𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Saturday, August 26, 2023
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⦿ ChaffBot Spew Gaslighting the Impoverished Masses | Techrights
⦿ Malware-Addled Chrome Web Store to “Warn About Malware” | Techrights
⦿ Bytedance/TikTok is a Threat to Freedom, Including Free Speech | Techrights
⦿ Paywalls, Copyrights, and Google WEI in the ’New Normal’ | Techrights
⦿ Sane People Don’t Write Homepages Like These | Techrights
⦿ The Latest “Monthly Deterioration” of Microsoft’s Vista 11 and Blue Screens For “Unsupported Processor” | Techrights
⦿ The Next Ugly Phase May be Web Censorship Built Into the Web Browser (Under the Guise of Safety From Alleged ’Misinformation’ and Supposedly ‘Illegal’ Things) | Techrights
⦿ How Secure Boot Could Have Ruined My First Linux Experience And Why IBM Is Making Things Worse. | Techrights
⦿ Techrights is Still Growing | Techrights
⦿ When You Install or Use WordPress and Drupal They Will Control You. If You Use Something Much Simpler and Lighter, You’ll be in Charge. | Techrights
⦿ The ’Modern’ Web and Fake Authorities | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/chaffbot-spew/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/chrome-web-store/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/fentanylware-threat-to-freedom/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/gaslighting-as-new-normal/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/homepages-like-mjg/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/rotting-vista-11/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/safety-from-misinformation/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/secure-boot-ruining-everything/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/techrights-growing-2/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/the-baronhk-blog-on-wordpress/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/the-modern-web-issues/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/fork-of-terraform/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/libinput-1-24-0/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/patents-abused-against-rocky-linux/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/politics-and-benchmarking/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/two-years-on-gemini/#comments
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✐ ChaffBot_Spew_Gaslighting_the_Impoverished_Masses⠀✐
Posted in Deception at 7:33 pm by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Also available_in_Gemini.
Stephen King’s character, Andrew Linoge (Legion) in “Storm of the Century”,
said, “Hell is Repitition.”.
I’ve been considering that a lot lately as the “news” uses the same terminology
and phrases, over and over again, to convince people of The Big Lie. That
America is okay and the economy is “robust”, and Biden has an “Economic
Miracle”.
This is Soviet-style propaganda. Nazi-style propaganda. As the Nazis lost the
war, they kept the public swimming in bad information about how things were
progressing right up until the moment there was urban warfare in their streets
and the Nazi Party was reduced to using child soldiers and giving them whatever
weapons they could find laying around to make the Soviets fight for every block
of Berlin.
I feel the same sort of thing is happening in America today with the state of
the economy, the situation involving our social programs, and the War in
Ukraine.
Hell is repetition. You repeat the “Big Lie” and eventually they come to accept
it as gospel truth.
I’ve started referring to Paul Krugman in particular as “KrugmanBot3000”
because his articles are all the same.
“Government debt doesn’t matter. Everything is fine.”
“ is basically FDR.”
“Don’t worry about Social Security and Medicare. They’ll wave a magic wand and
fix the trillions of dollars they stole from it with fairy dust and unicorn
farts during the Biden Economic Miracle”
“Workers are doing great. Especially the poor ones. They had raises.” (The
raise has been reversed by a factor of 2 by inflation, and Walmart closes
stores and cuts hours.)
And it’s so formulaic it’s like listening to decades worth of ChaffBot Spew,
but you know it’s probably Paul Krugman (or at least was up until a point where
they licensed his name and asked ChatGPT how to recycle garbage and verbiage)
because he was writing things before ChaffBots.
At this point, really, who cares if the Google WEI Attestation stops Paywall
Busters from working? You get this crap from the New York Times after you tear
it down and go “My God, people pay to read this? This is CNN without ads for
Amazon products and luxury vacations during the Economic Crisis most people are
living through! How are they in business?”
It’s one of life’s great mysteries.
When we went to Indiana recently for a convention, we sat down and ate dinner
at one of the wholesome fixtures, MCL Cafeteria. They’re still pretty good, and
have a predictable menu, although they are closing locations due to the fact
that most Americans living in the “Biden Miracle” can’t afford to shop at malls
anymore, so the mall where they were shut down.
There are some freestanding MCLs that are doing better, but the population that
frequents them and likes good food is, about 20 years older than my husband and
me.
As I went through the line, selecting my liver and onions, mashed potatoes and
gravy, Brussels sprouts, whole wheat roll with honey butter, and iced tea
(unsweet with a lemon), I noticed that one of the other patrons had an actual
print copy of the New York Times on his tray.
I wonder what the future prospects are considering younger people don’t get
print news and can’t pay for news, and only eat “What in the name of the
Devil’s asshole is quinoa?”.
Not good, I suspect. I was born to the wrong generation. They had it so good, I
have it so terrible. I will never own a house, I will never drive a new car.
The Democrats are making it $5 a gallon to fill up the one I own while they
make my husband marginally employed and dump the State prisons out on top of
us.
What is the future of a country such as this? █
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/chrome-web-store/#comments
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✐ Malware-Addled_Chrome_Web_Store_to_“Warn_About_Malware”⠀✐
Posted in Google at 4:36 am by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Also available_in_Gemini.
Malware-Addled Chrome Web Store to “Warn_About_Malware”.
Chrome’s extension store crawls with malware.
If you install any significant number of extensions from the store, then you
will eventually have malware.
One of the more common ways to get malware from Chrome’s extension store is
when a “good extension goes bad”. Extensions with many users are worth a lot of
money to hijackers. Quite often they’ll pay the developer off, push out an
update to the users, quietly, with the malicious payload, and then sit pretty
on a fat stack of dirty money before Google gives them the boot.
Since it’s not difficult to push malicious extensions, hijack existing ones,
and make new developer accounts (for five whole dollars), the malware problem
with Chrome extensions probably won’t subside any time soon.
But Google claims that they’re going to run “malware scans” or something, which
have never cleaned up Windows, so good luck with that I guess. This “we’ll just
keep an eye on it for you with a scanner while you do loads of stupid things”
“Windows-style” “security” has literally never worked, at least not reliably.
I don’t typically install extensions, and when I do they’re usually more
established and open source, into my Gecko browsers (SeaMonkey, LibreWolf,
Firefox ESR), and when it’s open source you can have eyes on the extension.
Google’s Chrome extension store STILL won’t even tell you which license you are
agreeing to, so you are giving the author a blank check each time you install
one.
Meanwhile, Google is putting much effort into crippling the extensions platform
so that ad blockers and NoScript don’t work well or can’t even be made to work
at all, or their own ads get a pass.
Chrome is a malicious program.
It’s basically a Trojan horse (something that appears desirable, but in fact
comes packed with things you wouldn’t accept if you knew it was being done).
It’s a disaster for your privacy and security. If you’re smart, you’ll never
put it on your computer. █
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✐ Bytedance/TikTok_is_a_Threat_to_Freedom,_Including_Free_Speech⠀✐
Posted in Asia, Deception at 7:07 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Fentanylware:_Who's_there?⦈_
Summary: Fentanylware (TikTok) is very harmful, but some sites insist that the
threat should be ignored, citing an amendment that China (controlller of
Bytedance) neither has nor recognises; this has nothing to do with free speech
and Bytedance/TikTok actually pose a threat to it
“Montana passed a law earlier this year to ban TikTok (and ban mobile app
stores from offering TikTok for download). The bill has lots of problems,” Mike
Masnick wrote_yesterday. This is the latest among many articles of his (and his
site) which conveniently overlook the harms of social control media (the site
downplays those, too).
“We’re going to keep an eye on the situation.”“TechDirt turns a blind eye to
the weapon nature of TikTok,” one reader told us today, “perhaps out of wishful
thinking or perhaps out of addiction to social control media.”
Another theory is that reason.com and TechDirt shill TikTok’s side because both
are funded by Koch (deregulation extremists) and “the Koch connection can be
explored there,” to quote the reader. “It’s not just about deregulation but by
allowing TikTok Koch is promoting cultural genocide. Look up what TikTok has
done to DJs and dancefloor “music” already, in the few months it has been
operating.”
Well, delegitimising regulation is important for Big Oil, but they currently
receive more subsidies than ever so they like government interventions of a
certain kind. As the reader explained this, “the petrochemical industry gets
100s of billions in subsidies each year. Pay but don’t ask where the money
goes…”
“Fentanylware (TikTok) was designed to manipulate society in favour of docility
in the controlling country and chaos in “foreign” countries.”Looking at the
past week’s news, TikTok’s image is being “reformed” as there are many puff
pieces about it [1-2], there will be more ads [3], and evasions [4]. There is
also an effort to leverage TikTok’s (Bytedance) spying [5] and the last time
bans were mentioned was around 5 days ago [6-10]. We’re going to keep an eye on
the situation.
There’s hope that the_severity_of_Fentanylware_(TikTok) will be recognised and
proportional reaction/action be taken. Fentanylware (TikTok) was designed to
manipulate society in favour of docility in the controlling country and chaos
in “foreign” countries. █
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⠀⠀⢠⣴⡆⣿⣿⠇⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠰⣿⣿⣷⣝⡿⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⣠⣿⡿⠛⠛⠛⠻⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⢸⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢨⣿⡏⠁⠀⠀⠤⠖⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣤⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⢸⣄⣀⣠⢤⣴⣿⡧⠀⣴⣤⣿⣿⣷⣦⣴⣿⣦⣤⣠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠈⠉⠛⠛⠻⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣯⣷⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠛⠿⠛⠛⠿⣿⡿⠿⠻⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠛⠃⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠛⠿⢿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠆⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣧⣤⡄⠀⠈⠋⠛⠛⠛⠛⠁⠀⣤⣼⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⡀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣟⣛⠻⠿⠿⢟⣻⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⢿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣿⣿⡿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠋⠉⠛⠛⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⢀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⢸⣿⣿⢀⣴⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣠⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣄⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⣠⣶⣶⠖⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⢰⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠈⢻⣿⣿⡆⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⢠⣿⣿⡿⠉⠀⠈⢻⣿⣿⡆⢸⣿⣿⣾⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠸⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⢀⣼⣿⣿⠇⢸⣿⣿⠟⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠸⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⠟⣿⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠈⢿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠹⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠈⢿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣾⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣼⣿⣿⣿⣧⣾⣿⣿⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠃⠀⠉⣿⣿⣿⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣍⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⡘⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣨⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⡏⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠛⠛⠋⠛⠛⠛⠁⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠃⠉⠛⠛⠛⠁⠀⠀⠈⠛⠛⠛⠋⠀⠀⠀⠙⠛⠋⠀⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠙⠛⠛⠛⠋⠛⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Also available_in_Gemini.
My Cat Is Sick… Hyperthyroidism And A Tumor.
Our black and white “tuxedo” cat is sick with hyperthyroidism and a tumor. The
vet figures the tumor is probably benign, but we’re not going to wait and find
out. We’re going to have it surgically removed.
She also did the labs and found hyperthyroidism starting to develop.
She informed me that my cat was probably older than I guessed (~9 or ~10) and
that most cats don’t develop this until they’re around 12.
She said that for the hyperthyroidism we can do pills, which are cheap, or
surgery to remove a different growth (which is almost exclusively benign),
which is expensive. Like $3,000, which is a LOT of pills. More than the cat
will ever need.
Fortunately, I bought a handy dandy secret weapon. A pill giver you load and
then push into the cat’s mouth and pop the pill in with a plunger so you’re not
getting bitten twice a day trying to keep the cat alive.
Twice a day, come pill time, it’s like the opening of Ghostbusters. “GRAB HER!”
Things are going in a bad direction economically due to the “Economic Miracle
of Biden”, as told by “KrugmanBot3000” (with a Volvo) in the NY Times.
I too am sick, of being told of this “Miracle” that is unfolding, as people
lose jobs, get their hours cut, and have to wonder how long they can even
afford to take care of their pet cat or fill up the tank of their car.
It makes me depressed to read it even though I know it’s propaganda that would
make Goebbels or Stalin blush.
The other day, they went so far as to blame people with low interest fixed-rate
mortgages for still being able to spend a lot of money while the Fed bangs the
poor into bankruptcy due to the wealthy panicking about inflation. This
situation with the American media has never been worse.
What level of Freedom and Capitalism are we in where the media gleefully shouts
“HAHAHAHAHA!!! It’s all working as planned. The Central Bank is killing
American families with rigged interest rates. They can’t afford to buy a can of
beans and they are losing their jobs! This will bring inflation to a very
manageable 3% eventually!”
A troll in IRC told me he believed copyright should be abolished.
(If it was to be, then Microsoft can commit more code theft using Plagiarism as
a Service, AKA CoPilot.)
Then another sockpuppet in IRC shamed me for reading the Times via Links or the
Newswaffle.
I mentioned that their paywall is pretty much just there so that people on a
Mac with Safari, or on an iPhone, can’t do anything about it. It was never
going to stop smart people who can just drop to the terminal and type “links
nytimes.com”.
The WEI “attestation” of Chrome is there to stop people from doing this. There
will be two or three Web browsers that are “trusted”, and they will be
“trusted” to prevent the user from doing anything at all to alter the display
of “content”, on the client-side.
So in layman’s terms, no more “KrugmanBot3000” and “Miracles” because the
browser has to attest that you have not done anything clever.
The only benefit is that these sites tend to be so bogus that nobody should pay
for them anyway which is why they’re really dying.
Let me be frank, that considering that these places only ever post propaganda
that benefits the wealthy elite and the American government’s gaslighting,
you’d think taxpayers would be on the hook to directly subsidize all of them
and not just NPR.
They could have packed it into the “Inflation Production Act” or something. █
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Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 8:35 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Summary: Matthew_J._Garrett, the Coke_Fly doing bios, is a lot creepier than
most people care to understand [1, 2]; we’ll resume our series shortly (this
coming week)
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⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠘⢿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡛⢻⣿⠸⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⢻⢹⡇⠀⣀⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢀
⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠸⣿⣶⣶⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠏⠃⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⢸⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸
⣿⣿⣿⠃⣀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⢻⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⣿
⣿⣿⣿⡄⢳⡀⣼⣍⡙⢿⣿⣿⣏⠻⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣇⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⢳
⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⢸⣿⡟⠿⢷⠾⠻⢯⠀⠸⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⣿⣿⣦⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⢽
⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠸⣿⣷⣦⣤⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⡟⣱⣄⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣶⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⡿⠁⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⣠⣄
⣿⣿⠈⠿⣿⣿⡄⣀⣮⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠀⠐⡄⡉⠀⠀⠐⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠉⢿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋
⣿⣿⠀⣼⠟⠁⠀⠈⠉⠋⢙⣿⣿⣿⡦⢠⡋⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣭⣽⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⢀⡄⣶⣼⣿⣿⠋⠁⠀⠙⠁⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡘⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢾⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠈⠻⢿⣿⣿⣟⠀⠀⠤⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀
⣿⣿⠀⠀⣀⣀⠴⠸⡋⣿⣿⣟⠛⠧⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⣁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠘⠿⠟⠀⠀⠀⠙⠏⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻
⣿⣾⠀⠰⠛⠛⠀⠀⠘⠋⠉⠈⠠⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢾
⣿⣿⠀⠀⢀⡼⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡤⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⠄⢀⠞⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⢏⣠⣤⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⢶⣶⣶⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⡀⠊⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⡟⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣶⣌⡻⢿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢩⣏⣾⣿⡿⢿⡄⢹⣿⣶⣦⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⢹⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠁⠀⠀⠒⡛⢀⣿⣟⢿⢿⣿⣷⣶⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣴⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠘⠉⠋⠘⠛⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣻⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⡿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠛⠿⠿⢿⣿⣷⣶⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣛⣟⣛⢛⣛⡋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⡟⠛⠛⡛⠛⠛⠉⣹⣷⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⢀⢀⢀⠂⣴⢰⠰⣶⢶⣀⡀⡀⢀⢀⢰⢀⢴⠀⢠⡄⠠⠄⡔⠇⠀⡲⡄⡖⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⡇⠀⣀⢀⡄⠀⠀⣄⣄⢥⡀⢀⡀⡀⡀⠀⢠⠂⡂⢄⡄⡄⢠⠠⠀⢼⠂⡆⠀⡆⡦⠀⢀⣌⢀⣪⠈⢹⡇⡿⠷⠯⠇⠄⠉⠂⠈⠒⠘⠈⠚⠀⠈⠈⠈⠈⠈⢉⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⡇⠀⣟⠞⡇⠷⠧⠧⠣⠿⠸⠉⠁⠐⠐⠀⠈⠒⠂⠁⠁⠁⠈⠀⠉⠀⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⣀⡀⠀⡭⢤⣀⠀⡀⡀⡠⡠⡤⠀⠀⠈⠥⠍⠀⠂⠀⡇⠦⡀⢰⢰⢰⠀⢸⢹⠸⠸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⡇⠀⣀⡀⣀⡀⣀⣐⢀⢄⡄⡄⡆⡆⠄⠀⠠⢠⠠⠀⠰⠂⡇⠂⡀⢆⣃⢎⡂⡏⡆⠧⠀⠇⠇⠧⠀⠧⠘⠙⠑⠘⠁⠒⠑⠃⠀⠀⠀⠁⠈⠈⠁⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⢀⡀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⠀⠷⠧⣧⡇⠇⠘⠙⠒⠑⠓⠃⠁⠀⠀⠈⠀⠉⢀⠈⢀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⢠⠀⠀⢀⢠⠀⡄⡀⠀⢀⢠⠠⠀⡄⠀⣠⢠⢠⠀⡖⠐⠢⠃⢸⡀⢸⠈⡇⢉⠎⠉⠉⠁⠁⠣⠅⠇⠸⢘⠃⠌⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⠀⣤⣀⡤⣤⡠⣤⠄⢠⠤⡄⠌⣀⢲⢸⠠⠶⢰⢸⠀⢸⡱⡉⠀⠈⠑⠹⣰⠼⠘⠄⠀⠇⠃⠢⠄⠃⠃⠀⠈⠀⠉⠘⠈⠀⠁⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠠⠀⡀⠀⣄⣀⡀⢀⢀⢄⢰⡠⢠⢄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⠀⠘⠛⠃⠓⠣⠍⠀⠈⠀⠁⠁⠁⠉⠁⡀⡀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⣀⢀⡀⠀⠀⡀⠒⠀⢄⢤⢤⢄⠢⢠⠠⠊⢠⢺⢰⢲⢰⢴⢀⠀⢠⢣⠃⠏⠖⠄⠂⠨⠨⠔⠀⠥⠐⠐⠙⠘⠘⠘⠐⠚⠨⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⡄⢠⢤⣸⠁⠸⣥⠶⠴⢆⠆⡆⡢⡀⠸⣀⠀⢏⠆⠄⢔⠄⢘⢼⠘⠜⠠⠀⠑⠰⠼⠞⠘⠘⠈⠈⠈⠈⠚⠁⠉⠀⠚⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⢀⡀⢀⡀⠀⢐⢀⢀⢠⢤⠀⢰⢠⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⡇⠈⠛⠈⠁⠒⠓⢙⡊⣁⠈⠀⠉⢁⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⢠⠀⣀⢀⢀⠀⢰⢠⢴⢠⣀⢄⡄⠀⡔⡔⡇⠀⡶⡀⡒⡐⡜⢈⡱⣉⠁⠇⠅⠀⠳⠳⠐⠝⠘⠘⠐⠚⠘⠘⠨⠾⠀⠈⠉⠈⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⡇⠘⣗⡶⡖⡖⣳⣋⣏⡏⡗⣛⠺⠸⠀⠰⠼⠰⠀⠘⠀⠂⠊⠐⠀⠘⠈⠚⠈⠈⠉⠁⠀⠉⠀⢁⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⣀⡀⢀⡄⠀⡀⡀⢐⢀⠄⠢⠄⣄⡄⣀⠀⢰⡐⡔⠂⡆⡆⠡⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⡇⠀⡉⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⣀⡀⡀⡀⠀⡆⡀⡆⡤⡄⠄⡄⠀⠠⢸⠒⣠⢲⢰⢰⢸⡀⢸⢱⢸⠸⠹⠹⠀⠰⠤⠤⠤⠃⠃⠀⠑⠘⠐⠒⠊⠒⠂⠁⠁⠉⠀⣀⠁⠈⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⣇⠀⣷⣍⣏⣗⣏⠏⠞⠎⠀⠠⠥⠅⠇⡱⠀⠒⠃⠃⠃⠃⠃⠥⠃⠀⠉⠉⠉⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⢀⡀⣄⠀⡀⠀⢀⠂⡄⡄⡤⡄⠀⡆⡄⡄⡔⡔⡄⠀⠀⡗⢲⢠⡐⠁⣋⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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✐ The_Latest_“Monthly_Deterioration”_of_Microsoft’s_Vista_11_and_Blue_Screens
For_“Unsupported_Processor”⠀✐
Posted in Hardware, Microsoft, Windows at 5:46 pm by Guest Editorial Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Also available_in_Gemini.
