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It is a very low end machine, but it copes OK with the best of KDE. The above video shows some of the newer elements of the current experience/ layout of Plasma, which changes every year or at least every month. It is the most versatile and powerful desktop environment out there, but it’s not as intimidating as it was in the late 1990s because advanced options are sheltered away deeper inside menus and windows. Don’t want them? Then don’t use them! “It is the most versatile and powerful desktop environment out there, but it’s not as intimidating as it was in the late 1990s because advanced options are sheltered away deeper inside menus and windows.”KDE Neon isn’t_recommended_for production_machines (this isn’t my main OS yet), but for those of us who are KDE enthusiasts (I’ve used it since I was a teenager) it’s a potentially fun experience. Not too shockingly I managed to cause Plasma to crash halfway through the video above (it self-recovered). KDE Neon has long been the subject of intrigue because of its unique development and distribution model. You can download it here (the latest_release_is_just_2-3_days_old). These live images mean you can test-drive the OS without actually installing it (until you feel confident enough). █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 234 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.07.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_07/05/2022:_Mostly_Non-Tech_Topics⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 11:27 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ I_deleted_Windows!_And_switched_to_Fedora⠀⇛ Last sunday I finally decided it’s time to leave Windows properly behind. I had Windows installed on my PC just in case I want to dualboot back to it. But almost year has been gone by since I switched to Kubuntu and.. Nope. I didn’t boot Windows single time during this ~11 months. Also I switched to Fedora because things went wrong with partition resizing… o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_167:_Deadly_Art_Projects,_Robot Lock_Pickers,_LED_Horticulture,_And_Good_Samaritan_Repairs⠀⇛ Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi for a review of all the tech that’s fit to print. Things kick off with an update about the Hackaday Prize and a brief account of the 2022 Vintage Computer Festival East. Then we’ll talk about an exceptionally dangerous art project that’s been making the rounds on social media, a smart tea kettle that gave its life so that others can hack their device’s firmware, some suspiciously effective plant grow lights, and the slippery slope of remote manufacturer kill switches. We’ll wrap things up with some thought provoking discussion about personal liability as it pertains to community repair groups, and a close look at what makes synthetic oil worth spending extra on. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Install_a_Desktop_Environment/GUI_in Ubuntu_Server⠀⇛ Most servers don’t need a graphical interface, but sometimes they can be a big help. Here’s how to install a desktop environment in Ubuntu Server. # ⚓ How_to_Install_GNU_Octave_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Linux is used by many professionals in many fields. One of them is programming and specifically in science-oriented programming. That’s why today, you will learn how to install GNU Octave on Ubuntu 20.04. This programming language will help you to work with numbers focused on calculations related to various sciences. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_To_Install_PHP_(8.1,_7.4_or_5.6)_on_Ubuntu 22.04_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛ PHP is a programming language used for developing web applications. You must install PHP packages on a Ubuntu system to run the application written on it. Generally, it is used to create e-commerce websites, blogs, and API applications. We will use the Ondrej PPA for installing PHP on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS system. Which contains PHP 8.1, 8.0, 7.4, 7.3, 7.2. 7.1, 7.0 & PHP 5.6 packages. You can install any of them version as required for your application. The new application developers are suggested to use latest PHP version ie PHP 8.1. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install PHP on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS system. This tutorial is also compatible with Ubuntu 20.04, and 18.04 systems. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Share_Folder_/_Transfer_Files_over LAN_in_Ubuntu_22.04_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ Want to share your files over local network or transfer file from one PC to another PC? 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The entire point of IPv6 was to specify a successor protocol to IPv4 due to the prospect of running out of IPv4 addresses. Yet we ran out of IPv4 addresses more than a decade ago. This transition to IPv6 has been going on for 20 years now, and if there was any urgency that was instilled in the effort by the prospect of IPv4 address exhaustion, then we’ve been living with exhaustion for a decade now. So perhaps it’s time to ask the question: How much longer is this transition going to take? This was the question that was put to a panel at the recent ARIN 49 meeting, and, predictably, there was no clear consensus as to what the answer might be. I’d like to explore this question here in a little more detail. # ⚓ X25519 Key Exchange ☛ Hands-on:_X25519_Key_Exchange⠀⇛ Key exchange is a mechanism where two parties (Alice and Bob) can agree on the same number without an eavesdropper being able to tell what it is. X25519 is the name of one method of key exchange, by doing point operations on the Curve25519 elliptic curve: [...] # ⚓ Bartosz Ciechanowski ☛ GPS⠀⇛ Global Positioning System is, without a doubt, one of the most useful inventions of the late 20th century. It made it significantly easier for ships, airplanes, cars, and hikers to figure out where they are with high degree of accuracy. One of the most exciting aspects of this system are the satellites surrounding Earth. Here’s a current constellation of active satellites, you can drag the view around to see it from different angles: [...] # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Install_GoLang_(Go_Programming Language)_in_Ubuntu_[5_Steps]⠀⇛ GoLang (also referred to as Go) is an open-source statically typed programming language developed by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson at Google and launched in November 2009. GoLang is known to be 3x faster than the python programming language and supports memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP- style concurrency. Stick with us to learn “how to install GoLang in Ubuntu Linux in 5 simple steps“. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ My_new_project:_Jeuxterm_(online_games_in_terminal)⠀⇛ Hello, fellow Geminauts, Tildezens and whoever else stumbles upon this post. I love text-based things, and I love games, and I love creating stuff. So, I guess, coming up with this project makes a lot of sense. In this post I will describe what I have in mind, what I already have done, and share links and screenshots. I hope this will be interesting for some at least! o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Writing_“Hello,_world!”_from_scratch_part_I:_making_a new_ISA⠀⇛ Why would one design a new ISA? With RISC- V and MIPS being open ISA with great support, there is not much point in doing so. Personally, I mostly did this for fun and artistic aspiration. I had a few ideas trotting in my head about what a fun ISA could be. I did want wanted to make a simple ISA, but rather a family of ISA for 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit, or even more bit- having processors that all share the same instruction set. At first, I even wanted to be able to make a processor with exotic word sizes but I scrapped that idea. I also wanted a Von Newman architecture and having instructions being a single indexable amount of memory. Those three needs combined meant that I needed to have instruction on only 8 bits. This is quite low, even some 8-bit computers use 16 bits instructions. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Zimbabwe ☛ Mousai_is_an_awesome_music_identification app_for_Linux⠀⇛ This is all wonderful but as already hinted in the introduction getting Shazam to work on Linux is more of a workaround. It’s also unlikely that there will ever be a Linux version of Shazam, it seems as though the team behind the app are not working on it. And yet sometimes you are busy working on a laptop when you hear a song play in a movie, TV show or in your neighbour’s house. Your phone might not be at hand and you might not want to put your laptop down and go hunt for it. This is where Mousai comes in handy. # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # ⚓ UXCollective ☛ It’s_time_we_fix_the_unethical_design of_cookie_consent_windows⠀⇛ However, thanks to data protection laws, sites are now obliged to inform users about cookies (trackers) and cannot track them without the user’s consent. But designers have learned to get around this law and are using different design techniques to make users accept all cookies (trackers) anyway. I’m targeting designers, not companies, in this article. I need to write another article about companies. I think each designer is responsible for their own design and must ensure that their design is ethical. Now, let’s examine the cookie consent window designs of two companies (N26 and Revolut) and learn about the design techniques they use. # ⚓ Tor ☛ Arti_0.3.0_is_released:_Robustness_and_API improvements⠀⇛ Arti is our ongoing project to create a working embeddable Tor client in Rust. It’s not ready to replace the main Tor implementation in C, but we believe that it’s the future. Right now, our focus is on making Arti production-quality, by stress-testing the code, hunting for likely bugs and adding missing features that we know from experience that users will need. We’re going to try not to break backward compatibility too much, but we’ll do so when we think it’s a good idea. # § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ Alexander Solovyov ☛ PostgreSQL_collation⠀⇛ I’ve got into a situation with PG I’ve never been into before. There is a financial reports table, containing some description of a transaction, with columns like date, amount and comment. And this comment field is often used to search for something case- insensitively. This is done best using where lower(comment) like ‘%some words%’ using trigram index: [...] # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Alexander Solovyov ☛ Useful_shell prompt⠀⇛ There are only a few apps I use every day and shell — ZSH — is one of the most used. It’s been that way since the beginning of the ’00s and back then I spent a lot of time configuring my prompt to be a good balance between compact/readable and useful. I found that I dislike fancy two-line prompts, information on a right-hand side (because of its awkward behavior), and stuff like that. So the result looks like that: [...] * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Flexures_Make_This_Six-DOF_Positioner_Accurate_To_The Micron_Level⠀⇛ It’s no secret that we think flexures are pretty cool, and we’ve featured a number of projects that leverage these compliant mechanisms to great effect. But when we saw flexures used in a six-DOF positioner with micron accuracy, we just had to dig a little deeper. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Tree_Forks_As_Natural_Composite_Joints_In Architecture⠀⇛ A problem facing architects when designing complex three- dimensional structures lies in their joints, which must be strong enough to take the loads and vector forces applied by the structure, yet light enough not to dominate it. Many efforts have been made to use generative design techniques or clever composites to fabricate them, but as Dezeen reports, a team at MIT are exploring an unexpected alternative in the form of naturally occurring tree forks. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Retrotechtacular:_How_Television_Worked_In_The_1950s⠀⇛ Watching television today is a very different experience from that which our parents would have had at our age, where we have high-definition digital on-demand streaming services they had a small number of analogue channels serving linear scheduled broadcasting. A particular film coming on TV could be a major event that it was not uncommon for most of the population to have shared, and such simple things as a coffee advert could become part of our common cultural experience. Behind it all was a minor miracle of synchronised analogue technology taking the signal from studio to living room, and this is the subject of a 1952 Coronet film, Television: How It Works!  Sit back and enjoy a trip into a much simpler world in the video below the break. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Jefferson_and_the_University⠀⇛ o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Jazz_Fest_Is_Back._Let’s_Dance._(But_It’s Complicated.)⠀⇛ New Orleans, La.—The crush of fans pressing their way into Gentilly Boulevard gate at 11 am last Friday revealed a pent-up desire, at last satisfied: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was back. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ 9_Ways_of_Looking_at_Mother’s_Day⠀⇛ o ⚓ The Nation ☛ I_Vance_to_Suck_Your_Blood⠀⇛ o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Handel_on_Fire⠀⇛ Fire season is upon us. There’s no off-season anymore. 24/7 takes on paradoxically darker and brighter—and ever hotter—connotations. One of the biggest, most destructive fires in New Mexico’s history is sweeping through the mountains east of Santa Fe, having already engulfed more than 160,000 acres. The Calf Canyon and Merit Peak Fires began as separate blazes but merged ten days ago. Elsewhere in the American Southwest dozens of smaller fires rage. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Our_Deeply_Subconscious_Magical_Thinking⠀⇛ One thing he explained was that large birds like ducks and eagles travel typically by day, navigating by land features, whereas songbirds and warblers fly at night and navigate off the stars. Some birds, weighing barely an ounce, fly 450 miles a day for a week straight, sometimes over long stretches of open water, just to get back home to their natural breeding grounds. He described how the shapes of certain land masses, like in the Middle East can funnel large numbers of birds into narrow corridors. When it was time for questions, one woman asked, “For the birds that fly during the day and navigate by what they see on land, will the ones flying over Ukraine be able to make it?” o ⚓ Times Higher Education ☛ Iran_threatens_academic’s_execution_‘to thwart_war_crimes_trial’⠀⇛ The Iranian government is threatening to execute a Swedish-Iranian academic to thwart a trial against an Iranian official accused of war crimes, a leading non- profit organisation has said. Ahmadreza Djalali was arrested and charged with espionage during an invited visit to the University of Tehran in 2016. Sentenced to death in 2017, he has been held in solitary confinement for months at a time and is suffering serious health problems. o ⚓ Tedium ☛ Cathode_Ray_Tubes:_Unusual_Ways_They_Were_Used_Beyond_TV Sets⠀⇛ The cathode-ray tube is having a bit of a revival at the moment in the public consciousness, as people who grew up with these screens suddenly see the distinct advantages they hold in certain use cases, often related to the things they display. (Sometimes, though, the CRT becomes a bit of a villain in the story, something that a confused contributor to TechRadar found as he struggled to get his set working because he couldn’t find a compatible remote.) Of course, the electron guns that we brought into our homes by the millions were primarily used as television sets, but they also had other uses—or at least other novel methods of use—worth highlighting. And with that in mind, today’s Tedium highlights inventive and novel uses of the good ol’ CRT. o ⚓ music?_makes_me_happy⠀⇛ yesterday on my way home i walked by someone singing a song from my childhood outside the train station and i dropped them $2 and they smiled at me, and i think that’s such a nice experience! to be fair it wasn’t a really old song. i think it was a mashup of ‘i want it that way’ and some other songs, but it reminded me of really warm nights in the living room with my family just goofing around, and the entire childhood stuff. o ⚓ Spacing_Out_–_Gangnam_Style⠀⇛ It took me back to my time in Korea. To be perfectly honest, at least part of the reason why I initially moved to Korea was some kind of desire to discover more about Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism. I wanted to move to a society that had been shaped by these historical movements in the same way I believed my own had been shaped by Christianity (specifically, Catholicism). While I did indeed learn more about these traditions and the subtle influences they *can* have on social order, the predominant social force I learned the most about was, of course, capitalism (and also some even more dogmatic forms of Christianity!). o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Bartosz Ciechanowski ☛ Curves_and_Surfaces⠀⇛ From fonts to animated movies, curves and surfaces constitute fundamental building blocks of many geometrical designs. Over the course of this blog post I’ll explain how this model of a mask can be very smooth despite being described by a limited number of small points that you can drag around to change the mask’s shape: [...] # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Karl_Marx:_Student_and_Teacher_of Technology⠀⇛ This article will use Marx’s own writings and secondary sources to trace the history of Karl Marx as a student of technology starting with Nathan Rosenberg’s seminal essay in 1976[1] through Amy Wendling’s work in 2011.[2] The essay will provide a historiography of Marx and how scholars have analyzed his perceptions of technological development and how it relates to his ongoing objective critiques of capitalism. Peter Novick famously stated in his Introduction that objectivity in history could be like “Nailing jelly to a wall,” but this essay will argue that Marx was a dedicated student of technology and wasn’t speculating in subjectivity on the topic.[3] o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Salon ☛ Republicans’_rush_to_block_Biden_from_forgiving student_debt_backfires⠀⇛ Over the last two years, Republicans argued that President Biden, who made a campaign promise to cancel student debt, does not have legal authority to fulfill that pledge, insisting that the tens of millions of Americans currently crushed by student loans should be forced to pay them down. But now, amid new reports that Biden is considering a partial jubilee, Republicans are backing a bill that would prevent the president from pulling the trigger – a tacit acknowledgment Biden appears to have the power to finally make good on his promise. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ “Parental_Rights”_Groups_Want_to_Eliminate_the Department_of_Education⠀⇛ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Pico_Chording_Keyboard_Is_Simultaneously_Vintage And_New⠀⇛ On paper, chording — that’s pressing multiple keys to create either a single character or a whole word — looks like one of the best possible input methods. Maybe not the best for speed, at least for a while, but definitely good for conserving the total number of keys. Of course, fewer keys also makes for an easier time when it comes to building keyboards (as long as you don’t have to code the chording software). In fact, we would venture to guess that the hardest part of building your own version of [CrazyRobMiles]’s Pico Chord Keyboard would be teaching your fingers how to work together to chord instead of typing one at a time. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ ElectriPop_Turns_Cut_Mylar_Into_Custom_3D Structures⠀⇛ Mylar has a lot of useful properties, and as such as see it pop up pretty often, not just in DIY projects but in our day-to-day lives. But until today, we’ve never seen a piece of Mylar jump up and try to get our attention. But that’s precisely the promise offered by ElectriPop, a fascinating project from Carnegie Mellon University’s Future Interfaces Group. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Screwed_Up:_Can_Technology_Be_A_Substitute_For Regular_Maintenance⠀⇛ The bane of life for anyone who possesses a well- used pile of spanners is the humble nut and bolt. Durable and easy to fasten, over our lifetimes we must screw and unscrew them by the million. When they do their job they’re great, but too often the seize up solid, or more alarmingly, gradually undo themselves over time due to vibration or thermal stress. There are a host of products such as locking nuts or thread sealant to deal with this problem, but the Fraunhofer Institute have an idea which might just remove the worry surrounding important fastenings. Their work has resulted in a solar-powered bolt with an embedded sensor that phones home when the connection loosens, allowing an engineer to be dispatched with a spanner to tighten it up. