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⦿ Operation Mole — Part I — The Person Working to Kill GNU and to Kill Linux From the Inside | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 03, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ In the State of Washington Microsoft is Doing a ’Staff Bloodbath’ | Techrights
⦿ Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) From Google Causes Widespread Backlash | Techrights
⦿ [Meme] Split Personality | Techrights
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http://techrights.org/2023/08/04/gnu-and-linux-mole/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/04/irc-log-030823/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/04/microsoft-staff-bloodbath/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/04/posts-about-gulag-web-drm-uproar/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/04/split-personality/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/08/04/freebsd-minimum-desktop-guide/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/04/kde-neon-experimental/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/04/uefi-security-chaos-again/#comments
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✐ Operation_Mole_—Part_I—_The_Person_Working_to_Kill_GNU_and_to_Kill_Linux
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Posted in Deception, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Security at 1:43 pm by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
Series parts:
Inside
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Matthew_J_Garrett:_Am_I_here_to_secure_Linux_or_the_ruling
class?⦈_
Summary: Today, a fine Friday, we start a series about years of online abuse
against GNU/Linux luminaries and Free software hacktivists; we expect it to go
on for about 3 months
TODAY we finally start the series that we promised_a_week_ago. The series will
last about 3 months and will focus primarily on Matthew_J_Garrett, who attacked
BSD_and_GNU/Linux_users mostly by means of entryism, defamation, mobbing, and
blackmail. Above all, however, by technical means.
The online_abuse must stop. It is systemic and sociopathic in nature.
“The online abuse must stop.”There are also personal victims, not just
collective harm to users. Last month we did_a_series_about_the_campaign to
compel the Linux_Foundation to informally suspend the founder of Linux. The
same was later_done_to_the_father_of_GNU_and_the_FSF, mostly by blackmailing
the FSF. There are many other personal victims, but we won’t be focusing on all
of them.
“There are many other personal victims, but we won’t be focusing on all of
them.”The series will contain strong language in screenshots, but the words
used in the series itself will be clean, formal, and polite. We simply present
the facts. The world deserves to understand what we’re dealing with in order to
overcome an obstacle. After each part or most parts we expect to also produce a
video with additional information. The conclusion of the series is expected
some time in late fall (autumn) or wintertime. The next part will speak of
netiquette and begin shedding light on what’s happening. At this very moment
Garrett has at least 4 users (3 of them sockpuppets) simultaneously in our IRC
network. He knew this series would come, so he wants to spy on everything and
everyone. He is really that desperate. He does not seem to be sleeping. █
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✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Thursday,_August_03,_2023⠀✐
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✐ In_the_State_of_Washington_Microsoft_is_Doing_a_‘Staff_Bloodbath’⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Microsoft at 3:48 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Seattle: Microsoft’s_Latest_Redmond_Layoffs_Exposed_in_WARN_Act_Disclosures_
(About_3,000_Already_Laid_Off_in_Seattle_Alone) (that was May, many more have
been laid of since, based on WARN notices)
Redmond: Microsoft,_Based_in_Redmond,is‘Exiting’_Redmond_Amid_Layoffs_and
Other_Troubles_(Updatedx2)
Bellevue: (now/new)
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Microsoft's_Bellevue_workforce_dwindles_as_leases_lapse,
records_show⦈_
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Microsoft_head_cut⦈_
Notice the numbers… down from 9,300 employees to 4,400 (in just one place, not
the whole state)
Summary: Whatever really happens in Washington, it seems perfectly clear
Microsoft grossly understates the_number_of_layoffs_this_year, just like it is
defrauding_shareholders_with_fake_"results"
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⣿⡀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣸⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠼⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⡿⠈⣍⠉⠀⠀⢰⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣶⣶⡆⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠤⢤⡀⣈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⢿⡇⣀⡀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⡷⡇⠿⠃⠀⠀⠸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠓⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣷⢃⣀⣀⣀⣀⣨⣀⣠⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⡧⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠒⠲⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠚⠠⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠄⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⢸⣷⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⡇⢩⣥⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠈⣿⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⡇⠸⢿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡄⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣇⠀⢸⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡤⠤⠤⠧⠤⠤⠤⠦⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠬⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠦⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⢤⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⢿⡇⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⡏⢉⡉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⢸⣇⢁⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⢸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠿⠐⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣶⢶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣷⣷⣾⣾⡿⣦⣾⣿⣿⣾⣷⣮⣷⣶⣾⣷⣵⣶⣷⣷⣶⣾⣷⣶⣶⣷⣷⣶⣷⣷⣿⣷⣶⣷⣾⣷⣿⣷⣿⣾⢾⣷⣾⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⢿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠿⣿⠟⣿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠟⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠻⠿⠿⡿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣷⣾⣷⣿⣿⣷⣶⣷⣶⣶⣷⣷⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣿⣾⣷⣷⣷⣶⣾⣶⣾⣶⣶⣾⣿⣾⣼⣷⣷⣿⣶⣶⣿⣶⣶⣿⣿⣾⣶⣿⣶⣶⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣏⣘⣚⣉⣹⣈⣉⣹⣋⣉⣛⣛⣁⣈⣁⣁⣭⣇⣙⣈⣪⣪⣂⣍⣙⣉⣍⣟⣉⣍⣉⣉⣙⣈⣫⣉⣉⣉⣏⣁⣇⣈⣉⣏⣉⣉⣸⣋⣸⣀⣋⣹⣈⣂⣐⣘⣇⣈⣉⣇⣈⣉⣈⣉⣉⣙⣙⣭⣋⣉⣉⣉⣸⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡿⢿⢿⠻⠿⠿⠿⢿⡿⠿⠿⡿⢿⣿⢿⠿⢿⠻⠿⠿⡿⡿⠟⡿⢻⡟⢟⢟⠿⠿⡿⢿⠿⢿⠛⡿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠿⠻⠿⢿⠿⡿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⣟⠻⠟⠻⠿⠿⡿⢿⠹⠿⡿⣿⢻⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡷⣷⣶⢾⣾⠶⣶⣾⣶⢶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣷⣾⣶⣶⣶⣿⣶⣶⣿⣶⣷⣷⣷⣷⢶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣷⣶⢶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⢾⣶⢶⣶⣶⡶⣶⣶⣷⣾⣶⣶⣾⣷⣶⢾⣶⡶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣧⣤⣴⣤⣤⣤⣤⣀⣧⣤⣤⣧⣤⣤⣼⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣧⣴⣤⣤⣤⣤⣻⣧⣤⣢⣧⣧⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣦⣴⣤⣧⣴⣦⣾⣿⣤⣮⣦⣤⣴⣧⣤⣠⣤⣤⣤⣿⣶⣤⣤⣧⣤⣤⣤⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡏⠛⠛⢛⢙⢛⢛⣛⡛⣟⢛⠛⡛⠛⢻⠙⢛⢛⣻⢟⠛⢛⡛⠛⢛⠛⢛⢋⠛⢛⢛⠛⣟⡛⡟⠟⠛⡋⡏⠛⠛⡛⠛⠛⠛⢻⣛⣛⢛⠟⢛⣛⡛⢛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠟⠛⢋⡟⢻⠙⠛⠋⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⠿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⢷⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⢾⡿⣿⣿⡿⡿⢷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣧⣤⣶⣦⣿⣦⣼⣿⣦⣄⣤⣤⣤⣶⣾⣧⣧⣷⣴⣇⣤⣦⣔⣤⣴⣤⣤⣬⣿⣼⣦⣤⣷⣬⣤⣤⣦⣦⣤⣯⣤⣬⣤⣤⣤⣼⣤⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣧⣤⣴⣧⣤⣴⣤⣤⣀⣤⣴⣤⣤⣴⣤⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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✐ Digital_Restrictions_Management_(DRM)_From_Google_Causes_Widespread
Backlash⠀✐
Posted in DRM, Free/Libre_Software, Google, Microsoft, Standard at 2:37 am by
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum c00cf174f95c50ab7ed8251239b0dfe4
Chrome is a Threat
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/chrome-web-woes.webm
Summary: A followup to the_Chrome_DRM_information_from_the_other_day is
presented today as a video and some more links, plus the views of various
Techrights people/readers
LAST MONTH we wrote about Google’s attack on the Open Web [1, 2], to use this
term, “open”, very loosely. The Web had already been attacked by DRM several
years prior and Mozilla went along with it, as did the W3C, the World_Wide_Web
Consortium. We then reposted_the_FSF's_statement_on_this_matter. The subject
was brought up in the LibrePlanet mailing lists (“Speculations_about_WEI” and
some_replies) and lots of blogs, so at least we’re seeing widespread backlash.
“Attestation” (as they call it) prevents modification of the source or use of
modified source programs or perhaps even just compilation on one’s own. It
clearly violates the First Freedom, which says: “The freedom to study how the
program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1).
Access to the source code is a precondition for this.”
“The Web had already been attacked by DRM several years prior and Mozilla went
along with it, as did the W3C…”Chromium, however, is_under_the_3-Clause_BSD
license. Nothing wrong, eh? Nonetheless, the “attestation” violates software
freedom even if it does not violate Chromium’s license per se. The video above
moreover explains that Chrome and other ‘finished’ browsers are proprietary
software. So there’s a bit of openwashing going on, not even counting the DRM.
To borrow the words of a reader, the latest iteration turns the Web browser
into a VM for unsafe “web apps” outside the control or influence of the
ostensible owner. One blogger compared the future of the Web to VNC. There were
many_others. At least in technical circles, including high-profile YouTube
channels, this became a very big deal. It’s doing a lot of harm to Google’s
reputation.
“Google engineers want to make using Free Software (near) impossible,” one
person told us, “starting with custom software.”
“To borrow the words of a reader, the latest iteration turns the Web browser
into a VM for unsafe “web apps” outside the control or influence of the
ostensible owner.”“Using a free browser is now more important than ever,” one
person wrote. To which MinceR responded with, “if only they existed for the
“modern” web…”
“It’s getting some attention,” said another person, “but will there be action
of the right kind and quantity to prevent and not just postpone the cancer? Are
there any serious non-Google browsers? Is it even possible to make one, even
setting aside the question of the JavaScript VM? Firefox, due to Baker, is a
Google browser. Follow the money.”
Consider the analysis_published_some_years ago about the near impossibility of
creating a browser from scratch any more. There are many_comments_about_it_in
LWN and there’s a_more_recent_analysis, last updated 1.5 months ago. Google is
moaning that it cannot make money with YouTube on the Web, so it is trying to
change the Web (or Web browsers), not YouTube.
“Google owns the client side of the market,” one reader asserts, as “between
Chrome/Chromium and Android that’s close enough to 100% not to matter” whether
other browsers still work. “They also more or less own the protocol (HTTP/3)
and that is an even more serious matter.”
“Google is moaning that it cannot make money with YouTube on the Web, so it is
trying to change the Web (or Web browsers), not YouTube.”“With Chrome,” the
reader has since added, the YouTuber “Brodie is 100% correct, contacting
legislators is the only possible mitigation at this point.”
“HTTP/3 is a severe problem especially since it uses UDP so as to push the
processing further up the stack into the client software. Also WEI seems to be
a move further away from the web as a client-server architecture and deeper
into misusing the Web browser as a shoddy, insecure VM to run inefficient,
bloated “web apps” of unknown provenance.”
“The WWW won’t die, it will be killed outright by the likes of Microsoft and
google The corpse won’t go away to leave us in peace though, it will continue
as a zombie which all will be forced to interact with using proprietary
browsers on proprietary operating systems as prerequisites for dealing with
governments and banks and other services.”
“Having a herd of people whine into social control media will affect nothing.
Pooling money and hiring lobbyists to represent the issues is how things get
done.”
“Maybe the “dark Web” became a suitable name for the World Wide Web we already
have.”“Risky Biz News wants to install Google Widevine [or at least] RB’s
newsletter (which is not self-hosted) or the subcontractor (substack) which is
hosting it are pushing DRM via Widevine.”
“One more thing about Google and the problems it makes, much of that might be
the result of the toxic people and work culture intentionally imported from
Microsoft into Google about 15+ years ago. The managers see programmers and
high-tech staff as fungible commodities; they are anything but, especially if
they are the kind of human stains that have passed through Redmond.”
We’ll probably be hearing a lot more about it in months to come. Maybe the
“dark Web” became a suitable name for the World Wide Web we already have. █
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✐ [Meme]_Split_Personality⠀✐
Posted in Deception at 1:59 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Summary: With four simultaneous sockpuppets/usernames of as now you just know
that Matthew_J_Garrett must be a crackhead
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Politics_and_World_Events
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ Heaviest_Of_Them_All⠀⇛
Alas, the fate was sealed
And ’twas decided that he ought to live in peril
And to roam in vain
For an eternity unknown
Until his undoing cometh.
And to be forgotten both above and under the earth.
Thus was decided for him
And thus it shall be …
# ⚓ Head_in_Pisces⠀⇛
Her cracked lips are leaking. Both eyes still work,
but cannot grasp the damage. The skeletal fingers
tip-toe from her shoulder up the neck, looking for
the point of impact. There it is, a screwdriver
through the throat, barely missed the trachea. The
hand grabs the handle.
“What the fuck are you doing?!” The shattered blade
exclaims through a flooded speaker in its hilt. She
spits into her other hand. Oily blue mixed with
blood reflecting the hot orange light of antique
lightbulbs in the ceiling. “Don’t fucking pull it
out, stop!”
# ⚓ The_Moments_We_Feel_Alive⠀⇛
When I was a kid, I’d sometimes have the clarity to
realize how truly meaningful or special a moment
was.
Once, a friend from a previous town had come to
visit for the summer. We spent the days in the
woods, exploring or building forts, and the nights
inside playing PlayStation. I knew the summer would
be over in the blink of an eye, my friend would
return to his town and I might never see him again.
But I had a trick.
It’s going to sound odd, but I would squeeze my
tear ducts with my thumb and pointer finger and
massage them. Yes it’s strange, but this would give
me a moment of clarity, a moment where I felt truly
in the moment, instead of being swept away by time.
I would feel my mind clear, the weight of life
lifted from my head. I’d do this often, trying to
remember moments like that summer.
# ⚓ As_the_evening_comes_to_a_close⠀⇛
But for a few unavoidable exceptions, if something
doesn’t load in elinks, I consider it not worth my
time. There are plenty of good reads in Gemini, and
simple personal websites some of those authors
create. Ain’t got time to watch a page load, jump
around so that I wind up clicking on the wrong
links, suddenly displays an overlay or popup
requiring a click to make it go away, etc.
# ⚓ Taking_time_off⠀⇛
So I kind of have August off? And it’s flipping
wild, tbh, because I don’t think I’ve ever
intentionally taken more than a couple of days off
at a time in my life.
# ⚓ Do_I_know_how_to_be_happy?⠀⇛
I think one of the cruelest things anyone has ever
said to me was a decade ago when I was dating
someone who had spent a lot of time telling me I
needed to open up, needed to learn to rely on them,
&c. and then when I was talking about how hard shit
was in grad school they got quiet and said
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ADEFITX_Wordo:_CONEY⠀⇛
# ⚓ Midnight_Poll_I⠀⇛
It’s not that I stopped having dreams.
But I stopped remembering them.
Perhaps they weren’t so special anymore.
Maybe it’s because I became busier with life, and
at the end of the day I was too tired to keep
thinking, let alone remember.
# ⚓ I_wish_there_were_more_garbage_in_this_world⠀⇛
Oh my gosh, how I loved “Garbage 2.0″!
Kinda makes me wonder if we might have some
favorite bands/albums in common, given you’re
almost exactly a generation younger than me, but I
was a huge fan of much 1990s music.