The Latest “Monthly Deterioration” of Windows 11. Blue Screens For “Unsupported
Processor”.
According to Bleeping Computer, the latest monthly preview update for Windows
11 is causing_a_Blue_Screen_of_Death_for_“Unsupported_Processor”.
That sounds rough.
While Windows users with 2018 PCs are being Blue Screen of Unsupported
Processor’d by Windows 11, X11_on_Linux_and_BSD_recently_got_new_updates_for
graphics_cards_from_1997.
I am currently using openSUSE Leap KDE 15.5 on an 11th gen Core i7 laptop from
late 2020. Also on a 2016 6th gen i7 laptop.
On the 2016, it’s still very fast with Linux.
I installed Windows 11 on it for the lulz (quickly to be removed again). I had
to Regedit my way past the fake security features and the unsupported processor
(from 2016!) and when I did, it ran very slow and very hot. Sort of like one of
those “Vista Capable” laptops did with a Sempron, and the stupid thing is an i7
from 7 years ago.
Microsoft pointlessly adds inefficiency to Windows to make old hardware so
unbearable that you buy new computers, and put the old one in a dump somewhere.
Pretty much all Windows ever does is get slower and want twice as much RAM as
last time, so you can do the same stuff. It’s pretty bad if you’re dealing with
that plus contention for resources from “Modern” Web browsers.
They get you at both ends, and really, is 16 GB of RAM even enough for Windows
anymore? They fill it full of God only knows what, because I’m not seeing any
useful improvements here.
I joke frequently about an old Windows 98 system I still use on the Internet.
It creaks and it clanks and it can’t do everything. Extended and pushed as far
as it can go, it can run SeaMonkey 2.49.5 with updated TLS backports. But the
funny thing is, it’s got good games, it’s got a browser that can still do a
lot of things, an email program you can trick out to grab your GMail. It can
play MP3s and Opus files.
Anyway, be sure to get the latest monthly deterioration from Microsoft.
It_can_open_gzip_files_now, unless you get the Blue Screen of Unsupported 2018
Processors.
It’s amazing how it takes Microsoft like 20 years to add things like ZIP and
FLAC support. By then everyone is used to adding adware and hacked codec packs
and stuff.
Lately, whenever there’s an improvement, an actual improvement, to Windows,
Microsoft simply grabbed an open source library and threw it in. There’s no
actual investment, they just gain capabilities by grabbing open source
libraries.
It’s the level of support you can expect on a rotting OS from a company that’s
firing everyone. █
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✐ The_Next_Ugly_Phase_May_be_Web_Censorship_Built_Into_the_Web_Browser_(Under
the_Guise_of_Safety_From_Alleged_‘Misinformation’and_Supposedly‘Illegal’
Things)⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Security at 6:28 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 35e680dcc5c1dae2ea2729b054cf86ff
They Have Agenda in Store
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/social-control-by-centralised-stores.webm
Summary: Censorship on the World Wide Web is expanding and it seems plausible
that the client side (browser) will facilitate a lot of this, quite likely in
the name of “security”
LESS than a day ago Ryan a lot of posts. Among the many topics covered Ryan
wrote_about_so-called_'stores'. The Web is becoming filled with “stores” and
many things offline are also becoming “stores”. Who controls these? Not the
users. Each store is like a bundle of restrictions and censorship. That’s just…
the “trend”. In China, for instance, they try to police which files you have,
what songs you listen to, what characters you can type…
“Expect further restrictions on access to information.”Users are becoming
severely disadvantaged and computers are rapidly becoming portable cages. As
for access to information, that too is getting quietly monopolised. “I suspect
that one small reason ads are less viable now is that there are much fewer
relevant small businesses,” one person noted yesterday. “Another, probably
larger reason, is that control of online ads is held by a tiny handful of
companies.”
What comes next? Expect further restrictions on access to information. See the
following news:
opening_allegedly_infringing_sites?_–_Walled_Culture⠀⇛
Sites?_|_Techdirt⠀⇛
posed_by_proposed_Internet_bill_–_Business_&_Human_Rights_Resource
Centre⠀⇛
The ultimate goal is to control everything people do online. What’s at stake
here is a lot bigger than software freedom although Free software can allow
people to bypass such restrictions. Based on recent years in the Mozilla blog,
Firefox is not on our side because it keeps pushing the censorship agenda
rather than the free expression agenda. █
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✐ How_Secure_Boot_Could_Have_Ruined_My_First_Linux_Experience_And_Why_IBM_Is
Making_Things_Worse.⠀✐
Posted in Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, IBM at 4:28 am by Guest Editorial
Team
Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Also available_in_Gemini
Historically, using Free and Open Source Software has been a “license to
tinker”, and Linux was no exception.
If it didn’t do something you needed it to do, you could patch it with
“something I found”.
If that hadn’t been the case, I would have never been able to start using
Mandrake Linux in the 1990s.
You see, the family computer had this horrible piece of hardware in it called a
“Winmodem”. And let me tell you about those.
Pretty much as the name implies, the manufacturer dropped a Windows driver,
which essentially was the modem.
Theoretically, this had benefits, like the modem could be updated by simply
installing a new driver, since most of the logic for the thing is in the
software, which runs on the computer, in the Windows 98 kernel in my case.
But that benefit hardly ever materialized. If any manufacturer actually sold
you a modem and then later updated you to v.90 or v.92 or something, I’m not
aware of it.
They left me at K56Flex and x2, two competing specifications written by rival
companies, that predated the ITU standard for v.90 and v.92 56k dial up modems.
Fortunately, most ISPs supported one, the other, or both, in which case it
would go ahead and work, but the modem itself was STILL a problem.
Because you only had the Windows driver, and because it implemented the entire
modem, without Windows, the modem did nothing. You had no Internet access at
all. Dead hardware.
Fortunately, I found the source code to a module that I could compile and add
to Linux, and it made the modem work well enough, that I could at least get by
until I had saved enough to buy a Zoom 56k modem that supported the actual ITU
standards.
The Winmodem was a parasite. Even under Windows, the damn thing made the entire
system hang whenever it picked up or hung up the phone line, and then while it
was running, it stole CPU time for the driver.
So, this is basically my “Richard Stallman and the Printer” story.
Eventually I was able to remove the Winmodem and the (somewhat unstable) out-
of-tree driver, but when I needed to patch the kernel, nothing stopped me.
Nothing could have stopped me because nobody had lost their mind and thought
Microsoft was a security company.
We didn’t have these ridiculous “Security” charades by the purveyor of the
least secure software on the planet.
(“Secure” Boot offers no advantages and the GNOME Desktop has even been tarred
and feathered by a “Security” Theater screen by people at IBM Red Hat…… I use
KDE now.)
While it is much less common now to encounter the need to run unsigned modules,
everyone should be allowed to, without Microsoft in their way. Or in the way of
even booting the computer.
Unfortunately with IBM Red Hat’s assistance, crazier things than “Secure” Boot
are happening.
This includes the outlandish notion that most of the file system should be
read-only (“immutable”) and shouldn’t be within the user’s reach because Apple
does this with a toy OS.
How is the user supposed to edit flat configuration files to make systemd
(their other disaster) behave differently? How is the user supposed to take
software they want in /opt and put it in /opt?
I don’t think you can. And the “Transactional Upgrade” system sounds horrible.
An “everything or nothing” upgrade of every package on the system, even if some
are broken, and the only thing you can do if some are is roll the entire thing
back?
I will never install a distribution with an immutable file system.
These distributions are worse than useless.
Even IBM Fedora, which has been banging this drum the loudest, has had an
immutable “spin” forever, says they’ll make it “Workstation” someday, and well,
that hasn’t happened.
There’s just no way to make it actually work. Not if you want to configure the
system at all, or do something like dnf update –security.
Don’t even get me started on “kernel lockdown”, where even root is somehow not
allowed to change kernel variables.
If a user has so seriously misconfigured their system that a vulnerability
exists, let them live with that.
But this really has nothing to do with Security. It’s about walling the user
off from their own computer to enforce Windows, or at the very least, make
Digital Restrictions Malware (DRM) more effective on Linux.
Quit screwing up my laptop. █
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✐ Techrights_is_Still_Growing⠀✐
Posted in Site_News at 8:50 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Some stats of interest for Techrights (this month and in general)
Gemini requests since start of month: 524,329 in total
HTTP/S hits per second this month: 5 per second
Bandwidth per second (HTTP/S): 1.5 MB
Bandwidth per day in IPFS: 40 GB
Total pages in Gemini capsule: 48,123
Gemini server uptime: 6 months since last outage
WordPress blog posts: 37,578
WordPress blog posts since start of this month: 313
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✐ When_You_Install_or_Use_WordPress_and_Drupal_They_Will_Control_You._If_You
Use_Something_Much_Simpler_and_Lighter,_You’ll_be_in_Charge.⠀✐
Posted in Free/Libre_Software, Servers at 5:25 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum b45311802e80eeabcf20091bcb404a44
WordPress Bloat
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/wordpress-ui-and-ux.webm
Summary: ‘Feature_churn’ impacts content management systems such as WordPress
or Drupal (to name two of the very popular ones for blogs or general Web
sites); for those who want to be in control of their platform rather than
entrapped in an “upgrade_treadmill” there’s lighter, safer, and versatile stuff
(that more people can tinker with as a hobby) such as Gemini
THE DIRECTION the Web has taken is as disturbing as the direction Web browsers
have taken because they’re closely intertwined; the servers and users exchange
information based upon some standards or non-standards. The more complex
browsers become, the more cruft will get sent by the servers and standards will
cease to matter when one codebase dominates about 99% of Web browsers.
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇The baronhk blog⦈ WordPress is an example of widely-deployed
server-side software that gets more complicated and more bloated all the time,
basically an anathema or an ‘antithesis’ to things like Gemini. I started using
and deploying WordPress several times in 2004, i.e. one year after it started.
So I saw how it was getting more and more bloated (or complex) over time when I
was more closely involved in the project.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with WordPress for those who wish to build
complex sites. Drupal too is highly extensible. Bub there are many problems as
outlined in the videos above and there’s growing technical debt. Gemini
provides an escape from all that and Ryan has therefore_adopted_it_some_days
ago. He converted all his recent posts to GemText. █
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Modern Web is Masters and Slaves
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/web-controlled.webm
Summary: Authoritarians and spies have ruined the Web for the vast majority of
us; no longer can freedom be expected on the Web
THE video above is a response to Ryan's_rant about what the Web has become and
what so-called ‘communities’ have become (corporations looking for people
willing to work for them for free).
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control networks we’ve been seeing lots of this and the agenda unravels while
more people flock outwards, perhaps because they belatedly realise that their
efforts were simply “farmed” by somebody else.
To use the “means of production” analogy, people need to seize control over
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Graphics_Stack
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o Education
o Programming/Development
# Python
# Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ NVIDIA_posts_NVAPI_core_software
development_kit_on_GitHub⠀⇛
Without any additional commit messages except the
repository description, Nvidia posted the source
code for its Developer Kit tool on Github under the
NVIDIA Corporation organization umbrella.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Radeon_RX_7800_XT_and_RX_7700_XT_revealed,
plus_more_details_on_FSR_3⠀⇛
AMD just announced the Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon
RX 7700 XT Graphics Cards, and they’re giving out
more details on FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR
3).
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Nvidia_Embraces_Modding_Community_For_‘Half_Life
2’_Project,_Valve_Apparently_Cool_With_It⠀⇛
It’s always nice when you get several stories in a
row that contrast with one another in order to make
a point. We were just discussing Rockstar’s
decision to scoop up a roleplaying and modding
community in order to build in new and interesting
ways to play GTA and Red Dead Redemption games.
What I had hoped out loud would be a sign that
Rockstar was turning over a new leaf on modding
communities was dashed almost immediately as the
company then went after another group of mod-makers
for the crime of being fans of its games and trying
to make them more interesting and playable. Game
companies don’t have to do this sort of thing.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to
Apple_Launchpad⠀⇛
macOS is Apple’s proprietary operating system for
its line of Macintosh computers. Its interface,
known as Aqua, is highly polished and built on top
of a BSD derivative (Darwin). There’s a whole raft
of proprietary applications that are developed by
Apple for their operating software. This software
is not available for Linux and there’s no prospect
of that position changing.
In 2020, Apple began the Apple silicon transition,
using self-designed, 64-bit ARM-based Apple M1
processors on new Mac computers. Maybe it’s the
perfect time to move away from the proprietary
world of Apple, and embrace the open source Linux
scene.
Apple Launchpad is a central location where you can
view all your apps and easily open them.
Launchpad is proprietary software and not available
for Linux. We recommend the best free and open
source alternatives.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Effortless_Email_Sending_on_Linux:_A_Step-by-Step_Project
Guide⠀⇛
Emails have been an essential part of
communication. Today in this blog we are going to
know how to send emails without ever going to your
browser or Gmail app by just using some cool
command lines on Linux. you may ask But why to do
all this for now I will say maybe just to look like
a hacker.
# ⚓ Network World ☛ There’s_more_to_more_than_meets_the_eye⠀⇛
The more command on Linux may have a lot more
options than you know and use.
# ⚓ TechTarget ☛ A_quick_breakdown_of_Postman_vs._Insomnia⠀⇛
Does your organization need the fully loaded
capabilities of Postman or the lightweight
implementation style offered by Insomnia? Read this
quick breakdown to get the picture.
# ⚓ Pi My Life Up ☛ Running_Plausible_Analytics_on_the
Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛
Plausible Analytics on the Raspberry Pi is a
relatively straightforward process thanks to being
installed through a Docker container. We will,
however, need to make adjustments to get it running
on our ARM based system.
# ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ How_to_Save_cURL_Output_to_a_File?⠀⇛
While the curl command was created to make things
work without any human interaction, you can still
use it to save output to a file.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Positech Games ☛ Making_a_hobby_game!⠀⇛
I have to say though… its already very very fun.
There is something very adrenaline-rushy about
playing it on the harder levels, where everything
gets a bit hectic. In these days of F2P,
monetization, competitive e-sports, multi gigabyte
patches, and achievements and so on… there is
something very pleasurable about a simple game
where you move left and right and hit the fire
button!
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Factorio:_Space_Age_revealed_giving_you_a
fleet_and_multiple_planets⠀⇛
We knew an expansion was coming as it was confirmed
some time ago, but now Wube Software have revealed
much more about what’s now called Factorio: Space
Age.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ ARMORED_CORE_VI_FIRES_OF_RUBICON_runs_well
on_Steam_Deck_and_desktop_Linux⠀⇛
ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON is the big new
release developed by FromSoftware Inc, the same
team from ELDEN RING and it does seem to run quite
well on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Over_11,000_games_now_rated_Steam_Deck
Playable⠀⇛
There’s currently somewhere around 92,000 games on
Steam and so it’s going to take a long time for
Valve to check them all on Steam Deck but here’s
some recent picks.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Best_Free_Linux_Mint_Games⠀⇛
Gaming on PC has historically been the domain of
the Windows operating system. That’s true even to
this day. While there are some awesome Linux games
on the market, most modern games are primarily
developed with Windows in mind.
However, Linux gaming has come a long way since
then. Long gone are the days when you had to tinker
with numerous packages, scripts, and whatnot to
make even the simplest game run consistently.
Thanks to the relentless community effort, Linux
gaming is something one can seriously consider.
However, not everything is sunshine and rainbows.
There are a couple of hiccups that you should know
when deciding a game on Linux…
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ This_week_in_KDE:_tap-to-click_by
default⠀⇛
This week we weren’t done improving input
device defaults; for Plasma 6, touchpad tap-
to-click is now enabled by default! If you’re
curious about the reasons, click that link.
In addition, convergence is starting to
happen. You might notice that the number of
open Plasma 6 issues is lower this week than
it was last week! A good sign for sure.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Help Net Security ☛ Kali_Linux_2023.3_released:_Kali
NetHunter_app_redesign,_9_new_tools,_and_more!⠀⇛
Besides updates to current tools, new versions of
Kali typically introduce fresh tools.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Network World ☛ OpenELA_group_pushes_for_bug_compatibility
with_RHEL⠀⇛
A dramatic disagreement in the enterprise Linux
community has some distributions scrambling to keep
their code compatible with Red Hat, as the
acknowledged biggest player in the space cracks
down on source code distribution.
The core issue is the existence of several
“downstream” Linux distributions based on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. Those distributions were
historically based on CentOS, a free RHEL clone
developed originally for the purposes of testing
and development. The downstream distributions in
question, however, are supported by companies like
CIQ and Oracle – which sell support services for
their “clones” of RHEL. This has led to a long-
running tension between those companies and Red
Hat, whose supporters argue that the downstream
companies are simply repackaging Red Hat’s work for
profit, while detractors say that Red Hat is
violating the sprit – if not, technically, the law
– of open source.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Canonical_give_some_thoughts_on_the_future
of_Ubuntu_Desktop⠀⇛
Ubuntu is one of the top most used Linux
distributions on the desktop and Canonical, the
company behind it, has a new blog post up giving
some thoughts on the future of Ubuntu Desktop.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Desktop:_charting_a_course_for_the_future⠀⇛
It has been a little while since we shared our
vision for Ubuntu Desktop, and explained how our
current roadmap fits into our long term strategic
thinking. Recently, we embarked on an internal
exercise to consolidate and bring structure to our
values and goals for how we plan to evolve the
desktop experience over the next few years. This
post is designed to share the output of those
discussions and give insight into the direction
we’re going.
These values form the framework by which we
determine our priorities and measure our progress,
and hopefully inspire those that want to contribute
to this experience to focus their energies in ways
that are aligned with our longer term ambitions.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Automotive World Ltd ☛ Wind_River_Linux_is_selected_by
ZEEKR_for_future_EEA_development⠀⇛
Wind River®, a global leader in delivering software
for mission-critical intelligent systems, today
announced that Wind River Linux has been selected
by global electric mobility technology brand ZEEKR
to power its future electronic and electrical
architecture for software-defined vehicles.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Using_an_aircraft’s_altimeter_to_replay
mountain_bike_journeys⠀⇛
Maker Glen Akins wanted to relive his best mountain
bike ascents and descents, so he hacked a vintage
aircraft altitude indicator (also called an
‘altimeter’) using Raspberry Pi Pico and a little
digital data conversion wizardry.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Patching_Together_Logic_Gates⠀⇛
The digital world offers many advantages over its
analog relatives, the use of boolean logic among
them. Some of the functions, like NOT, OR, and AND
are fairly straightforward and line up nicely with
their linguistic counterparts. Others are more
elusive, like XOR and NAND. For those just getting
their start in digital logic, this teaching tool
allows different logic gates to be wired together
with patch cables.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ OpenTF_Announces_Fork_of_Terraform⠀⇛
Two weeks ago, HashiCorp announced they are changing the
license to all their core products, including Terraform,
to the Business Source License (BSL). In an attempt to
keep Terraform open source, we published the OpenTF
manifesto, and the community response was huge! Over 100
companies, 10 projects, and 400 individuals pledged their
time and resources to keep Terraform open-source. The
GitHub repository for the manifesto already has over 2.5k
stars, and the number is growing quickly!
The manifesto outlined the intent of the OpenTF
initiative in two steps — the first was to appeal to
HashiCorp to return Terraform to the community and revert
the license change they were making for this project. The
second, in case the license was not reverted, was to fork
the Terraform project as OpenTF.
o ⚓ LWN ☛ OpenTF_Announces_Fork_of_Terraform⠀⇛
The OpenTF Foundation has announced that it is moving
forward with its eponymous fork of HashiCorp Terraform,
which was recently changed to a non-FOSS license by the
company. The organization has applied to become part of
the Linux Foundation, “”with the end goal of having
OpenTF as part of Cloud Native Computing Foundation””.
