know, earlier this
month, Meta released Threads, its Twitter-
like microblogging service. There are rumors
that the company rushed the launch, pushing
it up a few weeks to try to capitalize on the
latest nonsense at Twitter. And, it seemed to
work (to some extent) in that the company was
able to quickly scale to 100 million signups
in just a few days. Of course, it had help.
This was all piggybacked on the Instagram
social graph, which has over 2 billion users.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Mali:_Attack_on_the_MINUSMA_Convoy⠀⇛
The representative of the United Nations Secretary
General for Mali confirmed that the firm commitment
of the mission to the Malian people remains the
same: it aims to achieve peace, security, and
reconciliation, as it has been doing for ten years.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Chad:_New_Insurgent_Raid_Causes_Death⠀⇛
Since the sudden death of its president, Idriss
Déby in 2021, Chad has fallen into a deep crisis,
which in turn has jeopardized security in a region
that was already suffering the effects of
interethnic warfare.
# § War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_Kremlin_has_seized_control_of_Carlsberg
and_Danone’s_Russian_subsidiaries⠀⇛
The Kremlin meant business when it threatened
to seize the Russian operations of foreign
companies in retaliation for sanctions linked
to its war in Ukraine.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Wagner’s_arrival_in_Belarus_‘does_not
fundamentally_change’_Lithuania’s_security,_officials
say⠀⇛
The arrival of Wagner mercenaries in Belarus
does not fundamentally change the security
situation in the region, assures the
Lithuanian defence minister.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Russia_halts_landmark_deal
that_allowed_Ukraine_to_export_grain_at_time_of_growing
hunger⠀⇛
Russia has halted a breakthrough wartime deal
that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to
countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia
where hunger is a growing threat and high
food prices have pushed people into poverty.
A Kremlin spokesman announced Monday that
Russia would suspend the Black Sea Grain
Initiative until its demands to get its own
agricultural shipments to the world are met.
While Russia has complained that restrictions
on shipping and insurance have hampered its
agricultural exports, it has been shipping
record amounts of wheat. It’s the end of an
accord that the U.N. and Turkey brokered to
allow food to leave the Black Sea region
after Russia invaded its neighbor.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Would_Ukraine’s_Formal_Membership_in_NATO
Really_Matter?⠀⇛
During the prelude to the NATO summit in
Vilnius, there was extensive speculation
about whether Ukraine would be given a clear
path to membership in the alliance, with a
specific timeline.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ NATO_Isn’t_Defending_Ukraine._It’s_Stabbing
It_in_the_Back⠀⇛
The NATO summit in Lithuania this week served
only to underscore the utter hypocrisy of
western leaders in pursuing their proxy war
in Ukraine to “weaken” Russia and oust its
president, Vladimir Putin.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Kroenig_and_Ashford_debate_the
potential_of_NATO_membership_for_Ukraine⠀⇛
On July 14, Foreign Policy published its
biweekly “It’s Debatable” column featuring
Scowcroft Center Vice President and Senior
Director Matthew Kroenig and Emma Ashford
assessing the latest news in international
affairs.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russia_just_quit_a_grain_deal
critical_to_global_food_supply._What_happens_now?⠀⇛
The last ship under the UN- and Turkey-
brokered deal to export grain and fertilizer
from Ukraine by sea has left Odesa. Atlantic
Council experts explain what to expect next.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Charai_in_the_National_Interest:
Sweden’s_NATO_Accession_Limits_Putin’s_Options⠀⇛
The Western powers are now more united with
the Baltic nations than ever before. After
months of diplomatic delays, Sweden can
now join NATO—a genuine triumph for the Biden
administration. This development has enormous
geostrategic implications for the ongoing
conflict between Ukraine and Russia. Ahmed
Charai is a Moroccan publisher and an
Atlantic Council Board Director.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Odesa_port_facilities_damaged_by
Russian_strike,_says_Ukraine⠀⇛
A Russian overnight strike damaged port
infrastructure facilities in Ukraine’s Odesa,
Kyiv’s military said on Tuesday, hours after
Moscow refused to extend a deal to allow
grain export from the region.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Deported_Ukrainian_children_return_from
Russia_–_to_a_slow_recovery⠀⇛
Thousands of children were kidnapped and
deported to Russia shortly after Moscow
invaded Ukraine last year. Some are returning
home to Ukraine, where they are given
counselling and therapy sessions to deal with
their harrowing war experiences. FRANCE 24
met a group of repatriated children who have
been reunited with their Ukrainian guardians
and relatives.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ EU_holds_Latin_America_summit_amid
divisions_over_trade_and_Ukraine⠀⇛
The European Union hosted Latin American and
Caribbean leaders Monday at a long-awaited
summit to soothe strained ties, but found
themselves divided over how to address
Russia’s war in Ukraine.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Russia_pulls_out_of_Black_Sea_grain_deal;
key_Crimea_bridge_targeted_for_second_time⠀⇛
Russia on Monday halted a breakthrough
wartime deal on Monday that allowed grain to
flow from Ukrainian ports to countries in
Africa, the Middle East and Asia, where
hunger is a growing threat. Western leaders
and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
quickly denounced the move. Overnight from
Sunday to Monday, explosions attributed to
Ukraine damaged the Kerch bridge, which links
southern Russia with occupied Crimea.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Bank_of_Lithuania_raises_€100,000_for_Ukraine
via_commemorative_coin⠀⇛
The Bank of Lithuania raised 105,600 euros
for Ukraine by selling commemorative coins