This is, I never had anyone my own age to
communicate with about it, because most people my
age are often insanely stuck up about the music of
“our” times/day.
I rarely whip out the CDs anymore, so I’ve
forgotten a lot of band, album, and song names. And
it’s not *just* because I’m lazy, having been
coddled by Alexa so quickly playing what I want/
need with little to no fuss. But it’s that we’re
generally too busy doing things requiring focus to
have great songs trying to kidnap that focus. I’m
not nearly as capable of doing things to music as I
thought I used to be.
o § Politics and World Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Re:_Cost_of_the_Right_Thing⠀⇛
France I recall being pretty car centric but there
were plenty of walkable areas, and often good
public transportation options. “The United States
is a unique outlier” when it comes to car-
slaughter, and public transportation generally
ranges from “lol” to “no”. Or, let’s play granny
frogger on that six-lane stroad! How bad varies by
location; a tourist from Florida was quite happy
that those sitting in cars were not actively trying
to murder him on his bicycle; we were chatting at
some intersection in Seattle, maybe it was the
Elliot and Western mess, in the usual car exhaust
with all the usual noise pollution.
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Fingering_vending_machines⠀⇛
This section was absent in the original RFC
(RFC742, from dec. 1977), which was an incredibly
succinct document. It was, however, present in both
RFC1194 and RFC1196 (both from late 1990), with a
slight variation on the final sentence:
Vending machines should NEVER NEVER EVER
eat requests. Or money.
# ⚓ FreeBSD_minimum_desktop_guide⠀⇛
I’m not going to cover the installation process,
but it is worth noting you might want to add your
user to groups ‘wheel operator video’.
The few services I use by default are
local_unbound, powerd and ntpd. local_unbound
caches dns requests and needs no configuration,
powerd adjusts cpu frequency as is needed and
enables hibernation and suspending, ntpd makes your
clock synced.
Once it’s installed, I get the handbook from the
post-installation menu. One benefit is that this
will also set up pkg and save you 10 seconds, when
you install packages for the first time.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Joining_a_google_group_(?)_from_a_non-google_email⠀⇛
I recently had the displeasure of needing to
join a (non-usenet) google group. Google
doesn’t make this easy to find anymore, but
they do allow you to subscribe from a non-
google account.
# ⚓ My_Gemini_Client_Preferences⠀⇛
The ideal would be to have an actual SOCKS5
interface built-in to the client, like the
Firefox Web browser has. I haven’t yet come
across a gemini client that has SOCKS5
support. So, I’ve had to use torsocks. The
tricky part is torsocks doesn’t work well
with all clients. In particular, Lagrange has
this problem where, if I try to run it on top
of torsocks, the feed reader occasionally
crashes and causes the whole application to
freeze up. At one point, I actually patched
Lagrange to disable the feed runner from
running, but I found it was easier just to
delete all my feeds from the Lagrange feed
reader, and load the feeds up using my gmisub
aggregator instance. But if the client had
proper SOCKS5 support, I wouldn’t have to
deal with torsocks at all.
# ⚓ It’s_feeling_like_one_of_those_quoting_kinds_of
days⠀⇛
I’m glad I don’t. I’m merely an occasionally
humble user of it for giving me a fast path
to efficiently putting easily nicely rendered
text in others-accessible places where the
quality of others in somewhat the same space
seemingly defies Sturgeon’s Law on a regular
basis.
=> =============================================================================
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 Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_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 Programming/Development
# Python
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Linux_continues_hitting_above_3%_desktop
user_share_on_Statcounter⠀⇛
Another month down and we can see that the Linux
desktop user share is continuing to rise and not
just on the recent Steam Survey. While we have
Linux hitting close to 2% and above macOS on the
Steam Survey for the first time, it’s nice to see
it continuing to rise elsewhere too!
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ IT World CA ☛ Linux_Kernel_6.5_RC4_released_with_328
commits⠀⇛
Linus Torvalds has released the fourth release
candidate for Linux Kernel 6.5, which includes 328
commits. This is the third time in a row that the
rc4 release of the Linux kernel has had exactly 328
commits. Torvalds has described this as a “weird
numerological coincidence.”
In addition to the 328 commits, Linux Kernel 6.5
RC4 also includes support for Alibaba’s T-Head
TH1520 RISC-V SoCs, work to enable CXL pooled
memory tech, Wi-Fi 7 enhancements, and more.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Soft-reboot_in_systemd_254_sounds_a_lot
like_Windows’_Fast_Startup [Ed: Windows users reboot a lot.
GNU/Linux don't. They seldom need to.]⠀⇛
Version 254 of systemd marks the 115th release of
this ever-growing init system for Linux. Expect to
see it in the autumn releases of Ubuntu and Fedora,
and in Arch and openSUSE Tumbleweed sooner.
This version brings at least one fairly significant
user-facing change that may even be noticed by
people who never interact with their init system in
any way: faster system reboots.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 6_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_Graphical
Port_Scanners⠀⇛
Port scanning is a popular technique used by
attackers to find services that they may be able to
compromise. A port scan assists the attacker in
finding which ports are available. The scan sends a
message to each port, with the response indicating
whether the port is used and can therefore be
probed further for weaknesses. There are a variety
of different forms of scanning which include TCP,
SYN, UDP, ACK, Window, and FIN scanning.
However, port scanning has many legitimate uses
such as network inventory and the verification of
the security of a network. Port scanners therefore
represent an important tool for users and system
administrators to verify the security policies of
their computers and network.
Here’s our verdict on the best graphical port
scanners. The software are frontends for Nmap. We
only include free and open source software here.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 8_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_Terminal-
Based_Port_Scanners⠀⇛
However, port scanning has many legitimate uses
such as network inventory and the verification of
the security of a network. Port scanners therefore
represent an important tool for users and system
administrators to verify the security policies of
their computers and network.
Linux has a good range of port scanners that help
administrators identify and rectify weaknesses in a
system. To provide an insight into the software
that is available, we have compiled a list of 8
terminal-based port scanners. Here’s our verdict.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to
Apple_Archive_Utility⠀⇛
In 2020, Apple began the Apple silicon transition,
using self-designed, 64-bit ARM-based Apple M1
processors on new Mac computers. Maybe it’s the
perfect time to move away from the proprietary
world of Apple, and embrace the open source Linux
scene.
Archive Utility creates and decompresses .zip files
and other compressed files. It provides several
options for you to have more control over file
compression and expansion on Mac.
Archive Utility is proprietary software and not
available for Linux. We recommend the best free and
open source alternatives.
# ⚓ Unix Men ☛ Enhance_your_photos_with_great_photo_editors_for
Mac,_Windows_10,_Linux⠀⇛
Are you a Linux or Mac or Windows 10 user who’s
been searching for the ultimate photo editor to
uplift your images? Your search ends here! We’ve
rounded up our premier selection of photo editors
for Linux, along with top choices for Mac photo
editor and Windows 10 photo software. It doesn’t
matter if you’re a seasoned professional
photographer or simply enjoy capturing the beauty
around you as a pastime, access to robust editing
tools is crucial to lift your images a notch
higher.
In this article, we’ll delve into some of the
supreme options ready for download. So, take a
moment, have your favourite drink at hand, and
let’s journey into the universe of photo editing!
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ What_do_<,_<<_and_<<<_mean_in_Linux?⠀⇛
Don’t they look like redirection indicators (> and
>>)?
# ⚓ How_To_Install_And_Run_Linux_On_A_Chromebook⠀⇛
Before installing Linux on your Chromebook, there
are a few important steps you need to take to
ensure a smooth and successful installation
process.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Install_New_Fonts_in_Ubuntu_and_Other
Linux⠀⇛
If you’re an Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution
user, you know how important fonts are for
enhancing the visual appeal of your system and
applications. For example, if you are customizing
your GNOME desktop, the fonts play an important
role in giving the desired look to your desktop.
Installing new fonts can give your computer a fresh
look and feel, making your creative endeavours even
more captivating. In this guide, we’ll walk you
through installing new fonts on Ubuntu and other
Linux distributions, ensuring your desktop stands
out with personalized typography.
Here’s how.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Baldur’s_Gate_3_out_now_and_works_on_Steam
Deck_and_desktop_Linux⠀⇛
For those interested in the latest big RPG from
Larian Studios, here’s my quick initial report on
Baldur’s Gate 3 running on Steam Deck and desktop
Linux. Keep in mind this is just some initial
testing thoughts – it’s a very big game.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Force_Feedback_Steering_Wheel_Made_From_Power
Drill⠀⇛
When it comes to controllers for racing games,
there is perhaps no better option than a force
feedback steering wheel. With a built-in motor to
push against the wheel at exactly the right times,
they can realistically mimic the behavior of a
steering wheel from a real car. The only major
downside is cost, with controllers often reaching
many hundreds of dollars. [Jason] thought it
shouldn’t be that hard to build one from a few
spare parts though and went about building this
prototype force feedback steering wheel for
himself.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Warhammer_40,000:_Gladius_devs_new_game
ZEPHON_has_a_demo_up⠀⇛
ZEPHON is the upcoming strategy game from Proxy
Studios who created Warhammer 40,000: Gladius –
Relics of War and Pandora: First Contact. For a
limited time you can check out the first demo for
ZEPHON. It has full Native Linux support just like
their previous games too!
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ It’s_Snake,_In_A_QR_Code,_But_Smaller⠀⇛
We’re not sure that many of you have recognised the
need in your life for an x86 machine code program
encoded into a QR code, but following on from
someone else work [donno2048] has created a super-
tiny Snake clone in assembly which comes in at only
85 bytes long. It fits far better in a QR code than
the previous effort, but perhaps more useful is a
web page demo which runs an in-browser DOS
compatibility library. We followed the compilation
instructions and got it running on our Manjaro
installation, with the result of a somewhat
unplayable but recognisable Snake, we’re guessing
because it was written for a slower platform. The
web version is more usable, and allows us to
investigate its operation more thoroughly.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Kingdom_Come,_The_Ascent,_Oblivion,_Rain
World_+_more_in_Fanatical’s_Platinum_Collection⠀⇛
Oh now this looks like it has some good picks for
you. Fanatical have launched their latest build it
yourself Platinum Collection bundle full of games.
You can pick between 3 games for £9.99, 5 for
$14.99 and 7 for £19.99.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Age_of_Empires_III:_Definitive_Edition_gets
a_free_starter_edition⠀⇛
Oh how I do love a good RTS. Age of Empires III:
Definitive Edition now has a special free starter
edition available on Steam. From my own testing, it
works great on desktop Linux with Proton too.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ More_retro_goodies_coming_in_the_Toaplan
Arcade_Shoot_‘Em_Up_Collection_Vol.2⠀⇛
Ready for another blast from the past? After the
success of the first set, Toaplan Arcade Shoot ‘Em
Up Collection Vol.2 has been announced from Bitwave
Games and Toaplan.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ First-person_co-op_dungeon_crawler_‘Barony’
has_major_upgrade_and_Steam_Deck_Verified⠀⇛
Barony from developer Turning Wheel LLC recently
had quite a lovely big upgrade, and thanks to that
it’s also now Steam Deck Verified with the Native
Linux version available.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Challenging_survival_city-builder_Landnama
is_out_now⠀⇛
Landnama from developer Sonderland scratches a very
weird itch as it mixes exploration, survival and
city-building into one and it’s quite a challenge
too. Note: the developer sent me a key.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Voxel_Doom_II_is_out_now_for_GZDoom⠀⇛
Spice up your next play-through of Doom II with the
new Voxel Doom II mod now available, bringing with
it fancy new monster models. Voxel Doom II is the
follow up to 2022′s award-winning Voxel Doom. This
is a new graphics mod that replaces all monsters,
weapons, props and items with fully 3d voxel
models. It replaces all monsters from both Doom and
Doom II.
# ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ Linux_surpasses_the_Mac_among_Steam_gamers⠀⇛
Apple’s macOS has been the second most popular
operating system on the Steam game distribution
platform for a long time, but that has now changed.
Linux has surpassed macOS for the number two spot,
according to Steam’s July user hardware survey.
Steam regularly asks its users to give an
anonymized look at their hardware, and the company
makes the information it gathers available each
month.
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Breaking_Barriers:_Linux_Outranks_macOS_on_the
Steam_Platform⠀⇛
Historically, Linux has been regarded primarily as
an operating system for servers, developers, and
tech enthusiasts, with gaming as an afterthought.
Compatibility issues, limited game libraries, and a
lack of support from major game developers marred
its reputation.
However, in recent years, Linux’s gaming
capabilities have radically transformed.
Efforts to create gaming-specific distributions and
advancements in compatibility layers like Proton,
developed by Valve, have paved the way for more
games to run smoothly on Linux systems.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ August_Plasma_6_progress_update⠀⇛
About 6 weeks ago, I posted a tentative
roadmap for Plasma 6. I wanted to give
everyone an update on how things have gone
since then!
So where are we? I previously explained that
we were somewhere in between “clean up the
code” and “Implement planned features and
changes”–stages 3 and 4. I predicted that
stage 3 code cleanup would mostly be done by
early August.
I’m happy to report that my prediction
appears to have been pretty accurate! As of
today, almost all of the planned Plasma 6
code porting tasks have been completed. Only
one major one remains: porting everything
away from DataEngines. But everything else is
done, including the following projects…
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ KDE_Plasma_6_Dev_Update:_From_Cleanup_to
Takeoff⠀⇛
In a recent update from the KDE development
team, significant progress has been made on
the anticipated KDE Plasma 6. The development
process, led by the diligent KDE developers,
has seen remarkable headway over the past few
weeks, transitioning from the code cleanup
phase to the exciting stages of implementing
planned features and enhancements.
# ⚓ Announcing_KDE_Neon_Experimental⠀⇛
With Neon unstable’s Plasma 6 packages
bubbling along nicely, it was decided that
all new KF6 based apps should be based in the
freshly repurposed Experimental archive.
Experimental builds on Unstable but nicely
segregates the pre-alpha KF6 apps from the
more stable Plasma 6 desktop.
A new package, neon-settings-experimental has
been made which installs neon-
experimental.list to point to the
experimental archive and 99-jammy-overrides-
experimental which adds a pin to make the
experimental archive package always be
installed. All packages in experimental are
versioned the same as in unstable, which
means it’s a competition of who has the
highest packaging suffix. However the
aforementioned pin ensures that the KF6 based
experimental package always wins even if it
means a downgrade (in timestamp version
numbers). So don’t be scared if apt tells you
it will be downgrading packages because
really you are upgrading!
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Mini_Text:_GTK4_Text_Editor_with
Uncomplicated_Brilliance⠀⇛
In text editor space, simplicity and
efficiency are often cherished qualities.
Meet Mini Text, the latest addition to the
list of lightweight text editors, is designed
to cater to your basic text editing needs
while boasting an incredibly low memory
footprint.
Whether you’re jotting down quick notes,
copying and pasting code snippets, or need a
distraction-free platform to express your
thoughts, Mini Text is your go-to solution.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Middleweight_champ_MX_Linux_23_delivers
knockout_punch⠀⇛
The MX Linux project has rolled out a new major release,
based on Debian 12, and is on its way to becoming our
favorite distro.
Around this time last year, MX Linux was new to us, as we
said when we looked at version 21.2. Now at version 23,
its developers describe it as a middleweight distro.
Don’t be misled, though: while it doesn’t go out of its
way to be stripped down or minimalist, it’s as rich and
feature-complete as any desktop distro out there.
