𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Tuesday, August 01, 2023
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⦿ Fine August in Techrights | Techrights
⦿ Matthew Garrett’s Employer, Aurora Innovation, Continues to Burn Down Through Debt and Lack of Marketable Products | Techrights
⦿ Codes of Conduct Ruin Free Software Projects | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 31, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ Linus Torvalds Proposes Tossing Out Microsoft TPM Garbage Out of Linux | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/august-plan-techrights/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/aurora-innovation-drowning/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/codes-of-conduct-promoted-by-bigots/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/irc-log-310723/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/linus-torvalds-ftpm/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/gitea-on-void/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/hurd-strikes-back/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/microsoft-blasted-for-epic-breach/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/splitting-the-web/#comments
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Posted in Site_News at 5:02 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GitHub: Where everything comes to die⦈
This_series, which started in 2021, is far from finished!
Summary: The activity levels at Techrights are increasing so far this year and
we have more time for more in-depth reporting on important issues
T his is the first summer since 2010 that I can do this site “full time”. And
last month we clocked over 400 posts in one month.
We have more material to publish than we have time for and we barely have time
left to record videos this year. For 3 days already we’ve wanted to cover 3+
topics in videos and maybe tonight is finally the night.
The news is getting “slow” (rather, journalism has gotten rare) and we have a
lot to publish next week about Sirius_‘Open_Source’, the Linux_Foundation, and
other topics. This month is nice and chilly so far in the UK (same as last
month) and we strive to maintain a high publication pace. We still withhold a
lot of material for strategic reasons, notably impact and timing.
Trolling in IRC has been mostly brought under control when Matthew_J_Garrett
got unmasked as a very sinister puppetmaster, saying the most awful things one
can imagine using his sockpuppets. So expect productivity to improve even
further this month.My wife is now cataloguing IRC abuse by Garrett. But we’re
rather focus on his attacks on all BSD and GNU/Linux users, not his other
abuses. █
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Posted in Deception, Finance at 6:32 am by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Aurora_Innovation_debt⦈_
The debt of Aurora Innovation [sic] grew eightfold in a couple of years
Summary: Ryan, who has repeatedly been defamed by Matthew_J_Garrett in our IRC
network (through extremely rude sockpuppets that promote illegal activity), is
expressing his personal thoughts here; those represent the views of Ryan, not
Techrights; Garrett has vandalised our IRC network for years, so this is
relevant to the site.
M
atthew Garrett’s Employer, Aurora_Innovation (blogged about previously),
Continues to Burn Down Through Debt and Lack of Marketable Products.
Aurora is facing several new difficulties including proposed_laws_against
autonomous_semi-trucks_even_in_their_home_state_of_California.
(These trucks would be a major safety hazard and a plot to make hundreds of
thousands of Americans unemployed as human drivers are better at avoiding
serious accidents.)
“These vehicles that they’re pushing are not legally able to be
driven on our roads because they have not been proven to be safe. So
it’s convenient to point at humans when (AV trucks) don’t have a
track record yet,” Di Bene said.
Legislators want more time to study the technology’s safety. Assembly
member Laura Friedman (D-Glendale), the head of the Assembly’s
transportation committee, said the state Department of Motor Vehicles
has so badly mishandled the driverless car industry – citing reports
of robotaxis causing car jams, blocking_emergency_vehicles and
fleeing_from_police – that she doesn’t want to make the same mistakes
with big rigs this time around.
“The DMV has not done a great job at regulating this space,” Friedman
said.
The Department of Motor Vehicles is tasked with issuing permits to
all types of AVs, assuming the vehicles adhere to regulations. But
legislators want to halt the DMV’s ability to grant those permits to
long-haul trucks because of how disappointed they’ve been with the
DMV’s deployment of driverless cars in the state.
-The Almanac (Samantha Stevens / Mountain View Voice)
Another problem the company faces is that each year it does business, it loses
more money than the previous year. 2022_was_their_worst_loss_report_yet,
according to Yahoo Finance, at least for a whole year.
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Aurora_Innovation_losses⦈_
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Aurora_Innovation_losses_by_quarter⦈_
It’s when you get into the latest quarters that things really start looking
horrific. $2.37 million in revenue in the latest quarter vs. $293.82 million in
NEGATIVE earnings. And the two quarters before that were as bad or worse.
However, they have been raising money by_selling_off_shares to offload their
losses into things like pension and retirement plans that scoop up risky and
toxic investments and make it someone else’s problem.
This would not be their ideal funding source except that at the interest rates
the United States Federal Reserve is pushing up, it’s hard to get cheap money.
It’s dried up, so now they resort to “finding a bigger fool”, or more likely,
corrupt officials managing retirement funds.
For example, CalPERS is notoriously corrupt and sank a bunch of money into
Tesla without asking anyone who is going to have to retire from the California
government what THEY thought about it.
Reading the company financial statements, it’s hilarious how they simply push
their “big product” further back and burn the furniture to stay warm while they
speak of “adding length to our runway”.
They need that “longer runway” so they can pay Matthew Garrett to harass and
annoy TechRights in various ways.
It’s hard for me to even imagine how much actual work they’re getting out of
him seeing as how he’s become_so_devoted_to_trolling_our_chat_rooms.
One would think that in an era of Pointy Haired Bosses installing keylogging
spyware on employee computers to make sure they work, they would have noticed.
Then again, they count things like replying to dumb emails and generating
PowerPoints “productive” and a “skill”. It’s not having a product that matters,
it’s having a PowerPoint with all sorts of nice bars and graphs and pie charts.
Also, moving the mouse a lot is productive too. Maybe Matt GULAG is just moving
his mouse and typing so it will count harassing us as productivity? It couldn’t
possibly be that. Right?
I feel like spyware from your boss that measures mouse movement and keystrokes
could be abused much like the system for counting “e-royalties” at Epinions dot
com during the dotcom bubble.
You could make a tidy sum by writing crap articles and then making a browser
plug-in that repeatedly cleared the cookies and hammered on the reload button.
There were so many things wrong at that place, but the articles blaming
“reading circles” were way off the mark.
California is a hellhole where investors go to die.
Captive investors. People who thought they’d retire and their portfolio was
full of crap.
Worker: “Where is my retirement money?”
Fund Manager and Government:“POCKET_SAND!”
(Turns out you were fully vested in a homophobe from Ireland.) █
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Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 6:41 am by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇CoC_meme/Meme:_“It_Must_Be_My_Huge_CoC”⦈_
(Matthew Garrett continues on his several-month long binge of harassing
TechRights disguised as a woman, “elusive_woman”, while having also demanded
that Free and Open Source Software projects adopt Microsoft-approved CoCs)
Summary: Ryan, who has repeatedly been defamed by Matthew_J_Garrett in our IRC
network (through extremely rude sockpuppets that promote illegal activity), is
expressing his personal thoughts here; those represent the views of Ryan, not
Techrights; Garrett has vandalised our IRC network for years, so this is
relevant to the site; also see this_article_about_SELF_fending_off_CoCs_under
threats_of_violence
Corporate trolls use “Codes of Conduct” as a subtle act of sabotage against
Free and Open Source Software and Communities.
When I kept getting banned from Ubuntu and having them scream “Code of Conduct”
over a decade ago, I became very annoyed at the entire concept.
It turns out that it was just the seed of a very large problem beginning to
percolate in the Free and Open Source Software Movement.
In the past 15 years, CoCs have infiltrated most FOSS projects and have had a
chilling effect on Free Speech and anyone with an off beat sense of humor.
Furthermore, they’ve been used to give companies like IBM (now a partner of
Microsoft) a platform for defunding the Free Software Foundation by defaming
Richard M. Stallman.
There have been numerous debacles, such as the Sage Sharp incident, where a
transgender “developer” wrote very bad code and then blamed the quick dismissal
on “gender issues” and not simply the fact that it was crap and it got the same
response as anyone who had submitted obviously broken code.
“They/Them” went on to the Outreachy project, which nearly bankrupted GNOME.
GNOME literally ran out of money to maintain GNOME’s software, Web site, and
infrastructure, and had to get a bailout from Red Hat to continue because of a
failed outreach to “women”, and that’s using the term “women” as liberally as
possible.
Red Hat then gave “They/Them” a participation trophy.
Matthew Garrett[1] is a proponent of CoCs because they ruin Free Software. He
also seems to hide behind a transgender “partner” as a beard so that he can
avoid being criticized. [2]
[1] (I based the meme on the “elusive_woman”sockpuppet account and my ex’s TSA
story about a transgender woman coming through and alarming and saying “It must
be my HUGE COCK!”)
[2] (He thinks.) (When I told him if you like it, go and put a ring on it, he
told me he can’t come out of his house to spend 5 minutes getting married
because COVID is still out there.)
The elevator pitch is, “If you want your project to fail, if you want to be
canceled from your own project and have to come back on your knees after they
send you to therapy you didn’t need, begging for your own project back, let
them (they) inflict a CoC on you.” █
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Posted in Deception, DRM, GNU/Linux, Kernel, Microsoft at 5:17 pm by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
Yesterday:
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Linux_Creator_Expresses_“Frustration”_Towards_AMD’s_fTPM
Bugs,_Calls_To_Disable_Feature⦈_
Promises action, but maybe for the wrong reasons (defects aside, this exists to
protect Microsoft monopolies with falsely-marketed kludge)
Summary: In spite of the Linux_Foundation being in bed with DRM giants, Linus
Torvalds has just found the guts to lash_out at TPM garbage [1, 2] promoted by
the likes of Matthew_J_Garrett under the guise of ‘security’ (he’s not even a
security person but a pathological liar)
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✐ Gemini_Links_01/08/2023:Gitea_on_Void_and_Unleashing_Your_Inner_Mapper
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Posted in News_Roundup at 2:20 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈
§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ My_Bread_Is_Getting_Yummier⠀⇛
I’ve been making bread for a long time now. Since I
currently don’t have a real oven (only a small
electric mini-oven and an electric pizza oven), my
options are pretty limited. I have a breadmaker I
use largely to mix and knead the dough. I then
either make a round loaf for the oven or some kind
of rolls, flatbread or pizza for the pizza oven.
Lately I’ve been concentrating on bread that can be
used for sandwiches (tomato mostly). That means
that the dough has to rise enough to passably fit
stuff. Since I am not equipped to keep a running
yeast culture I use instant yeast which tends to go
fast and collapse. So I’ve been experimenting with
various ways of slowing things down so the bread
can rise and remain firm enough. Lowering the
moisture helps currently 290mL water for 500g
flour. This results in a heavy lump of dough which
keeps its shape as it rises. Punching it down a
couple of times and letting it rise slowly for the
final time in a moist environment helps. I put it
right into the little oven with a wet paper towel
draped along the door to keep the air moist.
# ⚓ whale_fall_3⠀⇛
a little late this week but who cares 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴
🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈
[...]
i found this artist this week, and his work is so
dreamy. earthy tones aren’t the colors i usually
associate with surrealism, and they work
beautifully. the background is so delicately
colored too.
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Manual_intervention_required_when_updating_Gitea_to_v1.20.0
on_Void⠀⇛
My local Gitea instance runs on a Raspberry Pi 4
running Void Linux. I’m quite happy with Void
itself. It’s been totally rock solid and reliable
since I got all of the kinks worked out about a
week after the initial install. Gitea, however, has
been a bit of a PITA on a few occasions prior to
moving to Void, and the latest package upgrade I
ran managed to break a few things. It’s all back up
and running now, but not without some frustration.
After some troubleshooting, I found an obsolete
setting in the config file, which once removed at
least allowed the daemon to start.
# ⚓ Unleash_Your_Inner_Mapper_(OSM)⠀⇛
OpenSteetMap is a community made map of the entire
world. It’s not just a map of roads, although it
does have roads, paths, and other types of
thoroughfares, but it has lots of other attributes
including businesses, hiking trails, land usage,
solar panels, bridges, bins, water fountains,
camping grounds, and much much more. If it exists
physically there’s probably some combination of
tags it can be described with on OSM.
One of the great things about OSM is that since
it’s made entirely by the community, everyone gets
to pick what kinds of things there are interested
in mapping, which can make OSM far better than
commercial maps. Many people have probably used OSM
through the OSM website, OSMAnd or another similar
app, but if not directly, indirectly through social
networks, government maps or other apps which use
OSM data like mapy.cz.
# ⚓ I_just_LOVE_my_day_job… [Ed: Anonymous Microsoft pushers in
Gemini]⠀⇛
It got to the point where the leads calling me up
every day to ask, “Why are you still having trouble
with this? You’ve been on the project three
months.” Never mind that I’m the only team member
in my time zone, nothing is documented unless *I*
document it myself, and I can’t get help because
everybody else is busy with their shit.
# ⚓ First_Impressions_of_the_Beepy_Pocket_Computer⠀⇛
The Beepy, formerly known as the Beepberry, is a
little pocket-size computer handheld with the
distinguishing features being the 1-bit monochrome
(non-backlit) Sharp Memory LCD and the Blackberry
thumb keyboard. The other key feature to this
device is that it accepts a Pi Zero form factor
computer board of your choice. A few other nice
details are the physical power switch, one user-
programmable button on the right side and quite a
few GPIO pins broken out around the display. Here
is what it looks like. Isn’t it neat?
# ⚓ How_to_Errors_Good⠀⇛
My view of errors is built upon my view of
encapsulation in general. A program is built from
components, each having clearly defined concerns
and boundaries, with each depending on other
components. Each component defines an interface of
methods which can be used by “upstream” components
to interact with it. These interfaces are opaque,
meaning they expose the bare-minimum information
which is required to be useful to the caller. If
the caller doesn’t need to know something, the
interface doesn’t provide it, either in the types
it uses, the documentation it provides, or the
actual functionality it exposes. Whether an
interface takes the form of a network API or a
language-specific abstract interface is irrelevant
to this discussion.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ How_to_use_Fediverse_local_timelines⠀⇛
It’s my second year on Fediverse. I got to
know the key concepts. I’ve tried several
clients. I am used to its pros and cons. I
had been thinking that there aren’t anything
that could surprise me. Then I started to use
a client which supports several servers
(don’t be confused with several accounts
which are also supported).
[Toot! for Mastodon] is a mobile client which
looks a bit too colorful for a serious user.
But it has two functionalities that are
dedicated to this client and I haven’t
spotted in other ones.
The first is pinning a hashtag (don’t be
confused with hashtag following added in the
latest Mastodon specs) which is good for
users who don’t want to pollute their home
timeline with random users’ posts. A pinned
hashtag is accessible from a special menu,
without being visible on the home timeline.