and last week transferred the money to a
special account opened by the Ukrainian
national bank.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_Under_Fresh_Russian_Drone_Attack_As
Moscow_Claims_It_Thwarted_Ukrainian_Strikes_On_Crimea⠀⇛
Russia launched a fresh wave of drone strikes
early on July 18 on southern Ukraine,
damaging infrastructure in the Black Sea port
of Odesa, regional officials and the military
reported, as Moscow said it repelled a
Ukrainian drone attack on the illegally
annexed region of Crimea.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Biden_To_Discuss_War_In_Ukraine_With_Vatican
Envoy⠀⇛
U.S. President Joe Biden will host a Vatican
envoy to discuss the war in Ukraine, the
White House said on July 17.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Activists_Say_Third_Group_Of_Russia’s_Wagner
Mercenaries_Has_Entered_Belarus⠀⇛
A third group of mercenaries from Russia’s
private Wagner group has arrived in the
eastern Mahilyou region of Belarus, the
Belaruski Hajun group said on July 17.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Türkiye’s_Erdogan_Seeks_to_Salvage_Ukraine
Grain_Deal⠀⇛
“Despite the statement made today, I believe
that Russian president wants the continuation
of this humanitarian bridge,” Erdogan said.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Moscow_Blames_Ukraine_For_Deadly_Attack_On
Crimea_Bridge,_Vows_To_Repair_It⠀⇛
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat
Khusnullin said damage caused to a major rail
and road bridge linking Russia with the
Crimean Peninsula will be completely repaired
by November 1, while President Vladimir Putin
vowed “a response” to the attack, which
killed two people.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_Condemns_New_Attack_on_Crimean
Bridge⠀⇛
Russian diplomat Zakharova said the attack
was carried out by Ukraine with the support
of the U.S. and the United Kingdom.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Cluster_bombs:_Putin_warns_retaliation
for_US-armed_Ukraine⠀⇛
After the United States delivered cluster
bombs to support Ukraine’s counteroffensive,
Russian President Vladimir Putin, amid
intensifying fighting, threatened retaliation
if Ukraine uses them. The bombs have been
condemned for their threat to civilians.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia_Stops_Ukraine_Grain_Deal,
Shaking_World_Food_Markets⠀⇛
Moscow, which has repeatedly complained that
the U.N.-brokered agreement is one-sided in
Ukraine’s favor, said it could return to the
deal if its demands were met.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Here’s_how_Russia’s_halted_grain_deal
could_impact_the_world⠀⇛
Russia has halted a wartime deal that allowed
grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in
Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. As hunger
is already a growing problem in these
regions, the move poses further challenges to
global food security.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Explosions_Damage_Crimea_Bridge_as
Russia_Blames_Ukraine_for_Attack⠀⇛
Russia accused Ukraine of hitting the Kerch
Strait Bridge for the second time in 10
months, saying that two maritime drones had
struck the bridge, an essential supply line
for Russian troops.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia_Ends_Participation_in_Black
Sea_Grain_Deal⠀⇛
The Kremlin terminated an agreement that had
allowed Ukraine to export its grain by sea
despite a wartime blockade, a deal seen as
essential to keeping global food prices
stable.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Highway_out_of_Crimea_sees_heavy_traffic
after_bridge_explosion_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The highway between Crimea and Ukraine’s
Kherson region saw heavy congestion on Monday
after an early morning explosion caused part
of the bridge linking the peninsula to Russia
to collapse.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘The_same_ones_were_used_on_Sevastopol_three
months_ago’_What_a_source_close_to_Ukraine’s_Defense
Ministry_told_Meduza_about_the_latest_Crimea_bridge
attack_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The July 17 Crimea bridge explosion was a
joint operation between the Ukrainian
Security Service and the Ukrainian Navy,
according to a source close to the Ukrainian
Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence
Directorate who spoke to Meduza on condition
of anonymity. This was previously reported by
the Ukrainian outlets Ukrainska Pravda and
RBC Ukraine.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ US_Soldiers_Don’t_Belong_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
So how many American soldiers fight in
Ukraine? The Biden bunch is careful not to
reveal or refer to their presence, mercenary
or otherwise, but the question keeps coming
to mind.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_media_reports_attack_on_Crimea
bridge_carried_out_with_help_of_naval_drones_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The attack on the Crimean bridge was a
special operation of Ukraine’s Armed Forces
(AFU) and the Naval Forces of
Ukraine, report Ukrainian Pravda and RBC
Ukraine, citing sources in Ukraine’s security
services. According to the source, naval
drones aided in the attack on the bridge.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_We_Know_About_the_Crimea_Bridge
Attack⠀⇛
Monday’s strike was the second in less than a
year to target the Kerch Strait Bridge, which
holds strategic and symbolic importance for
Russia.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Current_War_Collides_With_the
Past:_How_World_War_II_Endures_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
World War II has been an ideological
battlefield in today’s war in Ukraine, and it
is cropping up on the actual battlefield as
well.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky_says_Ukraine_is_willing_to_extend
Black_Sea_grain_deal_without_Russia_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that Kyiv can
continue exporting grain through the Black
Sea corridor, despite Russia’s purported
withdrawal from the grain deal. The
statement, which came during an interview
with African journalists, was shared on
