𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Thursday, July 27, 2023
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⦿ [Meme] The EPO SLAPP Machine, Blackmailing Critics While Donning Diplomatic Immunity | Techrights
⦿ Twitter is Insolvent. Elon Musk Changes the Business Identity. | Techrights
⦿ Dražen Petrović (ILOAT): Please Withdraw Your Complaint So I Can Fake ’Productivity’ (Oh My! The Irony!) | Techrights
⦿ Martin Wilming (Hepp Wenger Ryffel AG) Exposes the Sham That is Patent ’Quality’ at the European Patent Office (EPO) | Techrights
⦿ [Meme] The Fake ’Anti-Racist’ Who Lives in a Whites-Only Area | Techrights
⦿ Our Latest Geminispace Milestone | Techrights
⦿ [Meme] ILOAT Cops or ILOAT Judges? | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Microsoft’s Mass Layoffs May Accelerate Even Further Following This Week’s Bad Results (Disregard the Shameless Misreporting in Corporate Media, Controlled by Microsoft Operatives) | Techrights
⦿ Federation Is Inferior to Self-Hosting and Using RSS Feeds (or Other Syndication Formats) | Techrights
⦿ Upcoming Series: Matthew J Garrett, the Person Behind the Mask | Techrights
⦿ Windows Used to Have 100% of the Client Side in Chad. Now It’s 83% Android and 8% Windows. | Techrights
⦿ Never Work for Known Liars (People Cautioned Me About the CEO of Sirius ’Open Source’ 17 Years Ago) | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/blackmailing-critics/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/changing-the-business-identity-of-twitter/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/drazen-petrovic-modus-operandi/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/epo-inside/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/fake-anti-racists/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/geminispace-milestone/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/iloat-police-department/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/irc-log-260723/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/microsoft-accelerated-layoffs/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/self-hosting-and-federation/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/upcoming-series-mjg/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/windows-used-to-have-100-of-the-client-side-in-chad-now-its-83-android-and-8-windows/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/working-for-liars/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/communal-fragmentation/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/dumping-twitter/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/gstreamer-1-20-7/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/misusing-the-brand-open-source/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/www-drm-goofle-wide-web/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/07/27/zorin-os-16-3/#comments
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✐ [Meme]_The_EPO_SLAPP_Machine,_Blackmailing_Critics_While_Donning_Diplomatic
Immunity⠀✐
Posted in Europe, Patents at 7:16 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Slap, slap, slap… from the “f**king president” (that’s how António_Campinos
refers to himself, the ‘superhero’ who exploits immunity to break the law and
ignore orders from international courts)
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇I_heard_you_criticised_the_EPO._Yes,_I_did._Don't_you_ever
do_that_again.⦈_
Organised crime (or white-collar crime) + diplomatic immunity = EPO, Europe’s
second largest institution, creating illegal and unconstitutional “courts” that
are subservient to it. Welcome to monarchy.
Summary: The criminals who took over the European Patent Office (EPO) have a
habit of mass-mailing_people_who_write_about_the_EPO_critically in order to
silence them (sometimes the EPO just bribes them instead, as we showed in the
past)
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Legal letter mistake⦈
A section of the first legal letter (among 4) sent to me
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⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⢀⠐⠻⠿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣤⣤⣤⣶⣾⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣶⡿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠘⠇⢸⣆⠀⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣯⣽⣛⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣤⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠃⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⣭⡍⣥⡤⣤⣤⣤⢀⣤⣤⣌⢻⣷⠀⣤⣤⠀⠀⣤⣤⣤⡀⢠⣤⢠⣤⣤⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⢿⣍⠉⠓⠲⠤⢉⡙⠛⠻⠿⢷⡀⠀⠀⠘⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠇⢹⣷⣿⠃⣿⣿⣉⢿⣿⣛⠛⠀⠻⠁⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⡏⣿⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⡏⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣨⡳⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⡟⠀⣿⣿⠛⣤⣽⢿⣷⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⡇⣿⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⡇⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠶⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠿⠇⠀⠿⠿⠿⠘⠿⠾⠟⢾⠇⠀⠿⠿⠀⠀⠿⠷⠿⠏⠸⠿⠸⠿⠿⠿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢉⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣼⣿⣿⣿⡟⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣉⣩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠟⢉⣙⠛⠿⠉⢉⣙⣉⡉⠉⢩
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢁⣀⣀⣤⣤⣴⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠻⠿⠏⢙⣓⣂⣭⣭⡄⢤⣶⣾⣿⣿⠿⠿⠟⠛⡄⠈
⣄⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠛⠿⠏⣉⠛⠃⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⠙⠻⣿⠿⠿⣟⣛⣛⣃⣬⣉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⡀
⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣉⣉⣁⣤⣤⣤⣶⣶⣾⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⠄⠀⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡏⠿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢣
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⠛⣉⣉⣉⣥⣴⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⠿⠿⢿⣏⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣷⡅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠦⣶⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡈⢻⣶⣶⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠈⠛⠛⠛⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⣡⣴⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠉⢻⣿⣿⣿⣏⢿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠠⣤⣴⣿⣇⢈⣉⣽⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠛⠛⢿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⠺⠟⠿⣟⣿⡌⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠻⣿⣿⠚⠋⣩⣽⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣖⡀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣷⣦⡄⠀⠹⡄⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠿⠟⢿⣿⣤⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠻⠃⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⢿⠄⠐⠻⠿⣿⣟⠉⠀⢀⠀⠀⣐⣛⣛⠻⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠛⠛⠿⠿⠇⠀⠘⠃⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠙⠛⠛⠀⢠⠼⠿⠿⠿⠟⠛⠻⠿⠶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⠿⠓⠀⠸⠖⠂⠿⠷⠤⠄⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀
⢸⡟⣿⣦⣿⢻⣧⣿⣇⣿⠸⠟⣿⡟⢃⠸⣷⣿⢳⣿⣿⡆⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⠛⣿⣿⣿⢹⡟⠃⣿⣿⣷⠀⢸⣿⣿⡆⣿⢻⣷⠀⠛⣿⡟⣿⡇⣿⡇⣿⣿⠚⣿⡟⠀⢸⣿⣿⢰⣿⢻⡇⣾⣿⡇⣿⡇⣿⣇⣿⠀⠀⠀
⢸⡇⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡆⣿⡇⢸⡆⢿⡏⢸⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⠃⢻⣿⣿⢸⡟⠃⣿⣿⣷⠀⢸⣿⣿⡇⣿⢸⣿⠰⠀⣿⡇⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⡇⠀⢸⣯⣿⣸⣿⢺⡇⣿⣽⣧⣿⡇⣿⢿⣿⠀⠀⠀
⠘⠛⠛⠁⠛⠛⠃⠛⠋⠛⢀⣇⠛⢃⣸⣇⡛⢃⣈⠛⠛⠁⠙⠛⠋⠀⠘⠛⠛⠘⠛⠃⠘⠛⢃⣛⣛⣛⣀⣘⣛⣛⣁⣛⣛⢋⣾⡀⠛⠃⠛⠃⠛⢛⡛⠛⣃⣛⣣⣄⠛⠃⠛⠋⠛⠛⠛⠛⠘⠛⠛⠃⠛⠘⠛⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⢰⣿⣿⡿⠿⠛⠋⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠛⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⣿⠟⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⣿⣿⣦⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣴⣿⣞⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣤⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀
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✐ Twitter_is_Insolvent._Elon_Musk_Changes_the_Business_Identity.⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Intellectual_Monopoly at 5:05 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Twitter Axed
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/twitter-becomes-x.webm
Summary: Elon_Musk is trying to accelerate the death of Twitter*; now he’s just
blatantly hijacking users’ accounts, changing the names of everything without
any consultation (the police got called into Twitter’s headquarters this week),
and it seems safe to predict little of that site (whatever it’s called) will be
left next year; deep in debt and still losing a lot of money each month (not
even counting the cost of interest on the debt), Twitter is dead man walking or
insolvent (but in denial about it)
THE video above mostly deals with the x.org/x.com_situation because some
lawyers are (in their words!) 100% certain there are trademark disputes/
lawsuits on the way. There is also lots_of_confusion. As XRevan86 explained, “I
saw a hyperlink to Twitter on a website and it made me think about how that
would look like if it were “X”. Completely unclear and way too close to a
button to close a pop-up advert or something.”
But wait, there’s already another new scandal, which will be covered using
reports in our Daily Links. Mr. Musk is now hijacking long-held Twitter handles
of people, just like Freenode/Andrew_Lee_did_two_years_ago_with_IRC_channels
(“Twitter’s ‘Joseon’ Moment” is what we’ve dubbed it). “Still, freenode hijacks
were an order of magnitude worse,” XRevan86 asserts, due to the scale and the
prospect of impostering. Remember the time Freenode flushed out the whole
database, allowing people to register other people’s nicknames and channels?
For those who don’t know what “Joseon” is about, read/glimpse at the following:
Configurations_After_Flushing_Down_Decades’_Worth_of_User/Channel_Data
and_Locking/Shutting_Out_Longtime_Users
Freenode),_But_Only_a_Few_Dozen_Channels_Have_a_Dozen_or_More_Users
“Mr. Musk is now hijacking long-held Twitter handles of people…”At this point
Mr. Musk is just trying to leverage Twitter to boost some of his other scams
(yes, Mr. Lee did the same, he was deep_in_debt), including fakecoins. He’s
trying to project his own fraudulent business outfits into a space occupied by
various communities, not just businesses.
“It’s probably time for the US Government to step in and investigate all
this.”For those who don’t know or forgot, Mr. Lee was trying to boost IRC.com
(instead of Freenode, like X instead of Twitter) and Joseon (the domain/
namespace), basically playing up his claims of grandeur (delusions of being a
royal, who can assert “territory” using a bunch of fakecoins, as he had
explained_to_me_in_person).
It’s probably time for the US Government to step in and investigate all this. A
lot of stuff gets ruined by self-serving charlatans. █
largest_populations (Indonesia). “Elon Musk just sabotaged one of the biggest
markets for Twitter. Jakarta used to be Twitter’s #1 city worldwide, is still
in the top 3 (yes, really) and the city alone contributes to more than 2% of
all global posts,” as one_person_put_it.
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‘Productivity’_(Oh_My!_The_Irony!)⠀✐
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ILOAT Still Failing EPO Staff
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/epo-iloat-caseload.webm
Summary: The International Labour Organisation’s Administrative Tribunal
(ILOAT) is trying to find ways to close European Patent Office complaints
without_even_dealing_with_them, basically by tricking complainants into a state
of surrender or defeatism (much like Action_Fraud_in_my_case)
THE European Patent Office’s (EPO) high load on ILOAT is being handled en mass
by Dražen Petrović. Perhaps like a dishonest cop he’s looking for a way to
“solve” many crimes by just closing_lots_of_cases,_without_resolution. The
video above explains the outcome of three cases and according to a new
publication from SUEPO, the EPO’s staff union, ILOAT is now attempting to do
for António_Campinos what it did for Benoît_Battistelli. To make matters worse,
ILOAT is failing to actually enforce its rulings. Campinos basically makes a
mockery of ILOAT judges by treating their rulings as mere "suggestions_from
Geneva".
Here is what the EPO’s union said in yesterday’s publication (I recorded this
last night, but then processed 6 videos in tandem, so it took time to publish)
INTERNATIONALE GEWERKSCHAFT IM EUROPÄISCHEN PATENTAMT
STAFF UNION OF THE EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE
UNION SYNDICALE DE L’OFFICE EUROPEEN DES BREVETS
26 July 2023
su23033cp 0.2.1 – 5.1
§ Challenging the New Career System⠀➾
§ Still pending complaints⠀➾
Dear Colleagues,
On 7 July 2023, the Tribunal delivered three judgments dismissing
complaints against the EPO career system1 (CA/D 10/14):
− Judgment 4710 rules on a complaint challenging the general decision
CA/D 10/14 insofar it abolishes the seniority based step advancement;
− Judgment 4711 rules on a complaint challenging the implementing
decisions to abolish the seniority based step advancement;
− Judgment 4712 rules on a complaint challenging the transposition of
the complainant into the New Career System.
As of 19 July 2023, the Tribunal has sent emails to other
complainants as follows:
Dear complainant,
Judgments_4710,_4711_and_4712
As you may be aware, at its 136th Session, the Tribunal
ruled on three complaints in which an EPO employee
challenged various aspects of the new career system
resulting from the Administrative Council’s decision CA/
D 10/14, including the decision to transpose him into a new
job group and the abolition of automatic step advancement.
These three complaints were dismissed in their entirety for
the reasons set out in Judgments 4710, 4711 and 4712.
Given that the subject complaint filed by you in December
2021 is largely based on pleas that are similar if not
identical to those that were rejected by the Tribunal in
the aforementioned judgments, it appears highly unlikely
that the outcome for your complaint could be different.
I therefore ask you to give careful consideration to the
Tribunal’s reasoning in Judgments 4710, 4711 and 4712,
which are available on the Tribunal’s website, and to let
me know by Friday,_15_September_2023 whether you wish to
withdraw your complaint in light of the Tribunal’s recent
rulings.
Your cooperation in this matter would be greatly
appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Dražen Petrović
_______________
1 see « ILOAT Judgments on the EPO Career System: Complaints
dismissed », CSC paper of 21 July 2023 (sc23101cp)
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SUEPO is in the process of analysing the judgments together with the
legal counsels (e.g. the pleas of former A4(2) colleagues differ from
the ones of the above complaints).
For the time being, we advise all complainants NOT to reply to the
email from the Tribunal yet.
We will come back to you with detailed instructions at the beginning
of September.
SUEPO Central
We’ll have a lot more to say about this soon. First, a meme… (due shortly)
Aside from joking and a bunch of parables we’ll probably see, after employment-
centric lawyers get consulted, how ILOAT will be confronted. Based upon laws,
not ridicule. As pointed out in the video, ILO is the sole recourse to justice
for EPO staff (outside the EPO, due to immunity) and at the same time the EPO’s
membership in ILO/AT means that politicians are mislead into thinking
everything is OK and staff can access a tribunal in case of employment dispute/
s. The above shows that there’s a rather farcical element to it, as we saw with
the previous administrator of this Geneva-based Tribunal (he left after failing
a lot of workers). That the EPO is not even obeying the rulings simply means
that it’s toothless. Sometimes the EPO merely pretends to obey the rulings.
Nobody is enforcing the rulings and the people who flout court rulings/orders
face no consequences.
As a side note, it’s curious that ILOAT is outsourcing its decisions/
proceedings to Google (USA/NSA). Seems like a severe policy issue. █
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✐ Martin_Wilming_(Hepp_Wenger_Ryffel_AG)_Exposes_the_Sham_That_is_Patent
‘Quality’at_the_European_Patent_Office(EPO)⠀✐
Posted in Europe, Patents at 6:30 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPO_internal⦈_
Summary: Head over to this_blog_post about what goes on at the EPO, based on
Martin Wilming (in case the EPO blackmails him or his employer into self-
censorship*, as it very habitually does, here are the underlying documents [1,
2] and “leaks” [1, 2])
IP Kat and WIPR), we’ll publish a full backup copy.
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣭⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢨⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡏⡿⣻⠛⣿⠉⠉⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⡏⠉⠉⠁⠀⢰⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡟⡿⡿⣿⠛⠒⠒⠚⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠓⢲⣶⠒⠒⠚⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢹⡟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢻⣿⣿
⣿⣿⠷⠿⠾⠷⠤⠤⠤⠤⢤⣤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⢤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⠤⠤⠤⠭⠿⠯⠿⠿⠿⢯⡿⠿⠧⠤⢤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣧⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣭⣷⣯⣿⣿⠿⠯⠿⠿⠤⠤⠤⢤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿
⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣾⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣿⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢹⠹⣿⣋⡏⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣶⡶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⣶⣶⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠒⠒⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠒⠒⠒⠒⢲⣶⠒⠒⠚⠛⠛⠛⠓⠒⠒⢲⡶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⣶⡖⠒⠒⠒⠚⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⠧⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣷⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣾⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣨⣇⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣿⣇⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣯⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣿⡋⠉⠉⠉⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⢶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡤⠿⠦⠤⠤⠤⣴⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣸⣇⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣏⣟⣁⣹⣍⣝⣹⣿⣽⣏⣃⣋⣽⣷⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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✐ [Meme]The_Fake‘Anti-Racist’_Who_Lives_in_a_Whites-Only_Area⠀✐
Posted in Deception at 8:40 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Are you telling me some Irish dude on a 6-figure salary says
'nigger'; While having the audacity to label everyone a racist?⦈
Summary: Racism is a terrible thing; it’s worth paying attention to affluent
racists too; they’re typically the_worst and they_provoke,_they_bait
⡏⠉⠛⠻⡿⣿⣷⣴⣿⣶⣦⠈⣉⡉⣁⣀⢁⣀⠀⣄⣠⢀⣭⣉⣀⣀⠀⣀⣁⣀⡀⣄⢀⡄⢠⣀⡀⡄⣠⣄⠀⣨⡍⣭⢩⣨⠛⣩⣍⢉⣭⡉⣭⢩⡍⣉⡝⢋⡍⣀⣀⢀⣀⣭⡍⣁⣠⠙⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇
⡗⣶⠦⣠⣀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⣿⣷⣿⢾⣹⡷⠀⢸⡟⢸⣿⡇⣿⣿⠰⢸⡇⣿⠆⣿⢸⡇⢸⣿⣿⡇⣿⣭⠀⣿⣿⣿⢸⡷⠀⣻⣯⢸⣿⡇⣿⣿⡇⣿⠆⢸⡇⣿⣿⢸⣟⣿⡅⣿⣿⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣤⠤⠽⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢜⠛⠛⠛⠚⠛⠛⠃⠘⠃⠘⠛⣡⡛⠋⠀⠘⠃⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⡓⠙⠛⠢⠛⠘⠛⠘⠛⠀⠙⠛⠘⠛⡁⠛⠋⠃⠛⠃⠘⠃⠛⠛⠘⠋⠛⠃⠛⠛⠰⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿
⣿⠂⣿⢻⣾⡏⣿⣿⢻⣼⣟⠀⣾⢹⣾⣧⣿⠀⣿⡇⠀⣿⣟⢸⢸⣟⢹⣷⣏⣷⣿⢻⣿⣿⡇⣿⡃⠸⣿⡃⣿⣇⣿⠀⣿⣧⣿⣻⠾⣿⠇⢸⣟⡃⣿⡏⣷⡏⣿⣛⢀⣟⢻⣧⣿⣿⢸⣿⡇⣿⣿⢸⣟⣿⣻⠸⣻⢸
⣿⡇⠿⠼⠿⢧⠟⠿⠾⠻⠧⢄⠻⡼⠻⠿⠿⠰⠗⠿⠀⢿⡿⢩⠹⠇⠸⠿⠧⠿⠿⡾⠻⠿⠇⠿⠄⠰⢾⠷⠟⠿⠿⠤⠿⠿⠿⠸⠇⠿⠰⡰⢾⠿⠗⠿⠿⠀⢶⠿⠀⠙⠸⠟⠿⠿⠸⡿⠇⢿⠿⠸⠧⠿⠸⢿⣿⣿
⢸⣿⣷⣶⣿⠓⣾⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣾⣻⣷⡄⢾⣿⣛⠁⠸⣷⠀⣶⠂⣠⣶⣶⣦⠘⣿⣧⣾⣧⣾⣷⣿⣿⣶⣿⡰⠰⢲⢓⡖⢰⣧⣀⣻⠀⠀⠁⡀⠔⠏⠀⠶⡖⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⡿⣋⠉⠉⠙⢿⣿⠿
⠚⣿⣿⣿⣿⡖⡇⣿⣿⡟⠟⠛⠛⠿⣿⣏⣙⣟⣠⣯⣬⢿⣷⣸⠃⠀⠃⢰⣋⣠⣧⣤⡇⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⢿⣧⣆⠀⠂⠀⣸⡿⡿⠛⠓⢴⣾⡂⠀⠤⡀⠒⢉⠙⠀⠾⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢄⡝⠓⠀⠀⢘⣿⢉
⠲⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣷⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⢺⠙⢿⣉⡻⣏⣦⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⡗⢺⢉⠃⠛⠈⣇⣄⣼⣿⣧⡀⠈⣀⢁⡁⠊⠱⠊⠙⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠔⠸⣿⡝⠿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣼⣯⣭
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠁⣨⢿⣷⣿⣗⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⠀⠈⢋⡕⠂⣐⣂⠀⠀⠄⢀⠰⣶⠀⠁⠠⠀⣿⢿⠋⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣤⢀⠀⠀⣿⡏⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⠟⠀
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⠿⠟⠉⣤⡄⣬⡍⣭⣥⣥⢨⡄⣤⡅⣤⡌⢫⣭⣽⠿⣯⡍⣭⡅⣠⣤⡤⣥⣠⣤⢬⣽⢧⡄⣤⡄⣠⣬⡁⠀⣬⣭⣭⣥⣤⣤⡄⣯⣭⡝⡆⣤⣤⡄⣤⡄⣤⣤⣤⣤⣄⢠⣤⣄⢀⣠⣤⡀⣤⡄⣭⣭⣥⣬⣩⣬⢹⣤
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⣿⡇⢸⡇⢸⣿⢸⣿⠀⢸⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⡆⣿⡟⢸⣿⠀⠀⣿⡟⠃⣿⣿⡟⣿⡟⠃⣿⣿⣷⠀⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⡇⣿⢿⣿⢸⣿⠛⠀⣸⣧⣿⡀⢸⣿⢻⣧⣾⣧⣿⢸⣿⢨⡥⣿⡇⣽⣻⣷⠀⣿⡇⢰⡶⠿⠃
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Posted in Protocol, Site_News at 11:45 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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http://techrights.org/videos/gemini-metrics-considered.webm
Summary: As of this year in Geminispace, [news|gemini].tuxmachines.org is
ranked highly, in relative terms, by whatever superficial ranks exist (like
number of pages); but traffic-wise we also see indication of the namespace
gaining traction (some days unique IPs were as high as 300 and that was not
temporary); Gemini is accessed using Gemini clients but in our case it is even
accessed via an http/s proxy (this went up by a lot, with around 3,000 accesses
via the proxy per day)
WE are gratified to say that nowadays we have days in which hundreds of people
access our Gemini capsule (sometimes more than 500 unique IP addresses per day)
and the sister site, Tux Machines, sees the same in its Gemini capsule.
Geminispace is growing, the userbase too is expanding.
As shown on the right, both capsules now have 10,000+ pages in them*. Lupa
stops adding any more when it reaches 10,000.
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Gemini URL count⦈
The video above speaks about the nature of Geminispace. For instance, just like
on the World Wide Web, one can expect some domains to be just a single page or
a few singular (or static) pages, whereas others can have millions of pages, so
thousands of active capsules can be deceiving as a yardstick. What’s really
important is the growth in activity, including new pages and users. The
puzzling arrays of Web “standards” can be conflated with “progress” but they
should be abandoned over time; as we’ll show soon (another video), Google is
already strapping yet more DRM onto the Web and there’s nothing “open” about it
anymore. In fact, you have to use proprietary software to access some of it. █
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✐ [Meme]_ILOAT_Cops_or_ILOAT_Judges?⠀✐
Posted in Courtroom, Europe, Law, Patents at 4:24 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Geneva, Switzerland. Where the ‘International’ Labour Organisation cooks up the
appearance of law and justice. Just_like_cops,_they_get_many_things_wrong. They
look at people like mere numbers.
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Arrested_crusader_reaching_for_book:_Immunity,_EPO,_and
Courts⦈_
Not to worry, the EPO won’t obey rulings (it will make up excuses and disregard
court orders)
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇'Solved'_100_EPO_Cases;Told_the_complainants_to_F**k_off⦈
Just like stereotypical cops, the_very_chief_of_ILOAT_does_not_want_to_even
assess_all_complaints
Summary: The EPO still does not obey court rulings (even where immunity does
not apply) and the notorious court in Geneva is trying to close cases without
even dealing with them (at all)
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⣿⣧⡆⠀⣿⡏⣿⣧⣾⣿⢹⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⡏⣿⡇⠛⣿⡟⠃⣿⣏⠿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠒⠂⠀⠘⢷⡶⢟⡉⣼⣿⣶⢸⣿⣹⣿⣼⣿⣻⣷⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡏⠀⣿⡇⣉⣅⣿⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⡟⣿⡇⠀⣿⡇⠀⣙⡻⣷⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢳⣠⣧⣿⣧⡄⣿⡟⠉⢁⣿⣇⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⠁⠀⢿⣧⣿⠇⠹⣿⣼⠿⠘⢿⣿⡿⠃⣿⡇⣿⡇⡀⣿⡇⠀⢿⣧⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣺⣿⣿⣶⣶⣿⣭⣥⣿⣜⠿⣾⡿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⡏⠡⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠍⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣏⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢆⠸⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣦⡥⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣯⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⢙⣷⣟⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣅⡄⠀⠀⠀⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣇⠢⣤⣶⣿⣛⣽⣿⣿⢿⣿⣖⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠟⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣶⣼⣟⣿⣿⠿⠿⠃⠀⠂⠉⠙⠀⠀⠸⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣵⠄⣀⣤⣀⣄⢀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⠻⣿⣿⣿⡇⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣯⣟⢡⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣶⣶⣤⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡼⣿⡿⣿⠗⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⠛⣿⣩⢾⣮⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⡜⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣧⣘⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡴⣶⣿⣧⠸⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣦⠀⢠⣾⣿⣅⠈⠙⢿⣷⣄⠈⠙⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠋⠈⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⣁⢾⣷⣅⠙⢿⣷⡄⠀⠙⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⢛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣠⣾⠟⠁⠀⣹⣿⢣⣀⠌⠍⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⣵⣬⣻⣷⣝⢿⣷⡀⠙⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠟⣱⣿⢗⣴⣿⡿⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢛⡰⣿⣌⠻⣿⡿⣿⣦⡙⠋⠀⠀⣀⠰⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⡾⢟⣵⣿⣿⣿⡇⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢋⣥⡻⣿⣮⣻⣷⣜⢿⠦⠉⠀⠀⢀⠲⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣎⠉⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣫⣦⣹⣿⣿⣌⠻⣷⣽⠟⠀⠀⡙⢦⣽⡄⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠉⠥⠀⣠⣶⣆⠀⠀⠀⣀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣡⣶⡝⢿⣿⣿⣿⡻⣷⠄⠀⢀⣀⠦⠃⠉⠈⠁⠀⣀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢁⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣷⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⣵⣶⣝⣿⣿⣦⡙⣿⡍⠋⠀⣀⡴⣌⠁⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⣡⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠱⣷⣌⠻⣿⡿⣿⣝⠿⢊⣤⣾⣧⣧⣾⣿⣷⡀⣠⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢋⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣀⣀⣠⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣜⢿⣷⣝⢿⡮⣭⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⣁⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣝⠟⣡⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⣡⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠙⢿⠿⠋⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢉⡉⣩⣍⡙⢋⣩⣉⠋⣉⠉⣉⠉⣉⢉⣉⣉⢉⣉⣉⠉⣉⠻⠟⣉⡉⣉⣭⡙⢋⣩⣍⠉⠉⣉⣉⡉⣉⣉⡙⢋⣡⣀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣀⠀⣀⣀⠀⣀⣤⣀⢀⣀⣀⢀⣠⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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✐ Microsoft’s_Mass_Layoffs_May_Accelerate_Even_Further_Following_This_Week’s
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Posted in Deception, Finance, Fraud, Microsoft at 6:50 am by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
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The Layoffs Show Microsoft is Tight
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http://techrights.org/videos/bad-results-and-miicrosoft-layoffs.webm
Summary: After Microsoft disappointed both on_the_server_side and the_client
side (all they boast about is buzzwords, not products) it is expected that more
cuts will come, including removal of many thousands of employees (not counting
temps,_contractors, and people who resign/retire never to be replaced)
THE highly corrupt company from Redmond is trying to fake_"growth"_through
acquisition and financial_misconduct. Feds are on the case, but they’re not
powerful enough to handle organised crime of this magnitude*. Microsoft is
already lobbying to remove the officials in question. Microsoft is also
blackmailing_entire_nations_like_the_UK. What on Earth is this?