The principal difference between MX and other Debian
remixes which seek to improve on the base OS, such as
Linux Mint Debian Edition or siduction, is that MX is a
member of the shortlist of distros that don’t use the
systemd init system.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Fedora_Partners_With_Asahi_to_Port_Linux_to
Apple’s_Arm_Silicon⠀⇛
Red Hat’s community Linux distribution, Fedora, and
Asahi Linux, a project that’s been working to
develop a reverse engineered port for running Linux
on hardware using Apple’s Arm-based silicon,
announced on Wednesday that they’ve developed a
working relationship, and that going forward
Asahi’s flagship distribution will be called Fedora
Asahi Remix.
That’s a change from the Asahi Arch Linux ARM
Remix, which has been Asahi’s flagship distro for
the last year or so.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Paint_the_Mythical_Minotaur:_Ubuntu_23.10
Wallpaper_Competition_is_LIVE!⠀⇛
Get ready to wield your creative brush strokes
because the much-anticipated Ubuntu 23.10 “Mantic
Minotaur” Wallpaper Competition is officially live!
Ubuntu fans, developers, and art lovers are invited
to contribute their imaginative masterpieces to
become a part of the upcoming Ubuntu 23.10 release,
slated for October 12, 2023.
# ⚓ How_to_Fix_Ubuntu_Ping_Not_Found_Error⠀⇛
Ping is a simple but useful utility that can help
you quickly identify network issues. If you’re
suffering from high ping, for example, then it can
cause issues when streaming media or gaming.
The ping utility is usually installed with your OS,
but there are times when this may not happen, or
the utility may get removed. If this is the case on
Ubuntu, you’ll see an Ubuntu ping not found error
message. You won’t be able to use ping until you
fix it.
Thankfully, you should be able to get ping up and
running in a matter of moments. Here’s what to do
if ping isn’t found on Ubuntu.
# ⚓ IT Pro ☛ Ubuntu_shifts_to_four-week_update_cycle⠀⇛
Critical fixes will also come every two weeks,
mitigating the issues involved with releasing
prompt patches on the old three-week cadence
# ⚓ Elektrobit,_NXP_Semiconductors_Collaborate⠀⇛
“The new NXP S32G3 is ideal for next-generation
architectures, and we are happy to extend its
capabilities with our broad line of AUTOSAR-
compliant software, as well as our new EB corbos
Linux – built on Ubuntu solution,” said Michael
Robertson, vice president, head of products and
strategy, Elektrobit.
# ⚓ UBports ☛ Ubuntu_Touch_OTA-2_Focal_Release⠀⇛
Ubuntu Touch is the privacy and freedom-respecting
mobile operating system by UBports. Today we are
extremely happy to announce the release of Ubuntu
Touch OTA-2 our 2nd stable update to the new 20.04
system! OTA-2 will become available for the
following supported Ubuntu Touch devices over the
next days…
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ GroupGets_officially_launches_Core-V_DevKit
with_RISC-V_MCU⠀⇛
The open-source Core-V MCU development kit, created
by OPENHW, has been launched today on GroupGets.
The kit incorporates a 32-bit CV32E40P open-source
RISC-V core, the ArticPro eFPGA from QuickLogic,
and Espressif’s AWS IoT EspressLink module for Wi-
Fi connectivity.
OpenHW specified that the Core-V MCU features the
CV32E40P processor (previously known as the RI5CY)
which is a 32 RISC-V core with four-stage pipeline
that implements the RV32IM[F]C RISC-V instruction
extensions. To accelerate AI/ML applications, the
Core-V also features the low-cost QuickLogic’s
ArticPro eFPGA.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ CORE-V_MCU_Devkit_features_open-source_32-
bit_RISC-V_core,_Amazon_AWS_IoT_connectivity,_Mikrobus
expansion,_VGA_camera⠀⇛
# ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ Home_Assistant_–_moving_from_the_HA_Greeneye
integration_to_hacs-greeneye-monitor⠀⇛
I started using Home Assistant (HA) for graphing
the power consumption of my house. Many months
before venturing down that road, I bought a
Greeneye Monitor (GEM). A current transformer has
been installed on each circuit in my breaker box
(see the photos near the bottom of this album). I
chose HA for that. I first trying installing from
FreeBSD packages into a FreeBSD jail, but then
reluctantly abandoned that approach in favor of
running HA natively in bhyve.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_8BitDo_Retro_Mechanical_Keyboard_looks
awesome⠀⇛
While their software for programming it only
officially supports Windows and Android, the 8BitDo
Retro Mechanical Keyboard sure does look awesome. I
need this. Supporting connecting up via USB,
Wireless 2.4G and Bluetooth it has a range of
options for whatever way you wish to use it.
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ GroupGets_officially_launches_Core-V_DevKit
with_RISC-V_MCU⠀⇛
The open-source Core-V MCU development kit, created
by OPENHW, has been launched today on GroupGets.
The kit incorporates a 32-bit CV32E40P open-source
RISC-V core, the ArticPro eFPGA from QuickLogic,
and Espressif’s AWS IoT EspressLink module for Wi-
Fi connectivity.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Introducing_support_for_the_new_Nano_ESP32_board
in_Arduino_Cloud⠀⇛
Great news for Arduino enthusiasts! The new Nano
ESP32, just released on July 17th, is now
officially supported by the Arduino Cloud. This
powerful combo brings MicroPython and IoT
capabilities right to your fingertips, simplifying
all your smart device projects.
The Nano ESP32‘s native MicroPython support
empowers you to code in Python effortlessly. It
opens up a world of possibilities for all skill
levels, from simple scripts to complex IoT
applications.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Open-Source_Cell_Phone_Based_On_ESP32⠀⇛
Over the past decade or so, smartphones have
exploded in popularity and seamlessly integrated
themselves into nearly every aspect of most
people’s lives. Although that comes with a few
downsides as well, with plenty of people feeling
that the smart phone makes it a little too easy to
waste time and looking to switch to something
simpler, like an older-style flip phone. If this
style of phone is more your speed, take a look at
this DIY cell phone which takes care of everything
a phone really needs to do. (Google Translate from
French)
# ⚓ Ivan Kuleshov ☛ Mac_mini_with_Power_over_Ethernet⠀⇛
Below I’ll talk about the project, I think you can
replicate it, but I don’t think you’ll want to.
Keep in mind it’s quite time-consuming. Something
can go wrong at every step. You will void the
warranty on your Mac mini. So it’s your
responsibility.
It was an experiment, a test of skills, a topic for
discussion, and just a hardware-hacking project
# ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ Amiga_4000_Restoration_x2:_Part_1⠀⇛
Due to a series of strange events, I have ended up
with not one, but two Amiga 4000s in the last few
weeks. They are both in need of very different
restorations. I hope that I can get at least one
complete machine out of them, and then sell the
other one. I don’t have room for two in my
collection, and it will help recoup the costs.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ How_to_emulate_an_Atari_ST_from_inside⠀⇛
Like the Commodore Amiga, the Atari ST was an
iconic home computer, offering many people their
first glimpse of the 16-bit digital world. After
almost 40 years, it’s still an engaging design,
although the internal hardware may need a few
repairs and upgrades to fit in with the modern
standards. In this article, you’ll see how to
replace the internal electronics of an Atari-ST
with a Raspberry Pi, while retaining the original
keyboard. None of the changes performed require
modifications to the original case or to the
circuitry of the Atari, making the process
completely reversible in the future.
# ⚓ Arduino ☛ Jumperless_breadboard_makes_prototyping_a
breeze⠀⇛
Most makers start their initial electronics
prototypes on a breadboard, which is great for
quickly setting up temporary circuits. But forming
the connections requires jumper wires and even a
basic project quickly becomes a rats’ nest of
wiring that is difficult to manage. Tracking down
issues within that tangle of wires is a massive
headache, which is why Architeuthis Flux designed
this jumperless breadboard to make prototyping a
breeze.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ This_app_lets_you_play_PC_games_on_your
Android_phone⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ Shortwave’s_Google_Inbox_successor_is_now
available_on_Android_–_The_Verge⠀⇛
# ⚓ Computer World ☛ The_best_calendar_apps_for_Android_|
Computerworld⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Your_Android_phone_could_soon_auto-zoom
into_QR_codes_for_scanning⠀⇛
# ⚓ Extreme Tech ☛ Google’s_‘Privacy_Sandbox’_Ad_Features_Are
Rolling_Out_on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ Top_4_Remote_Desktop_Apps_For_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Top_11_Ways_to_Fix_Android_Phone_Hangs_Up_As_Soon_As_I_Dial
–_Guiding_Tech⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Chrome_for_Android_red_arrow_bug_prompting
beta_update⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Thunderbird_115.1_Released_with_Bug
Fixes_&_UI_Buffs⠀⇛
To keep things ticking over nicely a
scheduled update to the open source email
client is rolling out. The update brings a
bunch of bug fixes to bear, plus a couple of
minor UI tweaks.
Thunderbird 115.1 hides the Quick Filter bar
by default. I think this gives the e-mail
client (in whatever layout you’re using) a
sleeker presentation. Still it’s only hidden
by default not removed; the Quick Filter bar
is still included and you can show/hide it
with a mouse click or a key press.
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Making_trustworthy_chatbots_to_support
women_plagued_by_violence_and_abuse⠀⇛
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global
pandemic that affects one in three women in
their lifetime. Kwanele Bringing Women
Justice, one of the winning startups at
Mozilla’s Responsible AI Challenge, wants to
help survivors of abuse in South Africa by
giving women and children an easy-to-use tool
to report and successfully prosecute crimes
involving gender-based violence.
# ⚓ Replicate_PWAs_on_Firefox⠀⇛
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) work seamlessly
on Chrome and are often lightweight clones of
their desktop counterparts based on JS
frameworks like Electron.
If you’ve used Chrome — some websites prompt
you to install their web app. PWAs on Chrome
have features such as: service workers for
offline capabilities, responsive design, and
push notifications. (Firefox is not far
behind!) infact, Firefox uses Google’s
servers to push notifications to android-
users.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ SICP ☛ Type_safety,_undefined_behaviour,_and_us⠀⇛
There appears to be a shift towards programming
languages that improve safety by providing an
expressive type system, automatic memory
management, and no gaps in the specification that
lead to “undefined behaviour”. If your program is
consistent with the logic of the programming
language specification, then it compiles and
executes the behaviour you would understand from
the source code and the language documentation. If
any of that isn’t true, then your program doesn’t
compile: there are no gaps for not-quite-consistent
programs to fall through, that get detected later
when the program is running.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Seth Michael Larson ☛ Quirks_of_Python_package
versioning⠀⇛
Python package versions seem simple on the
surface because we’re used to seeing the
common and well-defined version schemes like
SemVer (1.2.3) or CalVer (2023.6.1) and
occasionally a pre-release suffix
(1.2.3pre1). But Python package versioning
can get much more complicated than that! 🤯
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o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Actress_Irina_Miroshnichenko_Dies_At_81⠀⇛
Irina Miroshnichenko, a popular actress in the Soviet
Union in the 1970s and ’80s, has died in a Moscow
hospital, local media reported, citing her friends and
colleagues on August 3.
o ⚓ Riccardo Mori ☛ Helvetica_12⠀⇛
A good default font should stand the test of time for
decades, if not a literal lifetime. — Yes, generally
speaking this is true. But we are talking about computer
fonts designed mainly for display work. What worked well
on computer displays from 20 or 30 years ago may not work
as well on current displays, especially considering just
how much their technology has evolved over the past three
decades. What once was the entire screen of a Macintosh
computer, it’s now as big as a postage stamp on the much
bigger, much denser displays we use today. I don’t think
Microsoft is “chasing fleeting fashion rather than
timeless style”. They have realised that Calibri, while
still being a nice font for its intended purpose, may not
be the optimal choice for current displays. For me, it
makes sense that, as technology evolves, certain elements
that go with it have to evolve as well.
o ⚓ James G ☛ Help_Build_the_Social_Web⠀⇛
The biggest way you can participate in the social web is
to start a personal website! Write about what interests
you. On this blog, I have interviewed coffee
professionals around the UK, written about moments that
have brought me joy, and shared my thoughts on the web.
The only limit is your creativity. And indeed you can
design your site as you want, too! Make it yours.
Personal websites are by no means islands. With tools
like social readers (of which RSS readers are a part),
you can follow your favourite websites. On the average
day, I see commentary on news stories from a writer whose
work I appreciate, posts about coffee, random Tweet-
length musings from other people, and more. I can even
like and comment on posts! You can share your posts with
other people on social media, too! Join the IndieWeb and
tell us you made a website!
o ⚓ Josh Justice ☛ More_Personal_Computing⠀⇛
Ever since I did a research project on Smalltalk and
HyperCard, I’ve been trying to figure out what my
interests are when it comes to computing. It seems like
there are a number of threads, but I think there are
parallels. Here are some of the main threads: [...]
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_UCLA_Students_Who_Live_in_Their_Cars⠀⇛
Nearly 20,000 Angelenos live in RVs, vans, or cars,
a 55 percent increase over when the count first
started, in 2016. As the housing shortage deepens,
thousands more will likely be forced into this
lifestyle. Many of these people do not have the
mental-health or substance-abuse issues eagerly
trotted out to dismiss the homelessness crisis. A
significant minority have jobs—they’re people who
stock shelves or install drywall but simply can’t
afford a home.
Like most Angelenos, I was repulsed by the
homelessness crisis, vehicular or otherwise. Early
in the summer of 2021, I temporarily joined the
20,000. Amid COVID-19 lockdowns, I was paying half
of my income for a bedroom in a shared student
apartment furnished like a doctor’s office waiting
room. My lease was set to expire, and I had to
travel for work, anyway. Moving into my Prius
seemed like the best bad option.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ Students_claim_move_to_shut_history_centre
library_at_JNU⠀⇛
The students have said the CHS library is not only
a collection of history books, but also acts as a
documentation centre. The library is known to have
around 18,000 books, hundreds of PhD theses and
journals as part of its collection. “Books
preserved in the library are as old as 150 years.
It is an asset for the future generation of
scholars,” the statement added. The students urged
“the academic community to show solidarity in the
fight against the appropriation of the CHS
library”.
They have also claimed that this is not an isolated
event, and in the past, too, the university has
closed down several libraries and reading rooms.
“The library of School of Languages has been locked
out since 2019 and an attempt to close the reading
room in School of International Studies has also
been made in the past,” the statement pointed out.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Apple_sales_slump_continues,_amid_big
AI_spend⠀⇛
Apple has forecast a sales slump will continue into
the current quarter, as the tech giant makes a
massive investment in artificial intelligence
research and development.
Apple shares dropped about 2 per cent after the
company predicted what could be the fourth quarter
in a row of declining sales. Weaker than expected
sales of Apple’s most famous device, the iPhone,
underwhelmed investors. Executives said iPhone
sales would improve in the fourth quarter, but did
not say how much.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Apple_III_Slows_Down_To_Smell_The_Roses⠀⇛
The most collectible items in the realm of vintage
computers often weren’t the most popular of their
era. Quite the opposite, in fact. Generally the
more desireable systems were market failures when
they first launched, and are now sought out because
of a newly-appreciated quirk or simply because the
fact that they weren’t widely accepted means
there’s fewer of them. One of the retro computers
falling into this category is the Apple III, which
had fundamental hardware issues upon launch leading
to a large recall and its overall commercial
failure. [Ted] is trying to bring one of these
devices back to life, though, by slowing its clock
speed down to a crawl.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Better_3D_Prints,_Courtesy_Of_A_Simple_Mass-
Produced_Bracket⠀⇛
On the “hack/not-a-hack” scale, a 3D printed
bracket for aluminum extrusions is — well, a little
boring. Such connectors are nothing you couldn’t
buy, and even if you insisted on printing them
instead, Printables and Thingiverse are full of
ready-to-use designs. So why would you waste your
precious time and effort rolling your own?