Facebook by his press secretary Serhii
Nykyforov.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Far_From_the_Front,_They_Stand_in
Honor_of_Ukraine⠀⇛
The city of Chernivtsi in western Ukraine has
been spared the mayhem of the Russian
invasion. But like other towns in the region,
it is doing its part, and has become, in
effect, a back office of the war effort.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Activists_say_Wagner_convoy_spotted_in_Belarus,
Vilnius_official_says_‘border_is_calm’⠀⇛
Videos posted on social media show Wagner
troops being escorted by the Belarusian
police, the New York Times reported on
Sunday. Satellite images also show increased
activity at the tent camp that may host the
group following its short-lived mutiny in
Russia.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Baltics_unable_to_decouple_from_Russian_power
grid_sooner,_official_says⠀⇛
Despite the push from Vilnius to speed up the
decoupling from the Russian-controlled power
grid, the Baltic states will not be able to
leave the network next year and ahead of
schedule.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Su-25_Military_Jet_Crashes_Into_Sea
Of_Azov_After_Possible_Engine_Malfunction⠀⇛
An Su-25 military jet crashed into the Azov
Sea in the southwestern region of Krasnodar
Krai on July 17 while performing a training
flight near the city of Yeisk, officials in
Russia’s South Military District said, adding
that the incident might have been caused by
an engine malfunction.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Leader_Of_Communist_Opposition_In_Moldova’s
Transdniester_Found_Dead⠀⇛
The chief of the opposition Communist Party
in Moldova’s breakaway Transdniester region,
Oleg Horjan, was killed at home on July 16,
the leader of the Russian Communist Party,
Gennady Zyuganov, said.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Controversial_Bust_Of_Russian_Ruler_Ivan_The
Terrible_Unveiled_In_Astrakhan⠀⇛
Pro-Kremlin activists in the city of
Astrakhan have unveiled a bust of Tsar Ivan
IV, also known as Ivan the Terrible, on
private land after the city’s administration
refused to locate it on a public site.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Two_Finnish_gas_tankers_perpetually_circling
the_Baltic_Sea⠀⇛
The vessels carrying Russian liquefied
natural gas (LNG) cannot dock in a Finnish
port because the gas must be maintained at a
temperature of -163 degrees Celsius.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Wagner_Convoy_Arrives_at_Camp_in
Belarus⠀⇛
The troop movements are the private company’s
biggest — and most public — showing since its
failed rebellion in Russia last month.
# ⚓ Erdoğan_remains_optimistic_for_renewal_of_grain_deal
despite_Russia’s_objection⠀⇛
While Moscow has informed the parties of the
deal about its objections, President Erdoğan
expressed hope that he and Putin may solve
the issue.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia’s_Embassy_in_Washington_is
enmeshed_in_a_different_kind_of_war.⠀⇛
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian_Forces_Report_Gains_As_Offensive_In
Zaporizhzhya_Region_Carries_On⠀⇛
Ukrainian forces are continuing their
offensive in the Melitopol and Berdyansk
areas of the southern Zaporizhzhya region
while recapturing some territory in the
eastern region of Donetsk, the Ukrainian
military said early on July 17.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian_Filmmaker_Oleh_Sentsov_Says_He_Was
Wounded_While_Fighting_Russian_Troops⠀⇛
Noted Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov says
he was wounded by shrapnel while fighting
alongside Ukrainian armed forces against
Russian occupying troops in Ukraine’s
Zaporizhzhya region.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Britain_Sanctions_14_Russian_Officials
Involved_In_Forced_Relocation_Of_Ukrainian_Children⠀⇛
Britain has sanctioned 14 Russian officials,
including two government ministers, for what
it says is their role in Russia’s forced
relocation of tens of thousands of Ukrainian
children since the start of Moscow’s
unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February
last year.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘These_things_used_to_shock_us’_The_Kerch
bridge_explosion_through_the_eyes_of_Crimea_residents
and_Russian_tourists_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Early on the morning of July 17, an explosion
hit the Crimean Bridge (also known as the
Kerch Bridge), killing a married couple from
Russia’s Belgorod region and injuring their
14-year-old daughter. Moscow blamed the “Kyiv
regime” for the attack, and the Russian
Investigative Committee has opened a
terrorism case concerning the blast. Bereg,
an independent journalists’ cooperative,
spoke with tourists who were on or near the
bridge at the moment of the explosion and
asked local residents what they think about
the attack. With Bereg’s permission, Meduza
has translated their responses.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_promises_‘an_answer_from_Russia’_at
open_meeting_about_Crimea_bridge_blast_—_Meduza⠀⇛
President of Russia Vladimir Putin held an
open meeting with ministers and regional
governors about the early-morning explosion
on the bridge linking the occupied Crimean
peninsula to Russia. The meeting was
broadcast on state-owned television news
network Russia 24 and on the Kremlin’s
dedicated channel.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Wagner_Group_fighters_announce_closure_of
organization’s_main_base_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Wagner Group’s main base is closing down, a
Telegram channel linked to the paramilitary
group reported on Monday. The channel posted
a video of the Russian and Wagner Group flags
being lowered at the base, which is located
in Russia’s Krasnodar region.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ The_Pentagon’s_Stunning_Negligence_With
Sensitive_Email⠀⇛
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Extinction_Rebellion_Co-Founder_Goes_on_Trial_for
Breaking_Window⠀⇛
Gail Bradbrook, a co-founder of Extinction
Rebellion, went on trial in west London on Monday
for breaking a window at the Department of
Transport in October, 2019.