“As noted in the above video, this month (July) was likely even worse than
January. The difference is, the media barely talks about it.”We’ve already
written a lot about Microsoft's_very_bad_results and the_expected_media_spin
(moles in the media copy-pasting lies for Microsoft) amid lots_of_Microsoft
layoffs_this_month.
Fudzilla published just 2 hours ago this_piece entitled “Expect more Microsoft
cuts and layoffs”
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Expect_more_Microsoft_cuts_and_layoffs⦈_
Yes, definitely. As noted in the above video, this month (July) was likely even
worse than January. The difference is, the media barely talks about it.
Microsoft gags everybody and even keeps the managers in the dark about the
layoffs (according to them). █
also used to load old debt onto the new companies, i.e. hide it from view.
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Schestowitz
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Self-Hosting But Federating With Bad Actors
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/self-hosting-for-other-people.webm
Summary: Federation is not the way forward; it wrongly assumes that society
needs something like social control media rather than blogs as they used to be
20 years ago, i.e. millions of independent publishers online
THE video above is the last of a batch of six (recorded last night). It deals
with the growing importance is not urgency to self-host. Let Freenode, Twitter,
JoinDiapora and others be cautionary tales.
“The_late_Pieter_Hintjens_failed_to_self-host_his_books,” one reader told us,
“even though they are only a few kB in size each. Now they are gone, even
though some are more relevant than before.”
“The video further discusses what happens when you self-host but at the same
time you “federate” (other people’s pornography and maybe extreme
speech).”Well, self-hosting may require additional work, but at least one isn’t
at the mercy of some other company or a charlatan like Elon Musk. We suppose
Twitter will be offline in a few years or “relaunch” with all the old material
gone (to make the databases a lot “thinner” and thus cheaper to maintain).
Remember what_identi.ca_did_about_a_decade_ago!
The video further discusses what happens when you self-host but at the same
time you “federate” (other people’s pornography and maybe extreme speech). Is
that a good idea? It that safe to do? There’s this_discussion_right_now_about
the_Fediverse_and_an_FBI_‘raid’. Moreover, “Stanford researchers sound alarm on
Mastodon’s significant child sexual abuse material problem,” according to this
Microsoft-sponsored_site, paraphrasing that “they say is rife with child sexual
abuse material, known as CSAM. The researchers said in the study that the issue
has become a big problem on decentralized social networks, more so than
centralized networks…”
“With IPFS, for instance, we only host or relay our own objects.”We’re seen it
all before; they basically suggest that the government should control
everything. Otherwise children will be hurt…
Christine Hall has_covered_the_‘raid’_as_well (it was more of a seizure than a
server_raid), stating: “The recent news that a copy of Kolektiva.social’s
database was confiscated by the FBI as the result of a raid at the home of one
of the organization’s administrators, should serve as a cautionary tale for
activists taking advantage of Mastodon’s federated nature to form online
communities. Specifically, you should should do some research into the security
in place at an activist-focused server, as well as the servers privacy
policies. Actually, the same advice would hold even if you were joining a
server for, say, people who like knitting, but if you’re a political activist
it’s even more important because law enforcement loves to keep tabs on folks
whose politics fall outside the mainstream.”
And this is where we generally chime in; federation is not the same as self-
publishing. With IPFS, for instance, we only host or relay our own objects.
This makes us less vulnerable to DMCA misuse/s and law enforcement harassing
us. As soon as you “federate” you may end up hosting things you strongly
dislike or, yet worse, things that are illegal where you are. You become
accountable (to some extent) for what other people are doing. This does not
happen when everyone self-hosts a blog or Gemlog (blog over Gemini), wherein
interconnection can be done by Atom/RSS.
“The centralised platforms are vastly worse.”As one person explained to us
yesterday, the Fediverse is a target for such trolling so as to take it down a
notch or even force the project to fall out of favor or be outright shutdown
and blocked. Remember the smear campaigns in various countries about Tor.
Microsofters helped spread lies and disinformation about it en masse.
Now we see Microsoft-funded spam farms asserting that Fediverse means children
will be harmed or, more generally, decentralised platforms are for pedophiles.
The centralised platforms are vastly worse. That gravitates towards censorship
giants and single points of failure. The press gave little to no coverage of
Twitter’s role in blocking Erdogan’s opponents in the last election faked in
Turkey. The few that did cover it dropped the topic immediately after the
“results” had been posted.
We will soon have a followup to elaborate on self-hosting. Since self-hosting
is already important and increasingly so over time, we shall write a lot more
about it in the future. █
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Posted in Site_News at 8:28 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Summary: There will be an interesting new series starting next month, following
The_Corporate_‘Cancel_Culture’_Industry, which started on the first of July;
those two series are connected
MANY readers of this site do not like Microsoft. They have perfectly legitimate
reasons to strongly dislike Microsoft. Over the past 3.5 weeks (or almost 4
weeks) we published about 350 blog posts, many of them concerning Microsoft’s
demise. But meanwhile in IRC we suffered a great deal of abuse. Get ready for a
series that explains this abuse. █
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Posted in Africa, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Windows at 6:00 pm by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
Welcome to Chad’s_journey_away_from_Windows:
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Operating_System_Market_Share_Chad⦈_
Published, albeit "buried", less than a day ago (Windows sales are
evaporating):
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Windows_sales_fell⦈_
Summary: Chad, with a population about 20 million, is dominated by Android
(Linux); Windows isn’t what it used to be and Microsoft does not command the
prices (monopoly rents), but it’s busy selling pixie_dust that only causes
losses (negative income and lackluster_demand)
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⢻⡿⣿⣿⣟⡟⣟⣻⣻⡟⡟⣿⣿⡟⢶⣾⣿⣿⣗⡟⢻⣻⡟⡿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⡇⢰⠄⢀⣀⡀⢠⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣾⣿⣿⣿⡇⠐⢸⣿⣿⣿⠃⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿
⣿⢿⠿⠿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⡇⢸⠀⠈⠿⡇⢸⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⡟⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠸⡟⠉⠻⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡆⠹⢿⣿⡏⡐⠧⠀⣄⣟⢸⠀⠀⠀⡇⢸⣿⡀⣿⣿⡇⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠐⠀⢸⡀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿
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Schestowitz
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Liars in Charge
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/working-for-a-liar.webm
Summary: The crimes of Sirius_‘Open_Source’ will be covered here about once a
week and today’s video deals with the last_part, which explains a history of
lying and perhaps infidelity too
THE attempts to compel the British government to hold Sirius accountable for
financial crimes won’t end soon. The British government was the biggest client
of Sirius, so there’s an incentive to bury it all under some rug somewhere.
“The British government was the biggest client of Sirius, so there’s an
incentive to bury it all under some rug somewhere.”We recently made the
decision to slow down a bit and issue progress reports once or twice a week.
Many victims deserve to know what’s happening and what was happening since 2011
(12.5 years ago; it may have started sooner, but I hadn’t been there yet).
There is no very clear outline at the moment, but we have about 10 more steps
to go through and a lot of information in the pipeline. The above video mostly
sums up what we covered earlier this week. █
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Links 27/07/2023:
Links for the day
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Politics_and_World_Events
o Science
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
# Programming
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ Red_Sun_(Fairbanks,_AK,_USA,_2023-07-27)⠀⇛
I read yesterday in the News-Miner that 30 new
forest-fires had started recently in Alaska, due to
lightning. This morning, there was enough haze that
I was able to look directly at the sun without any
pain or discomfort. So, I took a few photos on the
way to work.
o § Politics and World Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Real_Everyday_Activism⠀⇛
I encounter many people who _think_ they are doing
the right thing, because it makes them feel good.
They tell acquaintances to boycott Kevin Spacey
after “cancelling” him because someone said
something on Twitter. They yell at the old Asian
guy for packing their fancy take-out in styrofoam
(after paying with Venmo or Apple Pay). They buy a
Tesla because it’s “green”. They get angry about
the Supreme Court for undermining gay rights, even
the ‘right’ to support a fascist business!
[...]
Avoid giving money to fascists and
megacorporations.
Maybe it’s convenient to venmo money to a friend or
pay with paypal, but you are directly supporting a
fascist billionaire. Surely you don’t want to do
that.
Housing costs are through the roof because of
AirBNB. You don’t have to extract every bit of
value out of your apartment, like some horrible
capitalist you like to criticize. And you don’t
have to make them richer by staying at such places.
There are alternatives.
“Ride sharing”. That misapproprioated term means
sharing rides with friends and neighbors, not
extracting money with demand-priced algrothims to
maximize profit.
Don’t drive. Buying an electric car and making Elon
Stench another billion is not green. That “man” is
responsible for more pollution and suffering by
miners than anyone else I can think of. Put your
money where your very large mouth is and get a used
bike, the kind without a motor. Or walk. Move
somewhere where you can live without a car, or as
my LGBT friends like to say, “Just shut the fuck
up, it’s not for you to talk about this”.
Avoid ultra-capitalist startups that raise millions
to extract every bit of profit from anything
standing. You can live without some app that rents
out your driveway while you are at work.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ National_Ripoff⠀⇛
The “numbers game” is type of illegal lottery that
was common in the United States, and there are two
interesting things about it.
[...]
The first interesting thing is the problem: if the
whole thing is illegal, how do you generate a
random number that everyone can trust, and without
it being an obvious event for law enforcement to
target?
It turns out to be not that hard: the games used
some well known published random number: the last
digits of the balance of the US Treasury, or middle
digits of the number of shares traded on a public
stock exchange.
So, everyone could easily agree on whether some
individual had won—and in a way that was obviously
fair.
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Just_kinda_here⠀⇛
I’m at a conference this week, and honestly I’m
just kinda here. I don’t have a lot to do and I’m
uncomfortable in this environment, but I’ve
reconnected with some friends I haven’t seen for a
long time. I’m practicing my Byzantine music at
actual church services, and it’s about 110℉ (about
43.33℃ for my eurofriends).
# ⚓ Thumby_goodness⠀⇛
I was given a Thumby for Christmas. It’s a
ridiculously small gameboy-style console. It’s so
small that it’s hard to believe it works. It’s also
hard to use because you have to press buttons with
your thumbnails. There are pre-loaded games, more
available on line, and a web-based IDE for writing
your own in Python. I’ve started on a mine game
based on one that I vaguely remember playing long
ago as a coin-op. So far I can scroll around the
mine (taking no notice of walls, floors, etc). It
seems pretty straightforward to deal with the
Thumby API. My issues have been with figuring how
to implement the game concept and my lack of Python
experience.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Communal_Fragmentation⠀⇛
It feels to me that the Internet is
fragmenting at a surprising pace. Twitter,
now rebranding to X, is losing more users by
the day, as is the traditional Facebook site.
Alternatives, at least nominal alternatives,
are gaining more and more users: Threads,
Bluesky, the invasion of Mastodon, Substack,
Rumble, the list is endless. While many
alternate services are still owned by major
Internet companies, the individual users of
separate platforms don’t communicate with
each other. The result is still a splintering
of the global marketplace of ideas. More and
more people, beyond simply not wanting to
talk to each other, now simply have no
opportunity to talk to each other.
I fond this so interesting because it
reflects how the world largely was before the
rise of mass information in the 19th and 20th
centuries. Before the telegraph, the radio,
the television and the computer, people did
not get news from very far away. They tended
to stay within their own communities,
becoming deeply and intimately familiar with
those they communicated with every day.
Conversely, they strongly distrusted and
looked down on outsiders, preferring
dissociation or even persecution.
# ⚓ Launching_soon!⠀⇛
My game dev company will probably one of the
first to have a Gemini site. (Launching
soon!)
# ⚓ Favorite_Interweb_Tools⠀⇛
What are some of you guys’ favorite tools for
general computer use?
F.lux is great for me, along with ventoy for
my USB drives.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Permissions_Mirror⠀⇛
Someone asked how to mirror the permissions
and ownership from one file to another, so
here’s a provisional script to do that. The
question concerned OpenBSD so extended ACL
and other such fancy things (such as selinux
making your life hell) are not considered.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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✐ Gemini_Links_27/07/2023:_Old_Computer_Challenge_and_Dumping_Twitter⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 11:57 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Politics_and_World_Events
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ A_couple_more_hours_of_sleep_would_be_really_nice⠀⇛
Seems like I’m back to awakening after just five
hours of sleep. I mean, it’s sorta maybe kinda
enough. But yawn….
It occurred to me a little while ago that it takes
(someone like) a Biden to be okay with (someone
like) a Biden.
Okay, I’ll be fair:
It occurred to me a little while ago that it takes
(someone like) a Trump to be okay with (someone
like) a Trump.
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_AEKLMRW_Wordo:_PODIA⠀⇛
# ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Why_Kolektiva.social_Is_a_Cautionary_Tale
for_Activists_Using_Mastodon⠀⇛
The recent news that a copy of Kolektiva.social’s
database was confiscated by the FBI as the result
of a raid at the home of one of the organization’s
administrators, should serve as a cautionary tale
for activists taking advantage of Mastodon’s
federated nature to form online communities.
Specifically, you should should do some research
into the security in place at an activist-focused
server, as well as the servers privacy policies.
Actually, the same advice would hold even if you
were joining a server for, say, people who like
knitting, but if you’re a political activist it’s
even more important because law enforcement loves
to keep tabs on folks whose politics fall outside
the mainstream.
o § Politics and World Events⠀➾
# ⚓ The_Philosophy_of_the_Act⠀⇛
Only the first word of the Cartesian philosophy is
true; it was not really possible for Descartes to
say cogito **ergo sum,** but only **cogito**. The
first (and last) thing that I perceive is my own
act of spirit, myself perceiving. The spirit, which
is life woken into self-consciousness, discovered
its likeness to itself, or identity, through the
act of thinking about thinking. All further
perception is only an explication of this idea,
which **is the** idea **par excellence.** I know
that I think, that I am spiritually active, or, –
since there is no other kind of activity – that I
am active, but I do not know that I am. Not being,
but the act, is the first and last.
If we go on to an explication of this act, we find
it to be threefold: the thinking, the thought-
about, and the identity of these two, the “I.” “I
think” means: the “I” places itself (or sets
itself) before itself as another, but passes
through this reflection back to itself, in the same
way that the discovery of one’s own life in a
mirror is something that comes from the outside. It
perceives that the image in the mirror is its own.
# ⚓ “Black_comrades”_against_the_Japanese_occupation⠀⇛
In the second half of the 19th century, small
Korea, and formerly a frequent target of aggressive
campaigns of neighboring China and Japan, became
one of the main goals of Japanese colonial
expansion. The Japanese power that gained strength
saw Korea as its potential possession. Preparations
for the colonization of Korea, however, faced
certain problems, among which were the attempts of
the Korean people to defend their independence, and
the positions of China and the Russian Empire.
However, after the Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905,
Japan still managed to establish a protectorate
over Korea. 22 August 1910 Korea was finally
annexed to Japan and passed under the control of
the Japanese governor-general.
Of course, such a situation could not please the
advanced part of Korean society. Moreover, in the
Japanese Empire, all non-Japanese people were
treated as second-rate people, and Koreans were no
exception. However, since Japan was nevertheless
more developed not only militarily and
economically, but also culturally, a country,
revolutionary ideas popular in Japan began to
spread in Korea. So anarchism penetrated Korean
land — an ideology that at some point became
dominant in the East Asian revolutionary movement.
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Getting_started_with_a_megadungeon⠀⇛
Yesterday I was trying to explain my anxieties
regarding Arden Vul to my wife. This is about the
megadungeon with a PDF of more than 1122 pages.
It’s long. The levels are long. The rooms are long.
The intro is long. The explanations are long.
# ⚓ Nobody_ever_said_complicating_simple_things_would_be_easy⠀⇛
I’m one of the lucky ones whose computer came with
something called a “lid”. I’ve discovered that when
I cause it to become facing-ly parallel to the
keyboard, I don’t have have to concern myself with
the stuff you mention at all. It’s really quite
miraculous.
# ⚓ Old_Computer_Challenge_Epiphlogue⠀⇛
The Old Computer Challenge has concluded. I enjoyed
taking on the challenge, as well as reading about
everybody’s experiences in various protocols out
there, gopher, gemini, irc, hypertext transfer,
etc. When I first read about the challenge, I told
myself that I needed to particpiate this year. I
enjoy when the “smolnet” communities call for
participating in shared experiences like occ, or
ROOPLOCH, or christyotwisty’s monthly 5 questions,
and we are able to come together as community and
have fun![1][2][3]
There are many things I have learned, not just from
my direct involvement with my old hardware and
software, but also from you people in the
community. I have been keeping notes and still
continue to take notes of what you all share.
# ⚓ ERC_with_soju:_update⠀⇛
A couple of months ago i wrote about setting up
soju on OpenBSD (it was pretty straightforward) and
trying to get Emacs’ ERC working with it
(shenanigans were required)…
# ⚓ Thumby_app_released_🎮😸⠀⇛
I still haven’t finished the mine game that I
mentioned, but I have released a music editor,
TinyTunes. It’s currently the first thing listed on
the Thumby Arcade, but I think that just means it’s
the most recent.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Fighting_Social_Internet_Burn_Out⠀⇛
Slowly over the past year I’ve noticed I’ve
not been getting the same enjoyment out of
places like Mastodon that I used to.
There’s a lot of goings on that might explain
this, but I suspect the main culprit is
myself and my changing tastes over time.
Over the past year I’ve migrated Mastodon
servers. I’ve made heavier use of filters to
block politics, activism, and outrage porn.
I’ve become quicker to block and mute people
who I’m not interested in interacting with.
All these things have been a help but not a
cure.
# ⚓ Sometimes_the_Decision_Gets_Made_for_You⠀⇛
Sometimes, a decision gets made by the
restriction of the possible options to a
single plausible choice.
I’m done with Twitter. Locked my account,
cleared my info, posted a message to the
effect of the following: I won’t use a
platform that doesn’t take CSE seriously,
where the posting of such doesn’t earn you a
ban and a report to the Feds.
Left as subtext: maybe all of you can justify
it to yourself, but I can’t. And maybe you
didn’t know about it before, but if you see
this, you’ll know about it now.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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✐ Links_27/07/2023:_GStreamer_1.20.7_and_Much_More⠀✐
Posted in News_Roundup at 8:20 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Programming/Development
# Rust
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Linux_Foundation
o Security
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ What’s_new_in_the_4K_Image_Generator_!⠀⇛
# ⚓ The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD_Now_517:_Huge_pfsync_rewrite⠀⇛
Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls Comparison Part 2, 27
Years with the Perfect OS, Top 20 OpenSSH Server
Best Security Practices, Huge pfsync rewrite,
OpenSMTPD 7.3.0p1 release, Running OpenBSD 7.3 on
your laptop is really hard (not), and more
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ GStreamer:_GStreamer_1.20.7_old-stable_bug_fix_release⠀⇛
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another
bug fix release in the
now old-stable 1.20 release series of your
favourite cross-platform
This release only contains bug fixes. It should be
safe to update from 1.20.x.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ qBittorrent:_Bittorrent_client_(Free_software)⠀⇛
qBittorrent is An advanced and multi-platform
BitTorrent client with a nice Qt user interface as
well as a Web UI for remote control and an
integrated search engine. qBittorrent aims to meet
the needs of most users while using as little CPU
and memory as possible.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Nulloy:_Free_Open-source_Audio_Player_(Free
software)⠀⇛
Nulloy is a free open-source (OSS) Audiophile audio
player.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Persepolis:_Internat_Download_Manager_(Free
program)⠀⇛
Persepolis is a Download Manager & a GUI For aria2.
It’s written in Python. Persepolis is a Sample of
Free and open source software. It’s developed For
GNU/Linux Distributions, BSDs, macOS and Microsoft
Windows. You can join Persepolis contributers &
Help us with developing it.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Pencil2D_Animation:_An_easy,_intuitive_tool_to
make_2D_hand-drawn_animations._(Free_program)⠀⇛
Pencil2D is an easy, intuitive tool to make 2D
hand-drawn animations.
Pencil2D is an animation/drawing software for
Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ PeaZip_Free_Archiver:_Free_Zip_/_Unzip_software
and_Rar_file_extractor_(Free_app)⠀⇛
PeaZip is a free file archiver utility and rar
extractor for Linux [...]
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Notes:_Fast_and_beautiful_note-taking_app_written
in_C++._(Free_software)⠀⇛
Notes is an open source and cross-platform note-
taking app that is both beautiful and powerful. /
blockquote>
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Cockpit_on_Fedora_38⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Cockpit on Fedora 38. Cockpit, a powerful web-based
server management tool, revolutionizes the way
administrators handle Fedora servers. Its intuitive
interface simplifies complex tasks, making server
administration accessible even to novices.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_SmartGit_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
SmartGit on Debian 12. Version control systems are
an integral part of modern software development,
and Git has become the de facto standard for
managing source code. SmartGit, a powerful
graphical Git client, offers an intuitive interface
and advanced features that streamline your Git
workflow.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_RetroArch_on_Fedora_38/37
Linux⠀⇛
RetroArch is a distinctive, open-source application
designed as a frontend for emulators, game engines,
and media players. It’s a robust software that
brings together different gaming consoles under one
interface, bridging the gap between retro and
modern gaming.
# ⚓ Install_Windows_11_KVM_Guest_on_Manjaro_Linux_22.1_
(Gnome)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Install_MPV_0.36_in_Ubuntu_22.04,_23.04,
20.04_via_Ubuntu_PPA⠀⇛
MPV media player released new 0.36.0 version a few
days ago. Here’s how to install it for those
sticking to the classic .deb package format. MPV
does not provide official packages for Ubuntu
Linux.
# ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_update_Linux_Mint_21.2⠀⇛
Updating your system is necessary so you get the
latest features, and most importantly security
features that patch the security bugs that your
system may have.
On Linux Mint performing an update is done via two
different ways, by using the terminal, or by using
the Update Manager.
If you
# ⚓ The_Power_of_touch_Command:_Creating_and_Modifying_Files_in
Linux⠀⇛
The touch command is a very common and standard
command used in all UNIX/Linux based operating
systems.
# ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_to_Set_Up_System_Locale_on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛
The system locale or the locale setting on Linux
will help us to ensure the date and time
information…
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_to_Base64_Encoding_and_Decoding_via_Command-
Line⠀⇛
In the realm of data transmission and storage,
Base64 encoding plays a vital role. This efficient
method allows us to represent binary data as ASCII
characters, facilitating safe and reliable data
exchange across various platforms. In this
comprehensive guide, we will delve into the world
of Base64 encoding and decoding using the command-
line interface.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Kdenlive_on_Fedora_38/37
Linux⠀⇛
Kdenlive, short for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor, is
an acclaimed open-source video editing software
that has grown and improved significantly over
time. It’s not only aimed at professionals but also
caters to beginners in the field of video editing.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Introduction_to_the_Node.js_reference
architecture:_Testing⠀⇛
Welcome back to the Node.js reference architecture
series. In this article, we’ll take a look at
testing in the Node.js landscape and discuss the
guidelines recommended by the Node.js reference
architecture team.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Google_Chrome_on_Pop!_OS⠀⇛
Google Chrome is a top-notch web browser known for
its speed, high performance, and easy-to-use
interface. Thanks to features like synchronized
browsing, a wide array of extensions, and robust
security, it’s a favorite among many users
worldwide. This guide will walk you through
installing Google Chrome on Pop!_OS.
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Safely_Remove_Windows_From_Windows-Linux
Dual_Boot⠀⇛
Learn how to safely remove Windows from your dual
boot system with this step-by-step guide.
Uninstalling Windows allows you to free up disk
space, speed up your boot time, and improve the
stability of your Linux system.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_LibreWolf_Browser_on_Debian
12/11/10⠀⇛
In the age of digital surveillance and data
collection, privacy has become a top concern for
many internet users. One way to ensure online
privacy is to use a secure and privacy-focused
browser. Debian users, who traditionally rely on
the Firefox browser, may find LibreWolf to be a
compelling alternative.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Android_Studio_on_Pop!_OS⠀⇛
Android Studio is the official integrated
development environment (IDE) for Android
application development. Developed by Google, this
sophisticated tool is designed to accelerate the
process of creating Android applications.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ A_ultimate_guide_to_setting_up_a_vsftpd_FTP
server_on_Debian⠀⇛
When you need to transfer files between computers
or servers, FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a
traditional, robust method to accomplish the task.
In the world of FTP servers, vsftpd (which stands
for “Very Secure FTP Daemon”) is an excellent
choice. It is known for its speed, stability, and
security features. Setting up a vsftpd FTP server
on Debian not only allows for secure file
transfers, but also gives you control over user
access and data management.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Your_complete_guide_to_installing_Python_on
Debian⠀⇛
Python is a versatile, powerful, and widely used
programming language that is known for its
simplicity and readability. Its diverse
applications range from web development and machine
learning to data analysis and automation.
Installing Python on your Debian system can unlock
a wealth of development opportunities.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Manage_Users_and_Groups_in_Linux⠀⇛
In any Linux system, understanding the management
of users and groups is fundamental. It’s a critical
part of system administration, aiding in organizing
and securing a system’s resources.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ bc_Command_in_Linux_with_Examples⠀⇛
The Linux command line, also known as the terminal,
is a powerful tool that gives you complete control
over your system. An essential command in every
Linux user’s toolkit is the bc command. It stands
for Basic Calculator.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ chage_Command_in_Linux_with_Examples⠀⇛
The Linux operating system provides its users with
comprehensive commands to manage and administer
system-related activities. One such command is
chage. The chage command, an abbreviation for
“change age,” is a crucial command used to modify
and manage password expiration policies for user
accounts in Linux.
# ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_use_a_Python_multiprocessing_module⠀⇛
In this article, we will learn how to work with a
specific Python class from the multiprocessing
module, the process class. I will give you a quick
overview with examples.
# ⚓ Mark_J._Wielaard:_Checking_usage_of_realloc_with_Valgrind⠀⇛
Full article: Checking_usage_of_realloc_with
Valgrind
Summary: realloc has a surprising number of tricky
corner cases to watch out for. Valgrind Memcheck
will help you find various issues like using it
with bad arguments, pointers that might have become
invalid, and leaks of blocks that have been
resized.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ New_Steam_Games_with_Native_Linux_Clients
with_Oaken,_The_Black_Pepper_Crew,_and_Mr_Run_and_Jump_–
2023-07-26_Edition⠀⇛
Between 2023-07-19 and 2023-07-26 there were 38 New
Steam games released with Native Linux clients.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Your_First_Look_at_GNOME_45’s_Default
Wallpaper⠀⇛
Wondering what the default GNOME 45 wallpaper
will look like? Well, wonder no more, kid!
# ⚓ GNOME ☛ Tobias_Bernard:_Rethinking_Window
Management⠀⇛
Window management is one of those areas I’m
fascinated with because even after 50 years,
nobody’s fully cracked it yet. Ever_since_the
dawn_of_time we’ve relied on the window
metaphor as the primary way of multitasking
on the desktop. In this metaphor, each app
can spawn one or more rectangular windows,
which are stacked by most recently used, and
moved or resized manually.
The traditional windowing system works well
as long as you only have a handful of small
windows, but issues emerge as soon the number
and size of the windows grows. As new windows
are opened, existing ones are obscured,
sometimes completely hiding them from view.
Or, when you open a maximized window,
suddenly every other window is hidden.
Over the decades, different OSes have added
different tools and workflows to deal with
these issues, including workspaces, taskbars,
and switchers. However, the basic primitives
have not changed since_the_70s and, as a
result, the issues have never gone away.
While most of us are used to this system and
its quirks, that doesn’t mean it’s without
problems. This is especially apparent when
you do user research with people who are new
to computing, including children and older
people. Manually placing and sizing windows
can be fiddly work, and requires close
attention and precise motor control. It’s
also what we jokingly refer to as shit_work:
it is work that the user has to do, which is
generated by the system itself, and has no
other purpose.
Most of the time you don’t care about exact
window sizes and positions and just want to
see the windows that you need for your
current task. Often that’s just a single,
maximized window. Sometimes it’s two or three
windows next to each other. It’s incredibly
rare that you need a dozen different
overlapping windows. Yet this is what you end
up with by default today, when you simply use
the computer, opening apps as you need them.
Messy is the default, and it’s up to you to
clean it up.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Migrating_Workloads_from_CentOS_to
OpenSUSE_Leap_–_Differences_and_Similarities [Ed: From stable
to unstable? Bad idea, SUSE.]⠀⇛
Whether you’re a seasoned Linux user or just
starting your journey, this blog post is designed
to be your go-to resource for technical guidance
when transitioning from CentOS to openSUSE Leap.
# ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Multi-Tenant_Kubernetes_at
Hyperscale_with_Kamaji_and_Rancher_Prime⠀⇛
Delivering Kubernetes resources efficiently and
securely can be a challenge, particularly at
hyperscale and at the edge. Combining CLASTIX
Kamaji and Rancher Prime by SUSE gives
organizations the power to optimize, secure, and
manage large and diverse, multi-tenant Kubernetes
landscapes.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_CPE_Quarterly
Update_Q2_2023⠀⇛
This is a summary of the work done on initiatives
by the CPE Team. Each quarter CPE Team together
with CentOS and Fedora community representatives
choose initiatives that will be being worked on in
this quarter. The CPE Team is then split into
multiple smaller sub-teams that will work on chosen
initiatives + day to day work that needs to be
done. Some of the sub-teams are continuous efforts
in the team and some are created only for the
initiative project.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ Daniel_Pocock:_Understanding_Cardinal
George_Pell_prosecution,_Institutional_abuse_&_Debian
cybertorture⠀⇛
When the news appeared about Kevin_Spacey today, I
couldn’t help reflecting on the similarities to the
case of Cardinal Pell. Both men had a very
prominent status in their profession. Both were in
authority positions: Spacey was not only an actor,
he was also artistic director of the Old Vic
theatre in London for eleven years. Pell had been
Arch-Bishop of both Melbourne and Sydney at various
times. In both cases, the accused had substantial
wealth.
[...]
Thinking about the impact these thoughts have on a
child’s state of mind, it is not hard to answer the
question I raised at the beginning: Why did a
fourteen year old boy from the choir begin using
hard drugs like heroin? It could originate with any
priest, even one he encountered before joining the
choir and the school. Cardinal Pell may have been a
red herring.
Yet we see a very similar phenomena in Debian and
other open source communities today. Abusers like
Enrico Zini have inflicted secret punishments on
various developers. At the same time, Zini tells
the victims he still wants us to sing for him. Dr
Norbert_Preining_shared_one_of_those_messages_in
December_2018. Here is the bit about continuing to
sing:
All packages in which you are currently
listed as maintainer or uploader will be
added to your Debian Maintainer whitelist
as soon as possible.
Zini is telling Dr Preining: continue to work for
us but you are not allowed to speak.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ Takeaways_from_the_“Defining_Open_AI”_community
workshop [Ed: OSI is a shameless Microsoft propaganda apparatus,
bribed by Microsoft for this pathetic openwashing. OSI should be
shunned for selling out to GPL violation machinery.]⠀⇛
o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ FOSS_Weekly_#23.30:_Xero_Linux,_GyroFlow_Video
Editor,_RPM_on_Ubuntu,_Ventoy_Guide_and_More⠀⇛
New video on Xero Linux, first look at GyroFlow editor
and the regular assortment of tips and tutorials.
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) ☛ Linux_Plumbers
Conference:_Android_MC_CFP⠀⇛
The Android Microconference brings the upstream
community and Android systems developers together
to discuss issues and changes to the Android
platform and their dependencies and interactions
with the Linux kernel, allowing for collaboration
on solutions for upstream.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ Setting_the_record_straight:_More_updates_on_a
trademark_dispute⠀⇛
The PostgreSQL Community Association (PGCA) is
issuing a news announcement to clarify recent
comments around an ongoing trademark dispute.
On 24th July 2023, Álvaro Hernández posted a blog
on the Fundación PostgreSQL website regarding the
PostgreSQL Core Team’s request that the website
moderation team reject any submitted content
linking to Fundación PostgreSQL or their events.
The Core Team requested this on the advice of legal
counsel, because of the ongoing legal action to
invalidate PostgreSQL related trademarks registered
by Fundación PostgreSQL which conflict with those
held by the project (through the PostgreSQL
Community Association, or PGCA).
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Postbird:_Open_source_PostgreSQL_GUI_client_(Free
software)⠀⇛
Postbird is a cross-platform PostgreSQL GUI client,
written in JavaScript, runs with Electron
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Canadian_Hansard_Live_Database⠀⇛
Motivation
The original LiPad site provides a SQL dump that
requires you to configure PostreSQL on your own
laptop or server.
Because some classmates asked me about it, I
decided to host the database to simplify its
access.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Qt ☛ Opensource_installations_currently_facing_problems⠀⇛
We are currently facing issues with open-source
installations of Qt. Root cause is a bug in the
latest installer. We are working on fixing the
issue and there are a few ways to work around it.
# § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ Rust Weekly Updates ☛ This_Week_In_Rust:_This_Week_in
Rust_505⠀⇛
Hello and welcome to another issue of This
Week in Rust!
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Let_there_be_light:_The_LiFi_standard_could
illuminate_the_IoT⠀⇛
This story was originally published in my weekly
newsletter on Friday July 21, 2023. You can sign up
for my newsletter here. Tired of having dozens of
IoT devices competing for the same wireless
airwaves as your computers, phones, and
televisions? There might be a solution in the form
of LiFi, or light fidelity, networks.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Global_shipments_of_foldables_seen_exceeding_100m
by_2027⠀⇛
Counterpoint made the_prediction on Wednesday, the
day on which Samsung released its latest two
foldable devices, the clamshell-like Galaxy Z Flip
5 and the bigger Galaxy Z Fold 5, in South Korea.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ What’s_in_your_water?⠀⇛
Do you have a water filter in your home? Not to
scare you, but it might be worth investing in one
or at least getting your water tested for a certain
class of chemical that you might have heard about:
PFAS. Short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl
substances, PFAS are cropping up almost everywhere…
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Gene_mutation_could_explain_why_some_don’t
get_sick_from_COVID-19:_Study⠀⇛
A new study conducted by researchers from UC San
Francisco reveals that people who contract COVID-19
but remain asymptomatic, often referred to as
“super dodgers,” may have a hereditary advantage.
These individuals are more than twice as likely as
those who develop symptoms to carry a specific gene
variation that aids in eradicating the virus.
Published in Nature on July 19, 2023, the study
provides the first evidence that there is a genetic
basis for asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ Freelancer.com_Data_Shows_Creative_Skills_Surging_as_AI
Falls_Short⠀⇛
According to the Fast 50 Q2 2023 report, an
analysis of over 280,000 jobs posted on
Freelancer.com between April and June 2023,
creative writing emerged as the fastest-growing
skill. The report also indicated increased
investments by businesses in marketing and on-site
photography and videography.
# ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Google_Sued_by_Advertisers_for_Allegedly
Inflating_Video_Ad_Metrics⠀⇛
If an advertisement autoplays for a bot on a site
that’s not publicly listed or indexed by search
engines, does anyone see it? According to Google,
people do see the ad, which has led to a purported
class action against the company that claims it
overcharges advertisers for the “privilege of
autoplaying their advertisements into the void.”
A suit filed against the Alphabet-owned company on
Wednesday accuses the tech giant of misleading
advertisers about its “TrueView” ad program by
inflating metrics on its ads, which are allegedly
displayed as muted, autoplaying videos and served
on unlisted webpages in violation of promised
standards.
# ⚓ Associated Press ☛ Cigna_health_giant_accused_of_improperly
rejecting_thousands_of_patient_claims_using_an_algorithm.⠀⇛
A federal lawsuit alleges that health insurance
giant Cigna used a computer algorithm to
automatically reject hundreds of thousands of
patient claims without examining them individually
as required by California law.
The class-action lawsuit, filed Monday in federal
court in Sacramento, says Cigna Corp. and Cigna
Health and Life Insurance Co. rejected more than
300,000 payment claims in just two months last
year.
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ How_to_Install_VS_Code_on_Debian_12:_A_Step-by-
Step_Guide [Ed: VS Code is proprietary spyware of Microsoft.
Do not install this. Try Kate instead,]⠀⇛
Learn how to install Visual Studio Code on Debian
12 effortlessly with our comprehensive guide.
Enhance your coding experience today!
# ⚓ VSCode_Tutorial:_Features,_Installation_Guide,_and_Top
Extensions [Ed: Why on Earth are so many GNU/Linux sites
helping Microsoft's siege against GNU/Linux? This should be
shunned, not adopted, and Free alternatives proposed
instead.]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_create_a_shortcut_on_Visual_studio_code
[Ed: Again, why would "Linux" sites help Microsoft spy on
GNU/Linux and shill proprietary editors when very fine Free/
libre ones exist? Microsoft's editor on GNU/Linux is
proprietary, it spies, and it even says "folder" instead of
directory.]⠀⇛
Are you fan of shortcuts? Did you know that on
Visual studio code you can create your own
shortcut?
Creating a shortcut on Visual studio code, it’s
really easy, and this method works on any Vscode
installation, no matter the operating system.
o § Linux Foundation⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ Overture_Maps_Foundation
Releases_First_World-Wide_Open_Map_Dataset⠀⇛
The Overture Maps Foundation (OMF), a collaborative
effort to enable current and next-generation
interoperable open map products, today announced
the release of its first open map dataset.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Lilbits:_Samsung’s_new_foldables_and_AMD’s_new
security_vulnerability⠀⇛
Samsung’s newest Galaxy Z foldable phones are up
for pre-order. Prices start at about $1000 for the
Galaxy Z Flip5 and $1800 for the Galaxy Z Fold5,
although various retailers are offering free
storage upgrades, gift cards, or other perks to
sweeten the deal before the phones are generally
available on August 11.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Ubuntu_fixes_privilege_escalation_issues_in
kernel_found_by_Wiz⠀⇛
Other Linux distributions do not use the Overlay
filesystem module and are hence not affected.
In a_blog_post, the company’s researchers Sagi
Tzadik and Shir Tamari wrote that OverlayFS had
become popular along with the rise in the use of
containers.
“…its features enable the deployment of dynamic
filesystems based on pre-built images,” they
explained.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ The_banking_trojan_malware_Qakbot_is
surging_again._Here’s_what_it_means_for_defenders⠀⇛
The banking trojan Qakbot has once again risen in
popularity, because you just can’t keep well-
designed and effective malware down. A new report
from Zscaler Inc.’s threat labs provides new
details about the trojan virus that has been around
since 2007 stealing banking credentials from around
the world.>
# ⚓ QSB-091:_Windows_PV_drivers_potentially_compromised⠀⇛
We have published Qubes_Security_Bulletin_091:
Windows_PV_drivers_potentially_compromised. The
text of this QSB and its accompanying cryptographic
signatures are reproduced below. For an explanation
of this announcement and instructions for
authenticating this QSB, please see the end of this
announcement.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Photos:_The_Korean_War,_70_Years_After_the
Armistice⠀⇛
American troops led United Nations forces to defend
South Korea against the North. The war ended with a
cease-fire agreement and a Korean Peninsula that is
still divided.
# § War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ North_Korea’s_Kim_meets_with_Russian
defence_chief_Shoigu_in_Pyongyang⠀⇛
Kim Jong Un met the Russian defence minister
and a high-ranking Chinese delegation in
Pyongyang ahead of major Korean War
anniversary celebrations, state media said
Thursday, the leader’s first known foreign
guests since the start of the Covid-19
pandemic.
# ⚓ [Repeat] Citizen Lab ☛ Not_OK_on_VK:_An_Analysis_of
In-Platform_Censorship_on_Russia’s_VKontakte⠀⇛
This report examines the accessibility of
certain types of content on VK (an
abbreviation for “VKontakte”), a Russian
social networking service, in Canada,
Ukraine, and Russia. Among these countries,
we found that Russia had the most limited
access to VK social media content, due to the
blocking of 94,942 videos, 1,569 community
accounts, and 787 personal accounts in the
country.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Russia_Decides_Not_To_Renew_Grain_Deal:
Some_Context⠀⇛
Like the war that necessitated it, Russia’s
decision not to renew the UN-Turkish brokered
grain deal is bad for the world but not
entirely unprovoked.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_Russia-Ukraine_War_and_the_Management
of_Expectations⠀⇛
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the
author’s permission. It can’t be coincidence.
In the past few days, I’ve seen articles at
mainstream media outlets like the New York
Times and Wall Street Journal that the much-
hyped and much-delayed Ukrainian “spring”
counteroffensive has stalled, and at high
cost to Ukrainian troops.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Cooper_in_Politico_on_NATO’s_push
to_equip_Ukraine_with_F-16s⠀⇛
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Arctic_security_is_increasingly
under_threat._Drones_can_help.⠀⇛
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and climate
change are fundamentally changing the Arctic;
unmanned aircraft systems may help allies
fill their security gaps in the region.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Putin_says_Russia_will_provide_six
African_countries_with_free_grain⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin told a
summit with African leaders in St Petersburg
on Thursday that Russia is able to replace
Ukrainian grain exports to Africa, and that
Moscow would be ready to start supplying free
grain to six countries “in the coming
months”. In Ukraine, President Volodymyr
Zelensky visited the southeastern city of
Dnipro where he discussed ammunition supplies
for soldiers and air defence.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Eastern_Europe_remains_in_the_‘grey_zone’_–
opinion⠀⇛
The inability of some NATO allies in the West
to not see the bigger picture in Ukraine is
costing lives every day. While states in the
region continue to raise the alarm, many of
their partners are still frozen with
indecision, Dzmitry Pravatorau argues at the
New Eastern Europe, partners of LRT English.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ EU_adopts_new_sanctions_against_Belarus_after_a
year⠀⇛
The European Union ambassadors have approved
new sanctions against Belarus, introducing
new restrictions on dual-use goods and
aviation parts, and more sanctions against
persons involved in the war in Ukraine.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Italy’s_Senate_Votes_To_Recognize_Holodomor
Famine_In_Ukraine_As_Genocide⠀⇛
The Italian parliament’s upper chamber, the
Senate, voted on July 26 to recognize the
Holodomor — the starvation of millions in
Ukraine in the 1930s under Soviet leader
Joseph Stalin — as genocide.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy_Visits_Dnipro_As_Russia_Launches
More_Deadly_Strikes_On_Ukraine⠀⇛
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on
July 27 traveled to the city of Dnipro, which
has been repeatedly subjected to air attacks,
as Russian forces unleashed a fresh wave of
drone and missile strikes overnight on
targets in Ukraine, causing civilian victims
and damage.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine’s_SBU_Claims_Responsibility_For
October_Crimea_Bridge_Blast⠀⇛
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) claimed
responsibility for the first time on July 26
for an explosion that badly damaged the
bridge linking the Russian-occupied Crimean
Peninsula with Russia in October 2022.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian-Ukrainian_Citizen_In_Moscow_Gets_22
Years_In_Prison_On_Sabotage_Charges⠀⇛
A Moscow court on July 26 sentenced Sergei
Belavin, a Russian-Ukrainian dual citizen, to
22 years in prison on sabotage charges.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Newly_appointed_Chinese_foreign
minister_Wang_Yi_talks_Ukraine_in_Turkey_on_first
trip⠀⇛
Discussions included the latest situation in
Ukraine as well as the global financial
system.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ EU_Agrees_To_Adopt_‘Restrictive_Measures’_On
Belarus_For_Its_Involvement_In_Ukraine_War⠀⇛
Ambassadors from the European Union’s 27
member states have agreed to adopt
“restrictive measures” against Belarus over
its assistance to Russia in Moscow’s war
against Ukraine.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_Says_Another_Ex-Lawmaker_Is_Suspected
Of_High_Treason⠀⇛
Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigations
(DBR) says former lawmaker Vadym Rabinovych,
who is currently out the country, is
suspected of high treason.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ UK_Sanctions_on_Russian_Oligarchs
Allow_Generous_Exemptions⠀⇛
Despite tough talk, Britain’s new sanctions
program against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
has proved shaky. Some oligarchs have
received generous exemptions. Officials have
at times overreached.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia-Ukraine_War:_Russia_Bombards
Southern_Ukraine,_Trying_to_Keep_Ukrainian_Advance_at
Bay⠀⇛
Moscow launched airstrikes and artillery
barrages in the south, where U.S. officials
said Ukraine had begun the main thrust of its
counteroffensive.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Putin_Promises_Free_Grain_at_Africa
Summit,_Aiming_to_Help_Russia’s_Image⠀⇛
At a summit for African countries, the
Russian president insisted that Western
hypocrisy rather than his invasion of Ukraine
was to blame for disruptions in the global
food supply.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_May_Have_Launched_Main
Counteroffensive_Thrust,_U.S._Says⠀⇛
After holding back many of its units trained
and armed by the West, Ukraine is now
committing them, the officials said, but it
remained unclear whether a full-scale assault
was taking place.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden_Orders_U.S._to_Share_Evidence
of_Russian_War_Crimes_With_Hague_Court⠀⇛
The step signals a major shift in American
policy and ends months of resistance by
Pentagon officials who feared setting a
precedent that could pave the way for the
court to prosecute U.S. troops.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Heat_wave_puts_over_half_of_U.S._population_under
heat_alerts⠀⇛
A heat_wave that has hammered the southern U.S. for
weeks expanded into the Great Plains, Midwest and
Northeast on Wednesday, triggering heat alerts for
over 170 million people, according to the National
Weather_Service.
Why it matters: The extreme heat is expected to
persist over a massive swath of the country through
Friday, all the while posing an immediate risk to
public health.
===================================================
# Heat events are the top_annual_weather-
related_killer in the U.S., especially when
they persist over a long period of time, as
the current heat wave has in many locations.
# The extreme, record-breaking heat that has
recently broiled the U.S. and Europe would
have been “virtually_impossible” without
human-caused climate change, according to a
new study published earlier this week.
# The study reinforced prior_research that
found that greenhouse_gas_emissions from
burning fossil fuels are making extreme heat
events both more likely and more severe.
Threat level:Several major cities from coast to
coast, including Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas,
Louisville, New York, Washington, D.C. and Boston,
were forecast to see heat indices between 85 and
105° Fahrenheit.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Chinese_automakers_want_to_sell_electric_cars
across_America⠀⇛
Inexpensive electric_cars_from_China have
quickly gained a toehold in Europe — and
could be taking over American driveways next.
Why it matters:The Biden administration is
incentivizing rapid electric vehicle (EV)
adoption, while also trying to reduce U.S.
dependence on Chinese EV supply chains.
=============================================
# Yet experts say there’s no way to meet
the administration’s proposed vehicle
emissions standards without low-priced
EVs that everyday Americans can afford.
# With today’s U.S. EV prices averaging
close to $55,000, there’s a big opening
at the bottom of the U.S. market for
budget-priced cars from Chinese brands
like BYD, Xpeng Motors and Li Auto.
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_witnesses_record-low_birthrate_amid
rising_immigration_from_Ukraine,_Philippines⠀⇛
Finland’s birthrate hit an all-time low in
the first half of 2023, dropping to the
lowest level since 1900.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ The_U.S._and_China_build_their_economic_arsenals⠀⇛
For the next decade, U.S.-China rivalry will likely
be characterized not by military struggle but by
economic statecraft — using economic means to
achieve geopolitical outcomes,Axios_China reporter
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian writes in her new book
Beijing_Rules.
Why it matters:That could create an economic arms
race, with both sides struggling to create ever
sharper and more innovative economic tools, and to
rally ever more allies into their respective
economic spheres of influence.
# ⚓ Snap_stock_is_facing_a_double-digit_sell-off_after_earnings
for_the_5th_straight_quarter._Here’s_why_investors_are
panicking.⠀⇛
Snap is making a habit of scaring investors with
earnings reports.
Shares of the Snapchat parent crashed as much as
20% on Wednesday, marking the fifth consecutive
quarter that the stock declined by double-digits
after earnings. By midday in New York, Snap stock
changed hands at about $10.10 per share.
Late Tuesday, the company reported second-quarter
results that beat forecasts on the top and bottom
lines, but its guidance for third-quarter sales was
$1.07 billion-$1.13 billion, largely below
analysts’ views for $1.13 billion.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Fed_hikes_interest_rates_to_22-year_high⠀⇛
The Federal Reserve resumed its campaign of
interest_rate_increases, pushing its target rate up
another 0.25 percentage point to the highest level
in 22 years.
# ⚓ CD_Projekt_Red_cutting_100_jobs,_CEO_says_they’re
‘overstaffed’⠀⇛
Dozens of jobs are on the chopping block at CD
Projekt Red (CDPR) as the video game studio
restructures its business.
In a blog post on July 26, CEO Adam Kiciński
announced that the company eliminating
approximately 100 jobs, or nine per cent of its
total workforce.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Once_Wary,_Biden_to_Host_Italy’s_Meloni_at
the_White_House⠀⇛
President Biden had feared the electoral victory of
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party
last fall would spell trouble. But she has proved
to be a strong ally in the American-led effort to
support Ukraine.
# ⚓ Robert Reich ☛ 5_Crises_Republicans_Made_up_to_Distract
YouHere_are_five…⠀⇛
✐ 5 Crises Republicans Made up to Distract You⠀✐
Here are five totally made-up “crises” Republicans
have invented to distract from the real crises
facing Americans today: the growing_concentration
of_wealth, the worsening_climate_crisis, and the
undermining_of_our_democracy.
Fake crisis #1: Anything they claim is “woke.”
Although Republicans struggle to define what “woke”
even means, they’re constantly using it as a weapon
to combat anything that seeks to foster tolerance
and acceptance.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Tirziu_in_the_National_Interest
discussing_thawing_US-China_relations⠀⇛
On July 24, Aleksandra Gadzala Tirziu and Amy K.
Mitchell co-authored a National Interest piece
opining that Washington’s efforts to “thaw”
strained relations with Beijing is inadvertently
emboldening the CCP’s coercive and malign
endeavors.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ TikTok_more_popular_than_printed
newspapers,_and_smartwatches_have_gone_mainstream_–_How
Finns’_media_and_device_usage_has_changed_in_ten_years
[Ed: A weapon directed at many minds]⠀⇛
Dagmar, a marketing agency, conducted a
Digital Media Research that reveals how much
people’s daily lives have changed with the
evolution of media usage and devices.
Few people watch television without a phone
in hand, and every fourth person now sports a
smartwatch on their wrist. Additionally,
YouTube has grown to rival linear television
in popularity. These significant changes have
occurred in the last ten years, as Dagmar has
been conducting its monthly Digital Media
Research.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Animals_that_are_too_cute_to_be_true:_How
to_detect_AI-generated_images⠀⇛
Whether it is a baby sloth hanging onto
someone’s thumb, a tiny colourful peacock or
baby penguins taking a selfie, these insanely
cute images of animals have been shared
thousands of times on social media in recent
months by people unable to resist. But it
turns out that all three of these images were
generated by AI. We’ve written up a list of
tips so that you won’t be duped just because
something is wildly cute.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia’s_Online_Censorship_Has_Surged
During_Ukraine_War⠀⇛
A report from Citizen Lab laid out how much online
censorship has increased on one of Russia’s biggest
social media sites.
# ⚓ RTÜK_fines_streaming_platforms_for_violating_‘family
protection_principles’⠀⇛
Several platforms, including Netflix, MUBI, and
Disney+, have been affected by fines imposed due to
their productions depicting LGBTI+ stories.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Don’t_Censor_RFK_Jr.⠀⇛
After its spectacular screw-ups on COVID-19
“misinformation,” the government shouldn’t be so
quick to squelch dissenting voices.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Activist_Sentenced_Again_For_2009
Presidential_Campaign_Speeches⠀⇛
Ahmad Zeidabadi, a prominent Iranian political
activist, has been sentenced to a year of punitive
imprisonment and 50 lashes in a case he says is
linked to speeches he gave during the 2009
presidential election.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Savage_Romance_Libel_Allegations_Lead_to_Severe
Sanctions⠀⇛
I blogged about the underlying libel case, Tera
Shanley a/k/a T.S. Joyce & Wicked Willow Press, LLC
v. Robyn A. Hutchings a/k/a Terry Bolryder a/k/
a Domino Savage two months ago; here’s a quick
summary of the allegations: Ms. Shanley and Ms.
Hutchings both write paranormal romance fiction.