There is a GitHub repository for its manifesto, but the
code repository for OpenTF is private for now, with plans
to open it up in the next week or two. Work has been
going on for the last week and more developers are coming
on board…
o ⚓ TechTarget ☛ OpenTF_begins_HashiCorp_Terraform_fork,_pledges
donation [Ed: HashiCorp is a Microsoft shill, so let's hope the
fork succeeds]⠀⇛
The vendor-led group says it wants to donate a fork based
on the latest open source version of the infrastructure
as code tool to a foundation, ideally the Linux
Foundation or CNCF.
o ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ FOSS_Week_in_Review:_Kali_Cleans_House,_Kalendar
Becomes_Merkuro,_Brave’s_Unfree_Assistant,_&_More…⠀⇛
Well, ya might have noticed that I somehow missed last
week’s FWIR. Busy, busy, busy, which unfortunately means
that forces other than FOSS Force are vying for my time.
I’ll be writing about that next week…maybe. Look for it,
it’ll be an interesting read if I do, a tale filled with
cancer surgery (not me but in my home), followed by
emergency brain surgery (also, not me but in my home),
all in the midst of losing the home we’ve been renting
for 30 years (just when rentals are either not available
or priced so high that my retirement savings be gone in a
few years).
Oy vey.
o ⚓ Jean-François Fortin Tam ☛ Jean-François_Fortin_Tam:_Why_I_picked
the_biggest_furry_elephant_as_my_microblogging_platform_(and_refuse
to_self-host_a_Mastodon_server)⠀⇛
This article will require between 1 and 2 minutes of your
attention if you read only the first half; obviously
double that if you also feel like reading the second
(more philosophical & strategic) half.
As you may know, in addition to this blog here, I have
also been microblogging very actively for years (whether
on_Twitter or on_LinkedIn), particularly the day-to-day /
work-in-progress of my Free & Open Source software
contributions across GNOME and the FreeDesktop, and that
habit shall outlive Twitter’s 2022-2023 chaotic hostile
takeover and sabotage by its new majority shareholder/
owner. I have (reluctantly) found refuge in the shire
that is the fediverse, a quirky platform filled with
countless technical & usability challenges, but eh, what
else have we got left? Tis the last bastion we have
(we’ll see what happens when Meta/Facebook “enters the
chat”, will it be like what_happened_with_XMPP? 🤷)…
o ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ What_to_expect_from_Open_Source_Summit_Europe
2023 [Ed: Adrian Bridgwater still running ads/puff pieces for LF]⠀⇛
Just for a (welcome) change, the Computer Weekly Open
Source Insider team is not off to San Francisco, Las
Vegas, Barcelona, Boston or London’s glittering ExCeL
centre, this time it’s Bilbao.
o ⚓ TechTarget ☛ 6_open_source_GRC_tools_compliance_professionals
should_know⠀⇛
Organizations must meet a variety of regulatory
compliance requirements today. Here’s a look at six open
source GRC tools and related resources that might help.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ CVE-2020-19909_is_everything_that_is
wrong_with_CVEs⠀⇛
The new CVE has an ID containing 2020 and that is
weird. When you register a CVE you typically get it
with the year you request it. Unless you get an ID
for an old problem of the past. Is that what they
did?
Sources seem to indicate that this was published
just days ago.
o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ Balthazar Rouberol ☛ Pinning_your_SQLite_version_across
environments⠀⇛
The project I’m currently working on only has a
single external dependency: SQLite, with full text
search enabled. As a result, the application is
extremely easy to package and run. However, I found
out that ensuring that you have the exact same
SQLite version and feature set in all your
environments (development machines running macOS
and linux, CI and production) is trickier than I
expected.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ MariaDB’s_revenue_grows_as_new_CEO
settles_in,_but_bank_loan_discussions_continue⠀⇛
MariaDB reported $13.0 million total revenue for
the third quarter of fiscal 2023 and annual
recurring revenue of $55.0 million, an increase of
14 percent year-on-year. Operational losses
narrowed to $12.2 million for the quarter, down
from $13.1 million in the same period last year.
o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ LibreOffice_7.6_arrives:_Open_source
stalwart_is_showing_its_maturity⠀⇛
LibreOffice, formerly known as OpenOffice, before
that called StarOffice, and which evolved from a
German CP/M word processor called StarWriter, is
the leading open source desktop office suite.
StarWriter was released in 1985, so the product
family is now nearly 40 years old – considerably
older than Linux itself. Its history is so long
that when The Reg reported that Sun was acquiring
Star Division and making the product free last
century, this was still a young publication, newly
moved from email newsletter to website. (You can
tell by how short those stories are.)
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ FreeBSD ☛ Save_the_Date:_November_2023_FreeBSD_Vendor
Summit⠀⇛
Mark your calendars! The November 2023 FreeBSD
Vendor Summit will take place November 2-3, 2023 at
the NetApp Campus in San Jose, CA. The Vendor
Summit will feature a single track of talks on both
days.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Kurt McKee ☛ Revitalizing_stalled_open_source_projects⠀⇛
This post is a response to this very common
refrain. It provides strategies for contributing to
an open source project whose development has
stalled by triaging pull requests and issues.
I’m writing this post as someone who has been on
both sides of this over the last ~20 years of
contributing to, and maintaining, open source
software projects. I’ve encountered stalled
projects and helped revitalize them, and — as the
long-time maintainer of a popular project — I’ve
benefited from others injecting energy into a
project.
# ⚓ [Old] Martin Fowler ☛ On_Pair_Programming⠀⇛
Many people who work in software development today
have heard of the practice of pair programming, yet
it still only has patchy adoption in the industry.
One reason for its varying acceptance is that its
benefits are not immediately obvious, it pays off
more in the medium- and long-term. And it’s also
not as simple as “two people working at a single
computer”, so many dismiss it quickly when it feels
uncomfortable. However, in our experience, pair
programming is vital for collaborative teamwork and
high quality software.
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ rOpenSci_News_Digest,_August_2023⠀⇛
You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive
into the activity at and around rOpenSci!
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Seth Michael Larson ☛ Python_vulnerability_disclosure
end-to-end⠀⇛
The advisory for CVE-2023-40217 was published
this week which affects Python versions
before 3.11.5, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, and 3.8.18.
This was my first end-to-end vulnerability
disclosure for Python which included handling
of embargoed info (ie non-public), a
coordinated release of fixed Python versions,
and publishing of the advisory to the
security-announce@python.org mailing list and
to the PSF Advisory Database.
Now that I’ve experienced the flow from end-
to-end and I can start to think about where
there is potential for improvement and what
items need to be on our “checklist” to reduce
stress and guesswork from remediation
developers, release managers, and
coordinators. This process is pretty opaque
(for obvious reasons) so I also wanted to
share the experience with everyone to know
what’s happening in the background to keep
Python users safe.
# § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
# ⚓ DJ Adams ☛ Bash_shell_expansion_inside_double
quotes⠀⇛
In the context of this month’s SAP Developer
Challenge on APIs, some participants working
through today’s task have tripped up on a
Bash feature, a feature which is one of a
family of features relating to “expansion” of
information. In this short post I dig into
what that feature is, and how to ensure you
don’t trip yourseves up with it.
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Posted in News_Roundup at 8:22 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Graphics_Stack
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Fedora_Family_/_IBM
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Devices/Embedded
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Programming/Development
# Python
o Standards/Consortia
* Leftovers
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Security
# Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
# Patents
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ The_Zimablade_is_an_upcoming_low-cost_x86
personal_server⠀⇛
CrowdSupply recently featured the ZimaBlade which
is a single-board x86 device geared for personal
servers, media streaming, retro gaming and many
other applications. This card sized platform offers
PCIe support, dual SATA connectors, Gigabit
ethernet and support for the Open-Source CasaOS.
The product page indicates that the ZimaBlade will
be available in two configurations.
# ⚓ [Older]_Mirantis_Launches_Open_Source_Kubernetes_Control
Plane_Project⠀⇛
Mirantis launched an open source k0smotron control
plane project for Kubernetes that makes it simpler
to centrally manage multiple clusters.
# ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ How_much_noise_will_I_lose_when_I_power_off
this_server?⠀⇛
This morning I pondered how much will noise reduce
when I power off that server? From the comfort of
my living room, directly above the rack in the
basement, I powered it off. At first, I was
disappointed. I could still hear that repetitive
whine.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Montana Linux ☛ Video:_MiSTer_FPGA_Nintendo_64_devel_core
looking_great⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_Ep_232:_Chaos_Communications
Camp_Placeholder_Edition⠀⇛
Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams is off at Chaos
Communications Camp, and Assistant Editor Tom Nardi
is off on vacation, so there’s no real podcast this
week.
# ⚓ 2023-08-23_[Older]_FLOSS_Weekly_746:_Don’t_Hesitate,
Enculturate!_–_Claude_Warren_Jr,_Open_Source_Culture⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-24_Enterprise_Linux_Security_Episode_72_–
Surveillance_Facepalm⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-24_How_to_install_Devuan_GNU+Linux_5.0.0⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-24_UbuntuDDE_Remix_23.04_overview_|_Your_Beautiful
Ubuntu_Linux_Distribution⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-24_Window_Maker_A_Window_Manager_Ahead_Of_Its
Time⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-24_How_to_install_Wire_Desktop_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-24_Some_Interesting_Built_in_Features_in_Qtile⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-24Mainline_Linux_Kernels_for_Ubuntu_–_Easily_Change
Your_Kernel!⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-23_[Older]_How_to_install_the_Brave_browser_on
Debian_12⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-23_[Older]_SUSE_Goes_Private_Again_To_Make_More
MONEY⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-23_[Older]_All_the_OPEN_SOURCE_SOFTWARE_I_use_on_my
servers,_laptop_&_desktop⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-22_[Older]_KDE_Plasma_6_Changes_Its_Most
Controversial_Feature⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Rhino_Linux:_A_NEW_Trailblazing_Linux
Distro_with_NEXT-GEN_Features!_(NEW_DISTRO_ALERT)⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Installation_and_First_Look_at_Crystal
Linux⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Devuan_GNU+Linux_5.0.0_“Daedalus”
overview_|_software_freedom,_your_way⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-21_[Older]_How_to_install_the_Opera_browser_on
Debian_12⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Very_Brief_History_Of_LibreOffice_&
OpenOffice⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Kumander_Linux_1.0_Overview_#shorts⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Setting_up_a_“Cloud_Desktop”_on_Linux⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-20_[Older]_This_Is_The_Greatest_Image_Editor_On
Linux⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-20_[Older]_New_Linux_tablet,_GNOME_45_beta,_COSMIC
theming,_SUSE_goes_private:_Linux_&_Open_Source_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-20_[Older]_DTOS_GNU/Linux_–_The_Distro_I_Was_Forced
To_Make_–_DT_LIVE!⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-20_[Older]_How_to_install_Google_Chrome_on_Debian
12⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-19_[Older]_Boost_Your_Linux_Productivity_with_tmux!
#linux⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-19_[Older]_Learn_tmux_(Part_2)_–_How_to_use_Splits
and_Panes_for_the_Ultimate_Linux_Workflow!⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-19_[Older]_Learn_tmux_(Part_3)_–_A_Simple_and
Straight-Forward_Look_at_Managing_Windows⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-19_[Older]_Learn_tmux_(Part_4)_–_Discover_how_to
manage_Sessions_within_tmux⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-19_[Older]_Learn_tmux_(Part_5)_–_How_to_Customize
tmux_and_Make_It_Your_Own!⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2023-08-19_[Older]_Weirdest_“Open_Source”_Software
Licences⠀⇛
o § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ Free Desktop ☛ libinput_1.24.0⠀⇛
libinput 1.24.0 is now available. It's been a while
since the last release
so let's flush out what's on our branch. Only three
notable topics:
On Apple touchpads, natural scrolling is now
enabled by default and palm
detection is disabled - the touchpads are good
enough that they don't need
our help.
Built-in tablet devices now always have touch
arbitration enabled, so we no
longer need to add a quirk for each of them. And
speaking of tablets:
the pressure offset limit for worn-out devices is
now at 50% of the range.
Modern pens have a precise enough range that even
worn out pen can
still provide satisfactory pressure sensitivity.
This pressure offset is now
detected on worn-out pens that do not support
distance.
Finally, where a relative device's rotation is 180
degrees (e.g.
a trackball used upside-down) we now flip the
scroll wheel direction as well.
The rest of the changes is the usual mix of
janitorial patches and
device-specific quirks.
As usual, the git shortlog is below.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 5_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux
Partitioning_Tools⠀⇛
To provide an insight into the quality of software
that is available, we have compiled a list of 5
high quality open source partition tools that offer
an excellent way to create, destroy, resize, move,
check and copy partitions.
Our recommendations are captured in this legendary
LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. All software
featured is free and open source.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to
Apple_Script_Editor⠀⇛
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.
We recommend the best free and open source
alternatives.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Machine_Learning_in_Linux:_GodMode_–_
[buzzword]_Chat_Browser⠀⇛
# ⚓ Scarlett_Gately_Moore:_KDE_Snaps_Weekly_report,_Debian
recommenced!⠀⇛
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: I am still looking for a super
awesome team lead for a super amazing project
involving KDE and Snaps. Time is running out and
well the KDE world will be a better a better place
if this project goes through! I would like to
clarify, this is a paid position! A current KDE
developer would be ideal as it is a small team so
your time will be split managing and coding alike.
If you or anyone you know might be interested
please contact me ASAP!
Lots of news on the snap front 23.04.3 is now
complete with new snaps! I know, just in time for
23.08.0. I have fixed some major issues in this
release, 23.08 should go much quicker. Even quicker
if my per repo snapcraft files gets approved!
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ WiFile:_Share_Files_Over_the_Network⠀⇛
A file explorer to share files over a network based
on Flask server framework.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Pydio_Cells:_Open-source_Free_Self-hosted_Dropbox
Alternative⠀⇛
Pydio Cells is a fully-featured, robust, and user-
friendly web-based file sharing and synchronization
platform designed to cater to the needs of
businesses. The platform offers an extensive range
of features and functionalities that make it an
ideal alternative to popular cloud-based file
sharing services like Dropbox and Box.
# ⚓ Diffoscope ☛ Reproducible_Builds_(diffoscope):_diffoscope
248_released⠀⇛
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce
the release of diffoscope
version 248. This version includes the following
changes:
[...]
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ 38_Open-source_Free_Duplicate_File_Finder_and
Removal_Tools⠀⇛
Duplicate file removal is the process of
identifying and removing duplicate files from your
computer. Duplicate files are identical files that
occupy unnecessary disk space and can slow down
your computer.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ WebHarvest:_Open-source_Free_Web_Data_Extraction
Tool⠀⇛
Web data extraction (also known as web data mining
or web scraping) is an incredibly useful tool for
extracting valuable information from arbitrary web
pages.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Swiss_File_Knife:_The_Must-have_File_Management
Tool_For_Every_Desktop⠀⇛
Swiss File Knife is a highly useful, free and open-
source tool that can be used for a variety of
purposes. Not only is it easy to use, but it is
also portable, allowing users to take it with them
wherever they go on a USB stick. The program
combines many
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_install_Opera_browser_on_Arch_Linux⠀⇛
Opera is a free web browser based on Chromium.
Opera browser comes with a lot of useful features
that can make your browsing experience better.
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ How_to_Install_Fonts_on_Linux:_A_Comprehensive
Guide⠀⇛
This guide walks you through installing fonts on
Linux, using the command line, or utilizing the
dedicated GNOME and KDE’s GUI apps.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_backup_and_restore_data_on_Pop!_OS_using
TimeShift⠀⇛
In our digital age, data integrity and security are
paramount. Pop!_OS, revered for its user-centric
design, offers tools like TimeShift that empower
users to safeguard their data.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_Fix_Apache_2_Not_Executing_PHP
Files⠀⇛
Learn how to troubleshoot Apache 2 when it’s not
executing PHP files with this easy-to-follow, step-
by-step tutorial.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Install_Latest_Kernel_6.4_in_Ubuntu
22.04|20.04_[New_Repository]⠀⇛
For those who want to install the latest Linux
Kernel (6.4.x so far), there’s a new apt repository
made for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Debian 12
Bookworm.
# ⚓ Installing_Figma_on_Linux:_Unofficial_Desktop_Clients_and
Workarounds⠀⇛
Figma is a popular cloud-based design and
collaboration tool used for creating user
interfaces (UIs), user experience (UX) designs, web
designs, app designs, and more. It’s popular among
designers, product managers, and developers for its
collaborative features, real-time editing
capabilities, and ease of use.
# ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Webmin_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
Managing and administering Linux servers from the
command line is difficult for beginner Linux users.
In this case, you can use Webmin to manage your
Linux server from the web-based interface. In this
article, I will show you how to install Webmin on
Debian 12.
# ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Pop!_OS_&_Docker:_A_ultimate_guide_to_container
deployment⠀⇛
Pop!_OS, with its developer-friendly interface,
harmoniously marries the robust capabilities of
Docker, offering an efficient environment to run
containers. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or
someone venturing into the containerized world,
understanding the nuances of running Docker
containers on Pop!_OS can redefine your
developmental workflow.
# ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Connect_Remote_Windows_System_from
Linux_Command_Line⠀⇛
In a world where cross-platform connectivity is
key, the ability to connect to a remote Windows
system from a Linux command line can be a game-
changer. Thanks to powerful tools like xfreerdp,
this process has become seamless and efficient.
# ⚓ Nagios_Configuration_Best_Practices_for_Smooth_Operations⠀⇛
# ⚓ Troubleshooting_Nagios:_Debugging_Host_and_Service_Checks⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hands-On_Lab:_Setting_Up_Host_and_Service_Checks_in
Nagios⠀⇛
# ⚓ Efficient_Monitoring_with_Host_and_Service_Groups_in
Nagios⠀⇛
# ⚓ Smart_Monitoring:_Handling_Host_and_Service_Dependencies_in
Nagios⠀⇛
# ⚓ Creating_Custom_Plugins_for_Nagios_Monitoring⠀⇛
# ⚓ Nagios_Plugins:_Extending_Monitoring_Capabilities⠀⇛
# ⚓ Passive_Checks_Demystified:_Integrating_External_Data_in
Nagios⠀⇛
# ⚓ Active_Checks_in_Nagios:_Best_Practices_and_Configuration⠀⇛
# ⚓ Configuring_Nagios_Services:_A_Comprehensive_Guide⠀⇛
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ This Week in GNOME ☛ This_Week_in_GNOME/Felix_Häcker:
#110_Nailing_Down_Perfomance_Issues⠀⇛
Update on what happened across the GNOME
project in the week from August 18 to August
25.
# ⚓ Sriyansh_Shivam:_My_first_conference:_GUADEC_2023⠀⇛
=============================================
In this blog, I’ll be sharing my experience
attending GUADEC 2023 in person held in Riga,
Latvia from 26th July 2023 to 31st July 2023.
§ 24th July 2023
Last month, when I woke up on this date, I
was still unsure whether I’d be able to
attend GUADEC in person because of the visa
process, I was supposed to have my visa
received on July 24th, but I wanted to attend
GUADEC because it would be my first
conference I’d ever attended. So I decided to
go to my courier’s office to pick up my visa,
which was already at a local courier depot.
When I opened it, I was overjoyed to see that
my visa had been approved. Following this, I
began contacting Melissa; she was so
supportive that I received my flight tickets
and accommodation details the same day, even
though she was traveling herself. I flew from
Pune to Delhi at midnight, then from Delhi to
Helsinki and then from Helsinki to Riga. To
be honest, I was also looking forward to the
travel experience as well because it was my
first international journey. I had a great
time taking pictures on the way and arrived
in Riga on the evening of July 25th. Melissa
if you’re reading this thank you again 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴
🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈
# ⚓ Adrian Plazas ☛ Adrien_Plazas:_One_Device_to_Do_it
All⠀⇛
In this article I’ll present how I used to
organize myself, mainly using my smartphone
for that, and why and how I started changing
this.
§ Dependency
On January 1st 2023 at 00:30, my Android
smartphone died, and it made me realize how
dependent on that device I was. I used it for
many aspects of my life: to stay organized,
to be informed, to be entertained, or to move
around.
Luckily, at that time I was working for
Purism and I had a Librem 5, that was the
perfect opportunity to try it out in real
conditions, as the device I depend on. I
started by listing all I used my previous
smartphone for, and tried to fulfill the same
needs with the Librem 5. It didn’t go well.