# ⚓ Zines⠀⇛
I’ve spent the last few days traipsing back
and forth through Gemspace and Gopherspace
looking at what’s available. It’s a pretty
mixed bag, as is to be expected. Many people
started their phlog or gemlog then abandoned
it quickly, many more kept theirs running for
years and I’m just visiting a monument to
that moment in time. It’s in equal parts
fascinating and saddening, partly because I
arrived too late and partly because these
things were written (presumably) with no
other goal than to share something. This can
be contrasted with the modern WWW, on which
even simple blogs are often laden with
trackers and ads as a way to monetize
content.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
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 Arch_Family
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 GNU_Projects
o Programming/Development
# Perl_/_Raku
# Python
# Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh
o Standards/Consortia
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ Running_Arch_Linux_on_the_Framework_Laptop_13⠀⇛
Prior to my Framework Laptop adventures, I’ve been
planning to move to Arch Linux for a while. I’m a
long-time Linux desktop user. I started out with
those Red Hat CD-ROMs you’d buy at your local
bookshop (this was around ‘96). I fooled around
with SCO UnixWare, had a whole period of SGI IRIX
after that and then some distro-hopping to Debian,
Fedora, Arch Linux (in 2007), Gentoo and Void
Linux, more-or-less in that order.
The last two-ish years I’ve been running on Void
Linux, which I still strongly recommend and love –
it’s a really good distribution with a nice balance
between stability and simplicity.
I used the OS package manager for the essentials,
like Gnome, Firefox, the terminal, Wayland and X11,
and used /opt like a sort of Program Files or
Applications directory where I had my own programs
like IntelliJ, Postman, PostgreSQL, etc.
This works relatively well: you don’t have a lot of
demands on package availability in the distro
itself and you keep things stable – only update
your own stuff when you feel like it and/or when
you need to.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ GNU/Hurd_strikes_back⠀⇛
Unlike the Linux kernel, the Hurd is not a
“kernel.” In a way,
“Hurd” = GNU Mach (microkernel) + GNU Hurd (system
servers) + GNU MIG (Mach Interface Generator)
are roughly equivalent to a “kernel.” The GNU Hurd
is a herd of servers that implements many
functions, including user authentication, binary
execution, the file system, networking, and even /
dev/null as a server separate from the kernel.
There are currently 24 servers consisting of the
Hurd.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 13_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_Markdown
Editors⠀⇛
Markdown can be composed in any text editor. But I
recommend an editor purposely designed for this
syntax. The software featured in this roundup
allows an author to write professional documents of
various formats including blog posts,
presentations, reports, email, slides and more. All
of the applications are, of course, released under
an open source license. Linux, OS X and Windows’
users are catered for.
This article does not include general purpose text
editors like Vim or Emacs. Of course, they are
capable Markdown editors. There are also packages/
plugins available for these editors (and others)
that add Markdown functionality. But this Group
Test focuses instead on dedicated markdown editors.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ 10_Free_Linux_Books_That_Will_Make_You_a_Linux
Master⠀⇛
If you’re aiming to elevate your Linux learning
process to an advanced administrative and expert
level, we have meticulously curated a collection of
10 exceptional Free Linux eBooks.
These invaluable resources are designed to empower
you in constructing an exceptionally robust
foundation for your Linux skills. With these ebooks
at your fingertips, you can confidently embark on a
journey of profound Linux mastery.
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ bc_Command_in_Linux⠀⇛
The bc command in Linux is used for mathematical
calculation. It’s more than just a command; it’s a
language. But you are likely to use it as a command
for floating point mathematical operations.
# ⚓ Medium ☛ Creating_Host-Based_Firewall_Rules_w/_IPtables⠀⇛
Security policies and equipment shouldn’t stop at
the edge of your network. Neglecting host based
mitigations goes against a key pillar to cyber
security, Defense in Depth. What does this term
mean? Defense in Depth is the idea of having
multiple security elements in place to protect
against a negative event.
Example of Defense in Depth: Having a network-based
firewall on the edge of your network, host-based
firewalls on your hosts, a network-based IDS, and
antimalware software on your hosts.
In this post we will be using the Linux utility
IPtables to create packet filtering rules with the
Linux kernel firewall. Of course, using the Linux
command line. Although if you would like to use a
GUI there is a program called Firestarter.
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Our_alerts_and_monitoring_can_never
be_comprehensive⠀⇛
A while ago I wrote about how an obvious problem
isn’t necessarily obvious, where one thing I said
was that in many situations, there are too many
obvious problem causes for people to keep track of
them all. A corollary to this is that there are too
many things that could go wrong on your systems to
monitor and alert on all of them. In fact, I’m not
convinced that we could even identify all of the
possible things that could go wrong. Among other
issues, systems can fail in many, many different
ways.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Nextcloud_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
This tutorial will show you how to install
Nextcloud on a Debian 12 server. You will install
Nextcloud with Apache2 web server, MariaDB server,
and PHP 8.2. Furthermore, you will also secure your
installation with UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) and
SSL/TLS certificates from Letsencrypt.
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Run_Particular_Commands_Without_Sudo
Password_In_Linux⠀⇛
Disclaimer: This information is intended solely for
educational purposes and requires extreme caution
when implementing. The method can be both
beneficial and harmful. For instance, if users are
granted permission to execute the ‘rm’ command
without a sudo password, they may inadvertently or
deliberately delete important files. The commands
provided below are purely for demonstration
purposes, and it is crucial not to execute them on
a production system under any circumstances. If you
are unsure about the implications or consequences,
it is highly advised to carry out this exercise in
a virtual machine and use it as an opportunity to
understand the underlying concept. You have been
warned.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Baldur’s_Gate_3_on_Steam_Deck_is
‘absolutely_wild’_and_aims_for_30FPS_on_Medium⠀⇛
Well this is certainly exciting! Ahead of the
release of Baldur’s Gate 3, which is going to
easily be one of the biggest releases this year,
the Director of Publishing at Larian Studios teased
playing it on Steam Deck on Twitter (uh, sorry on
“X”).
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Parcel_Simulator_dev_excited_about_Steam
Deck_support_for_you_to_find_contraband⠀⇛
Parcel Simulator is certainly not the type of game
that would usually grab my attention but the
Papers, Please inspiration and gameplay features
look weirdly attractive. So now we too can run our
own dream warehouse? Well, there’s weirder games
out there that got popular.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Rightfully,_Beary_Arms_is_an_incredibly
bizarre_bullet-hell_shooter⠀⇛
Rightfully, Beary Arms is a weird and wonderfully
whack twin-stick shooter rogue-lite that’s now in
Early Access with Native Linux support and it works
on the Steam Deck too. Note: key provided by Stride
PR.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ DevilutionX_for_classic_Diablo_and_Hellfire
now_on_Flathub⠀⇛
Want a perhaps easier way to get DevilutionX for
classic Diablo running on Steam Deck and desktop
Linux? Well it’s now on Flathub. This means on
Steam Deck, you can just grab DevilutionX from
Discover and install it there. For desktop Linux –
whatever way you would normally install a Flatpak
from Flathub.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_Black_Pepper_Crew_is_a_promising
looking_tactical_turn-based_roguelite⠀⇛
Another tactical turn-based roguelite that looks
promising for you is The Black Pepper Crew, now
available in Early Access on Steam with Native
Linux support.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Tactical_RPG_‘Arcadian_Atlas’_is_out_now⠀⇛
Arcadian Atlas is a 2D isometric tactical role
playing game about the choices people make in
pursuit of the things they love, and the havoc it
wreaks on a kingdom. It looks great with some
wonderful pixel-art for fans of games like Final
Fantasy Tactics.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ KDE ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.27.7,_Bugfix_Release_for_August⠀⇛
Plasma 5.27 was released in February 2023
with many feature refinements and new modules
to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds three months’ worth of new
translations and fixes from KDE’s
contributors. The bugfixes are typically
small but important and include…
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ GNOME ☛ GNOME:_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.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ GNOME_project_considers_adding
window_tiling_by_default⠀⇛
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Frank Delporte ☛ Pi4J_Operating_System_for_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛
Yes, the Raspberry Pi Operating System is awesome! But
the Pi4J project made it if even more awesome by adding
“goodies” for Java developers! Pi4J OS is not yet another
OS, but the official Raspberry Pi OS, with additional
tools and preconfigurations to make it the ideal OS for
any Java and JavaFX developer who wants to use a
Raspberry Pi.
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ MX_Linux_23_“Libretto”:_Best_New_Features⠀⇛
MX Linux is renowned for its combination of elegant
desktop environments, outstanding stability, and
exceptional performance. The most awaited stable
release of MX Linux 23 (MX-23) is now available for
download. In this release, MX-23 introduces a host
of exciting new features, improvements, and
enhancements that are sure to delight MX Linux
users.
Let’s look at the best new features of MX Linux 23.
o § Arch Family⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Arch_Linux_2023.08.01_Released_with_Linux
Kernel_6.4_and_Archinstall_2.6⠀⇛
The Arch Linux 2023.08.01 release ships with the
latest Linux 6.4 kernel series, which was released
on June 25th, 2023, with features like Intel LAM
support, more Rust language code, new RISC-
V features, as well as new and updated drivers for
top-notch hardware support. Linux kernel 6.4.7 is
included by default.
This ISO snapshot also includes the recently
released Archinstall 2.6 text-based installer,
which brings a revamped partitioning section,
support for the Hyprland dynamic tiling Wayland
window manager, support for the Limine
multiprotocol bootloader, and support for custom
mirrors.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ What’s_New_in_Debian_12.1?_Features_and_Bug
Fixes_to_Look_Out_For⠀⇛
Debian, one of the most popular Linux
distributions, has some exciting news for you! It
has recently released the first update for the
Debian 12 “Bookworm” on July 22nd, 2023. This
update contains multiple improvements, including 89
bug fixes and 26 security updates.
If you are a Debian enthusiast, then this is a
significant milestone to celebrate! So, let’s check
out what’s new in Debian 12.1 and why it is a
crucial update for users.
# ⚓ Beta News ☛ MX_Linux_23_is_here:_Your_favorite_Debian-based
OS_gets_even_better!⠀⇛
MX Linux 23, the latest stable version of the
popular operating system, is now available for
download. This release is built on the sturdy
foundation of Debian 12 “Bookworm” and MX
repositories. Just as with previous versions, MX
Linux 23 defaults to sysVinit while keeping systemd
as an optional choice for installed systems.
One of the most noticeable changes in this release
is the revamped live boot menus, featuring a more
prominent “check media” function. This new feature
offers an automatic media check before proceeding
to boot, thus providing a smoother user experience.
MX Linux 23 brings with it an array of major
desktop versions, including Xfce 4.18, Fluxbox
1.3.7, and KDE/Plasma 5.27. These upgrades are sure
to offer a range of choices to cater to the diverse
preferences of users.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Sudomaker_LoShark_L1_LoRa_USB_dongle_runs
Linux_on_Ingenic_X1501_MIPS_processor⠀⇛
Sudomaker LoShark L1 is a USB dongle with Semtech
SX1262/SX1268 LoRa transceiver and a Linux-capable
Ingenic X1501 MIPS processor with 8MB on-chip
memory that serves as a LoRa debug tool that can
use a JavaScript interface to access to all SX126x
chip registers.
The LoShark L1 USB key offers both LoRa
connectivity and debugging capabilities such as
packet capture (hence the reference to WireShark)
and can operate either independently (standalone)
or in conjunction with a PC as shown below with a
mini laptop.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Adding_a_turbo_readout_to_a_vintage_PC_case⠀⇛
The hardware for this project includes an Arduino
Mega 2560 board and a small OLED screen. Woehlke
chose the Mega because he had it on hand, but any
Arduino board would have worked. The Arduino
receives power from one of the power supply’s 5V
rails. And like the real turbo readouts of the
’90s, the Arduino doesn’t measure clock speed at
all. It just looks at the LED above the turbo
button to see if it is active, then uses that state
to determine which number to display on the OLED.
For extra flair, Woehlke added a starfield
“screensaver” that appears on the OLED 10 seconds
after pushing the turbo button.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Deckility_handheld_PC_|_#MagPiMonday⠀⇛
Recently, after considering getting his hands on
Clockwork’s uConsole, a modular pocket-sized
computer, he felt that building his own handheld
was more challenging. Snapping up a Raspberry Pi
Compute Module 4 (CM4), he also vowed to take
advantage of its quad-core ARM Cortex-A72 processor
by putting it at the heart of his own homemade
device.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Forlinx_announces_RISC-V_SoM_based_on
StarFive_JH7110⠀⇛
Forlinx announced in July that they are working
together with the RISC-V processor manufacturer
StarFive to deliver the FET7110-C System-on-Chip
based specifically on the Jinghong 7110 with RISC-
V architecture. The SoM is expected to target
applications in commercial, medical, industrial
automation, etc.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Boardcon_introduces_RK3566_embedded
solution⠀⇛
The Boardcon is a Single Board Computer based on
the Rockchip RK3566 and optimized for AI and
Industrial applications. The SBC includes multiple
peripherals including a Gigabit Ethernet port,
multiple display ports and dual camera interfaces.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Usable_Arduino_Debugging_Tool⠀⇛
For as popular as the Arduino platform is, it’s not
without its problems. Among those is the fact that
most practical debugging is often done by placing
various print statements throughout the code and
watching for them in the serial monitor. There’s
not really a great way of placing breakpoints or
stepping through code, either. But this project,
known as eye2see, hopes to change that by using the
i2c bus found in most Arduinos to provide a more
robust set of debugging tools.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Portronics_launches_Beem_410,_a_portable
Android_powered_projector_|_Technology_News_–_The_Indian
Express⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ More_than_40_Android_smartphones_become_dangerous
TODAY_–_check_yours_and_upgrade_ASAP_to_stay_safe_|_The_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google_Pixel_owners_report_Android_Auto
connection_issues⠀⇛
# ⚓ Mirror UK ☛ Google_bans_another_31_Android_apps_–_check
your_phone_and_delete_them_now_–_Mirror_Online⠀⇛
# ⚓ WCCF Tech ☛ Xiaomi_14_Pro_To_Be_The_World’s_First_Android
Smartphone_To_Switch_To_A_Titanium_Build⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 13_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_CAD_Software⠀⇛
To provide an insight into the quality of software that
is available, we have compiled a list of 13 high quality
free Linux CAD applications. Hopefully, there will be
something of interest here for anyone who wants to
produce professional drawings.
Let’s explore the 13 CAD applications at hand. For each
title we have compiled its own portal page, a full
description with an in-depth analysis of its features,
screenshots, together with links to relevant resources.
Click each link in the table below to learn more about
the software.
o ⚓ Thunderbird ☛ An_Update_On_Thunderbird_Sync⠀⇛
We plan to support syncing of your email account
definitions, credentials, signatures, saved searches,
tags, tasks, filters, and most major preferences across
multiple installations of Thunderbird on PC, (Yes, this
is cross-compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux.)
You’ll also be able to sync your Thunderbird accounts
with the forthcoming Thunderbird for Android.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ AboutChromebooks ☛ ChromeOS_116_may_begin_the_Lacros
browser_push_to_Chromebooks⠀⇛
After covering Google’s effort to separate the
Chrome browser from ChromeOS for over two years, it
appears more of you will get to experience it. The
project is called Lacros, and it uses the Linux
browser for ChromeOS instead of the integrated
browser. The idea is that browser updates can be
pushed quicker to Chromebooks instead of waiting
for a full ChromeOS update. Based on recent code
changes I spotted, ChromeOS 116 may bring the
Lacros browser to more Chromebooks with a wider
release.