Readers of such fiction gather online to discuss
books…
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Girl,_11,_arrested_for_falsely_reporting_friend
was_kidnapped_in_YouTube_challenge⠀⇛
An 11-year-old Florida girl was arrested Wednesday
after she falsely reported that her friend was
kidnaped by an armed man — a prank apparently
inspired by a YouTube challenge, authorities said.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Google_trying_to_corner_browser_market,_Norwegian
firm_Vivaldi_claims⠀⇛
“This means Google decides which browser is
trustworthy on its own platform. I do not see how
they can be expected to be impartial,” he noted.
“On Windows, they would probably defer to Microsoft
via the Windows Store, and on Mac, they would defer
to Apple. So, we can expect that at least Edge and
Safari are going to be trusted. Any other browser
will be left to the good graces of those three
companies.”
Picalausa said it would not be possible for browser
firms not to implement the specification if it was
accepted. “Any browser choosing not to implement
this would not be trusted and any website choosing
to use this API could therefore reject users from
those browsers. Google also has ways to drive
adoptions by websites themselves,” he pointed out.
“First, they can easily make all their properties
depend on using these features, and not being able
to use Google websites is a death sentence for most
browsers already.
“Furthermore, they could try to mandate that sites
that use Google Ads use this API as well, which
makes sense since the first goal is to prevent fake
ad clicks. That would quickly ensure that any
browser not supporting the API would be doomed.”
He said that it was possible that laws in the
European Union would “not allow a few companies to
have a huge amount of power in deciding which
browsers are allowed and which are not. There is no
doubt that attesters would be under a huge amount
of pressure to be as fair as possible”.
However, Picalausa added, “Unfortunately,
legislative and judicial machineries tend to be
slow and there is no saying how much damage will be
done while governments and judges are examining
this. If this is allowed to move forward, it will
be a hard time for the open Web and might affect
smaller vendors significantly.”
# ⚓ Netflix_Looks_for_Partners_Beyond_Microsoft_to_Boost_Ad-
Supported_Tier⠀⇛
The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday (July
27) that “Netflix is restructuring its advertising
partnership with Microsoft a year into their deal
and lowering ad prices in a bid to jump-start that
fledgling corner of its business,” adding that
“Some Netflix executives have been frustrated that
Microsoft hasn’t sold more ad inventory, some of
the people familiar with the matter said. Those
soft sales and the weaker than expected ad market
have so far led Microsoft to pay out the maximum
amount required under the guarantee it agreed to a
year ago when Netflix selected the company as its
partner in launching the ad business, one person
familiar with the partnership said.”
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ Antitrust:_Commission_opens
investigation_into_possible_anticompetitive_practices_by
Microsoft_regarding_Teams⠀⇛
European Commission Press release Brussels, 27 Jul
2023 The European Commission has opened a formal
investigation to assess whether Microsoft may have
breached EU competition rules.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ A_Setback_in_the_F.T.C.’s_Fight_Against_Big
Tech [Ed: Neglects_to_mention_who_the_judge_was]⠀⇛
The agency’s failure to block a merger of Microsoft
and Activision Blizzard represents the latest in a
series of blows to its campaign to rein in tech
giants’ economic power.
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ Insulet_and_August_Debouzy_secure_PI_against
Medtrum_in_Paris [Ed: EPO, which is run by criminal, is
enabling embargoes wherein the accused is presumed
guilty (despite EPO giving loads of fake patents,
according to EPO insiders). This report comes from a
propaganda arm of Team UPC, lobbying for illegal
agenda.]⠀⇛
A wide-ranging battle between medical device
manufacturer Insulet, and diabetes tool
management company Medtrum, has reached
France. On 7 July, Judicial Court of Paris
declared that Medtrum’s latest models of pump
bases and patch reservoirs infringe Insulet
patent EP 2 438 957…
# ⚓ Use_of_EPO_learning_resources_increasing_among
Europe’s_universities [Ed: What can the EPO teach
Europe’s universities? White-collar crimes? Why would
universities allow criminals to butt in?]⠀⇛
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
becomes latest institution to integrate the
EPO’s Modular Intellectual Property Education
Framework into curriculum.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ YouTube_Q2_2023_Ad_Revenue_Tops
$7.66_Billion,_4.4%_Increase [Ed: "4.4% Increase", but
inflation was vastly higher, so it is actually a
decrease in spite of YouTube bombarding people with ads
front, midway, and end]⠀⇛
Alphabet revealed its Q2 2023 financial
report, showcasing a rise in YouTube ad
revenue. Here’s the latest. Google has
revealed that YouTube brought in $7.67
billion in ad revenue, beating Wall Street
analyst estimates ($7.43 billion) for 4.4%
growth compared to last year. More than 2
billion monthly users are watching its
YouTube Shorts platform,
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✐ [Meme]When_Your_Boss_is_a_Criminal_Misusing_the_Brands‘Free_Software’_and
‘Open_Source’⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Fraud, News_Roundup at 2:55 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Tarnishing the brand, ruining trust in the brand (while boasting about me
working for the company when assessing job applicants)
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Summary: Sirius_‘Open_Source’ basically robbed_my_colleagues_and_I_for_many
years; many of us conveniently ignored a warning in the second year when they
lied to us about a legally blind colleague after they_had_viciously,_abruptly
suspended_her_for_no_good_reason and shut down Jabber for everyone (making up
some lies and trying to prevent colleagues from talking to one another). We
reckon it’s a common issue that many people can relate to as many people lie
and many worked for someone like this some time in the past. We are now fully
aware that we too were being lied to (in 2022 it became “normal” to lie to
clients and to staff; they lied to my colleagues the same way they lied to me).
My colleagues did not stop to think if they were being lied to, or worse,
robbed. They threatened staff not to speak to one another, especially former
staff. Many skeletons in this closet.
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World_Wide_Web⠀✐
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Linux_Foundation
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
# Confidentiality
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Politics_and_World_Events
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Your_generative_AI_wouldn’t_steal_a_fleet_of
cars⠀⇛
Remember that early-2000s ad campaign that equated
downloading from peer-to-peer networks with car theft?
The one that featured a stolen soundtrack? The shoe is on
the other foot today, with large AI companies hoovering
up yours and my data for their profit.
o ⚓ RFA ☛ Parents,_commentators_take_aim_at_Qiqihar_officials_over
deadly_school_gym_collapse⠀⇛
Officials and police focus more on ‘stability
maintenance’ than taking care of bereaved families, they
say.
o ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ Bring_Back_the_Humble_Forum⠀⇛
Forums, on the other hand, were just a platform that
facilitated the coming together of people with similar
interests. There were no followers, no boosting, no
influencers and no bullshit. It was lovely.
For the most part, forum users fell into a couple of
buckets – people who wanted to either help others, or
people who just wanted to chew the cud about a topic
they’re interested in.
Don’t get me wrong, forums had some of the same problems
that plague the social web today. Namely trolls and
idiots, but that’s par for the course for any place where
a large number of people congregate. My forum experiences
were almost exclusively positive.
o ⚓ Reason ☛ Mom_Who_Let_Child_Play_at_a_Park_Finally_Removed_From
Unfit_Parent_Registry⠀⇛
The Tucson mom found guilty of neglect for letting her 7-
year-old son play at the park has finally had her name
removed from Arizona’s Central Registry, a government
blacklist of unfit parents that is maintained by the
Department of Child Safety (DCS).
While this is obviously a victory for the mom—and for
common sense—the constitutional rights of countless other
people are still at stake.
o ⚓ David Revoy ☛ I_may_have_found_an_alternative_solution_to_my
blog’s_comment_system.⠀⇛
Two days ago I decided to give up on my blog’s commenting
system. I wrote about a solution that I had tried but
abandoned along the way: synchronizing comments from my
Mastodon account. I abandoned it because I thought that
my instance automatically flushed all posts older than 30
days, and it was too ephemeral to be a long-term
solution.
But here is an update: I was wrong. The instance doesn’t
auto delete the message and an admin on my Mastodon
instance contacted me to tell me the reason: they had an
accident that resulted in the loss of comments older than
that date. And he assured me that they don’t plan to do
it again.
So, in light of this new element, I’ve decided to give my
solution another try, even if it only affects the last
five articles published on my blog after 25 June 2023.
The solution works (you can see it in the footer of my
recent posts) and I’m happy to have an alternative
commenting system back here.
o ⚓ Rest of World ☛ The_World’s_Last_Internet_Cafes⠀⇛
Internet cafes — cheap, accessible venues where just
about anyone could explore cyberspace in its infancy —
spread slowly across the world at first, and then
snowballed in popularity. In the spring of 1996, Sri
Lanka got its first two [Internet] cafes: the Cyber Cafe,
and the Surf Board. A few months later, Kuwait’s first
[Internet] cafe launched with 16 PCs. In 1999, a travel
guide promised readers a list of 2,000 cafes in 113
countries.
Within a couple years, it was estimated that there were
more than 100 [Internet] cafes in Ghana alone.
BusyInternet opened the largest [Internet] cafe in Accra,
boasting 100 screens. By 2002, there were more than
200,000 licensed [Internet] cafes in China, and still
more operating under the table.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Lewis_Branscomb,_Champion_of_Science
Across_Fields,_Dies_at_96⠀⇛
He led scientific advances at IBM and within the
federal government during a career that spanned the
space race and the dawn of the internet.
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ We_can_do_more_than_one_concurrent_thing⠀⇛
How old were you when you were finally able to rub
your stomach and pat your head… concurrently!? Or
was it rub your head and pat your stomach? Either
way, I remember a few of us getting the hang of it
quickly, when others in the class struggled. My
music teacher said I should be a drummer on this
basis, which I now sadly regret not picking up.
Maybe I need an apartment-friendly electronic set.
But I digress. Some of those people who struggled
with patting their knees and rubbing their elbows
grew up, and entered project management, public
relations, or politics. You can spot them because
they claim we can’t do something because we’re
doing something else.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ This_Meteorite_Left_Earth._Thousands_of
Years_Later,_It_Came_Back.⠀⇛
It’s the first time we’ve ever seen this.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Webb_Space_Telescope’s_Anniversary_Image
Captures_Year_of_Cosmic_Wonder⠀⇛
With a new image, NASA commemorates the first
anniversary of doing science with the most powerful
observatory ever sent to space.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ New_Breakthrough_Makes_Painkillers_Out_of
Paper_Waste_Instead_of_Oil⠀⇛
A new kind of sustainable pharmaceuticals.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ California_Debates_Whether_Data_Science
Can_Replace_Algebra_II⠀⇛
After faculty protests and a debate over racial
equity, the state’s public universities reconsider
whether high school students can skip a
foundational course.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ In_with_a_bang:_The_James_Webb_Space_Telescope
after_one_year⠀⇛
It’s pretty pictures – and so much more. The range
and precision of the James Webb Space Telescope are
transforming cosmological research.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ The_Ghosts_of_Dead_Stars_Form_a_Mysterious
Alignment,_But_Why?⠀⇛
This can’t be a coincidence.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Supporting_Open_Source_and_Open_Science
in_the_EU_AI_Act⠀⇛
To be clear, we don’t think open approaches to AI
development should make their use fully exempt from
the Act’s requirements, and we recognize how open
source AI can also make harmful uses of AI more
accessible to more people. Instead, our
recommendations underscore the need for a tailored,
proportionate approach to open source and open
science, which supports collaborative models of
development of AI by a wide range of players.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Supporting_Open_Source_and_Open_Science
in_the_EU_AI_Act [PDF]⠀⇛
The AI Act holds promise to set a global precedent
in regulating AI to address its risks while
encouraging innovation. By supporting the
blossoming open ecosystem approach to AI, the
regulation has an important opportunity to further
this goal through increased transparency and
collaboration between stakeholders. Unfortunately,
current proposals threaten to create impractical
barriers to and disadvantages for contributors to
this open ecosystem.
The undersigned organizations represent both
commercial and nonprofit stakeholders in the open
source AI ecosystem. Below, we make 5 concrete
suggestions for how to ensure the AI Act works for
open source: [...]
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Xi’an_police_probe_agencies_amid_angry_protests_by
parents_over_exam_‘immigrants’⠀⇛
Thousands of parents take to streets after an
influx of students makes it harder to gain a place
in senior high.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Universities_grilled_on_canned_sexual
consent_campaign⠀⇛
Australian university chiefs have been grilled over
scrapping a sexual consent campaign at campuses
across the country.
Universities Australia chief executive Catriona
Jackson confirmed some of the organisation’s
members, including vice-chancellors from multiple
tertiary institutions, raised concerns about the
campaign.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Building_The_Cheapest_MIDI_Home_Studio_From
1988⠀⇛
These days, there is a plethora of cheap hardware
and software which you can use to make digital
music. Back in the 1980s, though, this was still a
nascent field, with new gear changing the game for
musicians. In his latest video, [cTrix] puts
together a guide to building a budget MIDI home
studio like it’s 1988.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Recreating_The_Golden_Era_Of_Cable_TV⠀⇛
Fewer and fewer people have cable TV subscriptions
these days, due to a combination of poor business
practices by cable companies and the availability
of alternatives to cable such as various streaming
platforms. But before the rise of the Internet that
enabled these alternatives, there was a short
period of time where there were higher-quality
channels, not too many commercials, a possibly
rose-tinted sense of wonder, and where MTV actually
played music. [Irish Craic Party] created this
vintage cable TV network to capture this era of
television history.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Wiz_Says_62%_of_AWS_Environments_Exposed_to
Zenbleed_Exploitation⠀⇛
Researchers at cloud security startup Wiz are
reporting that a whopping 62 percent of AWS
environments may be exposed to the newly documented
Zenbleed information leak vulnerability in AMD Zen
2 processors.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Workshop_Dust_Manifold_Spreads_The_Suction
Around⠀⇛
Let’s say you’re doing lots of woodwork now, and
you’ve expanded your workshop with a few big tools.
You’re probably noticing the sawdust piling up
awfully quick. It would be ideal to have some kind
of collection system, but you don’t want to buy a
shop vac for every tool. This simple manifold from
[Well Done Tips] is the perfect solution for you.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Adding_Two_Axes_Makes_CNC_Router_More_Than_The
Sum_Of_Its_Parts⠀⇛
The problem with building automated systems is that
it’s hard to look at any problem and not see it in
terms of possible automation solutions. Come to
think of it, that’s probably less of a bug and more
of a feature, but it’s easy to go overboard and
automate all the things, which quickly becomes
counterproductive in terms of time and money.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D-Printed_RC_Skid_Steer_Is_Cute_Construction
Machinery_Done_Right⠀⇛
Skid steers are great fun if you get to drive one
on a construction site. [ProfessorBoots] has long
been a fan of the diminutive diggers, and decided
to make a 3D-printed version for his own pleasure.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ India’s_rice_restrictions_could_fuel
food_price_inflation,_IMF_says⠀⇛
The world lender has urged India to reverse the
ban.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Report:_2.3_billion_people_lack_access_to_clean
cooking_globally⠀⇛
But China, India and Indonesia halved the number of
people without access to clean cooking in 12 years.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Alzheimer’s_Can_Strike_as_Young_as_30.
These_Are_The_Signs_to_Watch_For.⠀⇛
It manifests differently in young people.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ These_Omega-3_tablets_will_come
without_a_trace_of_fish⠀⇛
Scientists are brewing a “fish oil” without fish
and hope it will catch on as consumers increasingly
school companies on more sustainable products.
Advanced manufacturing and science have combined at
the University of Sydney where a new ingredient has
been made from marine and soil bacteria.
# ⚓ IFS ☛ More_Scrolling,_More_Marital_Problems⠀⇛
Smartphones and social media were supposed to bring
us closer together. But the more we learn about
their effects, the more we see that these tools
come with a price. Research by Jean Twenge and
others has shown that teens who use social media
excessively are more likely to experience
depression, anxiety, and sleep deprivation.
Recently, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued
an advisory warning that social media are causing a
profound mental health crisis among America’s
children.
Even though most research on excessive smartphone
usage focuses on teens and young adults, it does
not mean that older Americans are immune to this
issue. In the recent IFS teen and tech report with
Jean Twenge, about 1 in 7 parents of teens (15%)
said they use their phones or other digital devices
“almost constantly” during conversations, meals, or
family events. And there is growing evidence that
our closest, most important relationships, such as
our marriages and dating relationships, are
suffering as a result. Using a sample of 145
adults, James Roberts and Meredith David found that
“phubbing” (prioritizing one’s phone over people)
among romantic partners leads to greater
relationship dissatisfaction.
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ What’s_in_your_water?⠀⇛
Short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS
are cropping up almost everywhere, both in the
environment and in the news. The category of PFAS
includes thousands of chemicals first used in the
1940s and now found in countless industries and
products, such as moisturizing cosmetics, nonstick
cookware, durable food packaging and waterproof
clothing. When washed out of clothing or leached
from landfills, these forever chemicals can linger
in water and living organisms without breaking
down. Their accumulation in humans and other
animals is linked to an increased risk of cancer,
immune damage and birth complications.xs
# ⚓ New Statesman ☛ Hunger_in_Britain_is_mainstream_now⠀⇛
When visiting three foodbanks around the north-east
last month, I met people with jobs who nevertheless
needed regular emergency food parcels – and those
relying on benefits weren’t receiving enough to
live on.
# ⚓ DataGeeek ☛ Understanding_the_Effect_of_Subsidies_on
Agriculture_with_Neural_Networks⠀⇛
Today, subsidies are the most common method of
encouraging countries to deal with global warming;
but it is debatable how effective they are. For
instance, agriculture subsidies cause farmers to
violate forest frontier and make them responsible
for 14% of global deforestation every year. Not to
mention excessive use of fertilizers degrades the
soil and water and eventually damages human health.
# ⚓ Bronny_James_suffers_a_cardiac_arrest,_and_Elon_Musk
amplifies_the_antivax_“died_suddenly”_conspiracy⠀⇛
Honestly, I had planned on not blogging today,
mainly because I have an August 4 grant deadline.
However, the pandemic being the pandemic and
antivax conspiracy mongering being antivax
conspiracy mongering (meaning that it never
sleeps), I decided I had to say something about
Bronny James.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ DEA_Fentanyl_Fearmonger_Anne_Milgram_Hired_A
Professional_Opioid_Apologist_As_Her_Second-In-Command⠀⇛
DEA Administrator Anne Milgram’s tenure has been
marked by increasingly alarmist proclamations about
fentanyl, social media, fentanyl, “the children,”
fentanyl, “drug dealers want to kill their
customers,” and… fentanyl.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ Fortune ☛ Microsoft_is_in_serious_EU_antitrust_trouble_for
the_first_time_in_a_decade_and_a_half—and_this_time_it’s
because_of_its_Slack_rival⠀⇛
Microsoft has mostly managed to stay in the good
books of the EU’s competition regulators since the
late aughts, when it received a record $1.3 billion
fine in 2008 for failing to properly comply with an
earlier antitrust decision about interoperability,
and settled another major antitrust investigation
in 2009 by giving Windows users a choice of default
browser when they fired up the operating system.
However, Microsoft’s cultural transformation into a
supposedly less aggressive entity has recently been
called into question. The company has started
ignoring Outlook and Teams users’ browser choices
by opening links in its Edge browser. It might soon
face a British antitrust probe over contractual
terms that arguably lock customers into its cloud
(rival Amazon is also in those crosshairs). And now
it’s under investigation by the EU antitrust
directorate again.
# § Windows TCO⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Microsoft_Message_Queuing
Vulnerabilities_Allow_Remote_Code_Execution,_DoS
Attacks⠀⇛
Cybersecurity firm Fortinet has published
details on three critical- and high-severity
vulnerabilities patched recently in the
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) service.
Two of these flaws, tracked as CVE-2023-21554
and CVE-2023-28302, could lead to remote code
execution (RCE) and denial-of-service (DoS)
and were addressed by Microsoft with its
April 2023 Patch Tuesday updates. No CVE
identifier has been provided for the third
issue.
A proprietary messaging protocol, MSMQ
supports communication between applications
running on separate systems. It places
messages that did not reach their destination
in a queue and resends them as soon as the
destination becomes reachable.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Dozens_of_Organizations_Targeted_by
Akira_Ransomware⠀⇛
The Akira ransomware gang has compromised at
least 63 organizations since March 2023,
mostly focusing on small- to medium-sized
businesses (SMBs), cybersecurity firm Arctic
Wolf reports.
o § Linux Foundation⠀➾
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Linux_Group_Shares_Its_First_Open_Dataset_for
Creating_Real_Google_Maps_Alternatives [Ed: No connection to
Linux. Misuse of the trademark.]⠀⇛
Google regularly spends billions of dollars on its
mapping initiatives, like its recent return to
recording street views in Germany. Other companies
both big and small are working together to create a
open source dataset that everyone can draw from.
# ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Linux_is_consorting_with_tech_behemoths_to
improve_ethernet_standards⠀⇛
Just yesterday, I was a suit-wearing Musk-eteer,
deep in thoughts of “wow, what a world we live in.
With artificial intelligence (AI) definitely
sluiced into the public consciousness with good
intentions, and the continued persistence of cloud
computing trading on the thrown scrap of
convenience and cost-effectiveness against the dark
‘service-as-a-service’ whims of any company
comically evil enough to enter into a consortium.”
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Essel Group ☛ India:_Government_warns_of_‘Akira’_ransomware
targeting_Windows_and_Linux_users [Ed: But how does that get
onto "Linux"? It does not have NSA bug doors like Windows.]⠀⇛
India’s nodal agency for computer security-related
threats has issued a warning to citizens and
organisations about the emergence of a new
ransomware called ‘Akira’. Union government’s
Computer Emergency Response Team-India (CERT-In)
issued the critical advisory on Monday, stating
that the ransomware was targeting both Windows and
Linux-based operating systems.
The agency informed that the group responsible for
the ransomware compromised the users via VPN
services, particularly when the users had not
enabled multi-factor authentication. It also
hoodwinked the users through tools such as AnyDesk,
WinRAR, and PC Hunter, to download benign-looking
files.
# ⚓ Bennett, Coleman & Company Ltd ☛ Kaspersky_Unveils
Specialised_Solution_for_Linux-based_Embedded_Devices_|
Technology_–_Science_News,_Times_Now [Ed: Is proprietary
software from Russia trustworthy?]⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Wednesday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (amd64-
microcode, gst-plugins-bad1.0, gst-plugins-base1.0,
gst-plugins-good1.0, iperf3, openjdk-17, and
pandoc), Fedora (389-ds-base, kitty, and
thunderbird), SUSE (libqt5-qtbase, libqt5-qtsvg,
mysql-connector-java, netty, netty-tcnative,
openssl, openssl-1_1, openssl1, php7, python-scipy,
and xmltooling), and Ubuntu (amd64-microcode,
avahi, libxpm, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15,
linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde,
linux-azure-fde-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15,
linux-gke, linux-gke-5.15, linux-gkeop, linux-
gkeop-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-intel-
iotg, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-
lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle,
linux-oracle-5.15, linux-raspi, linux, linux-aws,
linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-ibm, linux-kvm,
linux-lowlatency, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux-
oem-5.17, linux-oem-6.0, linux-oem-6.1, openstack-
trove, and python-django).
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Major_Malaysian_water_utilities_company_hit
by_hackers;_Ranhill_offline;_hackers_claim_databases_and
backups_deleted⠀⇛
After a period of quiet, DESORDEN Group has re-
emerged as a threat to Malaysian entities, and now,
it seems, to providing drinkable water to Johor
(see this post from 2021 for an overview of Ranhill
Utilities Berhad in the environment sector and the
role of AquaSmart).
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Group-IB_founder_Ilya_Sachkov_sentenced_to
14_years_in_prison_for_high_treason⠀⇛
The Moscow City Court sentenced to 14 years in
prison the founder of Group-IB Ilya Sachkov. As
reports (https://lenta.ru/news/2023/07/26/
sachkovvv/) to Lenta.ru, he will serve his sentence
in a strict regime colony.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Presumably_the_largest_Dutch_user_of_the
Genesis_Market_arrested⠀⇛
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Investigation_into_arms_trade_leads_to
suspected_cybercriminal⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Ambulance_patient_records_system_hauled
offline_for_cyber-attack_probe⠀⇛
Several UK NHS ambulance organizations have been
struggling to record patient data and pass it to
other providers following a cyber-attack aimed at
health software company Ortivus.
In a statement, the Sweden-headquartered software
vendor said it was subject to a cyber-attack on
July 18 which hit UK customer systems within its
hosted datacenter environment.
# ⚓ The Record ☛ Yamaha_confirms_cyberattack_after_multiple
ransomware_gangs_claim_attacks⠀⇛
Yamaha’s Canadian music division confirmed that it
recently dealt with a cyberattack after two
different ransomware groups claimed to have
attacked the company.
The Yamaha Corporation — different from the spun-
off motorcycle division — is a Japanese
manufacturing giant producing musical instruments
and audio equipment. It is considered the world’s
largest producer of musical equipment.
In a statement last Thursday, Yamaha Canada Music
said it “recently encountered a cyberattack that
led to unauthorized access and data theft.”
# ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ North_Korean_hackers_targeting_JumpCloud
mistakenly_exposed_their_IP_addresses,_researchers_say [Ed:
Lots of focus on alleged IP addresses, not on the security
holes and bug/back doors. Secure software does not mind which
or whose IPs. It just logs attempts.]⠀⇛
Security researchers say they have high confidence
that North Korean hackers were behind a recent
intrusion at enterprise software company JumpCloud
because of a mistake the hackers made.
Mandiant, which is assisting one of JumpCloud’s
affected customers, attributed the breach to
hackers working for North Korea’s Reconnaissance
General Bureau, or RGB, a hacking unit that targets
cryptocurrency companies and steals passwords from
executives and security teams.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Facial_Recognition_Spreads_as_Tool
to_Fight_Shoplifting⠀⇛
British merchants are increasingly using the
technology to combat shoplifting, raising
questions about its spread as artificial
intelligence rapidly improves it.
# ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Why_Eero_is_going_after_the_rental
property_market_with_Wi-Fi⠀⇛
As a homeowner, I take my 1 Gbps internet
service for granted. I love having a fast
connection, particularly because have so many
connected devices. But I’ve gotten so used to
it that I don’t have the perspective of
others who might live in an apartment that
has much slower wireless networking speeds.
# ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ Rush_Health_Must_Face_Suit_Over_Health-
Info_Sharing_With_Google⠀⇛
Rush System for Health must defend a proposed
class action alleging it shared health
information of patients using its patient
portal with Google Inc. and other third
parties, in breach of its contract with
patients and in violation of the Illinois
Eavesdropping Act.
# ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ South_Wales_Police_state_their_case
for_using_facial_recognition⠀⇛
On 28 June, the parliamentary session’s final
Senedd cross-party group (CPG) on digital
rights and democracy, of which Open Rights
Group (ORG) acts as secretariat, took place
online with over 20 attendees tuning in to
hear a follow-up to a previous group session
on facial recognition technology.