The device has some great upsides and
interesting features, for sure, but the Linux
smartphone ecosystem was very far from
something I can depend on, especially given
how much I was asking from my smartphone.
I ordered a new smartphone in mid-February
2023, and being back on Android after 1½
months not using it helped me discover things
I wasn’t expecting.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ 7_Things_You_Never_Knew_You_Could_Do_in
GNOME’s_Activity_Search⠀⇛
You are missing out on lots of built-in
search features in the GNOME desktop
environment. Learn something new.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the
week_2023/34⠀⇛
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
As announced on various channels, OBS services have
been moved to a new location on new hardware. So
the last check-in we could do was on Wednesday,
building, and QA done before the move yesterday and
then publishing it. As we managed to get the timing
pretty right (which was more based on luck than
anything else; timings for build and QA are only
very rough estimates) we managed to publish 6
snapshots since the last review. At the moment, we
do not yet have a new snapshot building, as the
service migration seems to have left a few services
in limbo – e.g. openQA is, up to the moment of this
writing, not able to sync snapshots from OBS. So we
rather slow down than risk sending out untested
stuff.
The six snapshots (0817, 0818, 0819, 0821, 0822,
and 0823) delivered during the last week brought
you these changes: [...]
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Debarshi_Ray:_Fedora_meets_RHEL:_upgrading_UBI_to_RHEL [Ed:
Helping IBM entrap developers, making them depending on the
quasi-proprietary RHEL (Red Bait)]⠀⇛
As part of our efforts to make Fedora_Workstation
more attractive for developers, particularly those
building applications that would be deployed on Red
Hat Enterprise Linux, we had made_it_easy to create
gratis,_self-supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux
virtual machines inside GNOME_Boxes. You had to
join the Red_Hat_Developer_Program by creating an
account on developers.redhat.com and with that you
not only had gratis, self-supported access to RHEL,
but also a series of other products like Red Hat
JBoss Middleware, Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform and so on.
# ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_Contribute_at_the_Test
Week_for_the_Anaconda_WebUI_Installer_for_Fedora
Workstation⠀⇛
The Workstation team is working on the final
integration of Anaconda_WebUI_Installer for Fedora
Linux Workstation. As a result, the Fedora
Workstation Working Group and QA teams have
organized a test week from Monday, Aug 28, 2023 to
Monday, Sept 04, 2023. The wiki page in this
article contains links to the test images you’ll
need to participate. Please continue reading for
details.
# ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_Docs_workshop:_Virtually
writing_together⠀⇛
At the Fedora Linux 38 release party, the Docs team
suggested that we take advantage of a virtual
meetup to bring teamwork into documentation
writing. Documentation writing shouldn’t be a
solitary pursuit.
An interactive session at Flock_2023 helped
exchange ideas on a collaborative way to run
meetings and invite more contributions for
documentation.
After months of waiting for ideas to be finalized,
the Docs team is pleased to announce the workshop
will begin September 2023.
If you fancy coming along, just let us know your
preferred timeslot in the When-is-good_scheduler by
September 15 2023.
# ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_CPE_Weekly_update_–
Week_34_2023⠀⇛
This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community
Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any
questions or feedback, please respond to this
report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on
libera.chat.
# ⚓ Pablo_Iranzo_Gómez:_No_matching_key_found⠀⇛
As you might have experienced… using a recent
system to connect to a legacy one could be
complicated as some insecure protocols have been
disabled, with a message like:
Unable to negotiate with 192.168.2.82 port 22: no
matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-
rsa,ssh-dss Create an entry like this in your .ssh/
config file, so that insecure methods can be used
to connect to a specific host:
Host 192.168.2.82 HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa
KexAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=+ssh-rsa User root or
alternatively on the command line: [...]
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Debian_Brasil:_Debian_Day_30_years_online_in_Brazil⠀⇛
In 2023 the traditional Debian_Day is being
celebrated in a special way, after all on August
16th Debian turned 30 years old!
To celebrate this special milestone in the Debian’s
life, the Debian_Brasil_community organized a week
with talks online from August 14th to 18th. The
event was named Debian_30_years.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_23.10_Won’t_Use_Snap_Printing_Stack
After_All [Ed: MS Canonical (Mark Shuttleworth's Canonical)
trying to snooker everything for vendor lock-in]⠀⇛
Ubuntu was planning to ship the CUPS printing stack
as a Snap in 23.10 — but after several months of
testing, its changed its mind. Accordingly, a DEB-
based printing stack will feature in Ubuntu 23.10
“Mantic Minotaur” and in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Switching to the CUPS Snap will now aim to take
place during the Ubuntu 24.10 development cycle.
# ⚓ Alan Pope ☛ Alan_Pope:_It’s_not_working_from_home⠀⇛
I’ve worked from home since November 2011, when I
started working for Canonical. I’ve had enough
though, and have chosen to go back to working in an
office on a regular basis.
No, I don’t have investments in city-centre office
spaces, and I’m not a Zoom paid shill. I just think
it’s better for me, and here’s why.
Commuter hell Before 2011, all my roles were all
on-site, commuting between six and sixty miles a
day, each way.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ 11_Best_Linux_Mint_Themes⠀⇛
Practical guide on some of the finest themes that
you can use on Linux Mint using a list of a handful
of popular themes and how to install them on Linux
Mint.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ 13_Best_Operating_Systems_for_the_Internet_of_Things_
(IoT)⠀⇛
An Internet of Things OS is any Operating System
specifically designed to work within the
constraints that are particular to IoT devices
which are typically limited in memory size,
processing power, capacity, and built to enable
swift data transfer over the Internet.
There are several (mostly Linux-based) Operating
Systems that you can use for IoT but they wouldn’t
allow you to get the best out of your setup and
that’s the reason why IoT-focused distros exist.
Here are the list of top Operating Systems you can
use for your Internet of Things projects.
# ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ Joint_Development_Foundation
to_co-host_first_CHIPS_R&D_Standards_Summit_with_industry
leaders⠀⇛
The summit will bring together industry leaders in
the semiconductor and microelectronics space to
discuss opportunities for standards-driven
innovation, incubating and accelerating ideas
across industry, academia, and government,
providing training and education, and enabling a
standards-capable workforce. The summit signifies a
strong commitment to excellence and collaboration
in the semiconductor and microelectronics industry
and a community-driven approach to exploring its
future.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ Android_Auto_Not_Connecting_Via_USB:_Why_It
Happens,_And_How_To_Fix_It⠀⇛
# ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ iQOO_Z8_officially_set_to_launch_as_mid-
range_Android_smartphone_with_flagship_charging_–
NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Android_Find_My_Device:_what_is_Google’s_new
tracking_network_and_how_does_it_work?_|_TechRadar⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this
week_–_Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ The_best_Android_apps_to_check_Android
battery_health⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ 15_Tips_&_Tricks_To_Get_The_Most_Out_Of_Your
Android_Phone⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Change_App_Permissions_On_Your_Android
Phone_(And_Why_You_Might_Want_To)⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ghacks ☛ How_to_disable_Android’s_new_Ads_Privacy
features⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ Link_Your_Devices:_How_Google_is_improving_the
Android_ecosystem⠀⇛
# ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Google_Keep_finally_gets_text_formatting
options_on_Android_|_Technology_News_–_The_Indian_Express⠀⇛
# ⚓ Forbes ☛ Android_Circuit:_New_Samsung_Galaxy_S24_Leak,_Oppo
Launch_Reno_105G,_European_Debut_For_Razer_Edge⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ How_to_Plot_Multiple_Histograms_with_Base_R_and
ggplot2⠀⇛
Histograms are a powerful tool for visualizing the
distribution of numerical data. They allow us to
quickly understand the frequency distribution of
values within a dataset.
# ⚓ Jainil_Patel:_Pitivi_GSOC_Final_Report⠀⇛
# ⚓ GSoC’23_Final_Blog_Post_|_Summarising_GSoC_and_future_plans
#6⠀⇛
In this blog post I will be summarizing
my experience and learnings during the
amazing 12 week of the Google Summer of
Code with KDE.
So this week GSoC finally comes to an
end; it almost feels like yesterday when
my project proposal finally got selected.
I still remember how happy I was to
receive the opportunity to work on
projects which will be used by thousands
of people. I would like to thank my
mentor Carl_Schwan for being so patient
throughout this journey. A special thanks
also goes to Joshua_Goins for providing
detailed reviews to my Merge Requests and
assisting me in resolving several of my
bugs.
# ⚓ Volker Krause ☛ Help_with_retiring_Jenkins⠀⇛
In my post_about_Akademy_2023 I had mentioned the
efforts to retire KDE’s Jenkins_installation
(“Binary Factory”) in favor of Gitlab on
invent.kde.org. One remaining issue has meanwhile
been resolved, the migration of the Craft cache
jobs. And for migrating the packaging jobs there’s
an easy way how you can help.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Modular_Mojo_claims_to_be_over_36,000
times_faster_than_Python_for_AI_workloads⠀⇛
Modular Mojo is a new programming language
designed for AI developers that is said to
combine the usability of Python with the
performance of C with over 36,000 times the
performance of Python on a matrix
multiplication workload. Modular Mojo
programming language was not in the initial
plan of the company but came about when the
company’s founders – who focused on building
a platform to unify the world’s ML/AI
infrastructure – realized that programming
across the entire stack was too complicated
and also ended up writing a lot of MLIR
(Multi-Level Intermediate Representation) by
hand. The “over 36,000 times speedup” claim
comes with the matmul.py script performing a
128×128 matrix multiplication in Python with
a throughput of 0.00215 GFLOP/s and another
script doing 512×512 vectorized +
parallelized matrix multiplication in Mojo at
79.636 GFLOP/s.
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ Tedium ☛ Pretty_Darn_Fascinating⠀⇛
The story of the PDF, the portable document format
that’s become one of the internet’s defining
information formats. It’ll be with us after we’re
long gone.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ An_comp-sci_anime_fig_citation?⠀⇛
According_to_the_academic_paper_search_engine_Oa.mg
MAG: 2913484807
Aizu Project’s Ayanami Rei
Ruben Schade
Computer science
2016
Correct me if I’m wrong, but that means someone in 2016
cited the below post of mine, for… computer science?
Classifying Evangelion in this way might be a bit meta
even for me, but maybe there’s some profound relationship
between the two I’m missing.
Was it about the software required to interface a
plugsuit with a human operator? Some other NERV research
project?
o ⚓ The_Lego_Head⠀⇛
As it’s weekend, it is time for something more light
hearted. This is how my son and I packed his Lego when
going to the summer house. A yellow head staring you down
from inside the yellow car!
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Khadas_Mind_Premium_review_–_Part_3:_Ubuntu
22.04_tested_on_an_Intel_Core_i7-1360P_mini_PC [Ed: bribed-
for "review" of a Windows product... under the guise of
"Linux"]⠀⇛
Khadas Mind Premium is an ultra-thin mini PC
powered by an Intel Core i7-1360P Raptor Lake
processor and supports various docks through the
Khadas Link connector. We reviewed the mini PC with
the Mind Dock in Windows 11 a few weeks ago, and
we’ve now had time to install Ubuntu 22.04 to check
out the mini PC with Linux. Installing Ubuntu 22.04
on Khadad Mind Premium We decided to install Ubuntu
22.04 alongside Windows 11, so we shrank the
Windows partition by about half before inserting a
Ubuntu 22.04.3 USB drive to install the Linux
distribution.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ An_Odd_Home_Computer_From_The_1980s⠀⇛
If you were around when the Altair 8800 was king,
you might remember the name Cromemco. They were an
early vendor of add-ons for the Altair, along with
companies like Godbout and Morrow. The company was
mostly famous for a very crude digital camera for
the Altair and a similarly-crude graphics interface
card. They graduated into building S-100 bus
computers. Like many similar companies, they could
taste the upcoming home PC market, and they wanted
a piece of it. Their answer? The $1,800 C-10
Cromemco Personal Computer, and you can see
[Vintage Geek’s] thoughts on the odd machine in the
video below.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_6502_Overlay_Debugger⠀⇛
Retired hardware engineer [Plasmode] recently took
on the challenge of building a debugger for the
6502 designed to sit atop the microprocessor while
seated in a solder less breadboard. The result is
the Diagnostic Overlay for W65C02 Breadboard,
consisting of 128 kB SRAM and a 1250-gate CPLD.
Except being 0.8 in wide, the overlay debugger is
otherwise the same size as the 6502’s 40-pin DIP
package, so it doesn’t overhang other portions of
your circuit.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Vaccines_and_SIDS:_Steve_Kirsch_amps_up_the_stupid⠀⇛
I have an annoying propensity to keep repeating
how, in narratives of antivax conspiracy theories,
everything old is new again. I was reminded of this
again when I encountered a particularly stupid
invocation of the old antivax claim that vaccines
cause sudden infant death syndrome invoked by tech
bro turned antivaxxer Steve Kirsch, as epitomized
by two posts on his Substack….
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Chinese-Backed_APT_‘Flax_Typhoon’_Hacks
Taiwan_With_Minimal_Malware_Footprint [Ed: Microsoft Windows
TCO]⠀⇛
Microsoft warns that Chinese spies are hacking into
Taiwanese organizations with minimal use of malware
and by abusing legitimate software.
# ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ What_You_Need_to_Know_About
the_US_Federal_Government’s_RFI_on_Open_Source_Software
Security [Ed: LF pushing "sigstore" and other terrible idea
which simply restrict and inhibit, all in the name of fake
"security"]⠀⇛
The US Federal Government’s recent Request for
Information (RFI) on Open Source Software Security
(announced by the US White House) is a noteworthy
development for open source software (OSS). This
RFI originated from the Open-Source Software
Security Initiative (OS3I) interagency working
group created to improve OSS security. This blog
post aims to provide a brief overview of the RFI.
# ⚓ Beta News ☛ A_holistic_approach_to_closing_the_container
security_gap_[Q&A]⠀⇛
So, what’s the best way to secure Kubernetes
systems? Alex Jones, engineering director
Kubernetes at Canonical, suggests a need to look
beyond containers with a holistic approach to
security that spans all layers of the system. We
talked to him to discover more.
# ⚓ Linux_Vulnerabilities:_The_Antidote_to_This_Linux_Security
Poison [Ed: "linuxsecurity" uses the anniversaty of Linux to
throw in some mud and FUD]⠀⇛
Fast forward 30 years later and what was once
started as a hobby is now one of the most powerful
operating systems, powering billions of devices
worldwide. This operating system, named Linux, now
makes up almost 3.08% of all the operating systems
used worldwide.
However, with great power comes even greater
responsibilities. And Linux is no exception to this
rule. As the backbone to a multitude of servers,
workstations, kiosks, and other front-line devices
throughout the globe, it is imperative for
organizations to keep their Linux environments
secure and up and running at all times.
# § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Social_Engineering_Meets_Hacking_With
Prompt_Hacking⠀⇛
XKCD has multiple comics about how hacking
isn’t quite the way they make it out to be in
movies: [...]
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Exasperated_With_Government
Inaction_At_Illinois_Department_of_Insurance,_I’m_Going
Public_From_Now_On._More_GEICO_and_Liberty_Mutual
stuff.⠀⇛
To summarize, I have other beef with the
IDOI. I’ve complained to them about three
other problems, one of which I’ve blogged
about before.
Here are the summaries and the current state
of the complaint.
GEICO: During my April-October policy, they
emailed me a “survey link” to update my
annual mileage, under threat to increase it
to 12,000, the “State average”, and bill me
for it if I didn’t reply. I replied and said
something like 5,000-6,999, which is true.
GEICO raised my bill by about 10% and set my
mileage at 12,000 anyway. I only caught it
because I checked my policy (how many people
do?) and found this. When I called to
complain, GEICO acted like it was a mistake
and refunded the difference.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ No_Pseudonymity_or_Sealing_for_Japanese_User
Seeking_to_Use_American_Courts_to_Subpoena_Twitter
Critics’_Names⠀⇛
“Applicant’s warning of a prima facie
violation of Japanese law’s privacy
protections fails to constitute a harm severe
enough” to justify pseudonymity.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Police_officer,_suspect_killed_in_shootout_during_İstanbul
drug_raid⠀⇛
When police teams acting on a tip-off attempted to
raid an apartment in Kağıthane, the incident turned
violent.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ US_jet_fuel_sanctions_welcomed_as_tool_to_curb_junta
air_strikes⠀⇛
Move will reduce attacks that have killed thousands
of civilians, Myanmar’s shadow government says.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Niger_junta_authorises_Burkina_Faso,_Mali_armies
to_intervene_‘in_the_event_of_aggression’⠀⇛
The officers who took power in Niger last month
said Thursday they would authorise the armies of
neighbouring Burkina Faso and Mali intervene in the
country “in the event of aggression”.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ ‘Self-help’_schools_thrive_in_Myanmar’s_Chin_state
despite_military_attacks⠀⇛
Anti-junta community schools function under threat
of airstrikes and ground offensives.
# § Torture⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_a_Judge’s_Ruling_on_Torture
Imperils_a_Guantánamo_Prosecution_Strategy⠀⇛
In dismissing a confession in the bombing of
the U.S.S. Cole, Col. Lanny J. Acosta Jr. has
shaken a foundation of U.S. government cases
at the post-9/11 court.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ German_prosecutors_announce_arrest_of_Syria
pro-government_militia_member_for_war_crimes_and_crimes
against_humanity⠀⇛
German prosecutors announced Thursday that a
Syrian national accused of crimes against
humanity and war crimes through torture and
enslavement between 2012 and 2015 has been
arrested. The investigating judge presiding
over the matter ordered the man detained
pending trial.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Judge_Throws_Out_Confession_of
Bombing_Suspect_as_Derived_From_Torture⠀⇛
The Saudi defendant, accused of orchestrating
the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in 2000, was
waterboarded and subjected to other forms of
torture by the C.I.A. in 2002 in a secret
prison network.
# ⚓ MEETINGS_WITH_RIGHTS_ORGANİZATİONS:_‘Everywhere_has
turned_into_a_place_of_torture’⠀⇛
“Lately, even journalists have shown
decreased interest in human rights-related
issues,” says Ümit Efe, an executive of the
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey.
# ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Six_former_Mississippi
officers_plead_guilty_to_state_charges_for_torturing
two_Black_men⠀⇛
Prosecutors say some of the officers
nicknamed themselves the “Goon Squad” because
of their willingness to use excessive force
and cover up attacks including the assault
that ended with a deputy shooting one victim
in the mouth.
# ⚓ Elyas’s_family_calls_for_help:_Lawyers_will_object_to
the_deportation_order_for_the_activist_from_Iran⠀⇛
A deportation order was made for Elyas
Torabibaeskendari from Iran, one of those
detained following the 21st Pride March in
İstanbul. Elyas’s family says that Elyas may
face anything, starting with torture, if sent
back to Iran.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Taliban_Members_Are_Accused_of
Targeting_Afghan_Ex-Officials⠀⇛
A U.N. mission in Afghanistan reported
summary killings, arbitrary detentions and
torture of hundreds of onetime soldiers,
police officers and others in the old
government.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ UN_investigator_says_Eritreans
experienced_torture_and_sexual_violence_during_national
service⠀⇛
A U.N. independent investigator on human
rights says Eritrean refugees and asylum-
seekers report that during compulsory
national service they experienced torture,
inhumane or degrading treatment, sexual and
gender-based violence, forced labor and
abusive conditions. Mohamed Babiker says
Eritrea has a policy of indefinite national
service and has ignored numerous calls from
human rights bodies to ensure legal limits
for the duration of such service and to
protect the human rights of all participants.
Eritrea maintains its national service is
“unfairly judged.” But Babiker says in a
report circulated Monday that he continues to
receive “numerous and credible reports of
grave human rights violation in the context
of forced national/military service.”
# ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ How_a_Notorious_Georgia_Army_School
Became_America’s_Training_Ground_for_Global_Torture⠀⇛
In spite of undergoing several name changes
and employing shrewd repackaging strategies
under the pretext of human rights advocacy,
the notorious School of the Americas remains
actively committed to training foreign
fighters, steadfastly advancing the cause of
the American empire.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Five_Ex-Officials_At_Siberian_Penitentiary
Handed_Prison_Terms_In_Torture_Case⠀⇛
Five former officials at a Siberian
penitentiary have been handed prison terms in
a high-profile case involving the torture and
rape of an inmate from the Republic of Tyva.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Uzbek_Blogger_Claims_He_Was_Tortured_In
Pretrial_Detention⠀⇛
A well-known Uzbek investigative journalist
and blogger, Abdulqodir Mominov, says he was
tortured by three law enforcement officials
while in pretrial detention.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Myanmar_prison_guards_torture_inmates_marking
Martyrs’_Day⠀⇛
They beat 31 political prisoners and locked
them in narrow, dark cells.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Guantanamo_detainees_tell
first_independent_visitor_about_scars_from_torture_and
hopes_to_leave⠀⇛
At the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo
Bay, the aging men known by their serial
numbers arrived at the meeting shackled. For
the first time since it had opened in 2002, a
U.S. president was allowing them to meet with
a U.N. independent investigator. They told
the investigator, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, about
the scant contacts with their families, the
psychological and physical scars of the
torture and abuse they experienced, and their
hopes of leaving. They also told her she had
come too late. In an interview with The
Associated Press, Ní Aoláin agreed, because a
total of 780 Muslim men were detained there
following the 9/11 terrorist attack and today
there are just 30.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ UN_Committee_against_Torture_releases
findings_on_four_member_states⠀⇛
The UN Committee against Torture issued
findings on New Zealand, Romania, Spain and
Switzerland on Friday in its latest session.
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Driving_Electric⠀⇛
So, let’s get the range question out of the
way. My last car was a fairly lean diesel (a
BMW E61 with the 2.0L diesel) and my personal
record was 1350km on one tank of diesel, but
I could do 1000km easily. The MG claims to do
380km. On a nice spring day on the smaller
roads (so doing ~70-80kph) I can do 400km
without too much effort. On a day with heavy
rain trying to do 100kph, I’m happy if I can
do 300km. It will be interesting to see how
this car fares in winter conditions (cold +
thick slush covering the road).
Given that the charging speed is a variable
thing, it took a couple of weeks getting used
to it, but now I do longer trips quite
comfortably.
I consume ~16-17kWh/100km. If I want to do
highway speeds (in Sweden that means 100 –
135kph) I need to calculate ~25kWh/100km. The
battery pack carries 61kWh of charge. You do
the math.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ GEO_accepts_UMich_contract_offer,_ends_five-
month_strike⠀⇛
As of midnight on Friday, the bargaining team of
the University of Michigan’s Graduate Employees’
Organization has officially ratified the
University’s final contract offer, ending more than
nine months of negotiations, including a five-
month-long strike.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ How_Indonesia’s_viral_housewives’_band
freed_a_village_from_the_loan_sharks⠀⇛
A couple, moved by the plight of the debt-ridden
villagers, have offered them interest-free loans…
with a catch.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ The_UAW_has_authorized_a_strike_if_talks_fail_to
reach_deal⠀⇛
The United Auto Workers said Friday that its
members have authorized a strike if the union can’t
reach new contracts with the Detroit Three
automakers: General Motors, Ford and Stellantis.
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ My_Cat_Is_Sick_With
Hyperthyroidism_And_A_Tumor._Also:_Economic_Gaslighting.
Paywalls._Copyrights._Google_WEI.⠀⇛
Things are going in a bad direction economically
due to the “Economic Miracle of Biden”, as told by
“KrugmanBot3000” (with a Volvo) in the NY Times.
I too am sick, of being told of this “Miracle” that
is unfolding, as people lose jobs, get their hours
cut, and have to wonder how long they can even
afford to take care of their pet cat or fill up the
tank of their car.
It makes me depressed to read it even though I know
it’s propaganda that would make Goebbels or Stalin
blush.
The other day, they went so far as to blame people
with low interest fixed-rate mortgages for still
being able to spend a lot of money while the Fed
bangs the poor into bankruptcy due to the wealthy
panicking about inflation. This situation with the
American media has never been worse.
What level of Freedom and Capitalism are we in
where the media gleefully shouts “HAHAHAHAHA!!!
It’s all working as planned. The Central Bank is
killing American families with rigged interest
rates. They can’t afford to buy a can of beans and
they are losing their jobs! This will bring
inflation to a very manageable 3% eventually!”
A troll in IRC told me he believed copyright should
be abolished.
(If it was to be, then Microsoft can commit more
code theft using Plagiarism as a Service, AKA
CoPilot.)
Then another sockpuppet in IRC shamed me for
reading the Times via Links or the Newswaffle.
I mentioned that their paywall is pretty much just
there so that people on a Mac with Safari, or on an
iPhone, can’t do anything about it. It was never
going to stop smart people who can just drop to the
terminal and type “links nytimes.com”.
The WEI “attestation” of Chrome is there to stop
people from doing this. There will be two or three
Web browsers that are “trusted”, and they will be
“trusted” to prevent the user from doing anything
at all to alter the display of “content”, on the
client-side.
So in layman’s terms, no more “KrugmanBot3000” and
“Miracles” because the browser has to attest that
you have not done anything clever.
The only benefit is that these sites tend to be so
bogus that nobody should pay for them anyway which
is why they’re really dying.
Let me be frank, that considering that these places
only ever post propaganda that benefits the wealthy
elite and the American government’s gaslighting,
you’d think taxpayers would be on the hook to
directly subsidize all of them and not just NPR.
They could have packed it into the “Inflation
Production Act” or something.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Powell_warns_inflation_remains_too_high,_Fed_may
need_to_hike_again⠀⇛
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Friday
warned_that_inflation was still far too high, and
suggested the central bank may need to raise
interest_rates_further in coming months.
Why it matters: Despite recent data that shows
inflation receding, the Fed is not declaring
victory with signs that price pressures could
reemerge.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Observers_question_US_commitment_to_Southeast_Asia_as
Biden_to_skip_regional_summit⠀⇛
The American president instead may go to Vietnam, a
most useful ally to counter China in Southeast
Asia.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Zimbabwe’s_tense_election_‘falls_short’_of
democratic_standards,_observers_say⠀⇛
Poll observers from a regional southern African
bloc SADC on Friday said certain aspects of
Zimbabwe’s tense presidential and legislative
elections did not conform to democratic principles.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Court_Rejects_RNC’s_Lawsuit_Claiming_Google
Discriminatorily_Treated_RNC’s_Email_as_Spam⠀⇛
Section 230, the court says, immunizes good-faith
attempts to block spam—and RNC didn’t introduce
enough evidence of bad faith.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ The_Washington_Post_Says_Democracy_Demands_Less
Freedom_of_Speech⠀⇛
The paper worries that “social media companies are
receding from their role as watchdogs against
political misinformation.”
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Press_freedom_NGO_denounces_HK$500k
legal_bill_for_journalist_cleared_of_disorder_charge⠀⇛
A free expression NGO has criticised the Hong Kong
authorities after a journalist was faced with
HK$500,000 in legal costs despite being cleared of
a public disorder charge.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Appeals_Court_Says_Woman_Can_Continue_To_Sue
Over_$8,000_Civil_Forfeiture⠀⇛
Just fucking weird. Seems illegal. How do we get
away with this in a constitutional republic? Rights
exist. And et cetera.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Media_Briefing:_As_UN_Cybercrime_Treaty_Negotiations
Enter_Final_Phase,_Time_is_Running_Short_to_Bolster_Human
Rights_Protections⠀⇛
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Fugitive_Bulgarian_Businessman_Returns,_Immediately
Detained_By_Sofia_Authorities⠀⇛
Gaming czar Vassil Bozhkov, 67, was detained upon
his return to Bulgaria from self-imposed exile, the
Sofia prosecutor’s office said on August 25.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Web_giants_subject_to_unprecedented_rules⠀⇛
The Digital Services Act (DSA) now applies to the
19 largest social networks, marketplaces and search
engines, including Google, YouTube, Amazon,
Facebook, Instagram, X (ex- Twitter) or TikTok.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ How_Europe’s_new_digital_privacy_act_will_change
Big_Tech_regulation⠀⇛
The European Union’s (EU) wide-ranging new digital
privacy protection law went_into_effect_on_Friday
(Aug. 25), ushering in a new era for Big Tech in
Europe.
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ Huawei_and_Ericsson_renew_global_5G_patent
licensing_deal [Ed: JUVE, a bribed propaganda outlet of
illegal 'courts', on two companies colluding to
monopolise something using patents]⠀⇛
Friday’s agreement between Chinese
telecommunication company Huawei and Swedish
electronics manufacturer Ericsson is long-
term and covers access to each company’s
3GPP, ITU, IEEE, and IETF standards for 3G,
4G, and 5G cellular technologies.
# ⚓ JUVE ☛ The_UPC_confirms_it_has_52_cases,_almost_three
months_after_launch [Ed: The UPC is illegal. JUVE is
being bribed to try to legitimise this illegal 'court'
though.]⠀⇛
Since launching on 1 June 2023, the UPC has
had problems showing proceedings on its
registry. However, now users and observers
can view all 35 infringement proceedings on
its case management system.
# ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Patent_case:_Shamoon_v._Resideo
Technologies,_Inc.,_USA⠀⇛
There was no error in an inter partes review
decision finding obviousness in a
communication system patent because the board
properly relied on materials in the record in
its claim construction and obviousness
analysis.
# ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Third_Circuit_Allows
Deduction_of_Generic_Hatch-Waxman_Defense_Costs⠀⇛
Mylan had deducted over $100 million in
litigation expenses for the periods of 2012-
2014 it occurred in defending patent
infringement lawsuits brought against the
generic manufacturer after it
submitted abbreviated new drug applications
(ANDAs) with paragraph IV certifications
challenging the respective patents. The IRS
disallowed the deductions and issued notices
of deficiency to the company — concluding
that instead the litigation costs should be
capitalized under I.R.C. § 263 (and
associated regulations) as costs to acquire
intangible assets (the FDA drug approvals).
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Leftovers
o Education
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Pseudo-Open_Source
# Openwashing
o Security
# Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
# Privacy/Surveillance
# Confidentiality
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Wildlife/Nature
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Patents
# Software_Patents
# Copyrights
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Spreading_Love⠀⇛
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_233:_Chandrayaan_On_The_Moon,
Cyberdecks,_Hackerspaces_Born_At_A_German_Computer_Camp⠀⇛
This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina
Panos experimented with the old adage that brevity is the
soul of wit. That’s right; this week, they’re all Quick
Hacks, and that’s to make room for a special series of
interviews that Elliot recorded at CCCamp with the
pillars of US hackerspace creation. This one’s really
special, do have a listen.
o ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ How_much_noise_will_I_lose_when_I_power_off_this
server?⠀⇛
This morning I pondered how much will noise reduce when I
power off that server?
From the comfort of my living room, directly above the
rack in the basement, I powered it off. At first, I was
disappointed. I could still hear that repetitive whine.
After considering powering off one of the other hosts, I
realized the noise I heard was the ceiling fan. After
switching that off, I could no longer hear the rack. I
thought I could hear a wee bit of fan noise, but the
noise from the main host was definitely gone. The window,
6ft to the right, was cracked open a bit. Cars going past
on the street were louder than what I could hear.
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Finding_myself_in_a_video_rendering_studio⠀⇛
It’s also so much fun talking with people who are using
GPUs not for bullshit, but to… render things! As in,
making movies! The rest of the industry is slurping up
entropy and electricity to generate rubbish and chain
together tulip blocks, but these people actually put
smiles on faces.
o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Escape_China_by_Jet_Ski?_A_Dissident_Is_Said_to
Have_Planned_It_for_Years⠀⇛
He had set off from the Shandong Peninsula with a helmet,
a life jacket, a telescope and a compass, according to
the Coast Guard. He also had five containers of fuel,
which he’d tied to the watercraft and used to keep the
tank filled during the 14-hour journey, the Coast Guard
said.
o ⚓ RFA ☛ Voting_with_his_jet_ski⠀⇛
A 35-year-old dissident who served jail time for wearing
T-shirts likening Chinese leader Xi Jinping to Hitler
fled to South Korea in a daring 300-kilometer (185-mile)
escape over the sea by jet ski. [...]
o ⚓ [Repeat] Tedium ☛ The_New_Chart_Game⠀⇛
These days, the modern way to game the pop charts for
maximum impact is not to set up a thousand streams on
your laptop to play all at once. Instead, it involves
getting people to pay money for a song on iTunes as a way
to emphasize status. You don’t need many to make an
impact.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ QSPICE_Picks_Up_Where_LTSpice_Left_Us⠀⇛
[Mike Engelhardt] is a name that should be very familiar
to the hardcore electronics nerd. [Mike] is the developer
responsible for LTSpice, which is quite likely the most
widely used spice-compatible simulator in the free
software domain. When you move away from digital
electronics and the comfort of software with its helpful
IDEs and toolchains, and dip a wary toe into the murky
grey waters of analog or power electronics, LTSpice is
your best friend. And, like all best friends, it’s a bit
quirky, but it always has your back. Sadly, LTSpice
development seems to have stalled some years ago, but
luckily for us [Mike] has been busy on the successor,
QSpice, under the watchful eye of Qorvo.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ The Independent UK ☛ The_Taliban_has_destroyed_education
for_women_–_but_an_underground_‘University_of_the_People’_is
fighting_back⠀⇛
After the Taliban shut down women’s colleges and
universities in December last year – at gunpoint in
some places – this online classroom has become the
only place for women like Ferhana to meet and study
literature, business administration and computer
science, among other courses.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ [Repeat] Dan Langille ☛ They’re_here!_2x_(new-to-me_12TB
HDD)⠀⇛
Today, the 2x (new-to-me 12TB HDD) arrived. They
are already mounted in their drive cages and
installed.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Wireless_Data_Connections_Through_Light⠀⇛
When wired networking or data connections can’t be
made, for reasons of distance or practicality,
various wireless protocols are available to us. Wi-
Fi is among the most common, at least as far as
networking personal computers is concerned, but
other methods such as LoRa or Zigbee are available
when data rates are low and distances great. All of
these methods share one thing in common, though:
their use of radio waves to send data. Using other
parts of the electromagnetic spectrum is not out of
the question, though, and [mircemk] demonstrates
using light as the medium instead of radio.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Japan’s_Fukushima_nuclear_plant_begins_releasing
treated_wastewater_into_Pacific⠀⇛
Japan began releasing wastewater from the crippled
Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on
Thursday despite angry opposition from China and
local fishermen.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Nuclear_wastewater_released_from
Fukushima_nuclear_plant,_as_China_bans_all_Japanese_seafood
imports⠀⇛
Japan began releasing wastewater from the crippled
Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on
Thursday, prompting a furious China to ban all
seafood imports from its neighbour.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Japan_releases_Fukushima_nuclear_wastewater_despite
concerns⠀⇛
China is among the lead critics of the decision.
# ⚓ Chris ☛ Forecasting_Covid-19_Variants⠀⇛
I dug up a somewhat sloppily produced pdf published
by the who that purports to be a changelog of
variant classifications. The list seems incomplete,
because there are variants that change
classification before being assigned a
classification, and some variants are assigned a
classification but then don’t get mentioned in the
rest of the document, which spans more than two
years.
Here is a brief summary of the relevant variant
changes listed in the document.
# ⚓ Futurism ☛ Kids_Who_Are_Always_on_iPads_Missing
Developmental_Goals,_Scientists_Find⠀⇛
Parents who limit their kids’ screen time, it
seems, may be doing them a service: a new study has
found that babies who spend a lot of time looking
at iPads and other screens experience developmental
delays.
Published this week in the Journal of the American
Medical Association of Pediatrics, this new
research out of Japan suggests that watching
screens may limit infants’ practicing of real-life
motor skills that they glean from mimicking the
people near them.
# ⚓ Pierre_Kory:_“Poor_poor_pitiful_me!_(And_ABIM_is
corrupt!)”⠀⇛
Three weeks ago, we learned that the Credentials
and Certification Committee of the American Board
of Internal Medicine (ABIM) had voted strip two
COVID-19 quacks, Drs. Pierre Kory and Paul Marik,
of their board certifications. In my discussion a
couple of weeks ago I noted that there appeared to
be less than met the eye to this decision; first,
because this decision was announced not by the ABIM
but rather by the antivax quack organization
founded by Kory and Marik, the the ivermectin-
promoting Frontline Covid-19 Critical Care
Alliance, or FLCC (apparently after the two quacks
had received letters from the ABIM) and, second,
because a perusal of the ABIM website demonstrated
that Dr. Kory was still board-certified in internal
medicine and pulmonary and critical care medicine
(which he still is as of early this morning), while
Dr. Marik’s certification status was listed as
“inactive” (which it also still is as of early this
morning). As a reminder, the reason that Dr.
Marik’s status was listed as “inactive” is because
you need a valid state medical license to be board-
certified, and Dr. Marik had let his license lapse
in 2022, leading to his inactive status.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ Thoughts_on_the_Eliezer_vs._Hotz_AI
Safety_Debate⠀⇛
The debate was quite fun to watch, but also
frustrating.
What irked me about the debate—and all similar
debates—is that they fail to isolate the
disagreements. 90% of the discussion ends up being
heat instead of light because they’re not being
disciplined about: [...]
o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾
# § Openwashing⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Meta_lets_Code_Llama_run_riot_under
almost-open_terms⠀⇛
Users however are directed to address Code
Llama in English as the model hasn’t been put
through safety testing in other languages and
might just say something awful if queried in
an out-of-scope language.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian
(tryton-server), Fedora (youtube-dl), SUSE (clamav
and krb5), and Ubuntu (cjose and fastdds).
# ⚓ Hearst Communications ☛ Rackspace’s_costs_to_deal_with
ransomware_attack_top_$10_million⠀⇛
Rackspace Technology Inc. spent $10.8 million on
expenses related to a ransomware attack in December
that blocked thousands of customers from accessing
their emails and related data, according to
regulatory filings.
The San Antonio-based cloud computing company paid
for costs to “investigate and remediate, legal and
other professional services, and supplemental staff
resources that were deployed to provide support to
customers,” according to filings with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission.
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Data_breach_at_French_govt_agency
exposes_info_of_10_million_people⠀⇛
Pôle emploi, France’s governmental unemployment
registration and financial aid agency, is informing
of a data breach that exposed data belonging to 10
million individuals.
# ⚓ The Record ☛ Thousands_have_SSNs_leaked_after_ransomware
attack_on_Ohio_state_archive_org⠀⇛
One of the oldest historical societies in the state
of Ohio was hit with a ransomware attack that
leaked the sensitive information of thousands,
according to a statement the organization released
this week.
The Ohio History Connection is a statewide history
nonprofit chartered in 1885 that manages more than
50 sites and museums across the state. It houses
the State Historic Preservation Office as well as
the official state archives.
# ⚓ CPO Mag ☛ What_the_SEC’s_Investigation_of_SolarWinds_Means
for_CISOs_and_Cybersecurity_Disclosures⠀⇛
In sending a Wells Notice to SolarWinds’s CISO, the
SEC has put CISOs generally on high alert that the
agency is focused on how such professionals may be
involved in company missteps concerning
cybersecurity issues. Managing cybersecurity at a
large company often involves multiple layers of
personnel involved in different aspects of complex
processes, and the SEC may face challenges in
investigating, and possibly charging, future CISOs.
CISOs and their companies—working with
counsel—should take care to design processes to
detect cyber incidents and have appropriate
governance around evaluating and escalating them,
so that the people who are responsible for making
disclosure decisions can receive timely and
accurate information.
# § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
# ⚓ Andrew Stiefel ☛ Thoughts_on_Information_Fidelity_and
Transmission⠀⇛
There is a useful axiom to keep in mind
whenever you are crafting a message for
someone else, whether writing a book, filming
a video, or drafting an email.
Simple ideas travel farther than complex ones
Most of us intuitively understand this. But
sometimes we forget as we get into the
details of whatever we are doing. That’s why
I like to keep the idea of fidelity vs
transmission in mind.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ YouTube_Improperly_Used_Targeted_Ads
on_Children’s_Videos,_Watchdogs_Say⠀⇛
These types of personalized ads, which use
data to tailor marketing to users’ online
activities and interests, can be effective
for finding the right consumers. Under a
federal privacy law, however, children’s
online services must obtain parental consent
before collecting personal information from
users under 13 to target them with ads — a
commitment YouTube extended to anyone
watching a children’s video.