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Old_Film_Camera_Modified_For_Different
Chemistry⠀⇛
While most photographers have moved on to digital
cameras with their numerous benefits, there are a
few artists out there still taking pictures with
film. While film is among the more well-known
analog photographic methods available, there are
chemically simpler ways of taking pictures
available for those willing to experiment a little
bit. Cyanotype photography is one of these methods,
and as [JGJMatt] shows, it only takes a few
commonly available chemicals, some paper, and a
slightly modified box camera to get started.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Up_to_40%_of_all_Arm_servers_are_deployed
in_China⠀⇛
It isn’t too hard to understand why Arm-based
systems might be doing so well in China. Although
the vast majority of servers are still running on
x86 chips from AMD and Intel, these are
manufactured by US companies and it is becoming
more difficult for Chinese companies to obtain
advanced chips because of Washington’s trade
restrictions.
By contrast, the Arm architecture is available for
license by chipmakers around the world, including
many in China such as Alibaba and Huawei, which may
make it a more palatable option for companies
there.
# ⚓ [Old] Long_live_netbooks!⠀⇛
This post is going to be in two parts: first I want
to talk about the netbook I got in 2010 and how it
turned out to be useful in 2022. The second part is
going to be a list of steps I took to set it up
after re-installing OpenBSD on it.
# ⚓ [Repeat] Ruben Schade ☛ ATX_bracket_for_the_Cooler_Master
NR200P⠀⇛
The Cooler Master NR200 and NR200P are fun mini-ITX
cases that support SFX power supplies by default.
I’ve since moved to a Fractal Ridge, but I’m
repurposing mine for a friend. I remembered reading
it supported ATX power supplies with the removal of
a top fan too, but I couldn’t figure out how.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Moscow_to_give_Africa_more_unproven
“vaccines”_that_nobody_wants_or_needs⠀⇛
The Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum,
held in St. Petersburg at the end of July, was by
all accounts a smashing success.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_pro-democracy_union
members_fined_HK$6,000_over_Covid-19_supplies_street_booth⠀⇛
Four members of a Hong Kong pro-democracy union
have been fined HK$6,000 each after being found
guilty of breaching Covid-19 gathering rules three
years ago. Tsang Ho-yuen, Yung Ka-man, Wong Chun-yu
and May Lam, of the Construction Site Workers
General Union, appeared before a judge on Thursday
after pleading not guilty earlier.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ One_Gross_Habit_Could_Increase_Your_Risk_of
Catching_COVID-19⠀⇛
Another reason to keep your fingers clear from your
face.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Cats_to_Be_Given_Anti-COVID_Pills_After
Deadly_Feline_Outbreak_in_Cyprus⠀⇛
Thousands have already succumbed.
# ⚓ Gannett ☛ World_telling_Russia_to_‘stop_using_food_as_a
weapon_of_war,’_Blinken_says:_Live_updates⠀⇛
Since withdrawing from the yearlong deal in mid-
July, Russia has not only resumed its blockade of
the Black Sea but also attacked Ukraine’s shipping
infrastructure, destroying about 180,000 metric
tons of grain and helping drive up prices of wheat
and other agricultural products.
# ⚓ Chris Hannah ☛ The_More_Social_Networks_There_Are_the_Less
I_Want_to_Use_Them⠀⇛
I’ve fund that right now, I’m more interested in
people in the real world than on the [Internet].
That’s not a dig at anyone I’ve talked to online.
But it doesn’t replace talking to people in the
physical world.
I think the reason why I’m preferring to write for
my blog over social media, is that it’s a more
biased relationship. It allows me to collect my
thoughts, and then express them in whatever form I
feel fits the content and context. And then if
people want to reply in any way, they can do so via
email, Mastodon, X, etc. But, at a slower pace, and
also in any which way they feel relevant.
# ⚓ The Drone Girl ☛ Zipline_dives_into_healthcare_drone
deliveries_—_and_they’re_in_the_U.S.⠀⇛
Zipline and OhioHealth this week announced a
partnership where Zipline’s fully electric drone
delivery service would integrate into OhioHealth’s
network to bring prescriptions directly to
patients’ homes, as well as to move lab samples and
supplies between OhioHealth facilities.
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Gustavo_Rivera:_“I_Want_to_Destroy
Health_Insurance_Companies’_Business_Model”⠀⇛
New York State Senator Gustavo Rivera talks to
Jacobin about his proposed state-level single-payer
health care bill, why covering undocumented
immigrants is crucial, and the state of progressive
politics in New York.
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Unregulated_PFAS_Harming_Native_American
Community_in_Michigan_–_Validated_Independent_News⠀⇛
PFAS chemicals have contaminated the groundwater
throughout Michigan, affecting some 230 sites,
including military bases, landfills, and airports.
PFAS are polyfluorinated plastics used in products
such as fire retardants, lubricants, and coatings
like Scotchgard and Teflon. Scientists have linked
PFAS exposure to an array of illnesses, including
cancers, immune system suppression, elevated
cholesterol, and decreased infant and fetal growth.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] Simon Willison ☛ We_need_to_tell_people_ChatGPT_will
lie_to_them,_not_debate_linguistics⠀⇛
ChatGPT lies to people. This is a serious bug that
has so far resisted all attempts at a fix. We need
to prioritize helping people understand this, not
debating the most precise terminology to use to
describe it.
We accidentally invented computers that can lie to
us.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ The_government_is_struggling_to_track
its_AI._And_that’s_a_problem.⠀⇛
Regulating AI is a cornerstone of the current
administration’s agenda, but the push to figure out
where the federal government was using the
technology began before President Joe Biden took
office. In the final weeks of the Trump
administration, the White House published an
executive order calling on federal agencies to
report all current and planned uses of AI and
publish those results. The goal, according to
Executive Order 13960, was to document how the U.S.
government is using AI and establish principles for
the technology.
More than two years later, the process of actually
developing these inventories hasn’t gone smoothly.
Unlike other government AI initiatives such as the
Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights and the National
Institute for Science and Technology’s Risk
Management Framework, the 2020 executive order
carries the force of law and has terms that require
compliance, argues Christie Lawrence, an affiliate
at Stanford’s RegLab.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Twitter_Gives_Verified_Users_Option_to_Hide_Their
Checkmark_of_Shame⠀⇛
Early on Tuesday, Twitter added a note about the
“Hide your blue tick” toggle on the platform’s
verification help page. This makes it so the blue
checkmark no longer appears next to accounts’
profile pages or their posts. The site still notes
that using Blue features could still identify you
as a paid subscriber and that some features may not
be available at all while the mark is hidden. The
feature is available in the users’ Profile
customization tab in account settings.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Troll_Impersonates_Twitter_CEO_Linda_Yaccarino
After_She_Changed_Her_Username⠀⇛
Elon Musk announced he was changing Twitter’s name
to X In the last week of July, reflecting the
billionaire’s life-long obsession with the letter,
which is a very normal thing for an adult man to
have. To celebrate, CEO Linda Yaccarino, whom Musk
appointed in May, changed her username from
@lindayaccs to @lindayaX. An enterprising troll
snatched up @lindayaccs, impersonating Yaccarino
with a handle one letter off from her old one.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_Can_You_Do_When_A.I._Lies_About
You?⠀⇛
Artificial intelligence’s struggles with accuracy
are now well documented. The list of falsehoods and
fabrications produced by the technology includes
fake legal decisions that disrupted a court case, a
pseudo-historical image of a 20-foot-tall monster
standing next to two humans, even sham scientific
papers. In its first public demonstration, Google’s
Bard chatbot flubbed a question about the James
Webb Space Telescope.
The harm is often minimal, involving easily
disproved hallucinatory hiccups. Sometimes,
however, the technology creates and spreads fiction
about specific people that threatens their
reputations and leaves them with few options for
protection or recourse. Many of the companies
behind the technology have made changes in recent
months to improve the accuracy of artificial
intelligence, but some of the problems persist.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ We’re_in_the_OWASP-makes-list-of-
security-bug-types_phase_with_LLM_chatbots⠀⇛
The OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model
Applications is a project that catalogs the most
common security pitfalls so that developers, data
scientists, and security experts can better
understand the complexities of dealing with LLMs in
their code.
# ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ What_is_Machine_Learning?⠀⇛
Welcome to part one of our series on machine
learning. In this installment, you’ll learn about
what ML is, the basics of how it works, and all the
different types and models of ML. See real world
applications of ML models and how you can get
involved!
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ The_Need_for_Trustworthy_AI⠀⇛
As a security expert and data scientist, we believe
that people who come to rely on these AIs will have
to trust them implicitly to navigate daily life.
That means they will need to be sure the AIs aren’t
secretly working for someone else. Across the
internet, devices and services that seem to work
for you already secretly work against you. Smart
TVs spy on you. Phone apps collect and sell your
data. Many apps and websites manipulate you through
dark patterns, design elements that deliberately
mislead, coerce or deceive website visitors. This
is surveillance capitalism, and AI is shaping up to
be part of it.
# ⚓ Simon Willison ☛ Catching_up_on_the_weird_world_of_LLMs⠀⇛
I gave a talk on Sunday at North Bay Python where I
attempted to summarize the last few years of
development in the space of LLMs—Large Language
Models, the technology behind tools like ChatGPT,
Google Bard and Llama 2.
My goal was to help people who haven’t been
completely immersed in this space catch up to
what’s been going on. I cover a lot of ground: What
they are, what you can use them for, what you can
build on them, how they’re trained and some of the
many challenges involved in using them safely,
effectively and ethically.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ IBM_and_NASA_open-source_foundation_AI
model_for_analyzing_satellite_data⠀⇛
IBM says the new model is designed to help
researchers identify areas in the continental U.S.
that may be at risk of flooding and wildfire.
According to the company, the model can analyze
geospatial data up to four times faster than state-
of-the-art neural networks. It also takes less data
to train.
# ⚓ Union_pressures_Google_amid_mass_alleged_‘retaliatory
layoffs’_of_AI_staff⠀⇛
The Alphabet Workers Union has filed a complaint to
the US Labor Board alleging retaliatory layoffs of
staff attempting to unionise.
The Union’s Unfair Labor Practice charge was filed
against Accenture and Google after they mass laid
off employees who stated their intent to unionise
back in early June of this year.
Both companies laid off over 80 employees who
worked on Google Help and Bard whilst subcontracted
through Accenture on 6 July.
According to the Union, over 70% of eligible
workers had signed union authorisation cards by the
time a union election with the National Labour
Relations Board had been called.
Tahlia Kirk, general writer at Google and a member
of the Alphabet Workers Union, has pointed out the
cognitive dissonance allegedly shown by the
company.
# § Windows TCO⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Russia’s_Cozy_Bear_is_back_and
hitting_Microsoft_Teams_to_phish_top_targets⠀⇛
“In some cases, the actor attempts to add a
device to the organization as a managed
device via Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure
Active Directory), likely an attempt to
circumvent conditional access policies
configured to restrict access to specific
resources to managed devices only,”
Microsoft’s threat intel team explained.
# ⚓ The Philadelphia Inquirer ☛ Crozer_Health’s_computer
systems_were_knocked_offline_Thursday_by_a_ransomware
attack⠀⇛
Computer systems at Delaware County’s Crozer
Health were offline Thursday after a
[successful] ransomware attack on the health
system’s owner, Prospect Medical Holdings
Inc., the company said.
# ⚓ AppleInsider ☛ Microsoft_dumps_Cortana_leaving_Siri
as_one_of_the_last_smart_assistants⠀⇛
Siri appears to be the last smart assistant
standing as Microsoft quietly sunsets Cortana
in Windows, but this may be a meaningless
victory given the rise of AI-based chatbots.
Cortana’s death has been a long time coming.
Microsoft began removing support for Cortana
on mobile in 2021 and is now killing it off
on Windows as well.
o § Linux Foundation⠀➾
# ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ The_Linux_Foundation_Announces_Schedule_for
WasmCon_2023 [Ed: Linux Foundation is attacking the open
Web]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ 3-D_content_leaders_align_under_Linux
Foundation_JDF [Ed: Adrian Bridgwater is a stenographer of
'Linux' Foundation and he threatens people who point out he's
a Microsoft apologist too]⠀⇛
Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk and Nvidia have
worked with the Joint Development Foundation (JDF),
an affiliate of the Linux Foundation, to now
announce the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD).
Presumably pronounced Ah-Oh-You-Ess-Dee (rather
than “aouzed”) this alliance seeks to promote the
standardisation, development, evolution and growth
of Pixar’s Universal Scene Description technology.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ CISA_Calls_Urgent_Attention_to_UEFI_Attack
Surfaces_–_SecurityWeek⠀⇛
The US government’s cybersecurity agency describes
UEFI as “critical attack surface” that requires
urgent security attention.
[...]
“UEFI is a critical attack surface. Attackers have
a clear value proposition for targeting UEFI
software,” the agency said in a call-to-action
penned by CISA technical advisor Jonathan Spring
and vulnerability management director Sandra
Radesky.
Noting that UEFI code represents a compilation of
several components (security and platform
initializers, drivers, bootloaders, power
management interface, etc.), the agency warned that
security defects expose computer systems to
stealthy attacks that maintain persistence.
# ⚓ CISA ☛ A_Call_to_Action:_Bolster_UEFI_Cybersecurity_Now⠀⇛
Attackers have a clear value proposition for
targeting UEFI software. UEFI is a compilation of
several components (security and platform
initializers, drivers, bootloaders, power
management interface, etc.) so what attackers
achieve depends on which phase and what element of
UEFI they are able to subvert. But every attack
involves some kind of persistence.
# ⚓ [Old] CSO ☛ New_vulnerabilities_mean_it’s_time_to_review
server_BMC_interfaces⠀⇛
BMCs are specialized microcontrollers that have
their own firmware and operating system, dedicated
memory, power, and network ports. They are used for
out-of-band management of servers when their
primary operating systems are shut down. BMCs are
essentially smaller computers that run inside
servers and allow administrators to perform
maintenance tasks remotely like reinstalling
operating systems, restarting servers when they are
no longer unresponsive, deploying firmware updates,
and so on. This is also sometimes referred to as
lights out management.
Security researchers have warned about security
issues in BMC implementations and the Intelligent
Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification
they used for at least a decade. Vulnerabilities
included hardcoded credentials and users,
misconfigurations, weak or absent encryption, as
well as code bugs like buffer overflows. Even
though these management interfaces should operate
on isolated network segments, hundreds of thousands
have been found exposed to the internet over the
years.
# ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ How_Malicious_Android_Apps_Slip_Into
Disguise⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Thursday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (linux-
5.10), Red Hat (.NET 6.0 and iperf3), Slackware
(openssl), SUSE (kernel, mariadb, poppler, and
python-Django), and Ubuntu (gst-plugins-base1.0,
gst-plugins-good1.0, maradns, openjdk-20, and vim).
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Parents,_students_are_baffled_by_letters
confirming_Crown_Point_school_network_breach_months_ago⠀⇛
Megan Hickey reports that there is finally a
notification letter, of sorts, to parents about a
network breach in November. In April, Indiana media
had been reporting that the parents and community
still had not been told what had happened.