Bradbrook has previously pleaded not guilty to a
charge of criminal damage for using a hammer and
woodworking tool to crack the building’s glass
frontage, which the prosecution valued at £27,500.
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Attorneys_General_in_Five_States_Choose
Fossil_Fuel_Money_Over_Constituents_–_Validated_Independent
News⠀⇛
For example, the attorney general of Texas, Ken
Paxton, has declared his opposition to the “radical
climate change movement.” As AG, Paxton has
repeatedly sued the federal Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA). For instance, in 2021 he
joined other state AGs in a lawsuit that challenged
the EPA’s authority to curb power plant carbon
emissions. Although the Supreme Court’s ruling in
West Virginia v. EPA upheld the agency’s authority
to regulate emissions under the Clean Air Act, the
decision significantly constrained its ability to
do so. As Negin reported, “Paxton’s constituents
are suffering from heat, drought, flooding,
hurricanes, and wildfires, all exacerbated by
climate change.” But the Texas AG has received more
than $3.9 million in campaign donations from the
oil and gas industry since 2002, according to
OpenSecrets.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ The_Great_Plains:_Bringing_Back_an
‘American_Serengeti’⠀⇛
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “The_Heat_Will_Kill_You_First”:
Rolling_Stone’s_Jeff_Goodell_on_Life_and_Death_on_a
Scorched_Planet⠀⇛
The world is in the grips of a dangerous heat
wave that has sent temperatures skyrocketing
to deadly levels throughout Asia, Europe and
the Americas. Unless urgent action is taken
to reduce carbon emissions, the United
Nations says, Earth could pass a temperature
threshold in the next decade when climate
disasters are too extreme to adapt to. We
speak with longtime climate journalist Jeff
Goodell, author of the new book, The Heat
Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a
Scorched Planet, about how the climate crisis
is raising temperatures, the toll such heat
can have on the human body, and how “heat is
the primary driver for this climate
transformation we are undergoing right now,”
fueling natural disasters such as floods,
wildfires and more.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Young_Americans_blame_SCOTUS,_GOP_for_unforgiven
student_loan_debt⠀⇛
Data: The Generation Lab; Chart: Axios Visuals
Young Americans are piling the blame for their student_debt_balances on
conservatives, according to a poll by Generation Lab provided exclusively to
Axios.
Why it matters:The high court’s recent decisions_on_education, including
student loans and affirmative_action, could drive young_voters to the polls.
⚓ Axios ☛ Life_is_about_to_get_much_more_expensive_for_millions_of_families⠀⇛
Several pandemic-era_safety_net_programs will be coming to an end at
roughly the same time this fall, creating a major economic squeeze
for millions of families.
Why it matters:Scores of Americans will soon start facing bigger
bills for student_loan_payments, child_care, health_care and food,
deepening the impact of years of inflation.
⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Bengaluru_CEO_gets_3000_resumes_in_two_days,_expresses
concern_on_Indian_job_market⠀⇛
A Bengaluru based Chief Executive Officer (CEO) expressed shock after
he received a whopping 3,000 resumes within two days for job openings
in his private firm. He also expressed concern about the job market
in India, which is currently facing the heat of layoffs in major
companies.
⚓ The Wrap ☛ Cameo_Layoffs_Leave_Video_App_With_Fewer_Than_50_Employees⠀⇛
Cameo, the company behind the eponymous video-commissioning app, has
undergone another round of layoffs, dropping the headcount of the
startup to fewer than 50 employees.
The move was described as a finance-related decision in an all-hands
company meeting on Tuesday. This round of layoffs was said to ax “at
least” 80 people, according to a pair of former employees involved in
the layoffs who spoke with The Information. Cameo had around 400
employees before layoffs began in 2022.
A representative for Cameo did not refute the details of the
aforementioned report when responding to TheWrap’s request for
comment. They provided a statement from the company’s CEO, Steven
Galanis.
⚓ Firstpost ☛ Amazon_lays_off_more_people_and_inadvertently_unveils_new
strategy_to_mass_fire_employees⠀⇛
⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Global_inflation_expectations_remain_high_despite_central
bank_interventions⠀⇛
Despite significant hikes in major interest rates by global central
banks, inflation expectations continue to remain high across the
world, according to the Economic Experts Survey (EES) for Q2 2023
conducted by the ifo Institute and the Swiss Economic Policy
Institute. Although a mild decline in the anticipated inflation rate
has been observed over the last three quarters, the change has been
marginal, and the current average inflation expectation for 2023
stays at 7%.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Elon_Starts_Bribing_His_Biggest_Fans_As_He_Admits_The
Company_Is_Still_Burning_Cash_(Despite_His_Earlier_Claims_To_The
Contrary)⠀⇛
It seems to anger certain Elon Musk fans every time I mention
it, but pre-Elon Twitter was generally doing okay. Not great.
Not terrible. Just okay. It wasn’t printing cash like Meta or
Google, but it had been steadily increasing revenue and was
profitable in 16 of the previous 20 quarters before Elon took
over. There was a big paper loss in the 2nd quarter of 2020 due
to a single noncash deferred tax asset, and many people see
that giant loss and mistakenly think it showed the company was
deep in the hole. However, you can tell it was nothing given
that most analysts basically ignored that single big loss and
focused on the underlying advertising and user numbers.
* ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Viral_TikTok_NPC_Streamer_Pinkydoll_Doesn’t_Care
What_You_Think⠀⇛
“They love me. I ain’t gon lie it feel amazing to have all the
attention and getting pay at the same time.”