Now Fairplay, a prominent children’s group,
is challenging the company’s privacy
statements. The group said it had used
advertising placement tools from YouTube’s
parent company, Google, to run a $10 ad
campaign this month targeted at different
groups of adults, exclusively on children’s
video channels.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ EU_crackdown_on_Big_Tech_comes_into_effect
with_changes_for_users⠀⇛
That’s because Big Tech companies, most
headquartered in the U.S., are now subject to
a pioneering new set of EU digital
regulations. The Digital Services Act aims to
protect European users when it comes to
privacy, transparency and removal of harmful
or illegal content.
Here are five things that will change when
you sign on: [...]
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Just_23%_Of_Americans_Know_The_U.S._Has
Failed_To_Pass_An_Internet-Era_Privacy_Law⠀⇛
We’ve noted repeatedly how the
hyperventilation about TikTok privacy is
largely just a distraction from the U.S.’
ongoing failure to pass even a basic privacy
law or meaningfully regulate data brokers.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Fifth_Circuit_Says_Law_Enforcement_Doesn’t
Need_Warrants_To_Search_Phones_At_The_Border⠀⇛
In 2014, the Supreme Court made it clear:
phone searches require warrants. While it did
note the case involved a search “incident to
an arrest,” the precedent was undeniable. If
a phone search attached to an arrest requires
a warrant, it would logically follow that any
phone search by law enforcement — even those
not subsequent to an arrest — requires a
warrant.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Privacy_And_Photography,_We_Need_To_Talk⠀⇛
One of the fun aspects of our global
community is that there are plenty of events
at which we can meet up, hang out, and do
cool stuff together. They may be in a Las
Vegas convention center, a slightly muddy
field in England, or a bar in Berlin, but
those of us with a consuming interest in
technology and making things have a habit of
finding each other. Our events all have their
own cultures which make each one slightly
different from others.
# § Confidentiality⠀➾
# ⚓ Cendyne Naga ☛ An_introduction_to_Decentralized
Identity⠀⇛
I attended a presentation at Crypto and
Privacy village about Decentralized Identity,
its goals, and current weaknesses. We cover
verifiable credentials, where information is
signed by an issuer, held by a person or
thing with identity, and given to verifiers
which can trust that verifier. Governments
are interested in decentralized identities. I
feel that without deep government support,
decentralized identities will not succeed.
Lastly, we cover mitigations, such as a smart
agent. It is like a smart wallet, but more
general. We have a long way to go before this
technology is ready for the everyday person.
This talk summary is part of my DEF CON 31
series. The talks this year have sufficient
depth to be shared independently and are
separated for easier consumption.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Philippine_officials_release_footage_of_sea_standoff,
as_senator_pushes_for_inquiry⠀⇛
Videos show China Coast Guard ships trying to
cordon off boats in a Philippine resupply convoy.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Riding_jet_ski,_activist_jailed_over_anti-Xi_Jinping
T-shirt_flees_to_South_Korea⠀⇛
After daring sea escape, ethnic Korean Kwon Pyong
turns himself in to Incheon authorities
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Shameful”:_Reelected_Tenn._State_Rep.
Justin_Jones_on_GOP_Silencing_of_Critics_on_Gun_Control⠀⇛
Tennessee’s Republican-dominated state Legislature
is still facing public outcry over the state’s
permissive gun laws in the wake of Nashville’s
Covenant School shooting, which killed three 9-
year-old children and three adult staff members in
March. Since then, the state House, under the
control of Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton,
has censured its own representatives and deployed
state troopers to crack down on public
participation. Earlier this week, Republicans
imposed new penalties on lawmakers believed to be
too disruptive and banned visitors from carrying
signs — a ban that has since been challenged by the
ACLU for violating the First Amendment. Amid the
new rules, visitors can still carry guns into the
building. For more, we’re joined by Tennessee state
Representative Justin Jones, one of three
Democratic representatives expelled by the state
Legislature earlier this year for joining gun
violence protests on the House floor. We speak to
him about his return to the Legislature after being
reinstated in a special election last month, and
his continued struggle in “the people’s house”
against what he describes as “authoritarian” rule.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Inmate_P01135809:_Trump_Surrenders_to_Jail
in_Georgia,_Booked_on_13_Felony_Counts⠀⇛
Former President Donald Trump was booked Thursday
at Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail on 13 felony
charges for attempting to overturn the 2020
election. He paid $20,000, or 10% of his $200,000
bond, through a local bail bondsman, allowing him
to be released after about 20 minutes at the jail.
He is expected to face trial as early as October.
In Atlanta, we speak with two guests: Carol
Anderson, a professor of African American studies
at Emory University and the author of One Person,
No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our
Democracy, among other books on race and civil
rights in American politics, and Hugo Lowell, a
reporter for The Guardian who has closely covered
Trump’s criminal case in Georgia. Anderson
discusses the Trump campaign’s use of a long legacy
of racism and voter suppression in an attempt to
“overthrow democracy” via an “assault on Black
humanity,” while Lowell shares what’s next for
Trump and his 18 other co-defendants, including
former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and lawyer
Kenneth Cheseboro, who first suggested the plot to
create fake electors.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ China_mum_on_Xi_Jinping’s_absence_from_BRICS_business
forum⠀⇛
Xi’s absence sparks speculation about his health,
or that he needs to confront crisis back home
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ BRICS_Summit:_China_Calls_for_More_Equitable
World_Order⠀⇛
“Should we work together to maintain peace and
stability, or just sleepwalk into the abyss of a
new Cold War?” President XI Jinping asked.
# ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-08-25_[Older]_Rival_to_the_G7:_Russia,
China_invite_rich_Islamic_nations_to_join_BRICS⠀⇛
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ With_BRICS_Invite,_Iran_Shrugs_Off_Outcast
Status_in_the_West⠀⇛
The invitation came after a tumultuous year of
domestic unrest and economic gloom, and follows a
pivot by the country toward Russia and China.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Asean_must_stay_united,_neutral_and
build_resilient_growth:_Indonesian_finance_minister⠀⇛
The bloc must not become a battleground for
influence amid the great power rivalry between the
US, China and Russia, Dr Sri Mulyani Indrawati
said.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Tsikhanouskaya_Says_Independence_Of_Belarus_‘Under
Greatest_Threat’⠀⇛
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana
Tsikhanouskaya said her country’s independence has
come under its “greatest threat” ever because of
the rule of authoritarian leader Alyaksandr
Lukashenka.
# ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Civilians_among_15
causalities_in_Russian_airstrikes_in_Idlib⠀⇛
# ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-25_[Older]_Pro-Kyiv
Russians_Urge_Wagner_Group_to_Revenge_Prigozhin’s_Death⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_investigators_recover_flight_records_and
10_bodies_from_Prigozhin’s_crashed_jet_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian Investigative Committee said on Friday
that it had recovered 10 bodies from the scene of
the plane crash that presumably killed Wagner Group
founder Yevgeny Prigozhin.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ With_Yevgeny_Prigozhin’s_Death,_Putin
Projects_a_Message_of_Power⠀⇛
The Kremlin appears to be sending the signal that
no degree of effectiveness can protect someone from
punishment for disloyalty.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia_Denies_Killing_Prigozhin,_Calling
the_Idea_Anti-Putin_Propaganda⠀⇛
The Kremlin and its proxies rebuffed suggestions
that it was responsible for destroying a plane that
reportedly carried the chief of the Wagner
mercenary group.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Putin_Has_His_Revenge_on_Prigozhin⠀⇛
Russia’s president had ample reason to wish for
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s demise.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Yevgeny_Prigozhin,_Renegade_Mercenary
Chief_Who_Rattled_Kremlin⠀⇛
A tycoon and a Putin ally, he built a paramilitary
force that fought by Russia’s side even as he
castigated its military leaders. He is believed to
have died at 62 in a plane crash.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ What’s_next_for_Wagner_after_presumed_death_of_boss
Yevgeny_Prigozhin⠀⇛
The apparent deaths of Russian mercenary boss
Yevgeny_Prigozhin and other high-ranking officials
of the Wagner_Private_Military_Company in a plane
crash this week leaves the Kremlin-funded group’s
future in question.
Why it matters: Without its founder and other top
commanders, it is difficult to predict how Wagner
will operate going forward, but it is likely that
the group is the weakest it has ever been since
first emerging nearly a decade ago, analysts told
Axios.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Wagner_troops_are_leaving_Belarus,_says_Lithuanian
defence_minister⠀⇛
Lithuanian defence minister Arvydas Anušauskas says
there are signs of “fragmentation” of Wagner
mercenary group after the purported death of its
founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, and its troops are
leaving Belarus.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Lukashenka_Says_‘Core’_Of_Wagner_Fighters_Will
Remain_In_Belarus⠀⇛
Belarus’s authoritarian leader Alyaksandr
Lukashenka said the “core” of the Wagner mercenary
group — about 10,000 fighters — will remain in his
country in his first comments since the presumed
death of the organization’s leader, Yevgeny
Prigozhin, in a suspicious plane crash in Russia.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_to_Know_About_the_Plane_Crash
Believed_to_Have_Killed_Prigozhin⠀⇛
The Wagner mercenary group leader, who staged a
short-lived mutiny against Russia’s military
leadership in June, was presumed dead after a jet
went down northwest of Moscow on Wednesday.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Presumed_Death_of_Wagner_Leader_Puts_In
Doubt_Group’s_Future_in_Africa⠀⇛
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner
paramilitary group, had visited the Central African
Republic in the days before his jet crashed, a top
adviser to the country’s president said.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘He_Has_Blood_on_His_Hands’⠀⇛
In a Ukraine village, there are no tears for
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner
private militia, whose presumed death in a plane
crash was reported this week.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘How_could_you_not_worship_a_hero?’_In_St.
Petersburg,_mourners_gathered_by_a_makeshift_memorial_to
Wagner_Group_founder_Yevgeny_Prigozhin._Here’s_what_they_had
to_say_about_the_mercenary_leader_and_what_he_meant_to_them.
—_Meduza⠀⇛
The day after the plane crash that apparently
killed both Yevgeny Prigozhin and his right-hand
man Dmitry Utkin (who gave his nom-de-guerre
“Wagner” to the entire Wagner Group), local
residents and leaderless mercenaries gathered by
the former PMC Wagner Center in St. Petersburg. The
flowers, candles, and other offerings they brought
heaped up into a sprawling memorial to a man who
had gained immense notoriety, both in Russia and
abroad, for his private military company’s role in
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ekaterina Barkalova,
a reporter writing for the independent Russian
outlet Bumaga, visited the memorial and spoke to
the people who came to honor Prigozhin. With the
publication’s permission, Meduza is publishing an
abridged translation of her reportage on why many
Russians admired Prigozhin, despite his criminal
biography and Wagner Group’s reputation for
grotesque violence and colossal losses of
mercenaries’ lives.
# ⚓ ME Forum ☛ Jihad_in_Austria:_‘Christians_Must_Die’⠀⇛
The boys, aged 15 and 16, were put on trial at the
Leoben Regional Court on July 16, 2023. They had
made plans to massacre as many people as possible
during an attack on the middle school attended by
the 15-year-old, in Bruck an der Mur, where they
both lived.
When confronted in court, the boys — who both have
a history of violence and criminality— admitted
that “We wanted to shoot all the Christians in the
class!” Asked how they would have responded if
police had intervened, they said, “We would have
surrendered” — adding that “Allah would have
forgiven” them in prison, since “Killing Christians
takes us to paradise.”
# ⚓ Medforth ☛ Italy:_Muslim_vandalizes_church_but_police_do
not_intervene⠀⇛
Once again, a video from our partner website “Radio
Genoa” reaches us from the multi-culti hell of
Italy. There, a Muslim (apparently from North
Africa) went berserk in broad daylight and attacked
a church in the city of Turin. Again and again, the
migrant tries to break open the entrance door with
a stone. Passers-by videotape the scene, but no one
is willing to intervene and stop the desecration of
the church. Even the police are far and wide
nowhere to be spotted: [...]
# ⚓ Medforth ☛ Muslims_turn_French_social_housing_into
madrasas⠀⇛
The authorities were apparently alerted by a report
from the neighbourhood. Not much could be seen from
the balcony of a flat in the Saint-Eutrope housing
complex, which is part of Erilia’s social housing
stock, as planks were used as screens to hide the
activities inside. These were Arabic language and
religious lessons given on Sunday mornings by
residents of the neighbourhood – according to
initial investigations, mothers from the residence
acted as teachers, allegedly receiving some small
change in return. It is not known how many children
attended the classes. One source estimates that
there were between 10 and 15 children, but hardly
more, as the flat was very small. How old were
they? Between 5 and 14 years.
# ⚓ NBC ☛ 17-year-old_alleged_supporter_of_Islamic_extremism
arrested_in_Philadelphia_terrorism_case⠀⇛
The suspect, whom the two officials declined to
name, was in communication with Katibat al Tawhid
wal Jihad, an Al Qaeda-affiliated group the U.S.
designated as a foreign terrorist organization last
year, they said. He was arrested Friday, they said.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Iran_Will_Keep_Taking_Hostages_If_the_Money
Keeps_Flowing⠀⇛
From my chats with low-level IRGC functionaries, I
understood there to be a ranking of sorts as to
which foreign prisoners fetch the highest price.
Complete foreigners are generally more valuable
than dual-nationals. Western Europe is better than
Eastern Europe is better than Japan. The Chinese
whisk their citizens away in a matter of months;
detainees from the developing world can expect to
serve their sentences in full. Americans and
Israelis are the most expensive hostages to
extract, and are therefore the most coveted.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Montana’s_Response_To_Lawsuits_Over_Laughably
Unconstitutional_TikTok_Ban_Is_To_Say_That_TikTok_Is_The
Equivalent_Of_‘Cancer-Causing_Radio’⠀⇛
As you’ll recall, Montana passed a law earlier this
year to ban TikTok (and ban mobile app stores from
offering TikTok for download). The bill has lots of
problems, not the least of which was that Montana
Attorney General Austin Knudsen flat out told the
NY Times that the purpose of the bill was to censor
speech that parents were complaining about:
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Rocket_Range_Australia,_1950s_Style⠀⇛
The Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) of Australia just
released a digitized version of a 1957 film
documentary on Australia’s rocket research back in
the day ( see video below the break ). The Woomera
test range is an isolated place about 500 km
northwest of Adelaide ( 2021 population 132 ) and
hosts a small village, an airstrip, and launch
facilities. In the Salisbury suburb of Adelaide, a
former WW2 munitions factory complex was repurposed
as a research center for rockets and long range
weapons.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ The_BRICS_come_to_the_Middle_East_and
North_Africa⠀⇛
For Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE in particular,
joining BRICS is a statement that while they
cooperate with the United States and the West, they
also cooperate with Russia and China…
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Will_Not_Travel_To_India_For_G20_Summit_Next
Month⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t travel to
India for the G20 summit on September 9-10, Kremlin
spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on August 25.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ BRICS_hails_‘historic’_entry_of_new
members_amid_bloc_rivalry,_as_US_plays_down_expansion⠀⇛
BRICS leaders announced on Thursday the “historic”
admission of six new countries, as the bloc seeks
to reshape the Western-led global order and expand
its influence in an era of strategic competition.
BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
Africa — agreed at their annual summit to make
Argentina, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt…
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian,_Japanese,_Danish,_And_U.S._Crew_Members
Blast_Off_For_Space_Station⠀⇛
Four crew members from four countries rocketed
toward the International Space Station on August
26.
# § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Western_intelligence_officials_say_Putin
likely_ordered_downing_of_Prigozhin’s_jet_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The plane believed to have been carrying
Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin
“crashed as the result of an assassination
plot,” reported the Wall Street Journal,
referencing U.S. officials. According to the
U.S. authorities’ preliminary findings,
either a bomb exploded aboard the plane or a
different form of sabotage caused the crash.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ramzan_Kadyrov_calls_Prigozhin’s_death_‘a
great_loss_for_the_entire_state’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov expressed
his condolences to the family and friends of
Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Volunteer_Corps_invites_Wagner
mercenaries_to_avenge_‘founding_father’_Prigozhin_by
fighting_on_Ukraine’s_side_and_then_marching_on_Moscow
—_Meduza⠀⇛
In the wake of the plane crash that likely
killed the paramilitary Wagner Group’s
founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian Volunteer
Corps (RVC), an armed formation fighting on
the side of Ukraine in the war with Russia,
has released a video addressed to Wagner
mercenaries.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kremlin_spokesman_says_accusations_of
Putin’s_involvement_in_downing_of_Prigozhin’s_jet_‘an
absolute_lie’_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has rejected
accusations from Western countries claiming
that the Kremlin ordered Wagner Group founder
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s to be assassinated. A
recording of his answer was posted by the
radio station Mayak.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Lukashenko_says_Prigozhin_never_asked_for
security_guarantees,_was_previously_warned_of_impending
assassination_attempt_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Autocratic leader of Belarus Alexander
Lukashenko told journalists that Wagner Group
founder Yevgeny Prigozhin never asked him for
security guarantees, reports Belarusian
state-run news agency Belta.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Ukrainian_Shelter⠀⇛
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_sends_another_helicopter_to_Ukraine⠀⇛
Latvia has sent another helicopter to Ukraine
to help in that country’s brave defense
against Russian aggression.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Estonia_PM_Under_Pressure_To_Quit_Over
Husband’s_Russia_Ties⠀⇛
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on August
25 faced pressure to resign amid reports that
her husband has part ownership in a company
that has kept operations in Russia since
Moscow invaded Ukraine.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Ultra-Nationalist_Detained_In_Finland
On_Ukraine’s_Request⠀⇛
Finnish media reports on August 25 said
police have detained Yan Petrovsky, a Russian
ultra-nationalist and former commander of the
Rusich saboteur group that fights alongside
of Russia’s armed forces against Ukraine.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ US_To_Host_Ukrainian_Pilots_for_Training_on
F-16s_in_September⠀⇛
The training, which will include several
pilots and dozens of maintainers, will start
in September at Lackland Air Force Base in
Texas.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ New_Zealand_offers_residency_to
Ukrainians_fleeing_war⠀⇛
August 26, 2023 12:15 PM
Permanent residency will be available to
people who travel to New Zealand on the
temporary Special Ukraine Visa before March
15 next year.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_sends_latest_materiel_aid_package_to
Ukraine⠀⇛
The latest package is the 18th sent by
Finland to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion in
February 2022, with their combined value
coming in at about 1.3 billion euros.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Conducts_Navy_Exercises_In_The_Barents
Sea⠀⇛
Russia’s Northern Fleet conducted navy
exercises in the Barents Sea this month aimed
at preventing the passage of unauthorized and
foreign ships, the Interfax news agency
reported on August 26.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Six_Crimean_Tatars_Detained_By_De_Facto
Authorities_In_Russian-Annexed_Crimea⠀⇛
Russian-imposed police in Ukraine’s Moscow-
annexed Crimea on August 24 detained six
Crimean Tatars on charges of organizing a
terrorist group and participating in its
activities.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Dmitri_Utkin,_a_Leader_of_the_Wagner
Mercenaries,_Presumed_Dead⠀⇛
Mr. Utkin, a prominent commander in the
private Russian military company, was a
longtime lieutenant to Yevgeny V. Prigozhin.
He is believed dead at 53 in a plane crash.
# ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Here’s_what_F-16s_will_(and_will
not)_mean_for_Ukraine’s_fight_against_Russia⠀⇛
The Netherlands and Denmark have announced
they will send F-16s to Ukraine as soon as
training is complete, and the United States
has unveiled new plans to train Ukrainian
pilots and ground crew.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Drones_shot_down_near_Moscow_and
over_Belgorod,_Russia_says⠀⇛
Russian air defences shot down a drone near
Moscow, the city’s mayor said on Saturday.
Russia’s defence ministry said it also downed
a drone over the Belgorod region bordering
Ukraine.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ These_photos_do_not_show_that_Ukrainian
children_are_being_sent_to_the_front⠀⇛
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, some
have claimed that “children” are being
recruited into the Ukrainian army. Three
viral photos, purporting to show graves of
very young soldiers, have been shared since
mid-August as evidence of this phenomenon.