# ⚓ Proposed_Second_Amendment_to_NYDFS_Cybersecurity
Regulations:_Comments_Due_August_14⠀⇛
Following up on the recent release by the New York
Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) of an
updated proposed second amendment to its “first-in-
the-nation” Cybersecurity Regulation, 23 NYCRR Part
500 (proposed second amendment released June 28,
2023), it is not too late for companies to submit
comments on the most recent version of the proposed
changes from NYDFS. Comments are due by 5:00 p.m.
ET on August 14.
# ⚓ ECHN_hospitals_slowly_recovering,_other_facilities_closed
due_to_suspected_cyberattack⠀⇛
A cyberattack is suspected to have caused a
systemwide IT problem that is forcing the Eastern
Connecticut Health Network (ECHN) to divert
patients from its hospital emergency rooms,
according to ECHN.
[...]
The issue is affecting the ERs at both Manchester
Memorial Hospital and Rockville General Hospital.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Husband_and_Wife_Plead_Guilty_to_Money
Laundering_Conspiracy_Involving_the_Hack_and_Theft_of
Billions_in_Cryptocurrency⠀⇛
There’s an update to the case involving the arrest
of a married couple charged with laundering $4.5
billion in cryptocurrency stolen from Bitifinex in
2016.
Ilya Lichtenstein, 35, and Heather Morgan, 33, from
New York City pleaded guilty today to money
laundering conspiracies arising from the hack and
theft of approximately 120,000 bitcoin from
Bitfinex, a global cryptocurrency exchange.
# § Privacy⠀➾
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Veriff_BIPA_Lawsuit
Settlement_Checks_Will_Arrive_Shortly_(Uphold_
[Cryptocurrency]_Exchange_and_Brave_Browser_Users
Victimized)⠀⇛
I got an email yesterday morning from the
administrator of the Class Action Lawsuit
against Veriff saying that my settlement
check should arrive tomorrow.
The Illinois Biometric Privacy Information
Act has been scoring some large settlements.
# ⚓ Welcome_to_tails.net!⠀⇛
After 14 years using a subdomain of boum.org,
we finally found a new home that will be
easier for everybody to remember and type.
Tails will become easier to find by the
people who need it the most.
# ⚓ EDRI ☛ Digital_ID_–_civil_society_demands_protection
of_Users⠀⇛
One single app to rent a hotel room, prove
your age, your educational, financial or
health certificates, or to access digital
public and private services? Sounds
convenient? Well, it is. But if done wrong,
it will be equally easy for corporations,
authorities or even bad actors to create
highly detailed profiles about yourself –
spanning a vast area of your everyday life –
or abuse this treasure of sensitive personal
information in other ways.
We therefore urge policy makers in an open
letter with 24 civil rights orgs, academics
and research institutions to include the
essential privacy and non-discrimination
safeguards as well as proper protection
against malicious actors.
Will the decision makers take care of their
citizens and protect their sensitive data or
will we end up with one of the biggest
panopticons ever? The final decision is just
about to be made in the crucial trilogue
negotiations (between European Parliament,
Council/Member States and Commission).
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Celebrating_Ten_Years_of_Encrypting_the_Web
with_Let’s_Encrypt⠀⇛
There was one big obstacle: to deploy HTTPS
and protect a website, the people running
that website needed to buy and install a
certificate from a certificate authority.
Price was a big barrier to getting more
websites on HTTPS, but the complexity of
installing certificates was an even bigger
one.
In 2013, the Internet Security Research Group
(ISRG) was founded, which would soon become
the home of Let’s Encrypt, a certificate
authority founded to help encrypt the Web.
Let’s Encrypt was radical in that it provided
certificates for free to anyone with a
website. Let’s Encrypt also introduced a way
to automate away the risk and drudgery of
manually issuing and installing certificates.
With the new ACME protocol, anyone with a
website could run software (like EFF’s
Certbot) that combined the steps of getting a
certificate and correctly installing it.
In the time since, Let’s Encrypt and Certbot
have been a huge success, with over 250
million active certificates protecting
hundreds of millions of websites.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ FBI_Investigation_Into_Mysterious_NSO
Spyware_Purchase_Reveals_It_Was_The_FBI_Doing_The
Mysterious_Purchasing⠀⇛
As information started to leak out from the…
everywhere about NSO Group’s secondhand
contribution to surveillance abuses all over
the world, the world (except for the worst of
NSO’s customers) began taking action. Even
the government that facilitated many of NSO’s
sales to human rights violators decided it
might be time to toss a few restrictions on
the Israel-based malware merchant founded by
former Israeli intelligence officers.
# § Confidentiality⠀➾
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow_Wants_to_Save_Internet
Privacy_with_a_New_Encryption_Protocol⠀⇛
According to Cult members, Veilid is “an
open-source, peer-to-peer, mobile-first
networked application framework, with a
flagship secure messaging application named
VeilidChat.” Application frameworks of this
sort are flexible software packages that can
be iterated on and changed by infusing new
code into them. Developers who want to create
new programs with the same privacy
protections will be able to build off of
Veilid’s open source structures.
# ⚓ Veilid_Framework⠀⇛
We built Veilid because when the Internet was
young and new, we viewed it as an endless
open realm of possibility. Instead, the
Internet we know now has been heavily
commercialized, with users and their data
being the most sought-after commodity. The
only ways to opt-out of becoming the product
for billionaires to exploit are either too
technical for the average user, or to simply
not go online. We don’t believe that is fair,
we still haven’t given up our dream for the
entire Internet to be free and accessible to
everyone without trading privacy to use it.
We believe that people should be able to
build relationships, learn, create, and build
online without being monetized. With Veilid,
the user is in control, in a way that is
approachable and friendly to everyone,
regardless of technical ability. We want to
give the world the Internet we should have
had all along.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ NIST_appoints_G._Nagesh_Rao_as_deputy
director_of_Manufacturing_Extension_Partnership⠀⇛
Rao moves to NIST from another Department of
Commerce division, the Bureau of Industry and
Security (BIS), where he was chief information
officer.
The Manufacturing Extension Partnership is a
public-private partnership that acts as an
intermediary between the standards bureau and small
and medium-sized manufacturers. It has centers in
all 50 states and Puerto Rico.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ We_Are_Still_a_Long_Way_From_Justice_for
Donald_Trump⠀⇛
We live in a deranged and deranging time, and Trump
is a symptom, not the cause, but he’s certainly
making everything worse. That’s why I’ve found it
hard to be jubilant over Trump’s four indictments,
at long last, relating to his role in the January 6
insurrection. Even as Trump is set to appear for
his staggering third criminal arraignment Thursday
afternoon, this time in Washington, D.C., I’m not
readying the champagne.
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ The_five-domains_update⠀⇛
Sea state Russian President Vladimir Putin has
announced that the Russian Navy will receive 30 new
combat ships of various classes later this year.
# ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ The_Elements_of_Offense_in_the_Trump
January_6_Indictment⠀⇛
Here, in abbreviated form, is what the elements of
the offense are for the four charged crimes, which
is what the jury will be given to judge the former
President’s crimes. DOJ will need to prove that
Trump entered into three parallel conspiracies with
his alleged co-conspirators, then show that they
attempted to:
Use deceit to undermine the Electoral College Act
Prevent the certification of the Electoral votes on
January 6
Prevent the Biden voters votes in swing states from
being counted
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Two_U.S._Navy_Sailors_Charged_With_Helping
China⠀⇛
Two Navy sailors in Southern California were
arrested and accused of providing military secrets
and sensitive information to Chinese intelligence
officers, according to a pair of federal
indictments unsealed on Thursday.
# ⚓ Gannett ☛ ‘Cash_over_country’:_Navy_sailors_arrested,
accused_of_passing_US_military_info_to_China⠀⇛
In two separate cases announced together, the
Department of Justice said 22-year-old sailor
Jinchao Wei, also known as Patrick Wei, was charged
with espionage and arrested on Wednesday. And 26-
year-old Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, also known as
Thomas Zhao, was charged with receiving bribes in
exchange for transmitting information to a Chinese
intelligence officer.
“These individuals stand accused of violating the
commitments they made to protect the United States
and betraying the public trust, to the benefit of
the (People’s Republic of China) government,”
Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen said in
a news release Thursday.
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Two_US_Navy_sailors_arrested_on_China
spying_charges⠀⇛
The Navy servicemembers are accused of providing
Chinese intelligence with sensitive information,
including detailed technical manuals for warships
and their weapons systems.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Two_Trump_Sycophants_Charged_With_Manipulating
Michigan_Voting_Machines⠀⇛
A failed state attorney general candidate endorsed
by Donald Trump and a former Republican Michigan
state representative have been criminally charged
with attempting to tamper with voting machines,
according to charging documents first spotted by
The Detroit News. The criminal charges against the
two Trump allies follow a nearly year-long
investigation into voting machine tampering and
dropped just hours after the former president
himself was indicted on felony charges for his
efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
All in all, August 1 was a rough day for the Trump-
aligned right wing.
# ⚓ Vox ☛ There_is_no_First_Amendment_right_to_overturn_an
election⠀⇛
There are at least two reasons Trump’s alleged
actions are not protected speech. One is that Smith
repeatedly accuses Trump of pressuring other
government officials to commit criminal acts of
election fraud, and it is well established that
soliciting another individual to commit a crime is
not protected by the First Amendment. As the
Supreme Court held in United States v. Williams
(2008), “offers to engage in illegal transactions
are categorically excluded from First Amendment
protection.”
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ This_Is_How_Trump_Becomes_a_Dictator⠀⇛
But Trump’s rhetoric is not just the revenge
fantasy of someone under multiple indictments, nor
is it merely a cynical harnessing of right-wing
bloodthirst. As president, Trump didn’t have a
problem with the existence of a so-called deep
state; his problem was a deep state he didn’t
control.
Consider the case of Rudy Giuliani, his two goons,
and Ukraine.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Michigan_politicians_charged_with_felonies_for
tampering_with_voting_machines⠀⇛
Michigan is not the only state to investigate
suspected election interference. In March 2022, a
Colorado county clerk was indicted for tampering
with election information. In January 2022, Fulton
County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis
requested the impanelment of a special grant jury
to investigate attempts to disrupt the
administration of the 2020 election in that state.
It is expected that Willis will soon announce an
indictment against Trump related to this
investigation.
# ⚓ New Statesman ☛ North_Sea_licences_tell_big_oil_we’re_not
serious_about_net_zero⠀⇛
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) – an
independent, non-departmental statutory body formed
to advise the government on these matters –
recognised that the impact of Vladimir Putin’s
invasion of Ukraine meant it was reasonable for
Britain to extract maximum gas in the short term.
Price volatility brought about by the invasion
wreaked havoc on household’s and businesses’ bills.
But the CCC also warned against long-term expansion
of North Sea oil extraction and urged that the UK’s
present production must be carried out with the
lowest emissions possible.
# ⚓ ANF News ☛ Yazidi_people_visit_mass_graves_in_Herdan⠀⇛
The statement read by TAJÊ member Kinê Xidir said:
“Our people were massacred 9 years ago by ISIS and
with the cooperation of the Barzani family. They
wanted to destroy the Yazidi people and empty
Shengal. Our people resisted and did not allow the
enemy to achieve their aim. We call on all our
people not to forget this dark day for us and to
protect our martyrs. There is the blood of our
martyrs in every inch of this land. We promise that
we will not give up on the cause of our martyrs who
died on this road.”
# ⚓ [Repeat] New York Times ☛ Pastor_or_Traitor?_Ukrainians
Shun_a_Church_Seen_as_a_Kremlin_Tool.⠀⇛
The village parishioners’ decision to oust their
priest reflects a broader push within Ukraine to
reduce the influence of an Orthodox church that
answers to Moscow.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Amnesty_International_report_reveals_alleged_war
crimes_in_Sudan⠀⇛
In its recommendations, AI calls on “regional and
international powers, notably members of the UN
Security Council and UN Human Rights Council as
well as state parties to the ICC, to take concrete
measures to respond to the scale and urgency of the
Sudan conflict.”
The report mirrors previous warnings from
international organizations regarding widespread
sexual violence, massive population displacement
and rampant human rights abuses.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Evacuation_of_Europeans_From_Niger_Begins⠀⇛
Moscow called for “dialogue” to avoid “a
deterioration of the situation” in Niger following
the coup d’état. “We think it is urgent to organize
a national dialogue to restore civil peace and
ensure law and order,” said the Russian Foreign
Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Never_Again”:_Pittsburgh_Synagogue_Shooter
Sentenced_to_Die._Jews_Against_the_Death_Penalty_Respond⠀⇛
A federal jury has sentenced to death the gunman
who killed 11 worshipers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of
Life synagogue in the deadliest act of antisemitism
in U.S. history. Robert Bowers was found guilty of
federal hate crimes for the 2018 massacre. This is
the first time federal prosecutors have
successfully sought the death penalty under the
Biden administration, which has imposed a
moratorium on executions. We are joined by Cantor
Michael Zoosman, co-founder of L’Chaim! Jews
Against the Death Penalty. “For ‘never again’ to
have any meaning, it must also mean never again to
state-sponsored murder of defenseless prisoners who
are otherwise no longer a threat, safely behind
bars,” says Zoosman. “This is a lesson that 21st
century Judaism should share with the world.”
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ National_security_official_credits_Ukrainian
military_and_Security_Service_with_both_Crimean_Bridge
explosions_—_Meduza⠀⇛
During a live TV broadcast, Oleksiy Danilov,
secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and
Defense Council, acknowledged the role of Ukraine’s
secret services in the October 2022 and July 2023
explosions on the Russian-built Crimean Bridge.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kaluga_governor_says_6_combat_drones_were_shot
down_in_Moscow-adjacent_region_overnight._Another_UAV
reportedly_downed_late_this_morning._—_Meduza⠀⇛
Writing on Telegram, the governor of Russia’s
Kaluga region Vladislav Shapsha reported that six
UAVs had been shot down by air defense systems in
his region overnight. According to the official, no
damage or casualties resulted from the alleged
drone attack.
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Israeli_Occupation_Forces_Attack
Hospital,_Kill_Palestinian_Civilians_in_Jenin_–
Uncategorized⠀⇛
Although there have been disputes between the
peoples of Israel and Palestine for decades, this
particular attack led to the death of twelve
Palestinians, including five civilian children. It
also caused injury to more than 120 others. By
using armed drones and helicopter gunships, IOF
destroyed much of the infrastructure in the area,
displacing nearly 4,000 Palestinians. Though many
Palestinians needed assistance in the aftermath,
the Israeli government denied ambulances access to
the wounded. The IOF likely violated the Fourth
Geneva Convention by firing teargas into the Khalil
Suleiman hospital. Attacking civilian hospitals is
a distinct war crime.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Scott_Ritter:_The_Executioner’s_Lament⠀⇛
While the world focuses on the trials and travails
of the scientists who invented the atomic bomb,
little attention is paid to the hard positions
taken by the nuclear executioners, the men called
u…
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Israel_Expanded_an_Apartheid_Law_Last_Week._No
One_Is_Talking_About_It⠀⇛
Israel broadened a racist law that allows
communities to exclude non-Jews based on “social
and cultural cohesion.” Whereas judicial overhaul
laws have caused an uproar, this passed with…
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Suspect_in_Idaho_student_stabbings
says_he_was_out_for_a_solo_drive_around_the_time_of_the
slayings⠀⇛
Attorneys for the man accused of stabbing four
University of Idaho students to death last year say
he was on a long drive by himself around the time
of the slayings. His attorneys said in documents
filed Wednesday that witnesses may be able to
testify he wasn’t at the scene of the crime. Bryan
Kohberger is charged with four counts of murder in
connection with the deaths at a rental house near
the Moscow, Idaho, campus last November. His
attorneys say it’s too soon to reveal details about
witnesses because they’re still reviewing evidence.