During the last meeting in February, we
discussed the landmark ruling that found the
use of facial recognition by South Wales
Police breached the right to privacy under
the European Convention of Human Rights.
South Wales Police has since resumed use of
the technology and Chief Inspector Scott
Lloyd from the force addressed the CPG to
explain why. He was joined by Lee Jones –
Chief Executive, Police & Crime Commissioner
for South Wales – and Madeleine Stone – Legal
and Policy Officer, Big Brother Watch. Sarah
Murphy MS chaired the meeting.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Pakistan_needs_to_press_pause_on
its_data_overhaul⠀⇛
Pakistan’s government appears poised to push
through onerous data regulations that will
put the country’s tech industry under
strain—and raise concerns for consumers. On
July 26, Pakistani media reported that the
country’s cabinet had approved the draft
Personal Data Protection Bill 2023, signaling
that parliament is likely to pass the
legislation before its term ends in August.
In addition, the cabinet approved the E-
Safety Bill 2023, which is also expected to
move through parliament in the coming days.
While the data protection legislation has
been in the works for several years, the
sudden movement of the draft legislation has
caught both industry and civil society by
surprise, especially since there has been
little engagement with stakeholders on the
legislation in the past few weeks.
# ⚓ NYOB ☛ Booking_a_Ryanair_flight_trough_an_online
travel_agent_might_hold_a_nasty_surprise⠀⇛
Today, noyb filed a complaint against
Ryanair. When booking through an online
travel agent and not directly on its website
or app, Europe’s biggest airline requires a
part of its customers to go through a
“verification process” involving invasive
facial recognition. There is no reasonable
justification for Ryanair to implement this
system. Instead, it seems like the airline is
willingly violating their customer’s right to
data protection in order to obtain an unfair
competitive advantage over alternative
booking channels.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ The_U.K._Government_Is_Very_Close_To_Eroding
Encryption_Worldwide⠀⇛
TELL the U.K. Parliament: Don’t Break
Encryption
If it passes, the Online Safety Bill will be
a huge step backwards for global privacy, and
democracy itself. Requiring government-
approved software in peoples’ messaging
services is an awful precedent. If the Online
Safety Bill becomes British law, the damage
it causes won’t stop at the borders of the
U.K.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ ‘Pass_It,_Pass_It,_Pass_It,_Pass_It,_Pass
It,’_The_President_Says_About_A_Bill_The_GOP_Says_Will
Be_Useful_To_Silence_LGBTQ_Voices⠀⇛
Well, this is not surprising, but
unfortunate. With the Kids Online Safety Act
(KOSA) to be debated in a Congressional
hearing on Thursday, the White House had
President Joe Biden come out and give a full
throated endorsement of the horrible,
dangerous, bill that will damage privacy and
harm children.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Meta_fined_$20m_over_misleading
data_protection_claims⠀⇛
Social media giant Meta and subsidiaries have
copped $20 million in fines after an app that
claimed protect personal information was
found to have collected user data for
commercial benefit.
Onavo Protect was a free mobile app made
available by Meta that provided a virtual
private network service which claimed to
“keep you and your data safe online” and give
users “peace of mind when you browse”
according to its App Store listing.
# § Confidentiality⠀➾
# ⚓ [Repeat] Bruce Schneier ☛ Backdoor_in_TETRA_Police
Radios⠀⇛
Seems that there is a deliberate backdoor in
the twenty-year-old TErrestrial Trunked RAdio
(TETRA) standard used by police forces around
the world.
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Researchers_Find_‘Backdoor’_in
Encrypted_Police_and_Military_Radios⠀⇛
While the researchers frame their discovery
as a backdoor, the organization responsible
for maintaining the standard pushes back
against that specific term, and says the
standard was designed for export controls
which determine the strength of encryption.
The end result, however, are radios with
traffic that can be decrypted using consumer
hardware like an ordinary laptop in under a
minute.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘Oppenheimer’_and_the_Siren_Song_of_World-
Ending_Technology⠀⇛
The story is a warning. Will we heed it?
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Former_intelligence_chief_of_Kosovo_sentenced_to
prison_for_illegal_deportation⠀⇛
Kosovo’s former intelligence chief, Driton Gashi,
was convicted of “abuse of official post or
authority” on Wednesday in consequence of deporting
six Turkish people who had permanent residence or
temporary permits unlawfully. /blockquote>
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Who_will_govern_artificial_intelligence?⠀⇛
Almost exactly 66 years ago, 22 pre-eminent
scientists from 10 countries, including the United
States and the Soviet Union, gathered in Pugwash,
Nova Scotia, to identify the dangers that nuclear
weapons posed…
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Pandas:_China’s_secret_soft-power_weapon_amid
growing_tensions_with_the_West⠀⇛
A French zoo will bid farewell to one of its star
attractions – a 5-year-old giant panda – on
Tuesday, with the bear set to participate in a
breeding programme in China’s Sichuan province.
Although Yuan Meng was born in France, he is
Chinese property on loan to the zoo as part of
China’s international “panda diplomacy” programme.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Taiwan_arrests_five_on_China_spying_charges⠀⇛
A diabolo coach is among those accused of
recruiting military personnel in financial
difficulties
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ China_and_Iran_Pledge_to_Deepen_Cooperation⠀⇛
The two countries look forward to deepening
cooperation in areas such as the Belt and Road
Initiative to generate more benefits for the two
peoples.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ China_Frustrated_with_Japan’s_New_Export
Rules_Against_Chip_Sector⠀⇛
Japan’s new export rules require fab tool makers to
get an export license from the government before
shipping them to China.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_to_chair_international_nuclear_weapons
meeting⠀⇛
Finland will serve as the chair for the preparatory
meeting of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
(NPT) Review Conference, the Finnish Ministry of
Foreign Affairs has announced.
The first meetings of the preparatory committee
will take place from 31 July to 11 August in
Vienna, Austria.
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Trump_Once_Condemned_the_Jan._6_
[Insurrectionists]._Now_He’s_Become_One_of_Their_Biggest
Supporters⠀⇛
Now the early but commanding front-runner in the
2024 Republican presidential primary, Trump
regularly downplays the violence, lionizes the
[insurectionists] as patriots and spreads false
claims about who was involved. He has not only
vowed to pardon a “large portion” of Jan. 6
defendants if he wins a second term, but he has
also fundraised for them, befriended their families
and collaborated on a song that became a surprise
iTunes hit.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ TikTok_is_planning_to_compete_with_Shein_and_Temu
in_the_US_and_beyond⠀⇛
As a social media company, TikTok has not had to
deal with warehousing, supply-chain management and
after-sales service so far. To get the ball
rolling, the company has been poaching Temu and
Shein talent, according to the WSJ.
# ⚓ The Hindu ☛ Ph.D._scholar_from_Kulgam_held_for_his_role_in
recruiting_militants:_J&K_Police⠀⇛
The J&K Police on Thursday arrested a Ph.D. scholar
from south Kashmir’s Kulgam for his alleged role in
“motivating, funding and providing logistic support
to the gullible youth of the district and adjoining
areas to recruit them into terrorist ranks”.
# ⚓ [Repeat] ADF ☛ What_Does_Wagner’s_Revolt_Mean_for_Africa?⠀⇛
Five days after leading a failed uprising against
the Russian state, Yevgeny Prigozhin and his top
Wagner Group officers sat face-to-face with Russian
President Vladimir Putin for a three-hour meeting
on June 29.
Despite having called his former close advisor a
traitor and vowing harsh punishment, Putin
reportedly gave immunity to Wagner personnel. He
also agreed to let Prigozhin keep some of his vast,
shadowy empire in Africa.
# ⚓ ADF ☛ Mozambican_Terror_Has_Echoes_of_Boko_Haram⠀⇛
In northern Nigeria and northern Mozambique, two
violent extremist groups are separated by thousands
of kilometers but connected by certain
characteristics.
Both emerged in regions where state security was
largely absent and local grievances against the
government had grown. Both insurgencies preached
the rejection of traditional education in favor of
a radical form of Islam. Both movements are funded
through the illicit economy. And, in both places,
an initial heavy-handed response by the military
did not stop attacks and might have helped
extremist recruitment.
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ World_Cup:_How_the_hijab_became
tournament-ready⠀⇛
In Australia and New Zealand, Morocco’s Nouhaila
Benzina could go a step further, but there is still
work to be done, including in France, where the
hijbab is still banned in football.
At the end of June, the Council of State (Conseil
d’Etat) declared the headscarf ban at football
matches to be legal. The French Supreme
Administrative Court ruled that the FFF’s
requirement to dispense with the hijab was
“appropriate and proportionate.”
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ More_than_a_million_more_soldiers_For_an_even
bigger_army,_Russian_lawmakers_raised_the_nation’s
conscription_age_ceiling_to_30_without_bumping_the_minimum
age_to_21_as_promised⠀⇛
On Tuesday, the State Duma adopted both the second
and third reading of legislation that will expand
Russia’s age range for conscription (not to be
confused with mobilization) to men between the ages
of 18 and 30, effective January 1, 2024. Late last
year, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced a
“phased increase” in the lower age limit for
conscription from 18 to 21. State Duma deputies
later abandoned the idea, however, arguing that
Russia’s “serious demographic situation” means the
military must cast a wider net to draw enough men
into the armed forces. At the same time, lawmakers
raised the upper age limit by three years
immediately, even though Defense Committee chairman
Andrey Kartapolov said just a day earlier that the
increase would be gradual.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ New_Witness_to_Malcolm_X_Assassination_Says
He_Heard_Police_Ask_If_Killer_Was_“With_Us”⠀⇛
This week, a witness to the assassination of
Malcolm X in 1965 revealed for the first time that
he overheard a New York police officer asking if
Malcolm’s assassin was “with us.” The eyewitness,
Mustafa Hassan, spoke Tuesday alongside Malcolm X’s
daughter Ilyasah Shabazz and civil rights attorney
Ben Crump at a press conference at the Malcolm X
and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational
Center. Democracy Now! spoke to Hassan at the press
conference. He told us, “My testimony would have
changed the outcome of the trial. It would have
pointed the finger of guilt at the establishment.”
We’re also joined on the show by Ben Crump, who
calls this latest revelation “astonishing.” .
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Activists_Demand_U.S._End_Korean_War_After
70_Years_as_Biden_Admin_Ramps_Up_“Nuclear_Blackmail”⠀⇛
North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the
sea Monday, hours after a second American nuclear-
armed submarine arrived in South Korea. Meanwhile,
peace activists are gathering in Washington, D.C.,
for a national mobilization to call on President
Biden and Congress to officially end the Korean
War, 70 years after the signing of the July 27,
1953, Korean Armistice that ended active military
conflict. To discuss the renewed call for peace and
the history of “the dirtiest war of the 20th
century,” we’re joined by two guests: Bruce
Cumings, professor of history at the University of
Chicago and the author of several books on Korea,
and Christine Ahn of the organization Women Cross
DMZ and the coordinator of the campaign Korea Peace
Now! Ahn calls for the U.S. government to “atone”
for its role in the war by replacing the ceasefire
with a peace agreement, not feeding into the
peninsula’s nuclear hostilities.
# § War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ LRT ☛ German_Leopard_tanks_best_meet_Lithuania’s
operational_requirements_–_minister⠀⇛
When considering buying tanks, Lithuania
looked into three models made by German, US,
and South Korean companies, Defence Minister
Arvydas Anušauskas said on Tuesday as
Lithuania plans to sign a letter of intent to
acquire German-made Leopard tanks later this
week.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_strikes_port_infrastructure_in_Odesa
region_again,_one_killed_—_Meduza⠀⇛
On the night of July 27, Russian troops
launched a new missile strike on Odesa
region, says Oleh Kiper, head of the region’s
military administration.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukraine_eases_restrictions_on_athletes,
allows_them_to_compete_against_Russian_and_Belarusian
athletes_who_are_under_neutral_flag_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Ukrainian Ministry of Youth and Sport has
issued a decree easing the ban on Ukrainian
national teams participating in international
competitions with athletes from Russia and
Belarus.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Anti-Ukraine_‘German_PSA’_shared_by_pro-
Kremlin_propagandists_features_Russian_actors_and_was
reportedly_made_by_RT_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Many of Russia’s propagandists, “war
correspondents,” and media outlets shared a
video on Wednesday that they claimed is a
political ad for a far-right political party
in Germany. The clip depicts the German
authorities confiscating a family’s
belongings to send as aid to Ukraine.
Journalists from Radio Liberty and the
independent investigative outlet Agentstvo as
well as fact-checker Ilya Ber, however, have
determined that all of the main actors in the
video are Russian and that the clip was
likely filmed in Russia.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ AFU_shoots_down_Russian_missiles_over_city
of_Dnipro,_Kyiv_and_Kharkiv_regions_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Ukraine’s air defenses shot down Russian
cruise missiles over the city of Dnipro and
the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions, said Yuriy
Ignat, spokesperson for Ukraine’s Air Forces
.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moldova_to_reduce_staff_at_Russian_embassy
in_Chişinău_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Moldovan authorities have decided to reduce
the staff of the Russian embassy in Chişinău
to ten diplomats and 15 technical staff, the
press service of the country’s foreign
ministry said.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_government_finalizes_mobilization
summons_form,_including_list_of_items_to_bring_and
warning_about_failing_to_appear_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin
signed a decree Wednesday to finalize the
government’s official summons form for
mobilization, according to the parliament’s
official weekly, Parlamentskaya Gazeta.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘You_can_always_find_a_crime_to_charge
someone_with’_Russian_leftist_thinker_Boris_Kagarlitsky
faces_seven_years_in_prison_for_‘justifying_terrorism.’
Meduza_spoke_with_his_daughter_about_his_arrest._—
Meduza⠀⇛
On the morning of July 25, Boris Kagarlitsky,
a political scientist, the editor-in-chief of
the online publication Rabkor, and one of the
most well-known leftist thinkers in Russia,
was arrested on charges of “justifying
terrorism.” Later that day, Kagarlitsky’s
family found out he had been moved to
Syktyvkar in the Komi Republic. There, the
local FSB office opened a criminal case
against him, presumably for a post he made in
2022 about the Crimean Bridge explosion.
Kagarlitsky has reportedly been sent to a
remand prison for a period of two months. If
found guilty, he faces up to seven years in
prison. Meduza spoke with his daughter Ksenia
Kagarlitsky to learn more about the
circumstances of his arrest.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ FSB_says_it_found_traces_of_explosives_on
second_ship_traveling_from_Turkey_to_Kerch_Strait_—
Meduza⠀⇛
FSB officers have identified a second foreign
vessel that could have been used to deliver
explosives to Ukraine, the agency claims.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_Security_Service_head_acknowledges
agency’s_involvement_in_October_2022_Crimean_Bridge
explosion_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Speaking at a stamp ceremony on Wednesday,
Ukrainian Security Service head Vasyl Malyuk
said that the explosion on the Crimean Bridge
in October 2022 was “one of the
implementations” carried out by the agency,
according to the outlet RBC Ukraine.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Anti-war_sociologist_Boris_Kagarlitsky
arrested_for_‘justifying_terrorism’_over_post_about
Crimean_Bridge_explosion_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A Syktyvkar court has arrested sociologist
Boris Kagarlitsky on charges that he
“justified terrorism” in an online post about
the 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion. According
to the human rights monitoring project OVD-
Info, Kagarlitsky has been sent to a remand
prison for two months.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Russians_easily_dodge_visa_restrictions_for
football_match_in_Latvia⠀⇛
The arrival of several citizens of the
Russian Federation in Latvia for a European
football match as part of an Azerbaijani team
has attracted the attention of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, which will invite other
Schengen zone member states to adopt a common
approach to the matter.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Media_regulator_bans_three_more_Russian
sites_in_Latvia⠀⇛
The National Electronic Mass Media Council
(NEPLP) has decided to deny access to three
websites maintained in Russia –
wagner2022.ru, dentv.ru and yapolitic.ru.
These websites disseminate propaganda, and it
is in the public interest to block such
information, according to NEPLP’s statement
on July 27.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ ‘Latvijas_Gāze’_reportedly_investigated_by
State_Security_Service⠀⇛
The State Security Service (VDD) has
allegedly started an inspection to assess
whether the decision of “Latvijas Gāze”
shareholders to pay dividends to one of the
owners – Itera Latvija – is in line with the
regulation of sanctions imposed on Russia,
TV3 News reported Wednesday evening.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ North_Korean_leader_Kim_Jong
Un_meets_with_Russian_defense_minister_on_military
cooperation⠀⇛
North Korean state media say leader Kim Jong
Un has met with Russian Defense Minister
Sergei Shoigu for discussions on military
issues and the regional security environment.
The report came Thursday as the country
celebrated the 70th anniversary of an
armistice that halted fighting in the 1950-53
Korean War. The North’s official Korean
Central News Agency says Kim and Shoigu had
talked Wednesday in the capital, Pyongyang,
and reached a consensus on unspecified
“matters of mutual concern in the field of
national defense and security and on the
regional and international security
environment.” KCNA also says Kim took Shoigu
to an arms exhibition showcasing some of
North Korea’s newest weapons.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Russian_Cybersecurity_Firm_Founder
Jailed_for_14_Years⠀⇛
Russia has sentenced Ilya Sachkov, co-founder
of the Group-IB cybersecurity firm, to 14
years in prison on treason charges.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Baltic_states_to_IOC:_Don’t_‘open_a_path’
for_Russia_and_Belarus_into_the_Olympics⠀⇛
Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania made it clear
July 26 they are completely against the
participation of Russian and Belarusian
athletes at the Olympic Games in Paris,
France one year from now.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Images_Show_More_Military_Equipment_Gathered
At_‘Wagner_Camp’_In_Belarus⠀⇛
Military equipment and vehicles believed to
belong to the private Wagner mercenary group
continue to move to a site in the village of
Tsel in eastern Belarus that is believed to
be a site where troops from Yevgeny
Prigozhin’s company have settled after its
aborted mutiny in Russia last month.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kremlin_Says_Less_Than_One-Third_Of_African
Leaders_Invited_To_St._Petersburg_Summit_To_Attend⠀⇛
The Kremlin says less than one-third of the
presidents invited will attend the Russia-
Africa summit in St. Petersburg on July 27-
28.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Angola_and_South_Africa_Present_at_Russia-
Africa_Summit⠀⇛
Millions of people depend on the Russian
grains: in 2020 alone, countries on the
continent, notably Egypt, Sudan, Nigeria,
Tanzania, Algeria, Kenya and South Africa,
spent around $4 billion to import
agricultural products from Russia, according
to data from the Integrated Trade Center
(ITC).
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russian_President_Meets_With_His_Egyptian
Counterpart⠀⇛
Earlier on Wednesday, Putin met with
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and BRICS
New Development Bank President Dilma
Rousseff.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_And_Belarus_Not_Among_203_Countries
Invited_To_Paris_Olympics⠀⇛
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has
formally invited 203 countries to compete in
the 2024 Paris Games, notably excluding
Russia and Belarus from the list.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea’s_Kim_Jong_Un_shows
off_banned_missiles_to_Russian_defence_minister⠀⇛
The Russian minister and a Chinese delegation
are in the country for the 70th anniversary
of the end of the Korean War.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ War_Brought_Putin_Closer_to_Africa.
Now_It’s_Pushing_Them_Apart.⠀⇛
As President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia
prepares to host African leaders at a summit,
a collapsed grain deal and the uncertain fate
of Wagner mercenaries have cast a shadow.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ North_Korea_Vows_Support_for_Moscow
in_Visit_by_Russian_Delegation⠀⇛
Pyongyang vowed increased military
cooperation against the United States, a
common enemy, during a visit by Russia’s
defense minister.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Journalists_identify_head_of_Wagner_Group_forces
in_Belarus_as_46-year-old_Ukraine_native⠀⇛
On July 19, while addressing a group of fighters at
a training camp near the Belarusian town of
Asipovichy, Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin
said that a man named Sergey with the call sign
“Pioneer” would become the group’s “chief in the
Belarus direction.”
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Climate_change_is_responsible_for_the_intense
heat,_new_study_says⠀⇛
This summer, a string of heatwaves has struck
countries across the globe – in Europe, North
America, and China. A new study says that climate
change is very likely responsible for the
unprecedented and dangerous heat
# ⚓ Futurism ☛ Florida’s_Ocean_Now_Officially_the_Temperature
of_a_Hot_Tub⠀⇛
All told, it’s a worrying new reality that the
world is facing severe new weather patterns,
heightened by climate change and turning summer
into hell for both humans and marine life.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Man-made_climate_change_‘overwhelming’
contributor_to_July_heatwaves,_scientists_say⠀⇛
Human-induced climate change has played an
“absolutely overwhelming” role in the extreme
heatwaves that have swept across North America,
Europe and China this month, according to an
assessment by scientists published on Tuesday.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Painting_2%_of_Earth_White_Would_Stop
Global_Warming,_Scientist_Says⠀⇛
Bright idea.
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Climate_Education_Suffers_From_Partisan
Culture_Wars⠀⇛
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Do_clean_energy_incentives_work?_One-
year_effort_in_U.S._says_yes.⠀⇛
The Inflation Reduction Act passes its first
year in August. The climate legislation
boosted the U.S. transition to renewable
energy, accelerated green domestic
manufacturing, and made it more affordable
for consumers to make climate-friendly
purchases.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Latest_North_Korean_hack_targeting
cryptocurrency_shows_troubling_evolution,_experts_say⠀⇛
Experts warn that various North Korean
hacking efforts are streamlining and evolving
in ways that make them more difficult to
defend and detect.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ U.S._Prosecutors_Want_Sam_Bankman-Fried
Arrested,_Again⠀⇛
Federal prosecutors want to once again take
hold of the frizzy-haired ex-FTX head Sam
Bankman-Fried and put him back in jail.
Reports from inside pre-trial court hearings
say the Department of Justice has had it up
to here with the once-[cryptocurrency]
kingpin leaking sensitive material to the
press, alleging he’s trying to discredit
witnesses.
# ⚓ Reuters ☛ U.S._seeks_detention_of_FTX’s_Sam_Bankman-
Fried_pending_trial⠀⇛
The request came after Bankman-Fried gave a
New York Times reporter personal writings by
Caroline Ellison, who led his
[cryptocurrency] hedge fund Alameda Research
and is expected to testify against him, in
what prosecutors said amounted to witness
tampering.
# ⚓ [Old] USA ☛ FACT_SHEET:_Climate_and_Energy
Implications_of_[Cryptocurrency]-Assets_in_the_United
States⠀⇛
From 2018 to 2022, annualized electricity
usage from global crypto-assets grew rapidly,
with estimates of electricity usage doubling
to quadrupling. As of August 2022, published
estimates of the total global electricity
usage for crypto-assets are between 120 and
240 billion kilowatt-hours per year, a range
that exceeds the total annual electricity
usage of many individual countries, such as
Argentina or Australia. This is equivalent to
0.4% to 0.9% of annual global electricity
usage, and is comparable to the annual
electricity usage of all conventional data
centers in the world.
# ⚓ [Cryptocurrency]_Mining_is_Power-hungry._How_Can_It
Be_More_Efficient?⠀⇛
All of the above make cryptocurrency mining
possible, but also power-hungry. Factor in
the competitive, always-on nature and you’d
need to scale operations exponentially to
enable concurrent processing.
In short, the better your odds, the more
power you’ll need. And, in some cases, the
cost can outpace the reward.
# ⚓ NL Times ☛ Cargo_ship_fire_could_last_for_weeks;_no-
fly_zone_over_the_area⠀⇛
It is currently impossible to put out the
fire onboard the cargo ship. As Edwin
Granneman from the Coast Guard told NOS, “No
fire-fighting efforts are underway on the
ship itself, nor is water being sprayed onto
the ship from the sea.” He explained this was
a deliberate strategy to maintain the ship’s
stability as filling it with water could
cause it to tilt or capsize. Furthermore,
putting out fires in electric vehicles
presents its own set of challenges.
Granneman outlined three potential scenarios.
Firstly, the ship might sink, but every
effort is being made to prevent this from
happening, and, for now, the ship remains
stable. The second possibility is to tow the
ship to shore. “To successfully implement
this, people would actually need to board the
ship. Whether this is possible given the
current conditions is still uncertain,” he
said. The third option is to let the ship
burn out, a process that, according to
Granneman, could take weeks.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ US_congressional_committee_set_to_weigh
crypto_bills⠀⇛
Among the legislation the House Financial
Services Committee is scheduled to consider
is a bill that would define when a
cryptocurrency is a security or a commodity
and another that would establish a regime to
oversee stablecoins – digital tokens
typically backed by traditional assets like
the US dollar.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Binance_withdraws_application_for_
[cryptocurrency]_license_in_Germany⠀⇛
Binance has withdrawn its application for a
crypto license in Germany, suggesting the
world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange is
rethinking its immediate expansion plans amid
a tough regulatory stance towards the
industry.
German regulators had told Binance they would
not grant it a [cryptocurrency] custody
license, Reuters reported last month.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ [Cryptocurrency]_bill_passes
congressional_committee_in_victory_for_industry⠀⇛
The bill has galvanized many in the
[cryptocurrency] industry, who say that with
Democrats’ support, the bill could have a
shot in the Senate.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Aussie-Italian_battery_supply
chain_on_starting_blocks⠀⇛
A group of Melbourne-based engineers say they
are in pole position in the race to develop a
cheaper, safe battery that will not end up in
landfill.
The team at RMIT University announced on
Wednesday a two-year research partnership
with Italian automotive component firm Eldor
Corporation to accelerate the invention.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Call_to_combat_costs_with_solar-
powered_social_housing⠀⇛
Tania Thompson scratches her head when she
sees sunlight covering the empty roof space
on her social housing block.
Underneath, most of the block’s 170 residents
in inner Sydney are struggling with rising
living costs, with some forgoing showers and
giving up cooking on gas stovetops.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ ‘Critical_moment’_for_Australia
in_ore-some_energy_race⠀⇛
Slamming new labour laws, BHP Australia’s
boss has warned the country must become more
competitive if we are to benefit from surging
global demand for battery minerals.
Australia is at a “critical moment”, BHP
Australia president Geraldine Slattery told
an American Chamber of Commerce in Australia
event in Melbourne on Thursday.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Allkem_posts_record_production
as_world_goes_electric⠀⇛
Critical minerals miner Allkem expects the
lithium chemicals market to be tightly
balanced this year amid the global drive to
go electric.