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ introducing_curl_command_line_variables⠀⇛
To make life easier for curl users, the tool
supports “config files“. They are a set of command
line options written in a text file that you can
point the curl tool to use. By default curl will
check for and use such a config file named .curlrc
if placed in your home directory.
One day not too long ago, a user over in the curl
IRC channel asked me if it was possible to use
environment variables in such config files to avoid
having to actually store secrets directly in the
file.
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Mozilla_Firefox_116_is_Now_Available_to
Download⠀⇛
Firefox 116 carries a modest crop of changes
that further refine and finesse the famed
FOSS browser.
Do you use Picture-in-Picture mode (PIP)? If
so, you’ll notice that the pop-put window
finally has a volume slider. This makes it
easy to adjust the sound levels of whatever
you’re watching without needing to affect
system-wide volume levels – a nice little
buff, I think.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ James G ☛ Build_a_Website_in_an_Hour:_Meetup_in_Review⠀⇛
In 60 minutes, you can start to build something for
the web: a blog, a fan fiction page, a bookmarks
page, a tool you would find useful. I hope to
schedule another one of these events in the future,
inviting more people to join us to build websites
in an hour. I will blog when we schedule another
“Build a Website in an Hour” meetup.
# ⚓ Madeline_Peck:_Creative_Freedom_Summit_Super_Hero_Art
Challenge⠀⇛
In 1989 Ray Oldenburg described a ‘third place’ as,
“a place outside your home or work where you can
relax and hang out.”
Libraries, parks, gyms, bookstores, and porches are
all examples. In a post-Covid world not only have
‘third places’ slowly dwindled in number but it is
increasingly hard to find places that don’t require
spending a lot of money to enjoy. For those who
have started working from home, their first and
second places have merged into one with the home
office. The internet is now its own third place.
With it, we have the power to socialize, consume
media, share knowledge casually, and document it
formally.
This virtual third place seemed like the perfect
place to host an event where like-minded
individuals, passionate about Open Source and
creating art could come together.
o § GNU Projects⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Emacs_29.1_released⠀⇛
Version 29.1 of the Emacs editor has been released.
There is a long list of changes, including
integration with the Tree-sitter incremental
parsing library, the ability to access SQLite
databases, “pure GTK” display support (which
enables Wayland support), and a lot more; see the
NEWS file for all the details.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ GnuCOBOL_3.2_released⠀⇛
Version 3.2 of the GNU COBOL compiler is out. “”The
amount of features are too much to note, but you
can skip over the attached NEWS file to investigate
them”.” These new features include improved support
for COBOL dialects, performance improvements,
better GDB debugging support, and more.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Systemd_auto-restarts_of_units_can
hide_problems_from_you⠀⇛
There are a surprisingly large number of things
that you probably won’t notice going away briefly.
If you don’t look into the situation, it might seem
like a short connectivity blip, or even be hidden
from you by programs automatically retrying
connections or operations. Telling systemd to auto-
restart these things will thus tend to hide their
crashes from you, which may be surprising. Still,
auto-restarting and hiding crashes is likely better
than having the service be down until you can
restart it by hand. We certainly would rather have
intermittent, crash-interrupted monitoring of our
machines than not have monitoring for (potentially)
some time.
# ⚓ MaskRay ☛ lld_17_ELF_changes⠀⇛
This influence to the total link time is small.
However, if I test the time proportion of the hash
function in the total link time, I can see that the
proportion has been reduced to nearly one third. On
some workload and some machines this effect may be
larger.
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ The_replicate()_function_in_R⠀⇛
As a programmer, you must have encountered
situations where you need to repeat a task multiple
times. Repetitive tasks are not only tedious but
also prone to errors. What if I tell you there’s an
elegant solution to this problem in R? Enter the
replicate() function, your ultimate ally when it
comes to replicating tasks effortlessly and
efficiently.
# ⚓ Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky ☛ Throw_away_your_first_draft_of
your_code⠀⇛
The next time you start on a major project, I want
you to write code for a couple of days and then
delete it all. Just throw it away.
I’m serious.
And you should probably have some of your best
engineers doing this throwaway work. It’s going to
save you time in the long run.
# § Perl / Raku⠀➾
# ⚓ Rakulang ☛ Unicode_Explained⠀⇛
Paweł bbkr Pabian continued their series of
blog posts explaining Unicode, this time
using the Raku Programming Language for
examples in 3 new posts: [...]
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Earthly ☛ Exploring_the_Magic_Methods_in_Python⠀⇛
The magic methods are often called “dunder
methods”. The term “dunder” is short for
“double underscore”, as these methods are
identified by their names enclosed in double
underscores (e.g., __init__). By using these
methods’ capabilities, you can define how
your Python objects should behave in various
scenarios, such as string representation,
arithmetic operations, etc.
In this tutorial, you’ll explore the
fascinating world of magic methods in Python.
You’ll discover how these magic methods fit
into object-oriented programming (more on
this in the next section). You’ll also learn
about some common magic methods used widely
in Python. You’ll also see how these methods
help you achieve operator overloading in
Python. By the end, you’ll grasp magic
methods and have the tools to design powerful
code in Python’s object-oriented world.
# § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
# ⚓ Drew DeVault ☛ The_rc_shell_and_its_excellent
handling_of_whitespace⠀⇛
I’ve been working on a shell for Unix-like
systems called rc, which draws heavily from
the Plan 9 shell of the same name. When I saw
Mark’s post about the perils of whitespace in
POSIX shells (or derived shells, like bash),
I thought it prudent to see if any of the
problems he outlines are present in the shell
I’m working on myself. Good news: they
aren’t!
# ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ rss-mash⠀⇛
It’s also hopefully a pretty clear demo of
how zshbrev turns command line arguments into
function arguments, and function output into
stdout in a pretty dwimmy way (it should work
regardless of whether your function prints
something or returns a value, like a tree or
string).xs
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ The_Future_of_the_Web_is_VNC⠀⇛
Anyway, I have a solution to all of Google’s
problems. Forget this notion of untrusted “user
agents” executing code on untrustworthy computers.
I have a foolproof way of getting pixel-perfect
rendering on every device. It also stops scraping.
And, as a little side effect, completely defeats ad
blocking.
It’s VNC.
This takes “Server Side Rendering” to the extreme.
Render exactly how you want the page to look and
then stream it over a remote framebuffer protocol.
Users get to see exactly what you want them to see
– ads included!
Just imagine the possibilities. No more worrying
about which browser is being used – render
everything through Chrome and stream to everyone!
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
# Confidentiality
o Defence/Aggression
o 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
# Trademarks
# Copyrights
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Elon_Musk’s_glaring_“X”_sign_on_the_Twitter_building_has
become_a_target_for_complaints⠀⇛
San Francisco’s Department of Building Inspection opened
two complaints regarding the new logo on July 28, one for
an “unsafe sign”—related to the removal of the old
Twitter logo— and another for placing the giant “X” on
the roof “without permit.”
o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Twitter’s_Obnoxious_‘X’_Sign_Is_Gone⠀⇛
The sign was installed on the roof of Twitter’s
(rebranded as X) headquarters on Friday, less than a week
after the company was stopped from removing the iconic
Twitter logo from the side of the building. When Musk
attempted to scrub the bird logo from the building, local
police arrived at the scene after receiving 911 calls
that the sign’s removal was stopping two lanes of traffic
at a busy intersection and workers didn’t have a permit.
When police arrived at the scene, they noted it was
unsafe for pedestrians because the workers hadn’t set up
sidewalk tape to protect passersby from falling debris.
Workers were ordered to immediately stop removing the
Twitter sign, leaving just an “er” on the building.
o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Twitter’s_giant_throbbing_X_erected_‘without_a
permit’⠀⇛
But when SF inspectors visited X HQ on Friday to take a
look at the glowing logo, they were turned away,
according to the city. A city inspector was denied access
by a “Tweeter [sic] representative,” who told the
inspector the sign was temporary. Nevertheless, the
inspector noted, the sign had to come down if X didn’t
get the proper authorization.
The same inspector returned to X HQ on Saturday, but
“access was denied again by [the] tenant,” they said in
their report. We asked the SF DBI about what recourse it
may have to gain access to the roof and the sign, but
didn’t immediately hear back.
o ⚓ NDTV ☛ ‘X’_Sign_Removed_From_Twitter_Headquarters_After
Neighbours_Complain⠀⇛
The city building department logged 24 complaints after a
weekend of the big X, which on Friday was erected on the
roof of the company’s downtown San Francisco
headquarters, on Market Street, to the chagrin of
neighbours who complained about intrusive lights, Reuters
reported.xs
o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Twitter:_‘X’_sign_removed_from_San_Francisco
headquarters⠀⇛
The company had removed the iconic blue bird logo from
the building last week, though the ‘er’ of Twitter
remained up after the takedown was abruptly halted since
the company did not have the necessary permits.
The chaos around the replacement of the sign is
reflective of Musk’s rebranding efforts in general. The
micro-blogging platform still sports the Twitter name and
branding in several places on the platform.
o ⚓ Daniel Pipes ☛ Irene_Pipes_(1924-2023)_An_Appreciation⠀⇛
Thanks to a brother of her father who had the foresight
to get out before the invasion, the family had the means
to set themselves up, first on Drummond Street in
Montreal and then on Central Park West in New York. With
astonishing speed, the family learned English and entered
American life. To give you a sense of their assimilation,
I’d like to read the full text of a telegram sent by my
grandfather and two of his brothers on Nov. 6, 1940, a
day after Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to the
presidency for the third time: [...]
o ⚓ Evan Hahn ☛ Subscribe_with_email_if_you_want⠀⇛
If you’re happy with my blog’s RSS feed, you don’t need
to do anything! The email newsletter gets the exact same
content.
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ That_New_York_Times_Profile⠀⇛
As some of you might have seen, this past weekend, the NY
Times ran a very nice profile about me, written by
Kashmir Hill. There’s not much to say about it, other
than it was an interesting (if somewhat awkward-feeling)
experience to be the subject of a story, rather than the
journalist covering it. But Hill is an excellent reporter
and spoke to a bunch of different folks for the profile
(including one who kindly called me in a panic to alert
me that the NY Times was “sniffing around” for what they
feared was a hit piece).
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Distinction_must_be_made_between_genuine
scientific_skepticism_and_‘dogmatic_denial,’_warns_expert⠀⇛
“Skepticism, by definition, is defeasible. That is,
when confronted with sufficient evidence, a skeptic
will—provisionally—accept the well-confirmed claim.
Mere refusal to accept any evidence is not
skepticism.”
# ⚓ Greece ☛ A_theory_of_childbirth’s_evolution_may_not_be_what
you’re_expecting⠀⇛
In graduate school, Warrener did not see any reason
to doubt the obstetrical dilemma. For her
dissertation, she investigated one of Washburn’s
key assumptions – that women walk less efficiently
than men do because their pelvis is wider for
childbirth. But in 2015, after studying volunteers
walking on treadmills, Warrener found that having a
wider pelvis did not create a bigger demand for
oxygen.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ ABC ☛ ‘The_Few,_the_Proud’_aren’t_so_few:_Marines
recruiting_surges_while_other_services_struggle⠀⇛
Sitting in the shadow of Parris Island’s replica of
the Iwo Jima monument, Field said his biggest
challenge is that a number of Marine hopefuls
cannot pass the military’s academic test, known as
the Armed Services Voluntary Aptitude Battery.
That is a widespread problem, but the Army recently
set up a program that targets recruits who score
below 30 on the test and provides schooling for
several weeks to help them pass. Already more than
8,800 recruits have successfully gone through the
classes, raised their scores and moved on to basic
training.
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ How_physical_activity_can
benefit_your_child’s_learning_and_well-being_at_school⠀⇛
Prior studies have discovered that school-based
physical activity, particularly with physical
education, can significantly improve a child’s
classroom performance. Despite this, there have
been very few studies that have actively examined
the association.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Quantum_Tech_Intended_for_National
Security_Is_Testing_U.S._Alliances⠀⇛
A global race to harness the power of atoms for
navigation, computing and encryption is pitting
concerns over protectionism against the spirit of
cooperation.
# ⚓ IT Wire ☛ AMD_to_invest_US$400m_to_set_up_design_centre_in
India⠀⇛
“It will also provide tremendous opportunities for
our large pool of highly skilled semiconductor
engineers and researchers and will catalyse
Narendra Modi’s vision of India becoming a global
talent hub.”
Mark Papermaster, executive vice-president and
chief technology officer at AMD, said:”From a
handful of employees in 2001 to more than 6500
employees today, AMD has grown its India footprint
based on the strong foundation established by our
local leadership and the highly skilled talent
pool.
“AMD has one of the industry’s broadest product
portfolios fuelled by growth in artificial
intelligence, networking and 6G communications, and
our India teams will continue to play a pivotal
role in delivering the high-performance and
adaptive solutions that support AMD customers
worldwide.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Fed-up_Torvalds_suggests_disabling_AMD’s
‘stupid’_performance-killing_fTPM_RNG⠀⇛
Ongoing issues with Linux and AMD’s fTPM – the chip
designer’s firmware-based TPM – appear to be
wearing on kernel overseer Linus Torvalds’ nerves,
who has suggested switching off the module’s random
number generator altogether.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ What_Does_It_Take_For_A_LEGO_Car_To_Roll
Downhill_Forever?⠀⇛
Cars (including LEGO ones) will roll downhill. In
theory if the hill were a treadmill, the car could
roll forever. In practice, there are a lot of
things waiting to go wrong to keep this from
happening. If you’ve ever wondered what those
problems would be and what a solution would look
like, [Brick Technology] has a nine-minute video
showing the whole journey.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ RF_Remote_Made_Easy⠀⇛
The 433 MHz spectrum is a little bit of an oddball.
It’s one of the few areas of the radio spectrum
which is nearly universally unlicensed, meaning as
long as devices using it adhere to the power
restrictions and other guidelines about best
practices, it’s essentially an open playground. IoT
devices operate here, as well as security systems
and, of course, remote controls. And, using a few
off-the-shelf parts [hesam.moshiri] shows us how to
take advantage of this piece of spectrum by
designing and building a programmable and versatile
4-channel 433 MHz remote control.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Cook_Up_A_Yoke_In_Five_Minutes⠀⇛
When it comes to flight simulators, we’ve seen
people go all-out with their immersive setups, with
all kinds of hyper-realistic control systems and
monitors as far as the eye can see. But for those
gaming on a budget this can seem a little
overwhelming and daunting. We all have to start
somewhere, though, so if you’re looking for your
first semi-realistic flight simulator control
mechanism take a look at this yoke which can be
cobbled together for almost no money or time.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Hospitals_are_in_the_hotseat_for_their_billing
practices⠀⇛
Mounting frustration with hospitals’ billing
practices are stirring reform efforts in Congress,
state legislatures and within the Biden
administration. But not everyone agrees on where to
start.