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ What_are_millets_and_can_they_help_create global_food_security?⠀⇛ Millets have been around since 3000 BC and are believed to be among the earliest domesticated plants, long serving as a staple crop for millions of farmers, particularly in India, China and many parts of Africa. Sometimes dubbed “nutri-cereals” due to their high levels of iron, fiber and certain vitamins, they are still grown in more than 130 countries. Yet they only play a significant role in the diets of some 90 million people in Africa and Asia, and are often regarded as food for the poor. By comparison, around half the global population relies on rice, and more than one-third on wheat. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Cape_Cod_Bay_in_the_Crosshairs_—_Holtec’s Reactor_Waste_Water_Threat⠀⇛ The newly minted subsidiary intends to dump roughly one million gallons radioactively contaminated nuclear reactor waste water into Cape Cod Bay, which happens to be a part of the protected Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. The million gallons are stagnating in the shutdown Pilgrim reactor’s waste fuel pool, formerly used to cool extremely hot uranium fuel rods which are taken from the reactor core (at around 5,092 degrees Fahrenheit) when fresh fuel is emplaced. Holtec’s pollution plan has produced such a tsunami of public opposition that Massachusetts Senator Ed Marky convenes a congressional subcommittee field hearing in Plymouth, Massachusetts Friday, May 6, to air questions about an array of vexing problems with decommissioning the Pilgrim reactor, which is on the northwest shore of Cape Cod Bay. Markey is Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Premature_“Normalcy”_Could_Backfire_as_U.S. COVID_Death_Toll_Passes_1_Million_&_New_Variants_Spread⠀⇛ Governments around the world are eagerly returning back to pre-pandemic conditions by relaxing preventative restrictions, lifting mask mandates and pulling back public funding. Dr. Abraar Karan, infectious disease fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine, says these moves are overly optimistic and that the U.S. is not prepared for new variants spreading around the country. “We’re trying to say it’s over. It’s not true,” he says. “As time goes on, immunity wanes, and we will begin to see more severe cases.” # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Global_Death_Toll_from_COVID-19_Tops_15 Million_as_Vaccine_Inequity_Continues_to_Prolong_Pandemic⠀⇛ The World Health Organization says the coronavirus pandemic has now caused an excess of 15 million deaths globally. We look at how staggering death counts reveal broader political failures to protect public health and close the international vaccine gap. “Western governments and rich corporations who are based primarily in the West have done very little to advance vaccine inequity or to help the entire world end this pandemic faster,” says Achal Prabhala, coordinator of the AccessIBSA project, who adds that many poor countries have also not used all the policy tools at their disposal. # ⚓ Orac ☛ Martin_Kulldorff_promotes_an_old_antivax_narrative about_“natural_immunity”⠀⇛ The antivaccine movement has have long promoted a narrative going back to as long as the concept of immunity due to vaccines has existed that vaccine- induced immunity is somehow “inferior” to “natural immunity.” Of course, as I like to respond, vaccine-induced immunity is every bit as “natural” as “natural immunity” resulting from infection and recovery from infection. Even better, whatever its duration and robustness relative to post-infection immunity (the more correct term for “natural immunity”) vaccine-induced has the advantage of not requiring a person to suffer through the disease and face the risks of severe complications and death. Yet antivaxxers have long fetishized “natural immunity” as far superior to vaccine- induced immunity, even when it isn’t, which goes along their narrative that portrays vaccines as somehow “unnatural,” “dirty,” and “contamination” of their “purity of essence.” So it comes as no surprise that Martin Kulldorff, one of the three scientists who authored the Great Barrington Declaration and currently the “scientific director” of an astroturf anti-public health think tank billed by its founder as the “spiritual child of the Great Barrington Declaration,” the Brownstone Institute. # ⚓ no_background_noise_in_this_pub⠀⇛ On Tuesday I lost all hearing in my left ear over the course of three hours. I had that otherwise common, ephemeral tinnitus that one sometimes experiences for 3-4 seconds. I had an unusual number of bouts, and they started lasting progressively longer. Then hearing just never returned. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Threat Post ☛ Attackers_Use_Event_Logs_to_Hide Fileless_Malware [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ The technique involves injecting shellcode directly into Windows event logs. This allows adversaries to use the Windows event logs as a cover for malicious late stage trojans, according to a Kaspersky research report released Wednesday. Researchers uncovered the campaign in February and believe the unidentified adversaries have been active for the past month. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Russian_ransomware_group_claims attack_on_Bulgarian_refugee_agency⠀⇛ A ransomware group believed to have strong ties within Russia said Wednesday that it will release files it took from the Bulgarian government agency responsible for refugee management, a nation that has reportedly hosted hundreds of thousands of fleeing Ukrainians. # § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ European_Parliament opposes_plan_to_fingerprint_all_MEPs_for_a “biometric_attendance_register”⠀⇛ Yesterday, a large majority of Members of the European Parliament opposed the Parliament’s plans to register their presence by processing their fingerprints. By 420:202:15 votes they called on the Bureau to “develop an alternative solution that does not involve the processing of biometric data”. For example, an electronic attendance register could rely on Members badges or their mobile phones, and it could come with random and periodic checks by human monitoring. # ⚓ BBC ☛ Period_tracking_apps_warning_over Roe_v_Wade_case_in_US⠀⇛ Some of these apps share data with third parties. Exactly what the apps do with the period data is unclear, but some third parties feed that information back to the big tech companies like Google, Meta and Amazon. Cooper Quintin, senior staff technologist at the EFF, told the BBC: “We strongly suggest that the developers of period tracking apps start thinking about the amount of data they are storing about their customers, and especially the ways that data could one day be used or misused in the future to cause harm, or be a tool of surveillance. # ⚓ EFF ☛ SafeGraph’s_Disingenuous_Claims About_Location_Data_Mask_a_Dangerous Industry⠀⇛ In response, SafeGraph agreed to stop selling data about Planned Parenthood visitors. But it also defended its behavior, claiming “SafeGraph has always committed to the highest level of privacy practices ensuring individual privacy is NEVER compromised.“ The company, it continued, “only sell[s] data about physical places (not individuals.)” This framing is misleading. First, SafeGraph for years did sell data about individuals—and then remained closely tied to a business that still did so. Second, the aggregated location data that SafeGraph now sells is based on the same sensitive, individual location traces that are collected and sold without meaningful consent.  Last year, EFF reported public records showing that SafeGraph had sold 2 years of “disaggregated, device-specific” location data about millions of people to the Illinois government, starting in January 2019. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Border-Industrial Complex_in_the_Biden_Era:_Robotic_Dogs_and Autonomous_Surveillance_Towers_Are_the_New Wall⠀⇛ I started climbing to get a better look and soon found myself alone on a golden hill dotted with alligator junipers and mesquite. Brilliant vermilion flycatchers fluttered between the branches. The road, though, was Border Patrol all the way. Atop the hill opposite mine stood a surveillance tower. Since it loomed over our campsite, I’d been looking at it all weekend. It felt strangely like part of French philosopher Michel Foucault’s panopticon — in other words, I wasn’t sure whether I was being watched or not.  But I suspected I was. After all, that tower’s cameras could see for seven miles at night and its ground-sweeping radar operated in a 13-mile radius, a capability, one Border Patrol officer told me in 2019, worth “100 agents.” In the term of the trade, the technology was a “force multiplier.” I had first seen that tower freshly built in 2015 after CBP awarded a hefty contract to the Israeli company Elbit Systems. In other words, on top of that hill, I wasn’t just watching some unknown event developing; I was also in the middle of the border-industrial complex. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ ABC ☛ Sweden_reintroduces_border_checks,_citing_‘a_serious threat’⠀⇛ Sweden said Friday it was reintroducing temporary border controls at ferry terminals, airports, road crossings with other countries and other entry points to the Scandinavian nation because there “still is a serious threat to public order and internal security.” The Swedish government said the temporary controls would start immediately and last until Nov. 11, meaning travelers will have to show passports and visas during the 6-month period. # ⚓ ANF News ☛ IHD:_What_happened_in_Dersim_is_a_genocide⠀⇛ On the anniversary of the Dersim Genocide, the Human Rights Association (IHD) Headquarters issued a written statement. The statement noted that military operations against Dersim began with a decision of the Council of Ministers dated May 4, 1937, within the framework of the “Tunceli Law” numbered 2884 and dated December 25, 1935, and that “tens of thousands of Kurds/Alevis were massacred during these operations. Military actions lasted until 1938, and the topography of Dersim was substantially depopulated by forced displacement as a result of the mass slaughter.” # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ ‘Reinstate_the_name_of_Dersim,_unveil_the_burial site_of_Seyit_Rıza’⠀⇛ The Human Rights Association (İHD) Central Office released a statement today (May 4) and marked the anniversary of the Dersim Massacre, which began in eastern Turkey on May 4, 1937 and continued in 1938. The İHD has underlined that the massacres committed in Dersim constituted a genocide, underlining “the need to face the genocide”. The Association has also recalled that President and Justice and Development Party (AKP) Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan apologized for the Dersim massacre in 2011, when he was the Prime Minister. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Cameroon_and_Russia_sign_defence_agreement⠀⇛ The content of the 13-page document is quite vague, mentioning the exchange of information in the field of international defence and security policy, military education, military hydrography and medicine. This new episode of Russia’s diplomatic offensive in Africa, in the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine and subsequent Western sanctions, follows the refusal from many African countries, Cameroon included, to condemn Moscow at the UN General Assembly. # ⚓ LRT ☛ US_rushed_cyber_team_to_Lithuania_over_Russia_ [cracking]_threat_–_media⠀⇛ The mission involved specialists arriving at a country following its invitations, “where they scan networks with the goal of building the host countries’ resilience and share any new information about threats with government and private industry circles back in the US”, according to the Bloomberg news website. The mission in Lithuania “was moved up in the queue” due to the threat posed by Russia, according to Hartman. The United States has previously deployed its cyber teams to countries including Estonia and Ukraine. # ⚓ Hungary ☛ Secretary_of_National_Security_and_Defense Council_of_Ukraine:_Hungary_was_warned_about_Putin’s_plans_to attack_Ukraine⠀⇛ The secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, said Hungarian authorities were informed about a full-scale attack on Ukraine beforehand by the Russian President. “Hungary openly declares its cooperation with the Russian Federation. Moreover, Putin warned [them] in advance that there would be attacks on our country,” Danilov said. He also believed Hungary had plans for part of the territory of Ukraine. The Hungarian embassy in Kyiv took to Facebook and wrote they are “outraged” by the allegations that Budapest was warned in advance about Russia’s plans to go to war. “The statement by Oleksiy Danilov, head of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), ‘contains accusations that are false and unfounded, and incite hatred against the Hungarian people and Hungary in Ukrainian public opinion, which is suffering from war’,”- the embassy’s social media post reads. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Taking_Aim_at_Putin:_Stephen_Cohen_Contests the_Myths⠀⇛ Well, I am hardly going to sort these matters out fully, but I have chosen the late Stephen F. Cohen’s book, War with Russia? From Putin and Ukraine to Trump and Russiagate (2022) as a companion to get a handle on the demonization of Putin (one of several core themes). We appear to be stumbling around in the darkness; maybe Cohen can beam some light into  this darkness shrouding our understanding of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Cohen is well-qualified to be our guide. He was a professor of Russian Studies and History at New York University (1998-2011) and Princeton University (1968-1998), where he directed the Russian Studies program. He was good friends with Gorbachev, and there is an affectionate photo in the book having dinner at one of Gorbachev’s favourite restaurant in Moscow. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Winston_Churchill’s_Rap_Sheet:_A_Record_of Empire⠀⇛ Ali’s book, titled Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes, is both a biography of one of humanity’s greatest criminals and a history of that criminal’s times. Like most humans with power both granted to them and taken by them, Churchill’s personal biography is tied up in the story of the times he lived in. As he rightly should, Ali spends most of his narrative detailing and discussing Churchill’s military, political and diplomatic actions as a member of the British Empire’s ruling class. In this discussion, Churchill’s racism and misanthropy is revealed. Obviously, those aspects of his personality informed his actions as a military man and politician. In addition, they informed the nature of Britain’s ruling elites as surely as their arrogance and sense of genetic superiority informed Churchill’s estimation of himself. The litany of crimes here is long. Churchill seems to have never missed an opportunity to stroke his ego. If he could do so while attacking a perceived enemy of the Empire—whether that enemy was a miner in Britain’s pits, an Irish Republican, a citizen of India, a Soviet revolutionary or another of the Empire’s enemies—so much the better. In Ali’s telling, it becomes clear that Churchill preferred fascism to any kind of communism and considered those who opposed his dear and glorious empire to be his personal enemies. All that said, this is a political biography above all else. Churchill’s particular psychopathies underlie the narrative but are not the basis of it. Likewise, his personal life is mentioned primarily in terms of his political actions. In a manner similar to others whose political personas are rightly or wrongly larger than life, Churchill comes across as a man whose politics were the foundation of his person and whose person defined his politics; politics of arrogance and prejudice that they were. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ North_Korea’s_Real_Threat:_Radical Isolation⠀⇛ North Korea’s nuclear program has been the perennial threat that concerns South Korea, East Asia, and the United States. Some pundits are even suggesting that the nature of this threat has recently changed—that North Korea is no longer just interested in possessing nuclear weapons in order to deter attacks by other countries. Instead, as Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin argues, North Korea is now seriously considering using nuclear weapons for offensive purposes as part of an effort to take over the Korean peninsula. This seems far-fetched. Pyongyang has difficulty even maintaining control of its own territory. Having seen Russia’s embarrassing failure to take over Ukraine, a considerably weaker country, the North Korean government can’t seriously believe that it could invade and control South Korea, a considerably stronger country. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘At_least_a_few_rubles’:_Public-sector_employees in_Russia_urged_to_donate_to_murky_‘fundraisers’_for Ukrainian_refugees⠀⇛ In the lead up to Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the authorities in the self-proclaimed “Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics” announced mass evacuations to Russia. Now, after ten weeks of all-out war, roughly a million Ukrainians have been forced to flee to Russian territory. As Meduza reported previously, civilians living in areas occupied or blockaded by Russian troops have been forcibly evacuated to Russia and brought to “filtration camps.” In mid-April, the Russian Cabinet allocated nearly 439 million rubles ($6.5 million) from the country’s reserve fund for the accommodation of these refugees. However, in a number of Russian regions, public-sector employees are being urged to donate part of their paychecks to purported “fundraisers” in support of displaced Ukrainians. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ On_the_Night_Bus_to_Kyiv⠀⇛ Kyiv, Ukraine—After Russian attacks targeted infrastructure all across Ukraine earlier this week, damaging critical rail lines in the western part of the country, a bus bound for Kyiv was full when it departed from Warsaw an hour before midnight on Wednesday. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Boris_Johnson_Pressured_Zelenskyy_to_Ditch Peace_Talks_With_Russia:_Ukrainian_Paper⠀⇛ The Ukrainian news outlet Ukrayinska Pravda reported Thursday that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson used his surprise visit to Kyiv last month to pressure President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to cut off peace negotiations with Russia, even after the two sides appeared to have made tenuous progress toward a settlement to end the war. Citing unnamed sources from Zelenskyy’s “inner circle” and advisory team, Pravda reported that “Johnson brought two simple messages to Kyiv”: # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Russian_Officials_Must_Be_Held_to_Account for_Documented_War_Crimes:_Amnesty⠀⇛ Global human rights group Amnesty International on Friday called for accountability “up the chain of command” in Russia for war crimes the organization says it has documented in extensive interviews and on-the-ground research in Ukraine. “Hierarchal superiors… who knew or had reason to know about war crimes committed by their forces, but did not attempt to stop them or punish those responsible, should also be held criminally responsible.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Investigation_Shows_Hundreds_of_US_Cops Being_Trained_by_Far-Right_Extremists⠀⇛ Hundreds of cops across the United States have been taught by individuals who espouse far-right extremist views, according to a new investigation that was published Friday to sound the alarm on a burgeoning and unregulated private training industry. Reuters identified five law enforcement trainers who have been hired by police and sheriffs’ departments nationwide despite their support for right-wing militia groups, including the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and Three Percenters; the QAnon conspiracy, which baselessly claims that Democrats and Hollywood stars belong to a cabal of Satanist pedophiles and cannibals; and former President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was stolen. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Dangerous_American_Game_of Helping_Kill_Russian_Generals⠀⇛ A New York Times report that the United States has been providing real time intelligence to the Ukrainian army with the specific purpose of killing Russian generals brings America a long step closer to actual war with Russia.  # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Toxic_assets’_How_Russia’s_invasion_of_Ukraine tore_Yandex_apart⠀⇛ In late April, Russian Internet giant Yandex announced it was selling its news service, Yandex.News, and its personal recommendations service, Yandex.Zen, to the social networking company VKontakte (VK). VK is run by Vladimir Kiriyenko, son of Russian presidential administration First Deputy Chief of Staff Sergey Kiriyenko. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, these products (just like Yandex overall) have faced a barrage of criticism for misleading millions of users by withholding credible information about the war while leaving up inaccurate information from pro-Kremlin sources. Meduza special correspondent Svetlana Reiter tells the story of how a once-progressive news aggregator ruined Yandex’s reputation, caused an employee exodus, and landed its deputy CEO on sanctions lists. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ How_‘mobilization’_works_in_Russia_Human_rights expert_Pavel_Chikov_explains_what_reservists_and_draftees_can expect_if_Putin_openly_declares_war⠀⇛ The Kremlin denies it vociferously, but Western analysts and state officials warn that Vladimir Putin could declare Russia’s full military mobilization as soon as May 9, when the country celebrates the USSR’s victory in World War II. Ben Wallace, the UK’s secretary of state for defense, says such an announcement wouldn’t surprise him, adding that Putin could claim that Russia is now at war “with Nazis all over the world,” necessitating mass conscription. Meduza asked Pavel Chikov, the head of the human rights group Agora, who would be affected by a full mobilization and whether it would still be possible to avoid being drafted in Russia’s armed forces. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Alabama_Police_Chief_Sued_Over_His_Response_To Anti-Police_Brutality_Protests⠀⇛ Following the brutal killing of an unarmed black man (George Floyd) by a Minnesota police officer (convicted murderer Derek Chauvin), protests against police violence erupted around the country. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Economic_Shock_Waves_From_the_War_in Ukraine_Will_Impact_Us_All⠀⇛ In 1919, the renowned British economist John Maynard Keynes wrote The Economic Consequences of the Peace, a book that would prove controversial indeed. In it, he warned that the draconian terms imposed on defeated Germany after what was then known as the Great War—which we now call World War I—would have ruinous consequences not just for that country but all of Europe. Today, I’ve adapted his title to explore the economic consequences of the (less than great) war now underway—the one in Ukraine, of course—not just for those directly involved but for the rest of the world. # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Ukraine_war:_New_Eurojust_regulation_in_fast-track procedure⠀⇛ The EU Justice Agency is to be allowed to store and process personal and biometric data for the first time. Eurojust will also be authorised to analyse digital evidence, but it does not actually have a mandate to do so. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘He_wanted_to_make_sure_those_monsters_don’t_come back’:_Alexey_Ptakh,_a_hostage_in_the_2004_Beslan_school siege,_is_now_fighting_in_Ukraine._Meduza_spoke_to_his mother.⠀⇛ On September 1, 2004, terrorists took 1,128 people hostage inside a school in the North Ossetian town of Beslan, including children, parents, and teachers. 333 people were killed and 783 were injured, making the siege one of the largest terrorist attacks in Russian history. Hostage No. 281 on the list compiled by Beslan teachers after the siege was then-15-year-old Alexey Viktorovich Ptakh. In 2022, his name appeared on a different list: the list of soldiers in the 34th Brigade from Vladikavkaz, which, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, is participating in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Meduza special correspondent Svetlana Reiter spoke with Alexey Ptakh’s mother, Tatyana, about how her son ended up in the war. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Nuclear_Threats_Like_We_Have_Never_Seen⠀⇛ Aiding Ukraine’s defense Russian invasion, “Would lead to consequences you have never seen”. President Putin February 24, 2022 Threats to use nuclear weapons are as old as nuclear weapons. Threats to use nuclear weapons may even be their main function. Increasingly bellicose statements by Putin and Russian State media during Russia’s hot war in Ukraine are unprecedented, and must be taken seriously. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Fascism_is_Intentional⠀⇛ When Atwood penned her famous book in 1985, she could not have imagined just how prescient it would be seen decades later. Then the Hulu series was produced. It differed in many significant ways from the book. The character of Offred, for instance, did not have the same agency or defiance as the one in the television series. She was a witness to the brutality of the Republic of Gilead, but she didn’t actively participate in resisting it as Elizabeth Moss’ portrayal did. Although the series was powerful, well written and well acted, the book presents us with a more universal experience of a person living under authoritarian cruelty. But it came in the time of Trump. A time of unmasked misogyny. Resistance, or even the facsimile of it, became a popular rallying call. Now, we watch stupefied at the continuing resurgence of fascism, dressed up in the guise of Christianity, in the same nation that would eventually become Atwood’s fictional Gilead. The recent leak of a US Supreme Court draft opinion may be one of those prophecies foretold. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ By_Redefining_UNRWA,_Washington_Destroys the_Foundation_for_a_Just_Peace_in_Palestine⠀⇛ Though UNRWA was not established as a political or legal platform per se, the context of its mandate was largely political, since Palestinians became refugees as a result of military and political events – the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people by Israel and the latter’s refusal to respect the Right of Return for Palestinians as enshrined in UN resolution 194 (III) of December 11, 1948. “UNRWA has a humanitarian and development mandate to provide assistance and protection to Palestine refugees pending a just and lasting solution to their plight,” the UN General Assembly Resolution 302 (IV) of December 8, 1949 read. Alas, neither a ‘lasting solution’ to the plight of the refugees, nor even a political horizon has been achieved. Instead of using this realization as a way to revisit the international community’s failure to bring justice to Palestine and to hold Israel and its US benefactors accountable, it is UNRWA and, by extension, the refugees that are being punished. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Ukraine_War_Fuels_NATO_War_Machine⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Why_Won’t_Europe_Call_for_an_End_to_This War?⠀⇛ Manipulation of the news around Russia’s war on Ukraine is aimed to prevent public opinion from seeking a lasting peace for both Ukraine and the region. The aim of this information war is to prolong the war to serve the interests of those who wish to promote it. How does one know what constitutes facts and what constitutes lies, and how can one learn to explain events without being accused of justification? Causes Leading to War # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Is_Ukraine_a_War_Crime_or_Business_as Usual?⠀⇛ There are two conflicting narratives about Ukraine. The first narrative – the idealistic, legal point of view that is repeated frequently by the West – is that Ukraine is a sovereign country that can independently choose its foreign policy. If it wishes to be closer to Europe, either joining the European Union or NATO, that is its choice. As a sovereign nation since 1991, Ukraine is free and independent. The second narrative – aligned with Realpolitik – is that major powers have spheres of influence around their borders. While there are no legal bases for this position, it is customarily recognized that countries such as the United States, China and Russia cannot have hostile threats close to them. Major powers have stated this and acted on its assumptions throughout history. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Toward_a_Peoples_Ukraine_Wars_Tribunal⠀⇛ At the same time, from the outset of these events there was much more limited international support for the American-led punitive response by NATO featuring harsh sanctions amounting to ‘economic warfare,’ shipment of weaponry to the beleaguered country, dehumanization of Putin and Russo-phobic propaganda, along with silence about recourse to diplomacy. In the background was the related internal struggle within Ukraine between the dominant force in the Western part of the country and the Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the Donbas East. As Russian military operations proceeded, perceptions of the core conflict began to change. What seemed at first a simple war of aggression, to be followed by belligerent operation, is now becoming a geopolitical war between the United States and Russia, with strategic goals quite apart from the outcome of events in Ukraine, as well as heightening costs of the encounter for the entire world, including the people of Ukraine and especially the extreme poor everywhere. And while Washington bears the main responsibility for this shift, the Russian response by way of veiled threats of recourse to nuclear weaponry emanate from Moscow and Putin. Yet the essential character in this elevation of the war strategy to a geopolitical level of engagement is to care less about bolstering Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression and far more about inflicting defeat on Russia and the renewal of post-Cold War transatlantic unity by the revitalization and expansion of the NATO alliance with Russia once more the enemy of Western democracy. This geopolitical war has much larger strategic consequences and risks than the initial proxy war between Russia and the United States that concerned the future of Ukraine. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ No_Proxy_War:_Stop_the_Dying⠀⇛ The development in question is U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s ominous comments after returning from a visit to Kyiv. Austin said that the U.S. wants to see “Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.” Austin also said that Washington thinks Ukraine can “win” its war with Russia if it receives proper weapons and support from the West. Questions For Your Liberal Imperialist Aunt # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Long_Hand_of_Slave_Breeding,_Redux⠀⇛ That requires that we look anew to history and the Constitution, which, Justice Alito is quite correct, does not include the word ‘abortion’ (or ‘space travel’ or ‘automobile’ or even ‘woman’) but does include ‘slavery’. When I first wrote that opening paragraph, in 2012, my friend and sister Pamela Bridgewater, who’d been their impetus, was alive. She was starting cancer treatments, which ultimately failed. At that moment, though, she was intending to revise her legal writings on reproductive liberty and the legacies of slave breeding into a book that would speak a common language to women, particularly the class of women whom she’d escorted to safety while doing clinic defense in Florida, Wisconsin, DC. She was a legal scholar, a professor, an activist, a sex radical, a diva. Pamela was fire. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Courage Found ☛ Daniel_Hale_is_Courage’s_newest beneficiary⠀⇛ On May 10, Daniel’s support team is hosting an online meeting for supporters to write letters together to Hale in prison. # ⚓ Courage Found ☛ One_Year_in_a_Cage:_Letter_Writing_Night for_Daniel_Hale,_May_10⠀⇛ As we approach one year of Daniel Hale’s incarceration, his support team invites you to a night of reflection and solidarity on Tuesday, May 10, at 7:30pm EST: “We miss him so much and community helps us and him keep his fighting spirit – forever in pursuit of justice – alive.” Register here. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ What_Is_the_Value_of_Our_Environment?⠀⇛ # ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Nukes_Are_Environmentalists’_Problems_Too⠀⇛ I have a confession to make. So focused on the existential threats of climate change, biodiversity decline, soil loss, population growth, antibiotic misuse, and other slow-to-unfold ways humanity can destroy itself, I spend little time thinking about the instantaneous way: nuclear annihilation. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Landmark_Inquiry_in_Philippines_Backs Accountability_for_‘Climate-Polluting’_Corporations⠀⇛ Campaigners within and beyond the Philippines on Friday applauded a new government report that backs accountability for major polluters driving the climate emergency and its associated negative impacts on human rights. “We enjoin all Filipinos to stand up for climate and environmental justice, and ensure our elected officials in the next administration take this to heart.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Where_the_Hell_Is_the_Green_New Deal?⠀⇛ In November 2018, the Green New Deal became a rallying cry for climate activists when members of the Sunrise Movement occupied House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and adopted the slogan as their unifying message. A few months later, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who had joined the young activists in Pelosi’s office, brought this message to Congress when she partnered with Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) to introduce their Green New Deal resolution. More manifesto than binding legislation, the resolution laid out a vision of an equitable clean energy transition for the United States. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ BBC ☛ Why_one_firm_is_banking_on_carbon_fibre_bikes in_Europe⠀⇛ Located in Campia (not far from Oliveira de Frades, a town famous for bikes), a group of investors from Portugal, Germany, and Taiwan launched the firm in 2018. The company believe manufacturing of hi-tech bicycle components is poised to return to Europe, after decades of supply from firms in China and Taiwan. # ⚓ Renewable Energy World ☛ New_Jersey_floating_solar project_aims_to_be_nation’s_largest⠀⇛ Construction is underway on an 8.9 MW floating bifacial solar array at a water treatment facility in New Jersey. NJR Clean Energy Ventures, a unit of New Jersey Resources, claims the project will be the largest floating solar array in the U.S. once it’s completed. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ US_punishes_Blender.io_for_helping_North Korea_launder_millions_in_stolen_Axie_ [cryptocurrency]⠀⇛ The US Treasury Department announced on Friday that it’s sanctioning Blender.io, essentially cutting the Bitcoin mixer off from the US financial system (legally speaking, anyway). The department alleges that the service, which lets people obfuscate the record usually kept by the blockchain, was used by North Korea to “support its malicious cyber activities and money- laundering of stolen virtual currency.” # ⚓ ABC ☛ US_sanctions_North_Korean_cryptocurrency_mixing firm⠀⇛ The sanctions, imposed by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, are the first ever on a digital asset mixing service. The new sanctions also point to the growing use of digital assets to perpetuate illegal acts by state actors and individuals. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ How_the_Oil_and_Gas_Industry_Is_Trying_to Hold_US_Public_Schools_Hostage⠀⇛ The oil and gas industry wants to play a word-and-picture association game with you. Think of four images: a brightly colored backpack stuffed with pencils, a smiling teacher with a tablet tucked under her arm, a pair of glasses resting on a stack of pastel notebooks, and a gleaming school bus welcoming a young student onboard. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Hawaii_Legislature_Calls_For_Fossil Fuel_Non-Proliferation_Treaty⠀⇛ Hawaii lawmakers put the state on the path to making history after the Legislature passed a resolution Thursday endorsing a document called the “Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.” “Hawaii is taking our own bold actions for climate change resilience and to move off fossil fuels.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ More_Business_as_Usual:_Biden’s_Old- Growth_Forest_Plan⠀⇛ Unsurprisingly, however, this “historic and bold” action plan reveals a doubled down commitment to business-as-usual programs and policies that exacerbate the climate crisis and its damaging effects on forests and communities; increase threats from wildfires, and open the door to new, extreme and unproven technologies to be unleashed on wild forests–all in the service of timber, oil and gas, mining, biotechnology and other industries. Carbon Offsets: One of the major themes running through the EO is an emphasis on forests as carbon sinks that will offset carbon emissions.  This model of forests as offsets, however, has been widely debunked for enabling ongoing pollution. In this way, it simultaneously exacerbates climate injustice because this ongoing pollution largely occurs in low income communities, and threatens the very existence of forests by sidestepping the dire need to curb forest-killing emissions. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Green_Groups_Blame_Bolsonaro_Policies as_Amazon_Deforestation_Sets_New_Monthly_Record⠀⇛ Brazil’s space research agency revealed Friday that deforestation in the country’s Amazon rainforest last month shattered the previous record for April, a development one conservation campaigner called “very scary” and an indication of the criminal level of environmental destruction occurring under the administration of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. “The Amazon is controlled by landowners, illegal loggers, and miners. Crime is the reality.” # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Protect_This_Place:_Lianyungang,_an Underrated_Pearl_in_the_Yellow_Sea⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Labor_Force_Participation_Continues_Toward_Pre- Pandemic_Levels⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Lawmakers_Approve_$600_Million_to_Help_Fix Housing_Program_for_Native_Hawaiians⠀⇛ The Hawaii Legislature on Thursday unanimously passed landmark legislation appropriating $600 million for the state’s Native Hawaiian homesteading program, a chronically underfunded initiative that has long fallen short of its promise to return Native people to their ancestral land. The amount represents the largest one-time infusion of money in the program’s 101-year history, and it’s more than seven times the record amount that state lawmakers approved last year. The majority of the funds will go toward the development of nearly 3,000 lots, most of them residential, on Hawaii’s main islands. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Estonia_and_Japan_sign_digital cooperation_agreement⠀⇛ The MOC between Estonia and Japan reflects the willingness of these two highly developed digital societies to share their knowledge and experience, Sutt said according to a ministry press release. “Digital development and sustainability are important drivers of economic growth in both Estonia and Japan,” he said. “Digitalization leads to a more efficient use of resources, but it cannot come at the expense of security. Therefore, the cooperation agreement places a strong emphasis on cybersecurity, secure digital identification, secure cloud solutions, data protection and the secure use of data.” # ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ Marjorie_Taylor_Greene_Can_Stay_on_Ballot Despite_Alleged_Jan._6_Role,_Judge_Rules⠀⇛ Free Speech for the People responded to the decision by sending a letter to Raffensperger, arguing that Beaudrot’s ruling “betrays the fundamental purpose” of the 14th Amendment and “gives a pass to political violence as a tool for disrupting and overturning free and fair elections.” # ⚓ The Hill ☛ A_safe,_open_internet_with_transatlantic_rules is_easier_than_it_sounds⠀⇛ On both sides of the Atlantic, [Internet] users face the same issues of disinformation and online harm, amplified by the same powerful digital platforms. But despite increasingly similar governance ideas, transatlantic collaboration on a comprehensive digital regulatory regime is not in the cards, given the disparities in the U.S. and European legal systems, norms and priorities, along with starkly different time frames. Two weeks ago, the European Union reached a deal on the final terms of its landmark regulation, the Digital Services Act. The EU leads the way on what it hopes will become the global standard, following in the footsteps of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the EU’s privacy and data protection regime. The United Kingdom is not far behind, with the possible adoption of its massive Online Safety Bill (OSB) early next year. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Judge_tosses_out_Trump_lawsuit_over_lifting Twitter_ban⠀⇛ A California judge on Friday tossed out former President Trump’s lawsuit that sought to lift his Twitter ban. U.S. District Judge James Donato, who was nominated by former President Obama, said in his ruling that Trump’s claims that Twitter’s ban against him violated the First Amendment did not hold much water, given that the amendment only applies to the government violations of the right and not private company abridgments. # ⚓ PC World ☛ U.S._SEC_slaps_Nvidia_with_a_$5.5_million_fine over_GeForce_GPUs_used_for_crypto⠀⇛ Specifically, Nvidia violated Section 17(a)(2) and (3) of the Securities Act of 1933 and the disclosure provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, according to the SEC. “The SEC’s order also finds that Nvidia’s omissions of material information about the growth of its gaming business were misleading given that Nvidia did make statements about how other parts of the company’s business were driven by demand for crypto, creating the impression that the company’s gaming business was not significantly affected by cryptomining,” the SEC said. # ⚓ Medforth ☛ Eric_Zemmour_alerts_the_French:_Emmanuel_Macron prepares_the_France_of_the_communist_Mélenchon⠀⇛ Translation: The crowd shouted “Allah Akbar” surrounding the blissful Macron # ⚓ YLE ☛ Pro-Russia_[blockade]_organisers_discuss_violence, guns_in_closed_group_chat⠀⇛ [YLE] followed a chat thread on WhatsApp, in the Russian language, about plans for Sunday’s event. The discussion, involving around 70 people, used aggressive language and nationalist themes. Some of the chat participants suggested carrying out violence against potential counter-protesters, with a few saying they were considering bringing firearms. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Musk’s_Twitter_acquisition_prompts_renewed_fear_of Chinese_influence,_infiltration⠀⇛ Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has sparked fears that the platform may now be more vulnerable to Beijing’s influence, amid an ongoing overseas influence and infowar campaign by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). # ⚓ The Nation ☛ New_York’s_Redistricting_Chaos_Is_Now_the Nation’s_Problem⠀⇛ Last week, the New York State Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state, invalidated the House and state Senate districts that had been drawn by the Democrat-controlled legislature. The ruling was a shock to the state’s political class, which did not expect such a legal challenge—initiated by Republicans—to succeed in a court where six of seven judges are registered Democrats. The court decision threw the task of drawing new maps to a court-appointed special master, who will have until May 24 to produce new House maps. To comply with this timeline, the judges ordered federal and some state primaries to be shifted from June to August. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Schumer_Promises_Vote_on_Codifying_“Roe”_Without Workaround_for_Filibuster⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hungary ☛ Orbán:_“The_proposed_sanctions_against_Russian oil_are_tantamount_to_a_nuclear_bomb_thrown_on_the_Hungarian economy”⠀⇛ Every Friday, Hungary’s prime minister gives an interview on one of the state-owned radio stations. Since the independent media has not had a chance to interview him for many years, these weekly radio interviews are the only opportunity to find out what the leader of the country thinks about current events, how he sees his opponents and any issues at hand. Here’s a brief summary of the most important points he touched on this morning. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Meet_the_Poster_Boy_for_the_GOP’s_Trumpian Cult_of_Personality⠀⇛ J.D. Vance secured Ohio’s Republican US Senate nomination Tuesday not by impressing the voters of Ohio but by winning the favor of one man. Vance was Donald Trump’s candidate, which is all that matters anymore in a Republican Party where Trump’s wish is the electorate’s command. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Trump_Encouraged_Elon_Musk_to_Buy_Twitter,_Truth Social_CEO_Devin_Nunes_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ Greens_celebrate_record_breaking_results as_party_breaks_500_councillors_mark_across_England_and Wales⠀⇛ The party has so far made a net gain of 75, gaining seats from Labour and Conservatives in areas as far ranging as Burnley, Hastings, Hackney, Somerset, Plymouth and South Tyneside. The party also saw an historic eight wins in Wales including in Newport, Monmouthshire and Neath Port Talbot. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Manchin_Only_Dem_to_Join_GOP_to_Reroute Billions_in_Climate_Funds_to_Pentagon⠀⇛ Sen. Joe Manchin voted against his own party’s climate action proposal once again this week, joining the Republicans in their effort to reroute billions of dollars from a climate fund to develop weapons systems at the Pentagon. The West Virginia right-wing Democrat was the only member of his party to vote for a motion filed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) to gut the Green Climate Authorization Act, a bill introduced last year by Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.). o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ FAIR ☛ ‘The_Core_of_Copaganda_Is_the_Symbiotic_Relationship Between_Press_and_Police’⠀⇛ Janine Jackson interviewed Copwatch Media‘s Josmar Trujillo about hyper-policing for the April 29, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ The Economist ☛ China_unveils_its_vision_of_a_global security_order⠀⇛ More disruptively for the world at large, China is growing more willing to adopt Russian arguments about how to organise a global security order. On April 21st Mr Xi presented a new “Global Security Initiative” to the Boao Forum for Asia, a Chinese gathering of bigwigs. Mr Xi’s initiative is dense, brow-furrowing stuff. He calls for a security order that is “common, comprehensive, co-operative and sustainable” and declares humanity “an indivisible security community”. This slab of party-speak is sprinkled with bromides about respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity that sound rich coming from a friend of Mr Putin’s. Mr Xi’s speech is a code. Governments from Europe to Japan and Australia should take it seriously, for it is China’s latest bid to delegitimise the American-led defence alliances and treaties that have guaranteed their security for decades. Much of Mr Xi’s new initiative builds on “Asia for the Asians” arguments that China has promoted in its home region for years. In a commentary on his boss’s Global Security Initiative, China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, traced the lineage of common, comprehensive, co-operative and sustainable security back to a “New Asian Security Concept” offered by Mr Xi in 2014 to the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), a multinational forum. # ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ FCC_Commissioner_Carr_Hopes_Musk Follows_Through_on_Proposed_Twitter_Speech_Reforms⠀⇛ Speaking at the Free State Foundation’s Annual Policy Conference, Carr stated that he is “very glad to hear” of Musk’s purchase but that speech reform online should not depend upon trusting a billionaire owner and thus Section 230 reform should still take place. # ⚓ ABC ☛ Woman_forced_to_land_in_Belarus_gets_6_years_in prison⠀⇛ Pratasevich was the editor of Nexta, a popular channel on the Telegram messaging app that was a key factor in organizing protests in Belarus after President Alexander Lukashenko won a disputed sixth term in August 2020. Sapega ran another Telegram channel that published the personal data of civil servants and military personnel who took part in mass repressions of the protests. Western countries denounced the plane diversion as tantamount to air piracy by Belarus. The European Union banned Belarusian airlines from its air space and airports as part of sanctions against the country. # ⚓ [Old] Forbes ☛ The_Babylon_Bee’s_Twitter_Account_Was Suspended,_But_That_Made_Its_Story_Go_Viral⠀⇛ In a series of follow-up tweets, Dillon explained that the account would be restored in 12 hours, but that the countdown won’t begin until the tweet was deleted, which he refused to do. On Monday morning, Dillon further added while the offending tweet remains live, The Babylon Bee is unable to post anything new. # ⚓ [Old] Newsweek ☛ Why_Was_The_Babylon_Bee_Suspended_by Twitter?_CEO_Seth_Dillon_Reacts_to_Ban⠀⇛ “We’re not deleting anything. Truth is not hate speech. If the cost of telling the truth is the loss of our Twitter account, then so be it,” Dillon tweeted. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Russian_street_singer_with_anti-Putin_sign_in_brief legal_scrape_in_Vietnam⠀⇛ After images of Kniazev, a stage name, went viral on Vietnamese social media on Monday, multiple Vietnamese media organizations reported on Tuesday that Lam Dong police arrested Kniazev because of the sign. Protests of any kind in one-party Communist Vietnam, an ally of Moscow, are rare and quickly snuffed out. # ⚓ Buzz Feed ☛ Elon_Musk_Will_Fund_His_Twitter_Deal_With_Money From_Countries_That_Suppress_Free_Speech⠀⇛ When Elon Musk announced his bid to buy Twitter last month, he said he wanted to make the social network a beacon for free speech. But as Musk scrambles to pull together funding for the $44 billion deal, the billionaire is also planning to accept financing for the deal from two countries that have historically restricted freedom of speech: Saudi Arabia and Qatar. On Thursday, an SEC filing revealed new financiers for Musk’s takeover plan, which include Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund. Both countries impose harsh censorship to quash dissent: A Qatari law states that spreading “false or malicious news” can land you in prison for five years, while in Saudi Arabia, critics of the government have faced arrest and even murder. Saudi Arabia ranks number 166 out of 180 on the World Press Freedom Index, while Qatar ranks number 119, according to Reporters Without Borders. # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Book_Banning_on_the_Rise_in_the_US_–_The Project_Censored_Show⠀⇛ Audio used by permission of event organizers and parents of the minors. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Anti-Zionism_Is_About_Dignity_for All_Peoples:_A_Response_to_ADL’s_Jonathan_Greenblatt⠀⇛ Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL’s CEO, in a speech just given to the ADL Virtual Leadership Summit, proclaims, among many other falsehoods, that anti- Zionism is “predicated on the negation of another people” and devotes considerable time to attacking organizations that are committed to Palestinian justice. His speech was grounded in extreme defamation, in a blatant distortion of history, and in a breath-taking lack of any moral compass. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_ADL_Goes_Full_Bully⠀⇛ It once seemed that Jonathan Greenblatt, whatever his other shortcomings, knew his right foot from his left. Now, the Anti-Defamation League CEO appears to have become disoriented. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Missouri_And_Louisiana_Sue_Biden_Administration Because_Twitter_Blocked_Hunter_Biden_Link_Before_Biden_Was President⠀⇛ This one is just absolutely bizarre. The Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana are now suing President Joe Biden and a whole bunch of his administration, including press secretary Jen Psaki, Dr. Anthony Fauci, DHS boss Alejandro Mayorkas, and newly appointed Disinfo czar Nina Jankowicz, in a nearly incomprehensible complaint that the Biden administration forced social media sites to take down information, mostly before it was in office. Also, apparently Section 230 is both bad and the Biden support for repealing it violates the 1st Amendment. Or something. It really does not make much sense at all. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ ABC ☛ Daunte_Wright’s_mother_detained_after_recording traffic_stop⠀⇛ The mother of Daunte Wright, who was fatally shot by a suburban Minneapolis police officer, says was injured while she was briefly detained by one of the same department’s officers after she stopped to record an arrest of a person during a traffic stop # ⚓ ABC ☛ Autopsy:_Patrick_Lyoya_killed_by_cop’s_shot_to_the head⠀⇛ Dr. Werner Spitz performed a separate autopsy at the request of the family and announced the findings on April 19. He, too, said a shot to the head killed Lyoya. He believes the gun was pressed against the head. “It’s highly significant that Dr. Steve Cohle found the identical findings of Dr. Spitz,” said Lyoya family attorney Ven Johnson, referring to the county medical examiner. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Cry_More’:_Starbucks_Mocked_for Complaining_About_Workers’_White_House_Visit⠀⇛ Starbucks’ union-busting management garnered little public sympathy Friday after it complained in a letter to the White House that labor organizers—including Laura Garza of Starbucks Workers United—were invited to meet with President Joe Biden but official company “representatives” weren’t. “We are deeply concerned that Workers United, which is actively engaged in collective bargaining with us and trying to organize all our stores and our +240,000 partners (employees), was invited to the meeting while not inviting official Starbucks representatives to discuss our view on the matter,” A.J. Jones, senior vice president of global communications and public affairs at Starbucks, wrote in a letter to Steve Ricchetti, counselor to the president. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Illinois_Cops_Are_Hitting_Students_With_Hefty Fines_For_Breaking_School_Rules⠀⇛ Putting cops in schools is a terrible idea. It tends to encourage school administrators to abdicate their disciplinary duties and allow cops to decide which school policy violations should be treated as criminal acts. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ After_Court_OKs_‘Ethnic_Cleansing’_in_West Bank,_Israel_Advances_4,000_Settler_Homes⠀⇛ Less than two days after Israel’s highest court upheld orders for what anti-apartheid campaigners called the “ethnic cleansing” of eight Palestinian hamlets in the West Bank, Israeli authorities on Friday announced the advancement of nearly 4,000 new Jewish-only settlement homes in the illegally occupied territory. “It is an indicator that Israel is violating international law with impunity and without accountability, and it shows that the international community is using double standards.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Jewish_People_Should_Stand_Up_Against Violent_Injustices_in_Our_Name⠀⇛ Passover is a perfect example of this sequence. Always a favorite of mine, this spring holiday passed a few weeks ago. Across the country, Jewish families gathered to commemorate the story of the Jews’ escape from slavery in Egypt with beautiful food and well-worn prayers and songs. Chanting rapid-fire rounds of “Chad Gadya” with my family never gets old. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Judge:_Clemency_Board_With_Three_Cops_On_It Doesn’t_Violate_Rule_Against_More_Than_Two_People_From_Same Profession⠀⇛ The justice system loves a stacked deck. Well, certainly the prosecutorial side loves it. Courts are, at best, ambivalent. Occasionally, this behavior gets called out. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ The_House_Will_Vote_Next_Week_on_Allowing_Its Staffers_to_Unionize⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Texas_Abortion_Funds_Work_to_Reduce_Looming Harms_of_Post-”Roe”_Criminalization⠀⇛ # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “I_Was_Raped_by_My_Father._Abortion_Saved My_Life”:_Prof._Michele_Goodwin_on_SCOTUS_&_the_New_Jane Crow⠀⇛ As the Supreme Court is poised to strike down Roe v. Wade, we speak with law professor Michele Goodwin, who has written extensively about how the criminalization of abortion polices motherhood. She discusses how on the eve of the court’s oral arguments in the Dobbs case in November, she wrote about how an abortion saved her life. She describes how the U.S. has historically endangered and denied essential health services to Black and Brown women, and calls new abortion restrictions “the new Jane Crow,” warning that they will further criminalize reproductive health and encourage medical professionals to breach their patients’ confidentiallity and report self-administered abortions to law enforcement. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Experts_Warn_GOP_War_on_Abortion_Will_Turn Red_and_Blue_States_Into_‘Mutually_Hostile_Legal Territories’⠀⇛ As the U.S. Supreme Court’s right-wing majority appears poised to overturn landmark decisions protecting reproductive rights and more, experts are warning that the GOP’s war on abortion will lead to interstate legal battles that threaten to “tear America apart,” as New York Times opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg put it on Friday. “We will have two wildly different abortion regimes in this country.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Is_the_Supremely_Right-Wing_Court About_to_Overturn_the_Majority’s_Will_on_Abortion?⠀⇛ The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, DC is truly august, its Corinthian columns and ornate pediments reminiscent of ancient Rome’s Temple of Mars Ultor, erected by Emperor Augustus to commemorate Mars, the god of war, in his role as avenger. Augustus employed the imperial design to convey that a new order had arrived after quelling a civil war that had consumed the region for fifty years. Two thousand years later, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has unleashed his own form of vengeance, from within the Supreme Court’s columned walls, revealed in a draft opinion he authored, leaked by a person or persons not yet publicly known then published by Politico. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Logistics_Arm_of_the_Abortion-Rights Movement_Is_Gearing_Up⠀⇛ A group of abortion providers who had just flown home to California from a conference with colleagues huddled together in the airport to process the news. In Washington, D.C., reproductive justice activist Renee Bracey Sherman cried on the metro. On a farm in Illinois where she raises goats while coordinating travel for abortion patients in the region, Alison Dreith took half a Xanax and went to bed, understanding that she needed to be rested for the next day—for the next decade. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Tired_of_Being_Worked_to_Death,_Labor Strikes_Back⠀⇛ Meanwhile also in Seattle on April 21, baristas struck at the Chinatown-International District store. Earlier that month, employees at two other Starbucks walked out. At April’s end, workers voted to unionize stores in Wisconsin and North Carolina. So with pickets popping up all over the place, workers on strike, and vociferous employee complaints about being overworked, underpaid and shocking stories of threats and retaliation against union leaders, Starbucks’ corporate image took a dive lately, to say the least. The corporation’s founder, Howard Schultz, didn’t help matters by proclaiming in early April that his companies were being “assaulted” by unions. According to Vice News, Schultz issued this memorable lament “the very same day the company fired a union organizer at a store in Arizona.” In fact, it has fired quite a few organizers across the nation and quite shamelessly plays dirty. Remember that Schultz was the guy heading Hillary Clinton’s 2016 list to lead the labor department, if she ascended to the white house. Good to know, in case you still harbored the delusion that the Clintons are in any way, or ever were, friendly to unions. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Amazon_Fires_Managers_at_Recently_Unionized Warehouse⠀⇛ More than half a dozen managers at Amazon’s JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island were abruptly fired Thursday, a month after workers at the warehouse made history by overwhelmingly voting in favor of unionizing. “Hard to interpret this as anything other than a message to other Amazon managers: don’t let your workers unionize.” # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Court_Dismisses_Case_After_Prosecutors_Make_It Impossible_For_Defendants_To_Access_Evidence⠀⇛ Prosecutors have an obligation to turn over evidence — exculpatory or otherwise — to criminal defendants. They often don’t. In rare cases, this refusal to play by the rules results in dismissals or sanctions. But, for the most part, they tend to get away with it, allowing the government to stack the prosecutorial deck in its favor to obtain easy, illegitimately obtained wins. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_‘Stick_To_Sports’_Crowd_Is_Now_Coming_After Gaming_Companies⠀⇛ There has been a trend over the past decade or so in which a very specific part of America’s political spectrum appears to be simultaneously advocating for “free speech” in ways that have nothing to do with the American system while also attacking all kinds of other speech and insisting that speech not happen. Hypocrisy isn’t something new to American politics, of course, but the levels at which this is occurring are starting to get damned ridiculous. For example, the phrase “stick to sports” has entered into the popular lexicon. It existed prior to recent times, of course, dating back at least as far as Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, and Billie Jean King. But the reactions to figures such as Colin Kaepernick and LeBron James, who was told by one cable news anchor to “shut up and dribble,” has taken a tone that just doesn’t fit with modernity. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Black_Students_in_Illinois_Are_Far_More Likely_to_Be_Ticketed_by_Police_for_School_Behavior_Than White_Students⠀⇛ At Bloom Trail High School in Chicago’s south suburbs, the student body is diverse: About 60% of the 1,100 students are Black or multiracial. Another 27% are Latino. And 12% are white. But when you look at the group of students who get ticketed for misbehavior at school, the diversity vanishes. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ For_Second-Generation_Immigrants,_the American_Dream_Can_be_a_Nightmare⠀⇛ My parents came to this country from India nearly 60 years ago. Like countless other immigrants, they came seeking freedom, economic opportunity, and the American Dream for themselves and their children. The American Dream means a lot of different things. But for older Americans, it looks something like having financial security, the ability to retire at 65, and an advanced health care plan. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ Chris_Lehmann_on_Multi-Racial_Democracy,_Mike Rispoli_on_Funding_Local_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Blue_States_Will_Be_Stretched_to_Their_Limits Post-Roe⠀⇛ The stunning leak of Justice Alito’s draft ruling overturning Roe v. Wade has, in dramatic fashion, pushed California and its Western neighbors to the fore of the movement to protect access to abortion. Over the past week, Governor Newsom has vowed to both codify the right to an abortion in the state’s Constitution and make the state, which has had legal abortions since 1967, something of a sanctuary for those from other parts of the country seeking abortions. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Democrats_Had_50_Years_to_Save_and_Protect “Roe.”_They_Failed.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Nothing_is_More_Personal_Than_the_Right_to Control_Your_Own_Body⠀⇛ So as a human with reproductive organs, the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion overruling Roe v. Wade — and the constitutional right to abortion — is obviously personal to me. But it’s personal for another reason, too. I come from a line of pro-choice advocates. My late grandmother, Eileen Alperstein, was on the board of a Planned Parenthood chapter. She fought to get an ad placed in The New York Times to shine a light on the issue, well before Roe v. Wade was settled. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ “Democracy”_Doesn’t_Work_as_an_Argument Against_Overturning_Roe_v._Wade⠀⇛ As always, I’ll refrain from sharing my own opinions on abortion as such. I’m not interested in convincing anyone of anything there, if for no other reason than that I’m not firmly convinced myself. I won’t refrain from sharing my opinions on poor arguments, though. Both in general and on abortion specifically, they’re quite possibly my top pet peeve.  And the worst argument I’m hearing right now is … the envelope, please … # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Supreme_Court_Spoiler_Alert⠀⇛ Ironically, while in the process of trashing women’s privacy rights, the Supreme Court is miffed that its privacy rights were violated. In any event, the good news is, that the leaked proposed opinion will likely not be the final opinion.  The bad news, however, is that whatever the final opinion looks like, the Court’s conservative majority will probably overturn Roe, leaving decisions on abortion to be made by each state. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Leaking_for_Roe_v_Wade⠀⇛ The subject matter was positively incendiary: the potential overturning and judicial eradication of Roe v Wade, a 1973 decision which has generated a literature both for and against its merits of herculean proportions.  In its draft form, Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health entertains a full-throated attack on the decision that had legalised abortion via constitutional fiat, even if the original grounds centred on privacy. Such an inner illumination of processes was never the intention of the US Supreme Court.  For over two centuries, it had not seen the like of this.  For the most part, whatever their persuasion, the justices have kept religiously mum on the issue of a case till final publication.  In an address to the American Constitution Society, given on June 15, 2012, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was not giving anything away to the audience about what fate awaited the Affordable Care Act.  The justices had originally voted on the matter on March 30.  By mid-June, opinions had already been drafted and circulated in the judicial conclave.  “Those who know don’t talk,” teased Ginsburg. “And those who talk don’t know.” # ⚓ FAIR ☛ Media_Shocked_by_the_Leak,_Not_the_Opinion⠀⇛ When Politico (5/2/22) published a leaked draft Supreme Court opinion that would, if handed down by the Court, overturn Roe v. Wade and undermine the foundation for many privacy rights enjoyed by Americans today, it was a headline story across US news outlets. But in the flood of coverage, too many elite media outlets focused on the leak itself and treated the issue as a political football, rather than centering the real-world implications the opinion would have for everyday people. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Dobbs,_Roe,_and_the_Myth_of_Supreme_Court as_a_Defender_of_Individual_Rights⠀⇛ The leaked majority opinion in Dobbs overturning  Roe v. Wade is troubling on many fronts—the least of which is the leak of which so many are focusing on.  The first problem is of course what it does—it is the first time in American history the Supreme Court overturned one of its own constitutional precedents in order to take away rights.  In my research, the Supreme Court has only overturned about 145 of its own constitutional precedents over time.  Notably, Brown v. the Board of Education declaring segregation unconstitutional  overturned Plessy v Ferguson’s “separate but equal doctrine.”  Lawrence v. Texas reversed Bowers v Hardwick which ruled that gays and lesbians have no right to sexual privacy. Dred Scott was a horrible decision, but it did not create less rights for African-Americans; they already had none and the decision simply made that point clear. Dred Scott perhaps correctly reflected the intent of the constitutional framers, many of whom in fact were slave owners. Our hero worship of the framers often ignores this fact or that as many have argued, the Constitution was a document engulfed by slavery and racism and as Thurgood Marshall once pointed out, the opening words of it—We the people—hardly was inclusive. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Draft_Overturning_Roe_v._Wade_Quotes_Infamous Witch_Trial_Judge_With_Long-Discredited_Ideas_on_Rape⠀⇛ When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in a draft opinion obtained and published this week by Politico, detailed his justifications for overturning Roe v. Wade, he invoked a surprising name given the case’s subject. In writing about abortion, a matter inextricably tied to a woman’s control over her body, Alito chose to quote from Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th-century English jurist whose writings and reasonings have caused enduring damage to women for hundreds of years. The so-called marital rape exemption — the legal notion that a married woman cannot be raped by her husband — traces to Hale. So does a long-used instruction to jurors to be skeptical of reports of rape. So, in a way, do the infamous Salem witch trials, in which women (and some men) were hanged on or near Gallows Hill. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Roaming_Charges:_Playing_for_Keeps⠀⇛ + Overturning Roe is just the first thread pulled in what will be a much greater unraveling, which will take place over the next decade. + Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs. v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which wipes away a fundamental right to bodily autonomy and sets the groundwork for abolishing dozens of other personal rights, also exposes how fraudulent and cynical the GOP rhetoric about individual liberty has become, from vaccines to guns. We’re seeing a deeply reactionary ideological agenda come to fruition and the Alito Court (I guess we should call it that now) is going to be the wrecking ball that smashes any legal impediments to its completion. The fact that it has taken place even as the rightwing has repeatedly lost the popular vote in national elections shows how broken our political system is and how weak–often complicit–the opposition and often majority party has been for the last 50 years. Things are going to get much worse before they get better, if–given the runaway pace of climate change–they get better… # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Supreme_Court:_Politics,_Then_Country⠀⇛ It’s all about politics, not honest debate about policy, as the minority Republican Party with the support of conservative judges its presidents nominated erodes more American freedoms, little by little – everything from limiting voting rights to permitting what can be taught and read in schools and libraries. They’re conducting a war on privacy with conservative judges at the spearhead, the Constitution be damned. It’s a living document, not some tombstone in America’s backyard. Proof? The 27 amendments of 33 passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Dems_Accused_of_Caving_to_‘Rabid’_Telecom Industry_Smear_Campaign_Against_FCC_Nominee⠀⇛ Supporters of Federal Communications Commission nominee Gigi Sohn and other critics of the telecommunications industry’s efforts to thwart her U.S. Senate confirmation this week called out not only those behind the smear campaign but also Democratic leaders. “Dem leadership is nowhere to be found defending their nominee.” # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Fraternal_Order_Of_Police_Helps_Boost_Telecom Smear_Campaign_Against_FCC_Nominee_Gigi_Sohn⠀⇛ We’d already noted how telecom and media giants are engaged in a last ditch attempt over the next few weeks to derail Biden’s nomination to the FCC, Gigi Sohn. Sohn is widely admired by folks on both sides of the aisle, and is eminently qualified on stuff like expanding access to affordable broadband, media consolidation, consumer protection, privacy, and media diversity. # ⚓ RIPE ☛ RIPE_NCC_Internet_Country_Report:_Bulgaria,_Moldova and_Romania⠀⇛ Our latest report details the Internet landscape in Bulgaria, Moldova and Romania, giving an overview of the current level of development and capacity for future growth. We examine the countries’ major market players, Internet number resource holdings and transfers, IPv6 readiness, the relationship between different networks in the countries, their international connectivity to the global Internet, access to K-root, traffic paths and routing security. # ⚓ APNIC ☛ Public_cloud_and_technical_culture⠀⇛ By subscribing to public cloud offerings, an organization can focus on its core business and not worry about the physical infrastructure or traditional skillset of support staff. Outsourcing to cloud operators who maintain the platform means your customers/employees/partners can access services without your company needing to host on physical premises. However, it is changing the traditional technical culture of organizations, with trained and skilled resources declining in enterprise organizations. # ⚓ spartan://_on_lagrange⠀⇛ Lagrange v1.13.3 supports spartan! o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Biden_Broke_His_Promise_to Support_Generic_Covid-19_Vaccines_for_the_World⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ While_Hoarding_Vaccine_Recipe, Moderna_Got_Another_$300_Million_From_US_Taxpayers⠀⇛ The Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical giant Moderna disclosed in a financial filing this week that it received another $300 million in U.S. government funding for coronavirus vaccine development in March even as the company hoarded its technology from the world—and attempted to undermine a critical vaccine project in South Africa. “The corporation must give it back by sharing the tech with others and make this vaccine available to everyone, everywhere.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Moderna_Got_Another_$300_Million_From_US Taxpayers_While_Hoarding_Vaccine_Recipe⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Vaccine_Inequity_Prolongs_Pandemic_as Worldwide_Death_Toll_Tops_15_Million⠀⇛ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Sweeping_legal_ruling_orders_ISPs_to block_pirate_sites⠀⇛ ISPs and other companies — or the defendants — could still contest the order. But it’s not clear the biggest players are going to. AT&T declined to comment on whether it would dispute the decision, and Verizon didn’t respond to a request for comment. (Charter didn’t immediately respond to a more recently made request.) Comcast also declined to say whether it would push back on the injunction but offered slightly more detail. “We only recently learned about it and the implications and are still examining it,” said spokesperson Sena Fitzmaurice. # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Episode_28:_Open_Culture_VOICES_– Mariana_Ziku⠀⇛ Welcome to episode 28 of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to bring you various perspectives from dozens of experts speaking in many different languages on what it’s like to open up heritage content online. In this episode, we hear from Mariana Ziku, an art historian and curator with specialization in digital humanities. Her research focuses on intangible, audiovisual and documentary heritage. Mariana is a co-founder and programme curator of the Biennale of Western Balkans, where she works on promoting intangible and natural heritage through art, technology and open knowledge. # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Episode_27:_Open_Culture_VOICES_– Simon_Tanner⠀⇛ Welcome to episode 27 of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to bring you various perspectives from dozens of experts speaking in many different languages on what it’s like to open up heritage content online. In this episode, Simon Tanner, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at King’s College London, joins us to share his insights on open GLAM. Simon is a digital humanities scholar with a broad interest in cross-disciplinary thinking and collaborative approaches that reflect a fascination with interactions between memory institution collections (libraries, museums, archives, media and publishing) and the digital domain. As an information professional, consultant, digitization expert and academic, he helps major cultural institutions across the world transform their impact, collections and online presence.  # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ U.S._Copyright_Office_Seeks_Input_on Mandatory_DMCA_“Upload_Filters”⠀⇛ The U.S. Copyright Office has launched a public consultation to evaluate whether it’s wise to make certain technical protection measures mandatory under the DMCA. The Office hopes to hear all relevant stakeholders and the public at large in what may become a de facto review of the recently introduced SMART Copyright Act. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Movie,_Music,_Gaming_&_Publishing Groups_Join_ISPs_in_Deal_to_Block_Piracy⠀⇛ Major entertainment industry groups representing film studios, record labels, videogame developers and publishers have signed a deal with internet service providers in Sweden to simplify the blocking of pirate sites. The signatories will also work together to help form clear legislation that will pave the way for a streamlined administrative site-blocking regime. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Disney_Is_Still_Trying_To_Avoid_Paying_Its Writers⠀⇛ There are all sorts of silly and made up reasons to be mad at Disney, but those shouldn’t take away from the many legitimate ways in which Disney is a terrible, awful company. For years, it was one of the most aggressive in pushing for ever expanded copyrights, and was one of the chief lobbyists pushing to extend copyright in all sorts of directions. To be honest, over the last two decades, some of the other big Hollywood/media companies have gotten even more aggressive than Disney, but Disney has certainly remained aggressively awful. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3349 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.07.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_07/05/2022:_SparkyLinux_6.3_and_Wine_7.8⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 6:10 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ China_Orders_Government,_State_Firms_to_Dump Foreign_PCs⠀⇛ China has ordered central government agencies and state-backed corporations to replace foreign- branded personal computers with domestic alternatives within two years, marking one of Beijing’s most aggressive efforts so far to eradicate key overseas technology from within its most sensitive organs. # ⚓ China_intends_to_transfer_state_institutions_and_state- owned_enterprises_to_Linux_and_PCs_of_local_manufacturers⠀⇛ According to Bloomberg, China intends to stop the use of computers and operating systems of foreign companies in state institutions and state enterprises within two years. It is expected that the initiative will require the replacement of at least 50 million foreign-brand computers, which are ordered to be replaced with equipment from Chinese manufacturers. According to preliminary data, the prescription will not apply to components that are difficult to replace, such as processors. Despite the development of China’s own chips , most Chinese manufacturers continue to use Intel and AMD processors in PCs. Microsoft software is recommended to be replaced with Linux-based solutions developed by Chinese manufacturers. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Business Wire ☛ AlmaLinux,_Popular_CentOS_Alternative,_Now Available_on_Oracle_Cloud⠀⇛ # ⚓ HPC Wire ☛ AlmaLinux_Now_Available_on_Oracle_Cloud⠀⇛ AlmaLinux OS Foundation, the nonprofit that stewards the community owned and governed open source CentOS replacement AlmaLinux, today announced AlmaLinux is now available on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) marketplace, continuing AlmaLinux’s penetration into the cloud. With this addition to the Oracle Cloud Marketplace (OCM), enterprises can now add AlmaLinux into their Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) with the simple click of a button for both x86_64 and Aarch64. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Install_Arch_Linux_The_Easy_Way_With_The_Official Install_Script_–_Invidious⠀⇛ I’ve always argued that the standard command line installation of Arch Linux is easy and anyone can do it (seriously!). But many people fear command line installations, so Arch Linux now comes with a guided menu-based install script that is as easy- to-use as the Ubiquity installer or the Calamares installer. # ⚓ Video ☛ Welcome_To_My_New_House_&_Studio_Planning_– Invidious⠀⇛ It’s finally happening, I’m finally moving out of my current place and into a place with one of my good mates, here I’ll have so much more space but right now nothing is finished. My room/studio isn’t finished is neither is most of the house but it will be soon enough. # ⚓ Chrome Uboxed ☛ Steam_Deck_unboxing_and_hands-on_initial impressions_[VIDEO]⠀⇛ Generally speaking, we unbox and review Chromebooks, ChromeOS tablets, Chromeboxes and Chromebases around here. If it runs ChromeOS in any way, shape or form, we’re interested. If it is #madebyGoogle, we’re interested. If it works with a Chromebook, we’re interested. But there are outliers, too, and some of those devices have direct impact on the wider ChromeOS ecosystem. The Steam Deck from Valve is one such device, and there are some good reasons why we’re keenly interested in this handheld gaming machine. # ⚓ Video ☛ Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Released_|_The_BIGGEST_Update_To Ubuntu_Yet!