𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Friday, July 02, 2021 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Sat 3 Jul 02:40:22 BST 2021 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/07/02/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmXeVCbTbi5P1GkGm1gYJnWmeN4nbuehzDpz7Egwwm6Zy1 QmVUBLf9g24CeTFZPr1KCBQh3mA5e5VvjUSi5aU6aj3q9y QmSQCUVKmy81pXTXH7aKYGdbdqZaC9MBduQNu8giufhpGC QmWUuHEZ2oaiCQvka8SLGahoMnqWoQAYEYcBWvmbUrf6Us QmTereeSs2vayhRxEgEKA8eGzkZmqyGmds18oLNaRM5Z9N QmbBtrgn5vZv4zAnCwEsSEbNfqZyMc1GXjrxGtjFJubZo6 QmSqJtaqrrXbzBF4sG3nBzauArR36q6YbF5P7htcHd5cDB QmWCc6UN8rXnBKmcnhPY7waCCSXzfsG1AbhZikKfdp3ymB QmQYQoMFrDMTXEe4NcPiv7amMCQS2ho3c6EaMHAU4SfMUe QmacoxEMNBvXGjkyn4JfrL8LyXBMaArcxAJPBaNoTymtHV QmW6B9kehxSBryvAexunPR3eXN8dZc1CHxSebKiiSDXTRh QmTuxFtDwey5L4ibxTM85bAhdiFUVzq9RQwjk5UqDBCmxH QmcN8yR7Z2eWZBS1YERuwRsVnrTaWaznvZVg4RggnCUrnL QmbsFe5ziGquRqcXLGJdSnXGNu2hM1SfSeL88yE4KoNHRm QmXWM739fasQ1QSDPyf7CYGbRzny4RnfstXa97sZoavDtt QmYUKcuZUTw2RX354YZb7KS96QRvrYWBnM9Hc9ECWTxtmZ QmVYKhmzZnA5jSxg73EHK44EQHX2gPMHdJdswiX4sm36VV QmTzjhticCFGYFAPo3w1Yq3BFKqFQ9wkJFVZpCGyhdTYVL QmYfnwQyndVxZ3RBdb3h4no9or9LCWC23rmnAoVKtd61oJ QmSYEW1u6GR4Sx7jgEkZS78bKjEJL8bqy2t755oHQ3bj9M QmSRn7cBREvv5Sqho2U2eunX9LJykgRJNP5fvyy2aQTNVf ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Think Twice Before Buying Raspberry Pi and Adafruit Because They Work for Microsoft and Pass Data to Microsoft (and Even Promote Microsoft’s Proprietary Software) | Techrights ⦿ Court on Call (or Calle) | Techrights ⦿ Techrights Statement on Today’s EPO Hearing (Enlarged Board of Appeal) | Techrights ⦿ [Meme] Making EBoA Great Again | Techrights ⦿ HP Products Are Faulty and They Try to Censor Evidence of the Defects | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 01, 2021 | Techrights ⦿ ’ViCo’ Technical Issues Already Curtail the Case About EPO ‘ViCo’, Decision Cannot be Issued Today! | Techrights ⦿ Review of Telescope, an Awesome and Very Lightweight Gemini Browser | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2021/07/02/adafruit-and-raspi-limited/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/02/court-on-the-hook/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/02/eboa-statement/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/02/epo-live-leak/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/02/hp-censorship/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/02/irc-log-010721/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/02/no-decision-on-vico/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/02/review-telescope/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2021/07/02/ibm-mail-system-on-fire/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/02/jim-whitehurst-leaves-ibm/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 69 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/07/02/adafruit-and-raspi-limited/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/07/02/adafruit-and-raspi-limited/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.02.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Think_Twice_Before_Buying_Raspberry_Pi_and_Adafruit_Because_They_Work_for Microsoft_and_Pass_Data_to_Microsoft_(and_Even_Promote_Microsoft’s_Proprietary Software)⠀✐ Posted in Deception, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, OLPC at 4:36 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link http://techrights.org/videos/raspberry-pi-adafruit-and-microsoft.webm Summary: Still failing to heed the warning or the cautionary tale of OLPC, Raspberry Pi walks its way into another scandal/blunder that is assured to alienate (as it already does) some of its biggest and most passionate longtime fans EARLIER this year we wrote a lot about the Raspberry_Pi. We’ve since then hoped that they abandoned any ambitions of becoming Microsoft tools/boosters, but we were likely wrong. It just keeps happening again and again (this is the third time already). “From now on, Microsoft should be assumed to be lurking in the shadows inside the Raspberry Pi ‘Foundation’. They don’t seem to even understand what’s wrong with that.”Staff of the Raspberry Pi are once again associating themselves with criminals from Microsoft. Well, if this is their business choice, then fine… I can reach my own conclusions. I’m already heartbroken enough, seeing what they did to millions of their customers earlier this year (behind their backs, without their consent) and now the_same_people_are_marketing_Microsoft. As an associate of ours put it this morning, “two companies shooting themselves in their own foot by associating with Microsoft. Their days are numbered now, regardless of how popular either happens to be at the moment. What makes the leaders of either think that somehow theirs will be the first company in history to survive “collaboration” with Microsoft?” Another person, in IRC, said “they could have grown organically but by associating with Microsoft they expect to grow faster [...] in that case I would say bring on Raspberry Pi 5 with official Vista 11 support and see the entire hardware world being unhappy as you don’t need more than a €100 machine to run the latest version of their malware…” I’ve decided to do a video about it; that’s my first reading of it. Very disappointing. From now on, Microsoft should be assumed to be lurking in the shadows inside the Raspberry Pi ‘Foundation’. They don’t seem to even understand what’s wrong with that. They even conflate critics of crime with “haters”. █ Update: Looks like we have a new arrival? 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I have patent court to 'attend'⦈ So-called ‘court’ (people’s homes) Summary: Today the train wreck goes “choo-choo” again TODAY is the day After postponement in May Justice at bay Injustice… “OK” The robe in the wardrobe behind The laptop I must find Meeting onlined No pants on, but at least act kind 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Zoom_and_GDPR⦈_ Independence presumed Impartiality exhumed Corcoran was doomed Underestimated what had loomed 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EBA_email⦈_ Today we decide In July 4th we hide By decrees we abide Facts set aside █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Heli, Mihály, The appellant, Calle⦈ The appellant doesn’t work for the EPO “Mafia” (or Team Campinos) ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⣿⡿⣻⣟⠿⣛⡿⣟⢿⣻⣟⣻⣿⣟⣻⠿⣛⡿⣟⣛⣿⣛⡿⣻⢟⢟⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⡇⣿⣿⢠⡟⣧⢻⣾⡇⣿⣽⣿⣿⣼⢧⡟⣧⣿⣿⣿⣯⡇⣿⣼⢨⣿⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢿⣿⡿⡿⣻⣿⡿⣿⣿⡟⣿⢻⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡸⢿⣇⠿⠿⠸⢟⠿⡸⠿⢇⠿⠬⣿⠿⣸⡹⢟⠿⡻⠿⡿⠷⠅⢏⠿⣸⠿⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣼⡇⣿⢸⡇⣿⣿⡇⣿⢸⣧⡂⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣯⣽⢛⡭⣽⢫⡝⣭⢫⣭⡟⣭⣭⢻⣯⣭⡝⣭⣽⢿⢫⢻⣭⡟⣭⣭⣭⣭⡍⣭⡝⣭⢫⡟⣭⣽⢫⢿ 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structures for assurance of justice (even due process) are in complete disarray We did not ‘attend’ the virtual ‘hearing’ (I know some who did), but judging by the words_of_those_who_did_write_about_it_in_real_time the EPO is very much aware of the danger of ruling as António_Campinos wants to. So they just kick the can down the road for a little while longer… like that fake_'sick_leave'_of the_Dutchman (former EPO Vice-President). 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Sir, we're having technical issues with ViCo⦈ This really didn’t go as Campinos had planned; he thought he’d be laughing all the way to the bank Alicante by the end of May, just in time for summer. Maybe Benoît Battistelli planned to join them with a bottle of wine down the beach. It’s not certain what will happen next, but we saw speculations. And speculations aren’t facts. The Enlarged Board of Appeal already issued some decisions on European_software_patents; if the credibility of the Enlarged Board of Appeal died, there would be severe consequences all around (not just concerning ViCo). “We’ll take our time and properly digest what happened today.”We’ll probably publish analyses of today’s events some time in the coming days/weeks. The Enlarged Board of Appeal knew it was being watched closely. People with insights or scoops (not mere gossip but inside knowledge) can contact us anonymously. We’ll take our time and properly digest what happened today. █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Down for the count but not out yet⦈ Down for the count, but the outcome is not known yet ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣶⣶⣶⠶⣦⣶⣶⣶⣦⣶⣴⣴⣤⣶⣶⣶⣶⣦⣦⣶⣶⣦⣤⣤⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠄⠄⠤⠤⠤⠄⢤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣠⣄⣤⣤⣀⣀⣤⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣷⣿⣿⣦⣷⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⣿⣿⣽⣯⣿⣿⣿⣺⠶⣾⣭⣮⣭⠄⠂⠀⢙⣿⡶⠦⠶⠶⣶⣿⡿⢻⠷⠿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⢿⡿⣟⣟⡟⡽⡿⠫⠭⠿⠿⠯⠍⠛⠛⠛⠿⢿⣿⣦⣤ ⣭⣭⣷⣞⣾⡾⠽⠾⡟⠓⠋⠉⠉⠙⠛⠛⢿⡿⠿⠿⠏⠈⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠘⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠹⠿⠷⠯⠿⠛⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢤⣚⣛⣿⡿⡯⡃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠉⠙⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣄⡠⣤⣤⣤⡤⣤⢤⣤⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⢜⣽⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⣀⣀⢀⢠⡤⣤⢤⢠⡤⢤⢤⡄⠀⠀⣀⣠⢤⡲⠲⡖⡬⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣻⣾⣺⣿⣿⣷⠕⣹⣯⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣷⣴⣾⣶⣯⣻⣻⣾⣻⢿⡟⠉⣉⣥⣹⣿⣿⣻⣺⣿⣿⣷⣼⣮⣶⣾⣿⣞⣽⣫⣗⣧⣥⣴⢶⣶⢄⣠⣤⣤⣤⣄⠀⣤⣸⣶⡄⠀⢰⣶⣖⣶⣶⣶⣾⣯⣿⣶⣲⣚ ⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⢾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣟⣿⣻⣧⣽⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣧⣶⣿⣿⡟⣷⡾⠟⠛⢿⣟⣭⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⢿⣾ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣽⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⡾⣷⣿⣿⣿⣦⣿⣾⣿⣷⣿⣿⣥⣤⣠⡼⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/07/02/epo-live-leak/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/07/02/epo-live-leak/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.02.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ [Meme]_Making_EBoA_Great_Again⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Humour, Patents at 8:40 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Calle Campinos, LLC: How's that hearing going? EBA judges: Ask again after the gymnastics⦈ We’ve just received a live leak Summary: EBoA (or EBA) footage leaked, owing to zero-day Zoom flaws ⡿⢛⣿⣛⣿⡟⢻⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣜⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣠⣤⡢⠟⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣤⣴⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣦⣤⡀⠀ ⣇⠸⣿⣿⡿⣾⡀⢳⡗⣷⢛⡟⠰⡿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠠⣶⡿⡿⠟⣋⣤⡾⠦⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣤⣭⣥⣭⣥⣤⣭⣭⡭⢠⣬⣭⣭⣭⣬⣭⣭⣭⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠃⠀⢈⣀⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⣶⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⢸⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣧⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⢉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣏⣉⠁⠈⣹⣏⣐⣂⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣦⡀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢫⣿⣟⠋⡝⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⡟⠛⠛⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣈⣿⣿⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠸⣟⡏⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⢀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣟⡻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠯⠿⢿⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣇⣩⣽⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣇⣀⣀⣉⣻⣿⣿ ⡿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣟⡧⠀⠨⠟⣉⣉⣁⣛⣙⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠴⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠁⠈⠀⠀⠰⠀⣉⠉⠙⠋⠁⠀⠀⠱⣤⡈⠻⠿⣶⡿⢻⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠒⠊⢿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣗⣴⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⡟⣼⣿⣿⣿ ⡀⠀⠀⠀⢐⣾⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣶⣀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢾⣿⠁⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣍⣹⠿⠉⠉⠉⢈⣤⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠉⢈⡿⠁⠉⣿⣿⣿ ⠡⠄⠀⠀⠈⠛⢻⡏⣿⢰⣶⡆⣶⣶⣦⡾⡏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣿⢳⣶⠰⣶⠶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠇⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⣀⣸⣧⣄⣀⣸⣿⣿ ⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡟⣿⢸⣿⡇⣿⡟⣿⡇⠳⣽⣷⢻⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣾⣽⡇⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡾⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣠⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⣄⣀⡀⣀⡈⣁⣉⢈⣉⡁⣉⢁⡉⣁⢘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⢾⣷⡍⢀⣀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⢃⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⡄⢀⣀⡼⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠝⢫⡝⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⣿⣿⡇⣿⡅⣿⣿⢸⣯⡇⣿⢸⣷⣿⣿⣙⣻⣿⣏⣛⢸⣿⡇⣿⢸⣷⣿⣿⣙⡃⣛⣿⠀⠀⠀⢠⣯⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡧⣼⡿⢱⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠤⠀⠈⠁⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣿⣿⠼⠇⠇⠿⠸⠟⠿⠻⠼⣿⣿⣧⣿⣸⣿⣧⣿⣸⣿⣿⣿⢼⠇⠯⠉⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⣭⣥⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿ ⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⢛⠉⠉⣹⣿⣶⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠛⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣾⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⢿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣄⠀⢀⡏⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢑⣻⣃⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⡼⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣯⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠷⠘⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⠀⣀⡀⣀⢀⡀⢀⣀⠀⣀⡀⢀⣾⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⠇⠈⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⢿⠸⣯⡃⣿⣿⠀⢸⢿⣴⣏⣛⢸⢿⣼⡇⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣫⣥⣬⣿⣿⣼⣇⣀⣄⣠⣄⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠋⡽⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⠻⠟⠿⠇⠿⠻⠄⠾⠻⣟⣷⣿⣿⣻⣿⣧⣿⣻⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠻⠻⠻⠿⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠁⠈⠂⢰⠃⢰⣶⢰⡶⠶⣶⢶⡶⢶⡶⣦⠀⢶⡶⣶⢰⣶⡶⠆⢠⣶⣎⣿⣿⢻⣏⣿⣿⣏⣿⢻⣿⢻⡷⡆⢶⡶⣶⢠⡖⣦⣴⢶⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⠿⠛⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡟⠀⣾⢼⣾⡟⠀⣿⢸⣟⣸⡏⣷⠀⢸⡇⣿⢻⣿⣟⡃⢸⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⢻⢿⣿⡿⣿⣿⢽⣮⣝⡧⢸⡇⣿⢸⣇⣧⣬⣻⡄ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣟⣻⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⠁⠀⠉⠈⠉⠁⠀⠉⠈⠉⠉⠁⠁⠀⠈⠁⠉⠈⠁⠉⢡⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣾⣿⣿⠋⠉⠈⠁⠉⠁⠈⠁⠈⠀⠉⠁⠈⠉⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 552 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/07/02/hp-censorship/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/07/02/hp-censorship/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.02.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ HP_Products_Are_Faulty_and_They_Try_to_Censor_Evidence_of_the_Defects⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Hardware at 7:25 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Summary: HP seems to be operating a censorship army in social control media, working to hide evidence of HP products having severe and chronic problems Over the past hour I’ve not managed to get anything done as my laptop is failing. It’s not an old laptop, either. But this is typical HP! Minutes ago I posted (though I can barely type): “Avoid HP keyboards or any HP device that has a key on it. Only on HP devices (3 in a row!) I always have keyboard issues. Keys stop working. This flimsy crap is not acceptable! Never again! Never HP!! Now my MAIN laptop. AGAIN.” Watch what happened next (within a few minutes): 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇hp-censorship⦈_ It has gotten worse since. So I wrote (after the latest message above): “Over the past hour I went from 2 defective HP keyboard keys to 3 and now 4. Not even connected keys, quite far apart. This shit is coming apart. #HP now trying to censor me. (!!)” I will update this post as this blunder progresses. I should note that I never had any such issue with any other brand of laptop (we have 5 laptops working at work, only one is HP). █ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⠛⢿⡿⢻⡿⣿⢻⣿⠟⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣶⣷⣿⣷⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣿⣟⣿⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣻⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⢟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/07/02/no-decision-on-vico/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/07/02/no-decision-on-vico/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.02.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ ‘ViCo’_Technical_Issues_Already_Curtail_the_Case_About_EPO_‘ViCo’,_Decision Cannot_be_Issued_Today!⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 9:00 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Summary: Tweets are not accurate, but at least they’re fast and here’s what was said just minutes ago by people who watch the hearing live #G121: Technical issues with the video stream meant there has been a delay to the start of the proceedings. Somewhat ironic given the nature of the present case. However, we’re underway now and the proceedings have now begun.#EPO #oppositionsandappeals #oralproceedings #ViCo — HGF (@HGF_IP) July_2,_2021 #G121: The appellant alleges that the current #oralproceedings are unfair due to the absence of minutes from the last hearing and the issuance of an interlocutory decision only a few days before this hearing, giving little time to respond.#EPO #ViCo #oppositionsandappeals — HGF (@HGF_IP) July_2,_2021 #G121: The appellant alleges that the replacement of certain members of the EboA was done incorrectly, because the alternates were not selected according to A.24 EPC. They request a postponement of oral proceedings until a 'lawful' Board is composed. — HGF (@HGF_IP) July_2,_2021 #G121: The EBoA request that the matter of the referral is discussed, not the issue of partiality which has in their view already been decided. — HGF (@HGF_IP) July_2,_2021 #G121: Proceedings break for the EBoA to discuss the request to declare themselves not competent, and the request for oral proceedings to be postponed once again until a competent Board is composed. #EPO #videoconference #oppositionsandappeals #oralproceedings #ViCo — HGF (@HGF_IP) July_2,_2021 #G121: Proceedings re-open. The EboA announce that the requests are dismissed and now turn to the matter of the referral – are proceedings held by ViCo compatible with the right to OP if not all parties give consent? Admissibility of the referral will be addressed first. — HGF (@HGF_IP) July_2,_2021 #G121: The President of the EPO submits that the point of law is of great importance, therefore, the referral should be admissible, but notes that A.116 does not specify the form of OP and that the form of OP is for the relevant department of the EPO to decide. — HGF (@HGF_IP) July_2,_2021 #G121: There is a short break for the appellant to prepare his response. — HGF (@HGF_IP) July_2,_2021 #G121: The appellant argues that the term 'Oral proceedings' in A.116 does not include videoconference, and that to allow OPs by ViCo without consent deprives parties of a right to OP in person… — HGF (@HGF_IP) July_2,_2021 #G121: …that they have had for 40 years of the EPC and which is customary – an argument that seemed to land with the EBoA. We have another break for the EBoA to discuss. #EPO #oppositionsandappeals #oralproceedings #ViCo — HGF (@HGF_IP) July_2,_2021 #G121: The EBoA have tabled some questions: What is the difference between using ViCo and other technology like powerpoints at OP, should they be disallowed too because they weren't available 40 years ago?… — HGF (@HGF_IP) July_2,_2021 #G121: …If we assume that the term 'oral proceedings' does not include videoconference then where is the legal basis for holding any hearings by ViCo with or without consent? – this last one seems to be causing some debate! — HGF (@HGF_IP) July_2,_2021 #G121: Technical issues at the EPO continue to disrupt the proceedings, ironically! Meanwhile the representatives for the President of the EPO equate the mere choice of a room for OP to choosing the format of OP and…. — HGF (@HGF_IP) July_2,_2021 #G121: …continue to assert that this should be a decision of the relevant department of the EPO. — HGF (@HGF_IP) July_2,_2021 #G121: The appellant brings it back to the question of consent for ViCo, they state the issue is the parties still have the right to OP in person at the EPO, therefore the EPO should not be able to decide to remove this right on behalf of the parties… — HGF (@HGF_IP) July_2,_2021 #G121: …The issue is not whether ViCo is an appropriate format for OP as argued by the representatives for the President. We break for the EBoA to deliberate. — HGF (@HGF_IP) July_2,_2021 #G121: The EBoA announce that oral proceedings are closed, they will deliberate, and a decision will issue in due course. Sadly no decision on the matter today. The HGF team will provide an update as soon as the written decision is out. — HGF (@HGF_IP) July_2,_2021 Another account: Board have returned in G1/21. No surprise that both current requests have been dismissed. Only surprise is how long it took to arrive at decision – maybe they felt need to also fuel up on coffee to get them through the rest of the proceedings?#patents #G121 — Emma Longland (@emma_longland) July_2,_2021 Chair announced would now start discussion of referred question, and repeated that question. Commented on breadth of qs (w/ no limit to 1st/2nd instance or inability to travel)#patent #G121 pic.twitter.com/tGrkzgYwcL — Emma Longland (@emma_longland) July_2,_2021 Chair said would begin by discussing admissibility of qs & merits. Indicated Board do not see problem with admissibility, but not sure necessary to provide answer across full scope of question. Asked Appellant to comment & then would give Reps of President turn#patents #G121 — Emma Longland (@emma_longland) July_2,_2021 President's representatives (contd): -need decision to avoid long-term legal uncertainty -needs to apply to all instances -please reformulate qs if nec. to get breadth#patents #G121 — Emma Longland (@emma_longland) July_2,_2021 Appellant (contd): - don't see as much by VICO as in person; small people on screen & not as much body language or activity - told not to sit together within Board / Party so loss of communication between breaks#patents #G121 — Emma Longland (@emma_longland) July_2,_2021 Appellant finished so 30 minute break announced (to 13:20 CEST). Board to prepare and then ask round of questions. Then last round of statements.#patents #G121 #lunchtime — Emma Longland (@emma_longland) July_2,_2021 Proceedings were resumed simply for the Chair to state that the debate is closed, as all relevant issues have been discussed. The Board are going to continue their discussion and the decision will be published as soon as possible. OPs were then closed. #patents #G121 @EPOorg — Emma Longland (@emma_longland) July_2,_2021 IMHO, think Board might approve use without consent for now, due to pandemic. But might try to limit applicability of the decision, so that the exercise of discretion (VICO vs in-person) post-covid must balance more in favour of Party choice. What do you think?