Why it matters:Some measures under discussion could
cost hospitals hundreds of billions of dollars, by
paring payments that critics say are excessive and
costing taxpayers and patients.
===================================================
Driving the news:States are increasingly passing
laws to address “facility fees” that hospitals tack
on for services provided to commercially insured
patients in clinics they own, according to a recent
report from the Georgetown University Center on
Health Insurance Reforms.
# ⚓ Futurism ☛ After_Seeing_This_Terrifying_Study,_We’re_Never
Microwaving_Plastic_Again⠀⇛
New research has found that microwaving plastic
food containers spews out toxic microplastics — and
it’s really freaked out the guy who’s studying it.
In an interview with Wired about a new study out of
the University of Nebraska — Lincoln, researcher
Kazi Albab Hussain said that becoming a new dad
inspired him to figure out what was going on with
the containers his baby’s food came in.
The results, which ultimately became a paper in the
journal Environmental Science & Technology, are
even more shocking than you’d expect.
# ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ Do_Burnout_and_Addiction_Have_the_Same
Root_Cause?⠀⇛
Working too much is the drug in this case. But the
root problem is almost identical: You’re unhappy
with your current path. Or you don’t have one.
Either way, your meaning loop is nonexistent or
misguided.
# ⚓ U.S._National_Team_Standout_Magnus_White_Struck_and_Killed
by_the_Driver_of_a_Car_in_Colorado⠀⇛
# ⚓ [Old] New York Times ☛ The_Exceptionally_American_Problem
of_Rising_Roadway_Deaths⠀⇛
Ms. Langenkamp was, improbably, the third foreign
service officer at the State Department to die
while walking or biking in the Washington area this
year. She was killed in August in suburban
Bethesda, Md. Another died in July while biking in
Foggy Bottom. The third, a retired foreign service
officer working on contract, was walking near the
agency’s headquarters in August. That is more
foreign service officers killed by vehicles at home
than have died overseas this year, noted Dan
Langenkamp, Ms. Langenkamp’s husband and a foreign
service officer himself.
# ⚓ [Old] Can_This_Documentary_Get_Americans_to_Care_About
Pedestrian_and_Cyclist_Deaths?⠀⇛
“If there’s anything that COVID taught us, it’s
that we can change streets overnight to create
safer communities,” she added. “It is possible; we
just have to understand that these are our public
spaces, and we do have a right to feel safe
walking, biking, and using any form of
transportation.”
# ⚓ [Old] CNN ☛ She_left_the_dangers_of_Ukraine_only_to_be
killed_riding_a_bike_close_to_home._Hundreds_rode_in_her
honor_to_demand_change⠀⇛
“I’ve tried to make sense of what happened to
Sarah, and since I started looking into it, I’ve
realized this is not a freakish accident,” Dan
Langenkamp said. “What happened to her is part of a
huge, worsening trend in America of people getting
killed in traffic crashes. There’s an epidemic of
traffic violence against people walking or biking.”
# ⚓ US Senate ☛ Warner,_Fischer_Lead_Bipartisan_Reintroduction
of_Legislation_to_Ban_Manipulative_‘Dark_Patterns’⠀⇛
This week, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Deb
Fischer (R-NE), joined by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-
MN), and John Thune (R-SD), introduced the
Deceptive Experiences To Online Users Reduction
(DETOUR) Act to prohibit large online platforms
from using deceptive user interfaces, known as
“dark patterns,” to trick consumers into handing
over their personal data. The bill would also
require these platforms to obtain consent from
users for covered research and prohibit them from
using features that result in compulsive usage by
children and teens.
The term “dark patterns” is used to describe online
interfaces in websites and apps designed to
intentionally manipulate users into taking actions
they otherwise would not. These design tactics are
frequently used by social media platforms to
mislead consumers into agreeing to settings and
practices more beneficial to the company.
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Smoking_Declines_as_Tobacco_Control_Measures
Kick_In⠀⇛
New data show that the adoption of the WHO’s
package of six tobacco control measures 15 years
ago has protected millions of people from the
harmful effects of tobacco use.
The measures, which were launched in 2008, call on
governments to monitor tobacco use and prevention
policies, protect people from tobacco smoke, offer
help to quit tobacco use, warn people about the
dangers of tobacco, enforce bans on tobacco
advertising, promotion, and sponsorship, and to
raise taxes on tobacco.
# ⚓ Nottinghamshire Post ☛ GP_from_LloydsPharmacy_warns_against
‘potentially_deadly’_TikTok_cyanide_acne_trend⠀⇛
“The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) cites
apricot kernels as a cyanide poisoning risk. Eating
more than three of these kernels in one sitting is
not recommended as it can exceed the recommended
safe level. The woman in this video says she ate at
least five of these a day – almost double this.
“If replicated, this trend could be highly
dangerous and I would not recommend people trying
to increase their consumption of cyanide.”
# ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Genome_data_rewrite_the_story_of_oat
domestication_in_China⠀⇛
To gain information on the origins of these
different varieties, researchers in China have
sequenced the genomes of over 100 oat plants from
around the world. Their analyses indicate that
unlike the current belief—that the two varieties
came from one domestication event—the hulled and
naked oat were domesticated independently. The work
is published in the journal GigaScience.
# ⚓ El País ☛ Energy_drinks_do_not_give_you_wings:_A_cocktail
of_sugar_and_caffeine_with_health_risks⠀⇛
In Spain, authorities announced a set of measures
in 2021 that ended up becoming a list of 10
recommendations developed in conjunction with the
energy drink industry itself. This decalogue warns
about the health risks of these drinks, advises
against their consumption by adolescents, warns
athletes that they are not useful for rehydration,
and reminds manufacturers of their obligation to
include a label indicating their high content in
caffeine, therefore making them unadvisable for
children and for pregnant or breastfeeding women.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ U.S._averaging_2_mass_shootings_per_day_so_far_this
year⠀⇛
Why it matters: So far this year, the U.S. has seen
an average of two mass shootings every day, for a
running total of 419.
At this point in 2021, 401 mass shootings had
occurred, and that year over all had a daily
average of 1.9 mass shootings.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Americans_With_Health_Insurance_Are
Increasingly_Putting_Off_Important_Medical_Treatments_They
Can’t_Afford⠀⇛
Health insurance CEOs pocket millions while
citizens can’t pay the out-of-pocket.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Lawmakers_Propose_$45_Million_in_New_Funding
for_Measures_to_Lower_U.S._Stillbirth_Rate⠀⇛
The legislation seeks to improve data and research,
as well as develop stillbirth awareness materials.
Many women interviewed by ProPublica said they
didn’t know they were at risk until they delive…
# ⚓ Nattokinase:_COVID-19_spike_protein_“detox”_quackery,_now
with_bromelain⠀⇛
If there’s one reliable characteristic of
physicians who go all-in on antivaccine beliefs,
it’s that, after they have come to identify
vaccines as The One True Source of All Chronic
Disease (or just a bunch of toxic sludge causing
“vaccine injury”), it is almost inevitable that
they come up with quackery to treat what they view
as vaccine-induced chronic disease or injury. Back
in the “old days,” I used to write about what was
called “autism biomed,” because the primary
antivaccine claim 15 years ago was that childhood
vaccines cause autism. Basically, “autism biomed”
was—and remains—a blanket term used by believers in
the vaccine-autism conspiracy theory to describe
a rather large collection of quackery that included
chelation therapy, various “detox” regimens,
“metabolic” treatments, and more, none of which had
one iota of evidence to support them as treatments
for autism spectrum disorders. Use of the term
“biomed” was meant to imply that these were
legitimate “biomedical” treatments for “vaccine-
induced autism,” when in reality they consisted
mainly of a motley collection of “detox” quackery,
often bolstered by “functional medicine” and
various alternative medicine treatments
like naturopathy and homeopathy. This brings me
to Dr. Peter McCullough and his “Base Spike Detox,”
which uses enzymes like nattokinase and bromelain
to “detox” the spike protein from both COVID-19 and
COVID-19 vaccines. As it turns out, Dr.
McCullough’s protocol is just a variant of an
earlier protocol that I first learned about earlier
this year, Signature Series Spike Support
Formula sold by The Wellness Company and promoted
by Dr. McCullough, a video of whom is featured on
the product page.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Brain_fog_and_other_long_COVID
symptoms_are_the_focus_of_new_small_treatment_studies⠀⇛
The National Institutes of Health is starting some
studies to test possible treatments for long COVID.
Millions of people are estimated to have the
mysterious condition. The studies are small but
each will tackle multiple possible therapies for
things like brain fog, sleep disturbances and the
theory that lingering virus may be at least partly
to blame. The studies are part of the RECOVER
project, which had to unravel what the most common
and burdensome symptoms of long COVID are before
doing studies.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Brain_fog_and_other_long_COVID
symptoms_affect_millions._New_treatment_studies_bring_hope⠀⇛
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Dear_Abby:_I_don’t_know_how_to_open_up_to_my
friends⠀⇛
Dear Abby advises a woman who is having a hard time
discussing the many challenges she and her family
went through during the COVID-19 pandemic.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Covid-era_boom_in_holiday_home_sales_over⠀⇛
This summer, borrowing for the purchase of holiday
homes dropped by nearly a third compared to last
year, and below pre-pandemic levels.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ How_to_think_about_AI_based_on_what_we
learned_with_IoT⠀⇛
Bloomberg this week called the end of the
smartphone era and the dawning of the AI era, all
based on the fact that chip manufacturing firm TSMC
now has a “double-digit percentage gap” in
quarterly revenue between sales of high-performance
computing chips and chips destined for smartphones.
Bloomberg may have been really kneading the data
point to support its thesis, but if it is the
beginning of the AI era, should I be writing about
AIoT instead of IoT?
No. Because what we call it doesn’t matter. What
matters is what we do with AIoT or AI or IoT. And
so far, we’re making the same mistakes we always
make when it comes to technology innovations.
# ⚓ The Conversation ☛ Giving_AI_direct_control_over_anything
is_a_bad_idea_–_here’s_how_it_could_do_us_real_harm⠀⇛
One of the key reasons we shouldn’t let AI have
executive power is that it entirely lacks emotion,
which is crucial for decision-making. Without
emotion, empathy and a moral compass, you have
created the perfect psychopath. The resulting
system may be highly intelligent, but it will lack
the human emotional core that enables it to measure
the potentially devastating emotional consequences
of an otherwise rational decision.
# § Windows TCO⠀➾
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Microsoft_downplays_damaging
report_on_Chinese_hacking_its_own_engineers_vetted⠀⇛
In a report published earlier this month,
researchers at the security firm Wiz
concluded that an encryption key stolen by
Chinese hackers to target U.S. officials
could have been used far more broadly.
Microsoft has said the Chinese operation was
a targeted and stealthy one and has disputed
Wiz’s findings — despite the fact that
Microsoft’s own engineers vetted the Wiz
report.
In a statement to CyberScoop, a Microsoft
spokesperson dismissed Wiz’s “blog” as
“hypothetical attack scenarios” and that
Microsoft has not “observed those outcomes in
the wild.” An earlier statement described the
Wiz report as “speculative” and “not-evidence
based.”
But there should be little reason to doubt
Wiz’s technical findings, according to the
report’s author, Shir Tamari. In an interview
with CyberScoop, Tamari said that he met with
a Microsoft technical team to discuss his
findings and that the firms engineers were
very helpful in correcting his analysis.
“Eventually they approved everything,” he
said.
# ⚓ Wyden_Requests_Federal_Agencies_Investigate_Lax
Cybersecurity_Practices_by_Microsoft_That_Reportedly
Enabled_Chinese_Espionage⠀⇛
“Microsoft never took responsibility for its
role in the SolarWinds hacking campaign. It
blamed federal agencies for not pushing it to
prioritize defending against the encryption
key theft technique used by Russia, which
Microsoft had known about since 2017. It
blamed its customers for using the default
logging settings chosen by Microsoft, and
then blamed them for not storing the high-
value encryption keys in a hardware vault,”
Wyden wrote, in a letter to DOJ, the FTC and
the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure and
Security Agency today.
Wyden highlighted four significant
cybersecurity failures by Microsoft that led
to the most recent [breach]: [...]
# ⚓ Hawaiʻi_CC_cyber_attack_resolved⠀⇛
After determining that the compromised data
most likely contained personal information of
approximately 28,000 individuals, the
University of Hawaiʻi made the difficult
decision to negotiate with the threat actors
in order to protect the individuals whose
sensitive information might have been
compromised. A significant consideration in
this decision-making process was that the
criminal entity responsible for the attack
has a documented history of publicly posting
the stolen personal information of
individuals when agreement with the impacted
entity was not reached. Working with an
external team of cybersecurity experts, UH
reached an agreement with the threat actors
to destroy all of the information it
illegally obtained.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ URL_changes_and_password_managers⠀⇛
I was autofilling a passphrase of pseudorandom
goodness this morning, like a gentleman, when the
plugin in Firefox complained that the site didn’t
match any credentials on file. I knew this couldn’t
be true; I’d logged into this site many, many times
before. So many times that I had to write many
twice.
Wait, that’s four total times. Many. Five. Damn it.
I logged into KeePassXC, and sure enough I could
see the record for the site, so plainly
demonstrated that even I could see it before
coffee. So why wasn’t it being detected? Was it a
case of Monday-itis?
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Monday⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (apr-
util, bcel, c-ares, emacs, git, java-1.8.0-openjdk,
libwebp, open-vm-tools, python, and python3),
Debian (amd64-microcode, kernel, and thunderbird),
Fedora (iperf3), SUSE (cdi-apiserver-container,
cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container,
cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container,
cdi- uploadproxy-container, cdi-uploadserver-
container, cont, cjose, java-17-openjdk, jtidy,
kernel-firmware, kubevirt, virt-api-container,
virt-controller-container, virt-handler-container,
virt-launcher-container, virt-libguestfs-tools-
container, virt-operator-container, libqt5-qtbase,
librsvg, libvirt, openssl-1_0_0, openssl-3, qemu,
samba, thunderbird, and zabbix), and Ubuntu (linux-
iot and wireshark).
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Sam_Altman’s_Worldcoin_might_unleash_worse
problems_than_those_it’s_trying_to_solve⠀⇛
Making biometrics a requirement for the
cryptocurrency’s use is not necessarily the
foolproof identification tool that Worldcoin
considers it to be. The biometric data has
reportedly appeared in black markets in China
where some users are selling their
verification for $30.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ German_data_watchdog_probing_Sam
Altman’s_Worldcoin_[cryptocurrency]_project⠀⇛
A German data watchdog has been investigating
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman’s Worldcoin
project since late last year due to concerns
over its large-scale processing of sensitive
biometric data, the regulator’s president
told Reuters.
Worldcoin, which launched last week, requires
users to give their iris scans in exchange
for a digital ID and, in some countries, free
cryptocurrency as part of plans to create a
new “identity and financial network”.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ The_White_House_Acknowledges_the_Pressure_on
Section_702,_But_Much_More_Reform_is_Needed⠀⇛
The White House might suddenly be willing to
acknowledge that people in the U.S. are sick
of having their digital communications
harvested and accessible to domestic law
enforcement without a warrant, but the review
group’s proposed reforms are just a cheap
political consolation prize that will do very
little to restore the fundamental right to
privacy that has been denied to people on
U.S. soil who email or call friends or family
abroad.