State law requires defendants to declare if they
will present an alibi.
# § War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ The_West_must_back_Ukraine_and
Turkey_to_counter_Russia’s_attempts_to_control_the
Black_Sea⠀⇛
Russia’s efforts to gain control in the Black
Sea need to be challenged. Here’s how Ukraine
and Turkey can push back with the West’s
help.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russian_Orthodox_leader_Patriarch
Kirill’s_unholy_war_against_Ukraine⠀⇛
Russia’s Unholy War: Russian Orthodox Church
leader Patriarch Kirill has provided the
ideological justification for Vladimir
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and Russian
efforts to eliminate Ukrainian national
identity.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Verdict_Expected_in_Latest_Trial_of
Russian_Opposition_Leader_Navalny⠀⇛
Aleksei A. Navalny, who is already in prison,
is facing charges of supporting “extremism”
that could extend his sentence by two
decades.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ ‘Moscow_House’_in_Rīga_loses_signage⠀⇛
“Moscow House” (Maskavas nams) sign has been
removed from the front of the building on
Marijas Street 7, LETA reported on August 3.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russian_War_Report:_Drones_target
central_Moscow_skyscrapers⠀⇛
Drone strikes hit central Moscow this week
killing none but damaging a skyscraper.
Meanwhile, TGStat has restricted access to a
Telegram channel that tracks Russian
casualties.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ ISS:_From_Russia,_with_little_to_show
for_it⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin was hoping
for a record turnout of African leaders at
the second Russia-Africa summit in St
Petersburg last week to show the West he
wasn’t isolated after all. He didn’t quite
pull that off.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ SA_Navy_Chief_visits_Russia,_promotes
BRICS_alliance⠀⇛
Chief of the South African Navy, Vice Admiral
Monde Lobese, has visited Russia for the
country’s annual Navy Day event in St
Petersburg.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Lady_R_judicial_inquiry_report_ready
for_Ramaphosa⠀⇛
South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa will,
his spokesman has it, “consume” the report of
the judicial commission of inquiry into
Russian cargo vessel Lady R before deciding
on “actions to be followed”. This is as per a
Presidency statement attributed to Vincent
Magwenya.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Latvia_to_ask_thousands_of_Russian_citizens_to
leave_the_country⠀⇛
Up to 6,000 of Russian citizens in Latvia are
expected to receive official notices next
month asking them to leave the country,
according to Ingmārs Līdaka, head of the
parliament’s Commission on Citizenship,
Migration and Public Mobilisation.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Brussels_welcomes_Baltic_deal_to_speed_up
decoupling_from_Russian_power_grid⠀⇛
On Thursday, the European Commission welcomed
the three Baltic countries’ agreement to
synchronise their electricity grids with the
continental European system by February 2025.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Reportedly_Signed_Record_Number_Of
Secret_Decrees_Last_Month⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a
record number of secret decrees last month.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia’s_Navalny_Expects_‘Stalinist’
Sentencing_After_Verdict_On_Extremism_Charges⠀⇛
A verdict is expected on August 4 in the
extremism trial of jailed Russian opposition
politician Aleksei Navalny, who is already
serving a nine-year prison sentence on
embezzlement charges that he and his allies
say are politically motivated.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Georgia_Bans_Export,_Reexport_Of_Cars_From
U.S.,_EU_To_Russia_And_Belarus⠀⇛
Georgia’s Finance Ministry on August 2 said
the exporting and reexporting of U.S. cars to
Russia and Belarus was banned as of August 1.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kyrgyzstan_Sends_Note_To_Moscow_On_Taxi
Driver_Beaten_In_Russia⠀⇛
Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Ministry says its
embassy in Moscow has sent a note to Russia’s
Foreign Ministry over the beating of a Kyrgyz
citizen working there as a taxi driver.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Places_Norway_On_List_Of_Countries
‘Unfriendly’_To_Its_Diplomats⠀⇛
Russia has addded Norway to its list of
countries that have committed “unfriendly”
acts against Russian diplomatic and consular
missions abroad.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Reuters:_Russian_army_recruitment_ads_appear
online_in_Kazakhstan_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Residents of Kazakhstan have noticed Russian
army recruitment ads appearing online, writes
Reuters. The ads offer those who sign a
contract with the Russian army an immediate
payment of $5300, a monthly payment of at
least 190,000 rubles ($2018), and extra
benefits that were not disclosed.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘This_is_the_world_Putin_wants_to_live_in’:
BBC_News_Russia_tells_the_story_of_how_Moscow’s
diplomacy_apparatus_deteriorated_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Nearly a year and a half after the start of
Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, why
hasn’t diplomacy managed to stop the
bloodshed? Journalists from BBC News Russia
sought to answer this question by talking to
analysts and former government employees from
both Russia and the U.S. What emerged was a
story of Russian diplomats increasingly
seeking to please Putin as the Russian leader
himself became ever more convinced of the
power of brute force and the irrelevance of
diplomacy. Meduza shares an English-language
summary of the report.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Man_reportedly_detonates_airsoft_grenade
near_Moscow_City_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A man detonated a training grenade near the
Russian capital’s Moscow City commercial
district on Thursday, multiple Telegram
channels reported.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘People_are_more_willing_to_help_residents
of_Shebekino_than_refugees_from_Donbas’_How_Ukrainian
refugees_and_Russians_displaced_from_the_border_regions
resettle_in_Belgorod_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale
invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian refugees and
Russians living along the border have
relocated to the Russian city of Belgorod and
the surrounding areas. Both groups have found
it challenging to find temporary shelters,
receive payments from the government, and
start new lives. Independent outlet Verstka
spoke to those who chose to resettle in
Belgorod to understand the similarities and
differences in their experiences. Meduza in
English is sharing an abridged translation of
the story.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘By_imprisoning_hundreds,_Putin_is_trying_to
terrorize_millions’:_Anticipating_a_harsh_new_court
verdict,_Alexey_Navalny_speaks_about_the_importance_of
resisting_fear_—_the_main_instrument_of_Putin’s_regime
—_Meduza⠀⇛
Alexey Navalny, a key figure of the anti-
Putin opposition in Russia, is awaiting a new
court sentence, due to be announced on
Friday, August 4. The new charges of
extremist activity threaten the politician
with a 20-year sentence, in addition to the
nine-year prison term he is currently serving
in a penal colony outside of the city of
Vladimir. Instead of bringing Navalny to a
courthouse, the Russian authorities arranged
to try him right at the penitentiary.
Although the trial has been closed to the
press, Navalny has published an extended blog
post, anticipating the sentence and its
intended chilling effect on the Russian
opposition. Ahead of the verdict, Navalny
urges his supporters not to give in to fear
in the face of Putin’s calculus of
intimidation. Meduza has translated the main
part of Navalny’s letter to the opposition,
abridging the final part containing the
politician’s acknowledgements.
# ⚓ European Commission ☛ Russia’s_illegal_war_of
aggression_against_Ukraine:_EU_agrees_to_extend_the
scope_of_sanctions_on_Belarus_to_fight_circumvention⠀⇛
European Commission Press release Brussels,
04 Aug 2023 The European Commission welcomes
today’s adoption by the Council of further
targeted restrictive measures arising from
Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, and in
response to Belarus’s involvement in the
aggression.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Russia_accuses_Ukraine_of_attacking_Black
Sea_navy_base_and_Crimea_with_drones⠀⇛
The attack on Novorossiysk is the first time
a commercial Russian port has been targeted
in the 18-month war.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Agricultural_obstacles_may
complicate_Ukraine’s_path_toward_EU_membership⠀⇛
Ukraine continues to pursue EU integration
even as the country defends itself against
Russian invasion, but there are signs that
some EU member states are not yet ready to
integrate Ukraine’s powerful agricultural
sector.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russia_is_targeting_Ukrainian
national_identity_with_attacks_on_heritage_sites⠀⇛
The Russian bombing of Odesa’s main Orthodox
church in July was the latest in long line of
attacks on Ukrainian heritage sites that
indicate a deliberate campaign to erase
Ukrainian cultural identity, writes Mercedes
Sapuppo.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Russia_says_it_thwarted_Ukraine
drone_attack_on_Black_Sea_port_of_Novorossiysk⠀⇛
Russia’s defence ministry said early on
Friday that it had thwarted an overnight
drone attack by Ukraine on Novorossiysk, a
Russian naval base on the Black Sea. This
incident did not result in any casualties or
damage, reported the RIA news agency, citing
regional governor Veniamin Kondratyev.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Four_big_geopolitical_tests_the
European_Union_faces_this_year⠀⇛
From Ukraine to artificial intelligence, the
second half of 2023 poses major tests that
will reveal the realities of the EU’s
geopolitical aspirations.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Protesters_in_Georgia_drive_away_Russian
cruise_ship,_allege_violent_police_response⠀⇛
After two days of demonstrations, protesters
in Georgia forced out the Russian cruise ship
Astoria Grande, which had been docked at a
Black Sea port in the southwest of the
country. Police responded by using force on
protesters, who cited their disapproval of
the cruise ship’s passengers’ views on
Russian policies in Ukraine and Georgia.
According to our Observer, the clashes
highlight a disparity between the Georgian
government and the population’s stance on
Russia.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Poland_‘positive’_about_easing_Ukrainian_grain
transit_to_Baltic_states⠀⇛
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was
positive about moving customs checks for
Ukrainian grain from the Polish border to
ports in the Baltic states, according to
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda who is
currently on a visit to Poland.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Black_Sea_Naval_Base,_Occupied_Crimea
Attacked_By_Drones,_Russia_Says,_As_‘Cruel’_Fighting
Under_Way_In_East⠀⇛
Drone attacks on Russia’s largest naval base
in the Black Sea and on illegally annexed
Crimea were repelled overnight, but prompted
a temporary halt of ship movement in one of
Russia’s major commercial ports, the military
and Moscow-installed authorities said on
August 4.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ World_Must_Tell_Russia_To_Stop_‘Blackmail’
Involving_Ukrainian_Grain,_Blinken_Tells_UN⠀⇛
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on
August 3 took aim at Russia in a speech to
the UN Security Council in New York, accusing
Moscow of “blackmail” over its recent
withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain
Initiative.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ EU_Extends_Sanctions_On_Belarus_Over_Its
Support_For_Russia’s_War_In_Ukraine⠀⇛
The European Union announced on August 3 the
extension of sanctions against Belarus due to
its support for Russia’s aggression against
Ukraine.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Moscow_Fines_Apple_For_Failing_To_Remove
Information_About_Invasion_Of_Ukraine⠀⇛
A court in Moscow has fined Apple for failing
to remove information related to Russia’s
full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Interfax
reported.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_Thwarts_New_Ukrainian_Attack_in
Kaluga_Region⠀⇛
The six drones, which were shot down less
than 125 miles from Moscow, were presumably
targeting civilian targets in the Russian
capital.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Lawyer_Says_Case_Materials_Against_Former
Russian-Backed_Commander_Girkin_Classified_As_‘Top
Secret’⠀⇛
The lawyer for the arrested ex-leader of
Kremlin-backed separatists in Ukraine, Igor
Girkin (aka Strelkov), says the materials of
his client’s case have been classified as
“top secret.”
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Poland_Warns_Of_Wagner_Buildup_In_Belarus⠀⇛
Poland has warned that a growing presence of
mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner private
military firm in Belarus is aimed at
destabilizing NATO’s eastern flank amid the
ongoing Russian war in Ukraine.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ As_Ukrainians_slog_through_minefields,
what_they_need_most_is_time⠀⇛
In the best of circumstances, advancing
through minefields while minimizing losses is
time-consuming for armies. As Ukraine
struggles to expel Russia, it hopes not to
exhaust its allies’ patience.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Glory_to_Ukraine’s_cultural_muses⠀⇛
The country’s embrace of its cultural
qualities helps deny a victory to Russia,
which has attempted to claim that a unique
culture and national dignity don’t even
exist.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ After_Ukraine’s_Kakhovka_Dam
Disaster,_a_Hunt_for_Ancient_Treasures⠀⇛
After the Kakhovka dam was blown up in June,
the reservoir above it quickly drained,
revealing a bonanza of artifacts that has
electrified Ukrainian archaeologists.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia-Ukraine_War:_Russian_Warship
Damaged_in_Ukrainian_Drone_Attack⠀⇛
Moscow said Ukraine used drones to strike
Novorossiysk, a Black Sea naval and shipping
hub, and a port in occupied Crimea.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia’s_Pro-War_Bloggers_Are
Suddenly_Sniping_Among_Themselves⠀⇛
A new tone has set in among the uninhibited
military bloggers, whose support for the
invasion has given them unusual powers to
speak out.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ Digital First Media ☛ How_John_Dingell_helped_arm_the_NRA⠀⇛
The files of Dingell, the longest-serving member of
Congress, were donated to the University of
Michigan but remained off-limits for nearly eight
years. They were made available in May, five months
after the Times began pressing for their release.
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Judge_Orders_Former_Fox_News_Reporter_To
Reveal_Confidential_Source⠀⇛
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] Deforestation_around_the_Panama_Canal⠀⇛
In Panama’s healthy rainforest, rainwater saturates
the soil, then feeds the streams supplying Gatún
Lake. In the last few decades, however, logging and
slash-and-burn agriculture have claimed half of the
surrounding rainforest. Deforested land cannot
absorb the region’s heavy tropical rains; the
excess water floods Gatún Dam and flows out to sea.
The floodwaters also fill the lake with sediment.
Dredging the lake bottom has restored its storage
capacity, but also forced local residents to filter
the lake water or rely on bottled drinking water.
The drought of 1990-91 gave Panamanians a taste of
what can happen without adequate water in Gatún
Lake. Canal operators had to limit trips through
the canal to just 30 a day. A growing number of
Panamanians have expressed concern over the canal’s
viability if deforestation continues.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Panama_Canal_foresees_its_income
falling_after_shipping_limited_due_to_a_drought⠀⇛
The watershed also supplies freshwater to Panama
City, home to about half the country’s population
of 4 million.
# ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Digging_into_the_benefits_of_landfill
mining⠀⇛
Research in the International Journal of
Environmental Engineering reveals details of the
first successful, large-scale landfill mining
project in Andalusia, Spain.
Landfill mining is an emerging approach for the
remediation of old waste sites. It allows for the
reuse of valuable materials, such as plastics and
metals that may have been dumped before recycling
facilities were widely available. The process might
also allow an entire brownfield site to be
remediated sufficiently for development or even
rewilding.
# ⚓ Science News ☛ Climate_change_puts_children’s_health_at
risk_now_and_in_the_future⠀⇛
Children’s ongoing development from the fetal
period through adolescence is one reason that they
are particularly vulnerable to health harms from
climate-related effects on the environment, says
environmental health scientist Frederica Perera of
Columbia University. She founded the Columbia
Center for Children’s Environmental Health in 1998.
Science News talked with Perera about climate
change and children’s health and well-being, the
disparities in terms of who is at highest risk and
why these early harms endanger health throughout
life. The interview has been edited for length and
clarity.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Lights_off_for_incandescents:_Edison
bulbs_ruled_a_relic_of_the_past⠀⇛
Yet by the time Aug. 1 rolled around, the
critics had gone quiet, possibly because
companies and consumers have already started
voting for better lighting efficiency with
their wallets.
Here’s what you need to know.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Oil_prices_are_moving_up⠀⇛
Data: FactSet; Chart: Axios Visuals
Oil prices are moving up — they surged 17% in July, and analysts are now
seriously talking about $100 oil again.