* ⚓ Axios ☛ House_to_vote_on_pro-Israel_measure_following_top_progressive
Jayapal’s_comments⠀⇛
House Republicans are planning a vote this week on a resolution
denouncing anti-semitism and defending Israel, Axios has
learned.
Why it matters:It is a direct response to comments from
Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila_Jayapal (D-
Wash.) over the weekend calling Israel a “racist” state.
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ NYPost ☛ White_House_rips_‘vile’_RFK_Jr._comments_COVID-19_was
‘ethnically_targeted’_to_spare_Jews,_Chinese⠀⇛
“The claims made on that tape is false. It is vile. And
they put our they put our fellow Americans in danger,”
Jean-Pierre told a reporter who asked during the daily
White House press briefing if Kennedy’s comments had any
place in the Democratic Party.
o ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Watchdog_calls_for_House_committee_to
uninvite_RFK_Jr._after_his_comments_are_blasted_as_antisemitic⠀⇛
A Democratic watchdog group has asked a U.S. House
committee to rescind an invitation to Robert F. Kennedy
Jr. after the Democratic presidential candidate was
filmed falsely suggesting COVID-19 could have been
“ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese
people. The Congressional Integrity Project sent a letter
to Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Select
Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal
Government, after the comments prompted accusations of
antisemitism and racism. Jordan said through a
spokesperson he will move forward with the hearing
despite disagreeing with Kennedy’s comments. Kennedy said
that his words were twisted and that he never suggested
COVID-19 was targeted to spare Jews.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.’s_Relatives_Condemn_His
Comments_About_Covid⠀⇛
His sister Kerry Kennedy criticized his remarks, and his
brother Joseph Kennedy II said “they play on antisemitic
myths and stoke mistrust of the Chinese.”
o ⚓ Tech Times ☛ Experts_Warn_of_AI-Generated_Misinformation_in_2024
US_Election_Campaigns⠀⇛
As the 2024 US Presidential election approaches, digital
information integrity experts are warning about the
growing usage of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated
material that might confuse or mislead voters.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ JURIST ☛ China_launches_another_online_rumor_crackdown⠀⇛
Chinese Communist Party-owned media outlet Renminwang reported
Monday that the Chinese Ministry of Public Security began
another week of promoting its operation to target online rumors
and encourage rational commenting on the internet.
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ Project Censored ☛ The_Importance_of_Independent_Media_and_Critical
Media_Literacy_Education_in_a_Democratic_Society_–_The_Project_Censored
Show⠀⇛
The Importance of Independent Media and Critical Media Literacy
Education
* ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ How_the_Establishment_Works_Part_2⠀⇛
This article will feature senior judges I have blogged about
before, and explain how I expect the Assange case will be
finally stitched up for extradition.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_gov’t_watchdog_rejects_complaint_over
handling_of_unexplained_media_ban_at_press_event⠀⇛
The Hong Kong government’s watchdog has found no evidence of
maladministration by the Information Services Department (ISD),
following an investigation into how the government PR wing
handled unexplained media bans at an April press event.
* ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Complain_about_Hong_Kong_if_you_must,_but_our
plight_has_nothing_to_do_with_German history⠀⇛
An anonymous but outspoken netizen recently dubbed the Hong
Kong police, or perhaps just the national security specialists,
our Gestapo-po. This seems very unfair. It is commonplace that
some languages spring into use in particular circumstances.
Discussions of music can hardly avoid Italian. The writers of
restaurant menus instinctively reach for their French.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ EFF ☛ Ecuador’s_Judicial_System_Must_Reaffirm_Ola_Bini’s_Innocence_In
the_Face_of_Prosecutor’s_Office_Appeal⠀⇛
As we previously wrote, the January ruling set a crucial
precedent. It was the first time an Ecuadorian court analyzed
the issue of unauthorized access to a computer system, an act
classified as an offense under Article 234 of Ecuador’s
criminal code. Most importantly, the court resisted setting an
expansive interpretation of what constitutes unauthorized
access of computer systems, a move that could have seriously
endangered the beneficial work of security researchers and the
vital role they play for our privacy and security across
information systems.
The acquittal sentence makes three important facts clear.
First, the evidence the prosecution presented was essentially
unrelated to the charge of unauthorized access and did not
prove the alleged criminal facts. Second, the only piece of
evidence that was possibly related, the image of a telnet
session showing a connection to a National Telecommunications
Corporation (CNT) router, was not proof of criminal activity.
And third, the prosecution didn’t present any evidence to prove
the required threshold of malicious intent—necessary for the
crime of unauthorized access. In short, the court refused to
convict Bini based on stereotyped views of security experts
intended to stoke fear that he was a danger to the public and
state security.
The alleged evidence presented to the court was mainly
unrelated to the criminal offense levied against Bini. His
visits to Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London,
his internet service contract, the amount of computer equipment
he owned, and translations of private conversations held with
various contacts through different messaging applications, were
related to a strategy of fear mongering around a “hacker
panic,” not evidence of a crime.
* ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Top_U.N._Human_Rights_Official_&_Fmr._Swedish_FM_on
Palestine,_Sudan_&_U.S._Cluster_Bombs_to_Ukraine⠀⇛
On Friday, July 14, Amy Goodman moderated a wide-ranging panel
on human rights in Venice, Italy, to mark the 75th anniversary
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The panel’s
speakers included United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights Volker Türk, former Swedish Foreign Minister Margot
Wallström and Eamon Gilmore, the European Union special
representative for human rights. They discussed the U.S.
sending cluster bombs to Ukraine, the war in Sudan, Palestine,
as well as the role of civil society and the media in elevating
human rights issues.