For example, the 42–page report recommends
that the FBI no longer be allowed to search
702 databases when investigating non-national
security related crimes. In its current
iteration, the FBI is permitted to sift
through international communications in hopes
of finding evidence of a wide range of crimes
in the U.S.-based side of digital
conversations. By our rough, most generous
calculation, that would eliminate only 0.01%
of these so-called FBI backdoor searches
(about 16/119,000 backdoor searches according
to the latest intelligence community
transparency report). We deserve more than
these tiny baby steps.
Still, it’s a start, and should be a call to
action for all of us to keep on the
pressure. Despite pushback against the
authority, the White House had signaled
earlier this summer that it was going to
strongly defend Section 702, including all of
its more controversial domestic uses.
# § Confidentiality⠀➾
# ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ CVE-2023-36325:_Attackers_can_de-
anonymize_i2p_hidden_services_with_a_message_replay
attack⠀⇛
A sufficiently determined attacker may be
able to de-anonymize the public IPv4 and IPv6
addresses of i2p hidden services (eepsites)
by using a combination of brute-forcing the
entire i2p router set with a replayed
message. This is CVE-2023-36325.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Singapore_executes_first_woman_in_almost_20_years
on_drug-trafficking_conviction⠀⇛
Singapore executed Saridewi Binte Djamani, a 45-
year-old woman, on Friday as the penalty for a 2018
drug-trafficking conviction. It was Singapore’s
first execution of a woman in almost 20 years.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ As_Taliban_Attempts_To_Exert_Greater_Control_Over
Aid,_Afghans_Worry_Over_Declining_Assistance⠀⇛
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are seeking to
exercise greater control over international
assistance operations by imposing bans and
restrictions on aid groups even as the country
suffers from one of the world’s worst humanitarian
crises.
In a new report, the research group Afghanistan
Analysts Network looked into why the Taliban has
imposed restrictions on aid groups and the hard-
line government’s attitude towards aid operations
and the aid workers implementing them.
# ⚓ El País ☛ ‘Barbie’_ignites_debate_on_China’s_territorial
ambitions⠀⇛
“China has over a billion people, and film
producers need this market. Some say that if [a
scene] shows ‘a cow-tongue line,’ then we should
just delete the scene. However, by allowing the
movie to be shown, we would be sending a message of
acceptance,” Tran Thanh Hiep, the director of
Vietnam’s National Film Evaluation Council, told
Vietnam News. The “cow tongue” is slang for the
dotted line China puts on maps around disputed
islands it claims as its own. “Vietnam’s position
is clear. It does not accept films that are
ambiguous in matters related to territorial
sovereignty,”said Hiep.
The strife arose from a map of the “real world”
that appears behind Barbie (played by Margot
Robbie) when she is urged to leave Barbie Land in
search of a cure for her inexplicably flat feet.
Vietnamese film reviewers objected to a particular
detail on the map: a U-shaped dotted line extending
down from an area called “Asia” into the South
China Sea.
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Niger_coup:_Burkina_Faso,_Mali_warn
against_intervention⠀⇛
The governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea
are also the result of recent military coups.
# ⚓ The Record ☛ Senate_opens_path_for_a_cyber-focused_military
branch⠀⇛
The possibility of a U.S. Cyber Force moved one
step closer to reality on Thursday after the Senate
approved its version of a massive defense policy
bill.
The $886 billion National Defense Authorization Act
passed in a 86-11 vote. The Republican-led House
narrowly passed its version of the legislation
earlier this month, mostly along party lines. The
two chambers will now go to conference to write a
final compromise measure.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Twitter_Threatens_to_Sue_Hate_Speech_Researchers
as_It_Unbans_Kanye_West⠀⇛
In the letter, Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro wrote that
the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) “made
a series of troubling and baseless claims that
appear calculated to harm Twitter generally, and
its digital advertising business specifically.”
Spiro wrote that Twitter, which recently changed
its name to X, has “reason to believe” that the
CCDH is “supported by funding from X Corp.’s
commercial competitors, as well as government
entities and their affiliates.”
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Twitter_Threatens_Legal_Action_Against
Nonprofit_That_Tracks_Hate_Speech⠀⇛
The letter cited research published by the Center
for Countering Digital Hate in June examining hate
speech on Twitter, which Mr. Musk has renamed
X.com. The research consisted of eight papers,
including one that found that Twitter had taken no
action against 99 percent of the 100 Twitter Blue
accounts the center reported for “tweeting hate.”
The letter called the research “false, misleading
or both” and said the organization had used
improper methodology.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Twitter_is_going_after_an_anti-hate_speech
organization_over_‘baseless’_claims⠀⇛
In total, CCDH has written eight papers criticizing
the company. In one of the latest papers, the
organization accused X of not taking action “on 99%
of hate posted by Twitter Blue subscribers,” which
it says suggests X “is allowing them to break its
rules with impunity and is even algorithmically
boosting their toxic tweets.”
“CCDH regularly posts articles making inflammatory,
outrageous, and false or misleading assertions
about Twitter and its operations, which CCDH holds
out to the general public as supported by
‘research,’” said the letter. The missive goes on,
saying the “outlandish conclusions” that CCDH has
been made without attempting a “rigorous design
process, analytic procedures or peer review” that a
reputable research organization would be expected
to make.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Elon_Musk_threatens_to_sue_researchers_who
documented_rise_in_hateful_tweets⠀⇛
Imran Ahmed, the centre’s founder and CEO, told the
AP on Monday that his group has never received a
similar response from any tech company, despite a
history of studying the relationship between social
media, hate speech and extremism. He said that
typically, the targets of the centre’s criticism
have responded by defending their work or promising
to address any problems that have been identified.
Ahmed said he worried X’s response to the centre’s
work could have a chilling effect if it frightens
other researchers away from studying the platform.
He said he also worried that other industries could
take note of the strategy.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Oppenheimer⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Movie_&_the_Moment_to_Stop_Nuclear
Rearmament⠀⇛
Oppenheimer should be required viewing by all those
in Washington who are bent on spending $1.7
trillion over the next decades to build new nuclear
weapons to kill us all, writes Marcy Winograd.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ ‘The_kindest_person’:_tribute_for_army
chopper_victims⠀⇛
A Queensland MP has delivered an emotional tribute
to the four ADF members who died in a military
exercise helicopter crash.
A MRH-90 Taipan chopper crashed during the
multinational Exercise Talisman Sabre last week,
off the north Queensland coast.
# § War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukraine_and_Turkey_to_open_service_center
for_Bayraktar_drones_in_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry and the Turkish
company Baykar have finalized an agreement to
build a center for repairing and servicing
Bayraktar drones in Ukraine, says the Defense
Ministry’s press service.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukraine_and_Croatia_reach_agreement_on
export_of_Ukrainian_grain_through_Croatian_ports_—
Meduza⠀⇛
Kyiv and Zagreb have reached an agreement on
the use of Croatian ports to export Ukrainian
grain, says a press release from Ukraine’s
Foreign Affairs Ministry.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Wagner_Group_closes_regional_recruitment
centers_‘indefinitely’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has suspended
the operations of its regional recruitment
centers “indefinitely,” it announced on
Telegram on Sunday, citing its “large
personnel reserve.”
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_intelligence_official_says_Russia
has_forcibly_mobilized_more_than_55,000_residents_of
occupied_territories_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Since the start of 2022, between 55,000 and
60,000 residents of Ukraine’s occupied
territories have been forcibly mobilized into
the Russian army, Ukrainian intelligence
official Andriy Chernyak said on Monday.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kremlin_calls_Moscow_drone_attacks_‘act_of
desperation_amid_failures’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Kremlin views Ukrainian attacks on
civilian targets in Russia as “acts of
desperation,” Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov
said on Monday, responding to a question
about the drone attack that hit Moscow on
Sunday and Volodymyr Zelensky’s statement
that the war is “returning to its symbolic
centers on Russian territory.”
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Scott_Ritter:_Requiem_for_NATO’s
Nightmare⠀⇛
The dysfunction of the Atlantic military
alliance over Ukrainian membership was just
the most public manifestation of the debacle
that was the Vilnius summit.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_ombudswoman_says_more_than_700,000
children_taken_from_Ukraine_since_February_2022_—
Meduza⠀⇛
A new report from Russian Children’s Rights
Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova says that
Russia has “taken in” approximately 4.8
million residents of Ukraine since February
2022, including more than 700,000 children.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_missiles_strike_university_campus
and_apartment_building_in_Kryvyi_Rih,_killing_10-year-
old_and_at_least_five_others_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian military targeted the Ukrainian
city of Kryvyi Rih in a Monday morning
missile strike. According to Ukraine’s
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, one of the
missiles hit a four-story university
building. Rescue workers are searching for
people that could be trapped under the
rubble.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Officials_mull_Ukraine’s_grain_export
through_Latvia⠀⇛
New export routes are being sought for
Ukrainian grain, including through Latvian
ports. However, in order for such a
solidarity corridor to become operational,
the Baltic states and Poland must do thorough
homework, Latvian Television reported July
31.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Zelenskyy_advisor:_Defeat_in
Ukraine_will_spark_collapse_of_Putin_regime⠀⇛
Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo
Podolyak says the Wagner mutiny has exposed
Russia’s internal weakness and predicts
battlefield defeats in Ukraine will spark the
collapse of the Putin regime, writes Peter
Dickinson.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ When_Our_Weapons_Go_Missing⠀⇛
Washington is doing a poor job of monitoring
whether the weapons it sends to Ukraine are
ending up in the right hands.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Did_Russia_commit_a_war_crime_in
leaving_the_Ukraine_grain_deal?⠀⇛
Read how Russian officials’ actions in
withdrawing and enforcing the withdrawal from
the Black Sea Grain Initiative might
constitute a war crime or crime against
humanity under international criminal law.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Moscow_office_tower_hit_as_drones
target_Russian_capital⠀⇛
The Russian military said its anti-aircraft
units thwarted a Ukrainian “terrorist attack”
early on Tuesday and downed drones targeting
Moscow, but one drone, sent out of control by
its units, struck the same high-rise tower
hit earlier in the week. There was no word on
potential casualties. Follow our liveblog for
all the latest developments on the war in
Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).
# ⚓ France24 ☛ No,_this_video_doesn’t_show_Ukrainian
soldiers_‘giving_up_without_a_fight’⠀⇛
Pro-Russian social media accounts have been
widely sharing a video that they claim shows
Ukrainian soldiers surrendering to the
Russian army en masse. The video, however,
actually shows a prisoner swap between the
Russian state-funded paramilitary group, the
Wagner Group, and the Ukrainian army in May
2023.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Hits_Kharkiv_College_As_Drones_Damage
Moscow_Tower_For_A_Second_Time⠀⇛
A Russian drone strike has destroyed a
college dormitory in Ukraine’s eastern city
of Kharkiv, regional authorities reported
early on August 1, as Moscow Mayor Sergei
Sobyanin said the Russian capital repelled a
Ukrainian drone attack.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Officials_Will_Attend_Ukraine_Peace
Summit_In_Saudi_Arabia⠀⇛
U.S. government officials will attend a
Ukraine peace summit in Saudi Arabia, State
Department spokesman Matthew Miller told a
briefing on July 31, adding that he could not
give more details.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian_Lawmaker_Kholodov_Resigns_After
Leaving_Country_In_January⠀⇛
Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Ruslan
Stefanchuk said on July 31 that lawmaker
Andriy Kholodov of the ruling Servant of the
People party had resigned.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Another_Russian_Soldier_Sentenced_For_Refusal
To_Go_To_War_In_Ukraine⠀⇛
A military court in Russia’s Far Eastern
Kamchatka Peninsula said on July 31 it had
sentenced a soldier to 30 months in a colony
settlement for refusal to go to war in
Ukraine.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ After_the_Deluge⠀⇛
The Kakhovka Dam’s destruction by suspected
Russian sabotage has made the Ukrainian land
itself a casualty of war.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Inside_the_Wagner_Group’s_Armed
Uprising⠀⇛
How Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private military
company went from fighting alongside Russian
forces in Ukraine to staging a mutiny at
home.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Putin_advisor:_Finnish_leadership_seeks
confrontation_with_Russia⠀⇛
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai
Patrushev accused Ukrainian and Western
intelligence services of meddling in the
Russian Republic of Karelia.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_Steps_Up_Growing_Campaign_to
Strike_Within_Russia⠀⇛
The stepped-up drone and missile attacks show
a will to hamper the Kremlin’s military
logistics, and to remind ordinary Russians of
the cost of war.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Drone_Attacks_on_Russia_Show
Evidence_of_Ukraine’s_Other_Counteroffensive⠀⇛
Officials in Ukraine rarely discuss attacks
on targets inside Russia, including Moscow.
But video evidence shows an increasing effort
to launch long-range strikes inside the
country.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia’s_Law_Targeting_Transgender
People_Sows_Fear_for_L.G.B.T._Russians⠀⇛
A new law underscores how Vladimir V. Putin
is increasingly using the war in Ukraine as
justification for greater restrictions on
L.G.B.T. life, portraying it as a consequence
of deviant Western values.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia-Ukraine_War:_Deadly_Russian
Missile_Strike_Hits_Apartments_in_Central_Ukraine⠀⇛
Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President
Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, was attacked
hours after he warned that the war was
“returning to the territory of Russia.”