_–_Invidious⠀⇛ The most popular Linux distribution in the world gets a massive update, that is packed with stunning new features and major improvements like Dynamic Triple Buffering, Gnome 42, advanced customization options and so much more. A new interface style, amazing performance boost, better customization options, and a host of new features make Ubuntu 22.04 LTS noteworthy. Yes this is the biggest update to Ubuntu yet. So let’s jump right in and see what’s new in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, the new tech that enables a boosted performance, the stability, the deal with snap apps, the UI changes, gaming, installation and everything else. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Latest_Linux_Kernel_Not_Working_Right?_So_you_can_go_back_– LinuxStoney⠀⇛ In this tutorial we are going to learn how to degrade Linux kernel version if latest version didn’t work fine, We always recommend updating Windows, Linux and programs to the latest versions available. Thanks to them, we can correct errors, improve the performance and general functionality of the PC and be able to use it in the safest way possible. However, there are times when problems appear as soon as the Kernel or any system component is updated. And when this happens, what can we do? The first thing we want to make clear is that, whenever possible, it is better to use the latest version of the Linux Kernel . The why is very simple. Just like other operating systems, or other programs, when the kernel is updated, bugs and problems are corrected, both in terms of operation and security, which allow the computer to work in the best possible way and, above all, in the safest way possible. # ⚓ Intel_wants_to_fix_sleep_malfunction_on_Linux_laptops⠀⇛ That Linux doesn’t shine on laptops is pretty well known. Problems with energy management have been a constant in its history, which have sometimes led to significant regressions . Fortunately, Intel seems to be willing to do its part to at least get better at carrying out the suspension process. It seems there are models of laptops with Intel processors that run hotter than they should, leading to battery drain that can occur even when the computer goes to sleep . With the problem on the table, Intel has decided to take action on the matter to introduce a solution in the Linux kernel, since the origin is apparently a bug in S0ix caused by overheating of the PCH, but before getting into the flour, let’s briefly explain what S0ix and PCH are. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ 2_ways_to_find_my_IP_address_on_Ubuntu_22.04 Jammy_JellyFish⠀⇛ Let’s learn the GUI and Command ways to find the IP address on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy JellyFish to identify the local Internal address, Default Gateway, MAC address, or DNS server. If you are into system administration or installing some program that requires your system’s IP address, then this tutorial could help you. # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_Install_Maven_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Jammy –_Linux_Shout⠀⇛ Learn the steps to install Apache Maven on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy JellyFish using the command terminal to manage Java-based projects. Apache Maven is an open-source Java tool for the standardized creation and management of Java-based projects. As per the developers of Maven, it is intended to facilitate the daily development work by trying to automate as many steps as possible in the development cycle from the creation of a software project to compilation and testing to the distribution of the software. Based on the specified standards, only a few configuration settings have to be stored for most build management tasks to map the life cycle of a software project. # ⚓ Peta Pixel ☛ How_to_Convert_HEIC_to_JPG_|_PetaPixel⠀⇛ Photographers have to deal with a variety of image types and new file formats appear from time to time, usually offering benefits that, while helpful, might not be immediately obvious. This can lead to frustration and hours lost when simply trying to complete a project. That’s particularly true when a new camera or device saves images that can’t be opened or edited in the normal workflow. # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ How_to_Use_the_SSH_Config_File_–_ByteXD⠀⇛ The SSH Config File is a text file that contains configuration information for your SSH client. This file is usually located in your home directory, and the path is ~/.ssh/config. It is used to store configuration information for your SSH client, such as the hostname of the server you are connecting to, your username, and your private key file. It’s useful for keeping your SSH client’s configuration organized and for sharing your configuration with others, and also for automating your SSH client’s configuration. In this tutorial we will learn by examples how to use the SSH config file to modify and simplify our networking needs using Linux. # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_Install_Python_2_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS Jammy_Linux_–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛ Get the easy steps to install Python2 or 2.7 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy JellyFish using the command terminal to run old applications that need this version. Python is an object-oriented programming language that offers clear syntax and easy readability; it is easy to learn and very versatile. The language was released in 1991 and is similar to PERL. Available to use on UNIX, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. The programming language is standard equipment in many Linux distributions. Python can also be used on many mobile operating systems. For web servers, WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface) is a universal interface between the server and Python. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Remmina_Desktop_Client_on_Manjaro 21_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Remmina Desktop Client on Manjaro 21. For those of you who didn’t know, Remmina is a free and open- source remote desktop client that allows users to access remote machines from a distance. It supports the following protocols X2Go, RDP, SSH, SPICE, and VNC. 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 Remmina remote desktop client on a Manjaro 21. # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ What_is_/dev/null_in_Linux_and_How_to_Use_It_– ByteXD⠀⇛ The null device in Unix systems is /dev/null. Its purpose is to immediately discard anything sent to it. It’s known also as a bucket or a blackhole. Like throwing something in a thrash bucket or sending it to a blackhole never to be seen again. In this guide we will discuss what is the purpose of /dev/null, why it exists, and how to use it. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ 10_ways_to_check_ports_in_Linux_to_help troubleshoot_systems_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛ System and network troubleshooting often involves checking and obtaining information about ports to ensure functionality and determine the source of problems. Learn some handy tips to help keep systems running smoothly. o § Wine or Emulation⠀➾ # ⚓ WineHQ_–_Wine_Announcement_–_The_Wine_development_release 7.8_is_now_available.⠀⇛ The Wine development release 7.8 is now available. What's new in this release: - X11 and OSS drivers converted to PE. - WoW64 support in the sound drivers. - Number formatting using the new locale database. - Various bug fixes. The source is available from the following locations: https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/7.x/wine- 7.8.tar.xz http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/7.x/wine- 7.8.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. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Wine_7.8_is_out_now_with_X11_and_OSS drivers_converted_to_PE_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Wine is the compatibility layer that allows you to run games and applications developed for Windows – on Linux (plus also macOS and BSD). A new biweekly development release is out now with Wine 7.8. 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. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ More_than_2600_Games_On_The_Steam_Deck, with_Corpse_Party_as_Verified_–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛ It did not take too long to move from 2500 to 2600 games: there are now 2624 games at the time of writing working on the Steam Deck – in two categories as usual… # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Quieter_Fans_With_The_Latest_Steam_Deck Beta⠀⇛ One of my biggest complaints in my initial Steam Deck impressions (and I know I’m not alone) was the fan noise. While I don’t think I have a particularly whiny unit, the small fan has a sound profile that’s been described accurately as a distant hairdryer. I noted that a better fan curve would help as the Deck was constantly starting and stopping the fan at a very audible level, even for simpler games and desktop usage. There’s also the issue with some Deck users having a much more audible whine, from what appears to be the design of one of the fans used in the Deck (looks like random chance which yours has). Some have taken to using electrical tape to alter the fan noise, though I wouldn’t necessarily suggest it. # ⚓ System76_Scheduler_seeks_to_improve_and_optimize_the execution_of_games_and_applications_–_LinuxStoney⠀⇛ System76 , the well-known American Linux computer assembler and the one responsible for the Pop!_OS distribution, has published version 1.1 of its programmer, developed with the purpose of improving the response of the software in your operating system and obviously your computers, although it shouldn’t of having problems for its reimplementation on the part of others seeing that it is published under the MPL 2.0 license. The scheduler, whose official name is System76 Scheduler , is written in Rust and is responsible for automatically adjusting the Linux processor scheduler to prioritize processes and thus improve responsiveness. This component takes into account whether the computer is connected to power or running on battery power for further optimization purposes. Version 1.1 has introduced a full level kernel priority under the responsive profile and voluntary level in case of running on battery power. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ This_week_in_KDE:_New_features_and_many_bugfixes_for Plasma_5.25⠀⇛ This week Plasma 5.25 reached its “soft feature freeze” date, at which point we don’t add any large new features or major code refactorings. This reduces risk and gives us a longer period of time to polish those changes before the final release. So as you can imagine, everyone rushed to merge their big stuff right before the deadline! As a result, this week I can present are tons of new features and important refactorings that fix multiple bugs. Check it out… # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ #42_Numerous_Emojis_·_This_Week_in_GNOME⠀⇛ Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from April 29 to May 06. # ⚓ Builder_GTK_4_Porting,_Part_III⠀⇛  Another week of porting Builder which ultimately sent me on a few fun tangents. I especially enjoyed the work on Template-GLib which brought me back to my days working on languages and runtimes. I would like to specify how wonderful the new shortcut components are in GTK 4, particularly if you’re writing complex applications that have to manage layered shortcuts, user overrides, and such. I’m thinking applications in the class of Inkscape, GIMP, Builder, Darktable, and such will really benefit from this someday. # ⚓ Bottles_developers_join_the_GNOME_Foundation⠀⇛ Bottles, the application that allows you to create and manage Wine environments, has been gaining popularity in recent times thanks to the fact that it is easy to use and offers many possibilities. Bottles’ prominence has ended with its developers making the decision to officially become part of the GNOME Foundation. The membership of the Bottles developers within GNOME will allow them, as explained by the corresponding website of the foundation behind the environment, “to run for the election of the Board of Directors, to vote in the elections for the Board of Directors and to suggest referendums. The membership process is supervised by the Membership and Elections Committee”. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Fedora_Linux_to_Keep_Legacy_BIOS_Support,_For_Now⠀⇛ Fedora Linux to continue support of Legacy BIOS as the decision for Fedora 37 is rejected by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) due to several factors. # ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ The_Hyperscalers_Point_The_Way_To Integrated_AI_Stacks_–_The_Next_Platform [Ed: IBM- sponsored writer Timothy Prickett Morgan composes some word salad about "Hey Hi"; "Sponsored by Intel"]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Network World ☛ IBM_announces_first_major_update_to Power9_servers_in_three_years⠀⇛ IBM will launch the first major update to its i operating system for Power CPU-based servers in three years. The enhancements are largely hardware-oriented, supporting both the older Power9 and the newer Power10, which has been available since last September. # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Published_deb-get_utility,_offering_apt-get-like functionality_for_third-party_packages⠀⇛ Distributions generally allow the integration of so-called third-party repositories. these are repositories that do not come from the distribution and are therefore not protected by their keys. Opinions differ greatly as to whether such repositories should be included at all. # ⚓ SparkyLinux_6.3⠀⇛ The 3rd update of Sparky 6 – 6.3 is out. It is a quarterly updated point release of Sparky 6 “Po Tolo” of the stable line. Sparky 6 is based on and fully compatible with Debian 11 “Bullseye”. # ⚓ Tails_5.0:_the_Linux_distro_that_protects_your privacy_makes_the_leap_to_Debian_11⠀⇛ Tails 5.0 is the new version of the amnesic incognito live system , the most popular of the Linux distributions focused on the protection of privacy on the Internet and, as you can see, it comes with round numbers, which is worth dedicating a space exclusively to it , instead of, as we do more often, relegating it to PING . releases in a timely manner Tails is that they happen pretty often and the changes are usually minimal. The secret of Tails to offer the high level of privacy that it offers is to be based on the Tor network and for greater guarantee, it is essential to have each new version of Tor that appears and that incorporates security and other patches. Thus, Tails is updated every time Tor is updated. Of course, Tails is a Linux distribution and it also has other components apart from Tor, so it receives other types of updates. Tails 5.0 is an unbeatable example of this, since the major version jump corresponds to the base system jump, since Tails 5 moves its foundations to Debian 11 ‘Bullseye’ , with all the new features that this entails. # ⚓ Charles_Fussell,_Jonathan_Cohen_&_Debian_SLAPP microsite,_resignations⠀⇛ A large sum of money from Debian funds is now paying for Jonathan Cohen, a lawyer at Charles Fussell & Co LLP, to purse a SLAPP lawsuit and try to shut down the Debian Community News and the Uncensored Debian Planet web sites. # ⚓ Leader_adds_PBX_hardware_vendor_Call4tel_– Distribution_–_CRN_Australia⠀⇛ The US-based company specialises in small- sized plug and play PBX appliances preinstalled with 3CX’s V18 software and Debian 10. # ⚓ ARN ☛ Leader_wins_distie_deal_with_UC_vendor_Call4tel –_ARN⠀⇛ Call4tel appliances come preloaded with 3CX Version 18 and Debian 10, allowing users to load their licensing and configure their SIP accounts and IP phones. The appliances can also be converted for use as a Session Border Controller (SBC) in a hosted 3CX environment. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Download_Ubuntu_16.04_LTS_–_DVD_ISO_Images –_TecAdmin⠀⇛ Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish is released and available for download. This tutorial will provide you the download links to DVD ISO Images of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with different desktop flavors. You can find the Ubuntu 22.04 release notes on its official website. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Radxa_offers_affordable_Rock_Pi_4_C+ equipped_with_Rockchip_RK3399-T_processor⠀⇛  Radxa recently unveiled details about their newest SBC (Single Board Computer) Rock Pi 4 C+. At first sight, the Rock Pi 4 C+ seems to have implemented a slower Rockchip processor (up to 2.0GHz w/ overclock) compared to their previous models, however the board ships for an affordable price (~59$-69$). For this Rock Pi model, Radxa opted to integrate the Rockchip RK3399-T SoC which consists of 4x Cortex-A53 (up to 1.5GHz w/ overclock) and 2x Arm Cortex-A72 (up to 2.0GHz w/ overclock). The SoC also comes with a Mali T860MP4 GPU that supports OpenGL ES, Vulkan and Open CL. As in previous models, the Rock Pi 4 C+ has 4GB of RAM LPDDR4 with clock speeds up to 3200Mb/s. The company has a Wiki to provide documentation regarding hardware, OS installation and Linux/ Android development. Radxa also has a forum for additional support. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Khadas_VIM4_Review_–_Part_2:_Android_11 preview_and_benchmarks_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Raspberry Pi 4 outperforms both Amlogic platforms for 2D graphics, but Khadas VIM4 really shines when it comes to 3D graphics with over twice the performance of ODROID-N2+ and 6.4x faster performance than Raspberry Pi 4. So Khadas VIM4 and Amlogic A311D2 processor in general should be a pretty good platform for gaming or other applications that require fast 3D rendering capabilities. That will be all for Android 11 on Khadas VIM4 SBC for now, I’ll have a bit more to test on Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop with WiFi 6 and GbE networking, storage performance, Linux benchmarks, GPU and VPU support, etc… I’d like to thank Khadas for sending the board for review. It’s scheduled to launch on May 10, and we’ll know the price at that time. You can register your interest on Khadas website to get notified of availability. # ⚓ RISC-V_edges_closer_to_reality:_Alibaba_close_to_porting Android_to_RISC-V⠀⇛ In order for RISC-V to become mainstream, it needs to be able to run modern operating systems, have accessible compilers, and be compatible with mainstream applications. Recently, Alibaba announced that it is getting closer to porting Android to RISC-V, which marks a major milestone in the widespread adoption of RISC-V. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Rock_Pi_4_Model_C+_is_more_of_a_minus_ (less_powerful_than_the_Model_C,_but_also_cheaper)_– Liliputing⠀⇛ Usually when a company sticks a plus sign on the end of a product, it’s because it’s better than the normal version (or because it’s a streaming service). But when it comes to Radxa’s new Rock Pi 4 Model C+ single- board computer, the updated model is actually a bit less powerful than the Rock Pi 4 Model C that launched a few years ago. At least it’s also cheaper. Perhaps more importantly though, it’s actually in stock. You can pick one up for $60 from AllnetChina or pay $65 at Ameridroid. # ⚓ Codasip_adopts_Siemens’_OneSpin_tools_for_formal verification⠀⇛ Codasip, the leader in processor design automation, has expanded its adoption of formal verification solutions for comprehensive and thorough processor testing with the addition of OneSpin IC verification tools from Siemens EDA. Codasip has continually invested heavily in processor verification to underpin the company’s ability to deliver the industry’s highest quality RISC-V processor IP. [sic] # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ The Informant ☛ Android_starts_playing_Nintendo Switch_games⠀⇛ # ⚓ Forbes ☛ Urgent_Google_Android_Security_Patch, Attacks_Underway,_Samsung,_Pixel⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Urgent_warning_for_Android_users_that_apps may_be_spying_on_them_–_the_symbols_on_your_phone_to watch_out_for⠀⇛ # ⚓ [Working]_How_to_Completely_Delete_and_Uninstall_Apps on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss this_week_–_Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ I_prefer_Android_face_unlock_to Apple’s_Face_ID_for_one_simple_reason⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 5_Great_Samsung_Apps_That_All_Android Users_Should_Download⠀⇛ # ⚓ 12_Best_Uses_For_Old_Android_Phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ Forbes ☛ Android_Circuit:_Galaxy_Z_Flip_Leak,_Oppo Find_N_Review,_Genshin_Impact’s_Massive_Impact⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_To_Change_Your_Default_Apps_On_Android_Phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_merge_duplicate_contacts_on_Android_– Phandroid⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_13_Beta_1_for_Android_TV_is ready_for_developers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Samsung_continues_the_Galaxy_A_series Android_12_rollout_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ AVMultiPhone_is_a_peculiar_MATE-on-phone_desktop spin⠀⇛ After SXMO, the DWM-on-phone mod that became popular for its practical minimalism with the PinePhone, and the lesser known ExpidusOS XFCE-based shell, many of the traditional lightweight Linux desktops are receiving touch-friendly adaptions. A relatively new project, AVMultiPhone, is loosely based on the popular MATE desktop, which continues the GNOME 2 legacy experience with modern libraries such as Gtk3. However, there is more to this than standard MATE. First and foremost, the touchscreen experience appears to be nearly complete, and generally usable. Secondly, a series of applets and configurations was added to ease the integration of details such as touchscreen keyboards. # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Google_Releases_Android_Update_to_Patch Actively_Exploited_Vulnerability [Ed: On Android, this would be a risk if you run malicious "apps" that want root; or if you update these to inherit new and malicious behaviour]]⠀⇛ Google has released monthly security patches for Android with fixes for 37 flaws across different components, one of which is a fix for an actively exploited Linux kernel vulnerability that came to light earlier this year. Tracked as CVE-2021-22600 (CVSS score: 7.8), the vulnerability is ranked “High” for severity and could be exploited by a local user to escalate privileges or deny service. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Small-Scale_Fab:_Make_Parts_with_Free/Open_Source Software_–_The_New_Stack⠀⇛ There’s tremendous interest in small-scale fabrication and manufacturing these days. The topic is constantly covered in trade journals and the news. I think it’s the best time ever to be in tech and there is a bright future for anyone leaping into the “small-scale” sector. Lots of techies understand the basic concepts. Say you want to make a bracket. Just buy a 3D printer, sit it on your desk, maybe whip out a quick CAD model on your notebook, push the button on the printer and poof… out comes a super ultra-cool physical part. Yaaaahhh, well… technology is still complicated and nuanced complexity markedly affects expectations, from family members and friends, all the way up through organizations and the general public. I typically maybe just get a “that’s nice, what’s it good for?” response. Like everything else, you have to know stuff to answer their question. This new series aims to help you fearlessly step into small-scale fabrication and inspire you to help guide it into practicality. Here’s a hint: Curiosity, willingness to learn, Free/Open Source Software and a modest bit of cash will put you solidly in the game. o ⚓ Medevel ☛ Why_enterprise_and_medium-size_companies_should consider_using_Sandstorm⠀⇛ Sandstorm is an open source project built by a community of volunteers with the goal of making it really easy to run open source web applications. o ⚓ Medevel ☛ VTENEXT_is_the_Open_Source_CRM_and_BPM_solution⠀⇛ VTENEXT is released and distributed under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3.0. o ⚓ Medevel ☛ Track_your_nutrition_with_this_amazing_free_Android app:_Energize⠀⇛ Energize is a fairly new food and nutrition for Android systems. It is totally a free and open-source application that you can download, build, install for free, and even examine the source code. [...] The project is released under The GNU General Public License v3.0 only o ⚓ Beta News ☛ How_to_continue_the_growth_of_open_source_in_the_UK⠀⇛ Open source adoption rates are growing globally, with non-propriety code proving to be both efficient and cost- effective for a variety of organizations. Approximately 82 percent of IT decision-makers are more likely to choose a vendor that actively gives back to the open source community, according to a recent report from Red Hat. ­In the UK in particular, much of the reason for this open source drive is down to increased public cloud usage, the growing demand for rapid digital transformation and a greater understanding of open source’s cybersecurity resilience. To help continue this open source upsurge in a sustainable manner, organizations utilizing the technology need to be contributing back to the community, to best enable the development of the technology. o ⚓ Venture Beat ☛ Meet_Logseq,_an_open-source_knowledge_management system_that_‘stores_data_like_a_brain’ [Ed: Open-source with dash typically means it is fake]⠀⇛ With support for markup languages such as Markdown and Emacs’ Org-mode, Logseq enables users to create tasks, manage and store notes or to-do lists, embed pages, annotate PDFs and create links between all the information contained within, to create a free flow of information. o ⚓ Open-source_OS_is_a_low-cost_alternative_to_Windows_for_IPCs_– Drives_and_Controls_Magazine⠀⇛ FreeBSD supports both 32- and 64-bit platforms, providing scalable implementation from ARM CPUs up to powerful Xeon CPUs. It has a small footprint, taking up less than 300MB of RAM. o ⚓ Open_source_and_liability [Ed: Charlatan and fraud Craig Wright is using the term "Open Source" to promote his lies]⠀⇛ o ⚓ IT Web ☛ Open_source_–_the_gift_that_keeps_on_giving [Ed: They have managed to skip GNU like it never existed and does not exist]⠀⇛ In a world in which conflict, crime and chaos dominate mainstream news and social media channels around the world, there’s one global project that proves that people of vastly different backgrounds, cultures and creeds can work together for the betterment of humanity, everywhere. [...] The roots of the open source project can be traced back to the 1960s and the development of Unix, which grew into a collection of standalone operating systems for mainframe computing. But it was only when Finnish student Linus Torvalds released Linux, a version of Unix, as a new, free operating system kernel in September 1991, that open source was truly accelerated. The open source label, however, only came to the fore in 1998 after the release of the Netscape source code. o ⚓ Medevel ☛ UsTaxes_is_an_open-source_free_tax_filing_app_for_USA⠀⇛ UsTaxes is a free, open-source tax filing application that can be used to file the Federal 1040 form. It is available in both web and desktop versions. It is provided free of charge and requires no sharing of personal data. o § Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_App_Summit_2022⠀⇛ A week ago I attended Linux App Summit (LAS) 2022 in Rovereto, Italy. It was great to finally travel and meet people again, after more than two years. At the same time it would be naive to think the pandemic is over, and it’s still a few days too early for the final verdict on whether we managed to meet safely, but things look very promising so far. o § Web Browsers⠀➾ # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Missing_the_classic_Opera_browser?_Try_Otter⠀⇛ Otter is a free open-source web browser that recreates the old Opera 12 browser experience. It is completely open-source project as it is released under the GPL-3.0 License. Otter is written primarily in C++ and leverages Qt5 framework. The project receives constant updates that include new features, improvements, and bug fixes # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Firefox_100:_technological_resurrection,_popular death⠀⇛ Recently appeared Firefox 100, an event that is more symbolic than anything else, although Mozilla has emphasized it with a thank you message shown to all those who have executed it. Do not misunderstand, when I speak of symbolism, I am referring only to the psychological impact that the number 100 has, nothing more. Firefox 100 maintains the good progress that the browser has shown in recent months, a good job that, unfortunately, is not helping it to rise in user quota, since it is currently behind the current Microsoft Edge , based on Chromium and with official version for Linux . It’s no secret that I’m a staunch supporter of Wayland, so I use Firefox almost out of obligation because it’s the only major web browser with mature support for the graphics protocol. Until January 2022 I used the RPM version provided by Fedora , which has Wayland support enabled by default, and from that date I started using the Flatpak build hosted on Flathub , whose Wayland support can be easily enabled with Flatseal . # ⚓ Paul Thurrott ☛ Mozilla_Releases_Firefox_100⠀⇛ o § MongoDB⠀➾ # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ Why_your_open-source_project_definitely should_not_be_the_next_Kubernetes⠀⇛ Take Firecracker, an open-source, micro- virtualization project that AWS released in 2018. Firecracker was almost universally hailed as cool technology … and then mostly disappeared from public view. I wrote about some early community success, but even that (Weave Ignite to improve Firecracker’s ease-of-use, among other things) came from a close AWS partner. To give Firecracker more community heft, I suggested that AWS follow Google and open up governance around Firecracker, not just its code. AWS didn’t listen but, not for the first time, my opinion didn’t seem to matter. (That’s a polite way of saying maybe I was wrong.) Fast forward to 2022, and Firecracker is quietly getting used in lots of cool places. I say “quietly” because, well, why would anyone shout their infrastructure from the rooftops? But when I asked, some interesting users surfaced, like Stripe, Fly.io, System Initiative and more. Of course, it’s still true that most contributors to Firecracker are employed by AWS. But even if Firecracker would have remained a community of one (AWS), it arguably would have been worth it. In fact, that’s essentially what I argued while I worked for AWS, indicating that there were clear customer-oriented reasons to open-source Firecracker, regardless of community involvement. Open source ensured Firecracker would play nicely with the Linux community and enabled tighter “compounded product gains” for customers. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Build_community_engagement_by_serving_up Lean_Coffee⠀⇛ I recently started a new job at MongoDB as a Principal Community Manager, spearheading the MongoDB Community Champions program. In that role, I faced two challenges. First, I was joining a brand new, fully remote team. Not only was I new myself, but the team as a whole was just beginning to form, with new members coming on board a couple of times per month. This team was also spread across several time zones, with about half of them older, established members who’ve been with the company for a long time and know each other pretty well, and the other half entirely new faces. Second, the Community Champions program started during the pandemic. As a result, program participants from around the world had very little opportunity to meet each other and meld as a group. I wanted to find out more about what they wanted to discuss and learn, so I could use that to plan out the first few months of programming. I also wanted to give them a chance to talk with each other about their interests. I ran these scenarios past a friend of mine, the fabulous Donna Benjamin, and she suggested an extremely useful tool from the Open Practice Library: Lean Coffee. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ Appwrite’s_new_open-source_fund_could_offer a_novel_path_to_sustainability_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛ “While some projects are used by millions, they might still struggle to find a reasonable way to monetize and sustain themselves. This is where we believe we can help,” Fux said. Open-source projects need all sorts of support, he continued, but in his experience, “financial support was my biggest concern” as a maintainer. Sometimes, however, there’s no intent to ignore cash-strapped maintainers. “Companies benefit from your work but are not always aware of the challenges you need to face to deliver it,” he suggested. Therefore, Appwrite’s open-source fund is as much designed to raise cash as “awareness of the challenges required to deliver high-quality, open-source products.” o § FSF⠀➾ # § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ 10_Professional-Level_Web_Design_Tools_to_Get_the Ideal_Website [Ed: GNU's GIMP]⠀⇛ o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Techstrong Group ☛ Git_for_Mainframe:_Back_to_the_Future⠀⇛ Software delivery modernization should be done with care, especially with mission-critical mainframe apps. But for some, modernization will feel like a trip back to the future. Mainframe applications are typically systems of record with high-value transactions, significant compliance risk and an essential need for stability and security. They’ve been running reliably, often for decades, with code changes made by teams of dedicated developers using time-tested interfaces like ISPF (green screens) and Eclipse integrated with mainframe-based source management tools—Endevor is the most widely used example. # ⚓ Top_10_Trending_Open-Source_Python_Projects_on_GitHub [Ed: Pretending that anything Microsoft does not control simply does not exist]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Top_10_AI_Skills_that_will_Get_You_a_Job_in_FAANG_Companies in_2022_–_Analytics_Insight [Ed: Surveillance jobs]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Top_10_Python_Jobs_Developers_Should_Apply_for_in_FAANG Companies⠀⇛ # ⚓ 15_Best_Coding_Games_for_Kids_–_Kids_Programming_Classes_& Websites⠀⇛ Simply put, coding is telling a computer or machine how to perform a task. As a rep from Raspberry Pi Foundation explains, “Coding is one aspect of digital making. When you write code, you are writing instructions for a computer to follow.” As complex as they may seem, computers are actually simple devices, so that’s why you have to give them really simple instructions that you then build into a complex set of rules. And learning how to provide those instructions isn’t just helpful for computers — it challenges programmers to communicate with computers in a way that makes sense. Why is coding good for kids? Teaching your kid how to code won’t just make them a computer whiz — it will teach them plenty of other valuable skills as well. “When young people are given opportunities to learn and create with code, they can do incredible things, from expressing themselves creatively, to highlighting real-world issues or controlling a robot,” the Raspberry Pi Foundation rep says. “Coding also helps develop young people’s resilience and problem-solving skills, as debugging is a key part of the process to ensure their code works correctly.” Yes, they may get frustrated at times, but it’s all part of the process!At what age can a child start coding? Just like when learning a new language, it’s both better and easier to learn coding skills from a young age. “There is research into children being able to learn aspects of coding from the age of three, as well as during kindergarten and early elementary school,” the Raspberry Pi Foundation rep explains. # ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ RProtoBuf_0.4.19_on_CRAN:_Updates⠀⇛ A new release 0.4.19 of RProtoBuf arrived on CRAN earlier today. RProtoBuf provides R with bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“ProtoBuf”) data encoding and serialization library used and released by Google, and deployed very widely in numerous projects as a language and operating- system agnostic protocol. This release contains a pull request contribution by Michael Chirico to add support for the TextFormat API, a minor maintenance fix ensuring (standard) string are referenced as std::string to avoid a hickup on Arch builds, some repo updates, plus reporting of (package and library) versions on startup. The following section from the NEWS.Rd file has more details. # ⚓ SpiderMonkey_Newsletter_(Firefox_100-101)_|_SpiderMonkey JavaScript/WebAssembly_Engine⠀⇛ SpiderMonkey is the JavaScript engine used in Mozilla Firefox. This newsletter gives an overview of the JavaScript and WebAssembly work we’ve done as part of the Firefox 100 and 101 Nightly release cycles. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 7_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Python Object-Relational_Mapping_Software⠀⇛  Object–relational mapping (ORM) is a programming technique for converting data between incompatible type systems using object-oriented programming languages. This creates, in effect, a “virtual object database” that can be used from within the programming language. In essence, ORM is a design pattern for converting (wrapping) that data stored within a relational database into an object that can be used within an object oriented language. It creates a layer between the language and the database, helping programmers work with data without the OOP paradigm. # ⚓ Learn_how_to_program_with_this_Python_Humble_Bundle for_as_little_as_$1_–_News_Azi⠀⇛ Looking to improve your Python programming skills? Humble Bundle and No Starch Press have put together the Python Book Bundle with up to 18 books. The Humble Bundle is all in the name of charity, so the minimum payments for each tier are suggestions, but if you like the cause you can always give more. The beneficiaries for this bundle include the Python Software Foundation and the Hacker Initiative. Here’s what’s available. # ⚓ Python_Basic_Electronics_Control_with_the_Raspberry Pi_|_Developer.com⠀⇛ The Raspberry Pi device, beyond just being a low-cost introductory computing tool, also provides a robust electronic controller interface that enables programmatic control of external electronic systems. These systems can be as simple as turning on or off an LED, or as complex as being able to control a robotic arm or other, more elaborate, electronic devices. This Python and embedded programming tutorial will show the reader how to use Raspberry Pi-specific Python libraries to control basic electronic components. Many similar Python tutorials presume extensive knowledge in the use of such components, but this article will not make that presumption. Instead, programmers will be shown a “gentle” introduction into the electronics concepts needed to get this project going, in the hopes that this foundation will encourage the reader to do more experimentation beyond the simple experiment to be presented within this two part programming series. * § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ o ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ VESA_Launches_Industry’s_First_Open_Standard_and Logo_Program_for_PC_Monitor_and_Laptop_Display_Variable_Refresh Rate_Performance_for_Gaming_and_Media_Playback⠀⇛ * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Four_Columbians_Elected_to_the_National_Academy_of_Sciences |_Columbia_News⠀⇛ Computer scientists Alfred Aho and Toniann Pitassi, mathematician Michael Harris, and sociologist Mario Small join this year’s class of new members. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Good_Products_and_Bad_Businesses⠀⇛ Over the past 15 years, clever digital ideas have captured imaginations, transformed habits and reshaped industries and economies. It might seem surprising, then, that so many great digital products in this generation have come from bad businesses. Spotify has reshaped music, but the company is still figuring out how to turn a consistent profit. Uber has altered cities and become a way of life for some riders and drivers. The company has also spent far more cash than it has brought in over its 13-year life. App companies like DoorDash, Instacart and Gopuff have hooked some Americans on deliveries of restaurant meals, groceries or convenience items, but hardly any company that brings fresh food to our doors has made it work financially. Robinhood helped make investing accessible and fun, but it hasn’t made free stock trades profitable. Twitter is a cultural force, but it’s never been a good company. # ⚓ How_sleep-deprived_see_and_evaluate_others’_faces_|_NSS⠀⇛ Acute sleep loss increases the brain’s reactivity toward positive and negative affective stimuli. Thus, despite well-known reduced attention due to acute sleep loss, we hypothesized that humans would gaze longer on happy, angry, and fearful faces than neutral faces when sleep-deprived. We also examined if facial expressions are differently perceived after acute sleep loss. # ⚓ Turing_Distinguished_Leader_Series:_Ashu_Garg,_General Partner,_Foundation_Capital⠀⇛ In this Turing Distinguished Leader Series session, we conversed with Ashu Garg, General Partner at Foundation Capital. Ashu is an early investor in several unicorns, including Turing. # ⚓ 3D Printing Industry ☛ Taking_back_control:_new_3D_printed bracelet_empowers_the_hand-impaired_to_play_video_games_–_3D Printing_Industry⠀⇛ Researchers at the University of Sydney have developed a 3D printed sensor bracelet that allows those with hand impairments to more easily use computers and play video games. By detecting vibrations in users’ wrists as they move their fingers, the wearable is said to be capable of picking up inputs, before relaying these to a machine learning (ML) program that converts them into computational commands. Once they’ve perfected this process, the team intends to make the bracelet open-source, with the aim of improving smart device access for disabled people across the world. # ⚓ uni Sydney ☛ Sensor_bracelet_designed_to_give_back_control to_hand-impaired_–_The_University_of_Sydney⠀⇛ Australian researchers are developing a 3D printed bracelet to allow people living with hand- impairment to easily use computers and play video games. # ⚓ Software_Heritage:_the_software_Library_of_Alexandria_– Hello_Future_Orange⠀⇛ The Software Heritage project aims to build a software Library of Alexandria: a perennial, universal source code archive to serve society, science, and industry. In today’s information society, software is everywhere. It is at the heart of scientific research, technological developments, and ever more industrial processes. Software plays a pivotal role in the everyday life of our society. It gives us access to humanity’s knowledge and cultural heritage, of which it is also a part. However, software is fragile: it can be altered or made unusable. # ⚓ Purdue,_Ivy_Tech_partner_on_next-generation microelectronics_workforce_–_Purdue_University_News⠀⇛ Purdue University and Ivy Tech Community College are partnering to help meet the future workforce needs in microelectronics, a field that is expected to add more than 100,000 workers over the next decade. The agreement will provide a variety of collaborative educational opportunities for faculty and students in microelectronics and will explore ways to attract more talent to this area. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Indigenous_language_key_piece_in_province’s_education overhaul⠀⇛ Manitoba’s latest education reform action plan is calling for tangible actions to support Indigenous students in the classroom through access to language and culture. The provincial government announced its action plan Wednesday responding to recommendations provided by Manitoba’s kindergarten to Grade 12 education commission. # ⚓ Huawei_launches_‘Digital_Bus’_project_to_level_up_education sector_in_Thailand⠀⇛ Huawei launched a new project entitled ‘Digital Bus’ to turn the education sector towards technology in Thailand. The company took this step to enhance the knowledge of digitalization and new techs among the Thailand citizens. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Panasas_Debuts_New_Products,_Continues_Software_Focus⠀⇛ Panasas started off specializing in storage hardware, but more than 20 years on, the company is placing a big bet on its software stack to meet storage needs for high-performance applications. The company on Wednesday introduced new storage products called ActiveStor Ultra XL and ActiveStor Flash for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence applications. The products are built on the company’s PanFS file system, which orchestrates data movement in large clusters deployed over a network. # ⚓ HPC Wire ☛ Panasas_Debuts_New_Products_as_It_Emphasizes Storage_Software_in_Business_Shift⠀⇛ o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Real_Problems,_Real_Solutions_to_the_Long-Term_Care Crisis⠀⇛ Making at-home care work for America starts with tackling these 6 challenges o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Microsoft_Tells_Users_to_Uninstall_Windows 11_Update_That_Causes_Apps_to_Crash [Ed: Windows eXPeriment]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Microsoft_advises_users_to_uninstall_Windows_11 update [Ed: This might be a plagiarism site, but it's funny nonetheless]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Globe Newswire ☛ CloudCasa_by_Catalogic_to_Feature Cyber-Resilient_Kubernetes_Backups_at_KubeCon_+ CloudNativeCon_Europe_2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ Protocol ☛ TurboTax_will_pay_$141_million_for scamming_taxpayers⠀⇛ TurboTax will pay $141 million to residents in every state and Washington D.C. for misleading claims that its tax preparation services are free, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Wednesday. Under the agreement, a total of 4.4 million taxpayers who used TurboTax’s free edition for tax years 2016 through 2018 will get a direct payment of approximately $30 for each year. These users were told that they had to pay to file, even though they were eligible to file for free using the IRS Free File program, which the Intuit withdrew from in 2021. In New York, 176,000 residents who were “tricked into paying to file their federal tax return” will receive a total of more than $5.4 million. # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ MacOS_Server,_Adieu⠀⇛ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Security_Bulletin_04_May_2022⠀⇛ SingCERT’s Security Bulletin summarises the list of vulnerabilities collated from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the past week. # ⚓ 25+_Vulnerable_websites_to_practice_your ethical_hacking_skills⠀⇛ In recent times as the field of information is on the rise a new term ‘Ethical Hacking’ has emerged and opened many different avenues for IT and cyber security professionals. Now more and more people are getting familiar with the field of information security and are getting interested in learning about hacking skills. For budding hackers, these are often the best way to hit the ground running in case of career choices towards penetration testing or also known as vulnerability assessment and pen testing (VAPT). # ⚓ TechStory Media ☛ What_are_the_Best_Automated Penetration_Testing_Tools_in_2022?_–_TechStory⠀⇛ The process that identifies and resolves security issues within a network or a system is known as automated penetration testing and it can be a rather time-taking method, especially if done manually. This is where automated penetration testing tools come in. They automate the process of pentesting, making it easier and faster for you to find and fix vulnerabilities. We will discuss the best-automated penetration testing tools available today. # ⚓ Duo ☛ Threat_Actor_Increases_Dwell_Time_By Targeting_Opaque_Devices_|_Decipher⠀⇛ Researchers have uncovered a threat actor that is targeting the emails of employees at various companies – including ones that focus on corporate development, mergers and acquisitions and large corporate transactions – for suspected espionage purposes. The group, UNC3524, turned researchers’ heads by having a longer-than-average dwell time on victim networks, due in part to the group’s installation of backdoors on opaque network appliances like SAN arrays, load balancers and wireless access point controllers that do not support security tools like antivirus or endpoint protection. Victims have been located in the U.S., Germany and Singapore, said researchers. # ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Understand_the_3_P’s_of_Cloud Native_Security [Ed: But clown computing is the opposite of security. It is a data breach, technically speaking.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Dependency_Issues:_Solving_the_World’s_Open- Source_Software_Security_Problem_–_War_on_the Rocks [Ed: This_is_a_proprietary_software problem,_too]⠀⇛ The idea of a lone programmer relying on their own genius and technical acumen to create the next great piece of software was always a stretch. Today it is more of a myth than ever. Competitive market forces mean that software developers must rely on code created by an unknown number of other programmers. As a result, most software is best thought of as bricolage — diverse, usually open-source components, often called dependencies, stitched together with bits of custom code into a new application. This software engineering paradigm — programmers reusing open-source software components rather than repeatedly duplicating the efforts of others — has led to massive economic gains. According to the best available analysis, open-source components now comprise 90 percent of most software applications. And the list of economically important and widely used open-source components — Google’s deep learning framework TensorFlow or its Facebook-sponsored competitor PyTorch, the ubiquitous encryption library OpenSSL, or the container management software Kubernetes — is long and growing longer. The military and intelligence community, too, are dependent on open-source software: programs like Palantir have become crucial for counter-terrorism operations, while the F-35 contains millions of lines of code. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Cyberespionage_Group_Targeting M&A,_Corporate_Transactions_Personnel⠀⇛ Security researchers at Mandiant are documenting the discovery of a new hacking group focused on cyberespionage targeting employees responsible for corporate development, large corporate transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. Referred to as UNC3524 – Mandiant uses ‘UNC’ to track uncategorized hacking groups – the threat actor does not appear interested in immediate financial gain, given that it manages to remain undetected for an order of magnitude longer than the average dwell time of 21 days in 2021. [...] To keep the malware footprint low, the attackers relied on built-in Windows protocols. Lateral movement was obtained through a customized version of Impacket’s WMIEXEC tool, which employs Windows Management Instrumentation to create a semi- interactive shell. # § Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/ Dramatisation⠀➾ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ This_unpatched_DNS_bug_could_put ‘well-known’_IoT_devices_at_risk_|_ZDNet⠀⇛ uClibc stopped being maintained in 2012 after the release of version uClibc-0.9.33.2, while the uClibc-ng fork is designed for use within OpenWRT, a common OS for routers “possibly deployed throughout various critical infrastructure sectors”, according to Palanca. # ⚓ Nozomi_Networks_Discovers_Unpatched_DNS Bug_in_Popular_C_Standard_Library_Putting IoT_at_Risk⠀⇛ Nozomi Networks Labs discovered a vulnerability (tracked under CVE- 2022-30295, ICS-VU-638779, VU#473698) affecting the Domain Name System (DNS) implementation of all versions of uClibc and uClibc-ng, a popular C standard library in IoT products. The flaw is caused by the predictability of transaction IDs included in the DNS requests generated by the library, which may allow attackers to perform DNS poisoning attacks against the target device. # ⚓ Port Swigger ☛ Zero-day_bug_in_uClibc library_could_leave_IoT_devices_vulnerable to_DNS_poisoning_attacks_|_The_Daily_Swig⠀⇛ A zero-day vulnerability in uClibc and uClibc-ng, a popular C standard library, could enable a malicious actor to launch DNS poisoning attacks on vulnerable IoT devices. The bug, tracked as ICS-VU- 638779, which has yet to be patched, could leave users exposed to attack, researchers have warned. # ⚓ DNS_bug_found_in_C_standard_library_used in_popular_IoT_products⠀⇛ Researchers on Monday reported they discovered a vulnerability affecting the DNS implementation of all versions of uClibc and uClibc-ng, a popular C standard library in many well-known IoT products. In a blog post, Nozomi Networks Labs said the flaw was caused by the predictability of transaction IDs included in the DNS requests generated by the library, which may let attackers perform DNS poisoning attacks against the targeted devices. The researchers reported that major vendors such as Linksys, Netgear, and Axis, as well as Linux distributions such as Embedded Gentoo use uClibc. The researchers explained that uClibc-ng was specifically designed for OpenWRT, a common OS for routers possibly deployed throughout various critical infrastructure sectors. # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Unpatched_DNS_Related Vulnerability_Affects_a_Wide_Range_of_IoT Devices⠀⇛ Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed an unpatched security vulnerability that could pose a serious risk to IoT products. # ⚓ Gear_from_Netgear,_Linksys,_and_200 others_has_unpatched_DNS_poisoning_flaw_| Ars_Technica⠀⇛ Vulnerability in 3rd-party libraries can send devices’ users to malicious sites. # ⚓ The Record ☛ Industrial_cybersecurity researchers,_looking_for_help,_go_public with_unpatched_IoT_bug_–_The_Record_by Recorded_Future⠀⇛ The Record by Recorded Future gives exclusive, behind-the- scenes access to leaders, policymakers, researchers, and the shadows of the cyber underground. # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Open-source_security:_It’s_too easy_to_upload_‘devastating’_malicious packages,_warns_Google⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Protocol ☛ Wikipedia_doesn’t_want_your_crypto donations_anymore⠀⇛ The Wikimedia Foundation will stop accepting crypto donations after months of pressure from members of the Wikipedia community. The foundation said on Sunday it will close its BitPay account, which facilitated crypto gifts. Members of the community had asked for the foundation to end crypto donations last month following a debate among 400 Wikipedia users. The group opposing the foundation’s crypto policy was primarily concerned with the negative climate impacts of crypto mining and the foundation’s reputation. # ⚓ Wikipedia_Stops_Accepting_Bitcoin_(BTC),_Ethereum_ (ETH)_–_Benzinga⠀⇛ # ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ The_Wikimedia_Foundation_won’t_accept crypto_donations_anymore⠀⇛ # ⚓ Protocol ☛ California_is_pushing_for_its_own ‘transparent’_crypto_regulations⠀⇛ # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Super_Predator_Megaraptor_–_Largest_known_dinosaur fossil_from_the_raptor_family_found_in_Argentina⠀⇛ A News that would get the makers of Jurassic Park excited – Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered the remains of the largest dinosaur from the Raptor family – the Megaraptor. The new species has been named ‘Maip macrothorax’ by the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research. Raptors, popularized by the movie – Jurassic Park, were not huge in size but aggressive and intelligent. Megaraptors, were much bigger with most species ranging 20-26ft in length and couple of feet taller than humans in height. The ‘Maip macrothorax’ found in Argentina measures 33ft long and weighed over 5tons. # ⚓ Edinburgh_zoo_welcomes_two_new_endangered_penguins⠀⇛ Edinburgh zoo has welcomed two new baby penguins, after the first eggs of the season hatched. Both are endangered Northern rockhoppers. Rockhoppers are endangered due to climate change and overfishing. Zookeepers are keeping a close eye on the new arrivals, as the first 30 days are critical – they are also hopeful that the gentoo penguin eggs will begin hatching soon. Dawn Nicoll, senior penguin keeper at Edinburgh Zoo, said: “Northern rockhopper penguins are endangered due to climate change, changes in marine ecosystems and overfishing, so it is really exciting to welcome these new chicks. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Gas,_diapers,_essential_items_will_be_tax-free_in_Florida⠀⇛ # ⚓ Come_Home_Montana_recruitment_campaign_draws_mixed reception⠀⇛ Gov. Greg Gianforte’s signature pledge to bring home Montana’s kids and grandkids, now backed by a $700,000 marketing campaign, has run headlong into angst over Montana’s ‘crazy real estate market.’ o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Online_Censorship_of_Ukraine_Dissent_Is Becoming_the_New_Norm_–_scheerpost.com⠀⇛ Big Tech and the corporate media are ushering in an ominous era of intense censorship over Ukraine. # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Musk_gets_help_from_tech_titans_and_a Saudi_prince_in_Twitter_bid [Ed: Larry Ellison, Saudi Regime, Musk... promoted here in the Bezos Post. The plutocrats take direct control of the communications of so many people.]⠀⇛ Two weeks ago, business leaders publicly questioned whether Elon Musk was serious in his bid to take Twitter private. Now, some of the top investors in the world are lining up to backstop his ambitions. # ⚓ ADN ☛ Elon_Musk_gets_help_from_techies,_Saudi_prince_and crypto_king_in_bid_to_own_Twitter⠀⇛ Two weeks ago, business leaders publicly questioned whether Elon Musk was serious in his bid to take Twitter private. Now, some of the world’s top investors are lining up to backstop his ambitions. # ⚓ Free Press Journal ☛ India_isn’t_a_safe_place_for_comedians either,_writes_Anil_Singh⠀⇛ Why cite the Reporters Without Borders report on the lack of press freedom in India when your humourists are being targeted? o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Supreme_Court_revisits_prayer_in_school_in football_coach_case⠀⇛ # ⚓ Why_the_Dobbs_Leak_Is_Dangerous⠀⇛ his week’s leak of the draft majority opinion in Dobbs, the Mississippi abortion case, is unprecedented. Leaks from the Court have occurred before, but this leak is different, a potentially shattering event, both because of the leaker’s probable motives and the leak’s probable effects. Most likely, the leaker set out to intimidate one or more of the justices and affect the outcome of the case. Alternatively, the leaker hoped to destroy the Court as an institution—in the approving phrase of one progressive commentator, to “burn this place down.” The long-term consequences of the leak may be severe. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Fast Company ☛ Big_ISPs_just_gave_up_on_blocking_net neutrality_law_in_CA⠀⇛ On Thursday, major internet service providers (AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, et al.) dropped a lawsuit challenging a California law requiring broadband networks to treat traffic and content from all websites and services equally. The ISPs’ legal challenge had already lost three times in California Federal courts. Network neutrality proponents are calling the abandonment of the suit a huge win for digital rights and the open web. The ISP trade groups revealed their decision in a brief filed Wednesday in the Federal District Court of California, Eastern District. “When they lost last time around . . . they really lost,” says Evan Greer of the grassroots tech-rights group Fight for the Future, which has long advocated for net neutrality but was not directly involved in the case. “The court all but said that if you take this case to the Supreme Court you will lose.” o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Protocol ☛ EU_accuses_Apple_of_violating_competition_laws_– Protocol⠀⇛ The European Commission sent Apple a “preliminary view” that the company is violating competition laws. # ⚓ Protocol ☛ Google_just_fired_another_AI_researcher⠀⇛ Google fired Satrajit Chatterjee, an AI researcher in the company’s Brain group who criticized a research paper on computers designing computer chips that was published in the scientific publication Nature last year and involved work from researchers in Google’s chip and Brain teams. The paper presented a method for automatically generating parts of a computer chip more efficiently than humans. Chatterjee disputed parts of the paper, and was fired in March after Google told his research team that he couldn’t publish a rebuttal of some of the claims made in the paper, sources told The New York Times. Researchers who had worked on a rebuttal argued that Google broke its own AI principles by rejecting the paper. # ⚓ Newsweek ☛ Facebook,_Google_Face_Regulatory_Reckoning_That May_End_Big_Tech_Dominance [Ed: Salesforce-owned 'paper' forgot Microsoft? ]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Competition_Law_in_the_Digital_Space:_A_Study_of Exclusionary_Conduct_by_Tech_Conglomerates⠀⇛ At the heart of any competition law regime is the promotion of free markets and the elimination of anti-competitive practices. India, for example, established the Competition Commission of India under the Indian Competition Act (2002), to protect and promote competition in markets, prevent practices that hinder competition, and protect the rights and interests of consumers.[1] In the United States (US), two key antitrust laws are in place—i.e., the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act—to curb anti-competitive activities.[2] Similarly, the Treaty for the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) is aimed at penalising offenders that disrupt healthy competition in the local markets. Articles 101 to 106, which form the basis of the antitrust regime of the European Union (EU), outlaw agreements that lead to cartelisation, monopolistic practices, and abuse of dominance. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 5632 ➮ Generation completed at 02:42, i.e. 22 seconds to (re)generate ⟲