* ⚓ EFF ☛ EFF_Poker_Tournament_at_DEF_CON_31_♠️⠀⇛
Take a break from hacking the Gibson to face off with your
competition at the tables—all while benefiting EFF! Your buy-in
is paired with a donation to support EFF’s mission to protect
online privacy and free expression for all. Play for money, and
the future of the web! Seating is limited, so reserve your spot
today.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ The_Kremlin’s_new_buyers_for_Yandex_Putin’s_domestic_policy
czar_hopes_to_engineer_a_sale_that_would_further_consolidate_the_state’s
control_over_Russia’s_Internet_industry_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Kremlin’s domestic policy czar, First Deputy Chief of Staff
Sergey Kiriyenko, is advocating a new plan to sell off tech
giant Yandex’s remaining Russian assets, journalists at Meduza
and The Bell have learned. Kiriyenko’s plan would transfer the
enterprises to a consortium of businessmen with known ties to
Yuri Kovalchuk, the billionaire known as “Vladimir Putin’s
personal banker,” consolidating his control over the commanding
heights of the Russian Internet and expanding the Kremlin’s
influence over the industry. As Meduza and The Bell reported
last month, the Yandex deal’s future became uncertain after the
company’s board of directors opposed selling off the assets to
individuals under Western sanctions, even though Vladimir Putin
personally approved the list of buyers.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ JUVE ☛ EPO_upholds_Compugen_patent_for_immunotherapy_cancer
treatment [Ed: JUVE, a sponsored propagandist of illegal agenda
(pushing for illegal patent 'court'), on the corrupt EPO upholding
its own decisions]⠀⇛
The European Patent Office has had a busy few months. One
of the office’s most recent opposition decisions, which
relates to a patent for a new cancer treatment, has gone
in favour of the patent holder, Compugen.
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Vision_Works_IP_automotive_patent_challenged⠀⇛
On July 14, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte
reexamination proceeding against U.S._Patent_8,437,935,
owned and asserted by Vision Works IP Corp., an NPE. The
’935 patent generally relates to a vehicle monitoring
system for turning off an idling engine.
o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $2,000_for_Jeffrey_M._Gross_entity,
Gametronics,_signal_control_patent_prior_art⠀⇛
A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was
added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S.
Patent_8,614,667, owned by Gametronics, an NPE and entity
of Jeffrey M. Gross.
* § Trademarks⠀➾
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Trader_Joe’s_Joins_List_Of_Companies_Combatting_Unions
Via_Trademark_Bullying⠀⇛
Grocery chain Trader Joe’s is not a complete stranger to
Techdirt’s pages, and not for good reasons. The company,
in the past, has shown itself to be perfectly willing to
abuse trademark law to stop anything it doesn’t like,
such as a man reselling its goods across borders where
the company has no stores (perfectly legal) or someone
setting up a site selling parody goods that tangentially
reference its branding (also legal). But now Trader Joe’s
has joined a small club of companies that has tried to
use trademark law to bully its own employee’s union.
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ US_Court:_When_IPTV_Pirates_Reap_Profit,_CDN
Attracts_Pirates_&_Profits⠀⇛
UK-based CDN company DataCamp has failed in its bid to
have a $32.5 million lawsuit dismissed in the United
States. According to a memorandum and opinion published
July 14, plaintiff DISH Network has established a causal
relationship between infringing IPTV services and the
company’s profits. When the IPTV services profited, that
attracted more pirates to DataCamp, the court found.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Court_Orders_File-Sharing_Service_to_Pay_$46,000
Piracy_Damages_For_User_Upload⠀⇛
A Prague court has ordered Czech file-sharing and hosting
site Ulož.to to pay $46,000 in damages to local movie
distributor CineMart. The file-sharing platform stood
accused of unjust enrichment after one of its users
uploaded a pirated film without permission. Uloz’s parent
company describes the judgment as absurd and says it will
appeal the decision.
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Posted in News_Roundup at 8:32 pm 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
# Software_Releases/Announcements
# Programming
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_CELRTUV_Wordo:_SOLER⠀⇛
# ⚓ Some_unnamable_juice.⠀⇛
My old dad knew some things. Not so much about any
one thing, but he could take the measure of
whatever came. If you brought something broken, or
someone’s name, or what you heard, you’d know he’d
have a place for it. Not the details, but a slot.
He’d move through this world grounded in what he
knew. And enough bones to hang and carry whatever
he found. Most of the old folks I knew was like
that.
And I wonder now, what he’d make of what I got to
steer through now.
I have this early memory, of when I was small. Back
then there was barely any of the Olds come in yet,
although they was something he could reckon with.
But this one day, I go to fetch dad to come around.
I’d found one of his dogs dead on the lower field,
just laying there in the dust with the flies, its
head about all gone. We go along the fence and find
this jelly lump creature about two foot long,
heaving along and trailing blood behind. So my dad
puts a boot on it, and it bursts out this blue-
colored bile as it dies. It’s running down that
wind-parched dirt, some unnameable juice, but it
don’t run like blood or anything, it pulses with a
rhythm. Like it’s its own thing. Never saw nothing
like it.
# ⚓ Consent⠀⇛
Informed consent is the core pluralist value.