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Extensive_Minefields_Impede
Ukraine’s_Counteroffensive,_Military_Experts_Say⠀⇛
Russia has been using antitank weaponry
against the Ukrainian forces’ mine clearing
vehicles, an analyst said.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Saudi_Arabia_Will_Host_Talks_About
Ukraine’s_Peace_Plan,_Diplomats_Say⠀⇛
Envoys from nations including the United
States, Brazil, China and India have been
invited, but it was not clear who would
attend, the diplomats said.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ UK_Government_sanctions_judges_and
prosecutors_involved_in_sentencing_of_British-Russian
dual_national_Vladimir_Kara-Murza⠀⇛
The UK Government announced Monday that it
has sanctioned six people involved in
Russia’s sentencing of dual British-Russian
national Vladimir Kara-Murza after his appeal
was rejected. The government sanctioned three
judges, two prosecutors and an “expert
witness” over what it has called “politically
motivated targeting.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ New_bill_seeks_Lithuanian_public_servants_to
declare_ties_with_Russia,_Belarus⠀⇛
The Lithuanian government proposes to expand
draft amendments that would oblige civil
servants to declare their links with Russia
and Belarus.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Woman_Escapes_Abductor_Who_Held_Her
Against_Her_Will_For_14_Years⠀⇛
A woman told police in Russia’s Urals region
of Chelyabinsk that she escaped after 14
years of being held against her will and
sexually abused by the man who abducted her.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Moscow_Court_Upholds_25-Year_Prison_Sentence
Of_Kremlin_Critic_Vladimir_Kara-Murza⠀⇛
The First Court of Appeals in Moscow has
upheld the 25-year prison term handed to
outspoken Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza
on charges of high treason, involvement in
activities of an undesirable group, and
discrediting Russia’s armed forces that he
and his supporters call politically
motivated.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Moldovan_Parliament_Bans_Leaders_Of_Dissolved
Russia-Backed_Party_From_Elections⠀⇛
Moldovan lawmakers on July 31 passed a bill
that prevents the leaders of a Russia-backed
party that was banned by the Constitutional
Court from running in elections for a period
of five years.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Czechs_Freeze_Bank_Accounts,_Impound_Property
Of_Russian_Oligarch_Yevtushenkov⠀⇛
Czech media reports say investigators have
frozen bank accounts and impounded the
property of Russian oligarch Vladimir
Yevtushenkov and his son Feliks in Prague and
Karlovy Vary.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Anti-War_Street_Artist_Sentenced_To
15_Days_In_Jail⠀⇛
Russian artist Filipp Kozlov, aka
Philippenzo, told RFE/RL that he was arrested
at a Moscow airport over the weekend upon his
arrival from Georgia and later sentenced to
15 days in jail on a charge of refusing to
follow a police officer’s orders.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Wagner_Group_Stops_Recruiting,_Continues
Activities_In_Africa,_Belarus,_Prigozhin_Says⠀⇛
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner chief who led a
short-lived insurrection in Russia last
month, said that the mercenary group had
suspended recruitment, adding that it
“continues its activities in Africa and at
training centers in Belarus.”
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Moscow’s_attacks_are_stoking_hatred
of_Russia_in_Odesa.⠀⇛
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Ten_Years_After_The_US_Military_Verdict
Against_Chelsea_Manning⠀⇛
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ 5_Hot_New_Environmental_Books⠀⇛
# ⚓ Futurism ☛ Scientists_Say_Atlantic_Current_Collapse_Could
Lead_to_Extreme_Cold_in_Europe_and_North_America⠀⇛
That said, a team of researchers led by Peter
Ditlevsen, professor and climate researcher at the
University of Copenhagen in Denmark anticipate in a
paper published in the journal Nature
Communications that the currents could collapse
anywhere between 2025 and 2095 — if we don’t cut
global carbon emissions, that is.
If it were to collapse, much of the Western world
could be plunged into an extended period of extreme
cold — a counterintuitive result of climate change.
Previous collapses, which have predominantly
occurred during ice ages many thousands of years
ago, have indeed led to temperatures going haywire.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_UK_has_doubled_down_on_oil_drilling—and
claimed_it’s_all_part_of_its_net-zero_plan⠀⇛
Predictably, Sunak’s announcement has been met with
strong criticism for weakening the UK’s climate
commitments. (The UK’s independent climate advisor
to the government has already judged these
commitments to be in jeopardy.) Even some of
Sunak’s Conservative party colleagues have been
scathing. One Conservative lawmaker, Chris
Skidmore, deplored the government’s decision in a
message shared on social media on Monday,
lambasting the move as wrong not only on economic
grounds, but also because it has skirted
parliamentary scrutiny. The UK’s lawmakers are
currently on summer recess, and Skidmore said he
will ask for an emergency debate on the move as
soon as parliament reconvenes.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Even_Phoenix’s_Cactuses_Can’t_Beat_This_Summer’s
Record_Heat⠀⇛
An online guide from the Desert Botanical Garden,
explains that saguaro cactuses do need some
supplemental water during drought years. There are
obvious signs that a cactus isn’t doing too well in
hot and dry weather. Instead of having firm skin
and standing tall, which are the signs of a healthy
cactus, the saguaros become squishy. They lose
limbs, they start to lean, and even collapse in
extreme conditions, CNN reported. xs
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Spain_Supreme_Court_upholds_national_climate_and
energy_plan⠀⇛
Spain’s Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit on
Thursday challenging the Integrated National Energy
and Climate Plan (PNIEC), which set Spain’s climate
and energy proposals. The court found that the plan
is in accordance with the law and commitments made
by the EU, despite several environmental groups’
insistence that it is arbitrary.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Nematodes_From_The_Siberian_Permafrost_Woke_Up
After_A_46,000_Year_Long_Nap⠀⇛
The general consensus among us mammals is that if
we get very cold, we die. Within the world of
nematodes, however, they’d like to differ on that
viewpoint. This is demonstrated succinctly after
researchers coaxed a batch of these worms back into
action after they had been frozen in Siberian
permafrost for an estimated 46,000 years. The
mechanism underlying this phenomenon is called
cryptobiosis, which is essentially a metabolic
state that certain lifeforms can enter when
environmental conditions become unsuitable.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ A_Vital_Atlantic_Ocean_System_Could_Collapse
Sooner_Than_Previously_Thought⠀⇛
Climate change is slowing down the Atlantic
Meridional Overturning Circulation, a key ocean
“conveyer belt.” New research finds it could
collapse completely by 2060.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Binance_doesn’t_think_the_US_has
jurisdiction_over_its_crypto_exchange⠀⇛
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao is seeking the
dismissal of a lawsuit by the US Commodity
Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), arguing
the regulatory body has exceeded its
jurisdiction.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ A_YouTuber_is_accused_of_buying_the_world’s
largest_black_diamond_with_the_proceeds_of_a_$1_billion
[cryptocurrency]_fraud⠀⇛
Federal regulators allege that Heart raised
more than $1 billion in unregistered
[cryptocurrency] securities through his Hex,
PulseChain, and PulseX companies and used at
least $12 million of it on personal
expenditures, including over $2 million on
Rolex watches.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ SEC_Reportedly_Asked_Coinbase_to_Halt_All
Trading—Except_for_Bitcoin⠀⇛
The SEC’s lawsuit against Coinbase accuses
the company of operating as an unregistered
securities exchange with the commission’s
lawyers further arguing that Coinbase was
trading 13 cryptocurrencies that were
identified as securities. Those alleged
securities could cause Coinbase to fall under
the purview of the SEC, but the exchange
refused to register with the commission.
Bitcoin is not believed to qualify as a
security under the Howey Test, according to
Reuters. Armstrong denied the SEC’s guidance
and opted to handle it in court.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Before_suing_Coinbase,_SEC_asked_it_to
trade_only_in_bitcoin:_FT_report⠀⇛
The US Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC) had asked Coinbase to stop trading in
all cryptocurrencies except bitcoin before
suing the cryptocurrency platform in June,
the Financial Times reported on Monday,
citing CEO Brian Armstrong.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ US_SEC_charges_Youtuber_Richard_Heart
with_unregistered_[cryptocurrency]_offerings_fraud⠀⇛
The SEC accused Heart of spending investor
funds on McLaren and Ferrari sports cars,
four Rolex watches and “The Enigma,” which
cost 3.16 million British pounds (then $4.28
million) at auction and was purportedly the
world’s largest black diamond.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ UK_to_grant_hundreds_of_new_oil
and_gas_licences⠀⇛
The UK government will grant hundreds of new
oil and gas licences in the North Sea in a
bid for energy independence, ignoring calls
to stop new fossil fuel projects.
The plans announced by Prime Minister Rishi
Sunak include a pledge to invest STG20
billion ($A38 billion) in carbon capture and
storage projects as Sunak maintained the
government’s commitment to eliminate net
carbon emissions by 2050.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Voters_Support_ULEZ-Style_Policies,_Finds
New_Poll⠀⇛
Voters back schemes that charge road users
for driving highly polluting vehicles,
according to a new poll from Omnisis for
DeSmog.
A higher proportion of voters (44 percent)
support ULEZ-style schemes than don’t (36
percent), according to the polling. People
who intend to vote Conservative at the next
election support charges on more polluting
vehicles by a margin of 47 percent to 36
percent.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ UNESCO_Great_Barrier_Reef_‘in
danger’_listing_unlikely⠀⇛
UNESCO has stopped short of declaring the
Great Barrier Reef “in danger” in a draft
decision hailed by the Australian government.
“We’re committed to better protecting our
precious Great Barrier Reef – and this
decision is evidence of that,” Environment
Minister Tanya Plibersek said in a statement.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Intel’s_Back_in_the_Black,_Says_Arrow_Lake
Already_in_the_Fab [Ed: But revenue down sharply]⠀⇛
Intel reports profit for the first time in several
quarters and announces that the first stepping of
its Arrow Lake chips are in the fab.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ US_futures_up,_stock_markets_higher_on
cooler_inflation⠀⇛
US share futures have treaded cautiously higher
ahead of more large-cap earnings reports, central
bank meetings and a key employment report due later
this week.
US stock futures were mixed on Monday morning with
the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 both up about 0.1
per cent.
# ⚓ The Business Journals ☛ Amazon_surpasses_Microsoft_as
Bellevue’s_largest_employer⠀⇛
Five years after Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN)
established an outpost in Bellevue, it became the
city’s largest employer, according to data released
Monday.
# ⚓ Yellow_is_shutting_down_and_headed_for_bankruptcy,_the
Teamsters_Union_says._Here’s_what_to_know⠀⇛
Trucking company Yellow Corp. has shut down
operations and is headed for a bankruptcy filing,
according to the Teamsters Union and multiple media
reports.
After years of financial struggles, reports of
Yellow preparing for bankruptcy emerged last week —
as the Nashville, Tennessee-based trucker saw
customers leave in large numbers. Yellow shut down
operations on Sunday, according to the Wall Street
Journal, following the layoffs of hundreds of
nonunion employees on Friday.
In an announcement early Monday, the Teamsters said
that the union received legal notice confirming
Yellow was ceasing operations and filing for
bankruptcy.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Caymans-owned_Northern_Beaches
Hospital_performs_world-first_“Headinthesandectomy”⠀⇛
Doctor and Teal rep for Northern Beaches, Sophie
Scamps, has called on Northern Beaches Hospital
boss to resign if the hospital can’t get its act
together to address the youth suicide and mental
health epidemic on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
What’s the scam?
The scam is the public/private hospital was
privatised in the takeover by Brookfield (now
bidding for Origin Energy) of Healthscope and, now
controlled by a Cayman Islands entity, is
notoriously elusive when it comes to transparency.
Even meeting with the local MP it seems.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Croc-o-Fyles:_NT_chief_blasts_southern
“trolls”_who_are_subsidising_her_Darwin_petro-port⠀⇛
“Teals and trolls” is how NT Chief Minister Natasha
Fyles described “southern activists” in a speech to
the National Press Club for criticising the Middle
Arm petrochemical hub. What’s the scam?
The scam is the Teals and trolls have had the cheek
to express a view about public money, some $1.9bn
of it, which has been earmarked to subsidise the
second Darwin port and gas hub, a project whose
major beneficiaries are multinational companies and
fracking outfits such as the publicly subsidised
Tamboran Resources whose major shareholder is a
Texan billionaire.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Million-dollar_fines_for_tax_leaks
after_PwC_scandal⠀⇛
Private consultants who leak confidential
government tax information or cover up breaches by
their colleagues could soon face million-dollar
fines.
The changes, which include penalties of up to $1.1
million for individuals and $5.5 million for
individuals, were introduced into the NSW
parliament on Tuesday after a scandal
over confidential federal tax briefings being
leaked by a former PwC partner.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Borrowers_spared_cash_rate_hike_as_RBA
stays_on_hold⠀⇛
Borrowers have been granted another month of
interest rate relief, with the Reserve Bank leaving
the official cash rate untouched at 4.1 per cent.
The second consecutive month on hold follows four
percentage points of increases that have heaped
pressure on borrowers.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_economic_growth_slows_in
second_quarter_after_rebound⠀⇛
Hong Kong’s economy expanded by 1.5 percent in the
second quarter, data released Monday showed,
indicating slowing growth after a robust start to
the year.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ India Times ☛ What_Europe’s_AI_regulation_moment_will_mean
for_the_world⠀⇛
Most nations have approached issues like this by
allowing sectors to individually regulate AI, such
as aircraft design and flight safety. The infamous
Boeing 737 MAX – which was grounded for over 18
months following two crashes within five months
that killed 346 people – is one egregious example
of regulatory failure.
Other fields that have proactively regulated on AI
include medical information (presiding over robot
surgery and scan analysis), automated vehicles (the
yet-to-materialise Tesla robot taxis and ‘Full Self
Drive’ [sic]) and policing social media networks to
protect against harms like disinformation.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Do_Facebook’s_algorithms_drive_political
polarization?_Meta_says_no,_but_researchers_say_it’s
complicated⠀⇛
A total of 16 papers are to be released on the
subject. “The research published in these papers
won’t settle every debate about social media and
democracy, but we hope and expect it will advance
society’s understanding of these issues,” Clegg
added.
# ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_Law_Bytes_Podcast,_Episode_176:_A_Mid-
Summer_Update_on_Bills_C-11,_C-18,_the_Government’s_Cabinet
Shuffle,_and_the_Brewing_Battle_over_Digital_Taxes⠀⇛
Coming off a week in which the government
engineered a major cabinet overhaul that saw
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez replaced by
Pascale St-Onge, an escalation of the battle over
digital services taxes, and which featured
significant news on both the Bill C-11 and Bill C-
18 fronts, this week’s Law Bytes podcast provides a
mid-summer update on recent developments. Barring
some urgent news, the podcast will be taking a
break in August and return in September.
# ⚓ RiskyBiz ☛ Russian_law_impacts_FOSS_participation⠀⇛
The Russian Parliament has passed three bills
banning Russian citizens from participating in the
activities of foreign non-profit organizations that
have not registered with the Russian government.
Russian IT experts say the laws have an unintended
side effect and may prevent software developers
from contributing to some open-source projects.
[...]
# ⚓ James G ☛ I_am_now_a_co-chair_on_the_W3C_Social_Web
Community_Group⠀⇛
I am excited to announce that I have been appointed
as a co-chair of the W3C Social Web Incubator
Community Group (SWICG). This group is dedicated to
advancing discussions around the social web, and
prividing a forum for implementors to discuss
specifications published by the former and separate
W3C Social Web Working Group.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Can_Congress_Catch_Up_to_Deepfakes?⠀⇛
Rep. Yvette Clarke wasn’t exactly surprised when
ex-President Donald Trump used an AI voice cloning
tool to make Hitler, Elon Musk, and the Devil
himself join a Twitter Space to troll Florida
governor Ron DeSantis earlier this year. The former
president wasn’t fooling anyone with the doctored
screenshot, but Clarke worries similar political
deepfakes will be weaponized to “create general
mayhem” in what’s already shaping up to be a
maddening 2024 election season. Without proper
disclosures, Clarke, who has spent years warning of
the danger of unchecked AI systems, says a skilled
agent of chaos could even cause voters to stay home
on election day, potentially influencing an
election’s outcome.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_GOP’s_Nazi_Problem_Has_Deep_Roots⠀⇛
Even as his bid to become the Republican
presidential nominee circles the drain, Florida
Governor Ron DeSantis can take pride in the fact
that he is almost keeping pace with his chief rival
in having embarrassing Nazi scandals. Earlier this
week, in response to continuing lackluster polling,
DeSantis fired 38 staffers. Axios noted that one of
those staffers was Nate Hochman, a speechwriter who
“secretly created and shared a pro-DeSantis video
that featured the candidate at the center of a
Sonnenrad, an ancient symbol appropriated by the
Nazis and still used by some white supremacists.”