Demand conditions have been mixed over the
June quarter with the market showing signs of
recovery, Allkem said in a production report
released to the ASX on Thursday.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Congressional_Dems_Request_DOJ_Investigation
into_Big_Oil’s_Climate_Deception⠀⇛
Citing “new evidence” of Big Oil firms’
advanced knowledge of climate risks and their
actions to publicly conceal these risks,
Democratic members of Congress are renewing
calls for the U.S. Department of Justice to
investigate carbon majors for potential
violations of federal law.
In a letter sent to Attorney General Merrick
Garland on Tuesday, the 20 congressional
signatories, led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal
(D-CT) and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), compare Big
Oil’s deceptive conduct to that of Big
Tobacco. In 2006, major tobacco firms were
convicted of violating the Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO)
Act in litigation brought by the DOJ. The
letter requests that the DOJ now open an
investigation into ExxonMobil, Shell, and
other oil majors to “determine whether they
violated RICO, consumer protection, truth in
advertising, public health, or other laws.”
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Revealed:_Fossil_Fuel_Giants_Are_Using
British_Influencers_to_go_Viral⠀⇛
Oil and gas supermajors including Shell and
BP are using UK influencers to push false
solutions to the climate crisis and
manufacture a more family friendly image,
DeSmog can reveal.
The influencers have included a popular
former BBC presenter, a polar explorer, and
an exasperated father of five who needs a
break and finds it in the form of BP’s
rewards app.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ A_Guide_to_the_Anti-Net_Zero_Forces_in
Westminster_Politics⠀⇛
The Conservative Party’s victory at last
week’s Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election
has been credited to an aggressive campaign
against the expansion of the Mayor of
London’s ultra low emissions zone (ULEZ).
In the days since, the wider net zero
“agenda” has been pulled into the spotlight,
with opponents of green action seeing an
opportunity to capitalise on the by-election
result.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ This_Month’s_World’s_Largest_Wind_Turbine
Goes_Operational⠀⇛
A new wind turbine installed in the Taiwan
Strait went online last week, as part of the
Fujian offshore wind farm project by the
China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG). The
system is the MySE 16-260, designed by the
Ming Yang Wind Power Group, one of the
leading manufacturers of wind turbines in the
world. The numbers are staggering, the 16MW
generator is projected to provide 66 GWh
(gigawatt-hours) to the power grid annually.
And this is a hefty installation, with a 260
m rotor diameter ( three each 123 m blades )
sitting atop a 152 m tower. The location is
both a blessing and a curse, being an area of
the Pacific that experiences Beaufort level 7
winds ( near gale, whole trees in motion )
for more than 200 days per year.
Understandably, the tower and support
structures are beefy, designed to survive
sustained winds of 287 km/h.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Most_Metal_Bird_Nests_You’ll_Ever
See⠀⇛
Magpies are using anti-bird spikes for their
own purposes.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘They’re_Outsmarting_Us’:_Birds
Build_Nests_from_Anti-Bird_Spikes⠀⇛
Strips of sharp metal pins are meant to keep
birds away from buildings. Some birds are
stealing them to build their nests.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Grocery_chain_Amazon_Fresh_is
eliminating_hundreds_of_in-store_jobs [Ed: Company almost 200
billion dollars in debt, which owns this publisher, has more
layoffs]⠀⇛
Amazon operates 44 Amazon Fresh stores in the U.S.
cities including Los Angeles, Philadelphia and
Naperville, Ill. The positions being cut are “zone
leads” who manage sections of individual stores,
according to three former Amazon Fresh employees
who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect
their careers. Staff were told the cuts were part
of a cost reduction plan, the people said.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ A_Good_Year’s_Pay_for_a_Good_Day’s_Work?⠀⇛
Can you imagine a president of the United States
proposing a federal budget that quadruples the
paychecks that go to top federal officials? Of
course not. No president would dare risk wandering
down that road. America’s taxpayers, our top pols
understand, have a distinct aversion to seeing
anyone get rich […]
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ This_Amazon_Prime_Day,_online_shoppers_used_20%
more_“buy_now_pay_later”_credit_than_they_did_in_2022⠀⇛
Amazon Prime Day easily made July 11 the biggest
online shopping day of the year, with sales across
the internet up 6% from the same day in 2022.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_to_Watch_at_the_Federal_Reserve’s
July_Meeting⠀⇛
The Federal Reserve is poised to raise interest
rates after pausing in June. What comes next is
crucial, but don’t expect clear commitments.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Is_It_Time_For_Michigan_to_End_Emergency
Takeovers_of_Local_Governments?⠀⇛
In Detroit, the past was all too present. Houses,
businesses and schools that once supported nearly 2
million people sat vacant. Old debts forced city
leaders into impossible choices. There was not
enough money for public safety, not enough for
streetlights, not enough for parks, not enough for
education — not enough, period.
In March 2013, an attorney named Kevyn Orr was
appointed to take charge. He’d never received a
vote and had never been vetted by the mayor or City
Council. And yet, he assumed all the power that
otherwise would be held by the mayor and council,
as well as additional powers, such as the ability
to unilaterally sell city assets. While local
officials could attempt to veto certain decisions,
the veto itself was subject to state approval.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Headcount_headaches_as_economic
reality_dawns_on_execs⠀⇛
Keeping a lid on costs is top of mind for
executives holding the purse strings as economic
conditions sour.
Cost control emerged as the highest priority of
chief financial officers surveyed by Deloitte
Access Economics as margins are squeezed by high
inflation.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ China_issues_guidelines_to_save_the_economy_–_from_Xi
Jinping⠀⇛
Battered private-sector entrepreneurs say privately
new 31-point guidelines are nothing but words.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ North_Korea_reopens_hot_spring_resort,_but_only_the
rich_and_connected_benefit⠀⇛
Admission is pricey and must be paid in foreign
currency, making it a ‘pipe dream’ for most.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ US_Fed_raises_rates,_leaves_door_open
to_another_hike⠀⇛
The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by a
quarter of a percentage point, citing still
elevated inflation as a rationale for what is now
the highest US central bank policy rate in 16
years.
The rate hike, the Fed’s 11th in its last 12
meetings, set the benchmark overnight interest rate
in the 5.25 per cent-5.50 per cent range, and the
accompanying policy statement left the door open to
another increase.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_tells_Myanmar_junta_to_‘root_out’
online_scam_groups_in_lawless_borderlands⠀⇛
Beijing is a major ally and arms supplier of
Myanmar’s generals.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Unilever’s_ice_cream_sales_show_exactly_how
inflation_benefited_the_consumer_goods_giant⠀⇛
# ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Inflation_continues_to_fall,_reaches
4.79%_in_first_half_of_July⠀⇛
This is the lowest level seen in over two years,
and appears on track with the government’s
prediction that it will reach 4.7% by 2023′s end.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Is_‘friendshoring’_really_working?⠀⇛
The Biden administration has identified around
2,400 critical goods and materials that fall under
its efforts to move supply chains out of China.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ China’s_Government_Offers_Love,_but
Entrepreneurs_Aren’t_Buying_It⠀⇛
The government’s new 31-point guidelines meant to
inspire confidence feel empty to businesspeople
after a three-year clampdown and no concrete
changes.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ US_Fed_raises_rates_to_highest_level
in_22_years⠀⇛
The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by a
quarter of a percentage point and Fed Chair Jerome
Powell says the US economy still needed to slow and
the labour market to weaken for inflation to
“credibly” return to the central bank’s two per
cent target.
The hike, the Fed’s 11th in its last 12 meetings,
set the benchmark overnight interest rate in the
5.25 per cent-5.50 per cent range, a level last
seen just prior to the 2007 housing market crash
and which has not been consistently exceeded for
about 22 years.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Owner_of_Postecoglou’s_Tottenham
indicted_in_US⠀⇛
The owner of Ange Postecoglou’s English Premier
League side Tottenham Hotspur, Joe Lewis, has been
indicted in New York over an alleged insider
trading scheme described by a prominent attorney as
“brazen” and “classic corporate corruption”.
“My office … has indicted Joe Lewis, the British
billionaire, for orchestrating a brazen insider
trading scheme,” Damian Williams, the US attorney
for the Southern District of New York, said in a
video release on Tuesday.
# ⚓ Forbes ☛ 2023_Layoff_Tracker:_Bud_Light_Maker_Anherser-
Busch_Cuts_Hundreds_Of_Jobs⠀⇛
Anheuser-Busch—the maker of Stella Artois,
Budweiser and Bud Light—announced plans this week
to cut hundreds of employees, amid slumping sales
following right-wing blowback from its partnership
with transgender social media star Dylan Mulvaney,
making the brewing giant the latest U.S. company to
conduct layoffs as recession fears push employers
to make cuts (see Forbes’ layoff tracker from the
first quarter here).
# ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Singapore_Sees_Labor_Market_Cooling_Some_More
in_Coming_Quarters⠀⇛
The economy added 23,700 jobs in the second
quarter, down from the 33,000 in the first three
months of 2023, according to advanced estimates
from the Ministry of Manpower on Thursday, in signs
that demand continues to ease amid headwinds in the
global economy.
Employment growth in the April-June period was
mostly from non-residents in the construction
sector amid sustained demand for housing, it said.
Retrenchments moderated to 3,200 from 3,820 in the
prior quarter, as manufacturing layoffs eased while
the services sector took the biggest hit. Overall
jobless rate rose slightly to 1.9%.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Cooling_inflation_could_keep_interest
rates_on_ice⠀⇛
Australia’s inflation rate has sunk by more than
expected in the latest figures, bolstering the case
for keeping interest rates on hold.
Inflation moderated to six per cent in the June
quarter from seven per cent growth through to
March.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Fiji_prime_minister_shelves_China_visit_after_falling
while_looking_at_mobile_phone⠀⇛
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka was due to leave on
an official visit to China on Wednesday.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ NYT_Worries_Brazil_Goes_Too_Far_to_Fight_Far
Right⠀⇛
The New York Times is traditionally soft on right-
wing extremists while portraying leftist Latin
American governments as authoritarian.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Beijing_taps_veteran_diplomat_Wang
Yi_to_replace_absent_Qin_Gang_as_foreign_minister⠀⇛
Wang Yi this week returns as China’s foreign
minister, stepping into a job he held for almost a
decade in the face of the month-long absence of
deposed diplomat Qin Gang.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ China’s_foreign_minister_removed_from_power⠀⇛
Qin Gang’s month-long absence has been mysteriously
unexplained by Chinese officials.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Embassies_find_fault_with_Cambodia’s_lopsided
election⠀⇛
However, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
offered ‘warm congratulations’ for Sunday’s vote.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chinese_foreign_min._Qin_Gang
removed_from_office_after_disappearing_from_public_eye_for_a
month_–_state_media⠀⇛
China’s foreign minister Qin Gang was removed from
office on Tuesday, state media reported, after
disappearing from the public eye for a month with
little explanation from the ruling Communist Party.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ China_replaces_foreign_minister_with_predecessor
amid_speculation_over_weeks-long_absence⠀⇛
China named veteran diplomat Wang Yi as its new
foreign minister on Tuesday, removing former rising
star Qin Gang after a mysterious one-month absence
from duties barely half a year into the job.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ China_confirmed_its_missing_foreign_minister_Qin
Gang_has_been_sacked_from_the_government⠀⇛
Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang, who disappeared
from public appearances for a month amid a series
of high-level diplomatic meetings, has officially
been sacked (link in Chinese) after just seven
months in the role, Chinese state media Xinhua
announced today (July 25).
# ⚓ HT Digital Streams Ltd ☛ ‘They_just_took_it..’:_Elon_Musk
takes_over_Twitter_handle_@X’s_account_without_paying⠀⇛
Elon Musk took over the @X Twitter handle from Gene
X Hwang without payment, and Hwang’s account was
moved to a new handle. Twitter is facing a lawsuit
for not paying at least $500 million in promised
severance to laid-off employees. Musk has also not
paid rent for Twitter offices.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Senators_Ask_Paul_Singer,_Leonard_Leo_for
Accounting_of_Gifts_to_SCOTUS_Justices⠀⇛
Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats have sent
letters to two wealthy businessmen and a major
political activist requesting more information
about undisclosed gifts to Supreme Court justices.
The letters, sent Tuesday by Sen. Sheldon
Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.,
the committee chair, seek more details about an
undisclosed 2008 luxury fishing vacation Justice
Samuel Alito took that was reported last month by
ProPublica. The letters went to three people: hedge
fund billionaire Paul Singer; mortgage company
owner Robin Arkley II; and Leonard Leo, a longtime
leader at the Federalist Society, the powerful
conservative legal group.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Alphabet’s_CFO_Ruth_Porat_got_promoted_a_brand-new
role⠀⇛
Ruth Porat is stepping down as chief financial
officer at Alphabet, Google’s parent company—but
only to step up as president and chief investment
officer. Porat has been serving as chief financial
officer of Alphabet and its subsidiary Google since
she joined the company in 2015. She’s the company’s
longest-serving CFO, Alphabet said in its earnings
press release announcing the promotion yesterday
(July 25).
# ⚓ New Statesman ☛ What_happens_if_the_Russian_state
collapses?⠀⇛
But what if no accepted leader emerged after Putin
was toppled? Ukraine’s stalled counteroffensive has
induced Joe Biden to provide cluster bombs banned
by over 120 states, including Britain. If Ukrainian
forces nonetheless fail to break through Russian
positions, a frozen conflict becomes a realistic
outcome. Western support is nearing exhaustion.
Munitions are running out in the midst of a cost-
of-living crisis, with a manufacturing base
weakened by offshoring. Deindustrialised societies
cannot sustain a protracted conflict when Russia is
operating as a fully fledged war economy. The pro-
Putin parties of the far right that are gathering
strength throughout Europe will not endorse
indefinite assistance, while Biden fears facing an
anti-war Republican candidate in the next
presidential election.
# ⚓ Robert Reich ☛ 5_Crises_Republicans_Made_up_to_Distract
You⠀⇛
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Legal_experts_challenged_on_consent
change_consequences⠀⇛
Legal experts will be grilled about suggestions
changes to consent laws could have unintended
consequences on teenagers exploring sex.
After days of testimony from survivor advocates
about the need for justice system reforms to
protect complainants, Australia’s peak legal body
will front a committee examining consent laws.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Warnings_about_spying,_hacking_threat
from_Chinese_AI⠀⇛
Australia is being warned to regulate artificial
intelligence before it becomes weaponised by
foreign powers and becomes too much of a national
security threat.
In a new Australian Strategic Policy Institute
report, Simeon Gilding says AI products used or
created by Chinese companies can create security
risks and expose Australians to spyware or hacks.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ California_Looking_To_Pass_Useful_Bill_To
Teach_More_Media_Literacy_In_Schools⠀⇛
As we’ve been covering over the last few
years, there’s been an almost entirely
unsubstantiated moral panic over “kids and
social media.” This is despite the fact that
multiple large scale studies have found that
way more kids have benefitted from social
media than have been harmed by it. As we’ve
noted time and time again, there are
definitely a few examples of extreme cases of
some kids who have difficulty dealing with
certain aspects of the internet, but as the
American Psychological Association noted in
its recent report, the appropriate action
here is to focus on helping those kids,
rather than taking away social media from all
the other kids it helps. But one other thing
that the APA (and others) have put a big
emphasis on is better educating kids in media
and social media literacy.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Twitter_Deletes_Its_Own_Fact_Check
Correcting_Elon’s_Bogus_Vaccine_Tweet⠀⇛
Twitter deleted its own label correcting
unfounded, misleading speculation posted by
Elon Musk, marking yet another example of the
fact the free speech warrior does not, in
fact, seem to care much about free speech at
all.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Expert_Panel_Warns_Journalists_of
Coordinated_Climate_Disinformation_Campaigns⠀⇛
This story was originally published by The
Energy Mix, and is republished here as part
of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism
collaboration strengthening coverage of the
climate crisis.
As reporters confront sophisticated tactics
aimed at obscuring the reality of climate
change, knowledge is their ultimate weapon
against deception, say media experts, who
exposed the greenwashing influence of PR
teams and emphasized the benefits of local
reporting at a recent online briefing about
fighting disinformation.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Democracy for the Arab World Now ☛ Saudi_Arabia:_Government
Retaliates_Against_U.S._Citizen’s_Lawsuit_by_Detaining_and
Prosecuting_Five_Family_Members_in_Terrorism_Court⠀⇛
The three organizations call on the Biden
administration to demand the release of the
Aldossari family members and end their persecution.
The Biden administration should also impose the
Khashoggi Ban – a policy that allows the State
Department to impose visa restrictions on
individuals who, acting on behalf of a foreign
government, are directly engaged in serious,
extraterritorial counter-dissident activities – on
all Saudi officials, including judges and
prosecutors, who have been participating in the
extraterritorial harassment of Mr. Aldossari’s
family. The organizations also call on the Saudi
government to release the Aldossari family members
and end the sham prosecution against them.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia’s_Online_Censorship_Has_Soared_30-
Fold_During_Ukraine_War⠀⇛
What’s the difference between Russia’s [Internet]
before and after the invasion of Ukraine? The
answer: a thirtyfold increase in censorship.
That was the finding of a report published on
Wednesday by Citizen Lab, a group from the
University of Toronto that studies online
censorship in authoritarian countries. The new
report was one of the first attempts to quantify
the extent of Russian [Internet] censorship since
the war began in February 2022.
# ⚓ Citizen Lab ☛ Not_OK_on_VK:_An_Analysis_of_In-Platform
Censorship_on_Russia’s_VKontakte⠀⇛
VK predominantly blocked access to music videos and
other entertainment content in Canada, whereas, in
Russia, we found VK blocked content posted by
independent news organizations, as well as content
related to Ukrainian and Belarusian issues,
protests, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,
intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) content. In Ukraine,
we discovered no content that VK blocked, though
the site itself is blocked to varying extents by
most Internet providers in Ukraine.
# ⚓ CPJ ☛ Exiled_Cuban_journalist_Abraham_Jiménez_Enoa
threatened_in_Spain⠀⇛
On Tuesday, July 25, two unidentified men with
Cuban accents threatened Jiménez as he was walking
home with his two-year-old son in Barcelona,
according to news reports and the journalist, who
spoke with CPJ by phone.
# ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Over_137,000_web_addresses_blocked_in_Turkey_in
2022_in_new_record⠀⇛
The Freedom of Expression Association (İFÖD)
released its annual Blocked Web report for 2022,
shedding light on internet censorship in Turkey.
According to the report prepared by Prof. Dr. Yaman
Akdeniz and Researcher Ozan Güven from Istanbul
Bilgi University’s Faculty of Law, over 137,000
URLs faced access restrictions in Turkey within a
year.
The report provides insights into the magnitude of
access restrictions imposed by various state
institutions in response to their requests.
# ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ The_surprising_truth_about_data-driven
dictatorships⠀⇛
Enter AI: back in 2018, Yuval Harari proposed that
AI would supercharge dictatorships by mining and
summarizing the public mood – as captured on social
media – allowing dictators to tack into serious
discontent and diffuse it before it erupted into
unequenchable wildfire: [...]
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Moralism_Is_Ruining_Cultural_Criticism⠀⇛
Even more insidiously, though, the logical goal of
such very narrow standards could be to create
artwork that is straightforward political
propaganda. We’ve seen how badly that turned out
for the evangelicals (and, indeed, for the
Stalinists). Even if we are unlikely to face the
scourge of a Leninist equivalent to VeggieTales,
however, this style of criticism infantilizes its
audience members by assuming they are essentially
ideology-processing machines—unlike the wise
commentator who somehow manages to see through the
deception.
# ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Russia_Sends_Cybersecurity_CEO_to_Jail
for_14_Years⠀⇛
The Russian government today handed down a treason
conviction and 14-year prison sentence on Iyla
Sachkov, the former founder and CEO of one of
Russia’s largest cybersecurity firms. Sachkov, 37,
has been detained for nearly two years under
charges that the Kremlin has kept classified and
hidden from public view, and he joins a growing
roster of former Russian cybercrime fighters who
are now serving hard time for farcical treason
convictions.
# ⚓ CBC ☛ ‘It_could_very_well_bankrupt_us,’_says_bookseller
suing_over_Texas_school_book_ban⠀⇛
Valerie Koehler says she might go out of business
if her book shop is forced to comply with a new
state law regulating public school literature.
That’s because the law will require vendors to
evaluate every book they sell, or have sold, to
schools for sexually explicit content. Sellers that
don’t comply would be barred from doing business
with schools.
Koehler, owner of the Blue Willow Bookshop in
Houston, says that amounts to roughly 20 per cent
of her sales.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ DEA’s_Alarmist-In-Chief_Thinks_It’s_Time_To
Start_Regulating_Social_Media_Moderation_Efforts⠀⇛
If there’s one thing nearly everyone on Capitol
Hill can agree on, it’s that the federal government
just isn’t interfering enough with social media
services. The Democrats think social media services
should be regulated because they’re allowing too
much hate and misinformation to spread. The
Republicans think social media services should be
regulated because not enough hate and
misinformation is being spread. Every so often, for
various reasons, lawmakers reach across the aisle
and say truly stupid things about dismantling
Section 230 immunity.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Reddit_Tells_Protesting_Mods_It_Will_Remove_Them
If_They_Don’t_Stop,_As_Reddit’s_Subreddit_For_The_Blind_Can
No_Longer_Be_Moderated_By_Blind_Users⠀⇛
As you’ll recall, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman whined
about what he called the “landed gentry” among
moderators of subreddits that were protesting his
ridiculous extractive API changes. He insisted that
perhaps things should be more democratic. In
response, many subreddits took a vote on how
subscribers to those subreddits wanted the mods to
handle things, and many urged the moderators to
continue protesting.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Police_in_Vietnam_arrest_anti-China_protester_for
online_comments⠀⇛
Authorities have also confirmed the arrest of a
teacher for his online criticism of the government.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Alexey_Moskalev_receives_first_letter_from
daughter_Masha_since_he_was_sentenced_to_prison_for
‘discrediting’_Russian_army_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Alexey Moskalev, who was sentenced to two years in
prison earlier this year for “discrediting” the
Russian army, told journalists that he has received
his first letter from his daughter, Masha, since he
was sentenced on March 28 and then arrested several
days later in Minsk. Russian independent Telegram
channels and media outlets published selections
from the letter, which includes a poem Masha
Moskaleva composed for her father.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Czechs_Sue_Russia_Over_Lease_Payments_On_Embassy
Land⠀⇛
The Czech Foreign Ministry said it filed a lawsuit
against Russia for compensation of 53 million
crowns ($2.44 million) over lease payments on land
in Prague and other cities used by the country’s
embassy.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Fighter_Jet_Strikes_Another_American_Drone
Over_Syria_In_Sixth_Incident_This_Month⠀⇛
A Russian fighter jet fired flares and struck a
U.S. drone over Syrian airspace on July 26, the
White House confirmed. It was the sixth reported
incident this month in a string of harassing
maneuvers that have ratcheted up tensions.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Baltics_voice_concern_over_Russian,_Belarusian
athletes_at_Paris_Olympics⠀⇛
The Baltic foreign ministers have sent a letter to
the International Olympic Committee, expressing
their concern about the recommendations to allow
athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete at next
year’s Olympic Games in Paris under a neutral flag.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Matt_Taibbi:_How_the_Left_Lost_Its_Mind_and_Legacy
Media_Its_Audience⠀⇛
The independent journalist talks about true press
freedom, the Twitter Files, Russiagate, Hillary
Clinton, Donald Trump, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ CPJ ☛ Turkish_authorities_detain_5_journalists_over_tweet,
1_remains_in_custody⠀⇛
On Tuesday, July 25, Turkish police detained
Arslan, a reporter for the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya
News Agency, at his house in the capital city of
Ankara, in relation to an investigation by the
chief prosecutor’s office in the southeastern city
of Diyarbakır over allegations that the journalist
was “making targets of those who were tasked to
combat terrorism,” according to multiple news
reports. A court ordered him to be imprisoned
pending investigation.
The investigation concerns a tweet Arslan posted on
July 18 about the reassignments of a judge and
prosecutor who are married to each other and are
involved in an ongoing mass trial of journalists in
Diyarbakır, according to those sources.
# ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Detention_of_journalists_over_report_on_judicial
members_draws_international_condemnation⠀⇛
The detentions were related to an investigation
into a news report about the reassignment of a
prosecutor and a judge, to whom the former is
married, by the Council of Judges and Prosecutors
(HSK), involved in the recent court case of 18
journalists in Diyarbakır.
Arslan had published the report and shared it on
Twitter and the four other journalists had
retweeted it.
# ⚓ ANF News ☛ Journalist_Evrim_Kepenek_released⠀⇛
The background to the case is reports of a
political trial against 18 colleagues in Amed. 15
of the accused journalists, who work for Kurdish
media, were held in pre-trial detention for over a
year on vague “terror charges” in what was
obviously a contrived trial without charges and
were released on the first day of the trial a
fortnight ago. The long detention was based on the
false testimony of an anonymous witness.
The investigation against the journalists detained
on Tuesday was triggered by Arslan’s report, which
brought attention to the marriage between one of
the judges overseeing the Diyarbakır-based case
against 18 Kurdish media workers and the prosecutor
who prepared the indictment.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Ralph_Nader:_What’s_the_Matter_with_the
‘Liberal_Press’?⠀⇛
David Ignatius, a long-time Washington
Post columnist on military intelligence topics,
probably never dreamed his newspaper would fill
over three full pages serializing his latest work
of thrilling fiction, “The Tao of Deception.”
# ⚓ Court_rejects_indictment_against_arrested_journalist_Merdan
Yanardağ⠀⇛
Yanardağ was remanded in custody after he
criticized the prison conditions of PKK leader
Öcalan.
# ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Dyson_wins_right_to_pursue_exploitation
libel_claim_versus_Channel_4_News⠀⇛
Sir James Dyson himself is no longer pursuing the
case after a judge ruled his claim out.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Rights_Groups_Urge_EU’s_Thierry_Breton:_No_Internet
Shutdowns_for_Hateful_Content⠀⇛
In the letter, civil society groups articulated the
importance of a human-rights friendly
implementation of the DSA. However, a recent French
draft law on the regulation of the digital space
requires browser-based website blocking, which is
an unprecedented government censorship tool.The
letter is here.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Electronic_Frontier_Foundation_to_Present_Annual_EFF
Awards_to_Alexandra_Asanovna_Elbakyan,_Library_Freedom
Project,_and_Signal_Foundation⠀⇛
The EFF Awards recognize specific and substantial
technical, social, economic, or cultural
contributions in diverse fields including
journalism, art, digital access, legislation, tech
development, and law.
Hosted by renowned science fiction author,
activist, journalist, and EFF Special Advisor Cory
Doctorow, the EFF Awards ceremony will start at 6:
30 pm PT on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023 at the Regency
Lodge, 1290 Sutter St. in San Francisco. Guests can
register at https://eff.org/effawards. The ceremony
will be recorded and video will be made available
at a later date.