The populist core value is tradition. Sometimes
flimsy-ass traditions that are only a few decades
old, sometimes ancient granite boots stomping a
human face forever.
So in the mind of a populist, the pluralist ethic
might seem like a mess of contradictions. We
protest when Iran forces hijabs and when France
forbids them. We protest islamophobia but support
LGBT which many imams speak out against.
In the minds of our foes we seem like flickering
candles unable to make up our minds, unable to
wrangle our minds to fit their beloved hobgoblin of
consistenc
# ⚓ So_it’s_been_a_month,_huh?⠀⇛
The Tomatos are just now turning ripe. They’re very
small — a bit bigger than cherry tomatos — which
wasn’t expected but they’re tasty. Need to do
better research what kind of tomato seed to buy.
Oops.
I’ve already harvested two batches of gherkins and
pickled them. All in all around half a kilo of
them. This is surprisingly little considering it is
seven plants. It’s too early to tell how the
pickling turned out, they’re still in the basement
fermenting or whatever you call this :).
The potatos will soon be ripe I think, so will the
chillis and the onions.
o § Politics and World Events⠀➾
# ⚓ The_ebb_tide⠀⇛
There is an aforism, “a rising tide lifts all
boats”, made popular by a speechwriter in the JFK
administration who snarfed it from the regional New
England Council in the early sixties.
It’s been used to promote pretty messed up economic
policies that benefit the richest of the richest,
and completely ignoring the ever-widening wealth
gap, under the guise of “what are you complaining
about? Even though the wealth gaps are the biggest
they’ve ever been and the billionares can buy and
sell forty thousand Versailles palaces per minute,
you’re still better of than a Whitechapel streetrat
in the 19th century, aren’t you?”
There’s also a really good music album by Mire Kay
that’s named after that phrase. One of my favorite
records, coincidentally. It doesn’t seem like a
political record as far as I can tell. It is a
poetic and dangerously convincing phrase even
though the underlying political sentiment is all
kinds of messed up.
# ⚓ Populism⠀⇛
It’s weird how the shift from workers vs owners to
pluralists vs populists has been presented as this
new phenomenon by commentators like Norris and
Inglehart, the latter arguing that it’s because of
how the new generation has new values.
# ⚓ Doomers_over_the_line⠀⇛
For me, there are two kind of sharp dividing lines
when it comes to doomerism (and people do one or
the other or both, they’re independent).
One is when people use it to shut down others. The
difference between “I need a break from thinking
about this” vs “you need to give up! You need to
stop trying!”. The latter is what’s not OK.
# ⚓ Free_Speech⠀⇛
I hesitated to even write this, but it needs said.
I did tone it down just a bit, in the interest of
legitimate dialogue.
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Old_Computer_Challenge_V3⠀⇛
I only learn about the challenge on the first day.
Hopefully I have the perfect challenger for this
task: my trusty Acer Aspire One from 2009. Equipped
with an Intel Atom clocking at 1.6GHz, 1Gib of RAM
and a 250Gb hard drive, it barely needed any
limitation to fit in the challenge.
I grab it from the shelf, blow the dust out of it
and powers it. Without much surprise, it boots into
the 5 years old Void Linux I had setup and forgot
about.
I plug it in to reflow it with some juice, and ends
the day.
# ⚓ Melody_Chop_Shop⠀⇛
“Composing with Constraints” exercise 9 has one
chop a given melody into segments of equal length
and presumably to reorder those segments as you see
fit, possibly randomly. Musikalisches Würfelspiel
was popular a few years ago. With a computer one
might imagine software that splits music into
suitable segments, and now you have two problems:
the original exercise, and new software to write.
Worse, not all MIDI is suitable to segmentation;
there may be zero “dtime” events associated with
either a previous or the next note, and the next
note event could appear before the previous note
event. Perhaps there is a control change for the
next note, and then a “note_off” event for some
prior “note_on” event. Most MIDI is not like this,
though tracks that have long sustains (“note_on”
without a corresponding or very late “note_off”)
will also be a problem for a simple segmentation
process that only considers “note_on” events.
Still, you can try arbitrary MIDI files or
normalize them first so that shuffled stray events
do not cause problems.
# ⚓ How-to_install_Alpine_Linux_in_full_ram_with_persistency⠀⇛
In this guide, I’d like to share with you how to
install Alpine Linux, so it runs entirely from RAM,
but using its built-in tool to handle persistency.
Perfect setup for a NAS or router, so you don’t
waste a disk for the system, and this can even be
used for a workstation.
# ⚓ Tech_illiteracy⠀⇛
My parents were born around the 60s. They were
fortunate enough to witness some of the most
revolutionary technological miracles, and remember
living without them. For example, did you know
before mircowave popcorn was invented people just
took the kernels and put them in brown paper lunch
bags and put that in microwaves. Anyways, a story
my mom likes to tell me about regarding computers
is this:
“When I was a kid they brought in a computer to my
school and gathered everyone around to see it. An
old terminal style with a keyboard. It probably
weighed a hundred pounds. The presenter said “In
the future everything will be done with one of
these!” And the entire classroom laughed at them,
“Yeah right!” we all said in disbelief”.
# ⚓ How_Much_Space_Is_Saved_By_Using_Tabs_In_Code?⠀⇛
One of the arguments for using tabs over spaces as
a coding style is that tabs use less disc space
than, well… spaces.