Earlier, Hochman and other staffers stirred
controversy by sharing a bizarre homophobic and
transphobic pro-DeSantis ad (presented as a fan
creation, even though evidence points to its being
another in-house production). This follows hot on
the heels of a June scandal when it turned out that
Pedro Gonzalez, a pro-DeSantis influencer whose
social media voice was being promoted by the
Florida governor’s staff, had a record of anti-
Semitic, racist, and fascist private direct
messages.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Will_Zambia’s_Debt_Restructuring_Set_a
Precedent?⠀⇛
Many see this agreement as a change in China’s
lending policy. The Chinese may be incorporating
some aspects of Russia’s notion of the Global
South, which promotes an economic future that
relaxes basic notions of trade liberalism.
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ How_Trump_Clouded_Journalists’_Heads_about
Surveillance_Video⠀⇛
It is not the case that if DOJ obtained all the
surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago, Trump Org
must have given it to them. In fact, one of the
most damning documents Mueller obtained during the
Russian investigation came from Microsoft, the
cloud provider hosting services for Trump Org.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Denmark_exploring_means_to_intervene_in
Quran_burning_protests⠀⇛
Sweden is also facing similar diplomatic
tensions with the Islamic States for the
burning of Quran outside the Iraqi embassy.
The Swedish government published a statement
on July 26, claiming that the burning of
copies of holy scriptures has caused strong
reactions against Sweden from Arabic-speaking
and Muslim countries. Sweden also claimed
that there have been disinformation campaigns
directed against the Swedish government,
disseminating false claims that Sweden is
behind the desecration of copies of holy
scriptures. Swedish Minister for Civil
Defence Carl-Oskar Bohlin added that the
disinformation campaigns against Sweden could
jeopardise foreignly based Swedish citizens’
lives and corporations’ operations. The
disinformation campaign also poses a threat
to national security.
# ⚓ El País ☛ The_AI_genie_is_out_of_the_lamp:_We_must_be
prepared_for_its_social_impact⠀⇛
With the recent advances of generative AI, a
platform that is phagocytizing our digital
planet much faster than the previous
technological wave, we need to act quickly,
and we cannot overlook the risks: the need
for reliable and unbiased technologies,
drawing red lines and avoiding the
concentration of power that can increase
inequality and condemn more people to
irrelevance. Not only that, words can become
weapons, and today’s chatbots could be
considered the equivalent of the
“Kalashnikovs of disinformation,” as Marta
Peirano puts it. AI is power, and narratives
generated with the help of algorithms
threaten to further destabilize and unbalance
our society.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Anti-War_Street_Artist_Sentenced_To_15_Days
In_Jail⠀⇛
[...] Philippenzo became known for his street art
made after the Kremlin launched its ongoing
invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. His works
challenged the government’s decision to start the
war. [...]
# ⚓ The New Arab ☛ Jordan_adopts_cybercrime_law_seen_as_threat
to_free_speech⠀⇛
The measure tightens prison sentences and penalties
for any website, social media platform or person
responsible for a public account deemed to have
violated privacy and a host of other provisions. It
passed by a majority vote after a marathon six-hour
debate and is expected to be enacted in coming
days.
The law has alarmed journalists, human rights
activists and pro-democracy groups worried that its
vague language would curtail further free speech
and that criminalising conversations online will
enable more crackdowns on political opponents.
# ⚓ ABC ☛ Judge_blocks_Arkansas_law_allowing_librarians_to_be
criminally_charged_over_‘harmful’_materials⠀⇛
U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks issued a
preliminary injunction against the law, which also
would have created a new process to challenge
library materials and request that they be
relocated to areas not accessible by kids. The
measure, signed by Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee
Sanders earlier this year, was set to take effect
Aug. 1.
A coalition that included the Central Arkansas
Library System in Little Rock had challenged the
law, saying fear of prosecution under the measure
could prompt libraries and booksellers to no longer
carry titles that could be challenged.
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Denmark_looking_at_legal
means_to_ban_burning_of_Quran⠀⇛
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson went on to
describe the situation as the “most serious
security policy situation since the Second World
War.”
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_gov’t_would_face
‘difficulty’_if_it_appeals_rejection_of_protest_song_ban,
advisor_says⠀⇛
It would be difficult for the government to appeal
against a court decision to reject an injunction to
bar the broadcasting and performance of pro-
democracy protest song Glory to Hong Kong with
illegal intentions, a senior government advisor has
said.
Hong Kong’s Court of First Instance rejected a
government injunction application last Friday,
saying such a move could have a “chilling” effect
on freedom of speech. The court also questioned
whether there was genuine use in ordering an
injunction.
# ⚓ Greece ☛ Turkey_urges_Sweden_to_take_steps_to_stop_Koran
burnings⠀⇛
“Ultimately it is about defending our free and open
societies, our democracy and our citizens’ right to
freedom and security,” Kristersson said.
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ ‘Facebook_Files’_Reveal_Despicable_Disregard_for
the_Constitution⠀⇛
Last week’s revelation that Facebook took orders
from the Biden Administration to censor even
accurate information about Covid is the latest
example of the US government’s disregard for our
Constitution.
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Project_Censored_Newsletter_July_2023_–
Newsletters⠀⇛
Skipping Stones recognized the Media and Me as an
outstanding teaching resource. “This book is aimed
at young people, but it is an educational resource
for media users of all ages,” educator Daemion Lee
wrote in his review of The Media and Me.
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Meme:_“It_Must_Be_My_Huge_CoC”_
(Codes_of_Conduct_Ruin_Free_Software_Projects.)⠀⇛
Corporate trolls use “Codes of Conduct” as a subtle
act of sabotage against Free and Open Source
Software and Communities.
When I kept getting banned from Ubuntu and having
them scream “Code of Conduct” over a decade ago, I
became very annoyed at the entire concept.
It turns out that it was just the seed of a very
large problem beginning to percolate in the Free
and Open Source Software Movement.
In the past 15 years, CoCs have infiltrated most
FOSS projects and have had a chilling effect on
Free Speech and anyone with an off beat sense of
humor.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Book_sellers_and_publishers_sue_Texas_officials
over_new_book_ratings_law⠀⇛
A group of book sellers and publishers filed a
federal lawsuit Tuesday against Texas officials to
block House Bill (HB) 900, the state’s new book
ratings law.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Unsurprisingly,_Pornhub_Blocks_Arkansas_IP
Addresses⠀⇛
It has been a busy day for Arkansas.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Senators_Warren_&_Graham_Want_To_Create_New
Online_Speech_Police_Commission⠀⇛
The regulation will continue until internet freedom
improves, apparently. Last year we wrote about
Senator Michael Bennet pushing a terrible “Digital
Platform Commission” to be the new internet speech
police, and now we have the bipartisan free speech
hating duo of Senators Elizabeth Warren and Lindsey
Graham with their proposal for a Digital Consumer
Protection Commission.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Judge_Seems_Skeptical_That_California’s_Age
Appropriate_Design_Code_Is_Compatible_With_The_1st
Amendment⠀⇛
We’ve talked a few times about California’s “Age
Appropriate Design Code.” This is a bill in
California that was “sponsored” and pushed for by a
UK Baroness (who is also a Hollywood filmmaker and
has fallen for moral panic myths about evil
technology). As we explained there is no way for a
site like Techdirt to comply with the law. The law
is vague and has impossible standards.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Judge_Blocks_Unconstitutional_Book_Ban_Law
Passed_By_Arkansas’_Self-Proclaimed_Free_Speech_Warriors⠀⇛
The self-proclaimed free speech warriors of the
Republican party have spent much of the past half-
decade trying to find some way to force social
media platforms to carry their often-objectionable
speech. That’s what these asshats and hypocrites
consider to be the real “censorship:” the actions
of private companies these same people have long
stated should not be forced to offer their services
to people they don’t like.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Court_Sentences_Two_Female_Journalists_To
Over_Four_Years_In_Prison_Each⠀⇛
Iranian female journalists Saeeda Shafiei and Nasim
Sultanbeigi have been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in
prison each for participating in the Freedom Life
Women protests. [...]
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Macron_walks_tightrope_as_French_police_protest
challenges_rule_of_law⠀⇛
French President Emmanuel Macron has declined to
condemn the country’s top police chiefs for
appearing to suggest officers were above the law,
seeking to stave off unrest among security forces
wearied by repeated bouts of street violence.
Critics, however, lament a missed opportunity to
reassert the state’s authority over an increasingly
restless police force.
# ⚓ Two_workers_are_killed_on_the_job_working_in_extreme_heat⠀⇛
The extreme heat is increasing the risk of a sudden
heart attack due to dehydration for people with
chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure,
renal disorders, or diabetes.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Weight_stigma_infiltrates_work⠀⇛
Discrimination based on body size is common and
persistent in American workplaces — but it’s
largely left out of diversity and inclusion
training, and overlooked in employment law.
Why it matters:There’s an economic cost to not
being thin.
# ⚓ Rights_group_draws_attention_to_rights_violations_in
prisons⠀⇛
In the prisons in Turkey’s northwestern Marmara
Region, four prisoners died of illnesses in three
months, according to the Human Rights Association.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Frisco_police_apologize_for_‘mistake’_after_video
shows_family_stopped_along_highway_and_held_at_gunpoint⠀⇛
About three minutes later, that officer’s colleague
tells him, “The wrong tag was written, this isn’t a
stolen vehicle.”
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ HRW:_Panama_indigenous_peoples_need_better
government_support_for_climate_change-related_relocation
efforts⠀⇛
The residents of Gardi Sugdub have been planning an
evacuation from the island due to rising sea levels
since 2017. However, HRW claims that the Panamanian
government’s promised support for the evacuation
has been slow to come. Their report alleges that
little work has been done to the site residents are
being relocated to, with the site lacking sewage,
water, garbage removal and health services. The
report goes on to say that there may not be enough
water supply in wells on site to support Gardi
Sugdub residents, even if water service is
connected. The report states: [...]
# ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Starvation_line_exceeds_minimum_wage_despite
substantial_increase⠀⇛
Comparing these figures to January, there has been
a notable increase in the cost of living. At the
start of the year, Türk-İş had measured the
starvation line at 8,864 lira and the poverty line
at 28,874 lira, with the cost of living for a
single working individual at 11,556 lira.
Furthermore, the prices of various goods have been
on the rise in Ankara, where a four-person family’s
minimum food expenditure has increased by 12.38%
compared to the previous month.
# ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Less_than_15%_workers_in_Turkey_unionized,
ministry_reveals⠀⇛
At the beginning of the year, there were 16,163,549
workers, with a unionization rate standing at
14.42%. However, the recent data indicates that the
unionization rate has slightly risen to 14.76%,
showing a modest growth in union membership.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Insurer_Shut_After_Pictures_Surface_Of
Female_Employees_Without_Hijabs⠀⇛
The suspension was announced by the Tasnim news
agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), on July 30. The
agency had previously labeled the images of Azki’s
female employees as a “violation” and “norm-
breaking.”
Last week, a video circulated on social networks
showing Azki’s employees in various departments,
many of whom were not observing the compulsory
hijab.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Cornel_West:_The_Christian_Socialist_Running
for_President⠀⇛
Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of
Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union
Theological Seminary in New York City and the
author of 20 books, from Prophesy Deliverance!
(1982) to Race Matters (1993) to Black Prophetic
Fire (2014). He’s also, more controversially, a
candidate for president of the United States on the
2024 Green Party ticket. Whatever one thinks of his
decision to run a third-party challenge (see The
Nation’s editorial), as a founding member of
Democratic Socialists of America and perhaps the
leading Christian thinker on the American left,
West brings both a public intellectual’s depth and
a long personal history of radical politics to this
unprecedented moment for American democracy.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Return_of_cruise_ship_carrying_Russian_passengers
sparks_new_protests_in_Batumi_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Georgian coastal city of Batumi saw renewed
protests Sunday morning against the arrival of the
cruise liner Astoria Grande, which was carrying
nearly 800 Russian tourists.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Woman_escapes_after_14_years_in_sexual_captivity
at_rural_homestead_outside_Chelyabinsk_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Chelyabinsk regional police is investigating the
abduction of the 33-year-old Yekaterina B., who
spent 14 years locked in a bedroom in Smolino, a
rural settlement just outside of Chelyabinsk. On
July 30, her sister filed a police report after
Yekaterina managed to escape from her captors.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Thunder_on_the_Left⠀⇛
The Rev. Traci Blackmon will never forget
Charlottesville. she was there in August 2017 with
a multi-faith contingent of fellow clergy, face-to-
face with white supremacist Christian nationalists
chanting, “You will not replace us! Jews will not
replace us!”
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Historian_Peter_Kuznick’s_Take_on
Nolan’s_“Oppenheimer”_Movie_&_The_Unaddressed_Impact_of
Dropping_the_Atomic_Bomb_/_Unveiling_the_Catastrophic_Truth:
Peter_Phillips_and_Bill_Tiwald_Discuss_the_Harsh_Realities_of
“Limited”_Nuclear_War_–_The_Project_Censored_Show⠀⇛
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ What_Did_Columbia_Know?_Survivors_of
Convicted_Sex_Abuser_OB-GYN_Robert_Hadden_Demand_Full
Accountability⠀⇛
Former New York gynecologist Robert Hadden has been
sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for
sexually assaulting patients over more than two
decades while working as an OB-GYN at the Columbia
University Medical Center starting in the late
1980s. Hadden’s federal conviction relates to four
survivors, and he has been accused of abusing at
least 245 women under the guise of medical
examinations. Lawyers representing survivors say
Columbia had a long history of ignoring Hadden’s
behavior in order to protect its reputation instead
of acting in the victims’ interests, and Columbia
University and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital have
paid out $236 million to settle claims by over 200
former patients of Hadden. For more, we speak with
two survivors: Laurie Maldonado was a gynecology
and obstetrics patient of Hadden’s between 2003 and
2012 and gave testimony at his trial, and Marissa
Hoechstetter was a patient from 2010 to 2012 and
gave a victim impact statement.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “FBI-Orchestrated_Conspiracy”:_Judge_Orders
Release_of_3_of_Newburgh_4_Tied_to_Fake_NY_Bomb_Plot⠀⇛
For the past 14 years, relatives of four men jailed
on terrorism charges in Newburgh, New York, have
accused the FBI of entrapment. On Thursday, a
federal judge agreed and ordered the release of
three of the men known as the Newburgh Four: David
Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen. The men
had been sentenced in 2010 to 25 years in prison
for a government-orchestrated bombing plot of a New
York synagogue. In a stunning decision, the judge
accused the FBI of inventing a conspiracy. With the
men set to be released within 90 days, we speak
with lawyers Kathy Manley and Stephen F. Downs from
the Coalition for Civil Freedoms about the
monumental ruling, the legal issues with entrapment
and what the ruling means for the many cases like
this one. “This was the government’s standard
operating procedure right after 9/11,” says Downs.