For the past 30 years, the EFF Awards—previously
known as the Pioneer Awards—have recognized and
honored key leaders in the fight for freedom and
innovation online. Started when the internet was
new, the Awards now reflect the fact that the
online world has become both a necessity in modern
life and a continually evolving set of tools for
communication, organizing, creativity, and
increasing human potential.
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Why_I_Stand_in_Solidarity_With_Striking
Actors_and_Writers⠀⇛
Rob Delaney: One thing for sure that we know about
AI is that it is going to be used to further
marginalize workers. So that’s what we’ve got to
stop. Can AI do good things? It probably can. On
its own, it’s not malignant, but they want to use
it to not pay people for the fruits of their labor,
so that’s what we’ve got to squash. AI is not
necessarily bad, but it needs to be managed. We
certainly can’t trust the AMPTP [the Alliance of
Motion Picture and Television Producers] to do
that. It needs our help. Taj Ali
Taj Ali: SAG-AFTRA’s vote was an overwhelming
majority for strike action — 97.91 percent.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Disney_Seems_to_Be_Preparing_for_a_Long_Strike⠀⇛
Oh, and let’s not forget, back in June Disney
already delayed almost all of its 2024 and 2025
movies because of the writers’ strike. The company
was already looking ahead with a “fuck the workers”
mentality. Now it’s just trickling down, and
there’s no sense of how long it will continue.
We’ll keep an eye on these dates to see if or when
any of them move. But for now, it seems the biggest
corporations are getting ready for the long haul.
# ⚓ [Old] The Atlantic ☛ The_Problem_With_Counterfeit_People⠀⇛
Creating counterfeit digital people risks
destroying our civilization. Democracy depends on
the informed (not misinformed) consent of the
governed. By allowing the most economically and
politically powerful people, corporations, and
governments to control our attention, these systems
will control us. Counterfeit people, by distracting
and confusing us and by exploiting our most
irresistible fears and anxieties, will lead us into
temptation and, from there, into acquiescing to our
own subjugation. The counterfeit people will talk
us into adopting policies and convictions that will
make us vulnerable to still more manipulation. Or
we will simply turn off our attention and become
passive and ignorant pawns. This is a terrifying
prospect.
The key design innovation in the technology that
makes losing control of these systems a real
possibility is that, unlike nuclear bombs, these
weapons can reproduce. Evolution is not restricted
to living organisms, as Richard Dawkins
demonstrated in 1976 in The Selfish Gene.
Counterfeit people are already beginning to
manipulate us into midwiving their progeny. They
will learn from one another, and those that are the
smartest, the fittest, will not just survive; they
will multiply. The population explosion of brooms
in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice has begun, and we had
better hope there is a non-magical way of shutting
it down.
# ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ Leaked_Texts_Show_Andrew_Tate’s_Alleged
Trafficking_Tactics⠀⇛
The messages paint a lurid and often disturbing
image of the process by which Tate allegedly
recruited young women to do his bidding using a
combination of lies, manipulation, and coercive
tactics, all the while using examples of his
conversations as teaching methods for his acolytes
and inviting feedback from them.
Tate and his brother Tristan, who also shows up in
the leaked War Room chats, were arrested in
Bucharest in December 2022 and detained on
suspicion of sex trafficking, rape, and organized
crime, and are currently on house arrest. The Tate
brothers’ Bucharest compound was initially raided
after an American woman and a Moldovan woman placed
a call to a U.S. embassy saying they had been lured
there under false pretenses and forced to create
sexually explicit content online for the Tates’
financial benefit. The Tates have strongly denied
these allegations.
# ⚓ 37signals LLC ☛ Working_remotely_is_a_competitive_hiring
advantage_again⠀⇛
As more and more companies, especially large ones,
have started demanding remote workers return to the
office, the competitive hiring advantage for
remote-first companies is back. And it’s even
bigger than before the pandemic, now that so many
workers have had a taste of what life can be like
when you don’t have to commute to the office. This
is great news for smaller companies and startups in
particular.
# ⚓ Truthdig ☛ UN_Ignores_Sustainable_Farming_While
Prioritizing_Big_Ag⠀⇛
This will be the second Food Systems Summit
(UNFSS). The first, in 2021 was supposed to address
the lack of progress towards the UN’s sustainable
development goals. It was dubbed a “people’s
summit” by the organisers, but caused an outcry
among local producers when their calls to roll back
the power of transnational corporations were
cynically ignored.
Corporations that dominate global food systems,
such as Bayer and Nestlé, used the summit to
promote greenwashing initiatives rather than
address pressing problems such as food speculation
and the impact of Covid-19 on world hunger.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Federal_Judge_Says_State_Troopers’_‘Kansas_Two
Step’_Bullshit_Violates_The_Rights_Of_Drivers⠀⇛
For years, Kansas Highway Patrol troopers have
stopped motorists on interstate highways. That’s
the job. But the job became much more interesting
when neighboring states legalized marijuana.
Colorado led the way, with others following, but
Colorado’s actions have had the most impact on the
KHP. Missouri’s more recent legalization has only
compounded the problem facing drivers on Kansas
highways.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ McDonald’s_franchise_in_Louisiana_and_Texas_hired
minors_to_work_illegally,_Labor_Department_finds⠀⇛
A McDonald’s franchise that controls 12 restaurants
in metro New Orleans violated child labor laws and
has hired more than 80 minors in two states, the
U.S. Department of Labor said Tuesday.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Kenya_dispatch:_country_reeling_from_brutal_police
response_to_anti-government_demonstrations⠀⇛
Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Senior Correspondent in
Kenya. She files this dispatch from Nairobi. What
exactly is a country? Is a country its people, or
is a country its government? Moreover, do the laws
of a country exist to serve its citizens or do they
exist to serve the whims of its government?
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Chicago_PD_Sued_Over_Mass_Traffic_Stops_Of
Minorities_That_Do_Almost_Nothing_To_Stop_Crime⠀⇛
The Chicago Police Department is extremely
problematic, even by the extremely lax standards of
US law enforcement. It has been home to a domestic
black-site operation. It has been hit with reform
mandates from federal courts. It has shown no
interest in rooting out the worst of its officers.
And it has engaged in a panoply of rights
violations pretty much since its inception.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Natural_Woman⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ This_Barbie_Is_in_Crisis⠀⇛
To understand Barbie, the much-anticipated film by
Greta Gerwig (Little Women, Lady Bird) based on the
64-year-old Mattel toy, you have to first
understand its cosmology. Barbies and Kens (plus
the discontinued Alan and Midge dolls) live in a
glossy pink utopia called Barbie Land, where every
day is perfect and “all problems of feminism and
equal rights have been solved.” In this world,
every Barbie is unique, but all share the name
Barbie, like a throng of angels or a mycelial
network. Barbie is the president (Issa Rae); the
Supreme Court justices are all Barbie; Barbie pens
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalism, delivers the
mail, works construction, and performs emergency
medicine. (Ken, by contrast, is ancillary: “Barbie
has a great day every day,” Helen Mirren tells us
in voiceover, but “Ken only has a great day if
Barbie looks at him.”)
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Justice_system_‘protects_the_bad_guys’
in_rape_cases⠀⇛
Sexual violence perpetrators are exploiting
loopholes in the justice system to avoid
accountability and re-traumatise survivors.
But legal organisations warn against the pendulum
swinging too far in the opposite direction and the
potential impacts on an accused person’s right to
the presumption of innocence.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Ben_Crump:_Florida’s_New_Curriculum,
Claiming_“Benefits”_of_Slavery,_Will_Cause_“Psychological
Trauma”⠀⇛
We speak with civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump
about two recent cases of anti-Black racism making
headlines in the United States: Florida’s new
curriculum standards that teach students the
“benefits” of transatlantic slavery to enslaved
people, and a set of lawsuits against Northwestern
University accusing the school’s athletic teams of
widespread and institutionalized hazing, including
physical, racial and sexual abuse. Crump is
representing former Northwestern football players
in one of the lawsuits. Republican presidential
contender and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has
doubled down on the Florida Board of Education’s
new rules that require educators to teach students
that enslaved Black people “developed skills which,
in some instances, could be applied for their
personal benefit.” Crump, who says he may sue the
state over the changes, notes, “It has the
potential to cause serious psychological trauma to
African American students, and we will not stand
for it.” Meanwhile, Crump has called the cases at
Northwestern the beginning of the “me too” movement
for college sports.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_The_US_Press,_Spooks_&_the
Church_Committee⠀⇛
Nineteen fifty-three was a peculiar year for The
Washington Post to question the C.I.A.’s drift into
activist intrigues, writes Patrick Lawrence in this
excerpt from his forthcoming book, Journalis…
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Court:_Injunction_Blocking_Florida’s_Anti-Drag
Law_Applies_To_Everyone_Affected_By_It,_Not_Just_Venue_That
Sued_It⠀⇛
A collective of assholes d/b/a the Florida
legislature recently passed another very bad law.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ Bring_Back_the_Humble_Forum⠀⇛
Social media is fucking us all up. I’d love to go
back to the days of forums, where there was no
popularity contests, or “influencers”.
⚓ Turkey’s_leading_internet_service_provider_raises_prices_by_70%⠀⇛
Türk Telekom is the sole internet service provider with its own
infrastructure, making market prices dependent on its decisions.
Turkey ranks 110th in fixed broadband speed and 66th in mobile
internet speed worldwide.
⚓ APNIC ☛ Event_Wrap:_VNNIC_Internet_Conference_2023⠀⇛
Pablo Hinojosa and Sunny Chendi facilitated a workshop on youth and
Internet governance at the VNNIC Internet Conference 2023, held on 30
June 2023 in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.
⚓ TecAdmin ☛ What_are_the_Well-Known_Ports?⠀⇛
The term “well-known ports” is commonplace in the field of
networking, specifically relating to internet protocols. But what
exactly does it mean? This article will unpack the concept of well-
known ports, exploring their purpose, their functionalities, and
examples of their use.
⚓ Techdirt ☛ FCC_‘Investigation’_Into_Broadband_Caps_Probably_Won’t_Amount_To
Much⠀⇛
We’ve noted for decades how US broadband caps are little more than a
predatory cash grab. The usage limits and overage fees have zero real
technical function and don’t manage congestion. Instead they’re
little more than a glorified price hike; a way for regional telecom
monopolies to nickel-and-dime captive customers, charging them more
money for the same service under the pretense of technical necessity.
⚓ Techdirt ☛ Congratulations!_The_US_Is_32nd_Worldwide_On_Broadband
Affordability⠀⇛
I’ve spent the better part of two decades writing about how telecom
monopolization (and the corruption that protects it) results in
expensive, spotty, sluggish, broadband and historically terrible
customer service. The cause of our substandard broadband isn’t much
of a mystery, but because of these companies’ political influence,
state and federal policymakers often lack the courage to do much
about it.
⚓ Techdirt ☛ FCC_Launches_New_Broadband_Privacy_‘Task_Force’_So_It_Can_Pretend
It_Hasn’t_Become_Useless_On_Consumer_Protection⠀⇛
We just got done noting how the FCC has spent most of the last decade
under the bootheel of the telecom lobby, and in an era where all DC
policy is fixated on “big tech,” (often for very good reasons) nobody
much seems to care or have noticed. For four years under Trump, the
FCC was little more than a rubber stamp, approving every terrible
idea the industry had.
⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Trump_FCC_Wasted_Millions_In_Broadband_Subsidies_In_A_Giant
Mess_Government_Is_Still_Trying_To_Clean_Up⠀⇛
So a few weeks ago Trump FCC boss Ajit Pai came out of hiding to
issue a dumb blog post about how killing net neutrality must not have
been a bad idea because the internet still works. In his post, he
prattles on about how secretly wonderful the U.S. broadband industry
is, proving that his Trump-era decisions to lobotomize the FCC’s
consumer protection authority must have been correct.
⚓ Reason ☛ Biden’s_$42_Billion_Broadband_Boondoggle⠀⇛
More than 90 percent of Americans already have access to high-speed
internet.
⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ CYBER:_Celebrating_the_End_of_the_Usable_Internet⠀⇛
There are more sites than ever, but they all feel completely useless.
Why?
⚓ APNIC ☛ [Podcast]_About_time:_The_Swedish_national_secure_time_distribution
initiative⠀⇛
How the Swedish built and operate a network service that provides a
reference time source, and the problem with time.
⚓ WhichUK ☛ ‘My_TalkTalk_broadband_contract_was_cancelled_unexpectedly’⠀⇛
We help a reader after their internet was disconnected without notice
⚓ Techdirt ☛ After_FCC_Debacle,_Gigi_Sohn_Shifts_Focus_To_Challenging_Comcast,
AT&T_With_Community-Built_Broadband_Networks⠀⇛
Last March, popular telecom and media reformer Gigi Sohn’s
appointment to the FCC fell apart, after telecom and media giants
(with the GOP’s help) waged a year long lobbying and propaganda
campaign falsely framing her as a radical (The Verge has a good new
interview with Sohn on what happened, in case you missed it).
§ Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
* ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ Google’s_nightmare_“Web_Integrity_API”_wants_a_DRM
gatekeeper_for_the_web⠀⇛
Google’s newest proposed web standard is… DRM? Over the weekend
the Internet got wind of this proposal for a “Web Environment
Integrity API. ” The explainer is authored by four Googlers,
including at least one person on Chrome’s “Privacy Sandbox”
team, which is responding to the death of tracking cookies by
building a user-tracking ad platform right into the browser.
* ⚓ TechSpot ☛ Google’s_post-cookie_world_could_turn_into_DRM_for_the_
[Internet]⠀⇛
The new proposal details “Web Environment Integrity,” which
would use what sounds like Trust Tokens to ensure that the
client viewing a website is a human without revealing too much
about them. Google suggests the system could be an alternative
to captchas and other solutions that websites utilize to block
bots, online game cheaters, and other malicious actors.
However, the GitHub page admits that servers could use the
tokens to block visitors based on what they’re using to access
a site. The result could theoretically be DRM prohibiting ad
blockers, extensions, or modified operating systems.
* ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Google’s_next_big_idea_for_browser_security_looks
like_another_freedom_grab_to_some⠀⇛
This therefore starts to slide the web toward a time in which
only authorized, officially released browsers will be accepted
by websites.
And since Chromium serves as the foundation of not just Google
Chrome, but also Microsoft Edge, Brave, and a number of other
browsers, WEI could have a broad effect on the web – if and
when it gets deployed and adopted.
* ⚓ Computing UK ☛ Google’s_Web_Integrity_API_branded_‘attack_on_the_open
web’⠀⇛
A working draft specification for a new browser API from Google
has raised outcry from the technical community about ethics,
trust and adding DRM to the internet.
The Web Environment Integrity API (WEI) is not a heavily
promoted project – the documentation is only hosted on an
employee’s personal Github account, rather than an official
repo – but there are signs that Google is actively working to
build the feature into Chrome now.
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Shein_sued_Temu._Temu_sued_Shein._The_war_over
fast_fashion_is_heating_up.⠀⇛
Now Temu is striking back and accusing Shein of violating US
antitrust law by forbidding suppliers from working with the
newer platform. According to the court filing, Temu says Shein
has asked all of its more than 8,000 manufacturers to sign
exclusive agreements and “loyalty oaths” that specifically
prevent them from selling on Temu. It also claims Shein is
using false copyright infringement claims to try to get Temu to
take down certain products that Temu sells at cheaper prices
than Shein does.
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Russia:_What_Happened_with_Unity_of
Invention? [Ed: Invention or patents? Not the same. Invention can
be ruined by patents.]⠀⇛
Since 29.04.2023, new Russian Patent Requirements (the
Requirements) have been in force.
* § Trademarks⠀➾
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Louis_Vuitton_Opposes_Trademark_Application_For_Small
Family_Business_Selling_Gardening_Tools⠀⇛
If you go back and read nearly all of the posts we’ve
done on luxury fashion company Louis Vuitton, you’ll see
a history of a company that is about as big a pain in the
ass when it comes to intellectual property bullying as
you’ll find. The company often times takes it’s
“protecting” of it’s IP rights, particularly trademark
rights, to ridiculous extremes.
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Man_Who_Sued_Over_His_Tattoo_Kinda_Appearing_On_A
Cardi_B_Cover_Loses,_Pays_Legal_Fees⠀⇛
It’s crazy just how many posts we’ve done here on the
subject of tattoos. But if you go and review the posts we
have done on this topic, you will notice that the
majority of them involve tattoo artists as the ones
asserting intellectual property rights, not those who got
the tattoo on their person. The subject of this post is
about the latter.
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ This_new_tool_could_protect_your_pictures
from_AI_manipulation⠀⇛
The tool, called PhotoGuard, works like a protective
shield by altering photos in tiny ways that are invisible
to the human eye but prevent them from being manipulated.
If someone tries to use an editing app based on a
generative AI model such as Stable Diffusion to
manipulate an image that has been “immunized” by
PhotoGuard, the result will look unrealistic or warped.
o ⚓ Tedium ☛ A_discussion_of_the_ways_that_large_tech_companies
helped_to_define_the_evolution_of_computer_typography._One_battle
made_the_CEO_of_Adobe_really_mad.⠀⇛
Today in Tedium: Typography has been one of the key ways
that the computer has distinguished itself from more
traditional physical forms. Here’s what I mean: In the
1930s or 1940s, if you wanted to change a font on a
newspaper or magazine, you had to use a completely
different set of blocks of metal type, and that process
of switching blocks took time. Now, it’s a matter of
literally selecting an item in a menu or changing a line
of your CSS code. You can do it in real time without even
thinking about it. It’s pretty wild how easy it is to
change a font these days considering how hard it had been
previously. But the steps that got us to our
typographically friendly digital world could at times be
particularly painful, due to a handful of gatekeepers
that put their thumbs on the scales of the market.
Today’s Tedium talks type. — Ernie @ Tedium
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Legacy_Copyright_Industries_Obsession_With
Infringement_Is_Pathological⠀⇛
Once again, the film studios are obsessing about
something somebody wrote 12 years ago. Aside from the
fact that the studios are repeating an argument they have
already lost before, it is absurd for them to be wasting
people’s time and money on something that was written
this long ago, that may or may not have some tenuous
connection to alleged copyright infringement.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ RIAA_Urges_NTIA_to_Keep_.US_Domain_WHOIS_Info
Public_to_Deter_Online_Piracy⠀⇛
The U.S. Government’s National Telecommunications and
Information Administration (NTIA) is considering whether
to make it harder for the public to access information
about the owners of .US domain names. This is a bad idea,
according to the RIAA, which prefers the status quo.
Public access to WHOIS information helps to deter piracy,
the music group notes, adding that potential privacy
concerns are overblown.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Can_India’s_Cinematograph_Bill_Kill_Camcorder
Piracy_&_Satisfy_the_U.S._?⠀⇛
India’s Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill was introduced in
2019. The bill contained proposals to outlaw the
recording of movies in theaters and criminalize
unauthorized copying. Already approved by India’s Union
Cabinet, the amended proposals have now moved to
parliament. Whether India has done enough to satisfy the
United States remains up for debate.
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Judge_Seems_(Correctly)_Skeptical_Of_AI_Copyright
Lawsuit⠀⇛
Over the last few months there have been a flurry of
lawsuits against AI companies, with most of them being
focused on copyright claims. The site
ChatGPTIsEatingTheWorld has been tracking all the
lawsuits, which currently lists 11 lawsuits, seven of
which are copyright claims. Five of those are from the
same lawyers: Joseph Saveri and Matthew Butterick, who
seem to want to corner the market on “suing AI companies
for copyright.”
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
o ⚓ A_couple_more_hours_of_sleep_would_be_really_nice⠀⇛
Seems like I’m back to awakening after just five hours of
sleep. I mean, it’s sorta maybe kinda enough. But yawn….
It occurred to me a little while ago that it takes
(someone like) a Biden to be okay with (someone like) a
Biden.
Okay, I’ll be fair:
It occurred to me a little while ago that it takes
(someone like) a Trump to be okay with (someone like) a
Trump.
o ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_AEKLMRW_Wordo:_PODIA⠀⇛
o ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Why_Kolektiva.social_Is_a_Cautionary_Tale_for
Activists_Using_Mastodon⠀⇛
The recent news that a copy of Kolektiva.social’s
database was confiscated by the FBI as the result of a
raid at the home of one of the organization’s
administrators, should serve as a cautionary tale for
activists taking advantage of Mastodon’s federated nature
to form online communities. Specifically, you should
should do some research into the security in place at an
activist-focused server, as well as the servers privacy
policies.
Actually, the same advice would hold even if you were
joining a server for, say, people who like knitting, but
if you’re a political activist it’s even more important
because law enforcement loves to keep tabs on folks whose
politics fall outside the mainstream.
* § Politics and World Events⠀➾
o ⚓ The_Philosophy_of_the_Act⠀⇛
Only the first word of the Cartesian philosophy is true;
it was not really possible for Descartes to say cogito
**ergo sum,** but only **cogito**. The first (and last)
thing that I perceive is my own act of spirit, myself
perceiving. The spirit, which is life woken into self-
consciousness, discovered its likeness to itself, or
identity, through the act of thinking about thinking. All
further perception is only an explication of this idea,
which **is the** idea **par excellence.** I know that I
think, that I am spiritually active, or, – since there is
no other kind of activity – that I am active, but I do
not know that I am. Not being, but the act, is the first
and last.
If we go on to an explication of this act, we find it to
be threefold: the thinking, the thought-about, and the
identity of these two, the “I.” “I think” means: the “I”
places itself (or sets itself) before itself as another,
but passes through this reflection back to itself, in the
same way that the discovery of one’s own life in a mirror
is something that comes from the outside. It perceives
that the image in the mirror is its own.
o ⚓ “Black_comrades”_against_the_Japanese_occupation⠀⇛
In the second half of the 19th century, small Korea, and
formerly a frequent target of aggressive campaigns of
neighboring China and Japan, became one of the main goals
of Japanese colonial expansion. The Japanese power that
gained strength saw Korea as its potential possession.
Preparations for the colonization of Korea, however,
faced certain problems, among which were the attempts of
the Korean people to defend their independence, and the
positions of China and the Russian Empire. However, after
the Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905, Japan still managed to
establish a protectorate over Korea. 22 August 1910 Korea
was finally annexed to Japan and passed under the control
of the Japanese governor-general.
Of course, such a situation could not please the advanced
part of Korean society. Moreover, in the Japanese Empire,
all non-Japanese people were treated as second-rate
people, and Koreans were no exception. However, since
Japan was nevertheless more developed not only militarily
and economically, but also culturally, a country,
revolutionary ideas popular in Japan began to spread in
Korea. So anarchism penetrated Korean land — an ideology
that at some point became dominant in the East Asian
revolutionary movement.
* § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Getting_started_with_a_megadungeon⠀⇛
Yesterday I was trying to explain my anxieties regarding
Arden Vul to my wife. This is about the megadungeon with
a PDF of more than 1122 pages. It’s long. The levels are
long. The rooms are long. The intro is long. The
explanations are long.
o ⚓ Nobody_ever_said_complicating_simple_things_would_be_easy⠀⇛
I’m one of the lucky ones whose computer came with
something called a “lid”. I’ve discovered that when I
cause it to become facing-ly parallel to the keyboard, I
don’t have have to concern myself with the stuff you
mention at all. It’s really quite miraculous.
o ⚓ Old_Computer_Challenge_Epiphlogue⠀⇛
The Old Computer Challenge has concluded. I enjoyed
taking on the challenge, as well as reading about
everybody’s experiences in various protocols out there,
gopher, gemini, irc, hypertext transfer, etc. When I
first read about the challenge, I told myself that I
needed to particpiate this year. I enjoy when the
“smolnet” communities call for participating in shared
experiences like occ, or ROOPLOCH, or christyotwisty’s
monthly 5 questions, and we are able to come together as
community and have fun![1][2][3]
There are many things I have learned, not just from my
direct involvement with my old hardware and software, but
also from you people in the community. I have been
keeping notes and still continue to take notes of what
you all share.
o ⚓ ERC_with_soju:_update⠀⇛
A couple of months ago i wrote about setting up soju on
OpenBSD (it was pretty straightforward) and trying to get
Emacs’ ERC working with it (shenanigans were required)…
o ⚓ Thumby_app_released_🎮😸⠀⇛
I still haven’t finished the mine game that I mentioned,
but I have released a music editor, TinyTunes. It’s
currently the first thing listed on the Thumby Arcade,
but I think that just means it’s the most recent.
o § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Fighting_Social_Internet_Burn_Out⠀⇛
Slowly over the past year I’ve noticed I’ve not
been getting the same enjoyment out of places like
Mastodon that I used to.
There’s a lot of goings on that might explain this,
but I suspect the main culprit is myself and my
changing tastes over time.
Over the past year I’ve migrated Mastodon servers.
I’ve made heavier use of filters to block politics,
activism, and outrage porn. I’ve become quicker to
block and mute people who I’m not interested in
interacting with. All these things have been a help
but not a cure.
# ⚓ Sometimes_the_Decision_Gets_Made_for_You⠀⇛
Sometimes, a decision gets made by the restriction
of the possible options to a single plausible
choice.
I’m done with Twitter. Locked my account, cleared
my info, posted a message to the effect of the
following: I won’t use a platform that doesn’t take
CSE seriously, where the posting of such doesn’t
earn you a ban and a report to the Feds.
Left as subtext: maybe all of you can justify it to
yourself, but I can’t. And maybe you didn’t know
about it before, but if you see this, you’ll know
about it now.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Kernel_Space
o Graphics_Stack
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Education
o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
# Open_Access/Content
o Programming/Development
# Rust
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Selectric_Typewriter_Goes_From_Trash_Can_To_Linux
Terminal_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
If there’s only lesson to be learned from [alnwlsn]’s
conversion of an IBM Selectric typewriter into a serial
terminal for Linux, it’s that we’ve been hanging around
the wrong garbage cans. Because that’s where he found the
donor machine for this project, and it wasn’t even the
first one he’s come across in the trash. The best we’ve
ever done is a nasty old microwave.
For being a dumpster find, the Selectric II was actually
in pretty decent shape. The first couple of minutes of
the video after the break show not only the minimal
repairs needed to get the typewriter back on its feet,
but also a whirlwind tour of the remarkably complex
mechanisms that turn keypresses into characters on the
page. As it turns out, knowing how the mechanical
linkages work is the secret behind converting the
Selectric into a teletype, entirely within the original
enclosure and with as few modifications to the existing
mechanism as possible.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ A_Q&A_about_the_realtime_patches⠀⇛
In a session at the 2023 Real Time Linux Summit,
Thomas Gleixner answered questions about the
realtime feature of the kernel, its status, and the
Real-Time Linux project’s plans for the future. The
talk was billed as a “Q&A about PREEMPT_RT” with a
caveat: “anything except printk() and
documentation”. As might be guessed, the first two
questions were on just those topics, but there were
plenty of other questions (and answers) too. The
summit was held in conjunction with the inaugural
Embedded Open Source Summit in Prague, Czechia at
the end of June.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Debian_looks_forward_to_2038⠀⇛
The time_t rollover is still over 14 years away, so
solving it might not appear to be an urgent
problem. The fact that it does not affect most 64-
bit systems may also encourage complacency. But
there are affected 32-bit systems on the market
now, and some of them are likely to still be
operating in 2038; that is especially true of
embedded systems, which might prove harder to fix
as the date approaches. It would be far better if
these systems were prepared for 2038 at deployment
time; that means solving the problem as quickly as
possible.