However, two of these three photos have been
manipulated, and actually show the burial
sites of adult men.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Vilnius_marks_Ukraine’s_independence_day_–_in
photos⠀⇛
People in Vilnius celebrated the Ukrainian
Independence Day on Thursday. To mark the
32nd anniversary, an event called “For Your
Freedom and Ours!” was held in Vilnius Town
Hall Square.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ All_Major_Moscow_Airports_Temporarily_Shut_As
Another_Drone_Attack_Reported_In_Russian_Capital⠀⇛
Russia reported a new drone attack on Moscow
early on August 26, prompting authorities to
temporarily suspend operations at all three
major airports in the Russian capital.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Turkish_Foreign_Minister_Says_‘No
Alternative’_To_Ukraine-Russia_Grain_Deal_During_Kyiv
Visit⠀⇛
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said
during a visit to Kyiv that there is “no
alternative” to the original Ukraine-Russia
grain deal that was brokered by his country
and the United Nations but which collapsed
after Moscow pulled out of the agreement last
month.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Ministry_of_Defense:_one_Ukrainian
missile_and_42_UAVs_downed_overnight_in_Moscow-adjacent
Kaluga_region_and_in_Crimea_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that
a Ukrainian S-200 missile was downed in
Russia’s Moscow-adjacent Kaluga region the
night of August 25.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Finland_arrests_Russian_ultra-nationalist
wanted_in_Ukraine_for_war_crimes_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Finnish police have arrested Russian ultra-
nationalist Yan Petrovsky, the Finnish
television channel MTV3 reported on Friday.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Putin_orders_Wagner_fighters_to_sign_oath_of
allegiance_after_Prigozhin’s_demise⠀⇛
Putin signed the decree bringing in the
change with immediate effect on Friday.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Signs_Decree_Obliging_Paramilitary
Fighters_To_Swear_Oath_To_Russian_Flag⠀⇛
Two days after the presumed death of Wagner
mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin,
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a
decree obliging paramilitary troops to swear
an oath to Russia’s national flag.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ All_Kinds_of_Military_to_Swear_Oath_to_the
Russian_Flag:_Putin⠀⇛
The rule would also apply to mercenaries
fighting in the framework of the special
operation in Ukraine.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ EU_Parliament_Member_Urges_Kyrgyz_Compliance
With_Sanctions_Against_Russia⠀⇛
The European Parliament’s Foreign Committee
chair David McAllister has urged Kyrgyzstan
to ensure compliance with international
sanctions against Russia amid growing
concerns countries in Central Asia are being
used to bypass the measures.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Pensioner_Arrested_For_Carrying_A
Blue_And_Yellow_Bouquet⠀⇛
Moscow police arrested a pensioner with a
yellow-and-blue flower bouquet on August 24,
saying he violated an order on holding
rallies, Telegram channel Ostorojno Moskva
(Caution Moscow) said.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Four_Latvians_Detained_For_Allegedly_Spying
For_Russia⠀⇛
Latvia’s State Security Service (VDD) said on
August 25 that it had detained four Latvian
nationals on suspicion of spying for Russia’s
Federal Security Service.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Belarus’_Lukashenko_slams_Baltics_for_closing
borders:_‘They’re_only_hurting_themselves’⠀⇛
Responding to new border restrictions imposed
by its neighbours, Belarus’ leader Alexander
Lukashenko has said Lithuania, Latvia, and
Poland are making things worse for their own
people.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Belarusian_activist_Karach_challenges
Lithuania’s_asylum_decision_in_court⠀⇛
Belarusian activist Olga Karach has appealed
against the Lithuanian Migration Department’s
decision not to grant her asylum, her lawyer
confirmed on Friday. Lithuania’s intelligence
claims Karach is a threat to national
security due to links with Russian
intelligence.
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ You_shall_not_pass:_military_runs_‘anti-
mobility’_training_in_Latgale⠀⇛
From August 26 to 28, military exercises will
be held in Latvia’s eastern Latgale region,
which borders Russia and Belarus, to improve
the anti-mobility capability of the National
Armed Forces (NBS) and the readiness to
deploy engineering obstacles, according to an
army press release.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia_Says_Ukraine_Targeted_Crimea
With_Dozens_of_Drones⠀⇛
The attacks came the day after Ukraine
claimed that its special forces had staged a
brief raid into the occupied Crimean
Peninsula and fought with Russian forces.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Heineken_Sells_Its_Business_in
Russia_for_1_Euro⠀⇛
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in
February 2022, hundreds of Western companies
announced they would quit operating in
Russia. But actually selling their assets and
withdrawing has taken time.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia_Pushes_Long-Term_Influence
Operations_Aimed_at_the_U.S._and_Europe⠀⇛
A newly declassified American intelligence
analysis says Russian spy agencies are using
influence laundering techniques to hide the
Kremlin’s involvement in cultivating pro-
Russia and anti-Ukraine messages.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ An_Orchestra’s_‘Ode_to_Joy’_Calls
for_Ukrainian_Freedom⠀⇛
As war in Ukraine continues, so does the
Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, with a version
of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony tailored to the
moment.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_Is_Still_Grappling_With_the
Battlefield_Prigozhin_Left_Behind⠀⇛
He shored up Russian forces at their most
vulnerable and drew Ukraine into a costly
fight for Bakhmut, giving Moscow time to
build defenses that are slowing Ukraine’s
counteroffensive.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Turning_pain_to_progress:_Alliance
imagines_a_new,_better_Ukraine⠀⇛
War destroys lives and erodes nations. Yet it
also paves the way for rebirth. As Ukrainians
plan for the reconstruction of their country,
they are also discussing the values needed to
create a better society.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_apprehends_Russian_man_suspected_of
Ukraine_terrorism⠀⇛
Finnish police want to keep the suspect
remanded in custody, according to Finnish
news agency STT.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine’s_Drone_Strikes_Against
Russia_Are_a_Message_for_Its_Own_People⠀⇛
U.S. officials say they expect Ukraine to
continue its attacks because they send a
strong message: Kyiv can still strike back.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ British_Museum_Was_Warned_Gems_Were_Being
Sold_on_eBay,_Emails_Show⠀⇛
The thief must have been someone inside the
institution, Mr. Gradel said in an email to the
British Museum that has been obtained by The New
York Times. He was concerned, he added, that the
three gems were “only the tip of a much larger
iceberg.”
# ⚓ Art Media LLC ☛ British_Museum_Officials_Were_Warned_of
Thefts_in_2021,_Emails_Reveal⠀⇛
Gradel’s email, which was reviewed by the
Telegraph, included a detailed description of how
he had identified the seller, allegedly Higgs.
Gradel said if Higgs was not the thief, it was
someone else with access to the museum’s archives
who was stealing items and impersonating the senior
curator online.
While Williams told Gradel on March 2 that the
matter would be investigated, Gradel had not
received a respond by the end of June, prompting
the art dealer to write a follow-up email to
William and send a copy of his original email to
Fischer, the museum’s director.
# ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Antiquities_dealer_who_uncovered_British
Museum_theft_was_treated_like_‘village_idiot’⠀⇛
Speaking exclusively to the Telegraph, Dr Gradel
explained how he uncovered the theft of the decade
with years of detective work and said that he had
“suffered horribly” as the British Museum “refused
to listen” to his warnings for two years.
Had it not been for Dr Gradel’s refusal to take no
for an answer, resulting in him directly contacting
George Osborne, the museum’s chairman, after being
“fobbed off” by its managers, the theft of more
than 1,500 objects might still have remained
unknown.
But rather than thanking him for discovering the
thefts, Dr Fischer has gone on the attack,
effectively blaming Dr Gradel for the two-year
delay in confirming the treasures were missing.
# ⚓ The Art Newspaper ☛ The_inside_job:_what_the_thefts_mean
for_the_British_Museum’s_future_plans_for_the_collection⠀⇛
All this comes at the worst possible moment, since
the museum is preparing to launch its masterplan
for the complete refurbishment of its building and
a full redisplay of its collection. This much-
needed project will cost many hundreds of millions
of pounds and is unlikely to be completed until
after 2050.
Publication of the masterplan has been delayed on
several occasions, and until Fischer’s replacement
arrives—perhaps next summer—the museum will in
practice have a leadership lacking full authority.
Fischer’s exit also comes at a time when
restitution issues are highly controversial,
particularly over the Parthenon Marbles and the
Benin Bronzes.
# ⚓ HyperAllergic ☛ British_Museum_Director_Resigns_Amid_Theft
Scandal⠀⇛
Although the thefts have only recently entered the
public eye, the museum has been aware of them for
at least two years, according to emails reviewed by
the New York Times. In 2021, Dutch-Danish scholar
and gems dealer Ittai Gradel alerted the museum
that three gems from the collection were listed on
the online marketplace eBay. Gradel had purchased
one of those objects plus another 69 works from the
same seller. He told the institution at the time
that he believed the thief was working from within
the museum and leadership opened an investigation.
Deputy Director Williams reported back to Gradel
that no objects were missing and no staff members
were at fault. Now Williams, who has served as
deputy director since 2012, will step back as the
museum conducts its review, according to a British
Museum statement shared with Hyperallergic.
# ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Unauthorized_Disclosure:_Andy_Worthington⠀⇛
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ The_Project_Censored_Newsletter—August
2023_–_Newsletters⠀⇛
These and other recent Validated Independent News
stories (VINs) report information and perspective
that the public has a right and need to know, but
to which it has limited access. Posted VINs are
candidates for inclusion among the top 25 stories
in Project Censored’s annual book.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Oil_giants_are_lawyering_up_against_an_endangered
whale⠀⇛
Major players in the oil and gas industry are suing
the US government for protecting 6 million acres in
the Gulf of Mexico from an upcoming auction of
drilling rights on federally owned land.
# ⚓ Science Alert ☛ It_Took_Just_One_Wolf_to_Revive_An_Entire
Forest_Ecosystem⠀⇛
M93 was unrelated to the existing population, and
also had the advantage of being unusually large – a
big benefit when defending turf from rivals or
taking down 800 pound ungulates.
He quickly became the breeding male in one of the
island’s three wolf packs and went on to sire 34
pups, greatly improving the genetic health of the
population and the kill rate of its prey.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Low Tech Mag ☛ Direct_Solar_Power:_Off-Grid_Without
Batteries⠀⇛
Although grid-connected solar panels can
reduce the fossil fuel consumption of thermal
power plants, these savings are at least
partly offset by the additional fossil fuels
required to build and maintain what is
essentially a dual energy infrastructure.
Combining solar and wind power can further
increase the share of renewable energy in the
power grid, but this requires further
infrastructure development. Apart from
energy, this also demands a lot of money and
time.
Replacing fossil-fuel-fired power plants with
energy storage, so that surplus electricity
generated on sunny days can be stored for
when there is no or insufficient sun,
encounters the same problem. Energy storage,
whether integrated into a power grid or
located at individual households (off-grid
systems), is very expensive and carbon-
intensive to build and maintain.
# ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Kroll_Employee_SIM-Swapped_for
Crypto_Investor_Data⠀⇛
Security consulting giant Kroll disclosed
today that a SIM-swapping attack against one
of its employees led to the theft of user
information for multiple cryptocurrency
platforms that are relying on Kroll services
in their ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. And
there are indications that fraudsters may
already be exploiting the stolen data in
phishing attacks.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_Norfolk_Southern_Is_Addressing
Blocked_Train_Crossings_in_Hammond,_Indiana⠀⇛
Since the school year began this month, there
have been no reports of what was once a
common sight in Hammond, Indiana: children,
climbing over or under idling trains, risking
their lives to get to class. Local officials
say this is thanks to reforms enacted in
response to an investigation by ProPublica
and InvestigateTV.
Norfolk Southern, whose trains routinely
stretched across multiple intersections,
halting traffic and preventing pedestrians
from crossing, committed to stopping its
trains east of the Chicago suburb and
splitting any that blocked crossings for more
than 40 minutes. It also pledged to issue
email alerts to help school, fire and police
officials work around disruptions.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Atop_an_Underwater_Hot_Spring,_an
‘Octopus_Garden’_Thrives⠀⇛
Dr. Barry assembled a team of ecologists,
biologists, geologists and engineers who, for
the next three years, studied what they
dubbed the “Octopus Garden” — the world’s
largest known aggregation of these eight-
legged creatures. It turned out that the
sheen of the water was a clue: The nursery
sat atop a hydrothermal spring; the
shimmering was caused by heat emanating from
the seabed. The team’s findings, detailed in
a new paper published Wednesday in Science
Advances, suggest that this hot spot makes
the octopuses’ eggs hatch faster, which
improves reproductive success.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Honey,_I_shrunk_the_house:_High_mortgage_rates_are
making_American_homes_smaller⠀⇛
High mortgage_rates and lifestyle_changes are
shrinking the American house. Think smaller living
rooms and fewer bedrooms.
Why it matters:People are holding onto their homes
longer, and newly constructed abodes are getting
smaller to compensate for rising costs, experts
told Axios.
# ⚓ Business Today ☛ Better.com’s_CEO_who_fired_900_employees
via_Zoom_call_undergoes_leadership_training_to_win_staff
trust⠀⇛
The CEO known for firing 900 employees through a
Zoom call in December 2021, revealed in a recent
interview that he’s “worked really, really hard” to
be a kinder boss.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Australia’s_deterrence_strategy_and_the
question_of_targeting_China⠀⇛
Paul Dibb’s Strategist post, in response to Sam
Roggeveen’s recent Australian Foreign Affairs
article, was on target.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hongkonger_jailed_by_China_for_3
years_over_speedboat_escape_bid_faces_protest_charge_upon
return_to_city⠀⇛
The last of 12 Hongkongers caught by mainland
Chinese coastguards over a failed bid to flee to
Taiwan has been officially rearrested and remanded
into custody in the city pending trial on charges
linked to the 2019 extradition bill protests.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ In_Brazil,_Right-Wing_Think_Tanks_Align_with
Agribusiness_to_Seek_a_Path_Back_to_Power⠀⇛
“I even took off my farm boots and wore high heels
to come here today,” Camila Telles told the
audience of political activists, business
executives, and students at April’s Liberty Forum,
an annual conservative gathering in Brazil
sponsored by the Atlas Network.
Telles is an agribusiness influencer – her clients
include the major Brazilian meat producers Seara
and Friboi – with more than 300,000 followers on
Instagram and a talent for taking her pro-big
farmer messages viral. From the dimly-lit stage,
she opened the event’s first-ever panel on
agribusiness with familiar talking points, mocking
leftists for blaming climate change on cows.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Popeyes_is_reviving_its_2020_dream_of_opening
thousands_of_stores_in_China⠀⇛
TH International (Tims China), the exclusive
operator of Tim Hortons coffee shops in China,
plans to get the country hooked on Popeyes’ iconic
chicken sandwich in a big way. Over the next
decade, at least 1,700 new Popeyes outlets will
open across China, if things go to plan. /
blockquote>
# ⚓ [Repeat] Ruben Schade ☛ Accepting_New_Zealand_as_an
Australian_state⠀⇛
As an Australian citizen, my only request would be
to cede Australian sovereignty to Wellington,
instead of the reverse. I for one would welcome our
new Kiwi overlords, even if I were compelled to
pronounce it fush and chups.
# ⚓ The Guardian UK ☛ New_Zealand_should_consider_joining
Australia,_MP_urges_in_valedictory_speech⠀⇛
In the final sitting block of the New Zealand
parliamentary term this month, legislators have
been offering free and frank advice to their
colleagues during their valedictory speeches.
# ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ All_about_Eugene_V._Debs,_who_once_fought
US_presidential_election_from_prison⠀⇛
Eugene V. Debs was a US politician and a member of
the Socialist Party and ran for President five
times since 1900. He fought the presidential
election in 1920 while being imprisoned in the
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
“I thank the capitalist masters for putting me
here. They know where I belong under their criminal
and corrupting system. It is the only compliment
they could pay me,” Debs wrote in a statement.
Debs opposed America’s participation in World War I
as he believed that it was only for the advantage
of arms manufactures and similar business people.
# ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ What_Urgency?:_CRTC_Says_It_Will_Take_Years
For_Bill_C-18_Media_Bargaining_to_Begin⠀⇛
The Bill C-18 legislative process was marked by
repeated warnings from the government that this was
an urgent issue that justified its repeated efforts
to cut off debate in order to fast track the bill
into law before the summer break. In fact, in a
late change, the bill was amended to provide that
it would take effect with 180 days of royal assent,
rather than the previously envisioned staged
approach that would have resulted in a gradual
development of regulations and implementation. That
change has had enormous implications as the law can
now take effect at any time but no later than
December 19, 2023, which in turn led Meta to move
to comply with the law immediately by blocking news
links in Canada.
# ⚓ Frontpage Magazine ☛ Indonesia_Wants_to_Export_‘Moderate
Islam’⠀⇛
Western dialogue invariably serves the cause of
Islamic expansion, while causing the West to lose
more of its freedoms, all because of its naiveté.
[...]
Note how Nahdlatul Ulama leaders claim that the
Sharia is being manipulated as they completely
ignore the texts of the Qur’an and Hadith which
call for violence, the texts followed by the
Islamic State and Al Qaeda.
# ⚓ The Economist ☛ Indonesia_wants_to_export_moderate_Islam⠀⇛
The group said Muslims should instead accept the
reality of the nation state. It previously called
on Muslims to reject the concept of a kafir, or
infidel, and accept non-Muslims as fellow citizens.
Modest as this reality-check might sound, coming
from the world’s largest Muslim civil-society
organisation it was significant, suggests James
Dorsey, a scholar at RSIS, a think-tank in
Singapore.
# ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Apple_lends_support_to_California_State_Right
to_Repair_bill⠀⇛
SB 244 is fairly expansive; it includes consumer
electronics (phones, laptops, etc.) and appliances
(microwaves, washing machines, etc.), though a few
exceptions have been carved out, including game
consoles and alarm systems. The rational for those
appear to be piracy and security, respectively. It
shares a good deal (including the proposed name)
with the Right to Repair Act, which went into
effect in Minnesota this May.
# ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ Techno-feudalism⠀⇛
“Under capitalism, capital is the prime mover. The
people who own and mobilize capital – the
capitalists – organize the economy and take the
lion’s share of its returns. But it wasn’t always
this way: for hundreds of years, European
civilization was dominated by rents, not markets. “
Below the fold some discussion of this idea.
# ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Kent_State_fashion_students_get_creative
on_social_media [Ed: TikTok is very bad for them. Why is this
celebrated?]⠀⇛
Kent State fashion students are using platforms
like Instagram and TikTok to cultivate creativity
and make their mark on the digital stratosphere.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Are_“Mugshots”_Unethical?_How_Jailhouse
Photos_Undermine_Defendants_&_Reinforce_Systemic_Bias⠀⇛
While being booked for attempting to overturn the
2020 presidential election, Donald Trump made
history as the first former president to have his
mugshot taken and released to the public. Shortly
after the image of Trump scowling at a police
camera started to circulate, the embattled real
estate mogul and politician began using it to raise
money for his 2024 presidential campaign. “Mugshots
have these various ways of being deployed … to
craft a narrative, or to reinforce a narrative,”
says Emory University professor Carol Anderson, who
contrasts the novelty of Trump’s mugshot with the
usage of mugshots by the media and the state to
convey an image of Black criminality. As L.A. Times
reporter Keri Blakinger explains, “the widespread
distribution of mugshots undermines the presumption
of innocence” and exacerbates racial bias.
Blakinger is also the author of the memoir
Corrections in Ink, which details her experience
serving time in prison in upstate New York. “If he
were treated like any other defendant, [Trump]
would have been given a bail amount he couldn’t
afford and left to die in a filthy cell,” she
notes, cautioning that “the more that we celebrate
some of these broken features of the system, the
more ingrained they become.”
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Lies_and_deceit_on_social_media,
fabricated_quotes_by_international_media_and_more
during_the_2023_elections⠀⇛
We can’t possibly go through all the lies and
half-truths but here are a few we saw. You
will notice that the goal for many of the
authors was to discourage people from voting.
Some of it came from overzealous ZEC and
government critics who saw election tampering
even where it did not exist.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Denmark_Moves_to_Ban_Quran_Burnings_After
Muslim_Outrage⠀⇛
Both Denmark and neighboring Sweden have struggled
to balance respect for free expression with the
diplomatic fallout of the desecrations. Governments
in many Muslim-majority countries have issued
withering condemnations, and authorities in both
countries have said that the risk of terrorist
attacks has risen in recent months, posing a threat
to national security.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ The_Azadi_Briefing:_Mysterious_Death_Of_Popular
Female_YouTuber_Prompts_Anger⠀⇛
Hora Sadat, a prominent female Afghan YouTuber,
mysteriously died in Kabul on August 21. Reports
suggested the 25-year-old was poisoned after
attending a public event.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ ‘Free_Speech_Absolutist’_Elon_Musk_Suggests_He’s
Going_To_Sue_George_Soros…_For_His_Free_Speech_Advocating_For
Certain_Laws⠀⇛
There is no space for nuanced discussion about
reality any more, as it seems that nonsense floods
the zone. So, please try to follow along here as
there needs to be some nuance to finally get down
to the details of this issue. It’s nonsense, piled
on top of nonsense, piled on top of nonsense, which
ends with Elon Musk suggesting he’s going to sue
George Soros for… advocating for laws that Elon
doesn’t like (for what it’s worth, I’m pretty sure
the laws being talked about are problematic, but
the details aren’t clear, and there’s no law
against advocating for bad laws).