“They were out there going to create as many
terrorists as they could to show the public that
they were on the job.” The fourth man convicted,
James Cromitie, is expected to seek compassionate
release.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Ohio_Doctors_Join_Political_Battle_Over
Abortion_Laws⠀⇛
In her eight years as a pediatrician, Dr. Lauren
Beene had always stayed out of politics. What
happened at the Statehouse had little to do with
the children she treated in her Cleveland practice.
But after the Supreme Court struck down abortion
protections, that all changed.
The first Monday after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s
Health Organization ruling was emotional. Beene
fielded a call from the mother of a 13-year-old
patient. The mother was worried her child might
need birth control in case she was the victim of a
sexual assault. Beene also talked to a 16-year-old
patient unsure about whether to continue her
pregnancy. Time wasn’t on her side, Beene told the
girl.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ How_Prisoner-Led_Organizing_Saved_My_Life⠀⇛
Joining the Black Prisoners Caucus helped me find
direction and the opportunity to serve my community
amidst a life-without-parole sentence.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Weird_Trademark_Issue_That_Shows_Up_In_The
Harlan_Crow_/_Clarence_Thomas_Mess⠀⇛
I didn’t think we had much reason to write about
all of the Harlan Crow / Clarence Thomas stuff that
I’m sure you’ve read elsewhere. But the latest (in
a now increasingly long series) of mind-blowing
revelations from ProPublica regarding the
relationship between the billionaire and the
Supreme Court Justice… actually has a somewhat
bizarre trademark angle.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ AWS_introduces_charges_for_public_IPv4_use⠀⇛
Understanding AWS’ forthcoming IPv4 charges.
It seems there’s now another business case for
deploying IPv6 with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
announcing that from 1 February 2024, they’ll
charge USD 0.005, per IP, per hour for all public
IPv4 addresses, whether they’re attached to an AWS
service or not.
For an always-on service, that’s USD 43.80 yearly
for each IP. Depending on market prices and
resource requirements, Amazon BYOIP may be a better
option (and is excluded from these charges). From
early next year, running IPv4 via AWS will become
an OpEx versus CapEx decision depending on your
resource requirements. Considering how widely used
the AWS platform is for users of all sizes, this
will become an important factor for most AWS users
but even the simplest maths will show that IPv6
will save operating expenses.
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ The_gTLDs’_new_clothes⠀⇛
This is the fourth blog post on the topic of the
centralization of the Internet. The previous posts
cover the diversity of authoritative name servers,
the diversity of MX records, and an analysis of the
use of CAA records across generic Top-Level Domains
(gTLDs).
This research was first presented at the APAC DNS
Forum 2023 Pre-Event on 20 June 2023 (slides).
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ FCC_Slowly_Stumbles_Toward_Updating_Its
Pathetic,_Industry-Friendly_Definition_Of_‘Broadband’⠀⇛
Under the Communications Act, the FCC is supposed
to occasionally survey the state of the broadband
industry to ensure that affordable broadband is
being deployed on a “reasonable and timely basis,”
and do something about it if it isn’t.
# ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Amazon_AWS_To_Charge_for_Public_IPv4
Address_Next_Year⠀⇛
IN yet another sign of the increasing scarcity of
Ipv4 addresses, citing a pricing increase of 300%
for new addresses, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will
introduce a charge of $0.005 per IP per hour for
all public IPv4 addresses starting from February 1,
2024. New charges will apply to Virtual Private
Cloud (VPC), Amazon Global Accelerator, and AWS
Site-to-site VPN tunnel services using public IPv4
addresses. The advance notice was given to AWS
customers just ahead of the weekend via a blog post
by the Chief Evangelist of the firm, Jeff Barr.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Kickstarting_a_book_to_end_enshittification,
because_Amazon_will_not_carry_it⠀⇛
Amazon owns Audible, the monopoly audiobook
platform that controls >90% of the audio market.
They require mandatory DRM for every book sold,
locking those books forever to Amazon’s monopoly
platform. If you break up with Amazon, you have to
throw away your entire audiobook library.
That’s a hell of a lot of leverage to hand to any
company, let alone a rapacious monopoly that ran a
program targeting small publishers called “Project
Gazelle,” where execs were ordered to attack indie
publishers “the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly
gazelle”: [...]
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Live_Nation/Ticketmaster_Could_Face
Federal_Antitrust_Lawsuit_This_Year,_Says_New_Report⠀⇛
Live Nation and Ticketmaster could face a federal
antitrust lawsuit by the end of the year, says a
new report from three individuals close to the
situation.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Microsoft-Activision_deal:_UK_regulator_aims
for_decision_by_August_29⠀⇛
Any persons wishing to comment on the new version
of Microsoft’s takeover should do so by Aug. 4, the
CMA said in its statement.
It is aiming to make a final decision on the deal
by August 29, the CMA said.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Italy’s_antitrust_accepts_Google’s
commitments_to_end_data_portability_case⠀⇛
Italy’s AGCM competition watchdog on Monday said it
had accepted commitments proposed by Alphabet’s
unit Google to end a case over the tech giant’s
alleged abuse of its dominant position in the user
data portability market.
The regulator opened the investigation last year
following a complaint from Italian start-up company
Hoda which accused Google of hindering its users
right to share their personal data with other
digital service platforms.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Rare_earths_supply_chain_deal_to_usurp
China’s_monopoly⠀⇛
The United States Department of Defence is
bankrolling a processing plant under a beefed-up
contract with Australia’s leading rare earths
company.
Lynas Rare Earths, the largest rare earths producer
outside of China, on Tuesday announced the updated
contract for the construction of the heavy rare
earths component of a processing facility in Texas.
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTAB_Posts_August_2023_Hearing_Schedule⠀⇛
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Tee-
Tee-Ā-Bee) has scheduled nine oral hearings
for the month of August 2023. All hearings
will be held via video conference except for
the third hearing, which will be “In Person.”
Briefs and other papers for each case may be
found at TTABVUE via the links provided.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Appellate_Court_Reportedly
‘Inclined_To_Revive’_Michael_Jackson_Sexual_Abuse
Lawsuits⠀⇛
An appellate court is reportedly leaning
towards reviving sexual abuse lawsuits filed
against the estate of Michael Jackson by Wade
Robson and James Safechuck, whose stories
were told in 2019’s Leaving Neverland.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Reddit_Defeats_Filmmakers’_Second
Attempt_at_Unmasking_Anonymous_Users⠀⇛
A California federal court has again denied a
request to compel Reddit to unmask several
anonymous users. Film companies say the
Redditors’ comments could serve as relevant
evidence in a piracy liability case against
Internet provider Grande. However, the court
concludes that the Redditors’ First Amendment
right to anonymous speech outweighs the
interests of rightsholders.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Sky_Obtains_Novel_Injunction_to
Prevent_Piracy_of_Live_Sports_&_‘House_of_the_Dragon’⠀⇛
UK pay-TV broadcaster Sky has reportedly
obtained a High Court injunction that will
compel internet service providers to block
access to live pirated sports streams,
including both football and cricket matches.
A novel aspect of the injunction is that it
grants Sky the ability to protect specific
content, such as a major TV show, by blocking
certain piracy services at certain times.
Precise details are confidential but it’s not
too difficult to arrive at a credible theory.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Politics_and_World_Events
o Games
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_BEHIVRO_Wordo:_AXONS⠀⇛
# ⚓ Jorge_Sanz:_July_2023⠀⇛
July was mostly a month in between the conferences
and summer holidays for me. Next week we will go
out so July was a month at home, enjoying the local
festivities of Valencia (*Gran Fira de València*)
where the city was busy every weekend with many
different activities. We had also national
government and senate elections that as before, are
leaving the country in a period of politics and
very likely repeated elections.
# ⚓ Aestate_summa⠀⇛
According to the calendar it should be high summer
outside, but the thermometer shows 17 degrees C and
it has been raining all night and all day long.
We are in a hotel near the Hessian-Bavarian border
as after visiting family we needed some time for
ourselves. Clearly we picked the worst week
weatherwise. On the radio they are constantly
babbling about the need for security measures on
sizzling hot days as we’ll have plenty of those
because of the climate “catastrophe”. Yeah, look
outside you fools.
# ⚓ How_to_start_cooking⠀⇛
I think it’s hard to start from nothing. After all,
I’m standing in my kitchen and want to cook
something, so I start with the ingredients I have
at hand and the ingredients I have at hand are
based on vague notions of existing recipes. It is
extremely rare for me to get a book with a recipe
and shop for the ingredients.
# ⚓ Living_under_the_shadow⠀⇛
Recently I’ve been thinking more and more about
life and stuff, and I realised I’ve been living
under the shadow for my entire pre-18 life.
I’ve been wanting to do things by myself,
especially things that I’m interested in, but life
tells me that I’m not allowed to do that because
imagine seeing me looking at the screen and putting
the books aside, that will make me “fail”, so
because life doesn’t want me to fail even once,
I’ve instead become a puppet of life.
I’ve been trying to fail, find ways to do it my own
way, so that I can understand what I should
improve, but life always gets into my way and say
“don’t you dare”, so the most that I did during
these days were to grind out subjects like Math,
because that’s what I was interested in, and at
school, in which life doesn’t intefere me yet, it
was my biggest motivation to actually make
improvements, it was something that I was
passionate about.
o § Politics and World Events⠀➾
# ⚓ On_Direct_Democracy⠀⇛
To defend direct democracy, to oppose it as ‘real
democracy’ against the false political democracy of
the State, is to believe that our true nature will
at least be revealed if were to finally be freed
from the constraints which the system imposes on
us: but to free oneself of such constraints
supposes a transformation which at end of we would
no longer be ourselves, at the very least we would
no longer be what we are under the civilization of
Capital.”
# ⚓ On_Democracy⠀⇛
After a lifetime of thinking that I live in a
democracy, I was horrified not long ago to see how
it really works. In the US, people’s votes don’t
really count to elect a leader (except to
occasionally break a tie). People do not elect
leaders – it is the mysterious ‘electoral college’
that elects presidents.
It is the equivalent of the ‘dark web’ of politics.
Do you know who the electors of your state are?
Does anyone? How does one become an elector? Is it
a paid position?
These people are not responsible or accountable to
anyone for anything. They can vote any f***ing way
they feel like, for anyone they want. In some cases
if they vote against the wishes of powerful people,
they may be removed and replaced, repeatedly, until
the desired vote is cast — which is even worse,
because you see, someone in power has a way of
getting the vote they want, regardless of what the
elector wants, which is already decoupled from what
people want.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Mixed-level_parties⠀⇛
@andy@dice.camp asked me about playing with mixed
level parties. I’d say that compared to my days as
a D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder 1 referee running
Adventure Paths I feel that old school games like
B/X and AD&D running sandboxes like mega-dungeons
and hex-crawls are more carefree for me.
Players determine the difficulty level by deciding
where to go. This is made possible because mega-
dungeons and hex-crawls are sandboxes in the sense
that there are multiple ways to traverse them with
no clear progression in difficulty or plot
requirements. All this requires is for the players
to be able to make an informed decision. Rumours
about monsters provide warnings, and the implied
treasure provides enticement. Dungeon level depth
provides both.
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ zshbrev⠀⇛
zshbrev allows you to mix zsh code and brev code.
Not for polished li’l “eggs” but for your own duct
tape and chewing gum hacking and automation. Quick
and dirty♥.
The default directory is .zshbrev/ but you can
change it with the –dir flag to zshbrev.
# ⚓ Did_anyone_else_get_a_Beepy,_aka_Beepberry?⠀⇛
I just got one a few days ago and it’s pretty cool.
Kind of like a smaller PocketCHIP. I’m using a Pi
Zero W in it for now because I already had a few on
hand but would like to try the RISC V MangoPi MQ
Pro eventually. I wrote up some first impressions
on my gemlog.
# ⚓ Internet_speed,_Media_computer,_File_server:_Setting_up
Samba,_river_Wayland_updates⠀⇛
Still needs a lamp or something. It’s too dark in
the evenings. Other than that I think I like it
here. Depends on what happens in the living room, I
suppose, if we suddenly get a teen invasion or
something when #3 brings friends that want to use
the living room, but that has yet to happen.
I also re-routed our home network a little to get
rid of the cable salad I had made next to the
fucking DOCSIS modem. Instead, I have connected a
single Ethernet cable from it all the way behind
our bookcases to this desk and keep the rest of our
network equipment neatly on my desk. The cute and
noiseless little PC Engines apu2 which works as our
combined router and firewall is my favourite
computer in the household and sits just under my
monitor now.
This also means the workstation now gets real
Ethernet instead of the Powerline thing it had
before. Yeah, I know, I should just give up on the
Powerline things already and just wire real
Ethernet to every room in the flat.
# ⚓ ClockworkPi_DevTerm_Thoughts⠀⇛
At the end of March, I received a ClockworkPi
DevTerm UMPC. I didn’t have much of a chance to
play with it in April or May, but since about the
end of June, I’ve been using it as my primary
mobile PC. After about five weeks of consistent
use, I have a number of thoughts about the
platform.
My model is the DevTerm Kit RPI-CM4. The kit itself
is a set of computer components: screen, keyboard
with integrated trackball, main board, and
peripherals, along with a shell. The kit is very
simple to build: no soldering or screws are
required. Swapping and upgrading components is
extremely easy. Best of all, the hardware is open-
source, and schematics and 3D-printing files are
available on ClockworkPi’s GitHub page. Assembly
took only a few minutes.
A Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 is not included
inside the kit itself, but Clockwork does include
one in the purchase. Two 18650 lithium-ion
batteries are required for mobile use but are not
included at all. Fortunately, I had a few left over
from a much earlier project.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Splitting_the_Web⠀⇛
There’s an increasing chasm dividing the
modern web. On one side, the commercial,
monopolies-riddled, media-adored web. A web
which has only one objective: making us
click. It measures clicks, optimises clicks,
generates clicks. It gathers as much
information as it could about us and spams
every second of our life with ads, beep,
notifications, vibrations, blinking LEDs,
background music and fluorescent titles.
A web which boils down to Idiocracy in a
Blade Runner landscape, a complete cyberpunk
dystopia.
Then there’s the tech-savvy web. People who
install adblockers or alternative browsers.
People who try alternative networks such as
Mastodon or, God forbid, Gemini. People who
poke fun at the modern web by building true
HTML and JavaScript-less pages.
Between those two extremes, the gap is
widening. You have to choose your camp. When
browsing on the “normal web”, it is
increasingly required to disable at least
part of your antifeatures-blockers to access
content.
# ⚓ Append_Write_Corruption⠀⇛
Someone on the #gemini IRC channel had
guestbook code up for review; the results of
malloc and fopen calls were not checked.
These calls can and do fail, folks!
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