Why it matters:It’s a sign the market is feeling more optimistic about the
economy — with recession fears abating.
=> =============================================================================
* It also means more_upward_pressure at the pump, and on inflation more
generally: A little summer agita for U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome
Powell.
Zoom in:The dynamics are simple. Oil prices are rising because demand forecasts
are growing, thanks to the improving economic outlook — while supply is
shrinking.
⚓ [Repeat] Ruben Schade ☛ Ride_sharing_and_autonomous_vehicles_cause_traffic⠀⇛
This is what city planners are referring to when discussing induced
demand, and it’s proof that building car infrastructure in a growing
city never solves traffic, it only contributes to it. What’s that
line about the angry motorist who doesn’t realise they are traffic?
Cars will always have a place in urban areas, but fancier car
allocation, regardless of fuel source or operator, won’t drive us out
of our current problems.
⚓ Futurism ☛ Tesla_Sued_for_Exaggerating_Battery_Range⠀⇛
“Had Tesla honestly advertised its electric vehicle ranges, consumers
either would not have purchased Tesla model vehicles, or else would
have paid substantially less for them,” the lawsuit states.
While it’s still unclear if the proposed suit will ever get class
action status, it could be a considerable legal battle for the Elon
Musk-led company, considering it would cover all Tesla drivers in
California who bought a Model 3, S, X, or Y.
⚓ Reuters ☛ Tesla_faces_California_class_action_on_its_EV_range_claims⠀⇛
Reuters also reported that about a decade ago Tesla had decided to
write algorithms for its in-dash range meter that would show drivers
“rosy” projections for the distance the car could travel on a full
battery, according to a source.
The directive to present the optimistic range estimates came from
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, this person said. Reuters could not determine
whether Tesla still uses algorithms that boost range estimates.
⚓ DeSmog ☛ Leading_Think_Tank_Met_With_Minister_Over_North_Sea_Energy_While
Funded_by_Fossil_Fuel_Interests⠀⇛
Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks,
engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea
oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests,
DeSmog can reveal.
The North Sea Transition Deal announced by the government in March
2021 set a net zero target for the basin but allowed for the
continued exploration of oil and gas.
⚓ DeSmog ☛ Oil_and_Gas_Leaders_to_Make_‘Net_Zero’_Pitch_at_World_Petroleum
Congress⠀⇛
The 24th World Petroleum Congress is taking place this year in
Calgary, Alberta, from Sept. 17 to 21. In response to looming
questions about decarbonization, this year’s event is titled “Energy
Transition: The Path to Net Zero.”
⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_State_Of_High_Speed_Rail,_And_A_Look_To_Tomorrow⠀⇛
In the 21st century, the global transportation landscape is in shift.
Politicians, engineers, and planners all want to move more people,
more quickly, more cleanly. Amid the frenzy of innovative harebrained
ideas, high-speed rail travel has surged to the forefront. It’s a
quiet achiever, and a reliable solution for efficient, sustainable,
and swift intercity and intercountry transit.
§ Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
* ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Three_Ways_Congress_Could_Act_to_Protect_Imperiled
Wildlife⠀⇛
* ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Flagship_UN_Food_Systems_Summit_Accused_of_‘Selling_the
Corporate_and_Industrial_Project’⠀⇛
Indigenous peoples, smallholder farmers and academics have
claimed that a UN summit focused on the future of agriculture
helped to entrench corporate control over the global food
system.
The UN’s Food Systems Summit “Stocktaking Moment” (“FSS+2”),
held last week, came as countries look to slash agriculture’s
climate footprint in the runup to the COP28 summit in December.
§ Overpopulation⠀➾
* ⚓ [Old] Green Party UK ☛ Green_Party_announces_Earth_Overshoot_action
plan⠀⇛
Today marks Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity’s
demand for ecological resources and services in a given year
exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. However, the
UK’s overshoot day has already passed – it fell on19th May [1].
In a week when the government has made a series of measures
which will make the overshoot even worse, the Green Party has
launched an ‘Earth Overshoot Day action plan’ to help move the
UK date as late as possible.
§ Finance⠀➾
* ⚓ Salesforce_Implements_Additional_Job_Cuts_in_Ireland_as_Part_of
Profitability_Focus:_What’s_Going_On?⠀⇛
The recent layoffs affected sales and customer success
employees in Ireland, with about 50 roles impacted, Bloomberg
reports. The company stated that this move was part of an
ongoing effort to ensure appropriate resource allocation.
* ⚓ HackerOne_lays_off_12%_workforce_as_‘one-time_event’⠀⇛
* ⚓ Daily Dot ☛ ‘Am_I_fired_lol?’:_Walmart_worker_says_his_shifts_were
abruptly_removed_and_he_got_locked_out_of_Workday⠀⇛
During the great layoff of 2023 where throngs of tech workers
employed by massive corporations like Amazon, Google, Meta,
Microsoft, and others, it seemed like it was the norm for folks
to find out they were fired in inhumane ways.
And by “inhumane,” we mean a complete lack of initial human
interaction: Folks would try to boot up their laptop, or would
be working diligently on their employer-issued device only to
be logged out and have difficulty gaining access to their
workplace resources.
Much has been written about the “cold” and “impersonal” ways in
which tech workers have been laid off, but it would appear that
folks who work in brick-and-mortar retail locations are
experiencing the similar log-in-issue fears that remote
employees are.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ NDTV ☛ Survey_To_Determine_If_Gyanvapi_Mosque_Was_Built_Over_Temple
Resumes⠀⇛
Varanasi: The Archeological Survey of India (ASI) has resumed
its survey of the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi to determine if
it was built over a Hindu temple. The mosque committee has
challenged the survey in the Supreme Court.
Here are 10 points on this big story: [...]
* ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ DICE_Reportedly_Lays_Off_30+_Creative_and
Marketing_Employees,_Plans_To_Work_With_Additional_Freelancers⠀⇛
Notwithstanding the redundancies, DICE, which expanded into
Germany 14 months ago and brought on former Hulu social media
and digital strategy exec Katie Soo as chief business officer
in February of 2023, indicated in remarks to
TheTicketingBusinessNews that it intends to keep on making
“’strategic hires that will drive forward’” company-wide
growth.
Needless to say, DICE is hardly alone in announcing layoffs,
which have reached music industry companies including Spotify,
Utopia, Sonos, Downtown, Universal Music’s Motown Records,
Warner Music, and a number of others to this point in 2023.
* ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Social_media_is_overtaking_traditional
channels_for_UK_SMEs’_revenue_generation⠀⇛
A study reveals that 28 per cent of UK small businesses are now
making more money through social media than from any other
channel, while 21 per cent worry about lacking digital skills.
* ⚓ NDTV ☛ Explained:_What_Government’s_Ban_On_Import_Of_Laptops,_Computers
Means_For_Customers⠀⇛
The central government on Thursday imposed restrictions on
import of laptops, tablets, all-in-one personal computers and
ultra-small computers and servers with immediate effect. Any
entity or company planning to bring laptops and computers for
sale in India will now have to seek permission or license from
the government for their inbound shipments. The notification in
this regard was issued by the Directorate General of Foreign
Trade (DGFT). The restrictions have been imposed under HSN Code
8471 on seven categories of electronic gadgets.
* ⚓ Reuters ☛ India_mandates_licensing_for_laptop,_tablet_imports_in_blow
to_Apple,_Samsung⠀⇛
India’s electronics imports, which include laptops, tablets and
personal computers, stood at $19.7 billion in the April to June
period, up 6.25% year-on-year.
Research firm Counterpoint estimates India’s laptop and
personal computer market to be worth $8 billion annually, with
two third of those imported.
* ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Out_of_nowhere,_India_requires_PC_and_server_makers
to_get_an_import_license⠀⇛
No explanation has been offered for the change, but there’s on
obvious candidate: the nation’s “Make In India” push, and
accompanying subsidy programs, reflect policy to turn the
nation into a tech manufacturing powerhouse. The argument goes
that a local presence helps system builders to serve the
burgeoning local market better and at the same time diversify
their operations to reduce concentration of activities in
China.
* ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Common_Sense_and_Heat_Pumps⠀⇛
In discussing government proposals to effectively enforce a
mass public switch to heat pumps for home heating rather than
gas boilers, I venture into an area where I have no expertise.
I therefore intend to set out a series of numbered propositions
which appear to me incontrovertible.
* ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Matt_Taibbi:_Campaign_2024,_Officially_Chaos⠀⇛
America enters an unprecedented political unknown, and our
leaders appear helpless to find a way out.
* ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Military_Personnel_Using_Lurid_Social_Media_Tactics
to_Target_Gen_Z_Recruits_–_Validated_Independent_News⠀⇛
Many of Lujan’s posts are sensual videos that downplay her
actual responsibilities as a soldier. Truth in recruitment
activist Rosa del Duca, a veteran, told MintPress she was
surprised that the military was letting Lujan post
‘unprofessional’ content in uniform. Lujan’s social media
recruitment campaign takes place as Army enlistment numbers
have dipped 25 percent below target.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_says_all_Russian_officials_should_drive_domestic
vehicles,_a_policy_backed_by_Boris_Nemtsov_26_years_ago_—_Meduza⠀⇛
At a meeting with manufacturing executives on Thursday,
Vladimir Putin said that “all of the country’s officials should
drive domestic vehicles.” A recording of the statement was
published on Telegram.
* § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
o ⚓ Light Blue Touchpaper ☛ How_to_Spread_Disinformation_with
Unicode⠀⇛
There are many different ways to represent the same text
in Unicode. We’ve previously exploited this encoding-
visualization gap to craft imperceptible adversarial
examples against text-based machine learning systems and
invisible vulnerabilities in source code.
In our latest paper, we demonstrate another attack that
exploits the same technique to target Google Search,
Bing’s GPT-4-powered chatbot, and other text-based
information retrieval systems.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Glenn_Greenwald:_Wikipedia_Co-Founder_Calls
Wikipedia_“Most_Biased_Encyclopedia”⠀⇛
Co-founder of Wikipedia Larry Sanger describes the
downfall of the once community-ran, neutral,
encyclopedia, Wikipedia, into a mouthpiece for the
establishment.
o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ TikTok_in_talks_to_gain_Indonesian_payments
licence [Ed: Indonesia banned X/Twitter. Now China is stepping
in.]⠀⇛
Indonesia accounted for nearly US$52 billion (S$69.8
billion) worth of e-commerce transactions in 2022.
o ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ What_in_the_World_Is_Happening_on_TikTok_Live?⠀⇛
The app’s livestreaming section has turned into a huge
business as users pay for quick hits of cheap,
personalized (and frequently bizarre) entertainment.
§ Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
* ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Center_for_Countering_Digital_Hate_Vows_to_Keep
Monitoring_Hate_Speech_on_X_Despite_Elon_Musk_Lawsuit⠀⇛
After the Center for Countering Digital Hate reported that hate
speech has soared on the website formerly known as Twitter, now
rebranded as “X,” Elon Musk responded by filing a lawsuit
against the center over the research, calling the group “evil”
and its CEO Imran Ahmed a “rat.” X accuses the watchdog group
of unlawfully accessing data to “falsely claim it had
statistical support showing the platform is overwhelmed with
harmful content.” This comes as Musk has laid off about 80% of
the workforce at X, including a large number of content
moderators, and shut down its Trust and Safety Council. “When
there is hate and disinformation being algorithmically
amplified into billions of timelines, it’s perfectly right that
people that oppose the spread, the production and distribution
of hate seek to research it and seek to put that out into the
public sphere,” says Ahmed. While Musk calls himself a “free
speech absolutist,” silencing critics is his “go-to tactic to
avoid accountability,” says Nora Benavidez, senior counsel and
director of Digital Justice and Civil Rights at Free Press.
* ⚓ France24 ☛ RFI_and_FRANCE_24_condemn_the_suspension_of_their_broadcasts
in_Niger⠀⇛
This incident follows previous cases of censorship faced by RFI
and FRANCE 24 in Mali and Burkina Faso in recent months. The
group reaffirms its steadfast commitment to the freedom of
information, and the safety of its journalists.
In Niger, RFI operates through 7 FM relay stations, in addition
to shortwave broadcasts of its programs in French, Hausa, and
Fulfulde, as well as several satellites (free-to-air on SES 5,
Eutelsat 16 A, and SES 4 satellites). A network of 44 partner
radios also broadcasts their programs in French, Hausa, and
Fulfulde.
* ⚓ CPJ ☛ Niger_blocks_RFI_and_France_24_in_wake_of_coup⠀⇛
The blocking of RFI and France 24, which are subsidiaries of
the French government-owned France Médias Monde, began
Thursday, August 3, according to Mariama Soumana, a journalist
based in Niger who spoke to CPJ via messaging app, and a report
by the privately owned Jeune Afrique news site.
* ⚓ [Repeat] RFERL ☛ Russian_Sentenced_To_Three_Years_For_Anti-War_Comments
On_Social_Media⠀⇛
[...] The Telegram channel of the political association
Novosibirsk 2020 reported the sentencing on August 2. [...]
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ By_Making_Its_Porn_Age_Verification_Law_A_‘Bounty’_Law,_Utah
Able_To_Deflect_Challenge_To_The_Law’s_Validity⠀⇛
Over the last few years, as we’ve seen state legislatures and
governors focusing on culture war legislating, rather than
sensible policy legislating, one thing that’s become popular —
kicked off by Texas’s anti-abortion law, but gladly embraced by
Democrats as well — is the idea of trying to avoid judicial
scrutiny by taking enforcement out of the government’s hands,
but creating a “bounty” program with a private right of action.
* ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Russia_Fines_Wikipedia_and_Apple_for
Spreading_‘False_Information’_About_Ukraine_Conflict⠀⇛
A justice of the peace in a magistrate’s court, which handles
administrative violations and low-level criminal cases, fined
the Wikimedia Foundation 3 million rubles ($33,000) for
retaining material on Russian-language Wikipedia pages that
violated a law against discrediting Russia’s military and
spreading false[sic] information about the Ukraine conflict,
the Interfax news agency reported.
* ⚓ DroidGazzette ☛ Russia_fines_Apple,_Wikipedia_for_leaving_up_content_it
doesn’t_like_about_Ukraine_war_–_POLITICO⠀⇛
This is the first time Apple has been fined for this offense,
Russian media reported, while Wikimedia Foundation, which owns
Wikipedia, has been fined numerous times. In April, the company
was reportedly fined for the seventh time for not deleting what
it said was “banned content” related to the Russian military.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Teenager_Gets_Six_Years_In_Prison_On_Treason_Charges⠀⇛
[...] Berdyugin took part in anti-war rallies and signed
several petitions in Novosibirsk demanding an end to Russia’s
unprovoked invasion of Ukraine launched in February 2022.
* ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Satirist_Reportedly_Detained_By_Security_Agents_After
Home_Searched⠀⇛
Buri went missing on July 31 after visiting the IRGC
Intelligence Office in Abadan to retrieve his mobile phone
after it was confiscated during a raid on his home by
plainclothes officers, according to social-media reports. Since
his disappearance, he has reportedly been unable to contact his
family.
Several prominent public figures have been summoned by the
police or arrested in recent months, with officials warning
women to respect the hijab law.
* ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ The_Persecution_of_Azat_Miftakhov_Is_Designed_to
Silence_Russia’s_Left⠀⇛
Russian anarchist Azat Miftakhov is spending his fifth year in
jail for “hooliganism” — and now faces being framed on fake
terrorism charges. His persecution is part of the Russian
state’s campaign to intimidate the Left and silence opposition
to the war.