#patents #G121 — Emma Longland (@emma_longland) July_2,_2021 ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1029 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/07/02/review-telescope/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/07/02/review-telescope/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.02.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Review_of_Telescope,_an_Awesome_and_Very_Lightweight_Gemini_Browser⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software at 7:56 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link http://techrights.org/videos/review-telescope.webm Summary: Today we look at a very special new project from a very talented and prolific developer, who already did a lot to advance Gemini protocol, Internet freedom, and software freedom Half a day ago we wrote_about a project called Telescope, which was unveiled or announced_by_Omar_Polo (contact: ) less than a day ago. Mr. Polo is well known and respected among some of us who are Gemini (gemini:// ) enthusiasts, so I immediately downloaded it, tried it, and then decided it was already solid enough to review. “This client/browser is really amazing, e.g. in how simple yet powerful it is.”Some people urge the project to get off GitHub (all that can be found contextually in the online archive of the mailing list), but Omar_is_self- hosting_the_code. GitHub is just a mirror to him. He seems to know very well what he’s doing. No proprietary junk, no unnecessary complexity, and no cumbersome bloat. I decided to do the review in the form of a video, as browsers are generally easy to demonstrate in an interactive fashion, as opposed to static screenshots. This client/browser is really amazing, e.g. in how simple yet powerful it is. I think I already like it more than Amfora, which is stable and widely used (albeit somewhat heavy by ncurses standards/yardsticks). Mr. Polo (or Omar) is off to a strong start and we wish him well. Everybody in the mailing list also expresses a positive opinion (so far at least) and as we continue to expand in Gemini space (we’re working on Wiki conversions at the moment) we look forward to more good work. He has many_other_projects_to_look after. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1086 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.02.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_2/7/2021:_More_Games_on_GNU/Linux,_IBM_Mail_System_on_Fire⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 4:21 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Makulu_Shift_Teaser_Video⠀⇛ Work Continues on our Flagship OS MakuluLinux Shift, We have compiled a Little Teaser video for you below, Enjoy … # ⚓ Android,_but_snitch-free.⠀⇛ iodé provided me with this phone but they had no input or review of the script or the final video. What is iodé? It’s Android, but free of snitches. And because it’s based on LineageOS, that’s a safe bet. # ⚓ Deepin_20.2.2⠀⇛ Today we are looking at Deepin 5.2.2. It uses Linux Kernel 5.10 (by default), based on Debian 10, Deepin Desktop Environment 5.2, and uses about 1.5GB of ram when idling (in effect mode). Enjoy # ⚓ Deepin_20.2.2_Run_Through⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at Deepin 20.2.2. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Intel_Begins_Bringing_Up_DG2_Graphics_Card,_Xe_HP_SDV Support_For_Linux_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Following recent reports Intel has begun seeding the Xe-HPG DG2 graphics card to developers and various reported leaks around the next-gen “DG2″ graphics card, Intel’s open-source Linux driver engineers have begun publishing patches for enabling the DG2 as well as the Xe_HP SDV. This initial DG2 bring-up for Linux happens to come almost immediately following Intel getting DG1 discrete graphics acceleration working to the extent of now being able to run an accelerated desktop environment with the latest pending patches. o § Benchmarks⠀➾ # ⚓ NIST_Successfully_Tests_BitRaser®_Drive_Eraser_for_Securely Wiping_Hard_Drives_&_SSDs⠀⇛ The test hardware comprised an Intel Core i5-6402P desktop PC with a 2.80 GHz CPU and SATA interface. The desktop PC, running on Arch Linux, was connected with Toshiba® and Transcend® SATA hard drives to install two different configurations for testing the NIST Secure Erase capability of BitRaser Drive Eraser v3.0. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ More_Toys?⠀⇛ I think this a impressive and almost comprehensive package I have inbound. I stopped working on UNO (Ultimate Network Optimizer). I replaced it in a single package. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Follower_Reads⠀⇛ When using the Leader and Followers pattern, it’s possible that the leader may get overloaded if too many requests are sent to it. Furthermore in a multi-datacenter setup, where the client is in a remote datacenter, requests to the leader will be subject to additional latency. # ⚓ Ansible_might_be_running_slow_if_libyaml_is_not_available⠀⇛ I first found out just how much slower Ansible can be without libyaml support when I was testing out Ansible 2.10 on a Raspberry Pi—which has a very slow microSD card as a boot volume. I opened the following GitHub issue to investigate: On systems with slow disks, Ansible 2.10 runs generally much slower than 2.9. # ⚓ Create_restricted_user_on_Linux,_home_directory_on encrypted_partition⠀⇛ Create a user that has the sole task to run some daemon that also needs to store files on disk. Starting and stopping daemon, as well as accessing these files, needs to be possible via ssh. Otherwise it should be locked down as far as possible. # ⚓ Navigating_the_impact_of_Wi-Fi_FragAttacks:_users, developers_and_asset_owners⠀⇛ FragAttacks are a new collection of vulnerabilities affecting Wi-Fi devices, discovered and released by Mathy Vanhoef in May 2021. In this post, we will not dive into the technical details of the attacks – if you are interested, we highly recommend Mathy’s paper, which is an excellent technical read and does a great job of explaining the nitty-gritty details. Instead, we will focus on the exploitation requirements and concrete impact of these vulnerabilities, hoping to help users, developers, integrators and IT staff understand them better and take appropriate actions. If you are only interested in the “take home” message and actionable points feel free to skip to the Conclusion and Aftermath sections # ⚓ How_to_Parse_Command_Line_Arguments_in_Node.js⠀⇛ Node.js is an event-based, open-source, and asynchronous I/O framework that uses Google’s V8 JavaScript engine. We use it to develop applications that use JavaScript both on the server and client sides. Node.js applications are written in JavaScript. Node.js applications also accept command-line arguments like any other programming language. By default, Node.js is able to handle your arguments but if you want some extra features then you can use third-party tools and packages like yargs and minimist. In this article, we will see how you can parse command line arguments in Node.js using process.argv, yargs, and minimist. # ⚓ How_to_harden_Docker_images_to_enhance_security⠀⇛ Containers are becoming commonplace in data centers and cloud tenancies across the globe. With their surge in adoption, it is wise to handle these systems with a sense of security at the forefront. Whether you’re developing containers for your company or deploying containers created by other teams, knowing how to harden these deployments is important. Let’s look more closely at five ways to harden Docker images. # ⚓ How_to_install_an_Auto_Clicker_on_a_Chromebook_–_for_Linux Applications_only⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install an Auto Clicker on a Chromebook. It only works on Linux Applications in a Chromebook, sadly not in Play Store Applications, Google Chrome, or the rest of Chrome OS. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # ⚓ How_To_Install_MongoDB_4.0_on_Ubuntu_18.04_–_howtodojo⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will learn how to install MongoDB 4.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver). We will also learn to configure and secure our MongoDB 4.0 installation # ⚓ How_To_Install_MongoDB_4.4_on_Ubuntu_18.04_–_howtodojo⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will learn how to install MongoDB 4.4 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver). We will also learn to configure and secure our MongoDB 4.4 installation # ⚓ What_is_DHCP_and_how_to_configure_DHCP_server_in_Linux⠀⇛ DHCP is a networking protocol used to assign IP addresses to networked devices. In this guide, we’ll introduce you to the protocol and explain how it works. You’ll also see how to implement a DHCP server on Linux systems, and configure it for your own network. # ⚓ Bind_a_cloud_event_to_Knative_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ Events have become an essential piece of modern reactive systems. Indeed, events can be used to communicate from one service to another, trigger out-of-band processing, or send a payload to a service like Kafka. The problem is that event publishers may express event messages in any number of different ways, regardless of content. For example, some messages are payloads in JSON format to serialize and deserialize messages by application. Other applications use binary formats such as Avro and Protobuf to transport payloads with metadata. This is an issue when building an event-driven architecture that aims to easily integrate external systems and reduce the complexity of message transmission. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Lucas_Chess_–_play_and_train_chess⠀⇛ Chess is a recreational and competitive board game played between two players. It’s a very popular game, played by millions across the world, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments. The game is played on a square chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. Each player controls 16 pieces, and the object of the game is to checkmate the opponent’s king. Chess has the virtue of being suitable for people of all ages. It has many positive attributes helping players develop their memory, improve and enhance their concentration, as well as enhance logical thinking. It also promotes and improves imagination and creativity. Chess is one of those games that takes a few days to learn and the rest of your life to master, with the game being a never ending learning process, even for the top players. We tried Lucas Chess a couple of years ago, but failed to compile the program in Linux. It was disappointing because testing the program under Windows demonstrated the quality of the software. The situation has recently changed with the first official binary version of Lucas Chess for Linux. # ⚓ Explore_a_new_world_in_Sea_of_Roses_a_heartwarming_free adventure_out_now⠀⇛ Free Game Friday! Sea of Roses is an award winning adventure from Portuguese team Crescent Tea Studios and it’s out now with Linux support. Best of all, it’s free. “One day, Marion wakes up in her attic. Odd—she doesn’t really recall falling asleep there. Soon, she realizes that someone else—a girl—is living in her house. But she’s never met her before! And although her village is similar to the one she’s grown up in, it is not identical. And neither are the people.” # ⚓ The_SteamOS-like_Linux_distribution_GamerOS_becomes ChimeraOS_with_a_new_release⠀⇛ Getting a console-like big-screen experience with Linux gaming was a thing with SteamOS until Valve stopped updating it, then came along GamerOS to carry the torch which has evolved again with a new name of ChimeraOS. # ⚓ Humble_Bundle_confirms_changes_coming_mid-July_to_add_a minimum_payment_for_Humble_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Humble Bundle announced back in April they would be making changes to the purchase sliders based on (much hated) testing, then backpedaling in May, they’ve announced again some changes are coming to always give Humble a cut. Previously when buying a bundle you would be able to adjust the sliders of who gets a cut, to give 100% to charity if you wish (or developers/ partners) and you could even give nothing to Humble. That’s going away. The sliders themselves this time will continue to be an option, so you will be able to adjust who gets what. However, Humble have made it clear they will always have a minimum cut between “15 – 30%”. This brings them more inline with other stores but it does mean it’s far less generous to charity and developers. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Nitrix_[sic]_1.5_Ships_with_Kernel_5.13⠀⇛ Debian-based Nitrix Linux is the first distribution to ship with kernel 5.13 It was a race to be first and Nitrix Linux has won the prize, as the first Linux distribution to ship with the latest kernel release 5.13. The one caveat to this is that the distribution doesn’t default to the newest kernel, but rather the latest Long Term Support (LTS) kernel, which is 5.4.128. Users who want to, after initial installation, upgrade to the 5.13 kernel can do so with the built-in package manager and install the linux-image-mainline-current kernel. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Impending_Doom_of_Your_Operating_System_Going_to or_Past_11,_Versus_the_Lush_Oasis_of_Open_Source Systems⠀⇛ So now I have a gorgeous, lightweight 13.9 inch laptop running OpenBSD with Xorg running with a 3300×2200 pixel resolution and everything I care about working. With a little attention to proper testing, we have reason to believe that all of this will be properly supported without regression for older hardware versions in the upcoming OpenBSD 7.0 release. As I had hinted earlier, you may very well find yourself better served and supported by the open source operating system of your choice and its developers and users than you can reasonably expect from the commercial, proprietary options. If you have questions about anything in this article, OpenBSD or other free systems, please let me know in comments here, seek out a local-to-you user group (the ones I am most involved in are NUUG, the national Norwegian Unix User Group, and BLUG, the Bergen (BSD and) Linux User Group), or drop me an email. If you choose the last option, please read my read me first document before sending a second message. # § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ A_Smarter,_Cost-efficient_Way_to_Provision_Cloud Workloads_with_ProphetStor_Federator.ai⠀⇛ SUSE One Partner, ProphetStor, now has an offering live in the SUSE Rancher Apps and Marketplace and we’ve invited ProphetStor to author a guest blog so you can learn more about their AI-based container workload performance and cost optimization platform. ~ Bret # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_make_“data-driven”_more_than_jargon_in_your organization⠀⇛ Many organizations today describe themselves as “data-driven,” and it’s easy to understand why: Organizations are producing, and have access to, more data than ever before. It’s considered a competitive advantage and many customers are demanding it. Further, advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are more widely available to help make sense of this massive amount of data and improve business processes and functions like customer experience (CX). But what does it really mean to be a data- driven organization? To some extent, the term “data-driven” has become marketing jargon, possibly because it’s being used to describe even the most basic data activities. But just because an organization collects data doesn’t mean it’s data-driven. The bottom line: Being a data-driven organization means digging into the information readily available and making strategic business decisions based on the facts and insights that are uncovered. # ⚓ IBM_email_fiasco_complicates_sales_deals,_is_worse than_biz_is_letting_on_–_sources⠀⇛ IBM’s email migration misadventure has been worse than the IT titan has let on, current and former staff have told us. Big Blue yesterday acknowledged “some IBM employees are experiencing email service delays,” and that the company is using “a variety of alternative communications tools to ensure minimal disruption to our clients and to our business” while it restores its systems. We’re told IBM’s communications problems follow from an email migration, planned over the past 18 months, that aimed to move the tech giant’s messaging data from HCL servers to machines operated by Big Blue. The migration didn’t go as planned, and has led – for some portion of the company – to four or five days with limited or no email capability and the inability to schedule calendar events and meetings. Outlook, Verse (IBM’s webmail), and Notes have been affected; Slack chat messaging, at least, has been spared. Now two sources have told to us that the botched email transition has affected not only communication and productivity but may have revenue implications for the company’s second quarter, which closed yesterday. We’re told that IBM has given its salespeople special instructions to ensure they can complete customer purchase orders and obtain contract signatures because their usual business processes have been disrupted. [...] One of our sources, an IBM employee with knowledge of the company’s technical operations, told us that the situation is worse than has been suggested. “They claim it’s only about a dozen ‘clusters,’” the individual said, insisting that the number of affected clusters is more like 15, which corresponds to a larger disruption. “I would guess it’s maybe 150,000-200,000 mailboxes impacted out of 400,000.” # ⚓ Red_Hat_Expands_Workload_Possibilities_Across_the Hybrid_Cloud_with_Latest_Version_of_OpenShift⠀⇛ Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced Red Hat OpenShift 4.8, the latest version of the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform. Providing a powerful foundation to develop and connect diverse workloads across the hybrid cloud, Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 helps organizations accelerate the creation of new cloud-native applications without abandoning existing environments and IT investments. # ⚓ KPMG_Automates,_Accelerates_and_Enhances_Artificial Intelligence_Workflows_with_Red_Hat_OpenShift⠀⇛ Red Hat and KPMG LLP today announced an ongoing collaboration to augment the KPMG Ignite AI platform with Red Hat OpenShift as a foundational technology. Building on Red Hat OpenShift, KPMG Ignite provides the agility, scalability and flexibility needed to deploy AI at scale, and enables Ignite to be deployed more consistently across the hybrid cloud. # ⚓ Kubernetes_security_automation_saves_SecOps_sanity⠀⇛ Enterprise IT pros are applying the Agile/ DevOps philosophy of continuous improvement to Kubernetes security automation in order to keep pace with increasingly complex, multi- cluster container environments where developers also demand flexibility. When carmaker Audi AG first began to use Kubernetes in 2017, it had one centralized platform for its DevOps team based on a proprietary Kubernetes control plane. But as the use of Kubernetes began to expand to more departments, and several public and hybrid cloud Kubernetes services emerged, Audi IT pros grappled with how to maintain both security and flexibility for the broader company. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ FICIHIP_multifunctional_keyboard_includes_12.6-inch touchscreen_display_(Crowdfunding)_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ FICIHIP says no software is needed, and the keyboard is compatible with Huawei EMUI, Samsung DEX, and other desktop-capable mobile operating systems. # ⚓ UP_Connect_Plus_adds_5G_support,_3_GbE_ports_to_UP_Core Plus,_UP_Xtreme_SBCs⠀⇛ AAEON UP Connect Plus is a carrier board with three Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports, and an M.2 slot plus a micro SIM card socket adding support for 5G cellular connectivity to the company’s Appolo Lake- based UP Core Plus and Whiskey Lake-powered UP Xtreme single board computers. # ⚓ The_Hackintosh_of_our_dreams_is_here_and_it’s_a_sick handheld⠀⇛ The DIY device is built on a Latte Panda Alpha single-board computer (SBC), which has an Intel m3 CPU and integrated graphics, 8GB of RAM, and a built-in CPU fan. He added two other smaller fans, which are controlled via a DIY circuit board. The specs for the Latte Panda Alpha list built-in wireless functionality, but it seems he added it via a wireless M.2 card. macOS Big Sur was installed onto a 240GB SATA M.2 SSD. Battery life doesn’t look long based on the measly capacity he used, but who cares? This portable Hackintosh is a DIY masterpiece. The fact that this SBC has two M.2 ports is just incredible — some PC motherboards only have one, or sometimes none — and it’s probably one of the reasons why it fetches such a high price. SBCs such as the ones from Raspberry Pi and Odroid may be affordable, but not the Latte Panda, which can cost upwards of $459 for the Alpha model. While iketsj doesn’t say how much it costs to build the handheld, it undoubtedly wasn’t cheap. # ⚓ UP_Core_Plus_and_UP_Xtreme_SBCs_gain_add-on_with_triple_GbE and_5G⠀⇛ Aaeon has launched an $84-and-up “UP Connect Plus” carrier board that plugs into the UP Core Plus and UP Xtreme SBCs and adds 3x GbE ports with optional TSN plus an M.2 3042/3052 with 5G support. Aaeon Technology Europe’s UP community, which goes by the brand UP! Bridge the Gap, has added a new add-on board that plugs into the dual 100-pin connectors of the Intel Apollo Lake based UP Core Plus and Intel Whiskey Lake based UP Xtreme SBCs. The UP Connect Plus adds 3x GbE ports plus a M.2 B- key 3042/3052 slot with micro-SIM slot that supports a “coming soon” 5G modem module. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Translate_dog_barks_with_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛ # ⚓ Recreate_Gradius’_rock-spewing_volcanoes_|_Wireframe #52⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ You_can_search_line_numbers_in_Firefox!?⠀⇛ There’s someone born every minute who hasn’t seen The Flintstones, as Merlin Mann says. I’ve been using Firefox since its original Phoenix incarnation, and I only discovered today that you can search line numbers in source. # § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ YottaDB_Dashboard⠀⇛ Users of YottaDB know the benefits of using it. Its technology was established decades ago and it is used in critical medical and financial systems worldwide. Performance overall is “lightning fast” but performance is not simply a binary consideration. A system may perform well at one point in time with a certain workload and not as well at another. As an IT professional, be it a SysAdmin in a traditional IT role or a DevOps engineer in a more modern one, it is important to continuously capture and monitor performance. Monitoring performance allows for the establishing of baselines, including daily, weekly, and monthly cycles, to create trendlines, not only for capacity planning, but also for detecting, diagnosing, and remedying issues. Since human beings interpret visuals well, tools like Prometheus and Grafana make it easier to visualize captured performance data. # § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Document_searching_and_indexing_export_–_Part_1⠀⇛ Searching for a phrase in multiple documents is not a new thing and many implementations exist, however such searching will usually only provide you if and roughly where in the documents a searched phrase exists. With Collabora Online and LibreOffice we can do better than this and in addition provide the search result in form of a thumbnail of the search location. In this way it is easier for the user to see the context, where the searched phrase is located. For example, if it is located in a table, shape, footer/ header, or is it figure text or maybe “alt” text of an image. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Fortran_newsletter:_July_2021⠀⇛ Welcome to the July 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month. # ⚓ Typeclasses_in_Python⠀⇛ But, before discussing typeclasses themselves, let’s discuss what problem they do solve. # ⚓ A_Linked_List_Implementation_for_RetroForth⠀⇛ NOTE: RetroForth allows the execution of Markdown files as code. The code below is written in the literate style and can be directly run via retro. A copy/paste-able version can be found here. # ⚓ Code_performance_in_R:_Parallelization⠀⇛ This is the third part of our series about code performance in R. In the first part, I introduced methods to measure which part of a given code is slow. The second part lists general techniques to make R code faster. In this part you are going to see how to take advantage from parallelization in R. # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Essence_of_Perl_Text_Processing_–_Perl_Book⠀⇛ I published “Essence of Perl Text Processing” in Japan. This is 2021 new Perl Book(Both Normal Book and EBook). o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ RSS_feedback_from_Simon_Ruderich⠀⇛ Simon emailed yesterday to say my blog RSS feed could no longer be parsed properly. He correctly identified it as a missing namespace issue. Thank you! * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ PowerPC_And_The_Western_Digital_My_Book_Live_Debacle⠀⇛ The interest to us here is that the WD My Book Live and Duo family are 32-bit PowerPC devices, more specifically the 800MHz Applied Micro APM82181, which is an enhanced 90nm PowerPC 440 core with additional DSP instructions called the PPC 464. The PowerPC 464FP used here includes a 7-stage pipeline and floating-point unit, and the APM82181 adds a DDR2 controller (256MB onboard) and 256K of RAM configurable as L2 cache. You can boot Gentoo and OpenWRT on it, all of which is unsurprising because the My Book Live basically runs Debian. Western Digital has not issued updates for this device since 2015 and many distros (including Debian, starting with stretch) have dropped 32-bit PowerPC support, though it is still supported in the kernel (except for the PowerPC 601) and these operating systems plus Void PPC and others still support the architecture generally. o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ There’s_a_Way_to_Get_More_People_Vaccinated—and_It_Doesn’t Involve_the_Lottery⠀⇛ In the face of flatlining vaccination rates, government, business, and public health leaders are trying all kinds of approaches. Sending Dr. Fauci door to door. Offering a pretty wild range of incentives: doughnuts, French fries, a gun, or a joint; tickets to sports games and museums. Holding vaccine lotteries promising the chance to win free college tuition or a million dollars. # ⚓ Medicaid_Work_Requirements_Appear_to_Be_Dead⠀⇛ About two years ago, Medicaid enrollees in Arkansas were discovering a new reality: if they wanted to keep their health coverage, they would have to navigate a complex, finicky state website every month to report that they were working, in school, or volunteering for at least 80 hours. Arkansas was the first state to ever impose a work requirement on Medicaid coverage, the government-run health insurance program for the poor. After the Trump administration had welcomed states to seek its approval for imposing work requirements in the program, another 18 eventually tried to do the same thing; the administration approved waivers in eight of those states. # ⚓ Facebook_Probe_by_DC_Official_Targets_Vaccine Misinformation⠀⇛ Facebook Inc. is under investigation by the attorney general for the District of Columbia over whether it has taken adequate steps to curb the spread of misinformation about vaccines. Attorney General Karl Racine is seeking internal documents that show how the social media giant penalizes users who violate its misinformation policies around vaccines, as well as materials related to a Facebook study about vaccine hesitancy among users, according to a copy of a subpoena issued by Racine’s office last month. The subpoena also demanded data on the total volume of content that has been removed or demoted by Facebook for violating its vaccine misinformation policies. # ⚓ Supreme_Court_strikes_down_laws_prohibiting_recreational marijuana_use⠀⇛ The Supreme Court (SCJN) on Monday struck down laws banning the use of recreational marijuana, declaring once again that its prohibition is unconstitutional. The court ruled 8-3 that sections of the General Health Law that prohibit personal use of marijuana and cultivation of the plant at home were unconstitutional. # ⚓ The_long_goodbye_to_covid-19⠀⇛ Leisure has been affected, too. People say they have had 15% more time on their hands. In Britain young women spent 50% longer with their nose in a book. Literary agents have been swamped with first novels. Some of this will fade: media firms fear an “attention recession”. But some changes will stick. For example, people may decide they want to escape pre-pandemic drudgery at work, and tight labour markets may help them. In Britain applications to medical school were up by 21% in 2020. In America business creation has been its highest since records began in 2004. One in three Americans who can work from home wants to do so five days a week, according to surveys. Some bosses are ordering people into the office; others are trying to entice them in. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Intuit_to_Share_Payroll_Data_from_1.4M Small_Businesses_With_Equifax⠀⇛ Financial services giant Intuit this week informed 1.4 million small businesses using its QuickBooks Online Payroll and Intuit Online Payroll products that their payroll information will be shared with big-three consumer credit bureau Equifax starting later this year unless customers opt out by the end of this month. # ⚓ Yes,_We_Want_Cryptographic_Protection_For Email⠀⇛ As I discuss in detail below, there is a fair amount of evidence that people who have a pressing need can use OpenPGP successfully. For instance, a recent academic paper, When the Weakest Link is Strong: Secure Collaboration in the Case of the Panama Papers, looks at the security practices of the journalists involved in the Panama Papers. The authors found that for over a year, the hundreds of people involved in the project successfully collaborated using OpenPGP. And there are at least four good reason to protect ordinary people’s email: [...] # ⚓ The_Republican_PCLOB_Cover-Up_Of_NSA’s XKEYSCORE_Use_Is_More_Troubling_Than_Tucker Carlson’s_Claims_To_Be_Surveilled⠀⇛ Meanwhile, Carlson’s little cultivated outrage occurs at the same time that Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board member Travis LeBlanc released a scathing dissent, dated March 12, 2021 but just declassified, from a recently released but still classified PCLOB report on the NSA’s use of XKEYSCORE. The statement points to problems with both the use of XKEYSCORE and EO 12333 generally, as well as the operation of PCLOB under the recently departed Adam Klein’s tenure as Chair. Together, LeBlanc’s complaint suggests that Klein may have deliberately protected NSA from scrutiny after violations that happened during the Trump Administration were discovered in November 2020. # ⚓ What_we_can_learn_from_Google’s_cookie deprecation_delay⠀⇛ The future of identity lies in the ability to leverage direct, consumer-consented sources and to be smarter about signals that are not attached to a consumer’s identity. Without that, we are playing the same game we have been playing for years. We will be plagued by the same regulatory issues and consumer concerns. Our industry needs to be able to build a scalable, consent-driven, first-party consumer base and solutions that provide for meaningful connections without the need for identity. That is the way to drive relevant, meaningful connections and to create a clearer value exchange. This delay gives publishers and demand partners the chance to co- author more of the future rather than penning quick reactions. And the companies that are truly consumer-first now have the mainstage. Those who are reliant on third-party IDs, however, are simply in a two-year extension to figure out what to do. # ⚓ How_Europol’s_reform_enables_‘NSA-style’ surveillance_operations⠀⇛ However, an investigation by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) last year found Europol’s data practices unlawful. The EDPS discovered that in order to analyse large datasets transferred by member states to produce “criminal intelligence”, Europol was processing the data of individuals not linked in any capacity to any criminal activity. Despite this being illegal under Europol’s current data processing rules, the agency’s methods remain unobstructed. Instead of suggesting solutions to bring Europol’s practices in line with its mandate, the Commission released a proposal in December 2020 to legalise them. The proposed data-mining powers for Europol, which resembles the modus operandi of intelligence services such as the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), could circumvent critical safeguards in criminal procedure law and obliterate any presumption of innocence. # ⚓ EU_officially_launches_digital_vaccine passport⠀⇛ The European Union’s digital COVID-19 certificate officially launched today. The certificate allows people to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination, a recent negative test result, or a past COVID-19 infection. The certificate, which includes a QR code and digital signature, can either be displayed on a digital device or printed out. People who have the certificate should not have to get an additional COVID-19 test or quarantine when traveling in the EU. The certificate only recognizes COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the EU — that includes the AstraZeneca, Pfizer / BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson shots. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Media_Applaud_the_New_Cold_Wars—but_Could_US_Be_More Aggressive,_Please?⠀⇛ US media are fixin’ for a fight with China, Russia—or both. Commentary on the recent G7 and NATO summits, as well as President Joe Biden’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was replete with examples of news outlets alternately praising the Biden administration for ramping up new cold wars with China and Russia, and criticizing it for not being even more aggressive. As it propagandized about the US supposedly fighting for democracy, this coverage betrayed a total indifference to the potential costs of these hostilities. # ⚓ Germany_too_dependent_on_Confucius_Institutes,_minister warns⠀⇛ A statement from the education and research minister that Germany has “given too much space” to Confucius Institutes has been seen as the latest sign that the country is turning against the Beijing-sponsored centres. Announcing an extra €5 million (£4.3 million) to bolster German “independent China expertise”, Anja Karliczek said: “I do not want the Chinese government to influence our universities and our society. “Germany must admit self-critically: in some places in the past, we have given too much space to the Confucius Institutes, for example, and have done too little ourselves to build up independent China expertise in Germany.” # ⚓ The_Horrors_Faced_by_the_Women_of_Tigray⠀⇛ The United Nations warns that 350,000 Tigrayans are already suffering from catastrophic food shortages. Mark Lowcock, the UN emergency relief coordinator, said recently that the hunger will “get much worse.” Last week, USAID said that the number of people living under famine conditions had risen and now stands at up to 900,000 people. The war in Tigray is one in which rape and starvation are both being widely deployed as a weapon against the civilian population. # ⚓ Hong_Kong_Tiananmen_vigil_head_Chow_Hang-tung_rearrested_as police_revoke_bail_ahead_of_Handover_anniversary⠀⇛ Hong Kong police rearrested a prominent democracy activist after revoking her bail Wednesday, the eve of a sensitive double anniversary of the city’s handover to China and the Communist Party’s centenary. Lawyer Chow Hang-tung, one of the few remaining democracy activists not already in jail or exile, was initially detained on June 4 for publicising a banned vigil commemorating Beijing’s deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ High_earners_and_well_educated_worry_most_about_climate_ (but_still_fly)⠀⇛ ‘Many people who are worried about the climate will change their behaviour and, for instance, eat less meat’, the CBS writes, ‘but these same people will not buy solar panels and are frequent flyers.’ # ⚓ How_heat_waves_form,_and_how_climate_change_makes_them worse⠀⇛ Urban areas further exacerbate this warming. As roads, parking lots, and buildings cover natural landscapes, cities like Los Angeles and Dallas end up absorbing more heat than their surroundings and can become as much as 20 degrees Fahrenheit warmer. This is a phenomenon known as the urban heat island effect. # ⚓ ‘Like_an_open-air_cage’:_Police_restrict_reporters’_access to_Canadian_anti-logging_protests⠀⇛ Journalists say the injunction violates their right to report: the RCMP has denied journalists access to the demonstration sites; demanded that members of the press stay within areas that are often out of earshot and only provide a partial view of what’s going on; and threatened journalists with arrest, according to local news reports, journalist accounts on Twitter, and a statement from the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ). # ⚓ Cut_poverty_and_energy_use_to_cool_the_climate⠀⇛ To cut poverty and energy use would cool the planet, build a more just society − but end dreams of economic growth. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Supreme_Court_Allows_Fracked_Gas_Pipeline’s_Use_of Eminent_Domain._But_the_Pipeline’s_Victory_Comes_with Some_Big_Caveats.⠀⇛ The U.S. Supreme Court this week ruled in favor of a natural gas pipeline taking state land for the project’s construction. The decision could set a powerful precedent expanding the use of eminent domain on state- owned land – a mechanism more often wielded by industry to acquire private land. While opponents of the pipeline called the ruling “devastating,” highlighting the need to limit new fossil fuel infrastructure in order to tackle climate change, other hurdles remain in the pipeline’s path. Experts point to tools at the state level and a separate recent legal decision which could all block or delay the proposed 116-mile PennEast pipeline. # ⚓ Energy_Transfer’s_Gulf_Run_Pipeline_to_Export_Fracked Gas_from_Louisiana_set_to_Begin_Construction⠀⇛ In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day. The FERC decision was split, with two of the five commissioners dissenting, writing that the Commission had failed to adequately examine the climate-changing pollution linked to the fossil fuel pipeline.  # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Montana_is_Melting_Thanks_to_Fossil_Fuel-Addicted Politicians⠀⇛ # ⚓ Life_Under_the_Heat_Dome⠀⇛ # ⚓ Robot_Dives_3,000_Feet_to_Film_Creatures_in_Mid-Ocean ‘Twilight_Zone’⠀⇛ The underwater robot was created in a joint effort by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and Stanford University. “Mesobot can survey, track and record compelling imagery,” said Dana Yoerger, a senior scientist at Woods Hole. “We hope to reveal previously unknown behaviors, species interactions, morphological structures, and the use of bioluminescence. “The 250-kilogram (551-pound) marine robot can be teleoperated through a lightweight fiber-optic tether and can also operate untethered with full autonomy while minimizing environmental disturbance,” the research article states. “The twilight zone is cold and its light is dim, but with flashes of bioluminescence — light produced by living organisms,” according to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. “The region teems with life. Recent studies suggest that the biomass of fish in the twilight zone may be ten times greater than previously thought—more than in all the rest of the ocean combined.” o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Taleb_On_Cryptocurrency_Economics⠀⇛ Nassim Nicholas Taleb has a draft paper entitled Bitcoin, Currencies and Bubbles that applies quantitative finance and economic arguments to cryptocurrencies. It is definitely worth reading. Spoiler, he’s not an enthusiast! Below the fold, some commentary on it. # ⚓ PayPal_uses_story_based_analytics_to_process_33_mln transactions_per_day⠀⇛ According to him, over three trillion events are added each day to PayPal’s systems. These could be people logging in, transacting, checking something or changing their profile. All of these three trillion events are somehow used to assess the risk factor in payments. But he believes PayPal’s approach to risk and fraud using data is different from what people think about it. # ⚓ Why_You_Can’t_Turn_Your_Roth_IRA_Into_a_Billion-Dollar_Tax Shelter⠀⇛ Last week, ProPublica published the story of how PayPal co-founder and tech investor Peter Thiel was able to turn a Roth IRA initially worth around $2,000 into a jaw-dropping $5 billion tax-free retirement stash in just 20 years. # ⚓ ‘The_Tax_Break_Industrial_Complex_Has_Not_Been Challenged’⠀⇛ Janine Jackson interviewed Good Jobs First’s Greg LeRoy about Texas corporate subsidies for the June 25, 2021, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Nationalism_on_the_Decline⠀⇛ The nationalist surge was led by a new generation of rightwing populist demagogues who, feeding on public discontent with widespread immigration and economic stagnation, achieved startling political breakthroughs. Matteo Salvini of Italy, Geert Wilders of the Netherlands, and Marine Le Pen of France catapulted their fringe political movements into major party status. In Britain, Nigel Farage’s United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) startled mainstream parties by winning a referendum calling for Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union. Donald Trump, championing an “America First” policy, shocked political pundits by emerging victorious in the 2016 U.S. presidential race. Two years later, in Brazil, the flamboyant Jair Bolsonaro, campaigning under the slogan “Brazil Above Everything,” was easily elected president of his country. In May 2019, Narendra Modi’s BJP, a Hindu nationalist party, won a landslide election victory in India. As the acknowledged leader of the rightwing, nationalist uprising in these and other nations, Trump forged close contacts with his overseas counterparts and pulled the U.S. government out of international treaties, as well as out of global institutions. “Wise leaders always put the good of their own people and their own country first,” he admonished the UN General Assembly in September 2019. “The future does not belong to globalists. The future belongs to patriots.” # ⚓ Nancy_Pelosi_Outplays_Kevin_McCarthy_Once_Again⠀⇛ You do you, Kevin McCarthy. # ⚓ Facebook_tests_prompts_that_ask_users_if_they’re_worried_a friend_is_‘becoming_an_extremist’⠀⇛ Some Facebook (FB) users in the United States are being served a prompt that asks if they are worried that someone they know might be becoming an extremist. Others are being notified that they may have been exposed to extremist content. It is all part of a test the social media company is running that stems from its Redirect Initiative, which aims to combat violent extremism, Andy Stone, a Facebook spokesperson, told CNN. Screen shots of the alerts surfaced on social media Thursday. # ⚓ Facebook_tests_feature_offering_resources_for_those_worried about_‘extremist’_friends⠀⇛ Facebook is testing out several types of notifications to users in an initiative aimed at tackling violent extremism. The notifications either ask a user if they’re concerned that they may know an extremist or simply notify the user that they may have been exposed to extremist content. Screenshots of both circulated on Thursday. According to Reuters, Facebook said the small test, which is being conducted in the U.S. on its main platform, was a pilot that would ultimately be used globally to prevent extremism on Facebook. # ⚓ Facebook,_Google,_TikTok,_and_Twitter_collaborate_with_Web Foundation_to_end_abuse_and_violence_against_women_on_their platforms⠀⇛ Facebook, Google, TikTok, and Twitter—four of the world’s biggest tech platforms—have collaborated with the Web Foundation to adopt a set of commitments to address online abuse and improve women’s safety on their platforms. Announced at the UN Generation Equality Forum in Paris where global leaders are meeting to advance women’s rights, these commitments are a critical step forward in tackling widespread online abuse that affects millions of women around the world and poses a growing threat to progress on gender equality. # ⚓ US,_Britain_Warn_of_Russian_‘Brute_Force’_Cyber_Campaign⠀⇛ The United States and Britain are sounding another alarm about Russian activity in cyberspace, accusing the Kremlin of repeatedly trying to smash its way into the critical systems of government agencies, defense contractors, universities and even political parties.  A joint advisory Thursday from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain’s National Cyber Security Center said Russian military intelligence, the GRU, has been carrying out a “brute force” campaign since 2019 — getting hold of credentials, such as email logins, and then repeatedly guessing passwords until the hackers can gain entry.  # ⚓ War_Criminal_Found_Dead_at_88⠀⇛ Unlike the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, Afghans, and so many others killed in the wars he launched and in the torture cells he oversaw, Donald Rumsfeld died peacefully. [...] Two weeks into the war, Rumsfeld’s press office grudgingly acknowledged that US bombers had indeed dropped cluster bombs, a now-illegal form of weapons, on the village of Shaker Qala, near Herat in western Afghanistan. The bombs killed nine civilians and injured another 14. But Rumsfeld’s office had a bigger problem than that. The cluster bombs were wrapped in bright yellow tape. And at the exact same time, Pentagon planes were dropping food packets for desperate Afghan refugees that were covered with identical bright yellow wrappings. Any famished child running to pick up what looked like a food packet ran a good chance of being blown up by a US cluster bomb. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers, standing alongside Rumsfeld at a press conference, admitted that civilians might confuse the two, but said the United States had no intention of suspending the use of cluster bombs. # ⚓ Donald_Rumsfeld,_Rot_in_Hell⠀⇛ During this time, Nixon can be heard on his White House tapes referring to Donald Rumsfeld as a “ruthless little bastard.” It’s worth taking a beat to think about what sort of person would earn that kind of admiration from Nixon, a man who illegally conspired against his domestic political enemies and oversaw genocidal levels of deaths in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. # ⚓ How_Rumsfeld_Deserves_to_Be_Remembered⠀⇛ Rumsfeld was the worst secretary of defense in American history. Being newly dead shouldn’t spare him this distinction. He was worse than the closest contender, Robert McNamara, and that is not a competition to judge lightly. McNamara’s folly was that of a whole generation of Cold Warriors who believed that Indochina was a vital front in the struggle against communism. His growing realization that the Vietnam War was an unwinnable waste made him more insightful than some of his peers; his decision to keep this realization from the American public made him an unforgivable coward. But Rumsfeld was the chief advocate of every disaster in the years after September 11. Wherever the United States government contemplated a wrong turn, Rumsfeld was there first with his hard smile—squinting, mocking the cautious, shoving his country deeper into a hole. His fatal judgment was equaled only by his absolute self-assurance. He lacked the courage to doubt himself. He lacked the wisdom to change his mind. # ⚓ Donald_Rumsfeld,_Former_Defense_Secretary_and_Accused_War Criminal,_Dead_at_88⠀⇛ According to the Atlantic, he spent part of the Reagan years working clandestine presidential security programs with Dick Cheney, another stalwart Republican power broker, who would join him in the White House when George W. Bush took office. Following the September 11 attacks, defense secretary Rumsfeld became one of the primary architects of the U.S. invasions in Afghanistan and Iraq. # ⚓ New_York_City_Absolutely_Botched_Its_Futuristic_Voting System⠀⇛ It turns out that the board erroneously counted an extra 135,000 votes that didn’t actually exist — an error that can easily be corrected, but which the NYT notes may lead the public to doubt the sanctity of the new election style down the road. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Victory!_Federal_Court_Halts_Florida’s_Censorious_Social Media_Law_Privileging_Politicians’_Speech_Over_Everyday Users⠀⇛ The Florida law, S.B. 7072, prohibited large online intermediaries—save for those that also happened to own a theme park in the state—from terminating politicians’ accounts or taking steps to de- prioritize their posts, regardless of whether it would have otherwise violated the sites’ own content policies. The law also prevented services from moderating posts by anyone who qualified as “journalistic enterprise” under the statute, which was so broadly defined as to include popular YouTube and Twitch streamers. EFF and Protect Democracy filed a friend-of-the- court brief in the case, NetChoice v. Moody, arguing that although online services frequently make mistakes in moderating users’ content, disproportionately harming marginalized voices, the Florida statute violated the First Amendment rights of platforms and other internet users. Our brief pointed out that the law would only have “exacerbate[ed] existing power disparities between certain speakers and average internet users, while also creating speaker-based distinctions that are anathema to the First Amendment.” In granting a preliminary injunction barring Florida officials from enforcing the law, the court agreed with several arguments EFF made in its brief. As EFF argued, the “law itself is internally inconsistent in that it requires ‘consistent’ treatment of all users, yet by its own terms sets out two categories of users for inconsistent special treatment.” # ⚓ Bollywood:_Filmmakers_cry_foul_over_censorship_proposals⠀⇛ Filmmakers fear that the new rules proposed by the Narendra Modi-led BJP government will make the process even more stifling. Known as the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2021, the proposed new rules will give the federal government certain “revisionary powers”. This means the government can revoke the certification of a film – based on viewer complaints – even if the censor board sees no problem with its content. The draft bill also has provisions to penalise piracy with a jail term and fine. It also seeks to introduce age-based categorisation of films. # ⚓ US_Censorship_Is_Increasingly_Official⠀⇛ Decrying the state of press freedoms in official enemy states is a favorite pastime of corporate media (FAIR.org, 11/1/06, 5/20/19, 10/20/19). It is a point of pride in the US that freedom of speech is written into the Constitution. Increasingly, however, if we want to find direct government censorship of speech, we don’t have to travel far. NYT: Trump Targets Anti-Semitism and Israeli Boycotts on College Campuses Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, freedom of the press nosedived. Reporters working for foreign outlets like RT America were forced to register as “foreign agents,” under a 1938 law passed to counter Nazi propaganda. The channel was subsequently taken off the air in Washington, DC. o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Turkey_using_press_accreditation_to_pressure_journalists⠀⇛ Condemning the arbitrary manner in which the Turkish president’s office issues and renews press accreditation in order to put pressure on the media, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is spotlighting the cases of four journalists who are combatting this arbitrary practice in the courts. # ⚓ Ecuadorean_court_orders_trial_of_Swedish_Internet_activist, friend_of_Julian_Assange⠀⇛ A judge in Ecuador called on Tuesday to trial for the crime of “non-consensual computer access” the Swedish computer scientist Ola Bini, a friend of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in a controversial process in which the defense of the accused denounces a “procedural fraud”. Judge Yadira Proaño, after a hearing that had been postponed on at least five previous occasions, called Bini to trial as “alleged perpetrator of the crime of non-consensual access to a computer, telematic or telecommunications system,” the Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. # ⚓ Quintin_Jones_Execution_Condemned_Over_‘Disturbing’_Failure to_Bring_In_Media_Witnesses⠀⇛ Dunham said: “That is a matter of semantics. I would say it is a violation of the law because Texas prevented media, whom the law authorized to be present, from witnessing the execution. If no one from the media had been there to witness, despite being authorized to attend, it would not have been a violation. But they were there, and their attendance had been approved.” Media witnesses are “literally the public’s eyes and ears on the execution process,” Dunham added. “That Texas cares so little about transparency that it ‘forgot’ to let the media in and then no one on the execution team inside the witnessing rooms noticed that the media witnesses weren’t there exhibits a stunning disregard for public accountability.” Cassandra Stubbs, the director of the ACLU’s Capital Punishment Project, told Newsweek she was “profoundly disturbed” by what happened. The explanation offered by officials only raises more questions, Stubbs added. # ⚓ Haitian_journalist,_activist_killed_in_suspected_revenge attacks_in_Haiti⠀⇛ At least 15 people, including a journalist and an opposition activist, were killed in Haiti in overnight violence suspected to be revenge attacks after the death of a police officer, officials said Wednesday. # ⚓ Former_Apple_Daily_journalist_arrested_at_airport_while trying_to_leave_Hong_Kong⠀⇛ Apple Daily, an unapologetic backer of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, put out its last edition on Thursday after its top leadership was arrested and its assets frozen under a national security law China imposed on Hong Kong last year. Fung Wai-kong, managing editor and chief opinion writer for the paper’s English website, on Sunday became the seventh senior Apple Daily figure detained under the law. Hong Kong police confirmed the arrest of a 57-year- old man at the airport for “conspiring to collude with foreign countries or foreign forces to endanger national security”. # ⚓ The_Supreme_Court_takes_another_bite_out_of_the_Voting Rights_Act⠀⇛ These norms add up to a legal landscape that dooms nearly every imaginable section 2 lawsuit. In a dissenting opinion laced with criticism at least as biting as her 2019 dissent in Rucho v Common Cause (in which the court ruled 5-4 that courts cannot constrain partisan gerrymandering), Justice Elena Kagan described the ruling as “tragic” for democracy and—in light of Justice Alito’s creative guideposts—a “law-free zone”. Along with Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, who signed her dissent, Justice Kagan lamented that the majority in effect rewrote the Voting Rights Act, ignoring its explicit protections, to suit its own preferences. The court, she charged, “has damaged a statute designed to bring about ‘the end of discrimination in voting’”. It is difficult to think of a law “more vital in the current moment… [y]et in the last decade, this court has treated no statute worse”. # ⚓ Cherokee_Nation,_Presidio_develop_platform_to_help_preserve Cherokee_language_and_culture⠀⇛ Although composed of over 392,000 citizens across America, the Cherokee Nation faces hardships as their language and culture has eroded over the years. Dispossession, disease and the lack of education in school systems have all contributed to these difficulties, testing the Nation’s resiliency throughout the centuries. Two thousand fluent Cherokee speakers remain, and a growing chorus of voices are calling for help in preserving Cherokee language and culture. # ⚓ Texas_Urged_to_Stop_Executions_After_Inmate_Put_to_Death Without_Media_Witnesses⠀⇛ The organization said it submitted a public records request to the TDCJ shortly after Jones’ execution seeking information about what went wrong. The ACLU said Texas officials responded twice—on June 16 and June 23—by “stonewalling” and refusing to disclose any information. On June 16, the agency’s director of legal affairs responded with a letter stating they had asked the state Attorney General to rule they are not required to produce the records. “TDCJ did not provide a single document or even a single sentence about the conclusions of its internal investigation,” the ACLU said. On June 23, the director of legal affairs sent the Attorney General a letter, again asserting that the records are confidential. Kumar said the organization has yet to receive any records in response to its request. # ⚓ Turkey_formally_withdraws_from_treaty_to_prevent_violence against_women⠀⇛ The Istanbul Convention, negotiated in Turkey’s biggest city and signed in 2011, committed its signatories to prevent and prosecute domestic violence and promote equality. Ankara’s withdrawal triggered condemnation from both the United States and the European Union, and critics say it puts Turkey even further out of step with the bloc that it applied to join in 1987. Femicide has surged in Turkey, with one monitoring group logging roughly one per day in the last five years. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Nominations_Open_for_2021_Barlows!⠀⇛ What does it take to be a Barlow winner? Nominees must have contributed substantially to the health, growth, accessibility, or freedom of computer-based communications. Their contributions may be technical, social, legal, academic, economic or cultural. This year’s winners will join an esteemed group of past award winners that includes the visionary activist Aaron Swartz, global human rights and security researchers The Citizen Lab, open-source pioneer Limor “Ladyada” Fried, and whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, among many remarkable journalists, entrepreneurs, public interest attorneys, and others. The Pioneer Award Ceremony depends on the generous support of individuals and companies with passion for digital civil liberties. To learn about how you can sponsor the Pioneer Award Ceremony, please email nicole@eff.org. Remember, nominations close on July 15th at noon, 12:00 PM Pacific time! After you nominate your favorite contenders, we hope you will consider joining our virtual event this fall to celebrate the work of the 2020 winners. If you have any questions or if you’d like to receive updates about the event, please email events@eff.org. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Municipal_Broadband_Advocates_Win_Major_Victory_in_Ohio⠀⇛ Municipal broadband advocates in Ohio realized a major victory today when a bipartisan House and Senate conference committee released the final version of their state budget plan that added $250 million to expand broadband access in the Buckeye State and removed the anonymous budget amendment that would have effectively banned municipal broadband networks if passed into law. # ⚓ Ohio_lawmakers_pass_budget_with_tax_cuts_and_new_school funding_formula⠀⇛ Ohio lawmakers sent the bipartisan budget to Gov. Mike DeWine Monday evening following an 82-13 vote in the Ohio House and 32-1 vote in the Ohio Senate. Sen. Teresa Fedor, D-Toledo was the sole “no” vote in that chamber. DeWine has a deadline: He must sign the bill before Thursday. Here are some of the big changes that Ohio lawmakers made. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Facebook_Launches_Substack_Newsletter_Rival,_Won’t_Take_Cut of_Pay⠀⇛ The newsletter platform, which is competing with Substack, launched on Tuesday with a stable of writers that includes Malcolm Gladwell, Tan France, Jessica Yellin, Jane Wells, Erin Andrews and Dorie Greenspan. Bulletin writers will own all their content and email subscriber lists, and Facebook will not be taking a cut from any of their subscription revenue, which are processed via Facebook Pay. # ⚓ Is_Facebook_untouchable?_It’s_complicated⠀⇛ Facebook won a major battle against government regulators this week, but the war isn’t over. The social media giant’s victory over the Federal Trade Commission in a U.S. district court portends an uphill battle for the government’s efforts to rein in the power of Big Tech. But it is also fueling calls for new legislation that could give regulators greater leverage down the road. So while Facebook executives had reason to celebrate this week’s ruling — the decision sent the company’s value north of $1 trillion, eliciting congratulatory texts and calls among executives, according to three people familiar with the conversations — there’s also reason not to celebrate too loudly. # ⚓ Microsoft,_Google_get_ready_for_new_battle_after_ending their_5-year_cease-fire⠀⇛ Microsoft and Google have decided to stop playing nice. The two tech giants recently ended a years- long truce during which they agreed not to aim their substantial lobbying firepower against each other. With regulators around the world threatening to impose limits on the power of the biggest technology companies, the two rivals — which compete in web search, cloud computing and artificial intelligence — are now free to step up behind-the-scenes lobbying efforts and public complaints against one another. The old non- aggression pact, forged at the time by two new CEOs wanting a fresh start on a formerly acrimonious relationship, had already been fraying before it lapsed in April. The companies feuded publicly over a proposal to force Google to pay news publishers for content and squabbled more quietly over technology for selling search ads. Neither company is eager to extend or renew the alliance, according to people familiar with each companies’ thinking, who weren’t authorized to discuss confidential relationships. # ⚓ Here’s_an_alternative_to_Chrome_on_Chromebooks⠀⇛ Chrome OS is built around the Chrome browser. So it seems logical to use Chrome as a browser. But Chrome OS is built on Linux, which is part of the GNU/Linux family and more specifically Gentoo. So we can install Linux software as well as Android apps through Play Store. So it was already possible to use alternative web browsers on Chromebooks, but they were not adapted to the system. So you cannot use keyboard shortcuts or some other operating system functions. In fact, Opera has just adapted its web browser to Chrome OS, so it’s a serious alternative to Chrome. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ SCOTUS_imposes_new_limits_on_assignor_estoppel⠀⇛ In a five to four ruling, the US Supreme Court upheld the doctrine of assignor estoppel but said it could only be used in certain instances # ⚓ Patent_case:_T_1148/15,_EPO [Ed: Every board of appeal of the EPO lacks independence, so this case may be moot]⠀⇛ A board of appeal of the EPO held that for the problem-solution approach to inventive step the requirement of the same “purpose or effect” in the criteria for selecting the closest prior art for a claim refers to the purpose or effect of the claimed subject- matter as a whole, not just of its distinguishing feature(s). Teaching away does not exclude use of a publication as closest prior art. Nor is a teaching towards the distinguishing feature(s) necessary to qualify as the closest prior art. The problem has to be determined after selection of the closest prior art. # ⚓ Bald-Faced_Attempt_to_Manipulate_Venue_Rejected⠀⇛ The Federal Circuit has again granted mandamus and ordered Judge Albright to transfer two cases case out of his W.D.Tex. court to a more convenient forum (N.D.Cal.). The underlying actions were filed by a patent holding company known as Ikorongo Texas LLC against Samsung and LG Electronics. As explained below, the owners of Ikorongo Texas formed the company as an attempt to solidify venue in W.D.Texas and avoid the case being transferred for inconvenient forum. [...] 28 U.S.C. § 1359. Although also statutory, diversity jurisdiction has an express constitutional basis whereas convenient-forum is entirely statutory. That distinction has historically offered courts to – at times – distinguish between the two in their analysis and interpretation. The opinion does not delve into why the linkage is appropriate here. # ⚓ FOSS_Patents:_Don’t_mess_with_the_Western_District_of Texas:_Judge_Albright’s_strictness_in_fracking_patent case_may_be_justified_by_egregious_misconduct⠀⇛ Over the last couple of years, two courts have emerged as the world’s patent litigation hotspots–the places to be if you’re a plaintiff, and the places to watch regardless of whether you assert or defend against patent: the Waco division of the Western District of Texas, where Judge Alan Albright now gets about 20% of all U.S. patent infringement complaints, and the Munich I Regional Court, which will add a third patent litigation division next month. I don’t mean to downplay the significance of other venues. In particular, the Eastern District of Texas continues to be pretty significant; proceedings before the U.S. International Trade Commission often drive settlements; and in Germany, the Mannheim Regional Court (once dubbed “the Eastern District of Mannheim”) has a lot in common with the Munich court. Through the Expose Patent Trolls newsletter, my attention has been drawn to an oil industry case–pretty remote from what I’m normally interested in. Expose Patent Trolls pointed to a recent JD Supra article entitled West Texas plaintiff-friendly patent decisions keep coming, discussing a “death- penalty sanction” ruling in Performance Chemical v. True Chemical (or just Performance Chemical v. TrueChem) that “may further help fuel the rush of patent plaintiffs to the Western District of Texas, a district quickly gaining in popularity for its plaintiff-friendly discovery rules.” Of course, “death penalty” is figurative in this context, just in case anyone was wondering. What happened is that Judge Alan Albright of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas vacated a trial date after identifying extensive discovery misconduct on the defendant’s part, and entered a preliminary injunction and a ruling on the merits, leaving only damages to be determined by a jury (or by another court order, which is what the plaintiff would prefer). # ⚓ At_a_glance:_automotive_industry_disputes_in_Spain [Ed: Well, this_aggressive_firm is just trying to MONETISE them (litigation)]⠀⇛ This article looks at the major issues subject to disputes in the automotive industry in Spain and how to navigate them. # ⚓ Rob_Merges_Guest_Post:_Who_Gives_a_Hoot_About Minerva?_The_Patent_Act_and_the_Common_Law_of_Patents⠀⇛ In the immediate, practical sense, the Minerva opinion registers like the mildest tremor on the landscape of patent law. With a few tweaks of the standard patent assignment agreement, and putting aside the potential that the Federal Circuit will bollix up the follow-through, the opinion changed very little. But, sometimes, a ripple on the surface denotes more dramatic movement in the deep crust. So it may be with this prosaic little case of assignor estoppel. Justice Barrett’s dissent signals a potentially radical reappraisal of the many common law rules that supplement, permeate and modify the body of operational U.S. patent law. If the signals are portents, then many settled doctrines of patent law – and other fields of IP law as well – have been quietly but surely put into play. Holding The holding in Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc., No. 20-440, 2021 WL 2653265 (U.S. June 29, 2021) is that assignor estoppel survives. It has, one might argue, a slightly slimmer profile than in the strongest form of the doctrine, which, borrowing from “warranty of title” principles in real property, is that an assignor is estopped from attacking any patent on an assigned invention. In Minerva, the Court returned the doctrine to its equitable roots. From now, only some assignments give rise to estoppel: only those that include an implicit or explicit representation that the inventor believes the assigned (and claimed) invention to be valid. As put by Justice Kagan: “The doctrine applies when, but only when, the assignor’s claim of invalidity contradicts explicit or implicit representations he made in assigning the patent.” Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc., No. 20-440, 2021 WL 2653265, at *3 (U.S. June 29, 2021). The idea is that, to be estopped from making a statement (“this patent is invalid”), one must be on record as having made a prior, contradictory, statement (“I believe this patent to be valid”). A simple assignment – “I assign my rights to you” – is presumably not enough to show such a representation. Something more is needed now. # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ SparkFun_Hooks_a_Patent_Troll⠀⇛ So what does Al want? If patent 6289434 is to be found legitimate (which it is not), they want royalties. Now, there is something to be said here about what I call the “American Patent Dream.” It goes something like this: 1. I come up with a half baked idea and used some word salad no one has used before. 2. I patent that idea. 3. I never have to lift a finger and just enjoy cashing my royalty checks from the beach. You can see the flaws. I am a big believer in Open Source Hardware, but I do not believe that the entire patent system is trash. If SparkFun was infringing on actual IP, from a company that was actually building something, I would work very hard to not step on their toes. Al is not building anything. They just want to sit on their beach in Texas. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Nirvana’s_“Smells_Like_Teen_Spirit”_Reaches_1_Billion Streams_on_Spotify⠀⇛ It’s no surprise that “Smells Like Teen Spirit” has joined the one billion club, given its generation-defining sound. Kurt Cobain memorabilia continues to sell for thousands of dollars for the mundane. A used pizza plate he wrote a setlist on sold for more than $10,000 recently. # ⚓ Watch_a_police_officer_admit_to_playing_Taylor_Swift to_keep_a_video_off_YouTube⠀⇛ A confrontation Tuesday between a police sergeant and member of the public didn’t start out unusually. James Burch, policy director of the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP), was standing outside the Alameda Courthouse in Oakland, California when an officer approached him and asked him to move a banner. As the two argued, the sergeant noticed he was being filmed. Then, he pulled out his phone and started playing “Blank Space” by Taylor Swift — in an apparent play to exploit copyright takedowns and keep the video off social media. “You can record all you want,” he said, according to a video obtained by The Verge. “I just know it can’t be posted to YouTube.” Bystanders have a First Amendment right to record police, but police officers have allegedly tried to exploit copyright law to prevent people from sharing those videos, playing music that could trigger a takedown notice. While playing music in the background of a video isn’t necessarily against YouTube’s rules, it can set off the company’s automatic takedown system. # ⚓ Copyright_and_Satoshi’s_Legacy:_The_Tatiana_Show, with_Tatiana_Moroz⠀⇛ On June 29, 2021, a UK court found that Australian computer scientist Craig Wright is the proper copyright owner of the Bitcoin Whitepaper, awarding initial damages in excess of $48,000 to Wright and demanding that Bitcoin.org remove the Whitepaper from its site. Guest Stephan Kinsella of the Open Crypto Alliance joins Tatiana today to talk about the decision and why it reveals all the most troubling problems with the government- run patent, trademark & copyright system. # ⚓ RIAA_and_Rightscorp_Defeat_RCN’s_Claims_of “Fraudulent”_Piracy_Notices⠀⇛ The RIAA and its anti-piracy partner Rightscorp have won a legal battle over allegedly ‘fraudulent’ piracy notices. A New Jersey federal court dismissed the complaint of Internet provider RCN, which failed to show that it was financially hurt as a direct result of any incorrect notices sent. The case is not completely over yet, however. # ⚓ OMI_IN_A_HELLCAT:_Indictment_For_Gears_Reloaded_IPTV Imminent⠀⇛ Omar Carrasquillo, aka OMI IN A HELLCAT, says he’s about to be indicted for offenses related to his pirate IPTV service Gears Reloaded. Carrasquillo was raided in November 2019 by FBI and IRS agents, who seized millions in cash and a fleet of luxury cars. The Gears founder says he’s expecting to be charged with tax evasion and money laundering offenses in a matter of weeks. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3512 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.02.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_2/7/2021:_Jim_Whitehurst_Leaves_IBM,_KDSoap_2.0.0,_and_EasyOS_2.8.4⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 3:11 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Updated_Chrome_OS_91_Stable_Channel_fixes_broken_clipboard in_Linux_on_Chromebooks⠀⇛ I often tell readers to submit a bug report when they spot some issue in Chrome OS. Some do, but others tell me “Google doesn’t listen to our feedback.” To be honest, it’s downright impossible to listen to feedback that’s never shared! That’s why I’m happy to see people who couldn’t copy and paste between Chrome OS and Linux actually did report the issue to Google. A Chrome OS 91 Stable Channel update was released this week and it fixes the broken clipboard in Linux on Chromebooks. Google didn’t specifically mention this issue was resolved in its blog post, which is why I’m calling attention to it. I, along with another 20 or so folks, starred the bug so I was notified of the fix. Google did provide a link to the fixes in Chrome OS 91 though, so anyone could have clicked through to find this. Here are the specifics if you’d rather just see the history of this particular issue. And here’s a report of the problem to illustrate the clipboard behavior. o § Linux Mag⠀➾ # ⚓ Brain_Rights⠀⇛ # ⚓ Workshop:_Accessing_log_data_with_Loki⠀⇛ # ⚓ Tools_for_converting_multimedia_files⠀⇛ # ⚓ Automate_your_web_logins⠀⇛ # ⚓ Zack’s_Kernel_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ An_old-style_distro_doing_new_things⠀⇛ # ⚓ This_month_in_Linux_Voice.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Fast_Debian_downloads⠀⇛ # ⚓ openSUSE_Leap_15.3_and_Kubuntu_21.04⠀⇛ # ⚓ Running_Linux_apps_on_Android_without_rooting_your_phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ NVidia_and_Valve_Collaborate_to_Bring_DLSS_to_Linux⠀⇛ # ⚓ An_interview_with_IRCNow’s_Aaron_Lin⠀⇛ # ⚓ Safer_Internet_Searches⠀⇛ # ⚓ Dress_for_Success⠀⇛ # ⚓ This_month_Graham_looks_at_Penpot,_ProcMon,_diskgraph, Shaarli,_Music_Radar_and_more!⠀⇛ # ⚓ Keep_your_documents_organized_with_SeedDMS⠀⇛ # ⚓ An_introduction_to_electronic_weighing⠀⇛ # ⚓ Create_screencasts_with_menyoki⠀⇛ # ⚓ Freehand_writing_and_drawing⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_sys_admin’s_daily_grind:_exa⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_new_Python_match⠀⇛ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_install_Pop!_OS_21.04⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show how to install Pop!_OS 21.04. # ⚓ Linux_in_the_Ham_Shack_(LHS)_Episode_#419:_The_Weekender LXXIV⠀⇛ It’s time once again for The Weekender. This is our bi-weekly departure into the world of amateur radio contests, open source conventions, special events, listener challenges, hedonism and just plain fun. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we’re doing. We’d love to hear from you. # ⚓ SFP#11:_REUSE_Booster_and_our_update_on_REUSE_with_Max Mehl⠀⇛ For this episode we have invited Max Mehl. This is the first time since the launch of the Software Freedom Podcast that a FSFE staff member joins the podcast. Max Mehl, FSFE’s program manager, has been with the FSFE since 2011 and has worked on the numerous campaigns. Including the “I Love Free Software Day”, “Free Your Android”, “Router Freedom”, and the “Public Money? Public Code!” campaign just to name a few. Nowadays, Max Mehl is also the responsible for the REUSE initiative and one of the REUSE tool’s maintainers. # ⚓ A_Solution_Looking_for_a_Problem_|_Self-Hosted_48⠀⇛ Tuya shocks us by announcing native Home Assistant support, we have an update on a smart doorbell Ring alternative, and we tell all about how PiKVM just levelled up in awesome. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_5.14_ARM64_Preps_For_When_Not_All_The_CPU_Cores Support_32-bit_Execution_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ The 64-bit ARM architecture changes were submitted this week for the ongoing Linux 5.14. One of the recent ARM64/AArch64 themes has been making kernel preparations for upcoming platforms where not all of the CPU cores may support 32-bit execution but limited to just 64-bit execution. Some of those kernel changes are in place for Linux 5.14 while some other pieces haven’t yet landed. # ⚓ Intel_Overhauls_&_Replaces_Its_RDMA_Linux_Driver_– Phoronix⠀⇛ Intel has wrapped up a 3+ year effort to overhaul and replace its existing RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) driver. With Linux 5.14 is their shiny new “IRDMA” driver while their former driver is being immediately removed. Linux 5.14 is landing Intel’s replacement RDMA driver that is a complete rewrite of their older driver and continues supporting the older hardware as well as better supporting new/future hardware. Intel has been working on this new unified Ethernet Protocol Driver for RDMA (named the “irdma” driver) for X722 iWARP hardware as well as newer E810 hardware where the RDMA support isn’t in place with their current (now prior) mainline driver. The IRDMA driver is a replacement to the existing i40iw kernel module that is being stripped from the kernel tree. # ⚓ Systemd_249_Has_Another_Chance_For_Testing_Before_Release⠀⇛ Another release candidate of systemd 249 is available for testing while the actual release appears imminent. As previously noted the systemd 249 update is coming with many new features. Some of the systemd 249 highlights include: - Systemd-sysusers and systemd-firstboot now supports querying information from the credential subsystems. # ⚓ Linux_5.14_Bringing_SD_Cache_Ctrl_Support,_Other_SD_Card Support_Improvements⠀⇛ The MMC/MEMSTICK updates for Linux 5.14 bring more work on bettering the kernel’s Secure Digital card support. Sent in earlier this week was the MMC/MEMSTICK updates for Linux 5.14 and from those various changes catching our eye were a number of Secure Digital (SD) related improvements and supporting more functionality on that front. It was only last year that SD Express support got ironed out and some other SD features have lagged behind in the past while now the mainline kernel is working in the direction of catching up. # ⚓ OpenZFS_2.1_Adds_Linux_5.13_and_InfluxDB_Support, Distributed_Spare_RAID⠀⇛ The biggest change of the OpenZFS 2.1 release is support for the recently launched Linux 5.13 kernel series. Of course, this means that you can use the ZFS file system on a GNU/Linux distribution powered by Linux kernel 5.13. Right now, OpenZFS is compatible with Linux kernels 3.10 to 5.13. Other major new features of OpenZFS 2.1 include dRAID (distributed spare RAID) support for creating pools using a new distributed variant of RAIDZ, support for the InfluxDB time-series database for collecting pool statistics, and a new compatibility property that lets sysadmins specify a set of features to be enabled on the pool. o § Benchmarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_Leading_Over_Early_Windows_11_Benchmarks_For_AMD Ryzen_9_5950X_Performance⠀⇛ With Microsoft making public this week their early Windows Insider Preview builds of Windows 11, curiosity got the best of me to give it a whirl in looking at the performance of the early Windows 11 preview build compared to Ubuntu Linux. This week I fired off some initial benchmarks of the Windows 11 22000.51 build made available this week via the Windows Insider Preview program and compared the performance to the current Windows 10 21H1 release with all available stable release updates as of testing. The benchmarks were then compared to both Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS and Ubuntu 21.04 for seeing how those LTS and latest stable Linux distribution releases compare on the same hardware. In a follow up article will be looking at the Windows 11 WSL2 performance. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_Securely_Delete_Files_in_Linux_Using_shred⠀⇛ When you delete a file on your computer, the system clears the blocks in your storage by removing the reference to the file. The file doesn’t disappear suddenly and is still accessible using advanced software, which might not be what you want. Anyone with a file recovery tool can extract those deleted files from your storage and view their content. But what if you don’t want this to happen? And what’s the best possible way to delete files on Linux so that no one can ever recover them? Here’s when the shred utility comes into play. This article will discuss the shred command in detail, its limitations, and how to use it to securely delete files on Linux. # ⚓ How_to_Check_SSD/HDD_health_in_Linux⠀⇛ If you are a system administrator and responsible for managing Linux systems in Datacenter. Then, it is recommended to check the health of the SSD and HDD drives regularly. It will help you to identify failed drives and they can be replaced before any data loss occurs. S.M.A.R.T is a tool used to monitor the health status of SSD and HDD. It also allows you to perform on-demand tests on the drive. In this post, we will show you how to check SSD and HDD health on Linux. # ⚓ How_to_get_a_list_of_Symbolic_Links_on_Linux⠀⇛ A symbolic link also known as a soft link is a kind of a pointer that points to the location of a folder or a file on your system. Some of these links are created by default on your system, whereas you yourself can also create symbolic links manually for any of your desired files or folders. This article will explain to you the different methods through which you can list down all symbolic links on Linux, I have used Linux Mint 20 for this guide, but the same steps will work on any Linux distribution. # ⚓ How_to_Set_Up_Git_Username_and_Email_in_Ubuntu_–_Make_Tech Easier⠀⇛ Git is a distributed version control system developed by Linus Torvalds to help build the Linux kernel. Since its initial days, Git has grown tremendously to become the most popular version control system. Git allows multiple users to simultaneously contribute to a single project, track changes, revert to previous versions, and create branches for various project versions. This is why it is important to set up your username and email in Git so each commit can be traced back to the user. # ⚓ Automatic_Shutdown_Easily_in_Ubuntu_via_System_Menu_Option |_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ Want to automatically power off Ubuntu after given time? Here’s an Extension adds the option to top- right system menu. Yes, you can do this either via a graphical shutdown application, or shutdown command with few parameter. However, for beginners or those hate Linux command, life will be easier with the ShutdownTimer extension. The extension adds an option under Power Off/Log Out menu. With it, you can just move the slider to change time delay, and turn on the toggle icon to automatically shutdown your computer. # ⚓ How_To_Backup_And_Restore_Files_Using_Deja_Dup_In_Linux_– OSTechNix⠀⇛ There are multitude of applications available to backup data in Linux and Unix operating systems. In this guide, we will see how to backup and restore files using Deja Dup in Linux. # ⚓ How_To_Install_Ant_Media_Server_on_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Ant Media Server on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Ant Media Server is a highly scalable real-time video streaming platform – WebRTC server. ultra-low latency and adaptive WebRTC streaming software. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Ant Media Server on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint. # ⚓ How_to_Install_VirtualBox_Guest_Additions_on_Manjaro_– Linux_Nightly⠀⇛ VirtualBox Guest Additions will help you get the most out of your Manjaro virtual machine. It gives you automatic resolution scaling, a shared clipboard between the host and VM, and drag and drop ability. The step by step instructions below will explain how to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Manjaro Linux. # ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Setup_Sendmail_on_Ubuntu_– Cloudbooklet⠀⇛ How to install and configure Sendmail on Ubuntu for sending emails using a email server which routes or relays the mail delivery. Sendmail is a opensource Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) which is used to route email using server or by using shell commands. You can also configure SMTP using Sendmail. In this guide you are going to learn how to install and setup Sendmail on Ubuntu. Also you will setup SMTP and configure it with PHP. # ⚓ Server_Monitoring_with_Munin_and_Monit_on_Debian⠀⇛ In this article, I describe how you can monitor your Debian 10 (Buster) server with Munin and Monit. Munin generates nifty little graphs about almost every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, network traffic, etc.) without much configuration, while Monit checks the availability of services like Apache, MySQL, Postfix and takes the appropriate action like a restart if it finds that a service is not behaving as expected. Combining the two gives you complete monitoring: graphs that let you see current or impending problems (e.g. “We need a bigger server soon, our load average is increasing rapidly.”), and a watchdog that ensures the availability of the monitored services. Although you can monitor more than one server with Munin, we will only discuss monitoring the system it is installed on here. This guide was written for Debian 10 (Buster), but the configuration should also apply to other distributions like Ubuntu with minor changes. # ⚓ How_to_ensure_your_snap_uses_the_correct_theme_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛ An app is an app is an app. But in the world of Linux, things are a little more nuanced. Take VLC as an example. The software may be packaged ever so slightly differently in various Linux distribution archives, even different releases of the same distribution – the av01 codec is an interesting use case in this regard. Then, software may also be packaged as a snap. Due to their security containment and bundling of necessary dependencies, snaps can behave or look differently to their classic RPM or Deb counterparts. As a publisher, you want to make sure that your users get a consistent look & feel, regardless of the target platform. In this blog post, we’d like to highlight several ways you can ensure your users get the best visual experience with snaps. While there may still be outstanding issues with specific aspects of desktop usage, the tips and tricks today should help narrow that gap. # ⚓ systemd_on_Linux_2:_systemctl_commands⠀⇛ The second video in the systemd series, which covers the most common systemctl commands that developers, sysadmins, and devops engineers use. # ⚓ Run_Prometheus_at_home_in_a_container_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ Prometheus is an open source monitoring and alerting system that provides insight into the state and history of a computer, application, or cluster by storing defined metrics in a time-series database. It provides a powerful query language, PromQL, to help you explore and understand the data it stores. Prometheus also includes an Alertmanager that makes it easy to trigger notifications when the metrics you collect cross certain thresholds. Most importantly, Prometheus is flexible and easy to set up to monitor all kinds of metrics from whatever system you need to track. As site reliability engineers (SREs) on Red Hat’s OpenShift Dedicated team, we use Prometheus as a central component of our monitoring and alerting for clusters and other aspects of our infrastructure. Using Prometheus, we can predict when problems may occur by following trends in the data we collect from nodes in the cluster and services we run. We can trigger alerts when certain thresholds are crossed or events occur. As a data source for Grafana, Prometheus enables us to produce graphs of data over time to see how a cluster or service is behaving. # ⚓ Pablo_Iranzo_Gómez:_UEFI_boot_order_change⠀⇛ In case you’ve a dual boot machine, sometimes it might happen that grub menu is no longer appearing. For systems using regular BIOS, a grub-install against the device it was installed might be required, but when using UEFI, it’s really easy to use a rescue media and execute efibootmgr to alter the boot order. # ⚓ Enable_Sysadmin’s_June_2021_top_10_Linux_article_round-up⠀⇛ June 2021 was a special month for Enable Sysadmin. We celebrated our 2 year anniversary, published 26 articles and received over 600k page views from over 415k unique visitors. Today, we are looking back at our top ten articles to give readers a chance to catch up on any of the great content they might have missed. In this list, you will see various topics covered and we are confident that some, if not all will be of interest to you. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Steam_On_Linux_Still_Tap_Dancing_Around_0.9%_Marketshare_– Phoronix⠀⇛ Even with Steam Play continuing to get into quite good shape for running recent Windows game releases on Linux with ease thanks to the work Valve has been investing into Proton, DXVK, VKD3D-Proton, and lower-level Linux graphics infrastructure, for now at least the overall marketshare is holding steady at around 0.8~0.9% for the past number of months. Since the introduction of Steam Play where the Linux gaming marketshare ticked up off its lows, the Linux marketshare has been holding steady in the 0.8~0.9% range for the past two years or so. Granted with Steam’s overall user base likely still growing, the absolute Linux gamer count appears to at least be keeping base proportionally. # ⚓ Gorgeous_adventure-puzzle_game_The_Lightbringer_gets_a Linux_demo⠀⇛ Interested to try out a fresh demo? The Lightbringer looks pretty great and the developer seems keen to support Linux with it too and they’ve put out a demo. “The Lightbringer is a poetic adventure/puzzle platformer with light combat elements, set in a beautiful world claimed by a vile corruption. Guided by your sister’s spirit, you must prevail where she could not. Cleanse the corruption, become The Lightbringer.” # ⚓ NVIDIA_puts_out_a_new_release_of_their_open_source_NVAPI interface⠀⇛ What’s the use for Linux? NVIDIA say the version of nvapi.h that’s now under the MIT license helps to enable “open source re-implementations of NVAPI for Windows emulation environments”. # ⚓ So_I_Tried_Xbox_Game_Pass_(on_Linux)… [Ed: Another DOA disservice that does not work properly in GNU/Linux]⠀⇛ # ⚓ GamerOS_Has_Been_Renamed_to_ChimeraOS⠀⇛ After major backlash from the community, the developers behind GamerOS — the enhanced SteamOS alternative — have decided to give the project a new name. It’s now called ChimeraOS. As someone who’s never heard the name “Chimera,” I had to look up what it meant. # ⚓ Massive_scale_city-builder_Songs_of_Syx_gets_a_new_world map,_Total_War_styled_conquests_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ After the initial Early Access success where Songs of Syx managed to quickly shift over 11,000 copies the developer has been toiling away on a massive update that’s now in Beta. What is Songs of Syx? A fantasy city-builder where you start off as an insignificant colony and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a metropolis and empire. It blends together elements of so many different games into quite a unique experience, and now even more so. V58 Conquest adds in entirely new game mechanics for the overworld, along with a big visual refresh and it looks quite fantastic. There’s also now “basic Civilization/Total war mechanics” allowing you to ” sally forth and conquer your foes and do that which Conan the Barbarian loves so”. # ⚓ Albion_Online_continues_to_see_big_player_counts,_with_lots more_to_come_on_the_roadmap_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ After a successful launch on mobile which saw player numbers explode, the cross-platform Albion Online is getting some more big upgrades. Sandbox Interactive shared earlier in June that player numbers jumped to a new record of over 270,000 daily active. An impressive number for an indie MMO to be hitting, which is boosted thanks to now being available across Linux, macOS, Windows and mobile all together. It’s quite an exciting time for the game as the developer has published a small look into what to expect from the next major content update. Scheduled to release this year, their plan is to really bring the open-world gameplay into focus with a biome appearance upgrade with fancier graphics, higher-tier areas will also get a more unique look and feel, a reworking of region layouts to make them easier to navigate and they plan to ensure each biome type has a clear theme recognizable from the region map. # ⚓ Metro_Exodus_on_Linux_|_Ubuntu_20.04_|_Native⠀⇛ Metro Exodus running natively on Linux. # ⚓ Command_&_Conquer_–_Combined_Arms_blends_many_factions_into one_big_package_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Love your classic RTS games? I sure do and thanks to the power of the OpenRA game engine reimplementation you can try out Command & Conquer – Combined Arms which bundles many factions from different C&C games together. It lets you answer the question of who would win in a fight between the Soviets and the Scrin? Or perhaps the Soviets versus the Brotherhood of Nod? That and more can be done with Combined Arms a cross-platform blending of the Allies, Soviets, Nod, GDI and the Scrin into one game. This doesn’t just take OpenRA and the classic Westwood factions and bundle them though, as it does do plenty of tweaks with elements taken from Tiberium Dawn, Red Alert, Tiberium Sun, Red Alert 2 & Generals. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ KDSoap_2.0.0_Released⠀⇛ KDSoap is a tool for creating client applications for web services, without the need for any further component such as a dedicated web server. This tool makes it possible to interact with applications which have APIs that can be exported as SOAP objects. The web service then provides a machine-accessible interface to its functionality via HTTP. KDSoap also supports writing SOAP servers easily, using Qt code. # ⚓ KDE’s_Summer_App_Update⠀⇛ The KDE community makes a vast array of apps which get shipped in Linux distros, on Linux app stores, for Windows and Mac and for Android too. Following the re-branding of our scheduled app releases to KDE Gear we are splitting out the app update into these separate articles which will cover the self- released apps where the projects themselves manage their own release schedule. Here’s what we have released in the last few months. # ⚓ Week_4:_Finalizing_Path_Encoding_/_Decoding activity⠀⇛ In my previous blog, I discussed the progress on adding new activities to GCompris project. In the past three weeks, I was working on ‘Deplacements’ activity, which has now been renamed to ‘Path (Encoding / Decoding)’. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ First_Look:_GNOME’s_Default_Theme_is_Getting_a Revamp⠀⇛ The changes to Adwaita sound relatively minor in isolation — no borders on buttons, no background colour on header bars — but together they outfit GTK apps with a much brighter, lighter look than the current version do. In design documents to demo the overall form of the new look GNOME’s Tobias Bernard lists the following key changes as being required… o § Distributions⠀➾ # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ IPFire_2.25_–_Core_Update_158_available_for_testing⠀⇛  Another update is available for testing and it is packed a one-click VPNs for Apple iOS and Mac OS devices as well as with various fixes across the board including security fixes. It is now possible to export IPsec road warrior connections for Apple devices so that they can easily be imported into those with only a few clicks. This makes creating secure connections with these devices quick and fool-proof – even when certificates are involved. Various smaller changes come with these changes: Certificates now have sane expiry times (instead of a hundred years). Detailed documentation for this feature is not available yet, but will be added before the release. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Rocky_Linux_release_attracts_80,000_downloads_as_ex- CentOS_users_mull_choices⠀⇛ Rocky Linux 8.4, which was made generally available early last week, attracted 80,000 downloads within 72 hours, but disaffected CentOS users are wondering whether Rocky, rival AlmaLinux, or some other OS, is the right next move. Both Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux are designed to be binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), while also being free software, for those who can manage without Red Hat’s support. Red Hat’s CentOS used to fulfil this role, until the company declared that in future it would be only CentOS Stream that previews rather than follows what will be in RHEL. # ⚓ Making_Java_programs_cloud-ready,_Part_4:_Optimize the_runtime_environment_|_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛ This is the final article in a series where we are updating a monolithic Java EE application to function as a microservice and run in a distributed cloud environment such as Red Hat OpenShift. In the first article, we set up the legacy Java application and defined our goals. Then, we upgraded the Java environment to Jakarta EE. In the last article, we used MicroProfile to prepare the application for use in a distributed environment. # ⚓ IBM_emeritus_IWB:_What_Musical_Mindsets_Can_Teach_Us About_Business_Innovation⠀⇛ Over the past few decades, creativity and innovation have received increasing attention in the business world. For example, the overriding finding of a Global CEO Study conducted by IBM in 2010 was that creativity is the most crucial factor for future success. The IBM study interviewed more than 1,500 CEOs from 33 different industries and 60 countries, who overwhelmingly said that creativity, – even more than management discipline or strategic vision, – was the key leadership quality required to navigate an increasingly volatile and complex world. # ⚓ Modernizing_retail_banking_with_blockchain,_Red_Hat and_HCL⠀⇛ The global financial system has long been at the forefront of technological change. Initially, banking institutions had minimal systems and fewer products, instead, the focus was on regular in-person customer interactions. However, as the global reach of finance grew, so did the need for proxies and platforms. At present, there is a need to simplify this multi-system approach within banks and streamline the flow of data among various banking platforms. The concept of distributed ledger on blockchain can help a bank share information across the board internally or with different banks under the same network. Blockchain ledgers are hard to tamper with. Transactions written to a blockchain cannot be amended, making it easier to establish accountability and reduce dispute among network participants. Cross border transactions is an area that has been heavily looked upon as a blockchain use case and one of the most lucrative opportunities for innovation. Cross border payments account for $130 trillion USD annually as per The 2020 McKinsey Global Payments Report (PDF). Banks usually have to incur high charges for cross border transactions. These charges can be as high as 10% of the transaction because of the hops a transaction goes into till it finally settles with the end customer. Using blockchain tokens, transactions can be done in real time with ledgers reflecting the transacted tokens between banks. This can be achieved using smart contract functionality where a smart contract can hold the business logic agreed between banks and once a transaction is executed, the shared ledger will keep the record immutable. These transaction records can help in reconciliation and faster settlements. # ⚓ Managing_secrets_for_Kubernetes_pods_|_Enable Sysadmin⠀⇛ The term container is not new in our collective IT vocabulary. Currently, many utilities are available in the industry for managing containers. Kubernetes is one of them and it provides container orchestration tools. In Kubernetes, pods are deployed. You can create containers in these pods. Kubernetes also offers several ways to keep your data secure. When you deploy a pod in a Kubernetes cluster, hiding sensitive data about the pod is an essential part of the deployment. # ⚓ Oliver_Gutierrez:_Non_destructive_system_tests_for Toolbox⠀⇛ Toolbox system tests were developed for using them in the Tooolbox CI. Because of that, that tests were not designed with local execution in mind. I’ve spent some time working on this tests to make them executable locally. The system tests basicly use podman and skopeo to execute the setup and test tasks. They are run with the bats test suite, and they do a heavy handling of images and containers to run the different tests needed for Toolbox. # ⚓ Tim_Lauridsen:_Yum_Extender_is_alive_again⠀⇛ After almost 5 years of deep sleep, I have decided to continue development of Yum Extender. Many issues has been solved and support for theming af been added. Here is was the current upstream looks like with the default theme. # ⚓ IBM_Leadership_Changes⠀⇛ Jim Whitehurst has played a pivotal role in the IBM and Red Hat integration. In the almost three years since the acquisition was announced, Jim has been instrumental in articulating IBM’s strategy, but also, in ensuring that IBM and Red Hat work well together and that our technology platforms and innovations provide more value to our clients. Jim has decided to step down as IBM President, however I am pleased he will continue working as Senior Advisor to me and the rest of the Executive Leadership Team as we continue to evolve our business. # ⚓ Red_Hat_leader_Jim_Whitehurst_steps_down_as_IBM President⠀⇛ Under Whitehurst, Red Hat became a billion- dollar company and was acquired by IBM. He then moved up to become IBM’s President to lead IBM’s cloud efforts. Now, out of the blue, Whitehurst is stepping down as IBM’s leader. # ⚓ Jim_Whitehurst_Steps_Down_As_IBM_President⠀⇛ In a surprise move, Jim Whitehurst has decided to step down as IBM’s president just 14 months after taking the role through the $34-billion Red Hat acquisition. Whitehurst has played a critical role in the IBM and Red Hat integration. “In the almost three years since the acquisition was announced, Jim has been instrumental in articulating IBM’s strategy, but also, in ensuring that IBM and Red Hat work well together and that our technology platforms and innovations provide more value to our clients,” Arvind Krishna, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, IBM, said in a statement. # ⚓ IBM_stock_slides_on_report_president_Jim_Whitehurst is_leaving_company⠀⇛ # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Call_for_testing_[Tails]_4.20~rc1⠀⇛ Contribute to Tails by testing our release candidate for Tails 4.20! # ⚓ EasyOS_Dunfell-series_version_2.8.4_released⠀⇛ Version 2.8.3 was released on June 28: https://bkhome.org/news/202106/easyos-283- released.html The only change this time is SeaMonkey bumped to version 2.53.8. Noticed a new bug introduced with 2.53.8: At youtube.com, 1080p video, “Cinema mode” button does not work, have to manually resize the window. Full-screen button works. # ⚓ SeaMonkey_2.53.8_compiled_in_Dunfell-series⠀⇛ SM (SeaMonkey) 2.53.8 has just been released. The current release of EasyOS Dunfell-series is 2.8.3, and it has SM 2.53.7.1. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux-based_telematics_gateway_offers_four_CAN_Bus interfaces,_cellular_&_WiFi_connectivity,_and_more⠀⇛ iWave Systems already provided some Linux-based vehicle diagnostic systems such as their NXP i.MX 7 powered OBD-II dongle with 4G LTE and GPS. But their latest model, the iW-Rainbow-G41 telematics gateway, goes a step further with an NXP i.MX 8 processor controlling four CAN Bus interfaces, and offering both wired (RS232/RS485, automotive Ethernet) and wireless (cellular, Wifi, Bluetooth) connectivity options. iW-Rainbow-G41 telematics gateway specifications… # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Future_of_Computers:_The_Neighborhood_and_The Nursing_Home⠀⇛ Is your computer your property? Throughout much of the history of the personal computer, owning a computer was like owning a house. The cost of ownership might be high at first, but afterwards you joined a neighborhood of other owners running similar software. Maintaining a computer, like a house, requires some effort and sometimes expertise. The do-it-yourself folks in the neighborhood would tackle projects themselves and might help a neighbor with their projects, while others would hire those jobs out to professionals. Generally speaking, people in this neighborhood had autonomy and freedom in how they lived in their homes. Your home was your castle. While many people continue to live in traditional neighborhoods, some of the wealthier owners, in the name of security and aesthetics, moved into gated communities. These communities might have guards at the gates, and guests have to be registered ahead of time. While you do own your home, there are also strict rules on what you can add to your property and what you can do in the community. Common areas in the community are well-maintained with nice landscaping. These rules are enforced by a Home Owner’s Association (HOA) who are paid by community members and are empowered to punish people who break the rules. Residents in these neighborhoods sacrificed some freedom (and some money) for a bit more security and privacy, better maintenance of common areas, and a hope that their property would retain its value. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Google_to_bake_COVID-19_vaccine_passport_support_into Android_with_Passes_API_update_•_The_Register⠀⇛ # ⚓ Chrome_Starts_Adopting_Android_12′s_‘Material_You’ Colors⠀⇛ # ⚓ This_Android_phone_could_have_even_more_RAM_than_the Samsung_Galaxy_S21_Ultra_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_will_update_its_Android_phones_for_three years_now_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_now_has_one_of_the_best_Android_update schedules_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_Users_Are_Getting_Closer_to_an_iMessage-Like App⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_may_soon_launch_an_Apple-like_medical_records app_for_Android_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Photos_for_Android_preps_a_homescreen_widget for_your_Memories⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_bringing_digital_Covid_vaccination_cards_to Android_|_Trusted_Reviews⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Play_dumps_APKs_for_the_more_Google-controlled “Android_App_Bundle”_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Chrome:_Google_Chrome_browser:_Android smartphone_users_worried_about_your_data,_here_are important_tips_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_set_Google_Search_History_to_auto-delete_on Android_–_TechRepublic⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_scan_documents_and_photos_into_PDFs_on Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Enable_End-to-End_Encryption_in_Android Messages⠀⇛ # ⚓ LG_updates_the_Q92_5G_to_Android_11_– NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Xiaomi_Android_11_update_tracker:_Mi_&_Redmi_devices received_beta/stable⠀⇛ # ⚓ LG_Q92_Getting_Stable_Android_11-Based_LG_UX_10 Update_|_Technology_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_11-based_Realme_UI_2.0_now_seeding_to_Realme 7_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia_Is_Loyal_To_Android_OS:_No_Harmony_OS_On_Nokia Phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ Using_AirPods_With_Android?_You_Need_to_Download These_3_Apps⠀⇛ # ⚓ Stadia_for_Android_TV_scores_50k_downloads_in_two weeks_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Five_useful_tips_to_boost_battery_life_on_your Android_smartphone_|_The_Star⠀⇛ # ⚓ This_Android_phone_could_have_even_more_RAM_than_the Samsung_Galaxy_S21_Ultra_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Friday’s_Fedora_Facts:_2021-26⠀⇛ Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time) in #fedora- meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See the upcoming meetings for more information. # ⚓ Alejandro_Domínguez:_Small_progress_update_of_my_2021’s GSoC_with_Fractal-next⠀⇛ This is a small update about the progress of my internship in GNOME for Fractal. There’s not much to tell since I’ve been mostly learning about the tools required to complete the tasks. After some time outlining the design and the path for the implementation of multi-account support in Fractal-next, I started hacking my way to this goal. Before I could even start, I had to learn and play around with the GtkBuilder UI XML format, GLib subclassing in Rust and the whole ListModel stuff. As someone who relies a lot on the type system to get things done and is used to somewhat linear data flows, this has been quite a bit more difficult than I expected initially to get a grasp on. # ⚓ This_radio_tailors_the_morning_news_to_your_waking_mood⠀⇛ Very few of us are ever excited to wake up for the work day, but your mood can still vary from one morning to the next. If you had a rough night, you might wake up feeling melancholy. In that case, the last thing you want to do is hear depressing news on the radio. To help people enter wakefulness, Varenya Raj built a radio called Nidra that tailors the morning news to suit its user’s mood. Nidra’s design is unusual, in that it doesn’t resemble any radio or alarm clock that you’ve ever seen. Atop its plastic enclosure there are two buttons. The first looks like a pin cushion and the second seems like it could have come from a shaggy, purple marmot. # ⚓ The_Month_in_WordPress:_June_2021⠀⇛ In the “WordCamp Europe 2021 in Review” episode of the WP Briefing podcast, Josepha Haden talks about the importance of collaboration, which is vital in building WordPress. This edition of The Month in WordPress covers exciting updates that exemplify this philosophy. # ⚓ The_Apache_News_Round-up:_week_ending_2_July_2021⠀⇛ # § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ School’s_out_for_summer_Universities_and_draft_boards fight_over_Russia’s_incoming_graduate_students⠀⇛ In a new investigative report, Novaya Gazeta journalist Alexandra Dzhordzhevich examines how Russia’s draft boards sometimes ignore conscription exceptions for university students, terrifying young people and sparking legal battles with schools. At the heart of these disputes is the summer break between undergraduate and graduate studies, known as “postgraduate holidays” in Russia, where the military drafts roughly 135,000 men between the ages of 18 and 27, every year from April 1 to July 15. Students rely on this vacation period to ward off eligibility for conscription in the summer, but Novaya Gazeta found that some draft boards pursue them, nevertheless. Meduza summarizes the story here. # § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ Apply_to_be_the_FSF’s_next_executive_director⠀⇛ The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Massachusetts 501(c)(3) charity with a worldwide mission to protect computer user freedom, seeks a principled, compassionate, and capable leader to be its new executive director. This position can be remote or based in our Boston office. The FSF is committed to the notion that users are entitled to control their computing, individually and collectively, and therefore to control the software that does that computing. The executive director will work closely with the president, board of directors, and all Foundation staff to achieve this goal. The FSF faces many challenges as software becomes increasingly central in the exercise of all fundamental human freedoms, including speech, association, privacy, and movement, and as software owners seek to exploit their control over us to profit at the expense of those freedoms. The executive director has a vital role in enabling the FSF to continue meeting these challenges, starting from the strong base that has been built in the last thirty-five years. The Foundation has recently reached record-high membership numbers and was awarded a perfect score from Charity Navigator, as well as its eighth consecutive four-star rating. Efforts to improve the Foundation’s governance are underway. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ The_art_of_the_SWAG⠀⇛ I’ve explored estimates are important in software projects, and shared my technique for producing an accurate estimate. That technique is detailed, systematic, and can produce fairly accurate estimates. The tradeoff is time: estimation techniques, including mine, require some time to produce any level of accuracy. Sometimes, though, it’s less important that an estimate be accurate than that it be quick. The canonical example is being asked for a quick estimate during a meeting: e.g., “if we wanted to add 2FA to this app, about how long would that take?” It can be quite useful to be able to give a quick and moderately accurate answer. Generally, a super-accurate estimate isn’t important; the person is just trying to calibrate the level of effort enough to know if it’s an idea worth exploring further. How do you give an off-the-cuff quick estimate like this? You make a Simple Wild- Ass Guess – a SWAG. The name’s a bit of a joke, but the practice isn’t. You never have to make a SWAG – it’s always appropriate to defer until you’ve had time to make a proper estimate – but if you can make one, and know that it’ll be at least plausible, a SWAG can help cut through a complex debate and keep things moving. # ⚓ How_to_Make_a_Wild_Guess⠀⇛ Jacob Kaplan-Moss has tips for how and when to make a wild guess in terms of estimating timelines for software projects. Estimating timelines is an important part of any software project, and producing an accurate estimate requires a detailed, systematic approach, says Jacob Kaplan-Moss. # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Jo_Christian_Oterhals:_What_not_to_do_—_how_to mess_up_for_loops_in_Raku⠀⇛ I guess that for many of you what I’m about to write is fairly obvious. But I hadn’t really thought about for loops this way before. So you more or less witness my spontaneous reaction. The other day Joelle Maslak tweeted something that made me think. Joelle pointed out that in Raku the code blocks of for loops are just lambdas — anonymous functions. [...] Now, this isn’t unique in any way. I include the example here just to prove a point: Anonymous blocks can be replaced with named subs. Many programming languages can do this, and you have probably done this lots of times (most of what I show here can be done in, say, JavaScript; but since it was Raku that made me think of this stuff, the examples will be in Raku). Personally, though, I’ve never thought about replacing for code blocks with subs. Mostly I’ve had a sub first and then called it from a for loop later. As I think about it, it makes sense to think about the sub and the loop simultaneously: Branching out the code loop into a sub can be a good way to shorten and clean up a piece of code. Especially when what happens in the block is a fairly long and maybe convoluted piece of code. It keeps the main code shorter and perhaps, hopefully, more readable. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ The_Ideology_of_the_Border⠀⇛ John Tanton isn’t a household name; for much of his life, he lived a relatively unassuming existence as an ophthalmologist in Northern Michigan. Yet even if you don’t recognize his name, you’re probably familiar with his anti-immigrant ideas and their trajectory from fringe to federal public policy over the past few years. Tanton and his wealthy benefactors spent decades founding various groups, all for the sake of building up a machine to generate new nativist policy ideas that would serve as a kind of administrative state in waiting for a future right-wing president. As he wrote in a memo to a fellow member of an informal gathering of like-minded xenophobes: “All we lack is a king to advise!” He would live long enough to see this dream realized in Donald Trump. o ⚓ How_the_Los_Angeles_Metro_Sabotaged_Its_Own_Less_Fair_“Fareless Transportation_Plan”_and_Reverted_to_Its_Structural_Transit Racism⠀⇛ In its May 2021 the Los Angeles the MTA rejected demands by the Bus Riders Union and many community allies for “free public transportation for all” now. Instead, MTA Mayor Eric Garcetti and County Supervisor Janice Hahn cut a back room deal to kill the plan for free public transportation for K-12 and Community Students and its plan for a pilot project for “fareless transit” for adults. The Bus Riders Union strongly supported the free student passes but opposed the general pass plan that would have required all people to prove poverty in order to qualify, otherwise pay the regular fare that they could not afford or face tickets and arrests for “fare evasion.” If you could imagine, Garcetti and Hahn attacked even the most racist elements of their own plan from the right. After more than 50 community groups went through the charade of public comment where they called for free public transportation for all and mentioned the Bus Riders Union often, the MTA acted as if no one had spoken—as always. Instead, the Board carried out a travesty of justice as each board member came up with “amendments” “qualifications” “delays” “postponement” “requirements”— Poison Pills. The entire board took turns introducing amendments to kill the whole idea. o ⚓ The_Myths_of_Point_Reyes:_Popularity,_Local_Control_and_Process⠀⇛ Myth of Popularity It is a common claim that the public, who owns the national seashore, likes the ranches there. Rep. Huffman described Point Reyes as “a unique mosaic which most people love pretty much the way it is,” [i] and frequently casually repeats the assertion, without proffering any data. o ⚓ 28_years_and_done_The_head_of_Russia’s_top-ranked_university_is stepping_down_after_more_than_a_quarter_of_a_century_on_the_job⠀⇛ Yaroslav Kuzminov, the longtime head of Moscow’s Higher School of Economics (HSE), has resigned, the news outlet RBC reported on Thursday. Sources told the news agency TASS that Kuzminov planned for some time to step down and recently informed the school’s academic council about his decision, saying that he wants to focus on his own research. After nearly three decades on the job, Kuzminov leaves behind a legacy tainted by political controversy in recent years. Meduza breaks down how one of Russia’s most prominent scholars ended his role at the nation’s top-ranked university. o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ UK_Health_Secretary_Resigns_After_Caught_In_Clinch_With Aide⠀⇛ Hancock resigned his position shortly after the Murdoch-owned tabloid The Sun released CCTV footage of what transpired in his ministerial suite. Both Hancock and Coladangelo are married with 3 young children each (though Hancock announced after being caught that they would be moving in together). # ⚓ 200+_Groups_to_Congress:_‘No_Water_Privatization’_in_Any Infrastructure_Deal⠀⇛ In a letter to congressional leaders on Thursday, 218 organizations urged against water privatization “in all its forms” and called on federal lawmakers to enact a “bold, uncompromising infrastructure package.” “This White House-approved infrastructure deal would lead to communities handing over public infrastructure… # ⚓ The_Coronavirus_Lab_Leak_Theory:_Not_Disproven,_But Unlikely⠀⇛ The past month has proven that right-wing ideas supported by little or no credible evidence are like the Terminator: they rise time and again from seemingly certain death. They even gain currency in the mainstream, due to their proponents parroting them over and over until they achieve the illusory truth effect. There are several historical precedents. # ⚓ House_Passes_$715_Billion_Water_and_Transportation Infrastructure_Bill⠀⇛ A number of progressive advocacy groups welcomed as a critical step forward the U.S. House’s Thursday approval of a water and transportation infrastructure bill, the INVEST in America Act. “This act is the real clean transportation and water plan people in our country deserve,” said Deron Lovaas, a senior policy advocate in NRDC’s Healthy People & Thriving Communities program, calling the bill “what we need to tackle the crises of crumbling roads and bridges, unsafe water, racial inequality, and climate change.” # ⚓ On_One_Native_American_Reservation,_Vaccine_Hesitancy_Has Long_Historical_Roots⠀⇛ “Mass sterilization to most people is just an event,” Remi Bald Eagle told me recently, holding back tears. “But to us, that’s family that never made it here.” The sterilization campaign that the Indian Health Service carried out in the 1960s and ’70s afflicted somewhere between 25 and 40 percent of Native American women of childbearing age nationwide. Sterilizations were performed through coercion and without informed consent, a grievous violation of the physical integrity and personal agency of the women affected. On the Cheyenne River Reservation, the sovereign Lakota nation in South Dakota where Bald Eagle lives, the campaign left deep scars in the community. “There’s always that loss,” said Bald Eagle. “The vaccine is an event we have to figure out how it’s going to affect our families for generations to come,” says Remi Bald Eagle, the Intergovernmental Affairs Coordinator for the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation in South Dakota. (Sarah Stacke) o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Wireless_Carrier_Injects_Ads_Into_Two-Factor Authentication_Texts⠀⇛ Not only are countless systems and services not secure, security itself often isn’t treated with the respect it deserves. And tools that are supposed to protect you from malicious actors are often monetized in self-serving ways. Like that time Facebook advertised a “privacy protecting VPN” that was effectively just spyware used to track Facebook users when they weren’t on Zuckerberg’s platform. Or that time Twitter was hit with a $250 million fine after it chose to use the phone numbers provided by users for two-factor authentication for marketing purposes (something Facebook was also busted for). # ⚓ LinkedIn’s_700_Million_Users_Data_Is_Available On_Sale⠀⇛ Facebook’s record of database leak has been broken by LinkedIn. Just a few months back we saw Facebook’s database of 533 million users available for free on a forum. This time, it’s LinkedIn’s 700 million users database available on sale on the same forum. LinkedIn’s 700 million users database has been leaked on a public forum known for database leaks. The user who started the thread, posted a sample of 1M records to prove that the data is real. It includes email addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses, Geolocation records, LinkedIn usernames & profile URLs, profile data such as user experience, genders, and other social media accounts. Early in April, another user had posted a thread selling LinkedIn’s 500M databases. The database included users’ records from different countries as you can see in the screenshot below. # ⚓ Security_updates_for_Friday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Fedora (ansible and seamonkey), openSUSE (go1.15 and opera), Oracle (kernel and microcode_ctl), and Red Hat (go-toolset-1.15 and go-toolset-1.15- golang). # ⚓ Linux_Variant_of_REvil_Ransomware_Targets VMware’s_ESXi,_NAS_Devices [Ed: This is not a "Linux" issue and the media keeps shooting itself in the foot (or signalling to Microsoft) each time it does this]⠀⇛ # ⚓ 7_Unconventional_Pieces_of_Password_Wisdom⠀⇛ Challenging common beliefs about best practices in password hygiene. # ⚓ Israeli_researchers_discover_global_cyberattack in_over_1,300_locations⠀⇛ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Appeals_Court_Reverses_Earlier_Decision, Says_Baltimore’s_Aerial_Surveillance Program_Is_Unconstitutional⠀⇛ After two court decisions declaring the Baltimore Police Department’s Persistent Surveillance Systems-provided aerial surveillance system wasn’t actually persistent surveillance, the en banc Fourth Circuit Appeals Court has reversed itself, finding that the system capable of capturing the movements of people and vehicles over an area of 32-square-miles violates the Fourth Amendment. # ⚓ Moscow_court_bans_Telegram_bot_‘Eye_of God’_over_privacy_violations⠀⇛ At the request of Russia’s censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, Moscow’s Tagansky District Court has banned the Telegram bot “Eye of God” for alleged illegal activity that violates privacy rights. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Analysis_Shows_How_Democrats_Fall_for_Right_Wing- Orchestrated_Attacks_on_Ilhan_Omar⠀⇛ An anti-disinformation project at the think tank Atlantic Council revealed on Thursday how the Democratic Party has played into the hands of right-wing media organizations that aim to sow discord in the party and scapegoat its progressive wing, particularly Rep. Ilhan Omar. At the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, resident senior fellow Emerson T. Brooking and research intern Avani Yadav analyzed one of the most recent controversies centered on Omar, who has been a frequent target of Republicans and centrist Democrats for her condemnation of Israeli policy, statements about U.S.-Israel relations and the powerful pro-Israel lobby, and criticism of Islamophobic U.S. policies following September 11. # ⚓ Biden’s_First_Pentagon_Budget_Isn’t_Making_Us_Any_Safer⠀⇛ President Biden’s first Pentagon budget, released late last month, is staggering by any reasonable standard. At more than $750 billion for the Defense Department and related work on nuclear weapons at the Department of Energy, it represents one of the highest levels of spending since World War II— far higher than the peaks of the Korean or Vietnam wars or President Ronald Reagan’s military buildup of the 1980s, and roughly three times what China spends on its military. # ⚓ America’s_Nearly_$1.3_Trillion_National_Security_Budget Isn’t_Making_Us_Any_Safer⠀⇛ Developments of the past year and a half — an ongoing pandemic, an intensifying mega-drought, white supremacy activities, and racial and economic injustice among them — should have underscored that the greatest threats to American lives are anything but military in nature. But no matter, the Biden administration has decided to double down on military spending as the primary pillar of what still passes for American security policy. And don’t be fooled by that striking Pentagon budget figure either. This year’s funding requests suggest that the total national security budget will come closer to a breathtaking $1.3 trillion. That mind-boggling figure underscores just how misguided Washington’s current “security” — a word that should increasingly be put in quotation marks — policies really are. No less concerning was the new administration’s decision to go full-speed ahead on longstanding Pentagon plans to build a new generation of nuclear-armed bombers, submarines, and missiles, including, of course, new nuclear warheads to go with them, at a cost of at least $1.7 trillion over the next three decades. # ⚓ Mike_Gravel_and_An_Ongoing_Road_to_Courage⠀⇛ I heard Senator Gravel speak at those debates in the days and months after I came home the second time from the Iraq War. Those words by themselves were not enough to give me the courage to face the reality of what the United States’ wars in the Muslim world were actually for and about. Nor did they allow me to acknowledge how counter-productive the wars were, to admit their moral and intellectual dishonesty, or to accept how the only people profiting from the wars were the weapons companies, the generals earning promotions, the politicians waving bloody flags, and al-Qaeda itself, who benefited from tens of thousands rallying to their cause in response to the US’ savage occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. I would still go on to join the State Department, after having been in the Marine Corps for ten years, and on to the Afghan War. In Afghanistan, I was a political officer stationed in the rural provinces of the insurgent dominated east and south of the country, on the border of Pakistan. What I saw in Afghanistan was no different than what I had seen in Iraq. Any differences “experts” would describe between the two countries, the culture, the terrain, the near and far history of the places, etc., were all irrelevant. This was simply because the one thing that mattered was the presence of the US military and the intentions of those in Washington, DC. # ⚓ Rumsfeld_on_Iraq’s_WMDs,_2003⠀⇛ From a compilation of quotes by American politicians on Iraq’s alleged WMDs that I put together for my book, Grand Theft Pentagon. ⚓ Derek_Chauvin:_Why_Did_You_Kill_My_Brother?⠀⇛ For Derek Chauvin, nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds have turned into twenty-two and a half years—the prison sentence he recently received for the murder of George Floyd. ⚓ Nuclear_Weapons:_An_All-American_Horror_Story⠀⇛ Yes, once upon a time I regularly absorbed science fiction and imagined futures of wonder, but mainly of horror. What else could you think, if you read H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds under the covers by flashlight while your parents thought you were asleep? Of course, that novel was a futuristic fantasy, involving as it did Martians arriving in London to take out humanity. Sixty-odd years after secretly reading that book and wondering about the future that would someday be mine, I’m living, it seems, in that very future, however Martian-less it might be. Still, just in case you hadn’t noticed, our present moment could easily be imagined as straight out of a science- fiction novel that, even at my age, I’d prefer not to read by flashlight in the dark of night.  ⚓ “He_Was_Defeated”:_Ethiopian_PM_Withdraws_from_Tigray_After_Months_of_Civil War,_as_Famine_Looms⠀⇛ The Ethiopian military has withdrawn its forces from Mekelle, the capital of the war-torn Tigray region, after the government declared a ceasefire. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed denied reports his military was defeated by Tigrayan forces, and said he had successfully pacified the city. Ahmed, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, launched the offensive against Tigray separatists in November. Since then, thousands have been killed, over a million civilians have been displaced, and some 350,000 people are now on the brink of famine. Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, a constitutional law scholar, political theorist and conflict analyst, says Prime Minister Ahmed’s “unilateral” ceasefire hides the reality of what happened. “He was defeated,” he says. We also speak with Stanley Chitekwe, chief of nutrition at UNICEF Ethiopia, who says the organization is seeing “very high levels of malnutrition” in Tigray, including among children under 5. “This malnutrition situation may deteriorate into famine,” he warns. ⚓ Demonization_of_Iran_Is_a_“Mistake”_That_Has_Trapped_the_U.S._in_Perpetual Middle_East_Conflict⠀⇛ After the Biden administration launched airstrikes targeting an Iranian-backed militia in Syria and Iraq, military historian Andrew Bacevich says the United States needs to reassess its decades-long hostility toward Iran. “The demonization of Iran is now a well- established reality of our contemporary politics. It’s a mistake,” he says. “Over the past 40 years or so, we’ve decided that Iran needs to be classified as an evil power, and I think that that inclination makes it very difficult for us to come to a reasoned understanding of how we got so deeply enmeshed in the Persian Gulf and how it is that we end up basically in the pocket of the Saudis.” Bacevich also discusses the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and warns that a Taliban takeover of the country could spark another refugee crisis. ⚓ The_Case_for_Negotiating_With_Adversaries⠀⇛ We should remember that the first head of state to reach President George W. Bush on the very day of the 9/11 attacks was President Putin, who made several calls to the White House and had to overcome the resistance of Vice President Dick Cheney who initially refused to forward Putin’s messages of sympathy and assistance.  Putin’s offers were generous, including the offer of access to air fields in the former Soviet space as well as assistance in helping downed or troubled U.S. pilots. Several months later, Putin got an “answer” from the Bush administration in the form of U.S. abrogation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the cornerstone of the disarmament process and strategic stability.  The absence of strategic missile defense was needed to open the door to comprehensive offensive missile reductions.  Putin used his press conference in Geneva last month to ridicule the United States for walking away from arms control and disarmament by abrogating not only the ABM Treaty, but also the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty and the Open Skies Treaty. ⚓ “He_Was_a_Disaster”:_Ret._Col._Andrew_Bacevich_on_Donald_Rumsfeld’s_Legacy_as Architect_of_Iraq_War⠀⇛ Donald Rumsfeld, considered the chief architect of the Iraq War, has died at the age of 88. As defense secretary for both Presidents George W. Bush and Gerald Ford, Rumsfeld presided, his critics say, over systemic torture, massacres of civilians and illegal wars. We look at Rumsfeld’s legacy with retired Colonel Andrew Bacevich, whose son was killed in Iraq. Bacevich is the president of the antiwar think tank the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He says the Iraq War should be the most important item inscribed on Rumsfeld’s headstone. “He was a disaster,” Bacevich says. “He was a catastrophically bad and failed defense secretary who radically misinterpreted the necessary response to 9/11, and therefore caused almost immeasurable damage to our country, to Iraq, to the Persian Gulf, more broadly.” ⚓ Law_enforcement_raid_Oleg_Stepanov’s_campaign_office_as_part_of_Navalny investigation⠀⇛ On July 1, law enforcement officers raided the campaign office of Oleg Stepanov, Alexey Navalny’s former coordinator in Moscow, who’s trying to run in the upcoming State Duma elections. ⚓ Rumsfeld_Was_Not_“Controversial.”_He_Played_a_Leading_Role_in_Mass_Murder.⠀⇛ ⚓ The_War_Crimes_Case_Against_Donald_Rumsfeld⠀⇛ On November 14, 2006 the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the International Federation for Human Rights, Germany’s Republican Attorneys’ Association, and other groups and individuals filed a formal complaint with the German Federal Prosecutor to open an investigation and, ultimately, a criminal prosecution of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other major U.S. officials. The complaint argues that Rumsfeld and other high-ranking civilian and military officials named as defendants in the case have committed war crimes, and in particular torture, against prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay. Following is an interview by the staff of Revolution with MICHAEL RATNER, president of the CCR, who was among those in Germany on November 14 to file the complaint. Question: Let’s begin with the nature of this complaint and what it’s designed to accomplish. Rumsfeld is a major focus, but the lawsuit seems to go well beyond him in its scope and intentions. ⚓ US_Corporate_Media_Fixin_for_a_Cold_War_Fight_With_China⠀⇛ US media are fixin’ for a fight with China, Russia—or both. Commentary on the recent G7 and NATO summits, as well as President Joe Biden’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was replete with examples of news outlets alternately praising the Biden administration for ramping up new cold wars with China and Russia, and criticizing it for not being even more aggressive. As it propagandized about the US supposedly fighting for democracy, this coverage betrayed a total indifference to the potential costs of these hostilities. § Environment⠀➾ * ⚓ 200+_Groups_to_Democrats:_$6_Trillion_‘Should_Be_the_Floor’_for_Climate and_Infrastructure_Bill⠀⇛ A coalition of more than 200 progressive advocacy organizations and think tanks released a joint statement Wednesday arguing that $6 trillion in spending “should be the floor, not the ceiling” of Democratic lawmakers’ ambitions as they craft a legislative package aimed at combating the climate crisis, rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure, and repairing the tattered safety net. “The recent bipartisan framework announced by the White House is insufficient to meet these challenges and must not advance on its own,” reads the new statement, referring to the $579 billion infrastructure plan that President Joe Biden touted last week, flanked by Republicans and conservative Democrats. “Congress must seize the historic opportunity in the FY2022 budget resolution to build on the Biden Administration’s proposals and set the stage for a bold reconciliation package.” * ⚓ ‘Horrifying’:_Record-Breaking_Northwest_Heatwave_Linked_to_Hundreds_of Deaths⠀⇛ The record-shattering heatwave currently scorching the Pacific Northwest has been linked to hundreds of deaths in the region over just the past week, with British Columbia alone reporting at least 486 “sudden and unexpected” fatalities since last Friday. “There is a way out of this nightmare of ever-worsening weather extremes… A rapid transition to clean energy.”—Michael Mann, Susan Joy Hassol * § Energy⠀➾ o ⚓ Footage_of_Exxon_Lobbyist_Increases_Pressure_on_Biden_to_End Fossil_Fuel_Subsidies⠀⇛ Environmentalists on Thursday ramped up pressure on President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats to repeal federal subsidies to the fossil fuel industry following the release of secretly recorded footage in which an ExxonMobil lobbyist admits that—despite its recent posturing as a proponent of climate action—the oil giant is still undercutting green energy initiatives behind closed doors. “President Biden and the Democratic Party received a historic majority to deliver relief and solutions for the American people, not Exxon.”—Varshini Prakash and Alexandra Rojas o ⚓ Secret_Footage_of_ExxonMobil_Lobbyists_Sparks_Calls_for Congressional_Action⠀⇛ o ⚓ Big_Oil_Should_Be_Prosecuted_for_Their_Crimes_Against_Humanity⠀⇛ This article is part of The Guardian’s new climate crimes series investigating how the fossil fuel industry contributed to the climate crisis and lied to the American public. All stories in the series are republishable by Covering Climate Now partners, under the terms outlined here. Are you a fossil fuel industry insider? The Guardian wants to hear from you. § Finance⠀➾ * ⚓ Living_a_Dignified_Life_Shouldn’t_Depend_on_Luck⠀⇛ I grew up in a poor, undocumented family. I was lucky—we got our legal residency, I got an education, and now I have a good job. But no one should have to count on luck. * ⚓ This_Is_the_Moment_to_Rebuild_America’s_Middle_Class⠀⇛ The coming of Independence Day is an opportunity to assess the American Dream of equal opportunity and middle-class status.  Unfortunately, for more than four decades, the middle class has been squeezed. Today, too many hard-working Americans find themselves financially treading water or falling behind. And the increased pressure on the middle class has taken more than a financial toll. According to the nonpartisan Brookings Institution, “Even the physical and mental health of the American middle class is getting progressively worse.”  * ⚓ Trump_Org_CFO_Weisselberg,_Facing_Tax_Evasion_Crimes,_Surrenders_to Authorities⠀⇛ * ⚓ Trump_Org_CFO_Allen_Weisselberg_Surrenders_Ahead_of_Indictment⠀⇛ The Trump Organization’s longtime Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg surrendered to the Manhattan district attorney’s office Thursday morning, just hours before prosecutors are expected to unveil charges against the executive for tax crimes committed while the former president was leading the company. While the precise charges against Weisselberg and the Trump Organization are not yet known, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has been probing whether the financial officer unlawfully failed to pay taxes on benefits he received from the company. § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ * ⚓ From_Neoliberalism’s_Old_Normal_to_the_21st_Century_New_Normal⠀⇛ But at some point, markets become saturated, demand rates fall and overproduction and overaccumulation of capital becomes a problem. In response, we have seen credit markets expand and personal debt increase to maintain consumer demand as workers’ wages have been squeezed, financial and real estate speculation rise (new investment markets), stock buy backs and massive bail outs and subsidies (public money to maintain the viability of private capital) and an expansion of militarism (a major driving force for many sectors of the economy). We have also witnessed systems of production abroad being displaced for global corporations to then capture and expand markets in foreign countries. * ⚓ ‘Tip_of_the_Iceberg’:_Experts_Weigh_In_as_Trump_Lieutenant_Charged⠀⇛ As longtime Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg was charged Thursday with 15 felony counts in connection with what Manhattan prosecutors called “a sweeping and audacious illegal payments scheme” involving alleged tax fraud and other criminal offenses, legal and other experts weighed in on what the charges mean for other company executives—including former President Donald Trump himself. Appearing in court Thursday after surrendering to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, Weisselberg—who pleaded not guilty on all counts—listened as Assistant District Attorney Carey Dunne accused him of a involvement in “a 15-year-long tax fraud scheme involving off-the-books payments.” * ⚓ Five_years_of_silence_More_than_20_State_Duma_lawmakers_haven’t_said_a word_in_parliament_since_they_were_elected_in_2016⠀⇛ The Russian State Duma’s seventh convocation is coming to the end of its five-year term. And according to a new report from IStories and Znak.com, dozens of its deputies haven’t said a word in a parliamentary session since they were elected in 2016. Others haven’t put forward a single bill. Be that as it may, this hasn’t stopped these lawmakers from collecting high salaries and planning to put their names on the ballot for the State Duma election coming up in September. * ⚓ The_Truth_About_the_Bipartisan_Infrastructure_Agreement⠀⇛ As a performance art, politics features more clowns than princes, and a media that often mistakes the melodrama for the plot. Thus, President Joe Biden was first lavishly praised for “reviving the art of dealmaking” with the bipartisan infrastructure agreement, and then skewered for endangering the same by implying that his signature was dependent on passage “in tandem” of a far bolder budget reconciliation package with Democratic votes only. Republicans feigned high dudgeon; The Wall Street Journal denounced the “bipartisan betrayal”; while the ever-apoplectic Senator Lindsay Graham charged “extortion.” * ⚓ After_SCOTUS_Upholds_Arizona_Limits,_Congress_Urged_to_Protect_Voters and_Expand_Court⠀⇛ A wide range of politicians, voting rights experts, and advocacy groups responded with calls for congressional action on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court’s right-wing majority upheld voter suppression policies in Arizona—a possible bellwether for how justices may respond to other state-level attacks on the franchise. “We will not stand for this sustained attack on voting rights and our democracy.”—Rahna Epting, MoveOn * ⚓ Supreme_Court_Upholds_Arizona_Voting_Restrictions_in_Blow_to_Voting Rights_Act⠀⇛ * ⚓ ‘Because_They’re_Complicit’:_Nearly_Every_House_Republican_Votes Against_Jan._6_Panel⠀⇛ House Republicans drew rebuke Wednesday for their near unanimous vote against the establishment of a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. “Why did so many Republicans vote against a committee to fully investigate the deadliest attack on our Capitol in more than a century?” asked Rep. Pramilia Jayapal (D-Wash.). “Because they’re complicit.” * ⚓ ‘I’m_Running’:_Progressive_Democrat_Charles_Booker_Aims_to_Unseat_Rand Paul⠀⇛ A year after his narrow Senate primary loss to an ultimately unsuccessful centrist candidate hand-picked by Democratic leaders, former Kentucky state legislator Charles Booker announced Thursday that he will again challenge assumptions about how the Democratic Party can win elections in the state, launching his 2022 campaign against Sen. Rand Paul. “I grew up in the West End of Louisville, and for years, I lived in the poorest zip code in the Commonwealth… I’ve lived the struggle other politicians just talk about.” —Charles Booker * ⚓ McCarthy_Told_GOP_Lawmakers_He’d_Kick_Them_Off_Committees_Over_Jan_6 Commission⠀⇛ * ⚓ Supreme_Court_Ruling_Delivers_‘Dark,_Dark_Day_for_Democracy’⠀⇛ The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Thursday further empowered moneyed interests to manipulate elections through untraceable campaign contributions—dark money—by ruling in favor of two right-wing nonprofit groups who argued that California’s donor disclosure requirement violated their First Amendment rights. “Today’s analysis marks reporting and disclosure requirements with a bull’s-eye.”—Justice Sonia Sotomayor * ⚓ New_York’s_Election_Mess_Is_Not_the_Fault_of_Ranked-Choice_Voting⠀⇛ More than a week after voting in the New York mayoral election concluded, voters are more confused than ever about who the city’s next mayor will be. * ⚓ Conservatives_Blame_Ranked-Choice_Voting_for_NYC_Election_Chaos. They’re_Wrong.⠀⇛ § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ * ⚓ Cross-discipline_boffin_dream_team_issues_social_media_warning:_FIX_IT NOW!⠀⇛ A group of 17 researchers from a wide cross-section of different disciplines have come together to contribute to a paper suggesting social media might be a risk to humanity’s continued existence as we know it. [...] Due to the fact the scientists know what they don’t know regarding the effects of social media on collective behaviour, the paper proposes no solid solutions as such, beyond “stewardship of social systems”, which is presumably fancy talk for improved regulation and oversight of Big Tech. While this may be in the works, the power of firms like Facebook, Google, and Apple makes it a hard sell. Also, lumbering government response times to tech developments, combined with the increasingly tribal, combative nature of political debate mean regulators and lawmakers frequently find themselves several steps behind online trends and unable to agree what to do about them in any case. So there are a lot of problems with social media. But come on, they’re not really going to lead to the end of the world, surely? Bergstrom thinks we could do what is required, but he is not altogether confident about how things will turn out if nothing is done to rein in the “infodemic” of misinformation… § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ * ⚓ Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr._Ridiculous_Lawsuit_Against_Facebook_Gets_Tossed Out_Of_Court⠀⇛ As you may recall, last summer we wrote about what we referred to as an “insanely stupid” lawsuit that Robert F. Kennedy had filed against Facebook on behalf of his wacky anti-vax organization “Children’s Health Defense” (CHD). The issue, of course, is that Facebook blocked CHD from posting the usual conspiracy theories and medical disinformation that RFK Jr. has been known to spread. But the case tried out some “new” theories on why such moderation was against the law: specifically, it argued that Section 230 turned websites into state actors by “privatizing” censorship and also that because Rep. Adam Schiff had sent a letter to Facebook asking it to crack down on disinformation on vaccines, that this also made them a state actor. * ⚓ Content_Moderation_Case_Study:_Facebook_Removes_Image_Of_Two_Men Kissing_(2011)⠀⇛ Summary: In the spring of 2011, two men were on a first date at the John Snow pub in London. They were apparently thrown out of the pub after another patron at the bar complained that the two men were kissing each other in the corner. The story of being thrown out of the pub for kissing began to go viral on social media, followed by a plan for a protest at the pub in question. In a sign of support for the protest, many people on social media posted images of two men kissing each other as well. * ⚓ Former_Trump_Aide_Launches_Twitter_Clone,_That_Seems_To_Yank_A_Ton_Of Data_Right_Out_Of_Twitter;_Already_Has_First_Content_Moderation_Crisis⠀⇛ Just as more news of what Trump wanted from Parler breaks, comes the news that his somewhat infamous former aide, Jason Miller, has launched a social media site called GETTR. It should be noted that through all of the rumors about Trump starting his own social network, it was usually Jason Miller who was claiming that it was on the way. * ⚓ Trump_Allegedly_Demanded_Parler_Kick_Off_His_Critics_If_It_Wanted_Him On_The_Platform⠀⇛ There has been a lot of speculation regarding whether or not Donald Trump would set up his own social network or if he’d just join one of the struggling social networks which only seem to exist in order to cater to Trump’s most fervent supporters. Parler, obviously, gets a lot of attention and earlier this year there were reports that, while Trump was still President, he had entered into negotiations to take an equity stake in Parler and then embrace the platform as his preferred social network. As we noted back then, “for whatever reasons, the agreement did not materialize.” § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ * ⚓ The_Empire_Strikes_Back_at_the_Left_in_Buffalo_and_Cleveland⠀⇛ The two biggest cities on the shores of Lake Erie are now centers of political upheaval. For decades, Buffalo and Cleveland have suffered from widespread poverty and despair in the midst of urban decay. Today, the second-largest cities in New York and Ohio are battlegrounds between activists fighting for progressive change and establishment forces determined to prevent it. * ⚓ ‘So_Wrong’:_GOP_Donor_Paying_to_Send_South_Dakota_National_Guard_to Southern_Border⠀⇛ Progressive Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Thursday added her voice to those outraged that an out-of-state billionaire Republican donor’s foundation is paying for South Dakota’s GOP governor to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. After Gov. Kristi Noem—a potential 2024 presidential candidate who is up for re-election next year—announced the deployment earlier this week, news broke that it is being paid for by a private donation from Willis and Reba Johnson’s Foundation. * ⚓ Politically_Correct_Racism⠀⇛ I offer these words of Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose 2019 essay is part of the New York Times Magazine’s “1619 Project,” to the Heritage Foundation and the horde of Republican politicians currently trying to update the look and feel of American racism (a.k.a., “the lie”), to make it, you know, respectable and politically correct, so that it fits seamlessly into the mores of the 21st century. To do so, they’ve taken aim at an academic concept dating back to the 1970s, known as “critical race theory,” which essentially makes the point that racism isn’t merely a phenomenon of individual beliefs but something, my God, built into the social structure – which is absurd, so they say, in a country that is long past its racial troubles and is now colorblind. * ⚓ Is_This_Joe_Biden’s_PATCO_Moment?⠀⇛ Speaking on the recent National Solidarity Call in support of striking nurses at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, Our Revolution leader Joseph Geevarghese characterized the situation as “Biden’s PATCO Moment.”  The call was convened by the Labor Campaign for Single Payer to help mobilize national support for the 800 nurses at the Tenet Healthcare-owned hospital who are now engaged in the longest nurses strike nationally in over a decade. Tenet has spent more than $75 million to date to prolong the strike. A fraction of those funds could have easily met the nurses demands for the staffing improvements that are the sole issue driving the strike. * ⚓ “Abolition_Amendment”_Could_End_Loophole_That_Allows_Forced_Labor_in Prisons⠀⇛ * ⚓ ‘Families_are_the_most_vulnerable’_A_look_at_LGBTQ_rights_in_Russia, eight_years_after_the_introduction_of_the_infamous_‘gay_propaganda’_law⠀⇛ Eight years ago yesterday, on June 30, 2013, Russia’s “gay propaganda” law entered into force, banning the “promotion of non-traditional sexual relations” among minors. In spite of this legislation, LGBTQ+ people have become much more visible in Russian society in recent years and there’s a lot more information in the public sphere about their lives and the difficulties they face. At the same time, state-sanctioned homophobia has intensified. LGBTQ+ Russians are regularly subjected to aggression, often incited by the authorities. Meduza breaks down the consequences of homophobia being made part of the Russian state’s ideology. * ⚓ Judge_Don_Willett_Calls_Out_Appeals_Court_For_Saying_Setting_A_Suicidal Man_On_Fire_Didn’t_Violate_His_Rights⠀⇛ Earlier this year, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted qualified immunity to cops who responded to a call about a suicidal man by setting him on fire and killing him. The man, who had just finished pouring gasoline over himself, was tased by two officers, causing him to burst into flames, which soon spread to the house around him. They tased him despite knowing two things: the man was covered in gas and that the manufacturer of their [extremely-dark lol] “less-lethal” devices specifically warned against deploying them around flammable substances. * ⚓ UN_Report_Calls_for_Reparations_for_Victims_of_Systemic_Racist_Police Violence⠀⇛ * ⚓ Texas_Gov._Is_Slashing_Prison_Funding_—_But_He’s_Doing_It_to_Fund Trump’s_Wall⠀⇛ * ⚓ An_Artist’s_Vision_of_Brexit_Nightmares⠀⇛ * ⚓ Supreme_Court_Narrows_Ability_to_Hold_U.S._Corporations_Accountable_for Facilitating_Human_Rights_Abuses_Abroad⠀⇛ The Supreme Court has now further narrowed one mechanism: the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). We now call on Congress to fill the gaps where the Court has failed to act. The Supreme Court recently issued an opinion in Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe, in which we filed an amicus brief (along with Access Now, Article 19, Privacy International, Center for Long- Term Cybersecurity, and Ronald Deibert, director of Citizen Lab at University of Toronto.) Former child slaves on cocoa farms in Côte d’Ivoire claimed that two American chocolate companies, Nestlé USA and Cargill, facilitated their abuse at the hands of the farm operators by providing training, fertilizer, tools, and cash in exchange for the exclusive right to buy cocoa. The plaintiffs sued under the ATS, a law first passed by Congress in 1789, which allows foreign nationals to bring civil claims in U.S. federal court against defendants who violated “the law of nations or a treaty of the United States,” which many courts have recognized should include violations of modern notions of human rights, including forced labor. EFF’s brief detailed how surveillance, communications, and database systems, just to name a few, have been used by foreign governments—with the full knowledge of and assistance by the U.S. companies selling those technologies—to spy on and track down activists, journalists, and religious minorities who have then been imprisoned, tortured, and even killed. * ⚓ #FreeBritney_and_All_Saudi_Women_Too!⠀⇛ One week after Britney Spears sent shockwaves across the world by relaying the conditions she has lived under for the past 13 years, a Los Angeles judge has denied her request to have her father removed from her conservatorship. Despite testifying that under her father’s care, she has not been allowed to marry, or make medical, professional, legal, or financial decisions for herself, the courts have yet to grant Britney the freedom she is asking for. § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ * ⚓ Joe_Brockmeier:_3_ways_to_reduce_technical_debt_in_content:_Avoid_bare URLs,_events_and_analyst_content⠀⇛ § Monopolies⠀➾ * ⚓ Facebook_and_the_FTC:_Next_Steps_in_the_Fight_to_Break_Up_Big_Tech⠀⇛ This week a court dismissed lawsuits by the Federal Trade Commission and dozens of state attorneys general to break up Facebook and force it to allow third party applications to integrate with its dominant social network. * § Patents⠀➾ o ⚓ Polpharma_and_Wuesthoff_succeed_in_revoking_MS_drug_patent⠀⇛ EP 967 covers natalizumab as used to treat inflammatory or autoimmune diseases. For example, where plasma or serum from a blood sample is tested for the presence of IgG antibodies to anti-John Cunningham virus (JCV). IgG antibodies, the most common antibodies, are found in blood and other fluids. They protect the body against various viruses and bacterial infections. EP 967 also requires that a doctor can initiate treatment for MS, if serum from a blood sample is negative for IgG antibodies to JCV. However, patients who test anti-JCV antibody positive have a higher risk of developing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). Until 2019, Biogen’s Tysabri had dominated the market for the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. However, in 2019, Polpharma and Sandoz reached an agreement that the former will take over the global commercialisation for a proposed natalizumab biosimilar. The biosimilar is currently undergoing Phase III clinical trials, which should be completed by August 2021. Waiting for European Medicines Agency (EMA) approval may extend the timeframe. Regardless, Biogen could experience competition for Tysabri as early as the end of 2022. [...] Regarding inventive step, the division decided that EP 967’s Auxiliary Request 1 lacks inventive step over the prior art. The prior art, in this instance, is a scientific article published by J.D. Berger in 2005. As such, according to the examiners, a person skilled in the art would be unaware that presence of IgG antibodies is a risk-marker in some MS patients. In terms of inventive step, the division decided that Biogen omitted a monitoring step, which formed part of the original filed patent application, in the patent’s claims. However, Biogen still has five divisional patents pending. o ⚓ EPO_Confirms_Prohibition_On_Double_Patenting_–_But_Leaves Questions_Outstanding [Ed: Well, it's now perfectly clear and very much evident that the European Patent Office (EPO)'s Enlarged Board of Appeal lacks authority because it lacks independence and has been reduced to rubber-stamping status of unlawful regimes]⠀⇛ Some EPC states, including the UK, have provisions under their national law which aim to prevent double protection for the same invention by both a patent granted under national law and one granted by the EPO. However, the EPC does not contain any explicit provisions banning double protection of the same invention by two EPO-granted patents. Despite this, the EPO’s practice in recent years has been to refuse to grant patents in circumstances where two applications belonging to the same applicant have identical claims, have the same filing or priority date, and designate overlapping groups of contracting states. In such situations the EPO requires the applicant to either choose one application to proceed to grant, or else to amend the claims of one or both applications, or amend the designated states to remove overlap. As legal basis for this practice the EPO has relied on the notion that “an applicant has no legitimate interest in proceedings leading to the grant of a second patent for the same subject-matter if the applicant already possesses one granted patent for that subject-matter”. This practice has been highly controversial, not least as it originates from obiter dicta in two earlier Enlarged Board decisions which were concerned with the assessment of added matter in connection with divisional applications, and not with the issue of double patenting per se. The legal basis for these obiter dicta, and so for the EPO’s consequent practice, was uncertain. Questions had also arisen as to the interpretation of this exclusion: for example could an applicant be said to have a ‘legitimate interest’ in obtaining two patents for the same subject-matter based on the additional year of protection provided by one application claiming priority from an earlier application with the same claims? o ⚓ CVC_Substantive_Preliminary_Motion_No._1_for_Priority_Benefit [Ed: Latest on the patently absurd battle to get patent monopolies on life and nature]⠀⇛ On May 20th, Junior Party the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Vienna; and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, “CVC”) filed its Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 1 in Interference No. 106,127 (which names ToolGen as Senior Party), asking the Patent Trial and Appeal Board for benefit of priority to U.S. provisional application No. 61/652,086, filed May 25, 2012 (“P1″), U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/716,256, filed October 19, 2012, (“P2″), and U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/757,640, filed January 28, 2013 (“Provisional 3″), pursuant to 37 C.F.R. §§ 41.121(a)(1) (ii) and 41.208(a)(3) and Standing Order ¶ 208.4.1. o ⚓ 2021_Patent_Dispute_Report:_First_Half_in_Review⠀⇛ The biggest development of 2021 so far was the Supreme Court’s split decision in Arthrex, where a plurality of the Court found the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) were unconstitutionally appointed principal officers. Rather than create pure chaos, the Supreme Court identified a simple way to resolve the issue– the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director merely needed to retain the power to review APJ’s final decisions. Even with the uncertainty looming while Arthrex was pending, it appears that it has been business as normal with a 4.3% increase in litigation and PTAB filings from the first quarter. * § Copyrights⠀➾ o ⚓ When_the_movie_is_derived_from_a_literary_classic—are_you_an “All-In”,_or_a_“Well,_Maybe”,_viewer?⠀⇛ First, the copyright basics. The movie is a film adaption of Austen’s novel. Were Austen’s copyright still in effect, the movie would, as a legal matter, be a derivative (or adaptive) work and, as such, permission would have been required to transform the story into cinematic form. Of course, there is no such legal constraint with respect to “Emma”. In such circumstances, the question of how closely to align the book with the movie and its ultimate viewers arises not because of any legal considerations, but because of artistic and commercial ones. The challenge in making a screen adaption of a Jane Austen novel is that the potential viewers need to be broken down into several classes, each of which will have a different expectation for the movie. At one end, there are the Jane Austen afficionados, who have read the entire corpus of her published novels (or, even if not all of them, have an affinity for “Emma”). Members of this class are well aware of the respective plots and characters of Austen’s books. Some may even be a member of a Jane Austen society, devoted to promoting her literary legacy. Let’s call this the “All-In” class. o ⚓ Denmark’s_Media_Companies_Form_‘Copyright_Collective’_To_Force Google_And_Facebook_To_Pay_More_For_Sending_Them_Traffic⠀⇛ One of the most outrageous ideas dreamt up by traditional media companies is that Internet companies like Google and Facebook should pay for the privilege of sending huge amounts of traffic to their sites. This “snippet tax”, also known as the “link tax”, was unfortunately enshrined in the EU Copyright Directive in 2019. More recently, Australia has brought in its own link tax, the News Media Bargaining Code, that is even worse than the EU approach. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 6396 ➮ Generation completed at 02:41, i.e. 85 seconds to (re)generate ⟲