𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Saturday, March 12, 2022 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Sun 13 Mar 02:42:30 GMT 2022 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/2022/03/12/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmbGvonNbAJzqBpoefSxdJSBAiUubKnrKDWzMQhqE8sKy9 QmNyjuGQ9G6aZFzvjbDENKmySNxf1JG2psBTi252HdEGHE QmdSS5zduBpaVEqHBiz53YJo7JbLv9XgUWbU3sJWZqfSG8 QmcEFBoREHvxtA22UaNuV5Mx1EPRF8ANqTeNuB9Sx6DA3x QmV9oFmNWDMaAuL1QNuyBGhpy9H8TqW8N8q4jqiKvJET2U QmR9imX83RDB4ivhdNUQMapcgk6SnnNyJnM4q43hj4rq3v QmX3rMb63HxLvj9FqPyymwV4TDWUAY1bdbtXfufZPb287E QmUWSqFs7G64P11sRgFghydAWm5vaGowUWhjb5bQ6WVLjv QmeVoLY6Zx3HEzqi2Ycfzv79DNidwPTPBUM7zgf846qztA QmcRCrUwjMkvCTjxN4RTXVgnt8vzjyT5Cf4ktnEzhysN1Z QmWigayprvGPhmqrB8DCEjNTBh2aibrVVhgyYkneAYcRUi QmX39Uj3zNHXvo6UXgn8MUmiP1s2P2jWstyvLEP12ScWQd QmeoPNJBdBB1zPmJmSvBG32dJf6VC4BkQZF2nzHHVVuvf5 QmT75DVXXmrHYM7c6YzAZqzfx7muo7EEYUX6fN1WwBf9Nb QmdiYGBfC8M4iMZ6yr1JdiNS1NyQVUiifwJG7UhVRPbe67 QmNscHDxFvmbxvDEqfr6zcuFXdDCNeUGnUgEsinsAW5Bi5 QmWj5A9BPN6L7nMrjgkoYNjnbZGohimM91FNkxYhAviCty QmWmgXjX6qkCRFkbpUB7wqzzH3832E7d68SdFuRd8Ljihu QmenaQjMKay4WtcW1q8F5f8dn422GaePUyNj9EwpC1Qt8K Qmeib5xsJPjazHycfVRna3aDnNkGHeuML9KhMk6hoSRgPN QmbARvWXXpsrpvN2KJfYbfLLChGs47XEyhnbqtmdUVunxv ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ [Meme] EPO Behaving Like a Bank, Not Like a Patent Office | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 11, 2022 | Techrights ⦿ EPO Advertises European Patents and Jobs Based on Deliberate Falsehoods (Lies) | Techrights ⦿ Circle of YouTube “Influencers” | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2022/03/12/epo-behaving-like-a-bankster/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/03/12/irc-log-110322/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/03/12/killing-its-own/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/03/12/on-influencers/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2022/03/12/arch-linux-turns-20/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/03/12/openzfs-2-1-3/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 57 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/03/12/epo-behaving-like-a-bankster/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/12/epo-behaving-like-a-bankster/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.12.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_EPO_Behaving_Like_a_Bank,_Not_Like_a_Patent_Office⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Finance, Patents at 9:45 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇EPO: More fee hikes. Also EPO: Lowered pensions.⦈ Summary: The EPO has long behaved like its sole goal was money_maximisation, not science, let_alone_compliance_with_the_EPC, so it’s hardly surprising that it is stiffing its very own workers (who do and did all the actual work) ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⣛⣛⡛⣋⣀⡀⠀⢀⣛⣛⠿⣿⠄⡠⣛⣛⡛⣛⣛⠛⢀⣀⣀⠈⣛⣛⣛⠻⢛⣛⣛⡛⠋⢉⣀⣀⢀⣀⣀⢉⣛⣛⡛⠛⢛⣛⢛⣛⠛⣛⡛⣛⣛⢟⣻⢿⣿⣿⡿⣟⣛⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⠛⠃⣿⡟⣿⡆⣿⡏⣿⡇⠙⠉⠁⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⠀⣿⡏⣿⡇⣿⣿⢻⣷⢸⣿⠛⠃⠀⢸⣿⠛⢸⣿⠛⢸⣿⡟⠃⠀⢸⣿⢸⣿⠀⣿⡇⣿⣿⣾⡏⢸⣿⠛⢰⣿⡹⠿⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⠿⠀⣿⡷⠿⠃⣿⡇⣿⡇⠛⠃⠀⣿⡟⣿⡟⣿⠀⣿⡇⣿⡇⣿⣿⢻⣯⢸⣿⠿⠀⠀⢸⣿⠿⢸⣿⠿⢸⣿⡿⠇⠀⢸⣿⢿⣿⠀⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⡄⢸⣿⠿⢠⣛⢿⣷⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣶⡆⣿⡇⠀⠀⢿⣧⣿⠇⣶⡆⠀⣿⡇⣿⡇⣿⠀⢿⣧⣿⠇⣿⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⣶⡆⠀⢸⣿⠀⢸⣿⣶⣼⣿⣷⡆⠀⢸⣿⢸⣿⠀⣿⡇⣿⣿⢻⣷⢸⣿⣶⡜⣿⣴⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⠖⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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illegally transformed_the_EPO_into_a_gambling_vessel, exploiting longstanding impunity to destroy not only the Office but also the European economy THE EPO is shrinking. They might be pretending to hire here and there (they do recruit a few), but more people leave than are joining and internal documents from the António_Campinos era have already leaked, showing intent to shrink the workforce while increasing so-called ‘production’ (by granting invalid patents in violation of the EPC; yes, many European_software_patents too!). The attack on workers started in the Benoît_Battistelli era. He was shameless about it and Campinos does the same thing in a more closeted fashion. “This is considered illegal, but since the EPO does illegal things without any consequences to anybody, why not do the illegal internally, in addition to externally?”It’s hardly surprising that the EPO is shrinking the compensations not only to staff but also former staff (pensioners), in effect breaking promises made to them many decades ago. “Safeguard your rights against the zero adjustment [de facto reduction w.r.t. inflation rates] of salaries and pensions in 2022,” said colleagues to EPO pensioners [HTML] and employees [HTML], supplying them with means of protesting against what’s happening. “The new salary adjustment procedure has caused a loss of purchasing power for all staff and pensioners of the EPO,” they noted. “Its application for 2022 has even resulted in a freeze of salaries and pensions. Looking at the rising cost of living, this zero adjustment – visible in the salary slips and pension statements for January 2022 – is all the more significant.” This is considered illegal, but since the_EPO_does_illegal_things_without_any consequences_to_anybody, why not do the illegal internally, in addition to externally? █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 316 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/03/12/on-influencers/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/12/on-influencers/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.12.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Circle_of_YouTube_“Influencers”⠀✐ Posted in Deception, DRM, FUD, Marketing at 10:52 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Some background: It_Smells_Like_Marketing_—_Not_Journalism_—_When_Almost_100% of_the_‘Articles’_From_Jason_Evangelho,_Senior_Contributor_at_Forbes,_Are_About the_Same_Topic | ‘Influencers’_Gaming_the_Web_of_Videos_(GulagTube) | YouTube is_Becoming_Mostly_SPAM 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇YouTube “Influencers”⦈ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Formerly known as 'The Linux Gamer'⦈ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇The Linux Experiment⦈ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇RMS hate letter⦈ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇The Linux Experiment on RMS hate letter⦈ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇The Linux Gamer on RMS⦈ Video_download_link | md5sum e6881adf158390b4ef966e7e4952a595 Gamers of the Algorithms Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/influencers-and-the-web.webm Summary: The images above, explained in the video below them, hopefully sum up the state of the Web, the state of ‘You’Tube (GulagTube), and the state of journalism; online cabals — and sometimes corporate mobs — are running ads as “content” and it’s getting hard to distinguish fiction (advertising) from reality; the problem is not_limited_to_videos or to videogames 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[...] Spotted within the IGSCU FU in Linux, the Intel SOC3 which is the codename for the DG2-256 GPU has been spotted. As the name suggests, this chip features 256 Execution units, making up a total of 2048 ALUs. Simply put, the SOC3 is half the core configuration of the SOC1 which means that it will be smaller and easier to manufacture. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Pit ☛ 8_Best_Whiteboard_Apps_for_Linux:_Useful_for Teachers_&_Project_Planners⠀⇛ When we are at a conference and want to present our projects in front of colleagues, a whiteboard is a mandatory tool we need for the presentation. But when it is a virtual conference, we cannot just use a manual whiteboard as people on another side of the device may not properly observe what’s on the board. However, there are many virtual whiteboards for Linux available to help in your virtual conference. These apps are also very essential for virtual classes too. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 8_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Wireless_Security Tools⠀⇛ Wireless security is the prevention of unauthorized access or damage to computers or data using wireless networks, which include Wi-Fi networks. The term may also refer to the protection of the wireless network itself from adversaries seeking to damage the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of the network. To improve wireless security it’s important to be aware of measures that are used to bypass security. We cover software that’s useful for penetration testing and security assessment. Target users include security professionals and pentesters. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Ulauncher:_A_Powerful_Linux_App_Launcher_to Improve_Your_Productivity⠀⇛ App launchers enable you to launch apps and find files on your computer’s local storage with ease. Apart from searching local storage, some app launchers even let you look up things on the web, perform calculations, run shell commands, and translate text, among other things. If you’re on Linux, there are several app launchers you can use to streamline your system operations. Ulauncher is one of these. It’s touted to be the fastest app launcher on Linux with an extensive extensions library. Let’s dive right in and explore Ulauncher in more detail. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Automount_USB_storage_with_Raspberry_PI_OS_Lite:_fstab_and autofs⠀⇛ While Raspberry PI OS Desktop has the ability to automatically mount external USB devices on plug in, the Lite version doesn’t include this feature. For this reason, projects needing USB storage automounted on Raspberry PI must include some settings to find the storage ready from boot # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ A_Complete_Guide_to_Linux_File_Ownership_and Groups⠀⇛ When you run into a problem with file permissions on Linux, quite often the source of your frustration will have something to do with settings pertaining to either the file’s owner or group. It’s pretty much inevitable that if you use Linux regularly, at one point or another, you are going to have to change a file or directory’s owner or group setting to fix a problem. In this article, we’re going to demystify the concepts of Linux file owners and groups and show you how they affect who can access and manipulate the data on your system. # ⚓ Generate_Key_Pair_With_OpenSSL_And_Import_To_PKCS#11_Token |_Zamir’s_Board⠀⇛ As I’m playing with PKCS#11 token a lot recently, I’m now thinking about generating all essential data off the card and then importing. This is less secure but makes backup possible. So I tried with OpenSSL to generate everything needed. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_LibreOffice_on_Debian_11_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install LibreOffice on Debian 11. For those of you who didn’t know, LibreOffice is a free and open-source office-suite productivity software. It is a free alternative for Microsoft Office. The LibreOffice suite comprises programs for Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector graphics and flowcharts), Base (databases), and Math (formula editing). 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 through the step-by- step installation of LibreOffice’s open-source cross-platform office suite on a Debian 11 (Bullseye). # ⚓ Steinar H Gunderson ☛ Steinar_H._Gunderson:_kitty_rxvt-like config⠀⇛ kitty is a terminal with some nice features (I particularly like the focus on low latency, and the best-in-class support for emoji) but with a rather unusual default configuration. Since everybody’s opinions are bad, I will offer my own configuration so far to get a bit closer to classic terminals’ defaults… # ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Deploy_Portainer_for_Easier_Container Management_–_The_New_Stack⠀⇛ Containers can be a real challenge to manage. With so many moving parts and commands to work with, life can get a bit challenging. This is especially so as you scale up your deployments. One to make this a bit easier on you and/or your dev teams is to make use of a GUI tool that can be accessed from anywhere on your LAN. That way all of your developers can work much more efficiently, effectively, and reliably. One such tool for this task is Portainer. This GUI can be deployed on top of Kubernetes, Docker, or Docker Swarm works seamlessly on a third-party cloud host or can be used on-prem or even at the edge. Portainer gives you complete control over your containers, allowing you to pull images, create containers, networks and endpoints, and create registries. For anyone looking to employ a GUI to manage containers, you could do a lot worse than Portainer. # ⚓ How_to_install_TFTP_server_on_Debian_11_|_FOSS_Linux⠀⇛ Trivial File Transfer Protocol, well known as TFTP, is a simple lockstep File transfer protocol that lets a client get a file from or rather put a file onto a remote host. One of its basic uses is in the early phases of nodes booting from a local area network. In simple terms, the TFTP server is a depicted protocol that functions on user Datagram Protocol. However, unlike FTP, it does not utilize Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to transfer data. Most preeminently, the implementation of the TFTP server protocol is enforced where security and authentication are not mandatory. This is the primary reason it is barely exercised in a computer network as it lacks the required security measures hence rendering it vulnerable over the internet. For that reason, its application is usually helpful in transferring boot and configuration files among linking PCs in a confined network setup. # ⚓ How_To_Remove_Files_And_Directories_In_Linux_[Examples]_| Itsubuntu.com⠀⇛ How To Remove Files And Directories In Linux With Examples. There are multiple ways to remove files and directories in Linux. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Tixati_on_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Tixati on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Tixati is a simple yet powerful BitTorrent Client application. Tixati is used to download torrent files like Utorrent. This app supports a cross-platform application available to download on all popular operating systems (Microsoft Windows, Linux) excluding macOS. 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 Tixati torrent client 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_Enable_OpenLDAP_Audit_Logging_–_kifarunix.com⠀⇛ In this tutorial, you will learn how to enable OpenLDAP audit logging. OpenLDAP uses Auditlog overlays to record any changes made to the database to a specified log file. # ⚓ nixCraft ☛ How_to_trim_leading_and_trailing_white_space_in bash⠀⇛ So I have this specific use case where I get data in a comma-separated values (CSV) file. I pick up the company name, address, telephone, email, and some other data from that file. Once data is collected, I create a final pdf using a simple script. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Python_3.11_on_Fedora_36 Linux_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛ Python is one of the most popular high-level languages, focusing on high-level and object- oriented applications from simple scrips to complex machine learning algorithms. Python is famous for its simple, easy-to-learn syntax, emphasizes readability, and reduces program maintenance costs and more straightforward conversion to newer releases. Python supports modules and packages, and one of the many is the popular PIP package manager. # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_install_Telegram_on_Debian_11_Bullseye_– Linux_Shout⠀⇛ Learn the easy steps to install Telegram messenger on Debian 11 bullseye Linux desktop for chatting, voice call, and much more… If you are familiar with WhatsApp, then Telegram would not require a detailed introduction because it is a similar kind of application. Similar to WhatsApp, users can install Telegram on their smartphone and get registered using the cell phone number to chat with other users of Telegram. You can share or download images, videos, documents and files very easily via it. Further, it is also possible to make video and voice calls, create polls, groups, and channels to connect with each other. Telegram is particularly popular because of the latter function. One of the popular features that make Telegram popular is its subscription system for channels, which works similarly to YouTube: according to your interests, you can subscribe to channels in Telegram. If the channel operator posts new content, you can see it in the chat overview. Users can easily select posted content and forward it to family and friends. This makes it clear from which user or channel the content originally comes. In this way, you can quickly find new channels for your own interests. Also, it offers broadcast functions as WhatsApp has. # ⚓ Ubuntu_freezing_or_not_starting_in_VirtualBox⠀⇛ Virtual Machines are like a gateway to enjoying multiple OSs on a single system. A Windows user can enjoy Linux, Mac, and other operating systems. However, a lot of users are complaining that Ubuntu is freezing in Oracle VirtualBox. We are going to resolve this issue with some simple solutions. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Help!_Backspace_Doesn’t_Work_in_the_Linux Terminal⠀⇛ The Backspace key isn’t something you normally think about too much, but sometimes you might find it doesn’t work correctly in the terminal, especially when logged in to a remote machine, echoing “^H” instead of erasing what you’ve typed. Fortunately, this is easy to fix with a simple command. o § Wine or Emulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Wine_7.4_Dev_Released!_Vkd3d_bundle, Defauts_to_Light_Theme_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ Wine 7.4, the new development of the compatibility layer capable of running Windows apps on Linux, is out. The new release bundled Vkd3d, 3D graphics library built on top of Vulkan, for its implementation of Direct3D 12. Other changes include defaults to ‘Light’ theme, WineD3D, D3D12 and DXGI modules converted to PE, more large scale cleanups to support ‘long’ type. And, there more than a dozen of bug-fixes. See more here. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Kingdom_of_the_Dead:_Obra_Dinn_FPS,_Review on_Linux_–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛ I haven’t told you yet, but I have a great admiration for the game Return to Obra Dinn. When I saw that someone took the visual concept and re- implemented it inside a shooter called Kingdom of the Dead, I had to give it a try. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_Verified_has_issues,_Grand_Theft Auto_V_edition_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ As I continue to use the Steam Deck that Valve sent over for both work and play, I tried Grand Theft Auto V and the initial setup was a massive nuisance. See also: How Valve Can Make the Deck Verified Program Better This is a game that has gone through verification, to get a Deck “Playable” rating. This means it should work well but may have some minor annoyances like small text or a part requiring the touch screen. Here though, it was far worse and this is the short story of a semi-eventful Saturday night where I just wanted to play a game that I picked carefully enough — or so I thought. On first launch with Proton 7, what it was verified against, it tells you it needs to install the Rockstar Launcher before you can play. The annoyance begins here of course as I’ve already waited on a 100GB download. I was at least pre- warned on this since I read the compatibility note. Fine then, let’s do it. Except during the launcher install Rockstar gave an error telling me that it simply couldn’t proceed. It gave an option to retry with a button I clicked, but that totally failed again. Clearly not a good experience right away. Playable — apparently. [...] Really, Valve needs to take another look at how they run Deck Verified if trust in it is to be a real thing. Otherwise, like my friend Nick from The Linux Experiment said in our big collaboration video, the green Verified tick will end up meaningless if strict standards aren’t followed. The same of course applies to the Playable category too. o § Distributions⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 6_Best_Open_Source_Firewall_Distros_(Updated 2022)⠀⇛ Security is paramount. Security involves defense in depth. Approaching security one step at a time, with consistency and rigour, you can mitigate threats, and keep intruders at bay. Intruders use a variety of different techniques in an attempt to compromise a system. For example, systems can be attacked by denial of service, cracking, intrusion, snooping (intercepting the data of another user), or viruses/worms/Trojan horses. To have a secure box, a system therefore needs a variety of defenses. # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Afraid_of_the_big_bad_Linux desktop?_Zorin_16.1_is_here⠀⇛ Zorin 16.1 has arrived, marking the first major update of the Linux distribution since August’s release. Unashamedly user-friendly, with an interface unlikely to scare off Windows or Mac users, the most eye-catching element of the update is LibreOffice 7.3, replete with better Microsoft Office compatibility, improved performance, and tweaks for dark mode fans. Based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the distribution also has improved hardware support. Handy for those with pockets deep enough for an Nvidia RTX 3050 or Apple Magic Mouse 2. 12th- generation Intel Core chips are also on the list as well as a range of printers and that bête noir of the Linux world: audio hardware. It being Ubuntu, the 5.13 Linux kernel is lurking under the hood. It’s undoubted a nice thing to look at, certainly for users making their first tentative steps away the worlds of Apple and Microsoft, although as with our look at Zorin 16 last year, you will need to pay up if you want access to desktop interfaces styled on Windows and macOS, and what Zorin calls a “professional-grade suite of apps,” “advanced productivity software,” and access to installation support. # § Arch Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Neowin ☛ BTW,_it’s_my_birthday_–_Arch_Linux_becomes 20_years_old_today_–_Neowin⠀⇛ There’s also a bit of aspirational foreshadowing for release 0.2, which can be found here. The advertised components are interesting. It shipped with Linux kernel 2.4.18 which many of the Linux old-timers (myself included) will remember was right before we started to get nice things like auto-mounting USB drives in kernel 2.6. XFree86 4.2.0 was also in stow, which is what we now call Xorg. If you wanted to build software, you had to use an absolutely ancient gcc toolchain (2.95.3). Web browsing was covered by the ghost of Netscape Navigator, Mozilla 0.9.9. Heady days, these were! Missing from this release were the contemporary desktop environments of the day, Gnome and KDE – you’d have to wait for version 0.4 in December that year or build this yourself using ABS (Arch Build System). However, the more things change, the more they stay the same. While the FOSS world is still transitioning to Wayland, Xorg (then XFree86) remains the dominant display server throughout the landscape. While Firefox replaced Mozilla less than a year later, Mozilla software like Firefox and Thunderbird are still defacto packages for most distributions. Lastly, KDE and Gnome are still the preeminent desktop environments all these years later. # ⚓ Arch_Linux_Turns_20_–_Slashdot⠀⇛ “Arch Linux, the rolling Linux distribution that powers Valve’s Steam Deck is now 20 years old,” reports Neowin. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ The_long-term_strategy_behind_IBM’s Red_Hat_purchase [Ed: IBM/Red Hat pay this publisher now; so puff pieces come out]⠀⇛ IBM’s senior veep of software reiterated for Wall Street this week that OpenShift is the linchpin of Big Blue’s overall multi-cloud strategy. Speaking at Morgan Stanley’s Technology, Media and Telecom conference, Tom Rosamilia said the OpenShift container management family, developed by Red Hat that IBM bought in 2019, was key to containerizing Big Blue’s Cloud Pak software so that it’s easier to run wherever customers choose. That could be on or off-premises, or a hybrid of the two. “By rebasing our Cloud Paks on OpenShift, we’ve now moved all of our middleware to an environment where I can deploy on AWS, I can deploy it on Azure, I can deploy it on the IBM Cloud, and I can deploy it on prem,” Rosamilia said. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Red_Hat_and_SUSE_latest_to_suspend sales_in_Russia⠀⇛ Red Hat has joined the growing list of tech companies to withdraw from Russia over the war in Ukraine, stopping sales just a day after Linux rival SUSE announced a similar move. The IBM-owned open source business says it is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and Belarus, effective immediately. This withdrawal of service applies to organizations either located or headquartered in Russia or Belarus. Red Hat also said it is also ending partner relationships with organizations based or headquartered in the two countries. Red Hat president and CEO Paul Cormier confirmed the move in a blog post, where he condemned the Russian military’s invasion of Ukraine and said the company stands in unity with everyone affected by the violence. # ⚓ IBM_CEO_hails_Big_Blue_progress:_‘We_don’t_just create_business_value;_we_create_progress’ [Ed: How much do IBM and Red Hat pay the NC media to spread these lies and corporate propaganda? This isn't journalism, it's just embarrassing]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Open_source_on_mainframes_pushed⠀⇛ Rocket Software (Rocket), a global technology leader that develops enterprise software for some of the world’s largest public and private sector companies, today unveiled an updated Rocket® Open AppDev for Z software, which breaks down existing siloes to unify DevOps for all platforms, including the mainframe, in a single pipeline. The enhanced offering provides a comprehensive DevOps/ AppDev modernization solution entirely based in open source and updated to incorporate IBM® Open Enterprise SDK for Python—meeting market demand for modernization, cost reductions, and enablement of new talent. # ⚓ The_mainframe_is_dying:_Long_live_the_mainframe application!⠀⇛ Much has been made of the perilous future CIOs whose organizations rely on mainframes may soon have to navigate, but the reality of mainframe infrastructure’s long-term outlook is a little more nuanced than that, as two recent news announcements attest. Fujitsu recently divulged it will end sales of its mainframes by April 2031, discontinuing support five years after that. But CIOs running workloads on Fujitsu’s GS21 mainframe family don’t need to cast around for a migration path just yet. # ⚓ Dell_builds_containerised_ObjectScale_on_ECS_base⠀⇛ The vSAN support means that ObjectScale can run on Dell’s VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure appliance nodes. OpenScale supports Red Hat Open Shift v4.6 and has a bare-metal CSI driver. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Android_users_warned_as_‘vicious_new threats’_steal_money_from_your_bank⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_12_best_RPGs_for_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Best_New_Games_for_Android_This_Week_–_A_Musical Story,_Growing_Up_and_More_–_Droid_Gamers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ 9_new_and_notable_Android_apps_from the_last_three_weeks_including_AREA_by_Autodesk, Symfonik,_and_Zenforms_(2/19/22_–_3/8/22)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_S8+_review:_An amazing_screen_attached_to_a_decent_tablet⠀⇛ # ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Buying_a_new_Android?_Don’t_fall_for the_‘System_Update’_trap_|_Technology_News,The_Indian Express⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_avoid_Android_12.1_QPR releases_without_wiping_your_data⠀⇛ # ⚓ PinePhone_Keyboard_Review,_Part_II⠀⇛ I started to type that I stand by my original verdict of the keyboard not being a selling point for the phone itself, but I think I have changed my mind on that. With the changes listed above, if you are looking for a small, lightweight, low-powered and cheap ‘laptop’ or ‘PDA’, you can definitely make do with this, especially if you are short on cash and stick to CLI and TUI applications, which run much faster. # ⚓ Nokia Mob ☛ Jolla_brings_AppSupport_for_Android_apps on_Linux_platforms_|_Nokiamob⠀⇛ Jolla announced a great new software solution that might change the company that was founded by Nokia N9 failure. Jolla tried making hardware for its own Sailfish OS, but that didn’t go as planned which moved the company towards software development. Lately, Jolla has been cooperating a lot with the automotive industry which lead to the development of AppSupport software for Linux Platforms giving any Linux platform capability to run Android apps. This software was presented at MWC2022. # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Lilbits:_Google_is_taking_Android tablets_seriously_(again),_Elementary_OS_troubles,_and more_about_Apple’s_M1_Ultra_–_Liliputing⠀⇛ It’s been more than a decade since Google released Android 3.0 Honeycomb, the first version of the company’s mobile operating system specifically designed for tablets. The next release, Android 4.0, basically merged the smartphone and tablet operating systems into one… and Google hasn’t really paid much attention to tablets or tablet apps since then, leaving it to third-party companies like Samsung to develop an ecosystem around tablets. But with the release of Android 12L, Google is starting to take tablets seriously again, with a new user interface optimized for large screens. That includes tablets as well as foldable phones. But why now? Google’s Android Tablet CTO Rich Miner has some thoughts on the matter. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ Five_key_points_on_file_locking_vs object_locking⠀⇛ We look at file vs object storage locking mechanisms, how different forms of storage ensure data consistency, and especially how object storage is tackling the challenge [....] The traditionally conceived relational database epitomises the operation of file system locking – of byte regions within a file, in such cases – but more recent NoSQL databases have a better fit to, and are often backed by, object storage. NoSQL are non-relational databases. They are not used for the most demanding transactional workloads, and in fact can take semi- and unstructured data. So, they can successfully reside on object storage, and they implement their own locking mechanisms. # § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Best_5_Alternatives_to_Microsoft_Office_[Compared]⠀⇛ list of 5 free suitable alternatives to Microsoft Office with features, comparison and details. # § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ # ⚓ WordPress ☛ Strattic_Acquires_WP2Static_Plugin,_Plans to_Relaunch_on_WordPress.org⠀⇛ Strattic, a WordPress hosting company that creates static files managed via a headless install, has acquired WP2Static, an open source plugin for generating a static WordPress site. Leon Stafford, the plugin’s creator, has been working for the company for the past nine months and will continue to maintain WP2Static. In 2020, Stafford removed WP2Static from WordPress.org after the downsides of hosting in the directory began to outweigh the benefits for his project. He cited WordPress.org’s lack of a straightforward way to alert users to important updates, users abusing the Reviews section to file issues, the inability to disable support, and the cumbersome plugin release process. # § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_FSF_appoints_program_manager Kooyman_as_executive_director⠀⇛ The Free Software Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to promoting user freedom, has appointed Zoë Kooyman as executive director. Kooyman, 38, joined the organisation as program manager in early 2019. The FSF said in a statement she had a diverse background as “an experienced international project manager and event producer with demonstrated skills in successfully organising and executing technology and social justice initiatives”. She succeeds John Sullivan who resigned last March after 18 years in the job, with his exit taking place at a time when the organisation was mired in controversy over allowing its founder, Richard Stallman, back on to the board. When Stallman was reinstated, a campaign was launched to try and get him thrown out again; his supporters rallied to attempt to nullify this initiative. # § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU ☛ Denemo_2.6_released_[Savannah]⠀⇛ Version 2.6 of Denemo has been released New Features for release 2.6 Pitches First note entry method Notes are visualized on a special MIDI track Entering rhythms inserts notes from MIDI track Recorded MIDI is re- synchronized as each bar is entered Facilities to play, backup, advance, delete, restart recording Support all system/markup spacing controls Easy setting of conditional behavior of Denemo Directives Directives attached all objects (notes, chords, time/key signatures etc) Use e.g. for changes of clef only for certain instruments Editing the LilyPond for individual objects Applies to all objects (notes, chords, time/key signatures etc) Use e.g. to create editions with chords for smaller hands Support creating score/paper/header Directives at startup from Score Properties Editor Directives are created only where absent Allow easy toggling between listening/playing-in pitches via Shift key. Create Score and Parts in one PDF Allow setting transposition on playback easily Allow recording and attaching musical audio fragments to a score while composing Easier setting of Movement Tempo Improvements to Playback Controls Better control over playback volume Simplify setting playback start/end markers Better use of colors Improve Legibility Paler Denemo Cursor Allow alteration of brightness of playback start/end markers View Menu Improvements Turn various windows on/off by shortcut Switch back to Main Window with Esc or Ctrl-w Staff Display Spacing Control Ctrl-Drag to loosen/tighten spacing in display Auto/Manual spacing available Allows tight spacing for small screens Allow trailing staff lines at end of movement Bug Fixes Fix setting of movement tempo in playback controls Fix Inserting Breve and Longa Fix display of dotted Breve and Longa after reload Fix spurious 0xffffff keypress on windows Fix setting/following links to source files esp. on Windows Fix display of key signatures for tenor and baritone clefs Prevent staff braces being attached to Marks/Dynamics staffs Fix sounding duration of grace notes on dotted notes Check part lists are same in all movements on Check Score. Fix Performance for case where there is an upbeat at the start Fix Performance View for LilyPond version 2.22 Fix Hide Movement as Sketch Fix Duplicated Titles Fix staff heights in display not resetting Fix lyric pane not showing sometimes Fix lyrics clashing with beaming in display Hidden staff markers avoid clashes Arrow at right of display now reliably shifts the displayed measures Improvements in restoring window sizes on re-starting Denemo Playback Fixes Pause no longer hangs notes Reset places end play at end Initial Playbutton icon change when pausing fixed Playback markers in display now follow notes accurately Fix clutter in display at Playback Start marker Fix Pause for Windows version # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ GTL_v0.7.0⠀⇛ GTL is a simple CLI / TUI software to read tinylog entries from multiple users in a timeline fashion. # ⚓ Anti-Procrastination_Update⠀⇛ I’m doing well! My hatred for the node ecosystem has reached previously unimaginable heights. Definitely justified. # ⚓ Three_decades_of_easy_public_key_cryptography⠀⇛ Today I set up GPG in my mutt on sdf.org account. It wasn’t as easy, as it could be. As always it is need to search some manual on the Internet, and look under the hood of the car. # ⚓ So_how_much_time_people_spent_on_Gopher_in nineties?⠀⇛ It is also interesting that the survey was conducted within a group of secondary school and college teachers. So where we expected a lot of interest in Gopher. Additionally, school teachers in the US and their counterparts in the world were listed. # ⚓ Rant:_Ticket_System⠀⇛ This is the interesting point. If I don’t need them Tasks, who does? Well, those poor souls called project managers, they need them. Their perspective on real life is totally different from mine. For them the mile-high pile of funny and not so funny details about my portion of real life is … invisible. They know to some extent, that this pile exists, but not more. These poor souls are unable to survive dayjob without the perspective that these tickets hold. Fair enough. # ⚓ Re:_Rant:_Ticket_System⠀⇛ Ticket systems are not for the people who have to use them. They’re for people who want to know “What are those tech people DOING??” # ⚓ Hacker Noon ☛ Why_Dockerizing_Applications_is_the_Key to_Building_Scalable_Software⠀⇛ One of the most popular container technology providers Docker registers in February 2022 a record-breaking 15+ million active users per month. The success of Docker is a testament to the impact that container technologies have on the entire IT landscape. But what causes more and more developers and organizations to move their applications and services into the container? # ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_RcppGSL 0.3.11:_Small_Maintenance⠀⇛ A new release 0.3.11 of RcppGSL is now on CRAN. The RcppGSL package provides an interface from R to the GNU GSL by relying on the Rcpp package. # ⚓ Thomas_Koch_–_lsp-java_coming_to_debian⠀⇛ The Language Server Protocol (LSP) standardizes communication between editors and so called language servers for different programming languages. This reduces the old problem that every editor had to implement many different plugins for all different programming languages. With LSP an editor just needs to talk LSP and can immediately provide typicall IDE features. I already packaged the Emacs packages lsp- mode and lsp-haskell for Debian bullseye. Now lsp-java is waiting in the NEW queue. # ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Debate_in_JavaScript_Community_Over Proposed_Types_Syntax⠀⇛ If a proposal unveiled this week gets its way, JavaScript developers will soon have something that many of them have long been asking for: a type system, of some sort at least. A blog post by TypeScript senior program manager Daniel Rosenwasser lays out the background and reasoning for the proposal for type syntax in JavaScript. He writes that “if we pull this all off, we have the chance to make one of the most impactful improvements to the world of JavaScript.” # ⚓ Top_three_tips_for_ensuring_software_supply_chain security⠀⇛ # ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ Tech_brands_sign_on_to_HackerOne responsible_security_drive⠀⇛ Technology brands including GitLab, Starling Bank, TikTok and Wix have signed on to support a new corporate security responsibility pledge drive initiated by penetration testing and bug bounty specialist HackerOne. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Three_Chinese_web_giants_create_streaming video_‘standard’ [Ed: Western media puts scare quotes around "standards" when the standards aren't set and imposed on the whole world with Western patents and monopolistic steering]⠀⇛ Chinese web giants Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance – the latter through its Volcano Engine hyperscale cloud service – have teamed up to create, in their terms, a new video streaming standard. The project was announced at a Chinese conference in late February. The Register has now been able to confirm information revealed in Chinese media at the time. # ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ 30_Years_Later_The_Idea_Of_The_PDF Format_Is_Still_Living⠀⇛ The term “PDF” is so ubiquitous these days that some people may have forgotten (or may never have known) that it stands for “Portable Document Format.” It was invented in the early nineties, and Adobe has spent the past 30 years trying to stay caught up with the changing of the times – and it turns out that they were more than up to the task. By the time 2020 rolled around, the PDF should most likely have been rendered obsolete, as many other similar technologies have become over the past three decades. Instead, though, it received new updates that made it even more valuable – and usable – in today’s world of smartphones, tablets, and other devices. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ IBM Old Timer ☛ Irving_Wladawsky-Berger:_The_Rise_and_Fall_of Nation-States⠀⇛ Several weeks ago I attended The End of Nation-States, by technology executive and consultant Tomás Pueyo, – part of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab seminar series. In May of 2021, Pueyo launched Unchartered Territories, a newsletter he describes as aiming to explore the unchartered territories of a fast changing world “to know how we can prepare for them.” His seminar discussed the role of information technologies in the rise of nation-states throughout history, and how information technologies are likely to lead to the end of nation-states in the coming decades. Let me summarize Pueyo’s key arguments based on his talk and two related newsletters. o ⚓ DT ☛ You_know_you’ve_been_in_Finland_too_long,_when…⠀⇛ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ SPEC_mulls_benchmarks_for_ML_processing performance⠀⇛ Benchmarking organization SPEC has formed a committee to oversee the development of vendor- agnostic benchmarks for machine-learning training and inference tasks. SPEC, the non-profit Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, produces a range of benchmarks that are widely used to evaluate the performance of computer systems, especially in the high performance computing (HPC) industry. According to SPEC, the newly formed Machine Learning Committee will develop practical methodologies for benchmarking artificial intelligence and machine learning performance in the context of real-world platforms and environments. # ⚓ Nature ☛ Automated_analysis_of_activity,_sleep,_and rhythmic_behaviour_in_various_animal_species_with_the_Rtivity software⠀⇛ Behavioural studies provide insights into normal and disrupted biological mechanisms. In many research areas, a growing spectrum of animal models—particularly small organisms—is used for high-throughput studies with infrared-based activity monitors, generating counts per time data. The freely available software to analyse such data, however, are primarily optimized for drosophila and circadian analysis. Researchers investigating other species or non-circadian behaviour would thus benefit from a more versatile software. Here we report the development of a free and open-source software—Rtivity—allowing customisation of species- specific parameters, and offering a versatile analysis of behavioural patterns, biological rhythms, stimulus responses, and survival. Rtivity is based on the R language and uses Shiny and the recently developed Rethomics package for a user- friendly graphical interface without requiring coding skills. Rtivity automatically assesses survival, computes various activity, sleep, and rhythmicity parameters, and performs fractal analysis of activity fluctuations. Rtivity generates multiple informative graphs, and exports structured data for efficient interoperability with common statistical software. In summary, Rtivity facilitates and enhances the versatility of the behavioural analysis of diverse animal species (e.g. drosophila, zebrafish, daphnia, ants). It is thus suitable for a broad range of researchers from multidisciplinary fields such as ecology, neurobiology, toxicology, and pharmacology. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Canada_invests_in_semiconductors_and photonics_•_The_Register⠀⇛ The Canadian government is investing CA$240m ($187m) to boost the country’s semiconductor and photonics segments in hopes of bolstering its role in the global market. The recently announced investments consist of a new CA$150m ($117m) fund called the Semiconductor Challenge Callout, which will lob loonies to proposals focused on research, commercialization and manufacturing, and CA$90m ($70m) in new funding for the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Vendors_want_to_expand_in-car_network, segment_it:_NXP_Semi_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Execs from chipmaker NXP Semicondcutor spoke in San Francisco this week about industry supply chain problems, but also noted the increasing complexity of in-car networking was working in the firm’s favour. NXP has a portfolio that covers automotive components, communications, and industrial semiconductors, with product lines including microprocessors, power management, RF chips and wireless communications, many of which have seen high demand as the industry emerges from the pandemic. Speaking at the Morgan Stanley tech conference, NXP chief financial officer Bill Betz started by commenting on how NXP’s Tianjin factory – where it does assembly and testing – was shut down for 10 days due to a COVID-19 outbreak, and this hit the firm to the tune of a cool $50m. “I’m very pleased that has been back up and running, and we should see that $50m worth of supply come back in Q2,” he said. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Spirent_test_kit_targets_400_and_800Gbps Ethernet_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Spirent Communications has announced availability of new test appliances for high-speed Ethernet networks, including what the firm claims is the industry’s first 800G test platform. The new platforms comprise the Spirent A1 400G Appliance, B1 800G Appliance, and B2 800G Appliance, which target 400Gbps and 800Gbps Ethernet networks respectively. Spirent said the appliances will help in the design and development of new high-speed Ethernet, and enable providers to ensure their 400G infrastructure is up to the challenge of today’s data growth needs, while preparing 800G to be the future “cloud backbone.” o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Mitel_VoIP_systems_used_in_staggering DDoS_attacks⠀⇛ Miscreants have launched massive, amplified distributed denial-of-service attacks by exploiting a vulnerability in Mitel collaboration systems. Their exploitation technique can, we’re told, achieve an amplification factor of almost 4.3 billion to one, potentially, meaning a single malicious packet could bring down a stranger’s network. An amplification attack typically involves sending a small amount of information to a vulnerable network service that causes it to reply with a much larger amount of data. By directing that response at a victim, an attacker can put in a relatively low amount of effort while making other people’s machines do all the work of flooding a selected target offline. In this latest string of DDoS attacks, broadband ISPs, financial institutions, logistics and gaming companies, and organizations in other verticals were pummeled with network packets. # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Alleged_REvil_suspect_extradited_on ransomware_spree_charges [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛ A Ukrainian national alleged to be a member of the REvil ransomware gang has been extradited to the US and charged with multiple criminal offences. Yaroslav Vasinskyi, 22, was charged in the US District of Northern Texas with carrying out ransomware attacks against 10 US-based organisations. The indictment [PDF] was unsealed last night. According to the unsealed complaint, prosecutors say he co-authored the Sodinokibi ransomware variant, as deployed by the infamous REvil crew. The US Department of Justice alleged the Ukrainian used a variety of online nicknames including Profcomserv, Robitnik and Yarik45. # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Openwashing⠀➾ # ⚓ Seeking Alpha ☛ Elastic:_A_Chance_To_Buy Near_2018_IPO_Prices⠀⇛ At a very basic level, Elastic offers open source software that makes it possible for users and developers to build their own search tools. # ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ Sonatype’s_sonar-smart sonata_for_open_source⠀⇛ Over time, Sonatype CEO E. Wayne Jackson says the company tracked the ‘staggering volume and variety’ of open source libraries in every development environment in the world. In this regard, it says it understands that when open source components are properly managed, they provide energy for accelerating innovation. # ⚓ Industry-led_initiative_looks_to_create open-source_automotive_software_platform⠀⇛ The Eclipse Foundation, which champions open-source software development, has formed a new Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) working group dedicated to developing a software platform for the automotive industry [...] Eclipse asserts that electrification, autonomous vehicles, advanced driver assistance systems and ever- increasing consumer expectations about their in-car digital experience are dramatically transforming the system architectures embedded in vehicles. Automotive architectures are moving from networks of special purpose devices to something that more closely resembles servers on wheels, where more powerful general-purpose computers are responsible for implementing and coordinating the various systems in the automobile, including the ones which keep us and our families safe on the road. And these systems architectures are rapidly changing how automotive software needs to be built. # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Duo ☛ Q&A:_Runa_Sandvik_|_Decipher⠀⇛ Runa Sandvik, who has previously helped journalists secure their devices and data at The New York Times, Freedom of the Press Foundation and the Tor Project, recently discussed her work on the Decipher Podcast. This is a condensed and edited version of the conversation. # ⚓ Video Cardz ☛ Stolen_NVIDIA_certificates_are now_used_to_sign_malware [Ed: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ The hacking group LAPSUS$ gained access to internal NVIDIA systems two weeks ago. The group demanded a ransom in exchange for not publishing the stolen data. It was reported that as much as 200 GB of files related to hardware and 1 TB of data overall were stolen. This includes files referring to unreleased architectures such as RTX 40 “Ada” or future data-center products like Blackwell. To make matters worse, hackers also published source code for one of NVIDIA’s biggest secret, the DLSS AI upscaling technology. # ⚓ Tech Times ☛ Mozilla_Firefox_New_Update_FIXES Two_Actively_Exploited_Bugs⠀⇛ Mozilla Firefox’s new update fixes not one, but two zero-day vulnerabilities, which are actively exploited by [cra]ckers. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ What_Is_a_Pass_the_Hash_Attack and_How_Does_It_Work?⠀⇛ Entering your credentials each time you want to log into a system can be tiring, especially when you log into the system regularly. You may even forget your passwords. Implementing operating systems that provide a single sign-on experience for users saves you from re-entering your log-in details every single time. But there is a problem with it. Attackers can exploit your credentials saved in the system through a Pass-the-Hash attack (PtH). # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Ragnar_ransomware_gang_hit_52 critical_US_orgs,_says_FBI [Ed: The real_cost_of Microsoft_Windows]⠀⇛ The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has so far infected at least 52 critical infrastructure organizations in America across sectors including manufacturing, energy, financial services, government, and information technology, according to an FBI alert this week. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Dell_opts_out_of_Microsoft’s Pluton_security_for_Windows [Ed: Just fake security]⠀⇛ Yet another top-tier PC maker seemingly isn’t interested right now in Microsoft’s vision of hardware-level security for Windows 11 systems. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ For_those_with_zero_trust_in_zero- trust_networks,_this_industry_alliance_may_help [Ed: Just more buzzwords and nonsense from NSA partners that sneak back doors into everything]⠀⇛ Zero-trust security continues to be one of the hottest marketing phrases in an industry that loves its buzzwords. But despite so many so-called zero trust products from virtually every vendor, there’s still a lot of confusion about what a zero-trust architecture looks like and how to deploy its key elements across an organization. # § Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/ Dramatisation⠀➾ # ⚓ Dirty_Pipe:_The_Latest_Serious_Linux_Kernel Vulnerability_is_Being_Patched [Ed: Microsoft- loving sites also love (bashing) Linux]⠀⇛ Recently, a very serious vulnerability found in the Linux kernel received the name of Dirty Pipe. It is basically, an escalation of privileges that is put into check the system. # ⚓ CVE-2022-0847:_Arbitrary_File_Overwrite Vulnerability_in_Linux_Kernel_|_MarketScreener [Ed: Might be bot-generated]⠀⇛ On March 7, 2022, CM4all security researcher Max Kellermann published technical details on CVE-2022-0847, an arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability in versions 5.8+ of the Linux kernel. Nicknamed “Dirty Pipe,” the vulnerability arises from incorrect Unix pipe handling, where unprivileged processes can corrupt read-only files. Successful exploitation allows local attackers to escalate privileges by modifying or overwriting typically inaccessible files – potentially including root passwords and SUID binaries. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Where_are_the_(serious) Russian_cyberattacks? [Ed: Steven J. Vaughan- Nichols (SJVN) pushing Microsoft talking points. What a truly awful way to end his career.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ We’re_seeing_800%_increase_in cyberattacks,_says_MSP_•_The_Register [Ed: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ There is some good news, Sayegh said, pointing to the extradition this week of an alleged ransomware slinger from Poland to the United States. Like the leak of the Conti information, that could help investigators learn more about how the organization is built and operates. That said, he expects Conti and other groups adapt and change. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Analysis_of_leaked_Conti files_blows_lid_off_ransomware_gang [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛ It was a Ukrainian security specialist who apparently turned the tables on the notorious Russia-based Conti, and leaked the ransomware gang’s source code, chat logs, and tons of other sensitive data about the gang’s operations, tools, and costs. Since then, infosec researchers around the globe have been wading through this silo of intelligence, which reveals the inner workings of the criminal enterprise. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Moscow_to_issue_TLS certificates_to_Russian_websites_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Moscow has set up its own certificate authority to issue TLS certs to Russians affected by sanctions or otherwise punished for president Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. A notice on the government’s unified public service portal states that the certificates will be made available to Russian websites unable to renew or obtain security certificates as a knock-on effect of Western sanctions and organizations refusing to support Russian customers. These certs are primarily useful for providing secure HTTPS connections. Delivery of the certificates is promised within five days of requests. The portal is silent on which browsers will accept the certs. This is a critical matter, because if browsers don’t recognize or trust the certificate authority that issued a cert, a secure connection isn’t generally possible. The Register cannot imagine any of the mainstream browser devs will rush to make these Russian certs work in their applications. # ⚓ The Markup ☛ What_Does_the_“Connection_Not Private”_Warning_Really_Mean?_–_The_Markup⠀⇛ Each time you visit a website, your web browser (e.g., Chrome, Safari, or Firefox) first checks for the existence of one of two digital certificates: a Transport Layer Security (TLS) or Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate. These indicate two important things. First, they confirm the identity of the website, affirming that the website is who it says it is. Second, they verify that the information on the website—and any data you share with it—will be secure and encrypted. Encryption ensures that the information you share, whether it’s a credit card number or home address, will not be intelligible if intercepted. # ⚓ Today_in_dystopian_nightmare,_Walgreens replaces_glass_freezer_doors_with advertisements.⠀⇛ Today in dystopian nightmare, Walgreens replaces glass freezer doors with advertisements. The screens use cameras and a big tablet to show you what’s in the freezer or refrigerator. If that sounds annoying, wasteful, and unnecessary, it’s because it is. The company says it can’t figure out why customers are reacting negatively to being shown ads on the freezer doors. [...] But putting “smart screens” in basically adds cost for the store, which they will pass along to all of you, which means that you’re literally paying jacked up prices at Walgreens (and who knows where else) to have them shove ads in your face before it’ll let you know where the iced tea is. With the current batch of managers at Walmart, I fear it’s only a time before the final nail in the low price strategy is here. You can’t eat (metaphorical) bullshit, so you shouldn’t have to pay for it. CNN goes further to quote some alleged Christians on Facebook, saying Walgreens is implementing the mark of the beast. * § Environment⠀➾ o § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Biden_issues_Executive_Order_to_tame digital_currencies [Ed: When the real economy is collapsing no wonder many run away to fake/parallel ones]⠀⇛ President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an Executive Order directing US government agencies to develop a framework to promote and police digital currencies. “The [Executive Order] will help position the US to keep playing a leading role in the innovation and governance of the digital assets ecosystem at home and abroad, in a way that protects consumers, is consistent with our democratic values and advances US global competitiveness,” said NEC Director Brian Deese and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in a statement. # ⚓ NewYorkTimes ☛ Microsoft’s_Pursuit_of_Climate_Goals_Runs Into_Headwinds [Ed: OK, so the liars from Microsoft need_to bribe_Jim_Zemlin_and_his_friends_some_more_to_help_with_the greenwashing_lies]⠀⇛ Microsoft has an ambitious plan to cut its carbon emissions. But on Thursday, the company reported a big increase in the greenhouse gases emanating from its operations and its products, a reminder of the challenges that companies face as they try to clean up their businesses. Microsoft’s carbon emissions were up 21.5 percent in the 12 months through June 2021, after small declines in 2020 and 2019. The increase was almost entirely driven by emissions from energy used to build data centers and make devices — like the Xbox and the Surface tablet — and from the power that Microsoft estimates its products consume when people used them. * § Finance⠀➾ o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Cryptocurrency_ATMs_illegal_right_now_in_UK [Ed: When the real economy is collapsing people resort to fantasies and there are people looking to prey on them]⠀⇛ All cryptocurrency ATMs are operating illegally in the UK and must be shut down now, the nation’s Financial Conduct Authority said in an alert on Friday. Terminals accepting or dispensing crypto-coins in the country must be registered with the watchdog to make sure they comply with Blighty’s Money Laundering Regulations (MLR), which came into effect for digital assets in 2020. o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Toshiba_investors_signal_strident_opposition_to split_plan_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Toshiba’s plan to split itself into two companies has been opposed by two significant groups of investors. The Japanese conglomerate first planned to split into three entities, but that plan was poorly received, so management went back to the drawing board and came up with a new strategy to split into two companies. That plan has also earned investors’ ire. Effissimo Capital Management – a Singapore-based firm that is thought to hold almost ten per cent of Toshiba stock and has in the past agitated strongly for change at the Japanese company – has popped out a press release stating it will vote against the split. * § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ o ⚓ Misinformation_isn’t_a_‘Russia_problem’ [Ed: Russia increasingly used as an excuse to break the Internet]⠀⇛ Should we censor false information from Putin? The problem with censorship, in this case, is less about the rights of Russian propagandists as it is about the rights of other people to hear them. * § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Internet_backbone_provider_Lumen_quits_Russia⠀⇛ Lumen Technologies, the internet backbone provider formerly known as CenturyLink, has quit Russia. The biz’s announcement is titled, “Lumen’s readiness to meet global events,” and does not take a position on the morality of the illegal invasion of Ukraine. Instead, it frames the decision as necessary “due to increased security risk inside Russia” and “to ensure the security of our and our customers’ networks, as well as the ongoing integrity of the global internet.” * § Monopolies⠀➾ o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ UK,_EU_regulators_probe_Google_and_Meta’s_‘Jedi Blue’_ad_deal⠀⇛ Google and Meta are facing scrutiny from UK and EU competition regulators over their infamous “Jedi Blue” ad-slinging deal. Jedi Blue is the name Google gave to an agreement with Facebook (now Meta) over bidding for ad space. Header bidding is where sellers can offer online ad space to multiple buyers at the same time. Sellers can compare bids and buyers compete against each other for ad space. o § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Russia_mulls_making_software_piracy_legal •_The_Register⠀⇛ Russia is considering handing out licenses to use foreign software, database, and chip design patents, and legalizing software copyright violations, in response to sanctions imposed over its invasion of Ukraine. According to Russian business publication Kommersant, a government document drafted on March 2 outlines possible actions to support the Russian economy, which faces extensive trade restrictions from the US, the UK, and Europe, and business withdrawals. With companies like Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP halting sales (though not ending service to existing customers), Russia has instituted tax breaks for technology firms and conscription deferments for IT workers to retain its core resources and talent during the conflict. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2606 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.12.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_12/3/2022:_Wine_7.4_and_OpenZFS_2.1.3⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 7:18 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⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ The_Steam_Deck_transformed_how_I_play_games_– Invidious⠀⇛ The Steam Deck completely transformed how I play games and how I connect with them at an emotional level, and I’m not alone in this… # ⚓ Video ☛ Manjaro_Is_Nice._Manjaro_With_DTOS?_Even_Better!_– Invidious⠀⇛ I needed to spend some time today updating the DTOS repos, and I also wanted to test installing DTOS on Manjaro. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ OpenZFS_2.1.3_released_•_The_Register⠀⇛ The OpenZFS Project has released version 2.1.3 of what the project calls its “open-source storage platform” for Linux and FreeBSD. The terminology reflects that ZFS is not just a filesystem; it also subsumes the functionality of partitioning and logical volume management. This makes creating and managing what ZFS refers to as “pools” of storage simpler than most of its rivals, such as Btrfs or XFS, which work alongside existing partitioning and LVM tools. This leads to some overlap. For instance, Btrfs includes its own RAID tools, but so do both the Linux kernel and LVM2. Red Hat is also working on a new storage manager called Stratis, which aims to rival ZFS’s functionality. The latest version resolves multiple issues from July 2021′s 2.1.0 release. This included some significant new features, the most notable of which is Parity Declustered RAID or dRAID, which allows [PDF] much faster resilvering of large RAIDZ arrays. The version number is a little confusing. OpenZFS 2 followed on from version 0.86, and there never was a “version 1,” as we described at the time. The current Ubuntu long-term-support release, 20.04, uses OpenZFS 0.8.3. As the OpenZFS module has to work closely with the Linux kernel, each release is only compatible with certain kernel versions: for example, 2.1.0 supported from kernel 3.10 to 5.13. The new release bumps the upper limit to kernel 5.16. # ⚓ Linux_Kernel_5.17_Brings_Important_Performance_Improvements for_AMD_Ryzen_CPUs⠀⇛ With the increase of more developers working in the next Linux kernel 5.17, many AMD-based features will see some significant improvements and mark the beginning of new advances in terms of AMD compatibility and processing in GNU/Linux and other systems with Linux kernel. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Rachel ☛ Looking_at_the_outlying_data_points⠀⇛ To get my feet wet with the whole “investigations” thing that we’d do, I started looking into this one day and chose one of the many temp sensors which were being logged by the servers. I forget exactly which one it was, for there were many. The CPUs logged it, the chassis logged it, the power supply logged it, and so on. There were so many choices. # ⚓ 10_useful_steps_to_install_and_secure_SSH_server_in_Linux⠀⇛ SSH stands for Secure Shell, one of the well-known service protocols used to execute an operation to the remote administration over the internet. It provides a very secure passage between the designated computers. Once the connection is established, SSH will then provide encrypted sessions for all public (unsecured) networks in a client-server architecture. It was developed for the replacement of insecure remote protocols like “Telnet, rlogin, and rsh”. As we know the drawbacks of using these insecure protocols, if someone used a third party packet capturing tools like ‘tcpdump and Wireshark’ between the designated computers can reveal the password and exploit the systems easily. # ⚓ MakeTech Easier ☛ 9_Tips_to_Use_and_Customize_Chromebook Shelf⠀⇛ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Easier_frugal_install_of_EasyOS⠀⇛ There are tutorials on how to install EasyOS to a hard drive partition… # ⚓ How_to_install_ODBC_on_Ubuntu_20.04_/_Debian_11?⠀⇛ Many applications need to relate to database or spreadsheet files. For the process to be adequate, it is necessary to have an application that serves as a connector between the two. So today I will show you how to install ODBC on Ubuntu 20.04 / Debian 11 which is one of the most popular. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Chromium_Browser_on_Fedora 36_Linux_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛ Chromium is an open-source browser project that builds a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web. The codebase has been widely used in other popular browsers like Microsoft Edge or Opera because it provides them with standards compliance while still being customizable enough not to be stagnant over time like some others can become once their original design intention was fulfilled, which would lead people away from using those applications altogether if they didn’t see any changes made after release day. In the following guide, you will learn how to install Chromium Web Browser on your Fedora 36 Workstation desktop using two Fedora default repository methods or the Flatpak method, along with how to maintain and remove the browser in the future. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Python_3.7_on_Debian_11 Bullseye_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛ By default, Debian 11 Bullseye does not come with Python 3.7 in its repositories. Python 3.10 is now the latest stable feature release series of Python 3, with Python 3.11 still in beta. To run some applications or frameworks on Debian, you may need to install Python 3.7 on your system. Python 3.7 is currently being worked on for security releases until its end of life on the 6th month of 2023. However, it is advisable to upgrade to newer versions if you are developing applications. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to download the latest version of Python 3.7 compile and install this version of Python on Debian 11 Bullseye using the command terminal. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_VidCutter_on_Debian_11 Bullseye_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛ VidCutter is a free, open-source application that can be used to cut video and audio files. It has tools for cutting all sorts of media, but it’s not a full-blown video editor. Instead, its focus lies solely on slicing up videos into clips you could then upload onto your website (or send someone). In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install VidCutter on Debian 11 Bullseye using two different methods: Flatpak and Snap third-party managers, along with how to maintain and remove the software in the future using the command line terminal. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Create_Golang_Websockets_– LinuxCapable⠀⇛ The WebSockets protocol is a new way to communicate in real-time, but it’s not as straightforward as you might think. In fact! Even close!! The following tutorial will teach how one makes their first-ever web socket server from scratch with Go by following the easy steps. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_PHP_7.4_on_Debian_11 Bullseye_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛ PHP 7.4 is a significant update of the PHP language that was “officially” released on November 28, 2019. This is a standard upgrade from now on from the existing PHP 7.3 release to PHP 7.4, which is the last version in the 7 PHP series that brings in arrow functions for cleaner one-liners, preloading for improved performance, typed properties in classes, improved type variances, spread operator in arrays and much more. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install PHP 7.4 on Debian 11 Bullseye by importing the Ondřej Surý repository, the maintainer for PHP on Debian, and installing, upgrading, or removing howto instructions. # ⚓ Pragmatic Linux ☛ Install_software_from_the_Debian Backports_repository_–_PragmaticLinux⠀⇛ Did you ever run into a situation where Debian Stable was just a tad too stable for you? You needed a newer version of a software package or one that’s not scheduled for inclusion until the next future Debian Stable release? That’s where the Debian Backports repository comes in. The Debian Backports repository enables you to install newer software, planned for the next Debian Stable release, on your current Debian Stable system. This article explains how this works. # ⚓ manty’s_blog:_tcpping-nmap_a_substitute_for_tcpping_based on_nmap⠀⇛ I was about to setup a tcpping based monitoring on smokeping but then I discovered this was based on tcptraceroute which on Debian comes setuid root and the alternative is to use sudo, so, anyway you put it… this runs with root privileges. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Set_up_Apache_Virtualhosts_on_CentOS_8⠀⇛ Hello, friends. In this post, we will show you how to set up Apache virtualhosts on CentOS 8 / Rocky Linux 8. It is normal that on the same server, we have several websites running. Each one of them needs a specific configuration because the needs of each one of them may vary. That is why it is necessary to create virtualhosts. These virtualhosts allow having many websites running within the same server. Besides, it is the best way to configure them. # ⚓ Can_I_run_Linux_Ubuntu_Via_external_SSD/HDD?_– Fosslicious⠀⇛ Yes, we can run Linux Ubuntu from SSD or HDD which is not embedded on PC/laptop. If you have an unused SSD, you can install Ubuntu and run it. In this case, I’ve tried it. And when this article was published, I was using a Linux distribution installed on an external SSD. # ⚓ Building_Qemu_KVM_Images_with_Packer⠀⇛ Packer is a tool that enables us to create identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source template. We are going to build a Rocky 8 image using Packer. o § Wine or Emulation⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Wine_7.4_changes_the_default_theme_and_more PE_conversion_work_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Another couple of weeks and even more work has been done on the Windows compatibility layer Wine in development version 7.4 that’s out now. This is the compatibility layer that allows you to run games and applications developed for Windows – on Linux (plus also macOS and BSD). It’s a major part of what makes up Steam Play Proton and enables a ton of games to work on the Steam Deck. Once a year or so, a new stable release is made. # ⚓ WineHQ_–_Wine_Announcement_–_The_Wine_development_release 7.4_is_now_available.⠀⇛ The Wine development release 7.4 is now available. What's new in this release: - 'Light' theme enabled by default. - Bundled vkd3d library. - WineD3D, D3D12 and DXGI modules converted to PE. - More large scale cleanups to support 'long' type. - Various bug fixes. The source is available from the following locations: https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/7.x/wine- 7.4.tar.xz http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/7.x/wine- 7.4.tar.xz Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download You will find documentation on https:// www.winehq.org/documentation You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details. Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_gets_a_15FPS_option,_new keyboard_themes⠀⇛ Valve has a fresh upgrade out for the Steam Deck giving you even more performance control, plus you can now buy new keyboard themes in the Points Shop. One thing I think Valve could improve is getting to the various sections on Steam. The Deck interface is quite limited overall, with very few shortcuts to the many parts of Steam available. The Points Shop for example, you can access that by going into the main Settings, go to Keyboard and there’s a Points Shop button there to go direct to the Keyboard section. Additionally, when you buy a new Keyboard theme, they don’t show in the list until a reboot it seems but you can equip them directly from the store page. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Another_Acquisition:_Epic_May_Be_Moving_Beyond Just_Gaming_By_Acquiring_Bandcamp⠀⇛ We’ve been talking quite a bit lately about consolidation within the video game industry. As is often the case in times of economic strife, the pandemic has led to large entities in the gaming industry gobbling up smaller entities. Microsoft acquired Zenimax. Then Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard King for a wild amount of money. Soon after, Sony acquired Bungie. Nintendo, being Nintendo, has mostly stayed on the sidelines other than acquiring a company that is geared specifically towards making Nintendo games. # ⚓ Valve_does_what_FromSoftware_don’t,_thanks_to_Steam_Deck’s precaching_update_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛ While Elden Ring’s recent launch has been a massive critical and commercial success, it continues developer FromSoftware’s streak of leaving players in a technical lurch. Even on the newest Xbox and PlayStation consoles or the highest-end PCs, Elden Ring still manages to turn in a somewhat unsteady performance for various reasons. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ This_week_in_KDE:_fewer_korners,_more_multi-cursor, better_apps⠀⇛ Rejoice all, for the infamous “Korners” bug has been fixed! This issue caused 3rd-party window decoration themes with rounded corners to display a square blur area when using burred backgrounds. Themes are now able to (and must) specify a mask graphic that will clip the blur area to the visible area of the window decorations. Thanks to Michail Vourlakos for implementing this fix in Plasma 5.25! # ⚓ KDE_Itinerary_@_Wikidata_Data_Reuse_Days_2022⠀⇛ On Monday the Wikidata Data Reuse Days 2022 start, a series of online events from March 14 to March 24 for users of Wikidata content. I’ll present KDE’s use of Wikidata in our travel apps KTrip and KDE Itinerary on Thursday March 17 at 15:00 UTC. o § Distributions⠀➾ # ⚓ OS News ☛ elementary_OS_is_imploding⠀⇛ A lot of people suggest elementaryOS as a distribution for beginners, but I never understood why – it will leave users locked into an operating system that barely has any applications, requires fresh installations, and requires a ton of manual fiddling and command line work to make more usable and capable. At that point, you might as well jump straight to Mint, pop!_OS, Fedora, or any of the other truly capable, user friendly, foolproof Linux distributions that don’t try to lock users out of all kinds of useful features and applications. # ⚓ Kali_Linux_adds_VM-like_snapshot_feature_to_bare-metal installs⠀⇛ Offensive Security has announced its implementation of a file system snapshot in Kali Linux, a feature designed to add VM-like snapshotting to bare-metal installs. The new feature, dubbed Kali Unkaputtbar, is available to users running Kali Linux version 2022.1 or newer on bare-metal, with btrfs as the file system. Unkaputtbar adds a new boot menu that allows Kali Linux users to boot directly into snapshots to roll back to previous system states. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Understanding_the_Digital_World:_My_honest_book review_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ I read a lot of books. I especially like to read books about computers, Linux, and the digital world we live in. I also enjoy reading books on the history of computing about and by and the people who helped make this digital world what it is today. Imagine my excitement when I discovered the new second edition of an important book by Brian W. Kernighan, one of the leading figures in the creation of Unix, author or co-author of many influential books, and a professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Understanding the Digital World combines computer history, technology, and personal story, along with discussions about how today’s technology impacts our privacy. # ⚓ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Friday’s_Fedora_Facts:_2022- 10⠀⇛ 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. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ $249_Rockchip_RK3588_8K_mini_PC_comes_with up_to_16GB_RAM⠀⇛ The company will allegedly provide Android 12, Linux Ubuntu 18.04, and Debian 11 for the mini PC. Based on our recent article about the Mixtile board, I’d suspect only Android 12 will be available initially, and providing an Ubuntu 18.04 image in 2022 instead of Ubuntu 20.04, or Ubuntu 22.04 whose release is planned for next month, looks strange to me. It should also be possible to purchase the DEV- RK3588-4D32 board only, especially since some interfaces like MIPI CSI and SATA are not accessible from the mini PC. That board may have been unveiled last December during the official RK3588 announcement at RKDC 2021 according to a post on CSDN in Chinese. # ⚓ XDA ☛ Astro_Slide_5G_Hands-On:_Slider_in_your_hand,_Debian in_your_pocket⠀⇛ In the smartphone world, we pretty much only have two choices of devices when it comes to operating systems — iPhone and Android. However, Planet Computers has been finding a bit of a niche with past devices such as the Gemini and the Cosmo Communicator. Now it’s back again, this time with the Astro Slide 5G, and it packs some updated specifications and the ability to run popular Linux distributions, instead of (or even alongside) Android 11 if you prefer. We managed to get some hands-on time at the company’s stand at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and it’s a fun little device that has a very different focus when compared to other devices powered by similar chipsets. Officially, there is planned support for Sailfish OS, Debian, and Kali Linux. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Coffee_Lake_machine_vision_Mini-STX_features eight_USB_3.2_Gen2_and_five_M.2⠀⇛ BIVROST unveiled a Linux-ready “Lite5” Mini-STX board based on Advantech’s 9th Gen Coffee Lake powered “SOM-5899” Basic Type 6 module and offering up to 96GB DDR4, 2x GbE, 2x HDMI, 8x USB 3.1 Gen2, and 5x M.2 slots. Poland-based BIVROST, which also offers a Pixelink PL-D755CU-BL industrial USB 3.0 camera, has launched a Mini-STX board for machine vision, signage, security, and other edge computing applications. The BIVROST Lite5 was manufactured by Advantech based on a BIVROST design and features Advantech’s “new” SOM-5899 COM Express Basic Type 6 module, equipped with 8th or 9th Gen Coffee Lake- H processors. Intel also assisted with the product, which starts at $2,618 with 16GB RAM, a 256GB SSD, and WiFi/BT. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Connecting_an_electric_typewriter_to_a_modern computer⠀⇛ My blog post writing delay is huge right now, sorry for that, but here it finally is: the writeup of the typewriter technology I experimented with in January. This is about a SIGMA SM 8200i typewriter, which my parents gave to me for entertainment purposes when I was a child. Now that I’m older, the entertainment has shifted more towards the technical internals. When we talked about teletype technology at my local university hackerspace, Spline, I remembered the typewriter had a 26-pin connector. After some research, I learned that the machine is basically an Erika S3004, one of the most popular typewriters of the GDR, in a different case. With this new knowledge, I was able to find a table of commands which can be sent and received from the device. The 26-pin connector is a port used in the GDR, which speaks a faily standard rs232 protocol, with a baud-rate of 1200. In fact, the USB TTL adapter I usually use for routers, worked on it after some creative wiring. # ⚓ Ken Shirriff ☛ Reverse-engineering_the_waveform generator_in_a_1969_breadboard⠀⇛ How hard could it be to fix a vintage solderless breadboard that doesn’t quite work? The “elite 2 circuit design test system” below combined a solderless breadboard with some supporting circuitry: power supplies, a waveform generator, a pulse generator, switches, and lights. CuriousMarc found one of these breadboards on eBay, but the function generator didn’t work, so we set out to repair it. # ⚓ RevK ☛ Environmental_sensors_(SCD41_CO₂)⠀⇛ However, there is now an SCD41, which is much smaller, and neater. It talks a similar but different protocol – slightly more sane in providing simple integer values (with a scale+offset for temperature) rather than actual “floats” in 32 bit words. They use I²C protocol with CRC checks on each 2 bytes – yeh, special! # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ 3D_print_you_own_replica_Astro_Pi flight_case⠀⇛ # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ XDA ☛ Nearby_Share_on_Android_now_officially_supports group_transfers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Business Insider ☛ How_to_Set_up_Call_Forwarding_on an_Android_Phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_use_Focus_Mode_on_Android_–_Phandroid⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Hands-on_with_Here_WeGo’s_Android Auto_beta,_your_next_Google_Maps_alternative⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ YouTube_is_bringing_video transcriptions_to_its_Android_app⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Action_Launcher_v49_improves Android’s_ugly_home_gesture_animation⠀⇛ # ⚓ Kim Kommando ☛ Use_an_Android?_Update_NOW_to_fix serious_security_flaws⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Pixel_Android_12_bugs,_problems,_&_issues tracker⠀⇛ # ⚓ You_can_change_the_Android_12_square_clock_on_Google Pixel_lock_screen⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux On Mobile ☛ Weekly_Update_(10/2022): Squeekboard_gets_a_new_look,_Nheko_0.9.2,_Dirty_Pipes and_Tow-Boot_being_released_for_PinePhone_and_PinePhone Pro [Ed: Summary of developers around GNU/Linux in mobile, preceded by exaggeration and FUD, citing Microsoft sources]⠀⇛ There’s some good news and some bad news. Dirty Pipe is not a fun vulnerability, and our GNU/Linux Phones have new enough kernels to be vulnerable. At least that new Spectre variant does not affect Cortex A53 phones – having in-order cores only is not always disadvantageous. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Tor ☛ New_Release:_Tor_Browser_11.0.8_ (Android)⠀⇛ Tor Browser 11.0.8 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. This version includes important security updates to Firefox: # ⚓ Tor ☛ New_Alpha_Release:_Tor_Browser_11.5a6_ (Windows/macOS/Linux)⠀⇛ Tor Browser 11.5a6 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. This version includes important security updates to Firefox: # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Mary_Coombs,_first_woman_commercial programmer,_dies_at_93⠀⇛ British programmer Mary Coombs, the first woman to program a computer designed for commercial applications, passed away on February 28 at the age of 93. Coombs (née Blood), was born in northwest London on February 4, 1929 to William Blood and Ruth Blood (née Petri). She graduated from Queen Mary University London with a BA Honors degree in French. After spending a summer teaching English in Switzerland, she returned home in 1952 and took a temporary job in the ice-cream sales office of food chain J. Lyons & Co. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ One_person’s_war_is_another hemisphere’s_developer_crunch⠀⇛ Thousands of developers are fleeing the war in Ukraine, while thousands more in Russia have been sanctioned out of being able to work in the West. There are two ways out, and one is to automate those jobs. This is according to Jennifer Thomson, IDC research lead for accelerated application delivery, cloud, and services, who says Russia’s war against Ukraine will have a massive impact on companies that look abroad for developers, if for no other reason than the sheer numbers of tech professionals in the country. “Look at the [Ukrainian government's] website, and it just tells you 130,000 engineering graduates and 16,000 IT graduates [emerge] yearly. That’s actually twice as many as countries like the UK or Poland are able to churn out,” Thomson said. # ⚓ How_to_Dockerize_a_Node.js_Web_App⠀⇛ Docker is a containerization platform that simplifies the packaging and execution of applications. Containers run as isolated processes with their own filesystem but share their host’s kernel. Docker has risen to prominence as a way of implementing reproducible development environments and distributed deployment architectures. Node.js is the leading JavaScript runtime for backend development. Successfully launching a Node.js web service requires you to have an environment with the runtime installed, your application code available, and a mechanism that handles automatic restarts in case of a crash. # ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ Calibre_5.x_–_I_can’t_create_a working_package_|_Alien_Pastures⠀⇛ Calibre is my favorite e-book library management program. My repository contains a package for Calibre 4.x which works well, but it is using Python2 and has been superseded since September 2020 by the new 5.x releases which are based on Python3. I have been postponing the Slackware package migration from 4.x to 5.x until Slackware 15.0 would be released, since the move from Python 2 to 3 promised to be a significant effort in terms of changing the calibre.SlackBuild script. Now that Slackware 15.0 is available, I decided to pick up this chore and re-write the build script to support Calibre 5.x. The re-write took several days because of all the new Python modules that are now required by Calibre 5. I have dropped support for embedding a copy of the Qt5 libraries and compiling an embedded Python interpreter is no longer optional. It simplified the script and reduced the compile-time a lot (no more Qt5 compilation). # ⚓ Connection_String_in_MongoDB_(with_examples)_|_FOSS Linux⠀⇛ or apps to connect to a database server, they must use a connection string, which is an expression that contains all of the parameters needed. Connection strings provide the server instance, database name, authentication details, and other parameters for interacting with the database server. # ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ curl_no_clobber_|_daniel.haxx.se⠀⇛ That idea hadn’t even been listed for twenty years before it was converted into code by HexTheDragon and landed in curl the other day (with this commit). To get included in the pending curl 7.83.0 release. # ⚓ Petter_Reinholdtsen:_Publish_Hargassner_wood_chip boiler_state_to_MQTT⠀⇛ If I am to believe various free software implementations talking to such boiler, the interpretation of the line of numbers differ between type of boiler and software version on the boiler. By comparing the list of numbers on the front panel of the boiler with the numbers returned via TCP, I have been able to figure out several of the numbers, but there are a lot left to understand. I’ve located several temperature measurements and hours running values, as well as oxygen measurements and counters. I decided to write a simple parser in Python for the values I figured out so far, and a simple MQTT injector publishing both the interpreted and the unknown values on a MQTT bus to make collecting and graphing simpler. The end result is available from the hargassner2mqtt project page on gitlab. I very much welcome patches extending the parser to understand more values, boiler types and software versions. I do not really expect very few free software developers got their hands on such unit to experiment, but it would be fun if others too find this project useful. # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ XS_versus_clang:_Infinite_warnings⠀⇛ Around the beginning of 2022 I started noticing a large number of warnings when compiling XS modules under macOS 12 Monterey. These looked like warning: ‘(‘ and ‘{‘ tokens introducing statement expression appear in different macro expansion contexts [- Wcompound-token-split-by-macro], and appeared to originate fairly deeply in Perl’s macro stack. This week I was moved to address them for my one lone XS distribution, Mac- Pasteboard. Not only are they really annoying, but they would make it difficult or impossible to find anything more serious. A little web searching seemed to say that this warning was added in clang 12.0, and is enabled by default. Beyond that, I did not find much. A Ruby ticket turned up, but the patch involved rewriting the relevant macros so that the warning was not tickled. A desultory check of a few other XS modules that came to mind did not provide any help — they all showed the same behavior. # ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_Rcpp 1.0.8.2:_Hotfix_release_per_CRAN_request⠀⇛ A new hot-fix release 1.0.8.2 of Rcpp just got to CRAN. It will also be uploaded to Debian shortly, and Windows and macOS binaries will appear at CRAN in the next few days. This release breaks with the six-months cycle started with release 1.0.5 in July 2020 as CRAN desired an update to silence nags from the newest clang version which turned a little loud over a feature deprecated in C++11 (namely std::unary_function() and std:: binary_function()). This was easy to replace with std::function() which we did. The release also contains a minor bugfix relative to 1.0.8 and C++98 builds, and minor correction to one pdf vignette. The release was fully tested by us and CRAN as usual against all reverse dependencies. # ⚓ Perl ☛ Perl_Weekly_Challenge_155:_Fortunate Numbers_and_Pisano_Periods⠀⇛ # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ Install_Jupyter_Notebook_on_Debian 11_Bullseye_Linux_–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛ The Jupyter Project is a non-profit initiative that aims to develop and provide open-source software and open standards for interactive work. One of the most famous products of the project is Jupyter Notebook. In a Jupyter notebook, numbers, text, graphics, and executable program code can be combined and made available to users. Other products include JupyterLab, JupyterHub, and Voilà. Jupyter also supports numerous other languages ​​such as C++, Ruby, Haskell, PHP, Java, and many others via so- called kernels. The user accesses a notebook on a Jupyter notebook server via a web browser and can interact with the data and information. The format of the Jupyter Notebooks is the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format. It allows cross-functional collaboration. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Baseball_Is_Back⠀⇛ There is joy in Muddville this morning, because the Major League Baseball season is officially back. The 99-day owners’ lockout is over, a new CBA being ratified, and, not only is baseball returning but, despite the second- longest work stoppage in MLB history, no games will be lost. Teams will take the field in time for April 15, the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s entry into the sport. That all 162 games will be played is a departure from what Rob Manfred, the MLB commissioner, said from the podium earlier this month during what looked like a negotiating standstill. In the minds of players, this will be reason number 1,000 why Manfred is not to be trusted. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ At_the_Przemyśl_Station⠀⇛ Przemyśl, Poland—It is 10 hours by train from here to Gdánsk, six hours to Warsaw, four hours to Kraków. “Some of these people don’t even know where Gdánsk is,” Yulia volunteered, smoking outside the station here as streams of refugees wheeled their belongings up and down past her. Yulia is 30, an artist, Ukrainian by origin, and now living in Poland. “Warsaw is full. Kraków is full,” she said. Two hundred thousand Ukrainian refugees are now estimated to be in the capital, more than a tenth of Warsaw’s current population. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ A_Socialist_in_the_Newsroom:_Kent_MacDougall, 1931–2021⠀⇛ Halfway through my first year as dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley in 1989, a long front- page story appeared in the Los Angeles Times about a politically charged situation: Kent MacDougall, who had joined the teaching ranks at Berkeley after a distinguished reporting career at The Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, had just published a confessional that he had been a closet socialist while reporting for these two establishment bastions. o ⚓ Tedium ☛ Tesco_Meal_Deal_Price_Increase:_Inflation,_Up_Close⠀⇛ We have been subjected to a suspicious number of viral food stories in the last 10 years or so. There was “The Chicken Sandwich War,” that period we all awkwardly fetishized bacon, and the continuing wonder over most things Costco. Something about these stories has always bothered me, but a recent British kerfuffle has helped me pinpoint why. And I’m going to take a potshot at David Foster Wallace in the process. Today’s Tedium is looking across the pond at a recent controversy over the Tesco meal deal and why the food made at supermarkets matters. o ⚓ When_the_Water_Stops:_Water_Survival_Skills_for_a_Disaster ⠀⇛ When the “Big One” shakes Oregon or an ice storm freezes our pipes solid, it will damage our water and sanitation systems. What’s your plan for staying hydrated and clean if the water stops flowing for weeks? During the upcoming Cedar Hills Ready! presentation, we’ll focus on the steps you can take now to ensure you and your family have enough clean water to survive… o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Mark Dominus ☛ Bad_but_interesting_mathematical_notation idea⠀⇛ Well, this is a terrible idea, and I’ll explain why I think so in some detail. But I really hope nobody will think I mean this as any sort of criticism of its author. I have a lot of ideas too, and most of them are amazingly bad, way worse than this one. Having bad ideas doesn’t make someone a bad person. And just because an idea is bad, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth considering; thinking about ideas is how you decide which ones are bad and which aren’t. M. Brown’s idea was interesting enough for me to think about it and write an article. That’s a compliment, not a criticism. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ Ukraine’s_libraries_are_offering_bomb_shelters, camouflage_classes_and,_yes,_books⠀⇛ Libraries are playing vital roles in supporting Ukraine’s war effort from giving families shelters during Russian bombing raids to making camouflage nets for the military and countering disinformation. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ European_Union_Says_China_Fabricated_Top Official’s_Quote⠀⇛ Borrell, whose official title is high representative of the union for foreign affairs and security policy and vice president of the EU Commission, “never called China a ‘peace-loving superpower,’ ” said a statement provided by the press office and attributed to “an EU official.” “We are only very well aware about their [China's] aggressive approach in South China Sea or internally,” the statement said. “This is apparently somebody trying to put word[s] in his [Borrell's] mouth.” o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ HPC Wire ☛ Tachyum_Advances_System_Software_To_Pre- Production_State [Ed: UEFI is not a feature but a defect. Tachyum should know better. But in computing the users have long been abandoned, they're presumed malicious]⠀⇛ Tachyum today announced the latest progress made by its software team that advances the capabilities of its Tachyum Prodigy processor, as the company continues to progress towards production-ready status. Among the enhancements to Prodigy are improvements to its Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification-based BIOS (Basic Input Output System) replacement firmware and the incorporation of the latest versions of the QEMU emulator and GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Building_A_Lego_Paper_Shredder⠀⇛ Sometimes we need to destroy documents before throwing them away for security reasons, and shredders are a primary way of achieving that. If you don’t have your own, you might consider building your own, like [Brick Experiment Channel] did using Lego. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Clock_Testing_Sans_Oscilloscope?⠀⇛ Like many people who repair stuff, [Learn Electronics Repair] has an oscilloscope. But after using it to test a motherboard crystal oscillator, he started thinking about how people who don’t own a scope might do the same kind of test. He picked up a frequency counter/crystal tester kit that was quite inexpensive — under $10. He built it, and then tried it to see how well it would work in- circuit. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Making_A_Locket_From_A_Coin⠀⇛ Some countries have strict laws around the destruction or alteration of issued currency, but then again, some countries don’t. Citizens of those in the latter category may enjoy undertaking a build similar to this locket created by [Elier Olivos], crafted from a large coin. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ You_Can_Build_Your_Own_Sushi_Train⠀⇛ According to [Garage Avenger], in Norwegian culture it’s considered impolite to ask for things to be passed across a dinner table, so much standing and reaching is the course of the day. To assist in reducing the effort required, he set about building his own sushi train device to solve the problem, giving equal condiment access to all! # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Wireless_Headphone_Charger_Without_The Wireless⠀⇛ We’re all used to the idea of wireless charging, usually in the form of an induction coil on which a mobile phone or other appliance can be placed for a top-up. Not every battery-powered appliance has a built-in wireless charging coil though, meaning that despite the tech being available we all still have a jumble of wires. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Metal_3D_Printing_Hack_Chat_Brings_The Heat⠀⇛ At this point, it’s safe to say the novelty of desktop 3D printing has worn off. The community has largely come to terms with the limitations of extruded plastics, and while we still vehemently believe that it’s a transformative technology, we’ll admit there aren’t too many applications where a $200 USD printer squirting out PLA is truly the best tool for the job. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_159:_Zombie_Killer_Or_Rug Maker,_3D_Printed_Rims,_1950s_Drum_Machines,_And_Batteries_On Wheels⠀⇛ Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi as they look back on the best hacks and stories of the previous week. There’s plenty in the news to talk about, though between faulty altimeters and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, it isn’t exactly of the positive variety. But things brighten up quickly as discussion moves on to 3D printed car wheels, a fantastically complex drum machine from 1958, a unique take on the seven-segment flip display, and a meticulously designed (and documented) coffee machine upgrade. Somewhere in there a guy also recreates a rare German anti-air rocket launcher from WWII, but it’s all in the name of history. We’ll also tackle two very different forms of electric propulsion, from the massive wheeled batteries popping up in garages and driveways all over the world to high-efficiency thrusters for deep space missions. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Two_Years_Into_Pandemic,_Human_Rights_Watch Warns_of_Lessons_Not_Learned⠀⇛ Experts at a leading U.S. human rights group marked the two-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic declaration on Friday by highlighting lessons that the global community should apply going forward. “Policy responses which only focus on the situations within a single country’s borders are both shortsighted and incompatible with international human rights norms.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Long-Banned_Private_Hospitals_in Ontario_Could_Soon_Return⠀⇛ In many ways, the long-running battle to save medicare from privatization is a battle for the soul of Canada. And it’s a battle that’s about to heat up. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Report:_Recent_10x_Increase_in Cyberattacks_on_Ukraine⠀⇛ As their cities suffered more intense bombardment by Russian military forces this week, Ukrainian Internet users came under renewed cyberattacks, with one Internet company providing service there saying they blocked ten times the normal number of phishing and malware attacks targeting Ukrainians. # ⚓ Teleport ☛ How_to_Set-up_an_Identity-Aware_Access Proxy_as_a_Bastion_Host_in_AWS⠀⇛ More and more business-critical applications run on Amazon Web Services. Protecting these mission-critical applications from potential attacks requires moving beyond typical security approaches such as using only a jump box or firewall to control access. This multi-part tutorial will show how DevOps teams can secure their AWS services using a zero-trust, identity-based approach that not only increases security, but improves developer productivity. We will demonstrate these use cases using Teleport, an open- source, identity-based access solution that unifies access for AWS services such as EC2, RDS, EKS, and more. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ The_TikTok_and_Oracle_‘trusted_technology partner’_deal_might_really_happen⠀⇛ TikTok is reportedly close to finalizing a deal with Oracle that would see the short- form video platform storing its US users’ data without providing access to Chinese parent company ByteDance. As first reported by Reuters, a dedicated team of engineers and cyber security workers would act as gatekeepers for US users’ data and would likely not be under TikTok’s supervision. # ⚓ Buzz Feed ☛ Inside_Project_Texas,_TikTok’s_Big_Answer To_US_Lawmakers’_China_Fears⠀⇛ The heart of Project Texas has been the creation of US-specific clones of TikTok’s internal systems. Some of these systems are tracking and analytics tools, like the ones that employees use to monitor content virality, while others affect what users see, like the recommendation algorithm that powers TikTok’s popular “For You” page. The new US- specific systems, including all US user data, will be hosted in data centers owned by Oracle, TikTok’s “trusted technology partner.” (The project name is a nod to Oracle’s headquarters in Austin.) New controls will restrict access to the systems to a new US-based team, called US Tech Services (USTS). Once Project Texas is complete, TikTok plans to replicate it in Europe. # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ Dark Reading ☛ Hundreds_of_Open Source_Components_Could_Undermine Security,_Census_Finds [Ed: This FUD was funded by Microsoft proxies and used_Microsoft_data. Now it’s being used against Linux, which the Linux Foundation happily harms for Microsoft proxies that have infiltrated it.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ ‘Open_Source_in_Entertainment:_How the_Academy_Software_Foundation Creates_Shared_Value’_Research_Paper Released⠀⇛ Written by noted journalist Barbara Robertson, the paper visits the origins of today’s open source technology in modern filmmaking beginning with cutting edge digital visual effects and animation in the 1990s followed in the early 2000s with the release of ILM’s OpenEXR and Sony Pictures Imageworks’ OpenColorIO. # ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ 68_New_Members_Join the_Cloud_Native_Computing Foundation⠀⇛ # ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ 68_New_Members_Join the_Cloud_Native_Computing Foundation⠀⇛ # § Security⠀➾ # § Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/ Dramatisation⠀➾ # ⚓ Shacknews ☛ Linux_bug_Dirty_Pipe_a ‘serious_vulnerability,’_could_affect_Steam Decks [Ed: Shoveling up FUD to distract from Microsoft's back doors]⠀⇛ A Linux kernel bug cataloged as CVE-2022-0847 – which is being referred to as Dirty Pipe due to its similarity to another exploit, Dirty Cow – was recently discovered, though it has reportedly been present in all kernels since version 5.8. The bug was reported to the Linux kernel security team by the individual who discovered it, Max Kellermann of CM4all parent company IONOS, back in February. A fix for the issue was provided by Kellermann three days after the bug was reported, and can be found here. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Twitter_launches_its_Tor_Project onion_address [Ed: Twitter is all about surveillance. Just like Facebook, it now targets fools who wrongly believe it can be used anonymously. Use Nitter instead. Twitter does not care about your privacy. It's only looking to broaden the reach of the propaganda in it, bypassing blocks.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ NBC ☛ The_[Internet]’s_meth_underground, hidden_in_plain_sight⠀⇛ Though he was alone in his room, he was using drugs with other people. As he was injecting methamphetamine, he connected with hundreds of other individuals doing the same thing over Zoom. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Following_The_Murder_Of_George Floyd,_The_Minneapolis_PD_Built_A_Large- Scale_Surveillance_Program⠀⇛ There’s no business like cop business. When business is bad — like it can be following a high- profile murder by one of your officers — cops double down. They complain there’s too much scrutiny. They attack and punish people for engaging in First Amendment-protected activities. They engage in the very violence being protested against. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Hungary ☛ In_lieu_of_his_usual_Friday_interview,_Orbán posted_from_the_summit_of_EU_leaders⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hungary ☛ How_Hungarian_psychologists_are_providing_help for_Ukrainian_refugees⠀⇛ A group of Hungarian psychologists have begun helping adults and children on-line, on the phone and in person as well. Many Ukrainians arriving in Hungary – including children – are living under constant stress and are arriving with fresh traumas. Another thing they have in common is that they are all very worried about their loved ones who stayed at home. The parents can’t afford to fall apart, as they are the last bastion of security for their children, so it’s no wonder they are thankful if they can take a short break while someone else plays with their children. A playgroup has been started for this purpose – for now, only twice a week, but this is subject to change.Translation by Andrea Horváth Kávai # ⚓ Hungary ☛ In_just_one_week_the_government_known_for_its anti-migrant_campaigning_transformed_Hungary_into_a_refuge⠀⇛ Hungary is offering work, shelter, and safety to Ukrainians and Transcarpathian Hungarians fleeing the aggression of Vladimir Putin. However, the legal landscape established in Hungary in 2015 has been making it difficult to adequately provide for the refugees fleeing the Russian invasion. What has changed? Translated by Dominic Spadacene # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Inspired_by_Oligarch_Plane_Tracker, Greenpeace_Follows_Russian_Oil_Tankers_Funding_Putin’s_War⠀⇛ Inspired by a Florida teenager who tracks U.S. and Russian oligarchs’ private jets, Greenpeace U.K. on Friday began identifying, tracking, and publishing the location of Russia-flagged ships transporting fossil fuels following President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. “Europe is set to spend up to €285m per day for Russian oil, which props up his war effort while our bills continue to soar.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 9/11_Families_to_Biden:_No_Detente_With Saudis_Without_Accountability_for_2001_Attacks⠀⇛ The chair of a coalition representing 3,000 families who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001 is calling on President Joe Biden to demand accountability from Saudi officials for the attacks should the president appeal to the kingdom regarding oil production. White House advisers are reportedly considering arranregaging a trip to Saudi Arabia where the president would talk with officials about ramping up output to help ease prices that have risen following Russia’s attack on Ukraine. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 80_Experts_Agree:_‘Reckless’_No-Fly_Zone ‘Would_Mean_Going_to_War_With_Russia’⠀⇛ Nearly 80 foreign policy experts on Thursday urged the Biden administration to continue opposing a no- fly zone in Ukrainian airspace, warning that such a “reckless” policy would risk bringing the United States into a “shooting war with Russian forces” as they ramp up their assault on their neighbor. “A no-fly zone would expand the war, not stop it.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Civilians_‘Paying_the_Highest_Price’_for ‘Utter_Devastation’_of_Ukraine:_UN_Official⠀⇛ As Russia’s forces were reportedly “pushing into smaller cities and encircling larger ones” across Ukraine on Friday, civilians continued to endure the devastating consequences of the invasion launched last month by Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The utter devastation being visited on these cities is horrific.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Is_Russia_Trying_to_Scuttle_Iran Nuclear_Talks?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_How_the_Ukraine_Invasion_Ends_May Depend_on_the_Resistance_of_Russian_Mothers_and_China⠀⇛ Only three days into his invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s war plan was faltering. The main intention, to take capital city Kyiv within 48 hours, depended on minimal military opposition and even some support from a welcoming public. Both would also ease Kremlin’s second aim: consolidating control of Crimea and Donbas. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ There’s_No_Such_Thing_as_a_War_“Over_There” Anymore⠀⇛ In recent days, experts have begun laying out the potential hardships the Russian invasion of Ukraine might inflict here in the United States, thousands and thousands of miles from the battle zone. As former White House national security official Richard Clarke bluntly put it, “Russia will bring the war to our homeland.” He pointed to potential damage in two particular realms, possible Russian cyberattacks and disinformation meant to unsettle our domestic politics. Similarly, economists and financial firms are predicting what an ongoing war in Ukraine could mean in terms of rising prices for wheat, vegetable oil, and oil and gas, among other commodities. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ When_the_University_was_Antiwar⠀⇛ However, even at its peak, the number of faculty participating in this and other actions designed to protest the war were in the minority. Much more common in US academia was either a tacit acceptance of the way things were or an active defense of the policies Washington was engaged in. As historian Ellen Schrecker makes clear in her book The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s, part of this defense stemmed from institutional and individual connections to the government and corporate America via research and teaching grants and relationships. Neither the universities’ administrations or their faculty so tethered were willing to bite the hand that fed them, so to speak. Ultimately, their inaction and even defense of US policy in Vietnam and elsewhere were no different than that found in mainstream media and the general population. Consequently, when individuals employed in academia began to publicly oppose the war in Vietnam, they were met with a venom previously reserved for traitors and communists (which are often synonymous in the American mind). Besides the pillorying in the media, those professors and researchers who spoke out faced discipline, loss of funding, and threats to their jobs, even if they had tenure. Schrecker discusses a few of these cases; Michael Parenti’s dismissal from the University of Vermont is one such case and Bruce Franklin’s from Stanford is two of them. Cursorily, Noam Chomsky, who may be the best known of all leftist US academics and wrote the seminal essay titled The Responsibility of the Intellectuals in 1967 calling on this demographic to act against the US war, never lost his job at MIT. Some college administrations respect the concept of academic freedom more than they do the money represented by trustees, regents, and donors, apparently. Or maybe their financial situations are pretty much impenetrable. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Invasion_of_Ukraine_a_‘turning_point’_for Putin’s_Russia⠀⇛ Wood is a lecturer at Princeton University (United States), New Left Review editorial board member and author of Russia without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War and Chechnya: The Case for Independence. Below he discusses the Kremlin’s irrational strategy, NATO’s role in the conflict and how progressives can help support the people in Ukraine and Russia currently challenging Putin’s rule. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Imperialist_Roots_of_Putin’s_Policy⠀⇛ Throughout the world’s long and bloody history, other powerful territories (and, later, nations) expanded their lands through imperial conquest, including Rome, China, Spain, France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and the United States. Russia was no exception. Beginning with the small principality of Moscow in 1300, Russia employed its military might to crush neighboring peoples and gobble up territory across the vast Eurasian continent. Under the czars, it became known as the “prison of nations.” By the early twentieth century, Imperial Russia was the largest country in the world―and, also, one of the most brutal and reactionary. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Geopolitics_and_the_Ukraine_War in_a_World_on_Fire⠀⇛ Just as the relentless grinding of the earth’s tectonic plates produces earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, so the endless superpower struggle for dominance over Eurasia is fraught with tensions and armed conflict. Beneath the visible outbreak of war in Ukraine and the U.S.-Chinese naval standoff in the South China Sea, there is now an underlying shift in geopolitical power in process across the vast Eurasian landmass—the epicenter of global power on a fast-changing, overheating planet. Take a moment to step back with me to try to understand what’s now happening on this increasingly embattled globe of ours. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Atrocities⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Congress_Is_Eager_to_Sanction_Russia,_Whatever the_Cost⠀⇛ The West has declared total economic war with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, with the United States unleashing a sweeping set of sanctions and financial restrictions designed to crush the economy of a nuclear superpower. The array of sanctions imposed on Russia is unprecedented in both scope and speed, and Congress wants President Joe Biden to go even further. # ⚓ Site36 ☛ First_deployment_on_the_edge_of_a_war_zone:_EU sends_Frontex_to_Moldova⠀⇛ In just a few days, the Republic of Moldova could command units of the EU border force, the deployment is already being prepared. However, a status agreement currently being negotiated with the government in Chisinau would have to exclude operations in Transnistria, where Russia has stationed military forces. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ What_Polls_About_a_Ukraine_‘No-Fly_Zone’_Really_Tell Us⠀⇛ Last week, Reuters/Ipsos (3/4/22) reported on a poll that found # ⚓ FAIR ☛ ‘These_Attacks_Are_on_Children_and_Their_Families’⠀⇛ # ⚓ FAIR ☛ Khury_Petersen-Smith_on_Economic_Sanctions,_Greg LeRoy_on_Amazon_Subsidies⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Russia’s_Invasion_of_Ukraine_May_Have_Disastrous Cascading_Effects_for_Climate⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Roaming_Charges:_The_Trembling_Air⠀⇛ Slowly we learned about each other, mostly through Anna, a woman a few years younger than us, who knocked at the door one late summer evening in 2005 and asked very politely in practiced English whether she could buy some of our apples. I told her she could pick as many as she wanted and declined the dollar bills she held out in her hand. The next morning we found a wicker basket on our porch, overflowing with zucchini, tomatoes, green peppers, and beans, harvested from Anna’s magnificent vegetable garden. I’ve never been quite sure what Anna’s husband, Yevgeny, did for a living. His English was not as proficient as hers and we communicated mainly through nods and gestures. He spent most of his time working on various kinds of small engines in his garage and driveway. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ “They_Want_War”:_An_Open_Letter_to_Visual Artists_and_Critics⠀⇛ Before I say anything else, let me to extend to Ukrainians my fervent hope for your safety. If you are sheltering with family, friends, or neighbors, please find comfort in companionship, and solace in dreams of better times. If you are a refugee, I hope you have been welcomed with generosity – no one should have to experience what you have. If you are fighting, I wish you success! But please remember that retreat in the face of overwhelming odds is not timidity; it’s tactics. To Russian artists and writers: I salute your courage in protesting this war. If police repression has made that impossible, please know that others around the world are speaking out on your behalf in opposition to invasion and violence. We understand that many ordinary Russians, perhaps a majority, oppose the war, and want to remove Putin from power. We know just how they feel. How often have we said out loud, under successive U.S. presidents, “Not my war!” or “Not in my name!” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Ukraine’s_War_of_Illusions⠀⇛ Just this morning, I watched retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman—the Boy Scout of impeachment fame who is now working on his cable news merit badge—bang the drum of a wider war in Eastern Europe. In arguing for Apocalypse, Now!, Vindman is making the point that Putin is a combination of a Genghis Khan and Ivan the Terrible who must be stopped with Patriot missiles, Stealth bombers, and Abrams tanks; otherwise, before you know it, he will be astride the continent, if not raping Belgian nuns (one of the rumors that fueled the early days of World War I). # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Russia_and_Ukraine:_Notes_From_Berlin⠀⇛ But in marching and demonstrating, in Germany, the U.S.A. or elsewhere, it would be wise to look carefully at some who are next to you, or up there on the speakers’ platform, waving blue and yellow flags and loudly praising resistance, democracy, people’s sovereignty and other fine goals. Am I mistaken in wondering: Didn’t I see some of them before, actively opposing just such goals? And don’t some of them smell suspiciously of luxurious skyscraper corner offices, or of that giant geometrical structure near the Potomac, or of the Bender Block, its Berlin equivalent? # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Plank_in_Uncle_Sam’s_Eye:_A_Plea_for Humility_as_War_Pigs_Move_to_“Close_the_Sky”⠀⇛ Take Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s criminal invasion of Ukraine. It is a clear violation of international law and human decency. Putin’s forces have laid waste to civilian apartment complexes, schools, and hospitals, causing hundreds if not thousands of Ukrainian civilian deaths along with deaths of untold thousands of Ukrainian and Russian soldiers. None of the Kremlin’s grievances against the Ukraine government, the United States (US), and US-led NATO justifies the mass-murderous Russian invasion, with the predictable commission of war crimes (targeting power plants, including nuclear ones, assaulting civilians and civilian targets, etc.) Putin was not forced to descend to this grotesque level. He could have tried to address his complaints through diplomatic, economic, and political channels. War is not the answer. When a Leftist like myself likens Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to the United States’ devastating and mass-murderous invasion of Iraq in 2003 or to the US-funded and US-equipped ally and client state Israel’s devastating and mass murderous assaults on Gaza or to the US-funded and US-equipped US ally and client Saudi Arabia’s devastating and mass- murderous assault on Yemen, I do not do so to excuse Putin’s inexcusable crimes but to suggest the wisdom of some “spoken word” voiced by an olive-skinned Mediterranean anti-imperialist peasant-carpenter from Roman times: # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Geopolitics_of_the_Ukraine_War⠀⇛ If geology explains the earth’s eruptions, geopolitics is the tool we need to grasp the deeper meaning of the devastating war in Ukraine and the events that led to this crisis. As I explain in my recent book, To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change, geopolitics is essentially a method for the management of empire through the use of geography (air, land, and sea) to maximize military and economic advantage. Unlike conventional nations, whose peoples can be readily mobilized for self-defense, empires are, by dint of their extraterritorial reach and the perils inherent in any foreign military deployment, a surprisingly fragile form of government. To give an empire a fighting chance of survival against formidable odds requires a resilient geopolitical architecture. For nearly 100 years, the geopolitical theories of an obscure Victorian geographer, Sir Halford Mackinder, have had a profound influence on a succession of leaders who sought to build or break empires in Eurasia — including Adolf Hitler, U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, and, most recently, Vladimir Putin. In an academic essay published in 1904, when the Trans-Siberian Railway was completing its 5,700-mile crawl from Moscow to Vladivostok, Mackinder argued that future rails would knit Eurasia into a unitary landmass that, along with Africa, he dubbed the tri-continental “world island.” When that day came, Russia, in alliance with another land power like Germany — and, in our time, we might add China — could expand across Eurasia’s endless central “heartland,” allowing, he predicted, “the use of vast continental resources for fleet-building, and the empire of the world would be in sight.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Interview_with_Russian_Marxist_Andrei_Rudoi on_Ukranian_War_and_More⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Germany_Deserves_a_Big_Share_of_the_Blame for_the_Ukraine_Disaster⠀⇛ Sure Russia is guilty of a huge war crime in invading Ukraine. Surely too, the US must be blamed for creating the situation which led Russia and its autocratic leader Vladimir Putin to decide it had to invade to prevent Ukraine from being pulled into the US orbit with the goal that it would ultimately become a base for US offensive weapons — even nuclear weapons — on Russia’s border — something the US would never allow to happen anywhere in its self-proclaimed “backyard” of Latin America and the Caribbean. But Germany, the largest country in NATO after the US, is almost as guilty for this current war in Europe as is the United States. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Belarus_Military_Dissent_Could_be_a_Key_to Peace_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ First a little background. Massive pro-democracy protests rocked the regime of Alexander Lukashenko in 2020, after he stole an election from opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. Lukashenko called on Putin to send Russian troops to crush the protests, and threats forced Tikhanovskaya to flee to Lithuania. Some military officials and draft-age youth also left at the time. Lukashenko’s hijacking of a civilian jetliner last year caused most countries to cancel all flights to the capital of Minsk. He most recently allowed Russia to use Belarus as a staging area for the Ukraine invasion. One of Tikhanovskaya’s senior advisers, Franak Viacorka, confirms that Putin had planned for the Belarusian military to join his invasion (which Minsk denies). But the plan was foiled by a series of resignations by senior military officials, who fled the country and contacted the opposition-in- exile. Moreover, hundreds of young Belarusians of draft age have also fled across the closed borders, which is “dangerous and expensive.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Politics_and_Sports_Do_Mix:_On_FIFA’s Hypocrisy_in_Palestine_and_the_Need_to_Isolate_Apartheid Israel⠀⇛ For Palestinians, sport is a critical aspect of their popular culture, and since Palestinian culture itself is a target for the ongoing Israeli attack on Palestinian life in all of its manifestations, sports and athletes have been purposely targeted as well. Yet, the world’s main football governing body, FIFA, along with other international sports organizations, has done nothing to hold Israel accountable for its crimes against Palestinian sports. Now that FIFA, along with UEFA, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and others have swiftly joined the West’s anti-Russia measures as a result of the latter’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Palestinians and their supporters are puzzled. Years of relentless advocacy to sanction Israel at international sports competitions have paid little or no dividends. This has continued to be the case, despite the numerous documented facts of Israel’s intentional targeting of Palestinian stadiums, travel restrictions on athletes, the cancelation of sports events, the arrest and even killing of Palestinian footballers. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Russia_Has_Been_Baited_into_a_Repeat_of_the Afghan_Trap:_First_Time_as_Tragedy,_Second_Time_as_Sickening Farce⠀⇛ The current National Defence Strategy (NDS) of the USA explicitly endorses such a strategy, and it makes no bones about who it is aimed at. The NDS, authored by then-Secretary of Defence James Mattis in 2018, describes itself as “a clear road map for the Department of Defense to meet the challenges posed by a re-emergence of long-term strategic competition with China and Russia,” adding that “interstate strategic competition, not terrorism, is now the primary concern in US national security.” On p.5 of the summary document, under the heading “strategic approach,” the NDS vows that “with our allies and partners, we will challenge competitors by maneuvering them into unfavorable positions, frustrating their efforts, precluding their options while expanding our own, and forcing them to confront conflict under adverse conditions.” There it is, in black and white: it is official US policy to bait Russia into conflict. The US certainly has form in this regard. Until 1998, the mainstream view of US support for the anti-communist insurgency in Afghanistan throughout the 1980s was that it had been a response to the Russian invasion of December 1979. But in an interview in 1998, Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to US President Jimmy Carter, admitted that the truth was the exact opposite. In fact “it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention…The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter, essentially: ‘We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.’ Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war that was unsustainable for the regime, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.” Asked whether he regretted the move, which plunged Afghanistan into a conflict which is now into its fifth decade, he replied “Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it?” Plunging the Afghan people into a half- century of devastating war was of no consequence for the likes of Brzizinski. His successors clearly have the same attitude towards Ukraine. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Stirring_Up_Trouble_on_a_Second_Front:_US Honchos_Alight_in_Taiwan⠀⇛ This surprise visit of retired generals and others manages to insult and threaten China simultaneously. So I guess it’s a twofer for the virtuosos of idiot foreign policy in the Biden administration. The visit demonstrates support for Taiwan’s secessionist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). For the majority of Americans only passingly familiar with these potentially earth-exploding details, it’s a bit as if a group of eminent retired generals from the People’s Liberation Army visited Puerto Rico to boost the fighting spirit of violent separatists wanting to smash their link to the U.S. Except of course that Washington has never regarded Puerto Rico as a renegade, breakaway part of the mainland, since it never was. Unlike Taiwan, whose people are and speak Chinese, Puerto Rico has always maintained its own different language and culture. Making matters worse – because that’s our government’s modus operandi, right? – on March 2, South Korea’s Hankyoreh headlined that “Washington resurrects talk of two-war doctrine in nod to China.” Just in case Beijing thinks that a nuclear holocaust between Russia and NATO would tie our military’s hands, our kamikaze warriors’ message is “nope, we’ll fight a radioactive hot one over Taiwan too.” It kind of makes you wonder about the gray matter between the ears of the people in charge of our weapons of mass destruction. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Saudis_Are_Not_America’s_Friends. So Why_is_the_US_Still_Supporting_the_Saudi_War_on_Yemen?⠀⇛ Biden wants to talk to them about rising oil prices.  On March 8, President Biden announced a US ban on the import of Russian oil, natural gas, and coal, effective immediately.  The move is in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24.  Biden said that “targeting the main artery of Russia’s economy” will be “another powerful blow to Putin’s war machine.” Oil revenues account for 36% of the Russian government’s budget. Oil prices have soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  USA Today says that gasoline today is the “most expensive in US history,” breaking the record set in 2008.  The average price of a gallon of gas on March 9 was $4.25, up from $2.79 a year ago. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Threat_of_Nuclear_Conflict_is_Higher_Now Than_in_the_Cold_War⠀⇛ Putin carried out some nuclear sabre-rattling at the start of his war in Ukraine byputting his nuclear forces on a higher level of alert, saying that he was determined to deter foreign interference in his military campaign. Many dismissed his threat as rhetorical at the time, but since then his ill-planned invasion has continued to falter, showing up Moscow’s conventional military forces as weaker than anybody had supposed. Political leaders in the West now talk blithely of supporting regime change in Russia or imposing a no-fly zone on Ukraine, which would involve shooting down Russian planes and attacking anti- aircraft missile batteries inside Russia. These threats may not always be serious, but they are likely to be taken seriously in a paranoid Kremlin. With much of the Russian army tied down in Ukraine for the foreseeable future, Putin will increasingly look to his 1,000 to 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons to even up the balance against Nato in Eastern Europe. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Understanding_the_War_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ He writes to me from the south of Kyiv/Kiev, Ukraine, and recounts an anecdote: “What’s there at the front line?” asks one person. “Our troops are winning as usual!” comes the response. “Who are our troops?” the first person inquires and is told, “We’ll soon see…” In a war, everything is in dispute, even the name of Ukraine’s capital (Kyiv in Ukrainian, and Kiev in Russian, goes the debate online). Wars are among the most difficult of reporting assignments for a journalist. These days, especially, with the torrent of social media and the belligerence of network news television channels, matters on the ground are hard to sort out. Basic facts about the events taking place during a war are hard to establish, let alone ensuring the correct interpretation of these facts. Videos of apparent war atrocities that can be found on social media platforms like YouTube are impossible to verify. Often, it becomes clear that much of the content relating to war that can be found on these platforms has either been misidentified or is from other conflicts. Even the BBC, which has taken a very strong pro-Ukrainian and NATO position on this conflict, had to run a story about how so many of the viral claims about Russian atrocities are false. Among these false claims, which have garnered widespread circulation, is a video circulating on TikTok that wrongly alleges to be that of a “Ukrainian girl confronting a Russian soldier,” but is instead a video of the then-11-year-old Palestinian Ahed Tamimi confronting an Israeli soldier in 2012; the video continues to circulate on TikTok with the caption, “Little [girls] stand up to Russian soldiers.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ War_in_the_Age_of_Bernays⠀⇛ The first time was 1979. I was ten years old, in Omaha, Nebraska, which was an intolerant, ignorant place, and insolent about it, to boot. It was called, “Hostage Crisis.” In Iran, some students took over the US embassy and held a bunch of Americans captive for 444 days. The bad guy was the Ayatollah Khomeini. Everybody hated him. Everybody hated “Eye-Ran.” It was popular, this hatred. It was a bandwagon you were supposed to jump on. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Video_Games_For_Good:_Itch.io_Releases_“Bundle For_Ukraine,”_Raises_Millions_Of_Dollars⠀⇛ For all the posts we’ve done on the impact of video games on society, I have found myself typically either beating back the notion that gaming is a terrible thing responsible for all the world’s problems or talking about common IP conflicts. On the topic of the internet generally, well, it’s mostly the same. But we also have opportunities to talk about the good that gaming and the internet can do. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Why_Ukraine_Matters⠀⇛ The Cold War that kept the peace across most of the Global North was accompanied by nearly non-stop proxy wars between Moscow and Washington throughout the Global South. With the exception of the war in Yugoslavia and several conflicts in the former Soviet Union, the post-1989 Cold Peace held thereafter across the Global North, even as wars continued to rage in the Persian Gulf, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Algeria, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. Historically, too, times of peace have been so rare that they have acquired an unusual mystique across the centuries. About 2,500 years ago, the Indian emperor Ashoka was disgusted with war after a particularly violent campaign against the feudal kingdom of Kalinga that cost at least 100,000 lives. As a result, he converted to Buddhism and promoted an ethos of non-violence. This respite from war didn’t last long, for Ashoka’s empire crumbled upon his death, and wars again convulsed the Indian subcontinent. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Against_Imperialism_II⠀⇛ The Russian invasion of Ukraine must come to an end. The Russian state is ultra-reactionary, repressive, and imperialist. Criticism of NATO does not undermine these facts. There is a prevailing conception that current criticism of NATO is ‘whataboutism’ used to excuse Russian imperialism. This is not the case. Instead, criticism is intended to demonstrate that aligning with Western powers means supporting the same actions that are rightly condemned when carried out by the Russian state. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Call_for_Universal_Empathy:_We_are_the “Other”⠀⇛ In a sense, Russia is taking a page out of the US foreign policy playbook, which is replete with acts of subversion, destabilisation, invasion, occupation, war, etc, all with the goal of regime change in countries that are perceived to be threats to US ‘national interests’. Let me pose a rhetorical question. How many institutional statements and memes do you recall seeing after the US launched its invasion of Iraq, a sovereign nation like Ukraine, on 19 March 2003, followed by military occupation, hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries, mental and emotional trauma beyond measure, the displacement of millions and the destruction of wide swaths of Iraqi society, documented by Brown University’s Watson Institute, among others? # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_the_Russian_Invasion_of_Ukraine_Upended Germany⠀⇛ Last October, I sat in the office of Klaus Emmerich, the chief union representative at the Garzweiler brown-coal mine in western Germany, as he shared his misgivings about the country’s celebrated plan to stop burning coal. Germany’s build-up of renewable energy was lagging and, given that coal accounts for more than a quarter of its total electricity supply, that meant it would have to rely on another energy source for the time being: natural gas, which came mostly from Russia. “We’re giving ourselves over to the Russians,” Emmerich told me. “I have a bad feeling about it.” Five months later, Emmerich’s premonitions have borne out, powerfully. President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has unleashed civilian and military carnage, ravaged cities and sent some two million people fleeing the country. As its effects have rippled across Europe and the world, one consequence has gone underexamined: The invasion has upended the political and economic policies of Germany, where the government has reconsidered its long-planned energy transition; undone a congenial political stance toward Russia that lasted for half a century; and reversed a policy of military minimalism that dates to the end of the Second World War. In many ways, Germany has rethought its place in the world — all in two weeks. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Infamous_Russian_Troll_Farm_Appears_to_Be Source_of_Anti-Ukraine_Propaganda⠀⇛ Just before 11 a.m. Moscow Standard Time on March 1, after a night of Russian strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, a set of Russian-language Twitter accounts spread a lie that Ukraine was fabricating civilian casualties. One account created last year, @Ne_nu_Che, shared a video of a man standing in front of rows of dark gray body bags that appeared to be filled with corpses. As he spoke to the camera, one of the encased bodies behind him lifted its arms to stop the top of the bag from blowing away. The video was taken from an Austrian TV report about a climate change demonstration held in Vienna in February. But @Ne_nu_Che claimed it was from Ukraine. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Andrew_Bacevich:_Ukraine_is_Paying_the Price_for_the_U.S._“Recklessly”_Pushing_NATO_Expansion⠀⇛ What role did the United States play in creating conditions for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and what will it take to end the war? The U.S. invasion of Iraq, which saw no repercussions for the Bush administration despite breaching international humanitarian law, coupled with Cold War-era policies and NATO’s eastward expansion, incited Putin’s aggressions towards Ukraine, says retired colonel Andrew Bacevich, president and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. “American decision makers acted impetuously, and indeed recklessly, and now we’re facing the consequences,” says Bacevich. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Ukrainian_Resident_of_Besieged_Mykolaiv Describes_Lack_of_Food,_Water_As_Russian_Troops_Attack_City⠀⇛ We get an update from a Ukrainian volunteer on how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has besieged the strategic southern city of Mykolaiv, where Russian troops have targeted civilian areas for shelling. Many Ukrainians are asking European nations and the U.S. to establish a no-fly zone. We speak to Igor Yudenkov in Mykolaiv, a former IT professional who is now helping other residents find shelter, feeding pets left behind, and defending the city. Yudenkov has been separated from his wife and daughter, who are currently in Russian-occupied territory. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Defund_Putin’s_War_Machine:_Ukrainian Environmentalist_Calls_For_Global_Halt_to_Fossil_Fuel Funding⠀⇛ We speak to Svitlana Romanko, a leading Ukrainian environmental lawyer, based in the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk, which was bombed Friday. She describes the situation there, and discusses her hopes that new sanctions to prevent American banks from investing in Russian fossil fuels signal a tipping point that will force the world to transition to clean energy. Aside from its disastrous impact on the environment, Russian oil and gas has funded powerful oligarchs and the military industrial complex, which should prompt world leaders to invest in renewable energy in ways that will survive beyond the war, says Romanko. This week she co-authored an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times with 350.org founder Bill McKibben headlined “The Ukraine war is a decision point — banks should stop funding the fossil fuel industry forever.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Defund_Putin’s_War_Machine:_Ukrainian Environmentalist_Calls_For_Global_Halt_to_Fossil_Fuel Funding⠀⇛ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Russian_company_websites_hit_by_increased hacking_in_March,_says_cyber_firm⠀⇛ “Rostelecom-Solar specialists have noted significant growth in DDoS attacks in the commercial segment: more than 1,100 such attacks were recorded here from March 1 to 10, which has already exceeded the figures for the whole of February,” Rostelecom-Solar said. More than 450 attacks were recorded against banks, more than four times higher than the figure for February. # ⚓ The Economist ☛ Russia_threatens_to_sink_a_year_of_nuclear negotiations_with_Iran⠀⇛ Russia has some unique obligations under the deal, owing to its comparatively friendly ties with Iran. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as it is known, limited Iran to holding 300kg of uranium enriched to 3.67% purity. Any excess must be shipped to Russia and stored there. Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned nuclear-power firm, is also meant to help overhaul Fordow, a heavily fortified site near the Iranian city of Qom, transforming it from an enrichment facility to a medical-isotope plant. # ⚓ NPR ☛ Video_analysis_reveals_Russian_attack_on_Ukrainian nuclear_plant_veered_near_disaster⠀⇛ Last week’s assault by Russian forces on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was far more dangerous than initial assessments suggested, according to an analysis by NPR of video and photographs of the attack and its aftermath. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Islamic_State_Fighters_in_Iraq,_Africa_Line_Up Behind_New_Leader⠀⇛ The Islamic State group is moving to solidify support for its new leader, sharing photos on social media showing fighters uniting behind his rule. One set of photos obtained by JihadoScope, a company that monitors online activity by Islamist extremists, and shared with VOA on Friday, shows a small group of fighters in Kirkuk, Iraq, giving bay’ah, or pledging allegiance, to the new IS emir. A second set of photos shows a larger group of fighters purportedly from the group’s West Africa affiliate raising their weapons to the sky as they surround the black IS flag, also pledging allegiance to the new leader. Additional pledges have come in from some of IS group’s media divisions. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ The_sad_history_of_Ukraine⠀⇛ One thing that astounded me after the invasion of Iraq, was that George W. Bush got re-elected! That was a huge lesson to me. That was about when I started to realize that the USA has a parody of democracy. So, Putin telling lies to justify invading Ukraine, and manipulating the Russian media, nothing new here. I won’t post a link to that forum posted by the Russian person, as I don’t want to target any individual. Russians live under the thumb of an authoritarian regime, where news is heavily censored and twisted. So, it is not surprising that Russian people will be believing untruths. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Case_for_Declaring_a_National_Climate Emergency⠀⇛ Earlier this week, President Biden banned all oil and energy imports from Russia, punishing Vladimir Putin for his brutal war against Ukraine and building upon an earlier package of historic economic sanctions. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Fossil_Fuels_Cause_Global Crises,_Not_Fix_Them⠀⇛ Amid the mounting crisis in Ukraine, fossil fuel giants and an array of political leaders are using the guise of “global security” to promote an agenda that strengthens the dominance of dirty energy for decades to come.   # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 11_Years_After_Fukushima,_Campaigners Double_Down_on_Push_for_‘Peaceful,_Nuclear-Free World’⠀⇛ Environmental defenders marked the 11th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster on Friday with fresh demands for a renewable energy-powered future that safeguards both human and planetary health. “Maintaining nuclear power generation for the purpose of decarbonization is nothing short of a deliberate act of self-imposed harm.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Fracking_Energized?⠀⇛ Even though a spokesperson from the British government has announced that there will be no changes to current policies on fracking, which includes wells being decommissioned on the 30th June. However, this is best taken with a large pinch of salt (which could come from the increased salt levels in water surfaces produced by fracking) considering this government’s persistent U-turns in policies. As well as the fact that the 2019 moratorium on fracking is not set in stone, as it was mainly used to curry favor with voters before the General Election. Already groups such as the Global Warming Policy Foundation and Conservative Net Zero Scrutiny Group are pushing the debate for fracking. The argument is that Net Zero goals should be thrown aside (they claim temporarily) in the name of pragmatism and to use fracking as a way to detox from the current ‘addiction’ to Russian gas which is said to help fund war crimes in Ukraine. As many members of these groups were players in the Brexit campaign, the European Union is attacked for foolishly following ‘Green’ concerns and becoming entangled in reliance upon Russia for energy. According to this view Putin even supposedly had a hand in funding environmental groups that pushed for fracking bans. In summary, under this so- called realist perspective Britain is faced with the binary choice of either: energy security with fracking or the current road to decarbonisation supported by immoral energy purchasing. It supposedly can’t be both. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ New_Scientist_Festival_Shuns_Fossil_Fuel Sponsorship_After_Campaign_Pressure⠀⇛ The New Scientist magazine has quietly dropped fossil fuel sponsorship of its science festival amid mounting pressure from climate campaigners. The 2019 event had previously listed BP as a “zone sponsor” along with BAE Systems, while Shell sponsored the event’s “Earth Zone” in 2018. However, the New Scientist Live (NSL)  festival, which runs in Manchester this weekend, has no fossil fuel sponsors or exhibitors listed on its website. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Here_are_the_countries_that_import_the most_Russian_oil⠀⇛ European nations are the largest collective buyer of that oil, while China is the petro- state’s largest single purchaser. In 2021, Europe bought up about 42 percent of Russia’s total oil production, while China purchased 14 percent and 30 percent stayed in Russia. Other major countries to purchase Russian oil include Germany, the Netherlands, the U.S., Poland and South Korea. # ⚓ New Scientist ☛ Static_electricity_can_keep_desert solar_panels_free_of_dust⠀⇛ Static electricity could remove dust from desert solar panels, saving around 10 billion gallons of water every year. # ⚓ NPR ☛ With_federal_rules_unclear,_some_states_carve their_own_path_on_cryptocurrencies⠀⇛ Although President Biden just announced an executive order on cryptocurrencies, states still have little guidance about how to respond to the growing popularity of the digital currencies. So a number of states are jumping ahead with crypto bills of their own. What was once seen as a niche play for tech enthusiasts and investors crypto is now becoming a mainstream financial asset. Some bills go as far as trying to make crypto legal tender, meaning it would be recognized by law to settle debts, both public and private. Here’s what some states are doing: [...] # ⚓ [Old] NPR ☛ How_the_U.S._benefits_when_China_turns its_back_on_Bitcoin⠀⇛ FENG: The Chinese government had had enough. It found the unregulated cryptocurrency a dangerous idea, and it blamed miners for sucking up too much power. For years, it made it hard for people in China to buy and sell bitcoin. Now it’s getting ready to outlaw mining. Thus began the great mining migration. Tang is trying to find a new country to plug in his mining hardware. # ⚓ [Old] EcoWatch ☛ Energy-Hungry_Bitcoin_is_Bringing Old_Fossil_Fuel_Plants_Back_on_Line⠀⇛ One of the biggest questions surrounding the cryptocurrency boom is whether or not the climate can afford such an energy-intensive trend. Much of this concern has focused on Bitcoin, which has a current annual energy consumption of 147.67 terawatt hours, more than Norway and Ukraine, according to the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index. And the worry seems to be justified by the fact that Bitcoin has a habit of revitalizing aging fossil-fuel plants. # ⚓ [Old] The Badger Herald ☛ Cryptocurrency_mining_uses high_amounts_of_electricity,_causes_environmental_harm, experts_say⠀⇛ According to McDonald, there are somewhere around 10 million computers around the world running to convert electricity into Ether as quickly as possible. McDonald also said that cryptocurrencies based on Proof of Work systems are likely close to 1% of global electricity use. This amount of energy use is problematic, McDonald said, when it’s generated using fossil fuels. He calculated the energy mix in different countries using a calculation of how many grams of carbon dioxide is released in the atmosphere for every kilowatt-hour of electricity. # ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ EU_says_it_needs_five_years_to wean_itself_off_Russian_energy⠀⇛ The timescale is three years earlier than originally proposed but still well short of what was demanded by Kyiv, which has argued that Russia is financing its invasion of Ukraine with money from energy exports. Ms von der Leyen said the proposals will be outlined by the end of May with measures for reducing the impact of higher energy bills for consumers by the end of the month. The US has put in place an embargo on Russian oil and the UK has vowed to phase out all purchases by the end of this year. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Amazon_Deforestation_Hit_Record_High in_February—Up_62%_From_2021⠀⇛ Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached a record high for the month of February, jumping by nearly two-thirds over last February’s level, according to official data released Friday. “We are going to be eating the rainforest in our burgers.” # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ 10_Ways_War_Harms_Wildlife⠀⇛ # ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Tallinn_Zoo_launches fundraising_for_Ukrainian_zoos⠀⇛ Many zoos worldwide are joining Tallinn Zoo’s example of collecting donations to help Ukrainian zoos and their animals; donations coming from Estonia will be passed on in full to Ukrainian aquaria and zoos through the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria’s (EAZA) rescue operation. # ⚓ Smithsonian Magazine ☛ A_Penguin_Faces_Death_by Leopard_Seal_in_Jaw-Dropping_Grand_Prize_Image ⠀⇛ Wildlife photographer Amos Nachoum awaited the low tide to arrive on the faraway island of Plano, off the Antarctic Peninsula, to snap this year’s World Nature Photography Awards grand prize photo, the Guardian reports. The heart-pounding image under the category “Behavior—Mammals” features a leopard seal about to snatch a young gentoo penguin in its jaws. Nachoum explains in a statement that just before the low tide arrived, a ravenous leopard seal scanned the shallows for its unsuspecting dinner to arrive. Young Gentoo penguins only enter the water at low tide, so fierce predators like the leopard seal use it to their advantage. As soon as the seal eyed the perfect target, it nabbed the penguin in its teeth and dragged it away. # ⚓ Science Focus ☛ A_leopard_seal_catches_her_lunch:_The World_Nature_Photography_Award_winners⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Advancements_in_polar_sailing allow_travelers_to_explore_Antarctica’s_little-visited areas⠀⇛ The polar vessel was driving through a sheet of pearl-colored ice and snow like a spoon through creme brulee. Though we were south of the Antarctic Circle, it was mid-January, late in the austral summer, and we were lucky to have found this several-miles-wide expanse of shore-fastened ice. (Usually by this point in the season, it’s mostly melted or broken up.) The goal was to get deep enough into this inlet, to where the ice is thickest, so we could get off the ship and safely walk about on the frozen landscape. # ⚓ NewYorkTimes ☛ Fossil_of_Vampire_Squid’s_Oldest Ancestor_Is_Named_for_Biden⠀⇛ The new fossil, which has 10 arms, is the oldest known cephalopod to have suckers on its arms. Modern squids and cuttlefish have 10 arms and octopuses have eight. Vampire squids (which are not squids but close relatives of octopuses) have eight arms and two stringy filaments, thought to be vestigial arms. So the 10-armed S. bideni shows that all cephalopods once had 10 arms, before they were reduced to filaments and ultimately lost. Christian Klug, a paleontologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland who was not involved with the research, expressed reservations about the new paper. He says the fossil most likely represents a specimen of a known species of ancient cephalopods, Gordoniconus beargulchensis. In 2019, Dr. Klug published a paper on the anatomy of G. beargulchensis with Dr. Landman. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_GOP_Is_Actually_Running_on Raising_Taxes_on_the_Poor_and_Destroying_Medicare_and_Social Security⠀⇛ They’re at it again: Republicans want to raise taxes on poor and working-class Americans, end Social Security and Medicare, jack up pollution and corporate profits, all while continuing to pamper their billionaire donor base. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Reckless_Complacency_by_Wealthy Nations_Means_the_Covid-19_Pandemic_Is_Far_From_Over⠀⇛ On March 11 2020, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned of “alarming levels of inaction” from governments as he declared that the COVID-19 outbreak had become a pandemic. Two years on, with a number of highly effective vaccines, we have the tools needed to end this pandemic. But the complacency of some governments has only become worse. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 700_US_Billionaires_Got_$1.7_Trillion Richer_During_Two_Years_of_Pandemic⠀⇛ During the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic, the collective wealth of billionaires in the United States grew by a staggering $1.7 trillion as Covid-19 killed millions of people across the globe and threw entire nations into turmoil, worsening extreme poverty, hunger, and other preexisting crises. “We can’t accept an economy and tax code that allows billionaires to hoard trillions while working families struggle.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ UN_Warns_Russia’s_Attack_on_Ukraine_Could Spike_Global_Food_Prices_by_22%⠀⇛ With dozens of countries around the world relying heavily on both Ukraine and Russia for food supplies, the United Nations warned Friday, the ongoing war is likely to significantly drive up global food prices and worsen malnourishment in the Global South. “The war in Ukraine not only has a dramatic impact on the lives of civilians but also has global repercussions.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Richest…⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ It’s_Not_Just_Inflation,_It’s_Price Gouging⠀⇛ Corporations are quick to blame this new reality on the pandemic, but another major culprit is hiding in plain sight: their own profiteering. Four times a year, corporations are required by law to update their investors on how they’re doing in terms of sales and profits. These are called “earnings reports,” and the companies will usually hold calls with the investors to walk them through the latest report. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Democrats_Unveil_Bill_to_Tax_Big_Oil’s_Profits and_Send_Checks_to_the_Public⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Price-Gouging_Oil_Companies_Need_to_Pay_a Windfall_Tax⠀⇛ Even before Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine shocked energy markets and sent oil prices to over $100 a barrel, Exxon was banking obscene profits. On February 1, the Texas-based fossil fuel giant announced profits of almost $9 billion for the fourth quarter of 2021—its biggest take in seven years. Exxon didn’t have to party alone; Chevron, Shell, and BP were announcing surpluses of only slightly less startling proportions. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Is_California_Doing_Enough_to_Fight Homelessness?⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Voices_Silenced_by_Student_Debt⠀⇛ Thanks to a moratorium on payments in effect during the Covid pandemic, most student loan borrowers haven’t had to make a payment for over two years. But pandemic relief is only a temporary fix. On May 1, payments are set to restart for millions of people who are still struggling to recover from the pandemic. Many are facing anxiety, fear, and financial ruin at the possibility of drowning under student loan debt. # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Ignore_Sunk_Costs⠀⇛ Sunk cost is cost that’s already been incurred. You can’t reverse sunk costs. The time you’ve already used to learn a skill or the money you’ve already invested in a business are sunk costs. # ⚓ Venezuela:_Government_Raises_Wages_as_Inflation_Hits_Eight- Year_Low_|_Venezuelanalysis.com⠀⇛ Maduro pledged to continue recovering incomes, which remain far from covering living costs. [...] In a public forum with trade unions on March 3, the Venezuelan president announced that the minimum wage would be set at half a Petro, some 126 bolivars (BsD) which amount to US $29 at the present exchange rate. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ The_2020_Census_Undercounted_Native_Americans, Black_and_Latinx_People⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Lawsuit_Alleges_3_Lawmakers,_Part_of_Trump Electors_Plot,_Cannot_Run_for_Office⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Billionaire-Backed_Group_Enlists_Trump Supporters_to_Hunt_for_Voter_Fraud⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Trump_Is_Asking_His_Fans_to_Pay_for_New_“Trump Force_One”_Plane⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Progressives_Worldwide_Applaud_New_Hope_for Chile_as_President_Gabriel_Boric_Sworn_In⠀⇛ Progressives around the world cheered Friday as former student activist Gabriel Boric was sworn in as Chile’s new president, marking the most profound shift in the Andean nation’s political direction since the restoration of democracy and the end of a U.S.-backed military dictatorship three decades ago. “This is the best generation of young politicians Chile has had in 50 years.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_My_Midnight_Breakthrough_and_the Pain_of_Being_Human⠀⇛ I had a breakthrough yesterday—and I don’t mean metaphorically. # ⚓ Kim Kommando ☛ DuckDuckGo_changes_its_RULES_about_what_you see_in_search_results⠀⇛ When DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg announced via Twitter that the search engine would update its results to down-rank websites known for spreading Russian disinformation, he was met with heavy criticism. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Performative_Conservatives_Are_Mad_That_A_Search Engine_Wants_To_Downrank_Disinformation⠀⇛ Now, there are (of course!) reasonable questions to be asked about what any particular company considers to be “disinformation.” As we’ve spent years detailing, defining disinformation is a lot more difficult than most people think. It’s also prone to abuse by governments looking to censor. And, quite frequently, disinformation flows are really more closely related to the issue of confirmation bias. Still, the job of a search engine is to rank websites based on what that website thinks will provide the searcher with the most relevant information. It is, inherently, biased. It can’t not be. This is why the entire concept of “search neutrality” is nonsense. A “neutral” search engine is a search engine that just returns random results, rather than useful results. Every search engine is biased, because that bias is what determines what results will be ranked first, second, third, etc. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ White_House_briefs_TikTok_creators_on_Ukraine⠀⇛ The news comes as users around the world, especially the teenagers and young adults of Gen Z, turn to TikTok to get updates from people on the ground in Ukraine amid war with Russia. The app has played key role in bringing news and current events to its users. # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ The_White_House_is_briefing_TikTok stars_about_the_war_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ On Thursday afternoon, 30 top TikTok stars gathered on a Zoom call to receive key information about the war unfolding in Ukraine. National Security Council staffers and White House press secretary Jen Psaki briefed the influencers about the United States’ strategic goals in the region and answered questions on distributing aid to Ukrainians, working with NATO and how the United States would react to a Russian use of nuclear weapons. # ⚓ Troy Hunt ☛ Setting_the_Bar_for_Government_Access_to_Have_I Been_Pwned⠀⇛ Over the last 4 years, I’ve onboarded 28 national government CERTs onto Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and given them free and open access to APIs that enable them to query and monitor their gov domains. This doesn’t give them access to any information they can’t already access via the free public domain search feature, but it makes their lives easier. Much easier. As interest from govs has grown, it’s caused me to ponder: who am I willing to give access to? Who am I unwilling to give access to? Those questions prompted a tweet earlier today: [...] # ⚓ RTL ☛ Facebook_allows_calls_for_violence_against_‘Russian invaders’⠀⇛ Facebook has temporarily eased its policy on violent speech after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, allowing statements like “death to Russian invaders” but not credible threats against civilians, the tech giant said Thursday. Moscow’s internationally condemned attack on its neighbor has provoked unprecedented sanctions from Western governments and businesses, but also a surge of online anger and debates over social media’s role in the war. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Russia_threatens_Instagram_ban_in_response_to Meta_allowing_violent_threats_against_soldiers⠀⇛ Separately, TASS reports that the head of the Duma’s Committee on Information Policy, Alexander Khinshtein, has called on Instagram to be banned if reports that Meta adjusted its moderation policies to allow users to call for violence against Russian soldiers are true. State communications agency Roskomnadzor also issued a statement asking Meta “as soon as possible to confirm or refute” the reports. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Russian_regulators_restrict_access_to Instagram⠀⇛ Roskomnadzor cited a statement Meta spokesperson Andy Stone made about the announcement and asserted that Meta was allowing users “to post information containing calls for violence against Russian citizens, including military personnel.” According to the policy, Meta is temporarily allowing some political expression — like “death to the Russian invaders” — to be allowed online, but not “credible calls for violence against Russian civilians,” according to a statement from Stone on Thursday. # ⚓ Daily Sabah ☛ AU_special_envoy_coins_“woman”_as_soft_power in_politics_|_Daily_Sabah⠀⇛ Diop underscored that women are mainly the ones who are severely affected but stressed the “resilience of women in Africa” is not publicized well enough. o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ NBC ☛ Gen_Z_isn’t_immune_to_misinformation._These_zoomers are_making_sure_their_peers_don’t_get_fooled.⠀⇛ “We grew up making fun of our parents’ and grandparents’ falling for spam emails, but every single day I see young people falling for false narratives that can change their entire worldview,” Terpak says in a TikTok video about misinformation. # ⚓ Deccan Herald ☛ Well-oiled_conspiracy_theorists_push Ukraine_disinformation⠀⇛ The change is clear on the Facebook, Twitter and Telegram accounts of some of the most prominent conspiracy theorists, including Silvano Trotta in France, Sherri Tenpenny in the United States and Simeon Boikov in Australia. # ⚓ NDTV ☛ Conspiracy_Theorists_Move_To_Ukraine_Crisis_After Covid_Disinformation⠀⇛ The names of Bill Gates and George Soros have popped up, and have been the subject of several disinformation posts debunked by AFP fact-checkers. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Amnesty_Condemns_Kremlin_for_Blocking_Its Russian-Language_Website⠀⇛ An Amnesty International regional director on Friday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government of not being able to “stomach the truth” about atrocities committed during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine after authorities in Moscow blocked access to the human rights group’s Russian-language website. “People in Russia have the right to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas of all kinds and from all available sources.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Tightening_Grip_of_Censorship_in_Russia⠀⇛ While President Putin’s regime has been known for its propaganda and censorship efforts, in recent weeks, since the start of the war in Ukraine, the situation has worsened dramatically. Escalating media shutdowns—imposed by the Russian government and the companies themselves because of the increased sanctions—have affected news outlets, social media and streaming services. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Devin_Nunes_Loses_Appeal_Of_SLAPP_Suit_Against Liz_Mair⠀⇛ By now you surely know that former Congressman and current satirical cow censor Devin Nunes has become quite well known for his series of SLAPP suits against people who made him feel bad. It started with his lawsuit against the satirical parody cow Twitter account, but that lawsuit also included political consultant Liz Mair, who has long worked for various Republican politicians, but was a semi- frequent critic of Nunes. That first lawsuit was for $250 million, but a month later he sued Mair again (along with the news organization McClatchy), this time for $150 million. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Anonymous_Hacks_Russia’s_Roscomnadzor_Site- Blocking_Agency⠀⇛ A hacker claiming affiliation with the decentralized international hacktivist collective Anonymous claims to have breached and leaked the database of Russian telecoms and censorship agency Roscomnadzor. The 820GB trove reportedly contains over 360,000 files and while it is yet to be examined in detail, may yet blow open Russia’s draconian pirate site and media censorship operation. # ⚓ BBC ☛ Raif_Badawi:_Saudi_blogger_freed_after_decade_in prison⠀⇛ “Raif called me. He is free,” Ensaf Haidar told AFP news agency from Canada, where she fled with the couple’s three children. The blogger’s first 50 lashes caused a global outcry and he became an emblem of rights abuses in the country. There has been no official Saudi comment on his release. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Chinese_State_Censors_at_Work_to_Control Messaging_on_War⠀⇛ Beijing is controlling messaging on the war in Ukraine, analysts and observers say, as social media companies and traditional Chinese state media outlets have been suppressing voices critical of Russia’s invasion. On February 22, Horizon News, an affiliate of China’s state-owned Beijing News, accidentally posted on Weibo, the Chinese Twitter, censorship instructions related to posts on the Russia-Ukraine war. “Do not post anything unfavorable to Russia or pro- Western,” the now deleted directive said. “If using hashtags, only use those started by People’s Daily, Xinhua, or CCTV.” # ⚓ The Verge ☛ A_top_Wikipedia_editor_has_been_arrested_in Belarus⠀⇛ The Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of Belarus (GUBOPiK) has detained prominent Wikipedia editor Mark Bernstein, according to the Belarusian publication Zerkalo. The arrest comes after Bernstein’s personal information was shared on GOBUPiK’s public Telegram channel. Bernstein is one of the top 50 editors of Russian Wikipedia. The Verge was able to confirm that Bernstein’s information — including his social media, Wikipedia handle, and place of work — had been shared in GUBOPik’s channel on the messaging app. A video of Bernstein’s arrest was also posted alongside his photo and personal details. In the photo itself, Bernstein is accused of “distributing fake anti- Russian information.” The channel has since been made private. o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Don’t Extradite Assange ☛ Set_Julian_Assange_Free!_An_event in_support_of_Julian_Assange,_WikiLeaks_and_freedom_of expression!⠀⇛ Weaving all together: Jazz-pianist Tord Gustavsen and saxophonist Trygve SeimLocation:Jakob Culture ChurchHausmannsgate 14, Oslo17 March 7.30 pm (CET) # ⚓ YLE ☛ Spike_in_interest_in_Yle’s_Russian-language_news;_HS offers_articles_in_Russian⠀⇛ Finland’s biggest newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, has begun publishing articles in Russian, covering Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The daily joins Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter and Denmark’s Politiken in the effort. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ ‘Journalism_has_Been_Lost_in_Russia,’_Says Novaya_Gazeta_Journalist⠀⇛ The cover references a ratcheting of nuclear tensions, a performance of Swan Lake broadcast continually on Russian state TV during an attempted KGB coup in 1991, and the newly amended media law that carries hefty penalties for “false news” on the war in Ukraine. Pressure on Russia’s independent media and international outlets has forced several to close or move operations outside the country. Journalists are ordered to use only official statements and to avoid the words “attack” and “invasion.” “Pressure on Russia’s independent media and international outlets has forced several to close or move operations outside the country” https://www.voanews.com/a/journalism- has-been-lost-in-russia-says-novaya-gazeta-journalist/ 6481450.html o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Texas_Plans_to_Execute_an_Abuse_Survivor_Based on_a_Coerced_Confession⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Democrats_Fail_to_Get_D.C.’s_Cannabis Legalization_Approved_by_Congress⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Moment_of_Crisis’:_Texas_Supreme_Court Ends_Hope_for_Overturning_Abortion_Ban⠀⇛ While vowing to keep up the fight, reproductive rights advocates responded with alarm and despair on Friday after the Texas Supreme Court ruled that what was “once the most promising lawsuit” against the state’s six-week abortion ban cannot proceed against the only remaining defendants. “To everyone in a state where your rights are at risk: You deserve so much better.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Overlooked_Strategies_of_the_Anti-Abortion Movement⠀⇛ Much of the media attention around the rollback of reproductive rights in the United States has centered around Roe v. Wade and abortion bans in Republican-controlled states, but there are other similarly harmful threats to bodily autonomy and agency. In recent years, the anti-choice movement has succeeded at quietly criminalizing pregnancy to levels not previously seen, making it so that to be pregnant and poor in this country is to play a game of roulette with one’s privacy and constitutional rights. These criminalization efforts make it clear that the fight doesn’t stop at abortion. In order to end the attacks on reproductive freedom, we must address the full extent of the crisis, which goes far wider and deeper than different state legislatures enacting restrictive abortion laws. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Anti-Abortion_Politicians_Are_Now_Taking Inspiration_From_the_Fugitive_Slave_Act⠀⇛ The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 mandated the seizure and return of Black people who had been enslaved, or were simply suspected of being enslaved, to their so-called masters, even if those Black people made it to a free state. It denied those Black people the opportunity to have a jury trial, and empowered federal marshals to return enslaved people to the South without due process. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Survey_Says_Portland_Cops_Should_Be_Locked_Out Of_Recordings_Until_After_They’ve_Written_Reports,_Answered Investigators⠀⇛ The Department of Justice has been keeping an eye on the Portland (OR) Police Bureau (PPB) for nearly a decade now, finding that officers routinely engage in excessive force, especially when dealing with residents suffering from mental illness. A consent decree was put in place in 2014. Since then, the Portland PD has violated the agreement regularly. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Native_Not-Americans_and_the_Cybernetic Imperium⠀⇛ Ya-Ka-Ama is located in the city of Guerneville, about seventy miles north from where I live in East Oakland. This region was once home to forests of redwood, cedar, and oak; most of them were murdered to make room for European invaders, concrete, and wineries. “Winery,” for those who don’t know, comes from an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning “water vampire.” Okay, so I made that last part up. But it might as well be true. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ SF_Photographer_Captures_How_the_“Other Half”_Lives⠀⇛ A photo-journalist for 48 years, Gumpert grew up in Los Angeles, where he attended Marshall High School and LA Community College, before taking his first pictures for a local underground newspaper. For much of his career, he has lived on Potrero Hill in San Francisco, a part of the city once working class but now decidedly upscale. Seven years ago, city officials decided to push homeless people further away from downtown tourist attractions. Just down the hill from Gumpert’s neighborhood, these new arrivals created a messy encampment that initially drew a flurry of press attention before the lens of the mainstream media shifted elsewhere. Gumpert had already spent several years photographing and interviewing residents of the SF county jail, a population which includes past and future residents of homeless camps outside it.  # ⚓ NBC ☛ Emilio_Delgado’s_Luis_on_‘Sesame_Street’_was_a rebuttal_to_Latino_stereotypes⠀⇛ And as important, his long presence on the show allowed him to continually contradict stereotypical characterizations of Mexican Americans and other Latinos on television, while also demonstrating that bilingualism and biculturalism were indeed American. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Dee_Knight:_The_Life_of_an_Activist⠀⇛ In a field that seems sometimes to be crowded with “Movement Memoirs,” here is a saga unique in its opposition to empire and specifically our own. Call it the faith of an ex-Seminarian who received a different Call. Enrolling in a Jesuit Seminary at Los Gatos, Califonia (strangely enough, the secret locale of aged Italian anarchist survivors of the group that had staged the bombings on Wall Street way back in the 1910s) as a presumed future priest,  our young protagonist experienced one revelation after another. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Inclusion,_Integration_and_a_Shattered Myth:_Who_Says_Diplomacy_Works?⠀⇛ During and after the Cold War, think tanks were established in Moscow to foster dialogue and exchanges between the West and Russians. Prominent among them would be the Institute for US and Canadian Studies founded in 1967 by the Russian academician Georgi Arbatov, adviser to several Russian presidents, or the Institute for Europe headed by Dr. Alexey Gromyko of the famous Soviet diplomatic family. An elite group of Russian international relations specialists was included and integrated into western academic and policy circles. In more than just think tanks, numerous student and faculty exchange programs were established between western universities and prestigious Russian institutions of higher learning such as the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and the National Research University Higher School of Economics. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Reflections_on_Law_and_Punishment⠀⇛ Punishment is always ex post facto and therefore an unsatisfactory “Plan B”, after Plan A has failed.   It is far more important for law to lay down safeguards so as to avert the breach of law and irreparable harm.  It is perhaps bizarre that recently many human rights activists, non- governmental organizations and the bulk of the media have embraced punishment as a kind of favourite Kalashnikov.  The Zeitgeist has embraced an over-simplification – punishment as the principal legal tool, as a weapon of fear and deterrence.  In their binary world of good and evil, the latter must be suppressed through “lawfare” and what seems more apparent than ever – the instrumentalization of the International Criminal Court to target some, but not all criminals. The letter and spirit of the law requires, however, that law be much more than meeting out penalties and sanctions against those who do not observe the established administrative, civil and criminal regimes, which are man-made and, in many situations, constitute very imperfect or even deliberately unjust regimes that perpetuate imbalances and protect privilege.  Natural law and common sense require that codified law be modified so as to take the evolution of society into account and ensure that Justice prevails. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Ignoring_EARN_IT’s_Fourth_Amendment_Problem Won’t_Make_It_Go_Away⠀⇛ A month ago, the controversial EARN IT Act sailed through a markup hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee. If enacted, the bill would strip the providers of online services of Section 230 immunity for their users’ child sexual exploitation offenses, meaning they could be subject to civil suit by private plaintiffs and criminal charges under state law. The idea is that providers aren’t presently doing enough to combat child sex abuse material (CSAM) on their services, and that exposing them to more liability would goad them into better behavior. # ⚓ Protocol ☛ Clarence_Thomas_wants_Supreme_Court_to_tackle Sec._230_–_Protocol⠀⇛ Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas argued once again on Monday that his colleagues should really take up a case that would give them an opportunity to narrow the scope of tech’s favorite legal provision: Section 230. While agreeing the high court shouldn’t take up a specific case involving Meta, Thomas nonetheless took the time to write: “We should, however, address the proper scope of immunity under §230 in an appropriate case.” It’s not the first time Thomas, who has made clear he’s among the tech-skeptical conservatives working in the U.S. government, has gone after Sec. 230. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Farmers_Unions,_Right_To_Repair_Coalition_Files FTC_Complaint_Against_John_Deere⠀⇛ Not only have corporate efforts to monopolize repair resulted in a flood of proposed state and federal laws, the idea was also included in the Biden Administration’s recent executive order on monopoly power and competition. Said order urged the FTC to tighten up its rules on repair monopolization efforts, whether it’s ham-fisted DRM, or making repair manuals, parts, and diagnostics hard to come by. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ RTL ☛ Google,_Meta_face_EU-UK_antitrust_probes_over_online ads_deal⠀⇛ Chief Executive Andrea Coscelli said the CMA “will not shy away from scrutinising the behaviour of big tech firms… working closely with global regulators to get the best outcomes possible.” The two online advertising behemoths are under intense pressure from publishers and ad rivals as together they overwhelm the online advertising market in much of the world. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ EU_and_UK_launch_antitrust_investigation_into Google_and_Meta’s_adtech_dealings⠀⇛ Google and Meta are being investigated by antitrust regulators in the EU and UK over “Jedi Blue” — a deal between the two firms that critics say allowed them to block smaller tech companies from gaining a foothold in the online ad market. In a press statement, the European Commission said it was concerned that the September 2018 agreement “may form part of efforts to exclude ad tech services competing with Google’s Open Bidding programme, and therefore restrict or distort competition in markets for online display advertising.” It’s therefore opening a formal antitrust investigation. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ EU,_UK_probe_Meta_and_Google_on_advertising agreement⠀⇛ The investigations will look into whether the agreement was part of an effort to exclude ad tech services competing with Google’s Open Bidding program and restricted competition in the online advertising market. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Facebook_allows_posts_with_violent_speech toward_Russian_soldiers_in_specific_countries⠀⇛ Facebook and Instagram have instituted a temporary change in policy that allows users in some countries to post content that’s usually forbidden, including calls for harm or even the death of Russian soldiers or politicians. The change first surfaced in a report by Reuters, citing internal emails to moderators. In them, the outlet reports mods are told that calls for the death of Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko will be allowed, as long as they don’t contain threats toward others or “indicators of credibility” like saying where or how the act will take place. In a statement sent to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said, “As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as ‘death to the Russian invaders.’ We still won’t allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians.” # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Nobel_Laureates,_World_Leaders_Mark Two_Years_of_Covid_With_Simple_Call:_End_the_Patents⠀⇛ Marking the two-year anniversary of the World Health Organization’s official Covid-19 pandemic declaration, more than 130 current and former world leaders, Nobel laureates, scientists, and humanitarians published an open letter Friday imploring rich countries to finally end their obstruction of a proposed patent waiver and share key vaccine technology with the world. “The European Union, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland continue to block the lifting of intellectual property rules which would enable the redistribution and scale-up of Covid-19 vaccines, test, and treatment manufacturing in the Global South,” reads the new letter, which was signed by the ex- leaders of more than 40 countries—including Malawi’s former president Joyce Banda—and prominent human rights advocates, from UNAIDS executive director Winnie Byanyima to former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 130+_World_Leaders,_Nobel_Laureates, Scientists_Call_for_End_to_Vaccine_Patents⠀⇛ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ Katy_Perry_Wins_As_Ninth_Circuit Agrees_$2.8_Million_‘Dark_Horse’_Verdict ‘Unsupported’⠀⇛ “The trial record compels us to conclude that the ostinatos at issue here consist entirely of commonplace musical elements, and that the similarities between them do not arise out of an original combination of these elements. Consequently, the jury’s verdict finding defendants liable for copyright infringement was unsupported by the evidence,” the new ruling reads. “Allowing a copyright over this material would essentially amount to allowing an improper monopoly over two-note pitch sequences or even the minor scale itself, especially in light of the limited number of expressive choices available when it comes to an eight-note repeated musical figure,” the court says. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ ‘Spider-Man:_No_Way_Home’_Blu-Ray Leaks_Early_on_Pirate_Sites⠀⇛ A high-quality Blu-ray copy of ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ has leaked online, weeks before the official physical release. The pirate copy comes courtesy of EVO, the same group that previously leaked many other prominent titles. While the Blu-ray source is unknown, an unauthorized eBay seller coincidentally started to offer the disc for sale earlier this week. # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Open_Education_Week_2022_Lightning Talks:_Recordings_and_Slides⠀⇛ We hope you’ll enjoy the replay and presentations below. Stay tuned for the CC Open Education Platform’s next round of Lightning Talks, or join our next meeting on 5 April. Access meeting details via the Open Education Platform calendar, and learn more on the CC Open Education Platform website.  ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 6601 ➮ Generation completed at 02:43, i.e. 56 seconds to (re)generate ⟲