* ⚓ CPJ ☛ Taliban_shuts_down_Afghan_broadcaster_Hamisha_Bahar_over_mixed-
gender_journalism_training⠀⇛
Taliban authorities must stop their relentless crackdown on the
media in Afghanistan and allow private broadcaster Hamisha
Bahar Radio and TV to continue its work, the Committee to
Protect Journalists said Thursday.
* ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Congress_Is_Pushing_An_Online_Safety_Bill_Supported
By_Anti-LGBTQ_Groups⠀⇛
Last week, the Senate Commerce Committee advanced the Kids
Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bipartisan bill that lawmakers say
is intended to stop online platforms from targeting and
recommending harmful content to minors. On paper, the bill
sounds like a necessary pushback against big tech platforms
like Facebook and TikTok, which use algorithmic recommendation
to show content users are most likely to engage with.
* ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ WI’s_Dairy_Industry_Relies_on_Undocumented_Immigrants.
The_State_Won’t_Let_Them_Legally_Drive.⠀⇛
Central Wisconsin’s Clark County is home to more dairy farms
than any other county in the state, which bills itself as
America’s Dairyland. Its identity is so tied to the dairy
industry that a 16-foot-tall, black-and-white talking Holstein
stands outside downtown Neillsville, the county seat.
To corral the cows, milk them and clear their manure at these
dairy farms — the dirty, dangerous work that makes this
multibillion-dollar industry go — farm owners here and across
Wisconsin rely on a labor force that they know is largely
undocumented.
* ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Israel-Linked_Group_Attempts_to_Censor_Pro-
Palestinian_Artists_on_Spotify_–_Validated_Independent_News⠀⇛
We Believe in Israel launched a campaign earlier in 2023 for
Spotify to remove several Arabic songs that allegedly targeted
Israel. The campaign was the first step in a larger plan. Luke
Akehurst, director of We Believe in Israel, has cited Spotify’s
ability respond to complaints of “public disgust,” and has
called on Spotify to do the same regarding Palestinian and pro-
Palestinian voices hosted on the service. We Believe in Israel
has also been accused of acting to remove one of pop artist
Mohammad Assaf’s songs in part of its ongoing attempt to
‘cleanse’ the platform. The group complains that Spotify is
promoting violence by allowing these artists to post their
music using the service.
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ City_Officials_Tried_To_Force_Wikimedia_To_Remove_Truthful,
But_Unflattering,_Content_From_Its_Wiki_Page⠀⇛
The best Streisanding is the Streisanding you give yourself, as
the adage goes. The adage is even enshrined at Wikipedia, where
it points to the creator of the term: Mike Masnick. Perhaps
you’ve heard of him.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_activist_who_posted_names_of_Ukrainian_cities_on
storefront_sentenced_to_1.5_years_in_prison_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A court in Russia’s Leningrad region has sentenced activist
Dmitry Skurikhin to 1.5 years in prison for repeatedly
“discrediting” the Russian army, the Telegram channel Sota
reported on Thursday. The case was launched in response to a
sign he made that read “Forgive us, Ukraine.”
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow_court_fines_Apple_for_failing_to_delete_apps_and
podcasts_about_war_in_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛
A Moscow judge has fined Apple 400,000 rubles ($4,250) for
failing to delete apps and podcasts containing “false
information” about Russia’s “special military operation” as
well as materials “aimed at engaging minors in illegal
activities for the purpose of destabilizing the political
situation in Russia.”
§ Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
* ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Five_journalists_face_prison_sentences_for_protesting
colleagues’_arrests⠀⇛
During the demonstration, the journalists aimed to voice their
support for their fellow journalists who had been detained in
two separate investigations targeting Kurdish-focused media
outlets. However, before the protest could even begin, the
journalists were taken into custody.
§ Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
* ⚓ Digital First Media ☛ Striking_UM_graduate_instructors_get_new_offer,
tight_deadline_as_fall_classes_loom⠀⇛
The graduate student workers are asking for “a livable wage,”
better health and child care benefits, and more protections
against sexual harassment. The minimum full-time equivalent
salary for graduate student instructors on the Ann Arbor campus
was $24,055 per term in the 2022-23 academic year, but only one
was actually employed full-time as an instructor. Most graduate
student instructors work half of the full-time equivalent and
spend the rest of the time doing research and service work, the
union says.
* ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ The_US_wants_Kenya_to_lead_a_force_in_Haiti_with
1,000_police._Watchdogs_say_they’ll_export_abuse⠀⇛
The United States is praising Kenya’s interest in leading a
multinational force in Haiti. But weeks ago, the U.S. openly
warned Kenyan police officers against violent abuses. Now 1,000
of those police officers might head to Haiti to take on gang
warfare. Kenya’s police have long been accused by rights groups
of killings and torture. That includes gunning down civilians
during Kenya’s COVID-19 curfew and fatally shooting more than
30 people during protests in July. A Human Rights Watch
researcher says local watchdogs are concerned about Kenya
“exporting its abusive police to other parts of the world.”
* ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ FBI_&_Colorado_Springs_Police_Sued_for_Targeting_&
Spying_on_Racial_Justice_Protesters⠀⇛
The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado has sued the
FBI, the Colorado Springs Police Department and local officers
for illegally spying on local activist Jacqueline “Jax”
Armendariz Unzueta and the Chinook Center, a community
organizing hub in Colorado Springs. “This was one of the worst
moments of my life,” says Unzueta, who describes the
investigation by law enforcement as “incredibly invasive.” The
lawsuit accuses the agencies of “unconstitutional and invasive
search and seizure of the phones, computers, devices, and
private chats of people and groups whose message the Colorado
Springs Police Department dislikes.” This comes after
revelations the FBI had infiltrated the Chinook Center by
sending an undercover police detective named April Rogers to
volunteer at the center in 2020, first exposed by the
investigative reporter Trevor Aaronson, who writes for The
Intercept and created the Alphabet Boys podcast. “For more than
a year, she was undercover for the FBI,” says Aaronson, who
reports the officer, who used the name Chelsie, surveilled the
Chinook Center and unsuccessfully attempted to entrap local
activists in gun-running conspiracies. This was part of a
broader FBI effort to infiltrate racial justice and left-wing
groups in Colorado after the police killing of George Floyd.
* ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ AP_Psychology_Effectively_Banned_in_Florida_Over_Lesson
on_Sexual_Orientation,_Gender_Identity⠀⇛
The Republican-controlled Florida Board of Education on
Thursday effectively banned Advanced Placement Psychology by
notifying school district superintendents that teaching about
sexual orientation and gender identity—key subjects in college-
level psychology curricula—is prohibited under the state’s so-
called “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” law.
* ⚓ Site36 ☛ European_police_actions_on_English_Channel:_German_authorities
prevent_“human_smuggling”_from_the_EU⠀⇛
* ⚓ The Nation ☛ Black_Refuge_and_the_Novel_of_Ideas:_A_Conversation_With
Maya_Binyam⠀⇛
Maya Binyam’s Hangman is one of those rare things in
contemporary literature—a novel of ideas, in which the
exploration of ethical and political questions animates and
shapes the story itself. The novel’s narrative is deceptively
simple on its surface: A man returns to an unnamed country
after two decades in America to reconnect with his sickly
brother; shenanigans ensue. But as it unfurls, it becomes clear
that Binyam’s elliptical story and style are stretching
language in an attempt to depict refuge and safety for Black
diasporic peoples as something that is made impossible by
settler colonialism, enslavement, the international-aid
industrial complex, and the drive to accumulate and hoard
inordinate amounts of wealth.
* ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Economic_Development_Ministry_shifts_employees_to
remote_work_until_September_1_after_office_hit_in_Moscow_City_drone
attacks_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia’s Economic Development Ministry will require its
employees to work remotely until September 1, the newspaper
Kommersant reported on Thursday, citing a copy of an order
issued by Economic Minister Maxim Reshetnikov.
* ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ A_Utah_Therapist_Built_a_Reputation_for_Helping_Gay
Latter-day_Saints._These_Men_Say_He_Sexually_Abused_Them.⠀⇛
Andrew was feeling crushed by the cultural expectation to get
married.
Twenty-two years old, he had just returned from a mission for
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was
attending a singles’ ward in Provo, Utah — a local congregation
of unmarried college students.
* ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Sexual_Violence_is_a_Pervasive_Threat_for_Female_Farm
Workers_–_Here’s_How_the_US_Could_Reduce_Their Risk⠀⇛
* ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Report_Details_‘Shocking_Pattern’_of_Abuse_by_US_Agents_at
Mexico_Border⠀⇛
“The lack of accountability is so widespread that it helps
cement in place a culture that enables human rights violations.
The abuses keep coming because impunity is so likely.”
* ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Forever_War’s_Forever_Legacy⠀⇛
Shutting Down Gitmo Is Hardly the Last Step.
* ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Post-Conviction_Review_Could_Correct_Three-Strike_Law
Injustices⠀⇛
Incorporating newer research about post-adolescent brain
development would help those sentenced under outdated, racist
policies.
§ Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
* ⚓ Eric Pauley ☛ DScope:_A_Cloud-Native_Internet_Telescope⠀⇛
Data from Internet telescopes that monitor routed but unused IP
address space has been the basis for myriad insights on
malicious, unwanted, and unexpected behavior. However, service
migration to cloud infrastructure and the increasing scarcity
of IPv4 address space present serious challenges to traditional
Internet telescopes. [...]
* ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Telecom_Activists_Aren’t_Impressed_By_The_FCC’s_‘Nutrition
Label’_For_Broadband⠀⇛
For the better part of the decade, the generally feckless FCC
has been trying to require that broadband ISPs be a little more
honest about broadband fees and limits at the point of sale. So
they cooked up the idea of a “nutrition label for broadband,”
detailing all of the little caveats and restrictions (real
world speeds, caps, bizarre fees) ISPs now impose on your
broadband line. Kind of like this:
§ Monopolies⠀➾
* § Patents⠀➾
o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Claim_Construction_Order_Sets_Stage
for_Moderna_v._Pfizer_Vaccine_Patent_Showdown [Ed: Patents that
kill people. It's all about greed and graft, not public health.]⠀⇛
Moderna filed a patent infringement lawsuit against
Pfizer and BioNTech in August 2022, alleging that the
defendants COVID-19 vaccine infringes three patents
related to Moderna’s mRNA vaccine technology. United
States Patent Nos. 10,898,574, 10,702,600, and
10,933,127. The lawsuit centers around two key components
of Moderna’s mRNA platform that it claims Pfizer copied –
the use of modified nucleosides like 1-
methylpseudouridine and the encoding of a full-length
coronavirus spike protein. Moderna asserts that it
pioneered these innovations years before the COVID-19
pandemic and patented them between 2011-2016. The
complaint alleges Pfizer and BioNTech initially tested
different vaccine designs but ultimately chose to copy
Moderna’s approach, despite being aware of Moderna’s
patents. In the lawsuit, Moderna is seeking monetary
damages for patent infringement but not injunctive relief
taht would remove the Pfizer vaccine from the market.
Although Moderna pledged not to enforce its COVID-19
patents during the pandemic, it signaled in March 2022
that expected companies to respect its intellectual [sic]
property [sic] rights [sic] going forward.
* § Trademarks⠀➾
o ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_How_Did_These_Three_Likelihood_of
Confusion_Cases_Come_Out?⠀⇛
Here are three recent likelihood of confusion cases: one
opposition and two ex parte appeals. Keeping in mind that
the strength of the cited (or pleaded) mark is an
important factor in the Board’s Section 2(d)
determination, how do you think they came out? Answers
will be found in the first comment.
In_re_Bushnell_Inc., Serial No. 90501168 (July 28, 2023)
[not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Marc A. Bergsman).
[Section 2(d) refusal of WINGMAN for “portable audio
speakers, excluding cases; wireless speakers, excluding
cases” in view of the identical mark registered for “cell
phone cases”].
* § Copyrights⠀➾
o ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ Video_Game_History⠀⇛
Arguably, video games have become the most important
entertainment medium. 2022 US video game revenue topped
$85B, compared with global movie industry revenue of
$76.7B. Game history is thus an essential resource for
scholars of culture, but the industry’s copyright
paranoia means they have little access to it.
o ⚓ Quartz ☛ AFP_is_suing_Elon_Musk’s_X_for_refusing_to_discuss
potential_payment_for_news_content⠀⇛
The legal action, for which AFP seeking an urgent
injunction before the Judicial Court of Paris, stems from
X’s alleged non-compliance with a law France enacted in
July 2019, called “neighbouring rights,” which compels
large online platforms to open talks with publishers
seeking remuneration for news.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ DataCamp:_Pirate_IPTV_“Scam_Judgment”_Worth
Millions_Aimed_to_“Terrorize”_Hosting_Companies⠀⇛
In an extraordinary filing at an Illinois court this
week, a pirate IPTV-related lawsuit filed by DISH Network
last year was slammed by hosting company defendant,
DataCamp. After informing the court DISH has no standing
to sue in a copyright case, DataCamp claimed that DISH
tried to force the company into an agreement to create a
‘False Public Judgment’ for tens of millions of dollars.
That document would be used to “terrorize” other hosting
companies, DataCamp said.
o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Pirate_Site_Not_Impressed_by_Global_DNS_Blocking
Order⠀⇛
Sony Music’s legal efforts have produced a major
breakthrough. As the result of a German blocking order,
DNS provider Quad9 now blocks global access to music
piracy site CannaPower. The operator of the site doesn’t
appear to be impressed so far, noting that it doesn’t
really hurt traffic. “They will never get us down,” the
operator says, adding that moving to the Tor network
remains an option as well.
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ French_News_Agency_Sues_ex-Twitter_For_Not_Paying
Snippet_Tax⠀⇛
The lawsuits against Elon Musk’s ex-Twitter continue to
pile up, but here’s one where the law itself is
ridiculous and unjust. As you’ll recall, the EU Copyright
Directive included a link or snippet tax for news (which
they call a “neighboring right”) similar to the link
taxes we’ve discussed in Australia and Canada. The main
difference here was that the “tax” was for including
snippets (the short summaries or clips) of news. Of
course, since the EU’s was a directive, it was left to
the member countries to implement their own version,
which has mostly been a mess.
o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Preservation_Fail:_Hasbro_Wants_Old_‘Transformers’
Games_Re-Released,_Except_Activision_Might_Have_Lost_Them⠀⇛
And here we go again. we’ve been talking about how
copyright has gotten in the way of cultural preservation
generally for a while, and more specifically lately when
it comes to the video game industry. The way this problem
manifests itself is quite simple: video game publishers
support the games they release for some period of time
and then they stop. When they stop, depending on the type
of game, it can make that game unavailable for legitimate
purchase or use, either because the game is disappeared
from retail and online stores, or because the servers
needed to make them operational are taken offline.
Meanwhile, copyright law prevents individuals and, in
some cases, institutions from preserving and making those
games available to the public, a la a library or museum
would.
o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Triller_Confirms_Sony_Music_Copyright
Infringement_Suit_Settlement_—_Universal_Music_Litigation
Continues⠀⇛
Back in April, a court ordered Triller to pay Sony Music
Entertainment (SME) about $4.6 million over the allegedly
unauthorized use of the major label’s music.
o ⚓ NYPost ☛ Passenger_finds_‘genius’_way_to_be_VIP_in_economy_class
in_viral_TikTok⠀⇛
A passenger has gone to extreme lengths to create a VIP
section in economy — and while many have labelled it
“genius” others have concerns about it.
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