Work has been underway in the kernel for some
years, and it is mostly free of year-2038 problems
at this point. The GNU C Library (glibc) has also
seen a considerable amount of work to allow it to
handle both 32-bit and 64-bit time_t values,
depending on how a program has been compiled. So
the core of a Linux system is ready, but there is a
lot more than that to the problem.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ The_proper_time_to_split_struct_page⠀⇛
The page structure sits at the core of the kernel’s
memory-management subsystem; one such structure
exists for every page of installed RAM. This
structure is increasingly seen as a problem,
though, and phasing it out is one of the many side
projects associated with the folio conversion. One
step in that direction is currently meeting some
pushback from memory-management developers, though,
who think that some of these changes are coming too
soon.
The purpose of struct page is to allow the kernel
to keep track of the status of each page — how it
is being used, its position in a least-recently-
used list, how many references to it exist, and
more. The information needed varies considerably
depending on how a given page is being used; a page
of user-space anonymous memory is managed
differently from, say, memory used for a kernel-
space DMA buffer. Since page structures must be
kept as small as possible — there are millions of
them in a modern system, so every byte hurts — data
must be stored as efficiently as possible. As a
result, struct page is declared as a maze of nested
unions, allowing the data fields for each usage
type to be overlaid.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Stabilizing_per-VMA_locking⠀⇛
The kernel-development process routinely absorbs
large changes to fundamental subsystems and still
produces stable releases every nine or ten weeks.
On occasion, though, the development community’s
luck runs out. The per-VMA locking work that went
into the 6.4 release is a case in point; it looked
like a well-tested change that improved page-fault
scalability. There turned out to be a few demons
hiding in that code, though, that made life
difficult for early adopters of the 6.4 kernel.
The mmap_lock controls access to a process’s
address space. If a process has a lot of things
going on at the same time — a large number of
threads, for example — contention for the mmap_lock
can become a serious performance problem. Handling
page faults, which can involve changing page-table
entries or expanding a virtual memory area (VMA),
has traditionally required the mmap_lock, meaning
that many threads generating page faults
concurrently can slow a process down.
Developers have been working for years to address
this problem, often pursuing one form or another of
speculative page-fault handling, where the work is
done without the protection of the lock. If
contention occurred during the handling of a fault,
the kernel would drop the work it had done before
making it visible and start over. This work never
got to the point of being merged, though.
Eventually, Suren Baghdasaryan’s per-VMA locking
work was merged instead. Since a page fault happens
within a specific VMA, handling it should really
only require serialized access to that one VMA
rather than to the entire address space. Per-VMA
locking is, thus, a finer-grained version of
mmap_lock that allows for more parallelism in the
execution of specific tasks.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Extensible_scheduler_class_rejected⠀⇛
The extensible scheduler class enables the creation
of CPU schedulers in BPF. After the fourth version
of this series was greeted with relative silence,
Tejun Heo asked about the status of this work…
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.4.7⠀⇛
All users of the 6.4 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 6.4.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/
git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.4.y
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web
browser:
https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/
linux-s...
thanks,
greg k-h
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.1.42⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.123⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.188⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.251⠀⇛
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ What_is_Compiz_in_Linux⠀⇛
Today, we hear of people “distro hopping.” Some of
us may be guilty of it. It’s hard to resist, trying
out that new Linux distro with the new features.
Even I am not immune, and I have a couple of
laptops that I routinely try a new OS (or older if
I’m feeling nostalgic) on.
There was a time though, when distro hopping wasn’t
common as there were fewer distros in the beginning
days of Linux. What many of us early users did
instead was to play around with different window
managers.
Compiz was one of those window managers, released
in 2006. It is one of the oldest compositing window
managers for the X Window System and it was quite
advanced for its day. Window managers aren’t as
popular as they once were, but Compiz is still
maintained, still has remarkable performance and a
large number of features.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Install_GitLab_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|
20.04⠀⇛
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Install_Odoo_Community_Edition_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Odoo is a full-featured, extensible open-source ERP
(Enterprise Resource Planning) software built using
Python and PostgreSQL database for data storage.
It is a suite of open-source business applications,
that consists of multiple apps under various
categories such as website, sales, finances,
operations, manufacturing, human resource (HR),
communication, marketing, and customization tools.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ 5_Ways_to_Empty_or_Delete_a_Large_File_Content_in
Linux⠀⇛
Occasionally, while dealing with files in a Linux
terminal, you may want to clear the content of a
file without necessarily opening it using any Linux
command line editors. How can this be achieved?
In this article, we will go through several
different ways of emptying file content with the
help of some useful commands.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Resolve_“Temporary_failure_in_name
resolution”_Issue⠀⇛
Sometimes when you try to ping a website, update a
system or perform any task that requires an active
internet connection, you may get the error message
‘temporary failure in name resolution’ on your
terminal.
For example, when you try to ping a website, you
might bump into the error shown…
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ 12_Tcpdump_Commands_–_A_Network_Sniffer_Tool⠀⇛
In our previous article, we have seen 20 Netstat
Commands (netstat now replaced by ss command) to
monitor or manage a Linux network.
This is another ongoing series of packet sniffer
tools called tcpdump. Here, we are going to show
you how to install tcpdump and then we discuss and
cover some useful commands with their practical
examples.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Connect_Odoo_with_ONLYOFFICE_Docs_on
Ubuntu⠀⇛
Odoo is an open-source business platform that comes
with a vast set of productivity apps allowing you
to deal with what an average company needs — sales,
CRM, electronic commerce, project management, human
resources, accounting, inventory, marketing, etc.
The built-in Odoo marketplace makes it possible to
create a highly customizable platform that can be
easily adapted to any business by installing the
required apps. The choice is so extensive that
exploring all the available integration options
might take a lot of time.
# ⚓ Medium ☛ Your_First_Linux_Box!⠀⇛
If you work in IT, you may have been lucky enough
to take home some hardware your company was going
to donate, or recycle. Whether its a few small form
factor workstations or a giant enterprise grade
server, they can be a great tool for learning on
your own. A similar situation is what started my
homelab. My previous boss was going through his
garage, and was getting rid of boxes and boxes of
old IT equipment. He asked if I wanted to pick
through it all before he donated it. I did exactly
that, and came out with a bunch of cool stuff. One
of those items was an old Lenovo workstation
running Windows 7. As you know, Windows 7 is pretty
old. Released in 2009, and support ended in 2020.
Not something we want on our network , even if its
going to be used for internal use. That leaves us 2
options:
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_List_Installed_Packages_on_Linux⠀⇛
Before installing a new package, you need to check
if it’s already installed on your system.
Additionally, if you are shifting to a new system,
having a list of all the installed packages can
save you significant time and effort. It can also
facilitate you in identifying unwanted packages
that you want to remove to free up some space.
Here’s how to list all installed packages on
various Linux distributions including Ubuntu,
Debian, CentOS, Arch Linux, and openSUSE.
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ What_is_a_Linux_bash_script_and_how_do_you_create
one?⠀⇛
Bash scripts have been around since the humble
beginnings of Linux. But what are they and how do
you create your first one? Find the answers to
those questions here.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Patch_Linux_Server_PwnKit
Vulnerability_CVE-2021-4034⠀⇛
The security of Linux servers is of paramount
importance in today’s digital environment where
cyber threats are constantly evolving. One such
critical vulnerability requiring immediate action
is the PwnKit vulnerability, identified as CVE-
2021-4034.
Let’s examine the nature of this vulnerability, its
potential impact on Linux servers, and most
importantly, ways to effectively patch and secure
your Linux server against this threat.
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Fix_the_“hash_sum_mismatch”_Error_When
Updating_Kali_Linux⠀⇛
It’s important to keep your system packages up-to-
date because you can quickly upgrade your PC’s
software and enjoy all the latest features and
fixes. If you’ve encountered an error like “hash
sum mismatch” on Linux, this routine task can
quickly become frustrating.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Hot Hardware ☛ Watch_GTA_V_For_The_PC_Run_On_A_Modded_And
Heavily_Overclocked_Nintendo_Switch⠀⇛
The event took place over at the Geekerwan YouTube
channel, where the tech-tuber explains the
extremely painful process of getting first Android,
and then Ubuntu Linux, onto the Nintendo Switch.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ MythForce,_Baldur’s_Gate,_Neverwinter
Nights_and_more_in_this_bundle⠀⇛
This seems like a game bundle not to be missed if
you’re an RPG fan. Humble Bundle has teamed up with
Beamdog for the RPG Legends: Baldur’s Gate &
Beyond. Using the usual rating system of Deck
Verified, ProtonDB and Native Linux notes to save
you clicking around. Each game title is also a
Steam link in case you need more info first.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Goodbye_free_time_I_have_discovered
Timberborn⠀⇛
A city-building colony-sim where a bunch of Beavers
are building a society long after us pesky humans
died off is not a thing I thought I needed but
Timberborn is properly great. Note: key provided by
Evolve PR.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Learn_to_make_no-code_games_with_GDevelop
and_Fanatical⠀⇛
Want to make games but don’t know how to code? The
free and open source GDevelop is a great cross-
platform tool with an events-driven system.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Team_Fortress_2_gets_another_update_with
lots_of_fixes⠀⇛
With the Summer Event live until September 15th,
2023 it seems Valve still aren’t quite done
updating Team Fortress 2 with the renewed
popularity. Team Fortress 2 managed to smash it’s
all time player record at 253,997 around 2 weeks
ago, but it’s settled back down to around 100,000
now.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Armored_Core_VI_will_be_‘fully_supported’
on_Steam_Deck⠀⇛
Okay now THIS is exciting as heck. Armored Core VI
Fires Of Rubicon will be “fully supported” on Steam
Deck according to FromSoftware.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Ratchet_&_Clank:_Rift_Apart_is_Steam_Deck
Verified_and_out_today⠀⇛
This is great to see. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
from Insomniac Games, Nixxes Software and
PlayStation is out on Steam today and it’s Steam
Deck Verified!
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Plasma_6_Development_Update:_Unveiling
Features_Removals⠀⇛
The KDE development team is gearing up for an
exciting milestone as they prepare to unveil
the highly anticipated Plasma 6 desktop
environment. As the successor to the widely
acclaimed Plasma 5, the latest iteration
promises to bring a host of new enhancements
and optimizations to the KDE ecosystem.
However, with progress often comes change,
and to refine the user experience and
streamline performance, KDE developers have
announced their decision to remove certain
features from Plasma 6.
# ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ What_we_plan_to_remove_in_Plasma_6⠀⇛
Icons on the desktop!
The minimize button!
Visible Panels and docks!
Just kidding, don’t have a heart attack. Well
actually there are some things… just not
those! The full list can be found at https://
community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_6#Removals,
and it’s public; we’re not hiding anything!
Today I wanted today provide a bit of context
and explain the why, since it may not be
obvious how it makes sense to remove things.
So let’s go through the list…
# ⚓ Krita ☛ First_Beta_for_Krita_5.2.0_Released⠀⇛
Krita 5.2.0 is a major new release, and the
first of the Krita 5.2 series of releases.
Especially internally, there have been huge
changes and improvements. While there are a
lot of important user-visible changes that
will make artists’ workflow smoother, most
work has been inside Krita, preparing Krita
for the future.
The release notes will give you all the
details, but here are some highlights…
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Discover_What’s_Hot_in_GNOME_45:_Feature
Highlights⠀⇛
GNOME is a free and open-source desktop
environment for Linux and Unix-like operating
systems. It is one of the most popular
desktop environments in the world and is used
by millions of people via mainstream Linux
distributions such as Ubuntu and Fedora
alike.
The GNOME 45 release is expected to be a
major update with many new features and
improvements.
Let’s take a look at the new improvements.
# ⚓ GNOME ☛ GNOME:_Sysprof_45⠀⇛
Unfortunately I couldn’t be at GUADEC this
year, but that wont stop me from demoing new
things!
I’ve been doing a lot of work on Sysprof now
that we have semi-reliable frame unwinding on
Fedora, Silverblue and GNOME OS. When I have
tolling that works on the OS it makes it a
lot easier to build profilers and make them
useful.
Additionally, we’re at a good point in GTK 4
where you can do really powerful things if
you design your data models correctly. So
this cycle I’ve spent time redesigning how we
record and process our captured data.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ IPFire Official Blog ☛ IPFire_2.27_–_Core_Update_177_is
available_for_testing⠀⇛
The next update for IPFire is available for
testing! It contains more hardening features for
modern processors and a large number of security
fixes in third-party packages.
This update comes with extended hardening for the
kernel by using Indirect Branch Tracking wherever
possible. This will prevent hackers to hijack
functions calls and jump into injected code. This
feature is currently only supported on Intel
processors.
In the near future, we will extend this feature to
the user-space and more processor types.
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Zorin_OS_16.3_Released_with_New_Upgrade
Utility,_Zorin_Connect_Improvements⠀⇛
Zorin OS 16.3 is here nine months after Zorin OS
16.2 and includes all the latest updates from the
upstream Ubuntu repositories to provide those who
want to deploy the latest Zorin OS 16 series on new
computers with an updated live/installation media
with top-notch hardware support and the most recent
security patches.
Apart from shipping with all the latest updates
from the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS repositories, as well as
an updated software selection that includes the
latest and greatest LibreOffice 7.5 open-source
office suite series, the Zorin OS 16.3 release
comes with a cool new feature out of the box, Zorin
OS Upgrader.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ There’s_more_than_one_reason_that
people_used_(or_use)_CentOS⠀⇛
The news of the time interval is that Red Hat has
stopped making Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code
generally available, although just as with the
switch to ‘CentOS Stream’ from CentOS their article
doesn’t put it that way. This created difficulties
for at least two CentOS replacement distributions,
forcing AlmaLinux to change what they are. I don’t
have much to say on this specific topic, but it has
sparked a series of exchanges about, for example,
the history of RHEL rebuilds (via). As it happens,
I have some views on why people would want to use a
free ‘clone’ (rebuild) of RHEL, as CentOS was
before it became CentOS Stream, partly based on
personal experience.
Here are some major reasons people could want or
need CentOS, at least back in the era of CentOS,
before CentOS Stream became your only option from
RHEL 8 onward: [...]
# ⚓ Slashdot ☛ RHEL_Response_Discussed_by_SFC_Conference’s
Panel_–_Including_a_New_Enterprise_Linux_Standard⠀⇛
“Red Hat themselves did not reply to our repeated
requests to join us on this panel… SUSE was also
invited but let us know they were unable to send
someone on short notice to Portland for the panel.”
One interesting audience question for the panel
came from Karsten Wade, a one-time Red Hat senior
community architect who left Red Hat in April after
21 years, but said he was “responsible for bringing
the CentOS team onboard to Red Hat.” Wade argued
that CentOS “was always doing a clean rebuild from
source RPMS of their own…” So “isn’t all of this
thunder doing Red Hat’s job for them, of trying to
get everyone to say, ‘This thing is not the
equivalent to RHEL.’”
In response Jeremy Alison made a good point. “None
of us here are the arbiters of whether it’s good
enough of a rebuild of Red Hat Linux. The customers
are the arbiters.” But this led to an audience
member asking a very forward-looking question: what
are the chances the community could adopt a new
(and open) enterprise Linux standard that
distributions could follow. AlmaLinux’s Vasquez
replied, “Chances are real high… I think everyone
sees that as the obvious answer. I think that’s the
obvious next step. I’ll leave it at that.” And
Oracle’s Wright added “to the extent that the
market asks us to standardize? We’re all
responsive.”
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ Sparky_7.0.1⠀⇛
There is an update of Sparky ISO images of the
stable line 7.0.1 out there.
This is a minor update, it mainly fixed an issue of
the live config, which did not let you launch
password reqiured application without password in
live session, such as: Calamares, APTus, GParted,
Gufw, etc.
Now, the apps don’t need a password to be launched
in live session (excluding MinimalGUI i686).
As usually, all packages have been upgraded from
Debian and Sparky stable repos, as of June 26,
2023, so all updates of Debian 12.1 are included.
No reinstallation is required if you have Sparky 7
installed, simply keep Sparky up to date. The new
iso images only fix the live session issue.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Beta News ☛ StarTech.com_launches_4-Slot_PCIe_Expansion
Chassis_for_Windows,_Linux,_and_macOS [Ed: Classic marketing
webspam from Brian Fagioli, pretending it's something about
"Linux". It's agnostic. It's SPAM.]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ SolidRun_Unveils_1st_Fanless_AMD_Phoenix_Zen
4_PC_–_Bedrock_R7000_Edge_AI⠀⇛
SolidRun revealed today two fanless PCs built
around the 8-core AMD Ryzen 7040 Series CPUs along
with up to three Hailo-8 AI accelerators to provide
78 TOPS AI performance. The Bedrock R7000 Edge AI
has been designed to operate in diverse commercial
and industrial applications including robotics,
agriculture, transportation, etc.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Running_A_Modern_Graphics_Card_In_A_33_MHz_PCI
Slot⠀⇛
If you ever looked at a PCI to PCIe x16 adapter and
wondered what’d happen if you were to stick a
modern PCIe GPU in it, the answer apparently is ‘it
works’ according to an attempt by [Circuit Rewind].
As long as you accept needing to supply external
power with even a low-end GT 1030 card – as the PCI
slot cannot provide enough power – and being
limited to a single PCIe lane. This latter point
isn’t so much of an issue as a single PCIe lane
offers more bandwidth than the (shared) PCI bus
anyway.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ STH ☛ Debian_Adds_RISC-V_as_an_Official_Architecture⠀⇛
A really great one came out on the Debian mailing
list this week. RISC-V is becoming a first-class
citizen on Debian. RISC-V has now been accepted as
an official architecture. This is huge news for the
RISC-V community.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ A_snore-no-more_device_designed_to_help_those
with_sleep_apnea⠀⇛
Although many boards have microphones and can run
sound recognition machine learning models, the
Nicla Voice contains a Syntiant NDP120 Neural
Decision Processor that is specifically designed to
accelerate deep learning workloads while also
decreasing the amount of power needed to do so.
Apart from the board, Kumar added an Adafruit
DRV2605L haptic motor driver and haptic motor as a
way to wake up the user without disturbing others
nearby.
# ⚓ Frank Delporte ☛ Reading_the_temperature,_humidity,_and
pressure_from_a_BME280_Sensor_with_Java,_Pi4J,_I2C,_SPI,_and
JBang⠀⇛
To make it as easy as possible to get started with
Java on the Raspberry Pi to interact with
electronic components, I started a new section on
the Pi4J website with JBang examples.
In this tutorial, I want to show you how you can
read the temperature, humidity, and pressure from a
BME280 Sensor.
# ⚓ Gilles Chehade ☛ Building_my_own_guitar,_part_4⠀⇛
Came back from vacation, started working on the
neck but realised I really needed more tools.
Luckily, I could get some that weren’t too
expensive.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Nifty_3D_Printed_RC_Car⠀⇛
Once upon a time, a remote controlled (RC) car was
something you’d buy at Radio Shack or your local
hobby store. These days, you can print your own,
complete with suspension, right at home, as this
project from [Logan57] demonstrates.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Stream_Movies_From_A_PC_To_Your_Android
Phone⠀⇛
# ⚓ 10_Ways_to_Fix_Hotspot_Keeps_Turning_Off_on_Android_
[2023]⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Liontron_Rockchip_RK3588_motherboard_ships
with_32GB_RAM_for_$352_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
# ⚓ Mirror UK ☛ Google_issues_important_Android_alert_to
everyone_who_owns_these_older_smartphones_–_Mirror_Online⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Find_and_View_the_Clipboard_Content_on
Your_Android_Phone⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Save_Any_Web_Page_or_Photo_as_a_PDF_on
Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ 10_years_ago,_Google_launched_the_2nd-gen
Nexus_7,_and_no_tablet_has_captured_its_magic_since⠀⇛
# ⚓ XDA ☛ Android_14_Beta_4.1_has_arrived_to_squash_loads_of
bugs_on_Pixel_devices⠀⇛
# ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Android_14_Beta_4.1_fixes_quite_a_few_bugs_for
the_Pixel_Fold_and_Tablet⠀⇛
# ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Samsung_One_UI_6.0_beta_based_on_Android_14_is
scheduled_to_launch_on_August_2_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] マリウス ☛ Gemini_is_Solutionism_at_its_Worst⠀⇛
While I don’t care too much about ideas and
projects that I believe to be dead ends or maybe
even doomed to fail eventually, a recent
interaction on Superhighway84 got me to write down
a few thoughts on why I believe Project Gemini is a
really bad idea.
# ⚓ [Old] The_Small_Web_Browser,_an_inclusive_proposal⠀⇛
Therefore, in an attempt to make an inclusive
solution (rather than exclusive, as Marius thought
of Gemini), I suggest a new browser, namely the
Small Web Browser, with the following design
requirements: [...]
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ curl_8.2.1⠀⇛
Welcome. Due to some annoying regressions in the
previous release we think we owned it to everyone
to do a quick patch follow-up.
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ HSTS_preload_adoption_and_challenges⠀⇛
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a way to
signal to a web client that valid HTTPS
certificates must be used when connecting to a
domain. There are two main benefits to HSTS.
First, it prevents a user from connecting over an
unencrypted HTTP connection. Unencrypted HTTP leaks
data to the network and is vulnerable to
manipulation in man-in-the-middle attacks.
Second, it prevents a user from connecting if the
server presents an untrusted TLS certificate. Users
aren’t great at deciding if a warning message about
an untrusted TLS certificate is a security concern
or just a misconfiguration. They don’t have the
knowledge or tools to decide, and they may
inadvertently allow an attack to proceed by
clicking through the warning.
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ Update_QUIC_timers_once_per_RTT⠀⇛
In a previous post, I observed that the classic way
to compute round-trip time (RTT) statistics and
retransmission timers does not work well. When
acknowledgements are too frequent, the correlation
between successive RTT measurements causes the
smoothed RTT estimate to track closely the last
values, and the RTT variations to be widely
underestimated.
This imprecision impacts both the effectiveness of
loss recovery and the implementation of delay-based
congestion algorithms like BBR. I think this can be
fixed by updating the variables just ‘once per
RTT’. In this post, I first describe the once per
RTT update algorithm, then report on promising
measurements using the simulations in the Picoquic
test suite.
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Tor ☛ New_Alpha_Release:_Tor_Browser_13.0a1_(Windows,
macOS,_Linux)⠀⇛
Tor Browser 13.0a1 is now available from the
Tor Browser download page and also from our
distribution directory.
This release updates Firefox to 115.2.0esr,
including bug fixes, stability improvements
and important security updates. This is a
Desktop platform only release (Windows,
macOS, and Linux), but Android should be
available in the coming weeks.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ [Repeat] Klara ☛ Our_2023_Recommended_Summer_Reads_2023:
FreeBSD_and_Linux⠀⇛
We previously discussed in our webinar The Case for
OS Diversity and Independence the great deal of
value, security, and flexibility to be gained from
using a diversity of operating systems. To help
make implementation such diversity possible, Klara
has produced a set of articles that discuss the
differences between Linux and FreeBSD across
various subsystems. These articles aim to act as a
sort of Rosetta Stone, helping experienced
administrators and developers turn their skills
with one of the operating systems into knowledge of
the other. With summer upon us, now is a great time
to read through this series and learn how you can
take maximum advantage of OS diversity.
# ⚓ Jakub Steiner ☛ GUADEC⠀⇛
GUADEC 2023 is underway in Riga. It’s great to see
people face to face after a long time. Kicked off
the first day with an ADHD trip of a talk. Rather
than putting links in my slides, where nobody has
the chance of actually follow, I’ve assembled them
here. Enjoy!
o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾
# § Open Access/Content⠀➾
# ⚓ Netzpolitik ☛ Shutdowns_don’t_stop_during_the
weekends⠀⇛
The Internet does not forget? The opposite is
the case. Huge mountains of data are lost on
the internet every day. That’s why the
Archive Team scours the vastness of the WWW
and rescues data from extinction – around the
clock and on a voluntary basis.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ Reproducible_data_science_with_Nix⠀⇛
This is the first of a (hopefully) series of posts
about Nix. Disclaimer: I’m a
super beginner with Nix. So this series of blog
posts is more akin to notes that
I’m taking while learning than a super detailed
tutorial. So if you’re a Nix
# ⚓ Alex Ewerlöf ☛ Fallback⠀⇛
Fallback is a risk mitigation strategy for reducing
the negative impact of failures in a cost-effective
manner.
Where failover uses the same type of solution to
achieve the same outcome, fallback uses a different
type of solution to maintain the essential system
functionality.
# ⚓ Chris Hannah ☛ What_Sort_of_Programmer_Am_I_Now?⠀⇛
Hopefully, at the end of this year of
experimentation, I’ll be a bit closer to figuring
out what I want to do professionally. Do I want to
really focus on something new like Python or Go? Do
I want to lean into Java more? Or possibly do I
even try and stay working on as many technologies
as I can?
# ⚓ Haki Benita ☛ When_Good_Correlation_is_Not_Enough:_How
outliers_can_trick_the_optimizer_into_the_wrong_plan⠀⇛
Choosing to use a block range index (BRIN) to query
a field with high correlation is a no-brainer for
the optimizer. The small size of the index and the
field’s correlation makes BRIN an ideal choice.
However, a recent event taught us that correlation
can be misleading. Under some easily reproducible
circumstances, a BRIN index can result in
significantly slower execution even when the
indexed field has very high correlation.
# § Rust⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Rust_for_embedded⠀⇛
The advantages of the Rust programming
language are generally well-known; memory
safety is a feature that has attracted a lot
of developer attention over the last few
years. At the inaugural Embedded Open Source
Summit (EOSS), which is an umbrella event for
numerous embedded-related conferences, Martin
Mosler presented on using Rust for an
embedded project. In the talk, he showed how
easy it is to get up and running with a Rust-
based application on a RISC-V-based
development board.
Mosler works for Zühlke Engineering in
Switzerland; both he and his company see the
potential of Rust for new development,
particularly for embedded projects. That is
why the company supports his community work
on Rust, including holding Rust meet-ups and
traveling to Prague to attend EOSS and give
the talk. He is building up Rust knowledge
within the company so that it is available
for new projects as they arise.
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