It’s obvious that it does use less space. One tab
character can represent what multiple space
characters do, and the size of a tab and space
character are identical. People argue about the
degree of difference it makes. Most people just
guess. Either saying “it’s too small of a degree to
matter” or “I guess it would be this much smaller”.
I could not find any actual tests outside of a few
toy examples. So today I decided to do my own test
and get a real estimate.
# ⚓ Old_Computer_Challenge_2023_retrospective⠀⇛
I didn’t manage to write up my experiences every
day, so I’m going to do a recap today. Overall,
there’s not much to say; going to the smol computer
made me postpone some things that weren’t urgent,
but had to be done on the web of *B▲b𝑦ƚøn*, but
didn’t otherwise affect my computing very much. I
used my phone more than I expected or intended to.
# ⚓ What’s_on_My_Phone_2023⠀⇛
It’s been a while since I’ve done something like
this. Here’s a list of Android apps I use often on
my Pixel 4 running GrapheneOS. It’s not a complete
list at all, instead I’ve tried to focus on unique
apps that you’re less likely to have heard of
before. Hopefully you find something useful!
# ⚓ Sliding_under_the_door_before_ew0k_slams_it_temporarily
shut⠀⇛
Maybe my faculties are failing, but Bubble seems
too “link busy” to me. I stare at a page there, and
it feels as though I have too much screen scanning
to do to accomplish what I want. But I suppose
practice would perfect that.
# ⚓ Changing_How_I_Consume_Visual_Content⠀⇛
Something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately is
how I can be a more conscientious and ethical
consumer of visual content, specifically movies and
television.
This isn’t my first foray into trying to be a more
ethical consumer. I recently quit using Spotify for
music consumption, and so far it’s been a rather
rewarding and transformative experience. My
consumption habits were completely changed by
dropping Spotify and all for the better.
Television and movies will be more difficult
though. I watch a lot of TV and it’s almost all
through streamers. I figure I would lay out some of
my thoughts as I try and put together a plan to
wean myself off the big streamers almost entirely.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Re:_Re:_Free_Speech⠀⇛
I have been sitting on this post, unwritten,
stewing around in my head for a while now.
Given the recent woke gemidrama, I thought
now as good a time as any to finally write
this up.
# ⚓ My_Gemini_Retrospective⠀⇛
In my mind, browsing Geminispace or
Gopherspace is the internet equivalent of de
Certeau’s idea of walking in the city. The
veteran geminaut knows the best way from
capsule A to capsule B, gems like a games and
shortcuts like aggregators. The veteran
geminaut navigates deliberately and
mindfully, and this is an empowering
experience that allows people to pursue their
interests, find adjucent topics of interest
and exchange ideas with like-minded people,
without fear of tracking or ads that gently
bend and push one’s stream of consciousness.
Gemini allows people to talk to the void
without FOMO and without expecting “coins”
such as “likes” in return, and that is very
liberating once you get used to it.
Gemini is a good lesson for people who
believe that work is never “done” and deny
the “perma” in “permacomputing”. My most
influential and inspiring teachers taught me
that there’s always something I can do when
I’m done with my current task: if you don’t
see anything to do or improve, you’re
probably not looking: you’re a lazy bum,
incompetent, or both. When I was younger,
confidence in my ability to fix and improve
things made me a calm and productive person.
Gemini helped me realize that this hunt for
problems and solution made me stressed: my
attempt to restore what I preceived as lost
harmony in the world, helped me find peace
and win this silly zero sum game. Writing my
own Gemini client taught me that the work can
be “done” if you decide so, and I feel more
peaceful knowing that my primary content
retrieval tool won’t change.
# ⚓ Help!_The_antenna_on_my_textie_talkie_is_broke!⠀⇛
Fortunately I’ve been sufficiently busy of
late for Antenna’s downtime to make me too
impoli.. I mean despondent. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽
⦇;-)⦈
I also went cold turkey on alcohol and pot,
not to mention not having any cigarettes
after a weekend smoking a lot with my brother
(basically the only time I ever do anymore).
# ⚓ the_internet_feels_like_it’s_dying⠀⇛
I am grateful today that I have access to
some smaller, more niche parts of the web. I
am glad that I have a computer and feel
comfortable using it. I think if I was raised
on smartphones and tablets alone and just
used to a few specific apps (and at worst, a
functioning and optimized mobile browser
view), I would feel very, very lonely and
locked out right now without an account on
the big socials. They’d be all I know and
used to have access to. Now, they don’t have
to be, but it still sucks to be anyone online
right now.
A few days ago, and again today, I wanted to
check up on a music artist I enjoy. I don’t
have any accounts at Twitter, Instagram, or
Tiktok.
I try to check their Twitter on my phone –
login screen. I close it. It presents me with
viral tweets, but not the profile I wanted to
see. I try it on my laptop. Sometimes, they
make a difference between desktop and
smartphone. Not this time.
# § Software Releases/Announcements⠀➾
# ⚓ ANTENNA_DOWNTIME_TOMORROW_AS_WELL⠀⇛
Renovating takes more time than it should…
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Web_API_Articles⠀⇛
From time to time I need to work with web
APIs. These normally allow computers to
communicate online. But, it might be
necessary for people to work with APIs to
connect a business to a new service or to
automate tasks.
Below are some articles that I found helpful
while learning about APIs.
# ⚓ Reading_log⠀⇛
Added [Gila2023], which presents “zip-zip
trees”, which claim to offer the balanced
depth of a treap or binary search tree that
has been constructed with uniform random
insertions, while being strongly history
independent.
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