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Joke_“We_Need_You_Brad_Pitt”_Post_at_Start_of
COVID_Pandemic_Protected_by_First_Amendment⠀⇛
The post led to the author being arrested for
“terrorizing”; so clearly unconstitutional that the
police officer lacks qualified immunity, says the
Fifth Circuit.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Don’t Extradite Assange ☛ Assange_campaign_launches_first
ever_virtual_political_rally⠀⇛
The event will be staged in a virtual auditorium
looking like the Royal Courts of Justice in London
where Assange is set to face his final appeal in
the UK court system. The rally aims to build for a
real life protest at the same venue when the court
date is announced.
# ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Local_journalism_matters,_and_we_need
your_support:_a_letter_from_the_editor_and_managing_editor⠀⇛
Our coverage revolves around a commitment to
illuminating diverse voices and a key principle of
the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of
Ethics, one that has been ingrained in us by each
of our dedicated and talented journalism
professors:
Seek truth and report it.
# ⚓ CPJ ☛ Driver_killed,_journalist_severely_injured_by
suspected_Turkish_drone_strike_in_Syria⠀⇛
Turkish authorities should immediately and
thoroughly investigate a recent drone attack in
Syria that killed a driver and injured a
journalist, determine if they were targeted for
their work, and bring the perpetrators to justice,
the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Frontpage Magazine ☛ Should_Countries_that_Repress_Women_Be
Barred_from_the_Paris_Olympics?⠀⇛
By taking such a strong stance against Russian
athletes, the international community has
demonstrated that they care to punish Russia for
the crimes against humanity that they have
committed in the Ukraine. These crimes include rape
and other forms of violence against women.
Ukraine’s ombudswoman for human rights, Lyudmyla
Denisova, told the BBC that in one case, “about 25
girls and women aged 14 to 24 were systematically
raped during the occupation in the basement of one
house in Bucha. Nine of them are pregnant.”
However, one must ponder, why should the
International Olympic Committee only take punitive
measures against Russian athletes, when there are
so many other countries out there who have
committed crimes just as grave against women?
In recent days, it was reported that Iran has
decided to force women who refuse to don a veil
into psychiatric treatment and to bar them other
kinds of medical treatment. This comes after
Amnesty International reported, “Official
announcements reveal that since 15 April 2023, more
than a million women have received text messages
warning that their vehicles could be confiscated
after they were captured on camera without their
headscarves. Additionally, countless women have
been suspended or expelled from universities,
barred from sitting final exams, and denied access
to banking services and public transport. Hundreds
of businesses have been forcibly closed for not
enforcing compulsory veiling.”
# ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ ‘The_Taliban_sends_me_daily_death
threats_–_I_fear_for_women_who_couldn’t_escape’⠀⇛
On the two-year anniversary of the fall of Kabul,
Zarifa Ghafari told the Telegraph: “I receive
dozens of threats every day. Even yesterday the
Taliban said to me: ‘Just wait, we are coming after
you’.
“It means nowhere is safe. My husband has to
accompany me everywhere. People have guns in
Europe, the US or Asia. I don’t feel safe
anywhere.”
# ⚓ Asia News ☛ Iran_targets_minorities_one_year_after_Mahsa
Amini’s_death,_69_Christians_arrested⠀⇛
Iran arrested scores of Christians, mostly converts
from Islam but also some Assyrian-Chaldeans
baptised as children, over a seven-week period in
June and July in 11 different cities of the
country, this according to Article18, a human
rights organisation that advocates on behalf of
Iranian Christians and religious freedom.
In an early report, the NGO had reported 50 arrests
by mid-July in five cities, but its latest update
indicates that at least 69 people were taken into
custody, 10 of which – four men and six women – are
still held by the authorities.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ A_motorcyclist_died_in_a_crash_after
a_New_York_City_police_sergeant_threw_a_cooler_at_his_head⠀⇛
Eric Duprey, 30, who had three young children and
worked as a delivery driver, was pronounced dead
within minutes of being struck on a Bronx sidewalk.
The sergeant, Erik Duran, was suspended without pay
just hours later, an unusually quick disciplinary
move by the NYPD.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, who has
jurisdiction to probe deaths involving police, is
investigating.
# ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Sputnik_Turkey_journalists_continue_strike_on
ninth_day⠀⇛
Currently, journalists at the İstanbul office of
the Russian state media outlet Sputnik are in the
midst of a strike. These journalists have been
staging their protest outside Süzer Plaza in
İstanbul’s Dolmabahçe area for nine days. What sets
this strike apart is Sputnik’s decision to
terminate the employment of 24 unionized
journalists on the very day the strike commenced.
# ⚓ Lawyer:_‘Mazlum_has_been_made_the_scapegoat_of_the_Kobani
case’⠀⇛
“In the Kobanî trial, Demirtaş and his colleagues
are being tried for inciting the murder of Yasin
Börü and other crimes. The perpetrators of these
murders must be identified, and their guilt must be
confirmed by a court ruling in order to hold those
who incited them accountable. Interference occurred
in this trial as part of the preparation to
sentence politicians in the Kobanî trial, and these
decisions were upheld,” said Mazlum İçli’s lawyer.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Tornado_Cash_Civil_Decision_Limits_the_Reach_of_the
Treasury_Department’s_Actions_while_Skirting_a_Full_First
Amendment_Analysis⠀⇛
In the case, Van Loon v Department of the Treasury,
EFF argued in an amicus brief that the government
needed to do more to ensure that coders’ First
Amendment rights were protected when it took the
unprecedented step of placing an open-source
project on the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN)
sanctions list. That led Github to temporarily
take down the project and essentially halt all
additional work on it. While the government later
clarified in an FAQ— issued after EFF and others
had publicly complained— that it did not intend to
prohibit “discussing, teaching about or including
open source code in publications,” we argued that
this didn’t go far enough to protect coders. We
urged the Court to require the Treasury Department
to follow the strict limits of the First Amendment
and to be more clear and careful in its actions.
The District Court did not agree with us that the
government overstepped the First Amendment here,
and dismissed the case overall. But, in
interpreting the government’s actions, it did make
even more clear that the scope of the sanction did
not include coders developing the code. The Court
said:
While we are disappointed that the Court did not
conduct a full First Amendment analysis and
directly require the Treasury Department to take
more care, both here and in any future situations
where open source projects interact with federal
sanctions laws, the Court’s analysis should give
anxious coders some relief. The Court clearly
draws a sharp line between actually using the code
to conduct transactions and the role of coders in
developing and using the code outside of actual
transactions. EFF will continue to monitor this
case and others where coders are put at risk.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Ting_Disrupting_Mediocre_U.S._Broadband_By
Partnering_With_Annoyed_Cities_Like_Colorado_Springs⠀⇛
Back in 2015 domain registrar Tucows announced it
would hope to modestly kickstart stagnant broadband
competition by buying a small Virginia ISP by the
name of Blue Ridge InternetWorks (BRI). Operating
under the Ting brand name, the company said the
goal was to bring a “shockingly human experience
and fair, honest pricing” to a broken broadband
market dominated by a handful of monopolies.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ GEVC_patent_in_SISVEL_AV1_pool
appears_not_essential⠀⇛
As part of an ongoing series examining the
patent holders and pools erroneously
designating patents as essential, we
highlight U.S._Patent_10,460,344 titled
“Region merging and coding parameter reuse
via merging.” This patent is owned by GE
Video Compression (GEVC). GEVC has designated
the ’344 patent as essential to the AV1
standard as a part of SISVEL’s_AV1_Patent
Pool. SeeAV1 Patent List, AV1 Family AV1-040,
available at https://www.sisvel.com/images/
documents/Video-Coding-Platform/
PatentList_AV1.pdf.
# § Software Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ [Repeat]_Rocky_Linux_backer_CIQ
rejects_lawsuit’s_claims_it_was_founded_on_stolen_IP⠀⇛
A recently unsealed lawsuit filed in the US
by HPC software provider Sylabs accuses rival
outfit Ctrl IQ (CIQ) and its founder Greg
Kurtzer of violating Sylab’s trade secrets in
order to start its business, and of filing
its own patents based on that technology.
The federal civil case was filed in the
District Court for the Northern District of
California under case number 5:23-cv-00849 in
February, with the judge unsealing the
complaint in July. The accusations are being
rejected by CIQ and Kurtzer.
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ We’ll_show_you_our_patents_if_you
show_us_yours,_say_Huawei_and_Ericsson⠀⇛
This agreement, finalized earlier this month,
covers the respective sales of network
infrastructure and endpoint devices by the
two companies, and includes patents covering
a broad range of standards including the
3GPP, ITU, IEEE, and IETF standards for 3G,
4G, and 5G networks.
According to Huawei, the deal provides
greater certainty, not just for itself and
Ericsson, but for their customers and other
companies around the world, that there will
not be disruptive patent disputes between the
two over products implementing widely used
network standards.
In a statement, Alan Fan, head of Huawei’s
Intellectual [sic] Property [sic] Department,
said: “As major contributors of standard
essential patents (SEPs) for mobile
communication, the companies recognize the
value of each other’s intellectual property,
and this agreement creates a stronger patent
environment.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ [Repeat] Ruben Schade ☛ Archiving_from_The_Internet
Archive⠀⇛
I’ve had regular monthly donations set up for
the Internet Archive for years, and have been
an advocate for the invaluable service
they’ve offered the web over the past
decades. There isn’t anywhere else online
like it, whether it be their forward-thinking
Wayback Machine, or their online library of
materials.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Major_Labels_Demand_$46.8
Million_Payment_—_Plus_Interest_—_from_ISP_Grande
Communications⠀⇛
Back in November of 2022, a jury awarded the
major labels over $46.76 million in damages
as part of their copyright infringement
lawsuit against Grande Communications
Networks.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Telecoms_Regulator_Gives_Google_a
Week_to_Join_IPTV_Piracy_Fight⠀⇛
As local pay TV companies complain that
pirate IPTV providers are using VPNs and
public DNS services to evade blocking
measures, Brazil’s telecoms regulator wants
cooperation from Big Tech. Referencing a one-
week deadline and potential legal action to
force compliance, an Anatel advisor spoke of
“giants” being notified, one with a name that
begins with a ‘G’.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Rightsholders_Urge_U.S._Govt_to_Pave
the_Way_for_Pirate_Site_Blocking⠀⇛
Responding to an inquiry on future anti-
piracy strategies, Creative Future CEO Ruth
Vitale calls on U.S. lawmakers to consider
site blocking as a much-needed solution.
Blocking foreign pirate sites could be a
“game changer”, she argues. The Association
of American Publishers also sees site
blocking as an ideal tool to fight piracy
more effectively and efficiently.
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o Personal/Opinions
o Politics_and_World_Events
o Technology_and_Free_Software
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_UEGMRSB_Wordo:_PYGM⠀⇛
# ⚓ Work_Slopped_into_the_Water⠀⇛
We extracted cases and cases of jars from the
*dispensa* and from the two storage units on the
other side of the *finca*. Some had been placed
there nearly two decades ago. They were cherries
and figs and myriad other comestibles preserved for
an unknown future in this realm by a person who no
longer lingers in said realm. She was a product of
another time, of a generation and a mentality that
never accustomed itself to an abundance now taken
for granted.
We forced each jar open with tines of forks and now
cracked blades of cheap dinnerware. Contents were
poured into buckets. One by one, I lugged these
buckets to the stream that flows beside the house,
that flows to river Tirón and finally is lost
forever to the Cantabrian Sea. I tipped the buckets
and hours and days and weeks and months of work
slopped into the water.
# ⚓ Re:_Dresses⠀⇛
Wokeness has reared its ugly head on Gemini yet
again.
I seem to remember someone, in reply to an earlier
post of mine, not grasping my definition of
wokeness.
o § Politics and World Events⠀➾
# ⚓ ELP,_The_Only_Way⠀⇛
lol funny and sad
not gonna bother about good writing apostrophes wtv
there is no god
neither me nor you nor anyone else has ever seen
heard tasted felt smelled experienced this
superhero
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Benchmarking_RK3588_NPU_matrix_multiplication_performance⠀⇛
My goal with my RK3588 dev board is to eventually
run a large language model on it. For now, it seems
the RWKV model is the easiest to get running. At
least I don’t need to somehow get
MultiHeadAttention to work on the NPU. However,
during experimenting with rwkv.cpp, which uses pure
CPU for inference on the RK3588, I noticed that
quantization makes a huge difference in inference
speed. So much so that INT4 about 4x faster then
FP16. Not a good sign. It indicates to me that
memory bandwidth is the bottleneck. If so, the NPU
may not make much of a difference.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Politics_and_World_Events
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Internet/Gemini
# Programming
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ Edan’s_Capsule_–_Why_I_Don’t_Like_My_Parents:_Part_One⠀⇛
I feel like my parents are being a bit overbearing
at the minute.
A while ago, I said I was interested in
anthropology, and that I might like to study it in
university; but they immediately put it down and
told me it would not be useful to me.
Yeaterday, I ate my roast dinner one component at a
time (i.e. veg first, then the potatoes, and then
the meat and stuffing); then my dad started talking
about how I would become obsessive, like someone he
used to know.
# ⚓ the_web_revival_space_as_a_refuge_for_harmful_ideas⠀⇛
Recently, it seems like the web revival/indie web/
retro web/personalized web sphere has had a huge
influx of members. Probably a mix of
dissatisfaction with the bigger social media sites
like Twitter/X, Instagram, Reddit, and maybe even
Tumblr, as well as troubles to find spaces you’re
content with in the fediverse. I know some people
have trouble with Lemmy and Mastodon, from choosing
an instance to their instance closing down or the
instance owner being involved in drama, being
defederated, or having trouble finding content all
in one place. I’ve also seen people who fled from
Reddit fleeing from Squabbles (I think it is
Squabblr now?) because of severe disagreements with
the admin, and delete Cohost over allowing or not
allowing the sharing of sexualized drawings of
underage fictional characters.
# ⚓ Re:_refuge_for_harmful_ideas⠀⇛
Although I am not sure BBS is the right place for
this discussion, I am still sharing it here. Some
people like me do not have capsules and may want to
comment or ask questions. I thought it would be
good to open a thread about it here. Perhaps as a
way of collecting blog post replies about this.
# ⚓ re:_Crying_“woke”⠀⇛
I have a bone to pick with WOKENESS, one of my
least favorite newspeak words. WOKE is one of
those: when I hear it, I know that any chance of a
productive or even remotely interesting or
satisfying conversation -out the window. There will
be no deviations from the party line from here on –
left or right one.
Note that it is simply mentioning this word as an
adjective¹ (except in the context of linguistic
misuse or perhaps quoting some fool), is enough to
indicate to me that the person using it is likely a
rabid, brainwashed simpleton, or possibly feeble-
minded idiot. You just know what follows. There is
simply no point continuing the conversation — just
not politely nod and back away!
# ⚓ Talking_about_the_weather⠀⇛
Remember when “talking about the weather” was a
clique for jokes, a device to indicate that
desperation to avoid awkward silence had reached
the point where even the most fundamentally
uninteresting subjects were suddenly a viable topic
of conversation? Those days sure are gone. I wonder
if old media will cause confusion for future
generations, in this regard. Anyway, I’m writing
this, or at least have started writing it, during a
very sudden, very intense, rainy squall. These are
not uncommon in the summer time where I live these
days. I actually really enjoy them. This one
slammed shut many of the windows in this room which
we’ve kept slightly ajar to help ventilate the
place (Europe has crazily advanced windows which
are hinged on multiple axes simultaneously,
somehow. Australia has never seen the likes of it,
even double-glazing remains an exotic novelty. At
least we’ve figured flyscreen out – looking
squarely at you, NZ), and has blown some
(thankfully non-fragile) decorations off the wall
adjacent to the last one still open.
o § Politics and World Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Marx_and_Bakunin⠀⇛
… I think that we are now in a mood, determined by
the present conditions produced by social
development, to look more objectively, without
taking sides, at that contest between two great
revolutionaries that dominated the rev. movement in
the 19th century; to appreciate that we have both
of them, and to understand their difference and
opposition. Both they took part in the revolution
of 1848, as militants; but then their ways parted;
they were indeed products of entirely diverse
social milieus. B. [Bakunin] came from Russia w
[h]ere Czarist absolutism kept down all social and
spiritual progress; Marx was formed by the rising
Western industrial capitalism. For Bakunin
therefore liberty was the great idea; he saw in …
State power the basis of the slavery and poverty of
the masses. Marx saw in capitalist exploitation the
cause of misery and slavery; political freedom he
saw present in England, where, however the
competing small business, unorganized, he
considered organization as the chief demand, which
could only be ascertained by a central dominating
power, democratic state power, dominated by the
working class. So their basic ideas stood against
one another; M.[Marx] saw that Bakunin’s political
freedom was not sufficient (vide England); B. saw
that Marx’s organized state power would bring worst
slavery. Bakunin had studied and assimilated, as
many Russians, Western science and knowledge, and,
different from other Russians, applied them to take
part in the struggle of the exploited masses in
Western Europe, thinking that their grievances were
the same as his. Marx revolutionized Western
science and put in this way, by his Historical
Materialism and his Economic theory of Capitalism,
a new basis to all further class struggle.
# ⚓ A_Wall_Is_Just_a_Wall,_It_Can_Be_Destroyed⠀⇛
We know that throughout history, various prisons
around the world have experienced riots and
uprisings. But this is an almost rare occurrence.
Prisoners had to live for years in the same gloomy
room and were thus considered passive subjects. How
do we define a resistance where we can almost only
rely on ourselves, in a space that is almost
isolated and full of pressure, which offers almost
no opportunity to organize, such as a prison?
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ CircaDian:_Games_Showcase:_Black_Mesa⠀⇛
What if you could relive a favourite childhood
memory—but with everything upgraded so it’s as
awesome as you remember?
I’ve just finished playing Black Mesa, and … well,
that’s what it is for me.
It’s a remake of the original Half Life.
Dedicated fans—particularly, I think, movie
fans—wince at the word “remake”, because remakes
are often awful: missing the point of the original,
adding nothing.
Black Mesa on the other hand truly captures the
spirit of the original while not being shy about
making changes. Weirdly, it ends up closer to how I
remember Half Life than the actual game.
# § Internet/Gemini⠀➾
# ⚓ Two_years_on_gemini⠀⇛
In the summer of 2021 there was a discussion
on an email list where someone mentioned the
tendency to invent technically advanced
solutions to engineering problems instead of
simpler, more robust ones. Of course,
engineers need to make themselves needed!
Someone linked to Cheapskate’s guide to
computers and the internet, and there I found
a mention of this new gemini protocoll. I
took a look through a web proxy and became
fascinated. There were already many gemini
browsers available, but only one that I
managed to install. It was amfora, and I’ve
stuck with it since then. Although amfora may
lack some features, the experience is so
dissimilar to browsing the web that you can’t
forget for a second that this is not just a
stripped down html homepage but something
quite different.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Program_your_computer⠀⇛
From this point of view, anything that you
can’t easily program yourself is effectively
not a computer. Effectively, it’s an
appliance (at best).
But why the pedantry? Why would you program
anything for yourself? After all, there’s a
veritable army of professional programmers
out there, clambering over themselves to get
you to run software that they’ve written! And
their programs are *polished*; way better
than you or I could accomplish on our own.
# ⚓ Autodiff⠀⇛
Automatic differentiation is a method by
Seppo Linnainmaa for quickly computing the
partial derivatives of a function defined by
a straight line program. This method is very
important in machine learning because it
makes it easy to implement gradient-based
optimization methods (which are, among other
things, used to fit neural networks to data;
did you know that neural networks are just
straight line programs?).
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